You're right on a few facts that in the US you can get "quicker" service if you're in "well off" economical status of society, you're also right that if your in the lower end of the economic status that you get shafted.
However it's not true that the weight times are that bad in Canada. If I call the doctor today I can have an appointment tonight or even tomorrow. If I go to the hospital and it's an emergency I can see a doctor within minutes. If I go to the hospital and it's not en emergency but I need to see someone it is usually a 1/2 hour between entering the hospital and talking to the doctor. Canada has a good health care system and if you need it to be quick and responsive it can be! It's also true that the healthcare system can be slow and unresponsive because Canada works in a required response based queue system. If you need to be seen right now because you're bleeding or you have a gun shot then you can be.
I don't think many people are disappointed in the fact that sometimes they have to wait to be seen if it means that others can be the reuqired care and attention. I would gladly wait a few hours if it means someone elses life gets saved.
This is another example of how private health care doesn't work! Coming from Canada and having a few rare / serious medical conditions I just can't understand how anyone can support private healthcare.
Do people not test systems before deployment? You can try to argue about the complexity and the difficulty of designing a system like this but in the end if it doesn't work right then it's not a good product. I would assume testing would of noticed these issues.
Java can have relative low latency but can never match C or ASM. If you have a soft real time system that doesn't need pin point real time control then I would say Java is fine and a great choice, however if you need tight real time control and you are making a hard real time system then I would say Java and C++ don't work, C and ASM are still the best choices you have great embedded language. C and ASM can do everything that you need and more. I'm not saying Java doesn't have a place in the embedded world but I think it gets to highly valued.
Again another great reason why we can blame everyone and everything else and never ourselves. The increase in violence is because people don't want to "display" self control. It could be 100 degree's C and that doesn't mean you can go rape someone. You're just are responsible at 20 degree's C as you are at 100, science just wants to give you away out of being responsible for your actions. I will love the day when a new survey finds that people who want a scapegoat use surveys like this to justify why they act the way they do.
I'm assuming to launch the GUI you need to do "CTRL + A + SHIFT + INS + X + F1 + ! + ALT + T", I don't believe Emacs has a simple learning curve in anyway shape or form, I've tried to learn / use Emacs many times over the last few years and it's never been a good go, this why I use Vim.
You're exactly right! Out of the last 20 years I've been in school and the dozen's of teachers I've had, I would maybe keep 5 of them on staff. Teachers have developed a union where they can effectively sit on there asses, do nothing, make a stink and get paid increasingly large amounts of money. If kids are skipping class most of blame should be put on the school and teacher, the teacher needs to make the class inviting and fun and the school needs to offer fun and exciting courses that make kids excited to come to class. If your not inviting the kids naturally in the first place then you'll have to round them up like cattle. How about before you track you think! Fire most of the teachers and start offering interesting classes that kids want to sit in. I fail to see how students aren't involved in class planning process.
Just leave the kids alone, the kids who want to go to class will go to class and the kids who want to skip will skip almost no matter what. Tracking kids won't inspire them to go to class, what would inspire kids is interactive lessons, engaging teachers, interesting classes and an inviting atmosphere, not tracking them like it's going out of style.
Well I don't mind most of the security measures taken by the TSA, I do have a problem when they blind search someones space. If your going to search a car after someone leaves then fine but at least tell them your going to do it. If you tell me your going to search my car when I book my trip, or when I park the car and I'm given time to prep the car then I don't have an issue. I've had cases where I've had control substances ( not drugs ) in my car, if a TSA agent found those then what was going to happen? First of all the TSA doesn't require a high level or even medium level of intelligence for employees, I don't trust the judgement of most TSA agents and I certainly don't trust them when I'm not present or given time to prepare my space. Someone needs to speak up and ban this practice, it's just completely unfair.
The gun isn't needed in the first place unless you intend to shoot something and the only reason you would shoot is to kill so my question is why do you want to kill so bad?
Neither Eclipse nor Visual Studio is a model for sound usability
Doesn't do it justice. Visual Studio is the poster child for overhead and over complication. As an embedded, web and desktop developer, it fails on all accounts. I wouldn't use Visual Studio for any single reason, not to mention it's not even cross platform. If you ask a class of kindergarten students to plan an IDE I think you'll find many of there suggestions under the hood. What an IDE should be is slim, light, fast and snappy. It should come with low overhead, work on all major OS's and leave the configuration up to you. Visual Studio is almost the opposite of what an IDE should be.
