There was a manager in my old company who would only hire H1B's when given the chance. If there wasn't an H1B available he would hire someone who was a citizen. Why? Because he was a sadistic asshole*, but an H1B can't complain, even to the cops, without fear of being immediately sent home and unable to get back in.
When I had a bad run-in with this manager he crucified my carrier, I went from being an outstanding employee 4 years in a row to being the bottom of the shit heap. This with an average increase in work output on my part. I learned just how many other managers he either had in his pocket, or had dirt on. I fought a good enough fight to get my review officially reversed, got a copy of my employee file, and left.
-nB
*Ex cop from the RSA who was part of the White minority rule, saw nothing wrong with it, and who repeatedly bragged about beating confessions out of people with a rubber hose deftly applied to the soles of the feet.
Only those above the sheeple advertiser intelligence index. (they still on the air even? I remember watching survivor but man it was a long time ago (first season)) -nB
There is a treatment for Essential Tremor that involves electrical stimulation of the hypothalamus. You can only treat one side of an individual else they may lose the ability to speak. While I would hope this would improve treatment options (seeing as I have a moderate case), I would be fearful of the cpu latching up in some way or another. -nB
Don't know the rules in your country, but in the states (CA at least) you can use staples, nails, whatever. The appartment can not bill you for "reasonable" wear and tear after a certain number of years (5 IIRC). -nB
While I think you may have the letter of the law correct, the spirit is not.
If Disney offered replacements of DVDs such that you send in a borked DVD (or greater than 50% of it at least) then they send a replacement for $5.00, I'd be OK with that, and would happily enforce the "don't download" mantra. They don't so I don't.
Some time ago I bought my kids a copy of "Beauty and the Beast". It got damaged. I asked Disney for a replacement media and they said: "No. We suggest you buy a new copy."
Well if they want to argue that I am buying a license to the content, and not the disk as property, then they should replace said content if it becomes unreadable, as I've already paid the license. If OTOH they say I'm buying the disk, then it is mine and I should be able to copy it for backups as dictated by Fair Use. They can't have it both ways.
My final solution was to create a media server, rip and transcode all my CDs and DVDs to it, and stream the content over ethernet to every TV (and stereo) in my house, thus providing a video on demand system that really rocks. The head units are mod'd Xboxes running XBMC, total cost per TV/Radio is about $140 each. Radio is IP controlled so the server can send and start a playlist, no TV head required:-)
I have one of the biggest ISPs for DSL. All I had to do was navigate to 3rd level tech support (admittedly a real challenge) to achieve the following: Unlimited bandwith flag on my account (normally you start to see rate throttling around 4 gigs into the month). Port 25 open. Return loss data uploaded to my modem, unlocking that feature set of my modem.
Really wasn't hard to get them to do either, just politely requested each feature with a nominal justification: Port 25 (I want to use my mailserver, not yours. I understand that you are worried about spam from your network, that's why I'm happy to call and ask you rather than being pissed off you're blocking ports) Bandwith: (I create and share custom distros over BT, also indy content over BT and HTTP downloads) Return loss: (I understand what all these numbers mean as I've been in TC R&D for the last 10 years. I won't need to call you over piddly stuff if I have these numbers and the ability to tweak gain at my end)
I live in an appt. All my cat 5 runs on the ceiling. The ceiling is white, the cable is white, the staples are white. People usually don't even notice till I point it out to them;) -nB
There was a short blurb in Science News a couple months back about how an electrode array when placed on the tongue gave the participants a sense of sight. The electrode used the tongue to send impulses similar enough to visual signals for volunteers to discern a 3x3 matrix of on/off dots. Pretty cool stuff, though I'd pay dearly for infravision and/or ultrasound augmentation. -nB
Well you just described me, two of my brothers, and most of my gang at work. (aside from the MU part). For my part my intensity of fandom is: DrWho (started watching back when Tom Baker was starting to hit PBS in the states). Firefly (and like any fanboi I'll overlook the movie). Star Trek TNG/DS9. Star Wars.
