They are, indeed, very compatible. Indros is probably a green-weenie and is clueless..... In the energy business, you have base demand or base loads; think of it as the amount of GW-hrs that the demand never drops below. Then you have peak demand which is base + spikes (hot summers, etc.). ALL grid-connected generating facilities have to modulate the power source to meet variances in grid demand: Coal, NG, Nuclear, whatever. Wind and Solar suck at this, because they have no command over their source of power (Sun and wind). Energy is going to be an AND solution, not an OR solution. Sorry greenies, get over yourselves and grow up.
How did I get nerfed down to "troll" with this post. This is fucked up. Check "Kentucky High Speed Fiber", if you think I am BS'ing.
Too many "pro-government" weenies mod'ing these boards.
Why are innovators always trashed. Good for him. Hope he blows everyone out of the water. But still, I thought game theory was like Monte Carlo simulations that run multiple simulations to determine the most likely outcome.... did he do that before the game and decide a new strat?
Trust me, I work in state government in technology.... if you even think for just a moment that broadband can be provided by the gov't: 1) less expensively and 2) at a reasonable quality and 3) without spying on your every web request or 4) trying to intervene and filter what you are able to do with that connection.... then you are a blind idiot and need to pipe-down.
I would much rather have Google spam me with targeted ads, rather than give the State Dept. of Homeland Security access to every query/web request/porn etc. etc.
This is what happens when you give a huge project to a large group of government employees whom are protected from censure or being sacked for non-performance. You can't fire people from federal agencies, it's nearly impossible. So you collect incompetent people.... and then you give them a critically important project that is responsible for insuring peoples healthcare. FAIL!
Bump Geerloos.
Most situations can be resolved in a win-win. There is a strong chance that these "managers" knew about the issue and hope you can resolve it, quietly without embarrassing them nor your predecessor. I recommend some conflict management techniques. Avoidance is not recommended. Document the facts and state the problem in terms of the business at-hand; avoid personalizing the problem, DO NOT reference your predecessors performance.... there is a relationship between management and this predecessor and those managers will shut you down, if you bash him.
Once you have clearly defined the problem, try to get the managers to work WITH YOU to brainstorm solutions or remedies. Ask them to HELP YOU develop a win-win for the situation.
If that fails, management doesn't want to partner with you on solving the problem and you probably do need to bail-out.
I am a GoDaddy customer and had a problem with my ex-partner: he tried to social engineer his way into grabbing control of our domains/email accounts, hosted by GoDaddy. Subsequently, I enabled a feature that GoDaddy offers. GoDaddy sends a text message that I must respond with. This extra factor is required for all changes, now. People should enable this feature, regardless of where you host your email. It makes it impossible to social engineer your way past a customer service rep.
Let me restate it. Apples-to-apples, you could take an MCTS 2 blocks from the capital and make 40% more. The Commonwealth hires people at slave wages, even for the low COL.
Technical salaries paid by the Commonwealth of Kentucky are approximately 40% below the regional market average. Perhaps the state senator should check with the state HR department.
You see, IT Managers don't plan anything and, when cautioned by the Project Manager to spend additional funds to plan the path and remove obstacles BEFORE starting work, they always opt to not spend that money; let's just start the work. Resulting in lost productivity, low morale, and cost-doubling rework. LOL
Good job construction morons, welcome to the world of elite IT Management theory.
The guys who published this "scientific work" must be off of there rocker. So all of the previous work that has found a strong correlation between solar activity and climate were flawed.... pull my other leg.
I have to say that this story has been recycled frequently, over the years. I appreciate Hartree's insight and think we should wait for some sound science before we rush to "do something!" (i.e. ban certain pesticides and leave millions of African children to die of malaria, for example).
This is "cold fusion" until someone, other than state-run media or a US federal hack, validates the data.
Now comes the "easy part", harnessing the energy and turning that energy into something compatible with the existing power grid. Certainly, another 20 years of government employment and $3.5B U.S to accomplish that... LOL
Hope I am wrong, call me cautiously optimistic.
The guy is a douche. But in my recent experience, I have only heard of people stuff ballot boxes (and the like) for left-leaning candidates (i.e. the recent convictions in Ohio, etc.).
Sometimes yes, sometimes no. I recommend hitting their hot-buttons to include the potential revelation of his/her salary or his/her spouses and childrens info. That may hit closer to home, no?
I absolutely disagree, in this particular situation. Normally, I am a libertarian of the finest sort. But, aggregation of your personal information without your initial and conscious consent will always be used for negative purposes; let's face it, there are a lot of people out there with a poor moral compass.
In this particular situation, you only have one company to hold accountable; Equifax. They could structure the regulation just like your Credit Report. Done.
