Whatever you do, standardize the initial hardware config and image and get the vendor to load it. Also include everything you have a site license for in that image, then add user specific software/hardware. Sounds like an obvious no-brainer but it's AMAZING how many places I've seen that shop for cheapest price all the time and end up supporting dozens if not hundreds of different hardware configurations, different software versions, etc. What a mess. In the end, Total Cost of Ownership is far cheaper when you can manage a very homogenous environment. Ghosting out images whenever you have a serious desktop problem is wonderful. So is unpacking the PC right at the users cube and having it already imaged. You can allot a maximum time for desktop troubleshooting.. say 10 minutes.. past that it gets blasted with new image, done. No-Brainer. Over time one or two images for desktops and one or two for laptops will become impossible unless you have a small company, but keep it under control and you'll be a hero.
The only reason you don't get telemarketers on your cell phone is that you pay for incoming minutes. When we start getting incoming minutes for free the telemarketing war will very likely be waged on that front as well.
Gone are the days where we can be best at whatever we like and be sure of paying the bills. In light of the job market and future trends, what would you pick as the top 3 to 5 technologies to learn right now, to help insure our paychecks don't shrink or stop coming.
> I think your forest floor might be higher maintenance than grass...
Almost definitely. But not by too much in the long run I'm hoping. And the rewards should be 1000% better. Flowers and herbs and veggies and critters to me are worth twice the work of lawn farming.
I had forgotten about the historically bent associations. We have those closer to the city in the historical portions. In this region though "historical" tends to mean 1680,1750...1860. 1917/1920's I'm fairly sure wouldn't make the cut. Years ago I was shocked when I went to the west coast and saw historical signs on buildings from 1920's-30's. I thought..that's not even OLD much less historical. Funny, now I realize folks from Greece and Rome feel that way when they come to my town. Really shows the value of "YMMV" /degression
for specifics.. - We have a house with 1 acre backed against forest. Built in the 20's and newly remodeled. No homeowners assoc. (i.e. We refuse to live in a neighborhood with a name - usually hot and treeless, and the thing the neighborhood was named after isn't there anymore because they plowed it down to build the neighborhood) We have a small front yard kept nice to keep the neighbors happy - takes 12 minutes to mow. Landscaping, rocks, cobblestones, RR ties, grill, deck and pool around the house. Large treeless yard out back being converted to "attractive semi-wild" looking area - remove 90% of the grass there, leave paths etc.
I wasn't saying NO grass, I was saying having a large lawn is silly unless croquet is a priority. I don't know about kids these days (none of my own yet) but all through my childhood our yard sat empty while all the neighborhood kids and I were across the street playing in the 300 acre forest - which was infinitely more interesting than the vast green carpet behind the house.
"Having seen homes that have similar setups... they look awful when next to a decently-manicured lawn."
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder (just a random yard.. very cool site).
Doesn't anyone else think lawns are just a bit silly? What's wrong with forest floor? Plant some nice big shade trees, don't rake the leaves, have a wild flower spot, some herbs and veggies.. whatever, all done, and your only emission is oxygen.
Our relatively new home has made me feel like a grass farmer all summer. What an ass I feel like spending hours upon hours farming the perfect turf.. with NO CROP. We are buying 8 large locally indigenous trees this fall and roto-tilling much of the back yard. The goal is to have an attractive semi-wild looking area that is really a food and flower producing garden, and where it isn't, it'll just be good old forest floor. I will feel a lot better about watering that.
So the question has been for 10 years, Whats behind the freaking door!
Another question is: If the shaft is so darn narrow we need a state-of-the-art robot to explore it, how did they build the freakin door in the first place?
>"Now why would I need to go so much faster? And doesn't that cost a whole lot?"
These are the same people who, back in the dark ages around 1994 used to say "Why in the world would I need the internet? What's on there that I need?" That is until they got bombarded with so many free sign-up CD's that they finally checked it out. Now they are chat addicts and have 48 recipes for tuna casserole.
Seems if the providers were out there in droves canvassing neighborhoods with packages like "free DSL for a month including installation" that sign-up rates would sky-rocket.
Where is AOL? It's almost hard to believe they aren't subsidizing something like this on a grand scale - spamming neighborhoods with 'sales drone cum installer' people.
