I actually kind of liked the Star Wars Holiday Special with the, what was it? The Festival of Life? And the Wookie family. I thought it was pretty neat, personally. I don't know why everyone is so down on it.....
You have not seen it have you.
I had the misfortune of watching this during a "bad films theme night" at the cinema. Its Wookie grunting for Half the show and a little kid Wookie that you want to strangle.
Jefferson Airplane play some songs.
Han Solo and Chewee make an appearance and last but not least Luke Skywalker shows up.
The Luke Skywalker appearance is the most interesting part as his face is caked in makeup - think Geisha and then double it.
Mark Hamill was recovering from a car crash which led to him having plastic surgery to repair his face.
I wanna know the specs for a computerized hospital wide system, service interruptions (hardware failure,...)? My life is not just in the hands of a doctor, a 7 year or so trained medical professional, but a misanthropic programmer that drinks to much coffee. All i am saying there are cons to a computer system as well.
Having worked in medical records with a paper based system your life is also in the hands of the clerk who handles your records.
You just gotta hope that the clerk can find your chart that one of the nurses or a specialist as locked in there office when your sitting in emergency wondering why the doctor has not seen you yet. "Can not see the patient without there chart".
........ In my view, some big issues are (1) the problem is actually harder than it seems , given the extreme flexibility needed, (2) this is not understood by the designers, leading to horrible usability & functionality issues and (3) the good software engineers seem to go to other fields. There are lots others, but I agree this is a very solvable problem. I often wonder what would happen if we had a game design team on the job.
Your right when computer systems get this complex you need good project management , systems analysis and design.
(Just did a semester of this subject.)
You need to build the system from scratch and the people doing it need to work out what processes are needed and what are not and they need to talk the users of the system then (the poor people) have do it all over again till the system works.
There's an old saw we had back in the 90s at UPS. Don't just computerize a process (or blindly apply technology to replicate an existing process) and expect to see savings.
Please mod the previous poster up.
Having just done a semester of "Systems analysis and Design" to create a computer system as complex as a health care system take lots of time and resources.
Cycles of Planning , prototyping,design and testing then you have to do it all over again... again and again.......
Just Computerising a process means a change to rid the company of inefficient processes is wasted.
Most of the American old reactors are NOT of a horribly bad design like that. Is there a risk? kinda. but if all we have are 3 mile island incidents that the worst was undetectable by most instruments then I'm all for it.
Undetectable by most instruments the radioactive contamination at the site ?
I think you would have some cleanup crews who would disagree with you there.
You also should use the term accident not incident as it was rated as a 5 on INES scale.
When I read about the Three mile island accident it chills me to the bone.
What happened at Three mile island was the partial melt down of the rector core and then a hydrogen bubble formed in the reactor vessel . By "sheer dumb luck" this bubble did not explode.
it took them until 1993 to cleanup the site and the accident occurred in 1979.
The Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster in Pripyat happened because one of its reactors was running at a higher capacity than allowed and after its designed life cycle. It was in process of shut down, but it was too late already then.......
This first part is incorrect. The reactor (no.4) was almost brand new having been completed in 1983.
The Chernobyl accident occurred while they were doing a test to see if with the reactor shut down the steam turbine had enough momentum to produce power to run the main cooling pumps for the 60 seconds before the backup diesel generators kicked in.
As part of this test they switched off the reactors safety devices and the rest is history.
This man who turned journalists into the story factories they now are.
"Never let the facts get in the way of a good story" - I'm sure that this was a Murdoch quote.
Has obviously decided he is sorry for the hurt he has caused and now wishes to remove all the crap fiction that is vomited out of news corp from the poor (emphasis on poor ) innocent internet users.
.................No, but it does provide "related links" to other articles which do provide sufficient detail. He started at 0 MPH, ended at 45 MPH, and averaged 46.4 MPH. That can't be done without exceeding the speed limit of 45 MPH.
Is it just me or does the data fit both cases ?
He must have gone over 45 at some point, I'll agree with you, however you could easily do say 50 mph and still get the same result.
Which I would think would be close to the tolerance point of the radar equipment. ( Just for arguments sake.)
I'm surprised the court did not give the motorist the benefit of the doubt here.
I can understand why the parents contested this is really the police officers word verses the GPS/motorist.
