They still don't like you, and only tolerate you while you hand them a dollar.
As he said, you can get what they have elsewhere.
Do it and never look back.
Yeah, I am still PO'd as for my youth they all had a pricing and sales model which made it nearly impossible to enjoy music, my culture, at a price that I did not have to trade off something like food.
A government will not allow anyone to get in the way of its easy, controlled, profitable, legislated revenue streams(casinos, lottery, taxes, etc.), no more than a competitive business would.
I suggest that the point is to demonstrate minimal power, and that 30mT is necessary to disrupt and homogenize any local static and pre-magnetization of the sample. This seems like it would be necessary since any ultra low field perturbation and later measurement would be overwhelmed.
It cracks me up how people don't get the idea of what was really "lost" in the lost future, and other modern technology in general - if they had the vision to begin with, they would recognize that a thing like a flying car, while desirable in their own right, are actually hyperbole from a practical standpoint. Flying cars are examples of a futuristic way of life, a way of living, a way of integrating technology with Jetson-esqe ease, not a single product no matter how tranformational it would be. Practical flying cars for evryday use would just clog, darken the skies, and be noisy.
After being a research, systems analyst, SA, and Network Engineer for a top 5 pharma, and coding (assy lang, C) most of my life, I took a M.Sc. in CIS specifically because we spent the time "thinking" about systems, modeling (mathematical, economic, project mgmt, heavy requirements writing, testing, UML, E-R, concurrency via statecharts and ED Petri nets, process and data flow, etc.) then implementing them for real.
But there apparently are *no* jobs for my type around here; my only bite was a a guy with VC funding writing new stuff - coding SNMP. Around here, they just want code monkeys.
Tell me the magic on where/how to approach these opportunities!
Their analysts make sure your company, compared to their industry, reflects what they think a good company "looks" like; this means $revenue/employee, etc.
I would not be surprised at all that the upper management a simply told that software must reside on xxx, based upon some risk analysis. And most of these analysts and business own Microsoft stock.
I worked in the pharma industry, and that is simply how it worked; the technocrats lose to Business, and an average manager or developer doesn't have a chance of swaying the decision.
This is not about disk failure, but the ability to create and control ever smaller magnetic features; the effect that writing has on the information around it. If this phenomena can be understood and controlled, possibly, areas set aside as unusable guard areas can be used reliably, increasing the areal density. More, and more reliable, data storage for everyone!
Also, this effect may be tied to the maximum storage areal density; if "dropping" in a new bit disturbs the existing bits or information (data or servo) during a write, the guard areas must be larger than necessary; disk and head materials and architecture, along with control of write current profiles, could open up significant storage space that is now set aside and wasted.
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I am an unemployed person, so if you have a job...
I bought an Epson for the majority of my printing, but ONLY after the homework to show that I could buy CHEAP, knockoff, consumables, the printer was only $60.00 after coupon, and it was a complete throwaway if problems...
It has printed through two kids and two degrees; cartridges available for just several dollars, everywhere, and it still works well and is well supported under Linux.
It is exactly that printer and I am exactly the person that printer manufacturers want to eliminate... Funny thing is, they got their money, and I got my printing.
Your argument is most specious; I would not worry today about HBC, or any corp. a hundred years ago, either.
Today, it is a different story altogether; Domination and monopoly of a world resource is now logistically possible, not just a megamaniacal dream.
"uncontroversial and mundane"? "No massive conflicts"?
Corporations are the root cause of most of today's conflicts, from the U.S healthcare and quality of life to the Iraq issues, to the corporatist root attitude of the men in charge of the U.S. - Exxon, Nike, AT&T, GM or Ford do NOT represent my value-based, long-term interests; have they done you any real economic favors lately (A massively devalued US dollar against hyper-inflated stock)? Can you now afford to retire or completely own your real estate despite working even harder for longer (a single medical event can bankrupt you, even with insurance whose cost has doubled)? Has your life gotten more secure in the last twenty years? The next twenty?
Watch out who you root for; the game hasn't finished.
The U.S. is a nation built on middle-men. Services to researchers, rules, laws and regulations, as well as researchers themselves, are expensive, especially here in the U.S. Significant charges are made against research dollars that are not research. Not sure exactly how much, but it is certainly not a trivial amount.
