just simply get a nice mail system running on a home computer that gets email via POP from Verizon/whoever and has its own webmail interface (e.g. getting an MTA running on a home computer with Apache and PHP running Squirrelmail or the like and having a dynamic DNS service)
How is this simpler than "www.gmail.com?"
Dynamic DNS, fer Pete's sake. The average/.er maybe, the average Joe Six-gig computer user, no way.
circuit city feels that they can exercise their lack of loyalty
Loyalty? You're looking for loyalty from a company? Tom Peters said it, and is saying it: Logo loyalty (loyalty to a firm) is dead. The only kind of loyalty that you need to cultivate is Rolodex loyalty - loyalty to your network.
they gave you a sandwich (quarter pounder or big mac), a large fry, and a soda on your lunch break
That's up to the owner/operator. During my McTenure, we got a certain allowance for food; so many cents per hour; that we could use (or lose) as we saw fit.
I never worked for a McOpCo (McDonald's Operating Company - read "corporate run") store so I don't know how they did things.
does anyone know what PSI these cars are rated to store O2?
Similar to paintball tanks - about 4000 PSI. They rate it in 'bar' and IIRC it was 300 or something like that. I read about this on the discovery channel recently, went to the site and promptly forgot about it when I realized it would be the same technology as the paintball air tanks.
You're right -- the compressor to compress air to 4000 PSI is non-trivial. I toyed with getting my son one so he could fill his paintball tanks and maybe we could run a field. He quickly lost interest in paintballing, however.
The contract in question stated that ten percent of the employee's salary had to be refunded to the employer if he violated the non-compete or if the non-compete were declared unenforceable in a court of law.
But...
If the contract were declared unenforceable, how did the employer have a legal right to enforce the "ten percent" rule?
I see your point, except my pedantic nature forces me to point out that methyl isocyanate has pretty much nothing to do with DDT (from everything that I've read.)
I was the "computer guy" at a fabric processor in a town in Eastern PA that Shall Remain Nameless. Being "The computer guy" meant that they blamed me for the outages, but of course gave me no spending authority to do anything to fix the problems...
About 1 month into the gig, I was in the front office which was connected to the computer room by fiber optic cable (probably the smartest thing this company did.) However, once the fiber terminated at the switch in the office, the horizontal wiring to the workstations was, God help me, silver satin cable. Telephone wire. The shit was everywhere. There were about 100 workstations salted through the plant (which ran high voltage AC and heaters and whatnot) and everyone complained about the server performance. I wasn't even allowed (!) to put a network analyzer on the wire and was too naive/stupid at the time to realize what the problem was. The guy who had the spend authority, the "chief engineer," told me the problem was lack of RAM in the server and was always harping on me to upgrade the memory.
Another time I opened a closet to find a splice of this satin cable (they must have bought it surplus, they had hundreds of reels of the stuff) and the splice was made with, I kid you not, wire nuts.
I lasted 18 months there. I heard they brought an ex-Accenture conslutant in soon after to fix the "computer problems" and she ran the company into the ground.
Mod this informative. My bro' was a classified records clerk in the Marines back in the day, and he (without divulging classified knowledge, I would assume) told me that this post was pretty close to the truth... and common sense should tell you a lot of it ('have as little classified information as possible', and the bit about being accountable for classified information.)
more time at home staying in touch with the American people
My kingdom for a mod point. Of course, if I had it, I'd lose this insightful comment.:)
IIRC, the Founding Fathers did just that; spent a whole lot of time in their home districts and only a scant few weeks in Washington. I think the longer that we can keep them out of Washington, the better off our country would be.
This is a government document. It's purpose is to amend the US Code. You'll never find a summary but if you want to see the new section that was added, pull up the document and do a text search for "PART 460--HUMAN SPACE FLIGHT REQUIREMENTS."
Hell, our CIO has just slammed the brakes on hardware refreshes. Now instead of every three years it's every 4 years, and every machine gets a Win2K image on it.
When people start using Vista in droves, we'll be the ones that will be dribbling XP onto these boxen. But I don't see us making any quantum leaps to Vista.
Of course, I thought I was wrong once, but I was mistaken.
This is prove (sic) that the technology DOES exist and CAN be implemented. It will, however, cost you.
The cost is not necessarily measured in dollars, either. The biggest challenge with this "smart home" crap is twofold; level of maturity and level of integration.
The products are not really matured yet, at least from where I sit (working part time on creating a "smart home" out of my current dumb one.) They're similar to Linux; making steps in the maturity direction, but we're a few years away.
Too, they all don't play nicely together. Hell, some of the different items|applications|whatever aren't even on speaking terms with each other. This one speaks this protocol, that one requires programming that way... all of which makes a quite lucrative opportunity for a whole house integrator, or an authority that can demand that all these things work together a la "HomeNet," the standard demanded by the SK housing project.
If the home automation people can all come together and agree on a lightweight, adaptable and easily deployable protocol that they can all speak, then you'll all of a sudden have a critical mass of hardware that could all work together. Until then, all we have is a Tower of Babel.
