Just making up numbers to prove a point. It's not the nut that's the problem. It's the government requirements. Having a critical nut fail in a helicopter can cause it to crash likely seriously injuring or even killing the crew. There are expectations that the nut will hold during the combat or SAR mission and so there are requirements to make sure the nut follows the ranges expected for that piece of hardware.
When you spend $300 for a "hexiform rotational compression device" that conforms to MILSPEC-93-5475-32-J which include requirements of max torque of 132 ft/lbs for 5,000 hours of usage in temperatures ranging from -40F to +130F or be fined $10,000 per failure (AKA 'nut') spending more than everybody else isn't that difficult.
Fixed that for you. Anyone can go to Ace and buy a nut. But if I don't want to get fined $10,000 per failure, I'll hire metallurgists and engineers to make sure the 'nut' I supply exceeds the required specs.
I think it's more insurance than anything. We have the option to select a specific insurance plan where we affirm that we don't smoke thereby saving us (and probably the company) a few bucks a year. There's a bunch of 'Timmy-B-Fit' propaganda around the intranet and on posters around the company as well.
I haven't checked our handbook for a while so can't answer that one.:)
The company does require a drug test before hiring though. We work in the Emergency 911 industry so the company's a tad pickier than most. Still, it's a pretty cool place to work in general. Too bad we're so far from the Tech Center. I think that's the biggest hindrance to getting more applicants.
Oh we have Solartus, H-PUX, Tru64, and even a couple of AIX boxes kicking around (oh and one lone FreeBSD box). Most of our new gear is either H-PUX or Redhat though with Oracle buying Sun (CTO hates Oracle).
The softlinks guy said basically that if a slice was lost, you'd lose all access to any file that was softlinked (which made his comment worse of course). After we boggled at him, he asked if he could take back his answer:D
And company policy is set by the parent company. No smoking on campus (the smokers have to walk to the far end of the parking lot to smoke) and drug tests as it's still a federal crime.
With virtual environments it's really not a problem to give them their own Unix[0] server and I prefer it. It's much easier to schedule patches and outages when I only have to deal with one customer/department than a shared server with different maintenance windows.
Root access? Hell, Devs don't get accounts on production servers. Don't support the dev/sqa area so don't care what they have there[1]
I fix their personal laptop by installing Slackware and giving it back. They don't ask twice.:D
[John]
[0] If it's not Unix based, I don't care as our group doesn't support it. [1] Well, sort of. I'd rather we support the lab/sqa area so the devs have systems that mirror production. Prevents surprises and delays when we're deploying new systems.
We have 2 open positions out here in Colorado. Can't find a Unix sysadmin who isn't dumb as a box of rocks. (You've been a Redhat admin for 8 years and don't know the significance of/etc/rc3.d/S*? You're a Unix admin who's scared of soft links? Been a Unix admin for 20 years but don't know how to script???)
Honestly we're not in the Tech Center so it's a tad harder to find talent.
Technically the insurance companies would use it to put you into a riskier group, which would of course jack up your rates. But hopefully it would also lower the rates for the safer drivers *cough* *cough*, sorry, I just can't swallow that last part.
I don't get any mail that's so sensitive that I can't get it weekly. Bring back the corner mailboxes so I can drop off outbound mail or just leave it to be picked up at the curb/cluster/whatever.
We might have to get bigger mailboxes though considering about half my mail (by weight) is junkmail. I do get three magazines. One motorcycle and two guitar.
The banks, credit card companies, utilities, etc would have to adjust to make sure mail is sent in enough time for the mailman to pick up the outbound and deliver it in time.
Have you been to a theater lately? I've been to several this year and find the theaters are pretty empty. Even World War Z was, at best 25% full on opening day. A couple of years back when Ghost Rider came out (I love the comics and my ex loves Nicolas Cage) we were the only people in the theater.
That's what I went to see, the second Star Trek movie. Since I didn't see the first one, there were several things I was scratching my head over that were explained in the first Star Trek (warp transporter? WTF?)
True. While I typically don't find anything at the movies interesting enough to see, I am sucked in by sequels or by movies that appeal to the geek in me (this year more than the past 20 or so for some reason).
For instance, I saw The Hobbit and I disliked it immensely. I have no plans to see any of the sequels (Bilbo saved Thorin? Seriously? I don't care what some fucking appendix says.)
