My dad and I were talking about that this week. He wants a nuclear powered R/C Car. No more 5-minute batteries or delicate nitrous engines. And when you crash, they have to evacuate half the state! It makes racing much more exciting.
Openbravo is an ERP solution that is open source with premium (paid) services available. They'll try to force the premium services on you, but if you run your own server, you don't need them. I downloaded it and played with it a little a couple of years ago, but never bothered to set it up. We have a very small computer shop and it was simpler to write my own basic database interface (besides, I'm one of those idiots who enjoys coding and likes to make things 'just right', so I created my own software from scratch for our 3-employee business -- darn you OCD!)
I do, however, use their foss POS software and like it pretty well. I've had to make a few alterations to fit our business, but it's by far the best I've used. I strongly considered writing my own POS software as well, but the discomforts of using theirs were outweighed by the headache of credit card APIs and PCI certification.
Have you ever used a Surface? I don't own one (I'm lucky to have a used $200 Fujitsu convertible), but they are seriously competitive hardware. The OS feels very tablet-like (how can anyone complain otherwise while still complaining about Windows 8 being 'designed for a tablet and not appropriate for a desktop"), and unlike an iPad, I don't have to relearn everything just to use it -- I already understand the interface because I have Win8 on my laptop. Contrary to what the ads say, iPads are a pain to use & learn. The Surface touchscreen works very nicely (I've yet to use an Android tablet that works as smoothly), and the Pro's addition of a pressure-sensitive stylus opens it up to the art community in a way that is largely under-addressed (in my opinion, they should be advertising this feature a LOT more). The ability to run desktop applications on the pro is unprecedented among tablets, yet it's not overbearing; the thing is first and foremost a tablet, and the average user won't even use the desktop app functionality (which is why they regular Surface doesn't have it).
I don't own one, and honestly my OS of choice is Ubuntu (even though it is very clumsy with touchscreens, hopefully Ubuntu Touch will be better, and will operate on x86 machines), but given the choice between an iPad, an Android tablet, and a Surface Pro, I'd take the Surface, no question. The real problems with them are the lack of acceptance from the general public and the resulting poor app selection. The tablet experience itself is actually very good -- and compared with an iPad in a keyboard case, the Surface feels much more classy to the touch. Hopefully in a couple years I'll be able to afford a Surface on eBay... but of course that means people need to be out there buying them now and upgrading like they do with Apple products lol.
The real rub is that MS is trying to switch roles here. The Android tablets are the XP of the tablet world, with the interface everyone knows and the affordability and ubiquity. MS is instead making high-end devices that feel expensive and are expensive. The usual MS crowd hates them on principle because it's not low-quality off-brand junk. The high-end market are all in love with their hipsterish Apple devices and hate MS on principle that they're 'the man'. MS has to cut out their own groove, and it's not easy. It's a bad situation for MS, but one that isn't easily avoided.
I agree that this is a worthless article, but oddly enough, I was just searching for a way to do this. In Opera, there's a button to press that will bring back a closed tab (it keeps all of the closed tabs since you started the browser), but since Opera 15 removes all of its features and is just a skinned version of Chrome, I'm switching to Firefox. The other features I miss (a zoom slider, Opera Link, rocker gestures, etc) I've been able to replicate with Add-Ons, but this one feature was still missing. There were add-ons to add the ability to reopen the last page of a tab, but it didn't come with its history (the back button was greyed out).
Frustratingly, I was not able to find any information on this at all. I had actually given up looking a couple days ago, until I happened to read this article (which I only clicked on because it had a bizarre name)... so maybe someone should write a better article about this hidden feature? Or maybe FF should just add a button like Opera 12 had.
Bingo. I've serviced them plenty of times... it's just ordinary DSL, with a router that gives priority to the store PC (if they choose to use it, many don't), and the best speed test I've ever seen is less than 2Mbps when I was using the 'store manager' Ethernet jack. Pretty pathetic when you split it between 15 customers. Heck, that's pathetic just going to one person.
