I guess the cables have to come ashore somewhere and you can't plan ahead for where ships will be when gales hit.
Come to think of it, I wonder how many cables go straight across the middle of the atlantic. Is it still possible to pick up the internet and slip the earth out?
I prefer using warning stickers. I had a "Warning: This machine is alarmed" on the side of my monitor for a long time and around the year 2000, I had a "Year 2000 safe" on the plant pot. I assumed the plant was the one thing that probably was.
The different annoying habit thing is interesting. Smoke makes me cough. If people smoke near me then I usually start coughing. I can't help it. If someone doesn't make an attempt to direct their smoke somewhere other then my face then I simply don't make an attempt to direct my coughing anywere other then theirs. If they complain, I point out the fact that they are making me cough. If they ask me why I can't cough somewere else. I ask why they can't smoke somewhere else.
I point out the fact that since I am not complaining about them blowing smoking at me, why do they have a problem with me coughing at them. Besides, since my flem on their face is far less dangerous then their smoke in my lungs, they should lighten up a bit. I thought the cigs were supposed to reduce their stress.
Although that would work. My method is simpler. If someone makes no attempt to direct their smoke away from my face, I make no attempt to direct my cough away from theirs.
You can access this violent content if you either...
a) Have a credit card and are therefor 18 or over. b) Have parents who let you use their credit card online. c) Are able to write simple programs and can type "luhn number" into google.
I also saw it last november at the Leeds film festival in the UK. The version I saw was in Japanese with subtitles. I'm glad I had a chance to see this if the general release is dubbed. I MUCH prefer to watch foreign language releases in the original language.
However good the dubbing (and animations make it easier), they never seem quite right to me.
I also saw Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence on the same day. I liked both but it would be difficult to pick between. Steamboy did seem to take a lot of inspiration from several Ghibli releases. Not that that is a bad thing.
I really need to see this again. It's tricky to be objective about one film when you saw 10 during a 2 day period and didn't sleep for 36 hours.
You just have to know where to look. I saw it at the Leeds film festival last November. Also it was in Japanese with subtitles rather then the dubbed version about to be shown in the US.
Price up a laptop with more memory then standard in it and you get one price for the memory upgrade. Buy the laptop and order a seperate memory upgrade at the same time (and fit it yourself) and you will find the memory upgrade is much cheaper. Most I once saw was half price for the memory.
Also, if you are buying in bulk and you wait until near the end of the quarter, the salesmen can be desperate for a deal to go in that quarter for their bonus. I managed to get £25,000 of equipment for £18,000 without too much trouble.
Finding permanent work can be hard. Howerver given the posters question, I am not sure he/she is really suited to contracting. It is possible to be a good as in high minded contractor but that tends not to be compatable with being a good as in earning lots of money contractor.
The contractors that do well (as in earn lots of money) are the ones who do exactly what the customer thinks they want.
The contractors that do exactly what they think the customer needs should really be looking for permanent work, or except that the customer is not going to be greatful for work done that they didn't ask for, however much they really need it (but just don't know.)
Those who have the skills to be able to convince the customer of what they really need for the project to be a success UP FRONT and then deliver are the ones destined to be the great contractors. High minded and high earning.
Bob.
(Who happens to be a contractor because all the permanent jobs are drying up.)
The cost of a flat in london with the same interior volume as that of a 42u rack at a colo is about the same as renting a 42u rack at a colo. Just rent a rack and live in it.
On topic answers to ask slashdot.
A) get paid and walk away. B) hire a talented graphic designer. C) hire a student who aspires to be a talented graphic designer. D) try to improve your own graphic design. E) customers are impressed by shiny things. Put more shiny things on your website. F) make it look good first and make it functional later. The sooner the client has something that will draw in customers, the sooner they will start making money. The sooner they start making money, the sooner you will get some of that money to improve the back end. G) if you don't like dealing with customers, don't work freelance.
Its not about usability, its about getting an all round tan. My three monitor setup works well but I've been looking a little pale under the chin. This is just what I've been looking for.
Remember it's not just India your jobs might be going to. I was talking to an Indian guy who works in IT and it seems they are worried that their jobs might get outsourced to China.
And on a related note, Microsoft are looking into square wheels. Of course the bikes will be sold at a loss and they'll make the money supplying the roads.
"He's working on a water powered car I hear... Just requres a really big hill."
Surely you could heat the water up and use the expansion to drive pistons.
Slashdot Mirror
I guess the cables have to come ashore somewhere and you can't plan ahead for where ships will be when gales hit.
Come to think of it, I wonder how many cables go straight across the middle of the atlantic. Is it still possible to pick up the internet and slip the earth out?
Bob.
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Bob.
If you are preparing them to enter the workforce then don't forget, there are a lot of books in the public domain such as,
Art of War by Sun Tzu
The Prince by Machiavelli
Etc,
Bob.
"A galley slave really wouldn't care."
If I was chained to the seat, I would care about what happened to the ship.
Bob.
"That's an organization over a century old, and a big chunk of the electrical industry was invented there."
A big chunk of the electrical industry is AC.
Tesla
Bob.
That would be preferable to missing entirely, slingshotting around and smacking into earth on the way back.
Bob.
4. How many lines belong to SCO.
5. ?
6. Profit
Bob.
