Similar problems, so the solution should work for both. Of course, it costs millions in regulatory costs to make such a change in the med device. I’d argue reducing the regs would be far less dangerous for patients than running 10 year old versions of WinCE.
Your sig says "No Big 3 bailout", but if government can tax fat people why can't they give the money to the Big 3? Put, differently, on what principle would you base your objection?
You don't think there's any backlash? The backlash started with furious objections to the bailout while Bush was still in office. It has proceeded into the Tea Party movement.
Do you also believe the Chrysler bondholders decided to abandon their fiduciary responsibilities without intervention from the White House? Do a quick search on "Tom Lauria."
Actually, that's government and corporations and unions cooperating in theft. It's called Corporatism or Syndicalism, depending on who's currently favored by government. The ante has just been raised.
They may be based in England, but it sure doesn't look like English is their first language.
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I guess I'd be horned myself if I could trust this site or product.
The event viewer was also silent, but I found out how to get the msi log to be created - another registry change - from another MS KB document. Then I applied the registry hacks, one at a time, after three separate installation attempts. The log showed one error at a time, so after each failure I made the change indicated, rebooted and tried to install.
My work laptop (XP Pro) has developed an aversion to installing Office XP components. I tried to add MS-Access for a special project. In "Add/Remove programs" from the Control Panel it fails silently. From setup.exe on the the CD I get this message: "No valid sequence could be found for the set of patches."
This appears to be related to the Microsoft Windows Installer (msi.dll).
Eventually, I tried to uninstall Office XP and start over. The machine refuses do do this with another silent failure. I considered uninstalling msi, but it warns me that every program on the computer may fail to work if I do so. Microsoft list a large number of registry hacks that might either fix the problem or create a doorstop.
Now I'm looking at starting from a fresh install.
I do not know if the frequency and volume of patches from Microsoft is related, but I am highly suspicious that msi.dll is confused because of this. Microsoft describes Microsoft Windows Installer as "...an installation and configuration service that reduces the total cost of ownership." Not.
I don't mean this to be bash accountants day, but I've got another anecdote about our CFO (just posted the first) that seems relevant.
We feed an Oracle payroll system from what is basically a set of cvs data that flows through a spreadsheet. Now, Oracle is smart enough to reject overt errors when they creep in, but where do you think the overtime calculations take place? Right - in the spreadsheet. Oracle just gets a number that's been approved by the payroll supervisor's spreadsheet, untouched by human hands or minds.
The accounting department thinks of this as the way to "automate" things. What it actually is, is a method of retaining control of a process that increases the "value" of the accounting department. Why? Job protection and so that they can complain that DBA's are too expensive.
Yeah, well if you've ever tried to use an =if() in Excel for anything useful you'll know it is a leading cause of brain damage among accountants. Especially those who refer to the linked Tabs and other spreadsheets as "tables" - not to confuse cause and effect.
My company's CFO has a 15 megabyte spreadsheet (no graphics) with 50 Tabs, that controls a significant corporate function. There is only one other person in the company (me) who could even understand the mechanics, and I haven't got a clue about the undocumented relationships and dependencies.
I mean, I have a grudging admiration for someone who can make a screwdriver act like a light-sabre, but it is an incredible waste of his time and a danger to the company.
"What's referential integrity?"
He thinks crossfooting protects him. Thank God he hasn't discovered VBS. That I know of.
Yeah, it isn't free, but I won't have to pay $200K to upgrade from W2K as I did when upgrading from W95. We have been careful to avoid MS dependency absolutely as far as possible, and we know where most of the problems will come from having the IT types use Linux (mostly) on the desktop for 2 years.
Office is the biggest issue, but our experience indicates it can be done with no more disruption than the conversion from WordPerfect 5.1 to Word95, which BTW, needed more work at the time.;)
Average office workers don't care about the distro.
We've been looking for the opportunity to get MS off our desktops for 5 years. If Novell has a product that can replace Windoze we will seriously consider it for 150 desktops. Disclosure: we are a Novell/Red Hat/Suse shop, which makes a Novell product far more interesting than Ubuntu, as one example.
