I've found that a boss that I like on a personal basis tends to be a bad manager.
Ones that I don't really have a personal relationship with seem to be the best bosses I've had. I guess familiarity really does breed contempt.
In masone235's case, I've dealt with one like that. He fell into the first category I described above. Turned out to be the boss from hell. He was a Mac person but at work he had to use a PC. Oh the joy. Of course I put VNC on his machine and when I knew he wasn't at his desk I'd change backgrounds, etc. Used to drive him bonkers.
Not only is 15kW enough to knock out a missile, it's enough to burn holes in things like fuel tanks, etc. of opposing aircraft.
But finally we're stepping into weapons of the 21st century and beyond. All I want is my portable 1kW laser. Actually doesn't even need to be that powerful. The 150W CO2 lasers I once used could cut through metal. I imagine they'd cut through human tissues at much lower power levels. Hell, the 25W laser engravers could do metal too.
Imagine the look on the face of a perp when you announce that you aren't just going to shoot him/her but vaporize them.
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When one considers that more than half the cars on the road today (Including SUV's) have the same bland look is it any wonder that any car that stands out is either beloved or deemed ugly?
Add to that the fact that there is mechanically no difference between say a Honda and an Acura. Even the styling is so close as to say "Ha! You paid $50K for basically the same car I paid $20K for and all you got was GPS."
Mass production is what it is all about. Economies or in General Motors case diseconomies of scale rule the world.
I recall that back in 1998 or so when the SUV craze was just starting a picture very similar to the XT circulated on the net as being the ultimate in ridiculousness.
It was pretty plain that it was a PhotoShop special but imagine my surprise when International actually started producing them.
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Hey, don't knock the Aztek. Sure it's a bit on the ugly side but what other vehicle lends itself to being modified into a battle cruiser than that beast?
My personal best was while I was the chief operator/administrator of a Data General MV/9600.
I loved the hell out of that machine, even wrote some very nice system utilities using the CLI. But over the years the system went from async terminals to everything over TCP/IP using the Pacer terminal emulator on a Mac.
But there still were a few async connections to things like DG printers, etc. Of course over the years nobody bothered to remove out of service cables or wires so the back of the machine was a literal copper rats nest.
One day I decide I'm going to clean the mess up. As I'm pulling old wire out I suddenly hear the console beeping. Beeping on those consoles wasn't generally a good thing. I look around the corner at the screen and see "volume hansel dismounted" followed by every other system volume. Uh oh!
I go around front to the SCSI array and see the power is off. Toggle the switch, nothing. Around to the back and the breaker isn't tripped. Power cord is plugged in, etc.
Now the boss comes flying into the computer room. You can tell he's upset by the giant red knot that appears in his forehead whenever he's stressed or angry.
Turns out the power was connected via a twist-lock Hubbel connector. Somehow I had backed it off a half twist which was enough to break current to the device.
Once I got power back on I just re-mounted all the volumes. Of course the outage had tanked a couple of jobs running so I caught flak for that.
Damn it. Usually when I'm sick it isn't so much the symptoms of sickness that keep me out of work but the attendant sleep deprivation that the symptoms help bring on.
The Nissan Murano is remarkable for the fact that's it's the first widely produced and popular passenger vehicle with a CVT. Yes, I know, Subaru offered it on the Justy but that was a piece of crap car.
That separate computer is an embedded system and isn't likely to blue screen. He was just using fancy talk for the ABS system thats standard on most vehicles these days.
However, that isn't to say embedded systems are always error free. Buddy of mine had a Ford Expedition with the 4.6 liter engine. Thing used to stall when taking corners. Turns out it was a firmware error - the fuel injectors would stay open a few too microseconds and starve the engine of fuel.
The problem was that in order to fix the problem, Ford would have to make the change to the embedded controller, then submit 100 cubic feet or so of exhaust gas for EPA testing to recertify the engine computer.
They took back his 4.6L and gave him a new one with the 5.4L engine that didn't have the problem.
I cannot understand why an MRI is so expensive other than the fact that it must suck some massive current to get the fields up to par.
Just within 1.5 miles of me there are at least 5 MRI machines at various locations. So its not exactly a situation where I'd have to wait for one should I desire.
I think part of the reason we have so many is because of Brown Medical School. The folks there do some very interesting fMRI stuff.
