Otoh, many Mac apps are distributed as disk images, where you simply drag them from the image to your drive, and that's it. No password at all. If you're going to use pre-rolled software, that certainly seems more trustworthy. But of course, it is a lot more complicated of a process for the average user to be able to ever understand.
Too complicated for the average user?
Most of the time, those disk images come with a shortcut to the system applications folder. The folder background will have text saying something like, "To install, drag this (arrow pointing to the application package) to here (arrow pointing to the shortcut)." I have never seen anyone stymied by this.
I don't know - 2001 is sort of in a category of its own, in my opinion. Although , in the Best Picture category, it would have been up against The Lion in Winter. I'm not sure I'd want to go up against that.
(And even The Lion in Winter lost to Oliver! Meh.)
But anyway - Avatar? Seriously?
Look, I liked the special effects as much as the next guy, but for God's sake, it's just not even on the same playing field.
Disclosure: I work for (but do not speak for in any official capacity) a company which provides electronic health software of the type discussed in this article.
Even overlooking the use of pharmacy IT solutions, there is still a lot of room in clinical IT solutions generally to help combat PAEs. For example, software solutions can generate warnings to healthcare professionals when a patient is at a higher than usual risk for particular PAEs. For example, patients under heavy sedation or with loss of sensation are at greatly increased risk for pressure ulcers: a good workflow system can remind nurses to change the patient's position regularly to prevent them from forming.
It's no panacea, but there's still room in this space to do a lot of good. But I agree that the article is misleading as written.
Good news. If you're getting enough exercise, there's a fair amount of research to suggest that you've already mitigated a bunch of health risks that you might otherwise have been prey to if you'd been obese and sedentary.
Also, and apropos to the topic of this article, check out Mike Evans' "visual lecture" on YouTube, called 23 and 1/2 hours.
Red Hat has had a lab-based exam forever. I was certified (RHCE) on RHEL 4, and at the time there was no written component at all: you show up, here's your system, fix it. They gave me a worksheet describing exactly the criteria they would use to check the system, too: when you told the proctor you were ready, he'd run some kind of script, then tell you how far along in the section you had completed successfully. You were allowed to do this as many times as you wanted up until the time limit. The exam took basically all day.
Side note, and file under "I am probably not supposed to mention this": if you are thinking of taking this test, please do not overlook low-level administrative stuff like GRUB maintenance. I observed a guy come in to a system with a misconfigured GRUB. He didn't know how to fix it, and as a result wasn't able to boot the box to fix anything else. Poor guy walked out of the exam after five minutes, having flushed a few hundred bucks down the toilet.
Senator Paul was on his way to a March for Life event, and was departing from Nashville, KN. He was neither detained (although he was prevented from entering a secured area), nor placed under arrest. So I really don't think that there's any violation of section 6 here.
Paul wasn't detained. He set off a body scanner, and asked to be rescanned. The TSA said that a rescan wasn't going to do it, and that they would require a pat-down. He refused, and then left.
At no point did the TSA inform him that he wasn't allowed to leave. They prevented him from getting onto the flight for not complying with their security procedures.
I'm no fan of the TSA. But Paul is grandstanding here because the TSA is one of his favorite bete noirs.
To reiterate what a few other people have already said: a MILS style camera isn't really any easier to use than a DSLR. However, they do tend to be smaller, which can be a big plus when traveling. My main camera is a Canon 5D (first generation), which is a huge brick of a thing. I'm sure I've missed out on getting some great shots because I couldn't be arsed to bring it with me sometimes.
The article you linked to on DPreview is already a better overview than most people on/. are going to be able to provide - just skip to the section on beginner's cameras and pick the one that calls out to you.
But don't do it because DSLRs are big and scary. Every camera you ever have will have the following controls: aperture, shutter speed, ISO. That's 99% of what you need. Go grab a copy of "Understanding Exposure" by Bryan Peterson and the rest will fall into place. (Unless you intend to use external lighting, in which case you've got plenty of time to learn that too.)
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I'm surprised to not have seen more "OccupyYourMom" jokes.
"I spent last night occupying your mom. She says hi, by the way."
Ron Paul seems like an intelligent, thoughtful man. Let's avoid a knee-jerk reaction to this "news". Maybe he has an idea to continue providing the core public services of these departments while cutting bureaucratic complexity. I don't think there's enough information here.
Then again, it's a lot more fun to get indignant!
Man, if only there were a way that we could find out... oh, look! The actual plan, as released by his campaign! Here, take a look yourself, it's not like it's that long. According to the announcement on his campaign web site, that's the plan, "in full."
If his explanation to how to continue providing the "core public services of these departments" is in any way materially different from "the private sector," I'll eat my hat.
