Its actually useful from the start, and is the best documented programming language.
When I was a freshman College and relatively undecided on my major, I browsed
through a few computer science books. I failed to get excited about
the usual examples given in such books. Converting Celsius to
farenheit seemed pretty useless, atleast not worth the effort of
coding. I didn't see a situation where i would have to do many such
conversions at once. I did not want to create calculators. There was
a pefectly good working calculator on my computer already. And as I
understand it they were invented over a 100 years ago. I did not see
the point of creating random objects such as animals making noises
that are usually taught in an effort to introduce object oriented
programming. I haven't even been to the zoo in a decade. I did not
want to know how many people are logged on to my computer right now.
As far as I knew only one person could be logged on to my computer.
Everone else had there own computer anyway.
I think beginning programming courses should teach you to automate everyday tasks.
computers can do anything.
There are three reasons to learn computer programming. The most important
reason in my opinion is to make your on life easier. A second reason
is for intellectual development. So much of education is about
memorizing and then forgetting and letting someone else do it better.
Computer Programming allows you to think and do. Hopefully think more
and do less. But this usually comes after having done more and not
wanting to do that much.
Computers can do whatever you can do with computers and whatever you can think
of doing with computers. The interesting part is that they can do
these things while you are not there, or when you are too lazy to do
them yourself. As far as things you have
seen people do with comupters, you can learn to do them yourself. And
you can usually teach a computer to them also. The great thing is, is
that computers don't yet have rights, and its not considered unethical
to "use" them. Programmers are first users. Users would be better users if they were programmers.
Obama's health care information reform plan
Wow !
This plan is going to make me a born again believer in the presidency. Compared to the plan to help the bankers and the automakers, this plan actually benefits patients, voters, citizens, and not to mention doctors.
I would like to form a team to take a grass roots doctor proposal to Obama. I started programming a few years ago because I had major isssues with the current state of informatics that hindered my job as a radiologist. I am interested in spreading awareness and educating doctors, students, patients, everyone about the importance of programming. I believe scripting patient related information is going to be an important part of writing a pre (script) ion.
I would like to assemble a team of 100-1000 programmers to help Obama implement his plan. By default, we will be volunteers.
Let me know if you want to be part of it.
I will announce progress on the project in this thread: http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=39902
I use voice recognition in dictating radiology reports all the time. It actually works pretty well. It is faster than typing, particularly with voice macros. Maybe because we have a limited highly specialized vocabulary...
no you can't game it that easily.
for simplicity take two people, they both bid for restaurants that they don't want to go to, they lose... it'll be like the 2 men horse race where the human winner is the rider of the losing horse... but instead of seeing each other in real time, you have to preset your own horse's speed...
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/2/15/01945/8792
apparently the writer is against the war on drugs, but the readership is mostly confused and incomprehensible there...
Maybe slashdotters should be posting on these liberal and other conservative blogs about war on drugs, instead of or in addition to preaching to the choir here.
The Libertarian Party is the only party with a serious, ideological anti-drug war stance. It kills me that slashdotters don't even mention LP. Could it be LP's ambivalence towards intellectual property?
Great post about http://appleseed.sourceforge.net/ Appleseed
The difficulties in web2.0 are apparent for slashcode's experience. Although I have a slash site at http://mashdot.com/Mashdot. It was a bitch to install, and I'm still unsuccessful after a 2-3 attempts at restarting the site with cvs. Luckily the release version is doing the job for now.
I also have an interest in bringing AI applications using web2.0, right now at its infancy at http://ai.residentmanual.com/Radiology Decision Support.
There are also the partially free open cyc projects and its like...
An MIT grad student, http://web.media.mit.edu/~push//Singh, has a couple of interesting projects: Conceptnet and openmind
American Research practices are not perfect, neither is the academic enviorment it is done in. There is a lack of open, slashdot like discussion for example. To fix that, there is Mashdot: Medical Journal Club
Consider the inconsistencies in doctor recommendations of screening for lung cancer. We say even heavy smokers don't need to be screened, but do many invasive tests on incidental nodules found in low risk individuals.
