I know, it's terrible for coders that learned Silverlight. Once upon a time, I learned Pascal. I used it. It did stuff for me. And the industry moved on, and Pascal is useless to me now.
Yes. And every time that a vendor decides that it needs to use a language or technology to lock in some subset of the market, you'll have to do it again, wasting your time and effort to learn a "different" - not new, not better, only "different" - way to bring up a window or code a for-loop. There's a word for people who fall for things over and over. I think it's called "gullible". Oh yeah, and the time-wasting part... I think it's called "inefficient".
iTunes is now the dominant force in the music industry. Apple has the RIAA members over a barrel, with respect to distribution. Any play to "get pirates" would not come from the RIAA or its members. That leaves Apple to make the move. If they did this, they'd lose a lot of revenues from iTunes and have the customers having illegal files leave iCloud almost immediately. They'd probably lose a buttload of revenue on their other products since this would be a major dick move.
If they actually did this, since Apple does not own the copyright for the files, they'd need to negotiate with the RIAA lawyers about how much money they'd get from settlements, since the RIAA and its member companies are the only ones with standing to sue. Then, you'd have to go through all of the rigamarole as with current RIAA litigation, Apple would have to go through hoops in each suit to prove that its servers weren't compromised, etc., etc., etc.
If Apple just provides the service, collects the $25 from the pirates and passes on $5 to the RIAA for each one, the people storing music win, the RIAA wins, and Apple wins. Apple has done some unusual things in the past, but they're not so stupid as to screw up a win-win-win situation like this. And until someone comes along to make iTunes not the monopoly distributor in this little triangle, the RIAA will sit back and take it.
Most people do not have the skills or desire to set up their own FTP site, even if iCloud didn't do a lot more for ease of use than a simple FTP site. Do you want to set up a streaming service? Write the apps to automatically download the songs to your device? Even if the user had the skills to set up all of these services, do they have the skills and abilities to keep them secure?
I have my own FTP server set up and even that's getting to be a pain in the butt for me to maintain. I'm moving to hosted environments as quickly as I can at this point - they're good enough now and I don't have to dick about maintaining the hardware and OS anymore. I'm looking forward to the day when I can simply own one computer again.
I envy biological scientists and ecologists with their highly organized binomial classification systems. They're neutral. They organize information how it should be organized.
That's why there should only be an "asshat" TLD with all of the brands going under that.
If you try to open 100K files in C++, it likely won't work either. And I've seen plenty of newbie C++ programmers try to to similarly boneheaded stuff. The issue isn't programming-language-related. It's that what you're taught in school doesn't scale, regardless of the language. It's about experience, not language.
For when your only value metric is run-time speed.
Of course, if you actually have to take into account stuff like speed of adding features to the system, or skill-level of available programmers, or robustness, you're probably better off using anything else. Fortunately, most software is not speed-critical and you can use more reasonable programming languages.
C++ is a good language... but only for the limited circumstances in which it excels. Otherwise, the overhead entailed in coding in it isn't worth the cost.
ICD-10 has been on the radar for a while now. At least a couple years.
It was on the radar when I was working on health care information systems eight years ago. All of the EMR/billing vendors had it supported back then. The only reason that hospitals haven't implemented it by now is obstinacy. Bitching about it at this late date is like listening to a smoker crying about his lung cancer.
If ICD-10 was a superset of ICD-9,... the transition would be perfectly seamless and painless...On the other hand, if it were a superset, the people would simply continue to use the old ICD-9 codes which often specified treatments far too broadly and, in many cases, continue to be improperly reimbursed (read "reimbursed too much") due to this imprecision, and the transition to more granular codes would never happen.
Yes, it's a pain for the hospitals involved. However, this is something that was needed to do to help contain medical costs. And, since the health care suppliers had a financial incentive to not do this, it's something that would not have happened unless someone (like the government) mandated it.
Maybe this time the hospitals and EMR vendors will implement their system so that when a transition to (I guess) ICD-11 comes up, they can do it less painfully. Maybe they'll even clean up the medical vocabulary issues so that it's easier to translate codes. God knows that the HL-7 vocabulary committee has been around long enough to help with this.
The problem is the inability of consumers or managers to understand the 3 part rule. Speed, Quality, Cost, pick two.
Who will win in the market? Whoever can get Angry Birds out in two months, even though it crashes now and then, or those who take six months to deliver the same functionality with fewer (but never no) crashes? You know the answer to that as well as I do. As far as insight goes, I tend to value Dick Gabriel's "Worse is Better" paper over anything that "Uncle Bob" has written.
