Cool. A response from someone who kn ows more than me.
We started out with a more onusual problem than presented earlier. I just didn't mention it because I was sure it's unique.
In the Hospital where we had our baby (A county Hospital in Florida) my wife got help from a "lactating nurse" and still couldn't get our son to Breastfeed. I am still not sure why. Unusual factors; Breast size 38 DD (didn't increase noticeble durin pregnance), Nipple size (around 1 inch across. I have never seen larger, seriusly). Also my wife is almost completly blind (less than 10% vision in her "good eye" and none in the other) so her aim might have frostrated him in the bigining.
Right now he is 4 weeks old and drinks breastmilk from a bottle, plus formula and seams to be doing great. He has grown some. Still wakes up every 3 to 4 hours for a feading and dusn't cry for anything but the basics (Change me, fead me:). He now take breastmilk "from the tap" ocasionaly but that's just once in a while. As often as 2 times a week.
I don't know where the rest of Slashdot buys meat but most of my Butchers use table saws or belt saws to slice meat.
Lets add a tempreture sensor so it knows cold, dead meat from the live kind your hand is made of.
To clarify
It must be posible to detonate it at a time of the bomber's choosing and it must be stable enogh to not jost go off when glorius leader is driving you to the airport and hits a pothole.
If you have really big breasts they scare the crap out of a newborn. Some people can only breastfeed indirectly. I.e. Brest -> bottle -> baby.
Also. Milk isn't produced "on demand". The time when your breast is so loaded that it hurts is not necessarily the time your child needs feeding.
Finally: going from breast to bottle and back doesn't work too well for a newborn (less than 1 month old). So if he is a 10 lb. 22.75" giant like my son (very few if any women produce enough milk for such a child). You need to bottle the Brest milk so he can get all that mothers milk goodness and still consume enough calories to not go hungry and cry all night.
Never mind that some people are squemish about an exposed breast in a public place (like a plane).
When you do that the old house and comonplace furniture are sold. Valuable Furniture and Appliences are shiped via a cargo service, Cloths are taken as stowed lugage, PDAs, Family Album, Grandpa's WW2 Medals and Grandma's 100+ year old bible are hand lugage.
I also mention feminin products in another post. Medical items... hmm ?
It gets worse. Those Slashdotters who have female friends or who are women themselves think about this.
Ever wonder why women take handbags to the bathroom every time?
It's so we won't know if she is on her period. never mind what type/brand sanitary products she uses or when it is being changed etc... Women are more secretive about this stuff than guys are about jerking off. A lot more secretive.
I can just picture the kind of hell that will break louse when they start suggesting "You have to put your Tampax in a clear plastic bag".
I landed in Haiti yesterday on a 3 month work assignment. My baggage is missing so all I have are the gadgets (including laptop) cloths (Hains Tagless shirts fold real small) and toothpaste, toothbrush, comb etc... that I carried in my hand luggage.
If these rules were in place I would be the stinkiest engineer in Port-Au-Prince.
PS: It takes 6 to 10 hours to fly from Jamaica to Haiti. KIN to MIA then MIA to PAP with enough time tacked on to clear Baggage check, Security screen, customs and immigration... Twice.
The major client my company has which still runs SCO uses it on a server that must be certified by Auditors at enormous cost (It's a bank). The setup they have now has been in place for around 8 years and at the time they got it it cost 1/10 it's closest competitor.
They have bought replacement software + hardware anyway and are now doing internal validation (before sheling out a few million to the Auditors).
Well established, publicly traded, legitimate business don't need to SPAM. (Yes. Slashdot can name a dozen exception but they are just that. Exceptions).
Bogus drugs could kill you so sane people (With credit cards etc...) usually prefer to pay the "exorbitant" Walgreen's price for Viagra (Plus the medical fees of the schmuck who proscribes it).
Bogus porn on the other hand is just blurry pictures of _partialy_ nude ugly girls. Again there is the Goatse exception but I have been trying to wipe that image from my mind for YEARS.
Best of all. I have found that in general porn spam dose lead to actual porn. Viagra spam and Nigerian wealth spam on the other hand usually leads to somebody who will take your money, deliver nothing and disappear into the ether.
Dislexia is one of the least understood medical conditions. Here are a few randome tidbits not mentioned in the wikipedia article.
