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I think this sort of problem was one of the major issues in the class-action lawsuit that PayPal is in the process of settling now (it was litigated this summer).
I'm not sure if your problems were in the right timeframe, but this probably applies to *someone* reading this.
From TFA (noticed the word - my emphasis - that was removed to post the/. article): The authors of the new book "Crap Jobs" took an unscientific email survey among people in the United Kingdom
Of course it's unscientific. They send out an email to... well, the people responding are A) people who *have* email and check it regularly, and B) somehow have nothing better to do than sit around and fill out obviously entertainment-only email surveys. No, I don't think there were many actual "ferry cabin cleaners" among them. More likely many of them were, well, IT managers who think their jobs suck because the techs don't like them, or because it's just like that, or any reason other than the fact that instead of trying to be useful they are spending their time carefully filling out stupid email surveys (note: some IT managers are busting their butts and fighting for their group, and getting things done; they didn't even see the survey because they have a spam filter).
Then these book authors collect this pile of "data" and try to get press about it. Because it sells their book. They score a 1-paragraph throwaway article. And then the real coup: alas, for some reason/. picks it up.
Any web site today that is not being designed around web standards (XHTML, CSS, etc) is making the wrong decision, not the user.
This is (unfortunately) irrelevant to the user AND developer, though I wish it weren't. If I'm searching tech support for a product and their support website is IE only, that's rarely reason enough for me to switch products, though I'll definitely complain. I don't know about now, but IE came default on OS X, 2 years ago, and it's not that hard to use it if the need arises. If you are developing a website, you *must* test it in IE, preferably a few older versions of IE as well. That's why most web developers, even if they work on Macs, have a cheap windows PC lying around for this purpose. I could also point out that IE exists on the Mac as well, and still gets quite a lot of usage... but of course it's different from IE on windows, so you just have to test on them all. My point, then -- this isn't a reason for OR against developing on a Mac, since you need to have both platforms around in some form anyway.
Personally, I develop currently mostly on a win2k desktop, since that's what I have (I'm spec'ing out a new work PC which I hoping can be Mac or Linux if I can find proper support for my various hobbies) -- but when my wife needed a computer I got her an iBook with OS X so I can also use it for testing. It came with IE and Safari, and I installed Firefox (which is what she uses), and I can test in all of them.
Molly, who I work with, seems to spend *way* more time than is reasonable just wandering around the office, or going outside and, again, just wandering around. Not a smoke break, just wandering. Or I'll just look up and she's standing there, just staring at me. Not a word. Just staring, maybe smiling, maybe not.
I don't want to be mean, but she's just.. quirky. I can't imagine she gets much work done. Her typing skills are horrendous, she clearly doesn't have a clue how to refill the paper in the printer (I think she just pretends she didn't notice it was empty, and waits for someone else to come along), and sometimes I see her just sleeping, or sitting there by the computer doing absolutely nothing. Watching the clouds go by outside. Watching the birds. Who knows.
I don't want to give the impression that she's utterly silent. No, sometimes she can be talkative, even loud, but it's like gibberish to me. Maybe I only understand techie talk nowadays, but from the looks on other people's faces, I get the feeling no one else is following her either.
She's actually kind of cute in a way, but she's startlingly hairy in ways most women simply are NOT (I'm SURE she doesn't shave, anywhere), and she can somehow be simultaeously very affectionate, but still a bitch. Her breath is, well, not pleasant, and I think I know why -- I've seen her peering interestly at food other people have *thrown out*, yes, in the trash, and I swear one I saw her munching happily on what looked to me like dog kibble.
So the diff is they use a gentle vacuum to draw the blood to the surface in the hand, only. Same concept, but with a little tech thrown in to make it work faster. Presumably there aren't any side-effects of tinkering with the blood-flow like that, like a permanent hickey over the entire hand.
Another side-note: apparently Stanford has already licensed the technology, "to AVAcore Technologies Inc., an Ann Arbor, Mich., firm that Grahn and Heller founded to develop the device for commercial application."
I wonder if they're planning on testing using some of the UMich sports teams here (I live in Ann Arbor)... Football especially is HUGE here -- the whole city practically shuts down on football Saturdays like today. The stadium has a greater capacity than the city population, and no parking, so as you can imagine it's chaos. I'm sure the Wolverines wouldn't mind the little boost during training that this might provide.
