Should we get mad at the bunnies for running away when we walk through the field dressed as a hunters?
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I actually take care of several lawyers in my practice. There is usually a big "gulp" of worry initially--they I kid about it on subsquent visits and we forget about it.
Most lawyers are educated people and can easily help make most medical decisions.
I say, "Hey, I am 75% sure this is what you've got... You want to try this treatment or would you rather run a few more tests? Test X and Y would make me 10% more sure of your diagnosis."
Then it is our decision about testing. If I miss that hidden rare zebra cancer... then it is both our faults.
Some doctors abuse the system, get caught, get sued, and get punished. If it happens too often, his/her license is removed.
Some patients abuse the system, too. They use a shotgun approach and attempt to sue and sue and sue. By using lawyers that only collect fees for winning, these patients hurt the doctor and the lawyer side of "medicine."
Does this type of system leave a foul taste in my mouth? Hell, yeah. The guys that are making money off of this are almost as bad as those habitual plantiffs.
However, I say this with the bias that I have never been sued by one of these rabid money grabbers.
The old system of doctor and patient loving and respecting one another is leaving... and that's part of the problem.
As I was reading this thread a patient called me at home. He's a very difficult case, and his family are salt of the earth people. I care for them... so I let them call me directly, on a weekend, when I am not on call. I gave them potential life-or-death advice on the phone tonight... if I am wrong, they could easily sue me.
However, they never would. Because we have a true patient-doctor relationship that is so rare these days. I care for them... and they respect me--with my knowledge and my faults.
Yeah, the system is screwed--on both sides of the equation.
We've had a lot of success using a "recipe" model at our current web site tech-recipes.com.
People submit the recipes. People review and grade the information. Then you have a good little collection of worthwhile "tech" recipes.
We did computer-related information because our geek factor >> cooking factor.
-=slameless plug mode off=-
I agree that a large internet cookbook database would be wonderful...however, the problem with most "recipes" is that they are instructions -- not lessons. I don't want to know that I should add the milk after the flour; I want to know WHY I should add the milk after the flour.
By personality, geek-type people want to hack and explore stuff. Blindly creating food dishes from instruction is not very creative nor stimulating.
I think that is why so many people here on Slashdot love Alton Brown. He teaches and informs.
Forget the database of food recipes...
I want a database of food lessons... or at least to encourage people posting recipes to explain the science and thoughts behind their suggestions.
Yes, it will make it safer. Having a full power circular radar that locks and tracks all moving objects within 200 yd would make it safer still.
We have multiple technologies such as this that will make driving a car much safer... the most important thing is making them cheap enough to be affordable and practical on vehicles.
Ah... this would be true accept that alternative browsers do exist.
I would be willing to bet that more people feel strongly about using google than they feel strongly about using IE.
Even my elderly uncle who can't use the web without AOL knows how to get to google for his searches. If IE blocked google, he would be calling me over to install an alternative browser ASAP.
Unfortunately now, he just calls me over to uninstall the latest trojan/virus/worm that he finds a way to install on a routine basis.:)
Davak
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Google has indexed the internet. That data is ultimately more powerful than having software installed on the majority of desktops.
Google has already flexed this muscle with their text ads. By being able to rapidly spider a page, google can provide very directed and specific ads. These ads are successful because they are so focused to their assoicated page.
Without radically changing the way we view the web... Microsoft can not touch that aspect of google... yet.
All users see is "translate" in the context menu when they right click. They don't know where it is going... nor do most of them care.
Microsoft will use this subtle integration to direct users where they want them to go.
Users like us may see the trouble with this practice; however, the normal mom and pop user doesn't notice nor care... they think that it is neat to be able to get translation now in Word 2003.
I have little doubt that google will win this battle. They have data... and microsoft just has software. However, Microsoft will use its reign of the desktop to fight the battle as hard as possible.
My roomie from college now runs one of these PCR "who's your daddy" companies often used by talk shows. We have had many dicussions regarding this... and PCR can be easy faked just as easy as audio or video.
Garbage in, garbage out. You still have to trust the one providing the evidence.
MS can't just "win" the search engine war by pointing users there by default.
To quote the article now: [Google] accounts for 35% of search-engine visits--compared with 28% for Yahoo!, 16% for AOL and 15% for Microsoft's MSN
Do you really think that 31% of the population feels that Microsoft and AOL searches are better than google?
No. Users do not know better. They just click, and click, and click -- until they find their answer. You and I and most of slashdot knows that google would probably give you the answer quicker and better. 31% of the people out there just blindly search with whatever the easiest search option is...
