Can is a verb. I can peaches, I can raspberries, and apparently he cans his family's fecal matter. I've no idea what it has to do with the eee, and I'm not sure I want to.
Health care should NEVER be a for-profit enterprise.
Why the fuck not?
Although I'd object to the rather extremist language of the grandparent, free markets are terrible regulators for healthcare. To put it a little simplistically, compare these cases:
You need a car to get to a job. How much are you willing to pay for the car? I'd pay enough that I'd soon make a good return on that job compared to some job I could get to without the car.
You need a treatment or you'll die. How much are you willing to pay to stay alive? I'd pay everything that I have, because it does me no good when I'm dead. This doesn't depend on how much I have. In fact, I'd be willing to pay money I don't even have yet. This is why so many people go into debt to stay alive in the USA.
Since the value of your own life is essentially boundless, markets don't regulate health care well.
I don't guess based on the spec sheet, which often tells you precisely nothing. Instead I find out what the panel is by looking it up on sites like this one:
Thanks for your clear and unambiguous post. I was with you, right up until this bit:
Also, while we're on this topic, if the situation were reversed, I can imagine slashdotters would hardly call the equivalent situation a "hack" (i.e., "the university hacked into his Linux box"). Using the typical logic, he apparently didn't protect his machine well enough, so it's okay, right? Oh, but he's on the malicious side, so he's right, and the University trying to protect itself, from someone violating just about every University policy with no expectation of privacy on the network of a public research university, is wrong?
Let me know when you people get your stories straight.
Slashdot is not a single entity with a number of spokespeople, like a corporation or a natural person. It is not a team or club, or a "side". It is a place where many individuals can go and post arbitrary text. There is no reason for you to think that "we people" are in fact "a" people - that is, there is no reason for any of these individuals - including you and I - to get our stories "straight". Further, you seem to be quite capable of debating this (frequently held) opinion on its merits, which would be a much better contribution to the discussion and more likely to convince the opinion's holders. Ultimately, this addition to your post dramatically detracts from your otherwise clear and rational analysis of the situation by making it needlessly hostile and challenging.
Please remember that you are most likely upset about a fourteen year old middle class boy's whine. Put it in perspective and don't let it get under your skin.
If we went into the streets to protest against every hair-brained authoritarian scheme they enact, let alone propose, we wouldn't have time to earn a living wage.
I believe what you are referring to is called a general strike and history has shown that they are not ignored by governements.
For comparison, how many Linux and FOSS-in-general fans run Windows on their primary desktop machine? I, for one, will admit that I do, because Linux quite simply hurts to use as a desktop on a daily basis. I absolutely love it for anything running behind the scenes (NAS, routers, webservers, mailservers, etc), but when it comes to sitting down and getting real work done at a workstation (or even just wasting time playing a game), Windows has Linux beat hands-down.
I only run windows if I want to play games. I don't play many games because I'd have to reboot, and that's just so inconvenient when Linux runs perfectly all the time. Everything is totally set up, works 100%, and I'm comfortable and familiar with it. I cannot justify the loss of productivity that booting into windows represents to me - not only because the games are there, but because I'd have to dick around for ages to get the machine to conform to my work style. It entirely depends on what you've been using lately. I used to use Windows more, but then windows broke and I couldn't afford the time to rebuild it again - so I just used Linux. Eventually I did rebuild Windows, but since Linux never broke I have never had to spend the time to switch back. That was a few years ago, with win2k pro.
And I say that as someone who rolls his own distros.
For the rest, I hope you have the exact same rev of the exact same hardware and run the same version of the same distro as someone who wrote a HowTo article, or get ready for some pain.
I think I have found your problem. I'd like to make the friendly suggestion that instead of doing all the work from scratch you might try some of the nice, clean, easy to install distributions that have nice hardware detection support. Unless your setup is really odd or bleeding edge (or full of intentionally hard to implement crap) it usually boots up supporting everything perfectly. In fact, it's ridiculously easy to install in most cases. You can even pick your default desktop before installing by choosing ubuntu (gnome), kubuntu (kde), xubuntu (xfce), or whatever. If you don't like ubuntu there are all sorts of other distributions that do something similar. I have heard good things about simplymepis, for example.
Otherwise, you're stuck claiming to do it the hard way on purpose, then complaining that the way is too hard.
