How about, instead of the rest of the world molding to your incorrect habits, you start reading subject lines?
Why do we need to remodel because you don't know/want to read something that's clearly presented to you?
Seeing a Slashdot comment that rants on about something that no one cares about, its natural for me to assume you are an uncultured oaf. See why assumptions and lack of knowledge about a subject can be dangerous bedfellows?
Now please, for the love of all that's holy, do NOT repeat your subject lines inside of your message. Those of us that are attentive do not appreciate having such redundancy consume our time. I can read very well, and am intelligent enough to figure out what the hell you are talking about.
Realistically, I expend about 20 hours a week of actual work in the office. I'm there for 40, but I check/., k5, memepool, etc, etc.
Still, today I worked from 8:00 till 6:30 almost 7:00 because I got interested in something.
At the end, I realized the SO was going to be pissed if I didn't come home, so I burned my current work to cd and took it home. I have an exciting project to play with, and I'll probably work on it all weekend if I can.
Not to mention I'll get twice as much done without people coming up and asking me stupid questions.
I live about a mile from work, so occasionally I'll go home to hack out a solution, just to get away from the boss demanding silly-assed things from me.
Now I have to admit I have no offsping-obligations, and my SO works approx. the same hours I do, so home is actually a very productive environment. I don't have the multiple T3's (shared between 5,000 or so users) at my disposal, but I do have broadband so I get dedicated bandwidth and no pesky (super restricted) firewall. Not to mention, one of my main servers sits outside a firewall that I don't control, so I can't hit it from inside the corp.
Now to sum up, and try to reconcile my contradictory statements - Would I want to work at home? No.
I live close enough to jet for lunch, so my claustrophobia doesn't set in, yet at the same time I am always contactable, and the more time I spend in the office - the more the "higher up's" appreciate it.
Somehow being there is more valuable than actually kicking out real work.
It's a stupid way to run a company, but that's my situation, and I'm pretty much happy and in line with it. I wouldn't be surprised if that's the way it works everywhere... Try as we might, the human race cannot get over our direct communication preferences. Sometimes just being there at the right time to solve the CEO's 'immediate' silly-assed problem gets way more respect than it deserves.
But then again, I am truly a slave of the almighty dollar, so take that with a grain of salt.
Yep, except you are forgetting that all the whirring, humming equipment that are keeping patients in the ICU alive have....wait for it....wait...wait....FANS in them.
Oh my god.
I happen to know this doctor - as a matter of fact I installed 90% of the computers in our little Flint, MI Corporate Super Power's patient rooms. I headed up the project.
This guy was a major pain in my ass, and for no good reason. Infection rates in ICU's spike and drop like the weather. The pattern is totally chaotic, but more than anything it is usually related to the overall health of the healthcare providers that are working on the patient. In addition to their general hygiene.
Additionally, to those who had wondered - no cultures were not taken before the pc's went in. What would they be taking the culture samples from? There wasn't a pc there to swab! The infection rates spiked quickly after the PC's went in, and the medical staff went on a rampage trying to associate the two. Since then the levels have died right back down to normal.
Of course, it could have something to do with one of my techs testing positive for exposure to TB after the project was over.
True, until (in the vein of your statistics) the 100 pounds of corn is made equal by two men (50/50) and they decide to join into a union. Supply and demand takes a hike at this point. Of course, at this point (being a Michigander) I must launch into the devaluation of common society due to over-empowered unions.
But I digress. My essential point is that your Chutes and Ladders view of the economy is equal to its comparison - a board game. These things do not happen in the real world. There are no such strict rules except in board games.
History texts read too much like Monopoly rule-books, and I believe your (well written) retort proves my point - in the light of true economics.
The holes in the idealism you profess show sunlight. Please awaken to that light.
True, I prefer my 'heron' smoked, but I hardly think I qualify as a junkie... Heron once or twice a year is plenty of bird for me.
Main Entry: heron
Pronunciation: 'her-&n
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural herons also heron
Etymology: Middle English heiroun, from Middle French hairon, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German heigaro heron
Date: 14th century
: any of various long-necked wading birds (family Ardeidae) with a long tapering bill, large wings, and soft plumage
Moron.
