The cheapest you can price a Dell Precision 490 with a pair of 3.0GHz Xeon 5160 processors is $3478. That's with a bare CD drive and an 80GB drive. (The Woodcrest Xeons are the 51xx series, not the 50xx chips, so make sure you're picking the right chips.)
The same Apple system is $3224, with a DVD burner and a bigger hard drive (and and extra bay). Enjoy your Mac.
"Everyone knows that bullets only hit small things in your pockets or under your shirt anyway..."
I can confirm that. My grandmother was hit in the hip by a stray bullet from distant drive-by shooting, resulting in a penny-sized bruise on her hip and a shiny thimble-shaped penny. (Since guns have become more powerful over the years, we've upgraded to carrying quarters in our pockets now.)
We had that exact issue once. One of our remote salesman would send his sales through another company if their commission rate was higher (while still drawing a salary and submitting expenses through us). My security layers were set up assuming that any document or report sent to Sales would eventually end up at one of our competitors.
I had a development project assigned to me that way once. Our accounting department needed a Sybase procedure for uploading check reports. I hand it back to accounting to send up the chain, they go to the manager, who goes to the CFO, who goes to the CTO at the parent company, who assigns it to the IT manager at the parent company, who assigns it to me since I'm the only one in either company who knew anything about Sybase. Meanwhile back down the chain comes the notice that they've assigned a developer to work on it, and that I could request a meeting with myself if I had any questions.
"Using your fists on someone... that I can see. The damage level is low (unless you're trained) and you get really tired really quickly.
But using a blunt object? If you're anything other than a spaz, you'll crush a few ribs the first time you connect. Then the fights over."
That's the point, ending the fight before we get tired. These are IT people you're talking about - it's not like any of them have the cardiovascular training to make it to the end of the first round.
"I only chose Kendo because it's the only martial arts that I know uses a stick. Please forgive my ignorance."
Kendo uses a sword (a wooden one because people are soft and fragile, but still a sword). Try looking at Escrima if you're interested in stick, especially using two at once.
I have, but most people don't have access to stacks of selenium-cobalt magnets. I also use magnetic screwdrivers because of screw-related damage in the past.
"I'd just like to see their face when I place a copy of their search results in front of them.
Why do you think I post under a 'nym?"
I post under a 'nym because someone is using my real name as their 'nym. Doing a Google search on me pointless as it returns thousands of hits from a myriad of unrealated people and sites. Employers have tried and failed many times before.
It also means I can plausibly deny the ones I was reponsible for, so it's not all bad.:)
There were tests done by the US Army using missile warheads with gelatinized water and calcium carbide. This forms a bubble of acetylene gas around the target, causing all sorts of havok to any engine that sucks the stuff in (the plan was for premature detonation to break the piston rods).
(I also heard of one that genereated styrofoam peanuts by feeding the raw material through the missile engine just before impact. The cloud of peanuts would clog the dust filters on the helicopter's engines, bringing it down. I never was able to find out if they ever got it to work.)
My last job had three programs that required local admin rights. Simple programs: report viewers, finance calculators, etc. It didn't matter what domain group the user was in, but the programs wouldn't run unless you were a local admin. (The corporate IT group claimed they were going to take over and create a fully "locked down" workstation environment. That was two years ago, and everyone is still running around with full admin rights, but now without the weekly security sweeps to keep them in check.)
"A bird in a bomb was another. The idea was a pigeon placed inside a directional bomb with a wire attached to it's head would (after having been trained of course) peck at a screen showing the target which would steer the bomb to it's target and blow the target up with the pigeon of course."
The Coast Guard tried this system in Project Sea Hunt in 1977, using pigeons to search for orange life vests in the water. It actually worked quite well until one of the helicopters crashed and funding was pulled from the program.
The emphasis on coder skill sets spills over into other job titles. I'm a hardware/operations guy. I can't code myslef out of a paper bag, but I can set up, maintain and protect the network for a few hundred employees by myself (including reporting and playing helpdesk for the occasional change of scenery). I apply for a basic network admin position, and everything goes splendid until the get to the part where they ask how much Java programming I do. J2EE? C++?.Net? The interview rapidly collapses because apparantly network admins and technicians are supposed to spend the bulk of their time writing code.
I worked at a company that was self-insured. During one of their meetings, the director said that sick or unhealthy employees didn't worry them - their expenses were predictable and easily planned for on a monthly basis. Their biggest issue was a young, perfectly healthy employee having a premature baby and causing a million dollar hit against the reserve fund. They were always happy when ski season was over so they could stop paying for the "healthy" people with their broken ankles and knee surgeries.
I recently replaced all the computers at the company I work for. Our software locks us into Windows, but I would have pushed for iMacs or even Minis if they were capable of booting into Windows. Some of Apple's form factors are great for cramped cubicles compared to what's being offered by the other major OEMs. Instead management ordered 50 Optiplex boxes with CRTs. Mediocrity wins again.
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4x4 is two dual-core processors, plus two dual-chip video cards (Quad SLI). Think of it not as an "X", but a diagonal "+".
The cheapest you can price a Dell Precision 490 with a pair of 3.0GHz Xeon 5160 processors is $3478. That's with a bare CD drive and an 80GB drive. (The Woodcrest Xeons are the 51xx series, not the 50xx chips, so make sure you're picking the right chips.)
The same Apple system is $3224, with a DVD burner and a bigger hard drive (and and extra bay). Enjoy your Mac.
"If my Internet connection is down- I go home."
If my Internet connection goes down, then I have to go to work.
