Heck, back in 1977 when I saw Star Wars (no "A New Hope" cr*p!) the special effects were relatively laughable. On a second viewing of the movie, my best friend and I were tearing apart the land speeder going down the canyon, it's appearance in Mos Eisley, the trench run, and many other "special" effects scenes. A lot of them were pretty good (seeing the Death Star and Alderaan blow up were kind of nice), but the special effects weren't all that special back then.
This.
I was consulting with three separate companies back in 1997, pulling down a good deal of income with my activities. When my firstborn came along, I found myself not able to do the extended hours some of my clients needed anymore, and I decided to take full time employment with a company, trading my higher income (as a self-employed consultant) for more job security for my family. I'm also not as great a salesman of myself, and I found myself not enjoying having to go out and find new contracts (although I had plenty of referrals to keep me busy).
I normally never respond to ACs, but there is a kernel of truth in this. My wife (M.S. in Speech Pathology) dropped out of her career about 16 years ago when we started having a family. I had several other girls (before I got married) who were very interested in me, but had as a goal to start a family and not have to work anymore.
Now, this doesn't necessarily apply to all women - there's several in the department I work in who work and raise kids, and some who never had kids and as such never had the desire to drop out of a career. However, there are more women than not who would like to be supported by a man, if only to be there for their kids.
Well, I can't say that much about a 52' boat, but I can say that some of us do know something about sailing, especially if you are (or were) in Sea Scouts. I'm the skipper of a Ship in Texas, and while I haven't done any sailing around the world, I will say that you can get some good ideas from people on here who do know technology.
That being said, however, the GP is right - Slashdot is a lousy place to get advice on what electronics to have on any sort of sailing vessel - seek out places like Sailing Anarchy for more pertinent ideas and suggestions.
I actually live and work within 10 miles of the southern end of SH-130. I'm not concerned about the higher speeds on the highway, because I've traveled on the Autobahn in Germany many times, and as long as you watch the traffic and don't be a jerk about how you travel, I will be extremely glad when this road opens. It will make getting up to Austin considerably quicker (it can take 2 hours sometimes to get to a place in Austin from here), and if it reduces the parking lot known as I-35 in Austin, I for one will gladly travel on SH-130
Of course there is. Like public roads and public libraries, free health care is free to use.
As opposed to toll roads, bookstores, and for-profit hospitals, which all cost money to use.
Perhaps they are considered free to use. Somebody still has to pay the bills for the staff, the buildings, the supplies, the hardware, etc. That's why so many hospitals are going bankrupt, closing their emergency rooms because people come in yet can't pay for the services rendered. TANSTAAFL All of the "free to use" things still cost money, and they have to get paid for by someone - and guess who gets to foot the bill? Yes you, the overburdened taxpayer!!!
So let me get this straight. The richest country in the world can't afford free health care for all of its citizens?
There is no such thing as "free health care". Someone has to pick up the tab, and that tab is accelerating upwards at a pace faster than the GDP. Do you want the State to pick up the costs? Fine, then prepare to have even more money siphoned from your paychecks. Health costs need to be brought under control, and unless you like a bureaucratic state solution like Britain, you have to push the decisions back to the individual who can decide for themselves as to whether a certain procedure is necessary or not. Yes, people will make bad choices, and that happens - but people also make choices to eat fatty foods and die at an earlier pace than healthier individuals.
Look any way you slice it Nokia is dead and they were dead before Elop ever walked in the door, why? Because their big business is about to go the way of the 8-track, that's why. Nokia made their money on dumbphones and we can all see the writing on the wall, as the chips drop dumbphones will disappear. Hell Walmart has begun offering smartphones on their cheapo prepaid plans at $125, when that gets down to $50 that's it, its over.
