"I realized that the sick-claw was not a knife, but was rather more like the claw of a cat. Cats use their claws to pierce and hold prey, not to disembowel.
He's obviously never had a catnipped-up cat grab a hold of his forearm with the front claws and use it's back legs to scrape the everlovincrap out of him.
Speaking for state government, they noticed an extreme problem with hiring talent in the 1990's. No decent Webmaster would take a job as an IT 1, 2 or 3 due to the pay scales. So HR looked the other way and hired folks on as an IT 4...a position that is _classified_ as having staff to manage. Now we've got an IT department with 4 or 5 talented IT 4 folks, and a thick glass ceiling to advancement. You can't get _another_ IT 4 position because you don't manage, and you can't get an IT 5 position...because you don't manage.
The retirement plan is cushy (80% of your top three year salary average), and working here isn't TOO bad, but I'm not able to go anywhere else in state...and those well paying jobs OUTSIDE the state aren't exactly as plentiful as they were.
So, do you stay at 80k for the rest of your career (18-20 years), or do you jump for the brass ring for a 100k a year job and lose 20k in benefits...and lose that job in a year?
I hate to say this, but this has been an issue with iPods for pretty much their whole production life. The first Scratch I got really traumatised me, the second, not so much. Two years later, I don't really care. The sucker is bullitproof and sounds great. I bought it to listen to music, not wax and polish it.
If there are zero scratches, that first scratch sucks. Scratch 17,645 doesn' hurt any more than 17,644.
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Living in Denver and flying in and out of DIA, I can say it's better that any of the other Big City airports I've used. (Dulles, Seatac, Atlanta, DFW, Las Vegas, etc.)
It was accomplished on a scale and timeframe that was hard to imagine before the project. As a Student in Civil Engineering, I got a behind the scenes tour in college.
As the automated baggage system a f*ckup? Oh yeah, most certainly. Did they recover well? I'd say so.
Course, DIA is a political animal, and in all things politics, you're guaranteed to piss off more than half your constituents. But it's a damn sight better than Stapleton was.
Funny thing is, I saw a newspaper article about Denver's new airport, how it was in the middle of nowhere, and had cost overruns, and how it was nothing but a boondoggle.
It was written about Stapleton in the lates 1930's. The switchover in 1985 meant that Stapleton was useful for more than _50_ years. I suspect in another 40 years, DIA won't be in the middle of nowhere anymore.
Um. Who cares? PEopel are complaining about printer costs that are less than they pay for their videocard, or processor, or _fast_food_.
I always thought this was a topic of debate that was largely worthless. You'll spend $400 on a laser printer, or you'll spend $400 on an inkjet. If you really can't afford it, you shouldn't be buying computer equipment.
About twice a year I work on one project or another that shows just how much I hate them. I'm not talking fanboi hate, or my OS is better than your OS hate.
Case in point: I'm using Virtual Server to test moving our DC's to IPSEC to make them more resistant to WINS attacks. To do so requires three DC's and a Workstation. it takes, roughly, 80 steps to build the infrastructure to do this. About 60 of those steps is broken or doesn't work in some way. I've spent five days so far, on three different implementations, and I STILL don't have the pre-reqs in place to test the hypothesis!
Sure, it's an easy target to say I'm not qualified to do this, but that's a strawman attack. The failures are conflicts in the way _microsoft_ suggests you operate. Want to isolate the network? you can't update the machines to the current SP's. Want to use a standard vhd to base your network off of? Better hope it's up to date. Want to install Certificate Services? Better hope IIS6 is enabled first cause it won't work installing it after the fact (or uninstalling cert services, installing IIS6 and reinstalling Cert Services.)
this amount of headache in just TESTING a theory does not make me happy with applying it to a PRODUCTION environment.
uh huh. While I'm a member of the lunatic fringe and download/PVR the stuff I want, I doubt I'd pay much more than what I'm paying for Satellite TV now to get it.
No, the Grandparent is remembering correctly. There was something on tha back of a trading card (man, THAT'S a deep memory) that said it reflected at that level.
Course, an impressionable 7 year old in 1980 will take it at face value and not question it like a slasdot poster in 2005 will.
