want to decide when its time to leave. If i suffer a terminal illness which prevents me from taking part in the normal life at all (i.e. mental decay, Alzheimer etc.) and at some point even living by eating on my own wish, i want to have the option of dying in dignity - if possible i want to be able by my own mind to say good bye to my friends and famlily.
The idea that for my last few years tremendous ressources would be used, which could help much better in other parts of the health system, without prviding me with a real participation in life would make me sick. I love my life, and therefore i wish that the decision to end it when it stops being worth living *to me* (and skip religous ideas how suffering shows us how valuable life is).
Nine months is an *extremly short* round trip time in the car industry is a problem does not threaten the safety but involves controllers which probably affect the safety. (imagine fixing this bug, but introducing a side effect which turns the power off at full speed on the Highway)
OTOH it should not have happened at all.
For Fun/Experience? Yes! For Money? No!
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Is a Postdoc Worth it?
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· Score: 4, Interesting
I did 4 years of Postdoc (in Japan). It was fun, in Japan the payment for Postdocs is ok, and i worked in a field i liked to work in since i was 16years old. I contributed to some publications (10 Impact points per year) and did some really nice experiments. To me it felt like playing with the most expensive lego bricks which i ever was allowed to play with. I had the priviledge to see parts of the world which i would not have dramt about when before my masters thesis. I met some interesting, peculiar, and exceptional people (coauthors from ~12 nationalities).
OTOH, it was hard work (>80h per week average, in critical times >400h/month), strange habits, uncertainity, and a lack of decent positions after it.
I got out of it, to a technical consulting company. I earn less than the people who started 10 years younger, but somehow doing a phd/postdoc kept me young and agile. I am now more or less resistant to stress (did not feel it since i started the job), am used to pick up new things at a high pace.
I can only say: i did it, it was fun and broadened my view. My PhD and postdoc thought me that persistence in following something you want to do leads to success. I managed to get rid of my attenton span problems. I quit as postdoc when it stopped being fun and when i did not see decent positions around, i left science. I dont regret having done my postdoc, i did not regret for a single day leaving it.There was a time when a very different path in my life would have been very possible. I proably also would not have regret it.
Remarks: you have to have a compatible partner or risk a series of relationships. IMHO the only point where i really seen from behind could have spent some attention on. I also saw people not being able to handle the pressure. I saw people doing postdocs until they where older than 40 because they became too anxious or to incompetent in other things to leave. I saw people fuckign up their lifes for good. People not good enough to get any decend publicaitons, but valuable in the lab, hoping that the professor who kept them forever in a dependent relationship would give them the life-long position as assitant. I habe seen people growing old faster than they should and people breaking down. I have heard of people becoming so fristrated that they sabbotaged the co-workers experiments.
So my advice is: do it als long as you do it for fun. Dont get addicted.
The right time to remove the monitoring equipment?
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Rigging Up Baby
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If it follow the purpose of these devices you should leave them rigged up until they are 18.
Besides the uncertainty associated with only having a single data point, you cite the overall rate for problem in fuel systems, not the rate for problems in fuel systems which were hit by a piece of metal.
Lawyers are also a part of the legal system. While they may work for their clients, they are granted special rights in many crountries, inclusding the US aince they agree to the normal proessional ethics. It is very possible that a lawyer must retain knowledge from the client under specific circumstances. Lawyers are paid by the client for a very specific service. They got access to the licensing condition so that they could judge if these touch their clients interest. while i would liek to see patent swaps/licensing deals more transparent (I would think of a "stock exchange model" for licenses) , i have to recognize that currently these are view as a kind of private contract.
If ites really about power everywhere, use a hand generator. In Japan i bought one for 3000Yen, with radio, pocket light, a charging port, and a buzzer (in case you are somewhere in the rubble after the earthquake its much easier to turn on the buzzer than to shouth all the time). Dont remeber if it charged USB back then, but had connector for all usual phones in Japan.
a) small temperature difference (thats why they need the water) -> small efficiency. If you have no effective way of cooling the required temperature rises, thus making it less a reuse of unused heat but more a normal generator
b) if its a normal generator, then an open flame is the least efficient way of using the heat. Internal flames are much better
The solution is to provide the substance in a clean way to people who are addicts. As far as i understood the negative effects of crocodile are not due to its active compound but due the fact that it is produced in a way that even if you had sugar in it as the active compound you still would poison yourself. I youe would produce asprin under the circumstances which crocodile is produced you also may get a problem.
