I don't actually say that. I give the doctor the symptoms, and he gives me what's appropriate. But I was saying, I'm not tracking those. Results to tests, and other interesting things, I'm recording. If I have a cold, and a doctor gives me something, and I'm better in a week, no one cares after that. If I'm still taking them, or have recently taken them, I have the bottles to bring with me to show "This is what I've been taking, and it isn't working", but that's never happened with me.
Fucking Verizon wants to take away my off topic midget porn?
What if a guy just wants to sit at home, and jerk off looking at a midget chick get fucked by a horse, huh? Is there really something wrong with that? Not to say that I'd want to. I'm more into the look of girls from the Robert Palmer music videos. But hey, to each his own, right?
Motherfuckers.
Or more precisely, in the infamous words of the late great George Carlin...
"shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker and tits."
Tits? really? Not boobies, honkers, headlights, gazoongas, fun bubbles, fun bags, honkers, hooters, jugs, or melons.
But, those records weren't available to be sent over when required. Your mom did it. If she hadn't, regardless if they were paper or electronic, they would have gotten there too late.
That's a change that has to happen. I'm starting to build my own patient file on myself. Every time there's a test, or anything more interesting than "I have a cold, gimme some antibiotics", I get my own copy of their records. Unfortunately, I didn't start doing this years ago. I've tried to track down some records from 8 years ago, and they can't be found. It's not just that it fell outside of their document retention policy, but the doctor is no longer practicing. The lab was a mobile unit, who I don't know the name of. So, those records are lost, even though they'd be great for identifying change over time.
Adblock is a wonderful tool. I know some sites it helps with the layout if you can disable the ads. That doesn't seem to be the case here. Then again, I use Adblock, and checked the "no ads" box.:)
When I ran my department (oh, I miss those days), your slack version was pretty much how I ran the show. My staff worked on salary.
If you worked all night, take the morning off. If you worked over 8 hours, take the day off.
Things are slow, sure take a long lunch.
If there isn't anything to do, go home.
But... If we have an emergency, and we need to work over 60 hours in the week, that's sure as hell what we do.
That worked very well. I didn't have to ask anyone to put in the extra effort, they just did it. They were good about asking "do you mind if....", but that was a courtesy which I appreciated.
I don't quite see the problem here. Most employers that make employees "independent contractors" also make them turn in an invoice to get paid on, so they have a quasi-legitimate paper trail for the feds.
Bill everything. Just like Mr. Lawyer does, if you get an after hours call, it gets billed at after-hours rates.
Work is billed in minimum blocks. Some people do 15 minutes. Some do 1 hour. Someone else mentioned 3 hours for off-hours work. I bill blocks of 1 hour, unless I'm being nice.:) If I'm doing a big project on a customer site, I don't round the hours much (08:59 or 09:01 will always be 09:00). If they call me on the off hours and expect any more than a simple answer and a "we'll talk about it at the office on Monday", that time is getting billed. Sure as hell if they keep you on the phone for 15 minutes, that's billed as "15 minutes - phone support". If they squeeze an hour worth of work out of you on a Saturday, that'll be billed as "1 hour work at off-hours rate"
Billable hours includes travel time. If it takes you 30 minutes to get to the customer site, and 30 minutes to get home, that all gets billed. Gas and wear and tear on your vehicle isn't free.
They may not like it, but if they threaten to fire you over it, you'd have built a civil court case.
Of course, consult a **LOCAL** lawyer, and not Slashdot before flexing your muscles. Your lawyer may suggest to get a statement signed by your manager simply outlining the terms of the contract. Now what they said is in writing. Feel free to slide a one liner in about after-hours rates, it probably won't be noticed.:)
Some places like having "contractors" because they can be terminated at any time, depending on the contract (which appears verbal in this case). Unfortunately, you can't really just say "Well, screw you, I'll go somewhere else", because there aren't that many "somewhere elses" to go right now.
And always remember, paper trails go a lot farther than verbal statements. "Well, he said....." nah. "In this document, it shows that we agreed to...." ya.
From what I understand, it is. It's shown to those who have a high Karma, moderate, and meta-moderate. So, the good users.:)
It's been on mine for several months, so I've been happy.:) I'm guessing it was about the time they implemented it, since I've been doing all the stuff above for years.
