Binary objects are obviously far more opaque than plain text when it comes to piping data between tools, and that is a negative thing for the reasons he just gave.
When your shell can decode these binary objects natively, they are not any more opaque than text encoded as a stream of ASCII or UTF-(8|16|32) bytes. PowerShell pipes btw work seamlessly with native executables and turn these objects into text so you can put a grep at the end of your chain of PowerShell (assuming you have gnu grep installed) to perform filtering the unix way. Powershell will turn text into an object (of type string), and the console spits out text in the end. You can redirect this text to a file.
In addition to all that, you have the ability to operate on.NET objects. You can compile C# and VB.NET classes on the fly. C# and VB.NET will let you call an unmanaged dll function (e.g. the equivilant of linking to a.so and making an API call). So I could write a script that call call any.NET DLL easily, and with a few lines of C#, call any unmanaged API call. That's really useful. Whatever isn't exposed to me as a PowerShell cmdlet, I can access with not a lot of code.
Because jet injectors (which actually predate TOS) aren't nearly as neat as Star Trek portrays. Blowback and cross-contamination is a major concern. You basically need a new tip for each injection, rather than just a single one to use forever.
I thought that except for diabetics self administering needles, most of the time needles were used once.
It's interesting and disconcerting people can't figure anything out on their own and feel the need to ask for help online or Google answers. If the OP doesn't know what to do with found calculators yet the OP works in a school where students would benefit from these calculators, I think we're in trouble. Next time I'm sleepy or hungry and don't know what to do about it I'm going to post a/. article and ask everyone.
Perhaps its a matter of "whats the best course of action." He knows how to sell them. He knows how to give them away. He knows how to throw them out. He is looking for an out of the box solution, or third party moral justification for any of these actions.
A lot of people would just sit on their fortunes (Warren Buffet) or piss it away on political bullshit (Koch brothers). I know a lot of the crowd here is anti-Microsoft, but it's nice to see Bill Gates doing something with his hoard and something halfway-geeky to boot!
Yeah The Oracle from Omaha should give away large chunks of his wealth to philanthropic causes. Oh wait . ..
Well, not quite true. If the currency fails, a strong man could TAKE POWER.
See Weimar Germany.
I can't see a Hitler taking over the entire US by persuasion. The union would split up first, and a large chunk of the contiguous 48 states might be lead by a dictator. Said dictator might reunite the country via military conquest though.
The northeast also has cheap internet. I pay $15 a month for DSL, or have the option to pay $50 a month for highspeed FiOS or cable.
I live in Jersey city (literally right across the river from manhattan). After taxes I pay just under $100 for the FIOS double play (phone and internet). It might get cheaper if I drop the land line, but I don't think I can do fios or cable for under $50.
I'm fine with getting rid of Social Security, just don't make me pay the 6% of my income then. (Even if you "force" me to open a 401(k) instead, which I obviously already have, because anybody that's not a moron won't give up free employer match.)
I've worked at places without matches. Its not a guarantee. That being said, its worth the tax savings.
Where are these cheap Americans that will work for $1.75/hour?
No where, and that's why we should hang those motherfuckers that sold us out to the Indians in a public place and leave them rotting as a warning to future motherfuckers that would do the same.
Who's with me?
Or wait for Indian cost of living and salaries to rise, while mean while manufacturing moves to third world states like Alabama.Be patient, everything is cyclical.
I actually agree with you that no government social safety net is the best. Your analogy is a little oversimplified, but your preaching to the choir. The one time I was laid off and out of work for two weeks I took neither state unemployment or my companies severance package. If I was out of work for an extended period I'd take the private charity of the severance package before I took unemployment.
However, accepting the current system as it is, or privatizing unemployment insurance, I do think that a system based on income makes the most sense. I also think that yes if I was a charity that offered some sort of handouts besides basic food or shelter, I might consider allowing a millionaire whose donated to my cause to "make a withdrawal" under certain conditions.
