You seem to be under the illusion that you have a functioning democracy. If the UK or the USA (or Iraq, for that matter) were actually democracies then there would be no war in Iraq and we wouldn't have all of these surveillance laws. Your vote doesn't count. Get over it. Go out and buy stuff to keep the corporations happy.
Use a database. I guess it's just ignorance when people use a spreadsheet for database functions. If you need 65K rows, you really need a database. Any spreadsheet is a disaster waiting to happen with that many rows.
Suspend and hibernate work just fine on my Dell laptop with Ubuntu... don't know what your problem is since mine 'just works' without fiddling (also WiFi, Bluetooth, display, sound card, everything else...
This is a no-brainer. Here in Switzerland, our houses are wired with meters that can shed load (water heaters, clothes dryers, dishwashers) during peak times. It's been this way for many years... even before these new technologies were available.
I guess the US electric companies always found they could get reimbursed for expensive peak load plants so they had no incentive to apply intelligence to load management.
There is a simple search where you can type in a search box but this is slow and never seems to find what I want. The advanced search was designed by a computer programmer and allows searching by field with lots of options... it's too tedious to actually use and doesn't usually give me what I'm looking for...
What I actually use and which works better than Outlook's native search is an add-on product that my company has provided (no doubt in response to complaints about the primitive Outlook search). This is called 'Lookout' and is much better than Outlook native search. However, it's still not as good as the search in Google mail or Yahoo mail.
Yes, you can search, filter, and categorize in Outlook. However, the implementation is so brain dead that it's not worth the effort.
For example, I can search in Outlook but it calls up this primitive search selection box where I have to select which field (one at a time), text, other options, some other brain damaged stuff that I can't remember now since I never use it and then it goes through some search and usually doesn't find what I want since I didn't specify it just right.
Compare that to my Google mail search where I just type some words into the search bar and it always finds what I'm looking for...
When you have a monopoly, you don't have to compete. Outlook has the brainless corporate IT managers by the balls so it doesn't need to bring its software into the 21 century.
I can't believe that you like Outlook. I moved to a new company recently and had my first exposure to this steaming pile. This software is vintage 1980 interface. Just about any other modern email application has a much better interface not to mention useful features like searching, filtering, categorizing, etc. Outlook only survives because of the stupidity of corporate IT execs.
BTW, the Outlook web access client looks and works like the first generation 'Pong'... very crude design and barely usable functionality. This is absolutely the worst web mail program in existence...
... and don't even get me started on the uselessness that is called Sharepoint.
Ahhhh! Now I understand that INK refers to Microsoft's Tablet PC method of capturing pen strokes.
I don't usually pay much attention to Microsoft standards since they always tie you to their OS and this appears no different.
As far as INKs utility in health care, I would put it somewhere south of useless. When you need to capture health information, it needs to be semantically structured to be meaningful. Otherwise is it pretty much useless. Free text has been proven time and again to be extremely difficult (impossible) to convert to medically meaningful information. INK is one step below free text since it must be translated from pen strokes to free text (and then free text to semantically correct information).
BTW, my original post said nothing about EMR. I assume you were just trolling for cheap points there. For the record, I actually designed, programmed, and implemented an EMR (about 20 years ago) and currently work on implementing several other EMRs so I do have some knowledge of the subject. None of these use Microsoft Tablet PCs for obvious reasons.
I've used OpenOffice for several years and my experience has been that it is much more compatible with all of the various flavors of MS Office than Office itself. MS Office has significant differences between versions that screw up formatting, etc.
As far as precise APA formatting, I have found MS Office to be a complete pain to work with and OpenOffice much more consistent. My wife's thesis required very specific formatting and MS Office kept screwing it up and there were parts that just couldn't meet the specs. I converted to doc to OpenOffice and it worked like a charm. YMMV.
I had a neighbor with an annoying spotlight. I put up a few common red reflectors which gave him a couple of red evil eyes pointing back to his house. Guess what?... the light went off (and stayed off).
Regarding my use of the term 'monopoly rent', I was using this in the classical economic sense of the use of a legal or regulatory mechanism to extract payment instead of producing wealth through trade or productivity and not in the vernacular of 'sole provider'. See Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking for a further discussion.
But I'm uncomfortable with its "conclusions", if it can even be said to have any. (It seems to indulge a sense throughout of "this is ok, things are good, we just need to embrace them".) From the article:
In short, the money in this networked economy does not follow the path of the copies. Rather it follows the path of attention, and attention has its own circuits.
