From a wikipediareference:
Trans fatty acids are not essential and provide no known benefit to human health. Therefore, no AI or RDA is set. As with saturated fatty acids, there is a positive linear trend between trans fatty acid intake and LDL cholesterol concentration, and therefore increased risk of CHD. In addition they don't even taste as good. Everyone thinks that this means you can't eat french fries in New York anymore when in fact, the fries will taste better and decrease fry-lovers' chances of dying of heart disease. Trans fats are just used to make the food last longer. Why would you choose to eat trans-fats?
The trans-fat ban will actually serve to make food taste better and as a kicker lowers the risk of coronary heart disease, albeit potentially making food a tad more expensive.
The public area smoking bans have obvious health benefits for bar room staff and patrons alike, and also mean that if I spend 30 minutes in a bar my jacket, shirt, pants and hair don't reek of cigarette smoke until I wash them.
Compare the impact on our civil liberties from these bans (we can still smoke, just not in a room with other people, and why would you want to eat trans-fats??) with the infractions listed in TFA while considering the comparative risk of dying by heart disease and dying by terrorist attack.
For the most part I find video games to be an excellent escape from reality, and even an increasingly rewarding social activity (xbox live), but there were two times in my life that video games began to take a negative psychological effect on me. The first was in middle school winning Metroid, and the second was a few years ago winning the original Halo in "legendary" mode. In both instances I began to dream as though I was in the game rather than playing it, which crossed a line for me. What is interesting is that metroid, with its 2d scrolling action and 8-bit graphics was able to envelope me the same way that the obviously superior 3d environment of Halo was able to do.
This may have nothing to do with video games, and if I had been doing crossword puzzles for 6 hours a day for over a month I may have begun to dream in some kind of bizarre crossword puzzle reality, which would have been just as disturbing.
I use gmail for free network backup every now and then, I have local backup but if the shit were to really hit the fan it would be nice to know that a select few of my files are safe on google's server farm. Another poor man's network backup story I've heard is that some of the online photo album sites will accept uuencoded data as pictures, and for a small fee allow much greater space than 2GB.
A buddy of mine was recently affected by the UCLA breach and was lamenting about all of the precautions and protections he was required to put into place now that his SS# was likely in some scumbag's hands, and it dawned on me that he may have actually gotten lucky. He was awakened to the reality of identity theft without having to experience any tangible loss, and is now motivated to take the proper precautions. It then occurred to me that to not assume that my information was in the wrong people's hands didn't make any sense and I have taken the same precautions my friend did:
Access to my credit report/score
Big 3 credit bureau monitoring - notification of any new accounts or loans in my name
Personal case officer (through the bank) if something happens
These services can be purchased for anywhere from $5 to $12 a month depending on the bank. I suppose I could still get burned but I can't imagine any of it could hurt, well worth the money at any rate in my mind.
I now think that Darth Vader looks like a bell. Hmm, you're right. Well, you've ruined Darth Vader for me now, I can check that off the list. Hope you're happy.
I work full time from home in a senior development position and can relate very much to the disconnected feeling that is discussed in the article, but the solutions that are discussed are addressing the wrong problem in my opinion. The problem is communication but it is professional communication, not social communication that is often lacking.
We have found that short and sweet daily "stand-up" meetings in the morning with only the immediate team members (others of whom work from home as well) are far more helpful than weekly or monthly all-staffs or get togethers. In my experience it is rare that more than 2-3 people actually speak on an all-staff conference call of more than 10 people - how can that help improve communication? Get togethers at a restaurant or park, what have you, are fun and allow for familiarization but they are outside of work and do nothing to improve the day to day communication of the issues at hand.
We have also found webcams to be unhelpful, the concensus being that without eye contact it's just TV. Screen sharing tools like VNC or webex paired with a speaker phone are far more effective when extended collaboration has to happen, while IM takes care of the rest.
