You typically do either static pressure testing and / or one of several other methods to look at cement integrity. There is a whole industry around this. You can read one of the many articles on the Macando blowout to see how not to do it.
You could certainly do this with iOS - just have a webpage with the fake scanner and the false positives and then an offer to clean it off - from the web, no app to download! What could be simpler?
The health market is almost entirely database-driven: it's all medical records of one sort or another. Patient charts, billing codes, etc: it's just databases. The database end is complex due to absurdly complicated standards, but also because systems have proprietary data stores that don't talk to other systems well. The worst part, though, is the user interfaces: most industries have UI's that don't suck, but health never seemed to get this right. The database engineers have been designing the UI's forever.
There's a brilliant market here for someone with the vision to combine Apple-quality system integration and UI with a narrow focus on the healthcare industry. Whoever does it is going to sell their product for cheaps to a bunch of doctors and become a defacto standard.
You're largely correct but the biggest problem is that even at an Enterprise level, it is a cottage industry. Everyone has different processes. What works well for one system is an absolute disaster in another. Hell, what works on one floor of a hospital doesn't work on another.
Nice astroturf. Too bad it hasn't much to do with TFA, but then again neither does the summary. Which can be be summarized as
How exciting.
(Sarcasm in the TFA)
It's a hyperbolic expansion of a marketing blurb that in essence, means absolutely nothing except to perhaps cement "superphone" as the next idiotic buzzword in this segment.
You think this is even remotely sane (from the AC's link)?
A Chinese secret society with 6 million members, including 1.8 million Asian gangsters and 100,000 professional assassins, have targeted Illuminati members if they proceed with world depopulation plans, according to Tokyo-based journalist Benjamin Fulford, 46.
They contacted Fulford, a Canadian ex pat, after he warned that the Illuminati plan to reduce the Asian population to just 500 million by means of race-specific biological weapons.
"The Illuminati, with the exception of Japan, is very much a white man's game," Fulford says.
More power to you. Great drugs you've got there...
As it takes less fuel to get to space then it does from the usa for satellites and satellites can only hold so much fuel and more fuel they have = more time in space as they need fuel to keep them in there orbit.
tl;dr - The earth spins, the spin imparts energy, you get the most boost from spin at the equator. That's why everybody else's launch pads are in the tropics. Baikonur, the Russian launch site is most useful for Pole to Pole orbits but that's a different topic.
They wanted to show that they tried every option, but they didn't actually want to sell Palm.
It's not that. I'd imagine that all of HP's touchscreen-based printers run WebOS under the hood. If so, then HP is so dependent on WebOS that they can't afford to sell it without requiring the buyer to license it back to HP. This makes any sale problematic from both ends of the deal.
Where did you get that? They've had touchscreen printers way before they bought WebOS. From my limited exposure to them, it appears they run under CP/M..
If we have a better picture of how pre-civilized humans lived, we would probably have a better idea of what's good for us.
Why do you say that? Some mythic "natural man" theme?
Pre civilized (and most post 'civilized') humans generally lived to about 40 - 50 years. Average age in 'civilized' (which I presume to mean industrialized) countries is pushing double that. Despite pollution, radiation, trans fats and Republicans.
Further, TF Abstract only mentioned that there was 'a correlation'. I did not mention the strength of said correlation other than to start mumbling about 'multivariant analysis' which usually means they're trying to find a needle in a statistical haystack.
And I'm not paying $20 to get the article to read the whole thing.
Can't somebody at Netgear find a native English speaker who can write clear, non technical documentation and maybe do it at least once? Or make it simple enough that you don't need documentation (the Apple Approach).
I swear by Apollo, the healer, Asclepius, Hygieia, and Panacea, and I take to witness all the gods, all the goddesses, to keep according to my ability and my judgment, the following Oath and agreement:
While fine by me (they sound as reasonable as the rest of the loonies in Godville) it's hard to take everything the Oath says at face value.
That's correct. But if you are just a couple of clinicians seeking to Do Good and you come up with a test that looks like a product protected by Copyright, then you get Evil Lawyer contacting you with vaguely threatening letters. Then you have to hire your own Evil Lawyer to contest this.
Costs money, takes time.
Granted for something as important as the mini mental status exam (which is used daily by thousands of people) might be able to find an organization willing to go through with the process but it's a real problem for normal folk.
NASA went from the first manned spaceflight to walking on the moon in around seven years. China first flew a manned spaceflight eight years ago; what major breakthroughs have they made in comparison?
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It's a little maudlin - it's hard not to be with this topic - but it does bring up something that most people explicitly don't want to deal with. He points out that the people who do explicitly deal with death and dying tend to do things quite differently than 'normal' people. It isn't a scientific discussion, it's a personal, anecdotal essay.
