All (most?) doctors [like me] are well aware that the expiry date for most drugs is notional rather than real. If I or my family get sick I use expired drugs that I have, or have scrounged from the pharmacy.
Same thing goes for surgical disposables - though there the problem is the sterility inside the packaging - the packaging may deteriorate.over years.
But for most drugs there is a HUGE waste - and they can't even send them as charity to Oogaboogaland for fear of legal liability. And it's legal liability and hungry lawyers that drive this insane wastage. Certainly the Pharma Companies are not complaining . . .
No answers I'm afraid - apart from a mega research effort by the Surgeon-General - and that ain't gonna happen.
So was I, but I guess that's what Linus means when he says that even funny little old, seemingly insignificant parts, of GNU/Linux keep getting tweaked.
I'd rather have that than two behemoth updates a year that always break something in obscure ways.
Matter o'fact RIAA equalisation is different from just generalised compression. At the start of the LP era each record producer had its own equalisation scheme so what sounded good on your TT/AMP might sound awful on your neighbour's. So the Recording Industries Association of America (RIAA) tried, and mostly succeeded, in getting folks to use the equalisation scheme that they had so carefully decided on.
The idea was not so much to "make the mix sound good on vinyl" but to permit greater recording times (by decreasing the mean width of each groove), to improve sound quality, and to reduce the groove damage that would otherwise arise during playback.
The power cutting-head could probably have coped, but the recorded track would have been wider (so less tracks would fit on the record) and you would have needed a highly compliant stylus, and much higher tracking weight to keep it in the groove (and so muc faster wear).
The RIAA equalisation curve (NOT compression) was a very neat answer to a difficult problem.
And sorry, but my carefully cared-for LPs have quite a different sound from CDs/DVDs - not necessarily better but different - somehow warmer and more immediate.
"The problem is "bullet points", not PowerPoint." Amen!
Building and presenting a good talk is not easy, whatever tools you use. Chalk, transparencies, slides, Powerpoint et. al. - done 'em all over the years.
The problem is learning to make a good presentation, not Powerpoint. Unfortunately Powerpoint makes it very easy to dress up a simple talk wirh all sorts of ridiculous fonts, bullets, swooping text, music clips and whatnot that are completely unnecessary and distracting.
It doesn't have to be dull (in fact it shouldn't be) but informative and (a little) entertaining.
Powerpoint (or LibreOffice Presentation or Keynote) are very powerful tools for conveying information. Unfortunately they are usually very badly used.
Many years ago, relatively few people in Africa. Few domesticated animals. Bushmeat normal part of diet. Colonisation/"civilisation" - less deaths from disease/tribal wars. More domestivated animals - more food - more Africans Bushmeat relegated to occasional traditional treat. Population rises, colonialists leave. Medicine stays, governments collapse, foreign aid - more Africans Not enough meat from domesticated animals - bushmeat consumption rises again Now routine - first large wildlife declines, then small. Eventually all the bushmeat is gone - anything larger than a mouse World gets bored with endless foreign aid to despots Most indigenous wildlife extinct - jungle very quiet. Africans start eating each other.
Confirm Windows 7 affected. System fonts wouldn't display resulting in illegible system. Did a restore and then cautiously installed update one by one, with reboots in between each. Running OK now Seems the problem was Windows installing all those updates in one big bunch.
Not only is "each cancer is little different genetically" but the cells of any given cancer are not homogeneous copies - there is considerable heterogeneity, much more than in normal cells.
The stupidity of ignoring nuclear fission never ceases to amaze me. Fusion is still a long way from practicality, will always expensive and isn't the clean dream - the massive neutron flux just makes even more radioactive waste. The oil & gas are going to run out one day, be it in 5 years or 50. Renewables are unreliable, expensive and the quantities of rare earths required make for horrible mining pollution as well as covering the landscape with ugly windmills and solar collectors.
High activity nuclear waste is a small volume storage problem and if we hadn't wasted the last 30 years we would have modern fission plant designs far safer than any of the chemical polluting shit we have now.
Following all this to it's logical conclusion, there is an excellent argument for allowing incestuous civil unions and the, following on from that, marriage.
After all, 20 of the States permit first cousin marriages and another six permit them under certain circumstances.
Why should not a brother and sister (or sister and sister, etc.) living together in a long term relationship be excluded from the benefits of marriage? There are hundreds of thousands of single men and women living monogamously with their mother or father for the long haul.
