For slightly larger companies that can afford more than one IT person, there is sometimes the added benefit that person B and person A can to some extent negate each other if only one is doing something inappropriate.
Of course if they both decide to drain the company bank account, steal your IP, and move to the Caymans together, you're still screwed.
I was last at the Toronto Science Centre about 6 months ago (I lived in TO at the time), and it was actually pretty dull. Perhaps I just went at a bad time, but there wasn't really all that much there that was extremely interesting for either myself or the kiddies. This is the one on Don Mills Road (I think Don Mills + Eglinton)? Again, I have heard others that said it was interesting, but those that went with me found it rather dull so it really might have been just a bad time.
On the other hand though, the ROM (Royal Ontario Museum: downtown on Bloor St) on the other hand, was awesome. The dinosaur and nature exhibits are great, and a lot of the natural history sections or other sections were quite interesting as well. If you're in Toronto I highly recommend visiting it.
If you have some extra time, you could also visit "Casa Loma", which is a castle mansion in Toronto a short drive from the ROM (or up the subway and a bit of a walk). The grounds are beautiful in the summer, and it's got some pretty neat stuff inside including a underground passage to the carriage house area (where you can take a hand at archery if you care to pay for a few tries or lessons), a neat underground pool-area, some "secret passages" and other cool quirks.
In terms of aviation the only place I've been was the air-museum (I forget the actual name) in Seattle, which I would also recommend to anyone visiting that city. The Zoo in Seattle was equally worth visiting on a good-weather day, just make sure you have to time to get around everywhere so you're not rushed.
Perhaps part of the problem is that politicians (or at least those higher in the ranks) very rarely come from a class that represents the majority of the people. Rather, the system stacks it so that they comes from the rich and wealthy, which often tends to have their own agendas/views above the rest of the citizenry.
This may also be part of the reason so many have hopes hinged on Obama, as he doesn't have the extensive background in a rich society, breaking the trend of a plutocracy in government. Of course, expecting him to be perfect is foolish, and perhaps hinging too much ends up with some fairly unreasonable expectations.
I don't think that people really *hate* politicians as a class - though it may apply in some cases to specific persons in politics - a better word might be "mistrust," which is in itself a rather sad indicator of the political situation in many places. When issues of corruption come to rise, the common reaction is almost "yeah, it figures, saw that coming" as opposed to garnering organized resistance. We almost *expect* to be trodden upon by the so-called "upper-class" and accept it.
Mistrust of politicians isn't a terrible thing, so long as it doesn't move towards outright paranoia, as it promotes vigilance. Unfortunately, current levels of mistrust are also tempered by acceptance and a feeling of helplessness. Hopefully some of the current political changes and applicants can even the field a bit and change that.
Well for those that have kids or SO's that may use your computer, pr0n may be a valid reason. Not because you have illegal content, but because you don't want just anyone to be able to pop through your computer and poke at things.
Other files of course include confidential documents such as tax information etc which you might not want your curious "PC repairman" to poke at while servicing your computer or your RMA'ed hard drive...
I could be wrong, but don't judges and/or the courts have the ability to overturn stupid laws. If the law conflicts with your rights to personal use, then that law needs to be shot down.
I know this happens with laws that are unconstitutional. Fair use is AFAIK not a constitutional issue, but couldn't the bad law still be shot down?
Up here (Canada), the words I keep getting from others is that after living together for an extended length of time, you're pretty much tied as if you were married anyhow. As common-law you can still claim shared medical benefits, taxes, etc. You can also get burned in a breakup.
I've often wondered about this. I'm currently the primary income-earner as my SO is from out-of-country and is having trouble finding a decent job despite massive qualifications (Degree in Account, Master's in Business). On the other hand she has a lot of banked money etc, mostly out of the country. People keep telling me to "be careful" as we've been living together for over a year, and the potential a nasty breakup. Personally I was less worried about it until a whole whack of people brought it up. It almost seems that a marriage would be safer in that regard as you could at least have a marriage contract. On the other hand, I'm not about to break up based on the forebodings of others, life's too short to live in fear.
A common characteristic of geeks is that they tend to be rather close-minded or even insular about their hobbies with those that don't share them. My GF sometimes gets annoyed when I get into a long gaming session, and the same applied to me when she was involved in various things that left me feeling neglected.
Try and mold your interests to include your SO if possible, but don't try too hard to mold your SO to fit your interests. Also, make sure that you aren't ignoring each other. DON'T miss important events by being too involved in your hobbies/work/whatever (these include scheduled events or things like not noticing when your SO is experiencing a personal/professional issue and needs your support).
