First of all, that guy who's recommending switching to Windows? Ignore his advice about everything (IT or otherwise), he's clearly uninformed, or a moron, or both.
The AS/400 (iSeries/i5) is going to do a lot more for you in the long run, with less (no) downtime and far fewer headaches involving security, and things like virii and spyware are a complete non-issue. The new boxes are even better, with the ability to run virtual machines in just about any environment you decide to experiment with, while still running those legacy apps like a champ. If there's any down side at all, it may be harder to find expertise, depending on your area of the world, since it's a low volume machine. But when you do find someone, they'll probably know a lot more than just the AS/400 and bring a lot of other real world experience with them.
The AS/400 is hardly old, although its possible his machine is. It's still being upgraded and improved, and one AS/400 (iSeries or i5 these days) can do the job of a rack full of blade servers. And while its doing that its far more reliable and was built from the ground up to handle databases. It NEVER crashes unless something is physically broken, and even that is rare since it usually detects hardware problems before they become critical. It handles our EDI just fine, although if you go with the industry standard Harbinger/Peregrin/whatever-they-call-themselves-t hese-days EDI software, it will be expensive due to the tiered pricing scheme.
It's a matter of odds (we went through this, unsuccessfully, now we are adopting instead of a second try). The drugs cause the woman to produce more eggs, some times many more. Depending also on the quality of the sperm, not all will fertilise. Some are even manually injected into the eggs to increase the number of viable embryos. They they grown and monitored and only the best 2 are implanted in hopes that 1 (and only 1) will stick. Any others that look good are put on ice for future attempts. This is the IVF process, not the same as whatever produces litters of babies. My wife produced 26 eggs, only 14 fertilised, only 7 grew into normal, implantable embryos. We implanted 2, they didn't take, she didn't want to go through all the needles again, so we persued adoption instead. It's funny how something like a big needle in the butt every day for several weeks will kill that biological need to reproduce.
Google it. They make a device that will monitor temperature, power, humidity, flooding, etc, and call up to 4 different phone numbers in a loop until someone acknowledges the alert.
I have an Amex that gives actual cash back on every purchase (2% at the end of the year). I don't have great credit, but lots of history, good and bad. It's a credit card, but we pay it off religously every month to avoid any interest charges. I use it for everything I can possibly charge on it (that I need, or would have purchased anyway). At the end of the year we get a nice little check for several hundred dollars. Also no fees. I don't recall what the interest rate is, it's not very good, but we never use it for that. Also, you must pay the minimum payment every month, on time, or the rebate is forfeit. But of course, if you use it a lot and carry a balance, you'd end up losing money anyway.
Wow,./ers are old! I knew it was from a movie too, but would have needed Google's assistance to find it. I actually first heard the line on a SNL parody and didn't get it until I saw the movie at a later point.
That would have been cooler if you'd made a real link.
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Since there's no real stories here...
How do I see the rest of the stories on the front page once they exceed the threshold, short of searching for blanks? With today's volume I can only see back to about 4:30pm (EST). I thought it might be in the preferences, but I can't seem to change that "30" to any other number and have it save and I'm not sure if that's it anyway.
I've lived in the Delaware/Maryland area all of my life and have had jobs in the opposite state a few times over the years. Because there's no agreement between the states, you basically pay the higher of the two. You file out of state first, paying non-resident rates and you can deduct most or all of that from your home state as a credit. Telecommuting could considered a bit different, but as long you work as an employee, I'm sure they'll want to treat it the same. If the difference between the tax rates is overwhelming maybe become an independent contractor and scare up a few other minor clients (friends and family?) to make it legit.
Well yes, ideally all unsolicited spam should go (opt in, not opt out), but if you pay for access by the byte, then you can can get rid of most of it at the server before you even download it. Of course that applies to more typical users, I realise there are power users with their own mail servers. But we have to start somewhere, and these purposeful attempts to evade spam blocking are the worst offenders and should be a high priority target.
Reguardless of how effective spam ads may be, that doesn't excuse them from modifying the spam so that the people running filters still have to see it. If you're filtering spam, you not only don't want to buy anything from them, you don't want to even see it. I've been training spambayes for months now, and some stuff still gets through as 0% spam. Those are the people who need to be shut down, its easy enough to ignore the rest.
Unless you signed something to the contrary (and even then its probably not enforceable (IANAL)), you can quit with no notice at all. Anything beyond that is negotiable, for the right price. It's hard to tell from the brief description, but it sounds like he was willing to let you keep working yourself to death and pocketing the savings by not hiring and training someone else. Very short sighted on his part now that you're leaving him high and dry. I'd tell him that if he needs you after you're gone, consulting rates are $150/hour, 2 hours mimimum and only if you're available.
Reguardless of whatever laws may or may no have been broken, these are electronic logs, and the source just might have an interest in tampering with them. What else was she trying to use as evidence, a drawing of them having sex?
