Just goes to show you how frightened some people are regarding electric cars. I don't see why so many people (that are not in the gas-powered car industry) are scared of them.
Obviously it's better to concentrate all the emissions at the factories that produce batteries and mitigate the pollution concerns there, rather than at the tail pipe of all the cars that are coming out of the factories.
Then again, no one ever accused Linux users as cheap, did they?
I'll say it. I'm cheap when it comes to computers. I want a computer that will just work and keep working for years. Something that is cheap for me to fix or upgrade when I need something better.
And that's why I buy System76 hardware. I know that it will work with any Linux OS I throw at it, even 10+ years later. Because it's made for Linux. No need to worry about crappy hardware that needs drivers that are no longer available on the manufacturer's website.
My time is expensive (well, not that expensive. I obviously have time for/.), and I don't want to waste it reinstalling an OS over the course of days because the hardware needs to be coddled in order to work with the OS.
It's all about total cost of ownership.
When I upgrade the OS I pop the USB in, answer a few questions about partitioning and administrative user and network names, and the install is done 15 minutes later.
I went to a Home Depot just last month to buy a drill. Second time I ever bough a drill, and the first was close to 20 years ago.
I asked the sales rep and he gave me a lot of helpful information. He then guided me towards two brands (I forget their names - I'm sure you can look them up). They were totally different brands, but the sales person told me that they were both Home Depot brands.
I picked one of them given the good sales pitch and excellent pricing and warranty.
Hotboxes running Kodi and a couple plugins have essentially gone mainstream.
Not only does the random guy at work have it, but he got the recommendation from his grandfather.
I'm surprised how many people I discuss movies with say they already saw something at home on a hotbox, while I'm waiting patiently for the bluray to be released on RedBox (my preferred way to rip movies).
Yes, ripping off RedBox is piracy as well, but it's not on the scale that these guys with no technical ability are able to stream movies at home that are still in the theater.
Three months later he came in for a routine checkup. Still had the "bionic" leg, but complained to me that the leg charged the insurance carrier ~$20,000.
Ummm... Meant to say the company that made the leg. The leg didn't make a telephone call and (I think) isn't wifi capable.
[...]Like those folks who were vehemently opposed to background checks for guns until they were shot at or folks in favor of single payer healthcare because they lost their jobs after a stroke. People's inability or unwillingness to extrapolate never ceases to amaze and infuriate me...
True story: I'm a physician. A couple years ago I was part of a team that treated a gentleman in the hospital who had a stroke, a heart attack, septic shock, and a quite large clot in the leg. He was in the ICU for several weeks, ended up with a heart stent and lost his left leg just above the knee. He was on short term dialysis, but thankfully his kidneys recovered.
He was quite thankful at the time to the hospital, the entire staff, etc. Less than a year later, he walked into my office. His insurance (medicaid) had paid for an advanced prosthesis which could sense when he was walking and would bend the knee automatically. He just had to plug it in at night. We joked around, saying he had a bionic leg.
Three months later he came in for a routine checkup. Still had the "bionic" leg, but complained to me that the leg charged the insurance carrier ~$20,000. I told him that if he ever complained about that leg in my presence, he would have to find someone else to take care of him. He's alive due to the combined effort of an entire ICU team and a few surgical teams and able to walk due to a machine that was considered science fiction when he was a kid.
Unfortunately people forget real easy, once it's no longer in their immediate best interest.
I download and store a lot of stuff (including ripping and storing stuff I buy or rent or borrow). I end up hoarding a lot, with the knowledge that I could really just download again from the Pirate Bay.
BTW, I do have copies on two separate servers in two other parts of the country. I have a static IP address and set up my friends' computers automatically make a mirror of my media every time they start up Kodi.:-)
Would buy the DVDs and play copies. Then got a bid hard drive and ripped directly to that and learned over the course of a few years about XBMC/KODI, bought a few nettop computers (one for each TV) and universal remote controls and set everything up for the family.
Life is so much better now that they can watch any movie or TV show I've ripper (or downloaded) at the touch of a button.
It's nice to get a refresher in Econ101. Goes along with everything I learned in high school and reinforces my understanding how the money supply is regulated.
It should be "inspired" by 2010 rather than a re-make or sequel to 2001, but I'm sure Hollywood will screw this up (probably by making it another Jack Ryan reboot, or setting it in the Cloverfield universe):
A joint US-Russian mission to Jupiter to retrieve/rescue a previously lost mission. Or maybe to follow up on the findings of a probe to Europa that make a manned-mission worthwhile.
However, the Chinese have secretly launched their own mission, so it's a race, as it was in the book.
