Honestly I can see a lot of good uses for it. From testing in third world countries by Doctors without borders to testing a partner before you go without a condom. Most people get to know each other before they drop the condoms but how many actually go down and get tested? I know I do and I ask my partners to before we drop the condom but from most peoples reaction I can tell that it is not a common request.
Hell how many get regularly tested? I get tested a couple of times a year but from what I can tell most don't and have no real idea what their status is. Some are afraid of getting tested for fear of being labeled or having that status known by the government, insurance, or anyone else. This allows personal, anonymous testing. So something like this could be a great thing to have.
You know the second it becomes available it will be used by insurance companies during the initial physical. There is a market for such a device and if it makes it to production I see it being a BIG seller.
Lol, Ill believe it when I see no more 20,30, or 40 year old cars on the road.
And for the record, I own 4 cars. The youngest is 14 years old and the oldest is 22 years old.
In three more years, the oldest one will no longer have to meet emissions standards in my state and the cost of inspection will drop by 1/3.
I also wonder how they will get the self driving cars to me. You turn off the paved road onto gravel about 10 miles out, you turn off the gravel road onto dirt about 6 miles out, and then 2 miles past where the dirt road ends, following power line runs and deeded easements, you get to my place.
Hmm, are you suggesting that people in California put in subways? I think I can agree with this. It should be entertaining to watch the news when an earthquake hits.
Subways work in NYC because you are sitting on rock. Specifically the remnants of an ancient cooled caldera. Take places like Dallas where we are sitting on clay that shifts, expands, and contracts so bad that we don't even do basements, and a subway is doomed to failure.
Scheduled: Drug. Not present in nature: Drug. Present in nature: Supplement. Synthesized drug which metabolizes into a natural substance present in the body (e.g. a wholly-unnatural compound which metabolizes into noradrenaline): Supplement.
So weed is not a scheduled Drug, it is a Supplement? Tell that one to the DEA
Substances are placed in their respective schedules based on whether they have a currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States, their relative abuse potential, and likelihood of causing dependence when abused.
Ill add that is also is determined by how many people in congress are using the drug. I believe that congresses use of Viagra is the only reason it is not a schedule 2 narcotic.
1) It is a regulated market 2) They violated the truth in advertising laws 3) The company is now open to untold lawsuits because some of the contents were harmful. 4) Fraudulent activity is not indicative of an unregulated or free market. Just as theft, breaking and entering, and mugging people are not business plans. 5) One bad apple does not ruin the batch. Simple proof, I have seen three people I went to High School with arrested on COP's. That does not make everyone in our class criminals! 6) Your low opinion of Human Nature does not appear correct. In test after test people in general are honest.
" There are things in the universe billions of years older than either of our races. They are vast, timeless. And if they are aware of us at all, it is as little more than antsand we have as much chance of communicating with them as an ant has with us. We know. We've tried. And we've learned we can either stay out from underfoot, or be stepped on."
On a scale of 1 to 100 with 1 being a pure fact and 100 being a pure lie, where would you rate the global warming debate?
Yep, 3 is bigger than 97:P
The old saying is that “figures will not lie,” but a new saying is “liars will figure.” It is our duty, as practical statisticians, to prevent the liar from figuring; in other words, to prevent him from perverting the truth, in the interest of some theory he wishes to establish. -- Carroll D. Wright 1889
People Soft, ERP, Email, etc,etc,etc. How much is lost when they go down? Name one department that does not require an application or system to be up all the time! If the sales system is down, the sales department does not make sales!
If you think a medium sized company or larger can continue to operate in this day and age without IT. Simple let your IT group go and see how long it takes.
Use it to screen companies before an interview. It is always fun when they ask "Do you have any questions for us?" and you pull comments from glassdoor and ask if they have corrected the issue.;)
That is every consulting firm I have ever worked for! Not once has any of them had bench time or training, it is just hire people for the contract and let them go when it is over.
What you are suggesting is that a generalist will be kept while a specialist is disposable.
