The problem with people going to the ED, is the fact that they are not going for a real emergency, but an urgent visit or just see a doctor without a schedule. The fact that Uber is cutting down ambulances is proof of this. Because if it is life or death, you wouldn't want Uber. However if it is just and issue of pain, or some issue preventing you from driving, but not life or death. Then the Uber drivers should be trained to ask them to go to the Urgent Centers, which may be closer by, and cheaper. As they are Doctors offices without an appointment. Who can treat most issues.
What health care really needs though is the return of home visiting doctors. Vs having ill people deal with the stress of transport.
The key problem with AI, is its trust in in its sources. They havn't programmed in a silly algorithm yet. When kids are learning to process the world. Kids learn when things are in the wrong context then it is probably silly or just wrong. Even if it from a trusted source, a kid will laugh at their parent if they are saying something that is contradicting their view of the world. Such as when the parent is playing with the kid, they substitute a toy car for a doll, and play with the car like a doll. The child find this amusing because the context is all wrong. The AI algorithm seeing this, would just say this toy probably of usage has expanded to be used as a doll so it must be a doll. There is no questioning saying "no, that is not how you play with that toy". it will take the source as factual and just add it to its list.
It depends on which side of the political spectrum you are in. Some people say Merry Christmas in a tone to say. Most of us are Christians so deal with it, vs just a friendly well wishing of the holidays. I tend to use Happy Holidays myself when dealing with people I don’t know. Not because I am trying to be PC or afraid they will be insulted for using a Christian holiday. But because I may not see this person for a few months so they will go then the holiday gauntlet thanks giving, Christmas and new years. And if they are celebrating some other holiday I hope they have a good time with it as well. If it is someone closer to me then I’ll use Merry Christmas just because I know they are celebrating Christmas and I’ll probably see them for other holidays. There is being PC then there is just being kind.
How many pests are killed to protect that plant from getting eaten from non humans. Organic pesticides and bringing/raising predatory animals to protect the crops kills thousands/millions of animals to keep that bean alive so you can eat it. As an animal who cannot photosynthesis or extract nutrients from minerals, our lives are dependent on killing others for our nutrient. Our ancestors knew this that had to deal with it every day. Today a lot of the details of our food preparation and a culture afraid to face death in any form makes it seem like we can have a our cake without having cost the lives of thousands of animals.
In general when a company sells a lot of products it can compete hard with and be the best parter with the same company. It isn’t hard to do if the people in charge are willing to be adults.
We have Google and Amazon who doesn’t realize this yet.
Which is a good thing. If the industry can be a good citizen then they don't need strict rules. Strict rules can get in the way of innovation, and law makers are not really smart enough to come up with all encompassing laws that proctect from current problems, however allow for future needs.
With the industry saying you need to explain your odds, before people pay money, can stop the government releasing rules saying the source code needs to be available, and a long form disclosure needs to be signed.
Also this argument seems focused around consumer level sites, where people can make their own accounts. Systems with data that they are really trying to secure, has an Administrator create an account, and not the end user. Also the level of complexity to try to check if a new account is used or not, by making a login into the system, is a bit harder then just trying the login screen. Meaning the hacker will need to be more particular to the system they are trying to break into. As other then trying to put in 2 data points login name/password, it will need to navigate the account creation page. Finally if you setup your security in your system in a better way the computer really doesn't know if it was your login or your password was incorrect. You really shouldn't be loading the Account object until after authentication is confirmed.
I expect it is. However I don't expect the Class action to win. This seems that Apple was doing its best to extend the life of older devices vs trying to shorten it. Could they have done better? Yes. They could have given an option to turn such a feature on or off, Set a notification that the battery is no longer optimal... Have a little more press in getting a battery fix for older phones, as it is possible....
That is so 2010 news. The data is your phones locations, and signal strength of various carriers, and the phones unique identification. Apple uses this data to understand how carriers are affecting overall performance, and where they can try to boost speed with with their partnership with such customers. Granted a big data merge would be able to collect more scary information, but that would be a big lift for little reward.
That was my thoughts as well, however despite the ego of software developers, making an app like that doesn't take super programming abilities, just some time and effort. But my main worry is why should I trust an App built by a guy who admitted stealing NSA data? It is like getting your keys duplicated by an admitted house burglar.
