I am a performance tester, where we, you guessed it, test the performance of applications and environments. You write scripts using specialized software (the major ones being LoadRunner or even Visual Studio Ultimate) to record the scripts. After the scripts are recorded you can go back and change the scripts to do specific functions, which is where the coding skills come in. It is definitely more interesting than programming, and in lots of jobs can be done via telecommuting.
I have spent considerable time in Morocco, and I have met plenty of people that speak only Arabic, no French. My experience is that the educated all speak French, while the poorer classes tend to not speak French, only Arabic.
The article includes plenty of viewpoints dissenting from the conclusion that A. afarensis walked, and possibly ran, like modern humans do.
Is anyone else as deeply offended by this as me? I, as a modern human, haven never, ever, in my life run, and am offended that I am associated with these prehistoric brutes.
If it matters to anyone, I just checked with my iPad and was able to upgrade from the 250meg plan to the unlimited plan. So, I suggest that if anyone who has an iPad and thinks they will want the unlimited plan, just go ahead and get it now... AT&T has said they will not force anyone over to the new plans, so go ahead, get it while you still can.
You have to kayak twice if you are going from Tokyo to Los Angeles (steps 24 & 38). The odd thing here is that it requires you to enter in Washington, even though it appears to be quicker just to Kayak straight to Los Angeles from Hawaii.
For some reason, I was logged out of/. So, now a repost and not an AC. Sorry:-/
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In cases like Facebook and Myspace, I am not sure what good these services would be. Think about it, these services can only monitor information that is either open for everyone, or if you are a friend. So, by simply making all your info for friends only, it sort of negates anything software like this can do... unless I am missing something?
My action step moving forward: turn off all public info and make private. *Note to self: don't accept friend requests to automated monitoring services*
End of story. Nothing to see here, move along...
Normally I don't do this, but I am going to say this: Did you even read my post? Or were you too busy making assumptions about my motives?
I have an idea.
First, I know the difference between a hero and a protagonist, he became a "hero" when he decided to fight and sacrifice himself, thus enabling Christopher to escape.
Second, wow you assume I haven't traveled outside the US before, and been to third world countries? In fact, I have spent considerable amounts of time in "less stable countries", for months at a time. What I am saying is, that South Africa (which I admit I have never been to) does not seem like that type of country to me. I would be happy to take any comments from someone that actually has been to South Africa, or even more, lives/lived there.
Third, never once did I complain about the depth of the main character (thanks for reading my post, btw), in fact, i think we should have had a little more on him since he was the protagonist. I wanted to feel for the guy, but I couldn't. As for the other characters, I just wanted motivation for their actions and was hoping for more than the typical "greed" scenario, as was in the case for the father-in-law (maybe show how he didn't like Wilkus because he wasn't good enough for his daughter, or something).
Fourth, I perfectly understood what was happening without the gore, so the answer was no, it was not needed.
Fifth, I think you missed an important point about the so-called drones. It was the media that called them all drones, not the aliens referring to themselves, so you are being rather "humanist" on that perspective. Obviously the aliens could learn things (Christopher's son), and some could deduce a situation and make appropriate actions (like at the end when they come to save Wilkus' life). So to call them all drones is an assumption on your part, not mine. And who's to say there weren't other smart aliens out there? The drones were smart enough to understand bartering and such...
Look, it is ok for you to think this was the end-all-be-all in terms of sci-fi this year, but I simply don't. It was more a social justice issues movie than anything else. I'm not saying there was anything wrong with that, I am just saying I was expecting something more and didn't get it. Maybe District 10 due out in 3 years will be more of what I was hoping this one to be...?
Again, you question if we saw the same movie, and I question if we read the same post?
Now you can have a robotic voice yell at you when you missed your turn! Like a nagging wife with you all the time in your car! Worth the money right there!
