Digitizing and joining the last bridge between your medical history and medical insurance greed and corruption is not my idea of efficiency, but I guess that depends on which side of that greased palm you're on. Don't hold your breath for HIPAA protection either.
But you see, it won't matter when everyone gets Universal Health Care(tm)... Until, of course, your "lifestyle choices" are too expensive for the State to permit you to have...
The key will be defining the "mobile" medical record format... It really doesn't matter what form the data in local databases takes, as long as the local databases can import and export the yet to be defined "standard", as opposed to the mutiple, often conflicting standards already out... Until a single standard is selected and followed, most advantages just won't exist.
Dunno about anyone else, but I think the latest MS interface junk in Office is a horrible abortion. I think/thought it was a great opportunity for competitors to step in to get experienced Office users to give them a try. Can OO.o v3 close the deal?
(a OO.o 'skin' that emulated the shortcuts and menu structure of Office 2000 would be helpful in this regard..)
... I wonder how these technologies compare like-for-like... Folks complain about 'power hungry' LCDs, and I'm like "WTF?!".. Find me a 65" CRT and compare it against that 65" LCD, not a 65" LCD vs 32" CRT..
Anyway, I bet all you California tree-botherers will be sorry when we get Snowball Earth..
I think US citizens in IT would be better served by either rolling back H1B visas or by mandating that those that are issued to fill critical jobs that Americans don't have the skills for are paid 2x the prevailing comparable wage.
H1B should only be about finding people to do work that there are not enough Americans to do, at any price, so that desperate employers would be more than willing to pay 2x the prevailing comparable wage for them.. For example, if a company in CA wanted to find a senior DBA but simply couldn't at the prevailing wage of $80k/yr, they could hire H1b but only if they were paid at least $160k/yr.
You can be a total slacker instead, just change jobs every few years, and do just as well as the guys putting in 90 hours/week and doing the work of several lesser engineers.
Once you get to this point you either have to go into management or consulting (or both), or else you coast along awhile until you snap or die..
Alternately, if you have a good idea and 6-12 months of living expenses saved, entrepreneurship, but that's even _more_ work..
Yeah seriously.. Nicest xmas bonus I ever got from an employer was a Wonka bar...
Worst bonus: on-called xmas day for a problem that wasn't mine, or even addressable by me. The responsible group's oncall didn't pick up, and the operators called the only person they thought would know anything about anything...
And best birthday present of all: We're closing the company down. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!
Plus regen braking delivers a huge advantage to the electric system (especially in traffic, where it can exceed a return of 50% to storage).
Isn't regenerative braking limited by speed of recharge? That is, braking from high speeds can generate so much power over so little time that it overloads the (traditional) battery's charging speed, so at high speeds very little power is regenerated..
Presumably this capacitor can take all the power regenerative braking can create, at any speed?
As in, not writing to Linuxisms and using standards instead.
This goes both ways.. How about writing to, say, GCC4, and moving to that across the board, and dedicating SUNWspro resources to upgrading GCC4's SPARC capabilities? Didn't IBM get AIX somewhat bug/feature-compatible with GCC for 5L?
Can you tell I just had to recompile Apache and PHP for Solaris SPARC? Screw the Sun compiler, it should have a mode where it emulates GCC if you call it as GCC, or they should be using GCC so I don't have to go into Makefiles to manually update compiler flags after SUNWspro-compiled apxs shits all over it..
The demand for software systems greatly out paces the supply of Dijkstras, so the ability to produce useful software using a team of mere mortal programmers is the more valuable skill.
The job of folks like Dijkstra isn't to produce useful software, it's to produce useful theoretical computer scientists, which require a different skillset and temperament from applied computer scientists/software engineers. The problem, of course, comes when one side attempts to embiggen itself at the expense of the other. Another problem is when they attempt to pass off incompetent, arrogant teaching as 'unfriendliness', when it's merely intellectual hazing. The subject matter may be hard, but when an instructor passes the load off onto TAs that can't speak English understandibly, appears once every few weeks to mumble unintelligbly and scribble illegibly on a chalkboard or overhead projector before a cavernous multi-hundred-seat coliseum, they're not making it any easier, and frankly they're not doing the job the students are paying them to do.
