The only medical practitioners* I have any respect for are micro-surgeons because they actually put humpty-dumpty back together again.
I've always maintained that if you want to remain healthy, stay the hell away from any kind of doctor.
I don't hold our profession in such high regard either. (The average architect has to comply with a long list of things in order get a building designed, approved, erected and landscaped "in situ" before he can finally give over the keys to the owners. The average programmer should be selling shoes.)
*) You know why doctors are only ever said to practice medicine? Because it covers their butts when the patient dies on them (probably because they killed him/her.**)
**) There was a prolonged doctors strike in Israel. For two years there was no surgery performed. For two years the death rate in Israel went down. When they settled the strike and started scheduling surgeries again, the death rate climbed back up to its pre-strike level. Given the duration of the strike, it wasn't a statistical anomaly or other "blip" that could be blamed on some other cause.
Its to bad we had to wait until Verizon's FiOS and AT&T's battle over data plans duking it out with ComCast & TimeWarner's networks to end up with a duopoly with two children at a time playing badly (and clearly illegally,) with other people's toys.
The large majority of PC owners (not the corporate accounts,) take whatever OS comes with the box.
The corporate accounts have staff who absolutely HATE change.
They buy based on functionality and make NO changes. (I know of some FAX servers in an office's closets in the midwest that are still running on IBM hardware and on OS/2 and will until they stop running.)
The people who hate change even more than IT staff are accountants. They LIKE hardware that behaves like it.
That is the nature of their customer base.
The people who buy microsoft's new OSs are OEMs, who don't use 'em either.
And until the FDA reins in Monsanto and ADM and Cargill (merely the three biggest names in agribusiness,) the rest of the monocolture conglomerate, the heavily subsidized corn-mad crap (I don't call it food) producers and the factory farms with their corn-fattened cattle and cannibal chickens, that effort is merely a tax on the poor fat-ass schlubs in Arizona.
The FDA stands for the Food and Drug administration. It is there to promote and protect the interests of the food and drug producers and , NOT the interests or the lives of the consumers.
After screwing up the food, which makes you sick, they hand you over to the drug manufacturers. who come up with cures for restless leg syndrome, which can be cured just by jerking off.
Americans eat worse, less nutritions, less tasty read than the poorest Egyptian fellah.
Its like they take the tweeter into a back room somewhere... and strangle him.
But that what they want.
They opened all of those Twitter accounts in order to shut people up.
They leave one "gardian" service rep on a bunch of accounts and when a tweet comes in, their job is to detract, distract, defer, refer and destroy the evidence.
Not mention that they don't have much choice anymore, since they getting absolutely no traction with any product besides their Windows/Office combo, (Zune anyone? Bwahaha... How bout one of those phones from Nokia? <Snort>)
She had a golden opportunity to hold it at an outdoor arena, charge $20 a head, control, (viz: soak the idiots who'd show up,) the flow of liquor and beer (after all this IS Australia,) and she DIDN'T BLOODY DO IT?
I'd call the mental ward and tell them to make a pickup.
they're not very open source and they fundamentally don't care.
If they did care they would clutter their designs with backwards compatibility hacks. They don't.
If they did care they would keep, perhaps slavishly, to existing standards, They don't.
Apple forges on ahead much to the dismay of their existing customer base, which they NEVER consult on anything, and the existing customer base keeps buying their products and setting trends.
Why are they even discussed on/.?
What Apple is and what Apple does is no concern of anybody who comes here, except as CONSUMERS of Apple products or possibly as shareholders./. attempts at anything with Apple is like trying to guide the direction of an elephant as it wanders through the jungle from a point of view slightly below and in front of its tail.
I doubt that kids have enough folding dough to make this truly profitable, unless you count pre-tit poontang from the girly-truants. (If inept sex is all you can manage; go for it.:-)
Since a DNA sample is sequence tolerant, meaning it can occur just about anywhere in a DNA strand, trying to claim industrial-style ownership becomes damn near useless.
Researchers can claim that the sequence is open source and, apart from the portions that are unique to a specific individual, they'd be right.
Its also a means of giving himself immortality in the minds of all genetic researchers.
The name Manu Sporny may not roll off of the tongue as trippingly as Monsanto or Merk, but I'm already thanking him.
