IBM, aka International Business Machines was named by founder Thomas Watson to one-up the company he previously worked for as a salesperson, National Cash Register, or NCR.
National => International Cash => Business Register => Machines
While I'm sure that was a pretty honest and accurate account of what it takes to be a doctor, it also highlights some of the reasons for the frustrations people have with them.
Notice how the qualities people say doctors lack fall last in line in the training. You have to think those strong in these areas may have already been knocked out by the 5-10% dropout rate in the early years.
I still think there so much technology could be doing, and that the model of training and interacting with physicians is outdated. The typical $100 for 10 minutes of consultation after which the patient will be referred to a specialist, given an expensive test, a prescription for a drug they can't buy on their own, or told to go home and sleep it off, have to go away.
I know it drives those in the medical field crazy when patients come in with all this information they learned on the internet, but at the same time, thank god for that. One, they are taking responsibility for their health, which should be encouraged, and second, all of the patient education I've ever gotten from a physician has been half-assed. I've always looked up more details and been better educated online (Yes, you have to be careful).
An electronic medical record that spanned your whole life, included your doctor's notes and whatever extra info you wanted to put in (filterable, of course) there would be a great tool for tracking and predicting health over you lifetime, not just a couple dozen 10-minute interactions with a guy that can't remember your name without looking at a chart (no offense, but it's kind of true).
The AI implications would be phenomenal, as well as the simple practical info (want to know what the likelihood of you getting diabetes in the next year is?)
I like what NHS did in England. No one here could post something like this without getting shut down by lawsuits or the AMA.
That's an interesting stat. I never heard that before, but it makes sense.
As a non-physician, AI hobbyist, this article makes me sad.
Computers have so much potential to improve the quality and decrease the costs of healthcare, yet this almost never happens.
Instead, we end of with complex systems meant to mitigate legal liability, expensive system whose sole purpose is to provide another billable test, and IT departments that care more about building fiefdoms than enabling improvements in patient care.
Want to know the difference between poison ivy and smallpox? You could ask 2 questions to tell the difference, but this wouldn't provide a cool image-recognition demo. No one is going to get an X prize for pushing text to a smartphone.
The connection is this: An animation company that works on the simpsons is located in south korea. They have been working on a korean folk tale translated into a full length movie, and have been working with north korean animators for the feature.
There is nothing in the article that states (as the summary implies) that any of the simpsons is done in north korea, nor that there are any plans to do so.
Anyone know a better "news for nerds" site that doesn't have all the misleading headlines SlashDot has taken to lately?
"Apple employees have contributed the majority of work on WebKit since it became an independent project. Apple uses WebKit for Safari on Mac OS X, iPhone and Windows; on the former two it is also a system framework and used by many other applications. Apple's contribution has included extensive work on standards compliance, Web compatibility, performance, security, robustness, testing infrastructure and development of major new features."
They're helping standardize the standard. They're making it a reality by integrating it into webkit, and they're giving that code back to the community, so it can be included in FireFox, Chrome, and others.
If you want to complain about someone keeping web standards from happening, complain about microsoft's poor support of the standards, because they want to push Silverlight.
Apple is doing good, and all I ever see is a bunch of whiners complaining that they don't do this or don't do that.
Stop repeating everything you hear and get a life.
From the link. I think it is pretty clear what the site does and what the goal is.
"Every new Apple mobile device and every new Mac — along with the latest version of Apple’s Safari web browser — supports web standards including HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. These web standards are open, reliable, highly secure, and efficient. They allow web designers and developers to create advanced graphics, typography, animations, and transitions. Standards aren’t add-ons to the web. They are the web. And you can start using them today."
Would it help if they added the word "beta" to the title, like all those other sites on the web that don't want people complaining that not everything works yet the way it is supposed to?
You don't understand. It's a problem because can't say it is a "Walled Garden", they now will have to say "It's a walled garden. Unless you use open tools. Then it's kind of open. But Now we want better tools to do with it as we please, and Apple doesn't seem to be developing these on their dime and giving them away for free. Curses!"
If there's one thing my years in consulting has taught me, it's that the best way to convince someone they don't really want what they are asking for, is to give it to them.
The newspaper business has never been about selling access to the information as much as it has been about selling the eyeballs to advertisers.
He'll be back with a new business plan in about 6 months.
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I'm left. I'm from the US. I know exactly what I am.
In addition to the things listed above, he obviously has a pretty good grasp of instructional design principles.
I watched a couple videos, and has either studied it or learned from trial and error somewhere along the line.
Let us not forget this important glue that holds together solid instruction of any kind.
IBM, aka International Business Machines was named by founder Thomas Watson to one-up the company he previously worked for as a salesperson, National Cash Register, or NCR.
National => International
Cash => Business
Register => Machines
Seriously.
But you need alarmist to understand Apple news?
Slashdot headline would have been:
"Evil Apple Hides Secret Rootkit Installer on All iPhones"
Hey, with over 300+ developers at their last conference, it is almost a tidal wave!
