Wow, the tea partiers are out in force today and even have mod points to mod up that garbage you wrote. Yes, I know you were joking (Monty Python reference, good job there), but apparently the mods took you not only seriously, but thought you were insightful.
The Occupy movement isn't a movement against capitalism, it's a movement against unbridled greed and sociopathy. It's against CEOs making millions per year to run their companies into the ground and then get bailed out by the government while they lay off the people who actually do the work.
Government bailouts are NOT capitalist.
When you have to tell bald-faced lies to make your case, your case is damned weak.
Now go ahead, idiot tea partiers, mod me down so you have fewer points to mod jokes as "insightful" and flamebait as "funny" (seen that today, too).
Dave 420 is right. If you had a gall bladder operation years ago you'd have a huge scar, was in the hospital for weeks, and it took a long time to heal. The new robotic keyhole surgeries are often done on an outpatient basis, leave tiny scars, and heal quickly.
It's nothing like traditional surgery.
Were you going for "funny?" If so, you failed miserably.
That's right, coward, hide behind your keyboard and slander these working class people who are trying to make our country a better place to live. And whoever modded that garbage up, well, funny it ain't.
Because in order to write a textbook you have to a) know how to write and b) be knowledgable in the field. Teachers bored with math are boring math teachers and would write boring math books. And I would want a professional writer and a scientist (or better, a team of scientists) to write a science book.
...The fourth arm is for an endoscopic camera with two lenses that gives the surgeon full stereoscopic vision from the console.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the da Vinci Surgical System in 2000 for adult and pediatric use in urologic surgical procedures, general laparoscopic surgical procedures, gynecologic laparoscopic surgical procedures, general non-cardiovascular thoracoscopic surgical procedures and thoracoscopically assisted cardiotomy procedures. The da Vinci System may also be employed with adjunctive mediastinotomy to perform coronary anastomosis during cardiac revascularization.[6]
FDA approval means they've been doing stereo surgery in the US for a dozen years. That was three years before the CrystaLens I have in my eye was approved.
It appears that the headline is greatly misleading. It should have read "UK surgeons finally get stereoscopic robotic surgery, 12 years after US surgeons."
Well, if the customers are happy and the employees are happy and the work gets done well, the organization is well run. A bad boss isn't going to get the best work out of his workers, and his customers aren't going to be satisfied.
I just looked it up, a bag of microwave popcorn is 180 calories. A whole bag. Popcorn is mostly air. But that's before butter, and there's probably 3 or 4 bags in those huge buckets you get in the theater. That twenty ounce Pepsi you wash it down with (These days a "small coke", 40 years ago 16 oz was a large) is 260 calories.
Anybody that could put down a bucket like that can put away a lot of any kind of food. I notice whenever I see any of the fat women who work in my building, they almost always have food in one hand and a soda in the other.
I think if I were overweight and wanted to lose, I'd pay pretty close attention to calories.
The music of the 50's, 60's, and 70's was damn good. The 80's was in decline but still had quite a bit of quality music.
60s: "I fought the law and the law won" -- yeah, real quality there... quality PROPAGANDA.
The seventies... Jesus but disco SUCKED BADLY. The only reason people listened to that dreck was the drugs.
The eighties... empty-v killed rock and roll. Far better than the seventies.
The nineties had some good music, too. And lest you think I'm some kid, I was born in 1952. There has always been good music, and there has always been bad music. Most everything you ever heard on pop radio, in any decade, was crap. In the sixties Jimi Hendrix didn't get airplay, but you heard The Archies every half hour. Quality, my old ass.
It isn't that the RIAA music sucks worse than it ever did, it's that independants are making music for music's sake and people are buying it instead of the RIAA crap. Back in the previous decades there were no indies. The RIAA hates P2P because the indies can use it to eat the RIAA's lunch.
Holy fuck, dude, wtf is wrong with posting calories in food? It's meaningless to me, as I have no weight problem (I have problems putting it on, not taking it off), but I know a lot of fatasses who could use all the help they can get shedding pounds.
Nobody's saying "fattening foods are illegal". What it is is simple education -- popcorn's not supposed to make you fat. But a whole bucketful of it swimming in trans fats? Hell yes a whole bucketful is fattening, print the "10,000 calories, 9,000 from trans fat" on the tub.
I'd like to see a truth in labeling law. I worked at a drive in theater when I was a teenager, and the "butter" for the popcorn was hydrogenated soybean oil. So someone thinks they're getting butter (caloric but good cholesterol) when they're raising their bad cholesterol.