I ran competitively all through school, and all the smart runners knew the quickest way to cool down on a hot day is to put something cold on the inside of your wrists, and your neck... because there's a lot of blood flowing through there near the surface, and it "carries the cold" through the rest of your body and your muscles.
If you spend any amount of time in an ice bath, you can feel this effect, as well. Actually, it's rather unpleasant to feel the cold blood travelling back up your legs (but that's an extreme case).
I'll go RTFA now to check, but are they really talking about anything different?
As a side note -- for runners, it would seem to make sense to try cooling down the major arteries leading into the legs, but somehow I don't remember anyone pouring the ice or cold water into their groin.
Dell clearly doesn't realize how fast information travels nowadays.
The site they set up was already dying when I got on yesterday afternoon, and when I called the 800 number I got a voice saying something like "All circuits are busy. EF-38472" from their PBX.
I tried again around 3am, on my way to bed. Website still down.
This morning I tried and got an error message. Just tried again... and it looks like they've finally figured it out, and the page to verify your adapter is no longer using SSL. YES my adapter is affected (damn). So I made my order for a new adapter.
Guess how many people have successfully ordered a new one so far, out of the millions recalled (and the presumably millions trying to hit the site)? Well, it's not conclusive evidence, but my order number is 3678.
I know, no company likes spending more money than necessary on a recall, but if you're a company that sells webservers, you might want to, you know, show that you know how to set one up.
Firefox does have this option, and it works on the standard context-menu-alert website, but Google manages to get around it (not sure how).
When I turn off JavaScript, then I get the context menu, and I can click on the image and download it... but all I get is the transparent GIF that is overlaying the actual page image.
I can also view page info, list media on the page, and choose Save As... for the page image (the only large image on the page), but that fails. Not sure why; this failure seems like a bug they are exploiting (which probably Mozilla will fix at some point).
Then I gave up -- why bother when it takes two key presses on ANY windows machine to take a screenshot? Try it if you're on windows -- Alt-PrtScn, then paste into Word, MSPaint, whatever. I can't think of any way they'd disable that.
On a side note -- I wanted to pull up a google print page again today to test a few things... and couldn't. The test links that I found around don't work anymore. Did they pull it down temporarily? Or does anyone have a valid link?
I've been working as an independant contractor for a few years now, and it's working pretty well for me. I definitely have it easier than most (because I have one client in particular who's basically willing to give me as much work as I can handle).
BUT -- if you think you need to approach clients like a "salesman" -- you're wrong. Yes, it's true that you need to sell yourself, but if you think that means getting an expensive suit and a nice haircut, and talking about yourself to strangers all day, you're way off base.
You're selling yourself as a problem-solver, and as a techie. You don't prove you're smart by saying "did I mention I'm really smart?". You prove your worth by talking through problems and potential solutions with people, and offering them solutions that have a clearcut business case. If you aren't the right man for the job that needs to be done, you point that out. If the project will get you paid (and the client is gung-ho) but you suspect it would end poorly, you don't hide the risks (because repeat business is the best business).
That's it. You're on their side. You want their business to take off like a rocket, you want their sales force to have an easier job, you want them to do well, because their success is your success. You don't have to hide that! Just point out the places where your talents or experience could really help them out.
You may not like talking to strangers. That's fine. I don't. When I'm not coding, I'm talking with people I've been working with for years now (remember the repeat business point above). Sometimes I have to talk to strangers, so I've learned the skills: get *them* talking, and ask good questions, always stay upbeat and pragmatic, feel free to say "I'll have to check on that" when you don't know something, etc. But obviously I spend most of my time with the code -- is that what a salesman does?
Okay, clearly I know nothing about suppositories. And no, I'm sure you aren't against condoms!
But it's not like stopping sperm. If there's plenty of spermicide in the upper reaches of the vagina, that'll probably do the trick to stop a pregnancy, because any sperm that ends up anywhere else won't matter, including the external parts of her sex organs, her hands, etc.. Again, not my field of expertise at all, but a virus just needs an abrasion, tiny cut, etc. *anywhere*, so she'd need to have a generous coating of this substance anywhere that the ejaculate might touch her.
Preventing it from touching her seems simpler and more reliable. That's my real point here.
...suffering from two wheels that can no longer steer and thus are being held in a fixed direction...
