The DoD says typical soldier going out for a four-day mission carries as much as 40 pounds of batteries and rechargers in his pack and it wants to fix that. I would guess that ~40lbs of batteries/charger lasts around 4 days. Probably more like 5 or 6 in reality as you wouldn't want to be cutting it that close. Just a guesstimate based on that quote as I'm not in the military and have no experience with this stuff. You wouldn't want it to be power for too much longer than the intended length of the mission as that would be a lot of extra weight to be lugging around for (hopefully) no reason.
3rd one here. My first two I exchanged before they all out died, but they were both getting disc read errors regularly after only a couple of weeks. I couldn't play for 2 hours without a disc read error requiring me to reboot and had slow loading (in Oblivion the normally 1-2 second at most loading times that just say 'loading area' or whatever would take 30+ seconds, full loading screens 2-3 minutes at times) and jumpy video any time the disc had to be read.
Another friend of mine is on his 4th one for the same issues.
Another friend is also on his 3rd. Started out like mine, eventually wouldn't read any discs so he sent it in for repair. Got it back and got RRoD within a week. Sent it in again and got a refurb back.
I love the games on my 360 but damn, these things are crap. I'll probably pick up the improved model after they drop in price in a year or two as I really don't expect the current one to last more than a few years.
There are plenty of things to dig Microsoft about, but I'm afraid there's no delicious irony in an Ubuntu user validating their copy as Windows.
Other than that being able to validate as genuine windows doesn't mean anything. What's to stop these same manufacturers that MS is trying to stop from just using one of the many ways around WGA on each of the computers they sell or install at the office?
Honestly, I have my doubts that it's really that big of a problem. I can't imagine that happens much outside of mom and pop shops that aren't exactly selling thousands or even hundreds of new computers per day.
So the thought is: you (or your mom, or gramma) buy a PC from one of these guys, you find out that they sold you a computer with a bogus copy of Windows, and you no longer do business with them. And you tell your friends, and they don't do business with them.
And the person who thought they legitimately paid for everything is stuck unable to get updates they may want and paid for unless they buy Windows again. Awesome.
While within their rights to do, it's stupid and only hurts the valid users in the end, which is really what most people's complaint is. Personally, I'm going to keep right on complaining about it.
the Einstein-Rosen-Podolsky bridge doesn't allow time travel. It allows you to travel to parallel universes but at the SAME time as it is in your universe.
So why is it that the only way to reject an agreement by the hardware manufacturer is to cancel the contract with the shop you bought it from?
At least in the case of broken/faulty items the store then returns the item to the manufacturer for a refund. I'd be interested to find out if the store is able to do the same when it's returned because someone doesn't like the license rather than because it's actually faulty. They "should" be able to, no reason for the store to have to take a loss and sell the item at a 10% discount or whatever as an open item because the manufacturer is lazy about how they deal with customers not liking the license, but "should" and "how things really are" frequently end up different.
My point, as bluntly as possible, is that I did not expect anybody to actually think I meant those are literally, word for word, what should be said. I expected it to be rather clear without me specifically stating it that your exact wording you use would depend on a variety of things, including the age and personality of the child, what the words are, your own personal feelings on those words, and if your child is named Little Bobby or not.
Even if he's thinking of OpenOffice, it's not that hard to get working. Install X server, which is the same as installing any other native Mac app and comes on the OS X discs, then install OO pretty much the same as any other Mac app if I remember right. If you're capable of following clearly written directions and/or technically capable/familiar with X, you then go comment out one line in a config to not have the xterm pop-up if you don't want it.
I'm sorry, I suppose I should have typed out a full conversation as opposed to the quite clearly dumbed down version to get the general point across that the parent should take the time to explain this stuff rather than just avoid it altogether due to government regulation. That was clearly my fault for assuming everyone was smart enough to figure that out.
For those not going to read the attached article (or who didn't the first time around), in the end the phone rep was mistaken and misunderstood the policy and HP handled the hardware repair under warranty.
Yeah, because there is nothing cooler than hearing a two year old kid say "Fuck".
