The tricorder is old news - it's already been made (minus the ability to detect things like tachyons, of course) and the market spoke. The company (Vital Technologies in Bolton, Ontario, Canada IIRC) went tits-up, I believe.
Cedric... did you happen to read the bit in my post about testing first, or were you too busy looking to point out my mistake to notice that I hadn't made one?
Convince the IT manager to let you demo Mozilla for them. Use the Windows skin, and whatever plugins you wish to make it as IE-like as possible.
Assuming you convince the manager, continue on with testing Mozilla for compatibility with every critical bit of software the company needs.
If that works, take the results of your exhaustive tests, add in a report on what problems you're solving by abandoning IE, and get the IT manager to sell it to the Director.
Now, once the Director makes it policy, you can force the rollout on the users.
This doesn't work with friends and family, of course, but I am involved in this very process right now at a client site where they are getting quite fed up with security advisories, but aren't ready to move from the Windows OS yet. If I win with Mozilla, I'm trying OpenOffice next.
Actually, I DO believe in pensions (reasonable ones that don't translate into upper execs getting 100% after 10 years), and apprenticeships. Company cars should be for those people who drive as part of their job - not bonuses for execs. The suit rule translates into casual dress for mailroom staff and their equivalents - ie nice shirt and slacks. Obviously, the guys in maintence or in a warehouse, etc are going to need clothing suitable for their environment, and a suit or even dress casual is inappropriate for them.
People who are productive when telecommuting are GOLD - they don't take up office space and related resources. They're also rare, which is why I would never base a company on a telecommuting workforce, and why most telecommuniting jobs are those that can be closely monitored for performance, like call centers.
Yes, there is. Go to your Preferences page, select the Comments tab, then find the section labelled "Reason Modifier" and use the drop-down to set Funny modded posts to -6. Done.
Dude, you would not like me running your office - It might cause a slight lowering of morale, but in my experience a 'suit rule' provides a formal working environment that results in a quality increase worth the morale loss. Of course, I'm also old school enough that I think the boss should be a "Mr." or "Ms." and not by their first name.
Besides, my way you get a PDA built into your shirt... duh.:)
Perhaps it would seem more appropriate in the collar of a dress shirt?
Imagine, a PDA in every shirt, and a Bluetooth-enabled closet to make sure your shirts are up-to-date. Add one of those new rollable displays to the sleeve, and away you go.
I know a fair number of people disagree with me, but I'm willing to deal with the fallout of SPF - it doesn't break anything I care about that can't be fixed.
If enough people agree with me, it'll end up being the defacto standard.
I'm not so sure. If you create an atmosphere of 'everything must be 100% safe', no engineer would ever approve anything, no astronaut would ever don a spacesuit.
It was human error, and a regrettable one... probably rooted in the difficulty of comprehending physics so far beyond our everyday experience.
Have 'support' skills, not 'creative' skills? Seriously, what can an unemployed LAN admin offer to start a new company?
A programmer can make a whizbang new application and sell that; an administrator needs an existing application to require his skills. In addition, IT support techs can't start a new company all that easily because everyone else already has...
Actually, I didn't get that wrong... I was pointing out that the parent article had used "Legolos" and "elephant" instead of "Legolas" and "oliphant". It was a double silly-spelling-flame-thingy.
If you could get these things up to a lifespan of a decade, and get them in colour, you could panel a car with them.
You could also get by with pixels that are huge - say, 1 cm diameter, and still get some neat effects, like zebra stripes that move along the car in proportion to your speed.
Seriously - I'd love to see the tech from one of those Japanese robots used in a Realdoll. That'd just be too cool - a sex doll that can get you a beer afterwards.
I think that you would want to dump excess heat through an externally accessible pouch before letting it escape into the environment - that way you could put handfuls of snow in the pouch and get water; given that Bob is already lost in the middle of a month-long, central Antarctic blizzard, he really shouldn't be forced to drink recycled urine to top it all off.
