My office is no longer putting XP systems out there - any system running XP that is brought into the shop is now automatically replaced as a matter of policy (for our business clients.) Sometimes we have to twist their arms, but frankly, we've got a deadline in 2014 and we're going to make our clients meet it whether they want to or not. XP market share is likely to plummet rapidly in the next 2-3 years.
It was a childhood dream, what can I say? I knew I didn't want to be an astronaut, but I loved space and wanted to be an astrophysicist. All that ended somewhere around integral calculus in college when I realized I had more fun reading and writing about science than I did actually doing it. I changed my major from physics to English shortly after that.
I'm a fairly happy woman (also pretty hard to get upset) and I still dream of big things. But I'm content so long as I have my creature comforts. Even if I never achieve my most ambitious dreams (like working for NASA), I'm happy just having reached some smaller goals (writing a novel, going to graduate school, finding a nice guy to marry, buying a house, etc.) So I do think that the yearning, the desire for more and better things, that some men and women experience is definitely a factor in their level of happiness.
Even more low tech are the HeroRATS, originally trained to sniff out landmines in Mozambique, now being trained to detect the presence of TB in sputim samples. Sometimes a low tech solution works when a high tech solution falls short. However, since pneumonia is fluid on the lungs and not always caused by a single bacteria, maybe the high tech solution of a stethoscope is better in this case.
And I am the opposite. It takes a great deal of effort for me to memorize a poem or spoken text without a melody, but I can sing or pick out a melody from memory, usually only having heard it once, and I can recognize a piece I'm listening to that I heard once ten years ago. (I may not remember the name of it, but the actual music will give me a big dose of deja vu.) If it's a tune with words, I'll be humming and half singing along with it on the second listen, and usually by the third go round I'll have it completely memorized. This also works with other languages, although I'll forget the words much faster than I will the melody in that case.
Exactly 0% of them are pirated. I didn't pay full retail price for most of them - thank you Humble Bundles - but I didn't pirate them either. In fact, I've paid for FFXI three times now - it's worth $10 once every few years to avoid having to spend 8 hours re-downloading six expansions and ten years worth of patches any time I need to reinstall.
TFA doesn't list his source for his numbers, either.
They've been doing this for quite some time. Although, from what I understand their updates are brief, sometimes only a few hundred words, as they are delivered via a sort of extended text message. I think an app is a much better way to deliver it. Pay 99 cents for the app, get a chapter a month until the story is done, and then pay $7.99 for a complete version off Amazon or *gasp* from the bookstore.
There are a handful of websites I go ahead and pay the full subscription fee to, which automatically removes all advertisement. (Or, like Slashdot, they allow you to turn off advertisements as a reward for good behavior.) If I don't visit enough to justify paying for my personal bandwidth costs, I have no qualms about keeping it adblocked. The ads are probably not being targeted to me anyway.
They have enough problems getting their phones and tablets working with the legit medical apps put out by EHR companies. They don't need unregulated random medical apps floating around on top of that. (Hell, we've had doctors have trouble sending email through Outlook on a workstation. They usually make their PAs do that sort of thing for them.)
I also toured it a few years back. I still watch out for news from them, as they charge up the super ooper awesome laser and get ready to make a mini sun amongst the vineyards there.
I'd love to have a literature elective in high school called "Creation Stories and Mythology from Around the World." It could begin and end with Genesis, but also touch on everything from Coyote sneezing out mountains to examples of new creation stories from modern literature, as well as some of the more out-there science hypothesis such as multiverses and parallel dimensions, and how they are used in speculative fiction.
We also keep a separate, clean daily backup of the SQL database at a few of our sites, although it wasn't for legal reasons. Our BDR systems compress over time, and by the time the data is more than three months old it is collapsed into a monthly image. Well, one of our clients needed a copy of the database from two months prior, but due to the compression system the best I could do was a weekly collapse from 3 days later than the exact date she wanted. She freaked out a bit, but fortunately the database still had what she needed from that date. In order to prepare ourselves for future situations, we set up a separate backup of the SQL files to run to a second hard drive inside the server every weekday. Now if she needs a copy of the database from May 15th, we can give her a copy of the database from May 15th.
However, getting information on good service is a bit harder with Google, in these days of SEO marketing and obsession over squelching bad servers. You and I know to steer clear of Verizon or AT&T, even if they had an offer available, but someone new to the US might not be aware of it and might get suckered in. It may not be the best Ask Slashdot question ever asked, but it's still a valid one. And I'm saving this information for when a friend returns back from Japan, just in case she wants to slap in a new SIM card to her JP phone.
