I'm amazed that anyone doesn't use it. I tried to use it at work for stuff (recreated the general look of our documentation etc.) and was happy. Unfortunately the company decided to standardize our documentation layout (which is a good idea) and chose Word as the means to do so.
What I don't get is that nearly everything produced these days follows the LaTeX mentality of separating content from presentation - look at CSS, and every CMS out there. Authors don't write books in little paperback sized pages. I'd bet journalists don't write in little columns. Everyone gets the content sorted out and then someone (and often someone who knows about layout) actually places the text on the page. Using Word seems completely backward and out of touch, it's the FrontPage of word processing. How many serious websites get designed using that?
Perhaps if the open document standards actually really get going I will be able to write directly into them and not have to battle Word.
To an extent I agree. I always find it interesting that British comedies tend to have 6-episodes per series, and most of the greatest comedies have only done a few series. My favourites like Blackadder, Fawlty Towers, Black Books, The IT Crowd, Fast Show, League of Gentlemen etc. have as many episodes in their entire run as one series of Scrubs, but most are remembered as being brilliant. I would of course love to see more episodes of each, but as you say, it would a be a terrible shame if they did more episodes for the sake of it and in doing so ruined the memory of how brilliant the existing episodes are.
We did this in physics with a feather and a penny. Teacher had a big tall glass tube and a vacuum pump. I can't actually remember how they 'dropped' the items (I've dreamt up a system with a rod through a bung in the end of the tube, with the feather/penny stuck on the end by a small piece of blu-tack or similar, when you pull the rod up it knocks the item free from the end of the rod), but basically what you saw was the feather drop at the same speed as the penny (give everyone a stopwatch). Shows the aerodynamics, and demonstrates the way that gravity accelerates everything at the same rate, regardless of weight or density.
The classic slashdot assumption that everyone is in the US. If they hadn't had the treatment because it was something they couldn't afford, I wouldn't be calling them idiots, I'd be calling the people who support such a system idiots.
I think broken bones are pretty detrimental to peoples health. If I remember correctly they can leak bone marrow or blood which is pretty bad for you. Also the ends tend to be sharp. Not to mention it's quite painful. Pain has a pretty significant effect on people's ability to carry out their lives
I stand by my original assertion, what you said is that someone who has made a conscious decision to perform an action does not deserve health care/medical cover or whatever you want to call it. My question (which you have not tackled) is what you define as a conscious decision. As I said originally, is eating badly enough to mean you don't get cover. So where do you draw the line?
Oh and a final comment: The political propaganda is of little interest to me, because I am one of those citizens of a first world country that has free and universal health care. And despite covering people who make 'conscious' decisions to partake in dangerous activities, the drug users, the unemployed and all the other people that you obviously don't want using your money costs less than half what your health care costs. You could even spend a bit more and get private insurance and guarantee you see every doctor and specialist you want in next to no time. But it's ok, you keep blaming skydivers for your ludicrous healthcare costs.
I'm in the UK, so women get a letter through about smear tests at some point in their mid 20s.
Anyway my point is that the OP is arguing that people should be denied healthcare for problems caused by voluntary choices. I was simply pointing out that it's a bit unfair to categorise one set of voluntary choices as idiotic, and hence not deserving of medical care, and not another.
Well this patient was in the UK. All he had to do was go to his GP or walk into a 'walk in' centre. No cost at all. Plus the likelihood (I don't know for sure) is that the patient had diabetes, and so should have been well aware of the increased risk of those sort of conditions. I can understand that if he was in some backward state where getting vital, preventative healthcare can bankrupt you he might feel forced to wait, but this was not the case.
So if you eat too much/drink occasionally/smoke/use a cellphone in SF or any number of other things that are bad for your health you don't get cover? So I decide to go bungee jumping and you spend ten years eating burgers 3 times a day. I don't deserve medical cover if something happens, but you do?
I have a friend who is a podiatrist. He has patients who have ignored their conditions, to the extent that the necrotizing faciitis they have has eaten a hole clean through the centre of their foot (you could see 3 metatarsals). This patient is an idiot for not going to the doctor earlier when something could have been done, do they get care? What about people who don't get the vaccines or smear tests or prostate exams they are supposed to. All conscious decisions, all of them idiotic. Should they too be denied care? I'd bet that the people that make those kinds of idiotic decisions cost an order of magnitude more than the people who get hurt doing extreme sports that you seem to have a problem with. Or is it just that you don't like other people having fun whilst you're in your sterile bubble of healthiness?