Again we are led to question the profitability of today's broadband service business. Just doesn't seem like 'they' want customers that badly.
If you are right the RIT distance learning link in my original post and degree program section therein are THOUROUGHLY AND DISPICABLY MISLEADING. More likely I think the degrees they choose to offer online are ones that can be "distance-learned". As you zeroed in on the ONE degree of all the ones offered online that has this caveat under it *requires on-campus lab work.
RIT has always been ranked very nicely. These folks seem to agree.
Their distance learning program looks pretty impressive, they have a number of full undergrad degree and Masters degrees available online. I've been toying with the idea. Not MIT, but not at all a second rate school.
Funny, their actually policy is beautifully ironic:
"Don't Link to Us! links to sites that attempt to impose substantial restrictions on other sites that link to them. The Linking Policy for Don't Link to Us! precludes us from requesting permission to link to a site, and compels us to link directly to the targeted page (i.e., a "deep link") rather than to a site's home page. "
Avid TV watchers please bear with me here...People who are insanely proud of not owning/watching a TV have good reason to be proud - even if it is obnoxious. Not watching TV on a regular basis is akin to going to work with angry face-paint on every day. It's really hard. People avoid you like the plague when they start talking about "Everybody Loves Raymond" and 95 out of a 100 other brainless laugh track shows and you don't watch any of them. I've had plenty of people ask me in shocked seriousness, "Well what do you do??", like they can't even imagine life without TV. It IS really sad. And yes they do have less self worth if the only thing they do to increase their self-worth is work and endlessly flip channels. There is so much more to life.
Sure - each to his/her own, but it's really boring and insanely frustrating when you try to have engaging conversations with people at work or at the bar and everything, and I do mean everything digresses into talk about half-hour comedy shows or televised sports. It starts to seem like everyone is sick or brainwashed and I'm all alone in the world. So I compromise and try to talk about something on TV... So far the only shows I have in common with the non-geek type crowd are the Crocodile Hunter and the Simpsons. The sick thing here is that many people end up assuming all I do is sit around watching the Crocodile Hunter and the Simpsons (and geeky Star Trek) because they can't imagine reading, hiking, biking, fishing, computing, gardening, stargazing, you-name-it, etc, as regular everyday activities. (By "they" I mean most of the acquaintances I've ever had and some friends and family.)
So if you're a discriminating television watcher who exercises moderation then that's wonderful, but if you're a totally addicted mindless TV zombie like most folks maybe you should try becoming a non-tv snob for awhile. At least if you can do it for awhile that'll prove you're not unhealthily addicted.
Yeah yeah I know.. Troll, Flamebait, whatever.. change the channel.
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Why not just copy right your own email address and sue who you want?
Yes, these things are harder than just handing over some money to a cause and continuing on as always. But starting at home has a greater impact. Setting an example has a greater impact. You will feel so much better by doing something. And of course we can't all just donate money while continuing to cause the problems in the first place. What good does that do?
Agreed! Another handy thing is to take excess fresh herbs (already picked or getting old on the vine/stem) and mince them up in some good olive oil - to a paste consistency. Then freeze in ice cube trays. Then take the herb cubes out and put in a ziplock freezer bag and store frozen. Whoala - ice cube size servings of herbs that are 95% as good as fresh picked. Use frozen - as the oil base thaws into slush fast.
Slashdot Mirror
to typing, reading and problem solving.
Load ZORK!
Worked on me.
And talk to CRL Opto.
IANAEE, but 15mm LCD's and Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Micro Displays both sound promising.
Ditto MightyTribble ^.
And everything Anomoly said.
Go over the contract with a peer who's been there before and you'll be all set.
Whatever you do, standardize the initial hardware config and image and get the vendor to load it. Also include everything you have a site license for in that image, then add user specific software/hardware. Sounds like an obvious no-brainer but it's AMAZING how many places I've seen that shop for cheapest price all the time and end up supporting dozens if not hundreds of different hardware configurations, different software versions, etc. What a mess. In the end, Total Cost of Ownership is far cheaper when you can manage a very homogenous environment. Ghosting out images whenever you have a serious desktop problem is wonderful. So is unpacking the PC right at the users cube and having it already imaged. You can allot a maximum time for desktop troubleshooting.. say 10 minutes.. past that it gets blasted with new image, done. No-Brainer. Over time one or two images for desktops and one or two for laptops will become impossible unless you have a small company, but keep it under control and you'll be a hero.
