The fun part is, I have a hotmail account which I use for "risky sign-ups". Despite of years of use as "catch-all" address it only gets one kind of spam - cyrillic. I wish I could reply and tell them I can't read that, please send in English so I can do something about my inequities.
One other aspect that gets overlooked is that not all science (probably not even the majority of it)is done in an academic setting. And in an industrial environment, your choices are typically much more limited in what you can use. I can justify spending 2 days on writing an excel macro/script to do my analysis. I spend just as long justifying why I need the $2500 license of Mathematica, or need to learn a new language, or why I want to present my data in a latex format instead of having my secretary type it up in word. But the licensing issue is probably the biggest, nothing is more time consuming than tracking licenses for software scientists use. Telling a scientist or engineer that the license does not allow him to put it on any machine he remotely might use it on in the next decade is usually treated like the suggestion to perform an anatomically impossible act.
Funny, I thought our hiring practices were mainly aimed at NOT being sued. You are relatively safe tossing any resume with potential for trouble out at the "whom do we interview" stage for insufficient information. Which is why I said you need to make sure your resume has all the i's dotted and the t's crossed.
Actually this proves you have no clue yourself. If your local bank that holds your cash goes under, you might be insured. But - you won't see your money for a year. And the payment to your credit card company that was scheduled didn't go out, hitting your with late fees. Ditto with the payment for your mortgage, your utilities and your phone. Suddenly your credit report makes Dresden look like a minor remodeling job. You can only hope that you can stop your payroll from sending your next paycheck to that account too, so you at least have some play money.
Isn't this a fairly standard design practice? How did this happen?
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The background story to all this is highly fascinating - there are a series of companies of everchanging names involved, that first wrote the software, then sold it to a gambling company, that then got taken over, and somehow always the same names show up. This backdoor was probably planted long ago for just the purpose it ended up being used.
As for "oversight", the gambling commission oversees one major operation - the online poker sites. Which also pays their bills.
well, when I hire I make very sure there are ZERO holes in your resume. If there are gaps with no explanation whatsoever (even traveled to Bali for 2 years is better, so I might insist on a drug test) you're not going to make the first interview.
Don't forget, there are a lot of questions the interviewer cannot ask without opening a big quagmire with legal, from "are you pregnant" to "do you have military obligations", so having gaps will raise more of a flag than anything else.
As for the "first line call center", make it look positive. You're a people person, you like to offer people quality service, but you want to get back into the real field because your feel like your skills might be eroding. So, now you have mentioned what the interviewer might be afraid off, but now he knows you are aware of it and are willing to catch up.
well, he could apply to any of the other 49 state's bar, and, if admitted, pass the bar exam there. He can also become legal adviser to anyone who'd like to hire him. It's not like the disbarment invalidates his legal degree, all it does make it impossible to act as an officer of the court in Florida. He might even become a judge in a jurisdiction that doesn't require bar membership to stand for office.
only if MediaSentry would distribute with attached copy right notice;)
Joke aside, the issue is if "acting on behalf of the copyright holder" makes anything they do non-infringing. So giving them explicit distribution rights makes that hurdle even higher for the RIAA. Plus it's always hard to get a jury to find for you if you so obviously trapped.
The question is most likely one of uninstalls. If the DRM installs with the game, and goes away with the game, they are probably safe. If the DRM becomes uninstaller resistant and just goes into hiding, it fits the definition of malware, requiring separate, informed consent to installation.
I love your way of getting around using the appropriate four letter description:)
My question is, for matter in our reference frame the "can't transmit information faster than light" is of course fundamental. But for a massive stationary object past our horizon (which our current model says we can't have) it is not impossible to have an observable effect. From my understanding, if those galaxy clusters are moving with c/2 in one direction and we are moving with c/2 the other way, the galaxy clusters are at our horizon (total speed of separation c). But while they are approaching the outside object fast, gravitational pull would be faster, and we could see the measured trajectories.
You mean it would be just like dark energy and dark mass, something we cannot see but whose effect we observe? And which make our hadron based laws of physics look like a steaming pile of horse apples?
Google "NASA shuts down mars rover", it gives you 23,000 hits. Sorry I didn't link them all for you.
Secondly, it wasn't MY claim that the shut down was for a better rover, the MSL program is already winding down, as usual when a project is shortly before launch.
Thirdly, leave my tin foil hats alone, they have no influence whatsoever on my pronunciation.
Absolutely correct. If I make the major investment into an Exchange server, + Outlook CALs, I'd like to get some use of the features like automatic meeting scheduling. And that requires that people actually use Outlook, and the best way to encourage that is to make email Outlook only.
