I mean, your'r a silicon valley startup, you launch a POS software that crashes, you redo it, no blood no foul; the only problem is some pissed off customers, but hey - it's software, we expect it to not work on ver1.0 (or ver10,0 if your are MS)
Just like putting 100,000 gallons of toxic explosive up into the air - the consequences of failure due to rapid product cycle are just the same.
from the article:
39. Unpronounceable but catchy.
At the Consumer Electronics Show, Intel gets Tom Hanks, Morgan Freeman, and Danny DeVito to help it roll out Viiv, a new platform for media-savvy home PCs. Consumers have trouble figuring out what it is (and how to say it); PC vendors don’t jump on the bandwagon with great abandon. By 2007, the press is referring to it in the past tense.
I've long suspected that unpronounceable names (merkur from ford) are really bad for a product.
am i the only one noticing that you have to click to each problem, and each page has just a short bit of text and a picture ?
why on earth can't the clay put this all on one page - if they have 7 million smackers for prize money surely they can afford to correct really glaring errors in website design
or is this a math way of saying we are mathemiticians who don't care about the crap that you normal lesser people care about ?
from the comments with the article posted by: irrational | 12/11/09 | 11:56 pm
I do it in 5 steps, and you get rid of the book when you’re done since you don’t need to store it. After you get done putting 200 hours into your creation, you’ll have spent thousands of dollars worth of your time. I solved this problem much more quickly years ago:
1. Buy a good sheet-fed and high-speed scanner. I have a Panasonic KV-S2026 color. 2. Get a decent jigsaw from Home Depot. Use metal cutting blades (24 teeth/inch or better) 3. Saw the spines off the book and for God’s sake use some C-clamps on each end of the book. Preferably sandwich them between two flat boards. 4. Remove and feed sheets through the scanner to OmniPage and text recognize the pages. 5. Save as PDF. 6. Repeat. You now have searchable digital books!
i used thunderbird for several years, really tried, but never liked it like outlook, then when i had to get a job, the deficiencys were to much. in particular, the inability to easily control the format of mgs drove me nuts; i'm sure there is some complex command line driven descended setting somewhere, but who has the time ? and a host of other problems - it was never clear to me how to backup msgs, the search function sucked bigtime (you could teach a course on bad gui with the thunderbird search feature) crappy calendar and contact support....
of course my new laptop with vista is fubared and my old outlook 2000 won't load, but even the builtin vista windows mail program is better then thunderbird
this belongs on the science equivalent of www.thedailywtf.com plasma = uncontrolled mix of highly reactive chemicals highly reactive chemicals = damage to skin at some level thus we have that old item, the therapeutic index roughy ratio of harm to good however, highly reactive chemcials = bugs getting resistant how ? learning to live deeper in the skin (bad for you) learning to make enzymes that deto the highly reactive chemicals (radical quenchers like SOD) learning to elaborte low molecular weight or high molecular weight (biofilm) molecules that sop up the highly reactive chemicals, so it takes a much higher conc of plasma
PS: MRSA is actually a:"feeble" bug - we know this because there have been many, very carefull studies that compare patients with MRSA to patients with MSSA (methicillin sensitive S Aureus) The finding is that petients who get MRSA infections are sicker then patients who get MSSA infections. To my mind, this means that the genetic changes that make S aureus resistant also make the bug less healthy in general, so it has a difficult time getting established in th blood or in the joints or urinary tract. And this is consistant with what is known (alot) about the gene mecA and how it acts.
also, there are new antibiotics approved in canada and switzerland that are active against mrsa - ceftobiprole
I am told that space is expanding - the distance between galaxies is growing. But why isn't the distance between planets, or the distance between air molecules on earth growing at the same rate ? I once did a order of magnitude calculation that the hubble constant X a few kilometers X a year equals a measurable (on, say LIGO scale) change...
The top scientist is R Gallo at the Dept of Dermatology, Univ California San Diego. I couldn't find a mention on his web site, but the link below lists all his pubished papers. From the abstracts, I would speculate that the idea is something like this
the normal skin bacteria - the microflora - secrete various antimicrobials peptides, that is compounds which are toxic to other bacteria. If you wash to much, you don't have the right peptides on your skin. at th bottom is an abstract from a recent paper
from this, the following article appears to have the clearest abstract:
J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2009 Sep;124(3 Suppl 2):R13-8. Antimicrobial peptides and the skin immune defense system.