"...you'll always be able to disable the sound by changing your master boot record."
What's a record?
"11. Duke Nuke'em will actually be finished and brought to market sometime in the next decade."
Between 2011 and 2020? Sounds like a possibility...
I've heard from some English historians that the Pilgrims didn't exactly flee England, it was more of them being kicked out.
"Everyone knows that bullets only hit small things in your pockets or under your shirt anyway..."
I can confirm that. My grandmother was hit in the hip by a stray bullet from distant drive-by shooting, resulting in a penny-sized bruise on her hip and a shiny thimble-shaped penny. (Since guns have become more powerful over the years, we've upgraded to carrying quarters in our pockets now.)
We had that exact issue once. One of our remote salesman would send his sales through another company if their commission rate was higher (while still drawing a salary and submitting expenses through us). My security layers were set up assuming that any document or report sent to Sales would eventually end up at one of our competitors.
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently developed.
I remember when Vorpal Swords were stuck at +3. Dang kids and their new toys...
I had a development project assigned to me that way once. Our accounting department needed a Sybase procedure for uploading check reports. I hand it back to accounting to send up the chain, they go to the manager, who goes to the CFO, who goes to the CTO at the parent company, who assigns it to the IT manager at the parent company, who assigns it to me since I'm the only one in either company who knew anything about Sybase. Meanwhile back down the chain comes the notice that they've assigned a developer to work on it, and that I could request a meeting with myself if I had any questions.
"Using your fists on someone ... that I can see. The damage level is low (unless you're trained) and you get really tired really quickly.
But using a blunt object? If you're anything other than a spaz, you'll crush a few ribs the first time you connect. Then the fights over."
That's the point, ending the fight before we get tired. These are IT people you're talking about - it's not like any of them have the cardiovascular training to make it to the end of the first round.
"I only chose Kendo because it's the only martial arts that I know uses a stick. Please forgive my ignorance."
Kendo uses a sword (a wooden one because people are soft and fragile, but still a sword). Try looking at Escrima if you're interested in stick, especially using two at once.
I have, but most people don't have access to stacks of selenium-cobalt magnets. I also use magnetic screwdrivers because of screw-related damage in the past.
> It's equipped with sensors to measure temperature, acidity, salinity, and viscosity.
> I've had a gadget that does this for about 22 years.
> I call it the tounge (patent pending)
For a brief moment, I thought this was about the urinal gaming stations. (shudder)
"I'd just like to see their face when I place a copy of their search results in front of them.
:)
Why do you think I post under a 'nym?"
I post under a 'nym because someone is using my real name as their 'nym. Doing a Google search on me pointless as it returns thousands of hits from a myriad of unrealated people and sites. Employers have tried and failed many times before.
It also means I can plausibly deny the ones I was reponsible for, so it's not all bad.
"...even vaporized fuel bombs to be ingested..."
There were tests done by the US Army using missile warheads with gelatinized water and calcium carbide. This forms a bubble of acetylene gas around the target, causing all sorts of havok to any engine that sucks the stuff in (the plan was for premature detonation to break the piston rods).
(I also heard of one that genereated styrofoam peanuts by feeding the raw material through the missile engine just before impact. The cloud of peanuts would clog the dust filters on the helicopter's engines, bringing it down. I never was able to find out if they ever got it to work.)
No, it was done correctly. He Who Shall Not Be Named is commonly referred to as " " in the possessive.
My last job had three programs that required local admin rights. Simple programs: report viewers, finance calculators, etc. It didn't matter what domain group the user was in, but the programs wouldn't run unless you were a local admin. (The corporate IT group claimed they were going to take over and create a fully "locked down" workstation environment. That was two years ago, and everyone is still running around with full admin rights, but now without the weekly security sweeps to keep them in check.)
Let's just hope it can move faster than 5 feet per second. I've seen helium baloons at the fair with higher intercept velocities.
"A bird in a bomb was another. The idea was a pigeon placed inside a directional bomb with a wire attached to it's head would (after having been trained of course) peck at a screen showing the target which would steer the bomb to it's target and blow the target up with the pigeon of course."
The Coast Guard tried this system in Project Sea Hunt in 1977, using pigeons to search for orange life vests in the water. It actually worked quite well until one of the helicopters crashed and funding was pulled from the program.
The emphasis on coder skill sets spills over into other job titles. I'm a hardware/operations guy. I can't code myslef out of a paper bag, but I can set up, maintain and protect the network for a few hundred employees by myself (including reporting and playing helpdesk for the occasional change of scenery). I apply for a basic network admin position, and everything goes splendid until the get to the part where they ask how much Java programming I do. J2EE? C++? .Net? The interview rapidly collapses because apparantly network admins and technicians are supposed to spend the bulk of their time writing code.
I worked at a company that was self-insured. During one of their meetings, the director said that sick or unhealthy employees didn't worry them - their expenses were predictable and easily planned for on a monthly basis. Their biggest issue was a young, perfectly healthy employee having a premature baby and causing a million dollar hit against the reserve fund. They were always happy when ski season was over so they could stop paying for the "healthy" people with their broken ankles and knee surgeries.
You're standing on one. Make a rock heavy enough, and the lifting issue sort of takes care of itself.
I recently replaced all the computers at the company I work for. Our software locks us into Windows, but I would have pushed for iMacs or even Minis if they were capable of booting into Windows. Some of Apple's form factors are great for cramped cubicles compared to what's being offered by the other major OEMs. Instead management ordered 50 Optiplex boxes with CRTs. Mediocrity wins again.