it is so good to see that innovation is still alive in the marketplace. who would have thought intel would be so innovative as to license the AMD Hammer for their future chip lines? way to go, intel, raise the flag higher!
the 911 issue is way serious. for one thing, without the 911 surcharge (aka tax), you don't have money for the lines and equipment and operators at 911, or for the radio dispatch for the police/fire/ambulance.
for another, believe me, VoIP providers are seriously wrestling with the ramifications of what happens when Billy Bob Bubba III uses his VoIP phone from East Noplace's regional office to call 911, when that phone is registered to the South Useless head office? where should the ident for the number tell the cops to go, particularly if it is a ring-answer-hangup call.
I would like to think the fix is putting little GPS receivers in the phone sets.... except for one thing. anybody ever try to use GPS inside? doesn't work. you can't see the birds overhead to mark your position.
there should be an initial period in which these de jure (meaning "because we can") laws only apply to the governor and legislators in the particular state. so, for instance, all the big suits in new mexico have to blow into their drunk-o-meters every 15 minutes while driving for a couple years, and then and only then can they remove a sunset clause in the law and apply it to the general public.
we will need a federal statute to make it happen. write your congresscritter now.
they should also be sued under antiterrorism statutes for invading and denying privacy, denying americans their legal rights under federal and international statutes permitting fair-use movement of licensed material to more convenient formats for personal use, and all-around weaselness.
so that's the end of ATT cable (comcast merger) and now ATT Wireless (proposed cingular merger.)
ATT long distance is going to wither and die of its own, which will leave just ATT business services (the data network.) which is another business in a clotted field.
may I entertain merger possibilities for them, too?
well, let's see here. 4% of postulated matter in the universe is known to exist. 96% of postulated matter in the universe is NOT known to exist. that's a fine fudge factor to have in a test, and might explain where budget figures come from in the government:-D
it certainly explains where a lot of my assignments come from at work, lol:-D
we have a formalized process during annual required training at my firm to submit these, and we get a review from legal within days. at that time, you have a choice. if you lose, you have to dump one of the businesses... the day job or the entepreneur job.
I would very strongly suspect that in these parlous times, any "I can firewall my knowledge, really I can" arguments are not going to fly any higher and faster than pigs. not when folks are using shifted commas in their applications to patent features of HTML 1.0 as new and unique contributions to the art.
at some point, you are going to get an urgent customer call from your business on your cell in your cubefarm location. at that point, you are in a primal conflict of interest since you're on the other company's time. sorry, but that's how it is, and there is not going to be a lot of tolerance unless you are Steve Jobs;)
no, the 120 dB shock every 5 seconds will make everybody around the plant so goofy that they won't notice (or care) if pots of gold were bouncing off the roofs of those cars.
there is a second use for the gutshakers... come the economic decline, they can turn 'em around and use 'em to blow surplus employees out of the plant.
sell 'em to airports to divert incoming geese from the engine nacelles. a goose up your Pratt & Whitney can ruin your whole day.
in the dying light of the LP, there were touchless laser tone arm/pickup systems to be had for the over-rich. some audible groove-skipping occurred occasionally, and they never really got from the over-rich to the audiophile market. good mechanical tone arms (my KMAL arcuate mercury-puddles, no-wires arm qualifies, as do many more thousands of good wired arms) won't, especially if you put a dime over the cartridge. or a Memorex cassette reel-stop plug if the dime causes the cartridge to bottom on a record warp.
MP3 garble does exist on complex recordings, and it's about the same as a visible "clonk"-ing scratch on your old stacks 'o' wax in the disturbance category. enough to get PO'ed, not enough to search for the shotgun. the more things change......
what is not being outsourced is business process experts who know software... for purposes of managing, setting up the controls and QC, and acceptance procedures of outsourced bitslingers. for that, rough guess is an MBA strong in business process and project managment, with appropriate MIS minor/major and some experience and certificates in languages and tools currently in vogue.
in your case, with a practical physician background, you could backdoor a bit of the MBA type stuff through CLEP credits if you are, say, one of the managing partners of your clinic or specialty group, etc. it would certainly get you a first interview, and quite likely the second one, if you are targeting medical software firms.
