We're not a big city, but I'm quite happy in Clearwater, FL. We're part of the Tampa Bay area, with about 2.7 million people, but the Clearwater/St. Pete part of the region only has about 350K. I moved here from one of the cities on that list (Orlando), and god willing I'll never set foot in that city again. Tampa Bay is great as long as you stay the hell out of Tampa.
A lot of mid-sized cities in Florida are like this. All the conveniences of a full-fledged city, but still sufficient ruralness in and around us. The peninsula area (St. Pete plus Clearwater) is pretty laid back.
Nothing was worse than when I lived down in Boca Raton. One giant city stretching from Miami up to West Palm Beach. Truly suffocating. I had a 2.5 mile commute that took me 40 minutes, and I didn't even get on I-95. If the heat index wasn't 100+ degrees 3/4 of the year, I could have *walked* to work in less time.
There's "only" 350k in Clearwater/St. Pete because there isn't any more room to cram more...it's the most densely populated county in the state. What full-fledged city conveniences does Clearwater have? The public transportation is horrible, there's absolutely no nightlife to speak of, everything seems to shutdown at 10pm except for Denny's and Taco Bell, and it's a huge mass of standard American suburban bourgeois-template culture (granted there are a couple exceptions in downtown St. Pete). Weather-wise, it doesn't fare that much better than SFL (although nothing is as bad as Orlando during the summer...which is April -> October). The heat indexes have been over 100 for the past couple weeks, and it's only June.
We implemented a new incident/problem management process around many ITIL practices. After 5 months of adjusting to the new processes, last month 95% of our calls were handled within SLA. ITIL works.
In my organization, the number of priority 1 incidences have dropped by 95% since implementing ITIL. That is mostly because there is so much paperwork and hassle involved in opening a priority 1 incident that nobody opens them anymore. ITIL works.
I noticed from your resume that you shotgun the experience summary (ex: # Linux: Slackware, Slamd64, RedHat, Fedora, RedHat Enterprise (RHES), SuSE, Ubuntu, Debian # Dos: MSDos, DRDos, PCDos )
Why list out every OS and variant that you've ever used if you're looking for Linux work? Do you really get that many calls that require PCDos expertise, and are you prepared to answer questions about DRDos minutiae. I'm actually curious if this approach helps out or not since I try and keep my resume pared down to what I actually know really well. If I see a resume come across like this, I would ask about the seemingly irrelevant things to get a BS rating for a person, but I'm also not an HR person or manager and can't claim to have any insight into how the think unfortunately.
Cruise control generally works by regulating the throttle plate in the intake to maintain speed, but it is still connected to the accelerator pedal by a cable. It can regulate speed above what the throttle pedal is "requesting", but can't keep the throttle pedal from requesting more.
The reason they would use GPS instead of the vehicle's speed input is that it is usually more accurate, and it is pretty dead simple to disable the speed sensor on most cars.
It's also technically illegal for a car to pass a bike without giving the bike an entire lane, the same way it is illegal for somebody on a bike to coast through a traffic jam on the side of the road, between lanes, or on a sidewalk.
The options are just an agreement to sell a number of shares at a set price. If NCSoft was worth $10/share when the options were cut, and is worth $20/share now, then Richard Garriott could buy the stock directly from the company for $10/share, then turn around and sell it for $20/share on the open market. If the stock is currently only worth $5/ a share, then he would still buy at $10/share, but wouldn't be able to gain any profit at all from a sale.
NCSoft isn't paying him anything at all, they're just cutting him an employee discount on their stock if it is currently trading higher than when he started working for them.
Options of this kind don't last forever though and usually have an expire date and a bunch of strings attached.
You must not handle any credit cards, financial data, or health records then. Some of us are forced to keep servers updated to within a couple weeks of the latest patches or risk a dreaded "uncompliance" status.
Personally, I wouldn't want any of my data trusted to an infrastructure that is only updated once every three years, but in some places that approach makes sense as well. We've certainly taken that approach with SLES servers since Novell's updates are usually more malicious that whatever hole they are patching.
