You can tell this guy is a nerd, but it goes far beyond the pizza and mountain dew... Is that really an empty tub of frosting sitting my his computer??:)
An interesting thing I've been thinking about recently, actually. I'm a pediatrics resident and recently did a month in the pediatric ICU at my hospital. We can be on call for 33-36 hours and I've noticed that, no matter how tired you get, when things start getting nasty you get very very focused. Never really nervous, but focused. I thought that was interesting in a way. Just a thought. Mistakes are made when things aren't going to hell. That's when it's hard to focus for so long...
It also seems like hell's minions have absolutely nothing better to do than to go wait behind one of those panels, wait for you to walk past and then pop out behind you.
I remember that the best game I played in the modern era (Ultima 3 was the most engrossing when I was 13 or so) was the original Unreal.
I'm not much of a FPS person but I found that game superb. I spent most of the game in God mode because I prefered exploring and seeing the paradisial landscapes and hearing the lonely monastic windchimes.
But what was superb at the time was that the whole thing seemed to have a life of its own. You could sneak up behind monsters and they were standing there prodding and goading each other.
Once, on a dark night I was playing and I came down this winding stairs to find one of those green swamp things shooting at me, so I backed up and then inched slowly out and down the stairs. He was gone. I turned around to go back up the stairs and found him in the air, having jumped at me from behind. Gave quite the shout. But it was so great because the thing had actually found a route to sneak up on my back!
From the sounds of it, the AI in this isn't up to par, which is a pity. Really. At this stage, I would have thought we would be much better. That was on a Pentium 233MMX with a Voodoo 1 card. Now I keep reading about needing more than 10 times that clock speed and who knows how much more graphics just so monsters can sit behind walls?
Seriously though. All this effort. Can't you people donate this time and sweat to something that will help someone? Or do you really feel that you're helping people by picking your nose at every random spot here to timbucktoo?
there we go again... Brandt was tested positive on Methadon, a substance that DOES NOT HELP cycling better. It's some sort of pain killer.
Additionally, the dose was miniscule. So small that it is impossible to have any advantage or even effect whatshowever. It is very likely that he's the victim of eating something which contained some Methadon without his knowledge. (did you know for instance that tap water in many cities contains high traces of Oestrogen ? Does that make you a transexual ?)
This is rediculous. Methadone is a narcotic. It was designed to get people off Heroin by having a slower rush and longer half-life (dulling the steep on/off effects of heroin).
In short: it's a painkiller. Don't tell me that doesn't help.
Anyone having any luck getting output from the PC to an HDTV? I've been trying to research options about this for the upcoming Doom3.
I've a 34" Sony that can do 1080i and I'd love to get that working instead of my monitor.
I've heard ATI is much better at this but I'd rather stay with NVIDIA because of the linux drivers. Have an old Geforce 3 200ti at the moment. Would love to hear people's experiences.
God, am I getting fucking sick of idiocy like this. Why the fuck do I even bother writing proper English any more, when even relatively intelligent people like you mangle the language like cheese through a grater? And if you're from a non-English-speaking nation: I apologize. Actually, you're probably American, since the WORST and MOST BIZARRE manglings of English seem to originate from America, and in fact from people born in America, who have been learning English all their lives. Go figure
Yeah, this kind of thing ticks me off as well. I am American though. I've given up on the "whom" thing. But the lack of adverbs ("Think Different"???) still gets to me. Sad really.
I remember I was an intern at SGI and was playing around with a parallel ray-tracer on one of the computational chemistry machines some of the engineers had. I had a root2 account because I had been helping out the admin. It was a 32 proc macine which, for that time some years ago was huge.
I still don't understand what happened then but I was deleting my program and source from one of the shared drives and then realized I was in the wrong directory. So ^D'd the command and thought I was done.
But then I kept getting things like "Cannot delete/blah/blah" "Cannot delete/blah/blah2"
Didn't know what was going on! Scared the bejeezus out of me. Thought I had some kind of run-away rm or something. Still don't know what happened.
The other one was when I was trying to get a Segate Cheetah 10k SCSI something drive out of a casing to put it in another machine and back it up. It was jammed in there pretty well and when I finally got it out I noticed a small transistor on the ground. Duh!! No more need to back that up!:)
2 days ago this redneck I know flipped his quad over in a creek and tore his ear off. He called a friend's mom and cussed her out when she didn't believe he was hurt. It took a little while to find out where he was. If only he had had sensors in the trees to track his flowing mullet...
That was pretty funny until I got to the "flowing mullet" part and a perfect image of some dude with his hair blowing behind him on an ATV hit my mind. Thanks, I needed that.
