Yep, at the hospital I work in the medications administration sheets have all been converted to electronic. We have laptops in everyroom with the software on it. We log in using a password and use Cisco wireless pcmcia cards to connect to the main database server. I tried tell the IT department that perhaps using a wireless system may not be the best option becuase it's easily infiltrated, just need some guy sitting on a park bench with the proper tools to scan for open access. Well, to prove my point someone is obviously doing just that. Why? Because all the icons on the destop have been renamed. What are they renamed with? The nurses logins (e.g. my computer now reads creyyy, etc.. nice!). I tried to point this out but WTF do I know, I'm just a dumb R.N.
That's not the only issue. One time on a weekend one of the admins remotely logged in to all the laptops on our unit to update/fix the programs. Well, guess what? She didn't log of and I had full admin on any laptop on our unit. Told my boss and sent the admin an email on her own account say this is a major no no. Well never heard from her (but then I kinda expected that) but my boss looked at me like with that "deer caught in the headlights" when I tried to explain (as simply as possible) about having full access to the system due to the admin forgetting to log out after remotely logging in. And let's not get into the amount of time no nurse can extend (but now must) waiting for a page to come up at 08:00 to give the patients their morning meds --- when every unit in the hospital is doing the same thing -- oh joy!
As an R.N. in a level 3 hospital we had to comply with hipaa regs as well. Regarding information, IIRC any patient/client data is to be locked down, any diagnosis, name, SS#, address, etc... on any piece of documentation. This would include billing statements and product/equipment order, ad nausea. Yes, email must be locked down. However, any patient data, repeat any, must be secured. That means that if your delivering a wheel chair to someone or O2, any of those forms must be secure both on any system and by the person that handles it.
The regs given out by HIPAA are vague at best. Essentially a bunch of fat cats in congress got together with a bunch of big wigs in the medical field (i.e. doctors, suppliers, etc) and drafted the guidelines. As is expected in congress, those that put the bill into law wrangled back and forth and came up with a bill not even they can really define.
So, as an admin your network (sans internal lan, external anything), record data base, billing and orders, accounting, blah blah must be secure.
Regrading employees not wanting to get in with all the joy and fun must be told that it's not your idea of fun, but its a law that if not met will cause the company to be shut down until compliance is met. Tell them that translates into a possible layoff if not compliant and then mortage, car, daycare payments become a problem.
Agreed. My father was a cop in a major city and taught me the only time you should use any sort of projectile weapon is in situations where life is at risk. In the event that a weapon of this nature is to be used, it is to be used in only one fashion - you either shoot to kill or you don't shoot.
Furthermore, while attending UCLA their basketball team won the final 4. A significant amount of the student body went into Westwood and became a bit unruly (as college students will). And of course non-students became involved and things got a bit out-of-hand. The L.A.P.D. sent out a riot control unit. At one point a non-student that was somewhat aggitated was surrounded by a groups of police. Then a stun gun - the type that shoots a bean-bag type projectile was fired at this person at close range. This guy fell as if he had been shoot with a generic projectile (aka bullet). He laid there for 10 to 15 minutes before anyone on the P.D. would take action to get the EMS in their. This only happened after the rest of the crowd became aggitated by the fact that someone that was essentially defenseless was injured and no assistance by the authorities was garnered. It was only then that the man was give assistance - and not before the P.D. dragged him behind the riot line by his feet.
Point is, that supposed "non-lethal" weapons are not completely non-lethal. If the situations are right or the weapon is used in a manner not intended death can easily happen.
And what good is a bullet proof baseball cap good for anyway. An umbrella that's just a camouflaged zip gun. Q he ain't. Just another mercenary trying to market stuff that the U.S., Stazi, and the K.G.B. have been doing since the 60's.
In the U.S. this guy would either be working for the C.I.A./N.S.A. or be labeled as a criminal.
As an R.N. in a major hospital I have been told, both by the practice council and the state regulatory board that violation of a clients medical data by other not on the patients heatlh care team (e.g. M.D., R.N. PharmD., O.T., P.T. etc....) is a violation of Federal patient privacy laws and confidentiality guidelines.
So the rub as I see it is this, An IT department makes best efforts to secure the data environment, applies all pertinant patches related to know security issue. And it gets hacked. I can't see how the admins can be held responsible given that they have followed all procedures known in order to secure said system.
But, to the BEST of my knowledge Microsoft Corporation is not in the Health Care business and the patients, nor the health care team, has not implicitly or explicity consented to making MS party to the patients health care status. So, granted, I can't see MS going into a file system to query up a patient health record. However, by implimenting patch and changes to the system unbeknownst to the admins they are potentially compromising the data, making it less secure or, moreover, making the data inaccessible to the health care team due to the changes MS has implimented causing the system to fail or otherwise crash.
