TradElect platform, supplied by Accenture, has finally been answered: yes, it will. This hardly comes as a surprise â" the issue of the platformâ(TM)s speed and efficiency as well as Accentureâ(TM)s support has been a hot topic for the market in the last couple of months.
Accenture? Not exactly a low cost vendor there. Meaning, much of the "costs" of this.NET system is Accenture's high fees.
âWe want to address the entire suite of products and MillenniumIT gives us that scale.â(TM) Indeed, its offshore development centre â" âa hotbed of top graduatesâ(TM) â" with 94 per cent being top-class alumni from Sri Lanka and around the world, including MIT in the US, caters for such magnitude of scope.
Offshoring. They're going with a cheaper, although quite smart, set of folks.
Furthermore, he describes LSEâ(TM)s experience with.Net as âvery positiveâ(TM).
Ok, this looks more like changing vendors and implementation. They also want âfor more control, less costs, and the ability to build and innovateâ(TM).
This really isn't a damning of Microsoft and its technology. This is about going with a cheaper vendor and a software platform that gives them more control to suit their needs.
You know, I have no doubt that the end result of this will mostly suck if viewed on it's own merits, but I have to give them credit for one of the most interesting and creative ideas in fan-fiction I've seen in a long time. Hopefully the Lucas hammer of wrath won't destroy this.
No. He'll remaster it and digitize it and release a "Special Edition" version.
Insurance companies will use it to deny health insurance outright or label any diseases that this thing finds as "pre-existing conditions".
There is already a law banning them from doing this.
Yeah, so? If they do it, exactly how do you prove it? And even then if you do prove it by some miracle , all the insurance has to do is say, "Oops, it was an error. We are investigating and we'll correct the problem." They pay a small fine and on they go.
âoeUltimately it could improve the quality of medical care by identifying patients who will gain the greatest benefit from a particular medicine and those who are at most at risk of adverse reaction,â he added.
Insurance companies will use it to deny health insurance outright or label any diseases that this thing finds as "pre-existing conditions".
Travelers to the US will have to stick their fingers and give a DNA sample along with their finger prints and photo.
Government will use for the "war on [insert buzzword here]"
Genetic propensity for mental illness, well, we'll have to keep an eye on you! Especially, if there is some sort of genetic predisposition towards pedophilia - think of the children!
Have to take this DNA test as part of our drug screening. Predisposition towards alcoholism or any other disease or disorder that will send our health care costs through the roof? Well, you don't have the necessary "skills" for this job. Sorry, best of luck finding another job. (Yeah, good luck in proving that we violated the ADA or EEOC!)
nothing but good (TM) can come of this!
It's interesting. While editing this post, my cursor stays as a pointer on the right side of the entry field. To edit, I had to click to the left and then use the arrow keys to get to the right. Any spelling errors left are Slashdot's fault so flame them.
So, when someone does a search behind this router, let's say for a recipe for pork and beans, a porn site comes up with people doing it covered with pork and beans. I see great potential for this.
I wonder, does someone have some sort of problem if all the applications they see for things, no matter how trivia, results in porn being involved?
Wouldn't it be easier to just paint the roof white so that the building reflects more heat and needs less cooling in the summer? (In the winter, insulation will keep the heat inside.)
No. First of all, no house is energy efficient enough to do that. Much of the heat comes in and out through the windows. The materials used in construction are not good insulators and there are many ways the heat comes in and escapes out through the house: cracks and gaps, vent pipes, chimneys, air leaks around receptacles , opening and closing of doors, kitchen vents, etc....
The best you can hope for in a home is to make it as energy efficient as you can.
The CIGS PV cell is called "thin film" because the photoelectric sandwich is deposited as thin layers on top of a GLASS plate.
When I saw "roofers" I immediately thought of the guys that put in the asphalt. Now, the guys who put in the slate or terracotta roofs might be better able to deal since those roofing systems are a bit more complicated and the materials have similar handling characteristics of glass.
Still, more training will be needed.
Oh, and they apparently are (very) moisture-sensitive, so having them last 20-25 years will be difficult.
