Well this is the problem with all of Microsoft's "anti-piracy" efforts so far: They don't really hinder piracy, but make it very hard, sometimes, for legitimate users to do legitimate things.
Absolutely. I've been building my own computers ever since I owned my first computer. I build most of the computers my family has (and I have a big family). Every machine I've ever built with windows has been legit. This whole activation thing is just killing my desire to have anything to do with computers now. Any time something needs to be upgraded, I need to swap harddrives or I need to do some diagnositics I just loath the thought of triggering activation. Its made it practically impossible for me to do any sort of hardware work as a hobby with windows. I have used linux personally for sometime as a hobby, not for a regular machine. This whole activation thing has made look for excuses to rid myself of windows all together and convince the family to use linux. Microsoft is completely out of touch with its customers on this thing and unless they abandon it, there is no way I'm going to give them a penny for Vista or another copy of any of their software. fuck 'em.
My single experience with a bug and a microwave was with a fly. As a teenage boy I caught a fly and put the thing in the microwave (I like to think I've grown up a bit since then). Upon starting the microwave, the thing flew around like mad. It continued to do this for about 30 seconds, then it landed on the bottom, sat there for about 5 seconds, then finally fell over dead.
Whether syphilis was natitive to the New World or not is the subject of much debate actually. There is some evidence to suggest is was there prior to the arrival of the Europeans. So I'm not the book is out on that point yet.
1. Syphilis is a spirochete, which is a bacteria. There are other bacteria in this class as well, such as the bacteria that causes 'yaws'
2. Syphilis ravaged Europe and North America among other parts of the world for centuries causing large amounts of morbidity and mortality in newborns and people in late stages of the disease. I'd say that counts as dangerous. Of course, it remains excuisitly sensitive to penicillin and we regularly screen for it now in some populations so its not as common as it once was fortunatly.
I used to buy 1-2 CDs per week. Then the copy protection came. When I was younger it was no big deal, I had the time and the energy to circumvent all them so I could back up my copies and add them to my media player. Once I started working for real, I lost the time and desire to deal with it. By far the easiest thing to do is to just pirate the songs I want. I'm not sure how many people are like us, probably by the numbers its a small percentage, but the day I know I can buy music CDs again on my terms and not have to worry about any copy protection is the day I start buying CDs again.
Liked plenyoffish. I meet a number of girls in my area and had a pretty good time overall. My current girlfriend of 6 months I met there. My only qualm is removing my profile. For the life of me, I don't think it is possible. The closest thing I've figured out is hiding my profile. That is sort of annoying, but hell, overall it was worth it as we are incredibly happy.
I chew sugarless gum to make up for not brushing, but I do not believe it is as good as brushing. At the same time do you know for a fact it is not as good? I don't.
In any case, I work 30+ hours at a time, sometimes without a break or sleep and its all I have time to do. For me it seems to work, I've not had one cavity in the last 4 years since working like this. I did have one in the past when I brushed more regularly. I'm just one person, though, so take it for what it is worth (which isn't much). It would be intresting to see a well done study on the topic (if its not already been done)
My complaint is that I still use Windows 98se as my windows box, not XP. I guess I can't expect them to support a 7 year old OS, but it would be cool of them to do so. Oh well. The reasons to 'upgrade' are starting to add up.
What I know about plants is that the best overall efficiency is about 10%. Algea, I'm not sure about. I suspect, however, that the 50% estimate is too generous. The best I could find doing a google search was about 15%. The acutally photosynthetic process as I understand it is approximately 90% efficient. The problem as you already noted is all the house cleaning stuff these organisms must carry out.
Properly hand washing/cleaning alleviate this problem. The hospitals I work at are setup with hand cleaner all over the place so its nearly impossible to forget.