This could have potentially drastic outcomes in the event that a patients status and information cannot be accessed at a crucial time (e.g. in a state of crisis - the patient needs emergency surgery and has an allergy to commonly used anesthetics). Who then is responsible for an undesirable outcome that is due to the inablitity to access information crucial to the patients well being?
The patient and their families won't really care who's to blame. Their lawyers will simply suponea everyone involved. However, I can see the litigation becoming extremely costly and convoluted in light of such a scenario. And given that the access to said system and the subsequent "updates" and changes applied by MS were directly involved in the patient's negative outcome - how is MS held responsible?
Bottom line, IMHO, is that MS is acting like the benevelant father in situations that they have no business in. It is incumbant upon those directly responsible for the maintenence of the system to ensure that it is operating correctly (and in the case of Health Care -- safely).
The IT departments are those that should decide what and how changes are implimented -- NOT MICROSOFT!
Just MHO!
I always had trouble with Winex running a game past a cut scene or to the next level. I had loaded fallout and fallout II, both would run right up until time for a cut scene or in the wilderness when I had to use the map mode to travel. Many other games had similiar problems. However, I dl'ed the lastest Wine cvs for OpenGL and patched my default installation. Not only did many more games load and run correctly, games I never could get to work would now install and run (albeit not all without crashing). Point is that the present state of WineX vs the varients of Wine being built for 3D graphics/gaming neck and neck. And given that I would rather contribute to the Wine project rather than Transgaming I saw no point into contributing for WineX. If you want to run 3D games under Wine just get a fairly stable patch for the OpenGL version. Send bug reports to the WineHQ. Frankly I have much less problems now and can save my money. Don't get me wrong, I have always paid for every distro I own (ok, the 1st RH 5.2 was given to me) and supported Loki as well. I just think that Linux gaming as an enterprise has to mature a little more in the sense of a business model and with the mission planning department. At it's present state I can't see how it can stay afloat. Loki was the best shot so far and their CEO screwed that. Transgaming and Wine aren't the answer. Direct ports as have been done by IdSoftware, and for UT seem to be a more viable route IMHO.
Uh, testing in order to meet the conditions of a potential contract is the least trustworthy means of securing a truely relaible system. Case in point, the Phalanx system. You know, that high tech radar tracking anti-missle system that the Navy put on it's ships. You know the one they turned of because it would often fail in high temperature climates, and then by a strange coincidence wasn't functioning when a missle slammed into one of the Navy's Aegis class ships. Seems that General Dynamics had a tendancy to running an inordinate amount of High temp climate test in order to glean out from them the required numbers and results in order to make the contract.
What makes you think that a some company is up for a "very lucrative" contract and runs tests to meet the requirement of the contract in order to secure said contract has or hasn't run the tests correctly, when the fact of the matter is that the tests may have been done in a manner that assure it won't fail, but has little or nothing to do with real-life conditions or scenarios? Yes, there are many reputable and honest companies out there. But tell me, how would you know that unless you could verify the product and results by a independent 3rd party?
Lasix surgery, to which you are referring, has it's risks. I do understand your point about MD's wanting to lock down information. Take any sociology classes and one learns about the theory of specialization. The original poster of this thread is blantantly subscribed to this notion. That being that once a knowledge base is acquired and specialized then it is institutionalized socially which has a two fold outcome. One - being a means for formally establishing protocals and practical guidelines for the application of said specialty. The other - is to segretate and differentiate it from common knowledge in order to create a subclass of specialists with all the benifits of status and socio-political power.
Unfortunately, this creates a cast that protects itself from scrutiny and self fulfills it's own position. In other words, they protect themselves from anyone that threatens their power, regardless of the validity of any new models/protocals.
I am an R.N. and have witnessed may archaic practices. One of the most blatant is the pratice of having interns pull 72 hour shifts. They are only allowed rest/sleep if the patient demand affords them a break. This leads to sleep deprivation and most medical mistakes with interns happen during these periods. Why do they do it? Well, they have many rationalizations, but the underlaying fact is because the residents had to do it so therefore the interns must also - it's a stupid and dangerous tradition.
On the subject of knowledge base and diagnostics. Most physicians are excellent at following procedures and protocals but lack any real applicable means of innovative critical thinking that is outside the so called box. I have seen MD's put their patients through medical hell because an ailment baffles them. Endless tests and hospital stays with little or no results.
It's a question of the "status quo". Anything that doesn't follow their trained methodology threatens them. Don't get me wrong. Most MD's work their ever loving butts off. However, they do often tend to let their ego's run amuk and have the habit of placing themselves in the sheppard or god role all to frequently. But, the fact of the matter is is that they're essentially subcontractors, the patient is who they work for and they often forget this. This is why tecnologies such as this threaten them - they see it as debunking their status and expertise. Fact of the matter is that it is simply a tool and one they can't justify into their world view.
Tools like these always become utilized, but never before the old guard is on the out and the new generation ascends to prominence.