Okay, I stand corrected. Having just discovered that I can right-click on the lower right hot corner ('imaginary start button') and access everything I was bellyaching about missing, I guess I actually have no complaints. In fact it's fewer clicks than with a start menu. My only question is, why didn't they publicize this? I think MS's biggest issue is with communicating with customers.
A 'Computer' button that can be right-clicked, and a complete control panel that's 2 clicks from boot on every computer. I know they've added the full control panel to the Modern Settings rollout, but it's still a LOT harder to explain to a customer on over-the-phone tech support. To get to a quick summary of the PC specs (OS version, 32/64 bit, amount of RAM, and the device manager) is a lot more involved, and requires opening file manager, looking for 'computer' in the far-too-long list of folders, which is only part of the left pane (and can be completely hidden, making phone support a real headache), then right-clicking it. Also, how come there's no easy way to make an application shortcut on the desktop?! I have to open File Browser and go look for the actual application executable in Program Files, then right-drag to the desktop and 'create shortcut'. In Win7 (Vista, XP, 2000, and 98, as well), I could just right-drag straight off the start menu.
How are any of these 'improvements' in Win8 better? And yes, I am a fan of Win8, I use it (dual-booted with Linux, of course) on my primary PC (a convertible tablet), and I absolutely love the touch integration. But getting rid of the start menu was idiotic. I like the modern start screen, I really do. I just want the start menu to *also* be there, for when I'm not playing games or sketching in Manga Studio.
I was once in a similar situation, except in my case, I was hired by one of the partners in a business (at least, that was what he told me he was) to build a portal for the employees to log their work, and upload maps into their server. It was a ~8k line classic.asp website with a little JavaScript, nothing fancy, but a fair amount of code under the hood, as they had a lot of employees across the state logging in and uploading/accessing maps, and they wanted it all logged, and had some fancy things they wanted done with the files they uploaded (keyword extraction, etc.) After I delivered the files (they were hosting them on an in-house Windows 2003 server), the guy immediately went in and removed all of my copyright notices and changed my name to his on everything, before he had even fully tested it, then told his employer (who had actually hired him to build and maintain the site, as I learned later) that it was all his work. Then about 2 weeks later something broke (that's what happens when a site isn't really tested -- he wanted me to build and deliver it, then leave it for him to test), and he called me and wanted me to fix it for free over the phone (he didn't want me to see that he'd taken all of my credit out of the source), and after spending several hours on the phone with him over several days, I told him that I couldn't fix it without looking at the source myself. He begrudgingly gave me FTP access, and after taking care of the glitch, I told him I wasn't helping him with it again, after seeing what he'd done. A week later he called asking for more help. In my case, I simply threatened to talk to his boss, and that got rid of him, but I can't really show anyone what I built on their server, since my name's been removed. What I've done since then was to upload it all to my server (where it works perfectly), with all their branding removed, and showed that to people. I've actually started doing that with all of my web development -- it seems that the buyer always does something to damage the site if they don't keep me on to maintain it, so it's better to just show off the original version that I built, on my own server.
Same here. I had trouble accessing 1 website yesterday (pretty unlikely to be related), but I've had no trouble at all since. I am, however, on part of the original CenturyTel network, not on the Qwest wires. I'm guessing it's probably just one of their sub-companies that was affected.
ME's problem was that there was no visible difference between it and '98. Consumers had no reason to upgrade, and it had a poor stability reputation, so they avoided it.
Vista had a bad reputation before it was even released, entirely because some whiny MS-haters got their hands on the Beta and tried to find everything they could to complain about. I was selling computers at a large retailer when Vista came out, and for 6 months beforehand, people came in (with alarming frequency), telling me how bad Vista was going to be, and that they needed a new XP box while they could still get one. Vista was hated because of a soiled reputation before it was even released. Most of the FUD I was being told wasn't even based on any truth, it was purely rumors (and some of them were pretty far-fetched; 'I'm going to have to get a new email address! My old monitor, keyboard, and mouse won't work, and I love my 15" CRT! Ahhh!').
