Then, it's not for you. It's for the early adopters that like the coolness factor, or for those people that don't want to get their 20 foot ladder or scissor lift to reach the light up in the cathedral ceiling. There are places where the $60 is worthwhile when you consider the cost of paying for maintenance. They'll help pay their early premium which helps the company recoup some of the costs while they find ways to make it cheaper.
Fluorescent lights last maybe 2 years, if left continuously on, while these last 20 with some reduced lumens later in life. Brownouts and voltage spikes also kill fluorescents quite quickly. I used to lose fluorescents more frequently until they finally replaced the line transformer, when it failed catastrophically, to handle the extra load of my neighbors' air conditioner units.
Why don't you start with "Good Night Moon" or "Tumble Bumble" or any other standard kids fare. Dr Seuss is good, but much longer to read out loud. Unless you are ok with long readings, it's best to do that later after he's able to read some himself or you've practiced reading out loud enough that you don't lose your voice towards the end.
I recommend "Tumble Bumble" since it has a catchy rhyme which is fun enough for your child to follow. It's been many years since I've read that book to my kids, but I can probably still recite most of it since I reread that one so many times.
Modern superhero Comics are complex for the little tykes to grasp. They'll lose interest when the words are incomprehensible.
You probably meant east. Moving it east would put it closer to the 101 Freeway which puts it a couple of miles closer to the SJ. Moving it west puts it closer to the 280, which heads down to Half Moon Bay.
Actually, he's right about the education degree. I once sat outside a classroom waiting for a class to end and my intro to AI class to start. While waiting outside, I heard the most inane and factually incorrect conversation in the adjoining room. I can't remember what the conversation was, just that I was thinking how anyone that stupid could get into college. At first I thought it was a special education class, because they held those classes in the building. When I looked it up later, I found out it was a teaching certificate class.
Now that I have children and deal with their teachers, I fully understand that school is designed to babysit your children and that the vast majority of teachers are idiots and don't really teach. My kids already understand that this is preparation for dealing with PHBs. In East Asia, they at least have school all day, while the parents work and they don't give excessive homework. That structure is actually useful. However, in the USA, they want parents to spend extra money for after school care instead of just embracing the fact that it really is just glorified day care that only teaches to mediocrity. The advanced kids get left behind unless you spend a lot of time pushing the school to allow them to get ahead. I think they're afraid that their state scores will drop if the kids get too far ahead and get lower scores.
Most of the comments on other articles are opinions. Political articles seem to get the most back and forth comments. This article just presents interesting facts, and simple facts that people accept don't elicit much opinions.
It's probably due to your crappy electrical grid. Fluorescents don't like constant multiple brownouts and unstable generation. After my old line transformer finally failed, they put in one that was sized for a much larger capacity. I stopped getting obvious brownouts and spikes when the neighbor's air conditioner unit powered up, and I haven't had to replace any CFLs since that time almost 2 years ago. Prior to that, I was losing 3-5 each year. If the utility hadn't subsidized them to be under $1 each, I'd be seriously pissed. My incandescents didn't last too long either. I had also lost two cheap UPS units, which fortunately protected my expensive equipment.
A lot of the "free Tibet" supporters don't seem to know history. The people who left Communist China have been the families of the very rich landowners and merchants. They certainly would have been killed if they hadn't escaped. I'm sure the CIA want to destabilize that region to give China extra things to worry about. That describes Taiwan and their constant propaganda which has brought up some deluded people who think they can take back China with their measly military might.
The "free Tibet" movement would be similar to a "free Texas" or "free New York" movement in the US. The US, as country, wouldn't tolerate people from China pushing the international community for one of the states to secede. People need to stop meddling in other countries affairs. The US has used the dalai lama as a propaganda mouthpiece for many years.
You probably just need to turn off cookies and javascript when you search. Or you should just tell google to stop tracking you and tailoring your searches. I've almost always have both turned off to search google and I always delete their cookies.
There's also balder hel, thor, odin, sigyn, sif, skuld verthandi, etc... for a while.
Then there where also the naval ships, america, bataan, midway, nimitz, etc.. Which were eventually narrowed down to just aircraft carriers as they lost systems.
Or poets, scott, millay, etc..
or apple varieties, arlet, bonza, braeburn, crispin, mcintosh, winesap, york, etc..
or baked deserts, cake, muffin, scone, cookie, etc..
There are numerous names that work. If you don't stick to one theme, you can name them and have a good idea of their exact location. I have over 250 named systems memorized by location, based on the theme. For smaller numbers of systems, you could keep the themes located to the rooms. If it had gotten much larger, I would use a hybrid system and keep the names for the central them and use numbers after them.
Some of the coworkers didn't like all the names and changed them to bureaucratic numbering schemes when they installed their systems.
