When I was working at Best Buy one of the stores in our region had the entire computer department fired because 35K worth of laptops disappeared from the store... and that's the one they noticed.
You know who's got the highest Torrent ratio? The intern working at the big label who uploads everything that comes through the office. The guy downloading that song may not "know" the insider but he's still benefiting from the fruits of his labors.
Theft is almost always a cost-benefit deal (aside from those who get off on the act not the booty) The risk may be higher walking out of a physical store with goods but so is the reward if you set your sights big enough. 1 often balances out the other. Adding in the thrill seekers and stupid and I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often especially when the economy's down.
Depends on which neighborhood you're in or who they are asking you about.
A snitch is a snitch and there are many places where you will pay a heavy price for saying *anything* about *anyone*.
I learned a long time ago that the police were not on my side. There are aspects of their job that I benefit from (such as their presence, in theory, deterring a higher level of crime) but I have never had an officer actually try to "serve and protect" me. I'd be better off setting myself on fire and waiting for the FD than waiting for a policeman to help me out.
Get out of your son's way!! He's doing it the best way already... why are you trying to stop him?! There is nothing, in my book, valuable about learning a WYSIWYG editor when you are proficient in creating without one. I'm sure there are arguments against me but that's how I feel and how I code.
"Men wanted for hazardous journey, small wages, and bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful, honor and recognition in case of success."
"Men" being the important word here. They are not looking for a breeding crew on the first trip. They are looking for workers. I'm presuming future missions would be more diverse (especially if they are trying to build a real colony).
For the OP's $50 I have to say I've always been a fan of my Sony cans. When they originally debuted the MD-600s they were hands-down the best cans for the price, plenty usable in a pro environment. I've since switched to the MD-V700DJ because they have bigger drivers, more sturdy head mount and the form factor is better for how I use them.
There are more pristine sounding audiophile headphones out there for more money but these are pretty damn good and price point is excellent. Bang-for-buck win. (I just bought a replacement pair for $130 including shipping)
I'd just like to read this article written without the mumbling sound caused by Apple's dick being firmly lodged in their mouths. The entire article read like they were trying, really hard, to write an objective article but then phrases like "engineering marvel" and "the hardware spec itself is flawless (and peerless)" come out and credibility is lost especially when those exaggerated comments are in the neighborhood of descriptions telling about what isn't any better (and in many cases worse) than the competition.
I think an objective article would have more of the following tone:
"Apple's new Mac Book is the first laptop to integrate a retinal display and standard USB 3.0. They also include a massive battery to keep the battery life high, 7 hours, in the face of the higher power drain of the screen. The balance of the components are on par with competing laptops or in some cases slower presumably continuing in their aim to keep battery life high. Apple also continues their black-box philosophy having no user-serviceable parts within the shiny package."
Fluff that out to make an article long enough for an editor and I'd be screaming less fanboi at this PR-grade article.
Honestly this is rubbish. A good sales person can sell you something they've never even imagined before. It's like playing poker... if you think you need the cards in front of you to win then you've already lost.
I used to be the combo role. I'm a highly technical person who worked as a salesman. I was pretty good at it but the sales part was draining on my soul so I was quite happy to shed that part of my responsibility. At the time I worked with a lot of people who were excellent sales people but knew nothing at all about what we were selling. Every once in a while they'd bring someone over who had question they couldn't answer. Most of the time they'd just pass that customer on to me completely because they didn't need them. Their numbers were just fine selling to people who didn't feel the need to ask those questions.
In my current job we sell very technical resources to people who don't understand quite what they are buying. We give a certain amount of technical training to the sales staff but in the end they are what they are "Salespeople" we have technical people who assist in training the customer and making sure we sell something that is actually somewhat based in reality but the sales people need none of those tech skills to be very good at their jobs.
In a perfect world, sure, your sales person would be an expert at what s/he sold to give the best value to the customer and the least headaches to the delivery team but that is not the world we live in and we seem to get by just fine.
