I wonder what percentage of people are directly hostile to the notion of copyrights? I know I am.
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Sounds like someone's advocating a death panel.;-)
But seriously, there's a lot of politics involved in that sort of discussion. I really don't understand why. Seems like a very personal discussion between a patient, his or her family, and their physician.
Re:This is what's wrong with private healthcare.
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Troll?
I'm a physician that works for a hospital.
I have the futility talk with patients and their families quite frequently. It kills a little bit of me when I hear a family say they want everything done. And a little more dies every time I run a "mega code", lasting over an hour trying to save someone who if by some miracle they survive, will have no quality of life and be dependent on machines for breathing and feeding and urinating (hemodialysis) for the rest of their life.
"Where there's life, there's hope" is a common saying in the community I work in. Every time I hear that, I cry a little inside.
I have never had a hospital administrator even hint at anything that would extend suffering. If anything, the administrators like us to call the local hospice services, to free up beds for individuals who will survive.
My dad was a Sony only guy from the early 70s onwards. Until I was old enough for him to take my tech advice seriously and Sony earned my contempt more than a decade ago.
So now my dad buys the best non-Sony entertainment units (TV, blu ray, receiver, etc.) he can find (I basically choose his devices for him), and I do the same. And I encourage my friends similarly.
And on the media side of things, I do buy DVDs... But I donate them all to the local libraries as soon as I feel I'm not going to watch them anymore.
I know I'm not making much of a difference, but it's about all I can do.
Actually, I would think that all the oceans would drain into a single large ocean/sink hole, the reduction in gravity throws everything in orbit out of kilter (possibly even the moon?), and millions die of famine.
On the plus side, the middle east problems would be the least of people's worries. Higher on the list (of survivors) would be: "Is my country going to disappear next?"
Not to be TOO pedantic, but Handbrake uses the libraries in VLC or DVDCSS to decode DVDs. Not a big deal, since they're both Open Source and (fairly) easy to find.
Which I totally agree with. The only time I use the optical drive on my desktop is to rip DVDs to something suitable for my home media NAS.
On my laptop? Just realized that I've had the same DVD in the drive for over a month now. A movie that I never got around to finishing. If it was interesting, I would have ripped it to watch on the big screen (via XBMC/openelec).
I wonder why the protests in New York's financial section didn't get a similar catchy title.
The disenchanted protesting for change. It's not as bad as the oppression in the middle east, but those that lose their life savings after working hard for 40 years should have our sympathy, too.
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Agree totally.
I've been using Ubuntu since 5.04, and it's been my only exposure to Linux on the desktop. I have since bought a NAS that runs debian. I only shell into it, so I would never have been comfortable buying it if it wasn't for my desktop experience with Ubuntu.
Now, I just installed Ubuntu 11.10 on a Acer Aspire Revo 3700 and have it running XBMC. I can't figure out how to run XBMC automatically upon automatic login. So when I reboot the system I need a mouse to start XBMC. (It's otherwise controlled with my universal remote -- And I don't want to add a macro to the remote as my kids may screw things up.))
My guess is I'll switch over to Debian running KDE, since Gnome 3 has given up on the standard Gnome desktop as well.
Any other thoughts? Whatever I use, I would like some comfort in knowing the project will exist for a couple years or so.
Thank you. This is a very timely topic for many of us as we see higher bandwidth upstream and the more common use of 802.11n and hard wired gigabit in the home (myself included.:-)).
I'm going to personally watch the comments here and research the associated routers. Currently have the Cisco E4200 in my amazon basket, but looking to see if there's another router that's worth looking at before I make the plunge.
I guess any suitably old laptop could be had for $100 or less. After all, we live in an age of people targeting $200 for new laptops ( http://www.laptopsunder.net/ ).
Why is it so hard to believe that a used one would be less than $100?
Don't like the dropping of the last number from the version. I Liked that the major version number was 2.6, and wished the new major number was 3.0 rather than 3.
In a few months we'll have 3.2, then a few months we'll have 3.3... Just seems too fast...
A young male patient goes to his female primary care doc and tells her that he gets palpitations sporadically. To rule out a suptraventricular tachycardia, she places him on a 24 hour home telemetry monitor. The monitor shows a (normal) fast heart rate at 11pm, so she sends him to me.
I ask him what he was doing. Apparently his girlfriend thought that the monitor was "hot", so they did it with the monitor on. The patient was too embarrased to tell his primary care, so he was sent to me.
I wrote in my letter to the primary care that the increased rate was due to "normal physiologic activity".
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Agreed.
My first thought is, was he misdiagnosed or have a variant of the disease that has not been described yet.
Funny guy.
You have to have a particularly large set of balls to doubt that Professor Hawking is a genius.
I wonder what percentage of people are directly hostile to the notion of copyrights? I know I am.
Sounds like someone's advocating a death panel. ;-)
But seriously, there's a lot of politics involved in that sort of discussion. I really don't understand why. Seems like a very personal discussion between a patient, his or her family, and their physician.
Troll?
I'm a physician that works for a hospital.