Now Word and other Microsoft programs send information to various web sites to get translations, directions, and other additional information.
MS and AOL may not be able to win by pointing users to their products; however, they can drain enough money from the rest of the field to drive some better products into the poor house.
Google has one (the?) largest collection of web data indexed. One way they use and abuse this is the way they can give such targetted ads on web sites.
Their little text-based ads rock the socks off other ads... Is it because people just are drawn to the little google boxes full of text? No... it's because the ads so closely related to what's on the page.
Data is going to rule. Even microsoft realizes that google has beaten them to the punch.
Could google screw up (like netscape)? Sure! Right now however... they are sitting pretty.
Google has more data that Microsoft. Google is a better search engine than MSN. I don't think that anybody disagrees with this. However...
The next step, inevitably, will be to integrate such search functions into Windows, on the grounds that it constitutes a core technology that should be part of the operating system. In his keynote speech at last November's Comdex show in Las Vegas, Mr Gates demonstrated a prototype technology called "Stuff I've Seen" which does just that. It allows computer users to search for context-specific words in e-mails and in recently visited web pages, as well as in documents on their computers.
Microsoft has it's reaches into the majority of homes and businesses in the world. As broadband always-on internet becomes more popular, more and more services will really be clicks to other sites.
This is where Microsoft knows how to crush their enemies. By using easy clicks with integration, they can direct people to Microsoft search, translation, music, or whatever.
As the article states, before long your searches and data will be references my Windows software in multiple ways. Windows doesn't just want the web integrated into your system... they want their web integrated into your system.
Thank you for calling the US National Institute of Standards and Technology Security Hotline.
Please say "HOLA" now if you espanol...
Otherwise please select one of the following selections dealing with your security problem.
Press 1 if you have suffered a DOS attack Press 2 if your network has been infected with a worm Press 3 if your site is being slashdotted Press 4 if 13 year olds have defaced your web site Press 5 if you are running windows as your server
Press 666 if you are a missle silo control room and have realized that someone has gained root or administrative access on your control system
With the increasing cost in producing these new expensive, logo'ed, computerized, and/or automated sets, they sold more units... but lost money because the units cost so much more to produce.
As the father of a young child, I also wonder how much the lego clones have killed the market. Out of the many "lego" sets we have been givenas gifts, the majority of them are not official "lego" legos.
The fact that somebody would rank what an adult does alone in the privacy of their own home more vile than a grown man sleeping with (and perhaps molesting) children is scary indeed.
(I actually saw somebody walking down the street wearing that shirt. Scary)
COX2-inhibitors like celebrex may very well have unique long term side effects as well. Ibuprofen and other such NSAIDS block COX1 and COX2. Celebrex specifically inhibits only one side of this pathway.
Studies are already on the way to see if COX-2 inhibitors increase one's risk for heart attacks.
I don't understand the combination of "hypersonic" and "space plane." I thought the key behind the US hypersonic plane was its ability to compress and use oxygen to increase its speed and function.
Here's a couple of links that compares and contrasts these two.
I don't understand the way the combination of the two would work.
Slashdot Mirror
-=humor mode on=-
Should we get mad at the bunnies for running away when we walk through the field dressed as a hunters?
-=mode off=-
I actually take care of several lawyers in my practice. There is usually a big "gulp" of worry initially--they I kid about it on subsquent visits and we forget about it.
Most lawyers are educated people and can easily help make most medical decisions.
I say, "Hey, I am 75% sure this is what you've got... You want to try this treatment or would you rather run a few more tests? Test X and Y would make me 10% more sure of your diagnosis."
Then it is our decision about testing. If I miss that hidden rare zebra cancer... then it is both our faults.
Davak
MD (not yet been sued) here...
The simple fact is that people abuse the system.
Some doctors abuse the system, get caught, get sued, and get punished. If it happens too often, his/her license is removed.
Some patients abuse the system, too. They use a shotgun approach and attempt to sue and sue and sue. By using lawyers that only collect fees for winning, these patients hurt the doctor and the lawyer side of "medicine."
Does this type of system leave a foul taste in my mouth? Hell, yeah. The guys that are making money off of this are almost as bad as those habitual plantiffs.
However, I say this with the bias that I have never been sued by one of these rabid money grabbers.
The old system of doctor and patient loving and respecting one another is leaving... and that's part of the problem.
As I was reading this thread a patient called me at home. He's a very difficult case, and his family are salt of the earth people. I care for them... so I let them call me directly, on a weekend, when I am not on call. I gave them potential life-or-death advice on the phone tonight... if I am wrong, they could easily sue me.
