Back when I worked for the Army we used Red Hat and Windows XP. I had more Red Hat boxes than Windows machines, and all of my Windows machines dual-booted Red Hat or Fedora. You have to remember, Linux is not free, you have to pay for someone to support it. And a good Linux admin commands a good price. Regardless, I always felt the Army was pretty progressive with respect to having a diverse field of operating systems (and an iron curtain of a firewall) and relatively strong network and physical security.
And yet their PRODUCTS are the Zune, Xbox360 and Vista: All uninspired copies of other products or marginal improvements on their previous products (which were themselves either copies or marginal improvements).
And yet they reported a profit of $13B last quarter. That's about $1B a week. Just think about that for a few minutes. $1B a week for "uninspired copies of other products, or marginal improvements of previous products". That's not bad. Now if they can leverage some of the cool stuff their R&D department is doing, imagine how much their profit will improve?
I think the reason it is auctioned is because it really is a finite resource. Sure, wavelengths can go from a few kilohertz to many many gigahertz, but in reality when you look at the response that is good for a particular application, it gets narrowed down to a few tens or hundreds of megahertz. So it is a somewhat scarce resource, hence why it is auctioned instead of sold at a fixed price. If an infinite amount were available at the right properties, I believe it would be sold at a fixed price much like AM/FM station licenses are.
Good luck with that. You can't just 'stop' radio waves from propagating... with enough power to service the community in question, someone with a high enough gain antenna the next state over will pick up your station.
It is considered a natural resource... just like land. Other countries do the same thing.
There are portions of the spectrum that are free to use for certain non-commercial uses. Amateur radio bands, family radio bands, bands that are open to experimenters, Citizen Band radio, etc. Each comes with certain restrictions as to use and power output. Most have commercial restrictions.
I've worked in cubes, they kill communications and don't encourage work, IMHO.
It comes down to structure. 90% of the people I communicate with are within a few steps of my cubicle, all closer than the break room and the bathroom. It doesn't take 15 seconds to poke my head in their cube. If your cubicle layout corresponds with your organizational structure, it really isn't bad.
I prefer the open way of working. I'm sure not everyone does. Personally I don't feel the need to put things on the walls, have books (I'm an online-reference type of guy) or a fridge. But then I'm only here 37 hours a week.
Well, I'm an aerospace engineer, and most of my work comes out of books and paper. The Internet is great and all for dinking around but there aren't many online references for my line of work. (look at my other post in this thread for comments about that) Looking up I have pictures of my wife and kids, which is important to me, and a couple of CAD drawings for the wind tunnel study coming up next week.
The fridge isn't required, we have two in the break room... and I only work 40 hours a week. But the convenience and privacy sure is nice. Again, it's my study, when I'm comfortable I work hard and my manager recognizes that. (and yes, I work for a big American organization you probably have heard of)
Cubicles are isolated and depressing. Embrace the european style.
No thanks. I have 10'x10' space that is all my own, desks on three sides of it, a 4 shelf bookshelf, room for a mini fridge and I can put whatever I want on the walls short of nude pictures. My cube is practically a study. No way i'd give it up except for a larger cubicle or office (which is a cubicle with a door)
In some technical areas there are plenty of documents that haven't hit the scanners yet. Actually this summer we had an intern who spent 40 hours a week scanning just one man's documents - and he didn't finish by the end of summer.
Plus I have to say I prefer paper on a technical document. I'm an engineer, and I like to mark up figures, leave references to other documents on the front page, and write in my own conclusions. It sounds like it would be easy enough to make a PDF reader that would support all that, but I haven't found anything like that yet. Plus I can read paper on the airplane during the 'all portable electronic devices must be turned off and stowed' phase...
If my employer only gave me a copy of Open Office, I'd gladly spend my own money to purchase a full copy of Office, just like I did on my home computer. Just the improvement in Excel over OO's Calc is worth every penny to me. You probably haven't written anything beyond a form letter or basic budgeting in OO... but try pushing it, then come back to Office, and we'll talk.
