Please enlighten me as to what it is people do with office software that is much more advanced than this?
I haven't used MS Office in many years so I have no idea what the interface is like, but for me an office suite is good for writing letters, resumes and occasionally technical manuals. These latter require sections, tables, an index and... that's usually about it.
I often wonder what the other 10 million settings and options in office suites are for, and if anyone uses them. What do people do with a word processing program that requires scripts FFS?
Shame the last government didn't do anything about that when they had the chance really, puportedly the party of the working man, they looked on cheerily as the private sector destroyed its pension arrangements, and even layered some tax on top.
"And did you try to raise public sector to private sector levels when it wasn't in a recession? No? Then FUCK OFF."
They were raised above the private sector before the recession. This situation is not new.
I'm tired of this "I made the money myself!" when things are good and "We're all in it together" when times are bad bullshit.
Who said anything about all being in it together? I've never said we're all in anything together. Hell, I'm not even in the UK any more.
Equally qualified people always made far less in the public sector, but got better pensions. Now fuckheads like you want to take that away.
That hasn't been true for some time, there are more people emplyed in the public sector than need to be, they are paid an equivalent amount and they get an amazing pension deal on top of that. The fact that there's no more money to pay for this seems lost on people. Frankly I'd see mass redundancy as well.
But then all of this crap is part of the reason I live on the other side of the world now, in a country where the government usually runs a surplus and there's currently a huge resource-related boom.
Maybe, though figures tend to indicate these days that the UK public sector is paid roughly equally to the private sector, and still (even with proposed changes) gives access to far better pensions.
One of the reasons I have no sympathy with those going on strike.
Oh the idiocy! How utterly irrelevant that is to a job as a codebreaker!
Sure, James bond probably wouldn't have a facebook page, but an entirely office-based crypto geek? Who cares so long as they're not posting state secrets, or pictures of themselves on holiday in Iran visiting that nice man Ahmedinejad....
LOL. I'm not and never have been a nurse, though I can see why someone that confuses quackery with well-founded medical science may also confuse a tag on a website with a declaration of expertise and career direction.
BTW, skepticism ain't shilling. What you're doing may be.
"If he made false claims and this could be proven, the FDA would have shut him down."
He has been banned from making claims on his website, IIRC, which is why you'll find all his claims on "unaffiliated" testimonial and "patient group" websites.
"The FDA has admitted (again, watch the doc where you get to hear FDA execs actually say this) that they're not debating the efficacy of his treatment."
That's because it's still in 'trials' from which data is never published. It's been in 'trials' for decades. Trials for which he (unethically) charges a lot of money. Trials whic haven't shown that he's actually cured anyone.
Three video testimonials are not evidence his treatment works.
Came to this conclusion a long time ago. Humanity ain't gonna get off its collective backside and do anything, least of all when there's profit in breaking any collective agreements, so I may as well just sit back and enjoy the ride.
Frankly I'm not sure the write thing's as much of an issue as people make out.
MTBF for HDD and SSD are both ludicrously high these days. I'd be more worried about the mechanical failure of an HDD than reaching the write limit on an SSD.
To me it's a shortfall of "Common Sense" that people are swayed more by a few teary-eyed testimonials than they are by facts and figures. Not that I'm immune to it, I just see it as something humans should be striving to overcome, especially where it comes to areas like the efficacy of medicine.
It was a bit of a rant, but then the guy was copied in and included on various scatter-shot threats from these guys over the last few days/weeks.
"used way to much "evidence" against B that is really only evidence if you are willing to ignore common sense."
Care to go into specifics there?
What I took away from the article was "three anecdotes don't make up for published data, and the movie was biased and badly made". I'm actually genuinely interested in what common sense judgement you see that contradicts Orac's analysis (which I'll readily admit is a little frothing-at-the-mouth, but the provocation and legal threats against minors explain that)
His drugs have been in 'trials' since the mid 90s at least, they are in perpetual trials, which he charges tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars for patients to get on. He has published no results.
The mechanism by which his antineoplastons might have an effect is irrelevant when they have not been shown to have any effect at all and after this long there is no real reason to think they might.
"Happy Customers" is not general how the effectiveness of medical treatment is measured.
Further to that, nobody is suing the clinic, they are mererly shining a light on what they consider highly irregular, ethically unsound and (potentially) fraudulent. The clinic has responded by threatening people with a variety of nonsensical legal actions and also indulged in some vague menacing of the "we know where you live" type.
Even if you're the sort of idiot that thinks the free market will sort out quack doctors from real ones, surely you don't oppose free speech and information? How is enlightened self interest supposed to work without the enlightened bit?
"And how do we guarantee that this natural selection process makes the world better for the things we care about?"
Why should we care? If you really hold the opinions you claim to hold, the logical conclusion is that we can do what we like, it's all Natural Selection, right?
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Please enlighten me as to what it is people do with office software that is much more advanced than this?
I haven't used MS Office in many years so I have no idea what the interface is like, but for me an office suite is good for writing letters, resumes and occasionally technical manuals. These latter require sections, tables, an index and... that's usually about it.
I often wonder what the other 10 million settings and options in office suites are for, and if anyone uses them. What do people do with a word processing program that requires scripts FFS?
Shame the last government didn't do anything about that when they had the chance really, puportedly the party of the working man, they looked on cheerily as the private sector destroyed its pension arrangements, and even layered some tax on top.
They were raised above the private sector before the recession. This situation is not new.
