This is exactly why i don't trust the cheaper sushi places in Texas...Yes i said Sushi and Texas in the same sentence.
Being born and raised in Hawaii, you are fed almost anything and everything out of the ocean, cooked or raw. Once example is Ahi Poke. Raw tuna marinated. It is freaking delicious! Ask any local in Hawaii and that food is as staple as corn in the midwest. Seafood can be caught/bought fresh daily in Hawaii. So even the cheaper sushi places in Hawaii have awesome sushi that doesn't get you sick. I never got sick once eating sushi in Hawaii. The fish you see on the menu is the fish you eat on your plate, no substitutions (except for maybe a few imitation crab items). And the prices are also cheaper since the fish is caught locally.
Here in Texas, you need to go to a fine-dining seafood restaurant to get the same quality sushi as a regular mom and pop sushi restaurant in Hawaii. ($35 2-roll sushi plate in Texas vs $15 sushi PLATTER in Hawaii). The finer dining establishments in Texas have their fish flown in overnight frozen and prepare it the same day it arrives, it never sits after the fish is delivered. It is setup and prepped for the days meals once it arrives in the morning. I've had the unfortunate privilege of eating at a cheaper sushi place years ago when I first moved to Texas; this was my first sushi experience in Texas. Never again will I ever eat at another cheap sushi establishment here. The sushi was dry, tasted like crap, and even looked cheap. It was a bad experience for me that night when i got home. Now I just stick to the higher price and eat sushi ad finer dining sushi restaurants and go home with a settled stomach and a smile on my face, rather than sit on the porcelain throne all night.
I never took flu shots my whole life. I would get the occasional cold or flu, but nothing severe lasting more than 3 days or so that bed rest and lots of fluids and chicken noodle soup couldn't take care of.
One time, 5 years ago I came down with Pneumonia, and that was by far the sickest I have ever been in my life, and the most physically exhausting pain i have had to endure for a week and a half straight. My doctors didn't diagnose it correctly until after my temperature hovered for 103 degrees for two straight days. I almost could feel myself passing out from my body heat. It was horrible. They gave me the correct antibiotics and my temperature dropped within 24 hours.
5 years since then i have not had any seasonal flu/sickness and still refused to take flu shots. I see no need to since i don't see a large risk of becoming very sick and missing out on work or dishing out money on OTC/prescription meds unless necessary. I'd rather let my body get exposed to it if it happens and deal with it as it comes. I am fairly healthy and always up and moving at work so I get tons of exercise throughout the day without even trying. FYI, I am an IT Director, and yes I am at peoples desks every day, touching keyboards, laptops, monitors, etc. I am never the one getting sick in both of the building complexes I manage. I'm always washing my hands before eating and often throughout the day. Its always the sales/accounting/marketing departments where people end up going missing for days because they are at home sick with the flu; the same people that were the ones that jumped on the chance to get the company sponsored flu shots; and also the same people sitting all day at their desks eating donuts for breakfast and only getting up out of their cubicle to refill their coffee cups. See the relation...?
I also don't trust pharmas that spend more money every year on Marketing then they do on R&D, and I sure as hell won't trust them to stick a needle full of a product they produced for the sole purpose of capitalizing on this "pandemic" and inject it into my body. I'll take my chances...and so far for 27 years, I've been doing pretty good without their annual "miracle" shots.
I'm very glad for China, but at the same time depressed. When I was younger, I used to think of the US as being a place that made THE FUTURE happen. I wanted the Internet come into being and if that wasn't THE FUTURE I didn't know what was. Now it seems feels like the US it focused on stasis. I can only hope now that the Chinese let us have some table scraps from their engineering marvels.
There goes my karma, but I don't care. The message that the image portrays speaks for itself. My ancestors were here first. Someone should tell these guys that.
This is exactly the reason we ALL NEED TO GET OUR ASSES UP TO VOTE THIS UPCOMING ELECTION!!! The time to stop complaining and start taking action is now. Exercise your most important right and make YOUR difference.
...that I donated $50 to my local PBS station. Growing up watching this show proved to be far more valuable than most "dull" classroom environments i've encountered. I learned the order of the planets and newton's laws of physics when I was 10 years old because of this show. It made "understanding" what we were learning actually fun and now that I have a 5 year old daughter, I'm glad he's back into educating and hopefully making learning fun again.
