Yeah, I have my crisis week. They're called finals. They come at the end of every semester.
But seriously, I see the value in training employees how to deal with a chemical spill if your business is to work with hazardous materials. But what good will it do to take the sales department away for a week of computer skills that they don't understand or will never use.
Don't forget to unplug the cash register on the way out.
A better way would be to keep a constant and open dialog between departments so that "Crisis Week" doesn't become a paid in office holiday for some and a 1/4th reduction in commisions for others.
I'm embarassed to say that once I refused a collect call from the Dominican Republic that turned out to be a client. The thing is just that morning the office manager sent around a memo warning us of suspicious telephone activity from the Carribean. I thought "Ah Ha! Here's some of that suspicous telephone calls they warned me about." And boy was the client pissed off. If it hadn't been for the fact that I was a recent transfer to the department and nobody informed me there was a client in the DR I'd've been fired.
The point is when you operate a business sometimes it's better to write off a couple thousand dollars of fraud then tick off someone wealthy enough to retire to a Carribean Island.
Now that I get this off my chest it occurs to me that if the guy was rich enough to retire to an island he could've afforded a quick phone call to clear things up.
I think we'd get better results with building many smaller robots instead of one big one. Sure the roboplane can out manouver a missile in ways a human piloted plane can't but it's still only one shot away from oblivion and a waste of taxpayer dollars. Instead, we should build an army of robot insects to scurry under our enemies radar. Imagine thousands of little cockroaches each with a gram of HMX going off at once. I wouldn't want to clean that up.
If you think I'm joking take a peek at the following.
I'm not saying the public is limited to Joe Sixpack but he does outnumber us 100:1 (statistic made up) and it is they who fund our research up to the point it becomes profitable then we go private at the last minute and patent and collect liscencing fees on our IP so that our lawyers don't go hungry! Nice run on sentance! Anyway if the govment doesn't give me some nice taxpayer pork so that I can study the effect of laser induced fluoresence on capilary ion exchange resins in an inert atmosphere using an argon laser... well I'll just have to take my science skills to the market place. Whatever I end up doing will definately come back hard and fast and get on top of Joe Sixpack either in the form of incaceration or hazmat or maybe just in the form of disgruntled ranting on small websites. Either way it won't be pretty.
You know what? I'm a fairly smart guy. I do my research on machines paid for by the taxpayer. (Being an undergrad, I paid for almost all of my research out of my own pocket.) Maybe it'll be published this summer. Maybe not. I'd love to be a published undergrad. I could walk into almost any lab to pick up a PhD.
If Joe Sixpack Taxpayer doesn't want to pay for my research next year then there will be a pretty smart and pretty bored person running around. Given my talent for organic synthesis Joe Sixpack Taxpayer will be paying for my prison cell the year after that.
Now is the common man going to understand my research? No EF IN way! In fact Bio professors were all scared off my research at the undergrad poster session yesterday. I had graphs and figures and scary chemistry terms like gas chromatography. If PhD's dont understand my work then poor Joe is going to be lost. Am I trying to insult the source of my bread and butter? No but they better get used to the idea of paying for me one way or the other.
Of course I'm trolling here. Mods can open fire I probably have it coming.
They do go on tour to promote their research. They're called conferences and they usually take place at the same location every year and focus on a specific topic in science. The result of this is that I learn more about advances in my field in a couple of days then I could learn by sifting through several dozen journals in a dusty corner of the library.
To publish in a journal it needs to be a solid piece of work. At a conference 2 scientists can talk about specific peices of their work that may or may not be fully fleshed out. They can get ideas from each other and not have to worry about how the work looks or if it fits the context of the journal.
It seems to me we've had this debate recently. I am all for unrestricted access to info that's old. I hate the fact that my research and my writing will belong to someone else just because they have a reputation and I don't. That's really all the peer reviewed journals are able to offer in the days of self publishing internet world.
This was the plot of a movie that got MST3K'd a couple years back. I think it was called "The Deadly Bees". Any way that's not really a cybernetic organism if all you're doing is training an animal to do something it normally wouldn't. However Dr. Evil's LASER equipped sea bass would count as a cyborg but the fembots being completely robotic wouldn't.
