A short explanation of the US mobile market is in order.
There are four national networks, and they are owned by AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, and Sprint. Verizon and Sprint use CDMA rather than GSM, and they won't activate each other's devices. You want Verizon, you have to buy a Verizon phone; same for Sprint.
If you want to activate an unlocked phone on AT&T or T-Mobile, you can. However, each of them has different frequencies assigned for 3G service. As a result, you can only get EDGE data rates if your phone isn't designed for their network.
In other words, since you have to buy a phone that only works on one carrier, and since only T-Mobile offers a lower-cost plan if you bring your own phone, there is a strong incentive to buy a new phone every two years with the carrier subsidy - you won't get cheaper service if you forgo it.
Even though an anesthesiologist in the same room can't do anything that the robot can't do.
What future are you from? When you've got something with the maneuverability of the loader robots from Aliens, tactile feedback, and dexterity, maybe that will be true.
I know a very lot of very intelligent surgeons. Almost none of them know any substantive anesthesia. That's fine; I certainly wouldn't attempt a surgical procedure more complicated than a lipoma excision. But there's no substitute for being there, and the phone is a poor substitute. The only time my CRNAs use the phone is to tell me to come by, we're ready to go to sleep or wake up. If it's an emergency, they tell the OR nurse to page me overhead. (And I'll be there in about 20 seconds.)
While your life is indeed in the hands of some surgeons - there's nothing I can do to help you if the heart surgeon rips a hole in your aorta - but in other fields, like orthopedics, where the surgery all happens at the periphery, your life is definitely mine to lose or save.
That's a 6% unrecognized esophageal. In the OR, the end-tidal CO2 monitor makes unrecognized esophageal intubations essentially nil. I'd say a first-attempt success rate for an experienced anesthesiologist should be about 95%, second-attempt around 99+%. (The bougie, Glidescope, etc., make the second attempt much higher, and that 95% figure counts the times that I take a look, figure out there's no way I'm going to get this via straight DL, and grab one of those intubation aids as a failed attempt.)
Wrong. (I am a board-certified anesthesiologist in the US.)
You don't pay me to do the boring stuff. 99% of the stuff in the OR can be done by someone with less training. It often is; in my practice, I supervise up to four nurse anesthetists at a time. They sit in the room, watching your vital signs and adjusting your anesthesia as needed. I'm there to plan the anesthesia for everyone when they arrive, I'm by their side as they put you to sleep, and I'm there for when the shit hits the fan. That is what you pay me for - to be on standby in case anything goes wrong.
There are just too many physical pieces of the puzzle to automate very much of it. Someone has to intubate the patient. Someone has to start the IV, put in the arterial line, place the central line, perform the spinal or epidural, and be there when they wake up. Laryngospasm can't be fixed by a computer. In short, adjusting the gas to keep someone unconscious and comfortable is the least complicated thing we do. I could teach a bright high school student to do a decent job of it in an afternoon. We're not there to do that job; it's just something that we take care of while we're in the room watching the monitors.
The point of land ownership as a qualification for suffrage in the Old Days was that the primary method of taxation was via property tax. A comparable method today would be to restrict suffrage to those who paid more in taxes than they received from the government in the previous year.
But they could make the law much more friendly to defendants - requiring Rightshaven to file in the alleged infringer's federal court, rather than in their own. That alone would significantly decrease the cost of defending one of these suits.
You don't own the copyright to stories about you, and you can't prevent their publication unless it's libelous - which is a bar that a candidate for Senate in the US would essentially never reach.
If you don't want to carry, you don't have to. Lots of people know how to use a gun. Not all of them wear a badge. (And lots of the ones with badges shouldn't be carrying.)
Lots of production and consumption is relatively local. If you're building in Strasbourg, and you buy your concrete from across the Rhine, that counts as a German export. Conversely, if you're in Memphis, and you buy from across the Mississippi, it's not. The numbers would be a lot more interesting if you looked only at stuff that went a long way - i.e., the stuff that's so good that people buy it from abroad rather than produce it locally.
Perhaps it's that the US is such a physically large country that it consumes quite a lot of its own produce. I'd be more interested to see the numbers if you took out within-EU exports from Germany and US exports to Canada and Mexico.