Cuts totaling $1 trillion during the first year of a Paul Presidency would be achieved by eliminating five federal cabinet departments – the Departments of Energy, Housing and Urban Development, Commerce, Interior and Education. Cuts of this scale will also be accomplished by a Paul Presidency abolishing the Transportation Security Administration and returning responsibility for security to private property owners, abolishing corporate subsidies, stopping foreign aid, ending foreign wars, and returning most other spending to 2006 levels.
(Note: please don't read this post as an endorsement of the plan.)
Particularly frustrating was the stupid in-game justification for the use of heat sinks. "We figured you were all so unhappy with the delay waiting for your weapon to cool for a second or two, that we'd retrofit it with ammo that you can actually run out of. And we convinced the Geth to do the same thing! Isn't that cool?"
Rasm frasm. At least managing inventory was easier.
I recently left my old position in a very large company, working with some people I really liked, to jump to another division within the same company. My pay, commute, and benefits are identical. But I'm working on different stuff, in support of different products, with a different group of people. And because I'm still in the same company, I hear from my old coworkers daily, and know that they're experiencing a not insignificant amount of pain over my leaving.
I feel slightly crappy about this. But in the end I wound up moving for two big reasons:
1. I was enjoying the work less and less, and felt the need to try something different. (An increasing amount of my work related to tools & methodology and configuration management, and I just didn't find it interesting.) 2. I was frustrated with a career which seemed to be stagnating for the last five years.
I didn't even get a raise out of my jump - you'd be getting a substantial raise, plus a drastically shortened commute. Make your exit as professional and painless as you can, but for god's sake, go.
John, you've managed to defend a point that the GP post doesn't appear to be making.
ElectricTurtle's post comes within a hair's breadth of admitting that mass extinctions are pretty much a given ("Life can spring back from virtually nothing. During the greatest mass extinction, 90% of ocean-dwelling species perished completely. Have you noticed how they're not still empty?") if climate change continues at this pace. I assert that if that's the case, it's odds on that a massive percentage of the Earth's human population will die off as a result. Either ET disagrees with that assertion, or it doesn't trouble him very much. Simple as that.
This is the fundamental problem with green ideologues, they think that the biosphere is static and that life is impossible if it changes. You need to wrap your head around some facts. Mass extinctions created the current biosphere. If you think mass extinctions are bad, you must by extension think that the current biosphere you currently hold next to sacred is also ultimately a perversion of the state of life before said extinctions.
If the thrust of your argument is that "environmentalists are stupid because they're not okay with mass extinctions," then... um, okay. I suppose we'll have to agree to disagree - anyone not okay with mass extinctions on my side.
I have to say, though, that I thought you were setting up to make an "environmentalists are the REAL bad guys because they oppose mass extinctions, which usually lead to increases in biodiversity, which means that you stupid greenies are ANTI-EVOLUTION and ANTI-LIFE, man!" I'm a little disappointed, because that would have been worth a few extra comedy points.
Life can spring back from virtually nothing. During the greatest mass extinction, 90% of ocean-dwelling species perished completely. Have you noticed how they're not still empty? More importantly, have you noticed how there are a lot more species in the oceans now than in the Permian? Over time, biodiversity has always increased, regardless of how severe any event has been over short periods.
The implication being that following a catastrophic collapse of the ecosystem due to climate change, lots of life forms will bounce back nicely. That's a safe bet on two counts. First, because I don't know of anyone suggesting that everything down to single celled organisms will die off, and then a few million years later we're back where we started, only with merfolk or whatever. And second, because either way, all the humans are likely to be dead, so who is going to call you on it if you're wrong?
Why not? Developers are people too, and they look back on their favorite games fondly. I have a feeling that a lot of these remakes start off as, "Hey, remember how cool this game was? If we could get the rights to it, imagine what we could do with it today!"
Of course, I really regret that frequently they want to do is remove a bunch of the stuff that made the game memorable and instead turn it into a first person shooter. But hey, if it's a really _good_ first person shooter, I'll live.
What? The guy is a journalist who writes about architecture.
I understand that you may not give a rat's ass about architecture, or human factors engineering, or Apple, or their recently proposed spaceship building. But seriously? Okay, fine, anyone who writes critically about architecture is a loser with no life. Also, Roger Ebert is a waste of space, and Edward Said is a piker.
"Every game is too short, although we never finish the games we play. Every game is too expensive, although we demand ever-increasing levels of interaction, graphical fidelity, and length. "
"The food here is terrible!" "I know, and the portions are so small!"
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I propose that this be used as in-flight viewing for long flights.
"And now , we can see just how intense the shear forces applied to the..."
"OH GOD LAND NOW OH GOD"
Wouldn't you prefer a nice game of 100m Dash?
