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The value that it seems you are seeking to describe is that life, being aware and conscious, is worth anything. What has slipped is that often awareness and mental faculty do not go hand-in-hand with physical homeostasis, and thus the Grandma scenario described. Modern medicine has concentrated on keeping our bodies alive without the same level of effort on keeping our minds sharp. In the extreme, we have wards full of comatose patients who are nominally healthy except that they lack the cranial capacity to feed themselves. Given the growing emphasis on mental health, and the beginnings of collective mental decline of the baby boomers who, like it or not, drive nearly every aspect of contemporary US society, I expect that mental function at the end of life will be given its due attention.
1600 WH, for those who are uncalibrated, is approximately enough power to run a hair dryer non-stop for an hour: the maximum amount of power you can get out of a standard US wall outlet, for a solid hour straight. It would run your laptop for 2 to 3 years without sleeping. In other words, a highly non-trivial amount of electrical oomph.
I've faced almost identical problems (save for my coordinating locations are in Califorina, Texas, Illinois, Massachusetts, and Greece). The solution is easy: use Google. Type "current time in $CITYNAME, $COUNTRYNAME" (without the quotation marks, and instantiating the variables) and above the first hit, the current, correct local time is displayed. And then always express time local to the writer (as in, "Next Thursday, 2pm, Los Angeles time").
Of course, that doesn't help with the problems in Outlook.
Um, you might want to check that. Equinoxes (and solstices) mostly are. The only variability is because the terrestrial orbit is about 1/4 day longer than an integral number of days, but the effects of that are kept to a minimum due to leap years. We have an approximately astronomical calendar.
That the 7-day social cycle doesn't fit into the 365 day calendar is the source of most of the perceived and actual variation in dates (eg, American Thanksgiving is always a Thursday, President's Day is always a Monday, etc., which means those dates will never be the same from one year to the next), in addition to events which are determined by lunar cycle (like Easter, Passover, or Ramadan) which also doesn't neatly fit the terrestrial orbital period.
But as for equinoxes and solstices, they're mostly stable, varying by date only between two neighboring days. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equinox .
Funny. My father always thought of the ACLU as a liberal bogeyman out to prevent the government from doing its job. I was brought up to be objective and observant, and in the intervening years I've concluded that the ACLU is neither liberal nor conservative: they just want to cause trouble. At times the trouble makes sense, and at times it does not.
You mean one for electrically charged stuff, and one for electrically neutral stuff, no? Sure, yea, that ends up mostly being ionized gas vs dust, but the reason there are two is because one is affected by the solar magnetic field in the guise of the solar wind, and one isn't.
Oh, okay, I used Google. We're both wrong. There are three tails, as shown in the figure here http://www.astronomycafe.net/qadir/q2805.html --- one for ionized gas, one for neutral gas (hydrogen, apparently), and one for dust.
I recall having tried this a couple of KDE versions ago and the problem is that Caps Lock doesn't get repeated when held down (like Backspace and nearly every other key). I don't know if that's a problem in the keyboard controller hardware on my machine, or in the system software.
I want Caps Lock to be an additional Backspace key, like the old Lisp Machines from Symbolics. Haven't been able to get that to work reliably under KDE (or anywhere else, for that matter, but I use KDE). Any clues?
I am not a doctor, and this is not medical advice.
A proper, correct dose (total amount) of drug is determined by the dosage (amount per body weight) and the weight of the individual. It also should account for individual variations in sensitivity.
Mostly, to save time, doses are determined by multiplying the dosage by an average body weight. For most drugs, which have a very broad dose / response curve, and thus a wide range of therapeutically useful values, that's fine. For some drugs, you have to be more careful.
