Pink Floyd also did this with some (maybe not all) cassette versions of the album Animals. The song "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" would be split half on one side, half on the other. There was a trick to hitting the auto-reverse button at just the right moment, so the song wouldn't be interrupted by the leader tape.
As far as I know, the album was never presented this way on the LP vinyl version, because it's less important that a record be the same length on both sides of the vinyl. You don't end up with dead air on one side of a record just because the other side is longer.
But it's not under the pretext of borrowing if the transaction does not resemble borrowing in any traditional sense. If I, as a "borrower," know for a fact that I could light the book on fire and watch it burn to ash purely for my own enjoyment, but that once the ashes blew away in the wind, the library would get the book back -- well, as I said, the ethics are unclear. I know I'm not supposed to burn the book, but it doesn't actually make any difference whether I burn it or not.
No it is only unethical if you don't delete the book from your kindle when your check out period expires.
The ethics of it is unclear even then. Once the check out period expires, the library "gets the book back" and can lend it out to other people, whether you delete the version from your Kindle or not.
The Nook had 3G when it debuted also. The Nook's big advantage was that it also had WiFi, at a time when the Kindle didn't, and the WiFi-only model was cheaper. I think you'll find that even when you're "on the road," it doesn't take much effort to find a WiFi hotspot for the amount of time it takes to download a book.
Well... it's a two-way street. You get out what you put in. I got on Facebook because a lot of my friends who were geographically distant from me stopped sending email. If you wanted to hear from them casually, you had to be on Facebook. As a result, some of my friends who live here in town but are also on Facebook have "met" some of my geographically distant friends online. And consequently some of them have met in real life, occasionally when I'm not even around. I've also discovered that some casual acquaintances actually know some other people I know, though I didn't realize it before Facebook. I could argue that if it weren't for Facebook, the geographic distance would have given me no chance to get to know these people, but now I know them better.
It sounds like what really happened for you is that you're a little shy and didn't have the easiest time meeting people in college, and Facebook was helpful for that. Now Facebook looks like The Whole World to you and you're feeling put-off again, and you're falling back on the excuse that "there's no reason to reach out." Well, I think you can't have it both ways... if you're not going to try to make friends, then Facebook won't help you and neither will anything else.
You can see this on Slashdot too where people pounce on articles to post the established group-think for a quick '+5'
Really? And here I thought posts kvetching about how anybody who agrees with prevailing opinion is just practicing groupthink was an ideal example of Slashdot groupthink.
In my experience, the moderation system works quite well. I also like that there's no option to delete anyone's comments from the discussion.
You may be confusing the fact that you see comments that you disagree with, or comments that you find outright irrational, with the idea that you have to agree with those comments. On the contrary; you're free to read them, laugh, and disregard them completely.
If seemingly irrational comments get modded to +5, feel free to chime in to differ.
I don't think it has split at all since then, but they still got a very good price for it although...
Around 1997, when Microsoft made the investment, AAPL was hovering somewhere under $23/share. It did a 2:1 split once since then, in 2005, and the current price is $332. So if Microsoft did hold all that stock until now (and I doubt it did), it really did get a nice return.
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Uhhh... are you saying that only Americans are becoming obese because of sugar intake? Or are you saying that only Americans are becoming obese? Because no scientist believes the latter. The World Health Organization recognizes obesity as a global problem, as does the International Union of Nutrition Sciences, the International Obesity Taskforce, and the International Association for the Study of Obesity.
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Forget all the junk food you mention. How about plain old bread? When I bake bread at home, the ingredients are flour, water, yeast. I might use a pinch of sugar to start the yeast (so it doesn't go into the bread as sugar). Why is it, then, that when I go to the grocery store, every loaf of sliced sandwich bread has been flavored with "a touch of honey" or "a hint of molasses" -- all of which, if you read the ingredients, means HFCS plus some flavorings? Who on Earth decided that we wouldn't eat bread unless it was sweet? And bear in mind, I'm shopping for whole wheat bread -- including all the varieties of nine-grain, oat encrusted bread you can muster -- which is supposedly "the healthy kind." The unhealthy kind? Turns out that when you do eat a Big Mac, some 1/3 of the calories are in the bun.
It's not necessarily "fecal matter," as such, that's the problem. For countless viruses and bacterial infections, the fecal-oral route is the main vector of transmission. You shed pathogens through your digestive tract, and that's what's in your feces. It's not the digested food-sludge that makes you ill, it's the microbes from your body that come with it. So yes, everybody, wash your hands. You don't need Purel; soap is fine. If you don't have soap, water and vigorous rubbing is better than nothing. Remember, microbes are invisible.