Jesus H Christ, you want the freedom to rip me off and poison me? Typical right wing... corporate rights foremost, human beings' rights don't matter. I should have the right to know what I'm eating. Making you print the damned TRUTH about what you're selling is hardly something to get bent out of shape about.
If you're going to be in business you have to cover all the details. The fact is that the RIAA labels are horrible at marketing. The last figures I saw (in an antipiracy screed) said there are 25 failures for every sucessful work.
I know guys who have been offered RIAA contracts. They all told the labels to go fuck themselves after reading the contracts. "Breakage" of an electronic file? Only a moron would sign something like that.
The labels are not needed anymore, not by the musicians and not by the listeners. Just as the auto made buggy whip makers obsolete, the internet and cheap equipment make the record industry obsolete.
It wouldn't work everywhere, though. Chatham is mostly more uper income folks. They wouldn't be able to do it in Springfield. The Harvard Park neighborhood is so poor that my church delivered two weeks of groceries to every family that had kids in the elementary school there last Christmas, because most of them go hungry during Christmas vacation -- no school lunches.
Some schools here are supplying the kids with iPads.
It isn't the users, it's their OS. I almost never boot the Linux box; I don't have to. When an update comes up the pike I update, one click and keep working. No problem.
The notebook still has Win7. Almost every update for any program requires a reboot, and damn it, There's a book I'm working on open, with Firefox tabs to other stuff (labeling sampled music, etc). So I almost always hit "not now"... because I don't want to spend twenty minutes updating something that just got updated a few weeks ago, including the time it takes to reboot, open all the programs and browser tabs I had open, etc.
If Windows didn't require a reboot every damned Patch Tuesday (and other programs don't restrict themselves to MS's schedule so I wiond up with one widget or another needing an update at least weekly) and if the patches didn't require reboots, like Linux, and especially if it was able to come back to life after a reboot in the same state it was in, like Linux, people using Windows would update far more often.
PEBKAC is almost always a design flaw. Users hitting "cancel" when they're served updates? That's YOUR fault for making their lives harder. If updating weren't a royal pain in the ass people would update. Your tools are supposed to make work easier, not harder. MS could fix the problem easily, they simply choose not to. As Lily Tomlin always said in her AT&T monopoly skits, "we're the phone company. We don't HAVE to!"
It has EVERYTHING to do with money. We pay teachers shit wages. What other group of college educated people make so litlle money? And it shows. When I was in public school I had three good teachers, almost all the rest were beyond incompetent. Things didn't change much when my kids went to school.
Pay decent teachers salaries and you'll get quality teachers. Don't expect to find a Filet Mignon at McDonalds.
Poorly run governmnet creates more problems than it solves, well run governments don't. The Libbies don't believe in well run governments. Elect someone who believes that government is the cause of problems, and it will be the cause of many.
The only cut the union gets is the teachers' union dues, paid by the teachers themselves. And for college educated people, teachers make SHIT wages. If you want to know where the money's going, look what a contractor gets for building a school. The damned bricklayers are earning as much as the teachers, and the contractor himself is getting filthy rich. The book publishers who gouge institutions for learning materials are getting filty rich. Our education system sucks because of greed and graft.
here's a better link, it goes to the University of California with far more detail than your Virginia school (disclaimer: I went to SIU, neither coast).
Restore family values
What, exactly, are "family values?" The Manson family? My family's of Irish descent, we drink and fight. My sister's husband is 100% Italian, his dad was rumored to be in the Cosa Nostra. Bill Gates' family? Who the hell could afford THAT lifestyle?
Family values? That's nothing but meaningless tongue wagging.
Man, I wish you'd get an account. Your comment was insightful, but few will see it sitting at zero. So I'll just agree: Not everyone is motivated solely by money. In fact most people aren't motivated solely by money, and I personally find the "free equals worthless" attitude disgusting.
Art made for money is seldom art. At best, it's simply artifacts. Perhaps clever and skillful, but not art.
When I started programming back in the eighties it was, in fact, with an eye to money. But I kept doing it after failing to monetize my skill, because I simply enjoyed doing it.
If you do it for the love of money you're not going to care about the work, just the end result of the work (money). Your work will NOT be as good as someone who does it for the love of doing it.
Do you really think Torvalds started Linux for the money? Or Stallman started GNU for the money? Van Gogh never made any money, but the hacks whose works hung in expensive galleries in his day are forgotten today. Cher and the Backstreet Boys will be forgotten tomorrow.
