As a long-time Crime Warner customer (the other
options suck even worse), I can assure you that
what my girlfriend's cat leaves in the litterbox
is more valuable than Time Warner, so being valued more than them isn't hard.;)
Of course, if you're talking cost, I'm sure TW
would cost more than a few pounds of sand and
various other items.
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Well, the forecast for next week includes
"partly cloudy with a chance of flying pigs",
so you might want to leave home with an umbrella. I have it on good authority that flying scares pigs,
and if they've been fed recently the results below
them can be... messy.;)
"terruh +oil +iraq" "weapons of mass destruction +iraq -north -korea" "nucklar" "reaons over 1600 of our finest died, so we can save a nickel on a gallon of gas... oh wait, the suckers re-elected me so I don't give one iota of a shit"
Ah, well, there was one instance of an MRI causing a fatality. Or rather, the neglegently placed large metal gas cylinder (oxygen iirc, though that's tangental to the story) being sucked into the torus by the strength of the field, splattering the person inside was the cause. Big magnets are nothing to screw around with and innocuous looking items/situations can become quite deadly around them. But yeah, so long as nothing ferrous does a bullet-time ballet into your body because of the field, you'll be fine.;)
Nah, I'm just as pissed that Microsoft has their fingers so deeply in the legislative process that a threatened product boycott could stall legislation as I am at the cryptofascist Neanderthals from the Religious Wrong having so much clout.:( Jesus wept.
(I'm on cellcept as well as cyclosporine and the prednisone, fwiw. I keep hearing about something new that's in the works to reduce or replace the need for the prednisone as well (tacrolimus? sirolimus? something like that).)
I think I've actually gotten sick less since my transplant than I did beforehand... I chalk it up to just being in better health overall.
Absolutely. I don't think anyone disputes that.
Art, however, should not be confused with user
interface design, however close they may be, and when your art is in something that will be used
for UIs, it becomes very important to keep the distinctions in mind, otherwise the people using the system will be trying to figure out somebody's art project when they're trying to get something done.;) An example of this that I think most everyone
reading this site can relate to would be skinnable music players... I'm sure everyone here has admired the artistry of a cool skin for whatever mp3 player they like, and then moments later been on an eye-strain inducing hunt for the play button.
Ah, it's not so bad. The herds of temporary
IT workers will still have enough computer resources to Godwinate forum threads, the aggregate value of which will remain O(0).:)
This question is hardly unique to the IEEE, all of science publication has been wrestling with these issues for about the last ten years in earnest (esp. since the widespread adoption of the net with viable mechanisms for scientific content delivery (html sucks for equations, but things like pdf make for easy distribution and consumption of papers and paper-like content)). Unfortunately, no good answers have been arrived at that I'm aware of. The professionals in the field want to publish in prestigous journals for their reputations, journals become prestigous in part through extensive peer-review processes and widespread publication, and all that takes time/staff/money. There have been some efforts and opening this process up, spurred by the high costs of institutional subscriptions (like, 20k+ USD per year for some of the chemistry journals I follow:P), but as yet I'm unaware of much adoption because, as mentioned above, an article in "foo.org" is not held in the same weight as one in, say, JACS. It's sort of a self-perpetuating cycle driven by social factors that will be very difficult to fix with technology (esp. given how very set in their ways most of the scientific community is... and I say this as a scientist).
Man, 1995... I still remember being awed by the way that places like yahoo.com and hotwired.com looked in Netscape (was 2.0 even out yet? I forget, heh), compared to what I was used to before that (stuff like pine or gopher running on green-screen terms). I was 16 at the time, in college a couple of years early, and looking back (20/20 hindsight and all that), I wish I'd taken the hint on my early fascination and gone into programming/web-related studies and jobs then instead of chemistry... I guess I felt obligated to pursue a "real job" like chemistry. Here, ten years later, I'm a programmer and chemistry is just sort of my side hobby. I wonder sometimes what my life would have been like had I gotten into CS and gone into the IT workforce by '97-'98 instead of picking it up as hobby later and entering the IT workforce right before the bust.
When a drug patent comes close to expiring (which they'll prolong), the company generally makes a chemical change to the drug just slight enough such that it can pass as something different (e.g. adding an extraneous methyl group or similar), change the packaging around, maybe make it a 12hr dose instead of 6hrs, and say "WHOA HOLY SHIT NEW DRUG HERE!" and get a new patent. That heartburn/acid reflux drug that I'm totally forgetting the name of now (Nexiium?) is a prime example of this... it's been "reformulated" about three times now, each time is 6-10 years of $billions in profit with basically no new R&D.
That's just the surface, for popular my-job-sucks-and-i'm-fat-so-gimme-a-pill-doc type drugs for the anesthetized middle class in the first world. The really sick things, imho, have to do with the way that they will consider the maximum profit to be extracted from a disease as part of the research process. That means that if there is more money to be made from treatments for an illness than from a cure, guess what comes to market.
