A couple of years ago, the IEEE magazine of the Society for the Social Implications of Science and Technology had a fascinating article about this very topic. (Although it did not involve solar stoves; instead it was about combination stoves/small generators to supply low levels of lighting and communication access to a rural village, in addition to a stove.) I can't remember how the electricity was generated; it was something non-mechanical... As an added bonus the stoves vastly improved the air quality of the dwelling; at least, they would have if they were used.
What they determined was that the style of cookstove used varies by region, and that a design put together by some appliance designer many thousands of miles away is invariably not going to design a stove that is going to get used in some isolated rural village in the boondocks.
It'd asking somebody that's used an oven all their life to start doing all their cooking over an open fire... given the choice, I'm just going to keep doing what I've been doing.
The project also failed to account for distribution and transportation difficulties. A bulky stove weighing a couple of hundred pounds is really hard to transport into a mountain village accessibly only via a one-week journey by donkey.
I'm constantly having to babysit the GMail Spam filter; I get about two false positives a week. But it has done a fine job on my inbox; I've never gotten a Phishing attempt in it, and the only e-mails where I have to click "Report Spam" are usually just annoying websites I got a login on that decided I absolutely needed their useless newsletter.
A 20-30 foot deep pool comprising 2% of arable land would be prohibitively expensive. In areas with a high water table, you'll have to keep it from caving in; also you are going to need to blast rock in many parts of the country, and the pool is going to have to be lined with something expensive (either concrete or a thick plastic liner). You'll also need to dredge that thing on a regular basis, as ag runoff is rather silt-laden.
The equipment design is the easy part; the problem is spectrum scarcity. LightSquared bought up a bunch of cheap satellite spectrum with the idea of using it for a vastly more valuable terrestrial network. While they DO have the capital to change their equipment to use a different band, they DON'T have the capital to actually purchase that band.
GPS was around way before LightSquared's current plan.
Lightsquared doesn't want to set up a new SatPhone service. They want to use their satellite spectrum for ground-to-ground stations instead. GPS was using their own satellite spectrum LONG before LS decided they wanted to use adjacent spectrum for vastly more powerful (read: interfering) ground service. If all LightSquared wanted to do was set up a SatPhone service, then we would quite correctly be heaping scorn on cheap GPS makers...
It's not "shitty design" when a GPS cannot block out a tidal wave of signal from an adjacent band, when that band was only supposed to contain a garden-hose sized signal. Yes, equipment must "accept any interference", but not if that interference vastly more powerful than the spectrum was originally supposed to deal with.
What does this have to do with politics? GPS operates in a satellite band, and the surrounding traffic is also supposed to be satellite. It is perfectly proper for GPS makers to design their filters around their expectations for surrounding traffic. It would have just been needless complexity and expense for zero end-user benefit to design them tighter.
If I build my house in the middle of nowhere surrounded by farmland, peace, and quiet, you can damn sure I'm going to protest when somebody tries to re-zone the land next door to be a shotgun range. I'm not going to be too impressed when the shotgun club guys tell me to just add more insulation to my house.
Everybody knows that running Cat5 is expensive and difficult in aging school buildings! Instead, have every student (and teacher) craft their very own Tinfoil Hat as an art project!
It'll "protect" them from all these horrible microwatts of non-ionizing radiation and provide a life-enriching art project at the same time!
Problem solved.
The union should feel free to contact me so I can tell them where to send the check for my consulting fee.
I don't follow why a data center would be kept open for one puny mainframe (or closed because it's gone.) I'm pretty sure there's other stuff there. A modern mainframe is about the size of three deep rack cabinets. Even with associated storage and support peripherals, I could fit a complete mainframe installation in my living room. I doubt the only thing in the data center was the mainframe.
Also, NASA stands for National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NOT National Manned Space Flight Agency. They DO accomplish lots of other stuff other than manned space flight.
