"top-flight" admins exist? I mean, I'm sure that "top-flight" systems analysts and what not exist, but admins?
I know some very good admins, but I don't think the job field for those folks allows as much mobility as, say, a "top-flight" developer
As an aside, "top-flight"? I think this is the first half-dozen times I've ever used that term. Is this some sort of recent linguistic import to the IT field?
1.) "cytokine storm" Instead of the sickest, it (seemed) to be the healthiest that had the highest mortality risk.
A word that most people who spout it hadn't even heard of (or knew how to pronounce) before last spring. This particular virus does not show any indications of creating such a reaction.
2.) It's historically been very bad when diseases jump from one animal to another. It can be so very different than anything else we've seen that it does immense damage for years, until we catch-up (and all those with some genetic susceptibility trait die off). See: HIV
And that'd be a valid concern, if we didn't already have information now that this flu essentially operates like every other flu. It makes you ill for a few days, and kills people with immature or compromised immune systems (no, not people who haven't gotten it before).
3.) It's only now that there's a large enough population infected that we have any idea what it can do. Fears were high for good reason (if a bit TOO HIGH), and we're only now calming down as it starts looking manageable.
You and other smart people who have been paying attention might be calming down. There's too much revenue to be had in advertising for this to *really* be a stand-down on the cable news front.
Tablet is probably still quite a while off, given the small market segment of Apple's already small market segment that would be interested in it. I'd like a good one for mobile sketching/art, but I'm not holding my breath that Apple will be the vendor that gets me that piece of technology (Motion Computing seems to be the manuf with the closest device to what I want).
The best thing about later re-releases of the infocom games (I specifically remember Planetfall and HHGTTG) was that it had an integrated hint system with 3 progressively detailed levels (i.e. "hint" number one would be "maybe you need something sticky", "hint" number two would be "gee that stick of gum looks good", and "hint" number 3 would be "pick up gum, open gum, chew gum, use gum on broken lever").
Pretty sure you had to use the Sub-Etha Sens-O-Matic ("Electric Thumb") to get on the Vogon ship.
That said, I agree that it's a pain to have to do that for every specific document you want opened with a particular app; I just saw a nit that needed picking.
This is what I was speaking about in particular.
TBH, I can't say it's ever been an issue for me, but still.
On the other hand, you could argue that Apple is protecting users from developers who say, "We know what's best for you. We're making it just work. Now just sit back and drink your kool aid."
If I want my text documents to open in BBEdit, I'll set them to open in BBEdit thankyouverymuch. I set my default for them to open in something else, and that's the way I want it.
QFT. Overriding my choice as the end user for default application open selection is a no-no.
I can't afford a Mercedes, I guess it's okay if I take one without paying for it, then?
Artist "get" their full share, *but* keep in mind that music at any level that isn't in your bedroom is also a business. As such the vast majority of folks who "aren't making any money" even though they're huge selling artists (usually on their first album or so), are in that situation because they were loaned huge amounts of money for production and promotion -- two things that are necessary to *become* a huge selling artist (and many of them blow the rest of trivial things like drugs and women) -- it's no different than the advance an author gets on their book. Once that money is paid back, the artists (assuming they have good management and agents) start getting their royalties in full (also assuming no malfeasance, but that's life)
I hate this too, but I don't think it entitles me to see the movie for free.
So wait until the DVDs come out?
You hate "the Man" but want the "stuff" that "the Man" produces. Slight amount of cognitive dissonance there, perhaps?
Oh wow. "Supporting the idea that getting things for free isn't as justifiable as some folks may want it to be" == flamebait, now?
I can't afford a Mercedes, I guess it's okay if I take one without paying for it, then?
Artist "get" their full share, *but* keep in mind that music at any level that isn't in your bedroom is also a business. As such the vast majority of folks who "aren't making any money" even though they're huge selling artists (usually on their first album or so), are in that situation because they were loaned huge amounts of money for production and promotion -- two things that are necessary to *become* a huge selling artist (and many of them blow the rest of trivial things like drugs and women) -- it's no different than the advance an author gets on their book. Once that money is paid back, the artists (assuming they have good management and agents) start getting their royalties in full (also assuming no malfeasance, but that's life)
I hate this too, but I don't think it entitles me to see the movie for free.
