It is amazing that those lawyers and corporations would pay that much money per click, but they obviously would not continue to do so unless there was a valid return on investment. Apparently there is since they continue to run the advertisements. There is a lot of money in litigating asbestos cases. If even one click out of a thousand turns into a valid case, those lawayers will make a lot of money they normally would not have received.
It is the same case with other advertisers such as real estate brokers, mortgage brokers, and debt consolidation firms who all pay over a dollar a click because for every client they get, that will be another couple thousand dollars of net income in their pocket.
It's nice to see projectors finally coming down in price. The lowest price used to be the 2200MP Multimedia Projector for $899. Hopefully we will see more in the lower price range and maybe even under $500. The smaller size is definately a plus.
Friends don't let friends use Windows. Instead of charging them $300 or more to fix their computer, consider just having them buy a Mac Mini for a little more and you'll fix their problem permanently.
If the conversations can be recorded and intercepted by third parties, it will only be a matter of time before they start automated searching of the conversations to find interesting sounds such as DTMF. There are quite a few important numbers that are transmitted via DTMF over the phone that could be easily deciphered.
This is very true. I had a house built about 3 years ago and the builder was not going to let me run my own wire. In fact, they had their own packages where you had to buy their whole IBM system with switches and everything for several thousand dollars. All I wanted was some CAT5 wiring that would cost me all of about fifty bucks.
So I waited until they had the final framing inspection. This is a good date to know because this is the night you go out to the construction site and put your wire in. The next day the sheetrock guys will be out there to put up their drywall and they could care less what wires are in the walls. This is how I got my house fully wired for less than $50. Later I had to wire up all the faceplates which ending up costing a little more money but at least it didn't cost me thousands.
a decent IT system that can manage the projects we've been waiting for. Namely, the flying car and Duke Nukem Forever. One day we'll see this future materialize.
Ultimately one of the most important and common part of being a manager is politics. Politics affects everyone in the company including the rank and file engineers, but for managers it is often a full time job. One of the best things you can do to put yourself in a good position is to establish your presence through confidence and using your technical skills and jargon. This is the one true advantage that technical people will have in management; the ability to know the right answer and expose others through factual evidence.
You also have to be able to stand up for yourself (i.e. confidence) and stand up to upper management as well. This means you can't fear losing your job. You need to be in a position where you are not afraid of not getting a promotion or not kissing up to someone. So hold off on buying that big screen Plasma TV and BMW 745i sedan. If you are more financial stable, you will be less likely to becoming a "yes man" just to keep your job and consequently losing more of your political power.
Agreed. He needs to get to the point more quickly. The attention span of those students will start to drop off after the fifth paragraph. He's got some good points in there, but they get lost in all the words.
The GPS device on the vehicles receive the data from the satellitess, compute their coordinates, and transmit data to employer computer systems. What if those "computed GPS values" were to be altered before transmission to the employer computer systems? Or maybe a jamming device to interrupt the transmission signals for a brief period of time?
You are correct. He isn't making a fair comparison. I believe this is to sell their magazine by ripping on a very popular brand of computers such as the Apple Macintosh. By saying that one of computers from the Macintosh line made the top ten worst gifts will surely get people's attention. There are much worst gifts out there, but they made sure to pick ones that had big brands names and were easily recognizable to get everyone's attention.
If I remember statistics class well enough I believe you would actually calculate the odds as such:
There is a 45,499 out 45,500 chance of actually surviving a given year. This equates to a 99.9978% chance of survival. This percentage is then taken to the power of the number of years you want to survive.
In this case to survive for 45,500 years with these odds you would have 99.9978% ^ 45,500 = 36.7875% chance.
So your chance of actually being wiped out would be 63.3212% instead of the 100% certainty of death. The odds a little better but not much.
The article you provided was very insightful. There are some good points for designing software to support groups. It's often difficult to think as a group would think, but once you acknowledge the new perspective you start to see how things could be improved.
I would recommend video surveillance. It is very cost effective to do these days and you can even get digital recorders for added convenience and automation. Remote access and off site storage of video isn't even that hard or expensive either. I've constructed systems under $700.
