Technical Writers are development's interface to the customer, and as such they are typically the "go to" people for such things in early development phases. Additionally, the technical writers often work in conjunction with (though perhaps not in an "official" capacity) quality assurance as another line of sanity testing.
While individual developers are tasked with completing certain portions of a project, or maybe tasked to smoke test chunks of code, it is often the technical writers who see the entire project as "one thing." That "thing" must work according to the spec that development was working from (you _did_ have a spec, didn't you?) and must create a sensible, understandable documentation set for that product whatever it's ultimate function might be.
You should leverage the experience of your technical writers for this task. They've often worked on many more project types than the average developer and worked in more companies. There is a wealth of experience there. Go ask. Can't hurt. Take a box of doughnuts and a few diet cokes along, too.
The Doc Savage series verges on sci-fi with its great use of technology. Plenty of adventure there.
As others have mentioned, Heinlein wrote a number of teen books, all of them are excellent, though I didn't much care for Podkanye.
Citizen of the Galaxy was an excellent read.
If they're 12 or maybe a mature 11, Heinlein's Sixth Column would be great.
Zach Hughes has a bunch of space opera books that are pretty good. (For Texas and Zed, Tiger In the Stars, etc.)
H. Beam Piper's Fuzzy books are great. Plenty of fun and pleasant reads, as well.
Andre Norton's Time Trader's series is one of the best teen sets I've read (http://io9.com/392563/andre-nortons-time-traders-series-free-online).
Another is her Solar Queen series: Sargasso of Space, Plague Ship, Voodoo Planet, Postmarked the Stars, Redline the Stars, Derelict for Trade, and Mind for Trade.
Personally, I wouldn't ask anyone to read Card's Ender series. I know that many people were deeply moved by the stories, but I found them somewhat boring and less than fun to read.
They could always claim that it was simply a fear reaction. You do know of course, that the sort of fear they want to engender smells like a combination of runny shit, vomit, and rotten meat....
None of the non-linden commercial ventures are guaranteed in any manner.
Would you place money in a non-insured bank account?
Lindens equate to real dollars as decided by the market for them. Hence, they are a quasi currency. If you put currency into a non-insured bank account (Ginko, in this instance) then you are liable for your own actions. Linden Lab's take on this has always been that it is a complete and total situation of Caveat Emptor. Linden endorses no commercial ventures but their own.
A good rule of thumb about business is that if something sounds to good to be true, it isn't.
Just like Second Life itself, which sounded too good to be true, is not truly a not so much a second life as it is a way to abide by real life's rules and regulations (or at least the garbage laws forced on them by the US) and lose money doing it.
SL was much better before Linden was bent over the sink by the US government.
Back when I was young, the Soviet Union required internal passports... Seems to me that things are rapidly progressing that way here.... Maybe it's time to emigrate to Russia now that they're freer than Americans in America.
Umm... The book is available in UK bookstores. It's also available from amazon.co.uk.
So. If you own an upper level chemistry text book you're probably in trouble as well. Or heaven forbid, if frequent hobbyist rocketry websites or worse, participate!
The Anarchist's Cookbook is no more dangerous than any of the dozens of military manuals that turn up in used booksellers.
You understand that the intent here is not to punish that stupid git but to set the stage for moving on Iran. You can't very well invade or attack a new country without some fresh outrage.
It's really sad that the US has let bush wave the bloody shirt for seven years now, and that blair facilitated it.
I'm not one to run from trouble. I supported the efforts in Afghanistan. Also those in Iraq. For awhile, at least. I'm now of the opinion that bush is dangerously deranged. He has no military experience whatsoever that could provide him with any useful knowledge to prosecute a war, yet congress and the citizenry have let him do just that. This is tantamount to allowing a building maintenance person at a medical school perform open-heart surgery on your child.
You really have to be aware of how and why certain things are published in news sources. Do your own research. Most of all, think for yourself. Don't accept the world of a politician for anything. If you trust a politician to guide your thoughts you're probably the same sort person who would let a pedophile babysit your children and then wonder why they always come home with a sore ass.
When I had fiber installed, I had to ask the installers on two occasions to get it removed. At the initial installation of internet and phone service, the installer said he couldn't remove it since it wasn't part of the job order. On the second visit a few weeks later when the television service was added I had to almost beg them to take down the copper. My motives were not so much against having the copper as they were to unclutter the wires running to the front of my house.
Now power and phone come to one spot. I'm happy.
But getting back on topic: What could covad offer on copper that competes with fiber access? Nothing. Is someone going to start offering 100Mbps net access over the legacy copper? Not bloody likely, mate. That copper is dead and ready for recycling. I've even taken down the cable that comcast ran to my house. Comcast's internet services sucks.
