-- installing or increasing more air-locks/decontamination/containment/quarantine areas
-- improving anti-bacterial ventilation and air cleaning/recirculation equipment
-- setting up scanners points to look for flush/sickly people who emit fumes of certain bug signatures
-- make the doctors and staff ALL wear anti-microbial/bacterial surgical masks EVEN FOR NON-SURGICAL visits (hey, they may be amped on anti-biotics, but aren't they still carriers?)
-- emulate (if not doing so already) practices of the travel/cruise industry which separates various linens according to bacterial or viral risk (using color-coded collection bins) to keep certain bugs out of warm linens while keeping less contaminated items from contact. This reduces staff exposure time to numerous critters
I let the power company install a deal on my A/C, and they can cause it to not cycle on for short periods during high use. For this they give me a rate decrease for the summer months.
I can see the benefit along the same lines with dishwashers as well as clothes washing equipment. Perhaps you could time everything to not start untill 11:00 with out a web screen on your own, but how would the power company know?
I was reading about IP ovens; you can download recipes directly to it. I can see baker sof the future having compex step baking recipes.
So we pay additional for CFLs which contain mercury a developmental and neuro-toxin (risking young children and women during child-rearing years). All because a trace element (CO2 is.038% of the atmosphere).
Anybody study the effect of mercury contained in those CFL bulbs? I know many people that use CFLs, half seem to know about the lead, less than half of those properly pay to dispose of them properly.
My former Ms. Entitlement-Finger-Pointer-Personal-Secretary used to come up with a new piece of "absolutely necessary" software that needed widespread implementation ASAP.
After a while I created a form with an astronomical amount of money for the project "she" would have to sign off on, and have charged to her budget. I included software prices, testing costs to make sure it wouldn't adversely affect anything else, and training including costs to have a technician from each building sent off for specialized training to support the software. I had help with the form from one of the 6-sigma folks, so she'd also have a portion to fill out with legitimizing the costs with the offset savings. A simple piece of software would be tagged with about $80K worth of legitimate costs. She had no legitimate power, so she couldn't get anything signed off on by her boss.
She did come up with a few decent ideas we liked and implemented, at much lower costs.
Do they have different rules for different cities? I can certainly see this saving some time in certain big cities, what about small towns, or rural areas?
I used to live in Phoenix when they didn'thave freeways or left arrows at intersections. The old three-rights rule served many well.
The further along this Bill gets the more likely the large coffee shops start talking to their lawyers about this Act. Lawyers will tell them it's no longer worth providing free Wi-Fi. Once the big coffee shops cut free Wi-Fi so falls all other retail Wi-Fi, Hotels, etc.
Will Hotmail and GMail start monitoring all of our email for obsene or illegal content?
I'd be afraid it the government starts writing more laws to do with the internet. So far, the laws they've created against spam have been meaningless, with a few exceptions. I foresee a situation with more anti-spam laws pushing more of the bad spammers overseas, and regular people being charged with huge fines for sending a few emails to people with a grudge or looking for the next lawsuit lottery.
I see solutions, possibly coming from email vendors like Google, M$, or others. Something along the line of authentication to prevent spoofing, and some sort of registered dynamic "white list" - a DNS for email white listing.
My wife gave me highlights of an article from one of her medical journals. Kids NEED to know about 5,000 words in order to be successful in kindergarten. The best way to achieve that level was consistent reading to your kids.
Read to your kids for success, park them in front of the TV, or hand them a video game - your call.
Many cable companies are at least semi-regulated, as are telcos. If I remember correctly telcos are required to depreciate their capitol equipment expenditures over 30 years. The switch and wire-plant in your local CO would be the capitol, then they upgrade and expand with other depreciation schedules.
With this in mind wouldn't the cable companies have to depreciate new cable/fiber over a longer period ensuring quicker profitability?
I've been running Vista Business Edition now for 2 weeks on a Dell Optiplex 745 (E6700 chip) with 2GB RAM. Once I turned the User Account Control security crap off it's been a pleasure to use. Besides updates and new software installs I've only been forced to reboot once.
