1. It's cheaper and more efficient to make all your ATMs the same, so walk-up and drive-through models are often the same.
2. Blind people need to have access to cash, too, and it's not uncommon for them to be driven to an ATM by a sighted driver. Usually they sit in the rear driver's side seat and the driver just pulls a little more forward than normal so the blind person can access the ATM.
And you could even tow it without using a flatbed or crane truck. Four-wheel drive vehicles are often towed with contraptions that put the rear wheels onto a dolly system, and left the front wheels into the air.
The long-term result of macular degeneration is that he will lose the ability to focus on anything in the center of his vision, and will eventually hit the point where he only has (blurry) peripheral vision. When this occurs, he will not be able to read at all. Any items which magnify text will be a very temporary solution for him.
Focus on finding audio solutions that work, spend time researching them and then becoming familiar with using them, because anything you create now that magnifies text will be very quickly obsolete.
Ah, I Love You. I've never been an IT person, but have always earned a reputation as resident unofficial techie wherever I've worked. When that virus hit, I read about it here, and at work, my boss let me know he'd received an email, from the CEO, with the subject line of "I Love You." I let him know to not open it, and went down to the sysadmin's desk and let him know we'd been hit. It was early, and he took some precautions, and we were never hit to the extent that some organizations were.
I've been reading slashdot for somewhere around 13 years. Wish I could figure out when on earth I registered this account, I remember at the time being woefully dismayed that I had a 6 digit UID (the friend who let me know about slashdot had a 5 digit UID). In some way, I feel like a part of my youth has been lost. slashdot has been with me through four boyfriends, y2k, 09/11/2001, OMG ponies, the launch of gmail on April Fool's Day, the implementation of the mod system, the rise and fall of Netscape, Dogpile, Altavista, the popularity of Linux distros waxing and waning, the evolution of Microsoft, Apple, and Google, and countless other events, large and small, good and bad.
Years ago, there was some article in which an argument erupted in the comments about whether it was okay to urinate in sinks. I argued against it, and some random guy clicked my profile, found some photography I'd done, and sent me some emails. We lived in the same town. We just celebrated our third wedding anniversary.
I've never been a programmer, nor a sysadmin, or held any IT position. But slashdot has expanded my horizons in immeasurable ways, and in some way, I wouldn't be the person I am today if it had not been for slashdot. In some way, I wouldn't be the person I am today if it had not been for slashdot. I thank you for that.
As a FEMALE geek who met her husband via Slashdot, there are a few things which have been said over and over, but they're important.
-- You're not that good of a liar. Therefore, if something is bothering you, you can try to hide it in order to spare your partner's feelings, but bottom line, just as you're not that good of a liar, your partner isn't stupid. So just get it out, it's easier and quicker and will result in fewer hurt feelings.
-- Realize that no matter how geeky you both are, you are different. Different things cause us to be stressed, and one of the important components of a relationship is realizing what things won't cause panic in yourself but will in your spouse and proactively helping your spouse through that.
-- Most importantly, remember why you're marrying her. Not only do you have lust for her, and love for her, you LIKE her as a person. You find her beautiful, brilliant, funny. So when she's left her dirty dishes in the sink for the millionth time in favour of reading a book, shake your head and smile, because that's part of who she is. Just like how she's going to tolerate how stinky you get during your WoW binges. Yes, these things are minor annoyances, and over time, she'll realize she can do the dishes and THEN read, and you'll make sure to shower prior to that huge raid, but don't let the little things get in the way of that most important thing. There's a reason you're marrying her, because you like her, love her, feel lust for her. Don't ever forget that.
Far too many marriages fail, and while people cite many things, it often boils down to one or both partners in the marriage just plain not being NICE to the person they claim to love.
Have a little chat with your in-house counsel. Not in the "OMG my boss is making me break the law!" but in the "Look, I want to make sure we protect ourselves" way. Better yet, do it via email so it's documented. Then your counsel will go have a little chat with your boss telling him what an idiot he is.
You've got a good point. I went from living in a house with central air to an apartment with no A/C, and wouldn't you know it, this summer I was a lot more likely to be out and about.
