I thought that was a rather interesting episode. You have two species of intelligent life that evolved and coexisted on the same planet, which is probably not a common occurrence in the cosmos. The species that looked down on the other species was dying out from a genetic defect. Providing a cure would only prolong the inevitable outcome by a few hundred years. This was the first episode that formed the basis for the Prime Directive to not interfere with emerging cultures.
The episode was nominated for the 2003 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation (short form) and received the highest Nielsen ratings for any episode of Enterprise during season two at that point.
Enterprise was awesome as all the technology from the original Star Trek series wasn't fully developed yet. The transporters were still experimental for human transport. Tactical alert — RED ALERT! — took several seasons to fall into place. The captain chair needed tweaking to get just right.
One way around downloading over dial-up was buying a Linux book with a CDROM in the back. That was my first introduction Linux AND Slackware. That didn't work very well on the Cyrix 6x86 CPU and motherboard I got for free, no matter how many times I rolled the kernel and modues. I eventually bought SuSE Linux from the computer store to get it working.
According to the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America, you're correct.
The short answer: Thor Power eliminated a tax dodge, and thereby made it more expensive for publishers to carry inventory from year to year. As a result, publishers have cut print runs in order to minimize inventory. They have also become quicker to dispose of inventory — i.e., pulp it — before the end of the fiscal year.
Not at my government job. A newly hired I.T. guy who expects to get paid for doing nothing because he thinks this is a "government job" will find himself on the unemployment line within a month. Most of my coworkers are ex-military who tolerate zero crap from each other. We worked very hard to provide the best services to our users despite taking abuse from the public for being government employees.
Back in the 1990's, you had to roll your own kernel and modules. If you were lucky, all the hardware worked. Most of the time it didn't. Nothing worked out of the box. Today's kids have it too easy. Now get off my lawn!
Many Fortune 500 companies prohibit the use of iTunes on the corporate network. Some users have huge iTunes libraries that make it difficult to defrag the hard drive or transfer user data to the network server in a timely manner. As a help desk technician, I have to tell them that I can't backup their iTunes library and won't fix their computer until they remove iTunes. Some users are understanding, most are not.
The story I heard from my instructors in the early 1990's that President Ronald Reagan put a "revenue enhancement" (tax) on storing books in warehouses. The publishers could no longer run off a million copies of a textbook, store them in the warehouse, and let the inventory dwindle over the coming years. That was too expensive, according to the bean counters. So they published smaller book runs, passed the cost on to students, and figured out that they could increase their profits every year by offering newer editions with higher price tags and disrupting the used book market.
During the early 1990's, math textbooks started requiring a graphing calculator. Not just any graphing calculator, but a specific model of the Texas Instruments graphing calculator. If you had a different model or brand, you were on your own as the instructors didn't have time to figure out the four or five other graphing calculators in the classroom. Math textbook and graphing calculator cost $200, which was twice the cost of going full time to the community college at the time.
I went from owning an HP calculator that did Reverse Polish Notation to several models of the TI graphing calculator. I still have them today. Never got around to owning an HP calculator that could take cartridges, say, Missile Command, to extend its functionality. That particular calculator cost $500 or so. More appropriate for the engineering crowd at the university.
Fortunately, I was very much old school towards learning mathematics. When I showed up for an exam without my graphing calculator, I was able to sketch the graph by hand. Other students who forgot their graphing calculator weren't so lucky, as they couldn't graph their way out of a paper bag. I've known several students who dropped out of school because they couldn't afford the latest and greatest calculator for the newest math textbook. The financial aid office came up with a program to help students with buying calculators.
I'm just a witness to the email thread that came through my Inbox, as my group is responsible for patching Windows. While the platform group set up the server hardware in the data center, it was the developers who set up the OS and screwed the pooch on partitioning the hard drive.
The underlying problem is that Windows Server 2008 was installed on a 40GB partition (minimum required is 32GB). Every time the patches are downloaded each month, the server runs out of space. The solution is to resize the OS and App partitions to have equal amounts of space for both. With three groups involved, it's taking two dozen emails to get anything done.
