For me the obvious sign that it's a scam call is...the caller ID is not in my contacts list. The cool with cell phones is you can set them to not ring if the caller isn't in your contacts. That doesn't work for everyone, but it works for me just fine. If it's a legit call, they'll leave a voicemail and I'll notice that within an hour or sooner.
Most people claim that BMI is inaccurate because...it's inaccurate. Professional athletes whose bodies are the epitome of fitness perfection are rated obese by BMI. The BMI was designed to determine the overall fitness level of a large group of people, like a nation. It was never meant to be used as an index for an individual level of fitness. It's used because it's a simple number that most people can understand, but human physiology is complicated. Most people are not smart enough to deal with the level of complexity, all the variables, to make intelligent decisions.
I've played with a bunch of them. Cloud9 was my favorite of them, but I ran into challenges when I wanted to play experiment with AngularJS. I ended up preferring to work with Brackets and pointing it at a Google Drive folder. Obviously, I'm not a professional developer. I just experiment, play, learn, and write a web app on occasion. Others in this thread will likely have better advice.
Conventional lift systems also explode. It takes a fair amount of explosive power to put something into orbit, so the danger is ever-present. All payloads are insured as well. So given the choice, I'll go with the sub-million dollar launch.
The money, while significant, is not the greatest cost of an explosion. It's the time it takes to build a new satellite and get in on the next launch window. That could potentially force you to miss your opportunity in the marketplace.
First rule of government spending: why build just one when you can build two at three times the price?
I just read a forum talking about, and people are acting like they've never heard of RDP (or LogMeIn, or VNC or Hamachi from a decade ago). One guy stated something like, "imagine a photographer being able to edit the photos he just took by logging into his home PC and using Photoshop from his hotel room". I don't have to imagine that. I've done that...years upon years ago. I don't get it. I have a Microsoft-built RDP app on my Android phone. I have Chrome Remote Desktop too.
Agreed 100%. There does not seem to be a leap in technology that warrants a replacement of these aircraft. The machines are workhorses, and the only thing that really needs to happen with them is to maybe make them more efficient when possible (lighter, more fuel efficient, etc).
For fighters, I think the F-16 and F-22 are well-regarded by their pilots; and the F-18 is beast on the Navy/Marine side.
The JSF looks like an expensive complicated mess of an aircraft. I don't really follow aircraft news, but my impression is that they are throwing dump trucks of money at it to get it to perform at levels at our below our current arsenal.
It would be nice if aircraft design and construction had a lot less to do with politics, job creation, and greasing palms; and a lot more to do with air superiority, capability, ease of maintenance, and cost.
I'm sure things like avionics and perhaps engines have been updated over the years. So maybe the B-52's replacement should simply be a B-52 built out of more modern materials? Call it a B-53.
There is a standard for transferring medical information between and within medical facilities called HL7, or Health Level 7. It's a fairly simple text protocol with fields designated for particular types of data separated by pipes ( | ). Those fields are sometimes then further divided. This standard is meant to ease the flow of data between disparate systems. Within a hospital you may have a radiology information system (RIS), an EHR or EMR, practice management software, scheduling software, PACS archive, lab software, interface engines, emergency department systems, and a whole host more. These are systems are made by niche companies you've never heard of, and large corporations that everyone's heard of. All of these systems need to talk to each other to some degree.
Here's the dirty little secret that makes my job more difficult...
NO ONE FOLLOWS THE STANDARD!
Seriously. Here's how a call between me and a vendor might go (simplified):
Me: Where is the scheduled datetime? Vendor: It's in field C. Me: But that's where the observation datetime should be. So where's the obs time? Vendor: Oh that's in field A. Me: Field A is for completed datetime. So where that then? Vendor: We put that in field B. M: Are you messing with me? Vendor: Uhhh...no? Me: Grrr. Field B is where the scheduled datetime should be!!! Why is it built like this? Vendor: Mmmm...not sure. I'll have to check with one of the engineers and get back to you. Me: You may want to give them the HL7 specification while you're at it. It's published. Online. Freely accessible. You want the link?
