I know it's cool to poke fun at Titanic because it was a love story, but you have to appreciate the special effects and directing
The special effects were decent but the CGI was horribly obvious in parts, and often over-sensationalized most of the time. The directing was typical James Cameron, i.e. all action and special effects, no emotion. The man's an overbearing ****, and it shows in his direction.
My opinion of Titanic has nothing to do with it being a love story. I really like love stories in movies. I found myself laughing at all the supposedly "romantic" parts of Titanic though. Just pitiful.
Anti-inflammatories are commonly prescribed to fight migraine. Ibuprophen works on mild ones, you'll see Celebrex and other more powerful ones prescribed as well. Asprin is also a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory that works for some people.
Celebrex is not more powerful than ibuprofen. In fact, it's less powerful at pain relief and anti-inflammation than ibuprofen. The advantage to Celebrex is that it's less likely to cause gastric irritation and subsequent bleeding ulcers (in the most severe cases) than the older NSAIDs. The other advantage (to the drug company and its stockholders) is that it's still under patent, so the drug company can charge a buttload of money for it. People need to get over the idea that because a drug is newer and more expensive, that it must therefore be better, stronger, faster, and more effective.
Drinking OJ instead of water (meaning you dont drink any plain water) will not only make you rotund as another poster wrote, but it will give you kidneystones. Not just ouch. But twenty-ouch
Where did you hear that orange juice gives you kidney stones? Orange juice intake is encouraged in people with kidney stones to help prevent recurrence.
"Overall, orange juice should be beneficial in the control of calcareous and uric acid nephrolithiasis." J Urology 1992;149:1405-8
Reading these comments, it looks like 99% of the detractors of this concept fail to understand that the biggest plague of the downhill racer is the rear derailleur - it hangs in a VERY exposed position and is extremely easy to rip off.
Reading your comment, I don't see how ordinary readers of the article or the links given are supposed to know that this design is only to be used for downhill racing, a very small niche application for bicycles. So it's not lack of "brain power" (nice ad hom), but a poorly written article on the author's part and a bad assumption on your part. But that's just my opinion...
Geez, cut the guy a little slack. He's obviously not in the business, and just wanted to tell the story. What do you ask he do, call up this old contact to get the terminology straight? I do appreciate your informative post however.
I don't fault laypeople for mistaking terminology not in their particular field. Most people still call CIA case officers "agents", though the agents are actually the informants they manage.
I read the article. That isn't what the poster I replied to was talking about. He seemed to be talking only about the pump price of fuel, and how he couldn't imagine that you could transport an apple for that price.
I did a minor in economics. I understand about externalities. That wasn't the issue. REALLY.
Good grief. Of course, it's going to be expensive if you transport them one apple at a time. Also, most of the journey is done via transport ships, which are far more fuel efficient for long haul transports than ground transport. How many apples do you think they can fit in one of those big ship containers? Now multiply them by the number of containers on the ship (several hundred?).
For simplication, let's take your car at $5.85 / 100K. How many apples do you think you can fit in your car? My car is a roadster with less storage space than a large kangaroo, and it can hold probably about 2000 apples by my quick calculation (50 cu. ft divided by ~0.025 cu. ft per apple, I'm American--so sue me for not using metric). So using a no-storage-space sports car, I can transport apples at about $0.003 per 100K. I'd guess that the big transport ships can achieve at least an order of magnitude better fuel efficiency in long hauls.
Remove the tinfoil hat. There's no conspiracy here to put your domestic apple growers of business.
It may supprise some people to know that we Australians don't even have the largest steel arch bridge, the French hold that record with the Bayonne Arch
Umm... the Bayonne Arch isn't in France. It's in New York. The arch in Fayetteville, West Virginia is listed as the largest steel arch bridge in the world.
Well, you're also missing out that patients expect humans for doctors, and they need communication and somebody who actually cares. For patient education, you'll have to program the computer to recognize the patients socioeducational level and tailor that information to him as well.
AI has for years now promised all sorts of wonderful new improvements to life, but for the most part it's still very pie in the sky. They're pretty good at playing chess now though!
Physical exam isn't as simple as you seem to think it is. For the patient with non-specific abdominal pain, I wouldn't trust a "tech" with a 2 year degree. I trust me because I have years of knowing how different patients react to different types of pain and pressure on exam. If I'm befuddled I'll trust a surgeon with years of experience laying his hands on the patient before I'll trust a computer in my lifetime. Perhaps something useful will come about in your children's lifetime, but don't expect computers to be managing our illnesses when we're elderly.