Excellent story! It's pretty rare you get Utopia and Distopia presented together in one story so well. After reading the second half of the story I'm saying "Sign me up!" with no reservations... I only hope we as a civilization can get there someday (in my lifetime preferably)
To be very specific: The 3 consortiums involved are US, US, FR as far as the tech goes. Each consortium includes a few different companies all of which, I believe, include some local talent for support / logistics and some code.
Actually Fingerprint is only a secondary search in India. Iris is the primary form of identification. They actually do face as well although it's not really used.
Indian's have a big problem with missing fingerprints (lots of manual labor leads to worn off prints) so in their case very much yes Fingerprint is not a good identifier.
Ah but you're missing the fact that in the ops world Sensitive has its own meaning.
i work on machines all the time that are labeled quite clearly "Sensitive But Unclassified". It would seem by your definition those machines (or more importantly their contents) had been Classified 'Sensitive' BUT the words tell you quite the opposite. Feel free to explode in a cloud of logic now...
By at least the 3-letter acronyms that I work for anything that has been "Classified" is above the level of "Sensitive", "Sensitive" being the lowest level of them giving a shit.
Back on topic: We know a variety of information about all sorts of things that are classified some even TS w/ Poly Nuclear. The trick is we do not know everything and in some cases it is possible to know nothing at all but that is NOT the rule and the Government has to operate in a world that makes it *Very difficult to keep something truly unknown. You tell people enough of what you kinda want them to know ("We built a cool plane and you don't know where it is!") but not what they can't know ("It's armed with a Top Secret laser system that has been quietly removing certain people from existence!"). You hope that for the average person that quenches their thirst for "being in-the-know", the bulk of the rest won't have the means to go further and then you protect yourself against the person who's means and appetite for more leads to proactive investigation.
Oh be nice... that 7-figure UID can be a heavy burden to bear sometimes!
In other news: Positioning engines for course corrections due to space debris, other satellites and getting a better view of yo momma's house require plenty of energy so albeit a bit mis-guided his question is not completely without merit.
I am Heavily involved in the music biz. A vast majority of my friends weddings have live bands instead of recorded music already.
As an experiment tho I'd love to do the following: Have a wedding DJ that plays entirely my friends' music. See if the Re:sound people try to get their cut and then have them arrested for trying to extort money they have no right to.:-)
As it is I don't live in Canada but as it is with ASCAP here: There are a lot of venues that choose not to pay the yearly ASCAP fees. Some of them take pride in this and make a big deal of telling their artists that the music has to be 100% original as covers are 'illegal'. I don't think I'd be happy if all of the venues were like that ( I like filling out a set with some tasty covers ) but I really like what these places stand for.
I've had all the usual troubles getting into these things (and I buy a LOT of toys so it's a regular activity) but frankly what's going through my head primarily (aside from the survival instinct trying not to cut off my fingers) is the complete waste.
When we were younger growing up in an Earth Day world one of the biggest environmental issues we talked about was over-packaging. For all the talk it seems to me that not only has this not gotten any better but it has actually gotten worse! I've been replacing a lot of stolen audio gear lately and a good example of my experience: Shipping package: Generally WAY oversized for what's inside. Lots of filler (whether it be peanuts (rare), bubble wrap or more common recently the "big" bubble wrap (essentially big bags of air). Then I get to the product package itself (mostly boxes for my stuff but sometimes clam shell). This is wrapped in shrink wrap. Then I crack open the outer to find a lattice of cardboard or plastic keeping the pieces of my product in their own little pens. Depending on the product there will also be layers of protective padding. From there certain parts are bagged (sometimes static bags). After (or without) the extra bagging most parts are shrink wrapped again with some parts in their own little boxes. Then a multitude of snaps, twist ties, etc for anything cable like and finishing off with the thin protecting film that covers anything remotely scratch-able and the requisite designed-to-be-removed brand stickers.
