Wouldn't they improve even more by practicing with real laparoscopes?
That would require real patients or a dummy/model to practice on. The latter are surprisingly expensive.
I'm surprised that no one has produced a medical application to improve such skills using Wii Remote or Kinect type technology. I grant that the title would probably cost substantially more than your typical console game, but would be cost effective in reduction of medical cockups and improving training.
However even with a small phone, I rest it in the palm of my hand and prod out the digits with a finger from the other. So I don't regard the one hand test as invalid.
..and it fits perfectly in my breast shirt pocket. I don't put phones in trouser/pants pockets ever since I broke a screen of one by doing so.
I love the Note as its large display makes a great GPS device when in its car holder. The main thing I want in a smartphone now is enormous battery life as well as the features. I do miss the days when you could charge your phone once a week, but not so much I'm willing to go back to having a basic phone.
That this is probably not about protecting the rights of artists, but extending the rights of corporations over the people. Next up, music copyrights taken over by companies because it is produced as work for hire, extension of copyright terms for "limited times" of 999 years, overrides to laws of first sale, increased use of trade marks to block copyright expiry etc.
Okay, the system presumably has to handle about 30 million drivers and vehicle statistics, as well as other information such as traffic citations. I assume it's only accessed through a few hundred offices plus allow access to authorised systems (police etc) at any one time. Obviously it's got to be reasonably secure and perhaps operate at more than one site to cater for disaster recovery and redundancy. This is not beyond the capabilities of a few large servers to handle (I presume that cloud storage may be out due to security issues). Such a system could supply the information to Windows/Unix or even phone app clients. I assume driving licenses and vehicle ownership records have to be printed and sent from an office somewhere.
What else is in the scope of the project? Why does it cost several hundred million bucks to develop a new system? I can understand perhaps 10 million to develop and install. The biggest problem I can see is porting the data from the "40 year old antiquated system" to the new one. Someone must be able to explain where the extra £198 million has to go, apart from the contractors pockets.
perl -E 'say # print
map # do the block...
{(
(Fizz)[$_%3]. # Fizz every 3
(Buzz)[$_%5] # Buzz every 5
||$_) # if we're not Fizzing or Buzzing, print the number."\n" # add LF to result
} 1..100' #... for 1 to 100
Well in a real job, my code would be as short as possible, but with comments explaining any tricky bits.
In any event, if you look carefully, it's not obfuscation, it is a single "map" call; something any reasonable Perl programmer should understand immediately.
Imagine 2 of these engines in a single pilot machine, equipped with lasers and with a solar panel on each side for electricity generation and to shield the body from excess solar radiation. We could call it a TIE Fighter....
Because of their stranglehold on the transaction market, it can be argued that they are a monopoly and perhaps subject to anti-trust legislation. Also the fact that they may have acted in concert may be deemed anti-competitive; there is plenty of legislation that the EFF can fight with. Admittedly it would be breaking new legal ground, but that hasn't stopped the EFF bringing such actions before.
Also by having a stranglehold on a particular market it is possible that you have a "right" to have your transactions processed, in the same way as internet access is in some countries, beginning to be seen as a right.
IIRC the payment processors have performed this economic blockade without due process or a legal ruling, so to clobber this organisation would take a court hearing, which may be what EFF is angling for.
Why even have a central core at all? A distributed power system (hundreds of smaller reactors throughout the structure instead of one big reactor at the core) would completely eliminate that vulnerability and improve power uptime through sheer redundancy. An attacking force would have to destroy the Death Star piece by piece instead of blowing up the main core all at once.
Maybe you should organise them all with redundant interconnects; lets call it a Beowulf cluster of these....
Still don't understand how that photon torpedo curved into the shaft.
Gravity maybe; any sufficiently large space station will have its own attractive force, whether due to its own size, or producing articifial gravity for it's crew.
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Plug a real keyboard and mouse into the laptops USB sockets. You don't need the laptop in front of you, just the screen, mouse and keyboard.
Sure - but can it run Crysis?
No but EMACs can...
Wouldn't they improve even more by practicing with real laparoscopes?
That would require real patients or a dummy/model to practice on. The latter are surprisingly expensive.
I'm surprised that no one has produced a medical application to improve such skills using Wii Remote or Kinect type technology. I grant that the title would probably cost substantially more than your typical console game, but would be cost effective in reduction of medical cockups and improving training.
Okay thats enough of the double entendres.
However even with a small phone, I rest it in the palm of my hand and prod out the digits with a finger from the other. So I don't regard the one hand test as invalid.
