He is 21 now. He will be making ~60k/year for the next five years and will then graduate to a pediatric neurologist income (don't know about Chicago specifically, but the ones I know in the South pull about $250k/year, and South/Midwest correlate pretty closely in physician income). He can start dating college chicks now, with the added bonus that he's actually got an income and the promise of more soon.
Plus, if you are thinking more along the lines of all-night bull sessions with friends, med students do plenty of that in the gross anatomy lab, on call, etc. It's not exactly the same as college - you don't live in dorms - but it's not exactly like normal adult life, either.
I wasn't talking about the x1. I was talking about the edge. When you and I both used the words "good computer", that wasn't a coincidence. I used that phrase to echo what you said - it's like a referent for a pronoun.
The difference between the US and Iranian arsenals is to be found inside the helicoper - we've upgraded the hell out of the avionics and weapons systems. It's like the B-52; yeah, it's an old design, but that's really just the airframe. Almost everything inside has changed.
legend has it, they're irrationally fond of the color pink
Pink for girls is like fire for guys. It totally shortcuts all the smart circuitry in the brain and goes right to reptile. And reptile brain LIKES PINK. AND FIRE.
You're suggesting a 15" 1366x768 that weighs 5.4 pounds and is made of plastic. A Macbook Air is a 13" 1440x900 that weighs 2.96 pounds and has a metal case. And WTF are you going to do with an i7 in a laptop? That's her brother's mistake, wanting more CPU. CPU is almost never the problem - and that has held true since the 486 era. The vast majority of devices are constrained by memory and speed of storage. An SSD will make that computer feel far faster than a big CPU. I'm not sure if she even asked for a big screen or an internal optical (which is really bizarre, I've used my PC's optical drive maybe twice this year - buy a DVD player if you want to watch DVD's on flights). Laptops are like space flight: it's all about weight. A laptop that's light and easy to carry will go everywhere you do; a laptop that isn't, won't. Why do you think netbooks were so popular? They were horribly underpowered and had tiny screens, but they weighed two pounds and ran eight hours on a charge, and that's what matters.
The only laptop I've ever owned that I thought felt too slow was the netbook I bought when I couldn't afford anything else. I kept that sucker until it died because it was so light. My current laptop is an Asus UL30VT from a few years ago, weighs about 3.5 lbs with the all-day battery. I see no reason to replace it any time soon, but if I were in the market now I'd be buying a 13" MBA.
Tell me, what can you do with a clean conscience? Can you eat meat you buy from the store? Or even produce for that matter? Can you flip on the light switch in your home and consume electricity? Start your car?
As a general point, if those things bother you, you really ought to be careful the next time that you make fun of snake handlers. You're just as fastidious in religious observation as they are.
This shit gets insightful? Slaves are... slaves. You could rape them, beat them, kill them, in fact you could do anything you damned well pleased to them. As bad as the lives of Chinese peasants are, and as bad as the lives of Chinese factory workers are (hint: it's a lot better than being a peasant), they're almost unimaginably better than the lives of actual slaves.
By the way, the argument usually advanced was that the Negro was too foolish to provide properly for himself, and that servitude allowed him to contribute to the well-being of mankind while still enjoying the benefits of Christianity and white management. And, of course, in real life there were limitations on how badly slaves could be treated. For starters, they were expensive, equivalent (last I looked) to about $100k apiece today plus the cost of feeding and housing. You don't want to mistreat your capital investment like that, any more than you would run your family-owned factory without maintenance. The great evil of slavery wasn't that the slaves were badly treated (many were, but the lives of poor whites were not much better); it was that they were slaves.
Most electronics aren't harmed by getting wet. They're harmed by getting wet while electrified. So long as you thoroughly dry them before hooking them back up, it shouldn't be a problem. Thus, you can wash a Model M in the dishwasher if you disconnect it first and dry it afterward, but if you spill beer in it it's probably toast.
How about at the beginning of the operation the doctor writes down all the times as stated on the medical equipment.
Perhaps I can shed a little light on this.
