I think the real question should be: "Is this Organic Chem RELEVANT to the job of being a ______? (insert career)"
Exactly. And if that career is to be as a doctor, he needs to have at least a general notion of how the drugs he prescribes work. The only way to get that is to have a reasonable understanding of biochemistry, and the only way you can get a proper handle on that is to understand organic chemistry.
Note, I said "understand". That does not just mean memorising lots of compounds (though that might help). Without this basic understanding, your doctor might just as well fly South for the winter, going "quack quack quack".
At least that's what you tell your boss so he won't find your porn.
Bullshit. Proteins are MUCH more interesting than porn.;-)
Actually, I am only half joking - I waste far too much time here on Slashdot, and from time to time I have to give myself a nudge to get on with my job, only to find that the work is more interesting...
The problem is it's much harder to argue a case of deletion review
Why should "geek lore" pages be deleted anyway? I just read the "wikipedia:deletion policy" page, and I can't see any legitimate reason why such entries should be deleted if that policy is upheld with any degree of rigour.
I don't have any problem with deletion of vanity or troll material, but conjectural (or mythical) stuff can simply be clearly flagged as such and left for others' edification, for what it's worth.
Well, I suppose only a lawyer could manage to stretch a mere 8,000 words over 2500 pages. And no, I didn't read TFA, since the summary was so nonsensical.
But if this... person is serious, it's worth pointing out that there are a lot of people who are voting with their feet and staying away from the US and the obnoxious pricks who staff your Immigration and security counters.
I'm aware that it won't necessarily make a huge dent in your GDP, but it's worth pointing out that your economy is in enough poo to make it unwise to throw away the tourist dollar.
Gedit is indeed cross-platform, since it is FOSS stuff built around the GTK+ and GNOME libraries, and as such can be compiled for just about any platform. The drawback is, of course, that all those libraries are much bigger than the editor itself...
I know you had problems with Emacs, but my point was that you might be better off fixing them than trying to find something else with similar functionality.
Indeed. My personal opinion is that emacs beats every text editor (yes, even vi - sorry) for just about every function I ever use it for.
I resisted it for about a decade after we got rid of our punch-cards, since at the time TECO was the ultimate in text editors, but eventually emacs won me over long after it ceased to be simply a pile of macros bolted on to TECO.
Saddam Hussein was never near the top of my birthday greetings list, but let us not forget that the US was perfectly content to prop up his regime and sell him armaments when it suited them.
Yes. I see that if you reason like this in the face of the evidence found (or rather, not found) in Iraq, then I believe you are incapable of reasoning at all. Sorry.
WMD is a post WW1 term, that is the heavy chemical warfare used in WW1 has never been called for WMD's.
As a matter of interest, where do you draw the line? Both my grandfather and my great-uncle were victims of gas attacks in WW1, and those weapons definitely hurt or killed an awful lot of people at one time.
Does a WMD have to operate on the scale of the Allied bombing of Dresden, or the US bombing of Hiroshima or Nagasaki?
While I am aware that everybody thinks they're on the side of righteousness, as I write this I am again struck by the fact that the biggest atrocities of the last century have been committed by "our" side.
"My Mac told me to just factory reset the router. It just works!" he proclaims. Yeah... doesn't use WPA you say? I'm not surprised.
That is such a horrible story, I don't know whether to believe it or not.
Suffice to say that one of the better characteristics of Macs is that I've found they have always interfaced seamlessly with any WAP I have ever used, regardless of what protocol it employs. Not that this has anything to do with iPods, but still... (Disclaimer: I am not necessarily a Mac fanboy, but IMO they do make a much less frustrating thing to administer than windows boxes.)
On the Desktop Leopard isn't terrible, certainly better than Vista, but the first couple iterations were pretty buggy.
Notoriously so. But you sort of expect that with (n+1).0 versions of just about anything. By the time I got around to installing Leopard, pretty much all the bugs had been squashed, and I have no complaints.
You mentioned that genius thing not working, so I just fired it up to see how it went. It didn't crash, but the playlists it came up with don't qualify IMO for the appellation of "Genius". I think something between "Cretin" and "Moron" might be more appropriate.:-)
But my music collection has probably confounded it; about 55% jazz of various flavours, lots of baroque and classical, with liberal splashings of popular, folk and world music. Maybe I'm the genius. Ha. >8-|
I would have thought this is the kind of undocumented feature that should have been picked up in the most cursory testing. If Apple was that hasty in bringing this product to market, they are not going to do their reputation any favours.
There's still a lot of sites that I notice offer compatability only with IE and Netscape.
Indeed, but Firefox usually handles them fairly gracefully if you just tell it to go ahead anyway. I haven't seen any site that FF can't render comprehensibly for a very long time.
