It seems they've done a good job pulling all the disparate regions of support into a more compact set of teams, tools and services and have done a fairly good job of it so far.
That being said, the consolidation of IT services always leaves out the most important and most broken aspect of IT - communications. Companies assume business communication improves with the introduction of better phone tools, more robust email services and more efficient instant message systems. Generally, the exact opposite is the norm because no business wants to spend money on a communications coordination department to keep the flow organized and moving smoothly. Instead, they implement social media systems to give the sharing of useful and useless information equal time in the spotlight. It's becoming an annoying habit for businesses to install Facebook-esque systems that are supposed to help but ends up with everyone back-slapping everyone else for being good and smart and strong.
Honestly, makes me want to throw up in my mouth. A lot.
One small detail to add to AT&T side of the story - their GigaPower package is only a name - THAT offering tops out at 300Mbps, and this is true for every city it's available in. Not only that, no one has a clue if they'll every make 1,000Gbps service available in any market.
Sorry AT&T, calling it a trout a whale does not make it a whale no matter how big you blow up the picture you took of the trout.
Hmmm, let's see...if I'm being treated for a condition, any condition not involving an illegal act, and someone walks into my doctor's office and says "Give me Example Guy's current medical records", the first words out of my doctor's mouth will be "Show me your warrant or get out of my office."
So if the doctor prescribes medication to treat my medical condition, that comes under doctor-patient confidentiality. The ONLY people I have to share that information with are the pharmacy tech and pharmacy manager who do not share that information with anyone else outside that doctor's office.
So why do authority and police organizations think it's okay to grab my records at a whim because I'm taking, say, Ritalin to treat severe ADHD? They have no business or right to be pawing through peoples' records looking for criminals unless they serve a warrant to every physician involved. There is no condition under which legally prescribed medication falls outside of those parameters unless the patient himself gives said organization written authorization gained in a legal manner to search their own records.
So take your 'public disclosure' bull and stick it up your backside along with badge, Mr. Policeman. The rules apply to EVERYONE, not just the people who don't own their very own cheap tin badges.
I'd say I feel sorry for professors who feel threatened by the online education courses, but only because I feel sorry for anyone who refuses to find a better solution that to file for IP rights for their teaching material and processes. That's just going to create yet another money-making outlet for patent trolls and their lawyers. Everyone loses that game except the lawyers.
Build a better business model and get with the program, sirs and ma'ams.
Playing an RPG is like acting a part in a free-form play where you have a self-developed character appropriate to the environment who acts or reacts to an ever-changing environment controlled by the director (GM). Anyone who has ever caught the drama bug will definitely get it, and it will give non-gamers a more familiar theme to base their views on.
Lots of people don't get it, the same reason why I don't get why organized sports are fun. I understand why others like football or basketball, I just don't have any real feel for it. And you don't have to dump any kind of a relationship just because they don't get it unless they're being antagonistic about it.
John Christopher's The White Mountains" (1967), "The City of Gold and Lead" (1967), "The Pool of Fire - One of my first, and favorite, children's sci-fi trilogy. The books are a good read for a 3rd grader. It's a bit difficult to find, but well worth it. I believe there was even a mini-series production of it years back called "The Tripods".
Your description of the process mirrors that of contract companies hired to build nuclear reactor sites. They have to adhere to strict measurements every step of the way when putting together a secure building designed to handle radioactive materials and energy production. It's okay to fudge a few inches on that 2x4 or a few inches on a concrete pour when it comes to building a house, but you CAN'T fudge even half an inch on the framework of a reactor shell or it could easily kill everthing within miles of a leak. Builders are held to very high standards based on that.