For the workloads a mainframe is designed to perform, I can't imagine NASA would have much use for one. They are database and transaction processing monsters. NASA does not handle large volumes of either. I imagine their scientific computing needs are pretty fair-sized, but mainframes are indeed rather cost-ineffective for scientific workloads.
Many of my engineering classes allowed "formula sheets" or a "formula card", usually a single sheet of paper or a 4x6 index card, that the student was responsible for formulating themselves.
I used this to completely ace the exam in several of my EE classes where I otherwise would have had great difficulty. (Analog just wasn't my thing while becoming a CompE; I rocked my digital and computer classes.)
My tactic: Virtually all professors provide sets of review problems, and the answers to the review problems (along with all homework questions and mid-terms) were on file with the library. I'd go the library and make copies of those materials. I would then go back to my room and pass-through every single homework assignment, mid-term, and review question, and solve every problem to the point where the remainder of the solution was "busy-work." If, after much staring, I simply could not figure out how the professor got from point A to point B, I simply copied the entire solution to that problem (writing very small with a very sharp pencil if I was confined to a card, or just about 3 rounds of reducing on the copy machine if I wasn't) onto my formula sheet/card.
90% of the time, the problems where I had to copy the solutions wholesale onto the card ended up on the exam (with some trivial parts changed), and I was invariably one of the few people in the class to get it right, despite the fact that I had utterly no idea how the solution worked.
Currently Germany is currently in a time of relative economic prosperity. Greece (which has retained more-or-less the same language for thousands of years) is not. English corresponds to a fairly large collection of countries that have little to do with each other. At least four of the countries are doing okay (UK, Canada, USA, New Zealand, and Australia) while many of the others (mainly former English colonies) are not. (Some of the former colonies (i.e. Bermuda) are doing fine.)
If this so-called "study" had been done during post WWI, we'd have to conclude that speakers of German were getting the ever-living crap kicked out of them.
If we spread the B.S. analysis out a few centuries, we'd come to the conclusion at various times that Chinese, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Latin, Aramaic, Japanese, Sumerian, Sanskrit, etc. was the "best" language for prosperity. (And I'm sure I've missed a few)
I thought ANPR was a pretty normal thing to equip a police car with nowadays. Not standard, by any means, but not something really out of the ordinary.
The company shapeways.com will print print stainless steel for you for relatively cheap. (They do plastic, stainless steel, aluminum, sterling silver, ceramic, and glass.) I have the world's most awesome set of dungeon-crawling dice (bronze-finish stainless) that my wife gave me from that place.
Take the following statement: ""Pure-play [tech] jobs are on the decline," concurs Bill Reynolds, a partner at Foote. Where once the majority of tech jobs were in technology companies, now many organizations whose business is not directly related to tech have many openings that require different skills, he says."
Bullshit. People actually working for tech companies have ALWAYS been far fewer than those that run the technology in customer IT departments. This is not some new startling trend. If you want a career in IT with high potential (as opposed to the tech industry) business skills have always been a valuable accompaniment to tech skills; the business-blind sysadmin geek has never been up for the higher reaches of IT, and never will be. Again, not a new trend that this sage wise man is now cluing us in on.
You cannot be compelled to testify. This means you are not required to utter a single word that will ever be heard in court. Not to the police, not to a judge, not to the jury, not to your lawyer, nobody.
You CAN be compelled to do a LOT of things that will enable somebody else to testify against you. After proper due process you can be compelled to:
- Provide fingerprints - Provide blood - Provide DNA - Provide Urine - Provide a hair sample - Participate in a lineup - Provide a voice sample - Have a photograph taken - Provide a breath sample
- and... upon presentation of a valid warrant, provide unimpeded access to your property. This means you must open safes, unlock doors, and yes, unencrypt hard drives.
Your tattoo analogy fails. Explaining something would indeed be testimony. But unencrypting a hard drive is not an explanation; it's similar to using a combination to a safe, a key to a lock, etc.
