I took a career aptitude test in middle school. The results came back and the list of possibilities was several pages long. I can't say that it was very helpful in making a decision.
Those kind are generally not useful. They're not very comprehensive and given way too early. At that age it is possible to steer towards a general track of interest, natural science science, math, humanities, vocational skills. Comprehensive tests take at least half a day and contain all kinds of weird stuff to identify general aptitudes, not specific interests.
It's also like the not so distant past where you take aptitude tests to see what you're good at and then select from those the field you like best (or hate least). Lots of countries used to do that, either as a recommendation or as a requirement. The requirements can be physical (e.g. you can't teach 7 foot or mental (ignorance is curable, stupid is forever) or both.
Since you bring up VistA, there are three items to fill in the gaps in the list you show:
1. "Ancient" can be two kinds, ancient like old cabbage or ancient like a shark is an ancient design. With M, aka MUMPS, it is more of a case of being ancient like a shark. The style is a little different, but it is really powerful. With the resurgance of interest in NoSQL databases, it should be top on your list to at least look at for larger projects. Like with anything else, it's a matter of choosing the right tool for the job and in some cases a hierachical database, as opposed to an object database or an SQL database, is just what the doctor ordered. (Pun intended.)
2: MUMPS (aka "M") is a very powerful and, in the health sector, rather widely used hierarchical database standard and language. It's ISO/IEC 11756 (2005) and has several engines that support it. GT.M, MDH, ANSI MUMPS. There are situations where a hierarchical database like M is more appropriate than the more widely used database standard, SQL aka ISO/IEC 9075(1-4,9-11,13,14):2008.
3: AFAIK the only example of a cross-platform GUI for VistA is Ovid. The most widely used client is still CRPS which is still dependent on Delphi (pascal) and kind of works with WINE or might do ok with tweaking on Lazarus. It's possible to write one, there are bindings for Python and Java. However, getting up to speed means at least one experienced clinician spending a lot of time with the system and at least two programmers (real ones, without Windows) with some clinical experience getting up to speed with VistA. R
4. The design is quite modular, but since all kinds of shysters and carpetbaggers are wanting a piece of the Brewster's Millions spent on electronic health care, there is all kinds of external politics interfering with development and deployment. For example, it is common for some shysters to peddle solutions built around M$ imitation of Java rather than sticking with actual Java for their extensions.
That said, there are also a good dozen open source health care systems designed around various types of clinics and demographics. Some are very good. Good luck finding them though. Wikipedia won't show them, being the playground of marketing corporations and lobbyists. Google won't find them unless you already know the name. Even then there is a good chance a competitor has been jamming the search engines with chaff.
Making it a general programme for people with health care experience will work. Getting even into an entry level medical job entails around 6 years of school plus at least a year or two of work experience. There are exceptions for some specialties, like phlebotomy, where the training period is shorter. Even then it still is not knowledge that can be faked or made up for in a few months of side reading. However, legitimate IT backgrounds, if present in a small ratio, can provide skills and insight not available to those who have spent years getting domain expertise in medicine.
What can kill the project dead, dead, dead is if people with Windowz Skillz are allowed to pose as IT workers. Microsoft products have little to do with IT except that they are placeholders blocking legitimate, functioning protocols, formats, applications, and operating systems. The kind of slug that tries to make a living of of Microsoft products lacks the ability to analyze and solve problems. They're usually either rote memorization monkeys or sales marketeers. The bullshitting and lying that accompanies both the rote monkeys and the marketeers ends up costing lives when it happens in clinics and hospitals, especially when the ongoing Windows disasters collapse the hospital.
In most cases it is easier to add beginner, basic 'IT' skills to people with domain expertise than it is to try to shoehorn people without medical training and experience into the job.
That and it's easier to just throw out all closed source rather than waste resources culling just the Microsofters.
That's fucked up to equate health insurance with health care. They are two very separate concepts.
The assumption is that the nation can't afford to let people go without health care. How that is achieved is what is controversial, mostly due to the big bucks spent by the health insurance lobby. Health insurance can be dropped like a hot rock because it provides no value added and because it wastes billions of dollars achieving that lack of value added.
