> Russia spread lies using social networks and gullible people,
Quite frankly, I found the nonsense that Democrats were posting on Facebook to be far more influential. The appalling nonsense made me want to have nothing to do with them.
They managed a level of bat shit insane craziness that none of my fundie tea bagger relatives could match.
Its funny that liberals think that tea baggers and fundies or even moderate Republicans were ever going to vote for Hillary.
> Yes, I don't understand the editorial line that/. has taken - it is becoming more and more about inflating trivia to make it sound sensational,
Yeah. Who cares if the company that's running more and more of our lives is actually competent. It's like these people get into shit they have absolutely no clue how to deal with. So they end up with absurd little corner cases like this that demonstrate that they don't have single relevant subject matter expert when they build shit like this.
It's like me trying to build some vertical app in a field I have ZERO experience with.
Google botched a simple billing system. This is a well known problem. They could have cribbed the basics from any number of extant systems.
> Probably why first-world countries stopped using them a decade or more ago.
The fact that banks like to take a piece of every credit card transaction that ever gets processed has nothing to do with this.
This is the first time I've ever heard of a company comparable to a national ISP not take checks (even small checks) as payment. This entire mess is caused entirely by the same sort of "but we're better than that" attitude you're trying to perpetrate.
No, it's not the 24th century yet. It doesn't matter how deluded you are about it.
Except the whole "standard of care" idea implodes when you treat cancer. Seemingly identical patients with the same condition and treatment quite often exhibit wildly differing results. You really can't take a "one size fits" all approach.
Cancer seems to be one area in particular that takes all of the apparent progress we have made and make it seem like we really don't know anything at all yet.
What tests do you think they can skimp on? I know someone who died from a very survivable cancer because they skimped on testing.
You simply don't understand how expensive cancer treatment is. I am not talking about the diagnostic tests leading up to the treatment, but the treatment itself. Even the most expensive and esoteric diagnostic tests are CHEAP compared to the cost of actual treatment.
You don't really understand anything about this subject. All you know are some deranged conspiracy theories you've heard on the Internet.
> The clueless doc at General Hospital doesn't even figure into this. If a patient has a complex / rare / difficult cancer they get referred to a regional cancer center.
Perhaps in your ideal TV world it does. In the real world, this quite often does not happen.
The problem with a rare cancer is KNOWING to look for it. If you don't KNOW what you're looking for, then it's hard to find it. THAT is the problem that better knowledge tools can help solve.
Quite often doctors don't know to send you out to the "one of thousands" of oncology clinics for you to get misdiagnosed.
You're really glossing over how hard this is and how often it gets botched even by people that call themselves oncologists.
People don't just go to places like Mayo just because of the name recognition.
Not only do I have an "idea", I also know what those tests really cost because I actually pay attention to my medical bills.
On the other hand, I quite literally know of patients KILLED for lack of robust testing. This strange deranged "too much testing" mentality is probably getting a lot of people killed.
This mentality especially makes no sense in socialized medicine where ALL of the associated costs have already been paid for and really there is no good reason to not have a diagnostic machine running all the time.
NOBODY should die in Canada for not having bothered to check if their cancer has spread.
Even as an American cancer patient, I don't want other methods from abroad to be ignored. HELL, even in the US there are differences of opinions regarding treatment. I even get different ideas from two oncologists that work together in the same office. A system like this should be able to sort through all that stuff and find most successful approach for an individual patient.
Why do you think it would do that? Being better at getting the right diagnosis quickly isn't going to make things any cheaper. If you think otherwise then you're probably just a deranged pot head or vegan kidding themselves.
A lot of cancers are rare and difficult to deal with. Your random guy at "General Hospital" is going to have no clue. He won't even know well enough to throw the $10K per month med at the patient.
PubMed on steroids could actually be quite useful for the average doctor who's not at a world leading treatment center like Mayo.
My ancestors? No, my ancestors suffered economic harm from those who could use free labor as a cheat. You're the one that needs to crack open a book. Your view of history sounds as sophisticated as a comic book from a pack of bubble gum.
The people that surround you in the hood are far more relevant then "how the man is trying to keep you down". Thug culture will ensure that any attempt to "be white" is discouraged. That includes ANY kind of academics including the vocational stuff.
This is why immigrants (illegal and otherwise) end up doing the those kinds of vo-tech jobs.
None of your rant is actually relevant. The problem wasn't "weather pumping anything all summer. it was the fact that we got an oddball hurricane that decided to linger a bit. If not for this peculiar bit of movement it would have been much less interesting and damaging.
