I'd say yes... but with sharp conditions: the *only* thing you look for are his words that might relate to his death. No just wandering around, looking for pr0n, or anything else. Intimate talk with someone... that's a *very* gray area, since loosing someone could have pushed this... or not.
You, personally, should you take this job, should *only* tell *anyone* what you found that was relevant, and nothing else.
I'm long out of school, but I've been appalled at where I hear college textbooks have gone - $150 and more. Look at one - how much is empty margin? How much *more* work in making them is there than 20 or 30 years ago? Less, you say, since it's all done online?
Then why the increase, other than pure profit? Oh, sorry, mergers and acquisitions are *so* good for profit, sorry, I meant competition....
My ultimate example of ripoff has been, for many years, the bible (K&R): no pictures, thin book (thinner than any modern 600 page, $8-$10 paperback novel that now sell *less* copies than a textbook), AND IT WAS TYPESET BY THE AUTHORS, and 15 years ago it was nearly $40/copy.
As someone who was "between positions" for nearly FIVE YEARS during the Bush Depression, let me note that a lot of that is HR people, who have *no* idea what they're hiring for, and have no interest in learning what it is: all they care about is "give me some acronyms, and that's how I'll decide who's resumes the hiring manager can see".
Literally, I had one asshole headhunter tell me I "wasn't fresh", and didn't want to even put in my resume until I said to her, "look, if you, personally, took a year off to have a kid, does this mean that no one will ever hire you again professionally?". She had the grace to be embarrassed, and put me in.
Upper management's the same - they don't know, and don't care. They want cheap, and they want letters. Oh, and 60-80 hour weeks.
Let's try this: the instructor is an *EMPLOYEE* of the college. All work he does in relation to his classroom duties are "work for hire", and so owned by the college. The students have paid for this work, and so have paid for the content. Since the students buying the notes have *also* paid for the same content, there seems to be no conflict: the work has already been paid for, and I should think would fall under the same laws as copying to VCR or DVD from a cable tv show.
Twenty-odd years ago, during the height of the boombox, I read a piece in Philly's weekly paper by a guy who lived with his wife on the second floor, over a corner. Some local kids had started hanging out on the corner, and cranked the boombox UP. He was about to yell out the window, when his wife stopped him.
Then they opened their windows, put their full-sized stereo speakers in the windows, and cranked UP the opera.
For that $110k,v you could pay a human being to do the job. Given the median family income in the US is a few bucks over $30k/yr (irs.gov sources), that's more than three years of a person making a living... *and* then there's maintenance on the 'bot....
Ron Paul fools aside (Kucinich had more of a chance), and so-called 2nd Amendment bs'ers aside(1), the questions that I don't have the answers to are:
a) who will INCREASE federal funding for basic research, including the funding for
NASA(2), Fermilab, and Aricibo?
b) who will INCREASE federal funding for CIVILIAN R&D?
c) who will INCREASE tech infrastructure spending(3)?
It certainly WON'T be any Republican, they cut that ever time they have the chance, and only do military research. (4)
mark
1)If any of the so-called 2nd Amendment hotties actually meant what they said, they'd
have shot Bush & Cheney, instead of continuing to blame the current state of the
Union, including the national ID, the utterly unnecessary war, and, oh, yes,
giving the Chinese our spy plane - all the things they're supposedly for the 2nd Amendment to protect us from, on Clinton. 2) After flattening the management structure, preferably with a 9lb hammer. 3) Y'know, like the way Al Gore helped provide *FUNDING* for the Internet as we
know it now? 4) Don't tell me about corporate funding for research, esp. basic research. That's
dropped massively - "not a profit center", and "doesn't add to this quarter's
revenues.
First, to answer all the rest: Americans, how much do you think NASA's budget is? 15% of the US budget?
Then you're ignorant idiots, and need to send your computers back to wherever you bought them, 'cause you're too stupid to use one.
It's about $15B. How much did Apple spend on the iPhone last year on advertising? How much did the network get in ad revenue during the Superbowl?
