I used to think she was exaggerating how people specialized in not medical training, but in translating doctor's diagnosis into something the government could grok. One day about 5 years ago she brought over a binder that converted ailments to codes, I couldn't believe it. It was about 300 pages of stuff on something minor, like stitches and shots. She works for Kaiser and said they had as many coders as they had nurses, coders being people who converted diagnostics into codes for the government.
I can see how having 70k codes can track issues, but I have to wonder a) what is this going to cost; and b) how in hell do they think people making 20k/year are going to do a good job at entering codes?
Evidently it had a pretty simple decision tree. Are the front wheels spinning? If yes, are the back wheels spinning? If no enable all emissions controls. I assume for a RWD the tests for front and back wheels are swapped.
Let my manager set my goals, then prevent other groups/managers from wasting my time. I spent 14 years at Qualcomm ('94 to '08), I never worked harder, got more done, and had more fun than those 14 years. The secret? Management was very good at keeping distractions to a minimum.
Sadly, from what I hear now that's no longer the case. At the Parade of Lights last, I dunno, November? I met the new boyfriend of a long time friend. He was in his 50's/60's, spent most of his career in Texas at TI, and had been at QC for a year. He hated it. Why? He didn't want to talk about it and I didn't pry.
About 6 months ago I ran across a guy I knew at QC, he'd been there from the beginning. He said they'd cancelled the Christmas parties (which were epic), and the summer picnics (which were epic if you had kids). He was about to take a 6 month leave of absence and wasn't sure if he'd go back.
Then 2 months ago QC announces a 15% layoff in 2 months. That 2 months hit yesterday. I'm hesitant to contact folks I knew when I worked there, but it sounds like QC has gone from good, engineering management, to bad, MBA/cronyism management.
Agree with everything you said. That said, as a moderate republican, she's the best of the 15 to choose from.
On the Dem side?
Hillary? Oh god no. She's so farking corrupt she doesn't recognize corruption.
Sanders? Too old
Biden? Too old, and has run twice before without gaining traction. He's more of a "hey, Joe's in so Hillary isn't unstoppable anymore!".
Lessig? One can only hope
Ayup. If some domain that has never made a top 10 list of torrent search engines is the best they can do, then I have to wonder how many millions of $$$ and hours of manpower they're wasting on useless BS.
Maybe TPB and other sites should set up some honeypots to attract the attention of the feds? Sounds like a few hundred $$$ invested will result in a few million $$$ wasted. Asymmetrical warfare and all that:)
I've got an HP, it annoyed the hell ouf me to replace ink cartridges that obviously had ink left. Now I wait until that color starts streaking, then replace the cartridge.
Try LibreOffice's Draw to replace Vizio. Haven't used Vizio since Microsoft bought them (not a decision, just didn't have access to it), for my personal stuff Draw does everything I need.
I might be off by a couple years but the fact remains, AV was the best search engine around until they accepted payment for higher search results. Google was the new kid on the block, their search results were much better than the alternatives (I remember using Yahoo, never heard of Aliweb).
Around '92/93 I was an Alta Vista user. They they decided that if you shovel money their way they would put your search results to the top of the list. I, and evidently a couple others, said "fark that" and went looking for alternatives. Google was the alternative that gave the best search results.
Give me a doohickey that I can plug into my TV's HDMI/USB/Firewire/whatever port. This doohickey lets me stream whatever from my PC to my TV. Wanna watch a show? Fine. Wanna listen to music? Fine. Wanna put a DVD into the PC DVD drive and watch on my 60" TV? Fine. Wanna play a game? Urm, I can see how that could be a problem.
1. She claimed she did not knowingly send or receive classified info through her server. It's quite possible somebody ELSE sent her classified info when they should not have, and didn't label it properly. Whose "fault" that is, well, we will wait and see.
She was Secretary of State. She didn't think classified stuff would be flowing through that server? Uh huh.
2. The "office" server she should have been using was NOT designed for classified material either. (There was a separate system(s) for that.) Thus, her home server being more of a secrecy risk than the regular office server is a questionable claim.
But when her email was subpoenaed it would have been turned over in a timely manner, without her getting to choose which emails got turned over.
3. Messages that were deemed to have classified info were either mostly or entirely re-classified after the fact. The scope of this is still under investigation.
See #1.
4. Using a home server was NOT illegal at the time, as long as a copy of each work message came from/to a gov't server, which would typically be the case. (So far they have not found a non-copied work message that I know of.)
True. This is how we know that when she cherry picked her messages to turn over, she left quite a few out. "Chelsea, meet me at Starbucks at 3" is quite different from "Hil, this dude will give me $500k for a speaking fee if you don't hold fast to calling them a terrorist supporter".