The price on $99 just seems wildly optimistic to me on the parts of Tom-Tom. CoPilot also just release a new GPS maps software, but for only $35, about 1/3rd the price. So, is Tom-Tom really that much better to justify the steep price tag? I am not trying to troll, I really want to know if it is...? If I were to get the Tom-Tom software, I would most likely get the mount/GPS extender, which hasn't even released a price for yet, so the totally cost just sky-rockets. Find out more about the Tom-Tom iPhone software and mount at iPhone.tomtom.com
Let me say that I was highly disappointed with this movie, and surely I can't be the only one. I went to see it last night, and walked away not recommending it to anyone. There were definite plot holes, the hero (Van De Merwe) I had a hard time rooting for instead of rooting that we would just get shot. He was weak and pathetic, and only had courage while in the exo-suit, and even then, he was wishy-washy. His character was sort of like Borat, the sound effects sounded like the Matrix, and I just couldn't believe the government would allow the Nigerians to become so powerful inside the district, especially when they knew how dangerous they were. The father in law was evil for no apparent reason, and his wife suddenly believes Wilkus without explanation why? I don't know, I just don't buy it at all. A lot of the gore was unneeded, and made me turn away from the screen a few times... Did we really need to see him biting off his nails? And yes, I did think the parts where the humans blew up from the alien weapons were cool, but it just begs the question, why weren't the aliens using the weanpos to revolt instead of selling them to the Nigerians?
All in all, I just found the movie to be simply unbelievable (yes, I KNOW it is only sci-fi, but still, c'mon!) that were this situation to occur, I just can't see people acting like that. I'd expect tighter government controls, with more international pressures. If this movie wanted to be about apartheid, which is a good social justice issues movie, it needed a little more believability to it, and a little more on the interactions between humans/aliens when the aliens first arrived.
Mod me up or down, I don't care, it was just that I was expecting so much more, and left feeling like I got a better deal on the popcorn:-/
People who say these things fail to realize that science and religion are answering two completely different questions, and hence can live harmoniously together. Science answers the question, "How?", and meanwhile, Religion answers the question, "Why?" Two separate, and distinctively important questions, and certainly not mutually exclusive.
Yes! Get the facts! DiHydrogen Monoxide is a serious problem. From the website DHMO.org:
Dihydrogen Monoxide (DHMO) is a colorless and odorless chemical compound, also referred to by some as Dihydrogen Oxide, Hydrogen Hydroxide, Hydronium Hydroxide, or simply Hydric acid. Its basis is the highly reactive hydroxyl radical, a species shown to mutate DNA, denature proteins, disrupt cell membranes, and chemically alter critical neurotransmitters. The atomic components of DHMO are found in a number of caustic, explosive and poisonous compounds such as Sulfuric Acid, Nitroglycerine and Ethyl Alcohol.
Correct me if I am wrong, and do not mean any ill will towards the winner of this contest, but doesn't it make more sense to just hire someone from the island to do it? It would either be quicker, cheaper, or possibly both.
I have no idea how much that is... Can someone convert that to standard units, err, I mean English Units... or was it imperial units? Dangit! Before I read this thread I knew my measurement units, now I got no idea.
I am gonna go with Grandpa Simpson on this one:
"My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it!"
See my other post, but according to my friend that works for the WiMax project, there will not be any bandwidth cap. The reason the cellular data cards needed bandwidth caps is because the problem with the towers. Each tower for 3G technologies have about a T1 running to them, so the line can easily get saturated. From what I understand, the WiMax towers have something crazy like a 10GB line running to them, thus not having to have the same caps as the cellular networks to artificially keep usage low. He also said that the WiMax team will re-evaluate the unlimited usage after a year or so to see if it is still feasible.
I have a good friend that works directly for the WiMax team. According to him, there are many cities all ready to go with WiMax, and the first city to sell it will be Baltimore, with two months later Washington DC and LA I believe coming on next. Then, if all turns out well, 30 cities in 2009, and by 2010, most all major metro areas being covered. My friend already has a working WiMax card at his house (here in DC) and has been using it for the past 2 months. He said Baltimore was going to be first because it is the city with the most "complete" coverage. There is even suppose to be some sort of ceremony going on with the mayor of Baltimore attending. I am also told that anyone from the DC area could potentially drive to DC to buy the WiMax cards and use it back home in DC no problem.
My friend also said that the current limitations are with the WiMax cards, only getting about 2 megs a sec, while the ones coming next year will be almost twice as fast.
This is a good friend, so I trust what he says, but, as always, YMMV.
Ok, well here is a question for you, what is the cell phone service like in your area? Do you know if you are on any of the 3G networks? If you are, I might think of getting a data card. I have a data card from Sprint that I take with me that work pretty well, and I signed up a few weeks before they got rid of their unlimited data plan. On top of that, I bought the Kyocera KR2 router, which lets me plug the data card into, and broadcasts the signal via wifi/ethernet. It has actually been quite useful as I have taken it on vacation to many places and provide internet access to everyone. Realistically, in a well covered area I get about 500-600k down, and 250k up. Not too bad, enough to support about 4 to 5 people comfortably.
