In our corporate directory, I'm listed as "CNSLT - SYS ARCH/ANLY" which (since it's never been spelled out for me) I'm going to assume expands to "Consultant - System Architecture / Analysis". I'm not a consultant, nor do I architect or analyze anything.
In larger businesses, a job title isn't meant to be descriptive and no one is thinking about what it looks like on a resume (trust me). A title is meant to give the HR people something to reference when they're assigning levels – i.e. numerical, or, AVP, or whatever – and pay scales.
Funny thing is... in my experience, it's normally the managers in the technical areas that are asked to make up the titles and job descriptions. I think they make them purposefully vague so their people don't come back and say "that's not part of my job!" when the PHB needs them to be "flexible" (define that as you will).
I had one (extremely useless) fellow I managed a while back, who gave me a resignation letter. Having had a colleage leave a short time before, he knew full well that the usual policy was to let them walk the same day and give them their notice x weeks of pay. So rather than give us the normal two weeks, he figured he'd shoot for three weeks of free vacation.
I made a mental bet with myself and said, "Man, I'm sure glad you gave us enough notice. We've got a ton of stuff to get done in the next three weeks. Let's sit down in your cube for a few minutes to plan it out."
The look on his face was priceless. "Buh... I... uh... I start on Monday." (No kidding, really?)
"Oh, well then I guess you're not giving us any notice then?"
"Uh..."
He didn't get his 'severance' weeks, but The Company(TM) was nice enough to pay him for his earned vacatation days.
I loaded up www.rhapsody.com - which is the web version (as opposed to rhapsody.com, which isn't... what the?).
I'm using Win2k and Firefox 1.0.7... the sign-in link opens a pop-up which wants to install a Firefox extension. Install, done - then it disappeared. Whedditgo?
It doesn't stay installed as an extension, but installs an.msi package into Windows. Which for no rational reason I'm not as comfortable with as an XUL app. I didn't try it on my Debian box yet to see what it'll do for Linux. Hopefully the.msi didn't have a rootkit./joke
So I attempt to log in using the rhapsody.com account I tried to set up for this... nothing - must be a different DB. Okay, I sign up for a www.rhapsody.com account - it asks me for email, zip code, year of birth, and gender. The sign up completes, and then it asks me to login using my user ID.
But, what user id? It didn't ask for one or offer one, and my email doesn't work as the user id.
I followed some links to reset my password. Waited for the email, reset my password, still no idea what my user ID is supposed to be.
Hey, you could always build yourself a.5 TB RAID array for $250 bucks.
Seriously though, I prefer to use tape for backups in the long run up to about a year, for my own usage anyway.
A non-tape setup is great until you delete or corrupt a file, and your automated nightly mirror to the RAID set hoses your backup as well. You'll suddenly wish you could go back to last week's tapes.
[the discussion will include] ways for hackers to combat terrorism, methods to fight terrorist tendencies of your country, and how hackers might actually participate in terrorism. [... plus,...] What can we do to protect against hackers being misperceived as threats and terrorists?
Gee, I know: how about don't announce to the world that you're all getting together to learn how to "participate in terrorism"?
...were excited by light to create a quantum logical gate with four states.
Quantum computer? Great, it's in all four states at once. Gotta love a computer that gives you infinitely different results depending on what universe you're in.
"The short, intense burst of energy would be lethal to electronics but have no effect on people."
Regardless, I don't see it. Some other poster above mentioned 'tuning the microwaves to silicon' rather than water, but... I'll believe it when the scientists stand in front of the bugger when it goes off.
The mere existance of dumb people should not require smart people to talk like friggin lawyers all the time.
Can I quote you on that? I think this is gonna be my new sig...
You think it's bad now, the gibs in Quake 3 would send you over the edge.
Seriously tho I've never been nauseous from playing but the brain does keep the game going when I go to bed after a long night of killin' Stroggs.
Weird eh?
