You can bet, though, that there will be some Norah Jones soundalikes being pushed through the great Music Industry machine in the next few months, if they aren't already. And they probably will be teen sex idols to boot.
Yeah, like college students will stop freely sharing music so they can purchase affordable, downloadable files of music or movies. Most college students seem to choose the legally questionable route over the straight and narrow if it will save them a few bucks.
I, for one, am not really looking for a better graphical interface for Linux. My only view of it is from the command line through and SSH window on my Windows box. To me, Linux is the system for a server, router, and other down-and-dirty computing tasks. Windows (and Mac to a much smaller extent) seem to have a hold on the desktop/user experience side of things, with a good idea as to what users want to see and do.
At least in the MD case, the incredible amount of hours usually only happens during residency (first 3-5 years after med school). I think this happens for a couple of reasons. First, current doctors had to do it way back when, so they see it as sort of "paying your dues". They don't see it fair that the up-and-coming doctors wouldn't have to work insane hours like they did back in the day. Secondly, there's an artificial shortage of new doctors being produced. Admission to medical schools is severly limited, for what seems to be no good reason other than to keep doctor's salaries high (at least that's my cynical view on things).
There was recent legislation passed that limited the hours of medical residents to only 80 hours a week (with a bunch of loopholes, I'm sure), much to the chagrin of the AMA.
Disclaimer: IANAMD or even a med student, but my fiancee will soon be graduating from medical school, so I'm somewhat familiar with these issues.
I just went to watch the Star Wars movie I recorded on my TiVo today. Looks like WGN Superstation think Star Wars: A New Hope had to be canceled because of the shuttle disaster. Seems like showing space movies is insensitive.
I wonder how many problems it would cause if Microsoft disabled auto-installs and so forth in the next IE update. Does the flexibility and programmibility of IE really gain users anything? At the least, they might want to provide a bare bones web browser only version of IE that renders pages and does standard javascript.
I read up through Path of Daggers, I think. It was very compelling through most of those books, but all I can really remember of the last couple is a few women bitching and complaining and crying because they all loved the same guy. The one after Path of Daggers wasn't out in paperback when I finished it, so I stopped there. Maybe it's better after that one, but it's been a while and I don't really feel like reading the ones I have again to catch up with the story.
On the note of priorities and permissions on phones, does anyone have one of those "walkie-talkie" phones that are out now? What's the point of those? From what I gather from the commercials, they allow you to get right through to the other party without it ringing. It that really a desirable feature? I'd rather have the ability to ignore whomever is calling me if I feel like it.
I think a system with priorities like the poster above mentioned would work much better. The callee would still have the option of answering/ignoring the call, but would have somewhat of an idea of the importance of the call. Of course, you'd have to trust them not to cry wolf.
The only person at home who uses my home phone line is Tivo
I just got a Tivo for christmas. Am I going to start refering to him as a member of my household? Actually, I could almost see that, since tivo has made watching TV tolerable again with the ability to zip through the commercials at near light speed.
Maybe this isn't totally on topic, but it is about spam and I just read it hear at work. I just got a spam email about Jesus and how he can save me, including a handy little prayer that will start me on my way, and also a suggestion to go to Google and search on "Bible". There's also a nice little opt-out link at the bottom.
Kind of caught me by surprise. I was expecting to delete my daily share of hot wet teen sluts.
then you get 2000 songs with your gateway. Lets see... average 15 songs a cd.... 2000 / 15 = 133... times $17.00 for the average CD... $2267.00 free !!!
Actually, it's just the popular songs, so it would be more like... average 2 popular songs per cd = 1000 CDs... times $17... $17,000 free.
Assuming of course, you normally buy CDs to get just the popular songs and the rest are crap.
How about starting up a grocery card distribution service? Not sure exactly how it would work, but you could have a way of picking up a random card before entering the store and returning on the way out. The store would get some innaccurate information and you'd get your "discounts". Or, even better, just have one card shared between a hundred people. Then you'd spend enough in no time to get the free Thanksgiving turkey.
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With my debit card, I get charged $1.50 per use, like it is being used at an ATM not owned by my bank -- they consider it the same kind of transaction. So, I always hit "Credit" instead of "Debit" when I use my card. Let the retailers pick up the extra fee, not me.