1) A layer of self-healing plastic inside a space suit to seal off punctures before the astronaut loses too much air. 2) Same thing on a larger scale for boats - just make the plastic sensitive to direct contact to water. 3) Same thing on an even larger scale for planes, especially jetliners. 4) Same thing on the largest scale for shuttles, space stations and true spacecraft. 5) Plastic layers inside the seams and seals of a car so that water-immersed vehicles can slow water flow into a car long enough to increase the accident victim's chances of survival without preventing them from escaping a sinking vehicle. 6) Battlefield plastic skin bandages to protect a wound from further damage, cover and clean it, maintain pressure on the injury and encourage clotting at the wound site.
I could go on for a while on this, these being just the accident-oriented uses...
Both on Oblivion neatly dodging this negative classification and on the persistance of RPG idiot-sinkholes. The majority of the ones I've ever picked up made me feel like I wasted my money until I was introduced to Elder Scrolls IV.
*laughing hard* No kidding! Adding capital and effort to expanding and improving an existing product that shows real potential means you're likely to get SOME return on the investment, even if it doesn't take off like a runaway rocket.
Investing cash to recreate the same product with a different name is asking for trouble unless the designer(s) involved have a proven track record (like multi-millions worth of track record)...which is pointless if said designer(s) are already successful because they don't need the money anyway. Which brings you back to investing in an existing product with potential. *logically following the hamster in the wheel in my head*
Assuming they only manage to make near-flawless nanotubes, has anyone condsidered two possible solutions to this issue?
1) Build the nanotubes around a semi-flexible nternal structural support (in other words, a loosely connected skeleton) to add to the structurals strength. It might significantly increase the weight, but that might not be that much of an issue if the tethering is balanced properly.
2) Transport units would be frequently, if not constantly, sliding up and down the tether...so why not give every transport unit a resevoir with a pump that constantly squirts a thin coating of protective gunk in a gelatinous form over the cable(s) as it goes up or down? Something that sticks to the surface of the cable and can only be beaten away by constant bombardment? If the robots are constantly spreading this stuff up and down the tether, it could conceivably solve the wear-and-tear issue.
Of course, 62,000 miles of gunk would make for a pretty hefty tank, but it's a good direction to an idea if not a good idea in and of itself. Odds are, the same elevators travelling the tether would be outfitted with sensors designed to inspect the cabling for wear and tear as well as defects that only become apparent after being put under strain.
Heck, I'm one wrong-footing-by-executive-management-appeasing-st ockholders from STARTING a union at my workplace! Sure, unions have their problems like carrying deadweight employees and tendencies toward corrupt practices, but all in all they prevent large corporations from abusing staff by providing a unified front that forces companies to treat its own employees as VALUABLE assets, not expendable resources.
I guess the PA governor is working hard to insure that other information-oriented TCOM companies with money to spend looking for a place to build will be inclined pass PA over because of its trend towards limiting and restricting such businesses from operating there. "Why would I want to build there when states like Texas are so much more open and welcoming?"
I've grown sick and tired of fighting IT support services and unhappy users, not to mention that I'm too lazy to spend years and thousands of dollars learning IT development skills...so I'm learning to be a massage therapist instead. I can do it in the evenings and on the weekends and make a starting wage of $50 an hour. Inside of two years, assuming I develop a good reputation, I'll be making between $60 and $100 an hour and working 25 hours a week earning a living doing something I'm better at than IT support. From now on, the only support I'm doing for IT is upgrading my system to keep up with the current batch of software toys on the market.
Unconstitutional is the word of the day here. You can't search my home without a legal writ requiring the authorization of recognized judicial authority. You can't force me to answer questions about ANYTHING without recognized legal council present to advise me. You can't take my possessions, use my personal associations or even follow my butt around without SOMEONE giving the Feds WRITTEN AUTHORIZATION SIGNED OFF BY LEGALLY RECOGNIZED JUDICIAL AUTHORITY WHO IS COGNIZANT OF THE CONTENTS, REASONS AND METHODS OF THE WRIT!
So what in the Special-Hot-Place-Reserved-for-Naughty-People makes it legal to pass a law stating the Feds can gain access to my personal financial records WITHOUT said writ?