In the state of Washington, only one party has to consent to a recording. That said, this probably doesn't fall under wiretap regulations. The student could make an argument that a school is a public place and as such people do not have a reasonable expectation to privacy (i.e., they have no reason to think they won't be recorded in some way), but he'd probably get trumped by the numerous rulings that state that schools have special exceptions to the publi spaces regulations.
Either way, forcing the kid to miss approximately 20% of the school year for this is ridiculous.
People are deposed on weekends all the time. In most circumstances, the attorneys for both the plaintiff and defendent interact, at the least, with politeness, and will attempt to come together at a mutually agreeable time.
Further, even if for some reason one party was unwilling to have the depo be done on a weekend, why not at 3pm or some such? The school day typically ends long before the work day, and most depositions aren't nearly as long as TV shows would have you believe.
Whenever something requires "government-issued" photo identification, state-issued identification is acceptable. In fact, it's the norm. A state-issued photo ID (driver's license or otherwise) is what's currently required to obtain a passport, and it's likely that the federal government will grandfather in state driver's licenses even after the RealID becomes reality.
And the article clearly states this is preliminary, meaning, this is essentially a pilot study. The fully controlled studies come later, but cheap studies that show correlation are the way to go, unless you want to go on wild goose chases.
How many albums do most people buy in a year? Not many, I'd wager, though there are probably some slashdotters who buy dozens. However, it seems that a fairly sizable portion of people who buy iPods to give as gifts also buy an iTunes gift card. So there's a lot of music sold right around Christmas, plus some people who receive one of those iPods probably buy an album off of iTunes because of the uniqueness and the cheap factor.
In my own experience...I received an iPod last year, promptly spent my $20 gift card, and then over the next four months, I purchased seven albums from iTunes, and then in July one more. The purchase are definitely skewed towards the earlier part of the year. I'm probably fairly representative of the average iPod user. Initially several purchases, some of which were on iTunes gift cards, and then it peters off to practically nothing.
This is a good point. Many people complain about the sound quality of the files purchased through iTunes, as though now suddenly all the people who own iPods will start ripping to lossless formats.
Here's a clue. Most of us DON'T CARE. Most people aren't going to buy different headphones than those that came with their iPod (much less high end headphones), so the difference in auditory quality between lossless and the iTMS files is going to be negligable. Likewise, a fair number of people use their iPod to play music on their car stereo, often through a cassette tape adapter or radio broadcaster, and most peoples' car stereos simply aren't capable of the fineness in sound reproduction that would allow the differences to be heard. It's primarily a PORTABLE music player, and in the vast majority of circumstances, the listener simply is not in a position to be able to tell the difference, and thus, the listener doesn't really care.
For audiophiles who have perfected their home stereo system, I doubt many of them would buy through iTunes even if lossless formats were available. This is just a hunch, but every single audiophile I've known has not just valued the sound quality, but also the more tangible aspects of having liner notes, album art, a big huge rack full of records or CDs. These things wouldn't go away if you could buy lossless format music off of iTunes.
The movies on iTunes isn't such a bad idea, IF the iPods were really capable of playing them all the way through on battery power. When I received my iPod for Christmas last year, I was initially excited, it meant that on plane trips, I could watch a movie of my choosing, without shilling out for an expensive and space-consuming DVD player. But then I saw that the maximum battery life for video playback was 2 hours. So in reality, it's likely less, which means no movies on those long trips unless I wanted to buy an expensive accessory.
You're comparing internet access (cable/DSL) with cellular access to data. Very different critters as far as pricing goes. Not really correct to compare apples and oranges.
Also, for what it's worth, most of the internet access providers DO have a cap on their "unlimited" access, you're just not likely to hit it unless you're downloading a fair amount of movies or other very large files.
Yes, but what happens when you have a situation of Denial of Service by Backhoe?
I'm not talking hypothetically. This actually happened at the hospital I worked at. We were a satellite hospital, all the primary patient data was at the main hospital. One of their construction workers severed their fibre, we all of a sudden had no patient information through our thin clients. In a computerized healthcare system, that can be crippling. Fortunately, though, we had a daily backup to a local HD for every single ward, so that all pertinent information (labs, diets, prescriptions, notes, etc.) could be pulled up, and it was a maximum of 24 hours old.