Not to mention VS2010 - which is depressingly slow on my x64 Windows 7 machine. I thought there was already some way of running 32 bit Firefox with 32 bit flash on 64 bit linux? That's basically Microsoft's 'Solution'
I agree - the system isn't that broken at the moment, and the process to get an ID card wasn't any more stringent than to get a passport or driving license, both of which are commonly obtained by existing identity thieves; how does having an ID card help?
Yeah, which is backed up by the information you gave possibly decades ago. So when I sign up for a bunch of credit cards, and max them out, the bailiffs can turn up at the house I was renting when I was a student? How often do you open bank accounts anyway?
Yeah, I liked the way that in true labour spin the cards weren't going to cost the taxpayers anything because the scheme would be paid for by people buying the cards. You know what, if it came out of my taxes at least it's not from my already taxed income, bastards.
Surely it's down to the difference in time between your finding out and the next guy finding out. To me the whole millisecond trading/get located as close as possible to the exchange thing is analogous to insider trading. The goal is to know something before everyone else does. If you make your trades once a day (or hour even) then everyone has a much fairer chance of being able to react to new information.
But in this case that's a good thing. It suggests that they have designed portable code (it was one of the goals of the NT architecture) so they should be able to move to another platform.
How did it get into ROM? A prom will require programming somehow, and if it's being programmed in a way that's not expected then that programming is done by malware so the PROM is irrelevant if the malware is detected
If it's in the processor cache it came from RAM. There's no other path for it to get in there. It's also not likely to be able to stay there for any length of time.
If it's in the video card memory then it had to be put there, so again you have some malware that writes program data to the video card memory. Also I'd be surprised if there is any standard method for running program code from video card memory (it's likely possible, but very unusual), so again there would have to be some RAM resident code to organise this behaviour.
For the first three at least, I don't think any of the scenarios are possible without some code in RAM to facilitate them, and that code would be detectable.
For the final case, well, if you can write a piece of malware that is clever enough to perform its purpose and somehow maintain itself within the processor pipelines (which are something like 4 execution units by a few tens of stages at most? And they vary a lot between processors) then you're some kind of code magician because I can't imagine how you would achieve such a thing. Oh, how did it get into the processor pipeline? Through the cache?
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I'm amazed that anyone doesn't use it. I tried to use it at work for stuff (recreated the general look of our documentation etc.) and was happy. Unfortunately the company decided to standardize our documentation layout (which is a good idea) and chose Word as the means to do so.
What I don't get is that nearly everything produced these days follows the LaTeX mentality of separating content from presentation - look at CSS, and every CMS out there. Authors don't write books in little paperback sized pages. I'd bet journalists don't write in little columns. Everyone gets the content sorted out and then someone (and often someone who knows about layout) actually places the text on the page. Using Word seems completely backward and out of touch, it's the FrontPage of word processing. How many serious websites get designed using that?
Perhaps if the open document standards actually really get going I will be able to write directly into them and not have to battle Word.
To an extent I agree. I always find it interesting that British comedies tend to have 6-episodes per series, and most of the greatest comedies have only done a few series. My favourites like Blackadder, Fawlty Towers, Black Books, The IT Crowd, Fast Show, League of Gentlemen etc. have as many episodes in their entire run as one series of Scrubs, but most are remembered as being brilliant. I would of course love to see more episodes of each, but as you say, it would a be a terrible shame if they did more episodes for the sake of it and in doing so ruined the memory of how brilliant the existing episodes are.
We did this in physics with a feather and a penny. Teacher had a big tall glass tube and a vacuum pump. I can't actually remember how they 'dropped' the items (I've dreamt up a system with a rod through a bung in the end of the tube, with the feather/penny stuck on the end by a small piece of blu-tack or similar, when you pull the rod up it knocks the item free from the end of the rod), but basically what you saw was the feather drop at the same speed as the penny (give everyone a stopwatch). Shows the aerodynamics, and demonstrates the way that gravity accelerates everything at the same rate, regardless of weight or density.
The classic slashdot assumption that everyone is in the US. If they hadn't had the treatment because it was something they couldn't afford, I wouldn't be calling them idiots, I'd be calling the people who support such a system idiots.
I think broken bones are pretty detrimental to peoples health. If I remember correctly they can leak bone marrow or blood which is pretty bad for you. Also the ends tend to be sharp. Not to mention it's quite painful. Pain has a pretty significant effect on people's ability to carry out their lives
I stand by my original assertion, what you said is that someone who has made a conscious decision to perform an action does not deserve health care/medical cover or whatever you want to call it. My question (which you have not tackled) is what you define as a conscious decision. As I said originally, is eating badly enough to mean you don't get cover. So where do you draw the line?
