I agree -- this is so critical that it not only should be part of licensing curricula, the institution-wide communication plan should be part of medical institution licensing as well. You need a license to run a hospital, with occasional checks for certain things, so it'd be easy to enforce it.
Unfortunately, it's not part of the culture, and it seems that otherwise rational top-notch doctors seem not to have a clue about it at all. Heck, they get all worked up against it whenever I mention the topic.
I also think that hospital f-ups should be reported and published the same as major transportation mishaps. Otherwise no one will learn any lessons, because none are to be easily found. A lot of malpractice and substandard care suits end up with a settlement with no admission of guilt -- and all of the details are not public. So even if I were to, say, prepare a course curriculum for doctors/medical administrators, there is little in the way of well researched examples to give. Compare that to teaching pilots: you could go over the accident reports forever, it seems.
I've tried responding, going to linked websites, etc. -- out of 300 spam emails that I selected that were ads and not scams, I could get the payment processed on 5 of them.
I think that the real situation is quite ironic. Scammers/spammers and mailers are usually separate outfits. It seems that the latter got the former scammed out of their money. Mailers get paid for sending stuff out, they don't care if the links work, if the website works, etc. Of course there's plenty of spam to go around, but if my anecdotal evidence of ~2% success rate at getting a payment submitted to a spamvertised outfit, things aren't looking so peachy for spammers methinks.
If you can get as far as actually submitting a payment. I've had poor luck with that -- maybe it's just me getting particularly broken spam. I've got heaping bunches of messages where there isn't even a single link in them.
You know what's really interesting in spam? For spam to pass the content filters, especially those based on statistical models of language, it has to have purposeful mistakes inserted all over the place. In the end, a piece of spam typically looks like if a stoned idiot wrote it. But now it seems that people who author the message in the first place became somehow infected by the stoned idiocy of their own messages.
A few months ago I went through 300 non-scamming spam messages in my spam folder, and only managed to get to 5, I repeat, 5 payment screens. That means that most spam is pretty pointless: the websites it points to, if they haven't been left out (happens quite often), are mostly broken so that there's no way to actually pass any money to the spammer, even if you try really hard. Sometimes they superficially look like they may work, but when time comes to actually submit a payment, things are very likely to be broken. I have been testing stuff using virtual credit cards available from my bank, with very low limits -- below that of the payment amount. On a working site, you get some indication that the transaction was declined. In most places, though, there would be internal server errors, javascript errors preventing payment submittal, and all other sorts of problems.
I think that bulk emailing operations are simply around to milk the spammers for money, and only the mailers make any money -- the spammers themselves seem too stupid to get any.
It's unfortunate, but the medical industry is at odds with reality when it comes to human performance. They claim, no, swear, -- and I have first-hand anecdotes from top-notch physicians and surgeons -- that long shifts are somehow necessary for "continuity of care" and other such buzzwords. Somehow they believe they are superhumans. Nobody has ever trained them how to effectively communicate patient state to their replacements. It should be a semi-formalized process, that is being taught, and part of the licensing exam curricula. Pilots and nuclear plant operators are trained for it, why the heck doctors are nurses are above it all I don't know.
The interconnect keying can be designed to allow master keys. So that a cap will attach and lock to any tube, but when mating tube ends and to other tubes or tube-attached equipment, only the like kind will mate.
It's not universally easy like you claim. Finding a pirate radio station in a high-rise urban jungle is anything but easy, especially if the antenna isn't on the roof. Doing it from the ground level may well be impossible, for example.
Your line of thinking is at odds with limitations of our cognition. Listening for directions works if they are relatively short -- perhaps as short as 2-3 steps. Otherwise you have to note them down, and verify them -- else they are useless. This is an all or nothing proposition: if you depend on someone else's directions, without a backup, one mistake means that you are lost. If you have a backup (map/gps), you may as well forgo directions: any work spent on verifying directions with a map/gps is obviates the need for them, pretty much. Never mind that taking down directions in general cannot be done in real time unless you're a stenographer or possess similar skills.
