More than diagnosing the disease based on the symptoms, if you had a networked system available in every hospital or to every doctor, I'd like to see what kind of information you'd get out of following up with post-treatment symptoms, autopsies when things went wrong, detecting patterns that wouldn't be evident on a per-doctor or per-hospital scale. Of course I'd imagine you'd need to hash the input case numbers or something to keep the privacy of the individuals while being able to add information later. Also I wonder how a system like this would scale to serve multiple hospitals. Would it have to store information gathered during the rush hours and then search for new patterns later, sort of like what the suggested purpose of dreaming is?
Vault, what vault? With the ability to distribute 1080p 7.1 surround perfect copies in a matter of hours to an arbitrary stranger, I believe the container you're referring to is one that belongs to a curious girl from Greece.
That may have been a problem in the age of the video cassette, but now with perfect digital duplication there would be... alternative distribution channels. Hell, people might even feel morally justified to use those channels. Err, I mean, more so than usual.
If a few prototypes get mysteriously destroyed with possible sightings of black spider-like silhouettes that scream inside your mind, just keep going, should be ironed by about the fifth iteration or so.
If it's a non-time-critical update/maintenance sort of thing then there's no reason one cardiologist couldn't contact another and get the access information beforehand or just have a very expensive, very hard to steal machine in the hospital that authenticates things for you.
If it's in the field, I doubt a paramedic would have the kind of training to be tweaking a pacemaker anyway. I'm sure they could be carrying a smartphone-type device that tunnels from the pacemaker or other such medical device to a specialist back at a hospital.
Just wait for the Surface Pro. It will have a stylus, it will have 1920x1080 resolution, it will have an Ivy Bridge Core i5 CPU, well, if the reports are correct.
I'm thinking of replacing my current Thinkpad with that when it comes it, to have something that I don't have to think twice if I feel like carrying it with me when I go out but that I can also run something like Photoshop on when I need to.
I really wasn't expecting the RT one to be any better than any other tablet, which is to say, a toy.
Well, some people prefer to customize things to the way that's comfortable to them rather than just accept whatever the manufacturer thrusts upon them.
In the case of Windows I don't like pinning, gadgets, grouping of taskbar items 'personalized menus' so I turn those off. I also use apps like UltraMon, TeraCopy and True Launch Bar to supplement functionality that's not available in Windows, I guess I might go back to using Launchy if I upgrade to Win8 so it's not really that big of an Issue.
But the problem in this case is that so far most UI changes MS made were optional and you could revert to older functionality with the tick of a checkbox, now they decided that your server will run a UI designed for touchscreen tablets because fuck you that's why and you don't have an option to get the old interface without third party software.
Ah, forgot to mention, the IT guy blocked access to 'My Computer' and such in Windows in the general use computer lab, so when we weren't in our small lab we had to resort to stuff like accessing the drives from Internet Explorer which didn't block access to them like Windows Explorer did, to run our games.
I did a year in CS but I never liked most of the math and eventually got accepted to a design school, but I still think that education contributed a lot to the way I think.
Back when I was in highschool you picked a specialty set of courses, the one I was in was called 'Computing and Control' which was considered a sort of a prestige curriculum at the time.
I don't quite remember the exact order of things we studied but here's an approximation:
Electricity - starting with basic circuits, resistance, capacitance and the like, up to transistors, amplifiers, diodes. (I didn't particularly like this subject) Physics - I ended up not doing the final exam but I had enough points to graduate anyway.
Programming - We started with Pascal, that was pretty fun, while people were doing the basic assignments I figured out how to play with text and background colors and the like, made a stats calculator for an MMO I was playing at the time (Dark Ages).
Logic Gates - stuff to do with logic and logical gates, Karnaugh maps, building flipflops, shift registers, muxes, demuxes, eventually basic CPUs.
After that I believe we learned about the 8080 or 8086 CPU, its components, and its assembly language (yes, after the higher level Pascal), we also had this device that allowed us to light up LEDs and test switch states though the serial port so we wrote programs that made LEDs flash, lights that traveled across the LED array, changed speed, direction and such.
Control Theory - Well, the teacher covered some basics in this at the beginning but we were given a choice of either studying the theory and doing an exam or doing a project. I don't remember if there any people who did the theory. The project bit was in teams, in my case I did it with one other person, the project was a data-glove sort of device, basically a bunch of potentiometers that go on a mechanical glove device with an analog to digital converter communicating the a computer and a piece of software that displays a 3D hand with a corresponding state. My partner did the electronics and mechanics and I did the software which is all I really enjoyed, now this was in VB6, since that's what our teacher could help us with but I had to learn DirectX on my own, figure out how to import 3D objects from 3DX Max I think it was, a lot of fun.