I find that simply rolling back a bit will often dislodge what may be a bottle cap that's causing the wheel to malfunction. If there's string that has become wrapped around the wheel, however, you're done for, and should probably just take another shopping cart.
Any screen capture software can get that, no matter what the browser allows you to do or not.
That was my last comment -- just from the majority/Windows perspective, you don't even need screen capture software. Just hit "Alt-PrtScn" on the keyboard -- that captures the current window to the clipboard. Then paste it into MSPaint, software which all Windows users also have, guaranteed.
Of course, it *is* still an image, so there's work involved in getting to text -- most people don't have OCR software installed, or don't know to run it apart from their scanner, so they'd have to retype the thing if they want text.
But a suppository having LARGE quantities of the receptors unmutated binding site could act to competitively inhibit binding to cell membrane bound receptors. Thereupon the inactivated virus would simply pass out of the... cavity.
I see what you're saying, and I still don't get it. A simple suppository wouldn't do it (plus would interfere with sex more than a condom). You'd have to ensure that the virus-carrying... fluid came into contact with this blocker *before* it came into contact with any normal cells. I'll leave the scenarios to you (it's not like preventing pregnancy, where we just have to stop the sperm from surviving past the cervix), but the low-tech, low-cost condom just seems a lot simpler and more effective to me than asking the woman to repeated douse yourself inside and out during intercourse.
And one final point which I'm qualified to make, since I played the viola for 7 years and I speak French: you mean "voila".;-)
In Zhu's opinion, if medicine functioning similarly with the genes was put in the vagina and rectum, the HIV virus couldn't find its carrier to enter the human body and thus would be expelled.
Does this make sense to anyone? Granted, these are the reporter's words, not the doctor's words... but that just doesn't sound logical to me. The virus is there, in contact with this "medicine" and your own cells. Because of the medicine's structure, the virus can't affect it, but how does that help your own cells, which do NOT have that protection?
Frankly, the simple (but often unused/misused) "condom" solution seems easier in this example then the medicine he's talking about.
Much of the AIDS epidemic in Africa is directly caused by people misunderstanding how the virus is transmitted and treated (no, sex with virgins or babies won't help you), due in some cases to the sheer stupidity of certain leaders ("HIV does NOT cause AIDS"), poor education programs, and the equally stupid refusal of certain other religious-minded leaders who refuse to support programs that advocate anything other than celibacy to prevent STDs. Madness.
I hope that at a minimum, China is putting some serious resources into educating their population about how HIV/AIDS works, and how to avoid getting it. Obviously that's not the end of the battle, but it's the basic starting point.
From the FAQ: What can I do with books that I find? Well, you can browse a few pages, learn more about the topics explored by the book, buy it, or commit a selection to memory. To further protect your book content, printing and image copying functions are disabled on all Google Print content pages.
Everyone seems to be assuming that the book text will be there on the page as plain text. Nope -- it looks like it will be an image, and Google will be putting in whatever tech they can to prevent you from saving or printing that image. You could retype it yourself, but of course (as parent poster mentioned) if your teacher is suspicious you *know* they'll be able to bust your ass with a simple search on Google.
Does anyone know how they're planning to stop saving or printing the page? I'm hoping they've tested this with Firefox (since more and more "regular" people are using it); I know there's an option to prevent websites from controlling the context menu, which is the standard method of stopping image downloading -- this is a standard FireFox option, with no special plugins.
And I'd like to see them try to stop people hitting PrtScn, then pasting in Word, MS Paint, whatever. Even my dad knows how to do that.
It looks like it's an engine written in Flash, that renders higher-level concepts based on an XML file you put together.
I'm not a Flash developer, so I don't know that much about the level of what they're adding -- but I think it's along the lines of implementing "sidebar" or "drawer"-style elements in a few lines, instead of needing to develop the animation yourself. I assume they also make layout, transitions, etc. easier.
Of course, these kinds of built-in high-level functionality are a limiting factor as well, if you don't like the way they do it -- but since it's open source now as well, developers might even use their code as a starting point.
I don't use a wallet at all. Instead I have two of those little mylar sleeves that your bank will give you for free to put your ATM card in (just ask). One has my ATM card, driver's license, and "normal use" credit card in it. That goes in my right pocket, along with some cash and a few coins. Nothing else goes in that pocket, because I want to just reach in and take out cash or card w/o any shuffling.
