Ok, I gave a Fedora CD to the windows guy at work that manages the desktops. He is always saying how easy it is to install Windows. He grabbed an engineering workstations with a 6 core processor, 128g of ram, and high end graphics card. Put the CD in, it asked him 4 or 5 questions and installed. The whole process took less than 20 min and everything worked including the 3Dconnexion SpaceMouse Pro.
He was in shock and said "That would have taken me 4 or 5 hours with windows!"
He then grabbed one of the older Dell laptops they give out to the office staff and put it in there. It installed in 20 min and recognized everything including the WiFi card. He admitted that he grabbed that laptop because it is a pain to get windows to work on it and was amazed that linux just installed, came up and worked as expected.
So, He was not a Linux Zealot, he was the windows desktop guy. I did nothing but watch, and he did everything.
Linux has come a ling ways in the last 10 years, I have been surprised as just how easy it is to install. You no longer have to be a computer wiz to install it.
Many agencies use it to capture password before an arrest. It is also one reason I never understood the need for keyloggers. If you know where the system is you can simple be in the same area and pick up the keystrokes. So a small receiver that logs them could be placed in the bushes, outside the window of your office, or in a close flower bed disguised as a rock. Quietly sitting there collecting all your key strokes.
It can be done with the simple wireless keyboard or with the bluetooth ones, that is one reason I still use a wired keyboard!
None so far, most people dont know the difference between the domain and a host address on the domain.
As is obvious from someone who posts later saying that it does not resolve an MX record. lol
As to the person who responded that it was harvesting email address. Spammers have much easier ways to collect email. There business is bulk, Bulk addresses and bulk mailings, it would be a waist of time for them to try to decode one address and an even bigger waist to expect others to decode an address and email it.
Besides, if someone does spam the address it just adds more patterns to my bayesian spam filter.;)
Most programmers can not even figure out how to validate a f--ing email address, let alone a persons name.
How about they fix the email problem first and stop rejecting my email address ^_^@mydomain Yes, you can put that on my domain listed below and email me, and yes it is a valid email address as per the RFC.
I have a first generation (First run model) of the pi.
With only 256megs of ram, it is hard to do much with it. The second generation had 512meg and that made a lot of difference! I have a couple of them. Then there was the second generation B+ with the extra ports, I have 3 or 4 of them laying around. Now with the third generation having 4cores and 1g of ram, there is a lot you can do with it. That reminds me, I need to order a couple.;)
They are doing it right now with the marijuana dispensaries in every state where it has been made legal.
None of the accept credit cards because none of the credit card processors will accept them. This is because the federal government will hit them with money laundering charges due to it still being illegal at the federal level.
I have experience with it, I ran a medical supply house for a few years and ever time I turned around the CC processor was locking my account and holding my funds. They would go look at the web site and see something that in there mind was "Drug paraphernalia" The last one was over 10cc syringes with a 1" 14g needle. They were for veterinary use, and the CC processor though someone could use it to shoot up drugs.
Dont mine long hours alone. They love things that go fast. Could use a simulated Deer hunt for entertainment. Can fix anything with duck tape and some wire. Will eat just about anything. There real good at growing stuff.
What more could you ask for?
Just need to outfit the ship to look like a pickup and the habitat to look like a Winnebago. Maybe Offer a million $ to the first one to shoot a deer on mars.:p
Science IS settled on a lot of issues. AGW is a new one, but something we can do something about (well, 10 years ago).
Just because there is a preponderance of evidence that our explanation of an observed phenomenon is correct, it does not mean the science is settled. It means that we have a good explanation. If a better explanation comes along and it fills in areas where the first did not, we adjust our understanding of the universe and the accepted scientific belief is changed.
Ill add that if you are getting your science from grade school or the news outlets, then you need to realize that you are not reading the science and are instead reading an opinion.
Actually, the cost of your medical has more to do with the AMA restricting the number of doctors that can graduate, than the number of people who do not pay.
Yes I do use health care, however i negotiated with my doctor and pay cash! He gives me better discounts than he gives the insurance companies because
1) He knows he will get paid. 2) He does not have to pay someone to manage the paperwork. 3) He knows it is paid in CASH which is far less hassle than checks, credit, or insurance.
My advantages are
1) When I call him, I am at the front of the line. 2) It is cheaper than paying for insurance.
So I have skin in the game, it comes out of my pocket and I pay for services rendered. You should try it some time and stop asking for handouts from the government. No more long lines, no more rejections from the insurance company, no more problems.
The way you can tell is that the article mentions that their plants had been attacked by mold. Really? And why were mold spores allowed to come into the plant growth facility?
I take it you have never worked in mycology.
