As far as I can tell Zombies are actually used in most movies as an "easy" excuse to remove civilization. It's always a Zombie armegeddon in the context of the story telling. They are nothing more then a hammer, a tool, to quickly eliminate the trappings of civilization so we can explore some wasteland. The zombies themselves are rarely the story, it is the survivors that matter and the fact there is no society, civilization, to support the survivors. The only real exception I have ever seen to this theory was Resident Evil where the outbreak was contained (Ignoring the God Aweful sequels...)
Quarintine wasn't event focused on the "infected" but rather commentary about the quarintine itself and it's repercussions on those being contained.
Vampires and their stories reflect on the vampires themselves. The typical villian horror flicks focus on the villians. Zombies... they have always been more of a prop then a character which makes them versitile in story telling.
I highly doubt any of this nonsense is even close to reality. Here in "Real Life" we have gone from Shakespeare, Plato, Bach, Dorvak, Doyle, Poe, Shelly, and other great literary and cultural wonders to Tila Tequila and reality TV.
Here in "Real Life" the rewarding of the lazy, unproductive, immoral, self destructive, and intolerant has only accelerated in the last 30 years.
Our 'assaletes' are substance abusing, spouse abusing, liars. Our politicians are corrupt. Our Scientists are too busy pandering and tailoring research to meet grant requirments and political agendas, and our businesses are too busy keeping the contemporary corporate ponzi scheme alfoat to generate any real wealth.
Between being moral bankrupt, greedy, dihonsest, and hypocritical this Geek veneration smells like more B as in B, S as in S.
The Constitution defines the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. All other powers are reserved for the state. Nothing, even in looking at the founding father's writings imply that LOCAL GOVERNMENT cannot compete with private industry. The City of Monticello is not, despite the suprising ignorance shown here this topic, part of the Federal Government.
The City is more then capable of telling you what colors you can paint your house, where you can and cannot plant trees, and so forth. The issue building permits and license everything from the number of dogs you can have to how often you can water your lawn. They also can restrict businesses from opening from granting licenses to zoning requirements.
Cities and Counties and even States run and operate businesses as far back as the 13 colonies. We have Police Depts, Fire Depts, various inspectors (electrical (state), building (city), surveyors (county), assessors, DNR, etc... All of which can be hired in the capacity of a business in the form of permits and special services (Fire dept. will burn a building down for you, police can be hired for security for special events, etc.)
The sheer ignorance and lack of understanding of what the Constitution of the United States actually does is astonishing. The fact that when I was in high school and we were required in social studies to actually read the federalist papers compared to the teachers now that, "that stuff is nothing but a bunch of lies" thank you teachers union in district 622 here in MN speaks on how much misinformation exists on the purpose.
Of course I expect little from my home state now, we've elected a wrestler and now a bad comedian. Perhaps Louie Anderson can run against Frankin... Hell I'd be happy to have KKKKAAAAAHHHHHNNNNNN! KKKKKKKAAAAAHHHHHNNNNNN!!!! tossed out...
For those that do understand the Constitution, kudos for keeping the arguments rooted in reality.
Until you can get all hannibal lecter on them I see no issue.
These complainers have ZERO legitimacy as they apparently never have a problem with the BBC, NBC, CBS, FOX, ABC, HBO, and the rest showing violence, rape, torture, immoral and offensive behavior. Nope they are the first assholes to call the ACLU the moment someone complains about a fecal messiah, a picture of a prophet, or a work of art involving S&M imagery. The very people the demand TOLERANCE, resorting to violence frequently in the name of tolerance, once again show they are the most hipocritical intolerant SOBs walking Earth.
I am definitely interested in how Windows 7 fares in the world but... I'm pretty sure this was posted as an infoworld.com link bait piece. 5 links to various infoworld pieces. Wonder who is watching their analytics today rubbing their hands laughing...
Ad agencies for online stores selling Windows 7...
Development (DEV) Integration Testing (INTEG) Acceptance (ACPT) Production (PROD)
For each system create a migration script that generically does the following: (We will use SOURCE and DEST for environments. You migrate from DEV->INTEG->ACPT->PROD)
The migration script as it's core does the following:
1) STOP Existing Services and Databases (SOURCE and DEST)
2) BUILD your deployment package from SOURCE (This means finalizing commits to an SVN, Creating a dump of SOURCE databases etc.) If this is a long process then you can leave the DEST running and STOP DEST at the end of the build phase. I do this as builds for my world can take 2-3 days.
