Now that we've been sensitized to these low, low prices, $250 difference seems like a lot. Still, it's much better than the $1000 price difference normal tablets have over regular laptops. Progress!
What happens when you are looking at text from one window and typing into a different window?
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I have talked to a doctor friend recently about this. He's used various EHR systems, and his favorite is the VA Hospital's system, unfortunately named (VistA). He says it's pretty nice and easy to use. Looking at its wikipedia entry, apparently it is *public domain*, available to everyone. So it boggles my mind why other hospitals just don't adopt it, instead of spending billions developing their own.
Reading the comments so far makes me sad because: 1. Most people are clueless about how much biology we know. 2. Most people don't appreciate how effectively we can use that knowledge for our own good.
Thanks to modern DNA sequencing, we were able to sequence the entire virus in a few days. Because scientists have sequenced thousands of other viruses, they were able to compare it and come up with its composition. With the DNA sequence, scientists were able to reproduce the protein coating which allows them to make an effective vaccine in a few months.
When the next iteration of the virus comes, we'll be able to repeat the above literally in a few weeks. As far as I can tell, the era of pandemic viruses are over.
Watching slashdotters talk about this subject is almost like watching car mechanics talk about computers--mostly clueless. And some of you even believe in *creation*. How would you feel about car mechanics making IT policy?
I want to pay for online news, but not on a Monthly Basis. The first news company to figure that out gets my vote.
Instead of micro-payments (which has ridiculous overhead), I wish they had a pre-paid plan. I deposit $25. Whenever I view an article from their paper, they deduct 50 cents, good for 24 HOURS. Every other article I read that day, I've paid for. If I don't read the paper that day, I don't pay anything. This way, I get to read multiple papers without subscribing to each one, yet my regular paper gets paid the same amount. Does this seem reasonable? Any news paper folks here want to respond?
How about non-profit companies? Since municipal broadband (socialism!) is being fought tooth and nail by existing corporations (capitalism!), maybe what we need is some protection for non-profit companies as an alternative?
Apple gives them that outlet with trendy, flashy products.
You mean some people are willing to pay more for trendy, flashy, more expensive products while the masses want something cheap? And these "luxury" vendors actually make money with a smaller market share? Shocking! (Toyota/Lexus, Honda/Acura, Chevy/Cadillac, Mini/BMW)
South Korean websites have demanded national ID numbers for many years, to "prevent fraud" and to "verify age" (The numbers include your date of birth). And to "curb abuse", misrepresentation or misuse of the numbers is punishable by hefty jail terms. I guess this became law at some point.
Consequently, their world-class internet infrastructure is safe, but extremely insular. Foreigners, even if they speak Korean can't sign up for Korean sites because they lack ID numbers. And you can't simply pick random numbers either, as it has a built in check-sum algorithm. And don't get me started on their dependence on IE. .
Now, all this has historical context that goes back hundreds of years (i.e. the hermit kingdom). It's surprising to me how much things don't change even in the internet age.
All of my computers that run for days on end without rebooting have ECC ram in them (Home server, workstation at work). Others must be rebooted every now and then.
Are there laptops that use ECC RAM? I wish I could buy some.
He's probably using Dvorak, like me. I certainly find typing "querty" easier than "qwerty". Dvorak layout is so good that it even corrects qwerty's spelling mistakes!:)
My guess from your comments is that you believe one's health is that individual's responsibility. And by making them bear the costs, they will act responsibly and keep themselves healthy by spending their own money on preventive health care.
Where as I would say that an _average_ person, left to their own devices, will make poor, irrational health choices based on what's being sold on TV (miracle diets, miracle drugs, miracle doctors) and what their friends believe (homeopathic/herbal miracle medicine, "organic" food, etc).
My self interest is in getting accessible, affordable health care. Getting that involves getting the average population to be healthy. Achieving that probably involves incentives (subsidies) on good behavior (subsidies on fresh vegetables, regular checkups) and taxes on bad behavior (cigarettes and junkfood, etc). It specifically does not involve leaving my neighbor defenseless against sophisticated advertisers, who are *not* interested in keeping him healthy.
See, government run health care is not taking control out of your hands. It's just taking control out of corporate hands. It's up to you to decide who is less "evil" in the end.
You are seriously misinformed. There are two important things wrong with what you're saying.