While I use Thunderbird for my private email, Outlook/Exchange as a productivity tool is very hard to beat if you are herding cats, or worse, manage scientist and engineers.
Actually the term is "business man". And no, people from Lockheed Martin have never send me mail from their home accounts. They all use their business accounts.
There are actually classes you can take in "helping you to stop wasting time". And separating the tire kickers from the players is a major part of that. It's the same as for all the spam you dispose off, you have to set criteria that allow you to quickly decide what's a worthwhile use of your time and what's not. People inquiring about multi-million dollar technology from a gmail or yahoo account are, from my experience, not a good use. Your mileage might vary.
Nothing to do with stuck up. I get about 20 requests for information per week from people "who found our company on the web and want to know more about our xyz technology". If the request comes from a generic mail provider, it gets the generic reply package. If it comes from a @webuybigthings.com address it gets a custom reply, the right attachments and a follow up.
First option, 1 min, second option 10 min. Cost first option, $2, second option $20. Since the split is about 5:1, that's savings of over $100 in my time every week.
I can see how that will work well:
"we need the change the bios update procedure. Where it says: "click on bios update, click yes, click yes, really, come back in 2 min" we need:
"get on your knees, pull out computer from under desk get screw driver, take off cover, remove dust find flashlight and small needle nose pliers, locate jumper take out graphic card to access jumper hiding under oversized heatsink, move jumper, reinsert graphic card boot, click on bios update, click yes, click yes, really, come back in 2 min take out graphic card to access jumper again, move jumper back, reinsert graphic card put cover back on, move computer back in place, continue work"
"don't you think we need instructions on where to pull the power cord and to disconnect the monitor cable too?"
This is a suicide mission, NASA wanted to shut down the rovers years ago, and the public outcry repeatedly stopped it. Now, if the rover goes on a 2 year drive and dies, what a poor little heroic guy, finally succumbed to the elements.
And NASA gets to free all the funds to build newer and bigger and better and... Don't forget, these are the guys that canceled the last Apollo missions for the fuel bill; they already had the rockets, trained astronauts and everything else in place.
Somehow the idea of putting a very large electrical conductor into the sky invokes the famous tell of how Benjamin Franklin supposedly invented the lightning rod. Makes you wonder how well that space elevator ribbon handles the amperage generated during a thunderstorm. Maybe we can mount the "ground station" somewhere 20 miles up?
So far they can make nanotubes a millimeter long. Due to the high aspect ratio you don't have to get much longer if you can find a good way of spinning them together into a fiber.
Unfortunately, no one has been able to do that and get anywhere near the theoretical strength. most data has been about 10% of theory. So I'm not sure this matters really, if the numbers in TFA are anywhere close to reality, even a ribbon comprised of single tubes won't be strong enough since 180 x strength of steel (or 4 x the state of the art) is more than the theoretical strength of nanotubes (somewhere around 100 GPa).
Well, two of the most spectacular disasters of the 20th century, Challenger and the Titanic, came back to poor material choices without understanding (in these cases) the low temperature properties of the materials. No one bothered to check what happens to a seal designed to keep hot gasses out in sunny Florida at freezing temperatures. For an inorganic example, the steel rivets used in the Titanic (which was essentially swimming in a big glass of ice water) became brittle at these temperatures, so when the ship hit the ice berg, instead of a dent or a small hole you got whole seams of rivets "zippering open", leading to the fatal leak.
Half of NVIDIA's issue was the use of a a low Tg glue to hold the chip on the packaging (the other half was brittle pins) = organic
Apollo 1 capsule went up in flames due to the reaction of the Velcro = organic
The Boeing issue was a poor choice of insulator = organic
Now, you could argue that it's more polymer chemistry (what's not taught in many universities) or material science, but you can't understand the basic concepts of either if you didn't have your organic class.
If the guys at NVIDIA who designed their chip packaging would have been more chemists instead of electrical engineers, NVIDIA would have saved $@50 M in downwrites. If the guys at NASA who designed the Apollo 1 capsule would have been more chemists than engineers they would have understood how filling something with 18 psi oxygen is different from 4 psi oxygen, and Gus Grissom would have been the first man on the moon. If the guys at Boeing who designed the wire running through the fuel tank of the 747 would have understood more chemistry, TWA 800 wouldn't be in pieces.
Please let me know how many more examples you'd like why chemistry isn't all useless for engineers.
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The fun part is, I have a hotmail account which I use for "risky sign-ups". Despite of years of use as "catch-all" address it only gets one kind of spam - cyrillic. I wish I could reply and tell them I can't read that, please send in English so I can do something about my inequities.
