Bankers used to be even worse than that. When I was a kid - I'm 33 now - I remember that banks usually were open from, say, 9 to noon, then closed until 1, then reopened until around 4 - but the afternoon transactions were counted as occurring on the next business day.
If you're an early-morning person, and you want to get out and see some sunlight in the afternoon, you might want to consider working in a field that keeps those hours. I don't know if you want to switch or not, but for those who are still young enough to choose, consider working in a surgical field. The day starts around 7, and so most people work 6:30(ish) to 3, with a few starting earlier.
True that.
To riff on something I've seen here, what businesses are actually open from 9 to 5? I've never seen one. Offices open at 8; small retail tends to open at 10 (and stay open until 6); big retail is more like 9 to 9; the healthcare day usually starts at 7.
I suppose my question should be rephrased: do you live on a huge hill with a narrow declivity that happens to point right at your back door? Or what?
I've seen the results of a hundred-year flood in my hometown, and I've never lived anywhere within 30 vertical feet of that as a result. I'm not condemning you; people in a lot of areas don't think about that because it doesn't happen often. I'm more interested in what exactly happened, mostly because I want to insulate myself against similar circumstances should I move elsewhere.
Solid-state stuff, if cleaned properly (i.e., with copious amounts of distilled water), should work just fine after *brief* immersion, as long as no power was applied (which is not the same as being turned off).
You can kiss the hard drives goodbye, and capacitors may be a big issue. How quickly did you get it out the door?
As far as the question of admitting dirty mold into your house, molds are everywhere in the environment. (Try leaving bread dough out without adding yeast and see how long it takes to start rising.) What makes for an infestation is constant high humidity. Plus, there's nothing there to serve as mold food, unless you've got paper cones on your speakers (e.g.) or the like.
In short: if you wash off your appliances, inside and out, then dry them thoroughly, you might save them. Thoroughly means days in the sun.
Experience to back the above: I've thoroughly washed a dozen or so keyboards and several motherboards.
Finally, where do you live? 10" of rain turns into 6' of water in a basement when you don't live in a flood plain? Why would anyone build a basement in an area subject to such problems? (I live in an area without basements, both because of shrink-swell soil and high water tables.)
Win95 rev B was better than WinME, and Win98 (especially SE) was a lot better than WinME. Win98SE is still a pretty good OS for old-school gaming; it's like DOS 5.
Some fields are tournaments; most go home with nothing, while the extraordinary few make astoundingly large amounts of money. Some are slogs; if you put in the hours and have the basic ability, you will do reasonably well but never make the big time.
Math is one of the latter; if you're good at it, you will have a comfortable middle-class lifestyle, but there are almost no chances to bag a multimillion-dollar payout. So is my field, medicine; there are no poor doctors, but there are vanishingly few who have made Real Money from it. A huge percentage of those who are the first in the family to do medicine are the intelligent children of lower-middle-class or middle-middle-class families; it remains one of the most sure paths into the upper middle class, despite poor hours and an extraordinarily long training period.
I won't steer my children into medicine, though I won't completely discourage it; I'll encourage them to seek a field where they don't have to work nights, weekends, or holidays. My parents couldn't offer me the kind of security - of freedom to take risks - that I will be able to offer them, and so I had to choose a field with a lower maximum reward but essentially no chance of total failure. Michael Dell, for instance, is exactly the kind of person I would hope my children will have the opportunity to be (if they want) - his parents started his first business, when he was a teenager, with a $15k loan (equivalent to about $30K today) that they were able to give him because losing the money wasn't that big of a risk - it was the sort of thing they could take a chance on.
Well, if it does violate US patents, then theoretically you might be open to suit (I don't know, I'm not a lawyer), but I've never heard of someone being sued for possessing something that violates a patent - only for selling it. You shouldn't worry about it. US Customs is not in the patent-enforcement business.
Big companies can't exactly get much in the way of damages out of noncommercial activity. Just out of curiosity, what software violates US patents in and of itself?
This American Life. Episode 192. Poker pros describe how they finance both the house cut and their own living expenses (to the tune of around $200-300k/yr) off businessmen who think they know how to play, while on net winning little or nothing off each other.
Looks != is. Just 'shop out the snipers and SAM sites. Actually, it looks like they've put up additional roofing structures to obscure them around the clock.
Filtered by what? Your newsreader, or your provider?
I have to admit a certain laziness, in that I didn't like most of the newsreaders I tried (they didn't thread properly) and I never went back and tried newer ones later.
