There simply isn't such a process in NJ. The only ticket you can get that way is one for speeding _through the toll barriers_ if you have EZPass. And there's a pretty generous margin over the 15mph posted limit.
I will cede the point. It is highly probable that NJ may have discontinued the practice — it was extremely unpopular! Nevertheless, it doesn't change the fact that they used to do so.
Yes, traffic does move at a fairly quick pace on the Turnpike. But, if you are clearly in excess of the average speed being traveled by most of the traffic, you'll get ticketed.
I knew three people who were ticketed by this process. I will also add that I completely refused to be a passenger in any vehicle driven by any of these three. (self-preservation!)
In the US, several major toll roads (NJ Turnpike, MA Turnpike, Garden State Parkway in the northeast) have been using the time stamp on the toll tickets to determine your average speed on the road in use. If the time it takes to go from one exit to another is one hour doing the speed limit and you do it in thirty minutes, you can expect to be mailed a ticket.
That system is fairly easy to implement as the roads are limited access and all vehicles will be passing through the toll booths at some point along their length. It appears the British system is geared toward using the system on roads without limited access. With increased complexity will come increased possibilities of errors creeping into the system. I agree with the conclusion in the article that the system should be watched closely before it becomes official. (And, yes, I acknowledge that such a system could be used for less-than-moral uses by a government.)
As one reader, Vanderbosch, noted above, how are they going to tell who is operating the vehicle? Well, would you entrust your car and insurance to a 'friend' who is less than responsible for other people's property? If he's a friend, he'll pony up and pay you for the ticket and the increase to your insurance. I sure as hell wouldn't be entrusting an expensive piece of property to someone I didn't trust! If you do, then consider it punishment for being a fool.
NWM, I wish you the best of luck in your endeavors. I was utterly stymied by calculus when I was in college. So much so, that I am certain the professor gave me a passing grade for my effort — I had taken it as an elective course, as calculus was not required for my major. Yet, decades later, I recognized enough that I can see routinely where I am turning to calculus techniques on a semi-regular basis.
Take advantage of Chris' offer above and email him. When someone offers their hand in assistance, take it! To echo what one poster said above, if you find yourself stuck, he can help get you unstuck. If you are the 'do it yourself' type, then touch base with him regularly to ensure that you are on the proper path. This also helps Chris in maintaining his skills in teaching, as if you aren't responding to a given explanation then he knows he has to come up with a new and different way to explain the concept. This helps him hone his skills as a teacher.
Last, find ways to have fun with manipulating the numbers. I still remember how astonished I was to discover how the formulas of force, acceleration and the acceleration due to gravity all related to each other when applied using calculus techniques; how one formula can be grown into another. This understanding can help you with writing programs. By understanding the formula better and how it works, you can create better algorithms to employ them. I used to take various formulas for non-Euclidian curves and used derivatives to use them to create graphic images. I love this demonstration of looking at the Fibonacci Sequence.
...Users who click on more than five articles in a day may be routed to payment or registration pages.
This sounds reasonable to me. A newspaper, magazine or some other media outlet is a business. As a business, they need to make revenue to survive. It costs a lot of money to pay people to go out, collect information and write the news that we are all looking for. News articles don't magically appear out of the ether. It takes someone to write that article and that person has to put food on the table and pay the rent/mortgage.
It doesn't take too much brain power to realize that a publication with a circulation of 50,000 (common for many newspapers) selling periodicals at $1 per copy isn't going to be getting much of its income from subscriptions alone. They get most of their income from advertising. And if you want any businesses to advertise with your publication, you need to show data that proves your publication is read by people who are most likely to buy a given business' product. Think about it: if you created a FPS game with highly detailed and lifelike graphics with a free pr0n option and a totally ripping heavy metal acid rock soundtrack, do you really think you are going to make many sales by placing a $2,000 ad in Grannie's Moral Christian Crocheting Magazine?
So, it makes sense to a media outlet to restrict free access to their articles. They need something in exchange for your having free access. Publishers need demographic data to prove to advertisers that they are reaching a particular target audience. If you want access to a publisher's articles for free, than it makes sense that you have to give them something of value, and that is demographic data. If you really like reading a particular publication, then why not subscribe to it? Contrary to what is implied above, these restrictions do not only apply to Google (or/.) users.