More recently I was going to see After Earth. I do like Will Smith. But friends told me I'd dislike it primarily for the reasons I like Will Smith. In general he's a happy, larger than life character. In After Earth, as I understand, he's very robotic. I think that's why I didn't have any interest in seeing MIB 3D. And what's worse, I don't recall what I saw that night instead.
I did go see World War Z and did my best to ignore that it wasn't supposed to follow the book. But having three serious (serious!) zombie attacks due to noise (air base, Jerusalem, and the airplane) and then at the end to kick a fucking can in a well lit cafeteria? I almost walked out the second time they made unnecessary noise. (The popcorn sucked big time which is really the clincher "I want some buttered, salty, far too expensive popcorn; what's playing at the theater?")
From looking at the previews, R.I.P.D. looked okay (not enough to trigger the popcorn response though). White House Down and The Lone Ranger looked pretty stupid. After Earth and Pacific Rim didn't get good reviews from my friends and I wasn't really interested in Pacific Rim anyway. Humorously The Lone Ranger previews knocked home theater setups "Action this big shouldn't be seen on a screen this small":rolleyes: Way to alienate the folks who are actually coming to see the movies.
Anyway, nothing upcoming looks good enough to consider regardless of their "Analytics". Obviously I'm not the target audience. I think I can just go and buy the popcorn though:)
Older guy here. I grew up reading the papers including The Washington Post (and the Star before it went under) and locally the Denver paper (the Post?) I currently do pick up the local city paper when I find it.
I do understand that ads drive the business but since the loss of the Classifieds, the papers have inundated us with ads including under the fold and sticker ads on the front page that rip the page when you try to remove it. The ads inside were the worst though. A single column or less of news (mostly from some other paper or the AP, specially selected) and the rest was an ad or two or more. And the middle four pages were completely ads. Even the editorials were mostly from other papers (in the Denver paper).
And the delivered paper would end up under the car or in the bushes or in the puddles assuming it arrived at all. (Honestly that didn't happen all that often but often enough to be noteworthy and annoying).
I changed to a 4 day subscription (Thurs, Fri, Sat, Sun) mostly for the cat box material:) Last year I finally just stopped my subscription. I get regular coupon packages and coupon mailers in the mail and the various grocery stores send me targeted coupons based on my purchases.
I have somewhat of an idea of my friends' political leanings. Not all, but some. Some hide their preferences pretty well. But bringing them up will expose some of their odd beliefs (IMO) which makes being friends uncomfortable.
There's a guy at work I have to deal with from time to time. For some reason, a synapse failed and I accepted a 'friend' request on Facebook only to discover he's about as racist a person that I've encountered for many years. I even tried to have a discussion with him pointing out that your childhood experiences in a small town in Alabama isn't reflective of all members of that race. But he wouldn't accept it.
So instead of wasting my time and unnecessarily increasing my blood pressure, I choose to not discuss politics with, well most anyone that I actually know and have kept my voting choices somewhat to myself (he did start in on my choices because I had a bumper sticker to which he commented: "I thought you were smarter than that").
Heck, I rode my bike through the northern part of Idaho and saw some pretty scary bumper stickers (Obama with a cross-hairs over his face for example). I was concerned enough to not stop until I got to Montana.
I initially set up an account to let the folks on my forum know when the server took a dump since most of my users are also on Facebook. Now I'm using it when I go on hikes or motorcycle trips. I can double snap a picture; one on my tourist camera and one on my iPhone in order to post to Facebook for my friends to "like".
And I've been into computers/in IT since 1980. So count me in the 'least likely' group. There are a few of us (I'm not quite in the Senior Citizen group...)
That's too bad. I purposefully do not link my Facebook account with anyone at work (anyone at all). I have to work with these guys. Finding out they're racist assholes makes it a bit harder to deal with them without having to think about their personal beliefs.
Is that what it was?? I was reading some book years ago and about a third of the way through I realized it was a story from The Book of Mormon (family converted when I was 14) that was Sci-Fi'd up a bit and laughed. I'll have to see if I still have it.
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Just making up numbers to prove a point. It's not the nut that's the problem. It's the government requirements. Having a critical nut fail in a helicopter can cause it to crash likely seriously injuring or even killing the crew. There are expectations that the nut will hold during the combat or SAR mission and so there are requirements to make sure the nut follows the ranges expected for that piece of hardware.