1. Dislexia dose not equal dumb. On the contrary some legendary minds were/are dislexic.
2. Dislexia is known to affect spelling. That is not always the efect and when it is there are wild variations. Forinstance, I have never been able to write more than a short frase without significant errors. If I am transcribeing text my error rate increases reletive to original composition. Leonardo Davinchi (To name a dislexic you have no right to not know) on the other hand would sometimes write in a mirror image or sometimes just backwards.
3. Dislexia is somehow related to eyesight. In language more familiear to slashdoters. There is a glitch in the circuits that process visual input and/or the circuites that handle language.
4. Dislexia profoundly affects thoght perception and problem solving. This may have something to do with the high rate of dislexia among IT profesionals.
Those of you who work in midsized to large support teams (Anything over 5 members) examin the work of your dislexic members. Look at factors like spead in compleating varius tasks. Acuracy in diagnosing problems etc...
I suspect you will find diferences that go well beyond just spelling but into isues of who is the best engineer for a particular task. In my own office I have been designated "plan B". I.e. When a specialist enginear gets stuck and vendor support starts point fingers at each other they drop me in to troubleshoot. I aproch the problem "incorectly" and solve it quickly. By contrast I will sometimes strugle over what other enginears consider a rutine task (Dosn't hapen often but it happens)
If it's a little overpriced then maybe you can get your techi friends togather form a startup, get some venture capital and produce a competing product at $50 that would just sweap the market.
Every once in a while you are left to wonder: "where in hell is this product".
In this case the "product" is simple enough. A large screen tablet pc at a low price with few features.
Really all it has to do is surf the net, read "e-books", text, ODF and PDF files. Even sound is optional. Network connectivity is not, a little Ethernet, and a couple of USB ports to the the world.
In other words. A palm pilot expanded to have a 12" diagonal screen.
Ohh... and did I mention cheap? No reason why it needs to cost more than $250.
I just want something to save me from printing stuff I download or hauling a $2000 Laptop computer into the bathroom. (Did I mention that it's a 3.5 Year old Dell Inspiron 8200 ?)
I take it you have never been to court or that your DUI was tried by Chief Justice Data.
I have seen judges belittle all categories of person in the courtroom including; Witnesses, accused, spectators, Attorneys and bailiffs. Even Lower court Judges, Legislators and the law are fair game.
I know a Judge who wrote a book of courtroom humor. Justice Carl Harrison of the Jamaican Court of Appeal. If anyone can find a reference for this book, post a link.
"But whether you and an abusive mod think I'm right isn't actually relevent here. The family, ARS, and apparently Google are in agreement about this."
That's not actualy true.
If I post a signe in honor of you and you ask that I don't do that. I will take it down imediatly. Copyright has nothing to do with it. If you don't want me at your birthday party I will not attend. It's called common decency.
Imagine if you will that I posted a sight singing the praises of Comander Tako. Imagine if he took offence. Do you think I would still feal the need to sing his praises?
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Not actualy true.
If you step on a hot coal the reaction time (to jump away) will be slower than if you tuched it with your hand, which in turn is slower than a head burn.
Don't ask what I did to discover this.:)
Sufice to say it wasn't in a text book and I have the scar on soal of my foot to prove it.
In Jamaica "Highly inteligent" people make up around 4% of the population. Same as in any where else.
However in the General Penitentary (Our largest prison) 17% of the men have those exceptional IQs.
What's the lesson? With a F**ked upbrining geniuses don't mearly "grow up to be dumb" (that's what hapens to average kids who don't attend school). They become a plague on society.
The author dose not state the absolute greatest feature of this service.
However it's listed right there on the Gmail for your Domain home page.
"Gmail for your domain is hosted by Google, so there's no hardware or software for you to install or maintain."
Having maintained Email servers before I can tell you that even the most elegant server software and the most robust Hardware will still give you the occasional headache.
Not as bad as Exchange on a "SCSI cluster". That's when you use a cluster capable SCSI enclosure like the Dell PowerVault 220s and cluster capable RAID card like PERC3/DC controller, To provide failover, redundancy and high availability (You know. All the right buzzwords).
Far as I know there were several crucifixions in the 20th century.
Didn't the Nazis crucify a few people in a concentration camp as part of an experiment?
Also. In some catholic cultures a few zealots are crucified on Good Friday each year. Unlike other crucifixions however these people 1. Volunteer for the "procedure" and 2. are removed from the cross on the same day and provided medical attention. The usually survive.