Half the time our main teacher (his name's Menashe Shemtov) would go off on tangents, he told us how he lost his arm in the war driving a tank, immigrating from India, he's the reason I looked up and watched Soylent Green. I really enjoyed these classes (not so much the electricity stuff).
There was also an elective project in robotics for a competition where a robot has to navigate a maze and blow out a candle, but I didn't do that.
And with all that they still decided to give us an MS Office class which was quite boring and useless.
I never felt there was that Nerds/Jocks divide you see in American movies, sure there was the guy who went to soccer camp or the guy who was really into history, but for the most part the people who were good at sports were also the ones who were good at math and the like.
Anyway, in the end we had diploma exams in which we'd pick three out of six subjects from a hat and do those exams, I got one in logical gates which was great because I really liked the subject, one in assembly programming which was also great and one in some subject in electricity which I guess I managed to study well enough to get a passing grade. And that was it.
I guess you also live on rice and water because the occasional steak and a glass of wine provide the same caloric intake for a significant increase in price?
I imagine that even if it's 'unskilled labor' you still can't take a random person off the street and have them start doing the job on the same day, at the same speed as a veteran worker. If you give me a hoe and ask me to dig a ditch I could do it but I'd probably take ten times longer than someone who's been doing it for a living for the last five years.
So how long does it take to post an opening, hire enough people, get them up to speed on how the work is done? If it takes ten days, would that lose you more money than just giving the current proficient workers a day or two off? What's to ensure that the new workers won't go on strike later?
Unless every pixel in the UI is lovingly placed by toddler orphan migrant workers from the killing fields of Cambodia, how can you truly appreciate the full Apple experience?
To the uninitiated those statements may seem contradictory but you have to understand that that they were only meant for the primitive people of that time and with our better understanding of the glory of Jobs we can see a greater truth being revealed in the living Apple.
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More than diagnosing the disease based on the symptoms, if you had a networked system available in every hospital or to every doctor, I'd like to see what kind of information you'd get out of following up with post-treatment symptoms, autopsies when things went wrong, detecting patterns that wouldn't be evident on a per-doctor or per-hospital scale.
Of course I'd imagine you'd need to hash the input case numbers or something to keep the privacy of the individuals while being able to add information later.
Also I wonder how a system like this would scale to serve multiple hospitals.
Would it have to store information gathered during the rush hours and then search for new patterns later, sort of like what the suggested purpose of dreaming is?
Vault, what vault?
With the ability to distribute 1080p 7.1 surround perfect copies in a matter of hours to an arbitrary stranger, I believe the container you're referring to is one that belongs to a curious girl from Greece.
That may have been a problem in the age of the video cassette, but now with perfect digital duplication there would be... alternative distribution channels.
Hell, people might even feel morally justified to use those channels.
Err, I mean, more so than usual.
I'd have thought a Buddhist would strive to be unencumbered by such monuments to worldly wealth.
But then, I might not be well enough informed.
Well, they Wii U hasn't been released yet so a pre-sponse?
If a few prototypes get mysteriously destroyed with possible sightings of black spider-like silhouettes that scream inside your mind, just keep going, should be ironed by about the fifth iteration or so.
Animated GIFs man, that's the future of the web.
And wait till they finish the spec for the Blink tag, shit's gonna be off tha hook, yo.
I'd like to see an animated one to see Romney's dot migrate over time like they do in those TED talks by Hans Rosling.
I guess this wasn't the Droid they were looking for.
If it's a non-time-critical update/maintenance sort of thing then there's no reason one cardiologist couldn't contact another and get the access information beforehand or just have a very expensive, very hard to steal machine in the hospital that authenticates things for you.
If it's in the field, I doubt a paramedic would have the kind of training to be tweaking a pacemaker anyway.
I'm sure they could be carrying a smartphone-type device that tunnels from the pacemaker or other such medical device to a specialist back at a hospital.
This is terrible, a left paren may be yearning to be closed but a right paren, that requires a time machine.
Sorry, travel has been indefinitely postponed due to a copyright dispute.
Just wait for the Surface Pro.
It will have a stylus, it will have 1920x1080 resolution, it will have an Ivy Bridge Core i5 CPU, well, if the reports are correct.
I'm thinking of replacing my current Thinkpad with that when it comes it, to have something that I don't have to think twice if I feel like carrying it with me when I go out but that I can also run something like Photoshop on when I need to.
I really wasn't expecting the RT one to be any better than any other tablet, which is to say, a toy.
So did they find a potential 0-day exploit?
Can they get root access if they succeed?
You seem to be confusing fiction with reality. (That's usually described as a mental illness.)
More often as religion.
