... advancements in the treatment of AIDS have in fact led to complacency about getting the disease. No, I'm not blaming the researchers, I'm blaming the idiot kids who think AIDS is cured. But the fact remains than when you make progress on a health problem, people are inclined to think the problem is "cured".
I'm still trying to grasp this whole concept, but it sounds to me like it's not so much "unbreakable" as "tamper evident". Like a shrink-wrapped bottle of pills, you *can* break into it, but once it's broken into, everybody *knows* it's broken and so doesn't use it (i.e. the pills or the channel of communication) anymore.
Hey, NASA makes some extra pocket change by licensing their designs for toys. Why not ease the taxpayer burden a wee bit more by letting The Learning Channel or someone else do a weekly roundup series? NASA is already the publicity oriented government agency we have, I suspect a few extra cameras wouldn't be such a big deal.
The mission planners always kept the astronauts in walking distance back to LM. They never trusted the lives of the astronauts to the rover's robustness. The rover definitely allowed the explorers to cover more ground and get more varied samples, but it's unlikely that the astronauts would have died if the rover had gone missing.
Of course, those were the plans. Plans and reality do have a way of disagreeing.
Scientists have discovered the cave described by Plato in his "Allegory of the Cave". Artifiacts such as chains and ash clearly show a situation in which prisoners were chained down facing a wall with a fire behind them. Guards walked back and forth between the prisoners carrying chairs, animals, etc, for the amusement and edification of the prisoners.
Related story: scientists have discovered gigantic handprints where Atlas held up the heavens...
I think the decline started when Scott McNealy and Steve Jobs held a joint press conference wearing matching tight black turtleneck sweaters. They looked like clones of Dieter from SNL.
Sorry, I tried to Google a picture but couldn't find one.
I seem to remember that before WebCrawler there was actually a "big" search engine run by a non-profit. For the life of me I can't remember what it was, but I seem to remember one day going "Wow, this webcrawler thing is great, I'm never touching [whatever] again."
Of course a few years later I said "Wow, this AltaVista thing is great. I'm never touching WebCrawler again." And then I went "Wow, this Google thing is great. I'm never touching AltaVista again."
I can't WAIT to run this one by my boss
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The Rescue Mission of Roanoke. As a full-time employee, I'm required to attend a church. I kinda had issues with that at first... I'm most definitely a Christian, but I'm not a huge fan of organized religion... but I've come to enjoy going to
Quaker Meetings.
I think I'll bring up this online church at the next staff meeting. I'm sure the mission director, Rev. Joy, will be thrilled.
Hmmm, y'know, The mayor of Roanoke, VA has officially declared that this May is "Rescue Mission Month". We're getting local churches to announce it to their congregations. I think I'll contact the pastor of this online church and ask him to read out the weekly readings we're asking pastors to read.
... Martians in science fiction are so darned humanoid.
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The problem with those structures wasn't what they were made with but how they were designed to withstand horizontal stress (they weren't). They could have been made of anything and would have probably fallen if they weren't specifically designed to withstand an eartquake.
Millions of hackers around world seen doing work. Sighs of "is it back up again?" heard in cubicles around the nation. Bizarre trend starts around 5:15pm EST, ends by 6pm.
In small backlash, office girls around the world report increase in bad flirting by guys with dorky hair cuts.
Meanwhile, Microsoft Super-Secret Tracking Server Explodes.
"It appears that everyone opened Minesweeper at once", claims Steve Ballmer, "and all those Windows machines 'phoning home' about the application launch was just too much for our server to take."
"We were damn lucky that Solitaire launches are sent to a different tracking server", he added.
Knowing nothing about chemistry, I couldn't figure out from the technical notes if this stuff is heavier than or lighter than water.
If it's heavier than water, would it be possible to immerse the processor at the bottom, and have H20 at the top of the column? The water could cool the saphire-steam, sending it back down again. In effect, the saphire would work as a heat transfer between the processor and water. The water could be inexpensively cycled through.
OK, now show me how little I know what I'm talking about. It's OK. I claim no expertise.
The timing on this article is especially appropripriate for me because I was just lamenting about the sloppy UI for
OpenEMR, an OSS medical records system I'm getting ready to install for the free clinic here at the
Roanoke Rescue Mission.
OpenEMR is, overall, a good application with all the features we need. However, I'm dreading the inevitable deluge of support calls I'm going to get because of the sloppy UI. For example...
Consider this screen for scheduling an appointment for a patient. The first time I went to this screen I thought I had clicked the wrong link. It just didn't seem to be about scheduling an appointment. The most prominent form is for finding a new patient... very confusing considering that I just came from a patient record where I clicked "new appointment". Then I realized that the "new appointment" form is scrunched down in the lower right corner like a bad afterthought. Even then it's confusing. The "Time" and "Duration" fields don't line up correctly. It doesn't provide a calendar with which to juxtapose the new appointment with other appointments. If you click the "first available appointment", by default it tells you that it can't find any appointments.
