I thought the times of people being paid by the word were over. There's so much to read these days. Couldn't Getty state the situation in a few sentences before taking us on a journey through lightening, ICU and tracings?
A microphotograph is a very small photo. Like the micro dots spys used to send under postage stamps or the flaps of envelopes. A photomicrograph is a photo taken through a microscope. I think he took photomicrographs or micrographs.
Before all the tubes got connected business cards were full of email addresses. One had at least a Compuserve address, a Prodigy address, an AOL address, a company VAXMail address, a company VM/VMS address and perhaps a DARPA/ARPA address.
All that is changed now.
Now we list Company main telephone number, Company direct dial number, Company fax number, Home number, Company cell number and perhaps a Skype id.
Actually, there are tons of people available for the Phase II and III trials. There's a whole generation of young gays who are catching HIV left and right because they don't use protection.
http://www.hvtn.org/science/trials.html Many trials have come, gone, failed, are in the works. HIV is very complicated. Is THIS IT? Likely this is a low news day or a University of Western Ontario alum day. Phase I is just to prove people don't die from taking the vaccine. A far cry from a real, successful vaccine.
I was doing work at NASA. NASA was still into punch cards years after very powerful text editors came into existence. I remember the day my girl friend offered to key punch the PDP-11 code I had written onto coding pad to cards. "Honey, you sure can't spell very good. Good thing I caught it. Move is spelled with an 'e'.":-(
I'm an Oracle DBA, not an SA, but I deal with SAs daily. My concept of a good SA is one who has it covered, with alarms and proactive procedures already in place, just like a good Oracle DBA should. Some years ago I was on contract to an eCommerce company. I set up alarming so well and put in place fix-it scipts, plus logged in remotely even at odd times of the night, catching developers doing bad things and sending them email. Eventually the boss told me that he didn't need to see my face anymore. I was giving him 5 9s and that was good enough for him. He said I could come to the office when I wanted, or stay at home.
Recently I've seen a rash of metrics come into the SA and Oracle Administration area. Frankly, I think it's stupid. I was given my freedom to just come in for my consulting fee by the boss some years ago not because I fixed problems, but because I set up an environment in which there weren't any. The problem with metrics is that if you work of tickets, you don't have the incentive to just browse and look where there might be trouble spots brewing. In effect, you're forced to let things fall apart then get credit to fix what could have been prevented.
I was at Sprint PCS a few years ago. I remember hearing about the power failure in Ft. Worth, TX. The batteries drained down in the UPS, so the power generator was started. It caught fire and people were air lifted to hospital. When I'm in the Ft. Worth area I go to visit that data center and just think about the horror Sprint, EMC, Sun and Veritas people suffered one night a few years ago.
That would also get the lard off of so many of us as well. Drive down health care costs.
"Eliminate nuclear and coal power in favor of solar and wind power, and replace the stupid cars with bikes. Eventually the global warming will take care of itself and we won't need as much energy as air conditioning will no longer be needed. The added bonus would be less obesity in the world."
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I thought the times of people being paid by the word were over. There's so much to read these days. Couldn't Getty state the situation in a few sentences before taking us on a journey through lightening, ICU and tracings?
A microphotograph is a very small photo. Like the micro dots spys used to send under postage stamps or the flaps of envelopes. A photomicrograph is a photo taken through a microscope. I think he took photomicrographs or micrographs.
Before all the tubes got connected business cards were full of email addresses. One had at least a Compuserve address, a Prodigy address, an AOL address, a company VAXMail address, a company VM/VMS address and perhaps a DARPA/ARPA address.
All that is changed now.
Now we list Company main telephone number, Company direct dial number, Company fax number, Home number, Company cell number and perhaps a Skype id.
Actually, there are tons of people available for the Phase II and III trials. There's a whole generation of young gays who are catching HIV left and right because they don't use protection.
http://www.hvtn.org/science/trials.html Many trials have come, gone, failed, are in the works. HIV is very complicated. Is THIS IT? Likely this is a low news day or a University of Western Ontario alum day. Phase I is just to prove people don't die from taking the vaccine. A far cry from a real, successful vaccine.
I was doing work at NASA. NASA was still into punch cards years after very powerful text editors came into existence. I remember the day my girl friend offered to key punch the PDP-11 code I had written onto coding pad to cards. "Honey, you sure can't spell very good. Good thing I caught it. Move is spelled with an 'e'." :-(
I'm an Oracle DBA, not an SA, but I deal with SAs daily. My concept of a good SA is one who has it covered, with alarms and proactive procedures already in place, just like a good Oracle DBA should. Some years ago I was on contract to an eCommerce company. I set up alarming so well and put in place fix-it scipts, plus logged in remotely even at odd times of the night, catching developers doing bad things and sending them email. Eventually the boss told me that he didn't need to see my face anymore. I was giving him 5 9s and that was good enough for him. He said I could come to the office when I wanted, or stay at home. Recently I've seen a rash of metrics come into the SA and Oracle Administration area. Frankly, I think it's stupid. I was given my freedom to just come in for my consulting fee by the boss some years ago not because I fixed problems, but because I set up an environment in which there weren't any. The problem with metrics is that if you work of tickets, you don't have the incentive to just browse and look where there might be trouble spots brewing. In effect, you're forced to let things fall apart then get credit to fix what could have been prevented.
I was at Sprint PCS a few years ago. I remember hearing about the power failure in Ft. Worth, TX. The batteries drained down in the UPS, so the power generator was started. It caught fire and people were air lifted to hospital. When I'm in the Ft. Worth area I go to visit that data center and just think about the horror Sprint, EMC, Sun and Veritas people suffered one night a few years ago.
That would also get the lard off of so many of us as well. Drive down health care costs. "Eliminate nuclear and coal power in favor of solar and wind power, and replace the stupid cars with bikes. Eventually the global warming will take care of itself and we won't need as much energy as air conditioning will no longer be needed. The added bonus would be less obesity in the world."