I just finished 'One Second After' by William R. Forstchen, about an EMP attack. I just started 'One Year After' by him, and am also currently in the middle of 'The Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume One'. I'm also going through the Windows Server 2016 Certification Guides.
I alternate between fiction and non-fiction.
One thing this tragedy has pointed out, that if you create a so-called 'gun-free zone' you are accepting liability for your patrons' safety. Clearly the Pulse nightclub failed in this responsibility. I personally agree that certain places should prohibit weapons, such as banks, courts, and places that serve alcohol. I view these as reasonable restrictions. The last thing I want to see is some drunk, narcissistic asshole with a gun in a bar.
But when you go to a bank or a courthouse, or even Wal-Mart, there is a reasonable expectation that your security is being provided for. Not so in many bars and clubs like this. There may be bouncers at the door who would make great linebackers for the Dolphins, but no trained, armed security. These people were sitting ducks, because they were Gay and because they were in a 'safe' gun-free zone; they were targeted by a nutball jihadist wanna-be who apparently got mad when he saw two gay men kissing in public, and couldn't drag them up to the roof of a building to throw them off of.
And all the liberals want to shout is that we need more gun control, an 'assault weapons' ban (which is a term without a definition), guns are BAD.
Meanwhile, they are preaching their identity politics to further divide people into groups that are more easily controlled. Just like Stalin and Hitler did.
Why would I want paper statements?
Paper fades, gets wet, gets lost, takes up space, is inconvenient when you move, catches fire, has to be shredded...
In contrast, eStatements are portable, save trees, and with cloud services, are virtually always redundantly backed up and available remotely wherever you happen to be.
I've been using electronic banking for well over fifteen years, and I enjoy the convenience and safety of downloading my statements when I can get to them. You just have to keep in mind the billers online storage limits.
There are certain things that BSD just does better than Linux, and some things that Linux obviously does better than BSD. It should be a good thing if we bring the best parts of both together. BSD is horribly difficult to get running and administer, and Linux could clearly use some help in the performance department. Apple has done a great job of hiding BSD while taking as much advantage as they can. The overall Linux community has failed to take note.
If you're running Windows 8 now, more than likely you will have a free upgrade path to Windows 10, which should take care of the OS for the next 5 years or so, so cost won't be any more of an issue.
As far as maintenance, all GNU/Linux implementations will require the same type of maintenance as your Windows clients. Regardless of whether you stick with Windows or move to GNU/Linux, you will need a way to manage the periodic maintenance for security patching, etc. Although many lambaste Microsoft for the number of patches Windows requires, they fail to look under the hood to see where all the patches are actually going, and neglect the fact that with Windows patching you also get.Net updates, Office Updates, SQL Server updates, etc. In the GNU/Linux realm, many of these updates are 'hidden' in the kernel updates, so you see a lot fewer separate patches.
So, neither choice is necessarily going to save you money over the other, and neither is going to be necessarily easier to maintain. Which are your students going to be more familiar with and be more likely to use in the real world? That's what should drive your decision making.
I had disappointing results using third-party toners in my HP Color LaserJet 400, so I use only HP to eras now, although I do troll for bargains and lightly used cartridges to save money.
I save up several cartridges and then use the UPS label in one of the new-in-box toners to ship them all back to HP under their recycling program. It's just not worth it to me to use refilled cartridges that may be prone to leaking. I've been a laser printer user for well over 20 years, and a certified HP LaserJet technician; I had friends in the refill business that put out good product, but a lot of the refills you get online are just more Chinese crap.
If you can find a local source that cares about quality, then go for it; they may also buy your empties. You could also try listing them on Craigslist.
I've been using VirtualBox extensively as I've been taking some Linux classes at the local community college in an effort to brush up on my skills. I've found VB to be a great way to test out new Windws OS's and applications, and the BSD's as well.
It would be a shame for this great, FREE, product to die. Sure, I have access to ESXi, and I could go out and buy VM Workstation, but VB does everything I need it to do. It can be a little difficult finding solutions to issues I have (such as multi-monitor support and screen resolutions, BSD wierdness, etc.) and could defintiely be better supported, but as another post pointed out, Oracle is the place where great software goes to die a lingering death...
