>A full-time employee who makes $50K a year typically costs twice that when taking the cost of benefits into consideration
Not really. That "cost" above the salary is referred to as the "fringe rate". The company that I work for has the fringe rate set at 25%, which is a little low. An average fringe rate is generally 35-40%, not 100%
When you hire someone through a temp agency or contracting agency that fringe rate is built into that. If as a contractor you're being paid 25/hr, the agency is billing you out for at least 35/hr, probably more.
> how do you sterilise a pda? pda's don't like autoclaves.
Computers are actually the most disease ridden thing in a hospital. When the nurse or doctor walks up to the computer in the hallway to punch in an order for medication or x-rays or something, they forget to wash their hands usually. Swabbing keyboards and growing the bacteria found in them is quite often a scary proposal (i.e. if you're going to find flesh eating bacteria anywhere in a hospital, it'll be in a keyboard)
Homer: Me like beer. Linguo (grammar robot):*I* like beer. Homer: Aww, he likes beer! (pours some in robot's mouth) Lisa: DAD! This is why I can't have nice things!
There exists software for AUDIX voice mail systems that allows you to retrieve voice mail over the network. They recently demonstrated it my workplace as a way to let teleworkers check their office voicemail without having to dial into the AUDIX system.
Will you local telco ever provide this service? Doubt it.
Actually telepromting isn't that bad of a job. My best friend works for a teleprompting company, and while most of his gigs are boring suit and tie events and commercials, he gets called on to do a lot of prompting at concerts;-}
And being his best friend means I get backstage and onstage passes.
But it's not very technically demanding, even if it is fun playing with all the LCD monitors when they're not being used on shoots;-}
god - i'm probably going to get flamed for mentioning this, but here goes.
you do you know that is MSIE there is an option to open each window in a seperate thread? Makes it so if one window crashes the other keep on plugging away. I really wish more browsers did that.
Note: I do not use MSIE, i just support it for end users.
heh - the Audiogalaxy Gold sofware doesn't install any spyware..... (to the best of my knowledge). Guess something good came out of supporting an excellent service instead of just freeloading like the rest of the world.
btw: this wouldn't matter if one was using mozilla... it appears that the hooks only go into IE.
actually you reduce pollutants by letting the car warm up. Didn't you read your owners manual? You're supposed to let the car warm up before you drive it. Hopping in the car, turning the key, and driving away isn't good for the car.
ahhh - but they're very inter-related. Lets say you have an application that sends out 1024 byte packets. On a 28.8 serial link - that would tie up the line for approx 35ms. This becomes a problem with time sensitive data - if your real-time data is stuck in a que behind a large packet - by the time the large packet has gone through the line your packet is late.
there any ways of dealing with it - ie fragmenting large packets to allow time-sensitive ones to fit down the pipe.
first of all the 5-4-3 thing is not a rule - just an approximation. And - it only works for 10baseT - not 100.
and it does deal with the collision domain - but only the time it takes for a collision to be reported - not the total time to reach a destination. ie - it may take a packet 6 seconds to reach it's destination, but the collision domain is only until it hits it's first switch or router. If there's a collision after the switch or router - that device deals with the retransmission of the fsckd packet.
Well - not a $30 sound card - but you could get pretty good results with a $600 sound card and $1500 external DAC. But did you actually read the website? I'm assuming a significant part of the $20K is the fact that it's touch screen controlled and has the ability to serve up many different streams at once (5 i think) in addition to offering superb quality.
Don't forget - just because it's digital doesn't mean it's perfect. Things such as jitter dramatically affect the sound quality - and the only way to get rid of that is with a really really good source ($$$$$) and good cables ($$$$$) or by running the stream through a digital anti-jitter filter such as Genesis Digital Lens which only costs around $1,800.
You also have to realize this product is aimed at people that don't blink at paying $20,000 for just a cd player, like the Linn sondek 12 cd player
linn makes good stuff - i'd much prefer to store my music on this than with MP3's.
