I hear a lot of griping about versioning in the comments, but nobody talking about why Direct3D is faster than Direct2D at rendering non-3D objects. The Quartz/OpenGL thing makes sense as Quartz is on top of OpenGL and it would be faster to bypass it, but if Direct3D is 20% faster than Direct2D why would anyone even bother using Direct2D at all, for anything on Windows? I would assume Direct2D is *NOT* built atop Direct3D in the API structure, as that would not make any sense at all. Seems odd to me... Anyone have an answer that isn't sarcastic?
I've decided that the internet is no longer a positive influence on my life...
Seriously, just turn it off. There are few if any "necessities" on the Internet so why bother.
You mention Wikipedia as an information source you would like to "rip" and keep. One, that's illegal. Wikipedia is still copyrighted material. Two, there are far more accurate resources of information-like books, journals, magazines, etc. Now, they might not be as up-to-date as Wikipedia, but they are certainly as accurate if not more so.
Email will probably be the most missed thing about the Internet. The ability to stay in touch with people and send important documents electronically are probably the biggest things to lose. Heaven forbid you call someone or mail them something.
I know plenty of people who live in areas where Internet access is limited to non-existent and they lead happy productive lives, just like their Netizen friends. People lived for thousands of years before the Internet and I guarantee that we can still live without it.
No, the legality here is none of the parties involved is law enforcement. Private citizens can do a lot of things cops can't do without warrants. Now, this does vary from state to state in the U.S., but there are different, stricter surveillance rules for law enforcement for a reason.
For example, you could listen for the number, duration, and frequency of brakes being applied hard at intersections as a predictor of accidents. That would allow you to redesign the intersection to improve safety; even if no accidents have occurred.
Ummm, no. What that example illustrates is a poorly setup traffic light, or distracted drivers. Has nothing to do with crime, the motivations and opportunities for such, nor the people that perpetrate crimes. Bad example. I know folks commenting have said this isn't Minority Report stuff, but it most certainly is as close as we can get without psychic triplets (yes, I know the girl wasn't related) and Tom Cruise. It's a prelude to it, or a poorly contrived facsimile. Nothing good can come from this. To prevent crime, hire more cops.
Not sure where you dug up those obscure references, but they are not relevant. Warburg's and Rife's research is far too old to be relevant to today's knowledge of human biology and biochemistry, let alone materials science and mycology. For one, during their time (1883-1971) asbestos was a good thing. Referencing them is like referencing research from when everyone thought the Earth was flat. The other guy you bring up I couldn't find anywhere credible. If he is an M.D., Ph.D. then he's nuttier than a fruitcake!
But, if you believe asbestos is harmless there are some really old buildings at my university you can go into and smack old insulation and take deep breaths. I'll watch from a video surveillance camera from the other side of campus, thank you.
one 'guy' that moves things around is heat. heating and a/c and humidity in the house. cables expand and contract and fit (and don't fit!) the connectors and this slow bounce, if you will, causes things to lose connectivity, even if just 1 wire in a bundle. seen it plenty of times.
Umm, the kind of temperature differentials that would need to occur to make this concern valid do not happen in the developed world, unless we're talking about something in NEMA cabinets out on the lone prairie in northern New Mexico.
multi conductor cables are a NIGHTMARE (which is why I hate the hdmi designers. what a bunch of losers! 2 opto cables would have done it better but NOOOO they had to have multiple metal-to-metal's and lots of wire and twists and interference. idiots!!! please, if you currently have an hdmi designer in your employ, fire him now. fire him. now.)
What? Copper is way cheaper than optical cable and is a heck of a lot more consumer friendly. You know how many people I see treat cable like rope or string?!?! Shouldn't do that with copper, can't do that with optical fiber. So, no, optical not practical given the behavior of the current consumer.
hdmi cables are not even locking cables. (same with older sata cables; dont' get me started on THAT nightmare we call a cable...). hdmi cables fall out of alignment since the connector is VERY cheap and so are the cable males. cheap and cheap are not a good way to ensure success.
look at older db9, db25 style connectors. those things were strong enough to lift a house!;) THOSE were connectors made by visionary men. keyed, robust, cheap to make and they never fell out on their own. compare to hdmi and you'll see the night/day diff in how cables used to be designed vs how they are designed today.
