Not as safe as, what? It's not like a tankful of gasoline is exactly the epitome of safety. Yes, there are new challenges for emergency workers. Yes, it will take time for emergency workers to be as used to hybrids as other types of cars. This is similar to emergency workers having to deal with undeployed air bags, particularly in new locations (e.g., side-curtain), and their possible accidental deployment in dealing with a wreck. Emergency workers have to adapt to new technology frequently -- hybrids are just another change.
First, I'd like to apologize for posting on/. and actually knowing what I'm talking about.
Second, I've been a firefighter for 14 years (most of them volunteer), and a state (PA) certified VRT (vehicle rescue technician) for years.
Yes, hybrids cause problems for us. When we pull up on one we have to pull our the emergency response guide for the vehicle to know where we can cut. We had to re-train on them so we don't get killed.
That being said, I'd rather cut a hybrid apart any day than a newer Mercedes or Range Rover (and increasing other vehicles) with airbags ALL OVER THE PLACE. They're in the A posts, in the B posts, in the doors, in the roof. You name the spot, there's a pyro that has already fired, or worse yet, has not fired that you do NOT want to be cutting into. And which very likely may fire at any time after an accident (disconnecting the battery is not enough....some air bag systems take in excess of 15 minutes after being disconnected to be "safe".....15 minutes you DO NOT HAVE when you're trying to get critical patients out). It's much more hazardous than hybrids, which typically involve shutting the "ignition" off, and pulling the high voltage fuses, usually located in the trunk. The high voltage battery is typically surrounded by steel, and is typically located behing the back seat. This is an area which is very unlikely to be deformed by mechanical damage in any kind of colision other than one so sever it just rpis the whole car apart, making the whole extracation thing more of a body recovery/get out the coal shovel exercise anyway.
So, that being said, if you want to try to protect firefighters who are performing vehicle rescues, don't get rid of airbags, don't get rid of hybrids.....SLOW THE HELL DOWN when you approach an emergency scene and GET THE HELL OUT OF THE WAY when we need to pass you. Oh...and don't do stupid things that make us come rescue you in the first place.
exactly most companies run in debt because they don't wan't to sell more shares than they have to. sorry if my wording wasn't too clear
That depends. It depends on who you sell the shares to and what they are going to do with them. If you sell them to a hedge fund in a debt/equity line type of arrangement, you can bet they're gonna trade them through pretty quickly which will bang your stock price down. On the other hand, you could be selling them to a private investor or mutual who want to hold on to them. Nothing wrong with that. As far as dilution goes, we aren't talking about someone's home business.....so what if someone else has a piece. Everyone is there to make money. As long as the people with large chunks have the same term-length goals in mind everything can work out just fine.
i was under the impression that having your stock availible to the general public was what made a company a public company.
No, the way it is marketed, what qualified an investor to buy, and what burden the company has for public reporting are the main differences.
A company does not need to "IPO" to go public. There are other ways.
such as?
Off the top of my head, the latest trend is to reverse merge into a public shell. There are plenty laying around form the dot-com bust. It's faster and cheaper.
Wow....you don't know a thing about business and finance, do you?
Selling shares of a company is equity financing, not debt financing.
Selling bonds is debt financing.
A private company most certianly can sell stock.
A company does not need to "IPO" to go public. There are other ways.
Yanno, I've always had a problem with people saying animals like pythons are dangerous. Well let's see, considering more people die annually from dog attacks than pythons, we should be microchipping all pets.
While I don't particularly disagree with you, I hope you relaize that those statistics prove nothing about how dangerous the various animals mentioned actually are. If those figures included how many were actually present in the us and were stated in "1 human death per 25,000 horses" or something similar, they might be useful.
...but as a trained rescue worker I'm telling you: if you don't know what to being and you haven't been told by your organization what to bring DO NOT GO. If you do not know what you are doing or are not being closely supervised by someone who knows what they are doing you will beomc e part of the problem rather than the solution.
I understand that everyone "wants to help". Unless you "want to help" enough to get properly trained BEFORE THE FACT, you are NOT REALLY HELPING.
I am the deputy coordinator of emergency operations for a very small river town in PA. I would LOVE to have more people interested in helping, but the bulk of people aren't interested in doing so unless we're currently underwater. At that point, it's pretty much too late to be trained.
