I don't see it replacing MD any time soon. However after this gets out of the research phase it would be used as a check on the MD seeing how well they do. There are good and bad doctors out there. Sometimes the bad ones are good as smoozing their uppers to think otherwise. So the first implementation would be in fraud detection. Next it could be used to help monitor performance, you have a lot of patents not getting better as fast as others, are you making bad choices or are you dealing with sicker patients. Then as it gets better over time, it could get implemented into the EHR clinical decision support module to give you a notice that such a DX with a patient of such a history may need some procedure or medicine prescribed.
Perhaps in a few generations it would be smart enough to actually care for a patient.
Only doctors who operate independent practices that they own really care about that. But I don't see why we can't add that to the program. That is one of the easiest pieces you can put in that doesn't need AI.
After the AI finds the best DX and procedures that work. You cross reference the Fee schedule and weigh the cost into the equation.
No, the language doesn't matter. It is the fact that the COBOL code is old. When it was popular it was common for organizations to write their own software. This custom written software was molded to fit the companies processes and workflow. Then you add decades of alterations and the software gets very complex, however it nearly covers the full operation.
So now if you are going to replace it, right now it is popular to get these "enterprise" solutions that are so generic that it takes more work to configure it than it does to make new software or port the code in a new language.
As well most organizations just don't know why they need to upgrade they just think they do, and after the upgrade they want a program to do exactly what the last one did.
Right, let assume a hardware upgrade every 5 years, at $1000 So we add $200 per year so that is now comparing $286 vs $325 which still makes it cheaper to operate at home, however the margins are much closer. That $40 a year difference could easily be lost if you figure hardware failure(s) that cost $200 for replacement, in that 5 years.
That said, in term of value you are better off hosted. However for a home system with a child, they can get a good learning experience with it. As a Kid I use to run a BBS at home and I learned a lot from that, and it was very valuable education, more so than if I was a CoSysOp of an other board.
iOS is a trend. However the idea of low end cheap apps are still growing. A lot of them are in essence just a webbrowser with a couple of security features implemented in it.
DRM isn't fool proof. However it is a case of keeping the honest, honest.
How much work are you willing to do to watch that movie for free where you can pay a $10 a month subscription or rent it for $2.00?
Is it worth trying different patches made by people of questionable ethics, perhaps having to rebuild you OS every once in a while until you find the good patch.
Are you willing to solder a chip to your hardware, risk breaking it?
Digital media has brought on new problems. Creating quality content is still expensive. Mass distribution is easy. So we have good old economics 101 of Supply and Demand. With Digital Media Supply reaches a level so high that Demand has barely any effect, and the price per unit is 0. So 0 times any number is still 0, which is less money then it makes to create the content.
Pre Digital media we could control this. Books required to be printed, Music on records or tapes. If you were to mass Pirate books or Music without serious loss of quality you would need an expensive operation. Sure we had tapes of songs from the radio or copies of the tapes, however the quality to copy a copy degrades with the analog copy. Not so with digital, every copy is exactly the same as the previous. Meaning we can cheaply make copies ourselves and mass distribute them over and over.
DRM is a way to limit the supply of digital media, so its price won't fall below where they can make profit. Yes I bet some of you Anti-Capitalist say Profit is bad and Greedy and evil and all that stuff... But plainly put, without profit it is near impossible to have the resources to continue on providing your goods.
RMS is right, Data wants to be free. However making the data isn't free, and the army of volunteers doesn't always work for every project.
I don't think an open outlet will help much. Some of the People join the priesthood because they are certain about their faith, however uncertain about their sexuality (asexual, homosexual, bi, fetishes that are not socially acceptable). Traditionally is someone isn't interested in getting married and having a family they are looked down on in society. However becoming a Priest is a way out, you can live your life without the social pressure. For most priest this is the escape they need.
So if a priest is a pedophile in all but action, giving him access to a wife or hookers or whatever to relieve the tension isn't going to stop his desire for children.
The Boy Scouts is having a similar problem and there is no chastity requirement there.
Well if you see Slashdot Posts about any piece of New Technology, you find that "Technology Pros" seems to be very anti-new technology. They will find any fault and exaggerate it so it seems useless... Unless they made it themselves.
