Here I am with all these stinkin' mod points, but I'd rather reply. I could simply not be happier that, as a slashdotter, you can't possibly be expected to ever reproduce. Really. Happy. What sort of stupid do you have to be to not understand the difference between the effect on a 3 year old girl and a 35 year old *anything* of rape.
Find out what the core hours are for your office. While you feel like a newby, however long that takes, your hours should be a superset of those hours. I know we all just did our best design work in the shower prior to getting in to the office, yadda yadda. It is impossible to overstate just how important it is to be seen in your chair, doing what seems to be your work. There's a certain element of this that's fake, of course, but there's a certain "real" to having your CTO come by and ask why it was impossible to have blue colored widgets, and have him walk away with a better understanding of your design decision *from you*. It is an understatement that half of all work is... wait for it... showing up!.
Great. You made a hammer. It's a great hammer. I bought it. Doesn't mean you own my house, though.
The problem here, as implied by the parent post, is that the payment structure here doesn't isn't just allowing the maker to profit from his/her invention, but to profit from others' inventions. It discourages innovation, rather than promoting it as patents are meant to.
Vary your activities... whatever you do to take breaks from typing and clicking, *don't* occupy your time with more typing and clicking. Stay away from facebook (and this god forsaken place). Walk. Pick up pencil and paper and draw your solution (use case diagram, cartoon, funny dialog you imagine coming on over the support lines, anything that busts you out of your rut). Sort your paper files. Consider your day/week/month/year and do some planning.
Being tired from coding (particularly if you're not getting into the zone) is not so bad; sometimes it's a signal that you need to do something else for a bit.
This actually is an interesting question, I think. There are numerous sources of fecal contamination in the average household, of course, e.g., the aerosolization of (a small part of) the contents of a toilet bowl on flushing (damn you, low water volume toilets!), but the first exposure of the fetus to feces is on emerging. In normal vaginal delivery, the baby first emerges with it's face pointed toward the mother's anusNSFW (nudity). The mechanical pressure on the rectum at this point can cause a small amount of fecal matter (i.e., poop) to be present at the time. This is possibly a good thing; hospitals may be doing a disservice by ensuring cleanliness in this case
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But there's more (and this is where one of the article's assertions surprises me). TFA states:
Scientists have thought that gut bacteria might pick up genes from other microbes, a process known as lateral gene transfer, "but there hasn't been an example this clear before," says Ruth Ley, a microbiologist at Cornell University
. IANAMB, but I thought that it had been pretty clearly shown that ordinary gut bacteria could become antibiotic resistant, and that that resistance could be transferred to other, more nefarious bacteria via gene transfer. Somebody who knows something about this is hereby encouraged to chime in...
Just adding the chorus of "nothing new here"; here's an excerpt from a 1999 interview with Cycorp CEO Doug Lenat:
DL: We're already able to see isolated cases where Cyc is learning things on its own. Some of the things it learns reflect the incompleteness of its knowledge and are just funny. For example, Cyc at one point concluded that everyone born before 1900 was famous, because all the people that it knew about and who lived in earlier times were famous people. There are similar sorts of errors. But what we're seeing is not so much something that sits quietly on its own and makes discoveries but rather something that uses the knowledge it has to accelerate its own education.
"...behind the bumper of a car traveling at 28 mph, the impact would feel the same to passengers as an impact traveling at only 5 mph,,,"
George Carlin used to point out that if you put a large spike on the steering wheel so that the driver would suffer badly in a collision, the numbers of collisions would drop dramatically.
With a properly placed explosive charge behind the bumper of a car traveling at 5 mph, the impact would feel the same to passengers as an impact traveling at up to 28 mph..."
This really isn't entirely new; Dawkins' book The Selfish Gene is based around the idea that it's individual genes that are selected for, not organisms.
... FWIW, the reason for this is that people routinely lie about the contents of those packages, in order to get the cheap postage. Something like 20% or so, IIRC, according to postal employees I spoke with about it.
From the FA: Battery power and life is "by and large a function of the chemistry in the battery,"
Yeah, and the battery size, maybe? I could go with double the battery volume in my iphone for twice the life; yup, that'd be just about fine with me.
I think you may be misusing the term precautionary principle here. That principle states that, absent any scientific evidence of harm, but with no evidence of lack of externalities, a law might forbid some action. In this case, however, there is significant scientific evidence of externality, where those suffering from those costs do so involuntarily.
I see a lot of "it's just sugar" or "everything's genetically modified" arguments cropping up here; it's really not that simple. Plants are surprisingly "promiscuous" (follow this thread for a number of, no doubt, terribly ribald comments on *that* one). Traits adopted by one set of plants can make their way over to others of the same or different species. Depending on what traits are being modified, this can be a bad thing; consider that Roundup resistance in weeds is not just a result of selective pressure, but of the movement of genes from Monsanto's Roundup resistant seed stocks to neighboring plants.