However, they never would. Because we have a true patient-doctor relationship that is so rare these days. I care for them... and they respect me--with my knowledge and my faults.
Yeah, the system is screwed--on both sides of the equation.
Davak
-=shameless plug mode on=-
We've had a lot of success using a "recipe" model at our current web site tech-recipes.com.
People submit the recipes. People review and grade the information. Then you have a good little collection of worthwhile "tech" recipes.
We did computer-related information because our geek factor >> cooking factor.
-=slameless plug mode off=-
I agree that a large internet cookbook database would be wonderful...however, the problem with most "recipes" is that they are instructions -- not lessons. I don't want to know that I should add the milk after the flour; I want to know WHY I should add the milk after the flour.
By personality, geek-type people want to hack and explore stuff. Blindly creating food dishes from instruction is not very creative nor stimulating.
I think that is why so many people here on Slashdot love Alton Brown. He teaches and informs.
Forget the database of food recipes...
I want a database of food lessons... or at least to encourage people posting recipes to explain the science and thoughts behind their suggestions.
Yes, it will make it safer. Having a full power circular radar that locks and tracks all moving objects within 200 yd would make it safer still.
We have multiple technologies such as this that will make driving a car much safer... the most important thing is making them cheap enough to be affordable and practical on vehicles.
Davak
If the ipods were really going to have battery problems, surely somebody would have noticed during all these transfers.
Anyway, chalk up one more iPod award...
Assisted in obtaining The Return of the King 11 Oscar nominations
All of that data transfer... and none of it got released to the public by "accident?" We should be ashamed at ourselves.
Davak
Ah... this would be true accept that alternative browsers do exist.
:)
I would be willing to bet that more people feel strongly about using google than they feel strongly about using IE.
Even my elderly uncle who can't use the web without AOL knows how to get to google for his searches. If IE blocked google, he would be calling me over to install an alternative browser ASAP.
Unfortunately now, he just calls me over to uninstall the latest trojan/virus/worm that he finds a way to install on a routine basis.
Davak
Google has indexed the internet. That data is ultimately more powerful than having software installed on the majority of desktops.
Google has already flexed this muscle with their text ads. By being able to rapidly spider a page, google can provide very directed and specific ads. These ads are successful because they are so focused to their assoicated page.
Without radically changing the way we view the web... Microsoft can not touch that aspect of google... yet.
Davak
What is getting even worse is that Microsoft is using the web for many of its new "features."
For example, on tech-recipes I point out how Microsoft sends information to a web service to provide translation in Word 2003.
All users see is "translate" in the context menu when they right click. They don't know where it is going... nor do most of them care.
Microsoft will use this subtle integration to direct users where they want them to go.
Users like us may see the trouble with this practice; however, the normal mom and pop user doesn't notice nor care... they think that it is neat to be able to get translation now in Word 2003.
I have little doubt that google will win this battle. They have data... and microsoft just has software. However, Microsoft will use its reign of the desktop to fight the battle as hard as possible.
Davak
PCR = Polymerase chain reaction. A method use to amplify the amount of DNA.
Once more and more copies are formed... it is easy to cut it up the DNA and compare the pieces of one sample to another sample.
PCR is kinda famous...
Nobel Prize
PCR for OJ
I totally agree.
Any evidence can be manipulated.
My roomie from college now runs one of these PCR "who's your daddy" companies often used by talk shows. We have had many dicussions regarding this... and PCR can be easy faked just as easy as audio or video.
Garbage in, garbage out. You still have to trust the one providing the evidence.
Davak
In other words, if I were investor, I'd hold off buying Google stock when they IPO.
You should hold off buying google when they go IPO because everybody else will be buying... and the price will be way too high.
After a while, the stock will come back down to a fair market price... and that will be when you should buy.
This has happened before when Yahoo and other hot companies have gone public.
Davak
MS can't just "win" the search engine war by pointing users there by default.
To quote the article now:
[Google] accounts for 35% of search-engine visits--compared with 28% for Yahoo!, 16% for AOL and 15% for Microsoft's MSN
Do you really think that 31% of the population feels that Microsoft and AOL searches are better than google?
No. Users do not know better. They just click, and click, and click -- until they find their answer. You and I and most of slashdot knows that google would probably give you the answer quicker and better. 31% of the people out there just blindly search with whatever the easiest search option is...
Now Word and other Microsoft programs send information to various web sites to get translations, directions, and other additional information.
