Yes, it did occur to me. But that is their own fault if they do not clearly indicate to to the user what they are buying. There is nothing to prevent a user from ending up with a machine without a monitor, or without enough RAM, or with the "wrong" version of MS-Windows either. The average consumer might not be very computer literate, but that doesn't mean there aren't ways of dealing with it other than just closing up shop.
You are more confident than I am. I used to believe that surely either market pressure or government intervention would bring an end to the Microsoft tax and allow consumers choice and to see what they are actually purchasing (line item). But it has been so many years, I have lost faith.
The only thing more annoying than purchasing a machine with MS-Windows you don't want, knowing that money is going to support the monopoly that takes away your choice, is buying a supposedly Linux machine, only to find out later that there are deals "behind the scenes" that *STILL* funnel money to Microsoft, even when you didn't get a license. (Yes, that happens)
And almost EVERY page on Dells site says "Windows® . Life without WallsTM . Dell recommends Windows 7." Even on the Linux related page I was trying to read, a damn Javascript popup appeared that said that "Dell recommends IE8".
Even when I clicked on a Linux Mini 10, it immediately placed the "Dell recommends Windows 7." on every single following screen (not to mention that the price for the Linux version was exactly the same as the MS-Windows model, and with nothing else included".
Think about what you just wrote. So you think it is just about time installing Linux? No.
* For one thing, some of us don't want to pay a Microsoft Tax. If I don't plan on using MS-Windows on a computer, I should not be forced to pay for it.
* If a computer is available with Linux, it implies at least SOME amount of Linux support- even if it is just a compatibility guide.
* I wouldn't want to use Ubuntu, anyway, since there are (for me) much better Linuxes. So if they offered a computer with NO OS installed, I would be just has happy.
You can bet that Microsoft is behind the scenes again, pulling strings at Dell to squash any notion of freedom or choice.
I wouldn't exactly call those "TV's" as much as a billboards or giant marketing/mostly outdoors types of screens. But yes, unlike ANYTHING you can buy in a Walmart, Kmart, BestBuy, etc, those truly are LED. Like I said, there is a big difference.
It is tiring seeing marketing materials and people referring to LCD displays as "LED", when they are not. It would be like calling a gasoline internal combustion engine car a "Lithium Ion Car" if one replaced the lead-acid battery with a lithium ion battery.
I am not sure where they think people work. But at my workplace we WORK. And "Playboy", nude pictures or not, is not an appropriate work-related site for us, period.
Well, I did check out the Wikipedia page mentioned and it was MS-Windows only. But I didn't research much further than that. Sorry, I stand corrected.... Dragon is not open source, it *is* multiplatform, and is not available for Linux.
"[HTC Incredible] By using a death grip of both hands covering the phone we saw the results go from -57 to -64 dBm"
"[Droid X] can be difficult[...] We used two hands on this larger phone."
"[BlackBerry Bold] was a little more resistant [...] hold of it with two hands, we saw the signal strength go from -80 to -87 dBm."
Yeah, cause covering the entire phone with two hands is a perfectly normal way that people would ever use the phone. I bet if I shoved a smart phone up my a**, it would lose a lot of signal too...
Just a nit-pick.... They are not "LED displays". They are LCD displays with an LED backlight. Big difference. As far as I am aware, there are no LED TV's being sold in the US yet.
I really wish people would stop using the term "Photoshopping". There are dozens of programs that can edit photos in such ways. I mean, we don't call it "Gimping", for example.
I suggest the term "photoediting".... or even just "editing"...
Shutter glasses running that fast but skipping every other frame means that each eye would see only 1 out of 4 frames. I am guessing with so little "on" time, it will start to damage perceived image persistence and it is likely the brain will start to notice flicker. The image would also seem to be 1/4 brightness instead of 1/2 brightness like a single 3D image. Then add that with a single view (player), the two images are very similar in brightness and appearance. But if you interleave that with another totally different view that could be very different in brightness and/or appearance, it will complicate matters even further.
Although a cool idea, it also seems kinda obvious... but that never seems to stop patenting.
>So I mean, Windows Speech Recognition is not exactly Open Source.
It's not exactly multi-platform either. He might be using Linux, for example (like so many of us do). Really, the original post left off a lot of potentially useful (narrowing) info.