Dijkstra shouldn't care how many ALUs or FPUs a particular CPU has, or how long its pipeline is, or how best to order instructions for parallel execution. But someone needs to, and compiler/driver wizardry like that is at least as complex and scary as pure theoretical CS maths, by necessity.
Have any of the new DVD releases undone BBC or American censorship? I refer specifically to the Prince and the canc^H^H^H^HGANGRENE spot, and the All-England Summarize Proust competition ("What are your hobbies outside summarizing?" "Well, it's golf, strangling animals, and masturbation.")
Google Trotsky sometime... Religious movements are the most vicious and cruel against their own apostates, and what is commonly known as Communism is in fact a religion. That is, its tenets and conclusions rely on the faith of its believers no less than believers in Allah, the Trinity, JHVH, etc.
Nope, I meant rendering into a bitstream signal over SPDIF (IIRC SPDIF won't take multichannel PCM) encoded as DDLive or DTS Connect.. AFAIK no Creative product does that, though they may have introduced parts that do..
Onboard sound doesn't render in multichannel (Dolby Digital Live/DTS Connect), it'll only push bitstream via SPDIF.. Also, separate cards tend not to suffer baseline hum or other audio artifacts that could come from motherboard/component RFI (or.. they render multichannel so it's pure digital from the driver to the receiver DAC...)
The fact that the HHG film pussed out on this is probably what kills it deadest to me. That and the gay Marvin outfit, the TV series' was far better (though Alan Rickman was a suitable substitute, although he tends more towards the annoyed than depressed)..
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Digitizing and joining the last bridge between your medical history and medical insurance greed and corruption is not my idea of efficiency, but I guess that depends on which side of that greased palm you're on. Don't hold your breath for HIPAA protection either.
But you see, it won't matter when everyone gets Universal Health Care(tm)... Until, of course, your "lifestyle choices" are too expensive for the State to permit you to have...
The key will be defining the "mobile" medical record format... It really doesn't matter what form the data in local databases takes, as long as the local databases can import and export the yet to be defined "standard", as opposed to the mutiple, often conflicting standards already out... Until a single standard is selected and followed, most advantages just won't exist.
What about VistA?
May be time for me to learn it, given where this economy is headed :p
Dunno about anyone else, but I think the latest MS interface junk in Office is a horrible abortion. I think/thought it was a great opportunity for competitors to step in to get experienced Office users to give them a try. Can OO.o v3 close the deal?
(a OO.o 'skin' that emulated the shortcuts and menu structure of Office 2000 would be helpful in this regard..)
... I wonder how these technologies compare like-for-like... Folks complain about 'power hungry' LCDs, and I'm like "WTF?!".. Find me a 65" CRT and compare it against that 65" LCD, not a 65" LCD vs 32" CRT..
Anyway, I bet all you California tree-botherers will be sorry when we get Snowball Earth..
Fiat Lux.
I think US citizens in IT would be better served by either rolling back H1B visas or by mandating that those that are issued to fill critical jobs that Americans don't have the skills for are paid 2x the prevailing comparable wage.
H1B should only be about finding people to do work that there are not enough Americans to do, at any price, so that desperate employers would be more than willing to pay 2x the prevailing comparable wage for them.. For example, if a company in CA wanted to find a senior DBA but simply couldn't at the prevailing wage of $80k/yr, they could hire H1b but only if they were paid at least $160k/yr.
Not holding my breath.
You can be a total slacker instead, just change jobs every few years, and do just as well as the guys putting in 90 hours/week and doing the work of several lesser engineers.
Once you get to this point you either have to go into management or consulting (or both), or else you coast along awhile until you snap or die..
Alternately, if you have a good idea and 6-12 months of living expenses saved, entrepreneurship, but that's even _more_ work..
Yeah seriously.. Nicest xmas bonus I ever got from an employer was a Wonka bar...
Worst bonus: on-called xmas day for a problem that wasn't mine, or even addressable by me. The responsible group's oncall didn't pick up, and the operators called the only person they thought would know anything about anything...
And best birthday present of all: We're closing the company down. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!
