Though it is complicated by the government service issue, there are ways to measure performance...
- Salt the case load with fictitious, bogus applications intended to be declined. In fact, this can both detect work that is disingenuous, and start applying some quality checks. Applications that are so flawed as to be obvious can be expected to fall through as approved if examiners are just phoning it in.
- Break up the review process, no insight into the next step for any examiner. At some point, some examiners will be doing too little work to keep up, or the backlog will inspire some investigation. Perhaps.
- This is an oldie. Full tracking of the examiner's work, down to the keystroke.
- Even older, time to put up the performance chart. Peer pressure will probably not work in Civil Service, but it's a valiant try nonetheless.
Now, the real trick is how to measure performance. That scares me.
- The first would waste 1 or 2 days of patent examiner time per bogus application. On top of that, each bogus application could only be used a handful of times before they were known throughout the section, so the ~$10-50K it would take to hire patent agents to create each bogus application would add up quickly. Copypasta applications would be too easy to spot, as would ones that are quickly thrown together. A 500 page patent application from a pharma is not something you just whiz together overnight. A better bet might be to just assign the same application to two examiners 5% of the time and then compare the first office actions they submit. That would work so long as examiners can't compare their caseloads...
- Breaking up the review process would mean that many patent examiners would have to familiarize themselves with each patent as opposed to just one. That could easily double or triple the man hours necessary to examine each patent, and significantly delay each office action. Which is why I suggested only duplicating the effort 5% of the time.
- Full tracking of their workload would be a PITA all around. A program that monitors how many hours are actually spent on each portion of the examination, as well as when those hours are spent, would be good enough.
- Performance charts, monitoring, rank and yank, etc: might work in biotech and organic chemistry sections where there is no shortage of qualified applicants, but in IT if you make the working conditions any more unpleasant everyone will just head off to the private sector. If you want examiners willing and able to work like patent attorneys, you'll have to compete on the patent attorney pay scale ($250k per year and up).
The problem with "a la carte cable channels" is the presumption that people want channels. They want shows that are suited to their tastes. The center of value is the program, that's what brings in the people, but due to underlying economics, the center of costs remains the channel, this Netflix must offer its subscription on a channel-wise, take-it-all or leave-it-all basis.
Increasingly I'd say that's more true of cordcutters than cable subscribers. Some folks want a continuous background of thematically related stuff they can vaguely watch for hours and hours at a time: a channel. The underlying economics you mentioned make that much harder for Netflix or anyone else whose content delivery costs are directionally proportional to the amount of content consumed per customer. Cable companies traditional delivery costs were pretty much the same whether you left the TV on 24/7 or just watched 12 episodes of The Wire per year.
The links for soy protein don't say much. The first is a single case study based on a guy drinking 3 quarts of soy milk a day. The second concludes:
Only one study has examined soy and whey protein supplementation together in conjunction with resistance training. Kalman et al. [46] reported that after 12 weeks of supplementation with soy there were no significant differences between groups for total testosterone, free testosterone, and SHBG. This study expanded upon the limited prior research examining the effects of soy and whey protein supplementation on testosterone, SHBG, and cortisol responses to an acute bout of resistance exercise. Contrary to popular misconceptions, soy protein supplementation does not appear to hinder anabolic signaling postexercise by means of eliciting increases in estradiol concentrations. However, our main findings demonstrate that 14 days of supplementation with soy protein does appear to blunt serum testosterone. In addition, whey might influence the response of cortisol during an acute bout of resistance exercise by also blunting its normal increase. Further research will need to explore a possible interaction effect on sex hormone binding globulin.
There is nothing anti-science about having slaves and
Of course that is anti-science. Any economist would tell you that it is much cheaper to just get rid of minimum wage and overtime laws and then put your workers in a company town than it is to import, purchase and maintain slaves.
Connections, yes, but also peers. Are you surrounded by incredibly smart and ambitious people in your school? Do they have Incredible work ethics, creative ideas, already planning the companies they want to start? Or are you surrounded by people who are going to college because, um, it's what you do after high school and before real life?
Some folks will do a lot or a litte no matter what their environment is, others will take a lot of cues from the folks around them.
