3. all negatives, plates, positives, digitized storage medium, graphic files, magnetic medium, optical storage devices, and any other thing used in the making of the illustration that contain an image of the illustration or any part thereof are destroyed and/or deleted or erased after their final use.
And apparently you also should destroy your scanner, keyboard, monitor, CPU, and you may want to gouge out your eyes and cut off your mouse-clicking finger.
When you pay your mortgage, feed your kids, or keep your credit stable using blood money, you deserve to be marked as unethical.
Blood Money? Get a grip.
We're not talking about a company that makes its living selling crack in schoolyards and beating up people's grandmothers. If everyone quit the instant that the company did something that didn't line up exactly with their idea of a correct decision, nobody would have a work experience with more than 3 months at a stretch. "They've put paper towels in the men's room now! Those things kill trees! Next they'll have disposible cups in the break room! I will compromise my ethics no longer!"
Oh, and you don't get unemployment compensation after quitting because you didn't agree with the CEO.
The whole lawsuit/license fiasco is business, not some personal vendetta. Pretty bad business, but business none the less. Lawsuits and their ilk is just how companies communicate with each other in our society. It will ultimately be either thrown out of court or defeated and open the way for SCO to be countersued, or their claims will prove to have merit.
The rank and file who work there should be quitting, not for ethical reasons, but because their employer is about to dry up and blow away. No one will be suprised when they are ultimately unable to produce evidence to back up their claims, the lawsuit is thrown out, and they file bankruptcy the next morning to protect themselves from countersuits.
"Our legal bills have bleed us dry!" they will say. "There's nothing left!" the leadership will cry, as they lug their cash-laden briefcases to the curb.
These are the actions of a company in its final hours. They have no other products to speak of, and they've pretty much bet the farm on their lovely retroactive "licensing" scheme.
There is no positive outcome for the company: even if they prove their claims and are able to enforce their licensing terms, they've priced themselves out of the game. The previous pricetag was $699 per CPU, with threats that we all had better snap up our licenses now, as the price will soon be going up. Windows, the various BSD varieties, Sun, all stand at the ready to provide alternatives for the 6 months it would require for Linux to regroup.
Reality to SCO employees: Get your resumes in order! The ship is sinking, and your leaders are short-selling the life preservers!
I'd like to know if the lattice could be stretched in all three directions, rather than just one. And if so, would that provide any benefit? Or does the benefit come from that directionality?
It would be stretched in all directions, but usually the thickness is kept as small as possible, so the effect in that direction is minimal. The idea is to increase the carrier mobility between the source and drain, which is mostly a 1-D proposition: the electrons (or holes) flow from the source towards the drain, in as close to a straight-line as possible. Of course, the other 2 dimensions count as well, but not nearly as much as on the plane between the source and drain.
Also, it would mean that the entire thing is going to heat up ever so quickly.
The rest of your post reads like it's been run through Babelfish 3 or 4 times, but this point is wrong. Decreasing capacitance on the transistor structure (with the gate capacitance being dominant) leads to increased switching rates. A shorter transition time means that the transistor is dissipating less heat.
I think you are (trying to) talking about SOI technology, and if so, you are incorrect about it taking 5-10 years to mature. AMD is using it now, as are many other fabs.
Once when I let something slip that the interviewer (an engineer obviously not sufficiently briefed by HR:-) exclaimed in honest shock "How old are you?!?!!"
Uh oh, that's one of those questions that interviewers get in hot water for asking. "Are you Jewish?", "Do you like men?", and "Are you married?" are in the same category.
...of the good shows that Fox has had over the years that they replace with crap.
Futurama Married With Children (ok, this one had run its course) Andy Richter Controls the Universe (hit and miss here) X-Files, of course (yes, yes, I know...)
It's good to hear that I'm not the only one left on the planet who can't stand the "reality" shows that seem to populate the channel these days.
You don't need more power to go the distance. For point to point links you can use high gain dish's to go the distance. To cover larger areas you just deploy lots of cheap lower power access points/routers.
