I know someone who managed to self-stress on the job until he had a nervous breakdown, but in his mind it's all his employer's fault (fact is, he couldn't admit that what was being asked of him wasn't feasible, even tho HE had control over the project and could have set his own schedule). Hello, no one held a gun to your head and MADE you do the "impossible", did they? if it's that bad, you know where the door is, and if you're that good, I'm sure another job isn't that hard to find.
I used to burn trash in a homemade incinerator, made of a 3 foot tall chunk of heavy road conduit. It had very good airflow, and I used corrugated cardboard to start it (ever see a cardboard fire? We had one in L.A. about 20 years ago, and it was televised. After half an hour there was NOTHING left of the steel-beamed warehouse it started in, and it was half the size of a city block.) My little incinerator burned so hot that if I threw in an aluminum can, it didn't hit bottom -- just went POOF about halfway down. Steel cans lasted about 30 seconds. I burned trash in it for 5 years and the residue was still only about 8" deep.. and when I moved it, I discovered the ground beneath it was glazed to four inches below the surface.
If even an amateur effort gets this hot, I ain't goin' near the real thing, fire suit or not! and if the anecdote's victim was in a mere "approach suit" -- could be the ladle heat was enough to make it go POOF.
(Tho these stories have been around as long as steel mills, and I still don't know if any are true.)
That's because stockholders in search of quick profits don't look any further than the current quarter, so any publicly-held business, being legally beholden first and foremost to its lienholders (ie. stockholders) MUST answer to that sector first. If that damages customers and kills the company over the long run, oh well! the stock market doesn't care, so long as THIS quarter shows a profit.
So... let's put the blame where a large chunk of it belongs -- on the stock market and people who use it solely for short-term gains, forcing companies to abandon long-term strategy.
The owner of SAS software, when interviewed on 60 Minutes a few years back, said SAS would not go public for exactly that reason.
"I get 100 mbit fiber for $65/mo in a small town in Iowa. WTF is taking the rest of you so long?"
Take note that you're in real farm country (I grew up in ND, MN, and MT -- howdy, neighbor!) Contrary to popular urban belief, farmers and ranchers are among the best innovators in the world, and among the most likely to embrace tech advances -- IF it improves their lives or their productivity over the long haul, and not just because it's New or Shiny or will look good on the short-term bottom line.
It's really the same thing as your post talks about -- how some companies let short-term greed damage long-term profits. Can't do that if you're a farmer, now that slash-and-burn and moving the whole operation every year are not sustainable farming methods!
My ISP guy (the one-man-band fixed-wireless company that's the only broadband I can get) explained peak bursts this way: The initial data is sent across at max speed, which here means 2.5MBit. However, the limit is about two minutes worth for a given site. After that it throttles down to the normal max of 1.5Mbit. This is done so web pages, being mostly conglomerations of small files, will download at max efficiency. But that doesn't mean I can get that 2.5MBit peak for a sustained download. So large files will initially come across at the 2.5Mbit peak, but after a couple minutes will throttle back to the sustained throughput of 1.5Mbit.
He says everyone does this, but most ISPs only *advertise* the peak or burst speed, not the sustained speed, which one only finds in the fine print.
My ISP guy (the company is a one-man band) told me that downloading costs him effectively nothing, so he didn't care how much we download. However, he throttles uploads, because THAT costs him money by the gig. (My ISP connects directly to an AT&T backbone.)
I expect this is fundamentally true across the industry -- so what's with download caps and limits anyway? Price it on how much uploading you expect a given tier to use, and don't worry so much about download bandwidth.
You forget that Verizon has a gov't-mandated monopoly on its phone-line service areas, inherited from when it was poor little GTE that needed to be protected from the Big Bad Bells. There IS no competition for phone lines, thus for DSL, in Verizon areas. "Competitors", if any, are essentially Verizon resellers.
Nice. I like the almost symphonic-percussion effect of the thunder, juxtaposed to the quiet guitar. Easy to visualize as very small man, very large thunderstorm. Could be the start of a new genre!:)
What I've observed is that the internet has disproportionately empowered fringe groups, to the point that fringe viewpoints are being imposed on the majority. One only need look at Calif.Prop2 to see how that works.
One has to wonder how much lobbying pressure there is from "security-related" industries (in which I include privatized prisons and local police depts.) to *keep* the PATRIOT act.
But you're right -- if they *really* think it's bad law, they now have the power to repeal it instanter. Not happening? Gee, then they must *want* it in place, d'oh!
I've read the claims by the ex-KGBs themselves. I have to wonder why they bothered (other than just Being Russian about it) since we were already headed down that path, and had been since the New Deal.
