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> I don't like Rock and/or Roll music, so the download thing doesn't really appeal.
who said it only has rock and roll? From their site:
"The iTunes Music Store has virtually every category of music to choose from. And whatever your tastes in music are: Rock, Rap, Jazz, Blues, Pop, Latin, New Age, Folk, Inspirational, R&B, Reggae, Electronic, Classical or something in between -- chances are you'll find the tunes you're looking for."
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Oh yeah, I just checked my rejections list (I mean my submissions list), and forgot another one I had rejected: when Mr Rogers died. I mean _really_, that's just rude.
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Hardly a new trend - the same thing happened when I submitted the story about when the author of ping died, and various other 'important' stories. Trying to predict whether a story would be accepted on slashdot is an exercise in futility. I've officially stopped trying.
> What you need is the new continuous blood glucose monitor as HgA1c is a HISTORY, not a check of what is right now.
Uhm, that's what I said.
> Knowing what your blood sugar was 3 months ago (90 days is about the life of the blood cell that is used to check HgA1c) is invaluable in telling what your medications or diet regimen are doing or helping you make long term changes, but useless in knowing if you are having to much glucose or insulin RIGHT NOW.
That's why I said it should be used along WITH the spot checks. You shouldn't ignore the HbA1c, though, not at all. HbA1c is _very_ helpful if you are having spikes or dips in your glucose level that happen between testing times.
> Ok, maybe I shouldn't have said the book was a satire - but nor was it supposed to be a representation of an ideal. It's more an exploration of what things would be like if society was structured along somewhat different lines;
Exactly, not a satire, but a serious novel on serious subjects.
>they don't understand that Verhoven is presenting the material in the form of a rather subtle parody
It's about as subtle as Gallagher's Sledge-O-Matic, IMO. Being a fan of the novel doesn't necessarily mean being a fan of the ideas presented in the book. I don't think making a satirical version of the novel was the best way to present the story - at all. And why was it necessary to change Dizzy Flores into a female? Not that I mind watching Dina Meyer (ahh, the lamented Birds of Prey jigglefest. *sniff* I miss it so...), but it was just another example of unnecessary changes to a great novel. Some of the casting was great (with the exception of Doogie Howser, of course). Sgt. Zim & Lt. Rasczak - perfect casting. Denise Richards did well as Carmen, too. I don't know why people rag on her acting - she's not bad at all. Not great, mind, but there are FAR worse actors out there. How can you hate White She-Devil?!
I think Verhoeven's satiric retelling of the story is about as far from the real story as when Rico recites the words about citizenship as when he finally understands them at the end of the story.
The special effects of the movie were well-done, and it was really great to finally SEE the Rodger Young.
The book, however, was _not_ satire - far from it! The movie was made in the same style as Robocop, which is a _great_ movie, but it wasn't appropriate for such a serious novel as Starship Troopers.
I also wanted to see a major technical element of the fighting in the book - the battlesuits. I think the special effects technology is up to the task, now, if they wanted to spend the money. Unfortunately, I don't see any way in hell that anyone would spend the money necessary to remake Starship Troopers now.
I'd like to see someone remake "Starship Troopers" - the way it SHOULD have been done, not that god-awful parody Verhoeven (sp?) did. That thing was downright offensive.
I think a great thing to do would be to make Eddings' Belgariad and Mallorean - but that would take many movies. Not that I'd mind.
Some of Anne McCaffrey's "Pegasus" books would likely make for a nice series of movies, and certainly the Pern books would make for some great visuals - I'd _love_ to see those dragons and firelizards done well on the silver screen!
I'd like to see lots of Mercedes Lackey's stuff on the screen - especially her Serrated Edge books and the Valdemar books. The Serrated Edge books would make for some especially good movies, I think. The humour would translate very well.
I'd probably kill to see a well-done screen version of James Schmidt's "Witches of Karres".
Are they out of their friggin' minds? I'd rather keep poking teeny tiny little holes in the sides of my fingers than TOUCH MY EYEBALL, thank you very much.
In fact, I'd rather fight an Agent than touch my eyeball.
New high-tech, high-accuracy glucose monitors no longer use strips of paper coated with chemicals. My Bayer-made monitor has a little circuit board strip which measures the Glucose level in a tiny drop of blood (which it kinda 'sucks' in - pretty neat). Very cool, and much more accurate, and requires less blood.
Doesn't hurt? Ever? This could be bad. If you're lucky, your nerve endings aren't that dense, and thus it doesn't hurt, and/or maybe you're testing somewhere other than the tip of your finger (the commonly-advised place to do it by ignorant doctors & nurses).
