After an 18 month period with almost zero good positions in the area matching my skill set, I've suddenly had 6 interviews in the last 45 days with contacts for more this week. From my very limited subjective experience things are definitely beginning to heat up again.
Not at the same pace, mind you - most companies after having been scared away from IT are just realizing that doing business requires the technology to stay competitive. They aren't hiring at the trumped up rates of a few years ago, but they are at least acknowleding the need and beginning to take steps to fill roles.
Plant matter is quite ineffecient for producing heat, especially when taking into consideration that 80% of a plant's mass is taken up by water - last I was made aware, water is not a particularly good source of fuel unless you can get the hydrogen out.
Alternatively, plants can be refined to a better state of consumption, i.e. vegetable oils for diesel engines:
Yes, I tried to complain to Microsoft about a bug in their software. As a developer of a web-app we came across a limitation in IE, whereby when writing via javascript to the page body of a newly opened window, if those instructures referenced the loading of an external CSS or JavaScript file, the whole mess would lock up and foobar the browser. But only if ActiveDesktop was on, which at that point was a default setting for new installations (and everyone here knows what that means).
'Twas my job to isolate the exact cause and reproduce the example in a portable manner for Microsoft to examine whilst also finding us a workaround.
In the end, the only way we could get that bug report heard and perhaps, maybe possibly attended to in our lifetimes in a future version, was to submit it through a support contract.
That's right, it cost us money to tell them their software was bad and never saw anything in return (used up one of our support instances and that was it). Bravo, Mr. Land-of-indmenifying-software, bravo - we shipped product with the workaround, at additional time and development cost for the labor.
Most US states already have clauses which allow them to tax goods purchased from vendors outside of that state for primary consumption/use within it, specifically applicable to catalogue and mail-order purchases. This is a natural extension of the same, and in fact several states already have open-ended clauses on those catalogue use/purchase laws that encompass internet purchases as well.
These burdens currently rest on the consumer, who must report the gross amount of goods purchased on their year-end taxes to be assessed accordingly.
An additional thought is that mail-order and catalogue goods still count for several times more business than internet sales, though this obviously won't remain the case. I can't see this as too "unfair" if the regulatory bodies are adapting to the new methods of business transactions just as those businesses are.
I'm of the same school of thought, keep the writing process as simple as possible so as not to occlude the creativity.
To that end, I have an AlphaSmart(.com) - a small portable keyboard, 4 lines of text, capable of storing about 100 pages (12pt. single spaced courier) of information. It runs on 3 AA (LR6) batteries and gets between 500-700 hours (no, no missing decimal points) of active use per set. I honestly haven't changed them in over a year. All active memory too, never worry about saving - it's always there no matter when it's turned off.
It emulates a keyboard when hooked up to a host machine, so open your favorite app and hit "Send" and the text is put in wherever you want it; connects via ADB, PS2, and USB. The only additional feature I've ever wished for was a VI interface on it to speed up some editing proceedures.
I highly recommend any freelance writer, journalist, novelist, student, etc. take a look at the device. They have a newer model running PalmOS for those who might be interested as well (no Linux, yet).
The only fair ruling to this would be that yes, the game may have been influential: BUT, the responsibility of the parents' was far greater than that of the manufacturers. This being the case, any amount awarded to the parents should be used as a base number for the 99.999X (percentage of PARENT's responsibility) award granted in return to the manufacturers for libel.
Bloody arrogant Yanks - "America," right? This word is not exclusive of all but the "United States Of." Especially in SOUTH America they take great offense to the use of this word in such an absolute and restricted manner.
Popular acceptance of this term in most countries does not validate its reality: for similar examples, popular purchasing power/opinion/voting has *NOT* given Britney nor Timberlake the ability to sing, caused Telemarketers to be dragged to the street and shot, nor given Gore the Presidential seat.
Pull the collective head out and travel a bit, will you?
DISCLAIMER: This was written by a citizen of the U.S.A.
The console itself is purchased, not the right to *use* the console under a predetermined licensing agreement.
