a thousand times this. I'm close to 50. Over 30 years of SW development experience that is easily verifiable should I suddenly find myself looking for work 'the hard way'... My friends who are out looking for work tell me the latest fad that all the cool hiring managers are doing is giving you timed tests to make you prove you can write a "C" function to find the bottom of a linked list or some equally inane task... Maybe that's great when your hiring pool is a stack of resume's from fresh-out-of-schoolers but my CV alone should tell you that I've done the work. Then you and I can just sit down and have a grown-up conversation... If you want to see my code, there are lots of open source repositories I can point you to... But I'm not a circus performer. I can't tell you the last time I've had to stand up in a room full of people and write code on a whiteboard.
(I've been driving a diesel truck for about 10 years.)
The golden age when diesel was cheaper than gasoline is over. Today's average gasoline price is $1.129. Today's average diesel price is $1.369.
My truck is not a 'modern' diesel. It's a 20 year old Toyota; direct injected, fully mechanical rotary pump, and direct-injected with a turbo. I have it tuned to produce a lot of boost and keep the EGT's down so there is almost no visible smoke unless I'm not careful when I accelerate from a full stop. If I'm careful, you'd never visibly know that it was a diesel.
But it's kind of like making fake money -- no one loses money if you print money, but in the end the value of the money decreases due to inflation. It's the same for music: if enough people just take a free copy, the value of the music decreases. Then the artist and/or record company do not see feasible to produce that artist's music anymore.
Yes, kind of. Only not really at all.
I can print as much fake money as possible and burn it or wallow around on the floor in it and I haven't really devalued the nation's currency at all. Now, if I turn around and try to sell that money to someone as my money, the your analogy holds. However, I can make a copy of a song and listen to it in an infinite loop all day and as long as I never intended to purchase the song in the first place, I haven't devalued the song in any way. (Until such time as I turn around and give or sell it to someone else).
The first content provider who sets up a voluntary "donation page" where you can pay what you think a pirated movie was worth to you, will be seen to "finally get it"... See: Radiohead.
If I could register with an organization and submit donations for movies that I pirated and watched, I would absolutely pay. I still pay my cable bill even though I pirate all of my TV and haven't turned my cable boxes on for over 2 years.
Lets say you were a pilot with intent to commit suicide (and take everyone with you; ignoring the sociopathy involved in that)... Why go through the effort of 'hiding' the plane? Turning off the transponder and comms, changing altitude and direction, and flying for a few more hours? The plane was already over the ocean, easy to dive it straight down. Less than a minute and it's done.
My intuition says that someone wanted a 777 and wanted to hide it.
I use crashplan as well... Free plan; backing up to my own server... I've had occasion to use their tech-support on about 3 different issues and their tech-support is Top Notch; especially since I'm not even paying them money. I get a response to my issues within 24 hours and back/forth cycles are generally faster... I'm pleased enough that I'm considering paying them actual money.
The only concern I have with backing up to my own servers using crashplan software is if they go out of business, I can not access my backups because the software requires a connection to their service, even if the disks are in your basement...
The ham crowd is fairly well connected so news travels pretty quickly in that community and they like seeing this sort of thing.... Going viral is a reasonable possibility.
I'm the opposite. If I don't have music playing, then my brain continuously replays the last thing I heard, ad-nauseum. After a couple hours of that, I get irritable and lose the ability to concentrate. I notice it most when sitting on the tractor mowing, or tilling, or blowing snow. Some mindless activity that requires little thought but still some concentration... If I can put something in my head, I become instantly happier.
I even wake up with the same song in my head that was there when I went to bed.
In my city, (Calgary, Alberta), you will get a parking ticket if you back into a spot. This is one of those places where you're not required to have a front plate so you are supposed to drive in forward so they can scan your plate and automatically send you a ticket if your parking has expired. The ticket you get is a bigger one because the meter-maid has to get out of his/her car, walk around to the front and write you a manual ticket...
I regularly back into spots because I drive a large truck... I can get my passenger door closer to someone else's passenger door leaving more room for my drivers side door to not hit the drivers door of the vehicle on that side of me. Additional benefits are in the event that I need a boost.
