As several people have said you already answered the question yourself. Spare HDD + Blueray.
You can achieve what you want by also changing the way you think about your data.
How much of your personal data is live? As in, how much of it do you access constantly, and need immediate access to?
Here's what I do, I have discrete HDD set up for each data type (not needed...but I had spare ~500gb drives so it's how I did it) There are broken down to Music, Projects, Video, and Photos. Each of them is synced monthly to a 2TB external drive that is spun up only to do a differential backup.
Data that I haven't accessed in 6 months (mostly phots and old closed projects) is moved to Archival grade DVD and removed from the Archival HDD.
So irreplaceable things (3 decades of photos, years of work) are stored and can be accessed within a few moments, less important but commonly accessed stuff (music and instructional videos, or documents I use every day) are live and backed up on the Archive.
I'm glad you are not. However, in my experience, you are the minority.
1st Job: Retail IT: 1.5 years - My Manager was actively committing fraud. The Store, District, and Regional Managers didn't care because he wasn't defrauding the company but instead our vendors and it made their bottom lines look good. A head hunter shopped my resume to a potential employer without my knowledge. When they called to followup references the got my manager. In spite of my being on contract, with 5 months to go, my Manager lied to the Store Manager and said I had called in and quit. Imagine my surprise when when I showed up for work the next day.
2nd Job: Pseudo State Agency IT: 3 Years: - When Accounting/HR VP got in a turf war with the IT VP I became a casualty. In spite of being an A+ and MCSE Tech HR decided I did "Data Entry." This meant I would get no pay raises until my new reduced pay rate matched my current pay rate... which would take 13 years. For 9 months the IT VP did nothing while promising action only to finally said "It's not worth the political capital to correct it, you are just a tech, you are replaceable." As note I ws the first tech they had managed to hold onto for longer the 8 months... a trend that continued after my departure.
3rd Job: State Agency IT: 2 Years - Lucrative wiring contract ended up be given to my Managers Brother-in-law. After being 6 months behind schedule announces wiring job is done and I am supposed to sign off on it without testing. I refuse and follow testing protocol. 40%+ failure rate on all the wiring and discovered that even though top of the line commercial switches were paid for consumer grade switches were installed and daisy chained in an unstable configuration. My refusal to sign off on it resulted in me being censured and a poor performance evaluation. My complaints to higher up were basically answered with "He's a manager and you are not, your opinion is irrelevant."
4th Job: University IT: 5 Years: Actually the best of the bunch. Boss was likable and work was low pressure. Boss was continuously on 1/2 time as he was taking a ton of continuing education classes. When he started talking about retirement, and I pointed out that if I was going to take over the Novell network I was going to need a different suite of certs and additional training... magically all of our training money was unavailable and continued to be unavailable for anyone but him. He also had a tantrum when I gave him 8 weeks notice that I was going back to school, basically not talking in anything monosyllable the entire time because he would actually have to do his job for the first time in 5 years.
Each of these are specific instances from each of my jobs, but I could fill pages with their self-serving behavior. Far more often I saw empire building instead of teamwork.
Working in Alaska we had an equipment failure at a microwave bounce station and I was the closest tech. I and a telecomm guy rode snowmobiles about 20 miles back to the site in practically balmy weather of only -10 deg f. However, the bounce station was on top of a 40 foot tower which was perched on rocky hill that rose out of the forest. There was thermometer helpfully bolted one of the legs of the tower and it only went down to -25 f. It was colder then that.
We climbed to the top of the tower, where the wind was howling like a banshee, open the box... to discover a router that apparently had been missed when we run around upgrading all the equipment 5 years previously. One for which used proprietary embedded OS that I had no experience with. Fortunately, my boss did but she was on the other side of the state. So I jacked my serial cable in, called my boss on the radio, with my laptop randomly freezing and crashing in the cold, bitten by the Artic wind and with crappy static filled radio connection I laboriously reprogrammed the damned router frozen keystroke by keystroke. I took nearly two hours of hell to bring it back up but we did.