Eclipse on the other hand is almost just as bad, it's overhead is to the point that it's almost not even worth using. It's menu layout system and over all design are horrible and leave so much to be desired it could be a guide on how not to make a GUI. Apart from that it has a horrible configuration and it's a mess to even use for simple or complex projects, requiring more tweaking then a rocket ship.
So what IDE do I use? I don't! I've worked on huge projects and with out fail all I need is Vi and a toolchain. I've said it over and over that IDE's are really for people that don't want to get work done. A good text editor with features and a solid terminal will serve you better in all aspects of writing and debugging code. For the overhead that all modern IDE's come with I can't think of a reason to use them, they don't give me anything I can't get already with my editor and terminal windows and they don't speed up any aspect of development. Oh and to counter the argument about not being able to see what is in a class or autocompletion, Vi has autocompletion and you need to write the code properly in the first place, I shouldn't have to hunt to figure out what's in your class and if it's just a library that I can't see into then the documentation should be more then capable.
Well I haven't read all the comments I'm sure at least one of them will mention what I'm about to say. Just because you have a marker might not make you commit violent acts, so one of the early problems I see is how to determine if the marker is active. It's possible to discover a case where you have a prefect moral human who wont kill a fly and ted bundy having the same marker. Non the less this seems interesting from it's description.
It's not Apple's fault your addicted to porn, it's yours. When will people stop blaming everyone else and just accept they are weak, sorry excuses for humans. For instance, alcoholics claiming they have a disease or smokers claiming they didn't mean become hooked. Just accept the fact that if you have an addiction and it starts over taking your life that you're just a sorry example of a human being. It's not Apple's fault or the beer company's or the cigarette company's or anyone else, it's yours. The simple and real truth is, is that you can quit any addiction you have by will power. If you find something overtaking your life and IT IS NOT DUE TO A CHEMICAL IMBALANCE!!!!!!! then you just have to stop doing that thing. If you find yourself unable to stop under your own will then seek immediate help and give it up. The fact is company's and substances are not responsible for causing addiction, a person weak and sorry self control is. This man is addicted to porn because he wants to be just like a smoker chooses to be smoke and an alcoholic chooses to drink. Stop blaming everyone else, you're simply a weak person and you need to accept that!
Your records aren't secure or private in the first place, no matter where you live or get health care. I've had 5+ sets of digital AND paper records just magically go missing from several hospitals. The doctors didn't get really care, they just re-ran the tests and in one case the re-run results also went missing. If you believe in an illusion of privacy and security with your countries health care system then you've been fooled.
The great thing about the catholic faith is the amount of hole that cover it in every direction. The reason the vatican doesn't want leaks is because it knows that the leaks damage the already frayed appearance of the church. Every leak that goes again church doctrine is yet another hole that high level members of the church have to rush and fill in.
The other truth that the church should accept is that if the documents leak then God wanted them to leak. You can't have a religion that answers to a massive power who doesn't have limits and then claim that it never steps in to protect the high powers who worship it, the logic is flawed from the very get go. Everytime something bad happens the church calls it freewill and moves on but that is so much bullshit I can smell it from here.
If there really is a God and he really wants people to listen to him and seek his truth then don't you think he would occasionally step in and do something about these issues. For instance if a document left the vatican and between the inner walls and the outer walls the writing in it changed then I would believe that God at least tried to do something. In the same aspect why doesn't God punish child abusers? You would think a loving and powerful God would want to protect the innocent but time after time he doesn't do jack shit as members of the church abuse little boys and girls.
I grew up catholic, I went to a catholic school and I went to church every Sunday and I'm proud to say I'm glad I did. I went to church and heard the bullshit, I went to school and heard the bullshit. After everything that I've studied, read and been force to praise, I've finally noticed that if a God does exist and I'm not saying he / she doesn't, the catholic faith has it wrong.
If you're offended by what I've said or if you truly think you can you defend your religion then go for it but in the last 26 years of my life I've found no saving facts. The Bible is full of BS, The facts and accounts don't line up, no one can answer questions when you ask them and finally we have mortal men setting laws for a system that is meant to worship a divine power! If a God does exist then how about it gets off it's lazy ass and hands down the law, how about it punishes those who don't listen and how about it finally shows us that it exists. I'm sick of religion, the absence of proof doesn't not instill faith, it instills doubt and any powerful being would know that and rectify it!
The vatican has laws because it stops with the pope, no one should be held accountable to a force which until now has been unable or unwilling to prove it exists. So if the vatican has some secret documents that have this proof lets see them. You wouldn't punish people who leaked those documents because you know that every knee would bend in fear of God. You would only punish those who leak documents that you know would bring your party to an end and cause the hole to blow open. The church is dead and this is just one more example of it's problems.