Should Verizon allow competitors access to their fiber network? Sure, but charge them an arm and a leg.
I'm very aware of how bad it is. Honestly, I am. Nationalized healthcare issues aren't discussed in our press. The politicians only talk about the positives. They always neglect to mention that UNIVERSAL CARE != GOOD CARE.
It's the running joke in british sitcoms, eh? heheh.
eBay is well-known in the states for ratting out any sort of "odd" changes in users' purchasing habits. It's old news here. eBay is more than willing to suck up to any sort of government agency. Even without being asked.
As for Canadian taxes, that's what is paying for your nationalized healthcare (don't hit me). We always hear the raving about how wonderful nationalized healthcare is and how much we in the US need it. Granted, we hear it from the asshat nanny-staters who want to control every aspect of our lives from farting to dying.
eBay is a lousy place to expect any sort of privacy.
Payola is not necessary where the model is subscription supported. I do hear more new music on XM that I ever heard on the radio. How much do you think they'd be paying XM to play Tommy Dorsey? Peggy Lee? Payola isn't an issue there.
There is no massive marketing budget. With over USD$60,000,000 per month taken in on radio subscription fees, they don't need it. XM is not your parent's car radio.
If you want to see marketing monies spent, look to the big networks like clearchannel. They're getting something from someone. Haven't you ever noticed why all of asudden after eharin a particular group maybe once a month, that you all of a sudden hear them once an hour when they're launching a tour or releasing an album? Broadcast sucks, and that is because of the cookie cutter network stations. Sure, they might be the number one format in their market, but that is because they are the only station of that format in that market.
The action to reduce the price of CDs actually brings the cost more in-line with what the true cost should be. For many years RIAA included marketing of a group was factored into the cost of the CD/Tape/Album.
Well, I call shenanigans on that. When is the last time you saw any marketing for any of the older groups? The only time they do anything is to pump up sales of re-masters or collections.
If they lowered the price to USD$8-10 a CD, I'd consider buying some of my old favorite groups. But for now, I have my XM and a steady supply of music that's free of bullshit-interruptions and asshat DJs. Spend USD$18 for a CD? No way, not even for a group I truly enjoy. That's pure and utter BS.
So are you saying that IronKey will ignore orders for logs and not monitor traffic when the FBI come to knock on your door? That your system will not comply with federal network wiretapping laws?
No matter. Ironkey provides the US gov't access to anything it wants. And all you EU people? Your Ironkey stats end up in the US. That allows your EU hosts to request the data from the US who will obligingly geek you.
Recruiters make money by getting candidates hired. Eat up their time, pass them back and forth. They are just like telemarketers. If they can't sell, they don't eat. It's been successful where I work.
But at what cost to your company in terms on man-hours spent amusing yourself by baiting recruiters rather than working on your notional jobs? So who stops working? It's not any harder than listening to them and making the odd reponse. What? You've never been on the phone with some in a less than interesting conversation which you could not politely just end and done something else? Just keep on working and ask them to repeat things or explain something. If you need 100% of your concentration to perform your IT duties, then chances are, you either should _not_ even have a phone or you are operating in a position slightly higher than you should.
Recruiters make money by getting candidates hired. Eat up their time, pass them back and forth. They are just like telemarketers. If they can't sell, they don't eat.
A very cool application for these tiny hands would be a machine capable of splicing breaks in submarine fiber cable links. Tiny hands to manipulate the fiber ends for splicing/polishing, etc.
And yes, for medical applications... imagine a few tiny hands attached to a tiny craft flowing in the bloodstream crushing the odd bit of cholesteral or smashing blood clots into bits manageble by the body. Not as a curative, mind you, but rather as full time, always present devices. There are so many tremendous applications for such things. A miniature semi-autonomous machine could possible perform many delicate procedures such as repairing defects in blood vessels or demolishing inoperable tumors. If the craft could be navigated into place, and then allowed to snip away and destroy bad tissue.
When I saw this article, my first thought was Heinlein's, "Waldo & Magic Incorporated." It's an excellent read, BTW. RAH at his best.
But as mentioned, the best application for these tiny hands is to build even smaller ones! Imagine eventually using the final set to mechanically construct nano machines. It would possibly be less expensive and more practical to actually put nano tech machinery and devices into mass production, or require less high-tech equipment, less energy...
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Technical Writers are development's interface to the customer, and as such they are typically the "go to" people for such things in early development phases. Additionally, the technical writers often work in conjunction with (though perhaps not in an "official" capacity) quality assurance as another line of sanity testing.