What's the difference? An antenna system is concerned with overall system gain, which is proportional to power and antenna gain. If you reduce the power, thinking, "Yeah, now we can reuse the frequencies", and then put up high-gain antennas to reach the same areas, the effective signal strength is the same.
In my experience, IDE is nothing but a mess. For example, I had removed power to an IDE drive in my machine, but left the IDE cable connected. The result was a machine that simply didn't want to boot.
I'm calling bull on you, but your example doesn't matter anyway. Are you saying that SCSI drives will magically correct for idiot users? What good would that machine have been if it would have booted? Doing a lot of floppy-based work these days?
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Slow news day?! The Chinese are in space, fer cryin' out loud, and this article makes the cut?
Too late now, of course, unless you situation hasn't changed.
It may not be too late to fix this. You have the right to file an ammended return for the past xx (consult IRS for xx) years back, if needed. If you were not relying on your parents for your maintenance during those years, claiming you as a dependant on their return is fraud.
That said, I don't believe that your parents owed you a college education. As a disclaimer, I did live with my parents for free during my undergraduate work, but books, fees, etc. were all my bag. I'm in graduate school now, my wife is finishing her undergraduate work as well, and we are making it happen all on our own. Easy? Of course not. It did help that I was working full time for 2.5 years before we got married, so I was able to save up a little and acquire a few things during that time, but basically everything we had saved was burned through in the first year of married student life. If you want to get a college degree, you can do it. If it is possible anywhere on earth, it is possible in the US. You are young, able to work, and able to think, so I know you can do it, if that's what you really want. It may take more than 4 years, and you may incur some debt doing it, but what you are saying is impossible to do because of your parents has been done thousands of times by people in worse shape than yourself.
Yes, an electric car does produce zero emissions (a hybrid obviously does, albeit less than a four-cycle engine), but that doesn't mean that the electricity is uses was generated without emissions. Still a lot of coal being burned to make power in the ol' USA.
Granted, a central location like a power plant is the best place to invest the money to make less pollution, rather than thousands of individual cars, but with each step of the production->distribution->usage chain you have a loss factor to consider, so just because that new hybrid gets 45MPG doesn't necessarily mean that it is using less net energy than a comparable gasoline engine. That probably is the case, however, as the manufacturers seem to be going to great lengths to use the lightest materials in the most efficient ways in these showcase cars.
One advantage that hybrids do have, is that their relatively small gasoline engines can be tuned to run the generator at their point of highest efficiency, rather than the wide range of speeds that a gasoline-propelled car must use.
Also, lead-acid batteries are heavy, toxic, and dirty things when it comes time to recycle or dispose of them, so the overall cost of the car, both monetary and environmental must be considered. I still would consider one if I needed a commutin' car.
Miraculously, the vendor discovered a recent copy of the customer records database on all four computers and was able to recover all of the customer data and return it to Aeneas, delaying printing of its May bills only minimally.
This was from a mazazine for managers, after all. Now there's some good news that pointy-haired bosses can understand!
I just got a some links and a few words together about the internals of these cameras. I think that it won't be long before they are fully deciphered, so I don't plan on investing much time. If you would like to see what's available and contribute, please visit http://www.geocities.com/q_128
No one's getting anything for free here, friend. There is a difference between buying something and renting it (although that difference seems to be lost on some of our ??AA buddies).
If I buy a disposible camera, then later decide that instead of taking pictures, it would be more useful as a paperweight, that's just dandy. I have no agreement with the store that I will return the shell of the camera within XX days.
If I pay $10.99 for the camera, it's *mine*. If and when I decide to return it to the store is up to me. They are just banking on the idea that I have an incentive to take the camera back because I don't get my pictures until I do.
An interesting thing to do, next time you supply your address for some reason, (sweepstakes at the mall, supermarket savings club, etc.) change the way you write your name: if your name is John Q. Public, write it down as J Quincy Public, or John W. Public; whatever.
It's mildly amusing to track how your name gets sold to credit cards and magazines and such. You may even get a telemarketer calling for Mr. J Quincy! Woo-hoo!
