That brought back a fond memory: when I was at DGC in the mid-80's, working on the fascinating but doomed "DeviOS" project, I used to bring in my Walkperson for late-night debugging runs. I would find a nice gap in the AM band and let the minicomputer generate my musical accompaniment. Definitely felt plugged in.
Actually, a lot of hospitals use voice recognition systems for dictation. There are usually still medical transcriptionists in the loop, but they have at least a partial text to work from instead of just doing straight-ahead transcription. I have heard some of them claim that working from partial text is slower than just doing what they used to do, because the interfaces provided for editing the text are slower than their blinding typing speeds.
I know many very intelligent people who seem to have a random-homophone-substitution filter between their brains and their tongues. It can get pretty funny sometimes. I suppose you're nagging about things like "attenuated" instead of "attuned." It's a pretty long leap from a couple of examples of that to proof that someone is vocabulary-challenged.
Anyway, most people who have that problem in speech will make many fewer substitutions while typing, so they might want to be extra vigilant when using dictation (as if one didn't have to be, anyway).
Oh, and: grammar Nazis are among the lowest forms of net.life, slightly above Anonymous Cowards. Oh, wait, you're both... sux to be you.
I just love the example[1] the IBM marketroids chose for this: "For example, when asking for 'Radio 104.3 FM,' the new IBM-pioneered technology allows drivers to simply say, 'Tune to 104.3,' or 'Set the radio station to 104.3,' or 'Change the radio station to 104.3.'" Of all the amazing applications one could dream up, saving a driver from having to punch a radio preset is what they came up with.
I rather like "Open the pod bay door, Hal" myself.
"All [Access i]s lacking in terms of functionality is perhaps indexes, which would improve it's ability to deal with large data sets."
Access has indexes. They're not optimized for really big data sets, though, as everyone who has had an Access app grow out of bounds has found out.
I've had plenty of good uses for Access when I needed to cook some data quickly, and I've used it for applications that were a bit too big for it, too; the ending was never happy in those cases.
I've carried around a fairly nifty little "commitment management" Access app for a few years now, but I just consider it a prototype. I shudder at the thought of having to maintain it as is for an actual workgroup. On one job, I blew it up into a SQL web app with good results, but of course I didn't take that with me. Sharing the Access database instead would have been awful.
Correct, of course. "Its," the so-called "Saxon genitive," does not take an apostrophe. When I was young, schoolchildren were still taught this. </curmudgeon>
Looks like the rent-by-mail model is expensive for people who want few movies, while nothing is going to be fast enough for serious movie junkies. It works great for us because we have enough time for 3-5 movies/wk due to not watching any other TV. My turnaround time on DVDs from Netflix is blindingly fast by USPS standards, usually two days between putting a disk in our mailbox outgoing and delivery of the replacement.
You'd have a much better point if he hadn't, in fact, been able to steal essentially everything they had. If that much data strolled out of there in the hands of black hats, they could analyze it to whatever extent needed and figure out what the Big Secrets were.
It would be interesting to know if there had been any internal response to something as obvious as a missing set of backups. Not what you want to hear on Monday morning if you're the head of security.
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The article contains the famous quote, "Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment. - Jim Horning."
I've seen this misattributed to several different people. It was originally from Will Rogers.
We're also piloting Vocera, using it all over a medium-sized urban hospital campus. It's working pretty well so far. It's mostly support folks who have it now. There's one guy in particular I'm always having to page, and it's very nice to be able to just phone the Vocera extension: *chime* "Vocera" "Call Mike Effing Scott right effing now!" "I didn't understand" "Call Mike Scott" "Calling Mike Scott..." *ring*
(Name changed to protect the geeky)
As far as the Windows lockin goes, we're stuck with so much of that anyway that I don't think anyone blinked at it.
I was at MIT 1968 - 74 (yes, the famous six-year Bachelor's program, popular in those years). I remember lots of stories about the mildly eccentric Norbert Weiner (lost in his own little world a bit more than Einstein) but it seemed people didn't talk about Nash much.
Of course, I was very busy with my underground work for the NSA and perhaps didn't hear as many stories as I might otherwise have.
I had an instructor who had started a doctorate in music at Harvard and then changed to math at MIT. He did not seem particularly odd for that place and time; sadly, it didn't even seem all that odd when he killed himself. I am drawing a blank on his name right now.
It's called an easement. We have things like water meters buried there, on my street.
But, yeah, the specifics vary from place to place, including whether you put your trash there or not.
A case a few years back involved Bob Dylan's trash and a rabid fan. If I weren't so damned old, I might even remember the guy's name; he "wrote the book" on Dylan.
A voice says "A. J. Weberman."
Anyway, the logic was, everywhere but NH, that you've abandoned the stuff by putting it in a trashcan outside, telegraphing your intent to dispose of it. I'd rather the law didn't try to read my mind any more than absolutely necessary, though.
