I have always found it a funny topic.
The politician like to think they have so much power by implement DST or not. Has anyone ever told them they can control the real number of hours of sunlight through legislation?
I remember one local politician saying DST would give farms an extra hour of day light! Wow I thought - how could they have such power over the cosmos.
Some IT people get a IT related job that wind up doing nothing.
For example: I hired a guy that had amazing education and solid 10 years experience. His first assignment was crap and upon a code review he had hard coded everything (Select 'john doe' from dual). His never actually pulled anything from the Database! Upon an interrogation His 10 year of experience turned out to be just 10 years of sitting on his ass doing nothing. Amazing that is his employer actually thought he was good worked who knew his stuff.
HR did there job and checked everything out but a simple 15 quiz would have quickly filtered him out.
But I know what you mean. For me I have walked into client site with virtually no knowledge of their systems and language used. One week later and 80 hours I am typically fairly proficient. For me it is not so much about the language it is the syntax - the underlining concepts are fairly consistent across all languages. But if I knew I had to write a test about on a certain language (epically if the job description specified it) I would at least study it a bit so I could pass it.
Slap a webcam (with Skype pre-loaded) and the Adobe Flash Player it seems perfect (even if it running a flavor of Linux) and put a price tag of $100-$150 and I would buy it at the drop of a hat. HEAR THAT... Do not just slap it out at sell it at $500! I will be buy a regular laptop at that point.
As a TELUS customer I have been told each and every time I renew that I can extend my current contract (exactly the same plan, details, price, etc) for another 3 years. I have been told on repeated re-newels that I can extend my contract forever.
Even when I had my cell phone destroyed 6 months before my contacted ended they gave me a new phone ($150 credit towards the purchase of a new one) and allowed my to extend my current contract 3 more years from the point of where I had the cell phone destroyed. I was not required to buy the remaining 6 months on my old contract. I suspect this was allowed as the records show me a long term client.
That for the link and information. It is interesting to note.
I have my annual review with our director about wages... his mind set is the wages increase should always be at the rate of inflation plus a maximum of 1%. Hence now 10 years into the company and wage are about 10-20% below the industry standards and the turn over rate is about 10% of the company a month! We have all tired to tell him the wages needs to be adjusted but he is just not buying into it.
at 12% inflation the 10K to reach the US average salary will take a few more than 10 year. As the Inflation rate in the US does go up. Assuming that the India inflation rate stays at 12% and the US tries to maintain the 2.5% it will take about 25 years before the average wages converge.
Do you think the long term average
I remember the Punisher with Dolph Lundgren coming out (AND NOT UNDER THE MARVEL LICENSE). It was a really good move for the time. Marvel's lawyers pulled the early releases and a re-write to correspond to Marvel's requirements was made. It was officially released the next year. It was crap (as like most movies from Marvel at the time).
It seems that Alzheimer's appears to be in part hereditary. From the number of Alzheimer in my direct blood line I knew what potentially was in my future. Not that I care as I would forget everything anyways.
It sounds like it is about 5-10 years out from reaching general usage. I know I will need it in about 20 years. Good job!
Could be good. They have always tending to 'soften' wolverine down with each new incarnation of his character. At the starting comics he was a whirl wind of claws that would literally spew blood and guts of 50 ninjas all over the pages. Everything a young impressionable adolescent was eager to treat his eyes to. Imagine wolverine power of regeneration what a real person would do... wolverine did it... smoked, fought, got shot, had a good time with out a concern for his personnel safety, and to top it off he killed nasty ninjas and bad guys (all things any kid would imagine doing if he had his power).
Then they 'soften' him and started to add dialogue, taking valuable blood soaked page space for a text bubble. As long the movie does not have him picking daisies with Sabretooth and calming talking things out it might actually be OK.
I have returned lots of opened software.
I return it and claim I disagree with the Licensing agreement (which typical states that if you disagree with it you are to return it).
If push comes to shove I ask them to read the Licensing prior to opening the box and of course you can NOT use my copy to do that. I have had 100% success rate in returning opened software packages.
With licensing comes my expectation that they are now liable. Doctors, Lawyers, and accountants that are licensed are liable to some degree for their actions or in actions. Will it hold true for the licensed technician? With there be insurance for these new licensed technicians?
