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Actually, in the case of AOL/TW, you are required to have digital cable in order to have HBO, because they simply don't offer HBO on their analog cable.
BS! In Columbus, OH where I live, if your on Time Warner, if your on BASIC service (which is Analog) you can get 3 channels of HBO for price of one. For Digital subscribers, you can get 14 HBO's for the price of one. Doesn't do me any good cuz I'd never watch HBO any way.
And I agree with you there! But just ask those who commonly use sites like http://www.nascar.com and others that uses these java chat thingies to try and find a irc client. Most will say a what? IRC?? Wazzat? These folks don't even know that they are using a irc server. The other reason even those of us in the know that use those is because we don't know the address of the server they are on. Most may even run their own so they can have tight control. This is why we must be asked to use these....things.
Open source had little to do with the dot com thing. Open source is going strong. Making plans to sell services that work thru a Open Source and free FILE MANAGER is bad (Eazel anyone???).
While I think that they wanted to do something to have the fastest laptop, they did not have to do this. I still think it was a bad idea and it should have been made clear it was not a Mobile chip. This was common when 2 GHz laptops hit. I saw alot of them stuffing desktop CPU's in laptops. Still, I think that when your most likely to be using a battery, you might only be playing in single player mode on Quake III and everyone knows that if it's smooth it should be fine in single player mode. You only need more then 40 fps when in deathmatches (in my opinion). Those who go for fps want the best...STAY AWAY from laptops....period.
What would be a fair settlement is Microsoft doing exactly that. GPL'ing Windows would then allow a Red Hat Windows (if they so chose) or whatever. It would create competition in the desktop os category (or os for idiots category...call it what you will). Personally, I don't see them as a monopoly but it makes things difficult when exchange users continually spread worms thus causing the internet excess traffic thanks to the infectious messages being transmitted.
Those who forward and open chain mails such as these should also be told to pull their head out of their ass for potentianlly bringing a virus into the network.
This will happen eventually. As PC's keep going on, I see more and more things implemented on PC's that mainframes have done for a LONG time. Take VM ware. Mainfrmes has had Virtual Machines for a long time. PC's are just now getting powerful enough to do this.
On a mainframe, every device has intelligence(usually). They all have a channel processor and everything. The channel processor is the one who reads and processes the microcode. All of the processing needed for that device to works usually occurs on that device. All the mainframe wants to do is pump data out through it. Basically, it's already happening if at a lower level. Take Graphics cards. The GPU handles alot of the rendering independant of the processor. It just happens to share a bus with the main CPU. This may not be having drivers built into the device, but there is talk of bringing channel like functions to PC's especially for I/O intensive devices like Hard Disks, Graphics Cards and Network Cards. When this happens, all the kernel would have to know is how to talk to a chanel type device. At that point, it would just pump data. What kind it is would in not matter much to the main CPU. At least that's the way I understand it.
Local chain store eating your wallet? I don't think so. I actualy sat and figured out the cost of buying a part from a place on pricewatch and from Compusa.....guess what? They were about the same by the time you add shipping.
I always buy the boxed product mostly because sometimes the boxed product has some perks with it. Sure, it may be an old game or something, but it's still a perk. Plus I have never felt that comfortable buying a board in a bag from joe blows computer store in a town I have never heard of. Also, if you never spend a dime at CompUSA or any other local computer store, they will eventually pack it in if enough people do it. Then when your in a dire need and can't wait for a product to ship they are not there. I almost never buy any computer part mail order. I personally like sinking my dollar as much as I can anyway into places that are here. It's kind of my insurance that I have a nice store locally that I can go to any time instead of having to wait for a part or item to get to me. I personally also HATE having to wait when I know I ma getting a new toy. I have waited long enough in some cases why should I wait longer?:)
YES! This is the key to tech hiring in my opinion. I was on a hiring comittee (yech) for a position in my department. We were looking for someone with experience at the time and found someone. Now we are in transition to AIX, Oracle and client server from the mainframe world. This guy was given a IBM Ed card that for one year, you can eat as much training as our travel budget allowed. He went to one class and said he's done. (and that was a basic AIX User class with no sys admin stuff at all). Now, he will probably retire when we get rid of the mainframe if we get rid of it (our sysprog is trying to get permission to install a permanent Linux VM and set it up as a DNS server or a DHCP server or some kind of server to prove to out management that Linux in VM is a GOOD THING!). This guy is very experienced with Zeke (which we never ran) and alot of MVS stuff and some VSE stuff. He has NO interest in learning ANYTHING new. The next time we were looking for a new guy we went with someone who wanted to learn and did not have a whole lot of experience except a few classes. He is now a Tivoli Storage admin and at least as competent as I am and I have been working and learning new things for 8 years now. The ones who get passionate about what they work on and get excited when you say WE ARE BUYING A NEW SERVER....:) Those are the guys who you want. Our programmers on the other hand could care less what is in the computer room. They just want to program their little SQL scripts and other things. They don't care about some of the techie things we do that sometimes make life easier for them. Our whole programming staff is like that. Must be why we BOUGHT a new system instead of had them program it.
