I agree, although I have only seen one episode of it (the Mini Cooper one). I work nights on certain days so it's probably on a night where I'm not at home watching TV:)
How is your situation different than my internet addiction where I while away my hours trolling on/., trolling on 3 IRC networks, religiously refreshing my LiveJournal friends page every 5 minutes, and posting to a bunch of other BBSes? How do I get all those hours back? How do I go on living knowing I probably could have graduated earlier from college without the Internet?
I've been a nielsen weenie since 2003. I boycott almost all reality shows (some exceptions include monster house/garage and overhaulin') and MTV shows. I tend to float shows on the History, Food Network (Rachael Ray/Iron Chef/Good Eats), Sci-Fi (Stargate/BSG/Andromeda and some of the novelty ones like Ghosthunters), and of course Adult Swim and other venues of Family Guy. The only network shows I conciously try to float are The Simpsons (obligatory) and House on Fox (I really this show) and my roommate likes Smallville, which is ok. Enterprise needs to die, so I haven't floated that at all. While waiting for House to start, I have sometimes floated NCIS to start. I conciously avoid hitting American Idol. I also like CSI, but I only watch the reruns on SpikeTV, which only counts toward syndication numbers and never new episodes on NBC.
So, I am definitely not your typical Nielsen person. The problem is, my market is located in new england. Our metering is scored lower than the People Meter participants in the big cities (NYC, LA, Chicago), so my contribution is probably washed out by the overwhelming number of the people to whom you referred. But I'm still proud that I'm doing my best to subvert Hollywood.
Overhaulin' is pretty informative, for me, being a car geek, and all. I agree not as informative as Trucks on SpikeTV or even Motorweek though. But it is still interesting to see them showcasing the talent of Chip Foose.
web-based really doesn't work for high-volume ERP transactions
Say what? Oracle/Peoplesoft ERP utilizing webservices ARE written for high-volume (at least satisfying the "medium-sized enterprise-level" requirements) transactions! Sure you might run a java-based interface client on the desktop, but they are still doing most of the work across the wire. My mother is the cost accounting manager at the Thule US corporate office, and from what I've seen, this statement is simply untrue.
Haha beware the old saying Time is Money. Asking the "community" for help therefore considered anecdotal, and does not scale well for production problems that were-supposed-to-be-fixed-yesterday. Sure, I can pay another consultant to fix-it-right-now, but that's not very different from calling up Redmond. Finally, Redmond already has a proven (i.e. enterprise-level) support infrastructure in-place; I don't have to go around looking elsewhere for a Linus Torvalds replacement to tell me about a work-around.
Obviously if you're toying with Linux on a P200, you're not using it in a production environment, so I'm not sure you're qualified to evaluate business support costs.
Actually, this is being used in academia. as we speak. One of my bosses wrote a natural language parser that can process an entire year's worth of say, nature neuroscience. It will "read" each article, and "score" it based on set criteria by the primary investigator. The primary investigator say, wants to study the neurophysiology of hot monkey sex. He then specifies contextual identifiers for positive scoring articles. The parser is intelligent enough to look for positive assertiveness of a particular contextual identifier (i.e. the good female smell is linked to hot monkey sex) and for negative assertiveness (i.e. unshaved butts inhibit hot monkey sex). By linking together identified pieces of contextualized phrases within an article, the parser can determine a logical flow of the paper: (i.e. x causes foo which causes bar which is related to hot monkey sex by a, b, and c).
This is how a professor would grade a classroom paper (i.e. the student mentions A *check*, B *check*, C *check*, asserts D *incorrect*, negatively asserts E *check*: score: 80%)
I am still uncomfortable using portupgrade (except for unwieldy things like gnome) since I like to minimize things going on behind my back (yes even with extra verbosity). I still prefer manually backing up the +REQUIRED_BYs, pkg_delete -F all dependancies, pkg_delete portname, make install portname, then updating +REQUIRED_BYs. The deps for a given port is visually verified before doing the update by hand.
Team members speculated that Spirit's power boost, like similar ones on Opportunity in October, resulted from wind removing some accumulated dust from solar panels. Spirit captured pictures of dust-lofting whirlwinds on March 10, adding evidence for windy local conditions. Images the next day showed solar panels cleaned of most of their dust buildup.
No meteorological instruments? Anemometers and barometers are small and require minimal power to collect data continuously...why were these omitted from the primary instrument pallet?