It'd be like every web browser and web server all agreeing upon a standard markup language, HTML for instance; then each rolling their own version anyway. So Chrome looks for a HEAD tag, but IE calls it the TOP tag, Apache calls it the BEGIN tag, and IIS uses a FRONT tag. You may be thinking, well since IE and IIS are both from Microsoft they wouldn't do that. And my answer would be, you obviously haven't delved into the world of SharePoint.
Working in a disused tunnel with a couple of lasers and a few mirrors, a plucky band of physicists dreamed up a way to...
Do I have to recount all the sci-fi horror movies that started off exactly like this? We're lucky they didn't open a door to another dimension and allow an ancient demigod to come through to devour our world. If Ian Ziering or Dean Cain had been anywhere near that tunnel at the time, we'd all be in deep kimchi right now.
Agreed. I wasn't alive at the time, and I'm sure their was nationalistic pride that was lost to the Americans when we went to the moon; but the former Soviet Union had nothing to be ashamed about. Their aerospace chops were proven time and again. Sputnik, Gargarin, Tereshkova, Mir, Venera, etc., not to mention Sukhoi and Mig.
That was 45 years ago. Today, the U.S. has to beg for rides to the ISS. WE'RE the ones who should be humiliated.
If the question is, can't we just identify which web sites or social media services terrorists are using and shut them down, regardless of borders? My reply would be, can't you just identify which people are terrorists and kill them regardless of borders?
Hero Lab did not work on Android at the time (I don't think it does now either. I had a brief dialogue with one of their team about the difficulties in handling offline synchronization). While in IT, I'm not a coder by profession, so I also used the opportunity to teach myself: AngularJS, Firebase, and jsPDF. It was a fun project that looks/works really well. My DM loves it, and he's difficult to impress with RPG supplements. I used it at the table at Origins and GenCon this past year on my Galaxy Note 3, and I was really glad I had built it.
It was probably more about teaching myself something, than it was about solving a particular problem.
This is a true. I tried coding a character builder for Pathfinder Society. It was all fine and dandy until you got into creating and undoing multi-classing. Then it all fell apart.
With D&D 5th ed, it was much easier. Although I went from a "character builder" to more of an online character sheet after WotC shut down http://www.pathguy.com/ddnext.htm/ for a short time, and allowed him to continue only in a limited fashion.
Generations of crew This is least as much about will as it is about technology. I think the price of having children being born into captivity is too high though.
This is just what's going on today. In 100 years, who knows? I personally believe we'll "solve" aging by then, and it will likely drive a discussion of whether or not we should and not whether or not we can.
Sorry to reply to my own post, but I just saw the Joel's AMA on Reddit. He has a graphic up of how that first $2mil is spent here http://imgur.com/5CvUy9B. It looks like it's about $250,000 per episode.
Since it's $2 mil for the first three episodes, and $5.5 mil for twelve episodes; I take that to mean it costs roughly $390,000 per episode ((5.5-2)/12-3)). I'm guessing a little less than half of that first $2 million is for set design, construction, storage, opening and closing animations, music rights/reauthoring/whatever, and so on. The $390k is probably what it costs for studio time, camera rental, writing, crew, on-air talent, film rights, and let's not forget craft services. Mmmm, donuts.
I took "flexible" in the context of "cyclical nature of our business" to mean something like: willing to work and be paid six months out of the year instead of an annual salary. Seasonal work in the U.S. for IT isn't a thing. Well, it probably is in some circles, but I've never encountered it. Offshoring provides a constant pool of workers that can be pulled from when the need arises. In my experience though, the quality of work isn't very good; and the level of communication and professionalism is considerably worse. I'd never subject my customers to the poor experiences I've had in the hands of an off-continent workforce.
