I believe there is such software already available: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsd.This is a driver for NT systems (NT/2k/xp). I haven't tried it out, but it clearly wouldn't make for a turnkey solution, unless MS integrated it into windows...don't hold your breath.
I believe devices over ~2GB are too big for FAT, and I am pretty sure that devices over ~32 GB are too big for FAT32, so this question may very well be salient. Your next 40GB pen drive won't be FAT/FAT32 formatted. If NTFS drivers haven't been perfected by that time, we may very well have pen drives not compatible with linux (or XFS/ResierFS/ext3 drives not compatible with Windows).
Apparently the GPL parts of the repository are free, so people could use the repository to build their own project, much as White Box Linux has used the RHEL repositories to create a similar, entirely free distro.
Moreover, the maintainers apparently have a good humor about the confusion over the Freespire project. Another company might have just served a subpoena to Andrew Betts, asking for trumped up damages and whatnot.
A good study will have well documented methods and follow certain standards. Peer review is supposed to filter out poor, non-repeatable studies, although so many studies are simply observational/questionairres/etc., and don't quite fit with carefully designed scientific studies.
Personal;ly, I think if a study is wel designed and repeatble, then the data collected will generally be essentially true. A great example is the studies which showed that the disease caused by tobacco mosaic virus is in fact not caused by a bacteria. Another example is the carefulk work done by Mendel upon which he designed the theory of Mendelian genetics.
However, the conclusions drawn, even from high quality data are much more qualitative, and they are subject to the general scientific community's biases. Mendel's ideas were ignored for years, until others began to observe genetic, only to uncover that Mendel had already done the basic work.
Conclusions drawn from poor quality information can be anything from at best cautious gudance on future studies, to complete balderdash. A great example is oberservational studies that sugegsted all women should be on hormone replacement therapy after menopause. You weren't a good doctor unless you got every woman on it. Politics and women's groups certainly pushed this. However, once high quality, randomized controlled studies were in place, it became clear that HRT was in fact hazardous to womens' health. Now the US Preventative Task Force has issued a statement strongly discouraging HRT. The whole circus started with a poorly designed study with conclusiojns whch over-reached the quality of the data. Finally, a media frenzy whipped up the population into starting HRT.
Caveat Lector (reader beware), whether you're reading slashdot or the New England Journal of Medicine, you need to take things with a grain of salt and think over the data and conclusions. Remember, god only speaks to prophets and the insane. Don't assume that he was speaking to the authors of the last study you read!
Most mass transit districts will accomodate bicycles. Almost every bus I have seen in the last several years has a bicycle carrier (for 2 bikes usually) on the front (St. Louis, Madison Co transit/East of St Louis, San Francisco, Indianapolis, and Washington DC). The trains in Washington DC and St. Louis both allow bikes, and I believe most ofther systems do, too.
With my bike in my office right behind me, I too absolutely agree bike commuting is a great way to go. If you absolutely must avoid sweating, a car with A/C and a close parking spot is the only way to go...any other method (eg, wheelie shoes) are just going to create sweat and (horrors) exercise.
Back in the day (1989, to be more exact), I was first introduced to computer viruses on a Macintosh. The reason was that Mac viruses would hide in the boot sector (or FAT maybe) of Mac floppies, even just by popping the disk in. The DOS boxen simply ignored the floppies, giving me the impression that DOS was a much more spartan/simplistic system.
Honestly, Macs were far more popular on campus (Univ of Illinois) than DOS boxen at the time, and so any Mac virus had a better crack at spreading around...even back then we had the little virus scanner pop up and scan a floppy when you put one in...Now its Winboxen which are more porous and unpatched, and Mac users who let their boxen sit aroun d on the internet without AV software. That's a nice little turn of play.
Endoscopes are sterilized by keeping them in a chemical bath. Cidex OPA (ortho-phthalaldehyde) is the primary chemical used. Here is a CDC paper about the issue for anyone interested: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol7no2/rutala.htm.
The camera, comnputer, etc don't need to be sterilized.
