This is little more than confirmation of what was already known:
Diabetes damages your vascular system. Even if your blood glucose control is excellent, you will still get periods when your BG goes high and your blood vessels will get deposits on their walls and hence restrict supply of oxygenated blood to the tissues that require it.
The results are systemic. If you don't get enough oxygen to tissues that need it, they will die. That includes not only the well recognised bits that get damaged by diabetes: retinas, kidneys, feet etc. but stuff that most medics don't recognise: the rest of your body including your brain.
I speak with some experience: I'm an insulin-dependent diabetic. I've got a loss of feeling in my feet although my retinas are still reasonable.
Yet there must be ongoing damage to the fine vasculature in my nut. My experience of living with people who have dementia is that the effects are insidious and you don't initially notice it. It's effects have an exponential progress, IMO.
I'm 55 now but I reckon within 10 years, I'll be too bonkers to put finger to keyboard. I hope to die before then.
You are obviously not an engineer in the way I'm familiar with in the UK.
ie. chartered and at a minimum a member of your professional
institute: mech, civil, electrical, whatever; they've all got their own
professional body. Except software "engineers", of course.
I've been in engineering organizations releasing new products that had life
saving or threatening potential. It is always an agonizing, scary hard call as
to when you've passed the threshold of risk.
The fact that you agonize over whether to release a possibly dangerous product
to the public strongly suggests to me that just like Mr. Musk you are not an
engineer at all but just another wannabe.
If you were a professional, chartered engineer, there would be no "agonizing". You do not sign-off on a possibly dangerous product. Period.
Why? Because if somebody gets seriously hurt, or worse dies, you or your
company will be on the receiving end of a very expensive lawsuit. Multiply the
expense x10 in US, at least.
But what's considerably worse for you, is that you will be kicked out of your
institute, you will no longer be able to practice and your career will lie in
burning ruins around you.
As for any future employment whatsoever, see how: "killed and maimed
people" goes down on your CV/resume with prospective employers.
That is why Musk's engineers are bailing and why I said in my previous post
that no proper engineer would work for him if they valued their social
standing, employment prospects, financial wellbeing and conscience.
That the fountain of BS that is Elon Musk allegedly put personal profit ahead of people's lives?
It seems incredible to me that any engineer who values their career would do any work for him in any shape or form.
I've heard him described as "a latter day Edison".
Unfortunately, Musk knows as much about engineering as Sonny Bono did about downhill skiing.
I think he's a naturally slothful person, sluggish and indolent, a dawdling
flaneur, content to waste his life spread eagled on pillows forever indulging
himself in the pleasures of the palm.
He also plans to bore faster, but not all of the details have come out on this yet.
An Elon Musk project where the engineering "details" haven't come out yet? Tell me it ain't so.
One has, however, which is simultaneous casing and boring, rather than bore/stop/case. There's a number of changes to the head that they're looking to make, but they haven't been discussed yet.
Simultaneous lining and boring has been a done deal for decades. I refer you to the Channel Tunnel.
I don't know what kind of bedrock they would be boring through but they all come up against something they didn't expect. Doesn't matter if it's sedimentary or metamorphic rock in the case of the English Channel or igneous rock in the Swiss alps. Add to that an area that is prone to earthquakes....piece of piss, right?
I think I've seen enough of Elon Musk to determine that he is full of shit and preys on people who know precisely fuck all about engineering...or anything else, for that matter. That includes the politicians who give him vast subsidies for whatever is the latest delusional bollocks he happens to come out with.
> There shouldn't be any income, any corporate, any wealth taxes at all. Your insane collectivist governments will eventually fall once there are no more jobs left for the collectivists and all the jobs move anywhere where the collectivists cannot get them.
You're highly delusional. On this side of the Atlantic we pay our taxes and we
like it.
When we're ill, unemployed, disabled, homeless etc. the government
steps in to help us. That's the unwritten contract we have with our
European governments.
Compare and contrast with the US where you have a large underclass of people,
who if they're not in prison, cannot afford proper healthcare, food or
housing. I'll take the European approach, thank you very much.
Apple, by paying less than 1% of their European profits in tax force everybody
else to pay more tax. If I set up business in Ireland, do you think I'll pay
less than 1% on my corporate profits?
Answer: No, because I couldn't afford
the backhanders to get such a deal.
BTW, Tim Cook is toast. Just a matter of time until the street realises he
hasn't produced anything useful during his reign. On the contrary, he's turned
some good stuff into garbage eg. Macbook Pro, OSX.