The second mylar sleeve is for my business ATM card and business credit card, with my health insurance card in between. I don't use those nearly as often, so that goes in my left pocket along with a few other less important cards -- video rental, etc., and the junk I end up with during the day, like doctor/dentist appointment cards and restaurant receipts (purchase receipts go in the bag). And car keys if I have no jacket.
That pocket gets cleaned out every night -- appointments get scheduled and the cards get tossed, receipts get tossed, and so on.
Works pretty well, I think. I don't know how I'd work a real wallet -- where do people put them? I don't like stuff in my back pockets.
Ok, this rant is already in my sig, but I will expand a bit here since it's on topic. There are no "US Presidential elections", where you show up at the polls, vote for the president, and go home.
I don't know if this professor is presenting it this way to the students or not, but most U.S. citizens seem to see it this way. It's shamefully common for people to say "Eh, why vote? I'm in a swing state!"
There are plenty of more items on every ballot -- local and state representatives, and propositions that your local/state government wants your feedback on before they change the laws.
You are NOT just going to vote for the POTUS -- so if you don't show just because you're not in a swing state, all you're doing is saying "I don't care" to all of the local and state decisions that are going to be made until the next election... and trust me, you WILL care about some of them.
Back to the specific topic -- some people might have their specific reasons for NOT voting (it's a pretty dumb way to protest against the system, but there could be religious reasons, etc.), so I'd argue instead for an assignment where the student does everything to vote (including ensuring they are registered, and getting a mail-in ballot if necessary), and documents what they did -- then has the personal option to actually cast a vote or not.
Same idea (and a great assignment, I think), without the iffy aspects.
And if the person is dead, eat them, thus saving costly search 'n' find excursion parties.
Ah, and don't forget this: But to be successful rescuers, they must be able to home in on victims and signal their position to waiting rescue teams.
How do you think the rats "signal" when they've found a new survivor? They can't bark like dogs do, after all.... My guess is that the searchers depend on the person found to make some kind of "signal", when they wake up to find a rat nibbling curiously on their earlobe.
Which is bullshit, the size might be a fashion issue, but no one is seriously going to miss that litre of extra air that the xbox takes up in their apartment.
You have clearly never seen or read about the average Japanese urban apartment. 1/3 of the housing in Tokyo averages 121 sq. feet. Think about it -- if it were square and all one room, that's 11 x 11. Most American living rooms are bigger than that.
Posted Anonymously, as I doubt anyone else really wants to see this.
No worries -- no one will see my message either, since apparently my technological problem caused by (I think) SP2 is offtopic in a thread about problems with SP2.
Anyone else having problems with accessing the network from a Java applet after installing SP2? I don't have a computer running SP2, but I run a website that depends on my applets being able to connect back to the server (normally this is allowed in the Java applet sandbox, and I've never had issues before) -- the connection just gets cut. Works fine on Mac OS X, various flavors of Linux, earlier versions of Windows including 98, 2K, XP SP1, etc.... but I've gotten a bunch of reports from SP2 users who just get errors.
I'm connecting to the hosting webserver, using plain HTTP, over port 80. Why would the firewall kill the socket?
If anyone with SP2 wants to waste 5 minutes and test for me (you know, try with firewall enabled, disabled, whatever other variables you can think of), I'd be eternally grateful. No reward much to offer unless you're a music teacher, though.... URL: http://www.emusictheory.com Login as a student
username: test
password: test
teacher code: 100 Click "do assignments", pick one, hit "start drill", press a button to get a wrong answer, hit "stop drill" then "report score", then "send score report".
You may see a window pop up if the drill gets the error and tries it's new recently-hacked-in backup method.
If anyone does help out, contacting me is easy through the website.
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I noticed that Kerry and Bush are neck-and-neck in Mexico. Then I noticed that each had 13 votes -- that's even more meaningless than the US vote count at the moment.
So not that it matters much (and I suspect the numbers the site comes up with won't get too much media play)... but does anyone know what measures they're using to prevent ballot-stuffing, or lying about the country you're in?
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I think this sort of problem was one of the major issues in the class-action lawsuit that PayPal is in the process of settling now (it was litigated this summer).
I'm not sure if your problems were in the right timeframe, but this probably applies to *someone* reading this.
Check here to see if it applies to you.
From TFA (noticed the word - my emphasis - that was removed to post the /. article):
/. picks it up.
