I really wish "Quirk" would die. Nothing sucks more than getting a layout from a designer done in Quark for Mac, trying to load it in Quark for Windows to make changes, and then hoping the exported file turns out correctly when the printer loads it up in Quark for Mac. Is cross-platform compatibility of saved documents really too much to ask?
Or a few GPS transmitters in the warehouse itself. Would be easy enough to do technically, I'm not sure if the military would let you use their frequencies, but even without it is easy enough to use a different band.
GPS doesn't really scale down that way. Location is calculated by the time delay between satellites sending synchronized signals. The differential between two simultaneous radio signals (travelling at the speed of light) at distances several thousand miles away requires very accurate time measurement already. Trying to do the same thing when one transmitter is only forty feet closer than the other is pretty much impossible. Besides, if you're concerned about location in a specific building, a simple system using two or three radio direction finding units can give you a location in 2D space. And if you're interested in tracking which facility a package is in, a fixed RFID reader at the entrances is enough. What it comes down to is that GPS is designed for navigation. It has been adapted for tracking use in a limited sense for things like trucks and cargo containers, but this requires the addition of a radio transmitter and some sort of receiving network (usually cellular) to transport that location info. GPS is an amazing system, but shoe-horning it into other applications is difficult and unnecessary.
Or for $20 maybe a gps chip on board to record the shipment so audit it when it gets to where it is going.
GPS needs a clear view of the sky to work. Unless 1) the RFID tag is going to be on the top of the package, 2) the package is going to be left outside with no overhead cover, and 3) no package is stacked on top of another package, GPS won't work. This doesn't even get into the antenna size and power amplification (batteries!) issues.
The strength of GPS is its accuracy and near-global availability. One of its weaknesses is its need for a clear shot at at least three satellites. People need to stop suggesting GPS as the end-all be-all of location finding technology.
And for just $108 more, I'll throw in a free Star Registration. That's right, I'll have the International Star Registry name a star after your URL!
Man, is that Star Registry stuff the biggest load of crap, or what!
"Because these star names are copyrighted with their telescopic coordinates in the book, "Your Place in the Cosmos," future generations may identify the star name in the directory and, using a telescope, locate the actual star in the sky."
We could ALL create our own star registry and spend the $20 to officially register copyright on it. I think I'll call mine "The One True Universal Star Registry" and name all the best stars after myself.
When I want to eat dinner, I'd much rather use a fork than a 34 bladed Swiss-army knife with a fork attachment. The former just works a whole lot better.
What I've always wondered about those scout knives with the fork is, what do you use to cut your steak if you're using the FORK on the pocket knife to hold the steak down?
The point is irrelevant/off topic, he uses "redundant" to mean "obsolescent", and he split the first sentence of his post between the subject line and the coments. Off with his head!
um... guys,
maybe I'm out of line here, but this is not a good topic to brain storm. Why do we want to devises more deviant ways to spam?
And why hurt our precious Google!
Pretending no one thought of it is not an effective way to prevent others from thinking of it. We want all possible exploits to be exposed, so they can be dealt with. You're advocating security through obscurity.
Yup... the Simpson's - perhaps the most biting commentary on American life - now has credits for offshore production. From the name of the manager it's likely India or Malaysia. The voices are still American but the graphics are probably done in a country where the sarcasm will not likely be noticed as sarcasm. Nothing is sacred and I'm seriously reconsidering my Simpson's habit.
Actually, I believe The Simpsons has been outsourced to AKOM in Korea since '92, when Film Roman took over production from Klasky-Csupo. The Inian names you see are probably management people from Pentamedia Graphics, an Indian company that bought a 49% share in Film Roman a couple years ago.
oh my...I had to read this twice before I actually believed it. Those poor middle class workers...not being able to afford that second buick...having to save for years just to perform the smallest extension to their house. Oh man, those middle class certainly have it bad.
Hey, it's a nightmare out there. I know one guy who had to choose between Showtime and HBO because he couldn't afford both. Another guy I know has to make do with a 32" TV because the 36" one was just way too expensive. Personally, I have to drive my '94 Civic for another couple years because I'm buying a house. Those people living in garbage dumps outside Manilla think they have it bad...
Management...can not (by definition) be outsourced. Everything else (from Legal to Financial to actual reseach and production) can be done more efficiently by someone else, and so eventually will be.
Legal departments are very difficult to outsource, as the laws in India are not the same as the laws in the US. As such, an Indian law school grad is essentially worthless for managing legal matters in the US. My grandfather was a lawyer in Germany before WW2. When he came to the US in '46, he became a cook because a German law degree was worth exactly nothing in the US.
There's something just a little ironic about calling "Visual Basic for Applications" full power =)
It's astonishing that you can do anything useful in it, let alone write a virus in it.
Perhaps it's really only "full power" in the sense that it's given the power to clobber your stuff. To me it brings to mind a visual of a child being handed a flamethrower. Sure, he can use it, but shouldn't such things be restricted to adults?
