Actually you can't arbitrarily classify someone exempt. There are fairly strict (were much stricter before Bush) guidlines about who is, and who is not exempt. Basically your job had to either be managerial or tightly classified as a purely creative job with the ability to set your own schedule in order to be classified as exempt.
Wow, what a piss poor attitude for someone who's job is to make the rest of the company more efficient. If a fsking fileserver is down you should be freaking fixing it, not waiting till hundreds or thousands of manhours have been wasted the next morning! The server room burning down should be taken care of by a DR plan, I'd probably lose less sleep over a complete meltdown then I would a server puking. Of course I have a YTD 99.994% uptime in a Windows environment where our SLA is only for 99% uptime on a 6-6 M-Sa basis.
I bought a Nikon because they have the single best hobbyist lens available, the 18-200 (24-300 equivalent) VR lens. It's far from perfect from the perspective of a pro for absolute image quality, but it's "good enough" for most prosumers and the flexibility to shoot just about anything you see without having to carry and waste time changing lenses is just too nice. My wife, a complete novice, has already done some nice macro work with it despite it not being what you would typically think of as a macro lens. I'm not sure why so many people are obsessed over megapixels, my D40 is fine for anything up to tabloid sized. Sure if you are routinely cropping small sections of a shot and blowing them up to poster size you might care, but that's a tinny fraction of the market.
Why, that's only ~72MB per shot, or about 13.9K pictures per TB, are you really going to shoot 69,444 shots before your 5TB NAS is obsolete? If you are you're probably a professional and the couple grand for the storage is a drop in the bucket compared to your other costs. I can't even fathom what 69K shots would have cost in media format film and developer solution (not to mention if you farmed it out to a lab!)
And then there's those of us using XML and SOAP and WSDL to build real world applications that work just fine. If you're an Oracle shop running one of their financial suites you know just how awesome it is that they are opening everything up as web services and integrating components from all of their product lines. We put together a workflow process for our accounts payable in just a few months that will save us millions over the next couple years. Compare that to the work it would have taken with a traditional fat client and closed protocol stack architecture and it's simply amazing. I'm not so much a fan of XML as I am a fan of openness and XML just happens to be the tool that brought openness to the real world of enterprise applications.
Is your game hackable enough to allow for things like variable changes in the data files? Because if it some of your players might be really happy if you could use XML in the data file and simply load those in at run time. I know I'm kind of tired of using game specific tools to manipulate resources when doing mods. I'm obviously not talking about things like total conversions, but rather things like re-adjusting damage tables or resource levels, etc.
Yeah really, I figure half the reason Windows gets such a bad rap is that many of the people implementing it don't know how to read a crash dump. When we implemented our Citrix farm two years ago we ran into a couple BSOD's which I was able to trace back to some obscure KB articles through the crash dumps and obtain the private hotfixes from MS. Since that initial month we haven't had a single server crash across the entire farm. I didn't even really need to read the assembler portion of the crashdumps, just the function entry points to figure out what was going on. Also I would have to work MUCH harder if I couldn't script because when you have to apply a change to several or all of over 160 servers it would take quite a while to do them by hand!
Are these all greenfield projects, or is there code maintenance of existing projects? If there are existing projects in various languages that need to be maintained then how does it really help to standardize new development since you're already maintaining the skillset around those other programs. Also what languages are any large third party apps written in, for instance your CRM, ERP, etc platforms. Sure most now support web services, but are you on a version that does? Oh, and does a significant enough percentage of your staff have mastery over one language so that you won't be wasting resources while everyone ramps up on the new standard?
Uh, wrong. I know in one local power district their field techs learned how to splice fiber and operate horizontal boring machines. They then laid all the fiber. They have their own networking people who know the network equipment. My bosses son is interning with them and is going to have at least his CCNA by the time he graduates high school next year. Some may outsource, but many will do it themselves.
Actually if it wasn't for competitive water and sewer districts in London we probably wouldn't have come about with germ theory nearly as early as we did. You see on of the best pieces of evidence for germ theory came from a actuary working for a London insurance company, he mapped the outbreaks of various fatal diseases and eventually realized that while the deaths often seemed random that given enough outbreaks patterns emerged. When he investigated further the reason that one side of the street had an outbreak and the other not was what water district they were serviced by. This in turn led him to discover that water districts that obtained their water further downstream (and hence downstream from other districts sewer discharge) were more likely to have outbreaks.
I use two letter site code + function + two digit numeric ID, so your example server would be CHFS2, easy for anyone familiar with the system to decode. As far as my users, we use DFS to point them to file resources, short DNS names for web apps, and everything else is published as a Citrix application. They basically have to remember two things, what drive letter to save to and how to get to the Citrix page.
I think someone did since free.grisoft.com has been down all day today! My AVG is complaining about not being able to get it's updates. Oh and the plugin REALLY freaking slows down FF on Google results so I turned the damn thing off. I guess I know why now!
I heat with natural gas which is cheaper per BTU then electric so the payoff would be in the 15+ year range by which time the equipment would probably need to be replaced, therefore I would be losing quite a bit since that money left in a Roth would be worth about 3x as much.