Not so. In Saudi, where cousin marriages are very common, the incidence of genetic defects (particularly ano-genital malformations) is very high.
A reconstructive surgeon's paradise.
Mac
"Seymour Papert once had the right idea: you don't teach "programming", you teach structured thinking and analytical problem solving. "
Disagree. When I started programming as a kid 30 years ago BASIC taught ME structured thinking and analytical problem solving.
Mac
Yeah, I've noticed it in Cape Town too.
Bookstores are closing or downsizing. There are fewer serious books and more "bestsellers", chick-lit, and dumbed-down stuff.
I have fond memories of sitting at my stammtisch in my favourite cafe in the 60's reading French paperbacks and cutting the pages as I went.
Cutting the pages: a lost experience...
Ho hum.
Mac
Very little research???
My Pa (a physician epidemiologist) spent his whole life researching malaria
and I can assure you that there is PLENTY of malaria research.
The Cutter
Agree. Most of the code I've written for handling lab instruments is about 30% doing stuff and 70% input validation, sanitizing, sanity checking and error handling. Can't leave it to the OS.
Bloody tedious but you get used to it and a lot of it is boilerplate that once written just transfers to another rountine or app.
Just habit. Assume things will break or that the user is demented.
Mac
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Except that he isn't blinded. The day before he is due to be blinded he looks up at the mountains, thinks he sees a pass and starts trekking up there.
Nearly there, he looks down at the Village, can barely see it far below and is enlightened.
Mac
All (most?) doctors [like me] are well aware that the expiry date for most drugs is notional rather than real. If I or my family get sick I use expired drugs that I have, or have scrounged from the pharmacy.
Same thing goes for surgical disposables - though there the problem is the sterility inside the packaging - the packaging may deteriorate.over years.
But for most drugs there is a HUGE waste - and they can't even send them as charity to Oogaboogaland for fear of legal liability. And it's legal liability and hungry lawyers that drive this insane wastage. Certainly the Pharma Companies are not complaining . . .
No answers I'm afraid - apart from a mega research effort by the Surgeon-General - and that ain't gonna happen.
The Cutter
So was I, but I guess that's what Linus means when he says that even funny little old, seemingly insignificant parts, of GNU/Linux keep getting tweaked.
I'd rather have that than two behemoth updates a year that always break something in obscure ways.
So it goes . . .
LibreOffice is a "drop in' replacement that's as good if not better.
It's cross-platform and won't cost you a dime if you're too mean to contribute.
Whassa matter with people today?
Jeez . . .
Balls. Sinclair and Acorn and Commodore brought computing to the common man.
I was writing process control software for our research/lab in 1983 on my own ZX Spectrum, AD/DA converter and Microdrives.
That was about the time PC-DOS 2.0 was released - the IBM PC, if you could find one, cost as much as 20x as much, with one crummy 360k floppy.
So don't talk kak.
Dunno about your wish but I's sure be happy if it landed on Mr. Cheeto-Head.
So would an increasing majority of Americans I suspect...
Mac
Matter o'fact RIAA equalisation is different from just generalised compression. At the start of the LP era each record producer had its own equalisation scheme so what sounded good on your TT/AMP might sound awful on your neighbour's. So the Recording Industries Association of America (RIAA) tried, and mostly succeeded, in getting folks to use the equalisation scheme that they had so carefully decided on.
The idea was not so much to "make the mix sound good on vinyl" but to permit greater recording times (by decreasing the mean width of each groove), to improve sound quality, and to reduce the groove damage that would otherwise arise during playback.
The power cutting-head could probably have coped, but the recorded track would have been wider (so less tracks would fit on the record) and you would have needed a highly compliant stylus, and much higher tracking weight to keep it in the groove (and so muc faster wear).
The RIAA equalisation curve (NOT compression) was a very neat answer to a difficult problem.
And sorry, but my carefully cared-for LPs have quite a different sound from CDs/DVDs - not necessarily better but different - somehow warmer and more immediate.
'Ol Fart Cutterman
Yeah, I've been keeping /home on a separate physical drive for years, whatever OS I'm using (and periodically mirrored to a NAS).
Never understood why /home was not enforced to be at least on a different partition.
Mac
"The problem is "bullet points", not PowerPoint." Amen!
Building and presenting a good talk is not easy, whatever tools you use.
Chalk, transparencies, slides, Powerpoint et. al. - done 'em all over the years.
The problem is learning to make a good presentation, not Powerpoint.
