Prior to Nixon's gift to a major donor, healthcare was non-profit, from what I've read. After that, once healthcare was allowed to make a profit, the emphasis has been on "treatments", not "cures". Why fix something and get paid once when you can cash in on suffering forever by "treating" it?
By the way, 20 years ago, we had the same guns we have now but we didn't have mass murders like we have now. The difference is the mass prescription of SSRIs...
NO! NO! NO! NO!!! They're already handing out SSRIs like candy for everything imaginable. People with PTSD do not need anti depressants. Also, MANY people who are put on these things are NOT monitored for behavioral and mental changes. The more we hand these things out without FREQUENT monitoring, the more problems we're going to have with grandiose suicides. According to things I keep reading, nearly ALL of the mass murderers (especially the ones that suicide) are on SSRIs.
I have a friend that was put on SSRIs for depression. Yeah, she was depressed. After starting those damn things, she went positively suicidal. To the point that we were all taking turns checking on her to make sure that she hadn't offed herself. She told the doctor about it and he said to "let the meds settle in". Seriously! She told the doctor that she was feeling VERY suicidal and he told her to basically "ride it out". Finally, she just quit the damn things and after a couple of weeks was back to her normal self.
I realize that SSRIs *may* help a lot of people, but it doesn't take very many bad experiences to do some serious damage... My friend was ready to take herself out in a spectacular way. Can anybody guess where the school shooters are coming from?
So now they're saying that *5 times* as many people need to be on these things. Really!? Of course, Big Pharma (tm) makes boatloads of money on them and we have more suicides and murders.
By the way, my friend wasn't a teen. She was in her late 40s. The bad effects are not just limited to teenagers...
Obfuscated electronics design contest: solving a simple problem in a complex manner. Destruction of battlefield electronics is not a new science. A small gridwork of thermite inside the case and a small igniter. Trigger how you will.
Don't we have better things to spend research money on?
In general, most places that I've been in during my 30 year career have had managers and supervisors generally wearing golf shirts and khaki pants or something similar. This is for places that have no real dress code other than clean, in good repair and not offensive.
I would take a look around the company and see how the rest of the team leaders dress. Regardless of how the geeks dress, you're going to need to peddle influence in order to get your budget and policies passed. The better you dress (without overdressing your higher level managers, the more respect you can garner from people that have no clue about IT.
Check out what your manager and his peers wear and go even with that or *one* step lower. If the company president wears jeans and band tee shirts, it don't matter none...:-)
OK, so we start with a wearable computer. Stuff an NVidia in it. Get a chord type keyboard that's wearable. Display in glasses or the cool new lasers that draw on your retina. GPS jacked into computer. Keyhole maps.
Used to work at a place that regularly patented just about everything. The main reason given was that "if we don't patent it, someone else might and keep us from pursuing the process".
The main idea was that if we patent it, we can't be prevented from using it. IBM may have patented the process to keep someone else doing it and denying access to everyone else like Amazon is trying to do with it's "One Click" patent...
I've been narfing around with Appgen MyBooks for the last couple of days. It seems to be a very complete package with Linux, Windows and Mac OS X versions.
I installed the package on my Linux server and installed the client app (it is client-server) on Windows and Linux. I created a company and turned on access control. I was able to connect to the same database on both Linux and Windows. It uses host based authentication for access to the database. When I connected to the server from the Windows box, it asked for server, username and password. It actually seems to use some form of record locking. When I had a quote open on the Linux system, and tried to open the same quote on Windows, it complained that it was already open and would only allow read-only access. It also seems to have functionality for importing QuickBooks data but I haven't been able to test this.
There are additional functions for an accountant to get many different reports. I can't imagine that an accountant that can drive QuickBooks wouldn't be able to run MyBooks with a small amount of startup effort.
My wife (3rd year Business student) checked it out and said that it looks pretty complete. I downloaded only the basic MyBooks demo version but the purchase is only $99 for a five user license. There is a professional version that seems to have payroll added to the functionality for $799 for a 10 user license. The web site is not terribly good at explaining the difference between the two packages but considering another poster's comments about payroll being difficult to do, I would imagine that the payroll portion could cost the extra $$
The application seems to be written in Java (it installs a JRE) and performs identically in Linux and Windows. I can only imagine that Mac OS X is similar.
I am researching this package since I'm looking for alternatives to things like Symix for my customers. Unless I find some show stoppers, it looks like this is what I'm going to recommend to them.
NOTE: I'm not an accountant, nor do I play one on television...
Cheers!
"Don't make me angry... you wouldn't like me when I'm angry."
-David Banner
I've worked with AIX in the past and let me tell you that we don't want SMIT and ODB. SMIT is the System Management Interface Tool or some such. Linuxconf is much easier to navigate.
We definately do not want to use the IBM ODB (Object DataBase) that they use for storing system configuration information. This is worse than the Windows Registry because there is no way to troubleshoot problems. I've had systems take 45 minutes to start up because the IP information in the ODB was incorrect. Not fun. I think that text files are the best way to handle system configuration issues. If you mess up the file, you can look in it to see the problem. You can still build tools to do the configuration and populate the text files. Databases for system configuration is unnecessary obfuscation.