The Department of Veterans Affairs uses two systems, CPRS (Computerized Patient Record System) and VISTA (Veterans Integrated something something something) to manage all of their patient records and scheduling, and has been since at least 2001. These systems work pretty damned well, particularly in light of the VA being the largest health care provider in the nation.
I was just a lowly recreation therapy aide, but from what I can tell, each VISN (Veterans Integrated Service Network, VA-speak for "region") had its own server which kept all the CPRS and VISTA information, but you could hook into another VISN's system to pull up their records. Seemed to be a pretty good system.
Not sure why Kaiser is having so many frigging problems. If the government can manage to implement a pretty damned good computerized record system, why not a for-profit entity?
You'd think an economics student would realize that only very high end attorneys can bill at $500 an hour, and that those attorneys do NOT take home $500 per hour worked. For one thing, the money they bill has to pay for all sorts of things that are not directly billed for, such as their legal secretaries' wages (paralegals generally bill, legal secretaries rarely do), and general firm expenses, such as rent. Attorneys who are at the level where they are billing at $500 an hour also are frequently paid a set salary (not directly related to hours worked) as well as a portion of the firm's profit.
Ah, Antitrust. The movie that was blatantly anti-Microsoft. And so blatantly ridiculous when it came to tech. I'm a Windows using gal, but I know enough about the *nixes to be insulted when a movie attempts to claim that "mount" does the same thing as "ls."
And don't even get me started about how they drove the wrong way down Broadway in Portland.
Heh, water's not going to do much good in an aircooled VW.
Anyways, my car is remarkably reliable, in spite of its age, probably more reliable than many new cars. However, there are some things which really can't be fixed on the side of the road, and do require a call for help. Like the time I had all four lug nuts come off one wheel and scatter all over a highway (and yep, I always check them at every oil change, so I still have no clue how that happened).
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Drive-up ATMs have braille for two reasons.
1. It's cheaper and more efficient to make all your ATMs the same, so walk-up and drive-through models are often the same.
2. Blind people need to have access to cash, too, and it's not uncommon for them to be driven to an ATM by a sighted driver. Usually they sit in the rear driver's side seat and the driver just pulls a little more forward than normal so the blind person can access the ATM.
And you could even tow it without using a flatbed or crane truck. Four-wheel drive vehicles are often towed with contraptions that put the rear wheels onto a dolly system, and left the front wheels into the air.
The long-term result of macular degeneration is that he will lose the ability to focus on anything in the center of his vision, and will eventually hit the point where he only has (blurry) peripheral vision. When this occurs, he will not be able to read at all. Any items which magnify text will be a very temporary solution for him.
Focus on finding audio solutions that work, spend time researching them and then becoming familiar with using them, because anything you create now that magnifies text will be very quickly obsolete.
Ah, I Love You. I've never been an IT person, but have always earned a reputation as resident unofficial techie wherever I've worked. When that virus hit, I read about it here, and at work, my boss let me know he'd received an email, from the CEO, with the subject line of "I Love You." I let him know to not open it, and went down to the sysadmin's desk and let him know we'd been hit. It was early, and he took some precautions, and we were never hit to the extent that some organizations were.
I've been reading slashdot for somewhere around 13 years. Wish I could figure out when on earth I registered this account, I remember at the time being woefully dismayed that I had a 6 digit UID (the friend who let me know about slashdot had a 5 digit UID). In some way, I feel like a part of my youth has been lost. slashdot has been with me through four boyfriends, y2k, 09/11/2001, OMG ponies, the launch of gmail on April Fool's Day, the implementation of the mod system, the rise and fall of Netscape, Dogpile, Altavista, the popularity of Linux distros waxing and waning, the evolution of Microsoft, Apple, and Google, and countless other events, large and small, good and bad.
Years ago, there was some article in which an argument erupted in the comments about whether it was okay to urinate in sinks. I argued against it, and some random guy clicked my profile, found some photography I'd done, and sent me some emails. We lived in the same town. We just celebrated our third wedding anniversary.
I've never been a programmer, nor a sysadmin, or held any IT position. But slashdot has expanded my horizons in immeasurable ways, and in some way, I wouldn't be the person I am today if it had not been for slashdot. In some way, I wouldn't be the person I am today if it had not been for slashdot. I thank you for that.