Microcomputers? Space program. Remote medical monitoring. Satellite weather and phones. GPS. Before you say another word, *you* google it.
Medical coverage "for the poor"? Excuse me, but the median income in the US is $30k/yr (go to the IRS website, "Tax stats at a glance"). 20% of the US has none... and the military budget, NOT COUNTING IRAQ, is over half the US budget: hundreds of *billions* of dollars.
Then there's the other reason: our dreams. Anyone who thinks that *everything* has a price, and if it doesn't make you rich, it's not worth anything, are scum who should be sent out to clean the roads and push their belongings in a shopping cart. Without dreams *other* than "I'm Going To Be Rich (and have no other thoughts in my mind), you're *nothing*.
There was one, and only one, sixties tv show that had the Cone of Silence, and if you don't know that, perhaps you should answer your shoe phone....
On the microwave invisibility front, "hiding subs"? Reality check time: my wife, back in the early eighties, was in the "Hunt for Red October" command. All you need is a school of fish, or a cold water current, and the hunters can't find *anything*. Detecting subs is vastly over-pr'd, and under-possible.
... is that in the last little bit of time they had, intelligent dinosaurs developed, culturally burned their dead (so we don't have the remains), built a technological civilization, then nuked themselves out.
That, or after wiping out the other species of dinosaurs, they got better, and finally Ascended.
I went and skimmed. Half a gig of RAM, 80G h/d... and it runs "Ubuntu, but not speedily"?
Pardon me, I'm typing this running on an AMD Sempron 2600, 512M RAM, and running SuSE 10.3, and it runs quite nicely, thankyouverymuch. In fact, it seems faster than the SuSE 10.0 I was running till earlier this week.
And I was running SuSE 10.0 on an old 900 MHZ machine in the first part of '06, and it ran just fine.
I'd say that evidence shows PC Mag's review for what it is: bs.
Someone writes "boycott the location"; hell, no. Look around, find where it's coming from, go into the building, find the perp, and break the damn thing over their head.
*Then* call the cops, and charge *them* with assault, and you acted in self-defense.
Come on, the Phantom Menace was *dreadful* (unless you were, say, nine years old). It *certainly* didn't need an entire video race game in the middle of it. And having Anakin build C3-P0 and Artie Deco is absurd: you simple can *not* do that kind of "coincidence" in fiction.
Another example: Ooh, ooh, Darth Maul is BAD, is EVIL.... and what the hell did he *do*? Nothing much, until he kills Qui Gon. Think back to Episode IV: Vader comes onstage, and the first thing he does is to personally, grusomely, kill the captain of the Antares. Then he shows up at the meeting the Tarkin & co, and levitates and semi-strangles a general. In writing, this is kmown as "show, don't tell"; Vader was *shown* to be Evil, while Maul was only told.
The same, btw, could be said of whatisname the bounty hunter in the last two movies. He means nothing, until you see the origin of the clone troopers.
Around 2000, a friend/co-worker found this *wonderful* 17-page treatment for Episode One that was *great*. The auther - and I don't remember the name, nor can I find it on the web (I didn't save the URL - said that they'd tried to contact Lucas, and got ignored, not even slush-piled.
It was, as I said, awful.
Episode II was a bit better, though not what a lot of folks expected. Really, it was a stylized Greek tragedy, not Shakespeare. Go read some of the old tradgedies.
Episode III, on the other hand, was the one I was waiting for.
The article's fine... but they say "including the launch vehicle", but don't mention just *how* it's supposed to be launched. The old "getaway special", you knew - it was via the Shuttle. They don't say here.
Here in Chicago, downtown, there's a great sandwich shop called Perry's Deli. They have signs: no pagers, no cell phones (if you need to use them while eating, maybe you should be eating at a more upscale restaurant, the sign says). If they see someone using it, they turn on a LOUD, *VERY* ANNOYING alarm, annoying everyone in the place, until the offender either stops, or goes outside.
And I still want all cellphone usage by drivers treated exactly like DUI, since the accident stats are the same for drunks and cellphone users.
mark "could you drive any better if I shoved it where the sun
don't shine?"
