Zangband is the Zelany varient of Angband, which is descended from Rouge - a common ancestor of Nethack. There are a bunch of different developement versions available on the Sourceforge site.
Zangband is one of those weird projects on Sourceforge which is not OSS. There's an explainer there about it...
I prefer Z/Angband. Nethack is nice, but the quests get old. I agree that it is a classic though, and something I will always play. Kind of like how Bad Brains I against I is a record I will always listen to...
...or to the full satisfaction of the business executive
Every "business executive" I've ever worked with is disappointed with the results of their request if, at the end of the day, the IT department is unable to do the impossible. It's all about managing expectations.
"Hey, helpdesk. Yeah, I just dropped off a spool of yarn over in Finance. I need you to make it into a magic carpet by 5 so I can fly to Europe. What's that? All you can do is fix my e-mail? Ok then, just do that."
Executives ask for the moon and settle for less, it's in their nature. They are never "fully satisfied".
Just grow a gigantic mustache/beard. Wear oversized glasses. Basically, wear a disguise. If you're running from the law (or need to exist on the outskirts of society) then you should have a good disguise handy already.
Personally, I'd rather put on a disguise whenever I needed to leave my mountain hideout and come into the city than walk around with an obvious scar/missing digit from having to cut out my implant.
DNA printing is more troubling, but having real-time alerts based on DNA ID would be very tricky. Unless Big Brother requires us all to use DNA as a universal ID for ATMs/Travel/Medical treatment. In which case I for one welcome our...blah, blah, blah.
I'm the same way. If someone asked me what my password is I'd need to have a keyboard in front of me to figure it out. My fingers know it's (SHIFT + key,key,key release SHIFT key,key,key SHIFT + key,key) but the actual combination of numbers, letters, special chars and cases is unknown to "me".
There is quite a high demand for these kinds of things in the medical field where physicians do indeed need to use a computer standing up. They need to be able to roam from one exam room to the next without having to drag a cart full of paper medical records. They also tend to work long hours and have low tolerances for having to do un-godlike things like swapping out batteries or returning to a docking station to get a new tablet.
All of which typically would mean that this might be a welcome advance in the medical field except the software is still all crap...
If this really has been a lot of fuss over nothing, shouldn't we be upset that the government did such a crapass job explaining it to the public? The fact that the Patriot Act may not be the first step to Big Brother doesn't excuse the botched execution.
It's called "change management". I have to do it at my job, so should my congressman.
And the face paint manufacturer is making money by selling the green paint I used to make my halloween costume. So technically they could also be sued.
I guess if I want to see great games continue to be able to be published I better go home and change my charaters name to "Player". Or would that then open the game industry to lawsuits from Snoop Dogg?
Is it just me or does this sound like Marvel is trying to claim ownership of super-heros as a concept? How is creating my character on-line to look like the Hulk any different than making my own Hulk halloween costume and wearing it out in public? I'm not claiming to be officially representing Marvel in any way, and you'd have to be a pretty big idiot to think I was.
I play Call of Duty as "Dr. Johnny Fever" could the creators of WKRP have a case against me or the game developers? I call Shenanigans!
Interesting. I do like rap, and I find The Streets unskilled, pretentious, sucky alt-rap nearly unlistenable. Shouting "I'm an arteest!" at the top of your lungs doesn't make it true. If you must, get the first record. "A Grand Don't Come For Free" is bloated, hip-music-critic bait.
I fugured as much as I was reading. I love WinMX clean interface and features, but it's pretty obvious that the user base just isn't there the way Limewire, Kazaa and the rest have.
As it is, I use Limewire. Takes hella long to load, but at least I know there's no spy/adware.
Wait...did I say that? I mean my friend uses Limewire. I am deaf and blind.
The hospital I work for has a very disgruntled former patient. Her website regarding percieved medical mistakes is interesting. While I sympathize with her situation, the fact that nobody here secured that domain name is kind of embarresing.
Isn't it standard practice these days to buy up and sit on all of the potential *sucks, *blows, *can-eat-me domains when you start a business? Not to mention the regular name variation ones?
Actually, what you can tell about a programmer from comments is the ability and understanding of his/her direct supervisor.
Understanding the value of good code is one thing, but insulating your developers from top-down pressure and unreasonable deadlines which force them to "slap it together" allows programmers to prosper.
If your shop is producing crap code it's because your management is crap.
If you left without having something else lined up first then, yes - you are an idiot. Let's assume that you did have another job waiting for you...
If you left because your employer was shifting gears and moving into a direction you were not interested in going, then by all means leave. I've done it before.
I worked for a small clinic group who made the decision to outsource all of their analysts and systems folks. I had a choice to either join the help desk crew or go to decision support. Since I hate the phone, and had no desire to spend my days producing TPS reports, I immediately started looking for another job. I had to because I knew that I'd be fighting over the same jobs with other people in my department (the smart ones anyway).
I got an offer in 2 weeks, gave my 2 week notice, took 2 weeks off and then started the new job. Even if they offer you more money to stay, being unhappy with what you're doing is a recipe for disaster.
(Although being unemployed is also not good!)