I guess that will be another revenue stream for the roofers and additional cost associated with these things: routine inspection and maintenance.
Dow Solar Solutions said it expects "an enthusiastic response" from roofing contractors for the new shingles, since they require no specialized skills or knowledge of solar systems to install.
What?!? Roofers just lay out the shingles and nail them up there with pneumatic nail guns. They may not have the skills to wire them, place the wires correctly under the regular shingles to not only preserve the solar shingles but to make sure none of the shingles leak, and I'm sure you can't treat these things like regular shingles: drop them off the truck on to the ground, crane them up to the peak of the roof and let them fold over it and sit there for a couple of days until the installers get there, walk on them, and every other abuse can commit against asphalt shingles because they can take it, after all.
There will have to be some sort of training or there's going to be some really unhappy home owners when their new solar roof doesn't produce as much electricity, if any, as they thought because of screwed up shingles.
Second of all, Intel has enough money and lawyers to have prevented this. They were caught with their pants down.
So, just because they're rich means this is acceptable?
No. It means that Intel should have known better and could have prevented all this to begin with - assuming they didn't ask for their lawyers input.
Those two books have made it into our vernacular and in our everyday news. How many times have you seen "big brother" referred to in the news or commentary? Having them read the book would put it into context.
Fahrenheit 451 is another one. Considering some of the ways that folks on the right and left are trying to ban certain types of literature and speech, that one is necessary.
Those two books had more of a profound impact on me than any science fiction book ever.
Starship Troopers is another one that will put into perspective the relationship of the military, the politicians, and the electorate. It'll put the idea in the kid's head that going to war is always a little more than "fighting for freedom" - especially when it's to go and liberate a country from a dictator in order to put back in the hands of a monarchy (Kuwait).
Friday - no real literary value but it'll keep the little hornballs interested.
His company, Ad Astra's has developing a variable specific impulse magnetoplasma rocket (VASIMR) that has be using to reposition the International Space Station.
Who among us can't claim to have viewed the Holy Grail at least somewhere in the double digits.
I saw it once and wondered what the big deal was. The same goes for the show. PBS had some specials running a while ago where they highlighted each member of the troupe and showed the relevant episodes. I couldn't sit through it - it's just not my kind of humor.
That's the one thing that was really awkward when I was working IT: how to politely get away from folks when they start the one man Monty Python recitation of skits.
The data is very useful when you are training. It can be used to train more efficiently, see how altering training can improve performance, monitor how diet is affecting exercise and it can help immensely in preventing injuries and over train - to name a few. It can also help prevent you from slacking off. It's real easy to start to slow down and with something to remind you of performance you can keep a check on yourself - it kicks into the natural competitiveness.
Not interested until they have the "red light", gambling, bar, and the Tony Benet modules added.
Having a cosmonaut give me some cheap vodka, then betting me that he can give a great blow job and doing it while singing on of Benet's hits doesn't count.
I don't know. Let's say you're developing in C# or VB and you make calls to a library that is really a bunch of C++ classes and methods with a C# or VB wrappers. Then, I'd assume, you would indeed have this problem.
Someone with knowledge of.NET internals care to comment?
Remember that online pet store owner that was suing everyone who left a negative review about him? I don't remember the name - honestly. He got a lot of people to settle out of court for thousands of dollars by threatening them with spending tens of thousands in legal fees defending themselves. He eventually screwed his lawyers.
If the poster of this story is wrong, and posts the company's name, he could be in up to his ass in legal fees and in this economy, the last I'd want to do is spend a dime on legal fees for mistakenly or rightfully accusing a business with unethical behavior.
The poster doesn't have any real concrete evidence - just a couple of test posts and who knows exactly as to why his posts didn't make it. He's doing the right thing in asking others if it has happened to them instead of going off half cocked with accusations. That is the fair and ethical thing to do - even if he's is 100% correct and this online retailer is doing what he thinks.
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Out of curiosity, why can't you? Are you stuck with a Windows only software package? (I'm not asking rhetorically. )
TradElect platform, supplied by Accenture, has finally been answered: yes, it will. This hardly comes as a surprise â" the issue of the platformâ(TM)s speed and efficiency as well as Accentureâ(TM)s support has been a hot topic for the market in the last couple of months.
