Verizon offers a flatrate, for less than $20/phone and $30/family share plan per month. It's far higher than it ought to be, but had this girl's parents been paying attention and added that, the problem wouldn't have happened.
It's been done: "The PCGamerBike is a compact exercise bike that directly interacts with PC games. Your pedal motion precisely controls your character motion in the game. Pedal forward to move your character forward, pedal reverse to move your character backward. Just plug it into a USB port and it's ready to go."
And they're actually more complicated -- Verizon, for instance, charges several fees on a per-phone basis, including such basic things as text messaging. Purchase a $10 500 off-network & unlimited in-messaging package, and it's only valid on one phone, requiring you to pay for incoming SMSes on your others, unless you're willing to pay $10/phone. They have a new deal where you can pay $30/month on top the normal package ($10 more than their craptastic $10/phone deal) for a two phone family share plan, and get the same thing, though. Woohoo!
Because he doesn't want to start out at the bottom of the pay scale? Teaching pay scales are not based on merit, but on time served. He would be making the same as the aforementioned dipshit but with much larger bills to pay, regardless of much the kids might benefit. Private school is not that much more competitive, either.
Then he can take the middle road. He wouldn't be able to teach at most grade schools & high schools because he likely doesn't have a teaching degree or any sort of government-required certification, and, even if it's not absolutely required at a private school, it's still going to play against him. What the guy ought to do, if he has an interest in teaching, is teach on a collegiate level as an adjunct while still suffering through regular IT work in the daytime, possibly as a part-time consultant if he's really burned out. Teaching as an adjunct would give the guy a chance to put teach two or three classes a semester, get a new perspective on life through the questions of his students and reexamining the way he does things for their benefit while planning lessons but wouldn't put so much of a strain on him that it would require his full-time attention. Call your local community college and see what they have available, or offer to just do some free courses for the community at large to get your feet wet and to build up some contacts in the local adult-education world.
In my experience management doesn't like people to work from home most of the time.
If you meant that in the context of this article, and being on-call 24/7, it's time for you to experience new management. They can reasonably expect the one or the other, but not both. If you want me to be on call 24/7, fine, but you'd better not expect me to go to the office at 2am if it's something I can do from home. I would expect that sentiment to be fairly common, and it's been accepted and echoed by every manager I've ever met.
Look at it from a political perspective. Are there members of the computer science depts or other professors of other sciences & mathematics or graphical arts departments that hold professors that use, or even just would prefer to use, UNIX (Mac OSX, Solaris, etc) or Linux? See if you can get them to sign off an open letter. Bug your school paper. Bug the highest levels of your school's administration. It shouldn't be too hard to make an effective case against your school's IT department's attempt to force vendor lock-in on the campus on the grounds of academic freedom. Who knows? You might even get some people to listen.
Bah! "Greenpeace has always fought - and will continue to fight - vigorously against nuclear power because it is an unacceptable risk to the environment and to humanity. The only solution is to halt the expansion of all nuclear power, and for the shutdown of existing plants."
Considering how much of the document focuses on such trivial nonsense as how to run the installer, it seems much more likely that they're promoting this at users of ready made OSS web applications than at developers.
True to an extent, but MSSQL is free to many users. What's more likely is that they're promoting it as a way to break the L out of the LAMP/LAPP stack, like the recent Sun Microsystem moves.
It's no wonder that Google sidestepped the issue, but, if you assume they purchase primarily from the manufacturers that are more reliable, perhaps those manufacturers will begin to gloat and publish numbers about their Google contracts, if this study gains traction.
Also, nearly all of the major gasoline/diesel retailers have either a tiny margin or no margin at all on their fuel, making the vast majority of their profits from the candy-store side of the operation. Also, most such outfits in the United States are franchises. If the major oil companies throw a fit when the retailers feel the need to offer high voltage electrical outlets, they can and will de-brand.
