The difference is you watch a truckload of commercials in the hopes that maybe, just maybe you will buy Pirelli tires, Gerber baby food, a few cases of Bud, some Pepsi, Doritos, throw some Orville Redenbacher in the microwave, vote for LOCAL_POLITICIAN, replace the windows in your house, drink Florida orange juice, pick up the phone and call Binder & Binder, enroll in classes at Phoenix, get a couple Sham Wows for your friends, tune in for the BIG_STORY at 6 o'clock, stay at the HI Express tonight,... well, you probably get the idea by now.
I say, "Congratulations!" to this man. He'll be making a little more money than your average Part 135 Lear Jet captain east of the Mississippi. Now is a particularly bad time to be looking for work and it'd be nice to do something fun and get paid for it.
Exactly! I have had nothing but problems opening doc files. A recent 50-page doc sent to me clocked in at 84 pages when opened in OOo. Sometimes it's close, but never close enough. That's my biggest fear with switching to LO--is it likely to work, or is it dramatically improved?. Only the most ultra-basic doc files seem to have a chance. Now, don't get me started about saving in doc format. That's been an absolute dud every time for me. Images, watermarks, objects, it's all just a complete disaster unless the recipient can take a PDF (that is, assuming the recipient has no need to edit the document).
[disclaimer] I primarily deal with documents that are heavy on formatting and table usage with the occasional image spattered into the mix. [/disclaimer]
Then there's xls vs. ods. But that's another rant.
The fact is, almost nobody has standardized around ODF in any meaningful way in the (i.e. "my") workplace. The gold standard is MS Office. Cost is almost never a consideration for the company--but it is for folks like me who either can't afford or don't wish to discharge a bag of cash to get a fully-featured version of MS Office.
I don't believe it's quite the same thing, but this group has been working on a similar idea for a few years now. Only problem is I don't think the latter vehicle would be so splendid in the snowy North.
Just some clarifications... (and no, I'm not the AC)
...I submit to you that the angle from the ground to cockpit at that distance is probably in the 10 degree range.
I'm just being nit-picky. I looked up KSEA's approaches. The glidepath (depending on the runway) varies from 2.75 degrees to 3.00 degrees. Not quite 10 degrees.
Many laser incidents, according to ASRS, have occured during the landing phase when the aircraft is "inside" the Final Approach Fix--generally less than five nautical miles from the runway threshold. This is typically a point where the aircraft is approximately 1,500 feet above ground traveling at approximately 130 to 150 knots. Y'all are smart, you can figure out the MPH. It's only a matter of moments before ground contact if directional control is compromised.
...maintain contact with the runway lighting system...
Well, sort of. 14 CFR 91.175 gives the instrument-rated pilot a laundry list of options, but to over-simplify it, if you can't see something that defines the runway, you can't land there.
Remember we are in the plane with you, and we have just as much interest in going home to our families as you do.
I've used that same response when asked, "Where are the parachutes?" by our most skittish infrequent fliers.
Oh, I didn't read them all, but I didn't notice a report of a red laser in the cockpit. The majority of them are reported as being green.
Now, on a personal note, I have never seen a laser cross my cockpit. However, I have been struck by lightning twice (each time during the day) and it is incredibly blinding if you happen to be looking straight at the discharge. I realize this is apples and oranges in terms of candlepower, but the point is that it is surprising, and it will "reset" your night vision if the intensity is enough to adjust the iris. I could easily see the flying pilot being forced to transfer control of the aircraft to the non-flying pilot--a potentially reportable incident to the NTSB.
One of my previous employers (large insurance company) would have completely flipped if I were to even suggest using my own equipment for their work. I was once called into the Director's office for simply changing the background on my workstation.
My current employer (aviation co.) actively endorses the idea. We just don't have the budget or staff (we recently dumped our in-house IT and it's primarily outsourced 9 to 5--even though we're a 24-hour operation--what a f****n' headache!--got a problem at 2am, call back at 9am to get it fixed). They also seem indifferent about the ramifications of all of us mixing equipment. For example, one of the first changes they made was to foist a web application on us that required the use of IE (think ActiveX). We complained, and complained until they (reluctantly) fixed it to work with Chromafarifox.
Marketing-speak to English translation: The market is full of highly experienced and expensive talent. We're looking for cheap talent, and nobody wants to work for what we're paying.
See also: Teacher Shortage; Pilot Shortage; Nurse Shortage; [________] Shortage.
True, "Year of our Lord" does not constitute "replete with references to God". That'd be a stretch. However, the U.S. Constitution wouldn't exist if the Declaration of Independence hadn't been successful. That document does mention God, and even more frightening, it mentions a "Creator" quite explicitly.
And, I'm just curious, how is it that there could be an Office of the Chaplain for the U.S. House of Representatives. I hope you didn't miss the Jummah (at the Capitol) or the Torah study (in the Senate Office building) this week. And what's worse, prayer has been a fixture of congress since the Continental Congress first gathered.
But if you aren't and you still do the "social networking" thing, what are you using?
My telephone. It's weird and antiquated, but it works fabulously.