I hear our healthcare dollar experiences the same environment.
Do not take this that I disagree with your facts, just having been a first-hand observer, I saw the leakage and it is immense.
So many here say so, but I cannot see their point, as well as how anyone can compare it with anything else at the time; what has Star Wars to do with it, at all?
As many, I was there and it was clearly groundbreaking. I distinctly remember that I had not been moved by imagery like that since I was little and saw my first Harryhausen or later 2001. Not from the script, which was Disney, but the imagery and immense scale, especially the light cycle race and the tank chase.
Sitting in a theater on opening weekend, huge screen and high quality audio, its few minutes of CGI and music, it was clearly a demonstration of things to come.
My new stainless steel microwave has a very nice, modern looking, lcd display, except that if you place it onto a counter you cannot read the display because of viewing angle problems; I mean not at all, until you back away several feet, stoop down, or stand on your toes. You then struggle to once again to touch the appropriate keys to start it.
I wanted to turn it onto its side and keep it that way but my wife said No!
I did not read the article yet, but I just thought it orthogonal to my experience;
My only reason (because we know how great cable tv is) was one year internet at $19.95, total $29.95 w/analog cable, not the regular price like $59/mo, which was a non-starter for me for many, many years (though I previosly while living in a big city).
When this is pricing is over I will look for other options; wireless is becoming widespread even in rural areas.
Many of the boomers (and I'm near age) have lived their life without such things. I think it speaks to a larger fact of life; technology isn't necessary (yet) to sustain civilization, just nice to have.
Many successful people today have had little anything to do with information systems or a computer, at least in the sense of interactivity attributes. I am not a luddite, but in fact, there is no *need* for most of these technologies, just nice to have available. Just consider how others got work done in the past 30-40 years; the grand projects.
That said, the future is a different animal and baudilis is spot on; only when there is a sea-change will things move forward, and very fast.
As a last note; once it does speed up, what will it look like? There is a limit to how much we want to communicate. I think. I already live in rural america and have too much communication, now, and no cell phone. I ordered my motorcycle parts online, they'll show up in a few days, I sent an email and my kids IM. I can't and won't tolerate much more than that. Maybe that revolution will have to wait until the just-post boomers like me push through as well?
I mean, how else can they sell this crap if they don't have buzz on it from the fanboys (bandwidth fanboys? Comcast fanboys? hardware fanboys?). Their key word was "Entrepreneurs"; get ready with your wallet for what others have commented it is really a modest technology upgrade.
Seriously, since we are moving past the dialup and cable stage, beyond file sizes for most things, the conversation must change to *what* will we be allowed to do with the added bandwidth (as others have noticed); *how* is no longer important to most of us.
Just watch more TV? More infomercials or pointless shows? Faster download times (How many times do I need to download encyclopedia brittanica?) No Thank You.
The announcement is thoroughly worthless because they haven't explained what I will be allowed to do with it all.
Can it be any clearer to average Americans; Government will allow all your hands-on, technical, dirty, manual, but well-paying jobs go to other countries without hardly a gasp, but fight tooth-and-nail to protect an elite few who own, run, and work in the movie industry. An industry that cannot possibly own all mindshare as globalization continues, a pointless industry that actually produces nothing long-lasting, bankable, and advanced(like a pyramid or a profitable niche industry; just fake sets and technology), an industry that captures, monopolizes, and narrows popular culture draining away money and attention from local venues and real talent, an industry that simply cannot support all Americans.
I understand your point of view when a strategic IT position has already been decided upon, as yours apparently has, but cannot agree on many other situations.
If the IT staff is unable to present a cogent business case, I suggest their position has been deliberately isolated from the Business in general. It is not that hard.
My experience says it was often historical, political, or organizationally ill-placed middle management that would not deal with a unique proposal, formal or otherwise, and could not (or would not) effectively translate the business case and dollar cost up the funding chain for consideration.
If it was anything other than Vitamin D, I would be as concerned with the conflict of interest as well. But Vitamin D is sprayed(I think) by the gallons on cereal and there cannot possibly be a huge, terribly lucrative market to be leveraged when the cheap solution is to go outside or bathe yourself in a sunlamp.
