"With all these free radio stations people won't buy our records."
"With all these free movies on TV people won't go to the movies."
Having said that, cellphone service is nowhere near what it should be in terms of reliability and quality. How many of the main carriers allow you to do what you want with your phone (e.g. bluetooth restrictions in many phones) and your service (forward messages & voicemail via email, etc)?
* Vaccines are injected straight into the bloodstream, bypassing much of the body's natural defenses in the digestive, respiratory and skin systems.
* Polio is cited as an example of the success of vaccines, yet.. "In June of 1959...all non-paralytic cases of poliomyelitis were to be henceforth recorded as 'meningitis, viral or aseptic,' a disease which itself only became reportable in 1952 (Canada)." - Catherine Diodati MA (Immunization History, Ethics, Law and Health p116)
* Beddow Bayly, author of the book "The Case Against Vaccination" said: "After vaccination was introduced, cases of aseptic meningitis were more often reported as a separate disease from polio, but such cases were counted as polio before the vaccine was introduced. The Ministry of Health admitted that the vaccine status of the individual is a guiding factor in diagnosis. If a person who is vaccinated contracts the disease, the disease is simply recorded under a different name."
* Formaldehyde is classified as a carcenogen by the FDA (http://cis.nci.nih.gov/fact/3_8.htm) so why do you want to inject it straight into my baby's bloodstream?
* My baby's doctor once told us that one injection gave about the same amount of mercury as you would have eating fish once per week for a year. Lets do the math. My baby is about 1/8th my weight, so the dose-per-weight increases eight-fold, and is supposed to receive a large number of thesebefore he's two years old. Then there's also the fact that again it goes straight into the bloodstream rather than the digestive system, therefore it would have a stronger effect on my baby's body.
* Economics... if vaccines were so good for us, then why aren't they free for everyone? Why are these pharmacutical companies making fortunes selling them? How many schools do you that are making money hand-over-fist, yet those are also for the public good?
* The disease life cycle is changing. Before vaccines you got certain diseases as a child (when your body was able for them) and built up life-long resistances to them; this resistance was then passed on to children via the mother's milk for the first few years until the child's own body was able to fight disease sufficiently, and onwards, continuing the cycle. Compare that today when children are given vaccinations against normal childhood diseases, the vaccine wears off by the time they reach adulthood, they come in contact with the disease (often from someone who was just given the vaccine) and contract it, developing more serious symptoms than if it had been contracted as a child. As a result of this many "booster" vaccines are promoted to help you through adulthood. I think breastmilk is a better way to go with it, actually.
* The whole US medical establishment blows off the side effects of vaccines. My niece developed what the CDC labelled as serious side effects from one vaccine - labored breathing, diziness, etc, etc. When the parents brought this to the attention of their doctor it was blown off saying "ah sure she's fine now" and "well that kind of thing can happen". I'm sorry, if you develop what the CDC says are "serious side effects" then there's something wrong. Another niece developed seisures twice, both within a few days of receiving vaccinations, but again this was blamed on something else, in this case an ear infection (?!?).
What if they (specifically their parents) don't want a vaccination, due to not wanting to overdose them with mercury, antifreeze and other poisonous substances? Can they have the money instead? Or is this just a cover for BG getting in bed with the pharmacutical companies? Conspiracy theories abound.
Focus on the achievements you've made, not strictly the tools used. For example, don't tell them that you wrote a 1000 line perl script using bazillions of modules, rather tell them that you fixed a problem the company had for years which boosted sales/productivity/profits using a perl script you wrote. You can be trained in tools, life experience and achievements are what set you apart from other people.
Sorry to throw in a way-off-topic post, but I'm selling my ipaq 3650 after not using it for a year. It has familiar with Opie installed and worked great while I was using it. Alas, I have no use for it now, but contact me if you're interested.
Were they trying to tell gamers to go christmas shopping instead? "You know it would look so much better if I got that new ATI card. Aw hell, I'll just get a new PC!"
* Liked the new installer, much easier to use and less klunky (on Winders).
* Loved the new interface, it is very clean and much more pleasant to use than v1.
* Loved the new features - the media gallery, etc.
* Hated how it wouldn't save embedded images. I spend half an hour working on documentation with embedded images, saved, reloaded, no images. Back to v1 for me.
I do plan on testing the heck out of the pre-releases (and sending it on CDs to all my friends), but once burned, twice shy for me.
One thing I would personally really like to see is a command line utility to automatically resave v1 files (or indeed any other format) in the v2 format. Run that over a directory of your files and never (in theory) have file problems again.
They've been slowly making their way towards v1.0 and have gone through 19 major revisions thus far. Each of the last few (since v0.16 or so) has added major functionality with each release and v1.0 rounds off what they feel they wanted to have for v1. What's the problem? Not everyone does the 0.9.5678 numbering system you know.
I've used Mantis with great success for several years, both on Linux and Windows hosts. They also have limited support for SQL Server, which is somewhat unofficial with the current v0.19 release but official release will come with v1 next year. Enjoy!
A few years back I made contact with someone who went on to start his own business, so now I do some work for him at night, around my 9-6 day job and having a family. Kinda tough at times...
