Diesel contains significantly more energy per gallon than gasoline, so "MPG" comparisons to gasoline vehicles are totally useless.
I have to disagree. The comparison may be imbalanced in terms of energy / volume, but as a consumer it is very useful because both can be reduced to miles per dollar.
Example:
Car-1 gets 27 MPG running gasoline. I pay $3.19 per gallon. $0.12 per mile
Car-2 gets 40 MPG running diesel. I pay $3.79 per gallon. $0.09 per mile
I can't say that I'd go so far as to join a conversation on 4-chan, but it's not hard to understand that talking to your fans instead of bashing them is the better sales strategy.
I'd rather be endorsed by a bespectacled, long-haired Japanese man in a tutu and leggings rocking out on a bass guitar than a police association any day.
Well, this is California...
We are far friendlier to alternative lifestyles than most. Heck, that isn't really all that "alternative" around here... its more like friday night at the coffee shop.
Ugh. I have heard nothing but bad things regarding Dell's individual service plans, but their business class is pretty darn good.
My experiences were always: call, give the service tag number, tell them what part was bad, part arrived next am, I installed it, put old part in box, affix prepaid return label, drop off with shipping dept, done.
I worked for a very large corporation that leased all of their computers from a major supplier. Whenever something broke in the machines, they would send it out for repair and would get replacements 1 month later. So whenever the power supply died on my computer, it would take 1 month to replace it.
A MONTH????
Grow up and get a decent service contract. One company I used to work for had a FOUR HOUR contract with HP. Even Dell's basic business class service is next business day.
Dell has better volume discounts than you ever will, both with Microsoft and the hardware manufacturers. They further offset this by bundling in a whole load of crapware on the default OS install.
Even after accounting for their profit margin and your time spent re-imaging the machines with a clean version of Windows, the cost from Dell compared to DIY for standard beige-box business machines should be somewhere between slightly cheaper and slightly more expensive; if it's the latter, a single point of contact for warranty issues is still perhaps worth the money. If it's the former, you win on all counts.
If you are a large customer, Dell sends you a machine, you do a clean install, create a standard image with just the software you want on your machines, send the image to Dell, and they put it on all the machines you order from them. No bloat, no time wasted customizing each machine, and no extra charge for the service. Its especially nice if you have multiple locations and want to have a standard configuration used across the board.
The New York Daily News [1919] didn't die with the death of Joseph Medill Patterson. The Daily Mail [1896] wasn't buried with Alfred Harmsworth, Viscount Northcliffe, in 1922.
It would appear that "The Great Man" theory of history is revived whenever it is convenient.
Actually, he's probably preserving some of these books from destruction.
He looks over 30 books that would have sold for a dollar- and if they failed to be sold, they would be recycled.
False.
If they are not sold at the thrift store or library sale, the books are sold in bulk to used book dealers, who then sort out any material that has value. Some books are sold online. Some of the books are passed on to textbook companies for use in schools. Some of the books are sorted to be resold in bulk overseas. Only after several additional sorts is the remainder sent on to be pulped and reprocessed.
I work for a company that is in the used book business. I meet with the people who run the local thrift stores, and the local friends-of-the-library sales. They are very open about why they don't welcome these people to their sales/stores.
The reason people with scanners are not welcome is because they are disruptive and rude to other patrons. Typically these people show up and are waiting when the doors open, they come in and lay claim to an entire section of shelves, or display table and begin sorting into piles by price-point. They stay for hours, and systematically move through the entire inventory. They take up a lot of space, prevent other customers from accessing the merchandise and leave a big mess behind for the staff to clean up.
The reason they don't scan the books and sell them online themselves is because they don't have the staff to do it. It is a great business as a sideline, easy to do, low overhead, moderate profitability. It is an enormous amount of work to do on a larger scale. Many of the chain thrift shops are expanding into online sales, but the smaller ones do not have the resources. Library sales are typically staffed by volunteers with one or two actual employees overseeing the process -they don't have the staff to do more.
It's one thing to require a drug test and background check for a job, but it's quite another to include in that background check data scraping off the net.
How odd... I have the complete opposite feeling.
Ask me to piss in a cup, or give a blood sample? No.
Pay a PI or data-mining company to give you a summary of whatever information is available online regarding me. Go for it.
