I hear the same complaints here in the states. The fact is that employers don't want to train new employees or they expect workers to have more skills than they are willing to pay, so in essence they are looking for workers to do now what used to be the jobs of two or three individual people but only want to pay the old wage of doing only one job but wanting three times as much.
I hope this is the kick in the pants the US needs to restart out space program. I was saddened when NASA got 'demoted.' It felt like we lost something. I dont know.
My first thought when I read that a publishing group was being delisted was how am I going to know what was delisted?
I use amazon because I feel (dont really know) that it gives me access to pretty much every book that I can buy and so if Im researching a topic or want to read about something now IM not so sure that I'll use amazon.
Yeah, I know I could use a library but I live somewhere where its not that great and I dont know how to seach for books in other way, but now that I think of it, I'll do some googling.
We can't make good open-source games because someone has to stop playing them and DESIGN/CODE them!:)
So I think we are seeing something different and not so different,ie We should expect to pay for the games we play but we should expect much more input than the big game makers have been giving us lately. I think torchlight points the way: using opensource tools as much as possible but this leaves the ability to modify the game as much as we want but we should expect to pay for it. I think lately we have been expecting everything for free and as programs require more and more effort we should expect to pay for them. ie, the days of paying once and getting mods and upgrades and new content for free Are Over but I know that if I really enjoy playing a game, I think I would continue to support it. again Im not sure this if very much different then the DLC over 360/PS3 but the the difference would be that we wouldn't be limited to just the gamemaker, ie anyone could make mods with these quasi-open-source games and charge for them if they wanted.
anyway I hope Im making sense, the kids are up too early today
As far as I understand it, he involved unwilling participants into his research and never informed them of what he was doing so I suspect they never gave him consent. If people really wanted to punish this guy for being an ass, it's as easy as reporting him to his chair and asking him why he felt he inflict such grief on unwilling participants. I know most research requires that you consent and that's what bothers me most about his ass-hole antics
What everyone is forgetting is that society agrees to enforce copyright but it has costs. I agree to let you and only you sell your work (without taking it, just copying it or doing whatever I would wish with it) because then you have an incentive but there is no reason for me to spend lots of resources to ensure that you keep all the gain if there is no give back.
The cost on enforcing copyright is paid for by society with the idea that it gains. If there is no gain, why spend enormous resources protecting copyright?
Copyright is not some inherent right and I keep thinking everyone keeps forgetting this.
I agree. This past weekend was what a gaming store in Longview, WA and my girlfriend said "Why dont you look in the store and ask if they have a PS3" because she was sick of my talking about them. Anyway, I went in and the store was quiet. There was no sign announcing they had or did not have PS3, so I causually asked they guy if he had any and he said, "yup. About 7 of the 60bg"
I was quite surprised by this and despite my better instincts, went ahead and bought one. There was no sense of fanfare. There was no waiting list. The only game to get was Resistence and it really doesn't wow me the way Gears of War did, so so ffar the PS3 is a huge let down and I should not have bought it, yet.
ie I think most people have given up and unless Sony does something let everyone know they have some, then Sony is dead in the water. But even if they let people know they have them out> there is nothing compelling about the PS3 yet.
I've got some google stock and it has done nothing but go up (when it hasn't been going down) and I was wondering what exactly they were thinking. Well. I've noticed that many news sites including slate.com are using YouTube as sort of repository for things they dare not touch but like to have the reader look at. take for instance the recent article on Weird Al (http://www.slate.com/id/2151657/?nav=tap3). It's a great article and is made immensely better by the ability to look at the videos the guy is talking about. If this doesn't sell more stuff for Weird Al and his corporate company than I don't understand advertising (if I don't get it, please explain, because I will be impressed if you can).
What I am trying to say is that I think (and this has been said before) that Google and YouTube are betting on the fact that there is no such thing as bad press, i.e., anything that gets you out in the public is a good thing and that media companies will in the long run benefit: Think of comedy central and all the clips of The Daily Show that seem to be there. Don't tell me that doesn't turn on more viewers to the real show or tell me and then explain why it wouldn't.
Ie. Media companies benefit from exposure which gains them sells. This is called advertising. YouTube is the best advertising vehicle I've seen in a long time and because of this, Business perception will change. Or we can hope.:)
The essential gist of the story is that the chinese mathematician didn't prove anything but merely re-hashed the Russian's work but it trying to take the actually credit for proving what has already been proved.
