Very low pollution. Most FABs emit water cleaner than they take it in. LEDs can be produced lead free, and indium arsenic levels are exceptionally low. -nB
Or, to combat the moderation services, just sell the top two positions (ala google) and be done with it. People can preference it out as it could have the topic:paid: or dis-allow that and risk alienating part of your user base. revenue and it neuters the outside manipulators. -nB
FWIW, one hour of downtime costs a touch over $100,000 on a good day and upwards of $1M on a bad day at my job. the Office side of the business is on windows, the fab side is an interesting blend of Linux (decreasing numbers of) Solaris, and AIX. almost never have an issue. Most of the tools run Linux out of firmware (in this role it is ultra stable), and an ever increasing number don't need a Sun for a front end. A small number of testers are Windows, but they are the vast minority. -nB
There never was as all panoramic mode does is crop the image on film to a strip rather than the full frame 35 or 24 mm. If you wanted genuine pano, you either used a panoramic camera which exposed three frames worth of film in one shot, or you took multiple shots with the help of Nikon's tripod adapter that had detents which matched up with several of their lenses (55, 110mm, and IIRC 200mm) focal length. Shoot, move to next detent, etc. I've done 360deg panoramics with that thing. It's awesome.. -nB
Responding to you and the AC above who claims to be a doctor, but fails to read what they are responding to...
Owning your own care, while not a culture or expectation at kaiser, is a fact of life. The staff is overworked, and the number one gripe I hear from staff is about the computer system. They find out where I work, and I get unloaded on... It's simply that the staff has more to do than they can realistically cover. My kids' pediatrician is great, but if you don't get a morning appointment you will be waiting well beyond your appointment time as the appointments are scheduled too close to each other and schedule slippage takes its toll. -nB
I worked for a steam cleaning company on their billing computer. Small company, 10 employees tops. Eventually the printer died. The app (dos, running on a 486) was hard coded for only three possible printers. Guess how many I was able to find? none. not on ebay, not supported with emulation. none. I contacted the person who wrote the app and asked if I could have a copy of the source, to update the printer driver. I offered to sign an NDA and a non-redistribution agreement, as well as giving the source changes back. Her answer was: "That'd be an awesome deal if I still had the source".
Off to dell, bought a new system, this time with a backup to tarball (rar actually, being this is windows) feature to an external hard drive, new application, and a monster bitch of a perl script to read the (proprietary, undocumented, uncommented) database from the old app to a nice easy xls file, which the new app understood.
Moral of the story: If it ain't broke, don't fix it, however, if it doesn't break soon enough you're in a world of hurt once it does. I have a feeling we're going to be seeing more of this on a grander scale as *very* old business apps start failing for obscure reasons and can not be ported because of lost source. -nB
but say you can't get antibiotics for a day to treat an infection due to system downtime That would not happen. As a kaiser member I can tell you three things:
The patient owns their care. If you don't keep track of things then you will not get the care you need. (this is not malice, but rather I suspect kaiser is a victim of their size)
The doctors and nursing staff want to do their best for the most part, but are overworked, again leading to "you own your own care"
even when there is an outage, if an ER doc wants meds for a patient, they can get them. The computer system does all the record keeping, the humans still do the medicine, they have paper forms for everything, and when the computer is being an ass, they simply fill out the form like the "old days"
In all reality they are not the great evil. They certainly could do better, but by no means are they horrid (this assumes that you, as a patient, know what you need, and press for a second opinion &&|| a specialist when the initial diagnosis doesn't seem quite right). -nB
At this point it wouldn't surprise me if they had to do that to avoid the huge exchange rate difference between the US dollar and...everything else. The fact that it takes well over 50% more US dollars to equal an amount in euros or francs, should seriously concern people. francs, francs . . . let me see, Ah yes! that old outmoded currency of France. I have some right here. They're collectors items now. 1 franc to the dollar if you ask me. (I have one of each denom up to 500 if you're dumb^W interested enough to pay a 1:! exchange BTW.) -nB
while I won't say that a regular* geometrical shape can't happen in a circumpolar region of a planet for 26 years (or AFAwK twice in 26 years coincident with our two observations) randomly, it's right up there with Shakespeare written by monkeys. I'm going with that shape not being random, but rather due to some periodic/quantifiable/mathematical relationship between gravity, the angular momentum of the atmosphere, the viscosity of the atmosphere, the heat received by the sun, and something else. Finding out what ratios and such along with what that something else is would be a boon for humanity. Doubtful it's random.
not really. Glass costs more to recycle if only because the foundries are located close to their feedstock source. The energy consumed in sorting, cleaning, and transporting the glass to the crusher and then to the foundry outweighs the savings of recycling. Did you know there is a company out there that will take your rail cars of bottles and grind them into a coarse powder, then ship the result back to you? This is so you can make more efficient use of your landfill space!
