The utilimaker kit is €1194, $1500 in today's trade. If the quality is that much higher, seems like a wise choice, but it's not cheaper than the other kits out there.
Why can't you believe someone from the Eisenhower family would be insane? There's nothing magical about their blood that prevents it. Frankly, their family tree is pretty normal.
This is what sticks in my craw about the subject. You're stating as fact that drought will occur, specifically over farm land. When drought has always come and gone, with or without us, farmland or not. What's the difference?
wouldn't it be awesome if the first aliens with which we make contact had hard, bright red exoskeletons, horns on their heads, red glowing eyes and preferred sulfurous drinks? By way of answering my own question, it would be awesome.
I bought one of those from the Kodak company store on ridge road in the 90s, paid something like $400 for it IIRC at employee pricing (as a contractor, though I certainly could be wrong on the purchase price). Two years later, you could get them free with a Barbie doll. I still have it, and those first years with that camera were fun, except for the daily downloading.
they imploded most of their buildings starting around 10 years ago, sold off most of the rest. Heck, almost 1/2 of their downtown HQ complex isn't theirs any more.
There's an indoor sports complex in one of their largest manufacturing plants.
They had a great facility over by RIT, Riverwood, that's rotting and would make an excellent HQ for a dot com but there it sits.
I wouldn't even consider overtime until you complete an initial assessment in terms of hardware warranty, redundancy and replacement costs, licensing mitigation etc. For that, you hardly have to get under the hood.
If they open their budget and agree to realistic (meaning expensive) hardware and software fixes which you'll surely need, stick around, otherwise forget it. Your resume is still warm, keep it in circulation. You don't want to be the lone IT guy in a shop full of illegal copies of server software.
If they magically agree to opening the purse, backup/restore and disaster recovery would be my first priority. Spend time figuring those systems out, implementing automatic tests and work in parallel on a hardware analysis of the entire place, power first, RAID second, database replication a close third. That is, as you review a hosts' backup requirements, and test restores, run through the host and check hardware, ensure it's appropriate to the task at hand, legal, secure, stable and all that. But don't dwell on any particular host too long at first. You don't want to get target fixated on one little detail for more than a few seconds.
Anything without warranty that doesn't have spare parts on hand gets replaced, anything critical without internal hardware redundancy (multiple power supplies on different circuits, RAID etc) gets replaced.
While you're ordering hardware, stage the deliveries so they can be replaced at a reasonable pace, and document as you learn. Start with a simply brain dump of the business reason a host/process exists, then dig down to the details of the changes from a default install of an OS while you're working to replace it.
That story concept is so full of awesome, I can't stand it. You could have contests in your home town, like we do now with homebrew beer, which housewife tastes the best? "Hey, Mildred, that burger is YOU!" and the resulting LOLS. Imagine if an outsider walked into that situation, the revelation would be most interesting. More interesting if you couldn't get enough of Mildred burgers, and went to the source.
and I work on the other end, supporting a few million email accounts. I like ESPs like you, because you work diligently to keep your senders on the up and up, but this scumbag will just move on to some other ESP, or worse, start connecting with hosted email providers like us, and spam from there.
There is no way to defend against it EXCEPT to put their phone numbers and domains in black lists from the start. That, and as per a suggestion above, kill it with fire.
this. Occupy their main office. Bill them for their services of delivering you junk mail. Submit to collection agencies. Show up at their houses. The usual stuff.
I would pay to see a series about a colony on a generation ship where you're constantly reminded they're on this ship, and at the end of the series they reach some destination, sort of Galactica without the cylons chasing them. Then throw in some twist at the end, like time dilation and the trip was actually one big loop where they've returned to Earth after 20,000 years accelerating in space or something. Sort of Red Dwarf meets Star Trek meets Gilligan's Island.Or something.
if this wonder drug is just a drug synthesized from something common and not rare, then I totally agree with you on this (as someone who is about as libertarian as it gets), once the patent runs out, every country can make it as they see fit. But only if the drug is artificially expensive. In that case, hell steal it and make a clone illegally. If it's genuinely expensive because it's made from unicorn blood or something like that, then we're screwed until you can synthesize unicorn blood for the masses. Which really shouldn't take long. Maybe just have warehouses full of carefully bread unicorns hanging by ropes or suspended in fluid so we can milk them of their pint a week. Substituting unicorn for whatever the real source is. (human children, probably)
There are relatively new paving machines (actually a few machines that follow each other like a train) that do everything, chew up the old road right down to the bed, lay the new bed, compress it and lay the new road to be followed by rollers. They can completely rebuild a road at rates never before seen with fewer workers than ever needed before.