Re:Easy to see now why this never launched.
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Mmmmm....Sounds tasty....Hell, they could use the rockets to slow-roast the lamb on the way up...
Not to be argumentative, but if you paid attention to the sections on a regular basis, you would notice there are routinely stories which appear in the sections and bypass the front page.
I've never heard of an Athiest War...Holy War, yes, but not an Athiest War.
Nobody has ever knocked on my door and offered to teach me about "Not believing in God".
I've never heard an athiest tell someone they deserved to rot in torture for eternity because they believed in god.
Athiests don't seem to have to band together once a week to re-affirm their lack of faith.
Athieism never told you how to have sex, what to wear, what to eat, what movies to watch, what books to read, how to act, how much to drink, how much to beat your kids, how to think about other people, how many ox your dead servant is worth...
And the beat goes on.
Zealous....
www.m-w.com
Main Entry: zealous
Pronunciation: 'ze-l&s
Function: adjective
Date: 1535
: filled with or characterized by zeal <zealous missionaries>
Now, I know this sounds like an attack, but its not mean spirited, I am just awe-struck by the fact that believers could catagorize "many" non-believers as zealous.
I also work in hospital IT, although I got off the on-call rotation. (Thank God)
We were 24/7 salary - no paid on-call time. What I was taking issue with was the idea that "salary" should constitute "watching the clock".
Email is not, IMO a mission-critical system, but if management decides that it is - I will come in just the same and work just as hard to fix the problem.
Simply saying "Some things can wait" is not always the answer.
And not being a clinician, I may not always be justified in expressing my opinions by not acting on a problem.
What needs to be reviewed is the compensation, if management will not review the policy.
Absolutely true, in my experience, most hospitals don't use email after 5:00 period...
Unless the email is contained in some messaging function of the clinical system - in which the messages usually boil down to "Hey you wanna go to dinner soon?"
But I think (and judging by the responses to this article) the article hinted at more than just a problem with calls increasing due to email - More and more systems are being deemed "mission critical" and there is no system in place to fairly compensate the work that is required after hours.
Compensation and staffing needs to increase, or the number of mission critical systems needs to be re-evaluated.
Mine was always - "Critical to patient care." - That can be misconstrued....Maybe it should be "critical to patient survival"
Ooo....That doesn't sound too good. Hmmm...I'll have to think on that one.
That's great if you work in the private sector for a 9-5 company.
-But mission critical hospital systems are completely different.
Would you want to be lying in bed and the doc can't get your results because the tech decided
"There are some things that will simply wait until the next business day..."??
Can you explain to me exactly how they went about "to make $$$ off open source and Linux"? Vanished press release, vaporware, very bad form...But I don't hear any purchasers or investors speaking up that they were robbed. If they were in partnership with the MPAA, they still haven't made any $$$ off it, as we were trying to do it for free right?
Of course you can talk about hypothetical money, i.e. the money that would've been lost because Linux users didn't buy the Windows software - but if they were going to make the Linux software then *bam* new market opporunity. Hell charge double! But none of this happened.
I'm confused.
Working in IT for the 15th top Health Care corporation in the nation, and running the only truly successful implementation of the Imnet and CareManager systems (due to OUR code revisions), I can also say that I'm sure HBOC has seen some incredulous stupidity...But thats probably due to the company they keep, not an understanding of the market as a whole.
Buying up excellent companies and putting those products up for end-of-life in favor of HBOC's vaporware has done more to destabilize the market than any of the government cuts. Tech support/critical support is laughable, and the products just plain don't live up to their hype.
Before judging the entire health-care IT community on the basis of your customers, look at the quality of people HBOC attracts.
*This is not a personal flame, I'm just fed up with their crap.*
These views are not necessarily the views of my employer...But I sure as hell wish they were.
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Why do we need to remodel because you don't know/want to read something that's clearly presented to you?
Seeing a Slashdot comment that rants on about something that no one cares about, its natural for me to assume you are an uncultured oaf. See why assumptions and lack of knowledge about a subject can be dangerous bedfellows?