Properly cited information is always allowed. You just have to credit the people who actually wrote it. My graduate level classes always require person experience be drawn in and applied to the topic at hand in the mini essays we write. So even if the first few sentences are drawn from elsewhere, as long as they are cited properly, its allowed and even encouraged. The remaining four paragraphs are supposed to be how that has applied to something you've seen or experienced, or how it could possibly apply to you.
It's a bigger deal at the meatspace universities because 1. The courses usually do carry credit, and being caught cheating can result in failing the class at best and/or being completely expelled from the university at worst, and 2. People pay money, sometimes lots of money, for those meatspace classes. Having a class you paid $$ for count as a failing grade against your GPA is pretty lame.
The adventures of Jim di Griz were as formative in my teenage years as any other book I could name. I love the idea that in the future, when poverty and war was more or less eliminated and even murderers could be (mostly) rehabilitated, the government itself would allow a few of the brightest criminal minds to slip through the cracks and cause a little chaos (and occasionally stop bigger chaos from leaking off various planets.) The world was mildly dystopian, but still a much more tongue in cheek vision of the future than it was outright depressing. Rest in peace, Harry Harrison.
If I had the ear of any of the big investment firms, I would have told them not to buy into Facebook. Why? Because unlike the other web behemoths, such as Google or Amazon, Facebook is just yet another social network, and those things go in cycles. Over the course of my Internet "life" I've had around twenty accounts on various social networks. They never make money like they believe they will, and they never retain their user base over the long term. Facebook was hoping to be the exception to that rule, but you just can't make money off people sharing Photoshopped pictures of various celebrities wearing the Scumbag Steve hat.
My 7" Kindle Fire goes almost a week with heavy usage, and nearly a month with light usage. When I went to Japan for a week, the only time I had to recharge it was after the 12 hour flight to get there.
The Bioshock II game was a lot more fun once I realized the underwater city Rapture was actually a Galtian/Randian paradise gone horribly horribly wrong.
At the end of the book, the protagonist is standing outside the window of the woman he loves, in the snow, utterly broke, and it can be inferred that he freezes to death ala the little match girl. Verne was pretty spot on considering he was predicting 100 years in the future, but the depressing ending was just too sad. This was his last novel, and wasn't published until the 1990s.
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My office is no longer putting XP systems out there - any system running XP that is brought into the shop is now automatically replaced as a matter of policy (for our business clients.) Sometimes we have to twist their arms, but frankly, we've got a deadline in 2014 and we're going to make our clients meet it whether they want to or not. XP market share is likely to plummet rapidly in the next 2-3 years.
Someone I know who has been using for a bit now said it's simply the fastest OS he's ever used, and he's sorry it's a Windows OS.
I really think the unspoken law of /. needs to be changed to "no single women" because the joke is just getting old these days.
It was a childhood dream, what can I say? I knew I didn't want to be an astronaut, but I loved space and wanted to be an astrophysicist. All that ended somewhere around integral calculus in college when I realized I had more fun reading and writing about science than I did actually doing it. I changed my major from physics to English shortly after that.
I'm a fairly happy woman (also pretty hard to get upset) and I still dream of big things. But I'm content so long as I have my creature comforts. Even if I never achieve my most ambitious dreams (like working for NASA), I'm happy just having reached some smaller goals (writing a novel, going to graduate school, finding a nice guy to marry, buying a house, etc.) So I do think that the yearning, the desire for more and better things, that some men and women experience is definitely a factor in their level of happiness.
Even more low tech are the HeroRATS, originally trained to sniff out landmines in Mozambique, now being trained to detect the presence of TB in sputim samples. Sometimes a low tech solution works when a high tech solution falls short. However, since pneumonia is fluid on the lungs and not always caused by a single bacteria, maybe the high tech solution of a stethoscope is better in this case.
In the small odds my kindle is still running when I die, I'd be happy to leave it to a grandkid.
And I am the opposite. It takes a great deal of effort for me to memorize a poem or spoken text without a melody, but I can sing or pick out a melody from memory, usually only having heard it once, and I can recognize a piece I'm listening to that I heard once ten years ago. (I may not remember the name of it, but the actual music will give me a big dose of deja vu.) If it's a tune with words, I'll be humming and half singing along with it on the second listen, and usually by the third go round I'll have it completely memorized. This also works with other languages, although I'll forget the words much faster than I will the melody in that case.
Exactly 0% of them are pirated. I didn't pay full retail price for most of them - thank you Humble Bundles - but I didn't pirate them either. In fact, I've paid for FFXI three times now - it's worth $10 once every few years to avoid having to spend 8 hours re-downloading six expansions and ten years worth of patches any time I need to reinstall.
TFA doesn't list his source for his numbers, either.