But in 2010, I had several employees in R&D mode, my net income was nearly zero, I fell below the poverty line. I actually qualified for some government handouts. That is seems absurd to me.
First of all, you were a rare edge case, so I don't think its "ridiculous" that you qualified for handouts. Your a really strange edge case if you're floating R&D people and your accountant told you not to pay yourself a salary at all for 2010. I think that if every person in America that was in your boat took advantage of the hand outs, its effect would be negligible.
Secondly, lets say you continued to operate this way until you lost the house and car, wouldn't it be nice to know that you could just walk down to the benefits office and file for benefits.
An adventurer taking a one-way trip to Mars could be making a contribution to advance society. When an athlete pushes his body to the breaking point and takes possibly dangerous performance enhancing drugs, just to attempt to break a record for a rule-based sport by a fraction of a percent, how does that advance our society?
Playing devils advocate, assume some portion of these athletes manage to keep enough of their fortune at age 35 so that when they have all sorts of weird medical issues then can travel to Sweden for all sorts of weird expensive treatment. Lets go on to assume that some of this treatment works, and has application in the sorts of diseases that sometimes normal people get.
I'm not saying I'm necessarily for this, I'm just saying there could be positive unintended consequences.
(You mean letting the dumb RAISE CHILDREN. Idiocracy was not based on fact. Eugenics is a horrible thing. Nature vs. Nurture, bitch)
So you are suggesting:
There is zero genetic component to intelligence. Nurture has a lot to do with it, but I find it hard to believe there is no genetic component. I've seen a lot of variation between siblings, but if we consistently remove the above average IQs from the gene pool, that can't be good long term.
That we force these dumb people to give up their kids to be raised by smarter people. While we are at it we somehow convince smarter people to adopt. Even if you started mandatory education at age 3 and kept the kids all year for 10 hours a day, parents are still a big influence. I don't know how you'd do that.
2. Contribute to open source. I'd shy away from starting your own open source project. That is actually difficult to do unless you know someone demanding it and then you're kind of being held to get it done.
Well it depends on what your intention is. As the author of an open source project I got little feedback on, I'm still glad I wrote the project because I needed it for my own purposes, and I was still able to treat it like a "real project." I wrote an installer for it. I had version numbers. I shipped it out on laptops I setup for my employer, because I might need to use it to diagnose problems. If the author has a real problem to solve for themselves, even if its for their weekly D&D game or for a fantasy sports league, they can still teach themselves about version control, installer software, unit testing, or other things.
I learned about version control when I was writing VB6 programs as a clerk in a security guard company. No one told me to. I decided on my own. Later when I was a programmer there I taught myself to make an MSI installer and how to use NUint. No market pressures from my boss or a client made me do this. Just a desire to be more professional and disciplined.
If you'd lose a wife because you couldn't get a new job quickly enough, then it was a gold-digger that wasn't worth keeping.
Depends. What if not quickly enough is 6 months? 2 years? What if part of the problem is your lack of employment makes you depressed and distant? What if you two recently closed on a bigger house before an unexpected layoff, and you were the one that pressured her into agreeing to it?
We like to consider ourselves "evolved beings" but the facade of civilization fades away after a few missed meals.
He was, of course, making irrational stuff up, that accidentally happened to turn out to be correct. Kind of like the ancient greek version of atomic theory.
If real, usable, economic warp speed spacecraft propulsion is ever invented, that doesn't mean the "star trek" writers should get credit.
