You should expect a job and expect to be retained; if you do the work assigned.
This is the problem with globalization. Congress should act now to stop companies from off-shoring jobs and get rid of the H1B visa workers. Keep American jobs for Americans even if it means our products are more expensive than those from other countries. Ban importation of products made by companies in countries that employ sub-standard labor at ridiculously low wages like China, Korea, and Vietnam. That's not enough though... we need Americans to collectively stick together and pledge to only buy American-made products! It doesn't matter if they're more expensive and maybe even inferior, this is a fight for our very survival as a superpower.
The external fuel tank isn't painted orange, that's the natural color of the foam. Apparently the replacement foam for patch jobs is just naturally white so they can easily tell where they've added it.
If all the money and drama of NASA produced nothing but Hubble it has been worth it. NASA is billing JWST as Hubble's replacement. Is it? Really? Honestly?
You know, to me, NASA could do nothing but produce obscure scientific data that I would never comprehend, but I'd still support them spending my tax dollars more than the fuckers who waste my money on war. $4.5 billion for a precision scientific instrument is money well spent. $4.5 billion for waging war and murdering your fellow human beings is absolutely criminal.
For system administrators, it allows them to only have to address patching Windows machines once a month.
This is a stupid idea though. It saves the administrators some hassle, but if Microsoft is putting out a patch for a vulnerability then don't you think that maybe, just maybe, the hackers already know about the vulnerability and are actively exploiting it? Why should I have to wait a month for a patch to a critical vulnerability just because some company's IT department only wants to work one day a month on patching? Patches should be released as soon as possible for anything critical or security-related and you can let companies choose to sit on them for a month if they want.
Uploading is used by content pirates sharing their warez so I'm sure the bandwidth will be the very absolutely minimum required to acknowledge TCP packets being downloaded and nothing more.
I have a server at home, with over a TB of storage. I still use most of google's apps, especially Gmail.
That's probably just because your ISP doesn't let you run servers on your DSL or cable modem. In the future when everyone moves to IPv6 there will be little to no restrictions imposed. Everyone will have a huge block of static addresses to use instead of having to pigeon-hole everything into a dynamic IPv4 address using NAT kludges. In the future Gmail will be irrelevant because your home server will have an e-mail server and web front-end built into it. Many of us already have this setup already, but in the future it will become as normal as someone having a TiVo or Xbox360 on their network. The days of a third-party provider collecting, indexing, and targeting advertisements to you based on the content of your e-mail will be over.
That doesn't make the patent system any less broken.
I think you're missing out on the point of patents. When the framers of the Constitution set up the trademarks, copyrights, and patent law it was specifically for a case like this. They imagined that old man Wilcox would invent an idea and patent it, but without any resources to develop his idea, he'd sit on his patent and wait. Then when rich old Farmer Gray took his new farming device to market 15 years later and proved to be a financial hit at the farmer's markets Wilcox would swoop in unveiling his submarine patent and demand a piece of the action, if not take over the device entirely from Gray! Early capitalism at its finest.
internet shock sites should not be posted on popular forums, it's stupid, why do we get a news article about shock sites
You apparently don't remember the good old days when you could still post inline images in Slashdot comments and there were no registered accounts, you just typed in whatever name you wanted to post under or just left it the default of Anonymous Coward.
Instead of waiting for the 1.5 - 2 hours for Microsoft Office to install I just downloaded star office and installed (took all of 10 minutes).
You know, you can't really count the amount of time it takes to download Microsoft Office via BitTorrent from a pirate site as part of the install time. Office 2003 took me about 15 minutes to install. Quit making shit up.
With that thought in mind, I wonder if there's some way to calculate how much money IE has lost webmasters trying to make their websites look the same in both IE and web-standards compliant browssers?
Which would those be? All browsers suck at complying with "standards" because there are so many standards and too many ways to interpret them. How's Firefox at rendering that ACID test these days?
Will I be able to have Debian perfectly handle [all] my basic multimedia requirements well by default? I would like to play Yahoo, CNN, ABC, BBC andd FOX video and audio by default.
No, but it's not really the fault of the Debian (or any GNU/Linux distribution) maintainers. Many of these sites are defective by design and only work properly with Windows... sometimes only with a certain version of a Windows web browser: Internet Explorer 6. As a MacOS X user it's a *little* less painful to get a lot of these sites to work in Firefox or Safari in order ot get streaming video to work, but by no means does everything run smooth. The situation is even worse with Linux in regards to how poorly these sites choose to support that platform.
The only thing I'm happy about is that most of these sites are migrating to using streaming video using a Flash-based player like YouTube does so they just use normal HTTP for the transfer mechanism and are simple to get working through a firewall. In the bad old days I had to worry about shit like RealVideo proxies, Quicktime, RTSP, PNA, Windows MMS, etc. While they're probably more efficient, they require your firewall to have a specialized application proxy and it's just an extra pain in the ass if they break the protocol in a new version. The sites that aren't using a Flash player are just streaming Quicktime/Windows Media over HTTP as well so it has the same effect. The main pain-in-the-ass site I experience is with CNN and FoxNews.