Your narrative doesn't explain what happened.
> Right now large areas of Southern California are experiencing temps that are marginal for human survival.
You mean the desert? It's always been like that. Just ask anyone that's ever lived in Nevada, Arizona, or southern Utah. This is the sort of hysterical silliness that makes "deniers" out of people.
> You say that but weve had people here whinging that "Star Trek" of all things has got invaded by "teh SJW". I can only conclude they've never watched ToS.
Yeah, people like the man himself: Captain James T Kirk.
I'm surprised the SJW crowd isn't more brutal to old Trek. Kirk himself is a character they should all try to disown. There are all kinds of capitalists and individualists running around.
Also, that "inclusiveness" you're all so proud of are all horrible ethnic stereotypes that should make you cringe in 2017. Sure, they're better than what you had in the era of The Twilight Zone but they didn't really age well.
In Living Colour had a great parody of old Trek that wasn't really wrong.
> Yeah, you are only a legitimate good guy if you go to some exotic foreign locale for a couple of weeks to hand out Bibles like a true missionary.
Pretty much. Except the real life version of that is catching Ebola from trying to treat that disease in poor places with severe resource problems.
Fundies can be annoying gits sometimes but at least a few of them actually practice what they preach. They do so in significant numbers that it makes a noticable impact on the world.
"Progressives" can't even clean up after themselves.
If I am expecting to be in that performance domain I will actually do a little product research first. It's amazing what you can do with this thing called "Google". I might also even employ a speciality vendor to save myself the trouble. They go by names like "Apple" and "Atari".
The problems happen when you try to FORCE one mode or the other on users when it is entirely inappropriate.
An obvious related example is the text terminal versus the graphics terminal. Both of these coexist fine inside of all of the modern desktop operating systems. In MacOS and Windows they are largely invisible unless you go hunting for them. Yet they are still there and can be used just as if you were pecking on a real VT-100.
The tablet is just another terminal type. Computers are flexible enough by their very nature to allow a different terminal type be used. "UX designers" just have to get out of their own way.
What modern Linux lacks as a desktop operating system is application support, not features in the core OS. This is the advantage that Android has over conventional Linux.
It is a brand and an ecosystem with a lot of marketing and developer mind share behind it.
Your entire post is a stupid red herring including the nonsense about the number of obscure distributions that exist, a metric that only TROLLS are even aware of.
> Oracle is a non-starter in any real system unless you've already been hooked into their eco system. Try postgresql, mariadb, cassandra, or any number of other systems to create whatever you need.
Oracle for whatever faults you want to lay on it is at least robust. It is not built for speed. It's built for robustness. For a lot of serious work, that matters. Systems that don't really believe in integrity can't be swapped out for any of the serious DBMS products.
> SQL Server is pretty much the best answer to a lot of problems I have to deal with on a day-to-day basis. The alternative is Oracle, but it's not "better" by any measure I've found, and I'm just not into S&M enough to try it.
It has plenty of it's own forms of self-flaggelation. Don't let the shiny shiny fool you. It's got plenty of annoying syntax quirks of it's own. Plus the shiny-shiny isn't all it's cracked up to be.
For the trivial stuff, Oracle isn't really S&M. For the non-trivial stuff, Microsoft will quickly get left behind.
Habits of the "can't be bothered" crowd don't help. This contributes greatly to MS apps built on SQL Server imploding when they grow to become non-trivial. It doesn't help that they (sqlserver developers) indulge in scary embarrassing shit that hobbyists using mysql wouldn't even pull.
They can't even be arsed to read or follow Microsoft's own documentation and insist on on indulging in the stupid despite.
> I read one science fiction novel written in the 1980's where a computer document was searchable via a MS-DOS filenames (eight-character name, dot, three-character extension) on a different planet in 500+ years into the future.
Slashdot Mirror
> Russia spread lies using social networks and gullible people,
Quite frankly, I found the nonsense that Democrats were posting on Facebook to be far more influential. The appalling nonsense made me want to have nothing to do with them.
They managed a level of bat shit insane craziness that none of my fundie tea bagger relatives could match.
Its funny that liberals think that tea baggers and fundies or even moderate Republicans were ever going to vote for Hillary.
> That explains so many of the misinformed idiots I've met.
You do realize that ALL the major media outlets publish on Facebook, right?
It's not all just dank memes from The 98% and it's dopplegangers.