Most cut out the middle man. the insurance company and have the money go straight into the health care. From there it gets stolen, abused, and so on, but direct health care eliminates an extra layer of that. Do the math: how many policies does it take in one year with zero reimbursements to pay for just one insurance executive's 500,000 per year salary?
Now throw in buildings, company cars, executive salaries, executive bonuses, executive perks, administrative staff, investigators, health insurance for *their own* employees, and so on.
Rigid airships can have and probably should have separate lift cells. Those need to be spherical anyway to get optimal lift per mass. The air frame can be layered on top as a wrapper and could be a strong plastic stretched over carbon fibre or something.
Pure distilled water might work for lift. Just make an air tight, water tight lift cell that is lined on the inside with a surface that reflects microwave radiation. Then at the bottom in a depression to collect condensation, have a powerful microwave transmitter to create steam. The idea is about the same as with a hot air balloon, but with water vapor, with a closed lift cell instead of open, and running on electrical current rather than fuel. Make it diesel electric and in regions and hours when there is enough sunlight, it can cut over to solar powered or solar supplemented.
The weight balance is going to be a barrier to using vaccuum cells for lift for a long time. Aerogels are a good idea to investigate. Or some kind of metallic foam framework for the the shell of the sphere. The membrane does not have to be thin, it just has to be light and strong enough to create a specific gravity within the space it encloses that is significantly less than that of the atmosphere.
What's convenient about electrical grid systems designed to fail? We've even had the East Coast power grid, which includes part of the midwest and Canada fall down, allegedly related to some idiot using Microsoft products in mission critical situations. We've also had extended air traffic shut downs for the world's 8th largest economy. But hey check out that spin. The headline says it's the fault of the flunky who needs to reboot the Microsoft "server" every few hours, rather than hanging up the criminals who replaced working systems with Microsoft products.
The lawsuit in 1997 against Bill's Microsoft by Sun was about contract violation. Microsoft had a contract to distribute java, not their own proprietary version of java, but bona fide java true to the published specifications. The allegations, proven in court, were that Microsoft aimed to harm to Java platform, violated the Sherman Act by illegally monopolizing and illegally maintaining aon the Intel-compatible PC OS market and the web browser market and the office productivity suite market. Microsoft was also illegal tying products, and illegally entering into exclusive dealing and exclusionary agreements (violation of Sec 1 of Sherman Act), and engaging in copyright infringement, and restraint of trade and unfair competition. It was also attempting to illegally start a monopoly in the server operating system market.
Not only do you Microsoft toads ruin the economy, you make the net more expensive and create security problems. It'd be just fine if DHS started checking hard drives during entry or exit at the US borders and nuked any and all NTFS partitions they find. HFS, FFS, UFS, or EXT would be put on instead. Give a few months warning first and hand out Fedora CDs to those getting a warning. Then after the deadline, bam.
That's because the collateral damage from Microsoft's war on skills has taken out just about all engineering and science, not just IT, in the universities. It's also crippled the ability of any private company to be efficient, nimble or even competitive. Microsoft's acting Political Action Committee, the Gates Foundation, is working hard to make sure that war on skills comes even to secondary school.
We're talking about a loan, anyway, to known viable companies making an in-demand product not more sub-prime lending bubble stuff. Even the word loan is in both the title and in the URL. Without science or industry and an academia that's being rubbed out, the hope has to come from other countries. What the Bush administration did to other countries with ammo, it did to the US with policies. Sadly while the Bush junta is out of office, they have not entirely left power.
If the loan has to go to companies in Spain to allow the US to get back on its feet again sometime this next 20 years, then that's how it goes.
Why is it the university's job to police this stuff... ?
It's not. It that there are many after the dot-bomb period and the ongoing Bush Depression that see the Universities as a captive market for failed business models that need greater than 100% subsidy to stay even in sight of being in the black.
In the digital era, the cost of making a new copy in not only negligible, but the copy itself is made with 100% fidelity and indistinguishable from the original. MPAA, RIAA and the companies they represent, like Microsoft and Disney, have a very out-dated business model based around an attempt to create an artificial scarcity for electronic media. Back when physical medium was important and reproduction and transport costs were high, the model worked. Now it is just stupid. Around 10 years ago, the sale of physical media took off due to the old (real) MP3 services. MPAA, RIAA not only did not see numbers but also went to great lengths to bury the facts and even go against the interests they claim to be defending.