Radio Free Nation (a slash clone) has an extensive Legal Notice on copyright of content on their site. This is probably the reason that their site is so infrequently used despite interesting content and a working slash system.
Are they a scam though? Have they tried trapping anyone with their legal notice by suing users for posting their content at other places potentially slashdot for example after posting on radio free nation?
I am sure I'm being paranoid, but I just put some comments on their site, and then read their legal notice... I'd like to keep ownership of my content and be free to publish anywhere I want...
I am a doctor interested in research and education. I have just launched a slashlike site:Mashdot - a virtual journal club to discuss journal articles published elsewhere. I would actually like to see distributed moderation complement formal peer review.
One reason I think formal peer review is insufficient, is that politically incorrect opinions are less likely to surface in them.
Also, sometimes non-experts have better ideas than the experts in cutting edge research because they are more likely to think outside the box.
Naveen
don't shopping.com and netflix also allow user reviews. Does this mean they have to shut down now, or pay amazon royalties ?
too bad the internet movie database is already owned by amazon.com
does this mean we will never have a true internet book database?
This is more tangential than offtopic I hope, great anonymous coward moderator or metamoderator:
I'd like to see a all you can read subscription model from amazon.com... but here's something I worte about all you can fly model for the airlines:
The american airline industry is struggling. The internet is allowing businessmen to travel less. Rising ticket prices, secondary to rising oil prices, cause leisure travelers to postpone travels, or only buy heavily discounted tickets. I propose an "all you can fly" business model. With a subscription model, airlines can encourage overuse by consumers. They should learn a lesson from healthcare and netflix. Price discrimination is annoying to intelligent consumers. Weather it be getting ripped off by late fees or late airfare buying, the modern american consumer doesn't want to have to waste his time to be "smart and thrifty" and shop around, return movies on time, plan vacations ahead of time... They are more than willing to pay more in a system that encourages more consumerism... I totally abused netflix for a year, watching about a 100 movies last year for $20 / month. But, now that its part of my lifestyle, I only watch 2-4 movies a month, but I can't imagine not having netflix... I was just encouraging my dad to get an MRI(=>about $1000), mainly for peace of mind. If I could fly on unlimited domestic flights for $1000 / year or something, I would be flying a whole lot more, and eventually the airlines would be making money off me, and they'd be profitable too. I hate flying, but I'd fly more if my costs were capped (ofcourse premiums would rise yearly just like healthcare). Without the subscription, I probably would only spend $600 / year on airfare, and would do it mainly on thrifty flights... For the holidays, the airlines can add a premium subscription model, or increase reserve capacity just for the holidays... or transfer planes from business sh uttle markets to vacation traveler markets.
Despite being a libertarian, I've been brainwashed almost thoroughly by slashdot into a bias against Microsoft. So, I was surprised that www.ocw.mit.edu is published using Microsoft software: this from their FAQ, at http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Global/OCWHelp/help.htm# 25
"30. What technology is used to publish the MIT OCW Web site?
The MIT OCW technology solution supports a complex publishing process. This is a large-scale digital publishing infrastructure that consists of planning tools, a content management system (CMS), and the MIT OCW content distribution infrastructure. The current technical solution has been in use since April 2003 with a four-person technical support team managing all aspects of this infrastructure.
The planning tools used by the MIT OCW team to assist faculty in publishing their course materials include a custom application of FileMaker Pro, and several checklists and documents. For creating and managing content, we use several desktop tools (file conversion tools) as well as the CMS, an extensively customized version of Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 that fully supports our publishing process. Our content delivery infrastructure includes a sophisticated publishing engine, content staging server, and a content delivery network utilizing Akamai's EdgeSuite platform."
