After I started balding, I started shaving my head every morning. The general consensus among my acquaintances is that I look better now than I did before I was balding.
I've had the same experience. It's also a lot more convenient. I really dreaded it until I saw for myself how much better it is.
The Gillete Mach 3 is your friend.
I recommend the HeadBlade for the top of your head (if you have any hair left there). Using a traditional razor for the top of my head was starting to give me RSI, and the HeadBlade does a better job up there too. I still use a regular razor for the back and sides, because it works better for me for some reason.
works great for those of us who are, for some reason or another, bad candidates for LASIK.
It's also supposed to be more durable - a number of US military branches will disqualify candidates who've had LASIK, but allow those who've had PRK.
Have you noticed any side-effects, like reduced low-light vision? That's probably my biggest concern, since I see very well in low light and would miss it.
I'll probably still wait until I can get replacement eyes if someone screws up, but I'm curious anyway.
And, by naming them specifically and publicly, how long do you think it will take before they approach you demanding royalties?
Blizzard doesn't exactly go to great pains to conceal the source material they're inspired by. I'm pretty sure that if the estate of JRR Tolkien, Michael Moorcock or Games Workshop (to name a few) were going to go after them, they already would have.
The biggest difference is that TeX and LaTeX are both only used by a relatively small number of professionals.
Er, I would argue that the biggest difference is that "latex" is a compound that many things besides fetish clothes are made out of, whereas every meaning of "gimp" is negative.
But what you're really doing in a situation like this is dodging bullets, rather than proving that we overbuild environmental in our server rooms. We KNOW that excess heat, water, humidity, etc can kill servers. These are facts that cannot be ignored.
Yes, exactly. Who did Microsoft get to cook up this experiment? Some kids from a local elementary school science fair? Some "test to destruction" technicians?
With the reduction in modern electronics reliability due to tin whiskers, the *last* thing someone should be doing is deploying hardware in a low-quality environment. Some people (the military, researchers in the Antarctic) don't have a choice, but for everyone else it's asking for trouble to do this.
On one occasion a disk unit started giving "media error warnings" but apart from that no ill effects again.
So, apart from doing the exact sort of damage that most technical people would predict you'd see when hard drives are repeatedly subjected to shock, nothing happened?
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say it's a rock.
A rock that appears suddenly and then disappears later? And is visible from light-years away? And has a spectral signature that doesn't match anything in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey? That's some rock.
Googling "Marduk", "Nibiru", and "Anunnaki" is a good place to start. I can't remember if the Anunnaki are supposed to be lizards or if that's another race - after awhile it all gets muddled together.
The best track ("Pleiadian Agenda") on Hanzel und Gretyl's first album makes reference to it as well.
This is being done because admins are crying that users have to jump through hoops to use their website when they use certificates that can't be validated.
I could also see it being used to detect if your employer is using a "transparent" SSL-inspecting proxy/gateway to monitor your "secure" internet traffic.
All of the major content-filtering/security vendors (Secure Computing, IronPort, etc.) have MitM-style components now. Because they depend on the employer installing a trusted root cert on all internal systems that use the gateway/proxy, normally they would not be detected unless someone were to look at the details of the certs their browser was receiving.
I have a nagging suspicion that something really bad is going to result. In the meantime, I'd at least like the padlock symbol in Firefox to be a different colour to indicate that my "secure" traffic is being monitored, so I can choose whether or not to continue.
Since when has left-wing do-gooder Seattle been associated with Puritanism?
There are plenty of crusaders in Seattle. Their support of fascist-environmentalism (taxes on shopping bags, elimination of free parking) tends to distract people from realizing that they also oppose traditional vices like cheap alcohol and strip clubs.
No matter how good the admin is, running it on an old gaming machine provided by the CEOs Son won't give you five nines. You can be happy to get 80%.
How is that the fault of Exchange?
I've backed up our main Exchange engineer for over five years now in an enterprise environment, and out of our 10+ servers I've seen 2 outages. One was due to the system board on the server failing, so that leaves one where Exchange was at fault (one of the databases became corrupt and had to be restored from a backup).
I attribute this to three main factors:
- We run it on enterprise-class hardware. - Despite rumours to the contrary, most of Microsoft's enterprise-level software is pretty solid, unless it's a 1.0 or 2.0 release. - Our Exchange implementation was engineered by someone who knew what he was doing, and is now supported by someone who knows what he's doing.
Anyway, this article just makes me more convinced that we've done the right thing by sticking with our own system instead of using a hosted product.