As I understand it Bukkit is a mod licensed under the GPL. The Minecraft server is proprietary. They don't share any code, so individually they're not derivates of anything. CraftBukkit combines the server code with the mod code. This is illegal both ways - the server license doesn't let you link to Bukkit, the Bukkit license doesn't let you link to the proprietary server.
You either just described what the argument is about in an accurate, succinct and understandable way (a first for this thread) or you are completely wrong in a succinct and understandable way. You should really do technical writing or PR on the side, depending on which is true.
He rightly claims that Bukkit is distributed in violation of the GPL, because it contains parts of Minecraft server that aren't licensed under the GPL, and that license violation is grounds for the DMCA takedown/p>
OK, I'm confused. Bukkit contains parts of Minecraft server or reverse engineered parts of Minecraft server?
Smart watch buckle + smart ring = phone. Wear whatever nice looking watch you like: the buckle will have a microphone added to it. The ring has a speaker. Hold your hand up to your ear and you have a phone. That or glue-on beauty marks will become the fad when they become the microphone.
1. You're right, temperature control is pretty tangential to the costs, but you absolutely do need automated control. 2. The cell phone acts as an imager for the results, it doesn't control the reaction.
As a an early adopter of the the first i pod touch I shelled out 600 dollars Australian with the intention that within a matter of months a decent.pdf reader and asociated apps would spring up allowing me to reads books and all of the scientific literature i could get my hands on..
-Keegan
I went the opposite route because no matter the.pdf software, scientific literature means text that can't be reflowed, tiny fonts (the subscripts and superscripts tend to be important), and needing to see the entire page at once to avoid spending more time flipping pages between the figure legend and the figure than trying to understand the content. A 10" color screen is pretty much the minimum.
True, but the anti-monopoly justification is being used against foreign corporations in lots of different industries: mobile phones,car parts, eyewear, shipping... they're also using other methods to go against foreign drug companies. Getting "Windows on the cheap - Or Else" is just one part of China flexing its muscles in new ways.
If you sell more porn by calling the users athletes, then yes. Hell, so long as the fitness tracker is on an armband they'll get credit for the calories burned, so why not?
Then there's the use of expensive still patented drugs in cases where equally good generics are just as usable at a tenth the price. That's not caused by an excess of regulation.
A lot of the time that is happening because a doctor fought an insurance benefits manager for days to keep a patient on the expensive drug because the generics also used for the condition aren't nearly as good for that for that particular patient. "me too" drugs almost always benefit some groups of patients more than the first in class drug does. If they didn't they couldn't get approved.
Many of the really expensive new drugs are actually quite expensive to produce as well. Turns out scaling up production of antibodies is a bitch, so is producing a custom one-off antibody to treat a single patient's cancer.
Guess what: until recently you had both. Some batches of that imported generic lipitor you took in the 'aughts quite likely had little of the active ingredient, due to nonexistent QC protocols at the time. A few billion dollars in fines, plants getting banned from exporting to the US, and increased inspections of foreign plants by the FDA is (hopefully) making the situation better.
Did you ever wonder why nobody else makes the old formulation when it goes generic? It;s because the holder of the exclusive on the new formulation pays them not to.
That did happen, so congress made the practice illegal. So instead the the Pharma and the generic manufacturer would enter a careful dance of lawsuits concerning infringement, which would end up with the Pharma settling and paying the generic some money. Congress Made that illegal too... to some extent. Loopholes remain. Basically a Pharma can keep exclusivity for 6-24 months after the patent runs out depending on how they work it. When the first generic competitor finally comes online, there is very little change in price. Neither wants to start a price war. The big price drop happens when the third generic manufacturer joins the party, at which point competition for market share overtakes the lure of high profit margins.
Unless you are using a specific quote from a specific journalist that really doesn't matter: both spellings are now in common usage when using the phrase. If your audience is likely to include people persnickety about journalism, use lede. Now can we finish off the grammarians who insist that fewer be used instead of "less than"? Just because because it was "proper" english for a short period of time doesn't mean we are stuck with the rule indefinitely.
Closer. I think for game publishers the term mostly includes people they make money off of through advertising/personal data harvesting. Your only gaming is Angry Birds while sitting on the toilet? You're still a gamer.
