How about some drivers that implement the other serial features of the existing hardware. You know something other than 8N1. It's not like the chipset manual provides functional code snippets to implement those features or whatever...
So does that mean Microsoft is developing a competeing distributed computing system called "Guardian"? And how does that possibly seem like a good idea?
Kinda reminds me of the section in "Forever War", where due to overpopulation and unemployment, people basically (and illegally) "sublet" their jobs. You split your time with someone else, and that person (with a modest fee to the black-market jobs broker) gets some fake ID and works part time.
That Newsweek article is poorly written and just... bad; don't use it as evidence on either side of the debate. Many people have legitimate and well-reasoned arguments against the various changes proposed and implenmented by the Texas Board of Education, but that article does not reflect them. Unfortunately, I since I haven't been following the situation closely, I can't direct you to better information.
The article seems unclear as to whether it is dealing with two-lane roads in urban or rural environments. There are a lot of rural two-lane roads in my area that I would prefer to see rebuilt with wider lanes and sholders that would let me safely drive faster.
Overall though, I'm not sure that designing roads (at least roads for automobiles) to slow down traffic is the problem that needs to be solved. My idea of road is a device that allows cars and other vehicles to travel _quickly_ and efficiently while preventing accidents that result in property damage, personal injury, and death. Instead of slowing roads down, I would prefer fast straight roads (within the constraints of preventing highway hypnosis) with additional controls and seperations to prevent the mixing of pedestrians, cyclists, and wildlife. That would include seperated grade automobile, bicycle, and pedestrial pathways, and fences and barriers to reduce cross-grade intrusions.
I feel like there's probably a good idea in your post. I know very little about Firefox development, but I bet the dev team would be interested in helping out enterprise users by providing more management options. Of course, at the end of the day there is going to be some stupid mission-critical application that only works on IE, so why are we maintaining two web browsers in our enterprise?
I wish I had some mod points for you; this is the same experience that I've had, as both a software writer and as a software architect. The Linux / open-source community is great for providing mutli-tool solutions to efficiently and effectively accomplish a task. Unfortunately, people who can work well in such an environment are hard to find and expensive. So instead of an elegant solution, you get the solution that can be implemented by four people you are paying $45,000 a year.
That sounds like it would make a lot of sense. Amtrak already has a route from Fort Worth to San Antonio, the "Texas Eagle", but it's dog slow. According to Amtrak, a one-way trip from FW to SA is $30, but takes 7 hrs, 45 min. According to Kayak, I can get a flight from DFW to SAT for about $155 one way, but it only takes an hour of flight time. According to Google, it would take about 4 hrs to drive one way. It seems like if you could build along the existing rights-of-way for the existing rail, you could put in an pretty awesome high-speed rail system for not-so-much money. One way to work it might be through the "Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority". They are primarily focused on toll roads around Austin, but could provide a venue to study high-speed rail capabilities.
Air travel in Texas is messed up anyway. I went to visit my sister in Austin, and it was cheaper to fly to Austin, through DFW, than it was to get a direct flight to DFW and drive down.
Zyprexa is still under patent (until 2011), so Eli Lilly can charge whatever they want for it. So it is probably one of their most profitable drugs just because they are still able to have a good (non-competitive) margin on it. They probably don't manufacture or sell as many pills as whatever painkillers they make, but I'd bet each Zyprexa pill sells for a lot more per pill.
What would be interesting to know is how many individual pills and perscriptions were manufactured / written for each drug sold in the past year.
As a side note, I've also favored misspelling common words and misplacing quotation marks for getting flamed on Slashdot. Use your "Preview" button, kids.
This is a fairly neat concept, and it seems like it would have applications beyond the prison system. One idea I had would be to put something similar in retirement homes or communities. Obviously it wouldn't work for people who are bedridden or senile, but it would probably be great for older people who can't drive down to a pharmacy, due to bad eyesight or limited mobility to get pills, but who can still walk down the hall or down the block. Since it's a vending machine, you can come when you want to get the pills, instead of having to queue up at 10am each day for medicine call. This would help with keeping people independent and keep morale up. The system could track if you've missed picking up medication and alert someone, or it could prevent you accidently getting a second dose because it knows you already picked up medication. And the retirement community or nursing home wouldn't need to have a nurse or pharmacist on duty all the time (though they may want to for other reasons).
