No wonder the project failed. Where was the Requirements Document? The simple statement: "bring a family of four up to date with technology" is not a proper requirement. Did they want to make home movies? Send email to Grandma? Walk in the house and have the lights turn on automatically? What were they trying to do with that $15k?
Why do you insist that any community built disto must be done by the same community? I hate to break it to you, but there's more than one Linux community. Debian is not the only one. You may not like it, but not all developers (or users) care to belong to the Debian community. Debian has a lot in its favor, but their (your?) shrill political stance turns some (me) off. It's an attitude thing. Like this attitude that there can be only one Linux community. Fine, go on believing that yours is the "only" Linux community -- but please take that belief the whole way and ignore all other communities. In other words, stop bothering the rest of us.
Buy golly, you're right! And I just noticed: The goals of Ford overlap with the goals of Volkswagon and the goals of Toyota! Oops! The goals of McDonalds overlap the goals of KFC! Oh My God -- the goals of Home Depot overlap the goals of Lowes! When will the insanity end?
We take a bunch of gamers and group them by what video card they own. We give each of them the test board. After one month we take away the test board and give them their old one back. The benchmark is: How many out of 10 owners of board X would buy the test board? Because that's what you really want to know, right? And who better to tell you this than people who own the same board you do?
The part of me that appreciates a good hack is thinking of running this under UML:-)
Is there a version of Joone that runs on a Beowulf cluster? Then I could create a virtual Beowulf cluster of a bunch of UMLs and use it to run "a virtual machine to emulate a virtual network of simulated neurons" -- Cool!
OK, so this thread is so cold that nobody will read this, but hey, I have to say it: In the corporate environment where I work, people are not allowed to load software; the IT department does that. Even if IT were willing to support yet another program (the X server) it would take time for them to evaluate X servers and choose one for their "standard." Then my clients would all have to budget to buy it (because you know IT isn't going to choose a "free" one -- the old there's_nobody_to_sue_if_it_doesn't_work problem.) and wait for IT to install it. Oh, and I'd have to find an un-used PC (yeah, right) to turn into a server (and risk my job in the process -- Linux isn't "standard" here).
On the other hand, I could write a web-based app and deploy it on the existing department web server (which took us years to justify and obtain, thank you very much IT). I know that everyone in the company has a web browser, so I don't have to ask anyone to buy and load an X server to access my app; they just come to our web page and run it. I can control access (click here and I'll email you a user ID) and do everthing my boss wants.
I'm not sure, but I think the Vue had an optional CVT from day one, or at least from soon after launch. I drove one and it's reeeal smooooth. Too bad it's not available in the V6 4x4, but CVT's have always suffered from low torque capacity.
The point is liability. If GM fails to test every seat type in every body style (2dr., 4dr., wagon, convertable, etc.) that's their business. They're certifying to the government that every seat is safe in every body style; their body guys trust their seat guys, and visa-versa, so they test each body and each seat, but not every combo.
But if I buy an XYZ seat and put it in a HIJ body with an EFG engine, who's gonna certify that they'll all be safe together? Someone's gonna have to crash test each combo, or else HIJ's guys will have to trust XYZ's guys, and visa-versa. But then, who do you sue if the combo you bought isn't safe, and you get hurt? XYZ or EFG?
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You must have missed the part where I said "1980s".
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You can do that in the USA, too. Virtually any auto maker will build you a car to your specs (options, color, etc.). Since the 1980s the options have been more-or-less bundled, and it's a bitch to order them separated (I want a sunroof but I don't want to pay for fog lights to get it!), but you can do it.
Option bundling is because of the imports. When you're shipping a car from Germany or Japan to the USA, you're gonna have to wait a while for them to build you a car to your specs. So the imports got into the habit of offering two or three option packages, then building cars with those packages in all possible color combos. Then, if one dealer didn't have the package you wanted in the color you wanted, probably another dealer in the area did. The domestic makers (GM, Ford, Chrysler) picked up on this because it's what the public wanted. Most people want their car NOW, not in 4 to 6 weeks, and they're willing to take fog lights to get the sunroof.
I don't see how this company is going to overcome the public's desire for instant gratification. Pick a car, drive it home today.
OK, so how do I avoid the false record? It would have to have NULL as the value of every field to avoid showing up in any query, and even then it might show up if you were doing data maintenance and were searching for NULL values. So if I perform a query that returns 8200 records and one of those is "John Kennedy" I can be fired for a HIPPA violation? Give me a break! There's got to be more to this than accessing an invalid data entry gets you fired.
And if I bring up a record and see that every field is NULL, how in the hell am I violating that patient's privacy if it is a legitimate record, let alone if it's a fake patient? There's no information to see! If there were any information, even if it's fake, that record would turn up on legitimate searches.
Give me all patients prescribed Tylinol on July 12, 2003. Hey, there's a patient named John F. Kennedy; I wonder what it's like to live with a famous name like that, poor bastard. OH MY GOD, "Date of admission: November 27, 1963" -- President John F. Kennedy is alive and living in THIS HOSPITAL! HIPPA be damned, I'm calling the
New York friggin Times!