Will it work? It might. I may only read two or three articles from any given news site in a single day, so the five-article restriction won't really affect me. If there is a news site that you really like to follow a lot — say, Slashdot for instance — would you register an account with that site? I think it is very likely you would. If there is a site that you dislike and would never follow, then you will probably not want to register. (You might even delete the record of that site from your browser's history file along with any cookies.)
That would certainly turn me away from using Apple products in a hurry! Here's hoping Apple filed that patent only to block others from doing this. This is the kind of thing that I would expect to come out of Micro$oft, MPAA, or RIAA.
The very people that use Apple's products do so to get away from this sort of intrusion. While I'm writing, I don't want to be interrupted at all by anything! To have this sort of intrusion into my my workspace on a regular basis would cause a loss of productivity on my part. As any programmer can tell you, after one simple interruption of your thought process it can take up to 20 or more minutes to get one's attention back on track.
I will certainly be a bit more cautious with system upgrades in the future. That would suck to be too quick to upgrade an iPhone or OS X, only to find that Apple has included this technology in it.
Yes, Clancy did call it Canary, in the novel it was put into action by the characters as part of the plot. But when he first described the concept in an earlier novel, the character was equating it to "... a smoking gun. Think of it as a smoking word processor..."
There are times when I want a character to speak in a certain manner. Or have a narrative to sound a certain way. To replace the words I chose with their synonyms could effectively change what I wrote.
Byron's words, "She walks in beauty, like the night," do not sound as good when it comes out, "She strolls in beauty, like the night."
The chances that their system has read one of my novels, understood the nuances between the characters and their manners of expressing themselves and comprehended the scenery and feeling that I was trying to convey before inserting 'a combination of words' is highly unlikely. Unless, the programmers at Amazon have effectively created an artificial intelligence on par with human sentience.
To reduce writing to a mere combination of words would be on par to saying that a trained chimpanzee can manage a video network by pressing certain buttons when they light up. Or that any high school kid could create a corporate web site using a drag-and-drop interface. Can you write a program by copying and pasting code from other people's programs?
Try reading any of the Harry Potter books and if Harry suddenly raised his baton instead of a wand, you would notice. Of course, it could be worse!
First, there is already pre-existing examples of this practice. Indeed, Tom Clancy described this very technique in one of his novels and called it, "The Smoking Word Processor."
Second, as an author, I go through quite an effort to ensure that the spelling and grammar are correct throughout any work that I created. To have Amazon completely throw away my efforts and ruin my work would really anger me. This might encourage me to inhibit Amazon from selling any of my work.
Russia already has some of the largest and most powerful cluster computers in the world! All he needs to do is look to the Russian mafia and their collections of zombified computers that they control worldwide!
This is why eBook readers and books keep failing. Every eBook reader company to date has failed at some point because they so lock up the books that consumers have no confidence in the product.
Perhaps Amazon is merely using this as a marketing scheme to drive people away from ebooks and sticking with killing trees.
Too often, I get the impression from employers that they seem to feel that any kid with a high school diploma and a Microsoft Certification in Office is sufficient enough experience to be a system administrator or software developer. Worse, there is also a lot of pressure that a professional should be paid at the same level as a high school graduate with a Certification in Office.
In one company, the CEO was convinced that his staff could put together a professional web site with an online store for the company using a consumer-level automatic web site generating program. Then he blasted his staff, because the web site didn't work like eBay or the Apple Store.
It gets better!
He was upset that the pictures on the site looked lousy compared to other companies' web sites. That's because he gave a cheap, 2.5MP camera to some engineers and told them to take pictures of the products. Companies like Apple hire photo studios to image their products. Then he really got worked up when deadlines started slipping. That's because he had his engineers and developers working on the web site instead of actually working on finishing product and software development! He started complaining that he was going to let some people go for "incompetence". One of his comments was that he could hire a high school student to do this work. He didn't really get the opportunity to fire anyone, though, because most of the development staff got fed up with him and walked out!
