During rescue-academy studies there is a heat stress test, which is to test the students capabilities under physical workload and lots of heat. They used to use anal thermometers, which were real pain in the ass. So this is great news!
What you're saying is, or at least SHOULD be the standard in nuclear power plants (in Europe, dunno about USA NPP:s). The process network has no connections whatsoever to outside, or even to office network. USB-media is strictly forbidden. Mind you, only thing to make sure of this (oversights and carelesness happens) would be filling the usbports of all the computers with polyurethane.
And wireless? IT Security will get in a shitstorm-mode even if you mention wireless anywhere else than in visitor network.
Yes, employers propably do google the possible employee before hiring, but unless you've done (or been accused of) something grandiose, you should be safe.. unless you have very odd name that isn't common.
Now I live in Finland and my full name isn't that common. But as it just happens to be, there lives not one, but two guys who share my FULL name and live in the same part of country too. So if someone ought to google based on my name and location, they would find out that I've been a police chief and also have masters in CS, yay.
So you're saying that making music in your home doesn't cost you anything? Well, I don't believe you thought of the music equipment, or at least software what you need to produce from the comfort of your own home? Even with a lite-versions of software and good controller keyboard you'd be propably having at least 1000$ worth of equipment/software there. So it DOES cost you to make music there, not as much as the charge-by-the-minute studiotime, but still... Or perhaps you have warezed all the software?;)
I remember slashdot story about some american being sued (or something as bad) for reverse engineering something. Then everyone was instantly saying how is it ok to reverse engineer a product to find out how it works. So why it suddenly isn't ok? Because it's China?
Well I think you are wrong. If the soccer would be banned, the hooligans would find some other way to cause some havoc. It's not the game that those kind of persons are really interested, it's the violence. So don't go making stupid generalisations, mr Older-And-Wiser.
Online thieves who steal products that companies work hard to merchandise
Well I agree with you on that, that the PR and Marketing sections of the companies are rotten bastards (mostly), but there is always "the little men" behind them, doing the actual product. As seen in the other dupl... I mean slashdot news, they don't get paid enough and have louzy compensation in every way, but propably they would appreciate that only the company screws them, not the target audience by warezing the game/software/etc.
Won? No-one can WIN in a cold war, because it's more of paranoia than war. US is in the edge of new cold war, this time against terrorists. And the definition of terrorist is growing day by day.
People are so quick to blame Microsoft these days. I work in an automated warehouse which imports most of the consumer electrics in my country. And the guys who pack the merchandise aren't always very gentle, not to mention that a product can drop from the shelf from 8 meters and the package (usually) looks intact, so all you need is some worker who doesn't give a shit (and there are plenty of those everywhere, I tell you!) and just puts it back to the automation.
And besides I think guys here are gentle here compared to postal service guys:)
So even if you didn't order the product by mail but bought it from the store, it still means it has had some rough trips earlier.
Well there ARE accidents in autobahn. And when you are driving 250 km/h and have an accident, it has a high chance of being a fatal one. And speaking of smart, how smart is to drive that fast, knowing that your viewing angle is very narrow and if you have average reflexes you would've traveled about 60-70 meters from the moment of time t0 (when you notice that you have to duck/break) to t1 (when you actually do break). But I do agree that getting the license in Germany (and many other European countries) is harder.
Why Microsoft has to poke its nose to every business opportunity possible? Isn't there a piece of old wisdom that states that you should only fight the battles you can win? I know this has been said before on earlier MS vs [insert the company/country here] posts, but someone ought to give these guys a reality-bitchslap.
Typical slashdot-prejudice. "So it's a blog. Well that automatically means it's full of crap about the writers mood and sexual activities and his/hers dogs daily life. Oh and I didn't bother to RTFA, because I have this 5-Insightful-O-Matic which helps me to write witty and cynical remarks and get respect."
Let's face it, everyone of us able to read slashdot have our basic needs taken care of (except maybe sex, u geeks!), and Bills "evil empire" then takes some amount of our money, or steals it, as few of you guys would put it (as a charge for crappy software and yadayadayada). And then he transfers loads of money to the really poor, who don't have their basic needs taken care of and who's average lifespan is 30 years or so.
Rarely does the director (+team) do one great movie and proceed to make the next movie as great. I mean, it has a chance of becoming a good movie, but the background is not even close to the profoundness of booktrilogy, after all, we're talking about the game here.
Nowdays there are microprocessors in many places, and optimization, integration and componentsize make fixing harder, namely in household appliances, audio equipment, AC adapters, CD players, CD-ROM drives, other optical drives, microwave ovens, PC monitors, TV sets, VCRs.. etc.