Setting aside the fact that I actually enjoy supporting the things I like with my wallet (and thus, hopefully, encouraging the people who make them to make more like them), posts about OCRing or copying this book make me shake my head.
I paid $17.99 for the latest HP book. Even if I had paid the full retail price of $29.99, we're talking about 870 (or thereabouts) pages. If I were to photocopy that book, shopping around for photocopies at $0.03 per page, I would have saved $3.89, assuming my time is free and that I really wanted to sit down and read a stack of photocopies. Yeah, I suppose that somebody could put an electronic copy online somewhere for me to leech, but why would I want to spend 9 hours in front of my computer or squinting into a PDA? Pick it up at the library, instead. I have no problem shelling out $20 for something that I own, and that my family can enjoy for years to come, be it a book, DVD, CD, etc.
In the case of CDs, however, I seem to be at a disconnect with what the music industry is promoting as 'worth buying'.
So - here my taxes have already PAID for the lane, and being a normal government entity they want to charge me for using the lane again... HUH???
You should be used to that concept by now! Your tax dollars paid for the streets and curbs downtown, too, but you still have to feed the meter to leave your car there. Your tax dollars keep the USPS going, but you still have to buy stamps. Tax dollars regularly go towards building huge, obnoxious stadiums for huge, obnoxious adults to play children's games so that you can pay $50-$200 to see them (another topic altogether).
The only fair tax is a use tax. Until that happens, get used to complaining about paying twice for things and/or paying for things that you don't personally use.
Now, if you've been employed for a while, and don't even have a retirement fund big enough to support you for 6 months in an emergency, then I'd agree, you'd be an idiot.
I was agreeing with you right up until you suggested using your retirement money to buy Doritos and pay the rent.
So you use up your retirement account to get by until you are earning again, at which time you start replenishing your retirement, until the next layoff. Rinse, repeat, and soon you are 60 and have about 5-7 years to make up 40 years of mortgaging your future.
There is no replacement for compound interest in saving for your retirement, and treating that money like a revolving loan means certain doom for your future. Once the money is in your retirement account(s), you must forget you ever saw it and leave it there to do it's job, which is to ensure your survival after you are no longer able to work. Planning for a rainy day is not a job for retirement funds!
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3. all negatives, plates, positives, digitized storage medium, graphic files, magnetic medium, optical storage devices, and any other thing used in the making of the illustration that contain an image of the illustration or any part thereof are destroyed and/or deleted or erased after their final use.
And apparently you also should destroy your scanner, keyboard, monitor, CPU, and you may want to gouge out your eyes and cut off your mouse-clicking finger.
When you pay your mortgage, feed your kids, or keep your credit stable using blood money, you deserve to be marked as unethical.
Blood Money? Get a grip.
We're not talking about a company that makes its living selling crack in schoolyards and beating up people's grandmothers. If everyone quit the instant that the company did something that didn't line up exactly with their idea of a correct decision, nobody would have a work experience with more than 3 months at a stretch. "They've put paper towels in the men's room now! Those things kill trees! Next they'll have disposible cups in the break room! I will compromise my ethics no longer!"
Oh, and you don't get unemployment compensation after quitting because you didn't agree with the CEO.
The whole lawsuit/license fiasco is business, not some personal vendetta. Pretty bad business, but business none the less. Lawsuits and their ilk is just how companies communicate with each other in our society. It will ultimately be either thrown out of court or defeated and open the way for SCO to be countersued, or their claims will prove to have merit.
The rank and file who work there should be quitting, not for ethical reasons, but because their employer is about to dry up and blow away. No one will be suprised when they are ultimately unable to produce evidence to back up their claims, the lawsuit is thrown out, and they file bankruptcy the next morning to protect themselves from countersuits.
"Our legal bills have bleed us dry!" they will say. "There's nothing left!" the leadership will cry, as they lug their cash-laden briefcases to the curb.
These are the actions of a company in its final hours. They have no other products to speak of, and they've pretty much bet the farm on their lovely retroactive "licensing" scheme.