5. She has admitted twice that her "home server" decision was a poor decision.
Mostly because it turns out that wiping the server made things worse, considering there were ways to reconstruct messages that weren't deemed "important" by Hil.
6. Jeb also has "email problems" such that if the two face off in the final election, the email issue is mostly a wash.
The only reason I would ever vote for Hillary is if Jeb were her opponent.
Doesn't matter. First, she should have known that as SoS classified information would be flowing through that server. Second, she was ordered by a court to turn over all her emails. She stonewalled as long as she could, then printed out some of the email (the ones she deemed 'important'), then wiped the server and claimed there were no backups.
You or I would be sitting in a jail cell awaiting trial for either of these. She's not only running for president, she's got a large majority of idiots willing to vote for her. I don't give a squat about her positions on any issues. She is corrupt, slippery, slimey, and elitist.
I sincerely hope Biden runs. Not because I think he'll win, but hopefully that will be the final straw that brings other, better democrats out of the woodwork to run for president. As things go now it's looking the the repubs are going to win the White House next year.
They blew it a year or two back when Apple announced their new chip had 64 bits, QC was sitting there with only 32 and 64 not on the drawing board. Then they botched their first 64 bit chip, now Apple/Samsung have taken the high end smartphone market. Neither uses a QC chip anymore.
On the other end, QC just isn't organized to make cheap chips. They have too much management, too much bloat, too many side products that don't pan out (Digital Cinema, MediaFlo, Mirasol, etc).
What's really sad is upper management, starting with Paul Jacobs I suspect, drove the company into the ground. Now they're laying off 15% of their workforce (minimum, speculation is there will be another wave or two after this month's layoff), while Paul and Steve are raking in 8 figure salaries and bonuses.
/QC employee '96-'08 // Friends still there tell me it hasn't been fun there for 3-4 years now /// Best job I ever had. sigh
Heh, boolean operations are so second nature to me I forgot I had to learn them. I remember spending a couple months on Karnaugh maps, something that was vaguely understood and I've never once used.
But and/or/nor/xor, learned all that stuff in I think 2 days.
Back in the mid 80s I was on a business trip to an Air Force Base in Utah (Hill, I think, but I visited a lot of AFBs back then). As luck would have it there was a demo happening for some VIPs and I got to watch. They had some old tanks set up, then these ugly-ass airplanes came in and shot them up. I'll never forget the BRRRRR of the gun, the tanks exploding, and about 30 seconds later tinkle tinkle tinkle. I asked the guy I was with what the tinkle was, it was the brass hitting the ground.
That was the first and only time I ever saw an A-10 in action.
Used to have a couple companies in San Diego where you could play. Sadly, both went toes up some 20 years ago. I thought it was a great way to get some exercise, blow off some steam, and have fun.
The one closest to me (a mile away) made the mistake of printing 2 for 1 ads in the local free paper (The Reader). Used to pick up 10-15 of the things, cut out the coupons, and use them all the time.
Forgot the final slashie: The chips themselves were not designed to be modular. You can swap out the display, keypad, battery, and case, but anything after that is going to cause problems.
There were 3 chips: baseband, RF, and PMIC. The baseband had 2 or 3 CPUs (earlier ones had an ARM 7 for I don't remember what, then they an ARM9 to run the phone and a more powerful ARM11/ARM13 to run BREW, then Android). The RF chip did the radio stuff, and the PMIC did all the power control (Power Management IC). Each baseband chip was optimized for a specific RF and PMIC chip. You could swap them out with what I understood was a lower level of efficiency. As I worked for Qualcomm I was never exposed to non-QC chips.
The display, keypad, battery were generic, use whatever you want. QC didn't make displays, nor keypads, nor batteries.
They also had a single chip line (SC1x/SC2x if memory serves), they took 3 dies (baseband, RF, PMIC) and stacked the dies atop each other in a single package. The idea was to sell them for, I think, $6 each for low cost phones. Add a display, keypad, battery, and case and you've got a cell phone.
I retired when Snapdragon was showing up on my "upcoming stuff" memos.
/ this is greatly simplified at the chip level (e.g. the PMIC let the phone vibrate)
// Wish I'd stayed a couple more years
/// hell, wish I was still there, it was a great place to work. Although former co-workers say that changed 5-6 years ago.
//// retirement isn't what I thought it would be
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And I don't need Viagra (yet).
Apprehension: The first time you can't do it a second time.
Panic: The second time you can't do it the first time.
I used to think she was exaggerating how people specialized in not medical training, but in translating doctor's diagnosis into something the government could grok. One day about 5 years ago she brought over a binder that converted ailments to codes, I couldn't believe it. It was about 300 pages of stuff on something minor, like stitches and shots. She works for Kaiser and said they had as many coders as they had nurses, coders being people who converted diagnostics into codes for the government.
