No more AT&T Broadband commercials being broadcasted to AT&T Broadband subscribers. Maybe better management will end the brilliant advertizing.
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NASA will no longer have full time employees. Instead researchers in academic institutions and contractors will devote part of their time to NASA projects with their paychecks coming mostly from their institution. NASA only pays for equipment and contractors. This is how the Mars rovers are being done already. The scientists are all on university payrolls, while NASA pays for equipment.
With all the shared filesystem, process management, localization features, they don't support the most basic of all: TCP/IP over firewire. Then again, we wouldn't be in a recession if managers were producing something useful.
How many libraries, sublibraries, and DLL's does this require now? Even if you could encode just as easily as you can decode every new codec, just by tracking down a dozen libraries and DLL's, your movie would be unplayable no sooner than it became playable because the binary format changed. As for pure decoding of internet downloads, who is still getting high on thumbnail videos today?
Campaigns against general purpose PC's are the best way to control intellectual property. You can instead sell a device that only plays what you allow it to play, which no-one can hack into. Then you allow the device to download from certain sites on the internet, store music in a popular format like OGG, and put in so many features that the user is perfectly happy to give up the ability to play illegal copies in lieu of the features.
That should be slightly under 27000 miles per hour. Furthermore, once it's several thousand miles in altitude it would slowly decelerate and fall back to a circular earth orbit. Thus you achieve earth orbit without the need to propell it horizontally very far. The idea of using the force of photons to push a sail is still out there. It would be more effective to transmit a magnetic dipole of equal phase and polarity from the spacecraft into the microwave and use the repulsion to transmit force through a vacuum.
Was pondering microwave propulsion for a week now, without ever hearing about the symposium. It must be the way to go. More specifically, microwave propulsion from ground level to 150 miles and a velocity of 27000 miles per second. Then transition to chemical propulsion for maneuvering in space.
After the "anytime minutes" quote, the "unlimited evenings and weekends" quote, the "$99.99 (after a $50 instant rebate)" and the "if you'd like to try that cable, go to" line, I was getting no less suspicious about the real costs than someone shopping for a car. But I wasn't shopping for anything.
Is the "unlimited data" the same as "unlimited vision"? Is "unlimited vision" unlimited in the sense that it's unlimited if you use it on weekends only? Technically everything is unlimited if you only use 300 weekday minutes. Already got screwed by Excite@Home/AT&T broadband/Bin Laden's whore.
At the least, the $150 phone, or rather, the "$99.90 (after $50 instant rebate)" phone is $150 more than my last phone cost. And the $528 yearly cost including tax or rather the "$40/mo" fee is $72 more per year than my last plan.
Imagine the precision electronics and mechanics required to shoot a bullet out of the air. Computer scientists normally side with military deescalation, peace, and love, but the most exciting areas of their business are in military technology.
Autonomous computer animation is the future. Unfortunately, while it is intended to lower the amount of work required to achieve a scene, it's sure to be built up to a level of detail requiring the same armies of hundreds of animators that previous computer animation required.
Then maybe the price of CRT's can start reflecting demand more than they are. Oh yeah. We're in a recession. Prices aren't supposed to reflect reality.
Another word for this innovative 2002 technology: a scanner. You know you're in a recession when different mechanisms are being used to accomplish the same thing, each new mechanism providing less and less advantage. This is a real stretch for any practical improvement over scanners.
What did it take to convince a heroine to enlist in not only a breadwinning job but a cult TV show that is anything but sugar and spice? This opposes everything we've heard about wives dropping out of the workforce and evil technology jobs in droves since 1984.
Simple equation. It doesn't matter how much money you have but how much you have relative to everyone else. Money determines what fraction of the total resources of the earth you can utilize. As the total resources of the earth decline, the amount each individual can utilize is going to decline, even if you have a larger fraction than everyone else. In the same way, the total resources of the earth determine what fraction of the money you own. Declining natural resources cause reduction in the value of money.
For hundreds of years, we got around the declining natural resources by increasing efficient utilization of the remaining resources, but now for several years we've seen no major improvements in efficiency and the decline has caught up.
Unfortunately, you can only refuel one satellite per launch of the space tugboat. Then you have to destroy it or end up with billions of space tugboats.
> Has your company ever contracted external instructors to train its programmers?
No.
> Have you been satisfied with the lecturer's level of expertise?
No.
Jobs rarely last over 18 months in this business. Training is rare because it isn't worth the company paying for it. Training by peers doesn't work because of egos. If you can figure out how to make it work, don't train for it.
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No more AT&T Broadband commercials being broadcasted to AT&T Broadband subscribers. Maybe better management will end the brilliant advertizing.
NASA will no longer have full time employees. Instead researchers in academic institutions and contractors will devote part of their time to NASA projects with their paychecks coming mostly from their institution. NASA only pays for equipment and contractors. This is how the Mars rovers are being done already. The scientists are all on university payrolls, while NASA pays for equipment.
