I was in the Hospital two years ago because of some simple mistakes the doctors made and that I made. What we both thought was the flu wasn't. I had a terrible case of pneumonia. The clinic gave me my chest xrays on a DVD to give the hospital ER. Well the ER couldn't read them. They had my chart but since I wasn't having chest pains they made me wait. 11 hours later a doctor finally saw me and freaked out. I ended up with a CAT scan and they had to give me a drug that would cause my kidneys to shut down if I was given a drug that I was currently on within 48 hours. Well I ended up in the hospital for a week but managed not to go in to ICU. I was in really bad shape but I tired to be a good patient. Then the nurse tried to give me that drug too soon. I simply told her that was an error and I wouldn't take it. I always ask what they are giving me. The nurse was sort of taken back and said she would check with my doctor. She came back and told me that I was correct and that there was an error in the system. I don't know if digital records will help. Maybe if there where some good standards and if everybody has the ability to use the data it will. But I have to worry about what happens when people are rushed and when isn't an ER staff rushed? I was lucky and paid attention.
itunes? Give me a break. Banshee/Rhythmbox/Amarok. Or, if you must, run iTunes under wine. Can you shop at the iTunes store, the App Store, or get updates from apple for the iPhone?
"Quickbooks and Turbotax now work. " The latest versions? Not the last time I checked. "Lots of games (hundreds!) are in apt. Some of them are even good. If you want to run a windows shooter, wine works some of the time, and the commercial variant Cedega makes things even easier." Some are good most are not. Some games will work under Wine but not the ones I want. Wine works for some things but it sure isn't an answer it is a band aid. Linux doesn't need a ton of apps it needs a few key apps. It also needs an easy way to "sell" apps. I know that is considered by some high treason but it is the truth. I keep saying this time and time again but it is true. A Linux app store where people can create software and people can find it would really help Linux and the Distros that supported it. It could bring in revenue to pay programmers to improve Linux. It would also offer a choice. If you want to play for a closed source program then you can. If you don't you don't have to. If you want to write a FOSS program you can if you want to sell you little game for $.99 you can as well. It would also give vendors a way to sell programs like TurboTax, QuickBooks, and Photoshop Elements if they wanted too.
No access to the iTunes store or the AppStore. No access to updates. I have had several Music Players and I have not fond any that I like as much as the Touch.
What is holding back Linux on the desktop is Applications. No QuickBook. No TurboTax. No iTunes. Lack of games. I use Linux everyday at home. I love it but I still have to duel boot into Windows to use iTunes on the iPod Touch. FSX only runs on Windows which is to be expected.
No problem all I need is a C-130. I remember when Airwolf was on TV. A friend of mine asked me, "How can you make a helicopter fly as superspeeds?" My answer was, "take it apart and put it in a Concord".
Sorry sparky. The Pirates are doing it because they can. They are criminals and are should be dealt with. You are right about the illegal over fishing by the Russians, Japanese, and Poland. They suck and should have to pay up for the damage they did. That is why a lot of people are starving. BUT the pirates are interfering with relief food and other aid that would feed a lot of people in Somali. I agree that innocent of Somali are suffering because the UN let them down and some countries stole their natural resources. But the Pirates are no the innocents.
music transcoding is has been fast enough for a while now. Video conversion? Not that many people do it and off load that to the GPU. scientific research? Not really an "average person" use but even most of that isn't that intensive and what is you do get a workstation class machine for. We are talking about your average home and office user. Video Games? Again not the average use outside of flash games, and solitaire.
"Will my 'good enough' computer handle my photo library, my 32MP entry level camera, recognize the faces in my photo collection. " I hope they don't come out with 32MP entry level cameras. First of all even a 10 MP is good enough for some very large prints and is more than big enough for most monitors. Second 32MP with crappy optics will still give you crappy pictures. Optics are not driven by Moore's law. What hopefully will happen is that senors speed, color, and low light performance will increase. Probably will not happen since way too many people are too dumb to see past the MP rating.
Also yes good enough will always creep up. The thing is right now most PCs are a lot more than good enough. Also a lot of PCs are not used in homes at all. Office PCs are a huge market and most of them run Office and a few light apps that of a form and database nature.
