I don't share much in common with Linus except maybe the phone, but I got my N1 exactly because of how evolved android had become, how beefy the hardware specs were (I was building PCs with roughly the same specs 8 years ago), and because I preferred a phone not marketed to me with a direct tie-in with a carrier. Overtly unlocked? Yes, please. Granted, it's not for everyone, but it is my first smartphone and I'm glad I waited.
I used to do a lot of sh/ksh/perl scripting, and once I developed a little facility with sed and awk and regular expressions (not to mention 'eval', my all-time fave ksh function), I found that commenting these kinds of filters and parsing tricks was very helpful as I looked back at what I was doing. Keeping things short and sweet and efficient (if need be) is great, no question. Being able to hand what I wrote to someone else, or being able to revisit something years later and make sense of something without having to pick up a book to re-acquaint myself with the syntax rules, was a real time-saver. I'm a manager, now, but every now and again the guys on my team show me things I wrote and tell me how helpful those little notes were.
Okay, if you're at a polytech, and you have access to any number of continuous-beam lasers, some of much absurdly-high power that they cannot be use for performance, and you have an oscillating mirror, you can put something in the sky that can be seen for hundreds of miles. It's cold up there, lots of icy water vapor in the air, and the video I saw showed bright circles being drawn. I may be wrong, but that's what it looked like to me. Missiles have been launched in the north sea for testing over years, and I don't recall any kind of visual phenomena ever recorded like this. Also note that the "glowing cone" seems to point to a place on the ground, and was distinctly linear, and the angle into the sky was too low for a rocket test, which would be an arc, and not a line. I stand by my hypothesis. Thanks for your skepticism.
You mean the sig? That's an oldie but goodie, sung to "Frere Jaques". Taught to me by Dr. Kelly, my math teacher, who also taught us physics limericks like:
There once was a fencer named Fiske
Whose swordplay was exceedingly brisk
So fast was his action, by the Fitzgerald contraction
I've been playing Blizzard games with a small group of friends, the same five people, for years -- from SC to WC, WC2 to WC3, D1 and D2, and WoW. Every time you release a new version or expansion in one of these titles, we're all psyched to play it and have to go out and buy our own copy of each so that we can play together. I understand that you're makin' the shekels and everything, but have you considered club licensing models that would permit us to install from the same copy and buy and register our license as a group, with a modest discount? If we want to have someone new join the group, perhaps we can increase our pool accordingly? We want to stay licensed, but after we've already spent thousands of dollars on your products, we're looking for ways to make the costs less burdensome as we stick with your titles. What say you?
... oh yeah, and what's up with not having offline LAN play?
A friend of mine had to teach their kid how to use the "phone without buttons", recently. Let's just say that it's non-obvious, and much more so than I expected.
Your points are good, but leave off one interesting bit about cassette players -- not all of them were especially good at matching the same tape speed. I had a sony that would play just the tiniest bit faster than it should, mucking up the pace and tone of the recording. Oddly enough, the sanyo it replaced had a speed control so that you could adjust for that.
Finally, he never got to listen to two of my favorite cassette bands -- "de-magnetizer" and "head cleaner" -- what's a cassette experience without 'em?
What about food crops that are not directly tied to nutrition? How about the mustard seed? Requires no pesticides, grows in poor soils, not a staple to any diet (unless you're really really into condiments), has a high oil content (somewhere around rapeseed and cottonseed ~ 30%), and can be pressed, filtered and put directly into a diesel engine. Coats parts very well, from what I understand, and inhibits wear.
What is it about environmentalism that prevents you from considering bio fuels at all? One trip to Thailand? Personally, I think that biofuels are the only logical endpoint for cars and trucks and buses. It's a matter of finding the right crops for the area, treating the soils well, and getting the adoption necessary to sustain.
Hate to break it to you, pal, but combustion fuels are here to stay no matter what you agree to or what you think is inexcusable.
I have had a theory that the US would not need to engage from a military standpoint at all to crush NK. All that would need to be done is to drop un-ending planeloads (for maybe six months, so not totally un-ending) full of rice, in nice 10-lb bags on parachutes, into the country. Everyone in NK would be so damn happy to stop eating wood and dirt (and have the energy that comes from real food) that they'd rise up. Rice bombs, my friends. Let's kill 'em with kindness.
Yeah, but I think his point was more along the lines of "there would not be so many knife crimes if there were more guns around". I'd tend to agree. If you want to off someone, you're probably going to use the handiest, most efficient mechanism you can get. No gun available? Hmmm. Time for a knife. I think you guys should limit knives to just 125,000 people, and that would solve the problem. Mmmmm, but then you'd have a rise in pointy stick crimes. Just require a pointy stick ownership license and cut down all the trees. Pencils? Pens? Nope. Can't have 'em without a permit. Then you'd pretty much be left to pottery shards, bits of glass and bludgeony things like rocks or frozen chickens. Then, after the last frozen chicken permit has been issued, there'll be a rise in death by good old fashioned fisticuff beatings. Aaah.