Agreed but the reality is people do all the time. I remember the application process for college, then medical school and residency. My parents and other family members were invaluable in helping me sort through all the paper work and keeping things organized. Then, it was pretty much all paperwork. Obviously, now more is done online. I'm sure its still a tedious process and I would bet many people have parents or other close relatives helping them. Most people would not think twice about providing these people with their passwords. I'm a pretty paranoid person about mine in general but I bet I would have provided them to at least my mom so she could make sure I wasn't screwing anything up.
Harvard (rightly so) decided to not admit any of the 119 even though some of them possibly were initially accepted.
I agree with you in principle. My problem with this decision is that it probably assumes that if an individual acceptance letter was looked up, that person was guilty. What if it was my sister that had applied and I happened to read about the hack. I may have decided to followed through with it to look her up without even mentioning it to her prior to doing so. I doubt this is the case for most, but I would bet something like this did happen several of these people. I think it would be unfair to potentially punish innocent bystanders.
I obviously did a poor job wording my question. I'm just wondering how he got the bootloader bits to be fed thru the piezo. Not how he converted it to sound, since I now know what a piezo. He must have done something weird to specifically feed the bootloader bits thur the piezo, right?
in the iPod it is used to make the clicking noise.
ya, that's the part I understand. How does one specifically play the bootloader thru the piezo, though. I'm not an iPod owner, but I'm pretty sure there is no option to play the bootloader:)
I was curious was a piezo is. I found this explanation:
Short for piezoelectricity or piezoelectric effect. Piezoelectricity is an electric charge that occurs in some substances when they are squeezed or otherwise subjected to mechanical stress. It is also possible to cause these materials to vibrate when a voltage is applied to them. Quartz is one of the better known piezoelectric materials, and is commonly fabricated into small pieces, called "crystals" that are used for frequency standards. A crystal of specific size and shape will vibrate at a predictable and very stable rate when a voltage is applied. This makes them ideal for use in things like watches or clocks for digital audio equipment. Piezoelectric elements have also been used various types of transducers such as phonograph cartridges, microphones and loudspeakers. Piezo microphones can be quite small and still have relatively high output at a low cost; however, their less than ideal frequency response prohibits use in critical applications. Piezo loudspeakers usually come in the form of tweeters, or very high frequency elements. They generally have very low distortion in the 5 kHz and above range, but haven't widely been used in sound reinforcement due in part to their relatively low output levels. It takes dozens of the average piezo tweeter to equal the output of one medium-sized compression driver
I'm still confused (and I did RTFA) how the bits of the bootloader were translated to sound. Anyone care to explain?
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As a doctor, I agree that providing us with more human-like work hours would overall be beneficial to all involved. This would certainly decrease the number of errors and improve patient care. However, not all of the errors I or other doctors make (which are usually picked up by a pharmacist, nurse or other) are because of lack of sleep. Often time its a simple oversight or calculation error. There are so many potential variables that can influence the dose and schedule of a drug or treatment, that any human will have a difficult time getting it right 100% of the time, even in the best circumstances.
so while I agree, we need to improve the work hours, its only one of many problems. Fixing the way orders are screened and implemented is certainly among a long list of things that need to be improved to reduce these errors.
If the hospital has computerized physician order entry, they additionally go through checking as the order is placed.
This particular hospital does have a computer order entry system that was built largly in house specifically for pediatrics. As a doctor at CCHMC, I can say its pretty good for the most part. The screening is, if anything, is too sensitive, but overall it is very effective at catching my errors. Fortunately, the environment there is such that feedback is very much welcomed and taken very seriously so it continues to improve all the time.
I'm a doctor that works at this very hospital. The order entry system in place already screens most of the dosage errors and much more. After that a pharmacist and a nurse will also make sure the orders make sense. I'm not sure it would be necessary for this machine to carry out that specific task.
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Well this is the problem with all of Microsoft's "anti-piracy" efforts so far: They don't really hinder piracy, but make it very hard, sometimes, for legitimate users to do legitimate things.