Schauber J, Gallo RL.
Department of Dermatology and Allergology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany.
Our skin is constantly challenged by microbes but is rarely infected. Cutaneous production of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) is a primary system for protection, and expression of some AMPs further increases in response to microbial invasion. Cathelicidins are unique AMPs that protect the skin through 2 distinct pathways: (1) direct antimicrobial activity and (2) initiation of a host response resulting in cytokine release, inflammation, angiogenesis, and reepithelialization. Cathelicidin dysfunction emerges as a central factor in the pathogenesis of several cutaneous diseases, including atopic dermatitis, in which cathelicidin is suppressed; rosacea, in which cathelicidin peptides are abnormally processed to forms that induce inflammation; and psoriasis, in which cathelicidin peptide converts self-DNA to a potent stimulus in an autoinflammatory cascade. Recent work identified vitamin D3 as a major factor involved in the regulation of cathelicidin. Therapies targeting control of cathelicidin and other AMPs might provide new approaches in the management of infectious and inflammatory skin diseases.
PMID: 19720207 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
an article of interest J Invest Dermatol. 2009 Aug 27. [Epub ahead of print] Selective Antimicrobial Action Is Provided by Phenol-Soluble Modulins Derived from Staphylococcus epidermidis, a Normal Resident of the Skin.
without knowing anything else, highly sceptical - thought commercially viable fusion years away
PS: all you guys jerking off over how "safe" fusion is - what do you know about the neutron flux, and radioactive embrittlement of the containment shell ?
does anyone have historical comparisions going back to the 70s, eg, how many terflops and how much ram nasa had during apollo. I have this memory of an ad taken out by Boeing in the late 70s, offering their world class supercomputers to researchers; among the leading edge attributes was 500 meg of solid state memory
In 1945 we were the economic king of the hill not because we are smarter or more creative (the myth of the non creative asian will be viewed by our children the way we view the idea that woman are tempermentally unsuited to excercise the vote) but because the other guys were down. Finally the restof the world is catching up; this explains the long term (since the 50s) decline of the american job market (except for the top 1%), the silly idea (obama) that more education and hard work will help (like we are really gonna out word/dollar someone in china)
C M Kornbluth esp space merchants and syndic, and marching morons - that will give em food for thought W Tenn U K Leguin Mack Reynolds (yeah, i know its cheesy - but fun) Alexie Panshin james blish (cities in flight) there is a series of novels that started with "deathworld" (better then it sounds) the novels about Retief any list without S Delaney is absurd (einstein intersection, babel 17 - his earlyh work is SF) walter millers a canticle for leibowitz philip K dick (galactic pothealer) first and last men , stapelton
i always thought heinlein was over rated, and his later stuff absurd; bertram chandler john brunner (stand on zanzibar, no blade of grass (can't resist - also the sheep look up) jack vance clifford simak
all of the above should be considered, although Kornbluth is areally sharp
yr being a little literal. the point is, if linux is half as great as it's touters claim, there wouldn't be a big problem with sloppy admins, cause it would be hard to do whatever the problem is in the original post.
Further the idea that everyone is different and has diff needs is really a statement that computer systems are very primitive - to give an example, in the recent past, cars had a choke, which let you vary the air/fuel mixture according to local weather; now that is done automatically by the cars computer systems. An OS should really do security automatically; admins should not have to do awhole lot.
by definition, a well designed OS does not have sloppy admins, because the default is correct, and to deviate from the default and setup systems with bad security takes a lot of effort and know how.