The authors of the new book "Crap Jobs" took an unscientific email survey among people in the United Kingdom
Of course it's unscientific. They send out an email to... well, the people responding are A) people who *have* email and check it regularly, and B) somehow have nothing better to do than sit around and fill out obviously entertainment-only email surveys. No, I don't think there were many actual "ferry cabin cleaners" among them. More likely many of them were, well, IT managers who think their jobs suck because the techs don't like them, or because it's just like that, or any reason other than the fact that instead of trying to be useful they are spending their time carefully filling out stupid email surveys (note: some IT managers are busting their butts and fighting for their group, and getting things done; they didn't even see the survey because they have a spam filter).
Then these book authors collect this pile of "data" and try to get press about it. Because it sells their book. They score a 1-paragraph throwaway article. And then the real coup: alas, for some reason
Any web site today that is not being designed around web standards (XHTML, CSS, etc) is making the wrong decision, not the user.
This is (unfortunately) irrelevant to the user AND developer, though I wish it weren't. If I'm searching tech support for a product and their support website is IE only, that's rarely reason enough for me to switch products, though I'll definitely complain. I don't know about now, but IE came default on OS X, 2 years ago, and it's not that hard to use it if the need arises. If you are developing a website, you *must* test it in IE, preferably a few older versions of IE as well. That's why most web developers, even if they work on Macs, have a cheap windows PC lying around for this purpose. I could also point out that IE exists on the Mac as well, and still gets quite a lot of usage... but of course it's different from IE on windows, so you just have to test on them all. My point, then -- this isn't a reason for OR against developing on a Mac, since you need to have both platforms around in some form anyway.
Personally, I develop currently mostly on a win2k desktop, since that's what I have (I'm spec'ing out a new work PC which I hoping can be Mac or Linux if I can find proper support for my various hobbies) -- but when my wife needed a computer I got her an iBook with OS X so I can also use it for testing. It came with IE and Safari, and I installed Firefox (which is what she uses), and I can test in all of them.
Molly, who I work with, seems to spend *way* more time than is reasonable just wandering around the office, or going outside and, again, just wandering around. Not a smoke break, just wandering. Or I'll just look up and she's standing there, just staring at me. Not a word. Just staring, maybe smiling, maybe not.
I don't want to be mean, but she's just.. quirky. I can't imagine she gets much work done. Her typing skills are horrendous, she clearly doesn't have a clue how to refill the paper in the printer (I think she just pretends she didn't notice it was empty, and waits for someone else to come along), and sometimes I see her just sleeping, or sitting there by the computer doing absolutely nothing. Watching the clouds go by outside. Watching the birds. Who knows.
I don't want to give the impression that she's utterly silent. No, sometimes she can be talkative, even loud, but it's like gibberish to me. Maybe I only understand techie talk nowadays, but from the looks on other people's faces, I get the feeling no one else is following her either.
She's actually kind of cute in a way, but she's startlingly hairy in ways most women simply are NOT (I'm SURE she doesn't shave, anywhere), and she can somehow be simultaeously very affectionate, but still a bitch. Her breath is, well, not pleasant, and I think I know why -- I've seen her peering interestly at food other people have *thrown out*, yes, in the trash, and I swear one I saw her munching happily on what looked to me like dog kibble.
Did I mention I work from home?
So the diff is they use a gentle vacuum to draw the blood to the surface in the hand, only. Same concept, but with a little tech thrown in to make it work faster. Presumably there aren't any side-effects of tinkering with the blood-flow like that, like a permanent hickey over the entire hand.
Another side-note: apparently Stanford has already licensed the technology, "to AVAcore Technologies Inc., an Ann Arbor, Mich., firm that Grahn and Heller founded to develop the device for commercial application."
I wonder if they're planning on testing using some of the UMich sports teams here (I live in Ann Arbor)... Football especially is HUGE here -- the whole city practically shuts down on football Saturdays like today. The stadium has a greater capacity than the city population, and no parking, so as you can imagine it's chaos. I'm sure the Wolverines wouldn't mind the little boost during training that this might provide.
I ran competitively all through school, and all the smart runners knew the quickest way to cool down on a hot day is to put something cold on the inside of your wrists, and your neck... because there's a lot of blood flowing through there near the surface, and it "carries the cold" through the rest of your body and your muscles.
