WHO are you? Each company/ service (doctor, hospital, radiology, blood test, etc) has their own ID number for you. When the HL7 msg arrives, how do you marry up the msg with your account?
IBM had a system which used very fancy algorithms trying to match things like name, sex, DOB, address, weight, height, and any other personal information it could find. The best the system could do was generate a confidence factor. There are lots of Smith, Wong, Mohammad in the world.
If the factor was high enough, then it was assumed to be you. I NEVER saw the number at 100%.
The original submission was based on 1 2x4 of lumber. A company in BC donated the 2x4 to a community group. They then needed to account for it. Some PHB executive gave it an arbitrary price, which was below normal market value.
The US companies found out, then based their entire case on this one 2x4: "Look what they are selling it for in BC, yet we pay $$ more".
I believe in the basic concept of free trade, but it only really works when you're dealing with a truly level playing field.
Yes. Look at softwood lumber and Canada.
The thing that gets me, is how short-sighted the US Govt is. Who will want to sign a future agreement with the US after seeing what a lobby group is doing to a current agreement.
Sure, except that for a car you need this thing called a licence. And to get this licence you need training. Usually from a licence school (driver training) but can be your parents etc. And then you need to pass a written and a practical test.
And I boycott any program advertised during another show. You know, those ads which appear OVER the content of the current show. Annoying blinking flashing ads which don't allow me to see the show.
Yahoo offers so much more, for example job engine, health encylocopedia, personals, blogging, the list goes on and on of things they offer Google does not.
Have you signed up for a Google account? (top/right corner)
It lets you persoanlize your "home" page, where you can get all of the above, plus other RSS feeds. You place the info by drag/drop. And it saves your past searches (which you can manage).
learn assembler first so that you know what's REALLY going on inside that computer.
Try machine language! And entering it directly into RAM using paddle switches. Then setting the CPU bootstrap address to the beginning of your code. And the RAM LED addressses to where you placed you results.
It is like the difference between a sedan and a sports car.
The sedan is easy to drive, has power everything, automatic transmission. The sports car has manual rack&pinion steering and a manual transmission.
Both will get you from here to there, but with the sports car you need to pay attention. The upside is that with the sports car you have much better control over what you are doing.
Yes it does take several objects to read and write a file, but then you have complete control over HOW the file is being read and written, including inserting your own filter classes.
Well, AJAX would actually be classed as a chubby client. Most of the work is being done on the server (SQL, validation), with some code running locally to put it all together.
But the first computer I owned was a Heath/Zenith H100. Awesome machine for its time. And it used Z-DOS (a re-worked version of MS-DOS). Which did NOT have the 640K limit imposed by the IBM PC architecture. At one time I had 768K of RAM in it, all visible (3 banks of 256K, and I had to mod the motherboard to allow for the larger chips).
Let's see, two floppies, 128K RAM for the video, S100 bus. Later I added a sound card, and my first hard drive, 10M full height, full size. And an 8" floppy drive. And a V20 chip which let me clock at 7 Mhz, with a switch to slow the clock down to 4.7 Mhz so I could run games.
My have we come a long way, when I comapare that to my current machine....
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Every one of your examples had alternate competing technologies.
If there are no alterantives, then what?
What about HL7?
Fine in theory but...
WHO are you? Each company/ service (doctor, hospital, radiology, blood test, etc) has their own ID number for you. When the HL7 msg arrives, how do you marry up the msg with your account?
IBM had a system which used very fancy algorithms trying to match things like name, sex, DOB, address, weight, height, and any other personal information it could find. The best the system could do was generate a confidence factor. There are lots of Smith, Wong, Mohammad in the world.
If the factor was high enough, then it was assumed to be you. I NEVER saw the number at 100%.
It is not dumping.
The original submission was based on 1 2x4 of lumber. A company in BC donated the 2x4 to a community group. They then needed to account for it. Some PHB executive gave it an arbitrary price, which was below normal market value.
The US companies found out, then based their entire case on this one 2x4: "Look what they are selling it for in BC, yet we pay $$ more".
I believe in the basic concept of free trade, but it only really works when you're dealing with a truly level playing field.
Yes. Look at softwood lumber and Canada.
The thing that gets me, is how short-sighted the US Govt is. Who will want to sign a future agreement with the US after seeing what a lobby group is doing to a current agreement.
