Global warming is a myth. If you check the long running facts, you will find out that the "global warming" activists have been distorting the data for quite some time. This is just a cyclical climate variation that has been seen in the past.
are the ones that do not contain the technical leanguage to survive contact with whatever absorbs them. Look at how English is spreading with words to describe new technology into languages that don't have it.
The time will come when we only have one language left, but not soon.
On the one hand, getting rid of Eisner would be good. But a cable company?
In addition to other things Disney owns ABC. Now Comcast would own that as well?
And all the Data processing for both Disney and ABC is done in Orlando. If they are taken over, will that move? Do you know what that will do to the local economy?
The article cites the danger level as 1 U T where the u is a fancy symbolic one - probably your micro telsa.
The article quite clearly states that a field of 1 UT is enough to cause cancer cells to grow faster. For some people this is a health problem. For example, anyone that has any existing cancer cells.
You seem to have gotten fixed upon the EMF field CAUSING cancer, which is NEVER what I said.
Well, I have been there. The first big company I worked for had a policy to allow you to have your manager determine if a particular project was yours or theirs. The project I was working on was in a different language than they had ever had me working on and completely different subject matter.
I know had a signed document that said I owned it from Company A. When the next company wanted the code, I showed them that and they sent it to their lawyer, where I basically allowed them to write a 99 year license.
Been thru that several times now.
Companies in the list:
General Electric (Had the policy about manager review). Insurance companies - wanting 99 year license. AT&T - really nasty about it. Consulting terms - go both ways.
The article is from IEEE Spectrum, Dec 1994, page 14. The quote about making cancer cells grow faster is on page 18. As I said earlier, it DOES NOT say that EMF CAUSES cancer, mearly that it makes it grow faster.
As for the numbers, I was doing that from memory, but the report from the electric company was in with the same file when I found it. The IEEE article suggests problems from 1Ut on up. At the meter box on the other side of the wall, approx 5G up to 46.4G was measured (note, not mg, which is used elsewhere on the document for lesser items).
My numbers were relative to each other but my units were off, as I had not looked at any of this for years. The basic facts remain. EMF IS a health hazard.
I don't expect you to take my word for the contents of the article, even if I scanned it and put it up here, since you don't seem the type to trust anyone, so you can look it up yourself.
>I do hope that you can provide a citation to this article which claims causation between EMF and cancer, because I am only aware of studies claiming correlation between the two.
Mistyped the 25 Telsa. More like 2.5 Telsa is probable, though the apartment complex in question is not ameniable to the electric company measuring the spot in question (afraid of a lawsuit I guess). Based upon an electric company measurement, a electric meter box will general a 1 telsa field thru a stone wall (on the other side of the wall of a cinder block wall). If, in a very small space, you have 16 such meters, you get much more that 1 Telsa. My head was sleeping inches away from that way for a period of about 6 months.
The article I quoted, and the statement I made above quite clearly stated that the EMF field is not the CAUSE of the cancer, but quite clearly is involved in it growing within the body. To quote the statement I made above, "It causes the cancer cells to grow faster". Nowhere did I say it caused cancer cells to be formed.
I mentioned that Lymphoma is suspected of being caused by EMF, but that is only a statistical link, and new research provides a more likely candidate.
If you don't read what I wrote carefully, how can I trust your research?
Oh, and the article that I originally found was some sort of scienctific journel. I had to go to the university library because the regular public library didn't carry the journel in question.
I believe I still have a copy of the article at home (I'm at work now). I had to make a special trip to the UCF library to read and copy the article when I first saw a reference to it. I'll look for it this evening.
The danger level is achieving 1 Telsa in the body. Now power lines may not reach that level (the EMF strength is reduced as the square of the distance after all), but things like electrical power meter boxes DO reach that kind of strength for a radius of 2-3 feet, and I was sleeping in such a field (there were 16 boxes on the other side of the wall. Based upon measurements of a single box in our house by the electric company, those boxes may have been producing as much as 25 Telsa at the point of my head, and less down the length of my body. That's thru a stone wall from the other side too.)
If you check out the listed causes of Lymphoma, you will find that EMF fields are listed as one of the 7 possible causes, though further research is tending in another direction.
When one spends 6 months fighting cancer and taking chemo, you do check out the possible causes VERY carefully so as to avoid a repitition.
