Sometimes the requirements on these jobs are atypical. It's a wish list. They KNOW they probably are not going to get that particular combination. They put that out there in hopes that they do get that combo. When theyh go through the resumes and job apps and find noone meets the criteria, the look at the next best ones and bring those ones in for a interview. Also, don't be afraid to work in academia for a while. It may pay less, bnut it's real work.
Snide comments won't buy you friends....I will buy that. But the power companies pushing BPL are doing so without looking at the technical reasons behind why we so oppose it. Power companies ar epushing BPL for the almighty dollar. BPL has been PROVEN to spew noise across the spectrum from the VHF band and all the way down the HF band. The ARRL and others against BPL are trying to get it turned down not because of their ownn selfish intrest either. BPL may also adversely affect cable tv and VHF broadcat band. AM radio may even be affected. May I also remind you that it was probably 2m equipment that went up first for service at the WTC site? Hams provide a vaulable service and it's this service that we defend. Ham radio has also been included in the national security plans as well. The ARRL has recently started offer EmComm classes so hams can learn about Emergency Communications. Something we still need. Your cellphone and internet may work this morning, but later something could happen. Terrorists coudl take out a power plant or some important building in down town. Maybe the one that has all the cell towers on it. No matter what happens, there are always hams ready to stand in.
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That could not BE more wrong. Spoken of someone who does not belong to the league. The ARRL only made these reccomendations because of what they were hearing from the membership. Now, the membership is saying we needs new blood and to do that, you get rid of the morse requirement for the low bands. You can now get a license by taking one test. Take 2 more teests (General and Extra) and a 5 wpm code test and you get an Extra. The code requirement may die off soon. By the way, it was only recently that the ITU reccomended no morse requirement for HF hams (WRC 2003 I believe). So morse will die....in fact, there may very well be only one license class as the FCC is looking for streamlining their license system. They have already done this by getting rid of the TECH PLUS and ADVANCED class(no new license issued with these). The ARRL recommendation for a new class (new novice) are misguided as all the FCC would need to do is change the current requirements for the tech license to add HF privleges (say 10m). That said, we are heading for a lower number of license classes...not a increased number. Some may say that it's not good...I say, it's just different.
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Echolink is also on the mac. Do a search for Echomac.
I also believe there's a EchoLinux available as well.
The unique thingh about Echolink is you do not need a radio to use it. The Echolink server and their admins verify you inb the callbook and then you sign into the server....no radio needed, IRLP requires a radio on each end (I think).
Ham radio's biggest problemm now, besides BPL and besides declining intrest is that the older hams will poo poo technology such as Echolink and say it's not Ham Radio. The only think that may stop Echolink is the FCC and so far they have said it's ok. I say it is too. The folks running Echolink make sure that you are licensed. They also will police the datatbase themselves looking for unscrupulous people getting id's using SK call signs. My grandfather, the original W3RAZ, would say that the digital modes used to day are not ham radio either. All he really did was SSB and 2 m FM. He also hated older computers as they created all kind of interference on the bands mostly because they ran at a much lower frequency back then (remember most machines ran around 4,77 MHz back then...much closer to many HF bands).
Sparrow is not a concept. It is real. You can buy one soon. Very soon. The stock exists. For myself, it would be perfect. I drive 8 miles both ways to work and it's always just myself. I myslef would also not need a charge at work to get home but I think I may be able to arrange a place to charge if I advertise that it won't take up any more space in the lot then a motorcycle.
It goes 70. If you live in Nevada, it may not be practical. Most of the US though the speed limit is 65 or less. 70 is more then enough for the freeway.
Yes but states all make lawas that do not make alot of sense. One example was here in Ohio, they were talking about raising the tax on tobacco. They determined that if the raise the tax, it would not raise the revenue that predicted because most bordering states do not have this additional tax. These states are all less then 3 hours away from any point in Ohio. Cigarette smokers would just go over the border and buy them because the cost for gas (at the time) was less then this tax.
I also want to add to those that say they don't want their life settled by just some idiots in congress....well, you elected those idiots. If you don't like it either vote for someone else, or run for office yourself. This is a government of the people, by the people and for the people. The PEOPLE have to participate in one way or another for it to be successful.
