When I look at an example such as yours, all I can think of is: "Huh, yeah, maybe". It's like looking at Perl code: there's no way to know if it'll actually work unless you type it in, all you get is a vague feeling that it might work. Maybe. I suspect that's the reason why a lot of people hate SQL and Perl.
* Find the nodes in the subtree under B.
* Find all ancesters of G
* Find the nearest common ancestor of D and H
I am a very bad SQL programmer (but an experienced C coder), so I'd be interested to know how to do this in SQL... I've never been able to make much sense out of this so called 'language'.
Well... I do. That and USB are the two things I need for the kind of image transfer from hardware and high CPU processing I can't do on Linux. Right now it works perfectly, but it's dead slow. I multicore VB in the pipes ? Is there a pay version that does it ?
I concur at how bribed the airport people are in Katmandu. I was there a couple of years ago, and we had to pay several people 'directly' or I'm not even sure we would have boarded the airplane. They were bickering for all kind of shit: do you have radios in your luggage ? No, here's a $. You luggage looks like it may be over the weight allowance. No it's not, here's a $. Fuck them.
Have a look at Roman history, where blood sport was very popular. You had real fights often to the death for the amusement of the masses.
I agree with you overall, but I'm not sure that point is as strong as you think. Take a look at ultimate championship fights or bare knuckle fights or mixed martial arts fights and you'll see most of the contestants end up in the hospital. At the same time roman gladiators were often (OK, not always, many started as slaves) paid professionals who lived and trained together and the fights were probably highly choreographed (like today's WWF 'fights').
I've been Sony-Free since about 1985. I did own a couple of early walkmen and other devices of the time and they all failed within 2 days to 2 weeks. And what utterly pissed me off is that they always refused to repair/replace them with lame excuse like 'dropped', which was just plain bullshit. I've been doing them great dispublicity with great local success ever since.
Thank you for the excellent summary, sir. Now would you mind to also comment on all the other kdawson posts that don't make any sense, if you have a couple months at your disposal ?
I second that, robocopy is really the only (and simplest) option for scripting file copies on windows. And yes, as others have noted, the syntax takes a couple years getting used to.
Reminds me of a story of a friend of a friend who found that her breast was too small. A friend of her told her to gain a bit of weight, as it would probably increase its size. She obliged, but it all went 'down there'. Upon the failure of said tactic, she went on a diet to revert to her original frame: she lost her breast entirely but kept the additional butt fat. She wanted to crucify her 'adviser'.
$24 mill from New York University or $3 million from Bard College
Why do universities invest money ? Aren't they supposed to provide an education ? Oh, right, it's the US mode of thinking that anything should be run as a business whose only objective is to make money...
the doctors get paid the same really no matter what they do
I'm currently in France when general practitionners often complain that they aren't getting paid enough compared with specialists/surgeons. I ran a quick check. They charge 21 euros per person (usually paid directly by social security) and they spend between 7 and 15 minutes per patient. That's a LOT more money than I make with as much studying.
with socialized healtcare if you have a non-common illness the answer will always be to wait longer
Wait time has nothing to do with socialized medicine or not. It's purely an organizational problem. I've been around hospitals a lot lately, and we never had to wait more than a few minutes for anything. While in the US everybody tries to go shopping for the best specialist in the field who at the same time won't take your firstborn as payment, and you end up with a 6 weeks wait line for some kind of interventions simply because you are afraid to trust the other guys doing the same thing. Here they just tell you where to go. Tomorrow, early in the morning.
In those countries (France and French-speaking excepted), it is necessary to have some level of English
Not true. Let me preface that by saying that I worked and lived 4 years in the US, 6 years in Italy, 3 years in Antarctica and spent many months in several others before coming back to France. Tech jobs in France require english just like anywhere else. I have an british coworkers and there are many foreigners in the company. For a while we toyed with the idea to have a weekly lunch break in english (shot down because one guy didn't want to, although he does speak it).
This being said, back to the topic at hand, I'd say NZ. Mainland European countries are a bit better in terms of 'free' than the 51st state right now, but those things tend to fluctuate (see HADOPI law currently in France).
This is why I have more respect for motorsports than the regular athletics. At least in motor sports there is a bit of tech involved.
You have no idea how much (bio)tech goes into athletics *ahem* enhancements. I had an insightful talk last WE with an triathlete who's also a doctor and who described some of the common and upcoming doping methods. Those guys are way ahead in fields that standard medicine wouldn't touch with a 10-foot FDA-approved pole. Stuff such as recombining some of your own DNA, in-situ !
Which is exactly what caused the recent earthquake at l'Aquila (Italy), and several other instances, including a very big one in China. A dam gets built, the water pressure from the lake increases deep water infiltration. If there is a fault line alongside the valley (fairly common), the fault gets lubricated and lets it rip.
And to reply to myself, it's easy to tell why they don't want to open-source the firmware code. You take it and change it, but then you deadlock the mechanics of the mirror or lock the diaphragm open and it fries the CCD or whatever... That's a nightmare for the company and the user to deal with.
