(don't quote me on this), but I believe this is similar to what France does. You pay a fee of something like.0001 for the first trade, and it doubles for each trade you make that day.
Get a decent server, maybe an HP. Dual CPUs, Dual HDDs, Dual Power supplies. Get a UPS.
Similar to this I often buy the same model machine for a spare. Usually I skimp on the CPU, possibly take out the RAM, but other than that it's the same hardware. I just had a server go down this morning. Simply would not power on, even though the power supply was fine. Just swapped drives with the spare and booted it back up. By the time the manufacturer could deploy a hardware tech where my company is at, it would take hours. I had the server back up in about 15 minutes, which isn't bad for a smaller company that doesn't have the resources for a full clustered approach. Depending upon the machine cost you're trying to duplicate, and cost averaging per server (say one spare for 4 servers as opposed to one 1), this can be a cost effective method of insurance.
Also possibly a side effect of the Dunning–Kruger effect. People can't ascertain their own analytical skills, therefore think they have them and are dismayed when average students score low on measurements.
Somewhat true in my opinion. If you think too far outside the box and find a solution that isn't the planned "expected" way, you're branded a cheater and get banned.
This kind of reminds me of active sync in general. For years the higher ups have been using windows phones and active sync has been a gigantic pain in the ass. It randomly stops working, and sometimes is unusually resistant to being set up in the first place when partnering with a device (not uncommon since windows phones needed hardware resets). Then one of them gets an HTC android, uses HTC sync, it works flawlessly, was dead simple and never broke. How is it that a company can make the OS on both systems, have YEARS to get it to work right but still fuck it up? That's Microsoft for you...
The KDE menu involves a lot of clicks because of the way it is organized - as opposed to dumping all the shit in to a total cluster fuck. If you use a few programs a lot then either you pin them to the favorites or you add a quick launch shortcut... or the alt+F2 thing, or bind a shortcut key to launch the application / task directly.
Lillyhammer is a netflix exclusive and not that bad. And honestly "content" is pretty arbitrary considering the amount of network tv which is simply news, reality tv, and documentaries like behind the music, etc.
I was about to say the same thing. Those numbers probably don't mean much to most people. If they don't know, the only way for that to happen is to give them context - basically a public health bulletin on what your dietary intake should be, and how this is bad, blah blah blah. You put too much text on it and people won't read it. You put arbitrary numbers on it and people don't know what they mean. Either way people don't care, or you're preaching to the choir. If people wanted to be educated, they would be. It's not like that information is hard to find. Which is unfortunate, but that's the culture we have.
I work in my own office which is relatively quiet, but I can hear the raido from the production floor through the wall. Not ALL of the song, just certain pitches which manage to be the most annoying and piercing. I hardly play any music but I have a playlist that I turn on to drown out the music I find really annoying.
It's even crazier when they then want some ancient IE6 based web app to miraculously work on their shiny new Ipads and don't understand that they simply won't work. I have had a a CEO complain that we need to put IE6 on his Ipad because he needs to run X web app that was made 15 years ago and only works in IE6. He refused to accept that an Ipad will not run IE6, to the point where he even cursed at us and demanded we install Win XP on his Ipad to 'make it work'.
I'm not a smug person, nor am I an Apple fanboy. But man do I enjoy how the ipad/iphone became the talk of the town and requires standards compliant HTML. For YEARS I advocated data agnostic solutions that used standards. I resisted the IE only solutions as much as possible, but inevitably management still overruled me because they wanted some BS solution. I also might add, that where there is smoke there is fire, and if it only works in IE, it's doubtful it will ever work well - even in IE.
Now they all have shiny ipads / iphones, and their shit doesn't work with them. I rub this in as much as possible. Right now it's a prime time to make a lesson of this example that solutions need to be based off standards, NOT proprietary "only works with X". Train the corporate heads while you have the chance.
"Sorry you could have used your sexy, trendy, expensive, cutting edge technology gadget with our system... except you didn't listen when I said some day you might need to use this on something other than IE. You remember right?... when you said, Well everyone uses IE, and only IE"
Facebook itself started out as the more "classy" alternative to Myspace. If enough people join Google+ it'll turn to shit too. That's just the nature of a lot of people joining anything these days.
Not quite. Trees act as a drag on the passing atmosphere. The wind turbine effect mixes in air from higher up in the atmosphere. I guess that also depends on how large the trees are we're talking about, but it seems like wind turbines reach much farther up and affect the surrounding environment in a way that trees probably wouldn't. If this is the same thing as discussed on the BBC, this only happens during night hours when temperatures closer to the surface are lower than those higher up. There seems to be a lot of panicking as if wind turbines "generate heat", but all they're really doing is mixing existing warmer air. Not sure if that's good, bad, or no change though.
Are they planning on doing the same with mp3 for audio? Every device I could name that can play mp4 movies can also play mp3s. I have my doubts that ogg is going to gain any more traction than webm did. I'd be fine with aac as long as something gets standardized.
I was thinking something along those lines. Then I realized that HR is only a symptom of the real problem: Lawyers. HR doesn't cause the inefficiency, lawyers necessitate the need for HR which is another inefficiency.