we have spent, order of magnitude, about a gazillion dollars to find out that...germs still work in space, but are a little different. I will go out and buy a hat to eat if any professional biologists are at all surprised by this. Typical of the socalled "science" of space: like fusion power, more a welfare program then science; I bet if we had taken all that money, printed one dollar bills and then burnt them, the knowledge about how to recycle paper would be more valuable then everything from the space station. I wonder if there are enough people employed in these makework programs that it actually makes a difference in the national underemployment figures
Look in the weekly circulars, or whatever, find the CHEAPEST thing out their, buy two or three, when they wear out, do it again I got 8 (eight) super cheap pixma 1600s with ink cartridges, each cost a dollar less then the replacement cartridges aint very ecological, but it works
What obama is saying is, hey, if your job is in competition with some place cheaper, rahter then bring them up to our level, we have to compete with them end of that road, you have to pay for your own education to work 100 hours a week for min wage, just to compete with, say pakistan...
suppose educated women (and education strongly correlates wit income and wealth) "know" htat babies are supposed to be born in the spirng..... this would rduce the whole thing to a cultural artifact: well to do parents tell thier kids to have a spring baby, and so it goes...
re your sig, the famous economist herbert simon once remarked, possibly sarcastically, that something that can't go on forever won't. I agree that economists are little more then PR guys for whoever pays them, but that doesn't mean they are guilty of what your sig says
maybe cobol and language x same in reliability, just the bad cobol stuff got dropped 30 years ago. like in mutual funds: took economists a long time to realize financial industry skewing results of mutual funds by not including all the funds that are started, but die early
assume the theory of chiropractic medicien is just nonsense however,it is still possible that visits to the chiropracter can help, and even help more then the doctor: imaigne you have something like a sprained shoulder, where diagnosis and treatment requires carefull looking and TOUCHING of the joint; if the chiropracter spends more time doing a more careful exam, he might do a lot more good then an MD the point is, life is complex, and real life is even more complex
not sure you have the keynes posistion right - I thought his point was that spending could get you out of a recession, when everyone else said what to do is spend,....
don't users care about running the apps they like, and how much they have to spend ( i honestly think it you are doing email and web and some simple office docs, you can get a decent wintel box for less then $500, which is hard to do in a mac) and,if they are mac users, how cool they are ? I can't actually believe that more then a small fraction of people care about benchmarks
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I mean, your'r a silicon valley startup, you launch a POS software that crashes, you redo it, no blood no foul; the only problem is some pissed off customers, but hey - it's software, we expect it to not work on ver1.0 (or ver10,0 if your are MS) Just like putting 100,000 gallons of toxic explosive up into the air - the consequences of failure due to rapid product cycle are just the same.
from the article: 39. Unpronounceable but catchy. At the Consumer Electronics Show, Intel gets Tom Hanks, Morgan Freeman, and Danny DeVito to help it roll out Viiv, a new platform for media-savvy home PCs. Consumers have trouble figuring out what it is (and how to say it); PC vendors don’t jump on the bandwagon with great abandon. By 2007, the press is referring to it in the past tense. I've long suspected that unpronounceable names (merkur from ford) are really bad for a product.
am i the only one noticing that you have to click to each problem, and each page has just a short bit of text and a picture ? why on earth can't the clay put this all on one page - if they have 7 million smackers for prize money surely they can afford to correct really glaring errors in website design or is this a math way of saying we are mathemiticians who don't care about the crap that you normal lesser people care about ?
last time i tried gnumeric, about a month ago, it was hopeless: just a really basic program , worth what you paid for it
from the comments with the article
posted by: irrational | 12/11/09 | 11:56 pm
I do it in 5 steps, and you get rid of the book when you’re done since you don’t need to store it. After you get done putting 200 hours into your creation, you’ll have spent thousands of dollars worth of your time. I solved this problem much more quickly years ago:
1. Buy a good sheet-fed and high-speed scanner. I have a Panasonic KV-S2026 color.
2. Get a decent jigsaw from Home Depot. Use metal cutting blades (24 teeth/inch or better)
3. Saw the spines off the book and for God’s sake use some C-clamps on each end of the book. Preferably sandwich them between two flat boards.