There are a variety of clocks in the hospital that may be (but often are not) synchronized in the old-fashioned school-clock way. The wall clock in the OR is one of these that is likely to be under some form of central control. However, there is a clock on the anesthesia machine that is separately maintained, and if there is an electronic health record system then there is a clock on the computer used by the circulating nurse (that's the RN that is not scrubbed in and is responsible for getting meds, equipment, sutures, etc., and opening them sterilely for the scrub tech, surgeon, or assistant who is scrubbed in and gowned; also responsible for all intraoperative nursing documentation like time of incision, patient position, medications administered by surgeon, etc.) and/or one on the computer used by the anesthesia provider, either one of which may also show a different time than the central documentation server that actually records the intraoperative documentation. Those two central documentation servers may have different times as well, because there's no guarantee that the nursing and anesthesia systems interoperate. Finally, any of those times may also be different from the clock(s) used in the preoperative holding area to document when antibiotics are started - which becomes an issue because timing of antibiotics is a "core measure" that determines how much hospitals get paid by Medicaid and Medicare. 59 minutes from start of antibiotics to incision? Excellent medical care. 61 minutes? Failure.
So you have at least two, probably four, and as many as six or eight different devices involved, not all of which are even in the same room. It's all basically insane, and in an attempt to correct one wrong - not enough patients receiving antibiotics prior to skin incision - we have created byzantine rules that have us racking up costs in an attempt to avoid getting hammered by the government for not making "core measures".
My cable - the full package that includes all the movie channels - is $120/mo. That doesn't include my internet or telephone. I could get the main HBO channel only for around $85/mo, but it would be with a much smaller set of overall channels.
Why someone from the family now need to be present all the time during simple 10-minute knee surgery just because patient is having anesthesia?
Because you have to be discharged to the care of a responsible adult after having received general anesthesia, and because experience has shown that people who show up alone but "will have someone come to pick me up later" usually don't have anyone actually show up. Would you prefer that these people drive themselves home? Would you care to take on the liability for allowing them to do so? Thank your state and federal legislators for allowing the law to be used this way.
We're "technologically backward" because most of the technical innovations don't decrease the amount of time it takes to do our work - they increase it. Those that do save time are rapidly and universally adopted (the best example of this I can think of is radiology software - because it saved every physician from having to go down to the reading room to look at films).
Foot controls are used for cautery or triggering x-ray images in a lot of cases. The problem vs a guitarist's foot pedals is that a surgeon can't see his and operate at the same time - the pedals have to be placed under the operative table. This limits the precision of what they can be used for. Ophthalmologists have a much more precise set of foot controls because they can sit down for surgery and thus don't need to worry about losing balance while searching for the proper control with their foot. Heads-up displays work for fighter pilots because they're already looking outside. Surgeons are usually looking straight down into the field - there's nowhere to put a screen to reflect the HUD image.
This is pretty interesting, but it seems like it would really only be useful for endovascular cases - where the surgeon is attempting to guide wires into a specific artery or vein and deploy some sort of device without cutting the patient open.
We use perfectly normal computers with plain old keyboards and mice in ORs all the time. As long as it's not connected to the patient or being used for diagnosis or treatment, it's not a medical device. A certified diagnostic-grade monitor for a radiologist is a medical device, for example, but the monitors the rest of us use to look at films are nothing special.
One of our council members just quit coming to most council meetings for several years. He won reelection by a landslide every time despite a constant drumbeat of opposition from the media. He's moved on to a higher office, but his wife now holds his seat. Us-vs-them politics does work, especially if you combine it with a little bit of constituent service. I have more or less resigned myself to bad decisions, relatively high taxes, and near-absent city services in return for a great commute.
Why would a city care? Any judgment against them is paid by... the taxpayers! No, the way to solve this is to remove official immunity for the cases in which police officers violate citizens' civil rights.
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He is 21 now. He will be making ~60k/year for the next five years and will then graduate to a pediatric neurologist income (don't know about Chicago specifically, but the ones I know in the South pull about $250k/year, and South/Midwest correlate pretty closely in physician income). He can start dating college chicks now, with the added bonus that he's actually got an income and the promise of more soon.
