Well the problem with NASA is it has severe budget problems. The organization hemorrhages millions of dollars and they don't know where. When organizations can't account of millions of dollars missing, its a definite sign of fraud. People at NASA are embezzling tax payer dollars and as much as I love NASA and what they stand for, I don't want more money to end up in their pockets.
I'd much rather we provide grants to comericial companies like Scaled Composites where you can gauge results better.
Obviously NASA is not going away and they shouldn't, but they have severe budget problems.
Please. What you are suggesting creates an economic barrier to basic childhood education. Not everyone can afford to send their kids to a private school. Everyone should, however, have the right to a decent education.
Bullshit. This is bullshit. I'm not suggesting everyone send their kids to Exeter Academy.
A relative of mine (through marriage) who has two kids and lives in Elizabeth NJ managed to get her kids educated entirely in private schools on a salary of $35k/yr. How did she do it? She sacrificed a little and the schools met her half way.
The problem with Americans is that they don't consider their child's education important enough to downgrade their apartment and/or standard of living. Why? Because theres a cheap alternative called public schooling.
This is why you send your kids to a reputable private school. In private schools the only thing you might see is parents getting pissed at teachers, but in any decent school the parents won't win (the exception is when money is involved but that is a rare occasion!).
ZDNet is reporting that many Dell Inspiron users are reporting an extreme performance decrease since installing Windows XP SP2 - decreases as much as from 2.6ghz down to 300mhz. Dell claims no responsibility, claiming it is 'externally loaded software' and they don't support it. In the mean time there has been a fix posted on Dell's forums, which rolls back the processor driver."
Aren't 99% of drivers 3rd party software? The only thing MS does is bundle them together, but I believe that AMD or Intel et al are the ones who actually WRITE the device drivers. And if the performance of a new driver sucks, I'd chock that up to being a shitty driver, versus a shitty Service Pack...
All language is structured. Structured data is recognizable.
Language repeats symbols, sounds, etc. Languages have an alphabet. You don't need to understand it in order to realize that its a language.
Egytption hyroglphics and Inca knot tying are pretty good examples of isolated languages with nothing in common with today's written languages (athough I completely disagree that the japanese language has any similarities with latin derivatives).
Journalism in the US is faaaaar more respectible than in other countries. Its taken years for the US media to destroy their credibility on the scale of foreign publishers.
Its probably not bogus. It sounds like they took standard solar panels and thinned them out so that you can see through them. A neat idea, but you're not generating very much wattage.
At some companies, the admins are responsible for reporting misuse, and innapropriet behaviour.
He reported him, management ignored him. He then went out of his way to produce evidence that the guy was farting around in the office.
System Admins deal with computer maintenance. They are not the lazy police. Otherwise there wouldn't be a need for managers at 90% of the corporations in the world. This guy clearly stepped over the bounds of his authority. I'd say he went as far as to violate a persons personal privacy.
Managers know when people are farting around at work because they don't accomplish anything. You don't need to profile someones machine to see what they're running or why.
He's not the lazy police. He's an Admin. Its not his job to monitor peoples work ethic just because they happen to use a computer that is his responsiblity.
If someone talks on the phone too much, does he have the right to tap the conversation to verify that its business related? Hell no.
I'm glad this guy got fired. I certainly wouldn't want to work with him. He needs to worry more about his job and less about other peoples'. I'd can his ass.
This guy should have been fired. He blew the wistle on some guy being lazy and when he couldn't get anyone to acknowledge it, he installed invasive spyware on someones work computer. This douche doesn't have that authority. Is he the Lazy Police? No! He's a fucking admin.
What this shows his employer is that he's willing to completely violate someones privacy for his own gain (in this case, recognition of weeding out lazy shitheads) and that he can't be trusted (not even by his superiors!!).
How much revenue would advertising bring to the site?
Answer: a decent amount!
They know precisely WHO their audience is. They know they deal with Real Estate. Mortgage companies and companies like Home Depot I would think would be the first to jump on the band wagon.
I think that might be possible. The pressure of metal ice skates on the surface of the ice produces a thin layer of frozen temperature water. I guess if you have enough pressure , you could produce an entire lake of very cold, very pressurized water.
I don't know, man. I know I need certain medications.... my doctor does not.
Last year, I had to come into the doctor's office with a spread sheet of radically hypertensive bp readings in order to be put on Enalapril. Up until then, it was always marked down as "120/80", i.e "normal" because the nurses taking the readings didn't give a shit and took the readings hald-assed. I didn't realize that I was slowly destroying my heart until I used my parent's blood pressure kit. The doctor has the ultimate authority in what you should get, but you need to diagnose yourself and if necessary raise hell in order to get what you need (or want).
If you know of a company where the cost of R&D is not factored into the price of goods, I'd love to know about it, because they'd be violating essential economic principals of business. In order to make a profit, you must be given more money than it took to develop your product.