4. Remove and feed sheets through the scanner to OmniPage and text recognize the pages.
5. Save as PDF.
6. Repeat. You now have searchable digital books!
i used thunderbird for several years, really tried, but never liked it like outlook, then when i had to get a job, the deficiencys were to much.
in particular, the inability to easily control the format of mgs drove me nuts; i'm sure there is some complex command line driven descended setting somewhere, but who has the time ?
and a host of other problems - it was never clear to me how to backup msgs, the search function sucked bigtime (you could teach a course on bad gui with the thunderbird search feature) crappy calendar and contact support....
of course my new laptop with vista is fubared and my old outlook 2000 won't load, but even the builtin vista windows mail program is better then thunderbird
this belongs on the science equivalent of www.thedailywtf.com
plasma = uncontrolled mix of highly reactive chemicals
highly reactive chemicals = damage to skin at some level
thus we have that old item, the therapeutic index roughy ratio of harm to good
however,
highly reactive chemcials = bugs getting resistant
how ? learning to live deeper in the skin (bad for you)
learning to make enzymes that deto the highly reactive chemicals (radical quenchers like SOD)
learning to elaborte low molecular weight or high molecular weight (biofilm) molecules that sop up the highly reactive chemicals, so it takes a much higher conc of plasma
PS: MRSA is actually a :"feeble" bug - we know this because there have been many, very carefull studies that compare patients with MRSA to patients with MSSA (methicillin sensitive S Aureus)
The finding is that petients who get MRSA infections are sicker then patients who get MSSA infections.
To my mind, this means that the genetic changes that make S aureus resistant also make the bug less healthy in general, so it has a difficult time getting established in th blood or in the joints or urinary tract.
And this is consistant with what is known (alot) about the gene mecA and how it acts.
also, there are new antibiotics approved in canada and switzerland that are active against mrsa - ceftobiprole
I am told that space is expanding - the distance between galaxies is growing.
But why isn't the distance between planets, or the distance between air molecules on earth growing at the same rate ?
I once did a order of magnitude calculation that the hubble constant X a few kilometers X a year equals a measurable (on, say LIGO scale) change...
thankts
The top scientist is R Gallo at the Dept of Dermatology, Univ California San Diego. I couldn't find a mention on his web site, but the link below lists all his pubished papers.
From the abstracts, I would speculate that the idea is something like this
the normal skin bacteria - the microflora - secrete various antimicrobials peptides, that is compounds which are toxic to other bacteria. If you wash to much, you don't have the right peptides on your skin. at th bottom is an abstract from a recent paper
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=search&db=pubmed&term=Gallo%20RL
from this, the following article appears to have the clearest abstract:
J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2009 Sep;124(3 Suppl 2):R13-8.
Antimicrobial peptides and the skin immune defense system.
Schauber J, Gallo RL.
Department of Dermatology and Allergology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany.
Our skin is constantly challenged by microbes but is rarely infected. Cutaneous production of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) is a primary system for protection, and expression of some AMPs further increases in response to microbial invasion. Cathelicidins are unique AMPs that protect the skin through 2 distinct pathways: (1) direct antimicrobial activity and (2) initiation of a host response resulting in cytokine release, inflammation, angiogenesis, and reepithelialization. Cathelicidin dysfunction emerges as a central factor in the pathogenesis of several cutaneous diseases, including atopic dermatitis, in which cathelicidin is suppressed; rosacea, in which cathelicidin peptides are abnormally processed to forms that induce inflammation; and psoriasis, in which cathelicidin peptide converts self-DNA to a potent stimulus in an autoinflammatory cascade. Recent work identified vitamin D3 as a major factor involved in the regulation of cathelicidin. Therapies targeting control of cathelicidin and other AMPs might provide new approaches in the management of infectious and inflammatory skin diseases.
PMID: 19720207 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
an article of interest
J Invest Dermatol. 2009 Aug 27. [Epub ahead of print]
Selective Antimicrobial Action Is Provided by Phenol-Soluble Modulins Derived from Staphylococcus epidermidis, a Normal Resident of the Skin.
without knowing anything else, highly sceptical - thought commercially viable fusion years away
PS: all you guys jerking off over how "safe" fusion is - what do you know about the neutron flux, and radioactive embrittlement of the containment shell ?
does anyone have historical comparisions going back to the 70s, eg, how many terflops and how much ram nasa had during apollo.
