Sony is like 0.00000001 of our economy. Most of us don't care if they fail and disappear entirely.
Actually, most of us would like to see them sink into obscurity. Might suck for the half dozen Slashdotters who are still using Sony Walkman, but them's the breaks.
And a lot of middle class people have scary memories of said piano as they recall either taking lessons on the thing or being forced to listen to someone who took (a few) lessons.
I got progressives 20 years ago and it has taken some learning to get best use. Here are alternatives:
1. Get simple, fixed focus lenses for screen work. This is the absolute best vision quality.
2. The big tip: Forget about stylish narrow lenses. They don't have enough vertical space for progressives to work well.
3. The really big tip: Make sure that your optician doesn't set your normal vision spot too low on the lens. That crams all the progression in the bottom third of the lens. My normally head position is slightly "chin up". I make sure I'm looking at the optician slightly "chin down" has he places the mark on the lens for normal vision.
Presbyopia is hell.
This is a perfectly reasonable approach - I have a pair of bifocals for computer / workbench stuff. It focuses out to about 30 inches with a stronger bifocal than I usually use for reading (the better to pick out little tiny parts off the work bench). The only problem is that they had the same frame as my regular bifocals so for the first week I ran around confused as to why my eyes worked sometimes and sometimes not. A bit of the old tape cured that issue.
I tried progressives - couldn't stand them. Barely tolerate bifocals. So I have a number of different prescriptions - Hiking / out doors single focals, typical bifocals, the work bifocals. If you shop around frames and simple lenses are cheap enough to have a couple pair. The all-in-one techniques don't appear to work for Screen People like us (see the comments above and below) but are obviously popular for some groups.
According to my optometrist, he makes more off of bifocals than progressives because the latter cost him more and he can't mark them up as much. YMMV.
And here you have it folks, straight from the front lines of Slashdot. Millions of dollars and countless hours spent on the subject and the answer is only three lines long. mfearby, I salute you!
Except that Basic Training is and has been, considered a requirement for the 'military' aspect of the job. Sure, you don't need to be able to do a dozen pullups to get the server up on the rack, but to be a 'part' of the military system, you do need that. Every truck mechanic, cook and phone tech who is wearing the uniform has done that.
As has been pointed out, on any given military base either in New Jersey or Kabul you will have contractors that aren't part of the military and don't necessarily have to go through Basic. Personally, I'm not sure why you can't do this with contractors - certainly there are contractors with high security clearances (ala Snowden). Perhaps you have a bit more of a handle on their behavior (Manning vs. Snowden) but I really doubt that is going to change things. Even if you have an elite group of Army Hackers you still will have civilians wandering about potentially playing the moral card or whatever.
Sounds like something out of a William Gibson novel.
Why not just have the white/black hats be a separate division completely, as opposed to attached to the AF, Army, or whatnot?
First of all, there is a loss of esprit de corps if the white/black hats are brought in and given rank without seeing boot camp. Pretty much similar to the same contempt that enlisted people have about a butter bar.
Sure. Instead of calling them SEALs we can call the WHALES (White Hat and Leviathan Exploit Syndicate). They can have their own Fedora and everything.
How hard is it for a twenty something year old to get into basic fitness? Perhaps if there is a good candidate but would otherwise fall out because of fitness, work with them in 'pre basic' to get up to speed. It needn't be punative - might be the best thing that happened to them. For really handicapped people (say someone with paralysis), perhaps a medical waiver. But to have a whole group of 'different' Army folks - not such a good idea.
Book summary from Amazon follows. U2 aircraft flying high in the sky doesn't debunk this book:
"Backed by documents newly declassified through the Freedom of Information Act, Colonel Philip J. Corso (Ret.), a member of President Eisenhower’s National Security Council and former head of the Foreign Technology Desk in the US Army, has come forward to reveal his personal stewardship of alien artifacts from the Roswell crash. He tells us how he spearheaded the Army’s reverse-engineering project that led to today’s integrated circuit chips, fiber optics, lasers, and super-tenacity fibers, and “seeded” the Roswell alien technology to giants of American industry. Laying bare the US government’s shocking role in the Roswell incident—what was found, the cover-up, and how they used alien artifacts to change the course of twentieth-century history—The Day After Roswell is an extraordinary memoir that not only forces us to reconsider the past, but also our role in the universe."
