Here we are starting to experiment with some linux migration on our HP-UX network. We started with some raid linux boxen just to store temporary junk (simulation data, etc) and it is working great. But when we started migrating their use to files that we actually gave a crap about we started having problems. The biggest headache we found is that NFS locking under linux isn't compatible with clients running HP-UX (and I believe solaris). Guess there is supposed to be some patches for that but there have still been plenty of bugs.
Yep I am a conservative and you are a communist and a coward. BTW, the Nazi's were not conservative they were an extreme leftist group, much worse than communism but totalatarian facism all the same. Go back to high school and this time don't sleep through your economics and histroy classes. Or maybe you haven't gotten that far...
Anyway we all know what happens to communist countries like you believe in, look at the soviet union, communist germany, etc... But then again I don't need to tell you that because you know that or it wouldn't have gotten you so hot under the collar to realize where you irrational thinking belongs.
So like anyone that doesn't have a foot to stand on (in this case, intellectually) you revert to pre-pubescent tactics of throwing a tempertantram and spewing foul language.
Well, since the tax situation in the country probabaly won't get markedly better in the next decade or so. I will look forward to when half of your income along with mine is going to some crack whore with 10 kids that is too stoned to do anything that doesn't involve lying on her back.
I think that it would be fair to have only an income tax instead (providing that all incomes are taxed the same percentage, NOT the way it is now). I was more or less making the suggestion that there should be only ONE tax.
One reason I would personally rather see a sales tax vs an income tax is you can tax people on what they spend that is "non-necessary" more easily. So if you have a guy that makes 20-grand a year and almost all of his income goes to food, clothes, and a roof over his head and items such as food and clothes and, arguably, living arrangements are not taxed, then he would be paying very little in taxes. The areas where he would be taxed on are non-necessities like his cable television, that x-box, that pr0n, etc...
The guy making 100 grand still would get the tax "relief" on the necessities, but he is going to buy more toys - well they're taxable and he'll be paying taxes on every dollar those toys cost. It's more "fair" if taxes could be fair.
Where washington state falls apart is the state legislators seem to think that overtaxation breeds economic growth. The govt. cannot efficiently handle money or resources (nor any organization that doesn't earn it), becuase they don't have respect for it. If you want to get an economy moving you need to motivate the producers in the economy and that would be business, not bureaucrats. Minnesota where I am is a wonderful example, we are the 3rd highest taxed state in the country (although I think washington is still worse). The state economy sucks so their solution has been to tax it more and "redistribute" the income to "stimulate" the economy (sounds familiar, wonder if bush spent too much time here and got brainwashed). It doesn't work because it is too inefficient and business starts to leave the state becuase it becomes cheaper to employ people elsewhere.
Illinois has a same prob, although I will admit their toll system gives them great roads. However, not living there it drives me nuts to visit the state:)
I think the basic point is we are both on the same page, we shouldn't be taxed on top of taxes (like when I itemize, I get penalized for the previous years return). If all, or the majority, of our taxation came from one source it is much easier for people to realize the magnitude by which they are being nailed by the govt and they may be a little more proactive about letting their legislators run away with their check book.
Yes but UPS is paying taxes on that road because for them to operate in your state they are being taxed. Their vehicle tax paid for the road along with your vehicle tax. You paid their vehicle tax as part of the shipping fees.
But then again sales taxes are not legitimate, it's double taxation. You are taxed for earning and you are taxed for spending and you are taxed for saving (unless you put it in your mattress, but sooner or later the IRS is going to wonder and you'll be audited anyway). You are constantly being punished for being a productive member of society. If you decide not to be a productive member of society then the income of those that are productive is redistributed to you, therefore you are rewarded.
Yes we need a tax but don't double tax. Make it an income tax or a sales tax but not both.
That started to get a bit off topic, but by paying sales tax for goods and services out of your state you are being taxed for services you do not use. If I buy something at my local target I am driving on the roads, burning fuel and participating in commerce within my own state. That (although arguably) takes resources that the state collects taxes on.
If I buy something out of state, that business does pay taxes on their income in their state so the "cost of commerce" is covered. The truck that picks the packages up and brings them to UPS facility paid taxes to be licensed so that is covered. If it is a ground shipment, most states have regulations taxing the trucks that go through them in the form of licensing or fuel costs (or both) so that is covered as well. I didn't make my money in that state so they are not entitled to my income (that of course leaving out the argument that govt is entitled to any of your money or we would be arguing our own state's taxation again). And the truck that brings it to my door is licensed in my state and the income they earn for bringing that package to me is taxed so my state is already getting their share. Seems to me that any additional taxation is unfounded, not to mention that I have NO say in the state's gov't that I bought the package from so me paying them any kind of tax (directly, as apposed to indirectly like the portion of my money that is income tax for the store) is taxation without representation which is unconstitutional. Isn't that what was behind the revolutionary war (among other things - not I don't need a history lesson), just on a MUCH smaller level?