When police first got radar to track speed, someone came out with a radar detector. Then, they got laser and there were detectors for those. Now insurance companies want to monitor driving habits through a black box in the car you drive that you control. What if the inputs to that black box were modified? There will be some serious money to be made by a those brave entrepreneurs who develop their own "pre-black-boxes". You could actually drive like a maniac and get lower rates just because your black box is there to tell your insurance company what you want them to hear.
The degree is often the price of admission. You need it to land the first good job and get in the door. After you build experience, you need to take the next step and get the MSCS graduate degree. With several years experience and a master's degree, you can open a lot of doors. I found that most of what I learned in computer science was at the graduate level.
OmniGraffle is a great tool but I'm not sure if I would run out a get a mac just for OmniGraffle. However, there's a lot of other great advantages to a mac that makes it worth getting anyway. You can never have enough information.
I use Mac OS X exclusively for development, but for our servers we've been looking for a good distribution of linux. After trying out several different ones we came across gentoo and now we've switched all of our servers to gentoo including our latest file sharing service. I must say that it is a nice OS and I wouldn't mind even trying out on one of my macs.
Tough to beat iPod when it has the Apple name behind it. There will always be mac users who stay loyal to the Apple products. I have three macs and one iPod now and I use them all the time.
Two things will need to exist for a voting system or any other major community-type system to work on the internet:
1. Distibuted ownership or federations of ownership
2. Full or selective disclosures of data
With respect to a voting system, it would likely be better to show results as an informal poll that can viewed by the public and submitted to the appropriate congress person. The congress person could make the actual vote and use the constituent poll as data to base their vote on. The public could then view a history of the way they voted, the way the majority voted, and the way the congress person voted. This would start to provide a better political picture for the voters and better visibility on issues and how their congress is voting.
With respect to this system and other future systems like it the two rules above will provide a better enviroment for managing check and balances. Several sources for information can now exist and can be audited by other sources of similiar data to ensure that it is correct.
An application like this would work well for such systems as surveillance or sensor data. Imagine if cars all had cameras, recorded data, and were owned by their respective car owners. We could get 7 or 8 different data sources to confirm what really happened when car accidents occur.
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It is amazing that those lawyers and corporations would pay that much money per click, but they obviously would not continue to do so unless there was a valid return on investment. Apparently there is since they continue to run the advertisements. There is a lot of money in litigating asbestos cases. If even one click out of a thousand turns into a valid case, those lawayers will make a lot of money they normally would not have received.
It is the same case with other advertisers such as real estate brokers, mortgage brokers, and debt consolidation firms who all pay over a dollar a click because for every client they get, that will be another couple thousand dollars of net income in their pocket.
It's nice to see projectors finally coming down in price. The lowest price used to be the 2200MP Multimedia Projector for $899. Hopefully we will see more in the lower price range and maybe even under $500. The smaller size is definately a plus.
Friends don't let friends use Windows. Instead of charging them $300 or more to fix their computer, consider just having them buy a Mac Mini for a little more and you'll fix their problem permanently.
If the conversations can be recorded and intercepted by third parties, it will only be a matter of time before they start automated searching of the conversations to find interesting sounds such as DTMF. There are quite a few important numbers that are transmitted via DTMF over the phone that could be easily deciphered.
This is very true. I had a house built about 3 years ago and the builder was not going to let me run my own wire. In fact, they had their own packages where you had to buy their whole IBM system with switches and everything for several thousand dollars. All I wanted was some CAT5 wiring that would cost me all of about fifty bucks.
So I waited until they had the final framing inspection. This is a good date to know because this is the night you go out to the construction site and put your wire in. The next day the sheetrock guys will be out there to put up their drywall and they could care less what wires are in the walls. This is how I got my house fully wired for less than $50. Later I had to wire up all the faceplates which ending up costing a little more money but at least it didn't cost me thousands.
a decent IT system that can manage the projects we've been waiting for. Namely, the flying car and Duke Nukem Forever. One day we'll see this future materialize.
Ultimately one of the most important and common part of being a manager is politics. Politics affects everyone in the company including the rank and file engineers, but for managers it is often a full time job. One of the best things you can do to put yourself in a good position is to establish your presence through confidence and using your technical skills and jargon. This is the one true advantage that technical people will have in management; the ability to know the right answer and expose others through factual evidence.
