Is this a Silicon Valley New York City thing?
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or is this a new company thing?
I've done my share of tech work, and it wasn't much like net.slaves. Of course, most of my tech work is for a fortune 50 company, in the most computer oriented section of it.
I worked a Tech support hotline, the calls were long, tough and frequent, but it was rare that I did more than 42 hours a week, and when I did I got overtime (neat trick for a salaried employee).
Now I'm a liaison between the hotline and the software engineers, and the hours are still reasonable. My managers respect me,I get to play with neat computers, all in all, a good life.
Our SA's are subcontracted, but they don't seem too stressed.
Of course, I do geek stuff at home, mostly writing about geek stuff, but it's at home, at mostly my pace (except when we have a deadline to meet), and about things I like.
So are slashdotters in bigger, established companies away from the Valley seeing this much? Maybe it's just related to people willing to kill themselves on hopes that they're gonna get in on the next amazon.
. I would bet that one day, some porn movie theater in the US will show it uncensored, though...
Really? Can I take you up on that?
I've seen porno films, I've seen the Americanized version of Eyes Wide Shut, and they are nothing alike.
I think anyone going to their local porno and getting an uncut Eyes Wide Shut will be severely disappointed, and probably demand their money back.
To sum it up, there's little wanking material in Eyes Wide Shut, so unless the cut scenes were 1 hour and 40 minutes of XXX action, the uncut one will be just as wank-free.
That said, the idea that seeing people nude and engaged in intercourse, with thier genitals hidden or unobvious is so dangerous to American mores that clumsy digital tricks had to be used to prevent this repulses me. Has any international slashdot readers seen an uncut Eyes to comment?
I'll trust the 727 that I walked up to at the FAA, the 727 I flew to Florida on in 1979, and the Boeing web page before I trust some raving AC with no sources.
Excuse me? It has 3 engines on each wing, one engine at the tail, and one engine at the nose. At least the 727 _I_ flew had that configuration.
I'm giggling picturing an airplane with this engine configuration. Where does the nose engine jet direct it's exhaust, maybe a pair of Glasspacks along side the cockpit?
Tri-jet means three engines.
Tri-jet means a jet with 8 engines. It's right in the name, not hard to see.
A 727 has a taller body (about 12" taller), and has wings that are 72' longer. It has 4 more engines, all with more power (around 120,000 lbs of thrust). The 727 also has much more room for seating and cargo than the 747 (or any other model for the matter). Get your facts straight.
A 727 has 4 more engines? For a total of 8? You are seriously deluded, a 727 has 3 engines at the tail.
The versatility and reliability of the Boeing 727 - first trijet introduced into commercial service - made it the best-selling airliner in the world during the first 30 years of jet transport service.
Tri-jet means three engines.
From the stats section.
Advanced 727-200 Specifications
Wingspan 108 feet (32.91 m) Length 153 feet 2 inches (46.69 m) Tail Height 34 feet (10.36 m) Gross Maximum Taxi Weight Standard: 191,000 pounds (86,600 kg) Optional: 210,000 pounds (95,300 kg) Power Three Pratt & Whitney JT8D turbofans: -15 rated at 15,500 pounds thrust -17 rated at 16,000 pounds thrust -17R rated at 17,400 pounds thrust Cruising Speed 570 to 605 mph (890 to 965 km/h) Cruising Altitude 30,000 to 40,000 feet (9,144 to 12,192 m) Range 1,500 to 2,500 miles (2,750 to 4,020 km) Passenger Capacity 148 to 189 Fuel 8,186 U.S. gallons (31,000 L) standard at lower gross weights 9,806 U.S. gallons (37,020 L) standard for 208,000 pounds
I have no idea what commercial jetliner you are thinking of, but it sure isn't a 30 year old 727.
If the suggested price for the home user is $219, what is the OEM price going to be, maybe $100+ for good customers (Gateway, Dell, Compaq)?
And how are these companies going to make money in the sub $1000 market when over 10 % of the wholesale cost is the OS?
I think MS might be pricing themselves a little high here, they're creating a real market opportunity for a cheaper home OS, be it Linux, FreeBSD or even BeOS.
