AC was also an important feature of the U.S. Navy's fleet submarines in World War II
I was a crew member of one a few years ago. We could stay submerged for weeks or months. Air conditioning was pretty vital. We had two huge R-114 units. Man, it got hot during drills involving loss of non-vital electrical loads...
Ironically enough, the Philadelphia Inquirer had an article yesterday pointing out how AC is actually making cities up to 10 degrees hotter versus rural areas.
So what exactly do you propose? That people in cities not use air conditioning?
The ironic thing is that environmentalists are typically the one who want to pack everyone into crowded cities. We're all supposed to live in apartments, and take trains or busses to work. Living in a nice suburban house, where it might at least be possible to survive without air conditioning, is just eeeevviiil...
Being to lazy to read the linked material (c'mon, who isn't?) my fear of computer-assisted diagnosis is self-fulfilling prognosis.
I'm sorry sir, the computer says you basically have a zero percent chance of surviving this (because last year it said 1 percent and thus we didn't bother to treat anybody). Let's discuss your affordable hospice options...
As far as.ps goes, if you have a PostScript printer then dump it straight to that. If not, Adobe Acrobat (full version, not the reader) has a utility that convers.ps to.pdf.
An, er, unnamed US state's child support system (terminals connecting to VAX servers) is being replaced with a Java-based web client app.
The old system's usability is simply better. The users can just fly through it, using not very complicated keyboard shortcuts. Even before they learn the shortcuts, they get simple menus they can either arrow through, or type a number and hit enter (for say menu item 5). Tab between fields, of course, and a jump to a field key sequence.
The new app has pulldown menus, clicky buttons, click click clik. Some things you just can't do with keyboard strokes, others are just difficult. Even people who are fast at it aren't as fast as you can be with the old app.
You just can't beat some old terminal interfaces. I wish more people would look to them for inspiration.
I have. Response time when you do need a new app sucks. What if we do need to send some multimedia around (training material? something for review before sending to customers?)? What if I need to have an app installed now? Or I need to evaluate a new version, not the version pushed through Netware Application Launcher or whatever stupid system you end up using to run such an environment?
I lost far more productivity from the almost unavoidable delays and stupidity in such a system than I did from the ability to play a music CD or visit a web page. It's a general purpose computer; why cripple it?
For example, if you lose your job and can get 60% of yout former salary by virtue of the State's unemployment insurance, you can bet that companies don't push their workers around, as people simply quit and take the time to look for a proper job.
So, you want to be able to quit your job, and have me pay you money, so you can look for another one? What gives you the right to claim my income as your own? And what is the societal effect if we can all do that? Who pays the freight? The scheme isn't sustainable.
I defy anyone to refute this argument (communism not being of any relevance, it won't be accepted as an argument. A past example, maybe, but not an actual argument).
Well, you can't just declare things invalid; I don't really care what you'll "accept" as an argument. Communism was a great example of government-run economy. But if you want more examples, look at high-unemployment socialist countries today.
Thank you for your generous offer of assistance. Sometimes, I do forget how I work, who I contact, which data is mine, and what sites I have visited. Many thanks for your help!
Don't be an idiot. As soon as the authorities adopt an exlcusive rule -- "We won't stop grandmothers" -- they open up a huge hole in their procedures, one which will get exploited.
Maybe it's the comp-sci orientation of/., but why do people here seem to believe that criminals and terrorists are all-logical, all-careful, and all-powerful? I guess by your logic, we should just give up. Anything we try will just be defeated and worked around. Oh well!
Police and intelligence work has gone on forever, and will continue to go on. Patterns and behaviors are analyzed, and do yield useful information. It does make sense to focus limited resources where they will do the most good.
Nobody I've seen is advocating exclusively searching specific profiles, but you will get the most (least?) bang for your buck that way.
... including a double - one that was repeated, even better, a few months later.
The problem is, you can't really discuss it with your current employer before you accept the new position (seems too much like extortion, to me), and after you accept, you make enemies in your field if you accept a counter offer and don't take the new position that you agreed to take.
The only professional thing to do is resign gracefully and take the new position that you've accepted. Professional behavior will serve you better in the long run.
I'm so sorry you feel inadequate. I hope the fine wireless coverage of your shoebox sized country, and the ability to watch US-made entertainment in digital glory, makes you feel better;)
These are the same people who say smoking is good for you.
Er, no. That is not what your quote says.
This group's 1994 report "Science, Economics, and Environmental Policy: A Critical Examination"35 criticizes the US Environmental Protection Agency's risk assessment methods in 4 areas: environmental tobacco smoke, radon, pesticides, and hazardous cleanup.
Criticizing risk assessment methods is not the same as saying "smoking is good for you".
Standard disclaimers: I don't smoke, and I prefer open source software, when I can use it. But I detest mindless arguments.
The evil in such technology is that after some time you can lose control after it...
Sad that defense is involved in it...
No, essential that defense is involved in it.
