In my children's school, *all* medication prescription or not must be given to the school nurse, who will dispense it when needed.
Now if a school administrator sees *anything* that looks like a pill, then the student is not allowed to have it. They don't have to identify the pill to determine if it's a legal OTC or an illegal narcotic. This I think is a good policy.
But like all policies, it should *not* be followed blindly. Once they discover that it's a legal OTC, then they should engage their brains and look at who they are accusing, who the accuser was, and the seriousness of the medication. They didn't do that and now they are sued and it's up to SCOTUS to help them now.
However, I feel that *never* having to worry about efficiencies causes bloated and slow applications like MS Word and Eclipse, since no one makes any money creating the next version that's only faster or small or uses less memory.
If there were a brick wall, then at some point you would be *forced* to make your application smaller, faster, or use less memory just to *add* that new wiz-bang feature.
perhaps you mean IP address space? And if so, people are basically flushing those down the toilet by giving every device one (including their toilet).
This reminds me about an email I received eight years ago.
Subj: The Internet at house level
Telephone: Ring! Ring! Clerk: Hello, networks are us. Man: Help, I need the SNMP management code for an American Standard! Clerk: American Standard what? Router, bridge, brouter, lan? Man: Look, I need to shut down my toilet! It's leaking all over the place and I need the computer code to tell my house to stop it! Clerk: Why don't you just turn the water off? Man: I'm in Los Angeles, my house is in Phoenix! My house sent me a page telling me to read my E-Mail. The E-Mail message said there's water on the bathroom floor. I pinged the sink and the tub, and both of them say they are off, but when I tried to telnet to the toilet, it said all connections were in use!
This brings new meaning to the term, "Dropping packets all over the floor."
Well...I think it's funny...and silly to have a toaster or even fridge connected to the internet.
Did you ever figure out why the balloon didn't float? What was the diameter of the balloon?
I did the same with the zinc from an old carbon D cell battery and battery acid. (My dad owned a hardware store that also filled tractor batteries.) But I only filled a small plastic bag. I didn't get an explosion or nothing. Boo.
I would bet that no one measures something in decimeters or decameters.
In the English system, inches are used for short measurements, feet for longer ones (that I can estimate by placing my foot one in front of the other), yards for larger (which I can estimate by with slightly exaggerated paces) and miles for the longest.
With Metric, you have centimeters (which is about the width of a finger), meters (a slightly longer pace) and kilometers. It's missing a useful unit.
I'm also glad that a yard has 36 inches (and a day has 24 hours), since it has more useful factors.
However, initial formations of the universe are *seldom* for every formation of a black hole. Therefore, it is more probable that our big bang was nothing more than the collapse of a black hole. Ummmm....
Just how many times has this happened? I must have been napping.
AMEN to you. Mr. Grove is just upset that his wife is sick. Of course he wants her to feel better. *I* want her to be cured too.
However, what major breakthroughs has Intel had in the past 20 years? (I think I'm gonna regret this.)
More transistors per square inch? Where's the quantum computer that I keep reading about here in/. Or the organic memory? All of his improvements seem incremental to me. Just a little faster or a little denser each year. Heck, I make my programs run a little faster or a little easier to use every day too. I guess I'm great like him too. Cool.
I'm sorry about his wife, but his rant won't help. Money and resources will.
I've actually read some lawsuits that complained that loading the song into memory was a copy! How insanely crazy is that?
When you have bought a CD, you are/possibly/ allowed to hold it in your hand, look at it and wistfully try to imagine what the music might be like if you were permitted to actually listen to it. But I may be overly optimistic. After all, I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice. This will be allowable, but only if you look at the label. You may look at the bottom of the CD only if you cannot decode the CD with your eyes.
I love GC, not because I don't have to manage the memory, but because I don't have to DEBUG memory overwrites.
I can't tell you how many hours (days, weeks) I have spent debugging a multi-threaded program only to find I was off by one somewhere.
THAT is where the savings is.
Oh yeah, developers should first create a decent design with memory usage in mind.
Sloppy developers will be sloppy in about all aspects of programming...not just memory usage, so one less thing for them to mess up is likely a good thing.