Rather than fork off and have a half dozen disparate derivatives, wouldn't it make more sense to go distributed? Their 100 servers surely can't hold a stick to most of the leading Distributed.net-style projects. If they can somehow safely break the stuff out of the SQL databases and into static flat-files, they wouldn't even have to do any real development work. They could just promote the heck out of Freenet and move it there. Of course, they'd probably be better off moving to a customized client that lets 'em keep a similar db structure to what they use now.
Sounds like it'd be a much better solution than advertising. Why be beholden to any individual instead of a distributed swarm?
In particular the statement that he was able to determine there was no wireless router in use at the time cannot be substantiated. It is possible to have a wireless router that NATs you right back to your public IP. In fact, I've done it (with out the wireless part) at least twice for different reasons.
I haven't had a chance to read the statement in question, but if you assume that the most he could have done is run NMAP with OS detection, or some similar tool, against the defendant's public IP address. With that, he might have been able to ID certain common routers or tell if it was running Windows or Mac OSX, OSes that are never found in SoHo routers. It would be key to point out that an access point could be NATed behind a network using any computer in the house as the router.
For instance: "You claim to have determined that no wireless access point was connected to the home network of the defendant. In what way did you determine that: A:The defendant was not routing their wireless traffic through a NAT'ed firewall running on a full-blown computer? -or- B: A third party with physical access to any computer with a wifi card in the house could not have configured that computer act as a wireless access point or to pass traffic from an ad hoc wifi connection to the Internet-proper?
More importantly, Secret of Mana should be played with the full set of three players. An Excessively Multiplayer RPG cannot reproduce the depth of plot of an old school CRPG. SoM is rare, in that it allows a happy medium between the conventional RPG and the MMORPG, and in a much closer, more intimate setting, as all players have to be gathered around a single monitor. If this really might be the last game you play, make it social and memorable.
If it's possible to emulate, or to run on the Wii, that might be the easiest way to run the game. Might be difficult to both obtain a working SNES and obtain the necessary 4-player adapter to add the third and final player to SoM.
Also, aren't there ways to play games with voice activation or foot pedals? When I was a kid, I played roughly half of FFI and FFIV using my toes and an NES or SNES controller, to allow me to eat or stretch my aching hands. It might be possible to get larger input devices designed for the feet, like racing pedals, that can be used to control a variety of games. Anyone remember the double-axis BMW accelerator? Two USB input devices that work like that would allow you to map both an X/Y axis and 4 buttons.
Do you rent or own? If you own a home, this humble non-home-owner would fear that the transaction costs involved in moving would be as big a hit, if not bigger, in the first year than the 30% pay hit you'd take moving for the Perl company. Of course, if you own in the city and are moving to the boonies, you may actually come out ahead in the deal. Anyone who's been through it recently have thoughts?
Plenty of sunlight in one relevant industry. Try working for a wireless ISP. Many telecomm industries offer ways to get outdoors, but none so often as the wireless Internet industry. The equipment's complicated, and while day to day operations can mostly be done via SNMP, most equipment requires extensive field experimentation to get it working correctly.
That said, even a coder, doc writer, or crazy Ph.D. student can get out of the office/mother's basement and into a coffee shop with outdoor seating. Lot to be said for Panerra.
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As you can see, Combs' contributions to O Brother, Where Art Thou are far from insignificant. His role in that film was cited as the inspiration behind the transition from rock to folk for Spinal Tap, now known as The Folksmen.
http://www.netlawtools.com/security/emailsecurity1 .html The American National Bar Association takes a similar stance, but the above link does warn that if an unencrypted email is intercepted, the lawyer may be held legally liable.
While it certainly should be necessary for important legal, medical, and other confidential information to be encrypted, it doesn't appear that the Bar association is quite as far ahead of the game as one would hope.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIMP "For the future it is planned to base GIMP on a more generic graphical library called GEGL, thereby addressing some fundamental design limitations that prevent many enhancements such as native CMYK support. However, implementation of this plan has been continually put off since 2000."