Accenture? Not exactly a low cost vendor there. Meaning, much of the "costs" of this .NET system is Accenture's high fees.
âWe want to address the entire suite of products and MillenniumIT gives us that scale.â(TM) Indeed, its offshore development centre â" âa hotbed of top graduatesâ(TM) â" with 94 per cent being top-class alumni from Sri Lanka and around the world, including MIT in the US, caters for such magnitude of scope.
Offshoring. They're going with a cheaper, although quite smart, set of folks.
Furthermore, he describes LSEâ(TM)s experience with .Net as âvery positiveâ(TM).
Ok, this looks more like changing vendors and implementation. They also want âfor more control, less costs, and the ability to build and innovateâ(TM).
This really isn't a damning of Microsoft and its technology. This is about going with a cheaper vendor and a software platform that gives them more control to suit their needs.
Me soo sore!
You know, I have no doubt that the end result of this will mostly suck if viewed on it's own merits, but I have to give them credit for one of the most interesting and creative ideas in fan-fiction I've seen in a long time. Hopefully the Lucas hammer of wrath won't destroy this.
No. He'll remaster it and digitize it and release a "Special Edition" version.
that 85% of Mac owners "swing both ways." *runs and hides*
And for those of us that use Windows, Mac, and Linux? We're kinky?
*straightens stockings on hairy legs*
I prefer to use a Mac, but I make lots of $$$ with Windows based software (which is s staple of my industry)
Your industry is ....unsolicited direct email marketing?
Make $$$$ with home v1@gr4 sales!
Sorry, I couldn't resist.
Mac for home/office/media stuff. Windows for games. Or a Windows box for telecommuting because their employer only supports Windows?
Insurance companies will use it to deny health insurance outright or label any diseases that this thing finds as "pre-existing conditions".
There is already a law banning them from doing this.
Yeah, so? If they do it, exactly how do you prove it? And even then if you do prove it by some miracle , all the insurance has to do is say, "Oops, it was an error. We are investigating and we'll correct the problem." They pay a small fine and on they go.
âoeUltimately it could improve the quality of medical care by identifying patients who will gain the greatest benefit from a particular medicine and those who are at most at risk of adverse reaction,â he added.
Insurance companies will use it to deny health insurance outright or label any diseases that this thing finds as "pre-existing conditions".
Travelers to the US will have to stick their fingers and give a DNA sample along with their finger prints and photo.
Government will use for the "war on [insert buzzword here]"
Genetic propensity for mental illness, well, we'll have to keep an eye on you! Especially, if there is some sort of genetic predisposition towards pedophilia - think of the children!
Have to take this DNA test as part of our drug screening. Predisposition towards alcoholism or any other disease or disorder that will send our health care costs through the roof? Well, you don't have the necessary "skills" for this job. Sorry, best of luck finding another job. (Yeah, good luck in proving that we violated the ADA or EEOC!)
nothing but good (TM) can come of this!
It's interesting. While editing this post, my cursor stays as a pointer on the right side of the entry field. To edit, I had to click to the left and then use the arrow keys to get to the right. Any spelling errors left are Slashdot's fault so flame them.
So, when someone does a search behind this router, let's say for a recipe for pork and beans, a porn site comes up with people doing it covered with pork and beans. I see great potential for this.
I wonder, does someone have some sort of problem if all the applications they see for things, no matter how trivia, results in porn being involved?
Wouldn't it be easier to just paint the roof white so that the building reflects more heat and needs less cooling in the summer? (In the winter, insulation will keep the heat inside.)
No. First of all, no house is energy efficient enough to do that. Much of the heat comes in and out through the windows. The materials used in construction are not good insulators and there are many ways the heat comes in and escapes out through the house: cracks and gaps, vent pipes, chimneys, air leaks around receptacles , opening and closing of doors, kitchen vents, etc....
The best you can hope for in a home is to make it as energy efficient as you can.