So wait until the DVDs come out?
You hate "the Man" but want the "stuff" that "the Man" produces. Slight amount of cognitive dissonance there, perhaps?
Because outside of a very small number of musicphiles and geeks, the whargarbl about the "evils" of the RIAA and MPAA don't matter to the overwhelming majority of folks.
I didn't mean to imply the teachers are to blame, although I can see how my post could have been interpreted that way. The administrators should be the ones primarily responsible for auditing the schedules, not the teachers.
I went to a private, well-respected, Catholic school. Our "religion" teacher had a doctorate in divinity.
As you say, a few times per year the administrators of the school would "sit in" on classes to observe and audit.
On those days, we would literally play "bible board games", because the actual subject matter taught in her classes (the nature of god, the nature and history of the papacy and catholic church, various historical ways that Christianity was practiced, etc) made the administration nervous (because it made the parents nervous).
Sometimes audits don't have the effect you think they might.
I didn't say "social interaction" wasn't important. I said that learning how to "socialize" with teenage high school students (and even college students, now) doesn't really prepare you for interacting with other hopefully-thinking adults.
It certainly can. It's quite possible you may need to direct said people (which you lambast later on) or need something from them. Being able to interact on that level is, therefore, quite useful.
I know this rubs geek sensibilities the wrong way, but there's usually a reason why the "unthinking" other adults make better money than the geeks who are, by all accounts, objectively more learned and intelligent. It's because the "unthinking" ones know and/or have internalized how people operate socially, whereas geeks typically find such interactions distasteful.
It would appear that "learning" takes second place to "fun" and "social life."
As is the case for most of human society.
Most folks have neither the mental capacity, nor the desire, to become academicians (or even approach that level). High school attempts to give a very basic level of education to the electorate. Obviously, there are widely varying levels of success in doing such.
Obama even ordered a VA pamphlet [wordpress.com] to be released that encourages veterans to kill themselves instead of living.
I love how you have exactly one source for everything.
In any event, this particular pamphlet was actually already in existence (with those same evil words!) in the Bush administration (and likely before that). They pulled it to revise it two years ago and now its finally re-released.
Seriously, breathe and think before you spout off about things.
At 100 years old, you're a poor candidate for any surgery. She's an outlier, and a notable one, at that.
Regardless, "end of life counseling" is about giving people all the information in order to weigh the options, and having it covered by medicare/medicaid. As I said elsewhere in the thread, sometimes the attempt at a cure is worse than the disease.
You folks really need to get a firmer grip on reality.
Secondly, you are completely ignoring Obama's own words when he said skip the live saving treatment and just take a pain pill.
I'm gonna assume that you've never had a terminally ill relative. Sometimes you weigh the alternatives. i.e.: Yeah, we could put in the pacemaker, but it'll also only extend life for a few months, much of that you'll spend recovering form the surgery anyway, but if you take the (vilified) pill, you'll get 3 fairly good months to spend with your family instead (since the pill will mask the symptoms but obviously not fix the problem).
Or, "yeah we could do chemo and physically try to remove the tumor, but frankly, you've got a 2% chance of survival to 4 months and you'll be very ill the whole time on the treatment". Many people decide that the 3.5 months with their family and friends is more worth it to them.
That's what people mean by 'end of life counseling', not the stupid-ass boogey-man arguments you jackasses keep putting up.
We should have vouchers because, even though it makes no difference in educational outcomes, it makes people feel better? Ridiculous. The whole point of vouchers, allegedly, is so that people can have their kids get better educations. If it makes no difference, then what's the point?
Chances are the reason they do the same is because the parental involvement in their childrens' education is about the same (or less, perhaps, given that the parents will think the "better" school will require less involvement on their part), a.k.a. almost none.
"You get what you pay for" is a salesman's scam; a lie. You don't always get what you pay for, although you usually pay for what you get.
When a salesman says "you get what you pay for", run like hell because you're going to be ripped off.
