Most of Frank Herbert's catalog of early novels and short stories are out of print, aside from the Dune series and a couple of other scattered novels. He has some brilliant novels that are only available in decaying moldy paperbacks at used book stores. This is the case with hundreds of "golden age" scifi novels from other authors.
Also, there are tons of older books that I try to get through amazon.com or abebooks.com that simply state "out of print", and unless you get lucky and a mom and pop store somewhere has a lingering copy, then you are out of luck.
Except that it is not the hosting sites responsibility to sell the product in the advertisement, it is only obligated to provide viewership for the advert. For example, if a banner ad on/. fails to produce sales, does that mean that/. is at fault and that the "per click" rate should be devalued? Or could the advertiser simply have a crappy product or an ineffective advertisement?
A hosting site can set any price they wish, and it is not their responsibility to generate profits for their ad client. It is up to the company that wants to advertise to decide whether or not the market exposure is beneficial to their business, and decide whether they are willing to pay the "/. homepage" prices for all of the exposure they can generate.
A hosting site should never be victim to the success or failure of the business models or products contained in its adverts.
"Where oh where are you tonight? Why did you leave me here on my own. I searched the world over and thought I found true love, You met another and PTHPTHH you was gone"
Honestly, there is a great deal of insight in 'commodoresloats' comment.
I've sat in the jury selection pool a couple of times and, almost without exception, the people that go to the final jury box are usually midwest, mom 'n' apple pie, 2.4 children, elk's club types. Anyone who displays *any* objectivity or open-mindedness of opinion, knowledge or interest in the law, or displays any "big picture" concern or opinion is guaranteed a "thank you, you may go now" from the legal counsels. Arguably this can be good or bad, but the primary concern of the defense and prosecution when picking jurors is *predictability* of the jurors' eventual viewpoints and opinions.
I added a gold-plated Monster(TM) filter to my coffepot, only cost me $350. It really punched up my favorite roast by bringing out the sparkling high notes of the midrange. Although the high-end was slightly tinny, the brassy fullness still rang through to the final drop. And talk about flavor saturation, the harmonic balance was not only restored by the Monster(TM) filter, but my throughput fidelity went through the roof!
Marillion: "The hatch for the beam is on top just behind the bubble. This is a great angle to hit inbound ICBM comming from above the aircraft, but a lousy angle to catch SAM rockets from below it."
Not exactly, the laser is mounted in a turret/mirror structure on the nose of the aircraft. It will likely have primarily a forward and down firing arc, as it is intended to destroy missiles during their boost phase, and also be able to hit lower cruise missiles.
http://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/abl/
I worked tangentially on the ABL airplane a few years ago. There is a lot of publicly available info if you google for it.
It certainly would be possible, but I'd suspect that there might be problems with the frequency response over the connection (it is essentially passing the signal across the magnets as an inductor) as opposed to a simple metallic connection where you don't need to worry about that.
However, if the signal were still digital at the headphone connection, it would work wonderfully and you could make a magnetic connector that would last until the pyramids eroded. You could wait to move the digital-analog conversion up into the headphones instead of the body of the iPOD. Would make your headphones more expensive though.
The thread has gotten huge, but I just had to post anyway...I had the PHB to end all PHBs...
In my former days of computer consulting, I got hired by the owner of a small retail shoe store chain (about twelve stores) to bring them into the network age. Currently they were doing everything at individual stores where the staff would, at the end of every shift, type all of the receipts into Excel, email the.xls files to the boss at home, where he then "managed" them.
What I discovered as I poked into his machine at home was that he then printed out all of the Excel files, stuck them in a binder, then sent all of the paper and binders to his accountant once a year to do the taxes!!!
So he wanted me to fix all of this. Fine, sounded like a fun job, and I got cracking on pricing equipment, software, setting up employee training, etc, and gave the boss the project plan and estimate.
Yikes. He threw everything in the trash and gave me his own "project plan" specifications...
* He had already purchased his "retail store management" front end that was to be used at all of the stores, he found a great deal and current suites were too expensive. It was a 10+ year old MSDOS application!
* Said application was then to be modified so that the branch stores would nightly autodial the HQ store and telnet their data in, over a single phone line with each store timed to individually ring up the HQ store. Yikes. Stupid as hell but I could still do it.
