It has a file system, an environment that will run applications and services, host drivers, manage memory, and (maybe) add in UI and window management primitives and a network stack. In my lifetime, I've worked on over twenty different OSes (of course, this is because I started back before the Win/Lin/OSX hegemony came upon us), not to mention the at least half-dozen Windows versions I've used. Seriously, they're not all that different, at least where most of us are living each day. You get to a point where you say, OK, how do I run a program? How do I allocate memory? How do I open a network connection? Where's the library for this or that? And, in the end, they all have quirks that make them all a joy and all a pain in the ass. Pick one, use it, stop fretting and kvetching.
Besides, if you really wanted different, you'd be using an IBM iSeries or zSeries - those have OS'es with significant (and interesting) differences.
Hospitals have been using similar systems to dispense oft-used, non-controlled drugs and devices on hospital floors for the past dozen years or so. Many of the recording studios and practice spaces I've been in have used them to dispense strings, drumsticks, picks, etc. (these were cash/card operated). The concept just doesn't seem that unusual.
Besides, if you're a sizable shop, IT usually just has stacks of keyboards and mice taken from decommissioned systems sitting about anyway. Where I work, we just walk up and grab one.
And, finally, if you're hiring people who regularly dump coffee into their keyboard, classes and or training on basic hand-eye coordination might be in order.
Why? Were they afraid she was going to steal things from the other sheep? Was there a history of anti-social behavior in her family history (as shown here)?
I've run into people in their early twenties who have never held a job before. In such situations, an employer takes on a big risk by hiring such people.
And your solution is to start giving people on-the-job training starting at 8? I'm sure that will reduce risk a lot. Are you really this stupid, or are you just acting retarded to make a point?
Probably because (a) he has more than one patient to manage and may have forgotten about the gall bladder incident (especially if it was a single acute incident that went away, as opposed to something needing surgery), (b) he may not have had time to review her chart for the past year, given the number of patients he had to see, how far his office was backed up, etc., and (c) the actual number of patients who manifest dizziness as a symptom as a result of a gall bladder attack may well be very small.
I doubt that you expected an actual answer, but these seem to be most likely. None of these, by the way, are unexpected or unusual or even get close to a notion of malpractice. In the end, you are correct in your last statement.
Well, Caltech, for one, but being in California, the bright lights outside make it hard to see through the glare when the students try to play Frisbee.
So the plan should now be to take "safe" metallic items with edges and points that can be honed, hone them to fine (and sharp) finishes, and carry them on planes!
Well, maybe, just maybe, because the increase in traction doesn't improve the driving experience or the safety of the drive to the extent that "upgrading" would outweigh the inconvenience of locking nuts on the wheel? Because your incidence of having a flat tire is higher than your incidence of skidding due to loss of traction? Because I don't drive like a freaking maniac on the way to and from work and, thus, don't need "better traction"? I can think of a lot of reasons, most of which indicate that someone who would choose these tires likes to drive far too aggressively.
In your opinion. I think the dialog is trite and the writing a bit boring. Many geeks share your opinion, though, due to two factors: (a) Wiggins is held up as a superior talent who is marginalized and brutalized by his peers due to his superiority - something many geeks identify with. (b) The notion of treating war as a game also resonates with many geeks.
Card is still a homophobic asshole.
Agreed.
A better question is, what are you going to do about it?
Well, not buy his books for one. And complain about his homophobia and promote treating him like the pariah he obvious wants to be, in the same way he promotes these same actions against homosexuals.
I dispute this. Most of his stories are hackneyed and trite and his writing is not that interesting (relatively mundane language, slightly wooden dialog, I could go on). The only reason that he is so highly revered in geek circles is that (a) Many geeks identify with his Ender Wiggins character, as the character is assaulted by his "peers", even with (because of?) his performance superiority, something that resonates with many geeks and (b) the book is about ultimately treating war as a game, again, something many geeks can identify with (or are those WoW logins there for show?). But, Card as a great writer? Not so much.
You don't go down the street and ask people if they're going to vote for or against gay marriage or go to church on Sunday or if they're for abortion or not before having a block party, so why give so much attention to anyone else's beliefs when it has nothing to do with their product?
Well, if I knew someone on my block had a viewpoint of bigotry that he was talking about all the time, I probably wouldn't organize a block party in the first place, as this would likely make many uncomfortable to attend.
This is similar. Some bigot wants to foam at the mouth in public? Some people don't want to buy his stuff? Both are fine. But people sure as hell don't have a requirement to be silent about a bigot. Nor does a publisher need to put out his stuff, should they not want to be associated with a bigot.
Freedom is a wonderful thing. It allows an asshole like Card to make himself a pariah with his atavistic social views. And it allows the rest of us to treat him as the pariah he wants to be.
