I can almost guarantee that a person living a sedentary lifestyle will gain weight eating a pound of sugar vs. a pound of pure fiber.
Mass is meaningless. It's what your body does with that mass that matters. If it's energy, it will either use or store it as fat for later use. If it's nothing important, it just passes on through. Quite literally.
HP ProCurve switches are among the best the industry has to offer. Not all gigabit switches are the same. Reliability, warranty, support, and internal throughput are all important aspects when choosing a switch.
Never rely on 911 to save you from imminent danger by another person or group of people. It can take anywhere from a few minutes to 30 minutes for a police officer to arrive. All it takes is less than 5 seconds for someone to end your life with a weapon. Perhaps shorter.
911 good for medical emergencies and walk-throughs. That's about it.
Take it from someone whom has been chased in a car and shot at with a bolt action rifle. The guy was on PCP (verified later on). Stopping to say "time out" like a child only to call 911 only puts you in danger.
I got to thinking about this several years go. There are sections of the road that often requires major servicing in high traffic areas. It's a lot of work, I know. But if they could pre-plan construction of the roads like a suspended server room floor, it would be that much easier. Right? Just lift one tile of road, perform work quickly, and lower the tile back down. I'm sure it's a lot more complicated then that with load bearing and all. But I thought the idea sounded pretty nifty if I do say so myself.
Bounce back to shape? How quickly? I'm sorry, but this idea sucks balls. If I'm driving 20MPH and bust a 17" low profile rim on a pothole that was "supposedly" fixed, as a citizen I'm going to be pissed!
BTW, wouldn't asphalt be cheaper than some new exotic NNF material? Just fill the damn thing and be done with it. That, or repave the entire road if it's that badly shot. It will have to be done sooner or later anyways. Westheimer Rd, Houston, TX, I'm looking at you! I hate driving on that damn road. The entire right lane might as well be an uneven dirt road at this point.
I was told once that the original design for the Shuttle's SRBs did not call for segmentation. It was supposed to be on once piece shipped by boat. But because the manufacturing for contracted elsewhere for political reasons, it required a redesign of the SRBs to be segmented for cargo rail placement.
I thought that record belonged to Ethiopia. But yes, China ranks among the highest. At any rate, none of them have managed to accomplish a running streak of multiple western (European) nations people settling on "new" land, displacing the natives, creating states, forming a union with a fully functional democratic republic government and....place man on the moon. All within the span of a few hundred years. No single nation on Earth can claim such progress in such a short period of time. It has everything to do with western culture and values. The fact China (and we should define what parts exactly) is ancient is one of the major reasons for it being held back. It has constantly been ruled by dynasties and so therefore the cultural momentum is carried forward to this day.
Now I'm not suggesting Western values will be the model going forward. Human nature is all about the control over other peoples lives. So who knows. Maybe America was some random fluke of an experiment that will never be repeated again. But there's no mistaking the facts. Western values and culture is truly a model to emulate if you value individual freedom and rapid progress.
The key is to throw at just the right speed. Too fast and it cuts corners. Too slow and it will nose dive. Of all the paper airplanes I've thrown, the reward is the best when you get it just right. With a little luck of course.
Sure. Ok. Then let the man fail. But when people start throwing around insulting rhetoric, it's no longer a debate. How is any of that civil? And why on Slashdot is that behavior encouraged? Perhaps I'm just to idealistic to think we have a civil forum here. No... In fact I am too idealistic. Back to reality for me!
Frothy-Mix? Don't like his politics or values? Fine! We can debate that on its own merit. But fuck you and your new vernacular of his name, Santorum.
I personally can't stand Obama's ideology, but you don't see me making personal insulting comments about the man. And yet, the "Left" is supposed to be so intellectually superior. Or so we're led to believe by the mass leftist media and academia. Whatever.
China is not American. Mock the culture, but the USA is where it's at precisely because they're American.
China is also competing in a region with relatively new found global powers. The BRIC union could fall apart at the slightest provocation from one of it's neighbors. It's only held together by common interests...for now.
Will America lose it's #1 position in the world in terms of GDP and growth? Perhaps. But assuming politics and our currency doesn't implode (which it might), the nation is rather stabile. China is stabile too. But it's stability is held together by force. Smooth and polished. But also prone to minor cracks which leads into major fissures. China's political system is simply not sustainable in the modern world of high speed communication.
