In my experience features sell software. It could be argued that an absence of bugs is a feature of sorts but it isn't the same thing. You can list features on the box or on some spec sheet but things like "tested very well" don't really belong there.
Over the long run releasing junk will hurt your business but as far as selling something today features often trump quality.
I've seen them stay up and running for decades under very harsh conditions. There is no problem if you drop it in the water or sand. Replacement parts are cheap.
In business classes they call this sort of thing employee empowerment. People get a lot more satisfaction and do better work in a job they feel they own. If the highly skilled and creative people hired to do the work make the decisions then the project is their project and their work tends to reflect that. The opposite is true too.
People get a lot less satisfaction if they have to ask permission for every move they make and their job consists of a to do list made by someone else. I work at a place where I need approval from several different bosses before I can do any sort of work and the details are all but laid out for me.
Where I work, when a project gets behind schedule for any of a hundred reasons, often the lag time in the approval process, the answer is always the same, more meetings and more bosses to answer to. More bosses more meetings [office space reference goes here] just slow things down and take away the last few shreds of satisfaction from the work. I'm guessing I'm not alone in this.
It doesn't really matter what the job is. Teaching kids with a to do list takes the creative part out of teaching. My mom is a teacher and that part of the work makes the job something people want to do. 25 years of going through the motions is an awful way to spend your time. This sort of thing turns schools and other places where creativity was important into assembly lines.
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quote: In retrospect, please add one finger to every other review I've ever done, because none deserve as low a rating as this. his review
Some part of it might have to do with how treating a problem is more profitable than curing it. The big money makers these days are lifestyle drugs that you need to take regularly to treat the symptoms of a condition.
Fixing a problem gets you money once. Temporarily removing symptoms gets you money every month with that refill.
They'd have been better off having a good player play a game of Doom 3 on a really nice machine, capturing the gameplay, editing out the hunt for switches/key cards, editing it for time, and showing that. Doom 3 had about as much of a plot as most crappy sci fi/action/horror movies.
bad scientist + monsters + super monster + super tough good guy + monster fodder = game plot = movie plot
I can't really fault them for not wanting to be like Ghosts of Mars but ripping off slightly better movies isn't the answer.
There is a lot that goes into an inpatient system aside from medical records that this wouldn't cover. This also looks a lot more like what a clinic group would use for charting than a full suite of medical software.
The software itself, while quite expensive, is only part of the cost of having a medical software suite. There is also a lot of money in supporting and customizing the software and general support. The IT staff at a lot of hospitals and clinic groups don't tend to be that tech savvy. There are exceptions of course but former nurses with a bit of a computer background are the rule. I think the vendors will do fine with this new open source option.
One really good thing about this is it could be a big step in an national electronic medical record that could follow you between hospitals. Go on vacation, get sick, and by the time you are in a bed your medical records from your old doctor are available to the attending doctor. Making that happen is good for patients and making that work well between different products, in different implementations or versions of Vista, and different sites is good for vendors putting out suites.
Would he be eligible for trial elsewhere since his crime went beyond German borders?
In short: will America and others be allowed to give him a therapeutic cockpunch?
There are a few standard hospital diagnosis codes for spacecraft accidents:
spacecraft accident ground crew
spacecraft accident occupant
spacecraft accident person (non-crew)
falling in a spacecraft (I guess that means floating into something)
and the generic spacecraft accident
Being almost too young to remember Challenger we'd kid around about these at work until Columbia.
That could be their secret now. They are using women golfers (Female Pro Golfer's Association) to power supercomputers.
At first I thought computer geeks or math geeks would be best but golf requires a great deal of spatial reasoning and since these are women they'd have superior communication skills and that is critical to clustering. I hope they don't try to patent this, their might be prior art to having a cluster of women in a computer.
That is a solid idea unless you can't get health or life insurance because of the test. Maybe you don't have to take that into account where you are from.
I don't know that much about MS but if I could pass it on to my kids I'd like to know so I could get a vasectomy.
I think I've figured this scam out:
1D (Length) X 1D (Width) X 1D (Time) = 3D
He's just re-releaseing the orignial movie. Now the 4D version, that's a different story.
I voted in Florida in 2000 and I can point out just as many problems with the vote that helped Bush out. Like how there was never a proper recount and Republican staffers were sent to disrupt the recounts in contested counties. The purpose of this bill is to make voting better for every voter not just Democrats and not just Republicans.
As it is now I can't trust a lot of voting machines and I can't trust the Secretaries of State in a lot of places to ensure fair elections. If Bush is what America wants then Bush is what America deserves.
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In my experience features sell software. It could be argued that an absence of bugs is a feature of sorts but it isn't the same thing. You can list features on the box or on some spec sheet but things like "tested very well" don't really belong there.
Over the long run releasing junk will hurt your business but as far as selling something today features often trump quality.
abacus: light on features but big on reliability
I've seen them stay up and running for decades under very harsh conditions. There is no problem if you drop it in the water or sand. Replacement parts are cheap.
