Since, you know, that money would have no better use than to get a new museum piece... I support funding science, but something like this would not be science, it would just be a tremendous waste of money.
I disagree. If the Hubble could be brought back and put in the Smithsonian, then some child might become inspired by seeing it up close and personal, and choose to pursue science, astronomy or space exploration instead of choosing to grow up to become an advertising marketeer, scam artist or drug dealer.
Your CEO can feign all the ignorance he wants. As the principal corporate officer, he'll still be the one held legally liable, not you IT grunts. Sounds like he's truly ignorant and not faking anything at all.
Because they standardize poor service for all customers uniformly. Exactly the same as both wired and wireless phone companies and also all the major brand PC makers too.
When I was 9 years old, in third grade, I saw a flying car from Georgia. Now, it didn't fly very far, and the landings were a little rough, but it was quite entertaining. Especially when a certain female wearing cut-off blue jeans was bending over the fender.
I'll give you a great example of what's bleeding non-corp types dry: Health Insurance.
Even the corporate types are feeling that crunch too. Even though my employer has a group policy, and I am fortunate to have that, but all us employees still pay for a big chunk of it out of each paycheck. I just got a cost of living raise, and will only get to enjoy it for November and December, then come January 1st, the premiums will go up so much that my payroll deduction that pays for my portion of the health insurance will completely gobble up that raise. Oh, well... it was a "cost of living" raise after all, not a real raise.
The military doesn't obtain tickets for family members to attend funerals.
I know that the US Air Force will assist with making arrangements for getting priority airline tickets, and will reimburse immediate next of kin (spouse, dependent children, or parents if not married, and not siblings either) travel expenses after the funeral, but the next-of-kin much purchase the tickets themselves up front. The original A/C never said the military (whatever branch, he didn't say) was buying his friend's ticket, only that they "offered", which sounds like they were just making bereavement flight arrangements only, which is consistent with what I learned when one of my friends who was in the USAF got killed in a plane crash several years ago, and the USAF issued a reimbursement voucher for his ex-wife and son's airline tickets to fly to Washington for the funeral.
I offered to buy his ticket and hotel but he is too proud and refused to accept. Me and the rest of his friends will gang up on him when he returns and we'll fill his kitchen full of groceries for a couple months or something that he won't be able to refuse to help him out.
Amen. I wish I had some mod points tonight. Somebody please mod this A/C's story up. It needs to be seen.
With the possible exception of the temporary visitors, all the crews onboard the ISS, the Shuttles and Soyuz ships that service the ISS are all extremely disciplined professionals and have to behave as such at all times, especially since they are kept busy so much of the time, and their safety depends on their professionalism. These folks have been trained their whole careers to exercise great patience that it is second nature to them. I seriously doubt there are any "fights" more involved that something along the lines of "Awright, which one of you knuckleheads ate my last package of butterscotch pudding" or something like that. There have been some rather heated exchanges between the ISS crews and their mission control counterparts on the ground, and those are well documented, but so far there's been no widely publicized arguments between the ISS individual crew members themselves.
I know that whenever I'm driving, and in a really happy mood, I tend to push that right pedal down a bit harder and don't watch out so vigilantly for motorcycle cops hiding behind the roadside trees.
The actual data indicates that during 2001-2006 tech salaries grew at 1-2% (which is less than inflation), and during 2006-2007 they grew at at 5% (which is more than inflation).... Note that techie salaries are still below their Y2001 levels in inflation-adjusted terms.
I'm making more money than ever before in my life, but still struggling with consumer debt, driving a nearly decade-old car, and living in a house that's valued on the tax roles far more that I could ever sell it for, and it needs extensive repairs which I cannot afford today. Yet, my salary today is about the same as what the bigshot corporate VPs made, who lived in gorgeous big brand new suburbia houses and drove a brand new Lexus each year, at my first programming job out of college in the early-mid 1990's. My standard of living today in 2007 is roughly identical to what I had in 2001. All that seems different is I'm older, working harder and pumping a larger volume of dollars thru the system to maintain a status quo that doesn't slide backwards at too quick a rate.