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Its actually useful from the start, and is the best documented programming language. When I was a freshman College and relatively undecided on my major, I browsed through a few computer science books. I failed to get excited about the usual examples given in such books. Converting Celsius to farenheit seemed pretty useless, atleast not worth the effort of coding. I didn't see a situation where i would have to do many such conversions at once. I did not want to create calculators. There was a pefectly good working calculator on my computer already. And as I understand it they were invented over a 100 years ago. I did not see the point of creating random objects such as animals making noises that are usually taught in an effort to introduce object oriented programming. I haven't even been to the zoo in a decade. I did not want to know how many people are logged on to my computer right now. As far as I knew only one person could be logged on to my computer. Everone else had there own computer anyway. I think beginning programming courses should teach you to automate everyday tasks. computers can do anything. There are three reasons to learn computer programming. The most important reason in my opinion is to make your on life easier. A second reason is for intellectual development. So much of education is about memorizing and then forgetting and letting someone else do it better. Computer Programming allows you to think and do. Hopefully think more and do less. But this usually comes after having done more and not wanting to do that much. Computers can do whatever you can do with computers and whatever you can think of doing with computers. The interesting part is that they can do these things while you are not there, or when you are too lazy to do them yourself. As far as things you have seen people do with comupters, you can learn to do them yourself. And you can usually teach a computer to them also. The great thing is, is that computers don't yet have rights, and its not considered unethical to "use" them. Programmers are first users. Users would be better users if they were programmers.
Obama's health care information reform plan Wow ! This plan is going to make me a born again believer in the presidency. Compared to the plan to help the bankers and the automakers, this plan actually benefits patients, voters, citizens, and not to mention doctors. I would like to form a team to take a grass roots doctor proposal to Obama. I started programming a few years ago because I had major isssues with the current state of informatics that hindered my job as a radiologist. I am interested in spreading awareness and educating doctors, students, patients, everyone about the importance of programming. I believe scripting patient related information is going to be an important part of writing a pre (script) ion. I would like to assemble a team of 100-1000 programmers to help Obama implement his plan. By default, we will be volunteers. Let me know if you want to be part of it. I will announce progress on the project in this thread: http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=39902
I use voice recognition in dictating radiology reports all the time. It actually works pretty well. It is faster than typing, particularly with voice macros. Maybe because we have a limited highly specialized vocabulary...
no you can't game it that easily. for simplicity take two people, they both bid for restaurants that they don't want to go to, they lose... it'll be like the 2 men horse race where the human winner is the rider of the losing horse... but instead of seeing each other in real time, you have to preset your own horse's speed...
I totally agree with you.l
Infact I think the voting should be on the web as a supplement to voting machines or paper if people still want that too.
http://slashdot.in/articles/06/09/22/2013225.shtm
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/2/15/01945/8792
apparently the writer is against the war on drugs, but the readership is mostly confused and incomprehensible there...
Maybe slashdotters should be posting on these liberal and other conservative blogs about war on drugs, instead of or in addition to preaching to the choir here.
The Libertarian Party is the only party with a serious, ideological anti-drug war stance. It kills me that slashdotters don't even mention LP.
Could it be LP's ambivalence towards intellectual property?
another reason to use firefox: http://www.chatsum.com/ now you can discuss articles on slashdot live... amazing..
But slash does... what are the best ones? I've started a list on listible. http://www.listible.com/list/slash-sites
I tried google answers... let's see if it works for slashcode on ubuntu. http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=71 5917
Great post about http://appleseed.sourceforge.net/ Appleseed
The difficulties in web2.0 are apparent for slashcode's experience. Although I have a slash site at http://mashdot.com/Mashdot. It was a bitch to install, and I'm still unsuccessful after a 2-3 attempts at restarting the site with cvs. Luckily the release version is doing the job for now. I also have an interest in bringing AI applications using web2.0, right now at its infancy at http://ai.residentmanual.com/Radiology Decision Support. There are also the partially free open cyc projects and its like... An MIT grad student, http://web.media.mit.edu/~push//Singh, has a couple of interesting projects: Conceptnet and openmind
http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/telecom.dogmas .spectrum.ps
another great article on the stupidity of the telecom industry.