The reasons why drug companies these days are spending so much money on marketing is because of the health care system's current state. People don't read tech journals. They don't know about new drugs. Top this fact off with the concept of HMO's limiting patients to only certain drugs, and you've essentially got a drug economy that will not make money on new drugs and will therefore not be driven to develop newer drugs. Marketing helps bridge this problem. It gets people to know about Cialis as an alternative to Viagra or a generic... information that people otherwise might not know about (unless they have email:-P). I admit those two drugs are poor examples.
The Job market is about Supply and Demand. If the number of out of work PhD's were to decrease, you'd instantly see salaries increase. Thats the way these things work... Even if it makes you angry.
I think this is the primary effect of copyright and patent law. It becomes more important to be the person who controls the output of scientists than it is to be a scientist yourself.
You can really say its about money. Money is what funds the development, money is what funds the lawyers who file the patents.
A PhD who could fund his own R&D and lawyers could have everything. The problem is that in order for them to fund it, they need their own fat savings account.
The fundamental issue with PhD salaries is that there are so many PhD's out there who are perfectly willing to work in academia withthe basics of their financial life supported that universities and companies don't NEED to pay them more. Their love for work is their motivation, not the money. Thats why they'll always generally be paid just enough to survive.
Of course... if they WERE paid more, and the costs were reflected in drug development, etc, everyone on Slashdot would scream bloody murder.
Microsoft would have out right fired him if they had known about this. If he had admitted to hacking another companies site or bringing the code with him to another company, they would assume he'd do the same when leaving Microsoft.
My understanding is that you can only write off businesses expenses if you are self employed. So writing off your cablemodem would raise a flag and thats the type of thing they audit people for (not necessarily for that little amount of money though).
On top of that, writing off $400 off your taxable income is silly and saves you approximately $0 for 99.99% of America.
Hartford Hospital used one for their patient's food service. It would be loaded up with food trays and would autonomously call the elevator and drive down the hallway to deliver the trays. After the meal, it would drive all the empty trays back to the kitchen. My job at the time was to enter patients food intake into a database. This was circa 1996.
Putnam Investments in Mass also has one that simply drives around reading a painted line that is only visible in ultra-violet light. It delivers the mail. Its pretty cool, but I have had a few isntances where it almost took my feet off going around a corner.
The military is operating within its authorized bounds. So are these remotes. The problem is that the military has blankey control over that spectrum, where as your remote can use it, but cannot interfere with anything else. Hence the "must accept any interference" clause.
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Well the problem with NASA is it has severe budget problems. The organization hemorrhages millions of dollars and they don't know where. When organizations can't account of millions of dollars missing, its a definite sign of fraud. People at NASA are embezzling tax payer dollars and as much as I love NASA and what they stand for, I don't want more money to end up in their pockets.
I'd much rather we provide grants to comericial companies like Scaled Composites where you can gauge results better.
Obviously NASA is not going away and they shouldn't, but they have severe budget problems.
Please. What you are suggesting creates an economic barrier to basic childhood education. Not everyone can afford to send their kids to a private school. Everyone should, however, have the right to a decent education.
Bullshit. This is bullshit. I'm not suggesting everyone send their kids to Exeter Academy.
A relative of mine (through marriage) who has two kids and lives in Elizabeth NJ managed to get her kids educated entirely in private schools on a salary of $35k/yr. How did she do it? She sacrificed a little and the schools met her half way.
The problem with Americans is that they don't consider their child's education important enough to downgrade their apartment and/or standard of living. Why? Because theres a cheap alternative called public schooling.
This is why you send your kids to a reputable private school. In private schools the only thing you might see is parents getting pissed at teachers, but in any decent school the parents won't win (the exception is when money is involved but that is a rare occasion!).
ZDNet is reporting that many Dell Inspiron users are reporting an extreme performance decrease since installing Windows XP SP2 - decreases as much as from 2.6ghz down to 300mhz. Dell claims no responsibility, claiming it is 'externally loaded software' and they don't support it. In the mean time there has been a fix posted on Dell's forums, which rolls back the processor driver."
Aren't 99% of drivers 3rd party software? The only thing MS does is bundle them together, but I believe that AMD or Intel et al are the ones who actually WRITE the device drivers. And if the performance of a new driver sucks, I'd chock that up to being a shitty driver, versus a shitty Service Pack...
All language is structured. Structured data is recognizable.
Language repeats symbols, sounds, etc. Languages have an alphabet. You don't need to understand it in order to realize that its a language.
Egytption hyroglphics and Inca knot tying are pretty good examples of isolated languages with nothing in common with today's written languages (athough I completely disagree that the japanese language has any similarities with latin derivatives).
I think the idea is that the Aliens would turn the fucking thing on.
After all, what better encryption would there be to us than an alien language?
Not anymore encrypted than, say, Japanese (to someone who has never seen Japanese before).
On the other hand, an encryption algorithm like RSA doesn't have any repetative signatures to identify it as anything other than white noise.
Its a decently reliable service that isn't too expensive. If anything, they should give the service to them for free and get some good PR!!
Are they giving her an extra-wide parking space?
Journalism in the US is faaaaar more respectible than in other countries. Its taken years for the US media to destroy their credibility on the scale of foreign publishers.
Its probably not bogus. It sounds like they took standard solar panels and thinned them out so that you can see through them. A neat idea, but you're not generating very much wattage.