Uh uh! Physical, personal, informational, financial, it's all the same thing...if it's MINE, they can't have it without said writ AND informing me BEFORE they start digging. It's illegal, immoral and designed to give the Feds an incredibly abusable tool (and it WILL get abused!) to beat me over the head with any time an agent feels like it. Not gonna happen. Anyone tries it, I'll sue the U.S. Federal Government for all the greenbacks they borrowed from some other country that they've squirreled away.
I don't keep living in this country just so some impotent government schuck can entertain himself with power fantasies come true.
...'The Secret of NIMH? Remember your movie history, then go back and reread this article...and then consider whether or not you really want to bulldoze that rosebush in your front yard...
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The review is fairly accurate, but remember that different writers are putting these episodes together. Still, it's not the best episode aired. Still, coming from someone who has already seen the four final episodes of this season, suffer through this one...it's a set up for the 2nd and 3rd episodes which will establish an interesting new relationship between two of the characters. And ignore all spoilers for 'Into the Lion's Den' and 'Wolf in Sheep's Clothing'...you'll regret it if you don't.
And don't ask me how I laid my hands on the final four episodes. *grin*
I don't think so. Time for me to dump KaZaA and find a new P2P system...I'm not interested in something using up my computer's resources and wearing out my hard-won components without asking me nicely or compensating me for it. If I'd been asked, I might have said 'Yes'. Since I wasn't, the answer will be forever 'No'.
See, there are LOTS of developing P2P systems out there who don't spy on computers to boost their sales. I don't NEED KaZaA snooping my system in order to target me with ads that never make it to my desktop anyway. Got to love ad-blockers...and software firewalls, too. *grin*
Try this link...it's got two initial impact images and some news, though take it for what it is...mostly truth, some unsubstantiated materials, but over all not a bad source of non-TV info right now.
Did he attempt to profit financially from the public revelation of his discovery? Did he attempt to profit in ANY fashion by creating the process in the first place? Did he attempt to extort profit from Adobe as a sale or promise not to release it publicly? Did he attempt to damage or cripple any portion of Adobe's infrastructure?
Did he in any way, shape or form attempt to harm AND/OR profit by what he had to say in a convention for hackers?
The answer to all the above questions is: No. If this answer is true (which it is, according to the information released about this cluster-bomb of a situation), then the appropriate response would NOT have been to have him arrested, but for an Adobe representative to approach him with a offer to become a short-term consultant and to teach the Adobe software and encryption designers about his discovery. Quicker, more efficient, and in the long run much cheaper than spending hundreds of dollars a day to keep him locked up...illegally, I might add, in THIS country! Has anyone forgotten due process and the rights of the accused? Hmmm?
Actually, it's not circumstantial evidence.
1) When archaeologists uncover evidence of large groups of humans having migrated into an area at a particular place and time, they always uncover evidence of enormous numbers of animal bones and other remains with mortal damage to the bones of said animals in the form of crushed or cracked bones (as with a blunt instrument) and/or deep nicks and scores proven to have been made by crudely sharpened edges.
2) They've also discovered ancient pit traps with the remains of long, thin poles of sharpened wood stuck in the bottom and more animal bones piled up in them, as well as old prehistoric cliff bottoms literally strewn with piles of animal bones...evidence that humans deliberated created traps and drove herds of herbivores into stampedes in the direction of cliffs where a few animals will get shoved off of by the panicking herds.
3) Anyone who can provide DIRECT and INCONTROVERTIBLE evidence proving for or against all this 'circumstantial' evidence had better be able to produce a working time machine as well, because that's the only way you're going to get anything more solid than an archaeologist's findings.
Uhm...this theory has been around for over 30 years now, people...it's an old theory and has a lot of evidence to support it. Like most news agencies, CNN will take any subject and try to convince its viewers it's brand new and they brought it to you first. Blech.
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It seems they've done a good job pulling all the disparate regions of support into a more compact set of teams, tools and services and have done a fairly good job of it so far.