But - i'd rather just throw all my music onto a server uncompressed that pay them 20K - i could do some terrible things with that much change in my pocket.
luckily we have these funny things called physics and computers - and can simulate what will happen if we move significant amounts of mass from the moon to earth. So before you go bellyaching about problems that probably won't even exist, do your research. IANAPP (I am not a physics professor), but i'm thinking we don't have anything to worry about.
me thinks me smells a liar.... You do realize that you can get cell reception almost anywhere in the US? Sure - it's analog, but it's there. I've never been anywhere that didn't have analog cell (not caring about the occasional hole in coverage).
We're talking in the middle of nowhere. Out in the Arizona desert, up on a mountain in Idaho, the farming areas in the midwest states (like kansas and nebraska).
And usually - those people out there have lots of cell phones. You'd be amazed how good of a signal you can get especially if you've got a 3W analog transportable beastie.
Not to mention that you're not going to find a pay phone booth in the corn field.
i miss anon - it was kinda nice to be able to send e-mail from an anonymous address without having to deal with hotmail or some other crud. It was a sad day for the internet when they closed it down.
Egads man - get out of your little heterosexual shell every once in a while. Women sleep with women and men sleep with men. and sometimes - there are soo many men and women sleeping together that you can't tell where one starts and another begins;-} Of course - then you woke up a looked at pics of Natalie Portman and hot grits...
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Oh no - he's censoring child pornographers. Heavens to betsy.
Unless you're terribly broken up about some sick bastard being sent to jail for child porn, get over it.
>A full-time employee who makes $50K a year typically costs twice that when taking the cost of benefits into consideration
Not really. That "cost" above the salary is referred to as the "fringe rate". The company that I work for has the fringe rate set at 25%, which is a little low. An average fringe rate is generally 35-40%, not 100%
When you hire someone through a temp agency or contracting agency that fringe rate is built into that. If as a contractor you're being paid 25/hr, the agency is billing you out for at least 35/hr, probably more.
And yes - I do work for a HR Department.
> how do you sterilise a pda? pda's don't like autoclaves.
Computers are actually the most disease ridden thing in a hospital. When the nurse or doctor walks up to the computer in the hallway to punch in an order for medication or x-rays or something, they forget to wash their hands usually. Swabbing keyboards and growing the bacteria found in them is quite often a scary proposal (i.e. if you're going to find flesh eating bacteria anywhere in a hospital, it'll be in a keyboard)
Homer: Me like beer.
Linguo (grammar robot):*I* like beer.
Homer: Aww, he likes beer! (pours some in robot's mouth)
Lisa: DAD! This is why I can't have nice things!
There exists software for AUDIX voice mail systems that allows you to retrieve voice mail over the network. They recently demonstrated it my workplace as a way to let teleworkers check their office voicemail without having to dial into the AUDIX system.
Will you local telco ever provide this service? Doubt it.
Actually telepromting isn't that bad of a job. My best friend works for a teleprompting company, and while most of his gigs are boring suit and tie events and commercials, he gets called on to do a lot of prompting at concerts ;-}
;-}
And being his best friend means I get backstage and onstage passes.
But it's not very technically demanding, even if it is fun playing with all the LCD monitors when they're not being used on shoots
> laser printers while warming up the fusion rollers
;-}
;-} Unless that's one hell of a laser printer you've got
Alas - the dream of cold fusion rollers was just that......
Methought it was considered a fuser, not a fusion plant
god - i'm probably going to get flamed for mentioning this, but here goes.
you do you know that is MSIE there is an option to open each window in a seperate thread? Makes it so if one window crashes the other keep on plugging away. I really wish more browsers did that.
Note: I do not use MSIE, i just support it for end users.