You can't eliminate them, they are everywhere and in amazing quantities. Even in my ISO Class 100 clean room working under a laminar flow hood, I still get the rare unintended mold growth in a culture. Normally from a simple procedure mistake.
You have mold spores on your skin, in your hair, on everything you own, etc.
Just for the fun of it I set up the laser particle counter in my kitchen one day, gave an average reading of 6,954,652 particles, at a flow rate of 0.1 CFM, between.3 microns and.5 microns per cubic foot of air.
The old swap meet is no more. That went back to the days when it was held in the Heathkit warehouse parking lot. I do miss wandering the meet in the early hours of the morning getting good used items.
Just recently the last of the big surplus parts stores closed. I remember getting parts for my Commodore 64 from them, bought my first PC from them (A Compaq Desk Pro), Heck I bought a couple of CPM systems from them in the day. They just had a big going out of business sale and closed the doors. It was a loss as I used to wander there isles and get component parts, power supplies, and other jewels. Heck, many of the parts for my 3d printer came from there shelves.
I do miss the old surplus parts stores, guess there was not enough business to keep them going.
I am my no means an expert on EHR. However I have dated a couple of RN's and have several in the family.
What I can say is that who ever develops this crap does not seem to ask the Doctors or RN's how they do there job.
There was a different 15digit code for every procedure, option, action and the RN had to key each in for every step and often had to click a "yes that is right" box or have a Dr come over and acknowledge that yes that is the correct prescription, etc. Im not talking about new prescriptions, Im talking about standard daily doses given in a care facility.
In every case it took 3x longer for them to do the computer entry than it did for them to do the job and add written notes to the charts. Every RN I know complains that it is cumbersome, time consuming, and takes away from their time caring for the patients.
It really reminded me of some of the time keeping systems I have used. Ones where Accounting laid out the system so you had to enter the time code for each task in no smaller than 15min increments and you had to make sure every min of your day was accounted for.
We won our independence from Mexico and were an independent nation before we joined the US.
Strange how people will say "Remember the Alamo" but then forget that it was the relaying cry for Texas to declare our independents from Mexico and become a Nation.
The thing is, unless you switch jobs, you are actually doing the same job. Why do you deserve more money simply for the fact that you have been doing the same thing longer than everybody else?
I realize that with people who do IT work such as programmers or system admins that there is an increased level of productivity you can get from those who have more knowledge of the code and/or systems that are dealt specifically at a single company, but after a point, you fail to actually provide more value than you did the previous year. Essentially, you plateau. Once you plateau, you probably aren't worth getting paid significantly more than you were before.
How long it takes to plateau is going to depend on the actual job you are doing. Something like a but driver, fast food worker, or assembly line worker, you might actually plateau quite quickly, whereas a job where having specific knowledge pertaining to where you work might take longer to reach a plateau. But you will reach a plateau.
The only way to actually be worth more is to move on to another job, either internally or externally. Most smart companies will allow you to move up within the company so that they can continue to use the knowledge you have about how the company works. Others will try to keep you in the same position for as long as possible so they don't have to retrain somebody else.
While I agree with you in principal, you missed the point.
IT jobs are a supply and demand market. In my area the supply is low and the demand is high. As such I have worked at the company I am at for the last 2 years making 100k a year. Current companies looking for people with my skill set are offering 130k a year to start. That is a 30% raise for changing jobs, compared to the 0% raise I have gotten at my current job!
The value you are looking for is the market value of my skills compared to the value I bring to the company. My skill set is what I am selling in exchange for a pay check. If the value I bring to the company is not > the market value of my skills, then there is a good chance Ill move to another company who is offering more for my skill set. As such the company I was working for can search for a new person with my skill set, and pay them the market rate, or they can search for someone with a lower skill set and pay them the lower market rate.
By not providing raises at market value they are basically setting themselves up for a 2 to 3 year turnover. Where they get the added cost of training a new person and getting them up to speed in the environment.
It boils down to the simple question. Which costs more, giving me a raise at market value or bringing in a new employee at market value and adding the cost of retraining as well as the lost time for them to come up to speed?
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Ok, I gave a Fedora CD to the windows guy at work that manages the desktops. He is always saying how easy it is to install Windows. He grabbed an engineering workstations with a 6 core processor, 128g of ram, and high end graphics card. Put the CD in, it asked him 4 or 5 questions and installed. The whole process took less than 20 min and everything worked including the 3Dconnexion SpaceMouse Pro.
He was in shock and said "That would have taken me 4 or 5 hours with windows!"
He then grabbed one of the older Dell laptops they give out to the office staff and put it in there. It installed in 20 min and recognized everything including the WiFi card. He admitted that he grabbed that laptop because it is a pain to get windows to work on it and was amazed that linux just installed, came up and worked as expected.