The real bite from the current war against the Universities will hit a generation down the road. The pipe from basic research, to research, to applied research, to development, to product development, to product packaging, to training and maintenance, is long. The tap has been turned off and the pipe is filling with air while some flow is still visible. By the time the flow stops completely, there will be no mechanism or skills left to get going again. We're already seeing this in "IT" and Microsoft Resellers ponce around pretending to be teachers or developers, making sure that no one with skills is allowed through.
they have no right whatsoever to read email traffic. Terrorists have officially won as corporations are leveraging attacks to increase their power over all. Wake up people, corporations are the problem. Terrorists, even when very successful, effect a tiny percentage of a population. Yet, the corporations grow more powerful over all in order to supposedly protect the population. This is about control, not protection. Such a shame that so may are willing to throw away their rights in the face of terror. The terrorists have won. Now they are fighting over who will control the levers of power. The citizens have already lost all liberty.
Interestingly, this edition of the warning also makes sense. Corporate media is able to get people so wound up about 'Eebil Gubmit' that they'll let nearly any illegal, unethical or even unconstitutional incident slide as long as it was perpetrated by a corporation.
Governments are not the only major threat to life, liberty, family or democracy. Corporations, by the behavior of their managers and employees, rank way up there, too.
they have no right whatsoever to read email traffic. Terrorists have officially won as government is leveraging attacks to increase their power over all. Wake up people, government is the problem. Terrorists, even when very successful, effect a tiny percentage of a population
Many filesystems support uid= and gid= options in their mount command (including HFS). Just add that to a mount script or set it up in fstab.
OS X does not used fstab. It does leave a copy of fstab containing a message that it is not used, but no information or pointer to what it actually does use.
Shame doesn't work with them since it does not affect getting away with things. Obviously they'd prefer not to get caught but since getting caught has no penalty, there's not an incentive to act well. However, the fear of lawsuits might be a motivator to be extra careful with hardware for the next short while and the quality will improve for at least a while. If it does and if the results can be identified, it can be useful with purchasing.
I work in computer repair and can tell you this sort of thing is nothing new.
Yep, that is old news. Some years it is impossible to buy a machine from Dell without MS Windows. That's not a new problem, even if MS Vista, MS Vista7, and MS Vista8 make nasty old XP and XP SP2 look less bad by comparison. Selling defective systems has been going on for years with full knowledge of the management. Only occasionally is it possible to get decent desktops or decent servers from them. To Dell's credit, they are making more of an effort with the systems at the moment, but it's still far from 100%.
As countSudoku() posts, Dell's probably going to be extra careful with hardware for the next short while and the quality will improve for at least a while. If it's possible to take advantage of that extra caution and if you were going to purchase soon anyway, it might be possible to score better than usual machines.
Don't you have e-mail or a web page or a chat account? They're available all over the place free of charge and using open protocols so you have free choice of clients.
Ship radar is one possibility. So is airplane radar. At certain points during ascent or descent, planes can point right at housing areas with their radar. That is especially true when they are not allowed to circle. I lived right in line with a major airport for a while and when the prevailing winds were blowing, ascents would aim right at my place for a few minutes. During that time, the plane's forward lights would shine (weakly at that distance) into the window and the radar would really disturb FM signals on the radio. Then the plane would veer off and the radio would go back to normal until the wake cleared and the next plane could take off. However, all that is too short to match the problem described in the original post where wi-fi is out for hours.
That is old news. Some years it is impossible to buy a machine from Dell without MS Windows. That's not a new problem, even if MS Vista, MS Vista7, and MS Vista8 make nasty old XP and XP SP2 look less bad by comparison. Selling defective systems has been going on for years with full knowledge of the management. Only occasionally is it possible to get decent desktops or decent servers from them. To Dell's credit, they are making more of an effort at the moment, but it's still far from 100%.
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I took a career aptitude test in middle school. The results came back and the list of possibilities was several pages long. I can't say that it was very helpful in making a decision.
