Yep. Ellison bought Peoplesoft to get rid of competition. Peoplesoft users will be left high and dry as Peoplesoft products and employees are jettisoned.
I recently got a 15" Sharp Aquos. The picture quality compares very favorably with the Sony Wega TV I have. I have a Dell 19" LCD monitor. I don't get nearly as fatigued looking at it because I can't discern any retrace flicker.
In the 80s, I worked at RCA's TV set design facility. I became sensitive to video quality there. I just don't agree with this reviewer's assesment. CRTs are definitely less expensive, particularly for larger screen sizes but I like the LCD's picture better. There's less power dissipation and heat with LCD sets. They're lighter and take up less space.
Actually, I hope this continues further. In about 10 more years, people will stop watching and listening to the ONE media empire that's left, knowing full-well that it's nothing but an empty void of self-promoting garbage.
Yeah. It's sort of like yeast in the grape juice. They eventually pickle themselves in their own excrement.
The author says he read the hardware/software/system requirements and saw nothing about this onerous DRM protection or any mention of software necessary to obtain a license. He learned this after he bought it. This is essentially bait and switch. I share his outrage and indignation. He should be given a refund on the grounds that the product labelling is misleading.
Whatever policy stands against the AOL client will most likely shoot down this AOL Browser too.
Not only that but many companies don't want employees accessing pop email or web mail because they're afraid of viral payloads getting past their filters. Besides security, many companies don't want employees using streaming radio because it chews up bandwidth. AOL doesn't understand the problem.
It's doubtful that alternative power systems will attract the venture capital because it doesn't do anything new and exciting. It does something we've always needed in a less expenisive way. There's not much new about solar, fuel cell or power conversion technology. There has not been any sensational breakthru in any of these areas which has attracted the attention of the layperson, venture capitalist or otherwise.
The next big thing will be a surprise. Solar ain't it.
I don't really want to clean megs of spyware off a family members' computer, but if they want to slip me some cash I'll be right over.
Trouble is, many family members do not want to pay you to clean megs of spyware off their computer and straighten out lord knows what goofy symptoms it has. They want you to do it for free.
There was much mischief made with line printers. Some student wrote a program called, "paper cutter", that would continuously print all the characters without advancing the paper in the line printer. So it kept printing over the same area until it became saturated with ink. It sounded like the printer was going berzerk. The soggy area would disintegrate from the motion of the print heads and the printer would have to be powered down to clear it's buffer, clean the ink off the drum and rethread paper. Another mischievous act was the use of "explode programs" to print obscene banners.
If you are smart and want to get into a hot new industry that feels like the computer industry did 20 years ago, I would strongly suggest going into aeronautical engineering and try to join up with Bigelow Aerospace, Scaled Composites, or Armidillo Aerospace. Them and a dozen other companies right now are getting ready to boom, and that is going to further take away the creative types that earlier fueled the computer industry.
Nah. A couple tragic accidents will take care of that trend. Besides, I remember when the bottom fell out of areospace in the early/mid 70s.
In this regard computer hobbyiests are a dying breed.
... just like the electronics hobbyists before them.
The last company I worked for gave stock options in leiu of higher salary. It turned out to be a soggy deal. Several of the ranking officers of the company were indicted on charges of industrial espionage and theft of trade secrets after raids on the corporate headquareters turned up source code they'd stolen from their former employer, a competitor. This and subsequent court rulings and announcements sent the stock on a wild rollercoaster ride. The situation for employees was made even worse by the onerous restrictions placed on the sale of stock which included requiring employees to use a company designated broker, thereby giving the company an effective pinchpoint to prevent lots of shares being sold at once. After frustrating rounds of phone tag, many gave up. Another restriction was a "blackout" period when sales were prohibited. These were 3 week time windows centered on the announcement of quarterly earnings.
When I left, I was vested for about 1000 shares and had options on 700 more. But they were underwater and stayed that way until the options expired. Finally, the restriction to use their broker was lifted and I handed the certificates to my broker who sold them after a favorable court ruling caused the price to spike. I bagged $8k after taxes, chump change considering all the 60 hour weeks I'd put in there.
