Would I like to make double what I am making? Sure, but I would NOT be willing to put in double the work.
Not for these fuckers, anyway.
Were I to strike out on my own, I don't think I'd mind all the extra hours, but it's easy to see things differently when you're your own boss.
Load balanced or mirrored systems. You can upgrade part of it any time, validate it, then swap it over to the live system when you are happy.
Having someone with little or no sleep doing critical updates is not really the best strategy.
Oh my $deity, this!
I've worked in environments with test-to-live setups, and ones without, and the former is always, always a smoother running system than the latter.
Or you can just work 16hour days like the rest of us and wear it with a badge of honor.
IMO, there is no honor in working more hours than you're actually being paid to work. Not only are you hurting yourself, you're keeping someone else from being able to take that job.
If you've got 80 hours worth of work to do at your company, and one guy with a 40-hour-a-week contract, you need to hire another person, not convince the existing guy that he should be proud to be enslaved. Morally speaking.
This guy probably is the tech but is wanting to spend more time with his family or something.
Probably settled down too fast and can't get a better job now. My advice: don't settle down and quit using your wife and children as excuses for your career failures because they'll grow to hate you for it.
OR, if you want to have a family life, don't take a job that requires you to do stuff that's not family-life-oriented.
That's the route I've taken - no on-call phone, no midnight maintenance, no work-80-hours-get-paid-for-40 bullshit. Pay doesn't seem that great, until you factor in the wage dilution of those guys working more hours than they get paid for. Turns out, hour-for-hour I make just as much as a lot of the managers around here, and don't have to deal with half the crap they do.
The rivers sure have been nice this year... and the barbecues, the lazy evenings relaxing on the porch, the weekends to myself... yea. I dig it.
No PCI slots.
Ah. Makes sense.
Yeah, which good sound card to get for Windows and Linux for gaming, music, HTPC, etc.
I'd let Amazon's peer-review system answer that; as I said, I don't have a lot of personal experience with USB sound cards that aren't geared towards pro audio.
They need to ask permission because the FAA specifically banned such behavior last month.
Gone are the days, when pursuit of happiness was understood as a natural right granted to each human being not by their government, but by the Creator.
And if my pursuit of happiness involves not having some noisy-ass quadcopter fly 50 feet over my house every time the neighbor orders a new bauble?
You forget, that whole "pursuit of happiness" meme has to be reconciled with the concept of, "unless it infringes other's right to the same."
No problem! Assuming you have an open PCI 1x slot, you may want to consider looking into a sound card that fits it; prices are comparable to some of the higher-end USB units, and you get much better latency.
Well, if you think about stuff like latency inherent in the protocol, that does make sense. It's not that "USB is bad for gaming," it's that USB isn't as good as onboard or PCI-based sound, because of the increased latency and, in many instances, cheapness of the hardware - those $10 sound card dongles aren't known for high production quality.
If you're wanting to play games in 7.1 surround sound, a USB dongle likely won't cut it, but if all you care about is hearing what's going on in-game, many of them would provide satisfactory, but not necessarily exemplary, service.
Maggie made sure you guy's contribute less than the others and you are still moaning.
Less than France and Germany, perhaps. Oh no, we're only in the top fucking three. Quick, lets celebrate this senseless waste of several billion pounds.
If Britain has so many shortcomings then it'll be no loss to the EU when we leave.
One must ask, what good is news that filters?
And to understand the answer, one must consider the vantage point from which those who filter the news are viewing the world.
It's up there.
Less-than-poetic version:
Dude, think about who is doing the filtering - people with power. Once you realize that, it's easy to see what "good" they feel will come from the practice - keeping the proles fat, blind, and complacent.
Lol, good point. Also worth asking if the plug is fully seated, I've made that mistake once or twice myself.
If you're not concerned about pro-level audio equipment (ie, just want something with decent sound), I'd recommend going to a site like Amazon, searching for 'usb sound card," and reading the reviews.
Personally I don't know much about the non-pro-audio stuff, as I don't ever buy or use it.
Extra gdp growth? You can get that through trade agreements. You can continue to participate in the European economy without needing to be part of the EU. You just get to avoid the insanely expensive unaccountable bureaucracy.
My old, circa 2008 Gateway machine wouldn't let me record the audio stream (aka, "What You Hear") with the onboard audio, had to install a discrete card to get that capability.
That's about the only useful thing I've done with a PCI sound card in the past decade.
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