An eternity, eh? Apparently CYMK hasn't been in there long enough to get inclusion in the Wikipedia article. Also, are you sure you aren't just using the plugin? http://www.blackfiveservices.co.uk/separate.shtml
MSCE and A+/Network+ certs do count for something. They shouldn't, but they do. If you have a CCNA or both A+ and Network+, a bachellors degree or x years of experience, and US Citizenship, then you meet the requirements to do IT work for the US Dept. of State. Many other governmental agencies have similar requirements.
A+, Network+, MSCE, and RHCE certifications don't carry much weight with people who are really qualified to judge the difficulty of the examination process, but they do provide an easy way out to the people who aren't qualified to do the work that their employees do.
Of course, other certifications like a CCNA or higher level Cisco, IBM, and Sun certs carry considerably more weight, especially with people hiring specifically for those specialties.
If you're considering certification, I'd say go to Dice.com or some other relevant search engine and trawl for those certs that are most commonly required/desired, and go after those.
Note that, at least in my state, we are required to stay at the right-most edge of the lane and avoid major highways, on which non-motorized vehicles are banned. There really isn't an applicable minimum speed on any normal roads that I'm aware of, but, if there were, note that the laws in my state limit the scope of those limits to motorized vehicles capable of safely operating at such speeds.
Relevant legislation: http://www.winthropharbor.com/ordinance/ord_title7 _ch71.asp
71.004 MINIMUM SPEED REGULATION. No person shall drive a motor vehicle at such a slow speed as to impede or block the normal and regular movement of traffic except when reduced speed is necessary for safe operation of his vehicle or in compliance with law.
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Verizon offers a flatrate, for less than $20/phone and $30/family share plan per month. It's far higher than it ought to be, but had this girl's parents been paying attention and added that, the problem wouldn't have happened.
http://www.gamecycles.com/products.php?cat=42
It's been done:
"The PCGamerBike is a compact exercise bike that directly interacts with PC games. Your pedal motion precisely controls your character motion in the game. Pedal forward to move your character forward, pedal reverse to move your character backward. Just plug it into a USB port and it's ready to go."
And they're actually more complicated -- Verizon, for instance, charges several fees on a per-phone basis, including such basic things as text messaging. Purchase a $10 500 off-network & unlimited in-messaging package, and it's only valid on one phone, requiring you to pay for incoming SMSes on your others, unless you're willing to pay $10/phone. They have a new deal where you can pay $30/month on top the normal package ($10 more than their craptastic $10/phone deal) for a two phone family share plan, and get the same thing, though. Woohoo!
Why not become a teacher?
Because he doesn't want to start out at the bottom of the pay scale?
Teaching pay scales are not based on merit, but on time served. He would be making the same as the aforementioned dipshit but with much larger bills to pay, regardless of much the kids might benefit.
Private school is not that much more competitive, either.
Then he can take the middle road. He wouldn't be able to teach at most grade schools & high schools because he likely doesn't have a teaching degree or any sort of government-required certification, and, even if it's not absolutely required at a private school, it's still going to play against him. What the guy ought to do, if he has an interest in teaching, is teach on a collegiate level as an adjunct while still suffering through regular IT work in the daytime, possibly as a part-time consultant if he's really burned out. Teaching as an adjunct would give the guy a chance to put teach two or three classes a semester, get a new perspective on life through the questions of his students and reexamining the way he does things for their benefit while planning lessons but wouldn't put so much of a strain on him that it would require his full-time attention. Call your local community college and see what they have available, or offer to just do some free courses for the community at large to get your feet wet and to build up some contacts in the local adult-education world.
In my experience management doesn't like people to work from home most of the time.
If you meant that in the context of this article, and being on-call 24/7, it's time for you to experience new management. They can reasonably expect the one or the other, but not both. If you want me to be on call 24/7, fine, but you'd better not expect me to go to the office at 2am if it's something I can do from home. I would expect that sentiment to be fairly common, and it's been accepted and echoed by every manager I've ever met.
For comparison's sake, apparently some of my 250GB WD hard drives have a MTBF of only 1 million hours.