Eh, more accurately, "provided you have done your homework and eliminated the 'functionally inept' and 'overpriced for the feature set'+'paying for the name' products, you generally get what you pay for."
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"top-flight" admins exist? I mean, I'm sure that "top-flight" systems analysts and what not exist, but admins?
I know some very good admins, but I don't think the job field for those folks allows as much mobility as, say, a "top-flight" developer
As an aside, "top-flight"? I think this is the first half-dozen times I've ever used that term. Is this some sort of recent linguistic import to the IT field?
1.) "cytokine storm" Instead of the sickest, it (seemed) to be the healthiest that had the highest mortality risk.
A word that most people who spout it hadn't even heard of (or knew how to pronounce) before last spring. This particular virus does not show any indications of creating such a reaction.
2.) It's historically been very bad when diseases jump from one animal to another. It can be so very different than anything else we've seen that it does immense damage for years, until we catch-up (and all those with some genetic susceptibility trait die off). See: HIV
And that'd be a valid concern, if we didn't already have information now that this flu essentially operates like every other flu. It makes you ill for a few days, and kills people with immature or compromised immune systems (no, not people who haven't gotten it before).
3.) It's only now that there's a large enough population infected that we have any idea what it can do. Fears were high for good reason (if a bit TOO HIGH), and we're only now calming down as it starts looking manageable.
You and other smart people who have been paying attention might be calming down. There's too much revenue to be had in advertising for this to *really* be a stand-down on the cable news front.
Yes, it's just influenza...that kills healthy kids, teenagers, and young adults.
A nuke is just a bomb, after all.
No, it doesn't. At least, none that the normal flu would also not likely have killed.
It's trivial to make a ring tone from an arbitrary song in iTunes.
Tablet is probably still quite a while off, given the small market segment of Apple's already small market segment that would be interested in it. I'd like a good one for mobile sketching/art, but I'm not holding my breath that Apple will be the vendor that gets me that piece of technology (Motion Computing seems to be the manuf with the closest device to what I want).
The best thing about later re-releases of the infocom games (I specifically remember Planetfall and HHGTTG) was that it had an integrated hint system with 3 progressively detailed levels (i.e. "hint" number one would be "maybe you need something sticky", "hint" number two would be "gee that stick of gum looks good", and "hint" number 3 would be "pick up gum, open gum, chew gum, use gum on broken lever").
Pretty sure you had to use the Sub-Etha Sens-O-Matic ("Electric Thumb") to get on the Vogon ship.
That said, I agree that it's a pain to have to do that for every specific document you want opened with a particular app; I just saw a nit that needed picking.
This is what I was speaking about in particular.
TBH, I can't say it's ever been an issue for me, but still.
On the other hand, you could argue that Apple is protecting users from developers who say, "We know what's best for you. We're making it just work. Now just sit back and drink your kool aid."
If I want my text documents to open in BBEdit, I'll set them to open in BBEdit thankyouverymuch. I set my default for them to open in something else, and that's the way I want it.
QFT. Overriding my choice as the end user for default application open selection is a no-no.
Yeah, no crap.
Oh wow. "Supporting the idea that getting things for free isn't as justifiable as some folks may want it to be" == flamebait, now?
Amazing.
After all, all the Seeing Stones are not yet accounted for. Who knows who might be watching?
When have we ever been giving an incentive to pay for the music rather than download it, other than guilt?
I guess you'd fall into the "get shit for free" camp, not the "i want to support artists but the record companies are evil" camp, then?
Because outside of a very small number of musicphiles and geeks, the whargarbl about the "evils" of the RIAA and MPAA don't matter to the overwhelming majority of folks.
This story shows how little you know about music licensing.
Do some research, then come back and write an apology to everyone whose time you wasted with this rant.
Churches (and other similarly exempt organizations) do not pay property taxes in the US.
I didn't mean to imply the teachers are to blame, although I can see how my post could have been interpreted that way. The administrators should be the ones primarily responsible for auditing the schedules, not the teachers.
I went to a private, well-respected, Catholic school. Our "religion" teacher had a doctorate in divinity.
