Who is going to maintain this after you leave? Are you making a firm commitment to provide maintenance in the long term? If so, your off-site VPS solution with a web front end may be appropriate. If not, and there is no local IT expertise at the charity, something self-contained that needs only a single consumer software package to work (Access, Libreoffice Base, even an Excel or Calc workbook) has a better chance of remaining useful when you're gone. Since this is personal data, have you considered how the local law may affect how the data must be stored, secured and accessed? e.g:
"A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect? And he will probably ask himself two more: 1. Could I put it more shortly? 2. Have I said anything that is avoidably ugly? But you are not obliged to go to all this trouble. You can shirk it by simply throwing your mind open and letting the ready-made phrases come crowding in. They will construct your sentences for you -- even think your thoughts for you, to a certain extent -- and at need they will perform the important service of partially concealing your meaning even from yourself. It is at this point that the special connection between politics and the debasement of language becomes clear."
His parody of a 'translation' of Ecclesiastes 9:11 into pretentious and imprecise modern jargon is priceless:
"Now that I have made this catalogue of swindles and perversions, let me give another example of the kind of writing that they lead to. This time it must of its nature be an imaginary one. I am going to translate a passage of good English into modern English of the worst sort. Here is a well-known verse from Ecclesiastes:
I returned and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Here it is in modern English:
Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invariably be taken into account."
Simple enough. Skip the clock entirely, and let the battery itself be the "clock". The battery dies, and the device no longer operates. It's not particularly difficult to design a system with an embedded, non-rechargable battery that lasts for a specified lifespan. There may be some variability in that time, but you can get close enough this way to kill off neglected devices by a certian point.
Take out 'non-rechargeable' and this is pretty much Apple's business model.
The WSJ is marginally more informative on the contents:
"The content consists mainly of newer bestsellers and public-domain classics, as well as titles from the Navy reading list and other texts for professional development. Since publishing partners include Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, Hachette and Random House, the lineup is impressive, ranging from contemporary fiction such as A Game of Thrones and The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo, bestselling non-fiction such as The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, and bonafide nerd favorites including The Lord of the Rings series, Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game, and Stephen King's The Stand."
Anyone have a list, or is it classified? Is 'Mutiny on the Bounty' allowed?
They aren't in it to make the world a better place. They are in it for the money. And so it is perfectly logical for them to take as much as they can get.
The publishers, or the students aiming to become lawyers..?
It came with a little USB adapter with a 3.5mm plug in the other end. It was bundled with a cheap USB sound card and recorded analog audio directly on the device. That's the last Sony product I owned.
Their recorders were capable of digital input, and some of the more expensive Sony kits came with true digital USB->TOSLINK adapters - a shame they cheaped out with analogue adapters lower down the range. There'd still be a (real time!) digital format conversion if your music was already in mp3, of course, though at that point I was generally ripping straight from a CD player with optical output. The amount of music you could store (and even the battery life, surprisingly) really was a big advantage over the early flash-based mp3 players, and the first attempts at hard disk players were large and ugly. I didn't move to mp3 until there were 40Gb iPods (and even then, missed the MiniDisc battery life, which Apple didn't catch up with for several years).
The obesity problem is best understood not as the result of the overconsumption of a single macronutrient, but from a skewing of the proportion of each macronutrient in our diet - notably the dwindling quantity of protein in processed food products. The paucity of protein relative to fats and carbohydrates in processed foods drives the overconsumption of total energy as our bodies seek to maintain a target level of protein intake.
Reminds me of' Sable / Famine's pre-apocalyptic fast food business in 'Good Omens':
"Two years of Newtrition investment and research had produced CHOW(TM). CHOW(TM) contained spun, plaited, and woven protein molecules, capped and coded, carefully designed to be ignored by even the most ravenous digestive tract enzymes; no-cal sweeteners; mineral oils replacing vegetable oils; fibrous materials, colorings, and flavorings. The end result was a foodstuff almost indistinguishable from any other except for two things. Firstly, the price, which was slightly higher, and secondly, the nutritional content, which was roughly equivalent to that of a Sony Walkman...MEALS(TM) was Sable's latest brainwave. MEALS(TM) was CHOW(TM) with added sugar and fat. The theory was that if you ate enough MEALS(TM) you would a) get very fat, and b) die of malnutrition. The paradox delighted Sable."