>...and those appeals will follow the ones already pending in Luxembourg, where the EU is headquartered.
No it's not. Try Brussels in Belgium.
Hope the court nails the sweetheart deal between Apple and the Irish taxman.
It hasn't just cost the Irish but every other consumer in the EU who has bought iCrap. All the profits go back to Ireland where they're essentially not taxed but squirrelled away by Apple. Apple stockholders win but EU citizens get screwed.
I read a lot of the usual suspects: this site; although it's probably
gone downhill over the years, there are still some interesting, insightful
or informative opinions/posts.
Other sites include:
El Reg. Always good for the latest
government fuck-ups with IT.
The latest: 16 billion quid wasted trying to implement a new IT system for what is essentially a renamed social security benefit.
Our dishonest dick of a PM (David Cameron) said today:
"I make no apology for taking Universal Credit [the new benefit] at
a deliberate pace."
"Deliberate pace"? It's been years (and it wont be ready for many more, if at all!). What a tosspot.
Another good site is:
FreeBSD Forums. A must read for all
those using (or proposing to use) FreeBSD.
It consists of "news" about celebrities (I use the word loosely: most of
them I've never heard of). On a typical day there will be about a dozen
stories about the dreadful Kardashians. A tweet by one of those revolting
people constitutes Daily Mail "news".
What beggars belief though, is that the DM is one of the most popular sites
in the UK! People believe and read the trash they write, as the hundreds of
braindead comments attached to each story attest.
Who was it that said "You can't underestimate people's stupidity"? The DM
is living proof of the wisdom of that quote. Remember, that half the
population has an IQ < 100; I read the DM so that I know what that
half are thinking/being told to think.
I'm not the only one to read the DM. The government takes a keen interest
in what the DM and their imbecile audience has to say and it inevitably
informs part of their unashamedly populist government policy. Eg. EU bad, people on social security are all scroungers, isn't
the Royal Family lovely?, immigrants are scum, BBC bad etc.
In short, they're hugely influential and I take it as a public duty to
stay informed of what these dingbats are up to. If I lived in the States,
I'd watch Fox News.
I used to troll the DM: post comments which caused a certain amount of
cognitive dissonance amongst the readers. But I got bored with it; the
dullards didn't really react. Maybe my trolling technique wasn't good enough.
We shouldn't always read stuff that confirms our own views/prejudices. You
need to know what the "opposition"/"mental defectives" (or in the States:
Republicans) are up to.
Absolutely, this doesn't just apply to software engineers in Silicon Valley. Looking through the data, I see the same thing for all kinds of engineers in the Midwest. There are "Senior Engineer Design" people making $93k ($73k prevailing), while a "Technical Specialist Advanced Systems Design" makes $80k ($66k prevailing). These are arguably the same position, but the "Engineer" title makes more money.
It is time that the title "Engineer" was stopped being abused by the IT
industry.
The fact is that any goon, whatever his/her qualifications (or lack thereof)
can apply for a job as a "Software Engineer" and can be interviewed and assessed
for the post by other "Software Engineers". Hence, the hideous state of a lot
of codebases.
Compare with a Mechanical Engineer. In the UK at least, first you have to do
your degree, then you have to get a job and be trained/handheld by a
Chartered Engineer for several years before you sit your professional exams.
If you pass those exams you then have the right to become a member of the
Institution of Mechanical Engineers, IMechE, and only then can you be let
loose on the jobsmarket and legally describe yourself as an "Engineer".
The same process goes for electrical, civil, chemical engineers. They all have
their own institutes and professional examinations.
Would you like your local bridge to be designed by a civil engineer who wasn't
Chartered? I think not. A Chartered Engineer is threatened with expulsion from
his institute and the end of his career as an engineer if he fouls up.
Yet the IT industry will happily take someone fresh out of university and let
them loose coding eg some banking application. When the crackers inevitably
break in, he/she might get sacked but they'll just move on continuing to
describe themselves as a "Software Engineer".
It's time that software developers had a professional institute that forces
them to do their time under a time-served, qualified engineer and then sit
professional examinations before they can call themselves "Engineer".
Once this happens, it will put an end to your H1B problem and the driving down
of salaries and hopefully improve the quality of software.
1. Enroll 45 of the sexiest babes at school. 2. Give each a webcam to setup at home. 3. Setup web porn gateway hosted on Ubuntu Hairy Hardon (rock solid!) connected to the 45 babes. 4.... 5. Profit!
> This page [kodak.com] at the kodak site shows about 8 different types of 35mm film which Kodak is marketing.
