All these call center jobs are being offshored to India. Its tedious, boring work, with a low success rate and plenty of abuse from the people you call. Why pay Americans to do this when you can hire 4 Indians for the price of one?
I doubt putting Americans out of work was much of a concern for the politicians. The jobs would be gone in another 5 years anyway.
I can produce accelerations in the hundreds of G's simply by smashing my fist into a wall and likewise say that "for less than a millisecond I produced forces hundreds of times stronger than the pull of Earth's gravity" and be technically correct.
Sure, but you're forgetting that gravity is a very very weak force. You have the weight of the entire earth, all the rock, all the oceans, the metal core, pulling you towards it. The earth is so large that unless you are very high in the atmosphere it appears flat. And yet most people can easilly jump 2 feet or more off the surface.
Go on, try to separate a couple of particles tied together with the weak or strong nuclear force. Its not easy, and only a couple of particles are in play here. Gravity is pathetically weak in comparison.
In the marine diesel engine industry, there is a measurement of NOx (nitrous oxides), usually measured in grams per killawatt-hour (g/kW-hr). But not all engines will be used in the same service, so they won't be running at the same load. Some will run at 100% load most of the time they are on (generators, fire pumps maybe) while others will run at about 65 or 75% of full power all of the time- these are your direct-drive propulsion diesels. These different duty cycles have a dramatic effect on the numbers. So what to do?
The International Maritime Organization has created a few different cycles- E2 is Constant Speed Main Propulsion, E3 is Propellor law operated propulsion for example. You pick your cycle, run your engine at a variety of loads, then use weighted averaging on those loads to determine what the emissions would be if the engine ran at E2 all the time. Then you can say that for the E2 cycle, the engine puts out so much NOx.
For computers, someone needs to come up with some different computer cycles. There may be several of them- 50% parallelizable with 25% floating point and 75% integer math, 100% parallelizable with 100% floating point math, etc. Different architectures may take dramatically longer to do floating point or non-parallizable workloads. Only then could you run a bunch of tests and really say that under this load the computer uses this much power to do a certain amount of work in a given amount of time.
This is not new or novel stuff. This is similar to how the EPA tests cars. Some cars do highway miles much better than city miles, so they do both and weight the averages.
In Houston at least, there are signs posted at all the red light cameras with a (difficult to decipher) pictograph indicating that there is a red light camera at the light. So wherever I go I know where all the red light cameras are.
Red light cameras really don't add safety. Regardless of how long the light has been yellow, if it is yellow, I'm stomping on my brakes. Is there someone 2 feet from my bumper? I don't know- I don't have time to check because I have to stop NOW or I might get a $50 ticket without a court hearing or the chance to confront my accuser*.
As someone who as worked in this position in a power station, let me say that this social engineering attack is not likely. You very quickly learn the names, attitudes, and voices of all the people that frequently call asking for changes to the generators. The number of people calling for these changes is usually a handful, 5 or less. If someone odd calls, we would often ask if another guy we knew was on vacation or sick.
If someone we never had heard of called asking for something strange, I would have definitely asked to talk to someone I knew at the independent system operator, emergency or not.
Wikipedia entries tend to be sanitized for companies anyway asa a matter of company policy. Employees aren't supposed to post- its in almost every contract there is. Every contract I have ever seen for a major company has something that basically states you may not act as the PR agent for the company or speak publically for the company. This is basically what you are doing by posting on wikipedia.
So the guys in PR are the only ones in the company posting over the long term. Anyone else doesn't work for the company, or won't be working there long (yerfired!).
Have you read the DVD liscensing agreement in the small print? You didn't buy a DVD disc, you bought the liscence to watch it privately for home use. "Own the DVD Today!" is a very misleading, if not completely false advertisement.
All that, and they won't replace a disk if you break it, even though you bought a liscence to watch a movie, not a disk.
Confessor: (very slowly and painfully) Well it's not a question of wantiing to be a mouse... it just sort of happens to you. All of a sudden you realize... that's what you want to be.
Interviewer: And when did you first notice these... shall we say... tendencies?
Confessor: Well... I was about seventeen and some mates and me went to a party, and, er... we had quite a lot to drink... and then some of the fellows there... started handing... cheese around... and well just out of curiosity 1 tried a bit... and well that was that.
Interviewer: And what else did these fellows do?
Confessor: Well some of them started dressing up as mice a bit... and then when they'd got the costumes on they started... squeaking.
Interviewer: Yes. And was that all?
Confessor: That was all.
Interviewer: And what was your reaction to this?
