Having access is not the same as using it. She knows how to get e-mail because I set it up. I tried to walk her through going online one, just to get a e-card I sent her. I had to do it for her, because it made no sense to her.
It raises the question, what level of usage equates to "online"?
It is called spin off. Basic research (which is what NASA is all about) returns money by helping design new products.
Calculators and desktop computers are an outgrowth of items originally designed for the space program, just to name 1 item! Tell me, has enough money been made JUST FROM THIS ONE ITEM to justify the expense of the space program?
I live in FL, around Orlando to be exact. Been listening to one drive time radio program for 12 years.
In 2000, I spent 8 weeks or so working for Sprint in KC. Picked up a radio program that had one of the contests that was a direct rip off of the one I listened to for 12 years. How do I know it was a rip off? One morning the DJ in KC area said, "We got the idea for this when we heard it on a radio staion during our trip to Disney World" (i.e. the station I listen to).
I recognized that the drugs were wrong. In the first case, the prescription had just changed strength. I went to the new bottle, opened it and found the wrong form of pill, then checked the prescription. The prescription was still the old one.
In the second case, the prescription on the bottle was correct, but the pills inside did not match the description. They were the old strength put into the bottle with the new strength prescription.
The pharmacy reacted well to this issue. First, when a mistake is made, the deductable is returned. Second, since all complaints come in to the head pharmiscist, he checked which person filled the prescription. I know that the second one was going to get a good talking too. (I don't know if the same one made both mistakes, but I mentioned to the head guy that this was the second mistake, so quickly like that).
My take on a lawsuit is that I would not have a case unless I had taken the incorrect medication. Sicne I never took it, a lawsuit would not be winnable.
since I had a second one done on the other side and it doesn't hurt. It took me a while to figure out that this was the cause, but my final take was that the trade was worth it, in this case.
There are two other reasons why I won't go back to that hospital again anyway.
I never really said he did wrong anyway. I assume that something got nicked on the way past. Short of having an X-ray machine watching your every move while doing such a thing, I'm sure it happens. And having an x-ray watching during such a procedure has other issues that are even more dangerous.
Since the incident whereby I watched as the two nurses spilled half the second unit of blood on the floor trying to hook it up to my existing IV was AT THE SAME HOSPITAL, only two months before Willie King.
Two other cases you may not be familiar with in that hospital. A week after Willie King, the wrong respirator was turned off, and the patient died. Finally, I sit next to a gentleman at work who had his eye surgery botched at UCH in Tampa.
This is 4 cases that I know of in this ONE facility. When I was out with a scout troop this weekend, I informed the ASM that is also an EMT that if something happened to me, any hospital but UCH was ok. My regular physicians have the same instructions.
In the last three months, I have picked up prescriptions at the pharmacy, only to find out twice that I had the WRONG medication.
Once it was clearly labeled wrong and the other time it was the wrong strength medicine in a correctly labeled bottle.
I recognized the difference in both cases. In my health care, I am the final barrier to a mistake being made.
So, are we saying that I should be sueing the pharmacy, even though I never took any of the wrong pills?
How about when I had my first bone marrow biopsy done? I still limp on that hip when a pressure front comes thru (10 years later). Apparently the doctor knicked something when the probe went thru. Should I have sued for that?
I got the diagnosis of cancer from that test, and they were able to save my life because of it. Was the trade of limping worth my life?
I saw the action news report, and that was back in January. I thought that this forum was for topical subjects?
As for the Hall of Shame, that happened quickly, and the store refused to give the money back after the hall of shame talked to them. Of course, that is pretty much a pre-requisite for getting on the hall of shame, because if they work it out, then they don't get there.
Volvo is owned by Ford. This is the same company that designed an engine that blew up on the highway for me at 70mph. I had maybe 20 seconds warning via dashboard lights, before the engine was toast.
So, maybe like that problem, they figure that all repairs are going to be replacement engines?
I think I remember having focus on some of my systems in the AT&T days. As the DBA I had to let it run, but didn't use it myself.
I have yet to see a single instance of a real 4GL language.
As for Codd, I started in the Network model DBMS side and if you really stop and examine the underlying structures, Relational technology is a cut down version of the Network model, with the addition of the "optimizer" tool laid over the top. If we could apply that tool to the network model, we would have something.
For me this just brought a flood of old memories back is all.