Oh yeah? Where is the thingy that that was supposed to replace the compact disc?
What possible subject have we not gone through in the past 5-6 years? We've covered pretty much everything tech, certainly anything to do with Apple, Android and Google. We've even talked about My Little Pony, Sarah Palin and makeup here.
EMR *might* be a ney (sic) gain if it were coded more like avionics rather than a ramshackle clusterfuck from a dev team who has never heard of unit testing, much less a test-driven development SDLC.
This. Very much this. I'm not much of a programmer, but I've never written code as bad as I've seen in our EHR. I know how to set up SQL tables more sensibly than our vendor does and I damn sure know more about CSS than our vendor. And that is very scary.
Oh, I am an MD and one who has been dealing with EHRs for decades.
Unfortunately, you are partially correct. The C-level folks were told that the EHR wouldn't do what the salespeople said - even if it was tailored to a small hospital. Acutally, nobody buys stuff above their weight, it's just too damned expensive. What is commonly done is a small hospital merges with a bigger one or comes to some agreement to slave onto a big system. That can be done successfully but, as you point out, you may be using a Mack truck to delivery groceries. Done correctly, it does impress....
Workflow always changes with EHRs. The problem with a lot of them is that the workflows make no clinical sense. We still have to treat patients. Especially the cheaper ones who don't spend a lot (or any) time thinking about the user interface. Most of them look like Visual Basic programs from the 1990's. Hell, our vendor can't even be bothered to get the tab order correct. This is a common complaint. Especially with the nonsensical federal regulations even simple things like admitting a patient get convoluted and weird. Lots of EHRs just don't have the flexibility to incorporate completely illogical processes.
Fixed price? Well, even the PHBs know that isn't going to happen. The problem is that if (when) there are serious overruns, a small institution just can't spend that money. It doesn't have the capital resources. There are a number of rural hospitals that are going under because of the mandated EHR. Our employee costs doubled for 18 months trying to shoehorn the stupid thing in. That was partly a fault of the vendor, partly our fault for not streamlining work flows before the EHR, but that is a very hard thing to get any system to do. I argued for years to get our acts together but that would have taken more money and more time, things smaller hospitals don't have much of. (The theme here is that there is an enormous gap between financial health of the bigger systems and the smaller outlying hospitals. This is due to the bizarre way we bill for things in the US - you get lots more money for doing something instead of keeping a patient from needing that something. To do much these days takes a big system - think cath labs, MRIs, lots of specialty teams on call 24/7 - think money and lots of it.)
Imagination doesn't seem to be an issue. I imagine that our EHRs programming and management staff is suspended over a pool of molten iron as we speak.
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It the motorcycle racing world, we called that 'adding lightness'.
I was able to read all of them, no failures.
I think he was referring to the data, not the label on the outside of the disk.
Ha! We've outed you, mister C-level.
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Part of this is due to the high altitude flights of modern turbofans. Low altitude turboprops are better but don't scale well.
Maybe dirigibles again..... I think that came up in Diamond Age. Certainly other Sci Fi authors have explored this.
The trans-Pacific bridge isn't quite done yet, so in Hawai`i we have limited options.
Of course, we could just use bigger ships burning Bunker 1, basically liquid lignite. That'll clean up the air...
Sony is like 0.00000001 of our economy. Most of us don't care if they fail and disappear entirely.
Actually, most of us would like to see them sink into obscurity. Might suck for the half dozen Slashdotters who are still using Sony Walkman, but them's the breaks.
By what authority does the president impose sanctions?
