AMC Theaters has this policy called "Silence is Golden". If you talk during the movie, use your cellphone, etc. they toss your ass out with no refund. I've seen it in action, and it's fantastic.
With regards to your pecking order, working at Google is a joke. They offer you a "pauper's salary" (typically half of what the market rate is for your position) with little to no stock options, and tons of benefits whose sole purpose is to keep you at work or working on a Google project longer.
I enjoy using some of their products, but you'd be a fool to work for them if you have a family to support or live in a real estate market that actually requires a decent salary.
My wireless Brother multi-function device lets me drop in a 20 page doc, enter an email address, and it'll send a PDF or TIFF off to the recipient. Doesn't sound too difficult to me.
I think it's funny that Valve is turning into Google from a data mining perspective in the gaming arena. More power to them though. I think it's fantastic when a company can use data mining to enhance the user experience without privacy implications.
I agree completely that it's not cheaper to fly GA than commercial.
Take the cost for me to fly GA instead of commercial for a single flight. Subtract what it would have cost me to fly commercial (Assume $1600 for fuel, hours on the plane, landing fees if need, etc. and $330 for the commercial ticket). So I'm paying a $1270 premium. I'm paying that to not deal with airport security, not sit on the tarmac for hours at a time, and not have the inconvenience of getting bumped because someone who is "1K" gets priority for my seat. At the same time, I'm building hours towards a commercial pilots license (while the requirements are dropping hour-wise at most carriers, you still need 250-500 hours to fly co-pilot). For someone who makes a decent salary $80-120K/year, this premium isn't that expensive. If you're flying for business, you can even declare it as a business expense under certain conditions (check ahead with your tax guy).
So don't look at it from simply a financial standpoint. I never said it would be cheaper to fly GA. But I happily would (and do, in the form of my 172 and turbofan 2 seater) pay a premium not to deal with the hell that is the commercial aviation world.
As a student pilot, it is indeed a whole different ball of wax flying privately. But I would rather pay my loan payment on my plane, my fuel, my insurance, and even my training costs, than fly commercially.
I highly suggest you look into Amazon's S3 cloud storage service. We back up hundreds of TBs of data into it for one of our clients. No media to worry about. You just need fat pipe (100Mb/s transit, or even business class FIOS).
Totally offtopic, but I wish they wouldn't use BMI (it's a horribly incorrect indicator), and would've included small conductive patches on the top of the balance board to detect your body fat content (most $40 scales can do this). I preordered Wii Fit and my wife and I love it.
If you're worried your heavily encrypted data on S3 is going to be found by three letter US agencies trawling the system, than securing your laptop against border crossing agents is the least of your concerns.
You insensitive clod! I keep all my live work on Amazon S3 with JungleDisk, and have automated backups to a drive at home! =)
In all honesty though, if you're worried data you have in your possession could cause trouble for you, don't have it in your possession. Even with a T1 speed connection, most data can be moved around heavily encrypted, and with Amazon S3 you can store it encrypted someplace. Than you simply have to worry about the encryption key storage.
I made some money in Hosting several years ago, hence the Roadster. When you think about it, with $10-20K down, the payments come out to be around $1100/month. Several business owners I know who drive high-end Mercedes/Audi/Lexus vehicles spend upwards for $1500-1800/month on their lease, so it's not too unreasonable.
I can understand not wanting to drive a "weanie" car around. But at some point practicality kicks in. $5, 6, or even 7 a gallon changes the way you look at your vehicle and travel needs.
I paid $70K for my Mercedes roadster (SLK 55 AMG), and it's a V8 with almost 500hp (it's been worked on). I'm dumping it for a Prius for day to day, and a Tesla Roadster for the weekends/fun.
To hell with oil. Electricity is the ultimate flex fuel.
It's akin to being an executioner. You may not do your job ever but once in your life, but once you've done it you're never going to want to do it again. That's what you're getting paid for.
Umm, no. I said "Unless you're running a hugely complex ASP.net application, in which case, it doesn't work so well." Just because you can't do $latest-greatest-fad-of-the-month with your application, doesn't mean it's the right tool for the job.
