Actually, there's lots of stuff being done by nursing schools to bring in male students. Partly to address the nursing shortage, and partly to achieve gender equity (or at least get closer to it) just for the sake of doing it. And the real reason, more staff capable of moving fat patients. As the general population gets larger, so must the carrying capacity of the average nurse.
I just don't see the point of getting a $1000 device that can only play 10 titles (no matter how high-definition the titles and/or the point may be).
If it can play recorded BD-Roms I can easily see 5000 units being sold to advertising agencies for demo purposes. $1800 (burner plus player) is pretty cheap if it can help you maintain your contract list -- maintain only since your competitors had the same thought.
And what does "her boss" have to do to get approval for a toner cartridge purchase or for that matter the CFO or CEO at the company? I'm guessing nothing more than take out the corporate charge card. How about a company sponsored family vacation? Company car?
If the people making the money decisions don't get a direct benefit from the companies success, you can anticipate some of them will make decisions more for their own benefit than the companies.
You might want to pick up a few books by Jane Jacobs from the 60's on. She describes in great detail why those types of incentives do not have long term benefits, and can infact harm the pre-existing economy. Her primary context was for trade between cities (economic regions) but since countries are made up of cities, it is true here as well.
No. If you can save 1 sqft of space for each person in say a call centre, which allows you to squeeze in a few extra people, this is well worth every cent.
At £20+ per sqft of space per month in your office lease, £200 to save 1 sqft is a pretty good deal.
What of the odds of those various sensors failing (and you know that they will for someone, somewhere) and what kinds of damage is caused when they do?
You might want to avoid Lithium-Ion based batteries too. They are highly volatile, especially during recharge and require "intelligent charging systems" to charge safely.
This thing doesn't sound any more complicated to monitor than standard battery technology.
Or did you think unrealistic deadlines and bad overall designs come from the grunts? At many companies they do. Some programmers seem to be quite bad at estimating the time required to write and test code. If you send a bad estimate upstream, they're going to hold you to it.
Fusion is on anything but an exponential curve; in fact it's damn near on a constant curve, making almost zero progress over time, as evidenced by how it's been "40-50 years in the future" for 40-50 years now. The speed of progress is proceeding at a rate far higher than 0. The catch is that there is more progress required to be made than initially thought.
Consider a map. Going from point A to point B may be quite short on the map. Once you start driving you find out about bridge construction which sends you on a detour. Later on the road you wanted to take is a dirt trail not maintained in the winter -- second detour.
Progress was still made but it took far longer to get to the actual destination based on what you learned along the way, or rather, the task list increased.
Holding major research projects to schedules is silly. If you know how long it will take (thus all of the steps along the way) then there isn't really any research to do.
Go ahead, tell me the tale of how immensely huge the universe is and how 41 light-years away can only be described as nearby. Then tell me you won't mind helping me move if it's 'nearby'
Happy to help you pack the truck but I've got a few things to do in the afternoon.
But that would require insightful management - capable of learning from well established lessons of 40 years ago. Kind of a hopeless proposition at some companies. And apparently the 7:1 difference in productivity doesn't apply to managment. Aha, that's the ticket - outsource the low-skilled management!
The 7:1 ratio does apply to management, but as usual only about 5% of management is actually skilled at managing just as most software developers aren't so good at, or even care about, developing software. Software development and management are generally just day jobs you do for a pay check -- particularly for mega-corps.
I'm just waiting for the day when I'm in the middle of sex and my condom reminds me that a wide variety of complementary lubes, toys, emergency contraceptives, massage oils, sheets, mattresses, and porn are available.
Can you imagine the look on the loan officers face when you tell her you want to borrow 100 grad to buy a virtual space station in a computer game to turn it into a night club?
5 years ago they called them websites and you went to venture capitalists to get the funds. They seemed to be more than happy to fund stuff like that a little while ago.
When fully operational, there should be 24 beamlines, meaning that each researcher is "only" costing ~$5000/day in electricity.
That's per day that they use the device. I would imagine that most experiments will take significantly longer to prepare and put into papers afterward than they will do perform -- so skilled labour still takes the cake as the bulk of the expense.
No disrespect intended, but if the solution is so simple then why isn't it being implemented. I described the reason in my first line. Budget. Very few off the shelf components could be used.
NASA or JPL or similar are probably best suited to such a task since they have expertise in custom manufacturing and budgets to go along with it.
What would be the hardest part about designing a camera to go 1000m deep?
I don't see the challenge myself, aside from in the budget. The hard part is that off the shelf components make it difficult.
Find a transparent non-conducting liquid which doesn't compress and fill the device with it so there is air left inside the device or the individual components. The expensive part is ensuring the solid state components, lens, etc. has absolutely no air gaps and are filled with some kind of oil at very least.