Because there is a specific health risk. The risk near a power line is NOT an URBAN LEGEND
I speak from doing a bunch of research on this problem, after finding out that Electromagnetic radiation was one of the seven possible causes for the cancer that I survived.
The electromagnetic field (EMF) is not harmful IN AND OF ITSELF. In conjunction with how the body works, some people are subject to some of it's effects. To whit: An EMF field will cause already existing cancer cells to grow faster than normal. Of itself, this is not fatal, as you have to have the cells in the body to start with.
Some schools think that the body causes cancer cells to grow all the time. The body's immune system then kills off the bad cells while leaving the good ones alone. In the presence of an EMF field, the body has to work harder, and once it loses the battle, the cancer will grow out of control.
As I found out, the transition out of such a field to the hospital for a week made me feel better, and when I re-entered the field for a while, I felt worse. The best decision that we apparently made for that time was to permanently remove me from the field, though we didn't know it was even there at the time (in hindsite, we recognized the source of the EMF)
>P.S. And no, film is not a viable option, especially long term, considering that major companies like Kodak are going to stop selling film.
Kodak announced that they were stopping production on a particular TYPE of 35mm film. Mainly because it's replacement was already next to it on the shelf.
They also announced that they were ceasing development on non single use 35mm cameras. Maybe they quit this market AGAIN, because they couldn't compete AGAIN? (They quit this market 15 or 20 years ago, then decided to jump back into it with the crappy APS format. It didn't work, so they are exitting again).
>The reason CE is considered so hard is that they hit you with the hardest CS courses (Operating Systems comes to mind) and you get more than a bit of EE (which, of course, is not trivial either).
Huh? In my school OS was in the BSCS, not the CSEE degree.
the shortage is that there are not enough jobs for all the certificate and nothing else holders. Are they really IT/DP/CS professionals?
The company I work for has hired a few people in the last year. First requirement on every position BS in something, usually BSCS (CSEE doesn't exist much around here, so they only cover it under "related fields").
So, the job market is recovering slowly, and we are in no danger of outsourcing even job 1 here.
Since the only answer to fixing the version 8 bug (the last free version, which I still run on my machines) is to upgrade to the pay for it versions.
Oh, and I can't use Real at work anyway, since it is incompatible with the firewall here.
The only show I really listen to offered Real, WMP, and they were even offering Winamp for a while. Now it is WMP and that's it. Haven't actually used Real for some time. Looks like it is about time to dump their donkey.
If you just go out and get a bunch of certificates, then you won't get anywhere. If you aquire a CS degreee you will at least be taken seriously.
Take my company for example. We are hiring small numbers of people. Requirement 1 on all new job applications: CS degree or equivalent. It weeds out the certificates real fast.
Consider fields that require knowledge of both medicine and Computer Science. This means that you should look at (at least) Graphics and Database management within the Computer Science Field.
Somehow, I think that these 2 subfields will relate best with Medical products. When I was going thru school, I had to choose one, I couldn't get both. I chose database and am gainfully employed at it after 20+ years.
You do not want to try and get into things like compiler design, network topology and the like. These subfields will only put you in the mill with all the rest, and not give you a chance to leverage your medical background.
There are other subfields for each of the above categories, you will have to decide the relevance of each.
>The perceived value of certifications differs from company to company, but also depends on the field of IT you're in. From what I've seen, certifications for programmers matter little, but they do for DBAs... I wouldn't know about network guys though.
I've been a DBA for almost 15 years now. Certifications don't mean squat and never did. I was working for one consulting firm for a while and they asked me to check out some online certification system (along with some other senior people).
I passed both tests, but as I told them, the testers didn't know what they were testing. (The other senior people told them the same thing about their specialitys as well).
My advice, if you don't have one, get a CS degree. Then go forward and add an MBA. Or decide now that you don't want to be in this industry.
My company starts out all IT job requirements with a BS degree. ALL of them. Even the junior programmers. And we are hiring small numbers of people....
During my MBA, I knew one guy who took his OWN paper and rewrote it to adjust the topic for each new class. According to wha tI am reading here, it would have shown up as a false positive each time after the first.
At the 2 Universities I attended, no copyrights were granted by the students to the University or to the professor. With American copyright law, it would not be. Therefore, turnitin.com is breaking the law in using papers from many American Universities.