Oh God, those are nothing. Let me tell you a few of my own.
1. Client doesn't have a C: Drive. The root of their XP System volume is actually F:. It happened when a technician reinstalled Windows on a Dell XPS that had a built-in multi-card reader that was taking over the drive letter assignment upon reinstall. It's uber rare, but it can happen. Pulled my hair out trying to walk a client over the phone. It truely was one of those "if you didn't see it, you wouldn't have believed it moments"
2. Website was partially blocked because some content was linked to a signed blocked by OpenDNS content filtering categories (paid for service).
3. VPN doesn't work with new Verizon aircards. Turns out Verizon was having trouble passing the GRE protocol on newer networks provisioned for these cards. We had to work with engineering on that one.
4. Offsite backups were no longer functioning. The Sonicwall was flagging a portion of the bytestream as being infected with a particular virus. False positive.
5. PDFs wont open. Adobe Reader wasn't installed, and someone decided to associate with MS Word. Duh! (real easy fix, but they made it sound like an Adobe issue)
6. XP Laptop running really slow. HDD stuck in PIO modem instead of UDMA. It happens.
7. DNS issues client side. #1 cause for strange share and application issues.
8. intermittent networked printer connectivity issues. Sometimes the print job will go through, sometimes now. Cause: Someone hard-coded their client IP to be the same. Basic duplicate IP issue. Verified via "ARP - a" command. Placed GPO in place to enforce a policy that users can't change the settings. Problem solved.
The problem here is a lack of communication between the user and support technician/admin. Let's assume they're right and that the problem is related to some work performed on the machine 4 years go. It's still the clients fault for letting it linger for 4 years. If you suspect an on-going issue, there needs to be follow up. Same goes for the person performing thee repair. Even if that means no further work can be performed. Above all, all work needs to be documented and acknowledged.
Some clients will bitch regardless. But it's up to you as a technician to protect yourself from miscommunication. If for some reason you never get a response back from the client, document attempts prior to placing closure on an issue. It's basic 101 in CYA mode.
Cuts both ways. Give it a few years. Video included with bluetooth headsets will be the norm. Everyone will be able to record any and everything around them 24/7 on a FIFO basis. You only keep what you've decided to tag specifically that moment or last available video capture dump.
Now add the ability to record live to your phone and have it relay to an online website. The Twitterati may like this as will other attention whores. Now doubt the useful idiots will be gawking while flagging each moment of their lives in realtime.
"+1!! He picked up the COFFEE! EEeeeeekkkkk" He's sooooo hot!
Growing up in the 80s, living through the boom times of the 90s, and looking back today. What I used to think was was a path to freedom and salvation of the intellectual variety, I now see as our oppression. Slavery of a new type. Step by step we are sealing our own doom while at the same time handing over the keys to a new elite. The social consolidation is giving rise to the new aristocrats.
Yes, the whole embargo is petty and counter productive. The best way to end communism is flood the nation with wealth and prosperity. Case in point, China. Now that capitalism has taken root, communism in China is all but in name only for its major cities.
My guess is that our continued embargo with Cuba goes all the way back to Lee Harvey Oswald assassination of JFK. Lee was a known Soviet defector and Castro sympathizer. Given the whole Cuban Missile Crisis, my guess is that this embargo was the final "fuck you" to Fidel Castro and his regime.
If I have to guess, the embargo will be automatically lifted once Fidel passes away.
One of my clients is on the 21st floor of a building in Houston. He wanted to go WiFi. About six months later, he was having major connectivity problems. According to the access points and a few other wireless utilities, the entire spectrum is flooded! His office is basically acting as one giant parabolic dish collecting this shit. One of my WiFi utilities crashed when it reached just over 100 AP in range.
You mean like an event that happens to those in power to actually care? Because last I checked, we've had plenty of "Hindenburg moments". Just none of them mattered unless you were a victim.
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I can almost guarantee that a person living a sedentary lifestyle will gain weight eating a pound of sugar vs. a pound of pure fiber.
Mass is meaningless. It's what your body does with that mass that matters. If it's energy, it will either use or store it as fat for later use. If it's nothing important, it just passes on through. Quite literally.
HP ProCurve switches are among the best the industry has to offer. Not all gigabit switches are the same. Reliability, warranty, support, and internal throughput are all important aspects when choosing a switch.
