Actually, this is a clinical department who is experimenting with converting their CLINIC over to EMR. The significance of this department is that in the past it has set trends that the UNI followed. This is more of a small "proof of concept" idea.
As for the CS or IT department at my school - it isn't impressive at all. Thus, they're not going to be much help.
Nothing like the Slashdot effect on a vintage computer.
I guess everything is vintage under the/. load. I got the first graphic loaded before the site slowed under the pressure. Either that, or the web server is a TRS-80...
but this isn't all good, it's a question of quantity vs. quality:P obviously. but i thought it needed to be said... some people don't realize, but if you listen... at least, i can't help but hear the difference. mp3s soudn awful to me.
I'd tend to agree - especially at 128k and with the Xing-type encoders. That's why I don't use Napster. I can't trust the quality of the songs - even at 256. However, Lame at 256 sounds wonderful, and I doubt anyone can seriously hear a difference.
http://users.belgacom.net/gc247244/analysis.htm is a great site to check out to compare your favorite encoder with the best - Lame 3.86.
I've reencoded almost every cd I own from 128 to 256 - the difference is astounding (size and quality;) ) A nice pair of horns really magnifies the loss of the high frequency with 128 and Xing-type encoders. At 256, I can't hear a difference between the CD and the mp3.
Theoretically, let's say that I were to purchase some music with this consumer-unfriendly technology.
I calmly play it from my computer - which happens to have a digital output from the sound card. Now, exactly how is this technology going to stop me from manipulating it in any form I wish?
Exactly.
Musicians and Record Companies do not own any of the equipment the materials they are selling will be played on. It's as simple as that. If I can hear it, I can record it. If I can see it, I can record it.
I have to wonder how all these major projects affect other open source projects. We already have thousands of people working on the kernel, Mozilla, KDE & Gnome (with associated proggies and office suites), X, and other smaller, but just as noble projects.
Now, in the past few days, several other large resource suckers - Star Office and now Interbase.
How many major projects can be going at once before the developer pool becomes sparse?
This is happening frequently enough that I can't help but wonder if this is a new troll technique. Every day, submit a post or two from a few months back and sit back and laugh as it gets rehashed all over again.
Were I a troll, I'd use this.
Heck, it might even incite some changes around here - like moderators being able to see submitted stories and rank them. Once a story hits a threshold, it makes the main page...
Perhaps we need to apply this technology to MP3 algorithms.
Just tell it what the best encoder is (lame) and feed it a good test signal and have it compare the generations to the initial signal. This should reveal a free non-copyrighted mp3 codec that would kick major arse.
Since the main problem with OCR is, of course, proof reading, there's a quick and dirty way to do this without having the dreaded proofreading step - at least not up front.
Set up your script to link the OCR page with the original scan. That way, your search engine will most likely be able to get you to the correct page, but if the OCR hoses some important words, you can always just click "original page here" to see what it said. This would allow near immediate functionality of your new database and would allow you to proofread "on the fly" so to speak and correct errors when you find them.
This should be a good solution (even though it is a bit of a hack job) especially if the searcher is familiar with the particular documents and can devise several searches - in case a keyword or two is munged by OCR.
(Microsoft is to the free market supporter as the KKK is to the free speech supporter)
What an unbelievably bad analogy. The KKK is indeed a free speech supporter. Its ideas and ideals may be ignorant at best, but their speech is unpopular, and thus humans desire to censor it. They fight continually for their right to speak and indeed are free speech supporters.
And the expression of the ideas of the KKK are what free speech is about. Let all ideas out in the open so that everyone may make an informed decision about the validity and significance of the ideas.
And if you know much about the KKK, you'd realize that most of their ideas aren't that unpalpable (or unpopular for that matter). They're pro-family and pro-Christianity. It's the racism that tends to get everybody all in a huff. And, while racism is a particularly shallow and small-minded stance to have, they have the right to hold that opinion and voice it to whomever shall listen. That is what makes America great.
Being the poster, I assure you I am informed. I did not have at hand the absolute number of positions available, but I knew that it was far more than any current computer could ever solve. I doubt that DNA could do it, but I really don't know much about how that works.
Personally, I think that if Chess is ever solved, it will be done by a Quantum computer. These things have phenomenal calculating abilities - ones not dependent upon having enough atoms to store the 1 or 0 - because they simply use a 1 AND 0.