Uhhh...are people buying the game and having fun? If so, then I think it's safe to say that the number of clicks is just fine.
It seems to me that if the interface could be improved, perhaps more people would buy the game and have fun. If that wasn't a goal of game developers, they'd be quite happy to stop worrying after two people bought the game and had fun with it.
This is a bill that Clinton signed into law in 1995. In fact, Bush's rules are less stringent than Clinton's, and yet all we do is demonize Bush for his stance on stem cells. Why is that?
Easy: They're both wrong, and people only now noticed. Just because Clinton got away with it doesn't mean that Bush should too.
...the attempt to repeat the pleasure of eating beyond the requirements of nourishment is gluttonly and has generally bad results. Similarly, the attempt to repeat the pleasure of sex beyond the needs of procreation (birth control, gay lifestyle, etc) has generally bad results - physical, emotional, and spiritual.
What the hell? First you made some comments about food and nutrition, and then from nowhere, you claim that sex is the same. Where do I start with this?
First, your claims about food and nutrition are mistaken; obesity results from the lack of separation between eating and nutrition. If you really could eat in a manner separated from nutrition, it would by definition have no effect. The word "gluttony" is defined in terms of consumption and not the results thereof, so it has everything to do with eating and nothing to do with nourishment. You haven't really made a case for why separating eating from nourishment is a bad thing.
Second, none of this has anything to do with sex. You have totally failed to demonstrate why this is a parallel case. Considering you didn't demonstrate why the first case wasn't made anyhow, I don't really see how you expect to convince anyone.
Third, even though the guy "got off," the chilling effect (just what the police/government hoped for) is VERY "far reaching." Who among us after reading about incidents like this will not henceforth think twice before photographing police or any other government official?
Although I agree that this was the intended effect, I have to object that the first thing I thought was "hell, I need to go find some cops to photograph". I'm thinking very well of volunteering with the cop watch program in my city as well. Bullying really pisses me off; I don't think that I'm unique in that regard.
What I would like to see is a roundup of card readers - I have seen enormous differences in speed between different USB 2.0 card readers, and I haven't seen any comprehensive reviews for them.
He's probably smoking some of the numerous benchmarks on Linux systems demonstrating that hardware RAID from vendors like 3ware perform similarly to plain SATA controllers with a software RAID configuration. Most of the free ones online are a little old, but ten seconds with google gives me this cheap-ass solution for a start). It's true that you can choose to spend enough to buy a controller that does perform better, but they're incredibly costly. For all but front-line high-performance computing machines or similarly demanding tasks where every CPU cycle matters, software RAID is a good choice. I support several small shops whose IT budgets are such that a RAID configuration for their intranet servers isn't really justified. With software RAID they can have good performance as well as reliability on any Linux system, practically for free. The code is quite mature and flexible (the latest revision of it, which I plan to test next quarter, now supports hot array re-shaping) and well supported on many hardware platforms.
You're correct that a battery backed cache makes a real difference in write atomicity, and I suppose technically I agree that the cheaper controllers aren't worth anything... but only because there are nearly-free alternatives that are just as good for all but really specialized purposes.
I was mostly making a joke about how 6000km constitutes a pretty big commitment to me, and probably to most people.
Although strictly speaking you could avoid the Rockies by heading North through the Peace River region... I have heard conflicting reports about recumbents and hills: some have told me that climbing is hard, and some have told me that climbing is easier since you can push the pedal with more force than just your body weight by pushing back against the seat and through main force of your quads. I imagine it varies depending on which of the large variety of styles you choose. I suppose that I'd have to go and test-ride some to see how they worked out. I might do that soon, as I'm one of those people who gets saddle-sore pretty quickly (unlike yourself, it seems). My friend told me that he had a good experience at Wenting's in Mission; perhaps see them before you plan your next tour. Disclaimer: second-hand information, no personal experience.
I live in Vancouver, B.C. I looked at recumbents, but found them to be a little pricy for something I wasn't fully committed to. My last tour on a mountain bike took me over 6000 km over plus 4 months.
Given these two sentences, I'd just like to know what your definition of "fully committed" is. Do you have to tow a trailer, or do you have to eat, sleep, and work from the saddle?
