Some times, there is no suffering what so ever going on. You would not know by looking at a person that they are supposed to be sick. Yet they are prescribed medications which sometimes have a cascade of interacting side effects. So not only are you wasting money on the original non-condition but you waste money dealing with all the side. Quite often it makes much more sense to just take the "Dr. McCoy" approach of adjusting your own habits.
Isn't that an interesting view on medicine in the future: You can do more for yourself than I can just by taking care of yourself.
I have witnessed multiple occurences of mis-prescribing penicillin to patients that are allergic to it. In some cases, this could have been FATAL if not for patient oversight. None of these situations led to a lawsuit. Although the perpetrators certainly needed to be disciplined in some way. Undoubtedly each of these people committed malpractice more than just the one time.
This is a pretty basic and simple sort of thing. It's not terribly complicated. It's not something like OB/GYN that's inherently problematic. It's dead simple and people are screwing it up on a regular basis.
We have a medical profession where ditch diggers need to buy a copy of the PDR to keep from getting killed by sloppy nurses and doctors that don't keep up.
...except there is going to be no "hot shot" lawyer. It's time you people stop getting your information about the legal profession from The Brady Bunch and Ally McBeal.
The lawyer defending the Doctor is going to be some salaried guy from the insurance company that makes far less than the doctor does. Insurance means that the insurance company is on the hook for the liability and they are the ones that are going to be fronting the costs to defend a claim.
You are ranting and raving as if a multi-million dollar judgement is not infact proof that a doctor has made a dire mistake. You are really whining about doctors being held responsible for their mistakes. This is not a remarkable thing for any sort of professional or any proper adult really. Doctors need to be held accountable for their screwups and in some cases just plain greed and disregard. The same goes for incompetent nurses.
If there are too many malpractice suits, then it's time to consider cleaning up the profession in question.
Ignoring the problem will just ensure that quality of care degrades the the medical versions of Crassus never gets his due.
The BSD is fine if you want some robber baron to exploit your work and lock you out of the end result. Otherwise, the GPL makes more sense. Despite of all of the noise from the BSD trolls, RMS did not create the GPL out of some deep seated need to overthrow capitalism. He created it because he started out with a more naieve approach to licensing and then had to deal with angry contributors when that first Robber Baron wannabe came along.
The GPL was created to keep CONTRIBUTORS happy. It was created so that the guys doing the actual work, the coders, would not get upset when the next Apple or Microsoft came along.
Guys like Linux have to deal with guys like Alan Cox.
Crap in the Apple store? It's already there. You already need to download and test every iteration of the same app to see if something is suitable or does what you want it. The really cool stuff you find out about from entirely 3rd party sources and only use the app store as a package manager.
The App store doesn't eliminate "sorting through cruft" at all. It just eliminates interesting choices.
Some of these are very useful things that address basic use cases that Apple likes to ignore (repeatedly).
The value of a broken iphone is that you can treat the thing like generic storage getting things onto it and off of it and letting different apps see everything you have on the device. You break the artificial walls that Apple puts between different apps and the entire system.
...as long as that remains available to you. In the new model (iphone), it is not.
Even so, the shell is a fall back to when the GUI fails for some reason. On the one hand, scripting is very handy. On the other hand, it should be less necessary. This is even true for MacOS despite all of the hype. GUI tools are quite often not very rigorously designed. Too much focus is given to the rube with no imagination that doesn't do much with their machine.
The only times I have had cause to do something funky in terms of boot disks is on MacOS and that was to avoid how it does thing different and how that impacts dual booting with either Linux or Windows.
...except they are starting to fail when competing against more open products.
This isn't so much a direct result of "closed" versus "open" but the fact that a single option has to compete against a LEGION of alternatives many of which address use cases that Apple tries to ignore.
It's hard to convince a customer you are actively ignoring, or worse denigrating.
A lot of those stations make Clear Channel look good. Also, oppressive sameness from coast to coast is not really a good selling point. Although being able to get a radio signal in the middle of Montana is handy. Although it's only so relevant most of the time.
It's still generally true that the fastest and most robust comms are those that only ever travel over wires.
Forms of wireless are good at thwarting the local land line monopoly where the tech is robust enough (which it usually isn't).
It took some time for the USB ecosystem to gather steam. It didn't start with the puny iMac. It didn't even become suddenly more interesting even with the advent of support from Windows (and Linux). Even after that, it really took longer for things to get interesting with USB.
