They all use 2 custom Windows applications that are specific to the health care industry. The vendors do not and will not support
them in a different environment and that includes emulation.
That is putting the cart before the horse. Why are the vendors calling the shots?
I too work in health care and it seems that the main reason my IT department likes outside vendors (and Microsoft) is because they can shift the responsibility (and blame) to someone else. SQL Server is broken? Blame Microsoft. An important application is broken? Blame the vendor.
That attitude really irks me, because things don't get fixed until several rounds of finger pointing between the the IT department, the app vendor and sometime the OS vendor. Sometimes the problem never gets fixed and the users have to continue to suffer. At least with open source you can attempt to D.I.Y... -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
So far all I'm getting here has been a knee-jerk statement that I must be a MS weenie.
Assuming you are not playing "devil's advocate", then I think you protest too much...
I have used MS software. I have used Linux. I have used
Mac OS 6.5/7/8/9. I cut my teeth on an APF Imagination machine. I used a Commodore 64 and a Commodore 128.
Yet...
I am using W2K to write this on.
Gasp! Not Linux? Not a Mac? Not a C-64?
I am probably more in the average of the technical population than anyone who is a software bigot -- the attitude of only one OS should be out there is troubling.
You are the one advocating that we use the "One True Operating System". You obviously have tried lots of other OSes out there but you keep returning to the bosom of Microsoft.
You would think an OS with >80%+ market penetration would not need advocacy by its partisans...
The attitude that their is not room for any one specific OS is disturbing.
There is room for multiple OS's in the world, but Slashdot is another matter entirely. Remember the Mindcraft benchmarks? We do!
If you want to sing the praises of Win2K, why don't you hang out in alt.I.want.to.brown.nose.Bill.Gates instead? -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
And that doesn't include the loss of the ability to run the thousands of Windows only applications
Which is not a cost but a feature. Imagine thousands of office workers NOT installing and wasting time playing the latest game they got from the internet. Imagine thousands of Help Desk and Desktop Support people NOT having to deal with the aftereffects of the virus du jour that M$ products are so fond of spreading.
Nice troll, Bill. When you set up your/. handle did you accidentally type OSGod instead of MSGod?:-> -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
But there is a huge leap from "the decisions of elected officials are influenced
by large corporations" to "government officials who don't steal millions of dollars at a time are extremely unusual."
While in other countries the money transfer is fairly direct, it is still happens here albeit in a much more indirect manner. How else do you then explain the white elephants constantly being put forth by the military? The Osprey keeps crashing. The Patriot missile can't hit shit.
Politicans and generals throw money at corporations for hare-brained, pie-in-the-sky "weapons systems" and then after retirement they get jobs with said corporations wining and dining the other politicians and generals who succeed them, who then throw more taxpayer dollars at those ill-advised projects.
It is a vicious cycle that is more effective at siphoning money from the public treasury than a hundred individuals with Swiss bank accounts... -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
Aren't private school governed by the same laws as public schools?
No, this is America. Capitalist organisations (down to small schools) are free to do anything they like.
Actually if said school receives federal funding, then they are bound by the various rules and regulations that come with that funding (i.e., Title IX which mandates women's sports be treated on an equal footing with men's sports).
Most private schools do receive federal funding (at least on the University level) and they have to also follow various other federal laws, especially the non-discrimination, equal opportunity in hiring laws that arose out of the Civil Rights amendments. Otherwise it would be legal for private school owners to own slaves, which is against the law throughout the U.S. (excepting economic slavery, as poor people in the U.S. technically are wage slaves).
If you want society to grant you rights
beyond those you can afford to buy, then live somewhere with a more socialist slant (like Europe, as I do)
I've seriously been thinking of moving to Europe. At least they don't pretend to have a "democracy" like most Americans do. It is not a "democracy" when the candidate with the most popular votes loses the election.
I haven't decided where to go yet. I've been thinking Spain, but I hear there are lots of IT jobs in Ireland. At this point even England or France would be an improvement over the U.S... -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
If you want free everything and want to just hand over your wages, that's called socialism and look to the
friendly island nation to the south of Florida for an example of how well that worked.
Cuba is a communist, not socialist country. If you don't know the difference I suggest Political Science 101...