That's the URL I get. Oh well. I guess the MPAA should sue itself. It clearly links itself to DeCSS. In fact, one of its members is perhaps one of the biggest offenders. go.com has thousands of links to DeCSS code.
This PDA is getting closer to my ideal. I'm currently a medical student and I've realized that while my Palm is a godsend, it still has a far way to go.
First, my palm has been a godsend thanks to some online books/databases of diseases and drugs. Instead of carrying around 20 pounds of paper in my jacket, instead I carry one Palm IIIx with 8mb on my waist. I can search for data quicker and find more of it than I could had I paper on me. I also can track patients with my palm. Less paper.
But, I need a PDA that can replace my beeper and cell phone too - without sacrificing screen size and without getting much larger than my current PalmIIIx. And it needs to be able to take dictation (and ideally, translate it to text). And it needs to do these things with a battery life of about 3 weeks - which is what my current device gets.
Yeah, that's a tall order. But it's coming. I figure the ability to take dictation will come first - mono MP3 compression of voice would make the files small and easy to transfer. The YOPY appears to have this. Now, I want it to be a beeper and a cell phone without compromising size.
And I don't need a color screen, especially if it interferes with battery life. I want a PDA - Personal Data Appliance or Palmsized Data Appliance (whatever suits you) - not a PED - Personal Entertainemt Device. I want a functional piece of portable hardware that improves my ability to work, not something that will entertain me while I'm bored for 10 minutes.
And I'm willing to spend up to $1000 US for such a device.
Note: Moderators, please don't mark this down. I know it's off topic, but Asa is a lost friend of mine. Likewise, don't promote it above +2. Thanks.
Asa, I hope you read/. It's Jason Valentine from Auburn. You should remember me from such great flicks as Rubber Chicken Baseball, Rubber Chicken Football, and lets not forget, Ultamite Rubber Chicken. Let's not forget the loft parties....
Anywho, I don't know how to contact you, but feel free to email me. Don't 69 the bitbucket, or mail me at my more spam-friendly address usacom@(RemoveThisSpamProtection)procyon.com. I'd love to hear from you.
I purchased a PIA a while back when they were still $350. It pretty much had exactly what I wanted for a living-room machine. It was bare bones, cheap, and had linux installed. Plus, the pic looked cool.
I'm currently happy with it - but wasn't when I opened the box...
The box is cube shaped - something not quite expected from the pics. This isn't a bad thing in my situation, because it sits in my living room, and most people think it is a subwoofer. So, that's a plus.
I pulled it out of the box and plugged it in. It uses Debian - Potato that they've modified a bit. The install instructions tell you how to plug everything in and log in - using username tux and a password which I don't remember. (Instructions are gone) Nowhere can the root password be found. For a newbie, this probably isn't a problem, but I personally didn't like the idea that 1) the company I purchased this machine from knew the only user name and password, and 2) I didn't have root to amend this situation.
But the box brought up a nice KDE desktop and it looked like anyone with a bit of computer experience (setting up dial-up networking under windows) could get on line relatively easily. I ordered mine with the ethernet card, and there were no instructions on how to hook the machine up to a local ethernet - so this option probably isn't for newbies.
What to do? Well, I put in a floppy and CD-ROM drive (both unneeded extras that aren't in the default shipping setup, and both of which I have extras laying around) and installed RH 6.1. This went fairly uneventful. The machine ran fine, but the 32mbs were just too little for me, so I put 64mb in there, and it's a nice living room desktop. Nothing fancy - just functional. MP3s, Internet, email.
For $300, it's not a bad setup - if you can put a little work behind it.
Katz, Ever heard the phrase "Sticks and Stones may break my bones, but words will never harm me?" To me, the idea that a flame is "fearsome" is outright laughable. Think about it.
For the very SAME reasons that you outline that allow someone to post stuff they wouldn't normally say in public are the EXACT same reasons that they are extremely easy to ignore. Fearsome? I think not. In order for someone to garner true fear, they need to have significant power over your life. Name one way that these ACs do this. Just one. You can't - because they have NO POWER over you - except that which you give them. It's that simple.
