Emusic.com does something similar, except instead of paying a quarter a track, you pay a monthly fee for unlimited downloads. Before we lost our high-speed bandwidth, we were using this service on a regular basis, even if we found we could get music for free. Not EVERYONE is out to pirate music, I'm just not willing to pay $15-20 for a CD I can't listen to tracks to before buying and may (probably does) suck.
I can only speak for our household, but the amount of new music we bought went way down when we moved to a new apartment that DIDN'T have high-speed bandwidth. We used to spend probably $100 a month on new CDs because we were able to sample them by downloading tracks, burning them to CD, and taking them with us on road trips. If we weren't sick of the music by the end of the trip, we'd buy the CD. I'd be surprised if we have spent $100 this YEAR on new CDs, and I think we have purchased one CD by a band we hadn't heard of prior to when we moved seven months ago. We used to buy music by a new-to-us band about once a month.
We mostly buy used because we're not spending $15-20 for a CD that might suck. What am I supposed to do, buy a CD because the cover art looks nifty?
Or did the "Oh, I don't think we would keep anyone off on alimony payments" strike anyone else as improper? Shouldn't it be "I don't think the government would keep anyone off"? Does it bother anyone else that Ellison is assuming the role of the government here, rather than just being a provider of a resource to the government? Somehow I don't think he's using 'we' as 'we the American people'.
I could be wrong, though, and Ellison could be incredibly considerate of our right to privacy and he could be NOT elevating himself to the level of Big Brother. As soon as I can pick myself up off the floor from laughing at the thought of Ellison lowering himself to the status of a mere citizen, I'll have to give it some more consideration.
First off, it's not a used bookstore...at least not the merchandise I have seen there (I have been to the LoDo store, but not Cherry Creek).
Their legal fund (according to one of their clerks, anyway) is with:
American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression 139 Fulton St #302 NY, NY 10038
Or you can call them at 303-322-7727 or 303-436-1070. I'm not listing their toll-free number here cause it costs them money for people to call them on it:)
You CAN order books directly from them online at www.tatteredcover.com. They have been very helpful in finding books for me that B&N, Boreders, and Amazon have said were out of print.
We're small enough that the PHB's have no problem drafting the technical people to do validation paperwork. The last time we had a seminar on validation strategies, we had 12 attendees out of the approximately 60 people who work for the company (including receptionists, assemblers, etc). Seven of those people are developers of some kind who have, at some point in their time here, been sucked into the black hole of paperwork that is FDA requirements.
Nothing personal, but if your fomer company's people weren't well trained enough to be able to evaluate the risks involved in their medical devices, I'm worried about the safety of anything your former company put out.
Every time medical company (i.e. a drug manufacturer or a medical device manufacturer) implements new software, even if it's just an upgrade to, say, their call handling software for their tech support department, a validation process has to be performed. This includes:
a risk analysis to determine HOW much validation has to be done according to how much harm can be done (and yes, there is harm even in the tech support software)
creating a test plan
testing the software to make sure it works to intended use
completing validation paperwork documenting that the testing was actually done
creating a validation report and test summary detailing your findings
keeping all these records on file for a long time so the FDA does not land on you like a hungry 2-year-old on a twinkie
If you're a medical company and you DON'T plan on doing all this, you can expect a write-up (which must be responded to) at your next FDA audit. If you don't respond to the write-up, hire a lawyer cause the FDA is gonna shut you down. This is a large part of why we've kept around some of the DOS applications we use--no one here has the extra time to do all the validation on new software.
I just suggested to our IS/IT director that he start sending these with our project managers instead of their laptops. You really think they'll have problems with going through airports?
heh...I only still had it because I had sent it to our network admin as a suggestion for saving money on building computers for our company...he, recognizing it as a joke, sent it to the vice president of our company thinking he would also recognize it as a joke, which he didn't, so now he's trying to get our network admin to look into cheaper alternatives to cases...
I'm really dreading what will happen if our network admin decides to send the VP the link about the teddy borg (I sent it to him as a suggestion to make our network more friendly to our female users)...
Hopefully these poor bereaved family members will recognize the beauty of uniqueness and understand that they won't be bringing back poor Fluffy, but will just be creating a poor imitation instead (I say poor imitation meaning that it will, at best, be similar, not that it will be a poor creation).
Is anyone else disturbed by the fact that domestic cats are being cloned when you can go down to any animal shelter and pick up a cat in need of a loving home? Come on, that's about as useful as being able to clone a geek so that the geek-loving girl can have a bad imitation of her dead loved one instead of going out and picking up a new model that is in need of loving care and a good home (and don't EVEN try to tell me there aren't a surplus of those...).
...is a book on how to convert a Windows user to a *nix user, and vice-versa. Not just how to convert the box, but everything someone would need to know to make the transition quick and easy (commands, if you use this app in Windows then you're gonna want to use this app, etc.). I think this would come in especially handy if you included info for sysadmins on how to convert networks.