In light of some of the changes that have caused some huge controversies (having the window buttons on the right vs left is straight out of Gulliver's), maybe you mean "ignoring the very vocal minority who reject innovation, either from a need to feel elite or fear of change".
Moving the window buttons to the left is 'innovation'?
"It's just complete nonsense, anyone working with smartphones at the time was completely unfazed by the iPhone - the first edition wasn't entirely dissimilar (and was notable underfeatured compared to) offerings from companies like Nokia, and HP with their iPaq phones.
Though 'nobody expected anything remotely like the epoch shifting device' is over the top, the main point is hardly complete nonsense. Most of the speculation was indeed heavily influenced by the iPod and older style smartphones:
"James Anderson, director of the NIHâ(TM)s Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives, which administered the CRM, counters that only one application - that made by Kapil Bharti of the National Eye Institute in Bethesda and his colleagues - received a high enough score from an external review board to justify continued funding."
You can take this at face value, or assume academic politics, but it doesn't seem like party politics.
"I took a speed reading course where you run your finger down the middle of the page and was able to read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It's about Russia."
"An unofficial Physics World ranking that lists departments according to their average research score shows Lancaster on top and Cambridge close behind. Both departments also received the maximum 5* rating in the last RAE in 2001, but the other 5* departments - Oxford, Southampton and Imperial College London - fell outside the top 10 this time round. "
People (and genetic risks) are different. One person's 'making the most of my time left' is another's 'spending decades with the constant threat of a terrible disease blighting my life'. In Jim Watson's case, he was already at an age where presumably he'd made adequate provision for his loved ones (the link is with late, rather than early onset dementia). Knowing that he might be at increased (but very far from absolute) risk of losing his mental faculties late in life wasn't useful information to him, but might have led him to worry about something he could do nothing about. It's not hard to think of other scenarios where an individual may make the (perfectly valid) choice to not know everything about his genome.
I doubt anyone is going to force you to know your faulty DNA, but opting out of knowing if given the choice is just stupid, and potentially very expensive - because you will change your mind on having that treatment once the symptoms appear, which might very well be too late.
What if there is no effective treatment? James Watson, co-discoverer of the DNA structure and one of the first people to have his entire genome sequenced, chose not to know the sequence of his APOE gene, some variants of which have been linked to an increased risk of late onset Alzheimer's disease.
wasn't there a discovery that determined if you were likely to commit a crime? Or be serial killer or something like that?
How did that work out / what ever happened with it?
90% of murderers, and 99% of convicted rapists, have a copy of the SRY gene, which is much higher than its frequency in the general population (about 50%). SRY has been linked with aggressive behaviour, autism, and a preference for large, fast cars.
This "academic bioinformatics institute" is an LCC, not an actual academic institution:) Its a scam.
They claim to be a "non-for-profit research and development organization". They have a respectable list of publications, all the way up to co-authorship in a Nature paper, so doesn't look like a scam!:
Interesting that the main investor in this operation (and apparently the chip design) seems to be an academic bioinformatics institute in Poland: http://bioinfo.pl/
No, the results are not disproven and certainly not shown to be fabricated, though you could be forgiven for thinking otherwise after the feeding frenzy about this paper on the internet. There are certainly grounds for scepticism, though. We'll have to wait until this has been thoroughly tested using the more detailed protocols that have now been made available before we can call it one way or the other.
"It's going to be an awful lot of work, with the result that not all systems will be supported, new bugs introduced and what's the gain for the end user exactly?
Total refactoring is not a solution. It's much better to improve what we have. Perhaps with some small refactorings specifically aimed at making Vim work better for users."
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Who is going to maintain this after you leave? Are you making a firm commitment to provide maintenance in the long term? If so, your off-site VPS solution with a web front end may be appropriate. If not, and there is no local IT expertise at the charity, something self-contained that needs only a single consumer software package to work (Access, Libreoffice Base, even an Excel or Calc workbook) has a better chance of remaining useful when you're gone. Since this is personal data, have you considered how the local law may affect how the data must be stored, secured and accessed? e.g:
https://uprdoc.ohchr.org/uprwe...
