If you are hypoglycemic, it's just the thing really. The fact that it isn't a pharmacuetical doesn't mean it isn't useless.
Unfortunately, sometimes "life happens" and interferes with your desire to tightly regiment it. Things don't always go to plan. People in a forum hip deep with IT professionals should be well aware of that.
On the other hand, you need something to put in your gut first if you are going to take certain drugs. So a nice shelf stable snack in the first aid kit is actually medically quite appropriate.
As non-sanctioned remedies that exist outside of the conventional MD mindset and Big Pharma, "believers" don't have to worry. They can just continue to medicate themselves if they want.
I'm kind of surprised that the UK is finally getting around to this. It's been this way in the US for quite some time.
Although some non-pharma remedies are useful in some limited (generally non-life threatening) situations.
> The features MySQL has are good enough for 99% of real-world web applications.
It doesn't even have complete SQL support.
While that might not matter for a trivial web application. For the more interesting ones that include non-trivial development teams, that will cause problems.
What happens when the government kills one of my relatives through penny-pinching on diagnostic tests or it decides that expensive cancer drug keeping you alive is just too expensive?
It is commonplace for employers to not even offer insurance before 90 days. The "cobra" price for most employer insurance plans is absurd. Plus employers are prone to change policies frequently or even midyear screwing you out of your deductible.
Fortunately in some states there were decent private health insurance options. Although those have kind of been trashed lately.
> The majority of people aren't interesting in cruddy little Chromecasts, Apple TVs, Roku boxen et al.
SmartTVs are what's cruddy here.
I have devices with "built in support" for things like Netflix. They don't get used because THEY'RE CRAP. Even the "end users" don't like them.
TV apps are going to require some "fuss" regardless of what device the "app" is residing in. That doesn't change if it's the TV itself or a little box attached to it.
Except most people don't run it. Their OS does that for them because it hides the details that would make it obvious that it's a program. Their OS has the added convenience of running that untrusted program for them.
It's easy to avoid a problem like that when your OS vendor doesn't create it for you.
Anyone who wasn't born yesterday is well aware that older platforms with smaller market share and a smaller number of total users were ripe environments for all manner of malware.
That "market share" argument simply doesn't agree with actual real world results.
> Whats next... anti-monopoly laws to encourage diversity in FM radio programming?
We already had laws to prevent media consolidation. Clearly someone thought that enforcing anti-trust in that area did not represent a "serious enough problem". So those laws were done away with.
Yes. Let's just compromise our values and allow the free market and personal property to be subverted just because YOU personally don't think that this instance of bad behavior is sufficiently bad enough.
> Or are you saying those three choices are no good? Each of them will do the job perfectly.
No they wont.
When CableCards were first introduced, Tivo was seriously behind in terms of PVR devices. That's why people started using stuff like MCE in the first place. You're basically saying that ONE OPTION in two classes of device are fine. That's just two different monopolies. That's pathetic. That's nothing resembling a free market. Do you see only 3 choices of TV when you go to Frys? How about 3 choices of PC? How about 3 choices of cars.
It's more like the difference between 1000 and 1024 but actually spelling out which one you are using rather than leaving it for the end user to make an assumption that benefits the seller.
The occasional rare Chinese mutant doesn't count. Such a creature is even less relevant to a feminist whiner than she is to her male counterparts in the department.
Barbie has always had variations that are "less of a vapid dunce". The only thing new is a marketing campaign where Mattel starts to defend itself against the SJWs that would defame their product line.
It's a doll. How the kid chooses to personify it is really up to them. If they have other positive role models, chances are that Barbie will be a girl that "takes care of business" and doesn't just whine.
Falling back to being a grammar Nazi is just more of the same "sixth grade mentality". So are insults. Thinking you have the moral high ground doesn't mean you get to sling ad homs. It just makes you come off like a hypocrite.
Pneumonia isn't one pathogen, it's an entire class of infections. Some of them are even fungal. So if they didn't nail down exactly what kind of pneumonia you had, they really had no way of knowing what type of drug to give you.
...or drugs that helped a small number of the trial patients but caused nasty side effects in a bunch of others.
Some drugs look promising but end up HURTING PATIENTS. You don't just have to prove your drug works, you also have to show that it's not going to kill or maim the patient.
Some drugs have wicked side effects that the peanut gallery are clearly largely ignorant of and that's the stuff that actually makes it through.
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If you are hypoglycemic, it's just the thing really. The fact that it isn't a pharmacuetical doesn't mean it isn't useless.
Unfortunately, sometimes "life happens" and interferes with your desire to tightly regiment it. Things don't always go to plan. People in a forum hip deep with IT professionals should be well aware of that.
On the other hand, you need something to put in your gut first if you are going to take certain drugs. So a nice shelf stable snack in the first aid kit is actually medically quite appropriate.
As non-sanctioned remedies that exist outside of the conventional MD mindset and Big Pharma, "believers" don't have to worry. They can just continue to medicate themselves if they want.
I'm kind of surprised that the UK is finally getting around to this. It's been this way in the US for quite some time.