One other aspect that gets overlooked is that not all science (probably not even the majority of it)is done in an academic setting. And in an industrial environment, your choices are typically much more limited in what you can use. I can justify spending 2 days on writing an excel macro/script to do my analysis. I spend just as long justifying why I need the $2500 license of Mathematica, or need to learn a new language, or why I want to present my data in a latex format instead of having my secretary type it up in word.
But the licensing issue is probably the biggest, nothing is more time consuming than tracking licenses for software scientists use. Telling a scientist or engineer that the license does not allow him to put it on any machine he remotely might use it on in the next decade is usually treated like the suggestion to perform an anatomically impossible act.
Funny, I thought our hiring practices were mainly aimed at NOT being sued. You are relatively safe tossing any resume with potential for trouble out at the "whom do we interview" stage for insufficient information. Which is why I said you need to make sure your resume has all the i's dotted and the t's crossed.
Actually this proves you have no clue yourself.
If your local bank that holds your cash goes under, you might be insured. But - you won't see your money for a year. And the payment to your credit card company that was scheduled didn't go out, hitting your with late fees. Ditto with the payment for your mortgage, your utilities and your phone. Suddenly your credit report makes Dresden look like a minor remodeling job. You can only hope that you can stop your payroll from sending your next paycheck to that account too, so you at least have some play money.
Isn't this a fairly standard design practice? How did this happen?
--
The background story to all this is highly fascinating - there are a series of companies of everchanging names involved, that first wrote the software, then sold it to a gambling company, that then got taken over, and somehow always the same names show up. This backdoor was probably planted long ago for just the purpose it ended up being used.
As for "oversight", the gambling commission oversees one major operation - the online poker sites. Which also pays their bills.
well, when I hire I make very sure there are ZERO holes in your resume. If there are gaps with no explanation whatsoever (even traveled to Bali for 2 years is better, so I might insist on a drug test) you're not going to make the first interview.
Don't forget, there are a lot of questions the interviewer cannot ask without opening a big quagmire with legal, from "are you pregnant" to "do you have military obligations", so having gaps will raise more of a flag than anything else.
As for the "first line call center", make it look positive. You're a people person, you like to offer people quality service, but you want to get back into the real field because your feel like your skills might be eroding. So, now you have mentioned what the interviewer might be afraid off, but now he knows you are aware of it and are willing to catch up.
You know how they usually say "or die trying"?
In this case there is no second option.
well, he could apply to any of the other 49 state's bar, and, if admitted, pass the bar exam there. He can also become legal adviser to anyone who'd like to hire him. It's not like the disbarment invalidates his legal degree, all it does make it impossible to act as an officer of the court in Florida. He might even become a judge in a jurisdiction that doesn't require bar membership to stand for office.
only if MediaSentry would distribute with attached copy right notice ;)
Joke aside, the issue is if "acting on behalf of the copyright holder" makes anything they do non-infringing. So giving them explicit distribution rights makes that hurdle even higher for the RIAA. Plus it's always hard to get a jury to find for you if you so obviously trapped.
The question is most likely one of uninstalls. If the DRM installs with the game, and goes away with the game, they are probably safe. If the DRM becomes uninstaller resistant and just goes into hiding, it fits the definition of malware, requiring separate, informed consent to installation.
Thanks, I always get lost when it comes to the relativistic corrections.
I love your way of getting around using the appropriate four letter description :)
My question is, for matter in our reference frame the "can't transmit information faster than light" is of course fundamental. But for a massive stationary object past our horizon (which our current model says we can't have) it is not impossible to have an observable effect. From my understanding, if those galaxy clusters are moving with c/2 in one direction and we are moving with c/2 the other way, the galaxy clusters are at our horizon (total speed of separation c). But while they are approaching the outside object fast, gravitational pull would be faster, and we could see the measured trajectories.
You mean it would be just like dark energy and dark mass, something we cannot see but whose effect we observe? And which make our hadron based laws of physics look like a steaming pile of horse apples?
Google "NASA shuts down mars rover", it gives you 23,000 hits. Sorry I didn't link them all for you.
Secondly, it wasn't MY claim that the shut down was for a better rover, the MSL program is already winding down, as usual when a project is shortly before launch.
Thirdly, leave my tin foil hats alone, they have no influence whatsoever on my pronunciation.
Absolutely correct. If I make the major investment into an Exchange server, + Outlook CALs, I'd like to get some use of the features like automatic meeting scheduling. And that requires that people actually use Outlook, and the best way to encourage that is to make email Outlook only.