I think I made the point that full-blown directions are a waste of time, and that's what XKCD depicted. Now a helpful hint, like "avoid route X between Y and Z due to construction" is entirely appreciated, but route-planning-via-telephone is ridiculous.
Babbling directions like in the referenced XKCD strip is thus at best inconsiderate, and an indication that the babbler is temporarily regressing to a preschooler who can't quite imagine what goes on in the listener's mind. If me asking for the address would be at this point rude, then it's something that the babbler on the other end of the line is well deserving.
I have run a few times into direction babblers, so I know what I'm talking about. They are universally useless without realizing so. I give them 15 seconds, and if by then they haven't run out of steam (sometimes they get self-confused and pause), in a no-nonense fashion I inquire about the address. If the babbler doesn't provide it and resumes babbling, I consider whether the trip is really worth making. If it is, and I know the person's name/phone, I do a quick online lookup, if it's successful I do whatever it takes to end the call ASAP. If the trip is low on my priority list, I make up an emergency and decline to come, it's not worth the trouble.
Nope. Trade secrets, patents and copyrights are orthogonal concepts, they cover separate issues. Patents used to provide insight -- to the point where HP would publish firmware to their instruments within a patent, these days the ratio of signal to noise is so bad that you can't tell much. Patents and copyrights, in the U.S., were created to provide a time-limited monopoly to further development of useful arts and sciences. Trade secrets are there to protect know-how from being sold out by employees.
I disagree. Decent GPS units give quite good directions, if you filter them using your head. I may simply be unwilling to spend the time noting every twist-and-turn down. In the old days, people used city maps to look up an address, and presumably you wouldn't consider it insulting. I still have such an archaic map in my car and use it occasionally. It's easier to browse it than the map on the GPS.
If I prefer to use a map, or a GPS, it doesn't mean I'm sociopathic. It may simply mean that I've been around places, and don't need handholding.
Heck, many locals are of a mistaken belief that their own learned ways of getting places are the best. I checked once -- just for the heck of it: the route that I would routinely take from/to the classes at the university turned out to be a leftover from a road construction project from 7 years ago that happened to coincide with me starting to drive myself to uni. The GPS gave me a safer and faster route.
I don't know -- I think that a silent electric car like, say, the Tesla Roadster, is fairly impressive to me. Then I'm not a lady. But there is something seemingly powerful about silent acceleration.
The main problem I think is that sentencing judges or juries usually favor the pedestrians. If you kill a pedestrian, you can be guilty of involuntary manslaughter if there's enough doubt as to you maintaining full awareness of your surroundings. You may be in lots of trouble if there are witnesses, as they tend to be quite unreliable and may somehow indicate that you weren't paying attention. IOW, even if you did everything right and there was someone who stepped right under your wheels, with some luck you may still be guilty. A whisper-quiet car robs you of luck.
They prefer those agreements to be "inked". Wow. They are learning the language of Nigerian princes very fast. I guess they are all in the same league...
ALL content is copyrighted (meaning: subject to copyright law), by default, unless the owner puts it in public domain -- and then such can only be done in countries where public domain is recognized (not in Germany, for one). So pretty much everyone who uploads content to YouTube uploads copyrighted content. The question is whether they have the rights to publish that content.
You claim that YouTube is "completely abusing the system" (what system?). YouTube is a content distribution network. Before they distribute anything, they have to get it, so the first infringing act of distribution (if any) is done by the uploader. YouTube can accept such content in good faith, there's nothing wrong with that. They are not the ones who break the law. It's between the uploader and the entity holding the distribution rights for given content to fight it out.
YouTube has already gone to great lengths to implement content fingerprinting system for both audio and video. It works impressively well. If the *IAAs and content rights owners are too damn lazy to submit their content for watermarking, it's their damn problem.
Cars are designed to have brake systems absorb energy. The brake system is pretty oblivious as to where the energy comes from, as long as it can dissipate it while maintaining its performance (think of brake fade). If you drive like I do, that's not a problem. So there.
