Yeah. They'll add it in conference committee, where, after the initial vote, they reconcile differences in bills between the House and Senate versions. It goes back for a quick final vote in each chamber but that's usually considered procedural as I understand.
I don't know for sure, but somehow doubt that it's uncommon. More likely, the changes snuck in aren't enough to raise significant ire so they get away with it. And if if people figure it out and are unhappy, there's always plausible deniability: "Some intern added it; it wasn't supposed to be there."
I'm actually more impressed that Google is cramming 12 disks onto a single machine, how do they get them to fit?
umm... a rubber mallet?
More seriously, Google has a history of not even using cases some of the time -- at least not cases as most people think of them.
As I recall, they're even using custom motherboards and such, so custom cases (or special racks if they're still doing the caseless thing) to accommodate 12 disks per mobo seems very reasonable for them.
Try Zerigo:NS (http://ns.zerigo.com/). The template feature may be enough to meet your needs. Change one template and every domain dependent on it changes at once.
If the templates aren't enough, there's also a REST API (brand new, not yet announced on the site, but should be functional).
Shoot me an email after setting up an account and I'll comp you at least 6mo of whatever level account you need to fit your domains. Be sure to let me know what level account you need.
To the rest of/. -- I'll comp any of you too: just mention this thread and let me know what account level.
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no, those that make more money don't build huge, fancy houses; furnish said houses with gobs of expensive furniture and electronics; buy a multitude of luxury cars to to fill their expansive garages; travel frequently; or anything else of the sort.
Never mind that the cost of living in China is also substantially lower. I found in a trip a few years ago that the buying power was roughly 8:1. That was for typical goods in stores. So $100/mo is comparable to ~$800 mo in the US and a dual-income family, at $100/mo each is not that far off from a $1600/mo family income here. The school system runs extended hours, avoiding day-care costs for parents. The tax load in China also seemed to be less. So that $200/mo probably goes further than $1600/mo here. Extravagant? Not hardly. But they weren't destitute, starving, or homeless either.
drac 5's web interface works in firefox on both mac and linux, although the virtual console (and probably virtual media, haven't tried) only works on i386 linux.
the drac cli is basically com2 virtualized, so will need os support. telling linux to display the console and getty on ttyS1 does the trick.
that said, it is more work and isn't nearly as nice as ibm's rsa card.
the only thing i've seen included on resumes are mentions of side projects and interests. i have found these quite helpful as they differentiate what otherwise might be a sea of uninteresting resumes.
i have also included references to my own projects online in the past and have found it very helpful in gaining interviews and offers.
all my hiring has been for tech positions. i have frequently searched for people online just to see what i can find. any time some kind of link or even hint to something online has been present in a resume that i had even a little interest in, i've looked for it online.
As I said when this was posted on Techdirt, this system could encourage customers not to shop at amazon, because when you start shopping there the shipping takes longer. Appeasing a small group of users who make up the majority of purchases and irritating a larger group who make only occasional purchases is not the way to go. amazon has already implemented their picking system to discourage customers from buying direct from them. i can't tell if this is another way to discourage customers or if it's merely the formal patent for the existing implementation.
to take advantage of amazon's free shipping, you have to be willing to let amazon sit on your order for a while before actually picking it. in my experience, across many orders, this results in about a one week (!) delay. then it's another week or so for ground shipping to deliver it to you.
amusingly, amazon's own marketplace sellers typically ship right away, so it's generally faster to order from one of them than amazon directly. those, of course, don't ship for free. but they do typically ship for less than amazon charges (at least for what i tend to buy).
i'd buy at least twice as much from amazon if they'd just pick the orders within a day or so. i often order from their competitors just for this reason.
if this is a new plan to cause certain shoppers even more delays in shipping, it may cost them even more business. not smart.
