Hmmmmm... The rays only penetrate 1/10 of an inch. Wonder what they do in metric countries? But why, then are here globes of flesh bright and her shoulders gray? They both have the same skin. Globes of flesh are warmer than skin -- more flesh underneath to make infrared.
Those see-through pictures of people look an awful lot like they are infra-red, picking up heat coming out of the body. I had two links last year from rapiscan and osi-systems that showed these things to have many signs of being infra-red. The images have been taken down. No way that enough X-Rays bounce back to take a picture like that. What kind of lens do they use to produce that image? Looks like pure PR hype to me.
ROI is always a puzzler in in-source situations, because
it should be measured relative to some alternative (we don't build the system or buy it from someone else), but noone knows what revenues and expenses would be if the alternative was followed or which alternative should be used to evaluate ROI, and
there is the little problem of allocation. If IT wsorks closely with the rest of the business, how do you allocate costs and revenues between IT and the rest of the business. Charge IT for time users spend talking to systems analysts? Give IT full credit for revenue increases from new products that require the new system but lots of other things too? It boils down to bogosity.
Bottom line is that the IT manager should ask "What businesses do we want to be in?" (programming?, data centers? help desks?, systems analysis?, network maintenance?) Unfortunately this is usually translated to be "What businesses do I want to be in?" The answer is that nowadays it's insane to be in any business that sells a commodity. Be in those businesses where your company demands a high-value customized product and provide it with high-value.
Back after MS introduced the registry, they were insinuating that the registry (hierarchical) was going to (gradually?) replace the file system. Everything would wind up in there. Now, the registry is passe, and the file system is going to be a relational db. Didn't IBM do this with the system 38 about 25 years ago?
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I spent three years looking for work before giving up. Everyone wants to hire someone just like themselves when they were young. If you are half the boss's age plus 7 years, you are perfect for them, expecially female. Unfortunately, I'm 53 and there aren't many 92-year-old hiring managers. So it goes. If you know more than the boss, you're dead. If you've done more than the boss, you're dead. If you've earned more than the boss, you're dead.
Age discrimination is not legal if the job is open to persons between 25 and 64, it should not exclude anyone between those ages based on age, but it's common, and there are legal ways to do it. Up here in Oregon, the desert of opportunity, some companies are requiring bachelor's degree within the last 5 years. That's legal. Others are hiring 'interns', requiring that you be a college student willing to work for low part-time wages to get in the door. So few are hiring, forget it.
Today I started getting about a dozen bounced
emails per hour that I didn't send. Some spammer
promoting a penal enlargement scheme was using my return address. This has happened before, so, ho hum for now. Funny thing, all the bounces were coming from AOL. I figured that somehow the spammer was just targetting aol patrons with his mass mail. Maybe not. IDK.
"The Navigator" by Buster Keaton. This one is very hard to find (1924). They gave Keaton a ship and a week to write and make a romantic comedy, and he did a fantastic job.
"Creation of the Humanoids", the flick that Woody Allen ripped off in "Sleeper" was great for its time.
"Meet John Doe" and "The Lady Eve" are pretty good, but the best from the good old days is "Something for the Boys" -- it's got it all: music by Cole Porter and stars Phil Silvers and Carmen Miranda as (non-identical) cousins. This one is completely unavailable and out-of-print last I heard.
Someone please tell me about these. They could
have wonderful medical applications, for fitting
various things precisely to various parts of the
body. The machine that hospitals are now using
costs nearly $100,000. Need is for a 3D model of
a body part accurate to about 1 mm. TIA for any info!!!
During the meeting down at Dunkin' Donuts, I
explained how the torus is a great shape for
confining stuff with fields (think cyclotrons, eg). This suggests that we are just part of some big experiment. When the experimenter's funding runs out, our donut is toast.