It sounds like he actually purchased the physical endoscope. That's the part that goes inside...you know what. Only the endoscope needs to be sterilized. Everything else is outside. (Don't put your laptop in an autoclave!)
The camera goes on the outside. In many places, there is now camera, and instead the doc looks into the other side...however, having a camera is easier on your back...plus it might help keep the lawyers off your back...
You see that the cost here is from the combination of proprietary hardware and software for the endoscope that ups the prices $29,000. I agree that using OSS for the OS and software might be a better solution, but that will probably take some interest from the WHO, a philanthropist like Mark Shuttleworth, or maybe a couple OSS coders with some interest in putting together some of the OSS software in a workable setup. You could probably fiddle with some of the available videoo software and make a live/install special Linux distro for the purpose.
Gestational diabetes is absolutely a risk for later progression to type II diabetes mellitus. Before anyone gets compltely outraged, this is a known fact, and that's why the insurance company flatly refused her.
People want to believe that if they are doing all the right things, such as styaing slim, getting a reasonable amoutn of exercise, not smoking, and eating right, they shouldn't be turned down for insurance. Well, the fact is that the insurance company only wants completely healthy folks. Depending on your state laws, group policies may still have "riders". For instance, this gentleman's wife may have gotten group coverage, but no coverage for diabetes-related illness for one year.
This dystopian (great word, btw) world leads to a lack of health insurance coverage for many small business owners, at least until they can afford to pay for group coverage for their employees (just so they can get insurance for themselves).
More than once, I have wished for a system such as the UK, where health care is available simply for being British. I doubt it would be all fish and chips, but as a doc I see the broad variety of people without insurance, and the havoc it causes them.
Do you think if I took a few screen shots and posted a little blog about trying to use dillo, I too could get posted on slashdot? As I write this, dillo is currently show 18 html errors on this page...you should see it !work on the main website I actually use for work: http://www.uptodate.com/ (not/. silly!)
I've got to get over to yahoo and get that blog setup before anyone else gets the same idea!
Sometimes, a person's immune system might confuse some viral proteins with the proteins on the pancreatic beta cells (which make insulin). This leads to the immune system attacking the beta cells. Eventually no beta cells are left and a person requires insulin to replace their natural insulin production.
There is nolikely specific infection which causes diabetes. However, some viruses may be more likely to confuse the immune system. Also, your immune system's genetic makeup may predispose it to confusing the virus and the beta cells.
Insulin is required to move glucose from the bloodstream into cells. Without it, the bloodstream glucose level rises until glucose spills out into the urine. In fact, diabetes mellitus is Greek for "sweet urine". Unfortunately, diabetics are literally starving in a sea of food.
This reminds me of a statistic I heard long ago that the cost of actually tracking and billing for each call was a large (if not the largest) part of the long distance companies' cost. Now MS has a large building full of people expressly for chasing people who don't pay for MS software.
I'm realistic enough to know that a discount on MS software won't cut stop piracy. Its a pity those pirates don't consider OSS, though.
As a doctor, I had a few observations about this stusdy. These researchers demonstrated that an MRI can find evidence of diabetes in mice before the development of clinical symptoms. How does this relate to people?
1. Practical: Type I diabetes typically develops in children, who usually must be sedated and observed for an MRI. This could double the cost of the MRI (typically $1-2k in US). Also, we don't know how long these findings are present before diabetes develops... how often would this need to be done?
2. The Incidence of type I diabetes is about 0.4% among people without relatives with type I. First degree relatives have a 5-30% risk... Certain genes predispose to type I diabetes.... maybe this could be used in certain people.
3. Since there is no such early diagnosis, we don't really know who we might treat this pre-type I state. Certainly we could make a few reasonable guesses, but any benefit is still in doubt until there are human trials.
I think this will definitely be more handy when tricorders are perfected!
I think his dismay with what we might regard as success shows how far the Linux desktop will need to come before the great mass of users will accept Linux as a turnkey product.
Many users don't even know what a file is... they're never going to the command line to fix something. Even GUI configuration tools are scary for most people. How many of your non-techie relatives just hop right into the Win* control panel to change things like their screen resolution?