Just a guess here, but you weren't alive in the 1960s and 1970s were you? When this stuff was new personal computers were made out of what we geeks had lying around. In this case, a lot of CB and Amateur Radio equipment that already used a lot of these big beefy connectors. The DB-x style connectors came from the telco guys, mostly, and used to cobble together protocols like Parallel and Serial Ports so their new fangled gadgets could talk to other input or output devices.
My point? A lot of these connectors were horribly over-engineered for their current purpose. Also, digital (and analog) signaling was no where near as efficient and clean as it is today. Have you looked at a motherboard from 1980s PCs? Some gigantic circuitry on that baby. Caps bigger than your pinky on the motherboard, and not for power! So, yeah, things were beefier back then. You want something built like that for today, go for it. Cost a gazillion (that's a lot) Euros/Dollars/Pounds/Yen, put out as much heat as a jet engine, but you'll be able to play the latest FPS at 120 fps.
Just because it's small and doesn't require a lot of expensive parts doesn't make it any less effective at its purpose.
sometimes you have to re-flex the cables or pre-strain them before you install them. the flex of the cable is not enough compared to the stiffness of the so-called strain relief they use. again, as an analogy, look at an ide cable and how well it stays in (even if you hang the drive UP by it!) vs a sata cable. compare the molex power cables of yesterday to the sata power cables of today. all steps backwards!
I really hate the backwards move in cable design and quality. its like they are TRYING to make things bad on purpose, refusing to use what worked well in the past - out of spite?
More nonsense. Yes, cables become tense and like to stay in one position if stored or maintained in that position for any length of time. What part of "there's metal in there" doesn't make sense? It's not rope. It's not string. And, it's not single conductor wire.
I'm leaving the backwards thing alone. Too much irony.
Shoot the Transportation Engineer! that ever came up with the roundabout AND the merging exit and entry lanes on highways (another circle of death)! Yes, on paper, if people ACTUALLY drove by the "Rules of the Road" and "Right of Way"-let alone the actual LAWS that govern vehicular operation in ANY country-they would do all the things they say. BUT, this is yet another classic case of theory v. reality. In theory, given the laws and rules of the road this would work. In reality, people learn stuff about driving to pass a test and then forget it all 15 seconds after they have the driver's license in their hand! People in the U.S. can't handle a four way stop! It's right of way based and they can't even remember those simple rules! SHEESH!
1. No.
2. iOS *IS* Mac OS X, a subset thereof
3. iOS still needs a desktop machine to develop for...and everyone in Apple management would have to be replaced by robots before they'd allow that to be on a Windows box!
4. Steve doesn't like multiple OSes. I can definitely see Mac OS XI being an integration of the mobile and desktop/server version of the OS, but not the desktop OS going away completely...that's a Google dream, not an Apple dream.
1. What types of computation is the cluster going to be used for? MD, CFD, ???
2. What software will be used on the nodes? CHARMM, GAMESS, LAMMPS, NWChem, etc.
3. Do you have a preference for a Linux distro? If not, it really doesn't matter that much if you are rolling your own cluster and software stack. It will just determine what things are used for package management and what services in the distro you might want to turn off in order to get the most memory for apps and not the base OS.
4. You should be using SSH as the main interface for the actual compute nodes and maybe (big maybe) have an X server on the login/compile head nodes, but NOT the compute nodes. You want the compute nodes to be as bare as possible to conserve as much RAM and scratch disk space for apps as possible.
Having said all that, CentOS, Fedora, SuSE and RHEL are probably the most popular on distributed memory clusters today. You will also want to make sure that whatever compilers you are using are compatible with the Linux distro you want to use, unless you are relying completely on gcc or binary applications. I have built many clusters from scratch and can be a point of contact should you have additional questions.