Hi everyone. I just read a review on Inetl new C2 chips and from the specs, it apparently is faster by almost an order of magnitude than anything AMD has (im not a intel fan boy as everthing i have right now runs AMD) Anyway, the most interesting thing about these C2 chisp is how much cooler they are at the same time. I've read on article that said they were able to run them fanless.
I see something has happened to package managment. I quote the relevant
ORN: What new features do package tools support?
Marc Espie: A lot!
The most visible new feature is probably the progress meter. If you add/remove packages, you will now get instant feedback that something is going on. A related features is that the message system has been completely redesigned to be more useful: it's much harder to miss things now.
In general, the system is more robust, handles more fringe cases better, and is a wee little bit faster. Package tools in 3.7 consume half the memory they did in 3.6.
Shared library handling has been totally rethought. Packages will now check that libraries in the base system are present, with the correct version. And also register and handle inter-package library dependencies fully. From the ports people point of view, it's now much easier to write correct package dependencies than it ever was.
The object-oriented packing-list framework has been cleaned up, and is now used extensively through the whole package system. This is a huge improvement, because some very nice tricks are now feasible with a few lines of Perl. For instance:
* Packing-lists updates are now 99 percent automatic and correct.
nice nive quote "Rich people can't stand seeing money lying around doing nothing much like nerds can't stand seeing a computer turned off doing nothing."
Why use mozilla stil? Gmail doesnt work in FireFox
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I have noticed the mozilla still does a better job of password logging on then mozilla.
Firefox alone will not remember gmail passwords (yes I have it set correctly) but Mozilla will.
heh. a few typos but when I re-read it, Im sorry if you don't understand the words im using. remember, just because you are a tech geek doesnt mean you're a med geek
1. do you really have a pleural effusion? 2. I know you mentioned the chest xray but you only mentioned pleural thickening which you cant tap. I think you are asking for a pleural needle biopsy which can pop your lung and leave you in serious problems, hence why the docs dont do it. 3. When you say a recent fever and new MVP, I geuss you should get an echocardiogram, but with a low sed rate and the fact your are still typing makes me doubt you have endocarditis, you would be calling it quits and heading for an ER right now.
He sounds like the typical geek who knows something very well and hence thinks he knows
>"Nevertheless, the signs of complications from an infection are quite clear."
This a big one. They are quite clear to him, but not to doctors. Sorry that doesnt sound quite.
>" infective endocarditis but that patients that present that way have a statistically worse outcome (maybe because nobody will treat it). Anyway, I'm still hoping to get the treatment that I'm sure I need, but if there's an insistance on clinical proof first and treatment second, the proof might be found at autopsy time. "
heh this one is too much. I dont think he understand how big the treatment for infective endocarditis is *AND* you in fact do PROOF before you treat endocarditis. The fact he says "he's sure he needs it" says to me he really hasnt digested what he is saying.
Hell, the treatment for endocartitis is on the order of 6 weeks and you NEED to identify the bug before you treat or else you end up with the real posibility of causing a resistent to bug to form and then you are really up shit creek
>"I'm also grateful for many of the suggestions on how to boost my immune system with natural products (hey, that oregano oil can't hurt and tastes pretty good!:-)"
This is a warning sign. He is talking about natural healing products. Whenever I hear someone says there sick and is talking about natural healing products I think two things: 1. The person is that sick; let me tell you, really sick people pass on the nice bullshit and know they need real medicines
2. "natural" products dont mean shit. IF they work, then they can also cause real damage. There is no such thing as a free lunch. If the "natural" product can do something to heal (I am not disputing that), then it can also do something to hurt. Hell, aristotle and those dudes know that any medicine can be a poison.
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I hear the same complaints here in the states. The fact is that employers don't want to train new employees or they expect workers to have more skills than they are willing to pay, so in essence they are looking for workers to do now what used to be the jobs of two or three individual people but only want to pay the old wage of doing only one job but wanting three times as much.
I hope this is the kick in the pants the US needs to restart out space program. I was saddened when NASA got 'demoted.' It felt like we lost something. I dont know.
My first thought when I read that a publishing group was being delisted was how am I going to know what was delisted?
I use amazon because I feel (dont really know) that it gives me access to pretty much every book that I can buy and so if Im researching a topic or want to read about something now IM not so sure that I'll use amazon.
