The government system was likely by hand computer combination and departmentalized to the local schools. In other words, it was getting too old and outdated as well as labor intensive. The district wanted something different.
As for your Obama comment, do you deny end of life counseling in the two health bills floating around Washington? Or are you just another fanboy who takes a politician at their words instead of reading the legislation for themselves?
It was the respondent to the OP who injected the Obama comment -- obliquely, of course. Class scheduling is a very specialized software business. It has nothing to do with physician practice management, which is also a specialized software business. This has nothing to do with physician practice management software, please troll elsewhere. Dammit, I got trolled!
I for one can't wait until this "government school scheduling program"
is applied to my government-run healthcare system to schedule patients.
Yay?
Class scheduling systems have nothing in common with patient scheduling systems, except for the word "scheduling". You know it. I know it. And everyone on/. knows it. Next time, at least try to respect my intelligence with a plausible lie, OK?
So does that mean that the next time you make any modifications to your next home you wil not give one ounce of attention to the affect it'll have on the value?
Only in the most superficial of ways, yes. Fundamental improvements just aren't appreciated. I assume fundamental degradations wouldn't be either, as long as they were cloaked in oil-rubbed bronze.
Ground Source heating/cooling is a pretty nifty technology, and can be applied to a whole house HVAC system, rather than just a computer. It obviously requires more tubing than a single computer would, and in most climate will still require some supplemental heating/cooling for more extreme temperature days, but it's still awesome. It does have some upfront costs though.
Whole house HVAC would indeed require a considerably sink/source than just the slab. More like the whole yard or a deep well. Or, as some friends of mine used, a 1 acre lake (that's 4.04E31 barn for those living outside the US).
I don't know about you, but if I buy or make something, it's for me. I'm not there to take care of it for the next owners. If I wanted that, I'd rent.
Meanwhile, to the rest of the people in this reality, re-sale value is very much a concern with home ownership. If the cost of the modifications matters, then the future ramifications of the value of that house matters.
Oversimplification and ridicule is not insightful.
I'm selling a house right now. Buyers have absolutely no interest in the mechanical systems of the home, and only care about the structure if a wall is out of plumb or they can see through a supposedly solid medium. The only important thing to them are sufficient beigeness of the walls inside and out, sufficient shininess of the flooring, and sufficient Tuscanness of the fixtures, tile and hardware. You might think people would be more interested in the guts, but we're/.ers here, and most people are not. Also the $8000 tax credit has house noobs coming out of (in to?) the woodwork.
I have found it exceptionally difficult to explain to people why revision control systems are useful. I am not talking to computer science people (sadly). For some reason people don't seem to want to spend the five minutes running through a common git tutorial. What am I doing wrong? No, powerpoint is *not* the correct medium to teach you how to use git. Grr.
Sincerely, an angry programmer.
There's nothing you can do but the AA Serenity Prayer at this point.
I am a bit jealous of some Git features, but the place I work -- and me for my personal projects -- use SVN for one big reason: TortoiseSVN. It is a great interface to version control and not everyone (probably the majority) who needs to contribute is a programmer, or has any idea about command line interfaces, ssh, branching, merging, etc.
I am aware of TortoiseGit, but it has not reached a stable release, so it is not up for consideration in a serious environment.
There are other things to keep in mind too; SVN is much more tailored to our repo structure than Git, so that's a big plus for SVN -- at least for us.
Tortoise is also cross-platform, for when that's important. And there's even TortoiseCVS, if that's your style.
This can only be said by someone that hasn't used a distributed system.
Even if you are the only coder, a distributed system is still better since you're going to have your version, and the version on the server, and you want to be able to play about with your local version before pushing to the server. That's the sort of thing that git/mercurial are excellent at.
Wouldn't distributed and centralized version control degenerate to the same thing in the case of a single user? I've never used a distributed system, what difference would there be in that case?
I remember a study was reported a couple of years ago or so saying that incompetent people thing they're great at what they do. They lacked the mental equipment to judge performance. This sounds like the same song, second verse.
