Yeah, that's a show my girlfriend loves and which I can't stand since it portrays medicine as a "brute force" exercise. A good physician usually has a strong diagnostic impression within 30 seconds that a patient starts speaking. All the other questions and labs are to confirm that diagnosis (except in the US, where they are to prevent predatory law suits). Sometimes you know what's wrong even before the patient has finished entering the room. More important than "book smarts" is "having seen it before". I know a great deal of highly intelligent and highly unsuccessful doctors who always pulled straight 'A's and could impress you with the most minute details about extremely rare diseases, and yet can't diagnose the common cold. You have to know how the human body expresses disease and you have to listen to the patient.
As for doing it yourself on the internet, you will fall into the trap that many medical students fall into, and diagnose yourself with anything. Self diagnosis is not objective, it's subjective. That's why it's better to pay a stranger to do it for you. The "I've got that, and I've got that, too" syndrome is far too common.
You are completely wrong. Medicine isn't like that at all. I should know, since I'm a doctor. The "algebra" part only applies to medical TV shows. Real life medicine is quite different. Yes there are algorithms, but first you have to recognize what you are dealing with and that is not in any book, it's in the tens of thousands of patients you have seen previously throughout medical school and the rest of your career.
While the common saying "the exception proves the rule" might apply, pretending that the exceptions ARE the rule is bad science. Such a rhetorical device is useful in politics, it might even convince a jury, but has absolutely no impact on facts.
You could also blame the FDA and the GMO corn syrup
No, a diabetic on an insulin pump at age 16 probably has type I diabetes, which has absolutely nothing to do with diet and everything to do with genetics and probably Coxsakie B4 virus. This is why learning things on television and through wikipedia does not entitle you to practice medicine.
Yep, including cell phone ring tones, bright smart-phone screens, obscene smells, obnoxious children, dirty seats, dirty rest-rooms, overpriced food and drink and of course you get to enjoy all this at arctic temperatures.
Denial is a powerful instinct, and it's the reason we're in this mess. Everything will be ok, everything will last forever, and whoever says otherwise is a crackpot.
But on the other hand it does not matter at all anyway. Why? Because we humans are still breeding like rabbits, and our impact on the climate is 100% linked to our population. Everything else is irrelevant. If there was only 1000 people in the world, those 1000 people could pollute as much as they wanted without ever impacting the ecosystem or the climate. With today's 8 billion and climbing, everyone is being "blamed" and told to be more frugal and more cautious. When we hit 16 billion in under 40 years, it won't matter how "careful" each individual is - damage will be done regardless. And when we hit 32 billion 80 years from now, who knows if the Earth will still be able to sustain our numbers.
But it's much easier to stick your head in the sand and bicker, blame this country or that, this lifestyle or that, and ignore the real problem.
You need $1.61 to buy a pound today, when yesterday you needed $1.55 to buy the same pound. That is a weakening dollar (or a strengthening pound) and not the opposite.
There's a strong possibility that the Euro will disintegrate imminently.
There is the absolute certainty that all currencies will disintegrate eventually. However I'm not so sure which will go first, the Euro or the US dollar. Europe's biggest problem is the non-uniformity of its financial policies but on the other hand it's the greatest safeguard. The US, on the other hand, is 100% aligned and on board to sink its own currency and dissent is not even talked about let alone permitted.
the U.S. dollar has been growing against the pound
Not sure what you mean by growing, I see a weakening US dollar. But we all know that - the Fed keeps printing them, how can the US dollar not get weaker? And your graph supports this. So if the US dollar gets weaker the answer is to charge more pounds? This is just a cash grab by Microsoft with some currency exchange gloss to hide the fact that they're being greedy suckers, they see more value in holding pounds than dollars, and hardly anyone bothers to take 30 secs to understand exchange rates properly.
Today's exchange rate: 1 Euro = 1.31 US dollars. Pretty much where it has always been. Certainly it's off its all time highs. Certainly it's not at its all time lows. But yes, let's play the popular press's game of "The Euro is Dying!".
Can't wait to see the look on your face. Not because I disagree with you, but because the market is not as rational as you think. EVERYONE expects it to flop, which is exactly why it's going to skyrocket. There is a vast amount of money to be made even out of horse manure. So all the short sellers are in for a ride. All the little day traders who buy it for $X and sell it for $X + $0.05 are in for a ride. The only ones who are going to make money on this are the people who always make money - the ones who currently have money, can buy it at the open, can buy it all the way down the dip, and who can ride out the little ups and downs to sell it next year or so for a killing - just when you're convinced you should start buying it before you miss the boat.
No, this will open high, and go even higher, because of exactly the expectation you describe. Then when you and people like you have been stopped out of your short positions, it will nosedive when creative accounting fails to deliver the growth that Wall St. always expects.
if you're a marketer and you're using FB for data mining pupsoses
Marketing people are used to that. You think the girl who fills in the surveys at the supermarket has never "cheated" or decided that it would be easier just to put garbage in the forms herself and go home early? You think market research companies - yes even the big ones - never fudge their reports? Yet despite all that, businesses manage to hold on to marketing departments. So either marketing departments are really good at marketing the need for a marketing department, or maybe there are a few tools available to cut through the crap and figure out which data out of the mountain of data is actually important and relevant, and which isn't.
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As for doing it yourself on the internet, you will fall into the trap that many medical students fall into, and diagnose yourself with anything. Self diagnosis is not objective, it's subjective. That's why it's better to pay a stranger to do it for you. The "I've got that, and I've got that, too" syndrome is far too common.
