Canadian hospitals switched to ICD-10 in 2001-2003. Welcome to the 21st century.

Read my comment again. It's the *submission* I was complaining about, not the paper. And no, I'm not American. Furthermore, I'm a statistician, which is partially why I was interested enough to click on the link in the first place; I have no issues with the content of the paper itself, or its readability.

Parse this sentence:

Up until the "world of gambling", it's reasonable, but beyond there it ceases making any sense. If the submitter had broken the sentence down into a couple of discrete thoughts, they might have gotten their synopsis across.

Half this submission makes no sense, grammatically or otherwise.

I've had no issues with PDFs on the Kindle, whether the DX (which is the right form factor), or the 3 (which is conveniently portable). It's not a perfect solution, but it works.

IMO, the optimal solution would be a hybrid display (like Pixel Qi make), a form factor halfway between the DX and the 3 (i.e. roughly the screen size of a normal book), and running an Android OS so apps can be written to support things like DJVU. I had high hopes for the Adam (Notion Ink, http://www.notionink.com/), but they're a little too ... grungy ... for me to be willing to spend $600 on.

Given that in Australia, there are numerous million+ cities with roundabouts everywhere, the arguments that 'high traffic volume' is somehow impossible to flow with a roundabout is clearly false. The fact that the UK also has roundabouts with cities like Manchester, London, etc. also supports this idea that high volumes and high populations can deal with it.

All the people going on about how light-based intersections allow high volumes through clearly don't remember the last time they were at a stopped traffic light and sat through three changes of the light before they even made it up to the head of the line, and then a fourth change to move forward. I hit an intersection like that here in my small Canadian city every day, and it happens anywhere there are lights and a 'high traffic volume' that can't make it through the intersection in the time of the light sequence. Lots of people? You get to wait a little. At least with roundabouts there isn't wasted time as everyone waits for the advanced-left signals, the idiots who block the whole intersection because they decide to run through on a yellow and don't make it, etc., just the wasted time as everyone waits for a chance to merge.

Exactly. When tenure is based on publishing, then teaching, then service, and editing/peer-reviewing journal articles *barely* counts as service, Wikipedia ranks somewhere between sleep and bathroom breaks in terms of priority. Academic ego has absolutely nothing to do with it: credit in a way that matters does. Academics are too busy doing 'real research' to bother editing an online encyclopedia for no benefit but warm fuzzies.

In other news, what's with posters adding their own personal bias to news articles on Slashdot lately? Just report the facts, thanks. I don't need your weird, slanted viewpoint on the issue, even if you think you're being edgy and smart.

With respect to the pedigree idea, it's certainly valid, but it's not quite as all-encompassing as you stated. When doing your PhD, there is another factor that you missed entirely: the status and reputation of your primary advisor. If you have the chance to work directly with one of the top N (N. Aim high, but be happy with 'good'.