Yeah, but its hard to tell when its covered in snow, it all looks the same.
(I jest, my family lives in SD, my brother goes to school in ND... I'm relatively familiar with both).
There's plenty of kids who have a mental stumbling block with respect to reading. But generally once you get it, even if it takes till 6 or 7 to get it, they shoot off real quick. It's like a switch that flips in their heads. But not reading at 6 is not the norm. A lot of kids are reading in kindergarten, some in preschool already.
For every 6 or 7 year old 'late' reader there is a 2 year old reader. My son is 2 and sounding out words already, I have no doubt he'll be reading simple books in a few months. Again, part of it depends on mental development of the child but a big part of it is a commitment on the part of the parents. We started reading with him at a few months' age. It's probably his favorite activity, he has about fifty books and for the longest time we read each book every day. Even today we read for at least a half hour each day. Reading and repetition on the part of the parents really does help the kid develop their vocabulary and ability to read well.
And yes, we have a video game ban and restrictions on television - no more than a half hour a day, tied to behavior. When he gets older he can play video games but as a young kid there is way too much they have to learn about this world, they really don't need to waste their time behind a console.
The postdoc position in academia, though, will make the transition to industry easier. The transition to industry back to academia is not as easy and in fact, qualifies as difficult because of the publication issues.
I'm not in biomed but there are plenty of ways to publish in industry. I've done it, I still do it. I try to present at least once a year at a conference on top of that... it's really a non-issue. Most good employers actually encourage it, it gets the company name out. The company I work for actually rewards (monetarily) papers published in journals.
I've been 'in industry' for 2.5 years. During the first 18 months I got my Masters. I'm working on my Ph.D. now. You can do both, work in industry and progress in your education, and work towards being a professor someday if that is your goal.
Right, but you are giving up the money for the freedom to do independant research and hopefully get a fat grant.
At least I hope that's the case, because as an (Aerospace) engineer, with just a MS and no experience, I make double the number you cite. If you want the money, industry always pays better than academia until you hit the top tier. Academia is something you do for the love, not for the money.
I don't know. I got an email in gmail from a friend the other day which said simply:
Hey everphilski, give me a call, john. 123-456-787.
The textual advertisements were for colon cleansing.
Not exactly pleasant or relevant. Unless they figured we were gay or something... but I email my wife several times a day you think gmail would have picked up on that by now:P
I don't understand why the NSA needs a botnet; they have all the computing power they need and know how to spoof anything else.
I'd agree, and to extend that argument, if they used your computer there are enough smart people out there who could figure out NSA secrets! It's just not worth it.
Personally, I like the ones with the half naked girls much better than anything made software, be it commercial or open source.
Does said calendar show you at the drop of the hat what meetings/obligations everyone in your department has for the day/week? I didn't think so... That's why businesses use Exchange.
I don't think this report is saying everyone can be a brain surgeon. However I think it is saying that, putting your mind to it, you can achieve more than that piece of paper with your IQ says you should be able to achieve.
In high school and college I used to do volunteer work with the mentally retarded, I'd help run activity day camps and even half-week-long summer camps for them. You could most definitely tell a difference between the ones who just sat in the corner and watched TV all day and the ones who were actively doing things like drawing, learning letters and words or sign language, etc. Yes, there are different levels of retardation, but there is also a willingness to learn on the part of the individual and a willingness to help that person learn on the part of the parent or guardian. Just because you have a low IQ doesn't mean you don't have a potential for learning.
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use a RAM disk for your game?
Back when I worked for the Army we used Red Hat and Windows XP. I had more Red Hat boxes than Windows machines, and all of my Windows machines dual-booted Red Hat or Fedora. You have to remember, Linux is not free, you have to pay for someone to support it. And a good Linux admin commands a good price. Regardless, I always felt the Army was pretty progressive with respect to having a diverse field of operating systems (and an iron curtain of a firewall) and relatively strong network and physical security.