I would agree with your assessment on a normal market playing field. Auto manufacturers are no longer auto manufacturers; they are owned, run, influenced by holding corporations or corporations that influenced by many areas. Look and see where GM made most of its money in past years; not in making cars, but in the fincancing of cars; theirs or others. You know, make money on the razor blades, not the razor.
Another I watch is G.E. - they make nothing, directly, anymore. Good or bad company? I'm not sure.
I also have no factual information to back this up, so maybe we need to verify this ourselves.
I interpret 2001 having a great, epic, meaning for which there is no story larger; the why and future of man's very existence.
The ability to tell a story, with stunning and realistic atmospherics, that transports you to the past, the near present, and ultimely the evolutionary future of humanity, traveling through pivotal points of human evolution, that demonstrates a thought-provoking possibility of subtle extraterrestrial origin or influence on our very being; still a little known idea, but more beleivable today and not as controversial as maybe it was in 1968/69.
If nothing more it demonstrates vividly, I think quite realistically, that early earth, long distance space travel, and ultimately the history of man is likely to be/been unfathomably long stretches of sometimes imperceptable change broken by extreme, unpredictable spurts of discovery and growth.
That in the era of its release, the closest most people came to technology was new Quasar color TVs with mechanical remote controls. Or a portable transistor radio. Overall, it had little to do with HAL, but a self-aware computer? (in 1960s, what is a computer?)
Seeing the ads at the time, but too young to go, I first saw the movie in 1979 at its 10 year rerelease and it was, and still is, groundbreaking to me.
Thank You for the pointer; I looked at it in the past for some specific need, but will look again closer. I have an eclectic variety of interests and needs; ACM, IEEE and the specialty journals like Microwave, Electronics, etc. Also Journals of NMR, the APS, American Chemical Society ACS, various Instrumentation journals such as Review of Scientific Instruments.
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They still don't like you, and only tolerate you while you hand them a dollar.
As he said, you can get what they have elsewhere.
Do it and never look back.
Yeah, I am still PO'd as for my youth they all had a pricing and sales model which made it nearly impossible to enjoy music, my culture, at a price that I did not have to trade off something like food.
There is Business, then there is Government.
They are two sides of the exact same coin.
A government will not allow anyone to get in the way of its easy, controlled, profitable, legislated revenue streams(casinos, lottery, taxes, etc.), no more than a competitive business would.
I suggest that the point is to demonstrate minimal power, and that 30mT is necessary to disrupt and homogenize any local static and pre-magnetization of the sample. This seems like it would be necessary since any ultra low field perturbation and later measurement would be overwhelmed.
It cracks me up how people don't get the idea of what was really "lost" in the lost future, and other modern technology in general - if they had the vision to begin with, they would recognize that a thing like a flying car, while desirable in their own right, are actually hyperbole from a practical standpoint. Flying cars are examples of a futuristic way of life, a way of living, a way of integrating technology with Jetson-esqe ease, not a single product no matter how tranformational it would be. Practical flying cars for evryday use would just clog, darken the skies, and be noisy.
Good God, where are you living/hiring?
After being a research, systems analyst, SA, and Network Engineer for a top 5 pharma, and coding (assy lang, C) most of my life, I took a M.Sc. in CIS specifically because we spent the time "thinking" about systems, modeling (mathematical, economic, project mgmt, heavy requirements writing, testing, UML, E-R, concurrency via statecharts and ED Petri nets, process and data flow, etc.) then implementing them for real.
But there apparently are *no* jobs for my type around here; my only bite was a a guy with VC funding writing new stuff - coding SNMP. Around here, they just want code monkeys.
Tell me the magic on where/how to approach these opportunities!
but they aren't you. The real customer is the application providers/business developers.
In other words, most will buy whatever system that runs/plays the appropriate software, whatever that may be.
But this only corroborates your comment about the state equivalence....
Their analysts make sure your company, compared to their industry, reflects what they think a good company "looks" like; this means $revenue/employee, etc.
I would not be surprised at all that the upper management a simply told that software must reside on xxx, based upon some risk analysis. And most of these analysts and business own Microsoft stock.
I worked in the pharma industry, and that is simply how it worked; the technocrats lose to Business, and an average manager or developer doesn't have a chance of swaying the decision.