You know, I'm married. I have two kids. And your post is one of the most stupid things I've ever read on Slashdot. Sincerely. In fact, I feel more stupid for having read it. I hope you're proud - your post is truly a high point in stupid.
Although I agree with most of your rant, do you honestly think that not having a job despite one's best efforts is not something to be unhappy about? Or is it that not having a job prima facie evidence that best efforts were not made because, obviously, in a paradise like [insert non-third-world country name here] with our current full employment, no one could ever be out of work?
Increasing productivity per worker, per capital invested, per energy unit consumed is always good. Or isn't it?
If you could talk about this as an activity totally isolated from the rest of the society, yes. But once you start looking at the social milieu in which this activity is placed (necessity of workers to have jobs to earn money to keep their families from starving and to keep them from riot and robbery), maybe not so much, unless you can also ensure that the economic gains derived from the productivity gains are also distributed widely. Plus, we're not even talking about increased productivity leading to increases in other externalities (e.g., polution, faster resource depletion). So, no, it's not always a good. The fact that many economists do not see that all of these externalities make the statement "Increased productivity is always good" false is a major failing in the field.
The sad thing is that this won't result in you paying less to the government (if you want this sort of thing). All it means is that $85B will be pulled out of the economy this year, probably pushing the country back into recession. And all for some stupid "debt crisis" that is "so severe" that people from all over the globe are falling over themselves to lend us money at obscenely low rates. Enjoy your longer recession, idiots.
Well, to be honest, we love Chinese-made guns, too. Or guns made anywhere else for that matter. We need them to defend our freedoms against marauding big government. God bless America.
To continue to tell the tech community that "Your job is teh awesome, so everyone should do it so we can pay you less!". Oh yeah... don't organize, either - you're your own man (or woman). It's not like anyone as totally rad as you would ever be out of work because your corporate masters decided to outsource your job. Who needs other peoples support when you're so teh awesome?
... he could have gotten more than 12% market share for his desktop systems.
I'm sort of glad he didn't. That freed up resources to go after the consumer device market, rather than ending up a broke grey-box vendor like Dell or Compaq/HP. The stock price did much better as a result. Besides, desktop systems are a saturated and (now) shrinking market. It seems Mr. Jobs was prescient when it came to predicting where the market could be driven, something that you obviously aren't.
What they want is women to participate ONLY if they agree with what they say and will parrot it in one expansive echo chamber. Dissent will be shamed, expelled, and crushed.
To be fair, this is true of almost any group. Try promoting Socialism at a Libertarian meeting or Free Market ideology at a Communist Party gathering or Atheism at a Tea Party or your anti-evolutionary leanings at a medical convention and see how welcome you're made to feel. Self-selection is the order of the day and is quite hard-wired into our brains.
There was no premeditation, and no conspiracy to silence Violet Blue or an interesting talk.
Yet that was what the first request was - silence the talk. Not a question of what was in the talk, not a request to speak with the presenter, but instead a request to shut it down. No, not a conspiracy, but something worse - a knee-jerk reaction that was honored as a "reasonable" request, causing a speaker to be silenced based on no evidence.
This was a really great way to make your point, Ada Initiative. As a person who supports the project's overall goals of fighting sexism in the high-tech community, I think that the person who requested this action is an utter moron who needs to be expunged from this group before she (or he - how would I know) does any more harm. If it happens to be the group's leader (as indicated in the article summary above), you need a new one.
Yeah. Stupid comments like yours (and yo' mama's).
But don't worry - we who read Slashdot love one-sided skepticism like yours. The "skeptic" part makes you feel "edgy" and "counter", while the one-sidedness of your views means you're just whoring your mouth for the same old corporate interests.
And as musicians get a bigger cut from live performances, everybody is happy except the middlemen who have been cut out and a thin elite of top musicians who hoped they could retire at the age of 30.
Maybe not so much... Many artists are being saddled with what are called "360" deals, meaning that the labels get their cut of performances, merchandise sold at performances, publishing, and other media usage of the material. The labels will put in money promoting and fronting money for the tours and selling the new IP they've retained in the deal. But, at the end of the day, it's all accounted using the same shady practices that the 'AA's have always used, so now the artist isn't even guaranteed to make money from performance or publishing either - he or she is living advance to advance in indentured servitude trying to pay off what his or her label has supposedly fronted for his or her "success".
