So, I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that I'm one of the few here that has gone through the CCHIT certification.
I can say that it's an involved processes. The fee is justified. The EMR and HIE spaces aren't places where one-guy-in-a-basement can play, they're BIG deals involving BIG money and LOTS of CRITICAL (i.e. people die if you get it wrong) data.
I can also say that CCHIT are not anti-FOSS, from what I can see. The certification itself involved several FOSS tools (and some of them were mighty broken...). I have to agree with nacturation here, this guy is bitching because he doesn't like the consequences of the GPL. Tough luck, dude.
This is why projects like Linux and Android are so important.
Wait, what? How did we get from "college kids are narcissistic" to "Linux and Android are great"? Are you actually going to attempt to blame college kids' shitty attitudes on Microsoft?
That sounds like a horrible idea. "Web applications" on full-size full-power browsers are slow and sucky. Why limit yourself to something like that when your constraints are so much tighter?
Anyone who thinks HTML is an appropriate "application development platform" needs their head examined.
My phone runs Windows Mobile. It's really easy to get stuff on and off it without anything but a USB cable. There's even a little piece of software for the phone that makes it look like a USB mass storage device to the computer.
Looks like you picked the phone running the wrong OS.
Except it's not $30 more, it's $130 more. Because I only paid $90 for the motherboard, the $20 PSU I bought could completely take it out and I would STILL be saving money over the name-brand PSU.
I've replaced a lot of PSUs in my day, mostly since I can buy a lot of $20 PSUs that each last me a year for what someone else would spend on a "nice" PSU.
Oh, and I've never had a failing PSU damage anything else. Replace the PSU, and on I go.
I'm a firm believer that computers have only a very controlled place in school (especially during the early years). Putting a computer on every desk would be a colossal mistake, as they're just a distraction. Children definitely need to learn to use them as a tool, as many of them will be using them all their lives, but things like learning to write with paper and pencil needs to come first, just like we teach them arithmetic without a calculator.
40% of the machines will not be used at all, because the students don't care or don't want to be a "nerd" or "geek".
40% will be used exclusively for porn and/or social networking (which, from a school's point of view, are the same -- a distraction and a waste of time).
The other 20% will be used for legitimate work.
In other words, it's all a big waste of money, learning will suffer, and hardware and software vendors win.
FYI, a close family member of mine was involved (as a teacher) in a project to give all the students in the school an iPaq with wi-fi. They had fairly robust filtering, and it's WinCE so there's much less you can even do, but they gave up after the 1st year because the machines were pretty much only used for porn downloading.
I'm referring to the significant whitespace. And the fact that spaces are the preferred significant whitespace. You like 8 character tab stops, I like 2. Why can't we use tabs and each have it look the way we want it?
Also, I'm not defending VB here, they're both disasters.
What's "missing" is the truth about the Red States, which are Welfare States. They always have been: they were all colonized and defended by the Blue States, starting with the armies raised and funded by the Blue States;
Wait, hang on. This particular Red State (where I'm sitting) was colonized by a bunch of religious outcasts, after they were chased (at gunpoint!) out of several other states. They weren't defended by Blue States, as much as Threatened by an army raised and funded by the Blue States merely for having the gall to exist.
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So, I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that I'm one of the few here that has gone through the CCHIT certification.
I can say that it's an involved processes. The fee is justified. The EMR and HIE spaces aren't places where one-guy-in-a-basement can play, they're BIG deals involving BIG money and LOTS of CRITICAL (i.e. people die if you get it wrong) data.
I can also say that CCHIT are not anti-FOSS, from what I can see. The certification itself involved several FOSS tools (and some of them were mighty broken...). I have to agree with nacturation here, this guy is bitching because he doesn't like the consequences of the GPL. Tough luck, dude.
This is why projects like Linux and Android are so important.
Wait, what? How did we get from "college kids are narcissistic" to "Linux and Android are great"? Are you actually going to attempt to blame college kids' shitty attitudes on Microsoft?
Or are you saying Linux is simple?