Abolishing the income tax on ALL levels and going to a national sales tax would of course solve these issues (but create others), then the feds can ration out money to the states based on their population. And when everyone is paying 50% sales tax they will get a better idea how badly goverment is bloated and maybe change their voting habbits...
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Hey speak for yourself. I love football and I love being a geek. I was one of the biggest kids in my school and I played center. I could kick their a** on the field and in the class room as well.
As far a pro-football goes, I tend to only follow my home state's team very much, but I know of 4 or 5 former Vikings that are electrical engineers. One of the guys I work with (I'm an EE as well) is a former Minnesota Gopher, football scholarships put him through school, now he's an EE working with me designing parts that make your harddrive go fast.
Yes, please more people get rid of your SUV's and drive your mopeds on 4 wheels...
That will drive down demand for SUV's and I can afford more!!! Maybe if enough of you do it, the demand for gas will fall so I can afford to get even lower gas milage. Then the freeway will be even better as I can drive rush hour and push your little electric, fiberglass toys out of my way.
I do love the call for fuel efficient vehicles. Works wonderful in a capitalist society...
My wife used to work for the local Lotus/Jaguar dealership (she was the warranty clerk) and when you bring in a lotus for service they check your computer. It records everything you do and if you redline the engine (something that you are just itching to do with that much horsepower, not matter hose shortlived, in that small of a car) you warranty is VOID. No questions asked.
If I recall they didn't have a lot of warranty claims on lotus' (or is that Loti?). Which had plenty of probs especially since you can't put the hammer down for more that like 10 or 15 seconds at a time because you'll overheat the turbo.
I have been working as an EE for 3 years since I graduated and the last two I have feared the dreaded "axe" almost every day (well at least on thursdays - seems to be the favorite layoff day around here). We have had very very few layoffs so far (looking for some wood to knock on), but the analog IC design market hasn't been hit as bad as say... opto?
Yet, if I had to do it again knowing what I know now, yes I would. In a heartbeat. I don't think I would be happier doing anything else but designing chips. Every morning I wake up and short of being groggy and not liking to move, I love going in to worrk (even mondays and fridays). That tells me that I'm doing what I am supposed to be doing. All I can do is thank God that I am where I am and that through him, my hard work is recognized and valued enough to keep me around.
Well, Robin Hood wasn't real and he is only a hero to some people. Most thinking people can look at what he did and say that stealing from the rich and giving to the poor was the wrong (unethical) way to go about it (even though he was fighting against a morally incorrect oppressive governing entity and it was just for him to fight and eventually defeat him). You could also extend Robin Hood the benefit of the doubt that the rules change in the time of war, which is what he and his people were in against the sheriff.
Taxation is the same as stealing especially if it is done in excess especially in the system we have right now where we have taxation on taxation. Anytime you are redistributing income from one group of individuals and giving it to the other it is ethically wrong.
We just quit answering our phone. We were going to get call waiting but our phone company wants 6 bucks a month for it. So we quit answering the phone and only use it for outgoing calls before 9pm. For incoming calls we use the cell phone.
For us, we very rarely get "legitimate" calls anyway, not what you would consider very social. But my wife has a cell phone. So I e-mail her on her cell (which doesn't cost anything extra) and she calls me on the land line. If someone is calling that is legit, we turned up the volume on the answering machine so it can be heard through most of the house. If they don't want to talk bad enough to leave a message, then I don't want to waste my time talking to them in the first place.
Actually, if I didn't have a 10 year old kid at home that might need the phone to call out, I would get rid of the damn landline all together. About a quarter of the people I work with have done that and just use cell phones, they almost NEVER get spam on the cell.
No, that is my point. Just because they are muslims doesn't mean it is racial profiling, but it is a particular group or people and people seem to think that is a problem. It goes along the same lines that just because a database is mostly of black inner city kids because they were the ones found loitering on street corners and *could* have been selling drugs, doesn't mean that they are biased toward black inner city kids. If the majority of crimes were commited by people representing particular race, gender, income status, english speaking skills, etc... doesn't mean that everyone in that category is a criminal. The police aren't racist just because their statistics say that a particular group is more prone to commit crime it is the statistics that tell the truth. I would that that the type of people on slashdot of all people (there I go profiling again, better lock me up!) would have an appreciation for statistics. I guess liberal fanaticism clouds the minds of all.
I was waiting for the racial profiling to come up.....
