Lots of horrible things happened. Insides of coffins from the earlier centuries were found to have scratch marks from the people inside waking up That doesn't count: they (the bodies inside those coffins) turned out to be zombies or vampires, all defective and thus unable to reach the surface. Unlike Uma Thurman, who got out just fine...
OK, I only searched a page or two of posts, but it appears nobody has yet pointed out that this projects estimates work out to $1000 per life saved. Now, I know people worth far more (and less:-) ) than this, but what I'd like to know is how this cost compares with other global medical plans. IIRC, providing clean water to stave off deaths from diarrhea is a lot cheaper. And of course transplanting a liver into an aging rock-n-roller is way more expensive.
If the Ginko was doing anything, it should have shown a slight improvement over the placebo even at 120mg. If the results come back essentially the same, then it is obviously not the Ginko improving memory.
The Ginko studies are scientifically valid, but you are incorrect in claiming that if Xmg works, then X/10 mg should work a little. Two examples: 1) not enough antibiotics will fail completely to rid the body of a given infection. The right dose will work. 2) Read "Awakenings" (the book by Oliver Sacks about his experiments with L-dopa). Once you get into chaos theory (aka strange attractors), you'll find basically huge differences in responses to microscopic differences in dosages.
Drive a wooden stake through..... oh wait.. There is an actual published story about that -- maybe Harlan Ellison, I forget. Anyway, it's an all-plant planet, with sentient plants, and a vampire species(??) which sucks the sap out of other plants. When they kill 'em, the bury 'em with a....
OK, I believe mine is issue 3914 -- it's the desperate need for NormalView (or equivalent) in Write/Word. Just as someone posted that vertical space is at a premium (which is why all 'ribbons' and toolbars should be moveable to a vertical array on the side of the screen), there is absolutely no reason to show page edges, headers, or footers while writing and editing the document. Page layout tasks come after the document has been edited.
I'm sure my company is no different from many others: despite having had Exchange/Outlook server running for close to 10 years, most people are &^%$* clueless as to its use. We even mandated that all conference rooms be reserved thru Outlook Calendar, but (especially upper management) people just plain don't do so. And I've tried to suggest that people learn to put their personal schedule (vacation, trips, etc) and their personal calendar, AND that managers learn to *look* at their staffs' calendars,but not a chance. So we plod along with a tool that nobody is willing to learn how to use.
FWIW, I'm opposed to *requiring* graphing calculators, not to *allowing* them. Calculators, graphics tools, etc. are not math; they're engineering tools. Mathematics is (with a few rare exceptions) purely symbolic. If you don't understand that, you don't understand math. And, yeah, YACAS and Mathematica do solve symbolic problems. I wouldn't allow them during tests, but if students want to use the tools instead of learning math, that's their own funeral.
You could always use the same answer for every question (regardless)
Good luck. Many websites refuse to let you enter the same answer for multiple questions.
A certain company whose name sounds like Gorthrop Numman is far, far worse. Examples: if you select the question "what state were you born in", the only legal answers are 2-character alpha. If you select "what year were you born in" the only legal answers are 4-digit integers (I didn't check to see whether 6748 would get accepted. I just tossed the entire site into my IgnoreForever category).
For example, lets say the average user spends 4 mins a day waiting for their computer to boot up or shut down. Even if I weren't a strong Apple proponent, I'd still point out that any Intel Mac will boot in less than 30 seconds and shut down in less than 10, including closing all open apps. Now, does your putative group of Windows users insist on hand-closing every window before pullinng up the Start Menu to select "Shut Down"? I guess I should just respond to your claim with [Citation Needed]
Am I really the only person who's noticed that Microsoft completely failed to understand what the Apple ads were presenting? Apple had two actors who were *actually portraying* the computer/operating systems in question. All of Microsoft's ads seem to think that "I'm a PC" is just shorthand for "I'm a Windows (l)user."
Or is it the general public that's too stupid to understand the difference, and Microsoft is making hay off of that?
Our proud city is home to various driving innovations, such as the ever-popular but still illegal "left turn on red"
Little-known fact (I looked it up at RMV a bunch of years ago): in MA "left on red" is legal, but ONLY from a one-way street onto another one-way street. Not that that stops the drivers here from going every which way.
Every day on the way to work I stop or slow down somewhere to let another driver get onto the road from a parking lot. I must not be a native MA-er (hint: I'm not).
They are also the company that is basically taking over all of the IT functions for the Commonwealth of Virginia. It's working about as smoothly as you might expect Take it from an employee of a tiny company owned by a bigger company owned by NGC: their IT dep't is just as bad as the one at your company, with bigger egos, more abusive policies, and possibly the longest and stupidest internal URLs I've seen in my life. Heck, we have to create a new and different password (from all the other internal NGC passwords we have) just to access the "employee ergonomics training site" inside their internal network. oops... once this gets out I'll be an *ex*-employee.