8's problem is that people don't need an upgrade. It really is a hardware problem. I now own a computer shop, and sell XP boxes alongside 8. Nobody wants 7. The people who want a new computer like 8. They're always cautious, but you can tell they're excited -- they don't want to buy something new and have it feel just like the old thing. Reception has been very good. The people who don't want 8 are the stick-in-the-mud whiners who are still bellyaching over the fact Clinton get reelected. They don't want 7 either. They probably would be thrilled if I still sold boxes running 95. The reason PC sales have been slow is simply that nobody needs to upgrade. If their motherboard dies, they buy a new PC. If they bring me a PC for a hard drive upgrade, and it's running a P4 with 512 of Ram, I'll steer them towards a new computer because it's cheaper than upgrading everything. Otherwise, people are happy to stick with what they have. After all, they just spent their 'toy money' on a new smartphone/tablet/55" TV.
I've been around/. for a while now, but this post is by far the most unique I've seen. It's one thing to post a 100-word troll or link to something obscene, but this is a whole new class of crazy. It would have taken him a solid hour of typing at 60wpm without a single pause or break... and with that many links and perpetual font/style changes, he obviously spent another hour or so at minimum, just setting it up. This dude is like some B-movies from the 80's; it's one thing to be 'bad', it's another thing to be so 'bad' that you're actually entertaining to watch. Many have tried, but few achieve the greatness of this AC.
My hat's off to you, crazy man.
If you're not okay with DRM, then you probably don't care about Netflix, as it's entirely based on the concept of you not owning any of the content they provide to you. So what does it matter? DRM isn't cool, but Netflix is a creature that lives entirely inside the DRM-isphere, so if you want Netflix, you're gonna get DRM. Just be happy when it shows up in Linux, regardless of rights management.
Exactly. Besides, in the past 20 years, no significant advancements have been made in practical medical practice. Sure, some scientists have come up with a few new ideas, but no real improvements have made their way to the consumer, and any new treatments that have, have been so ridiculously overpriced that nobody can afford them anyway (I've never seen insurance that covers 'experimental treatments'). Any new treatments (c'mon, you know you've seen a few headlines for breakthrough cancer treatments or cures for Hep. C) are buried under enough red tape in the FDA that our generation won't be around by the time they are allowed for use in doctor's offices.
If you're going to wire, wire with the best available. It's just crazy to cheap out on the wire, when the installation is the major cost/hassle.
Aw heck with that, I pull wires for a living. Last thing I wanna do when I get home is pull more wires. I had a gaping hole in the plaster from where I installed a new bathroom door (plaster in old houses is so hard to keep from cracking into a larger hole than you wanted), so I just pulled a random 50' cat5 cable I had lying around. It travels across the attic and out to a WiMax antenna on a pole on my roof. (I share a network between my house & my shop 2 blocks away; it works pretty awesome, and it's a lot cheaper than a VPN. Plus as a bonus I only have one Internet acct to pay for.)
I later mudded up the hole (family was visiting, so it was a last minute repair) with this blue cat5 cable sticking out randomly. Then I felt bad about it, so I screwed a wall plate over it to look like there was a box in there. Then I just dragged my desk in front of it.
Insanity is not only not 'illegal', but you have to get a health care provider to sign off on a person, stating that they are dangerous to themselves and to others before they can be committed to an asylum. That involves risk on the part of the psychiatrist (they don't want to be sued by the fella they locked up), and, of course, that requires that the individual be willing to pay a psychiatrist to look at them, unless they are arrested for a crime, and the police decide to pay to have them examined (which was the case with Travis.) That's why there are so many wackos around in the USA -- doctors charge a lot, and the average crazy person doesn't want to be told he's crazy (I know I sure didn't. I suffered several mental disorders when I was younger, thankfully outgrowing them by my mid-20s.)