They've been doing this for quite some time. Although, from what I understand their updates are brief, sometimes only a few hundred words, as they are delivered via a sort of extended text message. I think an app is a much better way to deliver it. Pay 99 cents for the app, get a chapter a month until the story is done, and then pay $7.99 for a complete version off Amazon or *gasp* from the bookstore.
There are a handful of websites I go ahead and pay the full subscription fee to, which automatically removes all advertisement. (Or, like Slashdot, they allow you to turn off advertisements as a reward for good behavior.) If I don't visit enough to justify paying for my personal bandwidth costs, I have no qualms about keeping it adblocked. The ads are probably not being targeted to me anyway.
They have enough problems getting their phones and tablets working with the legit medical apps put out by EHR companies. They don't need unregulated random medical apps floating around on top of that. (Hell, we've had doctors have trouble sending email through Outlook on a workstation. They usually make their PAs do that sort of thing for them.)
I also toured it a few years back. I still watch out for news from them, as they charge up the super ooper awesome laser and get ready to make a mini sun amongst the vineyards there.
I'd love to have a literature elective in high school called "Creation Stories and Mythology from Around the World." It could begin and end with Genesis, but also touch on everything from Coyote sneezing out mountains to examples of new creation stories from modern literature, as well as some of the more out-there science hypothesis such as multiverses and parallel dimensions, and how they are used in speculative fiction.
We also keep a separate, clean daily backup of the SQL database at a few of our sites, although it wasn't for legal reasons. Our BDR systems compress over time, and by the time the data is more than three months old it is collapsed into a monthly image. Well, one of our clients needed a copy of the database from two months prior, but due to the compression system the best I could do was a weekly collapse from 3 days later than the exact date she wanted. She freaked out a bit, but fortunately the database still had what she needed from that date. In order to prepare ourselves for future situations, we set up a separate backup of the SQL files to run to a second hard drive inside the server every weekday. Now if she needs a copy of the database from May 15th, we can give her a copy of the database from May 15th.
However, getting information on good service is a bit harder with Google, in these days of SEO marketing and obsession over squelching bad servers. You and I know to steer clear of Verizon or AT&T, even if they had an offer available, but someone new to the US might not be aware of it and might get suckered in. It may not be the best Ask Slashdot question ever asked, but it's still a valid one. And I'm saving this information for when a friend returns back from Japan, just in case she wants to slap in a new SIM card to her JP phone.
Properly cited information is always allowed. You just have to credit the people who actually wrote it. My graduate level classes always require person experience be drawn in and applied to the topic at hand in the mini essays we write. So even if the first few sentences are drawn from elsewhere, as long as they are cited properly, its allowed and even encouraged. The remaining four paragraphs are supposed to be how that has applied to something you've seen or experienced, or how it could possibly apply to you.
It's a bigger deal at the meatspace universities because 1. The courses usually do carry credit, and being caught cheating can result in failing the class at best and/or being completely expelled from the university at worst, and 2. People pay money, sometimes lots of money, for those meatspace classes. Having a class you paid $$ for count as a failing grade against your GPA is pretty lame.
The adventures of Jim di Griz were as formative in my teenage years as any other book I could name. I love the idea that in the future, when poverty and war was more or less eliminated and even murderers could be (mostly) rehabilitated, the government itself would allow a few of the brightest criminal minds to slip through the cracks and cause a little chaos (and occasionally stop bigger chaos from leaking off various planets.) The world was mildly dystopian, but still a much more tongue in cheek vision of the future than it was outright depressing. Rest in peace, Harry Harrison.
If I had the ear of any of the big investment firms, I would have told them not to buy into Facebook. Why? Because unlike the other web behemoths, such as Google or Amazon, Facebook is just yet another social network, and those things go in cycles. Over the course of my Internet "life" I've had around twenty accounts on various social networks. They never make money like they believe they will, and they never retain their user base over the long term. Facebook was hoping to be the exception to that rule, but you just can't make money off people sharing Photoshopped pictures of various celebrities wearing the Scumbag Steve hat.
It fits in larger pockets.
My 7" Kindle Fire goes almost a week with heavy usage, and nearly a month with light usage. When I went to Japan for a week, the only time I had to recharge it was after the 12 hour flight to get there.
The Bioshock II game was a lot more fun once I realized the underwater city Rapture was actually a Galtian/Randian paradise gone horribly horribly wrong.
It looks as though the thrust was really unbalanced; it just sort of wobbled in the air before keeling over. I shouldn't have laughed... but I did.
At the end of the book, the protagonist is standing outside the window of the woman he loves, in the snow, utterly broke, and it can be inferred that he freezes to death ala the little match girl. Verne was pretty spot on considering he was predicting 100 years in the future, but the depressing ending was just too sad. This was his last novel, and wasn't published until the 1990s.