Those kind are generally not useful. They're not very comprehensive and given way too early. At that age it is possible to steer towards a general track of interest, natural science science, math, humanities, vocational skills. Comprehensive tests take at least half a day and contain all kinds of weird stuff to identify general aptitudes, not specific interests.
It's also like the not so distant past where you take aptitude tests to see what you're good at and then select from those the field you like best (or hate least). Lots of countries used to do that, either as a recommendation or as a requirement. The requirements can be physical (e.g. you can't teach 7 foot or mental (ignorance is curable, stupid is forever) or both.
Ignorance is curable ... stupid is forever.
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should read 'four' items or something...
Since you bring up VistA, there are three items to fill in the gaps in the list you show:
1. "Ancient" can be two kinds, ancient like old cabbage or ancient like a shark is an ancient design. With M, aka MUMPS, it is more of a case of being ancient like a shark. The style is a little different, but it is really powerful. With the resurgance of interest in NoSQL databases, it should be top on your list to at least look at for larger projects. Like with anything else, it's a matter of choosing the right tool for the job and in some cases a hierachical database, as opposed to an object database or an SQL database, is just what the doctor ordered. (Pun intended.)
2: MUMPS (aka "M") is a very powerful and, in the health sector, rather widely used hierarchical database standard and language. It's ISO/IEC 11756 (2005) and has several engines that support it. GT.M, MDH, ANSI MUMPS. There are situations where a hierarchical database like M is more appropriate than the more widely used database standard, SQL aka ISO/IEC 9075(1-4,9-11,13,14):2008.
3: AFAIK the only example of a cross-platform GUI for VistA is Ovid. The most widely used client is still CRPS which is still dependent on Delphi (pascal) and kind of works with WINE or might do ok with tweaking on Lazarus. It's possible to write one, there are bindings for Python and Java. However, getting up to speed means at least one experienced clinician spending a lot of time with the system and at least two programmers (real ones, without Windows) with some clinical experience getting up to speed with VistA. R
4. The design is quite modular, but since all kinds of shysters and carpetbaggers are wanting a piece of the Brewster's Millions spent on electronic health care, there is all kinds of external politics interfering with development and deployment. For example, it is common for some shysters to peddle solutions built around M$ imitation of Java rather than sticking with actual Java for their extensions.
That said, there are also a good dozen open source health care systems designed around various types of clinics and demographics. Some are very good. Good luck finding them though. Wikipedia won't show them, being the playground of marketing corporations and lobbyists. Google won't find them unless you already know the name. Even then there is a good chance a competitor has been jamming the search engines with chaff.
Making it a general programme for people with health care experience will work. Getting even into an entry level medical job entails around 6 years of school plus at least a year or two of work experience. There are exceptions for some specialties, like phlebotomy, where the training period is shorter. Even then it still is not knowledge that can be faked or made up for in a few months of side reading. However, legitimate IT backgrounds, if present in a small ratio, can provide skills and insight not available to those who have spent years getting domain expertise in medicine.
What can kill the project dead, dead, dead is if people with Windowz Skillz are allowed to pose as IT workers. Microsoft products have little to do with IT except that they are placeholders blocking legitimate, functioning protocols, formats, applications, and operating systems. The kind of slug that tries to make a living of of Microsoft products lacks the ability to analyze and solve problems. They're usually either rote memorization monkeys or sales marketeers. The bullshitting and lying that accompanies both the rote monkeys and the marketeers ends up costing lives when it happens in clinics and hospitals, especially when the ongoing Windows disasters collapse the hospital.
In most cases it is easier to add beginner, basic 'IT' skills to people with domain expertise than it is to try to shoehorn people without medical training and experience into the job. That and it's easier to just throw out all closed source rather than waste resources culling just the Microsofters.
That's fucked up to equate health insurance with health care. They are two very separate concepts.
The assumption is that the nation can't afford to let people go without health care. How that is achieved is what is controversial, mostly due to the big bucks spent by the health insurance lobby. Health insurance can be dropped like a hot rock because it provides no value added and because it wastes billions of dollars achieving that lack of value added.
Most cut out the middle man. the insurance company and have the money go straight into the health care. From there it gets stolen, abused, and so on, but direct health care eliminates an extra layer of that. Do the math: how many policies does it take in one year with zero reimbursements to pay for just one insurance executive's 500,000 per year salary?