First, the cost of providing emergency care for accidents isn't something that can be reduced, period. What we can do to reduce health care cost is to increase participation in early detection and treatment of disease, which is *FAAAR* more effective (and cheaper) than treatment later on. It's like a city providing free needle exchanges, because that's are far cheaper than treating someone who contracts HIV or some other horrible disease.
Of course, US health care doesn't run on logic, but rather puritan morals and vague capitalist ideology. The most effective way to prevent teen pregnancy, as determined empirically, is early sex education and free condoms, not home schooling and regular church attendance. But we can't use the most effective method.
Secondly, health care is something that people need throughout their lives. As our population gets older, it's not "insurance" for accidents, but rather an on-going part of their care. Which means there is a continuous, fixed cost that must be paid to take care of someone. Therefore, an "insurance" scheme, where risk/profit is calculated to determine premiums doesn't really work. It's much better to spread the risk to the whole population, and have full benefits for everyone.
The reason health care system in the US is so broken is because it's dominated by interest groups that want a continuous supply of "sick" but rich people. Think of the drug and insurance companies, the plastic surgeons and viagra peddlers. Nobody is really interested in the well-being of the people, and those who should--the citizens of this country--can only imagine a world they see in commercials made by drug and insurance companies. Sad indeed.
Whatever individuals or societies choose to do (embrace or reject designer babies), the outcome will always be Darwinian.
A little biology lesson: If a genetic trait is useful for survival _and_ reproduction, it'll be fixed in a population. If not, it'll be eventually eliminated. Only thing Designer babies do is change the rate of such adoption, nothing more.
Perhaps Designer babies is what will allow us to overcome some future plague. Or it'll be the cause of one. Humans could either break free of evolution or eliminate ourselves by trying. Most likely, it'll have very little effect. Darwin still wins.
Along those lines, maybe the aliens are all using quantum communication. Sure, it's not faster-than-light, but once set-up, you can communicate with anyone, anywhere, without power sucking lasers or transmitters.
Actually, what's surprising about dvorak is that it's not that bad for some of the major european languages like French and German, even though it was optimized for English. Many of the european languages share quite a bit of letter and bigram frequency, but yes, dvorak is most optimized for American English.
Ah, but Dvorak uses hand alteration even more than qwerty.
Since you brought up musical instruments, it's widely known that drumming fingers inwards (pinky to index) is much faster than drumming outwards (index to pinky). Try it! Dvorak layout takes advantage of this in its design, particularly for common two letter combo's (th, st, sh, ch, sc, and so forth).
There are many metrics that can be used to measure typing/finger travel efficiency. Qwerty does well on some, but badly on most of them. Dvorak is one attempt to improve upon qwerty, Colemak is another. Both are *far* more efficient than qwerty.
It doesn't matter though. Most people will have your attitude that "qwerty is good because it's popular", without actually examining anything for themselves. I hope the rest of slashdot is different.
Except that for some reason, dhcpd gets to the packets before the linux kernel does. In fact, you cannot use ipchains to filter dhcp packets to and from dhcpd. If you don't believe me, Google "block dhcp ipchains". So, it's more like: a closed port is closed under certain OSes.
It's not clear how exactly your situation came about, but it sounds like you finally got around to reading your contract and panicked. "DON'T PANIC!". Most schools are not all that black and white, and in my experience, unlike companies, they are very flexible with IP.
For example, universities realize most cool ideas come from research students. Technically, they have all the rights, but it doesn't serve them well to just hoard it. They would rather license the IP back to the student in exclusive, gratis terms, so they can continue to develop it, hoping to get a cut of any commercialization. They will not claim credit for the work, nor they will license it to some third party, cutting you out. They generally try to look out for the interest of the inventors (ie. you!).
Seriously, don't worry about your school screwing you over. Talk to the Univeristy's IP office, tell them you may want to commercialize it, and they'll be more than happy to work out some way for you to do so.
(This is how it worked in large, well known univerisities I've dealt with. I can't vouch for tiny schools with little or no IP experience)
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God damn it, RTF Summary! At this rate, I'll be yelling RTF Title by 2020.
This is great news!
Now that we've been sensitized to these low, low prices, $250 difference seems like a lot. Still, it's much better than the $1000 price difference normal tablets have over regular laptops. Progress!
What happens when you are looking at text from one window and typing into a different window?