If you spend any amount of time in an ice bath, you can feel this effect, as well. Actually, it's rather unpleasant to feel the cold blood travelling back up your legs (but that's an extreme case).
I'll go RTFA now to check, but are they really talking about anything different?
As a side note -- for runners, it would seem to make sense to try cooling down the major arteries leading into the legs, but somehow I don't remember anyone pouring the ice or cold water into their groin.
Dell clearly doesn't realize how fast information travels nowadays.
The site they set up was already dying when I got on yesterday afternoon, and when I called the 800 number I got a voice saying something like "All circuits are busy. EF-38472" from their PBX.
I tried again around 3am, on my way to bed. Website still down.
This morning I tried and got an error message. Just tried again... and it looks like they've finally figured it out, and the page to verify your adapter is no longer using SSL. YES my adapter is affected (damn). So I made my order for a new adapter.
Guess how many people have successfully ordered a new one so far, out of the millions recalled (and the presumably millions trying to hit the site)?
Well, it's not conclusive evidence, but my order number is 3678.
I know, no company likes spending more money than necessary on a recall, but if you're a company that sells webservers, you might want to, you know, show that you know how to set one up.
Firefox does have this option, and it works on the standard context-menu-alert website, but Google manages to get around it (not sure how).
When I turn off JavaScript, then I get the context menu, and I can click on the image and download it... but all I get is the transparent GIF that is overlaying the actual page image.
I can also view page info, list media on the page, and choose Save As... for the page image (the only large image on the page), but that fails. Not sure why; this failure seems like a bug they are exploiting (which probably Mozilla will fix at some point).
Then I gave up -- why bother when it takes two key presses on ANY windows machine to take a screenshot? Try it if you're on windows -- Alt-PrtScn, then paste into Word, MSPaint, whatever. I can't think of any way they'd disable that.
On a side note -- I wanted to pull up a google print page again today to test a few things... and couldn't. The test links that I found around don't work anymore. Did they pull it down temporarily? Or does anyone have a valid link?
I've been working as an independant contractor for a few years now, and it's working pretty well for me. I definitely have it easier than most (because I have one client in particular who's basically willing to give me as much work as I can handle).
BUT -- if you think you need to approach clients like a "salesman" -- you're wrong. Yes, it's true that you need to sell yourself, but if you think that means getting an expensive suit and a nice haircut, and talking about yourself to strangers all day, you're way off base.
You're selling yourself as a problem-solver, and as a techie. You don't prove you're smart by saying "did I mention I'm really smart?". You prove your worth by talking through problems and potential solutions with people, and offering them solutions that have a clearcut business case. If you aren't the right man for the job that needs to be done, you point that out. If the project will get you paid (and the client is gung-ho) but you suspect it would end poorly, you don't hide the risks (because repeat business is the best business).
That's it. You're on their side. You want their business to take off like a rocket, you want their sales force to have an easier job, you want them to do well, because their success is your success. You don't have to hide that! Just point out the places where your talents or experience could really help them out.
You may not like talking to strangers. That's fine. I don't. When I'm not coding, I'm talking with people I've been working with for years now (remember the repeat business point above). Sometimes I have to talk to strangers, so I've learned the skills: get *them* talking, and ask good questions, always stay upbeat and pragmatic, feel free to say "I'll have to check on that" when you don't know something, etc. But obviously I spend most of my time with the code -- is that what a salesman does?
Okay, clearly I know nothing about suppositories. And no, I'm sure you aren't against condoms!
But it's not like stopping sperm. If there's plenty of spermicide in the upper reaches of the vagina, that'll probably do the trick to stop a pregnancy, because any sperm that ends up anywhere else won't matter, including the external parts of her sex organs, her hands, etc.. Again, not my field of expertise at all, but a virus just needs an abrasion, tiny cut, etc. *anywhere*, so she'd need to have a generous coating of this substance anywhere that the ejaculate might touch her.
Preventing it from touching her seems simpler and more reliable. That's my real point here.
...suffering from two wheels that can no longer steer and thus are being held in a fixed direction...
I find that simply rolling back a bit will often dislodge what may be a bottle cap that's causing the wheel to malfunction. If there's string that has become wrapped around the wheel, however, you're done for, and should probably just take another shopping cart.
Sorry, what are we talking about?