That's a whole lot of crap that survives a number of minutes post-arrival before being instantly trash. Some of it has use for protection / pack-ability but SO much of it could be eliminated. My only gratification is a Christmas-style perk: The more effort to unwrap the more value goes to the gift. I may be buying these "gifts" for myself but it's still fun to do the opening. I just wish I wasn't killing the planet in the process.
Our company's software is considered to be an HPC when it is deployed and I'll give a "Hellz Yeah!" to that one. You give me a host with 1024 cores and a PB of ram? I can use it all and well. There is no benefit to breaking that up into smaller pieces. Our systems also tend to always be large so the likely hood of "we don't need to buy you a dedicated server because we can carve you some existing VM space" is pretty slim... they need to buy more VM server capacity anyway so just give us the metal. You take that entire set of resources and throw it into a VM? I've already lost some AND we've found stability issues with *every VM solution we've been forced to work with (Too many customers with the "We heard about this virtualization thing being good so you HAVE to use it!" mind-set). IO is a nightmare and we're heavily IO-bound. Don't even get me started about raising this bar to the "Cloud" level. We are our own Cloud so stop trying to shove us into another one!
We tend to push our customers into using deployment tools that allow you to wield systems like they were VMs but when it comes to run time they are sitting on bare metal. Ease of management / deployment w/o the trade-offs.
Off topic but hey why not help you with your problems too!
Do it. Wipe their machines and install Debian. Then install Windows in a VM and periodically update a base image every time they get some new edu-software. When they, inevitably, screw up? You drop back to the base VM (little to no labor). If your kids are smart enough you can even teach them to save their data files to a local shared or network storage device so you really lose nothing when you have to ditch the VM and start with the base again.
To the OP? Wireshark, NetNanny(or something more expensive) and then a Divorce lawyer with a Criminal lawyer in the waiting for when his wife's divorce lawyer (who she's been sleeping with for the past year) gets criminal charges thrown at him on federal wiretapping charges.
My DSL router specifically says what speed it is handshaked at which is the 40Mb/20Mb service I signed up for. My upstream tests pretty frequently right up there near 20Mb. Unfortunately my downstream is around the same. The next steps down are either 40/5 or 20/5 no 20/20 and I really like my 20 up!
Thankfully, for some reason, they are charging me significantly less than the price I signed up for so I'm not complaining (and frankly the 18/16 or so I'm getting is not bad at all;-)
At that young it's not as much age discrimination in the US as it is $$ discrimination. They are saying that because you are older you expect more pay and therefore if we can find someone fresh out of school who can do the same job we'll hire them because we can pay them peanuts.
Honestly, in person, the only people I have run into complaining about age discrimination before showing lots of grey hair haven't put forth the effort to keep their skills fresh and are completely surprised why no one will just hand them a job. Interviewing for a high paying, higher level position when unfortunately they are only qualified for the entry level / junior positions still. This is probably true in all trades to some extent but in the computer field I think more than others if you are not constantly learning new things, adding new capabilities to your repertoire then you are moving in reverse. There are too many people resting on their laurels and I will hire a young kid a couple years out of school long before I'll hire someone who has demonstrably become stagnant.
If anything, for the OP's OQ, reverse age, or at least experience, discrimination helps him. If I'm hiring someone fresh or recently out of school then their schooling will play heavily into whether I bring them into an interview or not. Once someone has 5-10 years of experience under their belt, as he says he has, I rarely even look at that part of the resume as, frankly, it's not relevant anymore.
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Nah... you'd still owe at least for the 1 'e' in the "(Score:5)" you earned... :-)
Not really... here's a programmer from the 70s who would completely agree with him:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halstead_complexity_measures
People do that all the time... http://www.shopliftingprevention.org/whatnaspoffers/nrc/publiceducstats.htm you have no idea how much merchandise walks out of the big box stores on a regular basis (especially when you consider the inside jobs)
When I was working at Best Buy one of the stores in our region had the entire computer department fired because 35K worth of laptops disappeared from the store... and that's the one they noticed.