If I reworded this as:
In short, the money in a networked economy does not go to the people doing the work. Rather it follows the path of who controls the view, and that path has its own circuits.
it would sound a lot less benign.
I think you have missed his point here. The money DOES go to the people doing the work. Except the 'work' is the not necessarily the people who made the original work but the people who are adding value through immediacy, personalization, interpretation, authenticity, accessibility, embodiment, patronage, and findability.
I believe that his real point is that it is no longer sufficient to 'create' something and then retire on royalties but you must go out and continually provide value for that creation in the ways he lists. This is the great shock to traditional businesses publishing books, music, software, etc. Their business model has been formed on the scarcity of copies and they have failed to adapt to the reality that copies are no longer scarce.
Actually, I kind of like the concept that you have to work for a living by continually providing value rather than create a monopoly on some idea or expression of an idea and coast on monopoly rents.
For important passwords, I make up a simple phrase such as 'quick brown fox jumps over the fence' and use the first letters. This yields a seemingly random string of characters. You should also throw in numbers, symbols, and random capitalizations. But much easier to remember...
The continuous stream of PR and FUD from the tobacco companies that smoking isn't bad for you plus their advertising might have had something to do with people deciding to take the risk and start smoking... and of course, once they started, they were addicted and found it very had to quit.
The problem about the origin of life, (which has a direct impact on the evaluation of Drake's equation) is how hard is it to make a molecule, by 'chance' that is selectively self-replicating.
It doesn't really matter how hard it is to make a molecule that will be self-replicating. Just make lots of molecules. Eventually, the self-replicating ones will self-replicate and take over the world. You only need one. The ones that don't replicate won't be heard from again. The whole random mutation and natural selection thing works nicely.
If you want examples from the good old USA of corporations getting rich from people dying, you could look at the cases of the tobacco companies, or coal mines, or chemical companies for a start. Then you could look at all of the unsafe consumer products (check the filings of the US consumer product safety commission cpsc.gov for a nice long list). It's really naive to believe that corporations don't benefit from selling dangerous or defective goods. It costs money to make things safe and to recall items that have been found unsafe. It's much cheaper (i.e. more profit) to cut corners and hide problems.
WiFi support has progressively improved in each release. As you point out, the problem is the drivers and manufacturers are reluctant to release their secrets to making their cards work. However, my experience with the latest Ubuntu (7.1) is that WiFi (as well as video, sound,etc.) all just work out of the box on all of the hardware that I have tried (mostly laptops). You can test your hardware using the 'Live CD' so you don't even need to do an install to see if it will work.
TiVos problem is that in spite of being first to market, the competition is eating into their business. So instead of being good 'free market' proponents and just making something better, cheaper, etc., they turn to the capitalist model and adopt monopoly tactics (patents) to prevent competition.
Remember, good capitalists are not free market proponents. They are much happier with monopoly positions.
I don't know how you judge junk and 'bottom feeders' but I just checked about five sites that I know are legitimate and they all came up as red and yellow... you may need to refine your methods.
Thank you for explaining why I can't get a job in 'hi-tech'. I spent all of my time in the 70s wiring up a 8008 and programming it in assembler. Then I moved on to an 8080 with CPM. Later I had an Apple II and an Apple/// and a TRS-80. The trail continued for years with a whole string of now useless computers (anybody want an Osborne?).
I now know that I was wasting my time with all of those obsolete luser computers and that they have prevented me from getting that high paying hi-tech job that I've always wanted. I should have studied and earned my Microsoft certifications; then I would be on easy street... oh, wait... I retired 15 years ago with more money than I know what to do with... never did find a hi-tech job... just started a hi-tech company or two.
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You seem to be under the illusion that you have a functioning democracy. If the UK or the USA (or Iraq, for that matter) were actually democracies then there would be no war in Iraq and we wouldn't have all of these surveillance laws. Your vote doesn't count. Get over it. Go out and buy stuff to keep the corporations happy.
Use a database. I guess it's just ignorance when people use a spreadsheet for database functions. If you need 65K rows, you really need a database. Any spreadsheet is a disaster waiting to happen with that many rows.
Suspend and hibernate work just fine on my Dell laptop with Ubuntu... don't know what your problem is since mine 'just works' without fiddling (also WiFi, Bluetooth, display, sound card, everything else...
It's turtles all the way down, sonny.
This is really old technology. We have separate wiring to these appliances.
I guess the US electric companies always found they could get reimbursed for expensive peak load plants so they had no incentive to apply intelligence to load management.