Of course, if he had a simple inertal tracker in his suit, he wouldn't have become lost in the first place, and if he had an EPIRB (Emergency Position Indicator Radio Beacon), his friends back at the research station could locate him quickly... unless they weren't really his friends and sabotaged his equipment in the first place, those bastards!
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Doesn't the HST require regular parts replacement? I seem to recall the gyros don't last forever. Getting a crew of mission-trained astronauts to 600km to do those repairs probably has a lot to do with the need for those support facilities.
I suspect it'd be a whole lot cheaper if all it needed once in orbit were directions on where to point and an earthside antenna to pick up its transmissions.
I can certainly see somebody making a hard suit for central Antarctica lined with Aerogel. Can you imagine? "Bob's lost in that blizzard! We have to find him in less than a month or he'll starve!"
Nobody said I had to be as infantile as they have been - I decided on that all by myself without your help.
As a matter of fact, I don't believe that punishing people for malicious acts beyond merely stopping them from continuing is a bad idea. I believe in whacking them hard enough that they not only stop what they're doing, but never even think of doing it again.
I would suggest that response was far more 'acceptable' than the extortion threat that was the letter from SCO.
SCO *is* wasting a valuable person's time... he had to spend time treating that letter seriously, and if I were him, I'd be keeping a log of all time spent on the SCO issue in the hope that it could be used to sue them in small claims court for expenses after SCO loses in court. Of course, I expect that SCO won't have much left at that point, but it would be fun to kick them in the nuts when they're down.
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Of course I didn't read the article - just like the majority of the people who will read my post. This is Slashdot, after all.
...a huge number of interconnected computers.
It's not "the Web", it isn't email, it sure ain't news, nor Google. It's just bits routed between computers. What you do with those bits is up to you.
The tricorder is old news - it's already been made (minus the ability to detect things like tachyons, of course) and the market spoke. The company (Vital Technologies in Bolton, Ontario, Canada IIRC) went tits-up, I believe.
I think you've just stumbled on a way to get more guys to study math...
Cedric... did you happen to read the bit in my post about testing first, or were you too busy looking to point out my mistake to notice that I hadn't made one?
Convince the IT manager to let you demo Mozilla for them. Use the Windows skin, and whatever plugins you wish to make it as IE-like as possible.
Assuming you convince the manager, continue on with testing Mozilla for compatibility with every critical bit of software the company needs.
If that works, take the results of your exhaustive tests, add in a report on what problems you're solving by abandoning IE, and get the IT manager to sell it to the Director.
Now, once the Director makes it policy, you can force the rollout on the users.
This doesn't work with friends and family, of course, but I am involved in this very process right now at a client site where they are getting quite fed up with security advisories, but aren't ready to move from the Windows OS yet. If I win with Mozilla, I'm trying OpenOffice next.
Actually, I DO believe in pensions (reasonable ones that don't translate into upper execs getting 100% after 10 years), and apprenticeships. Company cars should be for those people who drive as part of their job - not bonuses for execs. The suit rule translates into casual dress for mailroom staff and their equivalents - ie nice shirt and slacks. Obviously, the guys in maintence or in a warehouse, etc are going to need clothing suitable for their environment, and a suit or even dress casual is inappropriate for them.
People who are productive when telecommuting are GOLD - they don't take up office space and related resources. They're also rare, which is why I would never base a company on a telecommuting workforce, and why most telecommuniting jobs are those that can be closely monitored for performance, like call centers.
Now, about those collar PDAs...
Yes, there is. Go to your Preferences page, select the Comments tab, then find the section labelled "Reason Modifier" and use the drop-down to set Funny modded posts to -6. Done.
That's how I ignore Trolls and ACs.
Dude, you would not like me running your office - It might cause a slight lowering of morale, but in my experience a 'suit rule' provides a formal working environment that results in a quality increase worth the morale loss. Of course, I'm also old school enough that I think the boss should be a "Mr." or "Ms." and not by their first name.