If you're _not_ lucky (and since you have Diabetes, you clearly are not) then you may have some degree of peripheral neuropathy (loss of feeling). If you haven't already, you should get yourself checked out by a real honest-to-gnu endocrinologist, not just a regular doctor. Back when I had insurance, I was able to make my endocrinologist my primary care provider, which worked out great.
Back to the subject of testing pain, for those of you testing on the tip of your finger - cut that out! That's where some of the most dense collections of nerves live. Try it on the side of your finger (last segment) - works _much_ better in avoiding pain, but it's still luck of the draw - sometimes you'll hit a nerve, and there's nothing you can do about it. If you _never_ feel any pain when doing this, you may very well have a problem and should get it checked out ASAP.
I'm also Diabetic, and have lost my father and best friend to Diabetes. I took a really great Diabetes management class right after I diagnosed myself (and had it confirmed by a doctor) at the Seattle branch of the Joslin Diabetes clinic. It was a 4 day class that my insurance company paid for. I learned things about Diabetes that my father never knew after 35 years of Diabetes, and several of my classmates were old people who had had it for even longer and didn't know this stuff. Extremely valuable information, and anyone who has Diabetes, even if you think you know what's what, should find out if a local hospital or clinic has such a program. It would have been more than worth it even if I had had to pay for it myself.
It's not enough just to test your blood sugar now and then throughout the day, as it can rise and dip throughout the day between testing times, and you wouldn't know it if you only test during the same times of the day. What you need is an HbA1C test which will give you a sort of 'average'. Talk to your local endocrinologist. My local grocery store's drugstore actually offers HbA1C tests, now - weird. Also, test during different times of day, and vary measuring before and/or after meals, too. Find out what your body's doing! Think of it as a "level 3 diagnostic" if it makes you feel geekier. Plus carrying around another gadget to monitor your blood sugar makes you even geekier, yet. Too bad they don't make cool noises, but maybe a new 'case mod' craze can get started here. Overclock that glucose meter - instead of 20 seconds for a reading, you can do it in 10, w00t!;)
Also note, some people react differently to some foods than others do, so just because some food has a low # of carbohydrates doesn't necessary mean it's great for you, and vice-versa. Find out what YOUR body reacts well and badly to, and don't forget that eating JUST to keep your blood sugar low isn't enough - that would mean lots of meat which could adversely affect your health in other ways. I really pity vegetarian & Asian Diabetics. The poor Asian guy in my management class was so sad when he found out how awful rice is for Diabetics. He was completely flabbergasted.:(
Okay, that's enough for now. You may return to your regularly-scheduled surfing.
> But just because they are switching from offices to cubes does > not mean that the company is fucked, not at all.
Once the programmer's productivity goes down and management gets pissy about it, then the programmers start leaving in droves, trust me, the company is about to be fucked.
If they're making that much money, they should do up the new building right, ie: offices, NOT cubes. Perhaps taking that Joel on Software article to someone with authority, brains, and balls (if any such exist at said company) could turn this horrible, horrible decision around. Cheaper in the long run (much) to alter any plans already made at this early point.
If management won't listen to this kind of thing, then yet another reason to think the company will be fucked in the (near) future.
If there's absolutely no way around this, then have them consult with an acoustic engineering firm to minimize sound distraction. (the eagerness stupid managers will spend big money to fix a problem that could've been done for a tenth of the cost early on always amazes me, but may be a way to help in this situation)
I've always liked the idea of, when about to start a new project, the whole team of programmers going over the structure of the program, etc, before anything is coded. Everyone gets an opportunity to input good ideas and feel a part of the project.
I also worked at a web dev company once where people who had certain skills would give little classes in-house about their expertise, to help pass on their wisdom to others.
Let me get this straight, you're going FROM offices TO cubes?
Time to add your company to fuckedcompany.com, methinks. Put a 'SELL' on that those shares, too. Eek. My condolences on your upcoming loss of peace of mind.
A previous poster mentioned a ban on speakerphones, which is a great idea, but doesn't go far enough. Separate out the people who use the phones a lot (project managers, sales, etc.), and move them far, far away, otherwise you'll hear their ringing phones and phone conversations all day long. "Joel on Software" has a lot of strange ideas, but his essay on this topic is spot-on in my experience. Check it out here.
Make sure your new spiffy partitions are very high - as high as possible.
Make sure the ceiling absorbs sound. Dropped ceilings suck, but they do absorb more sound than the trendy 'industrial' bare concrete ceiling look.