but one strong possibility would be if you have good math skills and take to computers.... in the research department at one of the large drug outfits. as I understand it, much of the "drug research" underway nowadays is to identify the contraindications and side effects with layout of parts of a drug molecule.
there are "right hand" and "left hand" compounds created approximately in equal quantities in synthesis, of which on BlunderMax (tm), the left-handed stuff could cause toenail cancer that runs wild and kills in days, and the right-handed stuff cures the common cold and grows hair and costs ten cents a ton to produce. if CornerPharm Corp. can develop a wimpy-left-hand version of the basic molecule that has 90% bias in manufacturing, has the same benefits, and the black-sheep contaminant only causes bleeding stringwarts in certain rare types of genetic error, you have a hit.
spend a little time in your medical library and check these options out. you now have something to ask those drug salesmen pests about on their next visit, how MegaMergerCo. develops product lines and recruits researchers.
it is moderately well known that data above and beyond SMTPE timecode is frequently embedded in lines 18 through, I think it is 27, in your average NTSC video frame. if you have an older TV with horizontal hold controls, roll the picture down a little and watch the black line dance above the picture.
this is, among other things, how Panasonic VCRs can automatically set their clocks when you switch them to the local PBS channel.
all you have to do is put a dupe serial number in that retrace bar's timespace, between the horizontal sync pulses, and you've tagged the tape with a unique number.
it's a little harder to blur these out, because you have to replace the information or you break picture sync, putting an ugly hook in the top of the picture.
ain't worth my time to chase it further, but bet on the serials being there... and if MPAA is truly paranoid and in league with the shadows, the name of the intended recipient of the screener. if they use some sort of argument like, "it takes a month to cut these tape copies," bet big on it.
as an old, burned-up, has-been reporter and not a lawyer, this is a nicely done version of what is known around the courthouse as a "shit or get off the pot" letter. quite well done.
much better done than the version I sent to the Nebraska Attorney General's office thirty years ago after they tried to dun me instead of my insurance company after a little traffic accident munged up a guard rail.
they preserve your rights, show willingness to negotiate specific questions of interest, and give nothing away, including any further time and effort without specific facts being raised.
Mr. Roy deserves some sort of award for excellence in handling seekers of deep pockets.
should take their extra stock options and higher salaries, which with the legions of fired workers leads to gated communities, and live where they export the jobs to. there are numerous and obvious advantages for both them... and us... .
I used to sit in the courthouse as a reporter while the votes were being counted off paper ballots. went quickly, no fuss, no muss.
if somebody did try to steal the election, I would've just called my anchor/news director, and we'd have their ass wall to wall and ten feet tall with their crime in progress. hard to stay bought when it's in the open.
screw all the contracts to somebody's brother in law, use recycled comic pages to print ballots on.
color printing isn't that bad to do, either negative or positive. the pricing entry point for equipment is rather ugly, however, as is the chemistry and paper. if you're an unrequited fossil and check your developer and fix by tasting a dipped fingertip, however, don't go color, you'll end up cold, blue, and stinky in a corner. b/w is bad enough... b/w toners and color are positively fatal.
however, there is another alternative. the minolta dimage scanner in USB is going for $299 in this area now, and that won't buy a set of color acetate filters for a b/w enlarger and a developing tube with motor base. scan the film into ye olde PC and use photoshop and your printer to make prints.
a quarter a pop is not unreasonable, especially with the $250,000 cap. at those prices, it's basically the cost of the compliance sticker on the box.
now, what the hay they are going to charge the data switch manufacturers, whose files to reboot and load the switch cards, are all in FAT on flash or micro hard drives, may be another matter...:( and rest assured, if it's a stored program switch, the file storage is almost guaranteed to be fat-16 or fat-32 compliant.
so, let me see, now... if everybody just refuses to do any business at all with SCO, and they disappear under the mists, does that also mean 20% of the lawyers at Boies, Schiller also disappear?
