Unemployment in the IT field is under 5%, even with the economic down turn. There are jobs for new grads.
For example, the company I work for is currently looking for a new DBA (preferably senior), a new BI guy, a new SharePoint person, and likely 2 more business/IT analysts. We'd take college grads for any of them but the DBA, and possibly for the DBA if it's the right kind of person.
Experience is important, but we've got work that needs doing and we're not going to waste money waiting for the perfect hire when we can get a skilled person in and spin them up.
IANANS (I am not a nuclear scientist), but isn't this issue largely controlled by the radioactive material's halflife? If what ever it is that is causing this issue has decayed to the point that it poses no significant risk after 10 years, would the containment vessel be any more radiated?
Given the "correct" experiment, you could see an angel.
Of course that experiment would include some form of hallucinagenic drug, similar to the ergot poisoning that was so common in the days of old from improper grain storage.
Legos and books man, legos and books. Got my now 7 year old through the last few winters. Summer it's a little more challenging. He's an only child so going out to the yard to play unsupervised at that age is a little iffy. And when choosing between parsing someone's power point presentation to try to figure out their functional needs and going out to play frisbee with the kid, I'd much rather be out tossing the disk.
I think it would be far more likely for the makers of Rogain to purchase the IP and shelve it, or attempt to find some way to limited its effective duration to ensure a constant revenue stream.
Just to poke my anti-socialist friends with a stick, I find it interesting that a publicly funded institute happened apon this discovery and not a private corporation.
Then again, if it is a "cure" then there is no capitalist drive for it to see the light of day when "treatments" that require continual purchase are available.
In addition, for a total business solution tablet system I want all those AND: Wrapped in a nice leather day planner A full color high performance touch screen on the left (near 8x11 size) An E-Ink display on the right (near 8x11 size) that can take stylus input. Integrated extended/replacable battery in the spine USB and HDMI connections (in and out)
I want to be able to take it to presentations and plug into the projector while taking notes. I want to be able to review spec docs while flying to project sites. I want to be able to sync and explore the whole thing.
Something like that would have me lining up with money in hand.
The Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan suggests that higher activity in the water discovered in the Unit 2 turbine building is supposed to be caused by the water, which has been in contact with molten fuel rods for a time and directly released into the turbine building via some, as yet unidentified path.
If the sea water that is being used to cool the facility is coming in contact with the fuel, than the pressure case must be cracked, or if the fresh water that is being used to cool the core is pooling out side of the containment system, than the pressure case must be cracked. Either way, it sure sounds like the RPV has been breached.
Not to be alarmist, but it seems like we just slipped from "I've got it! I've got it!" to "Oh shit, I don't got it". Which is still a long way away from the "HOLY CRAP RUN LIKE HELL!" stage.
iTunes records that you have purchased a song, and that if you lose your copy, you can download it again at no cost. The end result is exactly the same. You have on demand access to a copy of content you purchased that is stored in a cloud.
How do the "Sonyies" of the world let Cryptonite storage work? How to do they let Azure work? How do the allow any of the hundreds of online document storage systems already in existance work?
The only difference here is that in addition to a cloud based storage system, Amazon appears to be added MP3s you buy directly to the storage. And that seems like a pretty insignificant note seeing as how iTunes effectively does the same thing.
I can't remember a single job post 2000 that required a graduate to build their own processor, or write in assembly.
I know those jobs exist, but they are a tiny percent of the market. There are tons and tons of programing jobs in the world, and the vast majority of them don't require that type of knowledge. Is it good to have a basic understanding? Sure. Especially when it comes to memory. But is being able to write assembler going to make anyone better at writing LOB apps?
If I had to choose between an applicant that had assembly classes or technical writting classes, I'd take the one with the tech writting classes almost every time, all other things being equal.
And take the notices out of news papers... And off the radios... And out of local municipalities/police stations...
And see how many of the arrests/tickets from the checkpoint hold up in court when you can prove to the Judge that the cops did not follow disclosure laws and violated your 4th amendment rights.
Yes, and while standing shoulder to shoulder with drunk drivers and Google, we are also standing shoulder to shoulder with our local news papers, radio stations, municipalities, and police departments, seeing as how they are REQUIRED BY LAW to advertise the location of these check points.
It is unconstitutional to search or sieze an individual or their car with out reasonable cause. Being on the road after bar time is not reasonable cause. The only way that these check points have been able to pass constitutional muster is by advertising their existance (including the when and where) to act as a deterrant.
