He could have just as easily caused his wife her sight by finding doctors that weren't as good as the originals and the originals having the right course of treatment.
Doctors practice medicine. Notice the words I used, PRACTICE medicine. They ALL get it wrong, A LOT.
Don't think for a second that this guy saved the day with his skill alone, he got lucky.
Neither the summary nor the article gives enough detail to make a medical decision and a 3d object printed isn't immensely more useful for diagnoses than the MRI/CT which they can manipulate on the computer like any other 3d model.
One of the things that causes problems for medical advancement in areas like this is that doctors are liars. ALL of them. Put the same MRI or CT scan of a 100% perfectly healthy individual in front of 100 different doctors and they will ALL diagnose something different but still wrong with the scan. Companies trying to do things like have machine learning decode/analyze and find problems on scans are essentially screwed because they get no help from living doctors who don't want to say 'I don't see anything on this scan' so no progress can be made as far as machine learning since no one else will accept anything from a study like that. God forbid someone call the fucking doctors out on their bullshit.
Okay so not ALL doctors at that way, just 99.999% of them, and I say this as the husband of a doctor with friends who work for companies trying to build the automation I mentioned. Again, he didn't show how awesome he was and better than the doctor, he simply found a different set of doctors who were willing to cut his wife open versus the other ones weren't. The rest was dumb luck.
If there's one thing that distinguishes humans from other animals, it's our ability to use language.
Hate to break it to you, but humans aren't the only ones who know and use language. We're not really that distinguishable from many animals if thats your deciding factor. Dolphins, Whales, Octopus... they all probably would like to have a word with you.
Tesla can sell in all 50 states directly should they accept that they must sale to dealers rather than direct. It's not even hard, there would certainly be dealers that would love to do so.
Tesla wants to be like Apple though. They want to control the experience and price completely, and are unwilling to sacrifice that in order to sell in more locations.
And let's be realistic, anyone willing to buy a Tesla today is willing to deal with the hassle of not having a local/in state dealer. It's not like they aren't backordered for years. Tesla loses nothing by holding out in this case.
"ignore the production costs" - what exactly do you think you're paying for when you buy renewables equipment ?
Items that had their sales cost lowered by subsudies.
"ignore the environmental cost of the equipment" - the energy paybacks on all renewables techs are now very low.
Only because you ignore the environmental impact you shipped off to some poor nation.
In the long run, renewable is pretty much our ONLY choice, but lets not be fucking retarded and pretend they are the only choice for the immediate future. Theres a big picture to look at, not just your own agenda on how you want things to be.
Nuclear IS the right thing to use NOW. Solar and Wind hopefully in the near future, when we are more proficient with them. The physical foot print of these methods are currently untenable. Its not that they are eye sores, its that they will change their environment DRASTICALLY when implemented, so we have to implement them in a well thought out and efficient manner, engineering our climate by using their installation for more than JUST energy production.
The only real problem nuclear has is paranoid nut jobs acting like the world comes to an end over a minor incident. Fukushima WAS A MINOR ACCIDENT with practically ZERO consequence, regardless of how bad you want to blow it out of proportion. There has been more radiation spread from the energy (generated from coal) used to power the Internet based discussion about it than Fukushima itself released, its fucking ridiculous to treat it any differently. Yet you are.
Fukushima was a cluster fuck of preventable accidents and heads should roll for what happened when the plant survived the actual disaster only to succumbed to being unprepared for something that could have happened even WITHOUT a tsunami. We should bust our asses to ensure those faults do not happen again, but we should not run off on some ignorant tangent about using some other inferior (today) energy production method because people are afraid due to ignorance.
Nuclear can be MUCH safer, but retarded fear won't let anyone replace plants that are of known inferior designs with once that mitigate the problems passively. Everytime we see something like this happen, its to a plant that we should have decommission or in this case WAS about to be decommissioned in favor of a newer design.
You mention the very solution to the problem, then go off to stick your head in the sand out of fear that you don't understand it. You're going to have to deal with it eventually, how many disasters is it going to take before you finally realize that hiding from something you have to learn is the right idea?
Apart from Apple fanboys, I don't think anybody is stupid enough to buy a new device just to get a software upgrade.
Then you are in denial, naive or just plain stupid. I work at a phone company that also happens to sell mobile phones, I assure you, plenty of people say they would buy a new phone just for a new version of the OS.
The real question is WHY SHOULD I UPGRADE to the next version. Apple spews new features all over in press info and even TV commercials. You don't have to go looking for it, they tell you.
