His method is somewhat like street performer protocol. It combines public performance with voluntary payment. If no payment is made, then neither is next performance. King releases chapter at a time. There is a British ( I think ) band that funded their studio time through the same concept. They also interviewed the creators of SPP on the subject an NPR. Good listen.
And some still contend that was HIS marriage and HIS responsibility to "produce" or "obtain" wine, and it lost something in translation and became a miracle. It wasn't till later that occham's razer was developed, and this would have been the most logical conclusion, because it was the most simple one. To marry is not sin. And Rabbi (which jesus was) were required in that time to marry.
Well, since we run on AIX, a system that has had journaling for a long time, and since we base or database apps on Informix, and since both will be, but are not completely stabile under linux, we are looking into the os. Our sales laptops have a linux mode to serve data in a client/server system that has worked out great so far. We would like to go to a cheaper hardware/software solution, but the age old corporate problem rears its ugly head: where would we get support for Linux in combination with our hardware? The thing about AIX is it is a one stop shop for hardware and software just like sun. They control quality, and these systems sing because of it. As for Windows being a "dying" os, I beg to differ. The only things that are dying are things without money and marketing behind them, of which Microsoft has both.
PS, I have several buggy whips and riding crops out in the barn. Even if OSS takes over, just like horsed carriages (common in Pennsylvania), Windows will stick around
Actually, two of the products we are working on are web enabled. We have Vision/enabled, which is mostly for hospitals, and Medic/Enabled (working name) that we are developing as part of healtheon/webMD. They are both in beta
You are unlikely to find open source software out there that will do what you need. We have to match up insurance updates quarterly, worry about states like MI an CA which have some pretty funky medical laws, and so on. A lot of our products and our competitor's run under AIX and either COBOL or MUMPS. Why? We've been around for 20-25 years EACH, and we are just now making a move to, you guessed it, Windows. Got a problem with that? Fine, make Linux work like windows, and get a bigger variety of DB-related languages for linux and we would consider it. Printing is a bear to set up, and the "More Than One Way To Do It" doesn't cut it on the support side.
People cannot even begin to fathom the calls our hotline gets. We get calls about keyboards being broken (because the wobble because the cord is under it) or backups not going off (because they didn't put the tape in and DIDN'T notice it). We have plenty to support in our AIX-based system with terminals without adding Windows machines. Now that we released Tiger, a windows based product, along with CBSI and Vision, we have a LOT of Windows support. This is the main reason we use WTS and thin clients.
We do have Practice Management software, and we also have charting/x-ray storage software. They are two different programs. Autochart is our Clinical product, and +Medic PM is our practice management software.
It is quite expensive to run both of these, but most university hospitals can afford it. In fact, in my area (pgh.) UPMC (University of Pittsburgh Medical Center) is the biggest around. Blue Cross/ Blue Shield of WPA runs a SP/6000 server that many clients dial into with a multiplexor over leased lines, saving on hardware costs, so you may want to find a billing service. Billing services are probably 5% of our client base that does 20-30% of
our business and insurance transactions.
They are worried about copy:cats out there that may use their format to hijack the links. Of course, putting:cue:cat links in every magazine they can then giving only Windows users a client? duh, perhaps they should have come up with at least a Mac client before goin on. Maybe there is already a Mac developer working on it aside from:crq. Perhaps they are next for a C&D.
Nope, they don't have a legal leg to stand on because this is what they call a clean-room environment. One guy figured out the sequence of characters, and another guy wrote the code. Perfectly legal. Maybe they are mad because the "intellectual property" is their "encryption". BFD.
No, to me it's the wavelength. I'm sorry to hear about you Epilepsy, but flicker doesn't bother me one bit. What bugs me is the greenish-yellow wavelength fluoride gas puts off. It's seriously nauseating. I can see the difference between fluoros and halogens/Full spectrum LED, and I have to say fluoros are downright ugly by comparison. This is one of the reasons DP monitors have hoods.
Now THAT was demented. Good show. I usually put a note up in mine that says "These are off for a reason. Please do not replace them." In fact a lot of people in our office twist 1/2 of the lights out for this reason. Fluorescents really suck, and we cheer when the other half burns out on our lights. Something is just RUDE about that wavelength of light. So.. imposing.
I know for certain one of those groups is Scientology. The reason they are restricted in Germany involves some rather shady dealings with land and evictions of non-scientologists, discrimination against non-scientologists by scientologist-owned companies, and so on. The "religion" was banned outright, and They are no longer welcome in Germany.
