A couple years ago I was a judge for a county science fair and one of the entrants was kid that wrote an app that did this. He did it so that he would not get his phone taken away while he was in school.
One of the cool benifits that they could offer would be locating members of your group. All the wrist band for a group would be grouped together in the system. All that you have to do is go to a Kiosk and select something like show group memeber locations. At which point a map of the park would show where each member was. From there, there are a lot of additional features that could be added.
My wife has MS and is taking Rebif. The last time that I checked, our insurance was covering almost $5k/month for the cost of Rebif. That would equate out to almost $300k over 5 years which is 3 times that cost of the treatment. After having to deal with insuracnce companies for the 8+ years that my wife has been living with this, I feel confident that they would rather pay the $5k/month than the one payment of $100k.
Today they're tracking us during office hours, tomorrow they're tracking us after-hours. What's next?
This would be good in the trucking industry, delivery services, emergency services, etc. Basically anything where your employees are out driving around all day.
Now, your point just extends the question to why Linux hasn't begun to be pre-installed on retail computers?
I think that everyone is looking at the problem wrong. It is not any issue with Linux that it is keeping it off the desktop. It is the average user. Given the choice, the average user will pick windows over linux, not because it is better but because of name recognition. So unless you drastically discount the cost of a PC with linux compared to the exact same computer with windows, the average person will choose the windows computer becasue that is what they know and what everyone else has.
If they are indeed just local data recorders, I don't really see a problem,....
That is how it starts.
Step 1) get everyone used to the device for recording basic info. But no worries, the data is all yours (Unless we decide that we "NEED" it)
Step 2) Oh, we are just going to add GPS data. But no worries, the data is all yours (Unless we decide that we "NEED" it)
Step 3) We are going to add networking so that when you get into an accident the police/fire/medics can be automatically notified with the exact location. But no worries, we promise not to store or use the data for any other purpose.
Step 4) Start automatically sending tickets based off of data collected from black box.
Nope, I can't think of any negative outcome of this bill.
It is amazing what people can get used to. for example, just 10 years ago we would have been bitching about gas prices above $1.50. Today you are happy if you see gas prices around $3.20. In just 10 years they have more than doubled the acceptable price. Or look at how quickly people stop complaining about new TSA policies.It only took a few months for people to stop complaining about the full body scanners and accept them as part of modern travel.
As long as CBS paid him for the work, then he should not be able to retain the right to the work. If he wanted to maintain the full rights to the work, he should have not taken the money from CBS or he should have put it in his contract that he retains the rights to all the works that he wrote.
We have a tradition for junk mail, too. Anything that has a postage-paid return envelope, we stuff full of whatever extraneous non-identifying paperwork (usually other junk mail circulars and flyers) we have laying around...the more the better...and mail it on back to them at their greatly increased (due to excessive weight) expense. I really wish just once I could be there when the person on the receiving end opens our credit card application and finds a bunch of those shopper stopper coupons, fast-food napkins; hell, my mother even sent one back with ketchup and relish packets inside.
You want to get taken off a mailing list quickly, start sending them back a bunch of random crap at their expense. We rarely get junk mail from the same place more than a few times anymore...
For postage paid return envelopes, I have a a nice shredder that has a real nice cross cut. I take everything that we sent including the original envelope and shred it. I then put the shred into the prepaid envelope and send it on its merry way.
I had some phone sales rep yell at me for politely letting him go through his spiel before shooting him down. He basically asked me why I would listen to his whole spiel, and then he dramatically hung up on me.
As I was putting down the phone receiver, I was thinking to myself, "because you never gave me a chance to talk..."
I did the same thing to a phone sales rep. I had him on the phone for almost an hour asking questions and never once agreeing to anything. The whole time that i was one the phone i was also playing games on the computer. He got pissed off when in the end I told him that I was not interested and he demanded to know why I kept him on the phone for an hour if I knew that I was not going to buy anything. I tried to explain to the dipshit that he was the one that called me not the other way around. He proceeded to yell and scream at me over the phone while I laughed at him before he finally hung up or someone disconnected him.
The other fun thing to do is to answer the phone and then when they start talking just start doing something like giggling, laughing, screaming or breathing heavy and see how long they will stay on the line.
I would have given them a more reasonable, but still lucrative rate (Like $150/hr) and done it. I would have felt just as satisfied putting their money in my bank account as I would have in picturing them laboring for hours to recreate the system. I would have also worried about them doing something foolish, but damaging nonetheless, like suing me. After all, they could have claimed you put a dead man's switch in the code or something.