For example, the trash can should be located within close proximity to the door. That way, you can wash your hands and use the paper towel to open the door prior to throwing the towel in the trash.
Unless you're talking about proximity to the stall door (and most stalls don't have sinks in them, so I assume you're not), you might want to rethink that. In cities with significant immigrant populations, this can be a problem. The reason is that a lot of immigrants from developing countries aren't accustomed to sewer systems that can accommodate paper of any kind. Thus, they wipe, then throw the paper in the trash. I've seen many restaurant restrooms with signs begging people not to do this, but it still happens (maybe because the sign is in English).
OK, I didn't look at the gallery, but I did look at the images on the homepage. Do they seriously expect people to buy these things, then install them in a corner of the living room, with no door, surrounded by huge bay windows with sweeping views of Los Angeles and no curtains??
I see your point, but I still have no idea what's actually going to be on this calendar server until I see it, and neither does the hospital's IT department. See the point?
My library offers Safari access also (San Francisco Public Library). From the related page:
You are signed in to Safari Books Online, paid for and licensed by your academic or public library. You are accessing a Custom Safari Books Online Library that contains a specially-tailored subset of 3,827 titles from Safari Books Online's overall content.
Mind you, they point out that this is a subset of the full 12,000 books available on paid Safari. But 3,827 books is nothing to sneeze at.
Do you even know the difference between a client and a server? In this context, the machine he plugged in is no different from any other client that is connected to the network.
You are confusing me. You say a... server... plugged into the network is no different than any other... client. Are you sure you know what those words mean? And iPhones don't require IT to open ports on the firewall. This... server... does. And he deployed the (I'll skip the emphasis from now on) server first and asked IT about it later. If you think you'd get away with that at most any business, I don't think you've been working that long.
4.) The next time some other department head wants something else that IT doesn't provide, someone gets the bright idea that, "Hey, we've got a BSD server running in the office here, why don't you just hang it off that?" Next thing you know, you've got a flatbed scanner plugged into the back and a file server that supports fourteen user accounts, some of whom are interns, and the server is still connected to the open Internet.
It's also appropriate to ask, because even if a port is "standard," there's no law about it. He could have been setting up a Quake server for all anybody knew. I'm surprised IT is being this cool about it, actually. Most IT departments I know would probably rush downstairs to stare at this server like it landed from Mars.
Of course IT needs to audit this thing, but it's not exactly "rouge hardware".
I'm sorry, but misspelling aside, it is rogue hardware. If a doctor decided he needed a wireless LAN to support his office staff, bought an off-the-shelf Linksys router, and bridged it to the wired LAN, that would be rogue hardware, and it would be a lot easier to do than what's being described here. Just the fact that he had to ask for a hole in the firewall after he deployed the server demonstrates that this is rogue hardware.
Get a $6/mo virtual host somewhere to run the calendar and avoid all of the HIPAA sludge entirely.
I doubt that would avoid any of the "HIPAA sludge," actually. Or are you really suggesting that a hospital could ditch all of its in-house IT, sign up for hosted software as a service for everything, and never need to worry about HIPAA again? If the hosted calendar supports business operations at the hospital, it's subject to HIPAA.
Exactly which part of a "night and weekend on-call schedule" do you think will contain private health information?
Aside from the other responses about lowering the overall level of security (which are correct), how about the part where the schedule involves treating patients? If ever so much as a patient's name appears in a doctor's schedule, that's privileged information.
This is a radiology department, not a generic paper shuffling department.
At least bother to read the first few words of the summary if you can't read TFA: "I am head of a clinical division at an academic hospital (not Radiology, but similarly tech oriented)."
It's an academic hospital, and the server was purchased to support faculty. Most academic environments are pretty loose with the "rogue server" issues, and faculty usually get what they want.
Maybe, but an "academic hospital" is a lot different than an "academic university." However "academic" it might be, the hospital still treats real-world patients, some with life-threatening conditions. That means what goes on there is certainly no less serious than at any other hospital, and in some cases it's more serious, because academic hospitals are sometimes where you send the fringe cases so that doctors-in-training can get hands-on experience with outliers. Finally, the fact that they're treating real-world patients means they are not exempt from HIPAA (assuming this is in the U.S.) or whatever other local patient privacy regulations may apply. It's not inconceivable that a calendar server for doctors might potentially disclose privileged information; therefore oversight is mandated.