I don't think that I would mind if they were removed, they did give us John "Plays John Travolta in every movie" Travolta, and Tom "Interview With the Vampire sucks" Cruise, not to mention Lisa Marie "marry a mutant" Presley. Such wonderous contributions.
It really amazes me how employers tend to focus on things that make their people less productive and eager to leave the work site asap... They'll spend several million on cute architectural features in the lobby and common areas of the building, then when it comes to housing the employees that exist to make them a profit, they skimp, make a huge cube farm and then often circle the outside of each floor with real offices for "important" people so they can have windows and to prevent the working staff from looking outside.
My office is set up this way. They get their outside offices, and then what do they do? the complain that it is too hot in the winter, too cold in the summer, and any number of complaints in-between. I'd kill have one of these offices if it would get me away from that.
Also, if people in offices want to talk on the phone all day, I really wish they'd close the door. The women across from me has this falsetto-sincere voice that really grates on my nerves. She calls her husband and children about 70 times a day, pages her husband on the SPEAKER PHONE, and dials in general on the speaker phone. That's annoying since they invariably have those things turned way up in the first place, and because they are too lazy to pick up a handset until someone answers.
I have one of the cube-farm cubicles that measures 6'x6' with a L-shaped desk taking 2 foot of the perimiter. Luckily it has a corner piece, an overhead and a filing cabinet built in. I'm also on a power segment that surges 50% less than the rest of the office. My phone solution? I use a handset. It's nice and it's light, and I don't even notice I'm wearing it. From time to time I have to speak and type on a dialed-in system, so it's all good.
I have a JERKER at home. It's a great desk. While it is only two levels, you can add a top shelf, which I may do if things get too cluttered. They have an optional wire basket for a PC, but it looks like it holds a mini-tower at most. My full tower just sits on the floor next to it. At $200, it's a good deal, too! This thing is solid AND functional!
It is a vector pipeline. Vector as in vector math. Not vector as in "line creating a 3d object."
What was it they said under Daley?
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...Vote early and vote often. We already do this. It's called the electorate (at least at the federal level), and so far the electorate only went against the popular vote once. This sounds too much like applying votes directly to the electoratal instead of winning delegates to me. This is the difference between voting for the electorate to vote for your guy and picking an elector yourself. While I prefer direct representation myself, I cannot see this as another realm in which an "e"-solution would help much.
Then why don't you boycott the games if you feel they treat you like "eyeballs"? Then again, interest in the Sydney games has been waning in the USA because 1) it's not in Atlanta (stupid) 2) the Summer Olympics are boring. Toss in the fact that they are half a world away (the main reason they aren't allowing internet coverage, I'd guess) and you would be watching videotapes of finished events. Hell with boycotting it, since there never was a reason to WATCH in the first place!
I've noticed the failure is mostly in cookies these days. When running Junkbuster with cookies blocked, sites create errors with no diagnosable cause, and they tend to be stupid about their errors.
Amazon and many other sites use cookies to track a session, plus a bunch of variables. However, you can run this in real time with a postfixed URL containing session information. Since these are usually long, random strings, it makes for ugly browsing. You can't "Get" this data on normal links, because there is no way to tag on arbitrary "get" data. So you have a choice: Store a Cookie (fast easy, but an apparent security risk) sent everything with form buttons and "get" like a normal form, or attach a "?variable_name=gobbletyguck" to evere <a href tag out there.
While this is a design decision, there are other safeguards that can be taken if a cookie doesn't work. You could run the session ID in a postfix, or ask for themy to turn cookies on or they can buzz off.
Some sites never cease to amaze me by the number of cookies they set. Some get up to 14 per screen! Haven't the programmers heard you can use your own datatypes in these things?
When it comes to user Agents, I let my pass through. Concentric needs to know what kind of dynamic menus to run, and a lot of sites with multimedia content won't serve a client not in their browser capability file. Hotmail hit me with this once. While I respect that they want to creat a dynamic environment for modern users, the reason they cite you can't use the site is because you are running a 2.0 browser! Oops, assumptions!
If you go to fugly.net without the "www" in mozilla nightly, their site informs you that your browser is not HTTP 1.1 compliant, otherwise it would re-direct you. Strange indeed.
