Banging one's head against the desk when some idiot posts a convoluted edge case as a rebuttal to a general argument probably also causes brain damage, hypertension, blurred vision and damaged keyboards.
While you are correct - people's perceptions of gains / harms are amazingly enough, strongly biased by how much they stand to gain from the behavior, getting this message out to the general public time and time again is needed if the overall perception of those activities is to change.
While American Football (Commercial Ball? Beer Ball?) will be the social core of many a small town for years to come, real football ('soccer') is slowly gaining respect and support in no small part because it is perceived as healthier and safer. Change will be slow, but by the time the US moves to the metric system, soccer will have replaced football in much of the country.
Non of us will be alive when that happens, but oh well....
okay using just html diagram a 3 stage amplifier at the component level (with voltage/current values).
Man, that's easy - Take a picture of the diagram from the book using your cell phone. Email it to your desktop. Paste it into Word. Now, save it as a.pdf and import it into Powerpoint.
Jeez, you'd think technology was hard or something.
Maybe painting them pink would help reduce the number of gun fatalities ?
You laugh, but at present the only semi automatic, magazine fed rifles (AKA "assault rifles") available at the local gun shop are a pair of Bushmaster's in.22 long rifle in a PINK / BLACK camo pattern. The most bizarre thing I have ever seen in a firearm.
Somebody seems to be picking up on your thought processes.
A Mac can not run a version of the OS older than the latest and greatest version which was available when the Mac was announced. If it came with 10.7 then most likely 10.6 will not run on it.
Try it sometime. I just booted a 2012 15" MBP into 10.6 off a USB drive. Worked fine.
Sort of wrong. Each individual Adobe product doesn't get much except a few bells and whistles per upgrade, but the entire Creative Suite is slowly getting it's act together - better round tripping and program UI integration. And usually, in the CS zoo, there is at least one program that gets some pretty neat upgrades in each iteration.
Now, you're talking about close to $3000 dollars of software, but for professional use, that's pretty small change. And Adobe is, in general, going for the professional market.
But to be fair (and I hate being fair with Adobe, God rot their evil and twisted souls), the changes have been associated with improvements or at the very least, changes in how text / whatever is done. It's probably impossible NOT to break things over the long haul when you improve the software.
Nice rant. Too bad you're mostly wrong. HIPAA actually does manage to get data protection pushed far and wide in an industry that fights tooth and nail against any change. It's hardly perfect but it's not terribly onerous and most of the edge cases and implementation problems have been sorted out.
I'm not sure why they chose to beat up on some rural Hospice provider - they've had plenty of chances to hit some big boys and girls, but this will send out a signal that you shouldn't fuck around and avoid doing simple things. It isn't much of an expense to encrypt laptops. It's not hard to put locks on doors, HIPAA has made it easier to transfer data back and forth between providers because everyone is working off the same set of rules.
Maybe you should bash your head with your copy of Atlas Shrugged a few more times until things are clearer.
I'd bet if you measured the unprosecuted crimes committed by bankers, lawyers, insurance agents, and politicians, you'd find that the crime rate is actually quite high.
The interesting thing about your point of view is that most of the people who abuse the personal phone at work privilege are the 9-5er basic employee. The one that goes home and stays there on a regular basis unmolested by work.
We are reviewing, again, the use of cell phones at work and I think we will come down on the side of no personal cell phones on the hospital floor - too many people spend too much time doing things totally unrelated to work to the detriment of work. Use the phone on break, not on the floor. Got an emergency? Call the main desk, we'll get a hold of you.
Please note that family death-level emergencies are pretty rare, I can't even recall one. The typical 'emergency' is that the teenager has done something they weren't supposed to do (again) or has run out of money (again). Deal with it on your own time. We had a pretty liberal policy for a while, but there are way too many people who can't stay on the right side of the line even with prompts, discussion and clear guidelines as to where the line is.
I'd like to have a cheap electronic organizer with keyboard that can be synced to PC, runs on ordinary AAA batteries and has more than one year of battery life. They used to make them in the 90s but I can't seem to find one now.
Is there anything like this at CES?
I don't think that time machines will be demo'd until 2019, at the earliest. Right after they get holographic storage nailed down.
There are arguably MORE different computing platforms than ever. They just don't look or act like the 'general purpose' computers that you, and I suspect much of the rest of the Slashdot demographic, is waxing nostalgic about.
Everything north of pencil has a CPU in it. There are more opportunities to interact with electronics from a consumer standpoint than ever. They just don't have floppies and RS-232 ports.
Interested in telling us about the drug? Any sort of new pain med in Phase III trials would get a fair amount of publicity since we've not had anything really useful since the discovery of opiates a couple of thousand years ago.
Lots of noise - people are always 'discovering' majorly useful drugs that never seem to pan out, but getting anywhere near the market usually gets you publicity because it's rare.
If 'nerds' had paid any attention to their thermodynamics/statistical mechanics class they would have already know all this and we would have been spared two frivolous posts in the front page.
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heading in soccer also causes brain damage.
Banging one's head against the desk when some idiot posts a convoluted edge case as a rebuttal to a general argument probably also causes brain damage, hypertension, blurred vision and damaged keyboards.
I should probably quit doing it.
While you are correct - people's perceptions of gains / harms are amazingly enough, strongly biased by how much they stand to gain from the behavior, getting this message out to the general public time and time again is needed if the overall perception of those activities is to change.
While American Football (Commercial Ball? Beer Ball?) will be the social core of many a small town for years to come, real football ('soccer') is slowly gaining respect and support in no small part because it is perceived as healthier and safer. Change will be slow, but by the time the US moves to the metric system, soccer will have replaced football in much of the country.