This is not about disk failure, but the ability to create and control ever smaller magnetic features; the effect that writing has on the information around it. If this phenomena can be understood and controlled, possibly, areas set aside as unusable guard areas can be used reliably, increasing the areal density. More, and more reliable, data storage for everyone!
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Unemployed; got a job...???
Also, this effect may be tied to the maximum storage areal density; if "dropping" in a new bit disturbs the existing bits or information (data or servo) during a write, the guard areas must be larger than necessary; disk and head materials and architecture, along with control of write current profiles, could open up significant storage space that is now set aside and wasted.
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I am an unemployed person, so if you have a job...
...But simply do your homework.
I bought an Epson for the majority of my printing, but ONLY after the homework to show that I could buy CHEAP, knockoff, consumables, the printer was only $60.00 after coupon, and it was a complete throwaway if problems...
It has printed through two kids and two degrees; cartridges available for just several dollars, everywhere, and it still works well and is well supported under Linux.
It is exactly that printer and I am exactly the person that printer manufacturers want to eliminate... Funny thing is, they got their money, and I got my printing.
Your argument is most specious; I would not worry today about HBC, or any corp. a hundred years ago, either.
Today, it is a different story altogether; Domination and monopoly of a world resource is now logistically possible, not just a megamaniacal dream.
"uncontroversial and mundane"? "No massive conflicts"?
Corporations are the root cause of most of today's conflicts, from the U.S healthcare and quality of life to the Iraq issues, to the corporatist root attitude of the men in charge of the U.S. - Exxon, Nike, AT&T, GM or Ford do NOT represent my value-based, long-term interests; have they done you any real economic favors lately (A massively devalued US dollar against hyper-inflated stock)? Can you now afford to retire or completely own your real estate despite working even harder for longer (a single medical event can bankrupt you, even with insurance whose cost has doubled)? Has your life gotten more secure in the last twenty years? The next twenty?
Watch out who you root for; the game hasn't finished.
The U.S. is a nation built on middle-men. Services to researchers, rules, laws and regulations, as well as researchers themselves, are expensive, especially here in the U.S. Significant charges are made against research dollars that are not research. Not sure exactly how much, but it is certainly not a trivial amount.
I hear our healthcare dollar experiences the same environment.
Do not take this that I disagree with your facts, just having been a first-hand observer, I saw the leakage and it is immense.
...cause it smells like french fries? Really, I think it does.... haha
So many here say so, but I cannot see their point, as well as how anyone can compare it with anything else at the time; what has Star Wars to do with it, at all?
As many, I was there and it was clearly groundbreaking. I distinctly remember that I had not been moved by imagery like that since I was little and saw my first Harryhausen or later 2001. Not from the script, which was Disney, but the imagery and immense scale, especially the light cycle race and the tank chase.
Sitting in a theater on opening weekend, huge screen and high quality audio, its few minutes of CGI and music, it was clearly a demonstration of things to come.
My new stainless steel microwave has a very nice, modern looking, lcd display, except that if you place it onto a counter you cannot read the display because of viewing angle problems; I mean not at all, until you back away several feet, stoop down, or stand on your toes. You then struggle to once again to touch the appropriate keys to start it.
I wanted to turn it onto its side and keep it that way but my wife said No!
Just plain dumb.
I did not read the article yet, but I just thought it orthogonal to my experience;
My only reason (because we know how great cable tv is) was one year internet at $19.95, total $29.95 w/analog cable, not the regular price like $59/mo, which was a non-starter for me for many, many years (though I previosly while living in a big city).
When this is pricing is over I will look for other options; wireless is becoming widespread even in rural areas.
Many of the boomers (and I'm near age) have lived their life without such things. I think it speaks to a larger fact of life; technology isn't necessary (yet) to sustain civilization, just nice to have.
Many successful people today have had little anything to do with information systems or a computer, at least in the sense of interactivity attributes. I am not a luddite, but in fact, there is no *need* for most of these technologies, just nice to have available. Just consider how others got work done in the past 30-40 years; the grand projects.
That said, the future is a different animal and baudilis is spot on; only when there is a sea-change will things move forward, and very fast.
