Yeah, it is a way better phone in MY mind too. Sadly the processor could be faster, (although the software updates should take care of a good chunk of the lag problem)... The marketing from Sprint probably won't be nearly as effective as Apple/ATT either... so I'm thinking killing the iPhone won't happen despite being an all around better phone. But damn I can't wait until this thing launches here!
Just waiting for the HTC Hero to hit the US on a carrier larger then t-mobile! (rumor dates are Oct 11th on Sprint...released in Europe in June) This phone seems to be in the same league as the iPhone and may help increase Android's popularity.
Maybe your dreams are training you for social interaction? After all, you are geeky enough to be on slashdot. Do you find yourself more at ease socializing than the average geek? They seem to have paired socializing with geeky things that interest you.:)
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No doubt! Not to mention the article's claim:
"PSPFanboy, a Joystiq blog, has a great closeup of the new PSP redesign.
They've had these for years. When I took hunters safety in Wisconsin 14 years ago the DNR guy was telling me about their robotic deer decoy that they used for poachers. This one sounds a little more advanced, but same idea.
*Wonders which company you work for* Last I heard this project was short listed for the major vendors. I also heard that the UK was going to be broken up into regions and that different vendors would get different regions (which sounds like a bad idea to me)... I currently write HL7 interfaces for one of the major vendors, and IMHO i think a single vendor solution for the blunt of things is the way to go. At least keep the Ambulatory and Inpatient charts on the same vendor, feel free to go best of breed on lab sytems, registration, etc.
Maybe that will work in countries where the younger crowd texts more then they talk because talking costs too much, but I don't see that working in places like the US where you can get more talk time then you need/mo for cheap.
There are definitely a few problems I can see with this, that have already been pointed out. And of course this is really cool for people making new content from their home (which has already been pointed out). But I wonder what affect this will have on the media industry. Will media that's previously been forced off the site by the copyright owner now be posted to the site by the copyright owner? Does this mean Comedy Central will post clips of the Daily Show and the Colbert Report now that they can make money from it? If Google works out the potential problems, this could be really cool.
After living on the south island for 6 months I can say it beats the hell out of Wisconsin:)
I do like NZ's government better for the most part, but the lack of a written and entrenched constitution scares me a little bit.
But what's the point of intentionally making it more difficult to get information? The internet is a tool, just like books and professors are valuable tools. Just because there wasn't always an internet doesn't make it right to censor it now. Do you honestly believe that it's right to censor the net like the original poster describes or were you just trying to spark a debate?
The US is different. Here "Debit Cards" are much more like credit cards. Most of them have some debit system like Plus, or Star, or Pulse, but nobody really thinks about it as a Star Card. All those cards tend to have a Visa or Master Card log on them too, and can be used anywhere a credit card is used. I don't know anyone (in the US) that has a debit card that doesn't work like a credit card. However, I know that in Europe, and Oceana (aus/nz) it's much more common to have just a debit card like you describe that is on a system of it's own. When travelling I think people just assume my debit card is a credit card... Hopefully that makes a bit more sense to you:)
This article is informative and all, but it doesn't give us techies much insight on the companies that are providing the IT behind these major healthcare organizations. There are a handful of major vendors out there, and a lot of smaller ones. These vendors not only create jobs in their cities, but require the facilities that use the software to hire teams of tech savvy individuals. Only a small percentage of hospitals are using Electronic Medical Records (EMR) and the process for health care organizations to convert from paper charts can sometimes take years. These roll outs give a lot of jobs to consultants too. I'm really surprised the article didn't mention that. I was trying to think of some good links I could give you all that would list some major vendors, but I can't think of what would be fair since I work for a vendor that supplied a software to a number of the healthcare organizations mentioned in the article.
Here's a link to HIS talk though, it's a forum for those of us in the healthcare IT industry.
If you read it you'll see a lot of company names repeated, in alphabetical order here are a few of the big ones that come to mind (difinitely not a comprehensive list): Cerner, Epic Systems Corp., GE Healthcare, McKesson,
This article focuses too much on, 'There is no good "learning" programming language that is installed with modern OS's that kids can actually stumble upon and gain interest in.'