Gratefully we climbed down the ladder and prepared to journey home. The snowmachines wouldn't start. The details of fixing THAT is a tale for another thread.
Ethical... probably not... but he could have it MUCH worse.
I also worked a large University and the department I worked for specialized in statistical analysis. One of the major Government grant groups who we did a lot of work for switched over to a unbelievably complex and buggy contract/grant writing software and required that it and only it be used to submit grant or work requests.
One License = $6000.
And it was so laden with DRM and key-checking that if you suffered a the tiniest bit of latency at ANY step of filling out the grant forms the software locked out out and had to be reactivated by the vendor so you could start the whole grant form over again (no saving.)
It was so burdensome we had one financial manager take early retirement rather then deal with it anymore and when I left they were trying to decide which was more cost effective: hiring a person to deal full time with this one piece of software and it's eccentricities or stop bidding on those grants... losing ~20% of our grant money in the process.
Regarding Stevens, it's good to finally be rid of the embarrassment... too bad we're replacing him with someone who is equally corrupt - only instead of belonging to big oil, Begich belongs to organized crime.
But then, corruption is a requirement to be in politics in the United States, so I guess Begich arrives well qualified.
You raise some good points. especially on the function first vs. function only. Perhaps I would have been more accurate to phrase it as "function first regardless of aesthetic and human impact."
But, the problem becomes who determines whether or not the building functions?
If you ask Gehry if the Guggenheim @ Bilbao was functional he will insist it is, because his purpose (seemingly) is to create sculptural object masquerading as buildings. Ask the person who is trying to hang a canvas on wall of complex curves and they might (and have loudly) disagreed with him.
Additionally, I was being a bit hyperbolic when I said "completely unsuited for human occupation" but if an apartment building is designed that technically meets all the functional needs of it's occupants but is so soulless that no one wants to live there... then the architect has failed.
I've worked in a pure brutalist office building, and although saying it "completely unsuited for human occupation" may sound strong, it is exactly how I and the other victims trapped there felt. It's part of what motivated me to quit my job and go to school to become an architect.
Well that and the baffling insistence of hiring California Architects to design Alaskan schools that ignore teensy little things like snow, ice, and subzero temperatures. (A trend that seems to have reversed in the last few years thankfully.)
No, function should be balanced with aesthetics. Function first gives you things like brutalism, big ugly concrete boxes that are completely functional and completely unsuited for actual human occupation.
Gehry is just the opposite end of the spectrum, where function is subsumed in the face of his aesthetic.
(For the record I AM an architecture student and I hate Gehry's design for much the same reasons you do.)
Here I thought people moved to the U.S to escape the totalatarian governments in their homelands, or the overwhelming tax burden of the bankrupt socialist state, or because (in spite of terroristic acts) Americans citizens enjoy more freedoms the any other country in the world.
But, thanks to you, we now know that it's not for GWB. What a relief.
" Thats about the same as people who don't think they need data backup until that laptop hdd that they have been storing 3 years of business data on dies."
Although there was some horror film that was actually worse, I've managed to excise the portion of my brain containing most the memories of it so I can't remeber the name at the moment..
Even then presuming I did have some service (magically) I seldom have an hour to spend (normal wait time here) on hold waiting to talk to the customer service rep (who won't know what's going on anyway.)
However, remember not all Firewire enclosures are created equal.
We have a variety of Firewire & Firewire + USB enclosures, and the range in speed between 2k and 11k a second in transfer rates.
The 2k ones were cheap $30 enclosures, which of the 30 we bought 12 of them have been returned or replaced. Even then, the enclosures work intermittently, dropping connections and corrupting data. It's got to the point were we don't even use them; they are sitting in a box in storage because they are so failure prone. (And my boss won't throw anything away.)
The 11k ones (Which are LaCie 120GB jobies) have worked flawlessly, and are used for baking up our main data server.
