About 5 years back I transitioned from IT to a construction site manager / safety officer position. The set of other site supervisors would show up on site, look around, and then file reports because things were not running according to schedule and such. The crews that worked for me loved me as their supervisor. Since I didn't have any experience in doing actual on-site construction, I decided to get out there and grab a shovel, spread asphalt, run a backhoe, drive a dump truck, pour concrete, build framing, lay pipe, run a tamper, etc. I learned from the people who are "on the ground" and doing the work. I could actually understand how things worked, what paces of work were safe and how hurrying things could cause dangerous situations to arise. I would make allowances in the schedules to accommodate the _actual_ work conditions so that things would be safe. If we were behind schedule, I could explain why and understood what could be done to compensate. The work crews liked working under me because I actually understood what it took to do the things which were mandated from above in a safe and efficient manner.
There's a lot to be said for knowing what your co-workers or subordinates do for a living. It ends up being better for everyone.
I'm no longer in that position, but any time during a job interview when I get asked things like "What do you respect in a manager?" or "What kind of qualities do you like to see in your supervisor?", I remember those times and tell the interviewer (who is frequently the person I'll be working for) that I perfer to work for people who have worked their way up. Started at my position and actually learned what's required to do my job so they can better manage our team. I preface this with something like "I don't know you, or your work experience, but I feel that managers should have to work in the position that they manage, at least long enough to know what it's like to try to hit unreasonable deadlines, or put in overtime to get projects done. In my experience, people who have been "career managers" just can't manage effectively." This seems to have one of 2 effects. Either they agree with me and express the same opinion, or they resent the fact that I don't think they can manage effectively. You can guess who the career managers are by their answer.
How to disable those apps: This article focuses on Cortana but the end shows other apps to disable as well. Basically not uninstalling them so much as renaming the app folder after killing the process:
It worked very well. The only time we had problems is when typhoons would come through, and even then the link would only be down for a few seconds at a time, if it went down at all. I can imagine fog and snow would be an issue but the lasers we had also had lens heaters and such so that wouldn't affect the laser head itself.
In Japan, people running for office aren't allowed to use radio or tv to campaign. They are essentially limited to posters and driving around and actually meeting the voters. Granted, trucks driving around in the morning and evening during election times with loudspeakers blaring is fairly annoying for a few days, but you don't get this kind of spending that they have in the USA. It seems like the news reports it as a race to see who can raise the most funds. "So and so has raised 2 billion dollars whereas so and so #2 has only raised 500 million. Looks like candidate #1 is going to win". It's sickening.
I've worked with freespace optic systems (lasers) and they work great. We were bridging a gigabit fiber optic link over a bay with it to provide service on the opposite side where no fiber had been run.
I at least gave it a fair shake. I used it for about 28 days on my main computer just to give myself a chance to get used to it, just like I always try to do with a new OS. 29th day, Back to Windows 7 for me on this laptop. The macbook will stay with Mint for the foreseeable future.
Yes, it still detects that there are updates. I'm not trying to lock it out completely from contacting microsoft, but I am trying to make it so it only connects to the internet when I need it to.
Try getting gas anywhere else in the world where the government isn't subsidizing gas prices. In Japan just a couple of years ago, we were paying about $8/gal. Typical is around $6/gal.
FTA: âoeWeâ(TM)ve designed the robot to be stronger than a person so weâ(TM)d imagine that in the future we want to merge some level of autonomous control along with the humanâ(TM)s intelligence.â
We imagine. The summary has been pulled out of someone's ass. The article says nothing like what the summary does.
The difference is mainly in legal vs illegal. It's not illegal to hide yourself, but it IS illegal using the previous method. Broadcasting all over a licensed band is a quick way to end up in trouble. HAMs self report, no FCC required. Hell, we'd grab the YAGIs and make a game out of finding the prick.
