"Each year in the United States, at least 2 million people become infected with bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics and at least 23,000 people die each year as a direct result of these infections."
https://www.cdc.gov/drugresist...
"Antibiotic-resistant infections can happen anywhere. Data show that most happen in the general community; however, most deaths related to antibiotic resistance happen in inpatient healthcare settings, such as hospitals and nursing homes"
https://www.cdc.gov/drugresist...
Time to start remembering how infection was controlled in the 30s and 40s before antibiotics came along. People from that generation were really keen on (a) quarantining, (b) keeping hospitals spotless and (c) cleaning even the smallest wound with iodine in alcohol. I still recall the stinging pain.
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which comes into force in 2018 with maximum fines of the larger of 20 million euros or 4% of global turnover.
No one knows how this will affect a post-Brexit UK, but if you do business in the EU it's not too soon to get your house in order.
LaserJet 4000 here. Bought in 1998 IIRC. Still going strong. As colleagues switched to newer models I stockpiled their unused toner cartridges. If the printer holds out, I'm going to be dead long before I run out of 'free' toner.
IME, writing code that is reusable is quite hard. Getting it into a form that using it in another project is worthwhile is costly. It'll be interesting to put in a FOI enquiry in a few years to see whether the benefits outweigh the costs.
People used to use public phone boxes. Since mobiles became ubiquitous in the UK these have almost all been sold off as garden furniture for the wealthy or converted into starter homes for the poorer.
I'm sure the real idea is to make impulse-buying easier and the norm. An early step in this direction was One-Click purchasing. Now you don't even have to click.
As a consumer, try to never impulse-buy anything. Put it in your 'basket' by all means but wait a few days, see if it still seems necessary. In many cases you can just delete it at that point. Buyer's remorse is your friend if you can arrange to experience it before you've closed the deal.
You are on the nail. I see the beautiful iPhone design twice: for 20 seconds when its new before I put it in an Otterbox, and for another 20 seconds a couple of years later when I take it out and hand it over to be recycled.
Because selling exclusive use for a fixed time to the highest bidder maximises the value for the rights owner. In this case you can have another auction later and pick up the second highest bidder, etc.
If you only work a three day week, for example, you have four days you will need to fill with 'leisure' activities, which tend to involve expense. People who voluntarily retire early often say that it's nice for the first couple of months and then boredom sets in.
Hmm. If a 1ms latency is what's needed, the speed of light through the network limits the separation of the patient and surgeon to about 100 miles or so.
If a truck filled with tapes beats the bandwidth of the fastest network, I guess an ambulance with the patient in it is the metric that needs to be to beaten here.
Based on personal experience, you can forget technological aids. Sorry. It's all about getting the right environment and the right carers.
One of my top ten 'clever solutions' to a problem was used (perhaps devised?) by a care home near me. They had a long driveway and trouble with residents who had a nice patio area to use wandering off and getting lost. So the home got a bus shelter built near the bottom of the drive. No buses, just an authentic shelter. Residents would get lost, wander around a bit, spot the bus shelter and go and sit down and quite happily wait ages (it was the UK) for the bus. CCTV would spot them and and an orderly would walk down and help them back again.
It seems to me a big leap to go from 'hosting company is sending all login credentials unencrypted' to a silo on a private island guarded by mercenaries, which seems to be what you are now looking for. Find a less idiotic host and stop worrying about govt agencies - if they want your data they'll get it, and the best you can hope for is that is all they want from you.
Recent versions of OS X are getting progressively faster by making better use of hardware, particularly the GPU and additional CPU cores, but also by using available memory better. The memory management on Yosemite was notably better than on previous versions. The compilers and performance analysis tools are also improving, which also yields improvements.
El Capitan's graphics performance is noticeably better than Yosemite's. I know this because I have two identical machines beside me, with almost adjacent serial numbers, one running Yosemite and one running El Capitan, but otherwise identical (i.e. installed with the same DeployStudio workflow) software installations.
And yes, Safari is definitely 'snappier'.
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I see what you did there:
"infectious diseases" != "antibiotic resistant infections"
"Each year in the United States, at least 2 million people become infected with bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics and at least 23,000 people die each year as a direct result of these infections." https://www.cdc.gov/drugresist... "Antibiotic-resistant infections can happen anywhere. Data show that most happen in the general community; however, most deaths related to antibiotic resistance happen in inpatient healthcare settings, such as hospitals and nursing homes" https://www.cdc.gov/drugresist...