Now throw in buildings, company cars, executive salaries, executive bonuses, executive perks, administrative staff, investigators, health insurance for *their own* employees, and so on.
Rigid airships can have and probably should have separate lift cells. Those need to be spherical anyway to get optimal lift per mass. The air frame can be layered on top as a wrapper and could be a strong plastic stretched over carbon fibre or something.
Pure distilled water might work for lift. Just make an air tight, water tight lift cell that is lined on the inside with a surface that reflects microwave radiation. Then at the bottom in a depression to collect condensation, have a powerful microwave transmitter to create steam. The idea is about the same as with a hot air balloon, but with water vapor, with a closed lift cell instead of open, and running on electrical current rather than fuel. Make it diesel electric and in regions and hours when there is enough sunlight, it can cut over to solar powered or solar supplemented.
The weight balance is going to be a barrier to using vaccuum cells for lift for a long time. Aerogels are a good idea to investigate. Or some kind of metallic foam framework for the the shell of the sphere. The membrane does not have to be thin, it just has to be light and strong enough to create a specific gravity within the space it encloses that is significantly less than that of the atmosphere.
Or she can just go to the music school's library and either check out a copy or legally make her own photostatic copy.
What's convenient about electrical grid systems designed to fail? We've even had the East Coast power grid, which includes part of the midwest and Canada fall down, allegedly related to some idiot using Microsoft products in mission critical situations. We've also had extended air traffic shut downs for the world's 8th largest economy. But hey check out that spin. The headline says it's the fault of the flunky who needs to reboot the Microsoft "server" every few hours, rather than hanging up the criminals who replaced working systems with Microsoft products.
Secure systems are convenient: they work.
Go away, lying revisionist troll.
The lawsuit in 1997 against Bill's Microsoft by Sun was about contract violation. Microsoft had a contract to distribute java, not their own proprietary version of java, but bona fide java true to the published specifications. The allegations, proven in court, were that Microsoft aimed to harm to Java platform, violated the Sherman Act by illegally monopolizing and illegally maintaining aon the Intel-compatible PC OS market and the web browser market and the office productivity suite market. Microsoft was also illegal tying products, and illegally entering into exclusive dealing and exclusionary agreements (violation of Sec 1 of Sherman Act), and engaging in copyright infringement, and restraint of trade and unfair competition. It was also attempting to illegally start a monopoly in the server operating system market.
Not only do you Microsoft toads ruin the economy, you make the net more expensive and create security problems. It'd be just fine if DHS started checking hard drives during entry or exit at the US borders and nuked any and all NTFS partitions they find. HFS, FFS, UFS, or EXT would be put on instead. Give a few months warning first and hand out Fedora CDs to those getting a warning. Then after the deadline, bam.
Read the article, it is about solar technology. There's your tie to technology.
That's because the collateral damage from Microsoft's war on skills has taken out just about all engineering and science, not just IT, in the universities. It's also crippled the ability of any private company to be efficient, nimble or even competitive. Microsoft's acting Political Action Committee, the Gates Foundation, is working hard to make sure that war on skills comes even to secondary school.
We're talking about a loan, anyway, to known viable companies making an in-demand product not more sub-prime lending bubble stuff. Even the word loan is in both the title and in the URL. Without science or industry and an academia that's being rubbed out, the hope has to come from other countries. What the Bush administration did to other countries with ammo, it did to the US with policies. Sadly while the Bush junta is out of office, they have not entirely left power. If the loan has to go to companies in Spain to allow the US to get back on its feet again sometime this next 20 years, then that's how it goes.
Why is it the university's job to police this stuff ... ?
It's not. It that there are many after the dot-bomb period and the ongoing Bush Depression that see the Universities as a captive market for failed business models that need greater than 100% subsidy to stay even in sight of being in the black.
In the digital era, the cost of making a new copy in not only negligible, but the copy itself is made with 100% fidelity and indistinguishable from the original. MPAA, RIAA and the companies they represent, like Microsoft and Disney, have a very out-dated business model based around an attempt to create an artificial scarcity for electronic media. Back when physical medium was important and reproduction and transport costs were high, the model worked. Now it is just stupid. Around 10 years ago, the sale of physical media took off due to the old (real) MP3 services. MPAA, RIAA not only did not see numbers but also went to great lengths to bury the facts and even go against the interests they claim to be defending.
