a bit off topic, but I've been much the same: sniffles and blocked nose for years, either from colds or allergies or whatever. I got recommended what is basically an aerosol of saline to squirt up there a couple of times a day, and bizarely it's fixed me. I've spent years going through Vicks Sinex and similar like it's going out of fashion, and all I needed was salty water. Worth a try...
...First line to get your chops/experience, 2nd line to start differentiating yourself from the tier 1 guys and do something more interesting, specialise in 3rd line, then go off into whatever area you want with your CV fattened a little.
there's a danger if you've been on the helldesk for a couple of years that you'll just stay there - those with ambition and low boredom threshold will go off and do something else.
Not really, Camino has some limited ad blocking built in though, which to be honest works OK for me. FF's font rendering seems to be much improved in the last version or so, so my only remaining objection to it is lack of keychain integration...
Perform a thought experiment: measure the quantity of data that a hundred iPhone users go through in a month at present. You'll find it's X, mainly composed of some light web browsing, a bit of email, some youtube, etc.
Fast forward to a brave new world of tethering, just after Joe Sixpack has realised he doesn't need a USB 3G modem for his laptop, or even home broadband - he can just tether and use his iPhone. Measure the quantity of data a hundred users go through in a month. Be surprised that it's several multiples of X.
'The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a
profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for fuckoffs
and misfits... a false doorway to the backside of life, a
filthy piss-ridden little hole nailed off by the building
inspector, but just deep enough for a wino to curl up from the
sidewalk and masturbate like a chimp in a zoo-cage.'
- Hunter S. Thompson
think about it. I paid 159ukp for a 16gb on launch. Plenty of other similar capacity phones of there for free at the time.
It is only *now* that the 8gb one is free on contract, and this backs up my point that they're milking the 3g in advance of the new one coming out.
"You're a perfect example of why they don't do it, and why unlimited plans in general survive. You said it yourself, you'd spend half as much on a metered plan. You think that's what they want, for revenue from you to decrease by 50%? That's pure profit; at half the price they'd need 3 or 4 customers to make the same profit because most of the first 15/mo would is "wasted" on, you know, providing service"
Think about it. The sales of the iPhone 3G are probably slowing as they reach saturation point with the geeks and posers (amongst which I count myself!) willing to not only pay 160GBP (yah boo!) for the handset, but also 30-35GBP a month for the contract. On that tarrif, you can get most other smartphones for free - this is a "premium" product, if you will.
Given there's a new iPhone model coming soon, people will be holding off: in short there's probably a large, untapped market of people that would be all over a 3G iPhone at 15UKP a month, who can't justify spending more than that on a mobile phone contract. So yes, I think there probably are 3 or 4 people who could be pulled in to such an offer.
It's also in Apple's interest to get saturation coverage with their platform as a real revenue source for the future - so I wouldn't be surprised if they eased up with the carriers to allow them to discount in order to encourage this.
Crap. It's just simple economics: if you want to lower the monthly charge for a phone on contract, you up the charges for calls and data. In the UK, if you want an iPhone on contract, you're looking at 30UKP a month plus the subsidised cost of the handset: this is a not-inconsiderable monthly charge. They'd sell to a whole additional demographic if they could push it out at 15UKP a month with a nearly-all-you-can-eat plan, with costs for going over your allowance - hell, I'd probably buy it myself - my 600 minutes and 600 texts a month gets barely touched, although I use the data a lot.
It would also give O2 a way of offloading all the surplus 3G iPhones cheap in advance of the latest model getting announced in June...
Transmission even has an iPhone-friendly web interface built right in. Turn it on, pick your port and point mobile safari at it. Save it as a bookmark to your homescreen called "Transmission" and you have a remote control for it. Doesn't work outside your LAN unless you forward the port at your router, which is a bit iffy without a password but I use it all the time on my LAN.
I use LogMeIn Ignition for everything else - the most expensive app on my phone, but absolutely great given it can control a seemly-unlimited number of PCs, Macs and Linux boxes without paying anything else - being able to fix your dad's PC from miles away is very useful.