The BPEL standard languished, there have been a host of other standards that have languished... firewire, USB,XML? It's too long a time to spend on arguing over common ground at the structure level, I think.
I heard the idea of a seperate internet proposed, especially for healthcare traffic, optimized for images and wild DB queries for genes and records and disease information content and pharmacy data... a whole new cloud.
Fantasy? Maybe, but I think bigger companies have a better sense of what's working NOW and an ability to act, over what these smaller companies (and states, maybe) can assess and work on.
The businesses will shift faster than the government will.
It sounds like you're being ignored because you're coming off as bombastic and shrill.
I have no doubt that you feel passionately about patient care, open source software, open standards, EMR and the range of other issues that come into play, but I also get the sense that you're unlikely to change your position or find a middle path, given that large healthcare companies already occupy a lot of the thought-space. As I listen to you, I get the sense that you see the pool as having already been peed in, and made unfit for you at the outset.
First: Open source software is great for some things, but when it doesn't work, you have nobody to sue.
As for the assertion that healthcare IT companies get their certifications because they have "purchasing power", I fear you are misled. Getting your software to meet the certification requirements, and doing that safely, securely, and in such a way that privacy is assured, is a very long and complex process that takes hundreds of thousands of engineering hours over the course of YEARS. It doesn't come by writing some check. There's a lot of hard work, and a lot of testing and evaluation that takes place. Only the big players have the resources to do that, and do it quickly, admittedly.
The notion that performance can only be judged by having non-proprietary EMR is also a red herring. Clinicians and administrators are able to gather and assess their own metrics to ascertain the quality of adoption and performance. Granted, open (and secure!) EMR standards are desirable and we're not there yet, but the lack of open standards at this time is no direct impediment to assessing performance of Healthcare IT at the hospitals, clinics and offices where it is being used.
I hope that you continue to shake things up, and I have a feeling that you will.
... if any sites like gizmodo or engadget (who have had challenges with moderation) will have their editors give it a read, or perhaps comment here on the challenges.
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Gee. 5-10 years is how long I have to wait for new battery technology.
I know where I'd be sleeping -- in the U-Boat!
I don't share much in common with Linus except maybe the phone, but I got my N1 exactly because of how evolved android had become, how beefy the hardware specs were (I was building PCs with roughly the same specs 8 years ago), and because I preferred a phone not marketed to me with a direct tie-in with a carrier. Overtly unlocked? Yes, please. Granted, it's not for everyone, but it is my first smartphone and I'm glad I waited.
I used to do a lot of sh/ksh/perl scripting, and once I developed a little facility with sed and awk and regular expressions (not to mention 'eval', my all-time fave ksh function), I found that commenting these kinds of filters and parsing tricks was very helpful as I looked back at what I was doing. Keeping things short and sweet and efficient (if need be) is great, no question. Being able to hand what I wrote to someone else, or being able to revisit something years later and make sense of something without having to pick up a book to re-acquaint myself with the syntax rules, was a real time-saver. I'm a manager, now, but every now and again the guys on my team show me things I wrote and tell me how helpful those little notes were.
Okay, if you're at a polytech, and you have access to any number of continuous-beam lasers, some of much absurdly-high power that they cannot be use for performance, and you have an oscillating mirror, you can put something in the sky that can be seen for hundreds of miles. It's cold up there, lots of icy water vapor in the air, and the video I saw showed bright circles being drawn. I may be wrong, but that's what it looked like to me. Missiles have been launched in the north sea for testing over years, and I don't recall any kind of visual phenomena ever recorded like this. Also note that the "glowing cone" seems to point to a place on the ground, and was distinctly linear, and the angle into the sky was too low for a rocket test, which would be an arc, and not a line. I stand by my hypothesis. Thanks for your skepticism.
You mean the sig? That's an oldie but goodie, sung to "Frere Jaques". Taught to me by Dr. Kelly, my math teacher, who also taught us physics limericks like:
There once was a fencer named Fiske
Whose swordplay was exceedingly brisk
So fast was his action, by the Fitzgerald contraction
that his rapier turned into a disk
Deep. Fried. Bacon. Wrapped. Awesome.
Cheers!
It was some kids at the local polytechnic having some fun with a laser light-show projector. I saw the video.
Open the iPhone to be available on multiple carriers, to spread out the congestion.
... just sayin'
I've been playing Blizzard games with a small group of friends, the same five people, for years -- from SC to WC, WC2 to WC3, D1 and D2, and WoW. Every time you release a new version or expansion in one of these titles, we're all psyched to play it and have to go out and buy our own copy of each so that we can play together. I understand that you're makin' the shekels and everything, but have you considered club licensing models that would permit us to install from the same copy and buy and register our license as a group, with a modest discount? If we want to have someone new join the group, perhaps we can increase our pool accordingly? We want to stay licensed, but after we've already spent thousands of dollars on your products, we're looking for ways to make the costs less burdensome as we stick with your titles. What say you?