Confessor: Well I was shocked. But, er... gradually I came to feel that I was more at ease... with other mice.
Is there a way to build a course covering the basic computer graphics concepts and techniques which takes advantage of object orientation and higher levels of abstraction? I believe the authors of Computer Graphics using Java have found a way."
I could use something like this right now. I'm trying to find an apartment in Houston. The trouble is, all of these apartment complexes mostly have the same amenities. For the most part, they all accept cats, they all have a pool, a fitness center, and a balcony/porch. They all have onsite laundry or in-unit washer-dryer. The amenity differentiators so far seem to be the inclusion or exclusion of AC from the rent, and the inclusion of cable or internet. The only other thing separating these places is location.
These apartment complexes are so similar that you would swear one company build and owns all of them (this is probably the case). If you haven't lived in an area with lots of these managed apartment buildings, you probably won't understand. I never saw anything like this in Maine.
Initially I tried to keep track of the apartments I was interested in in a spreadsheet. But location is one of the only important differentiators. I really need a map with filtered metadata.
The Russian system is actually a full sewage system, and turns the urine back into drinking water. That saves launch costs at ~20,000/kgon the water. With 3-6 astronauts up there it pays to do this.
I didn't believe it in Waterworld, I certainly don't believe it now.
Sir, you will no doubt be shocked to learn that this neither comes with a silver platter, or chilled champagne. I know when this realization dawned on me, my monocle popped out and rolled under my desk. My gentleman's gentleman, Wheatley, has noted his displeasure with your oversight while remedying the situation.
Apparently, the existing monitors at WQUXGA (worst. acronym. ever.) resolution run at 41hz, max. These days, top of the line game systems will pump out upwards of 100 frames/sec in some cases. A 41hz refresh rate is essentially caps you at 41 FPS, which is enough to turn off any gamer looking at blowing that much on a gaming rig.
What bothers me more is that the screen uses 16:10 aspect ratio. Seems Apple is quite fond of 16:10 for some reason (according to that link). I hate 16:10.
In principle, 16:10 might seem like compromise between 4:3 and 16:9. However, it means that you always have black bars (or you can have software crop your movie if you really want to) because nobody makes movies in 16:10. You can argue that if you watch video in 4:3 or 2.35:1 that you would have black bars anyway on a 16:9 screen, but more and more video I have seen seems to be going 16:9. Dr Who, Torchwood, even the latest pr0n, all 16:9.
As someone who had a 16:10 monitor for a while, let me also say that it is less supported natively in video games, leading you to use non-native resolutions or resolution hacks.
Who are these companies and why are they giving out too much information? Can some consumer advocacy group list them in some sort of list with a suitable ranking? Perhaps with the top 8 or 11 or so particularly bad ones?
My roomate suffers from withdrawl when he is away from his account for anything over a day. It's just like watching a smoker or a drug user. They get grumpy, and easilly iritable. They feel anxious and can't think about anything else. They have trouble sleeping.
Gaming addictions can be just as bad a nicotine addiction, or they can be as mild as chocolate/caffeine. It should be a recognised addiction, for what its worth. Like most other addictions, however, your employer should not have to put up with unreasonable demands for accomidation.
Most of my friends seem to have quite a bit of hearing loss (all under 25). I don't seem to have much, though, and I've worked in steam turbine and gas turbine power plants (exceedingly loud places). If these test subjects were anything like my friends they have to turn up music so loud that it is impossible to tell the difference between a cell phone speaker and an Imax theater.
The point that Microsoft will drop support is moot. There are a lot of companies that still run NT servers and workstations. I worked for one last summer that used embedded NT workstations as a frontend to access the GE LM6000 turbine PLCs. They also had NT servers and NT desktops for SCADA. My current desktop at a different company is windows 2000. Companies will balance cost, security, and familiarity. Microsofts support cycles often have nothing to do with that.
I think the requirement for a Phd is a bit steep. Given real-world experience in a practical field, the right person could do much more damage. For example, I only have a B.S. However I have worked in power stations and been exposed to power distribution maps and load spreadsheets. Given a cutting torch or other suitable destructive device, and I can take out a couple of towers and black out New York for a good amount of time.
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All these call center jobs are being offshored to India. Its tedious, boring work, with a low success rate and plenty of abuse from the people you call. Why pay Americans to do this when you can hire 4 Indians for the price of one?
I doubt putting Americans out of work was much of a concern for the politicians. The jobs would be gone in another 5 years anyway.
Tribes 2 defaulted to ESDF on install. Great game. Annoyed me when I switched away from it though.
