They had to invent a new colour, Australia wasn't visible from space before
Yeah it's called 'suck on this denialist pink' for those non warming trends that push the temperature to 54C (~129F) and 'warmist purple' for a mere 50C (122F)
Unfortunately for conservatives, good for the rest of us, science is the antichrist and must be avoided at all costs.
In Australia, and seemingly from afar the US, the conservatives are trapped in the paradox of selling ice to eskimos. They market to, rally with and exclusively listen to themselves then get very surprised when election after election they increase their majorities in the their safe seats and don't have much effect, except on those occasions when the opposition has been in power to long.
In the 70's & 80's , again in Australia but apparently the US to, they diversified to dupe the working class into believing they cared for them, despite massive job losses, safety net cuts etc etc every time they were elected, against all logic. A cadre that is all about the delusion that giving tax cuts to rich people increases employment sees the working class as fodder for the important people. These were the captives of the shock jocks and newscorpse where fact was anathema and dumbarse patriotism despite the facts was the norm. Hopefully social media is starting to affect that as the non right is starting to pull back from its flight to the intelligensia they started in the 60's and are using repeated personal logic to overcome the lies from the likes of the tea party.
If only there were some way for me to tell which permissions an app will use when I install it!
If only there was a way to tell which permissions Google is forcing on the app developers.
Basically just like apple if you want to use apps you need to allow inappropriate permissions. Why games are allowed to read my phone state is beyond me.
Google released a new slew of spy ware type permissions about six months ago. Every single app now uses them in preparation for this "ambient" advertising they've promised.
And, of course, no mention is made of other factors, only whether or not marijuana was in use. Well, the same can be said of alcohol. Or caffeine. Or a host of other substances. I'm sure the "study" only shows a correlation, not causation. When they can prove that it's more harmful than any legal substance, I'll still say it's up to the individual to decide what to do with his/her body. And I'll agree to limits on use by minors when everyone agrees that abortion can't be done on a minor. It's about the sovereignty of the person over his or her own body. Nothing more. Nothing less.
Exactly how they found pot heads who weren't also on booze , Tobacco and / or other substances is beyond me.
And I'll agree to limits on use by minors when everyone agrees that abortion can't be done on a minor. It's about the sovereignty of the person over his or her own body. Nothing more. Nothing less.
The multinationals have artificially increased the price of goods coming to Australia for years by;
1. Enforcing rights management and getting monopolies which allow them to overcharge.
2. Lately DRM has been a sledgehammer to try and maintain this cosy overcharge. Any attempts at parallel imports are fought tooth and nail with the same fallacious arguments as the drug companies & cigarette companies use. No warranty, no standards,
3. Governments don't care. Almost guarantee this inquiry will get no-where.
4. Local retailers add to the issue by taking the overpriced imports from wholesalers / manufacturers and adding an overly large markup especially in on line retailing, the 10% GST is a minor component but they try and justify the same price as at bricks & mortar stores by claiming GST cost. Blaming the customer is easier than fighting the monopolies.
How Amazon can ship a book from the US to Australia , single unit not bulk so shipping cost higher , and sell it for half the cheapest on line book sourced here and 70% cheaper than the cheapest bookstore is beyond me. Likewise electronics etc.
Yes economies of scale make it cheaper to make & sell in the US etc but not that much. Most local manufacturing of these items have been outsourced to China years ago so the economy of scale isn't as significant as they claim.
Basically until the US government realise the real pirates are the multinational companies clamoring for DRM nothing will change. That won't happen in my lifetime.
Breathing is not dependent on gravity. You can walk on your feet, lay on your back, stand on your head, or float inside the ISS - and be still breathing.
Um funnily enough each of those examples are subject to gravity. Except for the ISS example they are all subject to the same gravity or is standing on your head more likely to lead to floating?
Last I checked, Google is not selling "their own shit" as a product.
I am speaking here as a professional SQL developer with nearly a decade of experience and a very solid knowledge of relational theory. For many of the things we use relational DBs for, they are the best solution. But there are a lot of other applications for which a RDBMS is overkill, and a tool like BigTable is ideal. There are others where a single XML file would be better. There are others where a simple text file would be better.
