Off-subject - Just hit this part in Snow Crash.... Interesting book so far.

Redundantly, at the risk of being redundant, there is concern over a lack of men in nursing. Men are especially valued specializations requiring heavy lifting (traditionally, post-op orthopaedic floors, rehab, some medical floors). There isn't nearly as many resources being put to men in nursing as there seems to be women going into "Computer Science." I put quotes on that, since many of the 'civilians' I talk to think Computer Science is one and the same as web and 'app' development.

Except...

Microsoft has pushed in the next-to-be-released version of .NET all of the libraries to support the Microsoft technologies running on Linux or Mac. If this is true, then Microsoft can't really charge for core pricing / cpu pricing on operating systems / database platforms that it doesn't own.

It's not just .NET. It's the .NET compiler. ASP.NET. ASP.NET MVC. The Entity Framework. .NET Core Runtime libraries. This stuff is the heart of Microsoft development. And it's all open-source. And, they are providing support for cross-platform development on Mac and Linux. The Visual Studio Community edition is free (free as in beer).

People can be skeptical to be skeptical, but, as you eluded to, this is not the Microsoft of old. As some of my friends have said, "Haters gonna hate..." And some things won't change.

Why you shouldn't consider Scientology a religion and Christianity, Jews, etc. are religions.

Just look at names of the prophets..

* Jesus Christ - that's a real prophet's name.
* Moses - sounds like a real prophet to me, too.
* Buddha - Definitely a prophet.
* Mohammed - Yep, sounds good to me.
* L. Ron Hubbard - Nope.. No way that's a prophet's name.. Hubbard? Come on..
* Joe Smith - ok, now you're pushing it.. No prophet would ever be named Joe.


That's all you need to do.

Siri uses Bing in the backend. With this, they will work to become "King of Search" without Cortana's help.

Wish I had mod points.. An appropriate retort.

Sorry - I disagree with your statement that antibiotics cause more harm than good. If you look at what health and medicine was prior to antibiotic usage and after, it's night and day. I think most rational people would take a world with antibiotics (even with the adverse effects and resistance that is going on) than nothing at all. Surgeries are much safer, less amputations are needed with infected limbs, etc.

I say this as someone who's son had a life-threatening illness that was brought about by antibiotics.

Seriously, can you imagine a world without antibiotics??? (slightly off-topic, I think we'll find out eventually, with resistance becoming what it is.

From the article:

No conclusions about the effectiveness of the Gerson therapy, either as an adjuvant to other cancer therapies or as a cure, can be drawn from any of the studies reported above.

So if you want to link to a study showing how effective this therapy is, the above link is NOT the one to use. Find one with confirmation of the results in a fairly large, repeatable study.

We've been asking for years now (decades, even) for Microsoft to become more open. Regardless of their motivation, this kind of behavior should be encouraged, rather than ridiculed. To my knowledge, none of the other platforms they've open sourced has 'taken back' by them, as some conspiracy theorists have anticipated. While I'm under no illusion that Office or Windows will ever be open sourced, I'm very happy that much of their other platforms are becoming more open and hope they continue to do so.

Mod parent up... If I hadn't already have posted, I'd do it myself. An excellent question for doctors.

Ordinarily, I wouldn't respond to an AC.. But, Ebola HAS mutated into an airborne form in the past. Look at some non-recent (as in, non-edited) posts about Ebola Reston. As I recall, it was an airborne strain of Ebola. Fortunately, when it mutated into an airborne form, it was no longer infectious in humans.