And in fact "at all costs" is precisely the point an economist is most qualified to help address, is it not? We need to talk about all aspects of the issue if we want to come up with a solution that we all feel comfortable with.
But in our country, we have an implicit agreement that it is a government of the people, by the people and for the people, so serving the government is at least indirectly serving the people. That being said, our public conversation in America has devolved to one nearly exclusively around money, which erodes any truly noble claims to service. Instead of encouraging nobility in our public servants, we are left with a conversation that either government workers are suckers for working for cheap or villains for finding imaginative ways to profit personally from their station.
Yes, because everyone knows that the best way to run a business is to add a layer of MBA's. We don't want a panel of DOCTORS deciding how to run our hospitals do we? We need efficiency, by jove, efficiency!
Anyhow, this article is about Medical IT. I would guess that the slow adoption is at least partly because doctors and nurses are not bureaucrats and hate the bureaucracy, so even though computers are great for organizing information, doctors and nurses thrive on stressful "save the world" scenarios. I think it's just a mindset, not covering their butts.
Yes, because everyone knows that the best way to run a business is to add a layer of MBA's. We don't want a panel of DOCTORS deciding how to run our hospitals do we? We need efficiency, by jove, efficiency!
Anyhow, this article is about Medical IT. I would guess that the slow adoption is at least partly because doctors and nurses are not bureaucrats and hate the bureaucracy, so even though computers are great for organizing information, doctors and nurses thrive on stressful "save the world" scenarios. I think it's just a mindset, not covering their butts.
Also, it has not been built yet, so "created" is too strong a word. He more like "imagined" or "designed" it. Not to say it's not impressive for a 15 year old, but it's not the salvation of the world.
The current customers are not really screwed like the article claims. I think their life will get better, as they are now dealing with a steady established company.
FTFA: ""When the integrated product becomes generally available, Virtual Iron customers will be able to move to the new, integrated product and benefit from a more feature rich-solution than is available today." But Oracle has not said when the combined product will arrive, and Virtual Iron's partners and customers may feel that Oracle has left them out to the cold in terminating the company's product so swiftly. Presumably, it will take several months - if not a full year - to combine the two products."
The tax loopholes themselves require lawyers and CPAs to take advantage of, so they create inefficiencies. A more efficient tax system would save us lots of money each year. Of course, then the patronage system of government we enjoy would be threatened.:-)
It seems to me possible that if people select their offspring intentionally based on genetic information, then we will tend to have less diversity of outcomes, which will impact evolution, and will also perhaps reduce our species' survivability. Steven Hawkings probably would have been screened out of existence, as well as Helen Keller. The clinic is right, it's only a matter of time until we accept this, and we'll just have to wait and see what happens.
But putting up tariffs is a terrible move. Protectionism is not a benefit to anyone. And Balmer did not say "screw you." He is balancing his interests against US taxes and finding it better to do business elsewhere. He has the right to do so, and it doesn't make him unpatriotic -- it doesn't mean he IS patriotic either, of course. Nobody has the patriotic duty to do business in America.
The thing that makes him sound unpatriotic is the wording of the summary. They chose to make it about him avoiding efforts to "curb tax avoidance," instead of being about him "avoiding extremely high US taxes." I'm not saying he is patriotic, just to be aware that either viewpoint is just an opinion in disguise, not a fact.
Yes, I read the article. The time period I'm referring to was the time during which people were turned away, not the time during which the computers were down. Who cares about the computer down time, that's not what the sensational headline was about. If anything, the difference argues in favor of the hospital, if you think about it. I'm just saying that bashing the hospital based on this brief article is not warranted.
I don't agree that it's popular mainly or even largely because of the "cool" factor. Or even if you think it is, how in fact did it become viewed as "cool"? I believe it's because it's easier to use than other phones. So the features that it does have, even if they are fewer compared to other smartphones, are easier to access. So the user's experience is more powerful overall. It's kind of an Ahmdal's law of interface design -- adding more features at a certain point makes no difference to the user. You also need to make those features usable. Hell, my iPhone is easier to use than my Mom's "simple" Nokia.
We don't know that human lives were at stake here. First of all, the situation lasted from 1AM to 3AM on a Wednesday morning, so I doubt if anyone was even turned away. Also, the summary implied that there were other options for the patients. Hospitals now are very complex systems, and losing track of a patient could mean making an error that bodes worse for the patient than not admitting them, like administering the wrong medicine or applying the wrong procedure. We don't know the whole story, but I'm thinking it's not as bad as the sensation-grabbing news reporters might like it to seem.
So how is it green technology when the resources needed to develop it are so scarce that the major players are already arguing over them? Isn't that by definition not sustainable?
This reminds me of a conversation with a friend about C++. He told me, and it was true, "I don't use C++, you can do it all in straight C." I just couldn't make him see that the fact that it's EASIER to do with all that "sugar" is a real benefit, resulting in things getting done in reality that wouldn't get done if they weren't so easy. Not everyone wants to use a hand saw to cut their wood.