I see that I miscalculated... the poor 7ers will spend THREE lifetimes derided as perpetual n00bs! It's sad, really.:(
But wait! Here's some data you didn't take into account -- we made UID 1,000,000 what, only about 2 years ago? after taking 9 years to get that far?? something like that. (I know I arrived in 1998.) So there's probably a hyperbolic curve at work here, and you can expect your 6er point in... oh, only about a lifetime and a half!
I dunno what it is with coffee either, unless it's that coffee is generally more expensive than tea, and harder to find a free substitute for than is tea -- and the U.S. has generally been an affluent nation.
I drink tea and always have, ever since I was a kid, but almost never more than 2 cups a day. I've never liked coffee... to me it tastes like burnt dirt. I'm not fond of soda and rarely drink it.
Tea and chocolate makes a nice afternoon break, which will either wake me up or put me to sleep -- depending on how sleep-deprived I am that day!
Well, see, I have a problem with that assumption, because even 50 years ago we were belching forth a lot more waste as smoke, yet somehow I'm supposed to believe that LESS CO2 has MORE effect??
I think right now ALL sides are being highly selective, and making planet-affecting decisions based on any of their wares is dangerous.
Whether I agree or disagree isn't my real point. What bothers me is that we're forming assumptions based on far too little data, and turning belief either direction into religion, and anyone who does disagree is vilified rather than examined more closely. And when I saw thin data being leveraged by also-ran corporations, my skeptic radar turned on.
Climate moves slowly; stars move even more slowly. 50 years of observation is frighteningly inadequate. I'd be a lot more comfortable with 50,000 years worth, but lacking a time machine, that doesn't seem practical. Our secondhand observations (core samples etc.) provide data, all right, but sometimes the analysis seems to be based on foregone conclusions.
As to Jupiter... funny how the argument you bring up is okay to use there, but when antarctic climatologists tell us the same thing about those ice shelves (that chunks falling off is just part of the normal cycle) somehow then it's bogus. Make up my mind!
Well, I suppose they could implement a johnny-come-lately award;)
But it's the 7-digiters I really feel sorry for... I mean, if you're a 6er, you could still at least be one in a million! What's in it for 7ers? A lifetime spent in derision as perpetual n00bs.
Actually, no... The "RAM vs HD hanger" issue was common with Tyan motherboards -- because Tyan always designed for servers (desktops were an afterthought) and even their AT-only motherboards assumed a server-width case (meaning about an inch more clearance than standard). They are wonderfully stable and long-lived, but server class mobo layouts don't always quite agree with desktop-class cases, not even high-end ones.
So... it's a server-type motherboard in a mid-tower AT case. Trouble is, the mobo is AT/ATX (swings both ways) and being a Tyan, the RAM slots are located as close to the CPU as was practical... meaning it tries to violate the laws of physics with the HD hanger when occupying an AT case. It only works at all because this was a fairly high-end case in its day, and the HD hanger is way over to one side, leaving more vertical clearance than in a typical AT case. Even so, I had to find low-clearance RAM to make it fit (such requests make your RAM dealer look at you funny). I think it's Panasonic RAM, but having not looked at it in 11 years I couldn't tell ya for sure:)
The machine started life as a 486 in 1994, and the case and PSU (also server class) are among the few remaining original parts (along with the 2nd sound card for DOS games, and the 3" floppy drive).
I have an identical motherboard in a dual AT/ATX case, and being about an inch wider to accomodate what was then the early ATX type, that one can take any height RAM. (That one is my media machine.)
Compgeeks has a nice dual-xeon mobo/CPU/RAM package for under $100, and I thought about getting one... but it won't fit even in my whopping great full tower ATX case (in the $200 range, if I'd had to buy it), because the bloody thing is an inch too wide!
Is links2 descended from eLinks 0.98? That refuses to run on Win98.
The first comment on that first link points out a number of inconsistencies in their argument... next argument?:)
Point is, there is no consensus, even among equally respected researchers. But there's a lot more noise and thunder on the side that's backed by companies trying to make a buck in alt-energy -- who could not make it in a market not skewed by GW-related restrictions -- which renders the anthro-GW argument somewhat more suspect than it might otherwise be.
(Reading the fine print on a number of CA voter resolutions is what first brought THAT to my attention.)
Maybe they fixed the mess in Firefox, but that's how it was on ALL sites in the last version of Moz....
And when I tried it just now in Seamonkey, I see they've messed it up entirely... I can RClick, block images from this server, but I can't turn off image loading globally (at least not with any handy menu item), and it ignores the Prefbar checkbox as well!
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I know someone who managed to self-stress on the job until he had a nervous breakdown, but in his mind it's all his employer's fault (fact is, he couldn't admit that what was being asked of him wasn't feasible, even tho HE had control over the project and could have set his own schedule). Hello, no one held a gun to your head and MADE you do the "impossible", did they? if it's that bad, you know where the door is, and if you're that good, I'm sure another job isn't that hard to find.