"Politics and the English Language", George Orwell.
Mod this up!:
https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad...
"A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect? And he will probably ask himself two more: 1. Could I put it more shortly? 2. Have I said anything that is avoidably ugly? But you are not obliged to go to all this trouble. You can shirk it by simply throwing your mind open and letting the ready-made phrases come crowding in. They will construct your sentences for you -- even think your thoughts for you, to a certain extent -- and at need they will perform the important service of partially concealing your meaning even from yourself. It is at this point that the special connection between politics and the debasement of language becomes clear."
His parody of a 'translation' of Ecclesiastes 9:11 into pretentious and imprecise modern jargon is priceless:
"Now that I have made this catalogue of swindles and perversions, let me give another example of the kind of writing that they lead to. This time it must of its nature be an imaginary one. I am going to translate a passage of good English into modern English of the worst sort. Here is a well-known verse from Ecclesiastes:
I returned and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Here it is in modern English:
Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invariably be taken into account."
Simple enough. Skip the clock entirely, and let the battery itself be the "clock". The battery dies, and the device no longer operates. It's not particularly difficult to design a system with an embedded, non-rechargable battery that lasts for a specified lifespan. There may be some variability in that time, but you can get close enough this way to kill off neglected devices by a certian point.
Take out 'non-rechargeable' and this is pretty much Apple's business model.
In TFA, they claim 4.5 billion unique users, and that this number has only gone up by 5% since 2011.
The WSJ is marginally more informative on the contents:
"The content consists mainly of newer bestsellers and public-domain classics, as well as titles from the Navy reading list and other texts for professional development. Since publishing partners include Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, Hachette and Random House, the lineup is impressive, ranging from contemporary fiction such as A Game of Thrones and The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo, bestselling non-fiction such as The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, and bonafide nerd favorites including The Lord of the Rings series, Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game, and Stephen King's The Stand."
Anyone have a list, or is it classified? Is 'Mutiny on the Bounty' allowed?
Refuted here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pu...
They aren't in it to make the world a better place. They are in it for the money. And so it is perfectly logical for them to take as much as they can get.
The publishers, or the students aiming to become lawyers..?
It came with a little USB adapter with a 3.5mm plug in the other end. It was bundled with a cheap USB sound card and recorded analog audio directly on the device. That's the last Sony product I owned.
Their recorders were capable of digital input, and some of the more expensive Sony kits came with true digital USB->TOSLINK adapters - a shame they cheaped out with analogue adapters lower down the range. There'd still be a (real time!) digital format conversion if your music was already in mp3, of course, though at that point I was generally ripping straight from a CD player with optical output. The amount of music you could store (and even the battery life, surprisingly) really was a big advantage over the early flash-based mp3 players, and the first attempts at hard disk players were large and ugly. I didn't move to mp3 until there were 40Gb iPods (and even then, missed the MiniDisc battery life, which Apple didn't catch up with for several years).
The obesity problem is best understood not as the result of the overconsumption of a single macronutrient, but from a skewing of the proportion of each macronutrient in our diet - notably the dwindling quantity of protein in processed food products. The paucity of protein relative to fats and carbohydrates in processed foods drives the overconsumption of total energy as our bodies seek to maintain a target level of protein intake.
Reminds me of' Sable / Famine's pre-apocalyptic fast food business in 'Good Omens':
"Two years of Newtrition investment and research had produced CHOW(TM). CHOW(TM) contained spun, plaited, and woven protein molecules, capped and coded, carefully designed to be ignored by even the most ravenous digestive tract enzymes; no-cal sweeteners; mineral oils replacing vegetable oils; fibrous materials, colorings, and flavorings. The end result was a foodstuff almost indistinguishable from any other except for two things. Firstly, the price, which was slightly higher, and secondly, the nutritional content, which was roughly equivalent to that of a Sony Walkman...MEALS(TM) was Sable's latest brainwave. MEALS(TM) was CHOW(TM) with added sugar and fat. The theory was that if you ate enough MEALS(TM) you would a) get very fat, and b) die of malnutrition. The paradox delighted Sable."
In light of some of the changes that have caused some huge controversies (having the window buttons on the right vs left is straight out of Gulliver's), maybe you mean "ignoring the very vocal minority who reject innovation, either from a need to feel elite or fear of change".
