Think about it. If an alien were able to come to Earth, the question would be what rights do we have?
Remember your history, its the ones that arrive from afar that make the decisions. Europeans decided the rights of native Americans, not the other way around. Etc. Etc. Etc.
Good idea. CC all of the management team on each out-going mail. If they ask, say its so they can monitor performance and efficacy. Don't forget to put the CEO's real name and personal e-mail address in the Reply-To field.
For a bonus, attach an MS Word document in all of the mail going to the people in management. Something pithy, like a screed on why its not nice to spam. The disks will fill up so fast that way that your system will crash before you can send much spam.
Another business reason that may stop the change in its tracks is to ask the Exchange evangelists if they hold shares in MS, full disclosure of conflict of interest.
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The headline says "Navy to run Microsoft." I wish! More than likely Microsoft will run the Navy.
Why not? Its a government of the people, by the people and for the people and I'm a person so that makes me government too. The IRS is government, the census is government, I'm government, Social Security is government, and Congress is government.
Have you considered outsourcing to an ASP? Normally this is done at the institutional level, not the departmental level. But just reading the bumf might give you some better ideas on what you want in an EMR. Also, talk to people in other departments and see what they are using. No matter what you decide on as a good solution, it will be hell if it can't work with the solutions of other departments; many patients are dealt with by more than one clinical department between admission and release.
Its probably more than what you want and too expensive, but you might be able to get some good ideas about how things ought to work from them. The site content is a bit superficial, but they will send literature on request.
I was thinking more along the lines of individual suits by the lumpen geekatriat that has been harmed by MS's rapacious practices.
I hear that Bill has a giant boat he never uses. We could claim that under a class action suit with enough money to keep it running. THen dedicate it to the noble purpose of rest, recuperation and rehabilitation for hackers suffering from carpal tunnel syndrome.
Bugger that. California is one of the most litiganous (sp?) states in the union. Perhaps the best is yet to come. Here is a story at CBS about the California court allowing victims of LAPD corruption to use the federal anti-racketeering law against the LAPD. The story quotes a law prof that "It really could come close to bankrupting the city."
Imagine what whould happen if RICO could be applied to MS! Among other things RICO allows for the confiscation of land, buildings, money, etc. from the perpetrator.
"An Office 2000 install runs less MB than a similar StarOffice install. "
That is at least in part due to the need for SO to carry its environment with it. O2k will need to bring along its own infrastructure too. Things like VB interpreters, C# stuff, DCOM, MS-LDAP, MS-Kerberos, MS-Java, ActiveX and God only knows what else.
Its not that bad. First class is $0.33 and a typical photocopy is $0.10 per page, so its not an outrageous markup, especially since it includes an envelope and delivery to the premises. It allows you to get a hardcopy page to somebody in a few minutes (who may not have a computer) for a bit more than the cose of s-mailing a photocopy. I remember some of the early service providers (circa 1985) were offering the same services.
I personally don't worry a lot about the security issues. At least it is protected by federal mail-tampering laws, whichis more than can be said for what might be sent via, say, a similar service run on an MS.net thingy where the only protection is their word.
The feds are already able to read your mail, if they have a search warrant. The semi-e-mail isn't necessarily any easier to access. The page can be printed and stuffed in an envelope without human intervention (do you think the electric bills are hand stuffed and read by utility workers?).
If the government wanted to shut down the internet in a hurry all they'd have to do is pay MS a few million dollars and they'd send out the Secret Signal and revoke all of the browser and server licenses.
I met Pepperberg at a meeting one time. SHe gave a presentation on her work with Alex. Parrots are a social animal and don't like to be left alone.
She told one account of how when she went away for trips Alex, the parrot, would get anxious and pluch out his feathers. So when she taught him to count she'd show Alex a calendar and tell him how long she'd be away for before she left. Its seems to have helped.
So, to answer your question, parrots need the internet because its cheaper than a pet monkey.
Maybe, but drawing free shapes with mice and, worse, trackballs, is nothing like the free movement of a hand over paper. Drawing tablets come much closer, but they are rarer and more expensive. Especially if you are a young kid in a wiggly mood and want to spread it out on the floor or lay on your back. Watch a kid draw. If they are intense and "into it," they move the paper as much as they pencil, almost, to get new views and align the paper to better accomodate their manual advantages. This helps devolop undertanding of abstract aspects of shape, such as rotational invariance. Rotate your mouse pad and see what happens to the image on the screen, nothing. Also, you don't usually have your hand and computer screen in view at the same time, it just isn't as effective in developing eye-hand co-ordination. I think the breadth of unstructured learning is more important at a young age than any advantage to be gained by drawing neat, clean and accurate forms.