I don't know who would be a "typical" two foot driver, and why such a stereotype would be somehow a bad driver. I'd presume people who do it are the ones who know what they are doing in the first place, given the widespread myth (you're the case in point) that occasional application of perhaps significant positive engine torque and brakes at the same time will somehow damage the car.
Never mind that on automatic cars there is residual positive torque applied to the brake system at all times, unless you shift to neutral every time you are coming to a stop. My car happens to do it, but only because I modified it that way -- purposefully trading off transmission and engine mount longevity for having quieter time when stopped. Had I reverted to a firmware load that doesn't do that, I couldn't simply use the sign of driveshaft torque to extract the figures I mentioned in parent post. I'd need to chose a cutoff that's above idle torque.
The reaction time saved by driving an automatic car using both feet is in addition to everything else. You can't lose by giving yourself more time. As for being aware of the surroundings: doesn't matter much if you've got dense traffic where 90% of the cars are pretty much tailgating. The only safe thing your situational awareness could tell you is to stay home. If you can't, you have to give yourself whatever advantage you can.
I think it's a looong stretch. A swimming pool where world-class swimmers train doesn't have to be top-of-the-line, as long as it meets basic requirements. Vacuum gutters and whatnot are a bonus at best, not a basic requirement.
I would have thought that most people go to swimming pools to enjoy themselves, rather than to beat the clock. Apparently I was mistaken. </sarcasm>
Alas, I do understand all the technological advances, and the nerdy side of me is drooling. OTOH, who the fsck cares about it for a public school? If there are swimmers there with world-class potential, surely they can be taken care of and practice somewhere else? It's not like you'd expect such a school to have enough world-class swimmers to warrant a pool so advanced.
I'd say that if they want a dance studio where they'll be doing classical ballet, they'd better have cushioned wooden floors. Last thing you want to do is kids jumping on laminate-covered concrete slabs. Whatever they spend on that floor will be recouped many times over in avoided medical care costs and less disability benefits paid out. Ballet has been, unfortunately, conceived before we had much clue about biomechanics, and anything you can do to keep the kids from injuring their joints certainly helps. Joint injuries are particularly insidious since they can show their ugly side after decades worth of semi-dormancy. Broken bones are, comparably, a picnic.
So far as the guy stating about using one foot for the brake and the other for the accellerator, I hate drivers like that.
Pray explain why. It only makes me safer, since I save critical time and thus braking distance! Externally, you couldn't even tell that I'm doing that. I'm not saying that I depress both accelerator and the brake simultaneously as a matter of routine -- I never said that. When I need to brake instantly (for safety), I can depress the brake without worrying about accelerator, and I don't waste time getting my foot of one pedal and moving it to the other.
As for the "damage" to the car: umm, what? If one occasionally brakes while the engine is applying a bit of torque to the drivetrain: so what. The brake force is only moderately increased, it has a small effect on brake wear. Calling brake wear "damage to the car" is distortion at best, if that's what you meant.
I have done some instrumentation on my car, and both driveshafts are instrumented with torque sensors (it's a front drive car), as well as brake pressures (individually to each actuator, and the pedal pressure). Especially for you I just looked at the logs. In the last 720 hours (30 days) I drove 732 miles. There was positive torque supplied to the wheels for about 1.5% of the time any brake system pressure was above 10 psi (an arbitrary cutoff). I hardly can call it driving with the brake and accelerator both depressed. The average torque supplied to the wheels with brake pressure above 10psi was below 10% of the peak torque over the same time period.
As for the ergonomics: if things were as rosy as you imply, you wouldn't have people routinely slamming accelerator instead of the brake. Having both feet in the right place helps with that, I'd think.
Nope. There is plenty of precent for doing things like that without having to be a business. If you write software, you can certainly be a contractor (or an employee) for development work. Or you can write it, offer licenses for sale, and collect royalties. If it were up to me, I'd say that AdWords income should be treated like income from a rental property. If you rent out a room in your house, you don't have to have a business.
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I agree -- this is so critical that it not only should be part of licensing curricula, the institution-wide communication plan should be part of medical institution licensing as well. You need a license to run a hospital, with occasional checks for certain things, so it'd be easy to enforce it.
