I basically got it because I would often miss texts and calls coming from my iPhone because I tend to leave it on vibrate. I sometimes don't feel it going off in my pocket and if it is in my coat or bag I won't get the message until way to late. I see posts out there that tend to be pretty contemptuous along the lines of "Oh poor hipster, it's just too damned difficult to get your phone out...", and honestly yes...yes it is if you don't carry the phone in your friggin' pocket. The key here is the simplicity of the display. The watch itself is a little clunky and complex and the button arrangement takes some getting use to. The display however is pretty clean and simple, and the watch does not try to do any aside from be another way to get basic info to your eyeballs.
Which just proves your ignorance, Social Security comes from a separate bucket than 'Federal Income Taxes'. While you can take the whole of Domestic Spending and lump them into one thing and claim 'see how much we spend' it's not really fair. Social Security is taxed separately on payroll and does not come out of the general fund. It also does not figure into the general budget. You want to have a discussion about SS security and it's associated wotes, fine, but it should not be part of the budget debate because honestly it does not figure.
I have Ubuntu and Win 7 dual booted and I have been finding myself on Win 7 more and more. It has came down to the fact that I have two kids, a wife, a job, and a house. I just don't have the time to keep dicking with config files on Ubuntu to make things happen on the machine. Don't get me started on tweaking WINE.
Video conferencing is for two parties to voice chat, video chat, and share data, etc for a set period of time. I think what you really should think about is a webcam streaming service. There are many sites out there that allow you to embed a live feed from a webcam in a webpage for a small fee. A lot of them will provide the page and give you direct URL and provide the local client software to stream the feed to the web page. You get one for your computer, your wife gets one for the home PC. You watch their page and they watch yours. All of this is designed to run full time as long as the PC is on, can be set to start at boot up, will save your settings and logon info etc. That way you have an always on solution. I don't remember the service I used to use. A quick look at google got me to ustream.com
Ummmm...they say that they have been waiting for Live Migration....I would say that prior to this feature being released it is safe to say that Hyper-V was not meeting their needs. I believe the author's point was that it appeared that Nissan upper management may have rammed Hyper-v through because they got a 'sweet deal' from MS, rather than buying a more expensive product that had the features they originally wanted.
In the post the writer states that SATA drives have a URE rate of approx. 12 Terabytes. I would think that the URE rate applies to a single drive. Meaning that on any given drive you can expect for every 12 TB you will get an error. The key here is *for any given drive*. Therefore isn't it erroneous to apply that error rate across multiple drives? Every drive resets the chances back to 12 TB limit. Since drives are still limited to about 1-2 TB in size I would think this issue is years off. When drives are 12 TB then there will be issues.
One thing that will help is to remember to blink. Most people when presented with a computer monitor tend to stare fixedly. Over time this results in 'dry eye' or the tear film on your eyeball thinning out. After many years of staring at a monitor in a terminal session, browsing the web, playing games, I have found that what I am looking at does not really matter. HOW I look at it does, when I take frequent beaks, drink plenty of water , and use a small count down timer to remind myself to blink a few times every couple minutes I find that I have far fewer problems with my eyes.
One of the recurring issues I've seen in American attitudes towards offshoring and immigrants smacks largely of racism and racial superiority. A lot of people, sadly, seem to have a sense of entitlement, a sense that they deserve the jobs or have somehow earned them through no action whatsoever. You know..I see this argument a lot about America entitlement to jobs...and here is what I have to say. If someone wants to come to this country and become a citizen and pay taxes, let them. Let them become part of our economy and culture. Diversity can only help us. Where I have a problem is when a company that exists in America whose success rests mainly on the largess of the infrastructure that *MY* tax dollars maintain; then yeah, I do feel Americans are entitled to jobs from that company. Many large corporations in the US rely on major tax breaks from the gov. This means that my taxes make up the difference. In short while you may think I am not entitled to *jobs* , I don't think someone in India is entitled to *my tax dollars*, because to some extent this is what happens when a company outsources. Think about that next time you trot out the argument that "Americans are entitled". Given that our taxes help drive and maintain many of the economic giants in our country can you blame us if we would like to keep the jobs that those companies generate?
My point was this, and I assume it is very common. When someone says "so and so is an IT God, guru, master, savior, etc." I assume that Mike and their ilk are doing things like ensuring that patch Tuesday has not created a new hole in the network, they are opening up a new port on a firewall for someone's custom app, and banging out a new logon script; usually in the first three hours of his/their day. For someone then to say "I have better things to do than fix my printer" (and understand that I am reading into this, "my printer is jammed", "its out of toner", or "its working, I just can't make it print the way I want") is just plain insulting and proves my point about what most non-technical users see.