I don't think the whole article is entirely just about dress code. I think that it's about the whole extravagant lifestyle like things that some of these dot coms did which is falling out of favor. Sure, dress code plays a part in that, but I think it's more of an issue with people being able to take breaks when they want to go play DOOM in the company game room and the whole company going to see the Phantom Menace together and fully stocked gourmet kitchens and stuff. Personally, I have no idea WHY these folks were allowed to push business casual to the limit by wearing t-shirts and shorts. First off, the best road to pick is a middle ground on this issue. If your not meeting execs and customers on a daily basis and your just a cube monkey admining a server or programming for a living, then why should you be forced to wear a suit? What's wrong with Khakis and a Polo? Personally I would like to see more company issued Polo's as a incentive to dress appropriately. Only day we really wear jeans around here is Fridays, but we can wear them anytime so long as they are not tattered with holes and stains. We do dress up when meeting with the President, but even our VP's wear casual clothes when they aren't in meetings. If it's a matter of control, then they should just buy everyone a nice, comfortable uniform. Face it, the days of coming in to work in sweat pants is gone and personally should have had no place in the work place from the beginning. The days of High Schoolers getting IT jobs may be gone as well. When the workload is inhumanly possible, sometimes taking someone who knows a little is all you can do to keep trying to crank stuff out. But now that things are back to semi normal, we have the time to do things right. The Dot Com boom was alot of hot air and buggy websites that barely worked. Ever seen a site barely work now? Sure, there are some, but you not every site has a bug now and there's a great amount of sites that have no bugs now at all or no show stoppers. Dot com type stuff has matured and the real money making ideas will work now and not ideas like ordering your grocerys to come via UPS and stuff like that. A industry maturing has a way of making it less interesting as they realize that they can't afford to be paying for Mountain Dew and Penguin mints for the whole office and buying that new UNIX server they need. This also makes everyone realize that they need to look good to attract the kind of employees they really want which are responsible, realistic folks and not these ones who can claim they can crank out a new website in 8 hours.
Only thing I have ever seen on the cluelesses machines with Roadrunner is their Road Runner Medic. They usually won't install it either unless they're asked. They push self installs for almost everything. Even cable convertor boxes.
I have Road Runner and as soon as I can get DSL I am getting it. First off, I never cal tech support until I try everything I know. Then when I do call and first level says first delete your network connections and recreate them I say I already did that and if he says do it again I say let me talk to your manager. Now it seems they know me and they just send me to second level on the spot. Then whenever I detect a problem on their end (DHCP server not responding, random connection problems, thier cable modem "updates" not working(from the modems web page)), I have to practically jump up and down on one hand upside down to get their attention. One time I had a guy come and check my levels and he saw I had a splitter in the line between TV's and the cable modem. He insisted that you should not split a cable modem dedicated jack and I told him YOU GUYS DID IT! (it's true they did). I would love to rewire it myself with a DC6 and a dual jack with one for the TV's and one for the cable modem, but I can't find a DC6. Anyone know where I could find one? I would love to do it and see if he was right. My most favorite one though is when I broke down and called them to run a cable from my basement to where the cable modem is and they drilled a hole in my FLOOR! I ASKED and PAID for a WALL JACK. Funny thing is when they came to re-do it, they only had to drill the hole about 5 inches over from where they did drill it and it only took about a minute to fish the cable up thru the wall (internal wall, no insulation). They guy was in so much of a hurry, he could not do it right! All I say is fine. If you can't do it right, then you wil come back and do it right again. There's never time to do it right the first time but there's always time to do it after it was screwed up the first time.
Napster was popular. So popular even my non techy friends were aware of it as well as Kazaa, Morpheous and others. But now because Napster is dead and many of the others have had rumors of, or had spyware in them, most of those non techy folks don't use P2P anymore. Even my techy friends don't mess with it because it's more hassle then it's worth and they are tired of going halfway thru a download and it blows up on them or there's nothing out there. Why is thr RIAA still on the warpath with this stuff when hardly anyone uses it anymore (they have all just gone back to using hidden ftp sites!:)).
I beat ya! Last time I went was.....hell I don't remember it's been so long. I have bought CD's though. And I have also bought DVD's as well. DVD's and a decent TV is all I ask.
Good for you! You have a right to bitch now!:) I always find it funny that sometimes the ones who scream the loudest never show up at the polling places on election day. That's pitiful. Not voting as a protest is not a solution either. You can at least go and vote Mickey Mouse for governor if you hate both of the guys running. I don't normally vote for libertarians but I will this year cuz I can't stand either the Republican or Democrat candidate for Governor here in OH.
Um. No. Median is good enough for me and close enough to the average that I can call it average. Keep in mind there are more in the 20K-30K range and lower then there are in the 90-100K range. Also, why get technical about it? At least I attempted to provide figures instead of saying things like "Well the congresscritters should try living on the 15 K a average citizen makes". The original poster didn't even do that!