A long ago class mate started a company in Canada to do just this. He even asked if cared to do freelance work doing assignments to help keep up with the demand. His rates where not cheap and he offered good coin to do the work.
I never took the work as I felt it would be unethical.
More than likely a developer involved in both project re-used is own developed code.
We have a guy in the office that has been caught re-using coded packages from his previous employer. It is pretty easy to spot as not his work and ask him if understands what it is doing and often ask him re-write it.
The case will did the developer back up his code and then transfer it tog Google? Or did he just come over to Google and re-write the code from scratch? I would hope the developer leveraged his experiences to the Google Project.
Reminds me of a SF short story I read where a group of explorers where traveling in space and found ship(?) with a strange energy signature. They brought it back to earth for inspection. At the core was a strange reactor. The scientist set up all sorts of shields and such and then carefully open the reactor - nothing came out. But some individual several stories below the test chamber died.... the micro black hole fell like a yo-yo to through the center of the Earth collecting material as it went back and forth and continuously growing. They ended with the estimate that our little section of the space would have black hole large enough to consume the our sun in a few years.
So until we understand Gravity well enough to contain a renegade Black hole we should proceed with caution.
Bill C-61 will allow the Record industry (or copyright holder) to extortion money at will from the Canadian consumers. All the Record industry (or copyright holder) will need to do is claim that you illegally download (copied) some music (copy protected work) and ask for $500 or go to court with a lawyer and fight it out (costing more than $500). At which point the Record industry can drop the case and good luck recouping those legal fees from a industry with tons of lawyers and virtually unlimited budgets. It is bill to legalize extortion of the rich against the poor!
The X...01's electronic kits where fun.
We got the 101 electronic kits and had great fun building the electronic dog whistle (fun to torment that nasty dog next door!).
We then asked to the other series the 501 and 1001 (I seem to recall). We spend hours and days building all sorts of electronic devices. Best way ever to spend the winter doldrums locked indoors. Helped out lots when I took circuit board design classes (which where trivially easy as I had a very firm grasp on the basics and understood the terminology).
I have recently looked for those very same kits and have yet to find them.
Why is it the products Responsibility?
Does your CAR send out notice to police if you speed or stop you from speeding?
What if I use the device in different jurisdiction where those DRM law do not exist?
If some how I do manage to run copy protected works on the ZUNE and get hit by a law suit via the RIAA then am I protected because I assume the ZUNE as acting as a controller? I am not a lawyer but to me if a products goes to such an extent to enforce copy protection then the liability of infringement would fall to the ZUNE and to Microsoft (after I could argue that I thought I was protected because of the heavy restrictions on the device).
A little more math: An average of 12.54 tracks per CD. The $15.99 breaks down to $1.28 a track:
$0.01 Musicians' unions
$0.06 Packaging/manufacturing
$0.07 Publishing royalties
$0.06 Retail profit
$0.07 Distribution
$0.13 Artists' royalties
$0.14 Label profit
$0.19 Marketing/promotion
$0.23 Label overhead
$0.31 Retail overhead
So when you download you can cut out some of of the overhead. (IE: Packaging/manufacturing). The Distribution cost is almost nil. I hope the Retail overhead associated with an online store is significantly cheaper. Mind the artist claim they get less per song for a download (but at 13 cents a track it is not like they get more of the pie anyways) - The LABEL bills on all there overhead and then tacks on profit (which is more then the Artist!). Also does the LABEL alway do Marketing/promotion - if you audited there books for a particular album would they have spent 19 cents per track for each track sold? Do you think they spend $26.2 million Marketing/promotion on the 11 Million Albums Sold of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band?
But it tells me the label makes way more than any artist and the only people I am hurting is the label by downloading a copyright infringement MP3. I can put $5 in an envelope and mail it to my favorite artists (that should cover me for a long time 13 cents a track).
While in Japan there was about a half a dozen BEER vending machines about a half a block away (in somewhat shadowy area) - rarely did I ever see any kids try to get beer out of them. The one time I saw two tweens try an old momma yelled at them and they quickly scampered away. It seems to me that social control via the social norms works pretty darn good in Japan.
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I have always found it a funny topic. The politician like to think they have so much power by implement DST or not. Has anyone ever told them they can control the real number of hours of sunlight through legislation? I remember one local politician saying DST would give farms an extra hour of day light! Wow I thought - how could they have such power over the cosmos.
