I work at a Radiology Center and I can confirm this. As near as I can tell, the CT and MRI machines run some Unix variant, but the front office, Radiologist, etc. all use XP.
There are terrible, terrible intercommunication problems between the branches. If you're getting an MRI of your brain to test for a tumor, you better wish the front desk good luck with getting it to the Neuroradiologist to be read.
Even scarier is that every patient's personal information including address and SSN are stored locally on machines with fucking spyware all over the place.
I actually play Tekken 5 pretty comptetively (well, local tournaments), and trust me when I say that DOA4 looks MUCH better. As one of the others said, screenshots don't do its graphics justice.
IIRC, grass is a sort of flowering plant, which didn't come about for a while. Possibly after the extinction of dinos. Kind of hard to think of nowadays, seeing how grass is kind of ubiquitous.
Hash functions in file sharing are not used for security.
They are used to ensure the file didn't become corrupted in transfer. SHA-1 is perfectly fine for this.
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I find it odd that you think about people in terms of percent of world population, not absolute numbers.
Think about it. Even your (probably way too low) numbers give 80 million deaths.
That is more people than you have ever met, and will ever meet. That is probably more people than you've flown over in an airplane. Have you ever stood in the middle of a New York street and seen countless people around you, so many that each face starts to look the same?
Take each one of those myriad people. You probably saw them for a few seconds. Try and stuff every experience you've had and emotion you've felt into one of them. You probably can't do it. You'll get a headache trying, or your not trying hard enough.
AW:DS, Castlevania DS, Jump Superstars, and probably the soon-to-be-released Mario Kart DS are all better than the PSP game library. Looking at upcoming releases for the PSP I see two good games: Prince of Persia and Guilty Gear Judgement, as well as JP only Tales of Eternia. What the PSP has now is garbage, with two exceptions.
After all, you can only play so much Lumines.
I'm not a Nintendo fanboy either -- I own all three consoles, and my PS2 gets much more play than either of the others. But the GC has also had several incredible games: SSBM, Metroid Prime, and RE4 are all great. Fire Emblem 9 is pretty nostalgic, and a decent SRPG, though Disgaea and FFT are better. Xbox has Ninja Gaiden (Black), which is genius, and Halo, which is pretty decent.
As for the DS being cheap, it certainly is much cheaper than the PSP. Its also several orders of magnitude more scratch resistant, and durable.
Where is the new part? Looking at my 1998 Evolutionary Biology textbook (Evolutionary Analysis 2nd Edition, Scott Freeman & Jon C. Herron, Prentice Hall Publishing) they make several mentions of CCR5-delta32 inhibiting AIDs almost completely in several cases, and references a 1996 study by Michael Samsom et. al. (who discovered the allele).
In fact, they use this very case as a demonstration for more than half of the book.
They mention that the allele is virtually non-existent outside of Northern Europe, and cite this as the most plausible explanation:
...The allele was created by a unique mutuation that occurred in Europe within the last several hundred years. And the allele does not occur outside Europe either because the mutation creating it has never occurred in a non-European population or because when the mutation hasoccurred outside Europe, it has not been favored by selection....
One intriguing possibility is bubonic plague, the disease responsible for the Black Death that swept Europe during the 14th Century, killing between one quarter and one half of the population. Bubonic plague is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. Perhaps the delta32 allele also protects against Yersinia pestis. As of this writing, the bubonic plague hypothesis is being tested by researchers in the laboratory of Stanley Falkow at Stanford University...
For PBS to be calling this "new" seems almost fraudulent.
For the people questioning the mutation's negative effects; having CCR5-delta32 means that you have no CCR5 on the surface of your white blood cells.
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You don't understand the joke, apparently.
You're awesome.
