Ambulances sometimes abuse the authority to run lights just to make the passengers feel like more is being done.
Knowing that is not true, I guess you just made it up? IAAAD (I am an ambulance driver) and we use lights and sirens and run red lights on the way to the call. The dispatcher has prioritized the call, but often information about the call is not accurate, so to err on the safe side we get there as quickly as we can. After we have determined the severity of the call in person at the scene, we decide whether we need to run lights and sirens on the way to the hospital. I would estimate that in 95% of cases, we drive normally, following all traffic laws as we take the patient to the hospital. When a decision is made to go 'code 2' with lights and sirens, it is because the patient's status is critical and every minute will count (e.g. heart attacks, serious traumas). We don't ever "abuse the authority to run lights just to make passengers feel like more is being done." That's just nonsense.
Or, how about this? If someone comes in and says they saw a different price, it wouldn't be much of a stretch for the sales associate to go out to the external Best Buy site to confirm what the customer is saying. That this does not occur is what suggests to me that your theory is wrong, and there is some form of deliberate intent to deceive.
Also, it wouldn't require the knowledge of all the blue shirted peons. As long as the corporate training was structured such that associates were told not to check the external site, but just use the internal, or even better, not even give them the option of so doing, the knowledge of the deception could be limited to a select few.
It's not bullshit. Don't have a link myself, but this actually happened on a demonstration test flight of an Airbus passenger aircraft. These aircraft have been known on numerous occasions to do crazy things in opposition to the direct inputs of the flight crew.
The reason they do this is because the infrastructure is designed to appropriately classify and route fire, EMS, and police calls to the appropriate resources. When you call a non-emergency number, you get someone who does not have access to the dispatch system and someone who is not able to determine what resources (police cars, ambulances, fire trucks, etc) are available to dispatch to handle that particular situation. They advise you to hang up and call 911 because the 911 operator will be able to hand your situation off to a dispatcher that will allocate the appropriate resources to the call and will then mark those resources as unavailable for other calls.
There really is a method behidn the madness - just a single point of contact for coordination of resources.
I would definitely suggest following the parent's advice here and using creditboards.com forums, because this post is incoherent and largely wrong. If you want to learn the proper ways to deal with erroneous credit reporting, that site is unparalleled.
We are using Mono for an internal Research and Development effort where we are operating under a few constraints:
1. As cheap as possible.
2. Open source where possible.
3. Relevant to our programs that have commercial solutions available to them and where acquisition decisions aren't under our control.
What that means is that for our R&D effort, we are not going to be able to use VS.NET, but we have programs that will require our development team to be familiar with C# and the.NET framework.
THAT is where Mono comes in. And for our purposes, THAT is where MonoDevelop comes in.
Well, when you say for not very long, what exactly do you mean by that? I think it would not be the wisest move for Apple to leave those of us that made the switch to Apple recently on the PPC platform high and dry. Leave us with unsupported hardware in the near future and you may alienate that entire segment.
Am I the only one that finds the inability to run executables automatically after downloading extermely irritating?
I run into this all the time. I know exactly what I am downloading, and I have every intention of executing it once it's downloaded. So why can't I tell Firefox to execute when it asks me what I want done with the file? Why make me expend extra labor!
I understand the need to protect the n00bs from themselves, but can't this at least be an option configurable by those of us that think before saying "execute"?
Unfortunately, this will not be the end of actions like this, both from the likes of state AGs and individuals. Whether we like it or not, that $15 a month we're paying for VOIP service will become a thing of the past when regulations of one sort or another are imposed on VOIP. I have no objection to a modest fee for full 911 service (and the technical objections vis-a-vis VOIP not being like standard POTS service are distracting - provide your VOIP provider an address where you'll have your phone 99% of the time, and calls will be routed that local 911 service. I have yet to meet someone who takes their IP phone with them when they travel anyway) but opening the door to regulatory taxes will mean the addition of others down the line (think universal service fees, etc). It's inevitable.
Fundamentally, if cute little girls whose parents have been shot can't call 911 and ends up hysterical on the news with stories of non-existent 911 service, it doesn't matter how lucid the arguments presented by us slashdotters and VOIP users and supporters are.
I'll enjoy my cheap VOIP service as long as I can, but I have little faith in a positive outcome here.
Are users still filling up all available space? I haven't used up all available space in over 5 years now, probably.
Once drives got above a certain size, say, 30 gig, I found that no matter what I installed I'd always have plenty of space.
It used to be that you filled up your HD with apps. Now it takes media to fill it up. Sure, with enough ripped DVDs, MP3s, and pr0n you can fill up a drive any size. But that won't be the average user anymore.
A lot of the perceived performance difficulties come from the current inability to shut down all running processes and devote all system resources to one application.
