Calling HL7 a standards based interface is a very very large joke. It's about as 'standard' as semi-formatted XML document. Yeah you can communicate the structure, however each hospital/vendor/mapper implements where the data goes differently, hence the massive interop headaches.
While the NHL could generate their own canonical format for storage, they would still need to map it to each and every EMR they interacted with. Curious how they solved that one.
Apple has a wonderful cafeteria and a seriously epic variety of food, they are just out of space (food stations are being set up outside etc...). Makes perfect sense for them to house a larger "restaurant" (aka cafeteria) so employees don't have to head out to the local BJ's. Why is this being spun as an OMG Apple is too wealthy and splurging. Yahoo and others have freaking DMV and hairstyling services for employees (okay maybe Yahoo is not the best example here....)
Agreed. The only reason I'm on Firefox still is the extensions (it used it be the features like tabbed and crash recovery but most others have that now). To be brutally honest it's only StumbleUpon that is keeping me on Firefox.
No company ever thinks to improve their bottom line by steadily generating quality product anymore. The money that goes into solid development is always the dregs of money first given to analysts and marketers.
I'm normally not a foaming-at-the-mouth anti-establishment labor-theory humanist, but things like this (especially with the oft-cited 'global economy') really and truly make me sick.
Blizzard... but they are the major exception to the rule (the Pixar of games?)
Other than that I agree completely about the 'global economy' bs. Not every job is 'cog' job despite management's wet dream fantasies to make it so....
Short little video clips as a reward for finishing levels fall into that category. Have games from other companies abused it in the past, yes. Does Blizzard get the play/watch ratio right? Hell yes.
I'm just the opposite. Cutscenes rendered in the game engine always look like crap to me (Dawn of War comes to mind). Here they had a great intro scene but all the storytelling is done in low poly blocks staring at each other like bad 80's cartoons.
Apple pays an estimated 70 cents of every dollar it collects per song to the record companies responsible for each track. The record companies turn over nine cents to the music publishers who control the copyrights to these tunes.
So why can't the record companies absorb the extra 6 cents? Oh wait. They're greedy bastards...
Both the application and multi-gigabyte content/training files are distributed via Bittorrent. And on the last release, the forums had several folks reporting torrenting problems above and beyond the usual PEBKAC.
Yep, and it's a privilege to drive a car and it's a privilege to use buses and subways and it's a privilege to have electricity and it's a privilege to have running water...
So at what point does a privilege become a right when we are talking about being a functional member of society. Do all our 'rights' guarantee us is living in a shack outside of town? (ignoring of course the privilige of property ownership.)
I'm not saying it's a right to fly...but where do we draw the line?
The industry is supporting more gross incompetents than it did during the boom. Twice as many mediocre folks are being hired for the same amount on money (domestic and abroad). Thus managers who have a hard time distinguishing competency, make it harder for the competent to actually maintain jobs of proportional compensation.
I had an large argument with a co-worker over this who was pissed I smoked (at the time, since quit)
He fully supported jacking the premiums for unhealthy lifestyles, etc... Then he proceeded to rack up massive bills from MRI scans, physical therapy, and eventual surgery for blowing out his knee halfway through a marathon.
1.Full agreement there. The Educational system (both public and private) is horrendously borked.
2. Hate to break it to you but 55k in NYC or SF is not all that obscene or insane these days. A bit high maybe, but not insane for someone competent. For a recent college educated grad, that still means several roommates, broken-down car and basic eating. (check craigslist for rent, factor in Student loans and tax rates...). Quick breakdown. ~35k after taxes, 12k/year in rent, 8k/year in food, 5k/year in gas/car, 2k/year student loan (assuming low payment option). That leaves about 8k for all the other expenses in life...and like I said, 55k was a bit high.
3. Extra hour or two. Fine. I've yet to really see management who doesn't take a mile when an inch is given. (~8 years in Silicon Valley right now)
4. Yes costs are out of proportion to the rest of the world. Yes credit is abused. But the 5%-6% raise per year is just to maintain the same buying power from year to year (google: COLA and Cost of Living Allowance). Without these slight raises, one is in effect taking a 5% pay cut from year to year (iirc that's what COLA increases have been averaging)
Well look at it this way. You live in a rural part of town. The town as an entity grants a monopoly contract to a provider. Said provider refuses to give service to the entire town (outlying rural areas). Yet you still pay property taxes and the like to the town... So you are paying to support services you can never use...
(we had to fight in town meeting to get cable rolled out to us when they came through...) we pay the taxes, we get a say in the service agreements.
damn... good way to prep the future generations for the police state...expecting authority figures to have full access to your entire life at any time for any reason. And mainting any privacy is instant cause for guilty status.
Odama is spelled Adama (as has been pointed out) and it has been suggested that the name was chosen as a combination of 'Adam A' as in the root/head/etc...
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Calling HL7 a standards based interface is a very very large joke. It's about as 'standard' as semi-formatted XML document. Yeah you can communicate the structure, however each hospital/vendor/mapper implements where the data goes differently, hence the massive interop headaches.
While the NHL could generate their own canonical format for storage, they would still need to map it to each and every EMR they interacted with. Curious how they solved that one.
If I only had mod points....
Also a grey hair here however C# has been paying the bills lately.
Apple has a wonderful cafeteria and a seriously epic variety of food, they are just out of space (food stations are being set up outside etc...). Makes perfect sense for them to house a larger "restaurant" (aka cafeteria) so employees don't have to head out to the local BJ's. Why is this being spun as an OMG Apple is too wealthy and splurging. Yahoo and others have freaking DMV and hairstyling services for employees (okay maybe Yahoo is not the best example here....)