Scientology does not have the status of a religion there, as it does in the US,
This seems to me to imply that if it were a religion, then a different set of standards for its behaviors would apply. I'm sorry, but why does religion get a pass when it comes to promulgating crazy ideas that suck money out of the unwary? It's just bad policy to go on protecting religions like that. IMHO
If the license is priced right, then they will build it. Speaking of which, the cost per mile is all that matters to consumers. So either tax the oil, or make this stuff cheap. No other choice that I can see. Oh, and don't forget any infrastructure that might need to be modified for this new fuel.
And in other news, Apple and others are mainstreaming the use of software to recognize faces, so the omission of names from the database is really a laughable gesture towards privacy. These folks are taking a risk, for sure. But hey, no risk, no rewards. I applaud them.
An inanimate carbon rod could have handily beaten Coleman in the last election.
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Pardon my ignorance of political nuance, but why the hell did the republicans nominate him as their candidate if he was that bad? Smells like partisan machinery as usual -- he might be a bad guy, but he's OUR bad guy and we love him.
I'm more hoping that they actually make Google Voice available. How long is it only going to be available to former Grand Central users? It's been months since they announced it. Nobody seems to be griping about it out there but me.
Same for Google Latitude for the iPhone.
Sorry to piggyback on your irrelevant posts. Some people might be interested in the drawbacks of the technology. I looked and this was all I could find:
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There are just a slew of "buts" coming. First off is as Holmlid notes, just making the deuterium so dense in any volume is an issue and must be worked quite cold. Next, the matter of stability comes to mind, as in the paper’s graphs the time to live is short, shorter than even nanoseconds. That makes the foreseeable production essentially within a laser fusion reactor. Making the ultra dense deuterium and moving it seems out of the question for now. The time of life seems impractical for any laser ignition anytime soon. Finally, the fusion reaction would have to be rather, well, counter intuitive, yielding harmless helium and hydrogen. One would expect a wider range of new materials from the fusion including tritium, which can be nasty radioactive stuff. Lots of supposition, but experimentation is in order.
All that said, it is by every objective view - a great success. Metallic hydrogen has been worked on for several years with less than useful results. The heavier ultra dense deuterium with the atoms already very close might just spark some engineering to see if the new fuel candidate has potential. But it’s a long climb up a tall mountain.
I found Open Transport to be a nightmare in practice. It did everything under the sun, so in order to just open a connection, send data, and tear it down, you had to do a bunch of stuff that I really could not understand as a beginning programmer. Maybe the documentation and usability has gotten better since then, or maybe I just wasn't smart enough. At any rate, sockets are easy to use, so I was glad when they switched to a Unix with sockets.
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And in fact "at all costs" is precisely the point an economist is most qualified to help address, is it not? We need to talk about all aspects of the issue if we want to come up with a solution that we all feel comfortable with.
But in our country, we have an implicit agreement that it is a government of the people, by the people and for the people, so serving the government is at least indirectly serving the people. That being said, our public conversation in America has devolved to one nearly exclusively around money, which erodes any truly noble claims to service. Instead of encouraging nobility in our public servants, we are left with a conversation that either government workers are suckers for working for cheap or villains for finding imaginative ways to profit personally from their station.
Where will you spend your money after the world ends?
Yes, because everyone knows that the best way to run a business is to add a layer of MBA's. We don't want a panel of DOCTORS deciding how to run our hospitals do we? We need efficiency, by jove, efficiency!
Anyhow, this article is about Medical IT. I would guess that the slow adoption is at least partly because doctors and nurses are not bureaucrats and hate the bureaucracy, so even though computers are great for organizing information, doctors and nurses thrive on stressful "save the world" scenarios. I think it's just a mindset, not covering their butts.
Yes, because everyone knows that the best way to run a business is to add a layer of MBA's. We don't want a panel of DOCTORS deciding how to run our hospitals do we? We need efficiency, by jove, efficiency!
Anyhow, this article is about Medical IT. I would guess that the slow adoption is at least partly because doctors and nurses are not bureaucrats and hate the bureaucracy, so even though computers are great for organizing information, doctors and nurses thrive on stressful "save the world" scenarios. I think it's just a mindset, not covering their butts.
Also, it has not been built yet, so "created" is too strong a word. He more like "imagined" or "designed" it. Not to say it's not impressive for a 15 year old, but it's not the salvation of the world.
The current customers are not really screwed like the article claims. I think their life will get better, as they are now dealing with a steady established company.
FTFA: ""When the integrated product becomes generally available, Virtual Iron customers will be able to move to the new, integrated product and benefit from a more feature rich-solution than is available today." But Oracle has not said when the combined product will arrive, and Virtual Iron's partners and customers may feel that Oracle has left them out to the cold in terminating the company's product so swiftly. Presumably, it will take several months - if not a full year - to combine the two products."
He meant "anachronism."
The tax loopholes themselves require lawyers and CPAs to take advantage of, so they create inefficiencies. A more efficient tax system would save us lots of money each year. Of course, then the patronage system of government we enjoy would be threatened. :-)
It seems to me possible that if people select their offspring intentionally based on genetic information, then we will tend to have less diversity of outcomes, which will impact evolution, and will also perhaps reduce our species' survivability. Steven Hawkings probably would have been screened out of existence, as well as Helen Keller. The clinic is right, it's only a matter of time until we accept this, and we'll just have to wait and see what happens.