Google donating bandwidth for the better of the internet community. If only more internet or tech companies would show some dedication like this into improving the education for the masses over the internet for the people. Hats off to google again.
Anybody who works for IBM knows the thickness of the IP papers they must sign just for working for the company, and if you read the fine print, they basically own everything you can conjure up while being an active employee. With 320,000+ employees, thats a lot of ideas. BUT, most people look over the fact that IBM is one of the, if not THE biggest spender in R&D, and that alone is its biggest investment. For example, the earth simulator came out and stunned the world with its 35-TFlops of supercomuting power. IBM already had 100-TFlops (when its completed, currently its at 70-TFlops) up its sleeve with its Blue Gene supercomputer waiting right around the corner.
It's simple, IBM invests heavily in its R&D and does not jump in on marketable, fast money-making ideas that fade away as quickly as people buy into it. IBM has been innovators, and its shown by being #1 in patents for the last 11 years.
IBM giving away its IP portfolio....HARDLY! Read my previous statement regarding IBM's patents. 500 patents is a tiny fraction of the mountain of patents they own.
This is a very good idea because IBM wants to stem away from guys like this and IP Hoarding companies. You can't sell what everyone has, so in order to protect its patents...IBM is freely distributing it, in effect trying to hit those IP hoarding companies where it hurts. I see stocks rising and money not being thrown away by IBM, but money thats coming to them for investments in their IP. IBM has been in the game a long time folks, and they have been playing the market right and setting market trends for years. I trust them....hell, I even work for them!
Scenario 1) You have 24 hours notice that a bomb is about to fall on your house. You stick around and stand on your roof to film it. That's stupidity.
Scenario 2) Hurricane warning system gives you 72 hours notice it is about to make landfall. You stand on the shoreline to film the waves and destruction throughout the whole thing, or better yet fly a helicopter to film it in the air with 100+ mph winds. That's stupidity.
Scenario 3) Tsunami warning system give 24 hour advanced warning tsunami headed your way. You decide to grab your video recorder and stand on the shoreline directly in its path to capture the momentous occasion. That's stupidity.
the point is not about being unaware, the point is that you are given warning, and an ample amount of time to prepare, yet you CHOOSE to do the stupid thing, therefore acting upon stupidity yourself. Darwinism at its finest. The authorities told these same tourists to leave or else...the tourists thought otherwise and the authorities got the heck out of there and to higher ground. So get real, there are stupid people in this world.
"The author comments that tsunami warnings may not help much, as people often flock to the coastline to see the giant waves."
The author is essentially right. Growing up in hawaii, the tourists are our number one source of income, and our number one source of stupidity. Everytime Japan had earthquakes, especially the last one in Kobe a few years ago, the whole coastline was evacuated around the islands. Hotels, businesses, schools, residents along the beaches were forced to move inland toward higher ground. Yet, there were the few tourists, standing on the reef walls, video cameras in hand, waiting to FILM the tsunami. Although that tsunami turned out to be only a foot tall (the local geological surveyists and warning systems calculated the exact time the wave would have arrived), the tourists were still in great danger had the tsunami been 20+ feet tall. Unfortunately it takes an event on a scale such as this to make the general world realize the need for education on such natural disasters, so that maybe now an early warning system would be effective in saving lives, rather than losing the amount we have in the last week.
Both.NET and J2EE are good platforms for developing and hosting business applications. Both support n-tier architectures via client- and server-side component models for assembling enterprise applications. This allows for use of either fat or thin user interfaces with both platforms. However,.NET and J2EE are far from identical, and each platform has distinct strengths.
The primary strength of.NET is its use of multiple programming languages running on a single platform. This eliminates the programming language as a barrier for adoption. Further.NET strengths include ease of use and speed of development as programmers might be transitioning from COBOL or C. (In contrast, transitioning to Java usually takes greater skill in object orientation.)
J2EE takes.NET's multiple programming-language/ single-platform paradigm and turns it around: The primary strength of J2EE is its use of a single programming language capable of running on multiple platforms. This eliminates the platform as a barrier for adoption. Further J2EE strengths include vendor neutrality and the active involvement of a large, open-source community.