All our ECG machines have built-in computer algorithms to give a "reading" when the ECG is printed. Even in this very computer-friendly task, I'd estimate it only gets perhaps 50% of the abnormals correct.
I do think computers are a useful adjunct to diagnosis and treatment however, and use them quite often.
I think that a bigger threat to the medical professionals will be intelligent databases that are able to diagnose patients better than a doctor could
While computer-diagnoses may one day do a better job than human doctors, that day ain't here yet, nor it is visibly on the horizon. Just the history of the patients current and prior problems requires a degree of insight that computers don't have. You also have to know about current disease epidemics, social issues involving their health, etc.
But the biggest thing preventing computers from replacing physicians is that you still actually have to lay hands on the patient and examine him. A computer isn't going to be able to tell just from a complaint of abdominal pain that the patient has a palpable tumor in the abdomen, or that the patient's shortness of breath is due to diabetic ketoacidosis that I can judge by the smell on the patient's breath the second he walks in the room. The level of sophistication in AI and sensor technology that such a machine would require is decades away at the very least. Even when it's possible, it won't be cost-effective for many decades after that. Despite the high salaries physicians get paid in America, we're far cheaper than any artificial intelligence alternative that is likely to be conceived during my lifetime.
The alternative is to have computing be a profession like lawyer-ing and doctor-ing. They have trade asociations that are so powerful they can't be ignored. To practice law or medecine you must be part of the profession. To what extent does this protect lawyers and medics from overseas outsourcing?
It isn't unions or professional organizations that prevents lawyering and doctoring from going off-shore. It's the fact that to perform the duties necessary to those professions, you actually have to physically BE THERE.
In law, local variations in law make it such that it's utterly impossible for lawyers from other countries to just practice law in the US from far away. Plus, you actually have to show up to court sometimes.
In medicine, you actually have to talk to and physically examine the patient to perform most duties in medicine. Tele-medicine and such are interesting experiments, but there's only so much you can do from a 2-D TV quality image. You have to be able to put your hands on the patient, poke and prod, smell their breath, etc. You can't do that from the other end of a telephone line. Plus, again there are regional variations in the standard of care such that doctors from other countries won't be practicing in concordance with those customs. Diagnositic radiology, however, is one field that you can perform largely from afar, and some of those jobs are being outsourced to other countries via high-speed telecom lines (primarily for middle-of-the-night needs).
??? Baby Boomers? What about GenXers? I'm a little too young to be Generation X, but I know a few who are just as into Dr. Who as I am (born circa 1970).
If you were born circa 1970, you're pretty firmly GenX, actually on the older end of GenX.
That's not fair. Just because you disagree with it doesn't make it a troll. It just means you don't hold the same opinion. It's clearly not a troll. The poster didn't flagrantly "dis" your favorite OS in order to get a rise out of you. Chill out.
Win2k is not as stable as UNIX perhaps, but far more stable than any previous version of windows and more stable than any version of Mac OS earlier than 10 for server purposes. It's clearly simpler to setup and maintain than Linux if you're not experienced with UNIX. Just trying to find the right BIOS settings to get Mandrake 9 installed on my little Shuttle box took 2 hours, otherwise the install sequence would run for several minutes then just freeze. Debian wouldn't install no matter what I did. Windows installed easily no matter what BIOS settings I used (within bounds of reason).
We use plenty of 2K servers at work and, the non-stop critical patching excepted, haven't had a problem with them for two years, so I'm not a 2000 hater.
So it turns out that you don't disagree with the "troll" about the stability part, since you've had no problem with your Win2k servers for two years.
Back when I was in high school ('87), the HP 12C reigned supreme. RPN and fast.
I was in high school at the same time and the 12C isn't the calculator you're thinking about. At least I don't think so. The 12C is the financial calculator in that form factor, and wasn't appropriate for those contests since it had only financial functions. No trig, no factorials, no logs, etc. It's an amazingly durable financial calculator however, and one I used in business later in life.
You're probably thinking of the 15C. Practically all the winners in those years were using the 15C.
I have TWO HP 48S, and I used them to participate in High School UIL competitions, where speed was not only of the essence, but the determining factor. Ten minutes, a pencil, and a calculator, and may the best student win.
Ah, a fellow Texan. I remember those UIL competitions. I wasn't sure they were still around. Back in the day, the state of the art calcs for those competitions were the HP-15Cs, with a smattering of 10C and 11Cs. There were some kids who tried to use algebraic calculators, but they got shunned and snickered at. They also never won.
My glory days of my senior year (and the height of my geekdom) was when I got 4th in the state in the calculator applications competition! (5A division, of course!)