Now please, for the love of all that's holy, do NOT repeat your subject lines inside of your message. Those of us that are attentive do not appreciate having such redundancy consume our time. I can read very well, and am intelligent enough to figure out what the hell you are talking about.
Where would we be without the s-reaming video server?
Don't you mean your princesses will not go down?
Hi Joey.
Shut the fuck up.
I feel so hip...
Oh c'mon you know you were thinking it....
Much better articulated than my post - you hit on every point I was (half-heartedly, by my own admitance) trying to make. I agree whole-heartedly.
But on a sub-note (I always have to throw in a jab), please recognize that to does not equal too does not equal two.
:-)
Realistically, I expend about 20 hours a week of actual work in the office. I'm there for 40, but I check /., k5, memepool, etc, etc.
Still, today I worked from 8:00 till 6:30 almost 7:00 because I got interested in something.
At the end, I realized the SO was going to be pissed if I didn't come home, so I burned my current work to cd and took it home. I have an exciting project to play with, and I'll probably work on it all weekend if I can.
Not to mention I'll get twice as much done without people coming up and asking me stupid questions.
I live about a mile from work, so occasionally I'll go home to hack out a solution, just to get away from the boss demanding silly-assed things from me.
Now I have to admit I have no offsping-obligations, and my SO works approx. the same hours I do, so home is actually a very productive environment. I don't have the multiple T3's (shared between 5,000 or so users) at my disposal, but I do have broadband so I get dedicated bandwidth and no pesky (super restricted) firewall. Not to mention, one of my main servers sits outside a firewall that I don't control, so I can't hit it from inside the corp.
Now to sum up, and try to reconcile my contradictory statements - Would I want to work at home? No.
I live close enough to jet for lunch, so my claustrophobia doesn't set in, yet at the same time I am always contactable, and the more time I spend in the office - the more the "higher up's" appreciate it.
Somehow being there is more valuable than actually kicking out real work.
It's a stupid way to run a company, but that's my situation, and I'm pretty much happy and in line with it. I wouldn't be surprised if that's the way it works everywhere... Try as we might, the human race cannot get over our direct communication preferences. Sometimes just being there at the right time to solve the CEO's 'immediate' silly-assed problem gets way more respect than it deserves.
But then again, I am truly a slave of the almighty dollar, so take that with a grain of salt.
Prior art -- think distributed.net
Now go home and wait for a visit from the patent lawyers like a good little heathen.
I was surprised no one had mentioned TightVNC, yet.
It is supposed to be anywhere between 5 and 75% thinner than even plain zlib compression on a VNC stream.
The original goal appears (to me) to be usability over a dial-up. There are unix as well as win32 variants.
Hope that helps, good luck!
Yep, except you are forgetting that all the whirring, humming equipment that are keeping patients in the ICU alive have....wait for it....wait...wait....FANS in them.
Oh my god.
I happen to know this doctor - as a matter of fact I installed 90% of the computers in our little Flint, MI Corporate Super Power's patient rooms. I headed up the project.
This guy was a major pain in my ass, and for no good reason. Infection rates in ICU's spike and drop like the weather. The pattern is totally chaotic, but more than anything it is usually related to the overall health of the healthcare providers that are working on the patient. In addition to their general hygiene.
Additionally, to those who had wondered - no cultures were not taken before the pc's went in. What would they be taking the culture samples from? There wasn't a pc there to swab! The infection rates spiked quickly after the PC's went in, and the medical staff went on a rampage trying to associate the two. Since then the levels have died right back down to normal.
Of course, it could have something to do with one of my techs testing positive for exposure to TB after the project was over.
-Me.
Yeah,
He said that when he got his 300 watter, and now you're suggesting a 400 watter.
It's amazing how we can placate ourselves with a reason even when previous experience shows it to be a lie.
:-) Hehehehe...
-John.
True, until (in the vein of your statistics) the 100 pounds of corn is made equal by two men (50/50) and they decide to join into a union. Supply and demand takes a hike at this point. Of course, at this point (being a Michigander) I must launch into the devaluation of common society due to over-empowered unions.
But I digress. My essential point is that your Chutes and Ladders view of the economy is equal to its comparison - a board game. These things do not happen in the real world. There are no such strict rules except in board games.