I think we could lower overall healthcare costs if clean drugs could be prescribed by doctors (but paid by the patient). Doctors could also advise you and help you to prevent adverse effects. They could give you an easy access to further help, if needed. Obviously "clean drug" excludes everything you can smoke, including tobacco.
then Linux really has won. Game consoles are the last piece of customer devices casually used where Linux has not a strong foothold
-e book readers: most based on linux -all sony entertainment equipment like cameras, television etc (PS3 excluded): Linux -most medium to high end media players:linux (exclude ipod) -most phones (except feature phones and iphones): Linux -netbooks for consumers: chrombook share seems to explode
The last bastion where Linux never got any foothold were all things related to gaming. If steam now makes a "reference design" for a linux based gaming machine, that could settle some battles at ones. This has the potential to kill the PS4 and the XBOX, since every cheap chinese manufacturer can clone the thing. And like android the marketplace will be the cash-cow holding this together.
Even if you did use ssl to get an proper kernel image (which i doubt), ssl relies on companies issuing certificates, which have been issuing bad certificates for much less important entities than the NSA.
So, not you can not rely on that. Anybody could have given you any binary
Yea. Doesnt even fit the standards for a normal industrial solution.
BTW: The arrogant idiot -misunderstood the problem. If i want to monitor fpr leaks by measuring the height, i also have to measure the added fluid (which may be the bigger problem).
-is unaware that its easy to buy ready made, tested devices for his purpose. Look for any automation hardware manufacturers and for harsh environments. you will find the necessary building blocks, including certifications easily (yea. ~1000 times more expensive than the erduino board, but they will work.
As far as i can see, MS wants google to maintain a non-standard (non html5) interface to youtube. The precedence cases it cites for such an interface are apps which existed before html5 was settled enough to be ready for that. Google wants to serve cotent by html5 and advised MS to use html5 to *correctly* display the videos. MS like to do their own shit and expects google to maintain an interface for them.
Dear MS: Earlier in your life, you may have had the position where any company would have loved to create an interface so that your applications talk to it, and maybe thats still the case for office apps. I dont see exactly how i can access office 356 by and API so that i could lets say... implement and own small helping app on android to enter some data in some documents. Wouldnt that be the same kind of thing? O i forgot probably theo people who like to do it are not big enough to be interesting for you. So neither is the market share of windows phone.
I agree that a complete API to youtube would be nice, but there are many things which google should rank higher in their priorities.
Now the people who work hard and are not egocentric enough to fill the highway by their personal ton of steel senslessly produced are having a "luxury". Company busses exist in Europe and Japan since a very long time, connecting the next station/city with big branches of a company, even for factory workers.
It is cost efficient and you have workers who are fresh and relaxed when they arrive at work. It makes economic sense for the company. Meetings start on time. It makes sense traffic-wise (for the space which one bus takes you can maybe have 3 cars, but there may be up to 60 people in the bus).
Further indicaiton that the article is biased: Coaches have air conditioning? That does not make them "luxury coaches". Every car driving there has air condition. The city busses in the city where i live have air conditioning. It is reasonable to have it in such climate. Plush seats? Really? No please tell me: The seat in the cars are probably made of wood. And When did the last time travel in a normal travel bus when the seat where not soft seats? The time that publi transport had wooden seats only is a long time ago. Wireless interent access? The budget bus line in germany has wireless interent access, as have the high-speed trains in germany, japan, austria, france (these are the countries i know of). Having interenet access in a mass transit system makes sense. Just because it does not make sense in a [personal car does not mean it is "luxury". If your employees can chek the mail on the way to work, this qquickly pays off.
