You're going to put your thumb on the end of a tube that has a patient's blood at the other end? Not exactly good sterile technique.
I have a few friends who are doctors, one was telling me recently of how he's the only doctor in his ward on nightshifts, and at some point he may have to re-open a surgical wound to look at a heart if there is a serious problem with one of the patients. He mentioned that he may actually just have to stop a leak with his finger until proper help arrives, which I found a little strange, but practical.
It's true, you would fall under the "Anomalous trichromacy" rather than "dichromacy" category, but they only put up pics for dichromacy, where one of the colour receptors is completely missing. Still, it's quite possible for partially red-green colour blind people to confuse red and green lights despite what Tom Hudson said.. maybe not if the two lights were next to each other, but if they were shown on their own.
I generally agree with your sentiment of planning ahead, and often leave my phone behind if I've already pre-arranged plans with people, but how are phones any better than IM or email in terms of distraction?
You can't really defer a phone call without then getting into voice mail territory, which is way more annoying (and time consuming) than just reading an email. And a proper phone conversation requires input from two people simultaneously, rather than one person being able to go and do some work while the other person thinks and types up a response.
But those pictures are designed for people with normal vision to get an idea of colour blindness, not for colour blind people to get an idea of colour blindness. To accurately portray colour blindness to you, they just need to show a normal chromatic scale..
If a locking head needs to attach to a patient line now, i'm sure that comparing colors could add unneeded time to compare and contrast a color scheme.
If by locking head you just mean something to cap the tube, I doubt that would matter so much. Besides, you could just put your thumb over the top until you find the right colour - seriously, how long does it take your brain to match 2 colours together? I bet I could find an object of matching colour much faster than I could find an object of matching shape or size.
I think colour coding alone would be enough, and way more cost effective than having different types of tubes for everything. Well apart from for the male nurses, who are far more likely to be colour blind..
First one, but thanks. I've downloaded a few songs in my time that clearly weren't by who the tagger claimed they were, didn't realise that was one of them..
I remember playing one of the Kings Quest games briefly as a kid, and I'd quite like to try out the whole series. Oldskool point and click mechanics are way more fun than the way the latest Monkey Island games have been doing it, they mean you have to actually use your eyes to explore rather than just press a button to scroll through a list of interactive items..
How the hell can they expect to make generic screen readers illegal? These generic screen readers should be able to read anything on the screen too via OCR, even if they're not legally allowed to read directly via the file format.
Damnit, the crazy reachings of rich entities facing the extinction of their outdated business models are so frustrating.
Judging by his homepage, I think perhaps all of his communications with the outside world should be mediated by healthcare professionals. That video was almost weirder than the intro to Katamari Forever.
Surely if you're already porting your game to OSX then it wouldn't take too much more to port to Linux? Maybe one or two extra guys.
I definitely fall into the category that you talk about. And most people don't even realise how much of a geek I am unless I actually point it out to them.
Is there any decent equivalent of WINE for OSX on Linux? I've found http://mac-on-linux.sourceforge.net/ but it looks pretty inactive. I have read here that many Source based games work fine on WINE anyway these days, but it seems like OSX would be easier to stay compatible with than Windows. I don't really know the actual differences between BSD and Linux though. But even the fact that games should have a decent OpenGL mode to work seems like a good start (I have had the impression over the years that keeping up with new DirectX releases causes the majority of problems when running games on WINE).
It's like having a million horsepower car.. it might sound impressive, but if you try using any significant portion of it, you're just going to be sat in the same place, with your tyres melted into a nice puddle..
Games For Windows was a flunk, but if they got games [..] integrated properly with the Media Centre [..] there wouldn't be any reason to have a console anymore
For some people, the fact that it's made by Microsoft is enough reason to not want to use it. Their products are slowly getting better, but they still have a long way to go before I will consider feeding the beast again. I'd rather just watch them die.
Though clearly Sony are going down the toilet too, but I still hate them less than Microsoft, and at least I still get a lot of enjoyment out of their products. Windows has always just felt tacky to me compared to my upbringing on Amigas and Macs.
They (we) will be very happy, but it won't come out as more money to the company.