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it is so good to see that innovation is still alive in the marketplace. who would have thought intel would be so innovative as to license the AMD Hammer for their future chip lines? way to go, intel, raise the flag higher!
the 911 issue is way serious. for one thing, without the 911 surcharge (aka tax), you don't have money for the lines and equipment and operators at 911, or for the radio dispatch for the police/fire/ambulance.
for another, believe me, VoIP providers are seriously wrestling with the ramifications of what happens when Billy Bob Bubba III uses his VoIP phone from East Noplace's regional office to call 911, when that phone is registered to the South Useless head office? where should the ident for the number tell the cops to go, particularly if it is a ring-answer-hangup call.
I would like to think the fix is putting little GPS receivers in the phone sets.... except for one thing. anybody ever try to use GPS inside? doesn't work. you can't see the birds overhead to mark your position.
now I can go out and buy a CD that won't play on my peecee. the excitement is killing me!
if you don't get the results you want, juggle the committee membership and/or shitcan the report and just do what you want anyway.
there should be an initial period in which these de jure (meaning "because we can") laws only apply to the governor and legislators in the particular state. so, for instance, all the big suits in new mexico have to blow into their drunk-o-meters every 15 minutes while driving for a couple years, and then and only then can they remove a sunset clause in the law and apply it to the general public.
we will need a federal statute to make it happen. write your congresscritter now.
they should also be sued under antiterrorism statutes for invading and denying privacy, denying americans their legal rights under federal and international statutes permitting fair-use movement of licensed material to more convenient formats for personal use, and all-around weaselness.
so that's the end of ATT cable (comcast merger) and now ATT Wireless (proposed cingular merger.)
ATT long distance is going to wither and die of its own, which will leave just ATT business services (the data network.) which is another business in a clotted field.
may I entertain merger possibilities for them, too?
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well, let's see here. 4% of postulated matter in the universe is known to exist. 96% of postulated matter in the universe is NOT known to exist. that's a fine fudge factor to have in a test, and might explain where budget figures come from in the government :-D
:-D
it certainly explains where a lot of my assignments come from at work, lol
we have a formalized process during annual required training at my firm to submit these, and we get a review from legal within days. at that time, you have a choice. if you lose, you have to dump one of the businesses... the day job or the entepreneur job.
;)
I would very strongly suspect that in these parlous times, any "I can firewall my knowledge, really I can" arguments are not going to fly any higher and faster than pigs. not when folks are using shifted commas in their applications to patent features of HTML 1.0 as new and unique contributions to the art.
at some point, you are going to get an urgent customer call from your business on your cell in your cubefarm location. at that point, you are in a primal conflict of interest since you're on the other company's time. sorry, but that's how it is, and there is not going to be a lot of tolerance unless you are Steve Jobs
no, the 120 dB shock every 5 seconds will make everybody around the plant so goofy that they won't notice (or care) if pots of gold were bouncing off the roofs of those cars.
there is a second use for the gutshakers... come the economic decline, they can turn 'em around and use 'em to blow surplus employees out of the plant.
sell 'em to airports to divert incoming geese from the engine nacelles. a goose up your Pratt & Whitney can ruin your whole day.
in the dying light of the LP, there were touchless laser tone arm/pickup systems to be had for the over-rich. some audible groove-skipping occurred occasionally, and they never really got from the over-rich to the audiophile market. good mechanical tone arms (my KMAL arcuate mercury-puddles, no-wires arm qualifies, as do many more thousands of good wired arms) won't, especially if you put a dime over the cartridge. or a Memorex cassette reel-stop plug if the dime causes the cartridge to bottom on a record warp.
MP3 garble does exist on complex recordings, and it's about the same as a visible "clonk"-ing scratch on your old stacks 'o' wax in the disturbance category. enough to get PO'ed, not enough to search for the shotgun. the more things change......
what is not being outsourced is business process experts who know software... for purposes of managing, setting up the controls and QC, and acceptance procedures of outsourced bitslingers. for that, rough guess is an MBA strong in business process and project managment, with appropriate MIS minor/major and some experience and certificates in languages and tools currently in vogue.
in your case, with a practical physician background, you could backdoor a bit of the MBA type stuff through CLEP credits if you are, say, one of the managing partners of your clinic or specialty group, etc. it would certainly get you a first interview, and quite likely the second one, if you are targeting medical software firms.
