I think one of the biggest problems with this scenario is something that people like Carly Fiorina and large companies don't see. Sending jobs overseas is a great short-term move to trim their expenses and boost the numbers. However, in moving jobs from North America, they are also unemploying the very people who spend money on their products. Eventually, I think this will catch up to them, but it will take time.
What will happen when sales fall further due to the number of people who now cannot afford to buy the goods they sell?
I agree with you.
I'm part of a small IT dept. that runs a medium sized school district's network and computing infrastructure. Every suggestion made about theft, breakage, viruses and computer security will be my nightmare. There are better, cheaper solutions for technology if you want every 6th grader to have one, that are far more secure. I have seen time and time again, especially in homes with poor levels of parental involvement, children treating school equipment as if it was okay to break, after all, it wasn't their responsibility.
Some children could genuinely benefit from this...and certainly several years down the road (i.e., 9th grade) it could probably be implemented well. If we could provide a major benefit to our childrens' reading, writing, math, and science skills through this, I'd be all for it. I'm just not certain this is going to happen, and I worry that this program is being implemented by people who do not have the full picture, or cannot visualize all end-result scenarios.
I know there's a number of other people that think that "Better Off Dead" with John Cusack just ruled, but I also find so many people that never heard about it.
(ominous whisper) "I want my two dollars".....
Actually, this is NOT a very valid DirectX 9 test at all. Only one benchmark even tests DirectX 9 features, the Mother Nature game, and even then, it is only a partial DirectX 9 test, not a full one. The first three game tests are DirectX 7 and DirectX 8 benchmarks.
I think there are several uses for a benchmark. One is to measure compatibility with the features offered by today's game engines and gaming API's (OpenGL, DirectX). The second is to measure real-world performance for current gaming titles and technologies. I think 3DMark `03 looks nice, is perhaps a partial measure of current featuresets at best, but is not a good measure of real-world performance at all.
I work for a public school district as a systems administrator, and I find the thought of being there for good has become a pleasant thought. You don't get paid nearly what a corporate IT person does...But, there's job security if you're good at what you do and have people skills, I have access to training if something new comes up, and the benefits are impossible to beat. I probably have one of the last medical plans out there where there is no prescribed list of doctors or hospitals; I choose what I want. I'm appreciated and respected by the people around me, and I'm fortunate to also have a really good guy as a boss. Added up, I enjoy what I do, and have found there's things I value more than making big bucks.
Eight Megabytes per second, huh?
on
The Wireless City
·
· Score: 0, Redundant
Umm, I think that was supposed to read "eight mega-BITS per second."
I wish I had eight megabytes per second on my wired networks.
RAID-0 is striping, meaning there's no redundancy. RAID-1 is what you're looking for; that's mirroring. As for your question, it makes sense if you have valuable data and need maximum uptime to run a RAID-1 array. Extra costs are somewhere in the neighborhood of $150 for the card and the extra drive, unless you go el-ultracheapo, in which case you probably don't care anyway.
Actually, so many Slashdotters probably have onboard IDE RAID on their mainboards now that the card isn't necessary. I'm thinking of doing a RAID-1 stripe on my Asus A7V8X mainboard's controller, and it'll only cost me a second drive.
As opposed to what it'll cost me to get my data back should the system be hosed in a non-RAID configuration...
Actually, I have the sites to download the clients blocked by our internet filter (this is a school district, btw). Double whammy.
I'm not out for being a control freak here. As for the person who made the Sieg Heil comment, you've obviously never administered a network. Try troubleshooting a machine with three IM clients, Gator, CometCursor, a screensaver with slides of the family dog, and Desktop Themes installed. Quickly becomes a task of "What's REALLY causing the system to screw up". This does not include what happens to your bandwidth if 30 people install KazAa and download music all day. Due to today's adware/spyware/etc. our policy is that a user can come to me with the software he/she needs installed. If it is related to this person's work (in this case the education field), and we are licensed to run it, I install it with a smile and set it up for them. If it is not, I explain politely why we cannot put it on our network. It prevents illegal software, pr0n, viruses, and copyright violation, and therefore protects my organization.