Ok, someone pointed out you can create a.vbs and run it, but how is some kid going to find it? It takes a programmer parent to show them. When I got my first computer it loaded a DOS prompt and I had to type a command to open windows, or a game, or whatever. This forced me to do something, and BASIC was there, one command away and I was in an editor just as easy as I was in windows.
If I was 15 years younger I don't think I ever would have started playing around with a programming language. In this sense the article is right
However, I think times change and there are still plenty of opportunities. In jr high and high school math classes they are teaching kids how to program their graphing calculators that have easy to learn line programming languages on them. At some point this could make a kid curious enough to move on to VB or something of that sort. There's also the internet. Everyone wants to have a web page or customise their myspace page or something along those lines. Sure it's not mathematical programming, but it could be enough to spark interest in computers and programming.
As so many people here agree (and many disagree) line level languages may not be the best tools to learn how to really program. But I'm sure that we can all agree there needs to be somthing that sparks an interest in programming for an individual to actually pick up the trade. The CS program at the university I graduated from started with 2 semesters of Java, then C/C++, then you took a compilers course, and a micro architecture course, at some point you learned assembly. The point is some of this stuff that the older generations were forced into from the begining just seems boring to most kids until they are emersed enough so that the lower levels of computing can interest them. Sure when I started my degree just 6 years ago there were a handful of self taught programmers like myself in the intro level classes, but 75% of the new CS majors were interested in it because they liked using modern programs, or creating things on the web.
It would be great if we could just expect future generations to be inspired the same way we were, but it's not going to happen. The class room is going to need to evolve in order to get kids that don't grow up with geeky parents interested in coding. It's a process that's already begun, but as we know evolution can take time. The article has some good points, but it is kind of like saying that because modern cars are so much more complex and difficult to work on that we won't have enough people interested in Mechanics. No, we just need to realize times have changed and that we need to adjust our lines of thinking and the courses we offer students to get them interested.
I can see your point, but I have to disagree. There are definitely programming jobs out there that don't require much of the math you learn in a CS program, and even many of the jobs that do require parts of it don't require all of it. The point is to make you a rounded individual as a programmer so that you can handle any task.
Take an example of a small open GL project I did once, 3-D pong. Ok, this seems simple enough not much math... then make it interesting, rotate the walls. All of the sudden you're using linear algebra and matrix theory that you learned as a sophomore in college (hopefully you kept your book around). Not the most complex math, but applying the linear transformations to the vector spaces in a programming language makes you glad you had a really good understanding of it at one point in your life.
Ok, now sure I didn't need all that calculus, or diffy q, or compinatorics, graph theory etc for that program, but now take another example. My current job as a developer utilizes our own home grown database. Guess what it's not a relational DB, it's a tree (trust me it's great for the data we use). Here's where all of the graph theory class really helps me on a daily basis. I'm sure there's a million other jobs out there that require some of the high level math you learn, it's just rare that any one job or project will require you to use most of what you learned. The point of going to a university is to come out with the ability to handle many types of jobs, not just one. If you only plan on working one specific type of job that doesn't require much of anything you learn in a full blown CS program go to tech school.
What if it's not a fire? I can't count how many CDs I've had "destroyed" because they have so many scratches they just aren't playable anymore. Before I had the hard drive capacity to back up my entire CD collection I lost a lot of entire or partial albums. This is still a valid question.
Hmm, I'm in my mid 20's, and flew to LA two weeks ago (4 flights in total 2 there, 2 back). I was "randomly selected" twice. I'm white as any programmer from European descent, from the US, and have a fully american first and last name... john smith is about the only thing more common. I'm also clean shaven, and travelling on business... Seemed random to me. I also watched a white man with a family get screened in front of me a few people... so for everyone saying you only get screened if you fly by yourself or with arabs i call bs. I'm sure there is some profiling, but there is also an element of randomness.
agreed. I know this may sound redundant, but I work for a software company that makes medical software. In my many visits to hospitals I've encountered plenty of clerks, nurses, and even brain surgeons (you know those really brilliant people that can cut a tumor off the computer in our heads) that can't even copy/paste their own notes, let alone know what a wiki is/how to use one. Why should anyone be expected to know this?