For viewing an Atom/ION system will work very well. Processing? One does wonder if an Atom/ION system would do that as well for you average home users if the editing software took advantage of the GPU.
You nuts. It made hit number 2 on the US charts and was the break through song for Queen. The album it was on hit number four, went triple platinum and was on the charts for 56 weeks. It may have been no big deal to you but it was a big deal to the music world. The fact that it got any air play at all was a huge deal when you think about how strange and long the song was.
That is just it. I am not sure that it was deliberate statment. It was a statment of fascism but I just didn't enjoy the book at all. It was far from great IMHO. I know some people love it but not I. Now a great book but totally different is "When Harley was one."
The choice was made long before the time "Brave New World" too place. Yes at that time they where programmed but at some time they had too allow the start of the programing. The Reservation was never fully explained in BNW. Why did it exist at all? Who was stuck there? Why did they not have any advancement? Maybe that was where they sent the defectives? Maybe that is where the sub Gamma's where just left to fend for themselves? Maybe that was the "island" where they sent those that wouldn't conform? Maybe anybody that tried to improve things on the Reservation was killed. The Reservation had no real information about it. The hero was the child of an Alpha and a Beta so he might have been an exception to the abilities of the people on the reservation.
Interesting. I see it as a willing enslavement. The government could only use those tools if they work. They will only work if people willingly partake. So I see it as a personal choice. The goal for controlling people is selfishness. If all that matters to you is your personal happiness your are easier to control. Without somebody that you love then all you need to worry about is you. With no family then the future becomes less of and issue since you will not be there to be part of it. No religion so no reason to do good outside of good for yourself. At best a person may be motivated by the survival of the species but that is a much weaker drive than the survival of you own off spring. Once your happiness is that matters to you then yes you are easy to control because any threat to your personal happiness carries a more weight than anything else. Most people are then left with no reason to rock the boat. Of course there will always be a few individuals that would still not follow but they will be very few and far apart.
Funny but I thought it was a rant about living in an amoral society where meaningless sex and drugs where a replacement for love and moral behavior. The only real rules where to not make other people feel bad. It seemed like political correctness run amok too me. The hero was an "old fashioned" man.
I have to say that I just didn't like Starship Troopers. It was so far to the right politically that I felt it was unamerican. Maybe it was the difference in time but I am not what most people call a liberal. I come from my uncle served in WWII, my father was in the 82 Airborne. I have a lot of respect for the people that serve but Starship Troopers just creeped me out. Both the book and the movie. However I think you are under estimating the importance of why people fight. The answer "unit cohesion" really is an important answer. It is really why people do fight most of the time. There is often no deeper answer than to save your buddy or yourself.
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That is a good thing. To make your index not case sensitive than you make just use the lower() function. To make it string sensitive you do nothing at all. That allows the developer to choose and not force a choice on them.
Yea but I think they are really blowing it on one location. There is no Dallas Houston link. I know for a fact that a lot of people fly from Dallas to Houston. I think a lot of the links shown are pure politics. Is there enough tartaric between SF and Sacramento to merit a high speed rail line? Houston/New Orleans/Pensacola also seems just dumb to me. I don't think the distance and traffic merit it. Too much good old boy stuff.
Well the US is the land of immigrants so I have no problem with you choosing to be here. As I said I feel I have no right to say how Canada should run it's health care system. I do feel that Canada does a good job at being a democracy but then I don't live there. As I said my post was simply a weather joke. I was born and live in Florida so Canada is just too frigging cold.
If people like you really did win then it is the end of hope. What can I say to such a towering intellect and example of open mindedness? Too bad I actually think that the president is doing an okay job. Not great but okay and that I tell a lot of people on the right that they are being unfair to judge him yet since he really is just getting started. I just hate all politics on slashdot. Right and left... In fact posts like yours are why I hate any political post on Slashdot.
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I was in the Hospital two years ago because of some simple mistakes the doctors made and that I made.
What we both thought was the flu wasn't. I had a terrible case of pneumonia. The clinic gave me my chest xrays on a DVD to give the hospital ER. Well the ER couldn't read them. They had my chart but since I wasn't having chest pains they made me wait.