The fact that Uncle Bob is a consultant flogging his flavor of the month with his tired "Estimate the number of ping pong balls the Empire State building can hold!" opening shtick doesn't help his credibility in my eyes either. Remember, he used to be just as gung ho for Refactoring being the silver bullet. Before that, it was XP. And, before that it was UML (and its associated heavy processes) that was going to save the (coding) world. I'd think a guy who wants to make things better should probably have a somewhat better track record (or, at least, a bit more consistency) by now.
He seems to be good a writing books and giving talks on whatever the hot software engineering topic du jour seems to be, but if I had to figure out what to do to improve product quality, I'd be less interested in talking to a talking head and more interested in talking to someone who's had a bit more recent experience in running successful software projects. At least the latter would tell you that your management and their expectations probably has a lot more to do with it than anything your coders do.
This looks like transcribed verbiage right off the sales brochure. At least in the past the Slashdot folk have rewritten the ad to be a bit more oblique. What's next? \/1agr/\ by Comcast ads in Slashdot?
In any case, anyone who would trust their security with Comcast is a fool, just as is anyone who uses their internet service.
... quit dicking around trying to find software and start studying. Use whatever break you have before your classes start again to get your organization system in shape. Frankly, you're about nine months late on this quest and your faith in computers and your own tagging abilities are, if not misguided, pathetically touching. Good luck with your medical career.
The core the film takes place in the '60s, surrounding the Cuban Missile Crisis. This is a mixed bag: the fashion seems pretty spot on, which extends from mini-skirts...
The Cuban Missile Crisis occurred in late 1962. Miniskirts did not actually appear as normal "fashionwear" until at least 1965 (in London) and were not prevalent in US fashion until around 1967. Of course, you couldn't bother the writers to actually get this correct, with their detriments of (a) being from Hollywood and (b) being gen-Whatever slackers who were hard-pressed to research the 1960s enough to come up with a historical event around which to base the movie... Maybe we could do it around the Korean War! That was in the sixties, wasn't it?
And I speak of this as an old fogie who understands that the greatest downside of computers was their replacement of attractive young file clerks in short skirts.
I think you're being particularly obtuse. The amount granted for vouchers generally do not cover the entire cost of enrollment in private institutions. In addition, the limited enrollment numbers of private institutions ensure that these institutions can be very "selective" of which students they enroll. As such, upper-middle-income citizens with school-age children get a partial waiver on private school fees (as they have the resources to pay for the schools' additional costs), while low-income and middle-income parents still have to send their children to public schools - public schools that are now drained of resources and of better students (which do actually have a bearing on the quality of a collective educational format).
Vouchers are fine if you want to continue and extend the gap between the haves and have-nots - not so good if you want to try to erase it.
Yowsa! Another internet meme that needs to die! Used by idiot Star Wars geeks who think it's the height of cleverness. And it was... BACK IN 1977! Using the phrase now just makes one look boring, old, and stupid. And repeating it in each story about people wanting to lock down the internet just compounds the error.
... they underestimated the unstoppable inertia of the mass of the "sheeple".
I hate that term. It's so old and worn out. Rather than making the user of the term look "catchy" or "with it", it just makes them look like a crank. Try using the phrase "Too many citizens are uninformed and apathetic". Doesn't that sound better? And it might work better - even though the people you talk about may be "sheeple", people are very, very unlikely to listen to or join with those that insult them. So, if you want to have fun with your "clever" characterization, remember that you've guaranteed change will take even longer.
He's a mathematician and physicist, not a cognitive scientist or neurological biologist. His "ideas" in this arena should hold as much weight as a butcher who says that "Meat is the foundation of all thought." Actually less so - a butcher actually works with biological tissues.
How could that be possible? That would only work in states that are flat and utterly devoid of interesting geographical details... Oh, yeah. Uh, never mind...
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I know, it's terrible for coders that learned Silverlight. Once upon a time, I learned Pascal. I used it. It did stuff for me. And the industry moved on, and Pascal is useless to me now.
Yes. And every time that a vendor decides that it needs to use a language or technology to lock in some subset of the market, you'll have to do it again, wasting your time and effort to learn a "different" - not new, not better, only "different" - way to bring up a window or code a for-loop. There's a word for people who fall for things over and over. I think it's called "gullible". Oh yeah, and the time-wasting part... I think it's called "inefficient".