Are you arguing that censorship to protect the children IS a good thing?
While I tend to believe that the first amendment is more to protect our right to express any IDEA we want rather than say any specific word we want at any time, I still think that the FCC limiting this shit is stupid.
Here's a better idea. Parent: "Little Bobby, that show/movie/whatever is inappropriate, let's watch this instead." Then change the channel.
or perhaps Parent: "Little Bobby, I know they say those words on TV but those are actual bad things to say and some people find them very offensive. You shouldn't say those words."
You know, kind of like how parents are supposed to raise their children and teach them the difference between right and wrong.
Along with turning the syntax highlighting off completely as others have shown, you can add 'set background=dark' to your.vimrc. This changes the color scheme of the highlighting to colors that you can actually read with the black background.
http://www.register4less.com/ is pretty good, too. That is who I transferred all of my domains to a couple years ago. Nice clean interface, private registration included in the registration costs, and a monthly or weekly (I don't remember which) changing contact e-mail address which forwards to your real e-mail in case it gets harvested by spam bots.
Theres a lot of hate for Godaddy. I thought I was the only one. Personally, Godaddy reminds me of Ronco, Vonage, or perhaps Lesko. Their marketing division is at least on par with those three.
I've moved all of my domains that were once registered with godaddy for exactly that reason.
On an unrelated note, who wears a suit covered in question marks?
The Riddler.
No, I know who you're talking about, can't remember his name for the life of me, though.
I should have previewed my post to make sure it made sense. I didn't quote that in a way that got across what I meant to. I didn't intend to argue against the point that you quoted (although it certainly looks like I was trying to), only the intended meaning by the author of that line/lines about why to tell women about the benefits beyond security and promotion vs what to tell men.
for a long time, television producers targeted most prime time programming at men. This has changed somewhat as advertisers have realized that women spend much or most of household income. Yet it demonstrates that whole industries can remain wedded to mistaken stereotypes even when money is on the line.
That sounds perfectly reasonable and likely to be true to me.
Not that simple. Companies want *paid* experience above all else. If you don't have paid experience, it often doesn't matter much if you memorized the book (unless you get lucky or find a backdoor).
This is all too true. I had to fight with this problem for about 6 months awhile back. I got hired as a tier 2-3ish support guy who would also do some shell (primarily Korn and sh) and Tcl coding (along with some Javascript and had I stayed longer, possibly some C and some VB eventually). I was very lucky and they picked me for it due to my hobby perl and bash experience. A year and a half later I was lucky and was hired away (that last one was contract and going to end sometime) into a full time Perl dev position due to my hobby Perl experience and professional Tcl experience. Then there was the great layoff of '06.
I went home, saw there was fuck all demand locally for Perl, Tcl, or C (unless you had 3-5 years experience with embedded C apps in robotics, which I only had some fairly basic hobby experience in C). There was quite the demand for C# and ASP.Net stuff, though. I thought to myself "Cool, I'll learn me some of that newfangled C# stuff. I'd been wanting to for fun anyway and now I've got both a reason and time to do it". No one cared. All of my C# was hobby programming. It didn't matter that I had code examples and a couple years professional experience developing in other languages, I didn't have professional experience in C#. No, that wasn't an assumption I made due to not getting jobs, that's what I was directly told by multiple recruiters, in case that's what anyone here was thinking.
I spent the next 6 months honing my Perl, C, C#, and PHP skills while getting turned down left and right for everything that wasn't Perl due to lack of professional experience and seeing very little in the way of Perl unless I was willing to relocate halfway across the country for a 3 month contract. Fortunately, I was picked up again by the place that had laid me off in a more senior level Perl dev position.
Now I'm trying to solve the problem of how to get my employer to pay me to improve my skills in or pick up another language so that if I have to look for work again I have something more than Perl and Tcl to bring to the table as languages I've got professional experience with.
I believe you have misread the passage. As my emphasis indicates, the problem is with the perceptions of human-resources personnel. Look, for a long time, television producers targeted most prime time programming at men. This has changed somewhat as advertisers have realized that women spend much or most of household income. Yet it demonstrates that whole industries can remain wedded to mistaken stereotypes even when money is on the line.
