On the flip-side, many people know that a cold will go away in n days with bed rest, but they're employer requires a "note from mom" after n-x days.
Once at the doctors they'll usually think, "Well, I'm here, might as well get something for this headache/sniffle/uncontrollable-drool" and flash their blood-shot puppy eyes and whimper until the doctor gives them treats.
I am in the mining industry and yes, managers do want to see live plant data.
The way we do it here is the only place that the process network and the admin network get close to each other is in a locked cabinet. Inside said cabinet there are two small industrial switches VERY clearly marked.
We, like much of the oil/gas and the mining industries, use a data historian on the admin network. The data node for the historian sits between the two and only passes the data that it has been told to pass by the sys-admin.
For managers to get the data the only place they can get it is from the data historian, not from the node and not from the process network.
Whilst it would be possible to configure the nodes to forward packets from one network to another, our last risk assessment determined that the chance of this happening was low (we have full control over the data node, no one else has access, not even server-ops or network-ops). We review this about every 6 months and if we ever feel the risk is too high then we would take further steps.
Blizard are also planning on running a Blizcon Oceanic.
It will be still held in California, however the opening times are GMT+10, and the doors get shut to clean the convention hall midway through.
I keep seeing people in here with methods of printing out reciepts with hashes to "check" your vote online.
How about you select your candidate (preferably have a none option) the machine adds your vote to its tally then spits out a filled in ballot paper that you then drop into the box as per normal. This way we can get an instant tally from the machine and the paper ballots are counted for verification.
Other than lost ballot boxes (pretty damn hard to lose one of them here, not sure in the States) there should be zero descrepancy between the automatically tabulated results and the hand counted ballots.
I've been working the last 14 years as an Instrument Fitter. When I started it was a wonderful field, when I started it was the ultimate in geek trade jobs, control systems, automation, process control and messing about with fibre in heavy industry (it's only become standard IT fare in the last 2 years in HI).
But then, change of management and lo, I start changing lightbulbs because as an Instrument Fitter we had to have an electrical license. Then work required a gas fitting license and guess what? No pay rise.
Oh, we now what you to hold a radiation source maintenance license and no pay rise. My answer, hmm, yes, I'll take that IT job you offered for less money 2 years back.
Lo and behold they opened an IT job and I was the only applicant so I feigned disenchantment and I got the job with a pay rise, increase in super annuation and an extra weeks leave.
The only things trades are good for are getting cheap tools for home.
Got a HP 1000 mini sittin in my lounge, does run, but I haven't figured out anything to do with it yet. Also have a 300 baud modem that I do use to talk to PLCs.
One thing I've been after for a while is an elegant solution to the problems radio simulcasts have.
Where I live we get our radio via a single satellite bounce but our TV is bounced twice (smetimes 3 times depending on what channel) and as a result if something is a radio simulcast (some sporting events here are as are music events) then you end up with a delay between the sound and the video.
One nice little tweak for most of the pvrs I have seen would be the ability to slow down either the video or the sound.
For those interested in the macarbe side of medicine try the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia.
I went there during my visit to the states and it is quite interesting with exhibits from the College of Surgeons at the turn of the 19th Century.
Some highlights include a collection of skulls used for phrenology (sp?) and one doctors collection of things people swallowed (including live ammunition!).
Considering I work for a mining company I guess I have some background knowledge.
What I would like to know is how they plan to get the base minerals, considering soils have tyically minimal mineralization and the elements tend to be in very low concentrations.
I would think that this would only work for rare earth elements and the like, not so good for base
metals.
Still, after seeing what mining does to the landscape, anything is better.
Sure there are, I can drive a hour north (I'm in far north-west Queensland, Australia) and the only light pollution is from those damn bright stars.
When I was a bit younger we used to go on family camping trips and lay under the stars watching satellites, not something I could do in the city.
The one ime we want Sen. Alston to do something and he won't. Sure we want the freedom to browse where we want, but there does need to be something to curb the spammers. I have my own domain with the domain mail directed to my mb. Sure, it means I get the worst case and I have seen it, i.e. a@somewhere.net, b@somewhere.net etc. but it also helps me track where the spam harvested my addy from. What I do is use different addy's for different companies i.e. slashdot@somewhere.net for all slashdot stuff. So if I start getting MMF to my slashdot addy I would know that it came from here ( and no, I haven't, just an example)
I think the foks there have finally grasped the one important thing in a childs development. It is vital to develop a sense of self and also to learn to interact with others.
Now don't get me wrong, I love sitting at my keyboard every chance I get, but for a child I feel it is more important that they develop they're interpersonnel skills (ack, too many PR meetings I think).
When I think back to my childhood, I don't wistfully reminisce about playing my first game of Asteroids on a 2600 but I do remember climbing a tree with my friends.
Thats what primary school should be about, then drop them into writing code in high school.
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On the flip-side, many people know that a cold will go away in n days with bed rest, but they're employer requires a "note from mom" after n-x days. Once at the doctors they'll usually think, "Well, I'm here, might as well get something for this headache/sniffle/uncontrollable-drool" and flash their blood-shot puppy eyes and whimper until the doctor gives them treats.
