ah, so now we see what this is all about. You know you can probably get your touching fix for significantly less then $250 for 15 minutes, although the doctors outfit might cost extra...
on topic, yes healthcare in the US sounds ridiculous, last year i had bloodwork done, an ECG, an echo, an X-ray and a gastroscopy (honestly, you dont want this...), and a nice bunch of pills. From all the paperwork i've that amounted to a grand total of 160 euros (yet, they didnt find anything significant... stupid sensitive stumach)
Interesting..for me is only about the money. I mean, let's face it...if I didn't have to work for a living, say if I won the powerball jackpot, I'd never work again. To me a job is only a means to an end...the end being having enough money to live my life in the lifestyle I prefer. I like to travel, have nice cars and other toy...go out, party..etc. I'm certainly not defined in any manner by my job. Don't get me wrong, I like to futz around with computers, so what I do is always somewhat fun, but, if I didn't have to work, I would not do so.
i have to disagree. Sure my primary motivation for working is getting paid, but i also need some sort of rythm in my daily life, which work provides. It also provides me with some challenge to aply myself.
Conversely, there is work where i couldnt be paid enough to do it. My current job in that respect is really pushing it. The company is old (average age here is way to high for an it firm) and extremely bureaucratic, nothing ever gets done, and on top of that the money isnt all that briliant either.
This the point where i start looking around, for either much better money for the same job, or a much more interesting and bareable job (or idealy, both)
I can't bring myself to believe that you have 15 years of experience in the IT industry and don't know the real value of these "certificates". They exist solely to help HR tick off the appropriate box on an application.
in my eyes, you are a bit overly-cinical. Sure those certificates are mostly checkboxes for HR, but i can state from my own experience that getting my sun certificates really helped me in my first job, partly since i didnt do a pure CS/IT study.
now microsoft certs (where candidates get testkings a few days before the exam), those are worthless in my eyes. At best they prove the person has the ability to memorize a couple hundred multiple choice question/answer combos
i dont really see a reason for lifting the s80 though, it might have caried two nuclear warheards (it was able to cary two ssn-3 cruise missiles, some variants of which had a nuclear tip), but since s80 already has been raised once (for the investigation of the sinking), i would think the soviets would have removed the missiles at that time. So nothing really dangerous (perhaps a few tonnes of diesel fuel) remains in the s80, best let it be.
K-159 is a different story though, but wikipedia reports that the kursk has been raised and dismantled already.
this one wasnt dumped because of a power plant failure.
The k-159 did experience a primary coolant leak sometime in its operational life, but apperently it wasnt that bad of an incident, since it continued to opperate two more years before its power plant was overhauled. The incident happened in 1965, and the sub was decommisioned in 1989. After that it spent 14 years rusting away at a dock, after which it was to be towed to polyarny for scrapping. Since the 14 years of zero maintenance left it in a barely floating state, the russians welded some floating pontoons to the side, which where also only barely floating.
During the voyage, one pontoon broke off during a storm, and the thing sank.
I'm not saying the reactor in that thing is in perfect state, but i do think that at the time of decommision (1989), the power plant would have been fine (for soviet values of fine). The boat sank because of leaks in the hull, not a reactor failure
which still are hit-miss when you want long-term storage.
In 2003 i burned a few CD-Rs, in 2005 those same discs where degraded to the point where i couldnt use them anymore (software installation, so like a backup, a few corrupted files screws the whole thing). These discs where stored horizontally out of direct light.
Granted, they werent the best discs, but when the use case involves "put disc in cabinet, wait 10 years", then i wouldnt really be all that confident that optical writeable media will work all that well
as others have mentioned, this most likely wont be comming to movies soon.
But i am 100% with you here, last december i decided to get a Blu-ray player, they where getting affordable, and my GF wanted one. If they start to push these new generation discs in movies, then i wont be getting any of those movies, because i will refuse to buy a new player.
Meanwhile, last month i got an asus o!play media streamer, also does HD over HDMI, SPDIF out.. now please remind me why i actually still cope with those physical media bastards?
Meteors will need to be solved anyway, as any moon-base will probably not be mobile enough to move all its installations out of harms way.