The solution is NOT to fix it in post. The solution is to spend 5 minutes, think it through, and fix it while you're filming.
Obviously everyone should shoot still/video with the intention of it being perfect without postproduction, but sometimes it's impractical or impossible to go back and reshoot something when you find out it's got a problem of some kind.
For example, I went on a drive down the west coast of the US a year ago and took a bunch of pictures. Halfway through the trip, I discovered that sometime around the third day some debris had gotten onto the sensor of my camera. I couldn't go back and retake the pictures, so the only option was to Photoshop it out of every single one that I wanted to use.
For another example, I was just watching the old Five Doctors episode of Doctor Who, and some of the bonus material included unedited footage where the microphone boom and/or the shadow of a crewmember had accidentally appeared in frame. The BBC can't actually go back to 1983, but if they wanted to use that footage they could theoretically use technology like this to fix it up.
What if the damned thing exhibits delta waves at some point?
I was also thinking along those lines. Since this research uses fetal brain tissue, the animal (or potentially human) brain cells can't really remember being anything else, but it's still pretty eerie trying to imagine what the experience would be like if there were enough cells (however many that is) for consciousness.
I think there are some amazing potential applications for this type of research, but I also have a feeling that eventually someone is going to create an experimental cyborg like this and realize that it's trying to howl in terror and/or commit suicide.
I was thinking more of Saberhagen's Berserkers (specifically, Berserker Base) except in that case it was human brains being experimented upon by robotic intelligences, so the Dalek comparison is probably a better one.
The simple fact is that the demand to use stored procedures is nothing other than a power grab by DBAs.
Uh, I use stored procedures and I'm not a DBA. I do it because:
- They run faster (since the server saves the execution plan). - They let me handle data processing on the server if I want instead of transferring the raw data over the network to the app server and then processing it there. - They provide task-based granular security at the database layer, so I can control exactly what certain IDs can call.
You can restrict queries, but there's no option to disable EXEC
If more database-accessing code used stored procedures (and hence EXEC) instead of arbitrary queries, the database parts would work faster and there would be less likelihood of this type of attack working.
It's *possible* to write a stored procedure that's vulnerable to SQL injection, but it's a lot harder than writing a plain query that is.
Most unions today are not needed and should go away. I would say all but I do not know about every union.
I keep hearing people mention this opinion, and yet it seems to me like the non-union skilled jobs in the US (specifically tech jobs) have conditions and pay that are well below what unions achieve for e.g. machinists and longshoremen.
Some tool pushing it around, broadcasting music, and pretending private property is public? That's rather obnoxious.
I thought it was pretty funny. Especially the deadpan comment about everyone looking at the cart because it was loudly playing the sound of an analogue modem.
I had an idea like this a year or so ago, except I was thinking that the two pieces should actually be connected (via a really, really strong cable), and the end furthest from the asteroid should be sent into the gravity wells of large objects to alter the course of the asteroid.
IE:
1 - "Harpoon" vehicle embeds itself into the asteroid, or throws a big net around it.
2 - "Bolo" vehicle waits until a planet or moon is within range and then heads toward it.
3 - The gravity of the planet pulls on the asteroid via the cable, swinging it to a new course (and causing the entire assembly to spin like a baton).
Why does anyone think this would be to their benefit? If it were introduced, the phone companies would just increase the per-second charges to make up for the revenue they "lost" by more accurate accounting.
Though there does not seem to be much evidence (left) that literacy triggers thinking,
I doubt that literacy "triggers thinking", but it certainly improves the ability of someone to understand concepts.
For example, a few weeks ago I was reading an "explanation" someone wrote about why food in a dented can wasn't safe to eat. Part of their statement was that it "changes the malectural [sic] structure". What are the chances that that person even knows what a molecule is, let alone that it's what's allegedly being changed by exposure to air? They're probably just remembering a vague factoid by rote and have no idea what it actually means.
What is unique about the iPhone is the way Apple decides what you are allowed to use it for.
It's also unique from other smartphones in that it has an interface that isn't a complete pile of crap. Windows Mobile and the BlackBerry OS are uniformly terrible in their UI design.
The iPhone is the first handheld computer I've seen with a UI that is effective, intuitive, and responsive. Everything just works the way I expect it to. And I say that as someone who doesn't own a Mac and probably never will because I have serious complaints about the OS X UI.
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After I started balding, I started shaving my head every morning. The general consensus among my acquaintances is that I look better now than I did before I was balding.
I've had the same experience. It's also a lot more convenient. I really dreaded it until I saw for myself how much better it is.
