Not true. I know of at least one place where they have a Cray and can't afford the electric bill to switch it on. They cost a fortune just to sit and look pretty too: it's taking up room on campus that could be used for other things.
I watch British TV, not in Britain though. I refuse point blank to have any Sony products in the house. So do quite a few people I know. Too many pieces of intelligent electronics that may get infected if attached you see. So if forced to watch TV on a Sony brand product I think I'd probably just stop watching TV altogether.
Speed doesn't kill people. Coming to a sudden stop: that's what gets you.
All these knee jerk, 'think of the children' prats: come up with some statistics that show driving in excess of the posted speed limits does cause more actual deaths.
In fact the converse appears true. I can provide statistics that show driving a high powered motorcycle is way safer than driving one that cannot break the speed limit.
The fact is most posted speed limits are nothing more than a tax, in the form of speed fines, for driving.
I thought an Urchin was the old name for a Hedgehog, and that Sea Urchins are so named because they have lots of things sticking out of them, looking somewhat similar, if you sort of squint sideways with your head cocked to one side.
Being a Yorkshireman too I can commiserate with your experience. Some people don't appreciate our ability to call a spade a spade after all, HR plebs for definite, and people from Texas sound to me like they're on Speed or some other narcotic, and come across as quite shifty.
Wouldn't bother with the Physics degree though, you'll get the same experience: so I suggest you look to Law or Accountancy. There are precious few lawyers who understand computers, so the combination pays well, one example is the worlds richest man...
I thought Google only needed a browser to run on, and you can get a browser on any of the various OS I've tried. Well, maybe not that one in the Engine Management Unit, but there again it's not something I thought necessary.
One thing I've learnt in my long career is the more you are paid, the less you have to work. If you're getting a big rise as you move into this management position look forward to a large reduction in stress and more free time. If not, then turn it down. If you're technical, management in a technical environment is easy; nearly all your staff are highly trained and know what needs to be done, Just let them get on with it. Unfortunately most managers I've met are totally non-technical, and clearly delight in being so (the fools). They run around like headless chickens, i.e. you'll have your feet up most of the time and the work you have will mainly be preventing the 'headless chickens' screwing stuff up and upsetting key staff to the point they leave.
PCI is NOT a problem for techies, it is a problem for managers. Several places I've worked there has been intense pressure to circumvent PCI because it all appears as 'non-functional' requirements on their charts.
I've even seen one place recycling client data as test data: those customers were seriously peeved about the odd charges and paybacks on their bills. Which was why I was brought in. Try explaining to a management team that a bug isn't in the code but in their technique.
One irritating thing about Anonymous Cowards is that they are generally too lazy to just have a look for themselves, and post random gibberish that just bungs up the tubes.
So suggest you try any of Cybercity, Tele2, Telia, and TDC and thereby determine the validity of the original post for yourself.
There again, if I wasn't so bored I wouldn't have wasted the time doing the rounds of checking the various ISPs myself and replying.
Bored one day I was using Google to find a ringtone for a friend and happened to drop on AllOfMP3, (just clicking through the list as one does,) and was presented by a page from my ISP saying it was blocked. I found it a little disconcerting that my ISP is deciding who I can communicate with.
For a moment I thought it's no longer the net I grew up with.
As I wasn't particularly interested in finding the ringtone or going to AllOfMP3 anyway thought I'd alleviate my boredom by investigating how they'd done this. Turns out they've only poisoned their DNS. So if you get the correct IP address from somewhere else and stick it in your hosts file you can work around it.
So the net returned back to normal: identified censorship as an error and routed 'round it.
Ah you don't quite know the joys of the American telephone system. In the good ol'US of A you'd be quite silly to rely on only one path for the last mile to the net. Most people I know have a line that is good and fast for gaming, another that is good for big downloads and maybe some more if they have their own servers. They work out which connections are really separate by trial and error: chatting to neighbours when there are outages to find out which service providers are still up etc. etc..
I have seen at first hand the running of a 'Japanese' and a 'Domestic' car plant. The staff at the Japanese plant had much higher pay and benefits.