I was not in a charitable mood. There were no warnings to the lay-offs. They actually called me on my day off and told me over the phone that I was laid off and that I needed to report to HR in the morning. My account was disabled before they called me. During the outprocessing the lady from HR actually had the nerve to ask me how I had liked working for the company and she was actaully shocked when I would not say anything nice. As for being sued, it never even crossed my mind. I know that I did not do anything to the system to cause the problem. Actually, thinking back on it, I wish that they would have tried to sue me. They would have definitely lost and I could have then counter sued for defamation of character.
You are not as important as you think you are. Just leave. They will figure it out. Worked for me.
Back in 2001, I worked for a company where I build a system that outputted a report that went to all the management up to the VP of the company. I was the only one that had access to the server and I had all the passwords. A couple weeks after they laid me off, the VP stopped getting his report and no I did not cause it to break:). When he asked my old manager about not getting his report, my manager had to explain to him that they only person who knew anything about the system and had all the password was laid off. They actually had the nerve to call me and ask if I would give them the passwords and help them fix it. I laughed and told them I would for $1000/hr. They never got the system working again.
I still don't understand the "material what we're mad from" part...
It has been a while since I took astronomy so I am sure that I will get some corrections, but I will give it a shot.
Right after the big bang, the universe was mostly made of of just hydorgen and helinm. Most of the rest of the elements are produced by stars. During its life and depending on how big the star is, the fusion process in the star can produce elements up to iron (I think). When the larger stars (I think it is about 10 times the size of our sun and greater) die, they go supernova. This explosive process produces the heavier elements and also dstributes them back out into the universe and in time they become the stars and planets in other solar systems like ours. So we are made from the remnents of dead stars.
Which brings up the question: Which will happen first? Earth's core cooling to the point where we lose our atmosphere, or the Sun running out of fuel to the point where Earth can no longer sustain life (as we like it)?
The correct answer is neither. Both of those are billions of years in the future. You forgot about a more immediate threat to the planet. Unless something drastic happens, the Human race will have made the earth devoid of life long before that. And even if we don't f' the planet up beyond all fixing, it wont matter because humans will either be extinct or will have colonized the galaxy by then.
it will be paid back even if that means taking social security checks when the borrower is retired.
No matter how you look at it, in the end, the tax payer will cover the debt. If they take the person's SS check to cover the debt, the person will just go on wellfare which is paid for by tax payers. Also, if the person dies before paying off the debt, the tax payers have to cover it.
RIM announced plans for a phone "VM" platform ages ago - you get a physical device, it has two OS's one for personal use, one for work. Or make it dual-boot... Or use VPN. We have a million ways to achieve this for PC's, why not smartphones?
I don't see why they deserve more than the contractor gets paid in PURE PROFIT with no costs of their own. If the tax payers knew, there would be a revolt. We can only assume that since these corporations have NSA contracts, that any whistle blower will be quickly "disappeared".
Who do you think writes the proposals to win the contracts? Who do you think does all the marketing? A lot of contract awards hinge on the reputation of the contracting companies. Of course they are going to take their cut even it they sub the work out, They are the ones that did the initial work to win the contract, they are the ones that have to maintain the contact and it is their reputation that is on the line not their subcontractors. If you are awarding a contract, who would you award it to, a company that you have never heard of before or a large firm that you have had good experience with? Even on goverment contracts that are considered "Small business Set Asides", the small business will prime the contract with one or more large contractors backing them as subcontractors.
Government or Private Sector contracting, it is all the same. A contractor is brought in to complete a specifc task and are kicked out when they are no longer needed. If you instead hired an employee, you would have to find them a new position once the project that you hired them for is complete. You might have to cross train them for a new position. Also, it is not easy to fire an employee unless they royally screw up and sometimes not even then. But with a contractor, you can get them replaced or just cancel the contract.
Another benifit of having contractors has to do with PR. When have you ever heard about a company or government agency get bad publicity for getting rid of a bunch of contractors? But if you have to layoff employees, it makes the news. Canceling/ending a contract just does not have the same negitive stigma that layoff do eventhough in the end, depending on the contracting company, the same number of people could be unemployeed.
In many states public universities are banned from charging tuition to in-state students. This is ostensibly because the state funds the teacher's salaries. But of course, they can still charge it for out of state students, so there is a huge incentive to recruit them in order to increase income. They prefer doing this to controlling costs.
Which states are public universities banned from charging tuition to in-state students?
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A couple years ago I was a judge for a county science fair and one of the entrants was kid that wrote an app that did this. He did it so that he would not get his phone taken away while he was in school.
One of the cool benifits that they could offer would be locating members of your group. All the wrist band for a group would be grouped together in the system. All that you have to do is go to a Kiosk and select something like show group memeber locations. At which point a map of the park would show where each member was. From there, there are a lot of additional features that could be added.
My wife has MS and is taking Rebif. The last time that I checked, our insurance was covering almost $5k/month for the cost of Rebif. That would equate out to almost $300k over 5 years which is 3 times that cost of the treatment. After having to deal with insuracnce companies for the 8+ years that my wife has been living with this, I feel confident that they would rather pay the $5k/month than the one payment of $100k.