You can't use glycol in a water heating system! The risk of the heat exchanger developing a leak and poisoning people is way too great. There's no way that would meet code in any civilized place. That's why you have to use a drainback system, none of the non-toxic heat exchange fluids that are affordable can handle really cold temperatures (-15F is a rare but not unheard of low here in the Great Lakes region).
Huh? PDF IS an open format, the specs is available here and it's been submitted as an ISO standard, and not in the MS Office XML way, but as a fully documented standard with multiple compatible implementations in the wild.
So, WhyTF do they need usernames and IP's? The popularity of a clip has NOTHING to do with WHO viewed it, simply how MANY people viewed it. Asking for usernames simply means they are either out to sue individuals or they want the information for profiling purposes which has nada to do with the lawsuit and so should not be allowed in discovery.
Solar water heaters simply make no sense if you live in an area that hard freezes (a large percentage of the US). The designs that can cope with significantly cold temperatures for sustained periods cost about $3K plus specialized installation and they still require energy to power their pumps to fill the reservoir since it has to be drained daily during freezing periods. I REALLY wanted it not to be so, because I love being green when it makes sense and it would drop about $100-200 per year off my gas bill at current prices.
My HTPC is 3.5 years old and plays games at 1080p better than any console released at the time =) Oh, and for another $100 it will play them better than any console available today too. The upfront cost was a bit more, but for that money I get to use bittorrent, connect to work, edit photos, print, etc.
Yeah, HP does this with their BIOS's as well. There's is a tad more convenient in that the normal upgrade procedure is to flash one bank, attempt to boot from it, and if successful upgrade the other automatically. A failed boot normally results in a reset and failback to the other firmware. You can also tell it not to upgrade the second firmware automatically so that you could do say an OS check before committing both flash areas to the new version. It's very nice when upgrading a server halfway around the world. Of course even if you bork the firmware you can still boot to a floppy with a working firmware image while either holding a key (F12 I think) or on newer servers simply letting them boot and it will flash the firmware for you. I haven't tried the emergency recovery using the Integrated Lights Out processors virtual floppy, but I bet it would work =)
Wrong! They started at 1 but lost the DB with the first 10,000 ID's and had to start over at 10,000 so the lowest ID you could have today is 10,001 which is probably the ID of the guy who fixed the DB =)
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Actually you can't arbitrarily classify someone exempt. There are fairly strict (were much stricter before Bush) guidlines about who is, and who is not exempt. Basically your job had to either be managerial or tightly classified as a purely creative job with the ability to set your own schedule in order to be classified as exempt.
Wow, what a piss poor attitude for someone who's job is to make the rest of the company more efficient. If a fsking fileserver is down you should be freaking fixing it, not waiting till hundreds or thousands of manhours have been wasted the next morning! The server room burning down should be taken care of by a DR plan, I'd probably lose less sleep over a complete meltdown then I would a server puking. Of course I have a YTD 99.994% uptime in a Windows environment where our SLA is only for 99% uptime on a 6-6 M-Sa basis.
I bought a Nikon because they have the single best hobbyist lens available, the 18-200 (24-300 equivalent) VR lens. It's far from perfect from the perspective of a pro for absolute image quality, but it's "good enough" for most prosumers and the flexibility to shoot just about anything you see without having to carry and waste time changing lenses is just too nice. My wife, a complete novice, has already done some nice macro work with it despite it not being what you would typically think of as a macro lens. I'm not sure why so many people are obsessed over megapixels, my D40 is fine for anything up to tabloid sized. Sure if you are routinely cropping small sections of a shot and blowing them up to poster size you might care, but that's a tinny fraction of the market.
Why, that's only ~72MB per shot, or about 13.9K pictures per TB, are you really going to shoot 69,444 shots before your 5TB NAS is obsolete? If you are you're probably a professional and the couple grand for the storage is a drop in the bucket compared to your other costs. I can't even fathom what 69K shots would have cost in media format film and developer solution (not to mention if you farmed it out to a lab!)
And then there's those of us using XML and SOAP and WSDL to build real world applications that work just fine. If you're an Oracle shop running one of their financial suites you know just how awesome it is that they are opening everything up as web services and integrating components from all of their product lines. We put together a workflow process for our accounts payable in just a few months that will save us millions over the next couple years. Compare that to the work it would have taken with a traditional fat client and closed protocol stack architecture and it's simply amazing. I'm not so much a fan of XML as I am a fan of openness and XML just happens to be the tool that brought openness to the real world of enterprise applications.
Is your game hackable enough to allow for things like variable changes in the data files? Because if it some of your players might be really happy if you could use XML in the data file and simply load those in at run time. I know I'm kind of tired of using game specific tools to manipulate resources when doing mods. I'm obviously not talking about things like total conversions, but rather things like re-adjusting damage tables or resource levels, etc.
