You'll remember its fabulous attributes, not its flaws.'
Maybe he is mocking and deriding his end users by implying that they forget faster than an amnesia-stricken goldfish, and is counting on their short attention spans to distract them from... OOOH! Look! Something shiny!
(Me mumbles joke about building an old "new" box: 'Hey, man it's not like it's rocket science... ')
This reminds me of the recent moaning we've heard about NASA not retaining old but important information, like how to build the Saturn rockets, or deciding to recycle the moon landing tapes. Do you suppose if we tracked down some of the old Saturn engineers, they might have the blueprints hanging on their wall? Assuming they didn't sell them for $0.25 at the last yard sale.
I found that mounting everything above my desk works best. I have my desk set in a corner with my power strips and ethernet switch mounted on the wall just above the top of my desk. Plugging/unplugging everything is easy, and they are mostly hidden by the PCs, monitors, and printer. I use different ways of organizing the cables themselves, depending on how often I might need to modify things. I use a foot or two of split loom to channel all the cables except power away from the back of each PC. That way, when I swap out a PC, all the cables are close at hand for hooking up the next one. Longer cables are looped up and either velcroed or twist-tied to the needed length. I have a few milk crates filled with spare cables, each wound and stored in a large zip-lock bag and labeled. No, I wasn't always this anal about organizing things. I just got really sick of it one day and needed to do something about it.
Amazing... snarky, smarmy ethics comments from an anonymous cowardon. Most members of the medical establishment I know (and I know dozens) inhabit the high end of the moral spectrum. Yes, there are some few who will whore out their profession for a buck (insurance scams, prescription scams, etc.), but the vast vast majority are hard-working, highly ethical, and absolutely worthy of the trust their patients give them. The big money you speak of is somewhat mythological. After by spending several years in a) med school and b) residency, a) paying tuition and b) making squat, much of the money they eventually make is taken by insurance companies in the form of malpractice insurance and months of slow-paid or unpaid bills. Don't get me wrong; doctors make comfortable money in most specialties. But there are shortages of general practitioners, because GPs find they can't make a reasonable living anymore. I have spoken to a few doctor friends about career choices, and they say that today, you will make more money with a business degree than medical degree. Of course, what you make depends largely on you specialty, location, and type of practice.
The impetus to control healthcare costs has impacted doctors' salaries. While this might seem like a great idea to Joe McBurgerflipper, the result is that fewer of the best and brightest young minds today are choosing medicine as a profession. The power of life and death you mention is now being vested in kids who might not have gotten into med school a decade or two ago.
A man and woman fall in love, and after a chaste romance and engagement, they get married. In their bedroom on their wedding night, the man says to the woman, "I have something to confess. I hadn't told you before because I was afraid it might cause you not to marry me, but I'm hung like a baby." His bride reassures him that she loves him for more than just his physical attributes, and goes into the bathroom to slip into something more comfortable.
When she emerges in her slinky negligee, he is standing there naked. She takes one look below his waist, screams, and faints. When she comes to, he asks here what is wrong.
"Honey," she said "I don't understand. You said you were hung like a baby."
Puzzled, he looks between his legs. "Yeah, that's what I said. See? Eight pounds, seven ounces."
I'm less concerned about a bazillionaire losing money on a forged piece of art, and incredibly worried about the implications for historical study, such as examination of the Vinland map. Easy forgery means that false information could be introduced into the historical record, and legitimate historical discoveries may be less easily accepted as real by the community.
You're right. Of course, another factor is whether what you are doing is what you really like doing, whether it interests you. I love tinkering with computer hardware and software. Are extra levels of security vital to me? No more than anyone else. However, I can implement them more easily than the average Joe, so the time tax is less, and I (mostly) have fun doing it.
I love brewing my own beer. Is it worth my time? If I add up the dollars and cents saved (ingredients vs. buying beer) and subtract (what i could earn working * time), probably not. If I try to amortize the money I have spent on my brewing gear over the amount of beer I produce, forget it, it's a money-losing proposition. On the other hand, I love doing it, and I can brew some damn good beer.