I have talked to a doctor friend recently about this. He's used various EHR systems, and his favorite is the VA Hospital's system, unfortunately named (VistA). He says it's pretty nice and easy to use. Looking at its wikipedia entry, apparently it is *public domain*, available to everyone. So it boggles my mind why other hospitals just don't adopt it, instead of spending billions developing their own.
Ah, yes, Civilization. Good stuff.
Remember kids (and republicans and libertarians and anarchists), CIVILIZATION IS FUNDED BY TAXES.
More Civilization == More Taxes
I'm willing pay 40% tax on my pay for more civilization (I make near 6 figures, and I don't pay anywhere near that. But I feel I should).
Reading the comments so far makes me sad because:
1. Most people are clueless about how much biology we know.
2. Most people don't appreciate how effectively we can use that knowledge for our own good.
Thanks to modern DNA sequencing, we were able to sequence the entire virus in a few days. Because scientists have sequenced thousands of other viruses, they were able to compare it and come up with its composition. With the DNA sequence, scientists were able to reproduce the protein coating which allows them to make an effective vaccine in a few months.
When the next iteration of the virus comes, we'll be able to repeat the above literally in a few weeks. As far as I can tell, the era of pandemic viruses are over.
Watching slashdotters talk about this subject is almost like watching car mechanics talk about computers--mostly clueless. And some of you even believe in *creation*. How would you feel about car mechanics making IT policy?
I want to pay for online news, but not on a Monthly Basis. The first news company to figure that out gets my vote.
Instead of micro-payments (which has ridiculous overhead), I wish they had a pre-paid plan. I deposit $25. Whenever I view an article from their paper, they deduct 50 cents, good for 24 HOURS. Every other article I read that day, I've paid for. If I don't read the paper that day, I don't pay anything. This way, I get to read multiple papers without subscribing to each one, yet my regular paper gets paid the same amount. Does this seem reasonable? Any news paper folks here want to respond?
How about non-profit companies? Since municipal broadband (socialism!) is being fought tooth and nail by existing corporations (capitalism!), maybe what we need is some protection for non-profit companies as an alternative?
Apple gives them that outlet with trendy, flashy products.
You mean some people are willing to pay more for trendy, flashy, more expensive products while the masses want something cheap? And these "luxury" vendors actually make money with a smaller market share? Shocking! (Toyota/Lexus, Honda/Acura, Chevy/Cadillac, Mini/BMW)
South Korean websites have demanded national ID numbers for many years, to "prevent fraud" and to "verify age" (The numbers include your date of birth). And to "curb abuse", misrepresentation or misuse of the numbers is punishable by hefty jail terms. I guess this became law at some point.
Consequently, their world-class internet infrastructure is safe, but extremely insular. Foreigners, even if they speak Korean can't sign up for Korean sites because they lack ID numbers. And you can't simply pick random numbers either, as it has a built in check-sum algorithm. And don't get me started on their dependence on IE. .
Now, all this has historical context that goes back hundreds of years (i.e. the hermit kingdom). It's surprising to me how much things don't change even in the internet age.
All of my computers that run for days on end without rebooting have ECC ram in them (Home server, workstation at work). Others must be rebooted every now and then.
Are there laptops that use ECC RAM? I wish I could buy some.
He's probably using Dvorak, like me. I certainly find typing "querty" easier than "qwerty". Dvorak layout is so good that it even corrects qwerty's spelling mistakes! :)
Of course we are.
My guess from your comments is that you believe one's health is that individual's responsibility.
And by making them bear the costs, they will act responsibly and keep themselves healthy by spending their own money on preventive health care.
Where as I would say that an _average_ person, left to their own devices, will make poor, irrational health choices based on what's being sold on TV (miracle diets, miracle drugs, miracle doctors) and what their friends believe (homeopathic/herbal miracle medicine, "organic" food, etc).
My self interest is in getting accessible, affordable health care. Getting that involves getting the average population to be healthy. Achieving that probably involves incentives (subsidies) on good behavior (subsidies on fresh vegetables, regular checkups) and taxes on bad behavior (cigarettes and junkfood, etc). It specifically does not involve leaving my neighbor defenseless against sophisticated advertisers, who are *not* interested in keeping him healthy.
See, government run health care is not taking control out of your hands. It's just taking control out of corporate hands. It's up to you to decide who is less "evil" in the end.
You are seriously misinformed. There are two important things wrong with what you're saying.