I have the futility talk with patients and their families quite frequently. It kills a little bit of me when I hear a family say they want everything done. And a little more dies every time I run a "mega code", lasting over an hour trying to save someone who if by some miracle they survive, will have no quality of life and be dependent on machines for breathing and feeding and urinating (hemodialysis) for the rest of their life.
"Where there's life, there's hope" is a common saying in the community I work in. Every time I hear that, I cry a little inside.
I have never had a hospital administrator even hint at anything that would extend suffering. If anything, the administrators like us to call the local hospice services, to free up beds for individuals who will survive.
Does this also effect credit card early payments?
So make it a credit card processing fee. Is it so difficult to explain to the customer what's really going on?
Good!
My dad was a Sony only guy from the early 70s onwards. Until I was old enough for him to take my tech advice seriously and Sony earned my contempt more than a decade ago.
So now my dad buys the best non-Sony entertainment units (TV, blu ray, receiver, etc.) he can find (I basically choose his devices for him), and I do the same. And I encourage my friends similarly.
And on the media side of things, I do buy DVDs... But I donate them all to the local libraries as soon as I feel I'm not going to watch them anymore.
I know I'm not making much of a difference, but it's about all I can do.
Are you doing your part?
Actually, I would think that all the oceans would drain into a single large ocean/sink hole, the reduction in gravity throws everything in orbit out of kilter (possibly even the moon?), and millions die of famine.
On the plus side, the middle east problems would be the least of people's worries. Higher on the list (of survivors) would be: "Is my country going to disappear next?"
Do they have any comments on the depiction of violence in literature?
Not to be TOO pedantic, but Handbrake uses the libraries in VLC or DVDCSS to decode DVDs. Not a big deal, since they're both Open Source and (fairly) easy to find.
Same here. Just wish my system could do it faster. The sooner I get rid of my physical DVDs, the better.
Which means your desktop needs an optical drive.
Which I totally agree with. The only time I use the optical drive on my desktop is to rip DVDs to something suitable for my home media NAS.
On my laptop? Just realized that I've had the same DVD in the drive for over a month now. A movie that I never got around to finishing. If it was interesting, I would have ripped it to watch on the big screen (via XBMC/openelec).
Exactly how much "Firefox is running but not responding" are you expecting when you're not running the browser?
You should really consider moving some of your retirement money out of Bit Coins.
The gains are impressive, but I'm not sure how liquid they'll be in the future.
I wonder why the protests in New York's financial section didn't get a similar catchy title.
The disenchanted protesting for change. It's not as bad as the oppression in the middle east, but those that lose their life savings after working hard for 40 years should have our sympathy, too.
Agree totally.
I've been using Ubuntu since 5.04, and it's been my only exposure to Linux on the desktop. I have since bought a NAS that runs debian. I only shell into it, so I would never have been comfortable buying it if it wasn't for my desktop experience with Ubuntu.
Now, I just installed Ubuntu 11.10 on a Acer Aspire Revo 3700 and have it running XBMC. I can't figure out how to run XBMC automatically upon automatic login. So when I reboot the system I need a mouse to start XBMC. (It's otherwise controlled with my universal remote -- And I don't want to add a macro to the remote as my kids may screw things up.))
My guess is I'll switch over to Debian running KDE, since Gnome 3 has given up on the standard Gnome desktop as well.
Any other thoughts? Whatever I use, I would like some comfort in knowing the project will exist for a couple years or so.
Expensive wires are the problem.
How much are thunderbolt wires going to cost? Are they realistically going to become as inexpensive as USB wires in 5 -10 years?
Thank you. This is a very timely topic for many of us as we see higher bandwidth upstream and the more common use of 802.11n and hard wired gigabit in the home (myself included. :-)).
I'm going to personally watch the comments here and research the associated routers. Currently have the Cisco E4200 in my amazon basket, but looking to see if there's another router that's worth looking at before I make the plunge.
I can't remember. Is $2 Billion considered a lot of money to UBS?
I guess any suitably old laptop could be had for $100 or less. After all, we live in an age of people targeting $200 for new laptops ( http://www.laptopsunder.net/ ).
Why is it so hard to believe that a used one would be less than $100?
Don't like the dropping of the last number from the version. I Liked that the major version number was 2.6, and wished the new major number was 3.0 rather than 3.
In a few months we'll have 3.2, then a few months we'll have 3.3... Just seems too fast...
Anyone have experience with the BMW 335d?
I'm tempted, but really need 4wd where I work. (And I don't want a second car for the crummy weather.)
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I am a cardiologist.
A young male patient goes to his female primary care doc and tells her that he gets palpitations sporadically. To rule out a suptraventricular tachycardia, she places him on a 24 hour home telemetry monitor. The monitor shows a (normal) fast heart rate at 11pm, so she sends him to me.
I ask him what he was doing. Apparently his girlfriend thought that the monitor was "hot", so they did it with the monitor on. The patient was too embarrased to tell his primary care, so he was sent to me.
I wrote in my letter to the primary care that the increased rate was due to "normal physiologic activity".