Right and you also would not call the CFO to answer a question about the company's tax return. I would posit that the your head of Network Engineering is more manager at this point then technician which just proves my point. If you want to bring salary into it, I'm about 1 pay jump away from 6 figures today I am walking around changing static IP addresses (don't ask), more of the same tomorrow. Thursday I am deploying a web app to an international client. Title and salary don't play into it. The guys who get things done are the same in every company, and they always wear a lot of hats.
Unfortunately because most users fail to see the difference between the two, a lot of
IT people are expected to fill both rolls. While I would not call myself an "IT God",
(and I think any decent IT professional would say this) I have an awful lot of expertise in one head.
One day I might be talking to several department managers and V.P.s about how to go about rolling out a global messaging system, and the next I am explaining to a user how to open an attachment.
The problem is that the article does not seem to differentiate between any of these roles and just simplifies it to "IT guys". That kind of thinking understates the role of many IT professionals in smaller shops.
And for that exact attitude Mike the I.T. god probably thinks you're a total douche, if Mike is really the I.T. god you say he is, he probably has a million other things to do besides fixing your lousy printer. That sort of thinking is what resulted in the book being discussed in the first place. It is an over simplified view of what IT does. Mike is probably also maintaining a non-heterogeneous environment that requires an awful lot of support and technical skill, and a quickness of response unlikely to be found in a large enviroment. The average user just does not see that, they see the IT guy who fixes my printer. The average user doesn't care what goes on behind the scenes and never will, this kind of tripe will always be around because of that.
My finance is psychologist and we have had a similar discussion regarding IQ. It is pretty well known in psychology circles that people who's IQ scores are 2 standard deviations from the "norm" have harder time with social interactions than "normal" people. Since sex is ultimately a social activity it would make sense that farther an IQ score moves away from 90-100 the less likely that person would engage in sex (with another person).
It seems everyone focuses on the neurological impact of skipping sleep. What about the physical; from what I have read your body also uses sleep to heal and rest. For instance what kind of strain is placed on your heart when you regularly go for days without sleep. When you sleep you lie down, your heart slows and does not have to work as hard to pump blood through your body. It essentially gets a rest. What happens when you stop doing this. Will people who start living a sleepless life style suddently drop dead of cardiac failure at 35? What are the long term physical effects of removing such a significant metabolic process from your life? Sure you can fool the brain, but can you fool the rest of the body?
I believe they can produce Natural Gas fuel cells that can produce this kind of output. I think I heard that most of Times Square runs off of two units that reside on the mid floors of a nearby building. Its a great idea becuase usually something incredibly catastrophic has to happen before the natural gas supply is cut. If that happens you probably have bigger problems than your data center going down.
News site A is a Big Propaganda Laden behemoth with lots of private money...New site B is a small independant unbiased reporting site running on minimal public funding. News site A can afford to pay Big ISP's "traffic" fees and gets a clear pipe to your system, News site B cannot and gets choked down to 50Kb a sec. Repeat for all users on Big ISP, who is going to get more traffic?
Since they have been labeled an information service rather than a telecommunications service, it means they can filter your traffic. I know for a fact that
Time Warner (my cable service provider) sells IP phone Vonage type service, but charge a minimum of 39.99 a month for it. How long until that is the only VOIP service they allow on their networks and providers like Vonage suddenly "don't work" and "aren't supported by our service"
Lunch
Good for you, you picked a niche that no one saw and ran with it! I'm assuming that you did not graduate college 15 years ago when the tech boom was running high and straight CS was the way to go. There is now a generation of Tech workers in their late 20's to Mid - 30's who have big loans from school and no way to pay them off. Many of them with families and other fiscal responsibilities. What exactly do you suggest they do? With congress' new bankruptcy laws it is unlikely people like this can throw caution to the wind and make a big change to their life style and career without becoming homeless. I count myself lucky that I have no major responsibilities and that if I had to leave tech, I could go be poor and not worry about a mortgage , or putting food on the table for a family, keeping a house , etc. Many of those families are dual income and cannot afford the loss of income while one earner goes back to school. So while I applaud your vision, it still boils down to the boss man getting richer, and the common man getting it in the a*s.
Begin Rant
15 years ago the *Sarcasm* "Captains of Industry" *end Sarcasm* are telling all these people new to the job market "Go Tech!", "It's a sure thing!!" , "We need you!!". Now they say there aren't enough? What happened to all those people from the 90's? We go from having way to many techs to not enough in the space of 5 years? Please, its either one way or another, and in typical fashion management wants a service but doesn't want to pay for it. Good solid technical skills are expensive to gain, the industry should not whine when those who have the skills expect to be compensated appropriately. The main problem is not the economy changing, its the economy changing and all the "leaders" who pointed a generation of workers in a direction are now hanging them out to dry.
