"The USA has been flying a fleet of twenty-year-old X-planes, and we're running out. Half the people I know have been trying for all their lives to build a better rocket ship. I can't find the energy to be enraged."
- helped move the corporate library from 3 scattered offices to one really nice facility; my job was moving the computers, hooking up the CD Readers and dopeing out general system problems. The boss man gave everyone involved a nice $100 bill in a pretty envelope, hand written thanks with mention of specific tasks done. Classy.
- The Man wanted to spend a ton of money on Adobe Acrobat to write PDF files. Spent 60 minutes installing GhostScript on the server and crafting the script/printer/samba share to create PDF docs. 30 minutes reading, 10 installing, 20 explaining the new setup to The Man and the Office Administrator. That was a sweet afternoon.
After they were issued (to the Corps) it was discovered that after firing X rounds the slide developed cracks. Distressing. They rushed out repair/upgrade kits but for a long time they went only where needed - our armoury was full of pistols with 'do not fire' tags.
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I mis-read the posts, got your 'Dune' comment all mixed up with the 'Known Space' thread. Shouldn't try and de-bug and surt at the same time. Apologies all around.
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um, dude, 'Dune' was Herbert's work, not 'Known Space' and not Niven.
That's pretty funny. I went through DFW a few months ago, left my 'beard trimming scissors' in my kit and.... the security guy shot me a dirty look, asked the professional cop on duty, who laughed and let me carry them on.
Sailboat. He said sailboat. Cramped cabin, unreliable power, salt and grit everywhere, not enough fresh water AND everything gets wet on a sailboat, eventually.
My memory is so poor I forget friends' birthdays and appointments I made a day ago. I sometimes have an idea I want to jot down but that I end up forgetting when I finally come upon pen & paper. To help myself, I was thinking of purchasing one of those integrated PDA and cellphone devices (first the Handspring Treo then another by Samsung),
Dude. You don't need a gadget, you need a system. Buy a Day Timer, write everything down.
Well, we know what fantasies _you_ harbor... to have such thoughts in your head. You're reading quite a bit into that, don't you think?
Subversive means a _lot_ of things besides being a Dark Angel rip-off. The kindest thought would be that he (she?) is interested in the kid, and wants her to 'think differant'.
I think the fire department should operate without trucks
And I wish that I could levitate and fly to work every morning. How exactly, do you propose that the fire department puts out fires without truck mounted equipment? A bucket brigade?
You can't change anything. You're not her boss, you're not her boss's boss, and you can't do a thing to change the root cause.
It's probably worse - you're now a troublemaker. Everything you do to correct the situation will be tainted.
Document evrything - hardcopy, not email. All conversations, all meetings, the tripwire demo, write it up, date/time stamp it and print it. Make two copies, seal them and write the date/time across the seal. If (when) it all boomarangs back to you, you'll get to spend a fun day in the head guy's office, with your boss, and your paper trail.
Everybody, quick, stampede off to school and learn the skills you'll need to succeed at any of these jobs. You DON'T need to have passion for what you do - the money will be soooo good.
See, CNE, MCSE, the crop of lawyers that graduated in the 90s etc. etc.
That's great until your phone number changes. I've had >this number now for two years, but I've been places where I moved every friggn' month or so and my phone didn't move - I just got the one in my new cube.
I don't know about the legality of what was done to you - and I don't know how many lawyers really read this forum.
But. This happened to me - networking through a friend in IT, his manager liked me but *ding* HR had my resume on file and no they would not tell me who sent it to them, save that they were a headhunting firm, and they weren't happy with them.
IMHO, a lawyer, while it might be satisfying, would be a waste of time/talent, unless you're a minor god in the tech world. And if you are, why are you posting in/.?
You can't find a copy of the Tulsa Tribune that came out the day of the Tulsa Race Riot in 1921. Nothing in the paper's morgue, no copies in private hands AFAIK. Gone like it never existed. Contemporary accounts report inflammatory language a Kluxer might blush at.
Judge Jackson, in an interview at his house broadast on NPR's Morning Edition with (I think) Bob Edwards uttered a statement that indicated he didn't know what the difference was between a browser and an operating system. This at the critical point in the MS Anti-trust trial where he was ruling on that issue. It startled me so much I went to NPR's archive to relisten and... the 30 second bit was _gone_ from the on-air archive of the interview. I thought I was halucinating until Jerry Pournelle wrote he had heard it too.
NOTE: this is a *shameless* self-aggrandizing plug, because I wrote the Washington Post story! But I figured it'd be of particular interest to Slashdot readers"
So, just because I read slashdot and have a passing interest in things geeky, I must care about SF? Criminitly, I've been stereotyped.
You wouldn't dare assume something equivlent about a Cosmo reader, not and not get your proverbial nuts handed to you.
Trevor Lovett writes "I ran across a collection of famous software bugs that have caused large scale disasters including the explosion of the Ariane 5 rocket due to integer overflow and the misfiring of a US Patriot missile that caused 28 deaths because of accumulated floating point error
You're blaming the wrong people for the Patriot fiasco.
The Patriot didn't kill 28. Iraq launching a ballistic missile that killed 28 - That's where the blame lies.
See if you can find a local VAR you trust - let HIM do the scut work of putting the systems together, and toss in a limited warrenty. Stress the long term aspects of the deal (semi sorta garunteed work if he makes you happy. If you can find the right guy, you'll *still* be saving money over having Dell put a system together.