The problem stems from statistics, and how the numbers are played with. Basically in the 'west' retiree benefits are paid from 'current' income. In the past these 'western' companies saved money by failing to invest for the future benefits they contractually agreed too. They did this by setting up shells that actually gave the investment money back to the originating company This made the companies look profitable and growing, and raised their then share price. This sort of nonsense was encouraged by the markets and governments which fed back into the management which gave more of the same. Behind the scenes everyone crossed their fingers and hoped that growth would make up the difference. There were many at the time who said it was all a house of cards, but they were starved of research funding and quite effectively silenced. Now time has caught up with these companies and governments and they have to pay, which is then, by accountancy tricks, spread across the current employee base, making current employees look way more expensive and quite unproductive.
Contrast this with Japanese companies who invested for the future benefits with strict governmental controls on how they were allowed to do it. Now these companies not only receive income from the investments, they also have a much lower cost base as they only pay out for their current workforce which makes them look less than half the price and considerably more productive.
As I am old, experience tells me you'd be better served to spend your remaining time in that job getting your resumé up to date, pick up some.not books and apply for every course you can get on.
Feed the bean counter with numbers from/dev/random, it won't make any difference anyways and you'll only end up in therapy trying to generate 'meaningful' numbers for your boss, because if they don't tell you how to measure it, everything will be 'not what they wanted'.
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Not true. I know of at least one place where they have a Cray and can't afford the electric bill to switch it on. They cost a fortune just to sit and look pretty too: it's taking up room on campus that could be used for other things.
Nah, I'm pretty sure it took at least 4 clicks. Well it did to me to get this far.
Isn't 'Lying to Congress' a felony?
Which do you think will happen, if convicted.
1) A slap on the wrist.
2) Bush will pardon.
3) ACLU will get him off.
I watch British TV, not in Britain though. I refuse point blank to have any Sony products in the house. So do quite a few people I know. Too many pieces of intelligent electronics that may get infected if attached you see. So if forced to watch TV on a Sony brand product I think I'd probably just stop watching TV altogether.
Speed doesn't kill people. Coming to a sudden stop: that's what gets you.
All these knee jerk, 'think of the children' prats: come up with some statistics that show driving in excess of the posted speed limits does cause more actual deaths.
In fact the converse appears true. I can provide statistics that show driving a high powered motorcycle is way safer than driving one that cannot break the speed limit.
The fact is most posted speed limits are nothing more than a tax, in the form of speed fines, for driving.
I thought an Urchin was the old name for a Hedgehog, and that Sea Urchins are so named because they have lots of things sticking out of them, looking somewhat similar, if you sort of squint sideways with your head cocked to one side.
In Soviet Russia they had elections and the government still got in.
Considering the lusers round here there's no mind to read. ;-)
Duluth == Stupid.
Being a Yorkshireman too I can commiserate with your experience. Some people don't appreciate our ability to call a spade a spade after all, HR plebs for definite, and people from Texas sound to me like they're on Speed or some other narcotic, and come across as quite shifty.
Wouldn't bother with the Physics degree though, you'll get the same experience: so I suggest you look to Law or Accountancy. There are precious few lawyers who understand computers, so the combination pays well, one example is the worlds richest man...
I thought Google only needed a browser to run on, and you can get a browser on any of the various OS I've tried. Well, maybe not that one in the Engine Management Unit, but there again it's not something I thought necessary.
Many of my co-workers leave a jacket on their chair back, which appears sufficient for most purposes.
Many leave them there overnight.
In the case of at least one chair-with-a-jacket I suspect the occupant left the companies employ quite some time ago, but no one has yet noticed.
Scarily, I was stood behind him.
Why don't these stores copyright their video feed and then let loose the RIAA on the perps. That'll stop 'em!
