Forgot to click the save button? Tough shit, your data is lost.
And by all that's holy, don't be in a dialog with unsaved data, and go to the command box and use "/n" as a prefix to leave the current transaction and launch your new command (like typing "/nWE02".) Because it will happily throw away all unsaved data with zero warning before launching the new program.
the smaller number of relatively powerful provincial governments, all of which serve as strong Darwinian checks on our federal government
very significant regional differences,
Wow, that sounds an awful lot like the America that used to be. Trust me, it's not that we intended it to be the Federal Government of America, it used to be the United States of America. Then we had a whole lot of people who decided that Statism was a whole lot juicier idea to ram down our throats; they began to put in judges that would rule in favor of the Federal government over the state's rights, and once the school system had enough drones to all chant that More Government is Better Government, well, the devil hasn't had a day off since.
But not for lack of trying. We ever rail against the machine hoping that we can reverse course.
That's funny, given the way that the Quebec drivers whip their cars around when I see them in traffic here in the US, I thought that the translation was "Drive like a dickhead."
Well, they're mostly made by hand meaning a hand will insert and position the cables, but the crimping machine itself is pretty substantial and probably not something that you'd have in your house.
The op-ed page of the local fishwrap had another suggestion; Every US-flagged merchant ship should have a Phalanx gun with a Navy operator. When the pirate ship approaches, the navy man turns it into wood chips and fish chum in a few seconds. Bingo, no more pirate problem.
I worked for a company that put flock on polypropylene ribbon - the fuzzy velvet lined ribbon that you buy at Christmas. That crap is all nylon fibers, cut a couple thousandths of an inch high and dyed. It's then electrostatically charged and deposited onto the substrate, which has had glue applied. Because the substrate is an opposite charge, it stands straight up. The glue is nasty, the fibers are EVERYWHERE. The line workers are basically covered in red 'dust' (actually nylon fibers) at the end of their shift.
And, of course, we had to do this all in the summertime, in order to fulfill the orders for the following Christmas...
My job was to maintain the server, which was on the shop floor. In a closed room. I don't pretend it was sealed, because the server was an odd tinge of red as well. The network hubs were there too.
The horizontal wiring was all silver satin cable - the guy who did this (the 'chief engineer') must've gotten an incredible deal on it somewhere, there were reels and reels of this crap. No way would he let me put in twisted pair, and he was always complaining about server performance and demanding that I put in more memory and that would fix it. One day I went into a closet in the front office and found the silver satin cable terminated with wire nuts. I swear to Christ it was wire nuts. That is the day I printed out my resignation and left it in my wallet for the day I found something better.
If the bar was already open, that would explain Visa, MS DOS 4.0, Windows ME, and BOB.
Dude, I'll bet that comments like that are exactly what caused MS to go all squeamish. They're ensuring that their next failure can't be pinned on an on-site pub.
If documenting your technical procedures puts your job at risk, then you aren't the right things, to be valuable enough to your company in the first place.
Amen to that. I actually won a bonus one year because I make it a point to teach ANYONE who wants to learn how to do what I do. My entire goal in my career here is to learn something, then as fast as a learn it, teach it to someone else.
The problem is that nobody ever wants to take the job completely, so I still have a whole bunch of little crappy jobs floating around that I'm more or less in charge of. However, as fast as they pop up, my manager yells at people to take them off my plate. (It's nice having a supportive manager.)
How do I keep Obama + Congress from handing them money?
Write.
Write to your congresscritter. Every chance you get. Add the email address to your congressperson and your two senators to your address book.
Go to OpenCongress to see what bills are coming up, which ones have been introduced, which ones are headed for debate, which ones are headed for a vote.
Tell your reps what you think about the bill and why it's a bad idea. If they don't hear from us, they start operating in a vacuum. They start guessing. And there's a 50-50 chance that they're NOT doing what you want them to do.
And after the vote is over, send another message. If they voted the way you wanted, thank them. If they voted against your wishes chew them out.
Write letters to the editor. True, you can usually get published only once every 30 days with most papers but hell, that's 12 letters a year. If you make them cogent and well written you can make friends with the editor, who's looking for good stuff. (My last letter got printed just today as the leadoff letter, which means it was printed in a gray box with an attention-getting border.)