Absolutely. I've been building my own computers ever since I owned my first computer. I build most of the computers my family has (and I have a big family). Every machine I've ever built with windows has been legit. This whole activation thing is just killing my desire to have anything to do with computers now. Any time something needs to be upgraded, I need to swap harddrives or I need to do some diagnositics I just loath the thought of triggering activation. Its made it practically impossible for me to do any sort of hardware work as a hobby with windows. I have used linux personally for sometime as a hobby, not for a regular machine. This whole activation thing has made look for excuses to rid myself of windows all together and convince the family to use linux. Microsoft is completely out of touch with its customers on this thing and unless they abandon it, there is no way I'm going to give them a penny for Vista or another copy of any of their software. fuck 'em.
My single experience with a bug and a microwave was with a fly. As a teenage boy I caught a fly and put the thing in the microwave (I like to think I've grown up a bit since then). Upon starting the microwave, the thing flew around like mad. It continued to do this for about 30 seconds, then it landed on the bottom, sat there for about 5 seconds, then finally fell over dead.
Isn't acetaminophen (tylenol) centrally acting? Sure its not an opiate and has a different mechanism of action, but it is centrally acting.
Emigrantdirect.com has 4.8% savings accounts. No minimums. Hooks up with any checking account and money can be transfered between the accounts.
Whether syphilis was natitive to the New World or not is the subject of much debate actually. There is some evidence to suggest is was there prior to the arrival of the Europeans. So I'm not the book is out on that point yet.
Wrong on both counts.
1. Syphilis is a spirochete, which is a bacteria. There are other bacteria in this class as well, such as the bacteria that causes 'yaws'
2. Syphilis ravaged Europe and North America among other parts of the world for centuries causing large amounts of morbidity and mortality in newborns and people in late stages of the disease. I'd say that counts as dangerous. Of course, it remains excuisitly sensitive to penicillin and we regularly screen for it now in some populations so its not as common as it once was fortunatly.
I use the dish washer method, too. So far, its worked great.
I'm just the same.
I used to buy 1-2 CDs per week. Then the copy protection came. When I was younger it was no big deal, I had the time and the energy to circumvent all them so I could back up my copies and add them to my media player. Once I started working for real, I lost the time and desire to deal with it. By far the easiest thing to do is to just pirate the songs I want. I'm not sure how many people are like us, probably by the numbers its a small percentage, but the day I know I can buy music CDs again on my terms and not have to worry about any copy protection is the day I start buying CDs again.
Liked plenyoffish. I meet a number of girls in my area and had a pretty good time overall. My current girlfriend of 6 months I met there. My only qualm is removing my profile. For the life of me, I don't think it is possible. The closest thing I've figured out is hiding my profile. That is sort of annoying, but hell, overall it was worth it as we are incredibly happy.
I chew sugarless gum to make up for not brushing, but I do not believe it is as good as brushing. At the same time do you know for a fact it is not as good? I don't.
In any case, I work 30+ hours at a time, sometimes without a break or sleep and its all I have time to do. For me it seems to work, I've not had one cavity in the last 4 years since working like this. I did have one in the past when I brushed more regularly. I'm just one person, though, so take it for what it is worth (which isn't much). It would be intresting to see a well done study on the topic (if its not already been done)
People are still using search engines other than google.
Since this seems to be the bitch thread.
My complaint is that I still use Windows 98se as my windows box, not XP. I guess I can't expect them to support a 7 year old OS, but it would be cool of them to do so. Oh well. The reasons to 'upgrade' are starting to add up.
What I know about plants is that the best overall efficiency is about 10%. Algea, I'm not sure about. I suspect, however, that the 50% estimate is too generous. The best I could find doing a google search was about 15%. The acutally photosynthetic process as I understand it is approximately 90% efficient. The problem as you already noted is all the house cleaning stuff these organisms must carry out.
Properly hand washing/cleaning alleviate this problem. The hospitals I work at are setup with hand cleaner all over the place so its nearly impossible to forget.