It just blows me away that nobody has written a real (not mono crud) Linux/Mac *client* for VistA! Or perhaps even a multiplatform Java client or [true] web based client. But even if they had, I can't see VistA being useful for any of ICF/SNF/RH/AL/HHA facilities, which is a HUGE chunk of the healthcare market (and growing far faster than any other segment).:(
No change in my view. Almost any job has the potential for harming people, equipment, property, theft, etc. If a position is that important then they should test employees on PERFORMANCE: Reaction time, mental clarity, focus. It doesn't matter what chemical (or no chemical) that causes the impairment, you are measuring impairment. This can all be done objectively and with a portable computer.
I don't want to slam OpenVistA/EVistA/WorldVistA (or whatever people want to call it)... but from what I know about it:
1) It is an ancient system 2) It is developed in what is now an obscure language (MUMPS) 3) It is barely multiplatform (especially since there is no Linux nor MacOS GUI client) 4) The design is very rigid- for example, it can't really be used in nursing homes nor rehab facilities because it is designed around acute care
Granted, things may have changed over the last few years in ways I am not aware of, but I suspect it is pretty much no different than last I looked.
Unfortunately, healthcare in the USA (and many other countries) is *extremely* entrenched in Microsoft products (trust me, I know) and closed source software. The whole "giving out money for EMR's" has been a disaster. Special interest groups have pretty much ensured that all the money will go only to "approved" or "certified" systems, which are all closed-source, commercial packages (and almost all also running on MS-Windows).
And guess what those companies did? They RAISED THEIR PRICES for that software by the same amount of money that is being pumped into handouts to hospitals and physician groups!
Instead of pumping billions of dollars into closed source, single-platform, commercial products that lock in customers, the Fed should have directed that money into open standards, open source, and multi-platform research and coding. You want to talk about savings? Imagine how much the industry could save if there was at least one robust, flexible, open-source, multi-platform EMR? (And no, that isn't OpenVistA). Let EMR companies make their money off custom (but open) additions, installation, training, support, hosting, etc.
You are an asshole. Did it ever occur to you that there are people (myself included) that have NEVER used illegal drugs and yet refuse to be drug tested because it is a violation of our privacy and almost always with no probable cause?
1) You also have no idea what else they are testing for 2) You have no idea what information is shared and to whom 3) There is a absolute possibility of false positives that could ruin your reputation
Drug testing is evil, period. Legal drugs (such as alcohol and prescription drugs, even over-the-counter meds) can be just as debilitating. Even sleep deprivation can cause severe performance problems. And those that do choose to use a illegal drug on their own time don't necessarily affect their on-the-job performance.
If a company wants to ensure their workforce is not "impaired", then they should test for impairment through some type of coordination, response time, or mental exercise. Or perhaps even through observation of performance.
I don't care what you call it, it is the Linux distro bought/led/created/supported/owned/associated with/whatever by Novell. I don't see anything wrong with disliking what a company does and no longer wanting to support it. In fact, it is pretty normal consumer behavior. I never said the word "hate", by the way. I simply said they are no longer on my radar (nor most of the people I know that use Linux).
>And was this the only reason you gave up on SuSE? Grow up.
"Tom was married to Sally for 5 years. But one day Sally got strange and stabbed Tom. Tom left Sally. And that was the only reason he gave up on Sally? Grow up"
I appreciate your informative and enlightened response (I wish there were more like you on Slashdot). Do believe me when I say that the SuSE distro is a good one, and I, too, want to see everything Linux grow and succeed. I also think that the goal of furthering MS-Linux interactivity is a good one.
However, I am a very, very long term Unix and Linux users and advocate and monitor things like this pretty closely and didn't like what I saw or the outcome. I do believe that when Novell entered into that patent arrangement with Microsoft, it sent a chilling effect through the Linux/FOSS environment and caused some real damage. For that, I find it hard to "forgive" Novell. To me, it negated a lot of the good things that Novell (and through proximity, the SuSE community) had done. Support of SuSE, even if not monetary, still supports Novell's products and services (through mind share).
They could have handled it better. They could have done things differently. I think they should have. I know not everyone agrees with me, but that is OK:)
And had Novell not gotten in bed with Microsoft, I might even consider SuSE. However, they did, and thus SuSE was completely removed from my radar (and most everyone else in our Linux User's Group. Now it is Mandriva, Fedora, and Ubuntu.
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Yes, it did occur to me. But that is their own fault if they do not clearly indicate to to the user what they are buying. There is nothing to prevent a user from ending up with a machine without a monitor, or without enough RAM, or with the "wrong" version of MS-Windows either. The average consumer might not be very computer literate, but that doesn't mean there aren't ways of dealing with it other than just closing up shop.