I have had it up to here. I will NOT go gently into that good night. At the very least, people will know where I stand on something. It may not do any good but the more people who do this the more our government will work the way it's supposed to.
We just got a communication from our corporate overlords specifically prohibiting us from recommending, commenting on or in any other way disclosing what software we are using/have used/will use. A vendor may include our company in a list of clients, but That's It.
I remember seeing a documentary called "First Flight" which detailed how they went about designing and building the 777. They were interviewing a Boeing engineer, ISTR, to talk about the whole number-of-engines versus ETOPS (Extended Twin Engine Ops) time, which had to be increased for the 777 to allow a greater 'envelope' of airports to divert to.) According to this source, the 777 is now at ETOPS-207, a very enviable range.
One of the (imperfectly remembered) memorable quotes from this engineer was in a response to an interviewer's question: "Why do we [sometimes] have four engines on the wing of a plane? Because there's no room to fit 5." The rationale being that more engines raise a comfort level for a pilot, but they also of course raise complexity and maintenance concerns.
For a commercial airliner, ETOPS-207 or even ETOPS-240 is satisfactory. For the plane carrying the President, it is probably not.
Well, solar + battery + grid = 24/7 power for large values of 'grid.' However, I remember quite clearly an article by Andy Grove (past CEO of Intel) in which he argues that electricity is more or less "sticky." Meaning that it isn't portable across continental barriers, especially when these barriers involve a good bit of water.
A grid that encompasses North America is not going to do much at high noon on the other side of the world. Likewise a grid in Africa or Australia are going to be useless about 9-12 hours a day no matter how you slice it.
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"buying something so you can just turn it around and sell it to someone else for more money"
oh, like the stock market. That's a capitalist phenomenon called "appreciation," is it not?
I believe the answer would be "one."
(*) Assuming you don't "cheat" by not breaking your lines where normal programmers would.
And that's why I've often used "ELOC," or Executable lines of code.
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Forgot to click the save button? Tough shit, your data is lost.
And by all that's holy, don't be in a dialog with unsaved data, and go to the command box and use "/n" as a prefix to leave the current transaction and launch your new command (like typing "/nWE02".) Because it will happily throw away all unsaved data with zero warning before launching the new program.
Don't ask me how I know this.
Wow, that sounds an awful lot like the America that used to be. Trust me, it's not that we intended it to be the Federal Government of America, it used to be the United States of America. Then we had a whole lot of people who decided that Statism was a whole lot juicier idea to ram down our throats; they began to put in judges that would rule in favor of the Federal government over the state's rights, and once the school system had enough drones to all chant that More Government is Better Government, well, the devil hasn't had a day off since.
But not for lack of trying. We ever rail against the machine hoping that we can reverse course.
That's funny, given the way that the Quebec drivers whip their cars around when I see them in traffic here in the US, I thought that the translation was "Drive like a dickhead."
But I never was very good at foreign languages.
Gonna be hard to piss off Barack Hussein Obama Sr. - he's been pushing up daisies for quite some time now.
Well, they're mostly made by hand meaning a hand will insert and position the cables, but the crimping machine itself is pretty substantial and probably not something that you'd have in your house.
The op-ed page of the local fishwrap had another suggestion; Every US-flagged merchant ship should have a Phalanx gun with a Navy operator. When the pirate ship approaches, the navy man turns it into wood chips and fish chum in a few seconds. Bingo, no more pirate problem.
"Six munce ago I cudn't evin spel Injuneer - and now I are one."
I worked for a company that put flock on polypropylene ribbon - the fuzzy velvet lined ribbon that you buy at Christmas. That crap is all nylon fibers, cut a couple thousandths of an inch high and dyed. It's then electrostatically charged and deposited onto the substrate, which has had glue applied. Because the substrate is an opposite charge, it stands straight up. The glue is nasty, the fibers are EVERYWHERE. The line workers are basically covered in red 'dust' (actually nylon fibers) at the end of their shift.
And, of course, we had to do this all in the summertime, in order to fulfill the orders for the following Christmas...
My job was to maintain the server, which was on the shop floor. In a closed room. I don't pretend it was sealed, because the server was an odd tinge of red as well. The network hubs were there too.