Who said anything about all being in it together? I've never said we're all in anything together. Hell, I'm not even in the UK any more.
That hasn't been true for some time, there are more people emplyed in the public sector than need to be, they are paid an equivalent amount and they get an amazing pension deal on top of that. The fact that there's no more money to pay for this seems lost on people. Frankly I'd see mass redundancy as well.
But then all of this crap is part of the reason I live on the other side of the world now, in a country where the government usually runs a surplus and there's currently a huge resource-related boom.
Nope.
I'm salaried. I have a contract that says I get that much money for a 37 hour week and 20 days paid vacation (plus public holidays).
I don't know what it is you do, but what I do very rarely comes to a definable end. I'm not going to 'finish' if I work 20 hours a day, 7 days a week.
What 'no overtime pay' means to me, is no overtime. I like that. It keeps work a manageable part of the week.
Maybe, though figures tend to indicate these days that the UK public sector is paid roughly equally to the private sector, and still (even with proposed changes) gives access to far better pensions.
One of the reasons I have no sympathy with those going on strike.
Oh the idiocy! How utterly irrelevant that is to a job as a codebreaker!
Sure, James bond probably wouldn't have a facebook page, but an entirely office-based crypto geek? Who cares so long as they're not posting state secrets, or pictures of themselves on holiday in Iran visiting that nice man Ahmedinejad....
Oh is that all it is?
I'd got as far as pulling apart the code into sections, and found the other bit....
Not exactly tricky then. 'File' will tell you what it is, and the other bit's not hard with another two simple unix commands.
And where is this reported? And where are you commenting right now?
Is it slashdot? Do you think some people here might be interested then?
LOL. I'm not and never have been a nurse, though I can see why someone that confuses quackery with well-founded medical science may also confuse a tag on a website with a declaration of expertise and career direction.
BTW, skepticism ain't shilling. What you're doing may be.
He has been banned from making claims on his website, IIRC, which is why you'll find all his claims on "unaffiliated" testimonial and "patient group" websites.
That's because it's still in 'trials' from which data is never published. It's been in 'trials' for decades. Trials for which he (unethically) charges a lot of money. Trials whic haven't shown that he's actually cured anyone.
Three video testimonials are not evidence his treatment works.
Yup.
Came to this conclusion a long time ago. Humanity ain't gonna get off its collective backside and do anything, least of all when there's profit in breaking any collective agreements, so I may as well just sit back and enjoy the ride.
So you've responded to a request for citations and evidence with more bluster and baseless assertions!
Well done!
That's just nasty. First try to silence the researcher, then try to deny what's going on when you've already been caught.
The question is, will this have any effect? Will carriers stop shipping this stuff ? Will consumers care?
My guess is no, they'll just try to hide it better in future.
So the longer MTBF for an SSD is a bad thing thing for you?
Personally I think you're talking crap. What exactly do you do to hard disks Miss Jane Q. Poweruser?
Frankly I'm not sure the write thing's as much of an issue as people make out.
MTBF for HDD and SSD are both ludicrously high these days. I'd be more worried about the mechanical failure of an HDD than reaching the write limit on an SSD.
Fair enough.
To me it's a shortfall of "Common Sense" that people are swayed more by a few teary-eyed testimonials than they are by facts and figures. Not that I'm immune to it, I just see it as something humans should be striving to overcome, especially where it comes to areas like the efficacy of medicine.
It was a bit of a rant, but then the guy was copied in and included on various scatter-shot threats from these guys over the last few days/weeks.
Care to go into specifics there?
What I took away from the article was "three anecdotes don't make up for published data, and the movie was biased and badly made". I'm actually genuinely interested in what common sense judgement you see that contradicts Orac's analysis (which I'll readily admit is a little frothing-at-the-mouth, but the provocation and legal threats against minors explain that)
It's not going through the approval process, it's been in repeated 'trials' for decades and no results are published. It appears to be quackery.
"He's cured people with incurable cancer. That's a fact"
No, it isn't. Citation needed, etc.
Please post links to the published results, peer review of the science etc.
Yeah, except at least some of the bloggers are oncologists and researchers. Try this one for instance - an oncologist debunks the Burzynski propaganda movie
Nice try though.
Yes, the evil establishment keeping the poor, poor hero doctor down!
He's a quack, he charges hundreds of thousands for drugs that are not approved and have been in 'trials' for decades.
Sure, if you want to see lots of handwaving and a conspiracy theory.
You, tperkov, should check out the debunking of the movie by a real doctor
His drugs have been in 'trials' since the mid 90s at least, they are in perpetual trials, which he charges tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars for patients to get on. He has published no results.
The mechanism by which his antineoplastons might have an effect is irrelevant when they have not been shown to have any effect at all and after this long there is no real reason to think they might.
"Happy Customers" is not general how the effectiveness of medical treatment is measured.
Further to that, nobody is suing the clinic, they are mererly shining a light on what they consider highly irregular, ethically unsound and (potentially) fraudulent. The clinic has responded by threatening people with a variety of nonsensical legal actions and also indulged in some vague menacing of the "we know where you live" type.
Even if you're the sort of idiot that thinks the free market will sort out quack doctors from real ones, surely you don't oppose free speech and information? How is enlightened self interest supposed to work without the enlightened bit?
"And how do we guarantee that this natural selection process makes the world better for the things we care about?"
Why should we care? If you really hold the opinions you claim to hold, the logical conclusion is that we can do what we like, it's all Natural Selection, right?