While I agree healthcare costs have gotten out of hand, they only get that way because sniviling losers with the sniffles go to the doctor and say help me, when they can go to the pharmacy themselves and get some cold medicine and be ok. Only if I can't shake it or don't start feeling better after about a week do I ever consider going to the Doctor. Same thing goes for vomiting. I may have thrown up, but there are literally hundreds of viruses out there and there's not much to most of them and not much a doctor can do for you (believe me I have had to teach my wife this with my son who had the sniffles and a cough when he was 6 months old...wife had me drag him to the hospital at 2 am and the doctor told her there was nothing he could do unless it got worse and I had a 50 dollar bill to pay for the ER).
Also, if you stay long enough, you can make money. My brother and sister in-law both were supporting themselves and their kids working at McDonalds (well, my Sis-in-law worked at Wendy's). My brother is now a store manager and pulls almost as much as I do at my tech job counting bonuses and the like. You obviously haven't checked McDonalds lately. They HAVE to increase the amount they offer because if they don't, they won't get anyone. Why would you want to work there when you can go work for UPS and get paid more? And yes you can literally walk into some of these places and they will almost hire you on the spot. I see signs all over my town in every fast food retaurant, every restaurant, every retail store and grocery store and they are literally screaming for help. Grocery stores pay better then fast food in a lot of cases because they are unionized in my area. When I worked at a grocery store full time I had benefits at least as good as my state job now. Point is, fast food does not and has not for a while paid minimum wage. You hardly ever here anyone talk about them raising it because noone pays that little any more. According to the Department of Labor, the current minimum wage as of 1997 is 5.15 an hour. I know of at least 3 places where I live where you can get a job that pays as much as twice that and you can literally walk in, interview and walk out with the job. This isn't BS. Sure, your big salary players may not be hiring (read Tech Jobs) but the service industry always needs folks who want to work. Most folks who are in the Tech Industry don't really work much but thier brain. Only time I break a sweat is when I have an AC Unit out in the server room. You can get a job today even. It's not impossible and it IS possible to work at one of these places and survive. No, you don't NEED a Computer, DVD Player, Big Screen TV, VCR, CD Player, Tons of DVD's and CD's, a car in some cases (if you live on a Bus or Subway Line), Cellphone or whatever new tech toy comes out. You don't need these to survive! You also don't need Day Care even if you both work. You can both work different shifts(if your marriage is strong to begin with, you can survive the separation). You can live with in range of other family members willing to do it for free. You can try to get by with only one working (it is possible....my brother is the only one who works at his house and they are making it oh and he works fast food too).
Oh and in my tech job I CHOOSE to ride the bus instead of drive because I can't afford the car payment and refuse to get another one until I have to or I can afford it (my car is paid off).
You DON'T need a SUV just because you have kids. You DON'T need a 500 W Car Stereo. Most don't NEED a cell phone. Americans in general have it easy by far when compared to the rest of the world where it will take some folks almost a year to make what you make in a week. Yet those other people live year after year after year. It is a fallacy that you need lots and lots of junk to make life worth living. I challenge you to not logon the net for a while day. I bet you can't do it. I have been instituting family hours after I get home. I check my mail, synch my PDA and then we wil do a family thing (I even shut off the PC so as not to tempt myself). Last night we watched It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown and Winney the Pooh and Boo to You Too with my son. We had a great time. Some nights, as soon as I figure out something to do, we might even shut that boob tube off and do something else. It's nice to unplug. If you never live without it, what will you be like psychologically when you have to live without it?
We Americans are blessed. An economic downturn in America is so easy to live out compared to one in any other country. You CAN get a job and keep it while you keep looking. If you fall back to unemployment, well, that's just plain being lazy.
Everyone bitches about paying taxes, but yet they want the government to give them everything for free. You know the money for those food stamps and other aid programs come from TAXES my boy! Ever paid any? There's a school levy to vote on in my area come November and it will only raise the taxes on a 100,000 dollar house by 75 dollars A YEAR! And some folks don't want to do that! That's 6 bucks A MONTH increase! Whoopity do! They don't want to pay it, yet they want the schools to get better. I am not saying money is the solution. Lord knows it isn't in alot of cases and lord knows there is waste in government programs. But you mean to tell me that you aren't willing to part with one latte a month for your kids??
On the other hand, I do see a ton of wasteful programs that should be cut. Also, if you want the government out of your life, you should get the government out of your life. Never pay more then you should ever on your taxes at any point. What I mean there is if you get a big refund, adjust your withholding so it evens out. That way you always have what is yours. Only saying that you need to pay taxes cuz you will go to jail if you don't. Next step, if you collect from any government program, stop. Give up that aid. Figure out how to do it on your own. Don't collect unemployment. Send your kids to private schools. Don't ask the government for things that are supposedly rightfully yours. If more people would do this instead of asking for more, then they would have to reduce the tax and you'd get more automatically anyway. Government will only increase if there's a need and if you remove the need, in fact if you do away with it altogether, then the government will shrink (well you'd hope it would anyway). Isn't that something we all want?
I do agree Senetors are over paid. They are one of the few that their pay increase doesn't usually match their "performance".
