I work in medical transcription, on a system developed and promoted by Nuance, one that incorporates speech recognition to aid in the transcription of the notes that must be produced for each patient encounter. I can type transcription at a rate of around 185-200 65-char lines per hour. Add in a speech rec engine and I can get 475-525 an hour. It's not hard to figure out that it's all for the productivity boost and cost-cutting effect that speech rec adds to the patient care cost equation.
...welcome our robomedical overlords! Now, Mr. Watson, I've a raging case of hemorrhoids and a fissure that would drive even the sternest of men mad with rage. Help.
It isn't that at all. I've worked in the field and taken plenty of calls from guys like this. Guys who thought, yeah, I know just enough to be dangerous, let's see what I can do. Then he's sitting there, no backups, no duplication of media, nothing to keep his ass out of the frying pan, and then he's on the phone to me because he's got some hot project that he needs the system for and it suddenly becomes my priority to unfuck the mess he's in.
Either way, he should call the pro. It's cheaper if he calls before he fucks everything up beyond belief.
Here's how you can best serve your employer: Realize that your problem is out of your hands. Figure out first what you need that thing to do. Then hire a professional who can deliver that. Don't half ass it. Don't risk your job and get fired for half assing it and failing miserably. Hire pros. They are worth their weight in gold.
I guess it's time to get a read done of this nonsense and the see if I can't straighten my own elected officials out about how the tech works... *sigh*
I said the day they announced the MS/Skype buyout, that MS would trash Skype and withdraw support for open source users. You watch -- the Linux client will die, though I know it's laying abandoned and starving already, and so will the Android client. Farewell, Skype of old, we knew ye...
s/This move is designed to 'force heavy data users to pay more for mobile data.'"\/This move is designed to 'force heavy data users to go elsewhere for mobile data.'"/
If only this judge had been in charge of the cases in SCO vs The World, that nonsense would have been done in 2004. It's easy to see that this fellow has a clue here.
I blame Sony for not having security sufficient to prevent such an attack in the first place. What, did we have a Win '08 server facing the 'net without a firewall??
That's my problem how? He should be running his own antivirus software on his easily-infected Windows system, right? I'll simply carry on and live without the fear of viruses and without paying the antivirus protection cartel.
Tell me, how does that macro virus get run? Word macros in documents opened in LibreOffice don't autorun. If anyone is stupid enough to enable this ability out of the box, they get what they asked for, right?
How so? I've run Linux here for well over a decade and there's no way that I'm passing viruses around. What this request for quote from Tasmania demonstrates is how unaware of the technology benefits the requestors really are. With OSX or Linux, viruses can be disregarded. If you want to filter viruses from a mailserver, sure, I can see that. But there are no viruses for Linux. It's like needing an umbrella on a sunny day.
Last October my budget was crashing hard and I had to make some decisions on what to cut to get over the hump. I looked at the $110/month bill and figured, if I spend that same amount of money, I can get me a Roku box, then tell the cable company to cut out the cable TV portion to save over half that. Add just a few bucks to that for the Netflix and Hulu subscriptions, and I was well under the original. Worked great, but the little decoder I got for local broadcast TV didn't work well. So, now that we're over the budget hump and can afford it again, we're getting the cable back in. I just spotted an offer to keep the bill at a lower rate than before, and they'll toss in a DVR. The Roku did work well, though, and if the cable company starts jacking the rates again, they'll lose my business forever.
I'd run IPv6 but for this reason. I've looked around to see if there's a firmware upgrade for my routers that will support the new addressing scheme, but no dice, and I don't relish spending another $75 to $100 to replace 2 routers. I suppose I'm not the only guy in the world with this problem. So I guess there's your reason.
When PJ started this, it was to defend Linux, which at the time didn't have much in the way of large financial support, and only a very few outfits openly using it. The tides have simply turned. SCO no longer poses a threat since they're no longer able to do business in any capacity. They've sold their assests, their money is gone, their management team that brainstormed this whole mess has been scattered to the winds, and PJ wants to move on and go about her life. I think the mission of Groklaw has come to its fruition. Let the lady have her peace.
If anything, this further deconstructs the theories that there were big influences behind this small lady. Big influences can keep things going. PJ needing to step down and being willing to say so just confirms that there are no big interests pushing her to keep on.
Anyone could have reported what she did by just simply reading the filings from each side of the fight and doing a bit of analysis. There are some of us who have been using Unix since the mid '80s. SCO attempted to rewrite history.