Plus, if you are thinking more along the lines of all-night bull sessions with friends, med students do plenty of that in the gross anatomy lab, on call, etc. It's not exactly the same as college - you don't live in dorms - but it's not exactly like normal adult life, either.
I wish I had your affiliate.
What do you think someone who isn't into tech and asks their techie brother for help wants: a portable desktop, or something light?
I wasn't talking about the x1. I was talking about the edge. When you and I both used the words "good computer", that wasn't a coincidence. I used that phrase to echo what you said - it's like a referent for a pronoun.
The difference between the US and Iranian arsenals is to be found inside the helicoper - we've upgraded the hell out of the avionics and weapons systems. It's like the B-52; yeah, it's an old design, but that's really just the airframe. Almost everything inside has changed.
It's a good computer but a terrible laptop.
I'll bet you're a real hit at parties.
Of course, in the end, the only thing that matters for determining the composition of the human race is how many descendants you have.
legend has it, they're irrationally fond of the color pink
Pink for girls is like fire for guys. It totally shortcuts all the smart circuitry in the brain and goes right to reptile. And reptile brain LIKES PINK. AND FIRE.
You're suggesting a 15" 1366x768 that weighs 5.4 pounds and is made of plastic. A Macbook Air is a 13" 1440x900 that weighs 2.96 pounds and has a metal case. And WTF are you going to do with an i7 in a laptop? That's her brother's mistake, wanting more CPU. CPU is almost never the problem - and that has held true since the 486 era. The vast majority of devices are constrained by memory and speed of storage. An SSD will make that computer feel far faster than a big CPU. I'm not sure if she even asked for a big screen or an internal optical (which is really bizarre, I've used my PC's optical drive maybe twice this year - buy a DVD player if you want to watch DVD's on flights). Laptops are like space flight: it's all about weight. A laptop that's light and easy to carry will go everywhere you do; a laptop that isn't, won't. Why do you think netbooks were so popular? They were horribly underpowered and had tiny screens, but they weighed two pounds and ran eight hours on a charge, and that's what matters.
Why the pro? Get the Air.
The only laptop I've ever owned that I thought felt too slow was the netbook I bought when I couldn't afford anything else. I kept that sucker until it died because it was so light. My current laptop is an Asus UL30VT from a few years ago, weighs about 3.5 lbs with the all-day battery. I see no reason to replace it any time soon, but if I were in the market now I'd be buying a 13" MBA.
Tell me, what can you do with a clean conscience? Can you eat meat you buy from the store? Or even produce for that matter? Can you flip on the light switch in your home and consume electricity? Start your car?
As a general point, if those things bother you, you really ought to be careful the next time that you make fun of snake handlers. You're just as fastidious in religious observation as they are.
This shit gets insightful? Slaves are... slaves. You could rape them, beat them, kill them, in fact you could do anything you damned well pleased to them. As bad as the lives of Chinese peasants are, and as bad as the lives of Chinese factory workers are (hint: it's a lot better than being a peasant), they're almost unimaginably better than the lives of actual slaves.
By the way, the argument usually advanced was that the Negro was too foolish to provide properly for himself, and that servitude allowed him to contribute to the well-being of mankind while still enjoying the benefits of Christianity and white management. And, of course, in real life there were limitations on how badly slaves could be treated. For starters, they were expensive, equivalent (last I looked) to about $100k apiece today plus the cost of feeding and housing. You don't want to mistreat your capital investment like that, any more than you would run your family-owned factory without maintenance. The great evil of slavery wasn't that the slaves were badly treated (many were, but the lives of poor whites were not much better); it was that they were slaves.
Just ask ReplayTV how well this works out in the end.
Considering that ReplayTV did this (and died for it) ten years ago, it's definitely not new ground.
Most electronics aren't harmed by getting wet. They're harmed by getting wet while electrified. So long as you thoroughly dry them before hooking them back up, it shouldn't be a problem. Thus, you can wash a Model M in the dishwasher if you disconnect it first and dry it afterward, but if you spill beer in it it's probably toast.