While individual developers are tasked with completing certain portions of a project, or maybe tasked to smoke test chunks of code, it is often the technical writers who see the entire project as "one thing." That "thing" must work according to the spec that development was working from (you _did_ have a spec, didn't you?) and must create a sensible, understandable documentation set for that product whatever it's ultimate function might be.
You should leverage the experience of your technical writers for this task. They've often worked on many more project types than the average developer and worked in more companies. There is a wealth of experience there. Go ask. Can't hurt. Take a box of doughnuts and a few diet cokes along, too.
The Doc Savage series verges on sci-fi with its great use of technology. Plenty of adventure there.
As others have mentioned, Heinlein wrote a number of teen books, all of them are excellent, though I didn't much care for Podkanye.
Citizen of the Galaxy was an excellent read.
If they're 12 or maybe a mature 11, Heinlein's Sixth Column would be great.
Zach Hughes has a bunch of space opera books that are pretty good. (For Texas and Zed, Tiger In the Stars, etc.)
H. Beam Piper's Fuzzy books are great. Plenty of fun and pleasant reads, as well.
Andre Norton's Time Trader's series is one of the best teen sets I've read (http://io9.com/392563/andre-nortons-time-traders-series-free-online).
Another is her Solar Queen series: Sargasso of Space, Plague Ship, Voodoo Planet, Postmarked the Stars, Redline the Stars, Derelict for Trade, and Mind for Trade.
Personally, I wouldn't ask anyone to read Card's Ender series. I know that many people were deeply moved by the stories, but I found them somewhat boring and less than fun to read.
Very good choices, opencity. I must have read those dozens of times.
Good material, and good themes.
Millennium II: The Vista
ME 2?
Sure! It works the same and has the same level of popularity.Millennium II: The Vista
They could always claim that it was simply a fear reaction. You do know of course, that the sort of fear they want to engender smells like a combination of runny shit, vomit, and rotten meat....
None of the non-linden commercial ventures are guaranteed in any manner.
Would you place money in a non-insured bank account?
Lindens equate to real dollars as decided by the market for them. Hence, they are a quasi currency. If you put currency into a non-insured bank account (Ginko, in this instance) then you are liable for your own actions. Linden Lab's take on this has always been that it is a complete and total situation of Caveat Emptor. Linden endorses no commercial ventures but their own.
A good rule of thumb about business is that if something sounds to good to be true, it isn't.
Just like Second Life itself, which sounded too good to be true, is not truly a not so much a second life as it is a way to abide by real life's rules and regulations (or at least the garbage laws forced on them by the US) and lose money doing it.
SL was much better before Linden was bent over the sink by the US government.
LOL! I completely forgot about that!
Back when I was young, the Soviet Union required internal passports... Seems to me that things are rapidly progressing that way here.... Maybe it's time to emigrate to Russia now that they're freer than Americans in America.
American? Only a fool would trust any government.
Umm... The book is available in UK bookstores. It's also available from amazon.co.uk.
So. If you own an upper level chemistry text book you're probably in trouble as well. Or heaven forbid, if frequent hobbyist rocketry websites or worse, participate!
The Anarchist's Cookbook is no more dangerous than any of the dozens of military manuals that turn up in used booksellers.
You understand that the intent here is not to punish that stupid git but to set the stage for moving on Iran. You can't very well invade or attack a new country without some fresh outrage.
It's really sad that the US has let bush wave the bloody shirt for seven years now, and that blair facilitated it.
I'm not one to run from trouble. I supported the efforts in Afghanistan. Also those in Iraq. For awhile, at least. I'm now of the opinion that bush is dangerously deranged. He has no military experience whatsoever that could provide him with any useful knowledge to prosecute a war, yet congress and the citizenry have let him do just that. This is tantamount to allowing a building maintenance person at a medical school perform open-heart surgery on your child.
You really have to be aware of how and why certain things are published in news sources. Do your own research. Most of all, think for yourself. Don't accept the world of a politician for anything. If you trust a politician to guide your thoughts you're probably the same sort person who would let a pedophile babysit your children and then wonder why they always come home with a sore ass.
When I had fiber installed, I had to ask the installers on two occasions to get it removed. At the initial installation of internet and phone service, the installer said he couldn't remove it since it wasn't part of the job order. On the second visit a few weeks later when the television service was added I had to almost beg them to take down the copper. My motives were not so much against having the copper as they were to unclutter the wires running to the front of my house.
Now power and phone come to one spot. I'm happy.
But getting back on topic: What could covad offer on copper that competes with fiber access? Nothing. Is someone going to start offering 100Mbps net access over the legacy copper? Not bloody likely, mate. That copper is dead and ready for recycling. I've even taken down the cable that comcast ran to my house. Comcast's internet services sucks.