3) CONDITION your deployment package to be configured for DEST environment (simple find and replace scripts to correct database names, IP address, etc. These should be config files that are read and processes.) This is common if there are different security SAPs, Certificates, Etc that need to be configured. For instance you may not have SSL enabled in DEV but you might in INTEG or ACPT.
4) BACKUP DEST information as an install package(this is identical to the BUILD done on the source. This BACKUP can be deployed to restore the previous version.) This should be the same function you ran on SOURCE with a different destination (say Backups verus Deploys)
5) MIGRATE the install package from SOURCE to DEST START DEST
6) TEST TEST and RETEST
7) If all tests pass then APPROVE. This is the green light to re-start the SOURCE services so development can move on.
That is a brief of my suggestion.
DEV is obvious INTEG is where you look for defects and resolve defects. Primary testing. ACPT is where user and BL acceptance testing occurs and should mirror PROD in services available. PROD... yeah...
I handle about 790+ applications across 2000+ pieces of hardware so this may appear to be overkill for some but it can be as simple as 4 running instances on a single box with a/DEV//IT//ACPT//PROD/
Directory structure with MYSQL running 4 different databases. The "Script" could be as simple as dropping the DEST database and copying the SOURCE database with a new name. Other options are creating modification SQLS for instance that are applied onto the exist database.
e.g. STOP, UPDATE, START
to preserve existing data. In the case of Drupal your DEV might pull a nightly build and kick out a weekly IT, a biweekly ACPT, and a monthly PROD update.
JUST REMEMBER THAT YOU MUST MAKE SURE THE PROCESS IS ALWAYS REVERSABLE!!
The script to deploy needs to handle failure. There has to be a good backout.
You should have a method to backup and restore the current state. Integrate that into the script. Always backup Before you do changes and AGAIN after you change. DEV may need to look at the failed deploy data (perhaps a substitution or patch failed, they need to find out why.)
Before Backup and After Backup in the migration script.
And always 'shake out' a deployment in each environment level to make sure problems to propogate. You find problems in IT, you test to make sure what you found in IT is resolved in ACPT. Your testers should NOT normally be finding and filing new defects in ACPT environments with the exception of inter-application communication that might not be available in earlier environments. (Great example might be ACPT has the ability to connect to say a marketing companies databases where you use dummy databases in IT and DEV.) 80/20 is the norm for IT/ACPT that I see.
Good luck. Use scripts that are consistent and invest in a good migration method. It works great for mainframes and works great in the distributed world too.
A special condition is needed for final production as you may need temporary redirects to be applied for online services (commonly called Gone Fishing pages or Under Construction Redirects)
Even at 15 characters it's trivial due to lookup tables and dictionary attacks. Passwords are to prevent snooping, not a security measure. I think it's just them throwing in the towel and expecting that if a document is to be secured a GPG\PGP level protection be used.
Face it, passwords have been about as effective as a cheap diary lock on a $4 pony covered diary from Target. They are pointless in the realm of securing a document. They are nothing more then a way to prevent your typical 5 year old accidentally opening your favorite erotic story...
Did you know that some of that old glazing material was Abseto in old homes... I wonder what crap they want put on our windows now; that in 30 years we'll find out causes cancer, autism, allergies, Liberal Rage Disorder, NIMBY Rightwing Syndrome, a taste for Bud Light, and a yearing for Married With Children reruns...
I am a firm beliver in colored glass+copper foil+lead with two sheets of clear wire reinforced safety glass on the outside.
I must be an idiot but my radio antenna is outside my car connected with a cable to my radio. Why would glazed glass be an issue. not only that but unless your car is made of plastic isn't the frame of the car in fact a passive antenna since it isn't grounded? (I could be wrong here, too many years since school). Feel free to correct me but since the windows are not contigious isn't this an issue of weaker cell phone signals and with more states passive anti-cell phone while driving laws isn't this a moot issue?
I must be old and cranky or just plain stupid but how is this a bad idea? A cooler car, less gas burned in AC, and potential to stop an alien laser weapon long enough to duck before it melts through the glass seems like a good idea. While we are at it can we require bulletproof glass to boot in the wind shield and rear windows since they always seem to get shot up in the movies but no one ever takes a shot from the side...
If this was done as a represenative sample then the majority of participants would be over 40. We all know that hearing degrades over time. Without the test broken up by age group there is an inherit bias in the sample group. The top 5k of that 15k to 20k is shot in most 40 year olds and if I remember rightly there is a pocket in the 8k-12k that goes early on too.
