endoscopes are commonly 12 or 13 mm in diameter (some larger, some smaller). Any you have to swallow it. They give you conscience sedation (you're groggy and the drugs have an amnesia effect, so you don't remember the pain or humiliation) and ask you to swallow. It can take a long time to get a patient to gag it down (just have to get it started, then it's shoved). A colonoscopy is less demeaning. It's in, it's out. I would like to avoid both, but having obsevered several of each, the colonoscopy is the lesser of two evils.
Circa WWII, the US had a pretty good train system. Had too, since the roads were miserable.
But whereas in Europe, population density and economics favored keeping trains (remember, most Europeans couldn't afford cars), the US's road system began to eclipse rail, leading to it's decline for lack of ridership.
A million little kids would rise up and mop the floor with you. After being made to memorize a list of planets, to tell them they are wrong... that'll get you killed.
I think technically it isn't a planet. But life's boring if you live it to the letter. Let's call it a planet for the sake of breaking the rules.
So much effort to name rocks billions of miles away and yet our closest neighbor just gets called "moon." ok, "the moon." Well, you always take the familiar for granted.
I've met these folks. They are getting great results with procedure that is easy to duplicate AND the method uses the patient's own cells. Not only does that avoid the pesky ethics issues, there's no tissue rejection issues.
Agreed IFF he read the post and modded it informative. For everyone else, it should be insightful. But informative implies that some reader read it and decided "hey, I'm informed!", modding it that way.
Except in theis case it's developers avoiding working for SCO. But the less who do, the better the chances for someone else to get the prize. So there's an incentive to break ranks. Maybe be the one and only developer.
Think of it as a lottery with your integrity against winning a fast car.
No, I'm suggesting that OpenOffice is an example of open source that began as proprietary, even if it was through branching. I'm well aware that Sun still sells StarOffice, but they still share a common code base which Sun contributes and borrows heavily from.
Slight correction to N. Korea safe because it has nukes. It's actually been safer for far longer because it has immense and capable ground forces stationed a stone's throw from Seoul, which effective IS S. Korea. Nukes have made it less safe, not because US policy says we can attack back with nukes, but because economic and diplomatic pressure combined with a crappy economy and famine are destabilition to the rulers.
One of the reasons I believe Americans become insular is the large size AND homogenaity. Hop in a car, pick a random direction, drive for a day. There's a pretty good chance you're still in the US, with Canada similar enough to fool you. Hop out and you'll likely be able to speak to a local, in English, with accent variation significantly less than within the UK. If you really wanted to, you can probably find a job in a week or less (you might be at McDonalds, but you can get a job), get an apartment, watch the same tv shows, and so on.
My point is that most Americans, even ones who travel, have no concept of any other way of life. That's not a criticism, just an observation. If everyone in Europe spoke the same language, ate the same food, etc, etc, we'd be saying the same about them. We don't have a concept of neighboring countries, except Canada and Mexico, because we never bump into any.
So, GB is on the Euro now? European Bank controls all fiscal policy? Taxation and courts are governed by the European Constitution? Labor policy too, I take it. Cross border investments and aquisitions are seemless now, eh? Gee, I don't read a newspaper for a week, and I'm out of date!
Easy: (1) start your own station (2) run it the way you want (3) don't sell it or (3b) only sell it to someone of like mind (or place it in a trust). To prevent an aquiring company from making changes, a contract can be used. But that takes some craftsmanship, otherwise you stand as much chance as selling a car to a teenager with the stipulation they not speed. Also, just a friendly reminder that the people of WXRT werre not slaves to your desires (noble though they may be). Nice side effect of freedom is they were free to screw things up.
Let me add UIUC (university of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) to your list of science & engineering shcools.
As an aside, can I ask why the half dozen folks I've met from MIT have tended to be useless? Their quality has not matched the reputation. Could just be a statistical quirk...
Funny thing is when we went from UK to Ireland, we had our passport checked, but not when travelling the other direction. When we asked why, we were told it was a British law. Real answer? I haven't a clue.
The cover of my passport is blue (US). Never even had to flash the color to go between UK and Ireland. Or between France, Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Italy. Czech republic was the only country to ask for it. But they were part of the (forgot what it's called) treaty.
But then again I was traveling by train for most of the time.
A pool for the act or for the meal to later commit the act with? I'm not sure I'd pony up for poo. Being able to say "I paid for some guy to take a dump" isn't on my life's to-do list. But somehow I can live with buying a guy a meal.
Or to borrow a rule from finite element analysis: don't run the analysis unless you know what answer to expect. i.e. Know your stuff and don't blindly trust a computer.
Then again, CS has had a more succinct version for years: garbage in, garbage out.
Duh! I've done it too. But if someone is going to take the time to do that, they might just have enough sense to not delete rows willy nilly.
I've also put the password right on the spreadsheet for others, right under a notice not to do certain actions or risk certain doom. It's all about risk management. But the original post was just bitching about users deleting when 99% of that could be prevented with just a moment's effort.
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endoscopes are commonly 12 or 13 mm in diameter (some larger, some smaller). Any you have to swallow it. They give you conscience sedation (you're groggy and the drugs have an amnesia effect, so you don't remember the pain or humiliation) and ask you to swallow. It can take a long time to get a patient to gag it down (just have to get it started, then it's shoved). A colonoscopy is less demeaning. It's in, it's out. I would like to avoid both, but having obsevered several of each, the colonoscopy is the lesser of two evils.
