Researchers found that doctors who spent at least three hours a week playing video games made about 37% less mistakes in laparoscopic surgery and performed the task 27% faster than their counterparts who did not play video games.
"I use the same hand-eye coordination to play video games as I use for surgery," said Dr. James "Butch" Rosser, 49, who demonstrated the results of his study Tuesday at Beth Israel Medical Center.
Ahem. As a former officer, permit me to say that if you don't know, trust and have control over all your team, then you do not deserve to be one. Now I'm a manager; funny, same thing still applies...
Indeed. Keep the old ones, of course, but change the passwords to something very, very secure and different for each one. Backup then delete all information associated in the Cloud with these addresses, (Android, iCloud, Gdrive...)
Do not reuse any of the old accounts for anything. Use a "one-time" account for verification each of the new accounts, then nuke it and change to a new one. Do not be tempted to have one master account for verification of all the child ones. If you're using gmail, or similar, do NOT use some variation of your name, home town, company, whatever.
Finally, pony up for your own domain etc. and get a nice email account you can totally control. Cheap, too.
Mod up. Now, if Libreoffice or, more probably Google, could get "good enough" compatibility with MS Office docs, (including Excel macros, weird PPT presentations and fonts) then this could really go somewhere...
This shit gets modded up? RTFA people, it quotes the guy as saying the exact opposite.
Having said that, I got an "enhanced patdown" recently at Moscow Airport. For the first time in my life, (I am male,and have been travelling by air regularly for 20 years), I enjoyed airport security.
Maybe because patdown was administered by a very alluring blonde lady.
Ditch the scanners and bring on the hot chicks; watch all the jaundiced business travellers PAY to go through "enhanced" security:)
No life (presumably) at threat, but instead could be a potential for later life-support, (could not find out much info on the comet, but they are often full of ice and other good potentially life-supporting stuff).
Of course, the impact would be pretty catastrophic, but very instructive...
Not any more, I hope. Did we ever really need that many? Crazy cold-war MAD maths, I guess.
On-topic because Hanford made plutonium for nukes, but offtopic regarding nuclear power as implied in your first line.
All types of energy production, yes, all, including solar, wind and other so-called 'green' alternatives have an environmental impact and hence cost. Bullshitters who deliberately understated those associated with nuclear did incalculable harm to what indeed should have become a great source of cheap, clean and safe energy. Cheapskate and corrupt politicos and contractors knocked the final nails into the coffin. So now the USA, China et al are all burning shitloads of coal, which, as been pointed out here before, is pretty obnoxious for the environment, starting with the mining. Shame, could have been so different, for example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_france
Cannot think of any other options, sorry. If you want a rocking sound system, get a cheap PC and install XBMC. Cannot understand why you think a tablet would be good as your main media sever / player.
So, regardless of the success or failure of their business model, (hint: it's a failure), senior management has decided that swimming against the tide will mysteriously lead to better customer service and/or lower costs?
I assume that this move has more to do with reducing variable cost, (payroll), by encouraging people to resign, than actually implementing a well thought-out strategic or tactical innovation. This because if everyone concerned actually turns up to the office, instead of quitting, then costs must inevitably rise. Of course, productivity gains will outpace costs, right? Wrong.
If management cannot manage remote workers today, with clear objectives supported by good processes and infrastructure, what makes you think they will be able to do it with everyone in-house?
Couldn't agree more. Wouldn't be ironic if MS' support for Oracle helps them win the appeal. Then Oracle turns around and sues MS by claiming the original.NET implementation violated the Java API copyright.
Indeed, now THAT would be poetic justice, and a classic case of what can happen when "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" thinking predominates. There's no love lost between Microsoft and Oracle, both of which were created by two of the most unpleasant and savagely unprincipled businessmen ever, (yup, Bill & Larry, I do mean you), but there's one thing they hate and fear more than each other : Google.
Suck it up boys; I'm loving it here, munching my popcorn.
there is a reason why China is gonna have 25 new nuclear reactors up and running before we get a single one out of committee
And that reason is quite simply, China does not care about it's people.
Well, that's not quite right. The ruling party is actually quite paranoid about its [sic] people, which of course is not the same thing as 'caring'. OK, projects like the Three Gorges damn show that they're quite capable of steamrolling the right of thousands of peasants if its for "the greater good". But there's rising unrest about the pollution problems that have got too bad to be ignored.
Also, whilst they're exploring 'alternative' energy options, they know that if the growing middle class is to continue to have access to reasonably-priced electric power in the future, there is no short-term alternative to nuclear.