It is possible that an additional bias of Internet savvy users versus general population may also be present.
In addition musical tastes between age groups factors in since, both working for Audiologists (Miracle Ear, Sonus, National Hearing, Amplifon) and going through the training for the NOAH I was amazed to see the age groups, the very old and a growing number of youth. Loud Music = Damaged Ears but worse yet are those damn ear buds. A generational bias of people using "In the Ear" headphones has done quite a bit of damage to the range in which people hear and there is a considerable generation gap in that damage.
Since I am a big Post-Waters Floyd fan (the more blues influenced Gilmore days) and a Jazz\Industrial\Classical the damage to my ears would be very different then a R&B\Rap fan.
I would be very interested in a large scale, well done survey to see if this is more an issue of hearing damage segmented by Age, Music Tastes, and hobbies (No kidding, Hunters are one of the biggest demographics of hearing aid wearers due to gun fire but get this, Country fans have strong correlations to ear damage not from the music, but from hunting.) So various hobbies and lifestyles can correlate to hearing damage.
A simple but functional roomba makes for a perfect mobile landmine. Hide under a car then run out at the opportune time.
A compromised robot can become a lethal, disposable, and potentially untraceable WMD.
Teddy that taking bear deal could easily be compromised to issue malicious voice commands that, given someone foolish enough to use voice command on a computer and leave it unlocked when away, could be used to download malware.
A robosapien that has been compromsed could easliy be tasked to go into the kitchen sink area and spill as many bottles of liquids as possible. What are the odds of some ammonia and chlorine products getting mixed?
Any automated critter could easily scurry out into 70mph traffic triggering an accident...
The list goes on... Just watch a Batman episode with the toy maker... creepy...
After all that, if they win, every customer will get their machine fixes for free but with a 4-6 week turn around time, they customer will still have to pay $20-$35 for shipping the borked machine back, and get a nice voucher for $35 to reimburse the shipping cost usable in the Playstation Online store. Meanwhile the lawyers will get a multi-million dollar paycheck out of the victory.
bah nonsense.... 1 for the class ring, 1 for going steady, you have the engagement ring, the mother's ring, the wedding ring, and subsequent annaversaies. Hell you could be married to one person and still end up with 5 rings just starting out. Anyways we have no proof the Saturn has been divorced in the past and kept previous rings... in fact... Saturn could be "THE BLACK WIDOW!!!" Duh Dum Daa!!!
Tempting but then is a cucumber a fruit? Bell Peppers? The head of a sunflower also a fruit? Hmmm there is more to this fruit definition that you or I are factoring in... Watermellon is a fruit... so is cantalope... hmmm... what does separate a fruit from a veggie?
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3rd generation teacher and thank God not union. Part of this problem comes from what I was taught is the missing bell.
In days past you graded on a curve. In a class of 20 you would have very few As, a few Bs, a lot of Cs, a few Ds, and a few Fs.
Someone always failed. This fear of failure pushed students to succeed. They had to compete. They had to fight for first place. Now, you show up, do the minimum, and you get an A.
"People, the problem with education in America is the bell has gone missing and with it, the very thing we need to teach people in school. You have to strive at all times to be the best or someone else who is just a little more motivated will snatch what you were grasping for. Coasting is no way to go through life, nor any way to go through education. Take away the fear of failure, take away the penalty for complacency, take that bell away and you will get nothing but a quick and swift journey to the lowest common denominator." - KCP
The brightest people I've met all went to private school and oddly they all were graded on the classic bell curve.
In my school we had a class of 20 and the first day the teacher said, "Two of you will fail this year. Two of you will get As. Three of you will get Ds. Three of you will get Bs. Everyone else will get Cs. Do any of you not understand that? Now open your books to page 7..."
You have to compete in life, period. You are competing with your resume when you go job hunting. You compete for a mate, a raise, a meal. The "Good Enough" education experiement has been a failiure.
Here's proof: Texas school district on a test had the following:
WHich is the most commonly spoken language in the United States?
A: Spanish B: German C: English D: American
I shit you not D is the correct answer... God almighty they marked C WRONG. We may not pronounce Z as ZED and we aren't big on the Queen; but by all that is holy and much that is not we speak ENGLISH!
The quality is so poor now why would I want kids in school longer with the current quality? The propaganda courtesy of the teachers union now outweights actual education and self esteem training takes up more hours then Reading, Writing, and Math. This would make sense if kids were receiving an actual education in school.
This sounds more like another handout... as in more tax funded daycare for kids...