Simple question, when the MBA/management person is looking at the spread sheet with all the numbers on it trying to decide which people should be laid off, which filed is the one that indicates your skill set?
LOL, the last company I worked for Laid off the IT staff in a "Re-org" They had just announced how they had made 3 Billion euros in the last year and the President of the company took a multimillion Dollar bonus! However, no raises as there was "no budget" for it, then they laid off all the IT staff, to cut costs. Turns out they out sourced it to a firm in India that thoroughly failed at managing the systems.
9 months later, they run ad's looking for IT people. They were having trouble finding people because they are offering 40% less than market. So they decide to call the people they laid off and offer to bring them back. We have all turned them down.
With a whopping 1.2 star approval rating on www.glassdoor.com they will have trouble finding anyone to work for them!
I have used Linux for decades and am a fond believer in it being a better OS.
However, it is now Microsoft that is the issue here. OsX and Linux have great package management and in most instances it is used. Once you get into commercial software the install shifts. I am not sure why they don't make RPM's, DEB's, etc but even the commercial Linux producers use these crappy installers. Try installing the NVidia Drivers from NVidia. They require you run the install script and run you through the next, next, next, are you sure?, are you sure the first six times that you made the correct choices?, etc, etc.
You are not exactly right. That only covers up to $100,000
So if you have a retirement account with $500,000 in it and the bank gets robbed, you get $100,000 back. Unless the bank has taken steps to guarantee amounts above $100,000. Thought most dont, they simply have you sign I form when you open the account that states you have been notified.
Unlike credit reporting there is no time limit on it and banks will refuse to issue you an account based on the information. I know because the bank that I closed the account on charged me an account fee after the account was close. I was never notified so did not know it was there. Some years later (10) when trying to change banks I was declined because that was in the chexsystems report. The original bank had gone bust, been sold to another bank that went bust and was sold to another bank that later split into three banks. It took me 2 months to track down who had the original records and could clear the entry on the chexsystems report.
Back some years ago I was using a bank that over drafted me. I say they over drafted me because they showed an ATM withdraw some 50 miles from where I was that caused my account to over draft.
I had paid the overdraft fees and explained to them that I could not have been there to withdraw the $62 they claim. The lady tells me that as per bank policy I am responsible for the first $50 lost from the account and there would be a $10 "search" fee for them to research what had happened and determine if I had withdrawn the money or it was a bank error. My simple question, "If it turns out to be a bank error do i get my $52 back?" Well no, as per policy I was responsible for the first $50 lost so I would only get $2 back.
I told them to do the research, give me my $2 and close my account. The bank persons response, "Absolutely, there is a $2 filing fee to start the search, $10 for the search, and you are responsible for the first $50 lost. Then there will be a $15 fee to close out your account."
It amazes me how they lost the exact amount that it would require to $0 out. I close that account and simply moved of. The moral of this story is you may have faith in religion, with all others watch your ass because they will take all they can get.
I love the Idea, we are looking for the top 5%. We need the elite of the programming world to immigrate to the US and help us keep the US are the top of our game.
Seeing as we agree on that, then I am sure you will agree that the best way to get exceptional programmers, is to offer them exceptional wages. So lets work together to change the H1B's requirement and to require that all H1B's are paid in the top 1% of the pay scale.
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Honestly I can see a lot of good uses for it. From testing in third world countries by Doctors without borders to testing a partner before you go without a condom. Most people get to know each other before they drop the condoms but how many actually go down and get tested? I know I do and I ask my partners to before we drop the condom but from most peoples reaction I can tell that it is not a common request.
Hell how many get regularly tested? I get tested a couple of times a year but from what I can tell most don't and have no real idea what their status is. Some are afraid of getting tested for fear of being labeled or having that status known by the government, insurance, or anyone else. This allows personal, anonymous testing. So something like this could be a great thing to have.
You know the second it becomes available it will be used by insurance companies during the initial physical. There is a market for such a device and if it makes it to production I see it being a BIG seller.
Lol, Ill believe it when I see no more 20,30, or 40 year old cars on the road.