If your only motivation is the near-term bottom-line, offshoring may make sense. But that is a blunt instrument generally used by unskilled leadership that has failed to plan properly. When I take the full measure of a man or woman who's built their company, having used such techniques is tarnishing to say the least. Their estate is built on "soft ground".
You know we're sitting on four million pounds of fuel, one nuclear weapon and a thing that has 270,000 moving parts built by the lowest bidder. Makes you feel good, doesn't it?
As a life-long tabletop gamer, I've found that Shadowrun tends to reward players who do not resort to violence. In D&D, your rewards generally come from killing monsters in the form of experience points and loot. Shadowrun on the other hand, rewards players for completing the mission. How the mission is completed is largely up to the team. In fact, sometimes violent actions in organized play can adversely affect your reward. The game actually has a reward called karma that can be spent on upgrading.
This difference between D&D and SR was made clear to me after completing a long-slog of a mission with a ton of combat. The GM said the previous group burned through the mission pretty quickly, had slightly better rewards at the end, and they never fired a shot. Incredulous, I asked how they accomplished this. The GM said the previous group simply negotiated with the hostiles...who in fact, weren't really hostile. They were just reacting to our aggression. I didn't expect that to be written into the module. If you want an RPG that teaches you violence isn't always the best solution, Shadowrun is a good one.
That said, the flaw my D&D Goliath Fighter exhibits is, "Violence is my answer to almost any challenge." and charisma is my dump stat. Peace is overrated!
But don't get me started on ethics and the textbook industry...
Actually, since you are a former university(?) math professor; I'd love to get you started on ethics and the textbook industry, and hear your take on it.
I know this is probably being pedantic at this point, but can their first recommendation be to stop calling them "drones"? I feel like words matter, and what we say imparts connotations. Shouldn't we have a lexicon that in some way distinguishes recreational R/C hobby aircraft from mission-specific autonomous or semi-autonomous aircraft. The media absolutely refuses to make this distinction, and I have to wonder if the reason for that was initially to demonize the recreational variety and now it's just a simple matter of inertia.
Since I'm not an enthusiast myself, I wouldn't mind hearing from people who are to find out what their take on the current vocabulary is.
I just posted this the other day, but is relevant and bears repeating:
More than a few years ago, Sony put rootkits on some of their music CD's. It was abhorrently wrong, they knew it, they did it anyway. That was the last straw for me. It came after SOE released Everquest II incomplete and broken. It came after proprietary audio formats (strong push against MP3) and proprietary media. It was during a time of suing grandmothers for music downloading. It was during a time of Sony's clear (ongoing?) campaign against its customers and fans.
Since that time, I have not purchased Sony music, will not buy Sony consumer electronics, and won't even see a Sony pictures movie. I boycott ALL Sony related products and services, and have for the last ten years. People need to wake up and exercise the only power they have by voting with their wallets. We have to keep these companies terrified that such missteps will lead to their ruin, or else sleep in the bed we made without complaint.
More than a few years ago, Sony put rootkits on some of their music CD's. It was abhorrently wrong, they knew it, they did it anyway. That was the last straw for me. It came after SOE released Everquest II incomplete and broken. It came after proprietary audio formats (strong push against MP3) and proprietary media. It was during a time of suing grandmothers for music downloading. It was during a time of Sony's clear (ongoing?) campaign against its customers and fans.
Since that time, I have not purchased Sony music, will not buy Sony consumer electronics, and won't even see a Sony pictures movie. I boycott ALL Sony related products and services, and have for the last ten years. People need to wake up and exercise the only power they have by voting with their wallets. We have to keep these companies terrified that such missteps will lead to their ruin, or else sleep in the bed we made without complaint.
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For me the obvious sign that it's a scam call is...the caller ID is not in my contacts list. The cool with cell phones is you can set them to not ring if the caller isn't in your contacts. That doesn't work for everyone, but it works for me just fine. If it's a legit call, they'll leave a voicemail and I'll notice that within an hour or sooner.
