"Windows 8 To Fight Piracy With the Cloud"
Just think about that title for a moment.
If you repeated that to someone 30 years ago -- even to someone with an good tech background, who spoke English as their native tongue -- they would probably have thought you're speaking complete and utter gibberish.
Actually, I'm not so sure they'd be wrong.
Not that I can provide any of the details, but Nielson DOES (or at least DID) use DVR-watchers' data.
How do I know?
I'm a TiVo-Nielsen family. There was a specific enrollment they had about 5 years ago for Nielsen to use TiVo data from selected households, and I was chosen & signed-up. Now, what Nielsen and TiVo do with that information, if your Nielsen-family status is based on your location or your account or your physical DVR... or if Nielsen/TiVo are even still collecting the data -- I don't know.
What I can tell you is that, circa 2005, Nielsen was collecting data from TiVo DVR users.
I'm sure that the folks who didn't want to adopt the automobile over horses, and those who spurned the telephone in favour of older forms of communication espoused similar views.
FWIW, I think you won, Raju. Your argument was pretty clear, and I think D-a-B was confused or something. S/He seems to think that Mao was somehow the cause of the CR without thinking how Mao was able to get that power in the first place. Sorta like saying a bullet was the cause of a murder, without looking at the person pulling the trigger.
The AC spontaneously declaring victory was just... weird. Kinda like Bush stating "Mission Accomplished", when it obviously wasn't.
Oh, you mean written by _this_ guy?
"William J. Rea, M.D., who operates the Environmental Health Center in Dallas, Texas, is facing disciplinary action that could lead to revocation of his medical license. The Medical Board of Texas has charged him with (a) using pseudoscientific test methods, (b) failing to make accurate diagnoses, (c) providing "nonsensical" treatments, (d) failing to properly inform patients that his approach is unproven; (e) practicing in areas for which he has not been trained; and (f) representing himself certified by a board that is not recognized by the American Board of Medical Specialties."
I call shenanigans. When *I* listen to my patients' hearts, I'm listening for new or changed murmurs, irregularity in the rate, bounding of pulses -- and you're taught to do things systematically, and for a reason. Insurance companies give us about 15 minutes per patient if we want to be able to keep our head over water, so if you think anyone wastes time with useless mumbo-jumbo, you're way off-base. Anyway, you don't diagnose a "heart attack" with your stethoscope.
Good to know that/. has given me my own article tag, now.
Anyway, if you'll excuse me, I have some slavering to go do in another part of the cave. There's this jerk poking around the place, rifling through everything -- but I'm guessing the batteries in his lantern are about to run out any second now....
Where does it say we should have sympathy for those who willingly self-destruct? You throw up a lot of strawmen (we're talking about adults, not children; smokers, not the genetically burdened), and you use a ton of false stereotypes (doctors making "the most [money] in the shortest amount of time"??? Now *that* is funny, when you're talking to someone $220K in the hole because of his education, and who gets paid marginally above minimum hourly wage!), but you don't seem to ever face the facts: there's a limited amount of resources to go around for anything, healthcare included, and the idea of rewarding those who place a volitional drain on those resources is foolhardy. I am certainly not saying that we should ever use pre-existing conditions to cost-tier health care. But basing costs on the purchasers current behaviour? Oh, yes -- without a doubt. I'd certainly feel better about giving a liver transplant to someone with an illness that was *not* self-inflicted than someone who got Hep C from shooting smack or drank themselves silly. As far as I'm concerned, all other things being equal, those folks who knowingly burden society are responsible for shouldering an added burden to get the same benefits.
There's a huge difference between the folks who are stuck getting dealt a bad hand and those who are blissfully pissing away their potential health. The idea that society is supposed to treat those who choose to burden it with added, unnecessary costs because of their willful disregard or disdain the same as everyone else is ludicrous.
Just because we're all eventually going to sicken and die doesn't mean we have to treat those who heedlessly destroy their bodies the same as those who try to maintain their health.
And, as for your snide little comment about Canada, you know significantly less about it than I do. I've been through the Canadian health system, and watched family die because of it. Furthermore, if anything, Canada is far more willing to ration care based on patient behaviour than here in the US. So you can take your asinine little comments about "spendin...loot" and shove it where the sun don't shine. Maybe you can get a cut-rate proctologist to dig them out for you. Asshat.
