Obviously, I haven't heard the latest album, but it sounds like you lost interest shortly after getting married, dumping E-Street band, and generally turning into a wimp. I am in sincere hopes that this marks a return to the Boss' 'Glory Days'.
I don't mind the new stuff, but 'Born to Run' is one of the most kick ass rock songs...
It's actually frequently worse than this. (I work currently with 8 doctors, four pediatricians, three internists, and one FP. I've worked with.... Problem two dozen over the last few years. What I say doesn't necessarily reflect on the ones I currently work with.)
Doctors have bad egos. Really bad. Many of them refuse to acknowledge the shear drudgery of their average daily workings. Like another poster said, every one of her kids visits were the same. Yeah, no kidding. 90-95% of the visits to our office are within a few categories. Colds, heart problems, diabetes, and checkups of various sorts. (There are a couple of others, but not many). Yet it is not at all unusual for doctors to rail at this sort of technology for even these cases. They cling to an absurd belief that each patient is different. That, to put it bluntly, is bullshit. Most patients are the same. This sort of tool would make the routine stuff go MUCH faster, and would help narrow down the weird stuff to where you are doing real tests to really differentiate between two different (or five, or whatever) diagnoses. Of course, when those weird cases are programmed...
Others in this topic have mentioned that docs embrace new tech. Kinda. They embrace new diagnostic tools that they can play with. But they are not as in love with decision making/helping tools. It undermines their education. It undermines the fact that most of them just have incredibly good 'wetware' databases.
I would also discount the actions/thoughts/ideas of younger docs. They frequently change by the time they hit their mid-30's. I've seen it before, I'll see it again. They love the idea when in school/fresh out, but come to believe in their own manifest godhood over time. No mere pile of silicon could be greater than I.
Another problem that I actually do sympathize with is that this is grounds for serious lawsuits. You could claim your doctor did nothing/wrong thing based on what some stupid machine said to do. Any rational person knows the doc shouldn't automatically trust what the machine spits out, but you and I also know that there will be at least one or two docs who, when these things gain wider use, will take an extra martini at lunch, counting on the machine to catch his stupidity, ignoring the fact that the man and machine have to work in concert.
Given the decision support software (the drug interaction databases are one example. The only problem is that EVERY reaction is typically flagged, so you need to know what's going on to interpret the data. Kinda like the discussion of SQUID and other NIDS the other day) I can forsee this making strides. But it will be some time. Twenty years? There are two scenarios where this will happen faster:
First, HMO's and other insurance companies use this software or something similar to find out how quickly their docs are zeroing in on diagnoses. If they find something that lets them diagnose in one visit instead of four, they'll use it. And that's good for them and good for the patient (cheaper, quicker, more accurate care). The other scenario is one wherein the government mandates this sort of testing. Likely it would manifest similar to the HMO model, and be used to cut costs of state-subsidized healthcare. Again, not a bad thing.
The better docs I have spoken with (and being raised by a physician, I've likely spoken with more physicians than the average slashdotter knows) wouldn't mind getting to deal with the tough or fringe cases. That is a challenge. That's interesting. Pap smears and kid shots are rote drudgery.
I hope we'll see this gain prevalence soon, but don't count on it. And, as the article says, docs are more likely than ANYONE to dig in their heels.
I've seen a few in some of the industry rags that I get. I thought about it, for space reasons, then I remembered how often people at work drop their keyboards. Ugh.
Just read the article. A bit poorly written. What were the IDS run on? Why no analysis of Snort? I'll say that I find Snort way over my head, but that's because I haven't RTFM enough. Why would one want a GUI on a server? (one of the points they marked it down for). Why did it crash? I've NEVER had a linux box crash. NEVER. I've also very, very rarely had a program freeze up enough to require a kill -9 (other than Netscape Navigator and some other buggy stuff. Not stuff like exim, apache, etc.) As a matter of fact, scroll down, and it seems that the downtime was due to their problem, not Snort (footnote at bottom of uptime table).
There are complaints about false-positives. I've played with Snort and there are ways to decrease the alarms put up. For example, a certain number of bum packets in a certain length of time. Not each and every packet.
Looking at the info at the bottom of the article, the authors should know what they are doing. But given the misrepresentations and inaccuracies releative to Snort, why should I believe their testing of non-Free software was any better?
