Why? Because I work with closed source software from a vendor that gives me access to Technical Reference Manuals, complete descriptions of all fields and behaviors of the tables?
Is it because I enjoy having full access to the pl/sql code in triggers, stored procedures, workflows, forms and reports, which I can then modify to my own purposes and business objectives of my company?
Or is it that I think SAP acted like a bunch of greedy fucks who gave Oracle very reason to limit my access to the info?
Simply beautiful, to have your opponent by the throat, and then get a chance to show the whole world what a scoundrel they are
As a long-time Oracle developer, I have always wondered how they could afford to put so much information on their support site, and I was worried that the 'spying' by SAP was going to make them shut down access to the info.
First off, let me say that I work for a blood bank, and unless this new technology can churn out blood of any type for about 250$ a pint, then it really isn't going to supplant the current business model of soliciting donations and preparing them for transfusion
That said, I think that the primary use of this tech will be to create progenitor cells with an exact genetic match to the recipient, who may need to have a bone marrow transplant for various forms of leukemia.
One of my relatives went through this recently, it was hard to find a donor, and they will be on anti-rejection meds for quite some time. We are all ecstatic that they are alive, but it would be FAR better if they had received a donation with an EXACT genetic match. Lacking an identical twin or clone, this new tech is as good as it can get
So, in my opinion, not going to use this for bulk blood generation in some incubator, but to create progenitor cells for transplant
yep, because.25 of American scientists believe in Intelligent Design, and as such are worthless
Actually, my ears percked up at the mention of past ice age floods, especially since people have pointed to a post ice-age flood in the Black Sea as a source for the story of the Biblical Flood http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sea_deluge_theory
Of course any real archeaology of a Biblical event is bound to expose some falacies, like how it just flooded a small region and didn't really flood the whole world, Noah actually managed to save some domesticated animals, not every animal on the Earth, etc...
So... have looney Creationists actually gained enough hold on the Canadian government to silence scientific knowledge?
Not really, first off IANAA, in the case of larger stars, the first step is to move towards iron. However, massive stars have enough, um, mass to compress the matter into Neutronium, which may have been the result of iron being compressed, but no longer holds any of the characteristics of iron, seeing as it no longer holds electrons in orbit around the neutron
Black Holes would then be further compressed beyond neutronium, and would contain no attributes of Iron, although much of the contents of the Black Hole may have at one time been Iron.
Hmm... "a masters in your field or is it some generic MBA?"
Painting a picture in black n white there?
Let's put some grey into it
Yes, it was an MBA program, not the best, but not the worst (fyi, I did the BS at UoP, just to get it out of the way, went elsewhere for the MBA). It had a 'concentration' in Project Management, which fit with both recent experience and substantial training that a prior employer had put me through
FWIW, I learned a lot that I had never even imagined before, Namely, money, money money, sweet lucre, how we bow to you!
One of the hard things about understanding money, is realizing just how many people are working their asses off (hell their bonuses are tied to it) just to reduce the long term cost of your wages. If you ask me we should all be circling the wagons and forming up IT Unions before the bean counters figure out how to turn us into living brains in jars that they can wire up and keep working 24/7
",,, So, Mr. Isabusyguy, I've noticed that you have not worked in web development (enter any skill set here) for the past five years. Um, really, what makes you believe that you can jump right back into it and remain effective?"
I've been interviewed like that, and I have interviewed people like that. It comes down to the vast shift in development tools that happens even in five years. Some people can make the transition from Oracle db and AOL server to SQLServer and IIS, some have a harder time, everybody has to work like a slave to recover similar skill sets.
I have hired people trying to play catchup, and watched them leave for stress reasons after six months in which I felt they performed well.
Of course, being the dinosaur in the room (I can tell you about floppy disks) has it's advantage. I can make vague suggestions for table structure or architecture and watch a team of whippershappers work their asses off delivering a solution. So yeah, I miss the hands on, I miss "owning" a unique skill set, but I DO enjoy convincing a competent team of people to make my (slightly addeled) ideas work
Is it really so wrong that I should expect this to pay more than when I was just some gunslinger that a consulting company would bring in to close out projects on budget?
Given a stable job market, I never would have pursued a masters.