Well the fact that he wants it so badly makes me wonder what he plans on using it for? How about selling it off to third-party advertisers, for a start? Alternately, maybe he just plans on bombarding the subscribers with advertised "deals" to buy the more expensive dead-tree version so he doesn't have to give Amazon a cut.
In the dead-tree world it would in concept be to ensure that your customer gets his/her subscription and is billed accordingly. I don't really see a legitimate use for such information unless they're planning on targeting something at the customers directly, which seems to either be trying to circumvent the deals with Amazon or the privacy of the users.
And possibly a cross-over network cable if one or both NIC's aren't autosensing of such things. I believe that it's more common of switches than NICs to sense a crossover
Indeed, it may be that the electronics needed to simulate brain function end up having to be much more complex than the brain itself is as an "organic computer"
You would need a circuit to measure not only when a signal is on or off, but also the additional measurement of *how much* output is given during the on phase, nevermind backflow etc. In the brain it's a release of a chemical, electrical pulse (or both, one as a carrier of the other, etc).
I tend to envision the stepping stones of "interaction with the human brain" becoming a reality, and this leading to "augmentation of brain functions". These will likely occur in some complex fashion much faster than a viable simulated brain running entirely on circuitry and no wetware.
For most people (women or men), considerate surprises are a "good thing" [tm]
a) Random acts of kindness never hurt (flowers, etc)
b) However, too much of [a] makes it less meaningful/appreciated in the long term
c) Random acts in [a] are NOT a substitute for important events (missing an anniversary/birthday/etc)
d) Surprises for special events are often fun for both parties
e) Don't buy gifts for yourself in the guise of getting them for your SO (oddly, a lot of people do this)
Showing up from work with flowers sometimes works out nicely. Buying gold+diamond jewelry, on the other hand, will sometimes lead to a "spoiled spouse" if it's not on a special occasion:-)
Pay attention to your wife's likes and dislikes. Don't always beg off those trips to the mall as boring, but rather go sometimes and pay attention to those "what she likes but can't bring herself to buy" items. Spending time together is important. If you're going to drag her to a comic-con sometime, then at least you can go with her to Central City and hit the mall on occasion (of course if you both like comic-cons and malls then it's win-win anyhow), but paying attention to her likes/dislikes and shopping habits is often a real win because she knows you actually give a damn enough to do so...
It's slashdot though, so for many it might apply to IPtables rules on a NAT box, or rues on a modified router (better than nothing).Maybe somebody could come up with a no-ads patch that blackholes the adservers.
hey'll employ some asshat sales analyst who will come to the conclusion that sales are dropping because the products aren't marketed in the right way, or that it is because of the recession or some other stupid excuse
One word for where the blame will likely end up: "illegal copying"
Perhaps they have some form of WORM memory? However, given the example of a machine that never had the feature until a BIOS update, I'm guessing it's just tucked away somewhere in the regular BIOS memory.
That would probably be possible if they printed it on thermal paper. I've had numerous receipts start fading out despite being sealed up in my file cabinet,which led me to scan+copy last year's tax receipts just in case I'm ever audited and end up with reams of blank expense receipts.
I think a lot of delay is due to the overall connection/negotiation times.I've noticed that both Edge/3G (Rogers wireless) seem similar in this. However, once that's done I've found that it's quite a bit faster on 3G.
Loading your average webpage might not be much different. Loading a large image or downloading updates is more noticable.
An FTP apps is less likely to have picked it up than some FS program that shared all of some foolish aid's "My Documents" folder or something of the like. What happened here with Limewire is less likely with other forms of P2P such as BitTorrent, etc, as many of the LW'ish programs tend to have options to search the drive for media or auto-add common locations to the shared repository.
I don't have a problem with blocking these types of filesharing apps on gov't computers. Unlike bittorrent I don't really see a legit use for them.
No, they don't. They can't physically prevent you from saying what you want in public.
On the other hand, they don't owe you either. If your public actions are damaging to their reputation (and in this case, those actions were contrary to the position), then they don't owe you a job nor a paycheque (other than your final pay).
I wouldn't expect my employer to fire me if we have a difference of opinion. I might expect to be canned if my difference of opinion was being represented publicly and costing them business/reputation/money/etc
The point is though, that the internet is inherently public. You post something online to a public area such as a forum, discussion, board, etc, and it becomes part of your PUBLIC life and opinion.