Today, workers are laying cones, directing traffic and driving the trucks and babysitting the machines. Almost no one has a shovel anymore, unless the operator screws up and leaves a slight hole.
Or the brick laying machines that weave the pattern of bricks and lay the driveway or road as fast as you can deliver bricks to the machine. They creep along and deposit the road like laying carpet. Tiger-stone makes one for brick, and fast-lane makes one for concrete. They require just one person to deliver bricks, and maybe two people scrambling to set the pattern. No bending over, no knee pads, and you're done with a driveway after just a few hours, as opposed to multiple days.
I assume this trend will continue, and our extended lifetimes will allow those of us of a like mind to research more ways to get off this rock so we can explore the final frontier and stretch our legs. At least, that's what I would do. Think about it, you grow, have kids, work to raise those kids, and it seems you're never really free to radically change your career or experiment because you're worried about retirement just around the corner. If I knew I could live to 150, I would certainly go back to school in 20 or 30 years and focus on physics for another 20 years, researching and experimenting, start a new firm to develop technology, things like that. Things I don't feel I'm free to do right now.
I know plenty well enough what states' rights is about, I know quite a bit about history, I'm a student of the ACW and have quite a firm grasp on the history of the nation leading up to the war, the people who fought the war, and even more so on the language and content of the constitution. I've taught about the war itself and the aftermath to many a student. Hell, I've worn wool on many occasions, read the books, and visited the grave sites and battle fields. The ACW wasn't the first time the nation started to come apart, there were many calls for secession and disunion dating back to the foundation all based on the arguments surrounding states' rights.
The subthread was about the one subject, so I restricted my comment to the one subject. It doesn't mean I'm an idiot or know nothing about states' rights. Abortion just happens to be one symptom of the federal disease.
Paul isn't advocating slavery, you imply that's what he implies by agitating for states' rights.
That's nonsense. The whole libertarian movement is about Freedom from restrictions to rights, like freedom from petty tyrants from other states enforcing their view of morality on me from afar. Slavery is 180 degrees from Libertarianism. This isn't liberty as defined in 1776. There's no tenet of libertarianism that supports the restriction of an individuals right like making someone a slave. Anyone who believes that or thinks Paul believes that is the idiot.
It's gun owner rights. it's speed limit and licensing age rights. It's drinking age rights. It's about business and property owner rights. It's professional association rights. The right to own gold, remember that one was taken away too and the right to buy and sell on an open market. It's about the right to ferment beer, distill alcohol and sell it inside your own state without federal regulation or taxation. Hell, it's about the right to produce anything at all from pop corn to feed animals to your local school curriculum without unlawful restriction by the federal government or some multinational coming to your town and confiscating your corn.
Here's an excellent example of something that is firmly in the states' rights subject. Handicapped parking and other access methods like ramps. Does every business in the world have wheel chair accessible doors? No? Why not picket them and legislate them into bankruptcy to force every bar, restaurant, gas station, repair shop, donkey kongery and factory to have 100% accessible spaces?
It's up to the state to decide what's appropriate in those situations, your state and if they don't, then it's up to the business owner.
ignorant? Ron Paul was a physician. Not only that, but an OB. He's hardly ignorant of reality on this issue.
My stance is that abortion IS slavery. The life of the child is 100% subject to the whim of the mother. Just as the life of the slave was subject to the whim of the owner. Further, if released from bondage, a slave's natural state was to become a free individual, as just a few months down the road, the child's natural state would also be as a free individual. Both enter the state of slavery through no fault of their own, and both had societies at large capable of absorbing them.