Most people claim that BMI is inaccurate because...it's inaccurate. Professional athletes whose bodies are the epitome of fitness perfection are rated obese by BMI. The BMI was designed to determine the overall fitness level of a large group of people, like a nation. It was never meant to be used as an index for an individual level of fitness. It's used because it's a simple number that most people can understand, but human physiology is complicated. Most people are not smart enough to deal with the level of complexity, all the variables, to make intelligent decisions.
I've played with a bunch of them. Cloud9 was my favorite of them, but I ran into challenges when I wanted to play experiment with AngularJS. I ended up preferring to work with Brackets and pointing it at a Google Drive folder. Obviously, I'm not a professional developer. I just experiment, play, learn, and write a web app on occasion. Others in this thread will likely have better advice.
Maybe parts of it, but other parts you've only acquired a license to use. They didn't go over that at the tractor store?
That's life in the new America. You probably didn't feel the slide down the slippery slope.
Wish I had mod points to give! Awesome reference!
Conventional lift systems also explode. It takes a fair amount of explosive power to put something into orbit, so the danger is ever-present. All payloads are insured as well. So given the choice, I'll go with the sub-million dollar launch.
The money, while significant, is not the greatest cost of an explosion. It's the time it takes to build a new satellite and get in on the next launch window. That could potentially force you to miss your opportunity in the marketplace.
First rule of government spending: why build just one when you can build two at three times the price?
I just read a forum talking about, and people are acting like they've never heard of RDP (or LogMeIn, or VNC or Hamachi from a decade ago). One guy stated something like, "imagine a photographer being able to edit the photos he just took by logging into his home PC and using Photoshop from his hotel room". I don't have to imagine that. I've done that...years upon years ago. I don't get it. I have a Microsoft-built RDP app on my Android phone. I have Chrome Remote Desktop too.
Agreed 100%. There does not seem to be a leap in technology that warrants a replacement of these aircraft. The machines are workhorses, and the only thing that really needs to happen with them is to maybe make them more efficient when possible (lighter, more fuel efficient, etc).
For fighters, I think the F-16 and F-22 are well-regarded by their pilots; and the F-18 is beast on the Navy/Marine side.
The JSF looks like an expensive complicated mess of an aircraft. I don't really follow aircraft news, but my impression is that they are throwing dump trucks of money at it to get it to perform at levels at our below our current arsenal.
It would be nice if aircraft design and construction had a lot less to do with politics, job creation, and greasing palms; and a lot more to do with air superiority, capability, ease of maintenance, and cost.
I'm sure things like avionics and perhaps engines have been updated over the years. So maybe the B-52's replacement should simply be a B-52 built out of more modern materials? Call it a B-53.
There is a standard for transferring medical information between and within medical facilities called HL7, or Health Level 7. It's a fairly simple text protocol with fields designated for particular types of data separated by pipes ( | ). Those fields are sometimes then further divided. This standard is meant to ease the flow of data between disparate systems. Within a hospital you may have a radiology information system (RIS), an EHR or EMR, practice management software, scheduling software, PACS archive, lab software, interface engines, emergency department systems, and a whole host more. These are systems are made by niche companies you've never heard of, and large corporations that everyone's heard of. All of these systems need to talk to each other to some degree.
Here's the dirty little secret that makes my job more difficult...
NO ONE FOLLOWS THE STANDARD!
Seriously. Here's how a call between me and a vendor might go (simplified):
Me: Where is the scheduled datetime?
Vendor: It's in field C.
Me: But that's where the observation datetime should be. So where's the obs time?
Vendor: Oh that's in field A.
Me: Field A is for completed datetime. So where that then?
Vendor: We put that in field B.
M: Are you messing with me?
Vendor: Uhhh...no?
Me: Grrr. Field B is where the scheduled datetime should be!!! Why is it built like this?
Vendor: Mmmm...not sure. I'll have to check with one of the engineers and get back to you.