If that is not an option for you, I would suggest waiting a little bit more for wimax. I have a friend that works directly on that project, and he tells me that they have already built the network in the major areas, and are ready to switch it on in the next month or so for general public use. I know it is a few year time frame, but wimax should be able to support you fairly soon as he tells me one tower can cover about 30 square miles. Also, they will be making router that can receive the wimax signal and broadcast it locally over wifi/ethernet, just like my Kyocera KR2 router.
I know it may not be as fast as direct broadband, but sure beats dialup any day. With bigger pipes now coming from the airwaves, I think this will naturally put more competition on the local duopoly, as there are many more providers out there with a vested interest in the airwaves and faster broadband.
Cheer up, if you don't have an option right now, there are some very viable ones coming, and not all of them are vaporware...
HP/Compaq are today - shitty printer ink companies.
Obviously you do not have any corporate experience with HP at all... For instance, the Mercury Load Runner testing suite.
I am a Load Tester myself, and I do indeed use LaodRunner. As you alluded to, HP did not make LoadRunner, Mercury did. Mercury was recently bought out by HP. Here is what I noticed about LoadRunner since the HP transition:
1. Website has gotten incredibly confusing and hard to find the info I wanted. 2. Phone Support has been awful, right out the window. I used to get someone working on my issues within an hour, now I am lucky if I get any response in 24 hours! 3. Licensing schemes have become incredibly convoluted and unintuitive.
All that since HP bought Mercury. If that is your definition of "good business", well, I got some land in Florida I'd like to sell you.
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I am a performance tester, where we, you guessed it, test the performance of applications and environments. You write scripts using specialized software (the major ones being LoadRunner or even Visual Studio Ultimate) to record the scripts. After the scripts are recorded you can go back and change the scripts to do specific functions, which is where the coding skills come in. It is definitely more interesting than programming, and in lots of jobs can be done via telecommuting.
For more info, check out:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Today today is the day that Sky Net becomes self-aware... No one will ever forget October 12th, 2010
I have spent considerable time in Morocco, and I have met plenty of people that speak only Arabic, no French. My experience is that the educated all speak French, while the poorer classes tend to not speak French, only Arabic.
The article includes plenty of viewpoints dissenting from the conclusion that A. afarensis walked, and possibly ran, like modern humans do.
Is anyone else as deeply offended by this as me? I, as a modern human, haven never, ever, in my life run, and am offended that I am associated with these prehistoric brutes.
Oh the humanity!
If it matters to anyone, I just checked with my iPad and was able to upgrade from the 250meg plan to the unlimited plan. So, I suggest that if anyone who has an iPad and thinks they will want the unlimited plan, just go ahead and get it now... AT&T has said they will not force anyone over to the new plans, so go ahead, get it while you still can.
You have to kayak twice if you are going from Tokyo to Los Angeles (steps 24 & 38). The odd thing here is that it requires you to enter in Washington, even though it appears to be quicker just to Kayak straight to Los Angeles from Hawaii.
For some reason, I was logged out of /. So, now a repost and not an AC. Sorry :-/
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In cases like Facebook and Myspace, I am not sure what good these services would be. Think about it, these services can only monitor information that is either open for everyone, or if you are a friend. So, by simply making all your info for friends only, it sort of negates anything software like this can do... unless I am missing something?
My action step moving forward: turn off all public info and make private. *Note to self: don't accept friend requests to automated monitoring services*
End of story. Nothing to see here, move along...
I am somewhat saddened by the title of this article. I had thought that Western Digital was launching a new space station.
Normally I don't do this, but I am going to say this: Did you even read my post? Or were you too busy making assumptions about my motives?
I have an idea.
First, I know the difference between a hero and a protagonist, he became a "hero" when he decided to fight and sacrifice himself, thus enabling Christopher to escape.
Second, wow you assume I haven't traveled outside the US before, and been to third world countries? In fact, I have spent considerable amounts of time in "less stable countries", for months at a time. What I am saying is, that South Africa (which I admit I have never been to) does not seem like that type of country to me. I would be happy to take any comments from someone that actually has been to South Africa, or even more, lives/lived there.
