He claims in the story that he's not a hypochondriac but this sure does sound like a partial one.
Having been through a problem even more rare than what this guy has, let me say this - being concerned about your health when everyone else discounts what you are telling them is not being a hypochondriac.
I have self diagnosed myself with a rare form of a rare disease after nearly dying twice and living through hell each time. In my case - as with his, the symptoms could be one of a hundred or more different things. The advantage he has over the doctors is not small in some respects. He lives with the symptoms 24 hrs a day, they see him for half an hour at most.
Granted, self medicating for 60 days with Cipro isn't the brightest idea, but all the postal workers from the anthrax scare days took them.
Neither of you can spell, and you cannot mod the same thread in which you leave a comment.
Just so this is on topic, Kerry will win (which is probably bad for my family since my wife is a pharmaceutical rep, but this is probably the best thing for the country).
My vote has no effect anyway, since I live in on of the strongly voting one way or the other states which everybody takes for granted.
Overall, I am +$55 on that hand. So, if I play it 100 times, I MAKE $5500. Sounds like a good deal to me.
For me not to bet the $30, I need to only have a 30% chance. Plus, implied odds says that I probably don't need even that good of odds because if my card does come out - any bet I get my opponent to call on the river is Gravy. So, if I can get my opponent to call a bet on the river - I need even less favorable odds.
All this assumes whatever card you are talking about would give me the veritable nuts.
Notice I said sometimes.
Point being, if needed, I can.
The problem with the VS Suite is not that it is bad, it is that it makes it too easy to do bad things. Coding with it is definitely superior to coding without it - but a lot of people coding without have no idea of how to do something without it. This means they repeatedly do the same thing over and over again instead of writing common objects that will do those things for them.
Personally, intellisense is awesome - but knowing how to go into the page_load event and dynamically create all the fields I need on my forms allows me to write one set of code that will edit all my tables. If I had learned on VS, I don't know if I would've taken that approach. Which would leave me with 100+ pages used to edit 100+ tables across 10 different systems instead of one page that edits them all.
Microsoft's IDE is very nice -.NET is very Nice - the reason Microsoft's product's do well, though has more to do with making the middle of the road developer more comfortable. There is nothing wrong with that. If Oracle had done it, they wouldn't be falling by the wayside like they have been over the last 10 years.
Yes, this is where Microsoft scores time and time again.
I code ASP (always) and ASP.NET (sometimes) in textpad - but the PHB's love the VS interface and the weaker developers have no idea how to code without it.
Similarly, SQL Server has grown to where it is not because it performs better, but because developers and DBA's have a built-in interface in Enterprise Manager and i-SQL (now query analyzer). Oracle never understood the need to release a complete product. Managing an Oracle database - shoot even coding in one - is like night and day compared to SQL Server.
Yeah, but after you and the other guy doing that got one, who else needs it?
Face it, most users will be ok on a 1Ghz system forever, because they do word processing, spreadsheets and web-browsing.
Even streamed video is would run on that system. Now, get them enough BANDWIDTH to stream HD video, and you will have a demand for a bit more high end machine.
Apparently traditional ethanol from food crops like corn used at least as much energy to create as they released when burned.
Surely not! Uncle Sam couldn't possibly be involved in subsidizing a net negative industry. That would be pork barrel politics.
But seriously, any chemist/good engineer can tell you that corn based ethanol is an absolute waste of time for fuel purposes. Of course your average save the planet person sees corn based fuel and goes nuts thinking you can grow a backyard full and fill up your gas tank.
My major was not MIS..it was chemical engineering. Later I got a degree in business.
In my 10+ years experience I've learned that you don't need a degree in CS to be a good programmer - you don't even need a degree. Given that, I would hire someone from a MIS program that can listen, speak intelligibly and intellingently and talk about budgets and income statements before I would hire the average CS major I've met. Long term, a developer will be meeting with clients and users often enough to make it worth my while to make that decision.
Slashdot Mirror
any chance this has spyware, etc?
Still not showing WoW as having more than 350,000. Doesn't mesh with the numbers Blizzard released. Might as well make it 700,000 by now.
He claims in the story that he's not a hypochondriac but this sure does sound like a partial one.
Having been through a problem even more rare than what this guy has, let me say this - being concerned about your health when everyone else discounts what you are telling them is not being a hypochondriac.
I have self diagnosed myself with a rare form of a rare disease after nearly dying twice and living through hell each time. In my case - as with his, the symptoms could be one of a hundred or more different things. The advantage he has over the doctors is not small in some respects. He lives with the symptoms 24 hrs a day, they see him for half an hour at most.
Granted, self medicating for 60 days with Cipro isn't the brightest idea, but all the postal workers from the anthrax scare days took them.
Um....realize that Intel needs Dell and given the direction their product line is going, probably more than Dell needs Intel
Neither of you can spell, and you cannot mod the same thread in which you leave a comment.