But then again, I am a math/tech-geek. I know what kind of information is out there. I know that e-mail is as private as passing a note in grade school. I know that wi-fi is as private as shouting across a crowded room. I know that an A to B conversation can be spread by B to C, D, E, and Z if they choose. I find the mathematics behind data-mining interesting -probabilities and correlations. I know that visualizing and examining disparate data sets can provide the basis for behavior models.
Try working for yourself. Many small business need 'part-time, on-site' IT people who are 'generalists'. If you can handle some networking, server admin, hardware & software trouble shooting, etc, you can do very well for yourself.
Someone who knows what they are talking about & what they are doing can make a big difference to a small business. Small businesses talk and word of mouth will land you more work. You may end up with 5 - 10 hours a month here, 6 - 8 hours a month there, etc, etc, but it adds up and you get to control your workload and who you work for (don't like a client then you help them find someone else who is "better suited to their needs"). It pays the bills, gives you a flexible work schedule and gives you opportunities for remote work for you clients, research into new products or technologies, and many other learning opportunities (making you an even more informed and experienced generalist).
I did this for several years and loved it, then the bottom dropped out of the small business market, and most of my clients went under. Now I am an IT manager. I miss being independent.
Under the old system, you got a ticket. That immediately adjusted your perspective and behavior. Under the new systems, it can be up to 30 days before you get the fine.
I've often wondered, how exactly can you have unpaid interns in USA? Don't you have minium wage laws or something? Can they just be ignored if you say "Oh, we'll be hiring INTERNS for this McDonalds job..."
In the USA an internship is an educational experience. Much as we do not pay students to go to school, we do not pay interns. The intern is allowed a chance to experience the real world application of their area of study. If the intern is expected to contribute meaningfully to the business, then they should be paid, otherwise the company is really doing them a service.
Of course, over the years, business has corrupted the internship into an excuse to get free labor out of someone.
The relevant quote is: "In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is."
Indeed, back in the early days of engineering, that's how things were built, and it took many decades before the value of making plans and documenting them was recognized.
In many ways, we are still in the early days of IT.
Networks and systems have expanded at an incredible rate, and we are only now learning the lesson of planning and documentation. We knew conceptually that it was a good idea to have network diagrams, and to update our logs of where items were, but on a practical day-to-day basis it was lower priority than simply making it work.
What monitors do you recommend that have worthwhile vertical viewing angles? I tried rotating one of my screens but it seems the cheapo Dell displays at my office just aren't designed for above/below viewing. Makes me wonder who was on the design team that thought adding rotation to a cheap panel that has no vertical viewability was a good idea...
Samsung
HP (higher end models-cant recall the name of the product line)
Dell (ultrasharp series)
Cheap monitors aren't designed for rotation -its cheaper that way. But it's not hard to find good monitors. This is not the place to go budget-friendly. You spend many hours looking at the monitor, its worth the extra cash to get a good one.
Seriously, back up your data. Multiple copies in multiple locations.
These guys were smart enough to keep backups (hopefully up-to-date backups) so this is nothing more than an annoyance to them, but if they hadn't it would be what we refer to around here as a resume-generating-event.
Second this. You don't want the solution to be punitive to the infected computer owner, you want it to be disruptive to the botnet operators. A simple "your zombie PC has been disconnected, please contact us to reconnect" followed by instructions on cleaning malware would cut the problem in half. Added bonus, after it happened to them for the first time, the end user would hopefully wise up a bit about security and adopt minimum standards of prevention and safety.
This could be done in an acceptable manner:
Redirect ports 80, 443 to an ISP hosted page that warns you of infection, and provides simple information and tools for cleaning common infections (possibly including a free AV/firewall application) and a telephone number to call for reconnection of standard service.
Block all other ports.
Contact customer via telephone+e-mail to alternate e-mail address+snail mail to let them know of the situation.
It could also become a nightmare for customers if implemented poorly...
Because that works so well when the people you are fighting have endless supplies of money, and money is all the legal and political systems listen to.
It is an unfortunate situation but not a new one.
This is sounding more and more like the situation leading up to the french revolution. Those with power and money used their power and money to insure that the law was always on their side... right up until they were dragged from their homes and beheaded in the streets.
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Diesel contains significantly more energy per gallon than gasoline, so "MPG" comparisons to gasoline vehicles are totally useless.
I have to disagree. The comparison may be imbalanced in terms of energy / volume, but as a consumer it is very useful because both can be reduced to miles per dollar.
