I would like to propose a tax - 10% of any politician's annual income everytime they attempt to speak with their ass. As Rep. Fourkiller is apparently doing.
Unfortunately, that won't work. They don't attempt to speak with their asses; it just happens naturally.:-)
I'm already working an average of 50-60 hours a week, but my last review from my boss was "I need you to be available more". My jaw pretty much dropped to the floor. I'm salaried at way under my paygrade and have been a workhorse for the past few years just making the things that others break work and spending my evenings for the company. All the company has to say is "You're not doing enough".
Damned companies.
Was that the only bad thing your boss said?
In some organizations, if your boss can't find anything wrong with you, HR rules will state they have to find a nit to pick, no matter how minor; otherwise, you end up being perceived as having no growth potential, and (oddly enough) are more expendable than the employee who is just coasting by.
Of everything. Because this is a fine mist that will stick to everything, even your hands, shoes, clothes, socks, the bag, the tools, the stolen property. So you'd need to do a job and then ditch everything you have in a forensically secure way.
Or simply wear the same clothes to attack / burgle at least one other location that might use a similar spray.
In other words, what happens when the original layer is obscured by multiple, overlapping layers from some other site? Or, just as bad, if the layers mix, producing a chemical similar to, but sufficiently different from, the original layers?
Why do the movie companies believe that we want 3D? Heck, why do the television manufacturers believe that I'm willing to spend 2 grand more for it?
They, along with the electronics manufacturers, are hoping their marketing has convinced or will convince you to buy into 3D.
If more people show interest in paying extra to watch 3D versions of 2D movies, those same consumers might show interest in paying extra for the 3D extras on Blu-ray discs, for 3D-capable TVs, etc.
And, using word-of-mouth, they hope fanatical consumers will convert at least a percentage of the skeptics. The more converted skeptics, the faster the growth.
I understand CM well, but (and I hope you're exaggerating), if your IT team requires backout plans for "Install OS" as a deployment step, then someone needs to step in and reign in the bureaucrats.
Consider that, nowadays, most servers connect to some sort of network. If, during installation, something during the process impacts another server (incorrect network port settings, duplicate IP address, etc.), you may need to partially roll back the installation.
In other words, a backout plan.
This also is amongst the reasons why, at many larger organisations, you need an approved change/work order in order to enable a network port on a server-connected switch; if an improperly configured server is connected to an all-ready-enabled switch port, and (for example) a switch misconfiguration combined with the server misconfiguration causes excessive network traffic or routing issues upstream (what if the server misconfiguration included someone installing gated? Hey, I've seen worse happen), the network admin won't need to be paged; they're all ready there, due to the work order.
Newer DLSR's are pretty much moving in bulk to SD cards already. CF is already on the way out for pro gear.
Could you please name one pro-level DSLR that has moved to only SD. Or are you referring to dual-slot (SD + CF) camera bodies?
A CF card adaptor on the laptop would be far larger as well...
With simpler (and, I'm guessing, less expensive) less expensive electronics. Most CF-to-SATA adapters I've run across tend to be less expensive (and more robust) than the equivalent SD-to-SATA adapters. I'd have to guess that this is due to the simpler electronics on-board the CF-to-SATA adapters.
Oh, and really, a CF card isn't really that much wider than an SD card (Apple certainly could have compromised with a CF-SD-combo slot; narrower than an ExpressCard slot, but better suited for the professional digital photographer market).
There is a tipping point to the cement argument which is why you don't see it in truly cold locations like Canada. Cement roads have a longer lifespan than asphalt and it works out to be cheaper in some locations. In other locations,due frost, the ground moves too much to see the return on investment. In Canada where there is heavy frost every winter a cement road would still be required to be repaired every year but at a much greater cost due to the cracks caused by frost.
I take it your Canada doesn't include the Greater Toronto Area? (hint: Highway 407, parts of the Highway 410 extension and, until recently, most of Highway 427; and, they don't get repaired anywhere near once per year)
I never did get the Duke Hype, it was outdated as soon as it was released.
The gameplay was very far from perfect, and the pseudo-3D engine looked bad compared to Quake's actual 3D (which came out a few months later). But it did have some cool bits... strippers, a wicked sense of humor, and a badass theme song.
...And it was runnable on much lesser hardware. Attempting to run a graphically superior game is painful when you're getting frame rates below 5 per second.
If the automotive industry operated the same way, you would be forced to only buy service and parts from "authorized" centers and distributors.
The industry *still* operates this way. Ever attempted to have an independent repair shop perform an OBD-II diagnostic test on a higher-end automobile?
Oh sure, there's nothing preventing the independent shop from retrieving the codes from an OBD-II tool, but without the necessary manuafacturer documentation, good luck determining what the codes mean.
