:heh: Yeah, that particular little bit of lingual difference threw me for a loop when I went to one of our sites in the UK... I still have to make a touch of mental gymnastics each time I hear it. The other thing that got me when I was in London: I made the mental connection that "underground" == US subway. When I was looking for a terminal I saw a sign that said "subway" and headed towards it, only to find that in the UK subway meas "pedestrian underpass for busy streets".
If your buddy was in Alabama (or much of the bible belt) I'm glad he got it verbally cleared up rather than through the use of fists (though honestly most southern hospitality would make space for an explanation first). -nB
It's wonderful if that works for your team, My closest co-workers are Philippines, China, Israel, and Italy. We do have fun, and there is some slang, but it is unlikely that cultural referenced slang will get the proper message across, so we avoid it.
Case in point (sorta): My co-worker asked where he could get a hot dog when he was visiting our Cavite site. Sadly for him hot dog was interpreted as spicy cooked canine. He should have asked for a frankfurter. While this is not an issue of slang, it does show quite clearly the opportunity for mis-interpretation.
If your team is only ~30 then I can see a close knit group forming, my definition of group is about 10-15 people in each of the high $ labor sites and about 30 each in China and Philippines.
-nB
Unrelated: Do you know how much fun it is when one of the folks is over from Cavite? We take them up to the snow (assuming it is winter) and watch them discover the first big "new" thing in their life since they were kids. It's gosh darn magical. Then they get cold. I mean intellectually they know what snow is. It is frozen rain the falls from the sky. But emotionally it is like they are a 7 year old discovering something great. Do you guys have anything like that in your team (I would imagine the Brazil/India/(US|Mexico) groups would have some wildly different environments to explore, or is there too little travel between geo's for that?
Business to customer, never use emoticons, avoid cultural references and slang (i.e. "hit it out of the park"). Inter-team communications within company, light to no use of emoticons, some slang (if teams in same country) Intra-team, emoticons, abbrv, AFK, BRB, etc. slang. vastly more acceptable.
That'd be the rules where I work and they seem to work quite well. -nB
As one who has been there, that curve is a steep one and the knee is at the moment of birth of the first child. The curve then bends a bit as the second child is born and the eduction system is engaged. -nB
I had a bank take my ATM deposit and later send me a letter stating that they were "correcting an ATM input error". They thought the check was for 1/10 of the amount. I had the stub and it was a government issued check, once I got to the right person in the food chain they ordered a scan of the check brought up, apologized, credited my account, back interest on the amount ($0.12 WooT), and *credited* a "service fee" of $10.00. Small banks rock.
Sacramento, CA "A big company", non governmental, about 7K employees at the site it is free security guards, cameras, and a big fence;) We have 24 hour operations and in theory of someone was balsey enough to park and charge they would likely get away with it, but even then a leach charging their car would be dwarfed by the monthly bill for just my lab (and not the biggest on campus) ~$150K/month for one lab's electricity (light, power, AC, chilled water, etc.) Back to the chargers, they are one of each of the old SMUD EV units GM was pushing (likely free installs) they have since been augmented with 110 and 208 20 amp circuits at each pole to support home grown EVs (of which we currently have one hardcore and one fair weather driver). Really all your employees would need is 208 and 110 20 amp lines. Install a cut-off in the building if you are worried about leachers and only turn them on when the car is plugged in. -nB
I suppose you don't read entire comments either, nice way of quoting for bias.
As the public information stands there is quite a bit of circumstantial evidence. While that is enough to convict, it is enough to support my comment as an expression of opinion.
Fact of the matter is, I'd recuse myself from that jury because I can acknowledge my inability to be impartial. I have had no problem serving on two other juries and remaining impartial to emotional testimony and sticking to the facts. -nB
All in all though, I do provide some level of social leeway for these guys, in some way akin to my society's (sad) practice of forgiving DUI and DWS on Ms Hilton, failing to Lynch O.J. etc. when a person of lesser stature, say Mr. Peterson, gets the book thrown at him (rightly, but unequally). I suppose we grant our superstars leeway and since I see neither OJ or Paris as superstars I don't like the leeway. Then again, Hans crossed the line. There is no way I would excuse his (currently alleged) crime just because he wrote a killer FS. -nB
To extend parent's point: Yell "Bomb" in an airport, "Shooter" at a presidential speech, or "Fire" in a theater and see how far the first amendment gets you.
you are entitled to your opinion, but there is a line, that once crossed puts you in dangerous waters. -nB
I would assume you could still reference the manual, even though it isn't widely available, others may have access and could verify. Similar to me referencing Nature, Lancet, or Science News. -nB
On a separate note, why not DHCP? I've worked in labs that were zoos like that (and worse, there were traffic generators that could produce arbitrary packets [any: source/dest IP, MAC, any datagram, any length up to 32Kb]). We had two private ranges, one DHCP and one static, they were on the same subnet, but you could have the zoo on 10.0.1.0 and dynamic on 10.0.2.0, as an example.