Maybe. But their ratings are down so more likely they realized that 2 hosts makes for a much less expensive show to produce even if the other three aren't demanding salary increases, They might lose a few viewers for dumping Kari but they won't take a hit on the other two.
But it probably took another 30 minutes to arrange for a puff piece in Slashdot to promote Tesla's charging stations. Let's talk instead about how fast a Tesla's battery degrades if you use superchargers at 200 amps+ as opposed to your home charger.
It should be noted that while Obamacare is no more socialist than taxes in general, it does have the unfortunate side-effect of decentivizing preventative health care. It's not exactly analogous to the "tragedy of the commons" theory since preventative measures are presumably still better for you in the long run, but it's not hard to imagine that people will become less healthy as a result having minimal fiscal responsibility for the outcome.
I don't think you can really make that case. Do upper middle class people with "Cadillac" insurance plans make less use of their preventative health care coverage than people who have been given subsidized coverage under the ACA? After all they have enjoyed out of pocket caps for a long time, and thus have been effectively deincentivized for a long time. Also, regardless of your insurance, the biggest fiscal impact of poor health is its effect on your career, not the medical bills. You can escape medical bills at the cost of your credit rating; escaping unemployment can be more difficult. I'd also doubt that many people will decide to let their health slip because they now think they can afford diabetes meds in the future whereas before they thought they would end up doing without.: Not being able to afford preventative health care in the first place is a big disincentive too.
The m&m clause was an example. If you, as an engineer, present yourself as a prima donna, disheveled, or otherwise cause yourself to be seen as putting your proclivities above their own, clients will be that much more on guard against you trying to satisfy your own interests as opposed to theirs. It will now be your (or more likely someone else's) job to convince the clients that your professionalism rises above the perceived disrespect or cluelessness.
Trading the graphic tee and shorts for a nicer shirt and jeans right before the meeting isn't a whole lot to ask. Is it really worth making more work for everyone else just so you can have everything your own way?
If you, as an engineer, present yourself as a prima donna, disheveled, or otherwise cause yourself to be seen as putting your proclivities above their own, clients will be that much more on guard against you trying to satisfy your own interests as opposed to theirs. It will now be your (or more likely someone else's) job to convince the clients that your professionalism rises above the perceived disrespect or cluelessness.
Trading the graphic tee and shorts for a nicer shirt and jeans right before the meeting isn't a whole lot to ask. Is it really worth making more work for everyone else just so you can have everything your own way?
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Though it is complicated by the government service issue, there are ways to measure performance...
- Salt the case load with fictitious, bogus applications intended to be declined. In fact, this can both detect work that is disingenuous, and start applying some quality checks. Applications that are so flawed as to be obvious can be expected to fall through as approved if examiners are just phoning it in.
- Break up the review process, no insight into the next step for any examiner. At some point, some examiners will be doing too little work to keep up, or the backlog will inspire some investigation. Perhaps.
- This is an oldie. Full tracking of the examiner's work, down to the keystroke.
- Even older, time to put up the performance chart. Peer pressure will probably not work in Civil Service, but it's a valiant try nonetheless.
Now, the real trick is how to measure performance. That scares me.
- The first would waste 1 or 2 days of patent examiner time per bogus application. On top of that, each bogus application could only be used a handful of times before they were known throughout the section, so the ~$10-50K it would take to hire patent agents to create each bogus application would add up quickly. Copypasta applications would be too easy to spot, as would ones that are quickly thrown together. A 500 page patent application from a pharma is not something you just whiz together overnight. A better bet might be to just assign the same application to two examiners 5% of the time and then compare the first office actions they submit. That would work so long as examiners can't compare their caseloads ...
- Breaking up the review process would mean that many patent examiners would have to familiarize themselves with each patent as opposed to just one. That could easily double or triple the man hours necessary to examine each patent, and significantly delay each office action. Which is why I suggested only duplicating the effort 5% of the time.
- Full tracking of their workload would be a PITA all around. A program that monitors how many hours are actually spent on each portion of the examination, as well as when those hours are spent, would be good enough.
- Performance charts, monitoring, rank and yank, etc: might work in biotech and organic chemistry sections where there is no shortage of qualified applicants, but in IT if you make the working conditions any more unpleasant everyone will just head off to the private sector. If you want examiners willing and able to work like patent attorneys, you'll have to compete on the patent attorney pay scale ($250k per year and up).