OK this might sound off topic but as a chemistry major who uses computers constantly I see a correlation to how people are drawn to their field.
Psychology majors get into psych to find out what's wrong with themselves. I know it's an old wives tale but I think there's a grain of truth in it. I know some freshman physics majors who want to build rail guns.
I know that I, myself and several other chemistry majors got into chemistry so we could make drugs. I know how to make drugs now but I don't because I have a healthy respect for the process. It was so tempting to make amphetamine after learning gen chem but I knew I didn't have the skills quite yet. Now I have a great deal of time invested in my skill set and wouldn't illegally throw it away for a quick high. Most all the chem majors I know would agree with me. Gen chem gave us a healthy respect for what we were dealing with.
Now look at the script kiddies. As far as I'm concerned the damage they do is just as bad as cooking up amphetamine but leaving in the sodium hydroxide. However hackers who are attracted to the dark side at first are going to make better sys admins down the road because they understand the script kiddie mindset. If dreams of launching cavitating torpedos at your swim coach get kids into computing I say good for them. Hopefully by the time they figure out how to crack the ultra low frequency communication devices the Polaris subs use they'll also have learned some maturity and have respect for the skills that they've learned to get there.
Yes I do agree with the last thought on flash but only on a temporary basis. Flash is too much too soon. Even with DSL most Flash sites are way bloated.
As for porn we all seem to agree how great this mouse will be.
But nobody has thought of video gaming. Imagine playing classic games like Safecracker and feeling the wheel spin. Or Zork. When the light goes out we can feel our way around until we get eaten by the Grue.
Napster operates under an open barter system which does imply compensation. What I advocate is different. The idea that my research could assist another and my freely sharing that information without thought of compensation with whomever needs it.
If I write a book and a publisher gains the rights to publish it all they have is the right to sell the material in printed form. I still have the right to show my manuscript to my friends. I just can't sell it to them.
Given the nature of scientific research, by the time it hits the journal the paper is out of date. So at that point the journal has already made all the money they're going to get. There's no point to keep the articles locked up for so long. Let's give the journals 2 years of having the print or pay-per-view website monopoly so they can justify the higher fees. After that open up and give everyone access. The industries and research universities that need the bleeding edge info will still pay the electric bill for the press and server.
IANAL but I believe a researcher can share a primary source with another researcher without restriction and regardless of who the author and publisher are. The author of an article can then post their own work to share with whomever may need it.
Remember copyright pertains to the sale of the material. Merely giving with no monies exchanged doesn't fall under copyright.
From what I've heard about other areas of Military spending I think it's safe to say that if it's experimental and classified it doesn't work. Weapons systems that work don't need to be kept secret. Especially systems that make the best the other guy has look like a catapult full of burning oil.
In this day and age only expensive failures need to be kept classified. If Joe Hippy finds out about too much money wasted then you don't get your HAARP antennas built. (Wasn't some University in Texas supposed to get a super collider a few years back. Why did they loose funding?) But it's OK to spend $1 Billion per steath bomber because that plane kicks ass. No need to keep it secret cause it works the way it should.
I've been trying to find a Proton NMR Spectra of Caffeine for a couple of weeks. The closest I've found is a file that may possibly be what I want but I don't have NUTS software to open it. I also found the spectra for Mountain Dew but not caffeine alone.
I know for a fact as I worked in the same lab as another group that studied the MeOH/Nutrasweet connection in softdrinks that when the temperature exceeds 85 degrees F Nutrasweet begins to break down. Methanol is present in almost every can of soda sweetened with nutrasweet sold in the average supermarket today. The only way to keep it from breaking down is to put it in a refridgerated truck from the moment it's made to the moment the soda is bottled to the moment you drink it. If you leave it in a hot car or tracter trailer you're going to drink a chemical that will make you go blind from large quantities.