I'd take that bet.
iTunes is now the dominant force in the music industry. Apple has the RIAA members over a barrel, with respect to distribution. Any play to "get pirates" would not come from the RIAA or its members. That leaves Apple to make the move. If they did this, they'd lose a lot of revenues from iTunes and have the customers having illegal files leave iCloud almost immediately. They'd probably lose a buttload of revenue on their other products since this would be a major dick move.
If they actually did this, since Apple does not own the copyright for the files, they'd need to negotiate with the RIAA lawyers about how much money they'd get from settlements, since the RIAA and its member companies are the only ones with standing to sue. Then, you'd have to go through all of the rigamarole as with current RIAA litigation, Apple would have to go through hoops in each suit to prove that its servers weren't compromised, etc., etc., etc.
If Apple just provides the service, collects the $25 from the pirates and passes on $5 to the RIAA for each one, the people storing music win, the RIAA wins, and Apple wins. Apple has done some unusual things in the past, but they're not so stupid as to screw up a win-win-win situation like this. And until someone comes along to make iTunes not the monopoly distributor in this little triangle, the RIAA will sit back and take it.
Yes, you are out of touch.
Most people do not have the skills or desire to set up their own FTP site, even if iCloud didn't do a lot more for ease of use than a simple FTP site. Do you want to set up a streaming service? Write the apps to automatically download the songs to your device? Even if the user had the skills to set up all of these services, do they have the skills and abilities to keep them secure?
I have my own FTP server set up and even that's getting to be a pain in the butt for me to maintain. I'm moving to hosted environments as quickly as I can at this point - they're good enough now and I don't have to dick about maintaining the hardware and OS anymore. I'm looking forward to the day when I can simply own one computer again.
Yes. I built a simple CPU+memory system in school around 1979 or so. That's 32 years ago.
I envy biological scientists and ecologists with their highly organized binomial classification systems. They're neutral. They organize information how it should be organized.
That's why there should only be an "asshat" TLD with all of the brands going under that.
Omnomnom and omnomnomnom are onomatopoeic words for the sound of one gobbling up something.
There's no excuse for buying a Zune, though.
That's true for everyone, not just the government.
The word "Cloud" doesn't make it all magical, with faeries and pony's all over the place...
No... it adds unicorns...
If you try to open 100K files in C++, it likely won't work either. And I've seen plenty of newbie C++ programmers try to to similarly boneheaded stuff. The issue isn't programming-language-related. It's that what you're taught in school doesn't scale, regardless of the language. It's about experience, not language.
For when your only value metric is run-time speed.
Of course, if you actually have to take into account stuff like speed of adding features to the system, or skill-level of available programmers, or robustness, you're probably better off using anything else. Fortunately, most software is not speed-critical and you can use more reasonable programming languages.
C++ is a good language... but only for the limited circumstances in which it excels. Otherwise, the overhead entailed in coding in it isn't worth the cost.
ICD-10 has been on the radar for a while now. At least a couple years.
It was on the radar when I was working on health care information systems eight years ago. All of the EMR/billing vendors had it supported back then. The only reason that hospitals haven't implemented it by now is obstinacy. Bitching about it at this late date is like listening to a smoker crying about his lung cancer.
If ICD-10 was a superset of ICD-9, ... the transition would be perfectly seamless and painless...On the other hand, if it were a superset, the people would simply continue to use the old ICD-9 codes which often specified treatments far too broadly and, in many cases, continue to be improperly reimbursed (read "reimbursed too much") due to this imprecision, and the transition to more granular codes would never happen.
Yes, it's a pain for the hospitals involved. However, this is something that was needed to do to help contain medical costs. And, since the health care suppliers had a financial incentive to not do this, it's something that would not have happened unless someone (like the government) mandated it.
Maybe this time the hospitals and EMR vendors will implement their system so that when a transition to (I guess) ICD-11 comes up, they can do it less painfully. Maybe they'll even clean up the medical vocabulary issues so that it's easier to translate codes. God knows that the HL-7 vocabulary committee has been around long enough to help with this.
To start, it looks at the Hippocratic Oath, specifically the rule of "First, Do No Harm".
I just wish that "Uncle Bob" would take the same care with the software engineering profession.
The problem is the inability of consumers or managers to understand the 3 part rule. Speed, Quality, Cost, pick two.
