I think that capturing the data is a good thing but how they are doing is going to have a lot of errors entered. One big list of every possibility is terrible for usability. Instead of a long list I would have created a hierarchy. The major problems would be up top such as fractures, poisoning, surgical and then the valid options would be given to the user as they drill down. For example fracture -> {bone name} -> {side of body} or surgical -> suturing -> {artery name}.
Let NASA build what it needs for the lowest cost without interference from the politicians. Stop treating NASA as a way to distribute money to the districts and spreading projects throughout the country.
Why do you need someone who needs to be at least a certified pharmacy technician? I'm not and I can see the need for putting the patient's safety first. Maybe what we need is business leaders that don't put their stock options first. Would you complain if you had someone in upper management come down and learn about what you do? There seems to be a wall dividing management from the workers, upper management especially.
I think you don't need a technical person to be in upper management but that person has be willing to learn the business.
I'm not a pharmacist so I'm just guessing. Part of it might be to lower shipping and storage costs. A whole lot of smaller container take up a lot more room than one larger bottle. Inventory control becomes more complicated since you have to check the expiry date on every container. There's also the expense to the drug manufacturer for the extra packaging. Also not every prescription is given for the same length of time. You might be given an antibiotic for 7 days while I might be given it for 10. Does the pharmacy have to stock both versions or do they open up a 7 day one to add to another to make a 10 day prescription?
There are a few medications that do come already packaged at the factory. I know of one because if you open it from it's blister pack you have to use it right away. (You can't cut it and use the other have the next day.)
would you even remain friends on Facebook with someone who is bullying you? And if you need to be connected on Facebook for work then your workplace is screwed up.
Well I'm not antinuclear but Ontario wanted to build a couple of new reactors and they had budgeted $10B for it but the only compliant bid came in at $26B. This was in 2009. https://www.thestar.com/busine...
While I agree that there needs to be that professionalism it will be hard to achieve. With the engineering practices (civil, mechanical, aerospace, etc) you can't easily substitute another person to do the work. A software engineer can be easily replace by someone who did a computer science degree or even someone who was self taught (there are some good self taught people out there just like there are some bad software engineers). In many positions the background is interchangeable.
Plus there are laws and regulations in place that require sign off on projects of a certified engineer in those disciplines. There is no easy way you could force a new designated professional software engineer to sign off on every piece of software. Does the person that writes apps for mobile phones which utilizes GPS have to find an engineer to sign off on the project in order to sell it?
What we really need is for people to stand up for the right thing and for them to have an outlet to do so. Unfortunately too many people just don't care and the few that do usually can't. I spent some time working in the government and I came across things that were just wrong. Decisions that were made so that managers would look good for the most part.
For example, there was a project to build a custom photo voting app that was so bad that every day it had to be redeployed with the latest submissions. They should should have spent half a day to find an open source, free project to do the job, test it out, and deploy it. But they had a "We have to build it here in Java" mentality and they built bad software. The developer was spending about a 1/4 day repackaging the program with the new photos every day to get it ready for the next day's deployment. And the kicker was that they developer got a bonus and a write-up because they spent so much over-time on the app. There was also the $25k on a server that nobody used but had to be rushed into production and the $100k a year on licensing data from the US which was freely available on their website in order for the manager to boost the website traffic. I would have loved to go somewhere to get this waste stopped but everyone up my chain of management wasn't interested. I tried on other things. So I just concentrated on the stuff that I could change and did that.
And what is the benefit you are getting from the F-35 program? Or the $1B or $2B tank refurbishment program that the army didn't want? Or how about the $3T spent on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars? Or the $800M on Wall St. bailouts? (And yes I know there are programs that waste large amounts of money in my country too.)
Every so often the company makes the news because some business made a really stupid offer that cost them a lot of money. It's kind of like those pricing errors on Amazon except it's intentional and they have to honour the offer.
Nothing. Disaster recovery plans are like backups... if you don't test them every so often then you assume that they don't work.
Companies should have already tested their plans and known that they worked so that when any interruption from the storm kicks in their backups would take over as planned.
But have it count down to some random event like some weird music festival opening or the anniversary of a ship sinking. When it hits zero it announces the event and moves onto the next one.
GM knew about the problem, had an easy fix, and did nothing about it until the public found out. They purposefully hid the flaw in order to save money and increase shareholder value. They misled a government investigator in the matter. It wasn't "Oh we didn't know about that, we'll fix it right away." It was withholding knowledge that led to the death of people. If they had of acted when they found out then most of those people would be alive today. No, they didn't intend to kill those people. But just because you didn't intend to kill someone doesn't mean that you aren't responsible for their death.
As to the worst case being the car would just stop, what do you think happens if your car suddenly turns off while your are driving down the highway.
Slashdot Mirror
I think that capturing the data is a good thing but how they are doing is going to have a lot of errors entered. One big list of every possibility is terrible for usability. Instead of a long list I would have created a hierarchy. The major problems would be up top such as fractures, poisoning, surgical and then the valid options would be given to the user as they drill down. For example fracture -> {bone name} -> {side of body} or surgical -> suturing -> {artery name}.