History texts read too much like Monopoly rule-books, and I believe your (well written) retort proves my point - in the light of true economics.
The holes in the idealism you profess show sunlight. Please awaken to that light.
Did you know they removed the word gullible from the dictionary?
Don't you run a comic shop in Springfield? Doh!
This Ask Slashdot is so lame it doesn't deserve a FP?? Never thought I'd see the day.
Moron.
Mmmmm....Sounds tasty....Hell, they could use the rockets to slow-roast the lamb on the way up...
Not to be argumentative, but if you paid attention to the sections on a regular basis, you would notice there are routinely stories which appear in the sections and bypass the front page.
Zealous eh.....
I've never heard of an Athiest War...Holy War, yes, but not an Athiest War.
Nobody has ever knocked on my door and offered to teach me about "Not believing in God".
I've never heard an athiest tell someone they deserved to rot in torture for eternity because they believed in god.
Athiests don't seem to have to band together once a week to re-affirm their lack of faith.
Athieism never told you how to have sex, what to wear, what to eat, what movies to watch, what books to read, how to act, how much to drink, how much to beat your kids, how to think about other people, how many ox your dead servant is worth...
And the beat goes on.
Zealous....
www.m-w.com
Main Entry: zealous
Pronunciation: 'ze-l&s
Function: adjective
Date: 1535
: filled with or characterized by zeal <zealous missionaries>
Now, I know this sounds like an attack, but its not mean spirited, I am just awe-struck by the fact that believers could catagorize "many" non-believers as zealous.
I also work in hospital IT, although I got off the on-call rotation. (Thank God)
We were 24/7 salary - no paid on-call time. What I was taking issue with was the idea that "salary" should constitute "watching the clock".
Email is not, IMO a mission-critical system, but if management decides that it is - I will come in just the same and work just as hard to fix the problem.
Simply saying "Some things can wait" is not always the answer.
And not being a clinician, I may not always be justified in expressing my opinions by not acting on a problem.
What needs to be reviewed is the compensation, if management will not review the policy.
Absolutely true, in my experience, most hospitals don't use email after 5:00 period...
Unless the email is contained in some messaging function of the clinical system - in which the messages usually boil down to "Hey you wanna go to dinner soon?"
But I think (and judging by the responses to this article) the article hinted at more than just a problem with calls increasing due to email - More and more systems are being deemed "mission critical" and there is no system in place to fairly compensate the work that is required after hours.
Compensation and staffing needs to increase, or the number of mission critical systems needs to be re-evaluated.
Mine was always - "Critical to patient care." - That can be misconstrued....Maybe it should be "critical to patient survival"
Ooo....That doesn't sound too good. Hmmm...I'll have to think on that one.
That's great if you work in the private sector for a 9-5 company.
-But mission critical hospital systems are completely different.
Would you want to be lying in bed and the doc can't get your results because the tech decided
"There are some things that will simply wait until the next business day..."??
Nope...Nobody else wants that either...
Can you explain to me exactly how they went about "to make $$$ off open source and Linux"? Vanished press release, vaporware, very bad form...But I don't hear any purchasers or investors speaking up that they were robbed. If they were in partnership with the MPAA, they still haven't made any $$$ off it, as we were trying to do it for free right?
Of course you can talk about hypothetical money, i.e. the money that would've been lost because Linux users didn't buy the Windows software - but if they were going to make the Linux software then *bam* new market opporunity. Hell charge double! But none of this happened.
I'm confused.
Working in IT for the 15th top Health Care corporation in the nation, and running the only truly successful implementation of the Imnet and CareManager systems (due to OUR code revisions), I can also say that I'm sure HBOC has seen some incredulous stupidity...But thats probably due to the company they keep, not an understanding of the market as a whole.
Buying up excellent companies and putting those products up for end-of-life in favor of HBOC's vaporware has done more to destabilize the market than any of the government cuts. Tech support/critical support is laughable, and the products just plain don't live up to their hype.
Before judging the entire health-care IT community on the basis of your customers, look at the quality of people HBOC attracts.
*This is not a personal flame, I'm just fed up with their crap.*
These views are not necessarily the views of my employer...But I sure as hell wish they were.