There was a link that is now gone about whether or not Bill Gates was a good programmer. The answer was yes. The link is now gone unfortunately. Here's a discussion on Kuro5hin about it though:
I didn't refuse to sign, but I did delete some passages of one with a black marker and then signed. I don't have the document in front of me at the moment, but a number of the things mentioned by other people in these threads pretty much summed it up (read the guy who talked about the Bank of America thread.) Nothing happened, but it my guess that the document was never proofed by management.
Rather than reiterate what others have mentioned already, I'd like to add one little benefit about unions. Most, if not all, unions have lobbyists. A percentage of the money you spend to the union would go to having our own folks in Washington fighting to have politicians pass laws that are sane and beneficial to us. Having powerful people in politicking for us would do a lot more than sitting here on slashdot and whining about the abuses of the DMCA, the Patriot Act, etc.
Of course, this would mean that in elections, we would all have to vote the same way, and most "geeks" (I hate that word) are too damn stubburn, independent, and argumentative to vote a certain way because our union endorses a certain candidate.
I only made it halfway through Godel, Escher, Bach before dropping it in the ocean while fishing. I'm picking it up again in a few days. Its one of the few books I can say that I truly changed the way that I view the world. Read a chapter a night and let the goodness sink in.
Get a recent copy and read Hofstadter's introduction after reading the book.
This company does what you are talking about and provides the PDAs, equipment and whatnot. Their backend also runs Linux (I interviewed for an R&D position there a long time ago.)
The question asked for ideas regarding PDAs and not a professional service, but in this case, especially when patients data is at risk of being lifted, I'd go with professionals.
I think the reason that UCF gets overlooked for funding is because of the amount of FSU/UF grads in politics. Though, UCF gets a ton of money from the private sector.
Unfortunately, we won't have a first rate sports program until we build better facilities for our athletes.
But, things are changing and UCF is growing. Unlike UF and FSU, there's plenty of room for us to grow.
There's a picture of the scoreboard at Florida Field from the UF/UCF football game from last year. KNIGHTS 7 GATORS 0. (of course, its in the first quarter and there is 12 minutes left.)
OpenBSD runs like a champ on my Compaq 5301, so FreeBSD will probably run. The video card shipped with it is embedded so getting X configed properly is a bit of a pain, but doable.
Given the amount of feeling and passion on certain subjects here on slashdot. I think that sometimes people jump on the bandwagon a bit too early. This leads one to be taken for a ride.
Speaking for myself, until there's more evidence of this, I'm not going to get enraged quite yet. This smells fishy to me.
27eyedwalleyedbass.hotmail.com is a referance to a song by the Dead Milkmen off (I believe) "Not Richard, But Dick."
I believe the name of the song was "Story of Earl". The song with the great line, "She could only say two words, which were dog and pussy. We have out later that she was trying to say dog-pussy, one big long hyphenated word.
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There was a link that is now gone about whether or not Bill Gates was a good programmer. The answer was yes. The link is now gone unfortunately. Here's a discussion on Kuro5hin about it though:
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http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/5/15/201523/
I can't talk because I can't code my way out of a paper bag.
I didn't refuse to sign, but I did delete some passages of one with a black marker and then signed. I don't have the document in front of me at the moment, but a number of the things mentioned by other people in these threads pretty much summed it up (read the guy who talked about the Bank of America thread.) Nothing happened, but it my guess that the document was never proofed by management.
That subject is supposed to read "One little thing you neglected to mention."
Rather than reiterate what others have mentioned already, I'd like to add one little benefit about unions. Most, if not all, unions have lobbyists. A percentage of the money you spend to the union would go to having our own folks in Washington fighting to have politicians pass laws that are sane and beneficial to us. Having powerful people in politicking for us would do a lot more than sitting here on slashdot and whining about the abuses of the DMCA, the Patriot Act, etc.
Of course, this would mean that in elections, we would all have to vote the same way, and most "geeks" (I hate that word) are too damn stubburn, independent, and argumentative to vote a certain way because our union endorses a certain candidate.
If you are patient and look hard enough you can find them on one of the P2P programs. I think I got them off of LimeWire
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Couldn't resist.
Total Recall was written by our own linux lovin' author Piers Anthony.
www.piers-anthony.com/totalrecall.html
This off topic post was brought to you by me.
I only made it halfway through Godel, Escher, Bach before dropping it in the ocean while fishing. I'm picking it up again in a few days. Its one of the few books I can say that I truly changed the way that I view the world. Read a chapter a night and let the goodness sink in.
Get a recent copy and read Hofstadter's introduction after reading the book.
peace,
don
I prefer to use the term 'pseudo-intellectual' extremists for the K5 folks.
But shit, thats just me.
Hey, its another 49xx user!
http://www.medicalmanager.com/products/mm/emr.htm
This company does what you are talking about and provides the PDAs, equipment and whatnot. Their backend also runs Linux (I interviewed for an R&D position there a long time ago.)
The question asked for ideas regarding PDAs and not a professional service, but in this case, especially when patients data is at risk of being lifted, I'd go with professionals.
hey gleam. whats up. oh...aerial mapping :P
hehehehe
The Rock was a football player from the University of Miami...not one to nitpick...but
:)
Go Canes
http://www.bbspot.com/News/2000/9/linux_laid.html
There is hope.
Go Golden Knights.
:)
Booyah
I think the reason that UCF gets overlooked for funding is because of the amount of FSU/UF grads in politics. Though, UCF gets a ton of money from the private sector.
Unfortunately, we won't have a first rate sports program until we build better facilities for our athletes.
But, things are changing and UCF is growing. Unlike UF and FSU, there's plenty of room for us to grow.
There's a picture of the scoreboard at Florida Field from the UF/UCF football game from last year. KNIGHTS 7 GATORS 0. (of course, its in the first quarter and there is 12 minutes left.)
Go Knights
eheheh, j/k
here's the link.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000306/ca_ agilent_2.html
I have one of the FreePC machines and I just reread the letter.
The letter I received from emachines transferring the lease was dated February 11, 2000.
It also stated that my credit card information was destroyed February 1, 2000.
peace
OpenBSD runs like a champ on my Compaq 5301, so FreeBSD will probably run. The video card shipped with it is embedded so getting X configed properly is a bit of a pain, but doable.
peace
What bothers me about that commercial (Reeves) was that we could find a cure for spinal injuries but still don't have a clue about curing baldness. :)
Given the amount of feeling and passion on certain subjects here on slashdot. I think that sometimes people jump on the bandwagon a bit too early. This leads one to be taken for a ride.
Speaking for myself, until there's more evidence of this, I'm not going to get enraged quite yet.
This smells fishy to me.
I thought Mandrake could only run on Pentium systems. I think the big sign that says "Optimized for Pentiums" might be a clue
27eyedwalleyedbass.hotmail.com is a referance to a song by the Dead Milkmen off (I believe) "Not Richard, But Dick."
I believe the name of the song was "Story of Earl". The song with the great line, "She could only say two words, which were dog and pussy. We have out later that she was trying to say dog-pussy, one big long hyphenated word.
peace freaks
don
Hey, you forgot to include Bill Gates! :) (He's in there)
I think the good people at NYT have yanked the
cypherpunks login. Ugh.