Ya, bolt head thats gonna help him make an informed choice. Gee, I remember when people laughed at the idea of a "personal" computer. "What, a self contained desktop computer?" They said it would never fly, too confusing, people don't like change. Ya, ok! "Don't" I'm sure Mr. Gates would be amused to look back and remember all those that said "DON'T". Linux has come a long way. Now with the 1st release of the codeweaver plugins for Office, KDE 3.0 desktop and the soon to be released Gnome desktop user friendliness on a linux box is very attainable. And my I note that many companies (i.e. Computer Associates, etc...) are now supporting Linux. "Don't" be afraid to be ahead of the curve. By the time your done migrating your environment and the staff settles in I wager there will be some very nice developments in the Penquin arena.
Don't ya just love it when a marketing firm tries to pass off what they consider to be meaningful data via a self-selecting survey passed off as statistical analysis.
I done again with a different 3000 units the data would very likely be completely different, however I'm sure that those that put this together would have figured out how to glean info out of it to derive a similar data set and its so called results.
Scott Draeker is a schister and the employees let him stick it to them. Seems a shame, I have enjoyed Loki games greatly and still do today.
However, I am amazed at the audasity of Draeker and the yet even greater clueless behavior of the employess. What? Like they didn't realize that they had to pay taxes. And letting the company rack up $350K on ones personal credit card - COME ON!
oh please! Everybody and his great Aunt Haddy starts a linux company. Just because one bites the dust in no way means linux is going away. If anything the ones with the bad business models are fading away as they should. BSD is a devel platform - if anything it is destined for obscurity. RH, SuSE, etc will prosper. They continue to reap large contracts and OEM support. As long as M$ keeps pulling their license antics more enterprise and businesses will continue to use linux. The numbers bear this out. Just another linux company that didn't make and ends up being FUD fodder. Not much to worry about.
Yep, which might explain the AOL/TimeWarner/Netscape manuevers.
What cracks me up is when one looks at Java and then compares it to C# one has to wonder - M$ needs java, so they invent there own form of java so as to avoid Sun. But, if one can learn to write in C# in a minimal amount of time due to the similarities of Java, then one can learn to right Java apps written in C# - and around and around we go.
.Net has proven not to be so much vaporware, so far, but one doesn't see alot of people climbing onto the.Net bandwagon (that is on the corporate side). Those that tend to write apps in java for a living and prefer will learn C# easily. But if the market turns in favor of the competition then changing to Java from C# is just as easy. I just don't see why Mono is turning into.Net? ASP's may not be the big hit that many say it they will be. This is why M$ is still taking a gamble. They have bet the farm on Application Service Provisions and I'm not all that sure that Joe Average will leap to the subscription market. So, banking on.Net is a fairly big IF IMHO. Perhaps your right and M$ is trying to hedge their bet - but I wouldn't trust them for a momemt. I can still see them goobling up Ximian in a fairly easy to swallow gulp if they are so inclined. I guess we'll see!
Yep, if it's at all realiable and viable to the M$ machine, they'll just take it over or buy it out - then gut it for what they need. If it becomes a threat they'll just take it over or buy it out - and shove it in a closets somewhere to be forgotten. Mr de Icaza is dancing with the devil and when you do that you dance to the "devil's" tune - always. Frankly, If this is at all successful we'll probably see a flurry of praise and then the 1st signals of the Ximian's demise. I also find is interesting that they switched licenses - from GPL to X11, that is after most of the coding was done. Hmmmmmmm, all that free open source labor - now its not so open. De Icaza wants to think he's a "player" now - M$ and WallStreet will simply chew him up and spit him out.
It's not so much that the code base for the majority of Microsoft products beg to fall to pieces. Hell, Linux has had more then it's share of problems. It's a combination of things. Yes the capitalist environment is dog eat dog and often vicious. That's they the way the market cookie crumbles. But, when you add up a the myraid of brainless things that Microsoft continually does and the amount of false promises, continual FUD, and tie this in with the amount of capital they use to squash, buyout, or kill off with exorbenant legal fees (e.g. Lindows) and a >90% market share and you have a problem. The problem is that anything that doesn't fit into the MS marketing scheme is soon to disappear. Screw the fact that it might actually be something that could make huge contributions to computing, data use, and communications. They are a corporation that is interested in their share holders and they just happen to be in the business of making and selling software. Just think how many other technologies might be sitting on your computer that would be really useful. Think about not paying $200 for an OS that is infected in less than 10 minutes after logging onto the net - shit, you don't even have enough time to shut down all the services that cause this problem in most cases. Sure, Microsoft has done tremdious things. They didn't get such a strong beginning by producing useless stuff. They've just become what all monopolies have - a self perpetuating money machine. They really are not about "innovation" and "development" anymore. They are all about profits and the product is simply a means to an end.
And as a earlier person posted - "they could have pick a month with more days." Figures, MS picks febuary - I bet they checked before making the announcement that it wasn't a leap year. Oh boy, a whole 28 days. I bet they trying to figure out how to keep there internal severs from getting cracked so no one else will be able to pilfer their source code.