Yeah really, I figure half the reason Windows gets such a bad rap is that many of the people implementing it don't know how to read a crash dump. When we implemented our Citrix farm two years ago we ran into a couple BSOD's which I was able to trace back to some obscure KB articles through the crash dumps and obtain the private hotfixes from MS. Since that initial month we haven't had a single server crash across the entire farm. I didn't even really need to read the assembler portion of the crashdumps, just the function entry points to figure out what was going on. Also I would have to work MUCH harder if I couldn't script because when you have to apply a change to several or all of over 160 servers it would take quite a while to do them by hand!
Are these all greenfield projects, or is there code maintenance of existing projects? If there are existing projects in various languages that need to be maintained then how does it really help to standardize new development since you're already maintaining the skillset around those other programs. Also what languages are any large third party apps written in, for instance your CRM, ERP, etc platforms. Sure most now support web services, but are you on a version that does? Oh, and does a significant enough percentage of your staff have mastery over one language so that you won't be wasting resources while everyone ramps up on the new standard?
99.9999% of people have never given a damn about transmitting.
Wrong, or have you never seen the little FM transmitters used for ipods and other portables to use with a car or home stereos?
Uh, wrong. I know in one local power district their field techs learned how to splice fiber and operate horizontal boring machines. They then laid all the fiber. They have their own networking people who know the network equipment. My bosses son is interning with them and is going to have at least his CCNA by the time he graduates high school next year. Some may outsource, but many will do it themselves.
Actually if it wasn't for competitive water and sewer districts in London we probably wouldn't have come about with germ theory nearly as early as we did. You see on of the best pieces of evidence for germ theory came from a actuary working for a London insurance company, he mapped the outbreaks of various fatal diseases and eventually realized that while the deaths often seemed random that given enough outbreaks patterns emerged. When he investigated further the reason that one side of the street had an outbreak and the other not was what water district they were serviced by. This in turn led him to discover that water districts that obtained their water further downstream (and hence downstream from other districts sewer discharge) were more likely to have outbreaks.
I prefer drive letters pointing to DFS shares, that way you can change things like domain names without changing user behavior.
I use two letter site code + function + two digit numeric ID, so your example server would be CHFS2, easy for anyone familiar with the system to decode. As far as my users, we use DFS to point them to file resources, short DNS names for web apps, and everything else is published as a Citrix application. They basically have to remember two things, what drive letter to save to and how to get to the Citrix page.
Yeah that was a great misfeature, you could change it in the prefs of the update manager, but it was very non-intuitive.
Uh, the parent to my post said PDF!= open format, which is PDF is NOT equal an open format. Learn to use threading?
I think someone did since free.grisoft.com has been down all day today! My AVG is complaining about not being able to get it's updates. Oh and the plugin REALLY freaking slows down FF on Google results so I turned the damn thing off. I guess I know why now!
I heat with natural gas which is cheaper per BTU then electric so the payoff would be in the 15+ year range by which time the equipment would probably need to be replaced, therefore I would be losing quite a bit since that money left in a Roth would be worth about 3x as much.
You can't use glycol in a water heating system! The risk of the heat exchanger developing a leak and poisoning people is way too great. There's no way that would meet code in any civilized place. That's why you have to use a drainback system, none of the non-toxic heat exchange fluids that are affordable can handle really cold temperatures (-15F is a rare but not unheard of low here in the Great Lakes region).
Huh? PDF IS an open format, the specs is available here and it's been submitted as an ISO standard, and not in the MS Office XML way, but as a fully documented standard with multiple compatible implementations in the wild.
KDE4 is available for Windows....
So, WhyTF do they need usernames and IP's? The popularity of a clip has NOTHING to do with WHO viewed it, simply how MANY people viewed it. Asking for usernames simply means they are either out to sue individuals or they want the information for profiling purposes which has nada to do with the lawsuit and so should not be allowed in discovery.
Solar water heaters simply make no sense if you live in an area that hard freezes (a large percentage of the US). The designs that can cope with significantly cold temperatures for sustained periods cost about $3K plus specialized installation and they still require energy to power their pumps to fill the reservoir since it has to be drained daily during freezing periods. I REALLY wanted it not to be so, because I love being green when it makes sense and it would drop about $100-200 per year off my gas bill at current prices.
My HTPC is 3.5 years old and plays games at 1080p better than any console released at the time =) Oh, and for another $100 it will play them better than any console available today too. The upfront cost was a bit more, but for that money I get to use bittorrent, connect to work, edit photos, print, etc.
Yeah, HP does this with their BIOS's as well. There's is a tad more convenient in that the normal upgrade procedure is to flash one bank, attempt to boot from it, and if successful upgrade the other automatically. A failed boot normally results in a reset and failback to the other firmware. You can also tell it not to upgrade the second firmware automatically so that you could do say an OS check before committing both flash areas to the new version. It's very nice when upgrading a server halfway around the world. Of course even if you bork the firmware you can still boot to a floppy with a working firmware image while either holding a key (F12 I think) or on newer servers simply letting them boot and it will flash the firmware for you. I haven't tried the emergency recovery using the Integrated Lights Out processors virtual floppy, but I bet it would work =)
Wrong! They started at 1 but lost the DB with the first 10,000 ID's and had to start over at 10,000 so the lowest ID you could have today is 10,001 which is probably the ID of the guy who fixed the DB =)