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Pink Floyd also did this with some (maybe not all) cassette versions of the album Animals. The song "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" would be split half on one side, half on the other. There was a trick to hitting the auto-reverse button at just the right moment, so the song wouldn't be interrupted by the leader tape.
As far as I know, the album was never presented this way on the LP vinyl version, because it's less important that a record be the same length on both sides of the vinyl. You don't end up with dead air on one side of a record just because the other side is longer.
But it's not under the pretext of borrowing if the transaction does not resemble borrowing in any traditional sense. If I, as a "borrower," know for a fact that I could light the book on fire and watch it burn to ash purely for my own enjoyment, but that once the ashes blew away in the wind, the library would get the book back -- well, as I said, the ethics are unclear. I know I'm not supposed to burn the book, but it doesn't actually make any difference whether I burn it or not.
No it is only unethical if you don't delete the book from your kindle when your check out period expires.
The ethics of it is unclear even then. Once the check out period expires, the library "gets the book back" and can lend it out to other people, whether you delete the version from your Kindle or not.
The Nook had 3G when it debuted also. The Nook's big advantage was that it also had WiFi, at a time when the Kindle didn't, and the WiFi-only model was cheaper. I think you'll find that even when you're "on the road," it doesn't take much effort to find a WiFi hotspot for the amount of time it takes to download a book.
Well... it's a two-way street. You get out what you put in. I got on Facebook because a lot of my friends who were geographically distant from me stopped sending email. If you wanted to hear from them casually, you had to be on Facebook. As a result, some of my friends who live here in town but are also on Facebook have "met" some of my geographically distant friends online. And consequently some of them have met in real life, occasionally when I'm not even around. I've also discovered that some casual acquaintances actually know some other people I know, though I didn't realize it before Facebook. I could argue that if it weren't for Facebook, the geographic distance would have given me no chance to get to know these people, but now I know them better.
It sounds like what really happened for you is that you're a little shy and didn't have the easiest time meeting people in college, and Facebook was helpful for that. Now Facebook looks like The Whole World to you and you're feeling put-off again, and you're falling back on the excuse that "there's no reason to reach out." Well, I think you can't have it both ways... if you're not going to try to make friends, then Facebook won't help you and neither will anything else.
You can see this on Slashdot too where people pounce on articles to post the established group-think for a quick '+5'
Really? And here I thought posts kvetching about how anybody who agrees with prevailing opinion is just practicing groupthink was an ideal example of Slashdot groupthink.
We can't even get reasoned debate on Slashdot.
I think we can.
In my experience, the moderation system works quite well. I also like that there's no option to delete anyone's comments from the discussion.
You may be confusing the fact that you see comments that you disagree with, or comments that you find outright irrational, with the idea that you have to agree with those comments. On the contrary; you're free to read them, laugh, and disregard them completely.
If seemingly irrational comments get modded to +5, feel free to chime in to differ.
I don't think it has split at all since then, but they still got a very good price for it although...
Around 1997, when Microsoft made the investment, AAPL was hovering somewhere under $23/share. It did a 2:1 split once since then, in 2005, and the current price is $332. So if Microsoft did hold all that stock until now (and I doubt it did), it really did get a nice return.
Uhhh... are you saying that only Americans are becoming obese because of sugar intake? Or are you saying that only Americans are becoming obese? Because no scientist believes the latter. The World Health Organization recognizes obesity as a global problem, as does the International Union of Nutrition Sciences, the International Obesity Taskforce, and the International Association for the Study of Obesity.
Forget all the junk food you mention. How about plain old bread? When I bake bread at home, the ingredients are flour, water, yeast. I might use a pinch of sugar to start the yeast (so it doesn't go into the bread as sugar). Why is it, then, that when I go to the grocery store, every loaf of sliced sandwich bread has been flavored with "a touch of honey" or "a hint of molasses" -- all of which, if you read the ingredients, means HFCS plus some flavorings? Who on Earth decided that we wouldn't eat bread unless it was sweet? And bear in mind, I'm shopping for whole wheat bread -- including all the varieties of nine-grain, oat encrusted bread you can muster -- which is supposedly "the healthy kind." The unhealthy kind? Turns out that when you do eat a Big Mac, some 1/3 of the calories are in the bun.
There hasn't really been anything like it, since then.
"A Bit of Frye and Laurie" comes close.
It's not necessarily "fecal matter," as such, that's the problem. For countless viruses and bacterial infections, the fecal-oral route is the main vector of transmission. You shed pathogens through your digestive tract, and that's what's in your feces. It's not the digested food-sludge that makes you ill, it's the microbes from your body that come with it. So yes, everybody, wash your hands. You don't need Purel; soap is fine. If you don't have soap, water and vigorous rubbing is better than nothing. Remember, microbes are invisible.