This is not about a woman's choice. Her choice was to not have sex in the first place out of wed lock. The consequence is a baby. A baby that that woman (or in many cases now, a CHILD of 16 or even LESS!) may not be prepared for. The best form of birth control is abstenence. Other then that, you have to be prepared for consequences. I don't know what it is about OTHER American's that think that they always have to have a quick out...like killing the child. Let me put it this way....just because it does not have eyes, ears, mouth, nose, all ten fingers, legs arms....so on and so forth does not mean that that fetus does not feel pain. Does not feel the pain of being ripped apart by a vacuum hose. This is about a woman's choice? How is that even right??? Believe it or not, there was a friend of mine that is now a Christian whose wife had a abortion when she was not a christian and when she tried to concieve the first time with her husband she had 3 miscarriages....3! Now I don't have proof, but they seem to think it may have been because of the abortion. I also think that the father of the aborted child was also, the same man she married. In a retreat the men had several years ago, he was in tears because he never got to hold any of those children. You think abortion does not hurt anyone??
The Simpson's King of the Hill The Critic (gone, but a success for a year or two) Ren and Stimpy
The above are what I would consider adult cartoons. While not mature in any respect, many adults (including myself) do love them.
I think Americans like to laugh when they see cartoon because we have always laughed. Kids and Adults both enjoy these and cartoons such as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and others. When we see comics or cartoons discussing serious situations the end up being BORING. So if there's not enough action (rock em sock em style of robotic fury), we get turned off. Also, in Japan, people aren't as sensitive to seeing an animated boob on screen.
These are two separate issues. While I do not agree with you, abortion law needs to be equal across states because if one state makes it legal, and a neighboring state does not, they's just cross the border and get it done and it does not really have a point. Abortion also happens to be killing a possible life form. The fetus would grow into a baby and this is why it should be illegal. Killing a baby becuase you can't afford it is still killing a baby.
The internet program shold have never been done by the feds. It should have been completely managed by the states.
CCNA being taught at the High School level? That's a bad idea in and of itself, but I doubt that it was paid for be E-Rate.....unless this is another abuse of the program. Most likely the sales guys presented to the executive oversight committee which MAY have had only one support person on it and he was of the type that said ooo...CISCO...COOL....let's get it!
Our help desk always asks this and my standard is always oh it will be an hour. This pacifies them (and maybe our users). I always hate it when people ask me that. When the boss in the Business Office calls me and asks I tell him I don't know usually. Smae with my wife. WHen your TRYING to fix something, the last thing you need is 500 people asking you HOW LONG! We can always give good estimates when the outage is planned. If I was clairvoyant to be able to find out when something is goign to get boogered up or fail, then I would have a good estimate then. Unplanned outages always are hard to predict. Sometimes it can take an hour to find the problem and another hour to three hours to fix it!
True enough....unless you are the type taht likes keeping things under warantee or service contract (and when I am doing something at work, I for sure order a service contract as well). I don't know if Apple has a service contract available(besides AppleCare), but I sure as heck don't want to depend on something for my business without one. One thing with service contracts is that they go up in price as the hardware gets older. At some point, you can either get a new server (and save money on the service contract) or pay an exhorbitant fee to keep the old one on contract. It's usually at that point where we jsut buy a new box. This keeps are hardware relatively up to date and somewhat guarantees that we won't have issues getting it fixed when it breaks.
Only acceptable in a Uni environment although I like the way you think!:) If I could do that with our system I work on. After hours processing could jump up! Here's an idea...with a all mac shop, could you have the main cluster (using Xgrid) add the developer's nodes when they go home? I imagine adding 10-15 nodes to the cluster at night only could help clean out your render queues! Also, a good scheduler can help too (cron is too weak....make it something else).
Or common ordinary everyday file servers and print servers when your running out of floor space. That is what we use them for. Blades can be used by almost everyone.
This is what support contracts are for (AKA Apple Care). I am not sure if they have on site support yet, but you can bring yout Xserve into any Apple Store and they can either fix it or take care of it for you. With Apple, you have more support then buiding your own machines. If you really need 24/7 support for your renderfarm, then you can order some Xeon servers from IBM with appropriate support contract.
I am sorry....OS X has less bloat WITH it's interface then other Operating Systems. That said, it's easy to NOT run the UI on these if you are really going for every CPU cycle you can but consider this...OS X can still run acceptably on many OLDER Macs. The 500 MHz Sawtooth G4 is still in use at work running Pather (and Jaguar before that). You CAN deactivate some of the glitz, but I have never seen anyone who has done that. These also ran Rage 128's. Very old machines running a very good OS. That said, load up any PPC Linux or Darwin and you can achieve what you need.