The problem is money. Doctors are greedy. Insurance companies are greedy. Medical suppliers are greedy. Every single party involved in the medical industry is insanely greedy, and that all adds up to high prices for medical attention. The government can't afford to pay it for us, and we can't afford it either. Besides, if someone does get deemed insane, who's going to pay for his care at a care facility?
Source: I used to work in the medical field. The doctor I worked for charged about $500/hr (after costs; $800 gross) if the doctor had to be there the whole time. Malpractice insurance was to the tune of 5 digits/month. Health insurance also ripped off their customers right&left, but everyone knows about that. As far as medical supplies go, they were all high, but one thing that sticks in my memory was a standard A-B 6' USB cable listed for $70 in the supply catalogs.
Of those who did get cancer, all of them were diagnosed with cancer (though ~5% during an autopsy). Thus we can see with 100% certainty that a medical diagnosis causes cancer. Protect your loved ones, don't let them get diagnosed or tested!
Actually, my hypothesis is that oral cancer is caused by drinking soda; so the people who drink 4+ cups of coffee/day don't get it, because they never have any soda.
Now, somebody, please come out with a study that refutes my hypothesis so I can get back to drinking Mountain Dew by next sumer!
Okay, not to be a wet blanket, but my Dad told me about this a week ago, after reading about it in his subscription of AARP's [print] magazine. Shouldn't us young[er], technologically-savvy, electronically-delivered folks be getting science news a little bit faster than the old people get it in their mainstream print magazines?
Personally, I never went to college. I'm a business owner now. I worked (consecutively, starting at age 18) on a farm, at two difference McDonald's, for an Office Depot (where I learned sales and management from the ground up), then worked for a dentist, all while doing computer repair on the side and having various side jobs (being a vendor that hangs signs in grocery stores, things like that), just to make ends meet. After I got married, I realized that what I wanted more than anything else was to spend more time with my wife, and the best way to accomplish that was to become self employed full-time. It took a couple of years of saving while living in poverty (sub-$12k/year total family income), but we did it. We've been running our computer shop for 3 years now, and last year grossed $45k.
The moral of this story is that I wasn't driven by greed, didn't go to college to get my ideas, and wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth (my parents have never made more than $35k between the two of them), but I'm living the dream. I work when I want to (well, sorta, we have set hours to be in our retail store, but when I want to take a day off, I just pay my mom to watch the shop for a day), and most importantly, I get to spend time with my wife. I'm not a millionaire, but I also happen to be making more money than I've ever made before in my life, though that's just a fringe benefit. The only debt I have is my mortgage. Oh, and I'm only 27.
tl;dr: Greed isn't the only motivator, and college isn't the only place to get ideas and experience.
This. I have Win8 on my Fujitsu T5010, and love touch scrolling with it. So much more natural. I've touched my office monitor and my wife's laptop screen a couple times now without thinking. I love having a convertible laptop/stylus/touch PC (the T5010 has a 'dual digitizer'; the active stylus digitizer is awesome for my comics, but the touchscreen is better for games/surfing/reading), and I'm never switching back to an ordinary laptop.
Oh, and by the way, I'm a web developer who has written thousands of lines of code on a convertible tablet pc. That's what the keyboard is for.
I don't buy music because I can't use it for slideshows at weddings, dance party...
You must be a superhero-level slashdotter if you host enough dance parties for digital music to make any difference in your lifestyle. I'm guessing that the average slashdotter has never been to a dance party, let alone hosted one. I know I sure haven't.
Then again, this is slashdot, where the standard is to go way overboard over the tiniest thing, so maybe...
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My dad and I were talking about that this week. He wants a nuclear powered R/C Car. No more 5-minute batteries or delicate nitrous engines. And when you crash, they have to evacuate half the state! It makes racing much more exciting.