For example, the trash can should be located within close proximity to the door. That way, you can wash your hands and use the paper towel to open the door prior to throwing the towel in the trash.
Unless you're talking about proximity to the stall door (and most stalls don't have sinks in them, so I assume you're not), you might want to rethink that. In cities with significant immigrant populations, this can be a problem. The reason is that a lot of immigrants from developing countries aren't accustomed to sewer systems that can accommodate paper of any kind. Thus, they wipe, then throw the paper in the trash. I've seen many restaurant restrooms with signs begging people not to do this, but it still happens (maybe because the sign is in English).
OK, I didn't look at the gallery, but I did look at the images on the homepage. Do they seriously expect people to buy these things, then install them in a corner of the living room, with no door, surrounded by huge bay windows with sweeping views of Los Angeles and no curtains??
I see your point, but I still have no idea what's actually going to be on this calendar server until I see it, and neither does the hospital's IT department. See the point?
My library offers Safari access also (San Francisco Public Library). From the related page:
You are signed in to Safari Books Online, paid for and licensed by your academic or public library. You are accessing a Custom Safari Books Online Library that contains a specially-tailored subset of 3,827 titles from Safari Books Online's overall content.
Mind you, they point out that this is a subset of the full 12,000 books available on paid Safari. But 3,827 books is nothing to sneeze at.
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Do you even know the difference between a client and a server? In this context, the machine he plugged in is no different from any other client that is connected to the network.
You are confusing me. You say a ... server ... plugged into the network is no different than any other ... client. Are you sure you know what those words mean? And iPhones don't require IT to open ports on the firewall. This ... server ... does. And he deployed the (I'll skip the emphasis from now on) server first and asked IT about it later. If you think you'd get away with that at most any business, I don't think you've been working that long.
4.) The next time some other department head wants something else that IT doesn't provide, someone gets the bright idea that, "Hey, we've got a BSD server running in the office here, why don't you just hang it off that?" Next thing you know, you've got a flatbed scanner plugged into the back and a file server that supports fourteen user accounts, some of whom are interns, and the server is still connected to the open Internet.
It's also appropriate to ask, because even if a port is "standard," there's no law about it. He could have been setting up a Quake server for all anybody knew. I'm surprised IT is being this cool about it, actually. Most IT departments I know would probably rush downstairs to stare at this server like it landed from Mars.
Of course IT needs to audit this thing, but it's not exactly "rouge hardware".
I'm sorry, but misspelling aside, it is rogue hardware. If a doctor decided he needed a wireless LAN to support his office staff, bought an off-the-shelf Linksys router, and bridged it to the wired LAN, that would be rogue hardware, and it would be a lot easier to do than what's being described here. Just the fact that he had to ask for a hole in the firewall after he deployed the server demonstrates that this is rogue hardware.
Get a $6/mo virtual host somewhere to run the calendar and avoid all of the HIPAA sludge entirely.
I doubt that would avoid any of the "HIPAA sludge," actually. Or are you really suggesting that a hospital could ditch all of its in-house IT, sign up for hosted software as a service for everything, and never need to worry about HIPAA again? If the hosted calendar supports business operations at the hospital, it's subject to HIPAA.
Exactly which part of a "night and weekend on-call schedule" do you think will contain private health information?
Aside from the other responses about lowering the overall level of security (which are correct), how about the part where the schedule involves treating patients? If ever so much as a patient's name appears in a doctor's schedule, that's privileged information.
This is a radiology department, not a generic paper shuffling department.
At least bother to read the first few words of the summary if you can't read TFA: "I am head of a clinical division at an academic hospital (not Radiology, but similarly tech oriented)."
It's an academic hospital, and the server was purchased to support faculty. Most academic environments are pretty loose with the "rogue server" issues, and faculty usually get what they want.
Maybe, but an "academic hospital" is a lot different than an "academic university." However "academic" it might be, the hospital still treats real-world patients, some with life-threatening conditions. That means what goes on there is certainly no less serious than at any other hospital, and in some cases it's more serious, because academic hospitals are sometimes where you send the fringe cases so that doctors-in-training can get hands-on experience with outliers. Finally, the fact that they're treating real-world patients means they are not exempt from HIPAA (assuming this is in the U.S.) or whatever other local patient privacy regulations may apply. It's not inconceivable that a calendar server for doctors might potentially disclose privileged information; therefore oversight is mandated.