As a FEMALE geek who met her husband via Slashdot, there are a few things which have been said over and over, but they're important.
-- You're not that good of a liar. Therefore, if something is bothering you, you can try to hide it in order to spare your partner's feelings, but bottom line, just as you're not that good of a liar, your partner isn't stupid. So just get it out, it's easier and quicker and will result in fewer hurt feelings.
-- Realize that no matter how geeky you both are, you are different. Different things cause us to be stressed, and one of the important components of a relationship is realizing what things won't cause panic in yourself but will in your spouse and proactively helping your spouse through that.
-- Most importantly, remember why you're marrying her. Not only do you have lust for her, and love for her, you LIKE her as a person. You find her beautiful, brilliant, funny. So when she's left her dirty dishes in the sink for the millionth time in favour of reading a book, shake your head and smile, because that's part of who she is. Just like how she's going to tolerate how stinky you get during your WoW binges. Yes, these things are minor annoyances, and over time, she'll realize she can do the dishes and THEN read, and you'll make sure to shower prior to that huge raid, but don't let the little things get in the way of that most important thing. There's a reason you're marrying her, because you like her, love her, feel lust for her. Don't ever forget that.
Far too many marriages fail, and while people cite many things, it often boils down to one or both partners in the marriage just plain not being NICE to the person they claim to love.
Have a little chat with your in-house counsel. Not in the "OMG my boss is making me break the law!" but in the "Look, I want to make sure we protect ourselves" way. Better yet, do it via email so it's documented. Then your counsel will go have a little chat with your boss telling him what an idiot he is.
I knit.
You've got a good point. I went from living in a house with central air to an apartment with no A/C, and wouldn't you know it, this summer I was a lot more likely to be out and about.
In the state of Washington, only one party has to consent to a recording. That said, this probably doesn't fall under wiretap regulations. The student could make an argument that a school is a public place and as such people do not have a reasonable expectation to privacy (i.e., they have no reason to think they won't be recorded in some way), but he'd probably get trumped by the numerous rulings that state that schools have special exceptions to the publi spaces regulations.
Either way, forcing the kid to miss approximately 20% of the school year for this is ridiculous.
People are deposed on weekends all the time. In most circumstances, the attorneys for both the plaintiff and defendent interact, at the least, with politeness, and will attempt to come together at a mutually agreeable time.
Further, even if for some reason one party was unwilling to have the depo be done on a weekend, why not at 3pm or some such? The school day typically ends long before the work day, and most depositions aren't nearly as long as TV shows would have you believe.
Bzzt. Incorrect.
Whenever something requires "government-issued" photo identification, state-issued identification is acceptable. In fact, it's the norm. A state-issued photo ID (driver's license or otherwise) is what's currently required to obtain a passport, and it's likely that the federal government will grandfather in state driver's licenses even after the RealID becomes reality.
I've quit Wow.
And I'm also a girl.
Now I'll go watch as countless slashdotters' heads explode.
And the article clearly states this is preliminary, meaning, this is essentially a pilot study. The fully controlled studies come later, but cheap studies that show correlation are the way to go, unless you want to go on wild goose chases.
How many albums do most people buy in a year? Not many, I'd wager, though there are probably some slashdotters who buy dozens. However, it seems that a fairly sizable portion of people who buy iPods to give as gifts also buy an iTunes gift card. So there's a lot of music sold right around Christmas, plus some people who receive one of those iPods probably buy an album off of iTunes because of the uniqueness and the cheap factor.
In my own experience...I received an iPod last year, promptly spent my $20 gift card, and then over the next four months, I purchased seven albums from iTunes, and then in July one more. The purchase are definitely skewed towards the earlier part of the year. I'm probably fairly representative of the average iPod user. Initially several purchases, some of which were on iTunes gift cards, and then it peters off to practically nothing.
-Jenn
This is a good point. Many people complain about the sound quality of the files purchased through iTunes, as though now suddenly all the people who own iPods will start ripping to lossless formats.