Look at it from a political perspective. Are there members of the computer science depts or other professors of other sciences & mathematics or graphical arts departments that hold professors that use, or even just would prefer to use, UNIX (Mac OSX, Solaris, etc) or Linux? See if you can get them to sign off an open letter. Bug your school paper. Bug the highest levels of your school's administration. It shouldn't be too hard to make an effective case against your school's IT department's attempt to force vendor lock-in on the campus on the grounds of academic freedom. Who knows? You might even get some people to listen.
Bah!
/ nuclear
"Greenpeace has always fought - and will continue to fight - vigorously against nuclear power because it is an unacceptable risk to the environment and to humanity. The only solution is to halt the expansion of all nuclear power, and for the shutdown of existing plants."
There may be individuals in Greenpeace that don't fear the technology, but the organization's official stance is summarized above. http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns
Considering how much of the document focuses on such trivial nonsense as how to run the installer, it seems much more likely that they're promoting this at users of ready made OSS web applications than at developers.
True to an extent, but MSSQL is free to many users. What's more likely is that they're promoting it as a way to break the L out of the LAMP/LAPP stack, like the recent Sun Microsystem moves.
To put it all in perspective, on my 400mhz g3 q/196mb ram, OOo in Linux w/gnome runs at a comparable speed to neooffice in OSX.
It's no wonder that Google sidestepped the issue, but, if you assume they purchase primarily from the manufacturers that are more reliable, perhaps those manufacturers will begin to gloat and publish numbers about their Google contracts, if this study gains traction.
Also, nearly all of the major gasoline/diesel retailers have either a tiny margin or no margin at all on their fuel, making the vast majority of their profits from the candy-store side of the operation. Also, most such outfits in the United States are franchises. If the major oil companies throw a fit when the retailers feel the need to offer high voltage electrical outlets, they can and will de-brand.
Rather than fork off and have a half dozen disparate derivatives, wouldn't it make more sense to go distributed? Their 100 servers surely can't hold a stick to most of the leading Distributed.net-style projects. If they can somehow safely break the stuff out of the SQL databases and into static flat-files, they wouldn't even have to do any real development work. They could just promote the heck out of Freenet and move it there. Of course, they'd probably be better off moving to a customized client that lets 'em keep a similar db structure to what they use now.
Sounds like it'd be a much better solution than advertising. Why be beholden to any individual instead of a distributed swarm?
In particular the statement that he was able to determine there was no wireless router in use at the time cannot be substantiated. It is possible to have a wireless router that NATs you right back to your public IP. In fact, I've done it (with out the wireless part) at least twice for different reasons.
I haven't had a chance to read the statement in question, but if you assume that the most he could have done is run NMAP with OS detection, or some similar tool, against the defendant's public IP address. With that, he might have been able to ID certain common routers or tell if it was running Windows or Mac OSX, OSes that are never found in SoHo routers. It would be key to point out that an access point could be NATed behind a network using any computer in the house as the router.
For instance:
"You claim to have determined that no wireless access point was connected to the home network of the defendant. In what way did you determine that:
A:The defendant was not routing their wireless traffic through a NAT'ed firewall running on a full-blown computer?
-or-
B: A third party with physical access to any computer with a wifi card in the house could not have configured that computer act as a wireless access point or to pass traffic from an ad hoc wifi connection to the Internet-proper?
Wonderful timing, with the layoffs.
More importantly, Secret of Mana should be played with the full set of three players. An Excessively Multiplayer RPG cannot reproduce the depth of plot of an old school CRPG. SoM is rare, in that it allows a happy medium between the conventional RPG and the MMORPG, and in a much closer, more intimate setting, as all players have to be gathered around a single monitor. If this really might be the last game you play, make it social and memorable.
If it's possible to emulate, or to run on the Wii, that might be the easiest way to run the game. Might be difficult to both obtain a working SNES and obtain the necessary 4-player adapter to add the third and final player to SoM.
Also, aren't there ways to play games with voice activation or foot pedals? When I was a kid, I played roughly half of FFI and FFIV using my toes and an NES or SNES controller, to allow me to eat or stretch my aching hands. It might be possible to get larger input devices designed for the feet, like racing pedals, that can be used to control a variety of games. Anyone remember the double-axis BMW accelerator? Two USB input devices that work like that would allow you to map both an X/Y axis and 4 buttons.
