I've read that around 70-75% of business code is in COBOL. It's not just old 20+ yr old programs either. There are still plenty of companies cranking out new programs in that language. At the time I wrote this, MicroFocus' stock price was about 319GBp. Not to shabby for a company selling development tools for a 'dead' language.
without significant risk to the vessel and the people unloading it
According to people that I know that have been to Africa, the same could be said for something as simple as driving on the roads. A 'Rover may be made to only fit 8 people, but it doesn't stop someone from putting 16 inside, another 10 on top, and driving like a bat of out Hell.:)
The same thing is usually done with AIX, whatever IBM sells for their mainframes, and other business systems that aren't from MSFT. What open source does bring you is the ability for someone to continue support for a product that the vendor has end-of-life'd. The business has the choice of spending money on upgrading to a new product or spending it on 'dead product' maintenance (internally or 3rd party). Unfortunately for MSFT, most business have taken a "hell no, we won't go!" attitude to moving beyond XP.:)
One of the major reasons why there is the big push to get everyone using e-records is the ability of a doctor in FL, for example, to get his hands on your complete medical record if you get hurt while on vacation
One of the articles for the entire thread was the patient experience with "two state-of-the-art, health information systems at two of the world's most advanced medical facilities". In theory, these should have been examples of the "best/safest implementation" that allowed different medical professionals to work more efficiently. Instead, it gets in the way of delivering proper patient care because many of these "best/safest implementations" are still shitty systems. While security is important, it is not the most important aspect of these propose systems. The security of these systems could be 100% bulletproof, and if it gets in the way of people doing their job instead of helping them, it's a waste of money. The chance that security will be not up to snuff makes it even worse. As far as people either getting with the system or being unemployed, I think it will be more of a case of the "heroic nurse" in the story doing their job in spite of the system they are given. There's a world wide shortage of medical professionals, so they will be in demand whether they get with the system or not.
Can't they encourage any local entrepreneurs to start a mining company? If they don't want foreign multinationals taking over or a government run enterprise wasting a lot of time and money, that seems to be what needs to be done if they want to develop this resource. The government would still get royalties, the profits from the lithium sales would stay in the country, and you wouldn't have a bunch of political yes men trying to run something they know nothing about.
That's because the average person has become so very disconnected with how food is grown and harvested. Using human waste as a source of fertilizer isn't an unusual one. I believe I had read somewhere that one of the obstacles in building London's original sewers was that most people were collecting their fecal matter in the cellars of their houses and selling it to farmers for fertilizer. For some, I guess the profit motive was greater than the fear of getting sick and/or dying because of the fumes.
Sounds like a way for barbers and hair salons to make a little extra money on something that they would otherwise throw away. Start a company advertising that you're going to pay $X per pound of hair. People interested would send away for a box/envelope to put the hair in and send it off to receive their money. Prisons, military boot camps, etc would also be good sources. No one is going to be rounding up hippies and force shaving them even if it would be good for the environment.
IIRC, human hair is also a good way to kill slugs. The hair gets wrapped around them and strangles the pests.
But as the 2nd article illustrated, the doctors & nurses often don't read any of this even when all of it was entered at the same city. That's why some of them said that they would prefer the old fashioned paper chart at the end of the bed.
The tea parties were about out of control Federal and state spending. Tax increases are going to happen at some point in order to pay for what Obama's proposals. Your $30/month tax cut is going to be dwarfed by the costs passed on to the consumer by 'cap and trade' and by Federal health care spending. We cannot afford the amount of debt we have now and having an administration that never met a spending proposal it didn't like is going to make it worse.
Why? That's not where the out of control spending programs are at in the Federal budget and it's one of the few ares where spending is considered Constitutional. It is mainly the entitlement programs and idiotic spending for DHS - which should have been the LE equivalent to the Joint Chiefs of Staff for the military: a committee of the agency heads under the DHS umbrella and a handful of support staff, not yet another bloated bureaucracy.
That is if they bother to stay up to date with what bugs are out there on a day to day basis. For most businesses, it's just another OS where they wait for the vendor to release a patch, and then install it at some point.
We tried to help them in the 90s. Certain elements of their society didn't like it, fought back, Clinton ran away, and this eventually devolved into anarchy. As far as I'm concerned, they can GAGF.
Actually, the rolling bidding process is closer to many 'real life' auctions that what ebay has. They have no time limits and bidding stops when no one else wants to pay more than what the last guy has bid. The "reasonable time period to reconsider their bids" is when the auctioneer is doing the "going once...going twice.." spiel.
Relying on the maximum bid proxy to win things for you is a good way not to win things. You're assuming we're all rational robots who've determined a set maximum before even bidding once.
I don't bid to win. I bid as a way to get things cheap. If I can find the same item on another web site, I'll use that price and factoring in the difference in shipping/taxes/etc to determine the max bid. If I win the auction and get it for less, that's great. If not, I buy it from the other site and still pay less than the winner of the auction.