That page shows the negative film. Kodachrome is slide film and this page shows that kodachrome is being discontinued but some newer slide films remain.
I'm sad. I used to use kodachrome; it was nice film if a little slow for the English climate.
Conceptually, I agree that LaunchD is a really slick idea and I really hope Linux and the BSDs take a good hard look at this code and the possibility of adopting it.
Just a post to point out some further reading: These cycles are known
as Milankovitch
cycles.
I don't know why but I rarely hear them being discussed with relation
to global warming yet they are clearly important and more importantly:
what cycles don't we currently know about?
> You are smoking crack. In the UK, an OEM copy of XP Home runs
$70-80.
You're the crack smoker Mr AC. I just bought a copy of XP Home OEM from Dabs and it set me back 70 sovs
not bucks.
I just built a PC for myself (admittedly, somewhat midrange: AMD
3200+) and the cost of the OS(es) was a paltry 13% of the total.
Obviously, with a very low end "PC" then the cost of the OS is going
to represent a greater proportion of the cost and customers are going
to appreciate a 70 quid saving.
My money is on Google doing this (if not Google, then somebody else).
If you do it right, you can cut off Microsofts oxygen supply:)
A £150 PC with Google OS v a £220 PC with Windows.
That would go to the former (unless MS dropped the price of their
software...ouch!)
I don't think anybody has speculated on the Google PC being diskless
(so I will).
Why not? Flash RAM for the OS to reside in and you keep all your "local"
stuff at Google.
Flash RAM is getting cheaper by the day and it would also have the
desirable effect of immunising your PC against malware.
Google will have then stripped out the hard drive and killed the
malware. That on top of a free OS would surely be the
death knell to MS in the home user market place.
That much maligned thing, the "Network Computer" is back; and it's here to stay.
Slashdot Mirror
This is little more than confirmation of what was already known:
Diabetes damages your vascular system. Even if your blood glucose control is excellent, you will still get periods when your BG goes high and your blood vessels will get deposits on their walls and hence restrict supply of oxygenated blood to the tissues that require it.
The results are systemic. If you don't get enough oxygen to tissues that need it, they will die. That includes not only the well recognised bits that get damaged by diabetes: retinas, kidneys, feet etc. but stuff that most medics don't recognise: the rest of your body including your brain.
I speak with some experience: I'm an insulin-dependent diabetic. I've got a loss of feeling in my feet although my retinas are still reasonable.
Yet there must be ongoing damage to the fine vasculature in my nut. My experience of living with people who have dementia is that the effects are insidious and you don't initially notice it. It's effects have an exponential progress, IMO.
I'm 55 now but I reckon within 10 years, I'll be too bonkers to put finger to keyboard. I hope to die before then.
From the summary:
I call BS!
I just gave my girlfriend a facial and did my iPhone detect it? Did it fuck.
I want my money back! Do you hear me Tim Cooke?
Disclaimer:
You are obviously not an engineer in the way I'm familiar with in the UK. ie. chartered and at a minimum a member of your professional institute: mech, civil, electrical, whatever; they've all got their own professional body. Except software "engineers", of course.
The fact that you agonize over whether to release a possibly dangerous product to the public strongly suggests to me that just like Mr. Musk you are not an engineer at all but just another wannabe.
If you were a professional, chartered engineer, there would be no "agonizing". You do not sign-off on a possibly dangerous product. Period.
Why? Because if somebody gets seriously hurt, or worse dies, you or your company will be on the receiving end of a very expensive lawsuit. Multiply the expense x10 in US, at least.
But what's considerably worse for you, is that you will be kicked out of your institute, you will no longer be able to practice and your career will lie in burning ruins around you.
As for any future employment whatsoever, see how: "killed and maimed people" goes down on your CV/resume with prospective employers.
That is why Musk's engineers are bailing and why I said in my previous post that no proper engineer would work for him if they valued their social standing, employment prospects, financial wellbeing and conscience.
That the fountain of BS that is Elon Musk allegedly put personal profit ahead of people's lives?
It seems incredible to me that any engineer who values their career would do any work for him in any shape or form.
I've heard him described as "a latter day Edison".
Unfortunately, Musk knows as much about engineering as Sonny Bono did about downhill skiing.
I think he's a naturally slothful person, sluggish and indolent, a dawdling flaneur, content to waste his life spread eagled on pillows forever indulging himself in the pleasures of the palm.
TL;DR: A complete wanker.
