Interestingly you can purchase the much cheaper E398 with a 64Mb Transflash card as stock, zip over to motomodders.net and grab the instructions to upgrade the firmware and make it a ROKR. The only difference between the ROKR and the E398 is the extra iTunes button on the front, which you can re-map elsewhere...
Another way of transferring a list of information to a sproc is to send in xml, prepare it with sp_xml_preparedocument and then query it using openxml(...)
It's not the resolution, it's the number of colour scales required. I've dealt with X-ray scanners which output DICOM images with a minimum of 4096 shades of grey.
When you have to deal with full colour images the imaging equipment has to be colour calibrated regularly when it's used for diagnostics.
X-Ray scanners cost in excess of $10,000 for usage in simple day surgery situations. There is a good reason why they cost that much. Domestic scanners don't even come close to the resolution needed by radiologists. When they look at a minute dot on an X-Ray which to you and me looks the same as any other minute dot, they know the difference. The FDA makes a distinction between images which can be used for diagnostic purposes and images which can't.
The XMLHTTPRequest ActiveX threading model is wrong for client side operations. When invoking an abort() on a long running asynchronous request in IE, the JScript interpreter simply waits for the request to return before doing anything else. May not be so bad for client side stuff, but as far as I know the same model is used for the server-side component (wininet)...
OK, I'm a number cruncher for a medium size telemarketing firm in Brisbane. This is actually very good news for the telemarketing industry as a whole because it enables us to reduce the 'dead call' rate for our existing list. We purchase list information for the whole of Australia, over 20 million numbers, including mobile phone numbers and faxes. It costs us over $10,000 a month to use this list from our providers, it is a small cost compared to our takings each month from just selling things over the phone.
We have to factor a dead call rate into our lists, and from that we can calculate fairly accurately how many sales we'll make for each area we target. If we can remove the people who will not buy from us off our list it means we save the flagfall for a phone call and also the postage for our mailouts. If you use a standard postage and ff cost per person it comes in at around 70 cents. When you mail out to 8,000 people a day it adds up very quickly. Plus you have to cost in hourly rate for a telemarketer and mailroom person.
Right now, we have an internal do not call list which we value very highly. If we lost that list we would waste thousands every week on phone calls alone.
One thing we do get is a discount from our list providers when we feed information back to them every month. We send back address changes, primary contact number chages, head of household, primary cheque signer and rough income per household. Presently they do not request do not contacts from their list consumers, I would imagine when we receive the list from the ADMA we'll start feeding them back again.
Japan will get them in everything before everyone else, by the time we get the replacement fuel cell in our hands the Japanese will have added cameras, out-of-fuel-crazy-frog-alert-tones, flashing lights, colourful straps and furry attachments.
Our first batch of these things will look like a grey brick with wires.
You can still buy Unique match pistols in like DES 69.22 rimfires in Australia. There was an importer in Melbourne which sold tactical tupperware and sporting handguns. They even sold replacement wooden stocks.
I think they were called L'Unique Legion or something like that.
If they're going to this much length to protect their content, they should just get a bunch of armed security guards to personally deliver the DVD within a sealed DVD player chained to his arm. Train the security guard on how to plug the thing directly into a TV.
I was actually part of a company a couple of years ago which put through a proposal to assist with tracking firearms imported into Australia. We were shocked at what we found when we consulted several customs offices.
There was no integrated network system between interstate customs offices.
Sure, they e-mailed each other and did some odd bits of communication, but there was nothing solid in place. Part of our proposal was to put in a system where if a shipment of firearms was sent from Melbourne to Sydney the Sydney office would actually know that one was going to arrive. A step up from their existing system at the time, where the firearms actually left Melbourne, turned up at the Sydney customs depot without prior knowledge and then processed!
You do what your immediate supervisor or line manager wants you to do. If upper management don't like what you're doing then they have to deal with your supervisor to fix it, not you. To a certain degree your supervisor is there to help communication across the heirarchy of a company, if the upper management take the issue up with you directly then your supervisor isn't doing their job properly. You shouldn't be worried about what upper management think, your thoughts shouldn't even consider anything past your supervisor. If upper management approach you with their ideas then you should be responding "I'll discuss it with [insert supervisors name here]" because you should be respecting your supervisors position within the company.