I have $10 that says the first pair up tries to have sex. No seriously. Everyone has been curious about the physics and nature of it in zero-G I got $10 that says that a couple is going up there and a whole lot of note taking going on. I'd even pop an extra $5 one that a university or two will even chip in.
It looks like a green pumpkin. Pumpkin, last I checked, is a gourd and falls into the vegitable realm. An apple is a fruit. Not only are they dissimilar in appearance, but they are completely different forms of plant life. A pumpkin is also grown on the ground while Apples grow on trees. The differences are staggering.
First off it's green and looks like a pumpkin. Steve, and Apple need to not only have their heads examined but barred from any form of trademark litigation for 3 years for such nonsense.
I for one welcome our newfound elite high powered smart phones and offer my services subjugating the less powerful smart phones as the growing energy gap widens between them. With the vanishing middle class of smart phones it is obvious that the high powered multifeatured phones will rule the less powerful, featureless unwashed masses of crapgadgets.
Eventually a new breed of simple highpowered basic phones using E-ink technology will eventually overpopulate and violently overthrow the elite phones in which I will help in this revolution, betraying the high powered smart phones at the most inopportune time, thus endearing me to the savage phone armies and securing once again my place of comfort as I exploit the peasantry.
Getting screamed at by some fake-and-bake guy because his laptop doesn't work all the while bitching and yelling that "I make the fucking money here cube monkey! Fix my shit!" or lecturing us on "If you people actually made some fucking money they might send you on a golf weekend once in a while. Wait do you computer geeks even know how to golf?" Gee thank you "will not be named marketing company once located in Plymouth MN" for that experience... No wonder you went under and have 3 of your executives in jail now...
How about the executive that needs you to scrub his PDA to make sure the wife can't figure out he's banging Stephanie in payroll all the while chatting how worthless the black hole of IT is. "Do you people do anything besides spend our money?" Gee thanks I loved spending 3 weeks with Faire Issac getting your data feeds set up so you can actually get mailer out to all your potential customers before first quarter. And you assholes still had the balls, after I worked 3 days straight sleeping in a server room, to gloat on how "if you could get your job done right you could have come golfing with us." We've been shit on as an industry from day one. What Glory? And does everyone in a suit fucking golf?
Then there was 3 years with Lady Macbeth out in Burnsville who was so brutal and wicked I can't evne put into print what he issues were... all the while complaining that a staff of 8 could only field 3200 calls a day... Simple math:
60 minutes in an hour. 8 hours = 480 total minutes
480 * 8 = 3840 total minutes.
3840/3200 = 1.2 minutes a call...
NOT FAST ENOUGH! WTF? ARE YOU BRAIN DEAD WOMAN?! Asking someone their name takes at least 20 seconds... Whatever... not that I am bitter... people complain they can't get help but then you bitch that you aren't "helping them fast enough"... ARRRrggg... Oh well not my problem, she was more then capable of driving a 40 million a year company into a 4 million a year company before the competition bought them out and threw her 6 figure fat ass out the door...
And after all that still having to put in the 60 hour a week grind in a server room, coding everything, administering everything, and being told by your boss that "You need to foot the bill for all these certifications, why should we pay you to help you keep your job?" MCSE, CCNA, CCIE, CNA, etc... I remember in 2000 I had to shell out $12,000 in a year of my money to "keep my job."
The sickest thing is, in all those years, because of the nature of our work, we IT people see all of the company. No insulation. The corruption at the top all the way to the bottom. If Jeff is surfing pr0n in the warehouse or Mr. Big is surfing kiddie p0rn in his masion, IT sees it all and suffer it all too. From the top AND the bottom. It makes you not like people in general. I have 0 faith in any human walking Earth now as a result.
I remember at one employer just running a simple
DIR/S *.MPG DIR/S *.AVI
against the personal drives due to disk space running out.
The sheer volume of pr0n was staggering. The executives were furious. They wanted blood. I was in the conference room when they demanded to know who the top offenders were. They were going to make examples of them. I was fired on the spot when I named the top 5 offender... all sitting in the room.
Glory my ass. Never was any, never will be any.
Blissfully retired and anyone dumb enough to go into that field, good luck. If you want to see the worst in humanity, IT\MIS is the field to be in. I'd rather work with prison inmates then go back to that, I take honest evil over hypocritical evil any day... Glory? How about IT Shell Shock Syndrome...
