I work for the VA, and one of my duties is to make ID cards...Somehow I doubt this is gonna happen anytime soon. I mean, heck, IDs aren't even standardized throughout the VA, each medical center has its own format. About a year ago they told us we'd have a new system in place "soon." Still don't have it.
There's a reason that many law firms STILL use WordPerfect 5.1 to this day, and that's 'cause Word is horrendous when it comes to heavily formatted documents.
And I'll never cease to get annoyed at its tendency to tack on a blank page at the end of any document where the text terminates near or at the end of a page.
Of course it can. A monopoly is simply having a stranglehold on a single market. Diversifying and expanding into other markets doesn't magically make your stranglehold on any single one market dissapear.
Chains of command exist for a reason. Whatever idiot used the cracked copy is responsible, but so is his supervisor, and THAT guy's supervisor, and on up to the guy at the very top. That's how things work. Ultimately, Microsoft IS at blame.
We've got the materials that can withstand that sorta pressure, just look at Alvin.
But the problem isn't the materials. It's that these sorts of things tend to be built by the lowest bidder. The best materials in the world don't mean squat when they're put together badly.
It always irked me that in psychology, research done for the basis of learning stuff and not really improving anything is referred to as "basic" research (in most other disciplines, it's referred to as "pure" research). Whether you call it pure or basic, this sort of research may not have any immediate uses, but it may very well be something that spurns someone to do some applied research.
And in all honesty, it would probably take a heck of a lot of windfarms to cause climate change, probably WAY more than that is necessary to supply energy or that are feasible to build. After all, you can't just put a wind farm anywhere, there are only certain spots where they're viable.
Yeah, but one could easily argue harnessing energy from the tides could change ocean currents, and, I hate to tell ya this, but ocean currents largely drive wind currents, so tidal flow-derived electricity could also cause global climate change.
It's not too unusual for entities unrelated to a case to file motions on the behalf of the people actually involved. Just one of the nifty aspects of our legal system, among a pile of not so nifty aspects.
I was on a flight from Detroit to Minneapolis to Portland. The flight had originally been scheduled as nonstop from Detroit to Minneapolis, but two weeks before the flight, I was e-mailed an itinerary changed. Apparently the direct flight was cancelled, and everyone scheduled on that flight got the Detroit/Minneapolis/Portland flight. While most people knew about the change a few weeks (or a few days, depending on how long they'd been out of touch and away from home), a few didn't find out until they got to the airport.
One very cranky young woman was asking the stewardess if there was any way she could call her boyfriend to let her boyfriend know she'd be a few hours later than planned, the stewardess explained that the airline had taken the skyphones out -- no one used them, so when the airplane was last reupholstered, they removed them. The woman asked if she could try her cell phone, the stewardess said yes, but she got no signal at 35,000 feet. Once we were on the ground she called again and had a fight that was oh so wonderful to overhear with her boyfriend.
The actual emissions put out per second might be lower. But that doesn't change the fact that the vehicle uses a LOT more gas to go the same distance, which means that it is indirectly causing more pollution, as it requires more crude to be refined into gasoline.
Ask anyone who's worked on a car recently, and you'll find that all cars, including American cars, are made with metric parts. In the case of American cars, there's often a mix of SAE and metric, but the majority is metric.
The way the law stands, no federal money can be used to do the studies. That does NOT mean that some group (in this case, a university) cannot receive funds just because it researches cloning. A university couldu se private funds (as was stated in the article) to research cloning and spend their federal funds on practically anything else they want to, for example, the effects of idiotic slashdot posters who don't bother to learn about what they're talking about.
For what it's worth...His rehab stint will probably last a month or two, provided that he can afford it (which I think is safe to presume) and that those in charge make sure he gets it.