The phone that I broke in my pocket was a standard size phone. (Samsung G800 IIRC)
..and it fits perfectly in my breast shirt pocket. I don't put phones in trouser/pants pockets ever since I broke a screen of one by doing so.
I love the Note as its large display makes a great GPS device when in its car holder.
The main thing I want in a smartphone now is enormous battery life as well as the features. I do miss the days when you could charge your phone once a week, but not so much I'm willing to go back to having a basic phone.
He was ex-term-inat-ed.
That this is probably not about protecting the rights of artists, but extending the rights of corporations over the people. Next up, music copyrights taken over by companies because it is produced as work for hire, extension of copyright terms for "limited times" of 999 years, overrides to laws of first sale, increased use of trade marks to block copyright expiry etc.
Steve Austin did all this years ago
Okay, the system presumably has to handle about 30 million drivers and vehicle statistics, as well as other information such as traffic citations. I assume it's only accessed through a few hundred offices plus allow access to authorised systems (police etc) at any one time. Obviously it's got to be reasonably secure and perhaps operate at more than one site to cater for disaster recovery and redundancy. This is not beyond the capabilities of a few large servers to handle (I presume that cloud storage may be out due to security issues). Such a system could supply the information to Windows/Unix or even phone app clients. I assume driving licenses and vehicle ownership records have to be printed and sent from an office somewhere.
What else is in the scope of the project? Why does it cost several hundred million bucks to develop a new system? I can understand perhaps 10 million to develop and install. The biggest problem I can see is porting the data from the "40 year old antiquated system" to the new one. Someone must be able to explain where the extra £198 million has to go, apart from the contractors pockets.
perl -E 'say # print ."\n" # add LF to result ... for 1 to 100
map # do the block...
{(
(Fizz)[$_%3]. # Fizz every 3
(Buzz)[$_%5] # Buzz every 5
||$_) # if we're not Fizzing or Buzzing, print the number
} 1..100' #
Simples
Well in a real job, my code would be as short as possible, but with comments explaining any tricky bits.
In any event, if you look carefully, it's not obfuscation, it is a single "map" call; something any reasonable Perl programmer should understand immediately.
There's the straight version...
#/usr/bin/perl .= 'Fizz'; } .= 'Buzz'; }
for my $i (1..100) {
my $s = '';
if ($i % 3 == 0) { $s
if ($i % 5 == 0) { $s
print $s ? $s : $i, "\n";
}
And for Real Men
perl -E 'say map{((Fizz)[$_%3].(Buzz)[$_%5]||$_)."\n"} 1..100'
Surely can't be that expensive to make one, given that most of the components are on virtually every mobile phone on the planet.
It's more invasive, more expensive, and requires general anesthetic.
No. It can and usually is done under twilight sedation.
I can see that would work; watching the Twilight movies would put anyone to sleep.
Imagine 2 of these engines in a single pilot machine, equipped with lasers and with a solar panel on each side for electricity generation and to shield the body from excess solar radiation. We could call it a TIE Fighter....
The fact that the rocket is based on old technology is "Scud" news for South Korea. /tish
...as recommended by our consultants on this project Goatse Enterprises.
Because of their stranglehold on the transaction market, it can be argued that they are a monopoly and perhaps subject to anti-trust legislation. Also the fact that they may have acted in concert may be deemed anti-competitive; there is plenty of legislation that the EFF can fight with. Admittedly it would be breaking new legal ground, but that hasn't stopped the EFF bringing such actions before.
Also by having a stranglehold on a particular market it is possible that you have a "right" to have your transactions processed, in the same way as internet access is in some countries, beginning to be seen as a right.
IIRC the payment processors have performed this economic blockade without due process or a legal ruling, so to clobber this organisation would take a court hearing, which may be what EFF is angling for.
Why even have a central core at all? A distributed power system (hundreds of smaller reactors throughout the structure instead of one big reactor at the core) would completely eliminate that vulnerability and improve power uptime through sheer redundancy. An attacking force would have to destroy the Death Star piece by piece instead of blowing up the main core all at once.
Maybe you should organise them all with redundant interconnects; lets call it a Beowulf cluster of these....
Still don't understand how that photon torpedo curved into the shaft.
Gravity maybe; any sufficiently large space station will have its own attractive force, whether due to its own size, or producing articifial gravity for it's crew.
If Santa was using Apple Maps, your presents would be delivered down someone's chimney 7 miles away......
Not enough sharks
When you put links to Tubgirl and Goetse on top of realtors(estate agents) QR codes