The Canadian government essentially permits this, for example, if you drive across the border with a truck full of DVDs, the Canadian customs agents can't stop you without getting a warrant.
Of course they can't; you'll only deal with a Canadian custom agent if you're coming into Canada. The Canadian government is not responsible for policing entry into the US, the same as the US is not responsible for policing entry into Canada.
To the contrary, I know a local company that deployed an IBM iSeries (previously AS/400) mainframe in their main office, serving two other locations connected via a metropolitan-area T1 line.
Just a small nit to pick. The iSeries product line is mini computers, not mainframe; that would fall under the zSeries brand.
The machine itself was pretty expensive, yet covered by a 5 or 10 year (can't remember) warranty. The machine would actually call a support technician out to the site whenever it detected an issue with itself, and this has kept their uptime at an astonishing rate, aided by a decent UPS and the hot-swappable hardware.
Parts of this also exist in their pSeries (Unix-class) product line. If I experience a serious adapter error in a management-console-connected server, a call will be dispatched to IBM. It won't be as fast as for their iSeries or zSeries products (or their enterprise-class storage systems, such as the DS8300), but it'll typically result in an under-24-hours resolution time (manually dispatched, however).
Oh, and our local Solaris admins freak out when they discover that, even on our older hardware (some of which is older than five years), I can do things such as replace a failed fiber channel adapter online, without our end users even noticing that I've done anything.
But this is the support I've come to associate IBM with, can't speak for their phone support although everyone seems to outsource to India for phone support these days (a problem I have frequently with Cisco).
Not sure about IBM US, but whenever you call for Canadian support, it most definitely routes through one of a few Canadian call centres (typically Markham, Ontario, if you're in the Greater Toronto Area; calls also get routed to support personnel in BC and Montreal).
I'm guessing IBM's going to kill AIX and maybe even the p-series servers now.
Kill the hardware that's common to both the iSeries and pSeries (and I'm not certain how much of the hardware also is shared with the zSeries)? Doubtful.
Oh, and they'd have to be complete idiots to get rid of their "lessons learned from our mainframe heritage" PowerVM hardware/software/hypervisor offering. I've not found a truly competing offering from any other company (HP's isn't anywhere close, and Sun's is getting there, but still has a lot of growing to do).
My question is, does IBM want Solaris, the hardware business, Java, or do they just want to get rid of a competitor?
Probably the latter. I've been looking at this for the past couple of weeks, and cannot think of anything that IBM need from Sun.
Well, maybe the StorageTEK line, but even that's a direct competitor to most of IBM's physical and virtual tape storage solutions.
How many thousands of employees on both the IBM and Sun side are going to get kicked out over this?
You mean, aside from the thousands of employees IBM all ready has laid off over the past month?
One thing that IBM *won't* do is fail to find ways to monetize what they acquire from Sun.
The most significant reason Sun find themselves in their current situation is that they've never been able to figure out that (*gasp*) there's money to be made in things like *support*.
Around here (Toronto, Canada), Sun (in fact) would rather companies get Sun support (hardware, OS, or even application software) via third parties such as Kanatek (I know I'm spelling it wrong). IBM, on the other hand, *love* providing support, because they know enough to make a pretty penny from it.
As a result, from a *large business customer* standpoint, this potential buyout would be a *good* thing. I know of at least a few large companies which would *love* to pay IBM for, say, first-tier Java support on Linux. Or IBM support of Solaris. One prime example of an IBM-acquired company that IBM ended up providing superior support for was Adstar (makers of Adstar Distributed Storage Manager - ADSM, now known as Tivoli Storage Manager).
Me, personally: Firefox, 49 tabs, VM size (Windows XP) is over 450 MB.
To be fair, however, Outlook currently is taking over 300 MB VM too (!).
I realise that this is a large number of tabs, but still...
Actually the raised floors were not a requirement. It was just a hell of a lot neater for running all the cables.
Not to mention, more efficient for cooling purposes (place the mainframe over a series of those special grid tiles, and the air flows directly up into, or down out of, the frame).
but for home use there is no better option than VirtualBox.
Unless, of course, you manage to hit the "guest CPU utilisation never drops below 25%, even when the guest is idle, on a dual-core processor, using either a FreeBSD or Linux guest, on a Windows XP host" bug.
*sigh*
This, and the fact that there have been at least two separate tickets opened for this issue for several months, are the reasons I went back to VMware.
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I would like to propose a tax - 10% of any politician's annual income everytime they attempt to speak with their ass. As Rep. Fourkiller is apparently doing.
Unfortunately, that won't work. They don't attempt to speak with their asses; it just happens naturally. :-)
The full tank of gas is a payoff to the owner to keep his mouth shut.