Can I suggest that they put this thing in the belly of an airforce drone and attempt to cook a tub of popcorn on the ground? Perhaps in my professor's house?
We're securing the fake moustaches as I type this.
I'm not well versed on South African nuclear tech, but a quick google (http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf88.html) shows that their two reactors were both built in the mid 80s, so I'm guessing the design started well before then. Up until recently they were considering bids from Westinghouse to build 3 AP1000s, and Westinghouse is (was?) a partner in SAs PBMR programme. It reads like they're pretty current with the tech and not 20 years behind South Africa.
If a site is big enough that it really needs the performance/scale of such an F5 appliance, then the price tag is not that great and likely reflects.001% of the IT budget or less. Some shops will be better served with the cheap OSS solutions, and others would blow one up fairly quickly. If you blow it up fairly quickly and the $50k price tag is also hard to justify, then your cost of doing business is severely out of whack.
(2) OPERATING NOISE LIMITS.--No person shall operate or be permitted to operate a vehicle at any time or under any condition of roadway grade, load, acceleration, or deceleration in such a manner as to generate a sound level in excess of the following limit for the category of motor vehicle and applicable speed limit at a distance of 50 feet from the center of the lane of travel under measurement procedures established under subsection (3).
(a) For motorcycles other than motor-driven cycles:
Sound level limit
Speed limit 35 mph or less Speed limit over 35 mph Before January 1, 1979 82 dB A 86 dB A On or after January 1, 1979 78 dB A 82 dB A
(b) For any motor vehicle with a GVWR or GCWR of 10,000 pounds or more:
Sound level limit
Speed limit 35 mph or less Speed limit over 35 mph On or after January 1, 1975 86 dB A 90 dB A
(c) For motor-driven cycles and any other motor vehicle not included in paragraph (a) or paragraph (b):
Sound level limit
Speed limit 35 mph or less Speed limit over 35 mph Before January 1, 1979 76 dB A 82 dB A On or after January 1, 1979 72 dB A 79 dB A
There is also
(a) No person shall modify the exhaust system of a motor vehicle or any other noise-abatement device of a motor vehicle operated or to be operated upon the highways of this state in such a manner that the noise emitted by the motor vehicle is above that emitted by the vehicle as originally manufactured.
These are of course rather spottily enforced, and if you looked at the statistics I'm sure you'd find a large number of import cars cited and a much smaller number of domestics and motorcycles.
As one of the engineering professors at my school put it "When a doctor screws up, he kills a person. When an engineer screws up, <ominous voice>millions die!</ominous voice>"
If you started reading long enough ago to get a "desirable" UID, then you really waited a long time to sign up. I shed a single tear in UID battles when I realize I could've had a 4 digit.
Of course, I'm only really posting in this thread in hopes of getting the April Fools achievement.
I think he means how the number system proceeds logically in decimal increments instead of centennial increments. In Japanese you essentially have 1-10, 100, 1000, 10000, etc. English has new words for each decade up to 100 and doesn't start to "build" numbers until 100 "one hundred twenty three"...which would be "one hundred two ten three" in Japanese. Remember how counting to 100 seemed like such a daunting task? Japanese kids only have to remember 1-10 and 100. They learn earlier than English speakers things like "Fifteen" is one ten and one five and so forth.
Every mono aplication I've run across is slow and breaks strangely. Because of this, I've always considered mono as truth in advertising. Are there any good examples that might change my opinion?
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We're not a big city, but I'm quite happy in Clearwater, FL. We're part of the Tampa Bay area, with about 2.7 million people, but the Clearwater/St. Pete part of the region only has about 350K. I moved here from one of the cities on that list (Orlando), and god willing I'll never set foot in that city again. Tampa Bay is great as long as you stay the hell out of Tampa.
A lot of mid-sized cities in Florida are like this. All the conveniences of a full-fledged city, but still sufficient ruralness in and around us. The peninsula area (St. Pete plus Clearwater) is pretty laid back.