I just wrote my congressman and senator.... feel free to copy and paste. This is so sick. Wait until the health information exchanges get installed, people will know your health history, social history..... I love the tech age, but this is one aspect of it that I can do without.
-M
Dear Mr./Mrs. Congressman/Senator:
I am writing to request urgent regulation of the following unregulated data collection and resale activity; at minimum grant US citizens the ability to opt-out....
A subsidiary of Equifax named "The Work Number" is gathering and reselling personal salary data.... right down to the paystub. This data can be purchased by just about anyone including debt collectors. This data also includes Uneployment Insurance information, which might dissuade an employer from offering employment to an otherwise qualified individual.
Please see this link for information: http://redtape.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/30/16762661-exclusive-your-employer-may-share-your-salary-and-equifax-might-sell-that-data
Please act on this soon. I don't feel that my salary information and paystub data should be resold, without my consent. This should be an opt-in program, but they have crept under the regulatory radar.
All the best,
[YOUR NAME HERE]
Agreed, don't bale them out and let the executives deal PERSONALLY and PROFESSIONALLY with the fallout.
This whole article is so idiotic that I can't even begin to comment. Stallman is a dim bulb; unless you are a Marxist in which case his logic seems sound.
I respect your well written opinion, but respectfully disagree with you on several points. We shouldn't waste our time on any of the bozo's on this forum. I recommend you write an Amicus Brief and put your ideas where they count.
As far as I am concern, the volcanic explosion of (failed) challenges to the PATRIOT act combined with Obama's subsequent support for the provisions therein are sufficient evidence of constitutionality. You may not LIKE it, but it passes the sniff test for them.
Agree with your assertion regarding SCOTUS, although we probably might not agree on what grounds to disagree;-)
You're an idiot. This power was given directly from congress and has been tested in the Supreme Court. Remember that congress re-authorized that pesky PATRIOT Act in 2006???? As Reagan said, "facts are stubborn things." But I know that most liberals can't be bothered with the facts, it gets in the way of blind ideology.
If you don't know what you're talking about, stay on the porch.
By the way, who does these "Insightful Rating" on the comments?? We need to fire them, too. What the hell kind of insight is "The US has devolved into a place where...." Bumper sticker comments get a 5??!!
My advice is to bury your bong in someone's backyard and go put your aluminum-foil hat on.... you never know when the FBI will start using mind control!
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They are, indeed, very compatible. Indros is probably a green-weenie and is clueless..... In the energy business, you have base demand or base loads; think of it as the amount of GW-hrs that the demand never drops below. Then you have peak demand which is base + spikes (hot summers, etc.). ALL grid-connected generating facilities have to modulate the power source to meet variances in grid demand: Coal, NG, Nuclear, whatever. Wind and Solar suck at this, because they have no command over their source of power (Sun and wind). Energy is going to be an AND solution, not an OR solution. Sorry greenies, get over yourselves and grow up.
How did I get nerfed down to "troll" with this post. This is fucked up. Check "Kentucky High Speed Fiber", if you think I am BS'ing. Too many "pro-government" weenies mod'ing these boards.
Why are innovators always trashed. Good for him. Hope he blows everyone out of the water. But still, I thought game theory was like Monte Carlo simulations that run multiple simulations to determine the most likely outcome.... did he do that before the game and decide a new strat?
Trust me, I work in state government in technology.... if you even think for just a moment that broadband can be provided by the gov't: 1) less expensively and 2) at a reasonable quality and 3) without spying on your every web request or 4) trying to intervene and filter what you are able to do with that connection.... then you are a blind idiot and need to pipe-down. I would much rather have Google spam me with targeted ads, rather than give the State Dept. of Homeland Security access to every query/web request/porn etc. etc.
This is what happens when you give a huge project to a large group of government employees whom are protected from censure or being sacked for non-performance. You can't fire people from federal agencies, it's nearly impossible. So you collect incompetent people.... and then you give them a critically important project that is responsible for insuring peoples healthcare. FAIL!
Bump Geerloos. Most situations can be resolved in a win-win. There is a strong chance that these "managers" knew about the issue and hope you can resolve it, quietly without embarrassing them nor your predecessor. I recommend some conflict management techniques. Avoidance is not recommended. Document the facts and state the problem in terms of the business at-hand; avoid personalizing the problem, DO NOT reference your predecessors performance.... there is a relationship between management and this predecessor and those managers will shut you down, if you bash him. Once you have clearly defined the problem, try to get the managers to work WITH YOU to brainstorm solutions or remedies. Ask them to HELP YOU develop a win-win for the situation. If that fails, management doesn't want to partner with you on solving the problem and you probably do need to bail-out.
For all of the mentally challenged, SMS is a mobile phone protocol, retards.