No, I'm not a doctor. But I have been working in a Veteran's Affairs medical center for the past seven months, and this is based just on how long it generally takes patients to be discharged. The VA, unlike most places, actually makes sure that those patients who really need extensive rehab get it. Most people will only get a few weeks of therapy (and just go 2-3 times a week, an hour or two a session), in the unit I work in, patients stay anywhere from a week to three or four months, going to therapy atleast five days a week, 1-3 hours a day.
I'm a work study for the VA and work in a VA Medical Center...We've got some nurses who have made mistakes that have nearly killed patients, yet they still work there. As one nurse put it, it takes an act of God AND an act of Congress to get fired from the government...And that whole seperation of church and state thing makes it a bit hard for the two to get together.
Anyways. Let's see here, what's my experience with the computer people at my work...I need computer access to do my job, so I walk down to the building the computer people are in, and say I need access. They tell me I absolutely have to make an appointment and that I have to call a certain person's extension to do so. So I call that extension, leave a message with my name and phone number. I wait two days, nada. I call again. I end up calling 10 times in two weeks. NOTHING. My supervisor is getting pretty annoyed by now at having to let me use the computer while it's her logged in, and calls over to that extension and FINALLY gets a real person. She says my full name and how I need computer access NOW. The computer person says that she gave me computer access a week and a half ago. I say that if she did, she certainly didn't tell ME about it. Turns out the clueless person had given another person who had the same first name computer access, and didn't bother to see if the person calling (after she had supposedly given access to that person) had the same last name as the person who she'd given access to. Ugh.
Nope, not talking about radiation permeating the rock and being stored like a battery.
Rocks are made up of minerals. These minerals have very distinct crystalline structure. When magma undergoes lithification, or an existing rock metamorphism, crystals grow. The rate of growth depends on the rate of cooling and also the pressure the rock is under. It's not too hard to realize that you can take rocks of a certain age and look at their grain size and give a rough estimate of how warm they were at the time of crystallization.
Right now I'm working for a VA (Veteran's Administration) Medical Center, in a nursing unit. While they're moving to paperLESS, it's doubtful that they'll become paperFREE anytime soon.
In some ways, it's quite impressive how they use computers -- doctors and nurse practitioners put all their orders into the computer. Now when a doctor writes a prescription, it immediately shows up on a large LCD screen (called a "Bingo Board," incidentally) in the pharmacy, as well as in the unit the patient is in. When a patient gets an x-ray, there's no need for someone to walk the hard copies of the x-rays to whomever wants to see them, rather, the x-ray can be pulled up on the computers.
But there are other instances where paper will probably never be eliminated. The ward secretary will forever be scribbling notes when a person calls...Patients will still have to sign hard copies of their Advanced Directives.
But the VA is doing a good job of integrating the two mediums. While a hard copy of the patient's Advanced Directive is kept in their chart, the pertinent info is kept in the computer part of their chart, which is accessible from both inside and outside our ward (which is mighty convienant for people working in the emergency room), unlike the hard copy which is kept at our nurse's station.
First off, for any valuable item thta's being shipped, regardless of the company, it should always be insured for its full value.
Secondly, I personally wouldn't touch UPS with a twelve foot pole. I temped in law firms for a few years, and only ONE of them used UPS -- they represented a union that was involved with UPS. Every single other firm used FedEx. I've never had FedEx lose a package, but there have been numerous times when someone would send us something via UPS and it would show up late, or not at all. NOT a good thing in the legal business.
Actually, it makes perfect sense. A light year is not a light year. A year is how long it takes a planet to orbit around its sun. So a year for Jupiter is much longer than an Earth year. THus, if there were people on Jupiter, and they were to define light year, it would have a rather different definition than ours.
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Imagine the joy of being a young female geek and telling people online that you went to Beaverton High School...
And, yes, the mascot is the beaver.
I work for the VA, and one of my duties is to make ID cards...Somehow I doubt this is gonna happen anytime soon. I mean, heck, IDs aren't even standardized throughout the VA, each medical center has its own format. About a year ago they told us we'd have a new system in place "soon." Still don't have it.