Now the software is entirely a different issue - some games may indeed try to force an EULA on you upon purchase to allow such activities (which would become a sticky situation when renting), or enrollment into the XBOX Live system, but the hardware itself is yours to keep and do whatever you want to.
So the RIAA, now acting as a self-appointed (though I'm sure soon to be ratified in congress) legal authority is trying to litigate it's way into survival in a slump economy. I'm willing to bet that if all the funds being poored into that litigation and threat of litigation, all the marketing campaigns delivering that "fear and awe" message and so on were counted up they would far out-weigh their income from the effort. But of course, that being the case as well they can claim it's part of the cost of "music piracy."
Worst of all, anything which *does* come in will do so under the labels of "legal costs" and "recouping of damages from lost revenues." Since the music itself was never sold, the artists will never receive a portion of the royalty - thus by charging for the music they're not selling the RIAA gets to keep the lion's share.
Software has *pushed* that hardware development. The complexity of what we've been attempting to accomplish has skyrocketed, but in a "rapid-application-development-first-to-market" mentality that creates such utterly bloated programs that it now takes a high class system to do the same tasks that used to be in demand, but in a prettier way.
I'd vote for more efficient software personally, but that's also because I'm a pack rat that can't let go of any of my hold hardware.
It's called an IBM MicroDrive, though it's also resold and branded through Iomega (without any different under the hood). They are mostly CF compatible, though the voltage requirements are a little different so the device needs to be MicroDrive compatible and not just CD.
The 1GB CF form factor drive runs for ~$260 on eBay including PCMCIA adapter for laptiops. Buying 4 of these at that price would save you $460 on the cost of a single 4GB CF.
I earnestly believe that there is a fundamental unseen organization to the cosmos, administered by intelligence. That is, even independent of any perceived reward for activity upon this belief for myself, I feel that these things are. I feel this belief morally, logically, and spiritually.
My role within it is a matter of personal improvement, I find the guidelines of this perception to be helpful and indeed rewarding - but it is not a perception shaped by a need to control moral behavior or satisfy an otherwise unanswerable despair.
Perhaps I should have clarified in my original post, that, "I don't perecieve my participation in religion to be a self administered mental opiate for (my) placation..."
To look at this from a point of secular evolution, exherting an influence over the masses was only one particular motivation; that it would maintain a power for few over that of the many. Even the un- or ill- educated wouldn't have thrown straight in with that lot, as it would be a voluntary loss of freedom - also, those in power would have little need to control the perceived morality of others unless it had a direct hold on the ability to control itself.
The motivation originally was the other way round - to liberate the downtrodden with thoughts of an eventual better, even if not realized in this life. How else could one prevent from despairing in the worst of conditions (which were pretty bad way back when all survival was short and toilsom) than not to accept them as a final end? To endow the afterlife with possibility was to achieve sustaining hope.
Eventually, yes, this hope began to be exploited through craftiness to maintain comforts by plying on the beliefs of others (though of course there were some genuine believers in it all). This is speaking to the rise of Western religions.
That's looking at it secularly - I don't perceive religion myself to be any kind of self administered mental opiate for my placation, but how I genuinely feel the cosmos to be organized for the sake of its own existence.
Sorry for the caps, need this to get more attention than the parent post. This was not done in Hanford, but rather at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina (dunno how I confused'em).
PBS did a special on this in their "Intimate Strangers" series on microbes - so titled because they're everywhere and represent a major interdependency but largely unacknowledged.
This was done before on a test site near the Hanford nuclear facility in Washington (state), US. Only with that, they used the population of microbes already in the area that needed methane in order to properly metabolize the contaminated elements. They pumped a continuous stream of methane into the ground to help the microbes thrive and do their job, and when finished simply turned it off and let them return to natural levels.
A simple control mechanism such as that, especially using elements already found in nature, will be far more acceptable to the general public (fed on many a recent techno-thriller) as well as the tin-foil-beanie crowd (though just barely).