I think f-f relationships as you describe tends to be more of a problem than m-f relationships in the math and sciences. I see more women treating their colleagues of the same sex worse than than men treating female colleagues. I don't know why. Maybe it is an evolutionary artifact: when the math and sciences had high barriers of entry for women, the competition between women for those positions were very high; now that the fields are more egalitarian, the necessity for f-f antagonism isn't needed anymore for personal survival, but now women find it necessary to keep some cultural identity?
I don't see how you can have it both ways (complaining that women == men, yet complaining when a woman changes her culture). It is like the problem that exists in school when one is african american, but other african americans call you "white" and/or a traitor if you don't like hiphop and sports.
All of their data related xml schemas are well documented. I can dump from excel or access into xml and import that back into sql server or vice versa. I have a web service that lets you build ad hoc queries against my database. When the application extracts the dataset, it will then build an xml file which contains not only the digested results, but also the raw db schema and data so that someone can just open it in access, and construct their own drilldowns. If they have update privledges, changes they make on their local copy can be sent back to the sql server. All of these things use MSDN documented xml tools residing within the.NET framework.
I believe that the latest incarnation of word files are based on an xml-like format but I have not looked into that.
say what? IANAL, but if you read the betamax cases, it is perfectly legal to record shows (analog or digital broadcast tv) for timeshifting purposes. That constitutes fair-use of the broadcast. This extends to say, if you asked your rommate to record $some_hot_show for you when you were not around. It can then extend to you asking your neighbor to record $some_hot_show for you and then transferring the tape to you, which still constitutes fair-use, because "what if you didn't have a vcr". As long as that person was not making money from doing it. The logical extension is that when I bt $some_hot_show, it is as if I asked someone to DVR said show, and then transfer the show to me. Now obviously this hasn't been to court, but to me it would be within fair-use rights to make copies of the recording and give them to your friends for _timesharing_ purposes (which is legally defined to be recording a broadcast to be viewed at a time convenient to the consumer). Thus, if I have no DVR but I missed last night's episode of Survivor: East Bumfuck, I have the right to obtain a recording of it.
If their infrastructure compares anything to the CT Edu. Network, they probably are using OC3 interfaces on their edge routers to the POP but internal GigE within NYSERNET. (CEN uses gigE between routers, and ATM/OC-3 to the actual Internets), so if Columbia is merely talking about capacity out of their ISP, then they may have faster intranet links.
Great, so people who's servers have broken rdns cannot send email to you. (My smtp server has broken rdns, I do not have delegation of the zone from the ISP).
One popular way for MDs to break into the industry is to go to related fields where medical knowledge is being used in the context of IT, such as Medical Informatics. For example, at the Yale Center for Medical Informatics the majority of faculty and scientists hold MDs or are MD/Ph.Ds. You don't need to obtain a degree per se; as long as you can show that you know what-you-are-doing(tm). Do a post-doc at an informatics department. Talking to the IT people at your hospital can help. Start playing more with computer hardware and programming languages. Implement and deploy IT solutions that assist in your medical care. Your colleagues having trouble with their nifty new handhelds? Take a look at them over the weekend. Not happy with your new-fangled patient tracking system? Talk to the developer and analyze the database.
There are tons and tons of existing resources available both in print and online that you can use to learn the stuff you need. An MD is already a terminal degree; unless you are looking for academic/faculty computer science positions, it is not entirely necessary to have to go to school for IT at this time.
As far as the market is concerned, there is always interest in people who possess both a human-oriented and computer-oriented skillset; especially for places that are full of one-kind-but-not-the-other. (Like in a setting where everyone is a physician but they don't know IT, or a group of IT people who want someone who understands the biomed field).
1. If you installed some other UNIX it might have been equally cryptic. Ever installed AIX, IRIX, or Solaris?
2. apache's not part of the base OS. thus these applicatoins live in/usr/local. There is a UNIX historical precedent for this, and for good reasons too. (Other OSes have the same theoretical layout, MacOS with "System Folder" and "Applications", Windows with "Windows" and "Program Files" although these examples tend have many internal inconsistencies.)
I knew evil forces were conspiring to make M$ morons out of the big dogs. An attatchment to Word and other horrid programs seems to be part of the clueless indocrtination. I can only imagine what your teachers would tell you about Linux.
