Several years ago I read a story in a jornal about a publisher selling a CD-ROM book for medical students. It was some critical book that the students would find important to hang onto after they left school (anatomy ?).
Evidently the CD's were encrypted with time senstive keys. Medical students could buy access to the data for the time that they were in school, but after they completed school they had to continue to pay several hundered dollar's a year to the publisher to be able to continue to access the book's contents (it did include access to updates too).
I never heard anymore about it. Hopefully it didn't do very well. It was a bad precedent a la RMS's "Right to Read".
You have obviously never owned a Honda and/or Toyota Automobile (purchased new).
With proper maintenance it will FAR outlast most American cars of the same class.
I STILL see my 1989 Honda Accord driving around town after we traded it for a 95 Windstar (kids).
The Windstar promptly had to have it's head-gaskets replaced (and my local Ford dealer failed to inform us that it was covered under a recall, we found that out from the internet).
And you will notice that Honda dealers don't have to advetisse "0%" financing (Their lowest deal is 3.9%). They don't haggle on the price much either.
(You can rule out workmanship issues because a significant number of these vehicles are have their final assembly completed the U.S, although their components are mostly foreign made, just like todays American built cars).
The big 3 U.S. automakers are facing a huge financial crisis due to having to pay employee pensions negoiated with their unions during 70's and 80's. It is likely that the U.S. Government will eventually bail them out, similliar to the Savings and Loans bailout in the 80's.
The next time I purchase a vehicle, I won't be considering a Ford, GM, or Chrysler product as my first choice.
McNealy famously decalred to the San Jose Mercury, 3 August 1997, "We had 12.9 Gigbytes of PowerPoint slides on our network. And I thought 'What a huge waste of corporate productivity'. So we banned it"....
McNealy's much cheaper, and more productive solution, was to remove PowerPoint and to "give everybody plastic Mylar sheets and all the pens they need to scribble on them", and to use what he describes as "the Bill Joy font. You can see where he licked his thumb and erases. It's so much faster," and leaves you time to get on with the job.
Our facility was recently sold to a company that uses Lotus Notes/Domino. We had been running M$ Outlook/Exchange. I used to complain bitterly about Outlook/Exchange (and I was the e-mail admin), but after fighting with Notes/Domoino for 3 months, I'd give my left nut to back to Outlook/Exchange. Notes/Domino supports even less standards than M$ (Can you say "non-RFC822 compliant"). At least running Exchange I could use a POP3 client to get my mail. I don't even have that choice with Domino. It's a memory hog, slow, and bug ridden.
Plus the fact that the corporation uses it's "database" capability (Think Filemaker Pro v 2.0-3.0) for just about everything; which forces you to use the Notes client. A programmer I work with has pretty much either implemented or found Apache/PHP/MySQL equivalent solutions for all of them that are faster, more reliable, and easier to support.
Where I work (electronics manufacturing) we use a software system known as a Product Data Management (PDM) system.
PDM systems let you create documents (typically product designs), revise them, submit them to work flows for approval or futher work, and then store them for retrieval by other users.
Examples are:
Metaphase by SDRC (What we are using)
MatrixOne
Windchill by Parametrics Technologies
Many others
Many of these products have web interfaces already.
I think I'll patent a buisiness method of starting a company to create dumb patents and then
extort money from companies that can't afford the resources to prove them invalid. Sheesh!
"The Atanasoff-Berry computer was the first digital computer. It was built by John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford Berry at Iowa State University during 1937-42, and introduced the concepts of binary arithmetic, regenerative memory, and logic circuits.
On October 19, 1973, US Federal Judge Earl R. Larson signed his decision following a lengthy court trial which declared the ENIAC patent of Mauchly and Eckert invalid and named Atanasoff the inventor of the electronic digital computer -- the Atanasoff-Berry Computer or the ABC.