That's crap. Smokers aren't "victims" or "sick", nor are the *vast* majority of the obese. These are folks who are consciously, repeatedly choosing to endanger their own health.
Fine. Free will, and all that. But there's no freakin' way that people who try and take care of their bodies, folks who don't commit slow suicide, should be forced to bear the brunt of the costs these masochistic morons incur.
There's a few simple rules I tell all my patients, and there's no reason that far and away almost everyone can't abide by them: Eat less, exercise more, don't smoke, don't shoot drugs, don't have unprotected sex -- that's it. If people simply followed those rules, we'd have just increased the US life expectancy by a large amount. Fact is, people don't do those things 'cause they're lazy, or they're only thinking about living in the moment, or they just don't care. Hell, we're all guilty of that at some point... And, sure, there's exceptions to the rule, too... but nobody should expect society to pick up the tab for self-inflicted voluntary wounds.
To use your example of organ transplant, there's a wide range of tissue survival post-mortem. Muscle cells, for example, can handle some degree of ischemia and metabolic insult -- which is why when you sleep on your arm, usually the worst that happens is you wake up with the limb having "fallen asleep"; quite uncomfortable, but once blood flow resumes, the limb suffers no permanent injury.
In the brain, though, interneuronal connections begin to break down and change very quickly once the normal metabolism is interrupted; the brain is an organ that is very susceptible to oxygen deprivation and metabolic damage.
It isn't that the brain cannot 'reboot' -- its just that once you "turn off the power" to the brain, the time to safely reboot is very short, and the damage process begins quite rapidly.
People who suffer hypoxic brain injury are often able to survive, but usually with some degree of brain damage, and the resultant cognitive deficits.
It seems to me that the persona is merely the interactions of a finely-tuned and easily-disruptible organ -- nothing more. And, yes IAADWSIBI (I am a doctor who specializes in brain injury).
As long as the aforementioned hypothetical 18-year-old can't be asked by his/her country to serve, and die in its service, I guess I'm fine with that. As far as this much-older-than-18-year-old is concerned, though -- if you're old enough to be a soldier, a sailor, a member of the police force, or a firefighter, then you should be old enough to vote.
Except, you don't. Internet on the iPhone is "all you can eat" for the flat fee of the monthly charge. No data costs, unlimited usage. The costs scale up for the *talk* minutes you use, but the 'net's free...
I agree, assuming you trust your spouse's competence...
My wife is the IT specialist in the house...it's what she does for a living. I'm just a doctor who doesn't want to be bothered with this stuff, and I leave the big-brain decisions up to her. Areas of expertise...if she says "Use Firefox on Windows boxen", and explains to me that its bad/unsafe to use IE, then I'm not gonna argue with her any more than she'd argue with me about antibiotic therapy when she got pneumonia.
That's why we have a Macintosh. She gets her *nix CLI, and I have pretty pictures that don't confuse me.;-)
1) I assume you'd rather have your doctor practicing medicine as opposed to being a secretary scheduling appointments and giving you minute-to-minute updates on how they're coming along. I can't speak to how each individual office is run, but you seem to think we're 'mechanics', so I'd advise you to do what everyone else does when they take their cars to the garage: grab a magazine, sit down & shut up. I've rarely heard people complain about waits to have their cars repaired (and they always seem to OK with the explanation "We need some more time...why don't you come back later and see how we're doing").
If there's a *really* long delay, any office *should* let you know about it and apologize (or give you another appointment when you can come back at your convenience). And, yes, they should be apologetic about any major delay, even if it is unavoidable -- your time is as important as anyone elses.
2) Physician ? prescription pad. Most of what I do doesn't involve drug prescriptions at all. And, you're free to make your own drugs or take galenicals & dietary suppliments, right? Y
If you want medication produced by a licensed pharmaceutical company, distributed by a licensed pharmacist, get yourself a medical degree and license. You can't take advantage of the "system" only when it suits you.
3) Medicine is troubleshooting, obviously. That is a no-brainer -- patients go to the doctor to correct and/or avoid trouble.
We have, as you call them, "flowcharts", to take advantage of the experience and expertise of billions of man-hours of other doctors' work. This is called "evidence-based medicine". You don't want a doctor randomly trying therapy. There should be a reason and evidence to back up any prescribed intervention or treatments.