Not necessarily, though for a growing-smaller percentage there will always be a need for a dumb phone option. My mother-in-law just got such a phone to replace her old phone through Verizon (may they rot in some abyss). My wife and I tried to gauge her ability to use anything with a higher degree of tech (such as a tablet) and she absolutely cannot do it (even with a couple weeks of work). We broke down and got her a very basic pre-paid phone plan, with a very basic telephone, and she's thrilled.
Now, for those of us able to use smartphones, we'll never go back - but there will always be a segment of society that needs a minimal phone.
Big thing is to first know where you are spending money, and then categorize your expenses into what is a can't-do without, must have, nice to have, and frivolous buckets. You need to put about 10% of your income into a long-term retirement fund, and have (ideally) six months of living expenses in a money-market or savings account (Must have). You need to put a certain amount of money aside each month for certain necessities (housing, required food, loan payments) (can't do without (unless you're living in your parent's basement)). Most of the rest of it tends to be the nice-to-have (like cell phones, phone lines, new clothes, eating out).
I would agree that cable internet is indispensable to me for work purposes, and would be one of the last things that I would cut back on in the event of a major problem (like losing a job).
I pay about $225 for phone service, cell phone service, and satellite service, with another $50 for cable internet (total of $275). I've looked at getting rid of the home line and going strictly cell phone, but my spousal overlord unit isn't ready to do that yet, and with three teenagers in the house, I expect my telephone costs to be going up here until they move out of the house.
Interestingly, covered in a short story and novel by Francis Keyes. A mentally handicapped man is operated on, and becomes a genius, but loses the intelligence gained and becomes worse than he was.
I used to work at Motorola. About twelve years ago, the president of the company (Chris Galvin) was upset at the number of employees who worked there who had cell phones from other vendors - Nokia being the chief sore spot at the time. Word came down from management that it was not a good idea for one's career to be using a non-Motorola phone for either personal or corporate use. To be fair, they did give us excellent discounts ongoing on Motorola phones, so it was pretty much a good thing.
... will be routed around. Regulate DNS and something else will be used. Block IP addresses and new ones will take their place. While governments dictate indefinite ownership of ideas for their corporate owners and prosecute dissent, technology has been pulling society in the other direction. You can outlaw reality, but that doesn't make it go away, anymore than outlawing weeds stops them from growing.
Yep, the people of China, Iran, Saudi Arabia all agree with you - if they get to see your post because of the controls those "enlightened" countries gateways allow. Yes, I know of the Anonymiser software, the proxies and whatnot that allow some technically-able individuals to get outside of their "Great Firewalls", but I for one would not trust an organization that suffers the "UN Human Rights Council" (composed of such freedom loving stalwarts such as China, Cuba, Iran, etc (as well as some rights-respecting countries)) to be as bigoted as it is, to be responsible for setting up standards and policies for the running of the Internet
tl;dr: doesn't trust UN to be agnostic to the Internet
There are rare-earth deposits in other places - like Elk City, Nebraska having resources of the rare metals. However, it wouldn't be much fun to be running a mine in the middle of the desert.
Battle off Samar
The Japanese Central Force stumbled across Task Force Taffy 3 (a bunch of escort carriers) thinking them to be Halsey's fleet. It engaged them with armor piercing rounds, but was driven off by the bravery of the escort vessels. Coupled with the losses they had already suffered, they were not all that willing to fight, and withdrew after a couple of hours. They were also concerned about getting trapped by the other forces coming from the north.
That's the key thing - the right people. You have to get the people (ideally on the change management board) to take responsibility for setting the priorities with reasonable timeframes (no death-marches, no pie-in-the sky project plans) as defined by the project proposals, and be willing to leave in some unallocated resources (both personnel, time, and hardware/software) to cope with the true emergencies (like server crashes, database failures, etc). It does take quite a while to get to that level of maturity, and to get the idea that if you are scheduled to be working on ten things all at once, then none of them are going to get done in a reasonable timeframe with good quality.
Google by building a farm in tornado central and hiring engineers their is showing either ignorance of modern cable super head ends to take content feeds from the content providers.