As for writing style, talk about bullshit! AS students in high school we were taught ot write "this way" which would give all of us a similar style.
I'm glad that both my degrees occured before the advent of the internet.
Of the data, good DBA do, yes. And we are talking statistical analysis more of the distribution of the data.
If you have 50% of the values of the first field in the key are 0, then that isn't that good of a first key field, since it will tend to lump your data together. This is just one example of the kinds of things one must be aware of.
The design of the underlying structure of a relational database is heavily based in statistics.
When you send an SQL query to the DBMS it makes use of the statistics of the various tables to determine the best path to get to the data. To design the database, you need an understanding of how the DBMS goes about doing this to allow you to tune queries more effectively.
In the case of partitioned tablespaces, one must use statistics to determine how best to partition them.
It goes on from there, but I think you get the gist of it.
Yes, your curriculm is design to produce a "90-day wonder" programemr. It is not designed to generate an analyst, or a senior programmer.
You need to focus on several underlying topics. To include:
-OS design -Compiler design -Database design (and not just Relational, you need Heirarchtical and network model theory as well) -Graphics design -Statistics (If you think you can be a DBA in a relational world without stats, dream on) -Intro to languages (a kind of survey of what languages are out there and strengths/weaknesses) -Network principals (Not available when I went to school as my degree pre-dates LANs) -Screen design
That should do for a start. Oh, and certifications from vendors are so much waste paper when it comes to doing the real world job.
This isn't the first time Kodak has made this announcement. Last time around, they spent a few years out of this market, and then jumped back in with things like the APS film cameras. Before that was the disc camera. Kodak doesn't know how to build quality cameras, so keeps trying to enter the market and then exitting it again.
And last time the announcement also included that they were not stopping building disposables, because that is profit center then, and still is now.
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and I do have statistics at the Master's level which allows me to understand it.
And more bright suggestions?
Global warming is a myth. If you check the long running facts, you will find out that the "global warming" activists have been distorting the data for quite some time. This is just a cyclical climate variation that has been seen in the past.
The whole global warming is done with statistics.
"There are lies, damn lies and statistics."
are the ones that do not contain the technical leanguage to survive contact with whatever absorbs them. Look at how English is spreading with words to describe new technology into languages that don't have it.
The time will come when we only have one language left, but not soon.
On the one hand, getting rid of Eisner would be good. But a cable company?
In addition to other things Disney owns ABC. Now Comcast would own that as well?
And all the Data processing for both Disney and ABC is done in Orlando. If they are taken over, will that move? Do you know what that will do to the local economy?
that he was never going to release Star Wars onto VHS, and DVD was a distant dream.
Fast Forward a few years and we have Star Wars release as the most expensive VHS tape of all time - $120.
Fast Forward and we have 4, 5, and 6 released as a set.
And you tell me this wasn't expected? Puulleeasssee!
The article cites the danger level as 1 U T where the u is a fancy symbolic one - probably your micro telsa.
The article quite clearly states that a field of 1 UT is enough to cause cancer cells to grow faster. For some people this is a health problem. For example, anyone that has any existing cancer cells.
You seem to have gotten fixed upon the EMF field CAUSING cancer, which is NEVER what I said.
Well, I have been there. The first big company I worked for had a policy to allow you to have your manager determine if a particular project was yours or theirs. The project I was working on was in a different language than they had ever had me working on and completely different subject matter.
I know had a signed document that said I owned it from Company A. When the next company wanted the code, I showed them that and they sent it to their lawyer, where I basically allowed them to write a 99 year license.
Been thru that several times now.
Companies in the list:
General Electric (Had the policy about manager review). Insurance companies - wanting 99 year license. AT&T - really nasty about it. Consulting terms - go both ways.
The article is from IEEE Spectrum, Dec 1994, page 14. The quote about making cancer cells grow faster is on page 18. As I said earlier, it DOES NOT say that EMF CAUSES cancer, mearly that it makes it grow faster.
As for the numbers, I was doing that from memory, but the report from the electric company was in with the same file when I found it. The IEEE article suggests problems from 1Ut on up. At the meter box on the other side of the wall, approx 5G up to 46.4G was measured (note, not mg, which is used elsewhere on the document for lesser items).
My numbers were relative to each other but my units were off, as I had not looked at any of this for years. The basic facts remain. EMF IS a health hazard.