If you've got issues with X and perhaps send an email to a close friend about it, that's fairly private in many situations, but posting on a public board isn't much different from nailing a paper with your opinion on a few local telephone poles.
While characteristics that define somebody as "beautiful" VS "plain" may vary, there are quite a number of things that are considered "ugly" to the majority of a given area. So, while women may be on average no less "plain", perhaps they're less "ugly"
Then again, so aspects of beauty have been fairly consistent over the last while as well, so perhaps evolution has had some chance to catch up on that, at least on a regional basis. My own standards are a little different than the pack, so really I'd worry about my own chances with 'regular' women, but as long as guys that look like Ron Jeremy can get some, I suppose I'll be fine.
I've been hit by this before. New app rolls out, servers take a dive. Having some knowledge of DB's myself, I hit it with MTOP and find HUGE query tables,generally caused by extremely poorly written blocks of queries/code (doing things in code that should be done in the query, or vise-versa) and shit-poor indexing or query structure.
Now I'm no DB expert, but when I add a few indexes/changes and suddenly that 45s query is going down to less than 1... then yeah poor, sloppy, or just lazy coding becomes a much bigger issue than lack of hardware or a poorly configured/performing server. Unfortunately there's often a big divide between the IT admins and the programmers, so collaboration in this regard gets lost as you get cowboys on both sides.
Common CSS files, a site's front page,etc. For scripted pages (php/perl/asp/whatever, as well as javascript) there will be a whack of commonly included modules inside the app, please all modules or stuff that might be part or PHP/etc and pulled on an as-needed basis.
Having worked in a company with some fairly high-traffic sites (maybe not as big as the giants, but big enough), caching of those makes a HUGE difference in performance.
I don't disagree than SSD's will make a big difference in all that other,random, IO, but there's plenty of consistent things that can be dealt with (see: cached in memory) that a lot of people simply overlook.
Not a DC where I worked, but where we had rack space at. Each cabinet has to start 15-20A, and you could request up to three strips (total 45-60A) per rack.
They mentioned at one point that they were actually reaching the capacity for power on our floor, so we'd have to be careful about power as ordering more strips wouldn't be an option unless another rack elsewhere let some go.
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For slightly larger companies that can afford more than one IT person, there is sometimes the added benefit that person B and person A can to some extent negate each other if only one is doing something inappropriate.
Of course if they both decide to drain the company bank account, steal your IP, and move to the Caymans together, you're still screwed.
I was last at the Toronto Science Centre about 6 months ago (I lived in TO at the time), and it was actually pretty dull. Perhaps I just went at a bad time, but there wasn't really all that much there that was extremely interesting for either myself or the kiddies. This is the one on Don Mills Road (I think Don Mills + Eglinton)? Again, I have heard others that said it was interesting, but those that went with me found it rather dull so it really might have been just a bad time.
On the other hand though, the ROM (Royal Ontario Museum: downtown on Bloor St) on the other hand, was awesome. The dinosaur and nature exhibits are great, and a lot of the natural history sections or other sections were quite interesting as well. If you're in Toronto I highly recommend visiting it.
If you have some extra time, you could also visit "Casa Loma", which is a castle mansion in Toronto a short drive from the ROM (or up the subway and a bit of a walk). The grounds are beautiful in the summer, and it's got some pretty neat stuff inside including a underground passage to the carriage house area (where you can take a hand at archery if you care to pay for a few tries or lessons), a neat underground pool-area, some "secret passages" and other cool quirks.
In terms of aviation the only place I've been was the air-museum (I forget the actual name) in Seattle, which I would also recommend to anyone visiting that city. The Zoo in Seattle was equally worth visiting on a good-weather day, just make sure you have to time to get around everywhere so you're not rushed.
Perhaps part of the problem is that politicians (or at least those higher in the ranks) very rarely come from a class that represents the majority of the people. Rather, the system stacks it so that they comes from the rich and wealthy, which often tends to have their own agendas/views above the rest of the citizenry.
This may also be part of the reason so many have hopes hinged on Obama, as he doesn't have the extensive background in a rich society, breaking the trend of a plutocracy in government. Of course, expecting him to be perfect is foolish, and perhaps hinging too much ends up with some fairly unreasonable expectations.
I don't think that people really *hate* politicians as a class - though it may apply in some cases to specific persons in politics - a better word might be "mistrust," which is in itself a rather sad indicator of the political situation in many places. When issues of corruption come to rise, the common reaction is almost "yeah, it figures, saw that coming" as opposed to garnering organized resistance. We almost *expect* to be trodden upon by the so-called "upper-class" and accept it.