Maybe it was eWeek or some similar publication about six or nine months ago did a similar check. The article was much longer and more in depth. They were also more appreciative of the programs out there. Now, some will say "just to appease their advertisers". Well... Maybe. But if that is the case, why did Snort get their nod as the best?
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Probably just money. I'm sure hosting on Sealand ain't cheap.
Not disagreeing, but let me stir the pot a little more. How tightly regulated are most electric power plants? If like most things, the answer is: very regulated, but only to the letter, not spirit, of the regulations. IOW, while there's lots of forms to fill out, it's easy to get around.
And I had totally forgotten about the battery disposal problem. If I remember, that's one of the several reasons that GM stopped making the EV-1.
I'll admit that I did not know that. Let me ask a question: I've been to various places in the 'bread basket' of the US. Kansas, Nebraska, etc. Lots of wide open land. Are installations of solar farms in these areas as disruptive? Are they disruptive?
I would imagine that large solar farms would almost always be disruptive (now that you mention it) because of blocking light getting to ground. I would further imagine that the local ecosystem requires that light to hit the ground.
Get a motorcycle with a hack. A used GoldWing with a sidecar will set you back less than $20,000. It runs on regular fuel, and will likely get between 35-40 mpg. You can use the carpool lane solo. You should get almost 200 miles to the fillup and hitting 65 is no problem. Breaking the ton with a hack should be doable.
An electric car is not an alternative fuel unless all of the power from your grid is via solar or wind (I don't count hydro, as this usually comes from a dam that disrupted local flora/fauna).
You may also want to consider one of the many turbo-diesel cars available. Gas mileage comparable to the motorcycle with more crash-worthiness.
In addition, there are many other CNG vehicles available than the Honda. At least there were. Two that I know of are the Ford Crown Vic. and the Ford Taurus. It's possible these are only available for fleet sales.
Check out corbin motors for an interesting vehicle called the sparrow. It looks like there are TEN dealers in your area.
Finally, being in San Fran. with only ~50 mile round trips, what prevents you from using mass transit?
I've got an Athlon XP 1800+, GF3, etc. And while it cost a bit a few months ago, I'll be set for at least a couple of years. The last machine I built lasted for about five years. It's good if games don't require the latest and greatest, because that means I don't have to split my money between hardware and software. If I just have to buy software, I can buy more games.
Funny you mention that. Today I did "apt-get install gopher". Seems that many of the sites for the blind were/are gopher sites.
For what we actually use the web for, gopher seems remarkably useful. Not sure of the ins/outs of it, but certainly it would work better when I'm browsing/usr/doc
Wouldn't know, as NWN is now dominating my life (almost. Read journal for info). Last game I played before that was Ghost Recon. While the plot was a little... iffy, the play was great. Sure, it's not new, but if I just bought it (err... Tested the backup copy I made for my brother who bought it) it's new to me.
There is certainly some evidence that activity in the PFC can go down with practice, but it's not exactly a rock solid reliable effect (perhaps a no-brainer?),
There's nothing like a good pun. And that really was NOTHING like a good pun.
(Which is of course to say that it was a great pun. The best puns IMHO are the worst ones)
Get your health up. Run your ass off. Shoot people in front of you, but never stop running. Learn to hit the quick-save at the same time as the run key. It wasn't too hard to get through the factory. It was getting from the factory to the damned train that kicked my butt.
Dude, you're a genius. That's just... Trippy. I guess I need to go ahead and finish NWN so that my brain will work efficiently enough to think up stuff like this.
Whoa. Best thing I've read on slashdot today. If you weren't already modded up to five, I'd post a link in my journal for this comment.
Hardware is a product. You bought it. You did not license it. So far, that hasn't been fucked with by Congress.
If things were as simple as 'licensing' a product only for a specific use, don't you think Beretta, Colt, etc. would only license firearms for target shooting and approved game hunting? If this would provide a defense against a variety of lawsuits, they would have long ago done this.
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Obviously, I haven't heard the latest album, but it sounds like you lost interest shortly after getting married, dumping E-Street band, and generally turning into a wimp. I am in sincere hopes that this marks a return to the Boss' 'Glory Days'.
I don't mind the new stuff, but 'Born to Run' is one of the most kick ass rock songs...