I remember the 1989 Game Space Quest III one of the final puzzles before the action sequences for the end game. Was to wonder the cubes of a software company, being a janitor, cleaning the garbage in each cube you walked by. Working your way to the CEO office taking his ID Card, and on the way back going to the photocopier taking his portrait and make a color copy of it. Using his ID Card and the portrait to gain access to the End Game area. As there was a super advance card reader with a face scanner on it. There were two more puzzle actions, pushing a button to extend a bridge, and using your trash vaporizer to free some software developers from their lime gelatin imprisonment. But those were rather easy.
With this explanation it is easy to tell the game didn't take itself too seriously. And this spoof of a software company was a jab at Microsoft calling it Scumsoft. and the CEO being a kid CEO as Bill gates was considered at the time.
The Face ID Apple has while not perfect seems to have done it better then anyone else. Because they are a hardware company first, they took a hardware approach to the problem, by adding an IR dot projection of your face to aid in matching. Vs. Microsoft and Google who took a software approach using existing hardware try to get a match.
Being the medical industry does these blind studies and risks peoples lives. That fact that you might be slightly inconvenience by not getting you gizmo seems rather pale in comparison. You have people with a life threatening condition. If they volunteer to be part of a test for a new drug that may save their life. Half of them get a placebo and half get that drug, and they compare the results. So half of the people are getting no treatment where they may be better off getting the current treatment. Just to see if the new drug works.
Where would the proper threshold be? These batteries are dying after we start using them. I replaced my phone after I couldn't get a full 8 hour charge. However for someone else it would be 12 hours.
For Samsung it wasn't the battery, but the case was too small for them. These batteries will expand and contract, if you put them in a barely fits box. They could explode. If they freed up some room say by removing the headphone jack, or just making it a bit thicker then we wouldn't have the Note 7 explosions. A user replaceable battery, depending how it was engineered may still explode. being user replaceable, they could have exploded multiple time.
Actually what shortens an iPhone life, is the fact the OS no longer supports devices after 4 years. the iPhone 6 will probably not see iOS 12, iOS 11 is its last supported version, and besides some minor speed decreases from a shorten battery, we have an an OS designed for a device twice as fast full of features, and security stuff that just burdens the phone down.
You can get a replacement battery. However while it will improve how long you can use the device all day, it will still seem slow and poky because it is running an OS near the end of its supported life. Getting that extra 10% speed is less noticeable when the OS is the real slowdown.
That being said, access to an Apple Store or a certified Third Party, isn't always convent, compared buying a battery from Amazon and putting it in yourself. Also the cost of labor will make it that much more expensive to replace.
However not having a replaceable battery, and head phone jacks now are trademarks of so called "Premium" phones. But you know if Apple does have a user replaceable battery, then the critics will be all up in arms about the unsightly bulge, or gaps. Giving it a less premium fell... Being that Apple hasn't had a mobile device with a handy user replaceable battery from the iPods. I doubt they will change anytime soon. No matter how much rage is on slashdot.
I wish Apple would be a bit more open about their process. To spend weeks/months working on an app only to get rejected for some unknown reason makes it difficult. I get the point of the store process (it is similar to Debian based distributions Apt repository) A spot to get software designed for your platform that has been setup to work, and more or less shown to be safe and will harm your device, or your data. However often the best out there pushes the boundaries and takes risks.
I wouldn't say something magical, however they do have good track record of taking features that have had mediocre popularity and make them actually something useful to use.
However it seems the biggest problem with the App store and the Metro Microsoft store, is the fact that they are very strict against apps which are in competition with their own services. Apples latest iDevices have CPU which are arguable as fast as their laptop systems. However we cannot get power tools without Jail braking the device. Such as development tools, emulators, and system diagnostic and tweaking tools.
I would love to be able to go to a customer site connect my iPhone to their wi-fi and have them use the product as my phone as the server, to demo the product (for production you should still have a server)
I don't think trust is a major factor in this increase in price. Trust was a factor when it got around the $100 range, being that we know the transmission is secure and private. However now it is pure bubble, People are buying them because they know they are valuable, and are hoping to sell them right before the pop and make out like a bandit. I expect the pop will bring them down to the $200 per bitcoin range. But this excess amount isn't based on trust, as when the bubble pops people know they will have little if any legal ability to save their wealth.
10Mbps isn't that bad, for most home use for 2017. You may not be able to stream 4k. But you can still stream 1080p video for a TV. while browsing a website.
That being said... My main concern is this speed is good baseline for 2017, however if it going to be country wide, it will probably need to be upgrade to faster speeds as time goes on, without major infrastructure redesign.