So, He was not a Linux Zealot, he was the windows desktop guy. I did nothing but watch, and he did everything.
Linux has come a ling ways in the last 10 years, I have been surprised as just how easy it is to install. You no longer have to be a computer wiz to install it.
I thought it looked like a Sprite
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
But Im at work and can not watch the video.
Yes, this has been possible for years.
Many agencies use it to capture password before an arrest. It is also one reason I never understood the need for keyloggers. If you know where the system is you can simple be in the same area and pick up the keystrokes. So a small receiver that logs them could be placed in the bushes, outside the window of your office, or in a close flower bed disguised as a rock. Quietly sitting there collecting all your key strokes.
It can be done with the simple wireless keyboard or with the bluetooth ones, that is one reason I still use a wired keyboard!
I still like the ring gun personally.
http://www.pinfireguns.com/pin...
None so far, most people dont know the difference between the domain and a host address on the domain.
As is obvious from someone who posts later saying that it does not resolve an MX record. lol
As to the person who responded that it was harvesting email address. Spammers have much easier ways to collect email. There business is bulk, Bulk addresses and bulk mailings, it would be a waist of time for them to try to decode one address and an even bigger waist to expect others to decode an address and email it.
Besides, if someone does spam the address it just adds more patterns to my bayesian spam filter. ;)
Most programmers can not even figure out how to validate a f--ing email address, let alone a persons name.
How about they fix the email problem first and stop rejecting my email address ^_^@mydomain
Yes, you can put that on my domain listed below and email me, and yes it is a valid email address as per the RFC.
I have a first generation (First run model) of the pi.
With only 256megs of ram, it is hard to do much with it. ;)
The second generation had 512meg and that made a lot of difference! I have a couple of them.
Then there was the second generation B+ with the extra ports, I have 3 or 4 of them laying around.
Now with the third generation having 4cores and 1g of ram, there is a lot you can do with it. That reminds me, I need to order a couple.
10 days, try depositing a check in the US that is from Canada, it took 30 days to get the cash in the account.
Hell, Paypal was faster.
They are doing it right now with the marijuana dispensaries in every state where it has been made legal.
None of the accept credit cards because none of the credit card processors will accept them. This is because the federal government will hit them with money laundering charges due to it still being illegal at the federal level.
I have experience with it, I ran a medical supply house for a few years and ever time I turned around the CC processor was locking my account and holding my funds. They would go look at the web site and see something that in there mind was "Drug paraphernalia" The last one was over 10cc syringes with a 1" 14g needle. They were for veterinary use, and the CC processor though someone could use it to shoot up drugs.
After seeing the choice between Hillary and Trump do you still think the Libertarian's are nuts? They are starting to look like the better choice.
It's not like the government would ever make it illegal to own gold!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Dont mine long hours alone.
They love things that go fast.
Could use a simulated Deer hunt for entertainment.
Can fix anything with duck tape and some wire.
Will eat just about anything.
There real good at growing stuff.
What more could you ask for?
Just need to outfit the ship to look like a pickup and the habitat to look like a Winnebago. Maybe Offer a million $ to the first one to shoot a deer on mars. :p
Ok, so Windows == Microsoft owns the OS and can collect anything they want about you and your computer.
Linux == Free and no one gives a shit what you run on it. It is your computer and your OS to do with as YOU see fit.
Got it!
Here are some things science is settled on:
The earth being round.
The earth is not round http://www.scientificamerican....
The earth orbiting the sun.
Technically, the earth does not orbit the sun. It orbits the central mass of the solar system.
http://www.realclearscience.co...
Science IS settled on a lot of issues. AGW is a new one, but something we can do something about (well, 10 years ago).
Just because there is a preponderance of evidence that our explanation of an observed phenomenon is correct, it does not mean the science is settled. It means that we have a good explanation. If a better explanation comes along and it fills in areas where the first did not, we adjust our understanding of the universe and the accepted scientific belief is changed.
Ill add that if you are getting your science from grade school or the news outlets, then you need to realize that you are not reading the science and are instead reading an opinion.
Why spend the $4 a month for website access when you can spend the $5 a YEAR and get the print magazine delivered?
Ok, I laughed at this one.
Because I have that same camera and it works perfect under Linux. LOL
Actually, the cost of your medical has more to do with the AMA restricting the number of doctors that can graduate, than the number of people who do not pay.
ME!
Yes I do use health care, however i negotiated with my doctor and pay cash! He gives me better discounts than he gives the insurance companies because
1) He knows he will get paid.
2) He does not have to pay someone to manage the paperwork.
3) He knows it is paid in CASH which is far less hassle than checks, credit, or insurance.
My advantages are
1) When I call him, I am at the front of the line.