Most of the folks here on Slashdot are the Technician type of person. They like to tinker, create and invent. They are not the Business-type person. Just look at all the disparaging remarks people made above about marketing and sales people. But a business needs those people who like to schmooz and wheel and deal. The very things that most technically minded people don't like to do. And you need to be wiling to do that sort of thing in order to make your business succeed/survive! A megacorporation already has those resources. Such a resource could make your product succeed beyond what you had hoped.
I can only echo what Da Big G said above. Especially about the compensation from Megocorp for your company. If they are merely offering to "make you employees of their company," then they are playing you for fools. They need to cough up money for the purchase of your company for its value. Da Big nailed it about the 10*salary rule.
The biggest mistake made by young entrepreneurs who are right out of college is to miss opportunity. Whether through lack of recognition of said opportunity due to lack of experience, or clinging to idealism ("IT'S MY IDEA!!!) due to lack of maturity and experience. But missing this opportunity will put you far behind where you could be! Taking the opportunity will put you far ahead of where you are now.
NEGOTIATE!
Negotiate what they are going to pay your for your company. Negotiate what they are going to pay you for your services as an employee. And negotiate for your exit! Make sure that they will have to pay you a reasonable severance, no matter the circumstances. If they want your intellectual property or your skills that badly, they will gladly pay the price.
Find a lawyer to go over the details of the agreement before you sign anything. Just to ensure that the megacorp didn't write in an "escape clause" in any contracts you sign.
Last, as Da Big pointed out, go to your alma mater's career center to get the resources you need to work out an equitable agreement with Megacorp. It's an excellent resource, where you can actually gain access to people who are truly experienced with this sort of thing and who can give you clear advice.
For more than a century, it has been standard practice for publishing companies to receive manuscripts in the form of three sample chapters and an outline of the rest of the work in progress. This was done in whatever media was available. I'm sure by the 90's, there were manuscripts being delivered via email in this format.
So it is an obvious practice to carry this to the consumer. How often do you get samples of food in the grocery store? Sample packets of some skin product in the mail? There is so much "prior art" and the use of the internet is so obvious using this practice. Offering the consumer the opportunity to sample a couple chapters of the book. O'Reilly Press and Amazon have been offering this for years without anyone pouncing them for some patent about this practice.
I'd bet it probably wouldn't take more than a few minutes in court no invalidate this guy's patent claims. (Naturally: IANAL)
A friend of mine produced a hand-held electronic device in which he had sealed the electronics with a fairly thick epoxy coating. This had the effect of making it water-, shock- and crushproof.
However, it never generated any waste heat during use. So I don't know how well this would work on a motherboard, which we are all aware can generate a lot of heat!
My approach using this technique would be to give the motherboard an initially thin coating. Then, carefully lay some tubing for water cooling over the motherboard, with extra loops around the CPU and other components that might generate more heat than others, and then give the whole assembly a thicker coating of resin to finish it.
I suggest adding water cooling, because even though the resin may be thermally conducting, it is also going to be conducting that heat in three directions. For example, not only will the resin be conducting heat away from the CPU, it will be delivering that heat to the components around it until the heat begins to bleed out of the surface of the resin. So it would be wise to add cooling to remove the heat from the resin as quickly as possible.
"Should I 'ride the wave' and join the new company and culture, or dust off the old CV/resume?"
Do Both. There's a chance to get into HP as an employee, but buyouts rarely go well for the employees of the purchased business. I hate sounding like a pessimist, but I like being prepared for all possibilities.
Looking at the ugliest scenario, consider that HP already has considerable IT resources. Are you bringing skills and talents to the table that would be of extra value to HP? Or would your skill set be redundant? If you are the GoTo guy in your organization — the guy folks go to when they need issues solved or just want to shoot the breeze — then you can assume that you'll be reasonably safe. Otherwise, you may want to brush up on your people skills.
On the other side of the spectrum, you've already noticed that this could be a real opportunity! Try and find out what your new employers really need and make sure your resume and skills reflect that. Go to HP's web site and look up employment opportunities within HP, and see if your skill set matches anything that they are looking for. Even if your business unit is slated for disassembly or restructuring, you could stand a good chance to get transferred to where you are needed instead of being laid off.