Having cable modems since 2001 My speeds have been constantly increasing. 2001 1Mbps 2004 2Mbps 2007 5Mbps 2010 10Mbps 2013 15Mbps 2016 30Mbps Today 60Mbps
For the most part it doubles every 3 years. As peoples speeds increase so does the usage. Now Today's website averages about 2 megs of data that loads up without thinking about it. Where back in the dial-up days it would take 20 minutes to download that much data. Granted a lot of this data is kinda a waste. the full Jquery for a few function, images that are big. HTML garbage from being designed in some sort of IDE.
I think France is putting the Cart before the horse. France needs to get its dependence from fossil fuel off the plate, before it stops its production and exportation. With France leaving the production game, with demand still present it is opening itself to keep its dependence on producers such as the Middle East, Russia and America. Who at the moment aren't really nice nations to deal with. As an American I would like to think we are a good nation to trade with. But for the past year or so our relations with other countries have sucked.
This seems to be a common thing for Apple and Microsoft too. If they have a partner offering a Good Product they will make a version for themselves, just in case such partnership goes south, they will not be short of such a tool or feature. Sometimes their version evolve directly competes with the other product and sometimes it stays as the inferior product.
When Windows 95 was released, Microsoft really wasn't in competition with Netscape. IE was To Netscape as Wordpad was to Word, Enough to do the job but not really that well to be in competition. For Microsoft back in 1994-1995 The internet wasn't a big deal, but they were trying to push their MSN service to compete with AOL, where you were expected to spend most of your time in "Microsoft Land" where they controlled everything. However that didn't do too hot, and people started to want internet more then a particular service. So Netscape was getting a lot of usage, and Netscape was getting aggressive with wanting to use Netscape to replace Windows for running applications and be its own OS. This pushed Microsoft to make IE competitive not just a tool to download Netscape, hence the browser wars of the late 1990's. Now if MSN kicked off, and internet access was only a tool for the geeky. Then IE would probably just be a basic tool, while Netscape would be a major browser today, probably still competing against Chrome.
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The problem with people going to the ED, is the fact that they are not going for a real emergency, but an urgent visit or just see a doctor without a schedule. The fact that Uber is cutting down ambulances is proof of this. Because if it is life or death, you wouldn't want Uber. However if it is just and issue of pain, or some issue preventing you from driving, but not life or death. Then the Uber drivers should be trained to ask them to go to the Urgent Centers, which may be closer by, and cheaper. As they are Doctors offices without an appointment. Who can treat most issues.
What health care really needs though is the return of home visiting doctors. Vs having ill people deal with the stress of transport.
The key problem with AI, is its trust in in its sources. They havn't programmed in a silly algorithm yet. When kids are learning to process the world. Kids learn when things are in the wrong context then it is probably silly or just wrong. Even if it from a trusted source, a kid will laugh at their parent if they are saying something that is contradicting their view of the world. Such as when the parent is playing with the kid, they substitute a toy car for a doll, and play with the car like a doll. The child find this amusing because the context is all wrong. The AI algorithm seeing this, would just say this toy probably of usage has expanded to be used as a doll so it must be a doll. There is no questioning saying "no, that is not how you play with that toy". it will take the source as factual and just add it to its list.
True, however they have been told by some media outlets about some war on Christmas, so as good soldiers they must defend it.
It depends on which side of the political spectrum you are in. Some people say Merry Christmas in a tone to say. Most of us are Christians so deal with it, vs just a friendly well wishing of the holidays.
I tend to use Happy Holidays myself when dealing with people I don’t know. Not because I am trying to be PC or afraid they will be insulted for using a Christian holiday. But because I may not see this person for a few months so they will go then the holiday gauntlet thanks giving, Christmas and new years. And if they are celebrating some other holiday I hope they have a good time with it as well.
If it is someone closer to me then I’ll use Merry Christmas just because I know they are celebrating Christmas and I’ll probably see them for other holidays.
There is being PC then there is just being kind.
How many pests are killed to protect that plant from getting eaten from non humans. Organic pesticides and bringing/raising predatory animals to protect the crops kills thousands/millions of animals to keep that bean alive so you can eat it.
As an animal who cannot photosynthesis or extract nutrients from minerals, our lives are dependent on killing others for our nutrient. Our ancestors knew this that had to deal with it every day. Today a lot of the details of our food preparation and a culture afraid to face death in any form makes it seem like we can have a our cake without having cost the lives of thousands of animals.
In general when a company sells a lot of products it can compete hard with and be the best parter with the same company. It isn’t hard to do if the people in charge are willing to be adults.