More FUD, but then again - Bill and Steve's ego being what it is, they probably think that's more than ample time to fix anything that could be possibly wrong.
Ya, ok, I'm confused. Let's see - I want to buy the lastest version of that Microsoft OS. What was it now - oh ya! Lindows XP right that was it. Oh get real. Sure, users will get confused. Lindows 98, Lindows 98SE, Lindows NT, Lindows 2000, Lindows Media Player? Microsoft Lindows is not even remotely close to Microsoft "Windows"! The whole premiss of the Suit is that is some sort of trademark infringment?
Me thinks not. It's really just another tactic to kill a competitor. M$' real angle is to do to this guy/company what they did with the DOJ - drag out a long and protracted legal battle. Except their "banking" on the fact that this will drain all the capital away from their operating finances through exsorbinant legal fees. Just file a few hundred motions and Lindows will be bankrupt.
I think using the Ogg Vorbis format is a step in the right direction. Given that it's main focus is to provide a readily avialable format for streaming media that affords one viable alternative to proprietary software. I am a staunch supporter of the OSS. I believe that software should be available in a manner that makes information and technologies available to all regardless of soceioeconomic status, culture, or background. In a world dominated by a monolpoly it becomes increasingly difficult to provide relevant and comprehensive content when evermore amounts of operating capital is spent on the tools rather than on the product the tools are supposed to furnish and make available. My sincere hope is that more media and business interest follow your lead and consider the advantages of using OSS and similar products for their day to day work. Thank you, Curtis Rey.
Just tell them to keep using WinBlows. Encourge them to get a hotmail account and a passport. then further encourage them to buy some things on line with their credit card. After they're comfortable and all seems right with the world go find the white paper on how to steal credit card numbers from people with passports and hotmail accounts by just send them an email via hotmail and explain it to them and point to the white paper, telling them anyone can do this with a modest amount of knowledge. And later, when you get back to school, if your parents and sister have a broadband connect. Hack into their windblows systems and do stuff like re-name their desktop icons, dl a post-it note program and leave them little notes explaining that their lucky that their son/brother got in and not some cracker bent on stealing their account, password, credit card numbers, or attempting to turn their system into a zombie
Now that your the legitimate owner of South Dakota. I'd like to purchase a little land, I have quite a few very nice things to trade, such as some nice wool blankets, really strong steel knives, and some very beautiful pieces of jewelery. I can let you have the whole bundle for, let's say 1000 sq acres? But hurry their going fast, I have another deal in the works for 1500 acres in Ohio.
Geez, only in the U.S. gov can you have a data base of trusted data protected by such security measures as "password=passwrd". For crying out loud!!!!!
Next they'll demand I sign up for an M$ passport account - anyone want my credit card number?
And the question was "should the judge have this much authority?" Well someone damn well should!
According to Charter Comm, here in Madison Wi. Excite@home will pull the plug. They first sent me an email that this might happen and offered me an alternative. Last night 11/28 I received a call from a Charter rep stating that Excite@home is indeed shutting down on 11/30 and offered me a package deal (one that gives me a fatter pipe at $20 less/month).
Now they're running the networks in parallel and we'll see how smoothly (or not) the transition goes!
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Agreed, mass-market adoption is slow with open source and marketing in and of itself in Osource is is relegated to niche markets. However, step in the powers that be (the ones with lawyers, guns and money - aka taxpayer money) that slap down new rules to the game and the landscape changes. If the U.S. District courts have any insight to the world of computing (and there's no garuantee that this is the case) then forcing MS to open up its code in the form of standards (that's market share/MS standards) and API's and then many short=comings associated with OSource are likely to be bridged. On the other hand, there's still the problem of visibilty. Not many commoners now about OSource like Linux and this brings us back to marketing. This is part two of MS' strength - Marketing. The other part of MS' strength is Propriety. Take that away propriety and MS is weakened. The question remains - will we ever see a Linux add in prime time media (aka a television commercial). As far as MS porting apps from OSource over, this may be the case someday. However, giving the rate of development in OSource, by the time MS gets these programs to market they will most likely be out of date. Development in OSource can, and often does, move at a considerable pace in comparision to that of large corporate envirionments. How long did it take to get the next version of NT to market after the marketing department released it press statements about the next version - way back when?
Shutup and take another Prozac you social misfit. You sound like a prepubecent idiot! And what's this about speaking to a lawyer??? How does this relate??? You must be really bored and confused. Get some help.
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And that pretty much sums it up.
ARTHUR: I say a swallow can carry a linux box
SOLDIER #1: Could not!
ARTHUR: Could too!
SOLDIER #1: Could not!
ARTHUR: COULD TOO !!!
SOLDIER #1: COULD NOT !!!
ARTHUR: --pulls out sword, runs soldier through--
SOLDIER #1:--gasps and dies--
ARTHUR: Could too.