A few thousand deaths? Of people? I think you're overestimating. The tar balls are unattractive, and I'm quite willing to believe that the dispersants used are bad news, but DH happened once. The fertilizer-laden flow coming out of the mouth of the Mississippi happens every year. So does the diversion of flow that means more sediments are pushed out into the Gulf instead of settling in the swamps of Louisiana.
You think it would take that long, even in this case, where the guy already speaks the language? He doesn't have to get every character right; he should recognize the words.
If so, I'll rescind my earlier contention that it couldn't be that difficult.
I taught myself to read at an early age, and was then taught phonetics in kindergarten. It was hard going at first - they don't exactly use challenging words, and it was somewhat frustrating to have to sound out "cat" when I already knew the word - but I believe it's better than "whole language" methods in terms of the speed with which learners acquire proficiency (even in English, with our strange orthography), and there was at least one benefit I've not seen mentioned elsewhere. My mother, who learned via "whole language", struggled throughout her life with pronouncing truly novel words - ones she had never heard or seen before. For someone who learned phonics, it's much less difficult. Yes, copy editors recognize patterns; they don't sound out each word. But when you're building your initial vocabulary, it's a lot better to be able to take a stab at unfamiliar words via a set of rules that usually gives you the answer than to treat them all as logograms.
Also, the NLP article linked takes such a profoundly juvenile interpretation of phonics that I'm not sure it deserves much credence. "Phonics doesn't always work in English" is a trivial statement. (And if you know the phonic rule that "P+H=F", every word in the previous sentence will come out correctly if you sound it out.)
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A short explanation of the US mobile market is in order.
There are four national networks, and they are owned by AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, and Sprint. Verizon and Sprint use CDMA rather than GSM, and they won't activate each other's devices. You want Verizon, you have to buy a Verizon phone; same for Sprint.
If you want to activate an unlocked phone on AT&T or T-Mobile, you can. However, each of them has different frequencies assigned for 3G service. As a result, you can only get EDGE data rates if your phone isn't designed for their network.
In other words, since you have to buy a phone that only works on one carrier, and since only T-Mobile offers a lower-cost plan if you bring your own phone, there is a strong incentive to buy a new phone every two years with the carrier subsidy - you won't get cheaper service if you forgo it.
Even though an anesthesiologist in the same room can't do anything that the robot can't do.
What future are you from? When you've got something with the maneuverability of the loader robots from Aliens, tactile feedback, and dexterity, maybe that will be true.
I know a very lot of very intelligent surgeons. Almost none of them know any substantive anesthesia. That's fine; I certainly wouldn't attempt a surgical procedure more complicated than a lipoma excision. But there's no substitute for being there, and the phone is a poor substitute. The only time my CRNAs use the phone is to tell me to come by, we're ready to go to sleep or wake up. If it's an emergency, they tell the OR nurse to page me overhead. (And I'll be there in about 20 seconds.)
While your life is indeed in the hands of some surgeons - there's nothing I can do to help you if the heart surgeon rips a hole in your aorta - but in other fields, like orthopedics, where the surgery all happens at the periphery, your life is definitely mine to lose or save.
That's a 6% unrecognized esophageal. In the OR, the end-tidal CO2 monitor makes unrecognized esophageal intubations essentially nil. I'd say a first-attempt success rate for an experienced anesthesiologist should be about 95%, second-attempt around 99+%. (The bougie, Glidescope, etc., make the second attempt much higher, and that 95% figure counts the times that I take a look, figure out there's no way I'm going to get this via straight DL, and grab one of those intubation aids as a failed attempt.)
Wrong. (I am a board-certified anesthesiologist in the US.)
You don't pay me to do the boring stuff. 99% of the stuff in the OR can be done by someone with less training. It often is; in my practice, I supervise up to four nurse anesthetists at a time. They sit in the room, watching your vital signs and adjusting your anesthesia as needed. I'm there to plan the anesthesia for everyone when they arrive, I'm by their side as they put you to sleep, and I'm there for when the shit hits the fan. That is what you pay me for - to be on standby in case anything goes wrong.