And yet their PRODUCTS are the Zune, Xbox360 and Vista: All uninspired copies of other products or marginal improvements on their previous products (which were themselves either copies or marginal improvements).
And yet they reported a profit of $13B last quarter. That's about $1B a week. Just think about that for a few minutes. $1B a week for "uninspired copies of other products, or marginal improvements of previous products". That's not bad. Now if they can leverage some of the cool stuff their R&D department is doing, imagine how much their profit will improve?
Microfluidic Logic Gates
You might, though, if you made a few hundred copies and distributed them, which is the whole justification behind the monetary damages.
This professor, who also happens to be a woman,
Who cares if she is a man or a woman? She is a person, like the rest of us.
makes semi-conductors in her kitchen and all she gets is penis jokes?
And she didn't make semiconductors, she made microfluidic devices. Yes, she is brilliant, you apparently are not.
like a frightened turtle...
I think the reason it is auctioned is because it really is a finite resource. Sure, wavelengths can go from a few kilohertz to many many gigahertz, but in reality when you look at the response that is good for a particular application, it gets narrowed down to a few tens or hundreds of megahertz. So it is a somewhat scarce resource, hence why it is auctioned instead of sold at a fixed price. If an infinite amount were available at the right properties, I believe it would be sold at a fixed price much like AM/FM station licenses are.
I've got blisters on me fingers!
Good luck with that. You can't just 'stop' radio waves from propagating ... with enough power to service the community in question, someone with a high enough gain antenna the next state over will pick up your station.
It is considered a natural resource ... just like land. Other countries do the same thing.
There are portions of the spectrum that are free to use for certain non-commercial uses. Amateur radio bands, family radio bands, bands that are open to experimenters, Citizen Band radio, etc. Each comes with certain restrictions as to use and power output. Most have commercial restrictions.
I've worked in cubes, they kill communications and don't encourage work, IMHO.
It comes down to structure. 90% of the people I communicate with are within a few steps of my cubicle, all closer than the break room and the bathroom. It doesn't take 15 seconds to poke my head in their cube. If your cubicle layout corresponds with your organizational structure, it really isn't bad.
I prefer the open way of working. I'm sure not everyone does. Personally I don't feel the need to put things on the walls, have books (I'm an online-reference type of guy) or a fridge. But then I'm only here 37 hours a week.
Well, I'm an aerospace engineer, and most of my work comes out of books and paper. The Internet is great and all for dinking around but there aren't many online references for my line of work. (look at my other post in this thread for comments about that) Looking up I have pictures of my wife and kids, which is important to me, and a couple of CAD drawings for the wind tunnel study coming up next week.
The fridge isn't required, we have two in the break room... and I only work 40 hours a week. But the convenience and privacy sure is nice. Again, it's my study, when I'm comfortable I work hard and my manager recognizes that. (and yes, I work for a big American organization you probably have heard of)
Cubicles are isolated and depressing. Embrace the european style.
No thanks. I have 10'x10' space that is all my own, desks on three sides of it, a 4 shelf bookshelf, room for a mini fridge and I can put whatever I want on the walls short of nude pictures. My cube is practically a study. No way i'd give it up except for a larger cubicle or office (which is a cubicle with a door)
In some technical areas there are plenty of documents that haven't hit the scanners yet. Actually this summer we had an intern who spent 40 hours a week scanning just one man's documents - and he didn't finish by the end of summer.
...
Plus I have to say I prefer paper on a technical document. I'm an engineer, and I like to mark up figures, leave references to other documents on the front page, and write in my own conclusions. It sounds like it would be easy enough to make a PDF reader that would support all that, but I haven't found anything like that yet. Plus I can read paper on the airplane during the 'all portable electronic devices must be turned off and stowed' phase
If my employer only gave me a copy of Open Office, I'd gladly spend my own money to purchase a full copy of Office, just like I did on my home computer. Just the improvement in Excel over OO's Calc is worth every penny to me. You probably haven't written anything beyond a form letter or basic budgeting in OO ... but try pushing it, then come back to Office, and we'll talk.