I'm not so sure about that.
The typical recruiters sales pitch emphasizing job promotion and security acts to keep women out of the information technology jobs, according to a Penn State research study of 92 female IT practitioners.
Human-resources personnel need to recognize that women have diverse values and motivations throughout their careers and tailor hiring and retention practices to fit those needs, said Eileen Trauth, professor of information sciences and technology in Penn State's College of Information Sciences and Technology, who authored the paper What Do Women Want": An Investigation of Career Anchors among Women in the IT Workforce.
When combined with the paragraph (well, really just a sentence) before it, it says to me "Recruiters talk about the security and advancement because that's what brings in the applications from men. Women want more than that from a job, though, and so do not get interested in the jobs based on these descriptions."
The big flaw I see in the article is that it doesn't provide comparable statistics for men. Many of the comments here reading the results as claiming that women in particular want this or that, when in fact some of these motivations might be even more prevalent among men.
That I completely agree with and said a similar thing in one of the other posts in here. I believe many men would be interested in some of the other good aspects of a job, and perhaps be willing to give up some of the pay/security/advancement for other benefits, especially as more and more women are working in higher paying jobs making it less critical that the man be bringing in as much money as possible at all times.
While that's not quite true, it's far more accurate when describing a man than a woman. Socially, men are judged and measured by their occupation and potential as a provider. If a man works a laid-back, 25 hour a week part-time job because his spouse allows him to do so, he's a lazy bum; for a woman, it's a perfectly acceptable decision as far as society is concerned (although how an individual woman feels about it is up to her).
Far and above all other standards, men want a decent salary and job security, and they're willing to put up with a lot of crap to get it. According to Department of Labor statistics, for example, 90% of on-the-job deaths are men, and men work more hours both in fullt-ime and part-time jobs than women; Men will take the dangerous, filthy, and more time-intensive jobs because of the extra pay associated with them.
I see what you're saying here. In context of the article, that's not the impression I got, though. I got the impression the author was saying men just want power and money and are savages (well, maybe not savages). Women are sensitive and complex and have a lot of other needs and desires to consider. Perhaps I'm just a bitter old bastard, but that's how I read it.
Purely in response to you, I have say I both agree and disagree.
Yes, I want those things, as do most other men I want. On the other hand, I would think the same extra perks that would attract women to a job are also likely to attract a man to that same job. This is assuming everything being equal other than what the recruiter specifically says about the job, as the article suggest to me, I would think a man would also go "Woah, plus good vacation time and normal hours? Hot damn, where do I sign up?" We may accept the potentially shittier yet higher paying job because that's our duty in society to be able to support our family, but we're just as interested in those other perks if we can get them, I'd imagine.
Our differences here could all be in our personal interpretations of what the author meant to say,though.
Women certainly value good pay and stability, and this study isn't questioning that. Rather, it is saying that opening a book and saying, "Look ladies, we have good pay and stability" isn't the deal maker that it is for men. Socially, women can afford (more than men) to demand additional perks from a job. We're all familiar with the list: flexible hours, jobs that focus more on interpersonal communication, etc. Again, a total generalization but true when looked at as a total generalization.
Are we sure that the jobs that aren't advertising those things actually offer them? Maybe they don't talk about the flexible hours and interpersonal communication because what the employer wants is for the employee to stfu and get the code written/servers working/whatever before they go home today, however many hours that might take, and to get up and fix the thing at 2am if that's when it breaks. In exchange for that, you get pretty decent pay, to play with cool tech toys, and chances for promotion. I've worked as everything from phone support to tier 2-3 server and app support to a developer in companies ranging from 20K employees down to 100 employees worldwide in a local office of 10 people. In all of them, that most accurately described IT. The pay was good, but you might be pulling a 12-14 hour shift with no warning any time and you might have to wake up at 3am after that 12 hour shift to fix something else if you were really unlucky.
If those other things truly a benefit/selling point of the job, then it should be advertised to everyone. Not just women so that women can be hired, but to everyone, so that everyone knows what the job offers and can decide if they want it or not.