I worked another place that gave large cash bonuses. It was a small place with spartan benefits. You had to pay 1/2 your health insurance, for example. This bonus was based on how well the company did that year and the president's perception of your contribution. This created some interesting office politics. One miscue on your part, spotlighted by "concrened" coworkers might overshadow a whole year's worth of solid performance. Then there's the tax bite. Chawmp! It ain't like havin' a 401k. another disadvantage is that if you leave, you don't get a pro-rated portion of that year's bonus. At least the options are portable.
Both stock options and lump sum bonuses lean on you. When much is "given", much is expected. But in each case there is too much stick and not enough carrot. I prefer a competitive wage and a 401k to options and large lump sum bonuses.
People have had their homeowner's coverage dropped for making small claims and for even asking whether something was covered. This has been going on for several years. In essence, this represents a stealth conversion of policies to catastrophic coverage only. You might as well raise your deductable to $5000.
An iPod with picture capabilties: I dub thee The iPorn
Porn on th' Pod
transmission vs. reflection and foil bags
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A Technical RFID Primer
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· Score: 4, Informative
I was intrigued to find out how the tags (which are generally battery-free) can absorb enough energy from RFID readers to then power up and transmit their own signal back to the reader."
The high frequency tags don't actually transmit. They change the impedance of their antenna to modulate the reflection back to the transmitter.
Another problem the article didn't mention is that bags lined with aluminum or copper foil will thwart these systems.
This is consistent with all the other stuff Powell has done. He's a corporate welfare handout man. He just can't wait to get his hands on VoIP. Oh, the power brokering leverage that would give him. This little caesar is the reason we don't have fiber to the curb today. No sooner did he liquidate the RF spectrum then he's ready to cannabalize the internet too. He's gotta go.
I was an analog circuit designer for 15 years. I designed industrial, telecom and consumer products; mostly electronic power conversion circuitry such as power supplies, DC-DC Converters, High Voltage Transformers and DC-AC Inverters. First the manufacturing was moved overseas. Then, the writing was on the wall. All the design work went overseas too. Once they started building the stuff, it wasn't long before they figured out how to clone and modify designs. Before long, they were able to design from scratch. Today, the majority of electronics manufacturing is done abroad. It's pretty much been like that for 10 years. I saw it coming and retrained myself to write software.
Now the programming jobs are going where the labor is cheap. I have no reason to expect any different outcome than I saw with electronics. Indeed, many "knowledge" jobs can be done abroad. China and India have vast pools of highly educated workers. Their cost of living is a fraction of ours so they can and will work for a fraction of what we make. In cases were the work can't be taken to the cheap labor, the cheap labor is brought to the work. Special visas and porous borders are providing US businesses with all the inexpensive labor they want.
When the electronics industry was in decline, I saw opportunity in software. However, as the software work dries up, I see no new promising areas emerging to take it's place.
Go to a job interview - *SCAN*; "Sorry but we won't employ someone with your health problems"
or go to a job interview - *SCAN*; "Sorry but we won't employ anyone without the RFID tag."
or go to a supermarket - *SCAN*; "Sorry only those with RFID cards may purchase merchandise here."
far fetched? Store clerks drive me nuts about their customer cards. My standard comeback is, "Are any of these items on sale?" If they say no, I tell 'em I ain't got no card. Some won't take no for an answer. They scan a blank then toss it in my bag. I toss it in the trash when I get home.
All that wil change once some id tag gets implanted into your body.
"... this position required a lot of travel and when they travelled, they slept two people in the same hotel room because "it's the Wal-Mart way"."
I worked for a parsimonious company that slept 2 to a room. I got to room with all sorts roommates with objectionable habits including people who snored loudly, got up several times in the night, stank, stayed up real late with the TV on loud and/or played video games late, came in drunk at 3am and threw their guts up and knocked over lamps and stuff and people who were just hard to get along with.
Yeah, if I'm interviewing and some HR guy says, "oh, by the way... sleep 2 to a room... fiscally responsible... It's our way", there's going to be red flags a-poppin'.
Slashdot Mirror
"We're mourning the passing of a great company,"
Yep. Ellison bought Peoplesoft to get rid of competition. Peoplesoft users will be left high and dry as Peoplesoft products and employees are jettisoned.
I recently got a 15" Sharp Aquos. The picture quality compares very favorably with the Sony Wega TV I have. I have a Dell 19" LCD monitor. I don't get nearly as fatigued looking at it because I can't discern any retrace flicker.