Funny, all the court documents I've submitted have had some serious formatting going on that Word just does not handle adequately.
-Jenn
Um, yeah, what planet are you on?
There's a reason that many law firms STILL use WordPerfect 5.1 to this day, and that's 'cause Word is horrendous when it comes to heavily formatted documents.
And I'll never cease to get annoyed at its tendency to tack on a blank page at the end of any document where the text terminates near or at the end of a page.
-Jenn
Of course it can. A monopoly is simply having a stranglehold on a single market. Diversifying and expanding into other markets doesn't magically make your stranglehold on any single one market dissapear.
-Jenn
Chains of command exist for a reason. Whatever idiot used the cracked copy is responsible, but so is his supervisor, and THAT guy's supervisor, and on up to the guy at the very top. That's how things work. Ultimately, Microsoft IS at blame.
-Jenn
We've got the materials that can withstand that sorta pressure, just look at Alvin.
But the problem isn't the materials. It's that these sorts of things tend to be built by the lowest bidder. The best materials in the world don't mean squat when they're put together badly.
-Jenn
Who knows, there may be a good use for this.
It always irked me that in psychology, research done for the basis of learning stuff and not really improving anything is referred to as "basic" research (in most other disciplines, it's referred to as "pure" research). Whether you call it pure or basic, this sort of research may not have any immediate uses, but it may very well be something that spurns someone to do some applied research.
-Jenn
And in all honesty, it would probably take a heck of a lot of windfarms to cause climate change, probably WAY more than that is necessary to supply energy or that are feasible to build. After all, you can't just put a wind farm anywhere, there are only certain spots where they're viable.
Yeah, but one could easily argue harnessing energy from the tides could change ocean currents, and, I hate to tell ya this, but ocean currents largely drive wind currents, so tidal flow-derived electricity could also cause global climate change.
-Jenn
It's not too unusual for entities unrelated to a case to file motions on the behalf of the people actually involved. Just one of the nifty aspects of our legal system, among a pile of not so nifty aspects.
Anyone got any BSD related pumpkin carving patterns?
You can only do one process every 100 seconds? Talk about slow!
Yeah, two and a half hours is SO close.
Those of us here in Portland cower under Microsoft's presence.
By that logic, small children wouldn't be allowed to fly because they couldn't evacuate themselves.
-Jenn
I was on a flight from Detroit to Minneapolis to Portland. The flight had originally been scheduled as nonstop from Detroit to Minneapolis, but two weeks before the flight, I was e-mailed an itinerary changed. Apparently the direct flight was cancelled, and everyone scheduled on that flight got the Detroit/Minneapolis/Portland flight. While most people knew about the change a few weeks (or a few days, depending on how long they'd been out of touch and away from home), a few didn't find out until they got to the airport.
One very cranky young woman was asking the stewardess if there was any way she could call her boyfriend to let her boyfriend know she'd be a few hours later than planned, the stewardess explained that the airline had taken the skyphones out -- no one used them, so when the airplane was last reupholstered, they removed them. The woman asked if she could try her cell phone, the stewardess said yes, but she got no signal at 35,000 feet. Once we were on the ground she called again and had a fight that was oh so wonderful to overhear with her boyfriend.
-Jenn
The actual emissions put out per second might be lower. But that doesn't change the fact that the vehicle uses a LOT more gas to go the same distance, which means that it is indirectly causing more pollution, as it requires more crude to be refined into gasoline.
Ask anyone who's worked on a car recently, and you'll find that all cars, including American cars, are made with metric parts. In the case of American cars, there's often a mix of SAE and metric, but the majority is metric.
The way the law stands, no federal money can be used to do the studies. That does NOT mean that some group (in this case, a university) cannot receive funds just because it researches cloning. A university couldu se private funds (as was stated in the article) to research cloning and spend their federal funds on practically anything else they want to, for example, the effects of idiotic slashdot posters who don't bother to learn about what they're talking about.
