Pretty simple: think like an industrial engineer. Attack your biggest expense because that is where the most potential savings is. For most people this is housing. When I was in school I happened upon a foreclosure that was in a state of disrepair. I got it into an acceptable condition by myself (paint, wallpaper, carpet cleaning) for me to move in. Not only did I not have to spend money on rent every month, but I fixed it up over the years I was in school then sold it for 90% profit when I graduated. Look around for such properties around where you live. You should be able to find a place that the bank loan note, taxes and maintenance are less than many if not most of the rents in the area. Buy it, then do the fix up yourself in your spare time. It isn't rocket science.
From what source are you getting that information that they died quickly? I thought the news report was that the crew module was intact and that they survived the explosion. I watched it live on TV and I thought they were pretty high up when it exploded. -- IV
I did the same thing years ago when working at IBM on a death march project before they were called that. Joined a local boxing club. Got very in shape and good at beating people up which I fortunately never unleashed outside of the boxing ring. My anger only grew. In the end, I only found peace by understanding that I had a problem with anger and that love was the answer. I've never looked back. I do as best I can to avoid things that I don't need that make me angry: the media, angry people, excess. I try to do as many things that bring peace: family, church, wholesome movies, healthy exercise like running and books.
Like many others, I'm curious as to why your Firefox is crashing so often? I haven't had a Mozilla or Firefox crash on Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux on 7 systems in a very long time. The last time I can remember a release that crashed frequently was at least 4-5 years ago.
>Psychologists have much more training in psychotherapy and psychological testing and have >much more training in psychopharmacology than in psychotherapy and testing.
Should read:
Psychologists usually but not always have much more training in psychotherapy and psychological testing than Psychiatrists. Psychiatrists usually have much more training in psychopharmacology than in psychotherapy and testing.
>I know that psychiatrists and psychologists in the US are very quick to diagnose and > prescribe drugs
Unless they are in New Mexico, Louisiana or Guam, psychologists do not have the training or legal authority to prescribe drugs. As well, the training programs for psychologist prescribing in New Mexico and Louisiana are controversial, just starting and to my knowledge haven't graduated anyone. Psychologists are not medical doctors. Psychiatrists are medical doctors. Psychologists have much more training in psychotherapy and psychological testing and have much more training in psychopharmacology than in psychotherapy and testing. Frequently psychologists will refer patients to a psychiatrist for medications. Frequently psychiatrists will refer patients to a psychologist for psychotherapy.
Take news of big 'investments' by companies like IBM, Microsoft etc with a grain of salt. They use funny money accounting to come up with these numbers. Lets say for example a $100,000 'investment' from a company like IBM. What might this mean in real terms? A $89,000 list price per CPU license for the rights to use their Domino server software and $10,000 / $250/hr staff time = 40 hours of staff time to set it up and do some minimal programming.
What would the same 'investment' mean on the street and nearly everyone else? Exactly zero dollars for the software and much less than $250/hr for staff time and much less staff time. When companies throw Billion dollar investment announcements around in splashy PR announcements, they bear investigating what that really means.
I saw something very similar to this at Disney's EPCOT center in the early eighties. It was built by General Motors over 20 years ago called the Lean Machine! here's a link The same concept: 3 wheeler, pivoting mechanism, etc. No doubt that the drive train was different (gas vs. electric) than the one shown. Not much new under the sun, is there? GM obviously never did anything with the concept that I know of. Interesting comment about it: '...The 'Tilting 3 or 4 wheeler' -- To compensate for lateral stability, the vehicle has some kind of
tilting system to enable it to lean into corners like a motorcycle. If the leaning is controlled by the
driver, the driver must try to calculate the correct tilting angle when cornering, which can require
very sophisticated driving skills -- particularly in difficult or stressful driving situations, e.g. driving
on slippery roads or when executing an evasive manoeuvre. This type of vehicle cannot be safely
or predictably driven by the average person, which makes it an undesirable vehicle for mass
production. Example: General Motors 'Lean Machine'...'here (1997). BMW apparently did something similar. -- IV
So a wet behind the ears 24 year old opens his mouth and puts his foot in it at work as well as over-stepping his boundaries in his 2nd or so job as an adult. So what? This was an internal e-mail message. I fail to see how this represents NASA, the government, Republicans, Democrats religion, education or anything else. How is this anything other than an inexperienced PR person inappropriately injecting their personal views in an internal e-mail that was leaked to the press? Inappropriate airing of both right, left, atheistic and religious opinions happens constantly in every workplace I've ever been. I do not see this representing anything other than fuel for troll fires, public villification and temporary destruction of this young man's career.