Maybe add in a private space venture to the mix - either an Elon Musk type science nerd, or a super-rich oligarch who wants some Europan sea-monkeys in his aquarium collection as a status symbol.
Anyway, when they get to Jupiter, they discover the something that caused the first mission to fail...
Sounds like The Expanse. If you haven't seen it, please do. Great Science Fiction and a compelling story as well.
I'm sorry. You're obviously a fan of Interstellar.
I love science fiction, but to me Interstellar is probably one of the most anti-science movies I've seen masking as science fiction.
My take on the whole plot is that science destroyed the Earth's crops and the only thing to do is abandon all the sciences and hope for a miracle from above.
And when that miracle occurs, it's only the one with faith (not backed by much evidence) that's able to persevere and bring humanity to the heaven in the future.
I think that it's the canary in the coal mine for many medical fields.
Image processing neural nets are getting more powerful and more accessible for hospitals and (more importantly) large hospital networks.
The ability to scale this so that a primary care physician can take a shot of a lesion and have it identify those that need confirmation with a specialist (versus sending everyone to a specialist) means there's a lower demand for specialists.
This expands well beyond dermatologists. No reason why similar image processing techniques can't be used in radiology, reducing a health system's need to hire more radiologists. Or echocardiogram and electrocardiogram interpretation, freeing up the time of cardiologists (so less cardiologists need to be hired in the future).
I am a cardiologist. Our current MUSE electrocardiogram (EKG) system pre-reads the EKGs and has us correct the interpretations. It's correct probably 95% of the time. I can't wait until a similar system gets that good with echocardiograms. It'll free up our time so we can go home earlier in the evenings.
ZTE repeatedly violated the US sanctions against Iran, and lied to the government while in remediation. Now that the US has broken it's international agreement w/Iran & is threatening sanctions against our global partners who were also part of the agreement, the only logical 5d chess move is to get ZTE back in the business of selling security-compromised devices to Americans.
I'm sorry, but the U. S. government's behavior is just getting schizophrenic.
I can understand banning ZTE because it went against US sanctions.
I can understand banning ZTE if there was evidence of Chinese backdoors in the hardware (even if it isn't released, if releasing the evidence may compromise US security issues).
I can understand banning ZTE to help promote other non-Chinese brands, particularly US and allies brands.
The only way trying to help ZTE makes any sense is if the US government finally realized the global supply chain involved and the loss of US jobs when a company like ZTE goes under. That being said, this is an awful time to do this, as the US is going to re-initiate sanctions against Iran.
You want to see twitter feeds from Bloomberg and Reuters in your spreadsheet?
I'm pretty sure that's possible in LibreOffice. I've seen similar screen scraping macros. Of course, it's still probably the wrong tool for the job.:-(
This is more of a pain than it's worth. Calling patients to tell them they have to come in early, answering questions over phone or email regarding it, wasted time in the over-filled pacer clinics to squeeze these patients in.
I didn't look into the wRVU amount, but I'd be shocked if it was as high as 2 wRVUs for this.
(I'm an employed doc. I make enough wRVUs that I max out my bonus. I care more about patient health and satisfaction than a couple bucks.)
The Airport line were a victim of their own success.
The people posting here about their personal experiences with Airports (myself included) all have similar stories.
They tried several other routers which had a wide variety of problems. They then bought an Airport ~10 years ago and everything has been perfect since.
You can't build a business like Apple's on single purchases unless the word of mouth was incredible. Unfortunately people don't discuss buying routers all that much. They just go to a store and buy one.
For me, the "always works" aspect is important. If you send a message and the receiver is a cell phone, they will get the message at some point.
That's much more important than getting it immediately or not at all (as is sometimes the case with Apple's iMessage). And Apple understands that. Which is why when iMessage fails, they give the opportunity to resend as SMS.
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Just goes to show you how frightened some people are regarding electric cars. I don't see why so many people (that are not in the gas-powered car industry) are scared of them.
Obviously it's better to concentrate all the emissions at the factories that produce batteries and mitigate the pollution concerns there, rather than at the tail pipe of all the cars that are coming out of the factories.
ObXKCD: https://xkcd.com/437/
I always thought the name of our moon was Luna.
Just like the name of our sun is Sol.
Learn something new every day.
Then again, no one ever accused Linux users as cheap, did they?
I'll say it. I'm cheap when it comes to computers. I want a computer that will just work and keep working for years. Something that is cheap for me to fix or upgrade when I need something better.
And that's why I buy System76 hardware. I know that it will work with any Linux OS I throw at it, even 10+ years later. Because it's made for Linux. No need to worry about crappy hardware that needs drivers that are no longer available on the manufacturer's website.