You don't have to actually reveal the combination/decryption key, but you CAN be required to use it yourself to provide access to the property listed on the warrant. To not do so is obstruction of justice (or contempt), and once they convict you, they CAN use that fact against you in court.
Now, if some of the contents of your hard drive contain privileged information (i.e. communication with your doctor, lawyer, or spouse) that information cannot be used against you. But unless you can convincingly argue the drive contains nothing BUT privileged info, you still have to turn it over (and the privileged files cannot be given to the police or used as evidence; your lawyer supervises the sorting process.)
Read the 5th amendment carefully: "nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself". It does NOT say "nor shall be compelled to do anything that might incriminate himself."
You cannot be compelled to testify in your own trial. You cannot be compelled to utter a single word that will ever appear in evidence or trial.
You CAN be compelled to do a lot of other things, however, that somebody else can use to act as a witness against you, and this is a well-settled area of law. You must, upon the exercise of appropriate due process, provide fingerprints, blood, DNA, urine, your presence in a lineup, etc. All those things can be incriminating, yet they are also not the subject of any serious 5th-amendment questions.
This also includes, upon presentation of a valid warrant, unimpeded access to your property. You must open doors, unlock safes, and yes, provide unencrypted access to your hard drive. (There are, of course several important exceptions to the rule, including communication with your lawyer and doctor. But you cannot claim blanket protection on your entire office/safe/computer because a portion of its contents might be privileged.) What good would a search warrant for your house be if you could refuse to admit the police? You don't have to give the police the combination/encryption key, but you ARE required to use it upon valid demand.
You can, of course, still refuse to use the decryption key. You can even claim you forgot it. But such a claim WILL be held against you at trial, and it's quite possible you will be found guilty of Obstruction of Justice and/or Contempt of Court.
GigE uses the 8b/10b encoding scheme, which chops 20% of your bandwidth right off the top. So your 1.2Gbps "bandwidth" is instantly chopped down to about 100MB/sec.
3,133 Data Centers? Does some computer-savvy worker taking some initiative to back up the PC's in the Outer Podunk Forestry Station by sticking a cheap NAS box in the closet underneath the shelves of tree-climbing gear count as a "Data Center"?
Except for the branding advantage of having a PC division, the blade market has nothing to do with the PC market. (And, that branding advantage was small enough that IBM took some cash and didn't look back when dumping it.) The design and manufacture of PC's has little to do with all but the lowest-end servers, except for the fact that they happen to use the same CPU instruction set. But motherboard engineers practically grow on trees, so that isn't much of an advantage at all.
I'm not saying Lenovo won't ever enter the server business, just that their acquisition of IBM's PC business doesn't provide them any technical skills enabling them to do so.
IBM (and it's CEO), taking notice of the business climate in another country, accepted less short-term cash on an acquisition in order to help promote long-term sales. This is exactly the sort of decisions a CEO is paid to make; this is what we want them to do!
If you have so much "downtime" at work, why do your co-workers need "freeing up" to concentrate on other tasks? Are they busy as beavers, while you web surf all day? Can't you have been concentrating on those other tasks instead of writing this?
If you wrote the application during work hours, you are not justified in demanding some sort of lump-sum bonus in return for doing productive work during this so-called "downtime." I was not aware that there was such a thing in IT. There is ALWAYS work to do. Forget these strange notions about how the work is outside of your job description; what is this, a Union shop? Your job description details a list of bare minimum requirements useful for things like disability accommodations, unemployment denial appeals, etc. It does not set a ceiling, beyond which they are morally obligated to pay you extra.
Now, if this application is truly above and beyond your job description... Turn it over, let everybody see how insanely superb it is, and then bring this up when it's time for a raise. If they don't give you one, feel free to look for another job. Your potential new employer will look favorably how you took it upon yourself to write an application that massively improved productivity.