That being said, the consolidation of IT services always leaves out the most important and most broken aspect of IT - communications. Companies assume business communication improves with the introduction of better phone tools, more robust email services and more efficient instant message systems. Generally, the exact opposite is the norm because no business wants to spend money on a communications coordination department to keep the flow organized and moving smoothly. Instead, they implement social media systems to give the sharing of useful and useless information equal time in the spotlight. It's becoming an annoying habit for businesses to install Facebook-esque systems that are supposed to help but ends up with everyone back-slapping everyone else for being good and smart and strong.
Honestly, makes me want to throw up in my mouth. A lot.
One small detail to add to AT&T side of the story - their GigaPower package is only a name - THAT offering tops out at 300Mbps, and this is true for every city it's available in. Not only that, no one has a clue if they'll every make 1,000Gbps service available in any market.
Sorry AT&T, calling it a trout a whale does not make it a whale no matter how big you blow up the picture you took of the trout.
Hmmm, let's see...if I'm being treated for a condition, any condition not involving an illegal act, and someone walks into my doctor's office and says "Give me Example Guy's current medical records", the first words out of my doctor's mouth will be "Show me your warrant or get out of my office."
So if the doctor prescribes medication to treat my medical condition, that comes under doctor-patient confidentiality. The ONLY people I have to share that information with are the pharmacy tech and pharmacy manager who do not share that information with anyone else outside that doctor's office.
So why do authority and police organizations think it's okay to grab my records at a whim because I'm taking, say, Ritalin to treat severe ADHD? They have no business or right to be pawing through peoples' records looking for criminals unless they serve a warrant to every physician involved. There is no condition under which legally prescribed medication falls outside of those parameters unless the patient himself gives said organization written authorization gained in a legal manner to search their own records.
So take your 'public disclosure' bull and stick it up your backside along with badge, Mr. Policeman. The rules apply to EVERYONE, not just the people who don't own their very own cheap tin badges.
I'd say I feel sorry for professors who feel threatened by the online education courses, but only because I feel sorry for anyone who refuses to find a better solution that to file for IP rights for their teaching material and processes. That's just going to create yet another money-making outlet for patent trolls and their lawyers. Everyone loses that game except the lawyers.
Build a better business model and get with the program, sirs and ma'ams.
Well, that explains how my Yahoo account got hacked a couple of weeks ago. No more Yahoo for me.
Playing an RPG is like acting a part in a free-form play where you have a self-developed character appropriate to the environment who acts or reacts to an ever-changing environment controlled by the director (GM). Anyone who has ever caught the drama bug will definitely get it, and it will give non-gamers a more familiar theme to base their views on.
Lots of people don't get it, the same reason why I don't get why organized sports are fun. I understand why others like football or basketball, I just don't have any real feel for it. And you don't have to dump any kind of a relationship just because they don't get it unless they're being antagonistic about it.
John Christopher's The White Mountains" (1967), "The City of Gold and Lead" (1967), "The Pool of Fire - One of my first, and favorite, children's sci-fi trilogy. The books are a good read for a 3rd grader. It's a bit difficult to find, but well worth it. I believe there was even a mini-series production of it years back called "The Tripods".
Your description of the process mirrors that of contract companies hired to build nuclear reactor sites. They have to adhere to strict measurements every step of the way when putting together a secure building designed to handle radioactive materials and energy production. It's okay to fudge a few inches on that 2x4 or a few inches on a concrete pour when it comes to building a house, but you CAN'T fudge even half an inch on the framework of a reactor shell or it could easily kill everthing within miles of a leak. Builders are held to very high standards based on that.
...are enormous.
1) A layer of self-healing plastic inside a space suit to seal off punctures before the astronaut loses too much air.
2) Same thing on a larger scale for boats - just make the plastic sensitive to direct contact to water.
3) Same thing on an even larger scale for planes, especially jetliners.
4) Same thing on the largest scale for shuttles, space stations and true spacecraft.