I don't believe he is referring to the use of negitive numbers in math. (Well sorta is, but he's mixing metaphors)
I believe he is either referring to the Logical Fallacy of Relevence: Appeal to Ignorance. where on person states a statement must be true because no-one can prove it wrong.
I think what he is trying to say is that you can't prove that something can't be done (like quickly factor large integers) because it's impossible to know the full scope of the problem, or keep up with the advance of knowledge.
Like the companies who announce their new "hackproof" servers and challenge someone to hack them... and get borked a few hours late over some small undocumented vulnerability...
Unfortunately, the analogy is false. IT doesn't kill or save enough people, so there's no rigorous screening process for people entering the field. There is no 7-8 years of proving ground and education before being released upon the masses.
You are perhaps unfamiliar with the field of embedded programming?
A buddy of mine has a BS and MS from MIT in Programming and Safety Engineering respectively. He spends all day double checking code so thousands people do die every time a plane leaves the ground.
Do you perhaps recall the two semi-recent Airbus disasters when the fly-by-wire computer system wouldn't let the pilots do what the needed to save the lives of everyone on board?
For example: However, because of the gusting winds and heavy rains, the wheels aquaplaned during the first nine seconds on the ground. The extra wind and water combined to fool the Airbus computer, indicating the big jet had not landed. The computer responded by disabling the aircraft braking systems. With no brakes, the Lufthansa jet skidded off the end of the Warsaw runway and struck a hill, killing the first officer, one passenger, and injuring 45 others. The A320 was totally destroyed in the crash.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?AR TI CLE_ID=20588
That's just a single aviation example. Imagine what happens when all the lovely high-tech advanced medical equipment coming out has a programming fault...
Mind you I agree with most of the rest of your post. But IT does kill and save. That's why software enigineering and of mission critical IT services should be held to higher standards.
I was turned onto it by a local bookseller who is friends with the author and had read advance copies.
I think it is a little misleading to call it Space Opera, because only the setting is such. No other Space opera even begins to touch on some of the issues addressed within.
These include (but not limited too) what is truth, thought and humanity; ethics both of culture and individual; societal responsibility and individual responsibilities as well as human right vs societal rights; the nature of consciousness and how does perception affect it; the morel, societal and humanistic consequences of altering the human template; and whether tis nobler to quietly into that good night or rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Mind you I also want to beat Mr. Wright soundly. Some of the concepts that he mentions IN PASSING ONLY almost deserve an individual exploration of a book of their own. I stopped counting at about twenty in the first book alone. It seemed like every single page he mentioned a concept and I though "Wow that'd make a great book..." and then he'd move on.
One time I had to snowmachine about 20 miles to a malfunctioning telecom tower. The trip was invigorated by the fact that my thermometer stopped reading at -30 f, that's not including the wind chill so I really don't know how cold it was.
After arriving, had to climb the smallish (40 ft) tower plug my laptop into the router and type in exactly what my boss said. (She was the telecomm guru, I was the hardware tech.)
After about 10 minutes the LCD screen cracked, but we had got the router into semi working condition so she could remote control my laptop and finish the configuration before the laptop froze completely (about another ten minutes.)
Inspite of the cold weather gear I ended up with some minor forstbite on fingers, nose, and cheeks.
And I had a kidney stone attack on the ride back, that's not really part of the job. It was just icing on the cake of truely evil day.
Then there was the time I was working on a computer in the wheelhouse and someone set the office I was in on fire by welding outside it...
My wife got a Caron-Monoxide detector from her secret Santa at the their holiday party.
Other people got wine, gadgets, chocolate...
Mind you we have a small house and we have two already detectors allready.
But, CO poisoning is serious stuff up here in the great northern state, so I guess the best way to look at it is that at LEAST one of her fellow employees would like her to survive the winter. (We had a family of five die this month from it.)