In terms of classroom technology I found the following features useful for students.
1. Syllabubs Online: Yes I can keep a piece of paper organized over a semester. However, it is much easier for me to look it up, and double check it, from my phone, or from places apart from my paper, I am out with my friends, I just popped in my mind, when is that paper due? I can check it on my phone and not worry for the rest of the day. I myself have a lot of anxiety on getting my papers on time, just being able to look it up whenever I just feel much better.
2. Check your grades: Professors hate hearing this because they think their topic is so much more important than your other ones... However as a student you are usually taking multiple classes at a time, and you cannot dedicate the same to all classes. Looking at your grades and seeing your current grade is a 90% and your Final is worth 20% in one class vs an other class where your current grade is 82% and your final is 30% of your grade, means you need to study harder in the other class. As well as grade posted are often after the curve applied if any. So you are not stressing about your grade of 25% (even though the professor says not to worry) when you realize after the curve it is actually 85%.
3. Post your assignments online. This is an other anxiety reliever for me. Being able to publish it, without having to worry about carrying the paper clean unwrinkled throughout the day.
You assuming the IT job is just keeping an Email Server running. Sure we can could the email, but this allows the IT guy more time to focus on enhancing business operations.
I am a supporter for Cloud Technology. However it is not the best tool for every job.
IT job outside of all computer stuff is to support workflow. There are some parts of a Government/Companies/Not For Profit workflow that works nearly the same as everyone else, or at least across its organization. However Every Organization is different and it does somethings that is better or differently then the others, otherwise it isn't useful, and should just be condensed into one organization.
Because every organization has a degree of Uniqueness you need a Skilled IT department to account for the differences in Work Flow, Cloud systems are not profitable if they need to do too much customization to their service for every organization, or they will be more expensive then having your own IT staff.
A good IT Department should be so Each day is unique, if you are doing the same thing every day, than you are doing your job wrong. The job for computers and software is to do the same thing everyday. A cloud solution is good for a lot of organization who do the same, same things as other organizations. However there is stuff that is unique and they need an IT department to keep what is different flowing.
The point of Computer Science isn't to teach you how to a particular job. But how solve these problems yourself.
If college just taught you HTML5 and JavaScipt and PHP. You may be able to get a job, but what will happen after those technologies go out of style.
When I was in College leading edge Web Development was writing CGI application. While Javascript and CSS were available they were recommended not to be used because it was all too common that their browsers wouldn't support it. If we had to save data we would normally save it as a Text File on the server as getting a Relational Database system was often too expensive and required too much computer resources. My methods and tools in programming for the Web has changed many times over the decades. However I can pick these methods up very quickly in part to my skills I learned in taking Computer Science. C/C++ skills made an easy transfer to JavaScript and PHP and Java. Parallel processing methods made its way to designing Web Services and handling AJAX. LISP/Artificial Intelligence helped me grasp the more advances levels of SQL. Unix inter-process communication and Operating Systems helps me really understand how the Web Server works and how to find was of interacting with it. Even Good old Data structures Loops and Procedures and performance analysis I use daily across many daily work to make my tools run smoothly. Learning new tools and languages are rather easy, I don't need to go to training classes (If they make me, I am very board) because I have the skills to adjust to changing technology.
Going to college to be a Web Developer isn't a good plan. You can go to college and a goal of being a web developer after is OK, however you should Go to college with the goal of understanding Computer Science, in which you can use these skills in Web Development.
As you write your post in English. And the people you work with have Rusty English. English in general is taught worldwide. And chances are if they have any degree of education they will have some level of English skills. Even if it is just enough to read menu options.
Agreed, It isn't funny. * I AM NOT EXCUSING THESE GROUPS FOR THEIR HORRIBLE ACTS However I am explaining that their actions in a less emotional reaction.
The problem lies in the fact not in problems with the church's beliefs, or even its policies. Except for the fact that it is an old institution, Just like the Boy Scouts of America. The issue of this cover-up is based on issues that have happened in the past where is was more common to cover it up, and quietly move the offending person away from the problem. This happened with families during the past too. Their Kid gets assaulted by their Uncle, the parents will just make sure the Uncle is never alone with the child, and not invited to as much events as they can.
