If only the cell phone manufacturers would make something the public liked at a reasonable price. What is out there lacks features, and functionality, while being way over priced..why pay exorbitant prices
Not so much. You should see the sorts of motions that are filed on a daily basis. If their attorneys did not file for such appeal, its not only bad strategy but missing such opportunities is the foundation of malpractice.
Has anyone, anywhere ever seen an attorney prosecuted for malpractice ? I know a few people who have tried, but none of them were successful in finding an attorney that would even hear their side of the store to determine if they would take the case.
Seems if you mention malpractice, most attorneys will stop talking to you at that point.
how hard is it to smuggle fine copper wire onto a plane?
Stop by your local sewing store and pick up a spool of copper thread or copper knitting yarn. Both ultra fine, capable of carrying a charge and both about $40 for a kilometers worth. Why else do you think the banned knitting on planes?:-)
So what you are telling me is the MicroSoft windows is in control of anything made by Airbus.. hmm.. then I would say the Quantas pilots where asleep when the BSOD hit...
Personally, I used to support PC-based ECG capture devices. I used to really like taking people who claimed their phone had no effect on medical devices, and taking them to stand in front of an ECG monitoring screen and *showing* them the effect on the traces that it had.
Which is a pretty damn crappy ECG platform. Hell, I can cause changes just by introduction of static electricity to a pc. First generation pulsar digital watches set off all sorts of alarms in hospitals.. guess what both the pulsar and the next generation of devices were significantly more shielded.
Each generation of airline electronics have become significantly more hardened and everytime there is even a suspected problem the rules tighten. While the airframes might be 20-30, even 80 years old (Southwest is not planning on retiring any of its 737s until age 80) the electronics get replace on average every 10 years.
The Quantas incident is nothing more than pilot error or incompetence
Or more likely the flight crew was either a) sleeping while the autopilot was engaged or b) working on joining the mile high club while in the cockpit.
Other than a few instruments that are affected by older generation analog cell phones, there is no evidence that any consumer grade electronics interfere with any airplane control system.
Quantas is simply taking the position that they are the experts, not the fly public and thus the flying public will take Quanta's word as authoritative.
Hell, I would buy a business class account just for the fixed ip and the 8 hour outage sla.. but on Suddenlink.. that's not $70 per month.. that's $400 per month on a 1.5Mb/1.5Mb connection..
Oh, by the way.. they won't even sell that to me because my service address in not in a business complex..
As is normally the case M$ threw lots of money at the exchange to get it to switch unix/linux base to windows net so that M$ can tout that a major exchange is running windows.
Full page ads touting the switch and the reasons they cited were better through put and better up time.
A very large percentage of Americans will never, ever leave the US for any reason. Given that fact (look at the percentage of Americans that hold passports), tell kids in American HS that they can earn $80,000+ per year for simply passing some tests is doing them a great disservice.
The reality is that unless you are extremely elite at what you do, you will never get a job paying that type of salary fresh out of school with no experience. And even then, there is a good chance that the job will be outsourced for significantly less than that amount.
Is there a shortage of IT types.. I don't think so.. the companies that are screaming shortage all have vested interest in keeping the people costs as low as possible. Why employ an older skilled worker when you can simply hire 4 fresh out of school workers (high school or University) for the same overhead?
In the IT related industries, by far the largest cost is people and the only way to control the cost is to either hire fewer more highly skilled/experienced people, hire 3-4 times as many unskilled/experienced people, or outsource to someplace where skilled/experienced people cost significantly less.
Last 4 years of public education typically attended by 15-19 year olds. Required completion if one wishes to get any meaningful job in the US or go on to University.
Buy the books for CCIE and MCSE (or whatever MS call it now), one copy of each book for the entire class. Tell them if they don't pass both by the end of the year they get sent to the frontline in Iraq. If they pass that test they will be setup for a lifetime in IT.
Yeah. in this time of everything being outsourced in IT and people with certs out the wazoo having to start new careers.. really set for a lifetime
Don't get me wrong, preparing kids to take a CCIE which would get them $85,000-$125,000 a year the moment they graduate high school sounds great, but if they were able to achieve that by the time they left school, they could achieve so much more with a few years in the University.
OH Please, cut the crap.. there is not a company in the world that would pay a fresh our of high schooler with no industry experience, no matter how many certifications they have, that type of money.
If nothing else they'll out source for 10-25% of that amount.
.. the third class should prepare juniors and seniors to enter the workforce and start a career in computers.
The point of high school is not (or should not be) to prepare kids to be mindless worker drones. The point of high school is (or should be) to give them a good, basic education.