Amen!!! I just wish i had a man to buy something for ;-{
heh - the Audiogalaxy Gold sofware doesn't install any spyware..... (to the best of my knowledge). Guess something good came out of supporting an excellent service instead of just freeloading like the rest of the world.
btw: this wouldn't matter if one was using mozilla... it appears that the hooks only go into IE.
actually you reduce pollutants by letting the car warm up. Didn't you read your owners manual? You're supposed to let the car warm up before you drive it. Hopping in the car, turning the key, and driving away isn't good for the car.
ahhh - but they're very inter-related. Lets say you have an application that sends out 1024 byte packets. On a 28.8 serial link - that would tie up the line for approx 35ms. This becomes a problem with time sensitive data - if your real-time data is stuck in a que behind a large packet - by the time the large packet has gone through the line your packet is late.
there any ways of dealing with it - ie fragmenting large packets to allow time-sensitive ones to fit down the pipe.
first of all the 5-4-3 thing is not a rule - just an approximation. And - it only works for 10baseT - not 100.
and it does deal with the collision domain - but only the time it takes for a collision to be reported - not the total time to reach a destination. ie - it may take a packet 6 seconds to reach it's destination, but the collision domain is only until it hits it's first switch or router. If there's a collision after the switch or router - that device deals with the retransmission of the fsckd packet.
hope that makes sense.
hours of scouring google? I think not. Try putting "IBM 6408 printer" into google. The third result is:
IBM 6400 6408 and 6412 Printer FAQs
Hmmm. A couple clicks later and i've got manuals for the printer.
Well - not a $30 sound card - but you could get pretty good results with a $600 sound card and $1500 external DAC. But did you actually read the website? I'm assuming a significant part of the $20K is the fact that it's touch screen controlled and has the ability to serve up many different streams at once (5 i think) in addition to offering superb quality.
Don't forget - just because it's digital doesn't mean it's perfect. Things such as jitter dramatically affect the sound quality - and the only way to get rid of that is with a really really good source ($$$$$) and good cables ($$$$$) or by running the stream through a digital anti-jitter filter such as Genesis Digital Lens which only costs around $1,800.
You also have to realize this product is aimed at people that don't blink at paying $20,000 for just a cd player, like the Linn sondek 12 cd player
linn makes good stuff - i'd much prefer to store my music on this than with MP3's.
But - i'd rather just throw all my music onto a server uncompressed that pay them 20K - i could do some terrible things with that much change in my pocket.
luckily we have these funny things called physics and computers - and can simulate what will happen if we move significant amounts of mass from the moon to earth. So before you go bellyaching about problems that probably won't even exist, do your research. IANAPP (I am not a physics professor), but i'm thinking we don't have anything to worry about.
eeek - they put plastic pink flamingoes on the front lawn of the mining camp.
"Somebody, think of this children"
Yes - they should have released the DVD's at least 10 years ago ;-}
arrrg me matie. Let's go plunder the network ships sending new shows back from the colonies.
Well according to the man who modified his harley to run on vegetable oil it does smell like french fries.... a roving McD's.....
me thinks me smells a liar.... You do realize that you can get cell reception almost anywhere in the US? Sure - it's analog, but it's there. I've never been anywhere that didn't have analog cell (not caring about the occasional hole in coverage).
We're talking in the middle of nowhere. Out in the Arizona desert, up on a mountain in Idaho, the farming areas in the midwest states (like kansas and nebraska).
And usually - those people out there have lots of cell phones. You'd be amazed how good of a signal you can get especially if you've got a 3W analog transportable beastie.
Not to mention that you're not going to find a pay phone booth in the corn field.
i miss anon - it was kinda nice to be able to send e-mail from an anonymous address without having to deal with hotmail or some other crud. It was a sad day for the internet when they closed it down.
hehehehe - everytime I hear a truth ad, I find myself having an overwhelming urge to smake another cigarette. Maybe i'm just sick and twisted.
Egads man - get out of your little heterosexual shell every once in a while. Women sleep with women and men sleep with men. and sometimes - there are soo many men and women sleeping together that you can't tell where one starts and another begins ;-} Of course - then you woke up a looked at pics of Natalie Portman and hot grits...