I know this will go off topic, but you are you trying to say that even if you have data that suggests that a person in a certain group (religious, racial, income based, etc...) is likely to commit a certain crime we should waste our efforts strip searching 80 year old polish women becuase we don't want to racially profile?
I think of a common e-mail joke that hits the nail on the head:
Airport Profiling
To ensure we Americans never offend anyone particularly fanatics intent on killing us - airport screeners will not be allowed to profile people. They will continue random searches of 80-year-old women, little kids, airline pilots with proper identification, Secret Service agents who are members of the President's security detail, 85-year old Congressmen with metal hips, and Medal Of Honor winning former Governors.
Let's pause a moment and take the following test.
In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, athletes were kidnapped and massacred by: (a) Olga Corbett (b) Sitting Bull (c) Arnold Schwartzeneger (d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
In 1979, the U.S. embassy in Iran was taken over by: (a) Lost Norwegians (b) Elvis (c) A tour bus full of 80-year-old women (d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
During the 1980's a number of Americans were kidnapped in Lebanon by: (a) John Dillinger (b) The King of Sweden (c) The Boy Scouts (d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
In 1983, the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up by: (a) A pizza delivery boy (b) Pee Wee Herman (c) Geraldo Rivera making up for a slow news day (d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.
In 1985, the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked, and a 70 year old American passenger was murdered and thrown overboard by: (a) The Smurfs (b) Davy Jones (c) The Little Mermaid (d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.
In 1985, TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens, and a U.S. Navy diver was murdered by: (a) Captain Kidd (b) Charles Lindberg (c) Mother Teresa (d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
In 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed by: (a) Scooby Doo (b) The Tooth Fairy (c) Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid who had a few sticks of dynamite left over from the train job. (d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
In 1993, the World Trade Center was bombed the first time by: (a) Richard Simmons (b) Grandma Moses (c) Michael Jordan (d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
In 1998, the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by: (a) Mr. Rogers (b) Hillary, to distract attention from Wild Bill's women problems (c) The World Wrestling Federation to promote its next villain: "Mustapha the Merciless" (d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
On 9/11/01, four airliners were hijacked and destroyed and thousands of people were killed by: (a) Bugs Bunny, Wiley E. Coyote, Daffy Duck, and Elmer Fudd (b) The Supreme Court of Florida (c) Mr. Bean (d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
In 2002, the United States fought a war in Afghanistan against: (a) Enron (b) The Lutheran Church (c) The NFL (d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
In 2002, reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered by: (a) Bonny and Clyde (b) Captain Kangaroo (c) Billy Graham (d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
Hmmm . . . nope, no patterns anywhere to justify profiling...
To take it a step further if you have a bunch of teenagers hanging around an area with their crotch in their jeans speaking in a dialect that most eduacated people can't understand with wads of cash you are going to be suspicious of their activity. Just the same that if the computer system of a major corporation gets hacked and a lot of damage in done, do you think I am going to suspect some inner city low income gang members? I don't think so, I'll look at people that have had the time and resources to get the equipment and knowledge to commit such a crime. Racial profiling (and any other type of profiling) is totally acceptable and should be encouraged to streamline our criminal apprehension process.
And yes, I have been investigated as a suspect in a crime that I was not guilty of and when the investigators were done, they thanked me for my time and apologized for the inconvenience. I would have liked to have been compensated but ohh well, too bad. Unfortunately, there aren't policies dictating how an innocent person gets treated when it is learned that they are not suspects, there should be, but that doesn't mean we don't question and investigate a group of people that are likely to commit a particular crime WHEN ONE OCCURS!!!
Someone needs to drive that guy out of the industry. We are supposed to stop supporting standards and play follow m$ and whatever they feel like doing? That is the problem with the web as it is, you have too many web developers doing it the "IE" way and ignoring industry standards and then we wonder why everything is so screwed up. Ok so we don't wonder:)
While we're at it, lets throw out some other standards that I'm sure we don't need:
ASCII - ahh who needs it, maybe.doc is niftier ISO9660 IEEE 1394 - why do we need to follow a spec, why cant the device figure out what is coming at it on it's own? You don't own me, you can't tell me what protocols to use!!!
I own the Jukebox recorder 20 and it rocks. Again a 20 gig portable HD is nice and it had USB 2.0 support so the transfers are nice and fast. No special software to use, just throw your files on it like any other drive.
It comes with 2 sets of metal hydride batteries and I get pretty close to 10 hours out of each set. Plus they are just AA metal hydride batteries, so when they byte the dust as all rechargeables eventually do, you can replace them very cheap.
Their interface is a little slow to respons sometimes, but nothing is perfect. It is a really nice player.