It's actually frequently worse than this. (I work currently with 8 doctors, four pediatricians, three internists, and one FP. I've worked with.... Problem two dozen over the last few years. What I say doesn't necessarily reflect on the ones I currently work with.)
Doctors have bad egos. Really bad. Many of them refuse to acknowledge the shear drudgery of their average daily workings. Like another poster said, every one of her kids visits were the same. Yeah, no kidding. 90-95% of the visits to our office are within a few categories. Colds, heart problems, diabetes, and checkups of various sorts. (There are a couple of others, but not many). Yet it is not at all unusual for doctors to rail at this sort of technology for even these cases. They cling to an absurd belief that each patient is different. That, to put it bluntly, is bullshit. Most patients are the same. This sort of tool would make the routine stuff go MUCH faster, and would help narrow down the weird stuff to where you are doing real tests to really differentiate between two different (or five, or whatever) diagnoses. Of course, when those weird cases are programmed...
Others in this topic have mentioned that docs embrace new tech. Kinda. They embrace new diagnostic tools that they can play with. But they are not as in love with decision making/helping tools. It undermines their education. It undermines the fact that most of them just have incredibly good 'wetware' databases.
I would also discount the actions/thoughts/ideas of younger docs. They frequently change by the time they hit their mid-30's. I've seen it before, I'll see it again. They love the idea when in school/fresh out, but come to believe in their own manifest godhood over time. No mere pile of silicon could be greater than I.
Another problem that I actually do sympathize with is that this is grounds for serious lawsuits. You could claim your doctor did nothing/wrong thing based on what some stupid machine said to do. Any rational person knows the doc shouldn't automatically trust what the machine spits out, but you and I also know that there will be at least one or two docs who, when these things gain wider use, will take an extra martini at lunch, counting on the machine to catch his stupidity, ignoring the fact that the man and machine have to work in concert.
Given the decision support software (the drug interaction databases are one example. The only problem is that EVERY reaction is typically flagged, so you need to know what's going on to interpret the data. Kinda like the discussion of SQUID and other NIDS the other day) I can forsee this making strides. But it will be some time. Twenty years? There are two scenarios where this will happen faster:
First, HMO's and other insurance companies use this software or something similar to find out how quickly their docs are zeroing in on diagnoses. If they find something that lets them diagnose in one visit instead of four, they'll use it. And that's good for them and good for the patient (cheaper, quicker, more accurate care). The other scenario is one wherein the government mandates this sort of testing. Likely it would manifest similar to the HMO model, and be used to cut costs of state-subsidized healthcare. Again, not a bad thing.
The better docs I have spoken with (and being raised by a physician, I've likely spoken with more physicians than the average slashdotter knows) wouldn't mind getting to deal with the tough or fringe cases. That is a challenge. That's interesting. Pap smears and kid shots are rote drudgery.
I hope we'll see this gain prevalence soon, but don't count on it. And, as the article says, docs are more likely than ANYONE to dig in their heels.
I've seen a few in some of the industry rags that I get. I thought about it, for space reasons, then I remembered how often people at work drop their keyboards. Ugh.
Just read the article. A bit poorly written. What were the IDS run on? Why no analysis of Snort? I'll say that I find Snort way over my head, but that's because I haven't RTFM enough. Why would one want a GUI on a server? (one of the points they marked it down for). Why did it crash? I've NEVER had a linux box crash. NEVER. I've also very, very rarely had a program freeze up enough to require a kill -9 (other than Netscape Navigator and some other buggy stuff. Not stuff like exim, apache, etc.) As a matter of fact, scroll down, and it seems that the downtime was due to their problem, not Snort (footnote at bottom of uptime table).
There are complaints about false-positives. I've played with Snort and there are ways to decrease the alarms put up. For example, a certain number of bum packets in a certain length of time. Not each and every packet.
Looking at the info at the bottom of the article, the authors should know what they are doing. But given the misrepresentations and inaccuracies releative to Snort, why should I believe their testing of non-Free software was any better?
Maybe it was eWeek or some similar publication about six or nine months ago did a similar check. The article was much longer and more in depth. They were also more appreciative of the programs out there. Now, some will say "just to appease their advertisers". Well... Maybe. But if that is the case, why did Snort get their nod as the best?