Just a suggestion. If you don't want your kids to have their "own" cell phone, maybe just get yourself an extra line. Only give it to the kids when they are going somewhere you want them to have the phone. My girlfriend has a few younger sisters, the youngest just got her own phone at 16. Until recently they would just lend her mom or dad's phone when she might need one.
Wow, way to form an opinion of two nations based on the actions of 1 guest from each. I shared an office with a guy from the Netherlands before, and based off of his actions (and your logic), man do all the people from the Netherlands like to get into the office early!
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Yeah, it is a way better phone in MY mind too. Sadly the processor could be faster, (although the software updates should take care of a good chunk of the lag problem)... The marketing from Sprint probably won't be nearly as effective as Apple/ATT either... so I'm thinking killing the iPhone won't happen despite being an all around better phone. But damn I can't wait until this thing launches here!
Just waiting for the HTC Hero to hit the US on a carrier larger then t-mobile! (rumor dates are Oct 11th on Sprint...released in Europe in June) This phone seems to be in the same league as the iPhone and may help increase Android's popularity.
Maybe your dreams are training you for social interaction? After all, you are geeky enough to be on slashdot. Do you find yourself more at ease socializing than the average geek? They seem to have paired socializing with geeky things that interest you. :)
No doubt! Not to mention the article's claim:
"PSPFanboy, a Joystiq blog, has a great closeup of the new PSP redesign.
Great closeup my ass.
They've had these for years. When I took hunters safety in Wisconsin 14 years ago the DNR guy was telling me about their robotic deer decoy that they used for poachers. This one sounds a little more advanced, but same idea.
*Wonders which company you work for* Last I heard this project was short listed for the major vendors. I also heard that the UK was going to be broken up into regions and that different vendors would get different regions (which sounds like a bad idea to me)... I currently write HL7 interfaces for one of the major vendors, and IMHO i think a single vendor solution for the blunt of things is the way to go. At least keep the Ambulatory and Inpatient charts on the same vendor, feel free to go best of breed on lab sytems, registration, etc.
Who needs sound for guitar hero or DDR, seriously?
Maybe that will work in countries where the younger crowd texts more then they talk because talking costs too much, but I don't see that working in places like the US where you can get more talk time then you need/mo for cheap.
Something tells me this would work for most mac users if the directions were simple enough... aww hell, i guess it would work on most PC users too...
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There are definitely a few problems I can see with this, that have already been pointed out. And of course this is really cool for people making new content from their home (which has already been pointed out). But I wonder what affect this will have on the media industry. Will media that's previously been forced off the site by the copyright owner now be posted to the site by the copyright owner? Does this mean Comedy Central will post clips of the Daily Show and the Colbert Report now that they can make money from it? If Google works out the potential problems, this could be really cool.
After living on the south island for 6 months I can say it beats the hell out of Wisconsin :)
I do like NZ's government better for the most part, but the lack of a written and entrenched constitution scares me a little bit.
But what's the point of intentionally making it more difficult to get information? The internet is a tool, just like books and professors are valuable tools. Just because there wasn't always an internet doesn't make it right to censor it now. Do you honestly believe that it's right to censor the net like the original poster describes or were you just trying to spark a debate?
The US is different. Here "Debit Cards" are much more like credit cards. Most of them have some debit system like Plus, or Star, or Pulse, but nobody really thinks about it as a Star Card. All those cards tend to have a Visa or Master Card log on them too, and can be used anywhere a credit card is used. I don't know anyone (in the US) that has a debit card that doesn't work like a credit card. However, I know that in Europe, and Oceana (aus/nz) it's much more common to have just a debit card like you describe that is on a system of it's own. When travelling I think people just assume my debit card is a credit card... Hopefully that makes a bit more sense to you :)
anybody else want to beat this pedophile...err I mean dead horse?
yay, one more reason to burn oil... awesome!
