I work with elder mentally disabled patients and chances in medication can be quite stressful for them. "I ALWAYS have two of those pills, why do I need to take three pills now?" or "This does not look like the medication I usually get, I don't trust this, I'm not taking this!"
It confuses them and at times it can be quite a struggle to get them accustomed to a new medication schedule. So I can see the advantage of changing the dose without changing the appearance or quantity of the pills.
However, even though that can be very annoying I'm more worried about me being able to quick and clearly tell the difference in pills and dosage.....
I'm sorry but if your wife is divorcing you because of a mis-tagged photo on Facebook then either: A: She is (in my opinion) doing you a favor by getting the hell out of your life. B: You two had a lot more problems already and this was just the final drop.
Either way, if one photo can ruin your marriage the marriage was ment to be anyway. Personally I don't think this ruined your life (maybee it feels that way now) but it's made your life a lot better.
In my opinion the US skaters are just looking for a scapegoat. The truth is much simpler, us Dutchies are completely and utterly dominating the speed-skating competition at the Olympics.
A good suit is vs a bad suit just gives you a very very marginal advantage, the rest is training and professionalism. It's not just the US that is being squashed right now, each and every country competing in speedskating is getting a good ass-kicking.;-)
That, and I also imagine there are separate systems for the rovers main controls and for the "work"-tasks it has to do over there. Since they issue about a 1000 commands *each day!* it seems to me that those commands go to a sort of sandboxed environment on the rover to ensure that a relatively "simple" command like "focus camera C on that rock to the right" can never cause major malfunctions to the main system on the rover itself.
As a matter of fact, privacy is so deeply embedded in all of the development we do that..... ....These privacy principles are written very deeply into our code.
You've gotta admit, the guy does have a good sense of humor;P
Remembrance my ass. It became a another national day to make more money and get extra exposure for politicians. The way 9/11 is commercialized is shocking
One report I read about the data seizure spoke of hundreds of dvds, cds, usb-sticks, memorycards and harddrives that were captured during the raid.
While I am sure OBL and his organization took security *very* seriously I however doubt that such a pile of data is all encrypted in equal thorough fashion. As some posters already mentioned, it takes only one good fuck-up to compromise everything. I'm willing to bet that in such an a huge volume of data/media there is a fuck-up somewhere.
Also, while I'm also sure his organization had some good it-experts on it's payroll the majority of the people surrounding him, including OBL himself, were probably not very skilled in the use of computers and other modern media/information techniques. A 54 year old man who spent the better part of his life fighting and hiding in hills and caves.. I wouldn't be surprised at all if he actually *did* write down his password(s) somewhere. Especially considering the fact he lived in the same compound for several years and must have felt relatively safe.
His form of security came in physical form, guns blazing, relocating often (though he fucked up on that one) and trust in the people surrounding him. He understood guns and bullets, not bits and bytes.
Considering that this would be the most important discovery in the last 500 years, it's a little worrying that it's not in Nature, or any science journal I've ever heard of. A few mintes looking at their site and other's opinions shows it to be remarkably "open minded" in the articles it publishes: "Sex on Mars"; "Cosmological foundations of consciousness".
Excuses in advance for my ignorance but as far as I understand this guy claims to have found evidence of bacteria that did not originate from earth. As a layman I interpreted that as extraterrestrial life.
Life that has started and evolved somewhere else in the Universe instead of earth. Wouldn't that make it by far the most important discovery ever? Of course I could have understand it completely wrong and got exited about nothing;-)
This is the part that always gets me..... the "nothing"
I understand that "nothing" is a concept that is very hard to grasp for a human being, but still...
As far as I understand the big bang is a series of events that led to the creation of our current universe. The part I can't get my head around is how "nothing" can turn into "something". It seems to me that an event like the big bang had to be triggered by at least ''something". And that that "something" must have had some form of physic laws in order to trigger the event.
Easy, before the Big Bang there was nothing, when there is nothing there are no laws of physics, when there are no laws of physics there is nothing to prevent anything from happening.
This is kinda what I mean. In my (surely overly simplified) logic for "anything" to happen there must be "something" to begin with in the first place. But all I keep reading is that that is not the case.. And *that* boggles my mind almost to explosive levels;)
Disclaimer: I'm just a layman who tries to get his head around theories like this purely out of interested (and is failing horribly most of the time)
Agree, iDeal may not be the end all, be all, solution for online transactions but it's pretty solid, safe and simple.
Currently I only do payments via iDeal or paypall only. My paypall accounts is empty most of the times. If I want to buy something via paypall I transfer the amount of money needed first and then make the transaction.
Agree, the first 75% (orso) of the book is a very decent "King". The ending however...
