The introduction to the review is silly. The book would be better described as the history, present, and future of various aspects of broadband. Work, miltary, science, family life -- broadbands impact on all of these type of things are explored.
Several of my friends who are in the venture-side of investing are using this book to see where they need to put their money. The author has a good vision.
And yes, it's already a little out dated. It still takes a while to publish these prehistoric things the public calls books.:)
Quick source view of the main slashdot page shows that "gif" is found about 50 times.
"png" is found twice -- both of which are related to the original post.
Now you know why we care. The web community uses gif more than png. For better or worse...
Davak
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They could over come this with the old satellite/phone combination. Uploads are started through the phone connection while downloads are largely controlled through the satellite. Tiny up-pipe and huge down-pipe. (Obviously I am making this way too simple...)
Such a plan would not be ideal... but would be better than phone alone.
Likely the better solution is a combination which also utilizes current cellular providers. If you do not get permission to place a tower somewhere, you use one of these systems to bounce signals onto another tower.
These beasts are going to work much better for bouncing strong signals to far distances... than the little weak signals that PDAs and notebooks generate.
Alas, I'll install this on my little test network before rolling it out throughout the hospital. I gotta feeling that this update is not going to be quite as smooth as the recent few.
Am I the only one that has a little series of computers that I roll out updates before I roll them out enterprise-wide? I know some people have a test system... but for my network (and the sake of the hospital's uptime) I have a small testing network.
Are you sure your cable company doesn't have a local and LD phone package?
http://www.twcdigitalphone.com/
The majority of my friends and neighbors have switched to road runner's VoIP... and we are all impressed.
911-service, call waiting, caller-id, works through your existing phone lines -- the service is packed with bells and whistles.
Give it a shot if you have RR in your area.
Davak
I don't think that it is suprising that video games increases one's dexterity.
Being a nonsurgeon physician myself, I honestly don't think that most surgeons have a problem with the actual hand-eye part of the surgery.
Most surgeons that I see getting in trouble are surgeons that do procedures that are not really needed... or surgeons that do procedures for which they they are not adequately trained.
Anyway, give me a study that shows that surgeons who play video games have a lower mortality rate during surgery and I'll be impressed.
Until then, it'll just be something else that I kid my surgeon clan members in socomII about.
(Sorry for the typos, but I am typing madly between patient visits.)
HIPPA stresses patient privacy--and goes way overboard. But that's a different discussion.
The question is not if this is a HIPPA violation... which it clearly is. But is it a violation of US law at all?
If the presidental candidates want to win over the working class, make companies that send jobs overseas follow the same rules we do. Pay taxes, not pollute, no child labor, and even HIPPA -- why should they get to drop the US rules just because they cross the border?
If I get a ticket in Texas, points still go against my license here at home.
Why should a big company be treated any differently?
Why do your own transciption? That's silly to dictate to yourself.
Now, if your father has an automated computer system where he can just use checkboxes for the majority of his work -- then maybe.
But you can't tell me that a doctor spending hours each day listening to his own voice is more cost effective than just seeing a couple more patients and hiring somebody to do the transcription.
I can grab all sort of nice information through this process. Netscape, Opera, IE -- all support this function. Firefox currenly does not.
If plug-ins like the one described in the original posting change the DDE information, then it will even be more complicated to develop applications that are compatable with this browser.
Fraunhofer reproduces surround sound by adding to MP3 encoding extra information that describes the spatial characteristics of the main audio track.
If they are just adding information to the main track, why put that information in the file to begin with? Just let the user have a "spatial" encoder plug-in that jacks into winamp or whatever. Doing it this way increases the file size for everybody... people with and without surround systems.
Surround information should not be "created." It should be ripped and converted from the original source.
Before long we'll have the mp3 mess that we currently have with all the video codecs.
Thanks to Corsair for providing us with memory for our testing. If you're looking to tweak out your system to the max and maybe overclock it a little, Corsair's RAM is definitely worth considering.
Boy... I wonder how much memory Corsair donated for that wonderful little plug.
I can tolerate Coke planting their product in sit-coms... but I don't think I would appreciate my newscaster saying "Coke is so refreshing" in the middle of a news story.
Planting an obvious ad in the middle of "journalism" is just wrong.
How long before people start having a backlash against LOTRs?
4000 recent awards, the actors are plastered on every talk show, multiple console games, 3 recent highly pushed movies --shouldn't they just take a breather?
Wouldn't waiting a few years and then bringing the story back in a different format be refreshing for the story?
From 1996 through 1999, Florida hospitals reported 19,885 incidents but only 3,177 medical malpractice claims. In other words, for every 6 medical errors only 1 claim is filed.
Honestly, you do not know much are actually defending the side you are attacking here. But it's because "medical error" is something that is poorly defined.
A hospital probably makes a hundred medical errors a day.
Can't read a doctor's writing, delivery of the wrong medicine to the floor, patient rolls out of bed, patient given medicine too soon or too late, patient is given food when he/she is not suppose to eat, wrong dose of a medicine is given(baby aspirin instead of a whole aspirin)...