I loathe drunk drivers. I lost a girl friend and another close friend to drunk drivers. I left a company after the finding out that the CEO had been arrested for his 4th DUI. I'd love to see much harsher penalties for multiple offence drunk drivers. But the posting of these check points is a matter of constitutional law. If the senate were to forbid media industries from distributing this information, the check points would fail to pass the constitutional measure and would have to stop.
As much as I hate drunk drivers, I love the Constitution far more.
One problem with that theory as it applies to sobriety check points...
It is illegal for the state to sieze/search you for alcohol unless they have reasonable cause. Numerous judges have already found that being on the road after bar time in and of itself is not reasonable cause. So sobriety check points legal status depends not on their ability to catch unwitting drunk drivers, but in their publicized existance as a deturant.
That's right, every sobriety check point (in the states that they are legal in) is advertised before hand. News papers, police web sites, local radio, etc... Not only is there no suprise here, there is Constitutional protection from these check points being set up as a suprise.
The iPhone app is doing nothing that your local news papers and radio stations aren't already doing. And if Congress were to bar the distribution of this information, it would make the check points illegal.
No, this is like MS offering a converter that would allow you to look at pictures of Windows applications on Linux.
No action script, no functionality. This is just converting Flash's vector graphics to HTML 5's SVG.
And interestingly enough, I'm pretty sure that the Microsoft alternative (Silverlight & Expression Studio 4) already offers the functionality to convert XAML to SVG.
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Unemployment in the IT field is under 5%, even with the economic down turn. There are jobs for new grads.
For example, the company I work for is currently looking for a new DBA (preferably senior), a new BI guy, a new SharePoint person, and likely 2 more business/IT analysts. We'd take college grads for any of them but the DBA, and possibly for the DBA if it's the right kind of person.
Experience is important, but we've got work that needs doing and we're not going to waste money waiting for the perfect hire when we can get a skilled person in and spin them up.
-Rick
Sign me up!
-Rick
Yeah, it's not like anyone would ever force Jewish people to be tatoo'd with an identification number or anything...
-Rick
That is one of the best LoC measurments I have ever seen! Kudos to you good sir!
-Rick
So if it is cesium in the water that is causing this issue, is it possible to either filter or distill the cesium out?
-Rick
IANANS (I am not a nuclear scientist), but isn't this issue largely controlled by the radioactive material's halflife? If what ever it is that is causing this issue has decayed to the point that it poses no significant risk after 10 years, would the containment vessel be any more radiated?
-Rick
To play devils advocate on your angel point:
Given the "correct" experiment, you could see an angel.
Of course that experiment would include some form of hallucinagenic drug, similar to the ergot poisoning that was so common in the days of old from improper grain storage.
-Rick
Legos and books man, legos and books. Got my now 7 year old through the last few winters. Summer it's a little more challenging. He's an only child so going out to the yard to play unsupervised at that age is a little iffy. And when choosing between parsing someone's power point presentation to try to figure out their functional needs and going out to play frisbee with the kid, I'd much rather be out tossing the disk.
-Rick
I think it would be far more likely for the makers of Rogain to purchase the IP and shelve it, or attempt to find some way to limited its effective duration to ensure a constant revenue stream.
-Rick
Just to poke my anti-socialist friends with a stick, I find it interesting that a publicly funded institute happened apon this discovery and not a private corporation.
Then again, if it is a "cure" then there is no capitalist drive for it to see the light of day when "treatments" that require continual purchase are available.
-Rick
In addition, for a total business solution tablet system I want all those AND:
Wrapped in a nice leather day planner
A full color high performance touch screen on the left (near 8x11 size)
An E-Ink display on the right (near 8x11 size) that can take stylus input.
Integrated extended/replacable battery in the spine
USB and HDMI connections (in and out)
I want to be able to take it to presentations and plug into the projector while taking notes. I want to be able to review spec docs while flying to project sites. I want to be able to sync and explore the whole thing.
Something like that would have me lining up with money in hand.
-Rick
Acording to the IAEA link you posted:
The Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan suggests that higher activity in the water discovered in the Unit 2 turbine building is supposed to be caused by the water, which has been in contact with molten fuel rods for a time and directly released into the turbine building via some, as yet unidentified path.
