Read it again.. he didn't say that 60% of health care costs were IT related. He said that a 60% saving on IT related costs was a good thing.. that has nothing to do with the overall cost. As others have pointed out, (and you tried to aswell, i guess..) it's really a drop in the ocean as far as the overall cost of medical care is concerned, but it is still a saving.
otoh, i wouldn't be shifting a whole bunch of mission critical medical systems without thorough testing.. and obviously not for financial reasons.
hahah.. You Redundant, me OT.. something tells me that mod didn't RTFA.. and perhaps doesn't know anything about the history of the Internet.. oh well.
i must admit, I laughed when Al Gore claimed that he was responsible for the development of the internet.. but i also did some research.. While it's not true that he's responsible (certainly, he didn't develop TCP/IP, and wasn't directly involved in ARPAnet) he did actually help it along a bit.
not that i thin that alone warrants some kind of nobel prize or anything..
Nobody is recommending actually dropping tons of uranium on the planet. It's poisonous, regardless of the radioactivity. It's unlikely to undergo fission in the atmosphere (it takes more than an explosion to set it off.. regardless of what the movies tell you) but it would still be an ecological disaster.. not to mention a waste of perfectly good resources.
It's a much better idea to build something like that in space, when that becomes economically viable in itself. I'm guessing that will be at least 30 years, but it could be possible within our lifetimes... With a little luck, our current energy reserves will last that long, and we won't kill ourselves waiting.
Certainly it can be done in real time.. by your standard everyday keylogger. Of course, installing keyloggers on ALL your employees machines, and having complete access to everything they write does raise some thorny questions.. Not to mention that someone has to actually assess the data.
This really doesn't look like it's going to take corporate email security to a new level.. individual profiling, however, might be a different story.
The calculation comes from a individual in a set of people who are willing to donate money. The original argument assumes that 1) you have only 1 Unit of currency, and 2 ) that you are making the decision in a void. The reality is that there are hundreds of thousands of individuals willing to donate (some of them if only for the tax breaks), and some of them will choose to give food and nutritional aid to those who have no access, while others will choose to educate children in the developing world.
Yeah, but these kids are likely to be in third world countries. There's no point giving them what the 'adult world' uses, if the only adult world these kids have access to is one that involves farming using traditional methods..
If Microsoft view this as just another market dominance battle, they'll be adversely affecting the lives of hundreds of thousands of kids..
Welcome to the intarnets.. if things are likely to offend you, ever, you should remember to use the status bar on your browser to confirm the link before you click on it.
Also, feeding trolls is considered bad form. The general rule is ignore them or they have won.
Thing is, Redmond would never have this potential revenue stream in the first place without OLPC, because they're simply not willing to develop it themselves. They simply cannot make enough money per customer in developing countries to justify the amount they would spend on providing tech support, patches, etc..
As far as they're concerned, it's just too much effort.. and they'd have to wait for the economies of those countries to build up enough to actually collect that revenue, and then they'd loose their cheap outsourced coders and tech support in the process.
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Read it again.. he didn't say that 60% of health care costs were IT related. He said that a 60% saving on IT related costs was a good thing.. that has nothing to do with the overall cost. As others have pointed out, (and you tried to aswell, i guess..) it's really a drop in the ocean as far as the overall cost of medical care is concerned, but it is still a saving.
otoh, i wouldn't be shifting a whole bunch of mission critical medical systems without thorough testing.. and obviously not for financial reasons.
hahah.. You Redundant, me OT.. something tells me that mod didn't RTFA.. and perhaps doesn't know anything about the history of the Internet.. oh well.
i must admit, I laughed when Al Gore claimed that he was responsible for the development of the internet.. but i also did some research.. While it's not true that he's responsible (certainly, he didn't develop TCP/IP, and wasn't directly involved in ARPAnet) he did actually help it along a bit.
not that i thin that alone warrants some kind of nobel prize or anything..
weird.. one thing i've never noticed in vim is bugs.. perhaps i just haven't been using it for long enough..
actually, it's a fallacy of the excluded middle, aka a false dichotomy. You're 100% correct though. Pity Dvorak just says things to annoy people.
Al Gore. ;)
Slow down space cowboy ;)
Nobody is recommending actually dropping tons of uranium on the planet. It's poisonous, regardless of the radioactivity. It's unlikely to undergo fission in the atmosphere (it takes more than an explosion to set it off.. regardless of what the movies tell you) but it would still be an ecological disaster.. not to mention a waste of perfectly good resources.
It's a much better idea to build something like that in space, when that becomes economically viable in itself. I'm guessing that will be at least 30 years, but it could be possible within our lifetimes... With a little luck, our current energy reserves will last that long, and we won't kill ourselves waiting.
good to know i have fans. ;)
Certainly it can be done in real time.. by your standard everyday keylogger. Of course, installing keyloggers on ALL your employees machines, and having complete access to everything they write does raise some thorny questions.. Not to mention that someone has to actually assess the data.
This really doesn't look like it's going to take corporate email security to a new level.. individual profiling, however, might be a different story.
Well, they're be more accountable and easier to trace than the current lot..
hah! The joke's on you! i already post on slashdot.. what does impotence matter when no female will come within 20ft of me? ;)
1. fit engines to asteroid. 2. point towards earth. 3. wait a few months.
No probs buddy.. it's just, it's a little surprising to see a person with a UID as low as yours baited by a troll.
Hands up all those who read the headline as 'Former Anti-Nuclear Activist Dies at 180'..
;)
if protesting against nuclear power will give me a lifespan like that, i'll look for a placard right now
I highly doubt this. Imagine if they'd killed off Win2k when Millennium was released..
Indeed, PHB, just like management is like talking, but with less accountability.
context jumps a good argument do not make.
The calculation comes from a individual in a set of people who are willing to donate money.
The original argument assumes that 1) you have only 1 Unit of currency, and 2 ) that you are making the decision in a void. The reality is that there are hundreds of thousands of individuals willing to donate (some of them if only for the tax breaks), and some of them will choose to give food and nutritional aid to those who have no access, while others will choose to educate children in the developing world.
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Yeah, but these kids are likely to be in third world countries. There's no point giving them what the 'adult world' uses, if the only adult world these kids have access to is one that involves farming using traditional methods..
If Microsoft view this as just another market dominance battle, they'll be adversely affecting the lives of hundreds of thousands of kids..
Welcome to the intarnets.. if things are likely to offend you, ever, you should remember to use the status bar on your browser to confirm the link before you click on it.
Also, feeding trolls is considered bad form. The general rule is ignore them or they have won.
I am. I thought they'd at least wait until they had the 'standard' approved (pushed/bribed through) ISO.. This is almost like them being honest..
Thing is, Redmond would never have this potential revenue stream in the first place without OLPC, because they're simply not willing to develop it themselves. They simply cannot make enough money per customer in developing countries to justify the amount they would spend on providing tech support, patches, etc..
As far as they're concerned, it's just too much effort.. and they'd have to wait for the economies of those countries to build up enough to actually collect that revenue, and then they'd loose their cheap outsourced coders and tech support in the process.
You wouldn't crowdsource any other engineering task, so why software?
Sometimes it's not just a buzzword, it's also a bad idea.
Maybe Microsoft could appeal to the Gates Foundation.. i hear they have some money lying around..
I just hope Microsoft don't try to sue them to make it fit. Wouldn't that be ironic; Microsoft filing an anti-trust lawsuit against OLPC..
I'm sure your wife is svelte and attractive.. what exactly was this argument about?
Agree 110%
It's just that Microsoft are also attempting to increase the base cost of the unit, which is something that the OLPC project cannot have.