Third, never once did I complain about the depth of the main character (thanks for reading my post, btw), in fact, i think we should have had a little more on him since he was the protagonist. I wanted to feel for the guy, but I couldn't. As for the other characters, I just wanted motivation for their actions and was hoping for more than the typical "greed" scenario, as was in the case for the father-in-law (maybe show how he didn't like Wilkus because he wasn't good enough for his daughter, or something).
Fourth, I perfectly understood what was happening without the gore, so the answer was no, it was not needed.
Fifth, I think you missed an important point about the so-called drones. It was the media that called them all drones, not the aliens referring to themselves, so you are being rather "humanist" on that perspective. Obviously the aliens could learn things (Christopher's son), and some could deduce a situation and make appropriate actions (like at the end when they come to save Wilkus' life). So to call them all drones is an assumption on your part, not mine. And who's to say there weren't other smart aliens out there? The drones were smart enough to understand bartering and such...
Look, it is ok for you to think this was the end-all-be-all in terms of sci-fi this year, but I simply don't. It was more a social justice issues movie than anything else. I'm not saying there was anything wrong with that, I am just saying I was expecting something more and didn't get it. Maybe District 10 due out in 3 years will be more of what I was hoping this one to be...?
Again, you question if we saw the same movie, and I question if we read the same post?
Now you can have a robotic voice yell at you when you missed your turn! Like a nagging wife with you all the time in your car! Worth the money right there!
The price on $99 just seems wildly optimistic to me on the parts of Tom-Tom. CoPilot also just release a new GPS maps software, but for only $35, about 1/3rd the price. So, is Tom-Tom really that much better to justify the steep price tag? I am not trying to troll, I really want to know if it is...? If I were to get the Tom-Tom software, I would most likely get the mount/GPS extender, which hasn't even released a price for yet, so the totally cost just sky-rockets. Find out more about the Tom-Tom iPhone software and mount at iPhone.tomtom.com
Warning, might be spoilers:
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Let me say that I was highly disappointed with this movie, and surely I can't be the only one. I went to see it last night, and walked away not recommending it to anyone. There were definite plot holes, the hero (Van De Merwe) I had a hard time rooting for instead of rooting that we would just get shot. He was weak and pathetic, and only had courage while in the exo-suit, and even then, he was wishy-washy. His character was sort of like Borat, the sound effects sounded like the Matrix, and I just couldn't believe the government would allow the Nigerians to become so powerful inside the district, especially when they knew how dangerous they were. The father in law was evil for no apparent reason, and his wife suddenly believes Wilkus without explanation why? I don't know, I just don't buy it at all. A lot of the gore was unneeded, and made me turn away from the screen a few times... Did we really need to see him biting off his nails? And yes, I did think the parts where the humans blew up from the alien weapons were cool, but it just begs the question, why weren't the aliens using the weanpos to revolt instead of selling them to the Nigerians?
All in all, I just found the movie to be simply unbelievable (yes, I KNOW it is only sci-fi, but still, c'mon!) that were this situation to occur, I just can't see people acting like that. I'd expect tighter government controls, with more international pressures. If this movie wanted to be about apartheid, which is a good social justice issues movie, it needed a little more believability to it, and a little more on the interactions between humans/aliens when the aliens first arrived.
Mod me up or down, I don't care, it was just that I was expecting so much more, and left feeling like I got a better deal on the popcorn
People who say these things fail to realize that science and religion are answering two completely different questions, and hence can live harmoniously together. Science answers the question, "How?", and meanwhile, Religion answers the question, "Why?" Two separate, and distinctively important questions, and certainly not mutually exclusive.
Yes! Get the facts! DiHydrogen Monoxide is a serious problem. From the website DHMO.org:
Dihydrogen Monoxide (DHMO) is a colorless and odorless chemical compound, also referred to by some as Dihydrogen Oxide, Hydrogen Hydroxide, Hydronium Hydroxide, or simply Hydric acid. Its basis is the highly reactive hydroxyl radical, a species shown to mutate DNA, denature proteins, disrupt cell membranes, and chemically alter critical neurotransmitters. The atomic components of DHMO are found in a number of caustic, explosive and poisonous compounds such as Sulfuric Acid, Nitroglycerine and Ethyl Alcohol.
Read the website for many more disturbing facts!
Correct me if I am wrong, and do not mean any ill will towards the winner of this contest, but doesn't it make more sense to just hire someone from the island to do it? It would either be quicker, cheaper, or possibly both.