If the Xbox Live network gets attacked like the Playstation Network, then all Internet services to the device will be just as useful as Netflix is on my PS3 at the moment. Sigh
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"Correlation is not causation". Don't people like saying that a lot around here?
[...] an excellent argument on the possible cause of increased sugar leading to obesity.
Increased sugar does not lead to obesity. Increased sitting-on-your-ass leads to obesity. The problem isn't the substance, it's the behavior!
Like most omnivores we require carbohydrates (*cough*,*cough*SUGAR!) to produce energy, protein to help us heal and build muscles, and cellulose and other vegetable matter to help with digestive processes.
So, what do you mean, Dr. Lustig, by "sugar is toxic"? High fructose corn syrup is indeed toxic to the body in large amounts, just like just about any other item we inhale or ingest. Like that? Or, any carbohydrate? I got news for ya. We need those and they are *nothing* analogous to cigarettes or alcohol (*cough*,*cough*SUGAR!).
This pretty much goes for *ANY* tenured faculty member. Remember, he said "academic hospital" and department head. Faculty are taught at a very early age, "It's better to apologize than ask permission."
First of all, to the OP, I am sorry you are having so much difficulty with your internal IT group that you (felt you) had to spend your own money. That's always no fun.
Secondly, why didn't you just use Google calendar? Free, works with iCal, etc. It sounded like you just need a shift calendar for the doctors, not something that would need HIPAA protection. Also, what calendar system is your IT department using that won't work with the iOS devices? I can't think of one off the top of my head that doesn't work with iOS anymore. Exchange works with the web services turned on at the server, so if that's it then you're dealing with an inflexible IT department and I'm sorry.
FInally, if the above two options aren't possible, hosting a secure calendar offsite (insert the name of web hosting company here) for less than $120 a year is also quite possible.
Your English needs work or you should at least read your post before hitting submit.
The science in Mythbusters is more sound than your unreferenced observations. The episode in question specifically dealt with a bullet piercing the hull of a plane, causing a larger hole to grow in the fuselage, and sucking someone out, not a gaping hole to begin with. (see http://mythbustersresults.com/episode10)
The vacuum caused by air rushing by at over 200 MPH caused the pilot of the BA BAC 1-11 to be partially sucked out an improperly installed cockpit window. Simple Bernoulli principle like the one that makes planes fly to begin with, duh. Dumbass should have been strapped in! Here's a view of the cockpit so you get an idea of how close he was to the window to start with. Not hard to see why he was lifted out the window. http://www.dmflightsim.co.uk/bac_1-11_vc.htm
Same thing for the Hawaii flight. The tear opened right above the flight attendant's head and sudden decompression along with the negative pressure caused by the air outside the aircraft traveling in excess of 200 MPH caused her to be sucked out. One-third of the roof of the cabin of the plane tore off! Anything not strapped in or being braced was going out the hole if the pilot hadn't descended and slowed down. Google Aloha 243 for more details. Too many articles to list here.
And finally, yes, the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster investigation showed that people can survive catastrophic failure of an aircraft/spacecraft inside the atmosphere. Belief aside, the fact is if the decompression occurred above 16,000 feet they were most likely unconscious within seconds and the whole rest of the way down. Alive, most likely, but certainly not likely aware.
Nothing wrong with the science going on Mythbusters, but certainly selective memory distorts people's memories of what they actually tested.
So, what happens when you get sucked out a plane? Simple answer is you die. Complex answer is you die after being rendered unconscious by the lack of oxygen or trauma from hitting a part of the plane then hit the ground, OR you are conscious and screaming until you hit the ground. Bottom line, gravity wins!
You nailed it on the head. I was about to write a long response to that article stub. The most important thing that science has is its repeatability. ANYONE, not just an expert can recreate a scientific experiment and get the same results. I dare someone to try the walking on water trick (yeah, I've seen the YouTube video), parting the Red Sea, etc. Those are acts of Faith that defy logic and reason, and are not reproducible because they were divine miracles (or just made up, your call).