Times online article on this story.
American Research practices are not perfect, neither is the academic enviorment it is done in. There is a lack of open, slashdot like discussion for example. To fix that, there is Mashdot: Medical Journal Club
Consider the inconsistencies in doctor recommendations of screening for lung cancer. We say even heavy smokers don't need to be screened, but do many invasive tests on incidental nodules found in low risk individuals.
Are they a scam though? Have they tried trapping anyone with their legal notice by suing users for posting their content at other places potentially slashdot for example after posting on radio free nation?
I am sure I'm being paranoid, but I just put some comments on their site, and then read their legal notice... I'd like to keep ownership of my content and be free to publish anywhere I want...
I am a doctor interested in research and education. I have just launched a slashlike site:Mashdot - a virtual journal club to discuss journal articles published elsewhere. I would actually like to see distributed moderation complement formal peer review.
One reason I think formal peer review is insufficient, is that politically incorrect opinions are less likely to surface in them. Also, sometimes non-experts have better ideas than the experts in cutting edge research because they are more likely to think outside the box.
Naveen
don't shopping.com and netflix also allow user reviews. Does this mean they have to shut down now, or pay amazon royalties ? too bad the internet movie database is already owned by amazon.com does this mean we will never have a true internet book database?
This is more tangential than offtopic I hope, great anonymous coward moderator or metamoderator:
I'd like to see a all you can read subscription model from amazon.com... but here's something I worte about all you can fly model for the airlines:
The american airline industry is struggling. The internet is allowing businessmen to travel less. Rising ticket prices, secondary to rising oil prices, cause leisure travelers to postpone travels, or only buy heavily discounted tickets. I propose an "all you can fly" business model. With a subscription model, airlines can encourage overuse by consumers. They should learn a lesson from healthcare and netflix.
Price discrimination is annoying to intelligent consumers. Weather it be getting ripped off by late fees or late airfare buying, the modern american consumer doesn't want to have to waste his time to be "smart and thrifty" and shop around, return movies on time, plan vacations ahead of time... They are more than willing to pay more in a system that encourages more consumerism... I totally abused netflix for a year, watching about a 100 movies last year for $20 / month. But, now that its part of my lifestyle, I only watch 2-4 movies a month, but I can't imagine not having netflix... I was just encouraging my dad to get an MRI(=>about $1000), mainly for peace of mind.
If I could fly on unlimited domestic flights for $1000 / year or something, I would be flying a whole lot more, and eventually the airlines would be making money off me, and they'd be profitable too. I hate flying, but I'd fly more if my costs were capped (ofcourse premiums would rise yearly just like healthcare). Without the subscription, I probably would only spend $600 / year on airfare, and would do it mainly on thrifty flights... For the holidays, the airlines can add a premium subscription model, or increase reserve capacity just for the holidays... or transfer planes from business sh uttle markets to vacation traveler markets.
Despite being a libertarian, I've been brainwashed almost thoroughly by slashdot into a bias against Microsoft. So, I was surprised that www.ocw.mit.edu is published using Microsoft software: this from their FAQ, at http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Global/OCWHelp/help.htm# 25
"30. What technology is used to publish the MIT OCW Web site?
The MIT OCW technology solution supports a complex publishing process. This is a large-scale digital publishing infrastructure that consists of planning tools, a content management system (CMS), and the MIT OCW content distribution infrastructure. The current technical solution has been in use since April 2003 with a four-person technical support team managing all aspects of this infrastructure.
The planning tools used by the MIT OCW team to assist faculty in publishing their course materials include a custom application of FileMaker Pro, and several checklists and documents. For creating and managing content, we use several desktop tools (file conversion tools) as well as the CMS, an extensively customized version of Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 that fully supports our publishing process. Our content delivery infrastructure includes a sophisticated publishing engine, content staging server, and a content delivery network utilizing Akamai's EdgeSuite platform."