1) Source code, masters thesis, a few photos, etc. 2) 20 miles away 2a) yes it's encrypted, I have one of his disks at my place as well. -nB
Offshoot of this... Would one be liable for data on the disk if it was illegal? Considering it was encrypted I presume you could claim you had no idea. -nB
For a small business that is a relatively sound plan. But as you noted, it is negligent for a business or government with sensitive information and a real budget.
Heck, my disaster plan is a mirror at my brother's house and weekly backups to the safe deposit box at the bank, rotated into my backup (4 HDDs +2 in the RAID). RAID = 2 disks always on Local backup Remote mirror 2 backups in bank take local backup to bank, remove oldest backup, bring home, repeat. I figure that anything taking my house, my brother's house and the bank out all at the same time pretty much negates my need for the data anyway. -nB -nB
Yes, but then 2CO would likely be eating it via chargebacks from Visa. They either have a lot of faith that this is real (or likely they don't yet realize it's a scam). I'm going to e-mail my CSR when I get home and ask them if this is a scam using them as a gateway. That should alert them enough to check it out closely, or possibly put a hold on some of the funds. -nB
Only thing I can think of is that they are using old inventory. I.e. HP/Dell/whoever wants to dump old parts and/or sub assy's. these guys could buy them for as little as a dime on the dollar and bodge together some systems. Still fishy though. -nB
They may be a scam, but as I've said earlier, the payment processor is not. I've used them and even when I had issues with the vendor, a cargeback was not a problem. -nB
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Yeah, that particular little bit of lingual difference threw me for a loop when I went to one of our sites in the UK...
I still have to make a touch of mental gymnastics each time I hear it.
The other thing that got me when I was in London: I made the mental connection that "underground" == US subway. When I was looking for a terminal I saw a sign that said "subway" and headed towards it, only to find that in the UK subway meas "pedestrian underpass for busy streets".
If your buddy was in Alabama (or much of the bible belt) I'm glad he got it verbally cleared up rather than through the use of fists (though honestly most southern hospitality would make space for an explanation first).
-nB
It's wonderful if that works for your team, My closest co-workers are Philippines, China, Israel, and Italy. We do have fun, and there is some slang, but it is unlikely that cultural referenced slang will get the proper message across, so we avoid it.
Case in point (sorta):
My co-worker asked where he could get a hot dog when he was visiting our Cavite site. Sadly for him hot dog was interpreted as spicy cooked canine. He should have asked for a frankfurter. While this is not an issue of slang, it does show quite clearly the opportunity for mis-interpretation.
If your team is only ~30 then I can see a close knit group forming, my definition of group is about 10-15 people in each of the high $ labor sites and about 30 each in China and Philippines.
-nB
Unrelated: Do you know how much fun it is when one of the folks is over from Cavite? We take them up to the snow (assuming it is winter) and watch them discover the first big "new" thing in their life since they were kids. It's gosh darn magical. Then they get cold. I mean intellectually they know what snow is. It is frozen rain the falls from the sky. But emotionally it is like they are a 7 year old discovering something great.
Do you guys have anything like that in your team (I would imagine the Brazil/India/(US|Mexico) groups would have some wildly different environments to explore, or is there too little travel between geo's for that?
Cheers,
-nB
Business to customer, never use emoticons, avoid cultural references and slang (i.e. "hit it out of the park").
Inter-team communications within company, light to no use of emoticons, some slang (if teams in same country)
Intra-team, emoticons, abbrv, AFK, BRB, etc. slang. vastly more acceptable.
That'd be the rules where I work and they seem to work quite well.
-nB
As one who has been there, that curve is a steep one and the knee is at the moment of birth of the first child. The curve then bends a bit as the second child is born and the eduction system is engaged.
-nB
Other than ping delays and latency while the hamster sleeps. Though, I suppose it would still work...
I had a bank take my ATM deposit and later send me a letter stating that they were "correcting an ATM input error". They thought the check was for 1/10 of the amount. I had the stub and it was a government issued check, once I got to the right person in the food chain they ordered a scan of the check brought up, apologized, credited my account, back interest on the amount ($0.12 WooT), and *credited* a "service fee" of $10.00.
Small banks rock.