Nothing was worse than when I lived down in Boca Raton. One giant city stretching from Miami up to West Palm Beach. Truly suffocating. I had a 2.5 mile commute that took me 40 minutes, and I didn't even get on I-95. If the heat index wasn't 100+ degrees 3/4 of the year, I could have *walked* to work in less time.
There's "only" 350k in Clearwater/St. Pete because there isn't any more room to cram more...it's the most densely populated county in the state. What full-fledged city conveniences does Clearwater have? The public transportation is horrible, there's absolutely no nightlife to speak of, everything seems to shutdown at 10pm except for Denny's and Taco Bell, and it's a huge mass of standard American suburban bourgeois-template culture (granted there are a couple exceptions in downtown St. Pete). Weather-wise, it doesn't fare that much better than SFL (although nothing is as bad as Orlando during the summer...which is April -> October). The heat indexes have been over 100 for the past couple weeks, and it's only June.
Yeah, if you wanted real cerebral discourse back then, you went to kuro5hin
We implemented a new incident/problem management process around many ITIL practices. After 5 months of adjusting to the new processes, last month 95% of our calls were handled within SLA. ITIL works.
In my organization, the number of priority 1 incidences have dropped by 95% since implementing ITIL. That is mostly because there is so much paperwork and hassle involved in opening a priority 1 incident that nobody opens them anymore. ITIL works.
I noticed from your resume that you shotgun the experience summary
(ex:
# Linux: Slackware, Slamd64, RedHat, Fedora, RedHat Enterprise (RHES), SuSE, Ubuntu, Debian
# Dos: MSDos, DRDos, PCDos
)
Why list out every OS and variant that you've ever used if you're looking for Linux work? Do you really get that many calls that require PCDos expertise, and are you prepared to answer questions about DRDos minutiae. I'm actually curious if this approach helps out or not since I try and keep my resume pared down to what I actually know really well. If I see a resume come across like this, I would ask about the seemingly irrelevant things to get a BS rating for a person, but I'm also not an HR person or manager and can't claim to have any insight into how the think unfortunately.
I gave opensuse a shot since I used sles a lot at work...it was quite I relief when I went back to gentoo...
Slackware -> LFS -> Slackware -> Gentoo -> OpenSuSE -> Gentoo/Fedora (moved from SLES to RHEL at work).
The brief stint with LFS was just pure masochism on my part really.
Cruise control generally works by regulating the throttle plate in the intake to maintain speed, but it is still connected to the accelerator pedal by a cable. It can regulate speed above what the throttle pedal is "requesting", but can't keep the throttle pedal from requesting more.
The reason they would use GPS instead of the vehicle's speed input is that it is usually more accurate, and it is pretty dead simple to disable the speed sensor on most cars.
It's also technically illegal for a car to pass a bike without giving the bike an entire lane, the same way it is illegal for somebody on a bike to coast through a traffic jam on the side of the road, between lanes, or on a sidewalk.
The options are just an agreement to sell a number of shares at a set price. If NCSoft was worth $10/share when the options were cut, and is worth $20/share now, then Richard Garriott could buy the stock directly from the company for $10/share, then turn around and sell it for $20/share on the open market. If the stock is currently only worth $5/ a share, then he would still buy at $10/share, but wouldn't be able to gain any profit at all from a sale.
NCSoft isn't paying him anything at all, they're just cutting him an employee discount on their stock if it is currently trading higher than when he started working for them.
Options of this kind don't last forever though and usually have an expire date and a bunch of strings attached.
Fortunately Opera came on the scene about the same time and saved us all from Comet Cursor!
Well, at least the 5 or so of us that used it then.
You must not handle any credit cards, financial data, or health records then. Some of us are forced to keep servers updated to within a couple weeks of the latest patches or risk a dreaded "uncompliance" status.
Personally, I wouldn't want any of my data trusted to an infrastructure that is only updated once every three years, but in some places that approach makes sense as well. We've certainly taken that approach with SLES servers since Novell's updates are usually more malicious that whatever hole they are patching.
98SE?
Luxury...