To paraphrase Cherry: "French Canadians wear visors more often. This is wimpy." You think this is slander?
Cherry's been doing this exact schtick since the early 80's (at least). What's your opinion; the Government is just slow to learn, or has it become more wimpily PC over time?
You think if the Government didn't fund CBC, then the "Minister of Official Languages" wouldn't have his knickers all twisted? Maybe it should stop funding the network, then.
And you're wrong about the "minder". As you point out, he is exactly 8 seconds behind Cherry with his finger on the button.
At least you understand the general point, but the idea that any form of totalitarian government is, by definition, capitalist makes any sensible discussion difficult.
Still, beyond these semantic games is the question of private property.
The statist regimes you mention as examples of capitalist evil did not respect individual property rights, without which there is no political freedom (and, one can argue, no capitalism).
In Canada's case, an example of the seizure of private intellectual property would be physician's income. One may approve of this, or not, but it does diminish freedom and does relate to what the word "private" is allowed to mean.
Slashdot Mirror
Malware Is 'Rampant' On Medical Devices In Hospitals
http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/10/17/1741225/malware-is-rampant-on-medical-devices-in-hospitals
Kaspersky To Build Secure OS For SCADA Systems
http://slashdot.org/index2.pl?section=&color=green&index=1&view=stories&duration=-1&startdate=20121017&page=1
Similar problems, so the solution should work for both. Of course, it costs millions in regulatory costs to make such a change in the med device. I’d argue reducing the regs would be far less dangerous for patients than running 10 year old versions of WinCE.
Maybe if they made a profit they could offer more books.
"This "incident" involves four scientists. Just four. "
You really need to get out more. Here's a map of the participants based on the email addresses
http://computationallegalstudies.com/2009/11/27/visualizing-the-east-anglia-climate-research-unit-leaked-email-network/
Four?!? That's like output from the CRUd programs. "Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice."
"majority of data that feeds these models ARE known"
It would be nice if the models using that data could predict, umm, even the past?
Climate modeling can't account for the effects of clouds, but the data's good.
So, the principle seems to be that the government should use other people's money only when it enforces your preferences.
FWIW, I think that no bailout money should have been used for any corporation. That is, the government should have stayed out of it.
I also think the government should stay out of my kitchen and my bedroom.
Your sig says "No Big 3 bailout", but if government can tax fat people why can't they give the money to the Big 3? Put, differently, on what principle would you base your objection?
You don't think there's any backlash? The backlash started with furious objections to the bailout while Bush was still in office. It has proceeded into the Tea Party movement.
Do you also believe the Chrysler bondholders decided to abandon their fiduciary responsibilities without intervention from the White House? Do a quick search on "Tom Lauria."
Actually, that's government and corporations and unions cooperating in theft. It's called Corporatism or Syndicalism, depending on who's currently favored by government. The ante has just been raised.
"French corporations and government are entangled in ways that Americans might find unfamiliar."
Not for long.
...here in Mid-Michigan and lots of fat squirrels.
They may be based in England, but it sure doesn't look like English is their first language.
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I guess I'd be horned myself if I could trust this site or product.
The event viewer was also silent, but I found out how to get the msi log to be created - another registry change - from another MS KB document. Then I applied the registry hacks, one at a time, after three separate installation attempts. The log showed one error at a time, so after each failure I made the change indicated, rebooted and tried to install.
Three times is a charm.
My work laptop (XP Pro) has developed an aversion to installing Office XP components. I tried to add MS-Access for a special project. In "Add/Remove programs" from the Control Panel it fails silently. From setup.exe on the the CD I get this message: "No valid sequence could be found for the set of patches."
This appears to be related to the Microsoft Windows Installer (msi.dll).
Eventually, I tried to uninstall Office XP and start over. The machine refuses do do this with another silent failure. I considered uninstalling msi, but it warns me that every program on the computer may fail to work if I do so. Microsoft list a large number of registry hacks that might either fix the problem or create a doorstop.
