I have to wonder how much of the underreporting is a result of pressure from the device manufacturer.
There were 245 incidents properly reported, and 8 cases of under or non-reporting. That's 3% of the incidents having been "silenced". Given the amount of money involved, I wouldn't completely rule out your concern. Nevertheless, if that's what they're trying to do, they're doing a lousy job. I'd recommend a Mafia consultant, as the NSA has shown itself to be inept.
Your comment was very speculative. Much hospital equipment has malware, so it must be a problem for da Vinci? Or maybe da Vinci's have better computer security. I don't know, but your comment is very speculative.
The lawsuits for the Da Vinci Robot have been going on in my area for at least a year or more.
Intuitive Surgical is a great target for lawsuits because they have deep pockets. Maybe there were one or two was legitimate suits that were won, and now everyone else is piling on, regardless of the merit of their suits. Or maybe they're all valid lawsuits. I don't know - but neither do you.
I had to ask how he justified performing the procedure *before* (until) he got the complication down to the level of the standard open incision.
Couldn't something like this be practiced on animals first? If you want to stay in good w/ the ASPCA, become a vet for a while (seriously).
Secondly, are there cases (extreme obesity?) where endoscopic or laproscopic procedures have a particular advantage, such that the possibly greater risks of the new procedure are outweighed by the known risks of a standard procedure for such cases?
investors and medicos on the bleeding edge of a new and they hope lucrative technology are doing to do everything they can to promote it, including silencing problems
There was no indication from the article that non-reporting or under-reporting was for the sake of "silencing problems". Obviously that's something that should be investigated, but don't jump to conclusions. If they are trying to silence it, they're doing a lousy job. There were 245 incidents properly reported, and 8 cases of under or non-reporting. That's 3% of the incidents having been "silenced".
Nice to know the US hasn't thrown everything it learned in the Great Depression in the trash. In the 1920's you could buy w/ 10% down. I think no margin buying should be allowed, but anything that allows less than 50% down is insane.
Definitely no indication of a "shortage", unless there is a shortage of people for all types of work that require a college education. If anyone actually believes that, then I've got a bridge to sell them. Silicon Valley BS debunked once again by the actual statistics.
There was a major rebound in 1930, and people thought the stock market had settled on more realistic prices. If the banks had been solid, the Great Depression wouldn't have been so great. Note that the stock market didn't really go to hell until 1931.
It's the factory workers, and other non technology people buying/using your product that provide YOU with a job, not the other way around.
It's both, and neither. Both "tech" and factories are productive parts of the economy. All productive sectors add something.
Gee. I'm a factory worker, and I bought a house recently. So have other people I have known. Look outside your insular bubble.
A lot of people from areas where housing is very expensive (like where I live) don't realize that housing is much more affordable elsewhere. I'm just glad I bought before the bubble went nuts. I don't think I could afford my own house today, even after prices have dropped a bit, and I assure you my house is nothing fancy.
P.S. Glad to know there are still some people working in factories here. We ought to have more of them.
No doubt that gcc is a damned good compiler these days, at least in terms of the quality of code produced, if not the speed at which the compiler runs. My point was just that it wasn't always so. Back then gcc was considered a toy compared to some of the commercial compilers, and it was. Thankfully the EGCS people did a lot to change that, and got the ball rolling for future improvements.
A stock bubble is not a debt bubble, since cash is usually paid for stock (and even when not margin is limited to 50%). Neither the bursting of a stock bubble or a debt bubble is much fun, but the debt bubble is much worse. If stocks crash people say "dagnabbit, lost a bunch of money", but they're not left in debt. When a debt bubble like real estate crashes, you're not just poor, you're also in debt. That makes it extremely difficult to get the economy running gain, as so much of people's money is being sucked up by loan payments.
While unemployment generally may be high, in the tech sector it is very low.
How about some actual, you know, statistics.
Tech companies, led by Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook, are lobbying Congress to relax immigration rules so they can hire more foreign talent because they believe domestic talent has gotten too scarce and too expensive.
And that's evidence of a shortage? They've been pushing for more of this crap for 20 years, rain or shine.
I also notice that almost the entire article is about Silicon Valley, which despite its pretenses of being cosmopolitan, or even "globalized" (whatever the hell that means), is one of the most provincial places there is. Here's a clue: there are parts of the US outside of the Bay Area. Amazing but true! Some of those places are tech hubs with lower salaries. Having trouble finding people at a reasonable price? Branch out. It's hardly a new business strategy. The geniuses who claim to have destroyed the barriers to long distance communication don't want to take advantage of it (except to India of course). I know that denizens of the valley are afraid to get on a plane to someplace like, say Pittsburgh, where they have a dreaded thing called "snow", but you can tough it out. Look on the bright side - the plane trip is much shorter than across the Pacific. You can even use Google maps to find this place called "Pittsburgh" .
it has made up for that by being really good at higher level optimizations
Heh, heh, heh, don't remember the great EGCS split of '97, do you sonny? Yep, us old timers knew that gcc was a dog of an optimizer, but them EGCS whippersnappers fixed it, and even got the fork accepted as the official gcc. Remember, you probably got to where you are today by running over the body of some crusty old-timer.