It could easily come out as more money for Valve though. Even if the most they did was make sure that all new games run well in WINE I'd be happy with that.
I switched to gaming on PS3 a couple of years ago because I was completely sick of Windows and the only thing stopping me from being rid of it was my collection of games. When I heard that they were bringing out Steam for Linux, I started looking into setting up a gaming rig again.. but after this news, I'm not going to bother
I might still set up an old machine and play the games I already have on Steam via WINE (since apparently all the games I used to enjoy like CS:S actually work fine on WINE these days), but I won't be buying any of the latest titles at full price via Steam, because there's little chance of them workng on my machine. If any new game is worth playing my only real option right now is console gaming. In fact apart from the ongoing lack of decent mouse and keyboard support in most console FPSes, I do prefer the console experience overall..
There is nothing on Linux that come near the [...] ease of installation and use of the free apps
Have you even used a major Linux distribution in the last couple of years? It's amazingly easy to install free apps in any distro that has a package manager linked to online repositories. Try out Ubuntu sometime and look around the "Software Center". When you find an app you like, you click install, you type in your password and it downloads and installs everything for you. You can't really get any more ease of installation without skipping basic security measures.
For most "office" type work, and various kinds of more technical work such as software development and certain branches of engineering, Linux is great. Up until recently the thing that was stopping me from using it for work was lack of an email client that played nicely with Exchange Server, but Evolution has been passable for the last couple of years, and since Ubuntu 10.04 it's pretty damn solid:)
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You're going to put your thumb on the end of a tube that has a patient's blood at the other end? Not exactly good sterile technique.
I have a few friends who are doctors, one was telling me recently of how he's the only doctor in his ward on nightshifts, and at some point he may have to re-open a surgical wound to look at a heart if there is a serious problem with one of the patients. He mentioned that he may actually just have to stop a leak with his finger until proper help arrives, which I found a little strange, but practical.
It's true, you would fall under the "Anomalous trichromacy" rather than "dichromacy" category, but they only put up pics for dichromacy, where one of the colour receptors is completely missing. Still, it's quite possible for partially red-green colour blind people to confuse red and green lights despite what Tom Hudson said.. maybe not if the two lights were next to each other, but if they were shown on their own.
I generally agree with your sentiment of planning ahead, and often leave my phone behind if I've already pre-arranged plans with people, but how are phones any better than IM or email in terms of distraction?
You can't really defer a phone call without then getting into voice mail territory, which is way more annoying (and time consuming) than just reading an email. And a proper phone conversation requires input from two people simultaneously, rather than one person being able to go and do some work while the other person thinks and types up a response.
But those pictures are designed for people with normal vision to get an idea of colour blindness, not for colour blind people to get an idea of colour blindness. To accurately portray colour blindness to you, they just need to show a normal chromatic scale..
I dunno.. if you look at the protanopia and deuteranopia pics on the wiki page for colour blindness, they look pretty difficult to tell apart to me.
If a locking head needs to attach to a patient line now, i'm sure that comparing colors could add unneeded time to compare and contrast a color scheme.
If by locking head you just mean something to cap the tube, I doubt that would matter so much. Besides, you could just put your thumb over the top until you find the right colour - seriously, how long does it take your brain to match 2 colours together? I bet I could find an object of matching colour much faster than I could find an object of matching shape or size.
I think colour coding alone would be enough, and way more cost effective than having different types of tubes for everything. Well apart from for the male nurses, who are far more likely to be colour blind..
finally playboy can add video's to their magazine!
www.playboy.com + Mobile Internet Device
Adding videos to their magazine is like adding apostrophes to words that don't need them.
First one, but thanks. I've downloaded a few songs in my time that clearly weren't by who the tagger claimed they were, didn't realise that was one of them..
Maybe he's Twitter's twin - the one that actually likes Microsoft.
Weird Al's Windows 95 song now seems even funnier to me after seeing the commercial in the summary. I don't remember seeing that here in the UK.