Best: Golden Age, Phoenix Exultant, and The Golden Transcendence by John C. Wright. Mind you, I also want to beat him for the wealth of interesting ideas he throws at you, each one of which could be a book in it's own right. On the surface it's space ioera, but there is more there...
meh: DaVinci Code et al... by Dan Brown. Not great, but passable. Cotton Candy for the brain. Reminded me a lot of Clive Cussler.
Worst: Anything by Michael Chrichton. As someone clever once said (not me) just because he made another book does not mean they have to make it into a movie.
The Machine Crusade by Brian Herbert I'm just going to pretend this and the rest of the poorly written spawn of Frank's legacy don't exist. And don't think I didn't try to love them, I did.
Text Telephone (TDD) This special telephone is also called a Telecommunications Device for the Deaf (TDD) or a TeleTypewriter (TTY). A TDD is a portable keyboard telephone used by the hearing impaired to call other TDD's. Instead of speaking and listening, you type on the TDD keyboard and read incoming messages on a tiny screen. A typical old-fashioned TDD looks like a small white electric typwriter with a tiny one-line screen and a built-in acoustic coupler (two black cups that attaches to the ends of a telephone handset. This means that the TDD can be used with any telephone, including coin telephones). My newest TDD is the size of a videotape and folds open to reveal a touch-typeable keyboard. It can call computers with modems, has an 80 character backlit LCD screen, and lasts for 15 hours on battery power. I can type 100WPM on it. More information can be found on the TTY FAQ
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As several people have said you already answered the question yourself. Spare HDD + Blueray.
You can achieve what you want by also changing the way you think about your data.
How much of your personal data is live? As in, how much of it do you access constantly, and need immediate access to?
Here's what I do, I have discrete HDD set up for each data type (not needed...but I had spare ~500gb drives so it's how I did it) There are broken down to Music, Projects, Video, and Photos. Each of them is synced monthly to a 2TB external drive that is spun up only to do a differential backup.
Data that I haven't accessed in 6 months (mostly phots and old closed projects) is moved to Archival grade DVD and removed from the Archival HDD.
So irreplaceable things (3 decades of photos, years of work) are stored and can be accessed within a few moments, less important but commonly accessed stuff (music and instructional videos, or documents I use every day) are live and backed up on the Archive.
I'm glad you are not. However, in my experience, you are the minority.
1st Job: Retail IT: 1.5 years - My Manager was actively committing fraud. The Store, District, and Regional Managers didn't care because he wasn't defrauding the company but instead our vendors and it made their bottom lines look good. A head hunter shopped my resume to a potential employer without my knowledge. When they called to followup references the got my manager. In spite of my being on contract, with 5 months to go, my Manager lied to the Store Manager and said I had called in and quit. Imagine my surprise when when I showed up for work the next day.
2nd Job: Pseudo State Agency IT: 3 Years: - When Accounting/HR VP got in a turf war with the IT VP I became a casualty. In spite of being an A+ and MCSE Tech HR decided I did "Data Entry." This meant I would get no pay raises until my new reduced pay rate matched my current pay rate... which would take 13 years. For 9 months the IT VP did nothing while promising action only to finally said "It's not worth the political capital to correct it, you are just a tech, you are replaceable." As note I ws the first tech they had managed to hold onto for longer the 8 months... a trend that continued after my departure.
3rd Job: State Agency IT: 2 Years - Lucrative wiring contract ended up be given to my Managers Brother-in-law. After being 6 months behind schedule announces wiring job is done and I am supposed to sign off on it without testing. I refuse and follow testing protocol. 40%+ failure rate on all the wiring and discovered that even though top of the line commercial switches were paid for consumer grade switches were installed and daisy chained in an unstable configuration. My refusal to sign off on it resulted in me being censured and a poor performance evaluation.
My complaints to higher up were basically answered with "He's a manager and you are not, your opinion is irrelevant."