When I saw "roofers" I immediately thought of the guys that put in the asphalt. Now, the guys who put in the slate or terracotta roofs might be better able to deal since those roofing systems are a bit more complicated and the materials have similar handling characteristics of glass.
Still, more training will be needed.
Oh, and they apparently are (very) moisture-sensitive, so having them last 20-25 years will be difficult.
I guess that will be another revenue stream for the roofers and additional cost associated with these things: routine inspection and maintenance.
Dow Solar Solutions said it expects "an enthusiastic response" from roofing contractors for the new shingles, since they require no specialized skills or knowledge of solar systems to install.
What?!? Roofers just lay out the shingles and nail them up there with pneumatic nail guns. They may not have the skills to wire them, place the wires correctly under the regular shingles to not only preserve the solar shingles but to make sure none of the shingles leak, and I'm sure you can't treat these things like regular shingles: drop them off the truck on to the ground, crane them up to the peak of the roof and let them fold over it and sit there for a couple of days until the installers get there, walk on them, and every other abuse can commit against asphalt shingles because they can take it, after all.
There will have to be some sort of training or there's going to be some really unhappy home owners when their new solar roof doesn't produce as much electricity, if any, as they thought because of screwed up shingles.
Second of all, Intel has enough money and lawyers to have prevented this. They were caught with their pants down. So, just because they're rich means this is acceptable?
No. It means that Intel should have known better and could have prevented all this to begin with - assuming they didn't ask for their lawyers input.
Geeze.
Fahrenheit 451 is another one. Considering some of the ways that folks on the right and left are trying to ban certain types of literature and speech, that one is necessary.
Those two books had more of a profound impact on me than any science fiction book ever.
Starship Troopers is another one that will put into perspective the relationship of the military, the politicians, and the electorate. It'll put the idea in the kid's head that going to war is always a little more than "fighting for freedom" - especially when it's to go and liberate a country from a dictator in order to put back in the hands of a monarchy (Kuwait).
Friday - no real literary value but it'll keep the little hornballs interested.
There, I hope that making more sense.
I guess the Roach Motel of Tech implies bad things about your data.
It'll survive a nuclear holocaust?
The I Love Lucy and The Honeymooners shows are arguably much more influential (and funnier) than Monty Python, as far as actual influence goes.
No they aren't.
MP may have been funny and set the standard for sketch comedy, it doesn't really have much influence on popular culture.
Yes it does.
The two shows mentioned above have essentially defined the groundwork and format for all sitcoms to follow.
No they haven't.
Whether popular culture should be used to judge the positive influence of something could be debated, of course.
No it couldn't.
I disagree.
I saw it once and wondered what the big deal was. The same goes for the show. PBS had some specials running a while ago where they highlighted each member of the troupe and showed the relevant episodes. I couldn't sit through it - it's just not my kind of humor.
That's the one thing that was really awkward when I was working IT: how to politely get away from folks when they start the one man Monty Python recitation of skits.
What, you live in binary years? So, you'll die when you're 0x200?
The data is very useful when you are training. It can be used to train more efficiently, see how altering training can improve performance, monitor how diet is affecting exercise and it can help immensely in preventing injuries and over train - to name a few. It can also help prevent you from slacking off. It's real easy to start to slow down and with something to remind you of performance you can keep a check on yourself - it kicks into the natural competitiveness.
But yeah, definitely take any and all legal recourse.
Having a cosmonaut give me some cheap vodka, then betting me that he can give a great blow job and doing it while singing on of Benet's hits doesn't count.
Someone with knowledge of .NET internals care to comment?
If the poster of this story is wrong, and posts the company's name, he could be in up to his ass in legal fees and in this economy, the last I'd want to do is spend a dime on legal fees for mistakenly or rightfully accusing a business with unethical behavior.
The poster doesn't have any real concrete evidence - just a couple of test posts and who knows exactly as to why his posts didn't make it. He's doing the right thing in asking others if it has happened to them instead of going off half cocked with accusations. That is the fair and ethical thing to do - even if he's is 100% correct and this online retailer is doing what he thinks.