Due to national security, servers will be divided into those that hosted classified materials, and those that did not. Those that contained classified materials will be labeled as Securely Ensure Nonrecoverable Destruction To Ostensibly Completely Hinder Internationally Notorious Agents, but that's a bit long, so really they will be labeled with the acronym SENDTOCHINA. They will be melted down locally and then sold for scrap. Those that do not contain classified materials will be sold to China to help ease their demand for computing resources that they already build. These will be labeled Mutually Economic Lateral Trade. That too is a bit long, so the systems that should be sold to China will be labeled MELT.
I can't wait to sell information proving the Representative's marital indiscretions with a tranny hooker in Atlanta last week and the shocking results of his HIV test to the Soviets. Also, why did he go to that fringe social networking site for people who like to be slapped silly and have warm, greasy motorcycle chains stuffed down their pants? It's not like he was just curious, because he hits it every day for hours on end, chats with some guy named "Vinnie", who if his public profile is to be believed, lives near DC.
On a more realistic note, there will be more "accidental disclosures", wikileaks and lulzsec style. At least this means half of congress will have to resign in shame once their misdeeds are made public.
Computers are perfectly capable of calculating it all, but somebody still has to key in what the tax rate is on each item. You know, where prepared meals from the deli are taxed at 11%, while prepackaged items, even if cooked in the deli, whether on a warmer or not, are taxed at the base rate of 7% unless it is fried, in which case the city has an additional 2% tax on that only when kept under a heat lamp. Then there's the annual tax-free days to take into account. Don't forget the 1.5% additional tax on soft drinks, candies and chocolate, except for baking chocolate. Beer and light wine are taxed at one rate while cooking wines are at another rate. Then mix in what items are eligible for tax exemption, and that it may be different based on package size or some other arbitrary definition, and that sometimes the local taxes don't have the same exemptions as the state tax exemption, unless paid with food stamps, and hey, what do you mean the manager had a nervous break down?
Then again, maybe you live in a sane jurisdiction.
Talk to the manager of a grocery store to see what they think about sales tax rules. It is a heinous burden to force that on a single store located in a single locale. Now multiply that by the number of cities and counties in the US. There is no way any company could ever comply with that in any reasonable manner.
Everyone is already abandoning the blackberry platform. Why spend over $1000 per user per year for the phones and BES when you can achieve just as much control using other technologies on other platforms with less effort and half the cost?
Yeah, like my HP/Agilent 54111D. Geez, what a sluggish beast. Oh wait, it was made 22 years ago and meets 99.917% of my needs./love that thing, even though it needs some work//x-y plot sucks for audio
Over the past ten years the price of a decent machine went from a few thousand dollars to a few hundred dollars. Those line-in jacks aren't cheap, so when looking for an easy way to cut costs they're going to drop the stuff 99.9% of the population doesn't need.
I found a need for a line-in and went searching. Came across the m-audio fast track. It costs $99 and comes with the stripped down pro-tools m-powered essentials, which is good enough unless you're doing something that needs more than like 16 tracks. The hardware is required for pro-tools to run, but the hardware will work with any other audio software that doesn't tie the software to the hardware, i.e. every other DAW software on the market. The nice thing is that they have it at Best Buy, so you can even get it locally for the immediate impulse buy. There are other options in the avid family, such as the digidesign mbox2 devices that are a little more expensive, but come with pro-tools le, which is a step up from m-powered. For about $2000 to $2500 you can get one of the 003 devices. Then there's the entire universe of non-pro-tools-oriented stuff which costs less and probably has better audio quality but isn't nearly as fun or well integrated.
Sweetwater, Guitar Center and your local musical instrument and pro-audio store are your best friends. Go there and talk to someone. I had a problem where I was sure a magical $499.95 box was the right move. The sound guy at the local Guitar Center set me straight with the $8 solution. Really, go talk to an audio geek. They can teach you more in a minute hands-on than Ask Slashdot ever could, even if it were loaded with real audio geeks.
note the difference: Audio geeks know what they're talking about because they deal with professional audio equipment and would rather be called engineers or salesmen or something. Audiophiles masturbate to $800 electron-spin directionally optimized bullshit cables. Do not confuse the two. The pro will tell you your $5000 idea is dumb and all you really need is a $12 device and won't let you buy the $5000 device, even though they're the salesguy and make a commission. An audiophile doesn't do audio for a living, has too much money on their hands, and is now masturbating to the newly announced $3100 replacement for their $800 electron-spin directionally optimized bullshit cables.
At a small company, it shouldn't be difficult to keep your boss informed unless he's rarely around or isolates himself using The Hierarchy. If you have a difficult time showing you're worth your salary, just work a little harder and make note of what you do. Weekly, or even daily, send a report of what you've accomplished. Better yet, fire off emails as requests and jobs are completed.