I've used Scribus before and absolutely love it - it might not be ready for DTP prime-time, but for anyone who likes both DTP and Linux it's a breeze to use and really quite powerful. The results are far better than any other publishing/composing app I've used on Linux, the interface is clean and straightforward, and the support from the development team and activity on the mailing lists is wonderful.
Highly recommended - 5 stars, especially for a 1.0 release.
In related news, Webster's Dictionary has altered the spelling of "Fraud," to be more in line with its common use as "Advertising". The two entries have been merged under this same name despite maintaining two distinct definitions under the hood.
Why is it that whenever this phrase appears, you always know that the unnecessary reference is about to make a guest appearance? You can at least correct it a smidgeon, to "No need to elaborate on/expound/extoll/etc."
I recently read an article where a pair of scientists are now working on 3D printing techniques using living cells as their ink on a temperature sensitive material that easily melts away afterward, allowing them to create more potentially more complex shapes of tissue samples. Integration of electronic components at a building stage like this would be earily simple (relatively speaking).
I'd have to say that it's rather inverse for them (for the most part). Yes it's possible to put a checkmark next to all of those elements because they do exist, but not in the quantities proposed by the formula.
For LOTR, plot takes a hefty lead. It's a matter of story first and foremost.
Action/Special Effects splits for second as they are both heavily intertwined. It is worthy of note however that the special effects in this case aren't for the sake of, "Hey, lookit me, I'm a special effect!" but rather an assist to the nature of the storytelling thus bolstering the plot.
Good vs. Evil is an element of plot, as it is simply a classification of conflict. I can't believe they even separated this out.
Music, Comedy, love/sex/romance fall to the bottom of the scale. Like you say, all the elements are there - but hardly in fitting proportions.
Maybe you enjoyed them in those quantities, which would mean you fit a major portion of the demographic they're attacking with this formula.
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It's just VoIP, of course it's humane.
It's not like they're migrating them to Eunuchs or anything.
After an 18 month period with almost zero good positions in the area matching my skill set, I've suddenly had 6 interviews in the last 45 days with contacts for more this week. From my very limited subjective experience things are definitely beginning to heat up again.
Not at the same pace, mind you - most companies after having been scared away from IT are just realizing that doing business requires the technology to stay competitive. They aren't hiring at the trumped up rates of a few years ago, but they are at least acknowleding the need and beginning to take steps to fill roles.
Plant matter is quite ineffecient for producing heat, especially when taking into consideration that 80% of a plant's mass is taken up by water - last I was made aware, water is not a particularly good source of fuel unless you can get the hydrogen out.
Alternatively, plants can be refined to a better state of consumption, i.e. vegetable oils for diesel engines:
http://www.greasecar.com/
Yes, I tried to complain to Microsoft about a bug in their software. As a developer of a web-app we came across a limitation in IE, whereby when writing via javascript to the page body of a newly opened window, if those instructures referenced the loading of an external CSS or JavaScript file, the whole mess would lock up and foobar the browser. But only if ActiveDesktop was on, which at that point was a default setting for new installations (and everyone here knows what that means).
'Twas my job to isolate the exact cause and reproduce the example in a portable manner for Microsoft to examine whilst also finding us a workaround.
In the end, the only way we could get that bug report heard and perhaps, maybe possibly attended to in our lifetimes in a future version, was to submit it through a support contract.
That's right, it cost us money to tell them their software was bad and never saw anything in return (used up one of our support instances and that was it). Bravo, Mr. Land-of-indmenifying-software, bravo - we shipped product with the workaround, at additional time and development cost for the labor.
You must be new around here - when asking such a question/making such a claim, the proper format is:
Bluetooth is dead; long live bluetooth!
Just FYI.
So you can write a piece of software easily abbreviated and referred to as "clit".
Apologies, I'm not noremally this base in nature or humor but this one was begging for it.
Most US states already have clauses which allow them to tax goods purchased from vendors outside of that state for primary consumption/use within it, specifically applicable to catalogue and mail-order purchases. This is a natural extension of the same, and in fact several states already have open-ended clauses on those catalogue use/purchase laws that encompass internet purchases as well.
