Concur with the importance of self-esteem. if you can't see your own value (clearly, and objectively, not a fantasy high or low...), you need someone who can help you to do that, even via e-mail or other remote feedback.
Self-confidence really helps. Know that you are providing value to your team. Everyone has quirks, rough spots, and less than ideal moments / days. Try to see past those in your team-mates, and yourself. Focusing on little negative spots is missing the reason you're doing this.
I don't know much about meds, but if you are on that path, I would guess that consistency is a very good thing. People don't like surprises, and medicated vs non-medicated behavior can be lead to... unexpected things.
But, virtually all I know about the topic I learned on Fox news, if you called it the Affordable Care Act website I would have no clue what you are talking about.
My neighbor is much more knowledgeable on the topic, he listens to Rush Limbaugh all the time.
Fail is everywhere - splitting states into urban and rural states won't really help - the urban states will still have the money/power, even if the rural states get their senate votes.
The solution is obviously to make me king - I will be kind, benevolent, and treat you all with the upmost fairness, after I take care of MY personal agendae.
In 1988 I knew an engineering student who swore that there were "advanced control algorithms" at work in the Dodge Caravan's cruise control - I told him he'd be lucky if there was anything more than a first order feedback loop: ( setpoint - speed ) * K = delta throttle, with maybe some limit stops.
As long as $0.89 analog computers could do the job, 1980s auto manufacturers had no inclination to turn anything over to microprocessor control. I think even after most of the engine fell under advanced microprocessor control, they still kept the KISS cruise control.
Good luck with that. Transparency culture is barely making its way into medical devices, it's nowhere near automotive/industrial, and military application is a pointedly anti-transparency culture.
Some customers are demanding process adherence, but even that is a rare thing in basic service providers.
As an economic culture, we're still a bunch of ostrich with heads buried in the sand, jealously guarding the same damn egg designs that everyone else has.
Fragmented local governments make less and less sense as travel speeds increase and communication costs drop. I think that was already evident when the last 20 states were admitted to the union. Land area of states, and even counties, have trended upwards, and not just because populations were small.
If you fragment the tax base into little local communities, the poor stay poor. It's been a good thing for the "natural splendor" of Arkansas, but mostly, I think we're all better off it we take more even care of everyone, rather than ignoring the poor neighbors over the other side of some line on a map.
I guess what I am asking is: did anyone here, the ones all wrapped up about not seeing city lights and stars, use those cameras, and if so, can they remember their dismal dynamic range?
In the medical device space it's amazing how short a timeframe 20 years is. Lots of good ideas that are on their way to becoming obvious today still have decades before they can achieve commercial viability in the open market. Too bad (or good?) that med-tech doesn't have the kind of legal muscle that Mickey Mouse does.
IP is important for ramping up product development and sales channels without hundreds of millions of dollars to ensure "first mover advantage" and potential returns for investors.
IP is important to small businesses who play in big businesses' turf - at least they have a chance of getting bought out, instead of crushed outright once they've discovered, invented, or proven a new market's potential value.
But, how important are the 10% of businesses in the survey? Are they employing 90% of the workforce, are they producing 90% of GDP, how about export/import balance - what % of exports are produced by those 90% of US businesses which don't care about IP?
There are lots of ways to spin numbers like these. I'm not surprised at all if 9/10 strip mall stores I pass don't have any interest in IP. I am surprised if even 20% of cutting edge, innovative global tech companies don't care about IP.
I'm significantly underwhelmed by the longevity of the Euro-American civilization currently making all the fuss in North America.
So, it took the Chinese 50 years to "catch up" to the pre-Apollo U.S. space program, that's what, like 1% of the duration of their continuous civilization?
$50 and/or intimidation, I'd guess they got 90% compliance in Pennsylvania, 50%+ in Texas (unless it was poor, backwoods Texas, in which case the bribe probably only needed to be $20 to get 90% compliance...)
Oh, of course the continent has got it's nice spots, and we're looking for "small town" to raise the kids in. I was more concerned with the massive "desert effect" storms described as rolling through Melbourne area... we don't get much of that in Florida, though I think Florida has Darwin beat for tropical cyclone activity. We plan to drive the US southwest some day, but furthest I have been that way in my lifetime is San Antonio, barely scratching the surface of the dry area, mostly I have stayed East of Houston. I fly into Phoenix once, when they hadn't had rain for ~500 days, I didn't see the attraction... can say the same for LA east of the mountains.
When I was getting serious about visiting / emigrating, the drought hadn't broken in Brisbane yet, it kind of put a picture in my head.
The continent is a wasteland - of course the river valleys have an abundance of life, but if you would put a big lake up the valley some lung cat fish or another would go extinct and a hundred things would come to take its place in the huge new freshwater biome...