4th Job: University IT: 5 Years: Actually the best of the bunch. Boss was likable and work was low pressure. Boss was continuously on 1/2 time as he was taking a ton of continuing education classes. When he started talking about retirement, and I pointed out that if I was going to take over the Novell network I was going to need a different suite of certs and additional training... magically all of our training money was unavailable and continued to be unavailable for anyone but him. He also had a tantrum when I gave him 8 weeks notice that I was going back to school, basically not talking in anything monosyllable the entire time because he would actually have to do his job for the first time in 5 years.
Each of these are specific instances from each of my jobs, but I could fill pages with their self-serving behavior. Far more often I saw empire building instead of teamwork.
A serious entry to the question.
Working in Alaska we had an equipment failure at a microwave bounce station and I was the closest tech. I and a telecomm guy rode snowmobiles about 20 miles back to the site in practically balmy weather of only -10 deg f. However, the bounce station was on top of a 40 foot tower which was perched on rocky hill that rose out of the forest.
There was thermometer helpfully bolted one of the legs of the tower and it only went down to -25 f. It was colder then that.
We climbed to the top of the tower, where the wind was howling like a banshee, open the box... to discover a router that apparently had been missed when we run around upgrading all the equipment 5 years previously. One for which used proprietary embedded OS that I had no experience with. Fortunately, my boss did but she was on the other side of the state. So I jacked my serial cable in, called my boss on the radio, with my laptop randomly freezing and crashing in the cold, bitten by the Artic wind and with crappy static filled radio connection I laboriously reprogrammed the damned router frozen keystroke by keystroke. I took nearly two hours of hell to bring it back up but we did.
Gratefully we climbed down the ladder and prepared to journey home. The snowmachines wouldn't start. The details of fixing THAT is a tale for another thread.
I'm curious as to why you categorize Architecture as "bullshit" degree.
Would you mind explaining the Rationalization behind this?
I'm curious because I have 15 years in the IT industry and am now getting an M.S. in Architecture and I've never heard of someone refer to it as such.
Ethical... probably not... but he could have it MUCH worse.
I also worked a large University and the department I worked for specialized in statistical analysis. One of the major Government grant groups who we did a lot of work for switched over to a unbelievably complex and buggy contract/grant writing software and required that it and only it be used to submit grant or work requests.
One License = $6000.
And it was so laden with DRM and key-checking that if you suffered a the tiniest bit of latency at ANY step of filling out the grant forms the software locked out out and had to be reactivated by the vendor so you could start the whole grant form over again (no saving.)
It was so burdensome we had one financial manager take early retirement rather then deal with it anymore and when I left they were trying to decide which was more cost effective: hiring a person to deal full time with this one piece of software and it's eccentricities or stop bidding on those grants... losing ~20% of our grant money in the process.
Regarding Stevens, it's good to finally be rid of the embarrassment... too bad we're replacing him with someone who is equally corrupt - only instead of belonging to big oil, Begich belongs to organized crime.
But then, corruption is a requirement to be in politics in the United States, so I guess Begich arrives well qualified.
I'm an Alaskan and I approve of your statement.
In fact I'm not sure I could have said it better.
You raise some good points. especially on the function first vs. function only. Perhaps I would have been more accurate to phrase it as "function first regardless of aesthetic and human impact."
But, the problem becomes who determines whether or not the building functions?
If you ask Gehry if the Guggenheim @ Bilbao was functional he will insist it is, because his purpose (seemingly) is to create sculptural object masquerading as buildings. Ask the person who is trying to hang a canvas on wall of complex curves and they might (and have loudly) disagreed with him.
Additionally, I was being a bit hyperbolic when I said "completely unsuited for human occupation" but if an apartment building is designed that technically meets all the functional needs of it's occupants but is so soulless that no one wants to live there... then the architect has failed.
I've worked in a pure brutalist office building, and although saying it "completely unsuited for human occupation" may sound strong, it is exactly how I and the other victims trapped there felt. It's part of what motivated me to quit my job and go to school to become an architect.
Well that and the baffling insistence of hiring California Architects to design Alaskan schools that ignore teensy little things like snow, ice, and subzero temperatures. (A trend that seems to have reversed in the last few years thankfully.)