I believe that you are referring to this 1999 Study of the Dunning-Kruger Effect by . . . Dunning and Kruger.
Actually, you are constantly multi-tasking. You bet you had your full force of your brain on writing that comment, but you forget that you are also breathing, your heart is pumping, etc etc.
Good point. I'm gonna put that on my resume: "Excellent Multitasker, can type while simultaneously breathing and pumping blood through my body." I'll put it right below "Sat on aircraft exit row. Responsible for understanding instructions in English and assisting crew in the event of evacuation. Can lift 22 lbs/10 kg without injury."
Actually yes. MythTV kicks the utter crap out of any other PVR ever made.
The MythTV developers are at least 800% more talented than ALL of the TiVo dev team combined.
do you not understand how 3000 developers are better than 10? did you not pass basic math in high school?
I'm not bagging on the Myth guys at all -- they've done a great job. But I know from experience that creating the second new something is much easier than the first. This is the "First Waffle Theory". This theory works especially well if you can get someone else to make that first one.
Liskula Cohen obtained the information by asking a court to get it, and the court forced the release. Which means the person who should be sued is... the court. Which doesn't happen.
But one would think the "court" might want some recourse for being played like that. Or get a reputation for being credulous fools.
Corporate taxes double-tax earnings. And they don't all get passed to consumers - they also take form as reduced hiring and reduced salary, reduced capital for business expansion, and even as tolls you'll probably like: lower share prices and dividends, and yes, lower executive pay.
So? That's not unique to corporate "persons". Taxing natural persons also results in reduced hiring (people hire people), reduced salary (wages are taxed), reduced capital for expansion. The corporate case isn't special.
But you say investors own corps, and they're taxed too, so it's not fair? Nonsense. Corporations are separate entities from their shareholders. They exist for the very purpose of separating investors for the actual and financial liabilities of running a business. Shareholders who prefer a more hands-on ownership role without the hassle of "double taxation" are free to invest in LLCs, S-Corps, or other entities that better suit their desires.
Good grief, computers were invented during the 2nd world war in the UK and used to decode the German mechanically generated ciphers and it sure wasn't IBM. Where the hell did you get your tall story?
The tabulating machine was an electrical device designed to assist in summarizing information and, later, accounting. Invented by Herman Hollerith, the machine was developed to help process data for the 1890 U.S. Census. It spawned a larger class of devices known as unit record equipment and the data processing industry.
The term "Super Computing" was first used by the New York World newspaper in 1929[1] to refer to large custom-built tabulators IBM made for Columbia University.
Honestly, it will take a/long time/. I've known conservatives to pull "but Clinton!" even in the final year of Bush's term. It's about equally retarded no matter which side is doing it... though I'm still pissed that Bush got away with what he did.
I seem to recall in Summer and Fall 2008, they were even still blaming Jimmy Carter for the economic collapse.
Companies don't increase presence in China because the US raises taxes 5%. They move to China because they can hire a college educated engineer there for $15k a year.
Plus, they can beat the shit out of him till he kills himself when he misplaces a prototype. That's the kind of free-market forces you just can't find in the US.
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I have actually worked for a company that specialized in resource allocation for class scheduling. It's kind of fun, except for customer support.
The government system was likely by hand computer combination and departmentalized to the local schools. In other words, it was getting too old and outdated as well as labor intensive. The district wanted something different.
As for your Obama comment, do you deny end of life counseling in the two health bills floating around Washington? Or are you just another fanboy who takes a politician at their words instead of reading the legislation for themselves?
It was the respondent to the OP who injected the Obama comment -- obliquely, of course. Class scheduling is a very specialized software business. It has nothing to do with physician practice management, which is also a specialized software business. This has nothing to do with physician practice management software, please troll elsewhere. Dammit, I got trolled!
I for one can't wait until this "government school scheduling program"
is applied to my government-run healthcare system to schedule patients.
Yay?