I can see how having 70k codes can track issues, but I have to wonder a) what is this going to cost; and b) how in hell do they think people making 20k/year are going to do a good job at entering codes?
You're telling me PANDASGOCOMMANDO is a Google bot, that's why I can't beat the guy in CoD?
// Beats me handily every stinkin time
/// Doesn't look like he's cheating either :(
/ That's a real Modern Warfare 3 name
Evidently it had a pretty simple decision tree. Are the front wheels spinning? If yes, are the back wheels spinning? If no enable all emissions controls. I assume for a RWD the tests for front and back wheels are swapped.
Maxed out the Modern Warfare 3 stat a year ago, think I called in 5,000 reapers. Can I skip the school and just get a job flying one?
Let my manager set my goals, then prevent other groups/managers from wasting my time. I spent 14 years at Qualcomm ('94 to '08), I never worked harder, got more done, and had more fun than those 14 years. The secret? Management was very good at keeping distractions to a minimum.
Sadly, from what I hear now that's no longer the case. At the Parade of Lights last, I dunno, November? I met the new boyfriend of a long time friend. He was in his 50's/60's, spent most of his career in Texas at TI, and had been at QC for a year. He hated it. Why? He didn't want to talk about it and I didn't pry.
About 6 months ago I ran across a guy I knew at QC, he'd been there from the beginning. He said they'd cancelled the Christmas parties (which were epic), and the summer picnics (which were epic if you had kids). He was about to take a 6 month leave of absence and wasn't sure if he'd go back.
Then 2 months ago QC announces a 15% layoff in 2 months. That 2 months hit yesterday. I'm hesitant to contact folks I knew when I worked there, but it sounds like QC has gone from good, engineering management, to bad, MBA/cronyism management.
Either from a technical glitch, power outage, or whatever.
Agree with everything you said. That said, as a moderate republican, she's the best of the 15 to choose from.
On the Dem side?
Hillary? Oh god no. She's so farking corrupt she doesn't recognize corruption.
Sanders? Too old
Biden? Too old, and has run twice before without gaining traction. He's more of a "hey, Joe's in so Hillary isn't unstoppable anymore!".
Lessig? One can only hope
Ayup. If some domain that has never made a top 10 list of torrent search engines is the best they can do, then I have to wonder how many millions of $$$ and hours of manpower they're wasting on useless BS.
:)
Maybe TPB and other sites should set up some honeypots to attract the attention of the feds? Sounds like a few hundred $$$ invested will result in a few million $$$ wasted. Asymmetrical warfare and all that
I've got an HP, it annoyed the hell ouf me to replace ink cartridges that obviously had ink left. Now I wait until that color starts streaking, then replace the cartridge.
Try LibreOffice's Draw to replace Vizio. Haven't used Vizio since Microsoft bought them (not a decision, just didn't have access to it), for my personal stuff Draw does everything I need.
Steam is getting there from what I've heard, but as a hard core gamer I need games.
:)
Embedded toolchains would be nice too (esp ARM), but that's my boss' Windows box, not mine
I might be off by a couple years but the fact remains, AV was the best search engine around until they accepted payment for higher search results. Google was the new kid on the block, their search results were much better than the alternatives (I remember using Yahoo, never heard of Aliweb).
Around '92/93 I was an Alta Vista user. They they decided that if you shovel money their way they would put your search results to the top of the list. I, and evidently a couple others, said "fark that" and went looking for alternatives. Google was the alternative that gave the best search results.
Fark Alta Vista, I'm glad you're dead and buried.
Give me a doohickey that I can plug into my TV's HDMI/USB/Firewire/whatever port. This doohickey lets me stream whatever from my PC to my TV. Wanna watch a show? Fine. Wanna listen to music? Fine. Wanna put a DVD into the PC DVD drive and watch on my 60" TV? Fine. Wanna play a game? Urm, I can see how that could be a problem.
1. She claimed she did not knowingly send or receive classified info through her server. It's quite possible somebody ELSE sent her classified info when they should not have, and didn't label it properly. Whose "fault" that is, well, we will wait and see.
She was Secretary of State. She didn't think classified stuff would be flowing through that server? Uh huh.
2. The "office" server she should have been using was NOT designed for classified material either. (There was a separate system(s) for that.) Thus, her home server being more of a secrecy risk than the regular office server is a questionable claim.
But when her email was subpoenaed it would have been turned over in a timely manner, without her getting to choose which emails got turned over.
3. Messages that were deemed to have classified info were either mostly or entirely re-classified after the fact. The scope of this is still under investigation.
See #1.
4. Using a home server was NOT illegal at the time, as long as a copy of each work message came from/to a gov't server, which would typically be the case. (So far they have not found a non-copied work message that I know of.)