I found the article to be not that compelling but had some good information such as the suggestions on how to get people to your site without search engines. However, Google Ads for Linux Medical News have made a 5 year profitless adventure into something that makes a modest profit. That profit in turn has ensured that the site will keep running as long as I breathe and has enabled me to plow those funds back into the community through things like the Linux Medical News Freedom Award as well as funding FOSS in medicine development.
Before Google ads, I tried and failed to get advertising support because it was such a niche and there did not seem to be much interest during the dot-bust. Granted, I did not have much time to pursue advertising support but I did try. I agree with the author of the article that pursuing your own clientele is important. The plan has always been to be able to get advertising support from the players as the FOSS in medicine industry continues to mature. Doing Google Ads now was a much-welcome bridge to that future.
I wonder if it is possible to run the application from a USB drive like an iPOD so that I can use it between Mac at work and PC at home. I know that 'anything is possible' but is it easily run from a USB disk like I think OpenOffice has done recently?
Spoiler warning: If you are a Heechee then black holes make great hiding places. You could take your spaceship in and out as well as rescue your girlfriend trapped in the event horizon.
-- IV
Z Object Publishing Environment (ZOPE) http://www.zope.org/ and its derivative Plone http://www.plone.org/ seem like they have all this and more. Like they are a whole universe. What does Tapestry have that Zope/Plone doesn't? -- IV
People tend to get over focused on one of our competitors... We've always seen that... I'm never going to change the press' view about what the cool company to write about is. That's Google number 1 and Apple number 2... [IBM has] four times the employees that I have, way more revenues than I have.'
And once trusted you as a business partner and gave you legitimacy when you most needed it and was directly responsible for handing you millions of dollars as the default operating system for the IBM-PC when your company was but a wee thing...
-- IV
Seems like practically every other author in the article is a Psychologist. This cheapens the article by giving many more neuroscience ideas airplay than others. There also seem to be an over-representation of discussion of relativism in all its forms. Perhaps Psychologists have more time than most to answer survey questions like this?
I used to think the same way about gender roles and children before I became a parent. Now I know that much of the behavior is hard-wired. We don't 'push' girls and boys to act a certain way. They do so naturally. My boys from a very early age were fascinated by heavy construction equipment and choo-choo trains without any prompting from us. We actually had some dolls in the toy box mix and they have absolutely no interest in them. The little girls across the street of the same age are totally in to dress up and dolls. They have a very ignored toy train in the house. We took the boys and the girls to an ice-cream store, (we are talking 2-3 year olds here way before any meaningful socialization). The boys are under the table, running around, yelling and throwing things, the girls are primly, quietly eating ice cream in their pink outfits. You can say what you want about our parenting styles but I know without a doubt that these behaviors are genetically determined.
Neuroscientists and mental health professionals long ago renamed hypnosis to 'guided imagery' because of all the circus act connotations that hypnosis had. Guided imagery is invaluable for certain conditions in which hyperarousal and difficulty forgetting are a problem. These are conditions like Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Post Traumatic Distress Disorder. Also, many mental health professionals do not advertise or call it hypnosis because of the kooky patients it brings in once it is known that someone practices it.
Basically the profession did a mv hypnosis guided-imagery long ago.
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Seriously, if the parent poster would contact me, I have a way that works great and doesn't cost much.
