Another option is an old Poqet PC. It was a PC-XT in a package the size of a VHS cassette, and runs for days on a couple AAs. It's not as easy to type on as a "Model T" (as the TRS-80 100's are affectionately known), but it's smaller and has a 80x25 character screen. You can easily run the DOS text editor of your choice (or even WordPerfect 5.1) on it, and transfer files via serial or PCMCIA cards.
I'd also suggesting looking at Psion's old PDAs (Series3, Siena, Revo), which were even smaller, had reasonably good keyboards, and excellent software that you can also use for tracking your schedule, calculating exchange rates, storing phone numbers, etc. This is what I've usually used as a travelling companion... except for the times when I really wanted to get away from the 'tronics, and instead used a notepad of paper and a pencil for keeping a journal.
I submitted a few different photos of myself, and was variously matched with David Lee Roth, Ethan Hawke, Michael Jordan, and David Hyde Pierce.
In watching the animation flipping back and forth between and Mr. Jordan, I could see why the machine matched us: the angle of the photo and the line of our smiles were the same. Same with my match to Mr. Pierce. If this is the state of the technology, I don't think there's much use for it yet in identifying crmininals.
When I read the title to this article, my immediate assumption was that "social engineering" referred to the misguided attempts by "progressives" to re-work society into a socialist utopia.
Or misguised attempts by "conservatives" to re-work society into a Bible-based paradise, and "Social Engineering in the Workplace" could be about the problems caused by (for example) benefits policies that restrict insurance coverage to opposite-gender partners, or company-organized fund-raising drives for Christian charities.
Your personal enemies aren't the only ones up to this.
$3500 a day for a few hours work, isn't bad at all, considering some people barely make that much in a month.
Ha! I wish I pulled in $3500/month! If I did, I wouldn't have to get all my electronics by stealing them. (KIDDING about the last part!)
But the point isn't really whether someone could make a living doing this, but whether he could get himself an extra $3500 worth of gear just by deciding to do it.
This whole thing reminds me of a thing Jerry Seinfeld did, making fun of chinese people eating with sticks. He said something about that he could not understand why they kept eating with sticks, since "they have seen the fork".
The fork is actually a rather recent invention, tableware-wise. The oldest is the knife, followed by the spoon. For centuries, those two (and more commonly, fingers) were the standard tools used by Europeans to eat with. To show off their wealth (and sometimes get ridiculed by commoners for their effeminacy) the upper classes might eat meat and such with a pair of knives. The fork was the clever invention of someone who figured that putting a pair of pokers on the same handle would give him more control. (This also allowed table knives to be made without pointed tips.) It wasn't until the 17th century that forks started becoming common on the tables of Europe, and later in North America.
A free-beer version of MT3 is available, and the only really noteworthy new restriction on it compared to free-beer MT2.6, is the number of user accounts and the number of blogs you can run on it. For the casual personal blogger, this won't be an issue.What the new licencing terms are going to affect are folks running a lot of blogs or letting their friends run blogs on their site, and who want to upgrade to MT3.
I'm currently running MT2.6 and my usage falls just beyond the free-beer MT3 allowances (I've got a friend's blog running on my server as well as a couple of mine). I'm a bit irritated by the change of terms, but I don't consider it a betrayal. I knew the software wasn't free-speech when I started using it, and I figured that the terms might change. It's certainly within Six Apart's rights to change it. Now I just need to make a rational decision whether I can comply with the terms of the free-beer MT3 licence, and if not, whether to stick with MT2.6, convert to a different system, or pay the fee to Six Apart. It's my choice, and I'll take responsibility for it.
I would assume that once a patients has AIDS this therapy will have no affect.
If you can fight HIV to a standstill, to the point that it's no longer actively destroying T-cells, the immune system can begin to recover some of its ability to fight off opportunistic diseases. It probably wouldn't help someone in the terminal stages of AIDS with PCP, KS, etc. but in the early stages it would be very helpful in reducing the nastiest parts of the syndrome.
