I think the Internet Advertising Bureau needs to release browser plug-ins that remove all content EXCEPT for ads on web pages. I'm tired of finding all that irrelevant information on the pages I browse. I'd much rather have all those lovely ads to browse without having to hunt for them through all that *shudder* information.
-drin
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>As a matter of fact, if you cut a tuna, it will not bleed. This is because tuna do not have blood.
Really? That's odd - why is it that I have to spend time washing all the blood off the deck of my boat after a day of tuna fishing? I know it's not *my* blood......
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Ever read Penrose's 'The Emperor's New Mind'? It covers the teleportation duality dilemma in some depth. Even more mind-warping is what would happen if the original wasn't destroyed. Which is the real person, the one sent or the one received?
DNIS actually stands for Dialed Number Identification Service. It's commonly used in call centers where you want a screen pop to an operator's station which switches contextually with the number the caller dialed....
I dunno.... any AI InfoBot that can not only discern the question the sender asked and answer it appropriately, but can also tell that they're violating the TOS from the sender's email account provider has *GOT* to be pretty amazing!
I know *I'd* buy from LinuxOne, based on their ability to create such a phenomenal bot alone!
Having worked in Woods Hole for three years, I can tell you that it isn't NEARLY as cool as it sounds from the web pages. The system is working, and the buoy farm offshore makes for a highly effective testbed, but the complications associated with satellite delivery of data from floating buoys make the data connections tenuous at best, and horrible at worst. Ever try to deliver data to a satellite from a floating ocean buoy when it's raining? Don't bother.....
I also picked up a pair of Paradigm bidirectional tower speakers at the same time. They were about $450 for the pair, I believe, and they've made all the difference in the world to my movie viewing experience. The sound from bi-directional towers is something to behold (behear?).
I have a Yamaha receiver (similar to the RXV-596 but a little older) with 5.1 output and optical input. My Sony DVD and laserdisc players both have optical output, which is nice.
The one thing I would have changed is to get a receiver that does video switching as well as audio. At the time I purchased the video switching version of my receiver was $300 more and I decided it was more than I needed. I wish now I had gone ahead and bought it. It's not a huge deal to switch the video inputs through my TV, but it's an extra step I'd rather not go through. It's also annoying for people trying to figure out how to switch my components to the right mode...
There are a number of problems with the concept of digital assistants in medicine. I worked in the field for some time and ran into all of them...
o Resistance
But I've *always* done it this way
o Portability
How do you move from patient to patient and
get data into a centralized database reliably?
o Reliability & Security
Medical data must be valid, authenticated, and
readily available. Having a system crash when
you're evaluating someone's heart condition is
unacceptable.
o Legal considerations
Doctors' notes are considered as legal
documents when looking at medical malpractice
and other legal-medical collisions. How do you
verify that the electronic format is the same
as the paper one when there *is* no paper one?
There are more, of course, but these are the big ones I ran into time and again. The bottom line is that while Hippocrates and other PDA software packages are useful, the likelihood of the medical profession accepting the widespread use of portable technology for medical data entry and retrieval is slim anytime soon.
Was anyone else repulsed reading this story, or am I the only one?
A $107,000 van? 300 gpm shower? Swimming pool-sized subwoofer?
Here's a message for the rich boys and girls with more money than brains: you need to learn that there's more to happiness than playing 'My home theater screen is bigger than your home theater screen'.
Perhaps even make the lives of others better, rather than adding another plasma screen in the bathroom so that you can watch Matrix while flossing....
Actually, this is not the case. I was born in Scotland but my family emigrated to Canada when I was young, so I hold dual EU/Canadian citizenship. Being a citizen of a Commonwealth member nation has no bearing on job applications. I've seen this in effect with jobs in the UK, the Continent, and Australia. My EU citizenship was of great help in that regard, while my Canadian citizenship didn't do anything to assist me.
-drin
You're absolutely right! I'm from Canada, although I was born in the UK. I have been in the US for five years on a succession of TN visas. I have recently obtained an H1B visa with the intention of obtaining a green card, only to discover what the backlog for green card applications was. I'm now concerned that even though I have six years on my H1B it may not be enough.
By the way, no-one seems to have mentioned that the people on TN and H1B visas pay taxes in this country, but aren't eligible to vote. Didn't you Americans have a war over that sometime in the recent geologic past?
I used to work for a corporation that had an official policy of not giving old computers to staff or charity. Instead they stored them in a warehouse gathering dust. This was done because of a fear of litigation from the EPA if their machines were ever found in a landfill. They claimed they knew of a corporation that was sued by the EPA after machines they had given to a church were discarded in a landfill. It was really sad to see machines less than six months old sitting on a shelf knowing no-one would ever get any use out of them...
