a lot of you kids seem to forget that. they went to jail, they walked for miles rather than take the bus and they were beat up by rednecks.
Exactly.
The only way to break insane IP "rules" about copyright (which should be 17 years with one renewal by the Person who is the author) and patents (which should be 13 years with one renewal by the Person who is the author) and "who owns stuff" is to crash the system.
Hence my agreement that, for capturing medications, electronic data capture is essential, due to risks of errors.
At some point in the process we convert things into electronic form, but we also have paper as well. Even electronic data capture of medications has proven problematic - coding does not allow us to ascertain specific brand restrictions, or exact measurement and dosage. PRN - prescribed as needed - presents difficulties, and the patients themselves frequently substitute or alter dosage levels due to financial considerations. The reliability of such data has led us to track indication (that a drug is prescribed) more than exact dosage, for example. We do capture it, but it is not reliable in practice.
While we are finding that medications, drugs, and various substances in fact are reduced in error rates due to adoption of electronic forms, due to table lookups and the lack of data corruption on transcription, it is not always a panacea.
For data capture of patient histories, especially in medical research, due to the complexity and fallibility of the humans involved - our source data, if you will - we find that paper records sometimes are better at allowing us to capture a more correct record of what is happening.
Hence some of the resistance.
Some of the electronic forms take longer to record data with, and slow down patient/doctor communication and observation. Some of the electronic forms incorrectly presume that the patient has all their limbs, or that data is correct as first given. We have a lot of problems with veterans in terms of such data.
But that's my personal observation.
Just because you can capture things electronically, doesn't mean it's always the best method.
A substantial number of posts are literal duplicates by known spambots.
You could store those separately as well as the Retweets (RTs).
Then, think about what typically gets posted.
Most might be something like 520,000 variations on "Touchdown!" or "That's gotta hurt!" during sporting events, or "It's snowing!"
A lot of the rest are probably repeats of what someone just said on Comedy Network or during a TV program. They will all be at about the same time in a region and be substantially the same thing, with 50,000 mispelt variations.
Add the ACs and it's a lot smaller than you think. Most of the rest of that are still duplicates of something somebody else wrote, but without attribution.
Look, I don't know about you, but we process hundreds of TB of data when we process genomes, using this fancy stuff called "databases", "hash indexing", and fancy software that may be hard for you to find like Perl, C, and various scripting languages.
It's fairly simple coding. Just build an index hash from keywords (which are all preceded by #), add another index by words (ignoring all the bit.ly and other web links), add a third index by @ reference (aka user names, which are really just a 20 character part of an SMS message), and go to town.
We do it every day.
Now, you've got a few extra complexities, we tend to use GACT and similar short codes, but we also have to add skips, nulls, misreads, ambiguities, so it's usually 8 symbols and you're looking at an extended ASCII power.
Still, you're getting obsessed with the size (which is nothing compared to a genome, and we have drives much much bigger than that).
Just do it and stop thinking it's "hard". It isn't. Buy a decent Perl book for Biochemistry or Genetics and get cracking. We wrote most of the code you'll need to build new libraries from.
Most of them don't even have an irish dedicated website. They are pathetic. It's like passing a decree that makes people owing me $300 if they ever whisper my name in their car. There. Be warned.
I am a Prince in Nairobi and we whispered your name in the limousine. We want to send you the money we owe you. Could you please send us your bank routing number and signature so we can do so?
Maybe if Ireland just collected taxes from Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and other internet firms that claim to be "arts" and locate themselves in Ireland, they wouldn't have to go after poor people to infill for rich people's tax avoidance?
Other nations have print media subsidies. Smart online papers provide buffered news service - realtime or developing to subscribers, time delayed or AP wire to non-subscribers. It's not hard.
the mud flow turned into hot ash scurf that flowed over Lake Washington and into Puget Sound, literally burning half of Mercer Island.
Horribly burned, choked with ash, unable to move, unable to see, and hot rocks falling on your head. Even if you got on a boat, it would likely capsize from the weight of the ash, if you didn't die before you got out of range.
Look, we have disaster plans at King County for this. I'm just telling you what will happen, at some point. Your failure to take it seriously is part of why you would never survive.
I live in Seattle. The last time Mount Rainier went it pushed boulders the size of mansions down the river flood plains where now 250,000 people live.
They'll still die if it goes off today.
