The Register's article is definitely a much more detailed (and entertaining) account of the GAO Report...which The Washington Post conveniently forgets to link up. But here it is for your reading pleasure:
Here's a picture of the heater included in the French rations: French Ration Heater. It looks like a hexamine-based heater similar to what the British use: British Ration Heater.
The hexamine tabs are just little blocks of burnable stuff, simliar to the trioxane the US Military uses. You put a tab of it on your cooker, light it, and put a canteen cup full of water on the cooker, insert the entre pouch in the water, and wait until it heats up.
It works ok but not near as quick and simple as using one of the Flameless Ration Heaters in the MREs.
Not true in the case of Time Warner's DVR - you can configure it to record all shows, first runs only, or only shows at a particular time.
The other thing I like about the TW DVR is the ability to record two shows at once. You can even record two shows at the same time while watching a third recorded show. I haven't heard if the for-real Tivo's can do that.
I did some work for an ISP recently and while I wasn't one of their on-call people, I saw how they were handling the on-call situation.
Here's what they did: you would work your regular shift and then go home and be on-call. If you received a call/page sometime that night, you'd have to take care of that problem. As soon as you received the call/page, you could put down 2 hours on your timesheet for time worked. However, any other calls you received within that two hour period would count against that same 2 hour block.
So ideally, you get a call at 1 a.m., fix the problem in 5 minutes, and cha-ching, 2 hours go on the timesheet and you go back to bed. Then at 3:05am, you get another call that takes 5 minutes to fix and cha-ching, 2 more hours on the timesheet and more beauty sleep.
Of course, in a worst case scenario, you'd get non-stop calls for two (or three or four) straight hours.
The final piece of this on-call puzzle is that the manager insisted the on-call employees get at least 8 hours of sleep after their last call. So if you took your last call at 4 a.m., they wouldn't expect you in the office until 12 p.m.
"Now if they made the site worth viewing in the first place, everything would be groovy with fox.com."
had instead said:
"Thanks for all the great work Fox, we appreciate your effort."
then you'd all be happy?
You're saying it's ok to post positive, feel-good commentary but negative commentary makes the Linux community look bad? Or as Amit said, the commentary has to be as "impartial as possible" ??
Give me a break. Just because Slashdot has gotten big doesn't mean it has to get impersonal. If Roblimo, CmdrTaco, or Hemos wants to post a comment in a news item then more power to them. If I don't like their comment, I'll take them to task in a comment of my own. But I won't start complaining that I don't like their comments so they shouldn't make them or be allowed to post them on the front page.
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The Register's article is definitely a much more detailed (and entertaining) account of the GAO Report...which The Washington Post conveniently forgets to link up. But here it is for your reading pleasure:
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08644t.pdf
Here's a picture of the heater included in the French rations: French Ration Heater. It looks like a hexamine-based heater similar to what the British use: British Ration Heater.
The hexamine tabs are just little blocks of burnable stuff, simliar to the trioxane the US Military uses. You put a tab of it on your cooker, light it, and put a canteen cup full of water on the cooker, insert the entre pouch in the water, and wait until it heats up.
It works ok but not near as quick and simple as using one of the Flameless Ration Heaters in the MREs.
Not true in the case of Time Warner's DVR - you can configure it to record all shows, first runs only, or only shows at a particular time.
The other thing I like about the TW DVR is the ability to record two shows at once. You can even record two shows at the same time while watching a third recorded show. I haven't heard if the for-real Tivo's can do that.
Here's a link to the full instructions for the flameless ration heaters.
These heaters are great...they get the food nice and hot pretty fast...just be careful about storing and shipping them:
Meals: Ready to Explode
The Meals: Ready to Explode have exploded
I did some work for an ISP recently and while I wasn't one of their on-call people, I saw how they were handling the on-call situation.
Here's what they did: you would work your regular shift and then go home and be on-call. If you received a call/page sometime that night, you'd have to take care of that problem. As soon as you received the call/page, you could put down 2 hours on your timesheet for time worked. However, any other calls you received within that two hour period would count against that same 2 hour block.
So ideally, you get a call at 1 a.m., fix the problem in 5 minutes, and cha-ching, 2 hours go on the timesheet and you go back to bed. Then at 3:05am, you get another call that takes 5 minutes to fix and cha-ching, 2 more hours on the timesheet and more beauty sleep.
Of course, in a worst case scenario, you'd get non-stop calls for two (or three or four) straight hours.
The final piece of this on-call puzzle is that the manager insisted the on-call employees get at least 8 hours of sleep after their last call. So if you took your last call at 4 a.m., they wouldn't expect you in the office until 12 p.m.
We're talking about the Lucent who owns Bell Labs. You know...the place that came up with such handy inventions as the "transistor". :-)
But yeah, your comment is still funny. Holographic storage has been vaporware enough without getting the "backing" of a company in so much trouble.
Who's gonna win this race? Holographic storage or cold fusion?
So let me get this straight...
If Roblimo, instead of saying:
"Now if they made the site worth viewing in the first place, everything would be groovy with fox.com."
had instead said:
"Thanks for all the great work Fox, we appreciate your effort."
then you'd all be happy?
You're saying it's ok to post positive, feel-good commentary but negative commentary makes the Linux community look bad? Or as Amit said, the commentary has to be as "impartial as possible" ??
Give me a break. Just because Slashdot has gotten big doesn't mean it has to get impersonal. If Roblimo, CmdrTaco, or Hemos wants to post a comment in a news item then more power to them. If I don't like their comment, I'll take them to task in a comment of my own. But I won't start complaining that I don't like their comments so they shouldn't make them or be allowed to post them on the front page.