A significant portion of the energy is lost as heat in the distribution system - both as I2R losses in the wires and inefficiencies in the transformers.
Average loss in the electrical grid from generator to customer is only 7%.
Don't say that. You will scare a liberal....They will never go out again.
That's funny, this liberal, and many others he knows, aren't scared at all to walk down the street, even without a gun, and even in big bad cities. I wonder why some people are scared of their own shadows though, such that they feel unsafe walking down the street unarmed. Perhaps they can get help for their unfounded fears, and come to realize that they're much more likely to get hurt or killed in a car accident.
Concealed carry is legal on trains and tons of people do it.
Which trains? Not on Amtrak (federal regs). Have you heard of any hijackings on Amtrak trains lately?
Come to think of it, have you heard of any hijackings on planes lately? After 9/11 they came up with an ingenious defense - they lock the door to the cockpit. I doubt that will be central to the plot of Die Hard 6, but it works.
The Democrat platform is all about more government control of (almost) everything: healthcare, education, regulation, business... everything. When you've been elected to go to Washington and gain control over everything, it shouldn't surprise those who elected you that you run a giant spying apparatus to watch the same citizens who elected you to control them.
Putting aside the obvious point that this started under Bush (not a Democrat AFAIK), your reasoning is interesting. Let's say they got rid of Social Security, Medicare, the ACA, Dept. of Education, the EPA and OSHA. How exactly would that eliminate abuses by the NSA?
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I have to wonder how much of the underreporting is a result of pressure from the device manufacturer.
There were 245 incidents properly reported, and 8 cases of under or non-reporting. That's 3% of the incidents having been "silenced". Given the amount of money involved, I wouldn't completely rule out your concern. Nevertheless, if that's what they're trying to do, they're doing a lousy job. I'd recommend a Mafia consultant, as the NSA has shown itself to be inept.
I called this back in July
Your comment was very speculative. Much hospital equipment has malware, so it must be a problem for da Vinci? Or maybe da Vinci's have better computer security. I don't know, but your comment is very speculative.
The lawsuits for the Da Vinci Robot have been going on in my area for at least a year or more.
Intuitive Surgical is a great target for lawsuits because they have deep pockets. Maybe there were one or two was legitimate suits that were won, and now everyone else is piling on, regardless of the merit of their suits. Or maybe they're all valid lawsuits. I don't know - but neither do you.
I had to ask how he justified performing the procedure *before* (until) he got the complication down to the level of the standard open incision.
Couldn't something like this be practiced on animals first? If you want to stay in good w/ the ASPCA, become a vet for a while (seriously).
Secondly, are there cases (extreme obesity?) where endoscopic or laproscopic procedures have a particular advantage, such that the possibly greater risks of the new procedure are outweighed by the known risks of a standard procedure for such cases?
And they don't write reports. There is something called a "joke", but that's often missed on Slashdot.
investors and medicos on the bleeding edge of a new and they hope lucrative technology are doing to do everything they can to promote it, including silencing problems
There was no indication from the article that non-reporting or under-reporting was for the sake of "silencing problems". Obviously that's something that should be investigated, but don't jump to conclusions. If they are trying to silence it, they're doing a lousy job. There were 245 incidents properly reported, and 8 cases of under or non-reporting. That's 3% of the incidents having been "silenced".
It's not just in California where housing is insanely priced.
I live on Long Island. Cheaper than SV, but about the same as San Diego. It's nuts.
Nice to know the US hasn't thrown everything it learned in the Great Depression in the trash. In the 1920's you could buy w/ 10% down. I think no margin buying should be allowed, but anything that allows less than 50% down is insane.
About the same as the average of all people w/ a bachelor's or higher: http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t04.htm
Definitely no indication of a "shortage", unless there is a shortage of people for all types of work that require a college education. If anyone actually believes that, then I've got a bridge to sell them. Silicon Valley BS debunked once again by the actual statistics.
1929 wasn't that bad - try the banking crisis starting in 1931.
http://www.epips.com/djia/1930s-great-depression.html
There was a major rebound in 1930, and people thought the stock market had settled on more realistic prices. If the banks had been solid, the Great Depression wouldn't have been so great. Note that the stock market didn't really go to hell until 1931.
It's the factory workers, and other non technology people buying/using your product that provide YOU with a job, not the other way around.
It's both, and neither. Both "tech" and factories are productive parts of the economy. All productive sectors add something.