When your new overlords- er, uh, I mean "employers" — arrive to take control, make sure you make a clear effort to learn how they want things done. Don't be a kiss-up. Make a real effort to adapt.
Good luck with it. This could be a great opportunity for you, regardless of whether it goes positively or negatively. If they like you, but your position still has to be cut, you will run a better chance of either scoring a transfer or getting a decent recommendation/lead on a new job with another company.
Doesn't cause any problems for me. Sometimes I've got just a few feet of accuracy in my position, other times it's 10's of feet. I guess it would cause issues with my home-made cruise missle, though...
Aviation has used VOR navigation for decades, developed during WWII. And the US Government has a big OFF switch for that, too. Part of pilot training is knowing how to navigate when all the fancy gadgets are offline. Because you never know when a system will fail.
I just view this as a confirmation of what I've noticed before: that sometimes the signals aren't as good as others. Fortunately, I have a computer that is capable of recognizing the situation and performing the necessary error correction on the fly. I call it my brain.
The university I attended in the 80's long had a practice of advanced students teaching classes for professors. We called them T.A.'s, short for "Teaching Assistants". As I understand it, this practice has been going on for centuries at many universities.
LOL! Re-reading my post, I can see that I should have been a little more clear on what I meant. Sorry, I think you misunderstood what I meant by "watching" them
What I meant was to watch their web sites, and as they post they found something, compare their data with the launch data and see if they spotted the satellite.
I guess if I was in the position of being in charge of the spy satellite systems and design, I would look at this as being more of an opportunity. If I think we have a design that would be difficult to spot, put it into orbit and then watch the satellite spotters web site to see how long before they actually notice the thing.
As the one gentleman interviewed said, they cannot actually tell what a satellite is. Only that it is there. They can surmise what it is used for, based on its orbit and if they know who launched it and when.
Slashdot Mirror
There simply isn't such a process in NJ. The only ticket you can get that way is one for speeding _through the toll barriers_ if you have EZPass. And there's a pretty generous margin over the 15mph posted limit.
I will cede the point. It is highly probable that NJ may have discontinued the practice — it was extremely unpopular! Nevertheless, it doesn't change the fact that they used to do so.
Yes, traffic does move at a fairly quick pace on the Turnpike. But, if you are clearly in excess of the average speed being traveled by most of the traffic, you'll get ticketed.
I knew three people who were ticketed by this process. I will also add that I completely refused to be a passenger in any vehicle driven by any of these three. (self-preservation!)
In the US, several major toll roads (NJ Turnpike, MA Turnpike, Garden State Parkway in the northeast) have been using the time stamp on the toll tickets to determine your average speed on the road in use. If the time it takes to go from one exit to another is one hour doing the speed limit and you do it in thirty minutes, you can expect to be mailed a ticket.
That system is fairly easy to implement as the roads are limited access and all vehicles will be passing through the toll booths at some point along their length. It appears the British system is geared toward using the system on roads without limited access. With increased complexity will come increased possibilities of errors creeping into the system. I agree with the conclusion in the article that the system should be watched closely before it becomes official. (And, yes, I acknowledge that such a system could be used for less-than-moral uses by a government.)
As one reader, Vanderbosch, noted above, how are they going to tell who is operating the vehicle? Well, would you entrust your car and insurance to a 'friend' who is less than responsible for other people's property? If he's a friend, he'll pony up and pay you for the ticket and the increase to your insurance. I sure as hell wouldn't be entrusting an expensive piece of property to someone I didn't trust! If you do, then consider it punishment for being a fool.
NWM, I wish you the best of luck in your endeavors. I was utterly stymied by calculus when I was in college. So much so, that I am certain the professor gave me a passing grade for my effort — I had taken it as an elective course, as calculus was not required for my major. Yet, decades later, I recognized enough that I can see routinely where I am turning to calculus techniques on a semi-regular basis.
Take advantage of Chris' offer above and email him. When someone offers their hand in assistance, take it! To echo what one poster said above, if you find yourself stuck, he can help get you unstuck. If you are the 'do it yourself' type, then touch base with him regularly to ensure that you are on the proper path. This also helps Chris in maintaining his skills in teaching, as if you aren't responding to a given explanation then he knows he has to come up with a new and different way to explain the concept. This helps him hone his skills as a teacher.