The days of broadcast TV served at the expense of commercial breaks are over. I strongly dislike commercials and will avoid listening to/watching them, sometimes at extreme costs.
In October last year I got rid of the cable TV, kept the cable internet feed, and bought myself a Roku player. I rarely watch commercials anymore. I choose what I want to watch, and I can even stream stuff I've digitized and stored on disk on other machines on my network. And I'm paying far less, by orders of magnitude, for the couple subscriptions that I watch on the Roku as compared to cable TV.
The problem lies in that the person complaining about having to restart pulseaudio bases his opinion on an experience he had 3 or 4 years ago, the last time he tried Ubuntu, and dismissed Ubuntu as "too hard for the common user." Fast forward to the present, and he still holds that viewpoint, but hasn't done a single thing with the latest Ubuntu version to see if there has been any change in the aberrant behavior that he's complaining about. But he'll say that it's Ubuntu that's broken, not his ability to try something new and different, and it certainly couldn't be his ability to take time to work out the technical issues and learn something new.
...which of the 4 people living here and on which of the 9 computers (7 physical, 2 virtual) behind my NAT firewall committed the act based on the evidence you have already? Which subnet of my internal network were they using (the virtual machines are subnetted away from the rest of the network)? Is it possible that someone outside my home cracked my wireless security, joined my network, and committed the act in question?
Risking a "me too" post, yes, I am too. I sat in the theatre crying during the opening scenes of Fellowship of the Ring. It was all too real, too much like what my imagination had done for it already. Getting Hobbit underway is a stroke of really good news that another well-loved tale will come to life for me again. Now, let's hope Jackson gets this thing in the can and out on the screens some time before I die.
They seek out someone much more knowledgeable than they are and they pay that someone to take care of the problem, just like they do when they encounter problems with Windows or other software, or they do the research and learn how to do it for themselves. You'll note that most software manufacturers don't support their own software, they farm all that out to a network of 3rd-party vendors to take care of those needs. You have a problem with the creation of economic opportunities for software support specialists?
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I work in medical transcription, on a system developed and promoted by Nuance, one that incorporates speech recognition to aid in the transcription of the notes that must be produced for each patient encounter. I can type transcription at a rate of around 185-200 65-char lines per hour. Add in a speech rec engine and I can get 475-525 an hour. It's not hard to figure out that it's all for the productivity boost and cost-cutting effect that speech rec adds to the patient care cost equation.
...welcome our robomedical overlords! Now, Mr. Watson, I've a raging case of hemorrhoids and a fissure that would drive even the sternest of men mad with rage. Help.
It isn't that at all. I've worked in the field and taken plenty of calls from guys like this. Guys who thought, yeah, I know just enough to be dangerous, let's see what I can do. Then he's sitting there, no backups, no duplication of media, nothing to keep his ass out of the frying pan, and then he's on the phone to me because he's got some hot project that he needs the system for and it suddenly becomes my priority to unfuck the mess he's in.
Either way, he should call the pro. It's cheaper if he calls before he fucks everything up beyond belief.
Here's how you can best serve your employer: Realize that your problem is out of your hands. Figure out first what you need that thing to do. Then hire a professional who can deliver that. Don't half ass it. Don't risk your job and get fired for half assing it and failing miserably. Hire pros. They are worth their weight in gold.
I guess it's time to get a read done of this nonsense and the see if I can't straighten my own elected officials out about how the tech works... *sigh*
I KNEW IT!! I FSCKING KNEW IT!!
I said the day they announced the MS/Skype buyout, that MS would trash Skype and withdraw support for open source users. You watch -- the Linux client will die, though I know it's laying abandoned and starving already, and so will the Android client. Farewell, Skype of old, we knew ye...
No, I think you mean this:
s/This move is designed to 'force heavy data users to pay more for mobile data.'"\ /This move is designed to 'force heavy data users to go elsewhere for mobile data.'"/
Thank you very much. Have a nice day.
If only this judge had been in charge of the cases in SCO vs The World, that nonsense would have been done in 2004. It's easy to see that this fellow has a clue here.
I like money. I like havin' sex with chicks, too.
We like the same things. We should SuperSize together sometime. Hey, y'know where the Tiem Masheen is?
I blame Sony for not having security sufficient to prevent such an attack in the first place. What, did we have a Win '08 server facing the 'net without a firewall??
That's my problem how? He should be running his own antivirus software on his easily-infected Windows system, right? I'll simply carry on and live without the fear of viruses and without paying the antivirus protection cartel.