We're not ALL incompetent. We'd purchased two NAS boxes from Dell/EMC. Turns out they sold a total of SIX before droppiong the line and all support. (Due to extreme suckage I guess) After we negotiated out of that one, we were stuck with two boxes that needed to be surplussed (which I'd hoped to scrounge for a song after the fact....2 Tb of Raid storage in my basement woulda been nice.)
Unfortunately Dell/EMC, in their incompetence, couldn't figure out how to DOD wipe the drives. So they dot disassembled and passed out amongst the staff. I've got a pretty statue made up of HD platters and magnets now.
Nah, we ALREADY HAVE an omnipresent global network...they'll just flip a bit and your cellphone will be that link. The hard part is handing the handoff from an 'expensive' network (GPRS) to a cheap one (WiFi) without dropping the call/connection.
Until you get a fabric network that covers multiple square miles per basestation (a la WiMAX) You'll not see a municipal implementation over a metro area.
Sure there are exceptions (where town.size approaches zero) or (starbuck.count approaches infinity) but this is just the economics catching up with the technology.
If you've got a connection at home, and you've got a connection on the Bus, and you've got a connection via your cellphone, and yuo've got a connection via your coffee shop, why does a city have to be 100% covered by 802.11a/b/g? GPRS/EDGE/3g/future can (and initially will) pick up the slack.
My V600 had a great deal of whackyness I couldn't get fixed (garbled external clock, occasionaly reboots, oh and fi you return your phone for a refurb with games on it you've had more than a few months...you're screwed.)
So Google 'hack v600' and there's a plethora of nifty things out there for it. The BIG stickler is: you've gotta get a REAL USB cable...my first one had a black box in the middle that converted usb on the PC side to the serial interface on the phone. You MUST have full USB to update the phone.
There are two (and a half) levels of updates for these phones; Flex, Flash, and Seems.
The Flex is similar to a firmware update in that is updates the low level internals of the phone. In doing so, I noticed improved reception, slightly better battery life, etc. I didn't wait long enough to see if that alone would fix my problems, I proceeded to:
The Flash. Flash contains all the software that operates the phone. For awhile, I played around with a European software set that had a ROCKIN version of Monopoly (trust me, that's not a dichotomy of terms) It's major problem was a lack of american GPRS support. So I had a more stable phone, with some tnifty new features, but I couldn't surf the web using bluetooth on the busride.
I then found an american Flash that did what I needed it too. I still had to enter the defaults from mMode, and SMS stuff (luckily I had the wife's phone to refer to), but it did a pretty good job of squashing the bugs in the native AT&T Flash...
Which brings up an important point: the OEM flash is NOT backup-able, nor is it available via the usual suspects. So when you jump, you jump with both feet and no net. It turned out okay in the end (after I got the internet connectivity stuff worked out) but it's somethign to be aware of. If you're REALLY stuck on it saying AT&T, don't update your phone.
One of the mods allows for uploading java apps from the desktop (A procedure usually masked off by the cellphone carriers...they want YOU to pay THEM for this stuff) So I managed to get that european version of Monopoly back.
Seems are patches to a Flex that enable, disable, of modify behavior. I haven't tried them, and haven't yet seen the need to.
Lastly: While this has been v600 specific, the vXXX series of phones (6XX 5XX and 4XX at the very least) all support these flex/flash combos. so a cheaper phone can pick up the multimedia apps and some items available on the more expensive bretheren. (except where hardware limitations prevent it...face it, if bluetooth isn't on the motherboard, you can't turn it on via software)
It kinda bugs me that this wasn't available as a service from AT&T, I would have gladly stuck with a firmware REV to solve the problems...coure now, I'll never have to pay for phone software, so I'm okay with that too.
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Speaking for state government, they noticed an extreme problem with hiring talent in the 1990's. No decent Webmaster would take a job as an IT 1, 2 or 3 due to the pay scales. So HR looked the other way and hired folks on as an IT 4...a position that is _classified_ as having staff to manage. Now we've got an IT department with 4 or 5 talented IT 4 folks, and a thick glass ceiling to advancement. You can't get _another_ IT 4 position because you don't manage, and you can't get an IT 5 position...because you don't manage.
The retirement plan is cushy (80% of your top three year salary average), and working here isn't TOO bad, but I'm not able to go anywhere else in state...and those well paying jobs OUTSIDE the state aren't exactly as plentiful as they were.