Can't you make it show up at the office number, or the number of the paging service? That would make more sense.
Though I really think if you were EXPECTING a call, you'd answer it if it had no CID data, especially in a situation like you just described. It's random calls from people who block their CID data, or people who block it for no real reason. Sorry to post this -- if there were a 'private message' system I'd use that. anyway:
1) No, people are far too stupid to comprehend that they should turn off their incoming call block when they're waiting for an emergency call. I've seen this situation many times. 2) The point is that the system should not require fancy footwork on the part of the MD (such as rerouting the apparent source thru an office number). People who choose to block all unrecognized calls should have to live with the lost "desired" calls along with the (mostly illusory) undesirable calls.
Good luck with that. My spouse, like most physicians, provides evening/night response to phone calls (made thru a paging service). And, like many physicians, she (and I) have very good reason not to allow the general public to know our home phone number. So the next time your child is sick as a dog and you want your pediatrician to call you, go ahead and refuse to answer. You can pay the damn Emergency Dep't visit bill yourself.
I hate suburbs and the yuppie scum who live there. As long as we're playing the cheap insult game, you're an ignorant rant-maven who doesn't even know that by definition, yuppies can't live in suburbs. They are Young URBAN Professionals.
No. I know your being funny, or at least modded that way, but the correct prefix is 'war' as in WarDialing, as in War Games (the movie), which is were the term comes from. "WarCloning" is a perfectly acceptable term. Are you sure? I was given the impression, way back when, that WARdriving was a semi-acronym for "wireless access reconnaissance" driving.
One should also take note that both this "Just suck it up" mentality and the pervasive idea that "sports" means powerful concussion is only pervasive in America. Just take a look at the Olympics, how many of the sports there are done wearing full body armor? To most of the rest of the world, "sports" consists of athletic activities to often have little body contact. Even those that have body contact, one is not expected to crash head-on with the opponent.
Hockey is pretty popular in Europe and Asia. Then there are:
Rugby Aussie rules football Boxing
to name a few sports practiced by rather a lot of people in non-USA companies.
I originated bug 4914 (or one of the bugs which was subsumed into 4914, I forget), so forgive the self-adulation here. But this is a CRITICAL requirement for anyone who actually understands the difference between editing a document and performing galley layout tasks. It completely astounds me that most people I meet or work with can't even comprehend how much of a distraction/timewaster (not to mention screen space) it is to be forced to look at the page headers and margins when all they should be concentrating on is the content of the document proper.
Maybe this is just one of my burning pet peeves, but why do we ignore the fact that the US and state gov'ts have subsidized the auto mfrs to the tune of billions of bucks every year since maybe the 1920s? If auto companies had to build and maintain the road structure that cars (and trucks) drive on, things would be way different. This isn't pure fantasy: the railroads owned and maintained their own rails. Yeah, I know they mostly got sweeheart deals to buy the land, but that was a one-time gov't screwjob. We deliberately designed and built up a massive road system to support the auto mfrs, and are now stuck in our own design, having become completely dependent on roads to get to work, deliver goods, etc. It didn't have to be that way. Heck, even the airlines (or to be exact, their customers) pay all sorts of fees to the airport managers.
Incorrect. They are paying tuition and fees, plus living expenses. None of that is covered in the research facilities and Federal Research dollars that build those facilities, pay for PhDs and have a built-in R&D factory. They don't even pay that. The summary states he was a grad student on an internship. The "tuition and fees" is just a wink-wink to pass money from the funding agency to the school. Grad students are employees (I know, the courts ruled they couldn't unionize), aka scut-puppies, and are earning money from their work. The fact that it's chump change doesn't change the setup. No employee of a corporation gets to own a patent developed on company time, so unfortunately or not it's consistent to allow a university to control patents as well.
I think they *shouldn't*, and thus encourage more independent startups, and whatnot, but that's another story.
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Lots of horrible things happened. Insides of coffins from the earlier centuries were found to have scratch marks from the people inside waking up
That doesn't count: they (the bodies inside those coffins) turned out to be zombies or vampires, all defective and thus unable to reach the surface. Unlike Uma Thurman, who got out just fine...
OK, I only searched a page or two of posts, but it appears nobody has yet pointed out that this projects estimates work out to $1000 per life saved. :-) ) than this, but what I'd like to know is how this cost compares with other global medical plans.
Now, I know people worth far more (and less
IIRC, providing clean water to stave off deaths from diarrhea is a lot cheaper. And of course transplanting a liver into an aging rock-n-roller is way more expensive.
