Which may be one of the reasons countries reject these laptops. Regressive ideologies, particularly the ones that think women are only good for babies tend to reject that kind of knowledge.
Uh, yeah. India is run by a regressive ideology that restricts access to computers and the Internet in order to suppress feminism. You guys are obsessed with the prospect of losing your jobs to them, but as soon as they're insufficiently besotted with Linux (or insufficiently anti-Microsoft), they're Talibanistic Luddite savages.
And is it me again, or do we almost never hear about these promising treatments years later?...Not that I would begrudge them that if they actually come through with a halfway effective drug.
There are several halfway effective treatments for Alzheimer's (Aricept, Exelon, Razadyne) although there's considerable room for improvement. The reason you only hear about wildly exaggerated "breakthroughs" is probably because you get your news about science here, and the editors are enthusiastic but completely lacking the slightest context with which to evaluate the significance of the press releases versus another.
(Also, most of the readership is young, and fortunately has no experience with pharmaceutical products except those they've seen on television, and is therefore unaware that anything exists besides Viagra and Cialis.)
I think we can expect to be seeing this on The Daily WTF in two or three years. "When Jeff was assigned to maintain a system that produced Excel reports from a database, he never imagined..."
No, if they were serious they would have made it distro and packaging tool agnostic.
If they did that, what would an LSB-compliant system have to look like? It would completely defeat the purpose of having the standard in the first place.
Yeah, you don't see it in those pictures, because they're shot (reasonably enough) from below, not from an office window above and head-on to the hawk. This one comes closest to catching it.
Forgot to note that my mental image upon reading "Sharovipteryx" was of a blonde, tennis-playing, flying dinosaur, a lot hotter than you'd expect such a creature to be.
There's a red-tail hawk that hangs out over (or lives in) our office complex. Whenever I'm at the airport, I'm always struck by how similar his wingtips are to those on the CRJ-700.
In fact, given the general trend that smaller companies tend to grow faster than large onces, you would expect the data to look like this even if there is no intrinsic correlation between CEO pay and corporate performance.
I think that's a big part of it, and doing the analysis in a boom year like 2005 compounds your point.
Tell me where can I can download the human genome sequence?
I'm not going to assault their server by linking a gigantic file on Slashdot, but you absolutely can download it freely. If you're curious, it should be easy to find with a little searching, or ask in one of my journal entries if you really want to know.
In biomedical research, while the university typically owns developed IP, the professor and inventors usually get a cut. No one ever explained how the cuts are apportioned, but I do know several people who get hundreds or thousands of dollars a year in royalties well after leaving grad school. I haven't seen a dime, personally, despite being promised royalties, but my freedom is worth more than anything I developed.
I don't think this is as much a "refutation" as it is three people's assertion countering some other guy's assertion. Since the one guy is richer than the other three put together, I'd say the burden of proof is on them.
Ironically, the most danger I've faced during that time was in Vancouver. Don't think it was political, though, unless a junkie can judge my nationality from my bald spot.
As cherished as this notion is among Canadians in particular (after all traveling the world with an enormous maple leaf on your pack and every article of clothing is just the epitome of class and good taste), I've been to four continents in the last year and a half, and have never encountered a shred of anti-Americanism. This whole issue is nonsense driven by 1) idiot Americans who have never left the country, 2) idiot Americans projecting their own disdain for their neighbors onto foreigners and 3) Canadians. Anyway, even if you're concerned about this stuff, why not travel, make a good impression and improve the US's image.
Meanwhile I see some guy here (you'll never guess from what country!) spinning a story of Americans pretending to be Canadian ON A CARIBBEAN FREAKING CRUISE! I'm sorry, if you're that stupid, don't leave home.
The idea of punitive damages is to, well, punish the guilty. It does not matter, where the money goes -- the consumers benefit from the companies' not doing it again.
Punitive damages should be paid to the government, with no lawyers' cut. Then we'd see how concerned the plaintiffs and lawyers really are about serving humanity through lawsuits.
Please mod up, print out and tape to my sysadmins' foreheads.
Seriously, this must be the most stupid advice I've seen and it's currently +2, Insightful. Scary.
Even scarier was the training class where the instructor *told* us to trivially rotate passwords!
(The one thing I'd add is that the idea that adding complexity can't hurt is completely misguided. Every new chore you add to password maintenance means that many more passwords on a post-it under the keyboard.)
1) The problem with Maoism isn't collectivism per se, it's killing everybody who gets in the way of the collectivist scheme. Until some megacidal Web 2.0-based regime starts killing everyone with individual expertise, I don't see what the problem is.
2) I think there's a generational gap here. People with a certain degree of familiarity with the Internet take for granted that there's a certain percentage of error, stupidity and lying out there, and weight what they read accordingly. But others have expectations of an encyclopedia that include its being 100% goatse.cx free.
3) (And I don't feel like changing the subject header.) Who the hell cares what Jaron Lanier thinks, except for other Wired-ish blowhards?
That's yet another ridiculous part of this story. This mysterious "state agency" has the power to invoke the Patriot Act to access Facebook pages and decided that this kid's page constituted a security risk -- but they hire him anyway because the kid's mom knows someone there!
It's not likely they'd do that thorough of an investigation, unless the job required Top Secret (unlikely for an internship).
And at a state agency? Either it's something like what you're speculating and the interviewer was lying or joking or this whole sketchy story is just bogus. I'm guessing the latter.
How can a 'state agency' use the Patriot Act to subpoena a Facebook profile?