The only reason you don't get telemarketers on your cell phone is that you pay for incoming minutes. When we start getting incoming minutes for free the telemarketing war will very likely be waged on that front as well.
CmdrTaco: "I'm bored, heehee watch me start a flame war."
Posters: "We'll take that flame war! And we'll raise you 40 off-topic posts!"
> I wonder if Mr. Cerf has given any thought to the role of the internet [had in] changing pornography or whether he just hates porn in any form
Sorry but that isn't insightful in the least.
Here is the question: Of all the Internet has evolved to be, in what aspect of it are you the most disappointed?
His disappoinment in porn probably goes more like this..."
Vint - "I have spent years and years of hard work to help build and propagate this amazing technology that can change the world! What do you think?"
The World - "Dude way to bring us TONS OF BOOBIES! YEEHAW!!!"
Who wouldn't be disappointed?
Well what's wrong with 'planetoid'?
Gone are the days where we can be best at whatever we like and be sure of paying the bills. In light of the job market and future trends, what would you pick as the top 3 to 5 technologies to learn right now, to help insure our paychecks don't shrink or stop coming.
Thanks.
> I think your forest floor might be higher maintenance than grass...
/degression
Almost definitely. But not by too much in the long run I'm hoping. And the rewards should be 1000% better. Flowers and herbs and veggies and critters to me are worth twice the work of lawn farming.
I had forgotten about the historically bent associations. We have those closer to the city in the historical portions. In this region though "historical" tends to mean 1680,1750...1860. 1917/1920's I'm fairly sure wouldn't make the cut. Years ago I was shocked when I went to the west coast and saw historical signs on buildings from 1920's-30's. I thought..that's not even OLD much less historical. Funny, now I realize folks from Greece and Rome feel that way when they come to my town. Really shows the value of "YMMV"
for specifics..
- We have a house with 1 acre backed against forest. Built in the 20's and newly remodeled. No homeowners assoc. (i.e. We refuse to live in a neighborhood with a name - usually hot and treeless, and the thing the neighborhood was named after isn't there anymore because they plowed it down to build the neighborhood) We have a small front yard kept nice to keep the neighbors happy - takes 12 minutes to mow. Landscaping, rocks, cobblestones, RR ties, grill, deck and pool around the house. Large treeless yard out back being converted to "attractive semi-wild" looking area - remove 90% of the grass there, leave paths etc.
I wasn't saying NO grass, I was saying having a large lawn is silly unless croquet is a priority. I don't know about kids these days (none of my own yet) but all through my childhood our yard sat empty while all the neighborhood kids and I were across the street playing in the 300 acre forest - which was infinitely more interesting than the vast green carpet behind the house.
"Having seen homes that have similar setups... they look awful when next to a decently-manicured lawn."
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder (just a random yard.. very cool site).
Doesn't anyone else think lawns are just a bit silly? What's wrong with forest floor? Plant some nice big shade trees, don't rake the leaves, have a wild flower spot, some herbs and veggies.. whatever, all done, and your only emission is oxygen.
Our relatively new home has made me feel like a grass farmer all summer. What an ass I feel like spending hours upon hours farming the perfect turf.. with NO CROP. We are buying 8 large locally indigenous trees this fall and roto-tilling much of the back yard. The goal is to have an attractive semi-wild looking area that is really a food and flower producing garden, and where it isn't, it'll just be good old forest floor. I will feel a lot better about watering that.
So the question has been for 10 years, Whats behind the freaking door!
Another question is: If the shaft is so darn narrow we need a state-of-the-art robot to explore it, how did they build the freakin door in the first place?
>"Now why would I need to go so much faster? And doesn't that cost a whole lot?"
These are the same people who, back in the dark ages around 1994 used to say "Why in the world would I need the internet? What's on there that I need?" That is until they got bombarded with so many free sign-up CD's that they finally checked it out. Now they are chat addicts and have 48 recipes for tuna casserole.
Seems if the providers were out there in droves canvassing neighborhoods with packages like "free DSL for a month including installation" that sign-up rates would sky-rocket.