As always with Slashdot, a car example: I can't tow anything with my Corvette, nor is it that fuel efficient, but it still works.
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AMC Theaters has this policy called "Silence is Golden". If you talk during the movie, use your cellphone, etc. they toss your ass out with no refund. I've seen it in action, and it's fantastic.
I enjoy using some of their products, but you'd be a fool to work for them if you have a family to support or live in a real estate market that actually requires a decent salary.
Solar power already pays itself back without subsidies. Subsidies are there just to sweeten the pot.
My wireless Brother multi-function device lets me drop in a 20 page doc, enter an email address, and it'll send a PDF or TIFF off to the recipient. Doesn't sound too difficult to me.
You must be new here =)
You've just summed up most Gartner reports. =)
Or, perhaps, he just wanted to make it available to a wider audience. Linux on the desktop usage is still a fraction of all desktops.
I think it's funny that Valve is turning into Google from a data mining perspective in the gaming arena. More power to them though. I think it's fantastic when a company can use data mining to enhance the user experience without privacy implications.
Take the cost for me to fly GA instead of commercial for a single flight. Subtract what it would have cost me to fly commercial (Assume $1600 for fuel, hours on the plane, landing fees if need, etc. and $330 for the commercial ticket). So I'm paying a $1270 premium. I'm paying that to not deal with airport security, not sit on the tarmac for hours at a time, and not have the inconvenience of getting bumped because someone who is "1K" gets priority for my seat. At the same time, I'm building hours towards a commercial pilots license (while the requirements are dropping hour-wise at most carriers, you still need 250-500 hours to fly co-pilot). For someone who makes a decent salary $80-120K/year, this premium isn't that expensive. If you're flying for business, you can even declare it as a business expense under certain conditions (check ahead with your tax guy).
So don't look at it from simply a financial standpoint. I never said it would be cheaper to fly GA. But I happily would (and do, in the form of my 172 and turbofan 2 seater) pay a premium not to deal with the hell that is the commercial aviation world.
As a student pilot, it is indeed a whole different ball of wax flying privately. But I would rather pay my loan payment on my plane, my fuel, my insurance, and even my training costs, than fly commercially.
I highly suggest you look into Amazon's S3 cloud storage service. We back up hundreds of TBs of data into it for one of our clients. No media to worry about. You just need fat pipe (100Mb/s transit, or even business class FIOS).
Working hard does not entitle someone to a percentage, especially $10-20+K per sale.
Good to know. Thanks for the info!
Totally offtopic, but I wish they wouldn't use BMI (it's a horribly incorrect indicator), and would've included small conductive patches on the top of the balance board to detect your body fat content (most $40 scales can do this). I preordered Wii Fit and my wife and I love it.
If you're worried your heavily encrypted data on S3 is going to be found by three letter US agencies trawling the system, than securing your laptop against border crossing agents is the least of your concerns.
I'm glad it's easy to hack. I'm ordering two or three of them, and going to try to incorporate bluetooth into them.
As someone who is only 11 levels into Portal OMG THERE IS NO CAKE! RUN!
In all honesty though, if you're worried data you have in your possession could cause trouble for you, don't have it in your possession. Even with a T1 speed connection, most data can be moved around heavily encrypted, and with Amazon S3 you can store it encrypted someplace. Than you simply have to worry about the encryption key storage.
The More You Know(TM) =)
I can understand not wanting to drive a "weanie" car around. But at some point practicality kicks in. $5, 6, or even 7 a gallon changes the way you look at your vehicle and travel needs.
To hell with oil. Electricity is the ultimate flex fuel.
For $10/month, I would expect throttling. But the connection is fully encrypted, and can masquerade as a true VPN connection.
https://www.relakks.com/?lang=en does exactly what you've described. I believe the cost is $10/month US.
It's akin to being an executioner. You may not do your job ever but once in your life, but once you've done it you're never going to want to do it again. That's what you're getting paid for.
As always with Slashdot, a car example: I can't tow anything with my Corvette, nor is it that fuel efficient, but it still works.