I remember when the LEMs took off from the moon on the later missions and some comm guy at NASA was able to track the liftoff with the video camera left on the moon. The idea that he was able to *anticipate* the liftoff and ascent and remotely track still stands out as one of the all time cool things to watch.
Speaking of carpal tunnel we recently "upgraded" a legacy application that is critical to our business and in doing so introduced a slew of complaints from users who always used keyboard shortcuts to do their work. The new software has eliminated about 75% of the keyboard shortcuts in favor of mousing. While the app looks nicer in everybody's eyes morale has dropped because of this "upgrade" - and we can't downgrade.
I'm sure this "burnout" isn't confined to journalism. Virtually everybody I know who is shackled to a deskjob with an email account faces the same problem.
The electronic leash has gotten so tight nobody can breathe anymore. I know I can't.
No matter how "nice" the workplace, in today's "competitive" marketplace you've got to be first - and if the 20-somethings are feeling that put-upon think how a 50ish guy like me must feel!
I have an email folder full of emails from NPR on how they wanted to support low power radio.
You are full of shit.
I have dealt with both organizations. Clear channel is full of entitled ass holes who think cities should do what they say because they own the radio stations.
Sorry but I'm not "full of shit".
I remember the fight and here is a great article from Democracy Now that details NPR's attempts to derail low power radio.
I've not only "dealt with" both organizations I've *worked* for both of them. They are different sides of the same coin with the main difference being NPR is full of sanctimonious self-absorbed assholes who will never admit they consider themselves privileged. Meanwhile they continue to suck the public tit for all it is worth.
sorry, but NPR is as bad as Clear Channel! I didn't use tho think that way and I don't think NPR was that way years ago but they have the same corporate roll-over-anybody-who-doesn't-agree-with-them mindset that characterizes the stereotypical Big Media guys. For example, not too many years ago NPR came out STRONG against the low power radio service that was gaining a toe-hold in markets now being steamrolled by Clear Channel (and NPR!) They said the low power stations wouldn't be in the public interest when in reality the low power stations were EXACTLY what the public wanted and needed in small markets. NPR is Big Business. But since it is so "PC" it doesn't get tagged the same way as Clear Channel.
More likely to steer attention away from his wife who was a Detroit City Council member and is due for some jail time over (SURPRISE!) bribery charges.
The greatest "advantage" to e-readers, or whatever the hell they are being called this week, is that publishers will be able speed up the scam of planned obsolescence in the college textbook scam/game.
Now my kid buys a $300 "required" book only to be told it has NO resale value come next semester because it is the "old edition". With Kindle, et al, that planned obsolescence can take place FASTER.
Now get off my lawn.
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Didn't I read somewhere that 75% of a car's lifetime energy consumption is during manufacture? So wouldn't it make more sense to rehabilitate existing autos? (And in a perverse way hasn't Cuba been doing that for decades?)
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Wait until the first lawsuit the city faces after some confidential info gets "released" from the cloud.
I'm sure these things will start showing up in U.S. police departments soon enough.
I remember when the LEMs took off from the moon on the later missions and some comm guy at NASA was able to track the liftoff with the video camera left on the moon. The idea that he was able to *anticipate* the liftoff and ascent and remotely track still stands out as one of the all time cool things to watch.
Speaking of carpal tunnel we recently "upgraded" a legacy application that is critical to our business and in doing so introduced a slew of complaints from users who always used keyboard shortcuts to do their work. The new software has eliminated about 75% of the keyboard shortcuts in favor of mousing. While the app looks nicer in everybody's eyes morale has dropped because of this "upgrade" - and we can't downgrade.
I'm sure this "burnout" isn't confined to journalism. Virtually everybody I know who is shackled to a deskjob with an email account faces the same problem.
The electronic leash has gotten so tight nobody can breathe anymore. I know I can't.
No matter how "nice" the workplace, in today's "competitive" marketplace you've got to be first - and if the 20-somethings are feeling that put-upon think how a 50ish guy like me must feel!
Quite a bit faster than 3.6...
"may even improve our ability to secure applications delivered via the Web..."
Why do people even say these things?
Bravo to you catmistake. My favorite line from my favorite movie!
Nothing new. The same types of warnings are also being applied to the early episodes of Sesame Street.
Now if only they'd get rid of that awful text fading in. What's that about?
and hundreds of terabytes per day. Any word on what they're using for a database back-end?
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I have an email folder full of emails from NPR on how they wanted to support low power radio.
You are full of shit.
I have dealt with both organizations. Clear channel is full of entitled ass holes who think cities should do what they say because they own the radio stations.
Sorry but I'm not "full of shit".
I remember the fight and here is a great article from Democracy Now that details NPR's attempts to derail low power radio.
http://www.democracynow.org/2000/9/25/why_is_npr_fighting_public_radio
I've not only "dealt with" both organizations I've *worked* for both of them. They are different sides of the same coin with the main difference being NPR is full of sanctimonious self-absorbed assholes who will never admit they consider themselves privileged. Meanwhile they continue to suck the public tit for all it is worth.
sorry, but NPR is as bad as Clear Channel! I didn't use tho think that way and I don't think NPR was that way years ago but they have the same corporate roll-over-anybody-who-doesn't-agree-with-them mindset that characterizes the stereotypical Big Media guys. For example, not too many years ago NPR came out STRONG against the low power radio service that was gaining a toe-hold in markets now being steamrolled by Clear Channel (and NPR!) They said the low power stations wouldn't be in the public interest when in reality the low power stations were EXACTLY what the public wanted and needed in small markets. NPR is Big Business. But since it is so "PC" it doesn't get tagged the same way as Clear Channel.
Didn't Rob and Laura Petrie get suckered by this during an auction 45 years ago?
Well, arguably the federal government has gradually been re-instituting slavery only this time around it is affecting all of us.
More likely to steer attention away from his wife who was a Detroit City Council member and is due for some jail time over (SURPRISE!) bribery charges.
The greatest "advantage" to e-readers, or whatever the hell they are being called this week, is that publishers will be able speed up the scam of planned obsolescence in the college textbook scam/game.
Now my kid buys a $300 "required" book only to be told it has NO resale value come next semester because it is the "old edition". With Kindle, et al, that planned obsolescence can take place FASTER.
Now get off my lawn.
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So Yoda had the answer?
Agreed. Great book.
I grew up reading Gardner's SciAm columns in the 60s. Cliff, I look to you to carry on in the Gardner tradition!
My servers aren't scraping pictures, though.
I'm scraping all the *letters* off the entire web.
Hmm. That's an interesting small-brained response.
When I was a kid in Detroit the future looked like the Chrysler Turbine car. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler_Turbine_Car
That sounded cool.
Yes but...
Didn't I read somewhere that 75% of a car's lifetime energy consumption is during manufacture? So wouldn't it make more sense to rehabilitate existing autos? (And in a perverse way hasn't Cuba been doing that for decades?)
As one of the last eleven people in the country with a job I look forward to buying one!
Look at the bright side. Now the satellite imagery of the loop current will be much easier to read with the oil tracer.