He forgot the mention anyone who does it better.
Actually they are growing their debt steadily. That doesn't equal tanking, but it isn't a great sign.
http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2010/06/13/business/ff3microsoft061210.txt
Thanks, Prince
Yeah, that's about what I got from the article.
While I'm sure that was a pretty honest and accurate account of what it takes to be a doctor, it also highlights some of the reasons for the frustrations people have with them.
Notice how the qualities people say doctors lack fall last in line in the training. You have to think those strong in these areas may have already been knocked out by the 5-10% dropout rate in the early years.
I still think there so much technology could be doing, and that the model of training and interacting with physicians is outdated. The typical $100 for 10 minutes of consultation after which the patient will be referred to a specialist, given an expensive test, a prescription for a drug they can't buy on their own, or told to go home and sleep it off, have to go away.
I know it drives those in the medical field crazy when patients come in with all this information they learned on the internet, but at the same time, thank god for that. One, they are taking responsibility for their health, which should be encouraged, and second, all of the patient education I've ever gotten from a physician has been half-assed. I've always looked up more details and been better educated online (Yes, you have to be careful).
An electronic medical record that spanned your whole life, included your doctor's notes and whatever extra info you wanted to put in (filterable, of course) there would be a great tool for tracking and predicting health over you lifetime, not just a couple dozen 10-minute interactions with a guy that can't remember your name without looking at a chart (no offense, but it's kind of true).
The AI implications would be phenomenal, as well as the simple practical info (want to know what the likelihood of you getting diabetes in the next year is?)
I like what NHS did in England. No one here could post something like this without getting shut down by lawsuits or the AMA.
http://www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk/help/index.aspx
They demanded, and Oracle agreed. On paper.
That's an interesting stat. I never heard that before, but it makes sense.
As a non-physician, AI hobbyist, this article makes me sad.
Computers have so much potential to improve the quality and decrease the costs of healthcare, yet this almost never happens.
Instead, we end of with complex systems meant to mitigate legal liability, expensive system whose sole purpose is to provide another billable test, and IT departments that care more about building fiefdoms than enabling improvements in patient care.
Want to know the difference between poison ivy and smallpox? You could ask 2 questions to tell the difference, but this wouldn't provide a cool image-recognition demo. No one is going to get an X prize for pushing text to a smartphone.
... says the guy that can't get his PHP page to function without error.
The connection is this: An animation company that works on the simpsons is located in south korea. They have been working on a korean folk tale translated into a full length movie, and have been working with north korean animators for the feature.
There is nothing in the article that states (as the summary implies) that any of the simpsons is done in north korea, nor that there are any plans to do so.
Anyone know a better "news for nerds" site that doesn't have all the misleading headlines SlashDot has taken to lately?
I'm kind of sick of this sh!t.
From the WebKit site itself:
"Apple employees have contributed the majority of work on WebKit since it became an independent project. Apple uses WebKit for Safari on Mac OS X, iPhone and Windows; on the former two it is also a system framework and used by many other applications. Apple's contribution has included extensive work on standards compliance, Web compatibility, performance, security, robustness, testing infrastructure and development of major new features."
http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/Companies%20and%20Organizations%20that%20have%20contributed%20to%20WebKit
You are wrong. Apple's code goes into WebKit which powers Firefox and many others.
Simply wrong.
Oh god that's ridiculous.
They're helping standardize the standard. They're making it a reality by integrating it into webkit, and they're giving that code back to the community, so it can be included in FireFox, Chrome, and others.
If you want to complain about someone keeping web standards from happening, complain about microsoft's poor support of the standards, because they want to push Silverlight.
Apple is doing good, and all I ever see is a bunch of whiners complaining that they don't do this or don't do that.
Stop repeating everything you hear and get a life.
From the link. I think it is pretty clear what the site does and what the goal is.
"Every new Apple mobile device and every new Mac — along with the latest version of Apple’s Safari web browser — supports web standards including HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. These web standards are open, reliable, highly secure, and efficient. They allow web designers and developers to create advanced graphics, typography, animations, and transitions. Standards aren’t add-ons to the web. They are the web. And you can start using them today."
I'm pretty sure I'm never, ever, going to be asked to do that in the real world.
Would it help if they added the word "beta" to the title, like all those other sites on the web that don't want people complaining that not everything works yet the way it is supposed to?
If you were here, I would buy you a beer.
I can't agree enough.
You don't understand. It's a problem because can't say it is a "Walled Garden", they now will have to say "It's a walled garden. Unless you use open tools. Then it's kind of open. But Now we want better tools to do with it as we please, and Apple doesn't seem to be developing these on their dime and giving them away for free. Curses!"
If there's one thing my years in consulting has taught me, it's that the best way to convince someone they don't really want what they are asking for, is to give it to them.
The newspaper business has never been about selling access to the information as much as it has been about selling the eyeballs to advertisers.
He'll be back with a new business plan in about 6 months.
If degrees aren't covering what needs to be taught, what ARE the main objectives that would produce the best functioning graduates?