There's nothing wrong with coming up with creative names. A hybrid naming scheme would work well as you scale up. If you have clustered systems, you wouldn't want to name each node something different. You could name your main node something like hive and use hive1 through hive99 for all the other nodes. If you're a large organization, you could still use name to identify buildings or floors. Odyssey1 through Odyssey20 for the 20 systems in building 15.
Where I've previously worked at a public university, I found the opposite to be true. We had plenty of time to document, but I was the main guy doing it. Unfortunately, some employees are assholes that believe in "Job Security" by not documenting. I had been trying to get coworkers to document and trying to get my manager on everyone to document, but he was a wuss of a manager. I had been doing the bulk of the work and would frequently get delayed when I ran into the undocumented items caused by the slackers who didn't even show up to work. If the ex-manager had any guts, he'd document those failures on the performance reviews and force those assholes out.
Fortunately, I left that vile environment, but, unfortunately, those waste of space lifers are still there sucking up public tax money.
The biotech was the plot vehicle for the real story of the discrimination and it wasn't really about the tech. The movie was more about the human drive and imagination.
There are always plot holes in movies. If you're going to pick at everyone of them, you couldn't enjoy very many movies.
Windows has a command line. There are numerous batch files and scripts that have been written by Admins who know what they're doing. They have resource kit tools and 3rd party tools that simplify scripting on the command line. Done correctly, you can script installs, update, patch, change settings, all on the command line on multiple systems just like unix/linux systems. Now, they also have powershell to better access all the AD components.
The Linux GUI doesn't have keyboard shortcuts built into the API to access the GUI. Windows has it all built in. I can use the keyboard to navigate all the Menus without ever using a mouse in Windows. With Linux and OSX, I need the mouse to navigate and gain focus on all the windows. There are 3rd party apps to do virtual desktops.
You can schedule jobs on the command line and automate workflow as well.
Windows, Linux and OSX just do things differently. You are likely used to Linux and have never been a true power user on Windows to know what's possible. I've worked with all 3 in depth to know that Windows command line is just as powerful and capable.
Good Window's admins that know their way around a command line and AD can manage an equivalent amount of systems used for the same purpose as any Linux/Unix Admin can. Unfortunately, most people who learn to "Admin" Windows, only really learn the point & click interface.
Or biological. Women may actually enjoy the fields they gravitate toward.
They gravitate out of the "mens" fields, because of the ingrained misogyny in them. In Computer Science classes, I've seen the tremendously condescending tones the boys give to the girls when they "explain" things.
42 MB is not really that big for a "modern" webpage. People put a lot of images on their web pages these days. Add flash apps or forums to that, and many sites get quite big. Text only pages exist mainly in the realm of geeks. When you include sites like IBM, Apple, HP, Dell, etc... you're getting GBs of data.
It doesn't. It looks even worse when you use bluetooth headsets. Before cell phones, only crazy people looked like they were talking to themselves. Now, everyone can look just like that crazy guy that people tried to avoid while walking down the street.
There's just too many authors and too many books these days. The market has been driven downwards by the glut. The good books are worth the money, but there's too many writers that write crap or just churn out large numbers of cheap pulp.
Not only that, novels are ballooning into multi hundred page monstrosities. Who has the time to read them all? Bring back the better written 100-200 page novels. Word processors have allowed more writing, but very little of that is good writing.
I only reboot for the monthly denial of service patching. That's when I also do the system reconfigurations. I have far too many ssh and remote desktop windows open to want to shutdown and restart those every morning.
You can use separate browsers for different sites. There's firefox, srware iron, safari and others. You can start a browser just for facebook.
You can also run the browsers as other users. In Linux, you can su to another user account just for facebook. In Windows you can use runas. Those can run currently on your current desktop. On Macs, you'd have to switch users, which is more tedious, unless you can compile from source to run an x11 version of firefox.
That's your opinion from the thumb-texting IM generation. An older geezer, like me, prefers having the Trackpoint up by the GBH keys so the I can use my index finger. I don't like using my shorter, big fat thumbs on a touch screen to type or gesture. I'm sure that's why it's there since it was created before you young-ans came around and started your awkward thumb typing on awkward tiny keyboards that shouldn't have been organized in a qwerty format.
I definitely prefer that over the touchpad whenever I have both available to me. It's less overall motion and I don't need to keep lifting my finger off the surface to move the cursor around.
Does your area get brownouts and surges? CFLs need a stable electricity grid, otherwise they die early. Once they replaced my line transformer to handle all the neighbors' AC units, I stopped getting brownouts and surges, and my CFLs haven't failed early. You must have bought cheap dimming bulbs, because the 4 I got for my dining room work great and have lasted for 4 years already.
