As a medical doctor I encounter patients everey day, who have no clear recollection of their medical history or the medication that they use
As a medical patient I encounter doctors, who have no clear recollection of my medical history or medication that I use, despite the fact that they are the ones who treated me and prescribed the medications.
And no, this is not with a different doctor. The same doctor. Many doctors are woefully behind the times with computer tech, but nevermind that--most of them don't seem to do a very good job of transferring records when you change doctors. Either that, or they never look at the records that get sent over. I'm sure I have several medical histories from when I was younger that simply got tossed out because I stopped going to a particular doctor.
Of course, if you throw in Revelations, most people read it such that anybody who accepts the mark is damned. Nevermind freedom. Also, if the people knocking on the door are chipped, they are already damned, so Christians who would ordinarily think twice about killing a soul that might be saved won't hesitate to blow away somebody who is already damned.
Shutup. He's cool. Thousands of slashdotters who never had a chance to be cool in any other context now have a priceless opportunity to mimic the in-crowd in highschool by pretending that their pundits of choice have something to say that isn't obvious to anyone with an IQ of 90. Don't blow it for them. These nerds are desperately deprived of coolness and there's no telling what they might do if they don't get their fix.
The government runs numbers (lottery). The government gets a piece of the alcohol pie. They're in the protection racket, requiring us to pay "taxes" for "defense". Porn just seems like a natural addition to the mafia...err... umm... government's line of business.
My mother worked in a government office from the mid 70s well through to the 80s when she retired. The office was in a nearby industrial park to which we could walk from our house. Occasional visits to this typical boring office were livened up by the fact that it had computers in it. Usually they were several-years-behind things, such as mainframes with line printer interfaces and those old reel-to-reel tape drives. However, the office actually purchased a number of Lisa machines, possibly as many as 10. Ultimately they proved to be nothing more than red-ink generators as technology moved quickly and passed them by, but I have fond memories of popping by to see my Mom and the Lisas. I came by that office occasionally and watched the PC grow up; her office mates watched me grow up. It never seems like a special thing until you look back on it.
Well the site is down. Duh. How predictable was that? But did they post a torrent before they posted the story? NoooooOOO. This is slashdot. Even when they can legitimately post a torrent, something that isn't even hosted on their own servers for cryin' out loud, they don't consider it. They post the story knowing the server will be DoS'd. Oh. I'm soooo impressed at the "slashdot effect". Right. GET OVER YOURSELVES ALREADY. That was cute for about 5 minutes in the go-go 90s when everybody was oh-so-impressed that your little ol hobby website could get that much attention. Guess what? We're half way through the next decade already. Nobody is impressed. They're just annoyed.
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you don't really need to reboot linux anyways
It grates on me a bit whenever I hear that. Too many *NIX people are locked in to the "rackspace" mentality where shutting down is only done for maintenance. Most of us work with desktops, and although power consumption during hibernate or standby modes is not nearly as bad as just letting it sit there, it's still a hack and not a truly fast boot. I'll grant though, that it's a time-honored hack:
When I was a kid TV tubes took a long time to warm up. Solution? Many TVs were never totally off as long as they were plugged in. The filament on the picture tube, and perhaps a few other tubes, was always kept warm. The only way for those sets to really be off was to unplug them. Then, the set took forever to warm up. It seems that the newer tubes have actually overcome this problem, because I've noticed that tubes now have a warm-up period again, but it's a very fast warm-up. Of course tubes are really on their way out (finally!) but the bottom line is that putting "vampire devices" on the power grid is not the final answer.
Many of us treat our boxes like TVs--we power cycle the every day. When I shut something off, I want it to be all the way off. Then the project is done.
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The Internet and the computer won't really be finished until the "booting up and logging in" are replaced with "turning it on and instantly getting what you want". We had nearly instant boots with 8-bit micros and ROMs. We gave 'em up for the flexibility of putting the OS on the hard disk. There was no need to log in when the thing wasn't networked. Alas, security concerns gave rise to the login; but we don't log in to our telephones, we just dial. There is no way to bring down the whole phone network just by dialing the wrong number or saying the wrong thing into it. So there is hope that one day the whole "boot up and login" hack that we're using can be eliminated. Then this whole "computer and the internet" project will be done. Of course, it was a government project wasn't it? Maybe that'w why it's taking so long to finish.
Now I don't have to have two TVs and headphones in the room. It'll be so much easier to have the experience of being alone and not sharing anything with the other person, even though they are right there. This is the next best thing since giving people the silent treatment.