What is funny is I originally got one for my wife. I was waiting for the data play stuff to come out. Yes I know it supports DRM, but nothing stops you from recording your own MP3's and putting them on. Plus I was on the development team for one of the chips that data play uses in their module. But the prices are ridiculous!!! If the box was only 150 I'd buy it but for more than that I'll opt for a HD based box...
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I am an electrical engineer and work for a company that designs semiconductors for the storage industry (channels, motor controllers, etc...)
I'd say that we are rather well paid (If I exclude myself anyway, at only 3 years out of college), and quite well educated. Also, we are well - technically - educated. It's not like we have a useless degree in African art or something. Anyway, most of the people I work with are mac users. It is because that while they can design the latest chips that make you hard drive scream, if they finder can't find it, neither can they. Stereotypically, they are computer illiterate. But another aspect to it is that they don't want to spend the time. It is just like the commercials, they want to open the box, plug in 2 cables and be on the internet without knowing anything about it. They spend too much time with technical subjects at work away from the family, they don't want to deal with it at home.
I'm on the opposite scale, I'm a circuit designer as well, but I also do system admin on the 250 Machine HP-UX network as well. And now that Mac has finally come up with a decent OS, one might not be totally useless to me:)
At five mos, I was not yet bored. Give it a few more months:)
It probably wouldn't be so bad if I had the time and $$ for all the recipes. Prob is, many of the recipes are rather exotic or "gourmet" and don't use cheap ingredients. Although, we are all used to spending $.69 for a weeks worth of bread:)
Almost two years ago I went in for a physical and to talk to my doctor about losing weight. I was almost 400 lbs. At that weight, you can't exercise because you'll destroy your joints before you lose any weight (and on an bicycle you fsck over your lower back). Trust me, I've done it. My doc spent several hours doing a physical and taking blood tests, did and EKG, etc...
After looking at the results he recommended that I get on the Atkins diet. He did recommend getting some exercise after losing some of the weight, but I had to get the weight off first. He also had me stop weight lifting because I was actually developing an un-healthy level of muscle mass. Trying to supply too much muscle with blood is actually hard on your heart. Also I found that when you have too much muscle in your upper body you can develop breathing problems in your sleep becuase your torso is too massive. These are some of the probs that body builders put up with. Also my cholesterol was in the 280's and the ratio was "way off" but I don't remember the numbers.
Well, I was on the diet for almost a year and dropped over 100 lbs. At first I was really skeptical, but after being on it for a couple of weeks, I couldn't believe how much energy I had. I was actually hyper. When I dropped about 50 lbs I started riding a bike and then running when I dropped more weight. Now I am 2 belt levels away from getting my black belt in tae kwon do, a lifetime dream of mine but I have alwasy been too heavy to do.
My cholesterol is in the 130's and the ratio has flipped the other way now. I have been off the Atkins diet for almost 9 mos now and have maintained my weight. I can't say that I am totally off the diet, obviously I had to change my way of eating because that's what got me where I was in the first place. I try to eat a low carb breakfast (bacon and eggs or a flax cereal). And a "lower" carb lunch - chicken salad or left over stir fry, maybe soup. Dinner is usually whatever though, spaghetti, pizza, etc...
The problem with the Atkins diet is that it is INCREDIBBLY BORING. I am so freaking sick of meat and cheese. I really should get back on it and drop another 20 - 30 lbs but haven't come up with the motivation to put myself on it full time again. I probably will this fall but I need a break.
The diet isn't for everyone. If people would shut their yap long enough to research it, the diet is actually for a specific type of metabolism. The metabolic condition is really brought on by a diet that has been extremely high in simple carbohydrates complicated by a genetic predisposition to diabetes (which is rampant in my family). You develop an insensativtiy to insulin and need more and more of it to metabolize glucose. The prob is, with that much insulin you body readily stores glucose as fat rather than metabolizes it - it becomes a viscious circle.
Through testing my doc found this condition in my body and recommended the diet which worked. There are several people I work with that thought they would try it without checking with their doc (which Atkins warns against in his book) after seeing my success that got sick on the diet. It isn't for everyone.
I am an electrical engineer (Analog IC Designer). At our shop we lost 2 out of 3 sys admins. One day my boss came to me and said that the CAD dept wants to talk to me about my experience with linux (run a small network of 6 machines at home and a few people at work knew about it). They asked if I would be interesed in being admin and I said sure, that's it. They did send me off to a training class at HP to get their HP-UX sysadmin and network administration class. Really not much different than Linux, you already know what you want to do, they just stick it in a differnet spot:)
Now I am doing a 50/50 role of designin and sys admin.
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Here we are starting to experiment with some linux migration on our HP-UX network. We started with some raid linux boxen just to store temporary junk (simulation data, etc) and it is working great. But when we started migrating their use to files that we actually gave a crap about we started having problems. The biggest headache we found is that NFS locking under linux isn't compatible with clients running HP-UX (and I believe solaris). Guess there is supposed to be some patches for that but there have still been plenty of bugs.