Major universities all across our nation have long been doing a disservice to their customers, students, by pushing philosophy, psychology and kinesiology degrees on unsuspecting, easily duped children, only to have them turn out in droves for the 'Occupy Wall Street' camp meetings, and Obama rallies.
Welcome, finally, to adulthood.
Now I'll step off my soapbox, and tell you that your best bet is to start at the beginning and get your lower division requirements taken care of at your local community college, where it will be much cheaper. I've followed exactly this plan over the last two years. I started college in 1981, dropped out in 1985, and occasionally took some classes in the years since. It was only recently as my draught came to live with me to attend college that I finally resolved to get it done. I had to retake 7 or 8 classes, and finish off the English and Math requirements. Then I found a couple more classes required by the university CIS program that I could take at the JC and save a couple thousand bucks, Now I'm in my first semester at ASU and doing pretty well for a 49-year-old. I have a two year plan to finish my Bachelor's degree, while simultaneously taking some Linux courses at another local JC.
School is more important than ever, but it has to be the right courses, and for the right reasons. Sounds like you have taken the first step. From here, don't lookmfor the easy way, or the fast way. Do it right.
3D is a gimmick, that just doesn't work well enough, even in a movie theater.
4K is not a gimmick, but the marketing pukes are trying to turn it in to one.
4K will be successful in the home video market, offering a great cinema experience, but as far as broadcast, it will take far too much bandwidth, cost far too much money to implement, and have far too few viewers even capable of watching it for the next 5 years to make it remotely profitable, even for the HBO's, let alone the sports networks.
4K along with 21x9 will be the ultimate viewing experience at home, allowing people at home to experience great movies in the same quality and format as at the theater. But we're just not quite there yet.
Being the 'partner' of a journalist does not entitle you to the normal freedoms of actually being a member of the press, and, as was quite rightly pointed out, the so-called 'Miranda' rights and the freedom of the press as spelled out in the U.S. Constitution does not apply in the UK.
The authorities were within their legal authority IF 1) they had bona fide suspicions about this person through evidence collected or supplied, and 2) he can get his stuff back after the authorities have reviewed them and found no contraband or unauthorized data.
I would suspect that someone (yes, possibly the NSA) tipped off the UK authorities as to the possibility of this gentleman being a conduit for the transfer of classified information, which is wholly possible given who his 'partner' is and who he has been in contact with.
If he was transporting classified information, then I would totally support his earning a one-way ticket to Gitmo.
Here in Maricopa, AZ we host the only ethanol plant in the state of Arizona, and one of the local crops used (grown by Ak-Chin Farms, one of the Indian Reservations that surrounds Maricopa) is sorghum, the same plant you can get molasses from. Much more bang for the buck than corn or sawgrass.
One college I have gone to uses a separate domain for students from faculty and administration, @stu.college.edu versus college.edu. They use firstname.lastname, and then firstname.lastname#. They use Microsoft Exchange. Another college I attend now uses a unique ID created partly out of the firstname and a seemingly random 7-digit number, so John9999876@college.edu. This unique ID is also used to login to the student center to access registration, email, etc. It is different from the actual student ID number. As they use Google Mail, it may be generated by Google. My daughter's university also uses Google Mail, but she was allowed to create her own ID, firstinitialmiddleinitiallastname#.college.edu.
In business, I like to use firstname.lastname@business.com or firstinitialmiddleinitiallastname@business.com, with dupes using full first name or full middle name or both; sometimes using nicknames or fullnames, like bob vs. robert. I try to respect the preferences of the user if possible.
You could use any combination of these. You could use child domains based on named colleges within the university, such as wpcarey.asu.edu or engineering.stanford.edu. Or you could come up with an automatic random email ID generator or use mainframe login ID's, etc.
If there are more engineers, but a lack of jobs, the newly-trained engineers will create startups. Just look at how many startups in this country were created by engineers from other countries who came here because of the lack of opportunity in their home country. Entrepreneurship is the real driver of our economy and of innovation.
Well, she may either be misquoted or mispoke; Hp probably has 40-50 Laser Printers, but 50 'different models' or SKU's of each containing different powercords and localization for 50 different languages/locales.