Android on the other hand uses silly code names so it takes normal (i.e. non-fanboys) a long time before they even know WTF lollipop is, and the real kicker is... unless you go digging, no one anywhere has given any reason WHY you would want to bother upgrading. The people rushing to upgrade to lollipop are the same ones that run beta OS releases, and thats why it has an non-existent user base. No one else cares.
but that is presented to the buyer at closing to sign in a 3 inch stack of paper with hundreds of "initial here" and "Sign here" stickers and who has time to actually understand all that mess?
The most expensive and important purchase in your life... and you sign your name without bothering to read it? Seriously?
... I buy arduino stuff from RadioShack all the time, they stock a variety of shields and arduino units. Generally handy when I burn up a board and don't want to wait for a mail order replacement.
A far amount of generic basic components as well. Of course they never have the power FETs or triacs I want, but not that many people are trying to build custom ECUs or high powered light controllers either
I don't think even 'audiophiles' that think they can tell the difference between 128kbs and 320kbs MP3s on their PC speaker are that stupid... their are already phones with 'premium' sound that do everything this does.
Hell, it probably runs android too, meaning its EXACTLY like the premium phones... except without the phone part.
Oh and they can't subsidize it on your phone contract either.
Let me guess, you don't do anything related to research in space, which explains why you don't see or understand the benefit of having a person in space versus a machine.
Reality: IF our species wants a chance at long term survival, we MUST leave this rock. Its not optional, its required.
The ISS is more about learning to live in space than anything else. You can't learn to live in space if a robot is doing it for you. The research done on ISS is secondary, and still much of it can not be easily done by current generations of automation, yet SOME of it done by humans leads to more advanced automation. You want to put the cart before the horse.
And for reference, we do put autonomous systems in orbit, we do build radio telescopes, we are working on plans to put them in space, we do send many probes to other planets and moons, do you just not pay attention or do you ignore all these things just because you're upset that you didn't get a large enough budget?
I have a 360 and a One, and I've long wanted to just "fool around" with developing apps for them, to see how difficult it is. This will potentially make that a possibility on the One at least.
Its no more difficult than learning to develop in a compiled language for any other system.
Well a). You won't stop doing stuff even if you don't use taxis, but nice threat on slash dot, I'm sure everyone here cares.
B) did I mention that no one cares or will notice when you stop?
Your just going to stay home? Walk? Drive? What did you do before uber? The world hasn't changed irrevocably because you've used uber the last couple of years... Has it?
You assume wrong. glibc is pretty poorly optimized in reality for most things. It works on god knows how many systems and is generally consistent, but optimization is not its strong point.
If speed is your concern and you have a choice between Linux with glibc and commercial OS, you pick the commercial OS and its libraries almost every time. I can't actually think of a case where this doesn't apply.
It could be a lot worse, but its certainly not as fast as it could be just about any where. I'm fairly certain that the point is not raw speed though.
Its one thing when proprietary offers you some benefit, but when it comes to IM, using anything other than XMPP from someone who supports federation is just as retarded as using email from someone who doesn't do proper SMTP.
The data is corrected and adjusted, not fudged. The methods have been disclosed.
For most people in the world, and pretty much anyone who isn't drinking the cool-aid, that means fudged. You can pretend its not, but outside of people who care more about believing they are right than actually being right, we're still going to call it fudged.
Fudging or more commonly called massaging data to represent more accurate results is common and many times is useful, BUT ITS STILL FUDGING THE DATA.
I'm for using solar power because its effectively renewable, so don't think I'm trying to be anti-solar... but...
Don't talk about solar like its a pollution solution. The pollution from solar doesn't pollute the environment and generate AS MUCH greenhouse gas, but the process of creating solar panels is ridiculously dirty and the panels themselves aren't exactly bio-degradable or easy to recycle.
Lets not pretend that solar is a 100% solution. Carpet the planet with the amount of solar cells required for our energy budget and you've probably done more damage than current greenhouse emissions for close to the life of the panels.
What city do you live in where its acceptable to go 2 months without city provided services? Do you live in some third world country or something? No city thats is going to have fiber is going to behave like that for critical infrastructure.
Heres the reality: The important things get fixed quickly, regardless of how shitty you think you city performs. Your phone gets repaired quickly now not because the phone company wants to, but because they are legally REQUIRED TO... BECAUSE of the way they are classified. Same goes for power and water. Guess who requires them too... DA EBIL GUBMENT.