Where I work, we are broken down into departments, even if there's only one of us in the department or we're responsible for several departments. Requests don't go to an individual, they're sent to that department. As such, emails aren't sent to employee@workplace.example, they go to department@workplace.example. It can get silly at times when firing off an email from one department to another even though you're in the target department and will also handle the work sent to that department.
No matter what, document the work and the work flow. It will come in handy should your company grow to the point that you need help in your deparment, or if that other department where you're also the sole employee needs to have someone else dedicated to the job. It will come in handy when you need to train your replacement when you get ready to move elsewhere.
And another hint: Document common problems and the procedures to correct those problems. If there are others around the office that are competent, you can give them enough access to fix these problems should you be away on vacation. There's nothing worse than being bothered 15 minutes into your first vacation in two years with a minor issue that a trained monkey can handle. Better yet, automate as much as possible so even that won't be necessary most of the time.
Psychotropic drugs are a start. Nine out of ten systems administrators are prescribed at least one psychotropic drug. The other 10% either quit, smoke tons of pot, use various other illicit drugs, or commit suicide. Sorry to break the news to you.
Cell phone cameras help catch criminals. By forcing the cameras to emit a noise, this will alert the criminals to the presence of the witness putting the witness at risk of murder or worse. Please, fight this law to help the police catch criminals.
Do cashiers and bank tellers pilfer from their tills? Rarely. Those that do lose their jobs. Most of the general population is generally honest and of good character.
I don't snoop. Truth be told, I don't really care about anyone or what they're doing. Besides, most sysadmins are lazy. Good sysadmins do their best to automate as much as possible so they have to do as little as possible. Do you seriously think we want to create more work for ourselves?
To make a language successful, it must be "good enough" for its purpose to attract developers, and promoted enough so that management types will actually allow the language to be used.
You wouldn't give a calculator to 6 year old kids learning math, would you?
That's why my sister decided to pull her kids out of public school and give homeschooling a shot. They were teaching first graders how to do basic arithmetic with calculators.
What about my bandwidth and my time? Neither are free. Either switch to unobtrusive ads, or go to a subscription model. Project Wonderful and Google AdWords have been working quite well. How did they do it? They went back to old-school models of web advertising.
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Due to national security, servers will be divided into those that hosted classified materials, and those that did not. Those that contained classified materials will be labeled as Securely Ensure Nonrecoverable Destruction To Ostensibly Completely Hinder Internationally Notorious Agents, but that's a bit long, so really they will be labeled with the acronym SENDTOCHINA. They will be melted down locally and then sold for scrap. Those that do not contain classified materials will be sold to China to help ease their demand for computing resources that they already build. These will be labeled Mutually Economic Lateral Trade. That too is a bit long, so the systems that should be sold to China will be labeled MELT.
I can't wait to sell information proving the Representative's marital indiscretions with a tranny hooker in Atlanta last week and the shocking results of his HIV test to the Soviets. Also, why did he go to that fringe social networking site for people who like to be slapped silly and have warm, greasy motorcycle chains stuffed down their pants? It's not like he was just curious, because he hits it every day for hours on end, chats with some guy named "Vinnie", who if his public profile is to be believed, lives near DC.
On a more realistic note, there will be more "accidental disclosures", wikileaks and lulzsec style. At least this means half of congress will have to resign in shame once their misdeeds are made public.
Computers are perfectly capable of calculating it all, but somebody still has to key in what the tax rate is on each item. You know, where prepared meals from the deli are taxed at 11%, while prepackaged items, even if cooked in the deli, whether on a warmer or not, are taxed at the base rate of 7% unless it is fried, in which case the city has an additional 2% tax on that only when kept under a heat lamp. Then there's the annual tax-free days to take into account. Don't forget the 1.5% additional tax on soft drinks, candies and chocolate, except for baking chocolate. Beer and light wine are taxed at one rate while cooking wines are at another rate. Then mix in what items are eligible for tax exemption, and that it may be different based on package size or some other arbitrary definition, and that sometimes the local taxes don't have the same exemptions as the state tax exemption, unless paid with food stamps, and hey, what do you mean the manager had a nervous break down?
Then again, maybe you live in a sane jurisdiction.
Talk to the manager of a grocery store to see what they think about sales tax rules. It is a heinous burden to force that on a single store located in a single locale. Now multiply that by the number of cities and counties in the US. There is no way any company could ever comply with that in any reasonable manner.
Everyone is already abandoning the blackberry platform. Why spend over $1000 per user per year for the phones and BES when you can achieve just as much control using other technologies on other platforms with less effort and half the cost?
That would be too simple, use standards, and actually make sense. That has no place in ask slashdot.
The problem with dvd sales is that Syfy generally doesn't make any money off that. They're just a distribution channel.
Will these be available for Christmas this year, or next year?
