I agree with all your points, but keep in mind that those issues still apply to the existing systems we have in place today.
First off, who is going to back this data up
I doubt it is backed-up now. So things won't be any worse. Most doctor's offices keep their files in big cabinets.
The storage space required will be astronomical.
I will guess that the disks required to store this will take-up less space than the physical media does. In my personal experience, there is probably a 100:1 savings by digitizing documents and saving them. Even losslessly, I still venture it is 10:1. Those big steel cabinets take up lots of space.
Third, all systems that can be abused will be
Including the systems we have now. I don't want to hold back technology on the fear that it will be misused. As a species, we must adapt to this new technology and use it properly.
There's a lot of reasons, nothing to do with saving money. More likely due to intentional waste actually.
Having worked in health care IT, I can tell you that the health care industry is notoriously slow to adapt. Tons of paperwork where electronic files could serve. Absolute blind refusal to update formats. DOS applications galore. Sometimes they even emulate old machines just to run software that can't be compiled any longer. Old serial interfaces and giant machines to multiplex serial connections and messy software to manage it, instead of moving to Ethernet (which would _save_ money).
It seems like the medical community is so afraid of change that they hold things back. Standards are often so entrenched and vendors would like to move to something newer, but are afraid to. And some vendors take advantage of it by charging ridiculous amounts to maintain old hardware (x: charging more for TTY terminals built-in to old CRT monitors than it would cost to just get a PC + a telnet app.
Some of them might have a fence with a gate, but any of the pilots would have the key. It is not uncommon to see people just drive up to the plane, get in, and tax to the runway.
It is based on the insight that nobody is at fault for certain ailments,
The problem is that medical insurance covers ailments that ARE the fault of the person. And those ailments are often very expensive. I have a relative who smoked a pack a day since they were a pre-teen, never paid for health insurance, but spent years getting free chemotherapy then free hospice care.
If it eats insects, why would it need venomous teeth? It looks like the kind of thing that runs away from bigger animals, so I can't imagine it used in defense. And insects could be swallowed whole.
Although, I don't know what insects are look in the Dominican Republic... I've seen desert cockroaches bigger than a human hand.
Every step in the manufacturing process is a service. Finding raw materials is a service. Getting them out of the ground is a service.
I think when they are talking about a "service economy" that isn't what they mean. I don't think those would be "services" for the purpose of that discussion.
When they say "service" they specifically mean providing customer support to already made products. For example, suppose China designs and manufactures all cars. The US will still have car repairman. But those people only recycle money that is in the economy. No money comes from overseas. No raw material is obtained. Services are only valuable if they are sold overseas, or contribute to manufacturing something.
Restaurants, lawyers, and PR teams won't help the economy unless they are selling their services to overseas companies.
Correct, except that this will not cause Ireland to slip into poverty. It isn't a cycle of never ending poverty, it is a cycle that is trying to reach equilibrium.
Of course, equilibrium won't happen until we eliminate war and human rights extends globally. (I won't disagree if you assert that will never happen)
Then you should have made them limited users. It's like having the UAC, only better. The only thing that makes running Windows XP as a limited user any worse than Vista, is that you have to modify the shortcuts for the control panel icons and so that they have "Run as administrator" checked so that it prompts you for the admin password. A fair trade off for not having the stupid warnings all the time.
I've received product recall notices for items I bought with my credit card. Another example: I returned an item to Target recently - they scanned the item, handed me the receipt, and said "XXX dollars is now refunded to your card, have a nice day!" So they know from the bar code who bought that item, and they retained the credit card information associated with it.
The purpose is to smooth out the bumps in the economic road. So borrowing from a future wealthier future where unemployment is low, in exchange for balancing out a recession, is a good thing. Too fast of an economy is dangerous too.
If only our politicians learned to save, then we could borrow from a pool of money from past good times, instead of borrowing from an uncertain future.
What about his point about tying it to one particular service?
He is right - LG should instead make a TV that speaks a standard streaming protocol, and let various vendors implement it. Of course, then when a new protocol comes out and the TV doesn't support it, you buy a new TV. ugh.
I think they predict lots of other things, but that is just the only value the press is interested in reporting.