Could this be connected with DVI cables costing > $100?
Well, Blu-Ray and HD-DVD discs are actually really a higher quality image than regular DVD though. A $100 Monster HDMI or DVI cable however isn't going to perform much differently than a $15 generic version bought from Cables-to-Go or from Startech.
Look up the Apache ServerAlias directive. You can alias as many alternate names as you want under the virtual host without creating a separate virtual host definition for that hostname. Technically either way would work, but it's just a lot less work.
How much rocket science will it take to make this work with other VoIP setups... uh, before Verizon's lawyers go after them, too?
What's the point of using your existing VoIP box? Those things were made cheap enough to be throwaways. If you switch to another provider it's very likely you'll get one of their devices included free with your service.
Well, in Ataturk's defense, that was the Young Turks that were responsible for that genocide, not his government. He picked up the pieces of the country after World War I.
I must be the last person in the world that can claim to have never seen Serenity or Firefly. I remember the TV show when it came out and if I recall, it seemed like some kind of space sitcom more than a sci-fi show. Maybe I'm thinking of something else. Was Firefly a comedy?
Their "expert" claims to be a "software engineer" yet when asked if he's got a PE stamp, he says...well...no. Yet another wannabe expert.
Oh boo hoo. You must be another "real" engineer bitching about "wannabe" engineers because they didn't have to take some god damn state test to call themselves engineers. A network or software engineer is as much an engineer as you fuckers that drive locomotives with your fancy state PE certificates, they just don't have some rubber stamp on their degree from some incompetent civil servant.
I mean, FFS, it's now well into 2 April in 10 timezones, and only about two timezones AREN'T past 1200 on 1 April.
Slashdot is an American site and the admins are based in Michigan (or at least they used to be) so you can assume Slashdot lives and breaths on Eastern time. Frankly, 95% of the useful shit that happens in this world is geared towards the Eastern time zone so the rest of y'all can just suck it.
In fact, there should be a control that says, "no A/V". That and get the memory sucker under control. That's all I ask.
Sounds like a default install of Mozilla on Linux. No Java, no Flash, no Quicktime/Realplayer/Windows Media streaming, *definitely* none of those fancy VRML plugins to let you rotate models on the screen or do a virtual walkthrough of real estate. Yea, Linux is ready for the desktop... a desktop from 1994.
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This is the problem with globalization. Congress should act now to stop companies from off-shoring jobs and get rid of the H1B visa workers. Keep American jobs for Americans even if it means our products are more expensive than those from other countries. Ban importation of products made by companies in countries that employ sub-standard labor at ridiculously low wages like China, Korea, and Vietnam. That's not enough though... we need Americans to collectively stick together and pledge to only buy American-made products! It doesn't matter if they're more expensive and maybe even inferior, this is a fight for our very survival as a superpower.
The external fuel tank isn't painted orange, that's the natural color of the foam. Apparently the replacement foam for patch jobs is just naturally white so they can easily tell where they've added it.
Uploading is used by content pirates sharing their warez so I'm sure the bandwidth will be the very absolutely minimum required to acknowledge TCP packets being downloaded and nothing more.
How do you buy a *single* DRM-free track from that site you linked to? They're selling entire CDs there.
I think you're missing out on the point of patents. When the framers of the Constitution set up the trademarks, copyrights, and patent law it was specifically for a case like this. They imagined that old man Wilcox would invent an idea and patent it, but without any resources to develop his idea, he'd sit on his patent and wait. Then when rich old Farmer Gray took his new farming device to market 15 years later and proved to be a financial hit at the farmer's markets Wilcox would swoop in unveiling his submarine patent and demand a piece of the action, if not take over the device entirely from Gray! Early capitalism at its finest.
IT should just do its job and block myspace.com, then open up only specific sub-URLs as teachers request it for approved coursework.
Why would you buy RAM at Newegg, but processors at a box store? They're almost certainly going to be more expensive at Frys than they are at Newegg.
The only thing I'm happy about is that most of these sites are migrating to using streaming video using a Flash-based player like YouTube does so they just use normal HTTP for the transfer mechanism and are simple to get working through a firewall. In the bad old days I had to worry about shit like RealVideo proxies, Quicktime, RTSP, PNA, Windows MMS, etc. While they're probably more efficient, they require your firewall to have a specialized application proxy and it's just an extra pain in the ass if they break the protocol in a new version. The sites that aren't using a Flash player are just streaming Quicktime/Windows Media over HTTP as well so it has the same effect. The main pain-in-the-ass site I experience is with CNN and FoxNews.
Look up the Apache ServerAlias directive. You can alias as many alternate names as you want under the virtual host without creating a separate virtual host definition for that hostname. Technically either way would work, but it's just a lot less work.
Well, in Ataturk's defense, that was the Young Turks that were responsible for that genocide, not his government. He picked up the pieces of the country after World War I.
I must be the last person in the world that can claim to have never seen Serenity or Firefly. I remember the TV show when it came out and if I recall, it seemed like some kind of space sitcom more than a sci-fi show. Maybe I'm thinking of something else. Was Firefly a comedy?
What, doesn't anybody use rlogin/rsh anymore with