I'm not expecting rational action out of a democratically elected government, we've got the same problem here with nuclear reactors. Still, Brisbane needs to get those projects finished before the next drought hits. I was looking at potentially emigrating from Florida to maybe Adelaide, but proximity to that freakin' desert is scary - if we do move it will probably be to Whangarei or points north in NZ instead.
A lot of the hybrids in the US are non-plugin type, which mystifies me... except for the fact that their battery packs are so pitifully small that they only run a couple of miles on pure electricity - keeps the battery packs small, light and cheap, while still selling the hybrid concept to a premium paying market segment.
I have a Honda 2000 inverter generator, it runs all day on about a gallon, until you load it down, then it consumes fuel more quickly (unlike a traditional 3600RPM generator that uses a whole lot of fuel even with no load). The thing is, most people loading generators aren't anywhere near peak output 90+% of the time they are using them. Put that into an automotive application, and the 2KW output won't be enough to overcome wind resistance at 70mph - and it will be sucking down fuel as fast as it can.
Well, my observation was the (manufacturer self-reported) fuel consumption of a Lexus SUV hybrid, as it was being driven by the owner.
It was getting significantly improved in-town fuel economy, presumably from regenerative braking. Highway was roughly equivalent to a non-hybrid, maybe a little worse. I'd hate to be held to these numbers, but I remember something like 32mpg in town and more like 22 highway. Not stellar for an econobox, but respectable for something hauling 6 people plus gear.
There's also the "nanny factor" where the hybrids put all these gee-whiz numbers up on the dashboard showing you how efficient you are/aren't being - while their guzzler cousins hide all that and let you revel in the guilty pleasure of wide open throttle V-8 acceleration.
Red Herring - interesting choice of words - large fish are the ones paying the price for our dispersal of mercury into the environment - whether from bulbs, coal, or other sources.
German, perhaps? Land of the $1200 dishwasher? Y'all make some nice stuff, and I'm happy for you that you can afford it, Billy Bob over here would just sit in the dark before he'd spring $20 for a light bulb.
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Concur with the importance of self-esteem. if you can't see your own value (clearly, and objectively, not a fantasy high or low...), you need someone who can help you to do that, even via e-mail or other remote feedback.
Self-confidence really helps. Know that you are providing value to your team. Everyone has quirks, rough spots, and less than ideal moments / days. Try to see past those in your team-mates, and yourself. Focusing on little negative spots is missing the reason you're doing this.
I don't know much about meds, but if you are on that path, I would guess that consistency is a very good thing. People don't like surprises, and medicated vs non-medicated behavior can be lead to... unexpected things.
But, virtually all I know about the topic I learned on Fox news, if you called it the Affordable Care Act website I would have no clue what you are talking about.
My neighbor is much more knowledgeable on the topic, he listens to Rush Limbaugh all the time.
Fail is everywhere - splitting states into urban and rural states won't really help - the urban states will still have the money/power, even if the rural states get their senate votes.
The solution is obviously to make me king - I will be kind, benevolent, and treat you all with the upmost fairness, after I take care of MY personal agendae.
In 1988 I knew an engineering student who swore that there were "advanced control algorithms" at work in the Dodge Caravan's cruise control - I told him he'd be lucky if there was anything more than a first order feedback loop: ( setpoint - speed ) * K = delta throttle, with maybe some limit stops.
As long as $0.89 analog computers could do the job, 1980s auto manufacturers had no inclination to turn anything over to microprocessor control. I think even after most of the engine fell under advanced microprocessor control, they still kept the KISS cruise control.
Good luck with that. Transparency culture is barely making its way into medical devices, it's nowhere near automotive/industrial, and military application is a pointedly anti-transparency culture.
Some customers are demanding process adherence, but even that is a rare thing in basic service providers.
As an economic culture, we're still a bunch of ostrich with heads buried in the sand, jealously guarding the same damn egg designs that everyone else has.
Fragmented local governments make less and less sense as travel speeds increase and communication costs drop. I think that was already evident when the last 20 states were admitted to the union. Land area of states, and even counties, have trended upwards, and not just because populations were small.
If you fragment the tax base into little local communities, the poor stay poor. It's been a good thing for the "natural splendor" of Arkansas, but mostly, I think we're all better off it we take more even care of everyone, rather than ignoring the poor neighbors over the other side of some line on a map.
I guess what I am asking is: did anyone here, the ones all wrapped up about not seeing city lights and stars, use those cameras, and if so, can they remember their dismal dynamic range?
In the medical device space it's amazing how short a timeframe 20 years is. Lots of good ideas that are on their way to becoming obvious today still have decades before they can achieve commercial viability in the open market. Too bad (or good?) that med-tech doesn't have the kind of legal muscle that Mickey Mouse does.
IP is important for attracting investment.
IP is important for ramping up product development and sales channels without hundreds of millions of dollars to ensure "first mover advantage" and potential returns for investors.