What compounds the issue is the Church, Boy Scouts, and other similar groups is that they are groups that stand for high moral values. And when there is a lapse it is that much harder for such groups to admit to past mistakes, and compound the problem. In many ways these continuing jokes and jabs validate their concerns about releasing the information. In America although about 1/3 of the population is Catholic about 2/3, are not. And many Christian groups still hold anger to the Catholic Church for things that have happened hundreds of years ago. So when would be a good time to show they have been hiding the practices. Any time would be bad, because there are so many people who wants to see the Moral Group go down and show how bad they are.
Now we combine the Catholic Churches Key belief on forgiveness and absolution. Which has a gap for people who have mental illnesses, where once you confess to your sins you are good again. So the priests who have had a lapse in their control went and got forgiveness, the Church if following that particular dogma then punished the priest further it would seem like they are not holding on to their ideals.
I am willing to bet there are a lot more organizations who have hid their sexual abuse records, and you will find that most of them are from "Good" Organizations who in general are out there tying to help people. Schools, Social Workers, Youth Groups, Mission Groups.... Anywhere where the adults are suppose to be the good guys that the kid should historically trust.
The solution to this problem, isn't making sarky comments and getting angry at the organization, but to help insure there are new policies in place to help protect children, education to teach children and parents on how to protect themselves and their children. Yes punish the people who continued the cover up and lied about it, but this general public over reaction that makes it seem a Catholic Priest is equal to a Rapist is just overall bad and unproductive.
If Apple sells out, it must be due to an exciting product. If Microsoft sells out it must be due to bad business. There are a lot of people who may actually want a high end tablet and a low end PC. The slashdot group may have problem with this because of... 1. Our bias against Microsoft. Anything MS does must be wrong. 2. Our refusal to accept anything new. All new technology isn't inovative or better and any design trade off is a majors big deal. 3. Our commitment to the Desktop. 4. Dislike of normal people getting into technology.
I am usually afraid of anyone who feels that they do whatever they want without the fear of being punished for breaking laws, because he is on some "Moral/Religious high-ground"
When you perform Civil disobedience, you do it expecting to be put in jail, as your point is that important. For Assange, He did his thing he made his statement now he is cowering so the officials don't get them. These are actions of a person who thinks he is above the law and will not take responsibility for his action. This type of attitude is rife for corruption. Because we are all human and it is difficult for us to differentiated what is good for ourselves vs what is good for everyone. When someone has such a strong "Moral" stance it means they are often just as greedy to support themselves.
Part of my Assessment... "The idea that wasn't the case seemed just naive at the time." Yes it turned out they were right. But the general population and leadership dismissed them.
English is the main language of commerce. Those who speak their local language and no English tend (The word tend means the masses lean in that way, their are exceptions a lot of them) to be rather uneducated. Now these people are not necessarily going to be using programming tools too often.
That isn't to say if you make your program for that language as well they wouldn't like it better as it is using the language they are more familiar with but I doubt you will see a big shift in usage.
During the early part of the Iraq war, Even before that, During the Clinton Administration we had belief that Iraq had a Mass pile of Weapons of Mass Destruction. The idea that wasn't the case seemed just naive at the time. That and combined with a fit of hyper-patriotism after 9/11, made both sides a bit hawkish, as well as any media bias.
What changed was the war still wen't on, and we found were no WMD, the threat was just so Iraq would look tough to Iran. The 9/11 never forget was soon put aside with normal daily issues. Then the economy stared to pop.
Most of the political disagreement from the left came from the far left the Anti-Bush conspiracies were just as baseless as the Anti-Obama ones are now.
Now when you a news organization that states If you disagree with our stance than you are part of the liberal conspiracy. I am political moderate with a conservative leaning, however Fox news just tosses out any sort stance of being fare. I realized it when I actually started watching it back when the Iraq war started. It lasted about a week when I saw an Interview between Some dumb college freshman, who organized a war protest with a some right wing political analysis.
Slashdot Mirror
So we take the word of a CEO as truth however consider the Reporter of a respected source a Lyer?
What has the world came to?
Digital logs can be altered.
I don't see it replacing MD any time soon. However after this gets out of the research phase it would be used as a check on the MD seeing how well they do. There are good and bad doctors out there. Sometimes the bad ones are good as smoozing their uppers to think otherwise.