No. It's 1Gb up / 1Gb down (best effort). No data caps. It's left up to the ISP. NTT provides the pipe, then you have your choice of ISPs who compete on price. The fiber line runs around $40/mo and then you tack your ISP fees onto that but changing ISPs is as simple as updating the username/password in the modem. FLETS is an awesome system and I really wish they would do something like that in the USA. Let the government own the pipe and pay for it with taxes. Then let anyone start up their own ISP.
You also seem to forget that the more connected and "smart" cars get, the more they are going to be marketed as a "service" and not a product. Hence, the manufacturers will be covering themselves in the event of a software issue that could cause injury. Insurance by the manufacturers might not be a bad idea in that case.
Sell me a car I can't modify or control, and I'll show you a car I won't insure.
This reminds me of Civilization where you build your cities close to your enemies cities in order to influence them to join your culture. All China needs to do is wait a few turns and move in the troops when the other cities in the area fall to Anarchy.
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About 5 years back I transitioned from IT to a construction site manager / safety officer position. The set of other site supervisors would show up on site, look around, and then file reports because things were not running according to schedule and such. The crews that worked for me loved me as their supervisor. Since I didn't have any experience in doing actual on-site construction, I decided to get out there and grab a shovel, spread asphalt, run a backhoe, drive a dump truck, pour concrete, build framing, lay pipe, run a tamper, etc. I learned from the people who are "on the ground" and doing the work. I could actually understand how things worked, what paces of work were safe and how hurrying things could cause dangerous situations to arise. I would make allowances in the schedules to accommodate the _actual_ work conditions so that things would be safe. If we were behind schedule, I could explain why and understood what could be done to compensate. The work crews liked working under me because I actually understood what it took to do the things which were mandated from above in a safe and efficient manner.
There's a lot to be said for knowing what your co-workers or subordinates do for a living. It ends up being better for everyone.
I'm no longer in that position, but any time during a job interview when I get asked things like "What do you respect in a manager?" or "What kind of qualities do you like to see in your supervisor?", I remember those times and tell the interviewer (who is frequently the person I'll be working for) that I perfer to work for people who have worked their way up. Started at my position and actually learned what's required to do my job so they can better manage our team. I preface this with something like "I don't know you, or your work experience, but I feel that managers should have to work in the position that they manage, at least long enough to know what it's like to try to hit unreasonable deadlines, or put in overtime to get projects done. In my experience, people who have been "career managers" just can't manage effectively." This seems to have one of 2 effects. Either they agree with me and express the same opinion, or they resent the fact that I don't think they can manage effectively. You can guess who the career managers are by their answer.
That section was talking about the recently created superblack nanomaterial. Not this cloak.
Copy and paste the url into incognito mode will crash all chrome processes, not just the new window. Interesting.
"People Who Annoy You"
How to disable those apps:
This article focuses on Cortana but the end shows other apps to disable as well. Basically not uninstalling them so much as renaming the app folder after killing the process:
http://init.sh/?p=251
It worked very well. The only time we had problems is when typhoons would come through, and even then the link would only be down for a few seconds at a time, if it went down at all. I can imagine fog and snow would be an issue but the lasers we had also had lens heaters and such so that wouldn't affect the laser head itself.
But as soon as they turn black, the cops will shoot them so I guess we'll never know.
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*whew* That was bugging the hell out of me.
In Japan, people running for office aren't allowed to use radio or tv to campaign. They are essentially limited to posters and driving around and actually meeting the voters. Granted, trucks driving around in the morning and evening during election times with loudspeakers blaring is fairly annoying for a few days, but you don't get this kind of spending that they have in the USA. It seems like the news reports it as a race to see who can raise the most funds. "So and so has raised 2 billion dollars whereas so and so #2 has only raised 500 million. Looks like candidate #1 is going to win". It's sickening.
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I've worked with freespace optic systems (lasers) and they work great. We were bridging a gigabit fiber optic link over a bay with it to provide service on the opposite side where no fiber had been run.