I would say that there are many fields within science where experts disagree. That part is certainly not unique to belief/faith. Cosmology in particular has the string theorists along with the standard model and a few other odd splinter groups.
Whoa Sparky! You lost me there. Since 2006 you do not *HAVE* to run Windows or Linux in a VM on a Mac. Apparently you missed the whole Intel conversion, thingy. You can run Windows and Linux on the bare hardware. The same versions of Windows and Lnux you can run on any other x86 architecture.
You're using your laptop's host OS as your server and your development machine, without virtualizing the server in something like, I don't know, Virtual Box to run a Linux server in? Are you completely insane? Seriously, I've been doing web development on a Mac since there was a web. Even when I was using a WebSTAR server with a FileMaker DB I never ran it on the same machine I was developing on! Bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad bad! You're either a very bad web developer or you just have not been doing it for very long. Either way, you're making your life A LOT more difficult than it ever needs to be.
In the immortal words of Steve Zissou, "I really wish it didn't need the seriously."
Ahh, but there goes the rule of precedent with regard to the law. I wasn't able to find the exact case link, but in the 1990s a Federal Circuit Court found that publishing on the Internet was the same as publishing in any other medium and was bound by the same rules. (This is one of the weapons the RIAA and MPAA use against file sharers.)
Along that vein, you have to attribute and get written permission (release form) from everyone that is recognizable in a photograph that is published. So, I hope this goes to appeal. If she was on private property (and yes, a bar is still private property folks) and not in view of the public from a thoroughfare or adjacent property, then she has rights which were violated when that picture was published. If the person who posted it only made the picture available to their "friends" then that may be a loophole, but if anyone can view that picture she might have a case.
I agree, with larger storage media and faster networks we should be demanding better than MP3 or AAC audio.
FLAC? CD QUALITY?!?! Why not linear PCM audio at 24-bit/96kHz? A good number of digital studio masters are in 24/96. Most modern sound cards are quite capable of supporting that resolution, so why not go for the gold?
Seriously folks. CD quality is just barely passable as it is, and don't get me started on *ANY* compression codecs, so why would I demand something that is already suboptimal? I'd rather make them give me analog masters (1" tape or LP) than anything short of the resolution it was recorded in.
We've heard this refrain before, I believe it was almost ten years ago and the fact of the matter is it just hasn't come true. Sure, we use our browsers to access social media, broadcast media, news and information sites, but it's certainly not the only thing we do with our computers. Will we see an even more dumbed-down device that runs just a browser as its OS? Sure. Will it sell as well as, say, an iPad? Probably not.
Now, I may not have founded Electronic Arts, but my opinion is also based on facts and is just as valid a prediction of the future as anyone who has worked and lived technology for more than 20 years. We can point to technologies we believe will revolutionize or evolve to take over, but what plays out in the market is usually a completely different thing. Let's just wait and see what happens. I like surprises.
Lots of 1, 2, 3 ratings in this thread. Well the reasons to reboot a Unix server are many, but it's contextual. Some have mentioned the obvious answers, i.e., to test a redundancy or restore operation, to verify hardware integrity, to verify that software patches will stick after a reboot, etc.
Here's another good reason to reboot often from the HPC world, after every job that runs on compute nodes. HPC code bases are notorious for not exiting cleanly and heaven knows what residual processes or memory clogs are left on a node after a job runs. It's almost always good to run an epilogue script to clean up and reboot nodes after a job terminates. Hell, in some cases we completely re-image a node after a job to make sure things are clean.
So, yeah, this "never reboot a Unix box" attitude comes from people who build boxes that don't change (stupid practice in the modern vulnerability a week environment), or are just plain ignorant all together. If you are building production Unix servers that are single machines with no redundancy and aren't rebooted often (once or twice a year at least) you're not going to be working for much longer. The first major failure will find you on the unemployment line.
