CPAs work with the only thing that management cares about, which is money.
As a CPA you'd earn as much or more than a programmer/sysadmin/IT staff.
More importantly, knowing both CPA and IT puts you in a position to run your screwed up IT department,
get out of your cube in the server room and into board room. If you're halfway smart and shower
daily you probably do a better job than most existing managers.
What if the CPU was mounted on the bottom of the MB. Then use a 1-2 pound plate of aluminium as both the base of the case and a huge heatsink - no fans needed at all.. Rolled plates of aluminium are very cheap and one less component above will help reliability and noise. Maybe mount a built-in video chip under there too, or better yet a standard sized socket for just a video chip, imagine that as socket-370-V or something.
Often some head hunter gets ahold of your resume and you can't control where it goes, so a cover letter is a good defense against bogus or time wasing interviews. When the HR person hands me a pile of 200 resumes I have to weed thru them: First to get marked 'No' have no cover letter. Second to get marked 'NO' are the ones which are impossible to read due to silly fonts - there is always some joker who prints a resume in runes or cursive fonts. Next to get marked 'NO' are the ones written entirely in slogans or buzzwords - corpo-speak. (The resumes going on the 'read twice' pile tend to have both a noun and a verb in every sentence on the cover letter.) The ones that make it to the 'OK, read' pile almost always say what they do and don't want on the cover letter. The cover letter determines which resumes get read - most do not. Saying what you don't want saves everyone wasted time and interview trips. So say something like "I want to work within 20 miles of Bolton and type 'make' all day. Also say something like "I don't want to relocate or supervise or travel every week."
A '384/486 era motherboard contains between $1 and $2 worth of recyclable metals. You need about 5-6000 pounds of boards before processing them is economically worthwhile. Mainframe boards are worth anywhere up to $4 per pound. Junk like the power supply boards and boards inside CRTs are worth roughly 12 cents per pound. All numbers are in $us, 12/2003. Real numbers from someone in the biz of buying dead ones by the semi-truck load. It all gets processed in the US. Yes I'm buying, but only if you have a few thousand pounds of scrap minimum.
One easy way to just opt out of the whole worm/virus/update set of problems if you are forced to stay on a M$/Win peecee is to switch (back) to Netscape or Mozilla. Mail attachments can be turned off so its harder to catch problems, and the address book stuff is structured differently so you won't spread the infection. Its much easier than training your grandma or boss on a linux thats for sure.
This simple minded end-user answer works for me : setup a half a dozen inboxes, a few for work, some for friends, more for topics or keywords, etc. Set your filters to route email to the correct inbox and default everything else to trash. It costs nothing and users never have to maintain a filter for all the possible spellings for 'penis' or 'viagra'. It doesn't stop the bandwidth problem but it is something users can do to stop their own personal spam floods .
Who paid for the generator and fermenting tank ? Who paid to install them ? From the long version: "AgSTAR, a federal waste management program, sponsored 13 digester projects around the country, including the Haubenschilds' digester." So its economically worthwhile if the Feds (aka other taxpayers, you & me ) buy your equipment for the farmer.
This ought to be something an individual user could set up without much work : just delete all email that does not contain a keyword from a list of keywords. So work related email must contain the name of the 'fizzy-pop' project, mail from friends contains some other keyword, perhaps their name. Everything else gets sent back to the sender with an explanation. This would make it just about impossible for a person unknown to you to send you any email at all.
Website hackers should be payed big bucks; they're exposing bad or lazy sysadmins. The sysadmins who left the security wide open deserve the blame. This follows the same kind of "attractive nuisance" laws about fences and pools.
I haven't seen it said here yet, so here goes..
It seems that having teachers teach kids "about computers" or "about applications" is pretty useless since either would be obsolete very soon.
What would be useful is for the kids to use computers as teachers - the computers need software to replace a teacher trying to force-feed all 30 kids at one rate with 30 computers teaching each one at his/her own speed. So the teacher's job would boil down to someone doing a little sysadmin and handing out tests as the kids got ready for them. Software like that probably largely exists. The will to give the kids the freedom to actually learn something doesn't.
Why not just call "defense" what it is : welfare for all those middle class mostly white engineers and programmers ? The real money is in the contractors, not the guys in green carrying rifles.
Only 128 million people payed any taxes in 2001,
about 64 million make more than about $23k and are considered "rich", they pay ~96% of all income taxes.. (So the US has over 200 million freeloaders.) Somewhere way above 23k is the break even point where a person pays more than they consume. stats from the IRS .
I'm betting that the people who don't really care about connection speed don't really use their computer for anything more than keeping up with the Jones and a little email. So maybe its not so much that connection speed isn't important, its that the computer itself is mostly un-needed. Switching back to 4k thruput (aka 56k dialup) to save $40 per month ? It'd be easier to carpool or just skip lunches..
$10 to drop off a PC is a little steep, price ought to be closer to $5-7 for a monitor and $0 for the cpu box. Its the leaded glass in the monitors that drives the prices .