Do you rent or own? If you own a home, this humble non-home-owner would fear that the transaction costs involved in moving would be as big a hit, if not bigger, in the first year than the 30% pay hit you'd take moving for the Perl company. Of course, if you own in the city and are moving to the boonies, you may actually come out ahead in the deal. Anyone who's been through it recently have thoughts?
Plenty of sunlight in one relevant industry. Try working for a wireless ISP. Many telecomm industries offer ways to get outdoors, but none so often as the wireless Internet industry. The equipment's complicated, and while day to day operations can mostly be done via SNMP, most equipment requires extensive field experimentation to get it working correctly.
That said, even a coder, doc writer, or crazy Ph.D. student can get out of the office/mother's basement and into a coffee shop with outdoor seating. Lot to be said for Panerra.
O Brother, Where Art Thou:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0190590/
Shawn Combs:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004835/
As you can see, Combs' contributions to O Brother, Where Art Thou are far from insignificant. His role in that film was cited as the inspiration behind the transition from rock to folk for Spinal Tap, now known as The Folksmen.
http://www.lacba.org/Files/Main%20Folder/Documents /%20Ethics%20%20%20Opinions/Files/Eth514.pdf
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Los Angeles Bar Association: "Lawyers are not required to encrypt e-mail containing confidential client communications because e-mail poses no greater risk of interception and disclosure than regular mail, phones or faxes."
http://www.netlawtools.com/security/emailsecurity
The American National Bar Association takes a similar stance, but the above link does warn that if an unencrypted email is intercepted, the lawyer may be held legally liable.
While it certainly should be necessary for important legal, medical, and other confidential information to be encrypted, it doesn't appear that the Bar association is quite as far ahead of the game as one would hope.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIMP
"For the future it is planned to base GIMP on a more generic graphical library called GEGL, thereby addressing some fundamental design limitations that prevent many enhancements such as native CMYK support. However, implementation of this plan has been continually put off since 2000."
An eternity, eh? Apparently CYMK hasn't been in there long enough to get inclusion in the Wikipedia article. Also, are you sure you aren't just using the plugin? http://www.blackfiveservices.co.uk/separate.shtml
MSCE and A+/Network+ certs do count for something. They shouldn't, but they do. If you have a CCNA or both A+ and Network+, a bachellors degree or x years of experience, and US Citizenship, then you meet the requirements to do IT work for the US Dept. of State. Many other governmental agencies have similar requirements.
A+, Network+, MSCE, and RHCE certifications don't carry much weight with people who are really qualified to judge the difficulty of the examination process, but they do provide an easy way out to the people who aren't qualified to do the work that their employees do.
Of course, other certifications like a CCNA or higher level Cisco, IBM, and Sun certs carry considerably more weight, especially with people hiring specifically for those specialties.
If you're considering certification, I'd say go to Dice.com or some other relevant search engine and trawl for those certs that are most commonly required/desired, and go after those.
May have been published in '95, but it's still actively updated on his website, still in print, and still as part of university curricula.
Wow. Lots of venom in the parent.
l es_of_the_road/rrtoc.html
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Note that, at least in my state, we are required to stay at the right-most edge of the lane and avoid major highways, on which non-motorized vehicles are banned. There really isn't an applicable minimum speed on any normal roads that I'm aware of, but, if there were, note that the laws in my state limit the scope of those limits to motorized vehicles capable of safely operating at such speeds.
Illinois Rules of the Road:
http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/publications/ru
Relevant legislation:
http://www.winthropharbor.com/ordinance/ord_title
71.004 MINIMUM SPEED REGULATION.
No person shall drive a motor vehicle at such a slow speed as to impede or block the normal and regular movement of traffic except when reduced speed is necessary for safe operation of his vehicle or in compliance with law.
(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5 11606(a)) Penalty, see 70.99
(IANAL)