I grew up in Omaha, right across the river from Council Bluffs, IA. Other than a small tornado hitting randomly to the west of Omaha, there isn't much risk to putting the antenna farms right next to their facilities. Tornadoes aren't really that much to be worried about, compared to hurricanes and earthquakes. As long as these things are sufficiently anchored down (and assuming the data center is similarly protected) there isn't much risk to them being damaged. The overall environment, however (assuming a tornado did pass right through them) would be fairly trashed (e.g. Joplin, MO)
Yep, this happens as well. As noted, they've got a lot of thrashing going on. It takes maturity from management (of both the developers and the business) to realize that there's only so many "high priority" tasks that can be worked on simultaneously before you're not getting any effective work done. The problem is that it does take a "capacity maturity model" to scheduling the projects the developers are on.
I actually had this happen to me - one of the admins reporting to me left, and I ended up taking on a ton of the tasks and projects he was working on. As a result, over time, I got completely overloaded. Fortunately, my manager recognized what was happening, acted as a buffer for me in intercepting the people coming directly to me, and helped me out by setting up a change management board to prioritize the tasks for my team. (It also helped that he got me another team member as soon as he could, too).
They (management) can yell and fuss and scream all they want but, until they commit to changing the stack order, it's just hot air and can be completely ignored.
"This other thing MUST be a TOP TOP TOP priority NOW!" - ok sir, then just drag it up to the top and make it so.
"But this other thing must ALSO be TOP TOP priority!!!" - sir, do you hear what you just said? Here, just make these a simple list in the order you want them done.
If people are doing double duty as production support and development, which will always happen to some degree, make sure to place one above the other (preferably production support - if current system isn't running and supporting your custom base, new features don't matter).
This is where a change management board comes into play. If you have the management get into a room, along with key developers, and prioritize the list of projects, and most importantly get buy in from the participants this is how you get a hold of the project queue. Of course, this doesn't account for the "quickie projects" that get dropped on you, but that's where you need your manager to step in and take the arrows for you so that you don't get distracted.
Slashdot Mirror
Tumbleweed is the rolling version of OpenSuSE, where it gets the latest (not necessarily best or best tested) packages,
Leap is a more stable version of Tumbleweed, where it's more extensively tested but there are some things needing to be polished.
Heck, back in 1977 when I saw Star Wars (no "A New Hope" cr*p!) the special effects were relatively laughable. On a second viewing of the movie, my best friend and I were tearing apart the land speeder going down the canyon, it's appearance in Mos Eisley, the trench run, and many other "special" effects scenes. A lot of them were pretty good (seeing the Death Star and Alderaan blow up were kind of nice), but the special effects weren't all that special back then.
If he was really southern, it'd be all y'all.
I'm a bit concerned that they may not have enough cardinal points in the survey to make it accurate.
This. I was consulting with three separate companies back in 1997, pulling down a good deal of income with my activities. When my firstborn came along, I found myself not able to do the extended hours some of my clients needed anymore, and I decided to take full time employment with a company, trading my higher income (as a self-employed consultant) for more job security for my family. I'm also not as great a salesman of myself, and I found myself not enjoying having to go out and find new contracts (although I had plenty of referrals to keep me busy).
Boom. Boom boom boom. Boom boom. Boom! Have a nice day.
Here, let me fetch a few more puns for you. (in nautical terms, fetch is the swells built up from a wind).
I normally never respond to ACs, but there is a kernel of truth in this. My wife (M.S. in Speech Pathology) dropped out of her career about 16 years ago when we started having a family. I had several other girls (before I got married) who were very interested in me, but had as a goal to start a family and not have to work anymore.
Now, this doesn't necessarily apply to all women - there's several in the department I work in who work and raise kids, and some who never had kids and as such never had the desire to drop out of a career. However, there are more women than not who would like to be supported by a man, if only to be there for their kids.
That being said, however, the GP is right - Slashdot is a lousy place to get advice on what electronics to have on any sort of sailing vessel - seek out places like Sailing Anarchy for more pertinent ideas and suggestions.