Your assuming that it's running at the system level. It probably requires admin priveleges to install to remove all infections for all users. In years past (ala win98) things buried themselves deep in the system, but I've seen a surprising amount of crap on the user level in Windows. A computer which was literally unusable became virtually clear just by switching to a new clean profile. Macs are also rather friendly when it comes to the things users are allowed to do in their enviornment without requireing administrator privleges. Being able to install local fonts for instance.
Such CEOs are very arrogant and resentful of any nay-sayers. Even when the objections are based on physics or established computing capabilities.
Seems like that's what it really comes down to. A CIO has the unfortunate reality of dealing with the complexity of computers, mashed in with the political stupidity foisted on what they do, plus upper management thinking computer technology is magic fucking pixy dust that "just happens". It doesn't seem like a CIO is special when a CEO doesn't like being told "that's not possible", but is stuck in that position more often than others by the nature of their job.
Really wish MS would stop with all of the micromanaged 'versions' of Windows. It adds complexity where none is needed..
The burden of complexity isn't placed on the user anyway. If users order a computer, they get it with whatever is installed. Businesses either don't need active directory and order whatever anyway, or would have an IT person order them. It's in Microsofts best interest to have at least two versions. A less expensive home version to encourage people to keep using windows, and a more expensive business version to milk more money from businesses who will probably never escape Microsoft office/exchange/whatever anyway.
I had a few similar instances when I was growing up. It was much as you say, "being combative" made me in the wrong, but it came down to something like a teacher unwilling to admit they were wrong or there was another correct answer. The lesson learned there wasn't that I was wrong, or that the teacher was always right. What I learned what pride and arrogance of authority figures allows them to do. It's strange how things like that can change a kid's perception on life. The result is a lot like "not respecting authority". I certainly distrust things authority figures tell me and I've been much more argumentative with those in positions above me.
For a definition of "IQ" meaning "comes up with the same answer as the test author because of similar thought processes", it was great. For "IQ" meaning "able to infer patterns in the world around themselves", it sucked.
Maybe the subtle hint there, is that they want to encourage smart people to be conformist.
Man am I feeling the pain of that where I work as I've switched people to 1900x1200 monitors. It would help a lot if Firefox would allow a default "zoom everything" instead of on a per website basis, or maybe honor the OS dpi setting.
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(don't quote me on this), but I believe this is similar to what France does. You pay a fee of something like .0001 for the first trade, and it doubles for each trade you make that day.
Get a decent server, maybe an HP. Dual CPUs, Dual HDDs, Dual Power supplies. Get a UPS.
Similar to this I often buy the same model machine for a spare. Usually I skimp on the CPU, possibly take out the RAM, but other than that it's the same hardware. I just had a server go down this morning. Simply would not power on, even though the power supply was fine. Just swapped drives with the spare and booted it back up. By the time the manufacturer could deploy a hardware tech where my company is at, it would take hours. I had the server back up in about 15 minutes, which isn't bad for a smaller company that doesn't have the resources for a full clustered approach. Depending upon the machine cost you're trying to duplicate, and cost averaging per server (say one spare for 4 servers as opposed to one 1), this can be a cost effective method of insurance.
Also possibly a side effect of the Dunning–Kruger effect. People can't ascertain their own analytical skills, therefore think they have them and are dismayed when average students score low on measurements.
Somewhat true in my opinion. If you think too far outside the box and find a solution that isn't the planned "expected" way, you're branded a cheater and get banned.
It's been replaced by the gesture where you just hold your middle finger against it.
(surprisingly intuitive)
This kind of reminds me of active sync in general. For years the higher ups have been using windows phones and active sync has been a gigantic pain in the ass. It randomly stops working, and sometimes is unusually resistant to being set up in the first place when partnering with a device (not uncommon since windows phones needed hardware resets). Then one of them gets an HTC android, uses HTC sync, it works flawlessly, was dead simple and never broke. How is it that a company can make the OS on both systems, have YEARS to get it to work right but still fuck it up? That's Microsoft for you...
The KDE menu involves a lot of clicks because of the way it is organized - as opposed to dumping all the shit in to a total cluster fuck. If you use a few programs a lot then either you pin them to the favorites or you add a quick launch shortcut... or the alt+F2 thing, or bind a shortcut key to launch the application / task directly.
That's been my experience with asking sales about anything.
Lillyhammer is a netflix exclusive and not that bad. And honestly "content" is pretty arbitrary considering the amount of network tv which is simply news, reality tv, and documentaries like behind the music, etc.
I just use a wire cutters on everything.
I was about to say the same thing. Those numbers probably don't mean much to most people. If they don't know, the only way for that to happen is to give them context - basically a public health bulletin on what your dietary intake should be, and how this is bad, blah blah blah. You put too much text on it and people won't read it. You put arbitrary numbers on it and people don't know what they mean. Either way people don't care, or you're preaching to the choir. If people wanted to be educated, they would be. It's not like that information is hard to find. Which is unfortunate, but that's the culture we have.