Sacramento, CA ;) We have 24 hour operations and in theory of someone was balsey enough to park and charge they would likely get away with it, but even then a leach charging their car would be dwarfed by the monthly bill for just my lab (and not the biggest on campus) ~$150K/month for one lab's electricity (light, power, AC, chilled water, etc.)
"A big company", non governmental, about 7K employees at the site
it is free
security guards, cameras, and a big fence
Back to the chargers, they are one of each of the old SMUD EV units GM was pushing (likely free installs) they have since been augmented with 110 and 208 20 amp circuits at each pole to support home grown EVs (of which we currently have one hardcore and one fair weather driver).
Really all your employees would need is 208 and 110 20 amp lines. Install a cut-off in the building if you are worried about leachers and only turn them on when the car is plugged in.
-nB
I suppose you don't read entire comments either, nice way of quoting for bias.
As the public information stands there is quite a bit of circumstantial evidence. While that is enough to convict, it is enough to support my comment as an expression of opinion.
Fact of the matter is, I'd recuse myself from that jury because I can acknowledge my inability to be impartial. I have had no problem serving on two other juries and remaining impartial to emotional testimony and sticking to the facts.
-nB
Yes, but he has it filtered to only "Linux Flamewars"
Took the words from my brain.
All in all though, I do provide some level of social leeway for these guys, in some way akin to my society's (sad) practice of forgiving DUI and DWS on Ms Hilton, failing to Lynch O.J. etc. when a person of lesser stature, say Mr. Peterson, gets the book thrown at him (rightly, but unequally). I suppose we grant our superstars leeway and since I see neither OJ or Paris as superstars I don't like the leeway. Then again, Hans crossed the line. There is no way I would excuse his (currently alleged) crime just because he wrote a killer FS.
-nB
FWIW, my commute is 7 miles one-way and my employer has two charging stations. If there was more demand I guarentee you they would add more.
-nB
One word:
Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaa
-nB
More important is that you don't have that password stored anywhere.
Also, how can they prove you didn't "forget" it, ala Ollie North?
-nB
To extend parent's point:
Yell "Bomb" in an airport, "Shooter" at a presidential speech, or "Fire" in a theater and see how far the first amendment gets you.
you are entitled to your opinion, but there is a line, that once crossed puts you in dangerous waters.
-nB
Those damn potato eating... :-p
My money's on the secret Hawaiian Kingship and their plans to expand over the USA
-nB
I would assume you could still reference the manual, even though it isn't widely available, others may have access and could verify. Similar to me referencing Nature, Lancet, or Science News.
-nB
That. Is. Scary.
On a separate note, why not DHCP? I've worked in labs that were zoos like that (and worse, there were traffic generators that could produce arbitrary packets [any: source/dest IP, MAC, any datagram, any length up to 32Kb]). We had two private ranges, one DHCP and one static, they were on the same subnet, but you could have the zoo on 10.0.1.0 and dynamic on 10.0.2.0, as an example.
-nB
But I don't understand how a RAID of MS Office [disks] could help someone who's hungry... :-)
Funny, fist thought that popped into my head was "did they find nosh?"
-nB
1) Source code, masters thesis, a few photos, etc.
2) 20 miles away
2a) yes it's encrypted, I have one of his disks at my place as well.
-nB
Offshoot of this...
Would one be liable for data on the disk if it was illegal? Considering it was encrypted I presume you could claim you had no idea.
-nB
For a small business that is a relatively sound plan. But as you noted, it is negligent for a business or government with sensitive information and a real budget.
Heck, my disaster plan is a mirror at my brother's house and weekly backups to the safe deposit box at the bank, rotated into my backup (4 HDDs +2 in the RAID).
RAID = 2 disks always on
Local backup
Remote mirror
2 backups in bank
take local backup to bank, remove oldest backup, bring home, repeat.
I figure that anything taking my house, my brother's house and the bank out all at the same time pretty much negates my need for the data anyway.
-nB
-nB
I'm so with you on that.
LtGrn on black.
-nB
Visa chargebacks are a PITA, 2CO was very straight forward and easy by comparison.
-nB
Yes, but then 2CO would likely be eating it via chargebacks from Visa.
They either have a lot of faith that this is real (or likely they don't yet realize it's a scam). I'm going to e-mail my CSR when I get home and ask them if this is a scam using them as a gateway. That should alert them enough to check it out closely, or possibly put a hold on some of the funds.
-nB
Only thing I can think of is that they are using old inventory. I.e. HP/Dell/whoever wants to dump old parts and/or sub assy's. these guys could buy them for as little as a dime on the dollar and bodge together some systems. Still fishy though.
-nB
They may be a scam, but as I've said earlier, the payment processor is not.
I've used them and even when I had issues with the vendor, a cargeback was not a problem.
-nB