> Yes, I don't understand the editorial line that /. has taken - it is becoming more and more about inflating trivia to make it sound sensational,
Yeah. Who cares if the company that's running more and more of our lives is actually competent. It's like these people get into shit they have absolutely no clue how to deal with. So they end up with absurd little corner cases like this that demonstrate that they don't have single relevant subject matter expert when they build shit like this.
It's like me trying to build some vertical app in a field I have ZERO experience with.
Google botched a simple billing system. This is a well known problem. They could have cribbed the basics from any number of extant systems.
> Probably why first-world countries stopped using them a decade or more ago.
The fact that banks like to take a piece of every credit card transaction that ever gets processed has nothing to do with this.
This is the first time I've ever heard of a company comparable to a national ISP not take checks (even small checks) as payment. This entire mess is caused entirely by the same sort of "but we're better than that" attitude you're trying to perpetrate.
No, it's not the 24th century yet. It doesn't matter how deluded you are about it.
Except the whole "standard of care" idea implodes when you treat cancer. Seemingly identical patients with the same condition and treatment quite often exhibit wildly differing results. You really can't take a "one size fits" all approach.
Cancer seems to be one area in particular that takes all of the apparent progress we have made and make it seem like we really don't know anything at all yet.
What tests do you think they can skimp on? I know someone who died from a very survivable cancer because they skimped on testing.
You simply don't understand how expensive cancer treatment is. I am not talking about the diagnostic tests leading up to the treatment, but the treatment itself. Even the most expensive and esoteric diagnostic tests are CHEAP compared to the cost of actual treatment.
You don't really understand anything about this subject. All you know are some deranged conspiracy theories you've heard on the Internet.
> The clueless doc at General Hospital doesn't even figure into this. If a patient has a complex / rare / difficult cancer they get referred to a regional cancer center.
Perhaps in your ideal TV world it does. In the real world, this quite often does not happen.
The problem with a rare cancer is KNOWING to look for it. If you don't KNOW what you're looking for, then it's hard to find it. THAT is the problem that better knowledge tools can help solve.
Quite often doctors don't know to send you out to the "one of thousands" of oncology clinics for you to get misdiagnosed.
You're really glossing over how hard this is and how often it gets botched even by people that call themselves oncologists.
People don't just go to places like Mayo just because of the name recognition.
> You really have no idea
Not only do I have an "idea", I also know what those tests really cost because I actually pay attention to my medical bills.
On the other hand, I quite literally know of patients KILLED for lack of robust testing. This strange deranged "too much testing" mentality is probably getting a lot of people killed.
This mentality especially makes no sense in socialized medicine where ALL of the associated costs have already been paid for and really there is no good reason to not have a diagnostic machine running all the time.
NOBODY should die in Canada for not having bothered to check if their cancer has spread.
Well, that's a bit worthless now isn't it.
Even as an American cancer patient, I don't want other methods from abroad to be ignored. HELL, even in the US there are differences of opinions regarding treatment. I even get different ideas from two oncologists that work together in the same office. A system like this should be able to sort through all that stuff and find most successful approach for an individual patient.
Why do you think it would do that? Being better at getting the right diagnosis quickly isn't going to make things any cheaper. If you think otherwise then you're probably just a deranged pot head or vegan kidding themselves.
A lot of cancers are rare and difficult to deal with. Your random guy at "General Hospital" is going to have no clue. He won't even know well enough to throw the $10K per month med at the patient.
PubMed on steroids could actually be quite useful for the average doctor who's not at a world leading treatment center like Mayo.
My ancestors? No, my ancestors suffered economic harm from those who could use free labor as a cheat. You're the one that needs to crack open a book. Your view of history sounds as sophisticated as a comic book from a pack of bubble gum.
The people that surround you in the hood are far more relevant then "how the man is trying to keep you down". Thug culture will ensure that any attempt to "be white" is discouraged. That includes ANY kind of academics including the vocational stuff.
This is why immigrants (illegal and otherwise) end up doing the those kinds of vo-tech jobs.
None of your rant is actually relevant. The problem wasn't "weather pumping anything all summer. it was the fact that we got an oddball hurricane that decided to linger a bit. If not for this peculiar bit of movement it would have been much less interesting and damaging.
Your narrative doesn't explain what happened.
> Right now large areas of Southern California are experiencing temps that are marginal for human survival.
You mean the desert? It's always been like that. Just ask anyone that's ever lived in Nevada, Arizona, or southern Utah. This is the sort of hysterical silliness that makes "deniers" out of people.
> They were simulating weaker storms because they didn't have the ability to do so for stronger storms at the time.