I actually live and work within 10 miles of the southern end of SH-130. I'm not concerned about the higher speeds on the highway, because I've traveled on the Autobahn in Germany many times, and as long as you watch the traffic and don't be a jerk about how you travel, I will be extremely glad when this road opens. It will make getting up to Austin considerably quicker (it can take 2 hours sometimes to get to a place in Austin from here), and if it reduces the parking lot known as I-35 in Austin, I for one will gladly travel on SH-130
Of course there is. Like public roads and public libraries, free health care is free to use.
As opposed to toll roads, bookstores, and for-profit hospitals, which all cost money to use.
Perhaps they are considered free to use. Somebody still has to pay the bills for the staff, the buildings, the supplies, the hardware, etc. That's why so many hospitals are going bankrupt, closing their emergency rooms because people come in yet can't pay for the services rendered. TANSTAAFL All of the "free to use" things still cost money, and they have to get paid for by someone - and guess who gets to foot the bill? Yes you, the overburdened taxpayer!!!
So let me get this straight. The richest country in the world can't afford free health care for all of its citizens?
There is no such thing as "free health care". Someone has to pick up the tab, and that tab is accelerating upwards at a pace faster than the GDP. Do you want the State to pick up the costs? Fine, then prepare to have even more money siphoned from your paychecks. Health costs need to be brought under control, and unless you like a bureaucratic state solution like Britain, you have to push the decisions back to the individual who can decide for themselves as to whether a certain procedure is necessary or not. Yes, people will make bad choices, and that happens - but people also make choices to eat fatty foods and die at an earlier pace than healthier individuals.
Look any way you slice it Nokia is dead and they were dead before Elop ever walked in the door, why? Because their big business is about to go the way of the 8-track, that's why. Nokia made their money on dumbphones and we can all see the writing on the wall, as the chips drop dumbphones will disappear. Hell Walmart has begun offering smartphones on their cheapo prepaid plans at $125, when that gets down to $50 that's it, its over.
Not necessarily, though for a growing-smaller percentage there will always be a need for a dumb phone option. My mother-in-law just got such a phone to replace her old phone through Verizon (may they rot in some abyss). My wife and I tried to gauge her ability to use anything with a higher degree of tech (such as a tablet) and she absolutely cannot do it (even with a couple weeks of work). We broke down and got her a very basic pre-paid phone plan, with a very basic telephone, and she's thrilled.
Now, for those of us able to use smartphones, we'll never go back - but there will always be a segment of society that needs a minimal phone.
Thogg not understand - Thogg knows that if he bashes club into skull of enemy Thogg is right.
Big thing is to first know where you are spending money, and then categorize your expenses into what is a can't-do without, must have, nice to have, and frivolous buckets. You need to put about 10% of your income into a long-term retirement fund, and have (ideally) six months of living expenses in a money-market or savings account (Must have). You need to put a certain amount of money aside each month for certain necessities (housing, required food, loan payments) (can't do without (unless you're living in your parent's basement)). Most of the rest of it tends to be the nice-to-have (like cell phones, phone lines, new clothes, eating out).
I would agree that cable internet is indispensable to me for work purposes, and would be one of the last things that I would cut back on in the event of a major problem (like losing a job).
I pay about $225 for phone service, cell phone service, and satellite service, with another $50 for cable internet (total of $275). I've looked at getting rid of the home line and going strictly cell phone, but my spousal overlord unit isn't ready to do that yet, and with three teenagers in the house, I expect my telephone costs to be going up here until they move out of the house.
Flowers for Algernon"
Very interesting but sad story.
I used to work at Motorola. About twelve years ago, the president of the company (Chris Galvin) was upset at the number of employees who worked there who had cell phones from other vendors - Nokia being the chief sore spot at the time. Word came down from management that it was not a good idea for one's career to be using a non-Motorola phone for either personal or corporate use. To be fair, they did give us excellent discounts ongoing on Motorola phones, so it was pretty much a good thing.
