If one has the opportunity to synthesize two fields in a double major, should one take that opportunity? For instance, Psych and English, Psych and Philosophy, Philosophy and English. Also, which majors are most likely to prepare you for a broad range of skills- critical thinking and the like?
I agree. For all college students below the Mason-Dixon line in the U.S., make sure you have a supply of sunscreen and that you have it with you at least 50% of the time. Shoot for 100% between 11 A.M. to 4 P.M. This is especially true for Southern Cal, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado (it's an exception to the geographical rule, but remember altitude), Texas, Georgia, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, and my own state Florida. Even if you (stupidly) don't care about skin cancer, the sunburns will detract from your ability to concentrate.
Also remember aloe vera lotion to put on when you do forget your sunscreen. Expect your neck to get a lot of it. For women, shoulders too.
50, or 150, IBMers running IBM support software can't compete with the thousands of OpenSource developers and users sharing information freely over the net
The problem is, these thousands of developers and users sharing information are fragmented and scattered over an equal number of fragmented, scattered, and often 404ed pages. While the information out there is tremendous in breadth and scope, true, it is not easily accessible and can require much more time than a database admin has when management is breathing down his or her neck. That's when you call Centralized Support, with its own centralized database of tested information and, if the support manager is intelligent, untested information culled from Google and other searches.
Perhaps IBM's support services aren't the best- then again, they don't have the experience that other Linux database providers have- yet. Give them time. IBM has been working on its help desk systems for a while now, doing a massive overhaul of the systems that, indeed, did lead to your support problems. Like everything else, it takes time.
It's a good idea, and actually is close to the current state of affairs. The ESA has been collaborating closely with NASA and, surprisingly, with the Canadian space agency, mentioned in an earlier story. It's not going to be like a Beowulf cluster- more like a blogging community. Everybody links to and feeds off each other while providing unique content. Certainly it's more efficient than today's monolithic structure.
However, I don't see a lot of private capital entering the picture just yet, and I don't see a lot of cooperation betweeen the public and private sector for a while- at least in America. NASA still has some lessons to learn, and the private sector needs to get seriously involved. The ISS seems to be a significant reason for both the unification of involved public space agencies and the continued lack of participation of commercial agents.
I'm glad that it works great on OS X, but on Windows boxes it's still important to use Internet Explorer for a few things. Note: a few. A very few, but there's still a need, unfortunately. A few examples:
1) Banking/ultrasecure sites often make multiple browser checks that compatibility modes don't always overcome. Chase Online Banking, for one, croaks on Mozilla. I wouldn't patronize them, but a family member needs it so when he uses the computer IE goes up. Then IE goes down. Family member swears. I laugh.
2) Some flash sites croak. Newgrounds.com, for one, refuses to display some flash movies to me- despite their use of PHP, which seems to indicate open source-friendliness, the implimentation of Flash for Mozilla doesn't seem to agree with them.
3) Certain sites with embedded music don't like Mozilla- even though they're going beyond the standards and making the site less accessible, if one wants to fully experience the site IE is still necessary.
4) Certain programs will embed links into their programs in such a way that only IE comes up. The headaches are numerous, especially when several Mozilla windows are open. Memory usage doubles as the most inefficient browser in the world awakes and thrashes about. Poor Mozilla, so accomodating to other programs, can't take the strain. Mozilla and IE both go down. A good example is RuneScape, available from www.runescape.com. When their ads are clicked IE opens. I don't click ads. Sucks for them. Still, it would be great if Mozilla could emulate IE well enough to redirect requests and calls from this program away from IE.
This is a small list, but in the interest of expanding Mozilla's usability for IE users interested in switching, I propose a Compatibility Module for Mozilla. When installed, it would provide support for some of the bad HTML IE loves so much, certain IE-only plugins, and hopefully would insert tags and emulate behavior that would allow Mozilla users to fully access IE-only sites. For all intents and purposes, Mozilla would become Internet Explorer 6.0 (or 5.5, or whatever) in the eyes of the web.
