80 more people also means 80 more carry-on items to stow. As the overhead bins are too small already, I'm sure carry-on will be considered a luxury that needs to be purchased from now on.
When Greece joined, they claimed to have a 3% or below deficit. It turned out to be more than 15%. Goldman Sachs helped them to cook the books. So there's multiple parties to blame. Greece for weaseling themselves into the eurozone, Brussels for turning a blind eye, and Goldman Sachs for committing large scale fraud. In the end, none of the responsible people will be punished. In the end, taxpayers in Europe, both the Greek and the rest of the Europeans are holding the bag. It is by design.
Back in the 80's I worked for a field service organisation, fixing and maintaining PDP11 and VAX systems, but also CDC-9766 removable disk systems. Big 14" removable disk packs like you see them in old scifi movies. One of my customers had a string of 10 or so attached to a five-node Tandem Non-stop system.
Each week they brought two out of ten off-line for me to work on. I cleaned the heads, then used a servo disk pack to realign those heads. To do this, I needed to remove the control cable from the string, and plug in an excersizer. One day I forgot to pull the control cable. So instead of moving the heads of my offline drive to a specific track, I moved the heads of *ALL* disks in the string! Without the O/S knowing about it
Believe me, that will bring a Tandem Non-stop to a grinding halt. That was my last time on the floor for that customer, but I didn't lose my job. Cost? I don't know. Perhaps a weekend of data recovery for the operators?
I think your view of the greatness of the human brain is overrated as long as half or more of the world population still believes in make-believe divine beings that make us do awful things to each other.
I mean, one option is to make it like Europe where people in important positions must give 2-6 months notice, but since I don't think that's possible in the US, 2 weeks is not a lot of time and many companies will not have anyone able to be called up to do a live knowledge transfer.
Perhaps a bit naive, but if you really have a decent relationship with the company, is there any particular reason not to inform them earlier? I'm sure you plan to give notice long before those two weeks. So if you plan to retire/move/whatever two months from now, why not tell them right there and give them those two months to plan ahead as well? Or are you afraid they will turn around and fire you on the spot? In that case they didn't deserve your courtesy to start with.
For the past decade or two I have been paying ever higher environmental taxes and levies. If the pause doesn't exist and the temperatures continue to rise at exactly the same levels as before, then I want my money back!
Must be showing my age, but that's exactly what I thought! Played with Z80, Z280 and HD64180 for years, so I immediately connected this processor to the 8-bit world.
I guess this must mean that Canadian music business is booming! I mean, all those nasty downloaders would otherwise be buying music and movies, right? The billions of losses story?
Better yet, they may well be female virgins, but nowhere does it say they are human. Even in *this* life, muslims are said to have preference for goatse.cx
Don't kid yourself. The personnel with knowledge to maintain the internals of XP are all axed years ago. There's only a few H1B workers applying band-aids if really necessary.
Hitachi made that sort-of 16-bit processor. It was the HD64180 which was featured in a project from Steve Ciarcia in BYTE magazine (SB-180). Hitachi later sold the rights back to Zilog who produced it as the Z180.
Properly stored, 30 years or so. Getting a system and a tapedrive from 30 years ago to read it is a different story. I still have 8mm tape drives from the early 90's and they still work. Getting them hooked up to a modern SCSI bus is a bit of a challenge though.
I wrote tape diagnostics tools in the 90's (still do today). The main tool was a DOS program ( EXPERT7 ) which was in use by many customers. If you started the program with a '/?' command line option, it provided help on all command line options. If you started it with '/??', it would play a tune and list the names of everyone involved as beta testers. No-one ever complained.
Sen Feinstein also presented plans to deal with the Edward Snowden situation. In a stunning move, she came up with legislation that would make Edward's mother un-pregnant. Feinstein: "This is really simple. By forbidding Mrs Snowden to be pregnant, Edward does not exist, therefor the whole data leak issue is a thing of the past".
Ah, yes. It's the fault of everybody but the muslims. Back in the victim role again. Meanwhile in reality, muslims are killing muslims like there is no tomorrow. The murders are getting more atrocious by the minute. But I'm sure islam has nothing to do with that.
I do think quran teaches muslims to hate jews, and in fact everybody who rejects the islam fairytale. I do think that there are far more muslims than publicly known who despise Western civilization. And I do think that the peaceful muslim majority is irrelevant (look that up for yourself). The proof is in the pudding. How else do you explain that a simple cartoon of a bearded man with a bomb sparked muslim outrage all over the world, causing massive protests, riots and even killings. At the same time, the horrendous beheadings, mass abuse of children brainwashed to become martyrs in the name of islam spark.... nothing. No peaceful muslims on the street protesting. No despise, no rejection, nothing. I'm not talking about muslims needing to apologize to Western societies. I am talking about muslims standing up in rage against those extremists who rape their 'faith', should islam qualify as a religion.