True. This is how we know that when she cherry picked her messages to turn over, she left quite a few out. "Chelsea, meet me at Starbucks at 3" is quite different from "Hil, this dude will give me $500k for a speaking fee if you don't hold fast to calling them a terrorist supporter".
5. She has admitted twice that her "home server" decision was a poor decision.
Mostly because it turns out that wiping the server made things worse, considering there were ways to reconstruct messages that weren't deemed "important" by Hil.
6. Jeb also has "email problems" such that if the two face off in the final election, the email issue is mostly a wash.
The only reason I would ever vote for Hillary is if Jeb were her opponent.
Doesn't matter. First, she should have known that as SoS classified information would be flowing through that server. Second, she was ordered by a court to turn over all her emails. She stonewalled as long as she could, then printed out some of the email (the ones she deemed 'important'), then wiped the server and claimed there were no backups.
You or I would be sitting in a jail cell awaiting trial for either of these. She's not only running for president, she's got a large majority of idiots willing to vote for her. I don't give a squat about her positions on any issues. She is corrupt, slippery, slimey, and elitist.
I sincerely hope Biden runs. Not because I think he'll win, but hopefully that will be the final straw that brings other, better democrats out of the woodwork to run for president. As things go now it's looking the the repubs are going to win the White House next year.
They blew it a year or two back when Apple announced their new chip had 64 bits, QC was sitting there with only 32 and 64 not on the drawing board. Then they botched their first 64 bit chip, now Apple/Samsung have taken the high end smartphone market. Neither uses a QC chip anymore.
/QC employee '96-'08
// Friends still there tell me it hasn't been fun there for 3-4 years now
/// Best job I ever had. sigh
On the other end, QC just isn't organized to make cheap chips. They have too much management, too much bloat, too many side products that don't pan out (Digital Cinema, MediaFlo, Mirasol, etc).
What's really sad is upper management, starting with Paul Jacobs I suspect, drove the company into the ground. Now they're laying off 15% of their workforce (minimum, speculation is there will be another wave or two after this month's layoff), while Paul and Steve are raking in 8 figure salaries and bonuses.
Heh, boolean operations are so second nature to me I forgot I had to learn them. I remember spending a couple months on Karnaugh maps, something that was vaguely understood and I've never once used.
But and/or/nor/xor, learned all that stuff in I think 2 days.
Yet have spent most of my career as an embedded programmer. Arithmetic and basic algebra have done fine for me.
// Sorry, I'll write an apology and sin it
/// After I get my boss to cosine it
/ Only time I use my math degree is when I go off on a tangent
Back in the mid 80s I was on a business trip to an Air Force Base in Utah (Hill, I think, but I visited a lot of AFBs back then). As luck would have it there was a demo happening for some VIPs and I got to watch. They had some old tanks set up, then these ugly-ass airplanes came in and shot them up. I'll never forget the BRRRRR of the gun, the tanks exploding, and about 30 seconds later tinkle tinkle tinkle. I asked the guy I was with what the tinkle was, it was the brass hitting the ground.
That was the first and only time I ever saw an A-10 in action.
Used to have a couple companies in San Diego where you could play. Sadly, both went toes up some 20 years ago. I thought it was a great way to get some exercise, blow off some steam, and have fun.
The one closest to me (a mile away) made the mistake of printing 2 for 1 ads in the local free paper (The Reader). Used to pick up 10-15 of the things, cut out the coupons, and use them all the time.
Forgot the final slashie: The chips themselves were not designed to be modular. You can swap out the display, keypad, battery, and case, but anything after that is going to cause problems.
There were 3 chips: baseband, RF, and PMIC. The baseband had 2 or 3 CPUs (earlier ones had an ARM 7 for I don't remember what, then they an ARM9 to run the phone and a more powerful ARM11/ARM13 to run BREW, then Android). The RF chip did the radio stuff, and the PMIC did all the power control (Power Management IC). Each baseband chip was optimized for a specific RF and PMIC chip. You could swap them out with what I understood was a lower level of efficiency. As I worked for Qualcomm I was never exposed to non-QC chips.
// Wish I'd stayed a couple more years
/// hell, wish I was still there, it was a great place to work. Although former co-workers say that changed 5-6 years ago.
//// retirement isn't what I thought it would be
The display, keypad, battery were generic, use whatever you want. QC didn't make displays, nor keypads, nor batteries.
They also had a single chip line (SC1x/SC2x if memory serves), they took 3 dies (baseband, RF, PMIC) and stacked the dies atop each other in a single package. The idea was to sell them for, I think, $6 each for low cost phones. Add a display, keypad, battery, and case and you've got a cell phone.
I retired when Snapdragon was showing up on my "upcoming stuff" memos.
/ this is greatly simplified at the chip level (e.g. the PMIC let the phone vibrate)
Not original with me, I started using it in '94 and a co-worker suggested it.