I've never directlyworked on a DoD project -- though did work for a firm that subcontracted to a subcontrator who worked on a DoD project. For the most part, it was pretty uninspired. Throw lots of money at the project and you can make damn near *anything* work...
Most of my meals (for myself) are "checkoff items" -- how quickly and effortlessly can I get the right mix of nutrients into my body without making an "event" out of it. I tend to only spend effort on things that I make for others -- as *they* tend to enjoy these things so I can justify the time spent.
E.g., I'll make three batches of biscotti this week for various folks to enjoy. About 6 hours of my time, total. But, I suspect it will translate into just as many hours of those folks *eating* them (they tend to be eaten patiently, "over coffee")
There are only a few dishes that I truly enjoy. But, even those tend to get "wolfed down" instead of "savored". OTOH, I will enjoy the
*memory* of the meal long after it's settled in my GI tract!
cf Deming. We tend to be taught to test for defects as opposed to design quality *in*.
I rarely make my scalloped potatoes, but if it's a special occasion I make them and go all out to do it.
I hear that!
I guess there are times that I'm just hungry and don't take my time enjoying the food, but if I eat too fast it usually gives me indigestion which I tend to regret! So, eating slower usually removes that problem.
You must be skin and bones if you really don't like to eat much at all.
I get the "adequate" amount of calories to maintain a healthy weight. I just don't get them in a slow, savored meal. It's not uncommon for me to eat a 10-12 oz steak. Or a sizeable bowl of pasta. Or, a *couple* of grinders made from a Bolognese sauce on a bun. Sunday lunch is always a pseudo-oriental pork dish -- I end up eating 1/2 pound of pork tenderloin in that meal.
OTOH, I think all I've had to eat, so far, today has been a 4 oz piece of lemon soaked cod fillet. I may make some rice later this evening...
Sure. We have a special Psychics'R'Us division.
ok Now I'm hungry.
yep ... definitely hungry. I need a snack! lol
Sounds like a customer for Soylent 2.0.
It take a lot of discipline for me NOT to get into the junk food rut -- simply because it is so convenient (zero prep time). If it was as simple as a "tablet"...
The guy that came up with Soylent couldn't jam it all into a tablet. I've been curious but they've suspended shipping due to some mold found on a couple of bottles.
When I went to elementary school my mom used to make sandwiches by the loaf. She'd make maybe 10 at a time, put them into sandwich bags, and then put all the sandwiches back into the bread wrapper. The whole thing would be put into the freezer and every morning she'd grab a sandwich for my lunch and it'd be thawed out by the time we went to lunch in the cafeteria.
Are you really sure you know enough about the newest iPhones to make such a statement? With 128Gb of memory, fingerprint sensors, variable pressure touch sensors and a world of peripherals I can't imagine a PDA keeping up (do people really use those anymore? - I thought they had pretty much died out with the Apple Newton ?)
For what I am interested in doing next (telemedicine) I don't think very many PDAs come equipped with all the bio, motion and position sensors built into the iPhone. Plus they don't fit so easily in your pocket. I like the idea of being able to simple spec HW: "You need at least an iPhone six to run my apps" and I am done specifying. It's really just a variation of the KISS principle: "Keep It Simple, Stupid!"
The IOS software has proved to be more resilent against hacking than Windows because of the tight control Apple exercises over product design and production. Apple is the ONLY cell phone maker that makes any significant profit so they must be doing something right to keep such a powerful lead over their competitors. The secret, according the to the article I posted elsewhere, is that they are not only a status symbol, they are also incredibly functional.
If you knew how much I used to despise Apple, you'd know this is quite a change in my thinking. However it's Apple's "closed shop" that confers a lot of advantages in today's modern virus/hack ridden world.
The iPhone platform has to be one of the most stable in the world because of the control Apple exerts over design and implementation. That's important to me as a developer because I see what happens in the Windows, Android and browser world. So many variations in software, firmware, OS's, peripherals and more. In that environment a developer could spend a LOT of time just addressing all the little incompatibility quirks. Those quirks are bound to crop up in a platform comprised of so many pieces developed and built by so many different corporations and programmers.
BTDT and frankly, I want to develop new ideas, not fix someone else's problems. As they said so succinctly in Aliens: "Is this a stand-up fight or a bug-hunt?" Obviously I like the stand-up fight better.