There is no positive outcome for the company: even if they prove their claims and are able to enforce their licensing terms, they've priced themselves out of the game. The previous pricetag was $699 per CPU, with threats that we all had better snap up our licenses now, as the price will soon be going up. Windows, the various BSD varieties, Sun, all stand at the ready to provide alternatives for the 6 months it would require for Linux to regroup.
Reality to SCO employees: Get your resumes in order! The ship is sinking, and your leaders are short-selling the life preservers!
Especially if you plan on reselling that car some day.
Or, just set up everything for free and extract the "tips" needed from the credit card numbers you harvest at the gateway.
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I'd like to know if the lattice could be stretched in all three directions, rather than just one. And if so, would that provide any benefit? Or does the benefit come from that directionality?
It would be stretched in all directions, but usually the thickness is kept as small as possible, so the effect in that direction is minimal. The idea is to increase the carrier mobility between the source and drain, which is mostly a 1-D proposition: the electrons (or holes) flow from the source towards the drain, in as close to a straight-line as possible. Of course, the other 2 dimensions count as well, but not nearly as much as on the plane between the source and drain.
Also, it would mean that the entire thing is going to heat up ever so quickly.
The rest of your post reads like it's been run through Babelfish 3 or 4 times, but this point is wrong. Decreasing capacitance on the transistor structure (with the gate capacitance being dominant) leads to increased switching rates. A shorter transition time means that the transistor is dissipating less heat.
I think you are (trying to) talking about SOI technology, and if so, you are incorrect about it taking 5-10 years to mature. AMD is using it now, as are many other fabs.
Once when I let something slip that the interviewer (an engineer obviously not sufficiently briefed by HR :-) exclaimed in honest shock "How old are you?!?!!"
Uh oh, that's one of those questions that interviewers get in hot water for asking. "Are you Jewish?", "Do you like men?", and "Are you married?" are in the same category.
...of the good shows that Fox has had over the years that they replace with crap.
Futurama
Married With Children (ok, this one had run its course)
Andy Richter Controls the Universe (hit and miss here)
X-Files, of course (yes, yes, I know...)
It's good to hear that I'm not the only one left on the planet who can't stand the "reality" shows that seem to populate the channel these days.
You don't need more power to go the distance. For point to point links you can use high gain dish's to go the distance. To cover larger areas you just deploy lots of cheap lower power access points/routers.
What's the difference? An antenna system is concerned with overall system gain, which is proportional to power and antenna gain. If you reduce the power, thinking, "Yeah, now we can reuse the frequencies", and then put up high-gain antennas to reach the same areas, the effective signal strength is the same.
I'm calling bull on you, but your example doesn't matter anyway.
Are you saying that SCSI drives will magically correct for idiot users? What good would that machine have been if it would have booted? Doing a lot of floppy-based work these days?
Slow news day?! The Chinese are in space, fer cryin' out loud, and this article makes the cut?
Too late now, of course, unless you situation hasn't changed.
It may not be too late to fix this. You have the right to file an ammended return for the past xx (consult IRS for xx) years back, if needed. If you were not relying on your parents for your maintenance during those years, claiming you as a dependant on their return is fraud.
That said, I don't believe that your parents owed you a college education. As a disclaimer, I did live with my parents for free during my undergraduate work, but books, fees, etc. were all my bag. I'm in graduate school now, my wife is finishing her undergraduate work as well, and we are making it happen all on our own. Easy? Of course not. It did help that I was working full time for 2.5 years before we got married, so I was able to save up a little and acquire a few things during that time, but basically everything we had saved was burned through in the first year of married student life.
If you want to get a college degree, you can do it. If it is possible anywhere on earth, it is possible in the US. You are young, able to work, and able to think, so I know you can do it, if that's what you really want. It may take more than 4 years, and you may incur some debt doing it, but what you are saying is impossible to do because of your parents has been done thousands of times by people in worse shape than yourself.
...or on the job. If you routinely find that your CS classes are boring, you might want to think twice about making a career out of it...