Further, the high costs of drugs in the firstworld go primarily to support advertising budgets. Not R&D. Pull the yearly SEC filings for somebody like Merck or Pfizer if you doubt. So that medicine you open your wallet deeply for is primarily going to fund the millions of crappy ball point pens that they fart out to doctors everywhere. (Ask a doctor sometime about the lengths a pharma salesperson will go to. It is unreal.)
Big Pharma does things routinely that make Big Oil or Big Tobacco look like motherfucking saints in comparison. There's a reason I've taken my chemistry degree and run for the I.T. hills to work as a programmer... So maybe my days are spent in a cube, but my days aren't spent in a cube figuring out ways to make money off of the suffering of other human beings.
1: Build battery-powered emulator for register, set to auto-charge on $24.99 2: Walk through a packed subway station with emulator in backpack 3: PROFIT!:D
It's possible that the 2-3 hundred thousand usd that the sale generated is letting the will's executor pay off debts that were burdening the family, send a child in the family to college, whatever. You don't know the internal dynamics of the situation, so it's rather impolite to cast aspersions on the actions of a family in the wake of the death of a loved one.
Because XML requires a parser, and this JSON thing
looks (at least to my very rusty eyes, it's been
ages and ages since I touched front-end stuff like javascript) like it could be evaled into a jscript array, which is a *much* quicker operation and requries no external libraries to operate. I've done something like this before, working at a startup back in 2000, with an invisible iframe (we were targeting IE only) that was running jscript which would poll the server api for various things and eval the jscript-formatted output to display stuff (kind of like proto-web-services before such a thing was popular). It sounds kludgy as hell,
and parts of it were, but it did work suprisingly well for most of the things we asked it to do. The front-end people had written, I swear to god, a complete windowing/GUI library in dhtml with draggable, resizeable windows (not popups) and everything that our (suite of) ASP-paradigmed applications were flown into.
As a coworker said: "Build a better LAMP: Linux Apache Middleware Postgres!";) [Where "middleware"
could be anything more robust than your typical php sleazeware.]
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I've heard they also make a mean duck soup. :)
As a long-time Crime Warner customer (the other options suck even worse), I can assure you that what my girlfriend's cat leaves in the litterbox is more valuable than Time Warner, so being valued more than them isn't hard. ;)
Of course, if you're talking cost, I'm sure TW would cost more than a few pounds of sand and various other items.
Which is more threatening to the powers that be?
Pen vs. Sword, Act III Scene 2...
Well, the forecast for next week includes "partly cloudy with a chance of flying pigs", so you might want to leave home with an umbrella. I have it on good authority that flying scares pigs, and if they've been fed recently the results below them can be ... messy. ;)
"terruh +oil +iraq"
"weapons of mass destruction +iraq -north -korea"
"nucklar"
"reaons over 1600 of our finest died, so we can
save a nickel on a gallon of gas... oh wait,
the suckers re-elected me so I don't give one
iota of a shit"
They had to export their dangerous overload of vowels *somehow*. ;)
Ah, well, there was one instance of an MRI causing a fatality. Or rather, the neglegently placed large metal gas cylinder (oxygen iirc, though that's tangental to the story) being sucked into the torus by the strength of the field, splattering the person inside was the cause. Big magnets are nothing to screw around with and innocuous looking items/situations can become quite deadly around them. But yeah, so long as nothing ferrous does a bullet-time ballet into your body because of the field, you'll be fine. ;)
Safari (the online bookstore, not the browser) has the characteristic .aspx filenames as well,
for what it's worth.
Nah, I'm just as pissed that Microsoft :( Jesus wept.
has their fingers so deeply in the legislative
process that a threatened product boycott could
stall legislation as I am at the cryptofascist
Neanderthals from the Religious Wrong having so much
clout.
Hey there, kidney transplant buddy :)
Been about seven for me (six and a half). Woohoo!
(I'm on cellcept as well as cyclosporine and
the prednisone, fwiw. I keep hearing about something new that's in the works to reduce or replace the need for the prednisone as well (tacrolimus? sirolimus? something like that).)
I think I've actually gotten sick less since my
transplant than I did beforehand... I chalk it
up to just being in better health overall.
Heh! Maybe the back-lobes of the signal are mindless, dogmatic bits of inane liberal propaganda thinly disguised as news due to phase inversion. ;)
We'd better not let the government know about it then. ;)
Absolutely. I don't think anyone disputes that. Art, however, should not be confused with user interface design, however close they may be, and when your art is in something that will be used for UIs, it becomes very important to keep the distinctions in mind, otherwise the people using the system will be trying to figure out somebody's art project when they're trying to get something done. ;) An example of this that I think most everyone
reading this site can relate to would be skinnable music players... I'm sure everyone here has admired the artistry of a cool skin for whatever mp3 player they like, and then moments later been on an eye-strain inducing hunt for the play button.