Example:
I hear this a lot... but I cannot buy one at a local dealership in the USA.
So they are irrelevant to me (and most of the rest of Slashdot's readers.)
I can't say that I'd go so far as to join a conversation on 4-chan, but it's not hard to understand that talking to your fans instead of bashing them is the better sales strategy.
I'd rather be endorsed by a bespectacled, long-haired Japanese man in a tutu and leggings rocking out on a bass guitar than a police association any day.
Well, this is California...
We are far friendlier to alternative lifestyles than most. Heck, that isn't really all that "alternative" around here... its more like friday night at the coffee shop.
New Adobe Acrobat Reader X!
Slower and more bloated than ever before!
New holes to exploit*!
(*old holes still included)
...yeah, I'll stick with Foxit Reader.
Ugh. I have heard nothing but bad things regarding Dell's individual service plans, but their business class is pretty darn good.
My experiences were always: call, give the service tag number, tell them what part was bad, part arrived next am, I installed it, put old part in box, affix prepaid return label, drop off with shipping dept, done.
I worked for a very large corporation that leased all of their computers from a major supplier. Whenever something broke in the machines, they would send it out for repair and would get replacements 1 month later. So whenever the power supply died on my computer, it would take 1 month to replace it.
A MONTH????
Grow up and get a decent service contract. One company I used to work for had a FOUR HOUR contract with HP. Even Dell's basic business class service is next business day.
Dell has better volume discounts than you ever will, both with Microsoft and the hardware manufacturers. They further offset this by bundling in a whole load of crapware on the default OS install.
Even after accounting for their profit margin and your time spent re-imaging the machines with a clean version of Windows, the cost from Dell compared to DIY for standard beige-box business machines should be somewhere between slightly cheaper and slightly more expensive; if it's the latter, a single point of contact for warranty issues is still perhaps worth the money. If it's the former, you win on all counts.
If you are a large customer, Dell sends you a machine, you do a clean install, create a standard image with just the software you want on your machines, send the image to Dell, and they put it on all the machines you order from them. No bloat, no time wasted customizing each machine, and no extra charge for the service. Its especially nice if you have multiple locations and want to have a standard configuration used across the board.
I'm a touch confused by this announcement.
Toyota already sells the Rav4 as a full EV. I see them on the road regularly. Several bay area cities use them as official vehicles.
On the other hand I am a Tesla fan, and I have owned several Toyotas so I see this partnership as a good thing.
The New York Daily News [1919] didn't die with the death of Joseph Medill Patterson. The Daily Mail [1896] wasn't buried with Alfred Harmsworth, Viscount Northcliffe, in 1922.
It would appear that "The Great Man" theory of history is revived whenever it is convenient.
I have never heard of any of them...
Actually, he's probably preserving some of these books from destruction.
He looks over 30 books that would have sold for a dollar- and if they failed to be sold, they would be recycled.
False.
If they are not sold at the thrift store or library sale, the books are sold in bulk to used book dealers, who then sort out any material that has value. Some books are sold online. Some of the books are passed on to textbook companies for use in schools. Some of the books are sorted to be resold in bulk overseas. Only after several additional sorts is the remainder sent on to be pulped and reprocessed.
I work for a company that is in the used book business. I meet with the people who run the local thrift stores, and the local friends-of-the-library sales. They are very open about why they don't welcome these people to their sales/stores.
The reason people with scanners are not welcome is because they are disruptive and rude to other patrons. Typically these people show up and are waiting when the doors open, they come in and lay claim to an entire section of shelves, or display table and begin sorting into piles by price-point. They stay for hours, and systematically move through the entire inventory. They take up a lot of space, prevent other customers from accessing the merchandise and leave a big mess behind for the staff to clean up.
The reason they don't scan the books and sell them online themselves is because they don't have the staff to do it. It is a great business as a sideline, easy to do, low overhead, moderate profitability. It is an enormous amount of work to do on a larger scale. Many of the chain thrift shops are expanding into online sales, but the smaller ones do not have the resources. Library sales are typically staffed by volunteers with one or two actual employees overseeing the process -they don't have the staff to do more.
It's one thing to require a drug test and background check for a job, but it's quite another to include in that background check data scraping off the net.
How odd... I have the complete opposite feeling.
Ask me to piss in a cup, or give a blood sample? No.
Pay a PI or data-mining company to give you a summary of whatever information is available online regarding me. Go for it.