Actually even if I grab the build information myself it sometimes makes the user stop and think about submitting the bug before they do. I've had many cases where instead of submitting a bug the tester will first download a new version of the app and then retest. It saves me a ton of time having to rule out old versions.
Did you follow the setup correctly is important because although I'll have a copy of the configuration is does the same job as above, as in it makes the tester / user think about it before the bug gets submitted.
Before when I didn't have questions like this in the form I use to get a lot of old version bugs submitted and a TON of incorrectly configured program bugs. The point of a good QA question is to make the user think about what he / she types and make them think about what they did before the bug occured. Well I still get a few incorrect version bugs and I still get a few incorrect setup bugs for the most part they are non existent.
My system for getting good data back works for me and that is all I care about, if someone else has a better more efficient method then great.
First stage is a php form I wrote which asks them very directed questions. They have to answer questions like "What was running on the computer when the bug occurred. Were you running the software in VM, Did you follow the setup directions properly, Did you download the newest version from the test server etc....
Second stage is they let the form take logs from the computer, I automated the process so the form takes what it needs. They literally hit start and go have coffee or something well it works away. Once that is done I get an email with the form data and the logs.
Third step is reproduction, I give the data to another user and asked them to reproduce the issue, if they can't then I visit the submitter if possible or ask for them to take a video of it occurring. If they can then I also grab the data and at that point I have what I need to fix the bug.
Once bugs are fixed both testers have to try and reproduce the issue and so far it's been very very rare that they can. The user can only answer the questions you ask them and I hate when QA tester ask bad question and complain about useless answers. Ask the right questions and you'll get the right data. You also have make sure developers are building great logging systems. A logging system should be good enough that with out the tester inputting to the issue you can see all the data you need! If you can't then the logging system isn't designed well enough and needs to be redone.
Or just don't own a gun, I've spoke out against my thoughts about the uselessness of guns many times on this site and I still maintain my feelings towards them. Everyone can have there own feelings about them but personally until I'm in a situation that can't be dealt with any other way I'm going to hold out.
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You're right on a few facts that in the US you can get "quicker" service if you're in "well off" economical status of society, you're also right that if your in the lower end of the economic status that you get shafted.
However it's not true that the weight times are that bad in Canada. If I call the doctor today I can have an appointment tonight or even tomorrow. If I go to the hospital and it's an emergency I can see a doctor within minutes. If I go to the hospital and it's not en emergency but I need to see someone it is usually a 1/2 hour between entering the hospital and talking to the doctor. Canada has a good health care system and if you need it to be quick and responsive it can be! It's also true that the healthcare system can be slow and unresponsive because Canada works in a required response based queue system. If you need to be seen right now because you're bleeding or you have a gun shot then you can be.
I don't think many people are disappointed in the fact that sometimes they have to wait to be seen if it means that others can be the reuqired care and attention. I would gladly wait a few hours if it means someone elses life gets saved.
This is another example of how private health care doesn't work! Coming from Canada and having a few rare / serious medical conditions I just can't understand how anyone can support private healthcare.
Do people not test systems before deployment? You can try to argue about the complexity and the difficulty of designing a system like this but in the end if it doesn't work right then it's not a good product. I would assume testing would of noticed these issues.
Java can have relative low latency but can never match C or ASM. If you have a soft real time system that doesn't need pin point real time control then I would say Java is fine and a great choice, however if you need tight real time control and you are making a hard real time system then I would say Java and C++ don't work, C and ASM are still the best choices you have great embedded language. C and ASM can do everything that you need and more. I'm not saying Java doesn't have a place in the embedded world but I think it gets to highly valued.
Again another great reason why we can blame everyone and everything else and never ourselves. The increase in violence is because people don't want to "display" self control. It could be 100 degree's C and that doesn't mean you can go rape someone. You're just are responsible at 20 degree's C as you are at 100, science just wants to give you away out of being responsible for your actions. I will love the day when a new survey finds that people who want a scapegoat use surveys like this to justify why they act the way they do.
They were using the blackberry release model, force the release and then hurry up and release updates to often.
I'm assuming to launch the GUI you need to do "CTRL + A + SHIFT + INS + X + F1 + ! + ALT + T", I don't believe Emacs has a simple learning curve in anyway shape or form, I've tried to learn / use Emacs many times over the last few years and it's never been a good go, this why I use Vim.
So hide the crap teachers behind the face of expensive tablets? This is going to be a great system!