Downsides? There are several. Patent issues, legal issues, more coding headaches, and important for the advocacy team, statistics issues. With these browsers identifying themselves as Internet Explorer, site owners would have little incentive to respect Web standards and code away from IE's idiosyncracies. This last issue is why I propose that there be a compatibility module, not patch. It needs to be loadable and unloadable as needed or wanted, preferably according to the needs of a particular site.
Mozilla still has some hurdles it needs to overcome. To be honest, it's still somewhat slow and rather leaky, and the widely touted QuickLaunch has caused a rather serious bug that trashes preferences, at least in recent builds. It also gives up too much to other programs memory wise- many open windows can cause absolute disaster. It's coming along great, and I like it infinitely more than IE. It just needs a little more to push it over the edge and into exponential growth.
One should not take this development as a sign that bacteria are doing things they shouldn't be doing. It's a matter of natural selection- antibiotic applied to colony, most members die, some with resistance to the drug survive. It's the same process, simplified, that most likely gave rise to multicellular organisms, worms, fish, amphibians, corals, mammals, and ultimately humans. While it's certainly worth noting, it's not like it isn't expected. Life changes. Life evolves. Life moves on to new forms.
That said, it does disturb me. One would think that with multibillion dollar budgets pharmaceutical company researchers could have found a drug effective enough to delay this sort of resistance. It is essential that we find a way to control staphylococcus infections. This disease and others cause many deaths, and can make entering a hospital hazardous. I myself lost a good family friend when staph germs entered her body during heart surgery and simply overwhelmed her body. One of my friends has lost a good deal of his kidney function due to extensive scarring of his kidneys from a staph infection. (It would be wise to point out that recent examinations have revealed the presence of a new growing kidney, complete with ureter, that is forming from the cortex of one of his kidneys- possibly due to healing processes gone amuck).
Staph is a scourge of humanity, and it must be fought. Otherwise, what other suffering will take place?
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If one has the opportunity to synthesize two fields in a double major, should one take that opportunity? For instance, Psych and English, Psych and Philosophy, Philosophy and English. Also, which majors are most likely to prepare you for a broad range of skills- critical thinking and the like?
I agree. For all college students below the Mason-Dixon line in the U.S., make sure you have a supply of sunscreen and that you have it with you at least 50% of the time. Shoot for 100% between 11 A.M. to 4 P.M. This is especially true for Southern Cal, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado (it's an exception to the geographical rule, but remember altitude), Texas, Georgia, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, and my own state Florida. Even if you (stupidly) don't care about skin cancer, the sunburns will detract from your ability to concentrate.
Also remember aloe vera lotion to put on when you do forget your sunscreen. Expect your neck to get a lot of it. For women, shoulders too.
50, or 150, IBMers running IBM support software can't compete with the thousands of OpenSource developers and users sharing information freely over the net
The problem is, these thousands of developers and users sharing information are fragmented and scattered over an equal number of fragmented, scattered, and often 404ed pages. While the information out there is tremendous in breadth and scope, true, it is not easily accessible and can require much more time than a database admin has when management is breathing down his or her neck. That's when you call Centralized Support, with its own centralized database of tested information and, if the support manager is intelligent, untested information culled from Google and other searches.
Perhaps IBM's support services aren't the best- then again, they don't have the experience that other Linux database providers have- yet. Give them time. IBM has been working on its help desk systems for a while now, doing a massive overhaul of the systems that, indeed, did lead to your support problems. Like everything else, it takes time.
It's a good idea, and actually is close to the current state of affairs. The ESA has been collaborating closely with NASA and, surprisingly, with the Canadian space agency, mentioned in an earlier story. It's not going to be like a Beowulf cluster- more like a blogging community. Everybody links to and feeds off each other while providing unique content. Certainly it's more efficient than today's monolithic structure.