If the average speed is 45 mph, and he was stopped at the end (ie speed 0), then at some point he was going above 45. Especially since you can't stop instantaneously. This is like calculus you learn in High School... If the Judge ruled the other way, the future of America would be even in deeper sh*t than it already is.
..... Rocky Mountain Tracking device was "very" accurate, to within a couple of meters on location and to within 1 mph on speed. Dr. Heppe also pointed out that the GPS device released instantaneous data, and not data averaged over a distance.
All those companies don't pay taxes or their employees don't?
In WW2, the government nullified many radio patents to get the innovation going real fast.............
my understanding was that Edwin Armstrong (Inventor of FM radio amongst many other things) handed the all of his patents to the US government during world war II.
You may be referring to world war I.
1942:With US in midst of World War II, Armstrong gives U.S. government all FM patents for free.
You make the fatal mistake that unless your Australian, you probably didn't fund the initial research. So to put your question back on you, if your tax dollars weren't spent developing it, what right do you have to use the technology for free?
Right; It's totally unfair. After so many things were invented by Australians which everyone else benefits from. The motor car; the transistor; the windmill; money; even the wheel. It's time the Australian tax payer got their fair pay back for being the main driver of invention in the world.
I know your being sarcastic but...
PAYUP as an australian tax payer I would like to get my money back for
Just wondering why superconductors suddenly make this feasable. 20 square miles just doesn't resolve to a very big number when looking at the length of the wire.
"The HTS cable system installed in LIPA’s power grid contains hair-thin, ribbon-shaped HTS wires that conduct 150 times the electricity of similar sized copper wires. This power density advantage enables transmission-voltage HTS cables to utilize far less wire and yet conduct up to five times more power – in a smaller right of way – than traditional copper-based cables."
I admit I haven't RTFA, but I don't quite get your statement of "And name 3 people you know who run raid-5 on their personal PCs, and I'll show you 3 guys who can't afford an SSD drive.", I can't see how an SSD is a replacement for a raid-5 array. Everyone I know who uses a raid-5 uses it for large amounts of storage with a basic level of protection against data loss........
I hope your not mixing up Raid with a backup.
Raid when used for protecting your computer will not protect your data it just makes your system able to tolerate hard drive failure.
I'd be happy if we could get a polly who could skull a yardie, they don't have to be a record breaker like Hawke. Now days we cant find a blue arsed fly who can finish a middy, let alone skull one
That was the most Australian thing I have ever read in my life.
translation : I'd be happy if we could get a polly who could "drink without stopping" a "yard glass" of beer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yard_(beer) they don't have to be an "Alcholic" like Hawke. (a previous prime minister well known for his drinking).
Now days we cant find an "politician" who can finish a "small glass" of beer , let alone " drink with out stopping" one.
This will never happen....... The Greens are opposed to both the Internet Filter and the Three Strikes law. Rudd and Labour will do an about face as soon as it looks like they are losing the support of the Greens.
The Greens are just like prostitutes.. you pay them for there services by protecting whales , making new parks etc. they may even "scream your name" if you pay them enough.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned this yet, but Mac OS X has an application called "Keychain Access.........
word of warning from experience, used to work for apple, make sure you have another copy of your passwords because as you say the keychain is encrypted and if the keychain gets corrupted you may have to reset the keychain.
I would get a keychain access issue about once a week and the person on the other end of the phone used to get very upset as they were unable to do there banking.
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Notoriously bad?
I actually kind of liked the Star Wars Holiday Special with the, what was it? The Festival of Life? And the Wookie family. I thought it was pretty neat, personally. I don't know why everyone is so down on it.....
You have not seen it have you.
I had the misfortune of watching this during a "bad films theme night" at the cinema.
Its Wookie grunting for Half the show and a little kid Wookie that you want to strangle.
Jefferson Airplane play some songs.
Han Solo and Chewee make an appearance and last but not least Luke Skywalker shows up.
The Luke Skywalker appearance is the most interesting part as his face is caked in makeup - think Geisha and then double it.
Mark Hamill was recovering from a car crash which led to him having plastic surgery to repair his face.
http://www.democraticwings.com/democraticwings/archives/civil_liberties/003133.php
Did I fix it for you?
kudos thankyou
I wanna know the specs for a computerized hospital wide system, service interruptions (hardware failure, ...)? My life is not just in the hands of a doctor, a 7 year or so trained medical professional, but a misanthropic programmer that drinks to much coffee. All i am saying there are cons to a computer system as well.