All I get is music, and maybe some hippie graphics.
I especially liked the part about horrifying teenage sex, what exactly is that? Drinking a six pack, getting queasy, fumbling for a thick, old Trojan in your wallet and then prematurely ejaculating while her mom walks in on you? And then hurling on the floor?
round 1 Red Hat offers several new installation options, including Custom, Workstation, and Server. this isnt new to 6.1, i know 5.2 had them, possibly earlier versions as well.
RedHat 5.2 was the first to give you three installations choices, with 5.1 you had to custom define what packages were loaded.
I suppose you could make a multiplayer only version, but the idea of people having to gether round and keep their IR ports aligned while playing beggars belief!
Wow, you just reminded me of one of my first handheld multiplayer electronic games, Head to Head Football, from about 1980.
It was one of the red LED games simulating football on a field 5 LEDs high and 12 long, with nintendo like controls.
The very cool part was that you played live against someone, the LEDs were in the middle, with controls on each side. As the offensive player you controlled the quarterback/running back or receiver, as the defensive player you controller a linebacker. It was a neat game, but I think the strong homophobia of early teen boys made it a poor seller.
Apologies to any non North Americans if my terms are unclear, I'm talking about American Football.
The first server I ever had the chance to name, I named Wintermute. This was in 1991, and it was a screamer, a 486/66 with 8 megs of Ram, 2 1 gig SCSI drivers and SCO/Unix, whoa boy!
For my PC's at home, I use the names of Grateful Dead songs.
My IBM PC330 I named Liberty. A catchy little thing, but with few prospects for expansion (3 slots, 3 drive bays, feh!).
I named the Cyrixed 486 I bought for $5 at a garage sale Deal, though only runs for a few days before the hardware makes it crash. It's due for a motherboard replacement.
I named the Dell 486 I bought at a garage sale ( I overpaid, but I had little time and I desperately needed a running server) Terrapin, becuase it keeps going, and going, and going ( you need to have seen the Dead do Terrapin Station live to appreciate this).
I still have a P90 to put together, maybe I'll name it Dark Star, since right now it's apart, in formless pieces of matter.
But wasn't Freeside in Gibson's Neuromancer (1984 if I'm correct) a data haven, among other things?
And then of course, Nicky Halflinger, computer prodigy, writes a massive tapeworm that protects his adopted community from being cracked as well as breaking into every secret database in the world and releasing it, in 1975's Shockwave Rider, by John Brunner.
I wasn't totally sure about the particular's about money laundering, other than it was a way of taking money of dubious origin, and then somehow making it appear to be legitimate income.
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or is this a new company thing?
I've done my share of tech work, and it wasn't much like net.slaves. Of course, most of my tech work is for a fortune 50 company, in the most computer oriented section of it.
I worked a Tech support hotline, the calls were long, tough and frequent, but it was rare that I did more than 42 hours a week, and when I did I got overtime (neat trick for a salaried employee).
Now I'm a liaison between the hotline and the software engineers, and the hours are still reasonable. My managers respect me,I get to play with neat computers, all in all, a good life.
Our SA's are subcontracted, but they don't seem too stressed.
Of course, I do geek stuff at home, mostly writing about geek stuff, but it's at home, at mostly my pace (except when we have a deadline to meet), and about things I like.
So are slashdotters in bigger, established companies away from the Valley seeing this much? Maybe it's just related to people willing to kill themselves on hopes that they're gonna get in on the next amazon.
George
How did they deliver the Microwave radiation? Any chance there were distracting harmonics only audible to the rats that might have polluted the study?
Get a sharp hole saw for your drill, and cut an inch and a half diameter hole in your microwave front.
Insert rat's head.
Cover rest of hole with foil.
Try 2 minutes on high.
Get many wet paper towels and clean up.
Try 10 seconds on low.
And apologies to David Foster Wallace.
George
The essay talks about wating [sic] for an ounce.
Of what, taco sauce?
I'm saying all pot smokers are dangerous, but like Chef said, there's a time and a place for everything, and that place is college, not seventh grade.