What is the solution to all this? Backend programmes must READ and EXPERIMENT above all else. Try situations out that you may never ever see, because some of your little tricks may not work out. Stick to W3C specs, and for the most part you are safe. Never assume anything, and stop leaning on cookies so much!
Great, the borg of the fashion industry..
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Now the borg of the fashion industry become real borg. When does Tommy come out with his version.
We are the fashion borg, your chromatic and dimensional distinctiveness will be added to our own. From this day forward, you will dress like us.
Even the borg dress differently, but I wonder if greys are in?
I mean it: wow. This is the reason some people are turned off by Linux. Compile it yourself, he says. Even the Maintainer for debian says there are serious compile issues.
I know jack squat about fixing dependency conflicts or finding flaws in 10 million lines of C code. There are serious problems I need to work through and I'm not exactly in the mood to download the entire source package (48 MB) at a sad sad 46k. As an aside, I asked to be scheduled for DSL install, and I haven't heard from them since. Harumph. When you compare this to a 10 meg download for an out-of the box X client/server, it's simply not worth the effort.
Thanks for your comments on the stability though, I'm glad to hear it's shoring up. I know someone who has gotten it to compile but had nothing but trouble with the new framebuffers.. lots of snowcrash special fx.
I read Anandtech's review this morning, and I must say:
Smooookin!
But will I buy it? No! $400-$500 for a GRAPHICS CARD is a bit much. I know it can run OpenGL, but on my system it would do me little good until I go to XFree86 4.0.1. I won't do this yet as My fave distro doesn't carry it in any form but alpha.. The nVidia drivers from their site are rotten as far as I'm concerned.
The really great news is this bugger matches the Radeon with the GeForce's 2xFSAA turned on! That's an impressive run for the chip.
As long as it doesn't require any exotic power source, they are welcome to move in. If there is some remote chance in destroying the universe, I'm moving away from Pittsburgh.
I was refering to the Albigensian crusades, the Languedoc region, the septimanians, the cathars and anything else involved on the south coast of France. I had heard some of the people in the region still consider themselves occitan?
First, France has been invaded by the Nazi's. When you get the enemy on your land, it leaves pain for a long long time. The Frenchs are still wounded by the war. Far worst than the US.
Don't the people in the Langue d'oc region still hate the rest of france for something? I thought it had something to do with the cathars?
Eventually France will get over the Germans, or they will start a retribution war with them.
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His method is somewhat like street performer protocol. It combines public performance with voluntary payment. If no payment is made, then neither is next performance. King releases chapter at a time. There is a British ( I think ) band that funded their studio time through the same concept. They also interviewed the creators of SPP on the subject an NPR. Good listen.
And some still contend that was HIS marriage and HIS responsibility to "produce" or "obtain" wine, and it lost something in translation and became a miracle. It wasn't till later that occham's razer was developed, and this would have been the most logical conclusion, because it was the most simple one. To marry is not sin. And Rabbi (which jesus was) were required in that time to marry.
Well, since we run on AIX, a system that has had journaling for a long time, and since we base or database apps on Informix, and since both will be, but are not completely stabile under linux, we are looking into the os. Our sales laptops have a linux mode to serve data in a client/server system that has worked out great so far. We would like to go to a cheaper hardware/software solution, but the age old corporate problem rears its ugly head: where would we get support for Linux in combination with our hardware? The thing about AIX is it is a one stop shop for hardware and software just like sun. They control quality, and these systems sing because of it. As for Windows being a "dying" os, I beg to differ. The only things that are dying are things without money and marketing behind them, of which Microsoft has both.
PS, I have several buggy whips and riding crops out in the barn. Even if OSS takes over, just like horsed carriages (common in Pennsylvania), Windows will stick around
Actually, two of the products we are working on are web enabled. We have Vision/enabled, which is mostly for hospitals, and Medic/Enabled (working name) that we are developing as part of healtheon/webMD. They are both in beta
Disclaimer: I work for Medic Computer Systems.
You are unlikely to find open source software out there that will do what you need. We have to match up insurance updates quarterly, worry about states like MI an CA which have some pretty funky medical laws, and so on. A lot of our products and our competitor's run under AIX and either COBOL or MUMPS. Why? We've been around for 20-25 years EACH, and we are just now making a move to, you guessed it, Windows. Got a problem with that? Fine, make Linux work like windows, and get a bigger variety of DB-related languages for linux and we would consider it. Printing is a bear to set up, and the "More Than One Way To Do It" doesn't cut it on the support side.