Class scheduling systems have nothing in common with patient scheduling systems, except for the word "scheduling". You know it. I know it. And everyone on /. knows it. Next time, at least try to respect my intelligence with a plausible lie, OK?
*reads the first two posts*
Oh my god! Barack Obama is Batman's secret identity!
This explains why he got to keep his "Blackberry", because it's actually his Batberry! ... I'll let myself out.
I've never seen Barack Obama and Batman in the same room . . .
So does that mean that the next time you make any modifications to your next home you wil not give one ounce of attention to the affect it'll have on the value?
Only in the most superficial of ways, yes. Fundamental improvements just aren't appreciated. I assume fundamental degradations wouldn't be either, as long as they were cloaked in oil-rubbed bronze.
Ground Source heating/cooling is a pretty nifty technology, and can be applied to a whole house HVAC system, rather than just a computer. It obviously requires more tubing than a single computer would, and in most climate will still require some supplemental heating/cooling for more extreme temperature days, but it's still awesome. It does have some upfront costs though.
Whole house HVAC would indeed require a considerably sink/source than just the slab. More like the whole yard or a deep well. Or, as some friends of mine used, a 1 acre lake (that's 4.04E31 barn for those living outside the US).
What happens if the pipe starts leaking? Are you prepared to repair a cracked foundation?
The pipe is laid in the slab, not the foundation.
i assume you mean 16 degrees Celsius, it hasn't been centigrade since 1948.
It's an older term, but it checks out. I was about to let it pass..
I don't know about you, but if I buy or make something, it's for me. I'm not there to take care of it for the next owners. If I wanted that, I'd rent.
I hope the next house you buy falls over on top of you because the last person who owned it, owned it for THEM.
Most actual houses are not built by Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin or Harold Lloyd.
I don't know about you, but if I buy or make something, it's for me. I'm not there to take care of it for the next owners. If I wanted that, I'd rent.
Meanwhile, to the rest of the people in this reality, re-sale value is very much a concern with home ownership. If the cost of the modifications matters, then the future ramifications of the value of that house matters.
Oversimplification and ridicule is not insightful.
I'm selling a house right now. Buyers have absolutely no interest in the mechanical systems of the home, and only care about the structure if a wall is out of plumb or they can see through a supposedly solid medium. The only important thing to them are sufficient beigeness of the walls inside and out, sufficient shininess of the flooring, and sufficient Tuscanness of the fixtures, tile and hardware. You might think people would be more interested in the guts, but we're /.ers here, and most people are not. Also the $8000 tax credit has house noobs coming out of (in to?) the woodwork.
I have found it exceptionally difficult to explain to people why revision control systems are useful. I am not talking to computer science people (sadly). For some reason people don't seem to want to spend the five minutes running through a common git tutorial. What am I doing wrong? No, powerpoint is *not* the correct medium to teach you how to use git. Grr.
Sincerely, an angry programmer.
There's nothing you can do but the AA Serenity Prayer at this point.
I am a bit jealous of some Git features, but the place I work -- and me for my personal projects -- use SVN for one big reason: TortoiseSVN. It is a great interface to version control and not everyone (probably the majority) who needs to contribute is a programmer, or has any idea about command line interfaces, ssh, branching, merging, etc.
I am aware of TortoiseGit, but it has not reached a stable release, so it is not up for consideration in a serious environment.
There are other things to keep in mind too; SVN is much more tailored to our repo structure than Git, so that's a big plus for SVN -- at least for us.
Tortoise is also cross-platform, for when that's important. And there's even TortoiseCVS, if that's your style.
This can only be said by someone that hasn't used a distributed system.
Even if you are the only coder, a distributed system is still better since you're going to have your version, and the version on the server, and you want to be able to play about with your local version before pushing to the server. That's the sort of thing that git/mercurial are excellent at.
Wouldn't distributed and centralized version control degenerate to the same thing in the case of a single user? I've never used a distributed system, what difference would there be in that case?
I remember a study was reported a couple of years ago or so saying that incompetent people thing they're great at what they do. They lacked the mental equipment to judge performance. This sounds like the same song, second verse.