That said, unfortunately most upper management people are psychopaths, especially in smaller companies. So unless you want your tires slashed by the CIO you'd better start counting your lines of code...
I've worked in 4 companies which have bitten the dust in the last 10 years, some good indicators of problems are:
* Paying you in pizza and food stamps * Managers being overly nice to everyone in meetings while looking very nervous * 'Minor unexplained troubles' when pay fails to make it to the bank on time * Large men standing at the doors of the company in pinstripe suits telling everyone to go home for the day * Leaving the office late in the evening, seeing the company accountant loading what seems to be company property into the back of his SUV * The CIO borrowing lunch money from you * Sudden and unexplained 'asset stocktake' undertaken by little men you've never seen in the company before, calling themselves 'administrators'. * You get an e-mail alert from the stock exchange warning you that your company has announced that it has been placed into liquidation.
After taking over the developement for a telemarketing application, with no prior documentation, I immediately started a Wiki using OpenWIKI (they lean towards Microsoft servers for their stuff, so a basic IIS installation is all I had to work with), I convinced the admin guy to give me web space on it plus their SQL server, installed it and started entering everything I came across as I was either fixing or adding stuff. After about 3 months pretty much the entire system was documented to some degree, from the UI to nearly every technical aspect. Then, one of the execs found it, figured out how to add stuff, and now 8 months later it's probably 25% my stuff, and 75% is now full of up to date company practice and communication.
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Apparantly they found a pocket protector and a "SysAdmins" day celebration card buried along side the remains.
I sat there with my C64 playing William Wobbler and said "hah! like it'll ever get this good!"
Cylob did a great job with text-to-speech conversion for his Rewind. Well worth checking out.
Maybe they could simulate the feeling of taking a really great dump.
Maybe he does move in mysterious ways...
What is the world coming to.
This has led to an explosion of offerings - from VOIP to 802.11x wi-fi to blogging
From cheap 1-800 numbers to stealing neighbours bandwidth to emo kids crossing the street instead of walking down the road...
Interestingly you can purchase the much cheaper E398 with a 64Mb Transflash card as stock, zip over to motomodders.net and grab the instructions to upgrade the firmware and make it a ROKR. The only difference between the ROKR and the E398 is the extra iTunes button on the front, which you can re-map elsewhere...
Another way of transferring a list of information to a sproc is to send in xml, prepare it with sp_xml_preparedocument and then query it using openxml(...)
It's not the resolution, it's the number of colour scales required. I've dealt with X-ray scanners which output DICOM images with a minimum of 4096 shades of grey.
When you have to deal with full colour images the imaging equipment has to be colour calibrated regularly when it's used for diagnostics.
X-Ray scanners cost in excess of $10,000 for usage in simple day surgery situations. There is a good reason why they cost that much. Domestic scanners don't even come close to the resolution needed by radiologists. When they look at a minute dot on an X-Ray which to you and me looks the same as any other minute dot, they know the difference. The FDA makes a distinction between images which can be used for diagnostic purposes and images which can't.
The XMLHTTPRequest ActiveX threading model is wrong for client side operations. When invoking an abort() on a long running asynchronous request in IE, the JScript interpreter simply waits for the request to return before doing anything else. May not be so bad for client side stuff, but as far as I know the same model is used for the server-side component (wininet)...
OK, I'm a number cruncher for a medium size telemarketing firm in Brisbane. This is actually very good news for the telemarketing industry as a whole because it enables us to reduce the 'dead call' rate for our existing list. We purchase list information for the whole of Australia, over 20 million numbers, including mobile phone numbers and faxes. It costs us over $10,000 a month to use this list from our providers, it is a small cost compared to our takings each month from just selling things over the phone.
We have to factor a dead call rate into our lists, and from that we can calculate fairly accurately how many sales we'll make for each area we target. If we can remove the people who will not buy from us off our list it means we save the flagfall for a phone call and also the postage for our mailouts. If you use a standard postage and ff cost per person it comes in at around 70 cents. When you mail out to 8,000 people a day it adds up very quickly. Plus you have to cost in hourly rate for a telemarketer and mailroom person.