Mistrust of politicians isn't a terrible thing, so long as it doesn't move towards outright paranoia, as it promotes vigilance. Unfortunately, current levels of mistrust are also tempered by acceptance and a feeling of helplessness. Hopefully some of the current political changes and applicants can even the field a bit and change that.
Well for those that have kids or SO's that may use your computer, pr0n may be a valid reason. Not because you have illegal content, but because you don't want just anyone to be able to pop through your computer and poke at things.
Other files of course include confidential documents such as tax information etc which you might not want your curious "PC repairman" to poke at while servicing your computer or your RMA'ed hard drive...
I could be wrong, but don't judges and/or the courts have the ability to overturn stupid laws. If the law conflicts with your rights to personal use, then that law needs to be shot down.
I know this happens with laws that are unconstitutional. Fair use is AFAIK not a constitutional issue, but couldn't the bad law still be shot down?
Up here (Canada), the words I keep getting from others is that after living together for an extended length of time, you're pretty much tied as if you were married anyhow. As common-law you can still claim shared medical benefits, taxes, etc. You can also get burned in a breakup.
I've often wondered about this. I'm currently the primary income-earner as my SO is from out-of-country and is having trouble finding a decent job despite massive qualifications (Degree in Account, Master's in Business). On the other hand she has a lot of banked money etc, mostly out of the country. People keep telling me to "be careful" as we've been living together for over a year, and the potential a nasty breakup. Personally I was less worried about it until a whole whack of people brought it up. It almost seems that a marriage would be safer in that regard as you could at least have a marriage contract. On the other hand, I'm not about to break up based on the forebodings of others, life's too short to live in fear.
A common characteristic of geeks is that they tend to be rather close-minded or even insular about their hobbies with those that don't share them. My GF sometimes gets annoyed when I get into a long gaming session, and the same applied to me when she was involved in various things that left me feeling neglected.
Try and mold your interests to include your SO if possible, but don't try too hard to mold your SO to fit your interests. Also, make sure that you aren't ignoring each other. DON'T miss important events by being too involved in your hobbies/work/whatever (these include scheduled events or things like not noticing when your SO is experiencing a personal/professional issue and needs your support).
Well the fact that he wants it so badly makes me wonder what he plans on using it for? How about selling it off to third-party advertisers, for a start? Alternately, maybe he just plans on bombarding the subscribers with advertised "deals" to buy the more expensive dead-tree version so he doesn't have to give Amazon a cut.
In the dead-tree world it would in concept be to ensure that your customer gets his/her subscription and is billed accordingly. I don't really see a legitimate use for such information unless they're planning on targeting something at the customers directly, which seems to either be trying to circumvent the deals with Amazon or the privacy of the users.
And possibly a cross-over network cable if one or both NIC's aren't autosensing of such things.
I believe that it's more common of switches than NICs to sense a crossover
Indeed, it may be that the electronics needed to simulate brain function end up having to be much more complex than the brain itself is as an "organic computer"
You would need a circuit to measure not only when a signal is on or off, but also the additional measurement of *how much* output is given during the on phase, nevermind backflow etc. In the brain it's a release of a chemical, electrical pulse (or both, one as a carrier of the other, etc).
I tend to envision the stepping stones of "interaction with the human brain" becoming a reality, and this leading to "augmentation of brain functions". These will likely occur in some complex fashion much faster than a viable simulated brain running entirely on circuitry and no wetware.
For most people (women or men), considerate surprises are a "good thing" [tm]
a) Random acts of kindness never hurt (flowers, etc)
b) However, too much of [a] makes it less meaningful/appreciated in the long term
c) Random acts in [a] are NOT a substitute for important events (missing an anniversary/birthday/etc)
d) Surprises for special events are often fun for both parties
e) Don't buy gifts for yourself in the guise of getting them for your SO (oddly, a lot of people do this)
Showing up from work with flowers sometimes works out nicely. Buying gold+diamond jewelry, on the other hand, will sometimes lead to a "spoiled spouse" if it's not on a special occasion :-)
Pay attention to your wife's likes and dislikes. Don't always beg off those trips to the mall as boring, but rather go sometimes and pay attention to those "what she likes but can't bring herself to buy" items. Spending time together is important. If you're going to drag her to a comic-con sometime, then at least you can go with her to Central City and hit the mall on occasion (of course if you both like comic-cons and malls then it's win-win anyhow), but paying attention to her likes/dislikes and shopping habits is often a real win because she knows you actually give a damn enough to do so...