Any screen capture software can get that, no matter what the browser allows you to do or not.
That was my last comment -- just from the majority/Windows perspective, you don't even need screen capture software. Just hit "Alt-PrtScn" on the keyboard -- that captures the current window to the clipboard. Then paste it into MSPaint, software which all Windows users also have, guaranteed.
Of course, it *is* still an image, so there's work involved in getting to text -- most people don't have OCR software installed, or don't know to run it apart from their scanner, so they'd have to retype the thing if they want text.
But a suppository having LARGE quantities of the receptors unmutated binding site could act to competitively inhibit binding to cell membrane bound receptors. Thereupon the inactivated virus would simply pass out of the... cavity.
;-)
I see what you're saying, and I still don't get it. A simple suppository wouldn't do it (plus would interfere with sex more than a condom). You'd have to ensure that the virus-carrying... fluid came into contact with this blocker *before* it came into contact with any normal cells. I'll leave the scenarios to you (it's not like preventing pregnancy, where we just have to stop the sperm from surviving past the cervix), but the low-tech, low-cost condom just seems a lot simpler and more effective to me than asking the woman to repeated douse yourself inside and out during intercourse.
And one final point which I'm qualified to make, since I played the viola for 7 years and I speak French: you mean "voila".
From the article:
In Zhu's opinion, if medicine functioning similarly with the genes was put in the vagina and rectum, the HIV virus couldn't find its carrier to enter the human body and thus would be expelled.
Does this make sense to anyone? Granted, these are the reporter's words, not the doctor's words... but that just doesn't sound logical to me. The virus is there, in contact with this "medicine" and your own cells. Because of the medicine's structure, the virus can't affect it, but how does that help your own cells, which do NOT have that protection?
Frankly, the simple (but often unused/misused) "condom" solution seems easier in this example then the medicine he's talking about.
Much of the AIDS epidemic in Africa is directly caused by people misunderstanding how the virus is transmitted and treated (no, sex with virgins or babies won't help you), due in some cases to the sheer stupidity of certain leaders ("HIV does NOT cause AIDS"), poor education programs, and the equally stupid refusal of certain other religious-minded leaders who refuse to support programs that advocate anything other than celibacy to prevent STDs. Madness.
I hope that at a minimum, China is putting some serious resources into educating their population about how HIV/AIDS works, and how to avoid getting it. Obviously that's not the end of the battle, but it's the basic starting point.
From the FAQ:
What can I do with books that I find?
Well, you can browse a few pages, learn more about the topics explored by the book, buy it, or commit a selection to memory. To further protect your book content, printing and image copying functions are disabled on all Google Print content pages.
Everyone seems to be assuming that the book text will be there on the page as plain text. Nope -- it looks like it will be an image, and Google will be putting in whatever tech they can to prevent you from saving or printing that image. You could retype it yourself, but of course (as parent poster mentioned) if your teacher is suspicious you *know* they'll be able to bust your ass with a simple search on Google.
Does anyone know how they're planning to stop saving or printing the page? I'm hoping they've tested this with Firefox (since more and more "regular" people are using it); I know there's an option to prevent websites from controlling the context menu, which is the standard method of stopping image downloading -- this is a standard FireFox option, with no special plugins.
And I'd like to see them try to stop people hitting PrtScn, then pasting in Word, MS Paint, whatever. Even my dad knows how to do that.
It looks like it's an engine written in Flash, that renders higher-level concepts based on an XML file you put together.
I'm not a Flash developer, so I don't know that much about the level of what they're adding -- but I think it's along the lines of implementing "sidebar" or "drawer"-style elements in a few lines, instead of needing to develop the animation yourself. I assume they also make layout, transitions, etc. easier.
Of course, these kinds of built-in high-level functionality are a limiting factor as well, if you don't like the way they do it -- but since it's open source now as well, developers might even use their code as a starting point.
I don't use a wallet at all. Instead I have two of those little mylar sleeves that your bank will give you for free to put your ATM card in (just ask). One has my ATM card, driver's license, and "normal use" credit card in it. That goes in my right pocket, along with some cash and a few coins. Nothing else goes in that pocket, because I want to just reach in and take out cash or card w/o any shuffling.
The second mylar sleeve is for my business ATM card and business credit card, with my health insurance card in between. I don't use those nearly as often, so that goes in my left pocket along with a few other less important cards -- video rental, etc., and the junk I end up with during the day, like doctor/dentist appointment cards and restaurant receipts (purchase receipts go in the bag). And car keys if I have no jacket.