Yep I am a conservative and you are a communist and a coward. BTW, the Nazi's were not conservative they were an extreme leftist group, much worse than communism but totalatarian facism all the same. Go back to high school and this time don't sleep through your economics and histroy classes. Or maybe you haven't gotten that far...
Anyway we all know what happens to communist countries like you believe in, look at the soviet union, communist germany, etc... But then again I don't need to tell you that because you know that or it wouldn't have gotten you so hot under the collar to realize where you irrational thinking belongs.
So like anyone that doesn't have a foot to stand on (in this case, intellectually) you revert to pre-pubescent tactics of throwing a tempertantram and spewing foul language.
Well, since the tax situation in the country probabaly won't get markedly better in the next decade or so. I will look forward to when half of your income along with mine is going to some crack whore with 10 kids that is too stoned to do anything that doesn't involve lying on her back.
I think that it would be fair to have only an income tax instead (providing that all incomes are taxed the same percentage, NOT the way it is now). I was more or less making the suggestion that there should be only ONE tax.
One reason I would personally rather see a sales tax vs an income tax is you can tax people on what they spend that is "non-necessary" more easily. So if you have a guy that makes 20-grand a year and almost all of his income goes to food, clothes, and a roof over his head and items such as food and clothes and, arguably, living arrangements are not taxed, then he would be paying very little in taxes. The areas where he would be taxed on are non-necessities like his cable television, that x-box, that pr0n, etc...
The guy making 100 grand still would get the tax "relief" on the necessities, but he is going to buy more toys - well they're taxable and he'll be paying taxes on every dollar those toys cost. It's more "fair" if taxes could be fair.
Where washington state falls apart is the state legislators seem to think that overtaxation breeds economic growth. The govt. cannot efficiently handle money or resources (nor any organization that doesn't earn it), becuase they don't have respect for it. If you want to get an economy moving you need to motivate the producers in the economy and that would be business, not bureaucrats. Minnesota where I am is a wonderful example, we are the 3rd highest taxed state in the country (although I think washington is still worse). The state economy sucks so their solution has been to tax it more and "redistribute" the income to "stimulate" the economy (sounds familiar, wonder if bush spent too much time here and got brainwashed). It doesn't work because it is too inefficient and business starts to leave the state becuase it becomes cheaper to employ people elsewhere.
Illinois has a same prob, although I will admit their toll system gives them great roads. However, not living there it drives me nuts to visit the state:)
I think the basic point is we are both on the same page, we shouldn't be taxed on top of taxes (like when I itemize, I get penalized for the previous years return). If all, or the majority, of our taxation came from one source it is much easier for people to realize the magnitude by which they are being nailed by the govt and they may be a little more proactive about letting their legislators run away with their check book.
Easy answer... YES.
Becuase the answer will just hurt your brain even more that seeing what they did.
Yes but UPS is paying taxes on that road because for them to operate in your state they are being taxed. Their vehicle tax paid for the road along with your vehicle tax. You paid their vehicle tax as part of the shipping fees.
But then again sales taxes are not legitimate, it's double taxation. You are taxed for earning and you are taxed for spending and you are taxed for saving (unless you put it in your mattress, but sooner or later the IRS is going to wonder and you'll be audited anyway). You are constantly being punished for being a productive member of society. If you decide not to be a productive member of society then the income of those that are productive is redistributed to you, therefore you are rewarded.
Yes we need a tax but don't double tax. Make it an income tax or a sales tax but not both.
That started to get a bit off topic, but by paying sales tax for goods and services out of your state you are being taxed for services you do not use. If I buy something at my local target I am driving on the roads, burning fuel and participating in commerce within my own state. That (although arguably) takes resources that the state collects taxes on.
If I buy something out of state, that business does pay taxes on their income in their state so the "cost of commerce" is covered. The truck that picks the packages up and brings them to UPS facility paid taxes to be licensed so that is covered. If it is a ground shipment, most states have regulations taxing the trucks that go through them in the form of licensing or fuel costs (or both) so that is covered as well. I didn't make my money in that state so they are not entitled to my income (that of course leaving out the argument that govt is entitled to any of your money or we would be arguing our own state's taxation again). And the truck that brings it to my door is licensed in my state and the income they earn for bringing that package to me is taxed so my state is already getting their share. Seems to me that any additional taxation is unfounded, not to mention that I have NO say in the state's gov't that I bought the package from so me paying them any kind of tax (directly, as apposed to indirectly like the portion of my money that is income tax for the store) is taxation without representation which is unconstitutional. Isn't that what was behind the revolutionary war (among other things - not I don't need a history lesson), just on a MUCH smaller level?