The main reason I see to move to PCI Express is that it is a fully open standard by the PCI Consortium, rather than AGP which is an Intel trade secret. It is because of this that AMD had horrible AGP support for a long time, but with the open standard that is PCI-Express everyone wins.
Plus you can daisy-chain multiple PCI-E cards for SLI, which is neat.
A guy I knew back in 2000 at college was boasting about his turbo-nutter CD burner he got from his mom. It was supposed to be so fast as to burn a full CD in 30 seconds.
This was the same guy who, back then when CPUs weren't even running on a 133MHz bus yet (i.e. 700MHz days), that his mom had a 1.4GHz system from the government.
Then there was a different guy who in 1996 told me about hacking into a website that controlled some satellite or other and had some NSA guy come onto his computer and tell him off for doing it.
Microsoft's read-between-the-lines-to-see-it plan is to do exactly this, to use the XBox (or its sequels) as a productivity center. I'm surprised it has taken them so long to give it a go, maybe they're looking for the XBox2 to run Office effiently? Anyway, imagine having software leased from Microsoft that you'll download to your local xbox2. Or, better yet, your Media Center system acts as an application server projecting applications to your portable devices and xbox3's.
With this Microsoft controls everything, and that's just what they want.
The used Tridia VNC and Tridia VNC Pro at work before I joined. My manager said that he thought Tridia VNC was really good, but that they messed it up with the Pro version. Better off sticking with one of the free ones IMHO.
How much of the job losses were from the dotBOMB crap? Talk about a much needed event. I'm glad the investors lost their money, but I wish it hadn't hit so many every day folk.
It has a simple interface but a lot of what it does isn't that good - duplicate photos everywhere, lack of support for media types, etc. Better off using something like Directory Opus with its recent media handling improvements, amongst other things.
It is an instinct for many children to do what authority figures tell them not to do, and not do what they are told to do. So the best thing I can think of is to very plainly and bluntly tell them that they must go to goatse.cx (or a mirror) and that way they will be sure never to go.
Slashdot Mirror
"With all these free radio stations people won't buy our records."
"With all these free movies on TV people won't go to the movies."
Having said that, cellphone service is nowhere near what it should be in terms of reliability and quality. How many of the main carriers allow you to do what you want with your phone (e.g. bluetooth restrictions in many phones) and your service (forward messages & voicemail via email, etc)?
Damien
OK, try and tell me it isn't related to BG's recent donation of $750m to vaccinations!
Damien
Really? So if ethylmercury is so safe then why did the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) release a jointed statement concerning questions over the safety of it in children?l /thimerosal-AAP&PHS.htm
http://www.cdc.gov/nip/vacsafe/concerns/thimerosa
Here are some interesting tidbits:
* Vaccines are injected straight into the bloodstream, bypassing much of the body's natural defenses in the digestive, respiratory and skin systems.
* Polio is cited as an example of the success of vaccines, yet.. "In June of 1959...all non-paralytic cases of poliomyelitis were to be henceforth recorded as 'meningitis, viral or aseptic,' a disease which itself only became reportable in 1952 (Canada)." - Catherine Diodati MA (Immunization History, Ethics, Law and Health p116)
* Beddow Bayly, author of the book "The Case Against Vaccination" said: "After vaccination was introduced, cases of aseptic meningitis were more often reported as a separate disease from polio, but such cases were counted as polio before the vaccine was introduced. The Ministry of Health admitted that the vaccine status of the individual is a guiding factor in diagnosis. If a person who is vaccinated contracts the disease, the disease is simply recorded under a different name."
* Formaldehyde is classified as a carcenogen by the FDA (http://cis.nci.nih.gov/fact/3_8.htm) so why do you want to inject it straight into my baby's bloodstream?
* My baby's doctor once told us that one injection gave about the same amount of mercury as you would have eating fish once per week for a year. Lets do the math. My baby is about 1/8th my weight, so the dose-per-weight increases eight-fold, and is supposed to receive a large number of thesebefore he's two years old. Then there's also the fact that again it goes straight into the bloodstream rather than the digestive system, therefore it would have a stronger effect on my baby's body.
* Economics... if vaccines were so good for us, then why aren't they free for everyone? Why are these pharmacutical companies making fortunes selling them? How many schools do you that are making money hand-over-fist, yet those are also for the public good?
* The disease life cycle is changing. Before vaccines you got certain diseases as a child (when your body was able for them) and built up life-long resistances to them; this resistance was then passed on to children via the mother's milk for the first few years until the child's own body was able to fight disease sufficiently, and onwards, continuing the cycle. Compare that today when children are given vaccinations against normal childhood diseases, the vaccine wears off by the time they reach adulthood, they come in contact with the disease (often from someone who was just given the vaccine) and contract it, developing more serious symptoms than if it had been contracted as a child. As a result of this many "booster" vaccines are promoted to help you through adulthood. I think breastmilk is a better way to go with it, actually.