While I use Thunderbird for my private email, Outlook/Exchange as a productivity tool is very hard to beat if you are herding cats, or worse, manage scientist and engineers.
Huh? [[Citation Needed]]
http://www.universetoday.com/2008/03/25/nasa-u-turn-over-mars-rover-funding/
already building a bigger, better rover, one that's just under a year from launch
I know, I worked on it for 4 years
Actually the term is "business man". And no, people from Lockheed Martin have never send me mail from their home accounts. They all use their business accounts.
There are actually classes you can take in "helping you to stop wasting time". And separating the tire kickers from the players is a major part of that. It's the same as for all the spam you dispose off, you have to set criteria that allow you to quickly decide what's a worthwhile use of your time and what's not. People inquiring about multi-million dollar technology from a gmail or yahoo account are, from my experience, not a good use. Your mileage might vary.
Nothing to do with stuck up. I get about 20 requests for information per week from people "who found our company on the web and want to know more about our xyz technology". If the request comes from a generic mail provider, it gets the generic reply package. If it comes from a @webuybigthings.com address it gets a custom reply, the right attachments and a follow up.
First option, 1 min, second option 10 min. Cost first option, $2, second option $20. Since the split is about 5:1, that's savings of over $100 in my time every week.
I can see how that will work well: "we need the change the bios update procedure. Where it says:
"click on bios update, click yes, click yes, really, come back in 2 min"
we need:
"get on your knees, pull out computer from under desk
get screw driver, take off cover, remove dust
find flashlight and small needle nose pliers, locate jumper
take out graphic card to access jumper hiding under oversized heatsink, move jumper, reinsert graphic card
boot, click on bios update, click yes, click yes, really, come back in 2 min
take out graphic card to access jumper again, move jumper back, reinsert graphic card
put cover back on, move computer back in place, continue work"
"don't you think we need instructions on where to pull the power cord and to disconnect the monitor cable too?"
This is a suicide mission, NASA wanted to shut down the rovers years ago, and the public outcry repeatedly stopped it. Now, if the rover goes on a 2 year drive and dies, what a poor little heroic guy, finally succumbed to the elements. ...
And NASA gets to free all the funds to build newer and bigger and better and
Don't forget, these are the guys that canceled the last Apollo missions for the fuel bill; they already had the rockets, trained astronauts and everything else in place.
Somehow the idea of putting a very large electrical conductor into the sky invokes the famous tell of how Benjamin Franklin supposedly invented the lightning rod. Makes you wonder how well that space elevator ribbon handles the amperage generated during a thunderstorm. Maybe we can mount the "ground station" somewhere 20 miles up?
So far they can make nanotubes a millimeter long. Due to the high aspect ratio you don't have to get much longer if you can find a good way of spinning them together into a fiber.
Unfortunately, no one has been able to do that and get anywhere near the theoretical strength. most data has been about 10% of theory. So I'm not sure this matters really, if the numbers in TFA are anywhere close to reality, even a ribbon comprised of single tubes won't be strong enough since 180 x strength of steel (or 4 x the state of the art) is more than the theoretical strength of nanotubes (somewhere around 100 GPa).
Well, two of the most spectacular disasters of the 20th century, Challenger and the Titanic, came back to poor material choices without understanding (in these cases) the low temperature properties of the materials. No one bothered to check what happens to a seal designed to keep hot gasses out in sunny Florida at freezing temperatures. For an inorganic example, the steel rivets used in the Titanic (which was essentially swimming in a big glass of ice water) became brittle at these temperatures, so when the ship hit the ice berg, instead of a dent or a small hole you got whole seams of rivets "zippering open", leading to the fatal leak.
Half of NVIDIA's issue was the use of a a low Tg glue to hold the chip on the packaging (the other half was brittle pins) = organic
Apollo 1 capsule went up in flames due to the reaction of the Velcro = organic
The Boeing issue was a poor choice of insulator = organic
Now, you could argue that it's more polymer chemistry (what's not taught in many universities) or material science, but you can't understand the basic concepts of either if you didn't have your organic class.
If the guys at NVIDIA who designed their chip packaging would have been more chemists instead of electrical engineers, NVIDIA would have saved $@50 M in downwrites. If the guys at NASA who designed the Apollo 1 capsule would have been more chemists than engineers they would have understood how filling something with 18 psi oxygen is different from 4 psi oxygen, and Gus Grissom would have been the first man on the moon. If the guys at Boeing who designed the wire running through the fuel tank of the 747 would have understood more chemistry, TWA 800 wouldn't be in pieces.
Please let me know how many more examples you'd like why chemistry isn't all useless for engineers.