I used to burn trash in a homemade incinerator, made of a 3 foot tall chunk of heavy road conduit. It had very good airflow, and I used corrugated cardboard to start it (ever see a cardboard fire? We had one in L.A. about 20 years ago, and it was televised. After half an hour there was NOTHING left of the steel-beamed warehouse it started in, and it was half the size of a city block.) My little incinerator burned so hot that if I threw in an aluminum can, it didn't hit bottom -- just went POOF about halfway down. Steel cans lasted about 30 seconds. I burned trash in it for 5 years and the residue was still only about 8" deep.. and when I moved it, I discovered the ground beneath it was glazed to four inches below the surface.
If even an amateur effort gets this hot, I ain't goin' near the real thing, fire suit or not! and if the anecdote's victim was in a mere "approach suit" -- could be the ladle heat was enough to make it go POOF.
(Tho these stories have been around as long as steel mills, and I still don't know if any are true.)
That's because stockholders in search of quick profits don't look any further than the current quarter, so any publicly-held business, being legally beholden first and foremost to its lienholders (ie. stockholders) MUST answer to that sector first. If that damages customers and kills the company over the long run, oh well! the stock market doesn't care, so long as THIS quarter shows a profit.
So... let's put the blame where a large chunk of it belongs -- on the stock market and people who use it solely for short-term gains, forcing companies to abandon long-term strategy.
The owner of SAS software, when interviewed on 60 Minutes a few years back, said SAS would not go public for exactly that reason.
"I get 100 mbit fiber for $65/mo in a small town in Iowa. WTF is taking the rest of you so long?"
Take note that you're in real farm country (I grew up in ND, MN, and MT -- howdy, neighbor!) Contrary to popular urban belief, farmers and ranchers are among the best innovators in the world, and among the most likely to embrace tech advances -- IF it improves their lives or their productivity over the long haul, and not just because it's New or Shiny or will look good on the short-term bottom line.
It's really the same thing as your post talks about -- how some companies let short-term greed damage long-term profits. Can't do that if you're a farmer, now that slash-and-burn and moving the whole operation every year are not sustainable farming methods!
My ISP guy (the one-man-band fixed-wireless company that's the only broadband I can get) explained peak bursts this way: The initial data is sent across at max speed, which here means 2.5MBit. However, the limit is about two minutes worth for a given site. After that it throttles down to the normal max of 1.5Mbit. This is done so web pages, being mostly conglomerations of small files, will download at max efficiency. But that doesn't mean I can get that 2.5MBit peak for a sustained download. So large files will initially come across at the 2.5Mbit peak, but after a couple minutes will throttle back to the sustained throughput of 1.5Mbit.
He says everyone does this, but most ISPs only *advertise* the peak or burst speed, not the sustained speed, which one only finds in the fine print.
My ISP guy (the company is a one-man band) told me that downloading costs him effectively nothing, so he didn't care how much we download. However, he throttles uploads, because THAT costs him money by the gig. (My ISP connects directly to an AT&T backbone.)
I expect this is fundamentally true across the industry -- so what's with download caps and limits anyway? Price it on how much uploading you expect a given tier to use, and don't worry so much about download bandwidth.
You forget that Verizon has a gov't-mandated monopoly on its phone-line service areas, inherited from when it was poor little GTE that needed to be protected from the Big Bad Bells. There IS no competition for phone lines, thus for DSL, in Verizon areas. "Competitors", if any, are essentially Verizon resellers.
Nice. I like the almost symphonic-percussion effect of the thunder, juxtaposed to the quiet guitar. Easy to visualize as very small man, very large thunderstorm. Could be the start of a new genre! :)
What I've observed is that the internet has disproportionately empowered fringe groups, to the point that fringe viewpoints are being imposed on the majority. One only need look at Calif.Prop2 to see how that works.
There's a lot more "sedition" on City-data forums... check out http://www.city-data.com/forum/politics-other-controversies/264003-montana-talks-leaving-union-over-gun.html
'I'm pretty sure the constitution overrides the "patriot" act.'
Well, it USED to..... but then we passed the 'patriot' act, which trumped the Constitution.
One should remember the fundamental principle of sovereign immunity:
The king can do no wrong.
Think about that one...
One has to wonder how much lobbying pressure there is from "security-related" industries (in which I include privatized prisons and local police depts.) to *keep* the PATRIOT act.
But you're right -- if they *really* think it's bad law, they now have the power to repeal it instanter. Not happening? Gee, then they must *want* it in place, d'oh!
I've read the claims by the ex-KGBs themselves. I have to wonder why they bothered (other than just Being Russian about it) since we were already headed down that path, and had been since the New Deal.
We've already SOLD most of our infrastructure to foreign interests, who now control it. Why the hell would they need spies to take it down??
No ion cannons??