You know who's got the highest Torrent ratio? The intern working at the big label who uploads everything that comes through the office. The guy downloading that song may not "know" the insider but he's still benefiting from the fruits of his labors.
Theft is almost always a cost-benefit deal (aside from those who get off on the act not the booty) The risk may be higher walking out of a physical store with goods but so is the reward if you set your sights big enough. 1 often balances out the other. Adding in the thrill seekers and stupid and I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often especially when the economy's down.
Depends on which neighborhood you're in or who they are asking you about.
A snitch is a snitch and there are many places where you will pay a heavy price for saying *anything* about *anyone*.
I learned a long time ago that the police were not on my side. There are aspects of their job that I benefit from (such as their presence, in theory, deterring a higher level of crime) but I have never had an officer actually try to "serve and protect" me. I'd be better off setting myself on fire and waiting for the FD than waiting for a policeman to help me out.
I'd like to be more fierce against the OP...
Get out of your son's way!! He's doing it the best way already... why are you trying to stop him?! There is nothing, in my book, valuable about learning a WYSIWYG editor when you are proficient in creating without one. I'm sure there are arguments against me but that's how I feel and how I code.
Did anyone read the posting?
"Men wanted for hazardous journey, small wages, and bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful, honor and recognition in case of success."
"Men" being the important word here. They are not looking for a breeding crew on the first trip. They are looking for workers. I'm presuming future missions would be more diverse (especially if they are trying to build a real colony).
It's not a bug. It's a feature.
Bose has more problems than just inaccurate sound...
This guy writes a fun rant :-)
http://philintheblank.com/philled/Bose.html
No Highs, No Lows, Must be BOSE!
For the OP's $50 I have to say I've always been a fan of my Sony cans. When they originally debuted the MD-600s they were hands-down the best cans for the price, plenty usable in a pro environment. I've since switched to the MD-V700DJ because they have bigger drivers, more sturdy head mount and the form factor is better for how I use them.
There are more pristine sounding audiophile headphones out there for more money but these are pretty damn good and price point is excellent. Bang-for-buck win. (I just bought a replacement pair for $130 including shipping)
I'd just like to read this article written without the mumbling sound caused by Apple's dick being firmly lodged in their mouths. The entire article read like they were trying, really hard, to write an objective article but then phrases like "engineering marvel" and "the hardware spec itself is flawless (and peerless)" come out and credibility is lost especially when those exaggerated comments are in the neighborhood of descriptions telling about what isn't any better (and in many cases worse) than the competition.
I think an objective article would have more of the following tone:
"Apple's new Mac Book is the first laptop to integrate a retinal display and standard USB 3.0. They also include a massive battery to keep the battery life high, 7 hours, in the face of the higher power drain of the screen. The balance of the components are on par with competing laptops or in some cases slower presumably continuing in their aim to keep battery life high. Apple also continues their black-box philosophy having no user-serviceable parts within the shiny package."
Fluff that out to make an article long enough for an editor and I'd be screaming less fanboi at this PR-grade article.
Honestly this is rubbish. A good sales person can sell you something they've never even imagined before. It's like playing poker... if you think you need the cards in front of you to win then you've already lost.
I used to be the combo role. I'm a highly technical person who worked as a salesman. I was pretty good at it but the sales part was draining on my soul so I was quite happy to shed that part of my responsibility. At the time I worked with a lot of people who were excellent sales people but knew nothing at all about what we were selling. Every once in a while they'd bring someone over who had question they couldn't answer. Most of the time they'd just pass that customer on to me completely because they didn't need them. Their numbers were just fine selling to people who didn't feel the need to ask those questions.
In my current job we sell very technical resources to people who don't understand quite what they are buying. We give a certain amount of technical training to the sales staff but in the end they are what they are "Salespeople" we have technical people who assist in training the customer and making sure we sell something that is actually somewhat based in reality but the sales people need none of those tech skills to be very good at their jobs.