[John]
When you spend $300 for a "hexiform rotational compression device" that conforms to MILSPEC-93-5475-32-J which include requirements of max torque of 132 ft/lbs for 5,000 hours of usage in temperatures ranging from -40F to +130F or be fined $10,000 per failure (AKA 'nut') spending more than everybody else isn't that difficult.
Fixed that for you. Anyone can go to Ace and buy a nut. But if I don't want to get fined $10,000 per failure, I'll hire metallurgists and engineers to make sure the 'nut' I supply exceeds the required specs.
[John]
I think it's more insurance than anything. We have the option to select a specific insurance plan where we affirm that we don't smoke thereby saving us (and probably the company) a few bucks a year. There's a bunch of 'Timmy-B-Fit' propaganda around the intranet and on posters around the company as well.
I haven't checked our handbook for a while so can't answer that one. :)
The company does require a drug test before hiring though. We work in the Emergency 911 industry so the company's a tad pickier than most. Still, it's a pretty cool place to work in general. Too bad we're so far from the Tech Center. I think that's the biggest hindrance to getting more applicants.
[John]
Oh we have Solartus, H-PUX, Tru64, and even a couple of AIX boxes kicking around (oh and one lone FreeBSD box). Most of our new gear is either H-PUX or Redhat though with Oracle buying Sun (CTO hates Oracle).
The softlinks guy said basically that if a slice was lost, you'd lose all access to any file that was softlinked (which made his comment worse of course). After we boggled at him, he asked if he could take back his answer :D
And company policy is set by the parent company. No smoking on campus (the smokers have to walk to the far end of the parking lot to smoke) and drug tests as it's still a federal crime.
[John]
With virtual environments it's really not a problem to give them their own Unix[0] server and I prefer it. It's much easier to schedule patches and outages when I only have to deal with one customer/department than a shared server with different maintenance windows.
Root access? Hell, Devs don't get accounts on production servers. Don't support the dev/sqa area so don't care what they have there[1]
I fix their personal laptop by installing Slackware and giving it back. They don't ask twice. :D
[John]
[0] If it's not Unix based, I don't care as our group doesn't support it.
[1] Well, sort of. I'd rather we support the lab/sqa area so the devs have systems that mirror production. Prevents surprises and delays when we're deploying new systems.
We have 2 open positions out here in Colorado. Can't find a Unix sysadmin who isn't dumb as a box of rocks. (You've been a Redhat admin for 8 years and don't know the significance of /etc/rc3.d/S*? You're a Unix admin who's scared of soft links? Been a Unix admin for 20 years but don't know how to script???)
Honestly we're not in the Tech Center so it's a tad harder to find talent.
[John]
Technically the insurance companies would use it to put you into a riskier group, which would of course jack up your rates. But hopefully it would also lower the rates for the safer drivers *cough* *cough*, sorry, I just can't swallow that last part.
[John]
It's to get the attention of the person driving who's too busy reading the paper, eating a burger, texting, chatting on the phone, or just snoozing.
[John]
I don't get any mail that's so sensitive that I can't get it weekly. Bring back the corner mailboxes so I can drop off outbound mail or just leave it to be picked up at the curb/cluster/whatever.
We might have to get bigger mailboxes though considering about half my mail (by weight) is junkmail. I do get three magazines. One motorcycle and two guitar.
The banks, credit card companies, utilities, etc would have to adjust to make sure mail is sent in enough time for the mailman to pick up the outbound and deliver it in time.
[John]
Have you been to a theater lately? I've been to several this year and find the theaters are pretty empty. Even World War Z was, at best 25% full on opening day. A couple of years back when Ghost Rider came out (I love the comics and my ex loves Nicolas Cage) we were the only people in the theater.
[John]
Well, $8 for a ticket (World War Z) but $13 for sub-par popcorn and a soda.
[John]
I keep wanting to see a new Emma Peel :D
[John]
That's what I went to see, the second Star Trek movie. Since I didn't see the first one, there were several things I was scratching my head over that were explained in the first Star Trek (warp transporter? WTF?)
[John]
True. While I typically don't find anything at the movies interesting enough to see, I am sucked in by sequels or by movies that appeal to the geek in me (this year more than the past 20 or so for some reason).
For instance, I saw The Hobbit and I disliked it immensely. I have no plans to see any of the sequels (Bilbo saved Thorin? Seriously? I don't care what some fucking appendix says.)
