Chances are you only need the doctor to clue you in once. Take cholesterol - there's little the numbers alone can tell you, unless they're extreme, but you doctor can tell you, for you specifically, what you should care about. Having done that once, you should be good for years with a test at Walgreens. I suspect this is true of all the tests they will offer.
Indeed. It's really a failure of the system that I can't go to "Bob's discount MRI and Bait Shop" for the "cheaper at 4AM" discount. There are only so many MRI machines in the world, so MRIs are far too expensive. Why aren't there more? Why are any of them idle at 4AM? A system that doesn't respond well to demand by increasing supply has issues.
And you see this all over healthcare. Sure, it takes a doctor to understand what test results mean in the context of patient care. But the tests themselves are just technology, and nothing brings cost down like the march of technological progress. Something's fundamentally broken when we're not seeing the cost of high-tech tests fall quickly over time.
Well, the tablet form factor isn't for FPSs, but that's a pretty tired genre.
I've been waiting for a good fun RPG designed around the simpler UI of a tablet - one that's more about exploring and puzzle solving than focused only on the combat. Don't Starve, if you pretend it's an RPG (it kinda sorta is) is great for a tablet. I'd love to see more traditional RPG content with an interface like Don't Starve.
And for true obsessed gaming, 4X games can work fine with a tablet (MOO2 is nearly perfect as is). It's hardly casual gaming when you say: "One more turn" "Wasn't it light out a minute ago? Oh well." "Just one more turn" "Wait, is that the sun? Shit, I'm late for work."
Wow, I expected this to be an "explosion" from 1% to 3% or something, but Windows phone is actually doing well in Europe, on par with iPhone. Android completely dominates, of course, and Blackberry has all but vanished.
Shareholders fire CEOs more often than you might think. Clearly your ideas about what happened aren't shared by those with an actual financial stake in it all - it's not like the board couldn't see Windows Phone coming when they hired the guy! Nokia was in collapse. Would being the 3rd major Android player been a better choice? Maybe, but going a different direction to try to stand out in a crowded market was more in tune with Nokia's past IMO.
buy up companies that are either has beens or just starting out and proceed to completely cock them up and ruin anything that may have been good about them by trying to shape them into a half baked ripoff of whatever was hip
There's nothing unique to MS about that. That's just how large tech companies work - you see the same from Yahoo, Google, Cisco, Symantec, EA, etc. And the simple fact is most new products fail, you just hear about them more when they fail after a large company buys them.
As far as messing with Windows, I'm hanging on to my keys for Win7 forever, but at least there's a big shakeup at MS and who knows, maybe they'll "get it". They came back from Vista, after all.
As if the would pay a huge fine even if they were, by some miracle, held accountable for their actions
Sony did. They were bitchslapped by the Justice Department, hit with a fine large enough to make the shareholders wince, threatened with the dissolution of Sony America, and the CEO resigned not too long after.
While it's easy to be cynical about consumer protection in the US, when the US government is one of your consumers they do pay attention.
My TV is just the monitor for a laptop I bought to be a "settop box" (though it's actually connected with a 50' HDMI cable). My remote is my wireless mouse (and I choose a media player that gives me click-almost-anywhere pause and mousewheel volume control, which I find better than my home theater remote).
1080p makes it all work - I have a real UI, can run any sort of display app (Netflix etc) with the "full PC controls" instead of the annoyingly limited "app controls", and of course playing files from my media server just uses a normal file browser that shows whatever I want it to, with my media organized by a filesystem.
Everything else seems half-assed by comparison. I'm a bit mystified why a geek would do this any other way. Just for the fun of buying a bunch of embedded devices that don't really work so well?
I have a smartphone, but it's an appliance, like my smart TV. I have a box with a keyboard, mouse and monitor at home that I use to write and run general purpose software, and it's not a smartphone. It also has a Hell of a lot more power than the appliances (imaging ripping and converting a bluray with a smartphone - it's possible, and I'm sure someone's done it, but someone was very patient).
Woah. I also use Silverlight and I just started reading my old, old copy of Ender's Game, and sure enough the pages are loose in the bindings! It's real, man!
Ah, got it - that works for C, but isn't as good for C++.
I say this having personally fought a bug in production C++ code where control entered a critical section during static initialization, before the compiler's arbitrary initialization order initialized the critical section, leaving the object in a busted state for runtime and causing the most bizarre and cryptic deadlocks. But C++ wipes everything static to 0 before it plays any games, and all my personal code is designed where that is proper initialization (wherever practical).
Yeah, I don't see having the technology to work at 6km down without having the tech to make your own nukes. That was surely the US Navy's "research sub" built to tap undersea cables (which does actually do a lot of research these days).
From memory, the peak was actually 50K world total at any one time, half ours. Now we're down to 2500 IIRC.