One thing I've learnt in my long career is the more you are paid, the less you have to work. If you're getting a big rise as you move into this management position look forward to a large reduction in stress and more free time. If not, then turn it down. If you're technical, management in a technical environment is easy; nearly all your staff are highly trained and know what needs to be done, Just let them get on with it. Unfortunately most managers I've met are totally non-technical, and clearly delight in being so (the fools). They run around like headless chickens, i.e. you'll have your feet up most of the time and the work you have will mainly be preventing the 'headless chickens' screwing stuff up and upsetting key staff to the point they leave.
i.e. don't sweat it.
Erm, your example is a comedy movie. Starring Michael Keaton if memory serves. It's not real you know.
PCI is NOT a problem for techies, it is a problem for managers. Several places I've worked there has been intense pressure to circumvent PCI because it all appears as 'non-functional' requirements on their charts.
I've even seen one place recycling client data as test data: those customers were seriously peeved about the odd charges and paybacks on their bills. Which was why I was brought in. Try explaining to a management team that a bug isn't in the code but in their technique.
One irritating thing about Anonymous Cowards is that they are generally too lazy to just have a look for themselves, and post random gibberish that just bungs up the tubes.
So suggest you try any of Cybercity, Tele2, Telia, and TDC and thereby determine the validity of the original post for yourself.
There again, if I wasn't so bored I wouldn't have wasted the time doing the rounds of checking the various ISPs myself and replying.
The 'rule of law' is a 'political consideration'!
Sounds like someone needs to brush up on their Constitutional law.
Bored one day I was using Google to find a ringtone for a friend and happened to drop on AllOfMP3, (just clicking through the list as one does,) and was presented by a page from my ISP saying it was blocked. I found it a little disconcerting that my ISP is deciding who I can communicate with.
For a moment I thought it's no longer the net I grew up with.
As I wasn't particularly interested in finding the ringtone or going to AllOfMP3 anyway thought I'd alleviate my boredom by investigating how they'd done this. Turns out they've only poisoned their DNS. So if you get the correct IP address from somewhere else and stick it in your hosts file you can work around it.
So the net returned back to normal: identified censorship as an error and routed 'round it.
Whew!
SA Government was the major shareholder in all this, so telecoms in SA were actually heavily 'taxed'.
Ah you don't quite know the joys of the American telephone system. In the good ol'US of A you'd be quite silly to rely on only one path for the last mile to the net. Most people I know have a line that is good and fast for gaming, another that is good for big downloads and maybe some more if they have their own servers. They work out which connections are really separate by trial and error: chatting to neighbours when there are outages to find out which service providers are still up etc. etc..
I have seen at first hand the running of a 'Japanese' and a 'Domestic' car plant. The staff at the Japanese plant had much higher pay and benefits.
The problem stems from statistics, and how the numbers are played with. Basically in the 'west' retiree benefits are paid from 'current' income. In the past these 'western' companies saved money by failing to invest for the future benefits they contractually agreed too. They did this by setting up shells that actually gave the investment money back to the originating company This made the companies look profitable and growing, and raised their then share price. This sort of nonsense was encouraged by the markets and governments which fed back into the management which gave more of the same. Behind the scenes everyone crossed their fingers and hoped that growth would make up the difference. There were many at the time who said it was all a house of cards, but they were starved of research funding and quite effectively silenced. Now time has caught up with these companies and governments and they have to pay, which is then, by accountancy tricks, spread across the current employee base, making current employees look way more expensive and quite unproductive.
Contrast this with Japanese companies who invested for the future benefits with strict governmental controls on how they were allowed to do it. Now these companies not only receive income from the investments, they also have a much lower cost base as they only pay out for their current workforce which makes them look less than half the price and considerably more productive.
As I am old, experience tells me you'd be better served to spend your remaining time in that job getting your resumé up to date, pick up some .not books and apply for every course you can get on.
/dev/random, it won't make any difference anyways and you'll only end up in therapy trying to generate 'meaningful' numbers for your boss, because if they don't tell you how to measure it, everything will be 'not what they wanted'.
Feed the bean counter with numbers from
Sorry to bring you the bad news an'all.
Couldn't even keep a dorm room warm. Boo hoo.