I live in northern DE and it most definitely does not take that long. It takes us about about 3 hours in the worst summer beach traffic to get to Ocean City, MD, which is just south of the Delaware border. He may be right about housing, decent apartments in the area (with openings) generally run $1000-1200 and up.
This is not real life, this is a ROLE Playing Game. Women were not discriminated against, female characters, many of whom were likely played by males, were discrimated against. This is no different than if the GM were playing someone "good" aligned, telling all the "evil" people that they were not worthy of purchasing his goods. However, had this happened, it would have been accepted in the spirit in which it was presented. But because it happened to parallel a real life situation, all the real females felt persecuted. If you don't like what happened TO YOUR CHARACTER, how about starting a women's movement in the game? The GMs would probably love the idea, and all the great opportunities for role play that it would present.
Let's work on practical reasons to send people into space at all... then maybe the moon. Billions of tax dollars shouldn't be blown on a project of little scientific validity just because "it's cool."
This is exactly the sort of thing we should be doing. Even if it turns out that there's nothing to be gained by going out there (highly unlikely), the knowledge and experiece we gain from trying will be useful back on earth. Nothing expands our minds like attempting the seemingly impossible.
Why don't they concentrate on stopping the flow of US dollars to 3rd world IT sweatshops first? Then maybe there wouldn't be so many unemployed code jockeys with nothing better to do than find new and improved ways to pirate software and music. And with some cash in their pockets, they might actually buy some of that stuff.
A slick oration, a slick computer presentation, its all the same thing. Lawyers have been using printed versions of the same thing for years without it coming under question, how is it different just because its displayed electronically? Because they can use animated wipes?
Some of the predictions seem a little too ambitious, and many could easily have been predicted 10 years ago for now. It takes them 10s of years just to get around to putting a new layer of regular pavement down, much less some new e-pavement. All the bio-feeback stuff is probably more like 25+ years away, assuming people want that sort of thing. It might have been better if he had labeled it as stuff that might happen in the next 50 years.
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First of all, that guy who's recommending switching to Windows? Ignore his advice about everything (IT or otherwise), he's clearly uninformed, or a moron, or both.
The AS/400 (iSeries/i5) is going to do a lot more for you in the long run, with less (no) downtime and far fewer headaches involving security, and things like virii and spyware are a complete non-issue. The new boxes are even better, with the ability to run virtual machines in just about any environment you decide to experiment with, while still running those legacy apps like a champ. If there's any down side at all, it may be harder to find expertise, depending on your area of the world, since it's a low volume machine. But when you do find someone, they'll probably know a lot more than just the AS/400 and bring a lot of other real world experience with them.
The AS/400 is hardly old, although its possible his machine is. It's still being upgraded and improved, and one AS/400 (iSeries or i5 these days) can do the job of a rack full of blade servers. And while its doing that its far more reliable and was built from the ground up to handle databases. It NEVER crashes unless something is physically broken, and even that is rare since it usually detects hardware problems before they become critical. It handles our EDI just fine, although if you go with the industry standard Harbinger/Peregrin/whatever-they-call-themselves-t hese-days EDI software, it will be expensive due to the tiered pricing scheme.
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For a good read on IBM iSeries, check out http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/leg
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A Slashdot "Hacker" who not only "messes" with EDI and the AS/400, but PLCs, industrial automation and RFID tags as well...
It's a matter of odds (we went through this, unsuccessfully, now we are adopting instead of a second try). The drugs cause the woman to produce more eggs, some times many more. Depending also on the quality of the sperm, not all will fertilise. Some are even manually injected into the eggs to increase the number of viable embryos. They they grown and monitored and only the best 2 are implanted in hopes that 1 (and only 1) will stick. Any others that look good are put on ice for future attempts. This is the IVF process, not the same as whatever produces litters of babies. My wife produced 26 eggs, only 14 fertilised, only 7 grew into normal, implantable embryos. We implanted 2, they didn't take, she didn't want to go through all the needles again, so we persued adoption instead. It's funny how something like a big needle in the butt every day for several weeks will kill that biological need to reproduce.
Google it. They make a device that will monitor temperature, power, humidity, flooding, etc, and call up to 4 different phone numbers in a loop until someone acknowledges the alert.
I have an Amex that gives actual cash back on every purchase (2% at the end of the year). I don't have great credit, but lots of history, good and bad. It's a credit card, but we pay it off religously every month to avoid any interest charges. I use it for everything I can possibly charge on it (that I need, or would have purchased anyway). At the end of the year we get a nice little check for several hundred dollars. Also no fees. I don't recall what the interest rate is, it's not very good, but we never use it for that. Also, you must pay the minimum payment every month, on time, or the rebate is forfeit. But of course, if you use it a lot and carry a balance, you'd end up losing money anyway.