They say (but you know the kind of things THEY say) that it's OK to require me to pee in a cup because I usually flush it away with no concern, so it is OK to collect it.
No, no, NO. To you, that looks like a public urinal; to me it looks like the best possible security system. I flush it, and right away you can't tell what came from me and what came from the girl next door. Give it a day, and you can't distinguish between mine and Larry King's.
I'm sure this is !intentional (heh) but on my Compaq keyboard at work, it is quite possible to extend right thumb and right middle finger, fold the rest of them down, and hit the 3-finger salute configured as a bird.
It's not the MOST comfortable way, but sometimes symbolism is worth a little discomfort.
There really needs to be a shortcut for Windows XP users, though.
That's fair use if I ever saw it. Besides, that piece of text is probably from the author's resume, passed along to the publisher for the dust cover bio, and copied by B&N for the website.
Probably only the first transfer in that chain was even marginally interesting from a copyright law standpoint.
But I agree with derch, it's ironic to say you "know" Hank S. Warren, and then copy his bio verbatim. At least add something we don't know: he wears ugly bowties/cheats at chess/designs almost-perpetual-motion machines...
We go to a lot of trouble in OR to make sure surgeons are not multitasking, other than what the surgery requires.
Besides, what about the ones who can only work with Wagner or Aerosmith blaring (please don't let my surgeon be listening to the Grateful Dead, OK?)? I suppose one could modulate the music using the sound from the network connection.
QoS is only part of the problem; the connection would have to be dedicated and gold-plated for reliability anyway. If it were engineered well enough to be usable at all, it would pretty much disappear.
That gave me a flashback, too. Nearly 20 years ago, now, I was at Data General (RIP) spending many hours in the lab debugging OS stuff. I would take my Walkman out there and tune into the RF from whatever computer I was working on.
This would provide "gray noise" for isolation, and give me a heads-up if I flew the machine up its own tailpipe. It does not surprise me that I was not the only one doing the minicomputer mind-meld.
It pays one heck of a lot more than it did before the Fischer Boom. Fischer, and later Kasparov, put chess on the sports map and attracted sponsorship, something that organizers had been trying to do for years without much success.
BTW, when Fischer wasn't throwing tantrums, he was generally quite congenial. I saw him on his exhibition tour in 1964, right after I learned the game. He was witty and outright charming to everyone. Go figure. Maybe it was his KGB body double? He did almost slip up and give someone a draw, after all, playing _only_ 45 opponents.
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That brought back a fond memory: when I was at DGC in the mid-80's, working on the fascinating but doomed "DeviOS" project, I used to bring in my Walkperson for late-night debugging runs. I would find a nice gap in the AM band and let the minicomputer generate my musical accompaniment. Definitely felt plugged in.
Actually, a lot of hospitals use voice recognition systems for dictation. There are usually still medical transcriptionists in the loop, but they have at least a partial text to work from instead of just doing straight-ahead transcription. I have heard some of them claim that working from partial text is slower than just doing what they used to do, because the interfaces provided for editing the text are slower than their blinding typing speeds.
I know many very intelligent people who seem to have a random-homophone-substitution filter between their brains and their tongues. It can get pretty funny sometimes. I suppose you're nagging about things like "attenuated" instead of "attuned." It's a pretty long leap from a couple of examples of that to proof that someone is vocabulary-challenged.
... sux to be you.
Anyway, most people who have that problem in speech will make many fewer substitutions while typing, so they might want to be extra vigilant when using dictation (as if one didn't have to be, anyway).
Oh, and: grammar Nazis are among the lowest forms of net.life, slightly above Anonymous Cowards. Oh, wait, you're both
I just love the example[1] the IBM marketroids chose for this: "For example, when asking for 'Radio 104.3 FM,' the new IBM-pioneered technology allows drivers to simply say, 'Tune to 104.3,' or 'Set the radio station to 104.3,' or 'Change the radio station to 104.3.'" Of all the amazing applications one could dream up, saving a driver from having to punch a radio preset is what they came up with.
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I rather like "Open the pod bay door, Hal" myself.
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1. http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/19
"All [Access i]s lacking in terms of functionality is perhaps indexes, which would improve it's ability to deal with large data sets."
Access has indexes. They're not optimized for really big data sets, though, as everyone who has had an Access app grow out of bounds has found out.
I've had plenty of good uses for Access when I needed to cook some data quickly, and I've used it for applications that were a bit too big for it, too; the ending was never happy in those cases.
I've carried around a fairly nifty little "commitment management" Access app for a few years now, but I just consider it a prototype. I shudder at the thought of having to maintain it as is for an actual workgroup. On one job, I blew it up into a SQL web app with good results, but of course I didn't take that with me. Sharing the Access database instead would have been awful.
Correct, of course. "Its," the so-called "Saxon genitive," does not take an apostrophe. When I was young, schoolchildren were still taught this.