It's a form of Pareto optimization, in which a reallocation of resources is expected to improve the utility for a subgroup without decreasing the utility of others. In this case, users who are not regular Amazon consumers will not have pre-set expectations of service. So fulfilling their orders in a slightly less rushed fashion will not be noticeable to them. the problem with amazon's approach to this is that they already have some of the slowest shipping times of any retailer online--at least if you want their 'free shipping'. any other retailer with free shipping picks your order promptly, amazon sits on it for a week before bothering. if i'll pay amazon for the shipping, even though it's the _same_ shipping, they'll pick it right away and i'll get it a week sooner. of course, next day or 2 day shipping is faster yet.
i have no idea if i'm considered a regular customer. i tend to order 10-20 items per year from amazon, in a handful of orders. if they would just pick the orders promptly, it would probably be double that.
it would seem the world of online retailers has already set some basic, minimum expectations on delivery times and amazon fails those already. i don't see how this new plan helps at all.
back in the 90's i worked for a small computer shop in new mexico. new mexico taxes everything, including services. several other states do this also. so, it was usual to charge our customers tax for both parts and labor. when it came to the federal government, we couldn't charge them tax for the parts, but we did for labor.
yes it can. i worked for a computer shop in new mexico in the 90s. for transactions with various departments of the federal government, we charged them taxes for services, but not parts. only the parts were exempt.
It's my understanding that the credit bureaus don't actually know what your credit limit is. try actually pulling your credit report sometime. it definitely has the credit limit. it also has when the account was opened, when it was closed (if it has been closed, of course), the most recent reported balance, and a whole lot of other stuff.
At least this is closer to News for Nerds then slashdot trying to discuss politics. because nerds are immune from the effects of politics and political decisions.
let me throw a few things out. most people have no clue what managers are looking for when they go to hire. i didn't either until i became a manager myself.
here in the states (and many other countries from what i've heard) it's really hard to fire people--even people who are terrible at their jobs. so managers are looking for confidence that you can actually do what they need. you need to convince them you can do the work. how you convince them of that really doesn't matter.
needs vary too--most of those needs require someone who has experience. but don't lose heart, many managers are also not given the resources to hire people with sufficient experience. today's tech job market is pretty good and this makes it all the harder.
it's the first two years that are the toughest. managers want at least two years of experience, preferably in the same job. some make noise for five years, but most of the time they'll settle for as little as two anyway. staying at the same job matters because managers don't want to go through the hiring again. if you can't stay somewhere for a while, you're not likely to stay put with them. field doesn't matter for this, though. any way you can demonstrate some capacity to stick with things is good. this is also one of the reasons college degrees are wanted: it represents four (or more!) years of tackling one goal.
it's really hard to show a manager that you are able to write code--even when changing jobs. most code is private and shouldn't be shared with someone other than whom it was written for. for me at least, had someone come in and shown me code from a previous job without permission to do so, i would have assumed they'd share anything they wrote for me to someone else and that'd be a strike against them.
so, contribute to an open source project. start your own. do something where you can show what you can do. even if it's not great (and it may not be straight out of school -- as others have noted, writing code for school and for an employer are fairly different) the hiring manager will know what they are getting. often this becomes an asset for you, even over more experience if the more experienced candidate(s) can't prove what they've done.
if you're confident of your own abilities, take contract-to-hire gigs or even offer that to the potential employer. again, you goal is to minimize risk for the potential employer. you'll do that differently fresh out of school then you will in a couple years with more experience to back your resume/claims up.
resumes are a whole different game. find some managers who actually hire people and get them to review your resume and tell you how it strikes them. don't trust the folks at your university who help with resumes. sometimes they're sharp folks--other times they produce the most dreadful resumes ever.
get written references from anybody you've done related work for in the past. do a pro-bono project for a non-profit to get one if necessary. include them with your resume -- this will stand out (if it's a good reference of course).
you might even consider including code samples when emailing a resume -- or at least put them on a website and include a note about it in your cover letter. if it's a web programming job, point to a working demo of your code too. or downloadable code if that's relevant and possible.