So the bottom line is: This is not isolating the employees from the real world" but it is ecologically, economically, and socially reasonable approach. Only a complete moron woud turn around the need to hide yourself in your own car (and pay for it) as a sing of "being connected to the world". Instead of affording a car in a 40km ouside suburb i prefer to pay a little more rent, accept that there are time when the bus goes, get in the queue and relax, and do my private things by subway and walking/cycling.
Putting a human on mars without the possibility to return or build something meaningful there is a pointless exercise. We know the effects of zero gravity and radiation on the body, and the amount of drugs they would have to take regularly to reduce the probability of a psychological breakdown would be huge. What happen is somebody actually only realizes on the way to Mars that he actually does *not* want to die but live another 50 years on earth. Selecting a mission crew from people who volunteer for death is the most reliable way to have a strongly increased percentage of people with a psychological problem. It would cost as much as 100 curiosity missions to put even 5 humans on mars, for an experiment less useful than putting poor Leika into space, with an increased probability of failure.
If you want to conquer mars, then build robots who build a station there first. Wait until we have some transport which allows us to assemble decent (radiation shielded) ships in orbit. If you have th erechnology ready, the send humans.
If the sales are stable it just means that the time when everybody fills up his ebook shelf with some elementary stuff (textbooks, references, books you will always read) are over. The time where the peak in the grothw rate was coincides with important scientific and technical publishers offering textbooks
It makes me happy because i can root the android device and disable the unneeded parts.
It makes me happy because i have the choice to buy a perfectly fine monitor/tv (without smart shit) in it for 150 Euro. If i want smart shit on my tv i will add a 70 Euro Android stick.
It makes me happy because my note 2 has all the HW i could need in it.
Slashdot Mirror
it's the only way to be sure.....
want to decide when its time to leave. If i suffer a terminal illness which prevents me from taking part in the normal life at all (i.e. mental decay, Alzheimer etc.) and at some point even living by eating on my own wish, i want to have the option of dying in dignity - if possible i want to be able by my own mind to say good bye to my friends and famlily.
The idea that for my last few years tremendous ressources would be used, which could help much better in other parts of the health system, without prviding me with a real participation in life would make me sick. I love my life, and therefore i wish that the decision to end it when it stops being worth living *to me* (and skip religous ideas how suffering shows us how valuable life is).
If its the most interesting game for you, then not doing it would be missing something. But i get (and deeply respect) your opinion.
Nine months is an *extremly short* round trip time in the car industry is a problem does not threaten the safety but involves controllers which probably affect the safety. (imagine fixing this bug, but introducing a side effect which turns the power off at full speed on the Highway)
OTOH it should not have happened at all.
I did 4 years of Postdoc (in Japan). It was fun, in Japan the payment for Postdocs is ok, and i worked in a field i liked to work in since i was 16years old. I contributed to some publications (10 Impact points per year) and did some really nice experiments. To me it felt like playing with the most expensive lego bricks which i ever was allowed to play with. I had the priviledge to see parts of the world which i would not have dramt about when before my masters thesis. I met some interesting, peculiar, and exceptional people (coauthors from ~12 nationalities).
OTOH, it was hard work (>80h per week average, in critical times >400h/month), strange habits, uncertainity, and a lack of decent positions after it.
I got out of it, to a technical consulting company. I earn less than the people who started 10 years younger, but somehow doing a phd/postdoc kept me young and agile. I am now more or less resistant to stress (did not feel it since i started the job), am used to pick up new things at a high pace.
I can only say: i did it, it was fun and broadened my view. My PhD and postdoc thought me that persistence in following something you want to do leads to success. I managed to get rid of my attenton span problems. I quit as postdoc when it stopped being fun and when i did not see decent positions around, i left science. I dont regret having done my postdoc, i did not regret for a single day leaving it.There was a time when a very different path in my life would have been very possible. I proably also would not have regret it.
Remarks: you have to have a compatible partner or risk a series of relationships. IMHO the only point where i really seen from behind could have spent some attention on. I also saw people not being able to handle the pressure. I saw people doing postdocs until they where older than 40 because they became too anxious or to incompetent in other things to leave. I saw people fuckign up their lifes for good. People not good enough to get any decend publicaitons, but valuable in the lab, hoping that the professor who kept them forever in a dependent relationship would give them the life-long position as assitant. I habe seen people growing old faster than they should and people breaking down. I have heard of people becoming so fristrated that they sabbotaged the co-workers experiments.