Openbravo is an ERP solution that is open source with premium (paid) services available. They'll try to force the premium services on you, but if you run your own server, you don't need them. I downloaded it and played with it a little a couple of years ago, but never bothered to set it up. We have a very small computer shop and it was simpler to write my own basic database interface (besides, I'm one of those idiots who enjoys coding and likes to make things 'just right', so I created my own software from scratch for our 3-employee business -- darn you OCD!)
I do, however, use their foss POS software and like it pretty well. I've had to make a few alterations to fit our business, but it's by far the best I've used. I strongly considered writing my own POS software as well, but the discomforts of using theirs were outweighed by the headache of credit card APIs and PCI certification.
Have you ever used a Surface? I don't own one (I'm lucky to have a used $200 Fujitsu convertible), but they are seriously competitive hardware. The OS feels very tablet-like (how can anyone complain otherwise while still complaining about Windows 8 being 'designed for a tablet and not appropriate for a desktop"), and unlike an iPad, I don't have to relearn everything just to use it -- I already understand the interface because I have Win8 on my laptop. Contrary to what the ads say, iPads are a pain to use & learn. The Surface touchscreen works very nicely (I've yet to use an Android tablet that works as smoothly), and the Pro's addition of a pressure-sensitive stylus opens it up to the art community in a way that is largely under-addressed (in my opinion, they should be advertising this feature a LOT more). The ability to run desktop applications on the pro is unprecedented among tablets, yet it's not overbearing; the thing is first and foremost a tablet, and the average user won't even use the desktop app functionality (which is why they regular Surface doesn't have it). I don't own one, and honestly my OS of choice is Ubuntu (even though it is very clumsy with touchscreens, hopefully Ubuntu Touch will be better, and will operate on x86 machines), but given the choice between an iPad, an Android tablet, and a Surface Pro, I'd take the Surface, no question. The real problems with them are the lack of acceptance from the general public and the resulting poor app selection. The tablet experience itself is actually very good -- and compared with an iPad in a keyboard case, the Surface feels much more classy to the touch. Hopefully in a couple years I'll be able to afford a Surface on eBay... but of course that means people need to be out there buying them now and upgrading like they do with Apple products lol. The real rub is that MS is trying to switch roles here. The Android tablets are the XP of the tablet world, with the interface everyone knows and the affordability and ubiquity. MS is instead making high-end devices that feel expensive and are expensive. The usual MS crowd hates them on principle because it's not low-quality off-brand junk. The high-end market are all in love with their hipsterish Apple devices and hate MS on principle that they're 'the man'. MS has to cut out their own groove, and it's not easy. It's a bad situation for MS, but one that isn't easily avoided.
I agree that this is a worthless article, but oddly enough, I was just searching for a way to do this. In Opera, there's a button to press that will bring back a closed tab (it keeps all of the closed tabs since you started the browser), but since Opera 15 removes all of its features and is just a skinned version of Chrome, I'm switching to Firefox. The other features I miss (a zoom slider, Opera Link, rocker gestures, etc) I've been able to replicate with Add-Ons, but this one feature was still missing. There were add-ons to add the ability to reopen the last page of a tab, but it didn't come with its history (the back button was greyed out).
Frustratingly, I was not able to find any information on this at all. I had actually given up looking a couple days ago, until I happened to read this article (which I only clicked on because it had a bizarre name)... so maybe someone should write a better article about this hidden feature? Or maybe FF should just add a button like Opera 12 had.
Their choice of location for the laptop looks like they're just using this as a way to 'accidentally' need a new one.
Bingo. I've serviced them plenty of times... it's just ordinary DSL, with a router that gives priority to the store PC (if they choose to use it, many don't), and the best speed test I've ever seen is less than 2Mbps when I was using the 'store manager' Ethernet jack. Pretty pathetic when you split it between 15 customers. Heck, that's pathetic just going to one person.
Where's a 'like' button when I need one...