5) Plastic layers inside the seams and seals of a car so that water-immersed vehicles can slow water flow into a car long enough to increase the accident victim's chances of survival without preventing them from escaping a sinking vehicle.
6) Battlefield plastic skin bandages to protect a wound from further damage, cover and clean it, maintain pressure on the injury and encourage clotting at the wound site.
I could go on for a while on this, these being just the accident-oriented uses...
For the Feds? Maybe. For the private sector? Hell, no!
Both on Oblivion neatly dodging this negative classification and on the persistance of RPG idiot-sinkholes. The majority of the ones I've ever picked up made me feel like I wasted my money until I was introduced to Elder Scrolls IV.
*laughing hard* No kidding! Adding capital and effort to expanding and improving an existing product that shows real potential means you're likely to get SOME return on the investment, even if it doesn't take off like a runaway rocket.
Investing cash to recreate the same product with a different name is asking for trouble unless the designer(s) involved have a proven track record (like multi-millions worth of track record)...which is pointless if said designer(s) are already successful because they don't need the money anyway. Which brings you back to investing in an existing product with potential. *logically following the hamster in the wheel in my head*
Assuming they only manage to make near-flawless nanotubes, has anyone condsidered two possible solutions to this issue?
1) Build the nanotubes around a semi-flexible nternal structural support (in other words, a loosely connected skeleton) to add to the structurals strength. It might significantly increase the weight, but that might not be that much of an issue if the tethering is balanced properly.
2) Transport units would be frequently, if not constantly, sliding up and down the tether...so why not give every transport unit a resevoir with a pump that constantly squirts a thin coating of protective gunk in a gelatinous form over the cable(s) as it goes up or down? Something that sticks to the surface of the cable and can only be beaten away by constant bombardment? If the robots are constantly spreading this stuff up and down the tether, it could conceivably solve the wear-and-tear issue.
Of course, 62,000 miles of gunk would make for a pretty hefty tank, but it's a good direction to an idea if not a good idea in and of itself. Odds are, the same elevators travelling the tether would be outfitted with sensors designed to inspect the cabling for wear and tear as well as defects that only become apparent after being put under strain.
Heck, I'm one wrong-footing-by-executive-management-appeasing-st ockholders from STARTING a union at my workplace! Sure, unions have their problems like carrying deadweight employees and tendencies toward corrupt practices, but all in all they prevent large corporations from abusing staff by providing a unified front that forces companies to treat its own employees as VALUABLE assets, not expendable resources.
I guess the PA governor is working hard to insure that other information-oriented TCOM companies with money to spend looking for a place to build will be inclined pass PA over because of its trend towards limiting and restricting such businesses from operating there. "Why would I want to build there when states like Texas are so much more open and welcoming?"
I've grown sick and tired of fighting IT support services and unhappy users, not to mention that I'm too lazy to spend years and thousands of dollars learning IT development skills...so I'm learning to be a massage therapist instead. I can do it in the evenings and on the weekends and make a starting wage of $50 an hour. Inside of two years, assuming I develop a good reputation, I'll be making between $60 and $100 an hour and working 25 hours a week earning a living doing something I'm better at than IT support. From now on, the only support I'm doing for IT is upgrading my system to keep up with the current batch of software toys on the market.
Unconstitutional is the word of the day here. You can't search my home without a legal writ requiring the authorization of recognized judicial authority. You can't force me to answer questions about ANYTHING without recognized legal council present to advise me. You can't take my possessions, use my personal associations or even follow my butt around without SOMEONE giving the Feds WRITTEN AUTHORIZATION SIGNED OFF BY LEGALLY RECOGNIZED JUDICIAL AUTHORITY WHO IS COGNIZANT OF THE CONTENTS, REASONS AND METHODS OF THE WRIT!
So what in the Special-Hot-Place-Reserved-for-Naughty-People makes it legal to pass a law stating the Feds can gain access to my personal financial records WITHOUT said writ?