I don't expect you to take my word for the contents of the article, even if I scanned it and put it up here, since you don't seem the type to trust anyone, so you can look it up yourself.
>I do hope that you can provide a citation to this article which claims causation between EMF and cancer, because I am only aware of studies claiming correlation between the two.
Mistyped the 25 Telsa. More like 2.5 Telsa is probable, though the apartment complex in question is not ameniable to the electric company measuring the spot in question (afraid of a lawsuit I guess). Based upon an electric company measurement, a electric meter box will general a 1 telsa field thru a stone wall (on the other side of the wall of a cinder block wall). If, in a very small space, you have 16 such meters, you get much more that 1 Telsa. My head was sleeping inches away from that way for a period of about 6 months.
The article I quoted, and the statement I made above quite clearly stated that the EMF field is not the CAUSE of the cancer, but quite clearly is involved in it growing within the body. To quote the statement I made above, "It causes the cancer cells to grow faster". Nowhere did I say it caused cancer cells to be formed.
I mentioned that Lymphoma is suspected of being caused by EMF, but that is only a statistical link, and new research provides a more likely candidate.
If you don't read what I wrote carefully, how can I trust your research?
Oh, and the article that I originally found was some sort of scienctific journel. I had to go to the university library because the regular public library didn't carry the journel in question.
I believe I still have a copy of the article at home (I'm at work now). I had to make a special trip to the UCF library to read and copy the article when I first saw a reference to it. I'll look for it this evening.
The danger level is achieving 1 Telsa in the body. Now power lines may not reach that level (the EMF strength is reduced as the square of the distance after all), but things like electrical power meter boxes DO reach that kind of strength for a radius of 2-3 feet, and I was sleeping in such a field (there were 16 boxes on the other side of the wall. Based upon measurements of a single box in our house by the electric company, those boxes may have been producing as much as 25 Telsa at the point of my head, and less down the length of my body. That's thru a stone wall from the other side too.)
If you check out the listed causes of Lymphoma, you will find that EMF fields are listed as one of the 7 possible causes, though further research is tending in another direction.
When one spends 6 months fighting cancer and taking chemo, you do check out the possible causes VERY carefully so as to avoid a repitition.
Because there is a specific health risk. The risk near a power line is NOT an URBAN LEGEND
I speak from doing a bunch of research on this problem, after finding out that Electromagnetic radiation was one of the seven possible causes for the cancer that I survived.
The electromagnetic field (EMF) is not harmful IN AND OF ITSELF. In conjunction with how the body works, some people are subject to some of it's effects. To whit: An EMF field will cause already existing cancer cells to grow faster than normal. Of itself, this is not fatal, as you have to have the cells in the body to start with.
Some schools think that the body causes cancer cells to grow all the time. The body's immune system then kills off the bad cells while leaving the good ones alone. In the presence of an EMF field, the body has to work harder, and once it loses the battle, the cancer will grow out of control.
As I found out, the transition out of such a field to the hospital for a week made me feel better, and when I re-entered the field for a while, I felt worse. The best decision that we apparently made for that time was to permanently remove me from the field, though we didn't know it was even there at the time (in hindsite, we recognized the source of the EMF)
>P.S. And no, film is not a viable option, especially long term, considering that major companies like Kodak are going to stop selling film.
Kodak announced that they were stopping production on a particular TYPE of 35mm film. Mainly because it's replacement was already next to it on the shelf.
They also announced that they were ceasing development on non single use 35mm cameras. Maybe they quit this market AGAIN, because they couldn't compete AGAIN? (They quit this market 15 or 20 years ago, then decided to jump back into it with the crappy APS format. It didn't work, so they are exitting again).
>The reason CE is considered so hard is that they hit you with the hardest CS courses (Operating Systems comes to mind) and you get more than a bit of EE (which, of course, is not trivial either).
Huh? In my school OS was in the BSCS, not the CSEE degree.
the shortage is that there are not enough jobs for all the certificate and nothing else holders. Are they really IT/DP/CS professionals?
The company I work for has hired a few people in the last year. First requirement on every position BS in something, usually BSCS (CSEE doesn't exist much around here, so they only cover it under "related fields").
So, the job market is recovering slowly, and we are in no danger of outsourcing even job 1 here.