I'm not sure that dumping spent fuel in particular in the deep ocean would actually be a problem (assuming you age it 5 or so years, then vitrify it, before transport, which should be done with any scheme). It's quite heavy, so it won't wander around, and no one's going to be harvesting it for nefarious purposes (or harvesting it using nefarious porpoises) if you dump it deep enough.
I'd be surprised if any "big data" uses SAN. I don't know about Yahoo, but Google, MS, and I'm pretty sure Amazon all use simple direct-attach storage. It's a bit silly to be worried about anyone reading the data off of 10000 servers through some backchannel without being noticed. Encrypting the links between those servers would accomplish a lot, IMO.
No one is ever going to brute force a 256-bit symmetric key. Even if you imagine a matrioshka brain (turn the entire energy output of a star into computation) it would take longer than the age of the universe. A 128-bit symmetric key is safe from brute force vs all realistic threats.
If the math is flawed, OTOH, or your "random" key wasn't so random, it's easy (there is deep suspicion about the RNG built into Intel procs these days).
On Windows, you use critical sections, not mutexes, for most things. Perhaps the biggest design mistake in all of win32 was that need to initialize them (and setting the memory to all 0, which at least in C++ you can count on in many cases, isn't right). It's a huge "what where they thinking?".
How is anything "initialized" at compile time in C? Or do you mean that clearing the memory to 0 is correct for initializing a POSIX mutex?
Well, it would be cheap and easy just to dump spent fuel in the deep ocean, and while the hippies would have a cow, they're going to anyhow. We're saving the spent fuel because it's valuable. If we ever want to return to the 50,000 or so nukes we had at the peak of the cold war, we'll need it all.
Jesus was a hugely important figure in history, though barely so in his lifetime, and many people who were alive when he was purported to be have written about him. There's as much evidence that he existed as, say, Socrates. It's as conclusive as historical evidence ever is, when all you ever have to go on is contemporary writing.
When you have several people arguing about public speeches the guy made, and none of his detractors claiming he's fictional (you'd think people arguing against his positions would have pointed that out, somewhere along the way), that's about as good as it gets.
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That's the best suggestion I've seen for improving /. in a long time! Wow, I'd take that ahead of Unicode support.
Yes, Prius knows the secret of NIMH, which is why they can develop up to 300 mousepower.
I don't care about your particular definition of irony.
It's like goldy, or silvery, but made of iron. You know, the opposite of wrinkly.
Chances are you only need the doctor to clue you in once. Take cholesterol - there's little the numbers alone can tell you, unless they're extreme, but you doctor can tell you, for you specifically, what you should care about. Having done that once, you should be good for years with a test at Walgreens. I suspect this is true of all the tests they will offer.
Indeed. It's really a failure of the system that I can't go to "Bob's discount MRI and Bait Shop" for the "cheaper at 4AM" discount. There are only so many MRI machines in the world, so MRIs are far too expensive. Why aren't there more? Why are any of them idle at 4AM? A system that doesn't respond well to demand by increasing supply has issues.
And you see this all over healthcare. Sure, it takes a doctor to understand what test results mean in the context of patient care. But the tests themselves are just technology, and nothing brings cost down like the march of technological progress. Something's fundamentally broken when we're not seeing the cost of high-tech tests fall quickly over time.
Facebook puts all "content" data on MySQL (only Google uses NoSQL for content, everyone else uses sharding over SQL servers).
Apple uses Azure for their cloud stuff, you might be thinking of their internals (for billing and customer data and so on) with that storage stack.
Well, the tablet form factor isn't for FPSs, but that's a pretty tired genre.
I've been waiting for a good fun RPG designed around the simpler UI of a tablet - one that's more about exploring and puzzle solving than focused only on the combat. Don't Starve, if you pretend it's an RPG (it kinda sorta is) is great for a tablet. I'd love to see more traditional RPG content with an interface like Don't Starve.
And for true obsessed gaming, 4X games can work fine with a tablet (MOO2 is nearly perfect as is). It's hardly casual gaming when you say:
"One more turn"
"Wasn't it light out a minute ago? Oh well."
"Just one more turn"
"Wait, is that the sun? Shit, I'm late for work."
Dangit, I've been using pyramid power all this time. Cedar chips, eh?
Wow, I expected this to be an "explosion" from 1% to 3% or something, but Windows phone is actually doing well in Europe, on par with iPhone. Android completely dominates, of course, and Blackberry has all but vanished.
Shareholders fire CEOs more often than you might think. Clearly your ideas about what happened aren't shared by those with an actual financial stake in it all - it's not like the board couldn't see Windows Phone coming when they hired the guy! Nokia was in collapse. Would being the 3rd major Android player been a better choice? Maybe, but going a different direction to try to stand out in a crowded market was more in tune with Nokia's past IMO.
buy up companies that are either has beens or just starting out and proceed to completely cock them up and ruin anything that may have been good about them by trying to shape them into a half baked ripoff of whatever was hip
There's nothing unique to MS about that. That's just how large tech companies work - you see the same from Yahoo, Google, Cisco, Symantec, EA, etc. And the simple fact is most new products fail, you just hear about them more when they fail after a large company buys them.