I work in my own office which is relatively quiet, but I can hear the raido from the production floor through the wall. Not ALL of the song, just certain pitches which manage to be the most annoying and piercing. I hardly play any music but I have a playlist that I turn on to drown out the music I find really annoying.
It's even crazier when they then want some ancient IE6 based web app to miraculously work on their shiny new Ipads and don't understand that they simply won't work. I have had a a CEO complain that we need to put IE6 on his Ipad because he needs to run X web app that was made 15 years ago and only works in IE6. He refused to accept that an Ipad will not run IE6, to the point where he even cursed at us and demanded we install Win XP on his Ipad to 'make it work'.
I'm not a smug person, nor am I an Apple fanboy. But man do I enjoy how the ipad/iphone became the talk of the town and requires standards compliant HTML. For YEARS I advocated data agnostic solutions that used standards. I resisted the IE only solutions as much as possible, but inevitably management still overruled me because they wanted some BS solution. I also might add, that where there is smoke there is fire, and if it only works in IE, it's doubtful it will ever work well - even in IE.
Now they all have shiny ipads / iphones, and their shit doesn't work with them. I rub this in as much as possible. Right now it's a prime time to make a lesson of this example that solutions need to be based off standards, NOT proprietary "only works with X". Train the corporate heads while you have the chance.
"Sorry you could have used your sexy, trendy, expensive, cutting edge technology gadget with our system... except you didn't listen when I said some day you might need to use this on something other than IE. You remember right?... when you said, Well everyone uses IE, and only IE"
Facebook itself started out as the more "classy" alternative to Myspace. If enough people join Google+ it'll turn to shit too. That's just the nature of a lot of people joining anything these days.
Not quite. Trees act as a drag on the passing atmosphere. The wind turbine effect mixes in air from higher up in the atmosphere. I guess that also depends on how large the trees are we're talking about, but it seems like wind turbines reach much farther up and affect the surrounding environment in a way that trees probably wouldn't. If this is the same thing as discussed on the BBC, this only happens during night hours when temperatures closer to the surface are lower than those higher up. There seems to be a lot of panicking as if wind turbines "generate heat", but all they're really doing is mixing existing warmer air. Not sure if that's good, bad, or no change though.
Are they planning on doing the same with mp3 for audio? Every device I could name that can play mp4 movies can also play mp3s. I have my doubts that ogg is going to gain any more traction than webm did. I'd be fine with aac as long as something gets standardized.
We'll just put more security checkpoints before the security checkpoints.
I was thinking something along those lines. Then I realized that HR is only a symptom of the real problem: Lawyers. HR doesn't cause the inefficiency, lawyers necessitate the need for HR which is another inefficiency.
Your assuming that it's running at the system level. It probably requires admin priveleges to install to remove all infections for all users. In years past (ala win98) things buried themselves deep in the system, but I've seen a surprising amount of crap on the user level in Windows. A computer which was literally unusable became virtually clear just by switching to a new clean profile. Macs are also rather friendly when it comes to the things users are allowed to do in their enviornment without requireing administrator privleges. Being able to install local fonts for instance.
B) Windows has steadily improved its built-in firewall and anti-trojan features to combat real and perceived vulnerability
I'm not sure that's so much significant as XP finally starting to die out. Windows improved a lot of things a while ago, but no one was upgrading.
Such CEOs are very arrogant and resentful of any nay-sayers. Even when the objections are based on physics or established computing capabilities.
Seems like that's what it really comes down to. A CIO has the unfortunate reality of dealing with the complexity of computers, mashed in with the political stupidity foisted on what they do, plus upper management thinking computer technology is magic fucking pixy dust that "just happens". It doesn't seem like a CIO is special when a CEO doesn't like being told "that's not possible", but is stuck in that position more often than others by the nature of their job.
Really wish MS would stop with all of the micromanaged 'versions' of Windows. It adds complexity where none is needed. .
The burden of complexity isn't placed on the user anyway. If users order a computer, they get it with whatever is installed. Businesses either don't need active directory and order whatever anyway, or would have an IT person order them. It's in Microsofts best interest to have at least two versions. A less expensive home version to encourage people to keep using windows, and a more expensive business version to milk more money from businesses who will probably never escape Microsoft office/exchange/whatever anyway.
I had a few similar instances when I was growing up. It was much as you say, "being combative" made me in the wrong, but it came down to something like a teacher unwilling to admit they were wrong or there was another correct answer. The lesson learned there wasn't that I was wrong, or that the teacher was always right. What I learned what pride and arrogance of authority figures allows them to do. It's strange how things like that can change a kid's perception on life. The result is a lot like "not respecting authority". I certainly distrust things authority figures tell me and I've been much more argumentative with those in positions above me.
For a definition of "IQ" meaning "comes up with the same answer as the test author because of similar thought processes", it was great. For "IQ" meaning "able to infer patterns in the world around themselves", it sucked.
Maybe the subtle hint there, is that they want to encourage smart people to be conformist.
Man am I feeling the pain of that where I work as I've switched people to 1900x1200 monitors. It would help a lot if Firefox would allow a default "zoom everything" instead of on a per website basis, or maybe honor the OS dpi setting.