Um, actually the most recent research shows that starvation before chemo therapy DOES in fact help with recovery, it's not new-agey at all =) It helpded my former VP significantly with her ability to work a couple days after receiving her chemo treatments.
You JUST started selling a 3G Blackberry last MONTH, it's kind of hard and expensive to upgraded 350 one year old handsets before you start degrading service.....
Uh, AT&T JUST started selling a 3G Blackberry a few weeks ago (the Bold), I would say switching the network over to 3G is just a BIT premature at this point, wouldn't you? Of course maybe they need to since in my testing their 3G speeds a year ago were about 1/7th of Verizons.
You were in a big metal box surrounded by more metal and you think there had to be someone blocking your probably already marginal signal?!? Dude it's a mobile phone not a landline with a really long extension cord =)
Cingular turned of TDMA mostly because they desperately needed the spectrum in a few crowded markets like southern California. They were known to have connection problems and a much higher number of dropped calls due to an oversubscription of available bandwidth so they freed up bandwidth by terminating the most inefficient technology and re-allocating it. The also warned people starting about 18 months before they did it and started charging increasing fees a year out. I loved my 6 year old Nokia brick, great voice quality and long battery life, but all good things come to an end.
IBM as well, including on workstation and server motherboards. I know because one of my scariest days in IT came because of one of those server boards. A banking client was having all of their servers motherboards replaced proactively free of charge by IBM which meant a site visit to every branch. Well, naturally since it was scheduled it was done outside of business hours. There's nothing like working in a bank after dark in the ghetto....
To keep this on topic, I have two fond memories of Micron: the first was a friend in college who had a PPro based workstation that was passivly cooled, it had a heatsink that looked like a stack tin can lids around a solid core. The second memory is something I use to this day, their 98BOT10A floppy image, it's still the starting point for any driver update cd's I make.
MS peripherals tend to be some of the best. Even on my Linux box I use an MS Internet Keyboard Pro with USB hub (sadly 1.0 with no 2.0 updated version) and a Trackball Optical plugged into the hub (short cord on the trackball).
Just my own experience working in IT for mid to large companies and my time working as a consultant for same. Training and day after support are the two things that are almost always included in the project scope and are a significant percentage of the total pricetag.
Just like if they don't do something that stupid it's probably a great time to go long on AAPL since there will be a bounce after people realize the world does not end for them without the sainted one.
Because there are VERY few places where you can get a big enough natural gas service hookup to power a.5MW generator! As far as using a big storage tank? That's just a non-starter for most commercial applications, zoning just won't allow it. Diesel's hard to burn and basically can't explode outside an engine, that's quite a different beast than compressed natural gas (search youtube for bleve to see what I mean)
Because just like any other new thing you learn it's often more efficient (cheaper) to use the knowledge of someone with particular knowledge in the subject than to rediscover that knowledge yourself.
Seriously? What kind of crap companies have you worked for that didn't provide training? Unless they were smaller than 50 employees they sucked. Every midsized and larger company that I have worked for/with has had some sort of onboarding training and additional training when new software is brought in.
It's more than that, it's the entire ecosystem of third party stuff that's based on the assumption that Office is available. Off the top of my head, we have:
1)Export from JDE (yes this can do CSV, not nearly as useful)
2)Export from GL reporting package (no real alternative provided)
3)Addon for Excel that's basically a macro package into the JDE financial, again no ready replacement
4)Edit functionality in our Enterprise Content Management system
5)Export functionality from our fixed asset software, no alternative but raw dump
etc.
All of that could be worked through but it would be at a VERY significant cost and possibly at the cost of choosing a significantly less useful alternative. The good news is that more and more stuff is going web based, the bad is that a bunch of advanced functionality still relies on Office.
I've found that most clients out there suck at upload when not in seeding mode. I'm not sure if that's due to the crappy state of asymetrical networks in the US or if it's the overhead of talking to peers while downloading. Either way the only way I see download speeds over about 10KBps from a peer is if they are a seed.
You just use treated offroad diesel, it's normally treated with chemicals to be liquid and stable to about -20F, it only gets colder than that for a few hours a decade around here (those in Minnesota, Wisc, and ND can start giggling now). Offroad is also not taxed for highway taxes so it's cheaper.