I'm sorry if this is offensive to you. I'm sure you're trying to do a good thing. But make sure you are doing more than trying. Make sure you are going with someone qualified. Make sure you were properly invited/deployed and you are going with a rogue "assistance" group.
Copyrights are cheap around $30 per application and patents are roughly $650 per patent application (plust a $100-$150 filling fee) with an average $1,000 every 7 years to maintain... That might be exspensive to a small business but $5,000 or so for every patent for 17 years is a steal for a multi-million dollar company.
However, the Patent experts and full time lawyers they hire on cost an arm and a leg and have to be factored in.
The cost of filing a copyright, and especially a patent is damn near insignificant. Any patent that has a chance of standing up is going to cost in the neighborhood of $12,000 in attorney and research fees for something very basic. It only goes up from there.
Apple has internal council you say? They sure do. Inside council patent attorneys worth having can't be had for under $150k.
WHAT YOU SAY? It's not a "hard drive" but an ethernet disk?
Oh. Well you got me there.
Aparratnly. Because they're two different things. Those boxes are made up of several hard drives. This article is about hard drive capacity. Not storage appliance capacity.
I have a Quantum SNAP server that I put 4 300 GB drives in. Does that mean I have a 1.2 TB hard drive? No. It means I have a 1.2 TB storage appliance.
Going outside of this range leads to premature failure of components and appliances, especially ones that have motors in them (like hard drives).
The power supplies in computers are switching. They control the voltage to the devices, regardless of what's on the line. Below a certian point, the won't be able to deal with it, but for the most part, the line power isn't going to break components in a machine....it's going to trash the power supply. Which is probably the second thing this guy should be looking at (after improper cooling).
Good....because I sure as hell wan't trying to say that the A+ has _ANY_ merit to it at all. I was just speaking to how it got the aura of being worth something.
I certainly don't think that an A+ cert is a proper credential for fixing computer problems. Especially laptops, which is what toshiba mostly makes.
As someone who took the test (years ago) I can tell you with absolute certianty that it's hardly even good enough for desktop repair. It doesn't even come close to being valid for laptops. Back when I took it, it's was in the Win95 days. The A+ was mostly still DOS and Win 3.1. Hopefully they've updated. They also had about 20 questions on grounding straps and where to attach them. It was pretty much a joke.
Ummm....CompTIA...one of the largets computer technology industry groups. It's possible that no one cares NOW, but you don't think that the cert would have gained the traction it has without a recognized name behind it, do you?
A+ is still one of the requirements for most major manufacturer's hardware certs. Some don't even bother going any further (I seem to remember Toshiba's repair certification being "fax us your A+ cert and we'll send you a Toshiba authorized tech number").
OMFG....bad memories. I was still a box-buster bench tech back when these came out. Compaq Prolinea something or others had them, and like 40% of the boxes they were in ended up back on my bench within 6 months, and the rest were recalled shortly after that (making the remaining 60% end up on my bench). And of course warranty repair covers physically swapping the drive only....CPQ was nice enough to put a default OS load on there like the PC just came out of the box. Imagine how much fun it was to deal with customers on that one.
I believe it was around that time that I got really familiar with Gost. Before Norton bought the company and screwed it up.
The results on the actual owners of the corporation (shareholders) being totally absolved of responsibility for the actions of the corporation.
While that's true, you conveniently forgot the part where the board of directgors ARE legally responsible. And unless you head has been in a dark place for a long time, you might have noticed an increase in the heads of such boards being brough up on charges and incarcerated where appropriate.
Real sysadmins use Z on their equipment. And if you don't, your network isn't big enough to deserve any sympathy to have to patch for this kind of change.
Let them hear actors reading, or watch actors performing. Good actors can make the page come alive far better than a high school freshman can. That's their job.
The first thing that comes to my mind is Bradley Whitford reading Shakespeare in Billy Madison. The second thing that comes to my mind is that the scene was hilarious because I remember teachers playing records (gasp) of people reading Shakespeare during class for just the resaons you mention....and it sounded pretty much the same: ridiculious to a high school kid with no interest.
Repeat after me: not all problems have technological solutions.
i'm convinced that most IT people don't understand the point of their job - provide service to their users so that their users can get their shit done. That means, if you have to research something you don't know (how to get Macs to connect to SMB shares) then get off your fat ass and find out how!!!! Then help your user!
