BTW - Homer is NOT an engineer at a power plant. He is a basic grunt worker type.
Anyone remember the scene they use int he credits where he has some radioactive fuel in his pocket and casually tosses it someplace?
I know a doctor who treated someone for radiation burns who really did pretty much exactly that:eek:
I became an engineer the day accounting discovered they could bill me out for 4X as much and still pay me $8/hr LOL.
(my first job out of high school. I was a 17 year old RF engineer ROFLMAO)
bwahahahaa - let me laugh some more - bwahahahaha
Broadband access for most people is a monopoly or duopoly at best. Some third company is really going to spend millions of dollars and fight through government red tape for years in order to undercut the existing providers?
ROFLMAO
It may not be dying, but the "cool factor" pretty much died when cell phones came around. In 1986 walking down the road talking on the phone was pretty freaking cool:) Talking to Europe or making a phone call from 300 miles off the coast even more so!
Nowadays, this would get a yawn at most form kids who literally have no memory of a cell-free era.
9-11-01 in the DC area.
No landline phone. No cell phone.
"Are you OK" calls brought everything down.
That said, the average ham appears to be old and very overweight. Many of them would BE an emergency if they tried to do anything useful!
73
(I have 2 meters and SSB voice/PSK31/RTTY/CW on my boat with independent power and fuel to run it for weeks if need be)
I can't speak to the current market because I've been at my job since 2000. Back in the 95-00 era, you could get a new job in a heartbeat and wait forever for a raise. You got hired onto a project more than a company anyway. Changing jobs was the norm then.
When I was in private IT, you got a raise by changing companies. N00bs getting paid more than you is a giant flashing neon sign that you need to leave!
Mars is a planet. The USA is a country. Childred of USA parents are USA citizens no matter where born.
(Take that birther retards! Obama could be from MARS and still be President muhaha...................)
You'ld have a new BREED (as in dogs), not a new species. I suspect it would be a long time before reproduction between Martians and Earthlings couldn't happen.
We are building an entire new datacenter - this is including the buildings. While I am sure it could be done better/faster/cheaper, it is a large building, not some new racks and a few new servers. I am not over on the mainframe side, so I'll have to ask about replacing COBOL with C. I suspect the answer is ROFLMAO:)
The "collapse" is news to us and we work here!
We HAVE people that run and program the mainframe. It isn't going away and we hire new people when the old ones leave. As for delaying retirements, we aren't slaves. If someone wants to leave, there is no way to stop them. Also we don't kick people out at X age if they want to stay.
Arghhhhhhhhh............
The article was about power and space problems in our building and issues with legacy COBOL.
NOTHING - NADA - about politics and money issues with paying retirees. NOT ONE THING.
It is NOT collapsing. Our mainframe is chugging along happy as ever. We are virtualizing servers to free up space and reduce power consumption.
Gov't IT is not perfect by any means, but I think this is a ploy to make sure no one cuts our budget.
Hey - their is a ghost in my house. It says his name is Henry and he turns the microwave on at 1800 every day.
Skeptic - Bullshit, quit smoking crack.
True Believer - Wow, can you ask him what lotto number to pick and if I'll be lucky in love.
Scientist - Let us watch the microwave at 1800 and see what happens.
The problem comes in when Henry is "shy" and won't come out when anyone is around but the original microwave complainer guy............then you can move it to the bullshit column because there is no real way to control for flakey or shy ghosts.
BS!
Some birds can see magnetic field lines. Until recently, seeing magnetic fields would have been presumed to be pure magic. As for ghosts, you cannot prove they don't exist and so far no one has suggested that. What has been suggested is what to do with a reported ghost? What could you do to investigate such an occurrence? What harm is there in this? The worst you could do is find nothing. Sart with a hypothesis: A ghost is an electromagnetic/IR/UV/X-ray/whatever phenomenon. Get your gear and check it out. Big waste of time if you don't find a thing and likely the result. About 99.999999% likely. But say you do find something - pretty cool that would be:)
I am actually amused by ghost non-believers who are religious. Aren't all religions based on the mind to continue on in some form after physical death- i.e the soul. No ghosts = no soul = no religion = no God IMHO.
No one is IMPERSONATING your key.
Your real actual key is really starting the car - just from farther away than you might have wanted!
Once they drive off they can't ever start it again.
YES!
Finally someone actually RTFA. You have to have one guy at the car and another guy with his gizmo near the key.
Not something I'll stay up late worrying about.
Now on to how cars really get stolen:
BMW has excellent encryption in the keys.
So you:
A - Break in house and grab keys, which are usually hanging near the door.
B - Get friend at dealer to run copies of cars in for service.
>>A 4 hour VFR flight is tiring. A 4 hour hand-flown IFR flight is more exhausting than an 8 hour shift of manual labor
Word.
I had to fly from Nassau (Bahamas) to BWI (Baltimore) in nasty IFR with no autopilot. I felt like I had done 10 rounds with Mike Tyson at the end of that flight.