Kohler makes up to 3.25MW commercial diesel sets. At work we have a.5MW unit that would probably power a small block. The nice thing about the Kohler units is they are QUITE, we run one ~3' from our building and the accountants that sit next to it don't even notice when it runs the weekly exercise. It consumes 37 gallons per hour at 100% load, so not too expensive =) The real fun is in having a reliable fuel contract, we have a 500 gallon tank so in an extended outage we would need 2 deliveries a day at full load. We would never run that way, we would turn off non-production systems and shed about half our load, but it still means daily fuel deliveries, we pay a fairly significant retainer to be just behind hospitals and 911 centers and we do that through 2 companies due to past problems I have had with another supplier.
I just went with a whole house ATS, it sits between the meter and the breaker box on the outside of the house. That way I didn't have to change any wiring since I have a semi-finished basement. When I upgraded my furnace/AC a few years ago I bought a very high efficiency unit knowing I would be going the generator route, the extra couple hundred spent on the compressors saved me a few grand on generator and saves me quite a bit every summer.
No, drain pipes will never freeze, they are buried well below the frost line for exactly that reason. Also if it's cold enough for the HOT water heater to freeze you have just entered Hades on the day after Duke Nukem Forever was released and so there is no more reason to worry =)
Nah, not at all likely to make them dead, your typical home generator just doesn't put out enough juice to kill most of the time. It's almost like people on slashdot didn't play with electricity as a kid =) The worst shock I've ever received was from a 10KV fly back transformer in an old Sun SLC workstation (it was the part for powering the CRT). That jolt blew a hole in the screwdriver I was using and threw me a couple feet and knocked me out.
If he has natural gas service I would suggest a 93-95% efficient gas fireplace, they are safe to run in all but the most well sealed of homes and won't run out of fuel like a kerosene heater. Natural gas generator might also be an option but you will have to do your homework as many residential areas don't have big enough service to run a generator big enough for a whole house. I'm lucky in that I have a 3" connection which is sufficient to power my 100A service.
I expect it will fill the gap between Hellgate:London and Diablo 3 since I'm ~60 hours in and I'm not even through the second level with my first charact (well I did complete about half of level 1 with a throwaway to learn the controls). If you're into hack'n'slash RPG's I don't think you're going to find on better than this until Diablo 3 is released.
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Um, actually the most recent research shows that starvation before chemo therapy DOES in fact help with recovery, it's not new-agey at all =) It helpded my former VP significantly with her ability to work a couple days after receiving her chemo treatments.
No, it's business majors and politicians (generally the less intelligent of their law class) exploiting people who actually come up with useful ideas.
You JUST started selling a 3G Blackberry last MONTH, it's kind of hard and expensive to upgraded 350 one year old handsets before you start degrading service.....
Uh, AT&T JUST started selling a 3G Blackberry a few weeks ago (the Bold), I would say switching the network over to 3G is just a BIT premature at this point, wouldn't you? Of course maybe they need to since in my testing their 3G speeds a year ago were about 1/7th of Verizons.
You were in a big metal box surrounded by more metal and you think there had to be someone blocking your probably already marginal signal?!? Dude it's a mobile phone not a landline with a really long extension cord =)
Cingular turned of TDMA mostly because they desperately needed the spectrum in a few crowded markets like southern California. They were known to have connection problems and a much higher number of dropped calls due to an oversubscription of available bandwidth so they freed up bandwidth by terminating the most inefficient technology and re-allocating it. The also warned people starting about 18 months before they did it and started charging increasing fees a year out. I loved my 6 year old Nokia brick, great voice quality and long battery life, but all good things come to an end.
IBM as well, including on workstation and server motherboards. I know because one of my scariest days in IT came because of one of those server boards. A banking client was having all of their servers motherboards replaced proactively free of charge by IBM which meant a site visit to every branch. Well, naturally since it was scheduled it was done outside of business hours. There's nothing like working in a bank after dark in the ghetto....
To keep this on topic, I have two fond memories of Micron: the first was a friend in college who had a PPro based workstation that was passivly cooled, it had a heatsink that looked like a stack tin can lids around a solid core. The second memory is something I use to this day, their 98BOT10A floppy image, it's still the starting point for any driver update cd's I make.
MS peripherals tend to be some of the best. Even on my Linux box I use an MS Internet Keyboard Pro with USB hub (sadly 1.0 with no 2.0 updated version) and a Trackball Optical plugged into the hub (short cord on the trackball).
Just my own experience working in IT for mid to large companies and my time working as a consultant for same. Training and day after support are the two things that are almost always included in the project scope and are a significant percentage of the total pricetag.
Just like if they don't do something that stupid it's probably a great time to go long on AAPL since there will be a bounce after people realize the world does not end for them without the sainted one.