Yeah, like my HP/Agilent 54111D. Geez, what a sluggish beast. Oh wait, it was made 22 years ago and meets 99.917% of my needs. /love that thing, even though it needs some work //x-y plot sucks for audio
Just because it's not secret doesn't mean it's not valuable and just because it's not valuable doesn't mean it's not secret.
If you can't decide on the tattoo you want on your own, without any outside help, you do not need this tattoo.
Over the past ten years the price of a decent machine went from a few thousand dollars to a few hundred dollars. Those line-in jacks aren't cheap, so when looking for an easy way to cut costs they're going to drop the stuff 99.9% of the population doesn't need.
I found a need for a line-in and went searching. Came across the m-audio fast track. It costs $99 and comes with the stripped down pro-tools m-powered essentials, which is good enough unless you're doing something that needs more than like 16 tracks. The hardware is required for pro-tools to run, but the hardware will work with any other audio software that doesn't tie the software to the hardware, i.e. every other DAW software on the market. The nice thing is that they have it at Best Buy, so you can even get it locally for the immediate impulse buy. There are other options in the avid family, such as the digidesign mbox2 devices that are a little more expensive, but come with pro-tools le, which is a step up from m-powered. For about $2000 to $2500 you can get one of the 003 devices. Then there's the entire universe of non-pro-tools-oriented stuff which costs less and probably has better audio quality but isn't nearly as fun or well integrated.
Sweetwater, Guitar Center and your local musical instrument and pro-audio store are your best friends. Go there and talk to someone. I had a problem where I was sure a magical $499.95 box was the right move. The sound guy at the local Guitar Center set me straight with the $8 solution. Really, go talk to an audio geek. They can teach you more in a minute hands-on than Ask Slashdot ever could, even if it were loaded with real audio geeks.
note the difference: Audio geeks know what they're talking about because they deal with professional audio equipment and would rather be called engineers or salesmen or something. Audiophiles masturbate to $800 electron-spin directionally optimized bullshit cables. Do not confuse the two. The pro will tell you your $5000 idea is dumb and all you really need is a $12 device and won't let you buy the $5000 device, even though they're the salesguy and make a commission. An audiophile doesn't do audio for a living, has too much money on their hands, and is now masturbating to the newly announced $3100 replacement for their $800 electron-spin directionally optimized bullshit cables.
You're confusing prison terms with "debt to society".
At a small company, it shouldn't be difficult to keep your boss informed unless he's rarely around or isolates himself using The Hierarchy. If you have a difficult time showing you're worth your salary, just work a little harder and make note of what you do. Weekly, or even daily, send a report of what you've accomplished. Better yet, fire off emails as requests and jobs are completed.
Where I work, we are broken down into departments, even if there's only one of us in the department or we're responsible for several departments. Requests don't go to an individual, they're sent to that department. As such, emails aren't sent to employee@workplace.example, they go to department@workplace.example. It can get silly at times when firing off an email from one department to another even though you're in the target department and will also handle the work sent to that department.
No matter what, document the work and the work flow. It will come in handy should your company grow to the point that you need help in your deparment, or if that other department where you're also the sole employee needs to have someone else dedicated to the job. It will come in handy when you need to train your replacement when you get ready to move elsewhere.
And another hint: Document common problems and the procedures to correct those problems. If there are others around the office that are competent, you can give them enough access to fix these problems should you be away on vacation. There's nothing worse than being bothered 15 minutes into your first vacation in two years with a minor issue that a trained monkey can handle. Better yet, automate as much as possible so even that won't be necessary most of the time.
Psychotropic drugs are a start. Nine out of ten systems administrators are prescribed at least one psychotropic drug. The other 10% either quit, smoke tons of pot, use various other illicit drugs, or commit suicide. Sorry to break the news to you.
Mississippi was the first state to have every classroom wired for internet access.
The S/38 and AS/400 have done this since like 1980 in COMMERCIALLY PRODUCED systems.
Cell phone cameras help catch criminals. By forcing the cameras to emit a noise, this will alert the criminals to the presence of the witness putting the witness at risk of murder or worse. Please, fight this law to help the police catch criminals.
I'd love to hear Mark Crispin's comments on this.
Do cashiers and bank tellers pilfer from their tills? Rarely. Those that do lose their jobs. Most of the general population is generally honest and of good character.
I don't snoop. Truth be told, I don't really care about anyone or what they're doing. Besides, most sysadmins are lazy. Good sysadmins do their best to automate as much as possible so they have to do as little as possible. Do you seriously think we want to create more work for ourselves?
To make a language successful, it must be "good enough" for its purpose to attract developers, and promoted enough so that management types will actually allow the language to be used.
Several of my friends did construction for a while. A year later they were back in IT. They say the change was great.
What about my bandwidth and my time? Neither are free. Either switch to unobtrusive ads, or go to a subscription model. Project Wonderful and Google AdWords have been working quite well. How did they do it? They went back to old-school models of web advertising.