My idea, a laser point defense turret, you have an overabundance of solar power, not atmospheric diffraction/distortion, so even larger target can be shot at from many thousands of miles away, at which point ablation might be used to deflect larger targets, rather then completely vaporising them
That's because the larger casing/battery allow for a more powerfull RDF generator to be installed, where your iPhone 3G only generates 10mJ (that is milli-Jobs, not milli-joule) at three feet, the ipad can scale up to 50mJ!
in some cases, changing the hardware setup will require newer windows version to be reactivated. I dont know if adding ram is enough to trigger this effect in any version, but AFAIK changing the cpu/video card can do this.
However, pending re-activation, the machine functions just like it would just after install, before the initial activation, no locking out of ram/cores whatever
i totally forgot about this! the built-in alarm clock doesnt support starting to play music (which my stereo circa 1998 did, i really like waking up to music), instead of the god-awfull beep-beep sound. There are alarm clocks which do, but using them means that before going to sleep you have to be 100% sure the app is running in the foreground. If you dont have it running at the moment it is supposed to go off, it wont work
it's not so much about running multiple apps, as it is about having stuff running in the background. (non-apple stuff that is)
even on the iphone it would be usefull enough to have a chat app in the background while you are surfing (for people who chat, i dont). Or how about being allowed to chose your own music-streaming app, instead of the ipod app? (which doesnt do streaming). And i'm sure the app-writers out there can think of a bajilion other usefull, new, funny, cool or interesting things running in the background.
i rather doubt that, the playstation 2 is capable of ~66 milion polys/sec, and from what i've seen, intel integrated graphics are capable of rendering ps2 level graphics without trouble (keep in mind the low resolution of the ps2 and such). Off course this doesnt go for something like the 82815 intel graphics chip, but that thing is 10 years old, hardly a fair comparison.
Except, you know, the average netbook has a processor that's 50% faster, 150% more storage capacity, a screen about 10% larger, plus the option of using a keyboard if you'd rather not play with handwriting recognition. Oh, and most have cameras, and quite a few have longer battery life.
For half the price...
anyway, i dont get the hubbub about it being powerfull, i mean, device three times more expensive then ipod, more powerfull then ipod, who'da thunk it?
and im reading the review right now, the guy is actually writing about the mail app as if it is new "i cant seem to acces the gmail chat function in the mail app" well no shit sherlock..
either that, or small speakers/speaker ports just SUCK for low-wavelength sound.
I don't know who would expect a small tablet to have a decent bass-reponse. If you want propper sound, get a half-decent set of speakers. You'd have to be an idiot anyway to use any type of built in speakers on a mobile device when you want good quality sound.
So we basically agree i think. I also think that morally we have some base for going illegal and violating copyright, especially in the case of older media that cant be found legally anymore, and even in cases where they are technically 'available', but only under so much conditions, it is like signing your life away to the record company..
sorry, but how the hell does Wall-E have some kind of magical geek cred which Cars doesnt? because the antropomophised cartoon characters are 'robots' instead of cars? (and since when cant a geek be car obsessed too? i really enjoyed cars, especially luigi!).
And honestly, when distributers start delivering DVDs without the stupid unskippable 'you wouldnt steal a car' crap tacked on, and without the unskippable trailers for their other tripe, i will start buying DVDs again. Once in a while i buy a disc (although i do tend to stay away from new release, especially new blu-rays are just ridiculously expensive), pop it in the player and inmediatly have my mood ruined because of all the crap the producer throws at me for buying their product. I repeat this cycle about twice a year, but lately less and less.
Offer me a product i want (without annoying shit attached), at a price i can live with, and i will buy it
while i agree with the copying != stealing, and the fact that us linux users are basically SOL when it comes to video (you yanks are anyway, i couldnt give a rats ass about the DMCA), you make a big mistake equating a child needing to steal just to stay alive with you needing to break the law to be entertained by new movies.
In your (our) situation, the correct response would be to either play by the rules set by the copyright owners, or to just not use the content at all. Off course many people will chose option C and go illegal, and from a moral standpoint i would argue they are justified (the media companies are basically forming a cartel against the consumer, and the artists), but being morally right isnt the same as being legal
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don't *touch* the patients like they used to.
ah, so now we see what this is all about. You know you can probably get your touching fix for significantly less then $250 for 15 minutes, although the doctors outfit might cost extra...
on topic, yes healthcare in the US sounds ridiculous, last year i had bloodwork done, an ECG, an echo, an X-ray and a gastroscopy (honestly, you dont want this...), and a nice bunch of pills. From all the paperwork i've that amounted to a grand total of 160 euros (yet, they didnt find anything significant... stupid sensitive stumach)
Interesting..for me is only about the money. I mean, let's face it...if I didn't have to work for a living, say if I won the powerball jackpot, I'd never work again. To me a job is only a means to an end...the end being having enough money to live my life in the lifestyle I prefer. I like to travel, have nice cars and other toy...go out, party..etc.
