And then watch as all 13 guard boats go sailing off to Iran...
No, what you will see in a couple of weeks is a photoshopped image of 3000 toy sailboats with rockets and cannons mounted every which way overwhelming a US warship. After a bit more time goes by we will see a half scale replica made from styrofoam and RC boat kits.
They will CLAIM is was all stolen from the US (or Israel) but it's mostly lifted from an old comic book.
You're a little late to the party. The ACA (Affordable Care Act, AKA 'Obamacare') has mandated that EHRs have a patient accessible web based information portal to get copies of their medical records and to keep track of their ongoing care.
These are pretty large processes, so who is ponying up to create them?
Google, Microsoft, Apple. You know, those big, Internet related companies. Who is missing? Yep, Facebook. But now they're on board.
And now comes the big issue. Up until now, your medical information has been considered Very Private. With significant protections in place to prevent full scale data mining for commercial use. Now what happens as companies like Google and Facebook start asking patients to 'share' their information? Why not,you share everything else. Slowly but surely, the cachet of privacy will be eroded away.
That's a pretty ugly hemorrhoid there, dude.
We already see this. What is the first thing that pretty much anyone under the age of 40 does when the hit the ER? Take a picture. Of the bloody digit, of the four people that came to see the patient. Of the next patient's entourage. Of the cute nurse. Privacy is something that is going to be an historical curiosity in a generation or less.
Or the fact that it is a major pile of confusing fail, with moving goalposts and targets. Coupled with Medicare's Meaningful Use criteria (a semi random and, again, constantly changing set of requirements for an EHR) and you have the typical US Government Official Mess.
While Epic hasn't been particularly helpful - think of them as a Microsoft wannabee in terms of hoping to define the criteria and technology used for EHRs - it's really much more complex than simply a recalcitrant vendor. It has little to do with the underlying technolgy / language / data structure - it's just data, mostly text and some simple numerical info. The problem is organizing what data gets sent so the receivers can understand it.
This was supposed to have been solved decades ago with SNOMED, but alas, too many standards, too many cooks and too much potential for making lots of lots of money for some folks.
Any references to this? Searching for 'California Assault Lathes' gave me some giggles but no real info. I certainly would not put it past the California legislature to try to ban or regulate mills or lathes (the former being more 'dangerous'), but it wouldn't ever work and would piss a lot of people off.
Photoshop, although not as bad as GIMP, isn't exactly a pinnacle of user friendliness either.
Photoshop's UI is abysmal. It is, however, consistent. A PS user from 1990 can pick up CS 2014 and get around pretty easily. It's also an efficient work flow. Especially if you like keyboards.
I still am not ready to buy into the Adobe CC thing, I don't like the idea that if I have a lot of PSD files, I've done work on, I may refer back to, say as templates for my business albums, etc...that if I quit paying rent, that I can no longer open and use my files I created.
If you have a.psd or better yet a.tiff file, you can open it up in all of it's glorious layered goodness in any one of a number of programs. Of course, if you are looking at a Photoshop specific manipulation or feature, you're unlikely to be able to do it in anything other than Photoshop. However, as you point out, there are not all that many late model Photoshop effects that are to-die-for.
I bought into the CS6 Production Premium Suite of tools...and so far, I've not see anything Adobe has done or added that is so groundbreakingly compelling that I would give up my standalone as long as I want them (in VM's if need be for OS changes) and use them.
I would agree. I have CS6 happily sitting on my hard drive, but also have a current subscription (hint: if you try to cancel, they give you the old price back. At $29.00 a month for the entire suite it can be a steal, depending on what you use).
I'm actually wondering if Adobe keeping the 'deals' running for so long is and indication that not quite as many have flocked to CC as they imagined. But regardless of that, I don't wanna rent my software, who's to tell when once they have you hooked, they start raising the prices? Also, what's to keep the fire lit under them to innovate once everyone is paying monthly and there is no stand alone option any more?
Hard to say. Adobe's SEC filings look pretty good. Other companies are jumping on the subscription band wagon which suggests that either it works or they're desperate. I suspect it's a little of both. It costs very little to add a customer (it's not like Adobe spends any money on customer support....). If they can get some rate of conversion to Endless Subscription, they've made some good money. If the user drops out after a while, well, they've made some money.
