To head off a possible counter-point, a surgeon makes significantly more on average ($282,504 with >1 yr experience) but also has a massively higher level of responsibility and liability.
To put numbers on the liability part of it:
I have a friend who's an ENT (or OTO for people who haven't permanently adopted ENT already). He had a great practice and was well respected, with a clean record. He got an offer to buy a practice in another state, and accepted it when he found that his malpractice insurance would be $40,000 a year less than he was paying here.
I have no idea how much his local insurance cost, but I strongly doubt that it was $40,001.
o-chem is vitally important for medical students for the same reason basic electrical engineering classes on basic circuit design is important to us computer people.
I think my wife, a doctor, would tell you that o-chem is important for medical students in the same way that a thorough understand of quantum mechanics is important to us computer people. It's not. In practice, you're intensely interested in the the effects of those disciplines, but probably couldn't care less about the exact mechanisms.
Does a doctor need to know how Augmentin works to prescribe it, or is it sufficient to know its dosing and possible interactions, side effects, and adverse reactions? Does a computer guy need to know about the particular silicon doping in a Core 2, or can he get by knowing its performance and power ratings, plus a few errata to avoid?
Some people clearly need that level of specialized knowledge, but the huge majority of "normal" people in those fields don't need much beyond knowing that such things exist. What's the difference between NPN and PNP transistors? Darned if I know, but I can still build an ALU if I really needed to.
I want to stream music and video (but I'd settle for just music) to my Wii. I don't want to hack it, so my best bet is probably coming up with a web application to view with Opera on the Wii. I played with Jinzora for a while but never could the Wii part of it to work; I never could figure out how to start the Flash player that was supposed to handle everything.
So, dear Slashdotters, have any of you managed to play music or other media on a Wii from a Unix sever?
In July 2005, the average occupancy for buses in the UK was stated to be 9.
A diesel bus commuter service in Santa Barbara, CA, USA found average diesel bus efficiency of 6.0 mpg (using MCI 102DL3 buses). With all 55 seats filled this equates to 330 passenger-mpg, with 70% filled the efficiency would be 231 passenger-mpg.
Combining those, a diesel bus in Santa Barbara with 9 passengers would get 54 passenger-mpg, which is about equal to our minivan with two passengers. I wander what Santa Barbara's average occupancy is, compared to the ideal.
Nope. I laugh at a lot of pretty odd things, but I just didn't get these at all. Like the part about Bill's magnum Jupiter brain? That just made me cringe.
If you cannot even get the number of valves right, how can you be so sure about your gas mileage figures?
OK, that's not fair. I don't agree with mcgrew, but it's perfectly possible to know one and not the other. I have no idea what engine's in my wife's Sienna minivan, but I can tell you that we got 25.8 miles per gallon on the last road trip, averaged over 2,200 miles.
If you don't want people to find your website, don't register a domain.
And if you do, don't link it directly from your boss's website. It's not like this was some stealth operation (not that it would have made a difference).
You assume a great many things:
3) That the city is large enough to justify hiring a sysadmin. (according to Wikipedia, it's only 50,000 people)
Ummm, what? My city only has about 25,000, or maybe less since the chicken plant closed (no, I'm not joking), but I eat lunch with the city sysadmin once a month or so. The payroll systems have to run on something, you know. He's also handling the fiber optic rollout and conversion of the city government phone lines to VOIP.
A 50,000-employee company would have significant IT needs. A city that size will have many of the same needs.
Politicians and other public figures would rather their mugshot be boring and unremarkable, like they're smiling for just another photo. A scowling, haggard mugshot is perfect for front page in the newspaper.
So what do I do if I've only got a/64 from my ISP but I want to segregate unsecured wireless, secured wireless, and wired?
Unless I'm mistaken, the standard says that end users are to receive/48 netblocks (which are what I have at home and work). Since the ISP is responsible for bits 0-47 and autoconfig uses 64-127, you get bits 48-63 to use for subnetting. For instance, my home allocation is 2001:470:a80a::/48. I assigned 2001:470:a80a:1::/64 to my LAN, 2001:470:a80a:2::/64 to my Wi-Fi, etc.
You too, huh? One Christmas morning, my Boston Terrier ate my entire box of chocolate covered cherries. There were no noticeable signs or symptoms that she'd done anything unusual - said dog was pretty spastic anyway.
I think that's on the list of things that "everyone knows", even if most people have had the same counter experience.
There is a reason all chemistry beakers, bottles, and flasks are made from glass, its the only cheap inert material that doesn't on some level mix with what you are containing.
Since the same physical device performs both functions I thought that it's almost the same (that is - you can have a firewall without NAT, but not NAT without firewall).
Well, you see them lumped together pretty often and that's let to much of the confusion. You can have NAT without firewall although it's not commonly seen. NAT by itself is security through obscurity. It's not a bad thing by any means, but so often you hear phrases like "safely behind a NAT", and that makes me cringe.
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To head off a possible counter-point, a surgeon makes significantly more on average ($282,504 with >1 yr experience) but also has a massively higher level of responsibility and liability.
To put numbers on the liability part of it:
I have a friend who's an ENT (or OTO for people who haven't permanently adopted ENT already). He had a great practice and was well respected, with a clean record. He got an offer to buy a practice in another state, and accepted it when he found that his malpractice insurance would be $40,000 a year less than he was paying here.
