It's more like car manufacturers bitching because rental companies somehow discovered how to make their cars last forever with no maintenance required at all, and also how to instantly deliver a car to a customer's location, and get it back again, for free. If renting a car were that easy (and extremely cheap), who'd buy one?
That's part of it. It also includes things like the hassle of going to the library to get a physical book, and having to take it back. Anything that makes it less convenient.
Security is a whole lot easier if the users are competent at it. And if they're not competent, why are they entrusted with secure information?
The problems with IT seem to derive from the same attitude that causes most corporate jobs to suck - treating the employee as some kind of mindless drone who needs to be babysat. Demand professionalism and competence from employees, treat them that way in return and everyone is happier and things work better.
"These are secure documents, I shouldn't put them on Dropbox" isn't any harder than "these are secure documents, I shouldn't put them in my briefcase and take them home" was twenty years ago.
Slashdot is more aligned with a niche fanboy audience. Consumers in general are not writing blatant fanboy "this is the year Android kills the iPad!!" articles, and most developers prefer iOS because it's more profitable.
I'm not sure if it was innovative when A bazillion iPad accessory makers did it two years ago or not. Probably not... I seem to remember there were some keyboard/battery docks for palm pilots. And of course laptop docks have been around forever.
When you reply to a "I had a co-worker who spent several weeks in the hospital [after she]... got shot with a still 'hot' vaccine" with "I had to take a day off work after my DPT boosters..." you can forgive readers jumping to the conclusion that you thought it was related. Unfortunately some people who jump to that conclusion DO believe things like that.
You're right, it's not exactly the same thing, but not for the reasons you're giving.
Holding an exhalation triggers your breathing reflex because your body can't get rid of enough carbon dioxide. Having lungs full of low pressure, or low oxygen content air causes a lack of oxygen, which doesn't trigger your breathing reflex. You don't feel like you're suffocating.
So the feeling is different, but the amount of time you can function in either state is similarly different from having full lungs with sea level pressure. In other words, more than sufficient to demonstrate to the OP that it's quite possible to lose the ability to function in less than the two or three minutes it takes while holding your breath at sea level. Which is the situation for which I suggested the experiment. Not perfectly accurate, but a hell of a lot better for the purpose at hand than yours.
The midshipman's berth on naval ships used to be called the "cockpit," a pit for fighting cocks (roosters). Midshipmen were usually young men, frequently in fierce competition for limited promotions.
Cock as slang for penis probably also originates with cock meaning rooster.
DVD players, cell phones, routers, TVs, calculators. All of these things have had operating systems since the nineties (or earlier) and very few have ever given root access to the end user. Some people get excited about it now because the operating systems are more sophisticated, and are based on OSes that, when installed on a desktop, DO give the user root access.
Ownership after sale? It's silly. None of these devices are sold as offering root access. Sometimes you can get it, by exploiting bugs. Later updates might fix those bugs, but you don't have to install them.
Yes, it is a reasonable simulation. It's not perfectly accurate, but it's about the best you can do on the ground, and successfully demonstrates that your time of useful consciousness is a LOT less than you might think. The effect isn't due strictly to the pressure of the air. Having a little bit of high pressure air in your lungs isn't that different than having a lot of low pressure air.
If you get a good exhalation and don't cheat, you'll be able to hold your breath for a lot closer to 30 seconds than 60. No, you probably can't simulate fifty thousand feet, simply because the end tidal volume in your lungs is too high, but you can do a pretty good job of thirty-five, which demonstrates nicely that holding your inhalation for two minutes at sea level is very different from the low pressure situation. And all without taking a ride in a fighter jet. You can't simulate 300 km up accurately with a breath hold OR a fighter jet ride... so what?
I looked at that twice and satisfied myself that I hadn't left anything out. I guess I shouldn't do math after transcontinental flights.
You never know what the last 9% might have been. My decision might be a little different if there's a 9% chance that it doesn't (quite) kill you, but you live in agony for another forty years. Or if it had a 9% chance of starting a zombie apocalypse.