That pocket gets cleaned out every night -- appointments get scheduled and the cards get tossed, receipts get tossed, and so on.
Works pretty well, I think. I don't know how I'd work a real wallet -- where do people put them? I don't like stuff in my back pockets.
"Eh, why vote? I'm in a swing state!"
should be
"Eh, why vote? I'm NOT in a swing state!"
probably obvious...
...voting at the US Presidential elections
Ok, this rant is already in my sig, but I will expand a bit here since it's on topic. There are no "US Presidential elections", where you show up at the polls, vote for the president, and go home.
I don't know if this professor is presenting it this way to the students or not, but most U.S. citizens seem to see it this way. It's shamefully common for people to say "Eh, why vote? I'm in a swing state!"
There are plenty of more items on every ballot -- local and state representatives, and propositions that your local/state government wants your feedback on before they change the laws.
You are NOT just going to vote for the POTUS -- so if you don't show just because you're not in a swing state, all you're doing is saying "I don't care" to all of the local and state decisions that are going to be made until the next election... and trust me, you WILL care about some of them.
Back to the specific topic -- some people might have their specific reasons for NOT voting (it's a pretty dumb way to protest against the system, but there could be religious reasons, etc.), so I'd argue instead for an assignment where the student does everything to vote (including ensuring they are registered, and getting a mail-in ballot if necessary), and documents what they did -- then has the personal option to actually cast a vote or not.
Same idea (and a great assignment, I think), without the iffy aspects.
And if the person is dead, eat them, thus saving costly search 'n' find excursion parties.
Ah, and don't forget this:
But to be successful rescuers, they must be able to home in on victims and signal their position to waiting rescue teams.
How do you think the rats "signal" when they've found a new survivor? They can't bark like dogs do, after all.... My guess is that the searchers depend on the person found to make some kind of "signal", when they wake up to find a rat nibbling curiously on their earlobe.
Excellent! I figure by about noon tomorrow I'll download a patch that "officially" makes me a 16 year old girl.
Oooh -- bad idea, dude. That's statutory rape, for one, when they catch you in bed with yourself. Did you think for a second about *that*?
Which is bullshit, the size might be a fashion issue, but no one is seriously going to miss that litre of extra air that the xbox takes up in their apartment.
You have clearly never seen or read about the average Japanese urban apartment. 1/3 of the housing in Tokyo averages 121 sq. feet. Think about it -- if it were square and all one room, that's 11 x 11. Most American living rooms are bigger than that.
The size of the console matters.
Cool, thanks for checking.
Posted Anonymously, as I doubt anyone else really wants to see this.
No worries -- no one will see my message either, since apparently my technological problem caused by (I think) SP2 is offtopic in a thread about problems with SP2.
Ah, well...
Anyone else having problems with accessing the network from a Java applet after installing SP2? I don't have a computer running SP2, but I run a website that depends on my applets being able to connect back to the server (normally this is allowed in the Java applet sandbox, and I've never had issues before) -- the connection just gets cut. Works fine on Mac OS X, various flavors of Linux, earlier versions of Windows including 98, 2K, XP SP1, etc.... but I've gotten a bunch of reports from SP2 users who just get errors.
I'm connecting to the hosting webserver, using plain HTTP, over port 80. Why would the firewall kill the socket?
If anyone with SP2 wants to waste 5 minutes and test for me (you know, try with firewall enabled, disabled, whatever other variables you can think of), I'd be eternally grateful. No reward much to offer unless you're a music teacher, though....
URL:
http://www.emusictheory.com
Login as a student
username: test
password: test
teacher code: 100
Click "do assignments", pick one, hit "start drill", press a button to get a wrong answer, hit "stop drill" then "report score", then "send score report".
You may see a window pop up if the drill gets the error and tries it's new recently-hacked-in backup method.
If anyone does help out, contacting me is easy through the website.
I noticed that Kerry and Bush are neck-and-neck in Mexico. Then I noticed that each had 13 votes -- that's even more meaningless than the US vote count at the moment.
So not that it matters much (and I suspect the numbers the site comes up with won't get too much media play)... but does anyone know what measures they're using to prevent ballot-stuffing, or lying about the country you're in?