I have no idea how much his local insurance cost, but I strongly doubt that it was $40,001.
o-chem is vitally important for medical students for the same reason basic electrical engineering classes on basic circuit design is important to us computer people.
I think my wife, a doctor, would tell you that o-chem is important for medical students in the same way that a thorough understand of quantum mechanics is important to us computer people. It's not. In practice, you're intensely interested in the the effects of those disciplines, but probably couldn't care less about the exact mechanisms.
Does a doctor need to know how Augmentin works to prescribe it, or is it sufficient to know its dosing and possible interactions, side effects, and adverse reactions? Does a computer guy need to know about the particular silicon doping in a Core 2, or can he get by knowing its performance and power ratings, plus a few errata to avoid?
Some people clearly need that level of specialized knowledge, but the huge majority of "normal" people in those fields don't need much beyond knowing that such things exist. What's the difference between NPN and PNP transistors? Darned if I know, but I can still build an ALU if I really needed to.
That's Windows-only, so I can't use it.
I found it about six months ago, which is why I mentioned it in my post. ;-)
The idea is great, but that's only for Windows.
I want to stream music and video (but I'd settle for just music) to my Wii. I don't want to hack it, so my best bet is probably coming up with a web application to view with Opera on the Wii. I played with Jinzora for a while but never could the Wii part of it to work; I never could figure out how to start the Flash player that was supposed to handle everything.
So, dear Slashdotters, have any of you managed to play music or other media on a Wii from a Unix sever?
So can Ray sue them for professional libel for stating that all of his claims are baseless?
There are two sad numbers in the section about buses:
Combining those, a diesel bus in Santa Barbara with 9 passengers would get 54 passenger-mpg, which is about equal to our minivan with two passengers. I wander what Santa Barbara's average occupancy is, compared to the ideal.
Maybe it's just my love of absurd humour.
Nope. I laugh at a lot of pretty odd things, but I just didn't get these at all. Like the part about Bill's magnum Jupiter brain? That just made me cringe.
We give billions to everybody, so, no.
PHP has probably the best documentation of an language thanks to PHP.net.
It had to:
Not many people can memorize nearly 5,200 functions.
I don't work for DoD. I work for a company that has a lot of interactions with DoD.
If you cannot even get the number of valves right, how can you be so sure about your gas mileage figures?
OK, that's not fair. I don't agree with mcgrew, but it's perfectly possible to know one and not the other. I have no idea what engine's in my wife's Sienna minivan, but I can tell you that we got 25.8 miles per gallon on the last road trip, averaged over 2,200 miles.
Umm, I'm American. I don't think we have those yet.
Wow. I need to have more kids so that my gas mileage will increase.
My current car is a Crysler Concorde with a fuel injected 28 valve V-6 engine.
Which four cylinders get an extra valve?
Who, me or cl0s? I usually get more "funny" than "informative", so I hope I'm not totally bland.
If you don't want people to find your website, don't register a domain.
And if you do, don't link it directly from your boss's website. It's not like this was some stealth operation (not that it would have made a difference).
You assume a great many things:
3) That the city is large enough to justify hiring a sysadmin. (according to Wikipedia, it's only 50,000 people)
Ummm, what? My city only has about 25,000, or maybe less since the chicken plant closed (no, I'm not joking), but I eat lunch with the city sysadmin once a month or so. The payroll systems have to run on something, you know. He's also handling the fiber optic rollout and conversion of the city government phone lines to VOIP.
A 50,000-employee company would have significant IT needs. A city that size will have many of the same needs.
Politicians and other public figures would rather their mugshot be boring and unremarkable, like they're smiling for just another photo. A scowling, haggard mugshot is perfect for front page in the newspaper.
So what do I do if I've only got a /64 from my ISP but I want to segregate unsecured wireless, secured wireless, and wired?
Unless I'm mistaken, the standard says that end users are to receive /48 netblocks (which are what I have at home and work). Since the ISP is responsible for bits 0-47 and autoconfig uses 64-127, you get bits 48-63 to use for subnetting. For instance, my home allocation is 2001:470:a80a::/48. I assigned 2001:470:a80a:1::/64 to my LAN, 2001:470:a80a:2::/64 to my Wi-Fi, etc.
Son, the GP was likely working in IT before you were born...
Hey, I'm not that old! Although now that you mention it, I first started hosting a BBS using software that I wrote for the C=64 in about 1983.
Dang. Please excuse me while I go search for my Geritol.
You too, huh? One Christmas morning, my Boston Terrier ate my entire box of chocolate covered cherries. There were no noticeable signs or symptoms that she'd done anything unusual - said dog was pretty spastic anyway.
I think that's on the list of things that "everyone knows", even if most people have had the same counter experience.
There is a reason all chemistry beakers, bottles, and flasks are made from glass, its the only cheap inert material that doesn't on some level mix with what you are containing.
Ummm....
Since the same physical device performs both functions I thought that it's almost the same (that is - you can have a firewall without NAT, but not NAT without firewall).
Well, you see them lumped together pretty often and that's let to much of the confusion. You can have NAT without firewall although it's not commonly seen. NAT by itself is security through obscurity. It's not a bad thing by any means, but so often you hear phrases like "safely behind a NAT", and that makes me cringe.