People cannot even begin to fathom the calls our hotline gets. We get calls about keyboards being broken (because the wobble because the cord is under it) or backups not going off (because they didn't put the tape in and DIDN'T notice it). We have plenty to support in our AIX-based system with terminals without adding Windows machines. Now that we released Tiger, a windows based product, along with CBSI and Vision, we have a LOT of Windows support. This is the main reason we use WTS and thin clients.
We do have Practice Management software, and we also have charting/x-ray storage software. They are two different programs. Autochart is our Clinical product, and +Medic PM is our practice management software.
It is quite expensive to run both of these, but most university hospitals can afford it. In fact, in my area (pgh.) UPMC (University of Pittsburgh Medical Center) is the biggest around. Blue Cross/ Blue Shield of WPA runs a SP/6000 server that many clients dial into with a multiplexor over leased lines, saving on hardware costs, so you may want to find a billing service. Billing services are probably 5% of our client base that does 20-30% of our business and insurance transactions.
Good luck finding a product.
Hrm, "volunteering" is what they call it when they badger you for it every time. Jeez. This is my primary peeve with the "'Shack".
at least it's not :Hampster, in that case.
*ducks*
They are worried about copy:cats out there that may use their format to hijack the links. Of course, putting :cue:cat links in every magazine they can then giving only Windows users a client? duh, perhaps they should have come up with at least a Mac client before goin on. Maybe there is already a Mac developer working on it aside from :crq. Perhaps they are next for a C&D.
Nope, they don't have a legal leg to stand on because this is what they call a clean-room environment. One guy figured out the sequence of characters, and another guy wrote the code. Perfectly legal. Maybe they are mad because the "intellectual property" is their "encryption". BFD.
No, to me it's the wavelength. I'm sorry to hear about you Epilepsy, but flicker doesn't bother me one bit. What bugs me is the greenish-yellow wavelength fluoride gas puts off. It's seriously nauseating. I can see the difference between fluoros and halogens/Full spectrum LED, and I have to say fluoros are downright ugly by comparison. This is one of the reasons DP monitors have hoods.
Now THAT was demented. Good show. I usually put a note up in mine that says "These are off for a reason. Please do not replace them." In fact a lot of people in our office twist 1/2 of the lights out for this reason. Fluorescents really suck, and we cheer when the other half burns out on our lights. Something is just RUDE about that wavelength of light. So.. imposing.
I know for certain one of those groups is Scientology. The reason they are restricted in Germany involves some rather shady dealings with land and evictions of non-scientologists, discrimination against non-scientologists by scientologist-owned companies, and so on. The "religion" was banned outright, and They are no longer welcome in Germany.
I don't think that I would mind if they were removed, they did give us John "Plays John Travolta in every movie" Travolta, and Tom "Interview With the Vampire sucks" Cruise, not to mention Lisa Marie "marry a mutant" Presley. Such wonderous contributions.
My office is set up this way. They get their outside offices, and then what do they do? the complain that it is too hot in the winter, too cold in the summer, and any number of complaints in-between. I'd kill have one of these offices if it would get me away from that.
Also, if people in offices want to talk on the phone all day, I really wish they'd close the door. The women across from me has this falsetto-sincere voice that really grates on my nerves. She calls her husband and children about 70 times a day, pages her husband on the SPEAKER PHONE, and dials in general on the speaker phone. That's annoying since they invariably have those things turned way up in the first place, and because they are too lazy to pick up a handset until someone answers.
I have one of the cube-farm cubicles that measures 6'x6' with a L-shaped desk taking 2 foot of the perimiter. Luckily it has a corner piece, an overhead and a filing cabinet built in. I'm also on a power segment that surges 50% less than the rest of the office. My phone solution? I use a handset. It's nice and it's light, and I don't even notice I'm wearing it. From time to time I have to speak and type on a dialed-in system, so it's all good.
I have a JERKER at home. It's a great desk. While it is only two levels, you can add a top shelf, which I may do if things get too cluttered. They have an optional wire basket for a PC, but it looks like it holds a mini-tower at most. My full tower just sits on the floor next to it. At $200, it's a good deal, too! This thing is solid AND functional!
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Well if they can't spell the difference, how could they read the difference?
It is a vector pipeline. Vector as in vector math. Not vector as in "line creating a 3d object."
