They have caught on in niche markets. Last two times I went for surgery at a relatively brand new place all the nurses had tablets. Those 100 forms you had to fill out authorizing surgery were all digital. You could read through them and sign at the bottom.
All the XRay machines at their office are digital. Everything gets dumped into a central server. When I went into the consult rooms the doctors walked in with tablets and reviewed the xrays right there, no more having to hand off the big negatives.
Doctors wrote prescriptions on the pad and they printed off out front.
But as others have pointed out, I wouldn't have wanted to post this note on slashdot using a stylus.
I'm guessing you have a newer diesel? My 98 (and all years previous) have the "big" nozzle. It usually foams more. But if you get a good one (and I have mine near my house) you can do a 15 gallon fillup in under a minute:)
I just rolled 215k on my TDI. Burns about 1qt every 10k and everything else looks within factory spec.
215k. I have American automakers trying to convince me that 100k is a 'high mileage engine'. There are boatloads of TDI owners (in the US) that are rolling 300k+. A friend of mine has a 91 that he bought off of the trailer new that has 430k on it and has everything in the drive train OEM.
Then again I'm not most Americans and keeping a car for that long is just plain stupid to them. Gotta have the latest bling.
No. I don't. No more than I have to "look" for a station that takes credit cards or has "midgrade" fuel. If you can't find a station with diesel you shouldn't be driving. Every 'neighborhood' station around here carries it.
And no, the higher cost doesn't make up for the mileage. (They don't cancel out). My identical make and model of car gets 30 MPG. Say I get 50 MPG. To 'break even' diesel would have to cost 5/3 as much as gasoline, but it doesn't.
Um. Tell that to TDI owners and semi trucks. I have never run into a problem finding diesel in the US. If there is shit 'there'. It was brought there by a Semi. If it was brought by a Semi, there's diesel available.
A 'compact' car should be getting 60+ MPG. Before this 1998 I had a 1986 (yes. 1986). It got 48-50 MPG without a problem. This was back when diesel and gas were $1.00/gallon. I could drive that thing 4 hours to college and back again on a single tank.
And "making a come back" you mean "Americans pulled their head out of their asses and noticed other technology". Diesel never went away.
I deal with this shit every day. "Oh that's not my job. Get the pipe fitter." I deal with test cells running engines. Mechanics can't touch pipe fitters stuff and vice versa. Test cell operators can't touch anything. As an engineer I can't touch a single thing either.
This is how a Unionized IT would go: You start your first day at your new job. You call to get a computer. "Sorry, I can't actually deliver your computer. We need the IT movers to move it to your desk." It's moved to your desk. But you, nor the movers can't plug it in (see parent). So you wait 30 more minutes for the Plugger Inner Union. (It was lunch, by the clock 11:30-12:00, no exceptions.)
So you have your fancy new computer. You turn it on. You need Office. Sorry, but the Office Installer Union is actually backed up. The Matlab Installer Union could do it, but they're not "officially trained" nor do they have the certification.
You wait another day to get Office... you're up and running. Then your NIC craps out. You call the help desk union and they send the NIC repair union. NIC repair union says that it's a software problem. Windows XP Software union rep says it's hardware.
Cycle repeats for 2 days. You say "fuck it". So you fix it yourself. A NIC rep sees you do this and writes a grievance against you. He now gets paid to do the install even though he did nothing. Your boss bitches at you not to touch anything because too many grievances and you're in trouble.
So where do the gray hat ethics come into play with fixing these? I'm tired of spam. I've seen a huge spike recently, if I could figure out how to deliver a playload to these computers that would 'fix' them I'd do it in a second.
I can't imagine that there aren't more people out there with the know how that are annoyed by this.
And when you've learned that, write php to write your javascript for you. The similarities in the languages will drive you mad;).
I only use this for AJAX using prototype. Prototype will 'eval' any returned data if you tell it to (or its doctype is javascript). That means you can call "login.php" and have it return a javascript, which can update your page. Fun stuff.
When in the fuck did the Universal Serial Bus become a platform for charging batteries? It's only a wimpy +5V and not all hubs supply the max current called out in the specification.
Because 16 is that much different? What do you think professional weightlifting does to the bodies of its participants? Should we argue that Mary Lou Retton should have her gold stripped because what she did to her ankle could have prematurely destroyed the rest of her life?
The GP made a very good point, the Chinese are just breaking that 35 MPH speed limit that's put in the middle of no where.