Tell that to all the faithfully monogamous women infected by their tom-catting husbands, the otherwise virginal rape victims infected by their attackers, or the newborn children infected by their mothers. It isn't the frequency of the sex, but simply whether the other person is infected. Once can do it.
The other entry vector is blood transfer, but it's not exactly every-day practice (ie if you get AIDS through a blood transfer you're very unlikely to transfer your blood to somebody else before you start having symptoms).
You don't know a damn thing about how addicts use heroin, do you? (They routinely re-use each others' IV needles.) Or about how quickly HIV symptoms appear. (It's commonly dormant but communicable for years.)
I was reading were some people thought it was exciting to have unprotected sex with infectios people while gambling they wouldn't get it.
Even worse, there are "bug chasers" who try (sometimes not entirely consciously) to get infected, hoping to get some of the sympathy and care that people with AIDS (sometimes) get from the public. Attempting suicide, in a way. On some level, this might disappoint them. (It's a messed up world, with some pretty messed up people in it.)
It may not have actually occurred to them to search for a cure.
This isn't a cure, either.
There's no question that the medical-industrial complex is motivated primarily by profit. It's disgusting. But anyone who thinks the the focus on treatments instead of a cure is motivated simply by greed... doesn't really understand just how challenging an actual cure would be to create. Even the best ideas out there (funded or not) would be very difficult to make work.
But we're talking about people who (usually) already have had unsafe sex with HIV-infected people. And if they figure they're invulnerable to it, why not take advantage of the other infectees' desire for affection?
[the experimental treatment] is a virus that can be spread by having sex, just like HIV
If this proves effective, I can anticipate people who'll get the treatment, then use that as another item on their list of "why you should have unsafe sex with me tonight". That may be a more entertaining way for more people to get "treated" than visiting their doctors, but HIV isn't the only nasty little bugger out there. We could end up with an epidemic of hepatitis and other STDs.
"I can't say now it won't make it worse," Arkin said.
Some colleges tend to focus a lot on job preparation, others focus on exposing students to a lot of different things. They pretty much all use checklists, because "take whatever you feel like taking" (especially in the hands of teenagers) is a recipe for a lot of wasted time and money.
My first bach degree, for example, was based on a checklist that required me to take classes in literature, economics, a foreign language, math, history, psychology, theatre, music, physics, philosophy, phys ed, and religion... as well as the comp sci program that was my major. And the comp sci classes, while they covered nuts-and-bolts topics, all stressed general problem-solving principles. e.g. I don't remember much about Pascal in particular from Intro to Programming, but I learned a lot about concepts like modularity, optimisation, recursion, etc.
My second bach degree was in digital media, but I had to take classes in life drawing, painting, sculpture, color theory, a bunch of art history, 30 credits from the humanities and sciences, and my choice of electives from other departments... again, using a checklist to ensure that my education included both breadth and depth.
Are there by-the-numbers undergrad programs that are little more than glorified trade schools? Sure. In some cases that's because they're trade schools whose programs have "grown up" to become four-year colleges. In others it's becase they're simply not very good colleges. But those same colleges' grad programs are probably just as uninspired and uninspiring. Elsewhere there are undergrad programs where the grapes simply aren't that sour.
University curriculum is a joke for the majority of the departments and doesn't get even remotely rigorous until you've entered a graduate program. At least that is what my graduate degree and post doc friends tell me...
Have you considered the obvious bias they have? I've been through two completely different undergrad programs (I'm a bachelor twice over) and I found plenty of rigor in both of them.
I don't even have an associate's degree, seemed like a big waste of time for the career I'm in and truthfully it would have been
That could very well be true. Not every job requires the same kind of education.
There are plenty of methods of sorting people that work better.... Race and background are still reasonably good indicators.
Social background? Yeah, there's some correlation there.
Race? Not if the applicants are first matched for education, experience, and/or background. The reason it's no longer a legal criterion is because there are far better indicators available than fading stereotypes... and oh yeah: using race as a hiring criterion is socially corrosive, and individually unfair.