Of course, given their track record of safety in things like high-speed rail, that is not necessarily comforting...
Seconded - one portrait. Amazing how much it makes your life easier a lot of the time. Of course, if you have the space, keeping a third one, (maybe your old monitor) is good too. I use it keep track of mail, VoIP and messages without having to tab between screens.
Of course, it still sucks that as standard win 8 only shows you the task bar on your 'main" monitor.
Your constitution doesn't allow anyone to say whatever the fuck he wants. If you publicly say your neighbour's mother is a whore, he will sue you and win.
Unless, of course, you can prove that she is indeed a whore. Note that I am not implying that being a whore is either a good or bad thing. Separate topic.
Get him a decent laptop, then spend some time with him setting it up to dual-boot into Windows 7 and BSD. OK,OK, just kidding, Mint then. More seriously, getting him to play around with using *x as a server rather than just as an alternative desktop to Win is, I think, a good idea. He'll never be out of a job later...
Well, having been very happy browsing the 'classic' site with Chrome on iPads, iPhones and Android devices, I thought I'd head over there and see what all the shouting was about.
Site works OK using CHrome on iPad, but I confirm the above comments that it seems slower to load and rather sensitive to wrong clicks.
Big fail though is that if you try "disabling" ads, the top adsense bar remains.
Guess you did not have the same instructors I did...shouting, weird failures, then just for extra fun letting off a fire extinguisher in the cockpit while you're on short final, with nasty wind shear and one engine out. I don't know if I was scared, but I was certainly sweating;)
(For the record, the first two times I buried it just before the paint).
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Posted 4/7/2004 7:05 AM : http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/news/2004-04-07-surgeons-video-games_x.htm
Researchers found that doctors who spent at least three hours a week playing video games made about 37% less mistakes in laparoscopic surgery and performed the task 27% faster than their counterparts who did not play video games.
"I use the same hand-eye coordination to play video games as I use for surgery," said Dr. James "Butch" Rosser, 49, who demonstrated the results of his study Tuesday at Beth Israel Medical Center.
Interesting paper on it here, from 2011
http://mcm.dhhq.health.mil/Libraries/NewsDocuments/Medical_Simulation.sflb.ashx
Ahem. As a former officer, permit me to say that if you don't know, trust and have control over all your team, then you do not deserve to be one. Now I'm a manager; funny, same thing still applies...
They will be; original link is crap; this one has slightly more information:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/26/titanic-2-launch-new-york-replica
and of course...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanic_2
Indeed. Keep the old ones, of course, but change the passwords to something very, very secure and different for each one.
Backup then delete all information associated in the Cloud with these addresses, (Android, iCloud, Gdrive...)
Do not reuse any of the old accounts for anything. Use a "one-time" account for verification each of the new accounts, then nuke it and change to a new one.
Do not be tempted to have one master account for verification of all the child ones.
If you're using gmail, or similar, do NOT use some variation of your name, home town, company, whatever.
Finally, pony up for your own domain etc. and get a nice email account you can totally control. Cheap, too.
Well, MS bought into Dell, presumably to secure them as the biggest MS platform. Who's next, HP, Lenovo? Hope Balmer has enough cash...
Mod up. Now, if Libreoffice or, more probably Google, could get "good enough" compatibility with MS Office docs, (including Excel macros, weird PPT presentations and fonts) then this could really go somewhere...
This shit gets modded up? RTFA people, it quotes the guy as saying the exact opposite.
Having said that, I got an "enhanced patdown" recently at Moscow Airport. For the first time in my life, (I am male,and have been travelling by air regularly for 20 years), I enjoyed airport security.
Maybe because patdown was administered by a very alluring blonde lady.
Ditch the scanners and bring on the hot chicks; watch all the jaundiced business travellers PAY to go through "enhanced" security :)
No life (presumably) at threat, but instead could be a potential for later life-support, (could not find out much info on the comet, but they are often full of ice and other good potentially life-supporting stuff).
Of course, the impact would be pretty catastrophic, but very instructive...
Duress code...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duress_code
Not any more, I hope. Did we ever really need that many? Crazy cold-war MAD maths, I guess.
On-topic because Hanford made plutonium for nukes, but offtopic regarding nuclear power as implied in your first line.
All types of energy production, yes, all, including solar, wind and other so-called 'green' alternatives have an environmental impact and hence cost. Bullshitters who deliberately understated those associated with nuclear did incalculable harm to what indeed should have become a great source of cheap, clean and safe energy. Cheapskate and corrupt politicos and contractors knocked the final nails into the coffin. So now the USA, China et al are all burning shitloads of coal, which, as been pointed out here before, is pretty obnoxious for the environment, starting with the mining. Shame, could have been so different, for example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_france
Mod up. This is what I am talking about. Either an organisation knows how to make remote working function, or it does not..