Since the only answer to fixing the version 8 bug (the last free version, which I still run on my machines) is to upgrade to the pay for it versions.
Oh, and I can't use Real at work anyway, since it is incompatible with the firewall here.
The only show I really listen to offered Real, WMP, and they were even offering Winamp for a while. Now it is WMP and that's it. Haven't actually used Real for some time. Looks like it is about time to dump their donkey.
If you just go out and get a bunch of certificates, then you won't get anywhere. If you aquire a CS degreee you will at least be taken seriously.
Take my company for example. We are hiring small numbers of people. Requirement 1 on all new job applications: CS degree or equivalent. It weeds out the certificates real fast.
Consider fields that require knowledge of both medicine and Computer Science. This means that you should look at (at least) Graphics and Database management within the Computer Science Field.
Somehow, I think that these 2 subfields will relate best with Medical products. When I was going thru school, I had to choose one, I couldn't get both. I chose database and am gainfully employed at it after 20+ years.
You do not want to try and get into things like compiler design, network topology and the like. These subfields will only put you in the mill with all the rest, and not give you a chance to leverage your medical background.
There are other subfields for each of the above categories, you will have to decide the relevance of each.
I glad enough when they don't say Megs. You don't add the plural "s" to an abbreviation.
The original shuttle systems had 5, not 6 computers. Later that number was reduced.
>The perceived value of certifications differs from company to company, but also depends on the field of IT you're in. From what I've seen, certifications for programmers matter little, but they do for DBAs... I wouldn't know about network guys though.
I've been a DBA for almost 15 years now. Certifications don't mean squat and never did. I was working for one consulting firm for a while and they asked me to check out some online certification system (along with some other senior people).
I passed both tests, but as I told them, the testers didn't know what they were testing. (The other senior people told them the same thing about their specialitys as well).
My advice, if you don't have one, get a CS degree. Then go forward and add an MBA. Or decide now that you don't want to be in this industry.
My company starts out all IT job requirements with a BS degree. ALL of them. Even the junior programmers. And we are hiring small numbers of people....
During my MBA, I knew one guy who took his OWN paper and rewrote it to adjust the topic for each new class. According to wha tI am reading here, it would have shown up as a false positive each time after the first.
At the 2 Universities I attended, no copyrights were granted by the students to the University or to the professor. With American copyright law, it would not be. Therefore, turnitin.com is breaking the law in using papers from many American Universities.
As for writing style, talk about bullshit! AS students in high school we were taught ot write "this way" which would give all of us a similar style.
I'm glad that both my degrees occured before the advent of the internet.
How about a 20" from 1997? Or a 15" CTX from 1993? Or best of all, a monochrome CGA laptop on a Toshiba T1200 from 1984?
Of the data, good DBA do, yes. And we are talking statistical analysis more of the distribution of the data.
If you have 50% of the values of the first field in the key are 0, then that isn't that good of a first key field, since it will tend to lump your data together. This is just one example of the kinds of things one must be aware of.
The design of the underlying structure of a relational database is heavily based in statistics.
When you send an SQL query to the DBMS it makes use of the statistics of the various tables to determine the best path to get to the data. To design the database, you need an understanding of how the DBMS goes about doing this to allow you to tune queries more effectively.
In the case of partitioned tablespaces, one must use statistics to determine how best to partition them.
It goes on from there, but I think you get the gist of it.
Yes, your curriculm is design to produce a "90-day wonder" programemr. It is not designed to generate an analyst, or a senior programmer.
You need to focus on several underlying topics. To include:
-OS design
-Compiler design
-Database design (and not just Relational, you need Heirarchtical and network model theory as well)
-Graphics design
-Statistics (If you think you can be a DBA in a relational world without stats, dream on)
-Intro to languages (a kind of survey of what languages are out there and strengths/weaknesses)
-Network principals (Not available when I went to school as my degree pre-dates LANs)
-Screen design
That should do for a start. Oh, and certifications from vendors are so much waste paper when it comes to doing the real world job.
This isn't the first time Kodak has made this announcement. Last time around, they spent a few years out of this market, and then jumped back in with things like the APS film cameras. Before that was the disc camera. Kodak doesn't know how to build quality cameras, so keeps trying to enter the market and then exitting it again.
And last time the announcement also included that they were not stopping building disposables, because that is profit center then, and still is now.
Basically, this isn't news.