As far as the promotions go if the team you're on isn't communicating professionally and producing crap code you have no chance of getting promoted - no matter how many funny jokes you tell at the IBM "Lunch 'n Bowl":)
Yeah, not sure either. I imagine the companies that I worked at that did use dedicated lines did so as an alternative to using fancy protocols (AS1,2,3, sftp, etc.) so the benefit of the quantum encryption is suspect, I agree. Either the fiber optic line can still be shared or this product is relying entirely on its novelty (oooh...quantum) for its success.
From what I gathered in the article and from the company's website I think any deployment would involve two boxes, on at the sender's end and one at the receiver's end, and all communication would be between those boxes using their own protocol. For example a supplier may have a particularly paranoid retailer that requests the use of this technology for all purchase order information. I've done jobs at companies that used dedicated lines for some trading partners in the interest of security, I think this is the same idea with the added benefit of the quantum encryption.
I was about to post the same thing after reading this from the "MagiQ" website, linked from the article. The paragraph entitled "Quantum Cryptography" is very informative, assuming it is accurate.
As a consultant a few years back I worked on a product called GIS which ~half of the clients (the naive ones I guess) pronounced "jizz", with the unfortunate consequence of me sometimes being referred to as the "jizz expert". Hard work maintaining a professional air at one of those meetings...
I'll take XML over a positional format any day, even if it only has to be looked at by human eyes 5% of the time. If you find yourself in a situation requiring eyeball examination of purchase order/shipping data at a large electronic commerce company it is likely an emergency and <ctrl>-f 'ing for a tag name, or using a web browser to check well-formedness can be a lifesaver.
Based on the Robert Kearns intermittent wiper nightmare I think Mr. Bricklin is better off for not getting wrapped up in a spreadsheet patent fiasco. Sounds like he's doing fine financially and has been quite productive over the years.
The irony here is that in an ideal world we would have perfect autonomic error handling...that never did anything. Point being we should be working on debugging aids to help us produce code that doesn't need a watchdog.
Anything would have been better than nothing. He's the President - he is accountable for the security of the country. If your house caught fire what would you do?
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The trans-fat ban will actually serve to make food taste better and as a kicker lowers the risk of coronary heart disease, albeit potentially making food a tad more expensive.
The public area smoking bans have obvious health benefits for bar room staff and patrons alike, and also mean that if I spend 30 minutes in a bar my jacket, shirt, pants and hair don't reek of cigarette smoke until I wash them.
Compare the impact on our civil liberties from these bans (we can still smoke, just not in a room with other people, and why would you want to eat trans-fats??) with the infractions listed in TFA while considering the comparative risk of dying by heart disease and dying by terrorist attack.
For the most part I find video games to be an excellent escape from reality, and even an increasingly rewarding social activity (xbox live), but there were two times in my life that video games began to take a negative psychological effect on me. The first was in middle school winning Metroid, and the second was a few years ago winning the original Halo in "legendary" mode. In both instances I began to dream as though I was in the game rather than playing it, which crossed a line for me. What is interesting is that metroid, with its 2d scrolling action and 8-bit graphics was able to envelope me the same way that the obviously superior 3d environment of Halo was able to do.
This may have nothing to do with video games, and if I had been doing crossword puzzles for 6 hours a day for over a month I may have begun to dream in some kind of bizarre crossword puzzle reality, which would have been just as disturbing.
I use gmail for free network backup every now and then, I have local backup but if the shit were to really hit the fan it would be nice to know that a select few of my files are safe on google's server farm. Another poor man's network backup story I've heard is that some of the online photo album sites will accept uuencoded data as pictures, and for a small fee allow much greater space than 2GB.
As far as genetic mutations go, the sketch could be worse.
At least they had the good sense to cast Jean-Robert Bourdage as the Hot Dog vendor.