They split up not too long after they changed their name to "Billy and the Boingers". Sad, really.
Otoh, many Mac apps are distributed as disk images, where you simply drag them from the image to your drive, and that's it. No password at all. If you're going to use pre-rolled software, that certainly seems more trustworthy. But of course, it is a lot more complicated of a process for the average user to be able to ever understand.
Too complicated for the average user?
Most of the time, those disk images come with a shortcut to the system applications folder. The folder background will have text saying something like, "To install, drag this (arrow pointing to the application package) to here (arrow pointing to the shortcut)." I have never seen anyone stymied by this.
I don't know - 2001 is sort of in a category of its own, in my opinion. Although , in the Best Picture category, it would have been up against The Lion in Winter. I'm not sure I'd want to go up against that.
(And even The Lion in Winter lost to Oliver! Meh.)
But anyway - Avatar? Seriously?
Look, I liked the special effects as much as the next guy, but for God's sake, it's just not even on the same playing field.
Disclosure: I work for (but do not speak for in any official capacity) a company which provides electronic health software of the type discussed in this article.
Even overlooking the use of pharmacy IT solutions, there is still a lot of room in clinical IT solutions generally to help combat PAEs. For example, software solutions can generate warnings to healthcare professionals when a patient is at a higher than usual risk for particular PAEs. For example, patients under heavy sedation or with loss of sensation are at greatly increased risk for pressure ulcers: a good workflow system can remind nurses to change the patient's position regularly to prevent them from forming.
It's no panacea, but there's still room in this space to do a lot of good. But I agree that the article is misleading as written.
I suppose this was unavoidable once Duke Nukem Forever went gold...
Good news. If you're getting enough exercise, there's a fair amount of research to suggest that you've already mitigated a bunch of health risks that you might otherwise have been prey to if you'd been obese and sedentary.
Also, and apropos to the topic of this article, check out Mike Evans' "visual lecture" on YouTube, called 23 and 1/2 hours.
Red Hat has had a lab-based exam forever. I was certified (RHCE) on RHEL 4, and at the time there was no written component at all: you show up, here's your system, fix it. They gave me a worksheet describing exactly the criteria they would use to check the system, too: when you told the proctor you were ready, he'd run some kind of script, then tell you how far along in the section you had completed successfully. You were allowed to do this as many times as you wanted up until the time limit. The exam took basically all day.
Side note, and file under "I am probably not supposed to mention this": if you are thinking of taking this test, please do not overlook low-level administrative stuff like GRUB maintenance. I observed a guy come in to a system with a misconfigured GRUB. He didn't know how to fix it, and as a result wasn't able to boot the box to fix anything else. Poor guy walked out of the exam after five minutes, having flushed a few hundred bucks down the toilet.
Senator Paul was on his way to a March for Life event, and was departing from Nashville, KN. He was neither detained (although he was prevented from entering a secured area), nor placed under arrest. So I really don't think that there's any violation of section 6 here.
Can we get something clear about this?
Paul wasn't detained. He set off a body scanner, and asked to be rescanned. The TSA said that a rescan wasn't going to do it, and that they would require a pat-down. He refused, and then left.
At no point did the TSA inform him that he wasn't allowed to leave. They prevented him from getting onto the flight for not complying with their security procedures.
I'm no fan of the TSA. But Paul is grandstanding here because the TSA is one of his favorite bete noirs.
What? Are you suggesting that Slashdot moderation was not intelligently designed?
To reiterate what a few other people have already said: a MILS style camera isn't really any easier to use than a DSLR. However, they do tend to be smaller, which can be a big plus when traveling. My main camera is a Canon 5D (first generation), which is a huge brick of a thing. I'm sure I've missed out on getting some great shots because I couldn't be arsed to bring it with me sometimes.
The article you linked to on DPreview is already a better overview than most people on /. are going to be able to provide - just skip to the section on beginner's cameras and pick the one that calls out to you.
But don't do it because DSLRs are big and scary. Every camera you ever have will have the following controls: aperture, shutter speed, ISO. That's 99% of what you need. Go grab a copy of "Understanding Exposure" by Bryan Peterson and the rest will fall into place. (Unless you intend to use external lighting, in which case you've got plenty of time to learn that too.)
I'm surprised to not have seen more "OccupyYourMom" jokes.
"I spent last night occupying your mom. She says hi, by the way."
God help them if they play Skyrim. I swear I'm swimming in wolf pelts, fur boots, and leather bracers.
"I fear that high production values and the inevitable sexualisation of the lead characters that a Hollywood treatment brings will destroy the show."
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you... Leela!
(Ha, you thought I was going to go with Amy Pond, didn't you? Too easy. Old school, it's how I roll.)