So the first implementation would be in fraud detection.
Next it could be used to help monitor performance, you have a lot of patents not getting better as fast as others, are you making bad choices or are you dealing with sicker patients.
Then as it gets better over time, it could get implemented into the EHR clinical decision support module to give you a notice that such a DX with a patient of such a history may need some procedure or medicine prescribed.
Perhaps in a few generations it would be smart enough to actually care for a patient.
Only doctors who operate independent practices that they own really care about that. But I don't see why we can't add that to the program. That is one of the easiest pieces you can put in that doesn't need AI.
After the AI finds the best DX and procedures that work. You cross reference the Fee schedule and weigh the cost into the equation.
No, the language doesn't matter. It is the fact that the COBOL code is old. When it was popular it was common for organizations to write their own software. This custom written software was molded to fit the companies processes and workflow. Then you add decades of alterations and the software gets very complex, however it nearly covers the full operation.
So now if you are going to replace it, right now it is popular to get these "enterprise" solutions that are so generic that it takes more work to configure it than it does to make new software or port the code in a new language.
As well most organizations just don't know why they need to upgrade they just think they do, and after the upgrade they want a program to do exactly what the last one did.
Right, let assume a hardware upgrade every 5 years, at $1000
So we add $200 per year so that is now comparing $286 vs $325 which still makes it cheaper to operate at home, however the margins are much closer.
That $40 a year difference could easily be lost if you figure hardware failure(s) that cost $200 for replacement, in that 5 years.
That said, in term of value you are better off hosted. However for a home system with a child, they can get a good learning experience with it. As a Kid I use to run a BBS at home and I learned a lot from that, and it was very valuable education, more so than if I was a CoSysOp of an other board.
iOS is a trend. However the idea of low end cheap apps are still growing. A lot of them are in essence just a webbrowser with a couple of security features implemented in it.
DRM isn't fool proof. However it is a case of keeping the honest, honest.
How much work are you willing to do to watch that movie for free where you can pay a $10 a month subscription or rent it for $2.00?
Is it worth trying different patches made by people of questionable ethics, perhaps having to rebuild you OS every once in a while until you find the good patch.
Are you willing to solder a chip to your hardware, risk breaking it?
Digital media has brought on new problems.
Creating quality content is still expensive. Mass distribution is easy.
So we have good old economics 101 of Supply and Demand. With Digital Media Supply reaches a level so high that Demand has barely any effect, and the price per unit is 0. So 0 times any number is still 0, which is less money then it makes to create the content.
Pre Digital media we could control this. Books required to be printed, Music on records or tapes. If you were to mass Pirate books or Music without serious loss of quality you would need an expensive operation. Sure we had tapes of songs from the radio or copies of the tapes, however the quality to copy a copy degrades with the analog copy. Not so with digital, every copy is exactly the same as the previous. Meaning we can cheaply make copies ourselves and mass distribute them over and over.
DRM is a way to limit the supply of digital media, so its price won't fall below where they can make profit. Yes I bet some of you Anti-Capitalist say Profit is bad and Greedy and evil and all that stuff... But plainly put, without profit it is near impossible to have the resources to continue on providing your goods.
RMS is right, Data wants to be free. However making the data isn't free, and the army of volunteers doesn't always work for every project.
Back to Gopher!
I don't think an open outlet will help much.
Some of the People join the priesthood because they are certain about their faith, however uncertain about their sexuality (asexual, homosexual, bi, fetishes that are not socially acceptable). Traditionally is someone isn't interested in getting married and having a family they are looked down on in society. However becoming a Priest is a way out, you can live your life without the social pressure. For most priest this is the escape they need.
So if a priest is a pedophile in all but action, giving him access to a wife or hookers or whatever to relieve the tension isn't going to stop his desire for children.
The Boy Scouts is having a similar problem and there is no chastity requirement there.
It isn't however, you need to know where you OS takes over even in your assembly code.
Yes, Back in the day, before computers students made stupid excuses why they didn't do their work too.
The Type Writer Jammed, The paper got lost, The library isn't open during my free time...