Yes, this sort of "gene flow" happens in the soi disant natural world as well, but, like CO2 production, modern technology allows us to make bigger, more significant differences over a much shorter period of time. Caution is appropriate here.
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." -- Mark Twain
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Splendid idea. Because the music industry is definitely not too concentrated already ...
Peer reviewed? So then, it was reviewed by 8 year olds? How hard is that?
Here I am with all these stinkin' mod points, but I'd rather reply. I could simply not be happier that, as a slashdotter, you can't possibly be expected to ever reproduce. Really. Happy. What sort of stupid do you have to be to not understand the difference between the effect on a 3 year old girl and a 35 year old *anything* of rape.
Really.
Stupid.
Why do I bother.
Find out what the core hours are for your office. While you feel like a newby, however long that takes, your hours should be a superset of those hours. I know we all just did our best design work in the shower prior to getting in to the office, yadda yadda. It is impossible to overstate just how important it is to be seen in your chair, doing what seems to be your work. There's a certain element of this that's fake, of course, but there's a certain "real" to having your CTO come by and ask why it was impossible to have blue colored widgets, and have him walk away with a better understanding of your design decision *from you*. It is an understatement that half of all work is ... wait for it ... showing up!.
Great. You made a hammer. It's a great hammer. I bought it. Doesn't mean you own my house, though. The problem here, as implied by the parent post, is that the payment structure here doesn't isn't just allowing the maker to profit from his/her invention, but to profit from others' inventions. It discourages innovation, rather than promoting it as patents are meant to.
Vary your activities ... whatever you do to take breaks from typing and clicking, *don't* occupy your time with more typing and clicking. Stay away from facebook (and this god forsaken place). Walk. Pick up pencil and paper and draw your solution (use case diagram, cartoon, funny dialog you imagine coming on over the support lines, anything that busts you out of your rut). Sort your paper files. Consider your day/week/month/year and do some planning.
Being tired from coding (particularly if you're not getting into the zone) is not so bad; sometimes it's a signal that you need to do something else for a bit.
. But there's more (and this is where one of the article's assertions surprises me). TFA states:
. IANAMB, but I thought that it had been pretty clearly shown that ordinary gut bacteria could become antibiotic resistant, and that that resistance could be transferred to other, more nefarious bacteria via gene transfer. Somebody who knows something about this is hereby encouraged to chime in ...
With a properly placed explosive charge behind the bumper of a car traveling at 5 mph, the impact would feel the same to passengers as an impact traveling at up to 28 mph ..."
This really isn't entirely new; Dawkins' book The Selfish Gene is based around the idea that it's individual genes that are selected for, not organisms.
I'm allergic to noisy babies and children who kick my seat-back. Where's my zone?
According to my kid, the "zone" is just above your right kidney ...
... and after all, isn't 4 percent of our current commerce, as things are structured now, worth sacrificing our natural right to privacy?
it's Eaglesband.com, not eagles.com. This was an error in the wired article, since corrected on their site.
Lovely; now my bowl of fruit can sport UPC's. I can see the still-life now. Looks like one of wired's found future objects :-)
One fine day, I'll read a whole thread before I post to it (see my comment "Yea! I'm above average" above ...).
Yea! I'm above average!
Kinda like having a war on dandelions by goin' out and kicking them every spring. "Hey, what are those floaty things?"
... FWIW, the reason for this is that people routinely lie about the contents of those packages, in order to get the cheap postage. Something like 20% or so, IIRC, according to postal employees I spoke with about it.
Nope, that doesn't require a patch; it was built into the original release ...
From the FA: Battery power and life is "by and large a function of the chemistry in the battery,"
Yeah, and the battery size, maybe? I could go with double the battery volume in my iphone for twice the life; yup, that'd be just about fine with me.
Also on netflix, as instant play.
I think you may be misusing the term precautionary principle here. That principle states that, absent any scientific evidence of harm, but with no evidence of lack of externalities, a law might forbid some action. In this case, however, there is significant scientific evidence of externality, where those suffering from those costs do so involuntarily.
I see a lot of "it's just sugar" or "everything's genetically modified" arguments cropping up here; it's really not that simple. Plants are surprisingly "promiscuous" (follow this thread for a number of, no doubt, terribly ribald comments on *that* one). Traits adopted by one set of plants can make their way over to others of the same or different species. Depending on what traits are being modified, this can be a bad thing; consider that Roundup resistance in weeds is not just a result of selective pressure, but of the movement of genes from Monsanto's Roundup resistant seed stocks to neighboring plants.
Yes, this sort of "gene flow" happens in the soi disant natural world as well, but, like CO2 production, modern technology allows us to make bigger, more significant differences over a much shorter period of time. Caution is appropriate here.
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
-- Mark Twain