If the sea water that is being used to cool the facility is coming in contact with the fuel, than the pressure case must be cracked, or if the fresh water that is being used to cool the core is pooling out side of the containment system, than the pressure case must be cracked. Either way, it sure sounds like the RPV has been breached.
Not to be alarmist, but it seems like we just slipped from "I've got it! I've got it!" to "Oh shit, I don't got it". Which is still a long way away from the "HOLY CRAP RUN LIKE HELL!" stage.
-Rick
iTunes records that you have purchased a song, and that if you lose your copy, you can download it again at no cost. The end result is exactly the same. You have on demand access to a copy of content you purchased that is stored in a cloud.
-Rick
How do the "Sonyies" of the world let Cryptonite storage work? How to do they let Azure work? How do the allow any of the hundreds of online document storage systems already in existance work?
The only difference here is that in addition to a cloud based storage system, Amazon appears to be added MP3s you buy directly to the storage. And that seems like a pretty insignificant note seeing as how iTunes effectively does the same thing.
-Rick
Another IntelliMouse user here. I have a slightly newer model with two thumb buttons.
I also use a Nostromo n52te. That thing is pure gravey. Those two tools combined let me rock the DPS meter and tank hard in WoW ;)
-Rick
I can't remember a single job post 2000 that required a graduate to build their own processor, or write in assembly.
I know those jobs exist, but they are a tiny percent of the market. There are tons and tons of programing jobs in the world, and the vast majority of them don't require that type of knowledge. Is it good to have a basic understanding? Sure. Especially when it comes to memory. But is being able to write assembler going to make anyone better at writing LOB apps?
If I had to choose between an applicant that had assembly classes or technical writting classes, I'd take the one with the tech writting classes almost every time, all other things being equal.
-Rick
no points, mod parent up!
Just don't ever get caught with that gas or diesel in your car's tank. The fine for driving a street vehicle on the road with farm fuel is crazy.
-Rick
Sorry, should have put a YMMV tag on that.
As another example, in Wisconsin, sobriety checkpoints are illegal.
-Rick
And take the notices out of news papers...
And off the radios...
And out of local municipalities/police stations...
And see how many of the arrests/tickets from the checkpoint hold up in court when you can prove to the Judge that the cops did not follow disclosure laws and violated your 4th amendment rights.
-Rick
In defense of the GP, Sobriety checkpoints are illegal in the state of Wisconsin.
-Rick
Yes, and while standing shoulder to shoulder with drunk drivers and Google, we are also standing shoulder to shoulder with our local news papers, radio stations, municipalities, and police departments, seeing as how they are REQUIRED BY LAW to advertise the location of these check points.
It is unconstitutional to search or sieze an individual or their car with out reasonable cause. Being on the road after bar time is not reasonable cause. The only way that these check points have been able to pass constitutional muster is by advertising their existance (including the when and where) to act as a deterrant.
I loathe drunk drivers. I lost a girl friend and another close friend to drunk drivers. I left a company after the finding out that the CEO had been arrested for his 4th DUI. I'd love to see much harsher penalties for multiple offence drunk drivers. But the posting of these check points is a matter of constitutional law. If the senate were to forbid media industries from distributing this information, the check points would fail to pass the constitutional measure and would have to stop.
As much as I hate drunk drivers, I love the Constitution far more.
-Rick
One problem with that theory as it applies to sobriety check points...
It is illegal for the state to sieze/search you for alcohol unless they have reasonable cause. Numerous judges have already found that being on the road after bar time in and of itself is not reasonable cause. So sobriety check points legal status depends not on their ability to catch unwitting drunk drivers, but in their publicized existance as a deturant.
That's right, every sobriety check point (in the states that they are legal in) is advertised before hand. News papers, police web sites, local radio, etc... Not only is there no suprise here, there is Constitutional protection from these check points being set up as a suprise.
The iPhone app is doing nothing that your local news papers and radio stations aren't already doing. And if Congress were to bar the distribution of this information, it would make the check points illegal.
-Rick
How many times does the village idiot have to give you bad advice before you stop listening to him?
-Rick
No, this is like MS offering a converter that would allow you to look at pictures of Windows applications on Linux.
No action script, no functionality. This is just converting Flash's vector graphics to HTML 5's SVG.
And interestingly enough, I'm pretty sure that the Microsoft alternative (Silverlight & Expression Studio 4) already offers the functionality to convert XAML to SVG.
-Rick