Ask your average Cuban about their government and they will tell you that they support it. Those who are against Castro were too cowardly to fight for their island and fled to Florida.
Just because you hear a lot of Cuban-Americans in the U.S. bitching about Castro doesn't mean that he does not have the support of the Cuban people... -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
The lesson here is perhaps napster needs to create a diversion here, and instead of paying the RIAA a billion dollars, perhaps start taking that
money and bribing officials with it.
In other words, give a "campaign contribution" to said officials...:-> -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
So much for that idiotic notion that Democrats are good and Republicans are bad...
I do not see where the previous poster said anything in that vein in his/her post. You must really have a big (pro-Republican) axe to grind if you got that from the previous post.
Gore lost. Bush won. Get over it.
'nuff said... -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
Although I do notice both VA and TX are republican states also....
You are mistaken. Texas is NOT a Republican state. White Texans vote Republican but most Blacks and lots of Latinos vote Democratic. Since White voters are in the majority (for now;-) it is true that the Republicans control Texas politically, but you would have to look really hard in some parts of heavily-Hispanic South Texas to find a Republican.
If you look at the exit polls from the last election, 91% of Blacks in Texas said they voted for Gore, while 54% of Hispanics voted for him. 73% of Whites voted for Bush.
A funny aside: for some inexplicable reason Bush the Lesser is popular with Texas Hispanics. That just goes to show that if you speak a little Spanish Latinos will vote for you in droves no matter how fucked up your policies are. You don't even have to speak Spanish well, as Bush manages to mangle Spanish much worse than he does the English language.
I would have used the voting actual results, but after searching the web I found that those results are hard to come by, and the Houston Comical wants money to access their archive. Fuck that noise... -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
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I can still see how America would be a much better place if all the less intelligent people (not slashdot
readers, but the trailer trash you see on Springer) were forced to conform to a moral code (the bible is as good as any for want of a better
choice).
Which bible? The "eye for an eye" bible or the "turn the other cheek" bible? -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
I watch FOX news to get the conservative view point then switch to cnn for the liberal one.
I must have missed the stories advocating outright legalization of all drugs (not just cannibis but also heroin and crack), the stories in favor of same-sex marriages and spousal benefits, and the stories in support of free abortions without parental notification for all pre-teen girls!!!
As a yellow-dog liberal (aka socialist), I know what liberal is, and CNN is NOT liberal! -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
and everybody wants to be on a big or small screen.
I for one do not.
You must have missed the memo from management. Get with the program!!! -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
Then there's the propogandists, your Al Sharptons and Jessie Jacksons, who make everything an issue of race.
To a minority, *EVERYTHING* is about race. Why have we never had a non-White president elected in the U.S.?
George W. Bush is known to be an intellectual lightweight, yet he is president. Minorities laugh at him because we know many minorities are much more qualified than the "First Idiot", yet they don't stand a chance at getting elected. Heck, we know *LOTS* of more qualified White people who would make a much better president than the "Human Eggplant" currently occupying the Oval Office.
I am trying to get promoted at work, yet I am having a hard time even though I have over 220 college hours and *LOTS* of computer experience. The only thing I can see is that is holding me back is that fact that I am Hispanic while the managment of the IT department where I work is 100% White. I see lots of less-qualified Whites get promoted over me, but nope, there is no racism or discrimination in the U.S. today.
The world would be a much better place if conservatives learned to think; however, that may be too much to ask for. At this point, I would settle for having them learn how to spell and use proper grammar and punctuation.
I think it is funny that I speak and write English much better than many White Americans, even though Spanish was my first language and English is the only language they have "learned" (and I use the term "learned" very loosely).
A suggestion to all you White Rush-Limbaugh wannabes: Why don't you pick up a dictionary on occasion? You would be able to learn how to spell "hard" words like "propagandists" and "Darwinism". Hell, maybe you will even find out what the the difference between "principal" and "principle" is!
It's funny how "neutral" has become a subjective word.
Judging from your use of the word "liberal" as an insult, it is obvious that you would not know "neutral" if it bit you on the ass... -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
And so, by calling me an asshole, you exclude yourself from any rational discussion taking place here.