George
Why would scientists use milk instead of water,
IIRC, they used milk instead of water so that the rats could not see the platform, they would have to remember where it was.
George
I'm not talking Teranesia,I'm talking Cities in Flight.
George
And I'm just talking about the kid's poor spelling.
He got 100 on that story? Doesn't spelling count anymore?
At least he wants to be a fiction writer, instead of a technical writer or a sysadmin, or a programmer.
"Why does it say "maek: not found"
George
Oooh, that's a heck of book.
Too bad it's out of print, and not scheduled to be reprinted until February.
I guess if you're a slashdot reader that gets intrigued by the review, you're sol, unless you want to make nice to me and ask to read my copy.
George
I loved this line.
New with this release:
All known bugs fixed. New bugs added.
George
. I would bet that one day, some porn movie theater in the US will show it uncensored, though...
Really? Can I take you up on that?
I've seen porno films, I've seen the Americanized version of Eyes Wide Shut, and they are nothing alike.
I think anyone going to their local porno and getting an uncut Eyes Wide Shut will be severely disappointed, and probably demand their money back.
To sum it up, there's little wanking material in Eyes Wide Shut, so unless the cut scenes were 1 hour and 40 minutes of XXX action, the uncut one will be just as wank-free.
That said, the idea that seeing people nude and engaged in intercourse, with thier genitals hidden or unobvious is so dangerous to American mores that clumsy digital tricks had to be used to prevent this repulses me. Has any international slashdot readers seen an uncut Eyes to comment?
George
BTW - the 727 is the largest plane in existance. no doubt.
I doubt.
Please, go to Google and don't come back until you've read few pages on 727, and a few pages on the largest airplanes in the world.
Please report back on your findings.
George
Hey, whatever you are on, give me some.
I'll trust the 727 that I walked up to at the FAA, the 727 I flew to Florida on in 1979, and the Boeing web page before I trust some raving AC with no sources.
Excuse me? It has 3 engines on each wing, one engine at the tail, and one engine at the nose. At least the 727 _I_ flew had that configuration.
I'm giggling picturing an airplane with this engine configuration. Where does the nose engine jet direct it's exhaust, maybe a pair of Glasspacks along side the cockpit?
Tri-jet means three engines.
Tri-jet means a jet with 8 engines. It's right in the name, not hard to see.
I see you contradict yourself.
A 727-200 is the 200 version of the 727, simple.
George
A 727 has a taller body (about 12" taller), and has wings that are 72' longer. It has 4 more engines, all with more power (around 120,000 lbs of thrust). The 727 also has much more room for seating and cargo than the 747 (or any other model for the matter). Get your facts straight.
A 727 has 4 more engines? For a total of 8? You are seriously deluded, a 727 has 3 engines at the tail.
From the Boeing 727 web page.
The versatility and reliability of the Boeing 727 - first trijet introduced into commercial service - made it the best-selling airliner in the world during the first 30 years of jet transport service.
Tri-jet means three engines.
From the stats section.
Advanced 727-200 Specifications
Wingspan 108 feet (32.91 m)
Length 153 feet 2 inches (46.69 m)
Tail Height 34 feet (10.36 m)
Gross Maximum Taxi Weight Standard: 191,000 pounds (86,600 kg)
Optional: 210,000 pounds (95,300 kg)
Power Three Pratt & Whitney JT8D turbofans:
-15 rated at 15,500 pounds thrust
-17 rated at 16,000 pounds thrust
-17R rated at 17,400 pounds thrust
Cruising Speed 570 to 605 mph (890 to 965 km/h)
Cruising Altitude 30,000 to 40,000 feet (9,144 to 12,192 m)
Range 1,500 to 2,500 miles (2,750 to 4,020 km)
Passenger Capacity 148 to 189
Fuel 8,186 U.S. gallons (31,000 L) standard at lower gross weights
9,806 U.S. gallons (37,020 L) standard for 208,000 pounds
I have no idea what commercial jetliner you are thinking of, but it sure isn't a 30 year old 727.