You have something of a point there. But physicists are always finding out new things about matter and the way it interacts with us.
When you think about it, not so many years ago the most they could squeeze out of a single pair of copper was 128kpbs using both ISDN channels.
I'm not so sure about your point though - I can stream pretty well on my 5MB connection. Oh, and I'm running VoIP on it too.
The two 2Mb links we have are going to offices with 12 and 8 employees respectively. That will then feed to our office where a 10Mb link will get us out to the I2 and Internet.
Umm.. copper gets me my 5MB down, 384KB up via coaxial. Matter of fact, coaxial gets me 2MB symmetrical at one of my offices. Of course it costs $450 a month but its worth it.
Copper works. And it is already part of the standing infrastructure. But in most cases it is badly aged and poorly maintained copper that are the main limitation regarding DSL speeds over x distance.
It will be a very long time before FTTP is widespread.
The interesting part is that we're moving to a rehabilitated mill building. It has fiber from Cox and Verizon, as well as 300 copper pairs from Verizon coming into it. It also has a butload of bandwidth for data, 10MB of that which will be my offices.
But of course the Bell Co's and cable co's are rolling this to commercial locations first. That's just skimming the cream off the top.
We're opposed because harmonics from BPL would have made the 20m band useless. Matter of fact, it had harmonics that pretty much obliterated the amateur bands from 20m down to 70cm.
That one is almost laughable. For example, we all subsidized telephone service in those areas. Granted, it started as party lines and then moved to private lines.
But we still subsidize much of rural America to this day. Yet they continue to get squat. I don't have to wonder where all the money is going.
While it would be all well and good for the FCC to really examine its own rules and procedures, a more fundamental shift has to happen. Sadly, it is a shift that might have to come at the point of a gun.
The biggest error ever made in the U.S. was giving a corporate entity a voice and essentially making it equivalent to a person. Until fairly recently, once you were incorporated you were pretty much shielded behind that corporate fiction. But what is being done now is simply lip service. For example, the recent energy bill is nothing but a gift to energy producers and transporters.
If you consider that Japanese got themselves a new government some 60 years ago, while ours sat and festered you can see what I'm getting at.
Sometimes wholesale regime change is a good thing. It keeps politicians honest.
Part of living in modern society is accepting the fact that we'd rather not see how our food is processed.
For example - I'm surprised you didn't metion hot dogs. The process is pretty disgusting but they taste pretty good so its a wash as to the disgust factor.
Same is true of sausage. It is basically the bits of animal that you normally wouldn't use. Of course they grind it up and throw some fennel and other spices in.
But does that stop me from eating those items on occasion? Hell no.
I'm beyond the squeamish part of life. Once you realize that life is dirty, slimy and disgusting you'll find its much easier to get along in this world.
This is precisely why when someone asks me to set up their wireless system I give them an explanation in basic security.
Of course shutting off SSID broadcast means other people won't be able to use your WiFi connection to phone home. But that's just a side benefit.
What I'm really wondering is what happens when more municipal WiFi networks start popping up. Something tells me that those will be compromised the day they go live. Granted, they can narrow my general geographic area but remember that 802.11 can propagate out for a few hundred feet if properly placed and a good radiator is used.
The FCC ought to be stripped of its content regulation powers. Instead it should be strictly about bandwidth management.
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I've found that a boss that I like on a personal basis tends to be a bad manager.
Ones that I don't really have a personal relationship with seem to be the best bosses I've had. I guess familiarity really does breed contempt.
In masone235's case, I've dealt with one like that. He fell into the first category I described above. Turned out to be the boss from hell. He was a Mac person but at work he had to use a PC. Oh the joy. Of course I put VNC on his machine and when I knew he wasn't at his desk I'd change backgrounds, etc. Used to drive him bonkers.
The number of women I've spoken to who said they wouldn't ever work for a supervisor that was a woman.
When I ask why they can't give a straight answer but I know what it is.
When I worked for state government 90% of the thwarted attacks came from Chinese ISP's.
The ChiCom party either knows about this and condones it or is actively sponsoring it.
Therefore it is in our best interests to cut China from the net. But this plays right into the hands of the ChiCom party.
After all, a disconnected China is pretty much free of pesky dissent sites.