...Vote early and vote often. We already do this. It's called the electorate (at least at the federal level), and so far the electorate only went against the popular vote once. This sounds too much like applying votes directly to the electoratal instead of winning delegates to me. This is the difference between voting for the electorate to vote for your guy and picking an elector yourself. While I prefer direct representation myself, I cannot see this as another realm in which an "e"-solution would help much.
Dotgrump as usual,Then why don't you boycott the games if you feel they treat you like "eyeballs"? Then again, interest in the Sydney games has been waning in the USA because 1) it's not in Atlanta (stupid) 2) the Summer Olympics are boring. Toss in the fact that they are half a world away (the main reason they aren't allowing internet coverage, I'd guess) and you would be watching videotapes of finished events. Hell with boycotting it, since there never was a reason to WATCH in the first place!
I've noticed the failure is mostly in cookies these days. When running Junkbuster with cookies blocked, sites create errors with no diagnosable cause, and they tend to be stupid about their errors.
Amazon and many other sites use cookies to track a session, plus a bunch of variables. However, you can run this in real time with a postfixed URL containing session information. Since these are usually long, random strings, it makes for ugly browsing. You can't "Get" this data on normal links, because there is no way to tag on arbitrary "get" data. So you have a choice: Store a Cookie (fast easy, but an apparent security risk) sent everything with form buttons and "get" like a normal form, or attach a "?variable_name=gobbletyguck" to evere <a href tag out there.
While this is a design decision, there are other safeguards that can be taken if a cookie doesn't work. You could run the session ID in a postfix, or ask for themy to turn cookies on or they can buzz off.
Some sites never cease to amaze me by the number of cookies they set. Some get up to 14 per screen! Haven't the programmers heard you can use your own datatypes in these things?
When it comes to user Agents, I let my pass through. Concentric needs to know what kind of dynamic menus to run, and a lot of sites with multimedia content won't serve a client not in their browser capability file. Hotmail hit me with this once. While I respect that they want to creat a dynamic environment for modern users, the reason they cite you can't use the site is because you are running a 2.0 browser! Oops, assumptions!
If you go to fugly.net without the "www" in mozilla nightly, their site informs you that your browser is not HTTP 1.1 compliant, otherwise it would re-direct you. Strange indeed.
What is the solution to all this? Backend programmes must READ and EXPERIMENT above all else. Try situations out that you may never ever see, because some of your little tricks may not work out. Stick to W3C specs, and for the most part you are safe. Never assume anything, and stop leaning on cookies so much!
Now the borg of the fashion industry become real borg. When does Tommy come out with his version.
We are the fashion borg, your chromatic and dimensional distinctiveness will be added to our own. From this day forward, you will dress like us.
Even the borg dress differently, but I wonder if greys are in?
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I mean it: wow. This is the reason some people are turned off by Linux. Compile it yourself, he says. Even the Maintainer for debian says there are serious compile issues.
I know jack squat about fixing dependency conflicts or finding flaws in 10 million lines of C code. There are serious problems I need to work through and I'm not exactly in the mood to download the entire source package (48 MB) at a sad sad 46k. As an aside, I asked to be scheduled for DSL install, and I haven't heard from them since. Harumph. When you compare this to a 10 meg download for an out-of the box X client/server, it's simply not worth the effort.
Thanks for your comments on the stability though, I'm glad to hear it's shoring up. I know someone who has gotten it to compile but had nothing but trouble with the new framebuffers.. lots of snowcrash special fx.
I read Anandtech's review this morning, and I must say:
Smooookin!
But will I buy it? No! $400-$500 for a GRAPHICS CARD is a bit much. I know it can run OpenGL, but on my system it would do me little good until I go to XFree86 4.0.1. I won't do this yet as My fave distro doesn't carry it in any form but alpha.. The nVidia drivers from their site are rotten as far as I'm concerned.
The really great news is this bugger matches the Radeon with the GeForce's 2xFSAA turned on! That's an impressive run for the chip.
But it's still too damn much :(
As long as it doesn't require any exotic power source, they are welcome to move in. If there is some remote chance in destroying the universe, I'm moving away from Pittsburgh.
I was refering to the Albigensian crusades, the Languedoc region, the septimanians, the cathars and anything else involved on the south coast of France. I had heard some of the people in the region still consider themselves occitan?
Don't the people in the Langue d'oc region still hate the rest of france for something? I thought it had something to do with the cathars?
Eventually France will get over the Germans, or they will start a retribution war with them.