As an IT worker refugee from LA and San Diego, I can tell you I moved out here and not only immediately made more money than I had been in San Diego, I could afford to live here. I'm a bigger fish in a smaller pond. The tech sector is one area that has been pretty steady through all the downturn.
Ebay, Paypal, Expedia, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Citibank all have major data center operations here. There are hundreds of Fortune 1000 companies with IT presence here. It's not just Intel with yet another new Fab in Chandler every couple of years.
It may be hot as Hades, but land is cheap, power is cheap, connectivity is plentiful, the cost of living is low and the standard of living is high.
I miss the ocean, but we have lots of beach.
This article is obviously written by someone who hasn't bothered to take a look at Metro development on Windows Phone.
Having a locked-down environment does not prevent anyone from placing free apps in the Marketplace nor providing the source code. Marketplace, like iTunes, does have some control of what can get published, as all apps have to meet established criteria. Tell me, do we really need to tout 500,000 apps, when 100,000 have some sort of flatulence sound as their reason for being?
Not having Chrome or Firefox or Opera on Windows Phone bothers me not a bit. The environment is web-based, and the evermore slight variations in the way the different browsers present the display can wreak havoc on the user experience. Microsoft is right to control this. The fact that API's are not available to allow an alternative browser to function on Windows Phone/Windows RT as it would on a full Windows 7/Windows 8 client probably points more to the relative youth of the OS.
For once, Microsoft is taking direct control over its future, and following in the footsteps of the beloved Jobs. Windows RT tablets will directly compete with the iPad, and offer pretty much the same user experience. If you want something more robust, use Windows 8. If you want to write more robust applications and provide you sourcecode, write for Windows 8. It will be a much larger audience anyway.
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It's called an IPO...
I just finished 'One Second After' by William R. Forstchen, about an EMP attack. I just started 'One Year After' by him, and am also currently in the middle of 'The Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume One'. I'm also going through the Windows Server 2016 Certification Guides. I alternate between fiction and non-fiction.
The article conveniently neglects to mention that Venusian Global Warming occurred without any human intervention whatsoever...
One thing this tragedy has pointed out, that if you create a so-called 'gun-free zone' you are accepting liability for your patrons' safety. Clearly the Pulse nightclub failed in this responsibility. I personally agree that certain places should prohibit weapons, such as banks, courts, and places that serve alcohol. I view these as reasonable restrictions. The last thing I want to see is some drunk, narcissistic asshole with a gun in a bar. But when you go to a bank or a courthouse, or even Wal-Mart, there is a reasonable expectation that your security is being provided for. Not so in many bars and clubs like this. There may be bouncers at the door who would make great linebackers for the Dolphins, but no trained, armed security. These people were sitting ducks, because they were Gay and because they were in a 'safe' gun-free zone; they were targeted by a nutball jihadist wanna-be who apparently got mad when he saw two gay men kissing in public, and couldn't drag them up to the roof of a building to throw them off of. And all the liberals want to shout is that we need more gun control, an 'assault weapons' ban (which is a term without a definition), guns are BAD. Meanwhile, they are preaching their identity politics to further divide people into groups that are more easily controlled. Just like Stalin and Hitler did.
Why would I want paper statements? Paper fades, gets wet, gets lost, takes up space, is inconvenient when you move, catches fire, has to be shredded... In contrast, eStatements are portable, save trees, and with cloud services, are virtually always redundantly backed up and available remotely wherever you happen to be. I've been using electronic banking for well over fifteen years, and I enjoy the convenience and safety of downloading my statements when I can get to them. You just have to keep in mind the billers online storage limits.
There are certain things that BSD just does better than Linux, and some things that Linux obviously does better than BSD. It should be a good thing if we bring the best parts of both together. BSD is horribly difficult to get running and administer, and Linux could clearly use some help in the performance department. Apple has done a great job of hiding BSD while taking as much advantage as they can. The overall Linux community has failed to take note.
