I've been waiting for all the foreboding 1984-esque posts here but so far not too many.
Frankly I'm glad to see some optimism here for this. People fail to realize how the whole system works. It's not like a battery that gives instant power at a certain capacity. The power companies have to be able to predict usage to a fairly accurate degree. To the best of my knowledge any power produced above what is needed isn't stored anywhere and thus is wasted. If we could optimize the grid in a way that made it more predictable and easier to lower the load on then there'd be less overall waste.
Why bother buying a hybrid then? Why seek out alternative energy sources? We could keep driving our beat up Suburbans and keep using our coal mines simply because it's cheaper and switching wont give us instant gratification.
I don't know about other schools but at mine when you're looking at "reserves" it actually relates back to a physical copy or license the library has a right to. If you check out a reserve then that drops the availability of "free units" down 1.
I think you hit on a key thing with "If he were to go to management and say "hey I am over-utilized, I would like a raise or a subordinate or just help from peers or SOMETHING; otherwise we might miss launch DESPITE my best efforts, (with documentation showing how much he is overworking) -- that would be a different story".
Sometimes a payraise simply isn't the solution. I'd approach it in the manner of like "listen, we've got to do SOMETHING. Pay me so I can justify working 60-80 hours a week or relieve me of some of these duties with a new employee or shift some of it to an existing employee. The manager's job is to support you and to make sure the job gets done. If you approach it in terms of "I have a problem, can you help me fix this?" then you're off on the right foot.
But also realize- sometimes there are inflexible employers who either poorly budgeted or simply don't have enough foresight to realize the value of their people. However, I as a small business owner know absolutely that my people are my number 1 asset. If I can't afford to pay someone more, but I know they're worth it then I'll at least explain why (typically a lack of steady work) and offer for them to proactive with helping us find new work. In essence it becomes - "help me help you". But then again - in a larger corporate environment you'd have more to worry about if they're having trouble finding steady work which raises a whole different slew of issues.
Not to be an ass...okay, well to be a little bit of an ass - are you sure it's plugged in? I'm a sysadmin for a Windows-based network and the hardware support under Windows 7 has been damned near amazing compared to trying to find a driver all across the internet for every little thing that Ubuntu doesn't come ready for.
Well shit, there goes my "leave the U.S. for somewhere more sane" plan in 15-20 years. But hey if anything - we can compare war stories about the better times.
Lol. To be fair I waited about 45 minutes and in the process used the bathroom and took a full walk around my building. A part of me was kind of hoping they'd answer while sitting on the John...
I actually got one of those damned calls today. I went ahead and pressed 9 to talk to a real human about "Lowing my Credit Card Rates". My first question "What is the name of your company?" "Asdfsdlkfsd and sdfsdlkjfls working for Visa and Mastercard" is pretty much all I heard. I ask her to repeat it and she simply says "Have a nice day" then hangs up! The goal was to get them to remove me from their list.
Looked up the number and it sounds like it might be a number Skype is using to route calls. (615-724-7999). Talked to ATT (my carrier) and asked if there was any way to trace the origin of that call but that was a fruitless search.
Anyone out there having better luck about being proactive towards putting an end to this nonsense? I don't want their services or their good and I sure as hell don't want to give them any of my time.
Valid point but that's why you have a human at the the end of the line who is a bit more educated than the average "tweeter". Or heck - even a board or something. There are ways to make it work.
This is pretty much my stance on the matter. Personally I prefer blacklisting based on group "voting" or whatever you call it. If enough people flag it - then there's probably an issue and then a real person can review and see what the issue is. This plus notifying users that there's suspected malware on certain sites adds more than its fair share of value to the end user, in my opinion.
If deployed properly this could actually enhance security a bit. Pass the links through twitter servers which checks to make sure they not on a black list and then pass the traffic through.
My first thoughts revolved around wondering what on earth one of those drones would be doing here.
But then I tried to think about it from an tech perspective and laid down my tin foil hat. There could actually be some really neat applications for unmmaned aircraft. Granted it's kind of crappy for the pilots in an already saturated market - but there could be some advantages.
I find it comforting in a way...like a "look at me now, bitches".
I wasn't laughing at you, Star Wars Kid, I was laughing with you - because like the rest of us here on Slashdot: We've probably done similiar if not sillier shit in our childhoods.
Funny thing is that I work with a guy who has been with us for about 2 years supporting our systems and still can't pass his network+...
While I mostly agree I do prefer to see someone with some sort of certs, even if it isn't a direct correlation of transferrable knowledge. What I do see out of it is someone not only willing to learn, but is capable of learning (as opposed to the guy I work with who can be a pain to show new things). It definitely shows you know a *basic* understanding of the information in many aspects.