Ummm, since this is the internet, you may not have realized I was being SARCASTIC. If this technology was really valuable, people would already be doing some form of substitute, such as the scenario I described. Historicly, when people want to do something with technology but can't, they do the next best thing as I described:
No A/C? Run a fan. No sound? play a piano in the theatre and put subtitles on the screen.
Insofar as this tech might be an intermediate step toward true holographic displays, it has value, but in its current form it's most likely just a curiosity that's not useful for a home viewer. It probably will have niches though, like the billboard suggestion; then again, they've had something like this for years with billboards; you can even do it so it with several frames so the image moves as you roll by. It isn't done very often of course, because it's more expensive. For small items it's not bad. I've seen little cartoons like that given away as Cracker Jack prizes when I was a kid, and that was well... way too long ago now.
...is that not one of them will say "we're pro gay rights" or "we believe homosexuality is a sin" or "90% of our congregation is Republican" or "We are 90% Democrats". Instead, you have to read between the lines to figure out stuff like that. Sometimes you can do it based on stuff you know about their denomination. Obviously, MCC is pro-gay and anything in the Grace Network that exists in my native Virginia is Conservative Evangelical.
But virtually *none* of their websites will make an explicit stand on any of the issues that are relevant to modern Christians. Why would that be? The cynic in me recalls that bit in the Simpsons where they pan to the preacher counting the money. They want you to come in at least once and find out. They want you to sample their wares. They are totally corporate (most of them) in that regard, and worst of all, they are afraid to offend.
That's totally not what authentic Christianity is all about.
Darth Vader is Harry Potter's Father. There. Now you don't have to buy the book.
Seriously, I don't envy these guys. All it takes is one minimum wage warehouse worker who doesn't care about losing his job, a crow-bar, and a Xerox machine. Pssst... hey buddy... yeah, you. Didn't you just start here last week? Wanna make $500? Get the picture?
Nope. Plenty of people have sleep apnea and abnormal heart rhythms. Their systems aren't well tuned; they don't have "100% uptime" but they reboot quickly and they don't lose data.
With the high proportion of people with Autistic spectrum disorders in the computer industry; if this theory turns out to be true it would mean that many of the people here poking fun of Neanderthals might actually be carrying the genes themselves!
...you have to drink a six pack of beer, eat 3 eggs, and a pound of bacon while sitting in the sun. You know they're going to tell us that some day, so you might as well start doing it now.
Because volcanos usually send up a lot of smoke and ash and crap (that's the technical term for it). The crap would usually put a lot of smoke in the air, especially from anything that burned. Since this is under water, any minerals such as iron and sulfer that might react due to the heat of the volcano, along with organic matter from dead fish, seeweed, coral, or whatever might be on the ocean floor doesn't turn into smoke. Instead, it dissolves into the water and turns it some nasty foul color, in this case reddish.
This reminded me of the story about how supposedly somebody recommended that the Patent Office be closed in the 19th century because there was "nothing left to invent". I smell a UL, because while I was googling around some people said it was the US patent office and others said it was the Brittish counterpart. Snopes search came up dry.
I think it would be in the best interest of the Federal Government and the District of Columbia if the land where the SCOTUS building sits were put to other use. It's a prime location for a condo or mixed-use development of retail shops and residences. I mean, do those guys really need to work in a location where a 1 bedroom apt. could easily rent for $1000/mo? The work that the court does could just as easily be accomplised in a low-rise flex office space in Chantilly, VA. All they would need is some minor security upgrades.
The free internet pre-dates the advertiser driven internet. Premium and subscription services don't require ads. Followed by... has doubleclick "warned" Microsoft about the popub blocking features in IE?:)
The thing has gotta be mighty close to the star. Mercury orbits in 60 days, right? This thing may not be a gas giant, but it must totally bake on the sunny side, and aren't there going to be some horrendous tidal forces with an orbit that close? It probably has no shortage of volcanism. Hey! It's Vulcan, maybe... if it can hold an atmosphere without having the stellar wind blow it all away. Whatever, it can't be Earth-like.
So... I'm not the only one who thinks it looks like a dildo, albeit a small one. My initial reaction was, "you know, I'm pretty sure there isn't a bar code up there".
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I didn't know they made printers. How is printing going to help them?
As a medical doctor I encounter patients everey day, who have no clear recollection of their medical history or the medication that they use
As a medical patient I encounter doctors, who have no clear recollection of my medical history or medication that I use, despite the fact that they are the ones who treated me and prescribed the medications.