Yeah yeah yeah... but when will they mount the laser on the heads of sharks?
They are too busy enjoying their lotto winnings.
Some IT people get a IT related job that wind up doing nothing. For example: I hired a guy that had amazing education and solid 10 years experience. His first assignment was crap and upon a code review he had hard coded everything (Select 'john doe' from dual). His never actually pulled anything from the Database! Upon an interrogation His 10 year of experience turned out to be just 10 years of sitting on his ass doing nothing. Amazing that is his employer actually thought he was good worked who knew his stuff. HR did there job and checked everything out but a simple 15 quiz would have quickly filtered him out. But I know what you mean. For me I have walked into client site with virtually no knowledge of their systems and language used. One week later and 80 hours I am typically fairly proficient. For me it is not so much about the language it is the syntax - the underlining concepts are fairly consistent across all languages. But if I knew I had to write a test about on a certain language (epically if the job description specified it) I would at least study it a bit so I could pass it.
Slap a webcam (with Skype pre-loaded) and the Adobe Flash Player it seems perfect (even if it running a flavor of Linux) and put a price tag of $100-$150 and I would buy it at the drop of a hat. HEAR THAT... Do not just slap it out at sell it at $500! I will be buy a regular laptop at that point.
As a TELUS customer I have been told each and every time I renew that I can extend my current contract (exactly the same plan, details, price, etc) for another 3 years. I have been told on repeated re-newels that I can extend my contract forever. Even when I had my cell phone destroyed 6 months before my contacted ended they gave me a new phone ($150 credit towards the purchase of a new one) and allowed my to extend my current contract 3 more years from the point of where I had the cell phone destroyed. I was not required to buy the remaining 6 months on my old contract. I suspect this was allowed as the records show me a long term client.
That for the link and information. It is interesting to note. I have my annual review with our director about wages... his mind set is the wages increase should always be at the rate of inflation plus a maximum of 1%. Hence now 10 years into the company and wage are about 10-20% below the industry standards and the turn over rate is about 10% of the company a month! We have all tired to tell him the wages needs to be adjusted but he is just not buying into it.
at 12% inflation the 10K to reach the US average salary will take a few more than 10 year. As the Inflation rate in the US does go up. Assuming that the India inflation rate stays at 12% and the US tries to maintain the 2.5% it will take about 25 years before the average wages converge. Do you think the long term average
The one I say the first time around was significantly different from the second cut.
I remember the Punisher with Dolph Lundgren coming out (AND NOT UNDER THE MARVEL LICENSE). It was a really good move for the time. Marvel's lawyers pulled the early releases and a re-write to correspond to Marvel's requirements was made. It was officially released the next year. It was crap (as like most movies from Marvel at the time).
It seems that Alzheimer's appears to be in part hereditary. From the number of Alzheimer in my direct blood line I knew what potentially was in my future. Not that I care as I would forget everything anyways. It sounds like it is about 5-10 years out from reaching general usage. I know I will need it in about 20 years. Good job!
Could be good. They have always tending to 'soften' wolverine down with each new incarnation of his character. At the starting comics he was a whirl wind of claws that would literally spew blood and guts of 50 ninjas all over the pages. Everything a young impressionable adolescent was eager to treat his eyes to. Imagine wolverine power of regeneration what a real person would do... wolverine did it... smoked, fought, got shot, had a good time with out a concern for his personnel safety, and to top it off he killed nasty ninjas and bad guys (all things any kid would imagine doing if he had his power). Then they 'soften' him and started to add dialogue, taking valuable blood soaked page space for a text bubble. As long the movie does not have him picking daisies with Sabretooth and calming talking things out it might actually be OK.
I have returned lots of opened software. I return it and claim I disagree with the Licensing agreement (which typical states that if you disagree with it you are to return it). If push comes to shove I ask them to read the Licensing prior to opening the box and of course you can NOT use my copy to do that. I have had 100% success rate in returning opened software packages.
Played most of those games. It was a much quicker response to those "play-by-mail" games that came before them.
With licensing comes my expectation that they are now liable. Doctors, Lawyers, and accountants that are licensed are liable to some degree for their actions or in actions. Will it hold true for the licensed technician? With there be insurance for these new licensed technicians?