I am in the mining industry and yes, managers do want to see live plant data. The way we do it here is the only place that the process network and the admin network get close to each other is in a locked cabinet. Inside said cabinet there are two small industrial switches VERY clearly marked. We, like much of the oil/gas and the mining industries, use a data historian on the admin network. The data node for the historian sits between the two and only passes the data that it has been told to pass by the sys-admin. For managers to get the data the only place they can get it is from the data historian, not from the node and not from the process network. Whilst it would be possible to configure the nodes to forward packets from one network to another, our last risk assessment determined that the chance of this happening was low (we have full control over the data node, no one else has access, not even server-ops or network-ops). We review this about every 6 months and if we ever feel the risk is too high then we would take further steps.
Blizard are also planning on running a Blizcon Oceanic. It will be still held in California, however the opening times are GMT+10, and the doors get shut to clean the convention hall midway through.
I keep seeing people in here with methods of printing out reciepts with hashes to "check" your vote online. How about you select your candidate (preferably have a none option) the machine adds your vote to its tally then spits out a filled in ballot paper that you then drop into the box as per normal. This way we can get an instant tally from the machine and the paper ballots are counted for verification. Other than lost ballot boxes (pretty damn hard to lose one of them here, not sure in the States) there should be zero descrepancy between the automatically tabulated results and the hand counted ballots.
Early I woke, on a weekend?
I've been working the last 14 years as an Instrument Fitter. When I started it was a wonderful field, when I started it was the ultimate in geek trade jobs, control systems, automation, process control and messing about with fibre in heavy industry (it's only become standard IT fare in the last 2 years in HI).
But then, change of management and lo, I start changing lightbulbs because as an Instrument Fitter we had to have an electrical license. Then work required a gas fitting license and guess what? No pay rise.
Oh, we now what you to hold a radiation source maintenance license and no pay rise. My answer, hmm, yes, I'll take that IT job you offered for less money 2 years back.
Lo and behold they opened an IT job and I was the only applicant so I feigned disenchantment and I got the job with a pay rise, increase in super annuation and an extra weeks leave.
The only things trades are good for are getting cheap tools for home.
Got a HP 1000 mini sittin in my lounge, does run, but I haven't figured out anything to do with it yet. Also have a 300 baud modem that I do use to talk to PLCs.
Personally, I use what ever is the current pen in the stationary cupboard at work.
One thing I've been after for a while is an elegant solution to the problems radio simulcasts have.
Where I live we get our radio via a single satellite bounce but our TV is bounced twice (smetimes 3 times depending on what channel) and as a result if something is a radio simulcast (some sporting events here are as are music events) then you end up with a delay between the sound and the video.
One nice little tweak for most of the pvrs I have seen would be the ability to slow down either the video or the sound.
Just my 3.3c (depending on exchange rates)
Dunno about the rest of you, but my "broadband" connection is only a few millimeters wide...
There is another article on the news.com.au site in case the first goes down.
For those interested in the macarbe side of medicine try the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia.
I went there during my visit to the states and it is quite interesting with exhibits from the College of Surgeons at the turn of the 19th Century.
Some highlights include a collection of skulls used for phrenology (sp?) and one doctors collection of things people swallowed (including live ammunition!).
Now if the handshake dosen't work out, telnet into the guys robot and beat him up.
What I would like to know is how they plan to get the base minerals, considering soils have tyically minimal mineralization and the elements tend to be in very low concentrations.
I would think that this would only work for rare earth elements and the like, not so good for base metals.
Still, after seeing what mining does to the landscape, anything is better.
Lets just hope none of those F00F bugs start popping back up...
Sure there are, I can drive a hour north (I'm in far north-west Queensland, Australia) and the only light pollution is from those damn bright stars. When I was a bit younger we used to go on family camping trips and lay under the stars watching satellites, not something I could do in the city.
The one ime we want Sen. Alston to do something and he won't. Sure we want the freedom to browse where we want, but there does need to be something to curb the spammers. I have my own domain with the domain mail directed to my mb. Sure, it means I get the worst case and I have seen it, i.e. a@somewhere.net, b@somewhere.net etc. but it also helps me track where the spam harvested my addy from. What I do is use different addy's for different companies i.e. slashdot@somewhere.net for all slashdot stuff. So if I start getting MMF to my slashdot addy I would know that it came from here ( and no, I haven't, just an example)
I think the foks there have finally grasped the one important thing in a childs development. It is vital to develop a sense of self and also to learn to interact with others.
Now don't get me wrong, I love sitting at my keyboard every chance I get, but for a child I feel it is more important that they develop they're interpersonnel skills (ack, too many PR meetings I think).
When I think back to my childhood, I don't wistfully reminisce about playing my first game of Asteroids on a 2600 but I do remember climbing a tree with my friends.
Thats what primary school should be about, then drop them into writing code in high school.