You're perfectly welcome to muddle through life - it is exactly what we all do. But I thought it was a reasonable essay and one that's been covered many times in the past. It is clearly written as a counterpoint to the "do everything, medicine will solve all our problems" view that is quite prevalent in this world. The big problem is it is damned hard to tell people what to expect especially when they are faced with a fatal illness. It's hard to tell someone how hard chemotherapy would be for that individual. It's hard to know how to balance a few months or years of 'additional' living with the downsides of frequent hospitalizations, invasive procedures, dangerous drugs and additional pain.
At least in the US, overtreatment is a huge issue. Anyone but a trained biostatistician is really not in a position to intellectually tease out how effective treatments for most diseases really are (or in reality, how ineffective). So, when you are unable / unwilling to think a problem through, you emote it. Then it gets complicated.
That is the reason why seatbelts are not optional: they are there so you feel safe and protected enough to perform an emergency stop if you need to, without second-guessing.
Ah, that's why there still are so many accidents - no one has mandated that we drive with full face helmets, four point harnesses and NASCAR-style crash cages.
For instance, in physics labs I've proved a lot of physics to myself, and I "know" that bit of science... Biology, on the other hand, is something I'm not terribly versed in... I'm sure this sounds like a drunk college conversation, sorry. It'd be better but I'm driving and typing...
Not to worry. You're about to witness first hand a classic biologic experiment.
Look, other people get to dream about Newt Gingrich getting the Republican nomination for President. Others fantasize about about Tom Cruise spiriting them away in a DC-9.
What's so wrong with us drooling over the possibility of a $99 touchpad? As these things go, it's pretty harmless.
Not only do I agonize over getting locked into a system, I also would like to limit my fraud liability by limiting who I give my financial information to. There is a very short list of who has my credit card information on file and an even shorter list who has it in an electronic database facing the Internet, and I'll be damned if I'm going to add Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Sony, etc. to that list any time soon.
If you wrap the tin foil tighter, you can get that neat Marty Feldman eyes-bug-out look.
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Can't you just dump salt water in the ocean?
I just love the coastline along eastern Ohio!
Patience, grasshopper.
You typically do either static pressure testing and / or one of several other methods to look at cement integrity. There is a whole industry around this. You can read one of the many articles on the Macando blowout to see how not to do it.
You could certainly do this with iOS - just have a webpage with the fake scanner and the false positives and then an offer to clean it off - from the web, no app to download! What could be simpler?
The health market is almost entirely database-driven: it's all medical records of one sort or another. Patient charts, billing codes, etc: it's just databases. The database end is complex due to absurdly complicated standards, but also because systems have proprietary data stores that don't talk to other systems well. The worst part, though, is the user interfaces: most industries have UI's that don't suck, but health never seemed to get this right. The database engineers have been designing the UI's forever.
There's a brilliant market here for someone with the vision to combine Apple-quality system integration and UI with a narrow focus on the healthcare industry. Whoever does it is going to sell their product for cheaps to a bunch of doctors and become a defacto standard.
You're largely correct but the biggest problem is that even at an Enterprise level, it is a cottage industry. Everyone has different processes. What works well for one system is an absolute disaster in another. Hell, what works on one floor of a hospital doesn't work on another.
It's very frustrating.
Nice to know 2011 isn't over quite yet on Slashdot.
2011? Slashdot isn't even out of the 20th Century yet!
Take that Unicode!
Nice astroturf. Too bad it hasn't much to do with TFA, but then again neither does the summary. Which can be be summarized as
How exciting.
(Sarcasm in the TFA)
It's a hyperbolic expansion of a marketing blurb that in essence, means absolutely nothing except to perhaps cement "superphone" as the next idiotic buzzword in this segment.
God dammit. QUIT CURSING!
You think this is even remotely sane (from the AC's link)?
A Chinese secret society with 6 million members, including 1.8 million Asian gangsters and 100,000 professional assassins, have targeted Illuminati members if they proceed with world depopulation plans, according to Tokyo-based journalist Benjamin Fulford, 46.
They contacted Fulford, a Canadian ex pat, after he warned that the Illuminati plan to reduce the Asian population to just 500 million by means of race-specific biological weapons.
"The Illuminati, with the exception of Japan, is very much a white man's game," Fulford says.
More power to you. Great drugs you've got there...
As it takes less fuel to get to space then it does from the usa for satellites and satellites can only hold so much fuel and more fuel they have = more time in space as they need fuel to keep them in there orbit.
Here, have some physics.
tl;dr - The earth spins, the spin imparts energy, you get the most boost from spin at the equator. That's why everybody else's launch pads are in the tropics. Baikonur, the Russian launch site is most useful for Pole to Pole orbits but that's a different topic.
Slow down dude. Back off on the Red Bull and pick up on a spelling checker.
Oh, and your tin foil hat is on way too tight.
It's not that. I'd imagine that all of HP's touchscreen-based printers run WebOS under the hood. If so, then HP is so dependent on WebOS that they can't afford to sell it without requiring the buyer to license it back to HP. This makes any sale problematic from both ends of the deal.