Back when I was a kid all we had was the devils music to make us go crazy and kill a bunch of people. You kids and your video games wouldn't know a subliminal message if it jumped out of your Xstations and slapped you. Why if we wanted to have an excuse for being loony tunes, we'd have to spin a record (a record!) backwards to find out how to act...and we liked it!
I guess what I was asking is...do you have any links to articles which specifically state that VistA is going to be adopted as a national standard HIMS?
Seriously though, it's not just end-users who get pissed when you move prompts. Closed, proprietary systems suck. I use Meditech now, and every time we upgrade the old ladies around here have a meltdown. The problem is, so do I. We've got 6 or 7 different "interfaces" which will also go down if a single field is changed.
Think of those people who get pissed as human macros and you'll get a better understanding of what's going down. If they get pissed, or if the macro fails, it's because of a failure of the vendor/hospital IT to be proactive. Change doesn't have to hurt (although it usually does).
So, this project ties into VistA somehow? I'm surprised that this many corporations would have an interest in implementing such old (and already free) tech.
Yes, I understand that most HIMS are based on old tech (if that's what MUMPS derivatives can be called), but why wouldn't these companies want to develop something of their own from the ground up? Isn't there a fat gavernment contract floating around this somewhere?
I certainly hope they aren't just thinking about slapping a screen scraping pretty web frot-end onto an old system and calling it "revolutionary". I've already seen that at too many vendor fairs.
I agree.
However, think about what's being sent via HL7. Say I work at a clinic and want to refer one of my patients to a hospital. I send my unique 8 digit ID for the patient through the (say Cloverleaf) interface and then it spits out at the hospital. Now they have to jump through hoops to match up my patient with their records.
Or how about this? Medicare requires provider UPINs to be sent on all EDI claims, through a regional fiscal intermediary. Bluecross wants to go direct, with the word "BLANK" tucked into the HL7 where the UPIN would normally be.
It's not so much the lack of technology standards that is killing healthcare IT, it's the lack of nuts and bolts standards. HIPAA was supposed to take care of these things, but if you're in the industry, you know what a miserable success thats been...
Call me crazy, but I would have waited until the fall/winter to take these pictures. The leaves on the sidewalk trees obscure most of the single story storefronts so badly I can't tell what I'm looking at.
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Zangband is the Zelany varient of Angband, which is descended from Rouge - a common ancestor of Nethack. There are a bunch of different developement versions available on the Sourceforge site.
Zangband is one of those weird projects on Sourceforge which is not OSS. There's an explainer there about it...
I prefer Z/Angband. Nethack is nice, but the quests get old. I agree that it is a classic though, and something I will always play. Kind of like how Bad Brains I against I is a record I will always listen to...
...or to the full satisfaction of the business executive
Every "business executive" I've ever worked with is disappointed with the results of their request if, at the end of the day, the IT department is unable to do the impossible. It's all about managing expectations.
"Hey, helpdesk. Yeah, I just dropped off a spool of yarn over in Finance. I need you to make it into a magic carpet by 5 so I can fly to Europe. What's that? All you can do is fix my e-mail? Ok then, just do that."
Executives ask for the moon and settle for less, it's in their nature. They are never "fully satisfied".
Just grow a gigantic mustache/beard. Wear oversized glasses. Basically, wear a disguise. If you're running from the law (or need to exist on the outskirts of society) then you should have a good disguise handy already.
Personally, I'd rather put on a disguise whenever I needed to leave my mountain hideout and come into the city than walk around with an obvious scar/missing digit from having to cut out my implant.
DNA printing is more troubling, but having real-time alerts based on DNA ID would be very tricky. Unless Big Brother requires us all to use DNA as a universal ID for ATMs/Travel/Medical treatment. In which case I for one welcome our...blah, blah, blah.
I'm the same way. If someone asked me what my password is I'd need to have a keyboard in front of me to figure it out. My fingers know it's (SHIFT + key,key,key release SHIFT key,key,key SHIFT + key,key) but the actual combination of numbers, letters, special chars and cases is unknown to "me".
There is quite a high demand for these kinds of things in the medical field where physicians do indeed need to use a computer standing up. They need to be able to roam from one exam room to the next without having to drag a cart full of paper medical records. They also tend to work long hours and have low tolerances for having to do un-godlike things like swapping out batteries or returning to a docking station to get a new tablet.
All of which typically would mean that this might be a welcome advance in the medical field except the software is still all crap...
"...there will be even more opportunities to empower workers and transform their productivity"
/. posts, then the future is here now!
What, exactly, am I supposed to be transforming my productivity into? Because if it's
Think that's geeky? Puh-lease:
At 8:00 p.m. EDT (0000 GMT) April 9, 2005 +$H turns 60000!
I win!
I voted for John Kerry, does that count?
If this really has been a lot of fuss over nothing, shouldn't we be upset that the government did such a crapass job explaining it to the public? The fact that the Patriot Act may not be the first step to Big Brother doesn't excuse the botched execution.
It's called "change management". I have to do it at my job, so should my congressman.
And the face paint manufacturer is making money by selling the green paint I used to make my halloween costume. So technically they could also be sued.