If people would stop arguing that you have to use a jack-hammer to solve a problem best suited to a ballpeen, we wouldn't have these arguments.
As ever the problem is that Managers want a single solution for all issues. The real world has never worked like that.
So because the Managers are swayed by marketing buzz they decide everything will be NoSql desoite their techos telling them this will cause more issues. All they see is the up front savings.
Until Managers are stopped from making decisions like this stories like this that totally miss the point will continue.
I'd assume because primarily trolls such as yourself only understand, whilst still manfully ignoring, points when repeated ad infinitum, are simple and go no longer than two lines without text wrappin.
Trying to say that because people earn profits from companies they should have the protections extended to individuals is facile, self serving and in words you may understand stupid beyond belief. Only propagandists would believe pre-digested pap such as "I have an arm therefore I am human".
Yes. If you show up to a technical job interview with a dirty t-shirt on and are rude to the receptionist because you can't "deal with people" then you may not even get the interview after all. Except in very few circumstances (academic research comes to mind), doing your job well consists mainly of solving problems for other people. If you can't get along with those people you may very well be unable or unwilling to help them solve their problems.
Someone who can learn quickly is more desirable than someone who knows Java like the back of their hand.
What would you say the balance should be, 60/40, 70/30? Can you quantify it?
I don't believe you can quantify it. The instances in which I have seen attempts at quantifying "fit factor" (think college roommate selection, most online dating services, and etc.) fail most of the time because personalities and relationships are, for the most part, dynamic. If you were to quantify it, you would probably have to do it on an individual basis. One person's technical ability may compensate for a shortcoming in personality whereas the opposite may be true for another individual. It also varies by the type of job (i.e. short-term contract versus full-time employee).
Still, I believe that "fit factor" is more important than technical competence. Depends on the current role and the need to prepare for workplace changes as the business changes.
I took on a team lead role where the previous guy, a good friend of mine, was more focussed on the fit and blind to ability, flexibility and willingness to work for and as a team. The hirees were all chucklers and convivial in public and shiv wielders in private.
When the new mongrel took over who needed flexibility and needed em to retrain and widen their skills they fought and showed fit is not the most important. I'd prefer a team of useful misfits than a team of useless fits.
I use linux because it's easier than setting up a Solaris install at home However that's no longer really the case with the Solaris VMWare options.
I'll probably go back to Solaris shortly. I certainly spend most of my time on Solaris at work and resist the blandishments to change to Linucx for the very reason it is a consistent build which is well supported and much better suited to mission critical applications than a cobbled together kernel of many parts.
I use linux because it's easier than setting up a Solaris install at home. I'd choose Solaris anyday because Solaris here and Solaris there are the same.
Just like I said: "You use linux because it works." It probably wouldn't work better than Solaris if it wasn't open source. No that's the exact opposite of what I'm saying. I'm saying Solaris is a better choice vecause it isn't open source and hasn't been developed in an ad hoc way.
Yes you do; you just don't know it. You use linux because it works and because it costs no money. Those two aspects hinge upon freedom. You must live in a world other than mine.
I use linux because it's easier than setting up a Solaris install at home. I'd choose Solaris anyday because Solaris here and Solaris there are the same.
Often Linux doesn't work out of the box and often it costs real money.
To be frank the only reason any company does more than pay lip service to the piece of crud laughingly known as Sarbannes Oxley is that the CEO risks jail time if they can be shown to have made a false financial statement.
All the money spent is purely to prevent that occurring.
If the jail time was for lower level managers then you'd notice the level of spending on *compliance* would be way way less.
For example "mata" means "eye" in both Greek and Maori, but there's just no chance that these languages are related anytime within the last, say, 20 thousand years, and this is just an outcome of plain old chance. So you've categorically ruled out Greeks and Maori's meeting at all. How did you do that given the lack of history of accidental seafaring contact.
Great, lets celebrate that. You guys patented blimps with internal frames so you can keep anyone who doesn't pay you from doing that same thing.
It's called making a return on investment. If you look at piracy (Movie and software etc), over-estimated to be sure, the taking of others efforts is not uncommon.