An Elon Musk project where the engineering "details" haven't come out yet? Tell me it ain't so.
Simultaneous lining and boring has been a done deal for decades. I refer you to the Channel Tunnel.
I don't know what kind of bedrock they would be boring through but they all come up against something they didn't expect. Doesn't matter if it's sedimentary or metamorphic rock in the case of the English Channel or igneous rock in the Swiss alps. Add to that an area that is prone to earthquakes....piece of piss, right?
I think I've seen enough of Elon Musk to determine that he is full of shit and preys on people who know precisely fuck all about engineering...or anything else, for that matter. That includes the politicians who give him vast subsidies for whatever is the latest delusional bollocks he happens to come out with.
roman_mir excretes:
You're highly delusional. On this side of the Atlantic we pay our taxes and we like it.
When we're ill, unemployed, disabled, homeless etc. the government steps in to help us. That's the unwritten contract we have with our European governments.
Compare and contrast with the US where you have a large underclass of people, who if they're not in prison, cannot afford proper healthcare, food or housing. I'll take the European approach, thank you very much.
Apple, by paying less than 1% of their European profits in tax force everybody else to pay more tax. If I set up business in Ireland, do you think I'll pay less than 1% on my corporate profits?
Answer: No, because I couldn't afford the backhanders to get such a deal.
The self-serving retard that is Tim Cook doesn't seem to understand that concept.
BTW, Tim Cook is toast. Just a matter of time until the street realises he hasn't produced anything useful during his reign. On the contrary, he's turned some good stuff into garbage eg. Macbook Pro, OSX.
FTA:
No it's not. Try Brussels in Belgium.
Hope the court nails the sweetheart deal between Apple and the Irish taxman.
It hasn't just cost the Irish but every other consumer in the EU who has bought iCrap. All the profits go back to Ireland where they're essentially not taxed but squirrelled away by Apple. Apple stockholders win but EU citizens get screwed.
I'd rather Microsoft open sourced Bill Gates' latest bowel movement.
It would smell considerably better than this stinkfest of a language but it would probably be about as much use. None at all.
I read a lot of the usual suspects: this site; although it's probably
gone downhill over the years, there are still some interesting, insightful
or informative opinions/posts.
Other sites include:
El Reg. Always good for the latest government fuck-ups with IT.
The latest: 16 billion quid wasted trying to implement a new IT system for what is essentially a renamed social security benefit.
Our dishonest dick of a PM (David Cameron) said today:
"Deliberate pace"? It's been years (and it wont be ready for many more, if at all!). What a tosspot.
Another good site is:
FreeBSD Forums. A must read for all those using (or proposing to use) FreeBSD.
The icing on the cake:
The Daily Mail; drivel masquerading as news.
It's like The Onion, only funnier.
It consists of "news" about celebrities (I use the word loosely: most of
them I've never heard of). On a typical day there will be about a dozen
stories about the dreadful Kardashians. A tweet by one of those revolting
people constitutes Daily Mail "news".
What beggars belief though, is that the DM is one of the most popular sites
in the UK! People believe and read the trash they write, as the hundreds of
braindead comments attached to each story attest.
Who was it that said "You can't underestimate people's stupidity"? The DM
is living proof of the wisdom of that quote. Remember, that half the
population has an IQ < 100; I read the DM so that I know what that
half are thinking/being told to think.
I'm not the only one to read the DM. The government takes a keen interest
in what the DM and their imbecile audience has to say and it inevitably
informs part of their unashamedly populist government policy.
Eg. EU bad, people on social security are all scroungers, isn't
the Royal Family lovely?, immigrants are scum, BBC bad etc.
In short, they're hugely influential and I take it as a public duty to
stay informed of what these dingbats are up to. If I lived in the States,
I'd watch Fox News.
I used to troll the DM: post comments which caused a certain amount of
cognitive dissonance amongst the readers. But I got bored with it; the
dullards didn't really react. Maybe my trolling technique wasn't good enough.
We shouldn't always read stuff that confirms our own views/prejudices. You
need to know what the "opposition"/"mental defectives" (or in the States:
Republicans) are up to.
Absolutely, this doesn't just apply to software engineers in Silicon Valley. Looking through the data, I see the same thing for all kinds of engineers in the Midwest. There are "Senior Engineer Design" people making $93k ($73k prevailing), while a "Technical Specialist Advanced Systems Design" makes $80k ($66k prevailing). These are arguably the same position, but the "Engineer" title makes more money.
It is time that the title "Engineer" was stopped being abused by the IT
industry.