The problem is this, I LOVE developing websites, but I HATE the stress and responsability that comes with a the job. How do you all cope with the stress and responsability that seems to come hand-in-hand with an IT career?"
Hey man. Just take it for what it is, enjoy it, make sure things are done right, and then be done with it. I work 100-110 hours a week and when I'm on call spend around 34-36 hours at the hospital straight. The hours *sork hard*, but I love the work.
But that's what you have to do - enjoy the job and then leave it behind and get on with your life. Time is precious.
You also forget that for some people, especially those that earn something in the $40 to $50 an higher an hour range, time is money. Linux, BSD, and Windows is too expensive, and strangely enough, Macs, with their plug and play nature, are cheaper. Literally, if it takes me one day to set up something in Linux, and 10 minutes on my Mac, that's the difference between $500 spent/wasted and $10 spent. Over the course of a month, then, a Mac will have paid itself off.
Hey! It's the Steve Balmer argument! Come on guys, which way is it. What do I believe? Is mac better than linux because it's easier or is linux better than windows because it isn't?
I think this is a great move. I moved to SuSE before for a while before I went to gentoo (simply because it's easier to update) and the SuSE people just do things well. It's like those German cars. When I first sat in a BMW and saw that the rear-view mirrors adjusted automatically when reversing or the window-wipers altered the length of their pause depending on your speed I thought "Nice job guys. Well done."
I get the same feeling when using SuSE - nice things you never even thought of.
As far as medicine being expensive in the West, there are alot more factors contributing to the expenses than a physician's salary.
Can I second that? I'm an MD and work over 100 hours a week with some of the sickest patients (peds heme/onc) and get about 36 grand. Granted I'm still in residency, but I was thinking yesterday when putting in orders for meds after about 34 hours of trying to stay focused that that's a whole lot of responsiblity to have when you're that tired and that underpaid.
Second, the secrecy around the techniques for constructing nuclear weapons makes a lot of things secret as a byproduct, because of the incredible paranoia and perceived fear by the censors. To keep people from guessing the most secret techniques needed to construct a nuclear bomb, by extension you need to keep secret even the materials and quantities required for construction. From there, you have to make secrets out of a lot of what's involved in mining, refining, processing, and manufacturing. From there, it's very easy to do things like making accident statistics or radiation exposure documentation for the town where the reactor is secret.
[...paragraph cut...]
In the end, it comes down to something very simple. Freedom of speech is nearly an absolute, and it is also the most important freedom we have. Giving it up is foolish no matter what the reason.
I think this thinking takes into account a number of assumptions which aren't necessarily tight. Can we expand this line of thinking?
Say one person discovered some weapon which could destroy all life and the entire world instantly (for argument's sake). Let's say he in some way appreciates the gravity of this creation.
1. In regards to him, this secret has been "discovered" 2. In regards to everyone else, it is "undiscovered".
If he does not publish this material and at some point dies, this secret remains "undiscovered" for the remaining population on the earth for at least that time-being.
If he publishes it ad hoc to the world now the whole world has it. And here is where this argument you cite fails. It assumes that
1. People had this technology anyways (they didn't necessarily) and 2. Everyone on earth is even-tempered, interested in discussion of problems, and sane.
These are heavy assumptions and I think you'll find they aren't necessarily true.
Somebody will eventually post that we should not publish this information because other countries will get it and thus be able to create nuclear weapons.
Of course, this is bull. But I found this quote from the article puts it best:
You know I can understand this point for other things such as supercomputing or various technologies which have some purpose other than full-scale annihilation but I just don't know why people need this information.
Who gains what from publishing this?? I'm willing to be educated.
Going beyond the knee-jerk reactions against anything genetically engineered, the key to making these safe is to make sure they can't breed. There was a controversy over engineered trees that make better paper. The researcher noted that making them sterile greatly reduced whatever risk there might be for problems later on.
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You can tell this guy is a nerd, but it goes far beyond the pizza and mountain dew... Is that really an empty tub of frosting sitting my his computer??
An interesting thing I've been thinking about recently, actually. I'm a pediatrics resident and recently did a month in the pediatric ICU at my hospital. We can be on call for 33-36 hours and I've noticed that, no matter how tired you get, when things start getting nasty you get very very focused. Never really nervous, but focused. I thought that was interesting in a way. Just a thought. Mistakes are made when things aren't going to hell. That's when it's hard to focus for so long...
It also seems like hell's minions have absolutely nothing better to do than to go wait behind one of those panels, wait for you to walk past and then pop out behind you.
I remember that the best game I played in the modern era (Ultima 3 was the most engrossing when I was 13 or so) was the original Unreal.