Do you remember the cry "CLERICS LOGOFF!"? Do you remember that wiz pulling out a full blown fireball just to buy you that additional second? And that second that feels like an eternity 'til one of the clerics finally came over TS with the relieving "made it out"?
Bards twisting like key monkeys, warriors that can handle tanking and sticking a ton of foes, Wizards that knew exactly just how much they may deal so they don't draw aggro (because they're toast after one blow, and their damage is sorely missed), clerics that knew just as exactly when that full heal has to land (and how to time it with his peers, doing exactly the same)... Generally, I feel like it involved a LOT more player skill than any game since. And, honestly, I never felt my heart beat even remotely as much in any kind of raid as it did in EQ even with minor obstacles.
The stakes just ain't the same.
Still happens near on every day to me and my guild. It just happens primarily on raids now as the grouping game is so easy compared to raiding, primarily but not exclusively because the devs effectively created two games.
Getting clerics out to recover from wiping 54 people is a several time a week occurrence as we try the hard stuff. Every class has to know their role and execute it flawlessly to win many of todays raids. The immersion is high.
The major difference between WOW and EQ, raiding, is that EQ still requires a commitment to a certain number of hours per week. Wow is much more casual and aimed at giving a sense of achievement for an expense of not much time or effort. Wow decided to penalise you very little for dying. EQ you can still lose a level dying which adds to the cachet.
> I call mistatement. I used to be a paramedic as a notification of interest.
Alcohol causes as many or more physical and mental, if probably slower, issues as heroin or the non narcotic classes of drugs. Crack cocaine and PCP and recently GBH are examples of particularly addictive / life style changing recreational drugs.
The difference in speed to injury is mainly down to the fact that alcohol is legal and it's purity, concentration and ingredients are controlled. If they weren't controlled and beer maker X decided to substitute methanol for the ethanol then the physical and mental issues become as immediate as for heroin and cocaine etc, http://www.anaesthesiamcq.com/AcidBaseBook/ab8_6a. php. A doctor who worked in backwoods Canada during the long winters related to us the immediate and catastrophic effect of methanol poisoning that presented to the ER, including blindness and psychotic rages as a way of showing that pre-conceived assumptions as to the cause of the problem are hazardous to the patients well being.
If the purity and concenration of heroin , and lesser extent cocaine etc, is maintained then the fatal OD's tend to drop dramatically and lot's of people cope for similar amounts of time that an alcoholic can before becoming incapacitated. Often the debilitating illnesses associated with heroin is due to it being cut with posionous materials, eg strychnine , that cause physical damage.
As an anecdote I got called to a narcotic induced MVA of a respectable professional who said he'd been using for 25 years but his usual source had recently been arrested so he lost the continuity and hence the purity was greater than expected leading to the accident.
Apart from misnomers the other issue that annoy me with the oxygen word is a total misunderstanding of catalysation, where oxygen promotes a reaction but is not changed, which then leads to oxymorons such as;
Oxygen will catch fire near a naked flame. Not under any normal situations I've seen.
Medical oxygen is dangerous because of this , it's potentially dangerous if not used properly.....
You're forgetting that Australia is a nation that was founded by criminals. They are truly a nation where everyone was once a criminal.
Nice try. Some, the majority, landed in Australia as convicted criminals and the rest landed as free citizens who acted as the army, constabulalry etc.
Part of the cost is caused by the need to take out insurance in case of a malpractice lawsuit, and to carry out usability and safety tests
And of course part of the cost is the bribes the salesmen pass on to the doctors in the form of free trips, computers etc to make em buy their product in the first place.
The medical industry is quite similar to the US defense, and other countries, supply industries where the price of something is jacked up out of all proportion.
Re Vioxx from what I read the company fudged the tests to get it passed. They were aware of the risks and chose to cover them up. As for cigarettes and many many other products.
DVD is a standard, any normal DVD player can read them....
Not so. I can't read North American DVD's on my Australian dvd system without third party software. The reason for the non-compatibility is different but the problem remains.
...
The issue is that the government should not restrict its public-access systems to only be viewable to a particular company's product, when there is a universal standard for such systems that would allow any company's similar product to view it without difficulty....