Time to start remembering how infection was controlled in the 30s and 40s before antibiotics came along. People from that generation were really keen on (a) quarantining, (b) keeping hospitals spotless and (c) cleaning even the smallest wound with iodine in alcohol. I still recall the stinging pain.
Building-design benefits greatly from experience. Use some of the money to employ an architect.
...and it operates as a separate business. What's your point?
Apple's already got at least one patent for a folding phone:
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/this-...
Looks like they're gonna have another fight...
The fines are quite large, up to 500 000 UKP at the moment but there aren't many of them issued in a given year.
On the horizon, however, is this:
http://data.consilium.europa.e...
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which comes into force in 2018 with maximum fines of the larger of 20 million euros or 4% of global turnover.
No one knows how this will affect a post-Brexit UK, but if you do business in the EU it's not too soon to get your house in order.
But is the extra time they live sufficient to compensate for the time they've wasted on Facebook?
LaserJet 4000 here. Bought in 1998 IIRC. Still going strong. As colleagues switched to newer models I stockpiled their unused toner cartridges. If the printer holds out, I'm going to be dead long before I run out of 'free' toner.
IME, writing code that is reusable is quite hard. Getting it into a form that using it in another project is worthwhile is costly. It'll be interesting to put in a FOI enquiry in a few years to see whether the benefits outweigh the costs.
People used to use public phone boxes. Since mobiles became ubiquitous in the UK these have almost all been sold off as garden furniture for the wealthy or converted into starter homes for the poorer.
The only good thing about PowerPoint was that it forced people to think about what they were going to say and in what order.
Apparently, someone needs to up their meds...
I'm sure the real idea is to make impulse-buying easier and the norm. An early step in this direction was One-Click purchasing. Now you don't even have to click.
As a consumer, try to never impulse-buy anything. Put it in your 'basket' by all means but wait a few days, see if it still seems necessary. In many cases you can just delete it at that point. Buyer's remorse is your friend if you can arrange to experience it before you've closed the deal.
You are on the nail. I see the beautiful iPhone design twice: for 20 seconds when its new before I put it in an Otterbox, and for another 20 seconds a couple of years later when I take it out and hand it over to be recycled.
Because selling exclusive use for a fixed time to the highest bidder maximises the value for the rights owner. In this case you can have another auction later and pick up the second highest bidder, etc.
I guess this must be the 'CBT-Locker' variant.
Hah, I see, unicode is still not fixed. ANTI--ANTI-MISSILE--MISSILES
FTFY: ANTIâ"ANTI-MISSILEâ"MISSILES
The police don't catch smart criminals but the public sometimes elect them.
If you only work a three day week, for example, you have four days you will need to fill with 'leisure' activities, which tend to involve expense. People who voluntarily retire early often say that it's nice for the first couple of months and then boredom sets in.
Hmm. If a 1ms latency is what's needed, the speed of light through the network limits the separation of the patient and surgeon to about 100 miles or so.
If a truck filled with tapes beats the bandwidth of the fastest network, I guess an ambulance with the patient in it is the metric that needs to be to beaten here.
Based on personal experience, you can forget technological aids. Sorry. It's all about getting the right environment and the right carers.
One of my top ten 'clever solutions' to a problem was used (perhaps devised?) by a care home near me. They had a long driveway and trouble with residents who had a nice patio area to use wandering off and getting lost. So the home got a bus shelter built near the bottom of the drive. No buses, just an authentic shelter. Residents would get lost, wander around a bit, spot the bus shelter and go and sit down and quite happily wait ages (it was the UK) for the bus. CCTV would spot them and and an orderly would walk down and help them back again.
It seems to me a big leap to go from 'hosting company is sending all login credentials unencrypted' to a silo on a private island guarded by mercenaries, which seems to be what you are now looking for. Find a less idiotic host and stop worrying about govt agencies - if they want your data they'll get it, and the best you can hope for is that is all they want from you.
Recent versions of OS X are getting progressively faster by making better use of hardware, particularly the GPU and additional CPU cores, but also by using available memory better. The memory management on Yosemite was notably better than on previous versions. The compilers and performance analysis tools are also improving, which also yields improvements. El Capitan's graphics performance is noticeably better than Yosemite's. I know this because I have two identical machines beside me, with almost adjacent serial numbers, one running Yosemite and one running El Capitan, but otherwise identical (i.e. installed with the same DeployStudio workflow) software installations. And yes, Safari is definitely 'snappier'.