The article is not saying that all models which pick a single value are flawed. It is saying that trying to combine multiple qualitative values into one single quantitative number is flawed. Temperature is clearly defined and measurable, so that is no problem. But "risk" is an elusive concept that can't be simplified to a single number.
Clipper, Skipjack, etc. were completey different. Those systems were encryption systems designed so that the government could snoop. Verifying the contents of an SSL cert does not require any special encryption and does not require divulging the private key to the authority.
Find a job where the people there are into technology. Some places, the developers consider software to be a job, and when they go home they watch TV and go to sporting events. Other places they go home and collaborate on projects, build Battlebots, and read Make magazine.
Talk to the developers. You might think that the company where they build robots with lasers would be staffed with industrious geeks, but it might turn-out that the corporate environment stifles such people.
You might want to talk to people in user's groups. Find your local LUG, IGDA chapter, ACM meeting, or IEEE charter. See where those people work (or don't work, if they aren't your type)
I still use a track ball - I love saving desk space and not having to pick-up the mouse when playing FPS games (or anything else where your movement is not confined to the range of a screen).
There is still a market for track balls. When my Microsoft Trackball Explorer died, and I actually lost the eBay bid for one at $200.
I would suggest you check your electricity and your fixtures. Your experience is very atypical.
I've never had a CFL go out in the 3 years I've lived in my home. In the 10 years I lived in my previous home, we replaced one of the 4 we had in our basement.
I think everyone is misunderstanding the problem entirely.
The problem is not that when you die, you must repeat content: the problem is that the content is fixed.
I can engage in a sport, lose, and then play again right away. I never say "Oh, that's the same game we just played" because every game is different. Few video games offer that.
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I agree with all your points, but keep in mind that those issues still apply to the existing systems we have in place today.
First off, who is going to back this data up
I doubt it is backed-up now. So things won't be any worse. Most doctor's offices keep their files in big cabinets.
The storage space required will be astronomical.
I will guess that the disks required to store this will take-up less space than the physical media does. In my personal experience, there is probably a 100:1 savings by digitizing documents and saving them. Even losslessly, I still venture it is 10:1. Those big steel cabinets take up lots of space.
Third, all systems that can be abused will be
Including the systems we have now. I don't want to hold back technology on the fear that it will be misused. As a species, we must adapt to this new technology and use it properly.
Can you link to that Slashdot article? I think the privacy discussion is quite valuable and I'd like to read it.
There's a lot of reasons, nothing to do with saving money. More likely due to intentional waste actually.
Having worked in health care IT, I can tell you that the health care industry is notoriously slow to adapt. Tons of paperwork where electronic files could serve. Absolute blind refusal to update formats. DOS applications galore. Sometimes they even emulate old machines just to run software that can't be compiled any longer. Old serial interfaces and giant machines to multiplex serial connections and messy software to manage it, instead of moving to Ethernet (which would _save_ money).
It seems like the medical community is so afraid of change that they hold things back. Standards are often so entrenched and vendors would like to move to something newer, but are afraid to. And some vendors take advantage of it by charging ridiculous amounts to maintain old hardware (x: charging more for TTY terminals built-in to old CRT monitors than it would cost to just get a PC + a telnet app.
It's really sad.
Most small untowered airports.
Some of them might have a fence with a gate, but any of the pilots would have the key. It is not uncommon to see people just drive up to the plane, get in, and tax to the runway.
It is based on the insight that nobody is at fault for certain ailments,
The problem is that medical insurance covers ailments that ARE the fault of the person. And those ailments are often very expensive. I have a relative who smoked a pack a day since they were a pre-teen, never paid for health insurance, but spent years getting free chemotherapy then free hospice care.
If it eats insects, why would it need venomous teeth? It looks like the kind of thing that runs away from bigger animals, so I can't imagine it used in defense. And insects could be swallowed whole.
Although, I don't know what insects are look in the Dominican Republic... I've seen desert cockroaches bigger than a human hand.
Or, the rest of the world as a whole needs to lower their standard of living... :(
Every step in the manufacturing process is a service. Finding raw materials is a service. Getting them out of the ground is a service.
I think when they are talking about a "service economy" that isn't what they mean. I don't think those would be "services" for the purpose of that discussion.