Plus regen braking delivers a huge advantage to the electric system (especially in traffic, where it can exceed a return of 50% to storage).
Isn't regenerative braking limited by speed of recharge? That is, braking from high speeds can generate so much power over so little time that it overloads the (traditional) battery's charging speed, so at high speeds very little power is regenerated..
Presumably this capacitor can take all the power regenerative braking can create, at any speed?
As in, not writing to Linuxisms and using standards instead.
This goes both ways.. How about writing to, say, GCC4, and moving to that across the board, and dedicating SUNWspro resources to upgrading GCC4's SPARC capabilities? Didn't IBM get AIX somewhat bug/feature-compatible with GCC for 5L?
Can you tell I just had to recompile Apache and PHP for Solaris SPARC? Screw the Sun compiler, it should have a mode where it emulates GCC if you call it as GCC, or they should be using GCC so I don't have to go into Makefiles to manually update compiler flags after SUNWspro-compiled apxs shits all over it..
Perhaps if gasoline distilled from non-renewable source is taxed ruinously (US$3/gal federal) they would be. Not holding my breath though.
And not one moment too soon if you ask me!
(Flying sucks, even if you're on the company ningi...)
The winner is.. Number Three!
The demand for software systems greatly out paces the supply of Dijkstras, so the ability to produce useful software using a team of mere mortal programmers is the more valuable skill.
The job of folks like Dijkstra isn't to produce useful software, it's to produce useful theoretical computer scientists, which require a different skillset and temperament from applied computer scientists/software engineers. The problem, of course, comes when one side attempts to embiggen itself at the expense of the other. Another problem is when they attempt to pass off incompetent, arrogant teaching as 'unfriendliness', when it's merely intellectual hazing. The subject matter may be hard, but when an instructor passes the load off onto TAs that can't speak English understandibly, appears once every few weeks to mumble unintelligbly and scribble illegibly on a chalkboard or overhead projector before a cavernous multi-hundred-seat coliseum, they're not making it any easier, and frankly they're not doing the job the students are paying them to do.
Dijkstra shouldn't care how many ALUs or FPUs a particular CPU has, or how long its pipeline is, or how best to order instructions for parallel execution. But someone needs to, and compiler/driver wizardry like that is at least as complex and scary as pure theoretical CS maths, by necessity.
Is this one of the first non-euphemistic terms for DRM?
Not really, I'm afraid, but it's pretty good.. I also quite like "Treacherous Computing"...
Go figure.
Have any of the new DVD releases undone BBC or American censorship? I refer specifically to the Prince and the canc^H^H^H^HGANGRENE spot, and the All-England Summarize Proust competition ("What are your hobbies outside summarizing?" "Well, it's golf, strangling animals, and masturbation.")
Google Trotsky sometime... Religious movements are the most vicious and cruel against their own apostates, and what is commonly known as Communism is in fact a religion. That is, its tenets and conclusions rely on the faith of its believers no less than believers in Allah, the Trinity, JHVH, etc.
The Lego(tm) logo on each pip is legit, though I wonder when the patent on the block formfactor expired?
Because Metric is French.
Freedom fries.
Freedom toast.
Freedom dressing.
Freedom tickler.
Freedom three-way.
Fair does not mean equal.
Please apply this to all of your ideologies. Fairness of opportunity does not mean equality of result.
Nope, I meant rendering into a bitstream signal over SPDIF (IIRC SPDIF won't take multichannel PCM) encoded as DDLive or DTS Connect.. AFAIK no Creative product does that, though they may have introduced parts that do..
Onboard sound doesn't render in multichannel (Dolby Digital Live/DTS Connect), it'll only push bitstream via SPDIF.. Also, separate cards tend not to suffer baseline hum or other audio artifacts that could come from motherboard/component RFI (or.. they render multichannel so it's pure digital from the driver to the receiver DAC...)
Does X-Fi even do multichannel rendering?
Oh, he'll have plenty of time to stamp out license plates and toss salad...
The fact that the HHG film pussed out on this is probably what kills it deadest to me. That and the gay Marvin outfit, the TV series' was far better (though Alan Rickman was a suitable substitute, although he tends more towards the annoyed than depressed)..