Where is AOL? It's almost hard to believe they aren't subsidizing something like this on a grand scale - spamming neighborhoods with 'sales drone cum installer' people.
Again we are led to question the profitability of today's broadband service business. Just doesn't seem like 'they' want customers that badly.
So now when we hit a roadblock on the Information Superhighway and have to sit through buffer to buffer traffic, it's due to an Internetquake?
If you are right the RIT distance learning link in my original post and degree program section therein are THOUROUGHLY AND DISPICABLY MISLEADING. More likely I think the degrees they choose to offer online are ones that can be "distance-learned". As you zeroed in on the ONE degree of all the ones offered online that has this caveat under it *requires on-campus lab work.
Click here silly anonymous freshperson.
RIT has always been ranked very nicely. These folks seem to agree.
Their distance learning program looks pretty impressive, they have a number of full undergrad degree and Masters degrees available online. I've been toying with the idea. Not MIT, but not at all a second rate school.
Their ACTUAL policy..
coffee to brain.. come in please.
Funny, their actually policy is beautifully ironic:
"Don't Link to Us! links to sites that attempt to impose substantial restrictions on other sites that link to them. The Linking Policy for Don't Link to Us! precludes us from requesting permission to link to a site, and compels us to link directly to the targeted page (i.e., a "deep link") rather than to a site's home page. "
Avid TV watchers please bear with me here...People who are insanely proud of not owning/watching a TV have good reason to be proud - even if it is obnoxious. Not watching TV on a regular basis is akin to going to work with angry face-paint on every day. It's really hard. People avoid you like the plague when they start talking about "Everybody Loves Raymond" and 95 out of a 100 other brainless laugh track shows and you don't watch any of them. I've had plenty of people ask me in shocked seriousness, "Well what do you do??", like they can't even imagine life without TV. It IS really sad. And yes they do have less self worth if the only thing they do to increase their self-worth is work and endlessly flip channels. There is so much more to life.
Sure - each to his/her own, but it's really boring and insanely frustrating when you try to have engaging conversations with people at work or at the bar and everything, and I do mean everything digresses into talk about half-hour comedy shows or televised sports. It starts to seem like everyone is sick or brainwashed and I'm all alone in the world. So I compromise and try to talk about something on TV... So far the only shows I have in common with the non-geek type crowd are the Crocodile Hunter and the Simpsons. The sick thing here is that many people end up assuming all I do is sit around watching the Crocodile Hunter and the Simpsons (and geeky Star Trek) because they can't imagine reading, hiking, biking, fishing, computing, gardening, stargazing, you-name-it, etc, as regular everyday activities. (By "they" I mean most of the acquaintances I've ever had and some friends and family.)
So if you're a discriminating television watcher who exercises moderation then that's wonderful, but if you're a totally addicted mindless TV zombie like most folks maybe you should try becoming a non-tv snob for awhile. At least if you can do it for awhile that'll prove you're not unhealthily addicted.
Yeah yeah I know.. Troll, Flamebait, whatever.. change the channel.
Why not just copy
right your own email address
and sue who you want?
Why not just copy right your own email address and sue who you want?
Would like to mod that up.
Yes, set a good example. You don't have to "effect larger changes to policy and science". Start making a difference at home. Get yourself off the grid, whether it's geothermal or solar and wind. Thoroughly insulate with the right materials. Support your local farms by buying their products. Eat less industrially produced meat. Drive less. Use Natural Biological Pest Controls. Expand on this list.
Then teach your kids, they are our future.
Yes, these things are harder than just handing over some money to a cause and continuing on as always. But starting at home has a greater impact. Setting an example has a greater impact. You will feel so much better by doing something. And of course we can't all just donate money while continuing to cause the problems in the first place. What good does that do?
Agreed! Another handy thing is to take excess fresh herbs (already picked or getting old on the vine/stem) and mince them up in some good olive oil - to a paste consistency. Then freeze in ice cube trays. Then take the herb cubes out and put in a ziplock freezer bag and store frozen. Whoala - ice cube size servings of herbs that are 95% as good as fresh picked. Use frozen - as the oil base thaws into slush fast.
Now he's getting other people to decrypt his articles?
I thought that was our job?