Release a movie from any of those franchises and you'll likely get a Hamilton from me as my wife and I line up for the cattle call at the movies, but the first two would have me turn into one of those freaks that line up early. Heck, release firefly onto the big screen $8.00/3 episodes back to back at a time and I'd pay it. -nB
I'm sure you have a reason for needing to drive so far My devision is getting sold and relocation is in my future:( I figure on commuting till I get a local job again. -nB
In california summers yes, though I would still suggest a two tank solution. You start and stop on diesel (dino or bio). Once at temperature (about 5 miles) you can switch over to the straight veggie oil. About a mile out from your stop you switch back to diesel.
They run like a champ. Better on oil than diesel in fact. Cooler, quieter, better smelling, small hit in mileage (about 5-8%). -nB
None of what you've said is in dispute other than the PJ actually conforming to it's box's description. Quite likely I'm willing to bet it is a firmware issue, but none the less I've encountered *loads* of networking hardware that claims to be IEEE802.3 compliant but if you put a scope on it, the spectral shaping is obviously bad. Look at it as an FFT and you wonder how the hell it passed EMI compliance tests for a UL/CE mark. I could list a litany of other things that I've run into but it's superfluous to the discussion. I realize that this is not a PJ issue, just illustrating that vendors lie all the time. And since the spec says "accept 1080i and like it", Sony didn't put in a down-scalar in the PS3. IM(NS)HO that is a design flaw. -nB
Source Science News Corn ~15% of the energy used to grow the crop ends up in fuel as ethanol Soybeans ~93% of the energy used to grow the crop ends up in fuel as biodiesel.
both are energy negative but one (corn) is a whole lot more so (see prairie grass to ethanol for a better ratio by converting cellulose). -nB
The latest trend I saw is directly blaming the "rich", which pretty much includes most of us with computers and the time to argue on slashdot. I don't see us making huge changes. FWIW I bought an old diesel Benz. As climate allows I'm burning a blend of diesel (petrol or bio) and straight veggie oil. Even easier on the environment than processing the oil to diesel and leaving a shitload of glycerin laying around with methoxide contamination (as is uber common in home setups). Add to this that the oil I'm burning is already a waste product of the fried food industry and I'm making my little tiny impact. Up on the list of things to do to the car is build a hybrid fuel system that allows for a clean easy to diesel fuel for start and stopping of the car with a heavier fuel once up to operating temps. Seeing as my commute looks set to go from 12 miles each way to a touch over 70 this will be a viable option.
Troll:
Burning biofuels pumps out huge quantities of carbon just like burning petroleum products does. You are conveniently ignoring that biofuels pull the carbon from the environment prior to use whereas petrol fuel uses carbon that has been sequestered so long as to be considered a "new load" -nB
Dude, give in. The only thing protecting you from mobs of flamebait and troll mods is your UID.
As someone in the tech industry I would hate to tell you how many times a manufacturer violates any number of fine points in the spec yet claims to be spec compliant anyway. I have a feeling the projector issue is the same thing. Heck the website only takes the vendor at their word as to the supported specs.
Fact is there are several sets out there that only display 720p, and while they should accept 1080i and scale appropriately the truth of the matter is that they do not. Sony can claim "we designed to spec" and they did, but they should have supported 720p output because they know there are display devices out there that will not work when fed 1080(anything) (IIRC they had a set that was borked when downscaling themselves).
So, while I greatly enjoyed you two's display of (shill Vs rabid dog), (Pedant Vs. Techno freak) whatever. I think you may have lost this one. -nB
Not entirely, there is such a thing as graft Vs host, whereby if the recipient receives too much blood the donor blood can attack the person's body. Yes you can strip the white cells, but this is slow and costly, the former prohibits doing it at time of need, the latter from doing it "just in case". Not normally an issue except when massive bleeding due to extreme trauma or bleeding disorder are present as below.