Non of us will be alive when that happens, but oh well....
And the reverse is even truer - given a good teacher, it makes no difference what technology they use or if indeed they use any technology at all.
okay using just html diagram a 3 stage amplifier at the component level (with voltage/current values).
Man, that's easy - Take a picture of the diagram from the book using your cell phone. Email it to your desktop. Paste it into Word. Now, save it as a .pdf and import it into Powerpoint.
Jeez, you'd think technology was hard or something.
Right. But a thousand dollar firearm?
Tasteless. Totally Tasteless.
Maybe painting them pink would help reduce the number of gun fatalities ?
You laugh, but at present the only semi automatic, magazine fed rifles (AKA "assault rifles") available at the local gun shop are a pair of Bushmaster's in .22 long rifle in a PINK / BLACK camo pattern. The most bizarre thing I have ever seen in a firearm.
Somebody seems to be picking up on your thought processes.
A scary thing, indeed.
Oh look, the Winged Victory of Samothrace.
"That's not even wrong"
W. Pauli
A Mac can not run a version of the OS older than the latest and greatest version which was available when the Mac was announced. If it came with 10.7 then most likely 10.6 will not run on it.
Try it sometime. I just booted a 2012 15" MBP into 10.6 off a USB drive. Worked fine.
Sort of wrong. Each individual Adobe product doesn't get much except a few bells and whistles per upgrade, but the entire Creative Suite is slowly getting it's act together - better round tripping and program UI integration. And usually, in the CS zoo, there is at least one program that gets some pretty neat upgrades in each iteration.
Now, you're talking about close to $3000 dollars of software, but for professional use, that's pretty small change. And Adobe is, in general, going for the professional market.
Lightroom isn't Photoshop. And Lightroom is one of the few Adobe products that has both a reasonable price point and cross platform policy.
But to be fair (and I hate being fair with Adobe, God rot their evil and twisted souls), the changes have been associated with improvements or at the very least, changes in how text / whatever is done. It's probably impossible NOT to break things over the long haul when you improve the software.
Nice rant. Too bad you're mostly wrong. HIPAA actually does manage to get data protection pushed far and wide in an industry that fights tooth and nail against any change. It's hardly perfect but it's not terribly onerous and most of the edge cases and implementation problems have been sorted out.
I'm not sure why they chose to beat up on some rural Hospice provider - they've had plenty of chances to hit some big boys and girls, but this will send out a signal that you shouldn't fuck around and avoid doing simple things. It isn't much of an expense to encrypt laptops. It's not hard to put locks on doors, HIPAA has made it easier to transfer data back and forth between providers because everyone is working off the same set of rules.
Maybe you should bash your head with your copy of Atlas Shrugged a few more times until things are clearer.
I'd bet if you measured the unprosecuted crimes committed by bankers, lawyers, insurance agents, and politicians, you'd find that the crime rate is actually quite high.
You're confusing business with crime.
Oh. Wait.
There would also be more pollution in the environment. Keep it in China. That way it's not in the environment.
Just which planet do you live on anyway?
The interesting thing about your point of view is that most of the people who abuse the personal phone at work privilege are the 9-5er basic employee. The one that goes home and stays there on a regular basis unmolested by work.
We are reviewing, again, the use of cell phones at work and I think we will come down on the side of no personal cell phones on the hospital floor - too many people spend too much time doing things totally unrelated to work to the detriment of work. Use the phone on break, not on the floor. Got an emergency? Call the main desk, we'll get a hold of you.
Please note that family death-level emergencies are pretty rare, I can't even recall one. The typical 'emergency' is that the teenager has done something they weren't supposed to do (again) or has run out of money (again). Deal with it on your own time. We had a pretty liberal policy for a while, but there are way too many people who can't stay on the right side of the line even with prompts, discussion and clear guidelines as to where the line is.
I'd like to have a cheap electronic organizer with keyboard that can be synced to PC, runs on ordinary AAA batteries and has more than one year of battery life. They used to make them in the 90s but I can't seem to find one now.
Is there anything like this at CES?
I don't think that time machines will be demo'd until 2019, at the earliest. Right after they get holographic storage nailed down.
Woo hoo! ANOTHER low range just-a-bit-better-than-last-year's camera.
Stop the presses. Call the Pope. See if Beyonce can do the intro.
Maybe your problem is that you spent all your money on a Blu-Ray player and not enough on a keyboard with a shift key.
And exactly WHY do you know this in such detail?
There are arguably MORE different computing platforms than ever. They just don't look or act like the 'general purpose' computers that you, and I suspect much of the rest of the Slashdot demographic, is waxing nostalgic about.
Everything north of pencil has a CPU in it. There are more opportunities to interact with electronics from a consumer standpoint than ever. They just don't have floppies and RS-232 ports.
Has anyone done this?
I think so
Interested in telling us about the drug? Any sort of new pain med in Phase III trials would get a fair amount of publicity since we've not had anything really useful since the discovery of opiates a couple of thousand years ago.
Lots of noise - people are always 'discovering' majorly useful drugs that never seem to pan out, but getting anywhere near the market usually gets you publicity because it's rare.
We have warned you in the past about being sensible, using correct sentences and failing to indulge in logical fallacies.
Please don't let it happen again.
Or else we shall be forced to indulge in an automobile analogy at your expense.
If 'nerds' had paid any attention to their thermodynamics/statistical mechanics class they would have already know all this and we would have been spared two frivolous posts in the front page.
Why are you being so negative?