Personally, I would steer away from a used phone. I think it would be unreliable and fail soon.
The *only* reason I have *ever* purchased a new phone was when my previous one would no longer work...like yesterday as a matter of fact. And that happens usually within less than two years. But then I usually by the cheaper models...with fewer feathers...and bigger buttons.
I'd like to make a single clarification to an excellent posting.
It's the banks and merchants that absorb those costs, and if they'd rather save money up front on secure hardware and pay for it later in fraud, that's their business. It's my understanding that the banks (or credit card companies) usually make the merchant eat the cost of the fraud. The banks want the cards to be as cheap and simple as possible. They also want every transaction to be authorized since that is one way that they get paid. They have no financial interest in preventing the fraud.
While I don't necessarily disagree with you, I do have some bones to pick.
Re: The medium is no more relevant then going from tape to cd to dvd with audio.
The publishers frequently archived the magazines to microfilm. I think this would be a fair use. However, putting the magazines on a CD make the works much more widely available. I think the photographers/writers should be compensated for this. Is this different from me copying a DVD to my harddrive? I don't know.
Re: The National Geographic and NYT are fighting for greater freedom of information.
Somehow I don't think that National Geographic and NYT care one whit about "freedom of information". I think they care about MONEY!
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In my children's school, *all* medication prescription or not must be given to the school nurse, who will dispense it when needed.
Now if a school administrator sees *anything* that looks like a pill, then the student is not allowed to have it. They don't have to identify the pill to determine if it's a legal OTC or an illegal narcotic. This I think is a good policy.
But like all policies, it should *not* be followed blindly. Once they discover that it's a legal OTC, then they should engage their brains and look at who they are accusing, who the accuser was, and the seriousness of the medication. They didn't do that and now they are sued and it's up to SCOTUS to help them now.
Randy
There hasn't been a /. pool in over a month with a CowboyNeal option.
How can we expect NASA to do that when *we* can't?
Randy
But why are they moving all the life support to *one* module.
Wouldn't you want that spread around evenly, so that every module could sustain itself *and* additional crew?
Randy - iguessimnotarocketscientist
I understand your point.
However, I feel that *never* having to worry about efficiencies causes bloated and slow applications like MS Word and Eclipse, since no one makes any money creating the next version that's only faster or small or uses less memory.
If there were a brick wall, then at some point you would be *forced* to make your application smaller, faster, or use less memory just to *add* that new wiz-bang feature.
Just my opinion,
Randy
We should all be glad that those days are far behind us.
I would disagree.
For the time that there was a 640K limit, software designers for just about *every* application had to worry about size and performance.
Now with 4GB memories and 500 GB disks and 3GHz dual core processors, *anyone* can write an application that works without worry about efficiencies.
I kinda wish we would hit another brick wall like that so designers have to actually architect what they are building.
I think it would be good for the software engineering discipline.
Randy
That would be at least three kinds of a bad idea
OK. I'll bite.
What are they?
Randy
perhaps you mean IP address space? And if so, people are basically flushing those down the toilet by giving every device one (including their toilet).
This reminds me about an email I received eight years ago.
Subj: The Internet at house level
Telephone: Ring! Ring!
Clerk: Hello, networks are us.
Man: Help, I need the SNMP management code for an American Standard!
Clerk: American Standard what? Router, bridge, brouter, lan?
Man: Look, I need to shut down my toilet! It's leaking all over the place and I need the computer code to tell my house to stop it!
Clerk: Why don't you just turn the water off?
Man: I'm in Los Angeles, my house is in Phoenix! My house sent me a page telling me to read my E-Mail. The E-Mail message said there's water on the bathroom floor. I pinged the sink and the tub, and both of them say they are off, but when I tried to telnet to the toilet, it said all connections were in use!
This brings new meaning to the term, "Dropping packets all over the floor."
Well...I think it's funny...and silly to have a toaster or even fridge connected to the internet.
Randy
Should have been:
from the who-GHOST-there dept.
OK. I'll bite.
What do you mean "don't handle [automatic transmissions] in a nice manner?"
