"In Los Angeles, if you say you're a musician, you're asked... are you, or will you be, successful? In New Orleans, if you say you're a musician, then people accept that you're a musician, even if you jam one night a week at some dive with no audience." Nice
This also extends to the workplace environment as well. The "fit" you have in your work environment has a tremendous influence on your productivity and overall happiness with a career. This is in part due to the influence of your surroundings ("supportive" vs. "pressure cooker").
But, in some cases, you can also control a lot of this by attitude (or perception) as well. A good example of this is worrying about job status or promotions as opposed to the actual goal of the work. A lack of focus on the true task at hand and fretting about things out of your control can have a negative impact on your work and general well being.
SimDesk Technologies, Inc. (STI) was founded in 1999 to develop a revolutionary way to deliver software applications using the Internet. STI offers SimDesk(TM), an office productivity suite of applications that provide a word processor, spreadsheet, personal organizer, and e-mail client. All SimDesk Technologies' products run on the World Wide ServerTM (WWS), a groundbreaking means for economically and efficiently transporting applications, connecting millions of users to one server.
Using the WWS, SimDesk(TM) disperses the load so that a task can be completed with a fraction of the bandwidth and server power normally needed. Using a patented proprietary transport layer protocol and load-balancing technique, the SimDesk(TM) product suite is able to support millions of simultaneous users with a small fraction of the hardware normally needed in networks today.
SimDesk Technologies is a privately funded company. All products are developed in-house and are protected with numerous patents, trademarks, and copyrights. There are no license fees paid to outside software companies, which allows us to offer extremely attractive pricing models to end users.
In 1996, Toy Biz sued Customs in the Court of International Trade, which arbitrates foreign-trade disputes between U.S. companies and the government. Toy Biz said its pantheon of action figures should be classified as toys instead of dolls. Customs insisted the figures are dolls, and thus subject to 12% import duties, instead of the 6.8% rate for toys. Duties have since been eliminated from both categories.
Not only is there not any relevance to the fictional characters, but there's no financial difference, either...
Now Simpsons characters, well those are collectables, dammit...
The electronic device usage fear stems from cellular phone companies advising airlines not to use the phones in flight as they would have difficulting tracking the signal and the signal would reach many towers simultaneously.
I wonder how much of the ban on inflight cell phone use is also designed to force people into using (and paying for) air-to-ground phones installed on airliners.
See the problem here? If the commercials are irrevocably embedded into the program, they can't be removed and replaced during syndication.
Too true - The Game Show network runs 40 year old game shows, like "What's My Line" and "I've Got a Secret", where the sets are covered with ads that are pretty laughable - some of them for products that don't even exist anymore (an anti-perspirant called "Dryette" comes to mind)...
The cash paid by the Defendants, after the payment of attorneys' fees, litigation and Settlement administration costs, shall be distributed to consumers who purchased Music Products. The number of claims filed will determine the actual amount of the individual refund but will not exceed $20.00 per claimant. If the number of claims filed would result in refunds of less than $5.00 per claimant, there will be no cash distribution to individual consumers. Rather, the cash portion of the Settlement shall be distributed to not-for-profit, charitable, governmental or public entities to be used for music-related purposes or programs for the benefit of consumers who purchased Music Products.
This kind of settlement won't benefit consumers directly. Even if you could locate six year old receipts, the odds are pretty good you won't get a direct settlement out of this.
Cab houses 3-D mapping system and communication system dubbed 'hacker in a box' that could monitor e-mail in area, send e-mail or destroy enemy communication system.
Come on - with this kind of power, the US Army can SPAM Iraq into submission...
I graduated from college a week or two ago and have settled into a new job. I now have ample time to spend making something nice for ClassicCmp. You can expect to see something actually worthwile there in the next few days.
Wait a minute - you mean you have more free time at your new job than you did in college? Boy, did I pick the wrong career...
That was finally overturned, however, mainly because there weren't enough Americans to work on it.
