The book encouraged me to see a specialist so I finally went to see one; a physiotherapist and it has made a huge difference.
My problem had nothing to do with carpal tunnel. I used to bike race (bicycle) and had been in several pretty bad crashes: the problems with my wrists originate from neck injuries. So after a number of intramuscular stimulation sessions (western acupuncture) and months of core-strength training, my problem has pretty much disappeared. Improved posture has also made a big difference.
I also changed my sleeping habits, and I believe that has also made a difference. I use a pretty thick pillow, and sleep mostly on my back, sometimes on my side. It was difficult to adjust, but I feel much better in the mornings, and seem to have a deeper sleep.
I will need to do the core strength training for the remainder of my career, but it is well worth it.
I love all the titles the VB authors use for their "insights" into this decrepit language. Like "VB Unleashed!" as if VB is some rabid animal, or "Hidden VB secrets" just dug up from King Tuts tomb.
I see a nice spot on my bookshelf for this book, beside my kids "Jumpstart Toddlers" CD's.
I'm waiting for Google to become a defence contractor and start working on the ballastic missle shield.
They could call it GOBBLE: (G)oogle (O)rbiting (B)lastic (B)ombardment (L)ongrange (E)liminator.
Besides the obvious purposes, GOBBLE could respond in real-time to subversive search terms.
Like someone searching for LOLITA in Utah would be blasted by a laser in space.
Exxon just announced their profits for last year which where $36 billion. That works out to about $1100/second profit. With that kind of money, they can do a lot of cherry picking for their experts.
A little late for posting this comment...but I have worked with induced seismicity for most of my career...and man can definitely trigger earthquakes. Look at the gold mining industry in South Africa for examples. They have triggered earthquakes as large as Mag 6. It is not the mining activity itself that triggers the quakes, it is the proximity of the mining to ancient geological structures. The force redistributions triggered by the mining activity is infinitesimal compared to the energy released by the earthquakes. The geological structures have paleo stresses that are "excited" by the mining, and the fragile stress equilibrium is thrown off balance. Think of it like a small ball bearing balancing on a bowling ball. It does not take very much effort to cause the ball bearing to roll of the bowling ball.
I don't know if the weight of the building is causing earthquakes, but given the right geological circumstances it is certainly possible.
Try wvWare (http://wvware.sourceforge.net/). It works amazingly well for Word Excel and Powerpoint. I have used in Zope applications and have had very good results.
From the site:
This is the home of the wv library. The original name of the project, mswordview, was uncomfortably close to Microsoft's own product named wordview, so the library was renamed.
wv is a library which allows access to Microsoft Word files. It can load and parse Word 2000, 97, 95 and 6 file formats. (These are the file formats known internally as Word 9, 8, 7 and 6.) There is some support for reading earlier formats as well: Word 2 docs are converted to plaintext.
wv compiles and works under most operating systems. Although most development is carried out with Linux, wv should work on BSD, Solaris, OS/2, AIX, OSF1, and even (with varying levels of success) AmigaOS VMS. The GnuWin32 project maintains a port for Windows, and it is required to compile and work on all of AbiWord's supported platforms, of which there are a lot.
wv allows other programs access to Word documents for the purpose of converting them to other formats. It is currently being used by AbiWord as its Word importer, and concepts and bits of code are being used by the KDE folks over at KWord in their word importer.
Marmite - I'd rather be stupid, that stuff is disgusting. Once upon a time I made the mistake of assuming that marmite was nutella, and I have never forgetten that moment. Could not get the damn taste out my mouth.
I can just imagine how much fun it would be trying to enter, say Zimbabwe, with a passport that has a key to a central database somewhere. What's the point of having any digital info if you have to look it up in a database. Besides, the database would be immense.
They will store the photos in JPEG 2000 format which uses a wavelet compression scheme. Using JPEG2K you can fit a very nice photo in 64K, especially if it is grey scale. In fact a pretty descent grey scale photo can fit in 500 bytes. In addition, I recall that they will also store a facial scan which can be stored in 128 bytes or less.
I too run OS X. And it has crashed on me once or twice. Usually at the most inconvenient times, like when I am trying to convince a windows user that Mac is better. I just pretend that it didn't crash.
Funny that you mentioned carpal tunnel. I was a muli-button mouse fanatic and I also developed quite a serious case of carpal tunnel. I switched to the other hand, and got carpal tunnel on that one too.