11 hours later a doctor finally saw me and freaked out.
I ended up with a CAT scan and they had to give me a drug that would cause my kidneys to shut down if I was given a drug that I was currently on within 48 hours.
Well I ended up in the hospital for a week but managed not to go in to ICU.
I was in really bad shape but I tired to be a good patient. Then the nurse tried to give me that drug too soon. I simply told her that was an error and I wouldn't take it. I always ask what they are giving me. The nurse was sort of taken back and said she would check with my doctor. She came back and told me that I was correct and that there was an error in the system.
I don't know if digital records will help. Maybe if there where some good standards and if everybody has the ability to use the data it will.
But I have to worry about what happens when people are rushed and when isn't an ER staff rushed? I was lucky and paid attention.
itunes? Give me a break. Banshee/Rhythmbox/Amarok. Or, if you must, run iTunes under wine.
Can you shop at the iTunes store, the App Store, or get updates from apple for the iPhone?
"Quickbooks and Turbotax now work. "
The latest versions? Not the last time I checked.
"Lots of games (hundreds!) are in apt. Some of them are even good. If you want to run a windows shooter, wine works some of the time, and the commercial variant Cedega makes things even easier."
Some are good most are not. Some games will work under Wine but not the ones I want.
Wine works for some things but it sure isn't an answer it is a band aid. Linux doesn't need a ton of apps it needs a few key apps. It also needs an easy way to "sell" apps. I know that is considered by some high treason but it is the truth. I keep saying this time and time again but it is true. A Linux app store where people can create software and people can find it would really help Linux and the Distros that supported it. It could bring in revenue to pay programmers to improve Linux. It would also offer a choice. If you want to play for a closed source program then you can. If you don't you don't have to. If you want to write a FOSS program you can if you want to sell you little game for $.99 you can as well.
It would also give vendors a way to sell programs like TurboTax, QuickBooks, and Photoshop Elements if they wanted too.
No access to the iTunes store or the AppStore.
No access to updates.
I have had several Music Players and I have not fond any that I like as much as the Touch.
What is holding back Linux on the desktop is Applications.
No QuickBook.
No TurboTax.
No iTunes.
Lack of games.
I use Linux everyday at home. I love it but I still have to duel boot into Windows to use iTunes on the iPod Touch.
FSX only runs on Windows which is to be expected.
No problem all I need is a C-130.
I remember when Airwolf was on TV. A friend of mine asked me, "How can you make a helicopter fly as superspeeds?" My answer was, "take it apart and put it in a Concord".
Sorry sparky. The Pirates are doing it because they can. They are criminals and are should be dealt with.
You are right about the illegal over fishing by the Russians, Japanese, and Poland. They suck and should have to pay up for the damage they did. That is why a lot of people are starving. BUT the pirates are interfering with relief food and other aid that would feed a lot of people in Somali.
I agree that innocent of Somali are suffering because the UN let them down and some countries stole their natural resources.
But the Pirates are no the innocents.
I suggest that you look up virtual memory on Wikipedia next.
music transcoding is has been fast enough for a while now. Video conversion? Not that many people do it and off load that to the GPU. scientific research? Not really an "average person" use but even most of that isn't that intensive and what is you do get a workstation class machine for.
We are talking about your average home and office user.
Video Games? Again not the average use outside of flash games, and solitaire.
"Will my 'good enough' computer handle my photo library, my 32MP entry level camera, recognize the faces in my photo collection. "
I hope they don't come out with 32MP entry level cameras.
First of all even a 10 MP is good enough for some very large prints and is more than big enough for most monitors.
Second 32MP with crappy optics will still give you crappy pictures. Optics are not driven by Moore's law.
What hopefully will happen is that senors speed, color, and low light performance will increase. Probably will not happen since way too many people are too dumb to see past the MP rating.
Also yes good enough will always creep up. The thing is right now most PCs are a lot more than good enough. Also a lot of PCs are not used in homes at all. Office PCs are a huge market and most of them run Office and a few light apps that of a form and database nature.
For viewing an Atom/ION system will work very well. Processing? One does wonder if an Atom/ION system would do that as well for you average home users if the editing software took advantage of the GPU.