I guess it's true that what you don't know can't hurt you.
I'm not sure I agree with that one. Plenty of stuff has bitten me in the ass regardless of whether I knew anything about it.
It's like being a cop and having a teen daughter. Knowing all the dangers out there you can't just let her go to this one party, can't you?
You can't shelter your kids forever; you have to build stronger, better kids and trust they can deal with the world when it is time ( Believe me, I know - I'm there right now).
In the same way, putting thought and care into building a robust, secure computer system pays dividends when it has to deal with the real world.
I guess that's why she's so paranoid about it.
She sounds like a contractor I knew who completely overbuilt his house just because he could. Paranoid? Not really. Just building the best house he reasonably could.
Whenever I see overprotective/overkill... there are some people who live their lives in fear
What might be overkill in the hands of experts today might well be standard issue tomorrow, and no more difficult to use than personal AV and firewall apps today.
I see the Internet as just another way of communication. nothing more
Fair enough. But it sure isn't free of danger, and thinking otherwise won't change things.
This could be a waste-to-energy story (and therefore "news for nerds") if there were a plan to build a plant to convert it to fuel using cool technology.
When 4 cores and several gigs of ram are available in inexpensive off-the-shelf systems, and VM software is freely available and easier to deploy, paranoid levels of security become more and more practical.
Thermal radiation is the third 'primary kill vector', and one of the most significant. I don't know if you included this in your 'initial radiation' bit, but in terms of lethality, it helps to differentiate between thermal radiation and prompt ionizing radiation. Thermal = heat = causes stuff like skin to burst into flame. Ionizing = nuclear radiation (mostly gamma rads outside the immediate blast) = does cellular damage, DNA damage, etc. Thermal radiation will be lethal beyond the range of gamma radiation lethality, IIRC.
Old school 'duck-and-cover' seems aimed at protecting against initial exposure to thermal radiation and flying debris, would only then be helpful outside the immediate blast zone, and of course gives no longer-term protection against fallout. It amounts to the best you can do under the circumstances.
Yes and no. Yes, radiation does the damage you mention, but then a mechanism causes the damaged cells to self-destruct. With large enough radiation exposure, the result is sickness and possibly death. If I read this right, this protein interrupts that cellular self-destruct mechanism, preventing bodily sickness and death due to damaged cells committing suicide.
So far, animal tests do not appear to show an increase in cancer, which would be a big concern with damaged DNA + free radicals floating around. Obviously, at this point there are no studies on whether this presents a long-term cancer risk, but since one of the applications for this protein would actually be in the treatment of cancer, I imagine that study will be underway soon.
They sit where temperate ocean water meets cold arctic air, resulting in a relatively narrow and predictable temperature band which happens to be perfect for cooling datacenters with minimal, if any, conventional HVAC. Their power is green, and they have lots of it. They use a combination of hydropower and incredibly abundant geothermal heat for power generation. Recently, undersea fiber cables have been laid down, greatly increasing their connectivity to the outside world. Not to mention that these days, the cost of doing business there is fairly attractive.
I suppose that a detractor could observe that Iceland is a geologically active area, but then again so is Silicon Valley.
If Google had some real foresight, they'd be investing in an Icelandic datacenter right now.
Secondly, why would any customer support advertising in an atm when they already pay to use it?
The same reason you watch commercials on cable TV you already pay to use. They ram it down your throat because a) your eyeballs are temporarily being held captive, and b) they love additional revenue streams.
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You'll remember its fabulous attributes, not its flaws.'
Maybe he is mocking and deriding his end users by implying that they forget faster than an amnesia-stricken goldfish, and is counting on their short attention spans to distract them from ... OOOH! Look! Something shiny!