Interesting, but flawed in a major way.... the premise that 'if person XXX didn't invent/discover it no-one else would have'.
Perhaps you didn't know it, but Newton had competitors in most of his major endeavors. Liebniz is credited with having invented the calculus if not BEFORE Newton, then at the same time. It has been discovered that the Royal Society's verdict on the discovery of the calculus (which stated Newton had invented it) was actually written by Newton himself!
As John Maynard Keynes said "Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the Magicians...". Did you know he spent the last few decades of his life immersed in the occult and in the futile attempt to transmutate lead into gold? That he believed the gravitational pull among the planets would cause the solar system to break up?
He was an intelligent man, yes. But to elevate him to the status of 'one of the great men of history' is flawed, in my opinion.
The same holds true for every other person you named. They were HUMAN, not gods. They had flaws and foibles, made errors, and in MOST cases had competitors who were neck and neck with them in their discoveries.
Try not to be blinded to reality by your zealous pursuit of your belief system, ok?
If an OS is available as source code it stands to reason (no Spider Robinson jokes here, please) that it will have more reported bugs. If the code is closed, as it is in Micro$oft products, not all the bugs will be findable. Open source code allows people to find and FIX bugs - closed code just allows them to FIND them, normally when your vitally important document/server/application crashes....
Actually, the Centris 610 was released in 1993. The original NeXTStation (which was known as the 'pizza box') was released in 1990, three years before Apple's slab.
Another example of industrial theft? You be the judge.:)
I know the present PPO, and I can tell you that he's competent, capable, and professional. He's also a pompous egomaniacal git. Having worked with him for three years I think it's my right to say that.
Interesting, if somewhat misguided point. As a point of fact, there *are* universities where you pay computer access fees - I attended one. We paid a not inconsequential fee for computer use, as well as another one for library use, another for sports facility use.... the list goes on. I don't know if Oxford charges computer use fees, but you should check your facts before making blanket statements.....
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I think the Internet Advertising Bureau needs to release browser plug-ins that remove all content EXCEPT for ads on web pages. I'm tired of finding all that irrelevant information on the pages I browse. I'd much rather have all those lovely ads to browse without having to hunt for them through all that *shudder* information.
-drin
>As a matter of fact, if you cut a tuna, it will not bleed. This is because tuna do not have blood.
Really? That's odd - why is it that I have to spend time washing all the blood off the deck of my boat after a day of tuna fishing? I know it's not *my* blood......
-drin
Except that it's "I am", not "I'm"....
Ever read Penrose's 'The Emperor's New Mind'? It covers the teleportation duality dilemma in some depth. Even more mind-warping is what would happen if the original wasn't destroyed. Which is the real person, the one sent or the one received?
DNIS actually stands for Dialed Number Identification Service. It's commonly used in call centers where you want a screen pop to an operator's station which switches contextually with the number the caller dialed....
-drin
I dunno.... any AI InfoBot that can not only discern the question the sender asked and answer it appropriately, but can also tell that they're violating the TOS from the sender's email account provider has *GOT* to be pretty amazing!
I know *I'd* buy from LinuxOne, based on their ability to create such a phenomenal bot alone!
-drin
Having worked in Woods Hole for three years, I can tell you that it isn't NEARLY as cool as it sounds from the web pages. The system is working, and the buoy farm offshore makes for a highly effective testbed, but the complications associated with satellite delivery of data from floating buoys make the data connections tenuous at best, and horrible at worst. Ever try to deliver data to a satellite from a floating ocean buoy when it's raining? Don't bother.....
Oh, by the way....
I also picked up a pair of Paradigm bidirectional tower speakers at the same time. They were about $450 for the pair, I believe, and they've made all the difference in the world to my movie viewing experience. The sound from bi-directional towers is something to behold (behear?).
-drin
I have a Yamaha receiver (similar to the RXV-596 but a little older) with 5.1 output and optical input. My Sony DVD and laserdisc players both have optical output, which is nice. The one thing I would have changed is to get a receiver that does video switching as well as audio. At the time I purchased the video switching version of my receiver was $300 more and I decided it was more than I needed. I wish now I had gone ahead and bought it. It's not a huge deal to switch the video inputs through my TV, but it's an extra step I'd rather not go through. It's also annoying for people trying to figure out how to switch my components to the right mode...