The real bite from the current war against the Universities will hit a generation down the road. The pipe from basic research, to research, to applied research, to development, to product development, to product packaging, to training and maintenance, is long. The tap has been turned off and the pipe is filling with air while some flow is still visible. By the time the flow stops completely, there will be no mechanism or skills left to get going again. We're already seeing this in "IT" and Microsoft Resellers ponce around pretending to be teachers or developers, making sure that no one with skills is allowed through.
(Mouse trouble on previous post, trying again.)
they have no right whatsoever to read email traffic. Terrorists have officially won as corporations are leveraging attacks to increase their power over all. Wake up people, corporations are the problem. Terrorists, even when very successful, effect a tiny percentage of a population. Yet, the corporations grow more powerful over all in order to supposedly protect the population. This is about control, not protection. Such a shame that so may are willing to throw away their rights in the face of terror. The terrorists have won. Now they are fighting over who will control the levers of power. The citizens have already lost all liberty.
Interestingly, this edition of the warning also makes sense. Corporate media is able to get people so wound up about 'Eebil Gubmit' that they'll let nearly any illegal, unethical or even unconstitutional incident slide as long as it was perpetrated by a corporation.
Governments are not the only major threat to life, liberty, family or democracy. Corporations, by the behavior of their managers and employees, rank way up there, too.
they have no right whatsoever to read email traffic. Terrorists have officially won as government is leveraging attacks to increase their power over all. Wake up people, government is the problem. Terrorists, even when very successful, effect a tiny percentage of a population
Many filesystems support uid= and gid= options in their mount command (including HFS). Just add that to a mount script or set it up in fstab.
OS X does not used fstab. It does leave a copy of fstab containing a message that it is not used, but no information or pointer to what it actually does use.
Shame doesn't work with them since it does not affect getting away with things. Obviously they'd prefer not to get caught but since getting caught has no penalty, there's not an incentive to act well. However, the fear of lawsuits might be a motivator to be extra careful with hardware for the next short while and the quality will improve for at least a while. If it does and if the results can be identified, it can be useful with purchasing.
I work in computer repair and can tell you this sort of thing is nothing new.
Yep, that is old news. Some years it is impossible to buy a machine from Dell without MS Windows. That's not a new problem, even if MS Vista, MS Vista7, and MS Vista8 make nasty old XP and XP SP2 look less bad by comparison. Selling defective systems has been going on for years with full knowledge of the management. Only occasionally is it possible to get decent desktops or decent servers from them. To Dell's credit, they are making more of an effort with the systems at the moment, but it's still far from 100%.
As countSudoku() posts, Dell's probably going to be extra careful with hardware for the next short while and the quality will improve for at least a while. If it's possible to take advantage of that extra caution and if you were going to purchase soon anyway, it might be possible to score better than usual machines.
Don't you have e-mail or a web page or a chat account? They're available all over the place free of charge and using open protocols so you have free choice of clients.
Ship radar is one possibility. So is airplane radar. At certain points during ascent or descent, planes can point right at housing areas with their radar. That is especially true when they are not allowed to circle. I lived right in line with a major airport for a while and when the prevailing winds were blowing, ascents would aim right at my place for a few minutes. During that time, the plane's forward lights would shine (weakly at that distance) into the window and the radar would really disturb FM signals on the radio. Then the plane would veer off and the radio would go back to normal until the wake cleared and the next plane could take off. However, all that is too short to match the problem described in the original post where wi-fi is out for hours.
That is old news. Some years it is impossible to buy a machine from Dell without MS Windows. That's not a new problem, even if MS Vista, MS Vista7, and MS Vista8 make nasty old XP and XP SP2 look less bad by comparison. Selling defective systems has been going on for years with full knowledge of the management. Only occasionally is it possible to get decent desktops or decent servers from them. To Dell's credit, they are making more of an effort at the moment, but it's still far from 100%.
Or was the article about hardware instead?