What the hell does inflation-adjusted have to do with consumer electronics? What a completely retarded justification.
The fed actually uses those depreciating prices in consumer electronics in their phoney-baloney inflation index (hedonically adjusted avg). The practice is of course used to help mask their money printing and devaluation of the currency, not to mention avoiding increases in inflation adjusted liability payments. I think the submitter would do well as a fed board governor.
Well... even though my face is a sample of one, I'm certain that 100% of all women on this planet find it repulsive (or at least 100% of women in the tri-state area)
one of these days those $60 a month Asians are going to produce stuff as good as us $60 an hour North Americans, and then we're totally screwed. I just hope I'm dead by the time that happens.
I don't see how that can happen since most commercial development still requires some sort of constant interaction/feedback with the end user. It's not like you can just send the specs over to India and expect a completely usable product that the customer is going to be satisfied with (and I'm talking commercial apps here, not the stuff you buy off the shelf for your PC).
I've seen first hand attempts by mega corps to develop large scale commercial apps almost completely offshore and in those instances the end product/implementation were complete clusterfucks. They actually had to fly lead developers from India to the customer's site to find out exactly what was needed. Then you have the issue of continually implementing product enhancements requested by the customer.
They are also much hard than IS. I took some IS classes to learn some new things at a local state college. I thought the classes were a joke. The classes were easy.
... I'm guessing English 101 wasn't one of the classes.
Unfortunately this is not a black and white issue. I've been selling on ebay since the site's inception, and have gone to a mirrored feedback policy myself. Reason being is that there are always users who will try feedback extortion (if you don't give me 15 off then I'll leave a neg). Then there are those users who neg you for items damaged in shipping. There are users who just want to fuck with you and will leave a neg with a positive comment... "oh, sorry I must've did that by accident."
In the 15 or so years I've been selling online (USENET & Prodigy) I know there are just certain categories you should probably avoid buying used from non-niche sellers: optics, watches, computer components, guitars and most audio equipment. Also, there are certain categories on ebay that are just going to attract more scum (both bidders and sellers) than others. Caveat Empor
No, this isn't racism or xenophobia. The last generation of IBM Thinkpads were/are crap, the T series (especially the T21 and its Deathstar drive). Lenovo basically bought a soiled brand and IBM was happy to give it to them.
Bad form to reply to my own post, but if you were referring to a scheduling or transcription system where the patient is seen at an affiliated physician's office before identifiers are assigned from the HIS... then yes, those do present a problem. Though it is more procedural than system limited.
Each company/ service (doctor, hospital, radiology, blood test, etc) has their own ID number for you. EveWhen the HL7 msg arrives, how do you marry up the msg with your account?
Every facility I've ever come across has an HIS which feeds the ancillaries the patient identifiers, the two main identifiers being a facility medical record number and a visit/encounter number. The ancillaries use those identifiers for clinical and billing functions, and not their own internally generated numbers.
It can't exist as a rigid standard because every facility is going to have its own procedures, policies and unique information that will need to be captured/transmitted.
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WTF is with all these slashdotters suffering from Asperger's syndrome all the sudden?! Were you actually diagnosed by an accredited professional as having this affliction? Is there some online test going around that I haven't seen?
... ok is that a real diagnosis from an accredited professional, or is that a conclusion you have made on your own? I see many self-proclaimed high functioning autistics on various forums and starting to wonder if there is an emote test I might be missing.
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Seriously - 1GB ram (512MB for low end installs) seems like an awful lot to me....
I heard Freecell on Vista is going to use a higher resolution set of cards, so the 1GB will come in handy.
What the hell does inflation-adjusted have to do with consumer electronics? What a completely retarded justification.
The fed actually uses those depreciating prices in consumer electronics in their phoney-baloney inflation index (hedonically adjusted avg). The practice is of course used to help mask their money printing and devaluation of the currency, not to mention avoiding increases in inflation adjusted liability payments. I think the submitter would do well as a fed board governor.
Which has the greater likelihood of killing an organism before that organism has a chance to reproduce?