Worked beautifully, I see. :-)
I'm already working an average of 50-60 hours a week, but my last review from my boss was "I need you to be available more". My jaw pretty much dropped to the floor. I'm salaried at way under my paygrade and have been a workhorse for the past few years just making the things that others break work and spending my evenings for the company. All the company has to say is "You're not doing enough". Damned companies.
Was that the only bad thing your boss said?
In some organizations, if your boss can't find anything wrong with you, HR rules will state they have to find a nit to pick, no matter how minor; otherwise, you end up being perceived as having no growth potential, and (oddly enough) are more expendable than the employee who is just coasting by.
Of everything. Because this is a fine mist that will stick to everything, even your hands, shoes, clothes, socks, the bag, the tools, the stolen property. So you'd need to do a job and then ditch everything you have in a forensically secure way.
Or simply wear the same clothes to attack / burgle at least one other location that might use a similar spray.
In other words, what happens when the original layer is obscured by multiple, overlapping layers from some other site? Or, just as bad, if the layers mix, producing a chemical similar to, but sufficiently different from, the original layers?
We paid for the phone, we should be able to use it how we see fit.
Actually, no, you didn't pay for the phone, at least not all of it. You paid $200, and AT&T paid more to Apple as a subsidy.
You're missing two exceptions: when it's an iPod, or when it's an iPhone 4 that was purchased factory unlocked directly from Apple.
Either way, neither Apple nor a telco is subsidizing the purchase.
Why do the movie companies believe that we want 3D? Heck, why do the television manufacturers believe that I'm willing to spend 2 grand more for it?
They, along with the electronics manufacturers, are hoping their marketing has convinced or will convince you to buy into 3D.
If more people show interest in paying extra to watch 3D versions of 2D movies, those same consumers might show interest in paying extra for the 3D extras on Blu-ray discs, for 3D-capable TVs, etc.
And, using word-of-mouth, they hope fanatical consumers will convert at least a percentage of the skeptics. The more converted skeptics, the faster the growth.
Do they mean Dual Processor? I've never heard the term 2P server before.
My guess would be 2-partition (as in, two virtual partitions on a single physical server).
I understand CM well, but (and I hope you're exaggerating), if your IT team requires backout plans for "Install OS" as a deployment step, then someone needs to step in and reign in the bureaucrats.
Consider that, nowadays, most servers connect to some sort of network. If, during installation, something during the process impacts another server (incorrect network port settings, duplicate IP address, etc.), you may need to partially roll back the installation.
In other words, a backout plan.
This also is amongst the reasons why, at many larger organisations, you need an approved change/work order in order to enable a network port on a server-connected switch; if an improperly configured server is connected to an all-ready-enabled switch port, and (for example) a switch misconfiguration combined with the server misconfiguration causes excessive network traffic or routing issues upstream (what if the server misconfiguration included someone installing gated? Hey, I've seen worse happen), the network admin won't need to be paged; they're all ready there, due to the work order.
Newer DLSR's are pretty much moving in bulk to SD cards already. CF is already on the way out for pro gear.
Could you please name one pro-level DSLR that has moved to only SD. Or are you referring to dual-slot (SD + CF) camera bodies?
A CF card adaptor on the laptop would be far larger as well...
With simpler (and, I'm guessing, less expensive) less expensive electronics. Most CF-to-SATA adapters I've run across tend to be less expensive (and more robust) than the equivalent SD-to-SATA adapters. I'd have to guess that this is due to the simpler electronics on-board the CF-to-SATA adapters.
Oh, and really, a CF card isn't really that much wider than an SD card (Apple certainly could have compromised with a CF-SD-combo slot; narrower than an ExpressCard slot, but better suited for the professional digital photographer market).
There is a tipping point to the cement argument which is why you don't see it in truly cold locations like Canada. Cement roads have a longer lifespan than asphalt and it works out to be cheaper in some locations. In other locations ,due frost, the ground moves too much to see the return on investment. In Canada where there is heavy frost every winter a cement road would still be required to be repaired every year but at a much greater cost due to the cracks caused by frost.
I take it your Canada doesn't include the Greater Toronto Area? (hint: Highway 407, parts of the Highway 410 extension and, until recently, most of Highway 427; and, they don't get repaired anywhere near once per year)
...that Trent could use a warm blankie.
Funny, you don't look like Tori Amos. lol.
The gameplay was very far from perfect, and the pseudo-3D engine looked bad compared to Quake's actual 3D (which came out a few months later). But it did have some cool bits... strippers, a wicked sense of humor, and a badass theme song.
...And it was runnable on much lesser hardware. Attempting to run a graphically superior game is painful when you're getting frame rates below 5 per second.
If the automotive industry operated the same way, you would be forced to only buy service and parts from "authorized" centers and distributors.
The industry *still* operates this way. Ever attempted to have an independent repair shop perform an OBD-II diagnostic test on a higher-end automobile?