Overhead lights - kill them. I had to get out the ladder and remove the fluourescent tubes multiple times before maintenance understood this point. $10 torchiere lamps from Ikea make for much better lighting.
If you want to try to avoid the asking for help syndrome, check out the software at AskMe.com - an interesting idea, though I've not used it. If not this, set up some type of knowledge base intranet.
Make sure people's phones can be set to "do not disturb".
If people listen to music at work, make them use headphones.
my favourite thing is when the errata page has fixes to errors that aren't even IN the book. Ugh.
A thought - it might be better to buy a book that is a second or later edition, rather than a first. My reasoning is that 1) the book was good enough (or at least sold well enough) to justify more than one edition, and 2) errors in the previous edition may be more likely to have been corrected in the subsequent edition(s).
For sure, check that the book (and the edition you're looking at) has an errata page at the publisher's (or author's) website before buying.
TEN BUCKS! You dawg. Maybe I should start scrounging around swapmeets...
I didn't know about the 15c - once I got my 11c (in 1985), I never really bothered looking at the calculator market again.:)
re: price of 11c's on eBay
Yeah, it's pretty frightening. Once mine gives up the ghost, I'll willingly pay those prices to get another, though. Hard to imagine HP doesn't see the market for 11c's. You'd think they could be made much cheaper with modern technology, too. I wouldn't mind a new version with a replaceable plastic display panel cover - they always get scratched up.
While he's suckering people like you with stuff that won't garner any real results for _decades_, he's effectively putting off transitioning our energy production into things that could be done _now_.
And you believe a guy whose family is heavily invested in the oil industry? Oooh, oooh, because he SAID so! I guess this depends on what the definitions of 'alternative' and 'fusion' are.
Get a grip, people. We can power our entire planet with 'alternative' technology we've had for decades. Anyone who has done even an afternoon's worth of research already knows this.
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That's just where the Reality Distortion Field(tm) meets Euclidian space. Think of it as a karmic wave front. :)
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> I don't like Rock and/or Roll music, so the download thing doesn't really appeal.
who said it only has rock and roll? From their site:
"The iTunes Music Store has virtually every category of music to choose from. And whatever your tastes in music are: Rock, Rap, Jazz, Blues, Pop, Latin, New Age, Folk, Inspirational, R&B, Reggae, Electronic, Classical or something in between -- chances are you'll find the tunes you're looking for."
Oh yeah, I just checked my rejections list (I mean my submissions list), and forgot another one I had rejected: when Mr Rogers died. I mean _really_, that's just rude.
I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit.
It's the only way to be sure.
Hardly a new trend - the same thing happened when I submitted the story about when the author of ping died, and various other 'important' stories. Trying to predict whether a story would be accepted on slashdot is an exercise in futility. I've officially stopped trying.
> What you need is the new continuous blood glucose monitor as HgA1c is a HISTORY, not a check of what is right now.
Uhm, that's what I said.
> Knowing what your blood sugar was 3 months ago (90 days is about the life of the blood cell that is used to check HgA1c) is invaluable in telling what your medications or diet regimen are doing or helping you make long term changes, but useless in knowing if you are having to much glucose or insulin RIGHT NOW.
That's why I said it should be used along WITH the spot checks. You shouldn't ignore the HbA1c, though, not at all. HbA1c is _very_ helpful if you are having spikes or dips in your glucose level that happen between testing times.
> Ok, maybe I shouldn't have said the book was a satire - but nor was it supposed to be a representation of an ideal. It's more an exploration of what things would be like if society was structured along somewhat different lines;
Exactly, not a satire, but a serious novel on serious subjects.
>they don't understand that Verhoven is presenting the material in the form of a rather subtle parody
It's about as subtle as Gallagher's Sledge-O-Matic, IMO. Being a fan of the novel doesn't necessarily mean being a fan of the ideas presented in the book. I don't think making a satirical version of the novel was the best way to present the story - at all. And why was it necessary to change Dizzy Flores into a female? Not that I mind watching Dina Meyer (ahh, the lamented Birds of Prey jigglefest. *sniff* I miss it so...), but it was just another example of unnecessary changes to a great novel. Some of the casting was great (with the exception of Doogie Howser, of course). Sgt. Zim & Lt. Rasczak - perfect casting. Denise Richards did well as Carmen, too. I don't know why people rag on her acting - she's not bad at all. Not great, mind, but there are FAR worse actors out there. How can you hate White She-Devil?!
I think Verhoeven's satiric retelling of the story is about as far from the real story as when Rico recites the words about citizenship as when he finally understands them at the end of the story.