Legacy applications: Can either platform make integration easier?
Healthcare providers are moving from traditional reliance on paper-based records and isolated legacy systems. Most now embraced more systematic electronic exchange of patient data, exchanged both within and across organizations such as other providers, diagnostic and laboratory test facilities, managed care organizations, etc. Creating and maintaining patient records requires the ability to extract and integrate patient data from a range of "legacy" document and system formats. legacy applications constitute an even more difficult integration category. Consider a host application that was developed in-house 20 years ago, and written in COBOL. No J2CA resource adapters are available, nor will they be available, to help integrate these applications in a J2EE environment.
From an integration standpoint, JDBC is actually more promising than J2CA. This API provides access to virtually any data source, from relational databases to spreadsheets and flat files. With a JDBC driver, all corporate data can be connected, even in a heterogeneous environment. In addition to its support for actual relational databases, JDBC can also support emulated relational models based on legacy information sources. But to do this, JDBC requires an integration product that can map the legacy-application functions to emulate a relational database model.
The.NET platform, with its dependence on Microsoft BizTalk Server, has the same drawbacks for legacy-application integration as it does for packaged-application integration. So, despite the very real integration potential of.NET and J2EE, both platforms have their associated limitations. And when it comes to legacy-application integration, neither platform can complete the job on its own.
Be aware that all vendors of application integration products do not provide equal support for.NET and J2EE. Many vendors have built their solutions exclusively around one platform or the other, heedless of the fact that both.NET and J2EE will still be the strongest presence in the years to come. Buying an integration product too hastily can tie your organization to a development platform they might not have chosen otherwise.
Therefore, you should look to application-integration vendors that are closely aligned with--and can articulate a long-term strategic relationship with--both.NET and J2EE technologies. That means checking to ensure that a solution offers interfaces such as.NET Class Libraries, COM Objects, ASP, ASP.NET, and.NET web services to support your.NET-based development efforts as well as interfaces like JavaBeans, JSP, and Java web services to support your J2EE-based development efforts.
...Marvin the Martian says all he wants in return for his service is a tri-quantum antiphotonical doomsday device to blow up earth. He deservesa tip at least...
The current version of Enigmail, 0.89.0, is not supported in Thunderbird 1.0RC1, so I had to roll back to Thunderbird 0.9 so I could use my GnuPG encryption. Hopefully the guys at mozdev.org see this soon for the upcomign release of Thunderbird 1.0.
I sell guitars at a local music store. Besides my networking and server/systems administration duties for my main income, I work at my local music equipment store selling guitars, amps, etc...everything from clarinets to triangles. I've been playing guitar for about 7 years now, so music is my other obvious passion besides computers, if you can call computers a passion!
yeah, i simply installed service SP 2 as well, although I *somewhat* like the scurity measures MSFT took with SP2, in terms of activeX handling and pop-up blocking, I still think they did too much with its "Security Center", I had to disable it in the Services Index so that annoying popup from microsfot theirself wouldnt come up telling me that it cant detect antivirus software, or windows firewall is off. eeek! just as annoying as any other popup from ad/spyware i say.
IBM is the leads in new patents every year. Their IP release form they make you sign as an employee is pretty lengthy. But IBM rarely let's their patents go because of which IBM's success is partly due from those thousands of IP patent's they attain every year. IBM already has one of the largest patent portfolios worldwide and it continues to register more patents with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in one year...3,415 patents in 2003 more than any other company ever has. It was the eleventh consecutive year that IBM was awarded the most patents, and it brought IBM's total over those 11 years to more than 25,000 U.S. patents. I don't think they'll be treading on Big Blue's turf for a while.
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This is exactly why i don't trust the cheaper sushi places in Texas...Yes i said Sushi and Texas in the same sentence.
Being born and raised in Hawaii, you are fed almost anything and everything out of the ocean, cooked or raw. Once example is Ahi Poke. Raw tuna marinated. It is freaking delicious! Ask any local in Hawaii and that food is as staple as corn in the midwest. Seafood can be caught/bought fresh daily in Hawaii. So even the cheaper sushi places in Hawaii have awesome sushi that doesn't get you sick. I never got sick once eating sushi in Hawaii. The fish you see on the menu is the fish you eat on your plate, no substitutions (except for maybe a few imitation crab items). And the prices are also cheaper since the fish is caught locally.