If you hold the application (that you've already written) "hostage" in return for a bonus or raise, I fully expect the response will be: "Don't let the door hit you in the a$$ on the way out." If they are especially savvy, they'll take the application from you before they fire you (as they should, as you wrote it on their time.) If the manager is a crafty one, he'll give you a raise, pay it to you long enough so the application is understood and is maintainable, and then fire you. Why? Because employers aren't in the habit of rewarding employees who extort a raise or bonus to receive completed work product that the employer has ostensibly already paid for.
If I negotiate $500 with my mechanic to change out my head gasket, and then when I go to pick the car up, he tells me he noticed the valve train was worn and decided to rebuild it, just because he thought it would make the car burn a 25% less gas, and demands $500 more for the work (which I never authorized), I'm not going to applaud his initiative. I'm going to hell him to hand over the keys, and I'm going to drive off, never to go back there again.
If you had negotiated a raise contingent on the successful completion of the application before you wrote it, this would be an entirely different conversation. But you didn't, and now you are wishing you had that discussion long after the time to have it has passed.
With a skilled doctor and a well-instructed patient, Methadone is a perfectly legitimate and normal Opioid pain reliever. The longer effects of the drug (vs. other options) mean the level in the bloodstream stays more level. Yes, if the patient cannot follow instructions, or the doctor is not aware of how Methadone is metabolized in the body, this can be harmful; there are tradeoffs with almost any drug. You can hardly blame the drug if the doctor ignores the prescribing information or the patient doesn't properly taper off of other painkillers while starting up the Methadone.
I have no beef whatsoever with unobtrusive text ads, or a reasonable number of static graphical ads. The reason I end up eventually installing AdBlock on my browsers is where some badly designed website brings my browser to a crawl with a half-dozen animated ads, or, even worse, a video ad with the sound enabled by default. (And most video ads in general make my machine chug some...)
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A couple of years ago, the IEEE magazine of the Society for the Social Implications of Science and Technology had a fascinating article about this very topic. (Although it did not involve solar stoves; instead it was about combination stoves/small generators to supply low levels of lighting and communication access to a rural village, in addition to a stove.) I can't remember how the electricity was generated; it was something non-mechanical... As an added bonus the stoves vastly improved the air quality of the dwelling; at least, they would have if they were used.
What they determined was that the style of cookstove used varies by region, and that a design put together by some appliance designer many thousands of miles away is invariably not going to design a stove that is going to get used in some isolated rural village in the boondocks.
It'd asking somebody that's used an oven all their life to start doing all their cooking over an open fire... given the choice, I'm just going to keep doing what I've been doing.
The project also failed to account for distribution and transportation difficulties. A bulky stove weighing a couple of hundred pounds is really hard to transport into a mountain village accessibly only via a one-week journey by donkey.
I'm constantly having to babysit the GMail Spam filter; I get about two false positives a week. But it has done a fine job on my inbox; I've never gotten a Phishing attempt in it, and the only e-mails where I have to click "Report Spam" are usually just annoying websites I got a login on that decided I absolutely needed their useless newsletter.
A 20-30 foot deep pool comprising 2% of arable land would be prohibitively expensive. In areas with a high water table, you'll have to keep it from caving in; also you are going to need to blast rock in many parts of the country, and the pool is going to have to be lined with something expensive (either concrete or a thick plastic liner). You'll also need to dredge that thing on a regular basis, as ag runoff is rather silt-laden.
Theoretically possible? Sure.
But "an easy way to help"? Nope.
The equipment design is the easy part; the problem is spectrum scarcity. LightSquared bought up a bunch of cheap satellite spectrum with the idea of using it for a vastly more valuable terrestrial network. While they DO have the capital to change their equipment to use a different band, they DON'T have the capital to actually purchase that band.
GPS was around way before LightSquared's current plan.