Today they're tracking us during office hours, tomorrow they're tracking us after-hours. What's next?
This would be good in the trucking industry, delivery services, emergency services, etc. Basically anything where your employees are out driving around all day.
Indeed, if it's observing the US and that's classified, they may be required to lie.
They can neither confirrm nor deny if they are telling you the truth or lying to you.
I assume that would be if you got your coffee from a coffee shop. But in that case, I think that the $4 for 3 cups would be a little low.
Now, your point just extends the question to why Linux hasn't begun to be pre-installed on retail computers?
I think that everyone is looking at the problem wrong. It is not any issue with Linux that it is keeping it off the desktop. It is the average user. Given the choice, the average user will pick windows over linux, not because it is better but because of name recognition. So unless you drastically discount the cost of a PC with linux compared to the exact same computer with windows, the average person will choose the windows computer becasue that is what they know and what everyone else has.
If they are indeed just local data recorders, I don't really see a problem, ....
That is how it starts.
Step 1) get everyone used to the device for recording basic info. But no worries, the data is all yours (Unless we decide that we "NEED" it)
Step 2) Oh, we are just going to add GPS data. But no worries, the data is all yours (Unless we decide that we "NEED" it)
Step 3) We are going to add networking so that when you get into an accident the police/fire/medics can be automatically notified with the exact location. But no worries, we promise not to store or use the data for any other purpose.
Step 4) Start automatically sending tickets based off of data collected from black box.
Nope, I can't think of any negative outcome of this bill.
It is amazing what people can get used to. for example, just 10 years ago we would have been bitching about gas prices above $1.50. Today you are happy if you see gas prices around $3.20. In just 10 years they have more than doubled the acceptable price. Or look at how quickly people stop complaining about new TSA policies.It only took a few months for people to stop complaining about the full body scanners and accept them as part of modern travel.
As long as CBS paid him for the work, then he should not be able to retain the right to the work. If he wanted to maintain the full rights to the work, he should have not taken the money from CBS or he should have put it in his contract that he retains the rights to all the works that he wrote.
What's wrong with being an anti-social nut? I thought that was a prereq of being a good systems administrator.
28 - you turn 28 years old when you get married (and have completed all requirements for ages above)
29- you don't turn 29 until you have a mortgage. (and have completed all requirements for ages above)
Does this mean that if you get devorced or stop having a mortage, you get to go back to 27 or 28 yrs old?
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We have a tradition for junk mail, too. Anything that has a postage-paid return envelope, we stuff full of whatever extraneous non-identifying paperwork (usually other junk mail circulars and flyers) we have laying around...the more the better...and mail it on back to them at their greatly increased (due to excessive weight) expense. I really wish just once I could be there when the person on the receiving end opens our credit card application and finds a bunch of those shopper stopper coupons, fast-food napkins; hell, my mother even sent one back with ketchup and relish packets inside.
You want to get taken off a mailing list quickly, start sending them back a bunch of random crap at their expense. We rarely get junk mail from the same place more than a few times anymore...
For postage paid return envelopes, I have a a nice shredder that has a real nice cross cut. I take everything that we sent including the original envelope and shred it. I then put the shred into the prepaid envelope and send it on its merry way.
I had some phone sales rep yell at me for politely letting him go through his spiel before shooting him down. He basically asked me why I would listen to his whole spiel, and then he dramatically hung up on me.
As I was putting down the phone receiver, I was thinking to myself, "because you never gave me a chance to talk..."
I did the same thing to a phone sales rep. I had him on the phone for almost an hour asking questions and never once agreeing to anything. The whole time that i was one the phone i was also playing games on the computer. He got pissed off when in the end I told him that I was not interested and he demanded to know why I kept him on the phone for an hour if I knew that I was not going to buy anything. I tried to explain to the dipshit that he was the one that called me not the other way around. He proceeded to yell and scream at me over the phone while I laughed at him before he finally hung up or someone disconnected him.
The other fun thing to do is to answer the phone and then when they start talking just start doing something like giggling, laughing, screaming or breathing heavy and see how long they will stay on the line.
I would have given them a more reasonable, but still lucrative rate (Like $150/hr) and done it. I would have felt just as satisfied putting their money in my bank account as I would have in picturing them laboring for hours to recreate the system. I would have also worried about them doing something foolish, but damaging nonetheless, like suing me. After all, they could have claimed you put a dead man's switch in the code or something.