Well there you get into all sorts of things about Government use of public money. Considering the reduction in available resources to Government departments I would think it would be prudent, and in fact be a form of due diligence, to survey the userbase and see whether the percentage of use of other browsers would be sufficient to justify the cost of the dual development.
....Actually, most lawnmowers I see are 4 stroke. The most common 2 stroke engines, I think, are handheld yard equipment -- string trimmers, chainsaws, hedge trimmers, etc.....
I'd love to see the refs for that.
In Australia the 4 stroke mower is the exception rather than the norm. Are there studies showing the opposite elsewhere?
I think the bigger point here is that most people don't care about passwords.
In reality the need to change passwords is an artifact of the burgeoning security industry that forgets that people aren't geared to remember multitudes of non word like passwords, some people here at work have 50 different passwords. This means they write them down and use repetitive passwords.
The solution is single sign on with proper physical and pass phrase based authentication but this would reduce the need for audit and Security to an extent.
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They had to invent a new colour, Australia wasn't visible from space before
Yeah it's called 'suck on this denialist pink' for those non warming trends that push the temperature to 54C (~129F) and 'warmist purple' for a mere 50C (122F)
Unfortunately for conservatives, good for the rest of us, science is the antichrist and must be avoided at all costs.
In Australia, and seemingly from afar the US, the conservatives are trapped in the paradox of selling ice to eskimos. They market to, rally with and exclusively listen to themselves then get very surprised when election after election they increase their majorities in the their safe seats and don't have much effect, except on those occasions when the opposition has been in power to long.
In the 70's & 80's , again in Australia but apparently the US to, they diversified to dupe the working class into believing they cared for them, despite massive job losses, safety net cuts etc etc every time they were elected, against all logic. A cadre that is all about the delusion that giving tax cuts to rich people increases employment sees the working class as fodder for the important people. These were the captives of the shock jocks and newscorpse where fact was anathema and dumbarse patriotism despite the facts was the norm. Hopefully social media is starting to affect that as the non right is starting to pull back from its flight to the intelligensia they started in the 60's and are using repeated personal logic to overcome the lies from the likes of the tea party.
If only there were some way for me to tell which permissions an app will use when I install it!
If only there was a way to tell which permissions Google is forcing on the app developers.
Basically just like apple if you want to use apps you need to allow inappropriate permissions. Why games are allowed to read my phone state is beyond me.
Google released a new slew of spy ware type permissions about six months ago. Every single app now uses them in preparation for this "ambient" advertising they've promised.
And, of course, no mention is made of other factors, only whether or not marijuana was in use. Well, the same can be said of alcohol. Or caffeine. Or a host of other substances. I'm sure the "study" only shows a correlation, not causation. When they can prove that it's more harmful than any legal substance, I'll still say it's up to the individual to decide what to do with his/her body. And I'll agree to limits on use by minors when everyone agrees that abortion can't be done on a minor. It's about the sovereignty of the person over his or her own body. Nothing more. Nothing less.
Exactly how they found pot heads who weren't also on booze , Tobacco and / or other substances is beyond me.
And I'll agree to limits on use by minors when everyone agrees that abortion can't be done on a minor. It's about the sovereignty of the person over his or her own body. Nothing more. Nothing less.
This bit is offtopic bullshit but that's life.
The multinationals have artificially increased the price of goods coming to Australia for years by;
1. Enforcing rights management and getting monopolies which allow them to overcharge.
2. Lately DRM has been a sledgehammer to try and maintain this cosy overcharge. Any attempts at parallel imports are fought tooth and nail with the same fallacious arguments as the drug companies & cigarette companies use. No warranty, no standards,
3. Governments don't care. Almost guarantee this inquiry will get no-where.
4. Local retailers add to the issue by taking the overpriced imports from wholesalers / manufacturers and adding an overly large markup especially in on line retailing, the 10% GST is a minor component but they try and justify the same price as at bricks & mortar stores by claiming GST cost. Blaming the customer is easier than fighting the monopolies.
How Amazon can ship a book from the US to Australia , single unit not bulk so shipping cost higher , and sell it for half the cheapest on line book sourced here and 70% cheaper than the cheapest bookstore is beyond me. Likewise electronics etc.