And no, this is not with a different doctor. The same doctor. Many doctors are woefully behind the times with computer tech, but nevermind that--most of them don't seem to do a very good job of transferring records when you change doctors. Either that, or they never look at the records that get sent over. I'm sure I have several medical histories from when I was younger that simply got tossed out because I stopped going to a particular doctor.
Of course, if you throw in Revelations, most people read it such that anybody who accepts the mark is damned. Nevermind freedom. Also, if the people knocking on the door are chipped, they are already damned, so Christians who would ordinarily think twice about killing a soul that might be saved won't hesitate to blow away somebody who is already damned.
Shutup. He's cool. Thousands of slashdotters who never had a chance to be cool in any other context now have a priceless opportunity to mimic the in-crowd in highschool by pretending that their pundits of choice have something to say that isn't obvious to anyone with an IQ of 90. Don't blow it for them. These nerds are desperately deprived of coolness and there's no telling what they might do if they don't get their fix.
The government runs numbers (lottery). The government gets a piece of the alcohol pie. They're in the protection racket, requiring us to pay "taxes" for "defense". Porn just seems like a natural addition to the mafia...err... umm... government's line of business.
My mother worked in a government office from the mid 70s well through to the 80s when she retired. The office was in a nearby industrial park to which we could walk from our house. Occasional visits to this typical boring office were livened up by the fact that it had computers in it. Usually they were several-years-behind things, such as mainframes with line printer interfaces and those old reel-to-reel tape drives. However, the office actually purchased a number of Lisa machines, possibly as many as 10. Ultimately they proved to be nothing more than red-ink generators as technology moved quickly and passed them by, but I have fond memories of popping by to see my Mom and the Lisas. I came by that office occasionally and watched the PC grow up; her office mates watched me grow up. It never seems like a special thing until you look back on it.
Why the hell was this posted AC?
Ummmm... because he's a good lawyer, and good lawyers CYA whenever they can?
Well the site is down. Duh. How predictable was that? But did they post a torrent before they posted the story? NoooooOOO. This is slashdot. Even when they can legitimately post a torrent, something that isn't even hosted on their own servers for cryin' out loud, they don't consider it. They post the story knowing the server will be DoS'd. Oh. I'm soooo impressed at the "slashdot effect". Right. GET OVER YOURSELVES ALREADY. That was cute for about 5 minutes in the go-go 90s when everybody was oh-so-impressed that your little ol hobby website could get that much attention. Guess what? We're half way through the next decade already. Nobody is impressed. They're just annoyed.
you don't really need to reboot linux anyways
It grates on me a bit whenever I hear that. Too many *NIX people are locked in to the "rackspace" mentality where shutting down is only done for maintenance. Most of us work with desktops, and although power consumption during hibernate or standby modes is not nearly as bad as just letting it sit there, it's still a hack and not a truly fast boot. I'll grant though, that it's a time-honored hack:
When I was a kid TV tubes took a long time to warm up. Solution? Many TVs were never totally off as long as they were plugged in. The filament on the picture tube, and perhaps a few other tubes, was always kept warm. The only way for those sets to really be off was to unplug them. Then, the set took forever to warm up. It seems that the newer tubes have actually overcome this problem, because I've noticed that tubes now have a warm-up period again, but it's a very fast warm-up. Of course tubes are really on their way out (finally!) but the bottom line is that putting "vampire devices" on the power grid is not the final answer.
Many of us treat our boxes like TVs--we power cycle the every day. When I shut something off, I want it to be all the way off. Then the project is done.
The Internet and the computer won't really be finished until the "booting up and logging in" are replaced with "turning it on and instantly getting what you want". We had nearly instant boots with 8-bit micros and ROMs. We gave 'em up for the flexibility of putting the OS on the hard disk. There was no need to log in when the thing wasn't networked. Alas, security concerns gave rise to the login; but we don't log in to our telephones, we just dial. There is no way to bring down the whole phone network just by dialing the wrong number or saying the wrong thing into it. So there is hope that one day the whole "boot up and login" hack that we're using can be eliminated. Then this whole "computer and the internet" project will be done. Of course, it was a government project wasn't it? Maybe that'w why it's taking so long to finish.
Now I don't have to have two TVs and headphones in the room. It'll be so much easier to have the experience of being alone and not sharing anything with the other person, even though they are right there. This is the next best thing since giving people the silent treatment.
Ummm, since this is the internet, you may not have realized I was being SARCASTIC. If this technology was really valuable, people would already be doing some form of substitute, such as the scenario I described. Historicly, when people want to do something with technology but can't, they do the next best thing as I described:
No A/C? Run a fan. No sound? play a piano in the theatre and put subtitles on the screen.