Where did you get that? They've had touchscreen printers way before they bought WebOS. From my limited exposure to them, it appears they run under CP/M..
Now you've gone and pissed off the HP calculator people. Kiss you karma goodby. I hope they can't track you down IRL.
Yeah, they're gonna chase him around with their wheelchairs.
Christmas and contemplating the scale of the universe always gets me down.
Didn't get that scale model of the Enterprise again?
Maybe next year.
If we have a better picture of how pre-civilized humans lived, we would probably have a better idea of what's good for us.
Why do you say that? Some mythic "natural man" theme?
Pre civilized (and most post 'civilized') humans generally lived to about 40 - 50 years. Average age in 'civilized' (which I presume to mean industrialized) countries is pushing double that. Despite pollution, radiation, trans fats and Republicans.
Further, TF Abstract only mentioned that there was 'a correlation'. I did not mention the strength of said correlation other than to start mumbling about 'multivariant analysis' which usually means they're trying to find a needle in a statistical haystack.
And I'm not paying $20 to get the article to read the whole thing.
McDonald's fries have been trans-fat free for three years.
So in a couple more years, all of the ones that have been frozen in some warehouse for the past decade will finally get used up?
Christ. This.
Can't somebody at Netgear find a native English speaker who can write clear, non technical documentation and maybe do it at least once? Or make it simple enough that you don't need documentation (the Apple Approach).
Happy fun ball, indeed!
The Hippocratic Oath begins with the invocation:
I swear by Apollo, the healer, Asclepius, Hygieia, and Panacea, and I take to witness all the gods, all the goddesses, to keep according to my ability and my judgment, the following Oath and agreement:
While fine by me (they sound as reasonable as the rest of the loonies in Godville) it's hard to take everything the Oath says at face value.
That's correct. But if you are just a couple of clinicians seeking to Do Good and you come up with a test that looks like a product protected by Copyright, then you get Evil Lawyer contacting you with vaguely threatening letters. Then you have to hire your own Evil Lawyer to contest this.
Costs money, takes time.
Granted for something as important as the mini mental status exam (which is used daily by thousands of people) might be able to find an organization willing to go through with the process but it's a real problem for normal folk.
NASA went from the first manned spaceflight to walking on the moon in around seven years. China first flew a manned spaceflight eight years ago; what major breakthroughs have they made in comparison?
Made an iPhone clone.
Invited WalMart to China.
Relaunched a 1980's Ukranian Aircraft Carrier.
Filed more crappy patents than anyone else.
They sure are scary little folk...
It's a little maudlin - it's hard not to be with this topic - but it does bring up something that most people explicitly don't want to deal with. He points out that the people who do explicitly deal with death and dying tend to do things quite differently than 'normal' people. It isn't a scientific discussion, it's a personal, anecdotal essay.
You're perfectly welcome to muddle through life - it is exactly what we all do. But I thought it was a reasonable essay and one that's been covered many times in the past. It is clearly written as a counterpoint to the "do everything, medicine will solve all our problems" view that is quite prevalent in this world. The big problem is it is damned hard to tell people what to expect especially when they are faced with a fatal illness. It's hard to tell someone how hard chemotherapy would be for that individual. It's hard to know how to balance a few months or years of 'additional' living with the downsides of frequent hospitalizations, invasive procedures, dangerous drugs and additional pain.
At least in the US, overtreatment is a huge issue. Anyone but a trained biostatistician is really not in a position to intellectually tease out how effective treatments for most diseases really are (or in reality, how ineffective). So, when you are unable / unwilling to think a problem through, you emote it. Then it gets complicated.
That is the reason why seatbelts are not optional: they are there so you feel safe and protected enough to perform an emergency stop if you need to, without second-guessing.
Ah, that's why there still are so many accidents - no one has mandated that we drive with full face helmets, four point harnesses and NASCAR-style crash cages.
For instance, in physics labs I've proved a lot of physics to myself, and I "know" that bit of science ... Biology, on the other hand, is something I'm not terribly versed in ... I'm sure this sounds like a drunk college conversation, sorry. It'd be better but I'm driving and typing...
Not to worry. You're about to witness first hand a classic biologic experiment.
Say hello to Mr. Darwin for us ....
Look, other people get to dream about Newt Gingrich getting the Republican nomination for President. Others fantasize about about Tom Cruise spiriting them away in a DC-9.
What's so wrong with us drooling over the possibility of a $99 touchpad? As these things go, it's pretty harmless.
Not only do I agonize over getting locked into a system, I also would like to limit my fraud liability by limiting who I give my financial information to. There is a very short list of who has my credit card information on file and an even shorter list who has it in an electronic database facing the Internet, and I'll be damned if I'm going to add Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Sony, etc. to that list any time soon.
If you wrap the tin foil tighter, you can get that neat Marty Feldman eyes-bug-out look.