These days, some people are just throwing out virus laden computers for a whole new computer. At worst, they could have just re-installed Win*...these guys are never going to do CLI configuration changes.
Of course, if systems were shipped with Linux, I think that would simplify things enough for most users.
Most ATMs run OS/2. I don't know if another OS has supplanted OS/2 yet, but I know my local ATM runs OS/2. Twice, the thing has rebooted while I was trying to enter my PIN...and the (once familiar) OS/2 boot screen appears...too bad I didn't have my camera at the time...
I'd like to take a digital audio player over to India with our next trip...but the thought of recharging a $200+ player with an erratic (spiking) power source is disconcerting. On the other hand, my camera already uses rechargable aa's (Canon A95), so why not bring a few rechargable aaa's? They use the same versatile and fast recharger.
If the recharger gets fried, batteries get lost, or run out at an airport, just pop in a few from the local shop. I can't get an ipod or iriver battery in any dusty Indian village...or even the airport in Kuwait.
Honestly, the memory of a HD player sounds best, but I doubt that I could get a HD player that runs off aa or aaa batteries....
I can see thinkpads giving up on the fingerprint check: Instead of the led light for my Thinkpad T23, the Thinkpad T63 will have an iris scanner. I wonder if it will provide a little light on the side...
I predict:
1) Terrific swarms of malware after the malware guys figure out an exploit.
2) Opera is sued out of existence by various and sundry copyright owners.
Somehow it sounds like the sort of malware hole that IE would devise - a great backdoor for downloading gigabytes of malware slowly over time!
Slashdot Mirror
I believe there is such software already available: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsd.This is a driver for NT systems (NT/2k/xp). I haven't tried it out, but it clearly wouldn't make for a turnkey solution, unless MS integrated it into windows...don't hold your breath.
Bryan
I believe devices over ~2GB are too big for FAT, and I am pretty sure that devices over ~32 GB are too big for FAT32, so this question may very well be salient. Your next 40GB pen drive won't be FAT/FAT32 formatted. If NTFS drivers haven't been perfected by that time, we may very well have pen drives not compatible with linux (or XFS/ResierFS/ext3 drives not compatible with Windows).
Bryan
"less is more, but less is better"
I hope that they don't have to upgrade the BIOS with a floppy.
Apparently the GPL parts of the repository are free, so people could use the repository to build their own project, much as White Box Linux has used the RHEL repositories to create a similar, entirely free distro.
Moreover, the maintainers apparently have a good humor about the confusion over the Freespire project. Another company might have just served a subpoena to Andrew Betts, asking for trumped up damages and whatnot.
A good study will have well documented methods and follow certain standards. Peer review is supposed to filter out poor, non-repeatable studies, although so many studies are simply observational/questionairres/etc., and don't quite fit with carefully designed scientific studies.
Personal;ly, I think if a study is wel designed and repeatble, then the data collected will generally be essentially true. A great example is the studies which showed that the disease caused by tobacco mosaic virus is in fact not caused by a bacteria. Another example is the carefulk work done by Mendel upon which he designed the theory of Mendelian genetics.
However, the conclusions drawn, even from high quality data are much more qualitative, and they are subject to the general scientific community's biases. Mendel's ideas were ignored for years, until others began to observe genetic, only to uncover that Mendel had already done the basic work.
Conclusions drawn from poor quality information can be anything from at best cautious gudance on future studies, to complete balderdash. A great example is oberservational studies that sugegsted all women should be on hormone replacement therapy after menopause. You weren't a good doctor unless you got every woman on it. Politics and women's groups certainly pushed this. However, once high quality, randomized controlled studies were in place, it became clear that HRT was in fact hazardous to womens' health. Now the US Preventative Task Force has issued a statement strongly discouraging HRT. The whole circus started with a poorly designed study with conclusiojns whch over-reached the quality of the data. Finally, a media frenzy whipped up the population into starting HRT.