We have Google and Amazon who doesn’t realize this yet.
Which is a good thing. If the industry can be a good citizen then they don't need strict rules.
Strict rules can get in the way of innovation, and law makers are not really smart enough to come up with all encompassing laws that proctect from current problems, however allow for future needs.
With the industry saying you need to explain your odds, before people pay money, can stop the government releasing rules saying the source code needs to be available, and a long form disclosure needs to be signed.
Well he seems to be using is same login for Slashdot as the other sites. So he is using a different login for sketchy sites.
Also this argument seems focused around consumer level sites, where people can make their own accounts. Systems with data that they are really trying to secure, has an Administrator create an account, and not the end user.
Also the level of complexity to try to check if a new account is used or not, by making a login into the system, is a bit harder then just trying the login screen. Meaning the hacker will need to be more particular to the system they are trying to break into. As other then trying to put in 2 data points login name/password, it will need to navigate the account creation page.
Finally if you setup your security in your system in a better way the computer really doesn't know if it was your login or your password was incorrect. You really shouldn't be loading the Account object until after authentication is confirmed.
I expect it is. However I don't expect the Class action to win. This seems that Apple was doing its best to extend the life of older devices vs trying to shorten it. Could they have done better? Yes. They could have given an option to turn such a feature on or off, Set a notification that the battery is no longer optimal... Have a little more press in getting a battery fix for older phones, as it is possible....
That is so 2010 news. The data is your phones locations, and signal strength of various carriers, and the phones unique identification. Apple uses this data to understand how carriers are affecting overall performance, and where they can try to boost speed with with their partnership with such customers.
Granted a big data merge would be able to collect more scary information, but that would be a big lift for little reward.
That was my thoughts as well, however despite the ego of software developers, making an app like that doesn't take super programming abilities, just some time and effort.
But my main worry is why should I trust an App built by a guy who admitted stealing NSA data? It is like getting your keys duplicated by an admitted house burglar.
I remember the 1989 Game Space Quest III one of the final puzzles before the action sequences for the end game. Was to wonder the cubes of a software company, being a janitor, cleaning the garbage in each cube you walked by. Working your way to the CEO office taking his ID Card, and on the way back going to the photocopier taking his portrait and make a color copy of it. Using his ID Card and the portrait to gain access to the End Game area. As there was a super advance card reader with a face scanner on it.
There were two more puzzle actions, pushing a button to extend a bridge, and using your trash vaporizer to free some software developers from their lime gelatin imprisonment. But those were rather easy.
With this explanation it is easy to tell the game didn't take itself too seriously. And this spoof of a software company was a jab at Microsoft calling it Scumsoft. and the CEO being a kid CEO as Bill gates was considered at the time.
The Face ID Apple has while not perfect seems to have done it better then anyone else. Because they are a hardware company first, they took a hardware approach to the problem, by adding an IR dot projection of your face to aid in matching. Vs. Microsoft and Google who took a software approach using existing hardware try to get a match.
Being the medical industry does these blind studies and risks peoples lives. That fact that you might be slightly inconvenience by not getting you gizmo seems rather pale in comparison.
You have people with a life threatening condition. If they volunteer to be part of a test for a new drug that may save their life. Half of them get a placebo and half get that drug, and they compare the results.
So half of the people are getting no treatment where they may be better off getting the current treatment. Just to see if the new drug works.
Exactly we just need standard laser printers that support PCL or postscript.
They can be cheap for b&w.
I was able to setup a set of diverse laser printers sets all supported pcl with the hp laserjet 4 driver.
We really don’t need cheap inkjet because they are just too expensive in a low print world.
Where would the proper threshold be?
These batteries are dying after we start using them. I replaced my phone after I couldn't get a full 8 hour charge. However for someone else it would be 12 hours.
For Samsung it wasn't the battery, but the case was too small for them. These batteries will expand and contract, if you put them in a barely fits box. They could explode.
If they freed up some room say by removing the headphone jack, or just making it a bit thicker then we wouldn't have the Note 7 explosions.
A user replaceable battery, depending how it was engineered may still explode. being user replaceable, they could have exploded multiple time.
Actually what shortens an iPhone life, is the fact the OS no longer supports devices after 4 years. the iPhone 6 will probably not see iOS 12, iOS 11 is its last supported version, and besides some minor speed decreases from a shorten battery, we have an an OS designed for a device twice as fast full of features, and security stuff that just burdens the phone down.
