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When I was in the Air Force I saw someone who turned their cubicle into a ginger bread house. I've also seen a person take a shower curtain, a shower shelf unit and some wall tile and decorate their cubicle to look like a shower, it was a message that the cublicle was too small and the false ceiling leaked during heavy rains!
My experience has been that outsourcing companies (at least the one I work for) and their employees take BETTER care of the systems than in-house employees.
No conflict of interest there! What crack are you smoking?
The companies you outsource to have different priorities than your company. How many of those companies are going to work extended hours to rush deployment of a new system the company needs?
These companies have more than one client and the biggest fish will always get priority. Things always work great the first 90 or so days till the contract becomes secure and then the priorities of the 2 companies diverge.
I have seen this happen time and time again. The stupidest decision a company can make is to outsource anything central to the companies well being. I know of a company that was a web based database of travel deals. They outsourced their web and database hosting and development to another firm. They only kept the business side (getting the travel deals from the airlines, customer service etc.) After awhile they had problems with the getting the database updated timely, couldn't connect (oracle always was the scapegoat) etc. The company had to go through 3 different companies, until they figured out how much of a mistake it was and brought everything back in house. Guess who is their biggest competitor now? The very first company they dealt with!
Hey they can mod me a troll if they like. But if you let them call you a security risk, you will never be working in security again. Don't sit back and take it. Call a laywer, your name and character has been assasinated. If that doesn't work, then by all means, stick it to them good! If they want you to be a security risk show them just how much a 'risk' it is to screw your employees!
Find a hacker from India, tell him every root password you can remember, what OS's they use, everything you know about the company. And when they are at their knees, say I told you so and offer to fix it as a consultant for alot more than you would have been paid.
I am a long time gnome user, I wrote several themes for gnome 1.x. And there is alot more truth their than I care to admit. There are alot of things that KDE does right. And to me, Gnome 2 has been a disappointment, I keep waiting for it to catch up.
Especially the apps, I find myself using alot of kde apps in gnome.
iTunes relies heavily on QuickTime for playback and importing/encoding audio. Since QuickTime does not (officially) exist for Linux, this would be a big problem
It might be if quicktime were not also an apple product! Apple could easily write a linux client, it would not be as simple as a recompile, but neither was a windows port! There isn't an incentive to do so. But in the long run this will come back to bite them. Linux is growing in niche desktop markets especially the engineering workstation and certain corporate desktops. It is also gaining worldwide attention as an alternative to Microsoft and US hegemony. Dismissing it and open source now can and will have future consequences.
Real freedom means an Arab can walk into an airport and not be looked at as a terrorist.
I weep crocodile tears for you! If arabs were the peace loving followers of Islam you claim to be, and no arabs were ever involved in 9/11, khobar towers, USS Cole etc. Then you would have a gripe. But when 9/11 happened where was the outrage from the muslim world? I saw the celebrations! American muslims were more worried about possible backlash than condemning the attacks. John Allen Mohammed and his son went on a killing spree for allah. The court records here in Virginia show the drawings praising allah and pictures of infidels dying drawn by his accomplice. But the politically correct press here doesn't want to upset the peace loving muslims. So they don't delve into that too deeply. I've been to the Middle East too many times, and I've seen the racism and corruption. I've seen indentured servants from poor countries like Bangladesh beaten in Saudi Arabia by their masters. So forgive me if I don't turn my back so you can shove a knife in it.
You don't like America? Don' come here! If you are here leave!
There was a teaser, number 6 believed in a 'god', she mentioned it several times. She even stated that this was gods will. If they were created by us and we are not their god, then who/what is?
This opens the door for alot more possibilities.
The fact that some cylons may not know they are cylons, can make for clever use of the character Baltar. But any series (if it happen), could easily over do it. Like many transporter mishaps have to be used in Star Trek, before the audience flips the channel.
Since when do you need a college degree to hammer a nail. So let's be more to the point. If MIT were building a fine arts center that is highly visible, would they take submissions for the design of the building from there architecure major, and research construction companies owned by alumni to build it? Or should they have migrant workers build it from a picture highly rated in a magazine about modern architecture, using building supplies that were advertised in the magazine? As a point, most of the newer buildings at Christopher Newport University in Newport News Virginia were built by a local contractor with ties to the university and much of the work was donated.
Is this the beginning of a trend where companies recognize that the quality offered by relocation to cheaper centers around the world doesn't result in customer appreciation and better quality?"
No Michael Dell is just smarter than most CEO's. I think we'll realize Middle East peace and wormhole travel before the rest of corporate America catches on!
By eliminating the need for offices for thousands of employees they are reducing their building needs by thousands of square feet.
Sun should start with the real big offices.