My wife (yes, this geek got lucky) is quite small, and thus nominally takes about 1/2 of prescribed doses (to be entirely accurate, she should be taking about 2/3, but most drugs have a broad dose / response curve, and 1/2 a pill is easier to create than 2/3 of a pill). I'm about average weight, and so the nominal doses typically work fine for me. Over-the-counter drugs have doses (again, total amount) based on a 170 lb body weight; it's pretty easy to normalize by 170 to get the dosage (again, amount per body weight) and multiply by your weight to get a more accurate dose. If you weigh anything close to 170 lbs, it isn't worth the effort.
This is not medical advice, I am not a doctor, and you should take the preceeding only as interesting information. What you do with it, and any consequences, are entirely your responsibility.
"Mass-volume" pricing is manufacturer speak for wholesale prices, as in buying thousands of units at a time. You expect those prices to be half or less of retail. So a $15 OEM price will be about $30 at retail, generally speaking. That compares reasonably well to the $25 retail pricing of the Raspberry Pi, given that this new board has somewhat higher specs.
Assuming those numbers follow the standard practice of including production costs, they're about right for the costs of recording his performances (audio and video engineers) and creating the video (editing and other post-processing) in the first place. That might include costs of running the performances as well, booking the venue, paying a manager, etc., although those would have been defrayed by ticket sales, and, arguably could be accounted separately.
I can't speak to Firefox specifically, but in my hands, for my project, VC++ produces code that is VASTLY superior to gcc. With gcc, I can often get significant speedup by hand-optimizing code; with VC++, my bog-simple code gets automatically optimized better than my most aggressive manual efforts. Like it or not, Microsoft has the currently best compiler.
unless lowering their profit margins "just slightly" makes it non-profitable
Given the opportunities that the current market presents, it is in the SSD industry's best interest to take a hit on profit today to secure larger market share tomorrow. Even more so for an single player to gain a long-term competitive advantage over its peers. Regrettably, as we all know, public US companies have a 3-month horizon making strategies that sacrifice short-term profits for long-term gains extremely difficult to implement.
The problem, as I understand it, is that gasoline isn't very flammable in liquid state. Yes, you can get it to burn, but it's kind of hard to do that. In its gaseous state, however, nicely mixed with O2, there's a strong propensity for going boom (to paraphrase Marvin the Martian). Liquid gasoline in a tank isn't much of an explosion hazard. Finely misted or vaporized, and appropriately dispersed gasoline is another issue entirely.
Agreed. And talk to the outside auditor to make sure they strongly recommend hiring at least one other IT person.
What happens when you're out sick?
What happens when you want to take a vacation?
What happens when the servers die at 4am?
What happens when Hotmail refuses to accept connections from your company, and then Google Analytics explodes, and then your merchant account service stops processing your transactions, and then the marketing DB goes down, and then the phone systems stop working?
You want AT LEAST one other person helping with your job.
Contemporary and excellent sci-fi can be done with almost no CGI and special effects. If you haven't checked out Pioneer One, you owe it to yourself to do so. One of my favorite shows.
You're right in that management needs to be replaced as well. I was not exempting them from my screed. The USPS worker's union needs to be busted, as it is clearly not acting in the best interests of the country as a whole, the management thrown out, and the entire thing redone nearly from scratch.
If what you say is true about routes, and meanwhile UPS is touting the efficiencies they gained by eliminating left-hand turns (it floors me that the delivery industry is still working on operational efficiencies that are as low-hanging fruit as that), we won't have the USPS as it currently stands for much longer.
Note that the problem here is not that it's a pseudo-government job for these workers, but, as the parent poster points out, that we have a pathological combination of poor management and short-sighted union.
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The value that it seems you are seeking to describe is that life, being aware and conscious, is worth anything. What has slipped is that often awareness and mental faculty do not go hand-in-hand with physical homeostasis, and thus the Grandma scenario described. Modern medicine has concentrated on keeping our bodies alive without the same level of effort on keeping our minds sharp. In the extreme, we have wards full of comatose patients who are nominally healthy except that they lack the cranial capacity to feed themselves. Given the growing emphasis on mental health, and the beginnings of collective mental decline of the baby boomers who, like it or not, drive nearly every aspect of contemporary US society, I expect that mental function at the end of life will be given its due attention.