Dot-com bust, telco meltdown, 911... They all lead to a horrible job market in 2001, and in interview after interview, I heard "Well... we like your experience, but frankly, we cannot justify this level of pay for somebody with no college degree".
Sure, I remained employed, but not at the level of pay I was accustomed to. So, I started working on a BS in 2002 and completed an MBA in 2007. There was a long period of adjustment as I was introduced to GAAP, ROI, and the intricacies of expected rate of return, cost of capital and how to determine if a project is worth pursuing considering the current interest rates.
Way diferent than my original concerns of whether I wanted to learn the tech and if the outcome would be wicked cool.
I never saw it coming, but they really did change my brain, I just had the simple expectation that it would be worth more financially than it was before.
Income Before gaining masters degree $90K+ Student loans taken on gaining masters $57K Income after gaining master $87K
So, if you add in the cost of paying off my students loans, I am about $10k a year in the hole Add in that I am performing tons of sole wasting managerial tasks and moving further away from what I really enjoy doing (database driven web development), then...
I'm all for leaning on technology, but this just seems like profiteering
Just in case you weren't paying attention, there has been a big move in the US to increase regulations on commuter carriers who have driven down pilot pay and driven up pilot hours in order to increase profits. A lack of pilot training and an over reliance of the autopilot was seen as a direct cause of the crash of Continental Connection Flight 3407 http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2010-07-30-aviation-safety_N.htm
I had a short stint with a fire department in a fairly large metro area. They handle emergency response for a few million people and have a pretty efficient set up for their war room.
It is fairly roomy so that you can get up and walk around. desks are set up in pods with groups a people sitting facing towards the center of the hexagons they are on the perimeter of. They have phone communications with headsets that allow them to move around there are multiple monitors on each desk and large monitors on every wall that can be switched to show any desktop The lighting and noise were somewhat subdued, but in no way dimly lit or overly comfortable (no high back chairs) I do not remember the snack food situation, but there is a lot of security and it would be a pain to have to walk in and out all the time)
fwiw, I would save your company a ton of money and just use IP kvms and a software kvm management solution to tie together a bunch of desktops in a relatively open area together where the operators have some room to walk around, but are not overly distracted or lulled to sleep
ya know, massive operations centers are just soooo glass house IS anyway, totally 80's thinkin
Earth atmosphere is about 78% nitrogen, it would take a pretty aggressive nitrogen fixing strategy to grab about 1/3000's as much nitrogen as is available on Earth
Personally, I would not want to be standing around any 'being' that would be likely to strip all of the nitrogen from my protein laden body
carbon dioxide 95.32% nitrogen 2.7% argon 1.6% oxygen 0.13% carbon monoxide 0.07% water vapor 0.03% neon, krypton, xenon, ozone, methane trace The average surface pressure is only about 7 millibars (less than 1% of the Earth's) http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/M/Marsatmos.html
So, Mars does have an atmosphere, but is it usable to Earth life? You would need s source of nitrogen, lotsa miracle gro would be handy
You must be talking about the eastern hemisphere, the Wongs own the western hemisphere, it's the best one.
Only trillions?
Sure, there may be a substantial fortune to earn on Mars. but you have to reach an extremely high 'activation' energy, through extreme overcrowding, etc... to get enough humans off of their lardy asses to put out the effort to get there first
would terra-forming Mars potentially wipe out an indigenous species, and would Earthers that were desperate enough for another place to live even care?
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Why?
Because I work with closed source software from a vendor that gives me access to Technical Reference Manuals, complete descriptions of all fields and behaviors of the tables?
Is it because I enjoy having full access to the pl/sql code in triggers, stored procedures, workflows, forms and reports, which I can then modify to my own purposes and business objectives of my company?
Or is it that I think SAP acted like a bunch of greedy fucks who gave Oracle very reason to limit my access to the info?
c'mon anon, show me your mighty insight
Simply beautiful, to have your opponent by the throat, and then get a chance to show the whole world what a scoundrel they are
As a long-time Oracle developer, I have always wondered how they could afford to put so much information on their support site, and I was worried that the 'spying' by SAP was going to make them shut down access to the info.
Instead we get a show, love the theater!