In the 80s, I worked at RCA's TV set design facility. I became sensitive to video quality there. I just don't agree with this reviewer's assesment. CRTs are definitely less expensive, particularly for larger screen sizes but I like the LCD's picture better. There's less power dissipation and heat with LCD sets. They're lighter and take up less space.
Actually, I hope this continues further. In about 10 more years, people will stop watching and listening to the ONE media empire that's left, knowing full-well that it's nothing but an empty void of self-promoting garbage.
Yeah. It's sort of like yeast in the grape juice. They eventually pickle themselves in their own excrement.
The author says he read the hardware/software/system requirements and saw nothing about this onerous DRM protection or any mention of software necessary to obtain a license. He learned this after he bought it. This is essentially bait and switch. I share his outrage and indignation. He should be given a refund on the grounds that the product labelling is misleading.
Whatever policy stands against the AOL client will most likely shoot down this AOL Browser too.
Not only that but many companies don't want employees accessing pop email or web mail because they're afraid of viral payloads getting past their filters. Besides security, many companies don't want employees using streaming radio because it chews up bandwidth. AOL doesn't understand the problem.
It's doubtful that alternative power systems will attract the venture capital because it doesn't do anything new and exciting. It does something we've always needed in a less expenisive way. There's not much new about solar, fuel cell or power conversion technology. There has not been any sensational breakthru in any of these areas which has attracted the attention of the layperson, venture capitalist or otherwise.
The next big thing will be a surprise. Solar ain't it.
"Liars have alot to remember."
-- an unknown but astute source
I don't really want to clean megs of spyware off a family members' computer, but if they want to slip me some cash I'll be right over.
Trouble is, many family members do not want to pay you to clean megs of spyware off their computer and straighten out lord knows what goofy symptoms it has. They want you to do it for free.
... there's no goin' back. I have yet to see another player that is anywhere near as good.
I've had one since Jan of 2002 and it has been great. I listen to it daily while lifting weights. I've lost count of how many times I've dropped it.
Creative will have to put forth something compelling to take market share from the iPod.
I reckin they pay 'em anuff uv a wage ta whur they kin have musterd 'n biskits three 'r four times a week. mmmmmm hmmmmm
There was much mischief made with line printers. Some student wrote a program called, "paper cutter", that would continuously print all the characters without advancing the paper in the line printer. So it kept printing over the same area until it became saturated with ink. It sounded like the printer was going berzerk. The soggy area would disintegrate from the motion of the print heads and the printer would have to be powered down to clear it's buffer, clean the ink off the drum and rethread paper. Another mischievous act was the use of "explode programs" to print obscene banners.
If you are smart and want to get into a hot new industry that feels like the computer industry did 20 years ago, I would strongly suggest going into aeronautical engineering and try to join up with Bigelow Aerospace, Scaled Composites, or Armidillo Aerospace. Them and a dozen other companies right now are getting ready to boom, and that is going to further take away the creative types that earlier fueled the computer industry.
Nah. A couple tragic accidents will take care of that trend. Besides, I remember when the bottom fell out of areospace in the early/mid 70s.
In this regard computer hobbyiests are a dying breed.
The last company I worked for gave stock options in leiu of higher salary. It turned out to be a soggy deal. Several of the ranking officers of the company were indicted on charges of industrial espionage and theft of trade secrets after raids on the corporate headquareters turned up source code they'd stolen from their former employer, a competitor. This and subsequent court rulings and announcements sent the stock on a wild rollercoaster ride. The situation for employees was made even worse by the onerous restrictions placed on the sale of stock which included requiring employees to use a company designated broker, thereby giving the company an effective pinchpoint to prevent lots of shares being sold at once. After frustrating rounds of phone tag, many gave up. Another restriction was a "blackout" period when sales were prohibited. These were 3 week time windows centered on the announcement of quarterly earnings.
When I left, I was vested for about 1000 shares and had options on 700 more. But they were underwater and stayed that way until the options expired. Finally, the restriction to use their broker was lifted and I handed the certificates to my broker who sold them after a favorable court ruling caused the price to spike. I bagged $8k after taxes, chump change considering all the 60 hour weeks I'd put in there.