Is it me or did the author of that blog, and most commentors so far here, miss the mark entirely? So, games like Grand Theft Auto, Uncharted, Infamous, etc., etc. don't count? Bunk! The graphic adventure game is quite alive and well, it has just evolved. I remember playing Myst and a bunch of others over the years and if the technology and expertise had been affordable/existed then, those games would have looked like GTA or Uncharted.
"Companies can struggle to keep up with the constant rate of technological change."
If the company is having trouble keeping up with technology change and even *THINKING* of asking employees to buy their own computers, the company is dying and either needs to make some strategic changes to its products and services or DIE!
Sorry. Some companies are not forever. I should know. I've been involved with quite a few that have died and a few still alive.:-)
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I hear a lot of griping about versioning in the comments, but nobody talking about why Direct3D is faster than Direct2D at rendering non-3D objects. The Quartz/OpenGL thing makes sense as Quartz is on top of OpenGL and it would be faster to bypass it, but if Direct3D is 20% faster than Direct2D why would anyone even bother using Direct2D at all, for anything on Windows? I would assume Direct2D is *NOT* built atop Direct3D in the API structure, as that would not make any sense at all. Seems odd to me... Anyone have an answer that isn't sarcastic?
I've decided that the internet is no longer a positive influence on my life...
Seriously, just turn it off. There are few if any "necessities" on the Internet so why bother.
You mention Wikipedia as an information source you would like to "rip" and keep. One, that's illegal. Wikipedia is still copyrighted material. Two, there are far more accurate resources of information-like books, journals, magazines, etc. Now, they might not be as up-to-date as Wikipedia, but they are certainly as accurate if not more so.
Email will probably be the most missed thing about the Internet. The ability to stay in touch with people and send important documents electronically are probably the biggest things to lose. Heaven forbid you call someone or mail them something.
I know plenty of people who live in areas where Internet access is limited to non-existent and they lead happy productive lives, just like their Netizen friends. People lived for thousands of years before the Internet and I guarantee that we can still live without it.
No, the legality here is none of the parties involved is law enforcement. Private citizens can do a lot of things cops can't do without warrants. Now, this does vary from state to state in the U.S., but there are different, stricter surveillance rules for law enforcement for a reason.
For example, you could listen for the number, duration, and frequency of brakes being applied hard at intersections as a predictor of accidents. That would allow you to redesign the intersection to improve safety; even if no accidents have occurred.
Ummm, no. What that example illustrates is a poorly setup traffic light, or distracted drivers. Has nothing to do with crime, the motivations and opportunities for such, nor the people that perpetrate crimes. Bad example. I know folks commenting have said this isn't Minority Report stuff, but it most certainly is as close as we can get without psychic triplets (yes, I know the girl wasn't related) and Tom Cruise. It's a prelude to it, or a poorly contrived facsimile. Nothing good can come from this. To prevent crime, hire more cops.
Not sure where you dug up those obscure references, but they are not relevant. Warburg's and Rife's research is far too old to be relevant to today's knowledge of human biology and biochemistry, let alone materials science and mycology. For one, during their time (1883-1971) asbestos was a good thing. Referencing them is like referencing research from when everyone thought the Earth was flat. The other guy you bring up I couldn't find anywhere credible. If he is an M.D., Ph.D. then he's nuttier than a fruitcake!
But, if you believe asbestos is harmless there are some really old buildings at my university you can go into and smack old insulation and take deep breaths. I'll watch from a video surveillance camera from the other side of campus, thank you.
Where to begin ...
its not always what you think.
one 'guy' that moves things around is heat. heating and a/c and humidity in the house. cables expand and contract and fit (and don't fit!) the connectors and this slow bounce, if you will, causes things to lose connectivity, even if just 1 wire in a bundle. seen it plenty of times.
