I have to agree with PolyDwarf and call your "solution" naive. I have had the exact scenario happen to me. We received a private grant to develop some innovative medical software, we developed it, the hospital said sorry, we only run corporately supported software (it's a long story but that's the short version). They ended up going with six-figure to start McKesson software to do the same thing, even though the McKesson software was only promising standards support in the future, and it was clearly clunky and itself used open source software! The hospital's point of view is if one of your programmers isn't available, you're in trouble. McKesson probably only has a couple of really good programmers as well so the same thing could happen to them, but at least the hospital wouldn't have the blame (??? - but that's how it works). The hospital already had a number of very good programmers, but they were already indoctrinated and just shrugged through the whole process.
By the way, I also want to mention that Microsoft sells their software to hospitals at a discounted rate - 10% of cost. So this entire article is bogus, though I think going to Linux is a good idea for many reasons.
You make a strange statement. "The story in your link has nothing to do with consuming meat or animal products. The disease allegedly triggered by pig brain tissue exposure had to do with slaughterhouse workers." Ok then. The brain is part of the CNS. But my point wasn't that meat causes Alzheimer's, rather that there is a lot that is not known, so I find your assertion rather.. bold. Probably one that a non layperson wouldn't make.;)
Top marks for your use of persuasive statistics, and the data to back you up is right there on the page!
Are we about to go off the rails? Danger On The Rails: Railroad won't talk about hazardous chemical cargo Off the Rails: Big Oil, Big Brother Win Big in the State of the Union Train breaks world's speed record on rails Clinton rails against Bush border plan US destroying Tomcat fighter jets to keep parts from Iran
e-communism was just the kind of vague concept this kind of person would come up with, it involved "sharing" online infrastructure, but basically came down to other people providing things for them.
I've had a few acquaintances that were constantly told they were smart when young ("smarter than the other kids," etc) and they tend to be annoying and inconsiderate. One of them was obsessed with "e-communism," but what he really meant was "me-communism."
They are two different things. uTorrent is, well, a micro client implementation, whereas Azureus is meant to be a be-all, end-all client implementation. You could make a minimal torrent implementation in Java as well.
Azureus, Limewire, LightZone and Cyberduck are all popular applications written in Java, along with a large number of mobile device apps (see http://mobits.com/jad/). What Java tries to do - generalize the runtime and provide a programming language for all operating environments - is quite a task, and after a decade it has considerable success in some fields. It is really a shame that it has been subject to bad impressions and innumerable political moves that in the end just take away another choice from the end user.
KFC intentionally changed their name to KFC from Kentucky Fried Chicken because "Fried" was not considered to be a selling point anymore. PFK reinforces the original name, to the benefit of the consumer.
That's probably because it's not a particularly portable computer. I had one and got rid of it for a smaller computer because I was tired of lugging it around. 6+ lbs is a lot these days.
I use it in a project with 20k lines of code and 30 third party libraries. It's fast, especially with the incremental compiler. The only time it is slow is when I need to rebuild the entire project, which only takes a few minutes, and is mainly due to the third party (myeclipse) validators, which have been speeding up release by release.
I gotta agree, I use Java and Eclipse constantly and my experience is nothing like #21153657's... In other words, I find Java/Eclipse performance to be fine, surprisingly snappy for many extremely complex operations (which require a strict language like Java), and by no means are operations like window redrawing slow. Seems like someone has a vendetta going on.
As a matter of fact, I could probably set up OS X so that the average Linux user would think they were running either Linux or some variant of BSD, and not OS X at all.
Hmm, I don't think so. Open source systems have something closed, "owned" systems will never have, centralized package management. If someone were used to a Debian style package management, they'd think having to manage the entire system and individual packages is pretty primitive. Mac OS has Fink, but it's not as complete as Ubuntu &c.
But I do think you could take a Linux and make it configurable enough that it could serve any purpose or taste. If MS/Apple didn't get into a suin' mood, that is, and by the time they noticed the attitude would probably be "bring it on."