The FDA and EPA are aware of the problem of powerful drugs entering the water supply, see http://www.epa.gov/ppcp/ and http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm101653.htm. Aside from certain classes and types of drugs, the FDA recommends that most drugs be mixed with regular solid waste for disposal, not flushed down the toilet (the mixing with solid waste is to prevent children and pets from accidently ingesting the drugs by rendering them unpalatable). The FDA had list of classes of drugs that should be flushed (I can't find it now). Most of them were either opiates that represented a theft and abuse problem (think junkies going through your trash for a fix), or were powerful antiviral or anticancer drugs that you probably don't want sitting around in your trash.
A number of communities and private companies have set up drug takeback programs, either through pharmacies, hospitals, or household hazardous waste programs. They collect the drugs and recycle them or dispose of them properly. See http://www.takebacknetwork.com/monthly_feature_06_09.html for some basic links to drug takeback sites, or you can Google for them.
I'm not sure if this is relevant or not, but in the United States during World War II, many workers in industrial occupations, such as auto workers, faced wage limits and ceilings. In response, companies offered improved non-wage benefits, such as enhanced on-the-job health insurance, retirement health insurance, and retirement pensions. Many of them were retirement packages, which wasn't a problem at the time because no one was retiring, you know, with the war being on. These benefits were continued after the war was over (after all, what union is going to cut benefits?). This allowed for the creation of a "middle" class, if was defined by monetary income, but which had a lot of non-monetary benefits, some of which didn't kick in unless the worker retired.
I wish I could find some references for this; maybe/. can help.
Unfortunately, the shitload-to-fucktonne conversion depends on the Savage-Santorum thrust/gauge coefficient matrix, which of course varies with load, oscillatory frequency, girth, and country of origin. For toy problems with minimal covariance, you can handle the second-order "fatty" effects using a first order "Vespa" approximation; but in general the only way to determine the matrix values is by empirical measurement.:-(
It may be noted that the butt-load, or pipe, is equalivalent to two hogsheads, which is 2x63=126 US gallons (108 Imperial accounting for the differences in volume and the size of the hogshead).
You're right that a man's organs are more exposed and subject to physical injury (think "Ice Pirates"), whereas a woman's organs are internal and thus better protected. And you're right (I think) that, for unpregnant people, the risks to overall personal health from exposure to dangerous chemicals is probably more important than particular risks to reproductive organs. I would further submit that for many blue-collar jobs, the risk of exposure to dangerous chemicals over "usual" is minimal; considering the trash collector, how much raw plutonium is thrown out in the trash every day. I suspect the real answer is to develop consistent non-sexist job perforance and toxic exposure standard. Ones that are as gender neutral as possible, but make sure to highlight gender-specific dangers, too. Continuing with the trash collector job, if a woman can do the work, it makes no sense to exclude her. However, even if the same woman is strong enough to work in the cadmium mine, it may not be in her long-term interest to do so.
One other difference that may be relevant. For men, spermatogenesis starts at puberty and continues uninterrupted until death (at least according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spermatogenesis). You could imagine a man working in a position that harms his reproductive capability, but then is able to stop working (transfered to another job, desk job, whatever), and get himself cleaned up to restore his reproductive ability as new sperm are generated. On the other hand, women start out at birth with a large but fixed number (reduced to about 300,000 by puberty according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folliculogenesis). You could imagine a woman being exposed to a chemical on a job site that causes permanent, non-regenerating damage to the oocytes. Of course, I'm not a doctor, so I don't know if that's how it works.
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How about some drivers that implement the other serial features of the existing hardware. You know something other than 8N1. It's not like the chipset manual provides functional code snippets to implement those features or whatever...
Unfortunately, the existance of code-fixing faeries was disproven by Wirth in 1972. Code fixes are actually implemented by type of cobbler elf.
So does that mean Microsoft is developing a competeing distributed computing system called "Guardian"? And how does that possibly seem like a good idea?