So-called moderate muslims continue to push for special rights, for ever larger mosques to be built, for segregation of man and women, for pestering gays, all while leeching from the Western social system they despise so much. Why do these 'moderate' muslims insist of inviting imams known to preach outright hatred for social events? Why do even more 'moderate' muslims want to come to such events to be poisoned with extreme islam? Islam brings death, poverty and hate wherever it goes. Islam is not a religion, islam is an ideology determined to reach world domination.
I do agree with you on one point. Religion in general is a bad way of not taking responsibility for your own life. All religions are equal in that, so islam is as much poison for the people as any other religion.
Blocking websites is useless if they are unwilling to block the people coming to Europe to spread the poison of islam. With EU having a very weak outer border, nothing stops extremists from coming in to spread hate and indoctrination under young kids. We are now seeing kids as young as 12 years old heading for Syria. Where did they pick up the desire to do that? Who is poisoning their young minds? Blocking a website will have zero effect if the mosque or islam school next door aides extremists.
Wind energy is a scam. They don't run on wind, they run on taxpayers money.
If wind farms elsewhere are any indication, then that $290M will do nothing to build a decent size wind farm. In comparison, the Gemini wind farm park in the North Sea costs €2.8 Billion to build, for just 150 turbines. On top of that, this farm needs to be subsidized with €4.4 Billion in the next 15 years to become 'profitable'. See: http://geminiwindfarm.com/
So with 150 turbines for €7 Billion, how many turbines will that get you for $290M?
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80 more people also means 80 more carry-on items to stow. As the overhead bins are too small already, I'm sure carry-on will be considered a luxury that needs to be purchased from now on.
Wouldn't it be nice if this was a PoE dongle?
When Greece joined, they claimed to have a 3% or below deficit. It turned out to be more than 15%. Goldman Sachs helped them to cook the books. So there's multiple parties to blame. Greece for weaseling themselves into the eurozone, Brussels for turning a blind eye, and Goldman Sachs for committing large scale fraud. In the end, none of the responsible people will be punished. In the end, taxpayers in Europe, both the Greek and the rest of the Europeans are holding the bag. It is by design.
Back in the 80's I worked for a field service organisation, fixing and maintaining PDP11 and VAX systems, but also CDC-9766 removable disk systems. Big 14" removable disk packs like you see them in old scifi movies. One of my customers had a string of 10 or so attached to a five-node Tandem Non-stop system.
Each week they brought two out of ten off-line for me to work on. I cleaned the heads, then used a servo disk pack to realign those heads.
To do this, I needed to remove the control cable from the string, and plug in an excersizer. One day I forgot to pull the control cable. So instead of moving the heads of my offline drive to a specific track, I moved the heads of *ALL* disks in the string! Without the O/S knowing about it
Believe me, that will bring a Tandem Non-stop to a grinding halt. That was my last time on the floor for that customer, but I didn't lose my job. Cost? I don't know. Perhaps a weekend of data recovery for the operators?
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I think your view of the greatness of the human brain is overrated as long as half or more of the world population still believes in make-believe divine beings that make us do awful things to each other.
I mean, one option is to make it like Europe where people in important positions must give 2-6 months notice, but since I don't think that's possible in the US, 2 weeks is not a lot of time and many companies will not have anyone able to be called up to do a live knowledge transfer.
Perhaps a bit naive, but if you really have a decent relationship with the company, is there any particular reason not to inform them earlier? I'm sure you plan to give notice long before those two weeks. So if you plan to retire/move/whatever two months from now, why not tell them right there and give them those two months to plan ahead as well? Or are you afraid they will turn around and fire you on the spot? In that case they didn't deserve your courtesy to start with.
For the past decade or two I have been paying ever higher environmental taxes and levies. If the pause doesn't exist and the temperatures continue to rise at exactly the same levels as before, then I want my money back!
Must be showing my age, but that's exactly what I thought! Played with Z80, Z280 and HD64180 for years, so I immediately connected this processor to the 8-bit world.
I guess this must mean that Canadian music business is booming! I mean, all those nasty downloaders would otherwise be buying music and movies, right? The billions of losses story?
Show the correlation.
So, as a foreign visitor, I walk into a RS shop to get a SD card. I pay for the goods, and that's all.