Remember, CS is professional software. They don't make much off us one of hobbyist / low grade professional shops. They make money on the big guys. And subscriptions make accountants happy for some weird reason. Further, Adobe, bless it's pointed little metallic head, really has made inroads into listening to professionals. You don't have to upgrade a version. Downgrading is easy. Running every version ever made (after 6) is easy.
"In 1994, when Tony Cicoria was 42 years old, he was struck by lightning near Albany, New York, while standing next to a public telephone. He had just hung up the phone and was about a foot away when a rogue bolt of lightning struck. He recalled seeing his own body on the ground surrounded by a bluish-white light. Cicoria’s heart had apparently stopped, but he was resuscitated by a woman, (coincidentally an intensive-care-unit nurse) who was waiting to use the telephone.[2][3]"
Holy crap!.... makes me almost want to believe in some sort of higher power.
Dunno about the OP, but I've to, due to job, from time to time. It's a bit like jail, with soft, white round corners. It gives me the jeebies, and I'm always grateful to return to my Debian box (FVWM, by the way).
So yes, I have, and never enjoyed the experience.
--------- Ah, now we've got it:
Separation anxiety disorder of childhood
F93.0 is a billable ICD-10-CM code that can be used to specify a diagnosis.
Clinical Information:
Anxiety experienced by an individual upon separation from a person or object of particular significance to him.
Which is exactly why lots of people wonder about the intelligence of hiring on the lowest bidder to clean out and stock commercial aircraft. You know, those people who scrunch down everywhere in the cabin with no supervision. Who load baggage in the hold after the TSA 'screens' it. Who deliver boxes and boxes of stuff to all manner of aircraft.
But really, work out the business case. An island of 3000 or so people needs JUST a small medication (or part or whatever) often enough to spin up this entire system? I can't remember the last time I (as an ER doc) needed just the a medication to treat a patient. If the med is that unusual that it's not stocked then it typically is dangerous enough (or the patient sick enough) to transport the person to a bigger facility. Yes, there are some exceptions (say snake bite antivenom, Digifab but they are definitely edge cases.
Perhaps. And presumably DHL has done some homework - we have to assume that they aren't just batshit insane. But it's just hard to figure.
The only thing I can thing of needing this sort of delivery system is iPhone replacements or drug withdrawals.
Maybe a Global Hawk, but Alaska is pretty damned big. Besides. we've figured this out long ago Bush planes. Cheap, simple, fairly robust. Certainly able to fly under any conditions that a wee little drone could fly in.
And if you're really sick, you want said bush plane (or the Coast Guard or Air National Guard depending on where you are) to haul your ill ass OUT of wherever you happen to be. Most people who need urgent / emergent medicines need a bit more than just the drug. Like a doctor, nurse, clinic facilities, etc. The exception would be cocaine withdrawal but I don't see DHL getting into that game just yet.
Three Rings for the Fortune 100 in New York City. Seven for Haliburton in its halls of stone, Nine for FBI doomed to lie, One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne In Fort Meade where the Shadows lie. One Program to rule them all, One Program to find them, One Program to bring them all and in the darkness bind them In Fort Meade where the Shadows lie
And every time I boot my Windows 7 VM the OS is complaining that it needs to be updated, third party programs are complaining they need to be updated. Hell, my pet Botnets are complaining they need to be updated.
Slashdot Mirror
What were they doing in England then?
Are you of the Buddhist persuasion? If so, you could hit the reboot button and try again.
I take it you're not an engineer?
because how funny would it be to see everyone have to pull down their pants to log in to their computers?
I don't know where you work, but in my office this would be anything but 'funny'.
And then watch as all 13 guard boats go sailing off to Iran...
No, what you will see in a couple of weeks is a photoshopped image of 3000 toy sailboats with rockets and cannons mounted every which way overwhelming a US warship. After a bit more time goes by we will see a half scale replica made from styrofoam and RC boat kits.