I have a work-issued Treo which works pretty well. It's flaked out on me a few times, but nothing that a soft reset wouldn't fix.
I haven't used a Symbian-based phone, but for years I've been using Psion PDAs based on earlier versions of the OS (called EPOC at the time), and can attest to it being rock-solid. If I were in the market for a high-end smartphone (with an eye towards ditching the laptop), I'd definitely consider Nokia's 9290.
I wish I could be so confident of this. A really good prosecutor with a jury drawn from a prudish community can get a pretty severe conviction. On the other hand (perhaps more relevant to this case), a not-especially-good defence attorney who doesn't believe that strongly in his client's innocence (moral or legal) can negotiate a pretty lousy settlement.
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I'd also suggesting looking at Psion's old PDAs (Series3, Siena, Revo), which were even smaller, had reasonably good keyboards, and excellent software that you can also use for tracking your schedule, calculating exchange rates, storing phone numbers, etc. This is what I've usually used as a travelling companion... except for the times when I really wanted to get away from the 'tronics, and instead used a notepad of paper and a pencil for keeping a journal.
I submitted a few different photos of myself, and was variously matched with David Lee Roth, Ethan Hawke, Michael Jordan, and David Hyde Pierce. In watching the animation flipping back and forth between and Mr. Jordan, I could see why the machine matched us: the angle of the photo and the line of our smiles were the same. Same with my match to Mr. Pierce. If this is the state of the technology, I don't think there's much use for it yet in identifying crmininals.
Or misguised attempts by "conservatives" to re-work society into a Bible-based paradise, and "Social Engineering in the Workplace" could be about the problems caused by (for example) benefits policies that restrict insurance coverage to opposite-gender partners, or company-organized fund-raising drives for Christian charities.
Your personal enemies aren't the only ones up to this.
Ha! I wish I pulled in $3500/month! If I did, I wouldn't have to get all my electronics by stealing them. (KIDDING about the last part!)
But the point isn't really whether someone could make a living doing this, but whether he could get himself an extra $3500 worth of gear just by deciding to do it.
With a "location" that puts Hobbiton in the United States? I don't think so. Otherwise, it's pretty convincing....
The fork is actually a rather recent invention, tableware-wise. The oldest is the knife, followed by the spoon. For centuries, those two (and more commonly, fingers) were the standard tools used by Europeans to eat with. To show off their wealth (and sometimes get ridiculed by commoners for their effeminacy) the upper classes might eat meat and such with a pair of knives. The fork was the clever invention of someone who figured that putting a pair of pokers on the same handle would give him more control. (This also allowed table knives to be made without pointed tips.) It wasn't until the 17th century that forks started becoming common on the tables of Europe, and later in North America.
The names of those sizes are shorter. :)
How do you play the piano with a fork?
Or you could download it from the source.
I'm currently running MT2.6 and my usage falls just beyond the free-beer MT3 allowances (I've got a friend's blog running on my server as well as a couple of mine). I'm a bit irritated by the change of terms, but I don't consider it a betrayal. I knew the software wasn't free-speech when I started using it, and I figured that the terms might change. It's certainly within Six Apart's rights to change it. Now I just need to make a rational decision whether I can comply with the terms of the free-beer MT3 licence, and if not, whether to stick with MT2.6, convert to a different system, or pay the fee to Six Apart. It's my choice, and I'll take responsibility for it.
That would be why I started with "If this proves effective..."
If you can fight HIV to a standstill, to the point that it's no longer actively destroying T-cells, the immune system can begin to recover some of its ability to fight off opportunistic diseases. It probably wouldn't help someone in the terminal stages of AIDS with PCP, KS, etc. but in the early stages it would be very helpful in reducing the nastiest parts of the syndrome.
Tell that to all the faithfully monogamous women infected by their tom-catting husbands, the otherwise virginal rape victims infected by their attackers, or the newborn children infected by their mothers. It isn't the frequency of the sex, but simply whether the other person is infected. Once can do it.