You can get a replacement battery. However while it will improve how long you can use the device all day, it will still seem slow and poky because it is running an OS near the end of its supported life. Getting that extra 10% speed is less noticeable when the OS is the real slowdown.
But, Apple Rage!
That being said, access to an Apple Store or a certified Third Party, isn't always convent, compared buying a battery from Amazon and putting it in yourself. Also the cost of labor will make it that much more expensive to replace.
However not having a replaceable battery, and head phone jacks now are trademarks of so called "Premium" phones. But you know if Apple does have a user replaceable battery, then the critics will be all up in arms about the unsightly bulge, or gaps. Giving it a less premium fell...
Being that Apple hasn't had a mobile device with a handy user replaceable battery from the iPods. I doubt they will change anytime soon. No matter how much rage is on slashdot.
I wish Apple would be a bit more open about their process. To spend weeks/months working on an app only to get rejected for some unknown reason makes it difficult.
I get the point of the store process (it is similar to Debian based distributions Apt repository) A spot to get software designed for your platform that has been setup to work, and more or less shown to be safe and will harm your device, or your data.
However often the best out there pushes the boundaries and takes risks.
I wouldn't say something magical, however they do have good track record of taking features that have had mediocre popularity and make them actually something useful to use.
However it seems the biggest problem with the App store and the Metro Microsoft store, is the fact that they are very strict against apps which are in competition with their own services. Apples latest iDevices have CPU which are arguable as fast as their laptop systems. However we cannot get power tools without Jail braking the device. Such as development tools, emulators, and system diagnostic and tweaking tools.
I would love to be able to go to a customer site connect my iPhone to their wi-fi and have them use the product as my phone as the server, to demo the product (for production you should still have a server)
I don't think trust is a major factor in this increase in price. Trust was a factor when it got around the $100 range, being that we know the transmission is secure and private. However now it is pure bubble, People are buying them because they know they are valuable, and are hoping to sell them right before the pop and make out like a bandit. I expect the pop will bring them down to the $200 per bitcoin range. But this excess amount isn't based on trust, as when the bubble pops people know they will have little if any legal ability to save their wealth.
10Mbps isn't that bad, for most home use for 2017. You may not be able to stream 4k. But you can still stream 1080p video for a TV. while browsing a website.
That being said... My main concern is this speed is good baseline for 2017, however if it going to be country wide, it will probably need to be upgrade to faster speeds as time goes on, without major infrastructure redesign.
Having cable modems since 2001 My speeds have been constantly increasing.
2001 1Mbps
2004 2Mbps
2007 5Mbps
2010 10Mbps
2013 15Mbps
2016 30Mbps
Today 60Mbps
For the most part it doubles every 3 years. As peoples speeds increase so does the usage. Now Today's website averages about 2 megs of data that loads up without thinking about it. Where back in the dial-up days it would take 20 minutes to download that much data.
Granted a lot of this data is kinda a waste. the full Jquery for a few function, images that are big. HTML garbage from being designed in some sort of IDE.
I think France is putting the Cart before the horse. France needs to get its dependence from fossil fuel off the plate, before it stops its production and exportation.
With France leaving the production game, with demand still present it is opening itself to keep its dependence on producers such as the Middle East, Russia and America. Who at the moment aren't really nice nations to deal with. As an American I would like to think we are a good nation to trade with. But for the past year or so our relations with other countries have sucked.
This seems to be a common thing for Apple and Microsoft too.
If they have a partner offering a Good Product they will make a version for themselves, just in case such partnership goes south, they will not be short of such a tool or feature.
Sometimes their version evolve directly competes with the other product and sometimes it stays as the inferior product.
When Windows 95 was released, Microsoft really wasn't in competition with Netscape. IE was To Netscape as Wordpad was to Word, Enough to do the job but not really that well to be in competition. For Microsoft back in 1994-1995 The internet wasn't a big deal, but they were trying to push their MSN service to compete with AOL, where you were expected to spend most of your time in "Microsoft Land" where they controlled everything. However that didn't do too hot, and people started to want internet more then a particular service. So Netscape was getting a lot of usage, and Netscape was getting aggressive with wanting to use Netscape to replace Windows for running applications and be its own OS. This pushed Microsoft to make IE competitive not just a tool to download Netscape, hence the browser wars of the late 1990's.
Now if MSN kicked off, and internet access was only a tool for the geeky. Then IE would probably just be a basic tool, while Netscape would be a major browser today, probably still competing against Chrome.