Man you've never had a pizza that was crisped in the 1200 C first ox furnace.
That oxidation layer seems to really hold in the taste, while you get the crispiest crust ever.
The only thing better is a hot pocket. Which happen to fit well on the quartz trays for holding wafers. You can then stick them all the way in to furnace on a cantilever arm.
Really it is. The CEO gave me his password, even after I told everybody that I didn't want to know there passwords. It was so easy I couldn't forget it. And god forbid we force the CEO to change his password. We also tried to tell him that we shouldn't name his computer using his name. But he couldn't remember the name we had given to his computer and had a tech change the name of the computer to his last name. Same for the finance guy.
I once had a VP demand that I tell him where the backups were. After we created a second set of backups he was happy. Only cost us another $5000 for the extra storage.
He almost caught on when he noticed the original backup was updating. There was a clitch in communications between the two systems and we hadn't caught it because we were only checking the backup system he didn't know about.
He went around for a week letting everyone know he had saved us from impending disaster. It wasn't until the end of the quarter where I had to explain the 5K to the CEO that he realized what we had done. He still got kind of pissed at me. I told him though that we had cases where whole directories of customer information had completely disappeared and I didn't want that to happen to the backups also and we really didn't have time to maintain more than 2 backups our on site and off site. The current backup they see is just for convenience. If the files there then whoopee. Only I and one other VP know where the real backups and passwords for access are.
I agree, that's why currently I no longer have a desire to vote for either party. The impression I left the state convention with was that the Democratic party was only interested in regaining power. They had no clear plans to fix anything. After Obama voted for immunity for Telco's I was absolutely convinced of that. Because this action didn't really impress me that he was going to change anything. The sense I get from the Republican party is that they feel that privatization will cure all our problems. I personally don't feel that solution will work in certain areas, because companies are out to turn a profit and from a business standpoint a lot of ventures don't make quarterly gains.
If you read my first post you would see that I definitely don't think the Democrats are perfect.
And if the Republican party is so great then why didn't they learn anything from the mistakes you pointed out. I mean the first time this all started I was thinking this is another Vietnam.
I'm thinking more along the lines of for educational purposes and strengthening the infrastructure.
For one, if smaller cities have broadband then there are more routes. More routes means it's less likely that a break in one connection will drop communication. I personally feel that the internet has become a major economic, social utility and expect it to become more important.
To the point where it is almost as important as utilities and roads. With the increase in cell phone use, in an emergency this may be the only way to communicate.
So if in doing that it also allows us to spread our economy to rural areas, I'm for it.
I live in a metropolitan area and if you know the infrastructure around here you can very easily knock out service to about 6 million people. I think this is poor planning. Based on my past experience if it can happen it will.
I attended a number of conventions within our state and if it is as screwed up everywhere else as it is here, they could actually lose.
They lost my vote when Obama voted for immunity for Telco's.
I was hoping that they were going to be on the forefront of technology issues. They weren't even close. During the computer/technology meeting they spent 45 + minutes during a 2 hour session talking about Short Wave Radio issues.
Finally some other people took over the meeting and it started getting more towards computer and technology issues. but basically a lot of it was hog wash.
They spent a lot of time talking about caps on downloads. They were upset that they couldn't download more than 10 movies during a month.
I'm sorry but I feel there are more pressing issues, like broadband for rural areas, software usage in schools and government, open internet. Just to name a few.
They were all more interested in who got elected, not what they were getting elected for.
Later I had someone come talk to me about my blog. He told me there were some things we just shouldn't talk about. He never mentioned my blog, but I think it was more than a coincidence that he came and talked to me the day after I posted the info.
I met some good concerned people there, but the people in charge were totally off the wall and I felt that it was more of a way to pacify the masses, making them have a feeling that they had an input to the party. I left the convention feeling like they were so screwed up that they could actually lose the next election.
And I bet it is going to be a lot closer than they thought.
It's going to be interesting, a large number of Republicans don't want McCain and a large number of Democrats don't want Obama.
In the limited number of places I've seen Sarbanes-Oxley make them adhere to good business practices. The same with ISO standards (usually the gripes occur with lack of understanding). During a recent audit one of the customer auditors asked for proprietary information. I refused because there was not reason for him to have it and our shared IP clause did not cover that information. He got pissed and the VP of Marketing gave it to him. We never got a contract from the company and the VP and CEO can't understand my reasoning for why. Basically on paper we passed the audit, but we failed, because we conceded proprietary information during the audit.
This happens all the time. I've had VP's admit it to me and when I tell the CEO he doesn't really care.
So therefore I don't care anymore.
Security becomes a business cost that they didn't anticipate or aren't willing to accept.
In fact during the latest briefing, we were told that we were looking to go public in a foreign exchange where the regulations weren't as strict.