The problem with "a la carte cable channels" is the presumption that people want channels. They want shows that are suited to their tastes. The center of value is the program, that's what brings in the people, but due to underlying economics, the center of costs remains the channel, this Netflix must offer its subscription on a channel-wise, take-it-all or leave-it-all basis.
Increasingly I'd say that's more true of cordcutters than cable subscribers. Some folks want a continuous background of thematically related stuff they can vaguely watch for hours and hours at a time: a channel. The underlying economics you mentioned make that much harder for Netflix or anyone else whose content delivery costs are directionally proportional to the amount of content consumed per customer. Cable companies traditional delivery costs were pretty much the same whether you left the TV on 24/7 or just watched 12 episodes of The Wire per year.
And if I want some privacy and protection against password snoopers for some features that I want to control on my home server I'm -
Home server? Forget the VPN issue, that's a banning right there.
Only one study has examined soy and whey protein supplementation together in conjunction with resistance training. Kalman et al. [46] reported that after 12 weeks of supplementation with soy there were no significant differences between groups for total testosterone, free testosterone, and SHBG. This study expanded upon the limited prior research examining the effects of soy and whey protein supplementation on testosterone, SHBG, and cortisol responses to an acute bout of resistance exercise. Contrary to popular misconceptions, soy protein supplementation does not appear to hinder anabolic signaling postexercise by means of eliciting increases in estradiol concentrations. However, our main findings demonstrate that 14 days of supplementation with soy protein does appear to blunt serum testosterone. In addition, whey might influence the response of cortisol during an acute bout of resistance exercise by also blunting its normal increase. Further research will need to explore a possible interaction effect on sex hormone binding globulin.
There is nothing anti-science about having slaves and
Of course that is anti-science. Any economist would tell you that it is much cheaper to just get rid of minimum wage and overtime laws and then put your workers in a company town than it is to import, purchase and maintain slaves.
Some folks will do a lot or a litte no matter what their environment is, others will take a lot of cues from the folks around them.
As I understand it Bukkit is a mod licensed under the GPL. The Minecraft server is proprietary. They don't share any code, so individually they're not derivates of anything. CraftBukkit combines the server code with the mod code. This is illegal both ways - the server license doesn't let you link to Bukkit, the Bukkit license doesn't let you link to the proprietary server.
You either just described what the argument is about in an accurate, succinct and understandable way (a first for this thread) or you are completely wrong in a succinct and understandable way. You should really do technical writing or PR on the side, depending on which is true.
He rightly claims that Bukkit is distributed in violation of the GPL, because it contains parts of Minecraft server that aren't licensed under the GPL, and that license violation is grounds for the DMCA takedown /p>
OK, I'm confused. Bukkit contains parts of Minecraft server or reverse engineered parts of Minecraft server?
Smart watch buckle + smart ring = phone. Wear whatever nice looking watch you like: the buckle will have a microphone added to it. The ring has a speaker. Hold your hand up to your ear and you have a phone. That or glue-on beauty marks will become the fad when they become the microphone.
1. You're right, temperature control is pretty tangential to the costs, but you absolutely do need automated control. 2. The cell phone acts as an imager for the results, it doesn't control the reaction.
As a an early adopter of the the first i pod touch I shelled out 600 dollars Australian with the intention that within a matter of months a decent .pdf reader and asociated apps would spring up allowing me to reads books and all of the scientific literature i could get my hands on. .
-Keegan
I went the opposite route because no matter the .pdf software, scientific literature means text that can't be reflowed, tiny fonts (the subscripts and superscripts tend to be important), and needing to see the entire page at once to avoid spending more time flipping pages between the figure legend and the figure than trying to understand the content. A 10" color screen is pretty much the minimum.
True, but the anti-monopoly justification is being used against foreign corporations in lots of different industries: mobile phones,car parts, eyewear, shipping... they're also using other methods to go against foreign drug companies. Getting "Windows on the cheap - Or Else" is just one part of China flexing its muscles in new ways.
If you sell more porn by calling the users athletes, then yes. Hell, so long as the fitness tracker is on an armband they'll get credit for the calories burned, so why not?
Who gets the honey crisp and who gets the road?