Know why the GP's "art" wasn't sucessful? It wasn't art. Without love there is no beauty, without beauty there is no art. And yes, dogshit can be beautiful if the light hits it right or it's rendered lovingly.
1. Correlation is not causation 2. There is no correlation, let alone causation. We had a recession in the 1950s and an even worse one in the 1970s. The cold war had nothing to do with economic fluctuations. And we had a boom in th 1990s after the Soviets broke up.
What happens is you have a war, the economy booms, then it crashes when you have to pay for that war. The '50s recession was paying for WWII and Eisenhower's dream (I'm glad for it, the interstate highways are great). The '70s recession and inflation paid for the horribly expensive Vietnam war. Our present economic woes are from fighting TWO expensive wars.
the effectiveness of that conversation drops as the group sizes get larger, until you are in the 200 person lecture hall and the conversation becomes almost unidirectional.
Almost? When I was in college I carpooled with a guy who had a sociology class in one of those humungous lecture halls after my last class let out, so I often just sat in and trie dto learn something. The instructor didn't even know I was there. This is the kind of class that sorely needs tech. In a class like that you'd be just as good off reading a book on the subject if books were current (at the time they lagged by 5-10 years, back in the '70s).
Every decision now seems to be driven by a philosophy of "Let's make Firefox worse!!"
As long as they have a traditional desktop interface, why would integration into W8 be detrimental? If their interface is metro-only then I would agree it's a problem. But I think a worse problem is "making it look like IE". I don't like IE. If I wanted a browser that looked and acted like IE I'd use IE. Well, on the notebook anyway, IE won't run in Linux.
Whoever modded the parent should comment, because there's no way in hell the comment was a troll. Just because you disagree with a comment, even a strongly worded one, doesn't make it a troll. It's his opinion and he's entitled to it. If you disagree with him, then comment. Lots of other stories to waste your mod points on.
IMO if you don't know assemply (on at least one chip) you're not much of a programmer, because you really don't know what your code is doing.
You do realise that the CPU designers know machine code, right? And assembly was closer to human language that any of the high level languages. MOV A, B. Simple, elegant, easily understandable. If you know assembly, learning any other language is pretty easy.
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Wow, the tea partiers are out in force today and even have mod points to mod up that garbage you wrote. Yes, I know you were joking (Monty Python reference, good job there), but apparently the mods took you not only seriously, but thought you were insightful.
The Occupy movement isn't a movement against capitalism, it's a movement against unbridled greed and sociopathy. It's against CEOs making millions per year to run their companies into the ground and then get bailed out by the government while they lay off the people who actually do the work.
Government bailouts are NOT capitalist.
When you have to tell bald-faced lies to make your case, your case is damned weak.
Now go ahead, idiot tea partiers, mod me down so you have fewer points to mod jokes as "insightful" and flamebait as "funny" (seen that today, too).
Dave 420 is right. If you had a gall bladder operation years ago you'd have a huge scar, was in the hospital for weeks, and it took a long time to heal. The new robotic keyhole surgeries are often done on an outpatient basis, leave tiny scars, and heal quickly.
It's nothing like traditional surgery.
Were you going for "funny?" If so, you failed miserably.
That's right, coward, hide behind your keyboard and slander these working class people who are trying to make our country a better place to live. And whoever modded that garbage up, well, funny it ain't.
God, no!
Because in order to write a textbook you have to a) know how to write and b) be knowledgable in the field. Teachers bored with math are boring math teachers and would write boring math books. And I would want a professional writer and a scientist (or better, a team of scientists) to write a science book.
Then there's c) graft and bribery.
I'm surprised she wasn't charged with extortion.
How about that, not even 9:00 and I learned something (had to look up Poe's Law). I thought that was a little out of character for you.
From your link:
FDA approval means they've been doing stereo surgery in the US for a dozen years. That was three years before the CrystaLens I have in my eye was approved.
It appears that the headline is greatly misleading. It should have read "UK surgeons finally get stereoscopic robotic surgery, 12 years after US surgeons."
Well, if the customers are happy and the employees are happy and the work gets done well, the organization is well run. A bad boss isn't going to get the best work out of his workers, and his customers aren't going to be satisfied.
I just looked it up, a bag of microwave popcorn is 180 calories. A whole bag. Popcorn is mostly air. But that's before butter, and there's probably 3 or 4 bags in those huge buckets you get in the theater. That twenty ounce Pepsi you wash it down with (These days a "small coke", 40 years ago 16 oz was a large) is 260 calories.