Unfortunately, all to often, the focus of high school instruction is to first get as many to pass the standardized tests and second, give them some skill that is needed in the immediate area. Neither activity teaches them to think.
Of the four high schools in the local school district, three push trades telling the kids that they will be earning $40k to $60k right out of high school, failing to tell them that they don't qualify for that type of money until they have apprenticed for 2-5 years.
The fourth high school pushes what they call college prepatory curriculum, but it to focuses on regurgitation of information rather than thinking.
And don't get me started on the whole concept of "test correction", the practice of letting students rework problems/questions they got wrong to recover upto half the missed points.
Age limits and verification is handled by each sport individually. The International Federation of Gymnastics has decided that the difficulty of some the moves required to compete at the olympic level put too much strain on young bodys.. young determined to be under age 16,
The IOC, itself, never certifies that any athelete is eligible to compete on the sports association does that.
The international body that governs swimming doesn't have such rules, because the sheer physics typically precludes younger swimmers.
An "hourly employee" status with a known hourly rate is a much better proposition than getting hired as "salaried" and being expected to work 60+ hours/week without compensation.
Depends on how regular the over time is..salaried people tend to get perks that hourly folks don't get. Plus, salaried folks know exactly how much each paycheck is going to be.
Just wait until they win their suit..Apple will pay the court required payments.. then convert all those employee to an hourly status...at a base pay cut design to make it so that all the overtime is required to make it back to what they were getting in salary in the first place.
For the IBM employeesu in California that sued for the same thing.. the class won $56M and everyone in the class was reclassified as hourly at a 15% pay cut, because based on IBM's calculations that would keep the wage payments at the same level after the switch from salary to hourly. And oh by the way.. IBM applied the reclassification across all American employees in the same job category, but not the class action payments.
Point is most prosecutors and judges are extremely jaded. And as such, their assumption is going to be that he was at a party to get drunk and was trying to hide it by spiking the Red Bull..
Since the picture is not part of the criminal trial there is no presumption of innocence.. in fact quite often it is the exact opposite
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If only the cell phone manufacturers would make something the public liked at a reasonable price. What is out there lacks features, and functionality, while being way over priced..why pay exorbitant prices
Has anyone, anywhere ever seen an attorney prosecuted for malpractice ? I know a few people who have tried, but none of them were successful in finding an attorney that would even hear their side of the store to determine if they would take the case.
Seems if you mention malpractice, most attorneys will stop talking to you at that point.
how hard is it to smuggle fine copper wire onto a plane?
Stop by your local sewing store and pick up a spool of copper thread or copper knitting yarn. Both ultra fine, capable of carrying a charge and both about $40 for a kilometers worth. Why else do you think the banned knitting on planes? :-)
unless, of course, the airlines have been stripping out the shielding to lessen the weight of the plane. Hopefully, that behavior is criminal.
So what you are telling me is the MicroSoft windows is in control of anything made by Airbus .. hmm.. then I would say the Quantas pilots where asleep when the BSOD hit...
Personally, I used to support PC-based ECG capture devices. I used to really like taking people who claimed their phone had no effect on medical devices, and taking them to stand in front of an ECG monitoring screen and *showing* them the effect on the traces that it had.
Which is a pretty damn crappy ECG platform. Hell, I can cause changes just by introduction of static electricity to a pc. First generation pulsar digital watches set off all sorts of alarms in hospitals.. guess what both the pulsar and the next generation of devices were significantly more shielded.
Each generation of airline electronics have become significantly more hardened and everytime there is even a suspected problem the rules tighten. While the airframes might be 20-30, even 80 years old (Southwest is not planning on retiring any of its 737s until age 80) the electronics get replace on average every 10 years.
The Quantas incident is nothing more than pilot error or incompetence
Or more likely the flight crew was either a) sleeping while the autopilot was engaged or b) working on joining the mile high club while in the cockpit.
Other than a few instruments that are affected by older generation analog cell phones, there is no evidence that any consumer grade electronics interfere with any airplane control system.
Quantas is simply taking the position that they are the experts, not the fly public and thus the flying public will take Quanta's word as authoritative.
Hell, I would buy a business class account just for the fixed ip and the 8 hour outage sla.. but on Suddenlink.. that's not $70 per month.. that's $400 per month on a 1.5Mb/1.5Mb connection..
Oh, by the way .. they won't even sell that to me because my service address in not in a business complex..
Enough people.. feel that Open Source is bad for business and bad for the corporate economy, that I'm surprised it took this long.
It is always fun to walk by the corp IP department offices while talking about Open Source... just to watch all the lawyers squirm
Hmmm.. sounds like the lawyers for the RIAA think that defendants don't have a right to council.. wonder when we lost that one ?
