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"And yes, even with automation and 7 checks by machinery including an automated image comparison the pharmacist STILL catches errors."
that's pretty surprising. if you assume these checks are relatively unreliable - say they're 98% accurate.
at 7 checks, you have an overall accuracy of 99.999999999872%. in other words, with these 7 checks, you're likely to miss an error once in 781,250,000,000 checks. if you assume that 1 in 10 prescriptions have en error in them, you'll fill about 7,8 trillion prescriptions before making an error. so if you're pumping out 60,000 prescriptions a day, you'll have an error once every 35,673 years.
in other words, with 7 automated checks, you shouldn't really have any errors. what can we conclude? the automation sucks a lot.
it would be nice... but in america, parents that pay $50k a year for their kids education want them to get A's. so at schools like harvard you have A averages, and anything less than a C is practically unheard of. parents wouldn't stand for kids failing out.
..."I do think that a school should look at your highschool GPA when you apply, but I don't see why any "4.0" student shouldn't be able to get into any school they can afford"
the problem with that is that there are WAY too many people that get those 4.0's in the US. it's simply to easy to get a 4.0. there's no distiction between the brilliant students and the students with mediocre intelligence that are willing to work hard.
and the idea of having money as the only entry criterion is ridiculous - the top schools are the top schools because they attract the world's top minds. if they admitted any "4.0" who can afford it, the quality of education would suffer horribly. learning from your peers is part of it, but what is more significant is that you can't teach at a intelligent level if 90% of the class is mediocre students. the intelligent students would be held back.
and a huge (in many cases the biggest) part of the financing these schools receive is from alumni donations. they want the students that will take their education they receive and then make a truckload of money, so they can give it back to the school. if a class consisted entirely of mediocre students with rich parents, the school might make more money in tuition fees, but alumni donations would fall to a much lower level.
but even then, most ivy league schools will be happy to admit a mediocre "4.0" student if their parents are willing to donate a couple mil...
it's pretty funny actually... i came to finland for the christmas break to visit my parents, and ordered a Dell P4 2.0GHz system. sure enough, before i could complete the order, i had to fill out a survey stating that the computer wouldn't be used for anything related to nuclear/biologicial/mass destruction weapons.
exactly how is cash more traceable than bartering?
you'd think if i used cattle from my farm rather than cash, there'd be more dna evidence in my barn linking that cow back to me than there is on that 5 dollar bill.
what's your reasoning?
actually, the "standards" are rather loosely defined.
the 525 scanlines per frame are divided into two fields, 263 and 262 lines each.
typically, the first field has 20 blanking lines, resulting in 243 active lines, while the second field has 19 blanking lines, resulting in another 243 active lines, for a total vertical resolution of 486 lines per frame.
however, the blanking regions are sometimes extended (don't ask me why) to reduce the vertical resolution to 480. when ntsc is digitized, this is the resolution usually captured to avoid capturing blanking.
i'd link to the BT.656 spec, but i can't find it, or anything remotely close to it anywhere on the web.
hmmmm... applying murphy's law... all dvd burners will spontaneously combust, releasing poisonous gases that will instantaneously choke the world's entire population...
what does that have to do with macs?
10^9 is 1 billion, yes, but that's 1e9. 10e9 is 10 x 10^9 or 10 x 1e9. punch it into your calculator, you'll see. let that be your math lesson for today, mister anonymous coward.
last time i checked, 10e9 was 10 billion. (10e9 = 10 x 10^9 = 10,000,000,000). and people trust their hundreds of billions to your software? where are you stashing all this money? i want in on it!!!!!
The only thing that I think would be better would be if I could download everything (say pay 50 for a season and download eps after they are aired).
you can already do that. it's just that the $50 is optional. (it's called kazaa)
i totally agree. the amount of DUI that goes on in america is ridiculous. and the 0.1% limit that exists in most states is ridiculous as well, resulting in a lot of "legal DUI". but thats a whole other topic. there's simply too many deaths caused by both firearms and DUI in america.
And just think how globally opposed everyone would be to having these required in every car.
actually, the only reason (other than the very extremely rare emergency situation, which you claimed dont really exist) why anyone should oppose such a technology in cars is cost. but if it were a requirement, the costs wouldnt be all that ridiculous.
would there really be much opposition to such a law? i doubt it. it would be nice never to worry about my car being stolen. and it would get rid of all the 12 year old joyriders who just learned how to steal a car on the streets (not that they're all that common, but they are extremely dangerous).
"Has it revolutionized the world? I've never used a cell phone in my life and have no intention of ever buying one. There are pay-phones on almost every corner everywhere in the world."
Have you ever called a cell phone? I bet you have, unless you really do have no friends. That means you've used one. It doesn't matter who's holding the cell phone, if its transmitting your conversation, you're using it.