It's not as bad as all the/. members say. Corporate business users aren't running Vista yet; because all of their applications need to be certified to run properly on Vista before they will support it. It's the third-party vendor support that will make or break Vista, not QX9770 chips and a TB or RAM.
I understand this is a LINUX fanboy community (I run Debian on my crusty slow old laptop), but after a while it sounds like a broken record here.
WTF - this book was first published in 1998 - just as we were finishing up the whole S&L fiasco with the RTC, and how has gone through a series of silly updates to correct grossly inaccurate predictions. Without reading more than the first few paragraphs, this is a book of history in 2007 written by a conspiracy theorist.
If you are looking for a book explaining how money works, try reading Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country. It also is older having been first published in 1987. It was written and annotated by an accomplished author -- William Greider. It gives a remarkable account of the wild interest rate changes when rates were tied to the money supply.
When you are finished with Secrets of the Temple, go read Greenspan's book! It's been out for a whole week.
Has anybody read about the exploits on Cockeyed.com and credit cards?
He took a pre-approved credit card application from the mail, tore it to shreds and taped it back together. He filled it out with an address other than his (parents), and used his cell phone as promary number. He recieved the credit card from his father when it arrived.
On another story he did he documented signing for credit card purchases with stuff like "Not Authorized" and the like, and rarley was he declined. He had picturs to document the entire story.
Server support is a different breed, it's not the same people. I think they have a different directive to remain on the case and solve problems. I've always had excellent results with Dell's server support, and spoke to a few of them about their jobs.
As for Dell having an engineer assigned to a large corporation, I doubt it. Business do get seperate numbers to call, and their support is still based in the US. If businesses still want better support Dell has a program called The Dell Warranty Parts Direct Program it is a service and support plan designed specifically for IS Professionals who have technical expertise in diagnosing and servicing computer systems. This flexible service program supports Dell customers who use a Help Desk for service dispatch, provide Self Maintenance or for Dell customers who want to appoint a service provider to maintain their Dell branded hardware. There are two levels..
Level 1
Benefits for those who pass a certification exam on each product families they intend to support
Allows ordering of out-of-warranty and spare parts
Technicians can bypass remedial troubleshooting and be routed to a Dedicated Technician
Level 2
Get full advantage of program, Premier access to Dell's website
Warranty Labor Reimbursements, I think it was $50 per fix (for servicing Dell's warranty)
Requires 2 certified technicians per location
I did this at a prior job, and it worked well.
Now, if Dell could just fix quality so defects weren't as common as spare parts falling off the space shuttle...
I don't think there's collusion so much as a directed goal by all the LCD manufacturers to take market share from plasma manufacturers. The price drops may be as much from the competition as the worldwide unsold inventory after the failure of the anticipated sales leading up to the World Cup. There's also older inventory left behind as new generation and larger screens hit retail.
Don't confuse self-manufacturing with contract-manufacturing. There are other countries doing manufacturing, but I think the bulk is currently in S Korea due to the cheaper labor.
The market is concentrated, but with the high start-up costs how many firms can create their own? I think if people looked, they see Flash memory is just as concentrated with rebranding and contract-manufacturing.
Production is concentrated within a few corporations due to hudge investment.
Most of the actual LCD screen manufacturing is done by few companies (like LG and Philips), and mostly in South Korea. The other retail names you all know just slap them inside their plastic housing with their name on the front (like Dell or Sharpe). Similar to how many PC's have one of two brands of manufactured CPUs.
The consolidated manufacturing could explain perceived anticompetitive behavior, that and the $2 Billion start-up costs for an LCD fab.
I completley aplaud/. for the effort to stay within the standards of CSS and HTML Strict 4.01
Why couldn't somebody get Fat Harry in Texas to redesign his site so it's as clean as/. I don't mind the ads, it's the layout that bothers me as much as The Onion bothers some of you.