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It has a file system, an environment that will run applications and services, host drivers, manage memory, and (maybe) add in UI and window management primitives and a network stack. In my lifetime, I've worked on over twenty different OSes (of course, this is because I started back before the Win/Lin/OSX hegemony came upon us), not to mention the at least half-dozen Windows versions I've used. Seriously, they're not all that different, at least where most of us are living each day. You get to a point where you say, OK, how do I run a program? How do I allocate memory? How do I open a network connection? Where's the library for this or that? And, in the end, they all have quirks that make them all a joy and all a pain in the ass. Pick one, use it, stop fretting and kvetching.
Besides, if you really wanted different, you'd be using an IBM iSeries or zSeries - those have OS'es with significant (and interesting) differences.
Hospitals have been using similar systems to dispense oft-used, non-controlled drugs and devices on hospital floors for the past dozen years or so. Many of the recording studios and practice spaces I've been in have used them to dispense strings, drumsticks, picks, etc. (these were cash/card operated). The concept just doesn't seem that unusual.
Besides, if you're a sizable shop, IT usually just has stacks of keyboards and mice taken from decommissioned systems sitting about anyway. Where I work, we just walk up and grab one.
And, finally, if you're hiring people who regularly dump coffee into their keyboard, classes and or training on basic hand-eye coordination might be in order.
They're both very smart. IQs over 130. The just like Harleys.
OK. I guess some folks live their lives as complete non sequitors.
Dolly had to sleep inside for security reasons.
Why? Were they afraid she was going to steal things from the other sheep? Was there a history of anti-social behavior in her family history (as shown here)?
I've run into people in their early twenties who have never held a job before. In such situations, an employer takes on a big risk by hiring such people.
And your solution is to start giving people on-the-job training starting at 8? I'm sure that will reduce risk a lot. Are you really this stupid, or are you just acting retarded to make a point?
Why didn't the GP pick this up?
Probably because (a) he has more than one patient to manage and may have forgotten about the gall bladder incident (especially if it was a single acute incident that went away, as opposed to something needing surgery), (b) he may not have had time to review her chart for the past year, given the number of patients he had to see, how far his office was backed up, etc., and (c) the actual number of patients who manifest dizziness as a symptom as a result of a gall bladder attack may well be very small.
I doubt that you expected an actual answer, but these seem to be most likely. None of these, by the way, are unexpected or unusual or even get close to a notion of malpractice. In the end, you are correct in your last statement.
What other universities are like this?
Well, Caltech, for one, but being in California, the bright lights outside make it hard to see through the glare when the students try to play Frisbee.
So the plan should now be to take "safe" metallic items with edges and points that can be honed, hone them to fine (and sharp) finishes, and carry them on planes!
Well, that and Lutefisk.
In such a case, why wouldn't you buy those tires?
Well, maybe, just maybe, because the increase in traction doesn't improve the driving experience or the safety of the drive to the extent that "upgrading" would outweigh the inconvenience of locking nuts on the wheel? Because your incidence of having a flat tire is higher than your incidence of skidding due to loss of traction? Because I don't drive like a freaking maniac on the way to and from work and, thus, don't need "better traction"? I can think of a lot of reasons, most of which indicate that someone who would choose these tires likes to drive far too aggressively.
Ender's Game is still a good book.
In your opinion. I think the dialog is trite and the writing a bit boring. Many geeks share your opinion, though, due to two factors: (a) Wiggins is held up as a superior talent who is marginalized and brutalized by his peers due to his superiority - something many geeks identify with. (b) The notion of treating war as a game also resonates with many geeks.
Card is still a homophobic asshole.
Agreed.
A better question is, what are you going to do about it?
Well, not buy his books for one. And complain about his homophobia and promote treating him like the pariah he obvious wants to be, in the same way he promotes these same actions against homosexuals.
Card is a renowned story teller.
I dispute this. Most of his stories are hackneyed and trite and his writing is not that interesting (relatively mundane language, slightly wooden dialog, I could go on). The only reason that he is so highly revered in geek circles is that (a) Many geeks identify with his Ender Wiggins character, as the character is assaulted by his "peers", even with (because of?) his performance superiority, something that resonates with many geeks and (b) the book is about ultimately treating war as a game, again, something many geeks can identify with (or are those WoW logins there for show?). But, Card as a great writer? Not so much.
You don't go down the street and ask people if they're going to vote for or against gay marriage or go to church on Sunday or if they're for abortion or not before having a block party, so why give so much attention to anyone else's beliefs when it has nothing to do with their product?
Well, if I knew someone on my block had a viewpoint of bigotry that he was talking about all the time, I probably wouldn't organize a block party in the first place, as this would likely make many uncomfortable to attend.
This is similar. Some bigot wants to foam at the mouth in public? Some people don't want to buy his stuff? Both are fine. But people sure as hell don't have a requirement to be silent about a bigot. Nor does a publisher need to put out his stuff, should they not want to be associated with a bigot.