During construction of the Brooklyn Bridge in the 1880's, it was discovered that the contractor for the cables was cheating and supplying crappy cables. There had been way too many cables already wound for it to be anything but a disaster to try to start over. It was decided that the design contained enough redundancy to stand despite the problem, and it's still in service with the defective cables today.
IBM still has mainframes in the Oregon state government. They have piles of DL1, CICS, and all of that. Because the state is budget-crunched, they are not funding wholesale rewrites, conversions, and migrations. They are incrementally going to new technologies. The most popular of these for the IT managers in the state government is Webshpere. This is not an easy place for open source to win, because it will be hard to slowly migrate and do piecewise replacements of mainframe systems without going to something else that runs under the same mainframe OS, eg Websphere.
Linux on the desktop is banned in some departments of the state government. They use expensive proprietary software when open source would probably work. Maybe this will change that.
This OO scheme is a database system, but it leaves out much of the management element. (1) Things like changing the database structure without bringing the whole company down probably won't work. (2) You lose all the enforcement of the rules of relational integrity that an RDBMS gives you right out of the box. (3) And you lose Crystal Reports. (1) and (2) kill it technically in many situations, and (3) kills it management-wise.
Gadfly, a Python package, gives you an in-memory DB and SQL. If you want to trade SQL for extra speed and do more programming, you can run the ISAM-like engines of Btrieve or Berkeley DB without the SQL layer on top. We have SQL RDBMS's because the conventional wisdom is that such a trade is not a good idea.
Didn't Reagan or Bush I once say that video games were helping keep America strong by training the next generation of military pilots?
BTW, Last Starfighter was done in some kind of Fortran on a Cray XMP1 with the geometry database on an IBM mainframe IIRC, so you've probably got a problem running make install on that baby at home.
15+ years ago, almost everything done for the government was open source. It was hard to figure out exactly who to get what from, and you did have to pay distributions costs, but there was plenty of military-related software available free. I bought a catalog of this software from a company that would, for a hefty fee, actually go through all the hoops of getting the free code for its customers. (I think that Greg Aharonian who now publicizes absurd patents ran that business.) Things like fighter and logistics simulations and such were in the catalog. Sadly, I chucked the catalog in a sorry fit of cleaning years back when my office just overflowed with such useless but precious effluvia.
Change the verb to "barney", as in "Let's barney that baby and see if it pings back."
I just thought I'd run this up the flagpole and see if anyone salutes. I've mother-henned it for a while and it's about ready to hatch. When I throw it on the slashdot fire, it's bound to spit back. I never metaphor I didn't like.
MSDE was the limited version of MS's SQL server product, and MS distributed MSDE bundled with its various development tools and made MSDE freely available for download on-line for a while.
If one developed any programs that talk to MSDE, is one infringing on Timeline? My understanding, however ignorant, is that patents apply to the copying or use of the patent technology -- even in private. One need not distribute anything to be infringing on a patent and liable for royalties. Is that correct?
Anyway, a large percentage of the millions of SQL Server users will be easy to find because of their open ports.
One percent of $500 million means that just the phone calls of his bugs cost him $5 million per year to answer the phone. If I got $5 million of bug reports per year, I'd figure I had a problem.
Take a guess at the percentage of users who encounter bugs and realize that they are bugs. This might also be pretty low. Take a guess at the percentage of users who realize that they have come across a bug and bother to report it. This should also be very low, because (1) you are expecting to spend half of eternity on hold, (2) you are expecting that they aren't going to fix it just for you anyway, (3) you are expecting that some of their other hundreds of millions of users have already reported it, and (4) you know that the people who answer the phone are no fun to talk with and will just blame you like Gates does in this interview and you've had enough aggravation already.
With low percentages at each stage of the bug reporting process, and with some reasonable estimate of the dollar and time cost of each bug that smacks a user, we can extrapolate that the annual cost of Microsoft's bugs is greater than the combined GNP of half the member nations of the UN.
Speaking of the UN, don't bomb Iraq, just airdrop Windows ME disks and cubicles.