Does anybody still actually use usenet for anything other than the binary groups? I haven't touched it in a decade, mainly because the spam got so bad.
Like the rather brilliant scheme that says "Want to know if your lover is cheating on you? Text both your names to xxxxx and we'll tell you" ?
I just wish I'd come up with it, fine print says it's like $5 for 5 uses. And it's completely automated; you make a one-time investment and the occasional commercial on crap TV, set up your server, and rake it in.
Mod parent up. I'm a very handy. I bought a house with a yard that had been ignored for a long time, and that alone has taken me 3 years just to get under control. Problems with the house? A nightmare. Huge amounts of money. Huge amounts of work. But, at the end, the reward of knowing you have a really great home.
Humor aside, psychic readings require a fair amount of people skills to work - most geeks lack this. Hire people who can do it, pay by call duration, use your geek skills to set up an ultra-efficient call center.
They might just be the greatest employee known to humanity, but they're probably not. There's a reason that stoners are generally thought of as apathetic dullards: most of them are. (And by "stoners", I don't mean "people who smoke pot"; I mean people who advertise it.) A lot of employers - especially small ones - are willing to take a weaker candidate that they think is reliable over one who is going to call in sick twice a month for a "mental health day".
Yes, you should judge the person, but when you're facing a stack of 150 resumes, and you have 2 positions, how are you going to get down to 8 or 10 interview candidates? A friend of mine once had to do this at a Fortune 500 company hiring for entry-level management-track positions. She and a co-worker grabbed the stack and threw away those that were on colored paper, used colored ink, were scented, or demonstrated obvious bad grammar or spelling. That got them down from 150 resumes to 20 (!), before they started looking at things like GPA. This is an online version of the same thing.
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Bankers used to be even worse than that. When I was a kid - I'm 33 now - I remember that banks usually were open from, say, 9 to noon, then closed until 1, then reopened until around 4 - but the afternoon transactions were counted as occurring on the next business day.
If you're an early-morning person, and you want to get out and see some sunlight in the afternoon, you might want to consider working in a field that keeps those hours. I don't know if you want to switch or not, but for those who are still young enough to choose, consider working in a surgical field. The day starts around 7, and so most people work 6:30(ish) to 3, with a few starting earlier.
True that. To riff on something I've seen here, what businesses are actually open from 9 to 5? I've never seen one. Offices open at 8; small retail tends to open at 10 (and stay open until 6); big retail is more like 9 to 9; the healthcare day usually starts at 7.
Ah, that makes it clear. Thanks.
(not the stuff you drink)
Actually, Everclear or similar 95% ethanol is quite hygroscopic and would work well to speed the drying step.
I suppose my question should be rephrased: do you live on a huge hill with a narrow declivity that happens to point right at your back door? Or what?
I've seen the results of a hundred-year flood in my hometown, and I've never lived anywhere within 30 vertical feet of that as a result. I'm not condemning you; people in a lot of areas don't think about that because it doesn't happen often. I'm more interested in what exactly happened, mostly because I want to insulate myself against similar circumstances should I move elsewhere.
Solid-state stuff, if cleaned properly (i.e., with copious amounts of distilled water), should work just fine after *brief* immersion, as long as no power was applied (which is not the same as being turned off).
You can kiss the hard drives goodbye, and capacitors may be a big issue. How quickly did you get it out the door?
As far as the question of admitting dirty mold into your house, molds are everywhere in the environment. (Try leaving bread dough out without adding yeast and see how long it takes to start rising.) What makes for an infestation is constant high humidity. Plus, there's nothing there to serve as mold food, unless you've got paper cones on your speakers (e.g.) or the like.
In short: if you wash off your appliances, inside and out, then dry them thoroughly, you might save them. Thoroughly means days in the sun.
Experience to back the above: I've thoroughly washed a dozen or so keyboards and several motherboards.
Finally, where do you live? 10" of rain turns into 6' of water in a basement when you don't live in a flood plain? Why would anyone build a basement in an area subject to such problems? (I live in an area without basements, both because of shrink-swell soil and high water tables.)
"God made men. Sam Colt made them equal."
- anonymous 19th century wag
1. OS/2 1.x
2. OS/2 2.x
3. WinNT 3.x
4. WinNT 4
5. WinNT 5.x (2000, XP)
6. WinNT 6 (Vista)
7. WinNT 7
That's how you get to Windows 7. Remember that OS/2 was originally a MS-IBM joint venture.