Never, Ever give out your passwords to anybody
Agreed but the reality is people do all the time. I remember the application process for college, then medical school and residency. My parents and other family members were invaluable in helping me sort through all the paper work and keeping things organized. Then, it was pretty much all paperwork. Obviously, now more is done online. I'm sure its still a tedious process and I would bet many people have parents or other close relatives helping them. Most people would not think twice about providing these people with their passwords. I'm a pretty paranoid person about mine in general but I bet I would have provided them to at least my mom so she could make sure I wasn't screwing anything up.
Harvard (rightly so) decided to not admit any of the 119 even though some of them possibly were initially accepted .
I agree with you in principle. My problem with this decision is that it probably assumes that if an individual acceptance letter was looked up, that person was guilty. What if it was my sister that had applied and I happened to read about the hack. I may have decided to followed through with it to look her up without even mentioning it to her prior to doing so. I doubt this is the case for most, but I would bet something like this did happen several of these people. I think it would be unfair to potentially punish innocent bystanders.
I obviously did a poor job wording my question. I'm just wondering how he got the bootloader bits to be fed thru the piezo. Not how he converted it to sound, since I now know what a piezo. He must have done something weird to specifically feed the bootloader bits thur the piezo, right?
in the iPod it is used to make the clicking noise.
:)
ya, that's the part I understand. How does one specifically play the bootloader thru the piezo, though. I'm not an iPod owner, but I'm pretty sure there is no option to play the bootloader
I was curious was a piezo is. I found this explanation:
Short for piezoelectricity or piezoelectric effect. Piezoelectricity is an electric charge that occurs in some substances when they are squeezed or otherwise subjected to mechanical stress. It is also possible to cause these materials to vibrate when a voltage is applied to them. Quartz is one of the better known piezoelectric materials, and is commonly fabricated into small pieces, called "crystals" that are used for frequency standards. A crystal of specific size and shape will vibrate at a predictable and very stable rate when a voltage is applied. This makes them ideal for use in things like watches or clocks for digital audio equipment. Piezoelectric elements have also been used various types of transducers such as phonograph cartridges, microphones and loudspeakers. Piezo microphones can be quite small and still have relatively high output at a low cost; however, their less than ideal frequency response prohibits use in critical applications. Piezo loudspeakers usually come in the form of tweeters, or very high frequency elements. They generally have very low distortion in the 5 kHz and above range, but haven't widely been used in sound reinforcement due in part to their relatively low output levels. It takes dozens of the average piezo tweeter to equal the output of one medium-sized compression driver
I'm still confused (and I did RTFA) how the bits of the bootloader were translated to sound. Anyone care to explain?
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As a doctor, I agree that providing us with more human-like work hours would overall be beneficial to all involved. This would certainly decrease the number of errors and improve patient care. However, not all of the errors I or other doctors make (which are usually picked up by a pharmacist, nurse or other) are because of lack of sleep. Often time its a simple oversight or calculation error. There are so many potential variables that can influence the dose and schedule of a drug or treatment, that any human will have a difficult time getting it right 100% of the time, even in the best circumstances.
so while I agree, we need to improve the work hours, its only one of many problems. Fixing the way orders are screened and implemented is certainly among a long list of things that need to be improved to reduce these errors.
If the hospital has computerized physician order entry, they additionally go through checking as the order is placed.
This particular hospital does have a computer order entry system that was built largly in house specifically for pediatrics. As a doctor at CCHMC, I can say its pretty good for the most part. The screening is, if anything, is too sensitive, but overall it is very effective at catching my errors. Fortunately, the environment there is such that feedback is very much welcomed and taken very seriously so it continues to improve all the time.
I'm a doctor that works at this very hospital. The order entry system in place already screens most of the dosage errors and much more. After that a pharmacist and a nurse will also make sure the orders make sense. I'm not sure it would be necessary for this machine to carry out that specific task.
The study that demonstated that lefties had a shorter life span had multiple flaws. Better studies since than have not shown this to be true.
I am a resident. My good days are often my 12 hour days. Its the 30-36 hour shifts every 3 to 4 days (depending of the rotation) that suck.