If Hollywood stopped producing formulaic repeats of old TV hits, etc. maybe they'd produce something more interesting.
Quality DVD Player: $300 Netflix Subscription per year: $240 Being able to watch a movie while naked: priceless
Not only is 15kW enough to knock out a missile, it's enough to burn holes in things like fuel tanks, etc. of opposing aircraft.
But finally we're stepping into weapons of the 21st century and beyond. All I want is my portable 1kW laser. Actually doesn't even need to be that powerful. The 150W CO2 lasers I once used could cut through metal. I imagine they'd cut through human tissues at much lower power levels. Hell, the 25W laser engravers could do metal too.
Imagine the look on the face of a perp when you announce that you aren't just going to shoot him/her but vaporize them.
When one considers that more than half the cars on the road today (Including SUV's) have the same bland look is it any wonder that any car that stands out is either beloved or deemed ugly?
Add to that the fact that there is mechanically no difference between say a Honda and an Acura. Even the styling is so close as to say "Ha! You paid $50K for basically the same car I paid $20K for and all you got was GPS."
Mass production is what it is all about. Economies or in General Motors case diseconomies of scale rule the world.
I recall that back in 1998 or so when the SUV craze was just starting a picture very similar to the XT circulated on the net as being the ultimate in ridiculousness.
It was pretty plain that it was a PhotoShop special but imagine my surprise when International actually started producing them.
Hey, don't knock the Aztek. Sure it's a bit on the ugly side but what other vehicle lends itself to being modified into a battle cruiser than that beast?
My personal best was while I was the chief operator/administrator of a Data General MV/9600.
I loved the hell out of that machine, even wrote some very nice system utilities using the CLI. But over the years the system went from async terminals to everything over TCP/IP using the Pacer terminal emulator on a Mac.
But there still were a few async connections to things like DG printers, etc. Of course over the years nobody bothered to remove out of service cables or wires so the back of the machine was a literal copper rats nest.
One day I decide I'm going to clean the mess up. As I'm pulling old wire out I suddenly hear the console beeping. Beeping on those consoles wasn't generally a good thing. I look around the corner at the screen and see "volume hansel dismounted" followed by every other system volume. Uh oh!
I go around front to the SCSI array and see the power is off. Toggle the switch, nothing. Around to the back and the breaker isn't tripped. Power cord is plugged in, etc.
Now the boss comes flying into the computer room. You can tell he's upset by the giant red knot that appears in his forehead whenever he's stressed or angry.
Turns out the power was connected via a twist-lock Hubbel connector. Somehow I had backed it off a half twist which was enough to break current to the device.
Once I got power back on I just re-mounted all the volumes. Of course the outage had tanked a couple of jobs running so I caught flak for that.
Damn it. Usually when I'm sick it isn't so much the symptoms of sickness that keep me out of work but the attendant sleep deprivation that the symptoms help bring on.
So now I won't even have that as an excuse.
The Nissan Murano is remarkable for the fact that's it's the first widely produced and popular passenger vehicle with a CVT. Yes, I know, Subaru offered it on the Justy but that was a piece of crap car.
That separate computer is an embedded system and isn't likely to blue screen. He was just using fancy talk for the ABS system thats standard on most vehicles these days.
However, that isn't to say embedded systems are always error free. Buddy of mine had a Ford Expedition with the 4.6 liter engine. Thing used to stall when taking corners. Turns out it was a firmware error - the fuel injectors would stay open a few too microseconds and starve the engine of fuel.
The problem was that in order to fix the problem, Ford would have to make the change to the embedded controller, then submit 100 cubic feet or so of exhaust gas for EPA testing to recertify the engine computer.
They took back his 4.6L and gave him a new one with the 5.4L engine that didn't have the problem.
I cannot understand why an MRI is so expensive other than the fact that it must suck some massive current to get the fields up to par.
Just within 1.5 miles of me there are at least 5 MRI machines at various locations. So its not exactly a situation where I'd have to wait for one should I desire.
I think part of the reason we have so many is because of Brown Medical School. The folks there do some very interesting fMRI stuff.
Ok, having been in a supervisory role I scored this for both myself and my boss.
We both score 11. Be Afraid!
Actually I developed a love/hate relationship with the Firefox weather extension.
You see, it took priorty and stopped me from navigating web pages, etc. So I uninstalled it.