Freedom is a wonderful thing. It allows an asshole like Card to make himself a pariah with his atavistic social views. And it allows the rest of us to treat him as the pariah he wants to be.
You know, I'm married. I have two kids. And your post is one of the most stupid things I've ever read on Slashdot. Sincerely. In fact, I feel more stupid for having read it. I hope you're proud - your post is truly a high point in stupid.
Although I agree with most of your rant, do you honestly think that not having a job despite one's best efforts is not something to be unhappy about? Or is it that not having a job prima facie evidence that best efforts were not made because, obviously, in a paradise like [insert non-third-world country name here] with our current full employment, no one could ever be out of work?
Increasing productivity per worker, per capital invested, per energy unit consumed is always good. Or isn't it?
If you could talk about this as an activity totally isolated from the rest of the society, yes. But once you start looking at the social milieu in which this activity is placed (necessity of workers to have jobs to earn money to keep their families from starving and to keep them from riot and robbery), maybe not so much, unless you can also ensure that the economic gains derived from the productivity gains are also distributed widely. Plus, we're not even talking about increased productivity leading to increases in other externalities (e.g., polution, faster resource depletion). So, no, it's not always a good. The fact that many economists do not see that all of these externalities make the statement "Increased productivity is always good" false is a major failing in the field.
The sad thing is that this won't result in you paying less to the government (if you want this sort of thing). All it means is that $85B will be pulled out of the economy this year, probably pushing the country back into recession. And all for some stupid "debt crisis" that is "so severe" that people from all over the globe are falling over themselves to lend us money at obscenely low rates. Enjoy your longer recession, idiots.
Americans love American made guns.
Well, to be honest, we love Chinese-made guns, too. Or guns made anywhere else for that matter. We need them to defend our freedoms against marauding big government. God bless America.
What is their motivation?
To continue to tell the tech community that "Your job is teh awesome, so everyone should do it so we can pay you less!". Oh yeah... don't organize, either - you're your own man (or woman). It's not like anyone as totally rad as you would ever be out of work because your corporate masters decided to outsource your job. Who needs other peoples support when you're so teh awesome?
... he could have gotten more than 12% market share for his desktop systems.
I'm sort of glad he didn't. That freed up resources to go after the consumer device market, rather than ending up a broke grey-box vendor like Dell or Compaq/HP. The stock price did much better as a result. Besides, desktop systems are a saturated and (now) shrinking market. It seems Mr. Jobs was prescient when it came to predicting where the market could be driven, something that you obviously aren't.
See the difference?
But, but, but... I'm an audiophile, dammit! I listen with my soul. That's why I can hear it!
What they want is women to participate ONLY if they agree with what they say and will parrot it in one expansive echo chamber. Dissent will be shamed, expelled, and crushed.
To be fair, this is true of almost any group. Try promoting Socialism at a Libertarian meeting or Free Market ideology at a Communist Party gathering or Atheism at a Tea Party or your anti-evolutionary leanings at a medical convention and see how welcome you're made to feel. Self-selection is the order of the day and is quite hard-wired into our brains.
There was no premeditation, and no conspiracy to silence Violet Blue or an interesting talk.
Yet that was what the first request was - silence the talk. Not a question of what was in the talk, not a request to speak with the presenter, but instead a request to shut it down. No, not a conspiracy, but something worse - a knee-jerk reaction that was honored as a "reasonable" request, causing a speaker to be silenced based on no evidence.
This was a really great way to make your point, Ada Initiative. As a person who supports the project's overall goals of fighting sexism in the high-tech community, I think that the person who requested this action is an utter moron who needs to be expunged from this group before she (or he - how would I know) does any more harm. If it happens to be the group's leader (as indicated in the article summary above), you need a new one.
Yeah. Stupid comments like yours (and yo' mama's).
But don't worry - we who read Slashdot love one-sided skepticism like yours. The "skeptic" part makes you feel "edgy" and "counter", while the one-sidedness of your views means you're just whoring your mouth for the same old corporate interests.
And as musicians get a bigger cut from live performances, everybody is happy except the middlemen who have been cut out and a thin elite of top musicians who hoped they could retire at the age of 30.
Maybe not so much... Many artists are being saddled with what are called "360" deals, meaning that the labels get their cut of performances, merchandise sold at performances, publishing, and other media usage of the material. The labels will put in money promoting and fronting money for the tours and selling the new IP they've retained in the deal. But, at the end of the day, it's all accounted using the same shady practices that the 'AA's have always used, so now the artist isn't even guaranteed to make money from performance or publishing either - he or she is living advance to advance in indentured servitude trying to pay off what his or her label has supposedly fronted for his or her "success".