Here in Texas, you need to go to a fine-dining seafood restaurant to get the same quality sushi as a regular mom and pop sushi restaurant in Hawaii. ($35 2-roll sushi plate in Texas vs $15 sushi PLATTER in Hawaii). The finer dining establishments in Texas have their fish flown in overnight frozen and prepare it the same day it arrives, it never sits after the fish is delivered. It is setup and prepped for the days meals once it arrives in the morning. I've had the unfortunate privilege of eating at a cheaper sushi place years ago when I first moved to Texas; this was my first sushi experience in Texas. Never again will I ever eat at another cheap sushi establishment here. The sushi was dry, tasted like crap, and even looked cheap. It was a bad experience for me that night when i got home. Now I just stick to the higher price and eat sushi ad finer dining sushi restaurants and go home with a settled stomach and a smile on my face, rather than sit on the porcelain throne all night.
I never took flu shots my whole life. I would get the occasional cold or flu, but nothing severe lasting more than 3 days or so that bed rest and lots of fluids and chicken noodle soup couldn't take care of.
One time, 5 years ago I came down with Pneumonia, and that was by far the sickest I have ever been in my life, and the most physically exhausting pain i have had to endure for a week and a half straight. My doctors didn't diagnose it correctly until after my temperature hovered for 103 degrees for two straight days. I almost could feel myself passing out from my body heat. It was horrible. They gave me the correct antibiotics and my temperature dropped within 24 hours.
5 years since then i have not had any seasonal flu/sickness and still refused to take flu shots. I see no need to since i don't see a large risk of becoming very sick and missing out on work or dishing out money on OTC/prescription meds unless necessary. I'd rather let my body get exposed to it if it happens and deal with it as it comes. I am fairly healthy and always up and moving at work so I get tons of exercise throughout the day without even trying. FYI, I am an IT Director, and yes I am at peoples desks every day, touching keyboards, laptops, monitors, etc. I am never the one getting sick in both of the building complexes I manage. I'm always washing my hands before eating and often throughout the day. Its always the sales/accounting/marketing departments where people end up going missing for days because they are at home sick with the flu; the same people that were the ones that jumped on the chance to get the company sponsored flu shots; and also the same people sitting all day at their desks eating donuts for breakfast and only getting up out of their cubicle to refill their coffee cups. See the relation...?
I also don't trust pharmas that spend more money every year on Marketing then they do on R&D, and I sure as hell won't trust them to stick a needle full of a product they produced for the sole purpose of capitalizing on this "pandemic" and inject it into my body. I'll take my chances...and so far for 27 years, I've been doing pretty good without their annual "miracle" shots.
I'm very glad for China, but at the same time depressed. When I was younger, I used to think of the US as being a place that made THE FUTURE happen. I wanted the Internet come into being and if that wasn't THE FUTURE I didn't know what was. Now it seems feels like the US it focused on stasis. I can only hope now that the Chinese let us have some table scraps from their engineering marvels.
-Grey
Engineering marvels?
You mean this engineering marvel?
Or how about this one?
Though, I'll give them credit where it's due, the Olympic venues of the birds nest and water cube were pretty awesome.
Who's The Illegal Alien Now Pilgrim?
/Lives in Texas by the way...
There goes my karma, but I don't care. The message that the image portrays speaks for itself. My ancestors were here first. Someone should tell these guys that.
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... (edit) I was supposed to have typed "ALL NEED TO GET OUR ASSES UP TO VOTE THIS UPCOMING 2006 ELECTION!!! /typo
This is exactly the reason we ALL NEED TO GET OUR ASSES UP TO VOTE THIS UPCOMING ELECTION!!! The time to stop complaining and start taking action is now. Exercise your most important right and make YOUR difference.
My daughter was born a week after I turned 17.
...that I donated $50 to my local PBS station. Growing up watching this show proved to be far more valuable than most "dull" classroom environments i've encountered. I learned the order of the planets and newton's laws of physics when I was 10 years old because of this show. It made "understanding" what we were learning actually fun and now that I have a 5 year old daughter, I'm glad he's back into educating and hopefully making learning fun again.