All of these errors, no matter how small, are considered "medical errors."
How many of these errors actually "reach the patient?" Very few--that's why are nurses and pharm folks are so well trained. Out of the few that do reach the patient, how many cause harm? out of those, how many cause irreversible harm?
You see... only 1 out of these 6 errors may reach a judge... but there are magnitudes of difference in how many of these errors actual cause patient harm.
Sorry to reply to my own message... but I left out a couple of other factors that are causing everybody's insurance rates to increase.
- The average person is older. Older people need more medical care -> more money.
- The average person is fatter. Fatter people meed more medical care -> more money.
- People that used to die from severe disease (HIV, pulmonary hypertension) can now be kept alive using expensive medications and treatments -> more money.
We can't just blame the damn lawyers for everything...
To be honest... I think insurance rates have increased mainly from the increasing cost of practicing medicine as a whole.
Working in an ICU, I can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars a day on tests that were not even available 20 years ago. I can spend an equal amount of money on medicines that were not around 2 years ago.
Although I would love to blame increasing insurance rates on the lawsuits, it is really that our society demands that people receive the best possible medicial care -- and that best possible medical care gets more and more expensive everyday.
When I was practicing in the deep south, the malpractice problem seemed a lot worse.
Poorly educated patients would sue and sue... and eventually they would find some poorly educated jury to give them a lot of money.
Poorer people also pull the "sue card" in order to pressure the physician into signing the disability paperwork. Then the money just comes from everybody instead of the doctor's insurance company.
Slashdot Mirror
whois.sc is much more attractive and accurate.
n n.com
For example, whois.sc actually tells how many yahoo links a site has. (Slash has 288 DMOZ and 22 yahoo links? Holy cow!)
netsol just has a link to the yahoo search...
plus whois.sc is so much easier... just add the domain name to the end of the url you want to search...
http://whois.sc/slashdot.org
http://whois.sc/c
netsol doesn't give you this easy ability...
I'm sticking with whois.sc
Davak
Before this tired troll gets started... you can google for all of these you want.
Google: "called. He wants his"
Google: "called. She wants her"
Google: "called. It wants its"
The introduction to the review is silly. The book would be better described as the history, present, and future of various aspects of broadband. Work, miltary, science, family life -- broadbands impact on all of these type of things are explored.
:)
Several of my friends who are in the venture-side of investing are using this book to see where they need to put their money. The author has a good vision.
And yes, it's already a little out dated. It still takes a while to publish these prehistoric things the public calls books.
Davak
Quick source view of the main slashdot page shows that "gif" is found about 50 times.
"png" is found twice -- both of which are related to the original post.
Now you know why we care. The web community uses gif more than png. For better or worse...
Davak
They could over come this with the old satellite/phone combination. Uploads are started through the phone connection while downloads are largely controlled through the satellite. Tiny up-pipe and huge down-pipe.
(Obviously I am making this way too simple...)
Such a plan would not be ideal... but would be better than phone alone.
Likely the better solution is a combination which also utilizes current cellular providers. If you do not get permission to place a tower somewhere, you use one of these systems to bounce signals onto another tower.
These beasts are going to work much better for bouncing strong signals to far distances... than the little weak signals that PDAs and notebooks generate.
Alas, I'll install this on my little test network before rolling it out throughout the hospital. I gotta feeling that this update is not going to be quite as smooth as the recent few.
Am I the only one that has a little series of computers that I roll out updates before I roll them out enterprise-wide? I know some people have a test system... but for my network (and the sake of the hospital's uptime) I have a small testing network.
Better yet, where the torrent tools?
My favorite is Azureus although it uses java and is a resource hog.
Original client--no bells or whistles
Experimental client with some speed controls
If you want unbiased, read through the report yourself... If you are basing your opinion on any news station, you are not going to get the real story.
Original Source of the Bill
Are you sure your cable company doesn't have a local and LD phone package? http://www.twcdigitalphone.com/ The majority of my friends and neighbors have switched to road runner's VoIP... and we are all impressed. 911-service, call waiting, caller-id, works through your existing phone lines -- the service is packed with bells and whistles. Give it a shot if you have RR in your area. Davak
I don't think that it is suprising that video games increases one's dexterity.
Being a nonsurgeon physician myself, I honestly don't think that most surgeons have a problem with the actual hand-eye part of the surgery.
Most surgeons that I see getting in trouble are surgeons that do procedures that are not really needed... or surgeons that do procedures for which they they are not adequately trained.
Anyway, give me a study that shows that surgeons who play video games have a lower mortality rate during surgery and I'll be impressed.
Until then, it'll just be something else that I kid my surgeon clan members in socomII about.
(Sorry for the typos, but I am typing madly between patient visits.)
Davak
HIPPA stresses patient privacy--and goes way overboard. But that's a different discussion.
The question is not if this is a HIPPA violation... which it clearly is. But is it a violation of US law at all?
If the presidental candidates want to win over the working class, make companies that send jobs overseas follow the same rules we do. Pay taxes, not pollute, no child labor, and even HIPPA -- why should they get to drop the US rules just because they cross the border?