(Me mumbles joke about building an old "new" box: 'Hey, man it's not like it's rocket science ... ')
This reminds me of the recent moaning we've heard about NASA not retaining old but important information, like how to build the Saturn rockets, or deciding to recycle the moon landing tapes. Do you suppose if we tracked down some of the old Saturn engineers, they might have the blueprints hanging on their wall? Assuming they didn't sell them for $0.25 at the last yard sale.
I found that mounting everything above my desk works best. I have my desk set in a corner with my power strips and ethernet switch mounted on the wall just above the top of my desk. Plugging/unplugging everything is easy, and they are mostly hidden by the PCs, monitors, and printer. I use different ways of organizing the cables themselves, depending on how often I might need to modify things. I use a foot or two of split loom to channel all the cables except power away from the back of each PC. That way, when I swap out a PC, all the cables are close at hand for hooking up the next one. Longer cables are looped up and either velcroed or twist-tied to the needed length. I have a few milk crates filled with spare cables, each wound and stored in a large zip-lock bag and labeled. No, I wasn't always this anal about organizing things. I just got really sick of it one day and needed to do something about it.
Admit it. You got that one from Penthouse Letters. ;)
Amazing ... snarky, smarmy ethics comments from an anonymous cowardon. Most members of the medical establishment I know (and I know dozens) inhabit the high end of the moral spectrum. Yes, there are some few who will whore out their profession for a buck (insurance scams, prescription scams, etc.), but the vast vast majority are hard-working, highly ethical, and absolutely worthy of the trust their patients give them. The big money you speak of is somewhat mythological. After by spending several years in a) med school and b) residency, a) paying tuition and b) making squat, much of the money they eventually make is taken by insurance companies in the form of malpractice insurance and months of slow-paid or unpaid bills. Don't get me wrong; doctors make comfortable money in most specialties. But there are shortages of general practitioners, because GPs find they can't make a reasonable living anymore. I have spoken to a few doctor friends about career choices, and they say that today, you will make more money with a business degree than medical degree. Of course, what you make depends largely on you specialty, location, and type of practice.
The impetus to control healthcare costs has impacted doctors' salaries. While this might seem like a great idea to Joe McBurgerflipper, the result is that fewer of the best and brightest young minds today are choosing medicine as a profession. The power of life and death you mention is now being vested in kids who might not have gotten into med school a decade or two ago.
A man and woman fall in love, and after a chaste romance and engagement, they get married. In their bedroom on their wedding night, the man says to the woman, "I have something to confess. I hadn't told you before because I was afraid it might cause you not to marry me, but I'm hung like a baby." His bride reassures him that she loves him for more than just his physical attributes, and goes into the bathroom to slip into something more comfortable.
When she emerges in her slinky negligee, he is standing there naked. She takes one look below his waist, screams, and faints. When she comes to, he asks here what is wrong.
"Honey," she said "I don't understand. You said you were hung like a baby."
Puzzled, he looks between his legs. "Yeah, that's what I said. See? Eight pounds, seven ounces."
"Discover" in this case is commonly held to mean "first time Europeans set eyes on it".
I'm less concerned about a bazillionaire losing money on a forged piece of art, and incredibly worried about the implications for historical study, such as examination of the Vinland map. Easy forgery means that false information could be introduced into the historical record, and legitimate historical discoveries may be less easily accepted as real by the community.
+1 Awesome
You're right. Of course, another factor is whether what you are doing is what you really like doing, whether it interests you. I love tinkering with computer hardware and software. Are extra levels of security vital to me? No more than anyone else. However, I can implement them more easily than the average Joe, so the time tax is less, and I (mostly) have fun doing it.
I love brewing my own beer. Is it worth my time? If I add up the dollars and cents saved (ingredients vs. buying beer) and subtract (what i could earn working * time), probably not. If I try to amortize the money I have spent on my brewing gear over the amount of beer I produce, forget it, it's a money-losing proposition. On the other hand, I love doing it, and I can brew some damn good beer.
I guess some things are their own reward.
I guess it's true that what you don't know can't hurt you.
I'm not sure I agree with that one. Plenty of stuff has bitten me in the ass regardless of whether I knew anything about it.