Take some crappy old XT/AT/386, run thousands
of 'em thru the chipper, get a dollar per 'head' for your trouble. Anything is better than re-re-re-re-loading win3.1, right ? (Loading Windoze and then finding all the modem drivers probably makes the reselling project pay less than $2 per hour anyway.)
They pull all the boards and drop them in a huge chipper/grinder and make BIG buck off all the rare metals in the boards. Many of those metals you don't want in the landfill anyway. I'm looking to buy 1/2 semi- truckload or more of useless old PeeCees or similar, no joke.
so why is a stationless radio so good ?
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The title says it all, just why is this thing so grand if it has zero stations, eh ?
Installed it on a generic Windoze box, it doesn't make any messages from the firewall .
>> Who needs an exploit to crash a Windows server..
Right, just install BearShare and watch it open several hundred sockets and leave 'em open forever - that'll do it. Testing this on your nameserver is ideal..
So the article can be summed up, partly, as "MS is a price gouging monopoly.
>> * Excludes the mental bills for using their mouse for any period of time.
All 3 buttons on the mouse on this M$ box are used all the time. I'd really need to use 5 buttons and might find a use for keyboard modifiers with 'em to make 15 or 20 mouse buttons. A single button mac mouse is reason enough to avoid macs in general, at least for now.
Maybe we need a new \. survey ? Something like "Do you use P2P services:" a> to steal, b> to shop, c> because I'm broke, d> for porn videos only, e> I don't, f> to spread warez.. etc..
Or update the old one if this has been done.
What do you bet that this info generates more dinner hour phone calls asking you to subscribe ?
So if you type in your Comgressman or -woman's name and email address, or better yet the name of one of their aides, just maybe we could have fewer 7pm marketing phone calls . Typing in real yet deceptive info is more useful than typing obviously fake info..
Thats trick to getting a techie to work 20 extra hours a week for the manager's benefit - make 'em feel just enough like owners to try and "save" the project. You set up an impossible situation and tell one of that they're "lead programmer" and watch that one self-destruct. Works every time.
So the little PM wants absurd things ? Chances are that your project schedule and budget are arbitrarily determined from above anyway. When the schedule is determined by the big boss's promotion schedule, and the budget is determined from how much is left over after they pave the parking lot, well, maybe the best option is to put in your 40, shut up, and be happy. Oh - make sure to not to take any stock options as pay.
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CPAs work with the only thing that management cares about, which is money. As a CPA you'd earn as much or more than a programmer/sysadmin/IT staff. More importantly, knowing both CPA and IT puts you in a position to run your screwed up IT department, get out of your cube in the server room and into board room. If you're halfway smart and shower daily you probably do a better job than most existing managers.
Tastes just like a big square hot dog; its pretty much the same stuff as hotdogs.
What if the CPU was mounted on the bottom of the MB. Then use a 1-2 pound plate of aluminium as both the base of the case and a huge heatsink - no fans needed at all.. Rolled plates of aluminium are very cheap and one less component above will help reliability and noise. Maybe mount a built-in video chip under there too, or better yet a standard sized socket for just a video chip, imagine that as socket-370-V or something.
Often some head hunter gets ahold of your resume and you can't control where it goes, so a cover letter is a good defense against bogus or time wasing interviews. When the HR person hands me a pile of 200 resumes I have to weed thru them: First to get marked 'No' have no cover letter. Second to get marked 'NO' are the ones which are impossible to read due to silly fonts - there is always some joker who prints a resume in runes or cursive fonts. Next to get marked 'NO' are the ones written entirely in slogans or buzzwords - corpo-speak. (The resumes going on the 'read twice' pile tend to have both a noun and a verb in every sentence on the cover letter.) The ones that make it to the 'OK, read' pile almost always say what they do and don't want on the cover letter. The cover letter determines which resumes get read - most do not. Saying what you don't want saves everyone wasted time and interview trips.
So say something like "I want to work within 20 miles of Bolton and type 'make' all day. Also say something like "I don't want to relocate or supervise or travel every week."
7 Ghz - Cool beans - so how fast will it *feel if I ram it thru the same old 56k modem with the usual awesome 4k sustained thruput rate ?
A '384/486 era motherboard contains between $1 and $2 worth of recyclable metals. You need about 5-6000 pounds of boards before processing them is economically worthwhile. Mainframe boards are worth anywhere up to $4 per pound. Junk like the power supply boards and boards inside CRTs are worth roughly 12 cents per pound. All numbers are in $us, 12/2003. Real numbers from someone in the biz of buying dead ones by the semi-truck load. It all gets processed in the US. Yes I'm buying, but only if you have a few thousand pounds of scrap minimum.
>> a shitload of folks I know HATE microsoft ..
One easy way to just opt out of the whole worm/virus/update set of problems if you are forced to stay on a M$/Win peecee is to switch (back) to Netscape or Mozilla. Mail attachments can be turned off so its harder to catch problems, and the address book stuff is structured differently so you won't spread the infection. Its much easier than training your grandma or boss on a linux thats for sure.