I'd think if they're firing golfballs like a shotgun, they should be able to use just about anything. A good high velocity rain of rocks would probably be very satisfactory, and leave a less distinguishing mark.:)
"Dunno what killed these guy, but there were a bunch of loose rocks on the deck. Must have been a meteor shower.":)
I did some testing for a company not all that long ago. They needed to serve up images fast. No html. No parsed code. Just images. Lighttpd, thttpd, and a bare bones stripped down Apache 1.3.x. My money was on thttpd. I was sure it would outperform the others, but we went to serious comparative testing anyways. I had done similar testing many years before, and switched a farm of servers doing images and static HTML files over to it.
As it turned out, lighttpd and the bare bones Apache were just about even, with a few speed advantages in Apache's favor. So despite what I would have preferred (thttpd), that project went to the bare bones Apache.
Well, I actually have spent time in about half of the top 10 most dangerous cities in the US. Other than a few petty thefts, I've come out mostly untouched.:) Then again, I've known people who haven't spent time in any bad cities who have been rolled within an hour of hitting the streets, because they looked like easy marks.
Someone would be an easy mark, when they go strolling into a strange town in a strange country saying "Hi, I'm an American. I'm just passing through. Would you know where I could get on the Internet with my laptop?" Then again, there are areas in any city where that's a bad idea. If you don't know the lay of the land, you'd better hope you're lucky not to make the mistake of ending up in the wrong areas.
Ahh, good security. There was a "what's the best way to store my passwords" thread a few weeks ago, and I said the same thing. It doesn't really matter, I give this guy a week before his laptop, phone, and wallet are stolen, and his body is tossed out in god forsaken nowhere. They'll have free reign on his accounts for weeks before anyone realizes that he hasn't checked in, and even longer before his next of kin convince the banks to lock down his accounts.
"God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him." -Nietzsche
"Nietzsche is dead." -God
One is pretty easy to verify. There's a gravestone in Germany with his body under it. Well, I assume it's still there. in 1998, they were talking about digging up the area to strip mine for coal. Hmmm.
As for God, I haven't seen his gravestone quite yet. Then again, no one has ever seen his body, so that makes it pretty tough to confirm that he is dead, or even existed.:)
(and, yes, I understand the real meaning of the Nietzsche quote, it's called humor.)
That was my thought on it. They aren't "capturing" it. They're looking at refracted light. It's a very fancy prism. They spent a lot of money on water drops. Otherwise, they should be able to quantify the photon dust on the bottom of their apparatus.:)... and I was just making a joke about the photon dust, but I googled it, and it's theorized to exist. Well, kinda.:)
I guess there's gotta be something at the bottom of a black hole from all that light that can't escape, right?:)
Ummm, if we could produce a computer (and program it) to be equivalent to the human brain, wouldn't *IT* be making the next one? Come on, it wouldn't need sleep. It wouldn't take weekends off. It wouldn't take smoke breaks. It wouldn't go on shooting rampages when it was overstressed and underpaid (I hope). It wouldn't only work 8 to 14 hour days. It wouldn't have to stop working to take a leak. It wouldn't be having dirty dreams about that hot 18 year old intern named Natasha (MMmm, Natasha). It wouldn't have it's wife nagging that he spends long hours at work to spend time with the hot 18 year old intern. He wouldn't have to come up with convincing lies to explain the difference between his 8 hour work day and the 14 hours a day that he's "at work". You get the idea.:)
They never did mention that Skynet was powered by a captured rainbow. Heck, I don't think I've ever heard of any scifi like that. Captured singularities; gravity wells; portals to evil domains, sure, but never a captured rainbow.
Nope.:) On that particular network, those tasks were handled elsewhere, as dictated by the needs of the site.
At one point, I did have a 300Mhz/128Mb RAM Linux box up on a T3 at one point. It handled 45Mb/s, with iptables firewall rules and NAT rules for the desktop machines. It handled fine. It had 3 3com 100baseTX cards in it (uplink, server LAN, desktop LAN), and was idle most of the time. That was a nice replacement for an original PIX firewall, which ran into licensing limitations, and was difficult to manage the configuration on.
The office staff had no problems with either Internet access, nor doing huge transfers to/from the servers.
But what's funnier to think about is the historians a million years ago on another planet, in another galaxy, looking back a couple thousand years on their own knowledge and saying "most of their predictions were fairly logical, given their limited data set, but we can clearly see evolution proceeding on many planets including that blue green rock in galaxy X19-FFZ." Too bad it will be thousands of years before we get access to their archives, and we (or more precisely our descendants) all get a good laugh over it.:)
I was going to go off on the egotistical humans, who think they are the superior race on their own planet speech, but I read the rest of what you said.