Unfortunately, it's not part of the culture, and it seems that otherwise rational top-notch doctors seem not to have a clue about it at all. Heck, they get all worked up against it whenever I mention the topic.
I also think that hospital f-ups should be reported and published the same as major transportation mishaps. Otherwise no one will learn any lessons, because none are to be easily found. A lot of malpractice and substandard care suits end up with a settlement with no admission of guilt -- and all of the details are not public. So even if I were to, say, prepare a course curriculum for doctors/medical administrators, there is little in the way of well researched examples to give. Compare that to teaching pilots: you could go over the accident reports forever, it seems.
I've tried responding, going to linked websites, etc. -- out of 300 spam emails that I selected that were ads and not scams, I could get the payment processed on 5 of them.
I think that the real situation is quite ironic. Scammers/spammers and mailers are usually separate outfits. It seems that the latter got the former scammed out of their money. Mailers get paid for sending stuff out, they don't care if the links work, if the website works, etc. Of course there's plenty of spam to go around, but if my anecdotal evidence of ~2% success rate at getting a payment submitted to a spamvertised outfit, things aren't looking so peachy for spammers methinks.
If you can get as far as actually submitting a payment. I've had poor luck with that -- maybe it's just me getting particularly broken spam. I've got heaping bunches of messages where there isn't even a single link in them.
You know what's really interesting in spam? For spam to pass the content filters, especially those based on statistical models of language, it has to have purposeful mistakes inserted all over the place. In the end, a piece of spam typically looks like if a stoned idiot wrote it. But now it seems that people who author the message in the first place became somehow infected by the stoned idiocy of their own messages.
A few months ago I went through 300 non-scamming spam messages in my spam folder, and only managed to get to 5, I repeat, 5 payment screens. That means that most spam is pretty pointless: the websites it points to, if they haven't been left out (happens quite often), are mostly broken so that there's no way to actually pass any money to the spammer, even if you try really hard. Sometimes they superficially look like they may work, but when time comes to actually submit a payment, things are very likely to be broken. I have been testing stuff using virtual credit cards available from my bank, with very low limits -- below that of the payment amount. On a working site, you get some indication that the transaction was declined. In most places, though, there would be internal server errors, javascript errors preventing payment submittal, and all other sorts of problems.
I think that bulk emailing operations are simply around to milk the spammers for money, and only the mailers make any money -- the spammers themselves seem too stupid to get any.
It's quite hilarious.
It's unfortunate, but the medical industry is at odds with reality when it comes to human performance. They claim, no, swear, -- and I have first-hand anecdotes from top-notch physicians and surgeons -- that long shifts are somehow necessary for "continuity of care" and other such buzzwords. Somehow they believe they are superhumans. Nobody has ever trained them how to effectively communicate patient state to their replacements. It should be a semi-formalized process, that is being taught, and part of the licensing exam curricula. Pilots and nuclear plant operators are trained for it, why the heck doctors are nurses are above it all I don't know.
10-12 hour shifts are effed up.
The interconnect keying can be designed to allow master keys. So that a cap will attach and lock to any tube, but when mating tube ends and to other tubes or tube-attached equipment, only the like kind will mate.
What you hear inside the car is quite different from what is heard outside.
Now your monitor can catch fire for real!
It's not universally easy like you claim. Finding a pirate radio station in a high-rise urban jungle is anything but easy, especially if the antenna isn't on the roof. Doing it from the ground level may well be impossible, for example.
Your line of thinking is at odds with limitations of our cognition. Listening for directions works if they are relatively short -- perhaps as short as 2-3 steps. Otherwise you have to note them down, and verify them -- else they are useless. This is an all or nothing proposition: if you depend on someone else's directions, without a backup, one mistake means that you are lost. If you have a backup (map/gps), you may as well forgo directions: any work spent on verifying directions with a map/gps is obviates the need for them, pretty much. Never mind that taking down directions in general cannot be done in real time unless you're a stenographer or possess similar skills.