You do realize the absurdity of the conspiracy theory. MS Office is available for Macs too, and actually are tidyer (Try moving your win32 Office installation by moving the office folder to a different place, a technique which works seamlessly in macOS:)
Sure, it's public, but if some competitor were to walk into your grocery store and carried off the majority of the advertising fliers, and used those fliers for their own negative advertising purposes?
yes, but the amount of resources a given competitor can use up by walking into a store and scanning all the prices by hand is relatively low compared to the number of legitimate shoppers in the store. Over the net, however, hammering a server is considerably different. Also rent and employees exist at a fixed rate (the monthly cost of rent doesn't increase with increased number of visitors, the infrastructure isn't taxed, the number of employees per shift stands at the same number whether there is a single shopper in the store, or a few hundred), whereas this is not true on the internet, especially if the infrastructure is getting heavily taxed by a webbot compared to "normal" access.
In writing a bot, you are using an automated system to mine a company's website while the benefit to them is questionable - since, of course, you're just mining prices *for a competitor*, there's no chance that they'll see an increase in sales - and if the data is being used by the competitor effectively, that company will lose sales.
In addition, it is important to remember that while the "freeness" of data itself can be debated, accessing data is *not* free. To provide the pricing data over the web - intended as a service to their customers, no less - costs the company money in terms of bandwidth, hardware, software, and human resources. They are clearly spending money offering this service for the purpose of profit. Since the company doesn't know anything about the bot, the consequences on their response times, system performance, and stability can not be predicted. When then system is negatively affected by the competitor, that is tantamount to DoS which has definite legal repercussions.
Obviously, a technical solution would be to block the bot, but when direct cost of even accessing the data is hurting their bottom line, asking for compensation appears to be justified in the light of the future indirect cost. Having to spend resources trying to block the bot would also increase cost.
This book written by Carroll Quigley (a late professor of history at Georgetown and Bill Clinton's former Rhodes' Scholar mentor) and Harry Hogan is another good book which delineates examples from world history about how complex societies rise and fall.
Another Quigley book, Weapon Systems and Stability makes the connection between the rise and fall of civilizations and the style of weapons they forged and used, since usually war precipitates the destruction of cultures. It's out of print, but should be available at a university library or via ILL.
actually, you'd cut down on spam if you were to make it a fee-based service because either the spam would be outlawed (like cell phone telemarketing), or the content providor would have to pay to send stuff to you (like snail mail spam).
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I agree, although I have only seen one episode of it (the Mini Cooper one). I work nights on certain days so it's probably on a night where I'm not at home watching TV :)
How is your situation different than my internet addiction where I while away my hours trolling on /., trolling on 3 IRC networks, religiously refreshing my LiveJournal friends page every 5 minutes, and posting to a bunch of other BBSes? How do I get all those hours back? How do I go on living knowing I probably could have graduated earlier from college without the Internet?
I've been a nielsen weenie since 2003. I boycott almost all reality shows (some exceptions include monster house/garage and overhaulin') and MTV shows. I tend to float shows on the History, Food Network (Rachael Ray/Iron Chef/Good Eats), Sci-Fi (Stargate/BSG/Andromeda and some of the novelty ones like Ghosthunters), and of course Adult Swim and other venues of Family Guy. The only network shows I conciously try to float are The Simpsons (obligatory) and House on Fox (I really this show) and my roommate likes Smallville, which is ok. Enterprise needs to die, so I haven't floated that at all. While waiting for House to start, I have sometimes floated NCIS to start. I conciously avoid hitting American Idol. I also like CSI, but I only watch the reruns on SpikeTV, which only counts toward syndication numbers and never new episodes on NBC.
So, I am definitely not your typical Nielsen person. The problem is, my market is located in new england. Our metering is scored lower than the People Meter participants in the big cities (NYC, LA, Chicago), so my contribution is probably washed out by the overwhelming number of the people to whom you referred. But I'm still proud that I'm doing my best to subvert Hollywood.
Overhaulin' is pretty informative, for me, being a car geek, and all. I agree not as informative as Trucks on SpikeTV or even Motorweek though. But it is still interesting to see them showcasing the talent of Chip Foose.
web-based really doesn't work for high-volume ERP transactions
Say what? Oracle/Peoplesoft ERP utilizing webservices ARE written for high-volume (at least satisfying the "medium-sized enterprise-level" requirements) transactions! Sure you might run a java-based interface client on the desktop, but they are still doing most of the work across the wire. My mother is the cost accounting manager at the Thule US corporate office, and from what I've seen, this statement is simply untrue.