As you say, a few times per year the administrators of the school would "sit in" on classes to observe and audit.
On those days, we would literally play "bible board games", because the actual subject matter taught in her classes (the nature of god, the nature and history of the papacy and catholic church, various historical ways that Christianity was practiced, etc) made the administration nervous (because it made the parents nervous).
Sometimes audits don't have the effect you think they might.
I didn't say "social interaction" wasn't important. I said that learning how to "socialize" with teenage high school students (and even college students, now) doesn't really prepare you for interacting with other hopefully-thinking adults.
It certainly can. It's quite possible you may need to direct said people (which you lambast later on) or need something from them. Being able to interact on that level is, therefore, quite useful.
I know this rubs geek sensibilities the wrong way, but there's usually a reason why the "unthinking" other adults make better money than the geeks who are, by all accounts, objectively more learned and intelligent. It's because the "unthinking" ones know and/or have internalized how people operate socially, whereas geeks typically find such interactions distasteful.
It would appear that "learning" takes second place to "fun" and "social life."
As is the case for most of human society.
Most folks have neither the mental capacity, nor the desire, to become academicians (or even approach that level). High school attempts to give a very basic level of education to the electorate. Obviously, there are widely varying levels of success in doing such.
Obama even ordered a VA pamphlet [wordpress.com] to be released that encourages veterans to kill themselves instead of living.
I love how you have exactly one source for everything.
In any event, this particular pamphlet was actually already in existence (with those same evil words!) in the Bush administration (and likely before that). They pulled it to revise it two years ago and now its finally re-released.
Seriously, breathe and think before you spout off about things.
At 100 years old, you're a poor candidate for any surgery. She's an outlier, and a notable one, at that.
Regardless, "end of life counseling" is about giving people all the information in order to weigh the options, and having it covered by medicare/medicaid. As I said elsewhere in the thread, sometimes the attempt at a cure is worse than the disease.
You folks really need to get a firmer grip on reality.
Secondly, you are completely ignoring Obama's own words when he said skip the live saving treatment and just take a pain pill.
I'm gonna assume that you've never had a terminally ill relative. Sometimes you weigh the alternatives. i.e.: Yeah, we could put in the pacemaker, but it'll also only extend life for a few months, much of that you'll spend recovering form the surgery anyway, but if you take the (vilified) pill, you'll get 3 fairly good months to spend with your family instead (since the pill will mask the symptoms but obviously not fix the problem).
Or, "yeah we could do chemo and physically try to remove the tumor, but frankly, you've got a 2% chance of survival to 4 months and you'll be very ill the whole time on the treatment". Many people decide that the 3.5 months with their family and friends is more worth it to them.
That's what people mean by 'end of life counseling', not the stupid-ass boogey-man arguments you jackasses keep putting up.
>>> due to long waiting lists...despite the undoubted issues with our system, we live longer than Americans
UK HEALTHCARE WAITING TIMES 8 months - cataract surgery 11 months- hip replacement 12 months- knee replacement 5 months - slipped disc 5 months - hernia repair SOURCE - The BBC, May 2009
Nice lack of comparison there (while it's *implied* that those are too long) to the US values.
And it ignores the fact that folks w/o decent (or any) healthcare have a wait time of "forever" for any of those.
(P.S. Private insurance and clinics are available in the U.K.)
We should have vouchers because, even though it makes no difference in educational outcomes, it makes people feel better? Ridiculous. The whole point of vouchers, allegedly, is so that people can have their kids get better educations. If it makes no difference, then what's the point?
Chances are the reason they do the same is because the parental involvement in their childrens' education is about the same (or less, perhaps, given that the parents will think the "better" school will require less involvement on their part), a.k.a. almost none.
"You get what you pay for" is a salesman's scam; a lie. You don't always get what you pay for, although you usually pay for what you get.
When a salesman says "you get what you pay for", run like hell because you're going to be ripped off.
Eh, more accurately, "provided you have done your homework and eliminated the 'functionally inept' and 'overpriced for the feature set'+'paying for the name' products, you generally get what you pay for."