It sounds like you want something like Lucidoc. It integrates with Word and even IE, and does what you seem to want, I believe. It's pretty seamless, and used in health care document systems. Have a look at it and see if it does what you want; it sure would be easier than convincing MS Word users to use cvs or svn. Disclaimer: I am neither a vendor nor a user of this stuff, but I know one of the developers.
I have a decent solution that I think will make everyone happier: Filter out "ServersCheck" entirely. Heck, just in case, remove any page containing "ServersCheck" from the database. Offer this as a solution to anyone who has the same problem.
Does everything a PC does (Newton surfed web, did email, ran webserver, word processing, spreadsheets, databases)
Does it read PDFs? Because that's what makes Newton less than useful; to read PDFs you have to jump through hoops and convert them to gifs or some other image format.
"LRO will count craters and image American and Soviet landing sites."
Soviet, eh? Wow, I didn't know they were back in power. Just goes to show that your basic Red Soviet Commie doesn't know when to quit! Next thing you know Reagan will come back to office and kick their asses again, just like last time.
What's that? An error? Naw, I read it on the internet, that means it's true!
I've always found the Newton's handwriting recognition to be stellar after a short training period. Unlike the early Palms, it actually does real handwriting recognition, either printed or cursive. However, for me the main advantages were that it had an enormous screen (larger than the entire casing of a Palm) for me to work on, and that the entire screen was touch-sensitive unlike the early Palms, which only had a tiny touch area that was not capable of display. This made it the correct platform to take notes on; I could type on the keyboard and draw diagrams or math directly into my documents.
If Steve decided that the time was ripe to present a modern Newt replacement, and he did it right, I'd be very interested in what he produced. I don't think he'll do it, though. I still have, and use, my Newton 2100 that I purchased four years ago and which was made in the '90s.
Look, no matter what you're relying on the client to act in a predictable way so that you end up with the information you want. This is a race, and you are guaranteed to be at a disadvantage in that race.
The only way that you can guarantee that you'll get your telemetry is if you tie it to your content somehow.
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I'd love to see photos of your setup.
Can is a verb. I can peaches, I can raspberries, and apparently he cans his family's fecal matter. I've no idea what it has to do with the eee, and I'm not sure I want to.
You need a car to get to a job. How much are you willing to pay for the car? I'd pay enough that I'd soon make a good return on that job compared to some job I could get to without the car.
You need a treatment or you'll die. How much are you willing to pay to stay alive? I'd pay everything that I have, because it does me no good when I'm dead. This doesn't depend on how much I have. In fact, I'd be willing to pay money I don't even have yet. This is why so many people go into debt to stay alive in the USA.
Since the value of your own life is essentially boundless, markets don't regulate health care well.
Er, Ukraine. Chernobyl is in Ukraine. Ukraine most definitely is not Russia.
I don't guess based on the spec sheet, which often tells you precisely nothing. Instead I find out what the panel is by looking it up on sites like this one:
You can read about the different kinds of panel on wikipedia:
Thanks for your clear and unambiguous post. I was with you, right up until this bit:
Slashdot is not a single entity with a number of spokespeople, like a corporation or a natural person. It is not a team or club, or a "side". It is a place where many individuals can go and post arbitrary text. There is no reason for you to think that "we people" are in fact "a" people - that is, there is no reason for any of these individuals - including you and I - to get our stories "straight". Further, you seem to be quite capable of debating this (frequently held) opinion on its merits, which would be a much better contribution to the discussion and more likely to convince the opinion's holders. Ultimately, this addition to your post dramatically detracts from your otherwise clear and rational analysis of the situation by making it needlessly hostile and challenging.
Please remember that you are most likely upset about a fourteen year old middle class boy's whine. Put it in perspective and don't let it get under your skin.
I only run windows if I want to play games. I don't play many games because I'd have to reboot, and that's just so inconvenient when Linux runs perfectly all the time. Everything is totally set up, works 100%, and I'm comfortable and familiar with it. I cannot justify the loss of productivity that booting into windows represents to me - not only because the games are there, but because I'd have to dick around for ages to get the machine to conform to my work style. It entirely depends on what you've been using lately. I used to use Windows more, but then windows broke and I couldn't afford the time to rebuild it again - so I just used Linux. Eventually I did rebuild Windows, but since Linux never broke I have never had to spend the time to switch back. That was a few years ago, with win2k pro.
