Gimme an Rx! Cheerleaders Pep Up Drug Sales - New York Times
Of the mantra "Hire for attitude, train for skills", taken to the MAX.
Gimme an Rx! Cheerleaders Pep Up Drug Sales - New York Times: "As an ambitious college student, Cassie Napier had all the right moves - flips, tumbles, an ever-flashing America's sweetheart smile - to prepare for her job after graduation. She became a drug saleswoman.
Ms. Napier, 26, was a star cheerleader on the national-champion University of Kentucky squad, which has been a springboard for many careers in pharmaceutical sales. She now plies doctors' offices selling the antacid Prevacid for TAP Pharmaceutical Products."
Writing the Fastest Code - New York Times
The only reason to blog this stoy is because the guy's name is Goto as in "'Go to' concidered harmful". I think it is quite funny.
Writing the Fastest Code, by Hand, for Fun: A Human Computer Keeps Speeding Up Chips - New York Times: "SEATTLE - There was a time long ago when the word 'computer' was a job description referring to the humans who performed the tedious mathematical calculations for huge military and engineering projects.
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Kazushige Goto's software runs many of the fastest supercomputers.
It is in the same sense that Kazushige Goto's business card says simply 'high performance computing.'
Mr. Goto, who is 37, might even be called the John Henry of the information age."
Halibut Dressed as T-Bone - New York Times
Halibut Dressed as T-Bone - New York Times: "NO matter how fresh or healthy, a fish fillet inspires little more than a yawn in some people. The chef David Burke is one of them.
'I don't want to go out and order red snapper with fava beans,' he said from a white leather barstool at David Burke & Donatella, his plush playground of gastronomy on the Upper East Side. 'It just doesn't do it for me.'"
Future of Desktop Apps?
Type Managers. Who knew iLife Suite (minus gB) had a category besides "cool". Type Manager are like file managers for a particular type or types of files plus the grouping of tasks usually associated with that type.
The beauty of Type Managers is the bundle. The authors describes heavilly manual process that he would use to get MP3 files on to his MP3 player. You need rip the cd, maybe convert formats, populate ID3 tags from CDDB, organize you files in to your home made files stucture, then move the files to you MP3 player.
Of course this process has improved through the years, but not until iTunes came along did all of those functions come under one roof. iTunes will take care of your digital music experience from beginning to end, automatically ripping, coverting, tagging, organizing and copying your music to your player.
And the most amazing part, no one missed the control they once had over the files. Who really cares how many folders you'd have to go thought to get to the music, iTunes has it all for you in a sortable and searchable set. Folks who have moved from "all in a folder" to "genre/artist/album" folks are happy to let iTunes deal with the mess.
So where does this take us? The conqured realm is music and photos. How about movies and vidoes? Word/Excel/PDF managers? There is a fine line between managers and creators (Photoshop, Word, etc), but the key is to find the post-creation management needed to make everyones life easier. Render the file system invisible, you can find files by manager or by new and improved searches.
Well what do you think? Check out the original story and leave a comment.
Type Manager: "iTunes lets you do everything related to music files in a interface perfect for managing music files. If you tried to use iTunes interface for managing your photos you would be laughed at because it just wouldn't work. If you have Linux you can of use digiKam, another Type Manager, made for photos of course."
The other side of Rumsfeld's DoD.
Similar to Tom Barnett's Esquire article from July, this article seeks to add another dimension to what is going on at the Department of Defense. This is a great Sunday read.
Wrestling With History: "If only he could show us the memo.
'It's still classified, I suppose?' says Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, looking toward his assistant.
'It's still classified,' Lawrence DiRita replies, 'along with a lot of the underlying planning.'"
ZDnet.co.uk -- Slashdotted?
If the theory hold that "where nerds go now, the mainstream will be in 5 years" then hold on to your hats. Its seems that ZDNet a IT news/review/white paper site has been taken down by Slashdotters. What story prompted this flood over the pond? One of the first tests to put MacOS X on a x86 machine.
I've been lucky enought to see the photos of the installation, but I haven't seen the review. The pictures aren't exciting until you see that last one with the close up of the "Toshiba" logo and "The Dock" right above it.
Hopefully the review will be up sometime in the near future.
Slashdot | Mac OS X x86 Put To The Test: "Mac OS X x86 Put To The Test
Posted by Zonk on Friday November 11, @09:51AM
from the a-boy-can-dream dept.
OS X Apple
stivi writes 'ZDNet has tested Mac OS X x86 on a Toshiba laptop. "
For One Student, a College Career Becomes a Career
I almost feel ashamed giving any more notice to this cheesehead at UW-Whitewater. My friends fondly reminisce about our college days, but 12 years of them would be ridiculous. Check out the story if you wish.
For One Student, a College Career Becomes a Career - New York Times: "WHITEWATER, Wis. - Nearly every college has some screwball who never seems to graduate, lingering year after year as classmates move on. And then there is Johnny Lechner."
Don't let architectural snobbery interfere with your enjoyment of these five ugly duckling Bay Area buildings
I agree with the sentiment of the story, but seriously I think he is trying too hard to find beauty in some of these beasts.
Don't let architectural snobbery interfere with your enjoyment of these five ugly duckling Bay Area buildings: "If all this sounds subjective, that's the point. The best way to explain is to offer examples. So here are five buildings that I like because they're good for what they are, and one complex that violates every rule of urban planning -- and gets away with it."
A lesson USC Football can teach the Pros
USC Football really has their act together. Even if players get in trouble they have contact call sheet ready made and laminated (protect against beer stains). If you read the story from the LATimes they have a pro bono lawyer ready to defend them, if necessary.
I think the Vikings might have to take some lessons from this group, hell maybe we should ditch our team and draft the entire USC football team. They couldn't do any worse.
He's There in Bad Times - Los Angeles Times: "the first step for any USC player is to check a laminated card provided by the team.
On one side are phone numbers for Dennis Slutak, director of football operations, and head trainer Russ Romano. On the other side are numbers for team security coordinators Xavier Suazo and Rick Carr.
Known as 'X-Man,' Suazo is a former state Justice Department agent who arranges police escorts for team buses and knows whom to contact at local agencies when a player is arrested."