</curmudgeon>
Looks like the rent-by-mail model is expensive for people who want few movies, while nothing is going to be fast enough for serious movie junkies. It works great for us because we have enough time for 3-5 movies/wk due to not watching any other TV. My turnaround time on DVDs from Netflix is blindingly fast by USPS standards, usually two days between putting a disk in our mailbox outgoing and delivery of the replacement.
You'd have a much better point if he hadn't, in fact, been able to steal essentially everything they had. If that much data strolled out of there in the hands of black hats, they could analyze it to whatever extent needed and figure out what the Big Secrets were.
It would be interesting to know if there had been any internal response to something as obvious as a missing set of backups. Not what you want to hear on Monday morning if you're the head of security.
The article contains the famous quote, "Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment. - Jim Horning."
I've seen this misattributed to several different people. It was originally from Will Rogers.
We're also piloting Vocera, using it all over a medium-sized urban hospital campus. It's working pretty well so far. It's mostly support folks who have it now. There's one guy in particular I'm always having to page, and it's very nice to be able to just phone the Vocera extension: ..." *ring*
*chime* "Vocera"
"Call Mike Effing Scott right effing now!"
"I didn't understand"
"Call Mike Scott"
"Calling Mike Scott
(Name changed to protect the geeky)
As far as the Windows lockin goes, we're stuck with so much of that anyway that I don't think anyone blinked at it.
Yes, but ... just imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!
...
Oh, wait
I was at MIT 1968 - 74 (yes, the famous six-year
Bachelor's program, popular in those years). I
remember lots of stories about the mildly
eccentric Norbert Weiner (lost in his own
little world a bit more than Einstein) but it
seemed people didn't talk about Nash much.
Of course, I was very busy with my
underground work for the NSA and perhaps didn't
hear as many stories as I might otherwise have.
I had an instructor who had started a doctorate
in music at Harvard and then changed to math at
MIT. He did not seem particularly odd for that
place and time; sadly, it didn't even seem all
that odd when he killed himself. I am drawing
a blank on his name right now.
We have things like water meters buried there, on my street.
But, yeah, the specifics vary from place to place, including whether you put your trash
there or not.
A case a few years back involved Bob Dylan's trash and a rabid fan. If I weren't so damned old, I might even remember the guy's name; he "wrote the book" on Dylan.
Anyway, the logic was, everywhere but NH, that you've abandoned the stuff by putting it in a trashcan outside, telegraphing your intent to dispose of it.
I'd rather the law didn't try to read my mind any more than absolutely necessary, though.
They say (but you know the kind of things THEY say) that it's OK to require me to pee in a cup because I usually flush it away with no concern, so it is OK to collect it.
No, no, NO. To you, that looks like a public urinal; to me it looks like the best possible
security system. I flush it, and right away you can't tell what came from me and what came from the girl next door. Give it a day, and you can't
distinguish between mine and Larry King's.
I'm sure this is !intentional (heh) but on my Compaq keyboard at work, it is quite possible
to extend right thumb and right middle finger, fold the rest of them down, and hit the
3-finger salute configured as a bird.
It's not the MOST comfortable way, but sometimes symbolism is worth a little discomfort.
There really needs to be a shortcut for Windows XP users, though.
Get a grip.
...
That's fair use if I ever saw it. Besides, that
piece of text is probably from the author's
resume, passed along to the publisher for the
dust cover bio, and copied by B&N for the website.
Probably only the first transfer in that chain
was even marginally interesting from a copyright
law standpoint.
But I agree with derch, it's ironic to say you
"know" Hank S. Warren, and then copy his bio
verbatim. At least add something we don't know:
he wears ugly bowties/cheats at chess/designs
almost-perpetual-motion machines
We go to a lot of trouble in OR to make sure surgeons are not multitasking, other than what the surgery requires.
Besides, what about the ones who can only work with Wagner or Aerosmith blaring (please don't let my surgeon be listening to the Grateful Dead, OK?)? I suppose one could modulate the music using the sound from the network connection.
QoS is only part of the problem; the connection would have to be dedicated and gold-plated for reliability anyway. If it were engineered well enough to be usable at all, it would pretty much disappear.
That gave me a flashback, too. Nearly 20 years ago, now, I was at Data General (RIP) spending many hours in the lab debugging OS stuff. I would take my Walkman out there and tune into the RF from whatever computer I was working on.
This would provide "gray noise" for isolation, and give me a heads-up if I flew the machine up its own tailpipe. It does not surprise me that I was not the only one doing the minicomputer mind-meld.
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It pays one heck of a lot more than it did before the Fischer Boom. Fischer, and later Kasparov, put chess on the sports map and attracted sponsorship, something that organizers had been trying to do for years without much success.
BTW, when Fischer wasn't throwing tantrums, he was generally quite congenial. I saw him on his exhibition tour in 1964, right after I learned the game. He was witty and outright charming to everyone. Go figure. Maybe it was his KGB body double? He did almost slip up and give someone a draw, after all, playing _only_ 45 opponents.