They keep reporting these numbers of 2 to 3 mbps download speed as median.
How can you have a speed of 6 and then have a median of 2.3.
Everybody knows that the telco's are going to report that the average is now 2.3. They are going to say that they are providing adequate service. See the average is 2.3, these people are just whiny babys, don't pay attentions to them, they get all jealous because someone has faster.
Hey, I have 2.5, sometimes. A lot of the times it just goes out. But hey, that's my problem, I have to take off of work and show them a line that may or may not be working at the time. So if they show up and test the line and it is working then they just leave.
And there is no competition in my area, none.
I don't know if people who have never experienced something like this will ever get it.
I was in a car wreck, nobody was hurt, but the vehicle was totaled. I tried to get some things out of the car, but just couldn't bring myself to do it.
Everytime I would reach into the vehicle I would start freaking out.
My brother was put on some medications that were supposed to make him calm. He started having hallucinations and the police had to be called. I later talked to him about it, and he said he had no idea what was going on. He just thought everyone was an alien, didn't know where he was and was scared of anything that moved. He said he could remember a lot of what happened, but he said at the time he had no definition for anything. It was all a scary dream. He defined it as, being a baby and not understanding anything that was going on around him.
The mind can do some weird things and until you experience it, it is just hard to explain such an extreme altered state.
I don't know why everybody thinks that this is a recent problem. This has been going on at least since 99.
And at some of the major schools in the land. There were at least 2 schools in the North East where this was happening at that time.
We hired one, knowing full well he had engaged in this practice. We didn't care. We were outsourcing our work back then, not because it was cheaper, but because it was the easiest way to find people at the time.
There have always been group projects in school where people could skate through. This was going on back in the 80's.
I saw about $1,000,000 of hardware go to waste because they didn't budget maintenance for the system. We couldn't even fire it up to see what worked anymore. System barely ran for a year.
Started me rethinking my Doctorate plans in CS. If this pool of PhD's couldn't figure out that you were going to need to maintain the systems and have a number of people to work on it, then what the hell, book learnin didn't get them very far.
I'm sure though, that their thought was that once they got it in that surely the Administration would budget for maintenance.
This was an SGI system about 6 years ago.
Well thry are putting up a shitload of wind turbines in West Texas, so I would say that wind is here now. I think it is much more feasable for wind to be a larger safer alternative to nuclear or coal in the very near future. Currently the grid in Texas is >3% wind. I don't know the amount of power being supplied to other states from Texas
For now the biggest issues are line loss,transmission lines, and getting more turbines up.
Both of which could be resolved in much less than 10 years.
I drive through West Texas about once a year and the number of visible turbines every year during the last 5 seems to have increased by 25%. It's actually has to be greater than that since it has easily more than doubled. 10 years ago I was astonished by the number. Now I'm just amazed. I believe the current production capacity is over 5GW and there are already enough wind turbines on order to provide another 4GW.
If they started building today, I don't think they could finish a nuclear plant in 10 years.
I still think that most of what the current Administration is spitting out is hogwash. Funny how 4 dollar a gallon gas has seemed to be an excuse for increasing drilling in the Oceans and in Alaska and building of nuclear power plants.
There are a few of us who have actually read the rules. She doesn't need to get Super Delegates to jump. She can get pledge delegates to jump also. They are no more tied to the vote than a Super Delegate.
This is one of the most irksome thing about the reporting. CNN, ABC, CBS,....... keep saying it's so but it's not.
If she were to get 75 to 100 delegates period to switch then it's a floor fight.
There are a few of us who have actually read the rules. She doesn't need to get Super Delegates to jump. She can get pledge delegates to jump also. They are no more tied to the vote than a Super Delegate.
This is one of the most irksome thing about the reporting. CNN, ABC, CBS,....... keep saying it's so but it's not.
If she were to get 75 to 100 delegates period to switch then it's a floor fight.
You do realize that Hillary has not conceded and therefore she can still win the nomination if between now and August the votes change.
She doesn't need any voting tricks, she just needs to get delegates to change their vote.
There are no delegates that are committed to the current vote. If she feels she can sway 50 to 75 delegates, then it would pretty much put them even.
Super delegates can change their vote as well as well as Pledge and At-large.
This isn't a secret.
There is nothing binding a delegate other than he said he would. He/she can change his mind.
Until the role is called and credentials confirmed, and vote taken nothing counts.
There are actually still states that have not even completed their counts, such as Texas. And I don't think that the number of delegates per candidate that CNN is reporting from Texas is going to be the same next week.
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Man you've never had a pizza that was crisped in the 1200 C first ox furnace.
That oxidation layer seems to really hold in the taste, while you get the crispiest crust ever.
The only thing better is a hot pocket. Which happen to fit well on the quartz trays for holding wafers. You can then stick them all the way in to furnace on a cantilever arm.