If you're running Windows 8 now, more than likely you will have a free upgrade path to Windows 10, which should take care of the OS for the next 5 years or so, so cost won't be any more of an issue. As far as maintenance, all GNU/Linux implementations will require the same type of maintenance as your Windows clients. Regardless of whether you stick with Windows or move to GNU/Linux, you will need a way to manage the periodic maintenance for security patching, etc. Although many lambaste Microsoft for the number of patches Windows requires, they fail to look under the hood to see where all the patches are actually going, and neglect the fact that with Windows patching you also get .Net updates, Office Updates, SQL Server updates, etc. In the GNU/Linux realm, many of these updates are 'hidden' in the kernel updates, so you see a lot fewer separate patches.
So, neither choice is necessarily going to save you money over the other, and neither is going to be necessarily easier to maintain. Which are your students going to be more familiar with and be more likely to use in the real world? That's what should drive your decision making.
I had disappointing results using third-party toners in my HP Color LaserJet 400, so I use only HP to eras now, although I do troll for bargains and lightly used cartridges to save money. I save up several cartridges and then use the UPS label in one of the new-in-box toners to ship them all back to HP under their recycling program. It's just not worth it to me to use refilled cartridges that may be prone to leaking. I've been a laser printer user for well over 20 years, and a certified HP LaserJet technician; I had friends in the refill business that put out good product, but a lot of the refills you get online are just more Chinese crap. If you can find a local source that cares about quality, then go for it; they may also buy your empties. You could also try listing them on Craigslist.
I've been using VirtualBox extensively as I've been taking some Linux classes at the local community college in an effort to brush up on my skills. I've found VB to be a great way to test out new Windws OS's and applications, and the BSD's as well. It would be a shame for this great, FREE, product to die. Sure, I have access to ESXi, and I could go out and buy VM Workstation, but VB does everything I need it to do. It can be a little difficult finding solutions to issues I have (such as multi-monitor support and screen resolutions, BSD wierdness, etc.) and could defintiely be better supported, but as another post pointed out, Oracle is the place where great software goes to die a lingering death...
Major universities all across our nation have long been doing a disservice to their customers, students, by pushing philosophy, psychology and kinesiology degrees on unsuspecting, easily duped children, only to have them turn out in droves for the 'Occupy Wall Street' camp meetings, and Obama rallies. Welcome, finally, to adulthood. Now I'll step off my soapbox, and tell you that your best bet is to start at the beginning and get your lower division requirements taken care of at your local community college, where it will be much cheaper. I've followed exactly this plan over the last two years. I started college in 1981, dropped out in 1985, and occasionally took some classes in the years since. It was only recently as my draught came to live with me to attend college that I finally resolved to get it done. I had to retake 7 or 8 classes, and finish off the English and Math requirements. Then I found a couple more classes required by the university CIS program that I could take at the JC and save a couple thousand bucks, Now I'm in my first semester at ASU and doing pretty well for a 49-year-old. I have a two year plan to finish my Bachelor's degree, while simultaneously taking some Linux courses at another local JC. School is more important than ever, but it has to be the right courses, and for the right reasons. Sounds like you have taken the first step. From here, don't lookmfor the easy way, or the fast way. Do it right.
3D is a gimmick, that just doesn't work well enough, even in a movie theater. 4K is not a gimmick, but the marketing pukes are trying to turn it in to one. 4K will be successful in the home video market, offering a great cinema experience, but as far as broadcast, it will take far too much bandwidth, cost far too much money to implement, and have far too few viewers even capable of watching it for the next 5 years to make it remotely profitable, even for the HBO's, let alone the sports networks. 4K along with 21x9 will be the ultimate viewing experience at home, allowing people at home to experience great movies in the same quality and format as at the theater. But we're just not quite there yet.
Being the 'partner' of a journalist does not entitle you to the normal freedoms of actually being a member of the press, and, as was quite rightly pointed out, the so-called 'Miranda' rights and the freedom of the press as spelled out in the U.S. Constitution does not apply in the UK. The authorities were within their legal authority IF 1) they had bona fide suspicions about this person through evidence collected or supplied, and 2) he can get his stuff back after the authorities have reviewed them and found no contraband or unauthorized data. I would suspect that someone (yes, possibly the NSA) tipped off the UK authorities as to the possibility of this gentleman being a conduit for the transfer of classified information, which is wholly possible given who his 'partner' is and who he has been in contact with. If he was transporting classified information, then I would totally support his earning a one-way ticket to Gitmo.