Thanks, those are both great links :)
I remember playing one of the Kings Quest games briefly as a kid, and I'd quite like to try out the whole series. Oldskool point and click mechanics are way more fun than the way the latest Monkey Island games have been doing it, they mean you have to actually use your eyes to explore rather than just press a button to scroll through a list of interactive items..
Probably depends whether "British Summer Time" is in effect.
So now Oracle have bought God too? Damn.
How the hell can they expect to make generic screen readers illegal? These generic screen readers should be able to read anything on the screen too via OCR, even if they're not legally allowed to read directly via the file format.
Damnit, the crazy reachings of rich entities facing the extinction of their outdated business models are so frustrating.
Judging by his homepage, I think perhaps all of his communications with the outside world should be mediated by healthcare professionals. That video was almost weirder than the intro to Katamari Forever.
Abstaining from mushrooms would be a good first step to learning new tricks.
Everyone who uses linux and plays big-name games already either has a windows PC, or a dual boot of windows.
Or, a console.
Surely if you're already porting your game to OSX then it wouldn't take too much more to port to Linux? Maybe one or two extra guys.
I definitely fall into the category that you talk about. And most people don't even realise how much of a geek I am unless I actually point it out to them.
Is there any decent equivalent of WINE for OSX on Linux? I've found http://mac-on-linux.sourceforge.net/ but it looks pretty inactive. I have read here that many Source based games work fine on WINE anyway these days, but it seems like OSX would be easier to stay compatible with than Windows. I don't really know the actual differences between BSD and Linux though. But even the fact that games should have a decent OpenGL mode to work seems like a good start (I have had the impression over the years that keeping up with new DirectX releases causes the majority of problems when running games on WINE).
Slashdot has not made me laugh out loud for quite some time.
Well played, sir.
Why game on a tiny 24" monitor when we can use the 52 in the living room and the 7.1 surround sound that has 4500 watts and is properly set up...
He asked the question, so we gave him the (rather obvious) answer! There is nothing there that requires playing on console rather than PC.
It's like having a million horsepower car.. it might sound impressive, but if you try using any significant portion of it, you're just going to be sat in the same place, with your tyres melted into a nice puddle..
Games For Windows was a flunk, but if they got games [..] integrated properly with the Media Centre [..] there wouldn't be any reason to have a console anymore
For some people, the fact that it's made by Microsoft is enough reason to not want to use it. Their products are slowly getting better, but they still have a long way to go before I will consider feeding the beast again. I'd rather just watch them die.
Though clearly Sony are going down the toilet too, but I still hate them less than Microsoft, and at least I still get a lot of enjoyment out of their products. Windows has always just felt tacky to me compared to my upbringing on Amigas and Macs.
They (we) will be very happy, but it won't come out as more money to the company.
It could easily come out as more money for Valve though. Even if the most they did was make sure that all new games run well in WINE I'd be happy with that.
I switched to gaming on PS3 a couple of years ago because I was completely sick of Windows and the only thing stopping me from being rid of it was my collection of games. When I heard that they were bringing out Steam for Linux, I started looking into setting up a gaming rig again.. but after this news, I'm not going to bother
I might still set up an old machine and play the games I already have on Steam via WINE (since apparently all the games I used to enjoy like CS:S actually work fine on WINE these days), but I won't be buying any of the latest titles at full price via Steam, because there's little chance of them workng on my machine. If any new game is worth playing my only real option right now is console gaming. In fact apart from the ongoing lack of decent mouse and keyboard support in most console FPSes, I do prefer the console experience overall..
There is nothing on Linux that come near the [...] ease of installation and use of the free apps
Have you even used a major Linux distribution in the last couple of years? It's amazingly easy to install free apps in any distro that has a package manager linked to online repositories. Try out Ubuntu sometime and look around the "Software Center". When you find an app you like, you click install, you type in your password and it downloads and installs everything for you. You can't really get any more ease of installation without skipping basic security measures.
For most "office" type work, and various kinds of more technical work such as software development and certain branches of engineering, Linux is great. Up until recently the thing that was stopping me from using it for work was lack of an email client that played nicely with Exchange Server, but Evolution has been passable for the last couple of years, and since Ubuntu 10.04 it's pretty damn solid :)