Besides, my way you get a PDA built into your shirt... duh. :)
Perhaps it would seem more appropriate in the collar of a dress shirt?
Imagine, a PDA in every shirt, and a Bluetooth-enabled closet to make sure your shirts are up-to-date. Add one of those new rollable displays to the sleeve, and away you go.
I know a fair number of people disagree with me, but I'm willing to deal with the fallout of SPF - it doesn't break anything I care about that can't be fixed.
If enough people agree with me, it'll end up being the defacto standard.
SPF. If SPF checks out OK, then send the virus notification. If not, don't bother.
I'm not so sure. If you create an atmosphere of 'everything must be 100% safe', no engineer would ever approve anything, no astronaut would ever don a spacesuit.
It was human error, and a regrettable one... probably rooted in the difficulty of comprehending physics so far beyond our everyday experience.
Have 'support' skills, not 'creative' skills? Seriously, what can an unemployed LAN admin offer to start a new company?
A programmer can make a whizbang new application and sell that; an administrator needs an existing application to require his skills. In addition, IT support techs can't start a new company all that easily because everyone else already has...
Actually, I didn't get that wrong... I was pointing out that the parent article had used "Legolos" and "elephant" instead of "Legolas" and "oliphant". It was a double silly-spelling-flame-thingy.
Legolos didn't kill an elephant in the movies, either... Legolas killed an oliphant. :)
And may Bob have mercy on my soul if I've made any grammatical or spelling errors in this post!
If you could get these things up to a lifespan of a decade, and get them in colour, you could panel a car with them.
You could also get by with pixels that are huge - say, 1 cm diameter, and still get some neat effects, like zebra stripes that move along the car in proportion to your speed.
Seriously - I'd love to see the tech from one of those Japanese robots used in a Realdoll. That'd just be too cool - a sex doll that can get you a beer afterwards.
Sadly, I don't drink beer.
I don't know who you are, I've never met you, but I'm willing to hate you because you beat me to that! :)
I think that you would want to dump excess heat through an externally accessible pouch before letting it escape into the environment - that way you could put handfuls of snow in the pouch and get water; given that Bob is already lost in the middle of a month-long, central Antarctic blizzard, he really shouldn't be forced to drink recycled urine to top it all off.
Of course, if he had a simple inertal tracker in his suit, he wouldn't have become lost in the first place, and if he had an EPIRB (Emergency Position Indicator Radio Beacon), his friends back at the research station could locate him quickly... unless they weren't really his friends and sabotaged his equipment in the first place, those bastards!
Doesn't the HST require regular parts replacement? I seem to recall the gyros don't last forever. Getting a crew of mission-trained astronauts to 600km to do those repairs probably has a lot to do with the need for those support facilities.
I suspect it'd be a whole lot cheaper if all it needed once in orbit were directions on where to point and an earthside antenna to pick up its transmissions.
I can certainly see somebody making a hard suit for central Antarctica lined with Aerogel. Can you imagine? "Bob's lost in that blizzard! We have to find him in less than a month or he'll starve!"
Whaddayaknow? The HST is at about 600km, and the ISS is at about 375km. (God bless Google)
OK, would there be any issues with lowering the HST to join the ISS?
Nobody said I had to be as infantile as they have been - I decided on that all by myself without your help.
As a matter of fact, I don't believe that punishing people for malicious acts beyond merely stopping them from continuing is a bad idea. I believe in whacking them hard enough that they not only stop what they're doing, but never even think of doing it again.
I would suggest that response was far more 'acceptable' than the extortion threat that was the letter from SCO.
SCO *is* wasting a valuable person's time... he had to spend time treating that letter seriously, and if I were him, I'd be keeping a log of all time spent on the SCO issue in the hope that it could be used to sue them in small claims court for expenses after SCO loses in court. Of course, I expect that SCO won't have much left at that point, but it would be fun to kick them in the nuts when they're down.