Make the device powered by its gravitational fall through the water (small solid metal blade that rotates) and tie it off so it can be pulled back up again.
Even finding solid, non-compressible, lighting shouldn't be that hard (Leds or something similar).
It is a very challenging problem if you insist on using an air-filled lens and components.
As our ability to create deadly diseases increases Funny, a "spray" of carbon nanotubes into the air (nanotube bomb?) would make for a pretty good weapon. Printer toner and asbestos combined in one convenient package.
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I really want to go kill baby bunnies, skin them, and wear their bloody firs as a coat... and I'm vegetarian!
You didn't say you were going to eat them. Vegetarians can wear fur coats too.
Looks strikingly similar to the models that 3M, IBM and possibly a number of other companies used during their rapid growth periods, particularly in their research/development departments. An emphasis on employee driven product development has high overhead to the number crunchers (lots of work is thrown out) but it really only takes 1 unique application of an idea (all ideas are old) in 100 to more than make that back.
By migrating from a costly UNIX platform to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on its workstations, servers and at the hub site, the FAA was able to eliminate costs and ineffective systems, while creating a scalable architecture that met their high-demand environment today and for the future.
Quite possibly this is from IBM (Aix) to IBM (Redhat). More likely is that it is another kick in the crotch for Sun.
A good environemntalist is a conservative - they conserve their energy use by being conservative with their power needs. Indeed. Low taxes requires low government consumption. Low energy bills in your home requires low energy usage.
The guy who calculates that each use of a single pair of $400 shoes plus 2 new sets of soles ($50 a shot) is 21 cents per day over a decade vesus 40 cents per day for a pair of $100 shoes that last a year -- thus buys the single pair of shoes.
Reduce and Reuse are both far more important than Recycling but it takes an awfully frugle person to make significant headway on them.
Live well beneth your means and you will be an exceptional environmentalist and have a ton of cash in the bank.
No he is simply getting less tolerant of "sloppy" programming. You'll forgive me for taking that with a grain of salt so long as memory over-commit remains the default mode of operation within Linux.
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Actually, there's lots of stuff being done by nursing schools to bring in male students. Partly to address the nursing shortage, and partly to achieve gender equity (or at least get closer to it) just for the sake of doing it.
And the real reason, more staff capable of moving fat patients. As the general population gets larger, so must the carrying capacity of the average nurse.
I just don't see the point of getting a $1000 device that can only play 10 titles (no matter how high-definition the titles and/or the point may be).
If it can play recorded BD-Roms I can easily see 5000 units being sold to advertising agencies for demo purposes. $1800 (burner plus player) is pretty cheap if it can help you maintain your contract list -- maintain only since your competitors had the same thought.
And what does "her boss" have to do to get approval for a toner cartridge purchase or for that matter the CFO or CEO at the company? I'm guessing nothing more than take out the corporate charge card. How about a company sponsored family vacation? Company car?
If the people making the money decisions don't get a direct benefit from the companies success, you can anticipate some of them will make decisions more for their own benefit than the companies.
You might want to pick up a few books by Jane Jacobs from the 60's on. She describes in great detail why those types of incentives do not have long term benefits, and can infact harm the pre-existing economy. Her primary context was for trade between cities (economic regions) but since countries are made up of cities, it is true here as well.
No. If you can save 1 sqft of space for each person in say a call centre, which allows you to squeeze in a few extra people, this is well worth every cent.
At £20+ per sqft of space per month in your office lease, £200 to save 1 sqft is a pretty good deal.
What of the odds of those various sensors failing (and you know that they will for someone, somewhere) and what kinds of damage is caused when they do?
You might want to avoid Lithium-Ion based batteries too. They are highly volatile, especially during recharge and require "intelligent charging systems" to charge safely.
This thing doesn't sound any more complicated to monitor than standard battery technology.
Or did you think unrealistic deadlines and bad overall designs come from the grunts?
At many companies they do. Some programmers seem to be quite bad at estimating the time required to write and test code. If you send a bad estimate upstream, they're going to hold you to it.
Fusion is on anything but an exponential curve; in fact it's damn near on a constant curve, making almost zero progress over time, as evidenced by how it's been "40-50 years in the future" for 40-50 years now.
The speed of progress is proceeding at a rate far higher than 0. The catch is that there is more progress required to be made than initially thought.
Consider a map. Going from point A to point B may be quite short on the map. Once you start driving you find out about bridge construction which sends you on a detour. Later on the road you wanted to take is a dirt trail not maintained in the winter -- second detour.
Progress was still made but it took far longer to get to the actual destination based on what you learned along the way, or rather, the task list increased.