Haha beware the old saying Time is Money. Asking the "community" for help therefore considered anecdotal, and does not scale well for production problems that were-supposed-to-be-fixed-yesterday. Sure, I can pay another consultant to fix-it-right-now, but that's not very different from calling up Redmond. Finally, Redmond already has a proven (i.e. enterprise-level) support infrastructure in-place; I don't have to go around looking elsewhere for a Linus Torvalds replacement to tell me about a work-around.
Obviously if you're toying with Linux on a P200, you're not using it in a production environment, so I'm not sure you're qualified to evaluate business support costs.
Actually, this is being used in academia. as we speak. One of my bosses wrote a natural language parser that can process an entire year's worth of say, nature neuroscience. It will "read" each article, and "score" it based on set criteria by the primary investigator. The primary investigator say, wants to study the neurophysiology of hot monkey sex. He then specifies contextual identifiers for positive scoring articles. The parser is intelligent enough to look for positive assertiveness of a particular contextual identifier (i.e. the good female smell is linked to hot monkey sex) and for negative assertiveness (i.e. unshaved butts inhibit hot monkey sex). By linking together identified pieces of contextualized phrases within an article, the parser can determine a logical flow of the paper: (i.e. x causes foo which causes bar which is related to hot monkey sex by a, b, and c).
This is how a professor would grade a classroom paper (i.e. the student mentions A *check*, B *check*, C *check*, asserts D *incorrect*, negatively asserts E *check*: score: 80%)
I am still uncomfortable using portupgrade (except for unwieldy things like gnome) since I like to minimize things going on behind my back (yes even with extra verbosity). I still prefer manually backing up the +REQUIRED_BYs, pkg_delete -F all dependancies, pkg_delete portname, make install portname, then updating +REQUIRED_BYs. The deps for a given port is visually verified before doing the update by hand.
so valve made no money selling HL2 in a box?
I think f-f relationships as you describe tends to be more of a problem than m-f relationships in the math and sciences. I see more women treating their colleagues of the same sex worse than than men treating female colleagues. I don't know why. Maybe it is an evolutionary artifact: when the math and sciences had high barriers of entry for women, the competition between women for those positions were very high; now that the fields are more egalitarian, the necessity for f-f antagonism isn't needed anymore for personal survival, but now women find it necessary to keep some cultural identity?
I don't see how you can have it both ways (complaining that women == men, yet complaining when a woman changes her culture). It is like the problem that exists in school when one is african american, but other african americans call you "white" and/or a traitor if you don't like hiphop and sports.
All of their data related xml schemas are well documented. I can dump from excel or access into xml and import that back into sql server or vice versa. I have a web service that lets you build ad hoc queries against my database. When the application extracts the dataset, it will then build an xml file which contains not only the digested results, but also the raw db schema and data so that someone can just open it in access, and construct their own drilldowns. If they have update privledges, changes they make on their local copy can be sent back to the sql server. All of these things use MSDN documented xml tools residing within the .NET framework.
I believe that the latest incarnation of word files are based on an xml-like format but I have not looked into that.
I saw stuff on this last month!
say what? IANAL, but if you read the betamax cases, it is perfectly legal to record shows (analog or digital broadcast tv) for timeshifting purposes. That constitutes fair-use of the broadcast. This extends to say, if you asked your rommate to record $some_hot_show for you when you were not around. It can then extend to you asking your neighbor to record $some_hot_show for you and then transferring the tape to you, which still constitutes fair-use, because "what if you didn't have a vcr". As long as that person was not making money from doing it. The logical extension is that when I bt $some_hot_show, it is as if I asked someone to DVR said show, and then transfer the show to me. Now obviously this hasn't been to court, but to me it would be within fair-use rights to make copies of the recording and give them to your friends for _timesharing_ purposes (which is legally defined to be recording a broadcast to be viewed at a time convenient to the consumer). Thus, if I have no DVR but I missed last night's episode of Survivor: East Bumfuck, I have the right to obtain a recording of it.
If their infrastructure compares anything to the CT Edu. Network, they probably are using OC3 interfaces on their edge routers to the POP but internal GigE within NYSERNET. (CEN uses gigE between routers, and ATM/OC-3 to the actual Internets), so if Columbia is merely talking about capacity out of their ISP, then they may have faster intranet links.
dude this is old news; she already had pictures of kiev ww2 battle ruins the last time /. posted about the woman.