And for the record, I own 4 cars. The youngest is 14 years old and the oldest is 22 years old.
In three more years, the oldest one will no longer have to meet emissions standards in my state and the cost of inspection will drop by 1/3.
I also wonder how they will get the self driving cars to me. You turn off the paved road onto gravel about 10 miles out, you turn off the gravel road onto dirt about 6 miles out, and then 2 miles past where the dirt road ends, following power line runs and deeded easements, you get to my place.
Hmm, are you suggesting that people in California put in subways? I think I can agree with this. It should be entertaining to watch the news when an earthquake hits.
Subways work in NYC because you are sitting on rock. Specifically the remnants of an ancient cooled caldera. Take places like Dallas where we are sitting on clay that shifts, expands, and contracts so bad that we don't even do basements, and a subway is doomed to failure.
Scheduled: Drug. Not present in nature: Drug. Present in nature: Supplement. Synthesized drug which metabolizes into a natural substance present in the body (e.g. a wholly-unnatural compound which metabolizes into noradrenaline): Supplement.
So weed is not a scheduled Drug, it is a Supplement? Tell that one to the DEA
Substances are placed in their respective schedules based on whether they have a currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States, their relative abuse potential, and likelihood of causing dependence when abused.
Ill add that is also is determined by how many people in congress are using the drug. I believe that congresses use of Viagra is the only reason it is not a schedule 2 narcotic.
1) It is a regulated market
2) They violated the truth in advertising laws
3) The company is now open to untold lawsuits because some of the contents were harmful.
4) Fraudulent activity is not indicative of an unregulated or free market. Just as theft, breaking and entering, and mugging people are not business plans.
5) One bad apple does not ruin the batch. Simple proof, I have seen three people I went to High School with arrested on COP's. That does not make everyone in our class criminals!
6) Your low opinion of Human Nature does not appear correct. In test after test people in general are honest.
Really, 4 year life span and they are replaced?
God I need to work for a company like that!
I am so tired of dealing with these RS/6000 systems that were made back in 1994, and these intel systems made back in 2002.
I wrote it to be funny and I am aware that it is Planck.
I am just as surprised as you that it is rated "insightful." I expected it to be rated Funny.
Entanglement communicates state by some mechanism that has no measurable latency.
The two wave forms are entangled below the plank layer, thus being outside of standard space time you see no measurable latency.
Maybe we need to coin a phrase for this area blow the plank layer and outside space time. I say we call it subspace, seems to fit. :P
Reminds me of a Babylon 5 quote
" There are things in the universe billions of years older than either of our races. They are vast, timeless. And if they are aware of us at all, it is as little more than antsand we have as much chance of communicating with them as an ant has with us. We know. We've tried. And we've learned we can either stay out from underfoot, or be stepped on."
> The only controversy is "is 97 larger than 3".
On a scale of 1 to 100 with 1 being a pure fact and 100 being a pure lie, where would you rate the global warming debate?
Yep, 3 is bigger than 97 :P
The old saying is that “figures will not lie,” but a new saying is “liars will figure.” It is our duty, as practical statisticians, to prevent the liar from figuring; in other words, to prevent him from perverting the truth, in the interest of some theory he wishes to establish. -- Carroll D. Wright 1889
More proof that this debate is political and not scientific.
Passing a law that says it is real is like voting on the sex of a chicken. No matter the outcome of the vote, only testing can provide the answer.
How about we get politics out of science and rely on the scientific method to determine if "Global Warming" is real or not.
Yep, and to that I say:
People Soft, ERP, Email, etc,etc,etc. How much is lost when they go down? Name one department that does not require an application or system to be up all the time! If the sales system is down, the sales department does not make sales!
If you think a medium sized company or larger can continue to operate in this day and age without IT. Simple let your IT group go and see how long it takes.
http://www.glassdoor.com/
Use it to screen companies before an interview. It is always fun when they ask "Do you have any questions for us?" and you pull comments from glassdoor and ask if they have corrected the issue. ;)
That is every consulting firm I have ever worked for! Not once has any of them had bench time or training, it is just hire people for the contract and let them go when it is over.