Gee. I'm a factory worker, and I bought a house recently. So have other people I have known. Look outside your insular bubble.
A lot of people from areas where housing is very expensive (like where I live) don't realize that housing is much more affordable elsewhere. I'm just glad I bought before the bubble went nuts. I don't think I could afford my own house today, even after prices have dropped a bit, and I assure you my house is nothing fancy.
P.S. Glad to know there are still some people working in factories here. We ought to have more of them.
No doubt that gcc is a damned good compiler these days, at least in terms of the quality of code produced, if not the speed at which the compiler runs. My point was just that it wasn't always so. Back then gcc was considered a toy compared to some of the commercial compilers, and it was. Thankfully the EGCS people did a lot to change that, and got the ball rolling for future improvements.
the only one that is productive is technology
Social media is productive? Hey, it's not like we're talking real tech here.
The problem is a *debt* bubble.
A stock bubble is not a debt bubble, since cash is usually paid for stock (and even when not margin is limited to 50%). Neither the bursting of a stock bubble or a debt bubble is much fun, but the debt bubble is much worse. If stocks crash people say "dagnabbit, lost a bunch of money", but they're not left in debt. When a debt bubble like real estate crashes, you're not just poor, you're also in debt. That makes it extremely difficult to get the economy running gain, as so much of people's money is being sucked up by loan payments.
While unemployment generally may be high, in the tech sector it is very low.
How about some actual, you know, statistics.
Tech companies, led by Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook, are lobbying Congress to relax immigration rules so they can hire more foreign talent because they believe domestic talent has gotten too scarce and too expensive.
And that's evidence of a shortage? They've been pushing for more of this crap for 20 years, rain or shine.
I also notice that almost the entire article is about Silicon Valley, which despite its pretenses of being cosmopolitan, or even "globalized" (whatever the hell that means), is one of the most provincial places there is. Here's a clue: there are parts of the US outside of the Bay Area. Amazing but true! Some of those places are tech hubs with lower salaries. Having trouble finding people at a reasonable price? Branch out. It's hardly a new business strategy. The geniuses who claim to have destroyed the barriers to long distance communication don't want to take advantage of it (except to India of course). I know that denizens of the valley are afraid to get on a plane to someplace like, say Pittsburgh, where they have a dreaded thing called "snow", but you can tough it out. Look on the bright side - the plane trip is much shorter than across the Pacific. You can even use Google maps to find this place called "Pittsburgh" .
It's getting harder and harder to figure out whether a post is real or a parody.
Lipstick on a pig.
it has made up for that by being really good at higher level optimizations
Heh, heh, heh, don't remember the great EGCS split of '97, do you sonny? Yep, us old timers knew that gcc was a dog of an optimizer, but them EGCS whippersnappers fixed it, and even got the fork accepted as the official gcc. Remember, you probably got to where you are today by running over the body of some crusty old-timer.
A significant portion of the energy is lost as heat in the distribution system - both as I2R losses in the wires and inefficiencies in the transformers.
Average loss in the electrical grid from generator to customer is only 7%.
My 94 year old computer illiterate grandmother uses an iPad daily
If she's using an iPad daily, she's obviously not that computer illiterate (at least not anymore).
Don't say that. You will scare a liberal. ...They will never go out again.
That's funny, this liberal, and many others he knows, aren't scared at all to walk down the street, even without a gun, and even in big bad cities. I wonder why some people are scared of their own shadows though, such that they feel unsafe walking down the street unarmed. Perhaps they can get help for their unfounded fears, and come to realize that they're much more likely to get hurt or killed in a car accident.
Concealed carry is legal on trains and tons of people do it.
Which trains? Not on Amtrak (federal regs). Have you heard of any hijackings on Amtrak trains lately?
Come to think of it, have you heard of any hijackings on planes lately? After 9/11 they came up with an ingenious defense - they lock the door to the cockpit. I doubt that will be central to the plot of Die Hard 6, but it works.
awarding Snowden the peace prize would be a political black-eye for the Obama administration
What would be even funnier is that they'd both have Nobel Peace Prizes.
The Democrat platform is all about more government control of (almost) everything: healthcare, education, regulation, business... everything. When you've been elected to go to Washington and gain control over everything, it shouldn't surprise those who elected you that you run a giant spying apparatus to watch the same citizens who elected you to control them.
Putting aside the obvious point that this started under Bush (not a Democrat AFAIK), your reasoning is interesting. Let's say they got rid of Social Security, Medicare, the ACA, Dept. of Education, the EPA and OSHA. How exactly would that eliminate abuses by the NSA?
No trial of this caliber could be kept as secret as the current would like it to be.
The Constitution says that all trials must be public. Oh wait, I'm living in the past.
You mean the Germans will do us a favor and save us a bunch of money? That seems like an odd response.