Caveat Lector (reader beware), whether you're reading slashdot or the New England Journal of Medicine, you need to take things with a grain of salt and think over the data and conclusions. Remember, god only speaks to prophets and the insane. Don't assume that he was speaking to the authors of the last study you read!
Most mass transit districts will accomodate bicycles. Almost every bus I have seen in the last several years has a bicycle carrier (for 2 bikes usually) on the front (St. Louis, Madison Co transit/East of St Louis, San Francisco, Indianapolis, and Washington DC). The trains in Washington DC and St. Louis both allow bikes, and I believe most ofther systems do, too.
With my bike in my office right behind me, I too absolutely agree bike commuting is a great way to go. If you absolutely must avoid sweating, a car with A/C and a close parking spot is the only way to go...any other method (eg, wheelie shoes) are just going to create sweat and (horrors) exercise.
Back in the day (1989, to be more exact), I was first introduced to computer viruses on a Macintosh. The reason was that Mac viruses would hide in the boot sector (or FAT maybe) of Mac floppies, even just by popping the disk in. The DOS boxen simply ignored the floppies, giving me the impression that DOS was a much more spartan/simplistic system.
Honestly, Macs were far more popular on campus (Univ of Illinois) than DOS boxen at the time, and so any Mac virus had a better crack at spreading around...even back then we had the little virus scanner pop up and scan a floppy when you put one in...Now its Winboxen which are more porous and unpatched, and Mac users who let their boxen sit aroun d on the internet without AV software. That's a nice little turn of play.
Endoscopes are sterilized by keeping them in a chemical bath. Cidex OPA (ortho-phthalaldehyde) is the primary chemical used. Here is a CDC paper about the issue for anyone interested: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol7no2/rutala.htm.
The camera, comnputer, etc don't need to be sterilized.
It sounds like he actually purchased the physical endoscope. That's the part that goes inside...you know what. Only the endoscope needs to be sterilized. Everything else is outside. (Don't put your laptop in an autoclave!)
The camera goes on the outside. In many places, there is now camera, and instead the doc looks into the other side...however, having a camera is easier on your back...plus it might help keep the lawyers off your back...
You see that the cost here is from the combination of proprietary hardware and software for the endoscope that ups the prices $29,000. I agree that using OSS for the OS and software might be a better solution, but that will probably take some interest from the WHO, a philanthropist like Mark Shuttleworth, or maybe a couple OSS coders with some interest in putting together some of the OSS software in a workable setup. You could probably fiddle with some of the available videoo software and make a live/install special Linux distro for the purpose.
I can see it on now: buttpilot.sourceforge.net
Gestational diabetes is absolutely a risk for later progression to type II diabetes mellitus. Before anyone gets compltely outraged, this is a known fact, and that's why the insurance company flatly refused her.
People want to believe that if they are doing all the right things, such as styaing slim, getting a reasonable amoutn of exercise, not smoking, and eating right, they shouldn't be turned down for insurance. Well, the fact is that the insurance company only wants completely healthy folks. Depending on your state laws, group policies may still have "riders". For instance, this gentleman's wife may have gotten group coverage, but no coverage for diabetes-related illness for one year.
This dystopian (great word, btw) world leads to a lack of health insurance coverage for many small business owners, at least until they can afford to pay for group coverage for their employees (just so they can get insurance for themselves).
More than once, I have wished for a system such as the UK, where health care is available simply for being British. I doubt it would be all fish and chips, but as a doc I see the broad variety of people without insurance, and the havoc it causes them.
Do you think if I took a few screen shots and posted a little blog about trying to use dillo, I too could get posted on slashdot? As I write this, dillo is currently show 18 html errors on this page...you should see it !work on the main website I actually use for work: http://www.uptodate.com/ (not /. silly!)
I've got to get over to yahoo and get that blog setup before anyone else gets the same idea!
Sometimes, a person's immune system might confuse some viral proteins with the proteins on the pancreatic beta cells (which make insulin). This leads to the immune system attacking the beta cells. Eventually no beta cells are left and a person requires insulin to replace their natural insulin production.
