I own both a 4 disk Drobo and a 5 disk Synology. The Drobo is bonehead easy to setup and use but it is also really damn slow. It's ok for backups but that's about it. The Synology is more involved to setup but it is a quantum leap faster than the Drobo. Once the Synology is setup it's day to day care and feeding is pretty minimal. I'm doing Time Machine backups to the Drobo and using the Synology for long term archiving of images. I'm a photographer and these days it is nothing to go out and shoot for two days and come home with 50GB or even 100GB of images.
As a working professional photographer I can easily vouch for the quality of high end inkjet printers such as the Canon Pixma line. The real key to success in using one of these printers is going to the effort of color calibrating your computer monitor.
I am in no way associated with the owner of the above site. Trust me it will be money well spent to get you on your way with successfully printing your images in a predictable/repeatable manner!
Remember folks - not all injet printers are created equally! The crappy ones really are crappy and a waste of money. The high end inkjet printers for photographers produce stunning results and will outlast previous wet darkroom prints.
Microsoft is a house full of coding monkeys willing to work insane hours on a salaried pay....... My boss at MSFT once asked me why I only worked 40 hours a week. I told him I didn't need to work more to meet my project's timeline. I would be happy to work more on the occasion that the project timeline demanded it. He said I wasn't putting forth a strong enough effort. I asked him to show me where I have been falling behind. He couldn't so he didn't. Bottomline is he wanted me to work overtime to look good. I worked 40 hour weeks because I was able to meet my commitsmilestones without OT.
My point is the project timeline should dictate hours worked. If you can meet the commitsmilestones without overtime then life is good. If you need to push harder over a defined period of time to meet the commit/milestone then do so. But an open ended need to work extra hours is very questionable. Or for appearances even worse.
Ask your boss for a well defined project plan. Creating this plan that includes available resources (staff) will show where the pain points are. Once you have this plan well considered decisions can be made to meet the timeline.
Ask for a well defined business case and project plan!!
Ya sure that'll sell well @ Kmart and Walmart!! Hello shoppers we are having a blue light special on on on um um fresh ground BUGS!! I recommend staying out of the way of the mass of shoppers runnin for the door!!!
I agree with your description of the current system in the USA. The point of the article is it is asking if there is a better way. I am of the opinion that there is but it will require sweeping changes to the whole system. It is the responsibility of the system to insure that doctors/staff are not impaired prior to treating a patient. Asking the patient if they consent to having an overworked resident conduct surgery on them is ludicrous! The patient should never be put in such a dilemma! The attitude of "That's just how it is" is lame to the extreme and it is this exact attitude that needs to be remedied!!
Mostly? New technologies and medications, they are the biggest drivers of increased healthcare spending.
I call bullshit. The bulk of the money goes to the middleman/medical insurance companies profits. That's where most of the $$$$ bleeding occurs. Look at countries that have a national healthcare system. Why are they able to spend 60% less per person per year than the USA? Because they cut out the middleman/medical insurance companies.
is to cancel all accounts from Paul Allen's family and anyone working at his company, and send them an email saying that they are not allowed to have a new account until this patent case is solved.
I'm pretty sure that if this guy has a daughter, and she cannot have a Facebook account, Mark Zuckerberg will be able to hear the screams from his own house.
Well now, that is a DAMN GOOD IDEA!!! The wailing will be relentless!! Bummer is - PA has never married....... For this to work PA himself needs to feel the pain.
Why....
Even though I don't drink alcoholic beverages anymore this doesn't instill interest in the product at all. Not even a little bit.... It's gross.
I too agree! As a full time professional Photographer Adobe PhotoShop Lightroom 3.0 is my primary, daily, trusted tool!! I keyword, caption all my images and Lightroom does all that wonderfully!! Way worth the price!!
Apple's continued success is mostly due to the fact that it all just works.
Why would your average Joe Sixpack and his Mom want to switch to another product
that is potentially harder to use?
It's the Apple / iTunes ecosystem that is a major drawcard for your average consumer.
iTunes being a one stop shop for Music / Apps / Updates / Synching etc
I agree. The power for Apple truly is "It Just Works". And that's the direct result of Apple's purposeful intent in fully controlling the whole process of product development to user experience. It's precisely why I like my Apple products. They just work. No fuss no muss.
Iron Baby yer my hero! Now please go blast my obnoxious neighbors out of the galaxy!! And to all of you whining in the closet rabbit lovers to heck with the lot of ya!! Iron Baby ROX!! LMAO!! Where the hell is yer sense of humor you gaggle of insensitive clods??!!