I hope he gets an A in math for the rest of high school. How I would love to be in his math class and hear him say to his teacher "when you come up with law of mathematics on your own then you can tell me my math homework is wrong!"
So from what I understand here, if you privately discuss shotguns outside of school you are dangerous? Does anyone see a market for private anonymous bitching boards for persecuited high school boys? No wait I'll patent it.
Am I missing something here? I know copying outright is wrong but if I wrote code for programming 101 I should be free to use the code I wrote in 102 and beyond. The purpose of education is to build on what you learn so that when you get to CSC400 courses you can look back and really understand what you did in CSC101. If I wrote it I should be free to continue to use it as I grow.
I do agree that taking snippets of code from outside sources isn't learning but there really is no reason to invent the wheel yourself over and over again.
I agree with you 100%. More to the point Verizon makes more money selling cell phone coverage than they do from paying for new pay phones. If there's never a pay phone around when you need one then you'll just have to get a cell. Maybe you'll get your cell from them. Maybe not but the fact is enough people will get their cell phone through Verizon that pay phones will someday become a novelty. When that day comes what will 2600 do with their last page?
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Yeah, I have my crisis week. They're called finals. They come at the end of every semester. But seriously, I see the value in training employees how to deal with a chemical spill if your business is to work with hazardous materials. But what good will it do to take the sales department away for a week of computer skills that they don't understand or will never use. Don't forget to unplug the cash register on the way out. A better way would be to keep a constant and open dialog between departments so that "Crisis Week" doesn't become a paid in office holiday for some and a 1/4th reduction in commisions for others.
The point is when you operate a business sometimes it's better to write off a couple thousand dollars of fraud then tick off someone wealthy enough to retire to a Carribean Island.
Now that I get this off my chest it occurs to me that if the guy was rich enough to retire to an island he could've afforded a quick phone call to clear things up.
If you think I'm joking take a peek at the following.
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UMich
And my favorite, check out his Darpa funding: Quinn
I'm not saying the public is limited to Joe Sixpack but he does outnumber us 100:1 (statistic made up) and it is they who fund our research up to the point it becomes profitable then we go private at the last minute and patent and collect liscencing fees on our IP so that our lawyers don't go hungry! Nice run on sentance! Anyway if the govment doesn't give me some nice taxpayer pork so that I can study the effect of laser induced fluoresence on capilary ion exchange resins in an inert atmosphere using an argon laser... well I'll just have to take my science skills to the market place. Whatever I end up doing will definately come back hard and fast and get on top of Joe Sixpack either in the form of incaceration or hazmat or maybe just in the form of disgruntled ranting on small websites. Either way it won't be pretty.
If Joe Sixpack Taxpayer doesn't want to pay for my research next year then there will be a pretty smart and pretty bored person running around. Given my talent for organic synthesis Joe Sixpack Taxpayer will be paying for my prison cell the year after that.
Now is the common man going to understand my research? No EF IN way! In fact Bio professors were all scared off my research at the undergrad poster session yesterday. I had graphs and figures and scary chemistry terms like gas chromatography. If PhD's dont understand my work then poor Joe is going to be lost. Am I trying to insult the source of my bread and butter? No but they better get used to the idea of paying for me one way or the other.
Of course I'm trolling here. Mods can open fire I probably have it coming.
To publish in a journal it needs to be a solid piece of work. At a conference 2 scientists can talk about specific peices of their work that may or may not be fully fleshed out. They can get ideas from each other and not have to worry about how the work looks or if it fits the context of the journal.
It seems to me we've had this debate recently. I am all for unrestricted access to info that's old. I hate the fact that my research and my writing will belong to someone else just because they have a reputation and I don't. That's really all the peer reviewed journals are able to offer in the days of self publishing internet world.
This was the plot of a movie that got MST3K'd a couple years back. I think it was called "The Deadly Bees". Any way that's not really a cybernetic organism if all you're doing is training an animal to do something it normally wouldn't. However Dr. Evil's LASER equipped sea bass would count as a cyborg but the fembots being completely robotic wouldn't.