Um, why? Others have used Macs and this is a ideal thing for a Xserve and it obvously was not a problem for the person in this question. Both platforms he has presented are both new and are both goign to run him a lot of money. Plus Apple has a Cluster Node config that will work well for him (only one hard disk....in this case you'd use some other storage or a Xserve Raid. In fact, I bet Pixar may use G5's soon if they don't have them soon. Xserves are fast and if you make yuor cluster out of them, you will get your renders much quicker.
I mean really....I have had web pages say they do not support the mac, yet when I try it on my PC, it just looks like a shockwave program. Now adays it looks like, to me, they try so hard to restrict the mac rather then just go buy a e-mac and test their code or just let mac users in anyway..that is unles sthey use some stupid activex junk.
Remember Microsofts first attempt? I wanted one of those WinCE devices so bad. Clam shell. Built in keyboard that you could type on and with HP's 720, a great screen. My 12 inch powerbook is much larger then either the 720 or my current iPaq. My NEXT iPaq will be subsidised by being a cell phone as well. The HP h6300 when available from T-Mobile, I will probably get that. It has GSM Phone, GPRS, Bluetooth AND WiFi. It onloy has a 200 MHz OMAP processor, but reports say it does ok. It also comes with a detachable thumbboard. Initial reviews rate it very well. My hope is I would be able to use the built in BT in my mac and the PPCPE 6300 together and be able to connect whenever there is no WiFi network. Would it be counted as a PDA? Last year when I got my GPRS card, I was talking to a fellow customer who was buying a PPCPE and she said she tried it and loved it and was buying it that day. The Treo 600 is popping up everywhere. They are quite appealing. They also might not be tagged as a PDA since it is mainly a cell phone.
THERE ARE FREE APPS for PocketPC. Sure, GPL'd apps there are not too many of, but free as in beer apps are plentiful. Look at my other post and see the free stuff. Or just do some googling.
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Sometimes the requirements on these jobs are atypical. It's a wish list. They KNOW they probably are not going to get that particular combination. They put that out there in hopes that they do get that combo. When theyh go through the resumes and job apps and find noone meets the criteria, the look at the next best ones and bring those ones in for a interview. Also, don't be afraid to work in academia for a while. It may pay less, bnut it's real work.
Snide comments won't buy you friends....I will buy that. But the power companies pushing BPL are doing so without looking at the technical reasons behind why we so oppose it. Power companies ar epushing BPL for the almighty dollar. BPL has been PROVEN to spew noise across the spectrum from the VHF band and all the way down the HF band. The ARRL and others against BPL are trying to get it turned down not because of their ownn selfish intrest either. BPL may also adversely affect cable tv and VHF broadcat band. AM radio may even be affected. May I also remind you that it was probably 2m equipment that went up first for service at the WTC site? Hams provide a vaulable service and it's this service that we defend. Ham radio has also been included in the national security plans as well. The ARRL has recently started offer EmComm classes so hams can learn about Emergency Communications. Something we still need. Your cellphone and internet may work this morning, but later something could happen. Terrorists coudl take out a power plant or some important building in down town. Maybe the one that has all the cell towers on it. No matter what happens, there are always hams ready to stand in.
That could not BE more wrong. Spoken of someone who does not belong to the league. The ARRL only made these reccomendations because of what they were hearing from the membership. Now, the membership is saying we needs new blood and to do that, you get rid of the morse requirement for the low bands. You can now get a license by taking one test. Take 2 more teests (General and Extra) and a 5 wpm code test and you get an Extra. The code requirement may die off soon. By the way, it was only recently that the ITU reccomended no morse requirement for HF hams (WRC 2003 I believe). So morse will die....in fact, there may very well be only one license class as the FCC is looking for streamlining their license system. They have already done this by getting rid of the TECH PLUS and ADVANCED class(no new license issued with these). The ARRL recommendation for a new class (new novice) are misguided as all the FCC would need to do is change the current requirements for the tech license to add HF privleges (say 10m). That said, we are heading for a lower number of license classes...not a increased number. Some may say that it's not good...I say, it's just different.
Echolink is also on the mac. Do a search for Echomac.
I also believe there's a EchoLinux available as well.
The unique thingh about Echolink is you do not need a radio to use it. The Echolink server and their admins verify you inb the callbook and then you sign into the server....no radio needed, IRLP requires a radio on each end (I think).