These burdens currently rest on the consumer, who must report the gross amount of goods purchased on their year-end taxes to be assessed accordingly.
An additional thought is that mail-order and catalogue goods still count for several times more business than internet sales, though this obviously won't remain the case. I can't see this as too "unfair" if the regulatory bodies are adapting to the new methods of business transactions just as those businesses are.
I'm of the same school of thought, keep the writing process as simple as possible so as not to occlude the creativity.
To that end, I have an AlphaSmart(.com) - a small portable keyboard, 4 lines of text, capable of storing about 100 pages (12pt. single spaced courier) of information. It runs on 3 AA (LR6) batteries and gets between 500-700 hours (no, no missing decimal points) of active use per set. I honestly haven't changed them in over a year. All active memory too, never worry about saving - it's always there no matter when it's turned off.
It emulates a keyboard when hooked up to a host machine, so open your favorite app and hit "Send" and the text is put in wherever you want it; connects via ADB, PS2, and USB. The only additional feature I've ever wished for was a VI interface on it to speed up some editing proceedures.
I highly recommend any freelance writer, journalist, novelist, student, etc. take a look at the device. They have a newer model running PalmOS for those who might be interested as well (no Linux, yet).
The only fair ruling to this would be that yes, the game may have been influential: BUT, the responsibility of the parents' was far greater than that of the manufacturers. This being the case, any amount awarded to the parents should be used as a base number for the 99.999X (percentage of PARENT's responsibility) award granted in return to the manufacturers for libel.
Bloody arrogant Yanks - "America," right? This word is not exclusive of all but the "United States Of." Especially in SOUTH America they take great offense to the use of this word in such an absolute and restricted manner.
Popular acceptance of this term in most countries does not validate its reality: for similar examples, popular purchasing power/opinion/voting has *NOT* given Britney nor Timberlake the ability to sing, caused Telemarketers to be dragged to the street and shot, nor given Gore the Presidential seat.
Pull the collective head out and travel a bit, will you?
DISCLAIMER: This was written by a citizen of the U.S.A.
The console itself is purchased, not the right to *use* the console under a predetermined licensing agreement.
Now the software is entirely a different issue - some games may indeed try to force an EULA on you upon purchase to allow such activities (which would become a sticky situation when renting), or enrollment into the XBOX Live system, but the hardware itself is yours to keep and do whatever you want to.
So the RIAA, now acting as a self-appointed (though I'm sure soon to be ratified in congress) legal authority is trying to litigate it's way into survival in a slump economy. I'm willing to bet that if all the funds being poored into that litigation and threat of litigation, all the marketing campaigns delivering that "fear and awe" message and so on were counted up they would far out-weigh their income from the effort. But of course, that being the case as well they can claim it's part of the cost of "music piracy."
Worst of all, anything which *does* come in will do so under the labels of "legal costs" and "recouping of damages from lost revenues." Since the music itself was never sold, the artists will never receive a portion of the royalty - thus by charging for the music they're not selling the RIAA gets to keep the lion's share.
@#$* that.
Software has *pushed* that hardware development. The complexity of what we've been attempting to accomplish has skyrocketed, but in a "rapid-application-development-first-to-market" mentality that creates such utterly bloated programs that it now takes a high class system to do the same tasks that used to be in demand, but in a prettier way.
I'd vote for more efficient software personally, but that's also because I'm a pack rat that can't let go of any of my hold hardware.
Not if you're a subscriber.
It's called an IBM MicroDrive, though it's also resold and branded through Iomega (without any different under the hood). They are mostly CF compatible, though the voltage requirements are a little different so the device needs to be MicroDrive compatible and not just CD.
The 1GB CF form factor drive runs for ~$260 on eBay including PCMCIA adapter for laptiops. Buying 4 of these at that price would save you $460 on the cost of a single 4GB CF.
I earnestly believe that there is a fundamental unseen organization to the cosmos, administered by intelligence. That is, even independent of any perceived reward for activity upon this belief for myself, I feel that these things are. I feel this belief morally, logically, and spiritually.