"you don't want to go there, you may be homeless" "yeah yeah, whatever propaganda monkey" "no seriously" "yeah yeah, whatever propaganda monkey" *wall comes down, curtain falls* "holy crap! it wasn't propaganda... " *moves to US anyway*
-nB
(please note that I do not resent the influx. Their crime largely stays within their population, and they are some of the hardest workers I know)
Ironically that paper requires a subscription to read (paid?) Could you AC's go do your thing and warez a copy here? (seems only fitting given the content of the paper and all). thx, -nB
FWIW, it seems to be AMD doing all the posturing. Intel seems to have taken a "no response" approach to media claims, instead producing product and letting guys like toms hardware do their thing. This isn't to say they don't advertise, but they don't take out full page NYT (or was it washington post?) ads chest pounding like AMD does.
Unless you're breeding that is not true. Entropy means that any fuel when burned will work towards the lowest (and most stable) energy state. I understand your sentiment, and yes, some of the transuranic elements are more hazardous than U235/U238, but by law of thermodynamics they are more stable. -nB
Better yet, what if you have no machine? I can see this being a boon to those with less resources in the world. Cyber cafe, library, makes no nevermind. While you and I may not want our data on "teh intarweb" I can think of an entire class of computer user for whom this makes sense. -nB
You know something I've been wondering about that: Do they record the footage from each and every camera? How long do they retain the footage? How on earth do they catalog and index the footage?
I mean at some point there is just too much data to monitor isn't there? -nB
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Very low pollution. Most FABs emit water cleaner than they take it in. LEDs can be produced lead free, and indium arsenic levels are exceptionally low.
-nB
In fact in the case of MS, Intel, and Cisco, I think most of their patent chest is defensive rather than offensive...
-nB
Or, to combat the moderation services, just sell the top two positions (ala google) and be done with it. :paid: or dis-allow that and risk alienating part of your user base.
People can preference it out as it could have the topic
revenue and it neuters the outside manipulators.
-nB
FWIW, one hour of downtime costs a touch over $100,000 on a good day and upwards of $1M on a bad day at my job.
the Office side of the business is on windows, the fab side is an interesting blend of Linux (decreasing numbers of) Solaris, and AIX. almost never have an issue. Most of the tools run Linux out of firmware (in this role it is ultra stable), and an ever increasing number don't need a Sun for a front end. A small number of testers are Windows, but they are the vast minority.
-nB
There never was as all panoramic mode does is crop the image on film to a strip rather than the full frame 35 or 24 mm. If you wanted genuine pano, you either used a panoramic camera which exposed three frames worth of film in one shot, or you took multiple shots with the help of Nikon's tripod adapter that had detents which matched up with several of their lenses (55, 110mm, and IIRC 200mm) focal length. Shoot, move to next detent, etc. I've done 360deg panoramics with that thing. It's awesome..
-nB
Responding to you and the AC above who claims to be a doctor, but fails to read what they are responding to...
Owning your own care, while not a culture or expectation at kaiser, is a fact of life. The staff is overworked, and the number one gripe I hear from staff is about the computer system. They find out where I work, and I get unloaded on...
It's simply that the staff has more to do than they can realistically cover. My kids' pediatrician is great, but if you don't get a morning appointment you will be waiting well beyond your appointment time as the appointments are scheduled too close to each other and schedule slippage takes its toll.
-nB
I worked for a steam cleaning company on their billing computer. Small company, 10 employees tops.
Eventually the printer died. The app (dos, running on a 486) was hard coded for only three possible printers.
Guess how many I was able to find? none. not on ebay, not supported with emulation. none. I contacted the person who wrote the app and asked if I could have a copy of the source, to update the printer driver. I offered to sign an NDA and a non-redistribution agreement, as well as giving the source changes back. Her answer was: "That'd be an awesome deal if I still had the source".