Here in Maricopa, AZ we host the only ethanol plant in the state of Arizona, and one of the local crops used (grown by Ak-Chin Farms, one of the Indian Reservations that surrounds Maricopa) is sorghum, the same plant you can get molasses from. Much more bang for the buck than corn or sawgrass.
Just send some ocean-going barges out to the North Atlantic Garbage Patch or the Pacific Trash Vortex...right up the greenies alley...
One college I have gone to uses a separate domain for students from faculty and administration, @stu.college.edu versus college.edu. They use firstname.lastname, and then firstname.lastname#. They use Microsoft Exchange. Another college I attend now uses a unique ID created partly out of the firstname and a seemingly random 7-digit number, so John9999876@college.edu. This unique ID is also used to login to the student center to access registration, email, etc. It is different from the actual student ID number. As they use Google Mail, it may be generated by Google. My daughter's university also uses Google Mail, but she was allowed to create her own ID, firstinitialmiddleinitiallastname#.college.edu. In business, I like to use firstname.lastname@business.com or firstinitialmiddleinitiallastname@business.com, with dupes using full first name or full middle name or both; sometimes using nicknames or fullnames, like bob vs. robert. I try to respect the preferences of the user if possible. You could use any combination of these. You could use child domains based on named colleges within the university, such as wpcarey.asu.edu or engineering.stanford.edu. Or you could come up with an automatic random email ID generator or use mainframe login ID's, etc.
And my Red Stapler, and that's all.
That would have to be on Skin-a-Max...
If there are more engineers, but a lack of jobs, the newly-trained engineers will create startups. Just look at how many startups in this country were created by engineers from other countries who came here because of the lack of opportunity in their home country. Entrepreneurship is the real driver of our economy and of innovation.
And you wonder how the Zombie Apocalypse began...
'The Green Berets' starring John Wayne was the first time I saw it in film.
Well, she may either be misquoted or mispoke; Hp probably has 40-50 Laser Printers, but 50 'different models' or SKU's of each containing different powercords and localization for 50 different languages/locales.
Well, we've all been anxiously awaiting the return of the Wartburg and Trabant, yes?
As an IT worker refugee from LA and San Diego, I can tell you I moved out here and not only immediately made more money than I had been in San Diego, I could afford to live here. I'm a bigger fish in a smaller pond. The tech sector is one area that has been pretty steady through all the downturn. Ebay, Paypal, Expedia, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Citibank all have major data center operations here. There are hundreds of Fortune 1000 companies with IT presence here. It's not just Intel with yet another new Fab in Chandler every couple of years. It may be hot as Hades, but land is cheap, power is cheap, connectivity is plentiful, the cost of living is low and the standard of living is high. I miss the ocean, but we have lots of beach.
Once they commercialize this, it will be found to cause cancerous-like growths in the brain and begin the zombie apocalypse!
This article is obviously written by someone who hasn't bothered to take a look at Metro development on Windows Phone. Having a locked-down environment does not prevent anyone from placing free apps in the Marketplace nor providing the source code. Marketplace, like iTunes, does have some control of what can get published, as all apps have to meet established criteria. Tell me, do we really need to tout 500,000 apps, when 100,000 have some sort of flatulence sound as their reason for being? Not having Chrome or Firefox or Opera on Windows Phone bothers me not a bit. The environment is web-based, and the evermore slight variations in the way the different browsers present the display can wreak havoc on the user experience. Microsoft is right to control this. The fact that API's are not available to allow an alternative browser to function on Windows Phone/Windows RT as it would on a full Windows 7/Windows 8 client probably points more to the relative youth of the OS. For once, Microsoft is taking direct control over its future, and following in the footsteps of the beloved Jobs. Windows RT tablets will directly compete with the iPad, and offer pretty much the same user experience. If you want something more robust, use Windows 8. If you want to write more robust applications and provide you sourcecode, write for Windows 8. It will be a much larger audience anyway.