find outfits that are notorious for lousy salaries but who still have big needs. often these are places with entry level (or worse) salaries for experienced positions. non-profits are good for this. work for them for a couple of years. you may get a chance to do much more than you'd get to elsewhere. it can be a great chance to build a resume.
always tailor your cover letter to the position. if you're applying to more than one type of job, keep a different resume on hand for each job or focus.
if you feel underutilized at work, use that mental energy to do your own project at home on your own time. for me at least, i give high preference to candidates with perso
but many, many people do use bookmarks and history including members of my family, although like you i haven't been able to get them to use tabs.
i seem to recall that one of the reasons a great number of people did switch to firefox was tabs--enough people that both microsoft and apple had to respond and add tabs to their respective browsers.
i suggest that firefox's slowness is an engineering problem and should be fixed by refactoring not releasing a stripped down version without basic features. opera has shown that it can be done. safari, if you disable rss support, it also a good bit faster in my experience.
Does anyone actually use straight-up PDA's anymore?
still do here. i'd love to give up carrying it, but it's too versatile to give up. it's the input systems that break the deal for me on cell phones. i do not want to use 12 buttons as a full input system; i need the flexibility and speed of input offered by a stylus.
so, i continue to use a palmos device for the input and the huge software library. one of these days there will be a viable alternative and i'll look seriously at it. cell phones and mp3 players aren't viable substitutes for me yet.
qwest is beginning to mess with vdsl in denver and phoenix. unfortunately, it's just a couple of neighborhoods so far. most of the excess bandwidth is going to support their tv service. bandwidth is only being offered up to 5mbps as near as i can tell. however, they'll at least be able to keep up with comcast and provide some token competition.
if i understand correctly, in the u.s. it's really a minimum compensation -- that is, the value of your total compensation has to exceed the minimum wage. for a ceo or the like, a company car (if allows personal use), phone, medical insurance, clothing allowance, etc. could also count for that. med. insurance is potentially enough anyway. most of the country is still on 5.15/hr minimum wage, which is roughly 900/mo.
i also wonder if those who qualify for exempt status on the basis of an administrative position (which a corporate executive clearly does) are exempt from the whole thing anyway.
last, i think anyone could complain, not just the individual employee -- at least anyone else at the same company, don't know about outside the company. that should technically make it harder to exploit employees as it would only take one to make the situation known.
apparently it's not as easy as everyone thinks. taxes on vonage service don't appear directly, but vonage pays taxes on the lines they purchase to connect their customers back into the traditional telephone network.
vonage buys their trunks as pri's from a traditional land-line carrier and pays the e911 (and other) fees to them. so, yes, e911 _is_ being paid for. it's rolled into vonage's cost. the cost of e911 service is, incidentally, quite a bit less on a pri trunk (on a per-channel basis) than it is on a pots line.
(yes, i used to work for a telco that sold vonage their lines -- i reviewed/processed orders and e911 records.)
finale is the other choice, but sibelius is much easier to use and learn - and in my experience is just as powerful. available for mac and windows.
i was a music composition major and ended up using sibelius for nearly everything i wrote - instrumental works, choral, whatever. it does have limited playback features too.
re: #2 - very true. if they talk across organizations, it's a hard switch. however, i am equally sure there are a number of organizations who only communicate internally and therefore can switch everyone at once to another provider and go their way. for those orgs where that isn't an option, they might still get a price benefit out of it if nextel is forced to reevaluate their price structure due to somewhat increased competition.
additionally, i'm certain, price or not, some orgs will change simply because coverage for their people and their needs is better with another provider, now that they can get similar functionality.
there are two things that play big into sprintpcs's service coverage.