I work at a Radiology Center and I can confirm this. As near as I can tell, the CT and MRI machines run some Unix variant, but the front office, Radiologist, etc. all use XP. There are terrible, terrible intercommunication problems between the branches. If you're getting an MRI of your brain to test for a tumor, you better wish the front desk good luck with getting it to the Neuroradiologist to be read. Even scarier is that every patient's personal information including address and SSN are stored locally on machines with fucking spyware all over the place.
I actually play Tekken 5 pretty comptetively (well, local tournaments), and trust me when I say that DOA4 looks MUCH better. As one of the others said, screenshots don't do its graphics justice.
It's a Yahoo article. What did you expect?
I knew it! Finally, proof that Mortal Kombat is a pure button masher.
Actually, its even worse. They used a 500 mhz test machine.
God you're a dumbass.
Dude, you run WiTendoFi.com? That's awesome.
Man, I wish I could mod you +infinity. That's gotta be the best comment I've ever read on Slashdot.
You can't... really... remove the boot loader. You have to, you know, replace it.
IIRC, grass is a sort of flowering plant, which didn't come about for a while. Possibly after the extinction of dinos. Kind of hard to think of nowadays, seeing how grass is kind of ubiquitous.
Well, for one its not a blackthing. If you don't even know what it looks like, I wonder how you've determined if its "overhyped."
You can't make an arbitrary hash. P2P is fine.
Hash functions in file sharing are not used for security. They are used to ensure the file didn't become corrupted in transfer. SHA-1 is perfectly fine for this.
I find it odd that you think about people in terms of percent of world population, not absolute numbers.
Think about it. Even your (probably way too low) numbers give 80 million deaths.
That is more people than you have ever met, and will ever meet. That is probably more people than you've flown over in an airplane. Have you ever stood in the middle of a New York street and seen countless people around you, so many that each face starts to look the same?
Take each one of those myriad people. You probably saw them for a few seconds. Try and stuff every experience you've had and emotion you've felt into one of them. You probably can't do it. You'll get a headache trying, or your not trying hard enough.
Now do that 80 million times.
Dumbass.
* Most people take hot soapy showers every day...
Well, not on Slashdot...
Wow. You have a lot of shitty games.
As much content as Digg has, the comment system is a joke, and the people on there are immature idiots with nothing relevant to say.
Wait... who modded that "Insightful"...
It should be +5 Funny
*sigh*
Gran Turismo > Forza.
DS > PSP
AW:DS, Castlevania DS, Jump Superstars, and probably the soon-to-be-released Mario Kart DS are all better than the PSP game library. Looking at upcoming releases for the PSP I see two good games: Prince of Persia and Guilty Gear Judgement, as well as JP only Tales of Eternia. What the PSP has now is garbage, with two exceptions.
After all, you can only play so much Lumines.
I'm not a Nintendo fanboy either -- I own all three consoles, and my PS2 gets much more play than either of the others. But the GC has also had several incredible games: SSBM, Metroid Prime, and RE4 are all great. Fire Emblem 9 is pretty nostalgic, and a decent SRPG, though Disgaea and FFT are better. Xbox has Ninja Gaiden (Black), which is genius, and Halo, which is pretty decent.
As for the DS being cheap, it certainly is much cheaper than the PSP. Its also several orders of magnitude more scratch resistant, and durable.
It looks nice. And it works. I don't see what's second rate about it. Admittedly I like http://www.google.com/ig better, but the colors are fugly.
If MS keeps developing awesome stuff like this, then go Bill. Weee.
Plus I get a warm and fuzzy feeling using "Windows Live" from Linux.
In fact, they use this very case as a demonstration for more than half of the book.
They mention that the allele is virtually non-existent outside of Northern Europe, and cite this as the most plausible explanation: For PBS to be calling this "new" seems almost fraudulent.
For the people questioning the mutation's negative effects; having CCR5-delta32 means that you have no CCR5 on the surface of your white blood cells.
Partial Birth Abortion = Strawman FTW!
Sounds like the medical industry. Maybe E&O won't be as exorbantly expensive as malpractice insurance.