Note the word 'forced' above..
This simple minded end-user answer works for me : setup a half a dozen inboxes, a few for work, some for friends, more for topics or keywords, etc. Set your filters to route email to the correct inbox and default everything else to trash. It costs nothing and users never have to maintain a filter for all the possible spellings for 'penis' or 'viagra'. It doesn't stop the bandwidth problem but it is something users can do to stop their own personal spam floods .
Who paid for the generator and fermenting tank ? Who paid to install them ? From the long version: "AgSTAR, a federal waste management program, sponsored 13 digester projects around the country, including the Haubenschilds' digester." So its economically worthwhile if the Feds (aka other taxpayers, you & me ) buy your equipment for the farmer.
This ought to be something an individual user could set up without much work : just delete all email that does not contain a keyword from a list of keywords. So work related email must contain the name of the 'fizzy-pop' project, mail from friends contains some other keyword, perhaps their name. Everything else gets sent back to the sender with an explanation. This would make it just about impossible for a person unknown to you to send you any email at all.
Website hackers should be payed big bucks; they're exposing bad or lazy sysadmins. The sysadmins who left the security wide open deserve the blame. This follows the same kind of "attractive nuisance" laws about fences and pools.
I haven't seen it said here yet, so here goes.. It seems that having teachers teach kids "about computers" or "about applications" is pretty useless since either would be obsolete very soon. What would be useful is for the kids to use computers as teachers - the computers need software to replace a teacher trying to force-feed all 30 kids at one rate with 30 computers teaching each one at his/her own speed. So the teacher's job would boil down to someone doing a little sysadmin and handing out tests as the kids got ready for them. Software like that probably largely exists. The will to give the kids the freedom to actually learn something doesn't.
Why not just call "defense" what it is : welfare for all those middle class mostly white engineers and programmers ? The real money is in the contractors, not the guys in green carrying rifles.
Only 128 million people payed any taxes in 2001, about 64 million make more than about $23k and are considered "rich", they pay ~96% of all income taxes.. (So the US has over 200 million freeloaders.) Somewhere way above 23k is the break even point where a person pays more than they consume. stats from the IRS .
I'm betting that the people who don't really care about connection speed don't really use their computer for anything more than keeping up with the Jones and a little email. So maybe its not so much that connection speed isn't important, its that the computer itself is mostly un-needed. Switching back to 4k thruput (aka 56k dialup) to save $40 per month ? It'd be easier to carpool or just skip lunches..
$10 to drop off a PC is a little steep, price ought to be closer to $5-7 for a monitor and $0 for the cpu box. Its the leaded glass in the monitors that drives the prices .
Take some crappy old XT/AT/386, run thousands of 'em thru the chipper, get a dollar per 'head' for your trouble. Anything is better than re-re-re-re-loading win3.1, right ? (Loading Windoze and then finding all the modem drivers probably makes the reselling project pay less than $2 per hour anyway.)
They pull all the boards and drop them in a
huge chipper/grinder and make BIG buck off all the
rare metals in the boards. Many of those metals you don't want in the landfill anyway. I'm looking to buy 1/2 semi- truckload or more of useless old PeeCees or similar, no joke.
The title says it all, just why is this thing so grand if it has zero stations, eh ? Installed it on a generic Windoze box, it doesn't make any messages from the firewall .
>> Who needs an exploit to crash a Windows server
Right, just install BearShare and watch it open several hundred sockets and leave 'em open forever - that'll do it. Testing this on your
nameserver is ideal..
So the article can be summed up, partly, as "MS is a price gouging monopoly.
>> * Excludes the mental bills for using their mouse for any period of time.
All 3 buttons on the mouse on this M$ box are used all the time. I'd really need to use 5 buttons and might find a use for keyboard modifiers with 'em to make 15 or 20 mouse buttons. A single button mac mouse is reason enough to avoid macs in general, at least for now.
Maybe we need a new \. survey ? Something like "Do you use P2P services :" a> to steal, b> to shop, c> because I'm broke, d> for porn videos only, e> I don't, f> to spread warez .. etc ..
Or update the old one if this has been done.
What do you bet that this info generates more dinner hour phone calls asking you to subscribe ? So if you type in your Comgressman or -woman's name and email address, or better yet the name of one of their aides, just maybe we could have fewer 7pm marketing phone calls . Typing in real yet deceptive info is more useful than typing obviously fake info..
Thats trick to getting a techie to work 20 extra hours a week for the manager's benefit - make 'em feel just enough like owners to try and "save" the project. You set up an impossible situation and tell one of that they're "lead programmer" and watch that one self-destruct. Works every time.
So the little PM wants absurd things ? Chances are that your project schedule and budget are arbitrarily determined from above anyway. When the schedule is determined by the big boss's promotion schedule, and the budget is determined from how much is left over after they pave the parking lot, well, maybe the best option is to put in your 40, shut up, and be happy. Oh - make sure to not to take any stock options as pay.