The horizontal wiring was all silver satin cable - the guy who did this (the 'chief engineer') must've gotten an incredible deal on it somewhere, there were reels and reels of this crap. No way would he let me put in twisted pair, and he was always complaining about server performance and demanding that I put in more memory and that would fix it. One day I went into a closet in the front office and found the silver satin cable terminated with wire nuts. I swear to Christ it was wire nuts. That is the day I printed out my resignation and left it in my wallet for the day I found something better.
If the bar was already open, that would explain Visa, MS DOS 4.0, Windows ME, and BOB.
Dude, I'll bet that comments like that are exactly what caused MS to go all squeamish.
They're ensuring that their next failure can't be pinned on an on-site pub.
And where are those NiMH batteries now? Hmm?
It isn't defaulted to "Don't share." I never visited this link before and the four lines on my Family Share Plan were all wide open.
I can't wait till my two year agreement is up in July.
Amen to that. I actually won a bonus one year because I make it a point to teach ANYONE who wants to learn how to do what I do. My entire goal in my career here is to learn something, then as fast as a learn it, teach it to someone else.
The problem is that nobody ever wants to take the job completely, so I still have a whole bunch of little crappy jobs floating around that I'm more or less in charge of. However, as fast as they pop up, my manager yells at people to take them off my plate. (It's nice having a supportive manager.)
Not the DMCA threat, of course, but the author of TFA who restrains himself from using a car analogy for a whole 5 paragraphs.
But was the use gratuitous? It needs to be gratuitous use FTW, if I recall.
Hey, there's hope yet. We still have Change We Can Believe In, remember? One of the Changes was greater transparency. (cough)
RTFP again. He didn't say every American, he said every unemployed person.
Write.
Write to your congresscritter. Every chance you get. Add the email address to your congressperson and your two senators to your address book.
Go to OpenCongress to see what bills are coming up, which ones have been introduced, which ones are headed for debate, which ones are headed for a vote.
Tell your reps what you think about the bill and why it's a bad idea. If they don't hear from us, they start operating in a vacuum. They start guessing. And there's a 50-50 chance that they're NOT doing what you want them to do.
And after the vote is over, send another message. If they voted the way you wanted, thank them. If they voted against your wishes chew them out.
Write letters to the editor. True, you can usually get published only once every 30 days with most papers but hell, that's 12 letters a year. If you make them cogent and well written you can make friends with the editor, who's looking for good stuff. (My last letter got printed just today as the leadoff letter, which means it was printed in a gray box with an attention-getting border.)
I have had it up to here. I will NOT go gently into that good night. At the very least, people will know where I stand on something. It may not do any good but the more people who do this the more our government will work the way it's supposed to.
I have two kids' cord blood banked. It was about $1 grand per collection kit, now it's $95/year for cryo.
Cheap, cheap insurance.
We just got a communication from our corporate overlords specifically prohibiting us from recommending, commenting on or in any other way disclosing what software we are using/have used/will use. A vendor may include our company in a list of clients, but That's It.
Don't ask me why.
I remember seeing a documentary called "First Flight" which detailed how they went about designing and building the 777. They were interviewing a Boeing engineer, ISTR, to talk about the whole number-of-engines versus ETOPS (Extended Twin Engine Ops) time, which had to be increased for the 777 to allow a greater 'envelope' of airports to divert to.) According to this source, the 777 is now at ETOPS-207, a very enviable range.
One of the (imperfectly remembered) memorable quotes from this engineer was in a response to an interviewer's question: "Why do we [sometimes] have four engines on the wing of a plane? Because there's no room to fit 5." The rationale being that more engines raise a comfort level for a pilot, but they also of course raise complexity and maintenance concerns.
For a commercial airliner, ETOPS-207 or even ETOPS-240 is satisfactory. For the plane carrying the President, it is probably not.
Well, solar + battery + grid = 24/7 power for large values of 'grid.' However, I remember quite clearly an article by Andy Grove (past CEO of Intel) in which he argues that electricity is more or less "sticky." Meaning that it isn't portable across continental barriers, especially when these barriers involve a good bit of water.
A grid that encompasses North America is not going to do much at high noon on the other side of the world. Likewise a grid in Africa or Australia are going to be useless about 9-12 hours a day no matter how you slice it.
Instituting #8 would most likely ensure that you won't be dictator for long. Geez Louise.