Yeah, that photo is impressive.
1600 WH, for those who are uncalibrated, is approximately enough power to run a hair dryer non-stop for an hour: the maximum amount of power you can get out of a standard US wall outlet, for a solid hour straight. It would run your laptop for 2 to 3 years without sleeping. In other words, a highly non-trivial amount of electrical oomph.
Oh, man what a *great* idea, thanks!
Yes, but the fellow I was replying to asserted that equinoxes and solstices are variable on the current calendar, which they really aren't.
I've faced almost identical problems (save for my coordinating locations are in Califorina, Texas, Illinois, Massachusetts, and Greece). The solution is easy: use Google. Type "current time in $CITYNAME, $COUNTRYNAME" (without the quotation marks, and instantiating the variables) and above the first hit, the current, correct local time is displayed. And then always express time local to the writer (as in, "Next Thursday, 2pm, Los Angeles time").
Of course, that doesn't help with the problems in Outlook.
Um, you might want to check that. Equinoxes (and solstices) mostly are. The only variability is because the terrestrial orbit is about 1/4 day longer than an integral number of days, but the effects of that are kept to a minimum due to leap years. We have an approximately astronomical calendar.
That the 7-day social cycle doesn't fit into the 365 day calendar is the source of most of the perceived and actual variation in dates (eg, American Thanksgiving is always a Thursday, President's Day is always a Monday, etc., which means those dates will never be the same from one year to the next), in addition to events which are determined by lunar cycle (like Easter, Passover, or Ramadan) which also doesn't neatly fit the terrestrial orbital period.
But as for equinoxes and solstices, they're mostly stable, varying by date only between two neighboring days. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equinox .
Funny. My father always thought of the ACLU as a liberal bogeyman out to prevent the government from doing its job. I was brought up to be objective and observant, and in the intervening years I've concluded that the ACLU is neither liberal nor conservative: they just want to cause trouble. At times the trouble makes sense, and at times it does not.
You mean one for electrically charged stuff, and one for electrically neutral stuff, no? Sure, yea, that ends up mostly being ionized gas vs dust, but the reason there are two is because one is affected by the solar magnetic field in the guise of the solar wind, and one isn't.
Oh, okay, I used Google. We're both wrong. There are three tails, as shown in the figure here http://www.astronomycafe.net/qadir/q2805.html --- one for ionized gas, one for neutral gas (hydrogen, apparently), and one for dust.
That's more than twice the ENTIRE budget of the National Institutes of Health for 2011. So, metaphorically equivalent to curing cancer.
Thanks!
I recall having tried this a couple of KDE versions ago and the problem is that Caps Lock doesn't get repeated when held down (like Backspace and nearly every other key). I don't know if that's a problem in the keyboard controller hardware on my machine, or in the system software.
I want Caps Lock to be an additional Backspace key, like the old Lisp Machines from Symbolics. Haven't been able to get that to work reliably under KDE (or anywhere else, for that matter, but I use KDE). Any clues?
I am not a doctor, and this is not medical advice.
A proper, correct dose (total amount) of drug is determined by the dosage (amount per body weight) and the weight of the individual. It also should account for individual variations in sensitivity.
Mostly, to save time, doses are determined by multiplying the dosage by an average body weight. For most drugs, which have a very broad dose / response curve, and thus a wide range of therapeutically useful values, that's fine. For some drugs, you have to be more careful.
My wife (yes, this geek got lucky) is quite small, and thus nominally takes about 1/2 of prescribed doses (to be entirely accurate, she should be taking about 2/3, but most drugs have a broad dose / response curve, and 1/2 a pill is easier to create than 2/3 of a pill). I'm about average weight, and so the nominal doses typically work fine for me. Over-the-counter drugs have doses (again, total amount) based on a 170 lb body weight; it's pretty easy to normalize by 170 to get the dosage (again, amount per body weight) and multiply by your weight to get a more accurate dose. If you weigh anything close to 170 lbs, it isn't worth the effort.