Well, some people prefer to customize things to the way that's comfortable to them rather than just accept whatever the manufacturer thrusts upon them.
In the case of Windows I don't like pinning, gadgets, grouping of taskbar items 'personalized menus' so I turn those off.
I also use apps like UltraMon, TeraCopy and True Launch Bar to supplement functionality that's not available in Windows, I guess I might go back to using Launchy if I upgrade to Win8 so it's not really that big of an Issue.
But the problem in this case is that so far most UI changes MS made were optional and you could revert to older functionality with the tick of a checkbox, now they decided that your server will run a UI designed for touchscreen tablets because fuck you that's why and you don't have an option to get the old interface without third party software.
Ah, forgot to mention, the IT guy blocked access to 'My Computer' and such in Windows in the general use computer lab, so when we weren't in our small lab we had to resort to stuff like accessing the drives from Internet Explorer which didn't block access to them like Windows Explorer did, to run our games.
I did a year in CS but I never liked most of the math and eventually got accepted to a design school, but I still think that education contributed a lot to the way I think.
Back when I was in highschool you picked a specialty set of courses, the one I was in was called 'Computing and Control' which was considered a sort of a prestige curriculum at the time.
I don't quite remember the exact order of things we studied but here's an approximation:
Electricity - starting with basic circuits, resistance, capacitance and the like, up to transistors, amplifiers, diodes. (I didn't particularly like this subject)
Physics - I ended up not doing the final exam but I had enough points to graduate anyway.
Programming - We started with Pascal, that was pretty fun, while people were doing the basic assignments I figured out how to play with text and background colors and the like, made a stats calculator for an MMO I was playing at the time (Dark Ages).
Logic Gates - stuff to do with logic and logical gates, Karnaugh maps, building flipflops, shift registers, muxes, demuxes, eventually basic CPUs.
After that I believe we learned about the 8080 or 8086 CPU, its components, and its assembly language (yes, after the higher level Pascal), we also had this device that allowed us to light up LEDs and test switch states though the serial port so we wrote programs that made LEDs flash, lights that traveled across the LED array, changed speed, direction and such.
Control Theory - Well, the teacher covered some basics in this at the beginning but we were given a choice of either studying the theory and doing an exam or doing a project.
I don't remember if there any people who did the theory.
The project bit was in teams, in my case I did it with one other person, the project was a data-glove sort of device, basically a bunch of potentiometers that go on a mechanical glove device with an analog to digital converter communicating the a computer and a piece of software that displays a 3D hand with a corresponding state.
My partner did the electronics and mechanics and I did the software which is all I really enjoyed, now this was in VB6, since that's what our teacher could help us with but I had to learn DirectX on my own, figure out how to import 3D objects from 3DX Max I think it was, a lot of fun.
Half the time our main teacher (his name's Menashe Shemtov) would go off on tangents, he told us how he lost his arm in the war driving a tank, immigrating from India, he's the reason I looked up and watched Soylent Green.
I really enjoyed these classes (not so much the electricity stuff).
There was also an elective project in robotics for a competition where a robot has to navigate a maze and blow out a candle, but I didn't do that.
And with all that they still decided to give us an MS Office class which was quite boring and useless.
I never felt there was that Nerds/Jocks divide you see in American movies, sure there was the guy who went to soccer camp or the guy who was really into history, but for the most part the people who were good at sports were also the ones who were good at math and the like.
Anyway, in the end we had diploma exams in which we'd pick three out of six subjects from a hat and do those exams, I got one in logical gates which was great because I really liked the subject, one in assembly programming which was also great and one in some subject in electricity which I guess I managed to study well enough to get a passing grade.
And that was it.
I guess you also live on rice and water because the occasional steak and a glass of wine provide the same caloric intake for a significant increase in price?
I imagine that even if it's 'unskilled labor' you still can't take a random person off the street and have them start doing the job on the same day, at the same speed as a veteran worker.
If you give me a hoe and ask me to dig a ditch I could do it but I'd probably take ten times longer than someone who's been doing it for a living for the last five years.
So how long does it take to post an opening, hire enough people, get them up to speed on how the work is done?
If it takes ten days, would that lose you more money than just giving the current proficient workers a day or two off?
What's to ensure that the new workers won't go on strike later?
Iranian Censorship BETA.
Assuming direct control.
Screw URLs, I'd just forge a note with a QR that says 'sudo give me all your money'.
This is foolproof.
Unless every pixel in the UI is lovingly placed by toddler orphan migrant workers from the killing fields of Cambodia, how can you truly appreciate the full Apple experience?
To the uninitiated those statements may seem contradictory but you have to understand that that they were only meant for the primitive people of that time and with our better understanding of the glory of Jobs we can see a greater truth being revealed in the living Apple.