As far as messing with Windows, I'm hanging on to my keys for Win7 forever, but at least there's a big shakeup at MS and who knows, maybe they'll "get it". They came back from Vista, after all.
As if the would pay a huge fine even if they were, by some miracle, held accountable for their actions
Sony did. They were bitchslapped by the Justice Department, hit with a fine large enough to make the shareholders wince, threatened with the dissolution of Sony America, and the CEO resigned not too long after.
While it's easy to be cynical about consumer protection in the US, when the US government is one of your consumers they do pay attention.
My TV is just the monitor for a laptop I bought to be a "settop box" (though it's actually connected with a 50' HDMI cable). My remote is my wireless mouse (and I choose a media player that gives me click-almost-anywhere pause and mousewheel volume control, which I find better than my home theater remote).
1080p makes it all work - I have a real UI, can run any sort of display app (Netflix etc) with the "full PC controls" instead of the annoyingly limited "app controls", and of course playing files from my media server just uses a normal file browser that shows whatever I want it to, with my media organized by a filesystem.
Everything else seems half-assed by comparison. I'm a bit mystified why a geek would do this any other way. Just for the fun of buying a bunch of embedded devices that don't really work so well?
I have a smartphone, but it's an appliance, like my smart TV. I have a box with a keyboard, mouse and monitor at home that I use to write and run general purpose software, and it's not a smartphone. It also has a Hell of a lot more power than the appliances (imaging ripping and converting a bluray with a smartphone - it's possible, and I'm sure someone's done it, but someone was very patient).
Woah. I also use Silverlight and I just started reading my old, old copy of Ender's Game, and sure enough the pages are loose in the bindings! It's real, man!
Ah, got it - that works for C, but isn't as good for C++.
I say this having personally fought a bug in production C++ code where control entered a critical section during static initialization, before the compiler's arbitrary initialization order initialized the critical section, leaving the object in a busted state for runtime and causing the most bizarre and cryptic deadlocks. But C++ wipes everything static to 0 before it plays any games, and all my personal code is designed where that is proper initialization (wherever practical).
Yeah, I don't see having the technology to work at 6km down without having the tech to make your own nukes. That was surely the US Navy's "research sub" built to tap undersea cables (which does actually do a lot of research these days).
From memory, the peak was actually 50K world total at any one time, half ours. Now we're down to 2500 IIRC.
I'm not sure that dumping spent fuel in particular in the deep ocean would actually be a problem (assuming you age it 5 or so years, then vitrify it, before transport, which should be done with any scheme). It's quite heavy, so it won't wander around, and no one's going to be harvesting it for nefarious purposes (or harvesting it using nefarious porpoises) if you dump it deep enough.
Is there a difference between a really good scam and "bizarre ultra-libertarian performance art"? I think they meet in the middle.
I'd be surprised if any "big data" uses SAN. I don't know about Yahoo, but Google, MS, and I'm pretty sure Amazon all use simple direct-attach storage. It's a bit silly to be worried about anyone reading the data off of 10000 servers through some backchannel without being noticed. Encrypting the links between those servers would accomplish a lot, IMO.
No one is ever going to brute force a 256-bit symmetric key. Even if you imagine a matrioshka brain (turn the entire energy output of a star into computation) it would take longer than the age of the universe. A 128-bit symmetric key is safe from brute force vs all realistic threats.
If the math is flawed, OTOH, or your "random" key wasn't so random, it's easy (there is deep suspicion about the RNG built into Intel procs these days).
On Windows, you use critical sections, not mutexes, for most things. Perhaps the biggest design mistake in all of win32 was that need to initialize them (and setting the memory to all 0, which at least in C++ you can count on in many cases, isn't right). It's a huge "what where they thinking?".
How is anything "initialized" at compile time in C? Or do you mean that clearing the memory to 0 is correct for initializing a POSIX mutex?
Well, it would be cheap and easy just to dump spent fuel in the deep ocean, and while the hippies would have a cow, they're going to anyhow. We're saving the spent fuel because it's valuable. If we ever want to return to the 50,000 or so nukes we had at the peak of the cold war, we'll need it all.
Jesus was a hugely important figure in history, though barely so in his lifetime, and many people who were alive when he was purported to be have written about him. There's as much evidence that he existed as, say, Socrates. It's as conclusive as historical evidence ever is, when all you ever have to go on is contemporary writing.
When you have several people arguing about public speeches the guy made, and none of his detractors claiming he's fictional (you'd think people arguing against his positions would have pointed that out, somewhere along the way), that's about as good as it gets.
What, really? I had no idea gcc did Ada - that's actually pretty cool.