Because there are VERY few places where you can get a big enough natural gas service hookup to power a .5MW generator! As far as using a big storage tank? That's just a non-starter for most commercial applications, zoning just won't allow it. Diesel's hard to burn and basically can't explode outside an engine, that's quite a different beast than compressed natural gas (search youtube for bleve to see what I mean)
Could you use the Clipper chip to mark the channels you don't want as objectionable and hence have them not show up?
Because just like any other new thing you learn it's often more efficient (cheaper) to use the knowledge of someone with particular knowledge in the subject than to rediscover that knowledge yourself.
Seriously? What kind of crap companies have you worked for that didn't provide training? Unless they were smaller than 50 employees they sucked. Every midsized and larger company that I have worked for/with has had some sort of onboarding training and additional training when new software is brought in.
It's more than that, it's the entire ecosystem of third party stuff that's based on the assumption that Office is available. Off the top of my head, we have:
1)Export from JDE (yes this can do CSV, not nearly as useful)
2)Export from GL reporting package (no real alternative provided)
3)Addon for Excel that's basically a macro package into the JDE financial, again no ready replacement
4)Edit functionality in our Enterprise Content Management system
5)Export functionality from our fixed asset software, no alternative but raw dump
etc.
All of that could be worked through but it would be at a VERY significant cost and possibly at the cost of choosing a significantly less useful alternative. The good news is that more and more stuff is going web based, the bad is that a bunch of advanced functionality still relies on Office.
Dude, if the cost isn't going to change you DO know that just about every TV out there will allow you to delete/remove channels you don't want.
I've found that most clients out there suck at upload when not in seeding mode. I'm not sure if that's due to the crappy state of asymetrical networks in the US or if it's the overhead of talking to peers while downloading. Either way the only way I see download speeds over about 10KBps from a peer is if they are a seed.
Were they received unsolicited through the mail? If so you were free to do with them what you wanted no matter what the label said.
You just use treated offroad diesel, it's normally treated with chemicals to be liquid and stable to about -20F, it only gets colder than that for a few hours a decade around here (those in Minnesota, Wisc, and ND can start giggling now). Offroad is also not taxed for highway taxes so it's cheaper.
Kohler makes up to 3.25MW commercial diesel sets. At work we have a .5MW unit that would probably power a small block. The nice thing about the Kohler units is they are QUITE, we run one ~3' from our building and the accountants that sit next to it don't even notice when it runs the weekly exercise. It consumes 37 gallons per hour at 100% load, so not too expensive =) The real fun is in having a reliable fuel contract, we have a 500 gallon tank so in an extended outage we would need 2 deliveries a day at full load. We would never run that way, we would turn off non-production systems and shed about half our load, but it still means daily fuel deliveries, we pay a fairly significant retainer to be just behind hospitals and 911 centers and we do that through 2 companies due to past problems I have had with another supplier.
I just went with a whole house ATS, it sits between the meter and the breaker box on the outside of the house. That way I didn't have to change any wiring since I have a semi-finished basement. When I upgraded my furnace/AC a few years ago I bought a very high efficiency unit knowing I would be going the generator route, the extra couple hundred spent on the compressors saved me a few grand on generator and saves me quite a bit every summer.
No, drain pipes will never freeze, they are buried well below the frost line for exactly that reason. Also if it's cold enough for the HOT water heater to freeze you have just entered Hades on the day after Duke Nukem Forever was released and so there is no more reason to worry =)
Nah, not at all likely to make them dead, your typical home generator just doesn't put out enough juice to kill most of the time. It's almost like people on slashdot didn't play with electricity as a kid =) The worst shock I've ever received was from a 10KV fly back transformer in an old Sun SLC workstation (it was the part for powering the CRT). That jolt blew a hole in the screwdriver I was using and threw me a couple feet and knocked me out.
If he has natural gas service I would suggest a 93-95% efficient gas fireplace, they are safe to run in all but the most well sealed of homes and won't run out of fuel like a kerosene heater. Natural gas generator might also be an option but you will have to do your homework as many residential areas don't have big enough service to run a generator big enough for a whole house. I'm lucky in that I have a 3" connection which is sufficient to power my 100A service.
I expect it will fill the gap between Hellgate:London and Diablo 3 since I'm ~60 hours in and I'm not even through the second level with my first charact (well I did complete about half of level 1 with a throwaway to learn the controls). If you're into hack'n'slash RPG's I don't think you're going to find on better than this until Diablo 3 is released.