... they're called information management or information systems. I have a bright new shiny MS in Information Systems with a concentration in IM from Stevens Institute of Technology. My undergrad degree was of a similar nature.
Computer Science degrees, to my mind, are for those that are designing next gen computers, or AI algorithms, or compilers or languages. When the fruits of the CS people become commercialized, it's up to the information management people to put that new capability to work.
Well, to be fair, I don't recall if TFA referred to it as a dongle; I did. Although Wikipedia doesn't list a USB device as a primary definition of a dongle, it does list it among the alternate definitions.
Oddly enough, I call most crap that hangs out of my USB port "dongles." Except for my company-supplied PKI token; that I simply call my "PKI token." Odd how the mind works. Or doesn't.
Very insightful. (Hint to mods - I burned all my points yesterday.) I agree China's next, and another poster mentioned Romania and I'll add the other countries from the breakup of the USSR (and what about Russia itself?)
Then there will be an equilibrium of sorts, but there's one continent left to consider next: Africa. Now THAT's got to be an offshorer's wet dream, although the political situation and the technical infrastructure isn't in any shape to support it. I give it about 20 or 30 years before you start to see the new Bangalore on the Ivory Coast.
I've had my T23 [Thinkpad] for years; carried it everywhere, replaced the keyboard once already, and (as mentioned earlier in the comments) need to worry now about the fluorescent lamp as my screen is dying from red tint. I count things like lamps and keyboards as "FRUs" to use IBM-speak, even in a laptop. Lamps have a service life, keyboards are a moving part... while I sympathize with your desire for a ruggedized laptop, I wonder whether a high-end Thinkpad would fill the bill if you simply acknowledge that some things will just break after a while.
I have a friend who works for Mitre whose job it was, a few years ago, to "put TCP/IP in tanks." That phrase tells me that if you want a ruggedized laptop, you may be able to get one; but you may pay MIL-spec prices for it, too. At some point, you need to draw your cost/benefit curves and figure out what you're happy with.
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just simply get a nice mail system running on a home computer that gets email via POP from Verizon/whoever and has its own webmail interface (e.g. getting an MTA running on a home computer with Apache and PHP running Squirrelmail or the like and having a dynamic DNS service)
/.er maybe, the average Joe Six-gig computer user, no way.
How is this simpler than "www.gmail.com?"
Dynamic DNS, fer Pete's sake. The average
circuit city feels that they can exercise their lack of loyalty
Loyalty? You're looking for loyalty from a company? Tom Peters said it, and is saying it: Logo loyalty (loyalty to a firm) is dead. The only kind of loyalty that you need to cultivate is Rolodex loyalty - loyalty to your network.
they gave you a sandwich (quarter pounder or big mac), a large fry, and a soda on your lunch break
That's up to the owner/operator. During my McTenure, we got a certain allowance for food; so many cents per hour; that we could use (or lose) as we saw fit.
I never worked for a McOpCo (McDonald's Operating Company - read "corporate run") store so I don't know how they did things.
does anyone know what PSI these cars are rated to store O2?
Similar to paintball tanks - about 4000 PSI. They rate it in 'bar' and IIRC it was 300 or something like that. I read about this on the discovery channel recently, went to the site and promptly forgot about it when I realized it would be the same technology as the paintball air tanks.
You're right -- the compressor to compress air to 4000 PSI is non-trivial. I toyed with getting my son one so he could fill his paintball tanks and maybe we could run a field. He quickly lost interest in paintballing, however.
The contract in question stated that ten percent of the employee's salary had to be refunded to the employer if he violated the non-compete or if the non-compete were declared unenforceable in a court of law.
But...
If the contract were declared unenforceable, how did the employer have a legal right to enforce the "ten percent" rule?
"Open Client Offering"
"Object Code Only"
Coinky-dink? I don't think so!
Who remembers I See You by Damon Knight? I still remember that little story from a Daw anthology. Creeped me out.
I see your point, except my pedantic nature forces me to point out that methyl isocyanate has pretty much nothing to do with DDT (from everything that I've read.)
Except that it wasn't a typo. Working with them now. Will companies never learn?
I've had this argument before. Your phrase has 55 hits in Google. The way I wrote it has 10,000.
Can you explain why?
I was the "computer guy" at a fabric processor in a town in Eastern PA that Shall Remain Nameless. Being "The computer guy" meant that they blamed me for the outages, but of course gave me no spending authority to do anything to fix the problems...
About 1 month into the gig, I was in the front office which was connected to the computer room by fiber optic cable (probably the smartest thing this company did.) However, once the fiber terminated at the switch in the office, the horizontal wiring to the workstations was, God help me, silver satin cable. Telephone wire. The shit was everywhere. There were about 100 workstations salted through the plant (which ran high voltage AC and heaters and whatnot) and everyone complained about the server performance. I wasn't even allowed (!) to put a network analyzer on the wire and was too naive/stupid at the time to realize what the problem was. The guy who had the spend authority, the "chief engineer," told me the problem was lack of RAM in the server and was always harping on me to upgrade the memory.