Some things aren't important so going extended periods without fixing them is intelligent management of resources. Sorry the pothole that pisses you off didn't get filled quick enough or the street light that went out takes a while to get repaired, but critical services just don't work that way in any city in America. Villages, maybe. Towns... not likely. Cities, no fucking way.
Whats with it is your lack of understand of the term. It has nothing to do with actually robbing people directly, though you could easily argue that the term applies to both PayPal and depending on how far you wanted to stretch it, the Virgin group.
VG won't be doing anything special, (although even a private sub-orbital system is new; nothing like SS2 exists. X-15 with passengers and open space.)
But Musk already has the cheapest launcher on the market (perhaps ignoring a few micro-launchers), is about to develop fly-back first stage (something the industry has been wishing for since the early sixties), and is developing a private manned capsule, and is developing a heavy lift launcher that costs less than any other medium-lift launcher on the market even if they doesn't achieve reusability, and he's working with NASA to develop a Saturn V F1-class engine for a Saturn V class launcher, and he wants to go to Mars.
Not breaking new ground? What the fuck does this idiot want from them, a warp drive?
While I agree with most of you post, these parts are just wrong.
There is nothing new about anything they've done so far. They are simply taking advantage of more modern technology to do things that have already been done more efficiently, to the point that some of them are viable without being funded by the government. NASA has done all of these things in one form or another, it just cost far too much to be commercially viable. Hell, other civilians have been carried to the ISS by Russia so VG is WAY behind the curve. NASA had self landing rockets in the 60s - They were ridiculously expensive and unreliable, but occasionally they worked, they just didn't have the advantage of the fact that $100 worth of electronics can act as a fully functional guided autopilot (See: MegaPilot at HobbyKing, a rip off of the original 3DR auto pilot).
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A good start.
Its just you.
He could have just as easily caused his wife her sight by finding doctors that weren't as good as the originals and the originals having the right course of treatment.
Doctors practice medicine. Notice the words I used, PRACTICE medicine. They ALL get it wrong, A LOT.
Don't think for a second that this guy saved the day with his skill alone, he got lucky.
Neither the summary nor the article gives enough detail to make a medical decision and a 3d object printed isn't immensely more useful for diagnoses than the MRI/CT which they can manipulate on the computer like any other 3d model.
One of the things that causes problems for medical advancement in areas like this is that doctors are liars. ALL of them. Put the same MRI or CT scan of a 100% perfectly healthy individual in front of 100 different doctors and they will ALL diagnose something different but still wrong with the scan. Companies trying to do things like have machine learning decode/analyze and find problems on scans are essentially screwed because they get no help from living doctors who don't want to say 'I don't see anything on this scan' so no progress can be made as far as machine learning since no one else will accept anything from a study like that. God forbid someone call the fucking doctors out on their bullshit.
Okay so not ALL doctors at that way, just 99.999% of them, and I say this as the husband of a doctor with friends who work for companies trying to build the automation I mentioned. Again, he didn't show how awesome he was and better than the doctor, he simply found a different set of doctors who were willing to cut his wife open versus the other ones weren't. The rest was dumb luck.
If there's one thing that distinguishes humans from other animals, it's our ability to use language.
Hate to break it to you, but humans aren't the only ones who know and use language. We're not really that distinguishable from many animals if thats your deciding factor. Dolphins, Whales, Octopus ... they all probably would like to have a word with you.
I write this while homeless in Santa Monica, CA
Yet, you can somehow manage to post on slashdot.
Your priorities are puzzling to say the least.
Tesla chooses to not use dealers.
Tesla can sell in all 50 states directly should they accept that they must sale to dealers rather than direct. It's not even hard, there would certainly be dealers that would love to do so.
Tesla wants to be like Apple though. They want to control the experience and price completely, and are unwilling to sacrifice that in order to sell in more locations.
And let's be realistic, anyone willing to buy a Tesla today is willing to deal with the hassle of not having a local/in state dealer. It's not like they aren't backordered for years. Tesla loses nothing by holding out in this case.
"ignore the production costs" - what exactly do you think you're paying for when you buy renewables equipment ?
Items that had their sales cost lowered by subsudies.
"ignore the environmental cost of the equipment" - the energy paybacks on all renewables techs are now very low.
Only because you ignore the environmental impact you shipped off to some poor nation.
In the long run, renewable is pretty much our ONLY choice, but lets not be fucking retarded and pretend they are the only choice for the immediate future. Theres a big picture to look at, not just your own agenda on how you want things to be.