Give me some substance! I want to know the db rating on these. I need a way to find out how to make my pc cool, but not make it sound like a frickin jet plane. Also, I would like an honest opinion on whether one fan is quieter then another. I want 3 of the quietest fands I can find with the highest CFM ratings I can get. Somehow, I don't think it's possible. Also, Shuttle has a heat pipe thing in thiers making it possible to have a system with only 1-2 fans in it instead of the 6 my system has (2 in power supply, one on CPU, one in front, one in back and one on side), has ANYONE else made a similar solution that will work in any case??
Um, most users can also figure out how to download the whole thing too. (right click link, save target as) At least the ones interested in Starcraft would. Also, why aren't they on a streaming server? Why in the world would you want to keep this marketing pap?
Sorry. According to the 2000 Census, in 1999 the median salary for Americans was 41,944 Dollars per year. Not 15,000. This link has a lot of Economic info collected during the census. Also, did you know that 96% of taxes are paid by the top 50 % of Americans? Also, if you make over 50,000 a year you are in the top 25 % of wage earners in America. Here are several pages of statistical info on taxes. The point as it pertains to your arguement, the average american has not earned 15,000 a year for a long time. You can make that with no college education what so ever. If you get paid 8 an hour, you make 16,000 a year (roughly). If you get paid just 2 more an hour, around 20 a year. (all before taxes). Add 2 more to that an dyou make 24,000 a year. Point is, even fast food jobs can net you 15,000 a year and that's if you work fast food. You can get a job stocking groceries that pays more then that. You could also get a job as a package handler at UPS and that pays more. It's increasingly easier to make money in this country believe it or not. Those dot commers who are waiting for something can get a job at those type of places with their eyes closed. Don't laugh. It's money. While I agree that congressmen (let's not bash them shall we?...it would only bring us to their level) make too much cash and it's a crock that they vote for their own salaries (do I want more money? sure I will vote for that spending bill), I don't agree that alot of congressmen are not putting the best interests of the taxpayers first. Sometimes the voting public doesn't know what is best for themselves (not often but sometimes they don't have a clue). If you think your congressmen is not doing the job, you can vote him out. You do vote don't you? If more people voted, then the politicos would have to think of better ways to get into office and they might actually have to do what their voters say they should do.
Incumbents usually have more money, a government web site and all of these advantages. I would like to say that the government site should have a picture of the incumbent, but they should write the rest of the site so that the rest of it concentrates arounf what the governer, senate member or president do in a general sense. Make them learning ans service access websites and not political ads.
That's cause of Divx. On another point....WHY ARE THE FRIGGIN CLIPS ZIPPED! Zipping a Divx file gets you practically nothing. IN fact it probably adds to the filesize.
That and the game companies buy into the Gamespy Fileplanet thingy that I REFUSE to sign up for just to look at game video clips! Did they not make enough money from Diablo, Warcraft and Starcraft to buy a decent webserver of their own??
35 is too low. 50 percent is more like it. Especially when you have a big production printer in the room. If it's two low, you get static. If it's too high, then you have the paper curling around rollers and stuff. Computers and printers should be around 50. 50 cuts risk of static and problems with paper curling.
Look it won't be easy, but it's not as hard as you'd think. Not like it would be trying to wire 65,000 CPU's on one MB! Hardest thing is the networking (latency and all of that.).
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If your web site is like where I store mine, you actually have to be on their network to change the password. So, except for someone munging my site (sheyeah, like I CARE), it does not matter to me, although moving to MT and a webhosting service is something I have been contemplating for a while. I looked at slash and I won't even begin to try and understand it. I have too many OTHER things to do with my life which is why I used Blogger. Also if something is so important to you that you run around changing your password for your web site just because someone might have it, then why do you have the stuff on the web in the first place? Even if they did do something, you can most likely call your provider and get the password reset and then ftp all of your stuff back up. You DID save your site on your hard disk didn't you???
Getting Linux to work on a machine with 65K processors is going to take considerable work, right now I think Linux's sweet-spot is 8 processors.
This IS NOT SMP!!!! This is Super Parallel Beowulf processing. Beowulf Linux already runs on LOTS of Super Computers. It will be a trivial thing for IBM to get this working on that many processors because it's more like a 65,000 node super computer.
YEAH!:P Heh heh. I admin AIX and it is the best UNIX I have ever worked with. You can do everything from the command line, thru smit, or for the really bad off WSM. SMIT, while it's a CURSES based (Does IBM use NCURSES??) admin tool, you can do almost everything from it. Because you usually buy hardware from IBM, everything just works, or you have diagnostic info to tell you it isn't working including LED codes that tell you why you won't boot (Corrupted BLV, JFS Volume, Bad superblocks....it's all there). In any case, AIX is here to stay and just because IBM chooses to use Linux on their super computer means nothing. It may mean that the government wanted Linux because with THAT many nodes, your AIX support bill would be outrageous!:) That and it maybe the Beowulf stuff just works better then the AIX SP stuff. I wonder if this is using the new Power4 blade servers?