Yes, humans don't know about the rest of the universe to even begin to understand how rare or not rare they are. Even if you consider the idea of an infant looking from it's crib into it's room and assuming "this is the world", without understand the size of the planet they are on. We've only seen the surfaces of a handful of planets, and we think that we might just understand how everything works. Until we learn an awful lot more, we're cavemen watching a thunderstorm believing there is a god.
I'm not going to do the math on the total coverage area of a thong or chastity belt, but I'd guess chastity belt is closer to the correct coverage size.:) If you wore some socks too, that'd cover for the debris in it's orbit too.:)
Earth, is struck by objects all the time. And... the planetary orbits are really big. There are lots of gaps for stuff to pass through. I'd wonder how much get stuck in the asteroid belt though.
Something I like to bring up in these conversations is....
There are 30,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars organized into 80,000,000,000 galaxies in the universe. We estimate the age of the universe to be 13 billion years, based on our observable galaxy, which... well... it's not all that we can see. That's an awful lot of stars, in an awful lot of galaxies for Earth to be the only Earth-like planet. On average, there would be 370,000,000,000 stars in each galaxy. It's estimated that we have 100,000,000,000 to 400,000,000,000 stars just in our galaxy (hey, just about average, how do you like that).
So, on an average planet, in an average solar system, in an average galaxy, a bunch of the self-believing sentient lifeforms of the planet are talking about how they may or may not be the only sentient beings in the universe, and/or how crumbs may have fallen off of their rock and polluted neighboring planets, and/or how others crumbs may have fallen on theirs.
(how was that for one hell of a run-on sentence?)
And I still haven't gotten my subether signaling device back from the shop.
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I don't actually say that. I give the doctor the symptoms, and he gives me what's appropriate. But I was saying, I'm not tracking those. Results to tests, and other interesting things, I'm recording. If I have a cold, and a doctor gives me something, and I'm better in a week, no one cares after that. If I'm still taking them, or have recently taken them, I have the bottles to bring with me to show "This is what I've been taking, and it isn't working", but that's never happened with me.
Fucking Verizon wants to take away my off topic midget porn?
What if a guy just wants to sit at home, and jerk off looking at a midget chick get fucked by a horse, huh? Is there really something wrong with that? Not to say that I'd want to. I'm more into the look of girls from the Robert Palmer music videos. But hey, to each his own, right?
Motherfuckers.
Or more precisely, in the infamous words of the late great George Carlin...
"shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker and tits."
Tits? really? Not boobies, honkers, headlights, gazoongas, fun bubbles, fun bags, honkers, hooters, jugs, or melons.
Go ahead, add your titty words in response. :)
He's just a poor boy from a poor family,
Spare him his life from this monstrosity!
I guess that's better than three men with one buttock. Siamese triplets with one ass? Who wipes it?
But, those records weren't available to be sent over when required. Your mom did it. If she hadn't, regardless if they were paper or electronic, they would have gotten there too late.
That's a change that has to happen. I'm starting to build my own patient file on myself. Every time there's a test, or anything more interesting than "I have a cold, gimme some antibiotics", I get my own copy of their records. Unfortunately, I didn't start doing this years ago. I've tried to track down some records from 8 years ago, and they can't be found. It's not just that it fell outside of their document retention policy, but the doctor is no longer practicing. The lab was a mobile unit, who I don't know the name of. So, those records are lost, even though they'd be great for identifying change over time.
Adblock is a wonderful tool. I know some sites it helps with the layout if you can disable the ads. That doesn't seem to be the case here. Then again, I use Adblock, and checked the "no ads" box. :)
When I ran my department (oh, I miss those days), your slack version was pretty much how I ran the show. My staff worked on salary.
If you worked all night, take the morning off. If you worked over 8 hours, take the day off.
Things are slow, sure take a long lunch.
If there isn't anything to do, go home.
But... If we have an emergency, and we need to work over 60 hours in the week, that's sure as hell what we do.
That worked very well. I didn't have to ask anyone to put in the extra effort, they just did it. They were good about asking "do you mind if....", but that was a courtesy which I appreciated.
And Mr. Lawyer bills accordingly.
I don't quite see the problem here. Most employers that make employees "independent contractors" also make them turn in an invoice to get paid on, so they have a quasi-legitimate paper trail for the feds.