Like Faux News, and Limburger - come on, how many SELF-DESCRIBED liberals or leftists are there in the US media, or on the big, corporate websites (or, say, federal gov't sites, like say FEMA)?
Eight or nine years ago, a columnist in the Chicago Trib counted just columnists, and in papers with overt agendas (such as Mother Jones, or the Wall Street Journal), and foudn something like 57 right-wingers, half a dozen or so "moderates', and less than that of liberals (and Molly Ivins is now gone).
So why *shouldn't* the Kremlin do what the neofascist, pardon "neocon" media here have done?
mark "and show me ONE leftist with the same coverage as extreme
right-wing Kato Inst."
An acquaintance of mine, who teaches half the year around the US, says of the food chain in his "science for non-science majors", that the next to the bottom are the business majors, who don't get it, but don't let that worry them. Then, the very bottom, are the communications majors, who not only don't get it, but don't *know* that they don't get it.
So why is a reporter qualified to report on science if they have no background in it? You or I are only hired for knowledge and experience in ->what the job we're applying for is about-.
Example: the lead paragraph that I saw yesterday via google news, from Cyber-News Netword, read to the effect of "radiation was discovered in the 1890s, when they noticed the resemblance between (uranium? thorium?) and X-rays. (And they had no contact page, for me to excoriate them).
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I'd say yes... but with sharp conditions: the *only* thing you look for are his words that might relate to his death. No just wandering around, looking for pr0n, or anything else. Intimate talk with someone... that's a *very* gray area, since loosing someone could have pushed this... or not.
You, personally, should you take this job, should *only* tell *anyone* what you found that was relevant, and nothing else.
Ever.
mark
Uh, guys, it's *ethanol*. The BATF in the US, and every other government, will have *lots* to say about home stills.
Unless I've missed something, and it's not == Everclear (tm)?
mark
I'm long out of school, but I've been appalled at where I hear college textbooks have gone - $150 and more. Look at one - how much is empty margin? How much *more* work in making them is there than 20 or 30 years ago? Less, you say, since it's all done online?
Then why the increase, other than pure profit? Oh, sorry, mergers and acquisitions are *so* good for profit, sorry, I meant competition....
My ultimate example of ripoff has been, for many years, the bible (K&R): no pictures, thin book (thinner than any modern 600 page, $8-$10 paperback novel that now sell *less* copies than a textbook), AND IT WAS TYPESET BY THE AUTHORS, and 15 years ago it was nearly $40/copy.
mark
As someone who was "between positions" for nearly FIVE YEARS during the Bush Depression, let me note that a lot of that is HR people, who have *no* idea what they're hiring for, and have no interest in learning what it is: all they care about is "give me some acronyms, and that's how I'll decide who's resumes the hiring manager can see".
Literally, I had one asshole headhunter tell me I "wasn't fresh", and didn't want to even put in my resume until I said to her, "look, if you, personally, took a year off to have a kid, does this mean that no one will ever hire you again professionally?". She had the grace to be embarrassed, and put me in.
Upper management's the same - they don't know, and don't care. They want cheap, and they want letters. Oh, and 60-80 hour weeks.
mark "but we don't need unions...."
Let's try this: the instructor is an *EMPLOYEE* of the college. All work he does in relation to his classroom duties are "work for hire", and so owned by the college. The students have paid for this work, and so have paid for the content. Since the students buying the notes have *also* paid for the same content, there seems to be no conflict: the work has already been paid for, and I should think would fall under the same laws as copying to VCR or DVD from a cable tv show.
mark
SCSI, obsolete? Gee, then half the drives at everyone's ISP must be obsolete....
mark
It's the UFO's buzzing them, and pulling them along.
mark "please, Mr. Spaceman, won't you please take me along..."
And how does it do with snow, sleet, or freezing rain?
For that matter, since he's in Italy, how 'bout volcanic ash, should Vesuvius go up?
And how much does it cost, and how complicated is it to build, install, and maintain, in comparison to a DC motor and the mechanism for wipers?