We use Ockham's razor all the time, simply because "common things are common". Most people *don't* have Marburg virus, or Turner's syndrome. Much more likely that my patient is eating too much and is overweight, or has diabetes, or smokes. If there's evidence to the contrary, you take that into account ("What's that you say? You were travelling in the jungles of central Africa? And were bitten by many insects? And have been bleeding from your eyeballs? Hmmm.... Maybe you aren't dealing with diabetes...).
Randomly "leaving the flowchart" or arbitrarily creating your own is basically trying to re-invent the wheel -- if it has been seen/done before, and there is evidence to act one way over another, you better act in the most beneficial way. The last thing you want is your primary care doctor doing "research" on you, I hope you'd agree.
4) You've over-simplified medicine into your "two types of doctors". If you needed your gallbladder or appendix out, I hope you'd consider your surgeon more than a "consultant". You get in a car accident, with internal injuries possible, I doubt you know more about your medical problems than the emergency/trauma doc looking you over. Or would you like them have you look over the CAT scans, and ask your opinions on your rapidly falling blood pressure?
I'd say most primary care doctors (or as you call them, "GP"s), having seen hundreds of patients with hypertension, diabetes, high cholesterol, etc. know significantly more about managment of these issues than you do. You can't expect me to believe that, after I've managed hundreds of people with the *exact same condition* you have, you somehow magically know more than I do about it, just because you have this problem now. (Or, if you do, please explain that one to me...)
These types of doctors *are* common. The problem is that, aside from being clinicians, people like you want doctors to be politicians and psychiatrists at the same time... to make you feel important/smart/special.
Spending a few hours on the internet looking things up may give you some information in a very narrow band about a very specific topic, but "only a fool is their own physician". It is only rarely that you encounter patients who think that their few hours studying a very specific topic has somehow
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"Windows 8 To Fight Piracy With the Cloud" Just think about that title for a moment. If you repeated that to someone 30 years ago -- even to someone with an good tech background, who spoke English as their native tongue -- they would probably have thought you're speaking complete and utter gibberish. Actually, I'm not so sure they'd be wrong.
You keep using that word... I do not think it means what you think it means...
You're right, they aren't. Apple tends to take other peoples' ideas and make them WORK.
There, fixed that for you.
Not that I can provide any of the details, but Nielson DOES (or at least DID) use DVR-watchers' data.
How do I know?
I'm a TiVo-Nielsen family. There was a specific enrollment they had about 5 years ago for Nielsen to use TiVo data from selected households, and I was chosen & signed-up. Now, what Nielsen and TiVo do with that information, if your Nielsen-family status is based on your location or your account or your physical DVR... or if Nielsen/TiVo are even still collecting the data -- I don't know.
What I can tell you is that, circa 2005, Nielsen was collecting data from TiVo DVR users.
I'm sure that the folks who didn't want to adopt the automobile over horses, and those who spurned the telephone in favour of older forms of communication espoused similar views.
FWIW, I think you won, Raju. Your argument was pretty clear, and I think D-a-B was confused or something. S/He seems to think that Mao was somehow the cause of the CR without thinking how Mao was able to get that power in the first place. Sorta like saying a bullet was the cause of a murder, without looking at the person pulling the trigger.
The AC spontaneously declaring victory was just... weird. Kinda like Bush stating "Mission Accomplished", when it obviously wasn't.
Ok... well... er...
Now what?
I guess, let's all let it go?
Oh, you mean written by _this_ guy? "William J. Rea, M.D., who operates the Environmental Health Center in Dallas, Texas, is facing disciplinary action that could lead to revocation of his medical license. The Medical Board of Texas has charged him with (a) using pseudoscientific test methods, (b) failing to make accurate diagnoses, (c) providing "nonsensical" treatments, (d) failing to properly inform patients that his approach is unproven; (e) practicing in areas for which he has not been trained; and (f) representing himself certified by a board that is not recognized by the American Board of Medical Specialties."
I call shenanigans. When *I* listen to my patients' hearts, I'm listening for new or changed murmurs, irregularity in the rate, bounding of pulses -- and you're taught to do things systematically, and for a reason. Insurance companies give us about 15 minutes per patient if we want to be able to keep our head over water, so if you think anyone wastes time with useless mumbo-jumbo, you're way off-base. Anyway, you don't diagnose a "heart attack" with your stethoscope.
"You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. There is a mailbox here."
You are likely to be eaten... by me?
"After I dig through some boxes and find my old Opus dolls. I wonder what my kids are going to think of them."