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As far as I can tell Zombies are actually used in most movies as an "easy" excuse to remove civilization. It's always a Zombie armegeddon in the context of the story telling. They are nothing more then a hammer, a tool, to quickly eliminate the trappings of civilization so we can explore some wasteland. The zombies themselves are rarely the story, it is the survivors that matter and the fact there is no society, civilization, to support the survivors. The only real exception I have ever seen to this theory was Resident Evil where the outbreak was contained (Ignoring the God Aweful sequels...)
Quarintine wasn't event focused on the "infected" but rather commentary about the quarintine itself and it's repercussions on those being contained.
Vampires and their stories reflect on the vampires themselves. The typical villian horror flicks focus on the villians. Zombies... they have always been more of a prop then a character which makes them versitile in story telling.
WHO IS JOHN GALT!?
I highly doubt any of this nonsense is even close to reality. Here in "Real Life" we have gone from Shakespeare, Plato, Bach, Dorvak, Doyle, Poe, Shelly, and other great literary and cultural wonders to Tila Tequila and reality TV.
Here in "Real Life" the rewarding of the lazy, unproductive, immoral, self destructive, and intolerant has only accelerated in the last 30 years.
Our 'assaletes' are substance abusing, spouse abusing, liars. Our politicians are corrupt. Our Scientists are too busy pandering and tailoring research to meet grant requirments and political agendas, and our businesses are too busy keeping the contemporary corporate ponzi scheme alfoat to generate any real wealth.
Between being moral bankrupt, greedy, dihonsest, and hypocritical this Geek veneration smells like more B as in B, S as in S.
The Constitution defines the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. All other powers are reserved for the state. Nothing, even in looking at the founding father's writings imply that LOCAL GOVERNMENT cannot compete with private industry. The City of Monticello is not, despite the suprising ignorance shown here this topic, part of the Federal Government.
The City is more then capable of telling you what colors you can paint your house, where you can and cannot plant trees, and so forth. The issue building permits and license everything from the number of dogs you can have to how often you can water your lawn. They also can restrict businesses from opening from granting licenses to zoning requirements.
Cities and Counties and even States run and operate businesses as far back as the 13 colonies. We have Police Depts, Fire Depts, various inspectors (electrical (state), building (city), surveyors (county), assessors, DNR, etc... All of which can be hired in the capacity of a business in the form of permits and special services (Fire dept. will burn a building down for you, police can be hired for security for special events, etc.)
The sheer ignorance and lack of understanding of what the Constitution of the United States actually does is astonishing. The fact that when I was in high school and we were required in social studies to actually read the federalist papers compared to the teachers now that, "that stuff is nothing but a bunch of lies" thank you teachers union in district 622 here in MN speaks on how much misinformation exists on the purpose.
Of course I expect little from my home state now, we've elected a wrestler and now a bad comedian. Perhaps Louie Anderson can run against Frankin... Hell I'd be happy to have KKKKAAAAAHHHHHNNNNNN! KKKKKKKAAAAAHHHHHNNNNNN!!!! tossed out...
For those that do understand the Constitution, kudos for keeping the arguments rooted in reality.
Until you can get all hannibal lecter on them I see no issue.
These complainers have ZERO legitimacy as they apparently never have a problem with the BBC, NBC, CBS, FOX, ABC, HBO, and the rest showing violence, rape, torture, immoral and offensive behavior. Nope they are the first assholes to call the ACLU the moment someone complains about a fecal messiah, a picture of a prophet, or a work of art involving S&M imagery. The very people the demand TOLERANCE, resorting to violence frequently in the name of tolerance, once again show they are the most hipocritical intolerant SOBs walking Earth.
I am definitely interested in how Windows 7 fares in the world but ... I'm pretty sure this was posted as an infoworld.com link bait piece. 5 links to various infoworld pieces. ...
Wonder who is watching their analytics today rubbing their hands laughing
Ad agencies for online stores selling Windows 7...
Develop 4 Environment Structures
Development (DEV)
Integration Testing (INTEG)
Acceptance (ACPT)
Production (PROD)
For each system create a migration script that generically does the following:
(We will use SOURCE and DEST for environments. You migrate from DEV->INTEG->ACPT->PROD)
The migration script as it's core does the following:
1) STOP Existing Services and Databases (SOURCE and DEST)
2) BUILD your deployment package from SOURCE (This means finalizing commits to an SVN, Creating a dump of SOURCE databases etc.) If this is a long process then you can leave the DEST running and STOP DEST at the end of the build phase. I do this as builds for my world can take 2-3 days.