Me: You may want to give them the HL7 specification while you're at it. It's published. Online. Freely accessible. You want the link?
It'd be like every web browser and web server all agreeing upon a standard markup language, HTML for instance; then each rolling their own version anyway. So Chrome looks for a HEAD tag, but IE calls it the TOP tag, Apache calls it the BEGIN tag, and IIS uses a FRONT tag. You may be thinking, well since IE and IIS are both from Microsoft they wouldn't do that. And my answer would be, you obviously haven't delved into the world of SharePoint.
Working in a disused tunnel with a couple of lasers and a few mirrors, a plucky band of physicists dreamed up a way to...
Do I have to recount all the sci-fi horror movies that started off exactly like this? We're lucky they didn't open a door to another dimension and allow an ancient demigod to come through to devour our world. If Ian Ziering or Dean Cain had been anywhere near that tunnel at the time, we'd all be in deep kimchi right now.
Agreed. I wasn't alive at the time, and I'm sure their was nationalistic pride that was lost to the Americans when we went to the moon; but the former Soviet Union had nothing to be ashamed about. Their aerospace chops were proven time and again. Sputnik, Gargarin, Tereshkova, Mir, Venera, etc., not to mention Sukhoi and Mig.
That was 45 years ago. Today, the U.S. has to beg for rides to the ISS. WE'RE the ones who should be humiliated.
If the question is, can't we just identify which web sites or social media services terrorists are using and shut them down, regardless of borders? My reply would be, can't you just identify which people are terrorists and kill them regardless of borders?
Hero Lab did not work on Android at the time (I don't think it does now either. I had a brief dialogue with one of their team about the difficulties in handling offline synchronization). While in IT, I'm not a coder by profession, so I also used the opportunity to teach myself: AngularJS, Firebase, and jsPDF. It was a fun project that looks/works really well. My DM loves it, and he's difficult to impress with RPG supplements. I used it at the table at Origins and GenCon this past year on my Galaxy Note 3, and I was really glad I had built it.
It was probably more about teaching myself something, than it was about solving a particular problem.
This is a true. I tried coding a character builder for Pathfinder Society. It was all fine and dandy until you got into creating and undoing multi-classing. Then it all fell apart.
With D&D 5th ed, it was much easier. Although I went from a "character builder" to more of an online character sheet after WotC shut down http://www.pathguy.com/ddnext.htm/ for a short time, and allowed him to continue only in a limited fashion.
Some kind of FTL travel
http://www.space.com/17628-war...
Immortal crew
https://www.ted.com/talks/aubr...
Prolonged stasis
http://www.themarysue.com/nasa...
Generations of crew
This is least as much about will as it is about technology. I think the price of having children being born into captivity is too high though.
This is just what's going on today. In 100 years, who knows? I personally believe we'll "solve" aging by then, and it will likely drive a discussion of whether or not we should and not whether or not we can.
Sorry to reply to my own post, but I just saw the Joel's AMA on Reddit. He has a graphic up of how that first $2mil is spent here http://imgur.com/5CvUy9B. It looks like it's about $250,000 per episode.
Since it's $2 mil for the first three episodes, and $5.5 mil for twelve episodes; I take that to mean it costs roughly $390,000 per episode ((5.5-2)/12-3)). I'm guessing a little less than half of that first $2 million is for set design, construction, storage, opening and closing animations, music rights/reauthoring/whatever, and so on. The $390k is probably what it costs for studio time, camera rental, writing, crew, on-air talent, film rights, and let's not forget craft services. Mmmm, donuts.
I took "flexible" in the context of "cyclical nature of our business" to mean something like: willing to work and be paid six months out of the year instead of an annual salary. Seasonal work in the U.S. for IT isn't a thing. Well, it probably is in some circles, but I've never encountered it. Offshoring provides a constant pool of workers that can be pulled from when the need arises. In my experience though, the quality of work isn't very good; and the level of communication and professionalism is considerably worse. I'd never subject my customers to the poor experiences I've had in the hands of an off-continent workforce.