Having worked in medical records with a paper based system your life is also in the hands of the clerk who handles your records.
You just gotta hope that the clerk can find your chart that one of the nurses or a specialist as locked in there office when your sitting in emergency wondering why the doctor has not seen you yet. "Can not see the patient without there chart".
Your right when computer systems get this complex you need good project management , systems analysis and design.
(Just did a semester of this subject.)
You need to build the system from scratch and the people doing it need to work out what processes are needed and what are not and they need to talk the users of the system then (the poor people) have do it all over again till the system works.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iterative_and_incremental_development
There's an old saw we had back in the 90s at UPS.
Don't just computerize a process (or blindly apply technology to replicate an existing process) and expect to see savings.
Please mod the previous poster up.
Having just done a semester of "Systems analysis and Design" to create a computer system as complex as a health care system take lots of time and resources.
Cycles of Planning , prototyping ,design and testing then you have to do it all over again ... again and again.......
Just Computerising a process means a change to rid the company of inefficient processes is wasted.
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Thank God, Buddha various Shinto deities etc. Japan does not have such laws or you would be stuffed.
Just about every Hotel,Coffee shop, Hostel, Train station , Airport in Japan has free WIFI.
Most of the American old reactors are NOT of a horribly bad design like that. Is there a risk? kinda. but if all we have are 3 mile island incidents that the worst was undetectable by most instruments then I'm all for it.
Undetectable by most instruments the radioactive contamination at the site ?
I think you would have some cleanup crews who would disagree with you there.
You also should use the term accident not incident as it was rated as a 5 on INES scale.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Nuclear_Event_Scale
When I read about the Three mile island accident it chills me to the bone.
What happened at Three mile island was the partial melt down of the rector core and then a hydrogen bubble formed in the reactor vessel . By "sheer dumb luck" this bubble did not explode.
it took them until 1993 to cleanup the site and the accident occurred in 1979.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island_accident
The Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster in Pripyat happened because one of its reactors was running at a higher capacity than allowed and after its designed life cycle. It was in process of shut down, but it was too late already then.......
This first part is incorrect. The reactor (no.4) was almost brand new having been completed in 1983.
The Chernobyl accident occurred while they were doing a test to see if with the reactor shut down the steam turbine had enough momentum to produce power to run the main cooling pumps for the 60 seconds before the backup diesel generators kicked in.
As part of this test they switched off the reactors safety devices and the rest is history.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster
You've gotta have tits to sell a paper...
That was brilliant thanks.
This man who turned journalists into the story factories they now are.
"Never let the facts get in the way of a good story" - I'm sure that this was a Murdoch quote.
Has obviously decided he is sorry for the hurt he has caused and now wishes to remove all the crap fiction that is vomited out of news corp from the poor (emphasis on poor ) innocent internet users.
I for one want to say thank you Rupert Murdoch.
sorry my bad .....
1) He wasn't speeding and the radar was giving an inaccurate or misleading reading.
http://www.radars.com.au/police-radar-errors.php
2) He was speeding at the speed quoted .
Yep, i'm implying that I know . (really bad of me ).
I dont know about the U.S.A but the police officers here do know how to embellish the tale shall we say.
I would not take a police officers word in court as they know its unlikely to be tested.
Yes, just as it should be - innocent till proven guilty .
.................No, but it does provide "related links" to other articles which do provide sufficient detail. He started at 0 MPH, ended at 45 MPH, and averaged 46.4 MPH. That can't be done without exceeding the speed limit of 45 MPH.
Is it just me or does the data fit both cases ?
He must have gone over 45 at some point, I'll agree with you, however you could easily do say 50 mph and still get the same result.
Which I would think would be close to the tolerance point of the radar equipment. ( Just for arguments sake.)
I'm surprised the court did not give the motorist the benefit of the doubt here.
I can understand why the parents contested this is really the police officers word verses the GPS/motorist.
If the average speed is 45 mph, and he was stopped at the end (ie speed 0), then at some point he was going above 45. Especially since you can't stop instantaneously. This is like calculus you learn in High School... If the Judge ruled the other way, the future of America would be even in deeper sh*t than it already is.
Wondering where you got average speed from ?