With all the shared filesystem, process management, localization features, they don't support the most basic of all: TCP/IP over firewire. Then again, we wouldn't be in a recession if managers were producing something useful.
How many libraries, sublibraries, and DLL's does this require now? Even if you could encode just as easily as you can decode every new codec, just by tracking down a dozen libraries and DLL's, your movie would be unplayable no sooner than it became playable because the binary format changed. As for pure decoding of internet downloads, who is still getting high on thumbnail videos today?
Campaigns against general purpose PC's are the best way to control intellectual property. You can instead sell a device that only plays what you allow it to play, which no-one can hack into. Then you allow the device to download from certain sites on the internet, store music in a popular format like OGG, and put in so many features that the user is perfectly happy to give up the ability to play illegal copies in lieu of the features.
That should be slightly under 27000 miles per hour. Furthermore, once it's several thousand miles in altitude it would slowly decelerate and fall back to a circular earth orbit. Thus you achieve earth orbit without the need to propell it horizontally very far. The idea of using the force of photons to push a sail is still out there. It would be more effective to transmit a magnetic dipole of equal phase and polarity from the spacecraft into the microwave and use the repulsion to transmit force through a vacuum.
Was pondering microwave propulsion for a week now, without ever hearing about the symposium. It must be the way to go. More specifically, microwave propulsion from ground level to 150 miles and a velocity of 27000 miles per second. Then transition to chemical propulsion for maneuvering in space.
If only access speeds were any faster than they were in 1997.
After the "anytime minutes" quote, the "unlimited evenings and weekends" quote, the "$99.99 (after a $50 instant rebate)" and the "if you'd like to try that cable, go to" line, I was getting no less suspicious about the real costs than someone shopping for a car. But I wasn't shopping for anything.
Is the "unlimited data" the same as "unlimited vision"? Is "unlimited vision" unlimited in the sense that it's unlimited if you use it on weekends only? Technically everything is unlimited if you only use 300 weekday minutes. Already got screwed by Excite@Home/AT&T broadband/Bin Laden's whore.
At the least, the $150 phone, or rather, the "$99.90 (after $50 instant rebate)" phone is $150 more than my last phone cost. And the $528 yearly cost including tax or rather the "$40/mo" fee is $72 more per year than my last plan.
Imagine the precision electronics and mechanics required to shoot a bullet out of the air. Computer scientists normally side with military deescalation, peace, and love, but the most exciting areas of their business are in military technology.
Autonomous computer animation is the future. Unfortunately, while it is intended to lower the amount of work required to achieve a scene, it's sure to be built up to a level of detail requiring the same armies of hundreds of animators that previous computer animation required.
Why not just boost the existing space station to a Lagrangian point?
Then maybe the price of CRT's can start reflecting demand more than they are. Oh yeah. We're in a recession. Prices aren't supposed to reflect reality.
Another word for this innovative 2002 technology: a scanner. You know you're in a recession when different mechanisms are being used to accomplish the same thing, each new mechanism providing less and less advantage. This is a real stretch for any practical improvement over scanners.
What did it take to convince a heroine to enlist in not only a breadwinning job but a cult TV show that is anything but sugar and spice? This opposes everything we've heard about wives dropping out of the workforce and evil technology jobs in droves since 1984.
As cool as webcams are, it seems like super 8 was a cut above the best home movies of today.
The female computer scientist is dead and the supermom is staying at home, expecting male breadwinning results.
Simple equation. It doesn't matter how much money you have but how much you have relative to everyone else. Money determines what fraction of the total resources of the earth you can utilize. As the total resources of the earth decline, the amount each individual can utilize is going to decline, even if you have a larger fraction than everyone else. In the same way, the total resources of the earth determine what fraction of the money you own. Declining natural resources cause reduction in the value of money.
For hundreds of years, we got around the declining natural resources by increasing efficient utilization of the remaining resources, but now for several years we've seen no major improvements in efficiency and the decline has caught up.
That's what you get for naming yourself after your husband.
The American flag bumper stickers help, but economics always favors areas with less threat of computer hacking.
Dropped broadband in 2001. Haven't missed it. You know you're in a recession when businesses keep pushing the same dead horse.
Unfortunately, you can only refuel one satellite per launch of the space tugboat. Then you have to destroy it or end up with billions of space tugboats.
In a few years you won't find a DIVX decoder anywhere either.
> Has your company ever contracted external instructors to train its programmers?
No.
> Have you been satisfied with the lecturer's level of expertise?
No.
Jobs rarely last over 18 months in this business. Training is rare because it isn't worth the company paying for it. Training by peers doesn't work because of egos. If you can figure out how to make it work, don't train for it.
But can the 2.1 Ghz Athlon run in SMP mode like the 2.5 Ghz Xeon?