An insult is an insult, whether you call someone "liberal" or "pendejo". I was just lowering myself to your level... -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
Just out of curiousity
el_chicano, how old are you? What kind of job do you do? In what country do you live?
42. Computer/Network Operator. Houston, TX, USA.
I've seen Texas go from a one-party Democratic state to a one-party Republican state, at least for White people. Chicanos and Blacks still vote heavily Democratic.
There are currently ~14 million Texans (maybe more, I haven't checked the current census numbers lately). I find it hard to believe that GWB is the best Texan to be President.
I don't have anything against Republicans per se, it just bothers me that brave Republicans are few and far in-between. Gov. Ryan of Illinois had the balls to stop executions when a study showed that half of the condemned were convicted in spite of their innocence.
W's response? He said that we don't make mistakes in Texas! And he sounded like he truly believed it!
Which is why most Chicanos call him "penjedo"... -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
Only someone with a "tiny brain" would think that government regulation does no harm.
The governement inspects meat. That is regulation. How is meat inspection harmful? Is it less harmful to have no meat inspections? Can you trust Ronald McDonald not to serve you e-coli laden beef if they can make a buck by selling it instead of throwing it away? -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
- Spock contemplate same-sex benefits as a logic problem
Heh. I always prefered Kirk's "logic", like in the episode where he uses "logic" to crash the computer.
I always wanted to see Kirk go to the planet of the political conservatives (no, the Nazi planet doesn't count:-) and crash the computer by saying: "so you are pro-life, yet you support the death penalty?" -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
Hire good writers. We are finding many writers these days are relying on tech, sex and shock instead of good story line these days.
With all the "reality" TV out there, it seems that TV writers are going to be extinct soon. I HATE so-called "reality" TV, which is nothing but voyeurism with a new name!
The really bad part is that if I was a voyeur, I would rather get an apartment by the pool. From the few "reality" shows I have seen, it seems that peeking at the girls poolside in their bikinis would provide vastly more entertainment than watching a boring show (with no violence or T&A) populated with the kind of losers I try to avoid in real life... -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
So why not set the next series at the center of the star fleet universe, the academy? Sure, there is a series of juvie books set there, but this could be better.
You could have old familiar faces pop in for a visit, or study old battles from new approaches, explore the staff and the politics of the place, and figure out what makes a bunch of newly post adolescent representatives of disparate species transform into people who can get along with each other far, far from home?
I'm surprised that they haven't done this yet. A key TV demographic is young people -- teens and pre-teens -- and including young people in the cast and their "music" in the background is a sure way to get that audience.
Like the cigarette companies, if Trek Inc. could get them young then you would have fans for life... -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
Actually M$ killed OS/2 by refusing to licence Win32 to IBM. OS/2 users were stuck running Win 3.1 apps and the only way they could run Win32 apps was to pay Bill Gates for Winblows, which was (and still is) vastly inferior to OS/2 Warp.
Think Sony BetaMax vs. VHS and you will be closer to the truth of why OS/2 isn't around as a consumer OS... -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
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I too work in health care and it seems that the main reason my IT department likes outside vendors (and Microsoft) is because they can shift the responsibility (and blame) to someone else. SQL Server is broken? Blame Microsoft. An important application is broken? Blame the vendor.
That attitude really irks me, because things don't get fixed until several rounds of finger pointing between the the IT department, the app vendor and sometime the OS vendor. Sometimes the problem never gets fixed and the users have to continue to suffer. At least with open source you can attempt to D.I.Y...
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You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
If you want to sing the praises of Win2K, why don't you hang out in alt.I.want.to.brown.nose.Bill.Gates instead?
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Nice troll, Bill. When you set up your
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Politicans and generals throw money at corporations for hare-brained, pie-in-the-sky "weapons systems" and then after retirement they get jobs with said corporations wining and dining the other politicians and generals who succeed them, who then throw more taxpayer dollars at those ill-advised projects.
It is a vicious cycle that is more effective at siphoning money from the public treasury than a hundred individuals with Swiss bank accounts...
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Next time check your "facts"...