Slashdot Mirror
This won't cost much! /sarcasm
--Kevin
http://velcroman98.googlepages.com/ Hell, part of this could be stemmed by:
-- installing or increasing more air-locks/decontamination/containment/quarantine areas
-- improving anti-bacterial ventilation and air cleaning/recirculation equipment
-- setting up scanners points to look for flush/sickly people who emit fumes of certain bug signatures
-- make the doctors and staff ALL wear anti-microbial/bacterial surgical masks EVEN FOR NON-SURGICAL visits (hey, they may be amped on anti-biotics, but aren't they still carriers?)
-- emulate (if not doing so already) practices of the travel/cruise industry which separates various linens according to bacterial or viral risk (using color-coded collection bins) to keep certain bugs out of warm linens while keeping less contaminated items from contact. This reduces staff exposure time to numerous critters
I let the power company install a deal on my A/C, and they can cause it to not cycle on for short periods during high use. For this they give me a rate decrease for the summer months.
I can see the benefit along the same lines with dishwashers as well as clothes washing equipment. Perhaps you could time everything to not start untill 11:00 with out a web screen on your own, but how would the power company know?
I was reading about IP ovens; you can download recipes directly to it. I can see baker sof the future having compex step baking recipes.
A few companies have IP based thermostats - I'm waiting for the price to decrease to get one! http://www.smarthome.com/3053t.html.
So we pay additional for CFLs which contain mercury a developmental and neuro-toxin (risking young children and women during child-rearing years). All because a trace element (CO2 is .038% of the atmosphere).
Anybody study the effect of mercury contained in those CFL bulbs? I know many people that use CFLs, half seem to know about the lead, less than half of those properly pay to dispose of them properly.
There's your smoking gun for RICO
With Mar's distance from the Sun I wonder if any of it it dry ice, or any other elements that would normally be a gas on Earth.
If it melts will it be blamed on Bush?
Sorry, his full name is; Dr Gerhard Neukum
Can't this jerk's IP get banned or something? Or is it a bunch of jerks?
My former Ms. Entitlement-Finger-Pointer-Personal-Secretary used to come up with a new piece of "absolutely necessary" software that needed widespread implementation ASAP.
After a while I created a form with an astronomical amount of money for the project "she" would have to sign off on, and have charged to her budget. I included software prices, testing costs to make sure it wouldn't adversely affect anything else, and training including costs to have a technician from each building sent off for specialized training to support the software. I had help with the form from one of the 6-sigma folks, so she'd also have a portion to fill out with legitimizing the costs with the offset savings. A simple piece of software would be tagged with about $80K worth of legitimate costs. She had no legitimate power, so she couldn't get anything signed off on by her boss.
She did come up with a few decent ideas we liked and implemented, at much lower costs.
Do they have different rules for different cities? I can certainly see this saving some time in certain big cities, what about small towns, or rural areas?
I used to live in Phoenix when they didn'thave freeways or left arrows at intersections. The old three-rights rule served many well.
The further along this Bill gets the more likely the large coffee shops start talking to their lawyers about this Act. Lawyers will tell them it's no longer worth providing free Wi-Fi. Once the big coffee shops cut free Wi-Fi so falls all other retail Wi-Fi, Hotels, etc.
Will Hotmail and GMail start monitoring all of our email for obsene or illegal content?
Time to call my represenatives...
Isn't "your" country pushing for a law advocating the total abolishment of fair use, including - parody, time shifting, device shifting, and backups?
We both live in "Nanny States"
** Seriously, your country is fscked up.
I'd be afraid it the government starts writing more laws to do with the internet. So far, the laws they've created against spam have been meaningless, with a few exceptions. I foresee a situation with more anti-spam laws pushing more of the bad spammers overseas, and regular people being charged with huge fines for sending a few emails to people with a grudge or looking for the next lawsuit lottery.
I see solutions, possibly coming from email vendors like Google, M$, or others. Something along the line of authentication to prevent spoofing, and some sort of registered dynamic "white list" - a DNS for email white listing.
My wife gave me highlights of an article from one of her medical journals. Kids NEED to know about 5,000 words in order to be successful in kindergarten. The best way to achieve that level was consistent reading to your kids.
Read to your kids for success, park them in front of the TV, or hand them a video game - your call.