You make a great point. Graduate students actually represent a significant part of the labor pool in academic science - they are not just trainees, but they also do a large fraction of the actual work. As mentioned in the article, about half of the graduate students in the US working in physical sciences are not US citizens. In other words, without foreign students it'll take twice as long to get the work done. I'll bet that it's a similar fraction for biological sciences and for postdoctoral researchers (another class of "trainees") as well.
By and large, US citizens are simply not as interested in getting into science. Most grad students get pretty jaded when they see that a career as an academic research investigator is frequently less about the science itself and more about politics and nonsense related to obtaining research funding. People who don't truly love the science and can put up with this kind of rat race usually wind up in more lucrative careers.
"Although Lindows.com certainly made a conscious decision to play with fire by choosing a product and company name that differs by only one letter from the world's leading computer software program," the judge wrote, "one could just as easily conclude that in 1983 Microsoft made an equally risky decision to name its product after a term commonly used in the trade to indicate the windowing capability of a G.U.I."
The irony here, of course, is that it was Xerox that pioneered the GUI...
Very few journals make a profit. A typical journal article is paid for by the investigators to cover costs of printing. If you look, most scientific journal articles are marked "advertisement" because of this...
They found it had been cited in other papers 4300 times, with 196 citations containing misprints in the volume, page or year. But despite the fact that a billion different versions of erroneous reference are possible, they counted only 45. The most popular mistake appeared 78 times.
Gee... most scientists use a program (like Endnote) to format bibliographies, using data downloaded from a database (like PubMed). I suspect that this is more a deficiency in proofreading reference lists and assuming that databases are correct, rather than a lack of reading the original material. Whether people read articles carefully is another matter, of course.
In fact, a blatant miscitation of a given reference would often get caught during the peer review process. This happened to me once when I rewrote part of a paper and forgot to remove one of the references that no longer applied...
"Contrast this with a PC, where it is usually immediately obvious if someone is trying to hack you."
You're kidding/trolling right? At the university where I work Windows 2000 machines are constantly being hacked for things like DoS attacks, pirated video servers, etc. The actual user typically does not find out until the IP is tracked down by the victim and the school is notified (usually including the threat of a lawsuit)...
Nope, Adventure...
You are in a Twisty Little Maze of Passages, All Different
You are in a Little Twisty Maze of Passages, All Different
You are in a Maze of Twisty Little Passages, All Different, etc.
The problem really started when you got caught in a Twisty Little Maze of Passages, All Alike. Then you had to drop stuff in different rooms to tell them apart to map them. Geez - it seems like playing ASCII games was a couple of centuries ago...
Capt. Kirk and Spock are both Jewish ...
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according to the Adam Sandler song. What was your religious upbringing? Do you consider yourself a religious or spiritual person? Has this had any affect on your creativity, particularly your SF writing?
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I think that the Evil Bits are embedded in the annoying Stewardship Ozarks logo continuously behind the text.
Beer Water is called "Dry" Beer in the US ... pretty foul stuff, the one time I had it it tasted like liquified, fermented Froot Loops.
Try this one for baked apple
This also extends to the workplace environment as well. The "fit" you have in your work environment has a tremendous influence on your productivity and overall happiness with a career. This is in part due to the influence of your surroundings ("supportive" vs. "pressure cooker").
But, in some cases, you can also control a lot of this by attitude (or perception) as well. A good example of this is worrying about job status or promotions as opposed to the actual goal of the work. A lack of focus on the true task at hand and fretting about things out of your control can have a negative impact on your work and general well being.
From their web site:
SimDesk Technologies, Inc. (STI) was founded in 1999 to develop a revolutionary way to deliver software applications using the Internet. STI offers SimDesk(TM), an office productivity suite of applications that provide a word processor, spreadsheet, personal organizer, and e-mail client. All SimDesk Technologies' products run on the World Wide ServerTM (WWS), a groundbreaking means for economically and efficiently transporting applications, connecting millions of users to one server.
Using the WWS, SimDesk(TM) disperses the load so that a task can be completed with a fraction of the bandwidth and server power normally needed. Using a patented proprietary transport layer protocol and load-balancing technique, the SimDesk(TM) product suite is able to support millions of simultaneous users with a small fraction of the hardware normally needed in networks today.