You have something of a point there. But physicists are always finding out new things about matter and the way it interacts with us.
When you think about it, not so many years ago the most they could squeeze out of a single pair of copper was 128kpbs using both ISDN channels.
I'm not so sure about your point though - I can stream pretty well on my 5MB connection. Oh, and I'm running VoIP on it too.
The two 2Mb links we have are going to offices with 12 and 8 employees respectively. That will then feed to our office where a 10Mb link will get us out to the I2 and Internet.
Umm.. copper gets me my 5MB down, 384KB up via coaxial. Matter of fact, coaxial gets me 2MB symmetrical at one of my offices. Of course it costs $450 a month but its worth it.
Copper works. And it is already part of the standing infrastructure. But in most cases it is badly aged and poorly maintained copper that are the main limitation regarding DSL speeds over x distance.
It will be a very long time before FTTP is widespread.
The interesting part is that we're moving to a rehabilitated mill building. It has fiber from Cox and Verizon, as well as 300 copper pairs from Verizon coming into it. It also has a butload of bandwidth for data, 10MB of that which will be my offices.
But of course the Bell Co's and cable co's are rolling this to commercial locations first. That's just skimming the cream off the top.
We're opposed because harmonics from BPL would have made the 20m band useless. Matter of fact, it had harmonics that pretty much obliterated the amateur bands from 20m down to 70cm.
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That one is almost laughable. For example, we all subsidized telephone service in those areas. Granted, it started as party lines and then moved to private lines.
But we still subsidize much of rural America to this day. Yet they continue to get squat. I don't have to wonder where all the money is going.
While it would be all well and good for the FCC to really examine its own rules and procedures, a more fundamental shift has to happen. Sadly, it is a shift that might have to come at the point of a gun.
The biggest error ever made in the U.S. was giving a corporate entity a voice and essentially making it equivalent to a person. Until fairly recently, once you were incorporated you were pretty much shielded behind that corporate fiction. But what is being done now is simply lip service. For example, the recent energy bill is nothing but a gift to energy producers and transporters.
If you consider that Japanese got themselves a new government some 60 years ago, while ours sat and festered you can see what I'm getting at.
Sometimes wholesale regime change is a good thing. It keeps politicians honest.
This has the old "If a tree falls in the woods and nobody is around to hear/see it, did it make a sound?" written all over it.
Who exactly would suit be filed against if in the event of a life threatening cardiac event, the cell network was too congested to let a call through.
Why not just put a hat on the person with red and blue LED's that spell out "I'm screwed" in that event.
In my case I know how both are made. Whoa is me!
And it isn't just the transistors that run your computer.
More than likely your connection is carried in some or whole part on fiber optic cables driven by lasers.
Bell Labs invented the laser and was a serious contributor to flexible fiber optics.
Pretty much everything we have today can be traced directly to Bell Labs.
Part of living in modern society is accepting the fact that we'd rather not see how our food is processed.
For example - I'm surprised you didn't metion hot dogs. The process is pretty disgusting but they taste pretty good so its a wash as to the disgust factor.
Same is true of sausage. It is basically the bits of animal that you normally wouldn't use. Of course they grind it up and throw some fennel and other spices in.
But does that stop me from eating those items on occasion? Hell no.
I'm beyond the squeamish part of life. Once you realize that life is dirty, slimy and disgusting you'll find its much easier to get along in this world.
When you consider that we're just getting an inkling of what quantum effects are it will be quite some time.
For example, what happens when we start using the particles, or using the quantum states of those particles?
Not only that but a sex partner you can turn on an off at will. Think of how popular THAT would be.
No more "lets talk" or "lets cuddle". Simply push that red button and drift off into a peaceful sleep.
This is precisely why when someone asks me to set up their wireless system I give them an explanation in basic security.
Of course shutting off SSID broadcast means other people won't be able to use your WiFi connection to phone home. But that's just a side benefit.
What I'm really wondering is what happens when more municipal WiFi networks start popping up. Something tells me that those will be compromised the day they go live. Granted, they can narrow my general geographic area but remember that 802.11 can propagate out for a few hundred feet if properly placed and a good radiator is used.
The FCC ought to be stripped of its content regulation powers. Instead it should be strictly about bandwidth management.