Aren't smaller (64) sized pings more annoying? I'd think sending more smaller packets would require more processor power to deal with them all.
Many cable companies are at least semi-regulated, as are telcos. If I remember correctly telcos are required to depreciate their capitol equipment expenditures over 30 years. The switch and wire-plant in your local CO would be the capitol, then they upgrade and expand with other depreciation schedules.
With this in mind wouldn't the cable companies have to depreciate new cable/fiber over a longer period ensuring quicker profitability?
Arizona (the Copper State) had a new strike a couple years back near Globe and Miami. I don't know if this new ore strike, very close to an old mine, can be considered a "new find" or not. The higher prices have made it once again affordable to open a few of the mines that had closed years back. It's definitly going to be good for the area (the dusty area featured in the shitty Sean Penn movie U-Turn). http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4188/is_20070429/ai_n19051147 http://www.theminingnews.org/news.cfm?newsID=1777 http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/business/articles/0214carlota14.html http://www.fortheretarded.com/?p=404 So, should we run Corning's flexible fiber to the house and plastic inside? I'd like to build in a few years, and I'm amazed how many of the new builds today are getting wired.
I've been running Vista Business Edition now for 2 weeks on a Dell Optiplex 745 (E6700 chip) with 2GB RAM. Once I turned the User Account Control security crap off it's been a pleasure to use. Besides updates and new software installs I've only been forced to reboot once.
/. members say. Corporate business users aren't running Vista yet; because all of their applications need to be certified to run properly on Vista before they will support it. It's the third-party vendor support that will make or break Vista, not QX9770 chips and a TB or RAM.
It's not as bad as all the
I understand this is a LINUX fanboy community (I run Debian on my crusty slow old laptop), but after a while it sounds like a broken record here.
If you are looking for a book explaining how money works, try reading Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country. It also is older having been first published in 1987. It was written and annotated by an accomplished author -- William Greider. It gives a remarkable account of the wild interest rate changes when rates were tied to the money supply.
When you are finished with Secrets of the Temple, go read Greenspan's book! It's been out for a whole week.
He took a pre-approved credit card application from the mail, tore it to shreds and taped it back together. He filled it out with an address other than his (parents), and used his cell phone as promary number. He recieved the credit card from his father when it arrived.
On another story he did he documented signing for credit card purchases with stuff like "Not Authorized" and the like, and rarley was he declined. He had picturs to document the entire story.
http://www.cockeyed.com/citizen/creditcard/applica tion.shtml
Velcroman98
Server support is a different breed, it's not the same people. I think they have a different directive to remain on the case and solve problems. I've always had excellent results with Dell's server support, and spoke to a few of them about their jobs.
Level 1
Benefits for those who pass a certification exam on each product families they intend to support
Allows ordering of out-of-warranty and spare parts
Technicians can bypass remedial troubleshooting and be routed to a Dedicated Technician
Level 2
Get full advantage of program, Premier access to Dell's website
Warranty Labor Reimbursements, I think it was $50 per fix (for servicing Dell's warranty)
Requires 2 certified technicians per location
I did this at a prior job, and it worked well.
Now, if Dell could just fix quality so defects weren't as common as spare parts falling off the space shuttle...
Don't confuse self-manufacturing with contract-manufacturing. There are other countries doing manufacturing, but I think the bulk is currently in S Korea due to the cheaper labor.
The market is concentrated, but with the high start-up costs how many firms can create their own? I think if people looked, they see Flash memory is just as concentrated with rebranding and contract-manufacturing.
Production is concentrated within a few corporations due to hudge investment.
Most of the actual LCD screen manufacturing is done by few companies (like LG and Philips), and mostly in South Korea. The other retail names you all know just slap them inside their plastic housing with their name on the front (like Dell or Sharpe). Similar to how many PC's have one of two brands of manufactured CPUs. The consolidated manufacturing could explain perceived anticompetitive behavior, that and the $2 Billion start-up costs for an LCD fab.
Why couldn't somebody get Fat Harry in Texas to redesign his site so it's as clean as /. I don't mind the ads, it's the layout that bothers me as much as The Onion bothers some of you.