The special effects of the movie were well-done, and it was really great to finally SEE the Rodger Young.
> IT'S A GODDAMN SATIRE!!! LIKE THE BOOK!
That's my problem with the movie - it's satire.
The book, however, was _not_ satire - far from it! The movie was made in the same style as Robocop, which is a _great_ movie, but it wasn't appropriate for such a serious novel as Starship Troopers.
I also wanted to see a major technical element of the fighting in the book - the battlesuits. I think the special effects technology is up to the task, now, if they wanted to spend the money. Unfortunately, I don't see any way in hell that anyone would spend the money necessary to remake Starship Troopers now.
I'd like to see someone remake "Starship Troopers" - the way it SHOULD have been done, not that god-awful parody Verhoeven (sp?) did. That thing was downright offensive.
I think a great thing to do would be to make Eddings' Belgariad and Mallorean - but that would take many movies. Not that I'd mind.
Some of Anne McCaffrey's "Pegasus" books would likely make for a nice series of movies, and certainly the Pern books would make for some great visuals - I'd _love_ to see those dragons and firelizards done well on the silver screen!
I'd like to see lots of Mercedes Lackey's stuff on the screen - especially her Serrated Edge books and the Valdemar books. The Serrated Edge books would make for some especially good movies, I think. The humour would translate very well.
I'd probably kill to see a well-done screen version of James Schmidt's "Witches of Karres".
Are they out of their friggin' minds? I'd rather keep poking teeny tiny little holes in the sides of my fingers than TOUCH MY EYEBALL, thank you very much.
In fact, I'd rather fight an Agent than touch my eyeball.
Sheesh.
New high-tech, high-accuracy glucose monitors no longer use strips of paper coated with chemicals. My Bayer-made monitor has a little circuit board strip which measures the Glucose level in a tiny drop of blood (which it kinda 'sucks' in - pretty neat). Very cool, and much more accurate, and requires less blood.
Doesn't hurt? Ever? This could be bad. If you're lucky, your nerve endings aren't that dense, and thus it doesn't hurt, and/or maybe you're testing somewhere other than the tip of your finger (the commonly-advised place to do it by ignorant doctors & nurses).
;)
:(
If you're _not_ lucky (and since you have Diabetes, you clearly are not) then you may have some degree of peripheral neuropathy (loss of feeling). If you haven't already, you should get yourself checked out by a real honest-to-gnu endocrinologist, not just a regular doctor. Back when I had insurance, I was able to make my endocrinologist my primary care provider, which worked out great.
Back to the subject of testing pain, for those of you testing on the tip of your finger - cut that out! That's where some of the most dense collections of nerves live. Try it on the side of your finger (last segment) - works _much_ better in avoiding pain, but it's still luck of the draw - sometimes you'll hit a nerve, and there's nothing you can do about it. If you _never_ feel any pain when doing this, you may very well have a problem and should get it checked out ASAP.
I'm also Diabetic, and have lost my father and best friend to Diabetes. I took a really great Diabetes management class right after I diagnosed myself (and had it confirmed by a doctor) at the Seattle branch of the Joslin Diabetes clinic. It was a 4 day class that my insurance company paid for. I learned things about Diabetes that my father never knew after 35 years of Diabetes, and several of my classmates were old people who had had it for even longer and didn't know this stuff. Extremely valuable information, and anyone who has Diabetes, even if you think you know what's what, should find out if a local hospital or clinic has such a program. It would have been more than worth it even if I had had to pay for it myself.
It's not enough just to test your blood sugar now and then throughout the day, as it can rise and dip throughout the day between testing times, and you wouldn't know it if you only test during the same times of the day. What you need is an HbA1C test which will give you a sort of 'average'. Talk to your local endocrinologist. My local grocery store's drugstore actually offers HbA1C tests, now - weird. Also, test during different times of day, and vary measuring before and/or after meals, too. Find out what your body's doing! Think of it as a "level 3 diagnostic" if it makes you feel geekier. Plus carrying around another gadget to monitor your blood sugar makes you even geekier, yet. Too bad they don't make cool noises, but maybe a new 'case mod' craze can get started here. Overclock that glucose meter - instead of 20 seconds for a reading, you can do it in 10, w00t!
Also note, some people react differently to some foods than others do, so just because some food has a low # of carbohydrates doesn't necessary mean it's great for you, and vice-versa. Find out what YOUR body reacts well and badly to, and don't forget that eating JUST to keep your blood sugar low isn't enough - that would mean lots of meat which could adversely affect your health in other ways. I really pity vegetarian & Asian Diabetics. The poor Asian guy in my management class was so sad when he found out how awful rice is for Diabetics. He was completely flabbergasted.