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"And yes, even with automation and 7 checks by machinery including an automated image comparison the pharmacist STILL catches errors."
that's pretty surprising. if you assume these checks are relatively unreliable - say they're 98% accurate.
at 7 checks, you have an overall accuracy of 99.999999999872%. in other words, with these 7 checks, you're likely to miss an error once in 781,250,000,000 checks. if you assume that 1 in 10 prescriptions have en error in them, you'll fill about 7,8 trillion prescriptions before making an error. so if you're pumping out 60,000 prescriptions a day, you'll have an error once every 35,673 years.
in other words, with 7 automated checks, you shouldn't really have any errors. what can we conclude? the automation sucks a lot.
the solution is simple: get a job you actually enjoy
it would be nice... but in america, parents that pay $50k a year for their kids education want them to get A's. so at schools like harvard you have A averages, and anything less than a C is practically unheard of. parents wouldn't stand for kids failing out.
..."I do think that a school should look at your highschool GPA when you apply, but I don't see why any "4.0" student shouldn't be able to get into any school they can afford" the problem with that is that there are WAY too many people that get those 4.0's in the US. it's simply to easy to get a 4.0. there's no distiction between the brilliant students and the students with mediocre intelligence that are willing to work hard. and the idea of having money as the only entry criterion is ridiculous - the top schools are the top schools because they attract the world's top minds. if they admitted any "4.0" who can afford it, the quality of education would suffer horribly. learning from your peers is part of it, but what is more significant is that you can't teach at a intelligent level if 90% of the class is mediocre students. the intelligent students would be held back. and a huge (in many cases the biggest) part of the financing these schools receive is from alumni donations. they want the students that will take their education they receive and then make a truckload of money, so they can give it back to the school. if a class consisted entirely of mediocre students with rich parents, the school might make more money in tuition fees, but alumni donations would fall to a much lower level. but even then, most ivy league schools will be happy to admit a mediocre "4.0" student if their parents are willing to donate a couple mil...
well, if you think that canada's population density is greater than that of the US, no matter how you measure it, you're ridicilously wrong.
it's pretty funny actually... i came to finland for the christmas break to visit my parents, and ordered a Dell P4 2.0GHz system. sure enough, before i could complete the order, i had to fill out a survey stating that the computer wouldn't be used for anything related to nuclear/biologicial/mass destruction weapons.
1) Lower population density. yes. exactly. the reason canada is doing so well in these aspects is its extremely high population density.
so what do they manufacture at all those US fabs? nuclear weapons?
microsoft already has that patented too. a Lill Late is when they ship their new operating systems.
exactly how is cash more traceable than bartering? you'd think if i used cattle from my farm rather than cash, there'd be more dna evidence in my barn linking that cow back to me than there is on that 5 dollar bill. what's your reasoning?
actually, the "standards" are rather loosely defined. the 525 scanlines per frame are divided into two fields, 263 and 262 lines each. typically, the first field has 20 blanking lines, resulting in 243 active lines, while the second field has 19 blanking lines, resulting in another 243 active lines, for a total vertical resolution of 486 lines per frame. however, the blanking regions are sometimes extended (don't ask me why) to reduce the vertical resolution to 480. when ntsc is digitized, this is the resolution usually captured to avoid capturing blanking. i'd link to the BT.656 spec, but i can't find it, or anything remotely close to it anywhere on the web.
hmmmm... applying murphy's law... all dvd burners will spontaneously combust, releasing poisonous gases that will instantaneously choke the world's entire population... what does that have to do with macs?
Notice the dateline is "City of Mexico." I imagine President Bush lives in the "House of White."
nothing wrong with saying "The City of New York"... it's certainly not comparable to saying the "House of White". why is Mexico City so different?
10^9 is 1 billion, yes, but that's 1e9. 10e9 is 10 x 10^9 or 10 x 1e9. punch it into your calculator, you'll see. let that be your math lesson for today, mister anonymous coward.
100 billions (that's 10e9) US dollars
last time i checked, 10e9 was 10 billion. (10e9 = 10 x 10^9 = 10,000,000,000). and people trust their hundreds of billions to your software? where are you stashing all this money? i want in on it!!!!!
The only thing that I think would be better would be if I could download everything (say pay 50 for a season and download eps after they are aired). you can already do that. it's just that the $50 is optional. (it's called kazaa)
I say, DUI is a hell of a lot more important.
i totally agree. the amount of DUI that goes on in america is ridiculous. and the 0.1% limit that exists in most states is ridiculous as well, resulting in a lot of "legal DUI". but thats a whole other topic. there's simply too many deaths caused by both firearms and DUI in america.
freedom loving socialists... what a concept
And just think how globally opposed everyone would be to having these required in every car.
actually, the only reason (other than the very extremely rare emergency situation, which you claimed dont really exist) why anyone should oppose such a technology in cars is cost. but if it were a requirement, the costs wouldnt be all that ridiculous. would there really be much opposition to such a law? i doubt it. it would be nice never to worry about my car being stolen. and it would get rid of all the 12 year old joyriders who just learned how to steal a car on the streets (not that they're all that common, but they are extremely dangerous).
hahaha. why hasnt the parent been modded funny?
"Has it revolutionized the world? I've never used a cell phone in my life and have no intention of ever buying one. There are pay-phones on almost every corner everywhere in the world."
Have you ever called a cell phone? I bet you have, unless you really do have no friends. That means you've used one. It doesn't matter who's holding the cell phone, if its transmitting your conversation, you're using it.