Maybe I'm wrong and there's already a good book out there like this.
Hey, since I suggested this, do I have the intellectual property rights for the book? Woohoo! Royalties!
dailyrotten.com has an article (bout halfway down the page about the Taliban getting information from The Journal of Irreproducible Results to build an atom bomb. Details in the article on how to find the 'bomb plans'.
Is this like when the Indians sold whatever it was to whoever it was for a handful of trinkets? (Hey, leave me alone, I'm a software tester not a history buff and the elementary teacher in the cube next to me doesn't remember the details either...)
The story says VeriSign bought.tv, but the prime minister seems to be under the impression that they are taking over management, or at least that's the impression I got from the article...
"But we're all out of nifty ideas for new features! What can we possibly do for our OS that will make it appear that we still need to keep cranking out a new OS every year, and that will make the customers keep buying them?"
OK, so that's 50 people...and we should probably have one person from each state looking into each of the big oil companies too, since they haven't quite proven trustworthy in the past, so we've now employed several hundred more people...and what about the drug companies, just in case the FDA isn't quite doing their job properly, oh, and we'd better keep and eye on the FDA too...
Pretty soon we'd have negative unemployment! Good solution!
...that the limit was when the marketing people told the customer that it would be done! At least that's how it works here...We were asked once how long we needed from start to finish to do custom software packages for clients(including protocol analysis, specs development, software development, software V and V, and FDA and site-level documentation) and we told them six weeks. We've gotten that ONCE in the past year and a half, even though it states in our contracts with our clients that they need to give us six weeks. Marketing just charges them an expediting fee (which rarely seems to trickle down) and we work a bunch of weekends (Our marketing department's motto on Friday is "Two working days until Monday!"). And God help us if the software is a day late in shipping, cause according to the marketing people if the software is late we'll lose the client! (Yes I'm being whiny--I just finished up a project that, start to finish, we had a week and a half to do and I'm TIRED.)
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Emusic.com does something similar, except instead of paying a quarter a track, you pay a monthly fee for unlimited downloads. Before we lost our high-speed bandwidth, we were using this service on a regular basis, even if we found we could get music for free. Not EVERYONE is out to pirate music, I'm just not willing to pay $15-20 for a CD I can't listen to tracks to before buying and may (probably does) suck.
I can only speak for our household, but the amount of new music we bought went way down when we moved to a new apartment that DIDN'T have high-speed bandwidth. We used to spend probably $100 a month on new CDs because we were able to sample them by downloading tracks, burning them to CD, and taking them with us on road trips. If we weren't sick of the music by the end of the trip, we'd buy the CD. I'd be surprised if we have spent $100 this YEAR on new CDs, and I think we have purchased one CD by a band we hadn't heard of prior to when we moved seven months ago. We used to buy music by a new-to-us band about once a month.
We mostly buy used because we're not spending $15-20 for a CD that might suck. What am I supposed to do, buy a CD because the cover art looks nifty?
Or did the "Oh, I don't think we would keep anyone off on alimony payments" strike anyone else as improper? Shouldn't it be "I don't think the government would keep anyone off"? Does it bother anyone else that Ellison is assuming the role of the government here, rather than just being a provider of a resource to the government? Somehow I don't think he's using 'we' as 'we the American people'.
I could be wrong, though, and Ellison could be incredibly considerate of our right to privacy and he could be NOT elevating himself to the level of Big Brother. As soon as I can pick myself up off the floor from laughing at the thought of Ellison lowering himself to the status of a mere citizen, I'll have to give it some more consideration.
I warned my fiance about this before I bought his titanium wedding band--he's using it as HIS insurance that he won't gain weight.
First off, it's not a used bookstore...at least not the merchandise I have seen there (I have been to the LoDo store, but not Cherry Creek).
:)
Their legal fund (according to one of their clerks, anyway) is with:
American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression
139 Fulton St #302
NY, NY 10038
Or you can call them at 303-322-7727 or 303-436-1070. I'm not listing their toll-free number here cause it costs them money for people to call them on it
You CAN order books directly from them online at www.tatteredcover.com. They have been very helpful in finding books for me that B&N, Boreders, and Amazon have said were out of print.
We're small enough that the PHB's have no problem drafting the technical people to do validation paperwork. The last time we had a seminar on validation strategies, we had 12 attendees out of the approximately 60 people who work for the company (including receptionists, assemblers, etc). Seven of those people are developers of some kind who have, at some point in their time here, been sucked into the black hole of paperwork that is FDA requirements.
Nothing personal, but if your fomer company's people weren't well trained enough to be able to evaluate the risks involved in their medical devices, I'm worried about the safety of anything your former company put out.
Especially if they are too drunk to notice they need a refill without an alarm going off...