Having gone through this at the grunt level as well as the management level, I can say that you are 110% correct. Most IT people, especially "paper mill" MCSE's really don't know whay they are . They often seem to think that the network/technology/whatever drives the business, rather than the other way around. With very few exceptions, that is obviously not the case, with their salaries easily in the "cost of doing business" category. This is eaxactly why so many non-techies have such a negative view of techs.
One of the worst examples I personally witnessed was an underling of mine who decided that the middle of the day, after he finished lunch, would be a good time to clean up the wiring closet. He felt no need to notify users, and seemed to not understand why this was a problem (at a web-based software development company, where 90% of the employees were testing code on machines that they damn well needed the network to get to).
And one more: A software developer at at a different job who I assigned to write a piece of software (almost....nothing more than an Access app) to assist in expediting a daily paperwork nightmare (ACH to/from several accounts....all source destination information already available electronically). I told him to go sit down with the girl who did it and lear how she does her job and exactly what she needed. His response was "I don't need to know how to do her job to write that." My response was, "See that door? Don't let it hit you in the ass on the way out."
Yet you say you get the Podcast versions. Do you know something I don't, or were you just saying "Podcast" when you meant their RSS news feeds, some of which contain audio links?
I provided a link in my parent post with a link to the provider. You get a [-1 Poor reading comprehension].
Audible already works very well with the iPod. I'm sure iTMS will be integrating already-well-established feeds like this at some point, simply because there is an existing market of people who are willing to pay for them.
I'll tell you why I care: after having a tivo for years now, I like my entertainment time shifted. The few things I listen to on the radio are mostly NPR broadcasts, and mostly on an inconvenient times for me. So I get the podcast versions of those. Done.
I don't listen to lame ass rants made by some kid in his mom's basement, and I'm guessing that few adults do. Podcasting has been going on a lot longer than you think. Take for example Audible. They've been doing it since way before it was trendy, and I've been downloading (and in the earlier days paying for) NPR content from them. Simply because it's convenient for me.
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/. and actually knowing what I'm talking about.
Not as safe as, what? It's not like a tankful of gasoline is exactly the epitome of safety. Yes, there are new challenges for emergency workers. Yes, it will take time for emergency workers to be as used to hybrids as other types of cars. This is similar to emergency workers having to deal with undeployed air bags, particularly in new locations (e.g., side-curtain), and their possible accidental deployment in dealing with a wreck. Emergency workers have to adapt to new technology frequently -- hybrids are just another change.
First, I'd like to apologize for posting on
Second, I've been a firefighter for 14 years (most of them volunteer), and a state (PA) certified VRT (vehicle rescue technician) for years.
Yes, hybrids cause problems for us. When we pull up on one we have to pull our the emergency response guide for the vehicle to know where we can cut. We had to re-train on them so we don't get killed.
That being said, I'd rather cut a hybrid apart any day than a newer Mercedes or Range Rover (and increasing other vehicles) with airbags ALL OVER THE PLACE. They're in the A posts, in the B posts, in the doors, in the roof. You name the spot, there's a pyro that has already fired, or worse yet, has not fired that you do NOT want to be cutting into. And which very likely may fire at any time after an accident (disconnecting the battery is not enough....some air bag systems take in excess of 15 minutes after being disconnected to be "safe".....15 minutes you DO NOT HAVE when you're trying to get critical patients out). It's much more hazardous than hybrids, which typically involve shutting the "ignition" off, and pulling the high voltage fuses, usually located in the trunk. The high voltage battery is typically surrounded by steel, and is typically located behing the back seat. This is an area which is very unlikely to be deformed by mechanical damage in any kind of colision other than one so sever it just rpis the whole car apart, making the whole extracation thing more of a body recovery/get out the coal shovel exercise anyway.
So, that being said, if you want to try to protect firefighters who are performing vehicle rescues, don't get rid of airbags, don't get rid of hybrids.....SLOW THE HELL DOWN when you approach an emergency scene and GET THE HELL OUT OF THE WAY when we need to pass you. Oh...and don't do stupid things that make us come rescue you in the first place.
exactly most companies run in debt because they don't wan't to sell more shares than they have to. sorry if my wording wasn't too clear
That depends. It depends on who you sell the shares to and what they are going to do with them. If you sell them to a hedge fund in a debt/equity line type of arrangement, you can bet they're gonna trade them through pretty quickly which will bang your stock price down. On the other hand, you could be selling them to a private investor or mutual who want to hold on to them. Nothing wrong with that. As far as dilution goes, we aren't talking about someone's home business.....so what if someone else has a piece. Everyone is there to make money. As long as the people with large chunks have the same term-length goals in mind everything can work out just fine.
i was under the impression that having your stock availible to the general public was what made a company a public company.