If I get a ticket in Texas, points still go against my license here at home.
Why should a big company be treated any differently?
Davak
Why do your own transciption? That's silly to dictate to yourself.
Now, if your father has an automated computer system where he can just use checkboxes for the majority of his work -- then maybe.
But you can't tell me that a doctor spending hours each day listening to his own voice is more cost effective than just seeing a couple more patients and hiring somebody to do the transcription.
Davak
Most transciption services are now computer-transcription now anyway.
You speak. Human transcribes. Computer learns. Human error checks... eventually the computer is good enough that the human is not needed at all.
We are using this system now. It, of course, sucks compared to a real transciptionist... but it is 10 times cheaper.
Davak
Will Firefox ever fix the lack of DDE support?
For example, I can communicate with mozilla with a command such as:
Link.LinkTopic = "Mozilla|WWW_GetWindowInfo"
Link.LinkMode = 2
Link.LinkRequest
I can grab all sort of nice information through this process. Netscape, Opera, IE -- all support this function. Firefox currenly does not.
If plug-ins like the one described in the original posting change the DDE information, then it will even be more complicated to develop applications that are compatable with this browser.
Davak
Mod parent up.
Davak
"We have enough money to do something cheaper and longer than you."
Then, they wait and wait... until the market folds... and they are still on top. Who knows if it works or not, but that's their plan.
I use Microsoft everyday... but that part of Microsoft makes my stomach turn.
(See also XBOX)
Davak
Fraunhofer reproduces surround sound by adding to MP3 encoding extra information that describes the spatial characteristics of the main audio track.
If they are just adding information to the main track, why put that information in the file to begin with? Just let the user have a "spatial" encoder plug-in that jacks into winamp or whatever. Doing it this way increases the file size for everybody... people with and without surround systems.
Surround information should not be "created." It should be ripped and converted from the original source.
Before long we'll have the mp3 mess that we currently have with all the video codecs.
Davak
Thanks to Corsair for providing us with memory for our testing. If you're looking to tweak out your system to the max and maybe overclock it a little, Corsair's RAM is definitely worth considering.
Boy... I wonder how much memory Corsair donated for that wonderful little plug.
I can tolerate Coke planting their product in sit-coms... but I don't think I would appreciate my newscaster saying "Coke is so refreshing" in the middle of a news story.
Planting an obvious ad in the middle of "journalism" is just wrong.
Davak
I thought Intel was killing their label of chips by speeds...
Davak
How long before people start having a backlash against LOTRs?
4000 recent awards, the actors are plastered on every talk show, multiple console games, 3 recent highly pushed movies --shouldn't they just take a breather?
Wouldn't waiting a few years and then bringing the story back in a different format be refreshing for the story?
Davak
From 1996 through 1999, Florida hospitals reported 19,885 incidents but only 3,177 medical malpractice claims. In other words, for every 6 medical errors only 1 claim is filed.
Honestly, you do not know much are actually defending the side you are attacking here. But it's because "medical error" is something that is poorly defined.
A hospital probably makes a hundred medical errors a day.
Can't read a doctor's writing, delivery of the wrong medicine to the floor, patient rolls out of bed, patient given medicine too soon or too late, patient is given food when he/she is not suppose to eat, wrong dose of a medicine is given(baby aspirin instead of a whole aspirin)...
All of these errors, no matter how small, are considered "medical errors."
How many of these errors actually "reach the patient?" Very few--that's why are nurses and pharm folks are so well trained. Out of the few that do reach the patient, how many cause harm? out of those, how many cause irreversible harm?
You see... only 1 out of these 6 errors may reach a judge... but there are magnitudes of difference in how many of these errors actual cause patient harm.
Davak
No Reggie Link for the Article
If you want to be able to help out your fellow slashdotter... create your link using http://nytimes.blogspace.com/genlink for now on.
Davak
Sorry to reply to my own message... but I left out a couple of other factors that are causing everybody's insurance rates to increase.
- The average person is older. Older people need more medical care -> more money.
- The average person is fatter. Fatter people meed more medical care -> more money.
- People that used to die from severe disease (HIV, pulmonary hypertension) can now be kept alive using expensive medications and treatments -> more money.
We can't just blame the damn lawyers for everything...
Davak
To be honest... I think insurance rates have increased mainly from the increasing cost of practicing medicine as a whole.
Working in an ICU, I can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars a day on tests that were not even available 20 years ago. I can spend an equal amount of money on medicines that were not around 2 years ago.
Although I would love to blame increasing insurance rates on the lawsuits, it is really that our society demands that people receive the best possible medicial care -- and that best possible medical care gets more and more expensive everyday.
Davak
When I was practicing in the deep south, the malpractice problem seemed a lot worse.
Poorly educated patients would sue and sue... and eventually they would find some poorly educated jury to give them a lot of money.
Poorer people also pull the "sue card" in order to pressure the physician into signing the disability paperwork. Then the money just comes from everybody instead of the doctor's insurance company.
Davak