Google donating bandwidth for the better of the internet community. If only more internet or tech companies would show some dedication like this into improving the education for the masses over the internet for the people. Hats off to google again.
Anybody who works for IBM knows the thickness of the IP papers they must sign just for working for the company, and if you read the fine print, they basically own everything you can conjure up while being an active employee. With 320,000+ employees, thats a lot of ideas. BUT, most people look over the fact that IBM is one of the, if not THE biggest spender in R&D, and that alone is its biggest investment. For example, the earth simulator came out and stunned the world with its 35-TFlops of supercomuting power. IBM already had 100-TFlops (when its completed, currently its at 70-TFlops) up its sleeve with its Blue Gene supercomputer waiting right around the corner.
It's simple, IBM invests heavily in its R&D and does not jump in on marketable, fast money-making ideas that fade away as quickly as people buy into it. IBM has been innovators, and its shown by being #1 in patents for the last 11 years.
IBM giving away its IP portfolio....HARDLY! Read my previous statement regarding IBM's patents. 500 patents is a tiny fraction of the mountain of patents they own.
This is a very good idea because IBM wants to stem away from guys like this and IP Hoarding companies. You can't sell what everyone has, so in order to protect its patents...IBM is freely distributing it, in effect trying to hit those IP hoarding companies where it hurts. I see stocks rising and money not being thrown away by IBM, but money thats coming to them for investments in their IP. IBM has been in the game a long time folks, and they have been playing the market right and setting market trends for years. I trust them....hell, I even work for them!
Scenario 1) You have 24 hours notice that a bomb is about to fall on your house. You stick around and stand on your roof to film it. That's stupidity.
Scenario 2) Hurricane warning system gives you 72 hours notice it is about to make landfall. You stand on the shoreline to film the waves and destruction throughout the whole thing, or better yet fly a helicopter to film it in the air with 100+ mph winds. That's stupidity.
Scenario 3) Tsunami warning system give 24 hour advanced warning tsunami headed your way. You decide to grab your video recorder and stand on the shoreline directly in its path to capture the momentous occasion. That's stupidity.
the point is not about being unaware, the point is that you are given warning, and an ample amount of time to prepare, yet you CHOOSE to do the stupid thing, therefore acting upon stupidity yourself. Darwinism at its finest. The authorities told these same tourists to leave or else...the tourists thought otherwise and the authorities got the heck out of there and to higher ground. So get real, there are stupid people in this world.
"The author comments that tsunami warnings may not help much, as people often flock to the coastline to see the giant waves."
The author is essentially right. Growing up in hawaii, the tourists are our number one source of income, and our number one source of stupidity. Everytime Japan had earthquakes, especially the last one in Kobe a few years ago, the whole coastline was evacuated around the islands. Hotels, businesses, schools, residents along the beaches were forced to move inland toward higher ground. Yet, there were the few tourists, standing on the reef walls, video cameras in hand, waiting to FILM the tsunami. Although that tsunami turned out to be only a foot tall (the local geological surveyists and warning systems calculated the exact time the wave would have arrived), the tourists were still in great danger had the tsunami been 20+ feet tall. Unfortunately it takes an event on a scale such as this to make the general world realize the need for education on such natural disasters, so that maybe now an early warning system would be effective in saving lives, rather than losing the amount we have in the last week.
Both .NET and J2EE are good platforms for developing and hosting business applications. Both support n-tier architectures via client- and server-side component models for assembling enterprise applications. This allows for use of either fat or thin user interfaces with both platforms. However, .NET and J2EE are far from identical, and each platform has distinct strengths.
The primary strength of .NET is its use of multiple programming languages running on a single platform. This eliminates the programming language as a barrier for adoption. Further .NET strengths include ease of use and speed of development as programmers might be transitioning from COBOL or C. (In contrast, transitioning to Java usually takes greater skill in object orientation.)
J2EE takes .NET's multiple programming-language/ single-platform paradigm and turns it around: The primary strength of J2EE is its use of a single programming language capable of running on multiple platforms. This eliminates the platform as a barrier for adoption. Further J2EE strengths include vendor neutrality and the active involvement of a large, open-source community.