What gave RS or its debtors the right to turn my personal information into merchandise?
These puppies are way out there, running on neclear power. No-one to bug them, nothing to break them.
That was my thought as well. I paid for a better environment, and I'm not getting any. So I want my money back.
Better yet, they may well be female virgins, but nowhere does it say they are human. Even in *this* life, muslims are said to have preference for goatse.cx
Don't kid yourself. The personnel with knowledge to maintain the internals of XP are all axed years ago. There's only a few H1B workers applying band-aids if really necessary.
When I worked at IBM, there was Sametime, any and all employee worldwide could be reached 24/7 already. How would Skype help?
Hmm. Wonder if the 'whatis' robot is still there..
Hitachi made that sort-of 16-bit processor. It was the HD64180 which was featured in a project from Steve Ciarcia in BYTE magazine (SB-180). Hitachi later sold the rights back to Zilog who produced it as the Z180.
"...or fail to lock down cables on a carb"
I'm pretty sure that cars still equipped with carbs are exempt from any copyright violation issues..
More to the point, I can imagine that anyone modifying firmware in a self-driving car might be in trouble with just about everyone around them.
Properly stored, 30 years or so. Getting a system and a tapedrive from 30 years ago to read it is a different story. I still have 8mm tape drives from the early 90's and they still work. Getting them hooked up to a modern SCSI bus is a bit of a challenge though.
I wrote tape diagnostics tools in the 90's (still do today). The main tool was a DOS program ( EXPERT7 ) which was in use by many customers. If you started the program with a '/?' command line option, it provided help on all command line options. If you started it with '/??', it would play a tune and list the names of everyone involved as beta testers. No-one ever complained.
Sen Feinstein also presented plans to deal with the Edward Snowden situation. In a stunning move, she came up with legislation that would make Edward's mother un-pregnant. Feinstein: "This is really simple. By forbidding Mrs Snowden to be pregnant, Edward does not exist, therefor the whole data leak issue is a thing of the past".
Ah, yes. It's the fault of everybody but the muslims. Back in the victim role again. Meanwhile in reality, muslims are killing muslims like there is no tomorrow. The murders are getting more atrocious by the minute. But I'm sure islam has nothing to do with that.
I do think quran teaches muslims to hate jews, and in fact everybody who rejects the islam fairytale. I do think that there are far more muslims than publicly known who despise Western civilization. And I do think that the peaceful muslim majority is irrelevant (look that up for yourself). The proof is in the pudding. How else do you explain that a simple cartoon of a bearded man with a bomb sparked muslim outrage all over the world, causing massive protests, riots and even killings. At the same time, the horrendous beheadings, mass abuse of children brainwashed to become martyrs in the name of islam spark.... nothing. No peaceful muslims on the street protesting. No despise, no rejection, nothing. I'm not talking about muslims needing to apologize to Western societies. I am talking about muslims standing up in rage against those extremists who rape their 'faith', should islam qualify as a religion.
So-called moderate muslims continue to push for special rights, for ever larger mosques to be built, for segregation of man and women, for pestering gays, all while leeching from the Western social system they despise so much. Why do these 'moderate' muslims insist of inviting imams known to preach outright hatred for social events? Why do even more 'moderate' muslims want to come to such events to be poisoned with extreme islam? Islam brings death, poverty and hate wherever it goes. Islam is not a religion, islam is an ideology determined to reach world domination.
I do agree with you on one point. Religion in general is a bad way of not taking responsibility for your own life. All religions are equal in that, so islam is as much poison for the people as any other religion.
Blocking websites is useless if they are unwilling to block the people coming to Europe to spread the poison of islam. With EU having a very weak outer border, nothing stops extremists from coming in to spread hate and indoctrination under young kids. We are now seeing kids as young as 12 years old heading for Syria. Where did they pick up the desire to do that? Who is poisoning their young minds? Blocking a website will have zero effect if the mosque or islam school next door aides extremists.
Mine was built in 1989 and still works as-new. Great tactile feedback, just rock solid. A bit noisy, that's all
Wind energy is a scam. They don't run on wind, they run on taxpayers money.
If wind farms elsewhere are any indication, then that $290M will do nothing to build a decent size wind farm. In comparison, the Gemini wind farm park in the North Sea costs €2.8 Billion to build, for just 150 turbines. On top of that, this farm needs to be subsidized with €4.4 Billion in the next 15 years to become 'profitable'. See: http://geminiwindfarm.com/
So with 150 turbines for €7 Billion, how many turbines will that get you for $290M?