* The HQ store would then be set up to collect the branch store data, consolidate it, then dial up the boss's AOL account! The HQ would then email the data to the boss.
* At home, the boss's PC would then be set up to automatically parse all of the data out to...you guessed it...and Excel spreadsheet.!
* The boss could then "conveniently" print it out, stick it in a binder, and mail the pile of crap to his poor abused accountant once a year.
I did my spirited best for a couple of weeks, then was quite thankfully fired as my costs and hours were deemed too expensive. A couple of years later the PHB suffered simultaneous bankruptcy and a heart attack.
I'm buried in the middle of going back to college for a second degree (EE).
Your statements are very disheartening, there is something very unsettling when you, as a recruiter, are recommending that people *not* depend upon university to make them employable but instead rely on internships, apprenticeships, certificates, and all-things-external-to-university to make them desirable for employment.
What does this say about what employers desire in an applicant? What does this say about the educational effectiveness or focus of our universities?
Personally, I'm sick to death of trying to get "foot-in-the-door" jobs that also require me to have "5+ years experience, cert in this, license in that, etc". I shouldn't have to blow $100k for a degree just to have someone tell me "you should really be doing an internship to supplement your college".
Employers and universities both simply need to be more up front and realistic about what they desire or produce.
Just a little engineering pedantry from someone in the biz....the 747 does not have a RAT, but the 767 and 777 do. The 747 has 4 engine redundancy (versus 2 of the other twin-aisle models) and is a much older design that was never updated to incorporate a RAT.
Yeah, well, I still can't throw a football spiral to save my life...in fact, mine tumble so badly that three axes aren't even enough to describe the motion...
Well, I doubled in Physics and Astronomy in university, and am now finishing up an EE degree, and I hadn't the slightest clue that it was improper to say "degree K". I would consider myself very qualified to talk about the subject. So, while informative, I found your pedantry was also a bit misguided.
Everyone always warns you to always refuse the underbody-coating option, I'm sure NASA was trying to keep costs down when they went to the rover lot. Maybe those salesman really are correct after all...
I have done a lot of hiring, and it *is your job and ethical duty* to read and review those applications. You are not obligated to call every single one, but the moment that you start applying fickle arbitrary filters to make your load easier (toss anything with job gaps, toss anything listing hobbies, toss anything without a specific degree) is the moment that you are taking potentially qualified lives and tossing them in the trashcan for your own laziness.
Harsh, I know, but true. If you are using "work gaps" as your metric for choosing a quality future employee, then you are doing a serious disservice to your company. I have seen that same attitude taken to even further extremes to where other hiring managers justified discrimination with arbitrary metrics, e.g. if the candidate lived in a high-minority part of the city, or listed a particular church-group they volunteered for, the manager could easily find something else in the resume that could be used to rationalize their trashcanning decision. Hiring was a sick sad job role and I am glad I don't do it anymore.
I have also worked for several years also at a "megaconglomerate" company doing hiring. They collected metrics and data on *all* candidates and hiring managers had to justify the reasons that everything went into the trash. *gut feeling* or *job gap* or *my own pet personal resume formula* wouldn't cut it when HR corporate audits took a look at your hiring metrics.
With itermittent failures, diagnosing is often really a shot in the dark, it doesn't matter if it's a laptop, an automobile, a television, whatever. The techies you went to might not be entirely to blame for their inability to solve the problem.
The first step to diagnosing a problem is being able to reproduce and analyze the problem. It's the classic case of bring your car in, complaining about "the noise under the hood", and the mechanic can't get the car to make that noise when he's test driving. Letting your machine run for awhile doesn't sound like that bad of an idea, if an immediate cause wasn't evident. Twitchy power failures could have many causes, although the shop you went to should have at least been honest enough to admit from the beginning that they were really just guessing at solutions, and let you slide on charging you for the benchwork.
I went through a similar nightmare once when I bought a system from a custom build place. About once every two or three weeks, my machine would have a power failure, usually taking critical system files with it, forcing me to spend hours of reinstallation/formatting/etc. I took my machine back (under warranty luckily) about 6 times, and they never solved the problem. I eventually just ditched it, figured I'd drawn the lemon lottery, as it wasn't worth the hassle anymore. I never did figure out what was wrong with it.