Of course if it's a mechanical problem, wiring problem or some analog component, then it's doable, but chances of that are getting smaller in every generation of those machines.
Well if we are going Hitchhickery, why don't make it 5D. Propablity would really give boost to the realityshows.
"Welcome to Travel-O-Rama. If you are lucky you might end up in the 70's enjoying the free love... or not; if propability is against you, you might end up being a LP-Player in Nashville in 80's, playing bad country music 24/7"
but sadly this is the "trend" of the "modern" businesses and individuals. I've often heard elderlies complain that youth of today have "I want it all now, immediatly" - attitude. But this attitude is present at businesses also.
The company I work in (outside US) had a choice to make a pretty expensive repair on our automated lines that should've had long-term effects, but instead they chose a little less expensive with only short-term effects, and now the repairs have to be made each year. Why the poor choice? Because it took less time to get these productionlines online so also moneylines went online faster.
It's same like in the BBC document when they offered children either a) one piece of chockolate now or b) full chockolatebar in 10 minutes and almost all chose A, because to them, there was no "10 minutes later". But shouldn't the grown ups (especially ones in CEO chairs) have more grasp in time versus expences, or time versus profit?
The very thought of sharing is impossible, since from every nations leaders' point of view, the space exploration is simply politics and race against other countries. I'm sure the scientists would love to co-operate on every level, but since the goverments fund the projects...
Also the "private/corporation funded space exploration" (no, nothing pervert in that, just your imagination, Sonny) doesn't help much since then we propably start to see spaceshuttles and probes filled with ads and get to see which celebrity gets to space first.
Propably the same guy who borrowed few synopses to you. I know "wouldn't it be cooler" is lame statement, but I don't speak english as my native tongue and so sometimes I'm forced to lame sentences that obviousy piss you off. But could you, by any chance, miss my point even more? Or be more sensitive to some statement in the web?
Or, as the lame sidenote: Did you just forgot to take the pill this morning?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't red giants dencity pretty low? So when a star transforms into a red giant, it's bound to get much larger. So wouldn't it be cooler to find actually non-dying star of this magnitude?
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During rescue-academy studies there is a heat stress test, which is to test the students capabilities under physical workload and lots of heat. They used to use anal thermometers, which were real pain in the ass. So this is great news!
What you're saying is, or at least SHOULD be the standard in nuclear power plants (in Europe, dunno about USA NPP:s). The process network has no connections whatsoever to outside, or even to office network. USB-media is strictly forbidden. Mind you, only thing to make sure of this (oversights and carelesness happens) would be filling the usbports of all the computers with polyurethane. And wireless? IT Security will get in a shitstorm-mode even if you mention wireless anywhere else than in visitor network.
Yes, employers propably do google the possible employee before hiring, but unless you've done (or been accused of) something grandiose, you should be safe.. unless you have very odd name that isn't common.
Now I live in Finland and my full name isn't that common. But as it just happens to be, there lives not one, but two guys who share my FULL name and live in the same part of country too. So if someone ought to google based on my name and location, they would find out that I've been a police chief and also have masters in CS, yay.
So you're saying that making music in your home doesn't cost you anything? Well, I don't believe you thought of the music equipment, or at least software what you need to produce from the comfort of your own home? Even with a lite-versions of software and good controller keyboard you'd be propably having at least 1000$ worth of equipment/software there. So it DOES cost you to make music there, not as much as the charge-by-the-minute studiotime, but still. .. Or perhaps you have warezed all the software? ;)
I remember slashdot story about some american being sued (or something as bad) for reverse engineering something. Then everyone was instantly saying how is it ok to reverse engineer a product to find out how it works. So why it suddenly isn't ok? Because it's China?
Well I think you are wrong. If the soccer would be banned, the hooligans would find some other way to cause some havoc. It's not the game that those kind of persons are really interested, it's the violence. So don't go making stupid generalisations, mr Older-And-Wiser.
Dear Western Union, stop. Would you please, please, stop.
Online thieves who steal products that companies work hard to merchandise
Well I agree with you on that, that the PR and Marketing sections of the companies are rotten bastards (mostly), but there is always "the little men" behind them, doing the actual product. As seen in the other dupl... I mean slashdot news, they don't get paid enough and have louzy compensation in every way, but propably they would appreciate that only the company screws them, not the target audience by warezing the game/software/etc.
Won? No-one can WIN in a cold war, because it's more of paranoia than war. US is in the edge of new cold war, this time against terrorists. And the definition of terrorist is growing day by day.
That's very good. Does it work on any pornsite?