I think the real problem is that people give lip service to "free speech", but when they see something they don't like, their natural instinct is to silence the source. Instead, look at what the person has to say and judge that on its own merits. Soon, you don't even feel the need to silence idiotic speech.
Take Rocker, for example. He expressed his opinion. Everyone calls for his head, and perhaps baseball should fine him - but ONLY because they are in the entertainment business, and his comments could decrease BUSINESS. But look at what he said. What is so scary about those ideas? I look at that and say - hey, there's a guy expressing free speech, and look at how stupid and shallow his thoughts are. And I dismiss it, just like that.
That's free speech, not some touchy-feely PC world where speech is allowed as long as no one gets their feelings hurt.
Women have a right to speak publicly; so do older people, foreigners, newcomers, newbies.
Katz, look at the implications you make with this sentence and the ones following it. You make the presumption that these groups are inherently emotionally weaker than "technologically skilled young white men". You imply that they are so emotionally fragile that reading about Natalie Portman's petrified beowulf cluster will instill fear into them. That's just down right laughable, and I see it as such. But it's your opinion.
Slashdot Mirror
RJV here....
Actually, this is a clinical department who is experimenting with converting their CLINIC over to EMR. The significance of this department is that in the past it has set trends that the UNI followed. This is more of a small "proof of concept" idea.
As for the CS or IT department at my school - it isn't impressive at all. Thus, they're not going to be much help.
Nothing like the Slashdot effect on a vintage computer.
/. load. I got the first graphic loaded before the site slowed under the pressure. Either that, or the web server is a TRS-80...
I guess everything is vintage under the
At least, I thought that was the name. Maybe it was Robot Jocks.
God, that was an aweful movie. I could never muster up enough courage to see the sequel.
but this isn't all good, it's a question of quantity vs. quality :P obviously. but i thought it needed to be said... some people don't realize, but if you listen... at least, i can't help but hear the difference. mp3s soudn awful to me.
;) ) A nice pair of horns really magnifies the loss of the high frequency with 128 and Xing-type encoders. At 256, I can't hear a difference between the CD and the mp3.
I'd tend to agree - especially at 128k and with the Xing-type encoders. That's why I don't use Napster. I can't trust the quality of the songs - even at 256. However, Lame at 256 sounds wonderful, and I doubt anyone can seriously hear a difference.
http://users.belgacom.net/gc247244/analysis.htm is a great site to check out to compare your favorite encoder with the best - Lame 3.86.
I've reencoded almost every cd I own from 128 to 256 - the difference is astounding (size and quality
Theoretically, let's say that I were to purchase some music with this consumer-unfriendly technology.
I calmly play it from my computer - which happens to have a digital output from the sound card. Now, exactly how is this technology going to stop me from manipulating it in any form I wish?
Exactly.
Musicians and Record Companies do not own any of the equipment the materials they are selling will be played on. It's as simple as that. If I can hear it, I can record it. If I can see it, I can record it.
Any questions?
Well, if /. wants to bill itself as a News site, it should have some journalistic integrity.
It doesn't.
This isn't a news site. It's a links site. Links for Nerds, not News for Nerds.
I have to wonder how all these major projects affect other open source projects. We already have thousands of people working on the kernel, Mozilla, KDE & Gnome (with associated proggies and office suites), X, and other smaller, but just as noble projects.
Now, in the past few days, several other large resource suckers - Star Office and now Interbase.
How many major projects can be going at once before the developer pool becomes sparse?
This is happening frequently enough that I can't help but wonder if this is a new troll technique. Every day, submit a post or two from a few months back and sit back and laugh as it gets rehashed all over again.
Were I a troll, I'd use this.
Heck, it might even incite some changes around here - like moderators being able to see submitted stories and rank them. Once a story hits a threshold, it makes the main page...
Mirror Mirror
On the Wall
Who has the fastest Mirror
Of them All?
Perhaps we need to apply this technology to MP3 algorithms.
Just tell it what the best encoder is (lame) and feed it a good test signal and have it compare the generations to the initial signal. This should reveal a free non-copyrighted mp3 codec that would kick major arse.
Since the main problem with OCR is, of course, proof reading, there's a quick and dirty way to do this without having the dreaded proofreading step - at least not up front.