The tail didn't wag the dog, regardless of how much you want it to be otherwise.
This ties in nicely to my comments about USB. The success of USB was driven by it's adoption in PCs and support from Microsoft.
The minority player in the market is simply not going to be able to drive this sort of thing despite all of the delusions of grandeur that fanboys have.
Not really. Legacy style peripherals were still quite commonplace after this mythical event by Apple allegedly banished them all.
No. The real reason for manufacturers to embrace USB was when Microsoft finally caught up with Intel and started supporting all of those USB controllers that were already out there in everyone's PCs. It was only at that time that a greater that 3% of the market actually cared about any of those "bondi blue" USB devices.
I really don't think you were computing in the 80s.
Whether or not you've got one single board, or a bunch of slots it ultimately doesn't matter to the end user. These are "geeky details". On the other hand, dealing with the ensuing mess and cables and dongles and possibly even power wall warts is another matter.
It's really funny when these "queer guys" try to advocate something that is so utterly ugly and clumsy.
Other "innovative competitors"? Are you kidding? Did you just fall off the turnip truck yesterday?
Apple has had 25 years to grind Microsoft into dust by being the "innovator".
Didn't really work out so well for them in practice.
This mindless Apple worship is at the heart of this Unity nonsense including ideas and features ripped off of MacOS whole cloth. They don't really work any better over there either. This is an artifact the mentality that mistakes the look of the outside casing as "build quality".
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Some times, there is no suffering what so ever going on. You would not know by looking at a person that they are supposed to be sick. Yet they are prescribed medications which sometimes have a cascade of interacting side effects. So not only are you wasting money on the original non-condition but you waste money dealing with all the side. Quite often it makes much more sense to just take the "Dr. McCoy" approach of adjusting your own habits.
Isn't that an interesting view on medicine in the future: You can do more for yourself than I can just by taking care of yourself.
I have witnessed multiple occurences of mis-prescribing penicillin to patients that are allergic to it. In some cases, this could have been FATAL if not for patient oversight. None of these situations led to a lawsuit. Although the perpetrators certainly needed to be disciplined in some way. Undoubtedly each of these people committed malpractice more than just the one time.
This is a pretty basic and simple sort of thing. It's not terribly complicated. It's not something like OB/GYN that's inherently problematic. It's dead simple and people are screwing it up on a regular basis.
We have a medical profession where ditch diggers need to buy a copy of the PDR to keep from getting killed by sloppy nurses and doctors that don't keep up.
That is a particularly risk prone area and is not representative of the entire medical profession.
Childbirth has been historically a problematic proposition and anything that goes wrong can lead to very upset parents on the warpath.
Trying to generalize OB malpractice rates to doctors in general is remarkably dishonest.
...except there is going to be no "hot shot" lawyer. It's time you people stop getting your information about the legal profession from The Brady Bunch and Ally McBeal.
The lawyer defending the Doctor is going to be some salaried guy from the insurance company that makes far less than the doctor does. Insurance means that the insurance company is on the hook for the liability and they are the ones that are going to be fronting the costs to defend a claim.
You are ranting and raving as if a multi-million dollar judgement is not infact proof that a doctor has made a dire mistake. You are really whining about doctors being held responsible for their mistakes. This is not a remarkable thing for any sort of professional or any proper adult really. Doctors need to be held accountable for their screwups and in some cases just plain greed and disregard. The same goes for incompetent nurses.
If there are too many malpractice suits, then it's time to consider cleaning up the profession in question.
Ignoring the problem will just ensure that quality of care degrades the the medical versions of Crassus never gets his due.
It is the duty of anyone making a claim to back up that claim.
Otherwise, YOU are the lazy bum.
What he said. The Postal Service should not be treated like a private business. It serves a basic public need for everyone.
If you want to let something die, let GM or American Airlines die. Quit propping up entities that are actually supposed to be private companies.
...sounds like a smart phone without all of the proprietary lock down nonsense.
Not at all.
Just watch a Mad Max movie.
The BSD is fine if you want some robber baron to exploit your work and lock you out of the end result. Otherwise, the GPL makes more sense. Despite of all of the noise from the BSD trolls, RMS did not create the GPL out of some deep seated need to overthrow capitalism. He created it because he started out with a more naieve approach to licensing and then had to deal with angry contributors when that first Robber Baron wannabe came along.
The GPL was created to keep CONTRIBUTORS happy. It was created so that the guys doing the actual work, the coders, would not get upset when the next Apple or Microsoft came along.