It's the setting up the servers and functionality for the OS to send all my personal data to that is the time consuming part.
Let NASA build what it needs for the lowest cost without interference from the politicians. Stop treating NASA as a way to distribute money to the districts and spreading projects throughout the country.
Why do you need someone who needs to be at least a certified pharmacy technician? I'm not and I can see the need for putting the patient's safety first. Maybe what we need is business leaders that don't put their stock options first. Would you complain if you had someone in upper management come down and learn about what you do? There seems to be a wall dividing management from the workers, upper management especially.
I think you don't need a technical person to be in upper management but that person has be willing to learn the business.
I'm not a pharmacist so I'm just guessing. Part of it might be to lower shipping and storage costs. A whole lot of smaller container take up a lot more room than one larger bottle. Inventory control becomes more complicated since you have to check the expiry date on every container. There's also the expense to the drug manufacturer for the extra packaging. Also not every prescription is given for the same length of time. You might be given an antibiotic for 7 days while I might be given it for 10. Does the pharmacy have to stock both versions or do they open up a 7 day one to add to another to make a 10 day prescription?
There are a few medications that do come already packaged at the factory. I know of one because if you open it from it's blister pack you have to use it right away. (You can't cut it and use the other have the next day.)
That's a good analogy but since this is /. it'll need a car analogy to be complete.
If you can be pedantic then so can I. Permanently is an awfully long time to guarantee storage.
Don't worry, it's just Windows 10 trying to download.
I'd say that most of the current users have no clue about the dangers.
would you even remain friends on Facebook with someone who is bullying you? And if you need to be connected on Facebook for work then your workplace is screwed up.
Well I'm not antinuclear but Ontario wanted to build a couple of new reactors and they had budgeted $10B for it but the only compliant bid came in at $26B. This was in 2009.
https://www.thestar.com/busine...
While I agree that there needs to be that professionalism it will be hard to achieve. With the engineering practices (civil, mechanical, aerospace, etc) you can't easily substitute another person to do the work. A software engineer can be easily replace by someone who did a computer science degree or even someone who was self taught (there are some good self taught people out there just like there are some bad software engineers). In many positions the background is interchangeable.
Plus there are laws and regulations in place that require sign off on projects of a certified engineer in those disciplines. There is no easy way you could force a new designated professional software engineer to sign off on every piece of software. Does the person that writes apps for mobile phones which utilizes GPS have to find an engineer to sign off on the project in order to sell it?
What we really need is for people to stand up for the right thing and for them to have an outlet to do so. Unfortunately too many people just don't care and the few that do usually can't. I spent some time working in the government and I came across things that were just wrong. Decisions that were made so that managers would look good for the most part.
For example, there was a project to build a custom photo voting app that was so bad that every day it had to be redeployed with the latest submissions. They should should have spent half a day to find an open source, free project to do the job, test it out, and deploy it. But they had a "We have to build it here in Java" mentality and they built bad software. The developer was spending about a 1/4 day repackaging the program with the new photos every day to get it ready for the next day's deployment. And the kicker was that they developer got a bonus and a write-up because they spent so much over-time on the app. There was also the $25k on a server that nobody used but had to be rushed into production and the $100k a year on licensing data from the US which was freely available on their website in order for the manager to boost the website traffic. I would have loved to go somewhere to get this waste stopped but everyone up my chain of management wasn't interested. I tried on other things. So I just concentrated on the stuff that I could change and did that.
And what is the benefit you are getting from the F-35 program? Or the $1B or $2B tank refurbishment program that the army didn't want? Or how about the $3T spent on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars? Or the $800M on Wall St. bailouts? (And yes I know there are programs that waste large amounts of money in my country too.)
And did you go back to any of those?
But if only would have went to the archery lesson because of Groupon and are never going back then you have just proved the original commenters point.
Every so often the company makes the news because some business made a really stupid offer that cost them a lot of money. It's kind of like those pricing errors on Amazon except it's intentional and they have to honour the offer.
That's crazy talk. You need the boots and belt buckle too.
Nothing. Disaster recovery plans are like backups... if you don't test them every so often then you assume that they don't work.
Companies should have already tested their plans and known that they worked so that when any interruption from the storm kicks in their backups would take over as planned.
the politicians would try to outlaw aluminum foil.
But have it count down to some random event like some weird music festival opening or the anniversary of a ship sinking. When it hits zero it announces the event and moves onto the next one.
Nope since they couldn't get it into the device you wouldn't have to worry about it setting off the float trigger.
the Arrow!
Only if by cost you mean the US GDP.
A race track is a terrible place to take a ship.
And at the same time think it will still perform like a Corvette.
GM knew about the problem, had an easy fix, and did nothing about it until the public found out. They purposefully hid the flaw in order to save money and increase shareholder value. They misled a government investigator in the matter. It wasn't "Oh we didn't know about that, we'll fix it right away." It was withholding knowledge that led to the death of people. If they had of acted when they found out then most of those people would be alive today. No, they didn't intend to kill those people. But just because you didn't intend to kill someone doesn't mean that you aren't responsible for their death.
As to the worst case being the car would just stop, what do you think happens if your car suddenly turns off while your are driving down the highway.