There is nolikely specific infection which causes diabetes. However, some viruses may be more likely to confuse the immune system. Also, your immune system's genetic makeup may predispose it to confusing the virus and the beta cells.
Insulin is required to move glucose from the bloodstream into cells. Without it, the bloodstream glucose level rises until glucose spills out into the urine. In fact, diabetes mellitus is Greek for "sweet urine". Unfortunately, diabetics are literally starving in a sea of food.
This reminds me of a statistic I heard long ago that the cost of actually tracking and billing for each call was a large (if not the largest) part of the long distance companies' cost. Now MS has a large building full of people expressly for chasing people who don't pay for MS software.
I'm realistic enough to know that a discount on MS software won't cut stop piracy. Its a pity those pirates don't consider OSS, though.
I'm sure that he's got his Amiga running debian....or maybe netbsd
As a doctor, I had a few observations about this
... how often would
stusdy. These researchers demonstrated that an
MRI can find evidence of diabetes in mice before
the development of clinical symptoms. How does
this relate to people?
1. Practical: Type I diabetes typically develops in
children, who usually must be sedated and
observed for an MRI. This could double the cost
of the MRI (typically $1-2k in US). Also, we
don't know how long these findings are present
before diabetes develops
this need to be done?
2. The Incidence of type I diabetes is about
0.4% among people without relatives with
type I. First degree relatives have a 5-30%
risk... Certain genes predispose to type I
diabetes.... maybe this could be used in certain
people.
3. Since there is no such early diagnosis, we
don't really know who we might treat this
pre-type I state. Certainly we could make a
few reasonable guesses, but any benefit is
still in doubt until there are human trials.
I think this will definitely be more handy when
tricorders are perfected!
I think his dismay with what we might regard as
success shows how far the Linux desktop will
need to come before the great mass of users will
accept Linux as a turnkey product.
Many users don't even know what a file is...
they're never going to the command line to fix
something. Even GUI configuration tools are
scary for most people. How many of your
non-techie relatives just hop right into the Win*
control panel to change things like their screen
resolution?
These days, some people are just throwing out
virus laden computers for a whole new computer.
At worst, they could have just re-installed
Win*...these guys are never going to do CLI
configuration changes.
Of course, if systems were shipped with Linux,
I think that would simplify things enough for
most users.
Most ATMs run OS/2. I don't know if another OS
has supplanted OS/2 yet, but I know my local ATM
runs OS/2. Twice, the thing has rebooted while I
was trying to enter my PIN...and the (once familiar)
OS/2 boot screen appears...too bad I didn't have
my camera at the time...
With color, the TI would be that much
closer to running OSX...
Now that would be a much better solution for terrorists. Watch out for files like "mother daughter blonde burka burka burka dog sex sex.avi"
Now, could we forgoe pwoered light entirely by laying transatlantic cables...now China can even export light to the US!
I'd like to take a digital audio player over to India with our next trip...but the thought of recharging a $200+ player with an erratic (spiking) power source is disconcerting. On the other hand, my camera already uses rechargable aa's (Canon A95), so why not bring a few rechargable aaa's? They use the same versatile and fast recharger. If the recharger gets fried, batteries get lost, or run out at an airport, just pop in a few from the local shop. I can't get an ipod or iriver battery in any dusty Indian village...or even the airport in Kuwait. Honestly, the memory of a HD player sounds best, but I doubt that I could get a HD player that runs off aa or aaa batteries....
What I really want is a player that:
/. visitors
1. Plays ogg
2. Uses aa/aaa
3. Takes flash cards (SD, miniSD, etc)
Also nice:
A large commercial website that can handle the load of
I can see thinkpads giving up on the fingerprint check: Instead of the led light for my Thinkpad T23, the Thinkpad T63 will have an iris scanner. I wonder if it will provide a little light on the side...
I predict: 1) Terrific swarms of malware after the malware guys figure out an exploit. 2) Opera is sued out of existence by various and sundry copyright owners. Somehow it sounds like the sort of malware hole that IE would devise - a great backdoor for downloading gigabytes of malware slowly over time!