A long ago class mate started a company in Canada to do just this. He even asked if cared to do freelance work doing assignments to help keep up with the demand. His rates where not cheap and he offered good coin to do the work. I never took the work as I felt it would be unethical.
More than likely a developer involved in both project re-used is own developed code. We have a guy in the office that has been caught re-using coded packages from his previous employer. It is pretty easy to spot as not his work and ask him if understands what it is doing and often ask him re-write it. The case will did the developer back up his code and then transfer it tog Google? Or did he just come over to Google and re-write the code from scratch? I would hope the developer leveraged his experiences to the Google Project.
Reminds me of a SF short story I read where a group of explorers where traveling in space and found ship(?) with a strange energy signature. They brought it back to earth for inspection. At the core was a strange reactor. The scientist set up all sorts of shields and such and then carefully open the reactor - nothing came out. But some individual several stories below the test chamber died.... the micro black hole fell like a yo-yo to through the center of the Earth collecting material as it went back and forth and continuously growing. They ended with the estimate that our little section of the space would have black hole large enough to consume the our sun in a few years. So until we understand Gravity well enough to contain a renegade Black hole we should proceed with caution.
Is that power or weapons?
Bill C-61 will allow the Record industry (or copyright holder) to extortion money at will from the Canadian consumers. All the Record industry (or copyright holder) will need to do is claim that you illegally download (copied) some music (copy protected work) and ask for $500 or go to court with a lawyer and fight it out (costing more than $500). At which point the Record industry can drop the case and good luck recouping those legal fees from a industry with tons of lawyers and virtually unlimited budgets. It is bill to legalize extortion of the rich against the poor!
The X...01's electronic kits where fun. We got the 101 electronic kits and had great fun building the electronic dog whistle (fun to torment that nasty dog next door!). We then asked to the other series the 501 and 1001 (I seem to recall). We spend hours and days building all sorts of electronic devices. Best way ever to spend the winter doldrums locked indoors. Helped out lots when I took circuit board design classes (which where trivially easy as I had a very firm grasp on the basics and understood the terminology). I have recently looked for those very same kits and have yet to find them.
And stupid me laying in bed for free. Does diet coke and twinkies count as a special diet?
Why is it the products Responsibility? Does your CAR send out notice to police if you speed or stop you from speeding? What if I use the device in different jurisdiction where those DRM law do not exist? If some how I do manage to run copy protected works on the ZUNE and get hit by a law suit via the RIAA then am I protected because I assume the ZUNE as acting as a controller? I am not a lawyer but to me if a products goes to such an extent to enforce copy protection then the liability of infringement would fall to the ZUNE and to Microsoft (after I could argue that I thought I was protected because of the heavy restrictions on the device).
A little more math: An average of 12.54 tracks per CD. The $15.99 breaks down to $1.28 a track:
$0.01 Musicians' unions
$0.06 Packaging/manufacturing
$0.07 Publishing royalties
$0.06 Retail profit
$0.07 Distribution
$0.13 Artists' royalties
$0.14 Label profit
$0.19 Marketing/promotion
$0.23 Label overhead
$0.31 Retail overhead
So when you download you can cut out some of of the overhead. (IE: Packaging/manufacturing).
The Distribution cost is almost nil. I hope the Retail overhead associated with an online store is significantly cheaper. Mind the artist claim they get less per song for a download (but at 13 cents a track it is not like they get more of the pie anyways) - The LABEL bills on all there overhead and then tacks on profit (which is more then the Artist!). Also does the LABEL alway do Marketing/promotion - if you audited there books for a particular album would they have spent 19 cents per track for each track sold? Do you think they spend $26.2 million Marketing/promotion on the 11 Million Albums Sold of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band?
But it tells me the label makes way more than any artist and the only people I am hurting is the label by downloading a copyright infringement MP3. I can put $5 in an envelope and mail it to my favorite artists (that should cover me for a long time 13 cents a track).
Ah now I can sleep well tonight.
While in Japan there was about a half a dozen BEER vending machines about a half a block away (in somewhat shadowy area) - rarely did I ever see any kids try to get beer out of them. The one time I saw two tweens try an old momma yelled at them and they quickly scampered away.
It seems to me that social control via the social norms works pretty darn good in Japan.