As a network sysadmin, I generally don't want anything on the computers I work on that I didn't put there. Simple solution: user rights. My users cannot install any software without oversight. Limited privileges = no instant messaging software = no viruses transferred through IM software, pr0n, mp3's, etc. =no need to govern over IM use in the first place. Problem solved.
If you do not have a "Do Not Call List" in your state, and you get a telemarketing call, state the following:
"Per the Federal Telecommunications Consumer Protection Act of 1990, I would like to be placed on your federally mandated Do Not Call List. I would like written notification of this, and a copy of your Do Not Call policy mailed to me."
This law actually exists. I've just memorized the spiel and can repeat it back verbatim. The amount of calls I get has dropped 90 percent. I found out about it when Sixty Minutes had a thing about it several years back, a guy in New York actually keeps track of the people calling him and sues them if they call him a second time. For $20 mailed to him, he'll even submit your name to the proper Do Not Call lists and then go to bat for you legally if someone violates it. Wish I had a transcript of that one.
The Bible is not about oppressing anyone into obedience, and it's obvious that you just decided this was a perfect forum for your anti-Christian sentiments. The Bible is a historical record, and an individual can freely accept or reject its teachings, just as they could hundreds of years ago (though in some societies, the Church did indeed use its power as a form of oppression; not having lived in medieval times, or the Spanish Inquisition, I refuse to take the blame for this).
Your comparison is lousy, and not even close to how the DMCA works. Stick to good anaologies, rather than opinions. You'll go far.
Quoted:
As I said, Mac's are all integrated with little to no possibilities to upgrade; that, in my opinion, is why PC's still rule the market.
Obviously, you've been out of the Mac market for years. Starting with the Blue and White G3 towers, Macintosh has had separate video cards. PCI back then, but now all new Apple tower systems have an AGP slot, and you can have your choice of ATI or Nvidia-based cards. RAM is upgradeable, Apple audio is perfectly fine integrated, and so is their gigabit Ethernet port.
I'm a multiplatform sysadmin, and use and like both PC's and Macs for various things. One thing that irritates me about a lot of anti-Mac people, however is that they base their knowledge of what a Macintosh is on ten year old technology (the Quadra line is circa 1993-1995, for heaven's sakes) and somehow assume that Macs never evolved beyond the last one they used.
Re:Spell Checker & Presentation
on
Resume Tips For Jobs
·
· Score: 2, Informative
There are a TON of sites that give cover letter advice. http://www.about.com has plenty. The body of a cover letter should go like this:
Dear (get the NAME of someone, don't write HR Manager unless they tell you to),
I am writing to inquire about the recent position for a (job title) listed in your advertisement (list where advertised). I am seeking new employment and this position seems a perfect match.
I am currently (list college attendance, or "working as a (job position)"). I have xx years experience and am skilled in (plug your skills here).
Feel free to contact the technical references listed in my resume'. I look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely,
(your name)
A cover letter makes you different from those around you who weren't willing to go the extra mile. It's like wearing a tie and slacks to an interview, even if you're not big on dress clothes. When 50 people are interviewing for a job, make sure you do everything possible to make sure you're not one of the 49 who doesn't get it.
I think you might say "Science makes predictions that are testable and MIGHT work."
What if you were the first person to jump off a cliff in a hang glider? Your prediction would be that you would not fall to the earth like a stone. And yet, could you be 100% sure that you would not?
Science does stuff that works. Science also does stuff that DOESN'T work (remember cold fusion? New Math,anyone? ) You believe that Mars exists, even though you cannot see it in the heavens, nor afford to travel there, because you have been told it exists. For the same reason, without prejudice towards your opinion (I don't need to call it "crap" like you did mine, that is) I believe in God.
Here's a link to send mail to the FCC Commissioner, and (politely) tell him what you think of this ruling.
http://www.fcc.gov/commissioners/powell/mkp_email. html
Also inform him that you shall be contacting elected officials regarding the matter.