As for the list of languages, well COBOL has paid the bills for a lot of years, but I'm a DBA and DA now. Most of my coding is SQL (and contrary to popular opinion, it is pronounce "squeal", as in the sound the computer makes when the code hits it. LOL)
Yes, I played with lisp and PL1 in college. Never touched APL, Java, Perl. Rexx I never fell into. C - yuck! A high level assembler. Never caught my fancy.
BASIC to Visual Basic. Try writing your own pulldown menus in DOS Basic, because Visual Basic wasn't there yet? And make it well behaved enough that it still runs under the DOS window....
once we allowed him access to the outside, he stopped attacking the cables. Of course he moved up to lizards, birds, and snakes.
I think the last snake he went after though was the one that got him in the shoulder. (Not poisonious, fortunately, but he had a sore shoulder for weeks).
And once my dog got to taste a 3.5 inch floppy, he lost interest in them.
wait until you get into the real world and end up writing code that has to write code in another language. I've had to do that several times over the years.
And even more fun is writing SQL that produces control cards for utility runs. Oops, gotta do that this morning to generate the list of packages to free later this week.
Seriously, if you don't like programming (be it Java or some more friendly language), why are you in a CS course?
Be happy you didn't take Fortran as your intro language like I did. (Arithmatic ifs and 1 hour common exams in the auditorium, ah memories. The best memory is the dirty looks I got when I finished first out of 400+ students and walked out of those exams and still aced them). Damn, am I showing my age here?
The problem is that we don't want the tags being tracked. The simple answer is to not use them, or have the cash register that reads them, disable them.
Who can up with the incredible stupid bag idea? Now I have to pay for a blocking bag, which is going to cost more than a plain old bag, or lord forbid, no bag at all. I do not wissh to spend my money in this way.
Hasn't SCO already indicated that it's okay for its code to be distributed by distributing this code itself that is now in question? Haven't they essentially GPLed their code?
During the period that SCO distributed Linux (2001 to 2003), SCO was unaware of the copyright violations. Once it became aware of the alleged infringements, it ceased all distributions of Linux to new customers. Copyrights cannot be given up by unintentional or illegal inclusion in a GPL product. The owner of the copyrights must transfer the copyrights in writing or some other affirmation, which SCO has never done. U.S. Copyright law also protects copyright holders from illegitimate contribution by also requiring express permission, which again, SCO has never granted. U.S. Copyright law states: "A transfer of copyright ownership, other than by operation of law, is not valid unless an instrument of conveyance, or a note or memorandum of the transfer, is in writing and signed by the owner of the rights conveyed or such owner's duly authorized agent." U.S.C. 204.
Further, Section 0. of the GPL states the following: "0. This License applies to any program or other work which contains a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it may be distributed under the terms of this General Public License."
SCO has obviously never placed a notice indicating that our UNIX source code or derivative works can be distributed under the terms of the GPL license. Distributing the code is very different from contributing the code. SCO has never accidentally or knowingly contributed the code.
And they still continue to distribute Linux after they discovered it infringing. I love all the contradictions.
but the jobs were mostly posted by headhunting firms. The one I ended up with was thru Dice to a Headhunter, and from there to where I work now.
In fact, in 2000, Dice was almost all headhunters looking to fill jobs for the real employers.
And I never post a resume up there. Lord help you if your current employer finds one up there like that.
Most of my other jobs predate things like Monster and the like, so I have no real comparision.
As for today, every once in a while I look, but I am happy here. I also get a phone call every once in a while from old headhunters that have dug up my resume in their files. I keep telling them that I won't go back to Teradata, but they keep asking.
Except for the one guy who called about a position which turned out to be the place I had just left before here. I asked if the same boss was there, and when he said yes, I told him that I wouldn't consider it until they finally got around to firing him.
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Having access is not the same as using it. She knows how to get e-mail because I set it up. I tried to walk her through going online one, just to get a e-card I sent her. I had to do it for her, because it made no sense to her.
It raises the question, what level of usage equates to "online"?
They are valid, but multiple accounts with the same person are not that many more people connected to the internet.
I have primary and secondary and tertiary access methods.
I also have a total of 5 e-mail accounts right now. does that make me 5 people? But that is how they are counting me.
Their method of counting internet access is flawed. Their method would count me four times, and my wife three.
And then you count my mother-in-law and while she has "access", she has never been online. Her access is just to get e-mail.
So there you have it. 6 accounts out of 8 counted that are not valid. How many more of them are not valid as well?
It is called spin off. Basic research (which is what NASA is all about) returns money by helping design new products.
Calculators and desktop computers are an outgrowth of items originally designed for the space program, just to name 1 item! Tell me, has enough money been made JUST FROM THIS ONE ITEM to justify the expense of the space program?