3) CONDITION your deployment package to be configured for DEST environment (simple find and replace scripts to correct database names, IP address, etc. These should be config files that are read and processes.) This is common if there are different security SAPs, Certificates, Etc that need to be configured. For instance you may not have SSL enabled in DEV but you might in INTEG or ACPT.
4) BACKUP DEST information as an install package(this is identical to the BUILD done on the source. This BACKUP can be deployed to restore the previous version.) This should be the same function you ran on SOURCE with a different destination (say Backups verus Deploys)
5) MIGRATE the install package from SOURCE to DEST
START DEST
6) TEST TEST and RETEST
7) If all tests pass then APPROVE. This is the green light to re-start the SOURCE services so development can move on.
That is a brief of my suggestion.
DEV is obvious ... yeah...
INTEG is where you look for defects and resolve defects. Primary testing.
ACPT is where user and BL acceptance testing occurs and should mirror PROD in services available.
PROD
I handle about 790+ applications across 2000+ pieces of hardware so this may appear to be overkill for some but it can be as simple as 4 running instances on a single box with a /DEV/ /IT/ /ACPT/ /PROD/
Directory structure with MYSQL running 4 different databases. The "Script" could be as simple as dropping the DEST database and copying the SOURCE database with a new name. Other options are creating modification SQLS for instance that are applied onto the exist database.
e.g. STOP, UPDATE, START
to preserve existing data. In the case of Drupal your DEV might pull a nightly build and kick out a weekly IT, a biweekly ACPT, and a monthly PROD update.
JUST REMEMBER THAT YOU MUST MAKE SURE THE PROCESS IS ALWAYS REVERSABLE!!
The script to deploy needs to handle failure. There has to be a good backout.
You should have a method to backup and restore the current state. Integrate that into the script. Always backup Before you do changes and AGAIN after you change. DEV may need to look at the failed deploy data (perhaps a substitution or patch failed, they need to find out why.)
Before Backup and After Backup in the migration script.
And always 'shake out' a deployment in each environment level to make sure problems to propogate. You find problems in IT, you test to make sure what you found in IT is resolved in ACPT. Your testers should NOT normally be finding and filing new defects in ACPT environments with the exception of inter-application communication that might not be available in earlier environments. (Great example might be ACPT has the ability to connect to say a marketing companies databases where you use dummy databases in IT and DEV.) 80/20 is the norm for IT/ACPT that I see.
Good luck. Use scripts that are consistent and invest in a good migration method. It works great for mainframes and works great in the distributed world too.
A special condition is needed for final production as you may need temporary redirects to be applied for online services (commonly called Gone Fishing pages or Under Construction Redirects)
Even at 15 characters it's trivial due to lookup tables and dictionary attacks. Passwords are to prevent snooping, not a security measure. I think it's just them throwing in the towel and expecting that if a document is to be secured a GPG\PGP level protection be used.
Face it, passwords have been about as effective as a cheap diary lock on a $4 pony covered diary from Target. They are pointless in the realm of securing a document. They are nothing more then a way to prevent your typical 5 year old accidentally opening your favorite erotic story...
Did you know that some of that old glazing material was Abseto in old homes... I wonder what crap they want put on our windows now; that in 30 years we'll find out causes cancer, autism, allergies, Liberal Rage Disorder, NIMBY Rightwing Syndrome, a taste for Bud Light, and a yearing for Married With Children reruns...
I am a firm beliver in colored glass+copper foil+lead with two sheets of clear wire reinforced safety glass on the outside.
I must be an idiot but my radio antenna is outside my car connected with a cable to my radio. Why would glazed glass be an issue. not only that but unless your car is made of plastic isn't the frame of the car in fact a passive antenna since it isn't grounded? (I could be wrong here, too many years since school). Feel free to correct me but since the windows are not contigious isn't this an issue of weaker cell phone signals and with more states passive anti-cell phone while driving laws isn't this a moot issue?
I must be old and cranky or just plain stupid but how is this a bad idea? A cooler car, less gas burned in AC, and potential to stop an alien laser weapon long enough to duck before it melts through the glass seems like a good idea. While we are at it can we require bulletproof glass to boot in the wind shield and rear windows since they always seem to get shot up in the movies but no one ever takes a shot from the side...
If this was done as a represenative sample then the majority of participants would be over 40. We all know that hearing degrades over time. Without the test broken up by age group there is an inherit bias in the sample group. The top 5k of that 15k to 20k is shot in most 40 year olds and if I remember rightly there is a pocket in the 8k-12k that goes early on too.
It is possible that an additional bias of Internet savvy users versus general population may also be present.