Note to developer: KISS is the acronym of the day for engineering.
mark
Twenty-odd years ago, during the height of the boombox, I read a piece in Philly's weekly paper by a guy who lived with his wife on the second floor, over a corner. Some local kids had started hanging out on the corner, and cranked the boombox UP. He was about to yell out the window, when his wife stopped him.
Then they opened their windows, put their full-sized stereo speakers in the windows, and cranked UP the opera.
Kids last seen walking away, waving fists...
mark
For that $110k,v you could pay a human being to do the job. Given the median family income in the US is a few bucks over $30k/yr (irs.gov sources), that's more than three years of a person making a living... *and* then there's maintenance on the 'bot....
mark
Ron Paul fools aside (Kucinich had more of a chance), and so-called 2nd Amendment bs'ers aside(1), the questions that I don't have the answers to are:
a) who will INCREASE federal funding for basic research, including the funding for
NASA(2), Fermilab, and Aricibo?
b) who will INCREASE federal funding for CIVILIAN R&D?
c) who will INCREASE tech infrastructure spending(3)?
It certainly WON'T be any Republican, they cut that ever time they have the chance, and only do military research. (4)
mark
1)If any of the so-called 2nd Amendment hotties actually meant what they said, they'd
have shot Bush & Cheney, instead of continuing to blame the current state of the
Union, including the national ID, the utterly unnecessary war, and, oh, yes,
giving the Chinese our spy plane - all the things they're supposedly for the 2nd Amendment to protect us from, on Clinton.
2) After flattening the management structure, preferably with a 9lb hammer.
3) Y'know, like the way Al Gore helped provide *FUNDING* for the Internet as we
know it now?
4) Don't tell me about corporate funding for research, esp. basic research. That's
dropped massively - "not a profit center", and "doesn't add to this quarter's
revenues.
First, to answer all the rest: Americans, how much do you think NASA's budget is? 15% of the US budget?
Then you're ignorant idiots, and need to send your computers back to wherever you bought them, 'cause you're too stupid to use one.
It's about $15B. How much did Apple spend on the iPhone last year on advertising? How much did the network get in ad revenue during the Superbowl?
Microcomputers? Space program. Remote medical monitoring. Satellite weather and phones. GPS. Before you say another word, *you* google it.
Medical coverage "for the poor"? Excuse me, but the median income in the US is $30k/yr (go to the IRS website, "Tax stats at a glance"). 20% of the US has none... and the military budget, NOT COUNTING IRAQ, is over half the US budget: hundreds of *billions* of dollars.
Then there's the other reason: our dreams. Anyone who thinks that *everything* has a price, and if it doesn't make you rich, it's not worth anything, are scum who should be sent out to clean the roads and push their belongings in a shopping cart. Without dreams *other* than "I'm Going To Be Rich (and have no other thoughts in my mind), you're *nothing*.
mark
There was one, and only one, sixties tv show that had the Cone of Silence, and if you don't know that, perhaps you should answer your shoe phone....
On the microwave invisibility front, "hiding subs"? Reality check time: my wife, back in the early eighties, was in the "Hunt for Red October" command. All you need is a school of fish, or a cold water current, and the hunters can't find *anything*. Detecting subs is vastly over-pr'd, and under-possible.
mark
That's (list (is (a solid) (language)))
mark
... is that in the last little bit of time they had, intelligent dinosaurs developed, culturally burned their dead (so we don't have the remains), built a technological civilization, then nuked themselves out.
That, or after wiping out the other species of dinosaurs, they got better, and finally Ascended.
mark "no, I'm not Daniel Jackson"
I went and skimmed. Half a gig of RAM, 80G h/d... and it runs "Ubuntu, but not speedily"?
Pardon me, I'm typing this running on an AMD Sempron 2600, 512M RAM, and running SuSE 10.3, and it runs quite nicely, thankyouverymuch. In fact, it seems faster than the SuSE 10.0 I was running till earlier this week.
And I was running SuSE 10.0 on an old 900 MHZ machine in the first part of '06, and it ran just fine.