I've managed to stay employed continuously through 2 of these cycles, and I'm hoping my luck holds out. I think the key is simple -- don't suck at your job.:-)
I've known many people who didn't suck at their job but got laid off anyway. Most of the time it's because the corporation wants to double productivity at half the cost. So the bean counters lay off half the department. Not the bottom half that sucks in productivity, but the top half that cost more in wages. Everyone else who didn't get laid off hunkered down under the doubled workload.
It took a dozen emails among three groups to figure out that resizing the partitions was the best software solution to the problem. Not surprisingly, there's no money in the budget for a hardware solution. Now it's taking a dozen emails among three groups to figure out who is supposed to resize the partitions and take the blame if the operation goes FUBAR.
About 15 years ago my doctor prescribed the newest antibiotics on the market because he got free samples from the manufacturer. They didn't work very well. I've been asking for amoxicillin ever since then.
When a drug company has a successful product, they get very concerned when it gets close to the time for patent expiration because it means that cheap generic equivalents will soon appear. There are any number of strategies that companies use to protect their interests in this situation, and one of the most common is to take a look at the drug's chemistry to see if there's anything there to exploit. One possibility is to reformulate the product into something that lasts longer than the original, so you'll see things like extended-release or controlled-release formulations being developed.
The youngest baby boomer today is 51-years-old. The labor participation rate will continue to decline over the next 20 years. The real fun begins in 2035 when retirees outnumbers workers and two-thirds of the federal budget goes to Social Security and Medicare. Taxes will have to go up to pay for everything else and keep the Me Generation in comfortable retirement.
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Every time they got their asses kicked, they picked themselves up, found a solution and moved on. It's Star Trek, not Star Troopers.
I thought that was a rather interesting episode. You have two species of intelligent life that evolved and coexisted on the same planet, which is probably not a common occurrence in the cosmos. The species that looked down on the other species was dying out from a genetic defect. Providing a cure would only prolong the inevitable outcome by a few hundred years. This was the first episode that formed the basis for the Prime Directive to not interfere with emerging cultures.
The episode was nominated for the 2003 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation (short form) and received the highest Nielsen ratings for any episode of Enterprise during season two at that point.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Night_in_Sickbay
A highly rated low point for the series.
Enterprise was awesome as all the technology from the original Star Trek series wasn't fully developed yet. The transporters were still experimental for human transport. Tactical alert — RED ALERT! — took several seasons to fall into place. The captain chair needed tweaking to get just right.
One way around downloading over dial-up was buying a Linux book with a CDROM in the back. That was my first introduction Linux AND Slackware. That didn't work very well on the Cyrix 6x86 CPU and motherboard I got for free, no matter how many times I rolled the kernel and modues. I eventually bought SuSE Linux from the computer store to get it working.
According to the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America, you're correct.
The short answer: Thor Power eliminated a tax dodge, and thereby made it more expensive for publishers to carry inventory from year to year. As a result, publishers have cut print runs in order to minimize inventory. They have also become quicker to dispose of inventory — i.e., pulp it — before the end of the fiscal year.
http://www.sfwa.org/2005/01/how-thor-power-hammered-publishing/
We can thank President Carter for eliminating a tax dodge. ;)
Not at my government job. A newly hired I.T. guy who expects to get paid for doing nothing because he thinks this is a "government job" will find himself on the unemployment line within a month. Most of my coworkers are ex-military who tolerate zero crap from each other. We worked very hard to provide the best services to our users despite taking abuse from the public for being government employees.
Actually, you're the biggest idiot here. The OP was referring to HB1 pencils. Only the old I.T. guys knows what those are and how to use them.
Back in the 1990's, you had to roll your own kernel and modules. If you were lucky, all the hardware worked. Most of the time it didn't. Nothing worked out of the box. Today's kids have it too easy. Now get off my lawn!
It's a folder structure with a database file and MP4 files.
Many Fortune 500 companies prohibit the use of iTunes on the corporate network. Some users have huge iTunes libraries that make it difficult to defrag the hard drive or transfer user data to the network server in a timely manner. As a help desk technician, I have to tell them that I can't backup their iTunes library and won't fix their computer until they remove iTunes. Some users are understanding, most are not.