This was a 1-hour TV movie about a real financial fraud. The renditions of the characters, including the programmers, were remarkably accurate. They souped up the technology for the tube more than they changed the people.
I'm in the Northwest US. The spam sent with my name came from Bermuda, according to the headers. I got complaints and a reply that seemed to be a death threat. The death threat came from Russia. Email to its return address came back as undeliverable. Talking to my ISP, they said that there is really not much that can be done about this unless I wanted to change my email address. I do business there, so I can't.
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Hmmmmm... The rays only penetrate 1/10 of an inch. Wonder what they do in metric countries? But why, then are here globes of flesh bright and her shoulders gray? They both have the same skin. Globes of flesh are warmer than skin -- more flesh underneath to make infrared.
Those see-through pictures of people look an awful
lot like they are infra-red, picking up heat coming out of the body. I had two links last year from rapiscan and osi-systems that showed these things to have many signs of being infra-red. The images have been taken down. No way that enough X-Rays bounce back to take a picture like that. What kind of lens do they use to produce that image? Looks like pure PR hype to me.
Bottom line is that the IT manager should ask "What businesses do we want to be in?" (programming?, data centers? help desks?, systems analysis?, network maintenance?) Unfortunately this is usually translated to be "What businesses do I want to be in?" The answer is that nowadays it's insane to be in any business that sells a commodity. Be in those businesses where your company demands a high-value customized product and provide it with high-value.
Back after MS introduced the registry, they were insinuating that the registry (hierarchical) was
going to (gradually?) replace the file system. Everything would wind up in there. Now, the registry is passe, and the file system is going to be a relational db. Didn't IBM do this with the system 38 about 25 years ago?
Age discrimination is not legal if the job is open to persons between 25 and 64, it should not exclude anyone between those ages based on age, but it's common, and there are legal ways to do it. Up here in Oregon, the desert of opportunity, some companies are requiring bachelor's degree within the last 5 years. That's legal. Others are hiring 'interns', requiring that you be a college student willing to work for low part-time wages to get in the door. So few are hiring, forget it.
They don't usually run true stories at all.
Today I started getting about a dozen bounced emails per hour that I didn't send. Some spammer promoting a penal enlargement scheme was using my return address. This has happened before, so, ho hum for now. Funny thing, all the bounces were coming from AOL. I figured that somehow the spammer was just targetting aol patrons with his mass mail. Maybe not. IDK.
I guess I was fooled by this: Announcement in comp.lang.ada of SETI@home client
Wasn't this SET@home thing programmed in Ada? Ada isn't supposed to allow buffer overruns. What gives?
"Creation of the Humanoids", the flick that Woody Allen ripped off in "Sleeper" was great for its time.
"Meet John Doe" and "The Lady Eve" are pretty good, but the best from the good old days is "Something for the Boys" -- it's got it all: music by Cole Porter and stars Phil Silvers and Carmen Miranda as (non-identical) cousins. This one is completely unavailable and out-of-print last I heard.
Someone please tell me about these. They could have wonderful medical applications, for fitting various things precisely to various parts of the body. The machine that hospitals are now using costs nearly $100,000. Need is for a 3D model of a body part accurate to about 1 mm. TIA for any info!!!
During the meeting down at Dunkin' Donuts, I explained how the torus is a great shape for confining stuff with fields (think cyclotrons, eg). This suggests that we are just part of some big experiment. When the experimenter's funding runs out, our donut is toast.
During construction of the Brooklyn Bridge in the 1880's, it was discovered that the contractor for the cables was cheating and supplying crappy cables. There had been way too many cables already wound for it to be anything but a disaster to try to start over. It was decided that the design contained enough redundancy to stand despite the problem, and it's still in service with the defective cables today.
NTSC TV -- Our color system dates from 1941.
Superheterodyne Circuits -- Circa 1920.