When you build something up to the point where you are defending your country's "honor" there will be cheating. If there was an international math test, there would be cheating of some sort by someone. Risk is high, but so is the reward.
A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.
Matlab Integration in Excel. CANApe integration in Excel. Full VBA compatibility. COM interface so I can write stuff that uses Excel or Powerpoint.
Pivot Tables. - And if you want something that doesn't have an equal, CANApe and Matlab. There isn't an open source version of either that comes close to touching what either one can do.
There was a security guard yelling at people at 1 Wall Street when I visited NYC 2 weeks ago. If people took pictures he'd walk across the street "No pictures" and then harass them into leaving.
If my aunts would have walked slower I would have pushed the "Public place" policy. Hell If you were shooting down the street at the church you'd get a good portion of the building in the shot. Not to mention it's up in google street views (What idiot decided shooting street views at night was a good idea).
If he's only a security guard as soon as he leaves that buildings property he's "out of his jurisdiction"
What about Shark Skin? It was about which company had the best coefficient of drag through water. There were numerous world records broken at Sydney because of Shark Skin.
And steroids aren't the only 'performance enhancing' things you can do. What about the biathlon, I've heard reports of people undergoing LASIK for no good reason other than they wanted better vision.
Although they have gone overboard when they stripped the gold medal from the Canadian when he tested positive for Pot. Seriously, Pot as a performance enhancing drug?
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They have caught on in niche markets. Last two times I went for surgery at a relatively brand new place all the nurses had tablets. Those 100 forms you had to fill out authorizing surgery were all digital. You could read through them and sign at the bottom.
All the XRay machines at their office are digital. Everything gets dumped into a central server. When I went into the consult rooms the doctors walked in with tablets and reviewed the xrays right there, no more having to hand off the big negatives.
Doctors wrote prescriptions on the pad and they printed off out front.
But as others have pointed out, I wouldn't have wanted to post this note on slashdot using a stylus.
I like techno. I've found it sets a pace for my typing. Thankfully I've never started typing the words.
The system. Is down.
The system. Is down.
Ever heard of Kit Cars?
It's been done for years. Sandrails (dune buggies), hot rods (some very custom ones are more or less ground up built).
I'm guessing you have a newer diesel? My 98 (and all years previous) have the "big" nozzle. It usually foams more. But if you get a good one (and I have mine near my house) you can do a 15 gallon fillup in under a minute :)
I just rolled 215k on my TDI. Burns about 1qt every 10k and everything else looks within factory spec.
215k. I have American automakers trying to convince me that 100k is a 'high mileage engine'. There are boatloads of TDI owners (in the US) that are rolling 300k+. A friend of mine has a 91 that he bought off of the trailer new that has 430k on it and has everything in the drive train OEM.
Then again I'm not most Americans and keeping a car for that long is just plain stupid to them. Gotta have the latest bling.
No. I don't. No more than I have to "look" for a station that takes credit cards or has "midgrade" fuel. If you can't find a station with diesel you shouldn't be driving. Every 'neighborhood' station around here carries it.
And no, the higher cost doesn't make up for the mileage. (They don't cancel out). My identical make and model of car gets 30 MPG. Say I get 50 MPG. To 'break even' diesel would have to cost 5/3 as much as gasoline, but it doesn't.
Um. Tell that to TDI owners and semi trucks. I have never run into a problem finding diesel in the US. If there is shit 'there'. It was brought there by a Semi. If it was brought by a Semi, there's diesel available.
34 MPG? I got 39 MPG out of a 5 seater with a car load full of stuff from my parents house. ...
TOWING a trailer full of stuff.
http://vw.exstatic.org/pictures/39MPG/080827-191907.jpg
A 'compact' car should be getting 60+ MPG. Before this 1998 I had a 1986 (yes. 1986). It got 48-50 MPG without a problem. This was back when diesel and gas were $1.00/gallon. I could drive that thing 4 hours to college and back again on a single tank.
And "making a come back" you mean "Americans pulled their head out of their asses and noticed other technology". Diesel never went away.
I deal with this shit every day. "Oh that's not my job. Get the pipe fitter." I deal with test cells running engines. Mechanics can't touch pipe fitters stuff and vice versa. Test cell operators can't touch anything. As an engineer I can't touch a single thing either.
This is how a Unionized IT would go:
You start your first day at your new job. You call to get a computer.
"Sorry, I can't actually deliver your computer. We need the IT movers to move it to your desk."