-Jenn
For what it's worth...His rehab stint will probably last a month or two, provided that he can afford it (which I think is safe to presume) and that those in charge make sure he gets it.
No, I'm not a doctor. But I have been working in a Veteran's Affairs medical center for the past seven months, and this is based just on how long it generally takes patients to be discharged. The VA, unlike most places, actually makes sure that those patients who really need extensive rehab get it. Most people will only get a few weeks of therapy (and just go 2-3 times a week, an hour or two a session), in the unit I work in, patients stay anywhere from a week to three or four months, going to therapy atleast five days a week, 1-3 hours a day.
-Jenn
I'm a work study for the VA and work in a VA Medical Center...We've got some nurses who have made mistakes that have nearly killed patients, yet they still work there. As one nurse put it, it takes an act of God AND an act of Congress to get fired from the government...And that whole seperation of church and state thing makes it a bit hard for the two to get together.
Anyways. Let's see here, what's my experience with the computer people at my work...I need computer access to do my job, so I walk down to the building the computer people are in, and say I need access. They tell me I absolutely have to make an appointment and that I have to call a certain person's extension to do so. So I call that extension, leave a message with my name and phone number. I wait two days, nada. I call again. I end up calling 10 times in two weeks. NOTHING. My supervisor is getting pretty annoyed by now at having to let me use the computer while it's her logged in, and calls over to that extension and FINALLY gets a real person. She says my full name and how I need computer access NOW. The computer person says that she gave me computer access a week and a half ago. I say that if she did, she certainly didn't tell ME about it. Turns out the clueless person had given another person who had the same first name computer access, and didn't bother to see if the person calling (after she had supposedly given access to that person) had the same last name as the person who she'd given access to. Ugh.
-Jenn
Nope, not talking about radiation permeating the rock and being stored like a battery.
Rocks are made up of minerals. These minerals have very distinct crystalline structure. When magma undergoes lithification, or an existing rock metamorphism, crystals grow. The rate of growth depends on the rate of cooling and also the pressure the rock is under. It's not too hard to realize that you can take rocks of a certain age and look at their grain size and give a rough estimate of how warm they were at the time of crystallization.
-Jenn
Right now I'm working for a VA (Veteran's Administration) Medical Center, in a nursing unit. While they're moving to paperLESS, it's doubtful that they'll become paperFREE anytime soon.
In some ways, it's quite impressive how they use computers -- doctors and nurse practitioners put all their orders into the computer. Now when a doctor writes a prescription, it immediately shows up on a large LCD screen (called a "Bingo Board," incidentally) in the pharmacy, as well as in the unit the patient is in. When a patient gets an x-ray, there's no need for someone to walk the hard copies of the x-rays to whomever wants to see them, rather, the x-ray can be pulled up on the computers.
But there are other instances where paper will probably never be eliminated. The ward secretary will forever be scribbling notes when a person calls...Patients will still have to sign hard copies of their Advanced Directives.
But the VA is doing a good job of integrating the two mediums. While a hard copy of the patient's Advanced Directive is kept in their chart, the pertinent info is kept in the computer part of their chart, which is accessible from both inside and outside our ward (which is mighty convienant for people working in the emergency room), unlike the hard copy which is kept at our nurse's station.
-Jenn
First off, for any valuable item thta's being shipped, regardless of the company, it should always be insured for its full value.
Secondly, I personally wouldn't touch UPS with a twelve foot pole. I temped in law firms for a few years, and only ONE of them used UPS -- they represented a union that was involved with UPS. Every single other firm used FedEx. I've never had FedEx lose a package, but there have been numerous times when someone would send us something via UPS and it would show up late, or not at all. NOT a good thing in the legal business.
-Jenn
Actually, it makes perfect sense. A light year is not a light year. A year is how long it takes a planet to orbit around its sun. So a year for Jupiter is much longer than an Earth year. THus, if there were people on Jupiter, and they were to define light year, it would have a rather different definition than ours.
-Jenn