And the people of Pompei could tell you what hot ash from a nearby volcano will do to you, as your lungs burn out. It's full of hot cinders and rocks too.
But live in your fantasy world if you wish. You still can't drive fast enough to escape it, because everyone else will try to do the same thing, and a bicycle will go faster than you will. Of course, the bicycle won't get far.
If one of the active volcanoes go (e.g. Portland, Seattle), most people would die anyway, so no sense freaking them out.
Most people would just get on the highways, gridlock, and never have a chance to escape. Hot mud flows faster than you can drive, so you can't outrace it, or the ash scurf that would cover all the former flood plains, only way would be to drive on side streets up to the top of a ridge, and virtually nobody will do that, so what's the point? We don't even have enough helicopter lift capacity to rescue the schoolkids we're supposed to rescue when that happens.
The more of you believe there is no Mayan Apocolypse, the fewer people crowding me from pole position when I catch the wave after the Mayan Apocolypse and surf safely to land.
Oh, and if you could keep it down when you're dying, I'd appreciate it, cause screams really harsh my mellow.
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a lot of you kids seem to forget that. they went to jail, they walked for miles rather than take the bus and they were beat up by rednecks.
Exactly.
The only way to break insane IP "rules" about copyright (which should be 17 years with one renewal by the Person who is the author) and patents (which should be 13 years with one renewal by the Person who is the author) and "who owns stuff" is to crash the system.
Information just wants to be free.
Hah! If you live in England, "peer review" is The Sun pouring scorn on the private lives of the members of House of Lords.
What's the half-life of scorn?
You know, at the rate those questioning this discovery are going, they'll next demand peer review.
If I wanted to be questioned by a bunch of nobility appointed by the Queen, I'd live in England. Or maybe Wales.
Hence my agreement that, for capturing medications, electronic data capture is essential, due to risks of errors.
At some point in the process we convert things into electronic form, but we also have paper as well. Even electronic data capture of medications has proven problematic - coding does not allow us to ascertain specific brand restrictions, or exact measurement and dosage. PRN - prescribed as needed - presents difficulties, and the patients themselves frequently substitute or alter dosage levels due to financial considerations. The reliability of such data has led us to track indication (that a drug is prescribed) more than exact dosage, for example. We do capture it, but it is not reliable in practice.
While we are finding that medications, drugs, and various substances in fact are reduced in error rates due to adoption of electronic forms, due to table lookups and the lack of data corruption on transcription, it is not always a panacea.
For data capture of patient histories, especially in medical research, due to the complexity and fallibility of the humans involved - our source data, if you will - we find that paper records sometimes are better at allowing us to capture a more correct record of what is happening.
Hence some of the resistance.
Some of the electronic forms take longer to record data with, and slow down patient/doctor communication and observation. Some of the electronic forms incorrectly presume that the patient has all their limbs, or that data is correct as first given. We have a lot of problems with veterans in terms of such data.
But that's my personal observation.
Just because you can capture things electronically, doesn't mean it's always the best method.
"In droves" not "in troves."
Perhaps that was a reference to the treasure troves of looted art the execs thought to steal from the artist creators?
Thus, troves would be correct.
Obviously, it was caused by an inaccuracy in the data.
The data that the execs thought indicated they could steal other people's work of art.
Say bye bye!
A substantial number of posts are literal duplicates by known spambots.
You could store those separately as well as the Retweets (RTs).
Then, think about what typically gets posted.
Most might be something like 520,000 variations on "Touchdown!" or "That's gotta hurt!" during sporting events, or "It's snowing!"
A lot of the rest are probably repeats of what someone just said on Comedy Network or during a TV program. They will all be at about the same time in a region and be substantially the same thing, with 50,000 mispelt variations.
Add the ACs and it's a lot smaller than you think. Most of the rest of that are still duplicates of something somebody else wrote, but without attribution.
The average life of an inane conversation used to be maybe 15 minutes. I'm not sure the world is a better place for having extended that.
In the old days of USENET, conversation threads used to run for weeks, sometimes months, actually.
Not minutes.
of course, back then, we actually knew who everyone was, and could ping and finger them.
We literally had to buy a French keyboard for one of our grad students to keep him productive.
Way cheaper than "training" him.
Not everything is a gesture, unless you use the middle digit when communicating with Ballmer.