I can produce accelerations in the hundreds of G's simply by smashing my fist into a wall and likewise say that "for less than a millisecond I produced forces hundreds of times stronger than the pull of Earth's gravity" and be technically correct.
Sure, but you're forgetting that gravity is a very very weak force. You have the weight of the entire earth, all the rock, all the oceans, the metal core, pulling you towards it. The earth is so large that unless you are very high in the atmosphere it appears flat. And yet most people can easilly jump 2 feet or more off the surface.
Go on, try to separate a couple of particles tied together with the weak or strong nuclear force. Its not easy, and only a couple of particles are in play here. Gravity is pathetically weak in comparison.
In the marine diesel engine industry, there is a measurement of NOx (nitrous oxides), usually measured in grams per killawatt-hour (g/kW-hr). But not all engines will be used in the same service, so they won't be running at the same load. Some will run at 100% load most of the time they are on (generators, fire pumps maybe) while others will run at about 65 or 75% of full power all of the time- these are your direct-drive propulsion diesels. These different duty cycles have a dramatic effect on the numbers. So what to do?
The International Maritime Organization has created a few different cycles- E2 is Constant Speed Main Propulsion, E3 is Propellor law operated propulsion for example. You pick your cycle, run your engine at a variety of loads, then use weighted averaging on those loads to determine what the emissions would be if the engine ran at E2 all the time. Then you can say that for the E2 cycle, the engine puts out so much NOx.
For computers, someone needs to come up with some different computer cycles. There may be several of them- 50% parallelizable with 25% floating point and 75% integer math, 100% parallelizable with 100% floating point math, etc. Different architectures may take dramatically longer to do floating point or non-parallizable workloads. Only then could you run a bunch of tests and really say that under this load the computer uses this much power to do a certain amount of work in a given amount of time.
This is not new or novel stuff. This is similar to how the EPA tests cars. Some cars do highway miles much better than city miles, so they do both and weight the averages.
In Houston at least, there are signs posted at all the red light cameras with a (difficult to decipher) pictograph indicating that there is a red light camera at the light. So wherever I go I know where all the red light cameras are.
Red light cameras really don't add safety. Regardless of how long the light has been yellow, if it is yellow, I'm stomping on my brakes. Is there someone 2 feet from my bumper? I don't know- I don't have time to check because I have to stop NOW or I might get a $50 ticket without a court hearing or the chance to confront my accuser*.
*this is unconstitutional
As someone who as worked in this position in a power station, let me say that this social engineering attack is not likely. You very quickly learn the names, attitudes, and voices of all the people that frequently call asking for changes to the generators. The number of people calling for these changes is usually a handful, 5 or less. If someone odd calls, we would often ask if another guy we knew was on vacation or sick.
If someone we never had heard of called asking for something strange, I would have definitely asked to talk to someone I knew at the independent system operator, emergency or not.
To misleadingly imply that most research is wrong, which is exactly what the post suggests, is just poor interpretation of flimsy data, ironically.
Irony police, your analysis?
Wikipedia entries tend to be sanitized for companies anyway asa a matter of company policy. Employees aren't supposed to post- its in almost every contract there is. Every contract I have ever seen for a major company has something that basically states you may not act as the PR agent for the company or speak publically for the company. This is basically what you are doing by posting on wikipedia.
So the guys in PR are the only ones in the company posting over the long term. Anyone else doesn't work for the company, or won't be working there long (yerfired!).
Have you read the DVD liscensing agreement in the small print? You didn't buy a DVD disc, you bought the liscence to watch it privately for home use. "Own the DVD Today!" is a very misleading, if not completely false advertisement.
All that, and they won't replace a disk if you break it, even though you bought a liscence to watch a movie, not a disk.
Confessor: (very slowly and painfully) Well it's not a question of wantiing to be a mouse... it just sort of happens to you. All of a sudden you realize... that's what you want to be.
... started handing ... cheese around ... and well just out of curiosity 1 tried a bit ... and well that was that.
... and then when they'd got the costumes on they started ... squeaking.
... with other mice.
Interviewer: And when did you first notice these... shall we say... tendencies?
Confessor: Well... I was about seventeen and some mates and me went to a party, and, er... we had quite a lot to drink... and then some of the fellows there
Interviewer: And what else did these fellows do?
Confessor: Well some of them started dressing up as mice a bit
Interviewer: Yes. And was that all?
Confessor: That was all.
Interviewer: And what was your reaction to this?