Another time I opened a closet to find a splice of this satin cable (they must have bought it surplus, they had hundreds of reels of the stuff) and the splice was made with, I kid you not, wire nuts.
I lasted 18 months there. I heard they brought an ex-Accenture conslutant in soon after to fix the "computer problems" and she ran the company into the ground.
Mod this informative. My bro' was a classified records clerk in the Marines back in the day, and he (without divulging classified knowledge, I would assume) told me that this post was pretty close to the truth... and common sense should tell you a lot of it ('have as little classified information as possible', and the bit about being accountable for classified information.)
From TFA:
/. so I guess I can't holler "Dupe!" It's in my bookmarks tho'.
Even at its most efficient power setting, the big 14 consumes 1,660 gallons of heavy fuel oil per hour.
I've seen this web site before, but probably not cited on
I'm not even bothering with the comments that follow this. It's halfway to trollish. Besides, the plural of anecdote is not data.
I'm trying to figure out how 'NSFW' became 'NTSF'.
NoT SaFe.
more time at home staying in touch with the American people
:)
My kingdom for a mod point. Of course, if I had it, I'd lose this insightful comment.
IIRC, the Founding Fathers did just that; spent a whole lot of time in their home districts and only a scant few weeks in Washington. I think the longer that we can keep them out of Washington, the better off our country would be.
This is a government document. It's purpose is to amend the US Code. You'll never find a summary but if you want to see the new section that was added, pull up the document and do a text search for "PART 460--HUMAN SPACE FLIGHT REQUIREMENTS."
Hell, our CIO has just slammed the brakes on hardware refreshes. Now instead of every three years it's every 4 years, and every machine gets a Win2K image on it.
When people start using Vista in droves, we'll be the ones that will be dribbling XP onto these boxen. But I don't see us making any quantum leaps to Vista.
Of course, I thought I was wrong once, but I was mistaken.
This is prove (sic) that the technology DOES exist and CAN be implemented. It will, however, cost you.
The cost is not necessarily measured in dollars, either. The biggest challenge with this "smart home" crap is twofold; level of maturity and level of integration.
The products are not really matured yet, at least from where I sit (working part time on creating a "smart home" out of my current dumb one.) They're similar to Linux; making steps in the maturity direction, but we're a few years away.
Too, they all don't play nicely together. Hell, some of the different items|applications|whatever aren't even on speaking terms with each other. This one speaks this protocol, that one requires programming that way... all of which makes a quite lucrative opportunity for a whole house integrator, or an authority that can demand that all these things work together a la "HomeNet," the standard demanded by the SK housing project.
If the home automation people can all come together and agree on a lightweight, adaptable and easily deployable protocol that they can all speak, then you'll all of a sudden have a critical mass of hardware that could all work together. Until then, all we have is a Tower of Babel.
... they're called information management or information systems. I have a bright new shiny MS in Information Systems with a concentration in IM from Stevens Institute of Technology. My undergrad degree was of a similar nature.
Computer Science degrees, to my mind, are for those that are designing next gen computers, or AI algorithms, or compilers or languages. When the fruits of the CS people become commercialized, it's up to the information management people to put that new capability to work.
At least that's my take on it.
OK, mod me off topic.
The movie is Buckaroo Banzai, not "Buckaroo Bonzai."
And the actual part of the movie that the OP is talking about (the initialization of the Oscillation Overthruster) is "Sined," "Seeled" and Delivered.
Geez. If you're going to quote a cult movie, at least be part of the cult.
John Bigboote? Is that you?
Well, to be fair, I don't recall if TFA referred to it as a dongle; I did. Although Wikipedia doesn't list a USB device as a primary definition of a dongle, it does list it among the alternate definitions.
Oddly enough, I call most crap that hangs out of my USB port "dongles." Except for my company-supplied PKI token; that I simply call my "PKI token." Odd how the mind works. Or doesn't.
...for a mod point.
Very insightful. (Hint to mods - I burned all my points yesterday.) I agree China's next, and another poster mentioned Romania and I'll add the other countries from the breakup of the USSR (and what about Russia itself?)
Then there will be an equilibrium of sorts, but there's one continent left to consider next: Africa. Now THAT's got to be an offshorer's wet dream, although the political situation and the technical infrastructure isn't in any shape to support it. I give it about 20 or 30 years before you start to see the new Bangalore on the Ivory Coast.
I've had my T23 [Thinkpad] for years; carried it everywhere, replaced the keyboard once already, and (as mentioned earlier in the comments) need to worry now about the fluorescent lamp as my screen is dying from red tint. I count things like lamps and keyboards as "FRUs" to use IBM-speak, even in a laptop. Lamps have a service life, keyboards are a moving part... while I sympathize with your desire for a ruggedized laptop, I wonder whether a high-end Thinkpad would fill the bill if you simply acknowledge that some things will just break after a while.
I have a friend who works for Mitre whose job it was, a few years ago, to "put TCP/IP in tanks." That phrase tells me that if you want a ruggedized laptop, you may be able to get one; but you may pay MIL-spec prices for it, too. At some point, you need to draw your cost/benefit curves and figure out what you're happy with.