What I actually use and which works better than Outlook's native search is an add-on product that my company has provided (no doubt in response to complaints about the primitive Outlook search). This is called 'Lookout' and is much better than Outlook native search. However, it's still not as good as the search in Google mail or Yahoo mail.
For example, I can search in Outlook but it calls up this primitive search selection box where I have to select which field (one at a time), text, other options, some other brain damaged stuff that I can't remember now since I never use it and then it goes through some search and usually doesn't find what I want since I didn't specify it just right.
Compare that to my Google mail search where I just type some words into the search bar and it always finds what I'm looking for...
When you have a monopoly, you don't have to compete. Outlook has the brainless corporate IT managers by the balls so it doesn't need to bring its software into the 21 century.
BTW, the Outlook web access client looks and works like the first generation 'Pong'... very crude design and barely usable functionality. This is absolutely the worst web mail program in existence...
I don't usually pay much attention to Microsoft standards since they always tie you to their OS and this appears no different.
As far as INKs utility in health care, I would put it somewhere south of useless. When you need to capture health information, it needs to be semantically structured to be meaningful. Otherwise is it pretty much useless. Free text has been proven time and again to be extremely difficult (impossible) to convert to medically meaningful information. INK is one step below free text since it must be translated from pen strokes to free text (and then free text to semantically correct information).
BTW, my original post said nothing about EMR. I assume you were just trolling for cheap points there. For the record, I actually designed, programmed, and implemented an EMR (about 20 years ago) and currently work on implementing several other EMRs so I do have some knowledge of the subject. None of these use Microsoft Tablet PCs for obvious reasons.
I call shenanigans. This may exist as some proprietary obscure standard (and it probably deserves to die).
As far as precise APA formatting, I have found MS Office to be a complete pain to work with and OpenOffice much more consistent. My wife's thesis required very specific formatting and MS Office kept screwing it up and there were parts that just couldn't meet the specs. I converted to doc to OpenOffice and it worked like a charm. YMMV.
The Asus eeePC comes in pink (OMG ponies).
I think Heisenberg could explain it.
I had a neighbor with an annoying spotlight. I put up a few common red reflectors which gave him a couple of red evil eyes pointing back to his house. Guess what?... the light went off (and stayed off).
I believe that his real point is that it is no longer sufficient to 'create' something and then retire on royalties but you must go out and continually provide value for that creation in the ways he lists. This is the great shock to traditional businesses publishing books, music, software, etc. Their business model has been formed on the scarcity of copies and they have failed to adapt to the reality that copies are no longer scarce.
Actually, I kind of like the concept that you have to work for a living by continually providing value rather than create a monopoly on some idea or expression of an idea and coast on monopoly rents.
For important passwords, I make up a simple phrase such as 'quick brown fox jumps over the fence' and use the first letters. This yields a seemingly random string of characters. You should also throw in numbers, symbols, and random capitalizations. But much easier to remember...
The continuous stream of PR and FUD from the tobacco companies that smoking isn't bad for you plus their advertising might have had something to do with people deciding to take the risk and start smoking... and of course, once they started, they were addicted and found it very had to quit.
If you want examples from the good old USA of corporations getting rich from people dying, you could look at the cases of the tobacco companies, or coal mines, or chemical companies for a start. Then you could look at all of the unsafe consumer products (check the filings of the US consumer product safety commission cpsc.gov for a nice long list). It's really naive to believe that corporations don't benefit from selling dangerous or defective goods. It costs money to make things safe and to recall items that have been found unsafe. It's much cheaper (i.e. more profit) to cut corners and hide problems.
WiFi support has progressively improved in each release. As you point out, the problem is the drivers and manufacturers are reluctant to release their secrets to making their cards work. However, my experience with the latest Ubuntu (7.1) is that WiFi (as well as video, sound,etc.) all just work out of the box on all of the hardware that I have tried (mostly laptops). You can test your hardware using the 'Live CD' so you don't even need to do an install to see if it will work.
Remember, good capitalists are not free market proponents. They are much happier with monopoly positions.
I don't know how you judge junk and 'bottom feeders' but I just checked about five sites that I know are legitimate and they all came up as red and yellow... you may need to refine your methods.
I now know that I was wasting my time with all of those obsolete luser computers and that they have prevented me from getting that high paying hi-tech job that I've always wanted. I should have studied and earned my Microsoft certifications; then I would be on easy street... oh, wait... I retired 15 years ago with more money than I know what to do with... never did find a hi-tech job... just started a hi-tech company or two.