Nuclear IS the right thing to use NOW. Solar and Wind hopefully in the near future, when we are more proficient with them. The physical foot print of these methods are currently untenable. Its not that they are eye sores, its that they will change their environment DRASTICALLY when implemented, so we have to implement them in a well thought out and efficient manner, engineering our climate by using their installation for more than JUST energy production.
The only real problem nuclear has is paranoid nut jobs acting like the world comes to an end over a minor incident. Fukushima WAS A MINOR ACCIDENT with practically ZERO consequence, regardless of how bad you want to blow it out of proportion. There has been more radiation spread from the energy (generated from coal) used to power the Internet based discussion about it than Fukushima itself released, its fucking ridiculous to treat it any differently. Yet you are.
Fukushima was a cluster fuck of preventable accidents and heads should roll for what happened when the plant survived the actual disaster only to succumbed to being unprepared for something that could have happened even WITHOUT a tsunami. We should bust our asses to ensure those faults do not happen again, but we should not run off on some ignorant tangent about using some other inferior (today) energy production method because people are afraid due to ignorance.
Nuclear can be MUCH safer, but retarded fear won't let anyone replace plants that are of known inferior designs with once that mitigate the problems passively. Everytime we see something like this happen, its to a plant that we should have decommission or in this case WAS about to be decommissioned in favor of a newer design.
You mention the very solution to the problem, then go off to stick your head in the sand out of fear that you don't understand it. You're going to have to deal with it eventually, how many disasters is it going to take before you finally realize that hiding from something you have to learn is the right idea?
I'm constantly wanting more space, never do I have free space. Its a constant matter of managing what I don't delete. I guess I'm a data horder.
On that same note ... do I really want someone's kiddie porn on my drive with all the legal issues that go with that? No.
Thats the point. You would have wheels, maybe no gear bay doors, but the wheels will be just fine.
Apart from Apple fanboys, I don't think anybody is stupid enough to buy a new device just to get a software upgrade.
Then you are in denial, naive or just plain stupid. I work at a phone company that also happens to sell mobile phones, I assure you, plenty of people say they would buy a new phone just for a new version of the OS.
The real question is WHY SHOULD I UPGRADE to the next version. Apple spews new features all over in press info and even TV commercials. You don't have to go looking for it, they tell you.
Android on the other hand uses silly code names so it takes normal (i.e. non-fanboys) a long time before they even know WTF lollipop is, and the real kicker is ... unless you go digging, no one anywhere has given any reason WHY you would want to bother upgrading. The people rushing to upgrade to lollipop are the same ones that run beta OS releases, and thats why it has an non-existent user base. No one else cares.
They do.
They make it very clear that streaming video is unacceptable and not allowed.
but that is presented to the buyer at closing to sign in a 3 inch stack of paper with hundreds of "initial here" and "Sign here" stickers and who has time to actually understand all that mess?
The most expensive and important purchase in your life ... and you sign your name without bothering to read it? Seriously?
Dumbass, thats your own fault.
... I buy arduino stuff from RadioShack all the time, they stock a variety of shields and arduino units. Generally handy when I burn up a board and don't want to wait for a mail order replacement.
A far amount of generic basic components as well. Of course they never have the power FETs or triacs I want, but not that many people are trying to build custom ECUs or high powered light controllers either
Just to be clear incase it was missed, yes, I'm aware it runs android, thats meant to be (poor) sarcasm.
I don't think even 'audiophiles' that think they can tell the difference between 128kbs and 320kbs MP3s on their PC speaker are that stupid ... their are already phones with 'premium' sound that do everything this does.
Hell, it probably runs android too, meaning its EXACTLY like the premium phones ... except without the phone part.
Oh and they can't subsidize it on your phone contract either.
Let me guess, you don't do anything related to research in space, which explains why you don't see or understand the benefit of having a person in space versus a machine.
Reality: IF our species wants a chance at long term survival, we MUST leave this rock. Its not optional, its required.
The ISS is more about learning to live in space than anything else. You can't learn to live in space if a robot is doing it for you. The research done on ISS is secondary, and still much of it can not be easily done by current generations of automation, yet SOME of it done by humans leads to more advanced automation. You want to put the cart before the horse.
And for reference, we do put autonomous systems in orbit, we do build radio telescopes, we are working on plans to put them in space, we do send many probes to other planets and moons, do you just not pay attention or do you ignore all these things just because you're upset that you didn't get a large enough budget?
I have a 360 and a One, and I've long wanted to just "fool around" with developing apps for them, to see how difficult it is. This will potentially make that a possibility on the One at least.