Last, find ways to have fun with manipulating the numbers. I still remember how astonished I was to discover how the formulas of force, acceleration and the acceleration due to gravity all related to each other when applied using calculus techniques; how one formula can be grown into another. This understanding can help you with writing programs. By understanding the formula better and how it works, you can create better algorithms to employ them. I used to take various formulas for non-Euclidian curves and used derivatives to use them to create graphic images. I love this demonstration of looking at the Fibonacci Sequence.
This sounds reasonable to me. A newspaper, magazine or some other media outlet is a business. As a business, they need to make revenue to survive. It costs a lot of money to pay people to go out, collect information and write the news that we are all looking for. News articles don't magically appear out of the ether. It takes someone to write that article and that person has to put food on the table and pay the rent/mortgage.
It doesn't take too much brain power to realize that a publication with a circulation of 50,000 (common for many newspapers) selling periodicals at $1 per copy isn't going to be getting much of its income from subscriptions alone. They get most of their income from advertising. And if you want any businesses to advertise with your publication, you need to show data that proves your publication is read by people who are most likely to buy a given business' product. Think about it: if you created a FPS game with highly detailed and lifelike graphics with a free pr0n option and a totally ripping heavy metal acid rock soundtrack, do you really think you are going to make many sales by placing a $2,000 ad in Grannie's Moral Christian Crocheting Magazine?
So, it makes sense to a media outlet to restrict free access to their articles. They need something in exchange for your having free access. Publishers need demographic data to prove to advertisers that they are reaching a particular target audience. If you want access to a publisher's articles for free, than it makes sense that you have to give them something of value, and that is demographic data. If you really like reading a particular publication, then why not subscribe to it? Contrary to what is implied above, these restrictions do not only apply to Google (or /.) users.
Will it work? It might. I may only read two or three articles from any given news site in a single day, so the five-article restriction won't really affect me. If there is a news site that you really like to follow a lot — say, Slashdot for instance — would you register an account with that site? I think it is very likely you would. If there is a site that you dislike and would never follow, then you will probably not want to register. (You might even delete the record of that site from your browser's history file along with any cookies.)
That would certainly turn me away from using Apple products in a hurry! Here's hoping Apple filed that patent only to block others from doing this. This is the kind of thing that I would expect to come out of Micro$oft, MPAA, or RIAA.
The very people that use Apple's products do so to get away from this sort of intrusion. While I'm writing, I don't want to be interrupted at all by anything! To have this sort of intrusion into my my workspace on a regular basis would cause a loss of productivity on my part. As any programmer can tell you, after one simple interruption of your thought process it can take up to 20 or more minutes to get one's attention back on track.
I will certainly be a bit more cautious with system upgrades in the future. That would suck to be too quick to upgrade an iPhone or OS X, only to find that Apple has included this technology in it.
Yes, Clancy did call it Canary, in the novel it was put into action by the characters as part of the plot. But when he first described the concept in an earlier novel, the character was equating it to "... a smoking gun. Think of it as a smoking word processor..."
Yup. Even I miss on occasion. That's why I have people proof read for me. :)
I prefer to "ensure" rather than "make sure".
There are times when I want a character to speak in a certain manner. Or have a narrative to sound a certain way. To replace the words I chose with their synonyms could effectively change what I wrote.
Byron's words, "She walks in beauty, like the night," do not sound as good when it comes out, "She strolls in beauty, like the night."
The chances that their system has read one of my novels, understood the nuances between the characters and their manners of expressing themselves and comprehended the scenery and feeling that I was trying to convey before inserting 'a combination of words' is highly unlikely. Unless, the programmers at Amazon have effectively created an artificial intelligence on par with human sentience.
To reduce writing to a mere combination of words would be on par to saying that a trained chimpanzee can manage a video network by pressing certain buttons when they light up. Or that any high school kid could create a corporate web site using a drag-and-drop interface. Can you write a program by copying and pasting code from other people's programs?