When they say "service" they specifically mean providing customer support to already made products. For example, suppose China designs and manufactures all cars. The US will still have car repairman. But those people only recycle money that is in the economy. No money comes from overseas. No raw material is obtained. Services are only valuable if they are sold overseas, or contribute to manufacturing something.
Restaurants, lawyers, and PR teams won't help the economy unless they are selling their services to overseas companies.
Correct, except that this will not cause Ireland to slip into poverty. It isn't a cycle of never ending poverty, it is a cycle that is trying to reach equilibrium.
Of course, equilibrium won't happen until we eliminate war and human rights extends globally. (I won't disagree if you assert that will never happen)
HTML + CSS is not a programming language.
HTML + CSS + Javascript is a bad, poor performing, cobbled together language.
Then you should have made them limited users. It's like having the UAC, only better. The only thing that makes running Windows XP as a limited user any worse than Vista, is that you have to modify the shortcuts for the control panel icons and so that they have "Run as administrator" checked so that it prompts you for the admin password. A fair trade off for not having the stupid warnings all the time.
I've received product recall notices for items I bought with my credit card. Another example: I returned an item to Target recently - they scanned the item, handed me the receipt, and said "XXX dollars is now refunded to your card, have a nice day!" So they know from the bar code who bought that item, and they retained the credit card information associated with it.
Yes, but that is ok.
The purpose is to smooth out the bumps in the economic road. So borrowing from a future wealthier future where unemployment is low, in exchange for balancing out a recession, is a good thing. Too fast of an economy is dangerous too.
If only our politicians learned to save, then we could borrow from a pool of money from past good times, instead of borrowing from an uncertain future.
What about his point about tying it to one particular service?
He is right - LG should instead make a TV that speaks a standard streaming protocol, and let various vendors implement it. Of course, then when a new protocol comes out and the TV doesn't support it, you buy a new TV. ugh.
I think they predict lots of other things, but that is just the only value the press is interested in reporting.
The article is not saying that all models which pick a single value are flawed. It is saying that trying to combine multiple qualitative values into one single quantitative number is flawed. Temperature is clearly defined and measurable, so that is no problem. But "risk" is an elusive concept that can't be simplified to a single number.
Clipper, Skipjack, etc. were completey different. Those systems were encryption systems designed so that the government could snoop. Verifying the contents of an SSL cert does not require any special encryption and does not require divulging the private key to the authority.
Find a job where the people there are into technology. Some places, the developers consider software to be a job, and when they go home they watch TV and go to sporting events. Other places they go home and collaborate on projects, build Battlebots, and read Make magazine.
Talk to the developers. You might think that the company where they build robots with lasers would be staffed with industrious geeks, but it might turn-out that the corporate environment stifles such people.
You might want to talk to people in user's groups. Find your local LUG, IGDA chapter, ACM meeting, or IEEE charter. See where those people work (or don't work, if they aren't your type)
I still use a track ball - I love saving desk space and not having to pick-up the mouse when playing FPS games (or anything else where your movement is not confined to the range of a screen).
There is still a market for track balls. When my Microsoft Trackball Explorer died, and I actually lost the eBay bid for one at $200.
Why does everyone think as soon as you start to throw up billboards and advertisements that the organization in question has become unethical?
History.
Subsidized...Ah, wait... This is the United States and we ere hates dem dar communist bullshiat.
I didn't realize Wikipedia was a US-centric.
Wish I had mod points. And the poster needs an account, because this type of insight should start at 2 not 0.
I would suggest you check your electricity and your fixtures. Your experience is very atypical.
I've never had a CFL go out in the 3 years I've lived in my home. In the 10 years I lived in my previous home, we replaced one of the 4 we had in our basement.
I think everyone is misunderstanding the problem entirely.
The problem is not that when you die, you must repeat content: the problem is that the content is fixed.
I can engage in a sport, lose, and then play again right away. I never say "Oh, that's the same game we just played" because every game is different. Few video games offer that.
That's a fair reason in general, but the only reason I know of to interoperate with Notes is to export the data to something else.
We don't want to make the open source community look bad by associating it with this level of quality.
agreed.