One of the neatest clone cases I had was hinged so that you could just pop open the hood to swap cards, change DIP settings, etc. One day I opened it forgetting I had a $500 Seagate 40MB drive on it which I heard sliding along the top on its way to the concrete floor. Thunk. Turn out to be not practical because it leaked a ton of RF. But the clones didn't have to be FCC certified like the real deals.
Yeah, what? (-:
Hey, that's what I've carried (unactivated, no less) for years and years. Now I think telemedicine will be taking off and the iPhone is the natural platform. There's just too much chaos in the Android phone world although it often results in progress that Apple will either have to pay, steal or litigate (are the last two really different?) to acquire.
I was scanning through the Android Apps store on Amazon looking for a good barcode scanner app and it's a little scary. Lots of bad reviews that accuse app makers of "stealing" personal data. Even the Apple Apps store got a load of bad apps. So how DO you tell which apps to trust?
For telemed apps, data security will be a very important consideration because of the various privacy laws. Oddly enough, the initial research shows a serious problem outside of anything I can do (within fiscal reason) to repair. There still is no universal data exchange possible because each and every different medical practice software package uses different data elements and names. Different field sizes, types, etc. The promise of electronic health records actually saving time and money has, IMHO, been completed thwarted by the lack of interchange standards. Initiatives are afoot, however . . . I once worked on the committee that developed the National Drug Code (NDC) because pharma companies were forever changing their formulations and packaging, partly in an effort to defraud DoD by providing what look like the same dosage, quantity and price as last time but only the price stayed the same. The other two decreased, sometimes substantially, often without adequate notice.
I hear a lot of Android users cursing at their phones. At least once a day. I don't think the iPhone is really so much better, but people who have paid that much for them have a cognitive dissonance issue going: "If I paid SO much for this damn phone, it's GOT to be good!"
I always wondered how Macs got certified but perhaps that's another hidden benefit of Apple's closed eco-system. I worked in a place where the classified PC room had active network jacks on the wall and network cards in the PC. I think the deal was as long as they were not actually connected, it was OK. It took the entire Federal data world a long time to realize that you not only have to order diskless workstations, you have to order ones without USB, network or serial ports, either. Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden explained it to them.
Oh, I'll bet if you starting banging on one, especially with an expert around to explain all the "secret squirrel" gestures and features, and you'll change your mind. I know I did when I dictated my first e-mail and it was nearly flawless. We've come a long way, baby, from the Sperry-Univac
1100 I learned to program on. It was liquid cooled, IIRC and was about 1/000 the machine an iPhone is, computing-wise.
Amazon was selling a whole busload of refurbed Sansa Clips. What a great deal and they do flawless voice recording, too. I think they top out with a
32Gb TF card (some have 4 some have 8GB of internal memory). Great audio quality, built-in FM radio, good search and sort capabilities and only one fatal flaw. The batteries are soldered in and HELL to replace when they day. All but one of the refurbs have performed as well as new and I was paying only $20 each for them.While lots of people piss and moan about how "bad" things are, when I look at my wall of CDs and realize that it all fits on one little Sansa Clip I think "wow" - what a brave new world we live in. Same with phones and tablets that take instant movies and photos, some with amazing quality (new iPhones do 4K video). For a guy that ran a color darkroom for decades, it's an unbelievable leap forward.
Same with TVs where you can now get resolution that looks just like a projected Kodachrome 25 slide. We've lived through some amazing times and progress. My old LTD with a 429 got 7 miles to the gallon but it was worth every drop when you floored it.
Dunno if you ever watch "Robot Chicken" but they spoofed Zune in a segment about how Steve Jobs made so much preceding technology obsolete. In the end, the Zune Man begs Steve to make his execution quick but Jobs replies "I wouldn't waste a bullet on you."
The Zune lingered on for an embarrassing long time. At least when Amazon's "Fire Phone" tanked, they dragged the corpse off the battlefield pretty quickly.
Actually, by law they did. Just another law that was selectively ignored.
Yes, indeed we're. From vacuum tubes to Nano-tech. Living thru with them yet.
The loophole, IIRC, was that I was buying parts and assembling them, and using them myself, not selling them to end-users as completed machines. So I wasn't technically breaking the law. At least that's what my vendor said when I asked him why he sold only components, not finished machines.
I always had to have at least three machines up and running when I was developing and testing software so I was always building the latest and greatest. I still have most of them lining a wall in the basement. It was interesting to watch the industry mature. Eventually the holes in cases actually lined up with the holes in the motherboards.
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