After I started using a Mac, my carpal tunnel has mostly disappeared. I find the one-button mouse fair less irritating. I also think that the keyboard is layed out better for the shortcuts, but that is just my opionion.
BTW, i googled a bit and found this:
The Apple one-button mouse requires the user to primarily use his/her wrist to click, and therefore does not isolate secondary muscle groups in the fingers, which is the primary cause of carpal-tunnel syndrome.
The opposing hand of the the typical Mac user- graphic artist is more at risk from using modifier keys than the mouse hand (dominant hand) in contracting carpal-tunnel syndrome.
Most computer graphics operations are done with a combination of modifier keys and mouse clicks for both Macintosh and Windows systems. However, Windows and multi-button mouse users are more at risk due to the unnatural stresses placed upon individual fingers to apply rapid and repeated pressure. The single-click wrist click mouse is by far more favorable towards prevention of carpal-tunnel syndrome.
One needs to read Ishmael to realize how devastating this would be for humanity. Maybe I am a little paranoid, but I doubt that even one generation would last before the earth would be rendered uninhabitable.
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I recently had some homeless fellow steal my trash before garbage day. Normally this wouldn't concern me, but one of bags was full of credit card receipts that I was not able to shred because my shredder stopped working. Many merchants here in Canada still print the full credit card number of the receipt, so I thought it would be best if I canceled the card. I called up my bank manager and somehow we got to talking about phishing. She told me that there is an inverse correlation between the frequency of armed bank robberies and incidents of money stolen through successful phishing scams. I googled for some web site with this information, but could not anything. Apparently bank robbers are starting to realize that it is easier to phish than to rob a bank. I think it is going to get much worse before it starts getting better.
I have also come across papers on this topic going back at least 10 years. I am real suprised that no one has commercialized this technology. What's been holding it back?
I have 3 kids under the age of 7 and found that the advertising on TV was really effecting my children. Our family is very active physically, but our kids have had a fixation with junk food. About a year ago we moved to a new house and decided to put away the TV at the same time. Since then, our kids are not as pudgy, and they no longer beg for junk food all day long. It only took them about 3 days to adjust to life without TV. It was much harder for us to deal with it, but we are getting used to it now.
We get all our news either from newspapers or the internet. My kids use the internet for all their entertainment. We still watch videos/DVDs for movies, etc. With all the crappy content on TV (aka reality TV) I don't really think we are missing much.
With the internet, I feel that I have at least some control over the content that my children are exposed too. I expect that the The Culture of Marketing,the Marketing of Culture is enough to frighten any parent about the dark side of advertising and content on TV today.
Re:Zope great in theory ... not so much in practic
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Ummm, if you use emacs you can edit the code in emacs using ange ftp, check out this for example. Works great. Plus you can install the dtml and zpt minor modes and get all the context sensitive highlighting which is really nice.
The storage is probably being used up from all the spam the hotmail users receive from other hotmail users. Thus they have finally decided to restrict the free accounts.
I hope this is not getting off topic...but...I am rather new to GIS, and I have a lot of discretion in choosing my tools so I was looking at either using ESRI or going with GRASS. I have known about python+ESRI for awhile and I love Python, but I decided to go with GRASS. My main reasons where that GRASS runs on OS X, and GRASS is very powerful. GRASS users claim that it is the best GIS available...and I also find it very powerful...however I do not have ESRI experience and so I can't make any comparisons. After reading the comments I am glad I didn't go with ESRI.
My main reason for posting this is to ask if there is a big demand for a Python enabled GIS. GRASS does not have Python hooks - and I think it would be nice if there was. However I am concerned about the performance hit given that one often deals with very large data sets in GIS.
I have 3 kids, and I have worked comfortably as an independant consulting setting my own hours (getting paid reasonably well so that I don't have to work silly hours).
I also remember seeing a 60min show once on SAS in North Carolina. Companies like SAS http://www.sas.com/ sound like a great place to work if you have a family. SAS has very low turnover and as a result that seems to have attributed to their success. Employees are also discouraged from working more than 40 hrs a week. Apparently they are very productive, a good model for other American companies. One does not have to work excessive hours to get stuff done, just be efficient.
I don't know if this is all true, but it sounds pretty good on 60min. Wish i worked there:)
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I totally agree.