No, the way it is marketed, what qualified an investor to buy, and what burden the company has for public reporting are the main differences.
A company does not need to "IPO" to go public. There are other ways. such as?
Off the top of my head, the latest trend is to reverse merge into a public shell. There are plenty laying around form the dot-com bust. It's faster and cheaper.
Wow....you don't know a thing about business and finance, do you?
Selling shares of a company is equity financing, not debt financing.
Selling bonds is debt financing.
A private company most certianly can sell stock.
A company does not need to "IPO" to go public. There are other ways.
Yanno, I've always had a problem with people saying animals like pythons are dangerous. Well let's see, considering more people die annually from dog attacks than pythons, we should be microchipping all pets.
While I don't particularly disagree with you, I hope you relaize that those statistics prove nothing about how dangerous the various animals mentioned actually are. If those figures included how many were actually present in the us and were stated in "1 human death per 25,000 horses" or something similar, they might be useful.
...but as a trained rescue worker I'm telling you: if you don't know what to being and you haven't been told by your organization what to bring DO NOT GO. If you do not know what you are doing or are not being closely supervised by someone who knows what they are doing you will beomc e part of the problem rather than the solution.
I understand that everyone "wants to help". Unless you "want to help" enough to get properly trained BEFORE THE FACT, you are NOT REALLY HELPING.
I am the deputy coordinator of emergency operations for a very small river town in PA. I would LOVE to have more people interested in helping, but the bulk of people aren't interested in doing so unless we're currently underwater. At that point, it's pretty much too late to be trained.
I'm sorry if this is offensive to you. I'm sure you're trying to do a good thing. But make sure you are doing more than trying. Make sure you are going with someone qualified. Make sure you were properly invited/deployed and you are going with a rogue "assistance" group.
Copyrights are cheap around $30 per application and patents are roughly $650 per patent application (plust a $100-$150 filling fee) with an average $1,000 every 7 years to maintain... That might be exspensive to a small business but $5,000 or so for every patent for 17 years is a steal for a multi-million dollar company.
However, the Patent experts and full time lawyers they hire on cost an arm and a leg and have to be factored in.
The cost of filing a copyright, and especially a patent is damn near insignificant. Any patent that has a chance of standing up is going to cost in the neighborhood of $12,000 in attorney and research fees for something very basic. It only goes up from there.
Apple has internal council you say? They sure do. Inside council patent attorneys worth having can't be had for under $150k.
My daughter just got a book about this. It's an interesteing read.
WHAT YOU SAY? It's not a "hard drive" but an ethernet disk?
Oh. Well you got me there.
Aparratnly. Because they're two different things. Those boxes are made up of several hard drives. This article is about hard drive capacity. Not storage appliance capacity.
I have a Quantum SNAP server that I put 4 300 GB drives in. Does that mean I have a 1.2 TB hard drive? No. It means I have a 1.2 TB storage appliance.
Going outside of this range leads to premature failure of components and appliances, especially ones that have motors in them (like hard drives).
The power supplies in computers are switching. They control the voltage to the devices, regardless of what's on the line. Below a certian point, the won't be able to deal with it, but for the most part, the line power isn't going to break components in a machine....it's going to trash the power supply. Which is probably the second thing this guy should be looking at (after improper cooling).
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AC for the non-karwhoring.
A-HA! You've made my point
Good....because I sure as hell wan't trying to say that the A+ has _ANY_ merit to it at all. I was just speaking to how it got the aura of being worth something.
I certainly don't think that an A+ cert is a proper credential for fixing computer problems. Especially laptops, which is what toshiba mostly makes.
As someone who took the test (years ago) I can tell you with absolute certianty that it's hardly even good enough for desktop repair. It doesn't even come close to being valid for laptops. Back when I took it, it's was in the Win95 days. The A+ was mostly still DOS and Win 3.1. Hopefully they've updated. They also had about 20 questions on grounding straps and where to attach them. It was pretty much a joke.
but who governs A+?
Ummm....CompTIA...one of the largets computer technology industry groups. It's possible that no one cares NOW, but you don't think that the cert would have gained the traction it has without a recognized name behind it, do you?