They are, in fact, not the same place.
... I'm relatively familiar with both).
Yeah, but its hard to tell when its covered in snow, it all looks the same.
(I jest, my family lives in SD, my brother goes to school in ND
There's plenty of kids who have a mental stumbling block with respect to reading. But generally once you get it, even if it takes till 6 or 7 to get it, they shoot off real quick. It's like a switch that flips in their heads. But not reading at 6 is not the norm. A lot of kids are reading in kindergarten, some in preschool already.
For every 6 or 7 year old 'late' reader there is a 2 year old reader. My son is 2 and sounding out words already, I have no doubt he'll be reading simple books in a few months. Again, part of it depends on mental development of the child but a big part of it is a commitment on the part of the parents. We started reading with him at a few months' age. It's probably his favorite activity, he has about fifty books and for the longest time we read each book every day. Even today we read for at least a half hour each day. Reading and repetition on the part of the parents really does help the kid develop their vocabulary and ability to read well.
And yes, we have a video game ban and restrictions on television - no more than a half hour a day, tied to behavior. When he gets older he can play video games but as a young kid there is way too much they have to learn about this world, they really don't need to waste their time behind a console.
No, but I have a fully naked one at home :)
The postdoc position in academia, though, will make the transition to industry easier. The transition to industry back to academia is not as easy and in fact, qualifies as difficult because of the publication issues.
... it's really a non-issue. Most good employers actually encourage it, it gets the company name out. The company I work for actually rewards (monetarily) papers published in journals.
I'm not in biomed but there are plenty of ways to publish in industry. I've done it, I still do it. I try to present at least once a year at a conference on top of that
I've been 'in industry' for 2.5 years. During the first 18 months I got my Masters. I'm working on my Ph.D. now. You can do both, work in industry and progress in your education, and work towards being a professor someday if that is your goal.
Right, but you are giving up the money for the freedom to do independant research and hopefully get a fat grant.
At least I hope that's the case, because as an (Aerospace) engineer, with just a MS and no experience, I make double the number you cite. If you want the money, industry always pays better than academia until you hit the top tier. Academia is something you do for the love, not for the money.
and I have the right to employ reasonable force against any person who seeks to deprive me of these rights.
Dude. It's just a computer. Go outside. Get some fresh air.
Google has pleasant little text ads on the side.
... but I email my wife several times a day you think gmail would have picked up on that by now :P
I don't know. I got an email in gmail from a friend the other day which said simply:
Hey everphilski, give me a call, john. 123-456-787.
The textual advertisements were for colon cleansing.
Not exactly pleasant or relevant. Unless they figured we were gay or something
I don't understand why the NSA needs a botnet; they have all the computing power they need and know how to spoof anything else.
I'd agree, and to extend that argument, if they used your computer there are enough smart people out there who could figure out NSA secrets! It's just not worth it.
Personally, I like the ones with the half naked girls much better than anything made software, be it commercial or open source.
... That's why businesses use Exchange.
Does said calendar show you at the drop of the hat what meetings/obligations everyone in your department has for the day/week? I didn't think so
You can only work with what you have.
I don't think this report is saying everyone can be a brain surgeon. However I think it is saying that, putting your mind to it, you can achieve more than that piece of paper with your IQ says you should be able to achieve.
In high school and college I used to do volunteer work with the mentally retarded, I'd help run activity day camps and even half-week-long summer camps for them. You could most definitely tell a difference between the ones who just sat in the corner and watched TV all day and the ones who were actively doing things like drawing, learning letters and words or sign language, etc. Yes, there are different levels of retardation, but there is also a willingness to learn on the part of the individual and a willingness to help that person learn on the part of the parent or guardian. Just because you have a low IQ doesn't mean you don't have a potential for learning.