I like to refer such wankers to a passage somewhere in "How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive: A Manual of Step-by-Step Procedures for the Compleat Idiot" (which, incidentally, I highly recommend as a great book even if you don't own a VW or work on your own cars) where the author's recommendation for road safety is driving as if strapped to the front of one's vehicle like an Aztec sacrifice...
real stoners don't call weed 'Sativa', as Cannabis Sativa has a low ratio of THC to CBD
Cannabis sativa is still your regular dope plant. regardless of what strain it is. The emphasis here is on the strain, biovar or subspecies, though many (perhaps most) biologists will argue that there is no such thing as the latter.
But as a former dope-head (I'm too old for it now, and I have to look after the neurons I have left), I will agree that I never gave it the appellation of "sativa" in conversation.
If you have to be nice to someone, you aren't looking after your security.
Hmmm. Regardless of what I said earlier, what would you do? Hold a gun to someone's head and hope that while you're awake he'll behave, or give him an interest in being nice while you're asleep?
Sorry to commit the solesism of replying to myself, but I (gasp!) just read TFA.
Childs, who has worked for the city for five years but faced firing for alleged poor performance......being held in a jail cell on $5 million bond, also happens to be a former felon convicted of aggravated robbery and burglary stemming from charges over two decades ago, which the city knew when it hired him as a city computer engineer.
Illuminating, but mostly in that it shows all parties in a very dim kind of light. Under the circumstances, I would have hesitated to employ the guy in this capacity anyway...
I have seen a number of posts to the effet that that this particular sysad is being an asshat, but there are two points to be learned here regardless:
1. If you employ someone to look after your security, you don't put obstructions in his way when he does it.
2. If you employ someone to look after your security, be very very nice to him.;-) (on the principle of "do not meddle with dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.")
Could it be possible that the device is actually virtual? Like a Virtual Machine running under VMware or Virtual PC somewhere, with the software obfuscated or hidden? It would be a lot harder to track down that way.
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I think the real question should be: "Is this Organic Chem RELEVANT to the job of being a ______? (insert career)"
Exactly. And if that career is to be as a doctor, he needs to have at least a general notion of how the drugs he prescribes work. The only way to get that is to have a reasonable understanding of biochemistry, and the only way you can get a proper handle on that is to understand organic chemistry.
Note, I said "understand". That does not just mean memorising lots of compounds (though that might help). Without this basic understanding, your doctor might just as well fly South for the winter, going "quack quack quack".
They told me that this was industry standard practice.
;-D
No. The industry standard practice is to store the source code for every program you have ever written on punch-cards in a locked filing cabinet.
Or didn't you know that?
(Just to spell it out for the irony-impaired: if this slips under the radar of your world view, google "Real Programmers Don't Eat Quiche".)
At least that's what you tell your boss so he won't find your porn.
;-)
Bullshit. Proteins are MUCH more interesting than porn.
Actually, I am only half joking - I waste far too much time here on Slashdot, and from time to time I have to give myself a nudge to get on with my job, only to find that the work is more interesting...
The problem is it's much harder to argue a case of deletion review
Why should "geek lore" pages be deleted anyway? I just read the "wikipedia:deletion policy" page, and I can't see any legitimate reason why such entries should be deleted if that policy is upheld with any degree of rigour.
I don't have any problem with deletion of vanity or troll material, but conjectural (or mythical) stuff can simply be clearly flagged as such and left for others' edification, for what it's worth.
Hmmm, my bad. Another case, then, where one might not want to examine the old metaphor of "having you over a barrel" too closely.
Well, I suppose only a lawyer could manage to stretch a mere 8,000 words over 2500 pages. And no, I didn't read TFA, since the summary was so nonsensical.
Sucks to be you.
That was "Interesting"? Well I never.
But if this... person is serious, it's worth pointing out that there are a lot of people who are voting with their feet and staying away from the US and the obnoxious pricks who staff your Immigration and security counters.
I'm aware that it won't necessarily make a huge dent in your GDP, but it's worth pointing out that your economy is in enough poo to make it unwise to throw away the tourist dollar.
Gedit is indeed cross-platform, since it is FOSS stuff built around the GTK+ and GNOME libraries, and as such can be compiled for just about any platform. The drawback is, of course, that all those libraries are much bigger than the editor itself...
I know you had problems with Emacs, but my point was that you might be better off fixing them than trying to find something else with similar functionality.
Indeed. My personal opinion is that emacs beats every text editor (yes, even vi - sorry) for just about every function I ever use it for.
I resisted it for about a decade after we got rid of our punch-cards, since at the time TECO was the ultimate in text editors, but eventually emacs won me over long after it ceased to be simply a pile of macros bolted on to TECO.
Saddam Hussein was never near the top of my birthday greetings list, but let us not forget that the US was perfectly content to prop up his regime and sell him armaments when it suited them.