Oh sure, there's nothing preventing the independent shop from retrieving the codes from an OBD-II tool, but without the necessary manuafacturer documentation, good luck determining what the codes mean.
Tim Hortons has locations in parts of New York State (especially around Buffalo) and (if memory serves) Virginia.
The Canadian government essentially permits this, for example, if you drive across the border with a truck full of DVDs, the Canadian customs agents can't stop you without getting a warrant.
Of course they can't; you'll only deal with a Canadian custom agent if you're coming into Canada. The Canadian government is not responsible for policing entry into the US, the same as the US is not responsible for policing entry into Canada.
To the contrary, I know a local company that deployed an IBM iSeries (previously AS/400) mainframe in their main office, serving two other locations connected via a metropolitan-area T1 line.
Just a small nit to pick. The iSeries product line is mini computers, not mainframe; that would fall under the zSeries brand.
The machine itself was pretty expensive, yet covered by a 5 or 10 year (can't remember) warranty. The machine would actually call a support technician out to the site whenever it detected an issue with itself, and this has kept their uptime at an astonishing rate, aided by a decent UPS and the hot-swappable hardware.
Parts of this also exist in their pSeries (Unix-class) product line. If I experience a serious adapter error in a management-console-connected server, a call will be dispatched to IBM. It won't be as fast as for their iSeries or zSeries products (or their enterprise-class storage systems, such as the DS8300), but it'll typically result in an under-24-hours resolution time (manually dispatched, however).
Oh, and our local Solaris admins freak out when they discover that, even on our older hardware (some of which is older than five years), I can do things such as replace a failed fiber channel adapter online, without our end users even noticing that I've done anything.
But this is the support I've come to associate IBM with, can't speak for their phone support although everyone seems to outsource to India for phone support these days (a problem I have frequently with Cisco).
Not sure about IBM US, but whenever you call for Canadian support, it most definitely routes through one of a few Canadian call centres (typically Markham, Ontario, if you're in the Greater Toronto Area; calls also get routed to support personnel in BC and Montreal).
I'm guessing IBM's going to kill AIX and maybe even the p-series servers now.
Kill the hardware that's common to both the iSeries and pSeries (and I'm not certain how much of the hardware also is shared with the zSeries)? Doubtful.
Oh, and they'd have to be complete idiots to get rid of their "lessons learned from our mainframe heritage" PowerVM hardware/software/hypervisor offering. I've not found a truly competing offering from any other company (HP's isn't anywhere close, and Sun's is getting there, but still has a lot of growing to do).
My question is, does IBM want Solaris, the hardware business, Java, or do they just want to get rid of a competitor?
Probably the latter. I've been looking at this for the past couple of weeks, and cannot think of anything that IBM need from Sun.
Well, maybe the StorageTEK line, but even that's a direct competitor to most of IBM's physical and virtual tape storage solutions.
How many thousands of employees on both the IBM and Sun side are going to get kicked out over this?
You mean, aside from the thousands of employees IBM all ready has laid off over the past month?
The most significant reason Sun find themselves in their current situation is that they've never been able to figure out that (*gasp*) there's money to be made in things like *support*.
Around here (Toronto, Canada), Sun (in fact) would rather companies get Sun support (hardware, OS, or even application software) via third parties such as Kanatek (I know I'm spelling it wrong). IBM, on the other hand, *love* providing support, because they know enough to make a pretty penny from it.
As a result, from a *large business customer* standpoint, this potential buyout would be a *good* thing. I know of at least a few large companies which would *love* to pay IBM for, say, first-tier Java support on Linux. Or IBM support of Solaris. One prime example of an IBM-acquired company that IBM ended up providing superior support for was Adstar (makers of Adstar Distributed Storage Manager - ADSM, now known as Tivoli Storage Manager).
Me, personally: Firefox, 49 tabs, VM size (Windows XP) is over 450 MB. To be fair, however, Outlook currently is taking over 300 MB VM too (!). I realise that this is a large number of tabs, but still...
Actually the raised floors were not a requirement. It was just a hell of a lot neater for running all the cables.
Not to mention, more efficient for cooling purposes (place the mainframe over a series of those special grid tiles, and the air flows directly up into, or down out of, the frame).
but for home use there is no better option than VirtualBox.
Unless, of course, you manage to hit the "guest CPU utilisation never drops below 25%, even when the guest is idle, on a dual-core processor, using either a FreeBSD or Linux guest, on a Windows XP host" bug. *sigh* This, and the fact that there have been at least two separate tickets opened for this issue for several months, are the reasons I went back to VMware.
...And 2 Offtopic. Keep going, maybe you'll collect 'em all! :D
Dumbass, didn't anybody teach you that it's a result of the Stork bringing home little baby planets? :)
On a somewhat related note, am I the only one who saw the title and first thought, "What does a bittorrent link site have to do with planets?" :o
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