I think I made the point that full-blown directions are a waste of time, and that's what XKCD depicted. Now a helpful hint, like "avoid route X between Y and Z due to construction" is entirely appreciated, but route-planning-via-telephone is ridiculous.
Babbling directions like in the referenced XKCD strip is thus at best inconsiderate, and an indication that the babbler is temporarily regressing to a preschooler who can't quite imagine what goes on in the listener's mind. If me asking for the address would be at this point rude, then it's something that the babbler on the other end of the line is well deserving.
I have run a few times into direction babblers, so I know what I'm talking about. They are universally useless without realizing so. I give them 15 seconds, and if by then they haven't run out of steam (sometimes they get self-confused and pause), in a no-nonense fashion I inquire about the address. If the babbler doesn't provide it and resumes babbling, I consider whether the trip is really worth making. If it is, and I know the person's name/phone, I do a quick online lookup, if it's successful I do whatever it takes to end the call ASAP. If the trip is low on my priority list, I make up an emergency and decline to come, it's not worth the trouble.
Nope. Trade secrets, patents and copyrights are orthogonal concepts, they cover separate issues. Patents used to provide insight -- to the point where HP would publish firmware to their instruments within a patent, these days the ratio of signal to noise is so bad that you can't tell much. Patents and copyrights, in the U.S., were created to provide a time-limited monopoly to further development of useful arts and sciences. Trade secrets are there to protect know-how from being sold out by employees.
I disagree. Decent GPS units give quite good directions, if you filter them using your head. I may simply be unwilling to spend the time noting every twist-and-turn down. In the old days, people used city maps to look up an address, and presumably you wouldn't consider it insulting. I still have such an archaic map in my car and use it occasionally. It's easier to browse it than the map on the GPS.
If I prefer to use a map, or a GPS, it doesn't mean I'm sociopathic. It may simply mean that I've been around places, and don't need handholding.
Heck, many locals are of a mistaken belief that their own learned ways of getting places are the best. I checked once -- just for the heck of it: the route that I would routinely take from/to the classes at the university turned out to be a leftover from a road construction project from 7 years ago that happened to coincide with me starting to drive myself to uni. The GPS gave me a safer and faster route.
I don't know -- I think that a silent electric car like, say, the Tesla Roadster, is fairly impressive to me. Then I'm not a lady. But there is something seemingly powerful about silent acceleration.
The main problem I think is that sentencing judges or juries usually favor the pedestrians. If you kill a pedestrian, you can be guilty of involuntary manslaughter if there's enough doubt as to you maintaining full awareness of your surroundings. You may be in lots of trouble if there are witnesses, as they tend to be quite unreliable and may somehow indicate that you weren't paying attention. IOW, even if you did everything right and there was someone who stepped right under your wheels, with some luck you may still be guilty. A whisper-quiet car robs you of luck.
They prefer those agreements to be "inked". Wow. They are learning the language of Nigerian princes very fast. I guess they are all in the same league...
ContentID FTW. Sorry for being redundant, but people just post without a clue...
LOL. Ever heard of YouTube's ContentID system?
ALL content is copyrighted (meaning: subject to copyright law), by default, unless the owner puts it in public domain -- and then such can only be done in countries where public domain is recognized (not in Germany, for one). So pretty much everyone who uploads content to YouTube uploads copyrighted content. The question is whether they have the rights to publish that content.
You claim that YouTube is "completely abusing the system" (what system?). YouTube is a content distribution network. Before they distribute anything, they have to get it, so the first infringing act of distribution (if any) is done by the uploader. YouTube can accept such content in good faith, there's nothing wrong with that. They are not the ones who break the law. It's between the uploader and the entity holding the distribution rights for given content to fight it out.
YouTube has already gone to great lengths to implement content fingerprinting system for both audio and video. It works impressively well. If the *IAAs and content rights owners are too damn lazy to submit their content for watermarking, it's their damn problem.
You are not insightful, you have no clue.
Cars are designed to have brake systems absorb energy. The brake system is pretty oblivious as to where the energy comes from, as long as it can dissipate it while maintaining its performance (think of brake fade). If you drive like I do, that's not a problem. So there.