Yep, at the hospital I work in the medications administration sheets have all been converted to electronic. We have laptops in everyroom with the software on it. We log in using a password and use Cisco wireless pcmcia cards to connect to the main database server. I tried tell the IT department that perhaps using a wireless system may not be the best option becuase it's easily infiltrated, just need some guy sitting on a park bench with the proper tools to scan for open access. Well, to prove my point someone is obviously doing just that. Why? Because all the icons on the destop have been renamed. What are they renamed with? The nurses logins (e.g. my computer now reads creyyy, etc.. nice!). I tried to point this out but WTF do I know, I'm just a dumb R.N.
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That's not the only issue. One time on a weekend one of the admins remotely logged in to all the laptops on our unit to update/fix the programs. Well, guess what? She didn't log of and I had full admin on any laptop on our unit. Told my boss and sent the admin an email on her own account say this is a major no no. Well never heard from her (but then I kinda expected that) but my boss looked at me like with that "deer caught in the headlights" when I tried to explain (as simply as possible) about having full access to the system due to the admin forgetting to log out after remotely logging in. And let's not get into the amount of time no nurse can extend (but now must) waiting for a page to come up at 08:00 to give the patients their morning meds --- when every unit in the hospital is doing the same thing -- oh joy!
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As an R.N. in a level 3 hospital we had to comply with hipaa regs as well. Regarding information, IIRC any patient/client data is to be locked down, any diagnosis, name, SS#, address, etc... on any piece of documentation. This would include billing statements and product/equipment order, ad nausea. Yes, email must be locked down. However, any patient data, repeat any, must be secured. That means that if your delivering a wheel chair to someone or O2, any of those forms must be secure both on any system and by the person that handles it.
The regs given out by HIPAA are vague at best. Essentially a bunch of fat cats in congress got together with a bunch of big wigs in the medical field (i.e. doctors, suppliers, etc) and drafted the guidelines. As is expected in congress, those that put the bill into law wrangled back and forth and came up with a bill not even they can really define.
So, as an admin your network (sans internal lan, external anything), record data base, billing and orders, accounting, blah blah must be secure.
Regrading employees not wanting to get in with all the joy and fun must be told that it's not your idea of fun, but its a law that if not met will cause the company to be shut down until compliance is met. Tell them that translates into a possible layoff if not compliant and then mortage, car, daycare payments become a problem.
Agreed. My father was a cop in a major city and taught me the only time you should use any sort of projectile weapon is in situations where life is at risk. In the event that a weapon of this nature is to be used, it is to be used in only one fashion - you either shoot to kill or you don't shoot.
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Furthermore, while attending UCLA their basketball team won the final 4. A significant amount of the student body went into Westwood and became a bit unruly (as college students will). And of course non-students became involved and things got a bit out-of-hand. The L.A.P.D. sent out a riot control unit. At one point a non-student that was somewhat aggitated was surrounded by a groups of police. Then a stun gun - the type that shoots a bean-bag type projectile was fired at this person at close range. This guy fell as if he had been shoot with a generic projectile (aka bullet). He laid there for 10 to 15 minutes before anyone on the P.D. would take action to get the EMS in their. This only happened after the rest of the crowd became aggitated by the fact that someone that was essentially defenseless was injured and no assistance by the authorities was garnered. It was only then that the man was give assistance - and not before the P.D. dragged him behind the riot line by his feet.
Point is, that supposed "non-lethal" weapons are not completely non-lethal. If the situations are right or the weapon is used in a manner not intended death can easily happen.
And what good is a bullet proof baseball cap good for anyway. An umbrella that's just a camouflaged zip gun. Q he ain't. Just another mercenary trying to market stuff that the U.S., Stazi, and the K.G.B. have been doing since the 60's.
In the U.S. this guy would either be working for the C.I.A./N.S.A. or be labeled as a criminal.
Just MHO.
As an R.N. in a major hospital I have been told, both by the practice council and the state regulatory board that violation of a clients medical data by other not on the patients heatlh care team (e.g. M.D., R.N. PharmD., O.T., P.T. etc....) is a violation of Federal patient privacy laws and confidentiality guidelines. So the rub as I see it is this, An IT department makes best efforts to secure the data environment, applies all pertinant patches related to know security issue. And it gets hacked. I can't see how the admins can be held responsible given that they have followed all procedures known in order to secure said system. But, to the BEST of my knowledge Microsoft Corporation is not in the Health Care business and the patients, nor the health care team, has not implicitly or explicity consented to making MS party to the patients health care status. So, granted, I can't see MS going into a file system to query up a patient health record. However, by implimenting patch and changes to the system unbeknownst to the admins they are potentially compromising the data, making it less secure or, moreover, making the data inaccessible to the health care team due to the changes MS has implimented causing the system to fail or otherwise crash. This could have potentially drastic outcomes in the event that a patients status and information cannot be accessed at a crucial time (e.g. in a state of crisis - the patient needs emergency surgery and has an allergy to commonly used anesthetics). Who then is responsible for an undesirable outcome that is due to the inablitity to access information crucial to the patients well being? The patient and their families won't really care who's to blame. Their lawyers will simply suponea everyone involved. However, I can see the litigation becoming extremely costly and convoluted in light of such a scenario. And given that the access to said system and the subsequent "updates" and changes applied by MS were directly involved in the patient's negative outcome - how is MS held responsible? Bottom line, IMHO, is that MS is acting like the benevelant father in situations that they have no business in. It is incumbant upon those directly responsible for the maintenence of the system to ensure that it is operating correctly (and in the case of Health Care -- safely). The IT departments are those that should decide what and how changes are implimented -- NOT MICROSOFT! Just MHO!
