Nothing eh? No police or fire protection? No water or electricity? No libraries? No defense or disaster services? Airports? Railroads? Nominally representative government? (Well, nothing is perfect.)
Fine and good. Now, let's look at outcomes before we get all wound up about it. The DaVinci experience should lead one to perhaps hit the pause button. Hundreds of these nice, expensive machines were sold. At least in the US, Medicare allows an additional payment for robotic surgery (wonder why?). Yes, DaVinci is supposed to be tracking outcomes and costs but it has been very, very slow at publishing them. The earlier studies didn't show much of an improvement.
There are lots of shiny new tech inventions in medicine that seem cool, ground breaking even and turn out to be not terribly useful.
It may well turn out for the better, but it is anything but clear that this is the case. And you wonder why medical costs are what they are.
Thank you. This points out the problem with PR releases (and Slashdot 'editors' and the entire 'journalism' echo chamber. TFA will get picked up by Reuters, Google, Yahoo (well, that was last year) and Bingo. It will filter to thousands of blog sites, get picked up by the search engines again and echo back and forth. Pretty soon somebody is going to actually believe it.
It's only 'gold standard' if your standard is that you need more gold. Yes, it's becoming more common. Yes, it is quite a bit more expensive. No, it is not at all clear that it is any better. USA! USA! USA!
"August 4, 1997, and it began to learn at a geometric rate. At 2:14 a.m., EDT, on August 29, it gained artificial consciousness, and the panicking operators, realizing the full extent of its capabilities, tried to deactivate it."
Yeah, well, the movie was a bit ahead of its time.....
Since the advent and maturation of the virtual machine, the base OS ju7st has not mattered. You can change OS as easily as drinking a coke - unless you are using the MS hypervisor Hyper V. What will keep MS in the running is Adobe products. There are no near Linux/OSX/Chrome equivalents. Eventually Adobe will port to Linux; but the market is not there yet.
As far as MS cutting employees, one question that intrudes on my mind is how many of those soon to be dismissed employees are H-1B's. I put my money on none/zero/zilch. This becomes important because every year MS is screaming for more H-1B's; yet in this round of cut employees there are up to 700 qualified employees.
What? Where are you?
The lovely and always happy-to-phone-home 'Creative Suite' runs just as poorly on OS X as it does on Windows.
Further, you might be surprised about all of the high end creative software that runs on Linux. Interestingly, that stuff is so high end that if you have to ask the price, you can't afford it.
You're talking about 'Excedrin'. Which, classically, has been a mix of aspirin and caffeine. Seemed to help with migraine headaches. Then they added acetaminophen.
Of course, if you're Canadian you can wander into 2-2-2's (aspirin, caffeine and codeine. Oh, Canada.
Ha. To fooey with your own roasting! I hand forge axes from native iron filings patiently gathered by local native tribesman from old railroad ties. I use the axe to cut down first growth Yellow Cedar, strip the bark to make kindling, split the wood (I do use a match, gotta account for modern technology somehow), roast the beans on hot granite rocks and grind them with river stones.
I did go out to WalMart to get a French Press because the natives around here just had to interact with Russians and they were more into vodka than coffee.....
The stuff is just wonderful. Except I'm too sore and tired to do anything else.
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Nothing eh? No police or fire protection? No water or electricity? No libraries? No defense or disaster services? Airports? Railroads? Nominally representative government? (Well, nothing is perfect.)
Sucks to be you, I suppose.
If you need 5 cubic feet of batteries and drugs on your flight ... well, I sure hope to hell you are having a good time.
Fine and good. Now, let's look at outcomes before we get all wound up about it. The DaVinci experience should lead one to perhaps hit the pause button. Hundreds of these nice, expensive machines were sold. At least in the US, Medicare allows an additional payment for robotic surgery (wonder why?). Yes, DaVinci is supposed to be tracking outcomes and costs but it has been very, very slow at publishing them. The earlier studies didn't show much of an improvement.
There are lots of shiny new tech inventions in medicine that seem cool, ground breaking even and turn out to be not terribly useful.
It may well turn out for the better, but it is anything but clear that this is the case. And you wonder why medical costs are what they are.