I'm not much of a FPS person but I found that game superb. I spent most of the game in God mode because I prefered exploring and seeing the paradisial landscapes and hearing the lonely monastic windchimes.
But what was superb at the time was that the whole thing seemed to have a life of its own. You could sneak up behind monsters and they were standing there prodding and goading each other.
Once, on a dark night I was playing and I came down this winding stairs to find one of those green swamp things shooting at me, so I backed up and then inched slowly out and down the stairs. He was gone. I turned around to go back up the stairs and found him in the air, having jumped at me from behind. Gave quite the shout. But it was so great because the thing had actually found a route to sneak up on my back!
From the sounds of it, the AI in this isn't up to par, which is a pity. Really. At this stage, I would have thought we would be much better. That was on a Pentium 233MMX with a Voodoo 1 card. Now I keep reading about needing more than 10 times that clock speed and who knows how much more graphics just so monsters can sit behind walls?
Anybody else get the plugins for mozilla to work? I copied them from the
audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin RealPlayer Plugin Metafile rpm Yes
in the about:plugins, but nothing from news.bbc.co.uk loads.
O.k., so a segway is very expensive.
But in fairness (because this looks silly), it's a whole lot less expensive than 4 polo ponies....
May I be the first to say (if not think):
Get A Life!!
Seriously though. All this effort. Can't you people donate this time and sweat to something that will help someone? Or do you really feel that you're helping people by picking your nose at every random spot here to timbucktoo?
It is very likely that he's the victim of eating something which contained some Methadon without his knowledge.
I'm sorry, I should have posted this the first time. Do you know that methadone is
1. a tightly controlled substance, and
2. a thick dark green syrup.
? That said how many people do you think go around having "methadone sandwiches"?? Jesus.
there we go again... Brandt was tested positive on Methadon, a substance that DOES NOT HELP cycling better. It's some sort of pain killer.
Additionally, the dose was miniscule. So small that it is impossible to have any advantage or even effect whatshowever. It is very likely that he's the victim of eating something which contained some Methadon without his knowledge. (did you know for instance that tap water in many cities contains high traces of Oestrogen ? Does that make you a transexual ?)
This is rediculous. Methadone is a narcotic. It was designed to get people off Heroin by having a slower rush and longer half-life (dulling the steep on/off effects of heroin).
In short: it's a painkiller. Don't tell me that doesn't help.
Anyone having any luck getting output from the PC to an HDTV? I've been trying to research options about this for the upcoming Doom3.
I've a 34" Sony that can do 1080i and I'd love to get that working instead of my monitor.
I've heard ATI is much better at this but I'd rather stay with NVIDIA because of the linux drivers. Have an old Geforce 3 200ti at the moment. Would love to hear people's experiences.
God, am I getting fucking sick of idiocy like this. Why the fuck do I even bother writing proper English any more, when even relatively intelligent people like you mangle the language like cheese through a grater? And if you're from a non-English-speaking nation: I apologize. Actually, you're probably American, since the WORST and MOST BIZARRE manglings of English seem to originate from America, and in fact from people born in America, who have been learning English all their lives. Go figure
Yeah, this kind of thing ticks me off as well. I am American though. I've given up on the "whom" thing. But the lack of adverbs ("Think Different"???) still gets to me. Sad really.
I remember I was an intern at SGI and was playing around with a parallel ray-tracer on one of the computational chemistry machines some of the engineers had. I had a root2 account because I had been helping out the admin. It was a 32 proc macine which, for that time some years ago was huge.
/blah/blah" /blah/blah2"
:)
I still don't understand what happened then but I was deleting my program and source from one of the shared drives and then realized I was in the wrong directory. So ^D'd the command and thought I was done.
But then I kept getting things like
"Cannot delete
"Cannot delete
Didn't know what was going on! Scared the bejeezus out of me. Thought I had some kind of run-away rm or something. Still don't know what happened.
The other one was when I was trying to get a Segate Cheetah 10k SCSI something drive out of a casing to put it in another machine and back it up. It was jammed in there pretty well and when I finally got it out I noticed a small transistor on the ground. Duh!! No more need to back that up!
You really have to wonder when the editors of slashdot consistently show that they themselves don't read slashdot. Don't you?
2 days ago this redneck I know flipped his quad over in a creek and tore his ear off. He called a friend's mom and cussed her out when she didn't believe he was hurt. It took a little while to find out where he was. If only he had had sensors in the trees to track his flowing mullet...
That was pretty funny until I got to the "flowing mullet" part and a perfect image of some dude with his hair blowing behind him on an ATV hit my mind. Thanks, I needed that.
The problem is this, I LOVE developing websites, but I HATE the stress and responsability that comes with a the job. How do you all cope with the stress and responsability that seems to come hand-in-hand with an IT career?"