I worked another place that gave large cash bonuses. It was a small place with spartan benefits. You had to pay 1/2 your health insurance, for example. This bonus was based on how well the company did that year and the president's perception of your contribution. This created some interesting office politics. One miscue on your part, spotlighted by "concrened" coworkers might overshadow a whole year's worth of solid performance. Then there's the tax bite. Chawmp! It ain't like havin' a 401k. another disadvantage is that if you leave, you don't get a pro-rated portion of that year's bonus. At least the options are portable.
Both stock options and lump sum bonuses lean on you. When much is "given", much is expected. But in each case there is too much stick and not enough carrot. I prefer a competitive wage and a 401k to options and large lump sum bonuses.
People have had their homeowner's coverage dropped for making small claims and for even asking whether something was covered. This has been going on for several years. In essence, this represents a stealth conversion of policies to catastrophic coverage only. You might as well raise your deductable to $5000.
Nobody ought to be surprised by this. China is a first world country. The US is rapidly becoming a third world country.
An iPod with picture capabilties: I dub thee The iPorn
Porn on th' Pod
I was intrigued to find out how the tags (which are generally battery-free) can absorb enough energy from RFID readers to then power up and transmit their own signal back to the reader."
The high frequency tags don't actually transmit. They change the impedance of their antenna to modulate the reflection back to the transmitter.
Another problem the article didn't mention is that bags lined with aluminum or copper foil will thwart these systems.
This is consistent with all the other stuff Powell has done. He's a corporate welfare handout man. He just can't wait to get his hands on VoIP. Oh, the power brokering leverage that would give him. This little caesar is the reason we don't have fiber to the curb today. No sooner did he liquidate the RF spectrum then he's ready to cannabalize the internet too. He's gotta go.
I was an analog circuit designer for 15 years. I designed industrial, telecom and consumer products; mostly electronic power conversion circuitry such as power supplies, DC-DC Converters, High Voltage Transformers and DC-AC Inverters. First the manufacturing was moved overseas. Then, the writing was on the wall. All the design work went overseas too. Once they started building the stuff, it wasn't long before they figured out how to clone and modify designs. Before long, they were able to design from scratch. Today, the majority of electronics manufacturing is done abroad. It's pretty much been like that for 10 years. I saw it coming and retrained myself to write software.
Now the programming jobs are going where the labor is cheap. I have no reason to expect any different outcome than I saw with electronics. Indeed, many "knowledge" jobs can be done abroad. China and India have vast pools of highly educated workers. Their cost of living is a fraction of ours so they can and will work for a fraction of what we make. In cases were the work can't be taken to the cheap labor, the cheap labor is brought to the work. Special visas and porous borders are providing US businesses with all the inexpensive labor they want.
When the electronics industry was in decline, I saw opportunity in software. However, as the software work dries up, I see no new promising areas emerging to take it's place.
I read somewhere, "There is no honor amoung thieves."
RFID implant removal - for those who reject the mark
Go to a job interview - *SCAN*; "Sorry but we won't employ someone with your health problems"
or go to a job interview - *SCAN*; "Sorry but we won't employ anyone without the RFID tag."
or go to a supermarket - *SCAN*; "Sorry only those with RFID cards may purchase merchandise here."
far fetched? Store clerks drive me nuts about their customer cards. My standard comeback is, "Are any of these items on sale?" If they say no, I tell 'em I ain't got no card. Some won't take no for an answer. They scan a blank then toss it in my bag. I toss it in the trash when I get home.
All that wil change once some id tag gets implanted into your body.
... according to Ballmer.
"My 12-year-old at home doesn't want to hear that he can't put all the music that he wants in all of the places that he would like it,"
I don't want to hear that either.
"... this position required a lot of travel and when they travelled, they slept two people in the same hotel room because "it's the Wal-Mart way"."
I worked for a parsimonious company that slept 2 to a room. I got to room with all sorts roommates with objectionable habits including people who snored loudly, got up several times in the night, stank, stayed up real late with the TV on loud and/or played video games late, came in drunk at 3am and threw their guts up and knocked over lamps and stuff and people who were just hard to get along with.
Yeah, if I'm interviewing and some HR guy says, "oh, by the way
Yessir.
fact it, if you only know analog, your career as an EE is numbered.
Fact: If you're an EE, your career days are numbered