Slashdot Mirror
I think one of the biggest problems with this scenario is something that people like Carly Fiorina and large companies don't see. Sending jobs overseas is a great short-term move to trim their expenses and boost the numbers. However, in moving jobs from North America, they are also unemploying the very people who spend money on their products. Eventually, I think this will catch up to them, but it will take time. What will happen when sales fall further due to the number of people who now cannot afford to buy the goods they sell?
At first I thought this article must somehow correlate to all those single Slashdotters and the rise in pr0n spam. Whack...whack...whack...
I agree with you. I'm part of a small IT dept. that runs a medium sized school district's network and computing infrastructure. Every suggestion made about theft, breakage, viruses and computer security will be my nightmare. There are better, cheaper solutions for technology if you want every 6th grader to have one, that are far more secure. I have seen time and time again, especially in homes with poor levels of parental involvement, children treating school equipment as if it was okay to break, after all, it wasn't their responsibility. Some children could genuinely benefit from this...and certainly several years down the road (i.e., 9th grade) it could probably be implemented well. If we could provide a major benefit to our childrens' reading, writing, math, and science skills through this, I'd be all for it. I'm just not certain this is going to happen, and I worry that this program is being implemented by people who do not have the full picture, or cannot visualize all end-result scenarios.
Because senior citizens rarely use LANs, so the AARP and won't bitch about it much. ;)
Don't you know ANYTHING about how Florida works?
I know there's a number of other people that think that "Better Off Dead" with John Cusack just ruled, but I also find so many people that never heard about it. (ominous whisper) "I want my two dollars".....
Actually, this is NOT a very valid DirectX 9 test at all. Only one benchmark even tests DirectX 9 features, the Mother Nature game, and even then, it is only a partial DirectX 9 test, not a full one. The first three game tests are DirectX 7 and DirectX 8 benchmarks.
I think there are several uses for a benchmark. One is to measure compatibility with the features offered by today's game engines and gaming API's (OpenGL, DirectX). The second is to measure real-world performance for current gaming titles and technologies. I think 3DMark `03 looks nice, is perhaps a partial measure of current featuresets at best, but is not a good measure of real-world performance at all.
I work for a public school district as a systems administrator, and I find the thought of being there for good has become a pleasant thought. You don't get paid nearly what a corporate IT person does...But, there's job security if you're good at what you do and have people skills, I have access to training if something new comes up, and the benefits are impossible to beat. I probably have one of the last medical plans out there where there is no prescribed list of doctors or hospitals; I choose what I want. I'm appreciated and respected by the people around me, and I'm fortunate to also have a really good guy as a boss. Added up, I enjoy what I do, and have found there's things I value more than making big bucks.
Umm, I think that was supposed to read "eight mega-BITS per second." I wish I had eight megabytes per second on my wired networks.
RAID-0 is striping, meaning there's no redundancy. RAID-1 is what you're looking for; that's mirroring. As for your question, it makes sense if you have valuable data and need maximum uptime to run a RAID-1 array. Extra costs are somewhere in the neighborhood of $150 for the card and the extra drive, unless you go el-ultracheapo, in which case you probably don't care anyway.
Actually, so many Slashdotters probably have onboard IDE RAID on their mainboards now that the card isn't necessary. I'm thinking of doing a RAID-1 stripe on my Asus A7V8X mainboard's controller, and it'll only cost me a second drive.
As opposed to what it'll cost me to get my data back should the system be hosed in a non-RAID configuration...
Actually, I have the sites to download the clients blocked by our internet filter (this is a school district, btw). Double whammy. I'm not out for being a control freak here. As for the person who made the Sieg Heil comment, you've obviously never administered a network. Try troubleshooting a machine with three IM clients, Gator, CometCursor, a screensaver with slides of the family dog, and Desktop Themes installed. Quickly becomes a task of "What's REALLY causing the system to screw up". This does not include what happens to your bandwidth if 30 people install KazAa and download music all day. Due to today's adware/spyware/etc. our policy is that a user can come to me with the software he/she needs installed. If it is related to this person's work (in this case the education field), and we are licensed to run it, I install it with a smile and set it up for them. If it is not, I explain politely why we cannot put it on our network. It prevents illegal software, pr0n, viruses, and copyright violation, and therefore protects my organization.