Human-resources personnel need to recognize that women have diverse values and motivations throughout their careers and tailor hiring and retention practices to fit those needs
Unlike men, who apparently only have a single value and motivation for choosing their career.
Really, I don't get the whole article. They claim there's not many women in IT because recruiters tout the chances for promotion and job security. I have my doubts that anyone, male or female, goes "Man, this job has security and I likely won't be looking for work in 3 months? Well the hell with that. I don't want this job." As to the chances for promotion, does that not fit right in line with the women interviewed and quoted who say they want to move up into IT management?
And then of course there is a question that I always have. If there were few women in IT because they were being told they are too stupid to understand computer or something, I get how that would be a problem. If there's not many women in IT because the type of work and the rewards that IT jobs typically offer are not what many women want, though, then what's the big deal?
On top of the scenarios already mentioned, there's also the lazy Linux geek, such as myself. As I get older and have less and less free time for screwing around with tweaking things to be exactly how I want/like them and less desire to do so because I just spent all day screwing with this stuff, this sort of thing appeals to me more and more.
Are all of my computers going to be Dells with pre-installed Linux in the future? Probably not. There will probably always be 1 or 2 custom built boxes with Linux running just the packages I want with custom builds of the apps, etc. On the other hand, this sort of thing could very easily replace my current Windows box that I keep around for playing WoW (once I don't have to shell out a monthly fee for Cedega, if that ever happens). I do infrequent hardware upgrades and mostly want it to just work, much along the lines of my game consoles. Assuming hardware of decent quality, being able to order a pre-built with Linux on it instead of Windows brings it a step closer to that. It's certainly cheaper than going to a Mac, which is what was the plan for after my current Windows machine is no longer useable.
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Two mediocre employees do not equil one good employee, in fact just the opposite.The opposite... One good employee equals two mediocre ones?
The DoD says typical soldier going out for a four-day mission carries as much as 40 pounds of batteries and rechargers in his pack and it wants to fix that.
I would guess that ~40lbs of batteries/charger lasts around 4 days. Probably more like 5 or 6 in reality as you wouldn't want to be cutting it that close. Just a guesstimate based on that quote as I'm not in the military and have no experience with this stuff. You wouldn't want it to be power for too much longer than the intended length of the mission as that would be a lot of extra weight to be lugging around for (hopefully) no reason.
Wouldn't that be a Squarrot, though?
3rd one here. My first two I exchanged before they all out died, but they were both getting disc read errors regularly after only a couple of weeks. I couldn't play for 2 hours without a disc read error requiring me to reboot and had slow loading (in Oblivion the normally 1-2 second at most loading times that just say 'loading area' or whatever would take 30+ seconds, full loading screens 2-3 minutes at times) and jumpy video any time the disc had to be read.
Another friend of mine is on his 4th one for the same issues.
Another friend is also on his 3rd. Started out like mine, eventually wouldn't read any discs so he sent it in for repair. Got it back and got RRoD within a week. Sent it in again and got a refurb back.
I love the games on my 360 but damn, these things are crap. I'll probably pick up the improved model after they drop in price in a year or two as I really don't expect the current one to last more than a few years.
Damn, I was hoping I would get to be the first to comment on that.
Interesting, I hadn't heard that but I certainly hope it's true. It's nice to hear about MS doing the right thing once in a while.
Other than that being able to validate as genuine windows doesn't mean anything. What's to stop these same manufacturers that MS is trying to stop from just using one of the many ways around WGA on each of the computers they sell or install at the office?
Honestly, I have my doubts that it's really that big of a problem. I can't imagine that happens much outside of mom and pop shops that aren't exactly selling thousands or even hundreds of new computers per day.
And the person who thought they legitimately paid for everything is stuck unable to get updates they may want and paid for unless they buy Windows again. Awesome.
While within their rights to do, it's stupid and only hurts the valid users in the end, which is really what most people's complaint is. Personally, I'm going to keep right on complaining about it.
the Einstein-Rosen-Podolsky bridge doesn't allow time travel. It allows you to travel to parallel universes but at the SAME time as it is in your universe.