I'm presuming they mean Euro NCAP safety ratings for new cars. They're given a star rating, which in turn will lead to lower insurance premiums and higher sales for cars that score highly. This includes occupant safety and now pedestrian safety - this is why a lot of modern Euro cars (I'm looking at you, Peugeout) have a pronounced hump on the bonnet of the car, to allow it to deform and absorb impact, rather than the bonnet being a thin cover over the immovable block of the engine. It also explains why some sleeker cars like the new Jaguar XK have a "popup" bonnet which detects impact and pops up the bonnet itself slightly to allow for some elasticity whilst retaining a sporty low line.
It's not linear. I attended a speed awareness class in the UK in lieu of points on my licence for a minor speeding offence that explained this, with video. At slow speeds, you hit a pedestrian, they bounce off your bonnet as you might expect. As speeds rise (i.e. over 30mph for definite) if you hit them square on, there's enough momentum for the body to rotate - i.e. their head bounces off the bonnet/windshield, with a correspondingly large spike in fatalities. Corollary: at 20mph, chances of killing someone quite low. At 30mph, chances of killing someone very high.
I knew from the summary that a bunch of idiots on/. would immediately start up with the "Know what'll make things safer? A spike on the steering wheel!" crap, and lo and behold, here it goes. It's the motoring safety equivalent of Godwin's law. All I can say is I hope none of the posters advocating such idiocy have kids.
Well, I've been posting for years, and modding for years. For the last maybe 18 month - 2 years, not a single mod point. No metamod option either. Sigh. And I've got Excellent karma.
" If the FDA isn't implying that this sufficient level of testing has been done by signing off, what is it implying?"
Good question. A drug company cannot, in the aftermath of an incident or alleged problem, say "The FDA said it was OK! It's not my fault!". The FDA vehemently do NOT provide blanket approval and responsibility for the drug's effects: they mandate levels of testing and compliance, but they do not ever take responsibility for it.
No, OP is correct about this, ignoring his/her suggestion that clinical trials are an unnecessary delay. The FDA will give guidance. This is always descriptive, rather than proscriptive: what you will not get is simple yes/no answers. This is because the FDA is not going to open itself up to being sued or otherwise accused of giving definitively incorrect advice. This also partially explains why FDA-compliant testing is so lengthy and expensive: the FDA will not guarantee you immunity from blame if you adhere to their standards. Hence (rightly or wrongly: I'm on the fence on this one as I've worked with clinical trials and seen the level of regulation involved) testing will always err on the side of most caution.
"What we need is a "My ass is had it and I agree not to sue" but the contract is ONLY valid if the drug company puts in the contract the results of the tests they have run and the odds they have had to that date."
You mean "I'd like to volunteer for a Phase 1 first-into-man clinical trial". Clue: this is more or less what already happens.
"Marijuana doesn't have addictive properties to increase. You would actually have to add a foreign substance to it in order to make it addictive."
I think the point is that if you let Big Tobacco sell the stuff, they'd sell pre-rolled spliffs that contained tobacco/nicotine - and the end result would be addictive in the sense that conventional cigarettes are addictive.
Is it actually used for ethernet, though, or is it just a convenient form-factor 8 way cable that Denon use to run their own analogue protocol over? Not that I buy into Monster Cable, but I'm just saying it might look like a Cat 5 cable, and work as one, but not actually *be* one...
This morning on the way to work, my partner's Centro (on T-Mobile in the UK) showed Facebook as blocked when she tried to access it. In the past it's worked fine, and she's already proved her age with a valid credit card to remove T-mob's age-related content filter when she signed up for the phone contract a year ago. Bastards.
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a bit off topic, but I've been much the same: sniffles and blocked nose for years, either from colds or allergies or whatever. I got recommended what is basically an aerosol of saline to squirt up there a couple of times a day, and bizarely it's fixed me. I've spent years going through Vicks Sinex and similar like it's going out of fashion, and all I needed was salty water. Worth a try...