The trucking industry would disagree that they are being subsidized given the amount of fuel taxes they pay. The real reason is, like the car, they are more flexible and convenient. The company that wants the goods hauled from point A to point B doesn't have to follow a schedule set up by some other company, have their product wait in a rail yard while the freight train is being assembled from the individual cars, and then wait again while the train is being broken apart and combined in a connecting rail yard, which has to be done again when it gets to the final destination, freight unloaded, and then put on one or more trucks for delivery at the final destination.
I have a couple brothers that work for two different railroads (one is an engineer) and the trains can and do go over 60 on many routes. I suppose it depends on how many towns they have to slow down through.
I'm not too sure what to make of these figures which indicate that Amtrak enjoys the highest "revenue per passenger mile" in 2001 (the last year data for all categories is shown) among several forms of transport.
Amtrak charges more to go from point A to point B than anyone else (and still manages to lose money). I've never heard of anyone taking Amtrak because they wanted to use it as a mode of transportation. They did it because the train ride was considered one of the amusements/attractions for the vacation.
The other thing that must be done to make high speed rail a success is to get it integrated into the other transportation options that are available. The Amtrak station in my city is no where near the airport (or much of anything, really) and doesn't have any car rentals. A train traveler's options here would be: call a cab, hop on a trolley that doesn't take you near a car rental business or airport (just bars), get someone to pick you up, or walk a few blocks to a bar/liquor store. In his announcement, Obama mentioned how nice it would be to get on a train and then get dropped off in the center of a city. That's OK if your destination is close by, otherwise it's a hassle. If I wanted to use the train, it probably would be to go to Chicago, then catch a flight to an international destination if it were cheaper than flying from the local airport and didn't involve lots of hassle in trying to get from the train station to the airport.
It also has to be relatively cheap, otherwise I'll find other options. Using the local Amtrak schedule as an example, it's cheaper to fly to Chicago that to use Amtrak. The schedule is more flexible too. Driving is cheaper than both and more convenient.
There are reasons passenger rail service has practically died out in the US. If they don't bother addressing making rail competitive, then this will be wasted spending.
The hard part is keeping track of the updates to the tax rates & which items have special rates defined by a particular locality. A large corporation may have people that already keep track of it, or may subcontract that data collection to another company. This extra cost may force some small sites out of business or to restrict the localities that they do business with.
That's why I dislike PC power savings policies. When I want to work from home at night or on the weekends, if the machine is powered down, I can't RDP into the machine. I don't know if the MSFT RDP software can be configured to send WOL packets to my desktop at work or not. It would be nice if it could (assuming that the firewalls don't strip that traffic out).
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I've read that around 70-75% of business code is in COBOL. It's not just old 20+ yr old programs either. There are still plenty of companies cranking out new programs in that language. At the time I wrote this, MicroFocus' stock price was about 319GBp. Not to shabby for a company selling development tools for a 'dead' language.
According to people that I know that have been to Africa, the same could be said for something as simple as driving on the roads. A 'Rover may be made to only fit 8 people, but it doesn't stop someone from putting 16 inside, another 10 on top, and driving like a bat of out Hell. :)
The same thing is usually done with AIX, whatever IBM sells for their mainframes, and other business systems that aren't from MSFT. What open source does bring you is the ability for someone to continue support for a product that the vendor has end-of-life'd. The business has the choice of spending money on upgrading to a new product or spending it on 'dead product' maintenance (internally or 3rd party). Unfortunately for MSFT, most business have taken a "hell no, we won't go!" attitude to moving beyond XP. :)
One of the articles for the entire thread was the patient experience with "two state-of-the-art, health information systems at two of the world's most advanced medical facilities". In theory, these should have been examples of the "best/safest implementation" that allowed different medical professionals to work more efficiently. Instead, it gets in the way of delivering proper patient care because many of these "best/safest implementations" are still shitty systems. While security is important, it is not the most important aspect of these propose systems. The security of these systems could be 100% bulletproof, and if it gets in the way of people doing their job instead of helping them, it's a waste of money. The chance that security will be not up to snuff makes it even worse. As far as people either getting with the system or being unemployed, I think it will be more of a case of the "heroic nurse" in the story doing their job in spite of the system they are given. There's a world wide shortage of medical professionals, so they will be in demand whether they get with the system or not.
Can't they encourage any local entrepreneurs to start a mining company? If they don't want foreign multinationals taking over or a government run enterprise wasting a lot of time and money, that seems to be what needs to be done if they want to develop this resource. The government would still get royalties, the profits from the lithium sales would stay in the country, and you wouldn't have a bunch of political yes men trying to run something they know nothing about.
That's because the average person has become so very disconnected with how food is grown and harvested. Using human waste as a source of fertilizer isn't an unusual one. I believe I had read somewhere that one of the obstacles in building London's original sewers was that most people were collecting their fecal matter in the cellars of their houses and selling it to farmers for fertilizer. For some, I guess the profit motive was greater than the fear of getting sick and/or dying because of the fumes.