I see that I miscalculated... the poor 7ers will spend THREE lifetimes derided as perpetual n00bs! It's sad, really. :(
But wait! Here's some data you didn't take into account -- we made UID 1,000,000 what, only about 2 years ago? after taking 9 years to get that far?? something like that. (I know I arrived in 1998.) So there's probably a hyperbolic curve at work here, and you can expect your 6er point in... oh, only about a lifetime and a half!
I dunno what it is with coffee either, unless it's that coffee is generally more expensive than tea, and harder to find a free substitute for than is tea -- and the U.S. has generally been an affluent nation.
I drink tea and always have, ever since I was a kid, but almost never more than 2 cups a day. I've never liked coffee... to me it tastes like burnt dirt. I'm not fond of soda and rarely drink it.
Tea and chocolate makes a nice afternoon break, which will either wake me up or put me to sleep -- depending on how sleep-deprived I am that day!
Well, see, I have a problem with that assumption, because even 50 years ago we were belching forth a lot more waste as smoke, yet somehow I'm supposed to believe that LESS CO2 has MORE effect??
I think right now ALL sides are being highly selective, and making planet-affecting decisions based on any of their wares is dangerous.
Whether I agree or disagree isn't my real point. What bothers me is that we're forming assumptions based on far too little data, and turning belief either direction into religion, and anyone who does disagree is vilified rather than examined more closely. And when I saw thin data being leveraged by also-ran corporations, my skeptic radar turned on.
Climate moves slowly; stars move even more slowly. 50 years of observation is frighteningly inadequate. I'd be a lot more comfortable with 50,000 years worth, but lacking a time machine, that doesn't seem practical. Our secondhand observations (core samples etc.) provide data, all right, but sometimes the analysis seems to be based on foregone conclusions.
As to Jupiter... funny how the argument you bring up is okay to use there, but when antarctic climatologists tell us the same thing about those ice shelves (that chunks falling off is just part of the normal cycle) somehow then it's bogus. Make up my mind!
Ah well, ain't gonna be decided here on /.
Tried Opera and found it... trying :) Just didn't like the interface. It seems to be a love-it-or-hate-it app for most people.
(I must have 20 browsers installed, way back to DOS text browsers, so it's not like I don't give 'em a try :)
"Nothing for 6-digit [slashdot.org] uids?"
Well, I suppose they could implement a johnny-come-lately award ;)
But it's the 7-digiters I really feel sorry for... I mean, if you're a 6er, you could still at least be one in a million! What's in it for 7ers? A lifetime spent in derision as perpetual n00bs.
Actually, no... The "RAM vs HD hanger" issue was common with Tyan motherboards -- because Tyan always designed for servers (desktops were an afterthought) and even their AT-only motherboards assumed a server-width case (meaning about an inch more clearance than standard). They are wonderfully stable and long-lived, but server class mobo layouts don't always quite agree with desktop-class cases, not even high-end ones.
So... it's a server-type motherboard in a mid-tower AT case. Trouble is, the mobo is AT/ATX (swings both ways) and being a Tyan, the RAM slots are located as close to the CPU as was practical... meaning it tries to violate the laws of physics with the HD hanger when occupying an AT case. It only works at all because this was a fairly high-end case in its day, and the HD hanger is way over to one side, leaving more vertical clearance than in a typical AT case. Even so, I had to find low-clearance RAM to make it fit (such requests make your RAM dealer look at you funny). I think it's Panasonic RAM, but having not looked at it in 11 years I couldn't tell ya for sure :)
The machine started life as a 486 in 1994, and the case and PSU (also server class) are among the few remaining original parts (along with the 2nd sound card for DOS games, and the 3" floppy drive).
I have an identical motherboard in a dual AT/ATX case, and being about an inch wider to accomodate what was then the early ATX type, that one can take any height RAM. (That one is my media machine.)
Compgeeks has a nice dual-xeon mobo/CPU/RAM package for under $100, and I thought about getting one... but it won't fit even in my whopping great full tower ATX case (in the $200 range, if I'd had to buy it), because the bloody thing is an inch too wide!
Is links2 descended from eLinks 0.98? That refuses to run on Win98.
The first comment on that first link points out a number of inconsistencies in their argument... next argument? :)
Point is, there is no consensus, even among equally respected researchers. But there's a lot more noise and thunder on the side that's backed by companies trying to make a buck in alt-energy -- who could not make it in a market not skewed by GW-related restrictions -- which renders the anthro-GW argument somewhat more suspect than it might otherwise be.
(Reading the fine print on a number of CA voter resolutions is what first brought THAT to my attention.)
Maybe they fixed the mess in Firefox, but that's how it was on ALL sites in the last version of Moz....
And when I tried it just now in Seamonkey, I see they've messed it up entirely... I can RClick, block images from this server, but I can't turn off image loading globally (at least not with any handy menu item), and it ignores the Prefbar checkbox as well!