In a perfect world, sure, your sales person would be an expert at what s/he sold to give the best value to the customer and the least headaches to the delivery team but that is not the world we live in and we seem to get by just fine.
Excellent story! It's pretty rare you get Utopia and Distopia presented together in one story so well. After reading the second half of the story I'm saying "Sign me up!" with no reservations... I only hope we as a civilization can get there someday (in my lifetime preferably)
To be very specific: The 3 consortiums involved are US, US, FR as far as the tech goes. Each consortium includes a few different companies all of which, I believe, include some local talent for support / logistics and some code.
Actually Fingerprint is only a secondary search in India. Iris is the primary form of identification. They actually do face as well although it's not really used.
Indian's have a big problem with missing fingerprints (lots of manual labor leads to worn off prints) so in their case very much yes Fingerprint is not a good identifier.
This is not an index.
Sure anyone can tell you that 0001010101010101001 = 0001010101010101001
Now what if I tell you that 110010101001010101 has an extremely high score towards being the same person.
Your lil dBase index is currently scratching its head.
Ah but you're missing the fact that in the ops world Sensitive has its own meaning.
i work on machines all the time that are labeled quite clearly "Sensitive But Unclassified". It would seem by your definition those machines (or more importantly their contents) had been Classified 'Sensitive' BUT the words tell you quite the opposite. Feel free to explode in a cloud of logic now...
By at least the 3-letter acronyms that I work for anything that has been "Classified" is above the level of "Sensitive", "Sensitive" being the lowest level of them giving a shit.
Back on topic: We know a variety of information about all sorts of things that are classified some even TS w/ Poly Nuclear. The trick is we do not know everything and in some cases it is possible to know nothing at all but that is NOT the rule and the Government has to operate in a world that makes it *Very difficult to keep something truly unknown. You tell people enough of what you kinda want them to know ("We built a cool plane and you don't know where it is!") but not what they can't know ("It's armed with a Top Secret laser system that has been quietly removing certain people from existence!"). You hope that for the average person that quenches their thirst for "being in-the-know", the bulk of the rest won't have the means to go further and then you protect yourself against the person who's means and appetite for more leads to proactive investigation.
Oh be nice... that 7-figure UID can be a heavy burden to bear sometimes!
In other news: Positioning engines for course corrections due to space debris, other satellites and getting a better view of yo momma's house require plenty of energy so albeit a bit mis-guided his question is not completely without merit.
I am Heavily involved in the music biz. A vast majority of my friends weddings have live bands instead of recorded music already.
As an experiment tho I'd love to do the following: Have a wedding DJ that plays entirely my friends' music. See if the Re:sound people try to get their cut and then have them arrested for trying to extort money they have no right to. :-)
As it is I don't live in Canada but as it is with ASCAP here: There are a lot of venues that choose not to pay the yearly ASCAP fees. Some of them take pride in this and make a big deal of telling their artists that the music has to be 100% original as covers are 'illegal'. I don't think I'd be happy if all of the venues were like that ( I like filling out a set with some tasty covers ) but I really like what these places stand for.
I've had all the usual troubles getting into these things (and I buy a LOT of toys so it's a regular activity) but frankly what's going through my head primarily (aside from the survival instinct trying not to cut off my fingers) is the complete waste.
When we were younger growing up in an Earth Day world one of the biggest environmental issues we talked about was over-packaging. For all the talk it seems to me that not only has this not gotten any better but it has actually gotten worse! I've been replacing a lot of stolen audio gear lately and a good example of my experience:
Shipping package: Generally WAY oversized for what's inside. Lots of filler (whether it be peanuts (rare), bubble wrap or more common recently the "big" bubble wrap (essentially big bags of air). Then I get to the product package itself (mostly boxes for my stuff but sometimes clam shell). This is wrapped in shrink wrap. Then I crack open the outer to find a lattice of cardboard or plastic keeping the pieces of my product in their own little pens. Depending on the product there will also be layers of protective padding. From there certain parts are bagged (sometimes static bags). After (or without) the extra bagging most parts are shrink wrapped again with some parts in their own little boxes. Then a multitude of snaps, twist ties, etc for anything cable like and finishing off with the thin protecting film that covers anything remotely scratch-able and the requisite designed-to-be-removed brand stickers.