You are more confident than I am. I used to believe that surely either market pressure or government intervention would bring an end to the Microsoft tax and allow consumers choice and to see what they are actually purchasing (line item). But it has been so many years, I have lost faith.
The only thing more annoying than purchasing a machine with MS-Windows you don't want, knowing that money is going to support the monopoly that takes away your choice, is buying a supposedly Linux machine, only to find out later that there are deals "behind the scenes" that *STILL* funnel money to Microsoft, even when you didn't get a license. (Yes, that happens)
And almost EVERY page on Dells site says "Windows® . Life without WallsTM . Dell recommends Windows 7." Even on the Linux related page I was trying to read, a damn Javascript popup appeared that said that "Dell recommends IE8".
Even when I clicked on a Linux Mini 10, it immediately placed the "Dell recommends Windows 7." on every single following screen (not to mention that the price for the Linux version was exactly the same as the MS-Windows model, and with nothing else included".
Nothing like feeling welcome.
Think about what you just wrote. So you think it is just about time installing Linux? No.
* For one thing, some of us don't want to pay a Microsoft Tax. If I don't plan on using MS-Windows on a computer, I should not be forced to pay for it.
* If a computer is available with Linux, it implies at least SOME amount of Linux support- even if it is just a compatibility guide.
* I wouldn't want to use Ubuntu, anyway, since there are (for me) much better Linuxes. So if they offered a computer with NO OS installed, I would be just has happy.
You can bet that Microsoft is behind the scenes again, pulling strings at Dell to squash any notion of freedom or choice.
I wouldn't exactly call those "TV's" as much as a billboards or giant marketing/mostly outdoors types of screens. But yes, unlike ANYTHING you can buy in a Walmart, Kmart, BestBuy, etc, those truly are LED. Like I said, there is a big difference. It is tiring seeing marketing materials and people referring to LCD displays as "LED", when they are not. It would be like calling a gasoline internal combustion engine car a "Lithium Ion Car" if one replaced the lead-acid battery with a lithium ion battery.
I am not sure where they think people work. But at my workplace we WORK. And "Playboy", nude pictures or not, is not an appropriate work-related site for us, period.
Well, I did check out the Wikipedia page mentioned and it was MS-Windows only. But I didn't research much further than that. Sorry, I stand corrected.... Dragon is not open source, it *is* multiplatform, and is not available for Linux.
"[HTC Incredible] By using a death grip of both hands covering the phone we saw the results go from -57 to -64 dBm"
"[Droid X] can be difficult[...] We used two hands on this larger phone."
"[BlackBerry Bold] was a little more resistant [...] hold of it with two hands, we saw the signal strength go from -80 to -87 dBm."
Yeah, cause covering the entire phone with two hands is a perfectly normal way that people would ever use the phone. I bet if I shoved a smart phone up my a**, it would lose a lot of signal too...
Just a nit-pick.... They are not "LED displays". They are LCD displays with an LED backlight. Big difference. As far as I am aware, there are no LED TV's being sold in the US yet.
I really wish people would stop using the term "Photoshopping". There are dozens of programs that can edit photos in such ways. I mean, we don't call it "Gimping", for example.
I suggest the term "photoediting".... or even just "editing"...
"BP Caught Photoediting Disaster Response Photos"
"BP Caught Editing Disaster Response Photos"
I know, "good luck with that"
Shutter glasses running that fast but skipping every other frame means that each eye would see only 1 out of 4 frames. I am guessing with so little "on" time, it will start to damage perceived image persistence and it is likely the brain will start to notice flicker. The image would also seem to be 1/4 brightness instead of 1/2 brightness like a single 3D image. Then add that with a single view (player), the two images are very similar in brightness and appearance. But if you interleave that with another totally different view that could be very different in brightness and/or appearance, it will complicate matters even further.
Although a cool idea, it also seems kinda obvious... but that never seems to stop patenting.
>So I mean, Windows Speech Recognition is not exactly Open Source.
It's not exactly multi-platform either. He might be using Linux, for example (like so many of us do). Really, the original post left off a lot of potentially useful (narrowing) info.
Dragon is not open source. It is not even multi-platform.
I wouldn't mind ads if they
1) Didn't slow down the network (AKA, loaded last or at least at the same time)
2) Didn't take up more than half the screen
But *MOST IMPORTANTLY*
3) DON'T CONTAIN *ANY* TYPE OF ANIMATION
I can't STAND movement on the screen when I am trying to read. It is extremely annoying. That is the #1 reason I block ads.
Thanks for the info.