Issues on Afghanistan and NASA aside, it should be made illegal to tack irrelevant points to legislation in an effort to piggy-back otherwise ridiculous things into law or to sabotage bills with unpopular additions.
Seriously what the fuck.
I fully concur!! Moves like this should be illegal and result in said politician/politicians being tarred and feathered live on the evening news. Then hauled off to share a cell with Bubba for the next ten years.
It's blackmail and should NEVER be allowed!!
If it's more funding for a NASA program that they want then submit a stand alone bill and let it run through our system on its own.
What utter bullshit!!
Work freely? Do you mean work for free? The average contract I get offered pays 80% of the salary of a real job with no vacation, no holidays, and no equity. Contracting is a way to get cheap labor they can lay off without upsetting other employees.
Contracting is why I have decided to go and start my own business. I'm tired of getting treated like second hand trash...
The B-52H Model has two external pylon connect points. Each is located between the internal engine nacelle and the body of the plane. These pylon attach points can hold one pylon each. Said pylon can carry 6 cruise missiles each - nuke or conventional. The B-52H can also carry cruise missiles on an internal rotary launcher that can carry a total of 8 cruise missiles. So fully armed a B-52H can wreak havoc upon the world...
Having spent 4 years as a weapons technician on B-52's I have the creds to know the facts. I also KNOW that there is VERY LITTLE that is more CONTROLLED in the USAF than a nuclear weapon. How this was allowed to happen boggles my mind. The command & control system truly FAILED here and THAT scares the hell outa me.....
NO you are very much correct! It's the absurdity of it all that keeps me laughing at their self imposed need to step into any and all aspects of whatever the flavor of the month is instead of focusing more on their core business. MSN and Live.com are both lame but they still keep throwing money at them... Actually I will admit that maps.live.com has proven useful but only in IE....sigh
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It is both sides of this story that keep me from going to theaters. At home I suffer none of this, and the pause button rox!!
I own both a 4 disk Drobo and a 5 disk Synology. The Drobo is bonehead easy to setup and use but it is also really damn slow. It's ok for backups but that's about it. The Synology is more involved to setup but it is a quantum leap faster than the Drobo. Once the Synology is setup it's day to day care and feeding is pretty minimal. I'm doing Time Machine backups to the Drobo and using the Synology for long term archiving of images. I'm a photographer and these days it is nothing to go out and shoot for two days and come home with 50GB or even 100GB of images.
As a working professional photographer I can easily vouch for the quality of high end inkjet printers such as the Canon Pixma line. The real key to success in using one of these printers is going to the effort of color calibrating your computer monitor.
Buy this video: http://www.luminous-landscape.com/videos/camera-print.shtml
I am in no way associated with the owner of the above site. Trust me it will be money well spent to get you on your way with successfully printing your images in a predictable/repeatable manner!
Remember folks - not all injet printers are created equally! The crappy ones really are crappy and a waste of money. The high end inkjet printers for photographers produce stunning results and will outlast previous wet darkroom prints.
I always found Skype to be an annoying piece of shit. I get far too much spam from Skype. MSFT deserves them.
Microsoft is a house full of coding monkeys willing to work insane hours on a salaried pay....... My boss at MSFT once asked me why I only worked 40 hours a week. I told him I didn't need to work more to meet my project's timeline. I would be happy to work more on the occasion that the project timeline demanded it. He said I wasn't putting forth a strong enough effort. I asked him to show me where I have been falling behind. He couldn't so he didn't. Bottomline is he wanted me to work overtime to look good. I worked 40 hour weeks because I was able to meet my commitsmilestones without OT. My point is the project timeline should dictate hours worked. If you can meet the commitsmilestones without overtime then life is good. If you need to push harder over a defined period of time to meet the commit/milestone then do so. But an open ended need to work extra hours is very questionable. Or for appearances even worse. Ask your boss for a well defined project plan. Creating this plan that includes available resources (staff) will show where the pain points are. Once you have this plan well considered decisions can be made to meet the timeline. Ask for a well defined business case and project plan!!
Ya sure that'll sell well @ Kmart and Walmart!! Hello shoppers we are having a blue light special on on on um um fresh ground BUGS!! I recommend staying out of the way of the mass of shoppers runnin for the door!!!
Hey don't forget the four letter boy in the corner - MSFT!! He would be soooooo hurt if we left him out!! He and his painfully failed "passport"!!
Our patent system is hopelessly fucked up. I am going to patent "submitting hopelessly stupid patents" then sue all these lazy/greedy trolls!