Umm, the kind of temperature differentials that would need to occur to make this concern valid do not happen in the developed world, unless we're talking about something in NEMA cabinets out on the lone prairie in northern New Mexico.
multi conductor cables are a NIGHTMARE (which is why I hate the hdmi designers. what a bunch of losers! 2 opto cables would have done it better but NOOOO they had to have multiple metal-to-metal's and lots of wire and twists and interference. idiots!!! please, if you currently have an hdmi designer in your employ, fire him now. fire him. now.)
What? Copper is way cheaper than optical cable and is a heck of a lot more consumer friendly. You know how many people I see treat cable like rope or string?!?! Shouldn't do that with copper, can't do that with optical fiber. So, no, optical not practical given the behavior of the current consumer.
hdmi cables are not even locking cables. (same with older sata cables; dont' get me started on THAT nightmare we call a cable ...). hdmi cables fall out of alignment since the connector is VERY cheap and so are the cable males. cheap and cheap are not a good way to ensure success.
look at older db9, db25 style connectors. those things were strong enough to lift a house! ;) THOSE were connectors made by visionary men. keyed, robust, cheap to make and they never fell out on their own. compare to hdmi and you'll see the night/day diff in how cables used to be designed vs how they are designed today.
Just a guess here, but you weren't alive in the 1960s and 1970s were you? When this stuff was new personal computers were made out of what we geeks had lying around. In this case, a lot of CB and Amateur Radio equipment that already used a lot of these big beefy connectors. The DB-x style connectors came from the telco guys, mostly, and used to cobble together protocols like Parallel and Serial Ports so their new fangled gadgets could talk to other input or output devices.
My point? A lot of these connectors were horribly over-engineered for their current purpose. Also, digital (and analog) signaling was no where near as efficient and clean as it is today. Have you looked at a motherboard from 1980s PCs? Some gigantic circuitry on that baby. Caps bigger than your pinky on the motherboard, and not for power! So, yeah, things were beefier back then. You want something built like that for today, go for it. Cost a gazillion (that's a lot) Euros/Dollars/Pounds/Yen, put out as much heat as a jet engine, but you'll be able to play the latest FPS at 120 fps.
Just because it's small and doesn't require a lot of expensive parts doesn't make it any less effective at its purpose.
sometimes you have to re-flex the cables or pre-strain them before you install them. the flex of the cable is not enough compared to the stiffness of the so-called strain relief they use. again, as an analogy, look at an ide cable and how well it stays in (even if you hang the drive UP by it!) vs a sata cable. compare the molex power cables of yesterday to the sata power cables of today. all steps backwards!
I really hate the backwards move in cable design and quality. its like they are TRYING to make things bad on purpose, refusing to use what worked well in the past - out of spite?
More nonsense. Yes, cables become tense and like to stay in one position if stored or maintained in that position for any length of time. What part of "there's metal in there" doesn't make sense? It's not rope. It's not string. And, it's not single conductor wire.
I'm leaving the backwards thing alone. Too much irony.
Shoot the Transportation Engineer! that ever came up with the roundabout AND the merging exit and entry lanes on highways (another circle of death)! Yes, on paper, if people ACTUALLY drove by the "Rules of the Road" and "Right of Way"-let alone the actual LAWS that govern vehicular operation in ANY country-they would do all the things they say. BUT, this is yet another classic case of theory v. reality. In theory, given the laws and rules of the road this would work. In reality, people learn stuff about driving to pass a test and then forget it all 15 seconds after they have the driver's license in their hand! People in the U.S. can't handle a four way stop! It's right of way based and they can't even remember those simple rules! SHEESH!
1. No.
2. iOS *IS* Mac OS X, a subset thereof
3. iOS still needs a desktop machine to develop for...and everyone in Apple management would have to be replaced by robots before they'd allow that to be on a Windows box!
4. Steve doesn't like multiple OSes. I can definitely see Mac OS XI being an integration of the mobile and desktop/server version of the OS, but not the desktop OS going away completely...that's a Google dream, not an Apple dream.
Check out EndNote (http://www.endnote.com/eninfo.asp), also. Your school may already have a site license like mine where it is free to all students.