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Prior to Nixon's gift to a major donor, healthcare was non-profit, from what I've read. After that, once healthcare was allowed to make a profit, the emphasis has been on "treatments", not "cures". Why fix something and get paid once when you can cash in on suffering forever by "treating" it?
By the way, 20 years ago, we had the same guns we have now but we didn't have mass murders like we have now. The difference is the mass prescription of SSRIs...
Just sayin'
NO! NO! NO! NO!!!
They're already handing out SSRIs like candy for everything imaginable. People with PTSD do not need anti depressants. Also, MANY people who are put on these things are NOT monitored for behavioral and mental changes. The more we hand these things out without FREQUENT monitoring, the more problems we're going to have with grandiose suicides. According to things I keep reading, nearly ALL of the mass murderers (especially the ones that suicide) are on SSRIs.
I have a friend that was put on SSRIs for depression. Yeah, she was depressed. After starting those damn things, she went positively suicidal. To the point that we were all taking turns checking on her to make sure that she hadn't offed herself. She told the doctor about it and he said to "let the meds settle in". Seriously! She told the doctor that she was feeling VERY suicidal and he told her to basically "ride it out". Finally, she just quit the damn things and after a couple of weeks was back to her normal self.
I realize that SSRIs *may* help a lot of people, but it doesn't take very many bad experiences to do some serious damage... My friend was ready to take herself out in a spectacular way. Can anybody guess where the school shooters are coming from?
So now they're saying that *5 times* as many people need to be on these things. Really!? Of course, Big Pharma (tm) makes boatloads of money on them and we have more suicides and murders.
By the way, my friend wasn't a teen. She was in her late 40s. The bad effects are not just limited to teenagers...
Yeah, that was the theory behind ADA... We know where that went
Obfuscated electronics design contest: solving a simple problem in a complex manner. Destruction of battlefield electronics is not a new science. A small gridwork of thermite inside the case and a small igniter. Trigger how you will.
Don't we have better things to spend research money on?
In general, most places that I've been in during my 30 year career have had managers and supervisors generally wearing golf shirts and khaki pants or something similar. This is for places that have no real dress code other than clean, in good repair and not offensive.
I would take a look around the company and see how the rest of the team leaders dress. Regardless of how the geeks dress, you're going to need to peddle influence in order to get your budget and policies passed. The better you dress (without overdressing your higher level managers, the more respect you can garner from people that have no clue about IT.
Check out what your manager and his peers wear and go even with that or *one* step lower. If the company president wears jeans and band tee shirts, it don't matter none...:-)
OK, so we start with a wearable computer. Stuff an NVidia in it. Get a chord type keyboard that's wearable. Display in glasses or the cool new lasers that draw on your retina. GPS jacked into computer. Keyhole maps.
I can finally type 'whereami' and find out!
This is all doable with current technology...
If only it worked in Linux...
Used to work at a place that regularly patented just about everything. The main reason given was that "if we don't patent it, someone else might and keep us from pursuing the process".
The main idea was that if we patent it, we can't be prevented from using it. IBM may have patented the process to keep someone else doing it and denying access to everyone else like Amazon is trying to do with it's "One Click" patent...
Just my 2c
I've been narfing around with Appgen MyBooks for the last couple of days. It seems to be a very complete package with Linux, Windows and Mac OS X versions.
I installed the package on my Linux server and installed the client app (it is client-server) on Windows and Linux. I created a company and turned on access control. I was able to connect to the same database on both Linux and Windows. It uses host based authentication for access to the database. When I connected to the server from the Windows box, it asked for server, username and password. It actually seems to use some form of record locking. When I had a quote open on the Linux system, and tried to open the same quote on Windows, it complained that it was already open and would only allow read-only access. It also seems to have functionality for importing QuickBooks data but I haven't been able to test this.
There are additional functions for an accountant to get many different reports. I can't imagine that an accountant that can drive QuickBooks wouldn't be able to run MyBooks with a small amount of startup effort.
My wife (3rd year Business student) checked it out and said that it looks pretty complete. I downloaded only the basic MyBooks demo version but the purchase is only $99 for a five user license. There is a professional version that seems to have payroll added to the functionality for $799 for a 10 user license. The web site is not terribly good at explaining the difference between the two packages but considering another poster's comments about payroll being difficult to do, I would imagine that the payroll portion could cost the extra $$
The application seems to be written in Java (it installs a JRE) and performs identically in Linux and Windows. I can only imagine that Mac OS X is similar.
I am researching this package since I'm looking for alternatives to things like Symix for my customers. Unless I find some show stoppers, it looks like this is what I'm going to recommend to them.
NOTE: I'm not an accountant, nor do I play one on television...
Cheers!
"Don't make me angry... you wouldn't like me when I'm angry."
-David Banner
I've worked with AIX in the past and let me tell you that we don't want SMIT and ODB. SMIT is the System Management Interface Tool or some such. Linuxconf is much easier to navigate.
We definately do not want to use the IBM ODB (Object DataBase) that they use for storing system configuration information. This is worse than the Windows Registry because there is no way to troubleshoot problems. I've had systems take 45 minutes to start up because the IP information in the ODB was incorrect. Not fun. I think that text files are the best way to handle system configuration issues. If you mess up the file, you can look in it to see the problem. You can still build tools to do the configuration and populate the text files. Databases for system configuration is unnecessary obfuscation.
Just my 2 cents...