This is the way I'm headed (that is, if we ever find ourselves in a position to buy new equipment). Then again, I just went through an awfull experience with Micron (fully 15% of my new workstations have had their video card replaced in the last 18 mos, and 2% have needed new mobos.) so I'm prejudiced.
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- helped move the corporate library from 3 scattered offices to one really nice facility; my job was moving the computers, hooking up the CD Readers and dopeing out general system problems. The boss man gave everyone involved a nice $100 bill in a pretty envelope, hand written thanks with mention of specific tasks done. Classy.
- The Man wanted to spend a ton of money on Adobe Acrobat to write PDF files. Spent 60 minutes installing GhostScript on the server and crafting the script/printer/samba share to create PDF docs. 30 minutes reading, 10 installing, 20 explaining the new setup to The Man and the Office Administrator. That was a sweet afternoon.
After they were issued (to the Corps) it was discovered that after firing X rounds the slide developed cracks. Distressing. They rushed out repair/upgrade kits but for a long time they went only where needed - our armoury was full of pistols with 'do not fire' tags.
I mis-read the posts, got your 'Dune' comment all mixed up with the 'Known Space' thread. Shouldn't try and de-bug and surt at the same time. Apologies all around.
um, dude, 'Dune' was Herbert's work, not 'Known Space' and not Niven.
That's pretty funny. I went through DFW a few months ago, left my 'beard trimming scissors' in my kit and .... the security guy shot me a dirty look, asked the professional cop on duty, who laughed and let me carry them on.
They can think like that, all they want to. When you get a competitor who DOESN'T think like that, they'll eat your lunch.
Look at Wall-Mart, innovating their IT like madmen, and K-Mart, who started just a few year's too late. Examples abound.
Deals with the aftermath of a nuclear exchange from the POV of a small, sleepy Florida town.
No mutants, the explosions take place on the horizon but .. one hell of a story.
Sailboat. He said sailboat. Cramped cabin, unreliable power, salt and grit everywhere, not enough fresh water AND everything gets wet on a sailboat, eventually.
I kinda sorta recall being able to download updates for free. That would have been pre-internet, so it was from their BBS. Ah, the good old days.
You _tell_ them. You can't be nice about it. Have the BOSS issue a letter telling them "do this or else".
Dude. You don't need a gadget, you need a system. Buy a Day Timer, write everything down.
Subversive means a _lot_ of things besides being a Dark Angel rip-off. The kindest thought would be that he (she?) is interested in the kid, and wants her to 'think differant'.
And I wish that I could levitate and fly to work every morning. How exactly, do you propose that the fire department puts out fires without truck mounted equipment? A bucket brigade?
It's probably worse - you're now a troublemaker. Everything you do to correct the situation will be tainted.
Document evrything - hardcopy, not email. All conversations, all meetings, the tripwire demo, write it up, date/time stamp it and print it. Make two copies, seal them and write the date/time across the seal. If (when) it all boomarangs back to you, you'll get to spend a fun day in the head guy's office, with your boss, and your paper trail.
Make sure YOUR stuff is backed up, of course.
See, CNE, MCSE, the crop of lawyers that graduated in the 90s etc. etc.
If Cingular does it, it's time to find a new provider.
That's great until your phone number changes. I've had >this number now for two years, but I've been places where I moved every friggn' month or so and my phone didn't move - I just got the one in my new cube.
But. This happened to me - networking through a friend in IT, his manager liked me but *ding* HR had my resume on file and no they would not tell me who sent it to them, save that they were a headhunting firm, and they weren't happy with them.
IMHO, a lawyer, while it might be satisfying, would be a waste of time/talent, unless you're a minor god in the tech world. And if you are, why are you posting in /.?
You can't find a copy of the Tulsa Tribune that came out the day of the Tulsa Race Riot in 1921. Nothing in the paper's morgue, no copies in private hands AFAIK. Gone like it never existed. Contemporary accounts report inflammatory language a Kluxer might blush at.
Judge Jackson, in an interview at his house broadast on NPR's Morning Edition with (I think) Bob Edwards uttered a statement that indicated he didn't know what the difference was between a browser and an operating system. This at the critical point in the MS Anti-trust trial where he was ruling on that issue. It startled me so much I went to NPR's archive to relisten and ... the 30 second bit was _gone_ from the on-air archive of the interview. I thought I was halucinating until Jerry Pournelle wrote he had heard it too.
So, just because I read slashdot and have a passing interest in things geeky, I must care about SF? Criminitly, I've been stereotyped.
You wouldn't dare assume something equivlent about a Cosmo reader, not and not get your proverbial nuts handed to you.
You're blaming the wrong people for the Patriot fiasco.
The Patriot didn't kill 28. Iraq launching a ballistic missile that killed 28 - That's where the blame lies.
5% paycut in effective as of 9/1/01. Then a 5% layoff three months later (Merry Christmas!).
FWIW, everyone at the VP level and above took a 10% cut and no bonus.
This is the way I'm headed (that is, if we ever find ourselves in a position to buy new equipment). Then again, I just went through an awfull experience with Micron (fully 15% of my new workstations have had their video card replaced in the last 18 mos, and 2% have needed new mobos.) so I'm prejudiced.