Abolishing the income tax on ALL levels and going to a national sales tax would of course solve these issues (but create others), then the feds can ration out money to the states based on their population. And when everyone is paying 50% sales tax they will get a better idea how badly goverment is bloated and maybe change their voting habbits...
Hey speak for yourself. I love football and I love being a geek. I was one of the biggest kids in my school and I played center. I could kick their a** on the field and in the class room as well.
As far a pro-football goes, I tend to only follow my home state's team very much, but I know of 4 or 5 former Vikings that are electrical engineers. One of the guys I work with (I'm an EE as well) is a former Minnesota Gopher, football scholarships put him through school, now he's an EE working with me designing parts that make your harddrive go fast.
Yes, please more people get rid of your SUV's and drive your mopeds on 4 wheels...
That will drive down demand for SUV's and I can afford more!!! Maybe if enough of you do it, the demand for gas will fall so I can afford to get even lower gas milage. Then the freeway will be even better as I can drive rush hour and push your little electric, fiberglass toys out of my way.
I do love the call for fuel efficient vehicles. Works wonderful in a capitalist society...
What do you mean? This isn't a new concept. Noone but corporations is actually dumb enough to pay for their stuff do they?
Lotus owners find this out the hard way...
My wife used to work for the local Lotus/Jaguar dealership (she was the warranty clerk) and when you bring in a lotus for service they check your computer. It records everything you do and if you redline the engine (something that you are just itching to do with that much horsepower, not matter hose shortlived, in that small of a car) you warranty is VOID. No questions asked.
If I recall they didn't have a lot of warranty claims on lotus' (or is that Loti?). Which had plenty of probs especially since you can't put the hammer down for more that like 10 or 15 seconds at a time because you'll overheat the turbo.
I have been working as an EE for 3 years since I graduated and the last two I have feared the dreaded "axe" almost every day (well at least on thursdays - seems to be the favorite layoff day around here). We have had very very few layoffs so far (looking for some wood to knock on), but the analog IC design market hasn't been hit as bad as say... opto?
Yet, if I had to do it again knowing what I know now, yes I would. In a heartbeat. I don't think I would be happier doing anything else but designing chips. Every morning I wake up and short of being groggy and not liking to move, I love going in to worrk (even mondays and fridays). That tells me that I'm doing what I am supposed to be doing. All I can do is thank God that I am where I am and that through him, my hard work is recognized and valued enough to keep me around.
Well, Robin Hood wasn't real and he is only a hero to some people. Most thinking people can look at what he did and say that stealing from the rich and giving to the poor was the wrong (unethical) way to go about it (even though he was fighting against a morally incorrect oppressive governing entity and it was just for him to fight and eventually defeat him). You could also extend Robin Hood the benefit of the doubt that the rules change in the time of war, which is what he and his people were in against the sheriff.
Taxation is the same as stealing especially if it is done in excess especially in the system we have right now where we have taxation on taxation. Anytime you are redistributing income from one group of individuals and giving it to the other it is ethically wrong.
We just quit answering our phone. We were going to get call waiting but our phone company wants 6 bucks a month for it. So we quit answering the phone and only use it for outgoing calls before 9pm. For incoming calls we use the cell phone.
For us, we very rarely get "legitimate" calls anyway, not what you would consider very social. But my wife has a cell phone. So I e-mail her on her cell (which doesn't cost anything extra) and she calls me on the land line. If someone is calling that is legit, we turned up the volume on the answering machine so it can be heard through most of the house. If they don't want to talk bad enough to leave a message, then I don't want to waste my time talking to them in the first place.
Actually, if I didn't have a 10 year old kid at home that might need the phone to call out, I would get rid of the damn landline all together. About a quarter of the people I work with have done that and just use cell phones, they almost NEVER get spam on the cell.
No, that is my point. Just because they are muslims doesn't mean it is racial profiling, but it is a particular group or people and people seem to think that is a problem. It goes along the same lines that just because a database is mostly of black inner city kids because they were the ones found loitering on street corners and *could* have been selling drugs, doesn't mean that they are biased toward black inner city kids. If the majority of crimes were commited by people representing particular race, gender, income status, english speaking skills, etc... doesn't mean that everyone in that category is a criminal. The police aren't racist just because their statistics say that a particular group is more prone to commit crime it is the statistics that tell the truth. I would that that the type of people on slashdot of all people (there I go profiling again, better lock me up!) would have an appreciation for statistics. I guess liberal fanaticism clouds the minds of all.
I was waiting for the racial profiling to come up.....