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Actually, in the case of AOL/TW, you are required to have digital cable in order to have HBO, because they simply don't offer HBO on their analog cable.
BS! In Columbus, OH where I live, if your on Time Warner, if your on BASIC service (which is Analog) you can get 3 channels of HBO for price of one. For Digital subscribers, you can get 14 HBO's for the price of one. Doesn't do me any good cuz I'd never watch HBO any way.
And I agree with you there! But just ask those who commonly use sites like http://www.nascar.com and others that uses these java chat thingies to try and find a irc client. Most will say a what? IRC?? Wazzat? These folks don't even know that they are using a irc server. The other reason even those of us in the know that use those is because we don't know the address of the server they are on. Most may even run their own so they can have tight control. This is why we must be asked to use these....things.
Open source had little to do with the dot com thing. Open source is going strong. Making plans to sell services that work thru a Open Source and free FILE MANAGER is bad (Eazel anyone???).
While I think that they wanted to do something to have the fastest laptop, they did not have to do this. I still think it was a bad idea and it should have been made clear it was not a Mobile chip. This was common when 2 GHz laptops hit. I saw alot of them stuffing desktop CPU's in laptops. Still, I think that when your most likely to be using a battery, you might only be playing in single player mode on Quake III and everyone knows that if it's smooth it should be fine in single player mode. You only need more then 40 fps when in deathmatches (in my opinion). Those who go for fps want the best...STAY AWAY from laptops....period.
What would be a fair settlement is Microsoft doing exactly that. GPL'ing Windows would then allow a Red Hat Windows (if they so chose) or whatever. It would create competition in the desktop os category (or os for idiots category...call it what you will). Personally, I don't see them as a monopoly but it makes things difficult when exchange users continually spread worms thus causing the internet excess traffic thanks to the infectious messages being transmitted.
Those who forward and open chain mails such as these should also be told to pull their head out of their ass for potentianlly bringing a virus into the network.
This will happen eventually. As PC's keep going on, I see more and more things implemented on PC's that mainframes have done for a LONG time. Take VM ware. Mainfrmes has had Virtual Machines for a long time. PC's are just now getting powerful enough to do this.
On a mainframe, every device has intelligence(usually). They all have a channel processor and everything. The channel processor is the one who reads and processes the microcode. All of the processing needed for that device to works usually occurs on that device. All the mainframe wants to do is pump data out through it. Basically, it's already happening if at a lower level. Take Graphics cards. The GPU handles alot of the rendering independant of the processor. It just happens to share a bus with the main CPU. This may not be having drivers built into the device, but there is talk of bringing channel like functions to PC's especially for I/O intensive devices like Hard Disks, Graphics Cards and Network Cards. When this happens, all the kernel would have to know is how to talk to a chanel type device. At that point, it would just pump data. What kind it is would in not matter much to the main CPU. At least that's the way I understand it.
Local chain store eating your wallet? I don't think so. I actualy sat and figured out the cost of buying a part from a place on pricewatch and from Compusa.....guess what? They were about the same by the time you add shipping.
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I always buy the boxed product mostly because sometimes the boxed product has some perks with it. Sure, it may be an old game or something, but it's still a perk. Plus I have never felt that comfortable buying a board in a bag from joe blows computer store in a town I have never heard of. Also, if you never spend a dime at CompUSA or any other local computer store, they will eventually pack it in if enough people do it. Then when your in a dire need and can't wait for a product to ship they are not there. I almost never buy any computer part mail order. I personally like sinking my dollar as much as I can anyway into places that are here. It's kind of my insurance that I have a nice store locally that I can go to any time instead of having to wait for a part or item to get to me. I personally also HATE having to wait when I know I ma getting a new toy. I have waited long enough in some cases why should I wait longer?
YES! This is the key to tech hiring in my opinion. I was on a hiring comittee (yech) for a position in my department. We were looking for someone with experience at the time and found someone. Now we are in transition to AIX, Oracle and client server from the mainframe world. This guy was given a IBM Ed card that for one year, you can eat as much training as our travel budget allowed. He went to one class and said he's done. (and that was a basic AIX User class with no sys admin stuff at all). Now, he will probably retire when we get rid of the mainframe if we get rid of it (our sysprog is trying to get permission to install a permanent Linux VM and set it up as a DNS server or a DHCP server or some kind of server to prove to out management that Linux in VM is a GOOD THING!). This guy is very experienced with Zeke (which we never ran) and alot of MVS stuff and some VSE stuff. He has NO interest in learning ANYTHING new. The next time we were looking for a new guy we went with someone who wanted to learn and did not have a whole lot of experience except a few classes. He is now a Tivoli Storage admin and at least as competent as I am and I have been working and learning new things for 8 years now. The ones who get passionate about what they work on and get excited when you say WE ARE BUYING A NEW SERVER....:) Those are the guys who you want. Our programmers on the other hand could care less what is in the computer room. They just want to program their little SQL scripts and other things. They don't care about some of the techie things we do that sometimes make life easier for them. Our whole programming staff is like that. Must be why we BOUGHT a new system instead of had them program it.