Now I'm looking at starting from a fresh install.
I do not know if the frequency and volume of patches from Microsoft is related, but I am highly suspicious that msi.dll is confused because of this. Microsoft describes Microsoft Windows Installer as "...an installation and configuration service that reduces the total cost of ownership." Not.
I don't mean this to be bash accountants day, but I've got another anecdote about our CFO (just posted the first) that seems relevant.
We feed an Oracle payroll system from what is basically a set of cvs data that flows through a spreadsheet. Now, Oracle is smart enough to reject overt errors when they creep in, but where do you think the overtime calculations take place? Right - in the spreadsheet. Oracle just gets a number that's been approved by the payroll supervisor's spreadsheet, untouched by human hands or minds.
The accounting department thinks of this as the way to "automate" things. What it actually is, is a method of retaining control of a process that increases the "value" of the accounting department. Why? Job protection and so that they can complain that DBA's are too expensive.
Yeah, well if you've ever tried to use an =if() in Excel for anything useful you'll know it is a leading cause of brain damage among accountants. Especially those who refer to the linked Tabs and other spreadsheets as "tables" - not to confuse cause and effect.
My company's CFO has a 15 megabyte spreadsheet (no graphics) with 50 Tabs, that controls a significant corporate function. There is only one other person in the company (me) who could even understand the mechanics, and I haven't got a clue about the undocumented relationships and dependencies.
I mean, I have a grudging admiration for someone who can make a screwdriver act like a light-sabre, but it is an incredible waste of his time and a danger to the company.
"What's referential integrity?"
He thinks crossfooting protects him. Thank God he hasn't discovered VBS. That I know of.
Blame it on the users of course, especially the accountants.
Yeah, it isn't free, but I won't have to pay $200K to upgrade from W2K as I did when upgrading from W95. We have been careful to avoid MS dependency absolutely as far as possible, and we know where most of the problems will come from having the IT types use Linux (mostly) on the desktop for 2 years.
;)
Office is the biggest issue, but our experience indicates it can be done with no more disruption than the conversion from WordPerfect 5.1 to Word95, which BTW, needed more work at the time.
Average office workers don't care about the distro.
We've been looking for the opportunity to get MS off our desktops for 5 years. If Novell has a product that can replace Windoze we will seriously consider it for 150 desktops. Disclosure: we are a Novell/Red Hat/Suse shop, which makes a Novell product far more interesting than Ubuntu, as one example.
What Google says on their Website is different than "do no evil":
g le.html
"You can make money without doing evil"
Just not as much.
http://otherclub.blogspot.com/2006/01/comrade-goo
Um, I'd say Money = Speech. But that's already been decided the wrong way.
Where we're at now is offical newspaper press = free speech, and that's it.
Does that count the exhalations of a billion Chinese?
Anyone who thinks there is a conservative anywhere in the words "Kerry" or McCain" doesn't really understand the concept.
Campaign Finance Reform? Please!
To paraphrase Cherry: "French Canadians wear visors more often. This is wimpy." You think this is slander?
Cherry's been doing this exact schtick since the early 80's (at least). What's your opinion; the Government is just slow to learn, or has it become more wimpily PC over time?
You think if the Government didn't fund CBC, then the "Minister of Official Languages" wouldn't have his knickers all twisted? Maybe it should stop funding the network, then.
And you're wrong about the "minder". As you point out, he is exactly 8 seconds behind Cherry with his finger on the button.
Ok, so women can't say "Wimpy Frenchpersons" on TV, either?
At least you understand the general point, but the idea that any form of totalitarian government is, by definition, capitalist makes any sensible discussion difficult.
Still, beyond these semantic games is the question of private property.
The statist regimes you mention as examples of capitalist evil did not respect individual property rights, without which there is no political freedom (and, one can argue, no capitalism).
In Canada's case, an example of the seizure of private intellectual property would be physician's income. One may approve of this, or not, but it does diminish freedom and does relate to what the word "private" is allowed to mean.