Guys like Linux have to deal with guys like Alan Cox.
As much as we might like this guy to play the role of Don Quixote, it just doesn't work out that way in real life.
That's why we need guys like RMS.
Crap in the Apple store? It's already there. You already need to download and test every iteration of the same app to see if something is suitable or does what you want it. The really cool stuff you find out about from entirely 3rd party sources and only use the app store as a package manager.
The App store doesn't eliminate "sorting through cruft" at all. It just eliminates interesting choices.
Some of these are very useful things that address basic use cases that Apple likes to ignore (repeatedly).
The value of a broken iphone is that you can treat the thing like generic storage getting things onto it and off of it and letting different apps see everything you have on the device. You break the artificial walls that Apple puts between different apps and the entire system.
Apple hasn't created a unified update mechanism.
They have created a fascist gatekeeper system.
It's not the same thing.
Leave it to the fanboys to misunderstand the important details.
...as long as that remains available to you. In the new model (iphone), it is not.
Even so, the shell is a fall back to when the GUI fails for some reason. On the one hand, scripting is very handy. On the other hand, it should be less necessary. This is even true for MacOS despite all of the hype. GUI tools are quite often not very rigorously designed. Too much focus is given to the rube with no imagination that doesn't do much with their machine.
The only times I have had cause to do something funky in terms of boot disks is on MacOS and that was to avoid how it does thing different and how that impacts dual booting with either Linux or Windows.
...except they are starting to fail when competing against more open products.
This isn't so much a direct result of "closed" versus "open" but the fact that a single option has to compete against a LEGION of alternatives many of which address use cases that Apple tries to ignore.
It's hard to convince a customer you are actively ignoring, or worse denigrating.
That's rich.
No one is flocking to Macs for their safety as it is.
Macs are already a lot safer than what the vast majority of people use despite the lack of fascist style lock-down.
Yeah, but what about heat? My last Intel CPU ran like a toaster oven and had a fan mount that was very awkward to deal with.
SiriusXM?
Had it. Was not impresssed with it. Ditched it.
A lot of those stations make Clear Channel look good. Also, oppressive sameness from coast to coast is not really a good selling point. Although being able to get a radio signal in the middle of Montana is handy. Although it's only so relevant most of the time.
It's still generally true that the fastest and most robust comms are those that only ever travel over wires.
Forms of wireless are good at thwarting the local land line monopoly where the tech is robust enough (which it usually isn't).
It's probably a mistake to use bleeding edge features in any product of this kind. This includes Oracle's own RDBMS as well.
I'm not revising history. YOU are.
It took some time for the USB ecosystem to gather steam. It didn't start with the puny iMac. It didn't even become suddenly more interesting even with the advent of support from Windows (and Linux). Even after that, it really took longer for things to get interesting with USB.
The tail didn't wag the dog, regardless of how much you want it to be otherwise.
This ties in nicely to my comments about USB. The success of USB was driven by it's adoption in PCs and support from Microsoft.
The minority player in the market is simply not going to be able to drive this sort of thing despite all of the delusions of grandeur that fanboys have.
Not really. Legacy style peripherals were still quite commonplace after this mythical event by Apple allegedly banished them all.
No. The real reason for manufacturers to embrace USB was when Microsoft finally caught up with Intel and started supporting all of those USB controllers that were already out there in everyone's PCs. It was only at that time that a greater that 3% of the market actually cared about any of those "bondi blue" USB devices.
Nope.
I really don't think you were computing in the 80s.
Whether or not you've got one single board, or a bunch of slots it ultimately doesn't matter to the end user. These are "geeky details". On the other hand, dealing with the ensuing mess and cables and dongles and possibly even power wall warts is another matter.
It's really funny when these "queer guys" try to advocate something that is so utterly ugly and clumsy.
The point of an upgrade slot is that you can prevent the overpriced pretty thing from being a door stop next year.
Hopefully this year is not so much of a problem.
Then again... it's a Mac.
Other "innovative competitors"? Are you kidding? Did you just fall off the turnip truck yesterday?
Apple has had 25 years to grind Microsoft into dust by being the "innovator".
Didn't really work out so well for them in practice.
This mindless Apple worship is at the heart of this Unity nonsense including ideas and features ripped off of MacOS whole cloth. They don't really work any better over there either. This is an artifact the mentality that mistakes the look of the outside casing as "build quality".