Would it be fair for me to pass a judgment on you based on this post? After all you assume, that someone posts pictures of them self and that is not necessarily correct. So I should assume you don't think through a scenario. It sounds harsh.
When it comes down to the final two equally qualified applicants, which one do you think will get the job? The 'no FaceBook' guy, or the guy whose 'friends' posted, and labeled, pics of him doing something typically youthful, but dumb? Remember, you may be dealing with a less than clueful HR person.
Just the perfect thing to store my collection of M. Night Shyamalan DVDs...
Right. That just killed the entire idea for me.
I would not donate any part of my local network to this if there is the merest chance of a possibility that one byte of that whackjobs 'movies' would be stored on it. Not a pixel, not a byte, not a single 1 or 0.
They're called prepaid plans, and there are no surprises (well, within limits), but for common use cases, it's guaranteed you'll pay 2-4 times the amount a customer on a given rate plan will.
That depends very much on how much you use it. My prepaid (VirginMobile) runs me about $18/month. ~120 minutes/month. Thats about 1/2 the cheapest regular plan you can find. The regular plan is, of course many more minutes. But why should I pay for airtime I will never, ever use?
Sometimes you have to maintain (parts) of the old system because an overnight transition (training etc.) is unrealistic. This may be the case here.
Obviously. In a system this large and ingrained, 'overnight' is impossible. And for the overlap, people have to do double work. Which controllers can't, because they are at their max workload already.
Well, I'm assuming that there are spare operators on stand-by all the time, no?
Bringing them online to 'test' means paying them when you wouldn't otherwise be paying them. Part of the $$$ to bring a new system online. Designing/building/testing/training a whole new FAA system to control aircraft is not an easy or cheap process.
If training is an issue then fine, provide an interface that's identical or very similar to the old one.
Fail. A new system is supposed to be easier-better-faster. Duplicating the old interface usually isn't the way to get that.
If you're worried about bugs then fine, test it until you feel comfortable. E.g. by processing all (or a large portion) of incoming data twice, once by the regular operators and once by operators using the new system - then compare the results.
And 'regular operators' are supposed to do this inbetween processing actual flights? Riiiight.
If you can't handle that, stop posting pictures of yourself in a way that allows someone to tie them to your real name. And take down the ones that are already up there.
Except for the ones at your school or corporate site, already helpfully tagged with your name. It is, as you say, out of the bag already.
That would be Finland. No (absolutely none) earthquakes, no floods (if there are any, they are extremely limited), no hurricanes, no extreme weather (same note as for floods).
there can be a port without a bunch of impoverished people living there below sea level
Not really. 1. Move everyone out, now
2. build an industrial port complex 3. Wait 100 years 4. Look at the 'city' that has grown around that port complex... 5. Watch the 'once a century' hurricane demolish it.
this works '100 years' in the past, or '100 years' in the future
It's starting to happen. Give it another 20 years and Indian wages will be high enough that this sort of stuff won't happen because Indian wages will be almost as high as a US worker's wages.
Then the problem will simply move elsewhere. There will always be someone at the bottom of the wage food chain, willing to work for relative peanuts. This is alreadyhappening.
she is also a proponent of teaching creationism alongside Evolution in public schools
Not quite. The actual quote would be:
"Next, Carey asked about teaching alternatives to evolution - such as creationism and intelligent design - in public schools.
Palin: "Teach both. You know, don't be afraid of information."
(and yes, the following sig needs to be updated. again)
Truthfully...how many of you actually suck down 250GB per month? If you watch all your 'tv' streaming or torrent, then maybe/almost/no way. But 250GB/month is actually quite a lot.
/and finally, someone is actually putting a number on 'unlimited'
Burn a digital representation onto vinyl. I have some of my dads old 78's from 60 yrs ago that still play. Yes, I still have a table that will play them. And if I didn't, converting from 78 to 45 to 33.3 would be easy in software.
Some macroscale physical representation of the data would be far more resistant to any bitrot than mag media or CD/DVD.
A player to reproduce that into whatever bits are standard would be easy to build if necessary.
And I have (as do most if they looked) 15 yr old 3.5 floppies that still read perfectly. Not saying that is a solution, but low density bits degrade far slower.
Once again I am reminded of the boundlessness of human stupidity.
2 or more departments in the chain, that don't talk to each other.
IT, who removes it from the desk or floor. They are 'supposed' to wipe it. They don't, for whatever reason. Disposal dept, gets a stack of random PC's to dispose of. "IT", according to policy, was supposed to have sanitized them, so Disposal never powers them up to check (doesn't have the time or resources).
Result - PC with sensitive CD still in the drive gets sold.
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Would it be fair for me to pass a judgment on you based on this post? After all you assume, that someone posts pictures of them self and that is not necessarily correct. So I should assume you don't think through a scenario. It sounds harsh.
When it comes down to the final two equally qualified applicants, which one do you think will get the job? The 'no FaceBook' guy, or the guy whose 'friends' posted, and labeled, pics of him doing something typically youthful, but dumb?
Remember, you may be dealing with a less than clueful HR person.
Just the perfect thing to store my collection of M. Night Shyamalan DVDs...
Right. That just killed the entire idea for me.
I would not donate any part of my local network to this if there is the merest chance of a possibility that one byte of that whackjobs 'movies' would be stored on it. Not a pixel, not a byte, not a single 1 or 0.