"Function should always come first."
No, function should be balanced with aesthetics. Function first gives you things like brutalism, big ugly concrete boxes that are completely functional and completely unsuited for actual human occupation.
Gehry is just the opposite end of the spectrum, where function is subsumed in the face of his aesthetic.
(For the record I AM an architecture student and I hate Gehry's design for much the same reasons you do.)
We use Syncback from 2brightsparks and do a smart sync using FTP and SSH for all the user's data file to a backup server.
When they are back in the office, Syncback dumps all their data to a external disk on their desk.
Not a system backup option like ghost, but useful for keeping the data safe.
Well thank goodness you cleared that up.
Here I thought people moved to the U.S to escape the totalatarian governments in their homelands, or the overwhelming tax burden of the bankrupt socialist state, or because (in spite of terroristic acts) Americans citizens enjoy more freedoms the any other country in the world.
But, thanks to you, we now know that it's not for GWB. What a relief.
Or Kerry writing a book on honesty.
" Thats about the same as people who don't think they need data backup until that laptop hdd that they have been storing 3 years of business data on dies."
Can I get an Amen, Brother!
Although there was some horror film that was actually worse, I've managed to excise the portion of my brain containing most the memories of it so I can't remeber the name at the moment..
Battlefield Earth is a close contender as well.
Call them on what? My Cell phone that's out?
I don't even have a landline anymore.
Even then presuming I did have some service (magically) I seldom have an hour to spend (normal wait time here) on hold waiting to talk to the customer service rep (who won't know what's going on anyway.)
However, remember not all Firewire enclosures are created equal.
We have a variety of Firewire & Firewire + USB enclosures, and the range in speed between 2k and 11k a second in transfer rates.
The 2k ones were cheap $30 enclosures, which of the 30 we bought 12 of them have been returned or replaced. Even then, the enclosures work intermittently, dropping connections and corrupting data. It's got to the point were we don't even use them; they are sitting in a box in storage because they are so failure prone. (And my boss won't throw anything away.)
The 11k ones (Which are LaCie 120GB jobies) have worked flawlessly, and are used for baking up our main data server.
I don't believe he is referring to the use of negitive numbers in math. (Well sorta is, but he's mixing metaphors)
I believe he is either referring to the Logical Fallacy of Relevence: Appeal to Ignorance. where on person states a statement must be true because no-one can prove it wrong.
I think what he is trying to say is that you can't prove that something can't be done (like quickly factor large integers) because it's impossible to know the full scope of the problem, or keep up with the advance of knowledge.
Like the companies who announce their new "hackproof" servers and challenge someone to hack them... and get borked a few hours late over some small undocumented vulnerability...
I second Tufftest. We bought copy for my group here and the few time it's been used it's worked great.
Mind you 90% of our problem have been user error so far.
Unfortunately, the analogy is false. IT doesn't kill or save enough people, so there's no rigorous screening process for people entering the field. There is no 7-8 years of proving ground and education before being released upon the masses.
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You are perhaps unfamiliar with the field of embedded programming?
A buddy of mine has a BS and MS from MIT in Programming and Safety Engineering respectively. He spends all day double checking code so thousands people do die every time a plane leaves the ground.
Do you perhaps recall the two semi-recent Airbus disasters when the fly-by-wire computer system wouldn't let the pilots do what the needed to save the lives of everyone on board?
For example:
However, because of the gusting winds and heavy rains, the wheels aquaplaned during the first nine seconds on the ground. The extra wind and water combined to fool the Airbus computer, indicating the big jet had not landed. The computer responded by disabling the aircraft braking systems. With no brakes, the Lufthansa jet skidded off the end of the Warsaw runway and struck a hill, killing the first officer, one passenger, and injuring 45 others. The A320 was totally destroyed in the crash.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?A
That's just a single aviation example. Imagine what happens when all the lovely high-tech advanced medical equipment coming out has a programming fault...