Its no more difficult than learning to develop in a compiled language for any other system.
Well a). You won't stop doing stuff even if you don't use taxis, but nice threat on slash dot, I'm sure everyone here cares.
B) did I mention that no one cares or will notice when you stop?
Your just going to stay home? Walk? Drive? What did you do before uber? The world hasn't changed irrevocably because you've used uber the last couple of years ... Has it?
I assume they're already fairly well optimized
You assume wrong. glibc is pretty poorly optimized in reality for most things. It works on god knows how many systems and is generally consistent, but optimization is not its strong point.
If speed is your concern and you have a choice between Linux with glibc and commercial OS, you pick the commercial OS and its libraries almost every time. I can't actually think of a case where this doesn't apply.
It could be a lot worse, but its certainly not as fast as it could be just about any where. I'm fairly certain that the point is not raw speed though.
http://xmpp.org/rfcs/rfc3923.h...
Seriously, stop using proprietary carpware.
Its one thing when proprietary offers you some benefit, but when it comes to IM, using anything other than XMPP from someone who supports federation is just as retarded as using email from someone who doesn't do proper SMTP.
The data is corrected and adjusted, not fudged. The methods have been disclosed.
For most people in the world, and pretty much anyone who isn't drinking the cool-aid, that means fudged. You can pretend its not, but outside of people who care more about believing they are right than actually being right, we're still going to call it fudged.
Fudging or more commonly called massaging data to represent more accurate results is common and many times is useful, BUT ITS STILL FUDGING THE DATA.
I'm for using solar power because its effectively renewable, so don't think I'm trying to be anti-solar ... but ...
Don't talk about solar like its a pollution solution. The pollution from solar doesn't pollute the environment and generate AS MUCH greenhouse gas, but the process of creating solar panels is ridiculously dirty and the panels themselves aren't exactly bio-degradable or easy to recycle.
Lets not pretend that solar is a 100% solution. Carpet the planet with the amount of solar cells required for our energy budget and you've probably done more damage than current greenhouse emissions for close to the life of the panels.
What city do you live in where its acceptable to go 2 months without city provided services? Do you live in some third world country or something? No city thats is going to have fiber is going to behave like that for critical infrastructure.
Heres the reality: The important things get fixed quickly, regardless of how shitty you think you city performs. Your phone gets repaired quickly now not because the phone company wants to, but because they are legally REQUIRED TO ... BECAUSE of the way they are classified. Same goes for power and water. Guess who requires them too ... DA EBIL GUBMENT.
Some things aren't important so going extended periods without fixing them is intelligent management of resources. Sorry the pothole that pisses you off didn't get filled quick enough or the street light that went out takes a while to get repaired, but critical services just don't work that way in any city in America. Villages, maybe. Towns ... not likely. Cities, no fucking way.
Whats with it is your lack of understand of the term. It has nothing to do with actually robbing people directly, though you could easily argue that the term applies to both PayPal and depending on how far you wanted to stretch it, the Virgin group.
VG won't be doing anything special, (although even a private sub-orbital system is new; nothing like SS2 exists. X-15 with passengers and open space.)
But Musk already has the cheapest launcher on the market (perhaps ignoring a few micro-launchers), is about to develop fly-back first stage (something the industry has been wishing for since the early sixties), and is developing a private manned capsule, and is developing a heavy lift launcher that costs less than any other medium-lift launcher on the market even if they doesn't achieve reusability, and he's working with NASA to develop a Saturn V F1-class engine for a Saturn V class launcher, and he wants to go to Mars.
Not breaking new ground? What the fuck does this idiot want from them, a warp drive?
While I agree with most of you post, these parts are just wrong.
There is nothing new about anything they've done so far. They are simply taking advantage of more modern technology to do things that have already been done more efficiently, to the point that some of them are viable without being funded by the government. NASA has done all of these things in one form or another, it just cost far too much to be commercially viable. Hell, other civilians have been carried to the ISS by Russia so VG is WAY behind the curve. NASA had self landing rockets in the 60s - They were ridiculously expensive and unreliable, but occasionally they worked, they just didn't have the advantage of the fact that $100 worth of electronics can act as a fully functional guided autopilot (See: MegaPilot at HobbyKing, a rip off of the original 3DR auto pilot).
but if true it would completely nullify the divine argument.
Opposite of that actually, one or more of those variations would have 'God', since you just said it would have all possible variations.
Now go vanish in a puff of logic.