Circa WWII, the US had a pretty good train system. Had too, since the roads were miserable.
But whereas in Europe, population density and economics favored keeping trains (remember, most Europeans couldn't afford cars), the US's road system began to eclipse rail, leading to it's decline for lack of ridership.
A million little kids would rise up and mop the floor with you. After being made to memorize a list of planets, to tell them they are wrong ... that'll get you killed.
I think technically it isn't a planet. But life's boring if you live it to the letter. Let's call it a planet for the sake of breaking the rules.
... and the kids.
So much effort to name rocks billions of miles away and yet our closest neighbor just gets called "moon." ok, "the moon." Well, you always take the familiar for granted.
I like this approach better: http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/artic le?AID=/20060308/NEWS01/60308003
I've met these folks. They are getting great results with procedure that is easy to duplicate AND the method uses the patient's own cells. Not only does that avoid the pesky ethics issues, there's no tissue rejection issues.
I'm inclined to agree. Take the money and run. But there's probably going to be fine print.
Agreed IFF he read the post and modded it informative. For everyone else, it should be insightful. But informative implies that some reader read it and decided "hey, I'm informed!", modding it that way.
Uh, it's kind of creepy thinking how this might be "informative"
Sounds like a versio of the prisoners dilemma http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/prisoner-dilemma /
Except in theis case it's developers avoiding working for SCO. But the less who do, the better the chances for someone else to get the prize. So there's an incentive to break ranks. Maybe be the one and only developer.
Think of it as a lottery with your integrity against winning a fast car.
No, I'm suggesting that OpenOffice is an example of open source that began as proprietary, even if it was through branching. I'm well aware that Sun still sells StarOffice, but they still share a common code base which Sun contributes and borrows heavily from.
I believe it used to be called Star Office (and still is), created by a German company and bought by Sun. Someone is sure to correct me.
Slight correction to N. Korea safe because it has nukes. It's actually been safer for far longer because it has immense and capable ground forces stationed a stone's throw from Seoul, which effective IS S. Korea. Nukes have made it less safe, not because US policy says we can attack back with nukes, but because economic and diplomatic pressure combined with a crappy economy and famine are destabilition to the rulers.
... they just don't know it yet.
Am I making a joke, or prognosticating? Let's see... My hands haven't gotten hairy, so it must be a joke.
One of the reasons I believe Americans become insular is the large size AND homogenaity. Hop in a car, pick a random direction, drive for a day. There's a pretty good chance you're still in the US, with Canada similar enough to fool you. Hop out and you'll likely be able to speak to a local, in English, with accent variation significantly less than within the UK. If you really wanted to, you can probably find a job in a week or less (you might be at McDonalds, but you can get a job), get an apartment, watch the same tv shows, and so on.
My point is that most Americans, even ones who travel, have no concept of any other way of life. That's not a criticism, just an observation. If everyone in Europe spoke the same language, ate the same food, etc, etc, we'd be saying the same about them. We don't have a concept of neighboring countries, except Canada and Mexico, because we never bump into any.
So, GB is on the Euro now? European Bank controls all fiscal policy? Taxation and courts are governed by the European Constitution? Labor policy too, I take it. Cross border investments and aquisitions are seemless now, eh? Gee, I don't read a newspaper for a week, and I'm out of date!
Easy: (1) start your own station (2) run it the way you want (3) don't sell it or (3b) only sell it to someone of like mind (or place it in a trust). To prevent an aquiring company from making changes, a contract can be used. But that takes some craftsmanship, otherwise you stand as much chance as selling a car to a teenager with the stipulation they not speed. Also, just a friendly reminder that the people of WXRT werre not slaves to your desires (noble though they may be). Nice side effect of freedom is they were free to screw things up.
Let me add UIUC (university of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) to your list of science & engineering shcools.
As an aside, can I ask why the half dozen folks I've met from MIT have tended to be useless? Their quality has not matched the reputation. Could just be a statistical quirk...
Funny thing is when we went from UK to Ireland, we had our passport checked, but not when travelling the other direction. When we asked why, we were told it was a British law. Real answer? I haven't a clue.
With an attitude like that, I can understand why you'd favor more protection.
er, NOT part of the Schengen treaty.
The cover of my passport is blue (US). Never even had to flash the color to go between UK and Ireland. Or between France, Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Italy. Czech republic was the only country to ask for it. But they were part of the (forgot what it's called) treaty.
But then again I was traveling by train for most of the time.
A pool for the act or for the meal to later commit the act with? I'm not sure I'd pony up for poo. Being able to say "I paid for some guy to take a dump" isn't on my life's to-do list. But somehow I can live with buying a guy a meal.
Or to borrow a rule from finite element analysis: don't run the analysis unless you know what answer to expect. i.e. Know your stuff and don't blindly trust a computer.
Then again, CS has had a more succinct version for years: garbage in, garbage out.
Duh! I've done it too. But if someone is going to take the time to do that, they might just have enough sense to not delete rows willy nilly.
I've also put the password right on the spreadsheet for others, right under a notice not to do certain actions or risk certain doom.
It's all about risk management. But the original post was just bitching about users deleting when 99% of that could be prevented with just a moment's effort.