Domain name disputes should be handled like a small claims court. Plaintiff, defendant, judge, and maybe a few witnesses. And if one party fails to show up 3 times, the case is automatically decided in favor of the defendant.
So....the defendant just has to not show up 3 times to win? That doesn't work. Even if you make it so the party that does show up is the winner, how do you decide where the case is heard? If I registered fordsuxorz.com and I live in california, can Ford Motors dispute ownership in Michigan and get the name by default because I can't afford to travel 2300 miles (and miss a day of work) to defend it?
As in, dice, cardboard, playing cards, and big, smelly dorks bragging about their 20th-level Elder Dwarf Mage.
Actual exchange between a friend of mine and the squeaky-voiced game dork DM at a D&D table at a con many years ago:
GameDork: I have all black dice. Black like my soul.
MyFriend: Black like your stool?
GD: soul! I said black like my soul!
MF: Geez, sorry. It sounded like you said "stool".
Think what you want but it's fact.
I pissed off everyone at SBC.
I cursed everyone with every foul word you could ever dream up, and I didn't talk to the flunkies, everytime I called I demanded to talk to a supervisor and I kept going up the ladder, pissing on shoes all the way up..
Yeah, it happened as I said it happened.
It's the reason the wire is dangling 6' from the ground on the pole in my backyard.
SBC, the corporation, didn't add crap to your bill to retaliate for your $1000 judgement. All those people whose "shoes you pissed on" each (probably one their own) threw a little something on your bill because you're a fucking prick. Did you really think any of those flunkies or their supervisors have anything to do with SBC's non-payment of a court judgement? Get a clue.
How can other countries spend less and get better care? Because money is spent intelligently, not on heroics.
Other countries don't spend money on "heroic measures" because, in most cases, the only place such care is offered is the US. In this particular case, the child getting the multi-organ transplant is from Italy. Sounds to me like we're picking up everyone else's slack. Whatever the case, my issue with the original poster was that you cannot re-assign money spent on single cases, and unless you have an alternative to offer, your point is pointless. My pretend economic argument is nonsense? I seriously doubt you can back your claim that heroics are driving costs up in the US to any great degree. The biggest culprit is medicare and medicaid.
Are you joking or do you just have no idea what you're talking about? There are ENORMOUS waiting lists for organ transplants. It is VERY, VERY likely that there are other children waiting to get transplants.
You've totally missed my point. Stomach, spleen, and intestinal transplants are extraordinarily rare, so half of those eight theoretical children who might've been saved are unlikely to even exist in the first place.
However, the cost of doing things like this is astonishing, even in countries outside the US where medical treatment is priced more sanely. How many infants and other folks people could be saved by spending this money elsewhere?
This line of reasoning is absurd. In order to redirect that money, you'd have to (among other things) fire the doctor, close the operating room, and lay off the nurses. The "cost" is usually calculated by taking the fractional load on the system this one patient incurs, then dividing the entire system budget by that fraction. The money isn't convertable in any reasonable way.
you have to wonder if those organs might have been better used saving multiple children with one major organ failing instead of someone who seems to have a body that seems to be almost completely non-functional.
You assume there are multiple children, all of a compatible tissue type, each waiting for one of each organ, that didn't get an organ. This is unlikely.
I'd be more inclined to think this might not be "right" thing to do because organs are always in short supply, and those could've saved eight children instead of only one.
Organs aren't "one size fits all", nor "one tissue type fits all". If you have a 1 year old organ donor, those organs pretty much have to go into a small child. Now that the list is limited to "small children", you have to find one with a compatible tissue type, and then you assign priority by the condition of the recipient. I seriously doubt there were eight infants of the same tissue type each waiting for one of a different organ, but they got pushed aside for this one that needed all.
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I really wish "Quirk" would die. Nothing sucks more than getting a layout from a designer done in Quark for Mac, trying to load it in Quark for Windows to make changes, and then hoping the exported file turns out correctly when the printer loads it up in Quark for Mac. Is cross-platform compatibility of saved documents really too much to ask?
GPS doesn't really scale down that way. Location is calculated by the time delay between satellites sending synchronized signals. The differential between two simultaneous radio signals (travelling at the speed of light) at distances several thousand miles away requires very accurate time measurement already. Trying to do the same thing when one transmitter is only forty feet closer than the other is pretty much impossible. Besides, if you're concerned about location in a specific building, a simple system using two or three radio direction finding units can give you a location in 2D space. And if you're interested in tracking which facility a package is in, a fixed RFID reader at the entrances is enough. What it comes down to is that GPS is designed for navigation. It has been adapted for tracking use in a limited sense for things like trucks and cargo containers, but this requires the addition of a radio transmitter and some sort of receiving network (usually cellular) to transport that location info. GPS is an amazing system, but shoe-horning it into other applications is difficult and unnecessary.
GPS needs a clear view of the sky to work. Unless 1) the RFID tag is going to be on the top of the package, 2) the package is going to be left outside with no overhead cover, and 3) no package is stacked on top of another package, GPS won't work. This doesn't even get into the antenna size and power amplification (batteries!) issues.