For the record, I dumped Facebook about a month ago. Cold turkey. I basically figured out that:
People love drama.
I am apparently supposed to give a damn about where [you] ate last night.
and everyone loves a voyeur.
I had hidden so many people that I realized Facebook was worse than real life. Real life is like the school teacher who can send her kids home every night to their parents. Facebook is like being stuck in kindergarten 24/7.
... and I have no alternative but to take the crap that's available to my workplace.
I can only speak for myself. In the U.S. (Michigan, specifically), I've had the opportunity to accept or decline health coverage from all of my employers since I was first employed with such benefits since 1994.
One employer gave us a fixed sum each year to pay for all benefits. If anything was left, it showed up in my paycheck. If I wanted better coverage costing more than I was provided, it was deducted from my paycheck. My current employer does not do it this way, which makes me very sad.
So, about two years ago, I researched going out on my own with health/dental/vision coverage. To get the same level of coverage would cost much more than my employer+myself were paying, so I stuck with my employer-sponsored plan. Going on your own means you lose two thing (to varying degrees):
The tax incentive provided to employers only. (for a company it's a pre-tax deduction, for an individual, it's post-tax and may or may not be deductible depending on the percentage of health care costs vs. your income)
Group rates.
You can shop around for individual policies, but premiums are generally higher than what you could get through your employer, and the part that I really hate, health insurance premiums vary outrageously based on the state in which you reside.
It's going to be a multi-step program before I migrate fully to eBooks:
When I can [sit on, drop, bend, fill in the blank] a [Kindle, Nook, et alia] AND not break it into uselessness.
When I can physically write notes onto the page (not create some bookmark link that takes me to my notes).
When prices become sane. Paper book prices are already completely ludicrous as it is. Why pay even more premium for electrons?
I'll take two out of three. However, I can't see the paper book becoming any more obsolete by the eBook than the radio was by the television. My wife wants a Nook and I would love to read the WSJ on one of these things, but it's just not 'there' yet for me. Maybe I'm a slow adopter.
I ran across a website years ago where you could type in your plain text, e.g. "I mow the lawn every Thursday." and it would encrypt it to some other plain-language sentence or paragraph, e.g. "The merry-go-round is painted yellow with red stripes. Neighborhood children rake cans from the park."
Anybody know what this is called or where that website can be found?
Slashdot Mirror
The difference is you watch a truckload of commercials in the hopes that maybe, just maybe you will buy Pirelli tires, Gerber baby food, a few cases of Bud, some Pepsi, Doritos, throw some Orville Redenbacher in the microwave, vote for LOCAL_POLITICIAN, replace the windows in your house, drink Florida orange juice, pick up the phone and call Binder & Binder, enroll in classes at Phoenix, get a couple Sham Wows for your friends, tune in for the BIG_STORY at 6 o'clock, stay at the HI Express tonight, ... well, you probably get the idea by now.
I say, "Congratulations!" to this man. He'll be making a little more money than your average Part 135 Lear Jet captain east of the Mississippi. Now is a particularly bad time to be looking for work and it'd be nice to do something fun and get paid for it.
Actually, I like it. Feels clean.
It never dawned on me that my ^c, ^v problem was with Slashdot. Just thought it was a Chrome/Windows bug.
Exactly! I have had nothing but problems opening doc files. A recent 50-page doc sent to me clocked in at 84 pages when opened in OOo. Sometimes it's close, but never close enough. That's my biggest fear with switching to LO--is it likely to work, or is it dramatically improved?. Only the most ultra-basic doc files seem to have a chance. Now, don't get me started about saving in doc format. That's been an absolute dud every time for me. Images, watermarks, objects, it's all just a complete disaster unless the recipient can take a PDF (that is, assuming the recipient has no need to edit the document).
[disclaimer] I primarily deal with documents that are heavy on formatting and table usage with the occasional image spattered into the mix. [/disclaimer]
Then there's xls vs. ods. But that's another rant.
The fact is, almost nobody has standardized around ODF in any meaningful way in the (i.e. "my") workplace. The gold standard is MS Office. Cost is almost never a consideration for the company--but it is for folks like me who either can't afford or don't wish to discharge a bag of cash to get a fully-featured version of MS Office.
I don't believe it's quite the same thing, but this group has been working on a similar idea for a few years now. Only problem is I don't think the latter vehicle would be so splendid in the snowy North.
Just some clarifications... (and no, I'm not the AC)
...I submit to you that the angle from the ground to cockpit at that distance is probably in the 10 degree range.
I'm just being nit-picky. I looked up KSEA's approaches. The glidepath (depending on the runway) varies from 2.75 degrees to 3.00 degrees. Not quite 10 degrees.
Many laser incidents, according to ASRS, have occured during the landing phase when the aircraft is "inside" the Final Approach Fix--generally less than five nautical miles from the runway threshold. This is typically a point where the aircraft is approximately 1,500 feet above ground traveling at approximately 130 to 150 knots. Y'all are smart, you can figure out the MPH. It's only a matter of moments before ground contact if directional control is compromised.
...maintain contact with the runway lighting system...