Minus all the math, if you're not so inclined.
John Gribbin wrote In Search of Schrodinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality and Schrodinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality.
Well, you can build policies & security into the desktop to prevent their access to the local drives. Lock the PC down as much as possible and force them to use the server. (this means getting rid of Win98 and going strictly NT or 2k)
That's the easy part. You're really fighting not so much a technical battle, but a political one.
Depending on the attitude of the users, forcing them to behave might not be popular with them. I.e. do they see you as a pain in their rear, or do they just not have the time (care)?
But if your CEO backs you on it then I guess it's tough nuggies...
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Unfortunately, that doesn't help very much... your credit card company (I work for one) can't stop the charge from coming through.
Those charges are pre-approved the first time and can keep coming through. Even if they required approval each month, I don't know of any credit card companies that can stop only certain charges from occurring - only all of 'em. The only thing you can do is change your account number.
Still, it's best to shut down the service. If their customer service is that bad, maybe more people will cancel?
The Air Force is displaying what we can only hope is a shifting in the mind-set of M$ customers - not litigants. Hopefully, other big-budget customers of M$ will follow suit.
Since 9/11 and the new attention paid to security, more people are willing to make good on their threat to take their business elsewhere if the security of a product is poor. The excuse of comfort with Win products will no longer be an excuse to let Bill off the hook.
M$ being a marketing firm will respond to market pressures way before they'd give up in court.
Not having offsite backups available is definitely a bad idea in terms of emergencies. (The building goes up in flames, taking the nifty 'integrated drive backup' with it.)
You get what you pay for, of course. But I've worked with the intended technophobe market - they wouldn't know what they were missing until it was too late.
In reality, not too much has changed over the last hundred years - printing on paper is printing on paper. In a few years though, "e-paper" could catch up - and even be a true breakthrough.
I can't see it replacing most books, mostly because many enjoy the feel of a book - but how many read (and unread) magazines, newspapers, and catalogs are sitting around the house? How much paper is wasted in people throwing them out?
If it's simple, low-cost and very readable, having these items on the e-paper would be fantastic.
And yes, that would open up the door to all kinds of stupidity. Can you imagine - "please enter your visa number to extend your rental of this issue of Time"...
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In our corporate directory, I'm listed as "CNSLT - SYS ARCH/ANLY" which (since it's never been spelled out for me) I'm going to assume expands to "Consultant - System Architecture / Analysis". I'm not a consultant, nor do I architect or analyze anything.
In larger businesses, a job title isn't meant to be descriptive and no one is thinking about what it looks like on a resume (trust me). A title is meant to give the HR people something to reference when they're assigning levels – i.e. numerical, or, AVP, or whatever – and pay scales.
Funny thing is... in my experience, it's normally the managers in the technical areas that are asked to make up the titles and job descriptions. I think they make them purposefully vague so their people don't come back and say "that's not part of my job!" when the PHB needs them to be "flexible" (define that as you will).
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I had one (extremely useless) fellow I managed a while back, who gave me a resignation letter. Having had a colleage leave a short time before, he knew full well that the usual policy was to let them walk the same day and give them their notice x weeks of pay. So rather than give us the normal two weeks, he figured he'd shoot for three weeks of free vacation.
I made a mental bet with myself and said, "Man, I'm sure glad you gave us enough notice. We've got a ton of stuff to get done in the next three weeks. Let's sit down in your cube for a few minutes to plan it out."
The look on his face was priceless. "Buh... I... uh... I start on Monday." (No kidding, really?)
"Oh, well then I guess you're not giving us any notice then?"
"Uh..."
He didn't get his 'severance' weeks, but The Company(TM) was nice enough to pay him for his earned vacatation days.
Firefox install log:
I figued I'd give it a try, even if I am at work.