Hate to be offtopic and one of those grammar correcting folks, but penultimate means "next to last", not "ultimate" or "the most ultimate" or whatever you were trying to say there. This is misused all the time.
Yeah, I'm sure win98 has something to do with it. Unfortunately I don't have much control over what OS I can use here at work. It could also have something to do with Lotus Notes (ugh), our required email/calendar thing we use here. Notes seems to like to crash at random and cause problems with other thing running at the same time. But that could still be a Win98 issue. Ok, that's enough off-topic stuff.
Anyone else having problems with Mozilla (1.1) on the Google News site? Twice now I have had to reboot my Win98 machine after Mozilla crashed hard while I was scrolling down the Sci/Tech page. It has me a little gun-shy about revisiting the site, at least with Mozilla.
The hospital does make sense, but not for peace and quiet. Maybe you've never been in a hospital but they are rather noisy for most of the day. People are told to turn off cell phones because they can possibly interfere with equipment (like pacemakers).
I have actually heard (from a medical student) that the no cell phone rules are less about device interference and more about doctors getting annoyed at patients whose phones go off during exams and whatnot. There are hospitals who give the doctors cell phones rather than pagers and seem not to have problems with haywire pacemakers.
I tried his popcorn recipe, stapling the back shut before microwaving. No problems whatsoever. The popcorn didn't turn out so great, but I think that was because I didn't really pay attention to the actual power of my microwave.
Well, a slight difference with the water company, as you are generally paying for amount of water you use, so you're paying for any water you give to friends. With bandwith, at least with cable modems, you generally pay a flat fee. So while it may be right to bitch about the cable company limiting your "unlimited" amount of bandwith for your use, when you start giving it out to friends and neighbors, you start using more bandwith than you personally can use. Hence, the cable companies may be in the right in trying to clamp down on WiFi sharing.
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You can bet, though, that there will be some Norah Jones soundalikes being pushed through the great Music Industry machine in the next few months, if they aren't already. And they probably will be teen sex idols to boot.
Yeah, like college students will stop freely sharing music so they can purchase affordable, downloadable files of music or movies. Most college students seem to choose the legally questionable route over the straight and narrow if it will save them a few bucks.
I, for one, am not really looking for a better graphical interface for Linux. My only view of it is from the command line through and SSH window on my Windows box. To me, Linux is the system for a server, router, and other down-and-dirty computing tasks. Windows (and Mac to a much smaller extent) seem to have a hold on the desktop/user experience side of things, with a good idea as to what users want to see and do.
At least in the MD case, the incredible amount of hours usually only happens during residency (first 3-5 years after med school). I think this happens for a couple of reasons. First, current doctors had to do it way back when, so they see it as sort of "paying your dues". They don't see it fair that the up-and-coming doctors wouldn't have to work insane hours like they did back in the day. Secondly, there's an artificial shortage of new doctors being produced. Admission to medical schools is severly limited, for what seems to be no good reason other than to keep doctor's salaries high (at least that's my cynical view on things).
There was recent legislation passed that limited the hours of medical residents to only 80 hours a week (with a bunch of loopholes, I'm sure), much to the chagrin of the AMA.
Disclaimer: IANAMD or even a med student, but my fiancee will soon be graduating from medical school, so I'm somewhat familiar with these issues.
I just went to watch the Star Wars movie I recorded on my TiVo today. Looks like WGN Superstation think Star Wars: A New Hope had to be canceled because of the shuttle disaster. Seems like showing space movies is insensitive.
I wonder how many problems it would cause if Microsoft disabled auto-installs and so forth in the next IE update. Does the flexibility and programmibility of IE really gain users anything? At the least, they might want to provide a bare bones web browser only version of IE that renders pages and does standard javascript.
Note: I am posting this from Mozilla.
I read up through Path of Daggers, I think. It was very compelling through most of those books, but all I can really remember of the last couple is a few women bitching and complaining and crying because they all loved the same guy. The one after Path of Daggers wasn't out in paperback when I finished it, so I stopped there. Maybe it's better after that one, but it's been a while and I don't really feel like reading the ones I have again to catch up with the story.
On the note of priorities and permissions on phones, does anyone have one of those "walkie-talkie" phones that are out now? What's the point of those? From what I gather from the commercials, they allow you to get right through to the other party without it ringing. It that really a desirable feature? I'd rather have the ability to ignore whomever is calling me if I feel like it.