Lightsquared doesn't want to set up a new SatPhone service. They want to use their satellite spectrum for ground-to-ground stations instead. GPS was using their own satellite spectrum LONG before LS decided they wanted to use adjacent spectrum for vastly more powerful (read: interfering) ground service. If all LightSquared wanted to do was set up a SatPhone service, then we would quite correctly be heaping scorn on cheap GPS makers...
It's not "shitty design" when a GPS cannot block out a tidal wave of signal from an adjacent band, when that band was only supposed to contain a garden-hose sized signal. Yes, equipment must "accept any interference", but not if that interference vastly more powerful than the spectrum was originally supposed to deal with.
What does this have to do with politics? GPS operates in a satellite band, and the surrounding traffic is also supposed to be satellite. It is perfectly proper for GPS makers to design their filters around their expectations for surrounding traffic. It would have just been needless complexity and expense for zero end-user benefit to design them tighter.
If I build my house in the middle of nowhere surrounded by farmland, peace, and quiet, you can damn sure I'm going to protest when somebody tries to re-zone the land next door to be a shotgun range. I'm not going to be too impressed when the shotgun club guys tell me to just add more insulation to my house.
Everybody knows that running Cat5 is expensive and difficult in aging school buildings! Instead, have every student (and teacher) craft their very own Tinfoil Hat as an art project!
It'll "protect" them from all these horrible microwatts of non-ionizing radiation and provide a life-enriching art project at the same time!
Problem solved.
The union should feel free to contact me so I can tell them where to send the check for my consulting fee.
I don't follow why a data center would be kept open for one puny mainframe (or closed because it's gone.) I'm pretty sure there's other stuff there. A modern mainframe is about the size of three deep rack cabinets. Even with associated storage and support peripherals, I could fit a complete mainframe installation in my living room. I doubt the only thing in the data center was the mainframe.
Also, NASA stands for National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NOT National Manned Space Flight Agency. They DO accomplish lots of other stuff other than manned space flight.
For the workloads a mainframe is designed to perform, I can't imagine NASA would have much use for one. They are database and transaction processing monsters. NASA does not handle large volumes of either. I imagine their scientific computing needs are pretty fair-sized, but mainframes are indeed rather cost-ineffective for scientific workloads.
Many of my engineering classes allowed "formula sheets" or a "formula card", usually a single sheet of paper or a 4x6 index card, that the student was responsible for formulating themselves.
I used this to completely ace the exam in several of my EE classes where I otherwise would have had great difficulty. (Analog just wasn't my thing while becoming a CompE; I rocked my digital and computer classes.)
My tactic: Virtually all professors provide sets of review problems, and the answers to the review problems (along with all homework questions and mid-terms) were on file with the library. I'd go the library and make copies of those materials. I would then go back to my room and pass-through every single homework assignment, mid-term, and review question, and solve every problem to the point where the remainder of the solution was "busy-work." If, after much staring, I simply could not figure out how the professor got from point A to point B, I simply copied the entire solution to that problem (writing very small with a very sharp pencil if I was confined to a card, or just about 3 rounds of reducing on the copy machine if I wasn't) onto my formula sheet/card.
90% of the time, the problems where I had to copy the solutions wholesale onto the card ended up on the exam (with some trivial parts changed), and I was invariably one of the few people in the class to get it right, despite the fact that I had utterly no idea how the solution worked.
Currently Germany is currently in a time of relative economic prosperity. Greece (which has retained more-or-less the same language for thousands of years) is not. English corresponds to a fairly large collection of countries that have little to do with each other. At least four of the countries are doing okay (UK, Canada, USA, New Zealand, and Australia) while many of the others (mainly former English colonies) are not. (Some of the former colonies (i.e. Bermuda) are doing fine.)
If this so-called "study" had been done during post WWI, we'd have to conclude that speakers of German were getting the ever-living crap kicked out of them.
