FOSS has no way to deal with a project's sole maintainer dieing. Especially if the maintainer uses a pseudonym on the web. If the maintainer has a real name, try to get a hold of him via phone directories, etc.
If you can't get a hold of him after a reasonable effort, certainly fork the code.
The main issue then becomes, when can a new maintainer take the trademark/name of the old project without expressed permission of someone who cannot be reached in a reasonable time period and may be dead?
As for dealing with the HMO/health care administration, the best way to do it is from the inside.
Get involved! Join your hospital pharmacy committee. Spend some time on the administrative end. Doesn't take much time (maybe a few hours a month), but people will take you more seriously and listen to your gripes if you are on the hospital committees and can give a compelling cost savings solution (ie: don't change generics and avoid increased ER visits dur to uncontrolled HTN).
From one doc to another, stop using atenolol.:-) Atenolol is not a particularly good beta blocker. It's advertised as a QD drug, but really should be given BID. In addition, it is renally cleared.
I can't count the number of times the following happened: Patient's renal clearance decreases transiently for some reason. The atenolol buildy up in the system and causes hypotension and bradycardia, causing a further drop in renal clearance. And the cycle continues until the patient ends up in the ER in complete heart block and renal failure or dead.
Use metoprolol ER (generic equivalent to toprol xl) or carvedilol. Both generic and with proven cardioprotective effects.
I am a physician, and my mother has hypertension. Damn straight I'm going to medicate her. I'm giving her a diuretic and an ACE inhibitor. $4 per drug per month, for a total of $96 per year. Just like I prescribe to my patients. Treating hypertension prevents strokes. It's not one study. It's dozens of studies, over decades of statistics. A since study may have a P value of.95, stating that it is statistically significant. That means that there's a 1 in 20 chance that it is just plain wrong. I'm banking on the decades of data. Wake me up when the UKPDS changes their recommendations to not treat hypertension.
The fact of the matter is, my patients are as cost conscious as I am, since they know what it's like to pay for trade name drugs when the generic equivalents are covered by the insurance companies. They love that after a first visit with me they can cut there monthly bills by $100 or more. They tell their friends, and I get more patients.
Big Pharma has screwed the medical industry. Us doctors (as a group) are doing it, too, as are the trial lawyers.
And the general public, who feels that docs should be sued into oblivion for the littles mistakes. You know what? Mistakes happen. Deal with it. If you would rather docs retire early rather than pay ridiculously high malpractice premiums, so be it.
My wife required a high risk OB during her last pregnancy. Pretty hard to find in our state, since the malpractice for obstetricians is ridiculously high here.
If these are recent (last 2-3 year) keyboards, the ones I have double as non-powered USB hubs.
The idea is that you plug in your mouse and Watcom tablet or other input device directly into the keyboard instead of snaking a couple extra wires to the computer.
Also, to redistribute any other GPL application, you need access to......a computer. And likely either access to an internet connection or (a PO box or permanent address).
There are significant costs to redistribute things any way you look at it. $99 for access to the apple store is a drop in the bucket.
Is it Beta? The fact that Linus runs it as his root fs doesn't tell me much. Now, if you told me that's what he uses for ~/, I would be more impressed.
The important question to me is, how long 'til it gets in the major distributions?
If you accept the fact that a jailbroken iPhone can take down cell towers, and that cell towers are important for national security, and that it is common practice to jailbrake iPhones, there is one logical conclusion.
Gold is only worth that much (in relation to other things) because of it's relative scarcity *and* because of the demand due to perceived value.
If there is no perceived value for gold (think: a post-apocalyptic world where people are just fighting to stay alive, not save up for later), cigarettes or clean food and water may be worth more.
Does this device shine a light (laser ?) in front of and behind the bicycle? If so, how does it compensate for the wobble and slight variations that a bicycle may make that is not exactly parallel to the curb?
Or is this a more sophisticated solution that can determine where exactly the side of the road is, and where obstructions are up ahead, heralding cards that can drive themselves?
IVF has been around a few years. In fact, it's been around since 1978, if you want to take it back to the first test tube baby.