Really it is. The CEO gave me his password, even after I told everybody that I didn't want to know there passwords. It was so easy I couldn't forget it. And god forbid we force the CEO to change his password. We also tried to tell him that we shouldn't name his computer using his name. But he couldn't remember the name we had given to his computer and had a tech change the name of the computer to his last name. Same for the finance guy.
I once had a VP demand that I tell him where the backups were. After we created a second set of backups he was happy. Only cost us another $5000 for the extra storage.
He almost caught on when he noticed the original backup was updating. There was a clitch in communications between the two systems and we hadn't caught it because we were only checking the backup system he didn't know about.
He went around for a week letting everyone know he had saved us from impending disaster. It wasn't until the end of the quarter where I had to explain the 5K to the CEO that he realized what we had done. He still got kind of pissed at me.
I told him though that we had cases where whole directories of customer information had completely disappeared and I didn't want that to happen to the backups also and we really didn't have time to maintain more than 2 backups our on site and off site. The current backup they see is just for convenience. If the files there then whoopee. Only I and one other VP know where the real backups and passwords for access are.
I agree, that's why currently I no longer have a desire to vote for either party.
The impression I left the state convention with was that the Democratic party was only interested in regaining power. They had no clear plans to fix anything.
After Obama voted for immunity for Telco's I was absolutely convinced of that. Because this action didn't really impress me that he was going to change anything.
The sense I get from the Republican party is that they feel that privatization will cure all our problems. I personally don't feel that solution will work in certain areas, because companies are out to turn a profit and from a business standpoint a lot of ventures don't make quarterly gains.
If you read my first post you would see that I definitely don't think the Democrats are perfect.
And if the Republican party is so great then why didn't they learn anything from the mistakes you pointed out. I mean the first time this all started I was thinking this is another Vietnam.
I'm thinking more along the lines of for educational purposes and strengthening the infrastructure.
For one, if smaller cities have broadband then there are more routes. More routes means it's less likely that a break in one connection will drop communication.
I personally feel that the internet has become a major economic, social utility and expect it to become more important.
To the point where it is almost as important as utilities and roads. With the increase in cell phone use, in an emergency this may be the only way to communicate.
So if in doing that it also allows us to spread our economy to rural areas, I'm for it.
I live in a metropolitan area and if you know the infrastructure around here you can very easily knock out service to about 6 million people. I think this is poor planning. Based on my past experience if it can happen it will.
I have 4147 reasons not to vote republican.
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I attended a number of conventions within our state and if it is as screwed up everywhere else as it is here, they could actually lose.
They lost my vote when Obama voted for immunity for Telco's.
I was hoping that they were going to be on the forefront of technology issues. They weren't even close. During the computer/technology meeting they spent 45 + minutes during a 2 hour session talking about Short Wave Radio issues.
Finally some other people took over the meeting and it started getting more towards computer and technology issues. but basically a lot of it was hog wash.
They spent a lot of time talking about caps on downloads. They were upset that they couldn't download more than 10 movies during a month.
I'm sorry but I feel there are more pressing issues, like broadband for rural areas, software usage in schools and government, open internet. Just to name a few. They were all more interested in who got elected, not what they were getting elected for.
Later I had someone come talk to me about my blog. He told me there were some things we just shouldn't talk about. He never mentioned my blog, but I think it was more than a coincidence that he came and talked to me the day after I posted the info.
I met some good concerned people there, but the people in charge were totally off the wall and I felt that it was more of a way to pacify the masses, making them have a feeling that they had an input to the party. I left the convention feeling like they were so screwed up that they could actually lose the next election.
And I bet it is going to be a lot closer than they thought.
It's going to be interesting, a large number of Republicans don't want McCain and a large number of Democrats don't want Obama.
It's mainly so that insurance companies don't have to pay, if someone steals your car when you leave the keys in them.
In the limited number of places I've seen Sarbanes-Oxley make them adhere to good business practices. The same with ISO standards (usually the gripes occur with lack of understanding). During a recent audit one of the customer auditors asked for proprietary information. I refused because there was not reason for him to have it and our shared IP clause did not cover that information. He got pissed and the VP of Marketing gave it to him. We never got a contract from the company and the VP and CEO can't understand my reasoning for why. Basically on paper we passed the audit, but we failed, because we conceded proprietary information during the audit.
This happens all the time. I've had VP's admit it to me and when I tell the CEO he doesn't really care.
So therefore I don't care anymore.
Security becomes a business cost that they didn't anticipate or aren't willing to accept.
In fact during the latest briefing, we were told that we were looking to go public in a foreign exchange where the regulations weren't as strict.
Not really, we're not living in New Jersey.
I live in Dallas area and am paying $60 per month for 3/200K. And sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.