I think I have found your problem. I'd like to make the friendly suggestion that instead of doing all the work from scratch you might try some of the nice, clean, easy to install distributions that have nice hardware detection support. Unless your setup is really odd or bleeding edge (or full of intentionally hard to implement crap) it usually boots up supporting everything perfectly. In fact, it's ridiculously easy to install in most cases. You can even pick your default desktop before installing by choosing ubuntu (gnome), kubuntu (kde), xubuntu (xfce), or whatever. If you don't like ubuntu there are all sorts of other distributions that do something similar. I have heard good things about simplymepis, for example.
Otherwise, you're stuck claiming to do it the hard way on purpose, then complaining that the way is too hard.
Are you by any chance a lisp programmer?
What I would like to see is a roundup of card readers - I have seen enormous differences in speed between different USB 2.0 card readers, and I haven't seen any comprehensive reviews for them.
He's probably smoking some of the numerous benchmarks on Linux systems demonstrating that hardware RAID from vendors like 3ware perform similarly to plain SATA controllers with a software RAID configuration. Most of the free ones online are a little old, but ten seconds with google gives me this cheap-ass solution for a start). It's true that you can choose to spend enough to buy a controller that does perform better, but they're incredibly costly. For all but front-line high-performance computing machines or similarly demanding tasks where every CPU cycle matters, software RAID is a good choice. I support several small shops whose IT budgets are such that a RAID configuration for their intranet servers isn't really justified. With software RAID they can have good performance as well as reliability on any Linux system, practically for free. The code is quite mature and flexible (the latest revision of it, which I plan to test next quarter, now supports hot array re-shaping) and well supported on many hardware platforms.
You're correct that a battery backed cache makes a real difference in write atomicity, and I suppose technically I agree that the cheaper controllers aren't worth anything... but only because there are nearly-free alternatives that are just as good for all but really specialized purposes.
I was mostly making a joke about how 6000km constitutes a pretty big commitment to me, and probably to most people.
Although strictly speaking you could avoid the Rockies by heading North through the Peace River region... I have heard conflicting reports about recumbents and hills: some have told me that climbing is hard, and some have told me that climbing is easier since you can push the pedal with more force than just your body weight by pushing back against the seat and through main force of your quads. I imagine it varies depending on which of the large variety of styles you choose. I suppose that I'd have to go and test-ride some to see how they worked out. I might do that soon, as I'm one of those people who gets saddle-sore pretty quickly (unlike yourself, it seems). My friend told me that he had a good experience at Wenting's in Mission; perhaps see them before you plan your next tour. Disclaimer: second-hand information, no personal experience.
It sounds like you want something like Lucidoc. It integrates with Word and even IE, and does what you seem to want, I believe. It's pretty seamless, and used in health care document systems. Have a look at it and see if it does what you want; it sure would be easier than convincing MS Word users to use cvs or svn. Disclaimer: I am neither a vendor nor a user of this stuff, but I know one of the developers.
I have a decent solution that I think will make everyone happier: Filter out "ServersCheck" entirely. Heck, just in case, remove any page containing "ServersCheck" from the database. Offer this as a solution to anyone who has the same problem.
You're a nethack player, aren't you?
The USSR landed men on the moon? When did that happen exactly?
What's that? An error? Naw, I read it on the internet, that means it's true!
I've always found the Newton's handwriting recognition to be stellar after a short training period. Unlike the early Palms, it actually does real handwriting recognition, either printed or cursive. However, for me the main advantages were that it had an enormous screen (larger than the entire casing of a Palm) for me to work on, and that the entire screen was touch-sensitive unlike the early Palms, which only had a tiny touch area that was not capable of display. This made it the correct platform to take notes on; I could type on the keyboard and draw diagrams or math directly into my documents.
If Steve decided that the time was ripe to present a modern Newt replacement, and he did it right, I'd be very interested in what he produced. I don't think he'll do it, though. I still have, and use, my Newton 2100 that I purchased four years ago and which was made in the '90s.
Look, no matter what you're relying on the client to act in a predictable way so that you end up with the information you want. This is a race, and you are guaranteed to be at a disadvantage in that race.
The only way that you can guarantee that you'll get your telemetry is if you tie it to your content somehow.