Yes economies of scale make it cheaper to make & sell in the US etc but not that much. Most local manufacturing of these items have been outsourced to China years ago so the economy of scale isn't as significant as they claim.
Basically until the US government realise the real pirates are the multinational companies clamoring for DRM nothing will change. That won't happen in my lifetime.
Apples & Samsungs lawyers at a guess.
Patent laws have seriously past their useful life and are now a means to keep the lawyers fed.
When you can patent rubbing your finger across something then there is no hope.
Breathing is not dependent on gravity. You can walk on your feet, lay on your back, stand on your head, or float inside the ISS - and be still breathing.
Um funnily enough each of those examples are subject to gravity. Except for the ISS example they are all subject to the same gravity or is standing on your head more likely to lead to floating?
The ISS is subject to micro gravity but still subject to Gravity, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microgravity
Last I checked, Google is not selling "their own shit" as a product.
I am speaking here as a professional SQL developer with nearly a decade of experience and a very solid knowledge of relational theory. For many of the things we use relational DBs for, they are the best solution. But there are a lot of other applications for which a RDBMS is overkill, and a tool like BigTable is ideal. There are others where a single XML file would be better. There are others where a simple text file would be better.
If people would stop arguing that you have to use a jack-hammer to solve a problem best suited to a ballpeen, we wouldn't have these arguments.
As ever the problem is that Managers want a single solution for all issues. The real world has never worked like that.
So because the Managers are swayed by marketing buzz they decide everything will be NoSql desoite their techos telling them this will cause more issues. All they see is the up front savings.
Until Managers are stopped from making decisions like this stories like this that totally miss the point will continue.
I'd assume because primarily trolls such as yourself only understand, whilst still manfully ignoring, points when repeated ad infinitum, are simple and go no longer than two lines without text wrappin.
Trying to say that because people earn profits from companies they should have the protections extended to individuals is facile, self serving and in words you may understand stupid beyond belief. Only propagandists would believe pre-digested pap such as "I have an arm therefore I am human".
Someone who can learn quickly is more desirable than someone who knows Java like the back of their hand.
What would you say the balance should be, 60/40, 70/30? Can you quantify it?
I don't believe you can quantify it. The instances in which I have seen attempts at quantifying "fit factor" (think college roommate selection, most online dating services, and etc.) fail most of the time because personalities and relationships are, for the most part, dynamic. If you were to quantify it, you would probably have to do it on an individual basis. One person's technical ability may compensate for a shortcoming in personality whereas the opposite may be true for another individual. It also varies by the type of job (i.e. short-term contract versus full-time employee).
Still, I believe that "fit factor" is more important than technical competence. Depends on the current role and the need to prepare for workplace changes as the business changes.
I took on a team lead role where the previous guy, a good friend of mine, was more focussed on the fit and blind to ability, flexibility and willingness to work for and as a team. The hirees were all chucklers and convivial in public and shiv wielders in private.
When the new mongrel took over who needed flexibility and needed em to retrain and widen their skills they fought and showed fit is not the most important. I'd prefer a team of useful misfits than a team of useless fits.
I'll probably go back to Solaris shortly. I certainly spend most of my time on Solaris at work and resist the blandishments to change to Linucx for the very reason it is a consistent build which is well supported and much better suited to mission critical applications than a cobbled together kernel of many parts.
Just like I said: "You use linux because it works." It probably wouldn't work better than Solaris if it wasn't open source. No that's the exact opposite of what I'm saying. I'm saying Solaris is a better choice vecause it isn't open source and hasn't been developed in an ad hoc way.
To much choice really is a bad thing.
I use linux because it's easier than setting up a Solaris install at home. I'd choose Solaris anyday because Solaris here and Solaris there are the same.
Often Linux doesn't work out of the box and often it costs real money.
To be frank the only reason any company does more than pay lip service to the piece of crud laughingly known as Sarbannes Oxley is that the CEO risks jail time if they can be shown to have made a false financial statement.
All the money spent is purely to prevent that occurring.
If the jail time was for lower level managers then you'd notice the level of spending on *compliance* would be way way less.