Every time medical company (i.e. a drug manufacturer or a medical device manufacturer) implements new software, even if it's just an upgrade to, say, their call handling software for their tech support department, a validation process has to be performed. This includes:
a risk analysis to determine HOW much validation has to be done according to how much harm can be done (and yes, there is harm even in the tech support software)
creating a test plan
testing the software to make sure it works to intended use
completing validation paperwork documenting that the testing was actually done
creating a validation report and test summary detailing your findings
keeping all these records on file for a long time so the FDA does not land on you like a hungry 2-year-old on a twinkie
If you're a medical company and you DON'T plan on doing all this, you can expect a write-up (which must be responded to) at your next FDA audit. If you don't respond to the write-up, hire a lawyer cause the FDA is gonna shut you down. This is a large part of why we've kept around some of the DOS applications we use--no one here has the extra time to do all the validation on new software.
the game lets you kill everyone equally. Not that I'm supportive of going out and killing everyone, but...
You'd think that anything that would save us half an hour to an hour a day would be stuff that matters...
I mean here
I just suggested to our IS/IT director that he start sending these with our project managers instead of their laptops. You really think they'll have problems with going through airports?
heh...I only still had it because I had sent it to our network admin as a suggestion for saving money on building computers for our company...he, recognizing it as a joke, sent it to the vice president of our company thinking he would also recognize it as a joke, which he didn't, so now he's trying to get our network admin to look into cheaper alternatives to cases...
I'm really dreading what will happen if our network admin decides to send the VP the link about the teddy borg (I sent it to him as a suggestion to make our network more friendly to our female users)...
I think this is the link you are looking for
Hey, I think that's what my last broadband ISP did...or was it just that we were only getting ten percent of the promised bandwidth...
Fat lotta good 'support' will do if it's not in the form of real legal assistance or cold, hard cash
Hopefully these poor bereaved family members will recognize the beauty of uniqueness and understand that they won't be bringing back poor Fluffy, but will just be creating a poor imitation instead (I say poor imitation meaning that it will, at best, be similar, not that it will be a poor creation).
Is anyone else disturbed by the fact that domestic cats are being cloned when you can go down to any animal shelter and pick up a cat in need of a loving home? Come on, that's about as useful as being able to clone a geek so that the geek-loving girl can have a bad imitation of her dead loved one instead of going out and picking up a new model that is in need of loving care and a good home (and don't EVEN try to tell me there aren't a surplus of those...).
I really like dead trees.
...is a book on how to convert a Windows user to a *nix user, and vice-versa. Not just how to convert the box, but everything someone would need to know to make the transition quick and easy (commands, if you use this app in Windows then you're gonna want to use this app, etc.). I think this would come in especially handy if you included info for sysadmins on how to convert networks.
Maybe I'm wrong and there's already a good book out there like this.
Hey, since I suggested this, do I have the intellectual property rights for the book? Woohoo! Royalties!
dailyrotten.com has an article (bout halfway down the page about the Taliban getting information from The Journal of Irreproducible Results to build an atom bomb. Details in the article on how to find the 'bomb plans'.
Is this like when the Indians sold whatever it was to whoever it was for a handful of trinkets? (Hey, leave me alone, I'm a software tester not a history buff and the elementary teacher in the cube next to me doesn't remember the details either...)
.tv, but the prime minister seems to be under the impression that they are taking over management, or at least that's the impression I got from the article...
The story says VeriSign bought
Actually, it is simpler than that...
Double-click to run something or open a directory
Single-click the rest of the time
--and--
if single-clicking doesn't work, try double-clicking.
There's yer four lines. (And yes, I probably AM missing something)
But try to explain to someone over ICQ how to double-click, now there's a teaching experience...
"But we're all out of nifty ideas for new features! What can we possibly do for our OS that will make it appear that we still need to keep cranking out a new OS every year, and that will make the customers keep buying them?"
OK, so that's 50 people...and we should probably have one person from each state looking into each of the big oil companies too, since they haven't quite proven trustworthy in the past, so we've now employed several hundred more people...and what about the drug companies, just in case the FDA isn't quite doing their job properly, oh, and we'd better keep and eye on the FDA too...
Pretty soon we'd have negative unemployment! Good solution!
...that the limit was when the marketing people told the customer that it would be done! At least that's how it works here...We were asked once how long we needed from start to finish to do custom software packages for clients(including protocol analysis, specs development, software development, software V and V, and FDA and site-level documentation) and we told them six weeks. We've gotten that ONCE in the past year and a half, even though it states in our contracts with our clients that they need to give us six weeks. Marketing just charges them an expediting fee (which rarely seems to trickle down) and we work a bunch of weekends (Our marketing department's motto on Friday is "Two working days until Monday!"). And God help us if the software is a day late in shipping, cause according to the marketing people if the software is late we'll lose the client! (Yes I'm being whiny--I just finished up a project that, start to finish, we had a week and a half to do and I'm TIRED.)