"Making stuff up" is an educated guess, or hypothesis. You can keep dividing matter into smaller and smaller pieces. Is that infinite or not? Saying "there must be atomic particles" is as educated a guess as "matter may be divided infinitesimally" if you know as much as the ancient Greeks. The same exists with continental drift. Look at a map and see that the continents kind of fit together like puzzles. Also note that sometime the earth shakes and bleeds (volcano's). So even without all the data and knowledge of fluid dynamics, you have a guess that makes as much sense as "the earth is static except for when it bleeds lava or shakes"
In the same sense, science fiction is based on science fact. Yes Gene Roddenberry did not produce any research to lead to FTL travel, but he certainly had some scientific knowledge on the matter
I've never understood why there cannot be side by side ER and urgent care, and why urgent care cannot be 24 hours. ER rooms are full of exotic medical tech for trauma and heart attack patients. Urgent care is just a cheapie office. Think how incredibly convenient it would be to direct traffic... "Oh you think you have a broken rib, no you're having a heart attack, go to that desk. Oh you have a sore back and came to the ER... well step over to urgent care instead."
24 Hour urgent care might be possible. I'd expect the hard part would be finding night shift admin staff. Then again, college students could do that. The problem with a hospital having a built in urgent care system is that they'd probably have to let people in for free like the ER. An urgent care could probably advertise in an ER, but most people in an ER that have insurance would go to urgent care if they knew about them. Also imagine the lawsuit if someone went to an ER, saw the urgent care advertisement, and went to urgent care, who sent them back to the ER?
Part of their results are based on what they host their company websites on. I don't know about the top 1000. But when I worked at an ISP, several large clients that colo-ed several racks of equipment from us hosted their website on our hosted servers. If a company website doesn't do anything interactive besides send an email to someone in sales or marketing then thats probably what said company does.
Also, its really more interesting what the internal systems in a corporation are running, not the company website, which is usually not handled by IT.
If the number of sales is less than this number, that can be fixed by educating doctors.
That's called marketing. Sure, it might not be direct to consumer advertising, and its a different approach. You're buying doctors lunch as opposed to giving free pens out at health fairs. You're buying ads in journals as opposed to Esquire magazine. Either way, you are spending money to inform decision makers.
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When your shell can decode these binary objects natively, they are not any more opaque than text encoded as a stream of ASCII or UTF-(8|16|32) bytes. PowerShell pipes btw work seamlessly with native executables and turn these objects into text so you can put a grep at the end of your chain of PowerShell (assuming you have gnu grep installed) to perform filtering the unix way. Powershell will turn text into an object (of type string), and the console spits out text in the end. You can redirect this text to a file.
In addition to all that, you have the ability to operate on .NET objects. You can compile C# and VB.NET classes on the fly. C# and VB.NET will let you call an unmanaged dll function (e.g. the equivilant of linking to a .so and making an API call). So I could write a script that call call any .NET DLL easily, and with a few lines of C#, call any unmanaged API call. That's really useful. Whatever isn't exposed to me as a PowerShell cmdlet, I can access with not a lot of code.
Because jet injectors (which actually predate TOS) aren't nearly as neat as Star Trek portrays. Blowback and cross-contamination is a major concern. You basically need a new tip for each injection, rather than just a single one to use forever.
I thought that except for diabetics self administering needles, most of the time needles were used once.
Why not transparent aluminum hypo-sprays?
Troll summaries are the norm here. slashdot is the fox news of tech journalism. There should be an article moderation flag for "not a troll".
(Besides, you know, not everyone lives in a jungle.)
I used to work for an ISP in New York. The ACs always ran. Although maybe outside air exchange could have prevented that a few days a year,
They showed this extraction method on The Unit. Season 2, episode 1 "Change of Station".
Also, Morgan Freeman used it to get Batman out of China without taking the bat boots off for the TSA.
It's interesting and disconcerting people can't figure anything out on their own and feel the need to ask for help online or Google answers. If the OP doesn't know what to do with found calculators yet the OP works in a school where students would benefit from these calculators, I think we're in trouble. Next time I'm sleepy or hungry and don't know what to do about it I'm going to post a /. article and ask everyone.
Perhaps its a matter of "whats the best course of action." He knows how to sell them. He knows how to give them away. He knows how to throw them out. He is looking for an out of the box solution, or third party moral justification for any of these actions.
