Ok, thanks for pointing this out. Like OP I was thinking "WTF does this kiddy try to conclude?", but if you see it from a purely computer scientist's side, it indeed might make sense.
It would be hard for her. But it would be right for all the other "real" women who have also trained very hard. It would be the only right thing, if she has a Y-chromosome, she has an unfair advantage.
Very few Doctors and specialist will take the time and effort with every patient to hit that few percent that fall outside. They almost always figure they will get a second shot at it at least without causing to much harm or risk to the patient.
Yes. That is the single most effective method to separate the really ill from the "I think I am ill" population. IAAP (though into research now), and believe me, if you want to work less than 70 hours a week, you have to go by that rule. It's not the optimum for every single patient and there will be a few tragic cases, but it's not doable otherwise.
If 10 patients of the same demographic come into the office with the same complaint and the actual disease has only a 1% chance of hitting that age group. But for argument sake all actually have this disease. He will either get only 1 wrong or he will get it wrong for all but one.
That's not exactly how statistical medicine works.;)
... should not have been this individual diagnosed herself.
Well, _technically_ she did not diagnose herself. Her doctors knew it was IBD, so it had to either be Crohn or Colitis Ulcerosa. To proof either, you need hard facts, if they are missing you don't decide. Now they gave her a sample of her own intestine, and in there she discovered a granuloma. Would the pathologist have kept this sample for himself and given her another one, she would have been diagnosed by her pathologist and would not have gotten her 5 minutes of internet popularity.;)
Can't do more than totally agree on this one - same situation here. And yes, typing in QWERT makes me feel like throwing my fingers all over the place.
Yes, I know this, poor Germans. I guess that's your country's "Geiz ist geil" mentality.;-)
As I just posted a few comments up, here in Switzerland Apple held more than 50% of the educational market in 2006, and I doubt this rate has dropped. This is also what you'll encounter, 50/50 Macs vs. PCs. Market share for Apple in the whole IT business also is over 10%.
Except in non American countries, where they aren't.
Wrong, here in Switzerland Apple holds more than 50% of the educational market and the top spot in several other European countries. That was 2006, I doubt the rate has dropped, but have no data at hand.
Even you cover this story, which is totally wrong! This support document has been there for quite some time, but was only recently updated. Just click the German or French link at the side and you'll see that those documents were last updated July 30, 2008.
I hoped that at least here on slashdot, a little research would be done before claiming that "now, Apple suddenly recommends Antivirus Software". Not to mention that Apple itself offered an Anti-Virus Software until 2005...
But Sholes had a problem. On his first model, his "ABC" key arrangement caused the keys to jam when the typist worked quickly. Sholes didn't know how to keep the keys from sticking, so his solution was to keep the typist from typing too fast.
My bad, it's on the Dvorak Page, not on the QWERT.
Anyway, profplump already mentioned some facts, another one is that with QWERT typing in english, 70% of the letters you type are _not_ on the home row, but with Dvorak typing in english you'll perform 70% of your keystrokes on the home row (IIRC). Plus the world typing record was performed using a Dvorak keyboard layout.:)
Of course you're right with re-learning, and learning Dvorak is really hard at the beginning, especially if you can type QWERT reasonably fast. I really seldom have to use QWERT keyboards since my Laptop is always with me, but I haven't however unlearned to type QWERT (but I've gotten slower, of course). But as I said, once you're a Dvorak-Typer you won't want to go back.;-)
I've been using a Dvorak layout for three years now (but never seen an actual Dvorak keyboard) and typing with it is better, much better.
You'll only know this once you've used Dvorak for about a month and won't ever want to go back.
BTW, QWERT was designed to type _slower_ to avoid jamming of the heads of a typewriter (read about it on Wikipedia), this is obsolete with computers and that's why QWERT should go away.
Maybe this article will one day be relevant for history books, when QWERT layouts are finally extinct. Could turn up as the one million euro question in TV shows.
I don't really understand the problem of having a Gmail-address posted to your business card. Really.
You are not the owner of darth.vader@gmail.com, are you?
Hasn't Hans said in the conviction video that he hopes to continue to contribute to the open source community from within jail? I hope they let him do that.
Oh wait. Nice, that would make him an open source developer, paid by the united states. Maybe he saw this opportunity and just "ln -s/home/hans/home/realkiller" !
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Diabetes (type I) and MS are caused through the adaptive immune system, i.e. antibodies, _not_ NK cells.
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Ok, thanks for pointing this out. Like OP I was thinking "WTF does this kiddy try to conclude?", but if you see it from a purely computer scientist's side, it indeed might make sense.
Paranoid? Anyone?
It would be hard for her. But it would be right for all the other "real" women who have also trained very hard. It would be the only right thing, if she has a Y-chromosome, she has an unfair advantage.
Stormtroopers are the same as Clone Troopers, and they're all clones. Just read some Expanded Universe stuff and you'll know.