2) It is cheaper than paying for insurance.
So I have skin in the game, it comes out of my pocket and I pay for services rendered. You should try it some time and stop asking for handouts from the government. No more long lines, no more rejections from the insurance company, no more problems.
The way you can tell is that the article mentions that their plants had been attacked by mold. Really? And why were mold spores allowed to come into the plant growth facility?
I take it you have never worked in mycology.
You can't eliminate them, they are everywhere and in amazing quantities. Even in my ISO Class 100 clean room working under a laminar flow hood, I still get the rare unintended mold growth in a culture. Normally from a simple procedure mistake.
You have mold spores on your skin, in your hair, on everything you own, etc.
Just for the fun of it I set up the laser particle counter in my kitchen one day, gave an average reading of 6,954,652 particles, at a flow rate of 0.1 CFM, between .3 microns and .5 microns per cubic foot of air.
I am dealing with Desktops that were bought in 1994, that makes them 21 to 22 years old and still running.
They are RS6000, AIX4.3 desktops.
I have some servers here that are about the same age.
The old swap meet is no more. That went back to the days when it was held in the Heathkit warehouse parking lot. I do miss wandering the meet in the early hours of the morning getting good used items.
Just recently the last of the big surplus parts stores closed. I remember getting parts for my Commodore 64 from them, bought my first PC from them (A Compaq Desk Pro), Heck I bought a couple of CPM systems from them in the day. They just had a big going out of business sale and closed the doors. It was a loss as I used to wander there isles and get component parts, power supplies, and other jewels. Heck, many of the parts for my 3d printer came from there shelves.
I do miss the old surplus parts stores, guess there was not enough business to keep them going.
I am my no means an expert on EHR. However I have dated a couple of RN's and have several in the family.
What I can say is that who ever develops this crap does not seem to ask the Doctors or RN's how they do there job.
There was a different 15digit code for every procedure, option, action and the RN had to key each in for every step and often had to click a "yes that is right" box or have a Dr come over and acknowledge that yes that is the correct prescription, etc. Im not talking about new prescriptions, Im talking about standard daily doses given in a care facility.
In every case it took 3x longer for them to do the computer entry than it did for them to do the job and add written notes to the charts. Every RN I know complains that it is cumbersome, time consuming, and takes away from their time caring for the patients.
It really reminded me of some of the time keeping systems I have used. Ones where Accounting laid out the system so you had to enter the time code for each task in no smaller than 15min increments and you had to make sure every min of your day was accounted for.
Go back to Mexico already.
Why do people say this?
We won our independence from Mexico and were an independent nation before we joined the US.
Strange how people will say "Remember the Alamo" but then forget that it was the relaying cry for Texas to declare our independents from Mexico and become a Nation.
Lots of gun control laws. :p
The thing is, unless you switch jobs, you are actually doing the same job. Why do you deserve more money simply for the fact that you have been doing the same thing longer than everybody else?
I realize that with people who do IT work such as programmers or system admins that there is an increased level of productivity you can get from those who have more knowledge of the code and/or systems that are dealt specifically at a single company, but after a point, you fail to actually provide more value than you did the previous year. Essentially, you plateau. Once you plateau, you probably aren't worth getting paid significantly more than you were before.
How long it takes to plateau is going to depend on the actual job you are doing. Something like a but driver, fast food worker, or assembly line worker, you might actually plateau quite quickly, whereas a job where having specific knowledge pertaining to where you work might take longer to reach a plateau. But you will reach a plateau.
The only way to actually be worth more is to move on to another job, either internally or externally. Most smart companies will allow you to move up within the company so that they can continue to use the knowledge you have about how the company works. Others will try to keep you in the same position for as long as possible so they don't have to retrain somebody else.
While I agree with you in principal, you missed the point.
IT jobs are a supply and demand market. In my area the supply is low and the demand is high. As such I have worked at the company I am at for the last 2 years making 100k a year. Current companies looking for people with my skill set are offering 130k a year to start. That is a 30% raise for changing jobs, compared to the 0% raise I have gotten at my current job!
The value you are looking for is the market value of my skills compared to the value I bring to the company. My skill set is what I am selling in exchange for a pay check. If the value I bring to the company is not > the market value of my skills, then there is a good chance Ill move to another company who is offering more for my skill set. As such the company I was working for can search for a new person with my skill set, and pay them the market rate, or they can search for someone with a lower skill set and pay them the lower market rate.
By not providing raises at market value they are basically setting themselves up for a 2 to 3 year turnover. Where they get the added cost of training a new person and getting them up to speed in the environment.
It boils down to the simple question. Which costs more, giving me a raise at market value or bringing in a new employee at market value and adding the cost of retraining as well as the lost time for them to come up to speed?