Years ago, if I wanted to run Doom I, I'd shut down Windows 3.1, drop back to DOS, and start Doom. Doom would then be allocated virtually all resources, both memory and CPU.
Now, since the OS allows processes to start on system startup, and there is no way to easily shut everything down (including the windowing OS) to allow for exclusive execution by an app, you can never devote all resources to a particular app. Given that so many apps execute in the background, and with all the spyware and adware that people inevitably end up with, it's no wonder that system performance is perceived to be slow. The user only sees what is executing in front of them. They have no idea of all that other stuff that is consuming cycles that they can't see!
Yeah. Reminds me of even longer ago when I had an Atari 800 (about 20 years ago). I had Zaxxon (cool game if not frustrating) and it was distributed on a cassette tape. This was before I upgraded to a 5 1/4" floppy drive. I'd throw that tape in, do a "load" and go harass my little sister for the HALF HOUR it took to load it off the tape.
Needless to say, I stuck to the cartridge games as much as possible.:-)
Yes, and the other problem with this game is that some questions require real solutions - as in the truck burning fuel to lessen its weight, and others require 'trick' solutions, such as the one about it being daylight - no pragmatic answers allowed there!
Pretty much the only requirement I have for a good game is that it's FUN. Mindtrap is not fun. It is frustration in a box. You'd have to pay me a substantial amount of money to play this game.
See, this is why I hate this game. That's not going to work if the ball is 'securely lodged into the hole'. The urine will merely accumulate above the ball.
However, puncturing the ball and then removing it since it will not be wedged into the hole anymore is a viable approach that is not correct only because the JAs who came up with this game didn't think of it.
ok, take the ruler, break it into a couple of pieces to create a sharp edge, puncture the ping pong ball with it so that it's deflated and then pull it out of the hole.
The independent scientists are the ones who are receiving the funding from the government. If you're a researcher working at a for-profit institution such as a biotech, you receive funding from the company. If you're an independent researcher without a revenue source, where do you think you can get funding? From the government, of course.
You're right - we need independent researchers working on these problems. And that's why we need the government involved.
We should also be careful about overestimating the value of the research the drug companies perform. When your research is proft-motivated, you're not going to see work performed on rare diseases which may be devastating to the sufferers but which don't hold the promise of lucrative treatments because of their scarcity.
Ok, since I've recently rebuilt my Windoze laptop here at work, I figured I'd give it a shot...
Well, not only do they not support any clients besides Windoze, but if you're operating on any reasonably secured LAN where the firewall doesn't allow you to willy-nilly connect over SSL ports (443) using proprietary protocols (gasp, imagine that), it isn't going to work.
Not really a great way to get off on the right foot with this effort. Make it impossible to use by the majority of those interested by precluding other OSes and folks on corporate networks without proxies.
Back to Folding@Home for me!
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Object oriented patterns are great, and there have been numerous books written that have covered some of the most valuable OO patterns in use. I've recently started work in service oriented architectures, however, and I've noticed that shifting from an OO mindset to an SOA mindset can at times be more challenging than the switch from procedural to OO. Given that the guts of the web service implementations are often in OO, and these patterns can thus be applied there, has anyone seen any good treatises on SOA patterns yet, be it online or in book form? What I've seen has been pretty preliminary and basic. Given the immaturity of SOAs and the thusfar slow adoption of them, it's not surprising, but it would be nice to have some 'pattern gurus' apply their skills to both SOA patterns and the interaction between SOA patterns and the existing OO patterns.
In the interim before the appearance of such works, I've been trying to keep an informal list of patterns I've unearthed through practice, but my ability to codify patterns cannot match that of someone like Holub.:-)
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Knowing that is not true, I guess you just made it up? IAAAD (I am an ambulance driver) and we use lights and sirens and run red lights on the way to the call. The dispatcher has prioritized the call, but often information about the call is not accurate, so to err on the safe side we get there as quickly as we can. After we have determined the severity of the call in person at the scene, we decide whether we need to run lights and sirens on the way to the hospital. I would estimate that in 95% of cases, we drive normally, following all traffic laws as we take the patient to the hospital. When a decision is made to go 'code 2' with lights and sirens, it is because the patient's status is critical and every minute will count (e.g. heart attacks, serious traumas). We don't ever "abuse the authority to run lights just to make passengers feel like more is being done." That's just nonsense.
Also, it wouldn't require the knowledge of all the blue shirted peons. As long as the corporate training was structured such that associates were told not to check the external site, but just use the internal, or even better, not even give them the option of so doing, the knowledge of the deception could be limited to a select few.
It's not bullshit. Don't have a link myself, but this actually happened on a demonstration test flight of an Airbus passenger aircraft. These aircraft have been known on numerous occasions to do crazy things in opposition to the direct inputs of the flight crew.