Here's a clue. Most of us DON'T CARE. Most people aren't going to buy different headphones than those that came with their iPod (much less high end headphones), so the difference in auditory quality between lossless and the iTMS files is going to be negligable. Likewise, a fair number of people use their iPod to play music on their car stereo, often through a cassette tape adapter or radio broadcaster, and most peoples' car stereos simply aren't capable of the fineness in sound reproduction that would allow the differences to be heard. It's primarily a PORTABLE music player, and in the vast majority of circumstances, the listener simply is not in a position to be able to tell the difference, and thus, the listener doesn't really care.
For audiophiles who have perfected their home stereo system, I doubt many of them would buy through iTunes even if lossless formats were available. This is just a hunch, but every single audiophile I've known has not just valued the sound quality, but also the more tangible aspects of having liner notes, album art, a big huge rack full of records or CDs. These things wouldn't go away if you could buy lossless format music off of iTunes.
-Jenn
The movies on iTunes isn't such a bad idea, IF the iPods were really capable of playing them all the way through on battery power. When I received my iPod for Christmas last year, I was initially excited, it meant that on plane trips, I could watch a movie of my choosing, without shilling out for an expensive and space-consuming DVD player. But then I saw that the maximum battery life for video playback was 2 hours. So in reality, it's likely less, which means no movies on those long trips unless I wanted to buy an expensive accessory.
You're comparing internet access (cable/DSL) with cellular access to data. Very different critters as far as pricing goes. Not really correct to compare apples and oranges.
Also, for what it's worth, most of the internet access providers DO have a cap on their "unlimited" access, you're just not likely to hit it unless you're downloading a fair amount of movies or other very large files.
Yes, but what happens when you have a situation of Denial of Service by Backhoe?
I'm not talking hypothetically. This actually happened at the hospital I worked at. We were a satellite hospital, all the primary patient data was at the main hospital. One of their construction workers severed their fibre, we all of a sudden had no patient information through our thin clients. In a computerized healthcare system, that can be crippling. Fortunately, though, we had a daily backup to a local HD for every single ward, so that all pertinent information (labs, diets, prescriptions, notes, etc.) could be pulled up, and it was a maximum of 24 hours old.
-Jenn
The Department of Veterans Affairs uses two systems, CPRS (Computerized Patient Record System) and VISTA (Veterans Integrated something something something) to manage all of their patient records and scheduling, and has been since at least 2001. These systems work pretty damned well, particularly in light of the VA being the largest health care provider in the nation.
I was just a lowly recreation therapy aide, but from what I can tell, each VISN (Veterans Integrated Service Network, VA-speak for "region") had its own server which kept all the CPRS and VISTA information, but you could hook into another VISN's system to pull up their records. Seemed to be a pretty good system.
Not sure why Kaiser is having so many frigging problems. If the government can manage to implement a pretty damned good computerized record system, why not a for-profit entity?
-Jenn
You'd think an economics student would realize that only very high end attorneys can bill at $500 an hour, and that those attorneys do NOT take home $500 per hour worked. For one thing, the money they bill has to pay for all sorts of things that are not directly billed for, such as their legal secretaries' wages (paralegals generally bill, legal secretaries rarely do), and general firm expenses, such as rent. Attorneys who are at the level where they are billing at $500 an hour also are frequently paid a set salary (not directly related to hours worked) as well as a portion of the firm's profit.
-Jenn
Ah, Antitrust. The movie that was blatantly anti-Microsoft. And so blatantly ridiculous when it came to tech. I'm a Windows using gal, but I know enough about the *nixes to be insulted when a movie attempts to claim that "mount" does the same thing as "ls."
And don't even get me started about how they drove the wrong way down Broadway in Portland.
News for nerds. Stuff that matters.
That means, well, more than just tech. Such as the ethical questions that come with tech. Deal with it.
That's why one keeps about a flask of vodka! Plus, it has the added bonus of being useable as fuel if one manages to run out of gas in the boonies.
Heh, water's not going to do much good in an aircooled VW.
Anyways, my car is remarkably reliable, in spite of its age, probably more reliable than many new cars. However, there are some things which really can't be fixed on the side of the road, and do require a call for help. Like the time I had all four lug nuts come off one wheel and scatter all over a highway (and yep, I always check them at every oil change, so I still have no clue how that happened).