Anybody that could put down a bucket like that can put away a lot of any kind of food. I notice whenever I see any of the fat women who work in my building, they almost always have food in one hand and a soda in the other.
I think if I were overweight and wanted to lose, I'd pay pretty close attention to calories.
The music of the 50's, 60's, and 70's was damn good. The 80's was in decline but still had quite a bit of quality music.
60s: "I fought the law and the law won" -- yeah, real quality there... quality PROPAGANDA.
The seventies... Jesus but disco SUCKED BADLY. The only reason people listened to that dreck was the drugs.
The eighties... empty-v killed rock and roll. Far better than the seventies.
The nineties had some good music, too. And lest you think I'm some kid, I was born in 1952. There has always been good music, and there has always been bad music. Most everything you ever heard on pop radio, in any decade, was crap. In the sixties Jimi Hendrix didn't get airplay, but you heard The Archies every half hour. Quality, my old ass.
It isn't that the RIAA music sucks worse than it ever did, it's that independants are making music for music's sake and people are buying it instead of the RIAA crap. Back in the previous decades there were no indies. The RIAA hates P2P because the indies can use it to eat the RIAA's lunch.
Holy fuck, dude, wtf is wrong with posting calories in food? It's meaningless to me, as I have no weight problem (I have problems putting it on, not taking it off), but I know a lot of fatasses who could use all the help they can get shedding pounds.
Nobody's saying "fattening foods are illegal". What it is is simple education -- popcorn's not supposed to make you fat. But a whole bucketful of it swimming in trans fats? Hell yes a whole bucketful is fattening, print the "10,000 calories, 9,000 from trans fat" on the tub.
I'd like to see a truth in labeling law. I worked at a drive in theater when I was a teenager, and the "butter" for the popcorn was hydrogenated soybean oil. So someone thinks they're getting butter (caloric but good cholesterol) when they're raising their bad cholesterol.
Jesus H Christ, you want the freedom to rip me off and poison me? Typical right wing... corporate rights foremost, human beings' rights don't matter. I should have the right to know what I'm eating. Making you print the damned TRUTH about what you're selling is hardly something to get bent out of shape about.
Not Marxixt, authoritarianist. The facists are just as bad as the communists in this regard. You think Italy had freedom under Mussolini?
Look up the lyrics to Steppenwolf's "Monster".
If you're going to be in business you have to cover all the details. The fact is that the RIAA labels are horrible at marketing. The last figures I saw (in an antipiracy screed) said there are 25 failures for every sucessful work.
I know guys who have been offered RIAA contracts. They all told the labels to go fuck themselves after reading the contracts. "Breakage" of an electronic file? Only a moron would sign something like that.
The labels are not needed anymore, not by the musicians and not by the listeners. Just as the auto made buggy whip makers obsolete, the internet and cheap equipment make the record industry obsolete.
It wouldn't work everywhere, though. Chatham is mostly more uper income folks. They wouldn't be able to do it in Springfield. The Harvard Park neighborhood is so poor that my church delivered two weeks of groceries to every family that had kids in the elementary school there last Christmas, because most of them go hungry during Christmas vacation -- no school lunches.
Some schools here are supplying the kids with iPads.
It isn't the users, it's their OS. I almost never boot the Linux box; I don't have to. When an update comes up the pike I update, one click and keep working. No problem.
The notebook still has Win7. Almost every update for any program requires a reboot, and damn it, There's a book I'm working on open, with Firefox tabs to other stuff (labeling sampled music, etc). So I almost always hit "not now"... because I don't want to spend twenty minutes updating something that just got updated a few weeks ago, including the time it takes to reboot, open all the programs and browser tabs I had open, etc.
If Windows didn't require a reboot every damned Patch Tuesday (and other programs don't restrict themselves to MS's schedule so I wiond up with one widget or another needing an update at least weekly) and if the patches didn't require reboots, like Linux, and especially if it was able to come back to life after a reboot in the same state it was in, like Linux, people using Windows would update far more often.
PEBKAC is almost always a design flaw. Users hitting "cancel" when they're served updates? That's YOUR fault for making their lives harder. If updating weren't a royal pain in the ass people would update. Your tools are supposed to make work easier, not harder. MS could fix the problem easily, they simply choose not to. As Lily Tomlin always said in her AT&T monopoly skits, "we're the phone company. We don't HAVE to!"