If we spread the B.S. analysis out a few centuries, we'd come to the conclusion at various times that Chinese, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Latin, Aramaic, Japanese, Sumerian, Sanskrit, etc. was the "best" language for prosperity. (And I'm sure I've missed a few)
I thought ANPR was a pretty normal thing to equip a police car with nowadays. Not standard, by any means, but not something really out of the ordinary.
The company shapeways.com will print print stainless steel for you for relatively cheap. (They do plastic, stainless steel, aluminum, sterling silver, ceramic, and glass.) I have the world's most awesome set of dungeon-crawling dice (bronze-finish stainless) that my wife gave me from that place.
Take the following statement: ""Pure-play [tech] jobs are on the decline," concurs Bill Reynolds, a partner at Foote. Where once the majority of tech jobs were in technology companies, now many organizations whose business is not directly related to tech have many openings that require different skills, he says."
Bullshit. People actually working for tech companies have ALWAYS been far fewer than those that run the technology in customer IT departments. This is not some new startling trend. If you want a career in IT with high potential (as opposed to the tech industry) business skills have always been a valuable accompaniment to tech skills; the business-blind sysadmin geek has never been up for the higher reaches of IT, and never will be. Again, not a new trend that this sage wise man is now cluing us in on.
You cannot be compelled to testify. This means you are not required to utter a single word that will ever be heard in court. Not to the police, not to a judge, not to the jury, not to your lawyer, nobody.
You CAN be compelled to do a LOT of things that will enable somebody else to testify against you. After proper due process you can be compelled to:
- Provide fingerprints
- Provide blood
- Provide DNA
- Provide Urine
- Provide a hair sample
- Participate in a lineup
- Provide a voice sample
- Have a photograph taken
- Provide a breath sample
- and... upon presentation of a valid warrant, provide unimpeded access to your property. This means you must open safes, unlock doors, and yes, unencrypt hard drives.
Your tattoo analogy fails. Explaining something would indeed be testimony. But unencrypting a hard drive is not an explanation; it's similar to using a combination to a safe, a key to a lock, etc.
You don't have to actually reveal the combination/decryption key, but you CAN be required to use it yourself to provide access to the property listed on the warrant. To not do so is obstruction of justice (or contempt), and once they convict you, they CAN use that fact against you in court.
Now, if some of the contents of your hard drive contain privileged information (i.e. communication with your doctor, lawyer, or spouse) that information cannot be used against you. But unless you can convincingly argue the drive contains nothing BUT privileged info, you still have to turn it over (and the privileged files cannot be given to the police or used as evidence; your lawyer supervises the sorting process.)
Read the 5th amendment carefully: "nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself". It does NOT say "nor shall be compelled to do anything that might incriminate himself."
You cannot be compelled to testify in your own trial. You cannot be compelled to utter a single word that will ever appear in evidence or trial.
You CAN be compelled to do a lot of other things, however, that somebody else can use to act as a witness against you, and this is a well-settled area of law. You must, upon the exercise of appropriate due process, provide fingerprints, blood, DNA, urine, your presence in a lineup, etc. All those things can be incriminating, yet they are also not the subject of any serious 5th-amendment questions.
This also includes, upon presentation of a valid warrant, unimpeded access to your property. You must open doors, unlock safes, and yes, provide unencrypted access to your hard drive. (There are, of course several important exceptions to the rule, including communication with your lawyer and doctor. But you cannot claim blanket protection on your entire office/safe/computer because a portion of its contents might be privileged.) What good would a search warrant for your house be if you could refuse to admit the police? You don't have to give the police the combination/encryption key, but you ARE required to use it upon valid demand.
You can, of course, still refuse to use the decryption key. You can even claim you forgot it. But such a claim WILL be held against you at trial, and it's quite possible you will be found guilty of Obstruction of Justice and/or Contempt of Court.
The GP said you can get 120MB/sec. You can't. You can, in fact, get a Gigabit of usable bandwidth, but that isn't what the GP was asserting.