Holding major research projects to schedules is silly. If you know how long it will take (thus all of the steps along the way) then there isn't really any research to do.
Copyright infringement and plagiarism are not the same thing.
If there is a citation given then the work is not being passed off as your own. It's not plagiarized.
Go ahead, tell me the tale of how immensely huge the universe is and how 41 light-years away can only be described as nearby. Then tell me you won't mind helping me move if it's 'nearby'
Happy to help you pack the truck but I've got a few things to do in the afternoon.
But that would require insightful management - capable of learning from well established lessons of 40 years ago. Kind of a hopeless proposition at some companies. And apparently the 7:1 difference in productivity doesn't apply to managment. Aha, that's the ticket - outsource the low-skilled management!
The 7:1 ratio does apply to management, but as usual only about 5% of management is actually skilled at managing just as most software developers aren't so good at, or even care about, developing software. Software development and management are generally just day jobs you do for a pay check -- particularly for mega-corps.
I'm just waiting for the day when I'm in the middle of sex and my condom reminds me that a wide variety of complementary lubes, toys, emergency contraceptives, massage oils, sheets, mattresses, and porn are available.
If that happens, put a muffle on it.
Can you imagine the look on the loan officers face when you tell her you want to borrow 100 grad to buy a virtual space station in a computer game to turn it into a night club?
5 years ago they called them websites and you went to venture capitalists to get the funds. They seemed to be more than happy to fund stuff like that a little while ago.
When fully operational, there should be 24 beamlines, meaning that each researcher is "only" costing ~$5000/day in electricity.
That's per day that they use the device. I would imagine that most experiments will take significantly longer to prepare and put into papers afterward than they will do perform -- so skilled labour still takes the cake as the bulk of the expense.
No disrespect intended, but if the solution is so simple then why isn't it being implemented.
I described the reason in my first line. Budget. Very few off the shelf components could be used.
NASA or JPL or similar are probably best suited to such a task since they have expertise in custom manufacturing and budgets to go along with it.
What would be the hardest part about designing a camera to go 1000m deep?
I don't see the challenge myself, aside from in the budget. The hard part is that off the shelf components make it difficult.
Find a transparent non-conducting liquid which doesn't compress and fill the device with it so there is air left inside the device or the individual components. The expensive part is ensuring the solid state components, lens, etc. has absolutely no air gaps and are filled with some kind of oil at very least.
Make the device powered by its gravitational fall through the water (small solid metal blade that rotates) and tie it off so it can be pulled back up again.
Even finding solid, non-compressible, lighting shouldn't be that hard (Leds or something similar).
It is a very challenging problem if you insist on using an air-filled lens and components.
You have to put those two together at some point.
As our ability to create deadly diseases increases
Funny, a "spray" of carbon nanotubes into the air (nanotube bomb?) would make for a pretty good weapon. Printer toner and asbestos combined in one convenient package.
I really want to go kill baby bunnies, skin them, and wear their bloody firs as a coat... and I'm vegetarian!
You didn't say you were going to eat them. Vegetarians can wear fur coats too.
Looks strikingly similar to the models that 3M, IBM and possibly a number of other companies used during their rapid growth periods, particularly in their research/development departments. An emphasis on employee driven product development has high overhead to the number crunchers (lots of work is thrown out) but it really only takes 1 unique application of an idea (all ideas are old) in 100 to more than make that back.
By migrating from a costly UNIX platform to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on its workstations, servers and at the hub site, the FAA was able to eliminate costs and ineffective systems, while creating a scalable architecture that met their high-demand environment today and for the future.
Quite possibly this is from IBM (Aix) to IBM (Redhat). More likely is that it is another kick in the crotch for Sun.
And you could use it withowt talkinth likth thith!
Depends on whether the device is doing it right or not.
A good environemntalist is a conservative - they conserve their energy use by being conservative with their power needs.
Indeed. Low taxes requires low government consumption. Low energy bills in your home requires low energy usage.
The guy who calculates that each use of a single pair of $400 shoes plus 2 new sets of soles ($50 a shot) is 21 cents per day over a decade vesus 40 cents per day for a pair of $100 shoes that last a year -- thus buys the single pair of shoes.
Reduce and Reuse are both far more important than Recycling but it takes an awfully frugle person to make significant headway on them.
Live well beneth your means and you will be an exceptional environmentalist and have a ton of cash in the bank.
No he is simply getting less tolerant of "sloppy" programming.
You'll forgive me for taking that with a grain of salt so long as memory over-commit remains the default mode of operation within Linux.
Having reproductive organs in the mouth would make my life far too complicated.
It's not small, I was eating ice-creme!