I was not in a charitable mood. There were no warnings to the lay-offs. They actually called me on my day off and told me over the phone that I was laid off and that I needed to report to HR in the morning. My account was disabled before they called me. During the outprocessing the lady from HR actually had the nerve to ask me how I had liked working for the company and she was actaully shocked when I would not say anything nice. As for being sued, it never even crossed my mind. I know that I did not do anything to the system to cause the problem. Actually, thinking back on it, I wish that they would have tried to sue me. They would have definitely lost and I could have then counter sued for defamation of character.
You are not as important as you think you are. Just leave. They will figure it out. Worked for me.
Back in 2001, I worked for a company where I build a system that outputted a report that went to all the management up to the VP of the company. I was the only one that had access to the server and I had all the passwords. A couple weeks after they laid me off, the VP stopped getting his report and no I did not cause it to break :). When he asked my old manager about not getting his report, my manager had to explain to him that they only person who knew anything about the system and had all the password was laid off. They actually had the nerve to call me and ask if I would give them the passwords and help them fix it. I laughed and told them I would for $1000/hr. They never got the system working again.
And yes, I already know that I can not spell.. hydorgen=hydrogen and helinm=helium
I still don't understand the "material what we're mad from" part...
It has been a while since I took astronomy so I am sure that I will get some corrections, but I will give it a shot.
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Right after the big bang, the universe was mostly made of of just hydorgen and helinm. Most of the rest of the elements are produced by stars. During its life and depending on how big the star is, the fusion process in the star can produce elements up to iron (I think). When the larger stars (I think it is about 10 times the size of our sun and greater) die, they go supernova. This explosive process produces the heavier elements and also dstributes them back out into the universe and in time they become the stars and planets in other solar systems like ours. So we are made from the remnents of dead stars.
Let the corrections begin
Which brings up the question: Which will happen first? Earth's core cooling to the point where we lose our atmosphere, or the Sun running out of fuel to the point where Earth can no longer sustain life (as we like it)?
The correct answer is neither. Both of those are billions of years in the future. You forgot about a more immediate threat to the planet. Unless something drastic happens, the Human race will have made the earth devoid of life long before that. And even if we don't f' the planet up beyond all fixing, it wont matter because humans will either be extinct or will have colonized the galaxy by then.
it will be paid back even if that means taking social security checks when the borrower is retired.
No matter how you look at it, in the end, the tax payer will cover the debt. If they take the person's SS check to cover the debt, the person will just go on wellfare which is paid for by tax payers. Also, if the person dies before paying off the debt, the tax payers have to cover it.
Yesterday's was the final T4 post, but it's out of order.
That was because they used the FTL neutrinos ( http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/09/26/1330253/faster-than-light-particle-results-to-be-re-tested ) to send the post. Which validates CERNS results.
There is no other way to play FPS than on pc.
Yes there is: it's called paintball.
You could join the army or marines. Then you can play the ultimate FPS.
RIM announced plans for a phone "VM" platform ages ago - you get a physical device, it has two OS's one for personal use, one for work. Or make it dual-boot... Or use VPN. We have a million ways to achieve this for PC's, why not smartphones?
Do you mean something like this? http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/cto/emerging/blog/2010/12/08/vmw-partners-with-lg-to-bring-virtualization-to-smartphones
I don't see why they deserve more than the contractor gets paid in PURE PROFIT with no costs of their own. If the tax payers knew, there would be a revolt. We can only assume that since these corporations have NSA contracts, that any whistle blower will be quickly "disappeared".
Who do you think writes the proposals to win the contracts? Who do you think does all the marketing? A lot of contract awards hinge on the reputation of the contracting companies. Of course they are going to take their cut even it they sub the work out, They are the ones that did the initial work to win the contract, they are the ones that have to maintain the contact and it is their reputation that is on the line not their subcontractors. If you are awarding a contract, who would you award it to, a company that you have never heard of before or a large firm that you have had good experience with? Even on goverment contracts that are considered "Small business Set Asides", the small business will prime the contract with one or more large contractors backing them as subcontractors.
Government or Private Sector contracting, it is all the same. A contractor is brought in to complete a specifc task and are kicked out when they are no longer needed. If you instead hired an employee, you would have to find them a new position once the project that you hired them for is complete. You might have to cross train them for a new position. Also, it is not easy to fire an employee unless they royally screw up and sometimes not even then. But with a contractor, you can get them replaced or just cancel the contract.
Another benifit of having contractors has to do with PR. When have you ever heard about a company or government agency get bad publicity for getting rid of a bunch of contractors? But if you have to layoff employees, it makes the news. Canceling/ending a contract just does not have the same negitive stigma that layoff do eventhough in the end, depending on the contracting company, the same number of people could be unemployeed.
In many states public universities are banned from charging tuition to in-state students. This is ostensibly because the state funds the teacher's salaries. But of course, they can still charge it for out of state students, so there is a huge incentive to recruit them in order to increase income. They prefer doing this to controlling costs.
Which states are public universities banned from charging tuition to in-state students?