I have suffered with RSI for years. I have tried just about everything, Kinesis keyboard, very good chair, good workstation...nothing was working.
The RSI was starting to get really bad, so I picked up the book "It's not carpal tunnel syndrome...". I highly recommend it, a very good read.
The book encouraged me to see a specialist so I finally went to see one; a physiotherapist and it has made a huge difference.
My problem had nothing to do with carpal tunnel. I used to bike race (bicycle) and had been in several pretty bad crashes: the problems with my wrists originate from neck injuries. So after a number of intramuscular stimulation sessions (western acupuncture) and months of core-strength training, my problem has pretty much disappeared. Improved posture has also made a big difference.
I also changed my sleeping habits, and I believe that has also made a difference. I use a pretty thick pillow, and sleep mostly on my back, sometimes on my side. It was difficult to adjust, but I feel much better in the mornings, and seem to have a deeper sleep.
I will need to do the core strength training for the remainder of my career, but it is well worth it.
Moral of the story: see a professional!.
I love all the titles the VB authors use for their "insights" into this decrepit language. Like "VB Unleashed!" as if VB is some rabid animal, or "Hidden VB secrets" just dug up from King Tuts tomb.
I see a nice spot on my bookshelf for this book, beside my kids "Jumpstart Toddlers" CD's.
I thought it was bad enough to run across businesses using hotmale addresses. They should be ashamed of themselves!
I was just getting ready to photoshop a picture of Heston with a blackberry: "Not from my cold dead hands". Guess I don't need to now.
Why does these data need to be printed at all? What possible need is there to see these numbers on paper?
I'm waiting for Google to become a defence contractor and start working on the ballastic missle shield. They could call it GOBBLE: (G)oogle (O)rbiting (B)lastic (B)ombardment (L)ongrange (E)liminator. Besides the obvious purposes, GOBBLE could respond in real-time to subversive search terms. Like someone searching for LOLITA in Utah would be blasted by a laser in space.
Exxon just announced their profits for last year which where $36 billion. That works out to about $1100/second profit. With that kind of money, they can do a lot of cherry picking for their experts.
A little late for posting this comment...but I have worked with induced seismicity for most of my career...and man can definitely trigger earthquakes. Look at the gold mining industry in South Africa for examples. They have triggered earthquakes as large as Mag 6. It is not the mining activity itself that triggers the quakes, it is the proximity of the mining to ancient geological structures. The force redistributions triggered by the mining activity is infinitesimal compared to the energy released by the earthquakes. The geological structures have paleo stresses that are "excited" by the mining, and the fragile stress equilibrium is thrown off balance. Think of it like a small ball bearing balancing on a bowling ball. It does not take very much effort to cause the ball bearing to roll of the bowling ball.
I don't know if the weight of the building is causing earthquakes, but given the right geological circumstances it is certainly possible.
Try wvWare (http://wvware.sourceforge.net/). It works amazingly well for Word Excel and Powerpoint. I have used in Zope applications and have had very good results.
From the site:
This is the home of the wv library. The original name of the project, mswordview, was uncomfortably close to Microsoft's own product named wordview, so the library was renamed.
wv is a library which allows access to Microsoft Word files. It can load and parse Word 2000, 97, 95 and 6 file formats. (These are the file formats known internally as Word 9, 8, 7 and 6.) There is some support for reading earlier formats as well: Word 2 docs are converted to plaintext.
wv compiles and works under most operating systems. Although most development is carried out with Linux, wv should work on BSD, Solaris, OS/2, AIX, OSF1, and even (with varying levels of success) AmigaOS VMS. The GnuWin32 project maintains a port for Windows, and it is required to compile and work on all of AbiWord's supported platforms, of which there are a lot.
wv allows other programs access to Word documents for the purpose of converting them to other formats. It is currently being used by AbiWord as its Word importer, and concepts and bits of code are being used by the KDE folks over at KWord in their word importer.
I think you could probably build the same contraption with lego using the rods, etc. Might be easier to get...I have never heard of K'nex.
Marmite - I'd rather be stupid, that stuff is disgusting. Once upon a time I made the mistake of assuming that marmite was nutella, and I have never forgetten that moment. Could not get the damn taste out my mouth.
I can just imagine how much fun it would be trying to enter, say Zimbabwe, with a passport that has a key to a central database somewhere. What's the point of having any digital info if you have to look it up in a database. Besides, the database would be immense.
