A tip for users of ResellerRatings, be sure to search the forums as well. They apparently confirm every post against the actual invoice number with the vendor so if you run across something that is obviously a scam from the get-go and you don't order anything you also can't warn other people away!

PAM is your friend!

And have a badly implemented network for their trouble. Windows has a ton of stuff defaulted wrong out of the box. You can get away with it in a some little ten-person shop maybe, but not in the real world...

Notes?!? You have got to be kidding...

It's also not that complicated, just submerge a big old titanium heat exchanger out in the water and let convection do its thing. On the hot side you run distilled water, glycol, or whatever's the latest "green" fluid.

Iridum is a good start. But take that, a generic WIFI card, whatever 3G service you like, and heck, anything else you can think of, and glue it all together with pfSense. Only time you'll have trouble is if you're actually in motion and have a secure connection established (e.g. VPN or SSL), and you lose the active connection, the other end will see you on a different IP and you'll have to re-authenticate. (Oh, did I mention that pfSense is awesome? :)

> You call 1% rare?
Yes

ROFL! Mod parent up! :)

Just because Siebel hasn't been able to change with the times does NOT mean that there is any less opportunity. If anything quite the opposite is the case, (and I speak from 20+ years experience in the industry).

True enough, but this quote: "Quality journalism is not cheap, and an industry that gives away its content is simply cannibalizing its ability to produce good reporting." is there, and it portrays his ignorance as much as anything. The margins have been in advertising for decades now.

"Uhhhhh....I thought that the whole point of XP Mode [wincert.net] on Win 7 was to fix problems like that?"
Wow! That's my laugh for the day! :):):)

Eh, beat me to it! And there have been incremental increases in efficiency across a whole range of cell technologies on a regular basis, including the use of quantum wells, (and other quantum effects), in other materials. In fact, the only reason it's even possible to insinuate any big hoopla about GaAs cells is that they've been around so long a lot of experimenters have stopped trying to improve them. Badly worded article/summary for sure...

I should clarify a little - don't take that to mean it's okay to be pretentious, and yes, sometimes you do have to talk down to somebody else's level. (In fact, depending on your level of native intelligence, you may have to do that pretty much all day, every day!) But the take-away is to start "normal", (high), and only fall back if you have to. I've known more than a few people who worked very menial, boring jobs suggesting an IQ in the mid double digits but who were in fact highly intelligent and would not appreciate being condescended to. Their choice of work and mode of life is simply due to having a different set of priorities.

Don't worry about the speech thing. As long as you don't talk like a robot it's a good initial filter for intelligence when first meeting someone.

Actually, there is one church that geeks fit into pretty well. It's the Unitarian Universalists. I'll just say they started in Transylvania and let you Google the rest. :) One bit of additional info, which you may not find online, they are a truly democratic church and each congregation very much sets the tone. I.e. if you have several of them in your area you'll probably want to try them all out and see which one fits best.