Anybody else think cable TV is for suckers? --josh
Yup. I ditched cable TV about 5 years ago when I realized that I was paying my hard-earned money to get bombarded by commercials. After sitting down in front of the History Channel, Discovery Channel, National Geographic, Comedy Central, and other popular cable channels, I noticed that they always only played 5 minutes of program material, followed by 5 to 8 minutes of commercials, followed by 5 minutes of program, followed by 5 to 8 minutes of commercials, etc. Greater than 50% of the "airtime" was nothing but freakin' commercials. I then realized how stupid I was for paying for this rubbish and promptly canceled my cable and have never looked back.
I wonder if the Brazilian government realizes that *ALL* (100%) of Brazil's Internet traffic to/from the rest of the entire planet must flow thru one or more Cisco routers somewhere along the path.
As someone who works for a govt contractor (state & local govt, not federal), ironically in the security field lately, I've noticed that retroactive measures for security lapses are generally the norm, and not the exception. The govt organizations themselves are too cheap to do security right in the first place, and many contractors are too greedy to include proper security measures in their govt projects since those will cut into their profits. Fortunately, my employer has a clue and we don't suffer from such moronism, but we sure see a lot of it when we have to come in and finish or repair a system implementation that a prior contractor botched up.
...certainly can cause injury to the hands, wrist, elbow, etc. After being a UT2003/UT2004 junkie for the past few years ever since UT2003 first came out, my hands and wrists have suffered a great deal. When I went to see my doctor to see if he'd prescribe me some celebrex, he exploded into a rage about those (expletive deleted) computer games without me even telling him why my hands were sore. He then meticulously explained to me the kinds of surgery that might need to be done if I don't curb my computer gaming, and how slow the recovery process could possibly be for as old as I am. Well, I quit gaming almost entirely except for sparce occasions and only for an hour at a time max, and my injuries have healed up quite well, but I can still feel the pain come back if I play too long, or too frequently.
I would like to see the ability to adjust the number of days to keep stuff in the spam folder... like down to zero days. Also would like to have blacklisting and whitelisting capability on my Gmail account. Also would like to have S/IMAP connection support too.
How frustrating would it be to have your red hot ex girlfriend in a mail saying "i've attached the video of me wearing my Princess Leia outfit for you" and discover you fucking deleted it.
If she's my ex, then that means she's screwing somebody else by then and the absolute LAST thing I want to be reminded of is any erotic imagery of her, you insensitive clod!
...muzak is explicitly licensed for that kind of use.
Precisely.
BTW, you haven't lived until you've heard the Muzak instrumental version of Pink Floyd's "Run Like Hell" followed back-to-back by the Muzak version of Tom Petty's "Refugee". Absolutely breathtaking.
Most tube Marshalls, and all Music Man heads (among others) use diode clipping, so a lot of the time when people think they're hearing tube distortion, part of what they are hearing is solid-state distortion.
The only diodes in my JCM 800 Series 50W Marshall are in the power supply section. The "crunch" distortion is most definitely generated by 12AX7 (7025) tubes in the pre-amp section, where there are no diodes at all.
I used to be a guitar amp tech back in college and the overwhelming vast majority of Marshalls that came thru my shop were the tube-type ones, mostly JMP and JCM Series. The solid-state Marshalls were built well, but all sounded like crap.
Apple should have started up their own cell phone company.;-) Or at least bought some tower space (?) on an existing network.
Starting up a new cell phone company is extraordinarily cost prohibitive, even if you can get the spectrum in the first place. Ditto for co-locating on anyone else's towers. A much more viable option would've been for Apple to become an MVNO like Helio .
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Since, you know, that money would have no better use than to get a new museum piece... I support funding science, but something like this would not be science, it would just be a tremendous waste of money.
I disagree. If the Hubble could be brought back and put in the Smithsonian, then some child might become inspired by seeing it up close and personal, and choose to pursue science, astronomy or space exploration instead of choosing to grow up to become an advertising marketeer, scam artist or drug dealer.
Why would you be concerned about possibly getting "roped into the case" when someone's life is in jeopardy?
Because in Soviet Amerika, no good deed goes unpunished.
