Evidence Based Medicine
Excellent Post by skeptico concerning evidence based medicine. This might eliminate Dr. North's holistic hammer treatment, where a hammer is deployed on certain appendages to create an apparent reduction in pain elsewhere.
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Excellent Post by skeptico concerning evidence based medicine. This might eliminate Dr. North's holistic hammer treatment, where a hammer is deployed on certain appendages to create an apparent reduction in pain elsewhere.
Yea!! Captain Ed says his trackbacks are working again. His may be, but in general I think the whole trackback mechanism is too open to spamming. :( Some other technology needs to replace trackbacks.
Ed Bott points out some ways that UAC deals with folder and file rights under Windows Vista. To people that are not used used to dealing with rights on files and folders, all this can be very mysterious. I suggest that even under Windows XP, people run as limited users. UAC with Vista should make this experience better, but if you're coming from an environment where you run as administrator under XP, there may be some initial frustration.
Chris Pirillo says WinZip is dead. Are you ready for winZip 2007? I've used WinZip for about 10 years. Before that it was PKZip in the DOS era. WinZip has done a good job for me. I'm sticking with my licensed version 9.0 as I'm afraid that its new master Corel will upgrade it every year and want $20 for giving me new features that I don't want. It's an ongoing problem with software developers. When a tool does its job easily and well, how do you get users to upgrade? Quicken does it by changing the name once year. Ready for WinZip 2007?
Mike Davison says quit whining about IE's plans to default to MSN search. Google says IE should ask when you start it up which engine to default to. Dell should be upset about this because then Google wouldn't have to pay Dell to install their toolbars, and set home pages, and stuff. Speaking of which, head over to yorkspace and check out the Dell De-crapifier. This utilities attempts to remove all the junk which Dell has been increasingly adding to computers. No word yet on if it sets the search engine back to MSN or not.