Thank you. This points out the problem with PR releases (and Slashdot 'editors' and the entire 'journalism' echo chamber. TFA will get picked up by Reuters, Google, Yahoo (well, that was last year) and Bingo. It will filter to thousands of blog sites, get picked up by the search engines again and echo back and forth. Pretty soon somebody is going to actually believe it.
Thank His (Her?) Noodliness we have Slashdot!
It's only 'gold standard' if your standard is that you need more gold. Yes, it's becoming more common. Yes, it is quite a bit more expensive. No, it is not at all clear that it is any better. USA! USA! USA!
It doesn't work as well as old fashioned prostate surgery. (Yes, it's from 2009, hasn't changed that much.)
"August 4, 1997, and it began to learn at a geometric rate. At 2:14 a.m., EDT, on August 29, it gained artificial consciousness, and the panicking operators, realizing the full extent of its capabilities, tried to deactivate it."
Yeah, well, the movie was a bit ahead of its time.....
No, we did.
So, these Darwin Award candidates are going to go into smart mode just by giving the system a different name?
Stupid always wins.
There is competition. We won.
That's what they want you to believe.
The point is that squirrels (and similar furry or feathery threats) have caused demonstrable damage.
But, as far as infrastructure is concerned, terrorists have yet to rise to the level of the local rodent and bird population.
Allay thy fears. Quail not.
You must be new here.
"CyberBackhoe" or "CyberDrunk" just doesn't resonate like "CyberSquirrel".
Cute, furry rodents trump fat white guys any day.
Since the advent and maturation of the virtual machine, the base OS ju7st has not mattered. You can change OS as easily as drinking a coke - unless you are using the MS hypervisor Hyper V. What will keep MS in the running is Adobe products. There are no near Linux/OSX/Chrome equivalents. Eventually Adobe will port to Linux; but the market is not there yet.
As far as MS cutting employees, one question that intrudes on my mind is how many of those soon to be dismissed employees are H-1B's. I put my money on none/zero/zilch. This becomes important because every year MS is screaming for more H-1B's; yet in this round of cut employees there are up to 700 qualified employees.
What? Where are you?
The lovely and always happy-to-phone-home 'Creative Suite' runs just as poorly on OS X as it does on Windows.
Further, you might be surprised about all of the high end creative software that runs on Linux. Interestingly, that stuff is so high end that if you have to ask the price, you can't afford it.
Jeez Editors. Next - Kim (or whatever) Kardishan breaks a fingernail (which had an open web browser).
Come on, you really can do better. Even with just flat out troll / clickbait headlines you can do better. We can help you make some up!
Beware, beware the angry AC.
And it helps if you aren't trying to purify bomb-grade uranium.
Goddamnit. Slashdot, just when are you going to enter the wonderful world of editing.....
small, furry rodent redux.
Hah. Your puny wires, locks, boxes and security consultants are total fail.
Forget cockroaches, Donald Trump and Madonna.
It's small, furry rodents. All the way down. And Bob, you really should know about this.
The telephone, fax machine and the neat little gizmo that prints those plastic name tags.
Thems are long words. 'Artificial Intelligence' is easier to pronounce.
Yeah, aspirin's tendency to make people bleed easier is often considered a problem by the military.
You're talking about 'Excedrin'. Which, classically, has been a mix of aspirin and caffeine. Seemed to help with migraine headaches. Then they added acetaminophen.
Of course, if you're Canadian you can wander into 2-2-2's (aspirin, caffeine and codeine. Oh, Canada.
No problemo. Except for the 'moderation' part, I'm there.
Ha. To fooey with your own roasting! I hand forge axes from native iron filings patiently gathered by local native tribesman from old railroad ties. I use the axe to cut down first growth Yellow Cedar, strip the bark to make kindling, split the wood (I do use a match, gotta account for modern technology somehow), roast the beans on hot granite rocks and grind them with river stones.
I did go out to WalMart to get a French Press because the natives around here just had to interact with Russians and they were more into vodka than coffee.....
The stuff is just wonderful. Except I'm too sore and tired to do anything else.
They buy them from Amazon.