They will CLAIM is was all stolen from the US (or Israel) but it's mostly lifted from an old comic book.
I fear for the human race (or at least the part that is is logged into Facebook).
Using a modicum of time and energy (and not much of either) to keep one of the most important aspects of your life (social interactions) intact?
Oh look! A squirrel!
You're a little late to the party. The ACA (Affordable Care Act, AKA 'Obamacare') has mandated that EHRs have a patient accessible web based information portal to get copies of their medical records and to keep track of their ongoing care.
These are pretty large processes, so who is ponying up to create them?
Google, Microsoft, Apple. You know, those big, Internet related companies. Who is missing? Yep, Facebook. But now they're on board.
And now comes the big issue. Up until now, your medical information has been considered Very Private. With significant protections in place to prevent full scale data mining for commercial use. Now what happens as companies like Google and Facebook start asking patients to 'share' their information? Why not,you share everything else. Slowly but surely, the cachet of privacy will be eroded away.
That's a pretty ugly hemorrhoid there, dude.
We already see this. What is the first thing that pretty much anyone under the age of 40 does when the hit the ER? Take a picture. Of the bloody digit, of the four people that came to see the patient. Of the next patient's entourage. Of the cute nurse. Privacy is something that is going to be an historical curiosity in a generation or less.
Or the fact that it is a major pile of confusing fail, with moving goalposts and targets. Coupled with Medicare's Meaningful Use criteria (a semi random and, again, constantly changing set of requirements for an EHR) and you have the typical US Government Official Mess.
While Epic hasn't been particularly helpful - think of them as a Microsoft wannabee in terms of hoping to define the criteria and technology used for EHRs - it's really much more complex than simply a recalcitrant vendor. It has little to do with the underlying technolgy / language / data structure - it's just data, mostly text and some simple numerical info. The problem is organizing what data gets sent so the receivers can understand it.
This was supposed to have been solved decades ago with SNOMED, but alas, too many standards, too many cooks and too much potential for making lots of lots of money for some folks.
We're doomed.
I'm not sure why this is a big deal, its still REALLY hard to build a barrel and chamber
The answer, of course, is that you print them.
Any references to this? Searching for 'California Assault Lathes' gave me some giggles but no real info. I certainly would not put it past the California legislature to try to ban or regulate mills or lathes (the former being more 'dangerous'), but it wouldn't ever work and would piss a lot of people off.
How explored is the ocean floor?
Or, for that matter, downtown LA?
....
Photoshop, although not as bad as GIMP, isn't exactly a pinnacle of user friendliness either.
Photoshop's UI is abysmal. It is, however, consistent. A PS user from 1990 can pick up CS 2014 and get around pretty easily. It's also an efficient work flow. Especially if you like keyboards.
But easy it is not.
I still am not ready to buy into the Adobe CC thing, I don't like the idea that if I have a lot of PSD files, I've done work on, I may refer back to, say as templates for my business albums, etc...that if I quit paying rent, that I can no longer open and use my files I created.
If you have a .psd or better yet a .tiff file, you can open it up in all of it's glorious layered goodness in any one of a number of programs. Of course, if you are looking at a Photoshop specific manipulation or feature, you're unlikely to be able to do it in anything other than Photoshop. However, as you point out, there are not all that many late model Photoshop effects that are to-die-for.
I bought into the CS6 Production Premium Suite of tools...and so far, I've not see anything Adobe has done or added that is so groundbreakingly compelling that I would give up my standalone as long as I want them (in VM's if need be for OS changes) and use them.
I would agree. I have CS6 happily sitting on my hard drive, but also have a current subscription (hint: if you try to cancel, they give you the old price back. At $29.00 a month for the entire suite it can be a steal, depending on what you use).
I'm actually wondering if Adobe keeping the 'deals' running for so long is and indication that not quite as many have flocked to CC as they imagined. But regardless of that, I don't wanna rent my software, who's to tell when once they have you hooked, they start raising the prices? Also, what's to keep the fire lit under them to innovate once everyone is paying monthly and there is no stand alone option any more?