Though i hardly see how 'somebody told us a seinor exec said' makes Slashdot.' (I understand that's what the Inquirier bases most of their news on, i thought we had slightly higher standards of reliability)
It's and old joke but it applies here, so I'll say it...
>You can still brute-force a one-time pad.
Maybe you were being sarcastic, but to those who don't know you can't brute force a one-time pad.
You can indirectly "brute force" break a one-time pad, however. It works like this:
1) Intercept the message.
2) Go to the person who sent the message.
3) Beat him repeatedly in pain-sensitive areas until he agrees to give you the one-time pad.
4) Profit?
DRM issues aside, AAC has the advantage of being an open audio format. Anyone can implement AAC and not need a license from M$ or Apple, or trying to reverse engineer the software.
That's odd. I thought that AAC was licensed by Dolby. I don't see any exemption there for Free/Open Source software, though there may be one I haven't seen. It look to me that it requires a pay license to distribute both decoders and encoders.
The other commercial solutions are not offering MP3s
Neither is the iTMS, which uses the AAC format specifically because it's DRM-enabled. Granted, the DRM is less onerous than any of the other competing choices, and the fact that AAC provides better sound quality at the same bitrate is a bonus.
Slashdot Mirror
How would you even know if you got satellite back before power?
21 years = "life"?
Norwegians don't live very long!
The special effects were decent but the CGI was horribly obvious in parts, and often over-sensationalized most of the time. The directing was typical James Cameron, i.e. all action and special effects, no emotion. The man's an overbearing ****, and it shows in his direction.
My opinion of Titanic has nothing to do with it being a love story. I really like love stories in movies. I found myself laughing at all the supposedly "romantic" parts of Titanic though. Just pitiful.
I'm missing something. Is there a digital watch on the page you linked?
Celebrex is not more powerful than ibuprofen. In fact, it's less powerful at pain relief and anti-inflammation than ibuprofen. The advantage to Celebrex is that it's less likely to cause gastric irritation and subsequent bleeding ulcers (in the most severe cases) than the older NSAIDs. The other advantage (to the drug company and its stockholders) is that it's still under patent, so the drug company can charge a buttload of money for it. People need to get over the idea that because a drug is newer and more expensive, that it must therefore be better, stronger, faster, and more effective.
Where did you hear that orange juice gives you kidney stones? Orange juice intake is encouraged in people with kidney stones to help prevent recurrence.
"Overall, orange juice should be beneficial in the control of calcareous and uric acid nephrolithiasis." J Urology 1992;149:1405-8
Reading your comment, I don't see how ordinary readers of the article or the links given are supposed to know that this design is only to be used for downhill racing, a very small niche application for bicycles. So it's not lack of "brain power" (nice ad hom), but a poorly written article on the author's part and a bad assumption on your part. But that's just my opinion...
Geez, cut the guy a little slack. He's obviously not in the business, and just wanted to tell the story. What do you ask he do, call up this old contact to get the terminology straight? I do appreciate your informative post however. I don't fault laypeople for mistaking terminology not in their particular field. Most people still call CIA case officers "agents", though the agents are actually the informants they manage.
I did a minor in economics. I understand about externalities. That wasn't the issue. REALLY.
What part of my napkin-scrawled estimate do you disagree with? Just accusing me of oversimplifying things adds nothing to the discussion.
For simplication, let's take your car at $5.85 / 100K. How many apples do you think you can fit in your car? My car is a roadster with less storage space than a large kangaroo, and it can hold probably about 2000 apples by my quick calculation (50 cu. ft divided by ~0.025 cu. ft per apple, I'm American--so sue me for not using metric). So using a no-storage-space sports car, I can transport apples at about $0.003 per 100K. I'd guess that the big transport ships can achieve at least an order of magnitude better fuel efficiency in long hauls.
Remove the tinfoil hat. There's no conspiracy here to put your domestic apple growers of business.
Umm... the Bayonne Arch isn't in France. It's in New York. The arch in Fayetteville, West Virginia is listed as the largest steel arch bridge in the world.
AI has for years now promised all sorts of wonderful new improvements to life, but for the most part it's still very pie in the sky. They're pretty good at playing chess now though!
Physical exam isn't as simple as you seem to think it is. For the patient with non-specific abdominal pain, I wouldn't trust a "tech" with a 2 year degree. I trust me because I have years of knowing how different patients react to different types of pain and pressure on exam. If I'm befuddled I'll trust a surgeon with years of experience laying his hands on the patient before I'll trust a computer in my lifetime. Perhaps something useful will come about in your children's lifetime, but don't expect computers to be managing our illnesses when we're elderly.