I picked up a Sharp VLZ7U MiniDV for around $400 on a rebate special. It has fantastic color, great low-light performance, and a zillion ports (external mike, firewire, USB, RCA et al). It is extremely compact, but with a great button layout that is easy to learn. It has even survived a couple of drops onto the floor with no damage.
My only gripes are the slightly too sensitive zoom slider, and the short battery life (around 35-40 minutes with LCD on).
I got my first post-grad "dream" job at a biotech firm, thinking I was on the way to glamour and glory.
My job was to manage the stock samples of viral testing kits. What wasn't told to me was that all of these kits were stored in racks in a freezer. I spent 8 hours a day in a 20 degree freezer, bundled in an arctic parka with a clipboard looking at little vials going "Fetal Sample - Bovine - #136A....check....Fetal Sample - Porcine - #17562C...check...." ad infinitum
I'm returning to school for a second BS (Electrical Engineering) after 15 years (I did Physics the first time through).
The curriculum, classes, and professor *assume* that you have full knowledge of the intracacies of a programmable calculator. Before, there would never be a chance of a heavy bookwork problem appearing on an exam (say, for example, requiring solving 3 simult equations) just because slogging through the handwriting would use up all of your exam time. Now, you can throw nasty matrices and integrals at your calculator...change units from miles-per-gallon to rods-per-hogshead at the touch of a button!
Differential equations? No prob, throw it at your calculator...
This is allowing tests and classes to get far more in depth in their material instead of getting hung up on simpler topics just because they take a long time to compute by hand... At my university, the only reason that laptops are discouraged in exams is a logistical one, because the real estate on the skimpy little classroom desks is too scant.
I'm also tutoring other calculus and physics students, graphing calculators were banned when I was in college, now they're required!
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Unawareness of the source quote? I sense the disturbance of billions of SW geeks crying out in anguish...
Most of Frank Herbert's catalog of early novels and short stories are out of print, aside from the Dune series and a couple of other scattered novels. He has some brilliant novels that are only available in decaying moldy paperbacks at used book stores. This is the case with hundreds of "golden age" scifi novels from other authors. Also, there are tons of older books that I try to get through amazon.com or abebooks.com that simply state "out of print", and unless you get lucky and a mom and pop store somewhere has a lingering copy, then you are out of luck.
Except that it is not the hosting sites responsibility to sell the product in the advertisement, it is only obligated to provide viewership for the advert. For example, if a banner ad on /. fails to produce sales, does that mean that /. is at fault and that the "per click" rate should be devalued? Or could the advertiser simply have a crappy product or an ineffective advertisement?
A hosting site can set any price they wish, and it is not their responsibility to generate profits for their ad client. It is up to the company that wants to advertise to decide whether or not the market exposure is beneficial to their business, and decide whether they are willing to pay the "/. homepage" prices for all of the exposure they can generate.
A hosting site should never be victim to the success or failure of the business models or products contained in its adverts.
"Where oh where are you tonight?
Why did you leave me here on my own.
I searched the world over and thought I found true love,
You met another and PTHPTHH you was gone"
From memory, scary.
Honestly, there is a great deal of insight in 'commodoresloats' comment.
I've sat in the jury selection pool a couple of times and, almost without exception, the people that go to the final jury box are usually midwest, mom 'n' apple pie, 2.4 children, elk's club types. Anyone who displays *any* objectivity or open-mindedness of opinion, knowledge or interest in the law, or displays any "big picture" concern or opinion is guaranteed a "thank you, you may go now" from the legal counsels. Arguably this can be good or bad, but the primary concern of the defense and prosecution when picking jurors is *predictability* of the jurors' eventual viewpoints and opinions.
I agree. Any release of "Duke Nukem Forever" is clearly impossible because it hasn't happened yet.
I added a gold-plated Monster(TM) filter to my coffepot, only cost me $350. It really punched up my favorite roast by bringing out the sparkling high notes of the midrange. Although the high-end was slightly tinny, the brassy fullness still rang through to the final drop. And talk about flavor saturation, the harmonic balance was not only restored by the Monster(TM) filter, but my throughput fidelity went through the roof!
Don't hide in the closet, be proud to be a "shower poofter"!