Mind you I agree with most of the rest of your post. But IT does kill and save. That's why software enigineering and of mission critical IT services should be held to higher standards.
I was turned onto it by a local bookseller who is friends with the author and had read advance copies.
I think it is a little misleading to call it Space Opera, because only the setting is such.
No other Space opera even begins to touch on some of the issues addressed within.
These include (but not limited too) what is truth, thought and humanity; ethics both of culture and individual; societal responsibility and individual responsibilities as well as human right vs societal rights; the nature of consciousness and how does perception affect it; the morel, societal and humanistic consequences of altering the human template; and whether tis nobler to quietly into that good night or rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Mind you I also want to beat Mr. Wright soundly. Some of the concepts that he mentions IN PASSING ONLY almost deserve an individual exploration of a book of their own. I stopped counting at about twenty in the first book alone. It seemed like every single page he mentioned a concept and I though "Wow that'd make a great book..." and then he'd move on.
Anywho, my $.02
One time I had to snowmachine about 20 miles to a malfunctioning telecom tower. The trip was invigorated by the fact that my thermometer stopped reading at -30 f, that's not including the wind chill so I really don't know how cold it was.
After arriving, had to climb the smallish (40 ft) tower plug my laptop into the router and type in exactly what my boss said. (She was the telecomm guru, I was the hardware tech.)
After about 10 minutes the LCD screen cracked, but we had got the router into semi working condition so she could remote control my laptop and finish the configuration before the laptop froze completely (about another ten minutes.)
Inspite of the cold weather gear I ended up with some minor forstbite on fingers, nose, and cheeks.
And I had a kidney stone attack on the ride back, that's not really part of the job. It was just icing on the cake of truely evil day.
Then there was the time I was working on a computer in the wheelhouse and someone set the office I was in on fire by welding outside it...
My wife got a Caron-Monoxide detector from her secret Santa at the their holiday party.
Other people got wine, gadgets, chocolate...
Mind you we have a small house and we have two already detectors allready.
But, CO poisoning is serious stuff up here in the great northern state, so I guess the best way to look at it is that at LEAST one of her fellow employees would like her to survive the winter. (We had a family of five die this month from it.)
Coolmaster EAK-US1 Aluminum Keyboard.
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Laptop style mechanisim, good feel. I love it my boss hates it, but it nearly silent.
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Best:
Golden Age, Phoenix Exultant, and
The Golden Transcendence by John C. Wright.
Mind you, I also want to beat him for the wealth of interesting ideas he throws at you, each one of which could be a book in it's own right. On the surface it's space ioera, but there is more there...
meh:
DaVinci Code et al... by Dan Brown. Not great, but passable. Cotton Candy for the brain. Reminded me a lot of Clive Cussler.
Worst:
Anything by Michael Chrichton. As someone clever once said (not me) just because he made another book does not mean they have to make it into a movie.
The Machine Crusade by Brian Herbert
I'm just going to pretend this and the rest of the poorly written spawn of Frank's legacy don't exist. And don't think I didn't try to love them, I did.
Umm... well I was fairly closer to the north pole then most americans this week (Fairbanks, AK on work) and let me not recommend it as it was -42 f.
It hurt to breathe the air.
You mean besides TTY machines?
Text Telephone (TDD)
This special telephone is also called a Telecommunications Device for the Deaf (TDD) or a TeleTypewriter (TTY). A TDD is a portable keyboard telephone used by the hearing impaired to call other TDD's. Instead of speaking and listening, you type on the TDD keyboard and read incoming messages on a tiny screen. A typical old-fashioned TDD looks like a small white electric typwriter with a tiny one-line screen and a built-in acoustic coupler (two black cups that attaches to the ends of a telephone handset. This means that the TDD can be used with any telephone, including coin telephones). My newest TDD is the size of a videotape and folds open to reveal a touch-typeable keyboard. It can call computers with modems, has an 80 character backlit LCD screen, and lasts for 15 hours on battery power. I can type 100WPM on it. More information can be found on the TTY FAQ