I can see how all tubing being the same could be useful. In an ideal world you would have enough tubing of each type all of the time, but what do you do if all of the IV tubing is used up, and you badly need some, but you have a huge pile of other kinds lying there. Well if each kind has its own connector then you (well, the patient) is screwed. Sure you could have adapters, but then you would have to keep stock of adapters as well, and hope that if you run into that situation that there are adapters left. Not to mention that it adds another link in the chain that can go wrong.
Not that it is better than the alternative I just think everything should be considered.
Well I think something like "when tube is used for IV put red mark on ends" is probably a little more do-able than re-writing every textbook on electricity or going back in time and smacking Ben Franklin.
You have no idea how bad it is in nursing. And I'm glad that your friends are in nice, cushy jobs that somehow maintained a certain standard. In many places all over the country, there are practically no nursing jobs available, but at the same time, there aren't enough nurses. How can that be? Well, there is either no money to pay them or nobody is willing to pay them. For the jobs that are available, they get filled easily by all of the older nurses delaying retirement or coming back from retirement because they need the money. As a result the job market is saturated with nurses with a lot of experience looking for work. Since employers know that they can get nurses with experience, they require at least a year of experience nursing minimum or they throw out the application. Very, very, very few nursing jobs are available to new grads. The ones that are available are typically reserved for someone because of connections. Then you have ads all over the place, and of course "conventional wisdom" telling people that there is a nursing shortage, and all they need is a nursing degree and they can get a job. Lies. All so that these nursing schools can make money.
So we have a situation with a glut of people with nursing degrees with no nursing experience, and nobody willing to give them nursing experience. At the same time we have an aging nurse population who will soon not be able to continue, and maybe even require nurses of their own. What a fucked up situation.
So imagine you are a nurse, and you know about this situation. You are stuck in a shitty unit in a shitty hospital, like in Detroit, and you are overworked and the family members of the patients are rude and yelling at you, you have over twice the "ethical" workload because there aren't enough nurses and you can't just not give people medical care after they are admitted or you will lose your job, and you rarely see the doctors and they disrespect you when you do see them. Everyone in the unit is asking why you are there because they job sucks so much. It is pretty fucking stressful. I think at that point if you make a mistake, of any magnitude, it is understandable.
Intel didn't give it out-of-order execution capability for a very good reason. They had a lot of faith in their compiler people. Specifically, they expected their compiler teams to perform miracles by performing magic and violating causality by looking at what the processor would be actually asked to do in the future.
Oh wait, did I say "good" reason? I meant "retarded". Yeah, that's the word.
I don't think it is an "inferiority complex". Some people just like to work hard and get rewarded for it. I enjoy having higher DPS because I did my research and wasted time on the training dummies fine-tuning my rotation. I like it when getting near the "peak" DPS is only achievable from hard work and dedication (maybe you might call it obsession, but whatever). It is a lot of work for a little bit of gain in performance, but that is how it always works. What sucks is that they are adjusting that "peak" on the performance curve so that is lower and more smoothed out. Which means, you don't have to work as hard to get near-perfect performance.
I had a crappy dead-end job, where it didn't matter how hard I worked, so WoW was a great escape for me. I enjoy hard work, and climbing to the top through that hard work plus dedication. However when I see less and less benefit to doing that, what's the point? Luckily I got out of the crappy job I had and now am somewhere where hard work and dedication mean something, and I don't need WoW anymore.
One of the first things I watched was the new Alice in Wonderland movie and there were a few scenes in there (most notably when she first lands in the eat me, drink me room...) where the blacks were HORRIBLY pixelated
It was just "The Government". You know, that undefined blob of mental mass that you can blame everything on and assign as the cause and/or solution to all of yours and the world's problems.
I think of intrinsic value as equivalent to how much human effort would go into making it, with of course the condition that people actually want it for something. For a comic book that is easily reproducible since it is only made of paper, that has a very low intrinsic value. For a big gold bar, that takes a lot of human effort to mine the ore and refine it, so that has a lot higher intrinsic value. That's just the way I look at it, anyway.
Maybe it is just me, but the students who want everything online, including the course notes and videos of the lectures, overwhelmingly just support that idea because they don't want to go to class. Sure, maybe they actually want to learn (unlikely), and maybe they are actually great self-studyers with lots of motivation (even more unlikely). I'm not even saying they learn anything from going to class, or that going to class is inherently better. All I'm saying is that they will support anything that means less hours physically in class, and haven't put much thought into whether or not it is actually better for them. They just see an opportunity to use tech buzzwords to support the agenda of sleeping in.
Then there are the people who simply push stuff with buzzwords so that they sound smart and feel like they are accomplishing something. They aren't thinking much about the repercussions of it either.