I don't think the whole article is entirely just about dress code. I think that it's about the whole extravagant lifestyle like things that some of these dot coms did which is falling out of favor. Sure, dress code plays a part in that, but I think it's more of an issue with people being able to take breaks when they want to go play DOOM in the company game room and the whole company going to see the Phantom Menace together and fully stocked gourmet kitchens and stuff. Personally, I have no idea WHY these folks were allowed to push business casual to the limit by wearing t-shirts and shorts. First off, the best road to pick is a middle ground on this issue. If your not meeting execs and customers on a daily basis and your just a cube monkey admining a server or programming for a living, then why should you be forced to wear a suit? What's wrong with Khakis and a Polo? Personally I would like to see more company issued Polo's as a incentive to dress appropriately. Only day we really wear jeans around here is Fridays, but we can wear them anytime so long as they are not tattered with holes and stains. We do dress up when meeting with the President, but even our VP's wear casual clothes when they aren't in meetings. If it's a matter of control, then they should just buy everyone a nice, comfortable uniform. Face it, the days of coming in to work in sweat pants is gone and personally should have had no place in the work place from the beginning. The days of High Schoolers getting IT jobs may be gone as well. When the workload is inhumanly possible, sometimes taking someone who knows a little is all you can do to keep trying to crank stuff out. But now that things are back to semi normal, we have the time to do things right. The Dot Com boom was alot of hot air and buggy websites that barely worked. Ever seen a site barely work now? Sure, there are some, but you not every site has a bug now and there's a great amount of sites that have no bugs now at all or no show stoppers. Dot com type stuff has matured and the real money making ideas will work now and not ideas like ordering your grocerys to come via UPS and stuff like that. A industry maturing has a way of making it less interesting as they realize that they can't afford to be paying for Mountain Dew and Penguin mints for the whole office and buying that new UNIX server they need. This also makes everyone realize that they need to look good to attract the kind of employees they really want which are responsible, realistic folks and not these ones who can claim they can crank out a new website in 8 hours.
Only thing I have ever seen on the cluelesses machines with Roadrunner is their Road Runner Medic. They usually won't install it either unless they're asked. They push self installs for almost everything. Even cable convertor boxes.
I have Road Runner and as soon as I can get DSL I am getting it. First off, I never cal tech support until I try everything I know. Then when I do call and first level says first delete your network connections and recreate them I say I already did that and if he says do it again I say let me talk to your manager. Now it seems they know me and they just send me to second level on the spot. Then whenever I detect a problem on their end (DHCP server not responding, random connection problems, thier cable modem "updates" not working(from the modems web page)), I have to practically jump up and down on one hand upside down to get their attention. One time I had a guy come and check my levels and he saw I had a splitter in the line between TV's and the cable modem. He insisted that you should not split a cable modem dedicated jack and I told him YOU GUYS DID IT! (it's true they did). I would love to rewire it myself with a DC6 and a dual jack with one for the TV's and one for the cable modem, but I can't find a DC6. Anyone know where I could find one? I would love to do it and see if he was right. My most favorite one though is when I broke down and called them to run a cable from my basement to where the cable modem is and they drilled a hole in my FLOOR! I ASKED and PAID for a WALL JACK. Funny thing is when they came to re-do it, they only had to drill the hole about 5 inches over from where they did drill it and it only took about a minute to fish the cable up thru the wall (internal wall, no insulation). They guy was in so much of a hurry, he could not do it right! All I say is fine. If you can't do it right, then you wil come back and do it right again. There's never time to do it right the first time but there's always time to do it after it was screwed up the first time.
Napster was popular. So popular even my non techy friends were aware of it as well as Kazaa, Morpheous and others. But now because Napster is dead and many of the others have had rumors of, or had spyware in them, most of those non techy folks don't use P2P anymore. Even my techy friends don't mess with it because it's more hassle then it's worth and they are tired of going halfway thru a download and it blows up on them or there's nothing out there. Why is thr RIAA still on the warpath with this stuff when hardly anyone uses it anymore (they have all just gone back to using hidden ftp sites! :)).
I beat ya! Last time I went was.....hell I don't remember it's been so long. I have bought CD's though. And I have also bought DVD's as well. DVD's and a decent TV is all I ask.
Good for you! You have a right to bitch now! :) I always find it funny that sometimes the ones who scream the loudest never show up at the polling places on election day. That's pitiful. Not voting as a protest is not a solution either. You can at least go and vote Mickey Mouse for governor if you hate both of the guys running. I don't normally vote for libertarians but I will this year cuz I can't stand either the Republican or Democrat candidate for Governor here in OH.
Um. No. Median is good enough for me and close enough to the average that I can call it average. Keep in mind there are more in the 20K-30K range and lower then there are in the 90-100K range. Also, why get technical about it? At least I attempted to provide figures instead of saying things like "Well the congresscritters should try living on the 15 K a average citizen makes". The original poster didn't even do that!