Yeah, I know I could use a library but I live somewhere where its not that great and I dont know how to seach for books in other way, but now that I think of it, I'll do some googling.
I've been thinking about this since the MW2 server decision and it does seem to be a slight change in attitude recently.
Games like http://www.torchlightgame.com/, http://www.captainforever.com/ seem to be actively engaging its players in making the game but also expecting us to pay them.
We can't make good open-source games because someone has to stop playing them and DESIGN/CODE them! :)
So I think we are seeing something different and not so different,ie We should expect to pay for the games we play but we should expect much more input than the big game makers have been giving us lately. I think torchlight points the way: using opensource tools as much as possible but this leaves the ability to modify the game as much as we want but we should expect to pay for it. I think lately we have been expecting everything for free and as programs require more and more effort we should expect to pay for them. ie, the days of paying once and getting mods and upgrades and new content for free Are Over but I know that if I really enjoy playing a game, I think I would continue to support it. again Im not sure this if very much different then the DLC over 360/PS3 but the the difference would be that we wouldn't be limited to just the gamemaker, ie anyone could make mods with these quasi-open-source games and charge for them if they wanted.
anyway I hope Im making sense, the kids are up too early today
As far as I understand it, he involved unwilling participants into his research and never informed them of what he was doing so I suspect they never gave him consent.
If people really wanted to punish this guy for being an ass, it's as easy as reporting him to his chair and asking him why he felt he inflict such grief on unwilling participants. I know most research requires that you consent and that's what bothers me most about his ass-hole antics
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2009/07/06/090706crbo_books_gladwell
It questions the idea of information wanting to be free
is directly proportional to the knowledge required to post
Such that no one wants to say any...
Mod the parent up.
What everyone is forgetting is that society agrees to enforce copyright but it has costs. I agree to let you and only you sell your work (without taking it, just copying it or doing whatever I would wish with it) because then you have an incentive but there is no reason for me to spend lots of resources to ensure that you keep all the gain if there is no give back.
The cost on enforcing copyright is paid for by society with the idea that it gains. If there is no gain, why spend enormous resources protecting copyright?
Copyright is not some inherent right and I keep thinking everyone keeps forgetting this.
I agree. This past weekend was what a gaming store in Longview, WA and my girlfriend said "Why dont you look in the store and ask if they have a PS3" because she was sick of my talking about them. Anyway, I went in and the store was quiet. There was no sign announcing they had or did not have PS3, so I causually asked they guy if he had any and he said, "yup. About 7 of the 60bg"
I was quite surprised by this and despite my better instincts, went ahead and bought one.
There was no sense of fanfare. There was no waiting list. The only game to get was Resistence and it really doesn't wow me the way Gears of War did, so so ffar the PS3 is a huge let down and I should not have bought it, yet.
ie I think most people have given up and unless Sony does something let everyone know they have some, then Sony is dead in the water.
But even if they let people know they have them out> there is nothing compelling about the PS3 yet.
Anyway, let me know your thoughts
I've got some google stock and it has done nothing but go up (when it hasn't been going down) and I was wondering what exactly they were thinking. Well. I've noticed that many news sites including slate.com are using YouTube as sort of repository for things they dare not touch but like to have the reader look at. take for instance the recent article on Weird Al (http://www.slate.com/id/2151657/?nav=tap3). It's a great article and is made immensely better by the ability to look at the videos the guy is talking about. If this doesn't sell more stuff for Weird Al and his corporate company than I don't understand advertising (if I don't get it, please explain, because I will be impressed if you can).
:)
What I am trying to say is that I think (and this has been said before) that Google and YouTube are betting on the fact that there is no such thing as bad press, i.e., anything that gets you out in the public is a good thing and that media companies will in the long run benefit: Think of comedy central and all the clips of The Daily Show that seem to be there. Don't tell me that doesn't turn on more viewers to the real show or tell me and then explain why it wouldn't.
Ie. Media companies benefit from exposure which gains them sells. This is called advertising. YouTube is the best advertising vehicle I've seen in a long time and because of this, Business perception will change. Or we can hope.
I quote (i dont from where) "...and when has being whipped, a bad thing?"
The essential gist of the story is that the chinese mathematician didn't prove anything but merely re-hashed the Russian's work but it trying to take the actually credit for proving what has already been proved.