Off to dell, bought a new system, this time with a backup to tarball (rar actually, being this is windows) feature to an external hard drive, new application, and a monster bitch of a perl script to read the (proprietary, undocumented, uncommented) database from the old app to a nice easy xls file, which the new app understood.
Moral of the story:
If it ain't broke, don't fix it, however, if it doesn't break soon enough you're in a world of hurt once it does.
I have a feeling we're going to be seeing more of this on a grander scale as *very* old business apps start failing for obscure reasons and can not be ported because of lost source.
-nB
In all reality they are not the great evil. They certainly could do better, but by no means are they horrid (this assumes that you, as a patient, know what you need, and press for a second opinion &&|| a specialist when the initial diagnosis doesn't seem quite right).
-nB
At this point it wouldn't surprise me if they had to do that to avoid the huge exchange rate difference between the US dollar and...everything else. The fact that it takes well over 50% more US dollars to equal an amount in euros or francs, should seriously concern people.
francs, francs . . . let me see, Ah yes! that old outmoded currency of France. I have some right here. They're collectors items now. 1 franc to the dollar if you ask me.
(I have one of each denom up to 500 if you're dumb^W interested enough to pay a 1:! exchange BTW.)
-nB
he's next in the Jack "off" list :-)
you sick bastard...
i did laugh though
while I won't say that a regular* geometrical shape can't happen in a circumpolar region of a planet for 26 years (or AFAwK twice in 26 years coincident with our two observations) randomly, it's right up there with Shakespeare written by monkeys. I'm going with that shape not being random, but rather due to some periodic/quantifiable/mathematical relationship between gravity, the angular momentum of the atmosphere, the viscosity of the atmosphere, the heat received by the sun, and something else. Finding out what ratios and such along with what that something else is would be a boon for humanity. Doubtful it's random.
-nB
*regular as in repeating, not as in ordinary
not really. Glass costs more to recycle if only because the foundries are located close to their feedstock source. The energy consumed in sorting, cleaning, and transporting the glass to the crusher and then to the foundry outweighs the savings of recycling.
Did you know there is a company out there that will take your rail cars of bottles and grind them into a coarse powder, then ship the result back to you? This is so you can make more efficient use of your landfill space!
-nB
starbuks is shit coffee, and a shit company. They largely pay below a living wage for coffee from the farmers.
-nB
"you don't want to go there, you may be homeless"
"yeah yeah, whatever propaganda monkey"
"no seriously"
"yeah yeah, whatever propaganda monkey"
*wall comes down, curtain falls*
"holy crap! it wasn't propaganda... "
*moves to US anyway*
-nB
(please note that I do not resent the influx. Their crime largely stays within their population, and they are some of the hardest workers I know)
and I use a french press, what's your point?
(mine tastes better than yours too)
Ironically that paper requires a subscription to read (paid?)
Could you AC's go do your thing and warez a copy here? (seems only fitting given the content of the paper and all).
thx,
-nB
Mars is actually noticeably better than either Hershey or Cadbury (the latter IMHO), however not much beats Lindt or Valrhona.
-nB
if by lags you mean 3 year spread...
-nB
FWIW, it seems to be AMD doing all the posturing.
Intel seems to have taken a "no response" approach to media claims, instead producing product and letting guys like toms hardware do their thing. This isn't to say they don't advertise, but they don't take out full page NYT (or was it washington post?) ads chest pounding like AMD does.
-nB
Unless you're breeding that is not true.
Entropy means that any fuel when burned will work towards the lowest (and most stable) energy state.
I understand your sentiment, and yes, some of the transuranic elements are more hazardous than U235/U238, but by law of thermodynamics they are more stable.
-nB
Better yet, what if you have no machine?
I can see this being a boon to those with less resources in the world. Cyber cafe, library, makes no nevermind. While you and I may not want our data on "teh intarweb" I can think of an entire class of computer user for whom this makes sense.
-nB
Likely.
Though I'm holding out for Halo3 (and playing it at least a couple times one someone else's dime).
-nB
You know something I've been wondering about that:
Do they record the footage from each and every camera?
How long do they retain the footage?
How on earth do they catalog and index the footage?
I mean at some point there is just too much data to monitor isn't there?
-nB