A friend of mine had to teach their kid how to use the "phone without buttons", recently. Let's just say that it's non-obvious, and much more so than I expected.
Your points are good, but leave off one interesting bit about cassette players -- not all of them were especially good at matching the same tape speed. I had a sony that would play just the tiniest bit faster than it should, mucking up the pace and tone of the recording. Oddly enough, the sanyo it replaced had a speed control so that you could adjust for that.
Finally, he never got to listen to two of my favorite cassette bands -- "de-magnetizer" and "head cleaner" -- what's a cassette experience without 'em?
... figure out a rotary-dial phone?
Clarence Thomas was the lone dissenter.
What about food crops that are not directly tied to nutrition? How about the mustard seed? Requires no pesticides, grows in poor soils, not a staple to any diet (unless you're really really into condiments), has a high oil content (somewhere around rapeseed and cottonseed ~ 30%), and can be pressed, filtered and put directly into a diesel engine. Coats parts very well, from what I understand, and inhibits wear. What is it about environmentalism that prevents you from considering bio fuels at all? One trip to Thailand? Personally, I think that biofuels are the only logical endpoint for cars and trucks and buses. It's a matter of finding the right crops for the area, treating the soils well, and getting the adoption necessary to sustain. Hate to break it to you, pal, but combustion fuels are here to stay no matter what you agree to or what you think is inexcusable.
I have had a theory that the US would not need to engage from a military standpoint at all to crush NK. All that would need to be done is to drop un-ending planeloads (for maybe six months, so not totally un-ending) full of rice, in nice 10-lb bags on parachutes, into the country. Everyone in NK would be so damn happy to stop eating wood and dirt (and have the energy that comes from real food) that they'd rise up. Rice bombs, my friends. Let's kill 'em with kindness.
Thank you for making this point.
Yeah, but I think his point was more along the lines of "there would not be so many knife crimes if there were more guns around". I'd tend to agree. If you want to off someone, you're probably going to use the handiest, most efficient mechanism you can get. No gun available? Hmmm. Time for a knife. I think you guys should limit knives to just 125,000 people, and that would solve the problem. Mmmmm, but then you'd have a rise in pointy stick crimes. Just require a pointy stick ownership license and cut down all the trees. Pencils? Pens? Nope. Can't have 'em without a permit. Then you'd pretty much be left to pottery shards, bits of glass and bludgeony things like rocks or frozen chickens. Then, after the last frozen chicken permit has been issued, there'll be a rise in death by good old fashioned fisticuff beatings. Aaah.
I heard the idea of a seperate internet proposed, especially for healthcare traffic, optimized for images and wild DB queries for genes and records and disease information content and pharmacy data... a whole new cloud.
Fantasy? Maybe, but I think bigger companies have a better sense of what's working NOW and an ability to act, over what these smaller companies (and states, maybe) can assess and work on.
The businesses will shift faster than the government will.
Can you tie that experience and thought to Healthcare IT for me? Thank you.
I agree. You've made a great point. The same could be said for transportation, imho.
It sounds like you're being ignored because you're coming off as bombastic and shrill.
I have no doubt that you feel passionately about patient care, open source software, open standards, EMR and the range of other issues that come into play, but I also get the sense that you're unlikely to change your position or find a middle path, given that large healthcare companies already occupy a lot of the thought-space. As I listen to you, I get the sense that you see the pool as having already been peed in, and made unfit for you at the outset.
First: Open source software is great for some things, but when it doesn't work, you have nobody to sue.
As for the assertion that healthcare IT companies get their certifications because they have "purchasing power", I fear you are misled. Getting your software to meet the certification requirements, and doing that safely, securely, and in such a way that privacy is assured, is a very long and complex process that takes hundreds of thousands of engineering hours over the course of YEARS. It doesn't come by writing some check. There's a lot of hard work, and a lot of testing and evaluation that takes place. Only the big players have the resources to do that, and do it quickly, admittedly.
The notion that performance can only be judged by having non-proprietary EMR is also a red herring. Clinicians and administrators are able to gather and assess their own metrics to ascertain the quality of adoption and performance. Granted, open (and secure!) EMR standards are desirable and we're not there yet, but the lack of open standards at this time is no direct impediment to assessing performance of Healthcare IT at the hospitals, clinics and offices where it is being used.
I hope that you continue to shake things up, and I have a feeling that you will.
You are clearly ahead of the curve. I find your insights quite cromulent. I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
You may be on to something. I wonder if we could have a little roving bot that could um, microwave or cook the soil into glass.
Oh, an old Ozzie one! My heart leapt at the sight of it, as if I had seen an old friend. It's a shame I don't have mine anymore.
If it's going to be closest to Tahiti, why isn't that the best place to observe it from? Papeete, perhaps?
... if any sites like gizmodo or engadget (who have had challenges with moderation) will have their editors give it a read, or perhaps comment here on the challenges.