I agree with your description of the current system in the USA. The point of the article is it is asking if there is a better way. I am of the opinion that there is but it will require sweeping changes to the whole system. It is the responsibility of the system to insure that doctors/staff are not impaired prior to treating a patient. Asking the patient if they consent to having an overworked resident conduct surgery on them is ludicrous! The patient should never be put in such a dilemma! The attitude of "That's just how it is" is lame to the extreme and it is this exact attitude that needs to be remedied!!
Mostly? New technologies and medications, they are the biggest drivers of increased healthcare spending.
I call bullshit. The bulk of the money goes to the middleman/medical insurance companies profits. That's where most of the $$$$ bleeding occurs. Look at countries that have a national healthcare system. Why are they able to spend 60% less per person per year than the USA? Because they cut out the middleman/medical insurance companies.
is to cancel all accounts from Paul Allen's family and anyone working at his company, and send them an email saying that they are not allowed to have a new account until this patent case is solved. I'm pretty sure that if this guy has a daughter, and she cannot have a Facebook account, Mark Zuckerberg will be able to hear the screams from his own house.
Well now, that is a DAMN GOOD IDEA!!! The wailing will be relentless!! Bummer is - PA has never married....... For this to work PA himself needs to feel the pain.
I wish they would stop this stupid shit. Seriously. It's getting beyond ridiculous.... sigh
Face Off Facebook.....
My thoughts exactly...
Touche!! This is EXACTLY what sux about outsourcing! The level of commitment does a 180 degree shift!!
Why.... Even though I don't drink alcoholic beverages anymore this doesn't instill interest in the product at all. Not even a little bit.... It's gross.
I too agree! As a full time professional Photographer Adobe PhotoShop Lightroom 3.0 is my primary, daily, trusted tool!! I keyword, caption all my images and Lightroom does all that wonderfully!! Way worth the price!!
Rights?! Rights?! This is Soviet America you don't need Rights so move on already!
Apple's continued success is mostly due to the fact that it all just works. Why would your average Joe Sixpack and his Mom want to switch to another product that is potentially harder to use? It's the Apple / iTunes ecosystem that is a major drawcard for your average consumer. iTunes being a one stop shop for Music / Apps / Updates / Synching etc
I agree. The power for Apple truly is "It Just Works". And that's the direct result of Apple's purposeful intent in fully controlling the whole process of product development to user experience. It's precisely why I like my Apple products. They just work. No fuss no muss.
Iron Baby yer my hero! Now please go blast my obnoxious neighbors out of the galaxy!! And to all of you whining in the closet rabbit lovers to heck with the lot of ya!! Iron Baby ROX!! LMAO!! Where the hell is yer sense of humor you gaggle of insensitive clods??!!
Issues on Afghanistan and NASA aside, it should be made illegal to tack irrelevant points to legislation in an effort to piggy-back otherwise ridiculous things into law or to sabotage bills with unpopular additions.
Seriously what the fuck.
I fully concur!! Moves like this should be illegal and result in said politician/politicians being tarred and feathered live on the evening news. Then hauled off to share a cell with Bubba for the next ten years. It's blackmail and should NEVER be allowed!! If it's more funding for a NASA program that they want then submit a stand alone bill and let it run through our system on its own. What utter bullshit!!
Work freely? Do you mean work for free? The average contract I get offered pays 80% of the salary of a real job with no vacation, no holidays, and no equity. Contracting is a way to get cheap labor they can lay off without upsetting other employees.
Contracting is why I have decided to go and start my own business. I'm tired of getting treated like second hand trash...
Friends don't let Friends Buy @ Best Buy...;-)
The B-52H Model has two external pylon connect points. Each is located between the internal engine nacelle and the body of the plane. These pylon attach points can hold one pylon each. Said pylon can carry 6 cruise missiles each - nuke or conventional. The B-52H can also carry cruise missiles on an internal rotary launcher that can carry a total of 8 cruise missiles. So fully armed a B-52H can wreak havoc upon the world...
Having spent 4 years as a weapons technician on B-52's I have the creds to know the facts. I also KNOW that there is VERY LITTLE that is more CONTROLLED in the USAF than a nuclear weapon. How this was allowed to happen boggles my mind. The command & control system truly FAILED here and THAT scares the hell outa me.....
NO you are very much correct! It's the absurdity of it all that keeps me laughing at their self imposed need to step into any and all aspects of whatever the flavor of the month is instead of focusing more on their core business. MSN and Live.com are both lame but they still keep throwing money at them... Actually I will admit that maps.live.com has proven useful but only in IE....sigh