George
If the suggested price for the home user is $219, what is the OEM price going to be, maybe $100+ for good customers (Gateway, Dell, Compaq)?
And how are these companies going to make money in the sub $1000 market when over 10 % of the wholesale cost is the OS?
I think MS might be pricing themselves a little high here, they're creating a real market opportunity for a cheaper home OS, be it Linux, FreeBSD or even BeOS.
George
well, that's different
George
All I get is music, and maybe some hippie graphics.
I especially liked the part about horrifying teenage sex, what exactly is that? Drinking a six pack, getting queasy, fumbling for a thick, old Trojan in your wallet and then prematurely ejaculating while her mom walks in on you? And then hurling on the floor?
Pretty horrifying to me.
George
round 1
Red Hat offers several new installation options, including Custom, Workstation, and Server.
this isnt new to 6.1, i know 5.2 had them, possibly earlier versions as well.
RedHat 5.2 was the first to give you three installations choices, with 5.1 you had to custom define what packages were loaded.
George
I suppose you could make a multiplayer only version, but the idea of people having to gether round and keep their IR ports aligned while playing beggars belief!
Wow, you just reminded me of one of my first handheld multiplayer electronic games, Head to Head Football, from about 1980.
It was one of the red LED games simulating football on a field 5 LEDs high and 12 long, with nintendo like controls.
The very cool part was that you played live against someone, the LEDs were in the middle, with controls on each side. As the offensive player you controlled the quarterback/running back or receiver, as the defensive player you controller a linebacker. It was a neat game, but I think the strong homophobia of early teen boys made it a poor seller.
Apologies to any non North Americans if my terms are unclear, I'm talking about American Football.
George
ObMS Troll
And you can name your NT server Necromonicon, because understanding it inside and out will drive you insane.
George
Uh-huh, someday I'm gonna have to name a FreeBSD one Lovelight.
"Turn it on, and leave it on!"
And for all the people buying RedHat stock, "Estimated-Profit", naw, too long.
Maybe Samson and Delilah for a PDC and backup DC.
ObMSTroll: For NT, helena-bucket.
George
Hmm, who are you missing?
Maybe naming a DEC server John, well, it used to big a decade or so again, but no one's heard of him since.
Or naming an old 486 festooned with SCSI cards and extra drives and such Jerry. It's old, it's cumbersome, but it keeps on truckin'.
A NeXT server named StevieRay, lots of potential, but died way too young.
George
The first server I ever had the chance to name, I named Wintermute. This was in 1991, and it was a screamer, a 486/66 with 8 megs of Ram, 2 1 gig SCSI drivers and SCO/Unix, whoa boy!
For my PC's at home, I use the names of Grateful Dead songs.
My IBM PC330 I named Liberty. A catchy little thing, but with few prospects for expansion (3 slots, 3 drive bays, feh!).
I named the Cyrixed 486 I bought for $5 at a garage sale Deal, though only runs for a few days before the hardware makes it crash. It's due for a motherboard replacement.
I named the Dell 486 I bought at a garage sale ( I overpaid, but I had little time and I desperately needed a running server) Terrapin, becuase it keeps going, and going, and going ( you need to have seen the Dead do Terrapin Station live to appreciate this).
I still have a P90 to put together, maybe I'll name it Dark Star, since right now it's apart, in formless pieces of matter.
George
I'd have to come up with the cash for a Palm if it played Civ too.
I haven't played Civ or SimCity in months, and I'm getting anxious (maybe I better finish installing FreeCiv).
George
But wasn't Freeside in Gibson's Neuromancer (1984 if I'm correct) a data haven, among other things?
And then of course, Nicky Halflinger, computer prodigy, writes a massive tapeworm that protects his adopted community from being cracked as well as breaking into every secret database in the world and releasing it, in 1975's Shockwave Rider, by John Brunner.
George
I wasn't totally sure about the particular's about money laundering, other than it was a way of taking money of dubious origin, and then somehow making it appear to be legitimate income.
George
I'd love to get an offshore account (even comes with a Visa bank card), but the $10,000 initial deposit requirement is a little steep.
Even after you get the free toaster?
George