You nuts. It made hit number 2 on the US charts and was the break through song for Queen.
The album it was on hit number four, went triple platinum and was on the charts for 56 weeks.
It may have been no big deal to you but it was a big deal to the music world. The fact that it got any air play at all was a huge deal when you think about how strange and long the song was.
That is just it. I am not sure that it was deliberate statment.
It was a statment of fascism but I just didn't enjoy the book at all. It was far from great IMHO. I know some people love it but not I.
Now a great book but totally different is "When Harley was one."
The choice was made long before the time "Brave New World" too place.
Yes at that time they where programmed but at some time they had too allow the start of the programing.
The Reservation was never fully explained in BNW. Why did it exist at all? Who was stuck there? Why did they not have any advancement? Maybe that was where they sent the defectives? Maybe that is where the sub Gamma's where just left to fend for themselves? Maybe that was the "island" where they sent those that wouldn't conform?
Maybe anybody that tried to improve things on the Reservation was killed.
The Reservation had no real information about it. The hero was the child of an Alpha and a Beta so he might have been an exception to the abilities of the people on the reservation.
On should never be slightly ill in the Hospital. If you are slightly ill you are better off at home.
Of course he is already very ill to start with.
My the christian church I go too really doesn't have a Hell.
Interesting. I see it as a willing enslavement. The government could only use those tools if they work. They will only work if people willingly partake. So I see it as a personal choice.
The goal for controlling people is selfishness. If all that matters to you is your personal happiness your are easier to control. Without somebody that you love then all you need to worry about is you. With no family then the future becomes less of and issue since you will not be there to be part of it. No religion so no reason to do good outside of good for yourself.
At best a person may be motivated by the survival of the species but that is a much weaker drive than the survival of you own off spring.
Once your happiness is that matters to you then yes you are easy to control because any threat to your personal happiness carries a more weight than anything else. Most people are then left with no reason to rock the boat.
Of course there will always be a few individuals that would still not follow but they will be very few and far apart.
Funny but I thought it was a rant about living in an amoral society where meaningless sex and drugs where a replacement for love and moral behavior.
The only real rules where to not make other people feel bad. It seemed like political correctness run amok too me.
The hero was an "old fashioned" man.
I have to say that I just didn't like Starship Troopers. It was so far to the right politically that I felt it was unamerican. Maybe it was the difference in time but I am not what most people call a liberal. I come from my uncle served in WWII, my father was in the 82 Airborne. I have a lot of respect for the people that serve but Starship Troopers just creeped me out. Both the book and the movie.
However I think you are under estimating the importance of why people fight. The answer "unit cohesion" really is an important answer. It is really why people do fight most of the time. There is often no deeper answer than to save your buddy or yourself.
That is a good thing.
To make your index not case sensitive than you make just use the lower() function.
To make it string sensitive you do nothing at all.
That allows the developer to choose and not force a choice on them.
Because it was miss tagged as news!
Yea but I think they are really blowing it on one location. There is no Dallas Houston link. I know for a fact that a lot of people fly from Dallas to Houston. I think a lot of the links shown are pure politics. Is there enough tartaric between SF and Sacramento to merit a high speed rail line?
Houston/New Orleans/Pensacola also seems just dumb to me. I don't think the distance and traffic merit it.
Too much good old boy stuff.
And is an experience best suited to 14 year olds.
Well the US is the land of immigrants so I have no problem with you choosing to be here. As I said I feel I have no right to say how Canada should run it's health care system. I do feel that Canada does a good job at being a democracy but then I don't live there. As I said my post was simply a weather joke. I was born and live in Florida so Canada is just too frigging cold.
If people like you really did win then it is the end of hope.
What can I say to such a towering intellect and example of open mindedness?
Too bad I actually think that the president is doing an okay job. Not great but okay and that I tell a lot of people on the right that they are being unfair to judge him yet since he really is just getting started.
I just hate all politics on slashdot. Right and left... In fact posts like yours are why I hate any political post on Slashdot.
You know I have politics blocked from my slashdot front page for a reason.
Any thing with GOP in the title is without a doubt politics.