Randy
Did you ever figure out why the balloon didn't float? What was the diameter of the balloon?
I did the same with the zinc from an old carbon D cell battery and battery acid. (My dad owned a hardware store that also filled tractor batteries.) But I only filled a small plastic bag. I didn't get an explosion or nothing. Boo.
Enjoy,
Randy
I would bet that no one measures something in decimeters or decameters.
In the English system, inches are used for short measurements, feet for longer ones (that I can estimate by placing my foot one in front of the other), yards for larger (which I can estimate by with slightly exaggerated paces) and miles for the longest.
With Metric, you have centimeters (which is about the width of a finger), meters (a slightly longer pace) and kilometers. It's missing a useful unit.
I'm also glad that a yard has 36 inches (and a day has 24 hours), since it has more useful factors.
Randy
I think that 24 hours was picked because 24 has 6 factors (2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12), making it *easier* to do some calculations.
Ten has only two factors (2 and 5).
Randy - or maybe i'm all wet
Just how many times has this happened? I must have been napping.
Sex
Sex
Sex
Got an itch
Sex
Nurse's cleavage
Sex
Who do I want for lunch?
Sex... There. *I* fixed that for you.
Randy - withaonetrackmind
But what if the GPLwrapper is NDIS when the kernel is not only GPL, but also running a non-NDISwrapper driver?
Just curious,
Randy
OK...I'm not a physicist, but...
How does the air flow around the fins depend on whether it's sucking or blowing?
It seems to me that the path of least resistance will be the path of least resistance in either direction.
Curious,
Randy.
In fact, it's even harder than that!
THE RULES CHANGE! The rules can't be written down, because each woman has a completely different set of rules...that change over time.
It'll NEVER happen.
I've been told that I'm happily married for over 20 years now.
--
Randy
AMEN to you. Mr. Grove is just upset that his wife is sick. Of course he wants her to feel better. *I* want her to be cured too.
/. Or the organic memory? All of his improvements seem incremental to me. Just a little faster or a little denser each year. Heck, I make my programs run a little faster or a little easier to use every day too. I guess I'm great like him too. Cool.
However, what major breakthroughs has Intel had in the past 20 years? (I think I'm gonna regret this.)
More transistors per square inch? Where's the quantum computer that I keep reading about here in
I'm sorry about his wife, but his rant won't help. Money and resources will.
Randy.
I've actually read some lawsuits that complained that loading the song into memory was a copy! How insanely crazy is that? When you have bought a CD, you are
Please do not enjoy your music collection,
Randy.
I love GC, not because I don't have to manage the memory, but because I don't have to DEBUG memory overwrites.
I can't tell you how many hours (days, weeks) I have spent debugging a multi-threaded program only to find I was off by one somewhere.
THAT is where the savings is.
Oh yeah, developers should first create a decent design with memory usage in mind.
Sloppy developers will be sloppy in about all aspects of programming...not just memory usage, so one less thing for them to mess up is likely a good thing.
Love to Code,
Randy.
That's exactly my understanding.
Japan, at first, didn't believe we had the capability to produce more than one nuke.
We had to prove that to them before they would surrender.
Randy.
Enjoy,
Randy.
Personally, I would steer away from a used phone. I think it would be unreliable and fail soon.
The *only* reason I have *ever* purchased a new phone was when my previous one would no longer work...like yesterday as a matter of fact. And that happens usually within less than two years. But then I usually by the cheaper models...with fewer feathers...and bigger buttons.
Of course, YMMV,
Randy.
-- Sorry...no clever sig.
Randy.
While I don't necessarily disagree with you, I do have some bones to pick.
Re: The medium is no more relevant then going from tape to cd to dvd with audio.
The publishers frequently archived the magazines to microfilm. I think this would be a fair use. However, putting the magazines on a CD make the works much more widely available. I think the photographers/writers should be compensated for this. Is this different from me copying a DVD to my harddrive? I don't know.
Re: The National Geographic and NYT are fighting for greater freedom of information.
Somehow I don't think that National Geographic and NYT care one whit about "freedom of information". I think they care about MONEY!
Just my thoughts, and, oh yeah, IANAL.
Randy.