I read that he had the story in his mind for 15 years but never written and published it because he felt it wasn't good enough yet. He should have waited a few more years in that case... (purely my personal opinion)
You shouldn't be moving in line with the fastest cashier, you should pick a combination of speed and experience by the cashier.
A cashier with a lot of experience will be able to deal with difficult customers a lot faster then a 'newbie' would. For example, a experienced employee doesn't have to call the store manager to solve a problem, he/she already knows what to do.
When I aproach a line in a supermarket I always try to get in line with the most experienced cashier (unless I know he/she is really slow) But I also check the type of customers that are in line before me.
Lot's of old people? Skip that, they are to slow. Lot's of uptight persons? Skip that, there's a bigger chance of arguments with the cashier. Lot's of younger people? Take that one, they'll tend to be in a hurry more.
Also, a line with a few people that have a lot of groceries tends to be faster that a lot of people with few groceries since the payment process is the most time consuming factor.
And actually, I disagree with the article since I'm usually in the fastest queue line. I basicaly made a study of it on my own, the pleasant side effect of ADHD I guess;-) (Bet you couldn't tell that already;-)
I understand how they like the reliability of the old machines, but it just seems like we should send them up there with only the best technologies as to optimize production.
Seems to me that you'd wanna supply them with the best tool for the job. In an environment like the ISS the best tool would be a very reliable tool.
Optimizing production up there means making sure it works, always and forever. Since you can't simply replace broken stuff it's either full production or none..
Since there is no accurate way (not even remotely) to determine how many lost sales there were from sharing a song I'd say it's utter nonsense to base a fine on that.
A fixed fine per song seems the most fair to me. Considering I can purchase songs online for a dollar or less I'd say the fine per song should be somewhere in the lines of 2 to 5 dollar tops.
Both the industry as the legal institutions have to get out of their caves. The world has changed, movies, albums, songs don't have the status anymore they had 20 years ago.
Even the most casual music listener has thousands upon thousands of songs in their libraries. A mp3 hardly has any value at all anymore.
It sucks for the big boys in the industry, multi billion dollar profits down the drain for two reasons. 1. Technology ripped their monopoly to pieces, the multi billion profit days are over, forever. Suck it... 2. They missed the boat when they had the chance. They should have looked at Napster as a new market, not the root of all evil.
They laughed at Steve Jobs when he was trying to get iTunes store from the ground. Look who's laughing now. He has the music industry by it's balls. They could have done that themselves but didn't.
It's their own fucking mistake, common citizens shouldn't have to bleed for that.
The bigger problem we're facing with corporate practices like this is that, when the revolution comes, we won't have a wall big enough to put all these marketing departments against.
Not a problem at all, we just need one big island where we can dump them. Supply them with massive ammounts of high-tec surveillance equipment and shitloads of all kinds of weapons. Then keep the food supplies limited to 'almost enough to survive'
Come back in 10 years and shoot the ones that survived.
I don't have any children, nor do we plan to ever have them but even so I think the idea of robots teaching our future is insane. Teaching robots will create robots.
As for the 'violence' of disassembling such a robot... Well, there you have it. THAT is what school is about, teaching children how to behave in a social group.
You try big mouthing the teacher, the teacher let their authority reign... You disassemble your robot teacher, it stops functioning.
Guess which of the two is the most important lesson...
And as a matter in fact, if I would have children and one of them would disassemble a robot I'd say 'good job', 'clever kid for doing that without electrocuting yourself' But now we're going to put you in a 'real' school and let me see you try the same on a human, good luck.
For instance, there are a LOT of websites out there where even the damn 'search' box won't work if you don't have JS on.
Using JS is not the same as needing JS.
I'm pretty sure a input field can do it's job quite perfectly without the use of a single line of Javascript.
In fact, I'm pretty convinced that the "web" as a whole could do without 90% of the javascripts that are being used. Most of the JS that is being used is either for the bling factor or just bloat.
edit: The two minutes I had to wait to get a preview of this post is a perfectly good example of a input box that would have been much better of without the use of JS crap.
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I work with elder mentally disabled patients and chances in medication can be quite stressful for them. "I ALWAYS have two of those pills, why do I need to take three pills now?" or "This does not look like the medication I usually get, I don't trust this, I'm not taking this!"
It confuses them and at times it can be quite a struggle to get them accustomed to a new medication schedule. So I can see the advantage of changing the dose without changing the appearance or quantity of the pills.
However, even though that can be very annoying I'm more worried about me being able to quick and clearly tell the difference in pills and dosage.....
I'm sorry but if your wife is divorcing you because of a mis-tagged photo on Facebook then either:
A: She is (in my opinion) doing you a favor by getting the hell out of your life.