Probably something like: "Man, dad sure likes than deformed sea lion doll..."
Good to know that /. has given me my own article tag, now.
Anyway, if you'll excuse me, I have some slavering to go do in another part of the cave.
There's this jerk poking around the place, rifling through everything -- but I'm guessing the batteries in his lantern are about to run out any second now....
Are you kidding? Slightly more fun than pulling teeth, maybe...
- am
a doctor, and I think I'd rather have the Canadian health care system than what's here in the USA..."...I, unfortunately, live in Canada..."
I don't think I've heard anyone believably state this before, unless they were talking about the weather.
Where does it say we should have sympathy for those who willingly self-destruct? You throw up a lot of strawmen (we're talking about adults, not children; smokers, not the genetically burdened), and you use a ton of false stereotypes (doctors making "the most [money] in the shortest amount of time"??? Now *that* is funny, when you're talking to someone $220K in the hole because of his education, and who gets paid marginally above minimum hourly wage!), but you don't seem to ever face the facts: there's a limited amount of resources to go around for anything, healthcare included, and the idea of rewarding those who place a volitional drain on those resources is foolhardy. I am certainly not saying that we should ever use pre-existing conditions to cost-tier health care. But basing costs on the purchasers current behaviour? Oh, yes -- without a doubt. I'd certainly feel better about giving a liver transplant to someone with an illness that was *not* self-inflicted than someone who got Hep C from shooting smack or drank themselves silly. As far as I'm concerned, all other things being equal, those folks who knowingly burden society are responsible for shouldering an added burden to get the same benefits.
There's a huge difference between the folks who are stuck getting dealt a bad hand and those who are blissfully pissing away their potential health. The idea that society is supposed to treat those who choose to burden it with added, unnecessary costs because of their willful disregard or disdain the same as everyone else is ludicrous.
Just because we're all eventually going to sicken and die doesn't mean we have to treat those who heedlessly destroy their bodies the same as those who try to maintain their health.
And, as for your snide little comment about Canada, you know significantly less about it than I do. I've been through the Canadian health system, and watched family die because of it. Furthermore, if anything, Canada is far more willing to ration care based on patient behaviour than here in the US. So you can take your asinine little comments about "spendin...loot" and shove it where the sun don't shine. Maybe you can get a cut-rate proctologist to dig them out for you. Asshat.
That's crap. Smokers aren't "victims" or "sick", nor are the *vast* majority of the obese. These are folks who are consciously, repeatedly choosing to endanger their own health.
Fine. Free will, and all that. But there's no freakin' way that people who try and take care of their bodies, folks who don't commit slow suicide, should be forced to bear the brunt of the costs these masochistic morons incur.
There's a few simple rules I tell all my patients, and there's no reason that far and away almost everyone can't abide by them:
Eat less, exercise more, don't smoke, don't shoot drugs, don't have unprotected sex -- that's it. If people simply followed those rules, we'd have just increased the US life expectancy by a large amount. Fact is, people don't do those things 'cause they're lazy, or they're only thinking about living in the moment, or they just don't care. Hell, we're all guilty of that at some point... And, sure, there's exceptions to the rule, too... but nobody should expect society to pick up the tab for self-inflicted voluntary wounds.
I dunno, I kinda disagree.
To use your example of organ transplant, there's a wide range of tissue survival post-mortem. Muscle cells, for example, can handle some degree of ischemia and metabolic insult -- which is why when you sleep on your arm, usually the worst that happens is you wake up with the limb having "fallen asleep"; quite uncomfortable, but once blood flow resumes, the limb suffers no permanent injury.
In the brain, though, interneuronal connections begin to break down and change very quickly once the normal metabolism is interrupted; the brain is an organ that is very susceptible to oxygen deprivation and metabolic damage.
It isn't that the brain cannot 'reboot' -- its just that once you "turn off the power" to the brain, the time to safely reboot is very short, and the damage process begins quite rapidly.
People who suffer hypoxic brain injury are often able to survive, but usually with some degree of brain damage, and the resultant cognitive deficits.
It seems to me that the persona is merely the interactions of a finely-tuned and easily-disruptible organ -- nothing more. And, yes IAADWSIBI (I am a doctor who specializes in brain injury).
As long as the aforementioned hypothetical 18-year-old can't be asked by his/her country to serve, and die in its service, I guess I'm fine with that. As far as this much-older-than-18-year-old is concerned, though -- if you're old enough to be a soldier, a sailor, a member of the police force, or a firefighter, then you should be old enough to vote.