While I agree healthcare costs have gotten out of hand, they only get that way because sniviling losers with the sniffles go to the doctor and say help me, when they can go to the pharmacy themselves and get some cold medicine and be ok. Only if I can't shake it or don't start feeling better after about a week do I ever consider going to the Doctor. Same thing goes for vomiting. I may have thrown up, but there are literally hundreds of viruses out there and there's not much to most of them and not much a doctor can do for you (believe me I have had to teach my wife this with my son who had the sniffles and a cough when he was 6 months old...wife had me drag him to the hospital at 2 am and the doctor told her there was nothing he could do unless it got worse and I had a 50 dollar bill to pay for the ER).
Also, if you stay long enough, you can make money. My brother and sister in-law both were supporting themselves and their kids working at McDonalds (well, my Sis-in-law worked at Wendy's). My brother is now a store manager and pulls almost as much as I do at my tech job counting bonuses and the like. You obviously haven't checked McDonalds lately. They HAVE to increase the amount they offer because if they don't, they won't get anyone. Why would you want to work there when you can go work for UPS and get paid more? And yes you can literally walk into some of these places and they will almost hire you on the spot. I see signs all over my town in every fast food retaurant, every restaurant, every retail store and grocery store and they are literally screaming for help. Grocery stores pay better then fast food in a lot of cases because they are unionized in my area. When I worked at a grocery store full time I had benefits at least as good as my state job now. Point is, fast food does not and has not for a while paid minimum wage. You hardly ever here anyone talk about them raising it because noone pays that little any more. According to the Department of Labor, the current minimum wage as of 1997 is 5.15 an hour. I know of at least 3 places where I live where you can get a job that pays as much as twice that and you can literally walk in, interview and walk out with the job. This isn't BS. Sure, your big salary players may not be hiring (read Tech Jobs) but the service industry always needs folks who want to work. Most folks who are in the Tech Industry don't really work much but thier brain. Only time I break a sweat is when I have an AC Unit out in the server room. You can get a job today even. It's not impossible and it IS possible to work at one of these places and survive. No, you don't NEED a Computer, DVD Player, Big Screen TV, VCR, CD Player, Tons of DVD's and CD's, a car in some cases (if you live on a Bus or Subway Line), Cellphone or whatever new tech toy comes out. You don't need these to survive! You also don't need Day Care even if you both work. You can both work different shifts(if your marriage is strong to begin with, you can survive the separation). You can live with in range of other family members willing to do it for free. You can try to get by with only one working (it is possible....my brother is the only one who works at his house and they are making it oh and he works fast food too).
Oh and in my tech job I CHOOSE to ride the bus instead of drive because I can't afford the car payment and refuse to get another one until I have to or I can afford it (my car is paid off).
You DON'T need a SUV just because you have kids. You DON'T need a 500 W Car Stereo. Most don't NEED a cell phone. Americans in general have it easy by far when compared to the rest of the world where it will take some folks almost a year to make what you make in a week. Yet those other people live year after year after year. It is a fallacy that you need lots and lots of junk to make life worth living. I challenge you to not logon the net for a while day. I bet you can't do it. I have been instituting family hours after I get home. I check my mail, synch my PDA and then we wil do a family thing (I even shut off the PC so as not to tempt myself). Last night we watched It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown and Winney the Pooh and Boo to You Too with my son. We had a great time. Some nights, as soon as I figure out something to do, we might even shut that boob tube off and do something else. It's nice to unplug. If you never live without it, what will you be like psychologically when you have to live without it?
We Americans are blessed. An economic downturn in America is so easy to live out compared to one in any other country. You CAN get a job and keep it while you keep looking. If you fall back to unemployment, well, that's just plain being lazy.
Everyone bitches about paying taxes, but yet they want the government to give them everything for free. You know the money for those food stamps and other aid programs come from TAXES my boy! Ever paid any? There's a school levy to vote on in my area come November and it will only raise the taxes on a 100,000 dollar house by 75 dollars A YEAR! And some folks don't want to do that! That's 6 bucks A MONTH increase! Whoopity do! They don't want to pay it, yet they want the schools to get better. I am not saying money is the solution. Lord knows it isn't in alot of cases and lord knows there is waste in government programs. But you mean to tell me that you aren't willing to part with one latte a month for your kids??
On the other hand, I do see a ton of wasteful programs that should be cut. Also, if you want the government out of your life, you should get the government out of your life. Never pay more then you should ever on your taxes at any point. What I mean there is if you get a big refund, adjust your withholding so it evens out. That way you always have what is yours. Only saying that you need to pay taxes cuz you will go to jail if you don't. Next step, if you collect from any government program, stop. Give up that aid. Figure out how to do it on your own. Don't collect unemployment. Send your kids to private schools. Don't ask the government for things that are supposedly rightfully yours. If more people would do this instead of asking for more, then they would have to reduce the tax and you'd get more automatically anyway. Government will only increase if there's a need and if you remove the need, in fact if you do away with it altogether, then the government will shrink (well you'd hope it would anyway). Isn't that something we all want?
I do agree Senetors are over paid. They are one of the few that their pay increase doesn't usually match their "performance".