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BTW - Homer is NOT an engineer at a power plant. He is a basic grunt worker type. Anyone remember the scene they use int he credits where he has some radioactive fuel in his pocket and casually tosses it someplace? I know a doctor who treated someone for radiation burns who really did pretty much exactly that :eek:
I became an engineer the day accounting discovered they could bill me out for 4X as much and still pay me $8/hr LOL. (my first job out of high school. I was a 17 year old RF engineer ROFLMAO)
bwahahahaa - let me laugh some more - bwahahahaha Broadband access for most people is a monopoly or duopoly at best. Some third company is really going to spend millions of dollars and fight through government red tape for years in order to undercut the existing providers? ROFLMAO
It may not be dying, but the "cool factor" pretty much died when cell phones came around. In 1986 walking down the road talking on the phone was pretty freaking cool :) Talking to Europe or making a phone call from 300 miles off the coast even more so!
Nowadays, this would get a yawn at most form kids who literally have no memory of a cell-free era.
9-11-01 in the DC area. No landline phone. No cell phone. "Are you OK" calls brought everything down. That said, the average ham appears to be old and very overweight. Many of them would BE an emergency if they tried to do anything useful! 73 (I have 2 meters and SSB voice/PSK31/RTTY/CW on my boat with independent power and fuel to run it for weeks if need be)
Your customers: A - Live outside of normal coverage B - Can afford expensive internet. This number is relatively small, if Iridium is any guide.
LOL That is the first part of an age-old ditty The rockets go up Who cares where they come down That's not my department Said Wernher von Braun
I can't speak to the current market because I've been at my job since 2000. Back in the 95-00 era, you could get a new job in a heartbeat and wait forever for a raise. You got hired onto a project more than a company anyway. Changing jobs was the norm then.
When I was in private IT, you got a raise by changing companies. N00bs getting paid more than you is a giant flashing neon sign that you need to leave!
Mars is a planet. The USA is a country. Childred of USA parents are USA citizens no matter where born. (Take that birther retards! Obama could be from MARS and still be President muhaha...................)
You'ld have a new BREED (as in dogs), not a new species. I suspect it would be a long time before reproduction between Martians and Earthlings couldn't happen.
I'm married. I'm used to all that............
A SciFi/Fantasy series. This one is from Wizard's First Rule. http://www.amazon.com/Wizards-First-Rule-Sword-Truth/dp/0765362643/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1294858332&sr=1-1 The series starts good and kind of decays into an Ayn Randian mess around book 6.
I used to buy beef from a farmer who raised cows as a hobby. He only had 3 or 4 at a time and they got the best of everything. BEST. STEAK. EVER.
We are building an entire new datacenter - this is including the buildings. While I am sure it could be done better/faster/cheaper, it is a large building, not some new racks and a few new servers. I am not over on the mainframe side, so I'll have to ask about replacing COBOL with C. I suspect the answer is ROFLMAO :)
The "collapse" is news to us and we work here! We HAVE people that run and program the mainframe. It isn't going away and we hire new people when the old ones leave. As for delaying retirements, we aren't slaves. If someone wants to leave, there is no way to stop them. Also we don't kick people out at X age if they want to stay.
Arghhhhhhhhh............ The article was about power and space problems in our building and issues with legacy COBOL. NOTHING - NADA - about politics and money issues with paying retirees. NOT ONE THING.
It is NOT collapsing. Our mainframe is chugging along happy as ever. We are virtualizing servers to free up space and reduce power consumption. Gov't IT is not perfect by any means, but I think this is a ploy to make sure no one cuts our budget.
Hey - their is a ghost in my house. It says his name is Henry and he turns the microwave on at 1800 every day. Skeptic - Bullshit, quit smoking crack. True Believer - Wow, can you ask him what lotto number to pick and if I'll be lucky in love. Scientist - Let us watch the microwave at 1800 and see what happens. The problem comes in when Henry is "shy" and won't come out when anyone is around but the original microwave complainer guy............then you can move it to the bullshit column because there is no real way to control for flakey or shy ghosts.
BS! Some birds can see magnetic field lines. Until recently, seeing magnetic fields would have been presumed to be pure magic. As for ghosts, you cannot prove they don't exist and so far no one has suggested that. What has been suggested is what to do with a reported ghost? What could you do to investigate such an occurrence? What harm is there in this? The worst you could do is find nothing. Sart with a hypothesis: A ghost is an electromagnetic/IR/UV/X-ray/whatever phenomenon. Get your gear and check it out. Big waste of time if you don't find a thing and likely the result. About 99.999999% likely. But say you do find something - pretty cool that would be :)
I am actually amused by ghost non-believers who are religious. Aren't all religions based on the mind to continue on in some form after physical death- i.e the soul. No ghosts = no soul = no religion = no God IMHO.
No one is IMPERSONATING your key. Your real actual key is really starting the car - just from farther away than you might have wanted! Once they drive off they can't ever start it again.
YES! Finally someone actually RTFA. You have to have one guy at the car and another guy with his gizmo near the key. Not something I'll stay up late worrying about. Now on to how cars really get stolen: BMW has excellent encryption in the keys. So you: A - Break in house and grab keys, which are usually hanging near the door. B - Get friend at dealer to run copies of cars in for service.
Worst....................Idea............Ever
>>A 4 hour VFR flight is tiring. A 4 hour hand-flown IFR flight is more exhausting than an 8 hour shift of manual labor Word. I had to fly from Nassau (Bahamas) to BWI (Baltimore) in nasty IFR with no autopilot. I felt like I had done 10 rounds with Mike Tyson at the end of that flight.
Would you run both at once? Right now MSE seems to think AdAware is malware LOL.