Ron Paul seems like an intelligent, thoughtful man. Let's avoid a knee-jerk reaction to this "news". Maybe he has an idea to continue providing the core public services of these departments while cutting bureaucratic complexity. I don't think there's enough information here.
Then again, it's a lot more fun to get indignant!
Man, if only there were a way that we could find out... oh, look! The actual plan, as released by his campaign! Here, take a look yourself, it's not like it's that long. According to the announcement on his campaign web site, that's the plan, "in full."
If his explanation to how to continue providing the "core public services of these departments" is in any way materially different from "the private sector," I'll eat my hat.
Why choose?
(Note: please don't read this post as an endorsement of the plan.)
So say we all.
Particularly frustrating was the stupid in-game justification for the use of heat sinks. "We figured you were all so unhappy with the delay waiting for your weapon to cool for a second or two, that we'd retrofit it with ammo that you can actually run out of. And we convinced the Geth to do the same thing! Isn't that cool?"
Rasm frasm. At least managing inventory was easier.
Wow, this hits close to home.
I recently left my old position in a very large company, working with some people I really liked, to jump to another division within the same company. My pay, commute, and benefits are identical. But I'm working on different stuff, in support of different products, with a different group of people. And because I'm still in the same company, I hear from my old coworkers daily, and know that they're experiencing a not insignificant amount of pain over my leaving.
I feel slightly crappy about this. But in the end I wound up moving for two big reasons:
1. I was enjoying the work less and less, and felt the need to try something different. (An increasing amount of my work related to tools & methodology and configuration management, and I just didn't find it interesting.)
2. I was frustrated with a career which seemed to be stagnating for the last five years.
I didn't even get a raise out of my jump - you'd be getting a substantial raise, plus a drastically shortened commute. Make your exit as professional and painless as you can, but for god's sake, go.
John, you've managed to defend a point that the GP post doesn't appear to be making.
ElectricTurtle's post comes within a hair's breadth of admitting that mass extinctions are pretty much a given ("Life can spring back from virtually nothing. During the greatest mass extinction, 90% of ocean-dwelling species perished completely. Have you noticed how they're not still empty?") if climate change continues at this pace. I assert that if that's the case, it's odds on that a massive percentage of the Earth's human population will die off as a result. Either ET disagrees with that assertion, or it doesn't trouble him very much. Simple as that.
This is the fundamental problem with green ideologues, they think that the biosphere is static and that life is impossible if it changes. You need to wrap your head around some facts. Mass extinctions created the current biosphere. If you think mass extinctions are bad, you must by extension think that the current biosphere you currently hold next to sacred is also ultimately a perversion of the state of life before said extinctions.
If the thrust of your argument is that "environmentalists are stupid because they're not okay with mass extinctions," then... um, okay. I suppose we'll have to agree to disagree - anyone not okay with mass extinctions on my side.
I have to say, though, that I thought you were setting up to make an "environmentalists are the REAL bad guys because they oppose mass extinctions, which usually lead to increases in biodiversity, which means that you stupid greenies are ANTI-EVOLUTION and ANTI-LIFE, man!" I'm a little disappointed, because that would have been worth a few extra comedy points.
Life can spring back from virtually nothing. During the greatest mass extinction, 90% of ocean-dwelling species perished completely. Have you noticed how they're not still empty? More importantly, have you noticed how there are a lot more species in the oceans now than in the Permian? Over time, biodiversity has always increased, regardless of how severe any event has been over short periods.
The implication being that following a catastrophic collapse of the ecosystem due to climate change, lots of life forms will bounce back nicely. That's a safe bet on two counts. First, because I don't know of anyone suggesting that everything down to single celled organisms will die off, and then a few million years later we're back where we started, only with merfolk or whatever. And second, because either way, all the humans are likely to be dead, so who is going to call you on it if you're wrong?
Why not? Developers are people too, and they look back on their favorite games fondly. I have a feeling that a lot of these remakes start off as, "Hey, remember how cool this game was? If we could get the rights to it, imagine what we could do with it today!"
Of course, I really regret that frequently they want to do is remove a bunch of the stuff that made the game memorable and instead turn it into a first person shooter. But hey, if it's a really _good_ first person shooter, I'll live.
What? The guy is a journalist who writes about architecture.
I understand that you may not give a rat's ass about architecture, or human factors engineering, or Apple, or their recently proposed spaceship building. But seriously? Okay, fine, anyone who writes critically about architecture is a loser with no life. Also, Roger Ebert is a waste of space, and Edward Said is a piker.
"The food here is terrible!"
"I know, and the portions are so small!"
See also, Louis C.K.'s bit on technology being amazing and us appreciating nothing.