They keep reporting these numbers of 2 to 3 mbps download speed as median.
How can you have a speed of 6 and then have a median of 2.3.
Everybody knows that the telco's are going to report that the average is now 2.3. They are going to say that they are providing adequate service. See the average is 2.3, these people are just whiny babys, don't pay attentions to them, they get all jealous because someone has faster.
Hey, I have 2.5, sometimes. A lot of the times it just goes out. But hey, that's my problem, I have to take off of work and show them a line that may or may not be working at the time. So if they show up and test the line and it is working then they just leave.
And there is no competition in my area, none.
I don't know if people who have never experienced something like this will ever get it.
I was in a car wreck, nobody was hurt, but the vehicle was totaled. I tried to get some things out of the car, but just couldn't bring myself to do it. Everytime I would reach into the vehicle I would start freaking out.
My brother was put on some medications that were supposed to make him calm. He started having hallucinations and the police had to be called. I later talked to him about it, and he said he had no idea what was going on. He just thought everyone was an alien, didn't know where he was and was scared of anything that moved. He said he could remember a lot of what happened, but he said at the time he had no definition for anything. It was all a scary dream. He defined it as, being a baby and not understanding anything that was going on around him.
The mind can do some weird things and until you experience it, it is just hard to explain such an extreme altered state.
I don't know why everybody thinks that this is a recent problem. This has been going on at least since 99.
And at some of the major schools in the land. There were at least 2 schools in the North East where this was happening at that time.
We hired one, knowing full well he had engaged in this practice. We didn't care. We were outsourcing our work back then, not because it was cheaper, but because it was the easiest way to find people at the time.
There have always been group projects in school where people could skate through. This was going on back in the 80's.
I saw about $1,000,000 of hardware go to waste because they didn't budget maintenance for the system. We couldn't even fire it up to see what worked anymore. System barely ran for a year.
Started me rethinking my Doctorate plans in CS. If this pool of PhD's couldn't figure out that you were going to need to maintain the systems and have a number of people to work on it, then what the hell, book learnin didn't get them very far.
I'm sure though, that their thought was that once they got it in that surely the Administration would budget for maintenance.
This was an SGI system about 6 years ago.
Well thry are putting up a shitload of wind turbines in West Texas, so I would say that wind is here now. I think it is much more feasable for wind to be a larger safer alternative to nuclear or coal in the very near future. Currently the grid in Texas is >3% wind. I don't know the amount of power being supplied to other states from Texas
For now the biggest issues are line loss,transmission lines, and getting more turbines up.
Both of which could be resolved in much less than 10 years.
I drive through West Texas about once a year and the number of visible turbines every year during the last 5 seems to have increased by 25%. It's actually has to be greater than that since it has easily more than doubled. 10 years ago I was astonished by the number. Now I'm just amazed. I believe the current production capacity is over 5GW and there are already enough wind turbines on order to provide another 4GW. If they started building today, I don't think they could finish a nuclear plant in 10 years.
I still think that most of what the current Administration is spitting out is hogwash. Funny how 4 dollar a gallon gas has seemed to be an excuse for increasing drilling in the Oceans and in Alaska and building of nuclear power plants.
There are a few of us who have actually read the rules. She doesn't need to get Super Delegates to jump. She can get pledge delegates to jump also. They are no more tied to the vote than a Super Delegate. This is one of the most irksome thing about the reporting. CNN, ABC, CBS,....... keep saying it's so but it's not. If she were to get 75 to 100 delegates period to switch then it's a floor fight.
By the way. Obama campaign has known this and there are some people seriously pissed off about having Obama delegates voted in as Hillary delegates.
There are a few of us who have actually read the rules. She doesn't need to get Super Delegates to jump. She can get pledge delegates to jump also. They are no more tied to the vote than a Super Delegate.
This is one of the most irksome thing about the reporting. CNN, ABC, CBS,....... keep saying it's so but it's not.
If she were to get 75 to 100 delegates period to switch then it's a floor fight.
You do realize that Hillary has not conceded and therefore she can still win the nomination if between now and August the votes change.
She doesn't need any voting tricks, she just needs to get delegates to change their vote.
There are no delegates that are committed to the current vote. If she feels she can sway 50 to 75 delegates, then it would pretty much put them even.
I'd say yes, this is usually what happens. But usually the race isn't this close and it isn't this hotly contested.
Super delegates can change their vote as well as well as Pledge and At-large.
This isn't a secret.
There is nothing binding a delegate other than he said he would. He/she can change his mind.
Until the role is called and credentials confirmed, and vote taken nothing counts.
There are actually still states that have not even completed their counts, such as Texas. And I don't think that the number of delegates per candidate that CNN is reporting from Texas is going to be the same next week.
I had Aug 2034 in the office pool.
You bastards.