It just blows me away that nobody has written a real (not mono crud) Linux/Mac *client* for VistA! Or perhaps even a multiplatform Java client or [true] web based client. But even if they had, I can't see VistA being useful for any of ICF/SNF/RH/AL/HHA facilities, which is a HUGE chunk of the healthcare market (and growing far faster than any other segment). :(
No change in my view. Almost any job has the potential for harming people, equipment, property, theft, etc. If a position is that important then they should test employees on PERFORMANCE: Reaction time, mental clarity, focus. It doesn't matter what chemical (or no chemical) that causes the impairment, you are measuring impairment. This can all be done objectively and with a portable computer.
I don't want to slam OpenVistA/EVistA/WorldVistA (or whatever people want to call it)... but from what I know about it:
1) It is an ancient system
2) It is developed in what is now an obscure language (MUMPS)
3) It is barely multiplatform (especially since there is no Linux nor MacOS GUI client)
4) The design is very rigid- for example, it can't really be used in nursing homes nor rehab facilities because it is designed around acute care
Granted, things may have changed over the last few years in ways I am not aware of, but I suspect it is pretty much no different than last I looked.
Unfortunately, healthcare in the USA (and many other countries) is *extremely* entrenched in Microsoft products (trust me, I know) and closed source software. The whole "giving out money for EMR's" has been a disaster. Special interest groups have pretty much ensured that all the money will go only to "approved" or "certified" systems, which are all closed-source, commercial packages (and almost all also running on MS-Windows).
And guess what those companies did? They RAISED THEIR PRICES for that software by the same amount of money that is being pumped into handouts to hospitals and physician groups!
Instead of pumping billions of dollars into closed source, single-platform, commercial products that lock in customers, the Fed should have directed that money into open standards, open source, and multi-platform research and coding. You want to talk about savings? Imagine how much the industry could save if there was at least one robust, flexible, open-source, multi-platform EMR? (And no, that isn't OpenVistA). Let EMR companies make their money off custom (but open) additions, installation, training, support, hosting, etc.
You are an asshole. Did it ever occur to you that there are people (myself included) that have NEVER used illegal drugs and yet refuse to be drug tested because it is a violation of our privacy and almost always with no probable cause?
1) You also have no idea what else they are testing for
2) You have no idea what information is shared and to whom
3) There is a absolute possibility of false positives that could ruin your reputation
Drug testing is evil, period. Legal drugs (such as alcohol and prescription drugs, even over-the-counter meds) can be just as debilitating. Even sleep deprivation can cause severe performance problems. And those that do choose to use a illegal drug on their own time don't necessarily affect their on-the-job performance.
If a company wants to ensure their workforce is not "impaired", then they should test for impairment through some type of coordination, response time, or mental exercise. Or perhaps even through observation of performance.
I don't care what you call it, it is the Linux distro bought/led/created/supported/owned/associated with/whatever by Novell. I don't see anything wrong with disliking what a company does and no longer wanting to support it. In fact, it is pretty normal consumer behavior. I never said the word "hate", by the way. I simply said they are no longer on my radar (nor most of the people I know that use Linux).
>And was this the only reason you gave up on SuSE? Grow up.
"Tom was married to Sally for 5 years. But one day Sally got strange and stabbed Tom. Tom left Sally. And that was the only reason he gave up on Sally? Grow up"
I really wish we could just invent a human-proof mosquito, one that can't stand humans.
Yeah, we probably need to substitute transmission of birth control for malaria? I guess that would be complicated.
I appreciate your informative and enlightened response (I wish there were more like you on Slashdot). Do believe me when I say that the SuSE distro is a good one, and I, too, want to see everything Linux grow and succeed. I also think that the goal of furthering MS-Linux interactivity is a good one.
However, I am a very, very long term Unix and Linux users and advocate and monitor things like this pretty closely and didn't like what I saw or the outcome. I do believe that when Novell entered into that patent arrangement with Microsoft, it sent a chilling effect through the Linux/FOSS environment and caused some real damage. For that, I find it hard to "forgive" Novell. To me, it negated a lot of the good things that Novell (and through proximity, the SuSE community) had done. Support of SuSE, even if not monetary, still supports Novell's products and services (through mind share).
They could have handled it better. They could have done things differently. I think they should have. I know not everyone agrees with me, but that is OK :)
And had Novell not gotten in bed with Microsoft, I might even consider SuSE. However, they did, and thus SuSE was completely removed from my radar (and most everyone else in our Linux User's Group. Now it is Mandriva, Fedora, and Ubuntu.