I always had trouble with Winex running a game past a cut scene or to the next level. I had loaded fallout and fallout II, both would run right up until time for a cut scene or in the wilderness when I had to use the map mode to travel. Many other games had similiar problems.
However, I dl'ed the lastest Wine cvs for OpenGL and patched my default installation. Not only did many more games load and run correctly, games I never could get to work would now install and run (albeit not all without crashing). Point is that the present state of WineX vs the varients of Wine being built for 3D graphics/gaming neck and neck. And given that I would rather contribute to the Wine project rather than Transgaming I saw no point into contributing for WineX. If you want to run 3D games under Wine just get a fairly stable patch for the OpenGL version. Send bug reports to the WineHQ. Frankly I have much less problems now and can save my money. Don't get me wrong, I have always paid for every distro I own (ok, the 1st RH 5.2 was given to me) and supported Loki as well. I just think that Linux gaming as an enterprise has to mature a little more in the sense of a business model and with the mission planning department. At it's present state I can't see how it can stay afloat. Loki was the best shot so far and their CEO screwed that. Transgaming and Wine aren't the answer. Direct ports as have been done by IdSoftware, and for UT seem to be a more viable route IMHO.
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Uh, testing in order to meet the conditions of a potential contract is the least trustworthy means of securing a truely relaible system. Case in point, the Phalanx system. You know, that high tech radar tracking anti-missle system that the Navy put on it's ships. You know the one they turned of because it would often fail in high temperature climates, and then by a strange coincidence wasn't functioning when a missle slammed into one of the Navy's Aegis class ships. Seems that General Dynamics had a tendancy to running an inordinate amount of High temp climate test in order to glean out from them the required numbers and results in order to make the contract.
What makes you think that a some company is up for a "very lucrative" contract and runs tests to meet the requirement of the contract in order to secure said contract has or hasn't run the tests correctly, when the fact of the matter is that the tests may have been done in a manner that assure it won't fail, but has little or nothing to do with real-life conditions or scenarios? Yes, there are many reputable and honest companies out there. But tell me, how would you know that unless you could verify the product and results by a independent 3rd party?
Lasix surgery, to which you are referring, has it's risks. I do understand your point about MD's wanting to lock down information. Take any sociology classes and one learns about the theory of specialization. The original poster of this thread is blantantly subscribed to this notion. That being that once a knowledge base is acquired and specialized then it is institutionalized socially which has a two fold outcome. One - being a means for formally establishing protocals and practical guidelines for the application of said specialty. The other - is to segretate and differentiate it from common knowledge in order to create a subclass of specialists with all the benifits of status and socio-political power.
Unfortunately, this creates a cast that protects itself from scrutiny and self fulfills it's own position. In other words, they protect themselves from anyone that threatens their power, regardless of the validity of any new models/protocals.
I am an R.N. and have witnessed may archaic practices. One of the most blatant is the pratice of having interns pull 72 hour shifts. They are only allowed rest/sleep if the patient demand affords them a break. This leads to sleep deprivation and most medical mistakes with interns happen during these periods. Why do they do it? Well, they have many rationalizations, but the underlaying fact is because the residents had to do it so therefore the interns must also - it's a stupid and dangerous tradition.
On the subject of knowledge base and diagnostics. Most physicians are excellent at following procedures and protocals but lack any real applicable means of innovative critical thinking that is outside the so called box. I have seen MD's put their patients through medical hell because an ailment baffles them. Endless tests and hospital stays with little or no results.
It's a question of the "status quo". Anything that doesn't follow their trained methodology threatens them. Don't get me wrong. Most MD's work their ever loving butts off. However, they do often tend to let their ego's run amuk and have the habit of placing themselves in the sheppard or god role all to frequently. But, the fact of the matter is is that they're essentially subcontractors, the patient is who they work for and they often forget this. This is why tecnologies such as this threaten them - they see it as debunking their status and expertise. Fact of the matter is that it is simply a tool and one they can't justify into their world view.
Tools like these always become utilized, but never before the old guard is on the out and the new generation ascends to prominence.
Just my $0.02.
Notice the author "anonymous coward".