First off, let me say that I work for a blood bank, and unless this new technology can churn out blood of any type for about 250$ a pint, then it really isn't going to supplant the current business model of soliciting donations and preparing them for transfusion
That said, I think that the primary use of this tech will be to create progenitor cells with an exact genetic match to the recipient, who may need to have a bone marrow transplant for various forms of leukemia.
One of my relatives went through this recently, it was hard to find a donor, and they will be on anti-rejection meds for quite some time. We are all ecstatic that they are alive, but it would be FAR better if they had received a donation with an EXACT genetic match. Lacking an identical twin or clone, this new tech is as good as it can get
So, in my opinion, not going to use this for bulk blood generation in some incubator, but to create progenitor cells for transplant
The working model looks a lot like the hands they draw for Cartman
don't care
Hell, I'm even surprised that second life is still up and running considering the collective ADD that 'net users demonstrate
yep, because .25 of American scientists believe in Intelligent Design, and as such are worthless
Actually, my ears percked up at the mention of past ice age floods, especially since people have pointed to a post ice-age flood in the Black Sea as a source for the story of the Biblical Flood
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sea_deluge_theory
Of course any real archeaology of a Biblical event is bound to expose some falacies, like how it just flooded a small region and didn't really flood the whole world, Noah actually managed to save some domesticated animals, not every animal on the Earth, etc...
So... have looney Creationists actually gained enough hold on the Canadian government to silence scientific knowledge?
Very America-like, you all must be very proud
and break out with the human embryos being discarded from fertility labs already
lets quit pansying around and use the best tool for the job
filling their pockets, you gotta admire the chutzpah of the people who would actually get away with charging that sort of money
Not really, first off IANAA, in the case of larger stars, the first step is to move towards iron.
However, massive stars have enough, um, mass to compress the matter into Neutronium, which may have been the result of iron being compressed, but no longer holds any of the characteristics of iron, seeing as it no longer holds electrons in orbit around the neutron
Black Holes would then be further compressed beyond neutronium, and would contain no attributes of Iron, although much of the contents of the Black Hole may have at one time been Iron.
The Supernova matter will now corrupt our Solar system and makes us goes Supernova too!
Hmm... "a masters in your field or is it some generic MBA?"
Painting a picture in black n white there?
Let's put some grey into it
Yes, it was an MBA program, not the best, but not the worst (fyi, I did the BS at UoP, just to get it out of the way, went elsewhere for the MBA). It had a 'concentration' in Project Management, which fit with both recent experience and substantial training that a prior employer had put me through
FWIW, I learned a lot that I had never even imagined before, Namely, money, money money, sweet lucre, how we bow to you!
One of the hard things about understanding money, is realizing just how many people are working their asses off (hell their bonuses are tied to it) just to reduce the long term cost of your wages. If you ask me we should all be circling the wagons and forming up IT Unions before the bean counters figure out how to turn us into living brains in jars that they can wire up and keep working 24/7
Management By Walking Around
",,, So, Mr. Isabusyguy, I've noticed that you have not worked in web development (enter any skill set here) for the past five years. Um, really, what makes you believe that you can jump right back into it and remain effective?"
I've been interviewed like that, and I have interviewed people like that. It comes down to the vast shift in development tools that happens even in five years. Some people can make the transition from Oracle db and AOL server to SQLServer and IIS, some have a harder time, everybody has to work like a slave to recover similar skill sets.
I have hired people trying to play catchup, and watched them leave for stress reasons after six months in which I felt they performed well.
Of course, being the dinosaur in the room (I can tell you about floppy disks) has it's advantage. I can make vague suggestions for table structure or architecture and watch a team of whippershappers work their asses off delivering a solution. So yeah, I miss the hands on, I miss "owning" a unique skill set, but I DO enjoy convincing a competent team of people to make my (slightly addeled) ideas work
Is it really so wrong that I should expect this to pay more than when I was just some gunslinger that a consulting company would bring in to close out projects on budget?
Then send over some programmers with pliers and a blowtorch and get medieval on her ass
Given a stable job market, I never would have pursued a masters.
Dot-com bust, telco meltdown, 911... They all lead to a horrible job market in 2001, and in interview after interview, I heard "Well... we like your experience, but frankly, we cannot justify this level of pay for somebody with no college degree".