The only billionaire evil scientists existed in the works of Stan Lee
So Lex Luthor ruined you on the idea?
A lot of people would just sit on their fortunes (Warren Buffet) or piss it away on political bullshit (Koch brothers). I know a lot of the crowd here is anti-Microsoft, but it's nice to see Bill Gates doing something with his hoard and something halfway-geeky to boot!
Yeah The Oracle from Omaha should give away large chunks of his wealth to philanthropic causes. Oh wait . . .
Well, not quite true. If the currency fails, a strong man could TAKE POWER.
See Weimar Germany.
I can't see a Hitler taking over the entire US by persuasion. The union would split up first, and a large chunk of the contiguous 48 states might be lead by a dictator. Said dictator might reunite the country via military conquest though.
The northeast also has cheap internet. I pay $15 a month for DSL, or have the option to pay $50 a month for highspeed FiOS or cable.
I live in Jersey city (literally right across the river from manhattan). After taxes I pay just under $100 for the FIOS double play (phone and internet). It might get cheaper if I drop the land line, but I don't think I can do fios or cable for under $50.
I'm fine with getting rid of Social Security, just don't make me pay the 6% of my income then. (Even if you "force" me to open a 401(k) instead, which I obviously already have, because anybody that's not a moron won't give up free employer match.)
I've worked at places without matches. Its not a guarantee. That being said, its worth the tax savings.
An island rising in the south Pacific can mean only one thing!
Lex Luthor finally gotten rid of that pesky illegal immigrant and can continue his real estate development!
Where are these cheap Americans that will work for $1.75/hour?
No where, and that's why we should hang those motherfuckers that sold us out to the Indians in a public place and leave them rotting as a warning to future motherfuckers that would do the same.
Who's with me?
Or wait for Indian cost of living and salaries to rise, while mean while manufacturing moves to third world states like Alabama.Be patient, everything is cyclical.
I actually agree with you that no government social safety net is the best. Your analogy is a little oversimplified, but your preaching to the choir. The one time I was laid off and out of work for two weeks I took neither state unemployment or my companies severance package. If I was out of work for an extended period I'd take the private charity of the severance package before I took unemployment. However, accepting the current system as it is, or privatizing unemployment insurance, I do think that a system based on income makes the most sense. I also think that yes if I was a charity that offered some sort of handouts besides basic food or shelter, I might consider allowing a millionaire whose donated to my cause to "make a withdrawal" under certain conditions.
But in 2010, I had several employees in R&D mode, my net income was nearly zero, I fell below the poverty line. I actually qualified for some government handouts. That is seems absurd to me.
First of all, you were a rare edge case, so I don't think its "ridiculous" that you qualified for handouts. Your a really strange edge case if you're floating R&D people and your accountant told you not to pay yourself a salary at all for 2010. I think that if every person in America that was in your boat took advantage of the hand outs, its effect would be negligible. Secondly, lets say you continued to operate this way until you lost the house and car, wouldn't it be nice to know that you could just walk down to the benefits office and file for benefits.
An adventurer taking a one-way trip to Mars could be making a contribution to advance society. When an athlete pushes his body to the breaking point and takes possibly dangerous performance enhancing drugs, just to attempt to break a record for a rule-based sport by a fraction of a percent, how does that advance our society?
Playing devils advocate, assume some portion of these athletes manage to keep enough of their fortune at age 35 so that when they have all sorts of weird medical issues then can travel to Sweden for all sorts of weird expensive treatment. Lets go on to assume that some of this treatment works, and has application in the sorts of diseases that sometimes normal people get.
I'm not saying I'm necessarily for this, I'm just saying there could be positive unintended consequences.
(You mean letting the dumb RAISE CHILDREN. Idiocracy was not based on fact. Eugenics is a horrible thing. Nature vs. Nurture, bitch)
So you are suggesting:
2. Contribute to open source. I'd shy away from starting your own open source project. That is actually difficult to do unless you know someone demanding it and then you're kind of being held to get it done.