-- IV
Pretty simple: think like an industrial engineer. Attack your biggest expense because that is where the most potential savings is. For most people this is housing. When I was in school I happened upon a foreclosure that was in a state of disrepair. I got it into an acceptable condition by myself (paint, wallpaper, carpet cleaning) for me to move in. Not only did I not have to spend money on rent every month, but I fixed it up over the years I was in school then sold it for 90% profit when I graduated. Look around for such properties around where you live. You should be able to find a place that the bank loan note, taxes and maintenance are less than many if not most of the rents in the area. Buy it, then do the fix up yourself in your spare time. It isn't rocket science.
-- IV
From what source are you getting that information that they died quickly? I thought the news report was that the crew module was intact and that they survived the explosion. I watched it live on TV and I thought they were pretty high up when it exploded. -- IV
Ugh, makes me wonder about the fate of the Challenger astronauts, if they experienced the same long fall. Shudder.
-- IV
I did the same thing years ago when working at IBM on a death march project before they were called that. Joined a local boxing club. Got very in shape and good at beating people up which I fortunately never unleashed outside of the boxing ring. My anger only grew. In the end, I only found peace by understanding that I had a problem with anger and that love was the answer. I've never looked back. I do as best I can to avoid things that I don't need that make me angry: the media, angry people, excess. I try to do as many things that bring peace: family, church, wholesome movies, healthy exercise like running and books.
-- Ignacio Valdes, MD, MS
-- Editor: Linux Medical News
-- http://www.linuxmednews.com/
Like many others, I'm curious as to why your Firefox is crashing so often? I haven't had a Mozilla or Firefox crash on Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux on 7 systems in a very long time. The last time I can remember a release that crashed frequently was at least 4-5 years ago.
-- IV
>Psychologists have much more training in psychotherapy and psychological testing and have
>much more training in psychopharmacology than in psychotherapy and testing.
Should read:
Psychologists usually but not always have much more training in psychotherapy and psychological testing than Psychiatrists. Psychiatrists usually have much more training in psychopharmacology than in psychotherapy and testing.
-- IV
>I know that psychiatrists and psychologists in the US are very quick to diagnose and
> prescribe drugs
Unless they are in New Mexico, Louisiana or Guam, psychologists do not have the training or legal authority to prescribe drugs. As well, the training programs for psychologist prescribing in New Mexico and Louisiana are controversial, just starting and to my knowledge haven't graduated anyone. Psychologists are not medical doctors. Psychiatrists are medical doctors. Psychologists have much more training in psychotherapy and psychological testing and have much more training in psychopharmacology than in psychotherapy and testing. Frequently psychologists will refer patients to a psychiatrist for medications. Frequently psychiatrists will refer patients to a psychologist for psychotherapy.
-- IV
Take news of big 'investments' by companies like IBM, Microsoft etc with a grain of salt. They use funny money accounting to come up with these numbers. Lets say for example a $100,000 'investment' from a company like IBM. What might this mean in real terms? A $89,000 list price per CPU license for the rights to use their Domino server software and $10,000 / $250/hr staff time = 40 hours of staff time to set it up and do some minimal programming.
What would the same 'investment' mean on the street and nearly everyone else?
Exactly zero dollars for the software and much less than $250/hr for staff time and much less staff time. When companies throw Billion dollar investment announcements around in splashy PR announcements, they bear investigating what that really means.
-- IV
I saw something very similar to this at Disney's EPCOT center in the early eighties. It was built by General Motors over 20 years ago called the Lean Machine! here's a link The same concept: 3 wheeler, pivoting mechanism, etc. No doubt that the drive train was different (gas vs. electric) than the one shown. Not much new under the sun, is there? GM obviously never did anything with the concept that I know of. Interesting comment about it: '...The 'Tilting 3 or 4 wheeler' -- To compensate for lateral stability, the vehicle has some kind of tilting system to enable it to lean into corners like a motorcycle. If the leaning is controlled by the driver, the driver must try to calculate the correct tilting angle when cornering, which can require very sophisticated driving skills -- particularly in difficult or stressful driving situations, e.g. driving on slippery roads or when executing an evasive manoeuvre. This type of vehicle cannot be safely or predictably driven by the average person, which makes it an undesirable vehicle for mass production. Example: General Motors 'Lean Machine'...' here (1997). BMW apparently did something similar. -- IV
Texas A&M university administrators are anything but lefty :-) -- IV
Non-sequitur. -- IV
Nah. Where I work I heard grumblings among the scientists all the time even after the NIH's budget was doubled.