I don't know who would be a "typical" two foot driver, and why such a stereotype would be somehow a bad driver. I'd presume people who do it are the ones who know what they are doing in the first place, given the widespread myth (you're the case in point) that occasional application of perhaps significant positive engine torque and brakes at the same time will somehow damage the car.
Never mind that on automatic cars there is residual positive torque applied to the brake system at all times, unless you shift to neutral every time you are coming to a stop. My car happens to do it, but only because I modified it that way -- purposefully trading off transmission and engine mount longevity for having quieter time when stopped. Had I reverted to a firmware load that doesn't do that, I couldn't simply use the sign of driveshaft torque to extract the figures I mentioned in parent post. I'd need to chose a cutoff that's above idle torque.
The reaction time saved by driving an automatic car using both feet is in addition to everything else. You can't lose by giving yourself more time. As for being aware of the surroundings: doesn't matter much if you've got dense traffic where 90% of the cars are pretty much tailgating. The only safe thing your situational awareness could tell you is to stay home. If you can't, you have to give yourself whatever advantage you can.
I think it's a looong stretch. A swimming pool where world-class swimmers train doesn't have to be top-of-the-line, as long as it meets basic requirements. Vacuum gutters and whatnot are a bonus at best, not a basic requirement.
I would have thought that most people go to swimming pools to enjoy themselves, rather than to beat the clock. Apparently I was mistaken. </sarcasm>
Alas, I do understand all the technological advances, and the nerdy side of me is drooling. OTOH, who the fsck cares about it for a public school? If there are swimmers there with world-class potential, surely they can be taken care of and practice somewhere else? It's not like you'd expect such a school to have enough world-class swimmers to warrant a pool so advanced.
I'd say that if they want a dance studio where they'll be doing classical ballet, they'd better have cushioned wooden floors. Last thing you want to do is kids jumping on laminate-covered concrete slabs. Whatever they spend on that floor will be recouped many times over in avoided medical care costs and less disability benefits paid out. Ballet has been, unfortunately, conceived before we had much clue about biomechanics, and anything you can do to keep the kids from injuring their joints certainly helps. Joint injuries are particularly insidious since they can show their ugly side after decades worth of semi-dormancy. Broken bones are, comparably, a picnic.
Ah, so they chew through it. I give credit back where it's due ;)
So far as the guy stating about using one foot for the brake and the other for the accellerator, I hate drivers like that.
Pray explain why. It only makes me safer, since I save critical time and thus braking distance! Externally, you couldn't even tell that I'm doing that. I'm not saying that I depress both accelerator and the brake simultaneously as a matter of routine -- I never said that. When I need to brake instantly (for safety), I can depress the brake without worrying about accelerator, and I don't waste time getting my foot of one pedal and moving it to the other.
As for the "damage" to the car: umm, what? If one occasionally brakes while the engine is applying a bit of torque to the drivetrain: so what. The brake force is only moderately increased, it has a small effect on brake wear. Calling brake wear "damage to the car" is distortion at best, if that's what you meant.
I have done some instrumentation on my car, and both driveshafts are instrumented with torque sensors (it's a front drive car), as well as brake pressures (individually to each actuator, and the pedal pressure). Especially for you I just looked at the logs. In the last 720 hours (30 days) I drove 732 miles. There was positive torque supplied to the wheels for about 1.5% of the time any brake system pressure was above 10 psi (an arbitrary cutoff). I hardly can call it driving with the brake and accelerator both depressed. The average torque supplied to the wheels with brake pressure above 10psi was below 10% of the peak torque over the same time period.
As for the ergonomics: if things were as rosy as you imply, you wouldn't have people routinely slamming accelerator instead of the brake. Having both feet in the right place helps with that, I'd think.
Nope. There is plenty of precent for doing things like that without having to be a business. If you write software, you can certainly be a contractor (or an employee) for development work. Or you can write it, offer licenses for sale, and collect royalties. If it were up to me, I'd say that AdWords income should be treated like income from a rental property. If you rent out a room in your house, you don't have to have a business.