In addition musical tastes between age groups factors in since, both working for Audiologists (Miracle Ear, Sonus, National Hearing, Amplifon) and going through the training for the NOAH I was amazed to see the age groups, the very old and a growing number of youth. Loud Music = Damaged Ears but worse yet are those damn ear buds. A generational bias of people using "In the Ear" headphones has done quite a bit of damage to the range in which people hear and there is a considerable generation gap in that damage.
Since I am a big Post-Waters Floyd fan (the more blues influenced Gilmore days) and a Jazz\Industrial\Classical the damage to my ears would be very different then a R&B\Rap fan.
I would be very interested in a large scale, well done survey to see if this is more an issue of hearing damage segmented by Age, Music Tastes, and hobbies (No kidding, Hunters are one of the biggest demographics of hearing aid wearers due to gun fire but get this, Country fans have strong correlations to ear damage not from the music, but from hunting.) So various hobbies and lifestyles can correlate to hearing damage.
A simple but functional roomba makes for a perfect mobile landmine. Hide under a car then run out at the opportune time.
A compromised robot can become a lethal, disposable, and potentially untraceable WMD.
Teddy that taking bear deal could easily be compromised to issue malicious voice commands that, given someone foolish enough to use voice command on a computer and leave it unlocked when away, could be used to download malware.
A robosapien that has been compromsed could easliy be tasked to go into the kitchen sink area and spill as many bottles of liquids as possible. What are the odds of some ammonia and chlorine products getting mixed?
Any automated critter could easily scurry out into 70mph traffic triggering an accident...
The list goes on... Just watch a Batman episode with the toy maker... creepy...
After all that, if they win, every customer will get their machine fixes for free but with a 4-6 week turn around time, they customer will still have to pay $20-$35 for shipping the borked machine back, and get a nice voucher for $35 to reimburse the shipping cost usable in the Playstation Online store. Meanwhile the lawyers will get a multi-million dollar paycheck out of the victory.
Sony - 0
Consumer - 1
Lawyers - 10
bah nonsense.... 1 for the class ring, 1 for going steady, you have the engagement ring, the mother's ring, the wedding ring, and subsequent annaversaies. Hell you could be married to one person and still end up with 5 rings just starting out. Anyways we have no proof the Saturn has been divorced in the past and kept previous rings... in fact... Saturn could be "THE BLACK WIDOW!!!" Duh Dum Daa!!!
So much for "unreasonable search and seizure" protection. Amerika Da Free! Next stop "your travel papers and ID card"!
Tempting but then is a cucumber a fruit? Bell Peppers? The head of a sunflower also a fruit? Hmmm there is more to this fruit definition that you or I are factoring in... Watermellon is a fruit... so is cantalope... hmmm... what does separate a fruit from a veggie?
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3rd generation teacher and thank God not union. Part of this problem comes from what I was taught is the missing bell.
In days past you graded on a curve. In a class of 20 you would have very few As, a few Bs, a lot of Cs, a few Ds, and a few Fs.
Someone always failed. This fear of failure pushed students to succeed. They had to compete. They had to fight for first place. Now, you show up, do the minimum, and you get an A.
"People, the problem with education in America is the bell has gone missing and with it, the very thing we need to teach people in school. You have to strive at all times to be the best or someone else who is just a little more motivated will snatch what you were grasping for. Coasting is no way to go through life, nor any way to go through education. Take away the fear of failure, take away the penalty for complacency, take that bell away and you will get nothing but a quick and swift journey to the lowest common denominator." - KCP
The brightest people I've met all went to private school and oddly they all were graded on the classic bell curve.
In my school we had a class of 20 and the first day the teacher said, "Two of you will fail this year. Two of you will get As. Three of you will get Ds. Three of you will get Bs. Everyone else will get Cs. Do any of you not understand that? Now open your books to page 7..."
You have to compete in life, period. You are competing with your resume when you go job hunting. You compete for a mate, a raise, a meal. The "Good Enough" education experiement has been a failiure.
Bring back the Bell!
Here's proof: Texas school district on a test had the following:
WHich is the most commonly spoken language in the United States?
A: Spanish
B: German
C: English
D: American
I shit you not D is the correct answer... God almighty they marked C WRONG. We may not pronounce Z as ZED and we aren't big on the Queen; but by all that is holy and much that is not we speak ENGLISH!
The quality is so poor now why would I want kids in school longer with the current quality? The propaganda courtesy of the teachers union now outweights actual education and self esteem training takes up more hours then Reading, Writing, and Math. This would make sense if kids were receiving an actual education in school.