Sounds like a way for barbers and hair salons to make a little extra money on something that they would otherwise throw away. Start a company advertising that you're going to pay $X per pound of hair. People interested would send away for a box/envelope to put the hair in and send it off to receive their money. Prisons, military boot camps, etc would also be good sources. No one is going to be rounding up hippies and force shaving them even if it would be good for the environment.
IIRC, human hair is also a good way to kill slugs. The hair gets wrapped around them and strangles the pests.
But as the 2nd article illustrated, the doctors & nurses often don't read any of this even when all of it was entered at the same city. That's why some of them said that they would prefer the old fashioned paper chart at the end of the bed.
The tea parties were about out of control Federal and state spending. Tax increases are going to happen at some point in order to pay for what Obama's proposals. Your $30/month tax cut is going to be dwarfed by the costs passed on to the consumer by 'cap and trade' and by Federal health care spending. We cannot afford the amount of debt we have now and having an administration that never met a spending proposal it didn't like is going to make it worse.
Other articles have mentioned making tax breaks for R&D permanent, so hopefully spending will be increased by businesses in this area too.
Why? That's not where the out of control spending programs are at in the Federal budget and it's one of the few ares where spending is considered Constitutional. It is mainly the entitlement programs and idiotic spending for DHS - which should have been the LE equivalent to the Joint Chiefs of Staff for the military: a committee of the agency heads under the DHS umbrella and a handful of support staff, not yet another bloated bureaucracy.
That is if they bother to stay up to date with what bugs are out there on a day to day basis. For most businesses, it's just another OS where they wait for the vendor to release a patch, and then install it at some point.
they could have made the crew steer the ship into one of their ports/beaches and then offloaded all the food to people waiting on shore.
We tried to help them in the 90s. Certain elements of their society didn't like it, fought back, Clinton ran away, and this eventually devolved into anarchy. As far as I'm concerned, they can GAGF.
Actually, the rolling bidding process is closer to many 'real life' auctions that what ebay has. They have no time limits and bidding stops when no one else wants to pay more than what the last guy has bid. The "reasonable time period to reconsider their bids" is when the auctioneer is doing the "going once...going twice.." spiel.
I don't bid to win. I bid as a way to get things cheap. If I can find the same item on another web site, I'll use that price and factoring in the difference in shipping/taxes/etc to determine the max bid. If I win the auction and get it for less, that's great. If not, I buy it from the other site and still pay less than the winner of the auction.
The trucking industry would disagree that they are being subsidized given the amount of fuel taxes they pay. The real reason is, like the car, they are more flexible and convenient. The company that wants the goods hauled from point A to point B doesn't have to follow a schedule set up by some other company, have their product wait in a rail yard while the freight train is being assembled from the individual cars, and then wait again while the train is being broken apart and combined in a connecting rail yard, which has to be done again when it gets to the final destination, freight unloaded, and then put on one or more trucks for delivery at the final destination.
I have a couple brothers that work for two different railroads (one is an engineer) and the trains can and do go over 60 on many routes. I suppose it depends on how many towns they have to slow down through.
Amtrak charges more to go from point A to point B than anyone else (and still manages to lose money). I've never heard of anyone taking Amtrak because they wanted to use it as a mode of transportation. They did it because the train ride was considered one of the amusements/attractions for the vacation.
The other thing that must be done to make high speed rail a success is to get it integrated into the other transportation options that are available. The Amtrak station in my city is no where near the airport (or much of anything, really) and doesn't have any car rentals. A train traveler's options here would be: call a cab, hop on a trolley that doesn't take you near a car rental business or airport (just bars), get someone to pick you up, or walk a few blocks to a bar/liquor store. In his announcement, Obama mentioned how nice it would be to get on a train and then get dropped off in the center of a city. That's OK if your destination is close by, otherwise it's a hassle. If I wanted to use the train, it probably would be to go to Chicago, then catch a flight to an international destination if it were cheaper than flying from the local airport and didn't involve lots of hassle in trying to get from the train station to the airport.
It also has to be relatively cheap, otherwise I'll find other options. Using the local Amtrak schedule as an example, it's cheaper to fly to Chicago that to use Amtrak. The schedule is more flexible too. Driving is cheaper than both and more convenient.
There are reasons passenger rail service has practically died out in the US. If they don't bother addressing making rail competitive, then this will be wasted spending.
it's better than staying at work when you still have to get stuff done.
make everything a flat tax and get rid of entitlement payments.
Sounds like another good reason to not live in California.
The hard part is keeping track of the updates to the tax rates & which items have special rates defined by a particular locality. A large corporation may have people that already keep track of it, or may subcontract that data collection to another company. This extra cost may force some small sites out of business or to restrict the localities that they do business with.
That's why I dislike PC power savings policies. When I want to work from home at night or on the weekends, if the machine is powered down, I can't RDP into the machine. I don't know if the MSFT RDP software can be configured to send WOL packets to my desktop at work or not. It would be nice if it could (assuming that the firewalls don't strip that traffic out).