First, the cost of providing emergency care for accidents isn't something that can be reduced, period. What we can do to reduce health care cost is to increase participation in early detection and treatment of disease, which is *FAAAR* more effective (and cheaper) than treatment later on. It's like a city providing free needle exchanges, because that's are far cheaper than treating someone who contracts HIV or some other horrible disease.
Of course, US health care doesn't run on logic, but rather puritan morals and vague capitalist ideology. The most effective way to prevent teen pregnancy, as determined empirically, is early sex education and free condoms, not home schooling and regular church attendance. But we can't use the most effective method.
Secondly, health care is something that people need throughout their lives. As our population gets older, it's not "insurance" for accidents, but rather an on-going part of their care. Which means there is a continuous, fixed cost that must be paid to take care of someone. Therefore, an "insurance" scheme, where risk/profit is calculated to determine premiums doesn't really work. It's much better to spread the risk to the whole population, and have full benefits for everyone.
The reason health care system in the US is so broken is because it's dominated by interest groups that want a continuous supply of "sick" but rich people. Think of the drug and insurance companies, the plastic surgeons and viagra peddlers. Nobody is really interested in the well-being of the people, and those who should--the citizens of this country--can only imagine a world they see in commercials made by drug and insurance companies. Sad indeed.
Darwin will do no such thing.
Whatever individuals or societies choose to do (embrace or reject designer babies), the outcome will always be Darwinian.
A little biology lesson: If a genetic trait is useful for survival _and_ reproduction, it'll be fixed in a population. If not, it'll be eventually eliminated. Only thing Designer babies do is change the rate of such adoption, nothing more.
Perhaps Designer babies is what will allow us to overcome some future plague. Or it'll be the cause of one. Humans could either break free of evolution or eliminate ourselves by trying. Most likely, it'll have very little effect. Darwin still wins.
Wow. I swear I thought I was reading a Wikipedia entry on TV circa 2050.
http://xkcd.com/419/
If the ARM side has access to the hard disk and wireless, I'll definitely be running it in ARM mode for 10x the battery life.
Along those lines, maybe the aliens are all using quantum communication. Sure, it's not faster-than-light, but once set-up, you can communicate with anyone, anywhere, without power sucking lasers or transmitters.
Actually, what's surprising about dvorak is that it's not that bad for some of the major european languages like French and German, even though it was optimized for English. Many of the european languages share quite a bit of letter and bigram frequency, but yes, dvorak is most optimized for American English.
Ah, but Dvorak uses hand alteration even more than qwerty.
Since you brought up musical instruments, it's widely known that drumming fingers inwards (pinky to index) is much faster than drumming outwards (index to pinky). Try it! Dvorak layout takes advantage of this in its design, particularly for common two letter combo's (th, st, sh, ch, sc, and so forth).
There are many metrics that can be used to measure typing/finger travel efficiency. Qwerty does well on some, but badly on most of them. Dvorak is one attempt to improve upon qwerty, Colemak is another. Both are *far* more efficient than qwerty.
It doesn't matter though. Most people will have your attitude that "qwerty is good because it's popular", without actually examining anything for themselves. I hope the rest of slashdot is different.
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Oh, and to follow up on my own point, iptables still can't block dhcpd from talking to it's clients.
Except that for some reason, dhcpd gets to the packets before the linux kernel does. In fact, you cannot use ipchains to filter dhcp packets to and from dhcpd. If you don't believe me, Google "block dhcp ipchains".
So, it's more like: a closed port is closed under certain OSes.
It's not clear how exactly your situation came about, but it sounds like you finally got around to reading your contract and panicked. "DON'T PANIC!". Most schools are not all that black and white, and in my experience, unlike companies, they are very flexible with IP.
For example, universities realize most cool ideas come from research students. Technically, they have all the rights, but it doesn't serve them well to just hoard it. They would rather license the IP back to the student in exclusive, gratis terms, so they can continue to develop it, hoping to get a cut of any commercialization. They will not claim credit for the work, nor they will license it to some third party, cutting you out. They generally try to look out for the interest of the inventors (ie. you!).
Seriously, don't worry about your school screwing you over. Talk to the Univeristy's IP office, tell them you may want to commercialize it, and they'll be more than happy to work out some way for you to do so.
(This is how it worked in large, well known univerisities I've dealt with. I can't vouch for tiny schools with little or no IP experience)