I would too. I'm a photographer and a pro embedded software writer, but I have no idea how to write (or, better, 'correct') a firmware for a camera. I have written out long lists of suggestions to the makers of my cameras, obviously to no avail. Some things would be trivial one liners in the firmware code. But how do you get started ? Can you decompile a firmware update ? Probably not. Can you get the source code of a Nikon/Canon/Ricoh/etc firmware ? Probably not.
Not taste buds, but actually yes, bodily fluids go both ways through the mucous of the vagina and the gland. Hormones like oxytocin and vasopressin contribute to bonding between partners. This is probably why after condom sex, you just get up to go throw the damn thing away, while in the other case you cuddle ! It's also why having a dried up and chaffed gland because of genital mutilation cuts down on the pleasure of sex.
Why don't you chop off your whole penis then? If by just removing the foreskin you reduce the risk of HIV, following your reasoning, it would be good to remove the whole penis which should lower the chances of getting HIV almost to zero.
I also reply along similar lines to penile mutilation advocates: "And if you'd had a daughter, you'd chop her tits off to lower her risk of breast cancer, right ?"
The true measure of a society is not how they treat the most valued, but how they treat the most despised.
Not necessarily. Many years ago, when I saw that Larry Hagman (of Dallas fame) received a liver transplants thanks to his money although he'd been an alcoholic and well above age... it disgusted me of being an organ donnor. I don't want to be an altruist when the people who benefit from it clearly are not. That being said, I wish Mr Jobs a speedy recovery nonetheless.
I just witnessed victory at hand when recently I saw someone not very computer oriented boot a random computer and say when looking at the desktop: "damn, there's no Firefox, how do I get on the Intharnet?" while IE's icon was right there.
Basically, they marketed an unproven drug as homeopathic, when it wasn't, in order to get around FDA regulations.
Solution: sue them out of existence, jail their managers and 'scientific' leader and ban all homeopathic products below 5 or 6CH (those above don't contain anything). Those below that must be considered and tested as any drug.
There's also the opposite 'nocebo' effect, which I just saw first hand on our 95yo granma which just went to the hospital for the first time after a stroke. It can be summed up as: "Oh no, they are sending me to the hospital! They are giving me pills! This is the end!" before letting go...
But back to the subject at hand, if this remedy does indeed contain any zinc at all, it's no longer homeopathic. Then why is it allowed on the market without FDA approval ? I used to think there was a very narrow definition for homeopathic crap (1CH=1%, 2CH=1e-4, etc), but I've seen several homeopathic bottles in recent times (the entire family believes in them) that do indeed contain something. Why ?
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When I look at an example such as yours, all I can think of is: "Huh, yeah, maybe". It's like looking at Perl code: there's no way to know if it'll actually work unless you type it in, all you get is a vague feeling that it might work. Maybe. I suspect that's the reason why a lot of people hate SQL and Perl.
* Find the nodes in the subtree under B. * Find all ancesters of G * Find the nearest common ancestor of D and H
I am a very bad SQL programmer (but an experienced C coder), so I'd be interested to know how to do this in SQL... I've never been able to make much sense out of this so called 'language'.
I don't care that it is only single processor
Well... I do. That and USB are the two things I need for the kind of image transfer from hardware and high CPU processing I can't do on Linux. Right now it works perfectly, but it's dead slow. I multicore VB in the pipes ? Is there a pay version that does it ?
I concur at how bribed the airport people are in Katmandu. I was there a couple of years ago, and we had to pay several people 'directly' or I'm not even sure we would have boarded the airplane. They were bickering for all kind of shit: do you have radios in your luggage ? No, here's a $. You luggage looks like it may be over the weight allowance. No it's not, here's a $. Fuck them.
Have a look at Roman history, where blood sport was very popular. You had real fights often to the death for the amusement of the masses.
I agree with you overall, but I'm not sure that point is as strong as you think. Take a look at ultimate championship fights or bare knuckle fights or mixed martial arts fights and you'll see most of the contestants end up in the hospital. At the same time roman gladiators were often (OK, not always, many started as slaves) paid professionals who lived and trained together and the fights were probably highly choreographed (like today's WWF 'fights').
I've been Sony-Free since about 1985. I did own a couple of early walkmen and other devices of the time and they all failed within 2 days to 2 weeks. And what utterly pissed me off is that they always refused to repair/replace them with lame excuse like 'dropped', which was just plain bullshit. I've been doing them great dispublicity with great local success ever since.
Thank you for the excellent summary, sir. Now would you mind to also comment on all the other kdawson posts that don't make any sense, if you have a couple months at your disposal ?
I second that, robocopy is really the only (and simplest) option for scripting file copies on windows. And yes, as others have noted, the syntax takes a couple years getting used to.
Reminds me of a story of a friend of a friend who found that her breast was too small. A friend of her told her to gain a bit of weight, as it would probably increase its size. She obliged, but it all went 'down there'. Upon the failure of said tactic, she went on a diet to revert to her original frame: she lost her breast entirely but kept the additional butt fat. She wanted to crucify her 'adviser'.
