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Comment ... because physicians are all always up to date?? (Score 2) 200

Seriously - how many physicians, even among the specialists, keep themselves up to date on the latest research? Many of them do, many of them are passionate, geeky about what they do, and in their spare time they'll be reading up on the latest research, they'll go to conferences, etc., like a passionate geeky programmer would. But many, and i'd say most, just don't. Their knowledge is whatever they were taught. And that wasn't necessarily the state of the art at the time they graduated - that depends on how up to date their *teachers* were.
So, yeah, wikipedia might be misleading; it might be out of date in certain places - in many places, even. But i don't necessarily think your physician will be more up to date. And i'm not sure how to fix that, either, because they *should* be!
Government

Computerized Election Results With No Election 433

_Sharp'r_ writes "In Honduras, according to breaking Catalan newspaper reports (translations available, USA Today mention), authorities have seized 45 computers containing certified election results for a constitutional election that never happened. The election had been scheduled for June 28, but on that day the president, Manuel Zelaya, was ousted. The 'certified' and detailed electronic records of the non-existent election show Zelaya's side having won overwhelmingly."

Comment config management (Score 1) 152

in bigger companies, it's a CM team that handles these things. neither dev nor it can do the deployment. CM will testify that the release has been tested (which can be done by a testing group in dev, or a test department), and they will have a handle on everything that is installed right now and has ever been. They have the final word on whether something should be deployed. They build the packages going to the clients, if need be. And you can always go to them and ask "where's the code that's running right now?".
they'll also keep track of what documentation corresponds to what. you usually can't trust the developpers for things like that.

you need a CM team, even if they're not full-time CM.
Unix

Journal Journal: Xubuntu 6.06 on a Thinkpad 380XD

The electric acid grandma test: My mother has been wanting to get on the Internet and send emails for a while now. Since neither she nor I knew if she'd like having a computer, I wanted to get something cheap. And since she didn't have a lot of space to spread out, a laptop was preferable. Looking through the classifieds, I found someone selling an IBM Thinkpad 380XD computer for $100: PII 233 MHz, 95 MB RAM, CD-ROM and floppy drives, and a USB port. Not bad for a starter system where

Comment Read Space.Com with a grain of salt (Score 1) 240

All major news sites are filled with small technical mistakes and oversights. However, just because a website is called 'Space.com' doesn't mean it is any more accurate.

In the text associated with the image of the launch site they state Also take note of a neighboring and comparable launch pad. I assume they are refering to the large tower in the bottom right.

However, if you look closely, there are no tracks going to the tower (tracks have curves, not 135 degree angles). Instead there are a heap of pipes leading to the launch tower.

This second tower should be the LOX processing and storage plant. I'm not an expert, but it's just a little annoying when a 'space' site goes overboard on the tech pr0n.

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