As a network sysadmin, I generally don't want anything on the computers I work on that I didn't put there. Simple solution: user rights. My users cannot install any software without oversight. Limited privileges = no instant messaging software = no viruses transferred through IM software, pr0n, mp3's, etc. =no need to govern over IM use in the first place. Problem solved.
If you do not have a "Do Not Call List" in your state, and you get a telemarketing call, state the following:
"Per the Federal Telecommunications Consumer Protection Act of 1990, I would like to be placed on your federally mandated Do Not Call List. I would like written notification of this, and a copy of your Do Not Call policy mailed to me."
This law actually exists. I've just memorized the spiel and can repeat it back verbatim. The amount of calls I get has dropped 90 percent. I found out about it when Sixty Minutes had a thing about it several years back, a guy in New York actually keeps track of the people calling him and sues them if they call him a second time. For $20 mailed to him, he'll even submit your name to the proper Do Not Call lists and then go to bat for you legally if someone violates it. Wish I had a transcript of that one.
The Bible is not about oppressing anyone into obedience, and it's obvious that you just decided this was a perfect forum for your anti-Christian sentiments. The Bible is a historical record, and an individual can freely accept or reject its teachings, just as they could hundreds of years ago (though in some societies, the Church did indeed use its power as a form of oppression; not having lived in medieval times, or the Spanish Inquisition, I refuse to take the blame for this).
Your comparison is lousy, and not even close to how the DMCA works. Stick to good anaologies, rather than opinions. You'll go far.
Quoted: As I said, Mac's are all integrated with little to no possibilities to upgrade; that, in my opinion, is why PC's still rule the market. Obviously, you've been out of the Mac market for years. Starting with the Blue and White G3 towers, Macintosh has had separate video cards. PCI back then, but now all new Apple tower systems have an AGP slot, and you can have your choice of ATI or Nvidia-based cards. RAM is upgradeable, Apple audio is perfectly fine integrated, and so is their gigabit Ethernet port. I'm a multiplatform sysadmin, and use and like both PC's and Macs for various things. One thing that irritates me about a lot of anti-Mac people, however is that they base their knowledge of what a Macintosh is on ten year old technology (the Quadra line is circa 1993-1995, for heaven's sakes) and somehow assume that Macs never evolved beyond the last one they used.
There are a TON of sites that give cover letter advice. http://www.about.com has plenty. The body of a cover letter should go like this: Dear (get the NAME of someone, don't write HR Manager unless they tell you to), I am writing to inquire about the recent position for a (job title) listed in your advertisement (list where advertised). I am seeking new employment and this position seems a perfect match. I am currently (list college attendance, or "working as a (job position)"). I have xx years experience and am skilled in (plug your skills here). Feel free to contact the technical references listed in my resume'. I look forward to hearing from you. Sincerely, (your name) A cover letter makes you different from those around you who weren't willing to go the extra mile. It's like wearing a tie and slacks to an interview, even if you're not big on dress clothes. When 50 people are interviewing for a job, make sure you do everything possible to make sure you're not one of the 49 who doesn't get it.
I think you might say "Science makes predictions that are testable and MIGHT work." What if you were the first person to jump off a cliff in a hang glider? Your prediction would be that you would not fall to the earth like a stone. And yet, could you be 100% sure that you would not? Science does stuff that works. Science also does stuff that DOESN'T work (remember cold fusion? New Math,anyone? ) You believe that Mars exists, even though you cannot see it in the heavens, nor afford to travel there, because you have been told it exists. For the same reason, without prejudice towards your opinion (I don't need to call it "crap" like you did mine, that is) I believe in God.
Here's a link to send mail to the FCC Commissioner, and (politely) tell him what you think of this ruling. http://www.fcc.gov/commissioners/powell/mkp_email. html
Also inform him that you shall be contacting elected officials regarding the matter.