If the Ginko was doing anything, it should have shown a slight improvement over the placebo even at 120mg. If the results come back essentially the same, then it is obviously not the Ginko improving memory.
The Ginko studies are scientifically valid, but you are incorrect in claiming that if Xmg works, then X/10 mg should work a little. Two examples:
1) not enough antibiotics will fail completely to rid the body of a given infection. The right dose will work.
2) Read "Awakenings" (the book by Oliver Sacks about his experiments with L-dopa). Once you get into chaos theory (aka strange attractors), you'll find basically huge differences in responses to microscopic differences in dosages.
I'm awfully tired of these articles predicting something will be better, cheaper to make and therefore much cheaper to buy.
Nothing in the history of the world that is better than an existing product has been sold for less.
You ever looked at the prices of, say, TV sets, or..... PCs?
Drive a wooden stake through ..... oh wait..
There is an actual published story about that -- maybe Harlan Ellison, I forget. Anyway, it's an all-plant planet, with sentient plants, and a vampire species(??) which sucks the sap out of other plants. When they kill 'em, the bury 'em with a....
steak
thru their heartwood.
Somewhere a joke about the Stainless Steel Rat is waiting to appear, but I can't find it. Clearly I need some of that memory enhancement.
OK,
I believe mine is issue 3914 -- it's the desperate need for NormalView (or equivalent) in Write/Word. Just as someone posted that vertical space is at a premium (which is why all 'ribbons' and toolbars should be moveable to a vertical array on the side of the screen), there is absolutely no reason to show page edges, headers, or footers while writing and editing the document. Page layout tasks come after the document has been edited.
1: 12 monkeys sucked.
Your opinion, which I completely disagree with. I suppose you hated Brazil too.
Both of you should go watch La Jetee, which is the short film from which 12 Monkees ripped off its plot (sic grammar).
I'm sure my company is no different from many others: despite having had Exchange/Outlook server running for close to 10 years, most people are &^%$* clueless as to its use. We even mandated that all conference rooms be reserved thru Outlook Calendar, but (especially upper management) people just plain don't do so. And I've tried to suggest that people learn to put their personal schedule (vacation, trips, etc) and their personal calendar, AND that managers learn to *look* at their staffs' calendars ,but not a chance.
So we plod along with a tool that nobody is willing to learn how to use.
"Feeling of Power" by Isaac Asimov.
FWIW, I'm opposed to *requiring* graphing calculators, not to *allowing* them. Calculators, graphics tools, etc. are not math; they're engineering tools. Mathematics is (with a few rare exceptions) purely symbolic. If you don't understand that, you don't understand math. And, yeah, YACAS and Mathematica do solve symbolic problems. I wouldn't allow them during tests, but if students want to use the tools instead of learning math, that's their own funeral.
You could always use the same answer for every question (regardless)
Good luck. Many websites refuse to let you enter the same answer for multiple questions.
A certain company whose name sounds like Gorthrop Numman is far, far worse. Examples: if you select the question "what state were you born in", the only legal answers are 2-character alpha. If you select "what year were you born in" the only legal answers are 4-digit integers (I didn't check to see whether 6748 would get accepted. I just tossed the entire site into my IgnoreForever category).
For example, lets say the average user spends 4 mins a day waiting for their computer to boot up or shut down.
Even if I weren't a strong Apple proponent, I'd still point out that any Intel Mac will boot in less than 30 seconds and shut down in less than 10, including closing all open apps.
Now, does your putative group of Windows users insist on hand-closing every window before pullinng up the Start Menu to select "Shut Down"?
I guess I should just respond to your claim with [Citation Needed]
Am I really the only person who's noticed that Microsoft completely failed to understand what the Apple ads were presenting? Apple had two actors who were *actually portraying* the computer/operating systems in question. All of Microsoft's ads seem to think that "I'm a PC" is just shorthand for "I'm a Windows (l)user."
Or is it the general public that's too stupid to understand the difference, and Microsoft is making hay off of that?
Having lived with constant power cuts, I can't say it would phase(no pun intended) me all that much.
Unfortunately, you are the victim of aural vs. written training. The word you need is "faze" and as such is a pun only when spoken.
Our proud city is home to various driving innovations, such as the ever-popular but still illegal "left turn on red"
Little-known fact (I looked it up at RMV a bunch of years ago): in MA "left on red" is legal, but ONLY from a one-way street onto another one-way street.
Not that that stops the drivers here from going every which way.
Every day on the way to work I stop or slow down somewhere to let another driver get onto the road from a parking lot. I must not be a native MA-er (hint: I'm not).