Man, You just reminded me why I read slashdot. That was amazingly funny.
Thanks
Hi everyone.
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I just read a review on Inetl new C2 chips and from the specs, it apparently is faster by almost an order of magnitude than anything AMD has (im not a intel fan boy as everthing i have right now runs AMD)
Anyway, the most interesting thing about these C2 chisp is how much cooler they are at the same time. I've read on article that said they were able to run them fanless.
anyway, heres another articles http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,198903
I think i might be upgrading to these when they come out in numbers
Perl or Python would be best.
dang it, you beat me to this thougt
This is a follow up on my previous post.
I see something has happened to package managment. I quote the relevant
ORN: What new features do package tools support?
Marc Espie: A lot!
The most visible new feature is probably the progress meter. If you add/remove packages, you will now get instant feedback that something is going on. A related features is that the message system has been completely redesigned to be more useful: it's much harder to miss things now.
In general, the system is more robust, handles more fringe cases better, and is a wee little bit faster. Package tools in 3.7 consume half the memory they did in 3.6.
Shared library handling has been totally rethought. Packages will now check that libraries in the base system are present, with the correct version. And also register and handle inter-package library dependencies fully. From the ports people point of view, it's now much easier to write correct package dependencies than it ever was.
The object-oriented packing-list framework has been cleaned up, and is now used extensively through the whole package system. This is a huge improvement, because some very nice tricks are now feasible with a few lines of Perl. For instance:
* Packing-lists updates are now 99 percent automatic and correct.
what happened to that one percent?
I've noticed no problem with package install, but have noticed that the ports arent working
nice nive quote "Rich people can't stand seeing money lying around doing nothing much like nerds can't stand seeing a computer turned off doing nothing."
I have noticed the mozilla still does a better job of password logging on then mozilla.
Firefox alone will not remember gmail passwords (yes I have it set correctly) but Mozilla will.
Anyway body else see this problem?
any other reason why I would want to use netbsd instead of freebsd in an x86 machine?
THanks for the tips
heh. a few typos but when I re-read it, Im sorry if you don't understand the words im using.
remember, just because you are a tech geek doesnt mean you're a med geek
HI pat. I've written some posts on this.
anyway, two question.
1. do you really have a pleural effusion?
2. I know you mentioned the chest xray but you only mentioned pleural thickening which you cant tap. I think you are asking for a pleural needle biopsy which can pop your lung and leave you in serious problems, hence why the docs dont do it.
3. When you say a recent fever and new MVP, I geuss you should get an echocardiogram, but with a low sed rate and the fact your are still typing makes me doubt you have endocarditis, you would be calling it quits and heading for an ER right now.
Lets chat
>I'm just not buying in this case.
:-)"
I agree with you at this point.
He sounds like the typical geek who knows something very well and hence thinks he knows
>"Nevertheless, the signs of complications from an infection are quite
clear."
This a big one. They are quite clear to him, but not to doctors. Sorry that doesnt sound quite.
>" infective endocarditis
but that patients that present that way have a statistically worse
outcome (maybe because nobody will treat it). Anyway, I'm still
hoping to get the treatment that I'm sure I need, but if there's an
insistance on clinical proof first and treatment second, the proof
might be found at autopsy time. "
heh this one is too much. I dont think he understand how big the treatment for infective endocarditis is *AND* you in fact do PROOF before you treat endocarditis. The fact he says "he's sure he needs it" says to me he really hasnt digested what he is saying.
Hell, the treatment for endocartitis is on the order of 6 weeks and you NEED to identify the bug before you treat or else you end up with the real posibility of causing a resistent to bug to form and then you are really up shit creek
>"I'm also grateful
for many of the suggestions on how to boost my immune system with
natural products (hey, that oregano oil can't hurt and tastes
pretty good!
This is a warning sign. He is talking about natural healing products. Whenever I hear someone says there sick and is talking about natural healing products I think two things:
1. The person is that sick; let me tell you, really sick people pass on the nice bullshit and know they need real medicines
2. "natural" products dont mean shit. IF they work, then they can also cause real damage. There is no such thing as a free lunch. If the "natural" product can do something to heal (I am not disputing that), then it can also do something to hurt. Hell, aristotle and those dudes know that any medicine can be a poison.
Anyway, let me know what you think.
Thanks all