It has EVERYTHING to do with money. We pay teachers shit wages. What other group of college educated people make so litlle money? And it shows. When I was in public school I had three good teachers, almost all the rest were beyond incompetent. Things didn't change much when my kids went to school.
Pay decent teachers salaries and you'll get quality teachers. Don't expect to find a Filet Mignon at McDonalds.
Poorly run governmnet creates more problems than it solves, well run governments don't. The Libbies don't believe in well run governments. Elect someone who believes that government is the cause of problems, and it will be the cause of many.
The only cut the union gets is the teachers' union dues, paid by the teachers themselves. And for college educated people, teachers make SHIT wages. If you want to know where the money's going, look what a contractor gets for building a school. The damned bricklayers are earning as much as the teachers, and the contractor himself is getting filthy rich. The book publishers who gouge institutions for learning materials are getting filty rich. Our education system sucks because of greed and graft.
here's a better link, it goes to the University of California with far more detail than your Virginia school (disclaimer: I went to SIU, neither coast).
Restore family values
What, exactly, are "family values?" The Manson family? My family's of Irish descent, we drink and fight. My sister's husband is 100% Italian, his dad was rumored to be in the Cosa Nostra. Bill Gates' family? Who the hell could afford THAT lifestyle?
Family values? That's nothing but meaningless tongue wagging.
Man, I wish you'd get an account. Your comment was insightful, but few will see it sitting at zero. So I'll just agree: Not everyone is motivated solely by money. In fact most people aren't motivated solely by money, and I personally find the "free equals worthless" attitude disgusting.
Art made for money is seldom art. At best, it's simply artifacts. Perhaps clever and skillful, but not art.
When I started programming back in the eighties it was, in fact, with an eye to money. But I kept doing it after failing to monetize my skill, because I simply enjoyed doing it.
If you do it for the love of money you're not going to care about the work, just the end result of the work (money). Your work will NOT be as good as someone who does it for the love of doing it.
Do you really think Torvalds started Linux for the money? Or Stallman started GNU for the money? Van Gogh never made any money, but the hacks whose works hung in expensive galleries in his day are forgotten today. Cher and the Backstreet Boys will be forgotten tomorrow.
Know why the GP's "art" wasn't sucessful? It wasn't art. Without love there is no beauty, without beauty there is no art. And yes, dogshit can be beautiful if the light hits it right or it's rendered lovingly.
1. Correlation is not causation
2. There is no correlation, let alone causation. We had a recession in the 1950s and an even worse one in the 1970s. The cold war had nothing to do with economic fluctuations. And we had a boom in th 1990s after the Soviets broke up.
What happens is you have a war, the economy booms, then it crashes when you have to pay for that war. The '50s recession was paying for WWII and Eisenhower's dream (I'm glad for it, the interstate highways are great). The '70s recession and inflation paid for the horribly expensive Vietnam war. Our present economic woes are from fighting TWO expensive wars.
Nothing is more expensive than war, cold or hot.
the effectiveness of that conversation drops as the group sizes get larger, until you are in the 200 person lecture hall and the conversation becomes almost unidirectional.
Almost? When I was in college I carpooled with a guy who had a sociology class in one of those humungous lecture halls after my last class let out, so I often just sat in and trie dto learn something. The instructor didn't even know I was there. This is the kind of class that sorely needs tech. In a class like that you'd be just as good off reading a book on the subject if books were current (at the time they lagged by 5-10 years, back in the '70s).
Every decision now seems to be driven by a philosophy of "Let's make Firefox worse!!"
As long as they have a traditional desktop interface, why would integration into W8 be detrimental? If their interface is metro-only then I would agree it's a problem. But I think a worse problem is "making it look like IE". I don't like IE. If I wanted a browser that looked and acted like IE I'd use IE. Well, on the notebook anyway, IE won't run in Linux.
Whoever modded the parent should comment, because there's no way in hell the comment was a troll. Just because you disagree with a comment, even a strongly worded one, doesn't make it a troll. It's his opinion and he's entitled to it. If you disagree with him, then comment. Lots of other stories to waste your mod points on.
We're not that stupid in Illinois. Not all of us, anyway. 'Bring Your Own Device' program launches at Chatham school
IMO if you don't know assemply (on at least one chip) you're not much of a programmer, because you really don't know what your code is doing.
You do realise that the CPU designers know machine code, right? And assembly was closer to human language that any of the high level languages. MOV A, B. Simple, elegant, easily understandable. If you know assembly, learning any other language is pretty easy.