What you are suggesting is that a generalist will be kept while a specialist is disposable.
Simple question, when the MBA/management person is looking at the spread sheet with all the numbers on it trying to decide which people should be laid off, which filed is the one that indicates your skill set?
LOL, the last company I worked for Laid off the IT staff in a "Re-org" They had just announced how they had made 3 Billion euros in the last year and the President of the company took a multimillion Dollar bonus! However, no raises as there was "no budget" for it, then they laid off all the IT staff, to cut costs. Turns out they out sourced it to a firm in India that thoroughly failed at managing the systems.
9 months later, they run ad's looking for IT people. They were having trouble finding people because they are offering 40% less than market. So they decide to call the people they laid off and offer to bring them back. We have all turned them down.
With a whopping 1.2 star approval rating on www.glassdoor.com they will have trouble finding anyone to work for them!
P@ssw0rd! did not make the list and half the places I have worked have used that as the password because it meets the windows complexity rules.
Well, Captain Obvious had to take a break from the hotels.com commercials. Guess he got a new job as a writer.
I have used Linux for decades and am a fond believer in it being a better OS.
However, it is now Microsoft that is the issue here. OsX and Linux have great package management and in most instances it is used. Once you get into commercial software the install shifts. I am not sure why they don't make RPM's, DEB's, etc but even the commercial Linux producers use these crappy installers. Try installing the NVidia Drivers from NVidia. They require you run the install script and run you through the next, next, next, are you sure?, are you sure the first six times that you made the correct choices?, etc, etc.
You are not exactly right. That only covers up to $100,000
So if you have a retirement account with $500,000 in it and the bank gets robbed, you get $100,000 back. Unless the bank has taken steps to guarantee amounts above $100,000. Thought most dont, they simply have you sign I form when you open the account that states you have been notified.
Say hello to ChexSystems
https://www.consumerdebit.com/...
Unlike credit reporting there is no time limit on it and banks will refuse to issue you an account based on the information. I know because the bank that I closed the account on charged me an account fee after the account was close. I was never notified so did not know it was there. Some years later (10) when trying to change banks I was declined because that was in the chexsystems report. The original bank had gone bust, been sold to another bank that went bust and was sold to another bank that later split into three banks. It took me 2 months to track down who had the original records and could clear the entry on the chexsystems report.
Right, regulations help.
Back some years ago I was using a bank that over drafted me. I say they over drafted me because they showed an ATM withdraw some 50 miles from where I was that caused my account to over draft.
I had paid the overdraft fees and explained to them that I could not have been there to withdraw the $62 they claim. The lady tells me that as per bank policy I am responsible for the first $50 lost from the account and there would be a $10 "search" fee for them to research what had happened and determine if I had withdrawn the money or it was a bank error. My simple question, "If it turns out to be a bank error do i get my $52 back?" Well no, as per policy I was responsible for the first $50 lost so I would only get $2 back.
I told them to do the research, give me my $2 and close my account. The bank persons response, "Absolutely, there is a $2 filing fee to start the search, $10 for the search, and you are responsible for the first $50 lost. Then there will be a $15 fee to close out your account."
It amazes me how they lost the exact amount that it would require to $0 out. I close that account and simply moved of. The moral of this story is you may have faith in religion, with all others watch your ass because they will take all they can get.
I love the Idea, we are looking for the top 5%. We need the elite of the programming world to immigrate to the US and help us keep the US are the top of our game.
Seeing as we agree on that, then I am sure you will agree that the best way to get exceptional programmers, is to offer them exceptional wages. So lets work together to change the H1B's requirement and to require that all H1B's are paid in the top 1% of the pay scale.
OMG, really? That is how you took that statement?
#1) I have run for state office as a Libertarian
#2) I am a proud supporter of the party.
#3) That was a reference to the 2000 Libertarian presidential TV spots.
progressives say "let's change things for the better" conservatives say "don't throw the baby out with the bath water".
Libertarians say "If it is Rosemary's Baby, through out the baby and the bath water and start over."