My role within it is a matter of personal improvement, I find the guidelines of this perception to be helpful and indeed rewarding - but it is not a perception shaped by a need to control moral behavior or satisfy an otherwise unanswerable despair.
Perhaps I should have clarified in my original post, that, "I don't perecieve my participation in religion to be a self administered mental opiate for (my) placation..."
To look at this from a point of secular evolution, exherting an influence over the masses was only one particular motivation; that it would maintain a power for few over that of the many. Even the un- or ill- educated wouldn't have thrown straight in with that lot, as it would be a voluntary loss of freedom - also, those in power would have little need to control the perceived morality of others unless it had a direct hold on the ability to control itself.
The motivation originally was the other way round - to liberate the downtrodden with thoughts of an eventual better, even if not realized in this life. How else could one prevent from despairing in the worst of conditions (which were pretty bad way back when all survival was short and toilsom) than not to accept them as a final end? To endow the afterlife with possibility was to achieve sustaining hope.
Eventually, yes, this hope began to be exploited through craftiness to maintain comforts by plying on the beliefs of others (though of course there were some genuine believers in it all). This is speaking to the rise of Western religions.
That's looking at it secularly - I don't perceive religion myself to be any kind of self administered mental opiate for my placation, but how I genuinely feel the cosmos to be organized for the sake of its own existence.
Sorry for the caps, need this to get more attention than the parent post. This was not done in Hanford, but rather at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina (dunno how I confused'em).
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PBS did a special on this in their "Intimate Strangers" series on microbes - so titled because they're everywhere and represent a major interdependency but largely unacknowledged.
A summary of that particular episode is at: http://www.pbs.org/opb/intimatestrangers/newage/b
This was done before on a test site near the Hanford nuclear facility in Washington (state), US. Only with that, they used the population of microbes already in the area that needed methane in order to properly metabolize the contaminated elements. They pumped a continuous stream of methane into the ground to help the microbes thrive and do their job, and when finished simply turned it off and let them return to natural levels.
A simple control mechanism such as that, especially using elements already found in nature, will be far more acceptable to the general public (fed on many a recent techno-thriller) as well as the tin-foil-beanie crowd (though just barely).
I've used Scribus before and absolutely love it - it might not be ready for DTP prime-time, but for anyone who likes both DTP and Linux it's a breeze to use and really quite powerful. The results are far better than any other publishing/composing app I've used on Linux, the interface is clean and straightforward, and the support from the development team and activity on the mailing lists is wonderful.
Highly recommended - 5 stars, especially for a 1.0 release.
In related news, Webster's Dictionary has altered the spelling of "Fraud," to be more in line with its common use as "Advertising". The two entries have been merged under this same name despite maintaining two distinct definitions under the hood.
Of course, there's no need to mention...
Why is it that whenever this phrase appears, you always know that the unnecessary reference is about to make a guest appearance? You can at least correct it a smidgeon, to "No need to elaborate on/expound/extoll/etc."
Sheesh.
I recently read an article where a pair of scientists are now working on 3D printing techniques using living cells as their ink on a temperature sensitive material that easily melts away afterward, allowing them to create more potentially more complex shapes of tissue samples. Integration of electronic components at a building stage like this would be earily simple (relatively speaking).
You certainly won't find any prior art for it at the patent office.
I'd have to say that it's rather inverse for them (for the most part). Yes it's possible to put a checkmark next to all of those elements because they do exist, but not in the quantities proposed by the formula.
For LOTR, plot takes a hefty lead. It's a matter of story first and foremost.
Action/Special Effects splits for second as they are both heavily intertwined. It is worthy of note however that the special effects in this case aren't for the sake of, "Hey, lookit me, I'm a special effect!" but rather an assist to the nature of the storytelling thus bolstering the plot.
Good vs. Evil is an element of plot, as it is simply a classification of conflict. I can't believe they even separated this out.
Music, Comedy, love/sex/romance fall to the bottom of the scale. Like you say, all the elements are there - but hardly in fitting proportions.
Maybe you enjoyed them in those quantities, which would mean you fit a major portion of the demographic they're attacking with this formula.