Uh uh! Physical, personal, informational, financial, it's all the same thing...if it's MINE, they can't have it without said writ AND informing me BEFORE they start digging. It's illegal, immoral and designed to give the Feds an incredibly abusable tool (and it WILL get abused!) to beat me over the head with any time an agent feels like it. Not gonna happen. Anyone tries it, I'll sue the U.S. Federal Government for all the greenbacks they borrowed from some other country that they've squirreled away.
I don't keep living in this country just so some impotent government schuck can entertain himself with power fantasies come true.
Don't you mean "...very new and entertaining to crack and distribute..."?
...'The Secret of NIMH? Remember your movie history, then go back and reread this article...and then consider whether or not you really want to bulldoze that rosebush in your front yard...
The review is fairly accurate, but remember that different writers are putting these episodes together. Still, it's not the best episode aired. Still, coming from someone who has already seen the four final episodes of this season, suffer through this one...it's a set up for the 2nd and 3rd episodes which will establish an interesting new relationship between two of the characters. And ignore all spoilers for 'Into the Lion's Den' and 'Wolf in Sheep's Clothing'...you'll regret it if you don't.
And don't ask me how I laid my hands on the final four episodes. *grin*
I don't think so. Time for me to dump KaZaA and find a new P2P system...I'm not interested in something using up my computer's resources and wearing out my hard-won components without asking me nicely or compensating me for it. If I'd been asked, I might have said 'Yes'. Since I wasn't, the answer will be forever 'No'.
See, there are LOTS of developing P2P systems out there who don't spy on computers to boost their sales. I don't NEED KaZaA snooping my system in order to target me with ads that never make it to my desktop anyway. Got to love ad-blockers...and software firewalls, too. *grin*
Try this link...it's got two initial impact images and some news, though take it for what it is...mostly truth, some unsubstantiated materials, but over all not a bad source of non-TV info right now.
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Did he attempt to profit financially from the public revelation of his discovery? Did he attempt to profit in ANY fashion by creating the process in the first place? Did he attempt to extort profit from Adobe as a sale or promise not to release it publicly? Did he attempt to damage or cripple any portion of Adobe's infrastructure? Did he in any way, shape or form attempt to harm AND/OR profit by what he had to say in a convention for hackers? The answer to all the above questions is: No. If this answer is true (which it is, according to the information released about this cluster-bomb of a situation), then the appropriate response would NOT have been to have him arrested, but for an Adobe representative to approach him with a offer to become a short-term consultant and to teach the Adobe software and encryption designers about his discovery. Quicker, more efficient, and in the long run much cheaper than spending hundreds of dollars a day to keep him locked up...illegally, I might add, in THIS country! Has anyone forgotten due process and the rights of the accused? Hmmm?
Actually, it's not circumstantial evidence. 1) When archaeologists uncover evidence of large groups of humans having migrated into an area at a particular place and time, they always uncover evidence of enormous numbers of animal bones and other remains with mortal damage to the bones of said animals in the form of crushed or cracked bones (as with a blunt instrument) and/or deep nicks and scores proven to have been made by crudely sharpened edges. 2) They've also discovered ancient pit traps with the remains of long, thin poles of sharpened wood stuck in the bottom and more animal bones piled up in them, as well as old prehistoric cliff bottoms literally strewn with piles of animal bones...evidence that humans deliberated created traps and drove herds of herbivores into stampedes in the direction of cliffs where a few animals will get shoved off of by the panicking herds. 3) Anyone who can provide DIRECT and INCONTROVERTIBLE evidence proving for or against all this 'circumstantial' evidence had better be able to produce a working time machine as well, because that's the only way you're going to get anything more solid than an archaeologist's findings.
Uhm...this theory has been around for over 30 years now, people...it's an old theory and has a lot of evidence to support it. Like most news agencies, CNN will take any subject and try to convince its viewers it's brand new and they brought it to you first. Blech.