I think a system with priorities like the poster above mentioned would work much better. The callee would still have the option of answering/ignoring the call, but would have somewhat of an idea of the importance of the call. Of course, you'd have to trust them not to cry wolf.
Here's a (somewhat old) document detailing some common PHP exploits and vulnerabilities.
A Study in Scarlet
It was written with PHP 4.0.something in mind, but a lot of the stuff can still be applied to the latest versions out there.
The only person at home who uses my home phone line is Tivo
I just got a Tivo for christmas. Am I going to start refering to him as a member of my household? Actually, I could almost see that, since tivo has made watching TV tolerable again with the ability to zip through the commercials at near light speed.
Maybe this isn't totally on topic, but it is about spam and I just read it hear at work. I just got a spam email about Jesus and how he can save me, including a handy little prayer that will start me on my way, and also a suggestion to go to Google and search on "Bible". There's also a nice little opt-out link at the bottom.
Kind of caught me by surprise. I was expecting to delete my daily share of hot wet teen sluts.
then you get 2000 songs with your gateway. Lets see ... average 15 songs a cd .... 2000 / 15 = 133 ... times $17.00 for the average CD ... $2267.00 free !!!
... average 2 popular songs per cd = 1000 CDs ... times $17 ... $17,000 free.
Actually, it's just the popular songs, so it would be more like
Assuming of course, you normally buy CDs to get just the popular songs and the rest are crap.
I remember reading once that marketers are some of the easiest people to sell to. Seems like the researchers figured this out.
Hmmm. I guess they put that preview button there for a reason. Let's try this again:
Got to watch out for those robots. At least they sell Robot Insurance.
Got to watch out for those robots. At least they sell .
How about starting up a grocery card distribution service? Not sure exactly how it would work, but you could have a way of picking up a random card before entering the store and returning on the way out. The store would get some innaccurate information and you'd get your "discounts". Or, even better, just have one card shared between a hundred people. Then you'd spend enough in no time to get the free Thanksgiving turkey.
With my debit card, I get charged $1.50 per use, like it is being used at an ATM not owned by my bank -- they consider it the same kind of transaction. So, I always hit "Credit" instead of "Debit" when I use my card. Let the retailers pick up the extra fee, not me.
I was just reading about the Rez Trance Vibrator. Chicks dig it.
They are the penultimate diagnostician...
Hate to be offtopic and one of those grammar correcting folks, but penultimate means "next to last", not "ultimate" or "the most ultimate" or whatever you were trying to say there. This is misused all the time.
Yeah, I'm sure win98 has something to do with it. Unfortunately I don't have much control over what OS I can use here at work. It could also have something to do with Lotus Notes (ugh), our required email/calendar thing we use here. Notes seems to like to crash at random and cause problems with other thing running at the same time. But that could still be a Win98 issue. Ok, that's enough off-topic stuff.
Um, try Linux?
Um, try to get my boss to allow us to install Linux on our work machines?
Internet Explorer renders it just fine.
Anyone else having problems with Mozilla (1.1) on the Google News site? Twice now I have had to reboot my Win98 machine after Mozilla crashed hard while I was scrolling down the Sci/Tech page. It has me a little gun-shy about revisiting the site, at least with Mozilla.
The hospital does make sense, but not for peace and quiet. Maybe you've never been in a hospital but they are rather noisy for most of the day. People are told to turn off cell phones because they can possibly interfere with equipment (like pacemakers).
I have actually heard (from a medical student) that the no cell phone rules are less about device interference and more about doctors getting annoyed at patients whose phones go off during exams and whatnot. There are hospitals who give the doctors cell phones rather than pagers and seem not to have problems with haywire pacemakers.
I tried his popcorn recipe, stapling the back shut before microwaving. No problems whatsoever. The popcorn didn't turn out so great, but I think that was because I didn't really pay attention to the actual power of my microwave.
Well, a slight difference with the water company, as you are generally paying for amount of water you use, so you're paying for any water you give to friends. With bandwith, at least with cable modems, you generally pay a flat fee. So while it may be right to bitch about the cable company limiting your "unlimited" amount of bandwith for your use, when you start giving it out to friends and neighbors, you start using more bandwith than you personally can use. Hence, the cable companies may be in the right in trying to clamp down on WiFi sharing.