Actually I believe there is some physical description of Marvin in the books. In fact if I remember correctly Marvin is described as "beautifuly made and well constructed" (paraphrasing - are quotes correct?) also I remembered something about "brushed chrome". There may be more details but it has been awhile since I read the books. These lines have always led me to believe that Marvin looked more like a beautifully rendered human statue in chrome, which when considering the abuse he takes is even more funny. There is that line "your plastic pal who is fun to be with!" but I always thought that was referencing 'droids in general, so maybe I'm totally wrong...
Now let's say you're a Harvard B-school applicant, and you find out (ahead of time) that you're accepted. Might you have a leg up on other applicants for things like housing close
to campus? How about barganing with other b-schools for better financial aid? These may seem ridiculous examples, but the point is that a person's has confidential information that other people may not and should not have access to.
I have an even better scenario, person A and person B have both applied to HBS and MIT. Both receive acceptance letters to MIT and elect to await the outcome of the HBS application. Person A checks his acceptance status early finds out he did not make HBS and accepts MIT. Person B waits until HBS makes acceptance information public, finds out he did not make HBS chooses to accept MIT but does not get in because all positions are filled.
ERECTOR SET
Despite what you might say I am younger than Thiry, I had one when I was a kid (no Legos) they were fun.
Also if you have dexterity issues erector creations tend to be easier to handle because they are bolted together if you fumble your creation it won't smash into 1000 pieces when it hits the floor. Also what about Capsula (sp) that was a pretty neat building toy as well. Between those two you should get a good mechanical engineer out of the deal...
I don't actually think that bigotry and ingnorance were the reasons. We happen to have a Dell shop (purchased while all support operations were still in the US). There was a NOTICEABLE decline in customer service quality when they out sourced. The example that sticks in my mind was an attempt to order more drives for our array. It took 45 min. to get the guy at the other end (I'm assuming he was Indian, it was a moderate accent)to understand what I wanted. When he finally e-mailed me the quote appeared that he had not understood a word of what I had asked. The drive had the wrong interface, and was the wrong size. As the only support for the company my time is valuable. Why would I want to do bussiness with a company that would effectivly waste it?
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.metawatch.com/
And honestly I love it.
I basically got it because I would often miss texts and calls coming from my iPhone because I tend to leave it on vibrate. I sometimes don't feel it going off in my pocket and if it is in my coat or bag I won't get the message until way to late. I see posts out there that tend to be pretty contemptuous along the lines of "Oh poor hipster, it's just too damned difficult to get your phone out...", and honestly yes...yes it is if you don't carry the phone in your friggin' pocket. The key here is the simplicity of the display. The watch itself is a little clunky and complex and the button arrangement takes some getting use to. The display however is pretty clean and simple, and the watch does not try to do any aside from be another way to get basic info to your eyeballs.
Which just proves your ignorance, Social Security comes from a separate bucket than 'Federal Income Taxes'. While you can take the whole of Domestic Spending and lump them into one thing and claim 'see how much we spend' it's not really fair. Social Security is taxed separately on payroll and does not come out of the general fund. It also does not figure into the general budget. You want to have a discussion about SS security and it's associated wotes, fine, but it should not be part of the budget debate because honestly it does not figure.
I have Ubuntu and Win 7 dual booted and I have been finding myself on Win 7 more and more. It has came down to the fact that I have two kids, a wife, a job, and a house. I just don't have the time to keep dicking with config files on Ubuntu to make things happen on the machine. Don't get me started on tweaking WINE.
Video conferencing is for two parties to voice chat, video chat, and share data, etc for a set period of time. I think what you really should think about is a webcam streaming service. There are many sites out there that allow you to embed a live feed from a webcam in a webpage for a small fee. A lot of them will provide the page and give you direct URL and provide the local client software to stream the feed to the web page. You get one for your computer, your wife gets one for the home PC. You watch their page and they watch yours. All of this is designed to run full time as long as the PC is on, can be set to start at boot up, will save your settings and logon info etc. That way you have an always on solution. I don't remember the service I used to use. A quick look at google got me to ustream.com
I should add to my previous post, the other solution is to put an SSD on the designers computer.