The problem arises when you try and narrow down a range of acceptability for the culling of the child. That child might be just a few cells large, but fetal viability fast approaches and the time for making the decision passes quickly. The point is that the state should be the body that decides at what point the process can occur, if at all, or where viability is marked. Most states do limit the activity, but they're restricted from eliminating it completely (except presumably for medical necessity) by the federal law.
surely those issues enrage more than a few people, but what enrages me about this article is the assumption that online = low class. They don't come out and say it in as many words, except saying it in as many words, such as using the low-quality and low-end labels. There's nothing wrong with learning online, surely if you have a class that requires a lab with physical properties like beakers and canvas, those can be accommodated for in a kit or local branch, but the vast majority of classes require no lab time, even in the hard sciences.
And even if they do, say anything in the maths above freshman year, it still doesn't require physical lab space. You can have lab via some collaboration suite where the same lousy TA bleats on and on about the same lousy subject in the same lousy unintelligible accent with the same lousy handwriting for no pay on a virtual whiteboard instead of a physical one.
I've been to two first-class technical colleges, taken the odd class at community college and even one big online for-profit school. You know which required the most effort, the most interaction with other students, and had the most immediate feedback was? The online college. It was the best formal educational experience of my life.
all our sweetheart deal whitelists are IP based. Still an interesting opportunity for spammers, if they could own a box in that address space, they could send quite a bit of junk before being shutdown. The only issue is that even whitelisted IPs are bound by 550 error count checks, i.e. too many bad destination addresses in a short period of time blocks the IP.
it happens all the time without organized action, at the top of every hour in fact, people get their rewards emails or whatever and mark them as junk, the next hour, the same sender is blocked (by IP) and the new Foo Rewards emails are blocked (by content). Every hour on the hour because the email delivery companies like to drop it in your inbox just as you sit down at the top of the hour, apparently.
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The utilimaker kit is €1194, $1500 in today's trade. If the quality is that much higher, seems like a wise choice, but it's not cheaper than the other kits out there.
Why can't you believe someone from the Eisenhower family would be insane? There's nothing magical about their blood that prevents it. Frankly, their family tree is pretty normal.
not like the tripple-breasted whore of Eroticon Six then?
This is what sticks in my craw about the subject. You're stating as fact that drought will occur, specifically over farm land. When drought has always come and gone, with or without us, farmland or not. What's the difference?
you have plenty, \clicky clicky\ your quota says 0 bytes used
wouldn't it be awesome if the first aliens with which we make contact had hard, bright red exoskeletons, horns on their heads, red glowing eyes and preferred sulfurous drinks? By way of answering my own question, it would be awesome.
I bought one of those from the Kodak company store on ridge road in the 90s, paid something like $400 for it IIRC at employee pricing (as a contractor, though I certainly could be wrong on the purchase price). Two years later, you could get them free with a Barbie doll. I still have it, and those first years with that camera were fun, except for the daily downloading.
they imploded most of their buildings starting around 10 years ago, sold off most of the rest. Heck, almost 1/2 of their downtown HQ complex isn't theirs any more.
There's an indoor sports complex in one of their largest manufacturing plants.
They had a great facility over by RIT, Riverwood, that's rotting and would make an excellent HQ for a dot com but there it sits.
this.
I wouldn't even consider overtime until you complete an initial assessment in terms of hardware warranty, redundancy and replacement costs, licensing mitigation etc. For that, you hardly have to get under the hood.
If they open their budget and agree to realistic (meaning expensive) hardware and software fixes which you'll surely need, stick around, otherwise forget it. Your resume is still warm, keep it in circulation. You don't want to be the lone IT guy in a shop full of illegal copies of server software.
If they magically agree to opening the purse, backup/restore and disaster recovery would be my first priority. Spend time figuring those systems out, implementing automatic tests and work in parallel on a hardware analysis of the entire place, power first, RAID second, database replication a close third. That is, as you review a hosts' backup requirements, and test restores, run through the host and check hardware, ensure it's appropriate to the task at hand, legal, secure, stable and all that. But don't dwell on any particular host too long at first. You don't want to get target fixated on one little detail for more than a few seconds.