There are just too many physical pieces of the puzzle to automate very much of it. Someone has to intubate the patient. Someone has to start the IV, put in the arterial line, place the central line, perform the spinal or epidural, and be there when they wake up. Laryngospasm can't be fixed by a computer. In short, adjusting the gas to keep someone unconscious and comfortable is the least complicated thing we do. I could teach a bright high school student to do a decent job of it in an afternoon. We're not there to do that job; it's just something that we take care of while we're in the room watching the monitors.
Homesteading in the wilderness ("all one had to do... was build a cabin") wasn't exactly a white-collar job.
It also depends on your skill set and job requirements. Doctors often earn more in rural areas than in cities.
The point of land ownership as a qualification for suffrage in the Old Days was that the primary method of taxation was via property tax. A comparable method today would be to restrict suffrage to those who paid more in taxes than they received from the government in the previous year.
Depends on where you want to live and own land. There are plenty of places in the country where you can get a house for under $50k.
Perhaps you can enlighten me. What does cyanogenmod on the D1 offer me that stock 2.2 with root/overclock doesn't?
Burberry and its near-implosion due to adoption by chav culture is the poster child for this effect.
But they could make the law much more friendly to defendants - requiring Rightshaven to file in the alleged infringer's federal court, rather than in their own. That alone would significantly decrease the cost of defending one of these suits.
You don't own the copyright to stories about you, and you can't prevent their publication unless it's libelous - which is a bar that a candidate for Senate in the US would essentially never reach.
If you don't want to carry, you don't have to. Lots of people know how to use a gun. Not all of them wear a badge. (And lots of the ones with badges shouldn't be carrying.)
afraid to travel 80 in clear skys with dry roads, but didn't flinch at all from going 65
The former will garner them a ticket, the latter won't.
Lots of production and consumption is relatively local. If you're building in Strasbourg, and you buy your concrete from across the Rhine, that counts as a German export. Conversely, if you're in Memphis, and you buy from across the Mississippi, it's not. The numbers would be a lot more interesting if you looked only at stuff that went a long way - i.e., the stuff that's so good that people buy it from abroad rather than produce it locally.
Perhaps it's that the US is such a physically large country that it consumes quite a lot of its own produce. I'd be more interested to see the numbers if you took out within-EU exports from Germany and US exports to Canada and Mexico.
"The company is unsure where the oil came from since the well was not producing at the time of the explosion"
Sounds like it came from a responding boat, or from some container on the platform.
One well - a well which wasn't even producing, according to one report I saw - won't make a bit of difference. Refineries, yes. But not a single well.
A few thousand deaths? Of people? I think you're overestimating. The tar balls are unattractive, and I'm quite willing to believe that the dispersants used are bad news, but DH happened once. The fertilizer-laden flow coming out of the mouth of the Mississippi happens every year. So does the diversion of flow that means more sediments are pushed out into the Gulf instead of settling in the swamps of Louisiana.
I think it's a troll, but it's so bizarre it's hard to tell.
And enumeration is a lot less easy to game. Imagine the political games currently played at redistricting time being played with the census itself.
On the scale of disasters, Deepwater Horizon is a blip. A nothing. It's done far less harm to Louisiana wetlands than the Old River Control.
If it's a laptop, hold the damned thing sideways.
You think it would take that long, even in this case, where the guy already speaks the language? He doesn't have to get every character right; he should recognize the words.
If so, I'll rescind my earlier contention that it couldn't be that difficult.
I taught myself to read at an early age, and was then taught phonetics in kindergarten. It was hard going at first - they don't exactly use challenging words, and it was somewhat frustrating to have to sound out "cat" when I already knew the word - but I believe it's better than "whole language" methods in terms of the speed with which learners acquire proficiency (even in English, with our strange orthography), and there was at least one benefit I've not seen mentioned elsewhere. My mother, who learned via "whole language", struggled throughout her life with pronouncing truly novel words - ones she had never heard or seen before. For someone who learned phonics, it's much less difficult. Yes, copy editors recognize patterns; they don't sound out each word. But when you're building your initial vocabulary, it's a lot better to be able to take a stab at unfamiliar words via a set of rules that usually gives you the answer than to treat them all as logograms.
Also, the NLP article linked takes such a profoundly juvenile interpretation of phonics that I'm not sure it deserves much credence. "Phonics doesn't always work in English" is a trivial statement. (And if you know the phonic rule that "P+H=F", every word in the previous sentence will come out correctly if you sound it out.)