Your CEO can feign all the ignorance he wants. As the principal corporate officer, he'll still be the one held legally liable, not you IT grunts. Sounds like he's truly ignorant and not faking anything at all.
Because they standardize poor service for all customers uniformly. Exactly the same as both wired and wireless phone companies and also all the major brand PC makers too.
Hmmm, I wonder if we will be able to read the Road to Tycho series on the Kindle?
When I was 9 years old, in third grade, I saw a flying car from Georgia. Now, it didn't fly very far, and the landings were a little rough, but it was quite entertaining. Especially when a certain female wearing cut-off blue jeans was bending over the fender.
I'll give you a great example of what's bleeding non-corp types dry: Health Insurance.
Even the corporate types are feeling that crunch too. Even though my employer has a group policy, and I am fortunate to have that, but all us employees still pay for a big chunk of it out of each paycheck. I just got a cost of living raise, and will only get to enjoy it for November and December, then come January 1st, the premiums will go up so much that my payroll deduction that pays for my portion of the health insurance will completely gobble up that raise. Oh, well... it was a "cost of living" raise after all, not a real raise.
The military doesn't obtain tickets for family members to attend funerals.
I know that the US Air Force will assist with making arrangements for getting priority airline tickets, and will reimburse immediate next of kin (spouse, dependent children, or parents if not married, and not siblings either) travel expenses after the funeral, but the next-of-kin much purchase the tickets themselves up front. The original A/C never said the military (whatever branch, he didn't say) was buying his friend's ticket, only that they "offered", which sounds like they were just making bereavement flight arrangements only, which is consistent with what I learned when one of my friends who was in the USAF got killed in a plane crash several years ago, and the USAF issued a reimbursement voucher for his ex-wife and son's airline tickets to fly to Washington for the funeral.
I offered to buy his ticket and hotel but he is too proud and refused to accept. Me and the rest of his friends will gang up on him when he returns and we'll fill his kitchen full of groceries for a couple months or something that he won't be able to refuse to help him out.
Amen.
I wish I had some mod points tonight.
Somebody please mod this A/C's story up. It needs to be seen.
Are the fights that serious on the ISS?
With the possible exception of the temporary visitors, all the crews onboard the ISS, the Shuttles and Soyuz ships that service the ISS are all extremely disciplined professionals and have to behave as such at all times, especially since they are kept busy so much of the time, and their safety depends on their professionalism. These folks have been trained their whole careers to exercise great patience that it is second nature to them. I seriously doubt there are any "fights" more involved that something along the lines of "Awright, which one of you knuckleheads ate my last package of butterscotch pudding" or something like that. There have been some rather heated exchanges between the ISS crews and their mission control counterparts on the ground, and those are well documented, but so far there's been no widely publicized arguments between the ISS individual crew members themselves.
I know that whenever I'm driving, and in a really happy mood, I tend to push that right pedal down a bit harder and don't watch out so vigilantly for motorcycle cops hiding behind the roadside trees.
:-/
My defensive driving class is next Saturday
The actual data indicates that during 2001-2006 tech salaries grew at 1-2% (which is less than inflation), and during 2006-2007 they grew at at 5% (which is more than inflation). ...
Note that techie salaries are still below their Y2001 levels in inflation-adjusted terms.
I'm making more money than ever before in my life, but still struggling with consumer debt, driving a nearly decade-old car, and living in a house that's valued on the tax roles far more that I could ever sell it for, and it needs extensive repairs which I cannot afford today. Yet, my salary today is about the same as what the bigshot corporate VPs made, who lived in gorgeous big brand new suburbia houses and drove a brand new Lexus each year, at my first programming job out of college in the early-mid 1990's. My standard of living today in 2007 is roughly identical to what I had in 2001. All that seems different is I'm older, working harder and pumping a larger volume of dollars thru the system to maintain a status quo that doesn't slide backwards at too quick a rate.