Crucifixion was a very slow torturous execution. Men would hang on crosses for days before they died.
Well it did say Britain. All the crucifixions of which I spoke are in other countries.
I work for a company of contract geeks. One rule to remember is that "if everyone is responsible, Nobody is responsible." I.e. Who adds and deletes accounts for admins as they join and leave the team? You must have 1 individual with that duty otherwise it may not get done or worse get redone.
Also there is the matter of accountability. If every nerd in the department has full read/write access to the Email server who do you fire (or shoot) when the mail you need for evidence disappears?
So yes. Every IT teem must have a sysadmin. Even if it's all sysadmins. For really small teems with limited internal requirements you can add other duties to that goys list until he gets up to averaging 40 hours per weak. I.e. He could maintain your library of technical documentation and software or act as secretary to the team. Imagine this exchange:
Mark -: "Joe. I feel like I'm Ready for CCIE, Book me for an exam next week"
Joe -: "cool."
Joe (Next day, via email) -: "You're on the 10:00 AM flight from Norman Manley Airport on Tuesday, You will be staying at the Marriott inn. Your exam is on Wednesday morning and you head back here on the 12 noon flight."
BTW: Andrew and myself will be handling your workload for those days. Any outstanding issues we need to know about in advance?
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Cool. A response from someone who kn ows more than me.
:). He now take breastmilk "from the tap" ocasionaly but that's just once in a while. As often as 2 times a week.
We started out with a more onusual problem than presented earlier. I just didn't mention it because I was sure it's unique.
In the Hospital where we had our baby (A county Hospital in Florida) my wife got help from a "lactating nurse" and still couldn't get our son to Breastfeed. I am still not sure why. Unusual factors; Breast size 38 DD (didn't increase noticeble durin pregnance), Nipple size (around 1 inch across. I have never seen larger, seriusly). Also my wife is almost completly blind (less than 10% vision in her "good eye" and none in the other) so her aim might have frostrated him in the bigining.
Right now he is 4 weeks old and drinks breastmilk from a bottle, plus formula and seams to be doing great. He has grown some. Still wakes up every 3 to 4 hours for a feading and dusn't cry for anything but the basics (Change me, fead me
Any tips would be apriciated. Greatly.
I don't know where the rest of Slashdot buys meat but most of my Butchers use table saws or belt saws to slice meat.
Lets add a tempreture sensor so it knows cold, dead meat from the live kind your hand is made of.
To clarify
yep.
Except there must be no metal components.
It must be posible to detonate it at a time of the bomber's choosing and it must be stable enogh to not jost go off when glorius leader is driving you to the airport and hits a pothole.
Not only that but ask dolly about this.
If you have really big breasts they scare the crap out of a newborn. Some people can only breastfeed indirectly. I.e. Brest -> bottle -> baby.
Also. Milk isn't produced "on demand". The time when your breast is so loaded that it hurts is not necessarily the time your child needs feeding.
Finally: going from breast to bottle and back doesn't work too well for a newborn (less than 1 month old). So if he is a 10 lb. 22.75" giant like my son (very few if any women produce enough milk for such a child). You need to bottle the Brest milk so he can get all that mothers milk goodness and still consume enough calories to not go hungry and cry all night.
Never mind that some people are squemish about an exposed breast in a public place (like a plane).
Tasting your own brestmilk is not such a bad thing. It's good enogh for your child to drink.
Maybe it's because I am a guy and think sucking on none lacktating niples is a lot of fun.
BTW: It quickly proves that this isn't Nitroglicerin, Sulfuric assid or some other deadly chemical.
People move. Some migrate.
... hmm ?
When you do that the old house and comonplace furniture are sold. Valuable Furniture and Appliences are shiped via a cargo service, Cloths are taken as stowed lugage, PDAs, Family Album, Grandpa's WW2 Medals and Grandma's 100+ year old bible are hand lugage.
I also mention feminin products in another post. Medical items
It gets worse. Those Slashdotters who have female friends or who are women themselves think about this.
Ever wonder why women take handbags to the bathroom every time?
It's so we won't know if she is on her period. never mind what type/brand sanitary products she uses or when it is being changed etc... Women are more secretive about this stuff than guys are about jerking off. A lot more secretive.