For some people this is $50 they could spend toward a PDA phone, rather than the separate PDA and cell phone they were going to get anyway, and $5/month they can use toward their cell phone bill. Many GSM rateplans include enough data to cover this one application.
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Hey, I live in the USA, but I'm on a well, you insensitive clod!
A: No.
No wonder the project failed. Where was the Requirements Document? The simple statement: "bring a family of four up to date with technology" is not a proper requirement. Did they want to make home movies? Send email to Grandma? Walk in the house and have the lights turn on automatically? What were they trying to do with that $15k?
How do you "tactic" a ship, let alone two of them?
Why do you insist that any community built disto must be done by the same community? I hate to break it to you, but there's more than one Linux community. Debian is not the only one. You may not like it, but not all developers (or users) care to belong to the Debian community. Debian has a lot in its favor, but their (your?) shrill political stance turns some (me) off. It's an attitude thing. Like this attitude that there can be only one Linux community. Fine, go on believing that yours is the "only" Linux community -- but please take that belief the whole way and ignore all other communities. In other words, stop bothering the rest of us.
But wait, there's more. A bit out of date, but accurate.
Buy golly, you're right! And I just noticed: The goals of Ford overlap with the goals of Volkswagon and the goals of Toyota! Oops! The goals of McDonalds overlap the goals of KFC! Oh My God -- the goals of Home Depot overlap the goals of Lowes! When will the insanity end?
We take a bunch of gamers and group them by what video card they own. We give each of them the test board. After one month we take away the test board and give them their old one back. The benchmark is: How many out of 10 owners of board X would buy the test board? Because that's what you really want to know, right? And who better to tell you this than people who own the same board you do?
The part of me that appreciates a good hack is thinking of running this under UML :-)
Is there a version of Joone that runs on a Beowulf cluster? Then I could create a virtual Beowulf cluster of a bunch of UMLs and use it to run "a virtual machine to emulate a virtual network of simulated neurons" -- Cool!
OK, so this thread is so cold that nobody will read this, but hey, I have to say it: In the corporate environment where I work, people are not allowed to load software; the IT department does that. Even if IT were willing to support yet another program (the X server) it would take time for them to evaluate X servers and choose one for their "standard." Then my clients would all have to budget to buy it (because you know IT isn't going to choose a "free" one -- the old there's_nobody_to_sue_if_it_doesn't_work problem.) and wait for IT to install it. Oh, and I'd have to find an un-used PC (yeah, right) to turn into a server (and risk my job in the process -- Linux isn't "standard" here).
On the other hand, I could write a web-based app and deploy it on the existing department web server (which took us years to justify and obtain, thank you very much IT). I know that everyone in the company has a web browser, so I don't have to ask anyone to buy and load an X server to access my app; they just come to our web page and run it. I can control access (click here and I'll email you a user ID) and do everthing my boss wants.
Stuff like Echo is exactly what I need.
I'm not sure, but I think the Vue had an optional CVT from day one, or at least from soon after launch. I drove one and it's reeeal smooooth. Too bad it's not available in the V6 4x4, but CVT's have always suffered from low torque capacity.
that nobody got hurt! Can you imagine the shock to someone standing next to it when it fell?
"CVT transmission" is redundant. CVT == Continuously Variable Transmission. And GM sells at least one, in the Saturn VUE.
Nude babes don't interest them, they want Darth Maul and Storm. Sad.
See? Your post didn't get modded down; mine, which added "Natalie Portman", did. If you wanna trigger the modbots you gotta use the right key words.
No, no, no! That's "hot grits in Natalie Portman's pants"
I'll gladly pay $12 more to not buy it at Amazon!
If this catches on, it will be worse than the yEnc problem.
But if I buy an XYZ seat and put it in a HIJ body with an EFG engine, who's gonna certify that they'll all be safe together? Someone's gonna have to crash test each combo, or else HIJ's guys will have to trust XYZ's guys, and visa-versa. But then, who do you sue if the combo you bought isn't safe, and you get hurt? XYZ or EFG?
You must have missed the part where I said "1980s".
Option bundling is because of the imports. When you're shipping a car from Germany or Japan to the USA, you're gonna have to wait a while for them to build you a car to your specs. So the imports got into the habit of offering two or three option packages, then building cars with those packages in all possible color combos. Then, if one dealer didn't have the package you wanted in the color you wanted, probably another dealer in the area did. The domestic makers (GM, Ford, Chrysler) picked up on this because it's what the public wanted. Most people want their car NOW, not in 4 to 6 weeks, and they're willing to take fog lights to get the sunroof.
I don't see how this company is going to overcome the public's desire for instant gratification. Pick a car, drive it home today.
And if I bring up a record and see that every field is NULL, how in the hell am I violating that patient's privacy if it is a legitimate record, let alone if it's a fake patient? There's no information to see! If there were any information, even if it's fake, that record would turn up on legitimate searches.
For some people this is $50 they could spend toward a PDA phone, rather than the separate PDA and cell phone they were going to get anyway, and $5/month they can use toward their cell phone bill. Many GSM rateplans include enough data to cover this one application.
Is now soon enough? All you need is a modem.