People are so quick to blame Microsoft these days. I work in an automated warehouse which imports most of the consumer electrics in my country. And the guys who pack the merchandise aren't always very gentle, not to mention that a product can drop from the shelf from 8 meters and the package (usually) looks intact, so all you need is some worker who doesn't give a shit (and there are plenty of those everywhere, I tell you!) and just puts it back to the automation. And besides I think guys here are gentle here compared to postal service guys :)
So even if you didn't order the product by mail but bought it from the store, it still means it has had some rough trips earlier.
Well there ARE accidents in autobahn. And when you are driving 250 km/h and have an accident, it has a high chance of being a fatal one. And speaking of smart, how smart is to drive that fast, knowing that your viewing angle is very narrow and if you have average reflexes you would've traveled about 60-70 meters from the moment of time t0 (when you notice that you have to duck/break) to t1 (when you actually do break). But I do agree that getting the license in Germany (and many other European countries) is harder.
But still, too fast, IMHO.
Why Microsoft has to poke its nose to every business opportunity possible? Isn't there a piece of old wisdom that states that you should only fight the battles you can win? I know this has been said before on earlier MS vs [insert the company/country here] posts, but someone ought to give these guys a reality-bitchslap.
Typical slashdot-prejudice. "So it's a blog. Well that automatically means it's full of crap about the writers mood and sexual activities and his/hers dogs daily life. Oh and I didn't bother to RTFA, because I have this 5-Insightful-O-Matic which helps me to write witty and cynical remarks and get respect."
Let's face it, everyone of us able to read slashdot have our basic needs taken care of (except maybe sex, u geeks!), and Bills "evil empire" then takes some amount of our money, or steals it, as few of you guys would put it (as a charge for crappy software and yadayadayada). And then he transfers loads of money to the really poor, who don't have their basic needs taken care of and who's average lifespan is 30 years or so.
Rarely does the director (+team) do one great movie and proceed to make the next movie as great. I mean, it has a chance of becoming a good movie, but the background is not even close to the profoundness of booktrilogy, after all, we're talking about the game here.
So office is that old? Great, now they can accuse puberty for every error and bug.
Nowdays there are microprocessors in many places, and optimization, integration and componentsize make fixing harder, namely in household appliances, audio equipment, AC adapters, CD players, CD-ROM drives, other optical drives, microwave ovens, PC monitors, TV sets, VCRs.. etc. Of course if it's a mechanical problem, wiring problem or some analog component, then it's doable, but chances of that are getting smaller in every generation of those machines.
Well if we are going Hitchhickery, why don't make it 5D. Propablity would really give boost to the realityshows.
"Welcome to Travel-O-Rama. If you are lucky you might end up in the 70's enjoying the free love... or not; if propability is against you, you might end up being a LP-Player in Nashville in 80's, playing bad country music 24/7"
Seems like this thread was written by a jealous bass-player. Because we all know that basists...
but sadly this is the "trend" of the "modern" businesses and individuals. I've often heard elderlies complain that youth of today have "I want it all now, immediatly" - attitude. But this attitude is present at businesses also.
The company I work in (outside US) had a choice to make a pretty expensive repair on our automated lines that should've had long-term effects, but instead they chose a little less expensive with only short-term effects, and now the repairs have to be made each year. Why the poor choice? Because it took less time to get these productionlines online so also moneylines went online faster.
It's same like in the BBC document when they offered children either a) one piece of chockolate now or b) full chockolatebar in 10 minutes and almost all chose A, because to them, there was no "10 minutes later". But shouldn't the grown ups (especially ones in CEO chairs) have more grasp in time versus expences, or time versus profit?
So. They were outmanouvered by Paramounts "Resistance is futile" - campaing.
Yeayea. Old and louzy yadayada beam me up.
The very thought of sharing is impossible, since from every nations leaders' point of view, the space exploration is simply politics and race against other countries. I'm sure the scientists would love to co-operate on every level, but since the goverments fund the projects...
Also the "private/corporation funded space exploration" (no, nothing pervert in that, just your imagination, Sonny) doesn't help much since then we propably start to see spaceshuttles and probes filled with ads and get to see which celebrity gets to space first.
And for god sakes who modded him up?
Propably the same guy who borrowed few synopses to you. I know "wouldn't it be cooler" is lame statement, but I don't speak english as my native tongue and so sometimes I'm forced to lame sentences that obviousy piss you off. But could you, by any chance, miss my point even more? Or be more sensitive to some statement in the web?
Or, as the lame sidenote: Did you just forgot to take the pill this morning?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't red giants dencity pretty low? So when a star transforms into a red giant, it's bound to get much larger. So wouldn't it be cooler to find actually non-dying star of this magnitude?
(Well definetly not cooler)