Phase I trials evaluate a treatment for safety, not efficacy. You're ONLY checking for undesirable side effects. Since this is a whole virus vaccine, one of the undesirable side effects is unfortunately getting HIV. By testing in already HIV+ people they don't have to worry about infecting someone. They'll likely test their phase I participants for the particular strain of the virus they're injecting, to make sure it's not replicating.
Because you were having an immune reaction to the vaccine (which you're supposed to) and possibly are a bit of a wimp. If you took one day off you obviously didn't have diphtheria, pertussis OR tetanus.
"So NO, we don't have a private friggin alternative to turn to. Thanks to my daughter not getting her HebP vaccine (only one she doesn't have) she was denied entry into a private pre-school because of State law."
Yeah, because pre-schoolers NEVER bleed. Okay, in US padded-wall schools maybe they don't, but hepatitis B can be transmitted by saliva too.
But hey, if there's a demand for schools that admit students who haven't had their shots, shouldn't some enterprising individual come along and start one? Isn't that how your vaunted private system is supposed to work? Anyway, you DO have an alternative. You mentioned it: home schooling. It seems very popular with parents who deny their kids vaccinations.
There's no point in running an expensive clinical trial without FDA approval. The US is where most of the market is. So you run the trial with FDA approval and, if successful, you can sell it in the US. Most other approval agencies, including Health Canada, will be happy with the FDA approved trial, but the converse is not usually true.
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It's more like car manufacturers bitching because rental companies somehow discovered how to make their cars last forever with no maintenance required at all, and also how to instantly deliver a car to a customer's location, and get it back again, for free. If renting a car were that easy (and extremely cheap), who'd buy one?
Raise taxes to fund it all... oops. Death of that idea. At least in the US.
That's part of it. It also includes things like the hassle of going to the library to get a physical book, and having to take it back. Anything that makes it less convenient.
Then the problem is with HR or training, not IT.
The idea is to prevent documents from being stolen, not just detect when they are.
Security is a whole lot easier if the users are competent at it. And if they're not competent, why are they entrusted with secure information?
The problems with IT seem to derive from the same attitude that causes most corporate jobs to suck - treating the employee as some kind of mindless drone who needs to be babysat. Demand professionalism and competence from employees, treat them that way in return and everyone is happier and things work better.
"These are secure documents, I shouldn't put them on Dropbox" isn't any harder than "these are secure documents, I shouldn't put them in my briefcase and take them home" was twenty years ago.
Slashdot is more aligned with a niche fanboy audience. Consumers in general are not writing blatant fanboy "this is the year Android kills the iPad!!" articles, and most developers prefer iOS because it's more profitable.
I'm not sure if it was innovative when A bazillion iPad accessory makers did it two years ago or not. Probably not... I seem to remember there were some keyboard/battery docks for palm pilots. And of course laptop docks have been around forever.
When you reply to a "I had a co-worker who spent several weeks in the hospital [after she]... got shot with a still 'hot' vaccine" with "I had to take a day off work after my DPT boosters..." you can forgive readers jumping to the conclusion that you thought it was related. Unfortunately some people who jump to that conclusion DO believe things like that.
You're right, it's not exactly the same thing, but not for the reasons you're giving.
Holding an exhalation triggers your breathing reflex because your body can't get rid of enough carbon dioxide. Having lungs full of low pressure, or low oxygen content air causes a lack of oxygen, which doesn't trigger your breathing reflex. You don't feel like you're suffocating.
So the feeling is different, but the amount of time you can function in either state is similarly different from having full lungs with sea level pressure. In other words, more than sufficient to demonstrate to the OP that it's quite possible to lose the ability to function in less than the two or three minutes it takes while holding your breath at sea level. Which is the situation for which I suggested the experiment. Not perfectly accurate, but a hell of a lot better for the purpose at hand than yours.
No need: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=cockpit
The midshipman's berth on naval ships used to be called the "cockpit," a pit for fighting cocks (roosters). Midshipmen were usually young men, frequently in fierce competition for limited promotions.