Oh and a final comment: The political propaganda is of little interest to me, because I am one of those citizens of a first world country that has free and universal health care. And despite covering people who make 'conscious' decisions to partake in dangerous activities, the drug users, the unemployed and all the other people that you obviously don't want using your money costs less than half what your health care costs. You could even spend a bit more and get private insurance and guarantee you see every doctor and specialist you want in next to no time. But it's ok, you keep blaming skydivers for your ludicrous healthcare costs.
Because as men we exemplify responsibility, especially when it comes to anything sexual...
I'm in the UK, so women get a letter through about smear tests at some point in their mid 20s.
Anyway my point is that the OP is arguing that people should be denied healthcare for problems caused by voluntary choices. I was simply pointing out that it's a bit unfair to categorise one set of voluntary choices as idiotic, and hence not deserving of medical care, and not another.
Well this patient was in the UK. All he had to do was go to his GP or walk into a 'walk in' centre. No cost at all. Plus the likelihood (I don't know for sure) is that the patient had diabetes, and so should have been well aware of the increased risk of those sort of conditions. I can understand that if he was in some backward state where getting vital, preventative healthcare can bankrupt you he might feel forced to wait, but this was not the case.
So if you eat too much/drink occasionally/smoke/use a cellphone in SF or any number of other things that are bad for your health you don't get cover? So I decide to go bungee jumping and you spend ten years eating burgers 3 times a day. I don't deserve medical cover if something happens, but you do?
I have a friend who is a podiatrist. He has patients who have ignored their conditions, to the extent that the necrotizing faciitis they have has eaten a hole clean through the centre of their foot (you could see 3 metatarsals). This patient is an idiot for not going to the doctor earlier when something could have been done, do they get care? What about people who don't get the vaccines or smear tests or prostate exams they are supposed to. All conscious decisions, all of them idiotic. Should they too be denied care? I'd bet that the people that make those kinds of idiotic decisions cost an order of magnitude more than the people who get hurt doing extreme sports that you seem to have a problem with. Or is it just that you don't like other people having fun whilst you're in your sterile bubble of healthiness?
Not to mention VS2010 - which is depressingly slow on my x64 Windows 7 machine. I thought there was already some way of running 32 bit Firefox with 32 bit flash on 64 bit linux? That's basically Microsoft's 'Solution'
Can we mod this up for being the only correct answer here? Or: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_day_attack
I agree - the system isn't that broken at the moment, and the process to get an ID card wasn't any more stringent than to get a passport or driving license, both of which are commonly obtained by existing identity thieves; how does having an ID card help?
Yeah, which is backed up by the information you gave possibly decades ago. So when I sign up for a bunch of credit cards, and max them out, the bailiffs can turn up at the house I was renting when I was a student? How often do you open bank accounts anyway?
Yeah, I liked the way that in true labour spin the cards weren't going to cost the taxpayers anything because the scheme would be paid for by people buying the cards. You know what, if it came out of my taxes at least it's not from my already taxed income, bastards.
If you look up 'unnecessary censorship' on youtube there are a load of clips. The Sesame street ones are my favourites e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQgB4424SIM
Surely it's down to the difference in time between your finding out and the next guy finding out. To me the whole millisecond trading/get located as close as possible to the exchange thing is analogous to insider trading. The goal is to know something before everyone else does. If you make your trades once a day (or hour even) then everyone has a much fairer chance of being able to react to new information.
Israel? I thought that was where the current Intel Architecture was designed?
But in this case that's a good thing. It suggests that they have designed portable code (it was one of the goals of the NT architecture) so they should be able to move to another platform.
The Constant Gardener?
But how does that distinguish the politicians from the rest of the population?
I thought it was the Americans that won WWII?
....It's the only way to be sure
Wow. I presume that you also earn $12/hour?
How did it get into ROM? A prom will require programming somehow, and if it's being programmed in a way that's not expected then that programming is done by malware so the PROM is irrelevant if the malware is detected
If it's in the processor cache it came from RAM. There's no other path for it to get in there. It's also not likely to be able to stay there for any length of time.
If it's in the video card memory then it had to be put there, so again you have some malware that writes program data to the video card memory. Also I'd be surprised if there is any standard method for running program code from video card memory (it's likely possible, but very unusual), so again there would have to be some RAM resident code to organise this behaviour.
For the first three at least, I don't think any of the scenarios are possible without some code in RAM to facilitate them, and that code would be detectable.
For the final case, well, if you can write a piece of malware that is clever enough to perform its purpose and somehow maintain itself within the processor pipelines (which are something like 4 execution units by a few tens of stages at most? And they vary a lot between processors) then you're some kind of code magician because I can't imagine how you would achieve such a thing. Oh, how did it get into the processor pipeline? Through the cache?
I concur, ride a motorcycle and lock the back brake up, you will feel the reduced braking effect...