We're bigger than they are. Alternately, you can invoke any particular deity, the gold standard, the Smoot-Hawley act or just being in a bad mood.
And a lot of middle class people have scary memories of said piano as they recall either taking lessons on the thing or being forced to listen to someone who took (a few) lessons.
There is a reason we call it progress.
I got progressives 20 years ago and it has taken some learning to get best use. Here are alternatives:
1. Get simple, fixed focus lenses for screen work. This is the absolute best vision quality.
2. The big tip: Forget about stylish narrow lenses. They don't have enough vertical space for progressives to work well.
3. The really big tip: Make sure that your optician doesn't set your normal vision spot too low on the lens. That crams all the progression in the bottom third of the lens. My normally head position is slightly "chin up". I make sure I'm looking at the optician slightly "chin down" has he places the mark on the lens for normal vision.
Presbyopia is hell.
This is a perfectly reasonable approach - I have a pair of bifocals for computer / workbench stuff. It focuses out to about 30 inches with a stronger bifocal than I usually use for reading (the better to pick out little tiny parts off the work bench). The only problem is that they had the same frame as my regular bifocals so for the first week I ran around confused as to why my eyes worked sometimes and sometimes not. A bit of the old tape cured that issue.
I tried progressives - couldn't stand them. Barely tolerate bifocals. So I have a number of different prescriptions - Hiking / out doors single focals, typical bifocals, the work bifocals. If you shop around frames and simple lenses are cheap enough to have a couple pair. The all-in-one techniques don't appear to work for Screen People like us (see the comments above and below) but are obviously popular for some groups.
According to my optometrist, he makes more off of bifocals than progressives because the latter cost him more and he can't mark them up as much. YMMV.
Works from 1994 should be in public domain? Works from 2015 should be in public domain.
Imaginary Property is just that - imaginary.
I think you're imagining things.
And here you have it folks, straight from the front lines of Slashdot. Millions of dollars and countless hours spent on the subject and the answer is only three lines long. mfearby, I salute you!
He's not a climate scientist and his paper isn't peer reviewed.
What happens when he agrees with peer reviewed climate scientists?
Does your head asplode?
You liked the Popes that hushed up rampant pedophilia and hobnobbing with the powerful and rich?
What ever floats your ark.
Except that Basic Training is and has been, considered a requirement for the 'military' aspect of the job. Sure, you don't need to be able to do a dozen pullups to get the server up on the rack, but to be a 'part' of the military system, you do need that. Every truck mechanic, cook and phone tech who is wearing the uniform has done that.
As has been pointed out, on any given military base either in New Jersey or Kabul you will have contractors that aren't part of the military and don't necessarily have to go through Basic. Personally, I'm not sure why you can't do this with contractors - certainly there are contractors with high security clearances (ala Snowden). Perhaps you have a bit more of a handle on their behavior (Manning vs. Snowden) but I really doubt that is going to change things. Even if you have an elite group of Army Hackers you still will have civilians wandering about potentially playing the moral card or whatever.
Sounds like something out of a William Gibson novel.
Why not just have the white/black hats be a separate division completely, as opposed to attached to the AF, Army, or whatnot?
First of all, there is a loss of esprit de corps if the white/black hats are brought in and given rank without seeing boot camp. Pretty much similar to the same contempt that enlisted people have about a butter bar.
Sure. Instead of calling them SEALs we can call the WHALES (White Hat and Leviathan Exploit Syndicate). They can have their own Fedora and everything.
How hard is it for a twenty something year old to get into basic fitness? Perhaps if there is a good candidate but would otherwise fall out because of fitness, work with them in 'pre basic' to get up to speed. It needn't be punative - might be the best thing that happened to them. For really handicapped people (say someone with paralysis), perhaps a medical waiver.
But to have a whole group of 'different' Army folks - not such a good idea.