You're exactly right! Out of the last 20 years I've been in school and the dozen's of teachers I've had, I would maybe keep 5 of them on staff. Teachers have developed a union where they can effectively sit on there asses, do nothing, make a stink and get paid increasingly large amounts of money. If kids are skipping class most of blame should be put on the school and teacher, the teacher needs to make the class inviting and fun and the school needs to offer fun and exciting courses that make kids excited to come to class. If your not inviting the kids naturally in the first place then you'll have to round them up like cattle. How about before you track you think! Fire most of the teachers and start offering interesting classes that kids want to sit in. I fail to see how students aren't involved in class planning process.
Just leave the kids alone, the kids who want to go to class will go to class and the kids who want to skip will skip almost no matter what. Tracking kids won't inspire them to go to class, what would inspire kids is interactive lessons, engaging teachers, interesting classes and an inviting atmosphere, not tracking them like it's going out of style.
I need a new toilet paper holder!
Well I don't mind most of the security measures taken by the TSA, I do have a problem when they blind search someones space. If your going to search a car after someone leaves then fine but at least tell them your going to do it. If you tell me your going to search my car when I book my trip, or when I park the car and I'm given time to prep the car then I don't have an issue. I've had cases where I've had control substances ( not drugs ) in my car, if a TSA agent found those then what was going to happen? First of all the TSA doesn't require a high level or even medium level of intelligence for employees, I don't trust the judgement of most TSA agents and I certainly don't trust them when I'm not present or given time to prepare my space. Someone needs to speak up and ban this practice, it's just completely unfair.
I totally back this, it's a really good idea.
The gun isn't needed in the first place unless you intend to shoot something and the only reason you would shoot is to kill so my question is why do you want to kill so bad?
Neither Eclipse nor Visual Studio is a model for sound usability
Doesn't do it justice. Visual Studio is the poster child for overhead and over complication. As an embedded, web and desktop developer, it fails on all accounts. I wouldn't use Visual Studio for any single reason, not to mention it's not even cross platform. If you ask a class of kindergarten students to plan an IDE I think you'll find many of there suggestions under the hood. What an IDE should be is slim, light, fast and snappy. It should come with low overhead, work on all major OS's and leave the configuration up to you. Visual Studio is almost the opposite of what an IDE should be.
Eclipse on the other hand is almost just as bad, it's overhead is to the point that it's almost not even worth using. It's menu layout system and over all design are horrible and leave so much to be desired it could be a guide on how not to make a GUI. Apart from that it has a horrible configuration and it's a mess to even use for simple or complex projects, requiring more tweaking then a rocket ship.
So what IDE do I use? I don't! I've worked on huge projects and with out fail all I need is Vi and a toolchain. I've said it over and over that IDE's are really for people that don't want to get work done. A good text editor with features and a solid terminal will serve you better in all aspects of writing and debugging code. For the overhead that all modern IDE's come with I can't think of a reason to use them, they don't give me anything I can't get already with my editor and terminal windows and they don't speed up any aspect of development. Oh and to counter the argument about not being able to see what is in a class or autocompletion, Vi has autocompletion and you need to write the code properly in the first place, I shouldn't have to hunt to figure out what's in your class and if it's just a library that I can't see into then the documentation should be more then capable.
Well I haven't read all the comments I'm sure at least one of them will mention what I'm about to say. Just because you have a marker might not make you commit violent acts, so one of the early problems I see is how to determine if the marker is active. It's possible to discover a case where you have a prefect moral human who wont kill a fly and ted bundy having the same marker. Non the less this seems interesting from it's description.
No, you want a gun because you "need it" for protection then you pay for it.
I think they should be forced, if you have an "dumb gun" then you should have to trade up or get rid.
It's not Apple's fault your addicted to porn, it's yours. When will people stop blaming everyone else and just accept they are weak, sorry excuses for humans. For instance, alcoholics claiming they have a disease or smokers claiming they didn't mean become hooked. Just accept the fact that if you have an addiction and it starts over taking your life that you're just a sorry example of a human being. It's not Apple's fault or the beer company's or the cigarette company's or anyone else, it's yours. The simple and real truth is, is that you can quit any addiction you have by will power. If you find something overtaking your life and IT IS NOT DUE TO A CHEMICAL IMBALANCE!!!!!!! then you just have to stop doing that thing. If you find yourself unable to stop under your own will then seek immediate help and give it up. The fact is company's and substances are not responsible for causing addiction, a person weak and sorry self control is. This man is addicted to porn because he wants to be just like a smoker chooses to be smoke and an alcoholic chooses to drink. Stop blaming everyone else, you're simply a weak person and you need to accept that!