You are too preoccupied with the computer programing and computer science aspect of computers. There are other issues which are probably more important and what the the educators in the article are more responsive to. More like McLuhan's "the medium is the message" idea.
Consider drawing a circle, for example. If you draw it with a pencil on a piece of paper, you involve a large part of your nervous system. You use your visual system to guide your hand and judge the quality of your progress. You use your proprioceptive system to organize and co-ordinate muscle movements at spinal, brain stem, cerebellar, thalamic and cortical levels. Your auditory system hears the scratching of the pencil on the paper with the change in pitch as the direction changes continuously. Your sense of touch feels the pencil and the changes in forces on the pencil as it traverses its circular trajectory and the texture of the paper beneath the hand. In addition to drawing a (probably very inacurate) circle, there is a subliminal learning experience of "roundness" as experienced by many neurons at many levels.
Most computer drawing programs do a better job of drawing circles, but the experience is impoverished sensually. You pick a shape class from a menu and then click the mouse over where you want to draw it. THen you drag the mouse to adjust the size and you are done. Its so simple a blind person could do it and you learn almost nothing from the experience.
No, draw a square. With a pencil on paper, its almost an entirely different experience. Abrupt changes in direction, etc. With a computer its exactly the same. The only difference is that you choose a different shape category at the begining.
The person using a pencil and paper learns to distinguish circles and sqares at all neurological levels. The person using a computer only sees the difference at a higher, abstract level; a small subset of the understanding that the pencil-user experiences. To a mature person, this probably makes no difference, but to a formative mind, where neural circuits are still being laid down, such as k-5, this can make a big difference. Once a critical period of development has been passed, it can never be revisited.
I think that the educators are right, keep kids away from computers for the first few years of schooling. THEN you can use it as a tool, after they have a healthy, roundly experience brain in their head. At least for production work. I would think that a coumputer would still be acceptable for searching for things and some elementary programing/logic exercises.
Really? I don't remember anything about Adam Smith in Paine's Common Sense. And Thomas Jefferson opposed capitalism. His idea of freedom hinged on self-reliance and to him that meant owning land and farming. He saw capitalism as inimical to personal freedom; wage slaves to him were just that, not free. Remember, the original list of voters who elected those "representatives to voice the opinion of the majority of the nation! " was limited to land-owning adult males. Not slaves, women, workers of bums. They spoke for independent farmers mostly. I expect that the sympathies of many of the founding fathers would be with that French farmer, not the suits on Wall Street.
Ahhh! But think more deeply! MS has just invented a new holiday. When the Great Registry in the Sky gets corrupted, the whole planet (except the MS server drones restoring backups) takes a day off.
You'll get up in the morning and see that the coffee maker, TV, radio, traffic lights and computer aren't working, the banks and stores are closed, or else only trading by barter, and you'll say to yourself "Ah! Another Registry Day! I can go back to sleep."
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It is a silly question.
Think about it. If an alien were able to come to Earth, the question would be what rights do we have?
Remember your history, its the ones that arrive from afar that make the decisions. Europeans decided the rights of native Americans, not the other way around. Etc. Etc. Etc.
Good idea. CC all of the management team on each out-going mail. If they ask, say its so they can monitor performance and efficacy. Don't forget to put the CEO's real name and personal e-mail address in the Reply-To field.
For a bonus, attach an MS Word document in all of the mail going to the people in management. Something pithy, like a screed on why its not nice to spam. The disks will fill up so fast that way that your system will crash before you can send much spam.
Another business reason that may stop the change in its tracks is to ask the Exchange evangelists if they hold shares in MS, full disclosure of conflict of interest.
The headline says "Navy to run Microsoft." I wish! More than likely Microsoft will run the Navy.
I want my legitimate acess to that dope's files!
Here is one ASP that comes to mind: http://www.hie.com/html/why_outsou rce_.html
Its probably more than what you want and too expensive, but you might be able to get some good ideas about how things ought to work from them. The site content is a bit superficial, but they will send literature on request.
I hear that Bill has a giant boat he never uses. We could claim that under a class action suit with enough money to keep it running. THen dedicate it to the noble purpose of rest, recuperation and rehabilitation for hackers suffering from carpal tunnel syndrome.
Preferably outside the 12 mile limit.
Imagine what whould happen if RICO could be applied to MS! Among other things RICO allows for the confiscation of land, buildings, money, etc. from the perpetrator.
That is at least in part due to the need for SO to carry its environment with it. O2k will need to bring along its own infrastructure too. Things like VB interpreters, C# stuff, DCOM, MS-LDAP, MS-Kerberos, MS-Java, ActiveX and God only knows what else.
I'll bet its bigger than SO.
or maybe a 10 kW bazooka woofer that ruptures your spleen if you try to delete the SOB
There is already a WIN-BASH. Its called Slashdot.