How about at the beginning of the operation the doctor writes down all the times as stated on the medical equipment.
Perhaps I can shed a little light on this.
There are a variety of clocks in the hospital that may be (but often are not) synchronized in the old-fashioned school-clock way. The wall clock in the OR is one of these that is likely to be under some form of central control. However, there is a clock on the anesthesia machine that is separately maintained, and if there is an electronic health record system then there is a clock on the computer used by the circulating nurse (that's the RN that is not scrubbed in and is responsible for getting meds, equipment, sutures, etc., and opening them sterilely for the scrub tech, surgeon, or assistant who is scrubbed in and gowned; also responsible for all intraoperative nursing documentation like time of incision, patient position, medications administered by surgeon, etc.) and/or one on the computer used by the anesthesia provider, either one of which may also show a different time than the central documentation server that actually records the intraoperative documentation. Those two central documentation servers may have different times as well, because there's no guarantee that the nursing and anesthesia systems interoperate. Finally, any of those times may also be different from the clock(s) used in the preoperative holding area to document when antibiotics are started - which becomes an issue because timing of antibiotics is a "core measure" that determines how much hospitals get paid by Medicaid and Medicare. 59 minutes from start of antibiotics to incision? Excellent medical care. 61 minutes? Failure.
So you have at least two, probably four, and as many as six or eight different devices involved, not all of which are even in the same room. It's all basically insane, and in an attempt to correct one wrong - not enough patients receiving antibiotics prior to skin incision - we have created byzantine rules that have us racking up costs in an attempt to avoid getting hammered by the government for not making "core measures".
My cable - the full package that includes all the movie channels - is $120/mo. That doesn't include my internet or telephone. I could get the main HBO channel only for around $85/mo, but it would be with a much smaller set of overall channels.
Why someone from the family now need to be present all the time during simple 10-minute knee surgery just because patient is having anesthesia?
Because you have to be discharged to the care of a responsible adult after having received general anesthesia, and because experience has shown that people who show up alone but "will have someone come to pick me up later" usually don't have anyone actually show up. Would you prefer that these people drive themselves home? Would you care to take on the liability for allowing them to do so? Thank your state and federal legislators for allowing the law to be used this way.
Screw you.
Whatever floats your boat.
We're "technologically backward" because most of the technical innovations don't decrease the amount of time it takes to do our work - they increase it. Those that do save time are rapidly and universally adopted (the best example of this I can think of is radiology software - because it saved every physician from having to go down to the reading room to look at films).
Foot controls are used for cautery or triggering x-ray images in a lot of cases. The problem vs a guitarist's foot pedals is that a surgeon can't see his and operate at the same time - the pedals have to be placed under the operative table. This limits the precision of what they can be used for. Ophthalmologists have a much more precise set of foot controls because they can sit down for surgery and thus don't need to worry about losing balance while searching for the proper control with their foot. Heads-up displays work for fighter pilots because they're already looking outside. Surgeons are usually looking straight down into the field - there's nowhere to put a screen to reflect the HUD image.
This is pretty interesting, but it seems like it would really only be useful for endovascular cases - where the surgeon is attempting to guide wires into a specific artery or vein and deploy some sort of device without cutting the patient open.
We use perfectly normal computers with plain old keyboards and mice in ORs all the time. As long as it's not connected to the patient or being used for diagnosis or treatment, it's not a medical device. A certified diagnostic-grade monitor for a radiologist is a medical device, for example, but the monitors the rest of us use to look at films are nothing special.
One of our council members just quit coming to most council meetings for several years. He won reelection by a landslide every time despite a constant drumbeat of opposition from the media. He's moved on to a higher office, but his wife now holds his seat. Us-vs-them politics does work, especially if you combine it with a little bit of constituent service. I have more or less resigned myself to bad decisions, relatively high taxes, and near-absent city services in return for a great commute.
I live in a city with a joke for a city council. Not every place works.
Why would a city care? Any judgment against them is paid by... the taxpayers! No, the way to solve this is to remove official immunity for the cases in which police officers violate citizens' civil rights.