I'm sure if there were "severe" chromosomal abnormalities we would have noticed by now.
Now, I'm not saying that there isn't any increased risk of chromosomal abnormalities associated with the procedure. But 90% chance of severe chromosomal abnormalities doesn't sound like it makes sense to me.
Slightly offtopic rant: IAAP (I Am A Physician), and we have to practice statistical medicine. But first and foremost, we have to listen to our patients. A good story beats statistics 9 times out of 10. But that means we get burnt 10 percent of the time. The patient population understands that. The health care industry understands that.
There's the old saying, "If you hear hoofbeats, look for horses, not zebras". If you want to practice medicine in a different way, go for it.
To quote Kris Kristofferson and Fred Foster, "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose".
While China is economically prosperous, I wonder how many people in China are doing better now than they were 10 years ago. If the majority aren't doing better, they are in serious trouble. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon enough.
The point is that unless you are running a server with multi-year uptime (which means that you are likely running with an unpatched kernel), you are probably not running the same linux kernel as you were in '01, when WinXP was released.
There is always progress in OS design. XP (in retrospect) is a good OS, but it likely cannot be patched to take full advantage of the latest hardware without breaking something. Hence Vista and 7.
1.97% of scientists admitted to having fabricated, falsified or modified data or results at least once.
The rest of them are liars.
We had a high school advanced placement math class (Calculus-2). The teacher was the school's principal. After a student teacher conference, he mentioned that one mother defended her son by saying that he never cheated in school. The teacher then did an anonymous poll to find out how many students in the class had cheated in the past year. It was 100%.
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FOSS has no way to deal with a project's sole maintainer dieing. Especially if the maintainer uses a pseudonym on the web. If the maintainer has a real name, try to get a hold of him via phone directories, etc.
If you can't get a hold of him after a reasonable effort, certainly fork the code.
The main issue then becomes, when can a new maintainer take the trademark/name of the old project without expressed permission of someone who cannot be reached in a reasonable time period and may be dead?
Moving paper costs more than moving electrons.
As for dealing with the HMO/health care administration, the best way to do it is from the inside.
Get involved! Join your hospital pharmacy committee. Spend some time on the administrative end. Doesn't take much time (maybe a few hours a month), but people will take you more seriously and listen to your gripes if you are on the hospital committees and can give a compelling cost savings solution (ie: don't change generics and avoid increased ER visits dur to uncontrolled HTN).
From one doc to another, stop using atenolol. :-) Atenolol is not a particularly good beta blocker. It's advertised as a QD drug, but really should be given BID. In addition, it is renally cleared.
I can't count the number of times the following happened: Patient's renal clearance decreases transiently for some reason. The atenolol buildy up in the system and causes hypotension and bradycardia, causing a further drop in renal clearance. And the cycle continues until the patient ends up in the ER in complete heart block and renal failure or dead.
Use metoprolol ER (generic equivalent to toprol xl) or carvedilol. Both generic and with proven cardioprotective effects.
I am a physician, and my mother has hypertension. Damn straight I'm going to medicate her. I'm giving her a diuretic and an ACE inhibitor. $4 per drug per month, for a total of $96 per year. Just like I prescribe to my patients. Treating hypertension prevents strokes. It's not one study. It's dozens of studies, over decades of statistics. A since study may have a P value of .95, stating that it is statistically significant. That means that there's a 1 in 20 chance that it is just plain wrong. I'm banking on the decades of data. Wake me up when the UKPDS changes their recommendations to not treat hypertension.
The fact of the matter is, my patients are as cost conscious as I am, since they know what it's like to pay for trade name drugs when the generic equivalents are covered by the insurance companies. They love that after a first visit with me they can cut there monthly bills by $100 or more. They tell their friends, and I get more patients.
Big Pharma has screwed the medical industry. Us doctors (as a group) are doing it, too, as are the trial lawyers.
And the general public, who feels that docs should be sued into oblivion for the littles mistakes. You know what? Mistakes happen. Deal with it. If you would rather docs retire early rather than pay ridiculously high malpractice premiums, so be it.
My wife required a high risk OB during her last pregnancy. Pretty hard to find in our state, since the malpractice for obstetricians is ridiculously high here.