I liken it to submarines (one of which I served on). You can say submarines are evil, cowardly, nasty, yadda, yadda. That isn't going to stop your enemies (current, future, potential) from building them, sinking your shipping, parking them off your coast with missles, etc.
Or you can build your own submarines, go down there, find them, and blow them apart. Works better than trying to ban them, or something.
So what is different about nanotech? If someone builds killer/spying microrobots, what are you going to do? Complain about it? Use mosquito repellant? No, you build your own little guys that eat the buggers.
But I guess each to his own. If you love to be seen in your car, well, then I guess then that settles the issue!
Cute. Maybe that would be your motivation. Far fewer people see me, and much less closely, than if I were packed on a bus or train.
I guess you don't understand, living in Boston and all. Where I live, there's plenty of parking, and no one pays for it (except right downtown - guess where I don't choose to work?).
I guess I could take a bus to work... if I wanted to take an hour, at least, instead of twenty minutes, with all the switches. Would be fun trying to carry my briefcase, drink cooler, and lunchbox all on the bus too.
If I want to stop and get some groceries on the way home, I can. Or if I forgot something, I can just turn around, get it, and proceed on again. I can go wherever I want, without plotting out a bus route, changing buses, etc. etc.
Public transportation really only works if you are packed in like sardines, and I don't want to live that way.
Statistics from observing policemen in some US states and the number of blacks and whites they stop for checks and searches are well known, no point in reiterating them...
Well, the accusations are well known. Then the US Justice Department got New Jersey to "agree" to actually commission a study of the issue, in a consent decree.
The company hired to do the study found that the incidence of speeding varied by race. In a way fairly consistent with the stop ratio.
The Justice department was outraged, has "grave doubts", etc. because that isn't what they wanted to find.
... and the stalls, and the seats, but I sure hope you don't think they can/should install webcams there, for the sole purpose of monitoring excessive bathroom breaks, of course.
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AC was also an important feature of the U.S. Navy's fleet submarines in World War II
I was a crew member of one a few years ago. We could stay submerged for weeks or months. Air conditioning was pretty vital. We had two huge R-114 units. Man, it got hot during drills involving loss of non-vital electrical loads ...
What's the problem with you?
Maybe I'm too busy being happy and successful to take every opportunity to bash another country?
Ironically enough, the Philadelphia Inquirer had an article yesterday pointing out how AC is actually making cities up to 10 degrees hotter versus rural areas.
So what exactly do you propose? That people in cities not use air conditioning?
The ironic thing is that environmentalists are typically the one who want to pack everyone into crowded cities. We're all supposed to live in apartments, and take trains or busses to work. Living in a nice suburban house, where it might at least be possible to survive without air conditioning, is just eeeevviiil ...
Being to lazy to read the linked material (c'mon, who isn't?) my fear of computer-assisted diagnosis is self-fulfilling prognosis.
I'm sorry sir, the computer says you basically have a zero percent chance of surviving this (because last year it said 1 percent and thus we didn't bother to treat anybody). Let's discuss your affordable hospice options ...
As far as .ps goes, if you have a PostScript printer then dump it straight to that. If not, Adobe Acrobat (full version, not the reader) has a utility that convers .ps to .pdf.
Or, do this:
2) Get laid. Get so good at it that you can walk into any social situation and walk out with someone you just met.
Next, I'll go to a homeless shelter to learn how to thrive in a tough economy ...
An, er, unnamed US state's child support system (terminals connecting to VAX servers) is being replaced with a Java-based web client app.
The old system's usability is simply better. The users can just fly through it, using not very complicated keyboard shortcuts. Even before they learn the shortcuts, they get simple menus they can either arrow through, or type a number and hit enter (for say menu item 5). Tab between fields, of course, and a jump to a field key sequence.
The new app has pulldown menus, clicky buttons, click click clik. Some things you just can't do with keyboard strokes, others are just difficult. Even people who are fast at it aren't as fast as you can be with the old app.
You just can't beat some old terminal interfaces. I wish more people would look to them for inspiration.
Put on a fake mustasche, and a visitor's badge. Meet with your management, call yourself ... er ... Mr. Ricardo from Super Security Inc.
Don't tell them that OpenSSH is free, just sell it to them, for 1/2 the price of whatever commercial solution they are considering. Enjoy your bonus :)
I have. Response time when you do need a new app sucks. What if we do need to send some multimedia around (training material? something for review before sending to customers?)? What if I need to have an app installed now? Or I need to evaluate a new version, not the version pushed through Netware Application Launcher or whatever stupid system you end up using to run such an environment?
I lost far more productivity from the almost unavoidable delays and stupidity in such a system than I did from the ability to play a music CD or visit a web page. It's a general purpose computer; why cripple it?
For example, if you lose your job and can get 60% of yout former salary by virtue of the State's unemployment insurance, you can bet that companies don't push their workers around, as people simply quit and take the time to look for a proper job.
So, you want to be able to quit your job, and have me pay you money, so you can look for another one? What gives you the right to claim my income as your own? And what is the societal effect if we can all do that? Who pays the freight? The scheme isn't sustainable.