Bill everything. Just like Mr. Lawyer does, if you get an after hours call, it gets billed at after-hours rates.
Work is billed in minimum blocks. Some people do 15 minutes. Some do 1 hour. Someone else mentioned 3 hours for off-hours work. I bill blocks of 1 hour, unless I'm being nice. :) If I'm doing a big project on a customer site, I don't round the hours much (08:59 or 09:01 will always be 09:00). If they call me on the off hours and expect any more than a simple answer and a "we'll talk about it at the office on Monday", that time is getting billed. Sure as hell if they keep you on the phone for 15 minutes, that's billed as "15 minutes - phone support". If they squeeze an hour worth of work out of you on a Saturday, that'll be billed as "1 hour work at off-hours rate"
Billable hours includes travel time. If it takes you 30 minutes to get to the customer site, and 30 minutes to get home, that all gets billed. Gas and wear and tear on your vehicle isn't free.
They may not like it, but if they threaten to fire you over it, you'd have built a civil court case.
Of course, consult a **LOCAL** lawyer, and not Slashdot before flexing your muscles. Your lawyer may suggest to get a statement signed by your manager simply outlining the terms of the contract. Now what they said is in writing. Feel free to slide a one liner in about after-hours rates, it probably won't be noticed. :)
Some places like having "contractors" because they can be terminated at any time, depending on the contract (which appears verbal in this case). Unfortunately, you can't really just say "Well, screw you, I'll go somewhere else", because there aren't that many "somewhere elses" to go right now.
And always remember, paper trails go a lot farther than verbal statements. "Well, he said....." nah. "In this document, it shows that we agreed to...." ya.
From what I understand, it is. It's shown to those who have a high Karma, moderate, and meta-moderate. So, the good users. :)
It's been on mine for several months, so I've been happy. :) I'm guessing it was about the time they implemented it, since I've been doing all the stuff above for years.
I'd think if they're firing golfballs like a shotgun, they should be able to use just about anything. A good high velocity rain of rocks would probably be very satisfactory, and leave a less distinguishing mark. :)
"Dunno what killed these guy, but there were a bunch of loose rocks on the deck. Must have been a meteor shower." :)
1) Get target in sights.
2) Pull trigger until ammunition is expended.
3) Reload.
4) Repeat.
Ya, seems like pretty much the same drill regardless of which weapon is being used. :)
I did some testing for a company not all that long ago. They needed to serve up images fast. No html. No parsed code. Just images. Lighttpd, thttpd, and a bare bones stripped down Apache 1.3.x. My money was on thttpd. I was sure it would outperform the others, but we went to serious comparative testing anyways. I had done similar testing many years before, and switched a farm of servers doing images and static HTML files over to it.
As it turned out, lighttpd and the bare bones Apache were just about even, with a few speed advantages in Apache's favor. So despite what I would have preferred (thttpd), that project went to the bare bones Apache.
Well, I actually have spent time in about half of the top 10 most dangerous cities in the US. Other than a few petty thefts, I've come out mostly untouched. :) Then again, I've known people who haven't spent time in any bad cities who have been rolled within an hour of hitting the streets, because they looked like easy marks.
Someone would be an easy mark, when they go strolling into a strange town in a strange country saying "Hi, I'm an American. I'm just passing through. Would you know where I could get on the Internet with my laptop?" Then again, there are areas in any city where that's a bad idea. If you don't know the lay of the land, you'd better hope you're lucky not to make the mistake of ending up in the wrong areas.
Ahh, good security. There was a "what's the best way to store my passwords" thread a few weeks ago, and I said the same thing. It doesn't really matter, I give this guy a week before his laptop, phone, and wallet are stolen, and his body is tossed out in god forsaken nowhere. They'll have free reign on his accounts for weeks before anyone realizes that he hasn't checked in, and even longer before his next of kin convince the banks to lock down his accounts.
Damned proof reading. That was the 1980's and 2008, not 1998.
Two very important quotes to remember....
"God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him." -Nietzsche
"Nietzsche is dead." -God
One is pretty easy to verify. There's a gravestone in Germany with his body under it. Well, I assume it's still there. in 1998, they were talking about digging up the area to strip mine for coal. Hmmm.
As for God, I haven't seen his gravestone quite yet. Then again, no one has ever seen his body, so that makes it pretty tough to confirm that he is dead, or even existed. :)
(and, yes, I understand the real meaning of the Nietzsche quote, it's called humor.)