McNeally's ought to free up quite a bit of wasted space. Maybe he should interract with his employees more. That way he can figure out how not to be such a f#!k head. And not lay workers off by the hundreds just to boost the stock for a day or two, just because he can't figure out how to run a company profitably with long term growth.
I plugged my Kodak digital Camera into a Mandrake 9.2 System and a camera appeared on my desktop.
Clicking it brought up the application gphoto. I had to install software from a CD on a windows machine.
Mac OSX did the same as Mandrake! Though iPhoto is a better app. I guess Mathew Szulik should use Mandrake!
Yes, but didn't Capt. Kirk wear one in an episode where they went to a planet with aliens that copied the gangster flicks, ala Elliot Ness. I keep seeing that scene in the adds for the original Star Trek on the SciFi channel.
Hello, McFly, WiFi is a network technology set up in a band that is specifically declared as unregulated. How are you going to regulate that?
I don't want to burst your bubble here but what the government giveth, it can take away. How much effort does it really take to change their minds and declare the band regulated?
And since there is yet any commercial space travel, why would we need a governing agency?
Don't you think that creating an agency to regulate an industry that doesn't exist would create a more bloat than already exists? Where do you think all the regulators would come from? Seems to me, all those goverment workers in nasa!
Btw, I work as a contractor for nasa, and they do some really great things in materials science, atmospheric sciences though remote satellite sensors, and propulsion technologies. The shuttle and ISS are extreme examples of bloat. But a large portion of what nasa does it does extremely well.
How far off till they form a space mining union?
Should cheap ore from space mined by robots be subject to import tariffs? We wouldn't want to start an interplanetary trade war. How do you claim ownership of moon land, martian territory or a whole asteroid?
Go back to school you obviously need it. And this time take chemistry! Add impurities to the water and then measure the boiling points of various mixtures. Or just check the link about boiling point elevation below!
In the absence of bubbles, water can be heated above 100 C, it's much more common in a microwave, but a very tall tightly sealed container with high heat applied continuously. Checkout the containers used in Mc Donalds (before it was trnsfered to the cup. It is quite possible to superheat water. Put alittle bit of the water and then stick it in a microwave for about 5-10 minutes. Then with a very long set of tongs, face shield and gloves, try and remove the water. Boom!
And coffee is made by boiling water running through the filters, it's not meant to be served that way! Try boiling water to a hard boil, were it's jumping all over the place as in perculating. And then pour it into a cup! There is such a thing as coffe that it too hot to drink.
I agree for those that don't have the wiring for sound. But those who can't hear due to problems with the ear drum or the inner hair cells that do the transduction of the sound to the auditory nerve cells. I don't think we will be replacing the brains signal processing abilities anytime soon.
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That depends, how do you feel about alter boys?
When I was in the Air Force I saw someone who turned their cubicle into a ginger bread house. I've also seen a person take a shower curtain, a shower shelf unit and some wall tile and decorate their cubicle to look like a shower, it was a message that the cublicle was too small and the false ceiling leaked during heavy rains!
My experience has been that outsourcing companies (at least the one I work for) and their employees take BETTER care of the systems than in-house employees.
No conflict of interest there! What crack are you smoking?
The companies you outsource to have different priorities than your company. How many of those companies are going to work extended hours to rush deployment of a new system the company needs?
These companies have more than one client and the biggest fish will always get priority. Things always work great the first 90 or so days till the contract becomes secure and then the priorities of the 2 companies diverge.
I have seen this happen time and time again. The stupidest decision a company can make is to outsource anything central to the companies well being. I know of a company that was a web based database of travel deals. They outsourced their web and database hosting and development to another firm. They only kept the business side (getting the travel deals from the airlines, customer service etc.) After awhile they had problems with the getting the database updated timely, couldn't connect (oracle always was the scapegoat) etc. The company had to go through 3 different companies, until they figured out how much of a mistake it was and brought everything back in house. Guess who is their biggest competitor now? The very first company they dealt with!
Hey they can mod me a troll if they like. But if you let them call you a security risk, you will never be working in security again. Don't sit back and take it. Call a laywer, your name and character has been assasinated. If that doesn't work, then by all means, stick it to them good! If they want you to be a security risk show them just how much a 'risk' it is to screw your employees!
Find a hacker from India, tell him every root password you can remember, what OS's they use, everything you know about the company. And when they are at their knees, say I told you so and offer to fix it as a consultant for alot more than you would have been paid.
How many people bought a windows machine because it's the same one they use at work?
Maybe you should look again. I think my boss just might be from some far distant galaxy.
I am a long time gnome user, I wrote several themes for gnome 1.x. And there is alot more truth their than I care to admit. There are alot of things that KDE does right. And to me, Gnome 2 has been a disappointment, I keep waiting for it to catch up. Especially the apps, I find myself using alot of kde apps in gnome.