They're called prepaid plans, and there are no surprises (well, within limits), but for common use cases, it's guaranteed you'll pay 2-4 times the amount a customer on a given rate plan will.
That depends very much on how much you use it. My prepaid (VirginMobile) runs me about $18/month. ~120 minutes/month.
Thats about 1/2 the cheapest regular plan you can find. The regular plan is, of course many more minutes. But why should I pay for airtime I will never, ever use?
a specific warning along the lines of "if you turn this on, you may get fees."
Fees, yes. 100x what you normally pay? Not so much.
Sometimes you have to maintain (parts) of the old system because an overnight transition (training etc.) is unrealistic. This may be the case here.
Obviously. In a system this large and ingrained, 'overnight' is impossible. And for the overlap, people have to do double work. Which controllers can't, because they are at their max workload already.
Well, I'm assuming that there are spare operators on stand-by all the time, no?
Bringing them online to 'test' means paying them when you wouldn't otherwise be paying them. Part of the $$$ to bring a new system online.
Designing/building/testing/training a whole new FAA system to control aircraft is not an easy or cheap process.
If training is an issue then fine, provide an interface that's identical or very similar to the old one.
Fail. A new system is supposed to be easier-better-faster. Duplicating the old interface usually isn't the way to get that.
If you're worried about bugs then fine, test it until you feel comfortable. E.g. by processing all (or a large portion) of incoming data twice, once by the regular operators and once by operators using the new system - then compare the results.
And 'regular operators' are supposed to do this inbetween processing actual flights? Riiiight.
If you can't handle that, stop posting pictures of yourself in a way that allows someone to tie them to your real name. And take down the ones that are already up there.
Except for the ones at your school or corporate site, already helpfully tagged with your name.
It is, as you say, out of the bag already.
That's a mighty thin straw you're grasping at. Do the numbers '95' and '0' mean anything to you? Anything at all?
The Senate ratifies treaties, not the President. The Senate under Clinton voted 95-0 not to bring it up for ratification.
It did. But absence of natural disasters does not ensure a 'nice place to live'.
Yes, it was a different track than natural disasters, but again, everywhere is fucked to some degree.
That would be Finland. No (absolutely none) earthquakes, no floods (if there are any, they are extremely limited), no hurricanes, no extreme weather (same note as for floods).
Finland. Second highest suicide rate in Europe.
everywhere is fucked to some degree.
there can be a port without a bunch of impoverished people living there below sea level
Not really.
1. Move everyone out, now
2. build an industrial port complex
3. Wait 100 years
4. Look at the 'city' that has grown around that port complex...
5. Watch the 'once a century' hurricane demolish it.
this works '100 years' in the past, or '100 years' in the future
So, its not gmail, but not displaying your email address on ./ does the trick, eh? I am sure all spammers are just combing ./ for email addresses.
/.. As well as dumb dictionary lists.
No, they are combing webspace in general, which includes
It's starting to happen. Give it another 20 years and Indian wages will be high enough that this sort of stuff won't happen because Indian wages will be almost as high as a US worker's wages.
Then the problem will simply move elsewhere. There will always be someone at the bottom of the wage food chain, willing to work for relative peanuts.
This is already happening.
...but so does calling
Not if you don't use a lot of minutes. My PAYG runs $17/month, total. Any regular plan is at least twice that.
She never said anything about 'biology class'. Or any science class.
Basically, I read it thusly: "If the subject comes up, discuss"
And she specifically said she would not push it as a required topic/subject.
The problem is that it does not belong in a science class.
Palin never said it should be taught as science, nor in a science class.
she is also a proponent of teaching creationism alongside Evolution in public schools
Not quite. The actual quote would be:
"Next, Carey asked about teaching alternatives to evolution - such as creationism and intelligent design - in public schools.
Palin: "Teach both. You know, don't be afraid of information."
(and yes, the following sig needs to be updated. again)
2 dvd's every single day.
2 distros...2 movies...every day.
Truthfully...how many of you actually suck down 250GB per month?
If you watch all your 'tv' streaming or torrent, then maybe/almost/no way. But 250GB/month is actually quite a lot.
/and finally, someone is actually putting a number on 'unlimited'
Hamster wheels.
Treadmills at the gym.
Burn a digital representation onto vinyl. I have some of my dads old 78's from 60 yrs ago that still play. Yes, I still have a table that will play them. And if I didn't, converting from 78 to 45 to 33.3 would be easy in software.
Some macroscale physical representation of the data would be far more resistant to any bitrot than mag media or CD/DVD.
A player to reproduce that into whatever bits are standard would be easy to build if necessary.
And I have (as do most if they looked) 15 yr old 3.5 floppies that still read perfectly. Not saying that is a solution, but low density bits degrade far slower.
Once again I am reminded of the boundlessness of human stupidity.
2 or more departments in the chain, that don't talk to each other.
IT, who removes it from the desk or floor. They are 'supposed' to wipe it. They don't, for whatever reason.
Disposal dept, gets a stack of random PC's to dispose of. "IT", according to policy, was supposed to have sanitized them, so Disposal never powers them up to check (doesn't have the time or resources).
Result - PC with sensitive CD still in the drive gets sold.
hmmm...I live just about as far away from California as is possible and still be in the continental US.
What if the relatives weren't there, would that change your mind?
No. I have zero desire (as in actively turning down job offers) to live in NYC (or pretty much any other large city). That just doesn't appeal to me.
But really, how could you NOT want to live here?
Born there, been there, vacationed there, relatives there. No thanks.