I'm not saying there aren't benefits to tons of tech and everything online, but neither category of person listed above really listens to any negatives, and will actively avoid intelligent discussion on the topic. So it is hard to take them seriously.
I remember being on forums years ago when Rambus initially started its "Troll the World" tour. For some reason there were a lot of people who felt it necessary to tirelessly defend this company. They had an extraordinarily difficult time following logic and reason, and for some reason defended Rambus like it was their buddy in a bar fight. I thought they must have fallen into three categories. First, they are Rambus-paid trolls, which I kind of doubted there were many of, since there are so many stupid people that will do this work for free. Such as the second type, which have the typical "defend your shitty purchase" mentality. Third, they are just annoying fucks who like being contrarian for the sake of it. So, basically trolls.
Where are all of them now? Where are all of the valiant RAMBUS DEFENDERS (TM) to correct the injustice of this company having bad things said about it? Maybe everyone who feels embarrassed about their shitty Rambus purchases finally got over it.
Thanks for being so descriptive. What about the freezing technique another poster talks about, which increases alcohol content of the beer without distillation?
As someone unfamiliar with this topic, why? I'm wondering what your definition of beer is, and if it has an arbitrary limit for alcohol content. Does the process for making beer necessarily limit the alcohol to around 10% max? I know for sure I've had beer with around that much alcohol and I never heard any beer connoisseurs complain that it wasn't actually beer.
What I would hope for is that the FCC institutes net neutrality regulations, and everything ends up going well and the doom-and-gloom scenarios of all of the anti-net neutrality people never materialize. So at least then there will be a track record of this kind of thing being good when the time comes to codify it into law.
Maybe that is being overly-optimistic, but I think it is a decent path, and better than nothing, especially since the chance of legislation about this passing any time soon is pretty low.
Having a professor say "I'd like to work with this person, he'd be a big help to my research, can you let him in" usually means you get in unless the department doesn't think you could succeed.
I'd only add that just because a professor says he wants you doesn't necessarily mean that helps your chances of admission at all. If they aren't on the admissions committee, then their wishes might mean squat, no matter what. Departmental politics plays a bigger role than anyone would like, and can rear its ugly head in strange and annoying ways. These people have seen lots of students come in claiming they know they want to be there, and know what they want to do, only to see them be a horrible fit, quit, or fail spectacularly. This leads to people sometimes ignoring your stated interests, and instead making up their own pseudo-professional profile of you based on your admissions materials. Of course every department is different and deals with things in its own way.
Just learn to never, ever get excited about any statements regarding admission until you get it in writing.
Well now in social situations when somebody asks you how many chicken nuggets you want, or how long you have been with the company, you don't look like a retard when you put your hands up and start counting fingers.
Seriously? You can't see the value in forcing kids to learn how to count in their heads? And you can't tell that your teacher helped you figure out how to improve your mental visualization?
Perhaps you missed this part:
"...most of which..."
Nokia has made many, many phone models, orders of magnitude more in number than Apple has. I believe his point was that Nokia has much more experience in antenna design than Apple so it isn't wise to completely discount their opinions, especially when their track record overall is pretty good.
I'm sorry that you didn't get that from his story but I think it was obvious. Also most people are lazy. They just want their phone to work, and think of it more like an appliance than nerds do. If it works for them when they get it, and generally works where they normally go, checking the reception at every other possible point they could be with the phone generally isn't their primary concern. I bet a LOT of people will keep their iPhone 4 because they don't see any issues where they live, but someday they will be somewhere getting horrible reception because of the antenna problem.
And yes, I anticipate that many of these people will discover this far past the 30 day return window.
What you missed was the obvious implied passage of time in his story of an iPhone owner who keeps his phone past 30 days because he doesn't immediately see reception issues.
I am not in materials science, and I don't know what they tried, and I doubt you do either.
Assuming you are right and they can't make the antenna greatly superior to other antennas, as they initially claimed, while keeping the looks as good as they want, they should have owned up to it, and also not raised everyone's expectations in the first place.
Personally I'm just annoyed with all of these people who swear fealty to a corporation. I truly don't understand it.
I understand giving repeat business to a company that treats you well. I also understand having respect for a company that does right by its customers. But I don't understand making up excuses for its mistakes and defending it like it is your dad and you are an 8 year old on the playground.
I mean, it is just a company, and you pay it money for things. What does it give you that you don't pay it for? Does it give free blowjobs out to the most devoted supporters or something? If so then I might just have to sign up.
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I can see how all tubing being the same could be useful. In an ideal world you would have enough tubing of each type all of the time, but what do you do if all of the IV tubing is used up, and you badly need some, but you have a huge pile of other kinds lying there. Well if each kind has its own connector then you (well, the patient) is screwed. Sure you could have adapters, but then you would have to keep stock of adapters as well, and hope that if you run into that situation that there are adapters left. Not to mention that it adds another link in the chain that can go wrong.