Yes, as always - but I think the best people left Yahoo a while ago...
Cannot think of any other options, sorry. If you want a rocking sound system, get a cheap PC and install XBMC. Cannot understand why you think a tablet would be good as your main media sever / player.
So, regardless of the success or failure of their business model, (hint: it's a failure), senior management has decided that swimming against the tide will mysteriously lead to better customer service and/or lower costs?
I assume that this move has more to do with reducing variable cost, (payroll), by encouraging people to resign, than actually implementing a well thought-out strategic or tactical innovation. This because if everyone concerned actually turns up to the office, instead of quitting, then costs must inevitably rise. Of course, productivity gains will outpace costs, right? Wrong.
If management cannot manage remote workers today, with clear objectives supported by good processes and infrastructure, what makes you think they will be able to do it with everyone in-house?
Couldn't agree more. Wouldn't be ironic if MS' support for Oracle helps them win the appeal. Then Oracle turns around and sues MS by claiming the original .NET implementation violated the Java API copyright.
Indeed, now THAT would be poetic justice, and a classic case of what can happen when "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" thinking predominates.
There's no love lost between Microsoft and Oracle, both of which were created by two of the most unpleasant and savagely unprincipled businessmen ever, (yup, Bill & Larry, I do mean you), but there's one thing they hate and fear more than each other : Google.
Suck it up boys; I'm loving it here, munching my popcorn.
there is a reason why China is gonna have 25 new nuclear reactors up and running before we get a single one out of committee
And that reason is quite simply, China does not care about it's people.
Well, that's not quite right. The ruling party is actually quite paranoid about its [sic] people, which of course is not the same thing as 'caring'. OK, projects like the Three Gorges damn show that they're quite capable of steamrolling the right of thousands of peasants if its for "the greater good". But there's rising unrest about the pollution problems that have got too bad to be ignored.
Also, whilst they're exploring 'alternative' energy options, they know that if the growing middle class is to continue to have access to reasonably-priced electric power in the future, there is no short-term alternative to nuclear.
Of course, given their track record of safety in things like high-speed rail, that is not necessarily comforting...
Seconded - one portrait. Amazing how much it makes your life easier a lot of the time.
Of course, if you have the space, keeping a third one, (maybe your old monitor) is good too.
I use it keep track of mail, VoIP and messages without having to tab between screens.
Of course, it still sucks that as standard win 8 only shows you the task bar on your 'main" monitor.
Enable Remote Desktop on your mom's PC. It's not as insecure as people claim, if you do it right.
Your constitution doesn't allow anyone to say whatever the fuck he wants. If you publicly say your neighbour's mother is a whore, he will sue you and win.
Unless, of course, you can prove that she is indeed a whore. Note that I am not implying that being a whore is either a good or bad thing. Separate topic.
Interesting link, thanks.
Wish I had mod points. You'd get 'em all. Thanks for a great post.
Seconded.
I'd also second the remark on Python...
Get him a decent laptop, then spend some time with him setting it up to dual-boot into Windows 7 and BSD. OK,OK, just kidding, Mint then.
More seriously, getting him to play around with using *x as a server rather than just as an alternative desktop to Win is, I think, a good idea.
He'll never be out of a job later...
One could also mention Eclipse *ducks*
Well, having been very happy browsing the 'classic' site with Chrome on iPads, iPhones and Android devices, I thought I'd head over there and see what all the shouting was about.
Site works OK using CHrome on iPad, but I confirm the above comments that it seems slower to load and rather sensitive to wrong clicks.
Big fail though is that if you try "disabling" ads, the top adsense bar remains.
but all modern heavies can land and take off under autopilot, and have been able to for about thirty years.
Yeah, if the ILS is working correctly. Everybody knows they NEVER break down...
Combine that with something (fairly) common such as a bird strike, and I'll stick with a dude up front, thanks.
Of course, too many accidents (~25%) are still CFIT, so human pilots are far from perfect, but maybe we're getting a bit off the 'sim' topic here.
In the sim, you are never scared
Guess you did not have the same instructors I did...shouting, weird failures, then just for extra fun letting off a fire extinguisher in the cockpit while you're on short final, with nasty wind shear and one engine out. I don't know if I was scared, but I was certainly sweating ;)
(For the record, the first two times I buried it just before the paint).