I can just picture the kind of hell that will break louse when they start suggesting "You have to put your Tampax in a clear plastic bag".
Remember that old saying "Hell hath no fury..." ?
This is REALLY depressing.
I landed in Haiti yesterday on a 3 month work assignment. My baggage is missing so all I have are the gadgets (including laptop) cloths (Hains Tagless shirts fold real small) and toothpaste, toothbrush, comb etc... that I carried in my hand luggage.
If these rules were in place I would be the stinkiest engineer in Port-Au-Prince.
PS: It takes 6 to 10 hours to fly from Jamaica to Haiti. KIN to MIA then MIA to PAP with enough time tacked on to clear Baggage check, Security screen, customs and immigration... Twice.
It's worse than that.
The major client my company has which still runs SCO uses it on a server that must be certified by Auditors at enormous cost (It's a bank). The setup they have now has been in place for around 8 years and at the time they got it it cost 1/10 it's closest competitor.
They have bought replacement software + hardware anyway and are now doing internal validation (before sheling out a few million to the Auditors).
Well established, publicly traded, legitimate business don't need to SPAM. (Yes. Slashdot can name a dozen exception but they are just that. Exceptions).
Bogus drugs could kill you so sane people (With credit cards etc...) usually prefer to pay the "exorbitant" Walgreen's price for Viagra (Plus the medical fees of the schmuck who proscribes it).
Bogus porn on the other hand is just blurry pictures of _partialy_ nude ugly girls. Again there is the Goatse exception but I have been trying to wipe that image from my mind for YEARS.
Best of all. I have found that in general porn spam dose lead to actual porn. Viagra spam and Nigerian wealth spam on the other hand usually leads to somebody who will take your money, deliver nothing and disappear into the ether.
PS: All my porn came free.
Diliberatly not useing spellcheck on this post.
Dislexia is one of the least understood medical conditions. Here are a few randome tidbits not mentioned in the wikipedia article.
1. Dislexia dose not equal dumb. On the contrary some legendary minds were/are dislexic.
2. Dislexia is known to affect spelling. That is not always the efect and when it is there are wild variations. Forinstance, I have never been able to write more than a short frase without significant errors. If I am transcribeing text my error rate increases reletive to original composition. Leonardo Davinchi (To name a dislexic you have no right to not know) on the other hand would sometimes write in a mirror image or sometimes just backwards.
3. Dislexia is somehow related to eyesight. In language more familiear to slashdoters. There is a glitch in the circuits that process visual input and/or the circuites that handle language.
4. Dislexia profoundly affects thoght perception and problem solving. This may have something to do with the high rate of dislexia among IT profesionals.
Those of you who work in midsized to large support teams (Anything over 5 members) examin the work of your dislexic members. Look at factors like spead in compleating varius tasks. Acuracy in diagnosing problems etc...
I suspect you will find diferences that go well beyond just spelling but into isues of who is the best engineer for a particular task. In my own office I have been designated "plan B". I.e. When a specialist enginear gets stuck and vendor support starts point fingers at each other they drop me in to troubleshoot. I aproch the problem "incorectly" and solve it quickly. By contrast I will sometimes strugle over what other enginears consider a rutine task (Dosn't hapen often but it happens)
Do you have similar experiences ?
Are you Dislexic ?
Do you have dislexic coworkers ?
It is EXACTLY what the poster asked for.
If it's a little overpriced then maybe you can get your techi friends togather form a startup, get some venture capital and produce a competing product at $50 that would just sweap the market.
Every once in a while you are left to wonder: "where in hell is this product".
In this case the "product" is simple enough. A large screen tablet pc at a low price with few features.
Really all it has to do is surf the net, read "e-books", text, ODF and PDF files. Even sound is optional. Network connectivity is not, a little Ethernet, and a couple of USB ports to the the world.
In other words. A palm pilot expanded to have a 12" diagonal screen.
Ohh... and did I mention cheap? No reason why it needs to cost more than $250.
I just want something to save me from printing stuff I download or hauling a $2000 Laptop computer into the bathroom. (Did I mention that it's a 3.5 Year old Dell Inspiron 8200 ?)
I take it you have never been to court or that your DUI was tried by Chief Justice Data.
I have seen judges belittle all categories of person in the courtroom including; Witnesses, accused, spectators, Attorneys and bailiffs. Even Lower court Judges, Legislators and the law are fair game.