but one strong possibility would be if you have good math skills and take to computers.... in the research department at one of the large drug outfits. as I understand it, much of the "drug research" underway nowadays is to identify the contraindications and side effects with layout of parts of a drug molecule.
there are "right hand" and "left hand" compounds created approximately in equal quantities in synthesis, of which on BlunderMax (tm), the left-handed stuff could cause toenail cancer that runs wild and kills in days, and the right-handed stuff cures the common cold and grows hair and costs ten cents a ton to produce. if CornerPharm Corp. can develop a wimpy-left-hand version of the basic molecule that has 90% bias in manufacturing, has the same benefits, and the black-sheep contaminant only causes bleeding stringwarts in certain rare types of genetic error, you have a hit.
spend a little time in your medical library and check these options out. you now have something to ask those drug salesmen pests about on their next visit, how MegaMergerCo. develops product lines and recruits researchers.
it is moderately well known that data above and beyond SMTPE timecode is frequently embedded in lines 18 through, I think it is 27, in your average NTSC video frame. if you have an older TV with horizontal hold controls, roll the picture down a little and watch the black line dance above the picture.
this is, among other things, how Panasonic VCRs can automatically set their clocks when you switch them to the local PBS channel.
all you have to do is put a dupe serial number in that retrace bar's timespace, between the horizontal sync pulses, and you've tagged the tape with a unique number.
it's a little harder to blur these out, because you have to replace the information or you break picture sync, putting an ugly hook in the top of the picture.
ain't worth my time to chase it further, but bet on the serials being there... and if MPAA is truly paranoid and in league with the shadows, the name of the intended recipient of the screener. if they use some sort of argument like, "it takes a month to cut these tape copies," bet big on it.
as an old, burned-up, has-been reporter and not a lawyer, this is a nicely done version of what is known around the courthouse as a "shit or get off the pot" letter. quite well done.
much better done than the version I sent to the Nebraska Attorney General's office thirty years ago after they tried to dun me instead of my insurance company after a little traffic accident munged up a guard rail.
they preserve your rights, show willingness to negotiate specific questions of interest, and give nothing away, including any further time and effort without specific facts being raised.
Mr. Roy deserves some sort of award for excellence in handling seekers of deep pockets.
I switched to an eMac last night.
should take their extra stock options and higher salaries, which with the legions of fired workers leads to gated communities, and live where they export the jobs to. there are numerous and obvious advantages for both them... and us... .
they're CNN-dotted and admit it. must be running on a TI-99/4. come on, slashdotters, melt 'em down ;)
I used to sit in the courthouse as a reporter while the votes were being counted off paper ballots. went quickly, no fuss, no muss.
if somebody did try to steal the election, I would've just called my anchor/news director, and we'd have their ass wall to wall and ten feet tall with their crime in progress. hard to stay bought when it's in the open.
screw all the contracts to somebody's brother in law, use recycled comic pages to print ballots on.
.. the virginia police didn't have to shoot the scumpile for resisting arrest.
color printing isn't that bad to do, either negative or positive. the pricing entry point for equipment is rather ugly, however, as is the chemistry and paper. if you're an unrequited fossil and check your developer and fix by tasting a dipped fingertip, however, don't go color, you'll end up cold, blue, and stinky in a corner. b/w is bad enough... b/w toners and color are positively fatal.
however, there is another alternative. the minolta dimage scanner in USB is going for $299 in this area now, and that won't buy a set of color acetate filters for a b/w enlarger and a developing tube with motor base. scan the film into ye olde PC and use photoshop and your printer to make prints.
a quarter a pop is not unreasonable, especially with the $250,000 cap. at those prices, it's basically the cost of the compliance sticker on the box.
:( and rest assured, if it's a stored program switch, the file storage is almost guaranteed to be fat-16 or fat-32 compliant.
now, what the hay they are going to charge the data switch manufacturers, whose files to reboot and load the switch cards, are all in FAT on flash or micro hard drives, may be another matter...
that the company would even consider such bullshit makes them fully expendable. they need to be an example, since they can't follow one.
so, let me see, now... if everybody just refuses to do any business at all with SCO, and they disappear under the mists, does that also mean 20% of the lawyers at Boies, Schiller also disappear?
;)
it's a start...
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