Well ... even though my face is a sample of one, I'm certain that 100% of all women on this planet find it repulsive (or at least 100% of women in the tri-state area)
http://petroleum.berkeley.edu/papers/patzek/CRPS41 6-Patzek-Web.pdf
What a waste ... they were probably more helpful than the regular employees
Created the universe in one giant gang bang
** I hope I don't get smited for that
one of these days those $60 a month Asians are going to produce stuff as good as us $60 an hour North Americans, and then we're totally screwed. I just hope I'm dead by the time that happens.
I don't see how that can happen since most commercial development still requires some sort of constant interaction/feedback with the end user. It's not like you can just send the specs over to India and expect a completely usable product that the customer is going to be satisfied with (and I'm talking commercial apps here, not the stuff you buy off the shelf for your PC).
I've seen first hand attempts by mega corps to develop large scale commercial apps almost completely offshore and in those instances the end product/implementation were complete clusterfucks. They actually had to fly lead developers from India to the customer's site to find out exactly what was needed. Then you have the issue of continually implementing product enhancements requested by the customer.
They are also much hard than IS. I took some IS classes to learn some new things at a local state college. I thought the classes were a joke. The classes were easy.
... I'm guessing English 101 wasn't one of the classes.
Unfortunately this is not a black and white issue. I've been selling on ebay since the site's inception, and have gone to a mirrored feedback policy myself. Reason being is that there are always users who will try feedback extortion (if you don't give me 15 off then I'll leave a neg). Then there are those users who neg you for items damaged in shipping. There are users who just want to fuck with you and will leave a neg with a positive comment ... "oh, sorry I must've did that by accident."
In the 15 or so years I've been selling online (USENET & Prodigy) I know there are just certain categories you should probably avoid buying used from non-niche sellers: optics, watches, computer components, guitars and most audio equipment. Also, there are certain categories on ebay that are just going to attract more scum (both bidders and sellers) than others. Caveat Empor
Anyone with a "Larry the Cableguy" ringer needs to be lynched!
No, this isn't racism or xenophobia. The last generation of IBM Thinkpads were/are crap, the T series (especially the T21 and its Deathstar drive). Lenovo basically bought a soiled brand and IBM was happy to give it to them.
What about for us perverts?
Speak for yourself, I work from home!
"Dammit Ma, I told you knock first before barging in!!!"
Bad form to reply to my own post, but if you were referring to a scheduling or transcription system where the patient is seen at an affiliated physician's office before identifiers are assigned from the HIS ... then yes, those do present a problem. Though it is more procedural than system limited.
Each company/ service (doctor, hospital, radiology, blood test, etc) has their own ID number for you. EveWhen the HL7 msg arrives, how do you marry up the msg with your account?
Every facility I've ever come across has an HIS which feeds the ancillaries the patient identifiers, the two main identifiers being a facility medical record number and a visit/encounter number. The ancillaries use those identifiers for clinical and billing functions, and not their own internally generated numbers.
It can't exist as a rigid standard because every facility is going to have its own procedures, policies and unique information that will need to be captured/transmitted.
An obvious question is why proprietary medical software vendors have not addressed this issue already.
What about HL7? That's a standard, so are several of the other clinical, demographic and billing formats for electronic transmission.
The problem with ballooning healthcare costs for most of the civlized world are due to demographic shifts and increasing malpractice insurance costs.
"Further, for every job outsourced from the U.S., nine new jobs are actually created in the U.S."
Translation: the tools will be created in Asia, while service jobs to implement the tool at a customer site will be done by US IT "consultants."
This is why I refuse to pay income taxes!
Will they place the transmitters on buoys?
Those of us with Asperger's ...
WTF is with all these slashdotters suffering from Asperger's syndrome all the sudden?! Were you actually diagnosed by an accredited professional as having this affliction? Is there some online test going around that I haven't seen?
I have Asperger's, similar to Autism.
... ok is that a real diagnosis from an accredited professional, or is that a conclusion you have made on your own? I see many self-proclaimed high functioning autistics on various forums and starting to wonder if there is an emote test I might be missing.
You think health insurance is bad now? Imagine if hospitals were more like the Department of Motor Vehicles...
... or even worse VA hospitals