Insofar as this tech might be an intermediate step toward true holographic displays, it has value, but in its current form it's most likely just a curiosity that's not useful for a home viewer. It probably will have niches though, like the billboard suggestion; then again, they've had something like this for years with billboards; you can even do it so it with several frames so the image moves as you roll by. It isn't done very often of course, because it's more expensive. For small items it's not bad. I've seen little cartoons like that given away as Cracker Jack prizes when I was a kid, and that was well... way too long ago now.
Everybody knows they should use Linux. Then they wouldn't need covers. It would just work.
...is that not one of them will say "we're pro gay rights" or "we believe homosexuality is a sin" or "90% of our congregation is Republican" or "We are 90% Democrats". Instead, you have to read between the lines to figure out stuff like that. Sometimes you can do it based on stuff you know about their denomination. Obviously, MCC is pro-gay and anything in the Grace Network that exists in my native Virginia is Conservative Evangelical.
But virtually *none* of their websites will make an explicit stand on any of the issues that are relevant to modern Christians. Why would that be? The cynic in me recalls that bit in the Simpsons where they pan to the preacher counting the money. They want you to come in at least once and find out. They want you to sample their wares. They are totally corporate (most of them) in that regard, and worst of all, they are afraid to offend.
That's totally not what authentic Christianity is all about.
Darth Vader is Harry Potter's Father. There. Now you don't have to buy the book.
Seriously, I don't envy these guys. All it takes is one minimum wage warehouse worker who doesn't care about losing his job, a crow-bar, and a Xerox machine. Pssst... hey buddy... yeah, you. Didn't you just start here last week? Wanna make $500? Get the picture?
Nope. Plenty of people have sleep apnea and abnormal heart rhythms. Their systems aren't well tuned; they don't have "100% uptime" but they reboot quickly and they don't lose data.
In fact, some people have put forth the theory that people with Asperger's and Autism may be carrying Neanderthal genes.
With the high proportion of people with Autistic spectrum disorders in the computer industry; if this theory turns out to be true it would mean that many of the people here poking fun of Neanderthals might actually be carrying the genes themselves!
...you have to drink a six pack of beer, eat 3 eggs, and a pound of bacon while sitting in the sun. You know they're going to tell us that some day, so you might as well start doing it now.
Because volcanos usually send up a lot of smoke and ash and crap (that's the technical term for it). The crap would usually put a lot of smoke in the air, especially from anything that burned. Since this is under water, any minerals such as iron and sulfer that might react due to the heat of the volcano, along with organic matter from dead fish, seeweed, coral, or whatever might be on the ocean floor doesn't turn into smoke. Instead, it dissolves into the water and turns it some nasty foul color, in this case reddish.
This reminded me of the story about how supposedly somebody recommended that the Patent Office be closed in the 19th century because there was "nothing left to invent". I smell a UL, because while I was googling around some people said it was the US patent office and others said it was the Brittish counterpart. Snopes search came up dry.
Anyway, UL or not, this story reminds me of that.
Did you just tell me to send a load of pickles to Java? No. I dropped the phone.
That would be even more irritating than Windows keys and the way my laptop spuriously does stuff if I don't shut off the touchpad and use a mouse.
I think it would be in the best interest of the Federal Government and the District of Columbia if the land where the SCOTUS building sits were put to other use. It's a prime location for a condo or mixed-use development of retail shops and residences. I mean, do those guys really need to work in a location where a 1 bedroom apt. could easily rent for $1000/mo? The work that the court does could just as easily be accomplised in a low-rise flex office space in Chantilly, VA. All they would need is some minor security upgrades.
The free internet pre-dates the advertiser driven internet. Premium and subscription services don't require ads. Followed by... has doubleclick "warned" Microsoft about the popub blocking features in IE? :)
really. probably a very regretable action next morning. but hwat esle is ther eto do with ca computer when drunk?
The thing has gotta be mighty close to the star. Mercury orbits in 60 days, right? This thing may not be a gas giant, but it must totally bake on the sunny side, and aren't there going to be some horrendous tidal forces with an orbit that close? It probably has no shortage of volcanism. Hey! It's Vulcan, maybe... if it can hold an atmosphere without having the stellar wind blow it all away. Whatever, it can't be Earth-like.
So... I'm not the only one who thinks it looks like a dildo, albeit a small one. My initial reaction was, "you know, I'm pretty sure there isn't a bar code up there".