I'd say that evidence shows PC Mag's review for what it is: bs.
mark
If this isn't R1-D1 (the first model off the drawing board), I'll eat the m/b.
mark
The obvious answer to this....
mark
Someone writes "boycott the location"; hell, no. Look around, find where it's coming from, go into the building, find the perp, and break the damn thing over their head.
*Then* call the cops, and charge *them* with assault, and you acted in self-defense.
mark
Come on, the Phantom Menace was *dreadful* (unless you were, say, nine years old). It *certainly* didn't need an entire video race game in the middle of it. And having Anakin build C3-P0 and Artie Deco is absurd: you simple can *not* do that kind of "coincidence" in fiction.
Another example: Ooh, ooh, Darth Maul is BAD, is EVIL.... and what the hell did he *do*? Nothing much, until he kills Qui Gon. Think back to Episode IV: Vader comes onstage, and the first thing he does is to personally, grusomely, kill the captain of the Antares. Then he shows up at the meeting the Tarkin & co, and levitates and semi-strangles a general. In writing, this is kmown as "show, don't tell"; Vader was *shown* to be Evil, while Maul was only told.
The same, btw, could be said of whatisname the bounty hunter in the last two movies. He means nothing, until you see the origin of the clone troopers.
Around 2000, a friend/co-worker found this *wonderful* 17-page treatment for Episode One that was *great*. The auther - and I don't remember the name, nor can I find it on the web (I didn't save the URL - said that they'd tried to contact Lucas, and got ignored, not even slush-piled.
It was, as I said, awful.
Episode II was a bit better, though not what a lot of folks expected. Really, it was a stylized Greek tragedy, not Shakespeare. Go read some of the old tradgedies.
Episode III, on the other hand, was the one I was waiting for.
mark
The article's fine... but they say "including the launch vehicle", but don't mention just *how* it's supposed to be launched. The old "getaway special", you knew - it was via the Shuttle. They don't say here.
mark
Here in Chicago, downtown, there's a great sandwich shop called Perry's Deli. They have signs: no pagers, no cell phones (if you need to use them while eating, maybe you should be eating at a more upscale restaurant, the sign says). If they see someone using it, they turn on a LOUD, *VERY* ANNOYING alarm, annoying everyone in the place, until the offender either stops, or goes outside.
And I still want all cellphone usage by drivers treated exactly like DUI, since the accident stats are the same for drunks and cellphone users.
mark "could you drive any better if I shoved it where the sun
don't shine?"
Like Faux News, and Limburger - come on, how many SELF-DESCRIBED liberals or leftists are there in the US media, or on the big, corporate websites (or, say, federal gov't sites, like say FEMA)?
Eight or nine years ago, a columnist in the Chicago Trib counted just columnists, and in papers with overt agendas (such as Mother Jones, or the Wall Street Journal), and foudn something like 57 right-wingers, half a dozen or so "moderates', and less than that of liberals (and Molly Ivins is now gone).
So why *shouldn't* the Kremlin do what the neofascist, pardon "neocon" media here have done?
mark "and show me ONE leftist with the same coverage as extreme
right-wing Kato Inst."
An acquaintance of mine, who teaches half the year around the US, says of the food chain in his "science for non-science majors", that the next to the bottom are the business majors, who don't get it, but don't let that worry them. Then, the very bottom, are the communications majors, who not only don't get it, but don't *know* that they don't get it.
So why is a reporter qualified to report on science if they have no background in it? You or I are only hired for knowledge and experience in ->what the job we're applying for is about-.
Example: the lead paragraph that I saw yesterday via google news, from Cyber-News Netword, read to the effect of "radiation was discovered in the 1890s, when they noticed the resemblance between (uranium? thorium?) and X-rays. (And they had no contact page, for me to excoriate them).
mark
Um, I think I'll cut my electric bill in half.
Meanwhile, I take it you enjoy paying the oil companies to import oil from the Middle East, etc?
mark "let's not forget that we don't use anywhere *near* as much power
between 02:00 and 06:00 as, say, 09:00-17:00"