If your only motivation is the near-term bottom-line, offshoring may make sense. But that is a blunt instrument generally used by unskilled leadership that has failed to plan properly. When I take the full measure of a man or woman who's built their company, having used such techniques is tarnishing to say the least. Their estate is built on "soft ground".
You know we're sitting on four million pounds of fuel, one nuclear weapon and a thing that has 270,000 moving parts built by the lowest bidder.
Makes you feel good, doesn't it?
As a life-long tabletop gamer, I've found that Shadowrun tends to reward players who do not resort to violence. In D&D, your rewards generally come from killing monsters in the form of experience points and loot. Shadowrun on the other hand, rewards players for completing the mission. How the mission is completed is largely up to the team. In fact, sometimes violent actions in organized play can adversely affect your reward. The game actually has a reward called karma that can be spent on upgrading.
This difference between D&D and SR was made clear to me after completing a long-slog of a mission with a ton of combat. The GM said the previous group burned through the mission pretty quickly, had slightly better rewards at the end, and they never fired a shot. Incredulous, I asked how they accomplished this. The GM said the previous group simply negotiated with the hostiles...who in fact, weren't really hostile. They were just reacting to our aggression. I didn't expect that to be written into the module. If you want an RPG that teaches you violence isn't always the best solution, Shadowrun is a good one.
That said, the flaw my D&D Goliath Fighter exhibits is, "Violence is my answer to almost any challenge." and charisma is my dump stat. Peace is overrated!
But don't get me started on ethics and the textbook industry...
Actually, since you are a former university(?) math professor; I'd love to get you started on ethics and the textbook industry, and hear your take on it.
I know this is probably being pedantic at this point, but can their first recommendation be to stop calling them "drones"? I feel like words matter, and what we say imparts connotations. Shouldn't we have a lexicon that in some way distinguishes recreational R/C hobby aircraft from mission-specific autonomous or semi-autonomous aircraft. The media absolutely refuses to make this distinction, and I have to wonder if the reason for that was initially to demonize the recreational variety and now it's just a simple matter of inertia.
Since I'm not an enthusiast myself, I wouldn't mind hearing from people who are to find out what their take on the current vocabulary is.
I just posted this the other day, but is relevant and bears repeating:
More than a few years ago, Sony put rootkits on some of their music CD's. It was abhorrently wrong, they knew it, they did it anyway. That was the last straw for me. It came after SOE released Everquest II incomplete and broken. It came after proprietary audio formats (strong push against MP3) and proprietary media. It was during a time of suing grandmothers for music downloading. It was during a time of Sony's clear (ongoing?) campaign against its customers and fans.
Since that time, I have not purchased Sony music, will not buy Sony consumer electronics, and won't even see a Sony pictures movie. I boycott ALL Sony related products and services, and have for the last ten years. People need to wake up and exercise the only power they have by voting with their wallets. We have to keep these companies terrified that such missteps will lead to their ruin, or else sleep in the bed we made without complaint.
FYI - Here's a pretty comprehensive list of Sony's subsidiaries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
This. So much this.
More than a few years ago, Sony put rootkits on some of their music CD's. It was abhorrently wrong, they knew it, they did it anyway. That was the last straw for me. It came after SOE released Everquest II incomplete and broken. It came after proprietary audio formats (strong push against MP3) and proprietary media. It was during a time of suing grandmothers for music downloading. It was during a time of Sony's clear (ongoing?) campaign against its customers and fans.
Since that time, I have not purchased Sony music, will not buy Sony consumer electronics, and won't even see a Sony pictures movie. I boycott ALL Sony related products and services, and have for the last ten years. People need to wake up and exercise the only power they have by voting with their wallets. We have to keep these companies terrified that such missteps will lead to their ruin, or else sleep in the bed we made without complaint.
FYI - Here's a pretty comprehensive list of Sony's subsidiaries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...