Those aren't free and they weren't loaded onto my Mac. (I use NeoOffice [an OpenOffice clone,] anyway.)
Nor do you have the situation with Linux with which you have X different word processors like AbiWord, OpenOffice and lord knows what else, coming on the distro CDs. At least you can pare the list on the distro install.
IBM still makes mainframes as well as software consulting. They reinvented themselves and it worked.
I don't see Microsoft ever letting go of Windows and they'll crash holding onto 'em too. Microsoft's got an R&D division that the people selling product never talk to.
I would like to than the members of the academy, my parents and the kids upstairs from me for giving me the incentive for mixing metaphors with such abandon.
I look forward to many more chances to delight my audience in the coming years.
This man (and I use the term loosely,) has a major hard-on for Linux and, like a rabid dog, he's not going to unclench his jaws from the smoke he's holding until somebody puts him down.
I can see him at the rense.com studios, well into his eighties, yelling into some one else's microphone, trying to get people to give a shit.
He's just there for comic relief, to fill the air time between the commercials,, like the conspiracy theorists, the Hitler sympathizers and the other nuts who are paraded out to soak up the minutes.
The shift will probably happen overnight (a chron job with a check at boot time to insure the IPv6 protocol will be up and running,) but when its supposed to happen it will.
To confirm this, boot up your Mac in verbose mode.
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The only medical practitioners* I have any respect for are micro-surgeons because they actually put humpty-dumpty back together again.
I've always maintained that if you want to remain healthy, stay the hell away from any kind of doctor.
I don't hold our profession in such high regard either. (The average architect has to comply with a long list of things in order get a building designed, approved, erected and landscaped "in situ" before he can finally give over the keys to the owners. The average programmer should be selling shoes.)
*) You know why doctors are only ever said to practice medicine? Because it covers their butts when the patient dies on them (probably because they killed him/her.**)
**) There was a prolonged doctors strike in Israel. For two years there was no surgery performed. For two years the death rate in Israel went down. When they settled the strike and started scheduling surgeries again, the death rate climbed back up to its pre-strike level. Given the duration of the strike, it wasn't a statistical anomaly or other "blip" that could be blamed on some other cause.
That dweeb will almost kill you twice or three times with misdiagnoses before he finds the right one.
the software should point out that employees aren't going to get a dime more whether they take that 5 minute break or not, so why ruin your health?
RSI? FU!
From a parenting book:
Q. Do diapers give you leprosy?
A. No. Its the pee and the poopoo that give you leprosy. Diapers give you hives.
But seriously, I'm not surprised that there is an animal/human vector for what is, after all, a virological disease.
So let go of that armadillo, Joe. You might catch something.
Should have been done years ago.
Its to bad we had to wait until Verizon's FiOS and AT&T's battle over data plans duking it out with ComCast & TimeWarner's networks to end up with a duopoly with two children at a time playing badly (and clearly illegally,) with other people's toys.
The large majority of PC owners (not the corporate accounts,) take whatever OS comes with the box.
The corporate accounts have staff who absolutely HATE change.
They buy based on functionality and make NO changes. (I know of some FAX servers in an office's closets in the midwest that are still running on IBM hardware and on OS/2 and will until they stop running.)
The people who hate change even more than IT staff are accountants. They LIKE hardware that behaves like it.
That is the nature of their customer base.
The people who buy microsoft's new OSs are OEMs, who don't use 'em either.
But then again she is Georgian, has lived through one world war, countless skirmishes, the Stalinist purges and survived 'til now.
I say pay her room and board, and free internet, until she dies.
Actually I heard about it on "No Agenda" :-)
And until the FDA reins in Monsanto and ADM and Cargill (merely the three biggest names in agribusiness,) the rest of the monocolture conglomerate, the heavily subsidized corn-mad crap (I don't call it food) producers and the factory farms with their corn-fattened cattle and cannibal chickens, that effort is merely a tax on the poor fat-ass schlubs in Arizona.
The FDA stands for the Food and Drug administration. It is there to promote and protect the interests of the food and drug producers and , NOT the interests or the lives of the consumers.
After screwing up the food, which makes you sick, they hand you over to the drug manufacturers. who come up with cures for restless leg syndrome, which can be cured just by jerking off .
Americans eat worse, less nutritions, less tasty read than the poorest Egyptian fellah.