You are completely wrong. Medicine isn't like that at all. I should know, since I'm a doctor. The "algebra" part only applies to medical TV shows. Real life medicine is quite different. Yes there are algorithms, but first you have to recognize what you are dealing with and that is not in any book, it's in the tens of thousands of patients you have seen previously throughout medical school and the rest of your career.
While the common saying "the exception proves the rule" might apply, pretending that the exceptions ARE the rule is bad science. Such a rhetorical device is useful in politics, it might even convince a jury, but has absolutely no impact on facts.
You could also blame the FDA and the GMO corn syrup
No, a diabetic on an insulin pump at age 16 probably has type I diabetes, which has absolutely nothing to do with diet and everything to do with genetics and probably Coxsakie B4 virus. This is why learning things on television and through wikipedia does not entitle you to practice medicine.
Yep, including cell phone ring tones, bright smart-phone screens, obscene smells, obnoxious children, dirty seats, dirty rest-rooms, overpriced food and drink and of course you get to enjoy all this at arctic temperatures.
$10 that it never actually manages to get off the ground until at least a trillion dollars has been spent on the project.
WHAT human intelligence?
Denial is a powerful instinct, and it's the reason we're in this mess. Everything will be ok, everything will last forever, and whoever says otherwise is a crackpot.
People like you are exactly who I was speaking about.
But on the other hand it does not matter at all anyway. Why? Because we humans are still breeding like rabbits, and our impact on the climate is 100% linked to our population. Everything else is irrelevant. If there was only 1000 people in the world, those 1000 people could pollute as much as they wanted without ever impacting the ecosystem or the climate. With today's 8 billion and climbing, everyone is being "blamed" and told to be more frugal and more cautious. When we hit 16 billion in under 40 years, it won't matter how "careful" each individual is - damage will be done regardless. And when we hit 32 billion 80 years from now, who knows if the Earth will still be able to sustain our numbers.
But it's much easier to stick your head in the sand and bicker, blame this country or that, this lifestyle or that, and ignore the real problem.
a lot of people are going to say "oh, it's Microsoft, FUD!" and ignore it.
Nah that's the thing about having 90% market share - you don't get ignored even when it _is_ FUD.
. It's well documented.
Where, exactly? Because all I have ever seen is people saying how well documented it is, without any actual documentation.
Legally? Well I guess that just depends on which country you live in. Wait, you must be in the "land of the free".
Or you can pay $0 and run a linux media player in a virtual machine inside your windows or - for even less hassle, keep windows 7 and don't upgrade.
umadbro?
No, Microsoft is being smart and stocking up on pounds, as a hedge against an even weaker dollar in the future.
But his post is a shining example of how people simply refuse to understand exchange rates.
You need $1.61 to buy a pound today, when yesterday you needed $1.55 to buy the same pound. That is a weakening dollar (or a strengthening pound) and not the opposite.
There's a strong possibility that the Euro will disintegrate imminently.
There is the absolute certainty that all currencies will disintegrate eventually. However I'm not so sure which will go first, the Euro or the US dollar. Europe's biggest problem is the non-uniformity of its financial policies but on the other hand it's the greatest safeguard. The US, on the other hand, is 100% aligned and on board to sink its own currency and dissent is not even talked about let alone permitted.
the U.S. dollar has been growing against the pound
Not sure what you mean by growing, I see a weakening US dollar. But we all know that - the Fed keeps printing them, how can the US dollar not get weaker? And your graph supports this. So if the US dollar gets weaker the answer is to charge more pounds? This is just a cash grab by Microsoft with some currency exchange gloss to hide the fact that they're being greedy suckers, they see more value in holding pounds than dollars, and hardly anyone bothers to take 30 secs to understand exchange rates properly.
Today's exchange rate: 1 Euro = 1.31 US dollars. Pretty much where it has always been. Certainly it's off its all time highs. Certainly it's not at its all time lows. But yes, let's play the popular press's game of "The Euro is Dying!".
There's always another chance. It just depends on how much money you have and how averse you are to risk.
Can't wait to see the look on your face. Not because I disagree with you, but because the market is not as rational as you think. EVERYONE expects it to flop, which is exactly why it's going to skyrocket. There is a vast amount of money to be made even out of horse manure. So all the short sellers are in for a ride. All the little day traders who buy it for $X and sell it for $X + $0.05 are in for a ride. The only ones who are going to make money on this are the people who always make money - the ones who currently have money, can buy it at the open, can buy it all the way down the dip, and who can ride out the little ups and downs to sell it next year or so for a killing - just when you're convinced you should start buying it before you miss the boat.
No, this will open high, and go even higher, because of exactly the expectation you describe. Then when you and people like you have been stopped out of your short positions, it will nosedive when creative accounting fails to deliver the growth that Wall St. always expects.
if you're a marketer and you're using FB for data mining pupsoses
Marketing people are used to that. You think the girl who fills in the surveys at the supermarket has never "cheated" or decided that it would be easier just to put garbage in the forms herself and go home early? You think market research companies - yes even the big ones - never fudge their reports? Yet despite all that, businesses manage to hold on to marketing departments. So either marketing departments are really good at marketing the need for a marketing department, or maybe there are a few tools available to cut through the crap and figure out which data out of the mountain of data is actually important and relevant, and which isn't.