At least in the case of broken/faulty items the store then returns the item to the manufacturer for a refund. I'd be interested to find out if the store is able to do the same when it's returned because someone doesn't like the license rather than because it's actually faulty. They "should" be able to, no reason for the store to have to take a loss and sell the item at a 10% discount or whatever as an open item because the manufacturer is lazy about how they deal with customers not liking the license, but "should" and "how things really are" frequently end up different.
My point, as bluntly as possible, is that I did not expect anybody to actually think I meant those are literally, word for word, what should be said. I expected it to be rather clear without me specifically stating it that your exact wording you use would depend on a variety of things, including the age and personality of the child, what the words are, your own personal feelings on those words, and if your child is named Little Bobby or not.
Even if he's thinking of OpenOffice, it's not that hard to get working. Install X server, which is the same as installing any other native Mac app and comes on the OS X discs, then install OO pretty much the same as any other Mac app if I remember right. If you're capable of following clearly written directions and/or technically capable/familiar with X, you then go comment out one line in a config to not have the xterm pop-up if you don't want it.
I'm sorry, I suppose I should have typed out a full conversation as opposed to the quite clearly dumbed down version to get the general point across that the parent should take the time to explain this stuff rather than just avoid it altogether due to government regulation. That was clearly my fault for assuming everyone was smart enough to figure that out.
This wouldn't be the first time we've seen a phone rep make an incorrect statement about hardware support/warranty when Linux is installed.
For those not going to read the attached article (or who didn't the first time around), in the end the phone rep was mistaken and misunderstood the policy and HP handled the hardware repair under warranty.
While I tend to believe that the first amendment is more to protect our right to express any IDEA we want rather than say any specific word we want at any time, I still think that the FCC limiting this shit is stupid.
Here's a better idea.
Parent: "Little Bobby, that show/movie/whatever is inappropriate, let's watch this instead." Then change the channel.
or perhaps
Parent: "Little Bobby, I know they say those words on TV but those are actual bad things to say and some people find them very offensive. You shouldn't say those words."
You know, kind of like how parents are supposed to raise their children and teach them the difference between right and wrong.
Along with turning the syntax highlighting off completely as others have shown, you can add 'set background=dark' to your .vimrc. This changes the color scheme of the highlighting to colors that you can actually read with the black background.
D'oh, he was mentioned right in the post I replied to. Stupid me.
http://www.register4less.com/ is pretty good, too. That is who I transferred all of my domains to a couple years ago. Nice clean interface, private registration included in the registration costs, and a monthly or weekly (I don't remember which) changing contact e-mail address which forwards to your real e-mail in case it gets harvested by spam bots.
I've moved all of my domains that were once registered with godaddy for exactly that reason.
The Riddler.
No, I know who you're talking about, can't remember his name for the life of me, though.
That sounds perfectly reasonable and likely to be true to me.
This is all too true. I had to fight with this problem for about 6 months awhile back. I got hired as a tier 2-3ish support guy who would also do some shell (primarily Korn and sh) and Tcl coding (along with some Javascript and had I stayed longer, possibly some C and some VB eventually). I was very lucky and they picked me for it due to my hobby perl and bash experience. A year and a half later I was lucky and was hired away (that last one was contract and going to end sometime) into a full time Perl dev position due to my hobby Perl experience and professional Tcl experience. Then there was the great layoff of '06.
I went home, saw there was fuck all demand locally for Perl, Tcl, or C (unless you had 3-5 years experience with embedded C apps in robotics, which I only had some fairly basic hobby experience in C). There was quite the demand for C# and ASP.Net stuff, though. I thought to myself "Cool, I'll learn me some of that newfangled C# stuff. I'd been wanting to for fun anyway and now I've got both a reason and time to do it". No one cared. All of my C# was hobby programming. It didn't matter that I had code examples and a couple years professional experience developing in other languages, I didn't have professional experience in C#. No, that wasn't an assumption I made due to not getting jobs, that's what I was directly told by multiple recruiters, in case that's what anyone here was thinking.