Well, sort of. 14 CFR 91.175 gives the instrument-rated pilot a laundry list of options, but to over-simplify it, if you can't see something that defines the runway, you can't land there.
Remember we are in the plane with you, and we have just as much interest in going home to our families as you do.
I've used that same response when asked, "Where are the parachutes?" by our most skittish infrequent fliers.
Oh, I didn't read them all, but I didn't notice a report of a red laser in the cockpit. The majority of them are reported as being green.
Now, on a personal note, I have never seen a laser cross my cockpit. However, I have been struck by lightning twice (each time during the day) and it is incredibly blinding if you happen to be looking straight at the discharge. I realize this is apples and oranges in terms of candlepower, but the point is that it is surprising, and it will "reset" your night vision if the intensity is enough to adjust the iris. I could easily see the flying pilot being forced to transfer control of the aircraft to the non-flying pilot--a potentially reportable incident to the NTSB.
One of my previous employers (large insurance company) would have completely flipped if I were to even suggest using my own equipment for their work. I was once called into the Director's office for simply changing the background on my workstation.
My current employer (aviation co.) actively endorses the idea. We just don't have the budget or staff (we recently dumped our in-house IT and it's primarily outsourced 9 to 5--even though we're a 24-hour operation--what a f****n' headache!--got a problem at 2am, call back at 9am to get it fixed). They also seem indifferent about the ramifications of all of us mixing equipment. For example, one of the first changes they made was to foist a web application on us that required the use of IE (think ActiveX). We complained, and complained until they (reluctantly) fixed it to work with Chromafarifox.
"IT worker shortage"
Marketing-speak to English translation: The market is full of highly experienced and expensive talent. We're looking for cheap talent, and nobody wants to work for what we're paying.
See also: Teacher Shortage; Pilot Shortage; Nurse Shortage; [________] Shortage.
I was going to cast my vote for River Raid or Zaxxon.
True, "Year of our Lord" does not constitute "replete with references to God". That'd be a stretch. However, the U.S. Constitution wouldn't exist if the Declaration of Independence hadn't been successful. That document does mention God, and even more frightening, it mentions a "Creator" quite explicitly.
And, I'm just curious, how is it that there could be an Office of the Chaplain for the U.S. House of Representatives. I hope you didn't miss the Jummah (at the Capitol) or the Torah study (in the Senate Office building) this week. And what's worse, prayer has been a fixture of congress since the Continental Congress first gathered.
Tell 'em your neighbor's a devil worshiper, but is in such denial that (s)he is unable to admit it.
But if you aren't and you still do the "social networking" thing, what are you using?
My telephone. It's weird and antiquated, but it works fabulously.
For the record, I dumped Facebook about a month ago. Cold turkey. I basically figured out that:
I had hidden so many people that I realized Facebook was worse than real life. Real life is like the school teacher who can send her kids home every night to their parents. Facebook is like being stuck in kindergarten 24/7.
We know that silver does this. I've always wondered what gold would do.
If the sentient being is not a consumer. Does not the sentient being cease to be?
kudos to the person who will find them all and format to ext4 file system.
then encrypt it with TrueCrypt.
It seems schools are falling over themselves to find technical solutions to something that's been trivial to manage for years,
"Fix it 'til it's broke", that's how we do it.
Here's one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoNVCqUMW4A
Am I the only one who expected the final link of the summary to take me to video of the mishap and not some crap about the Ft. Hood shooting?
You must be from Detroit.
... and I have no alternative but to take the crap that's available to my workplace.
I can only speak for myself. In the U.S. (Michigan, specifically), I've had the opportunity to accept or decline health coverage from all of my employers since I was first employed with such benefits since 1994.
One employer gave us a fixed sum each year to pay for all benefits. If anything was left, it showed up in my paycheck. If I wanted better coverage costing more than I was provided, it was deducted from my paycheck. My current employer does not do it this way, which makes me very sad.
So, about two years ago, I researched going out on my own with health/dental/vision coverage. To get the same level of coverage would cost much more than my employer+myself were paying, so I stuck with my employer-sponsored plan. Going on your own means you lose two thing (to varying degrees):
You can shop around for individual policies, but premiums are generally higher than what you could get through your employer, and the part that I really hate, health insurance premiums vary outrageously based on the state in which you reside.
I say put out the fire and bill him $7500+. If he don't pay put a lien on the house and take the house.
Just noting from your link. I'm not sure a fire could be considered an improvement to the property.
It's going to be a multi-step program before I migrate fully to eBooks:
I'll take two out of three. However, I can't see the paper book becoming any more obsolete by the eBook than the radio was by the television. My wife wants a Nook and I would love to read the WSJ on one of these things, but it's just not 'there' yet for me. Maybe I'm a slow adopter.
I ran across a website years ago where you could type in your plain text, e.g. "I mow the lawn every Thursday." and it would encrypt it to some other plain-language sentence or paragraph, e.g. "The merry-go-round is painted yellow with red stripes. Neighborhood children rake cans from the park."
Anybody know what this is called or where that website can be found?
Things that seriously need to go away:
Anxiously awaiting the MST3K broadcast of this masterpiece.