Who will win in the market? Whoever can get Angry Birds out in two months, even though it crashes now and then, or those who take six months to deliver the same functionality with fewer (but never no) crashes? You know the answer to that as well as I do. As far as insight goes, I tend to value Dick Gabriel's "Worse is Better" paper over anything that "Uncle Bob" has written.
The fact that Uncle Bob is a consultant flogging his flavor of the month with his tired "Estimate the number of ping pong balls the Empire State building can hold!" opening shtick doesn't help his credibility in my eyes either. Remember, he used to be just as gung ho for Refactoring being the silver bullet. Before that, it was XP. And, before that it was UML (and its associated heavy processes) that was going to save the (coding) world. I'd think a guy who wants to make things better should probably have a somewhat better track record (or, at least, a bit more consistency) by now.
He seems to be good a writing books and giving talks on whatever the hot software engineering topic du jour seems to be, but if I had to figure out what to do to improve product quality, I'd be less interested in talking to a talking head and more interested in talking to someone who's had a bit more recent experience in running successful software projects. At least the latter would tell you that your management and their expectations probably has a lot more to do with it than anything your coders do.
This looks like transcribed verbiage right off the sales brochure. At least in the past the Slashdot folk have rewritten the ad to be a bit more oblique. What's next? \/1agr/\ by Comcast ads in Slashdot?
In any case, anyone who would trust their security with Comcast is a fool, just as is anyone who uses their internet service.
... quit dicking around trying to find software and start studying. Use whatever break you have before your classes start again to get your organization system in shape. Frankly, you're about nine months late on this quest and your faith in computers and your own tagging abilities are, if not misguided, pathetically touching. Good luck with your medical career.
The core the film takes place in the '60s, surrounding the Cuban Missile Crisis. This is a mixed bag: the fashion seems pretty spot on, which extends from mini-skirts...
The Cuban Missile Crisis occurred in late 1962. Miniskirts did not actually appear as normal "fashionwear" until at least 1965 (in London) and were not prevalent in US fashion until around 1967. Of course, you couldn't bother the writers to actually get this correct, with their detriments of (a) being from Hollywood and (b) being gen-Whatever slackers who were hard-pressed to research the 1960s enough to come up with a historical event around which to base the movie... Maybe we could do it around the Korean War! That was in the sixties, wasn't it?
And I speak of this as an old fogie who understands that the greatest downside of computers was their replacement of attractive young file clerks in short skirts.
I think you're being particularly obtuse. The amount granted for vouchers generally do not cover the entire cost of enrollment in private institutions. In addition, the limited enrollment numbers of private institutions ensure that these institutions can be very "selective" of which students they enroll. As such, upper-middle-income citizens with school-age children get a partial waiver on private school fees (as they have the resources to pay for the schools' additional costs), while low-income and middle-income parents still have to send their children to public schools - public schools that are now drained of resources and of better students (which do actually have a bearing on the quality of a collective educational format).
Vouchers are fine if you want to continue and extend the gap between the haves and have-nots - not so good if you want to try to erase it.
Yowsa! Another internet meme that needs to die! Used by idiot Star Wars geeks who think it's the height of cleverness. And it was... BACK IN 1977! Using the phrase now just makes one look boring, old, and stupid. And repeating it in each story about people wanting to lock down the internet just compounds the error.
... they underestimated the unstoppable inertia of the mass of the "sheeple".
I hate that term. It's so old and worn out. Rather than making the user of the term look "catchy" or "with it", it just makes them look like a crank. Try using the phrase "Too many citizens are uninformed and apathetic". Doesn't that sound better? And it might work better - even though the people you talk about may be "sheeple", people are very, very unlikely to listen to or join with those that insult them. So, if you want to have fun with your "clever" characterization, remember that you've guaranteed change will take even longer.
Here's more "Hope and Change" for us.
It's better than the "Clubbing over the head and forced buttsex" the other guy would have given us.
He's a mathematician and physicist, not a cognitive scientist or neurological biologist. His "ideas" in this arena should hold as much weight as a butcher who says that "Meat is the foundation of all thought." Actually less so - a butcher actually works with biological tissues.
Iowa uses a simple grid...
How could that be possible? That would only work in states that are flat and utterly devoid of interesting geographical details... Oh, yeah. Uh, never mind...
...what rights do we have left? To to live in the woods somewhere and never interact with another human being.
I don't think the latest version of the constitution has that one.
How to say "penis" in five languages:
1. English: Larry Ellison
2. Spanish: Larry Ellison
3. French: Larry Ellison
4. German: Larry Ellison
5: Chinese: Rally Errison