Actually, that might be a double-whoosh...I can't really tell.
Can I suggest that they put this thing in the belly of an airforce drone and attempt to cook a tub of popcorn on the ground? Perhaps in my professor's house?
We're securing the fake moustaches as I type this.
I'm not well versed on South African nuclear tech, but a quick google (http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf88.html) shows that their two reactors were both built in the mid 80s, so I'm guessing the design started well before then. Up until recently they were considering bids from Westinghouse to build 3 AP1000s, and Westinghouse is (was?) a partner in SAs PBMR programme. It reads like they're pretty current with the tech and not 20 years behind South Africa.
If a site is big enough that it really needs the performance/scale of such an F5 appliance, then the price tag is not that great and likely reflects .001% of the IT budget or less. Some shops will be better served with the cheap OSS solutions, and others would blow one up fairly quickly. If you blow it up fairly quickly and the $50k price tag is also hard to justify, then your cost of doing business is severely out of whack.
Really? From Florida Statute 316.293:
(2) OPERATING NOISE LIMITS.--No person shall operate or be permitted to operate a vehicle at any time or under any condition of roadway grade, load, acceleration, or deceleration in such a manner as to generate a sound level in excess of the following limit for the category of motor vehicle and applicable speed limit at a distance of 50 feet from the center of the lane of travel under measurement procedures established under subsection (3).
(a) For motorcycles other than motor-driven cycles:
Sound level limit
Speed limit
35 mph or less Speed limit
over 35 mph
Before January 1, 1979 82 dB A 86 dB A
On or after January 1, 1979 78 dB A 82 dB A
(b) For any motor vehicle with a GVWR or GCWR of 10,000 pounds or more:
Sound level limit
Speed limit
35 mph or less Speed limit
over 35 mph
On or after January 1, 1975 86 dB A 90 dB A
(c) For motor-driven cycles and any other motor vehicle not included in paragraph (a) or paragraph (b):
Sound level limit
Speed limit
35 mph or less Speed limit
over 35 mph
Before January 1, 1979 76 dB A 82 dB A
On or after January 1, 1979 72 dB A 79 dB A
There is also
(a) No person shall modify the exhaust system of a motor vehicle or any other noise-abatement device of a motor vehicle operated or to be operated upon the highways of this state in such a manner that the noise emitted by the motor vehicle is above that emitted by the vehicle as originally manufactured.
These are of course rather spottily enforced, and if you looked at the statistics I'm sure you'd find a large number of import cars cited and a much smaller number of domestics and motorcycles.
As one of the engineering professors at my school put it "When a doctor screws up, he kills a person. When an engineer screws up, <ominous voice>millions die!</ominous voice>"
not sure...just whoring
If you started reading long enough ago to get a "desirable" UID, then you really waited a long time to sign up. I shed a single tear in UID battles when I realize I could've had a 4 digit.
Of course, I'm only really posting in this thread in hopes of getting the April Fools achievement.
I want the following from a digital camera...
1. Small phyiscal size (I wanna slip it in my pocket).
2. Good image quality
3. Good telephoto lens.
4. ???
5. Profit (sorry, couldn't resist)
Currently I use a Canon G9, but I'm sure they can do better!
Pick 2...and small physical size isn't an option yet
I think he means how the number system proceeds logically in decimal increments instead of centennial increments. In Japanese you essentially have 1-10, 100, 1000, 10000, etc. English has new words for each decade up to 100 and doesn't start to "build" numbers until 100 "one hundred twenty three"...which would be "one hundred two ten three" in Japanese. Remember how counting to 100 seemed like such a daunting task? Japanese kids only have to remember 1-10 and 100. They learn earlier than English speakers things like "Fifteen" is one ten and one five and so forth.
Every mono aplication I've run across is slow and breaks strangely. Because of this, I've always considered mono as truth in advertising. Are there any good examples that might change my opinion?
Where you at?
Your grandma knows what a mouse is?
What does that work out to as hourly pay? She gets the extended break around christmas, spring break, and June - August off doesn't she?