So, do you stay at 80k for the rest of your career (18-20 years), or do you jump for the brass ring for a 100k a year job and lose 20k in benefits...and lose that job in a year?
"and suggests that it isn't worth trying to reclaim old allocations."
Isn't worth it to whom?
Must be a new fiscal quarter.
Really, I wish they WOULD release one, just so we don't have to go through the same reasons for/against one again.
Don't talk to me about life...here I am, Brain the size of a planet...
I hate to say this, but this has been an issue with iPods for pretty much their whole production life. The first Scratch I got really traumatised me, the second, not so much. Two years later, I don't really care. The sucker is bullitproof and sounds great. I bought it to listen to music, not wax and polish it.
If there are zero scratches, that first scratch sucks. Scratch 17,645 doesn' hurt any more than 17,644.
Arrrrr!
What I get for trying to be brief. I'd 'sudo bash'ed then I rm -rf *'d Believe me. It worked ALL TOO WELL.
It's so unixy it'll let you 'sudo bash; rm -rf /*'!
S'what I get for trying to reinstall fink without making sure my fingers were doing what my brain told 'em to.
OS X sure falls over in a funny way when you rip all it's files out from under it.
So how is it my poor little iBook can do HW accelerated OS stuff with 32mb?
Living in Denver and flying in and out of DIA, I can say it's better that any of the other Big City airports I've used. (Dulles, Seatac, Atlanta, DFW, Las Vegas, etc.)
It was accomplished on a scale and timeframe that was hard to imagine before the project. As a Student in Civil Engineering, I got a behind the scenes tour in college.
As the automated baggage system a f*ckup? Oh yeah, most certainly. Did they recover well? I'd say so.
Course, DIA is a political animal, and in all things politics, you're guaranteed to piss off more than half your constituents. But it's a damn sight better than Stapleton was.
Funny thing is, I saw a newspaper article about Denver's new airport, how it was in the middle of nowhere, and had cost overruns, and how it was nothing but a boondoggle.
It was written about Stapleton in the lates 1930's. The switchover in 1985 meant that Stapleton was useful for more than _50_ years. I suspect in another 40 years, DIA won't be in the middle of nowhere anymore.
Vista.
(filing buffers and wasting time so I can hit submit.)
I doubt I'll be renewing it when my year is up (on the Xbox OR 360).
Reguardless of what they advertise, it seems like a buncha swearing 14 year olds.
[blockquote]Apparently, it is impossible for Apple to change into a software company. [/blockquote] Not Impossible, just unwise.
IT history is littered with the remains of 'software only' OS firms.
Um. Who cares? PEopel are complaining about printer costs that are less than they pay for their videocard, or processor, or _fast_food_.
I always thought this was a topic of debate that was largely worthless. You'll spend $400 on a laser printer, or you'll spend $400 on an inkjet. If you really can't afford it, you shouldn't be buying computer equipment.
About twice a year I work on one project or another that shows just how much I hate them. I'm not talking fanboi hate, or my OS is better than your OS hate.
Case in point: I'm using Virtual Server to test moving our DC's to IPSEC to make them more resistant to WINS attacks. To do so requires three DC's and a Workstation. it takes, roughly, 80 steps to build the infrastructure to do this. About 60 of those steps is broken or doesn't work in some way. I've spent five days so far, on three different implementations, and I STILL don't have the pre-reqs in place to test the hypothesis!
Sure, it's an easy target to say I'm not qualified to do this, but that's a strawman attack. The failures are conflicts in the way _microsoft_ suggests you operate. Want to isolate the network? you can't update the machines to the current SP's. Want to use a standard vhd to base your network off of? Better hope it's up to date. Want to install Certificate Services? Better hope IIS6 is enabled first cause it won't work installing it after the fact (or uninstalling cert services, installing IIS6 and reinstalling Cert Services.)
this amount of headache in just TESTING a theory does not make me happy with applying it to a PRODUCTION environment.
uh huh. While I'm a member of the lunatic fringe and download/PVR the stuff I want, I doubt I'd pay much more than what I'm paying for Satellite TV now to get it.
And I still don't see your citation.
That's a lovely, scary, statement you've made there, and it's earned youa buncha karma...care to back up the claims with a citation or two?