As the father of a type O son with hemophilia this is awesome news. Opens up a much wider source of blood should the worst happen, especially since my wife and I are neither type O, and my father in law, while type O is also hemophilic. -nB
I liked the old ultima 6 bug of loading your companions. If you told them to pick up something heavy then they would say "too heavy" If you had something ungodly heavy you could pick it up and move it to them, no problem. I always had a skiff at my disposal because of that bug. -nB
Right, so all that is simple. Are you meaning that the bookmark is in the bookmark toolbar, or is it in the menu bar? I was under the impression that the icons are in the menu bar (you know file, edit history blah blah blah... bookmark icon, bookmark icon, etc). -nB
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There was a manager in my old company who would only hire H1B's when given the chance. If there wasn't an H1B available he would hire someone who was a citizen. Why? Because he was a sadistic asshole*, but an H1B can't complain, even to the cops, without fear of being immediately sent home and unable to get back in.
When I had a bad run-in with this manager he crucified my carrier, I went from being an outstanding employee 4 years in a row to being the bottom of the shit heap. This with an average increase in work output on my part. I learned just how many other managers he either had in his pocket, or had dirt on. I fought a good enough fight to get my review officially reversed, got a copy of my employee file, and left.
-nB
*Ex cop from the RSA who was part of the White minority rule, saw nothing wrong with it, and who repeatedly bragged about beating confessions out of people with a rubber hose deftly applied to the soles of the feet.
Only those above the sheeple advertiser intelligence index.
(they still on the air even? I remember watching survivor but man it was a long time ago (first season))
-nB
Good god a BSOD could be bad.
There is a treatment for Essential Tremor that involves electrical stimulation of the hypothalamus. You can only treat one side of an individual else they may lose the ability to speak. While I would hope this would improve treatment options (seeing as I have a moderate case), I would be fearful of the cpu latching up in some way or another.
-nB
Don't know the rules in your country, but in the states (CA at least) you can use staples, nails, whatever. The appartment can not bill you for "reasonable" wear and tear after a certain number of years (5 IIRC).
-nB
While I think you may have the letter of the law correct, the spirit is not.
:-)
If Disney offered replacements of DVDs such that you send in a borked DVD (or greater than 50% of it at least) then they send a replacement for $5.00, I'd be OK with that, and would happily enforce the "don't download" mantra. They don't so I don't.
Some time ago I bought my kids a copy of "Beauty and the Beast". It got damaged. I asked Disney for a replacement media and they said: "No. We suggest you buy a new copy."
Well if they want to argue that I am buying a license to the content, and not the disk as property, then they should replace said content if it becomes unreadable, as I've already paid the license. If OTOH they say I'm buying the disk, then it is mine and I should be able to copy it for backups as dictated by Fair Use. They can't have it both ways.
My final solution was to create a media server, rip and transcode all my CDs and DVDs to it, and stream the content over ethernet to every TV (and stereo) in my house, thus providing a video on demand system that really rocks. The head units are mod'd Xboxes running XBMC, total cost per TV/Radio is about $140 each. Radio is IP controlled so the server can send and start a playlist, no TV head required
-nB
Best sarcastic post ever. :-)
I have one of the biggest ISPs for DSL.
All I had to do was navigate to 3rd level tech support (admittedly a real challenge) to achieve the following:
Unlimited bandwith flag on my account (normally you start to see rate throttling around 4 gigs into the month).
Port 25 open.
Return loss data uploaded to my modem, unlocking that feature set of my modem.
Really wasn't hard to get them to do either, just politely requested each feature with a nominal justification:
Port 25 (I want to use my mailserver, not yours. I understand that you are worried about spam from your network, that's why I'm happy to call and ask you rather than being pissed off you're blocking ports)
Bandwith: (I create and share custom distros over BT, also indy content over BT and HTTP downloads)
Return loss: (I understand what all these numbers mean as I've been in TC R&D for the last 10 years. I won't need to call you over piddly stuff if I have these numbers and the ability to tweak gain at my end)
All in all no problem with bandwith or speed.
-nB
I live in an appt. All my cat 5 runs on the ceiling. The ceiling is white, the cable is white, the staples are white. ;)
People usually don't even notice till I point it out to them
-nB
There was a short blurb in Science News a couple months back about how an electrode array when placed on the tongue gave the participants a sense of sight. The electrode used the tongue to send impulses similar enough to visual signals for volunteers to discern a 3x3 matrix of on/off dots. Pretty cool stuff, though I'd pay dearly for infravision and/or ultrasound augmentation.