Not that it is better than the alternative I just think everything should be considered.
Well I think something like "when tube is used for IV put red mark on ends" is probably a little more do-able than re-writing every textbook on electricity or going back in time and smacking Ben Franklin.
You have no idea how bad it is in nursing. And I'm glad that your friends are in nice, cushy jobs that somehow maintained a certain standard. In many places all over the country, there are practically no nursing jobs available, but at the same time, there aren't enough nurses. How can that be? Well, there is either no money to pay them or nobody is willing to pay them. For the jobs that are available, they get filled easily by all of the older nurses delaying retirement or coming back from retirement because they need the money. As a result the job market is saturated with nurses with a lot of experience looking for work. Since employers know that they can get nurses with experience, they require at least a year of experience nursing minimum or they throw out the application. Very, very, very few nursing jobs are available to new grads. The ones that are available are typically reserved for someone because of connections. Then you have ads all over the place, and of course "conventional wisdom" telling people that there is a nursing shortage, and all they need is a nursing degree and they can get a job. Lies. All so that these nursing schools can make money.
So we have a situation with a glut of people with nursing degrees with no nursing experience, and nobody willing to give them nursing experience. At the same time we have an aging nurse population who will soon not be able to continue, and maybe even require nurses of their own. What a fucked up situation.
So imagine you are a nurse, and you know about this situation. You are stuck in a shitty unit in a shitty hospital, like in Detroit, and you are overworked and the family members of the patients are rude and yelling at you, you have over twice the "ethical" workload because there aren't enough nurses and you can't just not give people medical care after they are admitted or you will lose your job, and you rarely see the doctors and they disrespect you when you do see them. Everyone in the unit is asking why you are there because they job sucks so much. It is pretty fucking stressful. I think at that point if you make a mistake, of any magnitude, it is understandable.
Intel didn't give it out-of-order execution capability for a very good reason. They had a lot of faith in their compiler people. Specifically, they expected their compiler teams to perform miracles by performing magic and violating causality by looking at what the processor would be actually asked to do in the future.
Oh wait, did I say "good" reason? I meant "retarded". Yeah, that's the word.
I don't think it is an "inferiority complex". Some people just like to work hard and get rewarded for it. I enjoy having higher DPS because I did my research and wasted time on the training dummies fine-tuning my rotation. I like it when getting near the "peak" DPS is only achievable from hard work and dedication (maybe you might call it obsession, but whatever). It is a lot of work for a little bit of gain in performance, but that is how it always works. What sucks is that they are adjusting that "peak" on the performance curve so that is lower and more smoothed out. Which means, you don't have to work as hard to get near-perfect performance.
I had a crappy dead-end job, where it didn't matter how hard I worked, so WoW was a great escape for me. I enjoy hard work, and climbing to the top through that hard work plus dedication. However when I see less and less benefit to doing that, what's the point? Luckily I got out of the crappy job I had and now am somewhere where hard work and dedication mean something, and I don't need WoW anymore.
One of the first things I watched was the new Alice in Wonderland movie and there were a few scenes in there (most notably when she first lands in the eat me, drink me room...) where the blacks were HORRIBLY pixelated
Ugh, somebody always has to play the race card.
"Let's hope we can avoid dropping the basket until we have spread the load."
That's what she said.
Should I feel dirty that I applied that to a Hawking quote, or does that just make it funnier?
It was just "The Government". You know, that undefined blob of mental mass that you can blame everything on and assign as the cause and/or solution to all of yours and the world's problems.
Nothing can kill The Grimace.
I think of intrinsic value as equivalent to how much human effort would go into making it, with of course the condition that people actually want it for something. For a comic book that is easily reproducible since it is only made of paper, that has a very low intrinsic value. For a big gold bar, that takes a lot of human effort to mine the ore and refine it, so that has a lot higher intrinsic value.
That's just the way I look at it, anyway.
Investing in it? More like gambling on the hope that another extremely bored rich guy will waste even more money on it later.
Maybe it is just me, but the students who want everything online, including the course notes and videos of the lectures, overwhelmingly just support that idea because they don't want to go to class. Sure, maybe they actually want to learn (unlikely), and maybe they are actually great self-studyers with lots of motivation (even more unlikely). I'm not even saying they learn anything from going to class, or that going to class is inherently better. All I'm saying is that they will support anything that means less hours physically in class, and haven't put much thought into whether or not it is actually better for them. They just see an opportunity to use tech buzzwords to support the agenda of sleeping in.
Then there are the people who simply push stuff with buzzwords so that they sound smart and feel like they are accomplishing something. They aren't thinking much about the repercussions of it either.