NYC Water System -- An old marvel.
Jet Airplanes -- State of the art for 60 years now.
Magnetic Recording -- About 80 years old.
Aspirin -- About 100 years old.
The Pyramids -- In 4200 years, no one has come up with a better way to sharpen razor blades.
And the champion -->>>>>> TCP/IP.
IBM still has mainframes in the Oregon state government. They have piles of DL1, CICS, and all of that. Because the state is budget-crunched, they are not funding wholesale rewrites, conversions, and migrations. They are incrementally going to new technologies. The most popular of these for the IT managers in the state government is Webshpere. This is not an easy place for open source to win, because it will be hard to slowly migrate and do piecewise replacements of mainframe systems without going to something else that runs under the same mainframe OS, eg Websphere.
Linux on the desktop is banned in some departments of the state government. They use expensive proprietary software when open source would probably work. Maybe this will change that.
Gadfly, a Python package, gives you an in-memory DB and SQL. If you want to trade SQL for extra speed and do more programming, you can run the ISAM-like engines of Btrieve or Berkeley DB without the SQL layer on top. We have SQL RDBMS's because the conventional wisdom is that such a trade is not a good idea.
BTW, Last Starfighter was done in some kind of Fortran on a Cray XMP1 with the geometry database on an IBM mainframe IIRC, so you've probably got a problem running make install on that baby at home.
15+ years ago, almost everything done for the government was open source. It was hard to figure out exactly who to get what from, and you did have to pay distributions costs, but there was plenty of military-related software available free. I bought a catalog of this software from a company that would, for a hefty fee, actually go through all the hoops of getting the free code for its customers. (I think that Greg Aharonian who now publicizes absurd patents ran that business.) Things like fighter and logistics simulations and such were in the catalog. Sadly, I chucked the catalog in a sorry fit of cleaning years back when my office just overflowed with such useless but precious effluvia.
I just thought I'd run this up the flagpole and see if anyone salutes. I've mother-henned it for a while and it's about ready to hatch. When I throw it on the slashdot fire, it's bound to spit back. I never metaphor I didn't like.
If one developed any programs that talk to MSDE, is one infringing on Timeline? My understanding, however ignorant, is that patents apply to the copying or use of the patent technology -- even in private. One need not distribute anything to be infringing on a patent and liable for royalties. Is that correct?
Anyway, a large percentage of the millions of SQL Server users will be easy to find because of their open ports.
One percent of $500 million means that just the phone calls of his bugs cost him $5 million per year to answer the phone. If I got $5 million of bug reports per year, I'd figure I had a problem.
Take a guess at the percentage of users who encounter bugs and realize that they are bugs. This might also be pretty low. Take a guess at the percentage of users who realize that they have come across a bug and bother to report it. This should also be very low, because (1) you are expecting to spend half of eternity on hold, (2) you are expecting that they aren't going to fix it just for you anyway, (3) you are expecting that some of their other hundreds of millions of users have already reported it, and (4) you know that the people who answer the phone are no fun to talk with and will just blame you like Gates does in this interview and you've had enough aggravation already.
With low percentages at each stage of the bug reporting process, and with some reasonable estimate of the dollar and time cost of each bug that smacks a user, we can extrapolate that the annual cost of Microsoft's bugs is greater than the combined GNP of half the member nations of the UN.
Speaking of the UN, don't bomb Iraq, just airdrop Windows ME disks and cubicles.
In Desk Set (1957).
This was a 1-hour TV movie about a real financial fraud. The renditions of the characters, including the programmers, were remarkably accurate. They souped up the technology for the tube more than they changed the people.
I'm in the Northwest US. The spam sent with my name came from Bermuda, according to the headers. I got complaints and a reply that seemed to be a death threat. The death threat came from Russia. Email to its return address came back as undeliverable. Talking to my ISP, they said that there is really not much that can be done about this unless I wanted to change my email address. I do business there, so I can't.