As is normally the case M$ threw lots of money at the exchange to get it to switch unix/linux base to windows net so that M$ can tout that a major exchange is running windows.
Full page ads touting the switch and the reasons they cited were better through put and better up time.
They even had ads touting it here on /.
A very large percentage of Americans will never, ever leave the US for any reason. Given that fact (look at the percentage of Americans that hold passports), tell kids in American HS that they can earn $80,000+ per year for simply passing some tests is doing them a great disservice.
The reality is that unless you are extremely elite at what you do, you will never get a job paying that type of salary fresh out of school with no experience. And even then, there is a good chance that the job will be outsourced for significantly less than that amount.
Is there a shortage of IT types.. I don't think so.. the companies that are screaming shortage all have vested interest in keeping the people costs as low as possible. Why employ an older skilled worker when you can simply hire 4 fresh out of school workers (high school or University) for the same overhead?
In the IT related industries, by far the largest cost is people and the only way to control the cost is to either hire fewer more highly skilled/experienced people, hire 3-4 times as many unskilled/experienced people, or outsource to someplace where skilled/experienced people cost significantly less.
Last 4 years of public education typically attended by 15-19 year olds. Required completion if one wishes to get any meaningful job in the US or go on to University.
Buy the books for CCIE and MCSE (or whatever MS call it now), one copy of each book for the entire class. Tell them if they don't pass both by the end of the year they get sent to the frontline in Iraq. If they pass that test they will be setup for a lifetime in IT.
Yeah. in this time of everything being outsourced in IT and people with certs out the wazoo having to start new careers.. really set for a lifetime
Don't get me wrong, preparing kids to take a CCIE which would get them $85,000-$125,000 a year the moment they graduate high school sounds great, but if they were able to achieve that by the time they left school, they could achieve so much more with a few years in the University.
OH Please, cut the crap.. there is not a company in the world that would pay a fresh our of high schooler with no industry experience, no matter how many certifications they have, that type of money.
If nothing else they'll out source for 10-25% of that amount.
The point of high school is not (or should not be) to prepare kids to be mindless worker drones. The point of high school is (or should be) to give them a good, basic education.
Unfortunately, all to often, the focus of high school instruction is to first get as many to pass the standardized tests and second, give them some skill that is needed in the immediate area. Neither activity teaches them to think.
Of the four high schools in the local school district, three push trades telling the kids that they will be earning $40k to $60k right out of high school, failing to tell them that they don't qualify for that type of money until they have apprenticed for 2-5 years.
The fourth high school pushes what they call college prepatory curriculum, but it to focuses on regurgitation of information rather than thinking.
And don't get me started on the whole concept of "test correction", the practice of letting students rework problems/questions they got wrong to recover upto half the missed points.
I wouldn't be surprised if the EULA didn't have a unilateral amendment clause just so Lenovo could do this.
Age limits and verification is handled by each sport individually. The International Federation of Gymnastics has decided that the difficulty of some the moves required to compete at the olympic level put too much strain on young bodys .. young determined to be under age 16,
The IOC, itself, never certifies that any athelete is eligible to compete on the sports association does that.
The international body that governs swimming doesn't have such rules, because the sheer physics typically precludes younger swimmers.
Depends on how regular the over time is..salaried people tend to get perks that hourly folks don't get. Plus, salaried folks know exactly how much each paycheck is going to be.
Just wait until they win their suit..Apple will pay the court required payments.. then convert all those employee to an hourly status...at a base pay cut design to make it so that all the overtime is required to make it back to what they were getting in salary in the first place.
For the IBM employeesu in California that sued for the same thing.. the class won $56M and everyone in the class was reclassified as hourly at a 15% pay cut, because based on IBM's calculations that would keep the wage payments at the same level after the switch from salary to hourly. And oh by the way.. IBM applied the reclassification across all American employees in the same job category, but not the class action payments.
Point is most prosecutors and judges are extremely jaded. And as such, their assumption is going to be that he was at a party to get drunk and was trying to hide it by spiking the Red Bull..
Since the picture is not part of the criminal trial there is no presumption of innocence.. in fact quite often it is the exact opposite
Quite true, but the law hasn't caught up to that fact yet...
morale of the story.. don't put your private life on public display.. because sooner or later someone will use it to their advantage
No .. not correct..
Went to court, got convicted.. true.. however, while waiting on sentencing, went out and did something stupid and publish pictures on the internet.
Judge deciding sentence is made aware of said pictures and decides to give jail time rather than probation because of said pictures.
So in answer to you latter question.. parting is grounds for a harsher sentence if the offense one is convicted of, resulted from previous partying...
Except that you can't prove he didn't spike the Red Bull...