Sure, I remained employed, but not at the level of pay I was accustomed to. So, I started working on a BS in 2002 and completed an MBA in 2007. There was a long period of adjustment as I was introduced to GAAP, ROI, and the intricacies of expected rate of return, cost of capital and how to determine if a project is worth pursuing considering the current interest rates.
Way diferent than my original concerns of whether I wanted to learn the tech and if the outcome would be wicked cool.
I never saw it coming, but they really did change my brain, I just had the simple expectation that it would be worth more financially than it was before.
Ha
Because we can!
Or at least that was 'good enough' of a reason for the Thunderbirds
Allwe need now are some 'net savvy puppets with supersonic jets
Income Before gaining masters degree $90K+
Student loans taken on gaining masters $57K
Income after gaining master $87K
So, if you add in the cost of paying off my students loans, I am about $10k a year in the hole
Add in that I am performing tons of sole wasting managerial tasks and moving further away from what I really enjoy doing (database driven web development), then...
Not making me happy, not happy at all
the facility that I saw had large screens visible on at least three walls, maybe four.
There were no cube walls and anybody could make eye contact with most other people in the room.
One end of the room seemed to be slightly raised so that anybody seated there could see anybody else in the room directly.
The pods themselves seemed to be arranged in a pattern on the floor that allowed space between them but still packed quite a few operators in there.
as far as snacks, I would rather see a rotation of people out to a break area than eating at their desk
then they can run around stealing gold instead of whatever it is they do now to fleece the public
I'm all for leaning on technology, but this just seems like profiteering
Just in case you weren't paying attention, there has been a big move in the US to increase regulations on commuter carriers who have driven down pilot pay and driven up pilot hours in order to increase profits. A lack of pilot training and an over reliance of the autopilot was seen as a direct cause of the crash of Continental Connection Flight 3407
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2010-07-30-aviation-safety_N.htm
IMHO, this makes ryanair's request unreasonable
I had a short stint with a fire department in a fairly large metro area. They handle emergency response for a few million people and have a pretty efficient set up for their war room.
It is fairly roomy so that you can get up and walk around.
desks are set up in pods with groups a people sitting facing towards the center of the hexagons they are on the perimeter of.
They have phone communications with headsets that allow them to move around
there are multiple monitors on each desk and large monitors on every wall that can be switched to show any desktop
The lighting and noise were somewhat subdued, but in no way dimly lit or overly comfortable (no high back chairs)
I do not remember the snack food situation, but there is a lot of security and it would be a pain to have to walk in and out all the time)
fwiw, I would save your company a ton of money and just use IP kvms and a software kvm management solution to tie together a bunch of desktops in a relatively open area together where the operators have some room to walk around, but are not overly distracted or lulled to sleep
ya know, massive operations centers are just soooo glass house IS anyway, totally 80's thinkin
Earth atmosphere is about 78% nitrogen, it would take a pretty aggressive nitrogen fixing strategy to grab about 1/3000's as much nitrogen as is available on Earth
Personally, I would not want to be standing around any 'being' that would be likely to strip all of the nitrogen from my protein laden body
Here is the breakdown of the Martian atmosphere:
carbon dioxide 95.32%
nitrogen 2.7%
argon 1.6%
oxygen 0.13%
carbon monoxide 0.07%
water vapor 0.03%
neon, krypton, xenon, ozone, methane trace
The average surface pressure is only about 7 millibars (less than 1% of the Earth's)
http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/M/Marsatmos.html
So, Mars does have an atmosphere, but is it usable to Earth life?
You would need s source of nitrogen, lotsa miracle gro would be handy
You must be talking about the eastern hemisphere, the Wongs own the western hemisphere, it's the best one.
Only trillions?
Sure, there may be a substantial fortune to earn on Mars. but you have to reach an extremely high 'activation' energy, through extreme overcrowding, etc... to get enough humans off of their lardy asses to put out the effort to get there first
but (semi) seriously, this guy thinks he found something like a lichen on mars
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6969396/
would terra-forming Mars potentially wipe out an indigenous species, and would Earthers that were desperate enough for another place to live even care?