Ah, it's not so bad. The herds of temporary IT workers will still have enough computer resources to Godwinate forum threads, the aggregate value of which will remain O(0). :)
This question is hardly unique to the IEEE, all of science publication has been wrestling with these issues for about the last ten years in earnest (esp. since the widespread adoption of the net with viable mechanisms for scientific content delivery (html sucks for equations, but things like pdf make for easy distribution and consumption of papers and paper-like content)). Unfortunately, no good answers have been arrived at that I'm aware of. The professionals in the field want to publish in prestigous journals for their reputations, journals become prestigous in part through extensive peer-review processes and widespread publication, and all that takes time/staff/money. There have been some efforts and opening this process up, spurred by the high costs of institutional subscriptions (like, 20k+ USD per year for some of the chemistry journals I follow :P), but as yet I'm unaware of much adoption because, as mentioned above, an article in "foo.org" is not held in the same weight as one in, say, JACS. It's sort of a self-perpetuating cycle driven by social factors that will be very difficult to fix with technology (esp. given how very set in their ways most of the scientific community is... and I say this as a scientist).
You must have one bitch of a time hearing. ;)
It is mysterious and powerful. In fact, it's mystery is only exceeded by its power. ;)
Man, 1995... I still remember being awed by the way that places like yahoo.com and hotwired.com looked in Netscape (was 2.0 even out yet? I forget, heh), compared to what I was used to before that (stuff like pine or gopher running on green-screen terms). I was 16 at the time, in college a couple of years early, and looking back (20/20 hindsight and all that), I wish I'd taken the hint on my early fascination and gone into programming/web-related studies and jobs then instead of chemistry... I guess I felt obligated to pursue a "real job" like chemistry. Here, ten years later, I'm a programmer and chemistry is just sort of my side hobby. I wonder sometimes what my life would have been like had I gotten into CS and gone into the IT workforce by '97-'98 instead of picking it up as hobby later and entering the IT workforce right before the bust.
Anyway, for some good nostalgia, here you go:
Archive of old versions of Netscape back to 1.1 days on multiple platforms
Wayback machine link for Yahoo! front page, late 1996 (hotwired.com excludes wayback, darn it... i recall it being visually louder than a hawaiian shirt on fire. the current wired.com is actually subdued compared to what I recall it being)
Patents? Expire? Holy shit, there's a concept.
When a drug patent comes close to expiring (which they'll prolong), the company generally makes a chemical change to the drug just slight enough such that it can pass as something different (e.g. adding an extraneous methyl group or similar), change the packaging around, maybe make it a 12hr dose instead of 6hrs, and say "WHOA HOLY SHIT NEW DRUG HERE!" and get a new patent. That heartburn/acid reflux drug that I'm totally forgetting the name of now (Nexiium?) is a prime example of this... it's been "reformulated" about three times now, each time is 6-10 years of $billions in profit with basically no new R&D.
That's just the surface, for popular my-job-sucks-and-i'm-fat-so-gimme-a-pill-doc type drugs for the anesthetized middle class in the first world. The really sick things, imho, have to do with the way that they will consider the maximum profit to be extracted from a disease as part of the research process. That means that if there is more money to be made from treatments for an illness than from a cure, guess what comes to market.
Further, the high costs of drugs in the firstworld go primarily to support advertising budgets. Not R&D. Pull the yearly SEC filings for somebody like Merck or Pfizer if you doubt. So that medicine you open your wallet deeply for is primarily going to fund the millions of crappy ball point pens that they fart out to doctors everywhere. (Ask a doctor sometime about the lengths a pharma salesperson will go to. It is unreal.)
Big Pharma does things routinely that make Big Oil or Big Tobacco look like motherfucking saints in comparison. There's a reason I've taken my chemistry degree and run for the I.T. hills to work as a programmer... So maybe my days are spent in a cube, but my days aren't spent in a cube figuring out ways to make money off of the suffering of other human beings.
1: Build battery-powered emulator for register, set to auto-charge on $24.99 :D
2: Walk through a packed subway station with emulator in backpack
3: PROFIT!
It's possible that the 2-3 hundred thousand usd that the sale generated is letting the will's executor pay off debts that were burdening the family, send a child in the family to college, whatever. You don't know the internal dynamics of the situation, so it's rather impolite to cast aspersions on the actions of a family in the wake of the death of a loved one.
Because XML requires a parser, and this JSON thing looks (at least to my very rusty eyes, it's been ages and ages since I touched front-end stuff like javascript) like it could be evaled into a jscript array, which is a *much* quicker operation and requries no external libraries to operate. I've done something like this before, working at a startup back in 2000, with an invisible iframe (we were targeting IE only) that was running jscript which would poll the server api for various things and eval the jscript-formatted output to display stuff (kind of like proto-web-services before such a thing was popular). It sounds kludgy as hell, and parts of it were, but it did work suprisingly well for most of the things we asked it to do. The front-end people had written, I swear to god, a complete windowing/GUI library in dhtml with draggable, resizeable windows (not popups) and everything that our (suite of) ASP-paradigmed applications were flown into.
c.f. www.thedailywtf.com ;)
Idiots and amateurs. ;)
As a coworker said: "Build a better LAMP: Linux Apache Middleware Postgres!" ;) [Where "middleware"
could be anything more robust than your typical php sleazeware.]