Most of us have learned this back in the 90's or 00's... When your new employer says "We're a young startup, we can't afford to pay you the going rate but we're going to give you stock options." You are immediately to ask: "1 ply or 2 ply?"
My source is a completed transaction that I did for some legacy space I obtained in the early 90's that I was only using a small subset of... As in, I know it's $20/IP because that's how much I made (less commission)..
I started writing code on a VT102 with a line editor (edt)... I progressed to 'vi' on a vt320... That was paradise... Until I switched to an IDE and have never looked back...
So are you saying that if I go through your mail and send the contents of anything that looks sketchy to someone, that's bad... but if I translate the contents into a different language before I send them, that's OK?
A hash is just a shortened form of the same thing.
Here, I just translated your inbox into MD5 for you. But you can get it back anytime: 22fc90d5d9d1daece424aafaec7698c8
Yes. and folks in Asia who are desparate, are able to 'buy' ARIN blocks from owners and get them transferred out of ARIN through a process known as "InterRIR Transfer".
If you are one of those who got legacy IP space back in the 90's and can afford to restructure your needs, you can make about $20/IP by selling your space to someone in Asia...
I do sympathize with the southerners, though... This is how we commute, 6 months of the year so we're used to it... Our 'school closing' weather events are far more severe but it's all relative to what people are used to... I'm used to automotive fluids turning to butter at -40C... I'll walk around outside in a t-shirt if it's above -5C and sunny...
Yeah; I'd seen that it was available in the play store. I'm afraid that it will work as poorly as RaspPlex... If it works well then it would be terrific.
Any indication how well Chromecast works with Plex? I'm in Canada and could probably get a grey-market chromecast but it would only be useful to me if it ran Plex (which I'm told you can get for ChromeCast)
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I still have my Simpson. I heart it. But I also have Fluke's.
a thousand times this. I'm close to 50. Over 30 years of SW development experience that is easily verifiable should I suddenly find myself looking for work 'the hard way'... My friends who are out looking for work tell me the latest fad that all the cool hiring managers are doing is giving you timed tests to make you prove you can write a "C" function to find the bottom of a linked list or some equally inane task... Maybe that's great when your hiring pool is a stack of resume's from fresh-out-of-schoolers but my CV alone should tell you that I've done the work. Then you and I can just sit down and have a grown-up conversation... If you want to see my code, there are lots of open source repositories I can point you to... But I'm not a circus performer. I can't tell you the last time I've had to stand up in a room full of people and write code on a whiteboard.
i've owned multimeters since I was 10 years old. I knew what a Fluke was when I was 10 years old. That was 37 years ago...
What rock have you been hiding under?
(My first meter was the Simpson 260 that my dad replaced with his Fluke)
(I've been driving a diesel truck for about 10 years.)
The golden age when diesel was cheaper than gasoline is over. Today's average gasoline price is $1.129. Today's average diesel price is $1.369.
My truck is not a 'modern' diesel. It's a 20 year old Toyota; direct injected, fully mechanical rotary pump, and direct-injected with a turbo. I have it tuned to produce a lot of boost and keep the EGT's down so there is almost no visible smoke unless I'm not careful when I accelerate from a full stop. If I'm careful, you'd never visibly know that it was a diesel.
But it's kind of like making fake money -- no one loses money if you print money, but in the end the value of the money decreases due to inflation. It's the same for music: if enough people just take a free copy, the value of the music decreases. Then the artist and/or record company do not see feasible to produce that artist's music anymore.
Yes, kind of. Only not really at all.
I can print as much fake money as possible and burn it or wallow around on the floor in it and I haven't really devalued the nation's currency at all. Now, if I turn around and try to sell that money to someone as my money, the your analogy holds. However, I can make a copy of a song and listen to it in an infinite loop all day and as long as I never intended to purchase the song in the first place, I haven't devalued the song in any way. (Until such time as I turn around and give or sell it to someone else).
The first content provider who sets up a voluntary "donation page" where you can pay what you think a pirated movie was worth to you, will be seen to "finally get it"... See: Radiohead.
If I could register with an organization and submit donations for movies that I pirated and watched, I would absolutely pay. I still pay my cable bill even though I pirate all of my TV and haven't turned my cable boxes on for over 2 years.