1. What types of computation is the cluster going to be used for? MD, CFD, ???
2. What software will be used on the nodes? CHARMM, GAMESS, LAMMPS, NWChem, etc.
3. Do you have a preference for a Linux distro? If not, it really doesn't matter that much if you are rolling your own cluster and software stack. It will just determine what things are used for package management and what services in the distro you might want to turn off in order to get the most memory for apps and not the base OS.
4. You should be using SSH as the main interface for the actual compute nodes and maybe (big maybe) have an X server on the login/compile head nodes, but NOT the compute nodes. You want the compute nodes to be as bare as possible to conserve as much RAM and scratch disk space for apps as possible.
Having said all that, CentOS, Fedora, SuSE and RHEL are probably the most popular on distributed memory clusters today. You will also want to make sure that whatever compilers you are using are compatible with the Linux distro you want to use, unless you are relying completely on gcc or binary applications. I have built many clusters from scratch and can be a point of contact should you have additional questions.
If the Xbox Live network gets attacked like the Playstation Network, then all Internet services to the device will be just as useful as Netflix is on my PS3 at the moment. Sigh
"Correlation is not causation". Don't people like saying that a lot around here?
[...] an excellent argument on the possible cause of increased sugar leading to obesity.
Increased sugar does not lead to obesity. Increased sitting-on-your-ass leads to obesity. The problem isn't the substance, it's the behavior!
I hate to be that guy, but define "sugar"?
Like most omnivores we require carbohydrates (*cough*,*cough*SUGAR!) to produce energy, protein to help us heal and build muscles, and cellulose and other vegetable matter to help with digestive processes.
So, what do you mean, Dr. Lustig, by "sugar is toxic"? High fructose corn syrup is indeed toxic to the body in large amounts, just like just about any other item we inhale or ingest. Like that? Or, any carbohydrate? I got news for ya. We need those and they are *nothing* analogous to cigarettes or alcohol (*cough*,*cough*SUGAR!).
This pretty much goes for *ANY* tenured faculty member. Remember, he said "academic hospital" and department head. Faculty are taught at a very early age, "It's better to apologize than ask permission."
First of all, to the OP, I am sorry you are having so much difficulty with your internal IT group that you (felt you) had to spend your own money. That's always no fun.
Secondly, why didn't you just use Google calendar? Free, works with iCal, etc. It sounded like you just need a shift calendar for the doctors, not something that would need HIPAA protection. Also, what calendar system is your IT department using that won't work with the iOS devices? I can't think of one off the top of my head that doesn't work with iOS anymore. Exchange works with the web services turned on at the server, so if that's it then you're dealing with an inflexible IT department and I'm sorry.
FInally, if the above two options aren't possible, hosting a secure calendar offsite (insert the name of web hosting company here) for less than $120 a year is also quite possible.
Nothing wrong with the science going on Mythbusters, but certainly selective memory distorts people's memories of what they actually tested.
So, what happens when you get sucked out a plane? Simple answer is you die. Complex answer is you die after being rendered unconscious by the lack of oxygen or trauma from hitting a part of the plane then hit the ground, OR you are conscious and screaming until you hit the ground. Bottom line, gravity wins!
Grub,
You nailed it on the head. I was about to write a long response to that article stub. The most important thing that science has is its repeatability. ANYONE, not just an expert can recreate a scientific experiment and get the same results. I dare someone to try the walking on water trick (yeah, I've seen the YouTube video), parting the Red Sea, etc. Those are acts of Faith that defy logic and reason, and are not reproducible because they were divine miracles (or just made up, your call).
I would say that there are many fields within science where experts disagree. That part is certainly not unique to belief/faith. Cosmology in particular has the string theorists along with the standard model and a few other odd splinter groups.
I have to run Windows in a VM
Whoa Sparky! You lost me there. Since 2006 you do not *HAVE* to run Windows or Linux in a VM on a Mac. Apparently you missed the whole Intel conversion, thingy. You can run Windows and Linux on the bare hardware. The same versions of Windows and Lnux you can run on any other x86 architecture.