Yes, an electric car does produce zero emissions (a hybrid obviously does, albeit less than a four-cycle engine), but that doesn't mean that the electricity is uses was generated without emissions. Still a lot of coal being burned to make power in the ol' USA.
Granted, a central location like a power plant is the best place to invest the money to make less pollution, rather than thousands of individual cars, but with each step of the production->distribution->usage chain you have a loss factor to consider, so just because that new hybrid gets 45MPG doesn't necessarily mean that it is using less net energy than a comparable gasoline engine. That probably is the case, however, as the manufacturers seem to be going to great lengths to use the lightest materials in the most efficient ways in these showcase cars.
One advantage that hybrids do have, is that their relatively small gasoline engines can be tuned to run the generator at their point of highest efficiency, rather than the wide range of speeds that a gasoline-propelled car must use.
Also, lead-acid batteries are heavy, toxic, and dirty things when it comes time to recycle or dispose of them, so the overall cost of the car, both monetary and environmental must be considered. I still would consider one if I needed a commutin' car.
This was from a mazazine for managers, after all. Now there's some good news that pointy-haired bosses can understand!
On a big pile of money
I just got a some links and a few words together about the internals of these cameras. I think that it won't be long before they are fully deciphered, so I don't plan on investing much time. If you would like to see what's available and contribute, please visit http://www.geocities.com/q_128
You forgot the best part of that scene, the on-hold music that Marge gets to listen to: "Everybody Loves a Clown, So Why Don't You?"
No one's getting anything for free here, friend.
There is a difference between buying something and renting it (although that difference seems to be lost on some of our ??AA buddies).
If I buy a disposible camera, then later decide that instead of taking pictures, it would be more useful as a paperweight, that's just dandy. I have no agreement with the store that I will return the shell of the camera within XX days.
If I pay $10.99 for the camera, it's *mine*. If and when I decide to return it to the store is up to me. They are just banking on the idea that I have an incentive to take the camera back because I don't get my pictures until I do.
It's mildly amusing to track how your name gets sold to credit cards and magazines and such. You may even get a telemarketer calling for Mr. J Quincy! Woo-hoo!
I paid $17.99 for the latest HP book. Even if I had paid the full retail price of $29.99, we're talking about 870 (or thereabouts) pages. If I were to photocopy that book, shopping around for photocopies at $0.03 per page, I would have saved $3.89, assuming my time is free and that I really wanted to sit down and read a stack of photocopies. Yeah, I suppose that somebody could put an electronic copy online somewhere for me to leech, but why would I want to spend 9 hours in front of my computer or squinting into a PDA? Pick it up at the library, instead.
I have no problem shelling out $20 for something that I own, and that my family can enjoy for years to come, be it a book, DVD, CD, etc.
In the case of CDs, however, I seem to be at a disconnect with what the music industry is promoting as 'worth buying'.
You should be used to that concept by now! Your tax dollars paid for the streets and curbs downtown, too, but you still have to feed the meter to leave your car there. Your tax dollars keep the USPS going, but you still have to buy stamps. Tax dollars regularly go towards building huge, obnoxious stadiums for huge, obnoxious adults to play children's games so that you can pay $50-$200 to see them (another topic altogether).
The only fair tax is a use tax. Until that happens, get used to complaining about paying twice for things and/or paying for things that you don't personally use.
That reminds me of a Kids in the Hall skit.
I was agreeing with you right up until you suggested using your retirement money to buy Doritos and pay the rent.
So you use up your retirement account to get by until you are earning again, at which time you start replenishing your retirement, until the next layoff. Rinse, repeat, and soon you are 60 and have about 5-7 years to make up 40 years of mortgaging your future.
There is no replacement for compound interest in saving for your retirement, and treating that money like a revolving loan means certain doom for your future. Once the money is in your retirement account(s), you must forget you ever saw it and leave it there to do it's job, which is to ensure your survival after you are no longer able to work. Planning for a rainy day is not a job for retirement funds!
Not if you've signed a non-compete contract...