So my advice is: do it als long as you do it for fun. Dont get addicted.
If it follow the purpose of these devices you should leave them rigged up until they are 18.
Experimentally entanglement is shown most strongly in the form of Bell violations:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell's_theorem
as e.g.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v461/n7263/abs/nature08363.html
did.
A free "Windows Phone App"
I would like that.
Any other thing (Dual-Boot, Choice at start-up, something else messe up, additional cost): Dont like that
That is my opinion, and i would vote for a political party which likes to implement this, but currently the law says otherwise.
Besides the uncertainty associated with only having a single data point, you cite the overall rate for problem in fuel systems, not the rate for problems in fuel systems which were hit by a piece of metal.
Lawyers are also a part of the legal system. While they may work for their clients, they are granted special rights in many crountries, inclusding the US aince they agree to the normal proessional ethics. It is very possible that a lawyer must retain knowledge from the client under specific circumstances. Lawyers are paid by the client for a very specific service. They got access to the licensing condition so that they could judge if these touch their clients interest. while i would liek to see patent swaps/licensing deals more transparent (I would think of a "stock exchange model" for licenses) , i have to recognize that currently these are view as a kind of private contract.
Tablets kill PCs right now. Most tablets run linux. And most of them are not intel
If ites really about power everywhere, use a hand generator. In Japan i bought one for 3000Yen, with radio, pocket light, a charging port, and a buzzer (in case you are somewhere in the rubble after the earthquake its much easier to turn on the buzzer than to shouth all the time). Dont remeber if it charged USB back then, but had connector for all usual phones in Japan.
http://www.amazon.com/CUTEBEAT-TY-JR11-waterproof-charging-TOSHIBA/dp/B005FB4CG2/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top
Otherwise if you insist in using heat:
a) small temperature difference (thats why they need the water) -> small efficiency. If you have no effective way of cooling the required temperature rises, thus making it less a reuse of unused heat but more a normal generator
b) if its a normal generator, then an open flame is the least efficient way of using the heat. Internal flames are much better
The solution is to provide the substance in a clean way to people who are addicts. As far as i understood the negative effects of crocodile are not due to its active compound but due the fact that it is produced in a way that even if you had sugar in it as the active compound you still would poison yourself. I youe would produce asprin under the circumstances which crocodile is produced you also may get a problem.
I think we could lower overall healthcare costs if clean drugs could be prescribed by doctors (but paid by the patient). Doctors could also advise you and help you to prevent adverse effects. They could give you an easy access to further help, if needed. Obviously "clean drug" excludes everything you can smoke, including tobacco.
then Linux really has won. Game consoles are the last piece of customer devices casually used where Linux has not a strong foothold
-e book readers: most based on linux
-all sony entertainment equipment like cameras, television etc (PS3 excluded): Linux
-most medium to high end media players:linux (exclude ipod)
-most phones (except feature phones and iphones): Linux
-netbooks for consumers: chrombook share seems to explode
The last bastion where Linux never got any foothold were all things related to gaming. If steam now makes a "reference design" for a linux based gaming machine, that could settle some battles at ones. This has the potential to kill the PS4 and the XBOX, since every cheap chinese manufacturer can clone the thing. And like android the marketplace will be the cash-cow holding this together.
Even if you did use ssl to get an proper kernel image (which i doubt), ssl relies on companies issuing certificates, which have been issuing bad certificates for much less important entities than the NSA.
So, not you can not rely on that. Anybody could have given you any binary
Yea. Doesnt even fit the standards for a normal industrial solution.
BTW: The arrogant idiot
-misunderstood the problem. If i want to monitor fpr leaks by measuring the height, i also have to measure the added fluid (which may be the bigger problem).
-is unaware that its easy to buy ready made, tested devices for his purpose. Look for any automation hardware manufacturers and for harsh environments. you will find the necessary building blocks, including certifications easily (yea. ~1000 times more expensive than the erduino board, but they will work.