That was my thought on it. They aren't "capturing" it. They're looking at refracted light. It's a very fancy prism. They spent a lot of money on water drops. Otherwise, they should be able to quantify the photon dust on the bottom of their apparatus. :) ... and I was just making a joke about the photon dust, but I googled it, and it's theorized to exist. Well, kinda. :)
I guess there's gotta be something at the bottom of a black hole from all that light that can't escape, right? :)
Ummm, if we could produce a computer (and program it) to be equivalent to the human brain, wouldn't *IT* be making the next one? Come on, it wouldn't need sleep. It wouldn't take weekends off. It wouldn't take smoke breaks. It wouldn't go on shooting rampages when it was overstressed and underpaid (I hope). It wouldn't only work 8 to 14 hour days. It wouldn't have to stop working to take a leak. It wouldn't be having dirty dreams about that hot 18 year old intern named Natasha (MMmm, Natasha). It wouldn't have it's wife nagging that he spends long hours at work to spend time with the hot 18 year old intern. He wouldn't have to come up with convincing lies to explain the difference between his 8 hour work day and the 14 hours a day that he's "at work". You get the idea. :)
They never did mention that Skynet was powered by a captured rainbow. Heck, I don't think I've ever heard of any scifi like that. Captured singularities; gravity wells; portals to evil domains, sure, but never a captured rainbow.
You obviously haven't eaten enough acid. Eat these two sugar cubes, and tell me what the rainbow tastes like in about 30 minutes.
-Dr JWSmythe
(if only all prescriptions were this easy, or entertaining.)
Nope. :) On that particular network, those tasks were handled elsewhere, as dictated by the needs of the site.
At one point, I did have a 300Mhz/128Mb RAM Linux box up on a T3 at one point. It handled 45Mb/s, with iptables firewall rules and NAT rules for the desktop machines. It handled fine. It had 3 3com 100baseTX cards in it (uplink, server LAN, desktop LAN), and was idle most of the time. That was a nice replacement for an original PIX firewall, which ran into licensing limitations, and was difficult to manage the configuration on.
The office staff had no problems with either Internet access, nor doing huge transfers to/from the servers.
I agree totally. :)
But what's funnier to think about is the historians a million years ago on another planet, in another galaxy, looking back a couple thousand years on their own knowledge and saying "most of their predictions were fairly logical, given their limited data set, but we can clearly see evolution proceeding on many planets including that blue green rock in galaxy X19-FFZ." Too bad it will be thousands of years before we get access to their archives, and we (or more precisely our descendants) all get a good laugh over it. :)
I was going to go off on the egotistical humans, who think they are the superior race on their own planet speech, but I read the rest of what you said.
Yes, humans don't know about the rest of the universe to even begin to understand how rare or not rare they are. Even if you consider the idea of an infant looking from it's crib into it's room and assuming "this is the world", without understand the size of the planet they are on. We've only seen the surfaces of a handful of planets, and we think that we might just understand how everything works. Until we learn an awful lot more, we're cavemen watching a thunderstorm believing there is a god.
I'm not going to do the math on the total coverage area of a thong or chastity belt, but I'd guess chastity belt is closer to the correct coverage size. :) If you wore some socks too, that'd cover for the debris in it's orbit too. :)
It's a good idea, but....
Earth, is struck by objects all the time. And... the planetary orbits are really big. There are lots of gaps for stuff to pass through. I'd wonder how much get stuck in the asteroid belt though.
Something I like to bring up in these conversations is....
There are 30,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars organized into 80,000,000,000 galaxies in the universe. We estimate the age of the universe to be 13 billion years, based on our observable galaxy, which ... well ... it's not all that we can see. That's an awful lot of stars, in an awful lot of galaxies for Earth to be the only Earth-like planet. On average, there would be 370,000,000,000 stars in each galaxy. It's estimated that we have 100,000,000,000 to 400,000,000,000 stars just in our galaxy (hey, just about average, how do you like that).
So, on an average planet, in an average solar system, in an average galaxy, a bunch of the self-believing sentient lifeforms of the planet are talking about how they may or may not be the only sentient beings in the universe, and/or how crumbs may have fallen off of their rock and polluted neighboring planets, and/or how others crumbs may have fallen on theirs.
(how was that for one hell of a run-on sentence?)
And I still haven't gotten my subether signaling device back from the shop.