In other words, they don't know what they're doing. There's really no way to put lipstick on that particular pig.
> Some of those hippies sure do know more about the dangers of nuclear waste than you.
We've had the means to re-use spent fuel since the 70s. Anti-nuke hysteria has kept the industry from moving forward with new and better ideas.
Meanwhile, we just kill ourselves more slowly in our attempts to avoid nuclear power. Coal is really a great example of that.
When you are the size of one of several large American cities in terms of population, EVERY problem is tiny and a lot easier to solve.
> You say that but weve had people here whinging that "Star Trek" of all things has got invaded by "teh SJW". I can only conclude they've never watched ToS.
Yeah, people like the man himself: Captain James T Kirk.
I'm surprised the SJW crowd isn't more brutal to old Trek. Kirk himself is a character they should all try to disown. There are all kinds of capitalists and individualists running around.
Also, that "inclusiveness" you're all so proud of are all horrible ethnic stereotypes that should make you cringe in 2017. Sure, they're better than what you had in the era of The Twilight Zone but they didn't really age well.
In Living Colour had a great parody of old Trek that wasn't really wrong.
> Yeah, you are only a legitimate good guy if you go to some exotic foreign locale for a couple of weeks to hand out Bibles like a true missionary.
Pretty much. Except the real life version of that is catching Ebola from trying to treat that disease in poor places with severe resource problems.
Fundies can be annoying gits sometimes but at least a few of them actually practice what they preach. They do so in significant numbers that it makes a noticable impact on the world.
"Progressives" can't even clean up after themselves.
As everyone else has said... it all depends on how close you are sitting to your TV.
Despite the impression you might have gotten from popular culture, we don't build our living spaces around our TVs.
If I am expecting to be in that performance domain I will actually do a little product research first. It's amazing what you can do with this thing called "Google". I might also even employ a speciality vendor to save myself the trouble. They go by names like "Apple" and "Atari".
There's no good real that one OS can't run both.
The problems happen when you try to FORCE one mode or the other on users when it is entirely inappropriate.
An obvious related example is the text terminal versus the graphics terminal. Both of these coexist fine inside of all of the modern desktop operating systems. In MacOS and Windows they are largely invisible unless you go hunting for them. Yet they are still there and can be used just as if you were pecking on a real VT-100.
The tablet is just another terminal type. Computers are flexible enough by their very nature to allow a different terminal type be used. "UX designers" just have to get out of their own way.
The modern Linux userland is not user hostile.
What modern Linux lacks as a desktop operating system is application support, not features in the core OS. This is the advantage that Android has over conventional Linux.
It is a brand and an ecosystem with a lot of marketing and developer mind share behind it.
Your entire post is a stupid red herring including the nonsense about the number of obscure distributions that exist, a metric that only TROLLS are even aware of.
> Oracle is a non-starter in any real system unless you've already been hooked into their eco system. Try postgresql, mariadb, cassandra, or any number of other systems to create whatever you need.
Oracle for whatever faults you want to lay on it is at least robust. It is not built for speed. It's built for robustness. For a lot of serious work, that matters. Systems that don't really believe in integrity can't be swapped out for any of the serious DBMS products.
Some people actually care about their data.
> SQL Server is pretty much the best answer to a lot of problems I have to deal with on a day-to-day basis. The alternative is Oracle, but it's not "better" by any measure I've found, and I'm just not into S&M enough to try it.
It has plenty of it's own forms of self-flaggelation. Don't let the shiny shiny fool you. It's got plenty of annoying syntax quirks of it's own. Plus the shiny-shiny isn't all it's cracked up to be.
For the trivial stuff, Oracle isn't really S&M. For the non-trivial stuff, Microsoft will quickly get left behind.
Habits of the "can't be bothered" crowd don't help. This contributes greatly to MS apps built on SQL Server imploding when they grow to become non-trivial. It doesn't help that they (sqlserver developers) indulge in scary embarrassing shit that hobbyists using mysql wouldn't even pull.
They can't even be arsed to read or follow Microsoft's own documentation and insist on on indulging in the stupid despite.
> The remake of Battlestar Galactica has non-networked computers and wired phones.
Those are not out of place in the neo-BSG universe. They exist there for a reason.
They aren't nearly as silly as some of the stuff in Trek that suffers from 50 years of accumulated cruft and contradictions.
> I read one science fiction novel written in the 1980's where a computer document was searchable via a MS-DOS filenames (eight-character name, dot, three-character extension) on a different planet in 500+ years into the future.
That was an outdated idea even in the 80s.