In business classes they call this sort of thing employee empowerment. People get a lot more satisfaction and do better work in a job they feel they own. If the highly skilled and creative people hired to do the work make the decisions then the project is their project and their work tends to reflect that. The opposite is true too.
People get a lot less satisfaction if they have to ask permission for every move they make and their job consists of a to do list made by someone else. I work at a place where I need approval from several different bosses before I can do any sort of work and the details are all but laid out for me.
Where I work, when a project gets behind schedule for any of a hundred reasons, often the lag time in the approval process, the answer is always the same, more meetings and more bosses to answer to. More bosses more meetings [office space reference goes here] just slow things down and take away the last few shreds of satisfaction from the work. I'm guessing I'm not alone in this.
It doesn't really matter what the job is. Teaching kids with a to do list takes the creative part out of teaching. My mom is a teacher and that part of the work makes the job something people want to do. 25 years of going through the motions is an awful way to spend your time. This sort of thing turns schools and other places where creativity was important into assembly lines.
quote: In retrospect, please add one finger to every other review I've ever done, because none deserve as low a rating as this.
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All hail Futurama.
Some part of it might have to do with how treating a problem is more profitable than curing it. The big money makers these days are lifestyle drugs that you need to take regularly to treat the symptoms of a condition.
Fixing a problem gets you money once. Temporarily removing symptoms gets you money every month with that refill.
They'd have been better off having a good player play a game of Doom 3 on a really nice machine, capturing the gameplay, editing out the hunt for switches/key cards, editing it for time, and showing that. Doom 3 had about as much of a plot as most crappy sci fi/action/horror movies.
bad scientist + monsters + super monster + super tough good guy + monster fodder = game plot = movie plot
I can't really fault them for not wanting to be like Ghosts of Mars but ripping off slightly better movies isn't the answer.
There is a lot that goes into an inpatient system aside from medical records that this wouldn't cover. This also looks a lot more like what a clinic group would use for charting than a full suite of medical software.
The software itself, while quite expensive, is only part of the cost of having a medical software suite. There is also a lot of money in supporting and customizing the software and general support. The IT staff at a lot of hospitals and clinic groups don't tend to be that tech savvy. There are exceptions of course but former nurses with a bit of a computer background are the rule. I think the vendors will do fine with this new open source option.
One really good thing about this is it could be a big step in an national electronic medical record that could follow you between hospitals. Go on vacation, get sick, and by the time you are in a bed your medical records from your old doctor are available to the attending doctor. Making that happen is good for patients and making that work well between different products, in different implementations or versions of Vista, and different sites is good for vendors putting out suites.
Sure this is awful but I only have one question. Where is Dr. Who?
There had better be a shitload of Daleks to deal with there or I shall be very cross.
Would he be eligible for trial elsewhere since his crime went beyond German borders? In short: will America and others be allowed to give him a therapeutic cockpunch?
innovation by duplication
There are a few standard hospital diagnosis codes for spacecraft accidents:
spacecraft accident ground crew
spacecraft accident occupant
spacecraft accident person (non-crew)
falling in a spacecraft (I guess that means floating into something)
and the generic spacecraft accident
Being almost too young to remember Challenger we'd kid around about these at work until Columbia.
That could be their secret now. They are using women golfers (Female Pro Golfer's Association) to power supercomputers.
At first I thought computer geeks or math geeks would be best but golf requires a great deal of spatial reasoning and since these are women they'd have superior communication skills and that is critical to clustering. I hope they don't try to patent this, their might be prior art to having a cluster of women in a computer.
"The kudzu group got just an intoxicated."
How about Rupert? Are we saving that for another planet?
As to veering too far away from the source material: As long as it wasn't almost, but not quite, completely unlike the book I think I'll like it.
So tape a Knoppix CD to the outside with the boot instructions.
That is a solid idea unless you can't get health or life insurance because of the test. Maybe you don't have to take that into account where you are from.
I don't know that much about MS but if I could pass it on to my kids I'd like to know so I could get a vasectomy.
Are you already working on the next prize, the one where you find a way to break the super tether?
what about maggot poop?
Let's give them something they've shown interest in for years: colonoscopy vidoes. I say we start with Katie Couric's
Getting tired of that question yet?
Answer it with 100% honesty. If she doesn't leave you immediately she'll never ask again.
I think I've figured this scam out: 1D (Length) X 1D (Width) X 1D (Time) = 3D He's just re-releaseing the orignial movie. Now the 4D version, that's a different story.
If they really wanted some research money that is what they should call them.
I voted in Florida in 2000 and I can point out just as many problems with the vote that helped Bush out. Like how there was never a proper recount and Republican staffers were sent to disrupt the recounts in contested counties. The purpose of this bill is to make voting better for every voter not just Democrats and not just Republicans. As it is now I can't trust a lot of voting machines and I can't trust the Secretaries of State in a lot of places to ensure fair elections. If Bush is what America wants then Bush is what America deserves.