It's slashdot though, so for many it might apply to IPtables rules on a NAT box, or rues on a modified router (better than nothing).Maybe somebody could come up with a no-ads patch that blackholes the adservers.
hey'll employ some asshat sales analyst who will come to the conclusion that sales are dropping because the products aren't marketed in the right way, or that it is because of the recession or some other stupid excuse
One word for where the blame will likely end up: "illegal copying"
Perhaps they have some form of WORM memory? However, given the example of a machine that never had the feature until a BIOS update, I'm guessing it's just tucked away somewhere in the regular BIOS memory.
Amazon, and big corps in general, are NOT the police, and do not have the rights as such.
That would probably be possible if they printed it on thermal paper. I've had numerous receipts start fading out despite being sealed up in my file cabinet,which led me to scan+copy last year's tax receipts just in case I'm ever audited and end up with reams of blank expense receipts.
I think a lot of delay is due to the overall connection/negotiation times.I've noticed that both Edge/3G (Rogers wireless) seem similar in this. However, once that's done I've found that it's quite a bit faster on 3G.
Loading your average webpage might not be much different. Loading a large image or downloading updates is more noticable.
An FTP apps is less likely to have picked it up than some FS program that shared all of some foolish aid's "My Documents" folder or something of the like. What happened here with Limewire is less likely with other forms of P2P such as BitTorrent, etc, as many of the LW'ish programs tend to have options to search the drive for media or auto-add common locations to the shared repository.
I don't have a problem with blocking these types of filesharing apps on gov't computers. Unlike bittorrent I don't really see a legit use for them.
they don't own you
No, they don't. They can't physically prevent you from saying what you want in public.
On the other hand, they don't owe you either. If your public actions are damaging to their reputation (and in this case, those actions were contrary to the position), then they don't owe you a job nor a paycheque (other than your final pay).
I wouldn't expect my employer to fire me if we have a difference of opinion. I might expect to be canned if my difference of opinion was being represented publicly and costing them business/reputation/money/etc
The point is though, that the internet is inherently public. You post something online to a public area such as a forum, discussion, board, etc, and it becomes part of your PUBLIC life and opinion.
If you've got issues with X and perhaps send an email to a close friend about it, that's fairly private in many situations, but posting on a public board isn't much different from nailing a paper with your opinion on a few local telephone poles.
That part wasn't really, but the overall comments include:
"And racial profiling does exist, but for good reason. Take a look at this countryâ(TM)s jails: who makes up the majority of inmates? Exactly."
While characteristics that define somebody as "beautiful" VS "plain" may vary, there are quite a number of things that are considered "ugly" to the majority of a given area. So, while women may be on average no less "plain", perhaps they're less "ugly"
Then again, so aspects of beauty have been fairly consistent over the last while as well, so perhaps evolution has had some chance to catch up on that, at least on a regional basis. My own standards are a little different than the pack, so really I'd worry about my own chances with 'regular' women, but as long as guys that look like Ron Jeremy can get some, I suppose I'll be fine.
I've been hit by this before. New app rolls out, servers take a dive. Having some knowledge of DB's myself, I hit it with MTOP and find HUGE query tables,generally caused by extremely poorly written blocks of queries/code (doing things in code that should be done in the query, or vise-versa) and shit-poor indexing or query structure.
Now I'm no DB expert, but when I add a few indexes/changes and suddenly that 45s query is going down to less than 1... then yeah poor, sloppy, or just lazy coding becomes a much bigger issue than lack of hardware or a poorly configured/performing server. Unfortunately there's often a big divide between the IT admins and the programmers, so collaboration in this regard gets lost as you get cowboys on both sides.
Some pages,however, will be rather consistent.
Common CSS files, a site's front page,etc. For scripted pages (php/perl/asp/whatever, as well as javascript) there will be a whack of commonly included modules inside the app, please all modules or stuff that might be part or PHP/etc and pulled on an as-needed basis.
Having worked in a company with some fairly high-traffic sites (maybe not as big as the giants, but big enough), caching of those makes a HUGE difference in performance.
I don't disagree than SSD's will make a big difference in all that other,random, IO, but there's plenty of consistent things that can be dealt with (see: cached in memory) that a lot of people simply overlook.
Not a DC where I worked, but where we had rack space at. Each cabinet has to start 15-20A, and you could request up to three strips (total 45-60A) per rack.
They mentioned at one point that they were actually reaching the capacity for power on our floor, so we'd have to be careful about power as ordering more strips wouldn't be an option unless another rack elsewhere let some go.
No capping needed.