Set up your script to link the OCR page with the original scan. That way, your search engine will most likely be able to get you to the correct page, but if the OCR hoses some important words, you can always just click "original page here" to see what it said. This would allow near immediate functionality of your new database and would allow you to proofread "on the fly" so to speak and correct errors when you find them.
This should be a good solution (even though it is a bit of a hack job) especially if the searcher is familiar with the particular documents and can devise several searches - in case a keyword or two is munged by OCR.
What color is the Sun in your world?
But the British don't have a right to free speech.
Gotta love a monarchy.
(Microsoft is to the free market supporter as the KKK is to the free speech supporter)
What an unbelievably bad analogy. The KKK is indeed a free speech supporter. Its ideas and ideals may be ignorant at best, but their speech is unpopular, and thus humans desire to censor it. They fight continually for their right to speak and indeed are free speech supporters.
And the expression of the ideas of the KKK are what free speech is about. Let all ideas out in the open so that everyone may make an informed decision about the validity and significance of the ideas.
And if you know much about the KKK, you'd realize that most of their ideas aren't that unpalpable (or unpopular for that matter). They're pro-family and pro-Christianity. It's the racism that tends to get everybody all in a huff. And, while racism is a particularly shallow and small-minded stance to have, they have the right to hold that opinion and voice it to whomever shall listen. That is what makes America great.
Being the poster, I assure you I am informed. I did not have at hand the absolute number of positions available, but I knew that it was far more than any current computer could ever solve. I doubt that DNA could do it, but I really don't know much about how that works.
Personally, I think that if Chess is ever solved, it will be done by a Quantum computer. These things have phenomenal calculating abilities - ones not dependent upon having enough atoms to store the 1 or 0 - because they simply use a 1 AND 0.
Already Links directly to the DeCSS code itself.
m e_searchbox&sv=IS&lk=noframes
e _searchbox&sv=IS&lk=noframes
What is the big deal?
Don't believe me? Follow these steps.
Start at their page www.mpaa.org
Click on members
Click on Walt Disney - which takes you to disney.go.com
The dropdown box that has "Where to Go" in the upper left corner contains go.com. Click that.
Click through to the Go Network.
Type DeCSS in the search area.
http://www.go.com/Titles?col=WC&qt=DeCSS&svx=ho
That's the URL I got. Looks like DeCSS code to me.
Of course, if linking to 2600.com is the problem, just type 2600 in the search link.
http://www.go.com/Titles?col=WC&qt=2600&svx=hom
That's the URL I get. Oh well. I guess the MPAA should sue itself. It clearly links itself to DeCSS. In fact, one of its members is perhaps one of the biggest offenders. go.com has thousands of links to DeCSS code.
This PDA is getting closer to my ideal. I'm currently a medical student and I've realized that while my Palm is a godsend, it still has a far way to go.
First, my palm has been a godsend thanks to some online books/databases of diseases and drugs. Instead of carrying around 20 pounds of paper in my jacket, instead I carry one Palm IIIx with 8mb on my waist. I can search for data quicker and find more of it than I could had I paper on me. I also can track patients with my palm. Less paper.
But, I need a PDA that can replace my beeper and cell phone too - without sacrificing screen size and without getting much larger than my current PalmIIIx. And it needs to be able to take dictation (and ideally, translate it to text). And it needs to do these things with a battery life of about 3 weeks - which is what my current device gets.
Yeah, that's a tall order. But it's coming. I figure the ability to take dictation will come first - mono MP3 compression of voice would make the files small and easy to transfer. The YOPY appears to have this. Now, I want it to be a beeper and a cell phone without compromising size.
And I don't need a color screen, especially if it interferes with battery life. I want a PDA - Personal Data Appliance or Palmsized Data Appliance (whatever suits you) - not a PED - Personal Entertainemt Device. I want a functional piece of portable hardware that improves my ability to work, not something that will entertain me while I'm bored for 10 minutes.
And I'm willing to spend up to $1000 US for such a device.
Note: Moderators, please don't mark this down. I know it's off topic, but Asa is a lost friend of mine. Likewise, don't promote it above +2. Thanks.
/. It's Jason Valentine from Auburn. You should remember me from such great flicks as Rubber Chicken Baseball, Rubber Chicken Football, and lets not forget, Ultamite Rubber Chicken. Let's not forget the loft parties....