* The whole US medical establishment blows off the side effects of vaccines. My niece developed what the CDC labelled as serious side effects from one vaccine - labored breathing, diziness, etc, etc. When the parents brought this to the attention of their doctor it was blown off saying "ah sure she's fine now" and "well that kind of thing can happen". I'm sorry, if you develop what the CDC says are "serious side effects" then there's something wrong. Another niece developed seisures twice, both within a few days of receiving vaccinations, but again this was blamed on something else, in this case an ear infection (?!?).
Damien
What if they (specifically their parents) don't want a vaccination, due to not wanting to overdose them with mercury, antifreeze and other poisonous substances? Can they have the money instead? Or is this just a cover for BG getting in bed with the pharmacutical companies? Conspiracy theories abound.
Damien
Focus on the achievements you've made, not strictly the tools used. For example, don't tell them that you wrote a 1000 line perl script using bazillions of modules, rather tell them that you fixed a problem the company had for years which boosted sales/productivity/profits using a perl script you wrote. You can be trained in tools, life experience and achievements are what set you apart from other people.
Damien
Sorry to throw in a way-off-topic post, but I'm selling my ipaq 3650 after not using it for a year. It has familiar with Opie installed and worked great while I was using it. Alas, I have no use for it now, but contact me if you're interested.
Damien
Were they trying to tell gamers to go christmas shopping instead? "You know it would look so much better if I got that new ATI card. Aw hell, I'll just get a new PC!"
Damien
I tried and and really, really..
* Liked the new installer, much easier to use and less klunky (on Winders).
* Loved the new interface, it is very clean and much more pleasant to use than v1.
* Loved the new features - the media gallery, etc.
* Hated how it wouldn't save embedded images. I spend half an hour working on documentation with embedded images, saved, reloaded, no images. Back to v1 for me.
I do plan on testing the heck out of the pre-releases (and sending it on CDs to all my friends), but once burned, twice shy for me.
One thing I would personally really like to see is a command line utility to automatically resave v1 files (or indeed any other format) in the v2 format. Run that over a directory of your files and never (in theory) have file problems again.
Damien
They've been slowly making their way towards v1.0 and have gone through 19 major revisions thus far. Each of the last few (since v0.16 or so) has added major functionality with each release and v1.0 rounds off what they feel they wanted to have for v1. What's the problem? Not everyone does the 0.9.5678 numbering system you know.
Damien
The chicken (Gallus gallus)
Shouldn't that be Bokkus bokkus?
Damien
I've used Mantis with great success for several years, both on Linux and Windows hosts. They also have limited support for SQL Server, which is somewhat unofficial with the current v0.19 release but official release will come with v1 next year. Enjoy!
Damien
A few years back I made contact with someone who went on to start his own business, so now I do some work for him at night, around my 9-6 day job and having a family. Kinda tough at times...
Damien
The main reason I see to move to PCI Express is that it is a fully open standard by the PCI Consortium, rather than AGP which is an Intel trade secret. It is because of this that AMD had horrible AGP support for a long time, but with the open standard that is PCI-Express everyone wins.
Plus you can daisy-chain multiple PCI-E cards for SLI, which is neat.
Damien
"it's the journey not the destination."
That's right, because the RIAA wants your destination to be like no other...
Damien
Does this make the case for parity archiving?
Damien
we's gonna get ourselves a GPL violator!
Damien
A guy I knew back in 2000 at college was boasting about his turbo-nutter CD burner he got from his mom. It was supposed to be so fast as to burn a full CD in 30 seconds.
This was the same guy who, back then when CPUs weren't even running on a 133MHz bus yet (i.e. 700MHz days), that his mom had a 1.4GHz system from the government.
Then there was a different guy who in 1996 told me about hacking into a website that controlled some satellite or other and had some NSA guy come onto his computer and tell him off for doing it.
It takes all kinds.
Damien
Microsoft's read-between-the-lines-to-see-it plan is to do exactly this, to use the XBox (or its sequels) as a productivity center. I'm surprised it has taken them so long to give it a go, maybe they're looking for the XBox2 to run Office effiently? Anyway, imagine having software leased from Microsoft that you'll download to your local xbox2. Or, better yet, your Media Center system acts as an application server projecting applications to your portable devices and xbox3's.
With this Microsoft controls everything, and that's just what they want.
Damien
The used Tridia VNC and Tridia VNC Pro at work before I joined. My manager said that he thought Tridia VNC was really good, but that they messed it up with the Pro version. Better off sticking with one of the free ones IMHO.
Damien
How much of the job losses were from the dotBOMB crap? Talk about a much needed event. I'm glad the investors lost their money, but I wish it hadn't hit so many every day folk.
Damien
It has a simple interface but a lot of what it does isn't that good - duplicate photos everywhere, lack of support for media types, etc. Better off using something like Directory Opus with its recent media handling improvements, amongst other things.
Damien
Anyone know if there will be a Blue-Ray version of the DVD-RAM standard? I want something reliable to store my data.
Damien
It is an instinct for many children to do what authority figures tell them not to do, and not do what they are told to do. So the best thing I can think of is to very plainly and bluntly tell them that they must go to goatse.cx (or a mirror) and that way they will be sure never to go.
Damien
sucket verily and needs to be brought into 1996...
Damien
"Mom, please hang up the phone, you're seriously affecting my FPS rate!"
Damien