is whether it can trigger an alarm if a patient wonders offsite. It's a bigger problem than most people realize -- an Alzheimer's patient wonders off, gets lost, sometimes for days on end wondering the streets. IMHO the most valuable part of a system like this would be the ability to trigger an alarm if patients cross a pre-defined boundary.
It did, however, mention that it records the exact time employees enter and leave the facility, so that they only get paid for the time they actually work. The infrastructure and underlying components seem to be there, but it seems to me like they are more interested in protecting their money than their residents.
parent poster is right. one of my wannabe-geek coworkers saw that and asked me, "doesn't evolution take care of your scheduling needs?" I am not joking. True story.
I never made the DETELE FROM table mistake, but I may as well have. I did a UPDATE table SET field = value without a where clause. A few hours of begging and groveling for my job later (oh and I had mysqlhotcopy running hourly) and all was ok.
I feel your pain. I have Adelphia digital cable, and their boxes arent good for anything without the remote. It doesn't even have a volume control!! My VCR only has play, ff, and rew. Not even pause (and yes I tried hitting play again).
It's actually quite simple to do this with Windows/IE as well
Simple for people like you and me. Unfortunately, get your average end-user on the phone and ask them to go to https://www.cacert.org/ and install their certificate:
"What? What's a certificate? What's this error message (about not having this certificate installed)? Ah, hell. An error. Time to reboot."
That's not what I meant, my bad for being unclear. I was getting at their general tendancy to shy away from things that are open, not proprietary. I know they are not opposed to everything open, just look at their recent open-sourcing of some of their code.
when Microsoft released that update for IE that included lots of new CAs? Anyone think this one will be included in the next one? My guess is no, judging from Microsoft's general resistance to anything open.
Some rich mogul should setup a $10,000,000 purse for the first company that can make a robot which can walk, understand commands and act them out, and not bump into an item and fall over all for under $2000
I don't think that's very likely. The cost of developing such a bot would far exceed any potential payout from an R prize. Give it 5 or 10 years, then a R prize might be more feasible.
BestBuy used to partner with Rhapsody. Apparently that didn't last long. Anyone know what happened? Not that I really care, Rhapsody and Real Networks stuff are pretty crappy anyway...
I realize that, but is this the best way to go about it? IMHO, this only irritates users, who then run crying to AMD. There should be a better way, like revoking whatever reseller license Intel gives to these people (if they even give such a license, I don't know), or displaying something on the display at post "cpu overclocked!!!" or something. That way the bad-guy resellers won't last for very long, as they are now exposed for ripping people off.
It still makes absolutely no sense to me that Intel would punish end-users for the actions of a shady reseller.
but can find no practical reason for this that makes sense to me. The people who overclock know that they can burn up their chip, and the people who do not overclock don't have to worry about it. I guess maybe a small percentage of people might go poking around in CMOS setup and change the clock speed, but is that number large enough to alienate gamers and hackers who want control over their own boxes? I think not.
*grabs ankles* Thanks again, Intel. Gimme on-board DRM and I will be a happy camper.
Good point. And it further reinforces my argument that the FCC needs to get their act together and stop pandering to people who play these silly games.
Just like, oh I think it was Clear Channel that tried to get XM to stop broadcasting local news because it interfered with the local market. Translation: When you cannot compete fairly, get the government involved and shut down your competitors.
... of why the FCC is so damned ineffective. I thought the FCC was commissioned to prevent just this sort of thing? Apparently these days it is only another government hypocricy that panders to the highest-paying lobby.
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is whether it can trigger an alarm if a patient wonders offsite. It's a bigger problem than most people realize -- an Alzheimer's patient wonders off, gets lost, sometimes for days on end wondering the streets. IMHO the most valuable part of a system like this would be the ability to trigger an alarm if patients cross a pre-defined boundary.
It did, however, mention that it records the exact time employees enter and leave the facility, so that they only get paid for the time they actually work. The infrastructure and underlying components seem to be there, but it seems to me like they are more interested in protecting their money than their residents.
parent poster is right. one of my wannabe-geek coworkers saw that and asked me, "doesn't evolution take care of your scheduling needs?" I am not joking. True story.
yes we are! ok, maybe not evil (all the time).
I never made the DETELE FROM table mistake, but I may as well have. I did a UPDATE table SET field = value without a where clause. A few hours of begging and groveling for my job later (oh and I had mysqlhotcopy running hourly) and all was ok.