Asa, I hope you read
Anywho, I don't know how to contact you, but feel free to email me. Don't 69 the bitbucket, or mail me at my more spam-friendly address usacom@(RemoveThisSpamProtection)procyon.com. I'd love to hear from you.
Why?
e _searchbox&sv=IS&lk=noframes
Well, let's see.
http://www.mpaa.org/about/
Click on Walt Disney company.
Drop down menu to the Go Network
Click Go to the Go Network
Type 2600 in the search field.
This Returns the URL
http://www.go.com/Titles?col=WC&qt=2600&svx=hom
And the first link is www.2600.com - the Hacker quarterly.
HOLY SHIT! The MPAA links iteself to the DeCSS code.
Well, the theme from Shaft censored itself. That's part of the comedy. Those lines are in the original song.
But Shaft does rule. My favorite line:
Where you goin' Shaft?
To get laid. where the hell you goin'?
I'm afraid not.
I purchased a PIA a while back when they were still $350. It pretty much had exactly what I wanted for a living-room machine. It was bare bones, cheap, and had linux installed. Plus, the pic looked cool.
I'm currently happy with it - but wasn't when I opened the box...
The box is cube shaped - something not quite expected from the pics. This isn't a bad thing in my situation, because it sits in my living room, and most people think it is a subwoofer. So, that's a plus.
I pulled it out of the box and plugged it in. It uses Debian - Potato that they've modified a bit. The install instructions tell you how to plug everything in and log in - using username tux and a password which I don't remember. (Instructions are gone) Nowhere can the root password be found. For a newbie, this probably isn't a problem, but I personally didn't like the idea that 1) the company I purchased this machine from knew the only user name and password, and 2) I didn't have root to amend this situation.
But the box brought up a nice KDE desktop and it looked like anyone with a bit of computer experience (setting up dial-up networking under windows) could get on line relatively easily. I ordered mine with the ethernet card, and there were no instructions on how to hook the machine up to a local ethernet - so this option probably isn't for newbies.
What to do? Well, I put in a floppy and CD-ROM drive (both unneeded extras that aren't in the default shipping setup, and both of which I have extras laying around) and installed RH 6.1. This went fairly uneventful. The machine ran fine, but the 32mbs were just too little for me, so I put 64mb in there, and it's a nice living room desktop. Nothing fancy - just functional. MP3s, Internet, email.
For $300, it's not a bad setup - if you can put a little work behind it.
This is way to late to be moderated, but for those still reading at 1.....
Go into Tower Records and DEMAND the keys for the encrypted DVDs they are selling.
Doh!
Katz,
Ever heard the phrase "Sticks and Stones may break my bones, but words will never harm me?" To me, the idea that a flame is "fearsome" is outright laughable. Think about it.
For the very SAME reasons that you outline that allow someone to post stuff they wouldn't normally say in public are the EXACT same reasons that they are extremely easy to ignore. Fearsome? I think not. In order for someone to garner true fear, they need to have significant power over your life. Name one way that these ACs do this. Just one. You can't - because they have NO POWER over you - except that which you give them. It's that simple.
I think the real problem is that people give lip service to "free speech", but when they see something they don't like, their natural instinct is to silence the source. Instead, look at what the person has to say and judge that on its own merits. Soon, you don't even feel the need to silence idiotic speech.
Take Rocker, for example. He expressed his opinion. Everyone calls for his head, and perhaps baseball should fine him - but ONLY because they are in the entertainment business, and his comments could decrease BUSINESS. But look at what he said. What is so scary about those ideas? I look at that and say - hey, there's a guy expressing free speech, and look at how stupid and shallow his thoughts are. And I dismiss it, just like that.
That's free speech, not some touchy-feely PC world where speech is allowed as long as no one gets their feelings hurt.
Women have a right to speak publicly; so do older people, foreigners, newcomers, newbies.
Katz, look at the implications you make with this sentence and the ones following it. You make the presumption that these groups are inherently emotionally weaker than "technologically skilled young white men". You imply that they are so emotionally fragile that reading about Natalie Portman's petrified beowulf cluster will instill fear into them. That's just down right laughable, and I see it as such. But it's your opinion.
For those of you who once read Slashdot at 0 or -1, this thread is one for the way-back machine. Even the trolls are funny.
My favorite Simpsons Line:
"Lisa, do you like.....stuff?"