-Who needs an own car if a car comes to you in 5 minutes when you need it
-Shops will be packing motorized shopping carts which bring you the grocery home
-charging stations will be big and centralizsed with secured parking. after all the car can go a few km
As far as i can see, MS wants google to maintain a non-standard (non html5) interface to youtube. The precedence cases it cites for such an interface are apps which existed before html5 was settled enough to be ready for that. Google wants to serve cotent by html5 and advised MS to use html5 to *correctly* display the videos. MS like to do their own shit and expects google to maintain an interface for them.
Dear MS: Earlier in your life, you may have had the position where any company would have loved to create an interface so that your applications talk to it, and maybe thats still the case for office apps. I dont see exactly how i can access office 356 by and API so that i could lets say... implement and own small helping app on android to enter some data in some documents. Wouldnt that be the same kind of thing? O i forgot probably theo people who like to do it are not big enough to be interesting for you. So neither is the market share of windows phone.
I agree that a complete API to youtube would be nice, but there are many things which google should rank higher in their priorities.
Now the people who work hard and are not egocentric enough to fill the highway by their personal ton of steel senslessly produced are having a "luxury". Company busses exist in Europe and Japan since a very long time, connecting the next station/city with big branches of a company, even for factory workers.
It is cost efficient and you have workers who are fresh and relaxed when they arrive at work. It makes economic sense for the company. Meetings start on time. It makes sense traffic-wise (for the space which one bus takes you can maybe have 3 cars, but there may be up to 60 people in the bus).
Further indicaiton that the article is biased: Coaches have air conditioning? That does not make them "luxury coaches". Every car driving there has air condition. The city busses in the city where i live have air conditioning. It is reasonable to have it in such climate. Plush seats? Really? No please tell me: The seat in the cars are probably made of wood. And When did the last time travel in a normal travel bus when the seat where not soft seats? The time that publi transport had wooden seats only is a long time ago. Wireless interent access? The budget bus line in germany has wireless interent access, as have the high-speed trains in germany, japan, austria, france (these are the countries i know of). Having interenet access in a mass transit system makes sense. Just because it does not make sense in a [personal car does not mean it is "luxury". If your employees can chek the mail on the way to work, this qquickly pays off.
So the bottom line is: This is not isolating the employees from the real world" but it is ecologically, economically, and socially reasonable approach. Only a complete moron woud turn around the need to hide yourself in your own car (and pay for it) as a sing of "being connected to the world". Instead of affording a car in a 40km ouside suburb i prefer to pay a little more rent, accept that there are time when the bus goes, get in the queue and relax, and do my private things by subway and walking/cycling.
Putting a human on mars without the possibility to return or build something meaningful there is a pointless exercise. We know the effects of zero gravity and radiation on the body, and the amount of drugs they would have to take regularly to reduce the probability of a psychological breakdown would be huge. What happen is somebody actually only realizes on the way to Mars that he actually does *not* want to die but live another 50 years on earth. Selecting a mission crew from people who volunteer for death is the most reliable way to have a strongly increased percentage of people with a psychological problem. It would cost as much as 100 curiosity missions to put even 5 humans on mars, for an experiment less useful than putting poor Leika into space, with an increased probability of failure.
If you want to conquer mars, then build robots who build a station there first. Wait until we have some transport which allows us to assemble decent (radiation shielded) ships in orbit. If you have th erechnology ready, the send humans.
If the sales are stable it just means that the time when everybody fills up his ebook shelf with some elementary stuff (textbooks, references, books you will always read) are over. The time where the peak in the grothw rate was coincides with important scientific and technical publishers offering textbooks
gets a new meaning (Japanese toilet seats are heated - someting i think of as very pleaseant).
If it was not slashdot, i would consider irony.
It makes me happy because i can root the android device and disable the unneeded parts.
It makes me happy because i have the choice to buy a perfectly fine monitor/tv (without smart shit) in it for 150 Euro. If i want smart shit on my tv i will add a 70 Euro Android stick.
It makes me happy because my note 2 has all the HW i could need in it.