My time is expensive (well, not that expensive. I obviously have time for /.), and I don't want to waste it reinstalling an OS over the course of days because the hardware needs to be coddled in order to work with the OS.
It's all about total cost of ownership.
When I upgrade the OS I pop the USB in, answer a few questions about partitioning and administrative user and network names, and the install is done 15 minutes later.
I went to a Home Depot just last month to buy a drill. Second time I ever bough a drill, and the first was close to 20 years ago.
I asked the sales rep and he gave me a lot of helpful information. He then guided me towards two brands (I forget their names - I'm sure you can look them up). They were totally different brands, but the sales person told me that they were both Home Depot brands.
I picked one of them given the good sales pitch and excellent pricing and warranty.
Hotboxes running Kodi and a couple plugins have essentially gone mainstream.
Not only does the random guy at work have it, but he got the recommendation from his grandfather.
I'm surprised how many people I discuss movies with say they already saw something at home on a hotbox, while I'm waiting patiently for the bluray to be released on RedBox (my preferred way to rip movies).
Yes, ripping off RedBox is piracy as well, but it's not on the scale that these guys with no technical ability are able to stream movies at home that are still in the theater.
Three months later he came in for a routine checkup. Still had the "bionic" leg, but complained to me that the leg charged the insurance carrier ~$20,000.
Ummm... Meant to say the company that made the leg. The leg didn't make a telephone call and (I think) isn't wifi capable.
[...]Like those folks who were vehemently opposed to background checks for guns until they were shot at or folks in favor of single payer healthcare because they lost their jobs after a stroke. People's inability or unwillingness to extrapolate never ceases to amaze and infuriate me...
True story: I'm a physician. A couple years ago I was part of a team that treated a gentleman in the hospital who had a stroke, a heart attack, septic shock, and a quite large clot in the leg. He was in the ICU for several weeks, ended up with a heart stent and lost his left leg just above the knee. He was on short term dialysis, but thankfully his kidneys recovered.
He was quite thankful at the time to the hospital, the entire staff, etc. Less than a year later, he walked into my office. His insurance (medicaid) had paid for an advanced prosthesis which could sense when he was walking and would bend the knee automatically. He just had to plug it in at night. We joked around, saying he had a bionic leg.
Three months later he came in for a routine checkup. Still had the "bionic" leg, but complained to me that the leg charged the insurance carrier ~$20,000. I told him that if he ever complained about that leg in my presence, he would have to find someone else to take care of him. He's alive due to the combined effort of an entire ICU team and a few surgical teams and able to walk due to a machine that was considered science fiction when he was a kid.
Unfortunately people forget real easy, once it's no longer in their immediate best interest.
The last time I checked, the only free phone app had limited functionality, and you had to pay to unlock most of the features of the app.
Has that changed? Anyone have a recommendation for a free map app for iOS and/or Android that uses OpenStreetMap?
So where are they guys on /. who were advocating buying in February, March, and April, stating that BTC was worth north of $100,000?
Did they cash out? Are they still buying now? What are their outlooks for the currency now?
+1 Insightful.
I download and store a lot of stuff (including ripping and storing stuff I buy or rent or borrow). I end up hoarding a lot, with the knowledge that I could really just download again from the Pirate Bay.
BTW, I do have copies on two separate servers in two other parts of the country. I have a static IP address and set up my friends' computers automatically make a mirror of my media every time they start up Kodi. :-)
Sounds like I'm you're friend. ;-)
Would buy the DVDs and play copies. Then got a bid hard drive and ripped directly to that and learned over the course of a few years about XBMC/KODI, bought a few nettop computers (one for each TV) and universal remote controls and set everything up for the family.
Life is so much better now that they can watch any movie or TV show I've ripper (or downloaded) at the touch of a button.
ObXKCD: https://xkcd.com/974/
Think they can modify one of those Boston Dynamics mules to hit a baseball coming in at 100mph?
On the one hand this looks both reasonable and quite easy to implement.
On the other hand ... what if this wasn't India. What if this was an oppressive regime which wants to arrest/kill dissenters?
If they have the message ID of one person, they can track everyone that person was in contact with, identifying their entire "cell".
All they would need is a court order.
Thanks. (Honestly.)
It's nice to get a refresher in Econ101. Goes along with everything I learned in high school and reinforces my understanding how the money supply is regulated.
It should be "inspired" by 2010 rather than a re-make or sequel to 2001, but I'm sure Hollywood will screw this up (probably by making it another Jack Ryan reboot, or setting it in the Cloverfield universe):
A joint US-Russian mission to Jupiter to retrieve/rescue a previously lost mission. Or maybe to follow up on the findings of a probe to Europa that make a manned-mission worthwhile.