I live in FL, around Orlando to be exact. Been listening to one drive time radio program for 12 years.
In 2000, I spent 8 weeks or so working for Sprint in KC. Picked up a radio program that had one of the contests that was a direct rip off of the one I listened to for 12 years. How do I know it was a rip off? One morning the DJ in KC area said, "We got the idea for this when we heard it on a radio staion during our trip to Disney World" (i.e. the station I listen to).
Historically, every dollar spent on the space program comes back into the economy 100 fold.
You want to boost the economy, well here you are.
As for problems to fix here first, fix the economy, and most of them will go away.
Damm right.
I recognized that the drugs were wrong. In the first case, the prescription had just changed strength. I went to the new bottle, opened it and found the wrong form of pill, then checked the prescription. The prescription was still the old one.
In the second case, the prescription on the bottle was correct, but the pills inside did not match the description. They were the old strength put into the bottle with the new strength prescription.
The pharmacy reacted well to this issue. First, when a mistake is made, the deductable is returned. Second, since all complaints come in to the head pharmiscist, he checked which person filled the prescription. I know that the second one was going to get a good talking too. (I don't know if the same one made both mistakes, but I mentioned to the head guy that this was the second mistake, so quickly like that).
My take on a lawsuit is that I would not have a case unless I had taken the incorrect medication. Sicne I never took it, a lawsuit would not be winnable.
since I had a second one done on the other side and it doesn't hurt. It took me a while to figure out that this was the cause, but my final take was that the trade was worth it, in this case.
There are two other reasons why I won't go back to that hospital again anyway.
I never really said he did wrong anyway. I assume that something got nicked on the way past. Short of having an X-ray machine watching your every move while doing such a thing, I'm sure it happens. And having an x-ray watching during such a procedure has other issues that are even more dangerous.
Since the incident whereby I watched as the two nurses spilled half the second unit of blood on the floor trying to hook it up to my existing IV was AT THE SAME HOSPITAL, only two months before Willie King.
Two other cases you may not be familiar with in that hospital. A week after Willie King, the wrong respirator was turned off, and the patient died. Finally, I sit next to a gentleman at work who had his eye surgery botched at UCH in Tampa.
This is 4 cases that I know of in this ONE facility. When I was out with a scout troop this weekend, I informed the ASM that is also an EMT that if something happened to me, any hospital but UCH was ok. My regular physicians have the same instructions.
In the last three months, I have picked up prescriptions at the pharmacy, only to find out twice that I had the WRONG medication.
Once it was clearly labeled wrong and the other time it was the wrong strength medicine in a correctly labeled bottle.
I recognized the difference in both cases. In my health care, I am the final barrier to a mistake being made.
So, are we saying that I should be sueing the pharmacy, even though I never took any of the wrong pills?
How about when I had my first bone marrow biopsy done? I still limp on that hip when a pressure front comes thru (10 years later). Apparently the doctor knicked something when the probe went thru. Should I have sued for that?
I got the diagnosis of cancer from that test, and they were able to save my life because of it. Was the trade of limping worth my life?
Common sense is needed here.
I saw the action news report, and that was back in January. I thought that this forum was for topical subjects?
As for the Hall of Shame, that happened quickly, and the store refused to give the money back after the hall of shame talked to them. Of course, that is pretty much a pre-requisite for getting on the hall of shame, because if they work it out, then they don't get there.
Volvo is owned by Ford. This is the same company that designed an engine that blew up on the highway for me at 70mph. I had maybe 20 seconds warning via dashboard lights, before the engine was toast.
So, maybe like that problem, they figure that all repairs are going to be replacement engines?
They just aren't smart enough to carry it.
to carry NASA TV. I swear, the closer you get to Kennedy Space Center, the less chance they will offer it.
I think I remember having focus on some of my systems in the AT&T days. As the DBA I had to let it run, but didn't use it myself.
I have yet to see a single instance of a real 4GL language.
As for Codd, I started in the Network model DBMS side and if you really stop and examine the underlying structures, Relational technology is a cut down version of the Network model, with the addition of the "optimizer" tool laid over the top. If we could apply that tool to the network model, we would have something.
The viruses that are making the rounds now, many of them won't work on Win 9x.
The older systems are growing more secure, because the virus writers are going after the newere ones.
Coupled with running any e-mail program besides Outlook and you are pretty secure.
c as a language has the functionality of a high level assembler language. Them's the facts.