one, capacity. i, too, sometimes just don't get calls; voicemail takes forever; etc. i think it's a capacity issue. i recently attended an event where there were tens of thousands of people all gathered in rural area. the cell system(s) definitely couldn't keep up. most calls went to voicemail, even when calling someone else there. voicemail took forever to be delivered, etc. this was an unusual event, yes. but it gave me the chance to see what happens when you have serious capacity issues.
two, signal strength meters. this applies to _all_ cdma providers. the little meter has little to do with signal strength. it's actually a measure of the signal-to-noise ratio of the signal. yes, it means a little something, but not very much. so you could have a strong signal, but a lot of noise (eg: typical metro area) and have one or two bars and it might work fine. on the other hand, you could have a weak signal, but no interference at all, have four bars, and still get a dropped call. pretty useless if you ask me. and again, this isn't just sprint. it's also verizon, alltel, us cellular, and any other cdma provider.
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Yeah. They'll add it in conference committee, where, after the initial vote, they reconcile differences in bills between the House and Senate versions. It goes back for a quick final vote in each chamber but that's usually considered procedural as I understand.
I don't know for sure, but somehow doubt that it's uncommon. More likely, the changes snuck in aren't enough to raise significant ire so they get away with it. And if if people figure it out and are unhappy, there's always plausible deniability: "Some intern added it; it wasn't supposed to be there."
I'm actually more impressed that Google is cramming 12 disks onto a single machine, how do they get them to fit?
umm... a rubber mallet?
More seriously, Google has a history of not even using cases some of the time -- at least not cases as most people think of them.
As I recall, they're even using custom motherboards and such, so custom cases (or special racks if they're still doing the caseless thing) to accommodate 12 disks per mobo seems very reasonable for them.
Sadly, tacking stuff on isn't limited to the budget bills. It happens routinely.
Try Zerigo:NS (http://ns.zerigo.com/). The template feature may be enough to meet your needs. Change one template and every domain dependent on it changes at once.
If the templates aren't enough, there's also a REST API (brand new, not yet announced on the site, but should be functional).
Shoot me an email after setting up an account and I'll comp you at least 6mo of whatever level account you need to fit your domains. Be sure to let me know what level account you need.
To the rest of /. -- I'll comp any of you too: just mention this thread and let me know what account level.
(Disclaimer: If it wasn't obvious, I am affiliated with Zerigo.)
no, those that make more money don't build huge, fancy houses; furnish said houses with gobs of expensive furniture and electronics; buy a multitude of luxury cars to to fill their expansive garages; travel frequently; or anything else of the sort.
Never mind that the cost of living in China is also substantially lower. I found in a trip a few years ago that the buying power was roughly 8:1. That was for typical goods in stores. So $100/mo is comparable to ~$800 mo in the US and a dual-income family, at $100/mo each is not that far off from a $1600/mo family income here. The school system runs extended hours, avoiding day-care costs for parents. The tax load in China also seemed to be less. So that $200/mo probably goes further than $1600/mo here. Extravagant? Not hardly. But they weren't destitute, starving, or homeless either.
drac 5's web interface works in firefox on both mac and linux, although the virtual console (and probably virtual media, haven't tried) only works on i386 linux.
the drac cli is basically com2 virtualized, so will need os support. telling linux to display the console and getty on ttyS1 does the trick.
that said, it is more work and isn't nearly as nice as ibm's rsa card.
great point
the only thing i've seen included on resumes are mentions of side projects and interests. i have found these quite helpful as they differentiate what otherwise might be a sea of uninteresting resumes.
i have also included references to my own projects online in the past and have found it very helpful in gaining interviews and offers.
all my hiring has been for tech positions. i have frequently searched for people online just to see what i can find. any time some kind of link or even hint to something online has been present in a resume that i had even a little interest in, i've looked for it online.
to take advantage of amazon's free shipping, you have to be willing to let amazon sit on your order for a while before actually picking it. in my experience, across many orders, this results in about a one week (!) delay. then it's another week or so for ground shipping to deliver it to you.