However, the Chinese have secretly launched their own mission, so it's a race, as it was in the book.
Maybe add in a private space venture to the mix - either an Elon Musk type science nerd, or a super-rich oligarch who wants some Europan sea-monkeys in his aquarium collection as a status symbol.
Anyway, when they get to Jupiter, they discover the something that caused the first mission to fail...
Sounds like The Expanse. If you haven't seen it, please do. Great Science Fiction and a compelling story as well.
I'm sorry. You're obviously a fan of Interstellar.
I love science fiction, but to me Interstellar is probably one of the most anti-science movies I've seen masking as science fiction.
My take on the whole plot is that science destroyed the Earth's crops and the only thing to do is abandon all the sciences and hope for a miracle from above.
And when that miracle occurs, it's only the one with faith (not backed by much evidence) that's able to persevere and bring humanity to the heaven in the future.
I think that it's the canary in the coal mine for many medical fields.
Image processing neural nets are getting more powerful and more accessible for hospitals and (more importantly) large hospital networks.
The ability to scale this so that a primary care physician can take a shot of a lesion and have it identify those that need confirmation with a specialist (versus sending everyone to a specialist) means there's a lower demand for specialists.
This expands well beyond dermatologists. No reason why similar image processing techniques can't be used in radiology, reducing a health system's need to hire more radiologists. Or echocardiogram and electrocardiogram interpretation, freeing up the time of cardiologists (so less cardiologists need to be hired in the future).
I am a cardiologist. Our current MUSE electrocardiogram (EKG) system pre-reads the EKGs and has us correct the interpretations. It's correct probably 95% of the time. I can't wait until a similar system gets that good with echocardiograms. It'll free up our time so we can go home earlier in the evenings.
ZTE repeatedly violated the US sanctions against Iran, and lied to the government while in remediation. Now that the US has broken it's international agreement w/Iran & is threatening sanctions against our global partners who were also part of the agreement, the only logical 5d chess move is to get ZTE back in the business of selling security-compromised devices to Americans.
I'm sorry, but the U. S. government's behavior is just getting schizophrenic.
I can understand banning ZTE because it went against US sanctions.
I can understand banning ZTE if there was evidence of Chinese backdoors in the hardware (even if it isn't released, if releasing the evidence may compromise US security issues).
I can understand banning ZTE to help promote other non-Chinese brands, particularly US and allies brands.
The only way trying to help ZTE makes any sense is if the US government finally realized the global supply chain involved and the loss of US jobs when a company like ZTE goes under. That being said, this is an awful time to do this, as the US is going to re-initiate sanctions against Iran.
I exercise my authority over glibc very rarely [...]. So rarely that some of you thought that you are entirely autonomous. But that is not the case.
This line should be on a page of greatest quotes of all time.
You want to see twitter feeds from Bloomberg and Reuters in your spreadsheet?
I'm pretty sure that's possible in LibreOffice. I've seen similar screen scraping macros. Of course, it's still probably the wrong tool for the job. :-(
I am a cardiologist.
This is more of a pain than it's worth. Calling patients to tell them they have to come in early, answering questions over phone or email regarding it, wasted time in the over-filled pacer clinics to squeeze these patients in.
I didn't look into the wRVU amount, but I'd be shocked if it was as high as 2 wRVUs for this.
(I'm an employed doc. I make enough wRVUs that I max out my bonus. I care more about patient health and satisfaction than a couple bucks.)
Not if they're talking median salaries, as is mentioned in the summary.
The Airport line were a victim of their own success.
The people posting here about their personal experiences with Airports (myself included) all have similar stories.
They tried several other routers which had a wide variety of problems. They then bought an Airport ~10 years ago and everything has been perfect since.
You can't build a business like Apple's on single purchases unless the word of mouth was incredible. Unfortunately people don't discuss buying routers all that much. They just go to a store and buy one.
For me, the "always works" aspect is important. If you send a message and the receiver is a cell phone, they will get the message at some point.
That's much more important than getting it immediately or not at all (as is sometimes the case with Apple's iMessage). And Apple understands that. Which is why when iMessage fails, they give the opportunity to resend as SMS.
I'm not sure if I believe this.
As a physician employed by a fairly large hospital network, I know that my hospital pinches any penny they can.
If they can get 1 cent less per acetaminophen tablet, they would sell their own mother for the opportunity.
Not that they will pass that savings on to the consumer. But it will increase their margins so that they can afford to buy more stuff.
So I can't believe Amazon.com is giving up on this.
The only thing I can think is that the hospitals have multi-year contracts that need to run out and Amazon wasn't willing to wait.