Billions? I highly doubt Billions.
No, the Grandparent is remembering correctly. There was something on tha back of a trading card (man, THAT'S a deep memory) that said it reflected at that level.
Course, an impressionable 7 year old in 1980 will take it at face value and not question it like a slasdot poster in 2005 will.
We're not ALL incompetent. We'd purchased two NAS boxes from Dell/EMC. Turns out they sold a total of SIX before droppiong the line and all support. (Due to extreme suckage I guess) After we negotiated out of that one, we were stuck with two boxes that needed to be surplussed (which I'd hoped to scrounge for a song after the fact....2 Tb of Raid storage in my basement woulda been nice.)
Unfortunately Dell/EMC, in their incompetence, couldn't figure out how to DOD wipe the drives. So they dot disassembled and passed out amongst the staff. I've got a pretty statue made up of HD platters and magnets now.
Woulda preferred the storage in my basement tho.
Buy a 5 lb. laptop and lose 4 lbs. of weight.
Nah, we ALREADY HAVE an omnipresent global network...they'll just flip a bit and your cellphone will be that link. The hard part is handing the handoff from an 'expensive' network (GPRS) to a cheap one (WiFi) without dropping the call/connection.
Or, more likely, we'll realize that you Don't Need Pervasive Internet Everywhere...it's just another fantasy us Geeks have.
Until you get a fabric network that covers multiple square miles per basestation (a la WiMAX) You'll not see a municipal implementation over a metro area.
Sure there are exceptions (where town.size approaches zero) or (starbuck.count approaches infinity) but this is just the economics catching up with the technology.
If you've got a connection at home, and you've got a connection on the Bus, and you've got a connection via your cellphone, and yuo've got a connection via your coffee shop, why does a city have to be 100% covered by 802.11a/b/g? GPRS/EDGE/3g/future can (and initially will) pick up the slack.
My V600 had a great deal of whackyness I couldn't get fixed (garbled external clock, occasionaly reboots, oh and fi you return your phone for a refurb with games on it you've had more than a few months...you're screwed.)
:
So Google 'hack v600' and there's a plethora of nifty things out there for it. The BIG stickler is: you've gotta get a REAL USB cable...my first one had a black box in the middle that converted usb on the PC side to the serial interface on the phone. You MUST have full USB to update the phone.
There are two (and a half) levels of updates for these phones; Flex, Flash, and Seems.
The Flex is similar to a firmware update in that is updates the low level internals of the phone. In doing so, I noticed improved reception, slightly better battery life, etc. I didn't wait long enough to see if that alone would fix my problems, I proceeded to
The Flash. Flash contains all the software that operates the phone. For awhile, I played around with a European software set that had a ROCKIN version of Monopoly (trust me, that's not a dichotomy of terms) It's major problem was a lack of american GPRS support. So I had a more stable phone, with some tnifty new features, but I couldn't surf the web using bluetooth on the busride.
I then found an american Flash that did what I needed it too. I still had to enter the defaults from mMode, and SMS stuff (luckily I had the wife's phone to refer to), but it did a pretty good job of squashing the bugs in the native AT&T Flash...
Which brings up an important point: the OEM flash is NOT backup-able, nor is it available via the usual suspects. So when you jump, you jump with both feet and no net. It turned out okay in the end (after I got the internet connectivity stuff worked out) but it's somethign to be aware of. If you're REALLY stuck on it saying AT&T, don't update your phone.
One of the mods allows for uploading java apps from the desktop (A procedure usually masked off by the cellphone carriers...they want YOU to pay THEM for this stuff) So I managed to get that european version of Monopoly back.
Seems are patches to a Flex that enable, disable, of modify behavior. I haven't tried them, and haven't yet seen the need to.
Lastly: While this has been v600 specific, the vXXX series of phones (6XX 5XX and 4XX at the very least) all support these flex/flash combos. so a cheaper phone can pick up the multimedia apps and some items available on the more expensive bretheren. (except where hardware limitations prevent it...face it, if bluetooth isn't on the motherboard, you can't turn it on via software)
It kinda bugs me that this wasn't available as a service from AT&T, I would have gladly stuck with a firmware REV to solve the problems...coure now, I'll never have to pay for phone software, so I'm okay with that too.