Well, I don't agree. To pick one at random, ignoring backwards compatibility (which is a boondoggle in this theoretical case), I don't think there's any reason everyone couldn't be satisfied with Mac OS X (I prefer Linux, but OS X is probably the best hybrid of user friendly and UNIX backend at the moment). Of course, competition is good, but I'd say at the moment operating systems are basically stalled as far as general capability and experience goes.
I agree some effects in fusion are just shiny, but overall it's part of an evolution of desktop appearance and functioning. For example, managing many workspaces and resolution free desktops. It's really an excellent accomplishment and points to the vitality of open source development and the technical underpinnings.
So what if $IBM decided they didn't want (or couldn't be bothered) to sell a company access to their patent portfolio? What's the company going to do, sue them? It could just as complicated as things are now.
I know lots of people who are independent web developers, and they pick and choose their clients not for the high pay, but for interest in their field (non profits, politics, small business, etc). As well, as an independent you can write off a lot of your expenses, so $60k translates to much more. Finally, you get a lot more freedom, which sometimes leads to not working all the time.
I worked for a major Canadian hospital and met with Microsoft in 2004 where they talked about their EMR plans. To tell you the truth, it was spooky. They had a presentation about this clumsy guy who kept getting in accidents, but it was ok, Microsoft's health care record, backed up hospital repair-shops, were there to save him, with oh so simple billing. It was intended for a Usonian market, and had all those for-profit assumptions, which really showed you how much attention they were willing to pay. It reminded me of a presentation I'd seen where the Usonian company thought they'd "Canadianized" their presentation by changing the dummy account home towns.. yet they all had AOL addresses (we don't use AOL here).
Much as I dislike cheesy nicknames, if I were in California, I'd be reminding myself I had "the Terminator" (and other science fiction characters) as governor too.
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I have to agree with PolyDwarf and call your "solution" naive. I have had the exact scenario happen to me. We received a private grant to develop some innovative medical software, we developed it, the hospital said sorry, we only run corporately supported software (it's a long story but that's the short version). They ended up going with six-figure to start McKesson software to do the same thing, even though the McKesson software was only promising standards support in the future, and it was clearly clunky and itself used open source software! The hospital's point of view is if one of your programmers isn't available, you're in trouble. McKesson probably only has a couple of really good programmers as well so the same thing could happen to them, but at least the hospital wouldn't have the blame (??? - but that's how it works). The hospital already had a number of very good programmers, but they were already indoctrinated and just shrugged through the whole process.
By the way, I also want to mention that Microsoft sells their software to hospitals at a discounted rate - 10% of cost. So this entire article is bogus, though I think going to Linux is a good idea for many reasons.
You make a strange statement. "The story in your link has nothing to do with consuming meat or animal products. The disease allegedly triggered by pig brain tissue exposure had to do with slaughterhouse workers." Ok then. The brain is part of the CNS. But my point wasn't that meat causes Alzheimer's, rather that there is a lot that is not known, so I find your assertion rather.. bold. Probably one that a non layperson wouldn't make. ;)
How do you know it's not the case?
http://news.wired.com/dynamic/stories/S/SLAUGHTERHOUSE_ILLNESS?SITE=WIRE&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2007-12-07-20-38-21
Top marks for your use of persuasive statistics, and the data to back you up is right there on the page!
Are we about to go off the rails?
Danger On The Rails: Railroad won't talk about hazardous chemical cargo
Off the Rails: Big Oil, Big Brother Win Big in the State of the Union
Train breaks world's speed record on rails
Clinton rails against Bush border plan
US destroying Tomcat fighter jets to keep parts from Iran
See, 5 mentions of Rails and only one of Java!
Definitely much more compelling than http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm
I agree, thus the comment about politics (majorly, first MS, now Apple).
e-communism was just the kind of vague concept this kind of person would come up with, it involved "sharing" online infrastructure, but basically came down to other people providing things for them.
I've had a few acquaintances that were constantly told they were smart when young ("smarter than the other kids," etc) and they tend to be annoying and inconsiderate. One of them was obsessed with "e-communism," but what he really meant was "me-communism."