Lets say you were a pilot with intent to commit suicide (and take everyone with you; ignoring the sociopathy involved in that)... Why go through the effort of 'hiding' the plane? Turning off the transponder and comms, changing altitude and direction, and flying for a few more hours? The plane was already over the ocean, easy to dive it straight down. Less than a minute and it's done.
My intuition says that someone wanted a 777 and wanted to hide it.
I use crashplan as well... Free plan; backing up to my own server... I've had occasion to use their tech-support on about 3 different issues and their tech-support is Top Notch; especially since I'm not even paying them money. I get a response to my issues within 24 hours and back/forth cycles are generally faster... I'm pleased enough that I'm considering paying them actual money.
The only concern I have with backing up to my own servers using crashplan software is if they go out of business, I can not access my backups because the software requires a connection to their service, even if the disks are in your basement...
The ham crowd is fairly well connected so news travels pretty quickly in that community and they like seeing this sort of thing.... Going viral is a reasonable possibility.
$40k isn't that much money.
I've seen lots of this sort of stuff on kickstarter... I've seen it be successful.
I'm the opposite. If I don't have music playing, then my brain continuously replays the last thing I heard, ad-nauseum. After a couple hours of that, I get irritable and lose the ability to concentrate. I notice it most when sitting on the tractor mowing, or tilling, or blowing snow. Some mindless activity that requires little thought but still some concentration... If I can put something in my head, I become instantly happier.
I even wake up with the same song in my head that was there when I went to bed.
In my city, (Calgary, Alberta), you will get a parking ticket if you back into a spot. This is one of those places where you're not required to have a front plate so you are supposed to drive in forward so they can scan your plate and automatically send you a ticket if your parking has expired. The ticket you get is a bigger one because the meter-maid has to get out of his/her car, walk around to the front and write you a manual ticket...
I regularly back into spots because I drive a large truck... I can get my passenger door closer to someone else's passenger door leaving more room for my drivers side door to not hit the drivers door of the vehicle on that side of me. Additional benefits are in the event that I need a boost.
Most of us have learned this back in the 90's or 00's... When your new employer says "We're a young startup, we can't afford to pay you the going rate but we're going to give you stock options." You are immediately to ask: "1 ply or 2 ply?"
My source is a completed transaction that I did for some legacy space I obtained in the early 90's that I was only using a small subset of... As in, I know it's $20/IP because that's how much I made (less commission)..
I started writing code on a VT102 with a line editor (edt)... I progressed to 'vi' on a vt320... That was paradise... Until I switched to an IDE and have never looked back...
Xterm and vi FTW!
That's right. If he/she had used "return fail; return fail;" the bug would not have been present....
oh, wait ...
-10 points for not really understanding the bug.
The only years I've ever gotten the flu are the two where I did _not_ get the flu shot..
There you go. Now neither of our data points is meaningful.
So are you saying that if I go through your mail and send the contents of anything that looks sketchy to someone, that's bad... but if I translate the contents into a different language before I send them, that's OK?
A hash is just a shortened form of the same thing.
Here, I just translated your inbox into MD5 for you. But you can get it back anytime: 22fc90d5d9d1daece424aafaec7698c8
Fill the limo with squid-ink.
Next question?
I've already sold it. Twice!
Yes. and folks in Asia who are desparate, are able to 'buy' ARIN blocks from owners and get them transferred out of ARIN through a process known as "InterRIR Transfer".
If you are one of those who got legacy IP space back in the 90's and can afford to restructure your needs, you can make about $20/IP by selling your space to someone in Asia...
It was the lawn mower's Gerry can. :)
Forecast is for +5C here in Sunny Alberta ...
I do sympathize with the southerners, though... This is how we commute, 6 months of the year so we're used to it ... Our 'school closing' weather events are far more severe but it's all relative to what people are used to... I'm used to automotive fluids turning to butter at -40C... I'll walk around outside in a t-shirt if it's above -5C and sunny ...
Yeah; I'd seen that it was available in the play store. I'm afraid that it will work as poorly as RaspPlex... If it works well then it would be terrific.
Any indication how well Chromecast works with Plex? I'm in Canada and could probably get a grey-market chromecast but it would only be useful to me if it ran Plex (which I'm told you can get for ChromeCast)
"If you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to hide" in 3.....2.....1......