If you had followed the first link http://tech.slashdot.org/story/08/07/18/0318228/GPS-Tracking-Device-Beats-Radar-Gun-in-Court (a bit of effort I know 2 clicks with the mouse) you would have come to the article :-
http://hothardware.com/News/Speeding_Radar_Gun_vs_GPS/
with the quote
I personally think this article ( http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20091104/ARTICLES/911049901/1334/NEWS?tc=autorefresh) does not have enough info to make any meaningful decisions from.
........
All those companies don't pay taxes or their employees don't?
In WW2, the government nullified many radio patents to get the innovation going real fast. ............
my understanding was that Edwin Armstrong (Inventor of FM radio amongst many other things) handed the all of his patents to the US government during world war II.
You may be referring to world war I.
1942:With US in midst of World War II, Armstrong gives U.S. government all FM patents for free.
http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/empire/timeline/
You make the fatal mistake that unless your Australian, you probably didn't fund the initial research.
So to put your question back on you, if your tax dollars weren't spent developing it, what right do you have to use the technology for free?
please define free.
Government-owned organizations are paid for by taxes. Why should I pay once for the invention by taxes and then again through licensing fees?
Its my taxes buddy (assuming your not australian) and I would like you to pony up the cash.
....................
Right; It's totally unfair. After so many things were invented by Australians which everyone else benefits from. The motor car; the transistor; the windmill; money; even the wheel. It's time the Australian tax payer got their fair pay back for being the main driver of invention in the world.
I know your being sarcastic but ...
PAYUP as an australian tax payer I would like to
get my money back for
"Black Box" flight recorder .......
Aircraft Navigation (DME)
Penicillin (production in commercial amounts)
Cochlear implant
Contact lenses (long wearing)
Anthrax Vaccine
Heart Pacemaker
Relenza (flu medication)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distance_measuring_equipment
http://www.questacon.edu.au/indepth/clever/100_years_of_innovations.html
...
Just wondering why superconductors suddenly make this feasable. 20 square miles just doesn't resolve to a very big number when looking at the length of the wire.
"The HTS cable system installed in LIPA’s power grid contains hair-thin, ribbon-shaped HTS wires that conduct 150 times the electricity of similar sized copper wires. This power density advantage enables transmission-voltage HTS cables to utilize far less wire and yet conduct up to five times more power – in a smaller right of way – than traditional copper-based cables."
quoted from this article
http://www.azom.com/news.asp?newsID=12710
I admit I haven't RTFA, but I don't quite get your statement of "And name 3 people you know who run raid-5 on their personal PCs, and I'll show you 3 guys who can't afford an SSD drive.", I can't see how an SSD is a replacement for a raid-5 array. Everyone I know who uses a raid-5 uses it for large amounts of storage with a basic level of protection against data loss........
I hope your not mixing up Raid with a backup.
Raid when used for protecting your computer will not protect your data it just makes your system able to tolerate hard drive failure.
Is an incompetent, idiotic, totalitarian, vindictive, morally bankrupt .....
Same with Rudd. You can assume this assault on the internet is coming from the top.
why did you have put the c word in there its such a beautiful thing why couldn't you have used dick? , penis or asehole?
I'd be happy if we could get a polly who could skull a yardie, they don't have to be a record breaker like Hawke. Now days we cant find a blue arsed fly who can finish a middy, let alone skull one
That was the most Australian thing I have ever read in my life.
translation : I'd be happy if we could get a polly who could "drink without stopping" a "yard glass" of beer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yard_(beer) they don't have to be an "Alcholic" like Hawke.
(a previous prime minister well known for his drinking).
Now days we cant find an "politician" who can finish a "small glass" of beer , let alone " drink with out stopping" one.
This will never happen. ...... The Greens are opposed to both the Internet Filter and the Three Strikes law. Rudd and Labour will do an about face as soon as it looks like they are losing the support of the Greens.
The Greens are just like prostitutes .. you pay them for there services by protecting whales , making new parks etc.
they may even "scream your name" if you pay them enough.
RSA tokens are fantastic you physically have to have the token to login, great for logging in remotely.
Smart cards are another option as the information stored on them is encrypted and smart card readers for computers are available.
Passwords I feel can never really be secure as your relying on peoples memory and users can find ways to disable/circumvent password policies.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned this yet, but Mac OS X has an application called "Keychain Access.........
word of warning from experience, used to work for apple, make sure you have another copy of your passwords because as you say the keychain is encrypted and if the keychain gets corrupted you may have to reset the keychain.
I would get a keychain access issue about once a week and the person on the other end of the phone used to get very upset as they were unable to do there banking.