It is not the size that counts, it is how you use it!
I think if you hate this as much as I do, please take a moment and email them, below is their contact information from their website:
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If you have suggestions or comments for our Programming Department about the SCI FI Channel or any of its shows, please contact: feedback@scifi.com
and oh, yeah, there's a third USB port, woohoo
Actually, the previous macbook pro 17" model had 3 USB ports, so nothing new there...
Perhaps Microsoft could let Apple know what their accountants are doing that Apple's cant figure out.
Well that's simple. Microsoft is bleeding money and Apple is not. Apple, despite it's best efforts, cannot manage to bleed money like Microsoft.
All pints in America are 95ml short
I have no idea how much that is... Can someone convert that to standard units, err, I mean English Units... or was it imperial units? Dangit! Before I read this thread I knew my measurement units, now I got no idea.
I am gonna go with Grandpa Simpson on this one:
"My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it!"
Luckily, I believe in the market
I believe in the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny, and Santa Clause. Where's my pony?
Don't you mean, where is your unicorn?
See my other post, but according to my friend that works for the WiMax project, there will not be any bandwidth cap. The reason the cellular data cards needed bandwidth caps is because the problem with the towers. Each tower for 3G technologies have about a T1 running to them, so the line can easily get saturated. From what I understand, the WiMax towers have something crazy like a 10GB line running to them, thus not having to have the same caps as the cellular networks to artificially keep usage low. He also said that the WiMax team will re-evaluate the unlimited usage after a year or so to see if it is still feasible.
I have a good friend that works directly for the WiMax team. According to him, there are many cities all ready to go with WiMax, and the first city to sell it will be Baltimore, with two months later Washington DC and LA I believe coming on next. Then, if all turns out well, 30 cities in 2009, and by 2010, most all major metro areas being covered. My friend already has a working WiMax card at his house (here in DC) and has been using it for the past 2 months. He said Baltimore was going to be first because it is the city with the most "complete" coverage. There is even suppose to be some sort of ceremony going on with the mayor of Baltimore attending. I am also told that anyone from the DC area could potentially drive to DC to buy the WiMax cards and use it back home in DC no problem.
My friend also said that the current limitations are with the WiMax cards, only getting about 2 megs a sec, while the ones coming next year will be almost twice as fast.
This is a good friend, so I trust what he says, but, as always, YMMV.
Ok, well here is a question for you, what is the cell phone service like in your area? Do you know if you are on any of the 3G networks? If you are, I might think of getting a data card. I have a data card from Sprint that I take with me that work pretty well, and I signed up a few weeks before they got rid of their unlimited data plan. On top of that, I bought the Kyocera KR2 router, which lets me plug the data card into, and broadcasts the signal via wifi/ethernet. It has actually been quite useful as I have taken it on vacation to many places and provide internet access to everyone. Realistically, in a well covered area I get about 500-600k down, and 250k up. Not too bad, enough to support about 4 to 5 people comfortably.
If that is not an option for you, I would suggest waiting a little bit more for wimax. I have a friend that works directly on that project, and he tells me that they have already built the network in the major areas, and are ready to switch it on in the next month or so for general public use. I know it is a few year time frame, but wimax should be able to support you fairly soon as he tells me one tower can cover about 30 square miles. Also, they will be making router that can receive the wimax signal and broadcast it locally over wifi/ethernet, just like my Kyocera KR2 router.
I know it may not be as fast as direct broadband, but sure beats dialup any day. With bigger pipes now coming from the airwaves, I think this will naturally put more competition on the local duopoly, as there are many more providers out there with a vested interest in the airwaves and faster broadband.
Cheer up, if you don't have an option right now, there are some very viable ones coming, and not all of them are vaporware...
Obviously you do not have any corporate experience with HP at all... For instance, the Mercury Load Runner testing suite.
I am a Load Tester myself, and I do indeed use LaodRunner. As you alluded to, HP did not make LoadRunner, Mercury did. Mercury was recently bought out by HP. Here is what I noticed about LoadRunner since the HP transition:
1. Website has gotten incredibly confusing and hard to find the info I wanted.
2. Phone Support has been awful, right out the window. I used to get someone working on my issues within an hour, now I am lucky if I get any response in 24 hours!
3. Licensing schemes have become incredibly convoluted and unintuitive.
All that since HP bought Mercury. If that is your definition of "good business", well, I got some land in Florida I'd like to sell you.