IP is important to small businesses who play in big businesses' turf - at least they have a chance of getting bought out, instead of crushed outright once they've discovered, invented, or proven a new market's potential value.
But, yeah, other than that, who cares?
But, how important are the 10% of businesses in the survey? Are they employing 90% of the workforce, are they producing 90% of GDP, how about export/import balance - what % of exports are produced by those 90% of US businesses which don't care about IP?
There are lots of ways to spin numbers like these. I'm not surprised at all if 9/10 strip mall stores I pass don't have any interest in IP. I am surprised if even 20% of cutting edge, innovative global tech companies don't care about IP.
Any manned lunar orbit mission today would likely include dedicated external cameras that could capture those images regardless of attitude.
Amazing what 50 years of technology advance has done for the cost of imaging.
And I would eat it here, or there. I would eat it ANYWHERE!
I do so like green cheese and ham, thank you, thank you, Sam I am.
Good ideas have always been around, and relatively easy to recognize. Getting good ideas accepted by a majority vote is the big trick.
You don't have to be very far away at all to get those photos, just set the lens to wide angle...
I'm significantly underwhelmed by the longevity of the Euro-American civilization currently making all the fuss in North America.
So, it took the Chinese 50 years to "catch up" to the pre-Apollo U.S. space program, that's what, like 1% of the duration of their continuous civilization?
Did anyone actually use point and shoot cameras in the late 1960s / early 1970s?
Dynamic range of film with any decent ASA was abysmal back then - it got considerably better up through the 1980s and even 1990s.
Back then, people wouldn't have been asking "where are the stars and cities" - everyone knew that film just wasn't that good.
$50 and/or intimidation, I'd guess they got 90% compliance in Pennsylvania, 50%+ in Texas (unless it was poor, backwoods Texas, in which case the bribe probably only needed to be $20 to get 90% compliance...)
I was just old enough to remember watching the last moon landing. In elementary school they had me believing I could be an astronaut when I grew up.
Oh, of course the continent has got it's nice spots, and we're looking for "small town" to raise the kids in. I was more concerned with the massive "desert effect" storms described as rolling through Melbourne area... we don't get much of that in Florida, though I think Florida has Darwin beat for tropical cyclone activity. We plan to drive the US southwest some day, but furthest I have been that way in my lifetime is San Antonio, barely scratching the surface of the dry area, mostly I have stayed East of Houston. I fly into Phoenix once, when they hadn't had rain for ~500 days, I didn't see the attraction... can say the same for LA east of the mountains.
When I was getting serious about visiting / emigrating, the drought hadn't broken in Brisbane yet, it kind of put a picture in my head.
The continent is a wasteland - of course the river valleys have an abundance of life, but if you would put a big lake up the valley some lung cat fish or another would go extinct and a hundred things would come to take its place in the huge new freshwater biome...
I'm not expecting rational action out of a democratically elected government, we've got the same problem here with nuclear reactors. Still, Brisbane needs to get those projects finished before the next drought hits. I was looking at potentially emigrating from Florida to maybe Adelaide, but proximity to that freakin' desert is scary - if we do move it will probably be to Whangarei or points north in NZ instead.
A lot of the hybrids in the US are non-plugin type, which mystifies me... except for the fact that their battery packs are so pitifully small that they only run a couple of miles on pure electricity - keeps the battery packs small, light and cheap, while still selling the hybrid concept to a premium paying market segment.
I have a Honda 2000 inverter generator, it runs all day on about a gallon, until you load it down, then it consumes fuel more quickly (unlike a traditional 3600RPM generator that uses a whole lot of fuel even with no load). The thing is, most people loading generators aren't anywhere near peak output 90+% of the time they are using them. Put that into an automotive application, and the 2KW output won't be enough to overcome wind resistance at 70mph - and it will be sucking down fuel as fast as it can.
Well, my observation was the (manufacturer self-reported) fuel consumption of a Lexus SUV hybrid, as it was being driven by the owner.
It was getting significantly improved in-town fuel economy, presumably from regenerative braking. Highway was roughly equivalent to a non-hybrid, maybe a little worse. I'd hate to be held to these numbers, but I remember something like 32mpg in town and more like 22 highway. Not stellar for an econobox, but respectable for something hauling 6 people plus gear.
There's also the "nanny factor" where the hybrids put all these gee-whiz numbers up on the dashboard showing you how efficient you are/aren't being - while their guzzler cousins hide all that and let you revel in the guilty pleasure of wide open throttle V-8 acceleration.
Red Herring - interesting choice of words - large fish are the ones paying the price for our dispersal of mercury into the environment - whether from bulbs, coal, or other sources.
German, perhaps? Land of the $1200 dishwasher? Y'all make some nice stuff, and I'm happy for you that you can afford it, Billy Bob over here would just sit in the dark before he'd spring $20 for a light bulb.