amusingly, amazon's own marketplace sellers typically ship right away, so it's generally faster to order from one of them than amazon directly. those, of course, don't ship for free. but they do typically ship for less than amazon charges (at least for what i tend to buy).
i'd buy at least twice as much from amazon if they'd just pick the orders within a day or so. i often order from their competitors just for this reason.
if this is a new plan to cause certain shoppers even more delays in shipping, it may cost them even more business. not smart.
i have no idea if i'm considered a regular customer. i tend to order 10-20 items per year from amazon, in a handful of orders. if they would just pick the orders promptly, it would probably be double that.
it would seem the world of online retailers has already set some basic, minimum expectations on delivery times and amazon fails those already. i don't see how this new plan helps at all.
back in the 90's i worked for a small computer shop in new mexico. new mexico taxes everything, including services. several other states do this also. so, it was usual to charge our customers tax for both parts and labor. when it came to the federal government, we couldn't charge them tax for the parts, but we did for labor.
yes it can. i worked for a computer shop in new mexico in the 90s. for transactions with various departments of the federal government, we charged them taxes for services, but not parts. only the parts were exempt.
wow. thanks for trying that. it's amazing how screwed up the credit outfits are.
if i had mod points, i would have modded you up. unfortunately i don't. hopefully others will.
let me throw a few things out. most people have no clue what managers are looking for when they go to hire. i didn't either until i became a manager myself.
here in the states (and many other countries from what i've heard) it's really hard to fire people--even people who are terrible at their jobs. so managers are looking for confidence that you can actually do what they need. you need to convince them you can do the work. how you convince them of that really doesn't matter.
needs vary too--most of those needs require someone who has experience. but don't lose heart, many managers are also not given the resources to hire people with sufficient experience. today's tech job market is pretty good and this makes it all the harder.
it's the first two years that are the toughest. managers want at least two years of experience, preferably in the same job. some make noise for five years, but most of the time they'll settle for as little as two anyway. staying at the same job matters because managers don't want to go through the hiring again. if you can't stay somewhere for a while, you're not likely to stay put with them. field doesn't matter for this, though. any way you can demonstrate some capacity to stick with things is good. this is also one of the reasons college degrees are wanted: it represents four (or more!) years of tackling one goal.
it's really hard to show a manager that you are able to write code--even when changing jobs. most code is private and shouldn't be shared with someone other than whom it was written for. for me at least, had someone come in and shown me code from a previous job without permission to do so, i would have assumed they'd share anything they wrote for me to someone else and that'd be a strike against them.
so, contribute to an open source project. start your own. do something where you can show what you can do. even if it's not great (and it may not be straight out of school -- as others have noted, writing code for school and for an employer are fairly different) the hiring manager will know what they are getting. often this becomes an asset for you, even over more experience if the more experienced candidate(s) can't prove what they've done.
if you're confident of your own abilities, take contract-to-hire gigs or even offer that to the potential employer. again, you goal is to minimize risk for the potential employer. you'll do that differently fresh out of school then you will in a couple years with more experience to back your resume/claims up.
resumes are a whole different game. find some managers who actually hire people and get them to review your resume and tell you how it strikes them. don't trust the folks at your university who help with resumes. sometimes they're sharp folks--other times they produce the most dreadful resumes ever.
get written references from anybody you've done related work for in the past. do a pro-bono project for a non-profit to get one if necessary. include them with your resume -- this will stand out (if it's a good reference of course).
you might even consider including code samples when emailing a resume -- or at least put them on a website and include a note about it in your cover letter. if it's a web programming job, point to a working demo of your code too. or downloadable code if that's relevant and possible.
find outfits that are notorious for lousy salaries but who still have big needs. often these are places with entry level (or worse) salaries for experienced positions. non-profits are good for this. work for them for a couple of years. you may get a chance to do much more than you'd get to elsewhere. it can be a great chance to build a resume.