Your records aren't secure or private in the first place, no matter where you live or get health care. I've had 5+ sets of digital AND paper records just magically go missing from several hospitals. The doctors didn't get really care, they just re-ran the tests and in one case the re-run results also went missing. If you believe in an illusion of privacy and security with your countries health care system then you've been fooled.
The great thing about the catholic faith is the amount of hole that cover it in every direction. The reason the vatican doesn't want leaks is because it knows that the leaks damage the already frayed appearance of the church. Every leak that goes again church doctrine is yet another hole that high level members of the church have to rush and fill in.
The other truth that the church should accept is that if the documents leak then God wanted them to leak. You can't have a religion that answers to a massive power who doesn't have limits and then claim that it never steps in to protect the high powers who worship it, the logic is flawed from the very get go. Everytime something bad happens the church calls it freewill and moves on but that is so much bullshit I can smell it from here.
If there really is a God and he really wants people to listen to him and seek his truth then don't you think he would occasionally step in and do something about these issues. For instance if a document left the vatican and between the inner walls and the outer walls the writing in it changed then I would believe that God at least tried to do something. In the same aspect why doesn't God punish child abusers? You would think a loving and powerful God would want to protect the innocent but time after time he doesn't do jack shit as members of the church abuse little boys and girls.
I grew up catholic, I went to a catholic school and I went to church every Sunday and I'm proud to say I'm glad I did. I went to church and heard the bullshit, I went to school and heard the bullshit. After everything that I've studied, read and been force to praise, I've finally noticed that if a God does exist and I'm not saying he / she doesn't, the catholic faith has it wrong.
If you're offended by what I've said or if you truly think you can you defend your religion then go for it but in the last 26 years of my life I've found no saving facts. The Bible is full of BS, The facts and accounts don't line up, no one can answer questions when you ask them and finally we have mortal men setting laws for a system that is meant to worship a divine power! If a God does exist then how about it gets off it's lazy ass and hands down the law, how about it punishes those who don't listen and how about it finally shows us that it exists. I'm sick of religion, the absence of proof doesn't not instill faith, it instills doubt and any powerful being would know that and rectify it!
The vatican has laws because it stops with the pope, no one should be held accountable to a force which until now has been unable or unwilling to prove it exists. So if the vatican has some secret documents that have this proof lets see them. You wouldn't punish people who leaked those documents because you know that every knee would bend in fear of God. You would only punish those who leak documents that you know would bring your party to an end and cause the hole to blow open. The church is dead and this is just one more example of it's problems.
Actually even if I grab the build information myself it sometimes makes the user stop and think about submitting the bug before they do. I've had many cases where instead of submitting a bug the tester will first download a new version of the app and then retest. It saves me a ton of time having to rule out old versions.
Did you follow the setup correctly is important because although I'll have a copy of the configuration is does the same job as above, as in it makes the tester / user think about it before the bug gets submitted.
Before when I didn't have questions like this in the form I use to get a lot of old version bugs submitted and a TON of incorrectly configured program bugs. The point of a good QA question is to make the user think about what he / she types and make them think about what they did before the bug occured. Well I still get a few incorrect version bugs and I still get a few incorrect setup bugs for the most part they are non existent.
My system for getting good data back works for me and that is all I care about, if someone else has a better more efficient method then great.
Should of proof read that a little better.
First stage is a php form I wrote which asks them very directed questions. They have to answer questions like "What was running on the computer when the bug occurred. Were you running the software in VM, Did you follow the setup directions properly, Did you download the newest version from the test server etc....
Second stage is they let the form take logs from the computer, I automated the process so the form takes what it needs. They literally hit start and go have coffee or something well it works away. Once that is done I get an email with the form data and the logs.
Third step is reproduction, I give the data to another user and asked them to reproduce the issue, if they can't then I visit the submitter if possible or ask for them to take a video of it occurring. If they can then I also grab the data and at that point I have what I need to fix the bug.
Once bugs are fixed both testers have to try and reproduce the issue and so far it's been very very rare that they can. The user can only answer the questions you ask them and I hate when QA tester ask bad question and complain about useless answers. Ask the right questions and you'll get the right data. You also have make sure developers are building great logging systems. A logging system should be good enough that with out the tester inputting to the issue you can see all the data you need! If you can't then the logging system isn't designed well enough and needs to be redone.
Or just don't own a gun, I've spoke out against my thoughts about the uselessness of guns many times on this site and I still maintain my feelings towards them. Everyone can have there own feelings about them but personally until I'm in a situation that can't be dealt with any other way I'm going to hold out.