Right. Modern medicine for profit can't be wrong. Must be the placebo effect if an older drug still works better than a newer drug.
The story I heard from my instructors in the early 1990's that President Ronald Reagan put a "revenue enhancement" (tax) on storing books in warehouses. The publishers could no longer run off a million copies of a textbook, store them in the warehouse, and let the inventory dwindle over the coming years. That was too expensive, according to the bean counters. So they published smaller book runs, passed the cost on to students, and figured out that they could increase their profits every year by offering newer editions with higher price tags and disrupting the used book market.
*cough* Harvard Calculus *cough*
http://www.math.harvard.edu/~knill/pedagogy/harvardcalculus/
During the early 1990's, math textbooks started requiring a graphing calculator. Not just any graphing calculator, but a specific model of the Texas Instruments graphing calculator. If you had a different model or brand, you were on your own as the instructors didn't have time to figure out the four or five other graphing calculators in the classroom. Math textbook and graphing calculator cost $200, which was twice the cost of going full time to the community college at the time.
I went from owning an HP calculator that did Reverse Polish Notation to several models of the TI graphing calculator. I still have them today. Never got around to owning an HP calculator that could take cartridges, say, Missile Command, to extend its functionality. That particular calculator cost $500 or so. More appropriate for the engineering crowd at the university.
Fortunately, I was very much old school towards learning mathematics. When I showed up for an exam without my graphing calculator, I was able to sketch the graph by hand. Other students who forgot their graphing calculator weren't so lucky, as they couldn't graph their way out of a paper bag. I've known several students who dropped out of school because they couldn't afford the latest and greatest calculator for the newest math textbook. The financial aid office came up with a program to help students with buying calculators.
You would think that black and so many shades of very, very dark grey would compress easily in the jpeg format.
Did he kept The Vulture from being scrapped?!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvage_1
Naughty bits. What else do you expect from Joker & Company?
I'm just a witness to the email thread that came through my Inbox, as my group is responsible for patching Windows. While the platform group set up the server hardware in the data center, it was the developers who set up the OS and screwed the pooch on partitioning the hard drive.
The underlying problem is that Windows Server 2008 was installed on a 40GB partition (minimum required is 32GB). Every time the patches are downloaded each month, the server runs out of space. The solution is to resize the OS and App partitions to have equal amounts of space for both. With three groups involved, it's taking two dozen emails to get anything done.
I've managed to stay employed continuously through 2 of these cycles, and I'm hoping my luck holds out. I think the key is simple -- don't suck at your job. :-)
I've known many people who didn't suck at their job but got laid off anyway. Most of the time it's because the corporation wants to double productivity at half the cost. So the bean counters lay off half the department. Not the bottom half that sucks in productivity, but the top half that cost more in wages. Everyone else who didn't get laid off hunkered down under the doubled workload.
It took a dozen emails among three groups to figure out that resizing the partitions was the best software solution to the problem. Not surprisingly, there's no money in the budget for a hardware solution. Now it's taking a dozen emails among three groups to figure out who is supposed to resize the partitions and take the blame if the operation goes FUBAR.
About 15 years ago my doctor prescribed the newest antibiotics on the market because he got free samples from the manufacturer. They didn't work very well. I've been asking for amoxicillin ever since then.
Please educate yourself.
When a drug company has a successful product, they get very concerned when it gets close to the time for patent expiration because it means that cheap generic equivalents will soon appear. There are any number of strategies that companies use to protect their interests in this situation, and one of the most common is to take a look at the drug's chemistry to see if there's anything there to exploit. One possibility is to reformulate the product into something that lasts longer than the original, so you'll see things like extended-release or controlled-release formulations being developed.
http://www.everydayhealth.com/columns/zimney-health-and-medical-news-you-can-use/old-drug-with-new-name/
The youngest baby boomer today is 51-years-old. The labor participation rate will continue to decline over the next 20 years. The real fun begins in 2035 when retirees outnumbers workers and two-thirds of the federal budget goes to Social Security and Medicare. Taxes will have to go up to pay for everything else and keep the Me Generation in comfortable retirement.