Seriously...?
That sounds like a horrible idea. "Web applications" on full-size full-power browsers are slow and sucky. Why limit yourself to something like that when your constraints are so much tighter?
Anyone who thinks HTML is an appropriate "application development platform" needs their head examined.
Nope, but we're not talking about USB flash memory, here, we're talking about phones.
My phone runs Windows Mobile. It's really easy to get stuff on and off it without anything but a USB cable. There's even a little piece of software for the phone that makes it look like a USB mass storage device to the computer.
Looks like you picked the phone running the wrong OS.
Sure, you can't, but you can't sue others either (and win, at least).
So it's like not having a trademark at all.
Yeah, it's the "switch user" button. Been there since XP, but it actually works in Vista.
Do remember that an undefended trademark is no trademark at all. If someone else takes the name, and you don't defend it, you lose it.
Making it public domain and licensing it under the GPL are two COMPLETELY DIFFERENT THINGS. Understand what you want to do before you do anything.
If you're not backing up your important data, the quality of your PSU is the least of your worries...
Except it's not $30 more, it's $130 more. Because I only paid $90 for the motherboard, the $20 PSU I bought could completely take it out and I would STILL be saving money over the name-brand PSU.
As opposed to your post, which is a case of "I didn't have a problem, so obviously no-one else will."
I've replaced a lot of PSUs in my day, mostly since I can buy a lot of $20 PSUs that each last me a year for what someone else would spend on a "nice" PSU.
Oh, and I've never had a failing PSU damage anything else. Replace the PSU, and on I go.
I've run Windows Server 2003 (64-bit) and XP Pro (64-bit) and I didn't have a single driver problem. Not one.
That's gotta be the stupidest comment I've ever read. Congratulations.
Programming languages are not IO bound. Operating systems aren't IO bound. TASKS are IO bound. ALGORITHMS are IO bound.
Oh, and one other thing.
I'm a firm believer that computers have only a very controlled place in school (especially during the early years). Putting a computer on every desk would be a colossal mistake, as they're just a distraction. Children definitely need to learn to use them as a tool, as many of them will be using them all their lives, but things like learning to write with paper and pencil needs to come first, just like we teach them arithmetic without a calculator.
40% of the machines will not be used at all, because the students don't care or don't want to be a "nerd" or "geek".
40% will be used exclusively for porn and/or social networking (which, from a school's point of view, are the same -- a distraction and a waste of time).
The other 20% will be used for legitimate work.
In other words, it's all a big waste of money, learning will suffer, and hardware and software vendors win.
FYI, a close family member of mine was involved (as a teacher) in a project to give all the students in the school an iPaq with wi-fi. They had fairly robust filtering, and it's WinCE so there's much less you can even do, but they gave up after the 1st year because the machines were pretty much only used for porn downloading.
I'm referring to the significant whitespace. And the fact that spaces are the preferred significant whitespace. You like 8 character tab stops, I like 2. Why can't we use tabs and each have it look the way we want it?
Also, I'm not defending VB here, they're both disasters.
Ugh. Python's syntax is everything that's wrong with Visual Basic, but even more.
Yeah, I noticed:
Console.Write("I ate {0} {1} in {2:f3} seconds", 99, "hotdogs", 62.0895);
I've long said that better programmers write simpler code. Poor programmers write complex code.
Where have you been? System.IO.Compression has been available since, what, the 2.0 framework? Even before that, you always had SharpZipLib.
*ahem* python
(yes, yes, I know, mod down)
What's "missing" is the truth about the Red States, which are Welfare States. They always have been: they were all colonized and defended by the Blue States, starting with the armies raised and funded by the Blue States;
Wait, hang on. This particular Red State (where I'm sitting) was colonized by a bunch of religious outcasts, after they were chased (at gunpoint!) out of several other states. They weren't defended by Blue States, as much as Threatened by an army raised and funded by the Blue States merely for having the gall to exist.
Just wanted to clear that up.
Wow, I never thought of it that way. You, sir, have my respect and admiration.