But then again, I am a math/tech-geek. I know what kind of information is out there. I know that e-mail is as private as passing a note in grade school. I know that wi-fi is as private as shouting across a crowded room. I know that an A to B conversation can be spread by B to C, D, E, and Z if they choose. I find the mathematics behind data-mining interesting -probabilities and correlations. I know that visualizing and examining disparate data sets can provide the basis for behavior models.
Try working for yourself. Many small business need 'part-time, on-site' IT people who are 'generalists'. If you can handle some networking, server admin, hardware & software trouble shooting, etc, you can do very well for yourself.
Someone who knows what they are talking about & what they are doing can make a big difference to a small business. Small businesses talk and word of mouth will land you more work. You may end up with 5 - 10 hours a month here, 6 - 8 hours a month there, etc, etc, but it adds up and you get to control your workload and who you work for (don't like a client then you help them find someone else who is "better suited to their needs"). It pays the bills, gives you a flexible work schedule and gives you opportunities for remote work for you clients, research into new products or technologies, and many other learning opportunities (making you an even more informed and experienced generalist).
I did this for several years and loved it, then the bottom dropped out of the small business market, and most of my clients went under. Now I am an IT manager. I miss being independent.
Under the old system, you got a ticket. That immediately adjusted your perspective and behavior.
Under the new systems, it can be up to 30 days before you get the fine.
++insightful
method one is behavior modification.
method two is revenue generation.
Maybe we should start a swap program
I'd be fine with that, were it not for the fact that too many of your fellow Americans are crazy.
Why do you think we want to trade them away?
Computerworld couldn't find anything else to fill their pages with than this? I knew they were useless, but this is pretty sad.
I've often wondered, how exactly can you have unpaid interns in USA? Don't you have minium wage laws or something? Can they just be ignored if you say "Oh, we'll be hiring INTERNS for this McDonalds job..."
In the USA an internship is an educational experience. Much as we do not pay students to go to school, we do not pay interns. The intern is allowed a chance to experience the real world application of their area of study. If the intern is expected to contribute meaningfully to the business, then they should be paid, otherwise the company is really doing them a service.
Of course, over the years, business has corrupted the internship into an excuse to get free labor out of someone.
The relevant quote is: "In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is."
Indeed, back in the early days of engineering, that's how things were built, and it took many decades before the value of making plans and documenting them was recognized.
In many ways, we are still in the early days of IT.
Networks and systems have expanded at an incredible rate, and we are only now learning the lesson of planning and documentation. We knew conceptually that it was a good idea to have network diagrams, and to update our logs of where items were, but on a practical day-to-day basis it was lower priority than simply making it work.
lock doors until authorized tag enters.
In a data center.
With Halon based fire suppression.
Bad plan.
What monitors do you recommend that have worthwhile vertical viewing angles? I tried rotating one of my screens but it seems the cheapo Dell displays at my office just aren't designed for above/below viewing. Makes me wonder who was on the design team that thought adding rotation to a cheap panel that has no vertical viewability was a good idea...
Cheap monitors aren't designed for rotation -its cheaper that way. But it's not hard to find good monitors. This is not the place to go budget-friendly. You spend many hours looking at the monitor, its worth the extra cash to get a good one.
Seriously, back up your data. Multiple copies in multiple locations.
These guys were smart enough to keep backups (hopefully up-to-date backups) so this is nothing more than an annoyance to them, but if they hadn't it would be what we refer to around here as a resume-generating-event.
If it's worth keeping, its worth backing up.
Second this. You don't want the solution to be punitive to the infected computer owner, you want it to be disruptive to the botnet operators. A simple "your zombie PC has been disconnected, please contact us to reconnect" followed by instructions on cleaning malware would cut the problem in half. Added bonus, after it happened to them for the first time, the end user would hopefully wise up a bit about security and adopt minimum standards of prevention and safety.
This could be done in an acceptable manner:
It could also become a nightmare for customers if implemented poorly...
Because that works so well when the people you are fighting have endless supplies of money, and money is all the legal and political systems listen to.
It is an unfortunate situation but not a new one.
This is sounding more and more like the situation leading up to the french revolution. Those with power and money used their power and money to insure that the law was always on their side... right up until they were dragged from their homes and beheaded in the streets.
Agreed. Bomb threats, and DDoS attacks are dick moves, but if you harass over 16,000 people you should expect retaliation from someone.