More recently I was going to see After Earth. I do like Will Smith. But friends told me I'd dislike it primarily for the reasons I like Will Smith. In general he's a happy, larger than life character. In After Earth, as I understand, he's very robotic. I think that's why I didn't have any interest in seeing MIB 3D. And what's worse, I don't recall what I saw that night instead.
I did go see World War Z and did my best to ignore that it wasn't supposed to follow the book. But having three serious (serious!) zombie attacks due to noise (air base, Jerusalem, and the airplane) and then at the end to kick a fucking can in a well lit cafeteria? I almost walked out the second time they made unnecessary noise. (The popcorn sucked big time which is really the clincher "I want some buttered, salty, far too expensive popcorn; what's playing at the theater?")
From looking at the previews, R.I.P.D. looked okay (not enough to trigger the popcorn response though). White House Down and The Lone Ranger looked pretty stupid. After Earth and Pacific Rim didn't get good reviews from my friends and I wasn't really interested in Pacific Rim anyway. Humorously The Lone Ranger previews knocked home theater setups "Action this big shouldn't be seen on a screen this small" :rolleyes: Way to alienate the folks who are actually coming to see the movies.
Anyway, nothing upcoming looks good enough to consider regardless of their "Analytics". Obviously I'm not the target audience. I think I can just go and buy the popcorn though :)
[John]
Older guy here. I grew up reading the papers including The Washington Post (and the Star before it went under) and locally the Denver paper (the Post?) I currently do pick up the local city paper when I find it.
I do understand that ads drive the business but since the loss of the Classifieds, the papers have inundated us with ads including under the fold and sticker ads on the front page that rip the page when you try to remove it. The ads inside were the worst though. A single column or less of news (mostly from some other paper or the AP, specially selected) and the rest was an ad or two or more. And the middle four pages were completely ads. Even the editorials were mostly from other papers (in the Denver paper).
And the delivered paper would end up under the car or in the bushes or in the puddles assuming it arrived at all. (Honestly that didn't happen all that often but often enough to be noteworthy and annoying).
I changed to a 4 day subscription (Thurs, Fri, Sat, Sun) mostly for the cat box material :) Last year I finally just stopped my subscription. I get regular coupon packages and coupon mailers in the mail and the various grocery stores send me targeted coupons based on my purchases.
[John]
Shot down over Deer Trail!
Join us on 9News for updates. :)
[John]
Me too. You should wave next time. :)
[John]
Managers use Charisma. Intelligence is a dump stat.
[John]
It took a couple of tries but I'm a real geek again. :/
[John]
But I don't want any group swill.
[John]
I have somewhat of an idea of my friends' political leanings. Not all, but some. Some hide their preferences pretty well. But bringing them up will expose some of their odd beliefs (IMO) which makes being friends uncomfortable.
There's a guy at work I have to deal with from time to time. For some reason, a synapse failed and I accepted a 'friend' request on Facebook only to discover he's about as racist a person that I've encountered for many years. I even tried to have a discussion with him pointing out that your childhood experiences in a small town in Alabama isn't reflective of all members of that race. But he wouldn't accept it.
So instead of wasting my time and unnecessarily increasing my blood pressure, I choose to not discuss politics with, well most anyone that I actually know and have kept my voting choices somewhat to myself (he did start in on my choices because I had a bumper sticker to which he commented: "I thought you were smarter than that").
Heck, I rode my bike through the northern part of Idaho and saw some pretty scary bumper stickers (Obama with a cross-hairs over his face for example). I was concerned enough to not stop until I got to Montana.
[John]
I initially set up an account to let the folks on my forum know when the server took a dump since most of my users are also on Facebook. Now I'm using it when I go on hikes or motorcycle trips. I can double snap a picture; one on my tourist camera and one on my iPhone in order to post to Facebook for my friends to "like".
And I've been into computers/in IT since 1980. So count me in the 'least likely' group. There are a few of us (I'm not quite in the Senior Citizen group...)
[John]
That's too bad. I purposefully do not link my Facebook account with anyone at work (anyone at all). I have to work with these guys. Finding out they're racist assholes makes it a bit harder to deal with them without having to think about their personal beliefs.
[John]
Awesome. Let's do something about separating that 'Christian Ceremony' and the government, shall we?
Ok? Thanks. Bye.
[John]
Is that what it was?? I was reading some book years ago and about a third of the way through I realized it was a story from The Book of Mormon (family converted when I was 14) that was Sci-Fi'd up a bit and laughed. I'll have to see if I still have it.
[John]