The reason they do this is because the infrastructure is designed to appropriately classify and route fire, EMS, and police calls to the appropriate resources. When you call a non-emergency number, you get someone who does not have access to the dispatch system and someone who is not able to determine what resources (police cars, ambulances, fire trucks, etc) are available to dispatch to handle that particular situation. They advise you to hang up and call 911 because the 911 operator will be able to hand your situation off to a dispatcher that will allocate the appropriate resources to the call and will then mark those resources as unavailable for other calls.
There really is a method behidn the madness - just a single point of contact for coordination of resources.
I would definitely suggest following the parent's advice here and using creditboards.com forums, because this post is incoherent and largely wrong. If you want to learn the proper ways to deal with erroneous credit reporting, that site is unparalleled.
MOTOROLA?!
Not to mention that we don't have any Windows boxes available to use for this effort. We're using all Fedora Core stuff.
We don't have a choice. We don't have money for purchasing Windows and VS.NET licenses on our R&D effort, yet we need to get experience with .NET.
We are using Mono for an internal Research and Development effort where we are operating under a few constraints:
1. As cheap as possible.
2. Open source where possible.
3. Relevant to our programs that have commercial solutions available to them and where acquisition decisions aren't under our control.
What that means is that for our R&D effort, we are not going to be able to use VS.NET, but we have programs that will require our development team to be familiar with C# and the .NET framework.
THAT is where Mono comes in. And for our purposes, THAT is where MonoDevelop comes in.
... that no matter how hyperbolic one is in their approach to irony, there are always going to be those that still just can't get it.
Well, when you say for not very long, what exactly do you mean by that? I think it would not be the wisest move for Apple to leave those of us that made the switch to Apple recently on the PPC platform high and dry. Leave us with unsupported hardware in the near future and you may alienate that entire segment.
LOL!!!!!
Another Bananas in Pajamas fan!! woohoo!!!
I run into this all the time. I know exactly what I am downloading, and I have every intention of executing it once it's downloaded. So why can't I tell Firefox to execute when it asks me what I want done with the file? Why make me expend extra labor!
I understand the need to protect the n00bs from themselves, but can't this at least be an option configurable by those of us that think before saying "execute"?
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A better question is - Knowing what you appear to know about IE's inadequacies, why are you using IE at all?
Fundamentally, if cute little girls whose parents have been shot can't call 911 and ends up hysterical on the news with stories of non-existent 911 service, it doesn't matter how lucid the arguments presented by us slashdotters and VOIP users and supporters are.
I'll enjoy my cheap VOIP service as long as I can, but I have little faith in a positive outcome here.
Once drives got above a certain size, say, 30 gig, I found that no matter what I installed I'd always have plenty of space.
It used to be that you filled up your HD with apps. Now it takes media to fill it up. Sure, with enough ripped DVDs, MP3s, and pr0n you can fill up a drive any size. But that won't be the average user anymore.
Years ago, if I wanted to run Doom I, I'd shut down Windows 3.1, drop back to DOS, and start Doom. Doom would then be allocated virtually all resources, both memory and CPU.
Now, since the OS allows processes to start on system startup, and there is no way to easily shut everything down (including the windowing OS) to allow for exclusive execution by an app, you can never devote all resources to a particular app. Given that so many apps execute in the background, and with all the spyware and adware that people inevitably end up with, it's no wonder that system performance is perceived to be slow. The user only sees what is executing in front of them. They have no idea of all that other stuff that is consuming cycles that they can't see!
Needless to say, I stuck to the cartridge games as much as possible. :-)
Pretty much the only requirement I have for a good game is that it's FUN. Mindtrap is not fun. It is frustration in a box. You'd have to pay me a substantial amount of money to play this game.
However, puncturing the ball and then removing it since it will not be wedged into the hole anymore is a viable approach that is not correct only because the JAs who came up with this game didn't think of it.
Whatever.
ok, take the ruler, break it into a couple of pieces to create a sharp edge, puncture the ping pong ball with it so that it's deflated and then pull it out of the hole.
Push it through?
You're right - we need independent researchers working on these problems. And that's why we need the government involved.
We should also be careful about overestimating the value of the research the drug companies perform. When your research is proft-motivated, you're not going to see work performed on rare diseases which may be devastating to the sufferers but which don't hold the promise of lucrative treatments because of their scarcity.
Well, not only do they not support any clients besides Windoze, but if you're operating on any reasonably secured LAN where the firewall doesn't allow you to willy-nilly connect over SSL ports (443) using proprietary protocols (gasp, imagine that), it isn't going to work.
Not really a great way to get off on the right foot with this effort. Make it impossible to use by the majority of those interested by precluding other OSes and folks on corporate networks without proxies.
Back to Folding@Home for me!
In the interim before the appearance of such works, I've been trying to keep an informal list of patterns I've unearthed through practice, but my ability to codify patterns cannot match that of someone like Holub. :-)