Okay, that's enough for now. You may return to your regularly-scheduled surfing.
> But just because they are switching from offices to cubes does
> not mean that the company is fucked, not at all.
Once the programmer's productivity goes down and management gets pissy about it, then the programmers start leaving in droves, trust me, the company is about to be fucked.
If they're making that much money, they should do up the new building right, ie: offices, NOT cubes. Perhaps taking that Joel on Software article to someone with authority, brains, and balls (if any such exist at said company) could turn this horrible, horrible decision around. Cheaper in the long run (much) to alter any plans already made at this early point.
If management won't listen to this kind of thing, then yet another reason to think the company will be fucked in the (near) future.
If there's absolutely no way around this, then have them consult with an acoustic engineering firm to minimize sound distraction. (the eagerness stupid managers will spend big money to fix a problem that could've been done for a tenth of the cost early on always amazes me, but may be a way to help in this situation)
Good luck.
You _have_ heard of Microsoft before, right?
The only way to convince Microsoft of anything would be to _buy_ Microsoft.
I've always liked the idea of, when about to start a new project, the whole team of programmers going over the structure of the program, etc, before anything is coded. Everyone gets an opportunity to input good ideas and feel a part of the project.
I also worked at a web dev company once where people who had certain skills would give little classes in-house about their expertise, to help pass on their wisdom to others.
Let me get this straight, you're going FROM offices TO cubes?
.
:)
Time to add your company to fuckedcompany.com, methinks. Put a 'SELL' on that those shares, too. Eek. My condolences on your upcoming loss of peace of mind.
A previous poster mentioned a ban on speakerphones, which is a great idea, but doesn't go far enough. Separate out the people who use the phones a lot (project managers, sales, etc.), and move them far, far away, otherwise you'll hear their ringing phones and phone conversations all day long. "Joel on Software" has a lot of strange ideas, but his essay on this topic is spot-on in my experience. Check it out here
Make sure your new spiffy partitions are very high - as high as possible.
Make sure the ceiling absorbs sound. Dropped ceilings suck, but they do absorb more sound than the trendy 'industrial' bare concrete ceiling look.
Overhead lights - kill them. I had to get out the ladder and remove the fluourescent tubes multiple times before maintenance understood this point. $10 torchiere lamps from Ikea make for much better lighting.
If you want to try to avoid the asking for help syndrome, check out the software at AskMe.com - an interesting idea, though I've not used it. If not this, set up some type of knowledge base intranet.
Make sure people's phones can be set to "do not disturb".
If people listen to music at work, make them use headphones.
Look for a new job is probably my best advice.
my favourite thing is when the errata page has fixes to errors that aren't even IN the book. Ugh.
A thought - it might be better to buy a book that is a second or later edition, rather than a first. My reasoning is that 1) the book was good enough (or at least sold well enough) to justify more than one edition, and 2) errors in the previous edition may be more likely to have been corrected in the subsequent edition(s).
For sure, check that the book (and the edition you're looking at) has an errata page at the publisher's (or author's) website before buying.
Medicine. Riiiiight.
TEN BUCKS! You dawg. Maybe I should start scrounging around swapmeets...
:)
I didn't know about the 15c - once I got my 11c (in 1985), I never really bothered looking at the calculator market again.
re: price of 11c's on eBay
Yeah, it's pretty frightening. Once mine gives up the ghost, I'll willingly pay those prices to get another, though. Hard to imagine HP doesn't see the market for 11c's. You'd think they could be made much cheaper with modern technology, too. I wouldn't mind a new version with a replaceable plastic display panel cover - they always get scratched up.
I don't know _what_ I'll do when my venerable HP11c finally bites the dust. I'm not a huge fan of the 12c.
I don't even like to _think_ about losing my 11c. *cringe*
Time to read a different Slashdot thread...
It's called "misdirection." Look it up.
While he's suckering people like you with stuff that won't garner any real results for _decades_, he's effectively putting off transitioning our energy production into things that could be done _now_.
> We can actually contain stuff for a few hundred years until it decays.
Sure, just look at our politicians...
And you believe a guy whose family is heavily invested in the oil industry? Oooh, oooh, because he SAID so! I guess this depends on what the definitions of 'alternative' and 'fusion' are.
Get a grip, people. We can power our entire planet with 'alternative' technology we've had for decades. Anyone who has done even an afternoon's worth of research already knows this.
"DOH!"