Give me some substance! I want to know the db rating on these. I need a way to find out how to make my pc cool, but not make it sound like a frickin jet plane. Also, I would like an honest opinion on whether one fan is quieter then another. I want 3 of the quietest fands I can find with the highest CFM ratings I can get. Somehow, I don't think it's possible. Also, Shuttle has a heat pipe thing in thiers making it possible to have a system with only 1-2 fans in it instead of the 6 my system has (2 in power supply, one on CPU, one in front, one in back and one on side), has ANYONE else made a similar solution that will work in any case??
Um, most users can also figure out how to download the whole thing too. (right click link, save target as) At least the ones interested in Starcraft would. Also, why aren't they on a streaming server? Why in the world would you want to keep this marketing pap?
Sorry. According to the 2000 Census, in 1999 the median salary for Americans was 41,944 Dollars per year. Not 15,000. This link has a lot of Economic info collected during the census. Also, did you know that 96% of taxes are paid by the top 50 % of Americans? Also, if you make over 50,000 a year you are in the top 25 % of wage earners in America. Here are several pages of statistical info on taxes. The point as it pertains to your arguement, the average american has not earned 15,000 a year for a long time. You can make that with no college education what so ever. If you get paid 8 an hour, you make 16,000 a year (roughly). If you get paid just 2 more an hour, around 20 a year. (all before taxes). Add 2 more to that an dyou make 24,000 a year. Point is, even fast food jobs can net you 15,000 a year and that's if you work fast food. You can get a job stocking groceries that pays more then that. You could also get a job as a package handler at UPS and that pays more. It's increasingly easier to make money in this country believe it or not. Those dot commers who are waiting for something can get a job at those type of places with their eyes closed. Don't laugh. It's money. While I agree that congressmen (let's not bash them shall we?...it would only bring us to their level) make too much cash and it's a crock that they vote for their own salaries (do I want more money? sure I will vote for that spending bill), I don't agree that alot of congressmen are not putting the best interests of the taxpayers first. Sometimes the voting public doesn't know what is best for themselves (not often but sometimes they don't have a clue). If you think your congressmen is not doing the job, you can vote him out. You do vote don't you? If more people voted, then the politicos would have to think of better ways to get into office and they might actually have to do what their voters say they should do.
Incumbents usually have more money, a government web site and all of these advantages. I would like to say that the government site should have a picture of the incumbent, but they should write the rest of the site so that the rest of it concentrates arounf what the governer, senate member or president do in a general sense. Make them learning ans service access websites and not political ads.
That's cause of Divx. On another point....WHY ARE THE FRIGGIN CLIPS ZIPPED! Zipping a Divx file gets you practically nothing. IN fact it probably adds to the filesize.
That and the game companies buy into the Gamespy Fileplanet thingy that I REFUSE to sign up for just to look at game video clips! Did they not make enough money from Diablo, Warcraft and Starcraft to buy a decent webserver of their own??
35 is too low. 50 percent is more like it. Especially when you have a big production printer in the room. If it's two low, you get static. If it's too high, then you have the paper curling around rollers and stuff. Computers and printers should be around 50. 50 cuts risk of static and problems with paper curling.
Look it won't be easy, but it's not as hard as you'd think. Not like it would be trying to wire 65,000 CPU's on one MB! Hardest thing is the networking (latency and all of that.).
If your web site is like where I store mine, you actually have to be on their network to change the password. So, except for someone munging my site (sheyeah, like I CARE), it does not matter to me, although moving to MT and a webhosting service is something I have been contemplating for a while. I looked at slash and I won't even begin to try and understand it. I have too many OTHER things to do with my life which is why I used Blogger. Also if something is so important to you that you run around changing your password for your web site just because someone might have it, then why do you have the stuff on the web in the first place? Even if they did do something, you can most likely call your provider and get the password reset and then ftp all of your stuff back up. You DID save your site on your hard disk didn't you???
Getting Linux to work on a machine with 65K processors is going to take considerable work, right now I think Linux's sweet-spot is 8 processors.
This IS NOT SMP!!!! This is Super Parallel Beowulf processing. Beowulf Linux already runs on LOTS of Super Computers. It will be a trivial thing for IBM to get this working on that many processors because it's more like a 65,000 node super computer.
YEAH! :P Heh heh. I admin AIX and it is the best UNIX I have ever worked with. You can do everything from the command line, thru smit, or for the really bad off WSM. SMIT, while it's a CURSES based (Does IBM use NCURSES??) admin tool, you can do almost everything from it. Because you usually buy hardware from IBM, everything just works, or you have diagnostic info to tell you it isn't working including LED codes that tell you why you won't boot (Corrupted BLV, JFS Volume, Bad superblocks....it's all there). In any case, AIX is here to stay and just because IBM chooses to use Linux on their super computer means nothing. It may mean that the government wanted Linux because with THAT many nodes, your AIX support bill would be outrageous! :) That and it maybe the Beowulf stuff just works better then the AIX SP stuff. I wonder if this is using the new Power4 blade servers?