The fact is that any goon, whatever his/her qualifications (or lack thereof)
can apply for a job as a "Software Engineer" and can be interviewed and assessed
for the post by other "Software Engineers". Hence, the hideous state of a lot
of codebases.
Compare with a Mechanical Engineer. In the UK at least, first you have to do
your degree, then you have to get a job and be trained/handheld by a
Chartered Engineer for several years before you sit your professional exams.
If you pass those exams you then have the right to become a member of the
Institution of Mechanical Engineers, IMechE, and only then can you be let
loose on the jobsmarket and legally describe yourself as an "Engineer".
The same process goes for electrical, civil, chemical engineers. They all have
their own institutes and professional examinations.
Would you like your local bridge to be designed by a civil engineer who wasn't
Chartered? I think not. A Chartered Engineer is threatened with expulsion from
his institute and the end of his career as an engineer if he fouls up.
Yet the IT industry will happily take someone fresh out of university and let
them loose coding eg some banking application. When the crackers inevitably
break in, he/she might get sacked but they'll just move on continuing to
describe themselves as a "Software Engineer".
It's time that software developers had a professional institute that forces
them to do their time under a time-served, qualified engineer and then sit
professional examinations before they can call themselves "Engineer".
Once this happens, it will put an end to your H1B problem and the driving down
of salaries and hopefully improve the quality of software.
2. Give each a webcam to setup at home.
3. Setup web porn gateway hosted on Ubuntu Hairy Hardon (rock solid!) connected to the 45 babes.
4.
5. Profit!
.
I feel sure you will not go to prison*.
*(Could be wrong)
Frankly, what you do to your patent's disgusts me. I hope Microsoft go after you with the full force of the law.
You're brave. I'd rather 'fess up to kiddy fiddling on /. than owning and using a brown zune ;)
> This page [kodak.com] at the kodak site shows about 8 different types of 35mm film which Kodak is marketing.
That page shows the negative film. Kodachrome is slide film and this page shows that kodachrome is being discontinued but some newer slide films remain.
I'm sad. I used to use kodachrome; it was nice film if a little slow for the English climate.
removing accidental mod
Don't you mean a high, mid low end mid low high end video card?
Just wanted to clear things up...
I assume they're talking about Disneyland, Fl. In which case according to Google maps it's a trip of 2026 miles. In 2 hrs at 300mph?!
I suggest that if they can't get that right, then this scheme has little chance of working.
Then let's have somebody explain Milankovitch cycles and their effects on climate change.
When they've done that "global warming" might have a bit more credibility IMO.
Conceptually, I agree that LaunchD is a really slick idea and I really hope Linux and the BSDs take a good hard look at this code and the possibility of adopting it.
It looks like somebody is working on it for FreeBSD.
http://www.hevanet.com/acorbin/xul/top.xul
Isn't this old news?
Yes it is. I remember a couple of dudes flying around with these things attached to their backs at the LA olympics opening ceremony in 1984.
According to wikipedia, it was the home of Skynet.
Just as well it's closing.
Good post.
Just a post to point out some further reading: These cycles are known as Milankovitch cycles.
I don't know why but I rarely hear them being discussed with relation to global warming yet they are clearly important and more importantly: what cycles don't we currently know about?
...will it protect the American public from the wardrobe malfunction threat?!?
Another overexposed nipple could spell doom for us all...
> You are smoking crack. In the UK, an OEM copy of XP Home runs $70-80.
You're the crack smoker Mr AC. I just bought a copy of XP Home OEM from Dabs and it set me back 70 sovs not bucks.
I just built a PC for myself (admittedly, somewhat midrange: AMD 3200+) and the cost of the OS(es) was a paltry 13% of the total.
Obviously, with a very low end "PC" then the cost of the OS is going to represent a greater proportion of the cost and customers are going to appreciate a 70 quid saving.
My money is on Google doing this (if not Google, then somebody else). If you do it right, you can cut off Microsofts oxygen supply :)
A £150 PC with Google OS v a £220 PC with Windows.
That would go to the former (unless MS dropped the price of their software...ouch!)
I don't think anybody has speculated on the Google PC being diskless (so I will).
Why not? Flash RAM for the OS to reside in and you keep all your "local" stuff at Google.
Flash RAM is getting cheaper by the day and it would also have the desirable effect of immunising your PC against malware.
Google will have then stripped out the hard drive and killed the malware. That on top of a free OS would surely be the death knell to MS in the home user market place.
That much maligned thing, the "Network Computer" is back; and it's here to stay.