Which is dumb because you just move the bottleneck to the system bus or network card
Ummmm...they say that they have been waiting for Live Migration....I would say that prior to this feature being released it is safe to say that Hyper-V was not meeting their needs. I believe the author's point was that it appeared that Nissan upper management may have rammed Hyper-v through because they got a 'sweet deal' from MS, rather than buying a more expensive product that had the features they originally wanted.
In the post the writer states that SATA drives
have a URE rate of approx. 12 Terabytes. I would think that the URE rate applies to a single drive. Meaning that on any given drive you can expect for every 12 TB you will get an error. The key here is *for any given drive*. Therefore isn't it erroneous to apply that error rate across multiple drives? Every drive resets the chances back to 12 TB limit. Since drives are still limited to about 1-2 TB in size I would think this issue is years off. When drives are 12 TB then there will be issues.
Can someone tell me if I am wrong?
One thing that will help is to remember to blink. Most people when presented with a computer monitor tend to stare fixedly. Over time this results in 'dry eye' or the tear film on your eyeball thinning out. After many years of staring at a monitor in a terminal session, browsing the web, playing games, I have found that what I am looking at does not really matter. HOW I look at it does, when I take frequent beaks, drink plenty of water , and use a small count down timer to remind myself to blink a few times every couple minutes I find that I have far fewer problems with my eyes.
a company that exists in America whose success rests mainly on the largess of the infrastructure that *MY* tax dollars maintain; then yeah, I do feel Americans are entitled to jobs from that company. Many large corporations in the US rely on major tax breaks from the gov. This means that my taxes make up the difference. In short while you may think I am not entitled to *jobs* , I don't think someone in India is entitled to *my tax dollars*, because to some extent this is what happens when a company outsources. Think about that next time you trot out the argument that "Americans are entitled". Given that our taxes help drive and maintain many of the economic giants in our country can you blame us if we would like to keep the jobs that those companies generate?
I agree, great selection of games and only a few bucks a month, takes care of my gaming fix.
I read this as
GPS Trackers Find Novell Applications
My thinking was that it was some kind of subtle joke...
My point was this, and I assume it is very common. When someone says "so and so is an IT God, guru, master, savior, etc." I assume that Mike and their ilk
are doing things like ensuring that patch Tuesday has not created a new hole in the network, they are opening up a new port on a firewall for someone's custom
app, and banging out a new logon script; usually in the first three hours of his/their day. For someone then to say "I have better things to do than fix my printer" (and
understand that I am reading into this, "my printer is jammed", "its out of toner", or "its working, I just can't make it print the way I want") is just plain insulting
and proves my point about what most non-technical users see.
Right and you also would not call the CFO to answer a question about the company's tax return.
I would posit that the your head of Network Engineering is more manager at this point then technician
which just proves my point. If you want to bring salary into it, I'm about 1 pay jump away from 6 figures
today I am walking around changing static IP addresses (don't ask), more of the same tomorrow. Thursday I am deploying a web app to an international client. Title and salary don't play into it. The guys who get things done are the same in every company, and they always wear a lot of hats.
Unfortunately because most users fail to see the difference between the two, a lot of IT people are expected to fill both rolls. While I would not call myself an "IT God", (and I think any decent IT professional would say this) I have an awful lot of expertise in one head. One day I might be talking to several department managers and V.P.s about how to go about rolling out a global messaging system, and the next I am explaining to a user how to open an attachment. The problem is that the article does not seem to differentiate between any of these roles and just simplifies it to "IT guys". That kind of thinking understates the role of many IT professionals in smaller shops.
And for that exact attitude Mike the I.T. god probably thinks you're a total douche,
if Mike is really the I.T. god you say he is, he probably has a million other things
to do besides fixing your lousy printer. That sort of thinking is what resulted in the
book being discussed in the first place. It is an over simplified view of what IT does.
Mike is probably also maintaining a non-heterogeneous environment that requires an
awful lot of support and technical skill, and a quickness of response unlikely to be
found in a large enviroment. The average user just does not see that, they see
the IT guy who fixes my printer. The average user doesn't care what goes on behind the
scenes and never will, this kind of tripe will always be around because of that.
My finance is psychologist and we have had a similar discussion regarding IQ. It is pretty well known in psychology circles that people who's IQ scores are 2 standard deviations from the "norm" have harder time with social interactions than "normal" people. Since sex is ultimately a social activity it would make sense that farther an IQ score moves away from 90-100 the less likely that person would engage in sex (with another person).