Well if you see Slashdot Posts about any piece of New Technology, you find that "Technology Pros" seems to be very anti-new technology. They will find any fault and exaggerate it so it seems useless... Unless they made it themselves.
In terms of classroom technology I found the following features useful for students.
1. Syllabubs Online: Yes I can keep a piece of paper organized over a semester. However, it is much easier for me to look it up, and double check it, from my phone, or from places apart from my paper, I am out with my friends, I just popped in my mind, when is that paper due? I can check it on my phone and not worry for the rest of the day. I myself have a lot of anxiety on getting my papers on time, just being able to look it up whenever I just feel much better.
2. Check your grades: Professors hate hearing this because they think their topic is so much more important than your other ones... However as a student you are usually taking multiple classes at a time, and you cannot dedicate the same to all classes. Looking at your grades and seeing your current grade is a 90% and your Final is worth 20% in one class vs an other class where your current grade is 82% and your final is 30% of your grade, means you need to study harder in the other class. As well as grade posted are often after the curve applied if any. So you are not stressing about your grade of 25% (even though the professor says not to worry) when you realize after the curve it is actually 85%.
3. Post your assignments online. This is an other anxiety reliever for me. Being able to publish it, without having to worry about carrying the paper clean unwrinkled throughout the day.
You assuming the IT job is just keeping an Email Server running. Sure we can could the email, but this allows the IT guy more time to focus on enhancing business operations.
I am a supporter for Cloud Technology. However it is not the best tool for every job.
IT job outside of all computer stuff is to support workflow.
There are some parts of a Government/Companies/Not For Profit workflow that works nearly the same as everyone else, or at least across its organization. However Every Organization is different and it does somethings that is better or differently then the others, otherwise it isn't useful, and should just be condensed into one organization.
Because every organization has a degree of Uniqueness you need a Skilled IT department to account for the differences in Work Flow, Cloud systems are not profitable if they need to do too much customization to their service for every organization, or they will be more expensive then having your own IT staff.
A good IT Department should be so Each day is unique, if you are doing the same thing every day, than you are doing your job wrong. The job for computers and software is to do the same thing everyday. A cloud solution is good for a lot of organization who do the same, same things as other organizations. However there is stuff that is unique and they need an IT department to keep what is different flowing.
The point of Computer Science isn't to teach you how to a particular job.
But how solve these problems yourself.
If college just taught you HTML5 and JavaScipt and PHP. You may be able to get a job, but what will happen after those technologies go out of style.
When I was in College leading edge Web Development was writing CGI application. While Javascript and CSS were available they were recommended not to be used because it was all too common that their browsers wouldn't support it. If we had to save data we would normally save it as a Text File on the server as getting a Relational Database system was often too expensive and required too much computer resources.
My methods and tools in programming for the Web has changed many times over the decades. However I can pick these methods up very quickly in part to my skills I learned in taking Computer Science. C/C++ skills made an easy transfer to JavaScript and PHP and Java. Parallel processing methods made its way to designing Web Services and handling AJAX. LISP/Artificial Intelligence helped me grasp the more advances levels of SQL. Unix inter-process communication and Operating Systems helps me really understand how the Web Server works and how to find was of interacting with it. Even Good old Data structures Loops and Procedures and performance analysis I use daily across many daily work to make my tools run smoothly.
Learning new tools and languages are rather easy, I don't need to go to training classes (If they make me, I am very board) because I have the skills to adjust to changing technology.
Going to college to be a Web Developer isn't a good plan. You can go to college and a goal of being a web developer after is OK, however you should Go to college with the goal of understanding Computer Science, in which you can use these skills in Web Development.
Publishing Classified material is.
The problem is the material that was released wasn't much of a whistle-blowing but a here look at what I got.
As you write your post in English.
And the people you work with have Rusty English.
English in general is taught worldwide. And chances are if they have any degree of education they will have some level of English skills. Even if it is just enough to read menu options.
Agreed, It isn't funny.
* I AM NOT EXCUSING THESE GROUPS FOR THEIR HORRIBLE ACTS However I am explaining that their actions in a less emotional reaction.