Kinda reminds me of the section in "Forever War", where due to overpopulation and unemployment, people basically (and illegally) "sublet" their jobs. You split your time with someone else, and that person (with a modest fee to the black-market jobs broker) gets some fake ID and works part time.
Naw--We rape the shit out of them at the Number 6 Dance later on!
If I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times:
First pillage, _then_ burn.
I kept wondering who wanted to defund the Office of Scientific Intelligence, especially after all of Steve Austin's work.
That Newsweek article is poorly written and just... bad; don't use it as evidence on either side of the debate. Many people have legitimate and well-reasoned arguments against the various changes proposed and implenmented by the Texas Board of Education, but that article does not reflect them. Unfortunately, I since I haven't been following the situation closely, I can't direct you to better information.
The article seems unclear as to whether it is dealing with two-lane roads in urban or rural environments. There are a lot of rural two-lane roads in my area that I would prefer to see rebuilt with wider lanes and sholders that would let me safely drive faster.
Overall though, I'm not sure that designing roads (at least roads for automobiles) to slow down traffic is the problem that needs to be solved. My idea of road is a device that allows cars and other vehicles to travel _quickly_ and efficiently while preventing accidents that result in property damage, personal injury, and death. Instead of slowing roads down, I would prefer fast straight roads (within the constraints of preventing highway hypnosis) with additional controls and seperations to prevent the mixing of pedestrians, cyclists, and wildlife. That would include seperated grade automobile, bicycle, and pedestrial pathways, and fences and barriers to reduce cross-grade intrusions.
I feel like there's probably a good idea in your post. I know very little about Firefox development, but I bet the dev team would be interested in helping out enterprise users by providing more management options. Of course, at the end of the day there is going to be some stupid mission-critical application that only works on IE, so why are we maintaining two web browsers in our enterprise?
I wish I had some mod points for you; this is the same experience that I've had, as both a software writer and as a software architect. The Linux / open-source community is great for providing mutli-tool solutions to efficiently and effectively accomplish a task. Unfortunately, people who can work well in such an environment are hard to find and expensive. So instead of an elegant solution, you get the solution that can be implemented by four people you are paying $45,000 a year.
As noted in The Onion, real life is not a romantic comedy.
That sounds like it would make a lot of sense. Amtrak already has a route from Fort Worth to San Antonio, the "Texas Eagle", but it's dog slow. According to Amtrak, a one-way trip from FW to SA is $30, but takes 7 hrs, 45 min. According to Kayak, I can get a flight from DFW to SAT for about $155 one way, but it only takes an hour of flight time. According to Google, it would take about 4 hrs to drive one way. It seems like if you could build along the existing rights-of-way for the existing rail, you could put in an pretty awesome high-speed rail system for not-so-much money. One way to work it might be through the "Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority". They are primarily focused on toll roads around Austin, but could provide a venue to study high-speed rail capabilities.
Air travel in Texas is messed up anyway. I went to visit my sister in Austin, and it was cheaper to fly to Austin, through DFW, than it was to get a direct flight to DFW and drive down.
Zyprexa is still under patent (until 2011), so Eli Lilly can charge whatever they want for it. So it is probably one of their most profitable drugs just because they are still able to have a good (non-competitive) margin on it. They probably don't manufacture or sell as many pills as whatever painkillers they make, but I'd bet each Zyprexa pill sells for a lot more per pill.
What would be interesting to know is how many individual pills and perscriptions were manufactured / written for each drug sold in the past year.
As a side note, I've also favored misspelling common words and misplacing quotation marks for getting flamed on Slashdot. Use your "Preview" button, kids.
I've also favored "slamming myself into the curb" repeatedly and "throwing myself down the starirs" as methods of resisting arrest.
important Mafia business will now be conducted in the nude?
Thank you for that mental image; now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go put out my mind's eye.
Do not insert soldering iron into eye.
It looks like we're going to have to take away Artie's Bedazzler.