Anything without warranty that doesn't have spare parts on hand gets replaced, anything critical without internal hardware redundancy (multiple power supplies on different circuits, RAID etc) gets replaced.
While you're ordering hardware, stage the deliveries so they can be replaced at a reasonable pace, and document as you learn. Start with a simply brain dump of the business reason a host/process exists, then dig down to the details of the changes from a default install of an OS while you're working to replace it.
I would insist on a PFY too.
That story concept is so full of awesome, I can't stand it. You could have contests in your home town, like we do now with homebrew beer, which housewife tastes the best? "Hey, Mildred, that burger is YOU!" and the resulting LOLS. Imagine if an outsider walked into that situation, the revelation would be most interesting. More interesting if you couldn't get enough of Mildred burgers, and went to the source.
and I work on the other end, supporting a few million email accounts. I like ESPs like you, because you work diligently to keep your senders on the up and up, but this scumbag will just move on to some other ESP, or worse, start connecting with hosted email providers like us, and spam from there.
There is no way to defend against it EXCEPT to put their phone numbers and domains in black lists from the start. That, and as per a suggestion above, kill it with fire.
this. Occupy their main office. Bill them for their services of delivering you junk mail. Submit to collection agencies. Show up at their houses. The usual stuff.
awesome, netflix to the rescue!
I would pay to see a series about a colony on a generation ship where you're constantly reminded they're on this ship, and at the end of the series they reach some destination, sort of Galactica without the cylons chasing them. Then throw in some twist at the end, like time dilation and the trip was actually one big loop where they've returned to Earth after 20,000 years accelerating in space or something. Sort of Red Dwarf meets Star Trek meets Gilligan's Island.Or something.
if this wonder drug is just a drug synthesized from something common and not rare, then I totally agree with you on this (as someone who is about as libertarian as it gets), once the patent runs out, every country can make it as they see fit. But only if the drug is artificially expensive. In that case, hell steal it and make a clone illegally. If it's genuinely expensive because it's made from unicorn blood or something like that, then we're screwed until you can synthesize unicorn blood for the masses. Which really shouldn't take long. Maybe just have warehouses full of carefully bread unicorns hanging by ropes or suspended in fluid so we can milk them of their pint a week. Substituting unicorn for whatever the real source is. (human children, probably)
There are relatively new paving machines (actually a few machines that follow each other like a train) that do everything, chew up the old road right down to the bed, lay the new bed, compress it and lay the new road to be followed by rollers. They can completely rebuild a road at rates never before seen with fewer workers than ever needed before.
Today, workers are laying cones, directing traffic and driving the trucks and babysitting the machines. Almost no one has a shovel anymore, unless the operator screws up and leaves a slight hole.
Or the brick laying machines that weave the pattern of bricks and lay the driveway or road as fast as you can deliver bricks to the machine. They creep along and deposit the road like laying carpet. Tiger-stone makes one for brick, and fast-lane makes one for concrete. They require just one person to deliver bricks, and maybe two people scrambling to set the pattern. No bending over, no knee pads, and you're done with a driveway after just a few hours, as opposed to multiple days.
I assume this trend will continue, and our extended lifetimes will allow those of us of a like mind to research more ways to get off this rock so we can explore the final frontier and stretch our legs. At least, that's what I would do. Think about it, you grow, have kids, work to raise those kids, and it seems you're never really free to radically change your career or experiment because you're worried about retirement just around the corner. If I knew I could live to 150, I would certainly go back to school in 20 or 30 years and focus on physics for another 20 years, researching and experimenting, start a new firm to develop technology, things like that. Things I don't feel I'm free to do right now.
except facebook has sold stock to investors who are the very people the protesters are protesting.
I know plenty well enough what states' rights is about, I know quite a bit about history, I'm a student of the ACW and have quite a firm grasp on the history of the nation leading up to the war, the people who fought the war, and even more so on the language and content of the constitution. I've taught about the war itself and the aftermath to many a student. Hell, I've worn wool on many occasions, read the books, and visited the grave sites and battle fields. The ACW wasn't the first time the nation started to come apart, there were many calls for secession and disunion dating back to the foundation all based on the arguments surrounding states' rights.