Although some non-pharma remedies are useful in some limited (generally non-life threatening) situations.
I wouldn't call it a "niche" exactly. It's one of the major main use cases for employing an RDBMS.
We just have a lot of "database people" with very limited experience and a limited mindset.
> The features MySQL has are good enough for 99% of real-world web applications.
It doesn't even have complete SQL support.
While that might not matter for a trivial web application. For the more interesting ones that include non-trivial development teams, that will cause problems.
> Is this similar to MySQL / MariaDB's shard query? Do the commercial databases have this?
Since the beginning of time by comparison...
> Any questions?
What happens when the government kills one of my relatives through penny-pinching on diagnostic tests or it decides that expensive cancer drug keeping you alive is just too expensive?
It is commonplace for employers to not even offer insurance before 90 days. The "cobra" price for most employer insurance plans is absurd. Plus employers are prone to change policies frequently or even midyear screwing you out of your deductible.
Fortunately in some states there were decent private health insurance options. Although those have kind of been trashed lately.
> The majority of people aren't interesting in cruddy little Chromecasts, Apple TVs, Roku boxen et al.
SmartTVs are what's cruddy here.
I have devices with "built in support" for things like Netflix. They don't get used because THEY'RE CRAP. Even the "end users" don't like them.
TV apps are going to require some "fuss" regardless of what device the "app" is residing in. That doesn't change if it's the TV itself or a little box attached to it.
> That is actually how most ransomware works.
Except most people don't run it. Their OS does that for them because it hides the details that would make it obvious that it's a program. Their OS has the added convenience of running that untrusted program for them.
It's easy to avoid a problem like that when your OS vendor doesn't create it for you.
...except that walled garden is hardly comprehensive.
Even Bodega is a better and more complete implementation.
Plus you can still just download stuff from random places.
I am a long time well known Linux Zealot with no love for Apple.
I will even concur with how bogus this is.
Malware needs an infection vector. Without that, you don't have Internet crippling mass malware infections.
This nonsense again.
Anyone who wasn't born yesterday is well aware that older platforms with smaller market share and a smaller number of total users were ripe environments for all manner of malware.
That "market share" argument simply doesn't agree with actual real world results.
What inheritance? I love hearing spoiled sheltered suburban spooners whine.
> Whats next... anti-monopoly laws to encourage diversity in FM radio programming?
We already had laws to prevent media consolidation. Clearly someone thought that enforcing anti-trust in that area did not represent a "serious enough problem". So those laws were done away with.
Now we have the fruits of media consolidation.
Yes. Let's just compromise our values and allow the free market and personal property to be subverted just because YOU personally don't think that this instance of bad behavior is sufficiently bad enough.
> Or are you saying those three choices are no good? Each of them will do the job perfectly.
No they wont.
When CableCards were first introduced, Tivo was seriously behind in terms of PVR devices. That's why people started using stuff like MCE in the first place. You're basically saying that ONE OPTION in two classes of device are fine. That's just two different monopolies. That's pathetic. That's nothing resembling a free market. Do you see only 3 choices of TV when you go to Frys? How about 3 choices of PC? How about 3 choices of cars.
It's funny the kinds of excuses people will make.
Scripted shows of any significance are available PPV on various streaming services.
Food Network simply isn't worth the balance between the cost of a couple of streaming services and the cost of a cable subscription.
What planet are you posting from? Netflix, Amazon, & Hulu all together are cheaper than any real cable package anywhere.
Plex is just free.
Even with what I buy from Amazon, I still spend less than I did with conventional cable.
Full disclosure was made.
It's more like the difference between 1000 and 1024 but actually spelling out which one you are using rather than leaving it for the end user to make an assumption that benefits the seller.
The occasional rare Chinese mutant doesn't count. Such a creature is even less relevant to a feminist whiner than she is to her male counterparts in the department.
Barbie has always had variations that are "less of a vapid dunce". The only thing new is a marketing campaign where Mattel starts to defend itself against the SJWs that would defame their product line.
It's a doll. How the kid chooses to personify it is really up to them. If they have other positive role models, chances are that Barbie will be a girl that "takes care of business" and doesn't just whine.
Same doll. New marketing.
Falling back to being a grammar Nazi is just more of the same "sixth grade mentality". So are insults. Thinking you have the moral high ground doesn't mean you get to sling ad homs. It just makes you come off like a hypocrite.
If they Aspyr games are in fact "wine wrapped", then they actually hide it very well.
Pneumonia isn't one pathogen, it's an entire class of infections. Some of them are even fungal. So if they didn't nail down exactly what kind of pneumonia you had, they really had no way of knowing what type of drug to give you.
...or drugs that helped a small number of the trial patients but caused nasty side effects in a bunch of others.
Some drugs look promising but end up HURTING PATIENTS. You don't just have to prove your drug works, you also have to show that it's not going to kill or maim the patient.
Some drugs have wicked side effects that the peanut gallery are clearly largely ignorant of and that's the stuff that actually makes it through.