I know this will go off topic, but you are you trying to say that even if you have data that suggests that a person in a certain group (religious, racial, income based, etc...) is likely to commit a certain crime we should waste our efforts strip searching 80 year old polish women becuase we don't want to racially profile?
I think of a common e-mail joke that hits the nail on the head:
Airport Profiling
To ensure we Americans never offend anyone particularly fanatics intent on killing us - airport screeners will not be allowed to profile people. They will continue random searches of 80-year-old women, little kids, airline pilots with proper identification, Secret Service agents who are members of the President's security detail, 85-year old Congressmen with metal hips, and Medal Of Honor winning former Governors.
Let's pause a moment and take the following test.
In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, athletes were kidnapped and massacred by:
(a) Olga Corbett (b) Sitting Bull (c) Arnold Schwartzeneger (d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
In 1979, the U.S. embassy in Iran was taken over by:
(a) Lost Norwegians (b) Elvis (c) A tour bus full of 80-year-old women (d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
During the 1980's a number of Americans were kidnapped in Lebanon by:
(a) John Dillinger (b) The King of Sweden (c) The Boy Scouts (d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
In 1983, the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up by:
(a) A pizza delivery boy (b) Pee Wee Herman (c) Geraldo Rivera making up for a slow news day (d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.
In 1985, the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked, and a 70 year old American passenger was murdered and thrown overboard by:
(a) The Smurfs (b) Davy Jones (c) The Little Mermaid (d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.
In 1985, TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens, and a U.S. Navy diver was murdered by:
(a) Captain Kidd (b) Charles Lindberg (c) Mother Teresa (d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
In 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed by:
(a) Scooby Doo (b) The Tooth Fairy (c) Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid who had a few sticks of dynamite left over from the train job. (d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
In 1993, the World Trade Center was bombed the first time by:
(a) Richard Simmons (b) Grandma Moses (c) Michael Jordan (d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
In 1998, the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by:
(a) Mr. Rogers (b) Hillary, to distract attention from Wild Bill's women problems (c) The World Wrestling Federation to promote its next villain: "Mustapha the Merciless" (d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
On 9/11/01, four airliners were hijacked and destroyed and thousands of
people were killed by:
(a) Bugs Bunny, Wiley E. Coyote, Daffy Duck, and Elmer Fudd (b) The Supreme Court of Florida (c) Mr. Bean (d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
In 2002, the United States fought a war in Afghanistan against:
(a) Enron (b) The Lutheran Church (c) The NFL (d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
In 2002, reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered by:
(a) Bonny and Clyde (b) Captain Kangaroo (c) Billy Graham (d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
Hmmm . . . nope, no patterns anywhere to justify profiling...
To take it a step further if you have a bunch of teenagers hanging around an area with their crotch in their jeans speaking in a dialect that most eduacated people can't understand with wads of cash you are going to be suspicious of their activity. Just the same that if the computer system of a major corporation gets hacked and a lot of damage in done, do you think I am going to suspect some inner city low income gang members? I don't think so, I'll look at people that have had the time and resources to get the equipment and knowledge to commit such a crime. Racial profiling (and any other type of profiling) is totally acceptable and should be encouraged to streamline our criminal apprehension process.
And yes, I have been investigated as a suspect in a crime that I was not guilty of and when the investigators were done, they thanked me for my time and apologized for the inconvenience. I would have liked to have been compensated but ohh well, too bad. Unfortunately, there aren't policies dictating how an innocent person gets treated when it is learned that they are not suspects, there should be, but that doesn't mean we don't question and investigate a group of people that are likely to commit a particular crime WHEN ONE OCCURS!!!
stepping off my soapbox now...
Someone needs to drive that guy out of the industry. We are supposed to stop supporting standards and play follow m$ and whatever they feel like doing? That is the problem with the web as it is, you have too many web developers doing it the "IE" way and ignoring industry standards and then we wonder why everything is so screwed up. Ok so we don't wonder:)
.doc is niftier
While we're at it, lets throw out some other standards that I'm sure we don't need:
ASCII - ahh who needs it, maybe
ISO9660
IEEE 1394 - why do we need to follow a spec, why cant the device figure out what is coming at it on it's own? You don't own me, you can't tell me what protocols to use!!!
OK, I'll come of the celing now...
I own the Jukebox recorder 20 and it rocks. Again a 20 gig portable HD is nice and it had USB 2.0 support so the transfers are nice and fast. No special software to use, just throw your files on it like any other drive.
It comes with 2 sets of metal hydride batteries and I get pretty close to 10 hours out of each set. Plus they are just AA metal hydride batteries, so when they byte the dust as all rechargeables eventually do, you can replace them very cheap.
Their interface is a little slow to respons sometimes, but nothing is perfect. It is a really nice player.