Okay, I stand corrected. Having just discovered that I can right-click on the lower right hot corner ('imaginary start button') and access everything I was bellyaching about missing, I guess I actually have no complaints. In fact it's fewer clicks than with a start menu. My only question is, why didn't they publicize this? I think MS's biggest issue is with communicating with customers.
A 'Computer' button that can be right-clicked, and a complete control panel that's 2 clicks from boot on every computer. I know they've added the full control panel to the Modern Settings rollout, but it's still a LOT harder to explain to a customer on over-the-phone tech support. To get to a quick summary of the PC specs (OS version, 32/64 bit, amount of RAM, and the device manager) is a lot more involved, and requires opening file manager, looking for 'computer' in the far-too-long list of folders, which is only part of the left pane (and can be completely hidden, making phone support a real headache), then right-clicking it. Also, how come there's no easy way to make an application shortcut on the desktop?! I have to open File Browser and go look for the actual application executable in Program Files, then right-drag to the desktop and 'create shortcut'. In Win7 (Vista, XP, 2000, and 98, as well), I could just right-drag straight off the start menu. How are any of these 'improvements' in Win8 better? And yes, I am a fan of Win8, I use it (dual-booted with Linux, of course) on my primary PC (a convertible tablet), and I absolutely love the touch integration. But getting rid of the start menu was idiotic. I like the modern start screen, I really do. I just want the start menu to *also* be there, for when I'm not playing games or sketching in Manga Studio.
I was once in a similar situation, except in my case, I was hired by one of the partners in a business (at least, that was what he told me he was) to build a portal for the employees to log their work, and upload maps into their server. It was a ~8k line classic .asp website with a little JavaScript, nothing fancy, but a fair amount of code under the hood, as they had a lot of employees across the state logging in and uploading/accessing maps, and they wanted it all logged, and had some fancy things they wanted done with the files they uploaded (keyword extraction, etc.) After I delivered the files (they were hosting them on an in-house Windows 2003 server), the guy immediately went in and removed all of my copyright notices and changed my name to his on everything, before he had even fully tested it, then told his employer (who had actually hired him to build and maintain the site, as I learned later) that it was all his work. Then about 2 weeks later something broke (that's what happens when a site isn't really tested -- he wanted me to build and deliver it, then leave it for him to test), and he called me and wanted me to fix it for free over the phone (he didn't want me to see that he'd taken all of my credit out of the source), and after spending several hours on the phone with him over several days, I told him that I couldn't fix it without looking at the source myself. He begrudgingly gave me FTP access, and after taking care of the glitch, I told him I wasn't helping him with it again, after seeing what he'd done. A week later he called asking for more help. In my case, I simply threatened to talk to his boss, and that got rid of him, but I can't really show anyone what I built on their server, since my name's been removed. What I've done since then was to upload it all to my server (where it works perfectly), with all their branding removed, and showed that to people. I've actually started doing that with all of my web development -- it seems that the buyer always does something to damage the site if they don't keep me on to maintain it, so it's better to just show off the original version that I built, on my own server.
Same here. I had trouble accessing 1 website yesterday (pretty unlikely to be related), but I've had no trouble at all since. I am, however, on part of the original CenturyTel network, not on the Qwest wires. I'm guessing it's probably just one of their sub-companies that was affected.
ME's problem was that there was no visible difference between it and '98. Consumers had no reason to upgrade, and it had a poor stability reputation, so they avoided it.
Vista had a bad reputation before it was even released, entirely because some whiny MS-haters got their hands on the Beta and tried to find everything they could to complain about. I was selling computers at a large retailer when Vista came out, and for 6 months beforehand, people came in (with alarming frequency), telling me how bad Vista was going to be, and that they needed a new XP box while they could still get one. Vista was hated because of a soiled reputation before it was even released. Most of the FUD I was being told wasn't even based on any truth, it was purely rumors (and some of them were pretty far-fetched; 'I'm going to have to get a new email address! My old monitor, keyboard, and mouse won't work, and I love my 15" CRT! Ahhh!').