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Then, it's not for you. It's for the early adopters that like the coolness factor, or for those people that don't want to get their 20 foot ladder or scissor lift to reach the light up in the cathedral ceiling. There are places where the $60 is worthwhile when you consider the cost of paying for maintenance. They'll help pay their early premium which helps the company recoup some of the costs while they find ways to make it cheaper.
Fluorescent lights last maybe 2 years, if left continuously on, while these last 20 with some reduced lumens later in life. Brownouts and voltage spikes also kill fluorescents quite quickly. I used to lose fluorescents more frequently until they finally replaced the line transformer, when it failed catastrophically, to handle the extra load of my neighbors' air conditioner units.
People who have had asthma can hear frequencies above 20kHz. Some can hear frequencies all the way up to 30 kHz.
Why don't you start with "Good Night Moon" or "Tumble Bumble" or any other standard kids fare. Dr Seuss is good, but much longer to read out loud. Unless you are ok with long readings, it's best to do that later after he's able to read some himself or you've practiced reading out loud enough that you don't lose your voice towards the end.
I recommend "Tumble Bumble" since it has a catchy rhyme which is fun enough for your child to follow. It's been many years since I've read that book to my kids, but I can probably still recite most of it since I reread that one so many times.
Modern superhero Comics are complex for the little tykes to grasp. They'll lose interest when the words are incomprehensible.
You probably meant east. Moving it east would put it closer to the 101 Freeway which puts it a couple of miles closer to the SJ. Moving it west puts it closer to the 280, which heads down to Half Moon Bay.
Actually, he's right about the education degree. I once sat outside a classroom waiting for a class to end and my intro to AI class to start. While waiting outside, I heard the most inane and factually incorrect conversation in the adjoining room. I can't remember what the conversation was, just that I was thinking how anyone that stupid could get into college. At first I thought it was a special education class, because they held those classes in the building. When I looked it up later, I found out it was a teaching certificate class.
Now that I have children and deal with their teachers, I fully understand that school is designed to babysit your children and that the vast majority of teachers are idiots and don't really teach. My kids already understand that this is preparation for dealing with PHBs. In East Asia, they at least have school all day, while the parents work and they don't give excessive homework. That structure is actually useful. However, in the USA, they want parents to spend extra money for after school care instead of just embracing the fact that it really is just glorified day care that only teaches to mediocrity. The advanced kids get left behind unless you spend a lot of time pushing the school to allow them to get ahead. I think they're afraid that their state scores will drop if the kids get too far ahead and get lower scores.
They could have built it around 4 corners, then they'd get 4 states actively pooling their money together for the SSC.
Most of the comments on other articles are opinions. Political articles seem to get the most back and forth comments. This article just presents interesting facts, and simple facts that people accept don't elicit much opinions.
Why must there always be blame?
It's probably due to your crappy electrical grid. Fluorescents don't like constant multiple brownouts and unstable generation. After my old line transformer finally failed, they put in one that was sized for a much larger capacity. I stopped getting obvious brownouts and spikes when the neighbor's air conditioner unit powered up, and I haven't had to replace any CFLs since that time almost 2 years ago. Prior to that, I was losing 3-5 each year. If the utility hadn't subsidized them to be under $1 each, I'd be seriously pissed. My incandescents didn't last too long either. I had also lost two cheap UPS units, which fortunately protected my expensive equipment.
All I can say is hats off to you.
A lot of the "free Tibet" supporters don't seem to know history. The people who left Communist China have been the families of the very rich landowners and merchants. They certainly would have been killed if they hadn't escaped. I'm sure the CIA want to destabilize that region to give China extra things to worry about. That describes Taiwan and their constant propaganda which has brought up some deluded people who think they can take back China with their measly military might.
The "free Tibet" movement would be similar to a "free Texas" or "free New York" movement in the US. The US, as country, wouldn't tolerate people from China pushing the international community for one of the states to secede. People need to stop meddling in other countries affairs. The US has used the dalai lama as a propaganda mouthpiece for many years.
You probably just need to turn off cookies and javascript when you search. Or you should just tell google to stop tracking you and tailoring your searches. I've almost always have both turned off to search google and I always delete their cookies.
Those are good names.
There's also balder hel, thor, odin, sigyn, sif, skuld verthandi, etc... for a while.
Then there where also the naval ships, america, bataan, midway, nimitz, etc.. Which were eventually narrowed down to just aircraft carriers as they lost systems.
Or poets, scott, millay, etc..
or apple varieties, arlet, bonza, braeburn, crispin, mcintosh, winesap, york, etc..
or baked deserts, cake, muffin, scone, cookie, etc..
There are numerous names that work. If you don't stick to one theme, you can name them and have a good idea of their exact location. I have over 250 named systems memorized by location, based on the theme. For smaller numbers of systems, you could keep the themes located to the rooms. If it had gotten much larger, I would use a hybrid system and keep the names for the central them and use numbers after them.