It might be if quicktime were not also an apple product! Apple could easily write a linux client, it would not be as simple as a recompile, but neither was a windows port! There isn't an incentive to do so. But in the long run this will come back to bite them. Linux is growing in niche desktop markets especially the engineering workstation and certain corporate desktops. It is also gaining worldwide attention as an alternative to Microsoft and US hegemony. Dismissing it and open source now can and will have future consequences.
Congradulations! Unlike some other here, you actually read the articles before posting.
If it happens that often maybe you should stop reading slashdot and concentrate more on doing your job correctly!
I weep crocodile tears for you! If arabs were the peace loving followers of Islam you claim to be, and no arabs were ever involved in 9/11, khobar towers, USS Cole etc. Then you would have a gripe. But when 9/11 happened where was the outrage from the muslim world? I saw the celebrations! American muslims were more worried about possible backlash than condemning the attacks. John Allen Mohammed and his son went on a killing spree for allah. The court records here in Virginia show the drawings praising allah and pictures of infidels dying drawn by his accomplice. But the politically correct press here doesn't want to upset the peace loving muslims. So they don't delve into that too deeply. I've been to the Middle East too many times, and I've seen the racism and corruption. I've seen indentured servants from poor countries like Bangladesh beaten in Saudi Arabia by their masters. So forgive me if I don't turn my back so you can shove a knife in it. You don't like America? Don' come here! If you are here leave!
The fact that some cylons may not know they are cylons, can make for clever use of the character Baltar. But any series (if it happen), could easily over do it. Like many transporter mishaps have to be used in Star Trek, before the audience flips the channel.
Since when do you need a college degree to hammer a nail. So let's be more to the point. If MIT were building a fine arts center that is highly visible, would they take submissions for the design of the building from there architecure major, and research construction companies owned by alumni to build it? Or should they have migrant workers build it from a picture highly rated in a magazine about modern architecture, using building supplies that were advertised in the magazine? As a point, most of the newer buildings at Christopher Newport University in Newport News Virginia were built by a local contractor with ties to the university and much of the work was donated.
No Michael Dell is just smarter than most CEO's. I think we'll realize Middle East peace and wormhole travel before the rest of corporate America catches on!
I was using version 2.44, I was able to compile and upgrade spamassassin before the number of posted replies hit 60! Can't be too hard!
Sun should start with the real big offices. McNeally's ought to free up quite a bit of wasted space. Maybe he should interract with his employees more. That way he can figure out how not to be such a f#!k head. And not lay workers off by the hundreds just to boost the stock for a day or two, just because he can't figure out how to run a company profitably with long term growth.
I plugged my Kodak digital Camera into a Mandrake 9.2 System and a camera appeared on my desktop. Clicking it brought up the application gphoto. I had to install software from a CD on a windows machine. Mac OSX did the same as Mandrake! Though iPhoto is a better app. I guess Mathew Szulik should use Mandrake!
LOL,I about spilled my soda.
Yes, but didn't Capt. Kirk wear one in an episode where they went to a planet with aliens that copied the gangster flicks, ala Elliot Ness. I keep seeing that scene in the adds for the original Star Trek on the SciFi channel.
Rain Forest -- Living Trees.
Books -- Dead Trees!
I don't want to burst your bubble here but what the government giveth, it can take away. How much effort does it really take to change their minds and declare the band regulated? And since there is yet any commercial space travel, why would we need a governing agency? Don't you think that creating an agency to regulate an industry that doesn't exist would create a more bloat than already exists? Where do you think all the regulators would come from? Seems to me, all those goverment workers in nasa! Btw, I work as a contractor for nasa, and they do some really great things in materials science, atmospheric sciences though remote satellite sensors, and propulsion technologies. The shuttle and ISS are extreme examples of bloat. But a large portion of what nasa does it does extremely well.
How far off till they form a space mining union? Should cheap ore from space mined by robots be subject to import tariffs? We wouldn't want to start an interplanetary trade war. How do you claim ownership of moon land, martian territory or a whole asteroid?
In the absence of bubbles, water can be heated above 100 C, it's much more common in a microwave, but a very tall tightly sealed container with high heat applied continuously. Checkout the containers used in Mc Donalds (before it was trnsfered to the cup. It is quite possible to superheat water. Put alittle bit of the water and then stick it in a microwave for about 5-10 minutes. Then with a very long set of tongs, face shield and gloves, try and remove the water. Boom!
And coffee is made by boiling water running through the filters, it's not meant to be served that way! Try boiling water to a hard boil, were it's jumping all over the place as in perculating. And then pour it into a cup! There is such a thing as coffe that it too hot to drink.
Boiling Point Elevation
Superheating link
I agree for those that don't have the wiring for sound. But those who can't hear due to problems with the ear drum or the inner hair cells that do the transduction of the sound to the auditory nerve cells. I don't think we will be replacing the brains signal processing abilities anytime soon.