The other entry vector is blood transfer, but it's not exactly every-day practice (ie if you get AIDS through a blood transfer you're very unlikely to transfer your blood to somebody else before you start having symptoms).
You don't know a damn thing about how addicts use heroin, do you? (They routinely re-use each others' IV needles.) Or about how quickly HIV symptoms appear. (It's commonly dormant but communicable for years.)
"Insightful"? Please don't mod while drunk.
Even worse, there are "bug chasers" who try (sometimes not entirely consciously) to get infected, hoping to get some of the sympathy and care that people with AIDS (sometimes) get from the public. Attempting suicide, in a way. On some level, this might disappoint them. (It's a messed up world, with some pretty messed up people in it.)
This isn't a cure, either.
There's no question that the medical-industrial complex is motivated primarily by profit. It's disgusting. But anyone who thinks the the focus on treatments instead of a cure is motivated simply by greed... doesn't really understand just how challenging an actual cure would be to create. Even the best ideas out there (funded or not) would be very difficult to make work.
But we're talking about people who (usually) already have had unsafe sex with HIV-infected people. And if they figure they're invulnerable to it, why not take advantage of the other infectees' desire for affection?
They're afraid of what someone who doesn't have benevolent intentions might be able to do with this approach.
If this proves effective, I can anticipate people who'll get the treatment, then use that as another item on their list of "why you should have unsafe sex with me tonight". That may be a more entertaining way for more people to get "treated" than visiting their doctors, but HIV isn't the only nasty little bugger out there. We could end up with an epidemic of hepatitis and other STDs.
"I can't say now it won't make it worse," Arkin said.
My first bach degree, for example, was based on a checklist that required me to take classes in literature, economics, a foreign language, math, history, psychology, theatre, music, physics, philosophy, phys ed, and religion... as well as the comp sci program that was my major. And the comp sci classes, while they covered nuts-and-bolts topics, all stressed general problem-solving principles. e.g. I don't remember much about Pascal in particular from Intro to Programming, but I learned a lot about concepts like modularity, optimisation, recursion, etc.
My second bach degree was in digital media, but I had to take classes in life drawing, painting, sculpture, color theory, a bunch of art history, 30 credits from the humanities and sciences, and my choice of electives from other departments... again, using a checklist to ensure that my education included both breadth and depth.
Are there by-the-numbers undergrad programs that are little more than glorified trade schools? Sure. In some cases that's because they're trade schools whose programs have "grown up" to become four-year colleges. In others it's becase they're simply not very good colleges. But those same colleges' grad programs are probably just as uninspired and uninspiring. Elsewhere there are undergrad programs where the grapes simply aren't that sour.
Yes. Welcome to the late 20th Century. Please keep moving, and you'll catch up with reality pretty soon.
Have you considered the obvious bias they have? I've been through two completely different undergrad programs (I'm a bachelor twice over) and I found plenty of rigor in both of them.
I don't even have an associate's degree, seemed like a big waste of time for the career I'm in and truthfully it would have been
That could very well be true. Not every job requires the same kind of education.
Social background? Yeah, there's some correlation there.
Race? Not if the applicants are first matched for education, experience, and/or background. The reason it's no longer a legal criterion is because there are far better indicators available than fading stereotypes... and oh yeah: using race as a hiring criterion is socially corrosive, and individually unfair.
I haven't used a Symbian-based phone, but for years I've been using Psion PDAs based on earlier versions of the OS (called EPOC at the time), and can attest to it being rock-solid. If I were in the market for a high-end smartphone (with an eye towards ditching the laptop), I'd definitely consider Nokia's 9290.
Another would be "love" (or "sex").
I wish I could be so confident of this. A really good prosecutor with a jury drawn from a prudish community can get a pretty severe conviction. On the other hand (perhaps more relevant to this case), a not-especially-good defence attorney who doesn't believe that strongly in his client's innocence (moral or legal) can negotiate a pretty lousy settlement.