Confessor: Well I was shocked. But, er... gradually I came to feel that I was more at ease
Is there a way to build a course covering the basic computer graphics concepts and techniques which takes advantage of object orientation and higher levels of abstraction? I believe the authors of Computer Graphics using Java have found a way."
Why must you ask rhetorical questions of me???
I could use something like this right now. I'm trying to find an apartment in Houston. The trouble is, all of these apartment complexes mostly have the same amenities. For the most part, they all accept cats, they all have a pool, a fitness center, and a balcony/porch. They all have onsite laundry or in-unit washer-dryer. The amenity differentiators so far seem to be the inclusion or exclusion of AC from the rent, and the inclusion of cable or internet. The only other thing separating these places is location.
These apartment complexes are so similar that you would swear one company build and owns all of them (this is probably the case). If you haven't lived in an area with lots of these managed apartment buildings, you probably won't understand. I never saw anything like this in Maine.
Initially I tried to keep track of the apartments I was interested in in a spreadsheet. But location is one of the only important differentiators. I really need a map with filtered metadata.
The Russian system is actually a full sewage system, and turns the urine back into drinking water. That saves launch costs at ~20,000/kgon the water. With 3-6 astronauts up there it pays to do this.
I didn't believe it in Waterworld, I certainly don't believe it now.
is that you do not talk about afforementioned network!
Sir, you will no doubt be shocked to learn that this neither comes with a silver platter, or chilled champagne. I know when this realization dawned on me, my monocle popped out and rolled under my desk. My gentleman's gentleman, Wheatley, has noted his displeasure with your oversight while remedying the situation.
I don't know how you can mention a typing video game without mentioning The typing... of the dead!
Seriously. Turn yourself in to the proper authorities now.
Apparently, the existing monitors at WQUXGA (worst. acronym. ever.) resolution run at 41hz, max. These days, top of the line game systems will pump out upwards of 100 frames/sec in some cases. A 41hz refresh rate is essentially caps you at 41 FPS, which is enough to turn off any gamer looking at blowing that much on a gaming rig.
What bothers me more is that the screen uses 16:10 aspect ratio. Seems Apple is quite fond of 16:10 for some reason (according to that link). I hate 16:10.
In principle, 16:10 might seem like compromise between 4:3 and 16:9. However, it means that you always have black bars (or you can have software crop your movie if you really want to) because nobody makes movies in 16:10. You can argue that if you watch video in 4:3 or 2.35:1 that you would have black bars anyway on a 16:9 screen, but more and more video I have seen seems to be going 16:9. Dr Who, Torchwood, even the latest pr0n, all 16:9.
As someone who had a 16:10 monitor for a while, let me also say that it is less supported natively in video games, leading you to use non-native resolutions or resolution hacks.
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Who are these companies and why are they giving out too much information? Can some consumer advocacy group list them in some sort of list with a suitable ranking? Perhaps with the top 8 or 11 or so particularly bad ones?
My roomate suffers from withdrawl when he is away from his account for anything over a day. It's just like watching a smoker or a drug user. They get grumpy, and easilly iritable. They feel anxious and can't think about anything else. They have trouble sleeping.
Gaming addictions can be just as bad a nicotine addiction, or they can be as mild as chocolate/caffeine. It should be a recognised addiction, for what its worth. Like most other addictions, however, your employer should not have to put up with unreasonable demands for accomidation.
I'll stick to my IBM model M-5 made in 1992 thanks.
The M-5 is the one with the built-in trackball for those of you not keeping track.
Most of my friends seem to have quite a bit of hearing loss (all under 25). I don't seem to have much, though, and I've worked in steam turbine and gas turbine power plants (exceedingly loud places). If these test subjects were anything like my friends they have to turn up music so loud that it is impossible to tell the difference between a cell phone speaker and an Imax theater.
The point that Microsoft will drop support is moot. There are a lot of companies that still run NT servers and workstations. I worked for one last summer that used embedded NT workstations as a frontend to access the GE LM6000 turbine PLCs. They also had NT servers and NT desktops for SCADA. My current desktop at a different company is windows 2000. Companies will balance cost, security, and familiarity. Microsofts support cycles often have nothing to do with that.
I think the requirement for a Phd is a bit steep. Given real-world experience in a practical field, the right person could do much more damage. For example, I only have a B.S. However I have worked in power stations and been exposed to power distribution maps and load spreadsheets. Given a cutting torch or other suitable destructive device, and I can take out a couple of towers and black out New York for a good amount of time.
Is this book a clever ruse for the internet predators to sneak in and rape your children? The answer may surprise you. Buy this book and find out.