Cock as slang for penis probably also originates with cock meaning rooster.
iOS apps virtually always compile for both x86 and ARM, with no distinction. Why shouldn't Google be able to do the same thing?
Actually, iOS probably does run on x86. The iOS simulator runs on x86, and runs iOS programs compiled for x86.
There's no reason Intel would try to run it on their chip and compare to Android though.
DVD players, cell phones, routers, TVs, calculators. All of these things have had operating systems since the nineties (or earlier) and very few have ever given root access to the end user. Some people get excited about it now because the operating systems are more sophisticated, and are based on OSes that, when installed on a desktop, DO give the user root access.
Ownership after sale? It's silly. None of these devices are sold as offering root access. Sometimes you can get it, by exploiting bugs. Later updates might fix those bugs, but you don't have to install them.
Colour books?
A cabin on a boat is where you sleep. The cabin of a car (or airplane) is where you sit. The cockpit is where the driver(s) sit.
The word "cabin" has been used to describe the interior space of cars for quite a while.
Yes, it is a reasonable simulation. It's not perfectly accurate, but it's about the best you can do on the ground, and successfully demonstrates that your time of useful consciousness is a LOT less than you might think. The effect isn't due strictly to the pressure of the air. Having a little bit of high pressure air in your lungs isn't that different than having a lot of low pressure air.
If you get a good exhalation and don't cheat, you'll be able to hold your breath for a lot closer to 30 seconds than 60. No, you probably can't simulate fifty thousand feet, simply because the end tidal volume in your lungs is too high, but you can do a pretty good job of thirty-five, which demonstrates nicely that holding your inhalation for two minutes at sea level is very different from the low pressure situation. And all without taking a ride in a fighter jet. You can't simulate 300 km up accurately with a breath hold OR a fighter jet ride... so what?
Feeling a little contrary today?
I looked at that twice and satisfied myself that I hadn't left anything out. I guess I shouldn't do math after transcontinental flights.
You never know what the last 9% might have been. My decision might be a little different if there's a 9% chance that it doesn't (quite) kill you, but you live in agony for another forty years. Or if it had a 9% chance of starting a zombie apocalypse.
Hold your breath OUT for 60 seconds. Go ahead.
It's easy to simulate. Just exhale all the way and hold your breath like that. If you make more than 30 seconds you're ahead of most people.
"After a minute without air? That's what it feels like to be working out hard"
Try this experiment. Breathe all the way out. Now hold your breath that way. How long can you do it? Most healthy people make 20 to 30 seconds.
I can hold my breath for almost three minutes with my lungs full, but that's not the situation when you lose air pressure.
Phase I trials evaluate a treatment for safety, not efficacy. You're ONLY checking for undesirable side effects. Since this is a whole virus vaccine, one of the undesirable side effects is unfortunately getting HIV. By testing in already HIV+ people they don't have to worry about infecting someone. They'll likely test their phase I participants for the particular strain of the virus they're injecting, to make sure it's not replicating.
Because you were having an immune reaction to the vaccine (which you're supposed to) and possibly are a bit of a wimp. If you took one day off you obviously didn't have diphtheria, pertussis OR tetanus.
"So NO, we don't have a private friggin alternative to turn to. Thanks to my daughter not getting her HebP vaccine (only one she doesn't have) she was denied entry into a private pre-school because of State law."
Yeah, because pre-schoolers NEVER bleed. Okay, in US padded-wall schools maybe they don't, but hepatitis B can be transmitted by saliva too.
But hey, if there's a demand for schools that admit students who haven't had their shots, shouldn't some enterprising individual come along and start one? Isn't that how your vaunted private system is supposed to work? Anyway, you DO have an alternative. You mentioned it: home schooling. It seems very popular with parents who deny their kids vaccinations.
There's no point in running an expensive clinical trial without FDA approval. The US is where most of the market is. So you run the trial with FDA approval and, if successful, you can sell it in the US. Most other approval agencies, including Health Canada, will be happy with the FDA approved trial, but the converse is not usually true.