Ya, bolt head thats gonna help him make an informed choice. Gee, I remember when people laughed at the idea of a "personal" computer. "What, a self contained desktop computer?" They said it would never fly, too confusing, people don't like change. Ya, ok! "Don't" I'm sure Mr. Gates would be amused to look back and remember all those that said "DON'T". Linux has come a long way. Now with the 1st release of the codeweaver plugins for Office, KDE 3.0 desktop and the soon to be released Gnome desktop user friendliness on a linux box is very attainable. And my I note that many companies (i.e. Computer Associates, etc...) are now supporting Linux. "Don't" be afraid to be ahead of the curve. By the time your done migrating your environment and the staff settles in I wager there will be some very nice developments in the Penquin arena.
Not so anonymously, Crusher-1 (aka Curtis Rey)
Or at least a sizable chunk of downtown Seattle!!!. Real estate???
Ya. Ok, what ever!
Cheers.
Don't ya just love it when a marketing firm tries to pass off what they consider to be meaningful data via a self-selecting survey passed off as statistical analysis.
I done again with a different 3000 units the data would very likely be completely different, however I'm sure that those that put this together would have figured out how to glean info out of it to derive a similar data set and its so called results.
Cheers!
Scott Draeker is a schister and the employees let him stick it to them. Seems a shame, I have enjoyed Loki games greatly and still do today.
However, I am amazed at the audasity of Draeker and the yet even greater clueless behavior of the employess. What? Like they didn't realize that they had to pay taxes. And letting the company rack up $350K on ones personal credit card - COME ON!
oh please! Everybody and his great Aunt Haddy starts a linux company. Just because one bites the dust in no way means linux is going away. If anything the ones with the bad business models are fading away as they should. BSD is a devel platform - if anything it is destined for obscurity. RH, SuSE, etc will prosper. They continue to reap large contracts and OEM support.
As long as M$ keeps pulling their license antics more enterprise and businesses will continue to use linux. The numbers bear this out. Just another linux company that didn't make and ends up being FUD fodder. Not much to worry about.
Yep, which might explain the AOL/TimeWarner/Netscape manuevers.
.Net bandwagon (that is on the corporate side). Those that tend to write apps in java for a living and prefer will learn C# easily. But if the market turns in favor of the competition then changing to Java from C# is just as easy. I just don't see why Mono is turning into .Net? ASP's may not be the big hit that many say it they will be. This is why M$ is still taking a gamble. They have bet the farm on Application Service Provisions and I'm not all that sure that Joe Average will leap to the subscription market. So, banking on .Net is a fairly big IF IMHO. Perhaps your right and M$ is trying to hedge their bet - but I wouldn't trust them for a momemt. I can still see them goobling up Ximian in a fairly easy to swallow gulp if they are so inclined. I guess we'll see!
What cracks me up is when one looks at Java and then compares it to C# one has to wonder - M$ needs java, so they invent there own form of java so as to avoid Sun. But, if one can learn to write in C# in a minimal amount of time due to the similarities of Java, then one can learn to right Java apps written in C# - and around and around we go.
.Net has proven not to be so much vaporware, so far, but one doesn't see alot of people climbing onto the
Cheers, Curtis
Yep, if it's at all realiable and viable to the M$ machine, they'll just take it over or buy it out - then gut it for what they need. If it becomes a threat they'll just take it over or buy it out - and shove it in a closets somewhere to be forgotten. Mr de Icaza is dancing with the devil and when you do that you dance to the "devil's" tune - always. Frankly, If this is at all successful we'll probably see a flurry of praise and then the 1st signals of the Ximian's demise. I also find is interesting that they switched licenses - from GPL to X11, that is after most of the coding was done. Hmmmmmmm, all that free open source labor - now its not so open. De Icaza wants to think he's a "player" now - M$ and WallStreet will simply chew him up and spit him out.
Just MHO, Crusher-1
It's not so much that the code base for the majority of Microsoft products beg to fall to pieces. Hell, Linux has had more then it's share of problems. It's a combination of things. Yes the capitalist environment is dog eat dog and often vicious. That's they the way the market cookie crumbles. But, when you add up a the myraid of brainless things that Microsoft continually does and the amount of false promises, continual FUD, and tie this in with the amount of capital they use to squash, buyout, or kill off with exorbenant legal fees (e.g. Lindows) and a >90% market share and you have a problem. The problem is that anything that doesn't fit into the MS marketing scheme is soon to disappear. Screw the fact that it might actually be something that could make huge contributions to computing, data use, and communications. They are a corporation that is interested in their share holders and they just happen to be in the business of making and selling software. Just think how many other technologies might be sitting on your computer that would be really useful. Think about not paying $200 for an OS that is infected in less than 10 minutes after logging onto the net - shit, you don't even have enough time to shut down all the services that cause this problem in most cases. Sure, Microsoft has done tremdious things. They didn't get such a strong beginning by producing useless stuff. They've just become what all monopolies have - a self perpetuating money machine. They really are not about "innovation" and "development" anymore. They are all about profits and the product is simply a means to an end.
