The question is will it be valuable like an Apple I, or just a curiosity like a PalmPilot or a CueCat? Selling an original Apple I will pay for a lot of retirement. Selling a CueCat won't.
Todays laptops are very genererous in width, but not so generous in height, so wasting height with a taskbar doesn't make sense if it can live on the side.
Except it's more useful to me if it's at the bottom. If it takes up too much space, make it resizable, like the Dock in OS X.
How is moderation by site-users more honest than moderation by site-operators? You get biases either way.
Slashdot's system only lets users mod a comment one point at a time, they can't mod a comment higher than 5, they can't use all their mod point on one comment, they can't mod their own comments, and enough people are given mod points at any one time that the biases should reflect those of the users.
Looking at most free press outlets these days, it seems like raving lunatics are a growing industry. So he'll probably be given a TV show, or something.
I send out security risk info to our employees every so often, but not all the time.
Send them out too often, and you risk being ignored. Send them out infrequently, and people say they weren't warned. Once a month seems to do the trick where I work. Management actually encourages this since it keeps people aware without becoming annoying.
Nice to see the Digital logo get used again. While the PDP predates my experiences, several family members worked for DEC during the 80s. I assume Ken Olsen is laughing in his grave at HP's boardroom misfortunes of the past several years.
It might be useful in developing new procedures or improving current ones, but it will take time. The new information isn't going to change anything drastically in the short term.
Maybe if he lowered the prices, he might get more customers. Even though I'm in the US, I've read timesonline on occasion, but the four dollars a week is a bit too much.
The problem I see is "software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster." Try telling people with a P4 why they can't have Windows 7 running Aero and Facebook and Word and Outlook and 'The Twitter' and Yahoo and eBay and MTV and iTunes and antivirus and ZoneAlarm and Bejeweled and... and... they just won't understand. For every program that's running, it causes all the other programs to run a little slower. They'll insist they need to have all those programs running at the same time, yet they'll also complain about how slow their computer is running. Older computers with less drive space, less memory, and slower processors will have a harder time coping with newer software.
Buffing a paint job so it's pleasing to the eye is different than buffing a CD so it works good in a player. Your eye will not resolve micrometer differences. Heating up the plastic on a CD is bad idea if you want it to stay usable.
An organization affiliated with ours has some web apps that only work with IE6, so I leave that on most machines in our department. It was over a year after IE6 came out before they supported that, so I figure it is a matter of time before they support IE7...probably when IE8 comes out. Many of the users in my department wouldn't know what their default browser is if I asked them. They would say it's, "the Internet". All they know is whether it works or not. If it works, that's all that matters.
FWIW, this type of situation might be one of the (many) reasons why Vista hasn't been widely deployed in enterprise (not as widely as XP, anyway). I don't think IE6 is available for Vista, so apps that don't work with IE7 would give some companies yet another reason to think about holding off on deploying Vista.
I'm sort of ambivalent about the paper vs. online argument because they both have their positive and negative aspects.
For my part, with a paper journal, I don't have to worry about a server being down, or losing access to older articles because my subscription ran out. I also don't have to worry about broken links. OTOH, with electronic journals, I can access my "library" when I'm at a conference and finishing up a presentation I'll be giving. I won't need to bother with carting around years worth of journals in a suitcase.
Didn't RTFA, so you take this with a grain of salt...
The system created by the Veteran's Administration is public domain software, though it is called VistA, so it can be a bit confusing now. I work for in a department within a medical school and have thought about testing it out, though IIRC it uses Delphi for the database and was created using an obscure scripting/computing language called M. Still, it's used to link all VA hospitals and clinics, so a veteran can go to a clinic across the country and the doctors there will have access to the patient's medical record. Since it's free and presumably robust (lots of clinics, hospitals and records) it seems like a good starting point for any open standards.
The docs I work with all have training on the VA's software since they each spend time at our local VA. I don't know how well it handles billings stuff, but from what I hear, it handles imaging, prescriptions, and the rest of the record fairly well.
The govt funds a lot of research through other agencies, so it would be nice to see some of that freed up as well. OTOH, I don't know that other agencies have something set up like PubMed.
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The question is will it be valuable like an Apple I, or just a curiosity like a PalmPilot or a CueCat? Selling an original Apple I will pay for a lot of retirement. Selling a CueCat won't.
Except it's more useful to me if it's at the bottom. If it takes up too much space, make it resizable, like the Dock in OS X.