It's called making a return on investment. If you look at piracy (Movie and software etc), over-estimated to be sure, the taking of others efforts is not uncommon.
Not everyone can live for free.
Still happens near on every day to me and my guild. It just happens primarily on raids now as the grouping game is so easy compared to raiding, primarily but not exclusively because the devs effectively created two games.
Getting clerics out to recover from wiping 54 people is a several time a week occurrence as we try the hard stuff. Every class has to know their role and execute it flawlessly to win many of todays raids. The immersion is high.
The major difference between WOW and EQ, raiding, is that EQ still requires a commitment to a certain number of hours per week. Wow is much more casual and aimed at giving a sense of achievement for an expense of not much time or effort. Wow decided to penalise you very little for dying. EQ you can still lose a level dying which adds to the cachet.
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. php. A doctor who worked in backwoods Canada during the long winters related to us the immediate and catastrophic effect of methanol poisoning that presented to the ER, including blindness and psychotic rages as a way of showing that pre-conceived assumptions as to the cause of the problem are hazardous to the patients well being.
I call mistatement. I used to be a paramedic as a notification of interest.
Alcohol causes as many or more physical and mental, if probably slower, issues as heroin or the non narcotic classes of drugs. Crack cocaine and PCP and recently GBH are examples of particularly addictive / life style changing recreational drugs.
The difference in speed to injury is mainly down to the fact that alcohol is legal and it's purity, concentration and ingredients are controlled. If they weren't controlled and beer maker X decided to substitute methanol for the ethanol then the physical and mental issues become as immediate as for heroin and cocaine etc, http://www.anaesthesiamcq.com/AcidBaseBook/ab8_6a
If the purity and concenration of heroin , and lesser extent cocaine etc, is maintained then the fatal OD's tend to drop dramatically and lot's of people cope for similar amounts of time that an alcoholic can before becoming incapacitated. Often the debilitating illnesses associated with heroin is due to it being cut with posionous materials, eg strychnine , that cause physical damage.
As an anecdote I got called to a narcotic induced MVA of a respectable professional who said he'd been using for 25 years but his usual source had recently been arrested so he lost the continuity and hence the purity was greater than expected leading to the accident.
Apart from misnomers the other issue that annoy me with the oxygen word is a total misunderstanding of catalysation, where oxygen promotes a reaction but is not changed, which then leads to oxymorons such as;
....
Oxygen will catch fire near a naked flame. Not under any normal situations I've seen.
Medical oxygen is dangerous because of this , it's potentially dangerous if not used properly.
And of course part of the cost is the bribes the salesmen pass on to the doctors in the form of free trips, computers etc to make em buy their product in the first place.
The medical industry is quite similar to the US defense, and other countries, supply industries where the price of something is jacked up out of all proportion.
Re Vioxx from what I read the company fudged the tests to get it passed. They were aware of the risks and chose to cover them up. As for cigarettes and many many other products.
Not so. I can't read North American DVD's on my Australian dvd system without third party software. The reason for the non-compatibility is different but the problem remains.
Well there you get into all sorts of things about Government use of public money. Considering the reduction in available resources to Government departments I would think it would be prudent, and in fact be a form of due diligence, to survey the userbase and see whether the percentage of use of other browsers would be sufficient to justify the cost of the dual development.
I'd love to see the refs for that.
In Australia the 4 stroke mower is the exception rather than the norm. Are there studies showing the opposite elsewhere?
And of course the difficulty in determining if Jack's is possessive or contractive is intransigent.
English is an expression of ones thoughts and desires . Grammar is the girdle that constrains but enhances understandability.
Lossening the girdle while retaining a modicum of inter-comprehension is not a bad thing.
ie, Their car is a ferraris is immediately understandable if grammatically incorrect.
I think the bigger point here is that most people don't care about passwords.
In reality the need to change passwords is an artifact of the burgeoning security industry that forgets that people aren't geared to remember multitudes of non word like passwords, some people here at work have 50 different passwords. This means they write them down and use repetitive passwords.
The solution is single sign on with proper physical and pass phrase based authentication but this would reduce the need for audit and Security to an extent.