Interesting Links for 08-02-2012
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andrewducker- Abu Qatada: out on bail, and rightfully so.
- How to stop Facebook or Google knowing too much about you.
- Breastfeeding women protest outside Facebook offices
- Fracture Putty can heal a broken bone in days
- Reason #37 I'm glad I haven't bought Skyrim yet looks damn pretty.
- Kitten tries to steal dog's tongue. Made of cuteness. More cute by same dog owner too.
- Why willpower matters – and how to get it
- So what’s up with ACTA?
- Why cancer is taking so long to cure, and what's being done about it now.
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Date: 2012-02-08 11:33 am (UTC)It won't help with the direct damage to the surrounding tissues though, which is also its own issue with recovery times and outcomes.
But still - MAJOR, major news. Brilliant advance, If they get it to work in pigs and maybe some kind of ape (and I don't see why it wouldn't), it will work in humans (barring some really weird human-specific immune system reaction - always a possibility).
Brilliant news already for pets/farm animals/race horses
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Date: 2012-02-08 01:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-08 12:05 pm (UTC)On the other hand, he probably is a "wrong 'un" and he probably has committed crimes in other countries, some of which are important allies. And one day we may want those countries to deport someone to us for trial.
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Date: 2012-02-08 06:58 pm (UTC)I guess maybe some of the Scandinavian countries and Japan?
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Date: 2012-02-08 12:13 pm (UTC)I'm rather reminded of the recent advice from an anti-virus software company to celebrities on how to avoid nude photographs of yourself appearing all over the internet: "Don't take nude photographs of yourself or let anyone else take nude photographs of yourself."
* The company of which I am FD has a client in Belize, but I think about them maybe once a year. Apart from that, I know very little about Belize.
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Date: 2012-02-08 12:15 pm (UTC)(It seems to me that a more common problem with facebook is not so much that it knows too much about you, more that you end up knowing too much about your facebook friends...)
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Date: 2012-02-08 12:18 pm (UTC)For instance I am totally in favour of sites allowing pseudonyms, while having an account with my totally real name on it :->
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Date: 2012-02-08 12:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-08 06:59 pm (UTC)There needs to be a big warning that comes up saying "You are not the customer, you are the resource." or something
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Date: 2012-02-08 12:57 pm (UTC)...except that is for those high intelligence / low willpower types who may well get good exam grades but who then end up in a succession of crap jobs by following the path of least resistance. And we all know some of those.
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Date: 2012-02-08 12:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-08 12:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-08 01:16 pm (UTC)This is something I have thought about many times. I'm a senior manager now, but because of the very niche position I've manoeuvered myself into in the firm, I'm unlikely to get to director (which would be the next level up) or associate partner or partner.
However, were I more ambitious, there are certainly steps I could take to try to get back on that promotion path. I could go back to being client-facing. I could move to a different office (London perhaps, or Montvale, where our global audit methodology team is based, or Toronto, where our global quality and risk management people work).
Directors in most offices are paid quite a bit more than senior managers in Plymouth (our lowest paid UK office, mostly because of local wage rates being low). Partners own the firm and therefore take home a LOT more. But then living costs in Cornwall are low. If I worked in London, even if I was a partner, would I be able to afford a six-bedroomed house with a large garden and twenty mile views that was within a 35 minute drive of the office? No. But that's what I have now. Would I be able to afford a Porsche 911? Yes, and what's more it would be a new one, not an old one. But I wouldn't be able to drive it to work (no parking in Canary Wharf) and in fact I'd rarely be able to drive it on fun low-traffic roads. I wouldn't have time to play Skyrim or Football Manager in the evenings or even at weekends. I probably wouldn't have six cats. I might not have time (or energy) to write role-playing campaigns.
So, although I'm still in my 30s, I'm in the unusual position of probably living in the house I will retire in, being married to the woman I hope to retire with and with little hope of being promoted before I retire. And I'm happy.
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Date: 2012-02-08 02:05 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-02-08 01:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-08 01:25 pm (UTC)Of course, nowadays I do put in more effort than I used to, mostly because I'm now interested in people processes and systems, and want to make things work better. I wouldn't have got my recent promotion if I was slacking.
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Date: 2012-02-08 03:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-08 03:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-08 04:12 pm (UTC)Of course I never do, partly because quite a lot of those person Bs may actually be person As who possibly don't have the nerve to say why they're truly unhappy.
I am happy, and I have good reason to be. I wonder how many other people are and what percentage of people who aren't are As, secret As or Bs.
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Date: 2012-02-08 04:33 pm (UTC)People who don't resist making comments like that are part of the reason why there are so many secret As. ETA: sorry, I think I may have got confused with your As and Bs, but you get the idea - when people feel their reasons for unhappiness are going to be compared to other peoples' that inhibits their sharing because most people are very aware that there are always other people worse off than themselves.
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Date: 2012-02-08 05:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-08 02:31 pm (UTC)The bigger news is that they've released the Creation Kit and integrated it with Steam Workshop so now anyone can use the tools that Bethesda used to create new dungeons, tweak gameplay, add weapons/spells etc and they can all be installed with one click in Steam. Expect the mod list to go through the roof soon**. That will make Skyrim very very shiny indeed.
* There was an early Large-Address-Aware hack for Skyrim that did the same but every subsequent minor patch from Bethesda broke it until they decided to include it in the official build with ver.1.2.
** ...and drastically drop the signal:noise ratio as a result :(
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Date: 2012-02-08 03:19 pm (UTC)(System specs: i7-2700K, Geforce 580, 8gb RAM, 64-bit Windows 7, Skyrim installed on an SSD)
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Date: 2012-02-08 03:46 pm (UTC)Nexus Mod Manager (NMM) is my mod manager of choice and SkyrimNexus (as per the link above for STEP) for installing them since pretty much every mod there has a "download with manager" link.
STEP really is the best way to do it at the moment since there are so many mods out there that are a little unstable or unbalance gameplay or have one or two dodgy textures in them. STEP's on, I think, v.1.93 which is pretty up to date.
If you install something like FRAPS you can get a feel for your current framerate. Some of the mods have quite an impact on that and it'll be a personal choice as to how low you let it drop. The rest, including tweaking the config files and your graphics setup is all in STEP.
The one important thing to bear in mind is it's all last-write-wins so the installation order of mods is important if two of them overwrite the same thing. again STEP covers this but if you ever need to add/remove mods in NMM take them out in reverse order and reapply them in the original order.
If you just want a couple of essential ones, I'd recommend:
SkyUI Interface upgrade - http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=3863 (requires SKSE - http://skse.silverlock.org)
Realistic Water Textures - http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=711
Enhanced Night Skyrim - http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=85
Xenius Character Enhancement - http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=2356
STEP's the way forward though if you've got the time. You can always just use STEP's core mods if the rest impact the framerate on your system too much.
This: http://www.geforce.com/Optimize/Guides/the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-tweak-guide is also worth a read. some of it conflicts with the advice given in STEP a little but it's generally a very good set of stable tweaks to the config files.
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