Nothing to add.
Very few Doctors and specialist will take the time and effort with every patient to hit that few percent that fall outside. They almost always figure they will get a second shot at it at least without causing to much harm or risk to the patient.
Yes. That is the single most effective method to separate the really ill from the "I think I am ill" population. IAAP (though into research now), and believe me, if you want to work less than 70 hours a week, you have to go by that rule. It's not the optimum for every single patient and there will be a few tragic cases, but it's not doable otherwise.
If 10 patients of the same demographic come into the office with the same complaint and the actual disease has only a 1% chance of hitting that age group. But for argument sake all actually have this disease. He will either get only 1 wrong or he will get it wrong for all but one.
That's not exactly how statistical medicine works. ;)
... should not have been this individual diagnosed herself.
Well, _technically_ she did not diagnose herself. Her doctors knew it was IBD, so it had to either be Crohn or Colitis Ulcerosa. To proof either, you need hard facts, if they are missing you don't decide. Now they gave her a sample of her own intestine, and in there she discovered a granuloma. Would the pathologist have kept this sample for himself and given her another one, she would have been diagnosed by her pathologist and would not have gotten her 5 minutes of internet popularity. ;)
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Let me be the one to help you: Jackalope.
Can't do more than totally agree on this one - same situation here. And yes, typing in QWERT makes me feel like throwing my fingers all over the place.
Just to note, the email address has always been part of iTunes Plus files. This in nothing new.
Yes, I know this, poor Germans. I guess that's your country's "Geiz ist geil" mentality. ;-)
As I just posted a few comments up, here in Switzerland Apple held more than 50% of the educational market in 2006, and I doubt this rate has dropped. This is also what you'll encounter, 50/50 Macs vs. PCs. Market share for Apple in the whole IT business also is over 10%.
Except in non American countries, where they aren't.
Wrong, here in Switzerland Apple holds more than 50% of the educational market and the top spot in several other European countries. That was 2006, I doubt the rate has dropped, but have no data at hand.
Even you cover this story, which is totally wrong! This support document has been there for quite some time, but was only recently updated. Just click the German or French link at the side and you'll see that those documents were last updated July 30, 2008.
I hoped that at least here on slashdot, a little research would be done before claiming that "now, Apple suddenly recommends Antivirus Software". Not to mention that Apple itself offered an Anti-Virus Software until 2005...
But Sholes had a problem. On his first model, his "ABC" key arrangement caused the keys to jam when the typist worked quickly. Sholes didn't know how to keep the keys from sticking, so his solution was to keep the typist from typing too fast.
http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/qwerty.htm
Just one of the many sources claiming that this was the idea.
My bad, it's on the Dvorak Page, not on the QWERT. :)
;-)
Anyway, profplump already mentioned some facts, another one is that with QWERT typing in english, 70% of the letters you type are _not_ on the home row, but with Dvorak typing in english you'll perform 70% of your keystrokes on the home row (IIRC). Plus the world typing record was performed using a Dvorak keyboard layout.
Of course you're right with re-learning, and learning Dvorak is really hard at the beginning, especially if you can type QWERT reasonably fast. I really seldom have to use QWERT keyboards since my Laptop is always with me, but I haven't however unlearned to type QWERT (but I've gotten slower, of course). But as I said, once you're a Dvorak-Typer you won't want to go back.
I've been using a Dvorak layout for three years now (but never seen an actual Dvorak keyboard) and typing with it is better, much better.
You'll only know this once you've used Dvorak for about a month and won't ever want to go back.
BTW, QWERT was designed to type _slower_ to avoid jamming of the heads of a typewriter (read about it on Wikipedia), this is obsolete with computers and that's why QWERT should go away.
Maybe this article will one day be relevant for history books, when QWERT layouts are finally extinct. Could turn up as the one million euro question in TV shows.
I am also a biomedical researcher and I've found the best way to get your custom applications written in Cocoa: Do it yourself. :-)
That doesn't matter for printers, you only get 2D-images out of it, even when you print a 3D model.
Oh, wait...
I don't really understand the problem of having a Gmail-address posted to your business card. Really. You are not the owner of darth.vader@gmail.com, are you?
What a bad article for Slashdot. Come on, the Dashboard/Konfabulator-story has been crunched numerous times already, only to end up with Apple having had a "Dashboard" 20 years _before_ Konfabulator came out.
FAIL, try again.
(...but I must agree a patent on something so basic like this info-screen ist ridiculous)
Subpoenaing logs for IP 123.456.789 from Google is not the same as getting logs from icanhascheezburger.
I'm not sure whether you're qualified to talk about IPs giving this example IP.
Hasn't Hans said in the conviction video that he hopes to continue to contribute to the open source community from within jail? I hope they let him do that. Oh wait. Nice, that would make him an open source developer, paid by the united states. Maybe he saw this opportunity and just "ln -s /home/hans /home/realkiller" !