I'm very interested in the process you followed to arrive at the combination of drugs that has worked well for you. Quite honestly this is the first time I've heard of any of this, and with a family member suffering with dementia, I'm wondering if any of these are alternatives that should be investigated. (This individual is under the care of a highly recommended neurologist, but the comments on this article have led me to do a little more critical thinking on this subject before settling on status quo for prescriptions.)
Googling the drugs and supplements you've mentioned has turned up many results, but as with anything to do with drugs and the interwebs, all of these need to be taken with a grain of salt. Since you sound like you have a good deal of personal experience with the subject, I'd really appreciate it if you'd be interested in sharing more details privately. If you would, please shoot me an email.
If this 'breaks tracing other apps while iTunes is running' um, then don't run iTunes while trying to DTrace/debug your other app. Uh, what happens if you're debugging a problem that only occurs when iTunes is running?
Personal credit cards have nothing to do with commercial banking - it's a consumer banking function. Cards like this (known as "affinity cards") are expensive to maintain unless you have a large credit portfolio, which is why many smaller banks don't bother... Unless you have a customer base large enough to provide an economy of scale, it just doesn't make sense.
Banks need to pay for the costs of maintaining their credit portfolio. (Think of it: cards need to be embossed, statement rendering, overhead involved with complying with Visa/Mastercard bylaws, collections, etc., to say nothing of the cost of taking on risk that debtors might not pay them back.) Those costs are passed on to consumers through interest rates and fees.
At the end of the day, I'm sure this was a business decision. Banks don't have some secret agenda for/against open source - they really just care about providing service (at a profit) to customers. If the card stayed, they probably would've needed to raise interest rates/fees and everyone would still be screaming.
Check out the Capability Maturity Model by SEI out of Carnegie Mellon. While it doesn't tell you exactly how to structure a design document, it does help dictate process and repeatability throughout the entire lifecycle. It's not just the design document that's important - it's how changes to scope and budget are managed, how costs are assessed, how not only technical designs are documented but how business requirements are discovered and recorded. And, at the end of the whole process, you need to review all of that with all the stakeholders to find out where things fell apart and how to improve the next time. The goal is not just to have a single, good design document for a single project - you want to be able to consistently, repeatedly deliver the same (high) level of quality using the same process. Doing that is more than just a design document format, or using UML, or having a good project manager - but all of those things contribute to ending up with a good design.
While I agree with most of what the author has to say, I think there is one component of the problem that is being overlooked. The artist (aka the manufacturer of the goods found by the agent) is still getting screwed. While insurance or contractual obligations related to the quality of the product may make the principal more satisfied, the manufacturer is still getting very little profit.
As a result, I don't think fixing the distribution side of the problem is enough. The agents in this equation can serve a useful purpose - finding quality music and providing it to the masses - but they need to do it fairly. This is only recently the case; as the author points out, file-sharing has enabled the current situation. Now that iTunes and the likes are beginning to show that direct distribution can work, I think the record labels need to get back into going about their business legitately. That means finding music that really is of decent quality, knowing what consumers actually want to listen to, paying a decent price to the musicians and charging a fair price to the consumer.
Sure, I can go out and browse music online in hopes that I'll find something I like. And, when I have time, I probably will. But when I don't have time, I'd like to know that the people who are being paid to take care of that for me are actually doing their jobs.
This is actually nothing new. A research team from Australia discovered the IL-4 gene and its relation to pox a few years ago and published their results at a bio conference!
Anyone remember the old versions of AOL, Prodigy and CompuServe that would reveal local file systems and such when they called home? They invented spy ware!
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I'm very interested in the process you followed to arrive at the combination of drugs that has worked well for you. Quite honestly this is the first time I've heard of any of this, and with a family member suffering with dementia, I'm wondering if any of these are alternatives that should be investigated. (This individual is under the care of a highly recommended neurologist, but the comments on this article have led me to do a little more critical thinking on this subject before settling on status quo for prescriptions.)
Googling the drugs and supplements you've mentioned has turned up many results, but as with anything to do with drugs and the interwebs, all of these need to be taken with a grain of salt. Since you sound like you have a good deal of personal experience with the subject, I'd really appreciate it if you'd be interested in sharing more details privately. If you would, please shoot me an email.
Thanks!
Personal credit cards have nothing to do with commercial banking - it's a consumer banking function. Cards like this (known as "affinity cards") are expensive to maintain unless you have a large credit portfolio, which is why many smaller banks don't bother... Unless you have a customer base large enough to provide an economy of scale, it just doesn't make sense.
Banks need to pay for the costs of maintaining their credit portfolio. (Think of it: cards need to be embossed, statement rendering, overhead involved with complying with Visa/Mastercard bylaws, collections, etc., to say nothing of the cost of taking on risk that debtors might not pay them back.) Those costs are passed on to consumers through interest rates and fees.
At the end of the day, I'm sure this was a business decision. Banks don't have some secret agenda for/against open source - they really just care about providing service (at a profit) to customers. If the card stayed, they probably would've needed to raise interest rates/fees and everyone would still be screaming.
... the plural of mouse was mice. ;-)
Could this be considered racketeering somehow? Prosecution under RICO would be interesting.
Check out the Capability Maturity Model by SEI out of Carnegie Mellon. While it doesn't tell you exactly how to structure a design document, it does help dictate process and repeatability throughout the entire lifecycle. It's not just the design document that's important - it's how changes to scope and budget are managed, how costs are assessed, how not only technical designs are documented but how business requirements are discovered and recorded. And, at the end of the whole process, you need to review all of that with all the stakeholders to find out where things fell apart and how to improve the next time. The goal is not just to have a single, good design document for a single project - you want to be able to consistently, repeatedly deliver the same (high) level of quality using the same process. Doing that is more than just a design document format, or using UML, or having a good project manager - but all of those things contribute to ending up with a good design.
While I agree with most of what the author has to say, I think there is one component of the problem that is being overlooked. The artist (aka the manufacturer of the goods found by the agent) is still getting screwed. While insurance or contractual obligations related to the quality of the product may make the principal more satisfied, the manufacturer is still getting very little profit.
As a result, I don't think fixing the distribution side of the problem is enough. The agents in this equation can serve a useful purpose - finding quality music and providing it to the masses - but they need to do it fairly. This is only recently the case; as the author points out, file-sharing has enabled the current situation. Now that iTunes and the likes are beginning to show that direct distribution can work, I think the record labels need to get back into going about their business legitately. That means finding music that really is of decent quality, knowing what consumers actually want to listen to, paying a decent price to the musicians and charging a fair price to the consumer.
Sure, I can go out and browse music online in hopes that I'll find something I like. And, when I have time, I probably will. But when I don't have time, I'd like to know that the people who are being paid to take care of that for me are actually doing their jobs.
This is actually nothing new. A research team from Australia discovered the IL-4 gene and its relation to pox a few years ago and published their results at a bio conference!
Anyone remember the old versions of AOL, Prodigy and CompuServe that would reveal local file systems and such when they called home? They invented spy ware!