.msi package into Windows. Which for no rational reason I'm not as comfortable with as an XUL app. I didn't try it on my Debian box yet to see what it'll do for Linux. Hopefully the .msi didn't have a rootkit. /joke
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I loaded up www.rhapsody.com - which is the web version (as opposed to rhapsody.com, which isn't... what the?).
I'm using Win2k and Firefox 1.0.7... the sign-in link opens a pop-up which wants to install a Firefox extension. Install, done - then it disappeared. Whedditgo?
It doesn't stay installed as an extension, but installs an
So I attempt to log in using the rhapsody.com account I tried to set up for this... nothing - must be a different DB. Okay, I sign up for a www.rhapsody.com account - it asks me for email, zip code, year of birth, and gender. The sign up completes, and then it asks me to login using my user ID.
But, what user id? It didn't ask for one or offer one, and my email doesn't work as the user id.
I followed some links to reset my password. Waited for the email, reset my password, still no idea what my user ID is supposed to be.
C'mon Real.
I guess it *is* beta.
Hey, you could always build yourself a .5 TB RAID array for $250 bucks.
Seriously though, I prefer to use tape for backups in the long run up to about a year, for my own usage anyway.
A non-tape setup is great until you delete or corrupt a file, and your automated nightly mirror to the RAID set hoses your backup as well. You'll suddenly wish you could go back to last week's tapes.
/duh
That sound is used in Quake II when your player falls into the lava (which I've done countless times).
/me has flashback {*shudder*}
It's frickin eerie.
...were excited by light to create a quantum logical gate with four states.
Quantum computer? Great, it's in all four states at once. Gotta love a computer that gives you infinitely different results depending on what universe you're in.
(First application: generating airfares.)
The STM also features a radio transmitter that wirelessly links the box to a receiver built-into the D-Air vest.
Someone hits their garage door opener and you get blown off your bike...
nice
The mere existance of dumb people should not require smart people to talk like friggin lawyers all the time. Can I quote you on that? I think this is gonna be my new sig...
And the bluetooth RF keeps your liver nice & warm
You think it's bad now, the gibs in Quake 3 would send you over the edge. Seriously tho I've never been nauseous from playing but the brain does keep the game going when I go to bed after a long night of killin' Stroggs. Weird eh?
Find 'em here and here
A deeper look would be Brian Greene's The Elegant Universe. Amazon.com link here
Cheers
Well, you can build policies & security into the desktop to prevent their access to the local drives. Lock the PC down as much as possible and force them to use the server. (this means getting rid of Win98 and going strictly NT or 2k)
That's the easy part. You're really fighting not so much a technical battle, but a political one.
Depending on the attitude of the users, forcing them to behave might not be popular with them. I.e. do they see you as a pain in their rear, or do they just not have the time (care)?
But if your CEO backs you on it then I guess it's tough nuggies...
Those charges are pre-approved the first time and can keep coming through. Even if they required approval each month, I don't know of any credit card companies that can stop only certain charges from occurring - only all of 'em. The only thing you can do is change your account number.
Still, it's best to shut down the service. If their customer service is that bad, maybe more people will cancel?
(Nah, probably not...)
Since 9/11 and the new attention paid to security, more people are willing to make good on their threat to take their business elsewhere if the security of a product is poor. The excuse of comfort with Win products will no longer be an excuse to let Bill off the hook.
M$ being a marketing firm will respond to market pressures way before they'd give up in court.
You get what you pay for, of course. But I've worked with the intended technophobe market - they wouldn't know what they were missing until it was too late.
Microsoft's Steve Baldrick, er, Ballmer...
I can't see it replacing most books, mostly because many enjoy the feel of a book - but how many read (and unread) magazines, newspapers, and catalogs are sitting around the house? How much paper is wasted in people throwing them out?
If it's simple, low-cost and very readable, having these items on the e-paper would be fantastic.
And yes, that would open up the door to all kinds of stupidity. Can you imagine - "please enter your visa number to extend your rental of this issue of Time"...
Oh well...