I'm not saying there aren't benefits to tons of tech and everything online, but neither category of person listed above really listens to any negatives, and will actively avoid intelligent discussion on the topic. So it is hard to take them seriously.
I remember being on forums years ago when Rambus initially started its "Troll the World" tour. For some reason there were a lot of people who felt it necessary to tirelessly defend this company. They had an extraordinarily difficult time following logic and reason, and for some reason defended Rambus like it was their buddy in a bar fight. I thought they must have fallen into three categories. First, they are Rambus-paid trolls, which I kind of doubted there were many of, since there are so many stupid people that will do this work for free. Such as the second type, which have the typical "defend your shitty purchase" mentality. Third, they are just annoying fucks who like being contrarian for the sake of it. So, basically trolls.
Where are all of them now? Where are all of the valiant RAMBUS DEFENDERS (TM) to correct the injustice of this company having bad things said about it? Maybe everyone who feels embarrassed about their shitty Rambus purchases finally got over it.
Thanks for being so descriptive.
What about the freezing technique another poster talks about, which increases alcohol content of the beer without distillation?
As someone unfamiliar with this topic, why? I'm wondering what your definition of beer is, and if it has an arbitrary limit for alcohol content. Does the process for making beer necessarily limit the alcohol to around 10% max? I know for sure I've had beer with around that much alcohol and I never heard any beer connoisseurs complain that it wasn't actually beer.
I agree but you have to work with what you have.
What I would hope for is that the FCC institutes net neutrality regulations, and everything ends up going well and the doom-and-gloom scenarios of all of the anti-net neutrality people never materialize. So at least then there will be a track record of this kind of thing being good when the time comes to codify it into law.
Maybe that is being overly-optimistic, but I think it is a decent path, and better than nothing, especially since the chance of legislation about this passing any time soon is pretty low.
Just the idea of the software center like ubuntu's goes miles ahead for those who are new to computers
Ubuntu is streets ahead in general.
Having a professor say "I'd like to work with this person, he'd be a big help to my research, can you let him in" usually means you get in unless the department doesn't think you could succeed.
I'd only add that just because a professor says he wants you doesn't necessarily mean that helps your chances of admission at all. If they aren't on the admissions committee, then their wishes might mean squat, no matter what. Departmental politics plays a bigger role than anyone would like, and can rear its ugly head in strange and annoying ways. These people have seen lots of students come in claiming they know they want to be there, and know what they want to do, only to see them be a horrible fit, quit, or fail spectacularly. This leads to people sometimes ignoring your stated interests, and instead making up their own pseudo-professional profile of you based on your admissions materials. Of course every department is different and deals with things in its own way.
Just learn to never, ever get excited about any statements regarding admission until you get it in writing.
Well now in social situations when somebody asks you how many chicken nuggets you want, or how long you have been with the company, you don't look like a retard when you put your hands up and start counting fingers.
Seriously? You can't see the value in forcing kids to learn how to count in their heads? And you can't tell that your teacher helped you figure out how to improve your mental visualization?
Just. Wow.
Perhaps you missed this part:
"...most of which..."
Nokia has made many, many phone models, orders of magnitude more in number than Apple has. I believe his point was that Nokia has much more experience in antenna design than Apple so it isn't wise to completely discount their opinions, especially when their track record overall is pretty good.
I'm sorry that you didn't get that from his story but I think it was obvious. Also most people are lazy. They just want their phone to work, and think of it more like an appliance than nerds do. If it works for them when they get it, and generally works where they normally go, checking the reception at every other possible point they could be with the phone generally isn't their primary concern. I bet a LOT of people will keep their iPhone 4 because they don't see any issues where they live, but someday they will be somewhere getting horrible reception because of the antenna problem. And yes, I anticipate that many of these people will discover this far past the 30 day return window.
What you missed was the obvious implied passage of time in his story of an iPhone owner who keeps his phone past 30 days because he doesn't immediately see reception issues.
Personally, I'd call him by some kind of respectable title if he had one, and I'd call him by his last name if I had respect for him.
I am not in materials science, and I don't know what they tried, and I doubt you do either.
Assuming you are right and they can't make the antenna greatly superior to other antennas, as they initially claimed, while keeping the looks as good as they want, they should have owned up to it, and also not raised everyone's expectations in the first place.
Personally I'm just annoyed with all of these people who swear fealty to a corporation. I truly don't understand it.
I understand giving repeat business to a company that treats you well. I also understand having respect for a company that does right by its customers. But I don't understand making up excuses for its mistakes and defending it like it is your dad and you are an 8 year old on the playground.
I mean, it is just a company, and you pay it money for things. What does it give you that you don't pay it for? Does it give free blowjobs out to the most devoted supporters or something? If so then I might just have to sign up.