Browsers need a volume control, just like music players.
They also need zoom bars for some of the small fonts combines with 30" monitors...
If these are recent (last 2-3 year) keyboards, the ones I have double as non-powered USB hubs.
The idea is that you plug in your mouse and Watcom tablet or other input device directly into the keyboard instead of snaking a couple extra wires to the computer.
Pretty nifty (until now, that is).
Also, to redistribute any other GPL application, you need access to... ...a computer. And likely either access to an internet connection or (a PO box or permanent address).
There are significant costs to redistribute things any way you look at it. $99 for access to the apple store is a drop in the bucket.
Is it Beta? The fact that Linus runs it as his root fs doesn't tell me much. Now, if you told me that's what he uses for ~/, I would be more impressed.
The important question to me is, how long 'til it gets in the major distributions?
If you are editing text, why move your hands away from the keyboard?
If you accept the fact that a jailbroken iPhone can take down cell towers, and that cell towers are important for national security, and that it is common practice to jailbrake iPhones, there is one logical conclusion.
iPhones have to be made illegal.
Which means that currently, a flash exploit could potentially alter, email, or delete any files in ~/.
Cold comfort, to say the least.
The thing is, most XP installations accumulate crap that slow it down in a year or two.
The only way to clean it up is a fresh install, which most end users don't know how to do (or are too afraid to do).
Linux doesn't fill up with crap. That being said, it doesn't fill up with crap because crap writers don't target Linux (yet).
Gold is only worth that much (in relation to other things) because of it's relative scarcity *and* because of the demand due to perceived value.
If there is no perceived value for gold (think: a post-apocalyptic world where people are just fighting to stay alive, not save up for later), cigarettes or clean food and water may be worth more.
In the grand /. tradition, I didn't RTFA.
Does this device shine a light (laser ?) in front of and behind the bicycle? If so, how does it compensate for the wobble and slight variations that a bicycle may make that is not exactly parallel to the curb?
Or is this a more sophisticated solution that can determine where exactly the side of the road is, and where obstructions are up ahead, heralding cards that can drive themselves?
IVF has been around a few years. In fact, it's been around since 1978, if you want to take it back to the first test tube baby.
I'm sure if there were "severe" chromosomal abnormalities we would have noticed by now.
Now, I'm not saying that there isn't any increased risk of chromosomal abnormalities associated with the procedure. But 90% chance of severe chromosomal abnormalities doesn't sound like it makes sense to me.
Are there are molecular geneticists in the house?
About half of Robert Heinlein's later work had corporation-cities. Just look at _The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress_.
Wake me up when we can view a netflix silverlight stream on Linux.
Slightly offtopic rant: IAAP (I Am A Physician), and we have to practice statistical medicine. But first and foremost, we have to listen to our patients. A good story beats statistics 9 times out of 10. But that means we get burnt 10 percent of the time. The patient population understands that. The health care industry understands that.
There's the old saying, "If you hear hoofbeats, look for horses, not zebras". If you want to practice medicine in a different way, go for it.
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Well, they did say that you could remotely brick the device, but many consider that a bit of an extreme way to undo an operation...
To quote Kris Kristofferson and Fred Foster, "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose".
While China is economically prosperous, I wonder how many people in China are doing better now than they were 10 years ago. If the majority aren't doing better, they are in serious trouble. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon enough.
The point is that unless you are running a server with multi-year uptime (which means that you are likely running with an unpatched kernel), you are probably not running the same linux kernel as you were in '01, when WinXP was released.
There is always progress in OS design. XP (in retrospect) is a good OS, but it likely cannot be patched to take full advantage of the latest hardware without breaking something. Hence Vista and 7.
1.97% of scientists admitted to having fabricated, falsified or modified data or results at least once.
The rest of them are liars.
We had a high school advanced placement math class (Calculus-2). The teacher was the school's principal. After a student teacher conference, he mentioned that one mother defended her son by saying that he never cheated in school. The teacher then did an anonymous poll to find out how many students in the class had cheated in the past year. It was 100%.
How many of you would pay extra for a child that would fluoresce?