I know a Judge who wrote a book of courtroom humor. Justice Carl Harrison of the Jamaican Court of Appeal. If anyone can find a reference for this book, post a link.
What childhood trauma made you into what you are today?
Mods be reasonable.
:)
My spelling sucks. I post an apology in my sig but that dose not prevent people from making corrections.
Why mod Buran "Flamebait" when he is just trying to be funny?
Note that on my own machine (where I am typing this message) I have a working spell-check utility.
It's still in poor tast to go bestowing honors on a dead person against the wishes of his family.
The logic behind that is the same logic behind post mortem copyrights.
They do have a "hard limit".
Onfortunatly it's more than 100 years after the death of the artist.
Frankly I think that is onreasonable and the people who originaly put that into american law thoght 20 years would be enogh.
Since then however Walt desney has managed to keap extending it so that Miky Mouse never goes into the public domain.
This from a company that lives off filming public domain stories. (Cinerela, Prince of Egipt. etc...)
"But whether you and an abusive mod think I'm right isn't actually relevent here. The family, ARS, and apparently Google are in agreement about this."
That's not actualy true.
If I post a signe in honor of you and you ask that I don't do that. I will take it down imediatly. Copyright has nothing to do with it. If you don't want me at your birthday party I will not attend. It's called common decency.
Imagine if you will that I posted a sight singing the praises of Comander Tako. Imagine if he took offence. Do you think I would still feal the need to sing his praises?
Not actualy true.
:)
If you step on a hot coal the reaction time (to jump away) will be slower than if you tuched it with your hand, which in turn is slower than a head burn.
Don't ask what I did to discover this.
Sufice to say it wasn't in a text book and I have the scar on soal of my foot to prove it.
Or just pray at the alter of wikipedia. Enlightenment WILL come.
Eventualy
Here is a study for you.
In Jamaica "Highly inteligent" people make up around 4% of the population. Same as in any where else.
However in the General Penitentary (Our largest prison) 17% of the men have those exceptional IQs.
What's the lesson? With a F**ked upbrining geniuses don't mearly "grow up to be dumb" (that's what hapens to average kids who don't attend school). They become a plague on society.
However it's listed right there on the Gmail for your Domain home page.
"Gmail for your domain is hosted by Google, so there's no hardware or software for you to install or maintain."
Having maintained Email servers before I can tell you that even the most elegant server software and the most robust Hardware will still give you the occasional headache.
Not as bad as Exchange on a "SCSI cluster". That's when you use a cluster capable SCSI enclosure like the Dell PowerVault 220s and cluster capable RAID card like PERC3/DC controller, To provide failover, redundancy and high availability (You know. All the right buzzwords).
Far as I know there were several crucifixions in the 20th century.
Didn't the Nazis crucify a few people in a concentration camp as part of an experiment?
Also. In some catholic cultures a few zealots are crucified on Good Friday each year. Unlike other crucifixions however these people 1. Volunteer for the "procedure" and 2. are removed from the cross on the same day and provided medical attention. The usually survive.
Crucifixion was a very slow torturous execution. Men would hang on crosses for days before they died.
Well it did say Britain. All the crucifixions of which I spoke are in other countries.
I work for a company of contract geeks. One rule to remember is that "if everyone is responsible, Nobody is responsible." I.e. Who adds and deletes accounts for admins as they join and leave the team? You must have 1 individual with that duty otherwise it may not get done or worse get redone.
Also there is the matter of accountability. If every nerd in the department has full read/write access to the Email server who do you fire (or shoot) when the mail you need for evidence disappears?
So yes. Every IT teem must have a sysadmin. Even if it's all sysadmins. For really small teems with limited internal requirements you can add other duties to that goys list until he gets up to averaging 40 hours per weak. I.e. He could maintain your library of technical documentation and software or act as secretary to the team. Imagine this exchange:
Mark -: "Joe. I feel like I'm Ready for CCIE, Book me for an exam next week"
Joe -: "cool."
Joe (Next day, via email) -: "You're on the 10:00 AM flight from Norman Manley Airport on Tuesday, You will be staying at the Marriott inn. Your exam is on Wednesday morning and you head back here on the 12 noon flight."
BTW: Andrew and myself will be handling your workload for those days. Any outstanding issues we need to know about in advance?