Ham radio's biggest problemm now, besides BPL and besides declining intrest is that the older hams will poo poo technology such as Echolink and say it's not Ham Radio. The only think that may stop Echolink is the FCC and so far they have said it's ok. I say it is too. The folks running Echolink make sure that you are licensed. They also will police the datatbase themselves looking for unscrupulous people getting id's using SK call signs. My grandfather, the original W3RAZ, would say that the digital modes used to day are not ham radio either. All he really did was SSB and 2 m FM. He also hated older computers as they created all kind of interference on the bands mostly because they ran at a much lower frequency back then (remember most machines ran around 4,77 MHz back then...much closer to many HF bands).
Sparrow is not a concept. It is real. You can buy one soon. Very soon. The stock exists. For myself, it would be perfect. I drive 8 miles both ways to work and it's always just myself. I myslef would also not need a charge at work to get home but I think I may be able to arrange a place to charge if I advertise that it won't take up any more space in the lot then a motorcycle.
It goes 70. If you live in Nevada, it may not be practical. Most of the US though the speed limit is 65 or less. 70 is more then enough for the freeway.
You'd be surprised. Alot of the people in my Apple store actually knew what I meant when I asked them about Terminal.app
Yes but states all make lawas that do not make alot of sense. One example was here in Ohio, they were talking about raising the tax on tobacco. They determined that if the raise the tax, it would not raise the revenue that predicted because most bordering states do not have this additional tax. These states are all less then 3 hours away from any point in Ohio. Cigarette smokers would just go over the border and buy them because the cost for gas (at the time) was less then this tax.
I also want to add to those that say they don't want their life settled by just some idiots in congress....well, you elected those idiots. If you don't like it either vote for someone else, or run for office yourself. This is a government of the people, by the people and for the people. The PEOPLE have to participate in one way or another for it to be successful.
Oh and if your equating the pro-life movement with the Nazi's or even the US government as the Nazi's...boy do you need to wake up.
This is not about a woman's choice. Her choice was to not have sex in the first place out of wed lock. The consequence is a baby. A baby that that woman (or in many cases now, a CHILD of 16 or even LESS!) may not be prepared for. The best form of birth control is abstenence. Other then that, you have to be prepared for consequences. I don't know what it is about OTHER American's that think that they always have to have a quick out...like killing the child. Let me put it this way....just because it does not have eyes, ears, mouth, nose, all ten fingers, legs arms....so on and so forth does not mean that that fetus does not feel pain. Does not feel the pain of being ripped apart by a vacuum hose. This is about a woman's choice? How is that even right??? Believe it or not, there was a friend of mine that is now a Christian whose wife had a abortion when she was not a christian and when she tried to concieve the first time with her husband she had 3 miscarriages....3! Now I don't have proof, but they seem to think it may have been because of the abortion. I also think that the father of the aborted child was also, the same man she married. In a retreat the men had several years ago, he was in tears because he never got to hold any of those children. You think abortion does not hurt anyone??
Not really a interest? What about:
The Simpson's
King of the Hill
The Critic (gone, but a success for a year or two)
Ren and Stimpy
The above are what I would consider adult cartoons. While not mature in any respect, many adults (including myself) do love them.
I think Americans like to laugh when they see cartoon because we have always laughed. Kids and Adults both enjoy these and cartoons such as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and others. When we see comics or cartoons discussing serious situations the end up being BORING. So if there's not enough action (rock em sock em style of robotic fury), we get turned off. Also, in Japan, people aren't as sensitive to seeing an animated boob on screen.
These are two separate issues. While I do not agree with you, abortion law needs to be equal across states because if one state makes it legal, and a neighboring state does not, they's just cross the border and get it done and it does not really have a point. Abortion also happens to be killing a possible life form. The fetus would grow into a baby and this is why it should be illegal. Killing a baby becuase you can't afford it is still killing a baby.
The internet program shold have never been done by the feds. It should have been completely managed by the states.
CCNA being taught at the High School level? That's a bad idea in and of itself, but I doubt that it was paid for be E-Rate.....unless this is another abuse of the program. Most likely the sales guys presented to the executive oversight committee which MAY have had only one support person on it and he was of the type that said ooo...CISCO...COOL....let's get it!
There should not be ANY fraud! Oh wait....this is government funded pork.. I forgot.