Probably just money. I'm sure hosting on Sealand ain't cheap.
I live on the east coast. I was always under the impression that BART covered a much wider area. Learn something new every day.
Interesting. You may want to tell this guy.
Check out my latest journal article. I actually expand on this idea greatly and driving an older car is my preferred answer.
Not disagreeing, but let me stir the pot a little more. How tightly regulated are most electric power plants? If like most things, the answer is: very regulated, but only to the letter, not spirit, of the regulations. IOW, while there's lots of forms to fill out, it's easy to get around.
And I had totally forgotten about the battery disposal problem. If I remember, that's one of the several reasons that GM stopped making the EV-1.
I'll admit that I did not know that. Let me ask a question: I've been to various places in the 'bread basket' of the US. Kansas, Nebraska, etc. Lots of wide open land. Are installations of solar farms in these areas as disruptive? Are they disruptive?
I would imagine that large solar farms would almost always be disruptive (now that you mention it) because of blocking light getting to ground. I would further imagine that the local ecosystem requires that light to hit the ground.
Get a motorcycle with a hack. A used GoldWing with a sidecar will set you back less than $20,000. It runs on regular fuel, and will likely get between 35-40 mpg. You can use the carpool lane solo. You should get almost 200 miles to the fillup and hitting 65 is no problem. Breaking the ton with a hack should be doable.
An electric car is not an alternative fuel unless all of the power from your grid is via solar or wind (I don't count hydro, as this usually comes from a dam that disrupted local flora/fauna).
You may also want to consider one of the many turbo-diesel cars available. Gas mileage comparable to the motorcycle with more crash-worthiness.
In addition, there are many other CNG vehicles available than the Honda. At least there were. Two that I know of are the Ford Crown Vic. and the Ford Taurus. It's possible these are only available for fleet sales.
Check out corbin motors for an interesting vehicle called the sparrow. It looks like there are TEN dealers in your area.
Finally, being in San Fran. with only ~50 mile round trips, what prevents you from using mass transit?
I've got an Athlon XP 1800+, GF3, etc. And while it cost a bit a few months ago, I'll be set for at least a couple of years. The last machine I built lasted for about five years. It's good if games don't require the latest and greatest, because that means I don't have to split my money between hardware and software. If I just have to buy software, I can buy more games.
Have you seen Schindler's List? Color Purple?
Funny you mention that. Today I did "apt-get install gopher". Seems that many of the sites for the blind were/are gopher sites.
/usr/doc
For what we actually use the web for, gopher seems remarkably useful. Not sure of the ins/outs of it, but certainly it would work better when I'm browsing
Wouldn't know, as NWN is now dominating my life (almost. Read journal for info). Last game I played before that was Ghost Recon. While the plot was a little... iffy, the play was great. Sure, it's not new, but if I just bought it (err... Tested the backup copy I made for my brother who bought it) it's new to me.
(Which is of course to say that it was a great pun. The best puns IMHO are the worst ones)
The only real specific ones are the first two (height:width ratio and number of colors) And are really free-form, and seem well thought out.
I am a bit curious what it means... I have a gpl program. Can I then put that logo on it? Probably in the faq somewhere...
Could you expand on this and submit to /.??
Interesting...
It says that patents and copyrights are given by gov't to encourage the creative arts.
But it says about other things, they are endowed by our creator.
(IOW, me too)
Get your health up. Run your ass off. Shoot people in front of you, but never stop running. Learn to hit the quick-save at the same time as the run key. It wasn't too hard to get through the factory. It was getting from the factory to the damned train that kicked my butt.
Dude, you're a genius. That's just... Trippy. I guess I need to go ahead and finish NWN so that my brain will work efficiently enough to think up stuff like this.
Whoa. Best thing I've read on slashdot today. If you weren't already modded up to five, I'd post a link in my journal for this comment.
Illegal gambling in this casino? I'm shocked, simply shocked.
Now that you mention it, the IFF reticle on many FPS games is red/green with no way to switch.
Hardware is a product. You bought it. You did not license it. So far, that hasn't been fucked with by Congress.
If things were as simple as 'licensing' a product only for a specific use, don't you think Beretta, Colt, etc. would only license firearms for target shooting and approved game hunting? If this would provide a defense against a variety of lawsuits, they would have long ago done this.