As a last note; once it does speed up, what will it look like? There is a limit to how much we want to communicate. I think. I already live in rural america and have too much communication, now, and no cell phone. I ordered my motorcycle parts online, they'll show up in a few days, I sent an email and my kids IM. I can't and won't tolerate much more than that. Maybe that revolution will have to wait until the just-post boomers like me push through as well?
I mean, how else can they sell this crap if they don't have buzz on it from the fanboys (bandwidth fanboys? Comcast fanboys? hardware fanboys?). Their key word was "Entrepreneurs"; get ready with your wallet for what others have commented it is really a modest technology upgrade.
Seriously, since we are moving past the dialup and cable stage, beyond file sizes for most things, the conversation must change to *what* will we be allowed to do with the added bandwidth (as others have noticed); *how* is no longer important to most of us.
Just watch more TV? More infomercials or pointless shows? Faster download times (How many times do I need to download encyclopedia brittanica?) No Thank You.
The announcement is thoroughly worthless because they haven't explained what I will be allowed to do with it all.
Can it be any clearer to average Americans; Government will allow all your hands-on, technical, dirty, manual, but well-paying jobs go to other countries without hardly a gasp, but fight tooth-and-nail to protect an elite few who own, run, and work in the movie industry. An industry that cannot possibly own all mindshare as globalization continues, a pointless industry that actually produces nothing long-lasting, bankable, and advanced(like a pyramid or a profitable niche industry; just fake sets and technology), an industry that captures, monopolizes, and narrows popular culture draining away money and attention from local venues and real talent, an industry that simply cannot support all Americans.
I understand your point of view when a strategic IT position has already been decided upon, as yours apparently has, but cannot agree on many other situations.
If the IT staff is unable to present a cogent business case, I suggest their position has been deliberately isolated from the Business in general. It is not that hard.
My experience says it was often historical, political, or organizationally ill-placed middle management that would not deal with a unique proposal, formal or otherwise, and could not (or would not) effectively translate the business case and dollar cost up the funding chain for consideration.
If it was anything other than Vitamin D, I would be as concerned with the conflict of interest as well. But Vitamin D is sprayed(I think) by the gallons on cereal and there cannot possibly be a huge, terribly lucrative market to be leveraged when the cheap solution is to go outside or bathe yourself in a sunlamp.
Wow,
I would agree with your assessment on a normal market playing field. Auto manufacturers are no longer auto manufacturers; they are owned, run, influenced by holding corporations or corporations that influenced by many areas. Look and see where GM made most of its money in past years; not in making cars, but in the fincancing of cars; theirs or others. You know, make money on the razor blades, not the razor.
Another I watch is G.E. - they make nothing, directly, anymore. Good or bad company? I'm not sure.
I also have no factual information to back this up, so maybe we need to verify this ourselves.
I interpret 2001 having a great, epic, meaning for which there is no story larger; the why and future of man's very existence.
The ability to tell a story, with stunning and realistic atmospherics, that transports you to the past, the near present, and ultimely the evolutionary future of humanity, traveling through pivotal points of human evolution, that demonstrates a thought-provoking possibility of subtle extraterrestrial origin or influence on our very being; still a little known idea, but more beleivable today and not as controversial as maybe it was in 1968/69.
If nothing more it demonstrates vividly, I think quite realistically, that early earth, long distance space travel, and ultimately the history of man is likely to be/been unfathomably long stretches of sometimes imperceptable change broken by extreme, unpredictable spurts of discovery and growth.
That in the era of its release, the closest most people came to technology was new Quasar color TVs with mechanical remote controls. Or a portable transistor radio. Overall, it had little to do with HAL, but a self-aware computer? (in 1960s, what is a computer?)
Seeing the ads at the time, but too young to go, I first saw the movie in 1979 at its 10 year rerelease and it was, and still is, groundbreaking to me.
Thank You for the pointer; I looked at it in the past for some specific need, but will look again closer. I have an eclectic variety of interests and needs; ACM, IEEE and the specialty journals like Microwave, Electronics, etc. Also Journals of NMR, the APS, American Chemical Society ACS, various Instrumentation journals such as Review of Scientific Instruments.
I always wondered if I would ever hear it, for real...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044207/