The Gillete Mach 3 is your friend.
I recommend the HeadBlade for the top of your head (if you have any hair left there). Using a traditional razor for the top of my head was starting to give me RSI, and the HeadBlade does a better job up there too. I still use a regular razor for the back and sides, because it works better for me for some reason.
works great for those of us who are, for some reason or another, bad candidates for LASIK.
It's also supposed to be more durable - a number of US military branches will disqualify candidates who've had LASIK, but allow those who've had PRK.
Have you noticed any side-effects, like reduced low-light vision? That's probably my biggest concern, since I see very well in low light and would miss it.
I'll probably still wait until I can get replacement eyes if someone screws up, but I'm curious anyway.
And, by naming them specifically and publicly, how long do you think it will take before they approach you demanding royalties?
Blizzard doesn't exactly go to great pains to conceal the source material they're inspired by. I'm pretty sure that if the estate of JRR Tolkien, Michael Moorcock or Games Workshop (to name a few) were going to go after them, they already would have.
The biggest difference is that TeX and LaTeX are both only used by a relatively small number of professionals.
Er, I would argue that the biggest difference is that "latex" is a compound that many things besides fetish clothes are made out of, whereas every meaning of "gimp" is negative.
But what you're really doing in a situation like this is dodging bullets, rather than proving that we overbuild environmental in our server rooms. We KNOW that excess heat, water, humidity, etc can kill servers. These are facts that cannot be ignored.
Yes, exactly. Who did Microsoft get to cook up this experiment? Some kids from a local elementary school science fair? Some "test to destruction" technicians?
With the reduction in modern electronics reliability due to tin whiskers, the *last* thing someone should be doing is deploying hardware in a low-quality environment. Some people (the military, researchers in the Antarctic) don't have a choice, but for everyone else it's asking for trouble to do this.
On one occasion a disk unit started giving "media error warnings" but apart from that no ill effects again.
So, apart from doing the exact sort of damage that most technical people would predict you'd see when hard drives are repeatedly subjected to shock, nothing happened?
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say it's a rock.
A rock that appears suddenly and then disappears later? And is visible from light-years away? And has a spectral signature that doesn't match anything in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey? That's some rock.
Googling "Marduk", "Nibiru", and "Anunnaki" is a good place to start. I can't remember if the Anunnaki are supposed to be lizards or if that's another race - after awhile it all gets muddled together.
The best track ("Pleiadian Agenda") on Hanzel und Gretyl's first album makes reference to it as well.
This is being done because admins are crying that users have to jump through hoops to use their website when they use certificates that can't be validated.
I could also see it being used to detect if your employer is using a "transparent" SSL-inspecting proxy/gateway to monitor your "secure" internet traffic.
All of the major content-filtering/security vendors (Secure Computing, IronPort, etc.) have MitM-style components now. Because they depend on the employer installing a trusted root cert on all internal systems that use the gateway/proxy, normally they would not be detected unless someone were to look at the details of the certs their browser was receiving.
I have a nagging suspicion that something really bad is going to result. In the meantime, I'd at least like the padlock symbol in Firefox to be a different colour to indicate that my "secure" traffic is being monitored, so I can choose whether or not to continue.
I think using it to mean a millionth of a meter would be confusing, regardless of it being technically correct.
How is it more confusing than using "meter" in both the "unit of measurement" and also the "device which measures something" sense?
Since when has left-wing do-gooder Seattle been associated with Puritanism?
There are plenty of crusaders in Seattle. Their support of fascist-environmentalism (taxes on shopping bags, elimination of free parking) tends to distract people from realizing that they also oppose traditional vices like cheap alcohol and strip clubs.
No matter how good the admin is, running it on an old gaming machine provided by the CEOs Son won't give you five nines. You can be happy to get 80%.
How is that the fault of Exchange?
I've backed up our main Exchange engineer for over five years now in an enterprise environment, and out of our 10+ servers I've seen 2 outages. One was due to the system board on the server failing, so that leaves one where Exchange was at fault (one of the databases became corrupt and had to be restored from a backup).
I attribute this to three main factors:
- We run it on enterprise-class hardware.
- Despite rumours to the contrary, most of Microsoft's enterprise-level software is pretty solid, unless it's a 1.0 or 2.0 release.
- Our Exchange implementation was engineered by someone who knew what he was doing, and is now supported by someone who knows what he's doing.
Anyway, this article just makes me more convinced that we've done the right thing by sticking with our own system instead of using a hosted product.