GigE uses the 8b/10b encoding scheme, which chops 20% of your bandwidth right off the top. So your 1.2Gbps "bandwidth" is instantly chopped down to about 100MB/sec.
3,133 Data Centers? Does some computer-savvy worker taking some initiative to back up the PC's in the Outer Podunk Forestry Station by sticking a cheap NAS box in the closet underneath the shelves of tree-climbing gear count as a "Data Center"?
Except for the branding advantage of having a PC division, the blade market has nothing to do with the PC market. (And, that branding advantage was small enough that IBM took some cash and didn't look back when dumping it.) The design and manufacture of PC's has little to do with all but the lowest-end servers, except for the fact that they happen to use the same CPU instruction set. But motherboard engineers practically grow on trees, so that isn't much of an advantage at all.
I'm not saying Lenovo won't ever enter the server business, just that their acquisition of IBM's PC business doesn't provide them any technical skills enabling them to do so.
IBM (and it's CEO), taking notice of the business climate in another country, accepted less short-term cash on an acquisition in order to help promote long-term sales. This is exactly the sort of decisions a CEO is paid to make; this is what we want them to do!
If you have so much "downtime" at work, why do your co-workers need "freeing up" to concentrate on other tasks? Are they busy as beavers, while you web surf all day? Can't you have been concentrating on those other tasks instead of writing this?
If you wrote the application during work hours, you are not justified in demanding some sort of lump-sum bonus in return for doing productive work during this so-called "downtime." I was not aware that there was such a thing in IT. There is ALWAYS work to do. Forget these strange notions about how the work is outside of your job description; what is this, a Union shop? Your job description details a list of bare minimum requirements useful for things like disability accommodations, unemployment denial appeals, etc. It does not set a ceiling, beyond which they are morally obligated to pay you extra.
Now, if this application is truly above and beyond your job description... Turn it over, let everybody see how insanely superb it is, and then bring this up when it's time for a raise. If they don't give you one, feel free to look for another job. Your potential new employer will look favorably how you took it upon yourself to write an application that massively improved productivity.
If you hold the application (that you've already written) "hostage" in return for a bonus or raise, I fully expect the response will be: "Don't let the door hit you in the a$$ on the way out." If they are especially savvy, they'll take the application from you before they fire you (as they should, as you wrote it on their time.) If the manager is a crafty one, he'll give you a raise, pay it to you long enough so the application is understood and is maintainable, and then fire you. Why? Because employers aren't in the habit of rewarding employees who extort a raise or bonus to receive completed work product that the employer has ostensibly already paid for.
If I negotiate $500 with my mechanic to change out my head gasket, and then when I go to pick the car up, he tells me he noticed the valve train was worn and decided to rebuild it, just because he thought it would make the car burn a 25% less gas, and demands $500 more for the work (which I never authorized), I'm not going to applaud his initiative. I'm going to hell him to hand over the keys, and I'm going to drive off, never to go back there again.
If you had negotiated a raise contingent on the successful completion of the application before you wrote it, this would be an entirely different conversation. But you didn't, and now you are wishing you had that discussion long after the time to have it has passed.
With a skilled doctor and a well-instructed patient, Methadone is a perfectly legitimate and normal Opioid pain reliever. The longer effects of the drug (vs. other options) mean the level in the bloodstream stays more level. Yes, if the patient cannot follow instructions, or the doctor is not aware of how Methadone is metabolized in the body, this can be harmful; there are tradeoffs with almost any drug. You can hardly blame the drug if the doctor ignores the prescribing information or the patient doesn't properly taper off of other painkillers while starting up the Methadone.
I have no beef whatsoever with unobtrusive text ads, or a reasonable number of static graphical ads. The reason I end up eventually installing AdBlock on my browsers is where some badly designed website brings my browser to a crawl with a half-dozen animated ads, or, even worse, a video ad with the sound enabled by default. (And most video ads in general make my machine chug some...)