"You know how dumb the average person is? Well, by definition, half of 'em are even dumber than THAT." - J.R. Bob Dobbs
Woohoo! - somebody got it :)
- Access to my credit report/score
- Big 3 credit bureau monitoring - notification of any new accounts or loans in my name
- Personal case officer (through the bank) if something happens
These services can be purchased for anywhere from $5 to $12 a month depending on the bank. I suppose I could still get burned but I can't imagine any of it could hurt, well worth the money at any rate in my mind.I see no downside to them continuing to try, who knows - it might be good.
Btw, I don't necessarily agree that the franchise peaked there but the "four lights" one was an excellent episode.
Damn straight I'm going to the lunch 'n bowl - first I'm gonna eat the HELL out of a burger and then I'm gonna KICK YOUR ASS
- That Guy
I work full time from home in a senior development position and can relate very much to the disconnected feeling that is discussed in the article, but the solutions that are discussed are addressing the wrong problem in my opinion. The problem is communication but it is professional communication, not social communication that is often lacking.
:)
We have found that short and sweet daily "stand-up" meetings in the morning with only the immediate team members (others of whom work from home as well) are far more helpful than weekly or monthly all-staffs or get togethers. In my experience it is rare that more than 2-3 people actually speak on an all-staff conference call of more than 10 people - how can that help improve communication? Get togethers at a restaurant or park, what have you, are fun and allow for familiarization but they are outside of work and do nothing to improve the day to day communication of the issues at hand.
We have also found webcams to be unhelpful, the concensus being that without eye contact it's just TV. Screen sharing tools like VNC or webex paired with a speaker phone are far more effective when extended collaboration has to happen, while IM takes care of the rest.
As far as the promotions go if the team you're on isn't communicating professionally and producing crap code you have no chance of getting promoted - no matter how many funny jokes you tell at the IBM "Lunch 'n Bowl"
Yeah, not sure either. I imagine the companies that I worked at that did use dedicated lines did so as an alternative to using fancy protocols (AS1,2,3, sftp, etc.) so the benefit of the quantum encryption is suspect, I agree. Either the fiber optic line can still be shared or this product is relying entirely on its novelty (oooh... quantum ) for its success.
From what I gathered in the article and from the company's website I think any deployment would involve two boxes, on at the sender's end and one at the receiver's end, and all communication would be between those boxes using their own protocol. For example a supplier may have a particularly paranoid retailer that requests the use of this technology for all purchase order information. I've done jobs at companies that used dedicated lines for some trading partners in the interest of security, I think this is the same idea with the added benefit of the quantum encryption.
I was about to post the same thing after reading this from the "MagiQ" website, linked from the article. The paragraph entitled "Quantum Cryptography" is very informative, assuming it is accurate.
As a consultant a few years back I worked on a product called GIS which ~half of the clients (the naive ones I guess) pronounced "jizz", with the unfortunate consequence of me sometimes being referred to as the "jizz expert". Hard work maintaining a professional air at one of those meetings...
In the marketroid fool's defense, he was only leveraging his synergies to deliver a proactive client driven solution.
I'll take XML over a positional format any day, even if it only has to be looked at by human eyes 5% of the time. If you find yourself in a situation requiring eyeball examination of purchase order/shipping data at a large electronic commerce company it is likely an emergency and <ctrl>-f 'ing for a tag name, or using a web browser to check well-formedness can be a lifesaver.
Cool game. FYI - when you see the J.R. "Bob" Dobbs head on level 37, go for the pipe.
Have they spotted a Starbucks on any of them yet?
Based on the Robert Kearns intermittent wiper nightmare I think Mr. Bricklin is better off for not getting wrapped up in a spreadsheet patent fiasco. Sounds like he's doing fine financially and has been quite productive over the years.
The irony here is that in an ideal world we would have perfect autonomic error handling...that never did anything. Point being we should be working on debugging aids to help us produce code that doesn't need a watchdog.
Anything would have been better than nothing. He's the President - he is accountable for the security of the country. If your house caught fire what would you do?