They are also the company that is basically taking over all of the IT functions for the Commonwealth of Virginia. It's working about as smoothly as you might expect
Take it from an employee of a tiny company owned by a bigger company owned by NGC: their IT dep't is just as bad as the one at your company, with bigger egos, more abusive policies, and possibly the longest and stupidest internal URLs I've seen in my life. Heck, we have to create a new and different password (from all the other internal NGC passwords we have) just to access the "employee ergonomics training site" inside their internal network.
oops... once this gets out I'll be an *ex*-employee.
Can't you make it show up at the office number, or the number of the paging service? That would make more sense.
Though I really think if you were EXPECTING a call, you'd answer it if it had no CID data, especially in a situation like you just described. It's random calls from people who block their CID data, or people who block it for no real reason.
Sorry to post this -- if there were a 'private message' system I'd use that. anyway:
1) No, people are far too stupid to comprehend that they should turn off their incoming call block when they're waiting for an emergency call. I've seen this situation many times.
2) The point is that the system should not require fancy footwork on the part of the MD (such as rerouting the apparent source thru an office number). People who choose to block all unrecognized calls should have to live with the lost "desired" calls along with the (mostly illusory) undesirable calls.
If the phone number is blocked I do not answer.
Good luck with that. My spouse, like most physicians, provides evening/night response to phone calls (made thru a paging service). And, like many physicians, she (and I) have very good reason not to allow the general public to know our home phone number. So the next time your child is sick as a dog and you want your pediatrician to call you, go ahead and refuse to answer. You can pay the damn Emergency Dep't visit bill yourself.
I hate suburbs and the yuppie scum who live there.
As long as we're playing the cheap insult game, you're an ignorant rant-maven who doesn't even know that by definition, yuppies can't live in suburbs. They are Young URBAN Professionals.
Let them loose on The Feynmann Lectures on Physics. Quite readable and bound to get them interested in one branch or another of physics.
The Golden Ratio -- or some other book on the same constant -- which goes into things like sunflowers and nautilus shells IIRC.
Mathenauts: a collection of sci fi short stories in which (in most cases) the hero is a mathematician.
No. I know your being funny, or at least modded that way, but the correct prefix is 'war' as in WarDialing, as in War Games (the movie), which is were the term comes from. "WarCloning" is a perfectly acceptable term.
Are you sure?
I was given the impression, way back when, that WARdriving was a semi-acronym for "wireless access reconnaissance" driving.
One should also take note that both this "Just suck it up" mentality and the pervasive idea that "sports" means powerful concussion is only pervasive in America.
Just take a look at the Olympics, how many of the sports there are done wearing full body armor?
To most of the rest of the world, "sports" consists of athletic activities to often have little body contact. Even those that have body contact, one is not expected to crash head-on with the opponent.
Hockey is pretty popular in Europe and Asia. Then there are:
Rugby
Aussie rules football
Boxing
to name a few sports practiced by rather a lot of people in non-USA companies.
I originated bug 4914 (or one of the bugs which was subsumed into 4914, I forget), so forgive the self-adulation here. But this
is a CRITICAL requirement for anyone who actually understands the difference between editing a document and performing galley layout tasks. It completely astounds me that most people I meet or work with can't even comprehend how much of a distraction/timewaster (not to mention screen space) it is to be forced to look at the page headers and margins when all they should be concentrating on is the content of the document proper.
Maybe this is just one of my burning pet peeves, but why do we ignore the fact that the US and state gov'ts have subsidized the auto mfrs to the tune of billions of bucks every year since maybe the 1920s? If auto companies had to build and maintain the road structure that cars (and trucks) drive on, things would be way different. This isn't pure fantasy: the railroads owned and maintained their own rails. Yeah, I know they mostly got sweeheart deals to buy the land, but that was a one-time gov't screwjob. We deliberately designed and built up a massive road system to support the auto mfrs, and are now stuck in our own design, having become completely dependent on roads to get to work, deliver goods, etc.
It didn't have to be that way. Heck, even the airlines (or to be exact, their customers) pay all sorts of fees to the airport managers.
Incorrect. They are paying tuition and fees, plus living expenses. None of that is covered in the research facilities and Federal Research dollars that build those facilities, pay for PhDs and have a built-in R&D factory.
They don't even pay that. The summary states he was a grad student on an internship. The "tuition and fees" is just a wink-wink to pass money from the funding agency to the school. Grad students are employees (I know, the courts ruled they couldn't unionize), aka scut-puppies, and are earning money from their work. The fact that it's chump change doesn't change the setup. No employee of a corporation gets to own a patent developed on company time, so unfortunately or not it's consistent to allow a university to control patents as well.
I think they *shouldn't*, and thus encourage more independent startups, and whatnot, but that's another story.