The solution is NOT to fix it in post. The solution is to spend 5 minutes, think it through, and fix it while you're filming.
Obviously everyone should shoot still/video with the intention of it being perfect without postproduction, but sometimes it's impractical or impossible to go back and reshoot something when you find out it's got a problem of some kind.
For example, I went on a drive down the west coast of the US a year ago and took a bunch of pictures. Halfway through the trip, I discovered that sometime around the third day some debris had gotten onto the sensor of my camera. I couldn't go back and retake the pictures, so the only option was to Photoshop it out of every single one that I wanted to use.
For another example, I was just watching the old Five Doctors episode of Doctor Who, and some of the bonus material included unedited footage where the microphone boom and/or the shadow of a crewmember had accidentally appeared in frame. The BBC can't actually go back to 1983, but if they wanted to use that footage they could theoretically use technology like this to fix it up.
What if the damned thing exhibits delta waves at some point?
I was also thinking along those lines. Since this research uses fetal brain tissue, the animal (or potentially human) brain cells can't really remember being anything else, but it's still pretty eerie trying to imagine what the experience would be like if there were enough cells (however many that is) for consciousness.
I think there are some amazing potential applications for this type of research, but I also have a feeling that eventually someone is going to create an experimental cyborg like this and realize that it's trying to howl in terror and/or commit suicide.
I was thinking more of Saberhagen's Berserkers (specifically, Berserker Base) except in that case it was human brains being experimented upon by robotic intelligences, so the Dalek comparison is probably a better one.
The simple fact is that the demand to use stored procedures is nothing other than a power grab by DBAs.
Uh, I use stored procedures and I'm not a DBA. I do it because:
- They run faster (since the server saves the execution plan).
- They let me handle data processing on the server if I want instead of transferring the raw data over the network to the app server and then processing it there.
- They provide task-based granular security at the database layer, so I can control exactly what certain IDs can call.
You can restrict queries, but there's no option to disable EXEC
If more database-accessing code used stored procedures (and hence EXEC) instead of arbitrary queries, the database parts would work faster and there would be less likelihood of this type of attack working.
It's *possible* to write a stored procedure that's vulnerable to SQL injection, but it's a lot harder than writing a plain query that is.
Most unions today are not needed and should go away. I would say all but I do not know about every union.
I keep hearing people mention this opinion, and yet it seems to me like the non-union skilled jobs in the US (specifically tech jobs) have conditions and pay that are well below what unions achieve for e.g. machinists and longshoremen.
MIT has a prototype.
Some tool pushing it around, broadcasting music, and pretending private property is public? That's rather obnoxious.
I thought it was pretty funny. Especially the deadpan comment about everyone looking at the cart because it was loudly playing the sound of an analogue modem.
I had an idea like this a year or so ago, except I was thinking that the two pieces should actually be connected (via a really, really strong cable), and the end furthest from the asteroid should be sent into the gravity wells of large objects to alter the course of the asteroid.
IE:
1 - "Harpoon" vehicle embeds itself into the asteroid, or throws a big net around it.
2 - "Bolo" vehicle waits until a planet or moon is within range and then heads toward it.
3 - The gravity of the planet pulls on the asteroid via the cable, swinging it to a new course (and causing the entire assembly to spin like a baton).
Why does anyone think this would be to their benefit? If it were introduced, the phone companies would just increase the per-second charges to make up for the revenue they "lost" by more accurate accounting.
Though there does not seem to be much evidence (left) that literacy triggers thinking,
I doubt that literacy "triggers thinking", but it certainly improves the ability of someone to understand concepts.
For example, a few weeks ago I was reading an "explanation" someone wrote about why food in a dented can wasn't safe to eat. Part of their statement was that it "changes the malectural [sic] structure". What are the chances that that person even knows what a molecule is, let alone that it's what's allegedly being changed by exposure to air? They're probably just remembering a vague factoid by rote and have no idea what it actually means.
What is unique about the iPhone is the way Apple decides what you are allowed to use it for.
It's also unique from other smartphones in that it has an interface that isn't a complete pile of crap. Windows Mobile and the BlackBerry OS are uniformly terrible in their UI design.
The iPhone is the first handheld computer I've seen with a UI that is effective, intuitive, and responsive. Everything just works the way I expect it to. And I say that as someone who doesn't own a Mac and probably never will because I have serious complaints about the OS X UI.
Why would someone healthy without any problem want any such help?
Male porn stars (of the straight and gay varieties) use it to make themselves more like the Energizer Rabbit. I imagine other guys do too.