Clark Mollenhoff in his book, Atanasoff, Forgotten Father of the Computer, details the design and construction of the Atanasoff-Berry Computer with emphasis on the relationships of the individuals. Alice and Arthur Burks in their book, The First Electronic Computer: The Atanasoff Story, describe the design and construction of the ABC and provide a more technical perspective. Numerous articles provide additional information. In recognition of his achivement, Atanasoff was awarded the National Medal of Technology by President George Bush at the White house on November 13, 1990. "
The story as I remember told in one of the books is that
the creator of the ENIAC visited ISU during the development of the ABC and "borrowed" many of
the concepts of the ABC for the ENIAC.
Unfortunately, Iowa State never fully realized what Atanasoff and Berry had developed.
As a Chemistry Professor at ISU told me "If they had, our toliet seats would be gold plated".
Iowa State recently built a working model of the ABC to prove that it really did work.
I remember reading about the "face on Mars". A scientist at NASA got fed up with the hoopla, did some searching and found another land formation that looked like Kermit the Frog! He proved his point that it was just a stupid concidence. Sounds like it might made for a better plot line, though! Cue Fozzy Bear and Beaker (Or sorry, they made a Muppets in space movie already).
The most conscise statement of project management I have ever seen is codified in the Jaycees' "Chairman's Planning Guide (CPG)".
The sections of this form to be filled out are:
Planning
Primary Purpose (What is the one reason to succesfully run this project).
Briefly describe the project. Follow this with a listing of specfic and measurable goals to be accomplished by the project.
What are the specfic manpower assignments? (Show names and duties).
What specfic materials, supplies, and resources will be required.
Describe potential problems and solutions to successfully complete the project.
Complete a proposed budget indicating all anticipated income and expenses.
List the specfic steps to bring this project to a successful completion showing the planned dates for each step.
Implementation and Evaluation
Record any revision to the original plan.
List solutions or recommendations for a future chairperson.
Give specfic and measurable results for each goal established. Describe the impact of the project on the chapter, indvidual members, and the community.
All methodolgies are just elaborations of the above.
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Several years ago I read a story in a jornal about a publisher selling a CD-ROM book for medical students. It was some critical book that the students would find important to hang onto after they left school (anatomy ?).
Evidently the CD's were encrypted with time senstive keys. Medical students could buy access to the data for the time that they were in school, but after they completed school they had to continue to pay several hundered dollar's a year to the publisher to be able to continue to access the book's contents (it did include access to updates too).
I never heard anymore about it. Hopefully it didn't do very well. It was a bad precedent a la RMS's "Right to Read".
You have obviously never owned a Honda and/or Toyota Automobile (purchased new).
With proper maintenance it will FAR outlast most American cars of the same class.
I STILL see my 1989 Honda Accord driving around town after we traded it for a 95 Windstar (kids).
The Windstar promptly had to have it's head-gaskets replaced (and my local Ford dealer failed to inform us that it was covered under a recall, we found that out from the internet).
And you will notice that Honda dealers don't have to advetisse "0%" financing (Their lowest deal is 3.9%). They don't haggle on the price much either.
(You can rule out workmanship issues because a significant number of these vehicles are have their final assembly completed the U.S, although their components are mostly foreign made, just like todays American built cars).
The big 3 U.S. automakers are facing a huge financial crisis due to having to pay employee pensions negoiated with their unions during 70's and 80's. It is likely that the U.S. Government will eventually bail them out, similliar to the Savings and Loans bailout in the 80's.
The next time I purchase a vehicle, I won't be considering a Ford, GM, or Chrysler product as my first choice.
Scott McNealy's Take on Power Point (it is a PDF document)
Enough said.
Umm,
Jack Welch of GE was an Engineer.
Andy Grove on Intel was an Engineer.
Robert Galvin of Motorola was an Engineer.
There are many examples of Engineers leading successful companies.
What this about Engineers not being able to talk about finance?
Schmuck.
Fortune at bottom of page:
Did you know the University of Iowa closed down after someone stole the book?
Yeah, but an even worse tragedy occurred at the University of Michigan, their library burned down. Both of their books where destroyed too.
The sad thing was students hadn't had a chance to color them yet.