I feel your pain. I have Adelphia digital cable, and their boxes arent good for anything without the remote. It doesn't even have a volume control!! My VCR only has play, ff, and rew. Not even pause (and yes I tried hitting play again).
I have remotes for my: cable box, dvd player, tivo, vcr, tv, cd player, amp, tape deck, and eq.
If that weren't enough, my fan (yea, fan) has a remote. And, I almost bought a car stereo the other day that has a, you guess it, remote control.
It's called oxidation.
#931654: "Sorry, our computers seem to be growing metallic whiskers. What did you say your username was? bwahahahahaha"
It's actually quite simple to do this with Windows/IE as well
Simple for people like you and me. Unfortunately, get your average end-user on the phone and ask them to go to https://www.cacert.org/ and install their certificate:
"What? What's a certificate? What's this error message (about not having this certificate installed)? Ah, hell. An error. Time to reboot."
Microsoft has no resistance to *everything* open
That's not what I meant, my bad for being unclear. I was getting at their general tendancy to shy away from things that are open, not proprietary. I know they are not opposed to everything open, just look at their recent open-sourcing of some of their code.
Yea, you can do it in IE too. The problem is that end-users do not know how to, and the whole concept is completely foreign to them.
Sad as it may be, IE is still used by something like 85% of the world.
when Microsoft released that update for IE that included lots of new CAs? Anyone think this one will be included in the next one? My guess is no, judging from Microsoft's general resistance to anything open.
;)
But, we might be surprised. Opinions anyone?
ps. Maybe they should patch the browser first
admits the fact that searching is a little slow
9:06:41 AM MDT: search for 'microsoft sucks'
9:07:38 AM MDT: returned first page of results, first result points to microsoftsucks.org
I think I'd call that more than a little slow. The term unusable comes to mind.
Make this bed this instance, then get downstairs and clean the living room! And no soda for you! You're already too fat!
:)
I already have that robot, in fact I said the exact same thing to her this morning. BTW today is our wedding anniversary.
Some rich mogul should setup a $10,000,000 purse for the first company that can make a robot which can walk, understand commands and act them out, and not bump into an item and fall over all for under $2000
I don't think that's very likely. The cost of developing such a bot would far exceed any potential payout from an R prize. Give it 5 or 10 years, then a R prize might be more feasible.
becoming partners rather than tools
:)
This could get scary... On the other hand, if I buy robosex.com, I could profit!
www.bobbemer.com (official website)
And the google cache for the impending slashdotting
Among the more interesting tidbits is that he coined the word COBOL
BestBuy used to partner with Rhapsody. Apparently that didn't last long. Anyone know what happened? Not that I really care, Rhapsody and Real Networks stuff are pretty crappy anyway...
It's to crack down on "grey market" resellers
I realize that, but is this the best way to go about it? IMHO, this only irritates users, who then run crying to AMD. There should be a better way, like revoking whatever reseller license Intel gives to these people (if they even give such a license, I don't know), or displaying something on the display at post "cpu overclocked!!!" or something. That way the bad-guy resellers won't last for very long, as they are now exposed for ripping people off.
It still makes absolutely no sense to me that Intel would punish end-users for the actions of a shady reseller.
but can find no practical reason for this that makes sense to me. The people who overclock know that they can burn up their chip, and the people who do not overclock don't have to worry about it. I guess maybe a small percentage of people might go poking around in CMOS setup and change the clock speed, but is that number large enough to alienate gamers and hackers who want control over their own boxes? I think not.
*grabs ankles* Thanks again, Intel. Gimme on-board DRM and I will be a happy camper.
... a 'how to become a spammer' article.
It isn't just the pro bpl side playing games.
Good point. And it further reinforces my argument that the FCC needs to get their act together and stop pandering to people who play these silly games.
Just like, oh I think it was Clear Channel that tried to get XM to stop broadcasting local news because it interfered with the local market. Translation: When you cannot compete fairly, get the government involved and shut down your competitors.
... of why the FCC is so damned ineffective. I thought the FCC was commissioned to prevent just this sort of thing? Apparently these days it is only another government hypocricy that panders to the highest-paying lobby.
You can NEVER say, on slashdot, "I, for one" without welcoming some type of new overlord.
:)
For example:
I, for one, welcome our new open-source overlords.
I, for one, welcome our new penguin overlords.
There. Now you know, hopefully you won't make the same mistake again
More info here
I for one am kinda tired of people flaming me and saying things like "you kde/windows people" just because I don't care for spatial nautilus.
I'm not trying to flame anyone here, but it is a valid opinion shared by me and lots of other users.