If I want a new car, I want to have it in the colour of my choice, not just black.
A better analogy would be: "If I want a new car, I want to have it without an engine, so I can install my own."
Try buying a new car from a dealer without an engine.
In the days before multi-sync monitors, you had to carefully match the refresh frequency of the video card to the refresh frequency of the monitor.
There was a virus that did change the refresh frequency and that caused the monitor to fail, sometimes with smoke.
Sure, except that for a car you need this thing called a licence. And to get this licence you need training. Usually from a licence school (driver training) but can be your parents etc. And then you need to pass a written and a practical test.
Now if we could only licence computer users....
I am a Java developer. And JSP. And Javascript.
Oh yes, amd Visual Basic, C, and PHP.
And I like to ski....
people must really want their penises enlarged
You realize of course that it is not the MALE in the family who is buying this stuff.
And I boycott any program advertised during another show. You know, those ads which appear OVER the content of the current show. Annoying blinking flashing ads which don't allow me to see the show.
Marketers have a special reserved place in hell.
Yahoo offers so much more, for example job engine, health encylocopedia, personals, blogging, the list goes on and on of things they offer Google does not.
Have you signed up for a Google account? (top/right corner)
It lets you persoanlize your "home" page, where you can get all of the above, plus other RSS feeds. You place the info by drag/drop. And it saves your past searches (which you can manage).
school children cranking away while they use their $100 computers to write apps
Maybe that would be crank to charge the battery, and THEN use the laptop?
Which is why governments assign security ratings to shredders.
.25 x 4 millimeter in size. This is almost paper dust.
A Top Secret shredder will create shreds that are
Soooo, you want to buy some oil? But I see that you are in arrears on your debt payments, and cannot borrow any more.
Oh, and the country holding your debts? Well they want that oil too. And they have the money for it.
Oh yes.
Now there was (is?) a wordy language.
I read somewhere that there is an OO version. Scary thought.
braces becomes a head ache in largely nested code
[shrug]
Which is why code formatters exist.
cloesr to spoken english
You would love COBOL then, as it was designed to be read by PHBs.
learn assembler first so that you know what's REALLY going on inside that computer.
Try machine language! And entering it directly into RAM using paddle switches. Then setting the CPU bootstrap address to the beginning of your code. And the RAM LED addressses to where you placed you results.
(Did this in the advanced digital class)
But overall, VB's not as bad as it's reputation suggests.
Hmm, maybe, but it requires such a LARGE number of key words:
if/then/else/end if
while/wend
for/next
select case/end select
sub vs function vs property
and so on. The C like languages at least have a consistent block syntax.
It is like the difference between a sedan and a sports car.
The sedan is easy to drive, has power everything, automatic transmission. The sports car has manual rack&pinion steering and a manual transmission.
Both will get you from here to there, but with the sports car you need to pay attention. The upside is that with the sports car you have much better control over what you are doing.
Yes it does take several objects to read and write a file, but then you have complete control over HOW the file is being read and written, including inserting your own filter classes.
With power comes complexity.
What this means is that when you start your (my) 32k compiled app, it takes about 15-20 seconds for the libs to load up.
.NET apps I have run so far start up in 1-4 seconds.
Which is the main complaint about Java. That it takes too long for the JVM to start up.
And from a post below:
all the
Which is my experience with Java.
IIRC IBM Lotus already does this.
There is extensive linking between the email system, calendars, databases, Smart Suite, etc.
Maybe this is Microsoft innovating again....
The time and resources spent converting to Java
You can use these tools to help you convert.
Well, AJAX would actually be classed as a chubby client. Most of the work is being done on the server (SQL, validation), with some code running locally to put it all together.
First used a Tandy TRS 80 with Level II BASIC.
But the first computer I owned was a Heath/Zenith H100. Awesome machine for its time. And it used Z-DOS (a re-worked version of MS-DOS). Which did NOT have the 640K limit imposed by the IBM PC architecture. At one time I had 768K of RAM in it, all visible (3 banks of 256K, and I had to mod the motherboard to allow for the larger chips).
Let's see, two floppies, 128K RAM for the video, S100 bus. Later I added a sound card, and my first hard drive, 10M full height, full size. And an 8" floppy drive. And a V20 chip which let me clock at 7 Mhz, with a switch to slow the clock down to 4.7 Mhz so I could run games.
My have we come a long way, when I comapare that to my current machine....