Hey man. Just take it for what it is, enjoy it, make sure things are done right, and then be done with it. I work 100-110 hours a week and when I'm on call spend around 34-36 hours at the hospital straight. The hours *sork hard*, but I love the work.
But that's what you have to do - enjoy the job and then leave it behind and get on with your life. Time is precious.
You also forget that for some people, especially those that earn something in the $40 to $50 an higher an hour range, time is money. Linux, BSD, and Windows is too expensive, and strangely enough, Macs, with their plug and play nature, are cheaper. Literally, if it takes me one day to set up something in Linux, and 10 minutes on my Mac, that's the difference between $500 spent/wasted and $10 spent. Over the course of a month, then, a Mac will have paid itself off.
Hey! It's the Steve Balmer argument! Come on guys, which way is it. What do I believe? Is mac better than linux because it's easier or is linux better than windows because it isn't?
This article is a short evaluation of Eiffel as a language for developing the core gnome desktop platform.
I think Gnome has other things it needs to focus on than swapping around foundations again.
Afterall, is Gnome attempting to be useful or just a developers' theoretical playground?
Hi - interesting. I'm using Konqueror and allow cookies from *.washingtonpoast.com
Best wishes - let me know if I can help.
The Washington Post (free registration, not too invasive)
The problem I have with the Washington Post registration is that their cookies are coming from some other domain than washingtonpost.com.
I've noticed this because I can allow washingtonpost.com but it still tells me to turn on cookies and won't allow me to register.
I think this is a great move. I moved to SuSE before for a while before I went to gentoo (simply because it's easier to update) and the SuSE people just do things well. It's like those German cars. When I first sat in a BMW and saw that the rear-view mirrors adjusted automatically when reversing or the window-wipers altered the length of their pause depending on your speed I thought "Nice job guys. Well done."
I get the same feeling when using SuSE - nice things you never even thought of.
As far as medicine being expensive in the West, there are alot more factors contributing to the expenses than a physician's salary.
Can I second that? I'm an MD and work over 100 hours a week with some of the sickest patients (peds heme/onc) and get about 36 grand. Granted I'm still in residency, but I was thinking yesterday when putting in orders for meds after about 34 hours of trying to stay focused that that's a whole lot of responsiblity to have when you're that tired and that underpaid.
The problem with learning all of these grammar rules is that kids need to Think Different! Just like apple says.
I'm not sure what I need to think about "Different" but I'm still working on that.
Perhaps they meant "Think Differently"?
Cool. Don't suppose anyone's done this with a Geforce3 Ti 200?
Second, the secrecy around the techniques for constructing nuclear weapons makes a lot of things secret as a byproduct, because of the incredible paranoia and perceived fear by the censors. To keep people from guessing the most secret techniques needed to construct a nuclear bomb, by extension you need to keep secret even the materials and quantities required for construction. From there, you have to make secrets out of a lot of what's involved in mining, refining, processing, and manufacturing. From there, it's very easy to do things like making accident statistics or radiation exposure documentation for the town where the reactor is secret.
[...paragraph cut...]
In the end, it comes down to something very simple. Freedom of speech is nearly an absolute, and it is also the most important freedom we have. Giving it up is foolish no matter what the reason.
I think this thinking takes into account a number of assumptions which aren't necessarily tight. Can we expand this line of thinking?
Say one person discovered some weapon which could destroy all life and the entire world instantly (for argument's sake). Let's say he in some way appreciates the gravity of this creation.
1. In regards to him, this secret has been "discovered"
2. In regards to everyone else, it is "undiscovered".
If he does not publish this material and at some point dies, this secret remains "undiscovered" for the remaining population on the earth for at least that time-being.
If he publishes it ad hoc to the world now the whole world has it. And here is where this argument you cite fails. It assumes that
1. People had this technology anyways (they didn't necessarily) and
2. Everyone on earth is even-tempered, interested in discussion of problems, and sane.
These are heavy assumptions and I think you'll find they aren't necessarily true.
Somebody will eventually post that we should not publish this information because other countries will get it and thus be able to create nuclear weapons.
Of course, this is bull. But I found this quote from the article puts it best:
You know I can understand this point for other things such as supercomputing or various technologies which have some purpose other than full-scale annihilation but I just don't know why people need this information.
Who gains what from publishing this?? I'm willing to be educated.
Going beyond the knee-jerk reactions against anything genetically engineered, the key to making these safe is to make sure they can't breed. There was a controversy over engineered trees that make better paper. The researcher noted that making them sterile greatly reduced whatever risk there might be for problems later on.
:)
Man - this sounds so "Jurassic Park"!!