-drin
There are a number of problems with the concept of digital assistants in medicine. I worked in the field for some time and ran into all of them...
o Resistance
But I've *always* done it this way
o Portability
How do you move from patient to patient and
get data into a centralized database reliably?
o Reliability & Security
Medical data must be valid, authenticated, and
readily available. Having a system crash when
you're evaluating someone's heart condition is
unacceptable.
o Legal considerations
Doctors' notes are considered as legal
documents when looking at medical malpractice
and other legal-medical collisions. How do you
verify that the electronic format is the same
as the paper one when there *is* no paper one?
There are more, of course, but these are the big ones I ran into time and again. The bottom line is that while Hippocrates and other PDA software packages are useful, the likelihood of the medical profession accepting the widespread use of portable technology for medical data entry and retrieval is slim anytime soon.
Was anyone else repulsed reading this story, or am I the only one? A $107,000 van? 300 gpm shower? Swimming pool-sized subwoofer? Here's a message for the rich boys and girls with more money than brains: you need to learn that there's more to happiness than playing 'My home theater screen is bigger than your home theater screen'. Perhaps even make the lives of others better, rather than adding another plasma screen in the bathroom so that you can watch Matrix while flossing....
Actually, that would be Shoe-nix.
Actually, this is not the case. I was born in Scotland but my family emigrated to Canada when I was young, so I hold dual EU/Canadian citizenship. Being a citizen of a Commonwealth member nation has no bearing on job applications. I've seen this in effect with jobs in the UK, the Continent, and Australia. My EU citizenship was of great help in that regard, while my Canadian citizenship didn't do anything to assist me. -drin
You're absolutely right! I'm from Canada, although I was born in the UK. I have been in the US for five years on a succession of TN visas. I have recently obtained an H1B visa with the intention of obtaining a green card, only to discover what the backlog for green card applications was. I'm now concerned that even though I have six years on my H1B it may not be enough.
By the way, no-one seems to have mentioned that the people on TN and H1B visas pay taxes in this country, but aren't eligible to vote. Didn't you Americans have a war over that sometime in the recent geologic past?
I used to work for a corporation that had an official policy of not giving old computers to staff or charity. Instead they stored them in a warehouse gathering dust. This was done because of a fear of litigation from the EPA if their machines were ever found in a landfill. They claimed they knew of a corporation that was sued by the EPA after machines they had given to a church were discarded in a landfill. It was really sad to see machines less than six months old sitting on a shelf knowing no-one would ever get any use out of them...
Interesting, but flawed in a major way.... the premise that 'if person XXX didn't invent/discover it no-one else would have'.
Perhaps you didn't know it, but Newton had competitors in most of his major endeavors. Liebniz is credited with having invented the calculus if not BEFORE Newton, then at the same time. It has been discovered that the Royal Society's verdict on the discovery of the calculus (which stated Newton had invented it) was actually written by Newton himself!
As John Maynard Keynes said "Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the Magicians...". Did you know he spent the last few decades of his life immersed in the occult and in the futile attempt to transmutate lead into gold? That he believed the gravitational pull among the planets would cause the solar system to break up?
He was an intelligent man, yes. But to elevate him to the status of 'one of the great men of history' is flawed, in my opinion.
The same holds true for every other person you named. They were HUMAN, not gods. They had flaws and foibles, made errors, and in MOST cases had competitors who were neck and neck with them in their discoveries.
Try not to be blinded to reality by your zealous pursuit of your belief system, ok?
If an OS is available as source code it stands to reason (no Spider Robinson jokes here, please) that it will have more reported bugs. If the code is closed, as it is in Micro$oft products, not all the bugs will be findable. Open source code allows people to find and FIX bugs - closed code just allows them to FIND them, normally when your vitally important document/server/application crashes....
Actually, the Centris 610 was released in 1993. The original NeXTStation (which was known as the 'pizza box') was released in 1990, three years before Apple's slab.
:)
Another example of industrial theft? You be the judge.
2000 Apple announces Apple Cube
2001 Apple announces Apple Slab - fondly known as the 'G6 pizza box'
2003 Apple ceases hardware production - 'Hardware is a commodity' says Jobs.
'Software is the key differentiator'
2005 Apple acquired by HP - Jobs to become chair of 'new, revitalized' company.
And so on, and so on.....
Actually, Asterix was a Gaul, not French....
I know the present PPO, and I can tell you that he's competent, capable, and professional. He's also a pompous egomaniacal git. Having worked with him for three years I think it's my right to say that.
James?? James!! Quit amplifying your sister's DNA and eat your dinner! NOW, young man!
Interesting, if somewhat misguided point. As a point of fact, there *are* universities where you pay computer access fees - I attended one. We paid a not inconsequential fee for computer use, as well as another one for library use, another for sports facility use.... the list goes on. I don't know if Oxford charges computer use fees, but you should check your facts before making blanket statements.....