A pinch to grow 2.54cm, and a smile to grow 1.6 km ?
Just have an old PC that hasn't been connected to
the net.
Encrypt the files on that machine and then sneaker net (via floppy) the encrypted files to your net connected machine.
Copy encrypted files you receive to floppy and
take them to the machine to be de-crypted.
-Neil
Stego@home anyone ?
Our facility was recently sold to a company that uses Lotus Notes/Domino. We had been running M$ Outlook/Exchange. I used to complain bitterly about Outlook/Exchange (and I was the e-mail admin), but after fighting with Notes/Domoino for 3 months, I'd give my left nut to back to Outlook/Exchange. Notes/Domino supports even less standards than M$ (Can you say "non-RFC822 compliant"). At least running Exchange I could use a POP3 client to get my mail. I don't even have that choice with Domino. It's a memory hog, slow, and bug ridden.
Plus the fact that the corporation uses it's "database" capability (Think Filemaker Pro v 2.0-3.0) for just about everything; which forces you to use the Notes client. A programmer I work with has pretty much either implemented or found Apache/PHP/MySQL equivalent solutions for all of them that are faster, more reliable, and easier to support.
I aggree 100% with Peter Gutman's assesment:
Notes Spotting"Choose no life, Choose Lotus Notes"
-NeilNo that's:
If encryption is banned, only criminals will amkrkrs;akdthkldjja.
Where I work (electronics manufacturing) we use a software system known as a Product Data Management (PDM) system.
PDM systems let you create documents (typically product designs), revise them, submit them to work flows for approval or futher work, and then store them for retrieval by other users.
Examples are:
Many of these products have web interfaces already.
I think I'll patent a buisiness method of starting a company to create dumb patents and then extort money from companies that can't afford the resources to prove them invalid. Sheesh!
(from the Iowa State University Web Site):
"The Atanasoff-Berry computer was the first digital computer. It was built by John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford Berry at Iowa State University during 1937-42, and introduced the concepts of binary arithmetic, regenerative memory, and logic circuits.
On October 19, 1973, US Federal Judge Earl R. Larson signed his decision following a lengthy court trial which declared the ENIAC patent of Mauchly and Eckert invalid and named Atanasoff the inventor of the electronic digital computer -- the Atanasoff-Berry Computer or the ABC.
Clark Mollenhoff in his book, Atanasoff, Forgotten Father of the Computer, details the design and construction of the Atanasoff-Berry Computer with emphasis on the relationships of the individuals. Alice and Arthur Burks in their book, The First Electronic Computer: The Atanasoff Story, describe the design and construction of the ABC and provide a more technical perspective. Numerous articles provide additional information. In recognition of his achivement, Atanasoff was awarded the National Medal of Technology by President George Bush at the White house on November 13, 1990. "
The story as I remember told in one of the books is that the creator of the ENIAC visited ISU during the development of the ABC and "borrowed" many of the concepts of the ABC for the ENIAC.
Unfortunately, Iowa State never fully realized what Atanasoff and Berry had developed.
As a Chemistry Professor at ISU told me "If they had, our toliet seats would be gold plated".
Iowa State recently built a working model of the ABC to prove that it really did work.
Check out thisWeb Site for more info.-Neil Johnson (Proud to be a Cyclone !)
Let me guess ....
They soon will be getting a patent on "A Method for Accessing Electronic Content" or some sort of other nonsense.
-Neil Johnson
I remember reading about the "face on Mars". A scientist at NASA got fed up with the hoopla, did some searching and found another land formation that looked like Kermit the Frog! He proved his point that it was just a stupid concidence. Sounds like it might made for a better plot line, though! Cue Fozzy Bear and Beaker (Or sorry, they made a Muppets in space movie already).
Plan your work and work your plan.
The most conscise statement of project management I have ever seen is codified in the Jaycees' "Chairman's Planning Guide (CPG)".
The sections of this form to be filled out are:
Planning
Implementation and Evaluation
All methodolgies are just elaborations of the above.