Why do they block links from Slashdot?? Is this for avoiding a slashdot??
Our help desk always asks this and my standard is always oh it will be an hour. This pacifies them (and maybe our users). I always hate it when people ask me that. When the boss in the Business Office calls me and asks I tell him I don't know usually. Smae with my wife. WHen your TRYING to fix something, the last thing you need is 500 people asking you HOW LONG! We can always give good estimates when the outage is planned. If I was clairvoyant to be able to find out when something is goign to get boogered up or fail, then I would have a good estimate then. Unplanned outages always are hard to predict. Sometimes it can take an hour to find the problem and another hour to three hours to fix it!
True enough....unless you are the type taht likes keeping things under warantee or service contract (and when I am doing something at work, I for sure order a service contract as well). I don't know if Apple has a service contract available(besides AppleCare), but I sure as heck don't want to depend on something for my business without one. One thing with service contracts is that they go up in price as the hardware gets older. At some point, you can either get a new server (and save money on the service contract) or pay an exhorbitant fee to keep the old one on contract. It's usually at that point where we jsut buy a new box. This keeps are hardware relatively up to date and somewhat guarantees that we won't have issues getting it fixed when it breaks.
Only acceptable in a Uni environment although I like the way you think! :) If I could do that with our system I work on. After hours processing could jump up! Here's an idea...with a all mac shop, could you have the main cluster (using Xgrid) add the developer's nodes when they go home? I imagine adding 10-15 nodes to the cluster at night only could help clean out your render queues! Also, a good scheduler can help too (cron is too weak....make it something else).
Or common ordinary everyday file servers and print servers when your running out of floor space. That is what we use them for. Blades can be used by almost everyone.
This is what support contracts are for (AKA Apple Care). I am not sure if they have on site support yet, but you can bring yout Xserve into any Apple Store and they can either fix it or take care of it for you. With Apple, you have more support then buiding your own machines. If you really need 24/7 support for your renderfarm, then you can order some Xeon servers from IBM with appropriate support contract.
I am sorry....OS X has less bloat WITH it's interface then other Operating Systems. That said, it's easy to NOT run the UI on these if you are really going for every CPU cycle you can but consider this...OS X can still run acceptably on many OLDER Macs. The 500 MHz Sawtooth G4 is still in use at work running Pather (and Jaguar before that). You CAN deactivate some of the glitz, but I have never seen anyone who has done that. These also ran Rage 128's. Very old machines running a very good OS. That said, load up any PPC Linux or Darwin and you can achieve what you need.
Um, why? Others have used Macs and this is a ideal thing for a Xserve and it obvously was not a problem for the person in this question. Both platforms he has presented are both new and are both goign to run him a lot of money. Plus Apple has a Cluster Node config that will work well for him (only one hard disk....in this case you'd use some other storage or a Xserve Raid. In fact, I bet Pixar may use G5's soon if they don't have them soon. Xserves are fast and if you make yuor cluster out of them, you will get your renders much quicker.
I mean really....I have had web pages say they do not support the mac, yet when I try it on my PC, it just looks like a shockwave program. Now adays it looks like, to me, they try so hard to restrict the mac rather then just go buy a e-mac and test their code or just let mac users in anyway..that is unles sthey use some stupid activex junk.
Remember Microsofts first attempt? I wanted one of those WinCE devices so bad. Clam shell. Built in keyboard that you could type on and with HP's 720, a great screen. My 12 inch powerbook is much larger then either the 720 or my current iPaq. My NEXT iPaq will be subsidised by being a cell phone as well. The HP h6300 when available from T-Mobile, I will probably get that. It has GSM Phone, GPRS, Bluetooth AND WiFi. It onloy has a 200 MHz OMAP processor, but reports say it does ok. It also comes with a detachable thumbboard. Initial reviews rate it very well. My hope is I would be able to use the built in BT in my mac and the PPCPE 6300 together and be able to connect whenever there is no WiFi network. Would it be counted as a PDA? Last year when I got my GPRS card, I was talking to a fellow customer who was buying a PPCPE and she said she tried it and loved it and was buying it that day. The Treo 600 is popping up everywhere. They are quite appealing. They also might not be tagged as a PDA since it is mainly a cell phone.
THERE ARE FREE APPS for PocketPC. Sure, GPL'd apps there are not too many of, but free as in beer apps are plentiful. Look at my other post and see the free stuff. Or just do some googling.