None of the tweets to more than 2 levels deep.
Its like they take the tweeter into a back room somewhere ... and strangle him.
But that what they want.
They opened all of those Twitter accounts in order to shut people up.
They leave one "gardian" service rep on a bunch of accounts and when a tweet comes in, their job is to detract, distract, defer, refer and destroy the evidence.
Not mention that they don't have much choice anymore, since they getting absolutely no traction with any product besides their Windows/Office combo, (Zune anyone? Bwahaha... How bout one of those phones from Nokia? <Snort>)
She had a golden opportunity to hold it at an outdoor arena, charge $20 a head, control, (viz: soak the idiots who'd show up,) the flow of liquor and beer (after all this IS Australia,) and she DIDN'T BLOODY DO IT?
I'd call the mental ward and tell them to make a pickup.
they're not very open source and they fundamentally don't care.
If they did care they would clutter their designs with backwards compatibility hacks. They don't.
If they did care they would keep, perhaps slavishly, to existing standards, They don't.
Apple forges on ahead much to the dismay of their existing customer base, which they NEVER consult on anything, and the existing customer base keeps buying their products and setting trends.
Why are they even discussed on /.?
What Apple is and what Apple does is no concern of anybody who comes here, except as CONSUMERS of Apple products or possibly as shareholders. /. attempts at anything with Apple is like trying to guide the direction of an elephant as it wanders through the jungle from a point of view slightly below and in front of its tail.
I doubt that kids have enough folding dough to make this truly profitable, unless you count pre-tit poontang from the girly-truants. (If inept sex is all you can manage; go for it. :-)
Since a DNA sample is sequence tolerant, meaning it can occur just about anywhere in a DNA strand, trying to claim industrial-style ownership becomes damn near useless.
Researchers can claim that the sequence is open source and, apart from the portions that are unique to a specific individual, they'd be right.
Its also a means of giving himself immortality in the minds of all genetic researchers.
The name Manu Sporny may not roll off of the tongue as trippingly as Monsanto or Merk, but I'm already thanking him.
Sorry but they'll just have to start their own version of FaceBook. Then they can belong to anything they want.
He is leading by example.
Unfortunately, he's a barker at a circus side-show.
He's riding this gravy train until it runs out of steam.
Hopefully he'll die* or retire** soon or he'll be ousted like Darl " I'm not dead yet " McBride and the courts will put him out of misery.
* Throwing chairs around can lead to heart attacks.
** But then again, Aeron makes for pretty light chairs.
Those aren't free and they weren't loaded onto my Mac. (I use NeoOffice [an OpenOffice clone,] anyway.)
Nor do you have the situation with Linux with which you have X different word processors like AbiWord, OpenOffice and lord knows what else, coming on the distro CDs. At least you can pare the list on the distro install.
IBM still makes mainframes as well as software consulting. They reinvented themselves and it worked.
I don't see Microsoft ever letting go of Windows and they'll crash holding onto 'em too. Microsoft's got an R&D division that the people selling product never talk to.
It costs to much if they do.
Since most people with "bloatware" are not sophisticated enough for Linux, they should get a Mac.
If you look at the component costs, a Mac is comparably priced.
Bloatware is pure gravy to companies which load their PCs down with it.
I would like to than the members of the academy, my parents and the kids upstairs from me for giving me the incentive for mixing metaphors with such abandon.
I look forward to many more chances to delight my audience in the coming years.
[three hour speech elided]
Once again, thank you.
This man (and I use the term loosely,) has a major hard-on for Linux and, like a rabid dog, he's not going to unclench his jaws from the smoke he's holding until somebody puts him down.
I can see him at the rense.com studios, well into his eighties, yelling into some one else's microphone, trying to get people to give a shit.
He's just there for comic relief, to fill the air time between the commercials,, like the conspiracy theorists, the Hitler sympathizers and the other nuts who are paraded out to soak up the minutes.
Its sad really.
Oh I forgot, hold down command-v to boot in verbose mode.
The shift will probably happen overnight (a chron job with a check at boot time to insure the IPv6 protocol will be up and running,) but when its supposed to happen it will.
To confirm this, boot up your Mac in verbose mode.
I'd like to see him barbecue his pesky little brother. (Now that would be entertaining. :-)