I am a GoDaddy customer and had a problem with my ex-partner: he tried to social engineer his way into grabbing control of our domains/email accounts, hosted by GoDaddy. Subsequently, I enabled a feature that GoDaddy offers. GoDaddy sends a text message that I must respond with. This extra factor is required for all changes, now. People should enable this feature, regardless of where you host your email. It makes it impossible to social engineer your way past a customer service rep.
Let me restate it. Apples-to-apples, you could take an MCTS 2 blocks from the capital and make 40% more. The Commonwealth hires people at slave wages, even for the low COL.
Technical salaries paid by the Commonwealth of Kentucky are approximately 40% below the regional market average. Perhaps the state senator should check with the state HR department.
Well said. Bump.
You see, IT Managers don't plan anything and, when cautioned by the Project Manager to spend additional funds to plan the path and remove obstacles BEFORE starting work, they always opt to not spend that money; let's just start the work. Resulting in lost productivity, low morale, and cost-doubling rework. LOL Good job construction morons, welcome to the world of elite IT Management theory.
The guys who published this "scientific work" must be off of there rocker. So all of the previous work that has found a strong correlation between solar activity and climate were flawed.... pull my other leg.
I have to say that this story has been recycled frequently, over the years. I appreciate Hartree's insight and think we should wait for some sound science before we rush to "do something!" (i.e. ban certain pesticides and leave millions of African children to die of malaria, for example).
This is "cold fusion" until someone, other than state-run media or a US federal hack, validates the data. Now comes the "easy part", harnessing the energy and turning that energy into something compatible with the existing power grid. Certainly, another 20 years of government employment and $3.5B U.S to accomplish that... LOL Hope I am wrong, call me cautiously optimistic.
The guy is a douche. But in my recent experience, I have only heard of people stuff ballot boxes (and the like) for left-leaning candidates (i.e. the recent convictions in Ohio, etc.).
Just Curious
Sexism is discrimination based on sex. These woman are highly paid models, professionals actually. Sex sells, it's a fact. Get over it.
For-realzies? Can't you use that brainpower to make the product more functional and fix bugs???
Sometimes yes, sometimes no. I recommend hitting their hot-buttons to include the potential revelation of his/her salary or his/her spouses and childrens info. That may hit closer to home, no?
I absolutely disagree, in this particular situation. Normally, I am a libertarian of the finest sort. But, aggregation of your personal information without your initial and conscious consent will always be used for negative purposes; let's face it, there are a lot of people out there with a poor moral compass. In this particular situation, you only have one company to hold accountable; Equifax. They could structure the regulation just like your Credit Report. Done.
I just wrote my congressman and senator.... feel free to copy and paste. This is so sick. Wait until the health information exchanges get installed, people will know your health history, social history..... I love the tech age, but this is one aspect of it that I can do without. -M Dear Mr./Mrs. Congressman/Senator: I am writing to request urgent regulation of the following unregulated data collection and resale activity; at minimum grant US citizens the ability to opt-out.... A subsidiary of Equifax named "The Work Number" is gathering and reselling personal salary data.... right down to the paystub. This data can be purchased by just about anyone including debt collectors. This data also includes Uneployment Insurance information, which might dissuade an employer from offering employment to an otherwise qualified individual. Please see this link for information: http://redtape.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/30/16762661-exclusive-your-employer-may-share-your-salary-and-equifax-might-sell-that-data Please act on this soon. I don't feel that my salary information and paystub data should be resold, without my consent. This should be an opt-in program, but they have crept under the regulatory radar. All the best, [YOUR NAME HERE]
Agreed, don't bale them out and let the executives deal PERSONALLY and PROFESSIONALLY with the fallout. This whole article is so idiotic that I can't even begin to comment. Stallman is a dim bulb; unless you are a Marxist in which case his logic seems sound.
I respect your well written opinion, but respectfully disagree with you on several points. We shouldn't waste our time on any of the bozo's on this forum. I recommend you write an Amicus Brief and put your ideas where they count.
;-)
As far as I am concern, the volcanic explosion of (failed) challenges to the PATRIOT act combined with Obama's subsequent support for the provisions therein are sufficient evidence of constitutionality. You may not LIKE it, but it passes the sniff test for them.
Agree with your assertion regarding SCOTUS, although we probably might not agree on what grounds to disagree
You're an idiot. This power was given directly from congress and has been tested in the Supreme Court. Remember that congress re-authorized that pesky PATRIOT Act in 2006???? As Reagan said, "facts are stubborn things." But I know that most liberals can't be bothered with the facts, it gets in the way of blind ideology.
If you don't know what you're talking about, stay on the porch.
By the way, who does these "Insightful Rating" on the comments?? We need to fire them, too. What the hell kind of insight is "The US has devolved into a place where...." Bumper sticker comments get a 5??!!
My advice is to bury your bong in someone's backyard and go put your aluminum-foil hat on.... you never know when the FBI will start using mind control!