Tell me, how does that macro virus get run? Word macros in documents opened in LibreOffice don't autorun. If anyone is stupid enough to enable this ability out of the box, they get what they asked for, right?
How so? I've run Linux here for well over a decade and there's no way that I'm passing viruses around. What this request for quote from Tasmania demonstrates is how unaware of the technology benefits the requestors really are. With OSX or Linux, viruses can be disregarded. If you want to filter viruses from a mailserver, sure, I can see that. But there are no viruses for Linux. It's like needing an umbrella on a sunny day.
Last October my budget was crashing hard and I had to make some decisions on what to cut to get over the hump. I looked at the $110/month bill and figured, if I spend that same amount of money, I can get me a Roku box, then tell the cable company to cut out the cable TV portion to save over half that. Add just a few bucks to that for the Netflix and Hulu subscriptions, and I was well under the original. Worked great, but the little decoder I got for local broadcast TV didn't work well. So, now that we're over the budget hump and can afford it again, we're getting the cable back in. I just spotted an offer to keep the bill at a lower rate than before, and they'll toss in a DVR. The Roku did work well, though, and if the cable company starts jacking the rates again, they'll lose my business forever.
I'd run IPv6 but for this reason. I've looked around to see if there's a firmware upgrade for my routers that will support the new addressing scheme, but no dice, and I don't relish spending another $75 to
$100 to replace 2 routers. I suppose I'm not the only guy in the world with this problem. So I guess there's your reason.
If you must have it explained, you'll never understand.
When PJ started this, it was to defend Linux, which at the time didn't have much in the way of large financial support, and only a very few outfits openly using it. The tides have simply turned. SCO no longer poses a threat since they're no longer able to do business in any capacity. They've sold their assests, their money is gone, their management team that brainstormed this whole mess has been scattered to the winds, and PJ wants to move on and go about her life. I think the mission of Groklaw has come to its fruition. Let the lady have her peace.
If anything, this further deconstructs the theories that there were big influences behind this small lady. Big influences can keep things going. PJ needing to step down and being willing to say so just confirms that there are no big interests pushing her to keep on.
Egregariously? No, you mean egregiously, sir.
Anyone could have reported what she did by just simply reading the filings from each side of the fight and doing a bit of analysis. There are some of us who have been using Unix since the mid '80s. SCO attempted to rewrite history.
Throwing physical objects and breaking the TV. Yes, it's been done.
The days of broadcast TV served at the expense of commercial breaks are over. I strongly dislike commercials and will avoid listening to/watching them, sometimes at extreme costs.
In October last year I got rid of the cable TV, kept the cable internet feed, and bought myself a Roku player. I rarely watch commercials anymore. I choose what I want to watch, and I can even stream stuff I've digitized and stored on disk on other machines on my network. And I'm paying far less, by orders of magnitude, for the couple subscriptions that I watch on the Roku as compared to cable TV.
How can broadcast/cable TV compete with this?
The problem lies in that the person complaining about having to restart pulseaudio bases his opinion on an experience he had 3 or 4 years ago, the last time he tried Ubuntu, and dismissed Ubuntu as "too hard for the common user." Fast forward to the present, and he still holds that viewpoint, but hasn't done a single thing with the latest Ubuntu version to see if there has been any change in the aberrant behavior that he's complaining about. But he'll say that it's Ubuntu that's broken, not his ability to try something new and different, and it certainly couldn't be his ability to take time to work out the technical issues and learn something new.
...which of the 4 people living here and on which of the 9 computers (7 physical, 2 virtual) behind my NAT firewall committed the act based on the evidence you have already? Which subnet of my internal network were they using (the virtual machines are subnetted away from the rest of the network)? Is it possible that someone outside my home cracked my wireless security, joined my network, and committed the act in question?
Risking a "me too" post, yes, I am too. I sat in the theatre crying during the opening scenes of Fellowship of the Ring. It was all too real, too much like what my imagination had done for it already. Getting Hobbit underway is a stroke of really good news that another well-loved tale will come to life for me again. Now, let's hope Jackson gets this thing in the can and out on the screens some time before I die.
They seek out someone much more knowledgeable than they are and they pay that someone to take care of the problem, just like they do when they encounter problems with Windows or other software, or they do the research and learn how to do it for themselves. You'll note that most software manufacturers don't support their own software, they farm all that out to a network of 3rd-party vendors to take care of those needs. You have a problem with the creation of economic opportunities for software support specialists?
I guess the idea of a grounded Faraday cage around each piece of equipment escapes them?