A+ is still one of the requirements for most major manufacturer's hardware certs. Some don't even bother going any further (I seem to remember Toshiba's repair certification being "fax us your A+ cert and we'll send you a Toshiba authorized tech number").
though a bigfoot broked.
OMFG....bad memories. I was still a box-buster bench tech back when these came out. Compaq Prolinea something or others had them, and like 40% of the boxes they were in ended up back on my bench within 6 months, and the rest were recalled shortly after that (making the remaining 60% end up on my bench). And of course warranty repair covers physically swapping the drive only....CPQ was nice enough to put a default OS load on there like the PC just came out of the box. Imagine how much fun it was to deal with customers on that one.
I believe it was around that time that I got really familiar with Gost. Before Norton bought the company and screwed it up.
CIR = Confirmed information rate (guaranteed bandwidth)
Bzzzzzzt.
CIR = Committed Information Rate
....but:
Turns out he'd landed at the Wilmington International Airport.
Holy crap! (coming from someone who knows nothing about hang gliding)
Wow...we got our tickets at almost the same time ;)
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The results on the actual owners of the corporation (shareholders) being totally absolved of responsibility for the actions of the corporation.
While that's true, you conveniently forgot the part where the board of directgors ARE legally responsible. And unless you head has been in a dark place for a long time, you might have noticed an increase in the heads of such boards being brough up on charges and incarcerated where appropriate.
Real sysadmins use Z on their equipment. And if you don't, your network isn't big enough to deserve any sympathy to have to patch for this kind of change.
Let them hear actors reading, or watch actors performing. Good actors can make the page come alive far better than a high school freshman can. That's their job.
The first thing that comes to my mind is Bradley Whitford reading Shakespeare in Billy Madison. The second thing that comes to my mind is that the scene was hilarious because I remember teachers playing records (gasp) of people reading Shakespeare during class for just the resaons you mention....and it sounded pretty much the same: ridiculious to a high school kid with no interest.
Repeat after me: not all problems have technological solutions.
i'm convinced that most IT people don't understand the point of their job - provide service to their users so that their users can get their shit done. That means, if you have to research something you don't know (how to get Macs to connect to SMB shares) then get off your fat ass and find out how!!!! Then help your user!
Having gone through this at the grunt level as well as the management level, I can say that you are 110% correct. Most IT people, especially "paper mill" MCSE's really don't know whay they are . They often seem to think that the network/technology/whatever drives the business, rather than the other way around. With very few exceptions, that is obviously not the case, with their salaries easily in the "cost of doing business" category. This is eaxactly why so many non-techies have such a negative view of techs.
One of the worst examples I personally witnessed was an underling of mine who decided that the middle of the day, after he finished lunch, would be a good time to clean up the wiring closet. He felt no need to notify users, and seemed to not understand why this was a problem (at a web-based software development company, where 90% of the employees were testing code on machines that they damn well needed the network to get to).
And one more: A software developer at at a different job who I assigned to write a piece of software (almost....nothing more than an Access app) to assist in expediting a daily paperwork nightmare (ACH to/from several accounts....all source destination information already available electronically). I told him to go sit down with the girl who did it and lear how she does her job and exactly what she needed. His response was "I don't need to know how to do her job to write that." My response was, "See that door? Don't let it hit you in the ass on the way out."
Yet you say you get the Podcast versions. Do you know something I don't, or were you just saying "Podcast" when you meant their RSS news feeds, some of which contain audio links?
I provided a link in my parent post with a link to the provider. You get a [-1 Poor reading comprehension].
I would love for NPR to start selling/distributing podcasts.
You mean like this and this?
Audible already works very well with the iPod. I'm sure iTMS will be integrating already-well-established feeds like this at some point, simply because there is an existing market of people who are willing to pay for them.
A better question is, "why should I care?"
I'll tell you why I care: after having a tivo for years now, I like my entertainment time shifted. The few things I listen to on the radio are mostly NPR broadcasts, and mostly on an inconvenient times for me. So I get the podcast versions of those. Done.
I don't listen to lame ass rants made by some kid in his mom's basement, and I'm guessing that few adults do. Podcasting has been going on a lot longer than you think. Take for example Audible. They've been doing it since way before it was trendy, and I've been downloading (and in the earlier days paying for) NPR content from them. Simply because it's convenient for me.
Am I the only one who find the term "blogosphere" almost as annoying as "cyberspace" and "e-{insert whatever word you want here}"?