Marillion: "The hatch for the beam is on top just behind the bubble. This is a great angle to hit inbound ICBM comming from above the aircraft, but a lousy angle to catch SAM rockets from below it."
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Not exactly, the laser is mounted in a turret/mirror structure on the nose of the aircraft. It will likely have primarily a forward and down firing arc, as it is intended to destroy missiles during their boost phase, and also be able to hit lower cruise missiles.
http://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/abl
I worked tangentially on the ABL airplane a few years ago. There is a lot of publicly available info if you google for it.
Man, if I could mod you up to +10, I would! Freakin' perfect!
Physics/EE guy here...
It certainly would be possible, but I'd suspect that there might be problems with the frequency response over the connection (it is essentially passing the signal across the magnets as an inductor) as opposed to a simple metallic connection where you don't need to worry about that.
However, if the signal were still digital at the headphone connection, it would work wonderfully and you could make a magnetic connector that would last until the pyramids eroded. You could wait to move the digital-analog conversion up into the headphones instead of the body of the iPOD. Would make your headphones more expensive though.
The thread has gotten huge, but I just had to post anyway...I had the PHB to end all PHBs...
.xls files to the boss at home, where he then "managed" them.
In my former days of computer consulting, I got hired by the owner of a small retail shoe store chain (about twelve stores) to bring them into the network age. Currently they were doing everything at individual stores where the staff would, at the end of every shift, type all of the receipts into Excel, email the
What I discovered as I poked into his machine at home was that he then printed out all of the Excel files, stuck them in a binder, then sent all of the paper and binders to his accountant once a year to do the taxes!!!
So he wanted me to fix all of this. Fine, sounded like a fun job, and I got cracking on pricing equipment, software, setting up employee training, etc, and gave the boss the project plan and estimate.
Yikes. He threw everything in the trash and gave me his own "project plan" specifications...
* He had already purchased his "retail store management" front end that was to be used at all of the stores, he found a great deal and current suites were too expensive. It was a 10+ year old MSDOS application!
* Said application was then to be modified so that the branch stores would nightly autodial the HQ store and telnet their data in, over a single phone line with each store timed to individually ring up the HQ store. Yikes. Stupid as hell but I could still do it.
* The HQ store would then be set up to collect the branch store data, consolidate it, then dial up the boss's AOL account! The HQ would then email the data to the boss.
* At home, the boss's PC would then be set up to automatically parse all of the data out to...you guessed it...and Excel spreadsheet.!
* The boss could then "conveniently" print it out, stick it in a binder, and mail the pile of crap to his poor abused accountant once a year.
I did my spirited best for a couple of weeks, then was quite thankfully fired as my costs and hours were deemed too expensive. A couple of years later the PHB suffered simultaneous bankruptcy and a heart attack.
I'm buried in the middle of going back to college for a second degree (EE). Your statements are very disheartening, there is something very unsettling when you, as a recruiter, are recommending that people *not* depend upon university to make them employable but instead rely on internships, apprenticeships, certificates, and all-things-external-to-university to make them desirable for employment. What does this say about what employers desire in an applicant? What does this say about the educational effectiveness or focus of our universities? Personally, I'm sick to death of trying to get "foot-in-the-door" jobs that also require me to have "5+ years experience, cert in this, license in that, etc". I shouldn't have to blow $100k for a degree just to have someone tell me "you should really be doing an internship to supplement your college". Employers and universities both simply need to be more up front and realistic about what they desire or produce.
Just a little engineering pedantry from someone in the biz....the 747 does not have a RAT, but the 767 and 777 do. The 747 has 4 engine redundancy (versus 2 of the other twin-aisle models) and is a much older design that was never updated to incorporate a RAT.
"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!"
Yeah, well, I still can't throw a football spiral to save my life...in fact, mine tumble so badly that three axes aren't even enough to describe the motion...
Well, I doubled in Physics and Astronomy in university, and am now finishing up an EE degree, and I hadn't the slightest clue that it was improper to say "degree K". I would consider myself very qualified to talk about the subject. So, while informative, I found your pedantry was also a bit misguided.
Everyone always warns you to always refuse the underbody-coating option, I'm sure NASA was trying to keep costs down when they went to the rover lot. Maybe those salesman really are correct after all...