Moving the window buttons to the left is 'innovation'?
"It's just complete nonsense, anyone working with smartphones at the time was completely unfazed by the iPhone - the first edition wasn't entirely dissimilar (and was notable underfeatured compared to) offerings from companies like Nokia, and HP with their iPaq phones.
Though 'nobody expected anything remotely like the epoch shifting device' is over the top, the main point is hardly complete nonsense. Most of the speculation was indeed heavily influenced by the iPod and older style smartphones:
http://www.businessinsider.com...
Apple was seriously considering a clickwheel-based design 15 months before the iPhone was unveiled:
http://www.idownloadblog.com/2...
I don't think they're doing a good job but I'll be glad to donate to GNOME 2.
Here you go:
http://mate-desktop.org/donate...
"James Anderson, director of the NIHâ(TM)s Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives, which administered the CRM, counters that only one application - that made by Kapil Bharti of the National Eye Institute in Bethesda and his colleagues - received a high enough score from an external review board to justify continued funding."
You can take this at face value, or assume academic politics, but it doesn't seem like party politics.
"I took a speed reading course where you run your finger down the middle of the page and was able to read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It's about Russia."
6) Did you notice the :-) ?
You're only as good as your last RAE :-)
http://physicsworld.com/cws/ar...
"An unofficial Physics World ranking that lists departments according to their average research score shows Lancaster on top and Cambridge close behind. Both departments also received the maximum 5* rating in the last RAE in 2001, but the other 5* departments - Oxford, Southampton and Imperial College London - fell outside the top 10 this time round. "
People (and genetic risks) are different. One person's 'making the most of my time left' is another's 'spending decades with the constant threat of a terrible disease blighting my life'. In Jim Watson's case, he was already at an age where presumably he'd made adequate provision for his loved ones (the link is with late, rather than early onset dementia). Knowing that he might be at increased (but very far from absolute) risk of losing his mental faculties late in life wasn't useful information to him, but might have led him to worry about something he could do nothing about. It's not hard to think of other scenarios where an individual may make the (perfectly valid) choice to not know everything about his genome.
I doubt anyone is going to force you to know your faulty DNA, but opting out of knowing if given the choice is just stupid, and potentially very expensive - because you will change your mind on having that treatment once the symptoms appear, which might very well be too late.
What if there is no effective treatment? James Watson, co-discoverer of the DNA structure and one of the first people to have his entire genome sequenced, chose not to know the sequence of his APOE gene, some variants of which have been linked to an increased risk of late onset Alzheimer's disease.
wasn't there a discovery that determined if you were likely to commit a crime? Or be serial killer or something like that?
How did that work out / what ever happened with it?
90% of murderers, and 99% of convicted rapists, have a copy of the SRY gene, which is much higher than its frequency in the general population (about 50%). SRY has been linked with aggressive behaviour, autism, and a preference for large, fast cars.
There's a better article on the UK Channel 4 site (C4 will broadcast the documentary):
http://www.channel4.com/info/p...
This "academic bioinformatics institute" is an LCC, not an actual academic institution :) Its a scam.
They claim to be a "non-for-profit research and development organization". They have a respectable list of publications, all the way up to co-authorship in a Nature paper, so doesn't look like a scam!:
http://bioinfo.pl/papers.html
Interesting that the main investor in this operation (and apparently the chip design) seems to be an academic bioinformatics institute in Poland: http://bioinfo.pl/
I guess it beats applying for research grants...
No, the results are not disproven and certainly not shown to be fabricated, though you could be forgiven for thinking otherwise after the feeding frenzy about this paper on the internet. There are certainly grounds for scepticism, though. We'll have to wait until this has been thoroughly tested using the more detailed protocols that have now been made available before we can call it one way or the other.
They've done A Clockwork Orange. Sorry, I'd prefer a bit of the old Ludwig Van.
https://groups.google.com/foru...
"It's going to be an awful lot of work, with the result that not all systems will be supported, new bugs introduced and what's the gain for the end user exactly?
Total refactoring is not a solution. It's much better to improve what we have. Perhaps with some small refactorings specifically aimed at making Vim work better for users."