This is a fairly neat concept, and it seems like it would have applications beyond the prison system. One idea I had would be to put something similar in retirement homes or communities. Obviously it wouldn't work for people who are bedridden or senile, but it would probably be great for older people who can't drive down to a pharmacy, due to bad eyesight or limited mobility to get pills, but who can still walk down the hall or down the block. Since it's a vending machine, you can come when you want to get the pills, instead of having to queue up at 10am each day for medicine call. This would help with keeping people independent and keep morale up. The system could track if you've missed picking up medication and alert someone, or it could prevent you accidently getting a second dose because it knows you already picked up medication. And the retirement community or nursing home wouldn't need to have a nurse or pharmacist on duty all the time (though they may want to for other reasons).
I am not a shill, but it also reminded me of this tool vending machine from Fastenal, http://www.fastenal.com/web/services.ex?action=SmartStore.
The FDA and EPA are aware of the problem of powerful drugs entering the water supply, see http://www.epa.gov/ppcp/ and http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm101653.htm. Aside from certain classes and types of drugs, the FDA recommends that most drugs be mixed with regular solid waste for disposal, not flushed down the toilet (the mixing with solid waste is to prevent children and pets from accidently ingesting the drugs by rendering them unpalatable). The FDA had list of classes of drugs that should be flushed (I can't find it now). Most of them were either opiates that represented a theft and abuse problem (think junkies going through your trash for a fix), or were powerful antiviral or anticancer drugs that you probably don't want sitting around in your trash.
A number of communities and private companies have set up drug takeback programs, either through pharmacies, hospitals, or household hazardous waste programs. They collect the drugs and recycle them or dispose of them properly. See http://www.takebacknetwork.com/monthly_feature_06_09.html for some basic links to drug takeback sites, or you can Google for them.
I'm not sure if this is relevant or not, but in the United States during World War II, many workers in industrial occupations, such as auto workers, faced wage limits and ceilings. In response, companies offered improved non-wage benefits, such as enhanced on-the-job health insurance, retirement health insurance, and retirement pensions. Many of them were retirement packages, which wasn't a problem at the time because no one was retiring, you know, with the war being on. These benefits were continued after the war was over (after all, what union is going to cut benefits?). This allowed for the creation of a "middle" class, if was defined by monetary income, but which had a lot of non-monetary benefits, some of which didn't kick in unless the worker retired.
I wish I could find some references for this; maybe /. can help.
Unfortunately, the shitload-to-fucktonne conversion depends on the Savage-Santorum thrust/gauge coefficient matrix, which of course varies with load, oscillatory frequency, girth, and country of origin. For toy problems with minimal covariance, you can handle the second-order "fatty" effects using a first order "Vespa" approximation; but in general the only way to determine the matrix values is by empirical measurement. :-(
It may be noted that the butt-load, or pipe, is equalivalent to two hogsheads, which is 2x63=126 US gallons (108 Imperial accounting for the differences in volume and the size of the hogshead).
All it needs is a coat of spray paint...
"Why'd you make him black?"
"Because I wanted him to be perfect."
You're right that a man's organs are more exposed and subject to physical injury (think "Ice Pirates"), whereas a woman's organs are internal and thus better protected. And you're right (I think) that, for unpregnant people, the risks to overall personal health from exposure to dangerous chemicals is probably more important than particular risks to reproductive organs. I would further submit that for many blue-collar jobs, the risk of exposure to dangerous chemicals over "usual" is minimal; considering the trash collector, how much raw plutonium is thrown out in the trash every day. I suspect the real answer is to develop consistent non-sexist job perforance and toxic exposure standard. Ones that are as gender neutral as possible, but make sure to highlight gender-specific dangers, too. Continuing with the trash collector job, if a woman can do the work, it makes no sense to exclude her. However, even if the same woman is strong enough to work in the cadmium mine, it may not be in her long-term interest to do so.
One other difference that may be relevant. For men, spermatogenesis starts at puberty and continues uninterrupted until death (at least according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spermatogenesis). You could imagine a man working in a position that harms his reproductive capability, but then is able to stop working (transfered to another job, desk job, whatever), and get himself cleaned up to restore his reproductive ability as new sperm are generated. On the other hand, women start out at birth with a large but fixed number (reduced to about 300,000 by puberty according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folliculogenesis). You could imagine a woman being exposed to a chemical on a job site that causes permanent, non-regenerating damage to the oocytes. Of course, I'm not a doctor, so I don't know if that's how it works.