I work in IT for a large manufacturing company that has nearly 100 manufacturing and retail locations across the US. Most of the locations are remote (surrounded by cornfields). The company has been in aggressive growth/acquisition mode since I hired in a few years ago. I have been in charge of IT infrastructure for the new sites we turn-up. We utilize an outsourced contracted company for network cabling. That company employs contract workers. The reason for this is twofold: my company does not want to deal with 1099 forms for every contract worker, and my company wants a single vendor for all sites. In addition to this, my company has an outsourced (in-shore) helpdesk, which I also manage. The reason for this is that my company does not want the helpdesk people to be regular employees with benefits, that burden is shifted to to the outsourced company. As a direct employee for the company, I get the company benefits and perks, so it works for me.
There is more to the story than the 74% cable/satellite TV price hikes. People in the US are seeing price hikes on everything else, especially so in the following categories: health care costs, housing costs, and student loan costs. Also, people are increasingly seeing that there are other options that are free or cheap: rabbit ear TV, Netflix, Hulu, etc.
This happened on my 2016 Ford Fusion. I had bumper to bumper warranty, but the dealership said rodent damage wasn't covered under warranty. I had to replace the wiring harness and it wasn't cheap. The mechanic at the dealership said peanut oil was one of the materials used in the wire plastic coating.
This reminds me of a quote from the movie Trading Places.
Randolph Duke: "The good part, William, is that, no matter whether our clients make money or lose money, Duke & Duke get the commissions."
In the US, it costs $1 billion for a 17 mile road project where they are completely redoing the highway and adding a lane each way. (http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/oakland/2016/08/15/i-75-rebuild-starts-monday/88638126/). With the added lane, that makes for 4 lanes each way for 17 miles. This makes 138 miles of one lane. 1 billion / 138 = $7.25 million per mile of regular road per lane.
For this solar project, it is 5 million Euro for 1 km. The picture only showed this as one lane on one side of the road. 5 million Euro equals $5.22 million USD per mile. To go from km to miles, we get $8.4 million USD per mile of solar road per lane.
Further breaking this down, it is about 16% more expensive to construct a mile of solar road than it is for regular road. Not bad.
The problem with torrents is that you are never only ONLY downloading, you are also uploading. I have not seen one real solution to stop bittorrent uploads other than limiting the bandwidth. You get sued for uploads, not downloads.
This is not as "genuinely frightening" as the number of people that die of liver failure due to overdose or overuse of acetaminophen. The only difference between this "new" drug and the ones currently on the market is that this one does not contain acetaminophen. Old drug = hydrocodone + acetaminophen. This drug = hydrocodone only.
I am the "IT person" at my job. During the past year, I have told everybody asking advice for a new phone to purchase to get an Android based 4G device as all Apple products are still stuck on 3G. I have found that Apple's marketing department has done a good job as many people think that iPhone 4G is a 4G device, even though it is not. When Apple releases a true 4G device, Samsung is going to sue the shit out of them.
During the liftime of one of my servers, I have to maintain an outdated Internet browser on at least one vm (not on the same server) just to interact with the raid card to monitor hard drive status.
I remember when ISPs provided free unlimited newsgroup access. Then they offered free newsgroup access through a third party with a data usage cap. Then they cut off free newsgroups altogether. Now there is something completely out of their control on the general Internet that they are trying to block access to.
So much for the old wild west freedom of the Internet. Business and government interests are all so ready to curtail total freedom of information. I see a dark future full of censorship and paywalls.
I believe that the AV vendors should already be protecting against virii that attack against not-fully-patched Windows systems. That seems to be the primary purpose of AV.
I would argue that breast cancer receives disproportionate "newstime and general attention" compared to other types of cancer such as prostate cancer or skin cancer.
I live in Michigan. My car was assembled in Michigan less than 50 miles away from me. I support my local products such as Better Made chips and Faygo pop, and I support local Michigan stores. As long as we are all tooting our horn here. Sorry about that last part, but I do agree that everybody should be buying more locally made products that don't need to be shipped halfway across the world.
My mom woke me up when the first plane hit. I called her a liar and said that I did not believe her and I was going back to sleep. She came in minutes later to say another plane hit the other tower and something was going on with the pentagon. I told her I still did not believe her, but was willing to get up to have a look at the TV to prove her wrong before I went back to bed. I did not go back to bed. The incident forever touched me and changed my life.
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Too bad Disney sold the rights to Miramax. It would have been nice to have Miramax films included in this.
I work in IT for a large manufacturing company that has nearly 100 manufacturing and retail locations across the US. Most of the locations are remote (surrounded by cornfields). The company has been in aggressive growth/acquisition mode since I hired in a few years ago. I have been in charge of IT infrastructure for the new sites we turn-up. We utilize an outsourced contracted company for network cabling. That company employs contract workers. The reason for this is twofold: my company does not want to deal with 1099 forms for every contract worker, and my company wants a single vendor for all sites. In addition to this, my company has an outsourced (in-shore) helpdesk, which I also manage. The reason for this is that my company does not want the helpdesk people to be regular employees with benefits, that burden is shifted to to the outsourced company. As a direct employee for the company, I get the company benefits and perks, so it works for me.