However, I don't see a lot of private capital entering the picture just yet, and I don't see a lot of cooperation betweeen the public and private sector for a while- at least in America. NASA still has some lessons to learn, and the private sector needs to get seriously involved. The ISS seems to be a significant reason for both the unification of involved public space agencies and the continued lack of participation of commercial agents.
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I'm glad that it works great on OS X, but on Windows boxes it's still important to use Internet Explorer for a few things. Note: a few. A very few, but there's still a need, unfortunately. A few examples: 1) Banking/ultrasecure sites often make multiple browser checks that compatibility modes don't always overcome. Chase Online Banking, for one, croaks on Mozilla. I wouldn't patronize them, but a family member needs it so when he uses the computer IE goes up. Then IE goes down. Family member swears. I laugh. 2) Some flash sites croak. Newgrounds.com, for one, refuses to display some flash movies to me- despite their use of PHP, which seems to indicate open source-friendliness, the implimentation of Flash for Mozilla doesn't seem to agree with them. 3) Certain sites with embedded music don't like Mozilla- even though they're going beyond the standards and making the site less accessible, if one wants to fully experience the site IE is still necessary. 4) Certain programs will embed links into their programs in such a way that only IE comes up. The headaches are numerous, especially when several Mozilla windows are open. Memory usage doubles as the most inefficient browser in the world awakes and thrashes about. Poor Mozilla, so accomodating to other programs, can't take the strain. Mozilla and IE both go down. A good example is RuneScape, available from www.runescape.com. When their ads are clicked IE opens. I don't click ads. Sucks for them. Still, it would be great if Mozilla could emulate IE well enough to redirect requests and calls from this program away from IE. This is a small list, but in the interest of expanding Mozilla's usability for IE users interested in switching, I propose a Compatibility Module for Mozilla. When installed, it would provide support for some of the bad HTML IE loves so much, certain IE-only plugins, and hopefully would insert tags and emulate behavior that would allow Mozilla users to fully access IE-only sites. For all intents and purposes, Mozilla would become Internet Explorer 6.0 (or 5.5, or whatever) in the eyes of the web. Downsides? There are several. Patent issues, legal issues, more coding headaches, and important for the advocacy team, statistics issues. With these browsers identifying themselves as Internet Explorer, site owners would have little incentive to respect Web standards and code away from IE's idiosyncracies. This last issue is why I propose that there be a compatibility module, not patch. It needs to be loadable and unloadable as needed or wanted, preferably according to the needs of a particular site. Mozilla still has some hurdles it needs to overcome. To be honest, it's still somewhat slow and rather leaky, and the widely touted QuickLaunch has caused a rather serious bug that trashes preferences, at least in recent builds. It also gives up too much to other programs memory wise- many open windows can cause absolute disaster. It's coming along great, and I like it infinitely more than IE. It just needs a little more to push it over the edge and into exponential growth.
One should not take this development as a sign that bacteria are doing things they shouldn't be doing. It's a matter of natural selection- antibiotic applied to colony, most members die, some with resistance to the drug survive. It's the same process, simplified, that most likely gave rise to multicellular organisms, worms, fish, amphibians, corals, mammals, and ultimately humans. While it's certainly worth noting, it's not like it isn't expected. Life changes. Life evolves. Life moves on to new forms.
That said, it does disturb me. One would think that with multibillion dollar budgets pharmaceutical company researchers could have found a drug effective enough to delay this sort of resistance. It is essential that we find a way to control staphylococcus infections. This disease and others cause many deaths, and can make entering a hospital hazardous. I myself lost a good family friend when staph germs entered her body during heart surgery and simply overwhelmed her body. One of my friends has lost a good deal of his kidney function due to extensive scarring of his kidneys from a staph infection. (It would be wise to point out that recent examinations have revealed the presence of a new growing kidney, complete with ureter, that is forming from the cortex of one of his kidneys- possibly due to healing processes gone amuck).
Staph is a scourge of humanity, and it must be fought. Otherwise, what other suffering will take place?