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  1. Re:So what. Doctors SHOULD be paid more. -- Wrong on How Outdated Data Distorts Doctors' Pay · · Score: 1

    Every year, the med school cohort is about 20,000 per year (~80K in school at any given time https://www.aamc.org/data/facts/). The total bill for this (assuming your $250K/student/year) sums to $20 billion / year. In 2011, total healthcare spending was $2.7 trillion (http://go.cms.gov/13juHDi).

    Actually, it's closer to $250,000 per student over four years.

    http://gradschool.about.com/od/medicalschool/f/MedSchoolCost.htm

    Question: How Much Does Medical School Cost?

    Medical school can be expensive and therefore, it would be beneficial to consider the cost of med school before applying.

    Answer: According to the Association of American Medical Colleges, the median tuition in 2010-2011 was $28,685 at a public institution and $46,899 at a private institution. Note that tuition does not include books, lab fees, etc. In 2010-2011 the median total cost of attendance was $49,298 and $66,984 for public and private universities, respectively.

    I would like to know if they calculated that per school or per student.

  2. Re:Yes but... on Monogamy May Have Evolved To Prevent Infanticide · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Is the term "misogyny" too vague? OK. Perhaps the mods objected to the use of the B-word. Also, the post hinted that women should be compelled to have abortions, which is as bad as prohibiting them from having abortions.

  3. Re:Yes but... on Monogamy May Have Evolved To Prevent Infanticide · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Perhaps not. Maybe the mods objected to the misogyny.

  4. Re:Think of all the opportunities! on New Alternatives To Silicon May Increase Chip Speeds By Orders of Magnitude. · · Score: 1

    Dang, I thought the GP said 2x10^{86}. My bad.

  5. Re:Think of all the opportunities! on New Alternatives To Silicon May Increase Chip Speeds By Orders of Magnitude. · · Score: 2

    There's 2^86 atoms in a kilogram of hydrogen.

    Hmm, there are 6x10^{23} atoms of hydrogen in a gram of hydrogen, so that would make it 6x10^{26} hydrogen atoms in a kilogram of hydrogen.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avogadro's_number

  6. Re: Dr. Hermann Dürr on New Alternatives To Silicon May Increase Chip Speeds By Orders of Magnitude. · · Score: 1

    Hermann Dürr

    What, is ü so difficult?

  7. Re:'We' - 1984 was a ripoff of it. on Ask Slashdot: High-School Suitable Books On How Computers Affect Society? · · Score: 1

    A russian woman wrote a work called 'We'

    You do know that "Yevgeny" is a man's name, don't you?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_(novel)

  8. Re:LaTeX, really? on Fidus Writer: Open Source Collaborative Editor For Non-Geek Academics · · Score: 1

    They don't accept LibreOffice? Do they use features of .docx that LO doesn't support?

  9. Re:LaTeX on Fidus Writer: Open Source Collaborative Editor For Non-Geek Academics · · Score: 1

    And I really don't see why there has not yet been a good WYSIWYG editor for LaTeX.

    Are there any good WYSIWYG C++ IDEs? The issue with LaTeX is that you have to compile it to see how it will look.

  10. Re:LaTeX on Fidus Writer: Open Source Collaborative Editor For Non-Geek Academics · · Score: 1

    While I like using GNU Emacs to edit LaTeX files, it isn't quite perfect. If you're using characters by \char", Emacs will treat the double quote as two single quotes, which doesn't work.

  11. Re:context consumption vs creation on Every Public School Student In LA Will Get an iPad In 2014 · · Score: 0

    Apple says that certain features require a complimentary Creative Cloud membership, but Adobe's website lists such membership at $49.99 per month.

  12. Re:context consumption vs creation on Every Public School Student In LA Will Get an iPad In 2014 · · Score: 1

    Apple says that certain features require a complimentary Adobe Creative Cloud membership, but Adobe lists such membership at $49.99 per month.

  13. Re:context consumption vs creation on Every Public School Student In LA Will Get an iPad In 2014 · · Score: 1

    So what does Photoshop for a tablet cost?

  14. Re:$30 MILLION WILL ONLY COVER THE FIRST 31,000 on Every Public School Student In LA Will Get an iPad In 2014 · · Score: 1

    Jerry Brown signed a balanced budget for 2013.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California#State_finances

  15. Re:30000000/640000=46875 on Every Public School Student In LA Will Get an iPad In 2014 · · Score: 1

    Can't you buy a decimal point? It's 46.875.

  16. Re:What happens when this fails? on Every Public School Student In LA Will Get an iPad In 2014 · · Score: 1

    how is this different than buying all the books that a current student uses?

    Can you sell a blank ebook to Richard Feynman?

  17. Re:Here's to Kernels on Windows NT Turns 20 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Perhaps the GP meant that the NT kernel hasn't turned 21 yet.

  18. Re:Lesson One on Windows NT Turns 20 · · Score: 1

    Wears black turtlenecks?

  19. Re:Haven't there always been losers? on Hollywood's Love of Analytics Couldn't Prevent Six Massive Blockbuster Flops · · Score: 1

    That list seems skewed towards more recent films. The Poseidon Adventure is from the early 70s, and there are some films from the 80s. Most of the films are after 2000.

  20. Re:This is just fear-mongering itself. on Fifteen Years After Autism Panic, a Plague of Measles Erupts · · Score: 1

    What is the probability of being killed while wearing a seatbelt in a situation where you would survive by not wearing one?

  21. Re:ty on Fifteen Years After Autism Panic, a Plague of Measles Erupts · · Score: 1

    I don't think Slashdot IDs are up to 8675309.

  22. Re:What cost the MS License fees ... ? on Microsoft Has 1 Million Servers. So What? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Because they're still running?

  23. Re:The Marine Corps Called... on Better Factories Through Role Playing · · Score: 1

    If you make living together in society a zero-sum conflict game, you get hell, not society.

    Wars tend to be negative-sum games.

  24. Re:New license model: Free! on Why Microsoft Shouldn't Worry About Cannibalizing Their Userbases · · Score: 1

    But can Windows be gratis without being libre? One reason why Linux can be gratis is that it is libre, and so contributing to the various OSS projects is easy. Could one do this for Windows? Could Microsoft develop a business plan where Windows is gratis?

  25. Re:Support contracts on Ask Slashdot: Is Postgres On Par With Oracle? · · Score: 1

    Yes, +1