Without the Chair throwing enabled, touch screens such as Win 8 are an Epic Fail.
If you can't shout at someone and throw your Win 8 tablet at the wall, you quickly run out of chairs.
Right, Monkey Boy Ballmer?
Look, I don't know about you, but we process hundreds of TB of data when we process genomes, using this fancy stuff called "databases", "hash indexing", and fancy software that may be hard for you to find like Perl, C, and various scripting languages.
It's fairly simple coding. Just build an index hash from keywords (which are all preceded by #), add another index by words (ignoring all the bit.ly and other web links), add a third index by @ reference (aka user names, which are really just a 20 character part of an SMS message), and go to town.
We do it every day.
Now, you've got a few extra complexities, we tend to use GACT and similar short codes, but we also have to add skips, nulls, misreads, ambiguities, so it's usually 8 symbols and you're looking at an extended ASCII power.
Still, you're getting obsessed with the size (which is nothing compared to a genome, and we have drives much much bigger than that).
Just do it and stop thinking it's "hard". It isn't. Buy a decent Perl book for Biochemistry or Genetics and get cracking. We wrote most of the code you'll need to build new libraries from.
Are gun makers responsible for how their guns are used? :)
Of course not.
Now hold still while I use this street sweeper autopump shotgun on you and empty the magazine.
after all, both Google and Zynga do gambling too.
Most of them don't even have an irish dedicated website. They are pathetic. It's like passing a decree that makes people owing me $300 if they ever whisper my name in their car. There. Be warned.
I am a Prince in Nairobi and we whispered your name in the limousine. We want to send you the money we owe you. Could you please send us your bank routing number and signature so we can do so?
Maybe if Ireland just collected taxes from Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and other internet firms that claim to be "arts" and locate themselves in Ireland, they wouldn't have to go after poor people to infill for rich people's tax avoidance?
Other nations have print media subsidies. Smart online papers provide buffered news service - realtime or developing to subscribers, time delayed or AP wire to non-subscribers. It's not hard.
Unless it was a delivery vehicle that destroyed its traces.
I used to write those back in the 80s. One code to deliver. One code to clean up. Then it looks like it was only the latter.
You call it malware.
I call it a black ops program using my US tax dollars to attack Iran's nuclear weapons program.
Potato. Tater.
Same diff.
Obviously, someone at Samsung realized that the EU is likely to reform patents, and disallow all their patents as a result.
The fact is, they intended to sell them.
When they do it is another detail.
Trust? About as far as we trusted the Soviets.
the mud flow turned into hot ash scurf that flowed over Lake Washington and into Puget Sound, literally burning half of Mercer Island.
Horribly burned, choked with ash, unable to move, unable to see, and hot rocks falling on your head. Even if you got on a boat, it would likely capsize from the weight of the ash, if you didn't die before you got out of range.
Look, we have disaster plans at King County for this. I'm just telling you what will happen, at some point. Your failure to take it seriously is part of why you would never survive.
I live in Seattle. The last time Mount Rainier went it pushed boulders the size of mansions down the river flood plains where now 250,000 people live.
They'll still die if it goes off today.
And the people of Pompei could tell you what hot ash from a nearby volcano will do to you, as your lungs burn out. It's full of hot cinders and rocks too.
But live in your fantasy world if you wish. You still can't drive fast enough to escape it, because everyone else will try to do the same thing, and a bicycle will go faster than you will. Of course, the bicycle won't get far.
Actually, in some ways, we do that all the time.
If one of the active volcanoes go (e.g. Portland, Seattle), most people would die anyway, so no sense freaking them out.
Most people would just get on the highways, gridlock, and never have a chance to escape. Hot mud flows faster than you can drive, so you can't outrace it, or the ash scurf that would cover all the former flood plains, only way would be to drive on side streets up to the top of a ridge, and virtually nobody will do that, so what's the point? We don't even have enough helicopter lift capacity to rescue the schoolkids we're supposed to rescue when that happens.
This and our complete inability to embrace the metric system are one of the few things I'll accept that Europeans are right about.
Metric system?
Heck, we don't even have high speed trains.
The more of you believe there is no Mayan Apocolypse, the fewer people crowding me from pole position when I catch the wave after the Mayan Apocolypse and surf safely to land.
Oh, and if you could keep it down when you're dying, I'd appreciate it, cause screams really harsh my mellow.