...First line to get your chops/experience, 2nd line to start differentiating yourself from the tier 1 guys and do something more interesting, specialise in 3rd line, then go off into whatever area you want with your CV fattened a little.
there's a danger if you've been on the helldesk for a couple of years that you'll just stay there - those with ambition and low boredom threshold will go off and do something else.
Not really, Camino has some limited ad blocking built in though, which to be honest works OK for me. FF's font rendering seems to be much improved in the last version or so, so my only remaining objection to it is lack of keychain integration...
Perform a thought experiment: measure the quantity of data that a hundred iPhone users go through in a month at present. You'll find it's X, mainly composed of some light web browsing, a bit of email, some youtube, etc.
Fast forward to a brave new world of tethering, just after Joe Sixpack has realised he doesn't need a USB 3G modem for his laptop, or even home broadband - he can just tether and use his iPhone. Measure the quantity of data a hundred users go through in a month. Be surprised that it's several multiples of X.
What, monopolies?
Does it support keychain? That's why I'm still using Camino as opposed to Firefox...
'The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for fuckoffs and misfits... a false doorway to the backside of life, a filthy piss-ridden little hole nailed off by the building inspector, but just deep enough for a wino to curl up from the sidewalk and masturbate like a chimp in a zoo-cage.'
- Hunter S. Thompson
think about it. I paid 159ukp for a 16gb on launch. Plenty of other similar capacity phones of there for free at the time. It is only *now* that the 8gb one is free on contract, and this backs up my point that they're milking the 3g in advance of the new one coming out.
"You're a perfect example of why they don't do it, and why unlimited plans in general survive. You said it yourself, you'd spend half as much on a metered plan. You think that's what they want, for revenue from you to decrease by 50%? That's pure profit; at half the price they'd need 3 or 4 customers to make the same profit because most of the first 15/mo would is "wasted" on, you know, providing service"
Think about it. The sales of the iPhone 3G are probably slowing as they reach saturation point with the geeks and posers (amongst which I count myself!) willing to not only pay 160GBP (yah boo!) for the handset, but also 30-35GBP a month for the contract. On that tarrif, you can get most other smartphones for free - this is a "premium" product, if you will.
Given there's a new iPhone model coming soon, people will be holding off: in short there's probably a large, untapped market of people that would be all over a 3G iPhone at 15UKP a month, who can't justify spending more than that on a mobile phone contract. So yes, I think there probably are 3 or 4 people who could be pulled in to such an offer.
It's also in Apple's interest to get saturation coverage with their platform as a real revenue source for the future - so I wouldn't be surprised if they eased up with the carriers to allow them to discount in order to encourage this.
Crap. It's just simple economics: if you want to lower the monthly charge for a phone on contract, you up the charges for calls and data. In the UK, if you want an iPhone on contract, you're looking at 30UKP a month plus the subsidised cost of the handset: this is a not-inconsiderable monthly charge. They'd sell to a whole additional demographic if they could push it out at 15UKP a month with a nearly-all-you-can-eat plan, with costs for going over your allowance - hell, I'd probably buy it myself - my 600 minutes and 600 texts a month gets barely touched, although I use the data a lot.
It would also give O2 a way of offloading all the surplus 3G iPhones cheap in advance of the latest model getting announced in June...
Transmission even has an iPhone-friendly web interface built right in. Turn it on, pick your port and point mobile safari at it. Save it as a bookmark to your homescreen called "Transmission" and you have a remote control for it. Doesn't work outside your LAN unless you forward the port at your router, which is a bit iffy without a password but I use it all the time on my LAN. I use LogMeIn Ignition for everything else - the most expensive app on my phone, but absolutely great given it can control a seemly-unlimited number of PCs, Macs and Linux boxes without paying anything else - being able to fix your dad's PC from miles away is very useful.