Legacy applications: Can either platform make integration easier?
Healthcare providers are moving from traditional reliance on paper-based records and isolated legacy systems. Most now embraced more systematic electronic exchange of patient data, exchanged both within and across organizations such as other providers, diagnostic and laboratory test facilities, managed care organizations, etc. Creating and maintaining patient records requires the ability to extract and integrate patient data from a range of "legacy" document and system formats. legacy applications constitute an even more difficult integration category. Consider a host application that was developed in-house 20 years ago, and written in COBOL. No J2CA resource adapters are available, nor will they be available, to help integrate these applications in a J2EE environment.
From an integration standpoint, JDBC is actually more promising than J2CA. This API provides access to virtually any data source, from relational databases to spreadsheets and flat files. With a JDBC driver, all corporate data can be connected, even in a heterogeneous environment. In addition to its support for actual relational databases, JDBC can also support emulated relational models based on legacy information sources. But to do this, JDBC requires an integration product that can map the legacy-application functions to emulate a relational database model.
The .NET platform, with its dependence on Microsoft BizTalk Server, has the same drawbacks for legacy-application integration as it does for packaged-application integration. So, despite the very real integration potential of .NET and J2EE, both platforms have their associated limitations. And when it comes to legacy-application integration, neither platform can complete the job on its own.
Be aware that all vendors of application integration products do not provide equal support for .NET and J2EE. Many vendors have built their solutions exclusively around one platform or the other, heedless of the fact that both .NET and J2EE will still be the strongest presence in the years to come. Buying an integration product too hastily can tie your organization to a development platform they might not have chosen otherwise.
Therefore, you should look to application-integration vendors that are closely aligned with--and can articulate a long-term strategic relationship with--both .NET and J2EE technologies. That means checking to ensure that a solution offers interfaces such as .NET Class Libraries, COM Objects, ASP, ASP.NET, and .NET web services to support your .NET-based development efforts as well as interfaces like JavaBeans, JSP, and Java web services to support your J2EE-based development efforts.
...Marvin the Martian says all he wants in return for his service is a tri-quantum antiphotonical doomsday device to blow up earth. He deservesa tip at least...
could this be the first actual useful tinfoil hat?
The current version of Enigmail, 0.89.0, is not supported in Thunderbird 1.0RC1, so I had to roll back to Thunderbird 0.9 so I could use my GnuPG encryption. Hopefully the guys at mozdev.org see this soon for the upcomign release of Thunderbird 1.0.
I sell guitars at a local music store. Besides my networking and server/systems administration duties for my main income, I work at my local music equipment store selling guitars, amps, etc...everything from clarinets to triangles. I've been playing guitar for about 7 years now, so music is my other obvious passion besides computers, if you can call computers a passion!
you can so kindly donate those unwanted AOL cd's to this cause...No More AOL CD's
yeah, i simply installed service SP 2 as well, although I *somewhat* like the scurity measures MSFT took with SP2, in terms of activeX handling and pop-up blocking, I still think they did too much with its "Security Center", I had to disable it in the Services Index so that annoying popup from microsfot theirself wouldnt come up telling me that it cant detect antivirus software, or windows firewall is off. eeek! just as annoying as any other popup from ad/spyware i say.
if you use another browser like Firefox?
Boing has developed the PAS-5, the world's first commercial satellite with an ion thruster.
IBM is the leads in new patents every year. Their IP release form they make you sign as an employee is pretty lengthy. But IBM rarely let's their patents go because of which IBM's success is partly due from those thousands of IP patent's they attain every year. IBM already has one of the largest patent portfolios worldwide and it continues to register more patents with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in one year...3,415 patents in 2003 more than any other company ever has. It was the eleventh consecutive year that IBM was awarded the most patents, and it brought IBM's total over those 11 years to more than 25,000 U.S. patents. I don't think they'll be treading on Big Blue's turf for a while.
1. Office XP
2. Spybot
3. Adobe Photoshop
4. Zone Alarm Pro
5. Firefox
6. Trillian
7. Nero
8. Norton Antivirus
9. Winrar
10. Snood