Psychology majors get into psych to find out what's wrong with themselves. I know it's an old wives tale but I think there's a grain of truth in it. I know some freshman physics majors who want to build rail guns.
I know that I, myself and several other chemistry majors got into chemistry so we could make drugs. I know how to make drugs now but I don't because I have a healthy respect for the process. It was so tempting to make amphetamine after learning gen chem but I knew I didn't have the skills quite yet. Now I have a great deal of time invested in my skill set and wouldn't illegally throw it away for a quick high. Most all the chem majors I know would agree with me. Gen chem gave us a healthy respect for what we were dealing with.
Now look at the script kiddies. As far as I'm concerned the damage they do is just as bad as cooking up amphetamine but leaving in the sodium hydroxide. However hackers who are attracted to the dark side at first are going to make better sys admins down the road because they understand the script kiddie mindset. If dreams of launching cavitating torpedos at your swim coach get kids into computing I say good for them. Hopefully by the time they figure out how to crack the ultra low frequency communication devices the Polaris subs use they'll also have learned some maturity and have respect for the skills that they've learned to get there.
As for porn we all seem to agree how great this mouse will be.
But nobody has thought of video gaming. Imagine playing classic games like Safecracker and feeling the wheel spin. Or Zork. When the light goes out we can feel our way around until we get eaten by the Grue.
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Actually I am a researcher and you obviously don't need current information.
If I write a book and a publisher gains the rights to publish it all they have is the right to sell the material in printed form. I still have the right to show my manuscript to my friends. I just can't sell it to them.
Given the nature of scientific research, by the time it hits the journal the paper is out of date. So at that point the journal has already made all the money they're going to get. There's no point to keep the articles locked up for so long. Let's give the journals 2 years of having the print or pay-per-view website monopoly so they can justify the higher fees. After that open up and give everyone access. The industries and research universities that need the bleeding edge info will still pay the electric bill for the press and server.
Remember copyright pertains to the sale of the material. Merely giving with no monies exchanged doesn't fall under copyright.
So when we do our research on GOOGLE we can just hit the "I'm feeling lucky" button and use the first article we get.
In this day and age only expensive failures need to be kept classified. If Joe Hippy finds out about too much money wasted then you don't get your HAARP antennas built. (Wasn't some University in Texas supposed to get a super collider a few years back. Why did they loose funding?) But it's OK to spend $1 Billion per steath bomber because that plane kicks ass. No need to keep it secret cause it works the way it should.
I've been trying to find a Proton NMR Spectra of Caffeine for a couple of weeks. The closest I've found is a file that may possibly be what I want but I don't have NUTS software to open it. I also found the spectra for Mountain Dew but not caffeine alone.
I know for a fact as I worked in the same lab as another group that studied the MeOH/Nutrasweet connection in softdrinks that when the temperature exceeds 85 degrees F Nutrasweet begins to break down. Methanol is present in almost every can of soda sweetened with nutrasweet sold in the average supermarket today. The only way to keep it from breaking down is to put it in a refridgerated truck from the moment it's made to the moment the soda is bottled to the moment you drink it. If you leave it in a hot car or tracter trailer you're going to drink a chemical that will make you go blind from large quantities.
That's kind of funny. I'd watch that.
I hope he gets an A in math for the rest of high school. How I would love to be in his math class and hear him say to his teacher "when you come up with law of mathematics on your own then you can tell me my math homework is wrong!"
So from what I understand here, if you privately discuss shotguns outside of school you are dangerous? Does anyone see a market for private anonymous bitching boards for persecuited high school boys? No wait I'll patent it.
I do agree that taking snippets of code from outside sources isn't learning but there really is no reason to invent the wheel yourself over and over again.
I agree with you 100%. More to the point Verizon makes more money selling cell phone coverage than they do from paying for new pay phones. If there's never a pay phone around when you need one then you'll just have to get a cell. Maybe you'll get your cell from them. Maybe not but the fact is enough people will get their cell phone through Verizon that pay phones will someday become a novelty. When that day comes what will 2600 do with their last page?
Rot-26 I just cannot count before my afternoon nap!