Great, so people who's servers have broken rdns cannot send email to you. (My smtp server has broken rdns, I do not have delegation of the zone from the ISP).
One popular way for MDs to break into the industry is to go to related fields where medical knowledge is being used in the context of IT, such as Medical Informatics. For example, at the Yale Center for Medical Informatics the majority of faculty and scientists hold MDs or are MD/Ph.Ds. You don't need to obtain a degree per se; as long as you can show that you know what-you-are-doing(tm). Do a post-doc at an informatics department. Talking to the IT people at your hospital can help. Start playing more with computer hardware and programming languages. Implement and deploy IT solutions that assist in your medical care. Your colleagues having trouble with their nifty new handhelds? Take a look at them over the weekend. Not happy with your new-fangled patient tracking system? Talk to the developer and analyze the database.
There are tons and tons of existing resources available both in print and online that you can use to learn the stuff you need. An MD is already a terminal degree; unless you are looking for academic/faculty computer science positions, it is not entirely necessary to have to go to school for IT at this time.
As far as the market is concerned, there is always interest in people who possess both a human-oriented and computer-oriented skillset; especially for places that are full of one-kind-but-not-the-other. (Like in a setting where everyone is a physician but they don't know IT, or a group of IT people who want someone who understands the biomed field).
1. If you installed some other UNIX it might have been equally cryptic. Ever installed AIX, IRIX, or Solaris?
/usr/local. There is a UNIX historical precedent for this, and for good reasons too. (Other OSes have the same theoretical layout, MacOS with "System Folder" and "Applications", Windows with "Windows" and "Program Files" although these examples tend have many internal inconsistencies.)
2. apache's not part of the base OS. thus these applicatoins live in
I knew evil forces were conspiring to make M$ morons out of the big dogs. An attatchment to Word and other horrid programs seems to be part of the clueless indocrtination. I can only imagine what your teachers would tell you about Linux.
:)
You do realize the absurdity of the conspiracy theory. MS Office is available for Macs too, and actually are tidyer (Try moving your win32 Office installation by moving the office folder to a different place, a technique which works seamlessly in macOS
Sure, it's public, but if some competitor were to walk into your grocery store and carried off the majority of the advertising fliers, and used those fliers for their own negative advertising purposes?
yes, but the amount of resources a given competitor can use up by walking into a store and scanning all the prices by hand is relatively low compared to the number of legitimate shoppers in the store. Over the net, however, hammering a server is considerably different. Also rent and employees exist at a fixed rate (the monthly cost of rent doesn't increase with increased number of visitors, the infrastructure isn't taxed, the number of employees per shift stands at the same number whether there is a single shopper in the store, or a few hundred), whereas this is not true on the internet, especially if the infrastructure is getting heavily taxed by a webbot compared to "normal" access.
In writing a bot, you are using an automated system to mine a company's website while the benefit to them is questionable - since, of course, you're just mining prices *for a competitor*, there's no chance that they'll see an increase in sales - and if the data is being used by the competitor effectively, that company will lose sales.
In addition, it is important to remember that while the "freeness" of data itself can be debated, accessing data is *not* free. To provide the pricing data over the web - intended as a service to their customers, no less - costs the company money in terms of bandwidth, hardware, software, and human resources. They are clearly spending money offering this service for the purpose of profit. Since the company doesn't know anything about the bot, the consequences on their response times, system performance, and stability can not be predicted. When then system is negatively affected by the competitor, that is tantamount to DoS which has definite legal repercussions.
Obviously, a technical solution would be to block the bot, but when direct cost of even accessing the data is hurting their bottom line, asking for compensation appears to be justified in the light of the future indirect cost. Having to spend resources trying to block the bot would also increase cost.
This book written by Carroll Quigley (a late professor of history at Georgetown and Bill Clinton's former Rhodes' Scholar mentor) and Harry Hogan is another good book which delineates examples from world history about how complex societies rise and fall.
Another Quigley book, Weapon Systems and Stability makes the connection between the rise and fall of civilizations and the style of weapons they forged and used, since usually war precipitates the destruction of cultures. It's out of print, but should be available at a university library or via ILL.
actually, you'd cut down on spam if you were to make it a fee-based service because either the spam would be outlawed (like cell phone telemarketing), or the content providor would have to pay to send stuff to you (like snail mail spam).