I have done a lot of hiring, and it *is your job and ethical duty* to read and review those applications. You are not obligated to call every single one, but the moment that you start applying fickle arbitrary filters to make your load easier (toss anything with job gaps, toss anything listing hobbies, toss anything without a specific degree) is the moment that you are taking potentially qualified lives and tossing them in the trashcan for your own laziness.
Harsh, I know, but true. If you are using "work gaps" as your metric for choosing a quality future employee, then you are doing a serious disservice to your company. I have seen that same attitude taken to even further extremes to where other hiring managers justified discrimination with arbitrary metrics, e.g. if the candidate lived in a high-minority part of the city, or listed a particular church-group they volunteered for, the manager could easily find something else in the resume that could be used to rationalize their trashcanning decision. Hiring was a sick sad job role and I am glad I don't do it anymore.
I have also worked for several years also at a "megaconglomerate" company doing hiring. They collected metrics and data on *all* candidates and hiring managers had to justify the reasons that everything went into the trash. *gut feeling* or *job gap* or *my own pet personal resume formula* wouldn't cut it when HR corporate audits took a look at your hiring metrics.
With itermittent failures, diagnosing is often really a shot in the dark, it doesn't matter if it's a laptop, an automobile, a television, whatever. The techies you went to might not be entirely to blame for their inability to solve the problem.
The first step to diagnosing a problem is being able to reproduce and analyze the problem. It's the classic case of bring your car in, complaining about "the noise under the hood", and the mechanic can't get the car to make that noise when he's test driving. Letting your machine run for awhile doesn't sound like that bad of an idea, if an immediate cause wasn't evident. Twitchy power failures could have many causes, although the shop you went to should have at least been honest enough to admit from the beginning that they were really just guessing at solutions, and let you slide on charging you for the benchwork.
I went through a similar nightmare once when I bought a system from a custom build place. About once every two or three weeks, my machine would have a power failure, usually taking critical system files with it, forcing me to spend hours of reinstallation/formatting/etc. I took my machine back (under warranty luckily) about 6 times, and they never solved the problem. I eventually just ditched it, figured I'd drawn the lemon lottery, as it wasn't worth the hassle anymore. I never did figure out what was wrong with it.
I'll rave about Sharp also.
I picked up a Sharp VLZ7U MiniDV for around $400 on a rebate special. It has fantastic color, great low-light performance, and a zillion ports (external mike, firewire, USB, RCA et al). It is extremely compact, but with a great button layout that is easy to learn. It has even survived a couple of drops onto the floor with no damage.
My only gripes are the slightly too sensitive zoom slider, and the short battery life (around 35-40 minutes with LCD on).
Overall, a wonderful camera.
I got my first post-grad "dream" job at a biotech firm, thinking I was on the way to glamour and glory. My job was to manage the stock samples of viral testing kits. What wasn't told to me was that all of these kits were stored in racks in a freezer. I spent 8 hours a day in a 20 degree freezer, bundled in an arctic parka with a clipboard looking at little vials going "Fetal Sample - Bovine - #136A....check....Fetal Sample - Porcine - #17562C...check...." ad infinitum
"Fox 2, why is your refueling boom extended? Fox 2, do you receive?"
It could also be recognized by the charateristic tubular tunnels it would delve, as well as the peculiar silicon nodules it leaves scattered around.
Oh yes! What a difference a few years makes!
I'm returning to school for a second BS (Electrical Engineering) after 15 years (I did Physics the first time through).
The curriculum, classes, and professor *assume* that you have full knowledge of the intracacies of a programmable calculator. Before, there would never be a chance of a heavy bookwork problem appearing on an exam (say, for example, requiring solving 3 simult equations) just because slogging through the handwriting would use up all of your exam time. Now, you can throw nasty matrices and integrals at your calculator...change units from miles-per-gallon to rods-per-hogshead at the touch of a button!
Differential equations? No prob, throw it at your calculator...
This is allowing tests and classes to get far more in depth in their material instead of getting hung up on simpler topics just because they take a long time to compute by hand... At my university, the only reason that laptops are discouraged in exams is a logistical one, because the real estate on the skimpy little classroom desks is too scant.
I'm also tutoring other calculus and physics students, graphing calculators were banned when I was in college, now they're required!