I spent the next 6 months honing my Perl, C, C#, and PHP skills while getting turned down left and right for everything that wasn't Perl due to lack of professional experience and seeing very little in the way of Perl unless I was willing to relocate halfway across the country for a 3 month contract. Fortunately, I was picked up again by the place that had laid me off in a more senior level Perl dev position.
Now I'm trying to solve the problem of how to get my employer to pay me to improve my skills in or pick up another language so that if I have to look for work again I have something more than Perl and Tcl to bring to the table as languages I've got professional experience with.
I see what you're saying here. In context of the article, that's not the impression I got, though. I got the impression the author was saying men just want power and money and are savages (well, maybe not savages). Women are sensitive and complex and have a lot of other needs and desires to consider. Perhaps I'm just a bitter old bastard, but that's how I read it.
Purely in response to you, I have say I both agree and disagree.
Yes, I want those things, as do most other men I want. On the other hand, I would think the same extra perks that would attract women to a job are also likely to attract a man to that same job. This is assuming everything being equal other than what the recruiter specifically says about the job, as the article suggest to me, I would think a man would also go "Woah, plus good vacation time and normal hours? Hot damn, where do I sign up?" We may accept the potentially shittier yet higher paying job because that's our duty in society to be able to support our family, but we're just as interested in those other perks if we can get them, I'd imagine.
Our differences here could all be in our personal interpretations of what the author meant to say,though.
Are we sure that the jobs that aren't advertising those things actually offer them? Maybe they don't talk about the flexible hours and interpersonal communication because what the employer wants is for the employee to stfu and get the code written/servers working/whatever before they go home today, however many hours that might take, and to get up and fix the thing at 2am if that's when it breaks. In exchange for that, you get pretty decent pay, to play with cool tech toys, and chances for promotion. I've worked as everything from phone support to tier 2-3 server and app support to a developer in companies ranging from 20K employees down to 100 employees worldwide in a local office of 10 people. In all of them, that most accurately described IT. The pay was good, but you might be pulling a 12-14 hour shift with no warning any time and you might have to wake up at 3am after that 12 hour shift to fix something else if you were really unlucky.
If those other things truly a benefit/selling point of the job, then it should be advertised to everyone. Not just women so that women can be hired, but to everyone, so that everyone knows what the job offers and can decide if they want it or not.
Unlike men, who apparently only have a single value and motivation for choosing their career.
Really, I don't get the whole article. They claim there's not many women in IT because recruiters tout the chances for promotion and job security. I have my doubts that anyone, male or female, goes "Man, this job has security and I likely won't be looking for work in 3 months? Well the hell with that. I don't want this job." As to the chances for promotion, does that not fit right in line with the women interviewed and quoted who say they want to move up into IT management?
And then of course there is a question that I always have. If there were few women in IT because they were being told they are too stupid to understand computer or something, I get how that would be a problem. If there's not many women in IT because the type of work and the rewards that IT jobs typically offer are not what many women want, though, then what's the big deal?
On top of the scenarios already mentioned, there's also the lazy Linux geek, such as myself. As I get older and have less and less free time for screwing around with tweaking things to be exactly how I want/like them and less desire to do so because I just spent all day screwing with this stuff, this sort of thing appeals to me more and more.
Are all of my computers going to be Dells with pre-installed Linux in the future? Probably not. There will probably always be 1 or 2 custom built boxes with Linux running just the packages I want with custom builds of the apps, etc. On the other hand, this sort of thing could very easily replace my current Windows box that I keep around for playing WoW (once I don't have to shell out a monthly fee for Cedega, if that ever happens). I do infrequent hardware upgrades and mostly want it to just work, much along the lines of my game consoles. Assuming hardware of decent quality, being able to order a pre-built with Linux on it instead of Windows brings it a step closer to that. It's certainly cheaper than going to a Mac, which is what was the plan for after my current Windows machine is no longer useable.
Wish I could edit that.
"I just don't have other things that I would" should read "I just have other things that"