All our ECG machines have built-in computer algorithms to give a "reading" when the ECG is printed. Even in this very computer-friendly task, I'd estimate it only gets perhaps 50% of the abnormals correct.
I do think computers are a useful adjunct to diagnosis and treatment however, and use them quite often.
While computer-diagnoses may one day do a better job than human doctors, that day ain't here yet, nor it is visibly on the horizon. Just the history of the patients current and prior problems requires a degree of insight that computers don't have. You also have to know about current disease epidemics, social issues involving their health, etc.
But the biggest thing preventing computers from replacing physicians is that you still actually have to lay hands on the patient and examine him. A computer isn't going to be able to tell just from a complaint of abdominal pain that the patient has a palpable tumor in the abdomen, or that the patient's shortness of breath is due to diabetic ketoacidosis that I can judge by the smell on the patient's breath the second he walks in the room. The level of sophistication in AI and sensor technology that such a machine would require is decades away at the very least. Even when it's possible, it won't be cost-effective for many decades after that. Despite the high salaries physicians get paid in America, we're far cheaper than any artificial intelligence alternative that is likely to be conceived during my lifetime.
It isn't unions or professional organizations that prevents lawyering and doctoring from going off-shore. It's the fact that to perform the duties necessary to those professions, you actually have to physically BE THERE.
In law, local variations in law make it such that it's utterly impossible for lawyers from other countries to just practice law in the US from far away. Plus, you actually have to show up to court sometimes.
In medicine, you actually have to talk to and physically examine the patient to perform most duties in medicine. Tele-medicine and such are interesting experiments, but there's only so much you can do from a 2-D TV quality image. You have to be able to put your hands on the patient, poke and prod, smell their breath, etc. You can't do that from the other end of a telephone line. Plus, again there are regional variations in the standard of care such that doctors from other countries won't be practicing in concordance with those customs. Diagnositic radiology, however, is one field that you can perform largely from afar, and some of those jobs are being outsourced to other countries via high-speed telecom lines (primarily for middle-of-the-night needs).
If you were born circa 1970, you're pretty firmly GenX, actually on the older end of GenX.
A new portable digital music player from iRiver is cool and all, but can it play ogg.... wait... never mind.
That's not fair. Just because you disagree with it doesn't make it a troll. It just means you don't hold the same opinion. It's clearly not a troll. The poster didn't flagrantly "dis" your favorite OS in order to get a rise out of you. Chill out.
Win2k is not as stable as UNIX perhaps, but far more stable than any previous version of windows and more stable than any version of Mac OS earlier than 10 for server purposes. It's clearly simpler to setup and maintain than Linux if you're not experienced with UNIX. Just trying to find the right BIOS settings to get Mandrake 9 installed on my little Shuttle box took 2 hours, otherwise the install sequence would run for several minutes then just freeze. Debian wouldn't install no matter what I did. Windows installed easily no matter what BIOS settings I used (within bounds of reason).
So it turns out that you don't disagree with the "troll" about the stability part, since you've had no problem with your Win2k servers for two years.
I was in high school at the same time and the 12C isn't the calculator you're thinking about. At least I don't think so. The 12C is the financial calculator in that form factor, and wasn't appropriate for those contests since it had only financial functions. No trig, no factorials, no logs, etc. It's an amazingly durable financial calculator however, and one I used in business later in life.
You're probably thinking of the 15C. Practically all the winners in those years were using the 15C.
Ah, a fellow Texan. I remember those UIL competitions. I wasn't sure they were still around. Back in the day, the state of the art calcs for those competitions were the HP-15Cs, with a smattering of 10C and 11Cs. There were some kids who tried to use algebraic calculators, but they got shunned and snickered at. They also never won.
My glory days of my senior year (and the height of my geekdom) was when I got 4th in the state in the calculator applications competition! (5A division, of course!)
It's and old joke but it applies here, so I'll say it...
"You're new around here, aren't you?"
Good grief. At least read the 5 lines of the post you were replying to!
You can indirectly "brute force" break a one-time pad, however. It works like this:
1) Intercept the message.
2) Go to the person who sent the message.
3) Beat him repeatedly in pain-sensitive areas until he agrees to give you the one-time pad.
4) Profit?
Voila! One-time pad.... broken!
That's odd. I thought that AAC was licensed by Dolby. I don't see any exemption there for Free/Open Source software, though there may be one I haven't seen. It look to me that it requires a pay license to distribute both decoders and encoders.
Neither is the iTMS, which uses the AAC format specifically because it's DRM-enabled. Granted, the DRM is less onerous than any of the other competing choices, and the fact that AAC provides better sound quality at the same bitrate is a bonus.