Anybody else think cable TV is for suckers? --josh
Yup. I ditched cable TV about 5 years ago when I realized that I was paying my hard-earned money to get bombarded by commercials. After sitting down in front of the History Channel, Discovery Channel, National Geographic, Comedy Central, and other popular cable channels, I noticed that they always only played 5 minutes of program material, followed by 5 to 8 minutes of commercials, followed by 5 minutes of program, followed by 5 to 8 minutes of commercials, etc. Greater than 50% of the "airtime" was nothing but freakin' commercials. I then realized how stupid I was for paying for this rubbish and promptly canceled my cable and have never looked back.
I wonder if the Brazilian government realizes that *ALL* (100%) of Brazil's Internet traffic to/from the rest of the entire planet must flow thru one or more Cisco routers somewhere along the path.
As someone who works for a govt contractor (state & local govt, not federal), ironically in the security field lately, I've noticed that retroactive measures for security lapses are generally the norm, and not the exception. The govt organizations themselves are too cheap to do security right in the first place, and many contractors are too greedy to include proper security measures in their govt projects since those will cut into their profits. Fortunately, my employer has a clue and we don't suffer from such moronism, but we sure see a lot of it when we have to come in and finish or repair a system implementation that a prior contractor botched up.
...were finally starting to heal up from the RSI I've been suffering from too much UT2K3/UT2K4.
...certainly can cause injury to the hands, wrist, elbow, etc. After being a UT2003/UT2004 junkie for the past few years ever since UT2003 first came out, my hands and wrists have suffered a great deal. When I went to see my doctor to see if he'd prescribe me some celebrex, he exploded into a rage about those (expletive deleted) computer games without me even telling him why my hands were sore. He then meticulously explained to me the kinds of surgery that might need to be done if I don't curb my computer gaming, and how slow the recovery process could possibly be for as old as I am. Well, I quit gaming almost entirely except for sparce occasions and only for an hour at a time max, and my injuries have healed up quite well, but I can still feel the pain come back if I play too long, or too frequently.
And now, just today right at this very time I'm writing this comment, Slashdot posts that UT3 Beta Demo has just been released! . Damn, damn, and triple damn B-{
I would like to see the ability to adjust the number of days to keep stuff in the spam folder... like down to zero days. Also would like to have blacklisting and whitelisting capability on my Gmail account. Also would like to have S/IMAP connection support too.
How frustrating would it be to have your red hot ex girlfriend in a mail saying "i've attached the video of me wearing my Princess Leia outfit for you" and discover you fucking deleted it.
If she's my ex, then that means she's screwing somebody else by then
and the absolute LAST thing I want to be reminded of is any erotic
imagery of her, you insensitive clod!
Unless they count a UPS, RAID and tape drives as security
...they definitely fit into the FIPS 199 concept of the CIA triad , which stands for:
Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability
UPS and RAID are part of Availability and tape backups (disaster recovery) are considered under both Availability and Integrity.
...muzak is explicitly licensed for that kind of use.
Precisely.
BTW, you haven't lived until you've heard the Muzak instrumental version of Pink Floyd's "Run Like Hell" followed back-to-back by the Muzak version of Tom Petty's "Refugee". Absolutely breathtaking.
Most tube Marshalls, and all Music Man heads (among others) use diode clipping, so a lot of the time when people think they're hearing tube distortion, part of what they are hearing is solid-state distortion.
The only diodes in my JCM 800 Series 50W Marshall are in the power supply section. The "crunch" distortion is most definitely generated by 12AX7 (7025) tubes in the pre-amp section, where there are no diodes at all.
I used to be a guitar amp tech back in college and the overwhelming vast majority of Marshalls that came thru my shop were the tube-type ones, mostly JMP and JCM Series. The solid-state Marshalls were built well, but all sounded like crap.
Apple should have started up their own cell phone company. ;-) Or at least bought some tower space (?) on an existing network.
Starting up a new cell phone company is extraordinarily cost prohibitive, even if you can get the spectrum in the first place. Ditto for co-locating on anyone else's towers. A much more viable option would've been for Apple to become an MVNO like Helio .
So... I guess when I fall asleep at my desk and then suddenly wake up with a raging boner, that must mean that I'm both sleep and sex starved?
I guess it won't be long now until we see a sampler/scanner that fits into a turnstile.