The strength of GPS is its accuracy and near-global availability. One of its weaknesses is its need for a clear shot at at least three satellites. People need to stop suggesting GPS as the end-all be-all of location finding technology.
Heh. I think he just cut everyone's budget and said "you will now enjoy having 20% less money".
As Edward A. Murphy, jr. said it:
Nothing like seeing a faithful replication of the impetus for Murphy's observation...
But then again maybe not according to the stats...
I suspect the one in three plumbers who are happy are the ones who have two unhappy younger plumbers working under them who get to do the poopy work.
Heh. That's what all the state employees here in California thought. They're getting laid off left and right.
Man, is that Star Registry stuff the biggest load of crap, or what!
We could ALL create our own star registry and spend the $20 to officially register copyright on it. I think I'll call mine "The One True Universal Star Registry" and name all the best stars after myself.
What I've always wondered about those scout knives with the fork is, what do you use to cut your steak if you're using the FORK on the pocket knife to hold the steak down?
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I dunno man, I saw this Archos thing and I almost kicked my mom in the face! That thing made me pop like fifty boners and wail on my guitar!
The point is irrelevant/off topic, he uses "redundant" to mean "obsolescent", and he split the first sentence of his post between the subject line and the coments. Off with his head!
Pretending no one thought of it is not an effective way to prevent others from thinking of it. We want all possible exploits to be exposed, so they can be dealt with. You're advocating security through obscurity.
Actually, I believe The Simpsons has been outsourced to AKOM in Korea since '92, when Film Roman took over production from Klasky-Csupo. The Inian names you see are probably management people from Pentamedia Graphics, an Indian company that bought a 49% share in Film Roman a couple years ago.
Hey, it's a nightmare out there. I know one guy who had to choose between Showtime and HBO because he couldn't afford both. Another guy I know has to make do with a 32" TV because the 36" one was just way too expensive. Personally, I have to drive my '94 Civic for another couple years because I'm buying a house. Those people living in garbage dumps outside Manilla think they have it bad...
Legal departments are very difficult to outsource, as the laws in India are not the same as the laws in the US. As such, an Indian law school grad is essentially worthless for managing legal matters in the US. My grandfather was a lawyer in Germany before WW2. When he came to the US in '46, he became a cook because a German law degree was worth exactly nothing in the US.
Perhaps it's really only "full power" in the sense that it's given the power to clobber your stuff. To me it brings to mind a visual of a child being handed a flamethrower. Sure, he can use it, but shouldn't such things be restricted to adults?
So....the defendant just has to not show up 3 times to win? That doesn't work. Even if you make it so the party that does show up is the winner, how do you decide where the case is heard? If I registered fordsuxorz.com and I live in california, can Ford Motors dispute ownership in Michigan and get the name by default because I can't afford to travel 2300 miles (and miss a day of work) to defend it?
Actual exchange between a friend of mine and the squeaky-voiced game dork DM at a D&D table at a con many years ago:
GameDork: I have all black dice. Black like my soul.
MyFriend: Black like your stool?
GD: soul! I said black like my soul! MF: Geez, sorry. It sounded like you said "stool".
Our Civilization's Golden Age has ended. So say our analysts...
Man, those 20 turns went fast...
SBC, the corporation, didn't add crap to your bill to retaliate for your $1000 judgement. All those people whose "shoes you pissed on" each (probably one their own) threw a little something on your bill because you're a fucking prick. Did you really think any of those flunkies or their supervisors have anything to do with SBC's non-payment of a court judgement? Get a clue.
Other countries don't spend money on "heroic measures" because, in most cases, the only place such care is offered is the US. In this particular case, the child getting the multi-organ transplant is from Italy. Sounds to me like we're picking up everyone else's slack. Whatever the case, my issue with the original poster was that you cannot re-assign money spent on single cases, and unless you have an alternative to offer, your point is pointless. My pretend economic argument is nonsense? I seriously doubt you can back your claim that heroics are driving costs up in the US to any great degree. The biggest culprit is medicare and medicaid.
You've totally missed my point. Stomach, spleen, and intestinal transplants are extraordinarily rare, so half of those eight theoretical children who might've been saved are unlikely to even exist in the first place.
This line of reasoning is absurd. In order to redirect that money, you'd have to (among other things) fire the doctor, close the operating room, and lay off the nurses. The "cost" is usually calculated by taking the fractional load on the system this one patient incurs, then dividing the entire system budget by that fraction. The money isn't convertable in any reasonable way.
You assume there are multiple children, all of a compatible tissue type, each waiting for one of each organ, that didn't get an organ. This is unlikely.
Organs aren't "one size fits all", nor "one tissue type fits all". If you have a 1 year old organ donor, those organs pretty much have to go into a small child. Now that the list is limited to "small children", you have to find one with a compatible tissue type, and then you assign priority by the condition of the recipient. I seriously doubt there were eight infants of the same tissue type each waiting for one of a different organ, but they got pushed aside for this one that needed all.