But putting up tariffs is a terrible move. Protectionism is not a benefit to anyone. And Balmer did not say "screw you." He is balancing his interests against US taxes and finding it better to do business elsewhere. He has the right to do so, and it doesn't make him unpatriotic -- it doesn't mean he IS patriotic either, of course. Nobody has the patriotic duty to do business in America.
The thing that makes him sound unpatriotic is the wording of the summary. They chose to make it about him avoiding efforts to "curb tax avoidance," instead of being about him "avoiding extremely high US taxes." I'm not saying he is patriotic, just to be aware that either viewpoint is just an opinion in disguise, not a fact.
Yes, I read the article. The time period I'm referring to was the time during which people were turned away, not the time during which the computers were down. Who cares about the computer down time, that's not what the sensational headline was about. If anything, the difference argues in favor of the hospital, if you think about it. I'm just saying that bashing the hospital based on this brief article is not warranted.
I don't agree that it's popular mainly or even largely because of the "cool" factor. Or even if you think it is, how in fact did it become viewed as "cool"? I believe it's because it's easier to use than other phones. So the features that it does have, even if they are fewer compared to other smartphones, are easier to access. So the user's experience is more powerful overall. It's kind of an Ahmdal's law of interface design -- adding more features at a certain point makes no difference to the user. You also need to make those features usable. Hell, my iPhone is easier to use than my Mom's "simple" Nokia.
We don't know that human lives were at stake here. First of all, the situation lasted from 1AM to 3AM on a Wednesday morning, so I doubt if anyone was even turned away. Also, the summary implied that there were other options for the patients. Hospitals now are very complex systems, and losing track of a patient could mean making an error that bodes worse for the patient than not admitting them, like administering the wrong medicine or applying the wrong procedure. We don't know the whole story, but I'm thinking it's not as bad as the sensation-grabbing news reporters might like it to seem.
So how is it green technology when the resources needed to develop it are so scarce that the major players are already arguing over them? Isn't that by definition not sustainable?
This reminds me of a conversation with a friend about C++. He told me, and it was true, "I don't use C++, you can do it all in straight C." I just couldn't make him see that the fact that it's EASIER to do with all that "sugar" is a real benefit, resulting in things getting done in reality that wouldn't get done if they weren't so easy. Not everyone wants to use a hand saw to cut their wood.
Scientology does not have the status of a religion there, as it does in the US,
This seems to me to imply that if it were a religion, then a different set of standards for its behaviors would apply. I'm sorry, but why does religion get a pass when it comes to promulgating crazy ideas that suck money out of the unwary? It's just bad policy to go on protecting religions like that. IMHO
If the license is priced right, then they will build it. Speaking of which, the cost per mile is all that matters to consumers. So either tax the oil, or make this stuff cheap. No other choice that I can see. Oh, and don't forget any infrastructure that might need to be modified for this new fuel.
Genetics is still in its infancy. We don't know how or why genes are expressed!
And in other news, Apple and others are mainstreaming the use of software to recognize faces, so the omission of names from the database is really a laughable gesture towards privacy. These folks are taking a risk, for sure. But hey, no risk, no rewards. I applaud them.
Pardon my ignorance of political nuance, but why the hell did the republicans nominate him as their candidate if he was that bad? Smells like partisan machinery as usual -- he might be a bad guy, but he's OUR bad guy and we love him.
I'm more hoping that they actually make Google Voice available. How long is it only going to be available to former Grand Central users? It's been months since they announced it. Nobody seems to be griping about it out there but me. Same for Google Latitude for the iPhone.
There are just a slew of "buts" coming. First off is as Holmlid notes, just making the deuterium so dense in any volume is an issue and must be worked quite cold. Next, the matter of stability comes to mind, as in the paper’s graphs the time to live is short, shorter than even nanoseconds. That makes the foreseeable production essentially within a laser fusion reactor. Making the ultra dense deuterium and moving it seems out of the question for now. The time of life seems impractical for any laser ignition anytime soon. Finally, the fusion reaction would have to be rather, well, counter intuitive, yielding harmless helium and hydrogen. One would expect a wider range of new materials from the fusion including tritium, which can be nasty radioactive stuff. Lots of supposition, but experimentation is in order.
All that said, it is by every objective view - a great success. Metallic hydrogen has been worked on for several years with less than useful results. The heavier ultra dense deuterium with the atoms already very close might just spark some engineering to see if the new fuel candidate has potential. But it’s a long climb up a tall mountain.
I found Open Transport to be a nightmare in practice. It did everything under the sun, so in order to just open a connection, send data, and tear it down, you had to do a bunch of stuff that I really could not understand as a beginning programmer. Maybe the documentation and usability has gotten better since then, or maybe I just wasn't smart enough. At any rate, sockets are easy to use, so I was glad when they switched to a Unix with sockets.