I met another guy who got his degree from one of these supposed technical schools and didn't know how to navigate any of the basic tools in win (traceroute, ping, nbtstat, etc) let alone *nix, but thinks he's the king of networking.
The best people I've met are those with straight up work experience and a couple of certs here and there.
I'll feed the troll since I'm feeling masochistic today: My subject said "Just curious". I don't think I had to rehash "oh, that's pretty cool" to ask a question - a legitimate technical one at that.
Why do the images of both of those prototypes have lines going all across them? I'd imagine you'd want to demo something like that without that being a side effect - unless it's intentional...? I'm sure someone here knows.:)
"'It says a lot about Microsoft's approach to customer lock-in that the company touts its proprietary document formats, which only Microsoft software can render with true fidelity, as the reason to avoid using other products,' says a Google spokesperson.""
While M$ bashing is commonplace here I really think this attitude towards them is short-sighted as hell. Office is one of the one things I'll give credit to Microsoft for doing fairly decently. They're a for-profit software company, don't forget that.
Microsoft's approach involves selling software and client retention. That's not even something I could call evil in the same terms that google seems to be claiming. You want free? You lose functionality. That seems perfectly reasonable.
Google, however, is an advertising company, not a software company. Will they offer a product that doesn't in some way use your data for their means? I highly doubt it.
Henceforth - google's argument is similar to ford being angry that they can't use a honda engine in their vehicles while also admitting they have a superior product.
Just as legislation failed to keep telemarketers from calling my cell phone? Not. This was actually a successful measure.
I think a law like this would force the *ability* to spoof to dissipate if anything. I'm all for it - I get pretty cranky when some autodialer calls me at some jacked up hour and doesn't have the courtesy to call me with a real caller ID # for me to even report. I know of one instance where I called the number back and it was some poor hospital who got spoofed getting their phone lines slammed with angry callers.
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I've been waiting for all the foreboding 1984-esque posts here but so far not too many. Frankly I'm glad to see some optimism here for this. People fail to realize how the whole system works. It's not like a battery that gives instant power at a certain capacity. The power companies have to be able to predict usage to a fairly accurate degree. To the best of my knowledge any power produced above what is needed isn't stored anywhere and thus is wasted. If we could optimize the grid in a way that made it more predictable and easier to lower the load on then there'd be less overall waste.
Way to be altruistic there, buddy.
Why bother buying a hybrid then? Why seek out alternative energy sources? We could keep driving our beat up Suburbans and keep using our coal mines simply because it's cheaper and switching wont give us instant gratification.
Think long term and think of everyone but you.
You think if they started advertising for penis enlargement that they'd start going for my 11x17 tray just to prove a point/overcompensate?
"Holding back patches for known flaws is ultimately irresponsible behavior."
Wait...did you just say that?
I don't know about other schools but at mine when you're looking at "reserves" it actually relates back to a physical copy or license the library has a right to. If you check out a reserve then that drops the availability of "free units" down 1.
You sound like someone who hasn't worked in the real world as a manager.
I think you hit on a key thing with "If he were to go to management and say "hey I am over-utilized, I would like a raise or a subordinate or just help from peers or SOMETHING; otherwise we might miss launch DESPITE my best efforts, (with documentation showing how much he is overworking) -- that would be a different story".
Sometimes a payraise simply isn't the solution. I'd approach it in the manner of like "listen, we've got to do SOMETHING. Pay me so I can justify working 60-80 hours a week or relieve me of some of these duties with a new employee or shift some of it to an existing employee. The manager's job is to support you and to make sure the job gets done. If you approach it in terms of "I have a problem, can you help me fix this?" then you're off on the right foot.
But also realize- sometimes there are inflexible employers who either poorly budgeted or simply don't have enough foresight to realize the value of their people. However, I as a small business owner know absolutely that my people are my number 1 asset. If I can't afford to pay someone more, but I know they're worth it then I'll at least explain why (typically a lack of steady work) and offer for them to proactive with helping us find new work. In essence it becomes - "help me help you". But then again - in a larger corporate environment you'd have more to worry about if they're having trouble finding steady work which raises a whole different slew of issues.
"I can't get Windows 7 to talk to my scanner."
Not to be an ass...okay, well to be a little bit of an ass - are you sure it's plugged in? I'm a sysadmin for a Windows-based network and the hardware support under Windows 7 has been damned near amazing compared to trying to find a driver all across the internet for every little thing that Ubuntu doesn't come ready for.