You also have to be able to stand up for yourself (i.e. confidence) and stand up to upper management as well. This means you can't fear losing your job. You need to be in a position where you are not afraid of not getting a promotion or not kissing up to someone. So hold off on buying that big screen Plasma TV and BMW 745i sedan. If you are more financial stable, you will be less likely to becoming a "yes man" just to keep your job and consequently losing more of your political power.
Agreed. He needs to get to the point more quickly. The attention span of those students will start to drop off after the fifth paragraph. He's got some good points in there, but they get lost in all the words.
The GPS device on the vehicles receive the data from the satellitess, compute their coordinates, and transmit data to employer computer systems. What if those "computed GPS values" were to be altered before transmission to the employer computer systems? Or maybe a jamming device to interrupt the transmission signals for a brief period of time?
You are correct. He isn't making a fair comparison. I believe this is to sell their magazine by ripping on a very popular brand of computers such as the Apple Macintosh. By saying that one of computers from the Macintosh line made the top ten worst gifts will surely get people's attention. There are much worst gifts out there, but they made sure to pick ones that had big brands names and were easily recognizable to get everyone's attention.
If I remember statistics class well enough I believe you would actually calculate the odds as such:
There is a 45,499 out 45,500 chance of actually surviving a given year. This equates to a 99.9978% chance of survival. This percentage is then taken to the power of the number of years you want to survive.
In this case to survive for 45,500 years with these odds you would have 99.9978% ^ 45,500 = 36.7875% chance.
So your chance of actually being wiped out would be 63.3212% instead of the 100% certainty of death. The odds a little better but not much.
That 1 in 4,023 statistic also applies to a lifetime of air travel. Those odds don't seem to bad.
There are a lot of articles you could pull phrases like "osama terrorist nuclear" out of.
The article you provided was very insightful. There are some good points for designing software to support groups. It's often difficult to think as a group would think, but once you acknowledge the new perspective you start to see how things could be improved.
I would recommend video surveillance. It is very cost effective to do these days and you can even get digital recorders for added convenience and automation. Remote access and off site storage of video isn't even that hard or expensive either. I've constructed systems under $700.
When police first got radar to track speed, someone came out with a radar detector. Then, they got laser and there were detectors for those. Now insurance companies want to monitor driving habits through a black box in the car you drive that you control. What if the inputs to that black box were modified? There will be some serious money to be made by a those brave entrepreneurs who develop their own "pre-black-boxes". You could actually drive like a maniac and get lower rates just because your black box is there to tell your insurance company what you want them to hear.
Another phoentic spelling.
Another added bonus from Windows.
The degree is often the price of admission. You need it to land the first good job and get in the door. After you build experience, you need to take the next step and get the MSCS graduate degree. With several years experience and a master's degree, you can open a lot of doors. I found that most of what I learned in computer science was at the graduate level.
OmniGraffle is a great tool but I'm not sure if I would run out a get a mac just for OmniGraffle. However, there's a lot of other great advantages to a mac that makes it worth getting anyway. You can never have enough information.
I use Mac OS X exclusively for development, but for our servers we've been looking for a good distribution of linux. After trying out several different ones we came across gentoo and now we've switched all of our servers to gentoo including our latest file sharing service. I must say that it is a nice OS and I wouldn't mind even trying out on one of my macs.
ok@ok.com seems to get a lot too.
Tough to beat iPod when it has the Apple name behind it. There will always be mac users who stay loyal to the Apple products. I have three macs and one iPod now and I use them all the time.
Assuming the new receivers are priced appropriately, I wouldn't mind owning one.
Two things will need to exist for a voting system or any other major community-type system to work on the internet:
1. Distibuted ownership or federations of ownership
2. Full or selective disclosures of data
With respect to a voting system, it would likely be better to show results as an informal poll that can viewed by the public and submitted to the appropriate congress person. The congress person could make the actual vote and use the constituent poll as data to base their vote on. The public could then view a history of the way they voted, the way the majority voted, and the way the congress person voted. This would start to provide a better political picture for the voters and better visibility on issues and how their congress is voting.
With respect to this system and other future systems like it the two rules above will provide a better enviroment for managing check and balances. Several sources for information can now exist and can be audited by other sources of similiar data to ensure that it is correct.
An application like this would work well for such systems as surveillance or sensor data. Imagine if cars all had cameras, recorded data, and were owned by their respective car owners. We could get 7 or 8 different data sources to confirm what really happened when car accidents occur.