FreeBastard or NextBastard
http://xkcd.org/
I at least gave it a fair shake. I used it for about 28 days on my main computer just to give myself a chance to get used to it, just like I always try to do with a new OS. 29th day, Back to Windows 7 for me on this laptop. The macbook will stay with Mint for the foreseeable future.
Yes, it still detects that there are updates. I'm not trying to lock it out completely from contacting microsoft, but I am trying to make it so it only connects to the internet when I need it to.
Try getting gas anywhere else in the world where the government isn't subsidizing gas prices. In Japan just a couple of years ago, we were paying about $8/gal. Typical is around $6/gal.
FTA: âoeWeâ(TM)ve designed the robot to be stronger than a person so weâ(TM)d imagine that in the future we want to merge some level of autonomous control along with the humanâ(TM)s intelligence.â
We imagine. The summary has been pulled out of someone's ass. The article says nothing like what the summary does.
Bad form to reply to my own post, I know.
FYI, these were the domains Windows 10 was trying to connect to with all of the privacy settings turned ON and live tiles turned OFF.
Blocking these domains will make your version of Windows 10 "Unconnected". To Microsoft at least.
dns.msftncsi.com
ipv6.msftncsi.com
win10.ipv6.microsoft.com
ipv6.msftncsi.com.edgesuite.net
a978.i6g1.akamai.net
win10.ipv6.microsoft.com.nsatc.net
en-us.appex-rf.msn.com
v10.vortex-win.data.microsoft.com
client.wns.windows.com
wildcard.appex-rf.msn.com.edgesuite.net
v10.vortex-win.data.metron.life.com.nsatc.net
wns.notify.windows.com.akadns.net
americas2.notify.windows.com.akadns.net
travel.tile.appex.bing.com
www.bing.com
any.edge.bing.com
fe3.delivery.mp.microsoft.com
fe3.delivery.dsp.mp.microsoft.com.nsatc.net
ssw.live.com
ssw.live.com.nsatc.net
login.live.com
login.live.com.nsatc.net
directory.services.live.com
directory.services.live.com.akadns.net
bl3302.storage.live.com
skyapi.live.net
bl3302geo.storage.dkyprod.akadns.net
skyapi.skyprod.akadns.net
skydrive.wns.windows.com
register.mesh.com
BN1WNS2011508.wns.windows.com
settings-win.data.microsoft.com
settings.data.glbdns2.microsoft.com
OneSettings-bn2.metron.live.com.nsatc.net
watson.telemetry.microsoft.com
watson.telemetry.microsoft.com.nsatc.net
http://init.sh/?p=236
The difference is mainly in legal vs illegal. It's not illegal to hide yourself, but it IS illegal using the previous method. Broadcasting all over a licensed band is a quick way to end up in trouble. HAMs self report, no FCC required. Hell, we'd grab the YAGIs and make a game out of finding the prick.
"We need a pinch"
No. It's 1Gb up / 1Gb down (best effort). No data caps. It's left up to the ISP. NTT provides the pipe, then you have your choice of ISPs who compete on price. The fiber line runs around $40/mo and then you tack your ISP fees onto that but changing ISPs is as simple as updating the username/password in the modem. FLETS is an awesome system and I really wish they would do something like that in the USA. Let the government own the pipe and pay for it with taxes. Then let anyone start up their own ISP.
You also seem to forget that the more connected and "smart" cars get, the more they are going to be marketed as a "service" and not a product. Hence, the manufacturers will be covering themselves in the event of a software issue that could cause injury. Insurance by the manufacturers might not be a bad idea in that case.
Sell me a car I can't modify or control, and I'll show you a car I won't insure.
This reminds me of Civilization where you build your cities close to your enemies cities in order to influence them to join your culture. All China needs to do is wait a few turns and move in the troops when the other cities in the area fall to Anarchy.
The telephone sanitizers?