-- IV
So a wet behind the ears 24 year old opens his mouth and puts his foot in it at work as well as over-stepping his boundaries in his 2nd or so job as an adult. So what? This was an internal e-mail message. I fail to see how this represents NASA, the government, Republicans, Democrats religion, education or anything else. How is this anything other than an inexperienced PR person inappropriately injecting their personal views in an internal e-mail that was leaked to the press? Inappropriate airing of both right, left, atheistic and religious opinions happens constantly in every workplace I've ever been. I do not see this representing anything other than fuel for troll fires, public villification and temporary destruction of this young man's career.
-- IV
Before Google ads, I tried and failed to get advertising support because it was such a niche and there did not seem to be much interest during the dot-bust. Granted, I did not have much time to pursue advertising support but I did try. I agree with the author of the article that pursuing your own clientele is important. The plan has always been to be able to get advertising support from the players as the FOSS in medicine industry continues to mature. Doing Google Ads now was a much-welcome bridge to that future.
-- IV
I wonder if it is possible to run the application from a USB drive like an iPOD so that I can use it between Mac at work and PC at home. I know that 'anything is possible' but is it easily run from a USB disk like I think OpenOffice has done recently?
-- IV
Spoiler warning: If you are a Heechee then black holes make great hiding places. You could take your spaceship in and out as well as rescue your girlfriend trapped in the event horizon. -- IV
Z Object Publishing Environment (ZOPE) http://www.zope.org/ and its derivative Plone http://www.plone.org/ seem like they have all this and more. Like they are a whole universe. What does Tapestry have that Zope/Plone doesn't? -- IV
And once trusted you as a business partner and gave you legitimacy when you most needed it and was directly responsible for handing you millions of dollars as the default operating system for the IBM-PC when your company was but a wee thing... -- IV
Seems like practically every other author in the article is a Psychologist. This cheapens the article by giving many more neuroscience ideas airplay than others. There also seem to be an over-representation of discussion of relativism in all its forms. Perhaps Psychologists have more time than most to answer survey questions like this?
-- IV
Did I miss anything?
Yes: wiping your ass with freedoms much of the world doesn't have. -- IV
If you have children, then you'll understand. -- IV
I used to think the same way about gender roles and children before I became a parent. Now I know that much of the behavior is hard-wired. We don't 'push' girls and boys to act a certain way. They do so naturally. My boys from a very early age were fascinated by heavy construction equipment and choo-choo trains without any prompting from us. We actually had some dolls in the toy box mix and they have absolutely no interest in them. The little girls across the street of the same age are totally in to dress up and dolls. They have a very ignored toy train in the house. We took the boys and the girls to an ice-cream store, (we are talking 2-3 year olds here way before any meaningful socialization). The boys are under the table, running around, yelling and throwing things, the girls are primly, quietly eating ice cream in their pink outfits. You can say what you want about our parenting styles but I know without a doubt that these behaviors are genetically determined.
-- IV
He's totally lost it. -- IV
Neuroscientists and mental health professionals long ago renamed hypnosis to 'guided imagery' because of all the circus act connotations that hypnosis had. Guided imagery is invaluable for certain conditions in which hyperarousal and difficulty forgetting are a problem. These are conditions like Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Post Traumatic Distress Disorder. Also, many mental health professionals do not advertise or call it hypnosis because of the kooky patients it brings in once it is known that someone practices it.
Basically the profession did a mv hypnosis guided-imagery long ago.
-- IV