Never rely on 911 to save you from imminent danger by another person or group of people. It can take anywhere from a few minutes to 30 minutes for a police officer to arrive. All it takes is less than 5 seconds for someone to end your life with a weapon. Perhaps shorter.
911 good for medical emergencies and walk-throughs. That's about it.
Take it from someone whom has been chased in a car and shot at with a bolt action rifle. The guy was on PCP (verified later on). Stopping to say "time out" like a child only to call 911 only puts you in danger.
I got to thinking about this several years go. There are sections of the road that often requires major servicing in high traffic areas. It's a lot of work, I know. But if they could pre-plan construction of the roads like a suspended server room floor, it would be that much easier. Right? Just lift one tile of road, perform work quickly, and lower the tile back down. I'm sure it's a lot more complicated then that with load bearing and all. But I thought the idea sounded pretty nifty if I do say so myself.
Bounce back to shape? How quickly? I'm sorry, but this idea sucks balls. If I'm driving 20MPH and bust a 17" low profile rim on a pothole that was "supposedly" fixed, as a citizen I'm going to be pissed!
BTW, wouldn't asphalt be cheaper than some new exotic NNF material? Just fill the damn thing and be done with it. That, or repave the entire road if it's that badly shot. It will have to be done sooner or later anyways. Westheimer Rd, Houston, TX, I'm looking at you! I hate driving on that damn road. The entire right lane might as well be an uneven dirt road at this point.
Absolutely not. Because they're a new voting bloc. Must never piss off potential voters that hold so much power at swinging elections. Right. Right???
BTW, I still get carded for beer. It's a requirement you know.
I was told once that the original design for the Shuttle's SRBs did not call for segmentation. It was supposed to be on once piece shipped by boat. But because the manufacturing for contracted elsewhere for political reasons, it required a redesign of the SRBs to be segmented for cargo rail placement.
I thought that record belonged to Ethiopia. But yes, China ranks among the highest. At any rate, none of them have managed to accomplish a running streak of multiple western (European) nations people settling on "new" land, displacing the natives, creating states, forming a union with a fully functional democratic republic government and....place man on the moon. All within the span of a few hundred years. No single nation on Earth can claim such progress in such a short period of time. It has everything to do with western culture and values. The fact China (and we should define what parts exactly) is ancient is one of the major reasons for it being held back. It has constantly been ruled by dynasties and so therefore the cultural momentum is carried forward to this day.
Now I'm not suggesting Western values will be the model going forward. Human nature is all about the control over other peoples lives. So who knows. Maybe America was some random fluke of an experiment that will never be repeated again. But there's no mistaking the facts. Western values and culture is truly a model to emulate if you value individual freedom and rapid progress.
No, but someone that models themselves after Saul Alinsky would.
http://www.instructables.com/id/Annular-Ring-Paper-Plane.
The key is to throw at just the right speed. Too fast and it cuts corners. Too slow and it will nose dive. Of all the paper airplanes I've thrown, the reward is the best when you get it just right. With a little luck of course.
Sure. Ok. Then let the man fail. But when people start throwing around insulting rhetoric, it's no longer a debate. How is any of that civil? And why on Slashdot is that behavior encouraged? Perhaps I'm just to idealistic to think we have a civil forum here. No... In fact I am too idealistic. Back to reality for me!
Digishaman checks himself.
But it wasn't ME, and I don't approve of such crap.
Frothy-Mix? Don't like his politics or values? Fine! We can debate that on its own merit. But fuck you and your new vernacular of his name, Santorum.
I personally can't stand Obama's ideology, but you don't see me making personal insulting comments about the man. And yet, the "Left" is supposed to be so intellectually superior. Or so we're led to believe by the mass leftist media and academia. Whatever.
I guess Bush was right when he said "Internets".
China is not American. Mock the culture, but the USA is where it's at precisely because they're American.
China is also competing in a region with relatively new found global powers. The BRIC union could fall apart at the slightest provocation from one of it's neighbors. It's only held together by common interests...for now.
Will America lose it's #1 position in the world in terms of GDP and growth? Perhaps. But assuming politics and our currency doesn't implode (which it might), the nation is rather stabile. China is stabile too. But it's stability is held together by force. Smooth and polished. But also prone to minor cracks which leads into major fissures. China's political system is simply not sustainable in the modern world of high speed communication.
9. Never use spellcheck autocorrect in a browser. It fucked my posting all to hell.
Oh God, those are nothing. Let me tell you a few of my own.