I'm certainly not defined in any manner by my job. Don't get me wrong, I like to futz around with computers, so what I do is always somewhat fun, but, if I didn't have to work, I would not do so.
i have to disagree. Sure my primary motivation for working is getting paid, but i also need some sort of rythm in my daily life, which work provides. It also provides me with some challenge to aply myself.
Conversely, there is work where i couldnt be paid enough to do it. My current job in that respect is really pushing it. The company is old (average age here is way to high for an it firm) and extremely bureaucratic, nothing ever gets done, and on top of that the money isnt all that briliant either.
This the point where i start looking around, for either much better money for the same job, or a much more interesting and bareable job (or idealy, both)
I can't bring myself to believe that you have 15 years of experience in the IT industry and don't know the real value of these "certificates". They exist solely to help HR tick off the appropriate box on an application.
in my eyes, you are a bit overly-cinical. Sure those certificates are mostly checkboxes for HR, but i can state from my own experience that getting my sun certificates really helped me in my first job, partly since i didnt do a pure CS/IT study.
now microsoft certs (where candidates get testkings a few days before the exam), those are worthless in my eyes. At best they prove the person has the ability to memorize a couple hundred multiple choice question/answer combos
wow, didnt know about s80, thanks for the pointer
i dont really see a reason for lifting the s80 though, it might have caried two nuclear warheards (it was able to cary two ssn-3 cruise missiles, some variants of which had a nuclear tip), but since s80 already has been raised once (for the investigation of the sinking), i would think the soviets would have removed the missiles at that time. So nothing really dangerous (perhaps a few tonnes of diesel fuel) remains in the s80, best let it be.
K-159 is a different story though, but wikipedia reports that the kursk has been raised and dismantled already.
this one wasnt dumped because of a power plant failure.
The k-159 did experience a primary coolant leak sometime in its operational life, but apperently it wasnt that bad of an incident, since it continued to opperate two more years before its power plant was overhauled. The incident happened in 1965, and the sub was decommisioned in 1989. After that it spent 14 years rusting away at a dock, after which it was to be towed to polyarny for scrapping. Since the 14 years of zero maintenance left it in a barely floating state, the russians welded some floating pontoons to the side, which where also only barely floating.
During the voyage, one pontoon broke off during a storm, and the thing sank.
I'm not saying the reactor in that thing is in perfect state, but i do think that at the time of decommision (1989), the power plant would have been fine (for soviet values of fine). The boat sank because of leaks in the hull, not a reactor failure
I think the GP is referring to George Bush Junior, who also pronounced it 'nucular' on several occasions
which still are hit-miss when you want long-term storage.
In 2003 i burned a few CD-Rs, in 2005 those same discs where degraded to the point where i couldnt use them anymore (software installation, so like a backup, a few corrupted files screws the whole thing). These discs where stored horizontally out of direct light.
Granted, they werent the best discs, but when the use case involves "put disc in cabinet, wait 10 years", then i wouldnt really be all that confident that optical writeable media will work all that well
as others have mentioned, this most likely wont be comming to movies soon.
But i am 100% with you here, last december i decided to get a Blu-ray player, they where getting affordable, and my GF wanted one. If they start to push these new generation discs in movies, then i wont be getting any of those movies, because i will refuse to buy a new player.
Meanwhile, last month i got an asus o!play media streamer, also does HD over HDMI, SPDIF out.. now please remind me why i actually still cope with those physical media bastards?
Meteors will need to be solved anyway, as any moon-base will probably not be mobile enough to move all its installations out of harms way.
My idea, a laser point defense turret, you have an overabundance of solar power, not atmospheric diffraction/distortion, so even larger target can be shot at from many thousands of miles away, at which point ablation might be used to deflect larger targets, rather then completely vaporising them
i just checked the youtube thing, quite cool!
also, fuck /. for putting sounds-producing flash in every page, i will be off till tomorrow
That's because the larger casing/battery allow for a more powerfull RDF generator to be installed, where your iPhone 3G only generates 10mJ (that is milli-Jobs, not milli-joule) at three feet, the ipad can scale up to 50mJ!