Correct ? Or do you see a problem here ?
Yes. I see that if you reason like this in the face of the evidence found (or rather, not found) in Iraq, then I believe you are incapable of reasoning at all. Sorry.
WMD is a post WW1 term, that is the heavy chemical warfare used in WW1 has never been called for WMD's.
As a matter of interest, where do you draw the line? Both my grandfather and my great-uncle were victims of gas attacks in WW1, and those weapons definitely hurt or killed an awful lot of people at one time.
Does a WMD have to operate on the scale of the Allied bombing of Dresden, or the US bombing of Hiroshima or Nagasaki?
While I am aware that everybody thinks they're on the side of righteousness, as I write this I am again struck by the fact that the biggest atrocities of the last century have been committed by "our" side.
"My Mac told me to just factory reset the router. It just works!" he proclaims. Yeah... doesn't use WPA you say? I'm not surprised.
That is such a horrible story, I don't know whether to believe it or not.
Suffice to say that one of the better characteristics of Macs is that I've found they have always interfaced seamlessly with any WAP I have ever used, regardless of what protocol it employs. Not that this has anything to do with iPods, but still... (Disclaimer: I am not necessarily a Mac fanboy, but IMO they do make a much less frustrating thing to administer than windows boxes.)
On the Desktop Leopard isn't terrible, certainly better than Vista, but the first couple iterations were pretty buggy.
:-)
Notoriously so. But you sort of expect that with (n+1).0 versions of just about anything. By the time I got around to installing Leopard, pretty much all the bugs had been squashed, and I have no complaints.
You mentioned that genius thing not working, so I just fired it up to see how it went. It didn't crash, but the playlists it came up with don't qualify IMO for the appellation of "Genius". I think something between "Cretin" and "Moron" might be more appropriate.
But my music collection has probably confounded it; about 55% jazz of various flavours, lots of baroque and classical, with liberal splashings of popular, folk and world music. Maybe I'm the genius. Ha. >8-|
I would have thought this is the kind of undocumented feature that should have been picked up in the most cursory testing. If Apple was that hasty in bringing this product to market, they are not going to do their reputation any favours.
There's still a lot of sites that I notice offer compatability only with IE and Netscape.
Indeed, but Firefox usually handles them fairly gracefully if you just tell it to go ahead anyway. I haven't seen any site that FF can't render comprehensibly for a very long time.
Wow, Google is a parasite on Firefox huh?
Just to clarify: Google is a big funding source of mozilla.org. Obviously they have no reason to shit in their own nest.
Don't get me started on SUV drivers.
I like to refer such wankers to a passage somewhere in "How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive: A Manual of Step-by-Step Procedures for the Compleat Idiot" (which, incidentally, I highly recommend as a great book even if you don't own a VW or work on your own cars) where the author's recommendation for road safety is driving as if strapped to the front of one's vehicle like an Aztec sacrifice...
Trams are just buses on rails. They still have a driver.
And I would rather depend on a driver to stop the bus (or tram, if you will) in an emergency in preference to magnets under the road.
real stoners don't call weed 'Sativa', as Cannabis Sativa has a low ratio of THC to CBD
Cannabis sativa is still your regular dope plant. regardless of what strain it is. The emphasis here is on the strain, biovar or subspecies, though many (perhaps most) biologists will argue that there is no such thing as the latter.
But as a former dope-head (I'm too old for it now, and I have to look after the neurons I have left), I will agree that I never gave it the appellation of "sativa" in conversation.
If you have to be nice to someone, you aren't looking after your security.
Hmmm. Regardless of what I said earlier, what would you do? Hold a gun to someone's head and hope that while you're awake he'll behave, or give him an interest in being nice while you're asleep?
Doesn't seem like rocket science to me...
...the solecism of spelling solecism wrong... :-(
Sorry to commit the solesism of replying to myself, but I (gasp!) just read TFA.
...being held in a jail cell on $5 million bond, also happens to be a former felon convicted of aggravated robbery and burglary stemming from charges over two decades ago, which the city knew when it hired him as a city computer engineer.
Childs, who has worked for the city for five years but faced firing for alleged poor performance...
Illuminating, but mostly in that it shows all parties in a very dim kind of light. Under the circumstances, I would have hesitated to employ the guy in this capacity anyway...
I have seen a number of posts to the effet that that this particular sysad is being an asshat, but there are two points to be learned here regardless:
;-) (on the principle of "do not meddle with dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.")
1. If you employ someone to look after your security, you don't put obstructions in his way when he does it.
2. If you employ someone to look after your security, be very very nice to him.
Could it be possible that the device is actually virtual? Like a Virtual Machine running under VMware or Virtual PC somewhere, with the software obfuscated or hidden? It would be a lot harder to track down that way.
;-D
That would be just so... Cool!