SimDesk Technologies is a privately funded company. All products are developed in-house and are protected with numerous patents, trademarks, and copyrights. There are no license fees paid to outside software companies, which allows us to offer extremely attractive pricing models to end users.
Makes sense to me ...
I think that Ken and Barbie would be non-human by this criterion ...
Not only is there not any relevance to the fictional characters, but there's no financial difference, either ...
Now Simpsons characters, well those are collectables, dammit ...
I wonder how much of the ban on inflight cell phone use is also designed to force people into using (and paying for) air-to-ground phones installed on airliners.
Too true - The Game Show network runs 40 year old game shows, like "What's My Line" and "I've Got a Secret", where the sets are covered with ads that are pretty laughable - some of them for products that don't even exist anymore (an anti-perspirant called "Dryette" comes to mind) ...
The cash paid by the Defendants, after the payment of attorneys' fees, litigation and Settlement administration costs, shall be distributed to consumers who purchased Music Products. The number of claims filed will determine the actual amount of the individual refund but will not exceed $20.00 per claimant. If the number of claims filed would result in refunds of less than $5.00 per claimant, there will be no cash distribution to individual consumers. Rather, the cash portion of the Settlement shall be distributed to not-for-profit, charitable, governmental or public entities to be used for music-related purposes or programs for the benefit of consumers who purchased Music Products.
This kind of settlement won't benefit consumers directly. Even if you could locate six year old receipts, the odds are pretty good you won't get a direct settlement out of this.
Come on - with this kind of power, the US Army can SPAM Iraq into submission ...
Wait a minute - you mean you have more free time at your new job than you did in college? Boy, did I pick the wrong career ...
Good luck with the site ...
You make a great point. Graduate students actually represent a significant part of the labor pool in academic science - they are not just trainees, but they also do a large fraction of the actual work. As mentioned in the article, about half of the graduate students in the US working in physical sciences are not US citizens. In other words, without foreign students it'll take twice as long to get the work done. I'll bet that it's a similar fraction for biological sciences and for postdoctoral researchers (another class of "trainees") as well.
By and large, US citizens are simply not as interested in getting into science. Most grad students get pretty jaded when they see that a career as an academic research investigator is frequently less about the science itself and more about politics and nonsense related to obtaining research funding. People who don't truly love the science and can put up with this kind of rat race usually wind up in more lucrative careers.
Didn't matter, it wasn't even in the budget ...
You're right - I probably should have said "hypocrisy". Oh well ...
The irony here, of course, is that it was Xerox that pioneered the GUI ...
Very few journals make a profit. A typical journal article is paid for by the investigators to cover costs of printing. If you look, most scientific journal articles are marked "advertisement" because of this ...
Gee ... most scientists use a program (like Endnote) to format bibliographies, using data downloaded from a database (like PubMed). I suspect that this is more a deficiency in proofreading reference lists and assuming that databases are correct, rather than a lack of reading the original material. Whether people read articles carefully is another matter, of course.
In fact, a blatant miscitation of a given reference would often get caught during the peer review process. This happened to me once when I rewrote part of a paper and forgot to remove one of the references that no longer applied ...
You're kidding/trolling right? At the university where I work Windows 2000 machines are constantly being hacked for things like DoS attacks, pirated video servers, etc. The actual user typically does not find out until the IP is tracked down by the victim and the school is notified (usually including the threat of a lawsuit)...
In the one where Captain Kirk wakes up and discovers that it was all a dream ...
You are in a Twisty Little Maze of Passages, All Different
You are in a Little Twisty Maze of Passages, All Different
You are in a Maze of Twisty Little Passages, All Different, etc.
The problem really started when you got caught in a Twisty Little Maze of Passages, All Alike. Then you had to drop stuff in different rooms to tell them apart to map them. Geez - it seems like playing ASCII games was a couple of centuries ago ...
I think that we all know when that happened.
according to the Adam Sandler song. What was your religious upbringing? Do you consider yourself a religious or spiritual person? Has this had any affect on your creativity, particularly your SF writing?
When this thread is done, there will probably be enough material for a sequel.