Try reading any of the Harry Potter books and if Harry suddenly raised his baton instead of a wand, you would notice. Of course, it could be worse!
First, there is already pre-existing examples of this practice. Indeed, Tom Clancy described this very technique in one of his novels and called it, "The Smoking Word Processor."
Second, as an author, I go through quite an effort to ensure that the spelling and grammar are correct throughout any work that I created. To have Amazon completely throw away my efforts and ruin my work would really anger me. This might encourage me to inhibit Amazon from selling any of my work.
Russia already has some of the largest and most powerful cluster computers in the world! All he needs to do is look to the Russian mafia and their collections of zombified computers that they control worldwide!
"In Russia, th3 p4wned kl0wd z0mb13s 0wnz3d U!"
This is why eBook readers and books keep failing. Every eBook reader company to date has failed at some point because they so lock up the books that consumers have no confidence in the product.
Perhaps Amazon is merely using this as a marketing scheme to drive people away from ebooks and sticking with killing trees.
BELCH!
Too often, I get the impression from employers that they seem to feel that any kid with a high school diploma and a Microsoft Certification in Office is sufficient enough experience to be a system administrator or software developer. Worse, there is also a lot of pressure that a professional should be paid at the same level as a high school graduate with a Certification in Office.
In one company, the CEO was convinced that his staff could put together a professional web site with an online store for the company using a consumer-level automatic web site generating program. Then he blasted his staff, because the web site didn't work like eBay or the Apple Store.
It gets better!
He was upset that the pictures on the site looked lousy compared to other companies' web sites. That's because he gave a cheap, 2.5MP camera to some engineers and told them to take pictures of the products. Companies like Apple hire photo studios to image their products. Then he really got worked up when deadlines started slipping. That's because he had his engineers and developers working on the web site instead of actually working on finishing product and software development! He started complaining that he was going to let some people go for "incompetence". One of his comments was that he could hire a high school student to do this work. He didn't really get the opportunity to fire anyone, though, because most of the development staff got fed up with him and walked out!
Most of the folks here on Slashdot are the Technician type of person. They like to tinker, create and invent. They are not the Business-type person. Just look at all the disparaging remarks people made above about marketing and sales people. But a business needs those people who like to schmooz and wheel and deal. The very things that most technically minded people don't like to do. And you need to be wiling to do that sort of thing in order to make your business succeed/survive! A megacorporation already has those resources. Such a resource could make your product succeed beyond what you had hoped.
I can only echo what Da Big G said above. Especially about the compensation from Megocorp for your company. If they are merely offering to "make you employees of their company," then they are playing you for fools. They need to cough up money for the purchase of your company for its value. Da Big nailed it about the 10*salary rule.
The biggest mistake made by young entrepreneurs who are right out of college is to miss opportunity. Whether through lack of recognition of said opportunity due to lack of experience, or clinging to idealism ("IT'S MY IDEA!!!) due to lack of maturity and experience. But missing this opportunity will put you far behind where you could be! Taking the opportunity will put you far ahead of where you are now.
NEGOTIATE!
Negotiate what they are going to pay your for your company. Negotiate what they are going to pay you for your services as an employee. And negotiate for your exit! Make sure that they will have to pay you a reasonable severance, no matter the circumstances. If they want your intellectual property or your skills that badly, they will gladly pay the price.
Find a lawyer to go over the details of the agreement before you sign anything. Just to ensure that the megacorp didn't write in an "escape clause" in any contracts you sign.
Last, as Da Big pointed out, go to your alma mater's career center to get the resources you need to work out an equitable agreement with Megacorp. It's an excellent resource, where you can actually gain access to people who are truly experienced with this sort of thing and who can give you clear advice.
For more than a century, it has been standard practice for publishing companies to receive manuscripts in the form of three sample chapters and an outline of the rest of the work in progress. This was done in whatever media was available. I'm sure by the 90's, there were manuscripts being delivered via email in this format.
So it is an obvious practice to carry this to the consumer. How often do you get samples of food in the grocery store? Sample packets of some skin product in the mail? There is so much "prior art" and the use of the internet is so obvious using this practice. Offering the consumer the opportunity to sample a couple chapters of the book. O'Reilly Press and Amazon have been offering this for years without anyone pouncing them for some patent about this practice.