Two words: DECT monitors. Much better range, you don't hear or cause interference at all. Plus the battery life's better. Been available for years.
I'm usually on many times a day, just like always. Unless obsessive readers don't get mod points?
I'm presuming they mean Euro NCAP safety ratings for new cars. They're given a star rating, which in turn will lead to lower insurance premiums and higher sales for cars that score highly. This includes occupant safety and now pedestrian safety - this is why a lot of modern Euro cars (I'm looking at you, Peugeout) have a pronounced hump on the bonnet of the car, to allow it to deform and absorb impact, rather than the bonnet being a thin cover over the immovable block of the engine. It also explains why some sleeker cars like the new Jaguar XK have a "popup" bonnet which detects impact and pops up the bonnet itself slightly to allow for some elasticity whilst retaining a sporty low line.
It's not linear. I attended a speed awareness class in the UK in lieu of points on my licence for a minor speeding offence that explained this, with video. At slow speeds, you hit a pedestrian, they bounce off your bonnet as you might expect. As speeds rise (i.e. over 30mph for definite) if you hit them square on, there's enough momentum for the body to rotate - i.e. their head bounces off the bonnet/windshield, with a correspondingly large spike in fatalities. Corollary: at 20mph, chances of killing someone quite low. At 30mph, chances of killing someone very high. /. would immediately start up with the "Know what'll make things safer? A spike on the steering wheel!" crap, and lo and behold, here it goes. It's the motoring safety equivalent of Godwin's law. All I can say is I hope none of the posters advocating such idiocy have kids.
I knew from the summary that a bunch of idiots on
Well, I've been posting for years, and modding for years. For the last maybe 18 month - 2 years, not a single mod point. No metamod option either. Sigh. And I've got Excellent karma.
" If the FDA isn't implying that this sufficient level of testing has been done by signing off, what is it implying?"
Good question. A drug company cannot, in the aftermath of an incident or alleged problem, say "The FDA said it was OK! It's not my fault!". The FDA vehemently do NOT provide blanket approval and responsibility for the drug's effects: they mandate levels of testing and compliance, but they do not ever take responsibility for it.
No, OP is correct about this, ignoring his/her suggestion that clinical trials are an unnecessary delay. The FDA will give guidance. This is always descriptive, rather than proscriptive: what you will not get is simple yes/no answers. This is because the FDA is not going to open itself up to being sued or otherwise accused of giving definitively incorrect advice. This also partially explains why FDA-compliant testing is so lengthy and expensive: the FDA will not guarantee you immunity from blame if you adhere to their standards. Hence (rightly or wrongly: I'm on the fence on this one as I've worked with clinical trials and seen the level of regulation involved) testing will always err on the side of most caution.
Protip: doctors don't generally develop drugs or new stem cell treatments. They administer them.
"What we need is a "My ass is had it and I agree not to sue" but the contract is ONLY valid if the drug company puts in the contract the results of the tests they have run and the odds they have had to that date."
You mean "I'd like to volunteer for a Phase 1 first-into-man clinical trial". Clue: this is more or less what already happens.
"Marijuana doesn't have addictive properties to increase. You would actually have to add a foreign substance to it in order to make it addictive."
I think the point is that if you let Big Tobacco sell the stuff, they'd sell pre-rolled spliffs that contained tobacco/nicotine - and the end result would be addictive in the sense that conventional cigarettes are addictive.
Is it actually used for ethernet, though, or is it just a convenient form-factor 8 way cable that Denon use to run their own analogue protocol over? Not that I buy into Monster Cable, but I'm just saying it might look like a Cat 5 cable, and work as one, but not actually *be* one...
Depends on how bad Grandpa tastes.
I hates hobbittses. Hateses them.
This morning on the way to work, my partner's Centro (on T-Mobile in the UK) showed Facebook as blocked when she tried to access it. In the past it's worked fine, and she's already proved her age with a valid credit card to remove T-mob's age-related content filter when she signed up for the phone contract a year ago. Bastards.