OpenEMR will be much better than the dreck that they've been using down in the clinic, but it's still not good enough. Hopefully I can tweak it and submit the changes back to the development group.
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... advancements in the treatment of AIDS have in fact led to complacency about getting the disease. No, I'm not blaming the researchers, I'm blaming the idiot kids who think AIDS is cured. But the fact remains than when you make progress on a health problem, people are inclined to think the problem is "cured".
Right? Wrong? Clueless?
Hey, NASA makes some extra pocket change by licensing their designs for toys. Why not ease the taxpayer burden a wee bit more by letting The Learning Channel or someone else do a weekly roundup series? NASA is already the publicity oriented government agency we have, I suspect a few extra cameras wouldn't be such a big deal.
Of course, those were the plans. Plans and reality do have a way of disagreeing.
Related story: scientists have discovered gigantic handprints where Atlas held up the heavens...
But bits haven't changed a bit.
Sorry, I tried to Google a picture but couldn't find one.
*blerk* Haven't had morning coffee yet. Consciousness very finite right now. *yawn*
Um, are the tops of mountains in Turkey littered with large boats?
... the Sonic "Kapow!". Or the Sonic "Wham!". Or the Sonic "Oooh! That smarts!".
One of the things that impressed me about the TV show "Firefly" was that when something in space blew up it didn't go "boom".
I bet the neighbors are happy all those unsuccesful tests seem to be overwith.
... just be sure there isn't a dead seal nearby. And that you have permission to use the house you're in.
Why yes, as a matter of fact, we're always short post-it's here at The Roanoke Rescue Mission. A case of post-it's would come in quite handy.
Of course a few years later I said "Wow, this AltaVista thing is great. I'm never touching WebCrawler again." And then I went "Wow, this Google thing is great. I'm never touching AltaVista again."
I think I'll bring up this online church at the next staff meeting. I'm sure the mission director, Rev. Joy, will be thrilled.
Hmmm, y'know, The mayor of Roanoke, VA has officially declared that this May is "Rescue Mission Month". We're getting local churches to announce it to their congregations. I think I'll contact the pastor of this online church and ask him to read out the weekly readings we're asking pastors to read.
... Martians in science fiction are so darned humanoid.
The problem with those structures wasn't what they were made with but how they were designed to withstand horizontal stress (they weren't). They could have been made of anything and would have probably fallen if they weren't specifically designed to withstand an eartquake.
So, in a manner of speaking, the most durable buildings we have are still made of mud. But really well processed mud.
... w/o all that annoying cleanliness!
Ooops, shoulda credited my friend LionsPhil with with part of that writing.
In small backlash, office girls around the world report increase in bad flirting by guys with dorky hair cuts.
Meanwhile, Microsoft Super-Secret Tracking Server Explodes. "It appears that everyone opened Minesweeper at once", claims Steve Ballmer, "and all those Windows machines 'phoning home' about the application launch was just too much for our server to take."
"We were damn lucky that Solitaire launches are sent to a different tracking server", he added.
If it's heavier than water, would it be possible to immerse the processor at the bottom, and have H20 at the top of the column? The water could cool the saphire-steam, sending it back down again. In effect, the saphire would work as a heat transfer between the processor and water. The water could be inexpensively cycled through.
OK, now show me how little I know what I'm talking about. It's OK. I claim no expertise.
OpenEMR is, overall, a good application with all the features we need. However, I'm dreading the inevitable deluge of support calls I'm going to get because of the sloppy UI. For example...
Consider this screen for scheduling an appointment for a patient. The first time I went to this screen I thought I had clicked the wrong link. It just didn't seem to be about scheduling an appointment. The most prominent form is for finding a new patient... very confusing considering that I just came from a patient record where I clicked "new appointment". Then I realized that the "new appointment" form is scrunched down in the lower right corner like a bad afterthought. Even then it's confusing. The "Time" and "Duration" fields don't line up correctly. It doesn't provide a calendar with which to juxtapose the new appointment with other appointments. If you click the "first available appointment", by default it tells you that it can't find any appointments.
OpenEMR will be much better than the dreck that they've been using down in the clinic, but it's still not good enough. Hopefully I can tweak it and submit the changes back to the development group.
Oh, like that episode of the Simpsons where the hammock makes clones of Homer?
after failing to connect for the fifth straight game
Then get a new dial-up service!
although he was intentionally walked
They're taking that Petco thing too far.
and scored in the five-run eighth inning
Look, let's keep that kinda thing private... but scored with who?
"I'd like to do it at home," said Bonds
<butt-head>heh-heh heh-heh, he said "do it"</butt-head>
got Bonds to fly out to left
Cool! Like what the flying chair everybody thought the Segway was going to be?
San Diego's bullpen fell apart in the eighth
They obviously didn't engineer that structure very well.
San Diego manager Bruce Bochy had his only lefty reliever
Sounds like my adolescence.