1. Client doesn't have a C: Drive. The root of their XP System volume is actually F:. It happened when a technician reinstalled Windows on a Dell XPS that had a built-in multi-card reader that was taking over the drive letter assignment upon reinstall. It's uber rare, but it can happen. Pulled my hair out trying to walk a client over the phone. It truely was one of those "if you didn't see it, you wouldn't have believed it moments"
2. Website was partially blocked because some content was linked to a signed blocked by OpenDNS content filtering categories (paid for service).
3. VPN doesn't work with new Verizon aircards. Turns out Verizon was having trouble passing the GRE protocol on newer networks provisioned for these cards. We had to work with engineering on that one.
4. Offsite backups were no longer functioning. The Sonicwall was flagging a portion of the bytestream as being infected with a particular virus. False positive.
5. PDFs wont open. Adobe Reader wasn't installed, and someone decided to associate with MS Word. Duh! (real easy fix, but they made it sound like an Adobe issue)
6. XP Laptop running really slow. HDD stuck in PIO modem instead of UDMA. It happens.
7. DNS issues client side. #1 cause for strange share and application issues.
8. intermittent networked printer connectivity issues. Sometimes the print job will go through, sometimes now. Cause: Someone hard-coded their client IP to be the same. Basic duplicate IP issue. Verified via "ARP - a" command. Placed GPO in place to enforce a policy that users can't change the settings. Problem solved.
The problem here is a lack of communication between the user and support technician/admin. Let's assume they're right and that the problem is related to some work performed on the machine 4 years go. It's still the clients fault for letting it linger for 4 years. If you suspect an on-going issue, there needs to be follow up. Same goes for the person performing thee repair. Even if that means no further work can be performed. Above all, all work needs to be documented and acknowledged.
Some clients will bitch regardless. But it's up to you as a technician to protect yourself from miscommunication. If for some reason you never get a response back from the client, document attempts prior to placing closure on an issue. It's basic 101 in CYA mode.
Cuts both ways. Give it a few years. Video included with bluetooth headsets will be the norm. Everyone will be able to record any and everything around them 24/7 on a FIFO basis. You only keep what you've decided to tag specifically that moment or last available video capture dump.
Now add the ability to record live to your phone and have it relay to an online website. The Twitterati may like this as will other attention whores. Now doubt the useful idiots will be gawking while flagging each moment of their lives in realtime.
"+1!! He picked up the COFFEE! EEeeeeekkkkk" He's sooooo hot!
Growing up in the 80s, living through the boom times of the 90s, and looking back today. What I used to think was was a path to freedom and salvation of the intellectual variety, I now see as our oppression. Slavery of a new type. Step by step we are sealing our own doom while at the same time handing over the keys to a new elite. The social consolidation is giving rise to the new aristocrats.
I really hope I'm wrong.
Yes, the whole embargo is petty and counter productive. The best way to end communism is flood the nation with wealth and prosperity. Case in point, China. Now that capitalism has taken root, communism in China is all but in name only for its major cities.
My guess is that our continued embargo with Cuba goes all the way back to Lee Harvey Oswald assassination of JFK. Lee was a known Soviet defector and Castro sympathizer. Given the whole Cuban Missile Crisis, my guess is that this embargo was the final "fuck you" to Fidel Castro and his regime.
If I have to guess, the embargo will be automatically lifted once Fidel passes away.
One of my clients is on the 21st floor of a building in Houston. He wanted to go WiFi. About six months later, he was having major connectivity problems. According to the access points and a few other wireless utilities, the entire spectrum is flooded! His office is basically acting as one giant parabolic dish collecting this shit. One of my WiFi utilities crashed when it reached just over 100 AP in range.
I don't care if this guy had an IQ of 145. He's still a dumbshit for posting that. Imagine the follow up.
Friends/family:
"So how's your day? Still working overtime?"
COP:
"I shot an animal today. First round made him a bit twitchy, second finished the job.
Friends/family:
"That's never good. I hope you feel better"
COP:
"Drinking my problems away much like I always do. Good thing my ex-wife left me. I would have done the same in her place"
And we sacrifice for humanity for...what? Scum of the Earth and the effects they have on others lives?
You mean like an event that happens to those in power to actually care? Because last I checked, we've had plenty of "Hindenburg moments". Just none of them mattered unless you were a victim.
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