What is funny is I originally got one for my wife. I was waiting for the data play stuff to come out. Yes I know it supports DRM, but nothing stops you from recording your own MP3's and putting them on. Plus I was on the development team for one of the chips that data play uses in their module. But the prices are ridiculous!!! If the box was only 150 I'd buy it but for more than that I'll opt for a HD based box...
I am an electrical engineer and work for a company that designs semiconductors for the storage industry (channels, motor controllers, etc...)
I'd say that we are rather well paid (If I exclude myself anyway, at only 3 years out of college), and quite well educated. Also, we are well - technically - educated. It's not like we have a useless degree in African art or something. Anyway, most of the people I work with are mac users. It is because that while they can design the latest chips that make you hard drive scream, if they finder can't find it, neither can they. Stereotypically, they are computer illiterate. But another aspect to it is that they don't want to spend the time. It is just like the commercials, they want to open the box, plug in 2 cables and be on the internet without knowing anything about it. They spend too much time with technical subjects at work away from the family, they don't want to deal with it at home.
I'm on the opposite scale, I'm a circuit designer as well, but I also do system admin on the 250 Machine HP-UX network as well. And now that Mac has finally come up with a decent OS, one might not be totally useless to me:)
At five mos, I was not yet bored. Give it a few more months:)
It probably wouldn't be so bad if I had the time and $$ for all the recipes. Prob is, many of the recipes are rather exotic or "gourmet" and don't use cheap ingredients. Although, we are all used to spending $.69 for a weeks worth of bread:)
Keep up the good work!
Almost two years ago I went in for a physical and to talk to my doctor about losing weight. I was almost 400 lbs. At that weight, you can't exercise because you'll destroy your joints before you lose any weight (and on an bicycle you fsck over your lower back). Trust me, I've done it. My doc spent several hours doing a physical and taking blood tests, did and EKG, etc...
After looking at the results he recommended that I get on the Atkins diet. He did recommend getting some exercise after losing some of the weight, but I had to get the weight off first. He also had me stop weight lifting because I was actually developing an un-healthy level of muscle mass. Trying to supply too much muscle with blood is actually hard on your heart. Also I found that when you have too much muscle in your upper body you can develop breathing problems in your sleep becuase your torso is too massive. These are some of the probs that body builders put up with. Also my cholesterol was in the 280's and the ratio was "way off" but I don't remember the numbers.
Well, I was on the diet for almost a year and dropped over 100 lbs. At first I was really skeptical, but after being on it for a couple of weeks, I couldn't believe how much energy I had. I was actually hyper. When I dropped about 50 lbs I started riding a bike and then running when I dropped more weight. Now I am 2 belt levels away from getting my black belt in tae kwon do, a lifetime dream of mine but I have alwasy been too heavy to do.
My cholesterol is in the 130's and the ratio has flipped the other way now. I have been off the Atkins diet for almost 9 mos now and have maintained my weight. I can't say that I am totally off the diet, obviously I had to change my way of eating because that's what got me where I was in the first place. I try to eat a low carb breakfast (bacon and eggs or a flax cereal). And a "lower" carb lunch - chicken salad or left over stir fry, maybe soup. Dinner is usually whatever though, spaghetti, pizza, etc...
The problem with the Atkins diet is that it is INCREDIBBLY BORING. I am so freaking sick of meat and cheese. I really should get back on it and drop another 20 - 30 lbs but haven't come up with the motivation to put myself on it full time again. I probably will this fall but I need a break.
The diet isn't for everyone. If people would shut their yap long enough to research it, the diet is actually for a specific type of metabolism. The metabolic condition is really brought on by a diet that has been extremely high in simple carbohydrates complicated by a genetic predisposition to diabetes (which is rampant in my family). You develop an insensativtiy to insulin and need more and more of it to metabolize glucose. The prob is, with that much insulin you body readily stores glucose as fat rather than metabolizes it - it becomes a viscious circle.
Through testing my doc found this condition in my body and recommended the diet which worked. There are several people I work with that thought they would try it without checking with their doc (which Atkins warns against in his book) after seeing my success that got sick on the diet. It isn't for everyone.
For the grammar nazi's, just because I have a degree doesn't mean I can type or spell:)
I am an electrical engineer (Analog IC Designer). At our shop we lost 2 out of 3 sys admins. One day my boss came to me and said that the CAD dept wants to talk to me about my experience with linux (run a small network of 6 machines at home and a few people at work knew about it). They asked if I would be interesed in being admin and I said sure, that's it. They did send me off to a training class at HP to get their HP-UX sysadmin and network administration class. Really not much different than Linux, you already know what you want to do, they just stick it in a differnet spot:)
Now I am doing a 50/50 role of designin and sys admin.