Except, you don't. Internet on the iPhone is "all you can eat" for the flat fee of the monthly charge. No data costs, unlimited usage. The costs scale up for the *talk* minutes you use, but the 'net's free...
As I said before -- even I wouldn't eat *THAT*...
Speak for yourself -- I'm a bit more selective in my diet than *THAT*...
And besides, its pronounced: "a-boat", not "a-boot". No oh-fense, eh?
You forgot to add: /."...
"and I'll get it posted on
(How *is* this stuff getting put up, anyway?)
I agree, assuming you trust your spouse's competence...
;-)
My wife is the IT specialist in the house...it's what she does for a living. I'm just a doctor who doesn't want to be bothered with this stuff, and I leave the big-brain decisions up to her. Areas of expertise...if she says "Use Firefox on Windows boxen", and explains to me that its bad/unsafe to use IE, then I'm not gonna argue with her any more than she'd argue with me about antibiotic therapy when she got pneumonia.
That's why we have a Macintosh. She gets her *nix CLI, and I have pretty pictures that don't confuse me.
1) I assume you'd rather have your doctor practicing medicine as opposed to being a secretary scheduling appointments and giving you minute-to-minute updates on how they're coming along. I can't speak to how each individual office is run, but you seem to think we're 'mechanics', so I'd advise you to do what everyone else does when they take their cars to the garage: grab a magazine, sit down & shut up. I've rarely heard people complain about waits to have their cars repaired (and they always seem to OK with the explanation "We need some more time...why don't you come back later and see how we're doing"). If there's a *really* long delay, any office *should* let you know about it and apologize (or give you another appointment when you can come back at your convenience). And, yes, they should be apologetic about any major delay, even if it is unavoidable -- your time is as important as anyone elses. 2) Physician ? prescription pad. Most of what I do doesn't involve drug prescriptions at all. And, you're free to make your own drugs or take galenicals & dietary suppliments, right? Y If you want medication produced by a licensed pharmaceutical company, distributed by a licensed pharmacist, get yourself a medical degree and license. You can't take advantage of the "system" only when it suits you. 3) Medicine is troubleshooting, obviously. That is a no-brainer -- patients go to the doctor to correct and/or avoid trouble. We have, as you call them, "flowcharts", to take advantage of the experience and expertise of billions of man-hours of other doctors' work. This is called "evidence-based medicine". You don't want a doctor randomly trying therapy. There should be a reason and evidence to back up any prescribed intervention or treatments. We use Ockham's razor all the time, simply because "common things are common". Most people *don't* have Marburg virus, or Turner's syndrome. Much more likely that my patient is eating too much and is overweight, or has diabetes, or smokes. If there's evidence to the contrary, you take that into account ("What's that you say? You were travelling in the jungles of central Africa? And were bitten by many insects? And have been bleeding from your eyeballs? Hmmm.... Maybe you aren't dealing with diabetes...). Randomly "leaving the flowchart" or arbitrarily creating your own is basically trying to re-invent the wheel -- if it has been seen/done before, and there is evidence to act one way over another, you better act in the most beneficial way. The last thing you want is your primary care doctor doing "research" on you, I hope you'd agree. 4) You've over-simplified medicine into your "two types of doctors". If you needed your gallbladder or appendix out, I hope you'd consider your surgeon more than a "consultant". You get in a car accident, with internal injuries possible, I doubt you know more about your medical problems than the emergency/trauma doc looking you over. Or would you like them have you look over the CAT scans, and ask your opinions on your rapidly falling blood pressure? I'd say most primary care doctors (or as you call them, "GP"s), having seen hundreds of patients with hypertension, diabetes, high cholesterol, etc. know significantly more about managment of these issues than you do. You can't expect me to believe that, after I've managed hundreds of people with the *exact same condition* you have, you somehow magically know more than I do about it, just because you have this problem now. (Or, if you do, please explain that one to me...) These types of doctors *are* common. The problem is that, aside from being clinicians, people like you want doctors to be politicians and psychiatrists at the same time... to make you feel important/smart/special. Spending a few hours on the internet looking things up may give you some information in a very narrow band about a very specific topic, but "only a fool is their own physician". It is only rarely that you encounter patients who think that their few hours studying a very specific topic has somehow