Right now, we have an internal do not call list which we value very highly. If we lost that list we would waste thousands every week on phone calls alone.
One thing we do get is a discount from our list providers when we feed information back to them every month. We send back address changes, primary contact number chages, head of household, primary cheque signer and rough income per household. Presently they do not request do not contacts from their list consumers, I would imagine when we receive the list from the ADMA we'll start feeding them back again.
I remember one of our windows servers used to reboot by itself for no apparant reason. When we went to check it out the rack was locked! Weird!
Japan will get them in everything before everyone else, by the time we get the replacement fuel cell in our hands the Japanese will have added cameras, out-of-fuel-crazy-frog-alert-tones, flashing lights, colourful straps and furry attachments.
Our first batch of these things will look like a grey brick with wires.
You can still buy Unique match pistols in like DES 69 .22 rimfires in Australia. There was an importer in Melbourne which sold tactical tupperware and sporting handguns. They even sold replacement wooden stocks.
I think they were called L'Unique Legion or something like that.
If they're going to this much length to protect their content, they should just get a bunch of armed security guards to personally deliver the DVD within a sealed DVD player chained to his arm. Train the security guard on how to plug the thing directly into a TV.
If we'd won the job, they wouldn't be having these problems...
I was actually part of a company a couple of years ago which put through a proposal to assist with tracking firearms imported into Australia. We were shocked at what we found when we consulted several customs offices.
There was no integrated network system between interstate customs offices.
Sure, they e-mailed each other and did some odd bits of communication, but there was nothing solid in place. Part of our proposal was to put in a system where if a shipment of firearms was sent from Melbourne to Sydney the Sydney office would actually know that one was going to arrive. A step up from their existing system at the time, where the firearms actually left Melbourne, turned up at the Sydney customs depot without prior knowledge and then processed!
You do what your immediate supervisor or line manager wants you to do. If upper management don't like what you're doing then they have to deal with your supervisor to fix it, not you. To a certain degree your supervisor is there to help communication across the heirarchy of a company, if the upper management take the issue up with you directly then your supervisor isn't doing their job properly. You shouldn't be worried about what upper management think, your thoughts shouldn't even consider anything past your supervisor. If upper management approach you with their ideas then you should be responding "I'll discuss it with [insert supervisors name here]" because you should be respecting your supervisors position within the company.
That said, unfortunately most upper management people are psychopaths, especially in smaller companies. So unless you want your tires slashed by the CIO you'd better start counting your lines of code...
While we're at it, I'll dig the old 8-track out of the garage and hook it up to my pc...
I've worked in 4 companies which have bitten the dust in the last 10 years, some good indicators of problems are:
* Paying you in pizza and food stamps
* Managers being overly nice to everyone in meetings while looking very nervous
* 'Minor unexplained troubles' when pay fails to make it to the bank on time
* Large men standing at the doors of the company in pinstripe suits telling everyone to go home for the day
* Leaving the office late in the evening, seeing the company accountant loading what seems to be company property into the back of his SUV
* The CIO borrowing lunch money from you
* Sudden and unexplained 'asset stocktake' undertaken by little men you've never seen in the company before, calling themselves 'administrators'.
* You get an e-mail alert from the stock exchange warning you that your company has announced that it has been placed into liquidation.
After taking over the developement for a telemarketing application, with no prior documentation, I immediately started a Wiki using OpenWIKI (they lean towards Microsoft servers for their stuff, so a basic IIS installation is all I had to work with), I convinced the admin guy to give me web space on it plus their SQL server, installed it and started entering everything I came across as I was either fixing or adding stuff. After about 3 months pretty much the entire system was documented to some degree, from the UI to nearly every technical aspect. Then, one of the execs found it, figured out how to add stuff, and now 8 months later it's probably 25% my stuff, and 75% is now full of up to date company practice and communication.
Awesome game, I vote best use of the ZX Spectrum colour palette ever (except maybe Dynamite Dan)
MS A/S/L 1.0 will be crap, MS A/S/L 2.0 is where IT professionals will jump on board.