Well it depends on what your intention is. As the author of an open source project I got little feedback on, I'm still glad I wrote the project because I needed it for my own purposes, and I was still able to treat it like a "real project." I wrote an installer for it. I had version numbers. I shipped it out on laptops I setup for my employer, because I might need to use it to diagnose problems. If the author has a real problem to solve for themselves, even if its for their weekly D&D game or for a fantasy sports league, they can still teach themselves about version control, installer software, unit testing, or other things.
I learned about version control when I was writing VB6 programs as a clerk in a security guard company. No one told me to. I decided on my own. Later when I was a programmer there I taught myself to make an MSI installer and how to use NUint. No market pressures from my boss or a client made me do this. Just a desire to be more professional and disciplined.
If you'd lose a wife because you couldn't get a new job quickly enough, then it was a gold-digger that wasn't worth keeping.
Depends. What if not quickly enough is 6 months? 2 years? What if part of the problem is your lack of employment makes you depressed and distant? What if you two recently closed on a bigger house before an unexpected layoff, and you were the one that pressured her into agreeing to it?
We like to consider ourselves "evolved beings" but the facade of civilization fades away after a few missed meals.
He was, of course, making irrational stuff up, that accidentally happened to turn out to be correct. Kind of like the ancient greek version of atomic theory.
If real, usable, economic warp speed spacecraft propulsion is ever invented, that doesn't mean the "star trek" writers should get credit.
"Making stuff up" is an educated guess, or hypothesis. You can keep dividing matter into smaller and smaller pieces. Is that infinite or not? Saying "there must be atomic particles" is as educated a guess as "matter may be divided infinitesimally" if you know as much as the ancient Greeks. The same exists with continental drift. Look at a map and see that the continents kind of fit together like puzzles. Also note that sometime the earth shakes and bleeds (volcano's). So even without all the data and knowledge of fluid dynamics, you have a guess that makes as much sense as "the earth is static except for when it bleeds lava or shakes"
In the same sense, science fiction is based on science fact. Yes Gene Roddenberry did not produce any research to lead to FTL travel, but he certainly had some scientific knowledge on the matter
You're deliberately blind to his success because it points out that you're completely wrong.
The problem is Louis removed may market inefficiencies created by the RIAA/MPAA, and those inefficiencies create jobs!</sarcasm>
I've never understood why there cannot be side by side ER and urgent care, and why urgent care cannot be 24 hours. ER rooms are full of exotic medical tech for trauma and heart attack patients. Urgent care is just a cheapie office. Think how incredibly convenient it would be to direct traffic... "Oh you think you have a broken rib, no you're having a heart attack, go to that desk. Oh you have a sore back and came to the ER... well step over to urgent care instead."
24 Hour urgent care might be possible. I'd expect the hard part would be finding night shift admin staff. Then again, college students could do that. The problem with a hospital having a built in urgent care system is that they'd probably have to let people in for free like the ER. An urgent care could probably advertise in an ER, but most people in an ER that have insurance would go to urgent care if they knew about them. Also imagine the lawsuit if someone went to an ER, saw the urgent care advertisement, and went to urgent care, who sent them back to the ER?
If it could happen I'd love it though.
Part of their results are based on what they host their company websites on. I don't know about the top 1000. But when I worked at an ISP, several large clients that colo-ed several racks of equipment from us hosted their website on our hosted servers. If a company website doesn't do anything interactive besides send an email to someone in sales or marketing then thats probably what said company does.
Also, its really more interesting what the internal systems in a corporation are running, not the company website, which is usually not handled by IT.
If the number of sales is less than this number, that can be fixed by educating doctors.
That's called marketing. Sure, it might not be direct to consumer advertising, and its a different approach. You're buying doctors lunch as opposed to giving free pens out at health fairs. You're buying ads in journals as opposed to Esquire magazine. Either way, you are spending money to inform decision makers.