Just so this is on topic, Kerry will win (which is probably bad for my family since my wife is a pharmaceutical rep, but this is probably the best thing for the country).
My vote has no effect anyway, since I live in on of the strongly voting one way or the other states which everybody takes for granted.
Removed? Like how their guide is so incredible slow even on a brand new $1000 piece of HDTV hardware?
Brandon Routh?
But, that's just a guess.
Why not just get this:
MediaMVP by Hauppauge
It goes for less than $100 and displays to your TV...comes with a remote, too.
you must like doing things the hard way.
Huh? If I have 85% chance of winning...
I bet $30 to win $100. I'm going to BET.
15% of time I am -$30
85% of time I am +70
Overall, I am +$55 on that hand. So, if I play it 100 times, I MAKE $5500. Sounds like a good deal to me.
For me not to bet the $30, I need to only have a 30% chance. Plus, implied odds says that I probably don't need even that good of odds because if my card does come out - any bet I get my opponent to call on the river is Gravy. So, if I can get my opponent to call a bet on the river - I need even less favorable odds.
All this assumes whatever card you are talking about would give me the veritable nuts.
Notice I said sometimes. Point being, if needed, I can. The problem with the VS Suite is not that it is bad, it is that it makes it too easy to do bad things. Coding with it is definitely superior to coding without it - but a lot of people coding without have no idea of how to do something without it. This means they repeatedly do the same thing over and over again instead of writing common objects that will do those things for them. Personally, intellisense is awesome - but knowing how to go into the page_load event and dynamically create all the fields I need on my forms allows me to write one set of code that will edit all my tables. If I had learned on VS, I don't know if I would've taken that approach. Which would leave me with 100+ pages used to edit 100+ tables across 10 different systems instead of one page that edits them all. Microsoft's IDE is very nice - .NET is very Nice - the reason Microsoft's product's do well, though has more to do with making the middle of the road developer more comfortable. There is nothing wrong with that. If Oracle had done it, they wouldn't be falling by the wayside like they have been over the last 10 years.
Yes, this is where Microsoft scores time and time again.
I code ASP (always) and ASP.NET (sometimes) in textpad - but the PHB's love the VS interface and the weaker developers have no idea how to code without it.
Similarly, SQL Server has grown to where it is not because it performs better, but because developers and DBA's have a built-in interface in Enterprise Manager and i-SQL (now query analyzer). Oracle never understood the need to release a complete product. Managing an Oracle database - shoot even coding in one - is like night and day compared to SQL Server.
I don't have any mod points, but consider this a +1 insightful.
My number is private and whenever I call Dish Network their system already knows my number - before I have identified myself, my account or anything.
OMG Man, You scare me.
Must....Finish...last...page...of...thesis...in... one...hour...
Doh... ISP went down.
Guess Im hosed.
Ouch - currently, 50% of the total float of SCOX (the SCO Stock) is shorted.
So, for every person betting it is going to go up, there is someone betting it will go down.
Yeah, but after you and the other guy doing that got one, who else needs it?
Face it, most users will be ok on a 1Ghz system forever, because they do word processing, spreadsheets and web-browsing.
Even streamed video is would run on that system. Now, get them enough BANDWIDTH to stream HD video, and you will have a demand for a bit more high end machine.
The other two can't spell?
Seriously though, I'll bet at least half the people that have built more than 5 AMD based systems cracked a CPU at some point.
I'll bet their revenues are up 50% this next month after being slashdotted.
Yeah, used to be Excel wasn't done until it broke lotus. Now, I guess Office isn't done until it breaks OO.
I never said it wasn't a reality. What I said is that it isn't financially (or in fact environmentally) a good decision.
I'm not criticizing ethanol as a power source - just don't be spending my tax dollars subsidizing corn based ethanol.
Apparently traditional ethanol from food crops like corn used at least as much energy to create as they released when burned.
Surely not! Uncle Sam couldn't possibly be involved in subsidizing a net negative industry. That would be pork barrel politics.
But seriously, any chemist/good engineer can tell you that corn based ethanol is an absolute waste of time for fuel purposes. Of course your average save the planet person sees corn based fuel and goes nuts thinking you can grow a backyard full and fill up your gas tank.
My major was not MIS..it was chemical engineering. Later I got a degree in business.
In my 10+ years experience I've learned that you don't need a degree in CS to be a good programmer - you don't even need a degree. Given that, I would hire someone from a MIS program that can listen, speak intelligibly and intellingently and talk about budgets and income statements before I would hire the average CS major I've met. Long term, a developer will be meeting with clients and users often enough to make it worth my while to make that decision.
This question:
3. By law, who do you think owns the rights in a piece of software that you develop or in code that you write?
Me
My employer
The client who commissioned and is paying for the development
Is missing: Me AND My employer - as I share the ownership 50/50 due to our inhouse rules.
His proposal increases NASA's budget by a miniscule amount. He talk big, but it is all rhetoric.
Don't forget, it is an election year. This is just his ploy to get on the side of the scientific community.