B: You two had a lot more problems already and this was just the final drop.
Either way, if one photo can ruin your marriage the marriage was ment to be anyway. Personally I don't think this ruined your life (maybee it feels that way now) but it's made your life a lot better.
In my opinion the US skaters are just looking for a scapegoat. The truth is much simpler, us Dutchies are completely and utterly dominating the speed-skating competition at the Olympics.
A good suit is vs a bad suit just gives you a very very marginal advantage, the rest is training and professionalism. It's not just the US that is being squashed right now, each and every country competing in speedskating is getting a good ass-kicking. ;-)
Reminds me of an old saying:
Every person you meet is always better at something then you are...
I think this is the second or third accusation from the US to Iran about something or the other this week.
This pastern of preparing people for another war again is getting a bit obvious by now,
That, and I also imagine there are separate systems for the rovers main controls and for the "work"-tasks it has to do over there.
Since they issue about a 1000 commands *each day!* it seems to me that those commands go to a sort of sandboxed environment on the rover to ensure that a relatively "simple" command like "focus camera C on that rock to the right" can never cause major malfunctions to the main system on the rover itself.
Sending a probe to Mars without any electricity, damn..... We're really lagging behind in terms of innovation :)
From Mark Zuckerberg's post:
As a matter of fact, privacy is so deeply embedded in all of the development we do that .....
....These privacy principles are written very deeply into our code.
You've gotta admit, the guy does have a good sense of humor ;P
Remembrance my ass. It became a another national day to make more money and get extra exposure for politicians. The way 9/11 is commercialized is shocking
Floating houses were already designed 1000's of years ago, they're called boats.
But on topic, 'floating' houses are nothing new, we've had them for decades already here in the Netherlands
One report I read about the data seizure spoke of hundreds of dvds, cds, usb-sticks, memorycards and harddrives that were captured during the raid.
While I am sure OBL and his organization took security *very* seriously I however doubt that such a pile of data is all encrypted in equal thorough fashion.
As some posters already mentioned, it takes only one good fuck-up to compromise everything. I'm willing to bet that in such an a huge volume of data/media there is a fuck-up somewhere.
Also, while I'm also sure his organization had some good it-experts on it's payroll the majority of the people surrounding him, including OBL himself, were probably not very skilled in the use of computers and other modern media/information techniques.
A 54 year old man who spent the better part of his life fighting and hiding in hills and caves.. I wouldn't be surprised at all if he actually *did* write down his password(s) somewhere. Especially considering the fact he lived in the same compound for several years and must have felt relatively safe.
His form of security came in physical form, guns blazing, relocating often (though he fucked up on that one) and trust in the people surrounding him. He understood guns and bullets, not bits and bytes.
Considering that this would be the most important discovery in the last 500 years, it's a little worrying that it's not in Nature, or any science journal I've ever heard of. A few mintes looking at their site and other's opinions shows it to be remarkably "open minded" in the articles it publishes: "Sex on Mars"; "Cosmological foundations of consciousness".
Excuses in advance for my ignorance but as far as I understand this guy claims to have found evidence of bacteria that did not originate from earth.
As a layman I interpreted that as extraterrestrial life.
Life that has started and evolved somewhere else in the Universe instead of earth. Wouldn't that make it by far the most important discovery ever? ;-)
Of course I could have understand it completely wrong and got exited about nothing
Same here, I have no need to hide anything in my personal situation. Our porn dir is shared across the home network for convenience matters actually.
For professional situations I use a spare laptop that I never use for anything personal.
This is the part that always gets me..... the "nothing"
I understand that "nothing" is a concept that is very hard to grasp for a human being, but still...
As far as I understand the big bang is a series of events that led to the creation of our current universe. The part I can't get my head around is how "nothing" can turn into "something".
It seems to me that an event like the big bang had to be triggered by at least ''something". And that that "something" must have had some form of physic laws in order to trigger the event.
Easy, before the Big Bang there was nothing, when there is nothing there are no laws of physics, when there are no laws of physics there is nothing to prevent anything from happening.
This is kinda what I mean. ;)
In my (surely overly simplified) logic for "anything" to happen there must be "something" to begin with in the first place. But all I keep reading is that that is not the case.. And *that* boggles my mind almost to explosive levels
Disclaimer: I'm just a layman who tries to get his head around theories like this purely out of interested (and is failing horribly most of the time)
Agree, iDeal may not be the end all, be all, solution for online transactions but it's pretty solid, safe and simple.
Currently I only do payments via iDeal or paypall only. My paypall accounts is empty most of the times. If I want to buy something via paypall I transfer the amount of money needed first and then make the transaction.
How is publishing information from/about a device you own a legal offence?