The problem lies in the fact not in problems with the church's beliefs, or even its policies. Except for the fact that it is an old institution, Just like the Boy Scouts of America. The issue of this cover-up is based on issues that have happened in the past where is was more common to cover it up, and quietly move the offending person away from the problem. This happened with families during the past too. Their Kid gets assaulted by their Uncle, the parents will just make sure the Uncle is never alone with the child, and not invited to as much events as they can.
What compounds the issue is the Church, Boy Scouts, and other similar groups is that they are groups that stand for high moral values. And when there is a lapse it is that much harder for such groups to admit to past mistakes, and compound the problem. In many ways these continuing jokes and jabs validate their concerns about releasing the information. In America although about 1/3 of the population is Catholic about 2/3, are not. And many Christian groups still hold anger to the Catholic Church for things that have happened hundreds of years ago. So when would be a good time to show they have been hiding the practices. Any time would be bad, because there are so many people who wants to see the Moral Group go down and show how bad they are.
Now we combine the Catholic Churches Key belief on forgiveness and absolution. Which has a gap for people who have mental illnesses, where once you confess to your sins you are good again. So the priests who have had a lapse in their control went and got forgiveness, the Church if following that particular dogma then punished the priest further it would seem like they are not holding on to their ideals.
I am willing to bet there are a lot more organizations who have hid their sexual abuse records, and you will find that most of them are from "Good" Organizations who in general are out there tying to help people. Schools, Social Workers, Youth Groups, Mission Groups.... Anywhere where the adults are suppose to be the good guys that the kid should historically trust.
The solution to this problem, isn't making sarky comments and getting angry at the organization, but to help insure there are new policies in place to help protect children, education to teach children and parents on how to protect themselves and their children. Yes punish the people who continued the cover up and lied about it, but this general public over reaction that makes it seem a Catholic Priest is equal to a Rapist is just overall bad and unproductive.
If Apple sells out, it must be due to an exciting product. If Microsoft sells out it must be due to bad business.
There are a lot of people who may actually want a high end tablet and a low end PC.
The slashdot group may have problem with this because of...
1. Our bias against Microsoft. Anything MS does must be wrong.
2. Our refusal to accept anything new. All new technology isn't inovative or better and any design trade off is a majors big deal.
3. Our commitment to the Desktop.
4. Dislike of normal people getting into technology.
I am usually afraid of anyone who feels that they do whatever they want without the fear of being punished for breaking laws, because he is on some "Moral/Religious high-ground"
When you perform Civil disobedience, you do it expecting to be put in jail, as your point is that important.
For Assange, He did his thing he made his statement now he is cowering so the officials don't get them. These are actions of a person who thinks he is above the law and will not take responsibility for his action. This type of attitude is rife for corruption. Because we are all human and it is difficult for us to differentiated what is good for ourselves vs what is good for everyone. When someone has such a strong "Moral" stance it means they are often just as greedy to support themselves.
Part of my Assessment...
"The idea that wasn't the case seemed just naive at the time."
Yes it turned out they were right. But the general population and leadership dismissed them.
English is the main language of commerce.
Those who speak their local language and no English tend (The word tend means the masses lean in that way, their are exceptions a lot of them) to be rather uneducated. Now these people are not necessarily going to be using programming tools too often.
That isn't to say if you make your program for that language as well they wouldn't like it better as it is using the language they are more familiar with but I doubt you will see a big shift in usage.
During the early part of the Iraq war, Even before that, During the Clinton Administration we had belief that Iraq had a Mass pile of Weapons of Mass Destruction. The idea that wasn't the case seemed just naive at the time. That and combined with a fit of hyper-patriotism after 9/11, made both sides a bit hawkish, as well as any media bias.
What changed was the war still wen't on, and we found were no WMD, the threat was just so Iraq would look tough to Iran. The 9/11 never forget was soon put aside with normal daily issues. Then the economy stared to pop.
Most of the political disagreement from the left came from the far left the Anti-Bush conspiracies were just as baseless as the Anti-Obama ones are now.
Now when you a news organization that states If you disagree with our stance than you are part of the liberal conspiracy.
I am political moderate with a conservative leaning, however Fox news just tosses out any sort stance of being fare.
I realized it when I actually started watching it back when the Iraq war started. It lasted about a week when I saw an Interview between Some dumb college freshman, who organized a war protest with a some right wing political analysis.