Perhaps a more useful way of investigating this question would be to ask whether there's a single verifiable fact that could be found regarding this story of an unnamed student, an unnamed interviewer and an unnamed agency?
On a related note: "Behind the Glass Curtain:
Google's new headquarters balances its utopian desire for transparency with its very real need for privacy."
I'm still waiting for pictures of the "party plane", though.
Given the spaghetti already under the hood of the Notes client (saving ("detaching") a single attachment and saving multiple attachments seem to go through different APIs, and open dialog boxes in two different toolkits), I wonder whether "based on the Eclipse open-source framework" will be an improvement or just an even worse nightmare.
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Uh, yeah. India is run by a regressive ideology that restricts access to computers and the Internet in order to suppress feminism. You guys are obsessed with the prospect of losing your jobs to them, but as soon as they're insufficiently besotted with Linux (or insufficiently anti-Microsoft), they're Talibanistic Luddite savages.
There are several halfway effective treatments for Alzheimer's (Aricept, Exelon, Razadyne) although there's considerable room for improvement. The reason you only hear about wildly exaggerated "breakthroughs" is probably because you get your news about science here, and the editors are enthusiastic but completely lacking the slightest context with which to evaluate the significance of the press releases versus another.
(Also, most of the readership is young, and fortunately has no experience with pharmaceutical products except those they've seen on television, and is therefore unaware that anything exists besides Viagra and Cialis.)
I think we can expect to be seeing this on The Daily WTF in two or three years. "When Jeff was assigned to maintain a system that produced Excel reports from a database, he never imagined..."
If they did that, what would an LSB-compliant system have to look like? It would completely defeat the purpose of having the standard in the first place.
Yeah, you don't see it in those pictures, because they're shot (reasonably enough) from below, not from an office window above and head-on to the hawk. This one comes closest to catching it.
Forgot to note that my mental image upon reading "Sharovipteryx" was of a blonde, tennis-playing, flying dinosaur, a lot hotter than you'd expect such a creature to be.
There's a red-tail hawk that hangs out over (or lives in) our office complex. Whenever I'm at the airport, I'm always struck by how similar his wingtips are to those on the CRJ-700.
I think that's a big part of it, and doing the analysis in a boom year like 2005 compounds your point.
As I understood Hoehrmann's message, his complaint is insufficient budget for full-time developers and testers, and to keep the validator running.
I'm not going to assault their server by linking a gigantic file on Slashdot, but you absolutely can download it freely. If you're curious, it should be easy to find with a little searching, or ask in one of my journal entries if you really want to know.
1) Ultraseek, Harvest and a bunch of other godawful engines that were barely considered adequate in 1995
2) Google
Maybe the Microsoft guy was making a joking reference to Under Armour ads...?
In biomedical research, while the university typically owns developed IP, the professor and inventors usually get a cut. No one ever explained how the cuts are apportioned, but I do know several people who get hundreds or thousands of dollars a year in royalties well after leaving grad school. I haven't seen a dime, personally, despite being promised royalties, but my freedom is worth more than anything I developed.
I don't think this is as much a "refutation" as it is three people's assertion countering some other guy's assertion. Since the one guy is richer than the other three put together, I'd say the burden of proof is on them.
Ironically, the most danger I've faced during that time was in Vancouver. Don't think it was political, though, unless a junkie can judge my nationality from my bald spot.
Meanwhile I see some guy here (you'll never guess from what country!) spinning a story of Americans pretending to be Canadian ON A CARIBBEAN FREAKING CRUISE! I'm sorry, if you're that stupid, don't leave home.
Punitive damages should be paid to the government, with no lawyers' cut. Then we'd see how concerned the plaintiffs and lawyers really are about serving humanity through lawsuits.
Seriously, this must be the most stupid advice I've seen and it's currently +2, Insightful. Scary.
Even scarier was the training class where the instructor *told* us to trivially rotate passwords!
(The one thing I'd add is that the idea that adding complexity can't hurt is completely misguided. Every new chore you add to password maintenance means that many more passwords on a post-it under the keyboard.)
1) The problem with Maoism isn't collectivism per se, it's killing everybody who gets in the way of the collectivist scheme. Until some megacidal Web 2.0-based regime starts killing everyone with individual expertise, I don't see what the problem is.
2) I think there's a generational gap here. People with a certain degree of familiarity with the Internet take for granted that there's a certain percentage of error, stupidity and lying out there, and weight what they read accordingly. But others have expectations of an encyclopedia that include its being 100% goatse.cx free.
3) (And I don't feel like changing the subject header.) Who the hell cares what Jaron Lanier thinks, except for other Wired-ish blowhards?
Maybe I'm missing something, but why the hell are you asking us?
That's yet another ridiculous part of this story. This mysterious "state agency" has the power to invoke the Patriot Act to access Facebook pages and decided that this kid's page constituted a security risk -- but they hire him anyway because the kid's mom knows someone there!
And at a state agency? Either it's something like what you're speculating and the interviewer was lying or joking or this whole sketchy story is just bogus. I'm guessing the latter.
Perhaps a more useful way of investigating this question would be to ask whether there's a single verifiable fact that could be found regarding this story of an unnamed student, an unnamed interviewer and an unnamed agency?
I'm still waiting for pictures of the "party plane", though.
Given the spaghetti already under the hood of the Notes client (saving ("detaching") a single attachment and saving multiple attachments seem to go through different APIs, and open dialog boxes in two different toolkits), I wonder whether "based on the Eclipse open-source framework" will be an improvement or just an even worse nightmare.