Curse the corporate firewall/proxy!
what kind of company policy blocks youtube but lets facebook pass anyway?
i'll have to check this out at home tonight
could you point me to it? my ipod touch has the latest software, and i even double-checked before posting..
when setting up an alarm i just get to select the default 'marimba' type noises in the sound menu.
in some cases, changing the hardware setup will require newer windows version to be reactivated. I dont know if adding ram is enough to trigger this effect in any version, but AFAIK changing the cpu/video card can do this.
However, pending re-activation, the machine functions just like it would just after install, before the initial activation, no locking out of ram/cores whatever
Waiting for a scheduled event to give an alarm
i totally forgot about this! the built-in alarm clock doesnt support starting to play music (which my stereo circa 1998 did, i really like waking up to music), instead of the god-awfull beep-beep sound. There are alarm clocks which do, but using them means that before going to sleep you have to be 100% sure the app is running in the foreground. If you dont have it running at the moment it is supposed to go off, it wont work
which is just fucking moronic, idiots at apple
this sounds interesting, what kind of specs does the laptop have? (and did it run a full X desktop, or are we talking command line here?)
it's not so much about running multiple apps, as it is about having stuff running in the background. (non-apple stuff that is)
even on the iphone it would be usefull enough to have a chat app in the background while you are surfing (for people who chat, i dont). Or how about being allowed to chose your own music-streaming app, instead of the ipod app? (which doesnt do streaming). And i'm sure the app-writers out there can think of a bajilion other usefull, new, funny, cool or interesting things running in the background.
i rather doubt that, the playstation 2 is capable of ~66 milion polys/sec, and from what i've seen, intel integrated graphics are capable of rendering ps2 level graphics without trouble (keep in mind the low resolution of the ps2 and such). Off course this doesnt go for something like the 82815 intel graphics chip, but that thing is 10 years old, hardly a fair comparison.
Also ipod maxi != pc
Except, you know, the average netbook has a processor that's 50% faster, 150% more storage capacity, a screen about 10% larger, plus the option of using a keyboard if you'd rather not play with handwriting recognition. Oh, and most have cameras, and quite a few have longer battery life.
For half the price...
anyway, i dont get the hubbub about it being powerfull, i mean, device three times more expensive then ipod, more powerfull then ipod, who'da thunk it?
and im reading the review right now, the guy is actually writing about the mail app as if it is new "i cant seem to acces the gmail chat function in the mail app" well no shit sherlock..
either that, or small speakers/speaker ports just SUCK for low-wavelength sound.
I don't know who would expect a small tablet to have a decent bass-reponse. If you want propper sound, get a half-decent set of speakers. You'd have to be an idiot anyway to use any type of built in speakers on a mobile device when you want good quality sound.
i didn't know ACs now have a built-in post delay of three months...
So we basically agree i think. I also think that morally we have some base for going illegal and violating copyright, especially in the case of older media that cant be found legally anymore, and even in cases where they are technically 'available', but only under so much conditions, it is like signing your life away to the record company..
good god, it is a sad day when something like this is rightfully considered insightfull...
sorry, but how the hell does Wall-E have some kind of magical geek cred which Cars doesnt? because the antropomophised cartoon characters are 'robots' instead of cars? (and since when cant a geek be car obsessed too? i really enjoyed cars, especially luigi!).
And honestly, when distributers start delivering DVDs without the stupid unskippable 'you wouldnt steal a car' crap tacked on, and without the unskippable trailers for their other tripe, i will start buying DVDs again. Once in a while i buy a disc (although i do tend to stay away from new release, especially new blu-rays are just ridiculously expensive), pop it in the player and inmediatly have my mood ruined because of all the crap the producer throws at me for buying their product. I repeat this cycle about twice a year, but lately less and less.
Offer me a product i want (without annoying shit attached), at a price i can live with, and i will buy it
while i agree with the copying != stealing, and the fact that us linux users are basically SOL when it comes to video (you yanks are anyway, i couldnt give a rats ass about the DMCA), you make a big mistake equating a child needing to steal just to stay alive with you needing to break the law to be entertained by new movies.
In your (our) situation, the correct response would be to either play by the rules set by the copyright owners, or to just not use the content at all. Off course many people will chose option C and go illegal, and from a moral standpoint i would argue they are justified (the media companies are basically forming a cartel against the consumer, and the artists), but being morally right isnt the same as being legal