Unfortunately Powerpoint makes it very easy to dress up a simple talk
wirh all sorts of ridiculous fonts, bullets, swooping text, music clips and whatnot
that are completely unnecessary and distracting.
It doesn't have to be dull (in fact it shouldn't be) but informative and (a little) entertaining.
Powerpoint (or LibreOffice Presentation or Keynote) are very powerful tools for
conveying information. Unfortunately they are usually very badly used.
The Cutter
Ray Bradbury asked the same question in 1950.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...
The Cutter
My Black MacBook is still working and I still use it.
(Ditto for my ancient Travelmate)
They weigh a ton though....
Bit envious of son's new MacBook :-(
The Cutter
Many years ago, relatively few people in Africa.
Few domesticated animals. Bushmeat normal part of diet.
Colonisation/"civilisation" - less deaths from disease/tribal wars.
More domestivated animals - more food - more Africans
Bushmeat relegated to occasional traditional treat.
Population rises, colonialists leave.
Medicine stays, governments collapse, foreign aid - more Africans
Not enough meat from domesticated animals - bushmeat consumption rises again
Now routine - first large wildlife declines, then small.
Eventually all the bushmeat is gone - anything larger than a mouse
World gets bored with endless foreign aid to despots
Most indigenous wildlife extinct - jungle very quiet.
Africans start eating each other.
Oh wait....
Unfortunately rstrui.exe is a GUI rather than a console app so if your GUI fonts are messed up it is unusable.
rstrui needs to be a console app
The Cutter
Confirm Windows 7 affected. System fonts wouldn't display resulting in illegible system.
Did a restore and then cautiously installed update one by one, with reboots in between each.
Running OK now
Seems the problem was Windows installing all those updates in one big bunch.
The Cutter
Not only is "each cancer is little different genetically" but the cells of any given cancer are not homogeneous copies - there is considerable heterogeneity, much more than in normal cells.
The stupidity of ignoring nuclear fission never ceases to amaze me. Fusion is still a long way from practicality, will always expensive and isn't the clean dream - the massive neutron flux just makes even more radioactive waste. The oil & gas are going to run out one day, be it in 5 years or 50. Renewables are unreliable, expensive and the quantities of rare earths required make for horrible mining pollution as well as covering the landscape with ugly windmills and solar collectors.
High activity nuclear waste is a small volume storage problem and if we hadn't wasted the last 30 years we would have modern fission plant designs far safer than any of the chemical polluting shit we have now.
Fricken' ridiculous.
Following all this to it's logical conclusion, there is an excellent argument for allowing incestuous civil unions and the, following on from that, marriage.
After all, 20 of the States permit first cousin marriages and another six permit them under certain circumstances.
Why should not a brother and sister (or sister and sister, etc.) living together in a long term relationship be excluded from the benefits of marriage? There are hundreds of thousands of single men and women living monogamously with their mother or father for the long haul.
The Cutter
Not trying to return it was wrong. Scribbling over the name with your engraver means you KNEW it was wrong.
I reckon you're morally bankrupt.
I'm South African and I've built stuff for Africa (a paraplegic turning frame).
It has to be very simple and very very tough as well as repairable by the village blacksmith.
I reckon van As knows more about it than you or Deltamaker.
The Cutter
Not so. In Saudi, where cousin marriages are very common, the incidence of genetic defects (particularly ano-genital malformations) is very high. A reconstructive surgeon's paradise. Mac
"Seymour Papert once had the right idea: you don't teach "programming", you teach structured thinking and analytical problem solving. " Disagree. When I started programming as a kid 30 years ago BASIC taught ME structured thinking and analytical problem solving. Mac
Yeah, I've noticed it in Cape Town too. Bookstores are closing or downsizing. There are fewer serious books and more "bestsellers", chick-lit, and dumbed-down stuff. I have fond memories of sitting at my stammtisch in my favourite cafe in the 60's reading French paperbacks and cutting the pages as I went. Cutting the pages: a lost experience... Ho hum. Mac
Very little research??? My Pa (a physician epidemiologist) spent his whole life researching malaria and I can assure you that there is PLENTY of malaria research. The Cutter
Agree. Most of the code I've written for handling lab instruments is about 30% doing stuff and 70% input validation, sanitizing, sanity checking and error handling. Can't leave it to the OS. Bloody tedious but you get used to it and a lot of it is boilerplate that once written just transfers to another rountine or app. Just habit. Assume things will break or that the user is demented. Mac
Absolutely right! Mac, M.D.