Book summary from Amazon follows. U2 aircraft flying high in the sky doesn't debunk this book:
"Backed by documents newly declassified through the Freedom of Information Act, Colonel Philip J. Corso (Ret.), a member of President Eisenhower’s National Security Council and former head of the Foreign Technology Desk in the US Army, has come forward to reveal his personal stewardship of alien artifacts from the Roswell crash. He tells us how he spearheaded the Army’s reverse-engineering project that led to today’s integrated circuit chips, fiber optics, lasers, and super-tenacity fibers, and “seeded” the Roswell alien technology to giants of American industry. Laying bare the US government’s shocking role in the Roswell incident—what was found, the cover-up, and how they used alien artifacts to change the course of twentieth-century history—The Day After Roswell is an extraordinary memoir that not only forces us to reconsider the past, but also our role in the universe."
Oh yeah? Where is the thingy that that was supposed to replace the compact disc?
Or kick the mechanical flight computer on Vietnam era A7's.
That was a comforting thought.
However, the safest method for repairing this requires an x-ray machine, as there is no other way to safely check the solder joints.
So there is some use for the TSA after all?
What possible subject have we not gone through in the past 5-6 years? We've covered pretty much everything tech, certainly anything to do with Apple, Android and Google. We've even talked about My Little Pony, Sarah Palin and makeup here.
Calm down. Relax and Enjoy.
But it was aliens.
(BTW, what happened to the other half?
What is the problem that a driverless car is going to fix?
PEBSAS (Problem Exists Between Steering And Seat)
And it's a big one.
Now the faster horse analogy isn't so bad - horses are smarter than cars. They can make it home under their own power and they can make other horses.
Gargoyles.
EMR *might* be a ney (sic) gain if it were coded more like avionics rather than a ramshackle clusterfuck from a dev team who has never heard of unit testing, much less a test-driven development SDLC.
This. Very much this. I'm not much of a programmer, but I've never written code as bad as I've seen in our EHR. I know how to set up SQL tables more sensibly than our vendor does and I damn sure know more about CSS than our vendor. And that is very scary.
Oh, I am an MD and one who has been dealing with EHRs for decades.
Unfortunately, you are partially correct. The C-level folks were told that the EHR wouldn't do what the salespeople said - even if it was tailored to a small hospital. Acutally, nobody buys stuff above their weight, it's just too damned expensive. What is commonly done is a small hospital merges with a bigger one or comes to some agreement to slave onto a big system. That can be done successfully but, as you point out, you may be using a Mack truck to delivery groceries. Done correctly, it does impress....
Workflow always changes with EHRs. The problem with a lot of them is that the workflows make no clinical sense. We still have to treat patients. Especially the cheaper ones who don't spend a lot (or any) time thinking about the user interface. Most of them look like Visual Basic programs from the 1990's. Hell, our vendor can't even be bothered to get the tab order correct. This is a common complaint. Especially with the nonsensical federal regulations even simple things like admitting a patient get convoluted and weird. Lots of EHRs just don't have the flexibility to incorporate completely illogical processes.
Fixed price? Well, even the PHBs know that isn't going to happen. The problem is that if (when) there are serious overruns, a small institution just can't spend that money. It doesn't have the capital resources. There are a number of rural hospitals that are going under because of the mandated EHR. Our employee costs doubled for 18 months trying to shoehorn the stupid thing in. That was partly a fault of the vendor, partly our fault for not streamlining work flows before the EHR, but that is a very hard thing to get any system to do. I argued for years to get our acts together but that would have taken more money and more time, things smaller hospitals don't have much of. (The theme here is that there is an enormous gap between financial health of the bigger systems and the smaller outlying hospitals. This is due to the bizarre way we bill for things in the US - you get lots more money for doing something instead of keeping a patient from needing that something. To do much these days takes a big system - think cath labs, MRIs, lots of specialty teams on call 24/7 - think money and lots of it.)
Imagination doesn't seem to be an issue. I imagine that our EHRs programming and management staff is suspended over a pool of molten iron as we speak.