Agree, the first 75% (orso) of the book is a very decent "King". The ending however...
I read that he had the story in his mind for 15 years but never written and published it because he felt it wasn't good enough yet. He should have waited a few more years in that case... (purely my personal opinion)
You shouldn't be moving in line with the fastest cashier, you should pick a combination of speed and experience by the cashier.
A cashier with a lot of experience will be able to deal with difficult customers a lot faster then a 'newbie' would. For example, a experienced employee doesn't have to call the store manager to solve a problem, he/she already knows what to do.
When I aproach a line in a supermarket I always try to get in line with the most experienced cashier (unless I know he/she is really slow) But I also check the type of customers that are in line before me.
Lot's of old people? Skip that, they are to slow. Lot's of uptight persons? Skip that, there's a bigger chance of arguments with the cashier.
Lot's of younger people? Take that one, they'll tend to be in a hurry more.
Also, a line with a few people that have a lot of groceries tends to be faster that a lot of people with few groceries since the payment process is the most time consuming factor.
And actually, I disagree with the article since I'm usually in the fastest queue line. I basicaly made a study of it on my own, the pleasant side effect of ADHD I guess ;-) (Bet you couldn't tell that already ;-)
Wikileaks accepts donations by mail. If you're paranoid, and you should be ............
The subject at hand is donating to a website that publishes information not in favor by the U.S. government.....
"and you should be"
Whoever was behind 9/11, mission accomplished.
I understand how they like the reliability of the old machines, but it just seems like we should send them up there with only the best technologies as to optimize production.
Seems to me that you'd wanna supply them with the best tool for the job. In an environment like the ISS the best tool would be a very reliable tool.
Optimizing production up there means making sure it works, always and forever. Since you can't simply replace broken stuff it's either full production or none..
Since there is no accurate way (not even remotely) to determine how many lost sales there were from sharing a song I'd say it's utter nonsense to base a fine on that.
A fixed fine per song seems the most fair to me. Considering I can purchase songs online for a dollar or less I'd say the fine per song should be somewhere in the lines of 2 to 5 dollar tops.
Both the industry as the legal institutions have to get out of their caves. The world has changed, movies, albums, songs don't have the status anymore they had 20 years ago.
Even the most casual music listener has thousands upon thousands of songs in their libraries. A mp3 hardly has any value at all anymore.
It sucks for the big boys in the industry, multi billion dollar profits down the drain for two reasons.
1. Technology ripped their monopoly to pieces, the multi billion profit days are over, forever. Suck it...
2. They missed the boat when they had the chance. They should have looked at Napster as a new market, not the root of all evil.
They laughed at Steve Jobs when he was trying to get iTunes store from the ground. Look who's laughing now. He has the music industry by it's balls. They could have done that themselves but didn't.
It's their own fucking mistake, common citizens shouldn't have to bleed for that.
The bigger problem we're facing with corporate practices like this is that, when the revolution comes, we won't have a wall big enough to put all these marketing departments against.
Not a problem at all, we just need one big island where we can dump them.
Supply them with massive ammounts of high-tec surveillance equipment and shitloads of all kinds of weapons. Then keep the food supplies limited to 'almost enough to survive'
Come back in 10 years and shoot the ones that survived.
I don't have any children, nor do we plan to ever have them but even so I think the idea of robots teaching our future is insane.
Teaching robots will create robots.
As for the 'violence' of disassembling such a robot... Well, there you have it.
THAT is what school is about, teaching children how to behave in a social group.
You try big mouthing the teacher, the teacher let their authority reign...
You disassemble your robot teacher, it stops functioning.
Guess which of the two is the most important lesson...
And as a matter in fact, if I would have children and one of them would disassemble a robot I'd say 'good job', 'clever kid for doing that without electrocuting yourself' But now we're going to put you in a 'real' school and let me see you try the same on a human, good luck.
For instance, there are a LOT of websites out there where even the damn 'search' box won't work if you don't have JS on.
Using JS is not the same as needing JS.
I'm pretty sure a input field can do it's job quite perfectly without the use of a single line of Javascript.
In fact, I'm pretty convinced that the "web" as a whole could do without 90% of the javascripts that are being used. Most of the JS that is being used is either for the bling factor or just bloat.
edit:
The two minutes I had to wait to get a preview of this post is a perfectly good example of a input box that would have been much better of without the use of JS crap.
Physical attributes. The most important!
No, it is *a* important attribute. Even in this day and age.
Generally speaking, the fittest person (mentally and/or physically) is the person who has the biggest advantages, no matter where, when, why or how.
Which of the two is the most important depends entirely on your current situation.
Since any given situation can change completely in a split second it's foolish to dismiss any trait as less important.