Cheers!
And as a earlier person posted - "they could have pick a month with more days." Figures, MS picks febuary - I bet they checked before making the announcement that it wasn't a leap year. Oh boy, a whole 28 days. I bet they trying to figure out how to keep there internal severs from getting cracked so no one else will be able to pilfer their source code.
:)
More FUD, but then again - Bill and Steve's ego being what it is, they probably think that's more than ample time to fix anything that could be possibly wrong.
Cheers,
Ya, ok, I'm confused. Let's see - I want to buy the lastest version of that Microsoft OS. What was it now - oh ya! Lindows XP right that was it. Oh get real. Sure, users will get confused. Lindows 98, Lindows 98SE, Lindows NT, Lindows 2000, Lindows Media Player? Microsoft Lindows is not even remotely close to Microsoft "Windows"! The whole premiss of the Suit is that is some sort of trademark infringment?
Me thinks not. It's really just another tactic to kill a competitor. M$' real angle is to do to this guy/company what they did with the DOJ - drag out a long and protracted legal battle. Except their "banking" on the fact that this will drain all the capital away from their operating finances through exsorbinant legal fees. Just file a few hundred motions and Lindows will be bankrupt.
I think using the Ogg Vorbis format is a step in the right direction. Given that it's main focus is to provide a readily avialable format for streaming media that affords one viable alternative to proprietary software. I am a staunch supporter of the OSS. I believe that software should be available in a manner that makes information and technologies available to all regardless of soceioeconomic status, culture, or background. In a world dominated by a monolpoly it becomes increasingly difficult to provide relevant and comprehensive content when evermore amounts of operating capital is spent on the tools rather than on the product the tools are supposed to furnish and make available. My sincere hope is that more media and business interest follow your lead and consider the advantages of using OSS and similar products for their day to day work. Thank you, Curtis Rey.
Just tell them to keep using WinBlows. Encourge them to get a hotmail account and a passport. then further encourage them to buy some things on line with their credit card. After they're comfortable and all seems right with the world go find the white paper on how to steal credit card numbers from people with passports and hotmail accounts by just send them an email via hotmail and explain it to them and point to the white paper, telling them anyone can do this with a modest amount of knowledge. And later, when you get back to school, if your parents and sister have a broadband connect. Hack into their windblows systems and do stuff like re-name their desktop icons, dl a post-it note program and leave them little notes explaining that their lucky that their son/brother got in and not some cracker bent on stealing their account, password, credit card numbers, or attempting to turn their system into a zombie
Now that your the legitimate owner of South Dakota. I'd like to purchase a little land, I have quite a few very nice things to trade, such as some nice wool blankets, really strong steel knives, and some very beautiful pieces of jewelery. I can let you have the whole bundle for, let's say 1000 sq acres? But hurry their going fast, I have another deal in the works for 1500 acres in Ohio.
Geez, only in the U.S. gov can you have a data base of trusted data protected by such security measures as "password=passwrd". For crying out loud!!!!!
Next they'll demand I sign up for an M$ passport account - anyone want my credit card number?
And the question was "should the judge have this much authority?" Well someone damn well should!
According to Charter Comm, here in Madison Wi. Excite@home will pull the plug. They first sent me an email that this might happen and offered me an alternative. Last night 11/28 I received a call from a Charter rep stating that Excite@home is indeed shutting down on 11/30 and offered me a package deal (one that gives me a fatter pipe at $20 less/month).
Now they're running the networks in parallel and we'll see how smoothly (or not) the transition goes!
Agreed, mass-market adoption is slow with open source and marketing in and of itself in Osource is is relegated to niche markets. However, step in the powers that be (the ones with lawyers, guns and money - aka taxpayer money) that slap down new rules to the game and the landscape changes. If the U.S. District courts have any insight to the world of computing (and there's no garuantee that this is the case) then forcing MS to open up its code in the form of standards (that's market share/MS standards) and API's and then many short=comings associated with OSource are likely to be bridged. On the other hand, there's still the problem of visibilty. Not many commoners now about OSource like Linux and this brings us back to marketing. This is part two of MS' strength - Marketing. The other part of MS' strength is Propriety. Take that away propriety and MS is weakened. The question remains - will we ever see a Linux add in prime time media (aka a television commercial). As far as MS porting apps from OSource over, this may be the case someday. However, giving the rate of development in OSource, by the time MS gets these programs to market they will most likely be out of date. Development in OSource can, and often does, move at a considerable pace in comparision to that of large corporate envirionments. How long did it take to get the next version of NT to market after the marketing department released it press statements about the next version - way back when?
Shutup and take another Prozac you social misfit. You sound like a prepubecent idiot! And what's this about speaking to a lawyer??? How does this relate??? You must be really bored and confused. Get some help.