I defy anyone to refute this argument (communism not being of any relevance, it won't be accepted as an argument. A past example, maybe, but not an actual argument).
Well, you can't just declare things invalid; I don't really care what you'll "accept" as an argument. Communism was a great example of government-run economy. But if you want more examples, look at high-unemployment socialist countries today.
Thank you for your generous offer of assistance. Sometimes, I do forget how I work, who I contact, which data is mine, and what sites I have visited. Many thanks for your help!
Don't be an idiot. As soon as the authorities adopt an exlcusive rule -- "We won't stop grandmothers" -- they open up a huge hole in their procedures, one which will get exploited.
Maybe it's the comp-sci orientation of /., but why do people here seem to believe that criminals and terrorists are all-logical, all-careful, and all-powerful? I guess by your logic, we should just give up. Anything we try will just be defeated and worked around. Oh well!
Police and intelligence work has gone on forever, and will continue to go on. Patterns and behaviors are analyzed, and do yield useful information. It does make sense to focus limited resources where they will do the most good.
Nobody I've seen is advocating exclusively searching specific profiles, but you will get the most (least?) bang for your buck that way.
My car somehow slipped out of Park and "escaped" from my driveway into the street.
I called the car (and myself) many things that day, but "intelligent" was not one of them ...
Do people that buy PCs from walmart frequent this site?
If I need/want a PC. I'll buy it from anywhere that gives me what I want for the lowest price. If you want to pay more, have a blast :)
Course I buy dented cans of coffee too, so obviously I'm not worried about image when I shop ...
... including a double - one that was repeated, even better, a few months later.
The problem is, you can't really discuss it with your current employer before you accept the new position (seems too much like extortion, to me), and after you accept, you make enemies in your field if you accept a counter offer and don't take the new position that you agreed to take.
The only professional thing to do is resign gracefully and take the new position that you've accepted. Professional behavior will serve you better in the long run.
You poor man.
I'm so sorry you feel inadequate. I hope the fine wireless coverage of your shoebox sized country, and the ability to watch US-made entertainment in digital glory, makes you feel better ;)
These are the same people who say smoking is good for you.
Er, no. That is not what your quote says.
Criticizing risk assessment methods is not the same as saying "smoking is good for you".
Standard disclaimers: I don't smoke, and I prefer open source software, when I can use it. But I detest mindless arguments.
Fabulous. Now lawyers will be the final framers of the scientific and technical truth.
Yeah, I agree! Only former lawyers (legislators) should get to decide what is scientific and technical truth!
I wouldn't exactly call a government-granted monopoly "deregulation".
The evil in such technology is that after some time you can lose control after it... Sad that defense is involved in it...
No, essential that defense is involved in it.
I liken it to submarines (one of which I served on). You can say submarines are evil, cowardly, nasty, yadda, yadda. That isn't going to stop your enemies (current, future, potential) from building them, sinking your shipping, parking them off your coast with missles, etc.
Or you can build your own submarines, go down there, find them, and blow them apart. Works better than trying to ban them, or something.
So what is different about nanotech? If someone builds killer/spying microrobots, what are you going to do? Complain about it? Use mosquito repellant? No, you build your own little guys that eat the buggers.
But I guess each to his own. If you love to be seen in your car, well, then I guess then that settles the issue!
Cute. Maybe that would be your motivation. Far fewer people see me, and much less closely, than if I were packed on a bus or train.
I guess you don't understand, living in Boston and all. Where I live, there's plenty of parking, and no one pays for it (except right downtown - guess where I don't choose to work?).
I guess I could take a bus to work ... if I wanted to take an hour, at least, instead of twenty minutes, with all the switches. Would be fun trying to carry my briefcase, drink cooler, and lunchbox all on the bus too.
If I want to stop and get some groceries on the way home, I can. Or if I forgot something, I can just turn around, get it, and proceed on again. I can go wherever I want, without plotting out a bus route, changing buses, etc. etc.
Public transportation really only works if you are packed in like sardines, and I don't want to live that way.
Maybe the people in the US need to switch from the old, now defunct smoke signals to digital cell phones?
What is it with Euros and wireless phones? Are you really that proud of having good wireless coverage of your ten square mile country ;) ?
Statistics from observing policemen in some US states and the number of blacks and whites they stop for checks and searches are well known, no point in reiterating them...
Well, the accusations are well known. Then the US Justice Department got New Jersey to "agree" to actually commission a study of the issue, in a consent decree.
The company hired to do the study found that the incidence of speeding varied by race. In a way fairly consistent with the stop ratio.
The Justice department was outraged, has "grave doubts", etc. because that isn't what they wanted to find.
Since the music downloading situation is, relatively speaking, new, we need to use analogies.
Imagine I have a magic genie. By crossing her arms, she can make a delicious meal appear.
Do I tell her not to, because I am concerned about local restaurants?
... and the stalls, and the seats, but I sure hope you don't think they can/should install webcams there, for the sole purpose of monitoring excessive bathroom breaks, of course.