8's problem is that people don't need an upgrade. It really is a hardware problem. I now own a computer shop, and sell XP boxes alongside 8. Nobody wants 7. The people who want a new computer like 8. They're always cautious, but you can tell they're excited -- they don't want to buy something new and have it feel just like the old thing. Reception has been very good. The people who don't want 8 are the stick-in-the-mud whiners who are still bellyaching over the fact Clinton get reelected. They don't want 7 either. They probably would be thrilled if I still sold boxes running 95. The reason PC sales have been slow is simply that nobody needs to upgrade. If their motherboard dies, they buy a new PC. If they bring me a PC for a hard drive upgrade, and it's running a P4 with 512 of Ram, I'll steer them towards a new computer because it's cheaper than upgrading everything. Otherwise, people are happy to stick with what they have. After all, they just spent their 'toy money' on a new smartphone/tablet/55" TV.
I've been around /. for a while now, but this post is by far the most unique I've seen. It's one thing to post a 100-word troll or link to something obscene, but this is a whole new class of crazy. It would have taken him a solid hour of typing at 60wpm without a single pause or break... and with that many links and perpetual font/style changes, he obviously spent another hour or so at minimum, just setting it up. This dude is like some B-movies from the 80's; it's one thing to be 'bad', it's another thing to be so 'bad' that you're actually entertaining to watch. Many have tried, but few achieve the greatness of this AC.
My hat's off to you, crazy man.
If you're not okay with DRM, then you probably don't care about Netflix, as it's entirely based on the concept of you not owning any of the content they provide to you. So what does it matter? DRM isn't cool, but Netflix is a creature that lives entirely inside the DRM-isphere, so if you want Netflix, you're gonna get DRM. Just be happy when it shows up in Linux, regardless of rights management.
Exactly. Besides, in the past 20 years, no significant advancements have been made in practical medical practice. Sure, some scientists have come up with a few new ideas, but no real improvements have made their way to the consumer, and any new treatments that have, have been so ridiculously overpriced that nobody can afford them anyway (I've never seen insurance that covers 'experimental treatments'). Any new treatments (c'mon, you know you've seen a few headlines for breakthrough cancer treatments or cures for Hep. C) are buried under enough red tape in the FDA that our generation won't be around by the time they are allowed for use in doctor's offices.
tl;dr: Nothing of value was lost.
Now I want to cosplay as Gizmoduck with one of these. That would be some awesome cosplay.
If you're going to wire, wire with the best available. It's just crazy to cheap out on the wire, when the installation is the major cost/hassle.
Aw heck with that, I pull wires for a living. Last thing I wanna do when I get home is pull more wires. I had a gaping hole in the plaster from where I installed a new bathroom door (plaster in old houses is so hard to keep from cracking into a larger hole than you wanted), so I just pulled a random 50' cat5 cable I had lying around. It travels across the attic and out to a WiMax antenna on a pole on my roof. (I share a network between my house & my shop 2 blocks away; it works pretty awesome, and it's a lot cheaper than a VPN. Plus as a bonus I only have one Internet acct to pay for.)
I later mudded up the hole (family was visiting, so it was a last minute repair) with this blue cat5 cable sticking out randomly. Then I felt bad about it, so I screwed a wall plate over it to look like there was a box in there. Then I just dragged my desk in front of it.
Insanity is not only not 'illegal', but you have to get a health care provider to sign off on a person, stating that they are dangerous to themselves and to others before they can be committed to an asylum. That involves risk on the part of the psychiatrist (they don't want to be sued by the fella they locked up), and, of course, that requires that the individual be willing to pay a psychiatrist to look at them, unless they are arrested for a crime, and the police decide to pay to have them examined (which was the case with Travis.) That's why there are so many wackos around in the USA -- doctors charge a lot, and the average crazy person doesn't want to be told he's crazy (I know I sure didn't. I suffered several mental disorders when I was younger, thankfully outgrowing them by my mid-20s.)