MS and AOL may not be able to win by pointing users to their products; however, they can drain enough money from the rest of the field to drive some better products into the poor house.
Davak
I disagree...
Google has the data.
Netscape had a physical piece of software.
Google has one (the?) largest collection of web data indexed. One way they use and abuse this is the way they can give such targetted ads on web sites.
Their little text-based ads rock the socks off other ads... Is it because people just are drawn to the little google boxes full of text? No... it's because the ads so closely related to what's on the page.
Data is going to rule. Even microsoft realizes that google has beaten them to the punch.
Could google screw up (like netscape)? Sure! Right now however... they are sitting pretty.
Davak
Google has more data that Microsoft. Google is a better search engine than MSN. I don't think that anybody disagrees with this. However...
The next step, inevitably, will be to integrate such search functions into Windows, on the grounds that it constitutes a core technology that should be part of the operating system. In his keynote speech at last November's Comdex show in Las Vegas, Mr Gates demonstrated a prototype technology called "Stuff I've Seen" which does just that. It allows computer users to search for context-specific words in e-mails and in recently visited web pages, as well as in documents on their computers.
Microsoft has it's reaches into the majority of homes and businesses in the world. As broadband always-on internet becomes more popular, more and more services will really be clicks to other sites.
Here I describe one of the ways that microsoft uses this in the new version of Word as a translation machine. The information goes out onto the internet and word brings you back the information pretty seemlessly.
This is where Microsoft knows how to crush their enemies. By using easy clicks with integration, they can direct people to Microsoft search, translation, music, or whatever.
As the article states, before long your searches and data will be references my Windows software in multiple ways. Windows doesn't just want the web integrated into your system... they want their web integrated into your system.
Davak
Microsoft may have software on the majority of computers sold... but my god, we all use google.
In the land of pirating with ease... the man who holds the data, not the software, will win.
Bill isn't dumb... and realizes this; thus, the push into the search engine world.
One more reason that I really like google.
Davak
Greetings. I was reading through slash today and noticed this tidbit of information. It's greatly appreciated...
I'm going to add it to our web hints section on our website unless you object.
Thanks.
They also have a 1-800 number.
Thank you for calling the US National Institute of Standards and Technology Security Hotline.
Please say "HOLA" now if you espanol...
Otherwise please select one of the following selections dealing with your security problem.
Press 1 if you have suffered a DOS attack
Press 2 if your network has been infected with a worm
Press 3 if your site is being slashdotted
Press 4 if 13 year olds have defaced your web site
Press 5 if you are running windows as your server
Press 666 if you are a missle silo control room and have realized that someone has gained root or administrative access on your control system
Have a nice day.
With the increasing cost in producing these new expensive, logo'ed, computerized, and/or automated sets, they sold more units... but lost money because the units cost so much more to produce.
As the father of a young child, I also wonder how much the lego clones have killed the market. Out of the many "lego" sets we have been givenas gifts, the majority of them are not official "lego" legos.
Davak
How is this "off-topic?"
If they can use GPS to estimate the speed of horses, then the same techology can be easily used to estimate the speed of cars.
This especially becomes more interesting as GPS becomes common in cars... it could easily be one more example of how big brother enters our lives.
Gesh.
Davak
The fact that somebody would rank what an adult does alone in the privacy of their own home more vile than a grown man sleeping with (and perhaps molesting) children is scary indeed.
(I actually saw somebody walking down the street wearing that shirt. Scary)
Link to the shirt
Davak
This user is using recycled stolen posts to karma whore
Please mod bomb this karma whore.
Absolutely true.
COX2-inhibitors like celebrex may very well have unique long term side effects as well. Ibuprofen and other such NSAIDS block COX1 and COX2. Celebrex specifically inhibits only one side of this pathway.
Studies are already on the way to see if COX-2 inhibitors increase one's risk for heart attacks.
Davak
ROTFL... but I am honored.
If you are going to steal one of my previous posts, please remove my name from the post before you hit submit.
This guy is using a database of highly ranked posts to boost his karma.
Davak
Oh clarification...
Obviously the combination of space plane and hypersonic plane therefore would not seem to work because there is so little oxygen in space.
Sorry to reply to myself. Just wanted to complete my point.
Davak
I don't understand the combination of "hypersonic" and "space plane." I thought the key behind the US hypersonic plane was its ability to compress and use oxygen to increase its speed and function.
Here's a couple of links that compares and contrasts these two.
I don't understand the way the combination of the two would work.
Space Plane Link
Hypersonic Plane Link
Davak