I believe that you are referring to this 1999 Study of the Dunning-Kruger Effect by . . . Dunning and Kruger.
Actually, you are constantly multi-tasking. You bet you had your full force of your brain on writing that comment, but you forget that you are also breathing, your heart is pumping, etc etc.
Good point. I'm gonna put that on my resume: "Excellent Multitasker, can type while simultaneously breathing and pumping blood through my body." I'll put it right below "Sat on aircraft exit row. Responsible for understanding instructions in English and assisting crew in the event of evacuation. Can lift 22 lbs/10 kg without injury."
Actually yes. MythTV kicks the utter crap out of any other PVR ever made.
The MythTV developers are at least 800% more talented than ALL of the TiVo dev team combined.
do you not understand how 3000 developers are better than 10? did you not pass basic math in high school?
I'm not bagging on the Myth guys at all -- they've done a great job. But I know from experience that creating the second new something is much easier than the first. This is the "First Waffle Theory". This theory works especially well if you can get someone else to make that first one.
Liskula Cohen obtained the information by asking a court to get it, and the court forced the release. Which means the person who should be sued is... the court. Which doesn't happen.
But one would think the "court" might want some recourse for being played like that. Or get a reputation for being credulous fools.
"I don't think anyone should ever expect anonymity" and "British"
With a foolish attitude like that, they should try to get a job with the British Government.
And so should his sisters and his cousins and his aunts,
And "aphorism" is not a synonym for "argument".
That's ignorant.
And you're ugly.
Corporate taxes double-tax earnings. And they don't all get passed to consumers - they also take form as reduced hiring and reduced salary, reduced capital for business expansion, and even as tolls you'll probably like: lower share prices and dividends, and yes, lower executive pay.
So? That's not unique to corporate "persons". Taxing natural persons also results in reduced hiring (people hire people), reduced salary (wages are taxed), reduced capital for expansion. The corporate case isn't special.
But you say investors own corps, and they're taxed too, so it's not fair? Nonsense. Corporations are separate entities from their shareholders. They exist for the very purpose of separating investors for the actual and financial liabilities of running a business. Shareholders who prefer a more hands-on ownership role without the hassle of "double taxation" are free to invest in LLCs, S-Corps, or other entities that better suit their desires.
Good grief, computers were invented during the 2nd world war in the UK and used to decode the German mechanically generated ciphers and it sure wasn't IBM. Where the hell did you get your tall story?
Perhaps the GP errs on a technicality by referring to the tabulating machines as "computers". You might like to peek at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabulating_machine
For the lazy:
The tabulating machine was an electrical device designed to assist in summarizing information and, later, accounting. Invented by Herman Hollerith, the machine was developed to help process data for the 1890 U.S. Census. It spawned a larger class of devices known as unit record equipment and the data processing industry.
The term "Super Computing" was first used by the New York World newspaper in 1929[1] to refer to large custom-built tabulators IBM made for Columbia University.
lol objectivism
if everything were 100% as i say things would be perfect, gold standard fuck the poor ron paul 2008
That's probably the most concise yet stream-of-consciousness insight I've ever seen beginning with "lol" and containing exactly 0 capital letters.
Corporate taxes are a joke. They just get passed on to the consumer anyway . . .
Q: How do you get a laissez-faire capitalist to stop talking about market pricing, supply and demand, etc?
A: Bring up taxes or any other cost that he doesn't like and suddenly it gets passed straight through to the consumer.
Honestly, it will take a /long time/. I've known conservatives to pull "but Clinton!" even in the final year of Bush's term. It's about equally retarded no matter which side is doing it... though I'm still pissed that Bush got away with what he did.
I seem to recall in Summer and Fall 2008, they were even still blaming Jimmy Carter for the economic collapse.
Companies don't increase presence in China because the US raises taxes 5%. They move to China because they can hire a college educated engineer there for $15k a year.
Plus, they can beat the shit out of him till he kills himself when he misplaces a prototype. That's the kind of free-market forces you just can't find in the US.