Should Verizon allow competitors access to their fiber network? Sure, but charge them an arm and a leg.
I'm very aware of how bad it is. Honestly, I am. Nationalized healthcare issues aren't discussed in our press. The politicians only talk about the positives. They always neglect to mention that UNIVERSAL CARE != GOOD CARE.
It's the running joke in british sitcoms, eh? heheh.
eBay is well-known in the states for ratting out any sort of "odd" changes in users' purchasing habits. It's old news here. eBay is more than willing to suck up to any sort of government agency. Even without being asked.
As for Canadian taxes, that's what is paying for your nationalized healthcare (don't hit me). We always hear the raving about how wonderful nationalized healthcare is and how much we in the US need it. Granted, we hear it from the asshat nanny-staters who want to control every aspect of our lives from farting to dying.
eBay is a lousy place to expect any sort of privacy.
Payola is not necessary where the model is subscription supported. I do hear more new music on XM that I ever heard on the radio. How much do you think they'd be paying XM to play Tommy Dorsey? Peggy Lee? Payola isn't an issue there.
There is no massive marketing budget. With over USD$60,000,000 per month taken in on radio subscription fees, they don't need it. XM is not your parent's car radio.
If you want to see marketing monies spent, look to the big networks like clearchannel. They're getting something from someone. Haven't you ever noticed why all of asudden after eharin a particular group maybe once a month, that you all of a sudden hear them once an hour when they're launching a tour or releasing an album? Broadcast sucks, and that is because of the cookie cutter network stations. Sure, they might be the number one format in their market, but that is because they are the only station of that format in that market.
The action to reduce the price of CDs actually brings the cost more in-line with what the true cost should be. For many years RIAA included marketing of a group was factored into the cost of the CD/Tape/Album.
Well, I call shenanigans on that. When is the last time you saw any marketing for any of the older groups? The only time they do anything is to pump up sales of re-masters or collections.
If they lowered the price to USD$8-10 a CD, I'd consider buying some of my old favorite groups. But for now, I have my XM and a steady supply of music that's free of bullshit-interruptions and asshat DJs. Spend USD$18 for a CD? No way, not even for a group I truly enjoy. That's pure and utter BS.
"We comply with all applicable laws."
Just so. A compromised system.
So are you saying that IronKey will ignore orders for logs and not monitor traffic when the FBI come to knock on your door? That your system will not comply with federal network wiretapping laws?
No matter. Ironkey provides the US gov't access to anything it wants. And all you EU people? Your Ironkey stats end up in the US. That allows your EU hosts to request the data from the US who will obligingly geek you.
But at what cost to your company in terms on man-hours spent amusing yourself by baiting recruiters rather than working on your notional jobs? So who stops working? It's not any harder than listening to them and making the odd reponse. What? You've never been on the phone with some in a less than interesting conversation which you could not politely just end and done something else? Just keep on working and ask them to repeat things or explain something. If you need 100% of your concentration to perform your IT duties, then chances are, you either should _not_ even have a phone or you are operating in a position slightly higher than you should.
Oh, I'm sorry if I gave the impression that we stopped working to talk to them. We don't. We just "nod" at the proper places. It's easy.
Recruiters make money by getting candidates hired. Eat up their time, pass them back and forth. They are just like telemarketers. If they can't sell, they don't eat.
It's been successful where I work.
When Amway gets just a little bit bigger, it'll be a religion, too!
A very cool application for these tiny hands would be a machine capable of splicing breaks in submarine fiber cable links. Tiny hands to manipulate the fiber ends for splicing/polishing, etc.
And yes, for medical applications... imagine a few tiny hands attached to a tiny craft flowing in the bloodstream crushing the odd bit of cholesteral or smashing blood clots into bits manageble by the body. Not as a curative, mind you, but rather as full time, always present devices. There are so many tremendous applications for such things. A miniature semi-autonomous machine could possible perform many delicate procedures such as repairing defects in blood vessels or demolishing inoperable tumors. If the craft could be navigated into place, and then allowed to snip away and destroy bad tissue.
When I saw this article, my first thought was Heinlein's, "Waldo & Magic Incorporated." It's an excellent read, BTW. RAH at his best.
But as mentioned, the best application for these tiny hands is to build even smaller ones! Imagine eventually using the final set to mechanically construct nano machines. It would possibly be less expensive and more practical to actually put nano tech machinery and devices into mass production, or require less high-tech equipment, less energy...
My eyes were much more sensitive to the decrease in light. I just saw it before many others.