Out in the world we talk about 2nd, 3rd, and 4th generation languages. COBOL is widely considered a 3rd generation language, for example.
Assembler is a 2nd generation langugage. The rational is that assembler has a 1:1 correspondance with processor instructions.
In COBOL, for example, a single command will execute 1 or a dozen processor statments when compiled.
C does not execute many commands for most of it's statements, thus it is more like a high level assembler than a 3rd generation language.
I prefer writing in 3rd generation languages than 2nd.
However, I have on at least one occasion written a routine in 1s and 0s. Talk about a pain....
For me this just brought a flood of old memories back is all.
As for the list of languages, well COBOL has paid the bills for a lot of years, but I'm a DBA and DA now. Most of my coding is SQL (and contrary to popular opinion, it is pronounce "squeal", as in the sound the computer makes when the code hits it. LOL)
Yes, I played with lisp and PL1 in college. Never touched APL, Java, Perl. Rexx I never fell into. C - yuck! A high level assembler. Never caught my fancy.
BASIC to Visual Basic. Try writing your own pulldown menus in DOS Basic, because Visual Basic wasn't there yet? And make it well behaved enough that it still runs under the DOS window....
We are talking Fortran 74 here... ouch
once we allowed him access to the outside, he stopped attacking the cables. Of course he moved up to lizards, birds, and snakes.
I think the last snake he went after though was the one that got him in the shoulder. (Not poisonious, fortunately, but he had a sore shoulder for weeks).
And once my dog got to taste a 3.5 inch floppy, he lost interest in them.
wait until you get into the real world and end up writing code that has to write code in another language. I've had to do that several times over the years.
And even more fun is writing SQL that produces control cards for utility runs. Oops, gotta do that this morning to generate the list of packages to free later this week.
Seriously, if you don't like programming (be it Java or some more friendly language), why are you in a CS course?
Be happy you didn't take Fortran as your intro language like I did. (Arithmatic ifs and 1 hour common exams in the auditorium, ah memories. The best memory is the dirty looks I got when I finished first out of 400+ students and walked out of those exams and still aced them). Damn, am I showing my age here?
The problem is that we don't want the tags being tracked. The simple answer is to not use them, or have the cash register that reads them, disable them.
Who can up with the incredible stupid bag idea? Now I have to pay for a blocking bag, which is going to cost more than a plain old bag, or lord forbid, no bag at all. I do not wissh to spend my money in this way.
From the SCO website IP license FAQ:
Hasn't SCO already indicated that it's okay for its code to be distributed by distributing this code itself that is now in question? Haven't they essentially GPLed their code?
During the period that SCO distributed Linux (2001 to 2003), SCO was unaware of the copyright violations. Once it became aware of the alleged infringements, it ceased all distributions of Linux to new customers. Copyrights cannot be given up by unintentional or illegal inclusion in a GPL product. The owner of the copyrights must transfer the copyrights in writing or some other affirmation, which SCO has never done. U.S. Copyright law also protects copyright holders from illegitimate contribution by also requiring express permission, which again, SCO has never granted. U.S. Copyright law states: "A transfer of copyright ownership, other than by operation of law, is not valid unless an instrument of conveyance, or a note or memorandum of the transfer, is in writing and signed by the owner of the rights conveyed or such owner's duly authorized agent." U.S.C. 204.
Further, Section 0. of the GPL states the following: "0. This License applies to any program or other work which contains a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it may be distributed under the terms of this General Public License."
SCO has obviously never placed a notice indicating that our UNIX source code or derivative works can be distributed under the terms of the GPL license. Distributing the code is very different from contributing the code. SCO has never accidentally or knowingly contributed the code.
And they still continue to distribute Linux after they discovered it infringing. I love all the contradictions.
Try going to www.junkscience.com and reading up on what is there about the "quality" of those models you think so much of.
but the jobs were mostly posted by headhunting firms. The one I ended up with was thru Dice to a Headhunter, and from there to where I work now.
In fact, in 2000, Dice was almost all headhunters looking to fill jobs for the real employers.
And I never post a resume up there. Lord help you if your current employer finds one up there like that.
Most of my other jobs predate things like Monster and the like, so I have no real comparision.
As for today, every once in a while I look, but I am happy here. I also get a phone call every once in a while from old headhunters that have dug up my resume in their files. I keep telling them that I won't go back to Teradata, but they keep asking.
Except for the one guy who called about a position which turned out to be the place I had just left before here. I asked if the same boss was there, and when he said yes, I told him that I wouldn't consider it until they finally got around to firing him.