Win95 rev B was better than WinME, and Win98 (especially SE) was a lot better than WinME. Win98SE is still a pretty good OS for old-school gaming; it's like DOS 5.
Some fields are tournaments; most go home with nothing, while the extraordinary few make astoundingly large amounts of money. Some are slogs; if you put in the hours and have the basic ability, you will do reasonably well but never make the big time.
Math is one of the latter; if you're good at it, you will have a comfortable middle-class lifestyle, but there are almost no chances to bag a multimillion-dollar payout. So is my field, medicine; there are no poor doctors, but there are vanishingly few who have made Real Money from it. A huge percentage of those who are the first in the family to do medicine are the intelligent children of lower-middle-class or middle-middle-class families; it remains one of the most sure paths into the upper middle class, despite poor hours and an extraordinarily long training period.
I won't steer my children into medicine, though I won't completely discourage it; I'll encourage them to seek a field where they don't have to work nights, weekends, or holidays. My parents couldn't offer me the kind of security - of freedom to take risks - that I will be able to offer them, and so I had to choose a field with a lower maximum reward but essentially no chance of total failure. Michael Dell, for instance, is exactly the kind of person I would hope my children will have the opportunity to be (if they want) - his parents started his first business, when he was a teenager, with a $15k loan (equivalent to about $30K today) that they were able to give him because losing the money wasn't that big of a risk - it was the sort of thing they could take a chance on.
Well, if it does violate US patents, then theoretically you might be open to suit (I don't know, I'm not a lawyer), but I've never heard of someone being sued for possessing something that violates a patent - only for selling it. You shouldn't worry about it. US Customs is not in the patent-enforcement business.
Big companies can't exactly get much in the way of damages out of noncommercial activity. Just out of curiosity, what software violates US patents in and of itself?
No. Patents are a commercial - hence civil - issue, not a criminal one. You don't go to jail for breaking patent, you get sued.
How do one not look like a terrorist with an arabic name ?
Wear a t-shirt with American concert dates, shave the beard, and don't act creepy? Might not work, if the guy's enough of a jerk, but it can't hurt.
This American Life. Episode 192. Poker pros describe how they finance both the house cut and their own living expenses (to the tune of around $200-300k/yr) off businessmen who think they know how to play, while on net winning little or nothing off each other.
Looks != is. Just 'shop out the snipers and SAM sites. Actually, it looks like they've put up additional roofing structures to obscure them around the clock.
... and I'm sure our friends at NSA have retouched that image just a little bit. Notice how lurid the colors are?
Check the cupholder, it's sometimes in there.
Filtered by what? Your newsreader, or your provider?
I have to admit a certain laziness, in that I didn't like most of the newsreaders I tried (they didn't thread properly) and I never went back and tried newer ones later.
Does anybody still actually use usenet for anything other than the binary groups? I haven't touched it in a decade, mainly because the spam got so bad.
Sorry, the crap late-night TV I watch attracts a different patch of the prole audience, so I don't really see these things very often. Who's Brown?
Like the rather brilliant scheme that says "Want to know if your lover is cheating on you? Text both your names to xxxxx and we'll tell you" ?
I just wish I'd come up with it, fine print says it's like $5 for 5 uses. And it's completely automated; you make a one-time investment and the occasional commercial on crap TV, set up your server, and rake it in.
Mod parent up. I'm a very handy. I bought a house with a yard that had been ignored for a long time, and that alone has taken me 3 years just to get under control. Problems with the house? A nightmare. Huge amounts of money. Huge amounts of work. But, at the end, the reward of knowing you have a really great home.
Humor aside, psychic readings require a fair amount of people skills to work - most geeks lack this. Hire people who can do it, pay by call duration, use your geek skills to set up an ultra-efficient call center.
They might just be the greatest employee known to humanity, but they're probably not. There's a reason that stoners are generally thought of as apathetic dullards: most of them are. (And by "stoners", I don't mean "people who smoke pot"; I mean people who advertise it.) A lot of employers - especially small ones - are willing to take a weaker candidate that they think is reliable over one who is going to call in sick twice a month for a "mental health day".
Yes, you should judge the person, but when you're facing a stack of 150 resumes, and you have 2 positions, how are you going to get down to 8 or 10 interview candidates? A friend of mine once had to do this at a Fortune 500 company hiring for entry-level management-track positions. She and a co-worker grabbed the stack and threw away those that were on colored paper, used colored ink, were scented, or demonstrated obvious bad grammar or spelling. That got them down from 150 resumes to 20 (!), before they started looking at things like GPA. This is an online version of the same thing.