Agreed. The only reason I'm on Firefox still is the extensions (it used it be the features like tabbed and crash recovery but most others have that now). To be brutally honest it's only StumbleUpon that is keeping me on Firefox.
Blizzard is more than the WoW MMOG crack market that is their most recent creation... Starcraft, Diablo, Warcraft etc...
No company ever thinks to improve their bottom line by steadily generating quality product anymore. The money that goes into solid development is always the dregs of money first given to analysts and marketers.
I'm normally not a foaming-at-the-mouth anti-establishment labor-theory humanist, but things like this (especially with the oft-cited 'global economy') really and truly make me sick.
Blizzard... but they are the major exception to the rule (the Pixar of games?)
Other than that I agree completely about the 'global economy' bs. Not every job is 'cog' job despite management's wet dream fantasies to make it so....
I play video games to be entertained.
Short little video clips as a reward for finishing levels fall into that category. Have games from other companies abused it in the past, yes.
Does Blizzard get the play/watch ratio right? Hell yes.
I'm just the opposite. Cutscenes rendered in the game engine always look like crap to me (Dawn of War comes to mind). Here they had a great intro scene but all the storytelling is done in low poly blocks staring at each other like bad 80's cartoons.
Glad to see there are other people who realize that simply taking content is ultimately defeating and are willing to pay for it.
Unfortunately now we are now supporting thieves like the grandparent post in addition to *AA scum.
Apple pays an estimated 70 cents of every dollar it collects per song to the record companies responsible for each track. The record companies turn over nine cents to the music publishers who control the copyrights to these tunes.
So why can't the record companies absorb the extra 6 cents? Oh wait. They're greedy bastards...
Another great example is the 3d application Modo from Luxology http://www.luxology.com/
Both the application and multi-gigabyte content/training files are distributed via Bittorrent.
And on the last release, the forums had several folks reporting torrenting problems above and beyond the usual PEBKAC.
Yep, and it's a privilege to drive a car
and it's a privilege to use buses and subways
and it's a privilege to have electricity
and it's a privilege to have running water...
So at what point does a privilege become a right when we are talking about being a functional member of society. Do all our 'rights' guarantee us is living in a shack outside of town? (ignoring of course the privilige of property ownership.)
I'm not saying it's a right to fly...but where do we draw the line?
Actually I'd say the reverse is true.
The industry is supporting more gross incompetents than it did during the boom. Twice as many mediocre folks are being hired for the same amount on money (domestic and abroad). Thus managers who have a hard time distinguishing competency, make it harder for the competent to actually maintain jobs of proportional compensation.
I had an large argument with a co-worker over this who was pissed I smoked (at the time, since quit)
He fully supported jacking the premiums for unhealthy lifestyles, etc...
Then he proceeded to rack up massive bills from MRI scans, physical therapy, and eventual surgery for blowing out his knee halfway through a marathon.
there won't be any young males left to fight our wars if we've put them all in jail for stealing copyrighted (copywrit?) items.
or the more dastardly side of it that was used in the Vietnam draft era. Serve time or Serve your country.
1.Full agreement there. The Educational system (both public and private) is horrendously borked.
2. Hate to break it to you but 55k in NYC or SF is not all that obscene or insane these days. A bit high maybe, but not insane for someone competent. For a recent college educated grad, that still means several roommates, broken-down car and basic eating. (check craigslist for rent, factor in Student loans and tax rates...). Quick breakdown. ~35k after taxes, 12k/year in rent, 8k/year in food, 5k/year in gas/car, 2k/year student loan (assuming low payment option). That leaves about 8k for all the other expenses in life...and like I said, 55k was a bit high.
3. Extra hour or two. Fine. I've yet to really see management who doesn't take a mile when an inch is given. (~8 years in Silicon Valley right now)
4. Yes costs are out of proportion to the rest of the world. Yes credit is abused. But the 5%-6% raise per year is just to maintain the same buying power from year to year (google: COLA and Cost of Living Allowance). Without these slight raises, one is in effect taking a 5% pay cut from year to year (iirc that's what COLA increases have been averaging)
Well look at it this way.
You live in a rural part of town.
The town as an entity grants a monopoly contract to a provider.
Said provider refuses to give service to the entire town (outlying rural areas).
Yet you still pay property taxes and the like to the town...
So you are paying to support services you can never use...
(we had to fight in town meeting to get cable rolled out to us when they came through...) we pay the taxes, we get a say in the service agreements.
damn... good way to prep the future generations for the police state...expecting authority figures to have full access to your entire life at any time for any reason. And mainting any privacy is instant cause for guilty status.
That qualifies you as an admin in most places...
*shudder*
Odama is spelled Adama (as has been pointed out) and it has been suggested that the name was chosen as a combination of 'Adam A' as in the root/head/etc...
actually no. There is no proof in tampering/removal of the mail-ins vs what was counted by the machine. Scenario.
Feed in Ballots...
Find out Canidate X lost by 450 votes.
Alter Machine Total via documented exploit.
'Loose' 451 Cadidate Y mail in ballots.
Where the tape shows how many were read-in vs how many are present.
.44%. Half of 1 percent. And what is their margin of error? Somehow I doubt Nielsen SoundScan has THAT high a precision.
While I can apreciate the joke re: Mac gaming...
Blizzard is actually one of the few that does simultaneous platform releases...(install discs are usually dual platform even)
Now Quake 4 on the other hand...(and don't even get me started on Half Life...)
hmmmm...try living on 53K pre-tax a year in SF, Boston or NY
$DEITY help you if you have a family even....
buying a home on that?!?!? bwhahah. nice dream.
Presumably you are doing the same job better/faster/more experienced etc...
Not to mention any added duties, responsibilites and tasks that come about...
and as you may note, many of the people posting are not even getting cost of living increases.