Lunch
It seems everyone focuses on the neurological impact of skipping sleep. What about the physical; from what I have read your body also uses sleep to heal and rest. For instance what kind of strain is placed on your heart when you regularly go for days without sleep. When you sleep you lie down, your heart slows and does not have to work as hard to pump blood through your body. It essentially gets a rest. What happens when you stop doing this. Will people who start living a sleepless life style suddently drop dead of cardiac failure at 35? What are the long term physical effects of removing such a significant metabolic process from your life? Sure you can fool the brain, but can you fool the rest of the body?
Lunch
Fuel Cell
I believe they can produce Natural Gas fuel cells that can produce this kind of output. I think I heard that most of Times Square runs off of two units that reside on the mid floors of a nearby building. Its a great idea becuase usually something incredibly catastrophic has to happen before the natural gas supply is cut. If that happens you probably have bigger problems than your data center going down.
News site A is a Big Propaganda Laden behemoth with lots of private money...New site B is a small independant unbiased reporting site running on minimal public funding. News site A can afford to pay Big ISP's "traffic" fees and gets a clear pipe to your system, News site B cannot and gets choked down to 50Kb a sec. Repeat for all users on Big ISP, who is going to get more traffic?
Since they have been labeled an information service rather than a telecommunications service, it means they can filter your traffic. I know for a fact that Time Warner (my cable service provider) sells IP phone Vonage type service, but charge a minimum of 39.99 a month for it. How long until that is the only VOIP service they allow on their networks and providers like Vonage suddenly "don't work" and "aren't supported by our service" Lunch
Good for you, you picked a niche that no one saw and ran with it! I'm assuming that you did not graduate college 15 years ago when the tech boom was running high and straight CS was the way to go. There is now a generation of Tech workers in their late 20's to Mid - 30's who have big loans from school and no way to pay them off. Many of them with families and other fiscal responsibilities. What exactly do you suggest they do? With congress' new bankruptcy laws it is unlikely people like this can throw caution to the wind and make a big change to their life style and career without becoming homeless. I count myself lucky that I have no major responsibilities and that if I had to leave tech, I could go be poor and not worry about a mortgage , or putting food on the table for a family, keeping a house , etc. Many of those families are dual income and cannot afford the loss of income while one earner goes back to school. So while I applaud your vision, it still boils down to the boss man getting richer, and the common man getting it in the a*s.
Begin Rant
15 years ago the *Sarcasm* "Captains of Industry" *end Sarcasm* are telling all these people new to the job market "Go Tech!", "It's a sure thing!!" , "We need you!!". Now they say there aren't enough? What happened to all those people from the 90's? We go from having way to many techs to not enough in the space of 5 years? Please, its either one way or another, and in typical fashion management wants a service but doesn't want to pay for it. Good solid technical skills are expensive to gain, the industry should not whine when those who have the skills expect to be compensated appropriately.
The main problem is not the economy changing, its the economy changing and all the "leaders" who pointed a generation of workers in a direction are now hanging them out to dry.
End Rant
Actually I believe there is some physical description of Marvin in the books. In fact if I remember correctly Marvin is described as "beautifuly made and well constructed" (paraphrasing - are quotes correct?) also I remembered something about "brushed chrome". There may be more details but it has been awhile since I read the books. These lines have always led me to believe that Marvin looked more like a beautifully rendered human statue in chrome, which when considering the abuse he takes is even more funny. There is that line "your plastic pal who is fun to be with!" but I always thought that was referencing 'droids in general, so maybe I'm totally wrong...
I have an even better scenario, person A and person B have both applied to HBS and MIT. Both receive acceptance letters to MIT and elect to await the outcome of the HBS application. Person A checks his acceptance status early finds out he did not make HBS and accepts MIT. Person B waits until HBS makes acceptance information public, finds out he did not make HBS chooses to accept MIT but does not get in because all positions are filled.
Victimless my ass......
ERECTOR SET Despite what you might say I am younger than Thiry, I had one when I was a kid (no Legos) they were fun. Also if you have dexterity issues erector creations tend to be easier to handle because they are bolted together if you fumble your creation it won't smash into 1000 pieces when it hits the floor. Also what about Capsula (sp) that was a pretty neat building toy as well. Between those two you should get a good mechanical engineer out of the deal...
I don't actually think that bigotry and ingnorance were the reasons. We happen to have a Dell shop (purchased while all support operations were still in the US). There was a NOTICEABLE decline in customer service quality when they out sourced. The example that sticks in my mind was an attempt to order more drives for our array. It took 45 min. to get the guy at the other end (I'm assuming he was Indian, it was a moderate accent)to understand what I wanted. When he finally e-mailed me the quote appeared that he had not understood a word of what I had asked. The drive had the wrong interface, and was the wrong size. As the only support for the company my time is valuable. Why would I want to do bussiness with a company that would effectivly waste it?