I'd bet it probably wouldn't take more than a few minutes in court no invalidate this guy's patent claims. (Naturally: IANAL)
A friend of mine produced a hand-held electronic device in which he had sealed the electronics with a fairly thick epoxy coating. This had the effect of making it water-, shock- and crushproof.
However, it never generated any waste heat during use. So I don't know how well this would work on a motherboard, which we are all aware can generate a lot of heat!
My approach using this technique would be to give the motherboard an initially thin coating. Then, carefully lay some tubing for water cooling over the motherboard, with extra loops around the CPU and other components that might generate more heat than others, and then give the whole assembly a thicker coating of resin to finish it.
I suggest adding water cooling, because even though the resin may be thermally conducting, it is also going to be conducting that heat in three directions. For example, not only will the resin be conducting heat away from the CPU, it will be delivering that heat to the components around it until the heat begins to bleed out of the surface of the resin. So it would be wise to add cooling to remove the heat from the resin as quickly as possible.
Hmm..... Near the "A-Star"?
Does this mean that in the center of our galaxy is the biggest "A-Hole" in our galaxy?
"Should I 'ride the wave' and join the new company and culture, or dust off the old CV/resume?"
Do Both. There's a chance to get into HP as an employee, but buyouts rarely go well for the employees of the purchased business. I hate sounding like a pessimist, but I like being prepared for all possibilities.
Looking at the ugliest scenario, consider that HP already has considerable IT resources. Are you bringing skills and talents to the table that would be of extra value to HP? Or would your skill set be redundant? If you are the GoTo guy in your organization — the guy folks go to when they need issues solved or just want to shoot the breeze — then you can assume that you'll be reasonably safe. Otherwise, you may want to brush up on your people skills.
On the other side of the spectrum, you've already noticed that this could be a real opportunity! Try and find out what your new employers really need and make sure your resume and skills reflect that. Go to HP's web site and look up employment opportunities within HP, and see if your skill set matches anything that they are looking for. Even if your business unit is slated for disassembly or restructuring, you could stand a good chance to get transferred to where you are needed instead of being laid off.
When your new overlords- er, uh, I mean "employers" — arrive to take control, make sure you make a clear effort to learn how they want things done. Don't be a kiss-up. Make a real effort to adapt.
Good luck with it. This could be a great opportunity for you, regardless of whether it goes positively or negatively. If they like you, but your position still has to be cut, you will run a better chance of either scoring a transfer or getting a decent recommendation/lead on a new job with another company.
Doesn't cause any problems for me. Sometimes I've got just a few feet of accuracy in my position, other times it's 10's of feet. I guess it would cause issues with my home-made cruise missle, though...
Aviation has used VOR navigation for decades, developed during WWII. And the US Government has a big OFF switch for that, too. Part of pilot training is knowing how to navigate when all the fancy gadgets are offline. Because you never know when a system will fail.
I just view this as a confirmation of what I've noticed before: that sometimes the signals aren't as good as others. Fortunately, I have a computer that is capable of recognizing the situation and performing the necessary error correction on the fly. I call it my brain.
"RIAA announces they'll be filing all future litigation in Colorado!!!"
The university I attended in the 80's long had a practice of advanced students teaching classes for professors. We called them T.A.'s, short for "Teaching Assistants". As I understand it, this practice has been going on for centuries at many universities.
LOL! Re-reading my post, I can see that I should have been a little more clear on what I meant. Sorry, I think you misunderstood what I meant by "watching" them
What I meant was to watch their web sites, and as they post they found something, compare their data with the launch data and see if they spotted the satellite.
I guess if I was in the position of being in charge of the spy satellite systems and design, I would look at this as being more of an opportunity. If I think we have a design that would be difficult to spot, put it into orbit and then watch the satellite spotters web site to see how long before they actually notice the thing.
As the one gentleman interviewed said, they cannot actually tell what a satellite is. Only that it is there. They can surmise what it is used for, based on its orbit and if they know who launched it and when.
Hm- Anyone else notice the acronym for "Intellectual Property Alliance" = "IPA"?
How appropriate...