Slashdot's system only lets users mod a comment one point at a time, they can't mod a comment higher than 5, they can't use all their mod point on one comment, they can't mod their own comments, and enough people are given mod points at any one time that the biases should reflect those of the users.
You can also read the FAQ.
Looking at most free press outlets these days, it seems like raving lunatics are a growing industry. So he'll probably be given a TV show, or something.
I send out security risk info to our employees every so often, but not all the time.
Send them out too often, and you risk being ignored. Send them out infrequently, and people say they weren't warned. Once a month seems to do the trick where I work. Management actually encourages this since it keeps people aware without becoming annoying.
Nice to see the Digital logo get used again. While the PDP predates my experiences, several family members worked for DEC during the 80s. I assume Ken Olsen is laughing in his grave at HP's boardroom misfortunes of the past several years.
It might be useful in developing new procedures or improving current ones, but it will take time. The new information isn't going to change anything drastically in the short term.
Aside from litigation, how is your company using the patents in question?
One definition of a patent troll is someone who uses patents solely for licensing and litigation.
My mother and an uncle did, so that's close enough I guess. I still prefer the original blue digital logo, FWIW.
Return of the King aside, the dead usually don't put up much of a fight.
Not sure why, but this made me think about Mr. Gumby.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrjHKMJTh1w
Oh yeah...MY BRAIN HURTS!
I like how it is now © 201 (look at the bottom right corner of the page). Maybe it's some sort of fancy-schmancy UNIX time variant.
"Roll for detect sarcasm."
/Seemed appropriate
Maybe if he lowered the prices, he might get more customers. Even though I'm in the US, I've read timesonline on occasion, but the four dollars a week is a bit too much.
The problem I see is "software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster." Try telling people with a P4 why they can't have Windows 7 running Aero and Facebook and Word and Outlook and 'The Twitter' and Yahoo and eBay and MTV and iTunes and antivirus and ZoneAlarm and Bejeweled and... and... they just won't understand. For every program that's running, it causes all the other programs to run a little slower. They'll insist they need to have all those programs running at the same time, yet they'll also complain about how slow their computer is running. Older computers with less drive space, less memory, and slower processors will have a harder time coping with newer software.
Steve Who?
Wozniak.
I'm sure they'll listen to Reason.
Buffing a paint job so it's pleasing to the eye is different than buffing a CD so it works good in a player. Your eye will not resolve micrometer differences. Heating up the plastic on a CD is bad idea if you want it to stay usable.
An organization affiliated with ours has some web apps that only work with IE6, so I leave that on most machines in our department. It was over a year after IE6 came out before they supported that, so I figure it is a matter of time before they support IE7...probably when IE8 comes out. Many of the users in my department wouldn't know what their default browser is if I asked them. They would say it's, "the Internet". All they know is whether it works or not. If it works, that's all that matters.
FWIW, this type of situation might be one of the (many) reasons why Vista hasn't been widely deployed in enterprise (not as widely as XP, anyway). I don't think IE6 is available for Vista, so apps that don't work with IE7 would give some companies yet another reason to think about holding off on deploying Vista.
Was it submitted by Ignatius J. Reilly?
I'm sort of ambivalent about the paper vs. online argument because they both have their positive and negative aspects.
For my part, with a paper journal, I don't have to worry about a server being down, or losing access to older articles because my subscription ran out. I also don't have to worry about broken links. OTOH, with electronic journals, I can access my "library" when I'm at a conference and finishing up a presentation I'll be giving. I won't need to bother with carting around years worth of journals in a suitcase.
The one SW of Vincennes, IN was actually in Illinois. Vincennes is near the state border.
After Betamax and the MiniDisc, maybe Sony is finally getting some luck.
Didn't RTFA, so you take this with a grain of salt...
The system created by the Veteran's Administration is public domain software, though it is called VistA, so it can be a bit confusing now. I work for in a department within a medical school and have thought about testing it out, though IIRC it uses Delphi for the database and was created using an obscure scripting/computing language called M. Still, it's used to link all VA hospitals and clinics, so a veteran can go to a clinic across the country and the doctors there will have access to the patient's medical record. Since it's free and presumably robust (lots of clinics, hospitals and records) it seems like a good starting point for any open standards.
The docs I work with all have training on the VA's software since they each spend time at our local VA. I don't know how well it handles billings stuff, but from what I hear, it handles imaging, prescriptions, and the rest of the record fairly well.
The govt funds a lot of research through other agencies, so it would be nice to see some of that freed up as well. OTOH, I don't know that other agencies have something set up like PubMed.