The problem is money. Doctors are greedy. Insurance companies are greedy. Medical suppliers are greedy. Every single party involved in the medical industry is insanely greedy, and that all adds up to high prices for medical attention. The government can't afford to pay it for us, and we can't afford it either. Besides, if someone does get deemed insane, who's going to pay for his care at a care facility?
Source: I used to work in the medical field. The doctor I worked for charged about $500/hr (after costs; $800 gross) if the doctor had to be there the whole time. Malpractice insurance was to the tune of 5 digits/month. Health insurance also ripped off their customers right&left, but everyone knows about that. As far as medical supplies go, they were all high, but one thing that sticks in my memory was a standard A-B 6' USB cable listed for $70 in the supply catalogs.
Of those who did get cancer, all of them were diagnosed with cancer (though ~5% during an autopsy). Thus we can see with 100% certainty that a medical diagnosis causes cancer. Protect your loved ones, don't let them get diagnosed or tested!
Actually, my hypothesis is that oral cancer is caused by drinking soda; so the people who drink 4+ cups of coffee/day don't get it, because they never have any soda.
Now, somebody, please come out with a study that refutes my hypothesis so I can get back to drinking Mountain Dew by next sumer!
Okay, not to be a wet blanket, but my Dad told me about this a week ago, after reading about it in his subscription of AARP's [print] magazine. Shouldn't us young[er], technologically-savvy, electronically-delivered folks be getting science news a little bit faster than the old people get it in their mainstream print magazines?
Personally, I never went to college. I'm a business owner now. I worked (consecutively, starting at age 18) on a farm, at two difference McDonald's, for an Office Depot (where I learned sales and management from the ground up), then worked for a dentist, all while doing computer repair on the side and having various side jobs (being a vendor that hangs signs in grocery stores, things like that), just to make ends meet. After I got married, I realized that what I wanted more than anything else was to spend more time with my wife, and the best way to accomplish that was to become self employed full-time. It took a couple of years of saving while living in poverty (sub-$12k/year total family income), but we did it. We've been running our computer shop for 3 years now, and last year grossed $45k.
The moral of this story is that I wasn't driven by greed, didn't go to college to get my ideas, and wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth (my parents have never made more than $35k between the two of them), but I'm living the dream. I work when I want to (well, sorta, we have set hours to be in our retail store, but when I want to take a day off, I just pay my mom to watch the shop for a day), and most importantly, I get to spend time with my wife. I'm not a millionaire, but I also happen to be making more money than I've ever made before in my life, though that's just a fringe benefit. The only debt I have is my mortgage. Oh, and I'm only 27.
tl;dr: Greed isn't the only motivator, and college isn't the only place to get ideas and experience.
This. I have Win8 on my Fujitsu T5010, and love touch scrolling with it. So much more natural. I've touched my office monitor and my wife's laptop screen a couple times now without thinking. I love having a convertible laptop/stylus/touch PC (the T5010 has a 'dual digitizer'; the active stylus digitizer is awesome for my comics, but the touchscreen is better for games/surfing/reading), and I'm never switching back to an ordinary laptop.
Oh, and by the way, I'm a web developer who has written thousands of lines of code on a convertible tablet pc. That's what the keyboard is for.
Hi Scribe, you missed my typo...
I'm sorry, but seeing a pedant make a mistake while chewing someone out for making a mistake is just too funny.
I don't buy music because I can't use it for slideshows at weddings, dance party...
You must be a superhero-level slashdotter if you host enough dance parties for digital music to make any difference in your lifestyle. I'm guessing that the average slashdotter has never been to a dance party, let alone hosted one. I know I sure haven't.
Then again, this is slashdot, where the standard is to go way overboard over the tiniest thing, so maybe...