I have this memory of an ad taken out by Boeing in the late 70s, offering their world class supercomputers to researchers; among the leading edge attributes was 500 meg of solid state memory
In 1945 we were the economic king of the hill not because we are smarter or more creative (the myth of the non creative asian will be viewed by our children the way we view the idea that woman are tempermentally unsuited to excercise the vote) but because the other guys were down.
Finally the restof the world is catching up; this explains the long term (since the 50s) decline of the american job market (except for the top 1%), the silly idea (obama) that more education and hard work will help (like we are really gonna out word/dollar someone in china)
C M Kornbluth esp space merchants and syndic, and marching morons - that will give em food for thought
W Tenn
U K Leguin
Mack Reynolds (yeah, i know its cheesy - but fun)
Alexie Panshin
james blish (cities in flight)
there is a series of novels that started with "deathworld" (better then it sounds)
the novels about Retief
any list without S Delaney is absurd (einstein intersection, babel 17 - his earlyh work is SF)
walter millers a canticle for leibowitz
philip K dick (galactic pothealer)
first and last men , stapelton
i always thought heinlein was over rated, and his later stuff absurd;
bertram chandler
john brunner (stand on zanzibar, no blade of grass (can't resist - also the sheep look up)
jack vance
clifford simak
all of the above should be considered, although Kornbluth is areally sharp
yr being a little literal. the point is, if linux is half as great as it's touters claim, there wouldn't be a big problem with sloppy admins, cause it would be hard to do whatever the problem is in the original post.
Further the idea that everyone is different and has diff needs is really a statement that computer systems are very primitive - to give an example, in the recent past, cars had a choke, which let you vary the air/fuel mixture according to local weather; now that is done automatically by the cars computer systems.
An OS should really do security automatically; admins should not have to do awhole lot.
by definition, a well designed OS does not have sloppy admins, because the default is correct, and to deviate from the default and setup systems with bad security takes a lot of effort and know how.
we have spent, order of magnitude, about a gazillion dollars to find out that...germs still work in space, but are a little different.
I will go out and buy a hat to eat if any professional biologists are at all surprised by this.
Typical of the socalled "science" of space: like fusion power, more a welfare program then science; I bet if we had taken all that money, printed one dollar bills and then burnt them, the knowledge about how to recycle paper would be more valuable then everything from the space station.
I wonder if there are enough people employed in these makework programs that it actually makes a difference in the national underemployment figures
Look in the weekly circulars, or whatever, find the CHEAPEST thing out their, buy two or three, when they wear out, do it again
I got 8 (eight) super cheap pixma 1600s with ink cartridges, each cost a dollar less then the replacement cartridges
aint very ecological, but it works
What obama is saying is, hey, if your job is in competition with some place cheaper, rahter then bring them up to our level, we have to compete with them
end of that road, you have to pay for your own education to work 100 hours a week for min wage, just to compete with, say pakistan...
suppose educated women (and education strongly correlates wit income and wealth) "know" htat babies are supposed to be born in the spirng.....
this would rduce the whole thing to a cultural artifact: well to do parents tell thier kids to have a spring baby, and so it goes...
re your sig, the famous economist herbert simon once remarked, possibly sarcastically, that something that can't go on forever won't.
I agree that economists are little more then PR guys for whoever pays them, but that doesn't mean they are guilty of what your sig says
maybe cobol and language x same in reliability, just the bad cobol stuff got dropped 30 years ago.
like in mutual funds: took economists a long time to realize financial industry skewing results of mutual funds by not including all the funds that are started, but die early
assume the theory of chiropractic medicien is just nonsense
however,it is still possible that visits to the chiropracter can help, and even help more then the doctor: imaigne you have something like a sprained shoulder, where diagnosis and treatment requires carefull looking and TOUCHING of the joint; if the chiropracter spends more time doing a more careful exam, he might do a lot more good then an MD
the point is, life is complex, and real life is even more complex
not sure you have the keynes posistion right - I thought his point was that spending could get you out of a recession, when everyone else said what to do is spend, ....
don't users care about running the apps they like, and how much they have to spend ( i honestly think it you are doing email and web and some simple office docs, you can get a decent wintel box for less then $500, which is hard to do in a mac) and,if they are mac users, how cool they are ?
I can't actually believe that more then a small fraction of people care about benchmarks
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