It's moved to your desk. But you, nor the movers can't plug it in (see parent). So you wait 30 more minutes for the Plugger Inner Union. (It was lunch, by the clock 11:30-12:00, no exceptions.)
So you have your fancy new computer. You turn it on. You need Office. Sorry, but the Office Installer Union is actually backed up. The Matlab Installer Union could do it, but they're not "officially trained" nor do they have the certification.
You wait another day to get Office... you're up and running. Then your NIC craps out. You call the help desk union and they send the NIC repair union. NIC repair union says that it's a software problem. Windows XP Software union rep says it's hardware.
Cycle repeats for 2 days. You say "fuck it". So you fix it yourself. A NIC rep sees you do this and writes a grievance against you. He now gets paid to do the install even though he did nothing. Your boss bitches at you not to touch anything because too many grievances and you're in trouble.
So where do the gray hat ethics come into play with fixing these? I'm tired of spam. I've seen a huge spike recently, if I could figure out how to deliver a playload to these computers that would 'fix' them I'd do it in a second.
I can't imagine that there aren't more people out there with the know how that are annoyed by this.
And when you've learned that, write php to write your javascript for you. The similarities in the languages will drive you mad ;).
I only use this for AJAX using prototype. Prototype will 'eval' any returned data if you tell it to (or its doctype is javascript). That means you can call "login.php" and have it return a javascript, which can update your page. Fun stuff.
When in the fuck did the Universal Serial Bus become a platform for charging batteries? It's only a wimpy +5V and not all hubs supply the max current called out in the specification.
Why not force them to a Charger Standard?
Just some quick back of a fag packet calculation
Please don't tell us what you used as a writing utensil.
Never played an MMO, ever. So I may be talking out of my ass here...
Why not turn players against each other rather than use NPCs?
"Take this city" is the objective given to one player.
"Devend this city" is given to another small group.
Or if the city is taken "So and so has taken the city, go destroy them" players(rand()).
Because 16 is that much different? What do you think professional weightlifting does to the bodies of its participants? Should we argue that Mary Lou Retton should have her gold stripped because what she did to her ankle could have prematurely destroyed the rest of her life?
The GP made a very good point, the Chinese are just breaking that 35 MPH speed limit that's put in the middle of no where.
When you build something up to the point where you are defending your country's "honor" there will be cheating. If there was an international math test, there would be cheating of some sort by someone. Risk is high, but so is the reward.
A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.
Ok, what about the other 99.5% of what matlab is capable of?
Matlab Integration in Excel.
CANApe integration in Excel.
Full VBA compatibility.
COM interface so I can write stuff that uses Excel or Powerpoint.
Pivot Tables.
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And if you want something that doesn't have an equal, CANApe and Matlab. There isn't an open source version of either that comes close to touching what either one can do.
I can't stand these systems. I said TomAto. It said ToMato. Then I went and tried to get some PotAtos. It said poTato.
Then I just called the whole transaction off.
I've seen a huge increase in both spam and particularly spam that makes it past my spam filter.
Most of it in Russian too. Quite a bit of it is also "News" from CNN or MSNBC about the US leaving the Olympics or some other hot news topic.
And people wonder why I'm moving to IM or Facebook (or other site I'm on) messages more. This is just damn annoying.
There was a security guard yelling at people at 1 Wall Street when I visited NYC 2 weeks ago. If people took pictures he'd walk across the street "No pictures" and then harass them into leaving.
If my aunts would have walked slower I would have pushed the "Public place" policy. Hell If you were shooting down the street at the church you'd get a good portion of the building in the shot. Not to mention it's up in google street views (What idiot decided shooting street views at night was a good idea).
If he's only a security guard as soon as he leaves that buildings property he's "out of his jurisdiction"
Republicans do it for Jeebus, Democrats do it for the Children.
The Sunrise is known for having achieved 375 miles on a single charge, during the 1996 American Tour de Sol
So under ideal test conditions. Toss it in Michigan in the winter, that'll drop to 100.
My TDI has up to an 800 mile range depending on how much I baby it.
What about Shark Skin? It was about which company had the best coefficient of drag through water. There were numerous world records broken at Sydney because of Shark Skin.
And steroids aren't the only 'performance enhancing' things you can do. What about the biathlon, I've heard reports of people undergoing LASIK for no good reason other than they wanted better vision.
Although they have gone overboard when they stripped the gold medal from the Canadian when he tested positive for Pot. Seriously, Pot as a performance enhancing drug?
GPS. Microsoft Street and Trips is one of the very few Windows programs I run on my MacBookPro.