always tailor your cover letter to the position. if you're applying to more than one type of job, keep a different resume on hand for each job or focus.
if you feel underutilized at work, use that mental energy to do your own project at home on your own time. for me at least, i give high preference to candidates with perso
but many, many people do use bookmarks and history including members of my family, although like you i haven't been able to get them to use tabs.
i seem to recall that one of the reasons a great number of people did switch to firefox was tabs--enough people that both microsoft and apple had to respond and add tabs to their respective browsers.
i suggest that firefox's slowness is an engineering problem and should be fixed by refactoring not releasing a stripped down version without basic features. opera has shown that it can be done. safari, if you disable rss support, it also a good bit faster in my experience.
qwest is beginning to mess with vdsl in denver and phoenix. unfortunately, it's just a couple of neighborhoods so far. most of the excess bandwidth is going to support their tv service. bandwidth is only being offered up to 5mbps as near as i can tell. however, they'll at least be able to keep up with comcast and provide some token competition.
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http://www.qwest.com/residential/products/tv/vdsl
if i understand correctly, in the u.s. it's really a minimum compensation -- that is, the value of your total compensation has to exceed the minimum wage. for a ceo or the like, a company car (if allows personal use), phone, medical insurance, clothing allowance, etc. could also count for that. med. insurance is potentially enough anyway. most of the country is still on 5.15/hr minimum wage, which is roughly 900/mo.
i also wonder if those who qualify for exempt status on the basis of an administrative position (which a corporate executive clearly does) are exempt from the whole thing anyway.
last, i think anyone could complain, not just the individual employee -- at least anyone else at the same company, don't know about outside the company. that should technically make it harder to exploit employees as it would only take one to make the situation known.
ianal.
apparently it's not as easy as everyone thinks. taxes on vonage service don't appear directly, but vonage pays taxes on the lines they purchase to connect their customers back into the traditional telephone network.
vonage buys their trunks as pri's from a traditional land-line carrier and pays the e911 (and other) fees to them. so, yes, e911 _is_ being paid for. it's rolled into vonage's cost. the cost of e911 service is, incidentally, quite a bit less on a pri trunk (on a per-channel basis) than it is on a pots line.
(yes, i used to work for a telco that sold vonage their lines -- i reviewed/processed orders and e911 records.)
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finale is the other choice, but sibelius is much easier to use and learn - and in my experience is just as powerful. available for mac and windows.
i was a music composition major and ended up using sibelius for nearly everything i wrote - instrumental works, choral, whatever. it does have limited playback features too.
re: #2 - very true. if they talk across organizations, it's a hard switch. however, i am equally sure there are a number of organizations who only communicate internally and therefore can switch everyone at once to another provider and go their way. for those orgs where that isn't an option, they might still get a price benefit out of it if nextel is forced to reevaluate their price structure due to somewhat increased competition.
additionally, i'm certain, price or not, some orgs will change simply because coverage for their people and their needs is better with another provider, now that they can get similar functionality.
there are two things that play big into sprintpcs's service coverage.
one, capacity. i, too, sometimes just don't get calls; voicemail takes forever; etc. i think it's a capacity issue. i recently attended an event where there were tens of thousands of people all gathered in rural area. the cell system(s) definitely couldn't keep up. most calls went to voicemail, even when calling someone else there. voicemail took forever to be delivered, etc. this was an unusual event, yes. but it gave me the chance to see what happens when you have serious capacity issues.
two, signal strength meters. this applies to _all_ cdma providers. the little meter has little to do with signal strength. it's actually a measure of the signal-to-noise ratio of the signal. yes, it means a little something, but not very much. so you could have a strong signal, but a lot of noise (eg: typical metro area) and have one or two bars and it might work fine. on the other hand, you could have a weak signal, but no interference at all, have four bars, and still get a dropped call. pretty useless if you ask me. and again, this isn't just sprint. it's also verizon, alltel, us cellular, and any other cdma provider.