Just don't cross the streams.
Well shit, there goes my "leave the U.S. for somewhere more sane" plan in 15-20 years. But hey if anything - we can compare war stories about the better times.
Lol. To be fair I waited about 45 minutes and in the process used the bathroom and took a full walk around my building. A part of me was kind of hoping they'd answer while sitting on the John...
I actually got one of those damned calls today. I went ahead and pressed 9 to talk to a real human about "Lowing my Credit Card Rates". My first question "What is the name of your company?" "Asdfsdlkfsd and sdfsdlkjfls working for Visa and Mastercard" is pretty much all I heard. I ask her to repeat it and she simply says "Have a nice day" then hangs up! The goal was to get them to remove me from their list.
Looked up the number and it sounds like it might be a number Skype is using to route calls. (615-724-7999). Talked to ATT (my carrier) and asked if there was any way to trace the origin of that call but that was a fruitless search.
Anyone out there having better luck about being proactive towards putting an end to this nonsense? I don't want their services or their good and I sure as hell don't want to give them any of my time.
Valid point but that's why you have a human at the the end of the line who is a bit more educated than the average "tweeter". Or heck - even a board or something. There are ways to make it work.
This is pretty much my stance on the matter. Personally I prefer blacklisting based on group "voting" or whatever you call it. If enough people flag it - then there's probably an issue and then a real person can review and see what the issue is. This plus notifying users that there's suspected malware on certain sites adds more than its fair share of value to the end user, in my opinion.
If deployed properly this could actually enhance security a bit. Pass the links through twitter servers which checks to make sure they not on a black list and then pass the traffic through.
I guess here...?
My first thoughts revolved around wondering what on earth one of those drones would be doing here.
But then I tried to think about it from an tech perspective and laid down my tin foil hat. There could actually be some really neat applications for unmmaned aircraft. Granted it's kind of crappy for the pilots in an already saturated market - but there could be some advantages.
I find it comforting in a way...like a "look at me now, bitches".
I wasn't laughing at you, Star Wars Kid, I was laughing with you - because like the rest of us here on Slashdot: We've probably done similiar if not sillier shit in our childhoods.
Chalk it up as a boondoggle and consider it part of the economic recovery plan.
Archos is already doing it and doing it well. First time using one was today, actually. Pretty damned swanky, imo.
Funny thing is that I work with a guy who has been with us for about 2 years supporting our systems and still can't pass his network+...
While I mostly agree I do prefer to see someone with some sort of certs, even if it isn't a direct correlation of transferrable knowledge. What I do see out of it is someone not only willing to learn, but is capable of learning (as opposed to the guy I work with who can be a pain to show new things). It definitely shows you know a *basic* understanding of the information in many aspects.
I met another guy who got his degree from one of these supposed technical schools and didn't know how to navigate any of the basic tools in win (traceroute, ping, nbtstat, etc) let alone *nix, but thinks he's the king of networking.
The best people I've met are those with straight up work experience and a couple of certs here and there.
I'll feed the troll since I'm feeling masochistic today: My subject said "Just curious". I don't think I had to rehash "oh, that's pretty cool" to ask a question - a legitimate technical one at that.
Why do the images of both of those prototypes have lines going all across them? I'd imagine you'd want to demo something like that without that being a side effect - unless it's intentional...? I'm sure someone here knows. :)
"'It says a lot about Microsoft's approach to customer lock-in that the company touts its proprietary document formats, which only Microsoft software can render with true fidelity, as the reason to avoid using other products,' says a Google spokesperson.""
While M$ bashing is commonplace here I really think this attitude towards them is short-sighted as hell. Office is one of the one things I'll give credit to Microsoft for doing fairly decently. They're a for-profit software company, don't forget that.
Microsoft's approach involves selling software and client retention. That's not even something I could call evil in the same terms that google seems to be claiming. You want free? You lose functionality. That seems perfectly reasonable.
Google, however, is an advertising company, not a software company. Will they offer a product that doesn't in some way use your data for their means? I highly doubt it.
Henceforth - google's argument is similar to ford being angry that they can't use a honda engine in their vehicles while also admitting they have a superior product.
Just as legislation failed to keep telemarketers from calling my cell phone? Not. This was actually a successful measure.
I think a law like this would force the *ability* to spoof to dissipate if anything. I'm all for it - I get pretty cranky when some autodialer calls me at some jacked up hour and doesn't have the courtesy to call me with a real caller ID # for me to even report. I know of one instance where I called the number back and it was some poor hospital who got spoofed getting their phone lines slammed with angry callers.