Hard to say. Adobe's SEC filings look pretty good. Other companies are jumping on the subscription band wagon which suggests that either it works or they're desperate. I suspect it's a little of both. It costs very little to add a customer (it's not like Adobe spends any money on customer support....). If they can get some rate of conversion to Endless Subscription, they've made some good money. If the user drops out after a while, well, they've made some money.
Remember, CS is professional software. They don't make much off us one of hobbyist / low grade professional shops. They make money on the big guys. And subscriptions make accountants happy for some weird reason. Further, Adobe, bless it's pointed little metallic head, really has made inroads into listening to professionals. You don't have to upgrade a version. Downgrading is easy. Running every version ever made (after 6) is easy.
Customer support still sucks, but it is Adobe.
If you want to get to Mars, figure out a way to make people fear not getting to mars.
Give the Chinese a good head start.
"In 1994, when Tony Cicoria was 42 years old, he was struck by lightning near Albany, New York, while standing next to a public telephone. He had just hung up the phone and was about a foot away when a rogue bolt of lightning struck. He recalled seeing his own body on the ground surrounded by a bluish-white light. Cicoria’s heart had apparently stopped, but he was resuscitated by a woman, (coincidentally an intensive-care-unit nurse) who was waiting to use the telephone.[2][3]"
Holy crap!.... makes me almost want to believe in some sort of higher power.
110 or 220?
Son, 4Chan is thataway ....
Dunno about the OP, but I've to, due to job, from time to time. It's a bit like jail, with soft, white round corners. It gives me the jeebies, and I'm always grateful to return to my Debian box (FVWM, by the way).
So yes, I have, and never enjoyed the experience.
---------
Ah, now we've got it:
Separation anxiety disorder of childhood
F93.0 is a billable ICD-10-CM code that can be used to specify a diagnosis.
Clinical Information:
Anxiety experienced by an individual upon separation from a person or object of particular significance to him.
Which is exactly why lots of people wonder about the intelligence of hiring on the lowest bidder to clean out and stock commercial aircraft. You know, those people who scrunch down everywhere in the cabin with no supervision. Who load baggage in the hold after the TSA 'screens' it. Who deliver boxes and boxes of stuff to all manner of aircraft.
But really, work out the business case. An island of 3000 or so people needs JUST a small medication (or part or whatever) often enough to spin up this entire system? I can't remember the last time I (as an ER doc) needed just the a medication to treat a patient. If the med is that unusual that it's not stocked then it typically is dangerous enough (or the patient sick enough) to transport the person to a bigger facility. Yes, there are some exceptions (say snake bite antivenom, Digifab but they are definitely edge cases.
Perhaps. And presumably DHL has done some homework - we have to assume that they aren't just batshit insane. But it's just hard to figure.
The only thing I can thing of needing this sort of delivery system is iPhone replacements or drug withdrawals.
Maybe a Global Hawk, but Alaska is pretty damned big. Besides. we've figured this out long ago Bush planes. Cheap, simple, fairly robust. Certainly able to fly under any conditions that a wee little drone could fly in.
And if you're really sick, you want said bush plane (or the Coast Guard or Air National Guard depending on where you are) to haul your ill ass OUT of wherever you happen to be. Most people who need urgent / emergent medicines need a bit more than just the drug. Like a doctor, nurse, clinic facilities, etc. The exception would be cocaine withdrawal but I don't see DHL getting into that game just yet.
Three Rings for the Fortune 100 in New York City.
Seven for Haliburton in its halls of stone,
Nine for FBI doomed to lie,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In Fort Meade where the Shadows lie.
One Program to rule them all, One Program to find them,
One Program to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In Fort Meade where the Shadows lie
And every time I boot my Windows 7 VM the OS is complaining that it needs to be updated, third party programs are complaining they need to be updated. Hell, my pet Botnets are complaining they need to be updated.
Welcome to our world.
KORBEN
I had the worst goddamn nightmare.
VOICE
You have nine points left on your license..
KORBEN
Thanks for reminding me..
Now that would be cool. Drone F4's flying over the country for hours. The tinfoil crow would be absolutely apoplectic.
Faster, Cheaper, Better.
Pick any two....