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Most private schools do receive federal funding (at least on the University level) and they have to also follow various other federal laws, especially the non-discrimination, equal opportunity in hiring laws that arose out of the Civil Rights amendments. Otherwise it would be legal for private school owners to own slaves, which is against the law throughout the U.S. (excepting economic slavery, as poor people in the U.S. technically are wage slaves). I've seriously been thinking of moving to Europe. At least they don't pretend to have a "democracy" like most Americans do. It is not a "democracy" when the candidate with the most popular votes loses the election.
I haven't decided where to go yet. I've been thinking Spain, but I hear there are lots of IT jobs in Ireland. At this point even England or France would be an improvement over the U.S...
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Ask your average Cuban about their government and they will tell you that they support it. Those who are against Castro were too cowardly to fight for their island and fled to Florida.
Just because you hear a lot of Cuban-Americans in the U.S. bitching about Castro doesn't mean that he does not have the support of the Cuban people...
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You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
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You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
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You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
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You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
If you look at the exit polls from the last election, 91% of Blacks in Texas said they voted for Gore, while 54% of Hispanics voted for him. 73% of Whites voted for Bush.
A funny aside: for some inexplicable reason Bush the Lesser is popular with Texas Hispanics. That just goes to show that if you speak a little Spanish Latinos will vote for you in droves no matter how fucked up your policies are. You don't even have to speak Spanish well, as Bush manages to mangle Spanish much worse than he does the English language.
I would have used the voting actual results, but after searching the web I found that those results are hard to come by, and the Houston Comical wants money to access their archive. Fuck that noise...
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You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
As a yellow-dog liberal (aka socialist), I know what liberal is, and CNN is NOT liberal!
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You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
George W. Bush is known to be an intellectual lightweight, yet he is president. Minorities laugh at him because we know many minorities are much more qualified than the "First Idiot", yet they don't stand a chance at getting elected. Heck, we know *LOTS* of more qualified White people who would make a much better president than the "Human Eggplant" currently occupying the Oval Office.
I am trying to get promoted at work, yet I am having a hard time even though I have over 220 college hours and *LOTS* of computer experience. The only thing I can see is that is holding me back is that fact that I am Hispanic while the managment of the IT department where I work is 100% White. I see lots of less-qualified Whites get promoted over me, but nope, there is no racism or discrimination in the U.S. today.
The world would be a much better place if conservatives learned to think; however, that may be too much to ask for. At this point, I would settle for having them learn how to spell and use proper grammar and punctuation.
I think it is funny that I speak and write English much better than many White Americans, even though Spanish was my first language and English is the only language they have "learned" (and I use the term "learned" very loosely).
A suggestion to all you White Rush-Limbaugh wannabes: Why don't you pick up a dictionary on occasion? You would be able to learn how to spell "hard" words like "propagandists" and "Darwinism". Hell, maybe you will even find out what the the difference between "principal" and "principle" is! Judging from your use of the word "liberal" as an insult, it is obvious that you would not know "neutral" if it bit you on the ass...
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You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
I've seen Texas go from a one-party Democratic state to a one-party Republican state, at least for White people. Chicanos and Blacks still vote heavily Democratic.
There are currently ~14 million Texans (maybe more, I haven't checked the current census numbers lately). I find it hard to believe that GWB is the best Texan to be President.
I don't have anything against Republicans per se, it just bothers me that brave Republicans are few and far in-between. Gov. Ryan of Illinois had the balls to stop executions when a study showed that half of the condemned were convicted in spite of their innocence.
W's response? He said that we don't make mistakes in Texas! And he sounded like he truly believed it!
Which is why most Chicanos call him "penjedo"...
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That why events like My Lai and the Holocaust happened...
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I always wanted to see Kirk go to the planet of the political conservatives (no, the Nazi planet doesn't count
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The really bad part is that if I was a voyeur, I would rather get an apartment by the pool. From the few "reality" shows I have seen, it seems that peeking at the girls poolside in their bikinis would provide vastly more entertainment than watching a boring show (with no violence or T&A) populated with the kind of losers I try to avoid in real life...
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How else could you explain the success of Windows?
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Like the cigarette companies, if Trek Inc. could get them young then you would have fans for life...
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Think Sony BetaMax vs. VHS and you will be closer to the truth of why OS/2 isn't around as a consumer OS...
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You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!