Wow, ./ers are old! I knew it was from a movie too, but would have needed Google's assistance to find it. I actually first heard the line on a SNL parody and didn't get it until I saw the movie at a later point.
Now I wish I was a subscriber so I could see these before the rest of the unwashed masses.
That would have been cooler if you'd made a real link.
Since there's no real stories here...
How do I see the rest of the stories on the front page once they exceed the threshold, short of searching for blanks? With today's volume I can only see back to about 4:30pm (EST). I thought it might be in the preferences, but I can't seem to change that "30" to any other number and have it save and I'm not sure if that's it anyway.
I've lived in the Delaware/Maryland area all of my life and have had jobs in the opposite state a few times over the years. Because there's no agreement between the states, you basically pay the higher of the two. You file out of state first, paying non-resident rates and you can deduct most or all of that from your home state as a credit. Telecommuting could considered a bit different, but as long you work as an employee, I'm sure they'll want to treat it the same. If the difference between the tax rates is overwhelming maybe become an independent contractor and scare up a few other minor clients (friends and family?) to make it legit.
No, but I absolutely would jump at the chance to go into space with those odds.
Well yes, ideally all unsolicited spam should go (opt in, not opt out), but if you pay for access by the byte, then you can can get rid of most of it at the server before you even download it. Of course that applies to more typical users, I realise there are power users with their own mail servers. But we have to start somewhere, and these purposeful attempts to evade spam blocking are the worst offenders and should be a high priority target.
Reguardless of how effective spam ads may be, that doesn't excuse them from modifying the spam so that the people running filters still have to see it. If you're filtering spam, you not only don't want to buy anything from them, you don't want to even see it. I've been training spambayes for months now, and some stuff still gets through as 0% spam. Those are the people who need to be shut down, its easy enough to ignore the rest.
Unless you signed something to the contrary (and even then its probably not enforceable (IANAL)), you can quit with no notice at all. Anything beyond that is negotiable, for the right price. It's hard to tell from the brief description, but it sounds like he was willing to let you keep working yourself to death and pocketing the savings by not hiring and training someone else. Very short sighted on his part now that you're leaving him high and dry. I'd tell him that if he needs you after you're gone, consulting rates are $150/hour, 2 hours mimimum and only if you're available.
Reguardless of whatever laws may or may no have been broken, these are electronic logs, and the source just might have an interest in tampering with them. What else was she trying to use as evidence, a drawing of them having sex?
Anyone have prices of this yet?
Newegg has it listed in the low 200s ($218?), however, once I saw it was only a 220w PS I didn't read any further.
I live in northern DE and it most definitely does not take that long. It takes us about about 3 hours in the worst summer beach traffic to get to Ocean City, MD, which is just south of the Delaware border. He may be right about housing, decent apartments in the area (with openings) generally run $1000-1200 and up.
This is not real life, this is a ROLE Playing Game. Women were not discriminated against, female characters, many of whom were likely played by males, were discrimated against. This is no different than if the GM were playing someone "good" aligned, telling all the "evil" people that they were not worthy of purchasing his goods. However, had this happened, it would have been accepted in the spirit in which it was presented. But because it happened to parallel a real life situation, all the real females felt persecuted. If you don't like what happened TO YOUR CHARACTER, how about starting a women's movement in the game? The GMs would probably love the idea, and all the great opportunities for role play that it would present.
Let's work on practical reasons to send people into space at all... then maybe the moon. Billions of tax dollars shouldn't be blown on a project of little scientific validity just because "it's cool."
This is exactly the sort of thing we should be doing. Even if it turns out that there's nothing to be gained by going out there (highly unlikely), the knowledge and experiece we gain from trying will be useful back on earth. Nothing expands our minds like attempting the seemingly impossible.
Why don't they concentrate on stopping the flow of US dollars to 3rd world IT sweatshops first? Then maybe there wouldn't be so many unemployed code jockeys with nothing better to do than find new and improved ways to pirate software and music. And with some cash in their pockets, they might actually buy some of that stuff.
A slick oration, a slick computer presentation, its all the same thing. Lawyers have been using printed versions of the same thing for years without it coming under question, how is it different just because its displayed electronically? Because they can use animated wipes?
It's just like popcorn and soda at the movies or other such gouging. As long as people keep paying, the price will keep going up.
As I'm quite sure the rest of the world doesn't have our best interests in mind, just the opposite in fact.
Some of the predictions seem a little too ambitious, and many could easily have been predicted 10 years ago for now. It takes them 10s of years just to get around to putting a new layer of regular pavement down, much less some new e-pavement. All the bio-feeback stuff is probably more like 25+ years away, assuming people want that sort of thing. It might have been better if he had labeled it as stuff that might happen in the next 50 years.
It's hardly being a doctor, is it?
No it's not, but apparently you aren't aware of how much doctors make either...