You're using your laptop's host OS as your server and your development machine, without virtualizing the server in something like, I don't know, Virtual Box to run a Linux server in? Are you completely insane? Seriously, I've been doing web development on a Mac since there was a web. Even when I was using a WebSTAR server with a FileMaker DB I never ran it on the same machine I was developing on! Bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad bad! You're either a very bad web developer or you just have not been doing it for very long. Either way, you're making your life A LOT more difficult than it ever needs to be.
In the immortal words of Steve Zissou, "I really wish it didn't need the seriously."
Ahh, but there goes the rule of precedent with regard to the law. I wasn't able to find the exact case link, but in the 1990s a Federal Circuit Court found that publishing on the Internet was the same as publishing in any other medium and was bound by the same rules. (This is one of the weapons the RIAA and MPAA use against file sharers.)
Along that vein, you have to attribute and get written permission (release form) from everyone that is recognizable in a photograph that is published. So, I hope this goes to appeal. If she was on private property (and yes, a bar is still private property folks) and not in view of the public from a thoroughfare or adjacent property, then she has rights which were violated when that picture was published. If the person who posted it only made the picture available to their "friends" then that may be a loophole, but if anyone can view that picture she might have a case.
Seriously folks. CD quality is just barely passable as it is, and don't get me started on *ANY* compression codecs, so why would I demand something that is already suboptimal? I'd rather make them give me analog masters (1" tape or LP) than anything short of the resolution it was recorded in.
We've heard this refrain before, I believe it was almost ten years ago and the fact of the matter is it just hasn't come true. Sure, we use our browsers to access social media, broadcast media, news and information sites, but it's certainly not the only thing we do with our computers. Will we see an even more dumbed-down device that runs just a browser as its OS? Sure. Will it sell as well as, say, an iPad? Probably not.
Now, I may not have founded Electronic Arts, but my opinion is also based on facts and is just as valid a prediction of the future as anyone who has worked and lived technology for more than 20 years. We can point to technologies we believe will revolutionize or evolve to take over, but what plays out in the market is usually a completely different thing. Let's just wait and see what happens. I like surprises.
Lots of 1, 2, 3 ratings in this thread. Well the reasons to reboot a Unix server are many, but it's contextual. Some have mentioned the obvious answers, i.e., to test a redundancy or restore operation, to verify hardware integrity, to verify that software patches will stick after a reboot, etc.
Here's another good reason to reboot often from the HPC world, after every job that runs on compute nodes. HPC code bases are notorious for not exiting cleanly and heaven knows what residual processes or memory clogs are left on a node after a job runs. It's almost always good to run an epilogue script to clean up and reboot nodes after a job terminates. Hell, in some cases we completely re-image a node after a job to make sure things are clean.
So, yeah, this "never reboot a Unix box" attitude comes from people who build boxes that don't change (stupid practice in the modern vulnerability a week environment), or are just plain ignorant all together. If you are building production Unix servers that are single machines with no redundancy and aren't rebooted often (once or twice a year at least) you're not going to be working for much longer. The first major failure will find you on the unemployment line.
Is it me or did the author of that blog, and most commentors so far here, miss the mark entirely? So, games like Grand Theft Auto, Uncharted, Infamous, etc., etc. don't count? Bunk! The graphic adventure game is quite alive and well, it has just evolved. I remember playing Myst and a bunch of others over the years and if the technology and expertise had been affordable/existed then, those games would have looked like GTA or Uncharted.
"Should Employees Buy Their Own Computers?"
"Companies can struggle to keep up with the constant rate of technological change."
If the company is having trouble keeping up with technology change and even *THINKING* of asking employees to buy their own computers, the company is dying and either needs to make some strategic changes to its products and services or DIE!
Sorry. Some companies are not forever. I should know. I've been involved with quite a few that have died and a few still alive. :-)