Then there's the use of expensive still patented drugs in cases where equally good generics are just as usable at a tenth the price. That's not caused by an excess of regulation.
A lot of the time that is happening because a doctor fought an insurance benefits manager for days to keep a patient on the expensive drug because the generics also used for the condition aren't nearly as good for that for that particular patient. "me too" drugs almost always benefit some groups of patients more than the first in class drug does. If they didn't they couldn't get approved.
Many of the really expensive new drugs are actually quite expensive to produce as well. Turns out scaling up production of antibodies is a bitch, so is producing a custom one-off antibody to treat a single patient's cancer.
Guess what: until recently you had both. Some batches of that imported generic lipitor you took in the 'aughts quite likely had little of the active ingredient, due to nonexistent QC protocols at the time. A few billion dollars in fines, plants getting banned from exporting to the US, and increased inspections of foreign plants by the FDA is (hopefully) making the situation better.
Did you ever wonder why nobody else makes the old formulation when it goes generic? It;s because the holder of the exclusive on the new formulation pays them not to.
That did happen, so congress made the practice illegal. So instead the the Pharma and the generic manufacturer would enter a careful dance of lawsuits concerning infringement, which would end up with the Pharma settling and paying the generic some money. Congress Made that illegal too ... to some extent. Loopholes remain. Basically a Pharma can keep exclusivity for 6-24 months after the patent runs out depending on how they work it. When the first generic competitor finally comes online, there is very little change in price. Neither wants to start a price war. The big price drop happens when the third generic manufacturer joins the party, at which point competition for market share overtakes the lure of high profit margins.
Unless you are using a specific quote from a specific journalist that really doesn't matter: both spellings are now in common usage when using the phrase. If your audience is likely to include people persnickety about journalism, use lede. Now can we finish off the grammarians who insist that fewer be used instead of "less than"? Just because because it was "proper" english for a short period of time doesn't mean we are stuck with the rule indefinitely.
Closer. I think for game publishers the term mostly includes people they make money off of through advertising/personal data harvesting. Your only gaming is Angry Birds while sitting on the toilet? You're still a gamer.
Maybe. But their ratings are down so more likely they realized that 2 hosts makes for a much less expensive show to produce even if the other three aren't demanding salary increases, They might lose a few viewers for dumping Kari but they won't take a hit on the other two.
But it probably took another 30 minutes to arrange for a puff piece in Slashdot to promote Tesla's charging stations. Let's talk instead about how fast a Tesla's battery degrades if you use superchargers at 200 amps+ as opposed to your home charger.
It should be noted that while Obamacare is no more socialist than taxes in general, it does have the unfortunate side-effect of decentivizing preventative health care. It's not exactly analogous to the "tragedy of the commons" theory since preventative measures are presumably still better for you in the long run, but it's not hard to imagine that people will become less healthy as a result having minimal fiscal responsibility for the outcome.
I don't think you can really make that case. Do upper middle class people with "Cadillac" insurance plans make less use of their preventative health care coverage than people who have been given subsidized coverage under the ACA? After all they have enjoyed out of pocket caps for a long time, and thus have been effectively deincentivized for a long time. Also, regardless of your insurance, the biggest fiscal impact of poor health is its effect on your career, not the medical bills. You can escape medical bills at the cost of your credit rating; escaping unemployment can be more difficult. I'd also doubt that many people will decide to let their health slip because they now think they can afford diabetes meds in the future whereas before they thought they would end up doing without.: Not being able to afford preventative health care in the first place is a big disincentive too.
The m&m clause was an example. If you, as an engineer, present yourself as a prima donna, disheveled, or otherwise cause yourself to be seen as putting your proclivities above their own, clients will be that much more on guard against you trying to satisfy your own interests as opposed to theirs. It will now be your (or more likely someone else's) job to convince the clients that your professionalism rises above the perceived disrespect or cluelessness. Trading the graphic tee and shorts for a nicer shirt and jeans right before the meeting isn't a whole lot to ask. Is it really worth making more work for everyone else just so you can have everything your own way?
Trading the graphic tee and shorts for a nicer shirt and jeans right before the meeting isn't a whole lot to ask. Is it really worth making more work for everyone else just so you can have everything your own way?