$24 mill from New York University or $3 million from Bard College
Why do universities invest money ? Aren't they supposed to provide an education ? Oh, right, it's the US mode of thinking that anything should be run as a business whose only objective is to make money...
the doctors get paid the same really no matter what they do
I'm currently in France when general practitionners often complain that they aren't getting paid enough compared with specialists/surgeons. I ran a quick check. They charge 21 euros per person (usually paid directly by social security) and they spend between 7 and 15 minutes per patient. That's a LOT more money than I make with as much studying.
with socialized healtcare if you have a non-common illness the answer will always be to wait longer
Wait time has nothing to do with socialized medicine or not. It's purely an organizational problem. I've been around hospitals a lot lately, and we never had to wait more than a few minutes for anything. While in the US everybody tries to go shopping for the best specialist in the field who at the same time won't take your firstborn as payment, and you end up with a 6 weeks wait line for some kind of interventions simply because you are afraid to trust the other guys doing the same thing. Here they just tell you where to go. Tomorrow, early in the morning.
In those countries (France and French-speaking excepted), it is necessary to have some level of English
Not true. Let me preface that by saying that I worked and lived 4 years in the US, 6 years in Italy, 3 years in Antarctica and spent many months in several others before coming back to France. Tech jobs in France require english just like anywhere else. I have an british coworkers and there are many foreigners in the company. For a while we toyed with the idea to have a weekly lunch break in english (shot down because one guy didn't want to, although he does speak it).
This being said, back to the topic at hand, I'd say NZ. Mainland European countries are a bit better in terms of 'free' than the 51st state right now, but those things tend to fluctuate (see HADOPI law currently in France).
This is why I have more respect for motorsports than the regular athletics. At least in motor sports there is a bit of tech involved.
You have no idea how much (bio)tech goes into athletics *ahem* enhancements. I had an insightful talk last WE with an triathlete who's also a doctor and who described some of the common and upcoming doping methods. Those guys are way ahead in fields that standard medicine wouldn't touch with a 10-foot FDA-approved pole. Stuff such as recombining some of your own DNA, in-situ !
What about lubricating a fault with water?
Which is exactly what caused the recent earthquake at l'Aquila (Italy), and several other instances, including a very big one in China. A dam gets built, the water pressure from the lake increases deep water infiltration. If there is a fault line alongside the valley (fairly common), the fault gets lubricated and lets it rip.
And to reply to myself, it's easy to tell why they don't want to open-source the firmware code. You take it and change it, but then you deadlock the mechanics of the mirror or lock the diaphragm open and it fries the CCD or whatever... That's a nightmare for the company and the user to deal with.
I, for one, welcome custom camera firmwares
I would too. I'm a photographer and a pro embedded software writer, but I have no idea how to write (or, better, 'correct') a firmware for a camera. I have written out long lists of suggestions to the makers of my cameras, obviously to no avail. Some things would be trivial one liners in the firmware code. But how do you get started ? Can you decompile a firmware update ? Probably not. Can you get the source code of a Nikon/Canon/Ricoh/etc firmware ? Probably not.
Let's just slap his wrist. Once for every [...]
That was the ending of Les Onze Mille Verges, a classic porn book of over a century ago.
Interesting. It often mentions on condom packs that they are not to be used with lube, but it may depend on the type of lube.
Not taste buds, but actually yes, bodily fluids go both ways through the mucous of the vagina and the gland. Hormones like oxytocin and vasopressin contribute to bonding between partners. This is probably why after condom sex, you just get up to go throw the damn thing away, while in the other case you cuddle ! It's also why having a dried up and chaffed gland because of genital mutilation cuts down on the pleasure of sex.
Why don't you chop off your whole penis then? If by just removing the foreskin you reduce the risk of HIV, following your reasoning, it would be good to remove the whole penis which should lower the chances of getting HIV almost to zero.
I also reply along similar lines to penile mutilation advocates: "And if you'd had a daughter, you'd chop her tits off to lower her risk of breast cancer, right ?"
Maybe you shouldn't be able to get a medieval 'medical' procedure when much better alternatives are possible.
The true measure of a society is not how they treat the most valued, but how they treat the most despised.
Not necessarily. Many years ago, when I saw that Larry Hagman (of Dallas fame) received a liver transplants thanks to his money although he'd been an alcoholic and well above age... it disgusted me of being an organ donnor. I don't want to be an altruist when the people who benefit from it clearly are not. That being said, I wish Mr Jobs a speedy recovery nonetheless.
I just witnessed victory at hand when recently I saw someone not very computer oriented boot a random computer and say when looking at the desktop: "damn, there's no Firefox, how do I get on the Intharnet?" while IE's icon was right there.
Basically, they marketed an unproven drug as homeopathic, when it wasn't, in order to get around FDA regulations.
Solution: sue them out of existence, jail their managers and 'scientific' leader and ban all homeopathic products below 5 or 6CH (those above don't contain anything). Those below that must be considered and tested as any drug.
But back to the subject at hand, if this remedy does indeed contain any zinc at all, it's no longer homeopathic. Then why is it allowed on the market without FDA approval ? I used to think there was a very narrow definition for homeopathic crap (1CH=1%, 2CH=1e-4, etc), but I've seen several homeopathic bottles in recent times (the entire family believes in them) that do indeed contain something. Why ?