Now get off my lawn!
... will be routed around. Regulate DNS and something else will be used. Block IP addresses and new ones will take their place. While governments dictate indefinite ownership of ideas for their corporate owners and prosecute dissent, technology has been pulling society in the other direction. You can outlaw reality, but that doesn't make it go away, anymore than outlawing weeds stops them from growing.
Yep, the people of China, Iran, Saudi Arabia all agree with you - if they get to see your post because of the controls those "enlightened" countries gateways allow. Yes, I know of the Anonymiser software, the proxies and whatnot that allow some technically-able individuals to get outside of their "Great Firewalls", but I for one would not trust an organization that suffers the "UN Human Rights Council" (composed of such freedom loving stalwarts such as China, Cuba, Iran, etc (as well as some rights-respecting countries)) to be as bigoted as it is, to be responsible for setting up standards and policies for the running of the Internet
tl;dr: doesn't trust UN to be agnostic to the Internet
There are rare-earth deposits in other places - like Elk City, Nebraska having resources of the rare metals. However, it wouldn't be much fun to be running a mine in the middle of the desert.
Battle off Samar The Japanese Central Force stumbled across Task Force Taffy 3 (a bunch of escort carriers) thinking them to be Halsey's fleet. It engaged them with armor piercing rounds, but was driven off by the bravery of the escort vessels. Coupled with the losses they had already suffered, they were not all that willing to fight, and withdrew after a couple of hours. They were also concerned about getting trapped by the other forces coming from the north.
That's the key thing - the right people. You have to get the people (ideally on the change management board) to take responsibility for setting the priorities with reasonable timeframes (no death-marches, no pie-in-the sky project plans) as defined by the project proposals, and be willing to leave in some unallocated resources (both personnel, time, and hardware/software) to cope with the true emergencies (like server crashes, database failures, etc). It does take quite a while to get to that level of maturity, and to get the idea that if you are scheduled to be working on ten things all at once, then none of them are going to get done in a reasonable timeframe with good quality.
Google by building a farm in tornado central and hiring engineers their is showing either ignorance of modern cable super head ends to take content feeds from the content providers.
I grew up in Omaha, right across the river from Council Bluffs, IA. Other than a small tornado hitting randomly to the west of Omaha, there isn't much risk to putting the antenna farms right next to their facilities. Tornadoes aren't really that much to be worried about, compared to hurricanes and earthquakes. As long as these things are sufficiently anchored down (and assuming the data center is similarly protected) there isn't much risk to them being damaged. The overall environment, however (assuming a tornado did pass right through them) would be fairly trashed (e.g. Joplin, MO)
I actually had this happen to me - one of the admins reporting to me left, and I ended up taking on a ton of the tasks and projects he was working on. As a result, over time, I got completely overloaded. Fortunately, my manager recognized what was happening, acted as a buffer for me in intercepting the people coming directly to me, and helped me out by setting up a change management board to prioritize the tasks for my team. (It also helped that he got me another team member as soon as he could, too).
They (management) can yell and fuss and scream all they want but, until they commit to changing the stack order, it's just hot air and can be completely ignored.
"This other thing MUST be a TOP TOP TOP priority NOW!" - ok sir, then just drag it up to the top and make it so.
"But this other thing must ALSO be TOP TOP priority!!!" - sir, do you hear what you just said? Here, just make these a simple list in the order you want them done.
If people are doing double duty as production support and development, which will always happen to some degree, make sure to place one above the other (preferably production support - if current system isn't running and supporting your custom base, new features don't matter).
This is where a change management board comes into play. If you have the management get into a room, along with key developers, and prioritize the list of projects, and most importantly get buy in from the participants this is how you get a hold of the project queue. Of course, this doesn't account for the "quickie projects" that get dropped on you, but that's where you need your manager to step in and take the arrows for you so that you don't get distracted.