They are two different things. uTorrent is, well, a micro client implementation, whereas Azureus is meant to be a be-all, end-all client implementation. You could make a minimal torrent implementation in Java as well.
Azureus, Limewire, LightZone and Cyberduck are all popular applications written in Java, along with a large number of mobile device apps (see http://mobits.com/jad/). What Java tries to do - generalize the runtime and provide a programming language for all operating environments - is quite a task, and after a decade it has considerable success in some fields. It is really a shame that it has been subject to bad impressions and innumerable political moves that in the end just take away another choice from the end user.
KFC intentionally changed their name to KFC from Kentucky Fried Chicken because "Fried" was not considered to be a selling point anymore. PFK reinforces the original name, to the benefit of the consumer.
That's probably because it's not a particularly portable computer. I had one and got rid of it for a smaller computer because I was tired of lugging it around. 6+ lbs is a lot these days.
One would assume you'd use partitioning in such a system, in which case the choice of language isn't as important as the architecture.
What does this have to do with being Canadian? I can activate similar features on .com and other TLDs. Like the free advertising?
I use it in a project with 20k lines of code and 30 third party libraries. It's fast, especially with the incremental compiler. The only time it is slow is when I need to rebuild the entire project, which only takes a few minutes, and is mainly due to the third party (myeclipse) validators, which have been speeding up release by release.
I gotta agree, I use Java and Eclipse constantly and my experience is nothing like #21153657's ... In other words, I find Java/Eclipse performance to be fine, surprisingly snappy for many extremely complex operations (which require a strict language like Java), and by no means are operations like window redrawing slow. Seems like someone has a vendetta going on.
Hmm, I don't think so. Open source systems have something closed, "owned" systems will never have, centralized package management. If someone were used to a Debian style package management, they'd think having to manage the entire system and individual packages is pretty primitive. Mac OS has Fink, but it's not as complete as Ubuntu &c.
But I do think you could take a Linux and make it configurable enough that it could serve any purpose or taste. If MS/Apple didn't get into a suin' mood, that is, and by the time they noticed the attitude would probably be "bring it on."
It's for better screen saver visualization for server room tours. Those GL Pipes were getting so old.
Or e.. for ECMAScript. eQuery.
es? esQuery. It's a bit Spanish though.
Well, I don't agree. To pick one at random, ignoring backwards compatibility (which is a boondoggle in this theoretical case), I don't think there's any reason everyone couldn't be satisfied with Mac OS X (I prefer Linux, but OS X is probably the best hybrid of user friendly and UNIX backend at the moment). Of course, competition is good, but I'd say at the moment operating systems are basically stalled as far as general capability and experience goes.
Umm, why not?
(I'm talking out of Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, btw).
I agree some effects in fusion are just shiny, but overall it's part of an evolution of desktop appearance and functioning. For example, managing many workspaces and resolution free desktops. It's really an excellent accomplishment and points to the vitality of open source development and the technical underpinnings.
So what if $IBM decided they didn't want (or couldn't be bothered) to sell a company access to their patent portfolio? What's the company going to do, sue them? It could just as complicated as things are now.
I know lots of people who are independent web developers, and they pick and choose their clients not for the high pay, but for interest in their field (non profits, politics, small business, etc). As well, as an independent you can write off a lot of your expenses, so $60k translates to much more. Finally, you get a lot more freedom, which sometimes leads to not working all the time.
I worked for a major Canadian hospital and met with Microsoft in 2004 where they talked about their EMR plans. To tell you the truth, it was spooky. They had a presentation about this clumsy guy who kept getting in accidents, but it was ok, Microsoft's health care record, backed up hospital repair-shops, were there to save him, with oh so simple billing. It was intended for a Usonian market, and had all those for-profit assumptions, which really showed you how much attention they were willing to pay. It reminded me of a presentation I'd seen where the Usonian company thought they'd "Canadianized" their presentation by changing the dummy account home towns.. yet they all had AOL addresses (we don't use AOL here).
Much as I dislike cheesy nicknames, if I were in California, I'd be reminding myself I had "the Terminator" (and other science fiction characters) as governor too.