The subthread was about the one subject, so I restricted my comment to the one subject. It doesn't mean I'm an idiot or know nothing about states' rights. Abortion just happens to be one symptom of the federal disease.
Paul isn't advocating slavery, you imply that's what he implies by agitating for states' rights.
That's nonsense. The whole libertarian movement is about Freedom from restrictions to rights, like freedom from petty tyrants from other states enforcing their view of morality on me from afar. Slavery is 180 degrees from Libertarianism. This isn't liberty as defined in 1776. There's no tenet of libertarianism that supports the restriction of an individuals right like making someone a slave. Anyone who believes that or thinks Paul believes that is the idiot.
It's gun owner rights.
it's speed limit and licensing age rights.
It's drinking age rights.
It's about business and property owner rights.
It's professional association rights.
The right to own gold, remember that one was taken away too and the right to buy and sell on an open market.
It's about the right to ferment beer, distill alcohol and sell it inside your own state without federal regulation or taxation.
Hell, it's about the right to produce anything at all from pop corn to feed animals to your local school curriculum without unlawful restriction by the federal government or some multinational coming to your town and confiscating your corn.
Here's an excellent example of something that is firmly in the states' rights subject. Handicapped parking and other access methods like ramps. Does every business in the world have wheel chair accessible doors? No? Why not picket them and legislate them into bankruptcy to force every bar, restaurant, gas station, repair shop, donkey kongery and factory to have 100% accessible spaces?
It's up to the state to decide what's appropriate in those situations, your state and if they don't, then it's up to the business owner.
ignorant? Ron Paul was a physician. Not only that, but an OB. He's hardly ignorant of reality on this issue.
My stance is that abortion IS slavery. The life of the child is 100% subject to the whim of the mother. Just as the life of the slave was subject to the whim of the owner. Further, if released from bondage, a slave's natural state was to become a free individual, as just a few months down the road, the child's natural state would also be as a free individual. Both enter the state of slavery through no fault of their own, and both had societies at large capable of absorbing them.
The problem arises when you try and narrow down a range of acceptability for the culling of the child. That child might be just a few cells large, but fetal viability fast approaches and the time for making the decision passes quickly. The point is that the state should be the body that decides at what point the process can occur, if at all, or where viability is marked. Most states do limit the activity, but they're restricted from eliminating it completely (except presumably for medical necessity) by the federal law.
You do understand that his stance is to remove it from the federal level so the states can decide, right?
I want one to ride! Give it a small four stroke engine, maybe a 900CC car engine, and away you go!
surely those issues enrage more than a few people, but what enrages me about this article is the assumption that online = low class. They don't come out and say it in as many words, except saying it in as many words, such as using the low-quality and low-end labels. There's nothing wrong with learning online, surely if you have a class that requires a lab with physical properties like beakers and canvas, those can be accommodated for in a kit or local branch, but the vast majority of classes require no lab time, even in the hard sciences.
And even if they do, say anything in the maths above freshman year, it still doesn't require physical lab space. You can have lab via some collaboration suite where the same lousy TA bleats on and on about the same lousy subject in the same lousy unintelligible accent with the same lousy handwriting for no pay on a virtual whiteboard instead of a physical one.
I've been to two first-class technical colleges, taken the odd class at community college and even one big online for-profit school. You know which required the most effort, the most interaction with other students, and had the most immediate feedback was? The online college. It was the best formal educational experience of my life.
all our sweetheart deal whitelists are IP based. Still an interesting opportunity for spammers, if they could own a box in that address space, they could send quite a bit of junk before being shutdown. The only issue is that even whitelisted IPs are bound by 550 error count checks, i.e. too many bad destination addresses in a short period of time blocks the IP.
it happens all the time without organized action, at the top of every hour in fact, people get their rewards emails or whatever and mark them as junk, the next hour, the same sender is blocked (by IP) and the new Foo Rewards emails are blocked (by content). Every hour on the hour because the email delivery companies like to drop it in your inbox just as you sit down at the top of the hour, apparently.
no!!! don't tell me it's a lousy movie. It looked so promising.