They will store the photos in JPEG 2000 format which uses a wavelet compression scheme. Using JPEG2K you can fit a very nice photo in 64K, especially if it is grey scale. In fact a pretty descent grey scale photo can fit in 500 bytes. In addition, I recall that they will also store a facial scan which can be stored in 128 bytes or less.
I too run OS X. And it has crashed on me once or twice. Usually at the most inconvenient times, like when I am trying to convince a windows user that Mac is better. I just pretend that it didn't crash.
Funny that you mentioned carpal tunnel. I was a muli-button mouse fanatic and I also developed quite a serious case of carpal tunnel. I switched to the other hand, and got carpal tunnel on that one too.
After I started using a Mac, my carpal tunnel has mostly disappeared. I find the one-button mouse fair less irritating. I also think that the keyboard is layed out better for the shortcuts, but that is just my opionion.
BTW, i googled a bit and found this:One needs to read Ishmael to realize how devastating this would be for humanity. Maybe I am a little paranoid, but I doubt that even one generation would last before the earth would be rendered uninhabitable.
I recently had some homeless fellow steal my trash before garbage day. Normally this wouldn't concern me, but one of bags was full of credit card receipts that I was not able to shred because my shredder stopped working. Many merchants here in Canada still print the full credit card number of the receipt, so I thought it would be best if I canceled the card. I called up my bank manager and somehow we got to talking about phishing. She told me that there is an inverse correlation between the frequency of armed bank robberies and incidents of money stolen through successful phishing scams. I googled for some web site with this information, but could not anything. Apparently bank robbers are starting to realize that it is easier to phish than to rob a bank. I think it is going to get much worse before it starts getting better.
I have also come across papers on this topic going back at least 10 years. I am real suprised that no one has commercialized this technology. What's been holding it back?
I have 3 kids under the age of 7 and found that the advertising on TV was really effecting my children. Our family is very active physically, but our kids have had a fixation with junk food. About a year ago we moved to a new house and decided to put away the TV at the same time. Since then, our kids are not as pudgy, and they no longer beg for junk food all day long. It only took them about 3 days to adjust to life without TV. It was much harder for us to deal with it, but we are getting used to it now.
We get all our news either from newspapers or the internet. My kids use the internet for all their entertainment. We still watch videos/DVDs for movies, etc. With all the crappy content on TV (aka reality TV) I don't really think we are missing much.
With the internet, I feel that I have at least some control over the content that my children are exposed too. I expect that the The Culture of Marketing,the Marketing of Culture is enough to frighten any parent about the dark side of advertising and content on TV today.
Ummm, if you use emacs you can edit the code in emacs using ange ftp, check out this for example. Works great. Plus you can install the dtml and zpt minor modes and get all the context sensitive highlighting which is really nice.
The storage is probably being used up from all the spam the hotmail users receive from other hotmail users. Thus they have finally decided to restrict the free accounts.
Could you imagine using this thing with vi or emacs? I'm not seeing to many emacs shortcut keys from the picture.
I hope this is not getting off topic...but...I am rather new to GIS, and I have a lot of discretion in choosing my tools so I was looking at either using ESRI or going with GRASS. I have known about python+ESRI for awhile and I love Python, but I decided to go with GRASS. My main reasons where that GRASS runs on OS X, and GRASS is very powerful. GRASS users claim that it is the best GIS available...and I also find it very powerful...however I do not have ESRI experience and so I can't make any comparisons. After reading the comments I am glad I didn't go with ESRI.
My main reason for posting this is to ask if there is a big demand for a Python enabled GIS. GRASS does not have Python hooks - and I think it would be nice if there was. However I am concerned about the performance hit given that one often deals with very large data sets in GIS.
My adds on ebay seem more exciting when I type them in upper case. BUY NOW!
I have 3 kids, and I have worked comfortably as an independant consulting setting my own hours (getting paid reasonably well so that I don't have to work silly hours). I also remember seeing a 60min show once on SAS in North Carolina. Companies like SAS http://www.sas.com/ sound like a great place to work if you have a family. SAS has very low turnover and as a result that seems to have attributed to their success. Employees are also discouraged from working more than 40 hrs a week. Apparently they are very productive, a good model for other American companies. One does not have to work excessive hours to get stuff done, just be efficient. I don't know if this is all true, but it sounds pretty good on 60min. Wish i worked there :)