There is more to the story than the 74% cable/satellite TV price hikes. People in the US are seeing price hikes on everything else, especially so in the following categories: health care costs, housing costs, and student loan costs. Also, people are increasingly seeing that there are other options that are free or cheap: rabbit ear TV, Netflix, Hulu, etc.
This happened on my 2016 Ford Fusion. I had bumper to bumper warranty, but the dealership said rodent damage wasn't covered under warranty. I had to replace the wiring harness and it wasn't cheap. The mechanic at the dealership said peanut oil was one of the materials used in the wire plastic coating.
This reminds me of a quote from the movie Trading Places. Randolph Duke: "The good part, William, is that, no matter whether our clients make money or lose money, Duke & Duke get the commissions."
You must have missed this article: https://techcrunch.com/2017/10...
I purchased the American Paper Optics glasses that seem to be recommended on nasa.com and space.com articles. They were $16 for a 10 pack.
Link to the collection: http://www.metmuseum.org/art/c...
In the US, it costs $1 billion for a 17 mile road project where they are completely redoing the highway and adding a lane each way. (http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/oakland/2016/08/15/i-75-rebuild-starts-monday/88638126/). With the added lane, that makes for 4 lanes each way for 17 miles. This makes 138 miles of one lane. 1 billion / 138 = $7.25 million per mile of regular road per lane. For this solar project, it is 5 million Euro for 1 km. The picture only showed this as one lane on one side of the road. 5 million Euro equals $5.22 million USD per mile. To go from km to miles, we get $8.4 million USD per mile of solar road per lane. Further breaking this down, it is about 16% more expensive to construct a mile of solar road than it is for regular road. Not bad.
With human generated atmospheric radiation and pollution, I think the max age number will be on a downward trend in the near future (100 years).
Smokers and obese people tend to have lower overall healthcare costs during the course of a lifetime. Specifically because they die sooner.
The problem with torrents is that you are never only ONLY downloading, you are also uploading. I have not seen one real solution to stop bittorrent uploads other than limiting the bandwidth. You get sued for uploads, not downloads.
This is not as "genuinely frightening" as the number of people that die of liver failure due to overdose or overuse of acetaminophen. The only difference between this "new" drug and the ones currently on the market is that this one does not contain acetaminophen. Old drug = hydrocodone + acetaminophen. This drug = hydrocodone only.
"I'm sure that in 1985, plutonium is available in every corner drugstore, but in 1955, it's a little hard to come by."
Relevant smbc: http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2881#comic
I am the "IT person" at my job. During the past year, I have told everybody asking advice for a new phone to purchase to get an Android based 4G device as all Apple products are still stuck on 3G. I have found that Apple's marketing department has done a good job as many people think that iPhone 4G is a 4G device, even though it is not. When Apple releases a true 4G device, Samsung is going to sue the shit out of them.
During the liftime of one of my servers, I have to maintain an outdated Internet browser on at least one vm (not on the same server) just to interact with the raid card to monitor hard drive status.
DL360 is a rackmount HP server, not a laptop.
Detroit has an area of 141 square miles. It is more area than Manhattan, San Francisco, and Boston combined.
I remember when ISPs provided free unlimited newsgroup access. Then they offered free newsgroup access through a third party with a data usage cap. Then they cut off free newsgroups altogether. Now there is something completely out of their control on the general Internet that they are trying to block access to. So much for the old wild west freedom of the Internet. Business and government interests are all so ready to curtail total freedom of information. I see a dark future full of censorship and paywalls.
I believe that the AV vendors should already be protecting against virii that attack against not-fully-patched Windows systems. That seems to be the primary purpose of AV.
I would argue that breast cancer receives disproportionate "newstime and general attention" compared to other types of cancer such as prostate cancer or skin cancer.
I live in Michigan. My car was assembled in Michigan less than 50 miles away from me. I support my local products such as Better Made chips and Faygo pop, and I support local Michigan stores. As long as we are all tooting our horn here. Sorry about that last part, but I do agree that everybody should be buying more locally made products that don't need to be shipped halfway across the world.
My mom woke me up when the first plane hit. I called her a liar and said that I did not believe her and I was going back to sleep. She came in minutes later to say another plane hit the other tower and something was going on with the pentagon. I told her I still did not believe her, but was willing to get up to have a look at the TV to prove her wrong before I went back to bed. I did not go back to bed. The incident forever touched me and changed my life.
They should give away free XBox points. http://www.xbox.com/en-US/Live/MicrosoftPoints Heck, throw in an XBox too.