I guess if I want to see great games continue to be able to be published I better go home and change my charaters name to "Player". Or would that then open the game industry to lawsuits from Snoop Dogg?
Is it just me or does this sound like Marvel is trying to claim ownership of super-heros as a concept? How is creating my character on-line to look like the Hulk any different than making my own Hulk halloween costume and wearing it out in public? I'm not claiming to be officially representing Marvel in any way, and you'd have to be a pretty big idiot to think I was.
I play Call of Duty as "Dr. Johnny Fever" could the creators of WKRP have a case against me or the game developers? I call Shenanigans!
Interesting. I do like rap, and I find The Streets unskilled, pretentious, sucky alt-rap nearly unlistenable. Shouting "I'm an arteest!" at the top of your lungs doesn't make it true. If you must, get the first record. "A Grand Don't Come For Free" is bloated, hip-music-critic bait.
I fugured as much as I was reading. I love WinMX clean interface and features, but it's pretty obvious that the user base just isn't there the way Limewire, Kazaa and the rest have.
As it is, I use Limewire. Takes hella long to load, but at least I know there's no spy/adware.
Wait...did I say that? I mean my friend uses Limewire. I am deaf and blind.
The hospital I work for has a very disgruntled former patient. Her website regarding percieved medical mistakes is interesting. While I sympathize with her situation, the fact that nobody here secured that domain name is kind of embarresing.
Isn't it standard practice these days to buy up and sit on all of the potential *sucks, *blows, *can-eat-me domains when you start a business? Not to mention the regular name variation ones?
Actually, what you can tell about a programmer from comments is the ability and understanding of his/her direct supervisor.
Understanding the value of good code is one thing, but insulating your developers from top-down pressure and unreasonable deadlines which force them to "slap it together" allows programmers to prosper.
If your shop is producing crap code it's because your management is crap.
Now, if only I can get my hands on the 50 foot radius cell phone blocker....
I found one with slightly less range at Home Depot. They call it a "12 foot 2x4", but I use it to block cell phone calls.
If you left without having something else lined up first then, yes - you are an idiot. Let's assume that you did have another job waiting for you... If you left because your employer was shifting gears and moving into a direction you were not interested in going, then by all means leave. I've done it before. I worked for a small clinic group who made the decision to outsource all of their analysts and systems folks. I had a choice to either join the help desk crew or go to decision support. Since I hate the phone, and had no desire to spend my days producing TPS reports, I immediately started looking for another job. I had to because I knew that I'd be fighting over the same jobs with other people in my department (the smart ones anyway). I got an offer in 2 weeks, gave my 2 week notice, took 2 weeks off and then started the new job. Even if they offer you more money to stay, being unhappy with what you're doing is a recipe for disaster. (Although being unemployed is also not good!)
Back when I was a kid all we had was the devils music to make us go crazy and kill a bunch of people. You kids and your video games wouldn't know a subliminal message if it jumped out of your Xstations and slapped you. Why if we wanted to have an excuse for being loony tunes, we'd have to spin a record (a record!) backwards to find out how to act...and we liked it!
I guess what I was asking is...do you have any links to articles which specifically state that VistA is going to be adopted as a national standard HIMS?
Meditech or IDX/Intersystems?
Seriously though, it's not just end-users who get pissed when you move prompts. Closed, proprietary systems suck. I use Meditech now, and every time we upgrade the old ladies around here have a meltdown. The problem is, so do I. We've got 6 or 7 different "interfaces" which will also go down if a single field is changed.
Think of those people who get pissed as human macros and you'll get a better understanding of what's going down. If they get pissed, or if the macro fails, it's because of a failure of the vendor/hospital IT to be proactive. Change doesn't have to hurt (although it usually does).
So, this project ties into VistA somehow? I'm surprised that this many corporations would have an interest in implementing such old (and already free) tech.
Yes, I understand that most HIMS are based on old tech (if that's what MUMPS derivatives can be called), but why wouldn't these companies want to develop something of their own from the ground up? Isn't there a fat gavernment contract floating around this somewhere?
I certainly hope they aren't just thinking about slapping a screen scraping pretty web frot-end onto an old system and calling it "revolutionary". I've already seen that at too many vendor fairs.
I agree.
However, think about what's being sent via HL7. Say I work at a clinic and want to refer one of my patients to a hospital. I send my unique 8 digit ID for the patient through the (say Cloverleaf) interface and then it spits out at the hospital. Now they have to jump through hoops to match up my patient with their records.
Or how about this? Medicare requires provider UPINs to be sent on all EDI claims, through a regional fiscal intermediary. Bluecross wants to go direct, with the word "BLANK" tucked into the HL7 where the UPIN would normally be.
It's not so much the lack of technology standards that is killing healthcare IT, it's the lack of nuts and bolts standards. HIPAA was supposed to take care of these things, but if you're in the industry, you know what a miserable success thats been...
Call me crazy, but I would have waited until the fall/winter to take these pictures. The leaves on the sidewalk trees obscure most of the single story storefronts so badly I can't tell what I'm looking at.
It must be difficult having to go through life being so great and yet so unappreciated.
Tell me, is the public library where you're typing this from warm?