(where 5 is a pretty good chance of getting counter-sued out of existance by IBM when the answer is some { and a few less }.)
I prefer using warning stickers. I had a "Warning: This machine is alarmed" on the side of my monitor for a long time and around the year 2000, I had a "Year 2000 safe" on the plant pot. I assumed the plant was the one thing that probably was.
Bob.
The different annoying habit thing is interesting. Smoke makes me cough. If people smoke near me then I usually start coughing. I can't help it. If someone doesn't make an attempt to direct their smoke somewhere other then my face then I simply don't make an attempt to direct my coughing anywere other then theirs. If they complain, I point out the fact that they are making me cough. If they ask me why I can't cough somewere else. I ask why they can't smoke somewhere else.
I point out the fact that since I am not complaining about them blowing smoking at me, why do they have a problem with me coughing at them. Besides, since my flem on their face is far less dangerous then their smoke in my lungs, they should lighten up a bit. I thought the cigs were supposed to reduce their stress.
Bob.
Although that would work. My method is simpler. If someone makes no attempt to direct their smoke away from my face, I make no attempt to direct my cough away from theirs.
Bob.
Its an odd way to cover your ass.
...
You can access this violent content if you either
a) Have a credit card and are therefor 18 or over.
b) Have parents who let you use their credit card online.
c) Are able to write simple programs and can type "luhn number" into google.
Bob.
Maybe we could try and add to his sucesses.
Maybe everyone should email him and say, "I'm thinking of starting a company called SCO, do you have that one already?"
It might work.
Bob.
Waves hand, "This isn't the web page you're reading".
"Never understimate the power of the stop button."
Bob.
I also saw it last november at the Leeds film festival in the UK. The version I saw was in Japanese with subtitles. I'm glad I had a chance to see this if the general release is dubbed. I MUCH prefer to watch foreign language releases in the original language.
However good the dubbing (and animations make it easier), they never seem quite right to me.
I also saw Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence on the same day. I liked both but it would be difficult to pick between. Steamboy did seem to take a lot of inspiration from several Ghibli releases. Not that that is a bad thing.
I really need to see this again. It's tricky to be objective about one film when you saw 10 during a 2 day period and didn't sleep for 36 hours.
Bob.
You just have to know where to look. I saw it at the Leeds film festival last November. Also it was in Japanese with subtitles rather then the dubbed version about to be shown in the US.
Bob.
"Google goes after [voelspriet.nl] people who register domain names with the word "Google" in it or any variant of it."
.....
I wonder how they find them.
Oh wait
Bob.
Windows 980?
I think you are mixing that up with the requirements.
Windows 980meg minimum memory required.
Bob.
... and there were lots of tricks you could pull.
Price up a laptop with more memory then standard in it and you get one price for the memory upgrade. Buy the laptop and order a seperate memory upgrade at the same time (and fit it yourself) and you will find the memory upgrade is much cheaper. Most I once saw was half price for the memory.
Also, if you are buying in bulk and you wait until near the end of the quarter, the salesmen can be desperate for a deal to go in that quarter for their bonus. I managed to get £25,000 of equipment for £18,000 without too much trouble.
Bob.
Finding permanent work can be hard. Howerver given the posters question, I am not sure he/she is really suited to contracting. It is possible to be a good as in high minded contractor but that tends not to be compatable with being a good as in earning lots of money contractor.
The contractors that do well (as in earn lots of money) are the ones who do exactly what the customer thinks they want.
The contractors that do exactly what they think the customer needs should really be looking for permanent work, or except that the customer is not going to be greatful for work done that they didn't ask for, however much they really need it (but just don't know.)
Those who have the skills to be able to convince the customer of what they really need for the project to be a success UP FRONT and then deliver are the ones destined to be the great contractors. High minded and high earning.
Bob.
(Who happens to be a contractor because all the permanent jobs are drying up.)
Off topic answer to previous poster.
The cost of a flat in london with the same interior volume as that of a 42u rack at a colo is about the same as renting a 42u rack at a colo. Just rent a rack and live in it.
On topic answers to ask slashdot.
A) get paid and walk away.
B) hire a talented graphic designer.
C) hire a student who aspires to be a talented graphic designer.
D) try to improve your own graphic design.
E) customers are impressed by shiny things. Put more shiny things on your website.
F) make it look good first and make it functional later. The sooner the client has something that will draw in customers, the sooner they will start making money. The sooner they start making money, the sooner you will get some of that money to improve the back end.
G) if you don't like dealing with customers, don't work freelance.
Do you need more options?
Bob.
Its not about usability, its about getting an all round tan. My three monitor setup works well but I've been looking a little pale under the chin. This is just what I've been looking for.
Bob.
More like a google engineer taking wet squelching footsteps to the door crying out,
"I'm meeeelllllttttiinnnnnggggg"
Bob.
Remember it's not just India your jobs might be going to. I was talking to an Indian guy who works in IT and it seems they are worried that their jobs might get outsourced to China.
Bob.
I still say the last one should have been,
Star Wars: When Clones Attack
Bob.
And on a related note, Microsoft are looking into square wheels. Of course the bikes will be sold at a loss and they'll make the money supplying the roads.
:-)
"He's working on a water powered car I hear... Just requres a really big hill."
Surely you could heat the water up and use the expansion to drive pistons.
Or has that been done already.
Bob.