"Give the devil a ride and sooner or later he's gonna want to drive."
I personally don't worry a lot about the security issues. At least it is protected by federal mail-tampering laws, whichis more than can be said for what might be sent via, say, a similar service run on an MS.net thingy where the only protection is their word.
The feds are already able to read your mail, if they have a search warrant. The semi-e-mail isn't necessarily any easier to access. The page can be printed and stuffed in an envelope without human intervention (do you think the electric bills are hand stuffed and read by utility workers?).
Yeah, but 86% of the browsers are IE and probably > 90% of the live net users are on Windows.
If the government wanted to shut down the internet in a hurry all they'd have to do is pay MS a few million dollars and they'd send out the Secret Signal and revoke all of the browser and server licenses.
As any fool can see, as the magic numbers 2 and 1 change their positions, so too do the priorities of mankind change.
She told one account of how when she went away for trips Alex, the parrot, would get anxious and pluch out his feathers. So when she taught him to count she'd show Alex a calendar and tell him how long she'd be away for before she left. Its seems to have helped.
So, to answer your question, parrots need the internet because its cheaper than a pet monkey.
Maybe, but drawing free shapes with mice and, worse, trackballs, is nothing like the free movement of a hand over paper. Drawing tablets come much closer, but they are rarer and more expensive. Especially if you are a young kid in a wiggly mood and want to spread it out on the floor or lay on your back. Watch a kid draw. If they are intense and "into it," they move the paper as much as they pencil, almost, to get new views and align the paper to better accomodate their manual advantages. This helps devolop undertanding of abstract aspects of shape, such as rotational invariance. Rotate your mouse pad and see what happens to the image on the screen, nothing. Also, you don't usually have your hand and computer screen in view at the same time, it just isn't as effective in developing eye-hand co-ordination. I think the breadth of unstructured learning is more important at a young age than any advantage to be gained by drawing neat, clean and accurate forms.
You are too preoccupied with the computer programing and computer science aspect of computers. There are other issues which are probably more important and what the the educators in the article are more responsive to. More like McLuhan's "the medium is the message" idea.
Consider drawing a circle, for example. If you draw it with a pencil on a piece of paper, you involve a large part of your nervous system. You use your visual system to guide your hand and judge the quality of your progress. You use your proprioceptive system to organize and co-ordinate muscle movements at spinal, brain stem, cerebellar, thalamic and cortical levels. Your auditory system hears the scratching of the pencil on the paper with the change in pitch as the direction changes continuously. Your sense of touch feels the pencil and the changes in forces on the pencil as it traverses its circular trajectory and the texture of the paper beneath the hand. In addition to drawing a (probably very inacurate) circle, there is a subliminal learning experience of "roundness" as experienced by many neurons at many levels.
Most computer drawing programs do a better job of drawing circles, but the experience is impoverished sensually. You pick a shape class from a menu and then click the mouse over where you want to draw it. THen you drag the mouse to adjust the size and you are done. Its so simple a blind person could do it and you learn almost nothing from the experience.
No, draw a square. With a pencil on paper, its almost an entirely different experience. Abrupt changes in direction, etc. With a computer its exactly the same. The only difference is that you choose a different shape category at the begining.
The person using a pencil and paper learns to distinguish circles and sqares at all neurological levels. The person using a computer only sees the difference at a higher, abstract level; a small subset of the understanding that the pencil-user experiences. To a mature person, this probably makes no difference, but to a formative mind, where neural circuits are still being laid down, such as k-5, this can make a big difference. Once a critical period of development has been passed, it can never be revisited.
I think that the educators are right, keep kids away from computers for the first few years of schooling. THEN you can use it as a tool, after they have a healthy, roundly experience brain in their head. At least for production work. I would think that a coumputer would still be acceptable for searching for things and some elementary programing/logic exercises.
Really? I don't remember anything about Adam Smith in Paine's Common Sense. And Thomas Jefferson opposed capitalism. His idea of freedom hinged on self-reliance and to him that meant owning land and farming. He saw capitalism as inimical to personal freedom; wage slaves to him were just that, not free. Remember, the original list of voters who elected those "representatives to voice the opinion of the majority of the nation! " was limited to land-owning adult males. Not slaves, women, workers of bums. They spoke for independent farmers mostly. I expect that the sympathies of many of the founding fathers would be with that French farmer, not the suits on Wall Street.
At least you can't fault them for misleading advertising on this one.
I guess the guy is around the Bend.
Yeah, but which XML? XML, or MSXML?
You'll get up in the morning and see that the coffee maker, TV, radio, traffic lights and computer aren't working, the banks and stores are closed, or else only trading by barter, and you'll say to yourself "Ah! Another Registry Day! I can go back to sleep."
oops, should read "there is no release date scheduled"