This sounds more like another handout... as in more tax funded daycare for kids...
I have $10 that says the first pair up tries to have sex. No seriously. Everyone has been curious about the physics and nature of it in zero-G I got $10 that says that a couple is going up there and a whole lot of note taking going on. I'd even pop an extra $5 one that a university or two will even chip in.
It looks like a green pumpkin. Pumpkin, last I checked, is a gourd and falls into the vegitable realm. An apple is a fruit. Not only are they dissimilar in appearance, but they are completely different forms of plant life. A pumpkin is also grown on the ground while Apples grow on trees. The differences are staggering.
First off it's green and looks like a pumpkin. Steve, and Apple need to not only have their heads examined but barred from any form of trademark litigation for 3 years for such nonsense.
I for one welcome our newfound elite high powered smart phones and offer my services subjugating the less powerful smart phones as the growing energy gap widens between them. With the vanishing middle class of smart phones it is obvious that the high powered multifeatured phones will rule the less powerful, featureless unwashed masses of crapgadgets.
Eventually a new breed of simple highpowered basic phones using E-ink technology will eventually overpopulate and violently overthrow the elite phones in which I will help in this revolution, betraying the high powered smart phones at the most inopportune time, thus endearing me to the savage phone armies and securing once again my place of comfort as I exploit the peasantry.
When was there ever any glory?
Getting screamed at by some fake-and-bake guy because his laptop doesn't work all the while bitching and yelling that "I make the fucking money here cube monkey! Fix my shit!" or lecturing us on "If you people actually made some fucking money they might send you on a golf weekend once in a while. Wait do you computer geeks even know how to golf?" Gee thank you "will not be named marketing company once located in Plymouth MN" for that experience... No wonder you went under and have 3 of your executives in jail now...
How about the executive that needs you to scrub his PDA to make sure the wife can't figure out he's banging Stephanie in payroll all the while chatting how worthless the black hole of IT is. "Do you people do anything besides spend our money?" Gee thanks I loved spending 3 weeks with Faire Issac getting your data feeds set up so you can actually get mailer out to all your potential customers before first quarter. And you assholes still had the balls, after I worked 3 days straight sleeping in a server room, to gloat on how "if you could get your job done right you could have come golfing with us." We've been shit on as an industry from day one. What Glory? And does everyone in a suit fucking golf?
Then there was 3 years with Lady Macbeth out in Burnsville who was so brutal and wicked I can't evne put into print what he issues were... all the while complaining that a staff of 8 could only field 3200 calls a day... Simple math:
60 minutes in an hour. 8 hours = 480 total minutes
480 * 8 = 3840 total minutes.
3840 /3200 = 1.2 minutes a call...
NOT FAST ENOUGH! WTF? ARE YOU BRAIN DEAD WOMAN?! Asking someone their name takes at least 20 seconds... Whatever... not that I am bitter... people complain they can't get help but then you bitch that you aren't "helping them fast enough" ... ARRRrggg... Oh well not my problem, she was more then capable of driving a 40 million a year company into a 4 million a year company before the competition bought them out and threw her 6 figure fat ass out the door...
And after all that still having to put in the 60 hour a week grind in a server room, coding everything, administering everything, and being told by your boss that "You need to foot the bill for all these certifications, why should we pay you to help you keep your job?" MCSE, CCNA, CCIE, CNA, etc... I remember in 2000 I had to shell out $12,000 in a year of my money to "keep my job."
The sickest thing is, in all those years, because of the nature of our work, we IT people see all of the company. No insulation. The corruption at the top all the way to the bottom. If Jeff is surfing pr0n in the warehouse or Mr. Big is surfing kiddie p0rn in his masion, IT sees it all and suffer it all too. From the top AND the bottom. It makes you not like people in general. I have 0 faith in any human walking Earth now as a result.
I remember at one employer just running a simple
DIR /S *.MPG /S *.AVI
DIR
against the personal drives due to disk space running out.
The sheer volume of pr0n was staggering. The executives were furious. They wanted blood. I was in the conference room when they demanded to know who the top offenders were. They were going to make examples of them. I was fired on the spot when I named the top 5 offender... all sitting in the room.
Glory my ass. Never was any, never will be any.
Blissfully retired and anyone dumb enough to go into that field, good luck. If you want to see the worst in humanity, IT\MIS is the field to be in. I'd rather work with prison inmates then go back to that, I take honest evil over hypocritical evil any day... Glory? How about IT Shell Shock Syndrome...