At some companies, the admins are responsible for reporting misuse, and innapropriet behaviour.
He reported him, management ignored him. He then went out of his way to produce evidence that the guy was farting around in the office.
System Admins deal with computer maintenance. They are not the lazy police. Otherwise there wouldn't be a need for managers at 90% of the corporations in the world. This guy clearly stepped over the bounds of his authority. I'd say he went as far as to violate a persons personal privacy.
Managers know when people are farting around at work because they don't accomplish anything. You don't need to profile someones machine to see what they're running or why.
He's not the lazy police. He's an Admin. Its not his job to monitor peoples work ethic just because they happen to use a computer that is his responsiblity.
If someone talks on the phone too much, does he have the right to tap the conversation to verify that its business related? Hell no.
I'm glad this guy got fired. I certainly wouldn't want to work with him. He needs to worry more about his job and less about other peoples'. I'd can his ass.
This guy should have been fired. He blew the wistle on some guy being lazy and when he couldn't get anyone to acknowledge it, he installed invasive spyware on someones work computer. This douche doesn't have that authority. Is he the Lazy Police? No! He's a fucking admin.
What this shows his employer is that he's willing to completely violate someones privacy for his own gain (in this case, recognition of weeding out lazy shitheads) and that he can't be trusted (not even by his superiors!!).
This guy is a complete shithead.
How much revenue would advertising bring to the site?
Answer: a decent amount!
They know precisely WHO their audience is. They know they deal with Real Estate. Mortgage companies and companies like Home Depot I would think would be the first to jump on the band wagon.
Wow, you really just dated yourself :-P
I think that might be possible. The pressure of metal ice skates on the surface of the ice produces a thin layer of frozen temperature water. I guess if you have enough pressure , you could produce an entire lake of very cold, very pressurized water.
If there is 2 Miles of Ice below Antarctica, does that mean that the surface is at 10,000+ ft?
I don't know, man. I know I need certain medications.... my doctor does not.
Last year, I had to come into the doctor's office with a spread sheet of radically hypertensive bp readings in order to be put on Enalapril. Up until then, it was always marked down as "120/80", i.e "normal" because the nurses taking the readings didn't give a shit and took the readings hald-assed. I didn't realize that I was slowly destroying my heart until I used my parent's blood pressure kit. The doctor has the ultimate authority in what you should get, but you need to diagnose yourself and if necessary raise hell in order to get what you need (or want).
Take it easy there, Killer.
:-P). I admit those two drugs are poor examples.
If you know of a company where the cost of R&D is not factored into the price of goods, I'd love to know about it, because they'd be violating essential economic principals of business. In order to make a profit, you must be given more money than it took to develop your product.
The reasons why drug companies these days are spending so much money on marketing is because of the health care system's current state. People don't read tech journals. They don't know about new drugs. Top this fact off with the concept of HMO's limiting patients to only certain drugs, and you've essentially got a drug economy that will not make money on new drugs and will therefore not be driven to develop newer drugs. Marketing helps bridge this problem. It gets people to know about Cialis as an alternative to Viagra or a generic... information that people otherwise might not know about (unless they have email
The Job market is about Supply and Demand. If the number of out of work PhD's were to decrease, you'd instantly see salaries increase. Thats the way these things work... Even if it makes you angry.
I think this is the primary effect of copyright and patent law. It becomes more important to be the person who controls the output of scientists than it is to be a scientist yourself.
You can really say its about money. Money is what funds the development, money is what funds the lawyers who file the patents.
A PhD who could fund his own R&D and lawyers could have everything. The problem is that in order for them to fund it, they need their own fat savings account.
The fundamental issue with PhD salaries is that there are so many PhD's out there who are perfectly willing to work in academia withthe basics of their financial life supported that universities and companies don't NEED to pay them more. Their love for work is their motivation, not the money. Thats why they'll always generally be paid just enough to survive.
Of course... if they WERE paid more, and the costs were reflected in drug development, etc, everyone on Slashdot would scream bloody murder.
Microsoft would have out right fired him if they had known about this. If he had admitted to hacking another companies site or bringing the code with him to another company, they would assume he'd do the same when leaving Microsoft.
My understanding is that you can only write off businesses expenses if you are self employed. So writing off your cablemodem would raise a flag and thats the type of thing they audit people for (not necessarily for that little amount of money though).
On top of that, writing off $400 off your taxable income is silly and saves you approximately $0 for 99.99% of America.
Hartford Hospital used one for their patient's food service. It would be loaded up with food trays and would autonomously call the elevator and drive down the hallway to deliver the trays. After the meal, it would drive all the empty trays back to the kitchen. My job at the time was to enter patients food intake into a database. This was circa 1996.
Putnam Investments in Mass also has one that simply drives around reading a painted line that is only visible in ultra-violet light. It delivers the mail. Its pretty cool, but I have had a few isntances where it almost took my feet off going around a corner.
The military is operating within its authorized bounds. So are these remotes. The problem is that the military has blankey control over that spectrum, where as your remote can use it, but cannot interfere with anything else. Hence the "must accept any interference" clause.