-nB
Well you just described me, two of my brothers, and most of my gang at work. (aside from the MU part).
/3 episodes back to back at a time and I'd pay it.
For my part my intensity of fandom is:
DrWho (started watching back when Tom Baker was starting to hit PBS in the states).
Firefly (and like any fanboi I'll overlook the movie).
Star Trek TNG/DS9.
Star Wars.
Release a movie from any of those franchises and you'll likely get a Hamilton from me as my wife and I line up for the cattle call at the movies, but the first two would have me turn into one of those freaks that line up early. Heck, release firefly onto the big screen $8.00
-nB
I figure on commuting till I get a local job again.
-nB
In california summers yes, though I would still suggest a two tank solution.
You start and stop on diesel (dino or bio). Once at temperature (about 5 miles) you can switch over to the straight veggie oil. About a mile out from your stop you switch back to diesel.
They run like a champ. Better on oil than diesel in fact. Cooler, quieter, better smelling, small hit in mileage (about 5-8%).
-nB
None of what you've said is in dispute other than the PJ actually conforming to it's box's description.
Quite likely I'm willing to bet it is a firmware issue, but none the less I've encountered *loads* of networking hardware that claims to be IEEE802.3 compliant but if you put a scope on it, the spectral shaping is obviously bad. Look at it as an FFT and you wonder how the hell it passed EMI compliance tests for a UL/CE mark. I could list a litany of other things that I've run into but it's superfluous to the discussion. I realize that this is not a PJ issue, just illustrating that vendors lie all the time.
And since the spec says "accept 1080i and like it", Sony didn't put in a down-scalar in the PS3. IM(NS)HO that is a design flaw.
-nB
Source Science News
Corn ~15% of the energy used to grow the crop ends up in fuel as ethanol
Soybeans ~93% of the energy used to grow the crop ends up in fuel as biodiesel.
both are energy negative but one (corn) is a whole lot more so (see prairie grass to ethanol for a better ratio by converting cellulose).
-nB
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Dude, give in.
The only thing protecting you from mobs of flamebait and troll mods is your UID.
As someone in the tech industry I would hate to tell you how many times a manufacturer violates any number of fine points in the spec yet claims to be spec compliant anyway. I have a feeling the projector issue is the same thing. Heck the website only takes the vendor at their word as to the supported specs.
Fact is there are several sets out there that only display 720p, and while they should accept 1080i and scale appropriately the truth of the matter is that they do not. Sony can claim "we designed to spec" and they did, but they should have supported 720p output because they know there are display devices out there that will not work when fed 1080(anything) (IIRC they had a set that was borked when downscaling themselves).
So, while I greatly enjoyed you two's display of (shill Vs rabid dog), (Pedant Vs. Techno freak) whatever. I think you may have lost this one.
-nB
Not entirely, there is such a thing as graft Vs host, whereby if the recipient receives too much blood the donor blood can attack the person's body. Yes you can strip the white cells, but this is slow and costly, the former prohibits doing it at time of need, the latter from doing it "just in case". Not normally an issue except when massive bleeding due to extreme trauma or bleeding disorder are present as below.
As the father of a type O son with hemophilia this is awesome news. Opens up a much wider source of blood should the worst happen, especially since my wife and I are neither type O, and my father in law, while type O is also hemophilic.
-nB
you are awesome and my official hero for the next 24 hrs
-nB
I liked the old ultima 6 bug of loading your companions.
If you told them to pick up something heavy then they would say "too heavy"
If you had something ungodly heavy you could pick it up and move it to them, no problem.
I always had a skiff at my disposal because of that bug.
-nB
Right, so all that is simple. ... bookmark icon, bookmark icon, etc).
Are you meaning that the bookmark is in the bookmark toolbar, or is it in the menu bar?
I was under the impression that the icons are in the menu bar (you know file, edit history blah blah blah
-nB
So....
how do you get the icons to fit in the menu bar?
I'm feeling stupid today.
-nB
you seem to have a bit of ping delay there...
-nB
I mean diet and propensity to walking over driving.
-nB
first we heard of this was our bank re-issuing visa cards for anyone who had shopped there in the past.
-nB