This is not medical advice, I am not a doctor, and you should take the preceeding only as interesting information. What you do with it, and any consequences, are entirely your responsibility.
"Mass-volume" pricing is manufacturer speak for wholesale prices, as in buying thousands of units at a time. You expect those prices to be half or less of retail. So a $15 OEM price will be about $30 at retail, generally speaking. That compares reasonably well to the $25 retail pricing of the Raspberry Pi, given that this new board has somewhat higher specs.
Assuming those numbers follow the standard practice of including production costs, they're about right for the costs of recording his performances (audio and video engineers) and creating the video (editing and other post-processing) in the first place. That might include costs of running the performances as well, booking the venue, paying a manager, etc., although those would have been defrayed by ticket sales, and, arguably could be accounted separately.
Source and machine. Both are code.
I can't speak to Firefox specifically, but in my hands, for my project, VC++ produces code that is VASTLY superior to gcc. With gcc, I can often get significant speedup by hand-optimizing code; with VC++, my bog-simple code gets automatically optimized better than my most aggressive manual efforts. Like it or not, Microsoft has the currently best compiler.
When flooding takes out an entire geographical region, it's hard to think of that as single point of failure, no?
unless lowering their profit margins "just slightly" makes it non-profitable
Given the opportunities that the current market presents, it is in the SSD industry's best interest to take a hit on profit today to secure larger market share tomorrow. Even more so for an single player to gain a long-term competitive advantage over its peers. Regrettably, as we all know, public US companies have a 3-month horizon making strategies that sacrifice short-term profits for long-term gains extremely difficult to implement.
How can LightSquared disrupt 75% of connections that don't exist? GPS does not have connections.
Chalk that up to poor editing in the guise of inept headline writing.
We've had recent questions about cloud services, duplicates about which router to buy, and now a question about how to print.
Time to turn off Ask Slashdot. Someone let me know if the quality goes back up and we get more interesting questions.
The problem, as I understand it, is that gasoline isn't very flammable in liquid state. Yes, you can get it to burn, but it's kind of hard to do that. In its gaseous state, however, nicely mixed with O2, there's a strong propensity for going boom (to paraphrase Marvin the Martian). Liquid gasoline in a tank isn't much of an explosion hazard. Finely misted or vaporized, and appropriately dispersed gasoline is another issue entirely.
Has Slashdot fallen so far that we need hand-holding on what fission is, and we accept FUD on reactor efficiency in the summary?
For shame, samzenpus.
Agreed. And talk to the outside auditor to make sure they strongly recommend hiring at least one other IT person.
What happens when you're out sick?
What happens when you want to take a vacation?
What happens when the servers die at 4am?
What happens when Hotmail refuses to accept connections from your company, and then Google Analytics explodes, and then your merchant account service stops processing your transactions, and then the marketing DB goes down, and then the phone systems stop working?
You want AT LEAST one other person helping with your job.
Contemporary and excellent sci-fi can be done with almost no CGI and special effects. If you haven't checked out Pioneer One, you owe it to yourself to do so. One of my favorite shows.
http://www.pioneerone.tv/
http://vodo.net/pioneerone
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They need new management first.
You're right in that management needs to be replaced as well. I was not exempting them from my screed. The USPS worker's union needs to be busted, as it is clearly not acting in the best interests of the country as a whole, the management thrown out, and the entire thing redone nearly from scratch.
If what you say is true about routes, and meanwhile UPS is touting the efficiencies they gained by eliminating left-hand turns (it floors me that the delivery industry is still working on operational efficiencies that are as low-hanging fruit as that), we won't have the USPS as it currently stands for much longer.
Note that the problem here is not that it's a pseudo-government job for these workers, but, as the parent poster points out, that we have a pathological combination of poor management and short-sighted union.