Some of the coworkers didn't like all the names and changed them to bureaucratic numbering schemes when they installed their systems.
There's nothing wrong with coming up with creative names. A hybrid naming scheme would work well as you scale up. If you have clustered systems, you wouldn't want to name each node something different. You could name your main node something like hive and use hive1 through hive99 for all the other nodes. If you're a large organization, you could still use name to identify buildings or floors. Odyssey1 through Odyssey20 for the 20 systems in building 15.
Where I've previously worked at a public university, I found the opposite to be true. We had plenty of time to document, but I was the main guy doing it. Unfortunately, some employees are assholes that believe in "Job Security" by not documenting. I had been trying to get coworkers to document and trying to get my manager on everyone to document, but he was a wuss of a manager. I had been doing the bulk of the work and would frequently get delayed when I ran into the undocumented items caused by the slackers who didn't even show up to work. If the ex-manager had any guts, he'd document those failures on the performance reviews and force those assholes out.
Fortunately, I left that vile environment, but, unfortunately, those waste of space lifers are still there sucking up public tax money.
The biotech was the plot vehicle for the real story of the discrimination and it wasn't really about the tech. The movie was more about the human drive and imagination.
There are always plot holes in movies. If you're going to pick at everyone of them, you couldn't enjoy very many movies.
That's just your Linux bias showing.
Windows has a command line. There are numerous batch files and scripts that have been written by Admins who know what they're doing. They have resource kit tools and 3rd party tools that simplify scripting on the command line. Done correctly, you can script installs, update, patch, change settings, all on the command line on multiple systems just like unix/linux systems. Now, they also have powershell to better access all the AD components.
The Linux GUI doesn't have keyboard shortcuts built into the API to access the GUI. Windows has it all built in. I can use the keyboard to navigate all the Menus without ever using a mouse in Windows. With Linux and OSX, I need the mouse to navigate and gain focus on all the windows. There are 3rd party apps to do virtual desktops.
You can schedule jobs on the command line and automate workflow as well.
Windows, Linux and OSX just do things differently. You are likely used to Linux and have never been a true power user on Windows to know what's possible. I've worked with all 3 in depth to know that Windows command line is just as powerful and capable.
Good Window's admins that know their way around a command line and AD can manage an equivalent amount of systems used for the same purpose as any Linux/Unix Admin can. Unfortunately, most people who learn to "Admin" Windows, only really learn the point & click interface.
Or biological. Women may actually enjoy the fields they gravitate toward.
They gravitate out of the "mens" fields, because of the ingrained misogyny in them. In Computer Science classes, I've seen the tremendously condescending tones the boys give to the girls when they "explain" things.
42 MB is not really that big for a "modern" webpage. People put a lot of images on their web pages these days. Add flash apps or forums to that, and many sites get quite big. Text only pages exist mainly in the realm of geeks. When you include sites like IBM, Apple, HP, Dell, etc... you're getting GBs of data.
It doesn't. It looks even worse when you use bluetooth headsets. Before cell phones, only crazy people looked like they were talking to themselves. Now, everyone can look just like that crazy guy that people tried to avoid while walking down the street.
There's just too many authors and too many books these days. The market has been driven downwards by the glut. The good books are worth the money, but there's too many writers that write crap or just churn out large numbers of cheap pulp.
Not only that, novels are ballooning into multi hundred page monstrosities. Who has the time to read them all? Bring back the better written 100-200 page novels. Word processors have allowed more writing, but very little of that is good writing.
I only reboot for the monthly denial of service patching. That's when I also do the system reconfigurations. I have far too many ssh and remote desktop windows open to want to shutdown and restart those every morning.
You can use separate browsers for different sites. There's firefox, srware iron, safari and others. You can start a browser just for facebook.
You can also run the browsers as other users. In Linux, you can su to another user account just for facebook. In Windows you can use runas. Those can run currently on your current desktop. On Macs, you'd have to switch users, which is more tedious, unless you can compile from source to run an x11 version of firefox.
That's your opinion from the thumb-texting IM generation. An older geezer, like me, prefers having the Trackpoint up by the GBH keys so the I can use my index finger. I don't like using my shorter, big fat thumbs on a touch screen to type or gesture. I'm sure that's why it's there since it was created before you young-ans came around and started your awkward thumb typing on awkward tiny keyboards that shouldn't have been organized in a qwerty format.
I definitely prefer that over the touchpad whenever I have both available to me. It's less overall motion and I don't need to keep lifting my finger off the surface to move the cursor around.
Does your area get brownouts and surges? CFLs need a stable electricity grid, otherwise they die early. Once they replaced my line transformer to handle all the neighbors' AC units, I stopped getting brownouts and surges, and my CFLs haven't failed early. You must have bought cheap dimming bulbs, because the 4 I got for my dining room work great and have lasted for 4 years already.