That's a whole lot of crap that survives a number of minutes post-arrival before being instantly trash. Some of it has use for protection / pack-ability but SO much of it could be eliminated. My only gratification is a Christmas-style perk: The more effort to unwrap the more value goes to the gift. I may be buying these "gifts" for myself but it's still fun to do the opening. I just wish I wasn't killing the planet in the process.
Our company's software is considered to be an HPC when it is deployed and I'll give a "Hellz Yeah!" to that one. You give me a host with 1024 cores and a PB of ram? I can use it all and well. There is no benefit to breaking that up into smaller pieces. Our systems also tend to always be large so the likely hood of "we don't need to buy you a dedicated server because we can carve you some existing VM space" is pretty slim... they need to buy more VM server capacity anyway so just give us the metal. You take that entire set of resources and throw it into a VM? I've already lost some AND we've found stability issues with *every VM solution we've been forced to work with (Too many customers with the "We heard about this virtualization thing being good so you HAVE to use it!" mind-set). IO is a nightmare and we're heavily IO-bound. Don't even get me started about raising this bar to the "Cloud" level. We are our own Cloud so stop trying to shove us into another one!
We tend to push our customers into using deployment tools that allow you to wield systems like they were VMs but when it comes to run time they are sitting on bare metal. Ease of management / deployment w/o the trade-offs.
Not just that... seems lots of the links off the home page are 404. Shady or sloppy or just not ready yet? /.-fail.
Off topic but hey why not help you with your problems too!
Do it. Wipe their machines and install Debian. Then install Windows in a VM and periodically update a base image every time they get some new edu-software. When they, inevitably, screw up? You drop back to the base VM (little to no labor). If your kids are smart enough you can even teach them to save their data files to a local shared or network storage device so you really lose nothing when you have to ditch the VM and start with the base again.
To the OP? Wireshark, NetNanny(or something more expensive) and then a Divorce lawyer with a Criminal lawyer in the waiting for when his wife's divorce lawyer (who she's been sleeping with for the past year) gets criminal charges thrown at him on federal wiretapping charges.
Did it bug anyone else that they kept using H.P. instead of HP?
Maybe it's just me...
My DSL router specifically says what speed it is handshaked at which is the 40Mb/20Mb service I signed up for. My upstream tests pretty frequently right up there near 20Mb. Unfortunately my downstream is around the same. The next steps down are either 40/5 or 20/5 no 20/20 and I really like my 20 up!
Thankfully, for some reason, they are charging me significantly less than the price I signed up for so I'm not complaining (and frankly the 18/16 or so I'm getting is not bad at all ;-)
At that young it's not as much age discrimination in the US as it is $$ discrimination. They are saying that because you are older you expect more pay and therefore if we can find someone fresh out of school who can do the same job we'll hire them because we can pay them peanuts.
Honestly, in person, the only people I have run into complaining about age discrimination before showing lots of grey hair haven't put forth the effort to keep their skills fresh and are completely surprised why no one will just hand them a job. Interviewing for a high paying, higher level position when unfortunately they are only qualified for the entry level / junior positions still. This is probably true in all trades to some extent but in the computer field I think more than others if you are not constantly learning new things, adding new capabilities to your repertoire then you are moving in reverse. There are too many people resting on their laurels and I will hire a young kid a couple years out of school long before I'll hire someone who has demonstrably become stagnant.
If anything, for the OP's OQ, reverse age, or at least experience, discrimination helps him. If I'm hiring someone fresh or recently out of school then their schooling will play heavily into whether I bring them into an interview or not. Once someone has 5-10 years of experience under their belt, as he says he has, I rarely even look at that part of the resume as, frankly, it's not relevant anymore.