It's like being a cop and having a teen daughter. Knowing all the dangers out there you can't just let her go to this one party, can't you?
You can't shelter your kids forever; you have to build stronger, better kids and trust they can deal with the world when it is time ( Believe me, I know - I'm there right now).
In the same way, putting thought and care into building a robust, secure computer system pays dividends when it has to deal with the real world.
I guess that's why she's so paranoid about it.
She sounds like a contractor I knew who completely overbuilt his house just because he could. Paranoid? Not really. Just building the best house he reasonably could.
Whenever I see overprotective/overkill ... there are some people who live their lives in fear
What might be overkill in the hands of experts today might well be standard issue tomorrow, and no more difficult to use than personal AV and firewall apps today.
I see the Internet as just another way of communication. nothing more
Fair enough. But it sure isn't free of danger, and thinking otherwise won't change things.
I'd call that inexpensive. They're even cheaper today ... Excellent free VM software ... are also free.
That was my point. Was I too subtle?
Time is only one half of the equation. What are your privacy and security worth?
This could be a waste-to-energy story (and therefore "news for nerds") if there were a plan to build a plant to convert it to fuel using cool technology.
Come back later when you're coherent.
When 4 cores and several gigs of ram are available in inexpensive off-the-shelf systems, and VM software is freely available and easier to deploy, paranoid levels of security become more and more practical.
Better than the other way around, I suppose.
Forget it. He's rolling.
The US has lots of great beer. Stop drinking stuff that ends in 'udweiser', 'oors', and 'iller'.
Thermal radiation is the third 'primary kill vector', and one of the most significant. I don't know if you included this in your 'initial radiation' bit, but in terms of lethality, it helps to differentiate between thermal radiation and prompt ionizing radiation. Thermal = heat = causes stuff like skin to burst into flame. Ionizing = nuclear radiation (mostly gamma rads outside the immediate blast) = does cellular damage, DNA damage, etc. Thermal radiation will be lethal beyond the range of gamma radiation lethality, IIRC.
Old school 'duck-and-cover' seems aimed at protecting against initial exposure to thermal radiation and flying debris, would only then be helpful outside the immediate blast zone, and of course gives no longer-term protection against fallout. It amounts to the best you can do under the circumstances.
Yes and no. Yes, radiation does the damage you mention, but then a mechanism causes the damaged cells to self-destruct. With large enough radiation exposure, the result is sickness and possibly death. If I read this right, this protein interrupts that cellular self-destruct mechanism, preventing bodily sickness and death due to damaged cells committing suicide.
So far, animal tests do not appear to show an increase in cancer, which would be a big concern with damaged DNA + free radicals floating around. Obviously, at this point there are no studies on whether this presents a long-term cancer risk, but since one of the applications for this protein would actually be in the treatment of cancer, I imagine that study will be underway soon.
I've got one word for you: Iceland.
They sit where temperate ocean water meets cold arctic air, resulting in a relatively narrow and predictable temperature band which happens to be perfect for cooling datacenters with minimal, if any, conventional HVAC. Their power is green, and they have lots of it. They use a combination of hydropower and incredibly abundant geothermal heat for power generation. Recently, undersea fiber cables have been laid down, greatly increasing their connectivity to the outside world. Not to mention that these days, the cost of doing business there is fairly attractive.
I suppose that a detractor could observe that Iceland is a geologically active area, but then again so is Silicon Valley.
If Google had some real foresight, they'd be investing in an Icelandic datacenter right now.
Internet addiction + electroshock therapy + broadband over power lines = The Matrix?
This could be what we've all been waiting for.
Those bastards. Now how the hell am I supposed support my electroshock addiction?
What do you mean? 99% of the internet's packets are pretty girls.
Secondly, why would any customer support advertising in an atm when they already pay to use it?
The same reason you watch commercials on cable TV you already pay to use. They ram it down your throat because a) your eyeballs are temporarily being held captive, and b) they love additional revenue streams.