This article is informative and all, but it doesn't give us techies much insight on the companies that are providing the IT behind these major healthcare organizations. There are a handful of major vendors out there, and a lot of smaller ones. These vendors not only create jobs in their cities, but require the facilities that use the software to hire teams of tech savvy individuals. Only a small percentage of hospitals are using Electronic Medical Records (EMR) and the process for health care organizations to convert from paper charts can sometimes take years. These roll outs give a lot of jobs to consultants too. I'm really surprised the article didn't mention that. I was trying to think of some good links I could give you all that would list some major vendors, but I can't think of what would be fair since I work for a vendor that supplied a software to a number of the healthcare organizations mentioned in the article.
Here's a link to HIS talk though, it's a forum for those of us in the healthcare IT industry.
http://histalk.blog-city.com/
If you read it you'll see a lot of company names repeated, in alphabetical order here are a few of the big ones that come to mind (difinitely not a comprehensive list): Cerner, Epic Systems Corp., GE Healthcare, McKesson,
This article focuses too much on, 'There is no good "learning" programming language that is installed with modern OS's that kids can actually stumble upon and gain interest in.'
.vbs and run it, but how is some kid going to find it? It takes a programmer parent to show them. When I got my first computer it loaded a DOS prompt and I had to type a command to open windows, or a game, or whatever. This forced me to do something, and BASIC was there, one command away and I was in an editor just as easy as I was in windows.
Ok, someone pointed out you can create a
If I was 15 years younger I don't think I ever would have started playing around with a programming language. In this sense the article is right
However, I think times change and there are still plenty of opportunities. In jr high and high school math classes they are teaching kids how to program their graphing calculators that have easy to learn line programming languages on them. At some point this could make a kid curious enough to move on to VB or something of that sort. There's also the internet. Everyone wants to have a web page or customise their myspace page or something along those lines. Sure it's not mathematical programming, but it could be enough to spark interest in computers and programming.
As so many people here agree (and many disagree) line level languages may not be the best tools to learn how to really program. But I'm sure that we can all agree there needs to be somthing that sparks an interest in programming for an individual to actually pick up the trade. The CS program at the university I graduated from started with 2 semesters of Java, then C/C++, then you took a compilers course, and a micro architecture course, at some point you learned assembly. The point is some of this stuff that the older generations were forced into from the begining just seems boring to most kids until they are emersed enough so that the lower levels of computing can interest them. Sure when I started my degree just 6 years ago there were a handful of self taught programmers like myself in the intro level classes, but 75% of the new CS majors were interested in it because they liked using modern programs, or creating things on the web.
It would be great if we could just expect future generations to be inspired the same way we were, but it's not going to happen. The class room is going to need to evolve in order to get kids that don't grow up with geeky parents interested in coding. It's a process that's already begun, but as we know evolution can take time. The article has some good points, but it is kind of like saying that because modern cars are so much more complex and difficult to work on that we won't have enough people interested in Mechanics. No, we just need to realize times have changed and that we need to adjust our lines of thinking and the courses we offer students to get them interested.
I can see your point, but I have to disagree. There are definitely programming jobs out there that don't require much of the math you learn in a CS program, and even many of the jobs that do require parts of it don't require all of it. The point is to make you a rounded individual as a programmer so that you can handle any task.
Take an example of a small open GL project I did once, 3-D pong. Ok, this seems simple enough not much math... then make it interesting, rotate the walls. All of the sudden you're using linear algebra and matrix theory that you learned as a sophomore in college (hopefully you kept your book around). Not the most complex math, but applying the linear transformations to the vector spaces in a programming language makes you glad you had a really good understanding of it at one point in your life.
Ok, now sure I didn't need all that calculus, or diffy q, or compinatorics, graph theory etc for that program, but now take another example. My current job as a developer utilizes our own home grown database. Guess what it's not a relational DB, it's a tree (trust me it's great for the data we use). Here's where all of the graph theory class really helps me on a daily basis. I'm sure there's a million other jobs out there that require some of the high level math you learn, it's just rare that any one job or project will require you to use most of what you learned. The point of going to a university is to come out with the ability to handle many types of jobs, not just one. If you only plan on working one specific type of job that doesn't require much of anything you learn in a full blown CS program go to tech school.
What if it's not a fire? I can't count how many CDs I've had "destroyed" because they have so many scratches they just aren't playable anymore. Before I had the hard drive capacity to back up my entire CD collection I lost a lot of entire or partial albums. This is still a valid question.
Hmm, I'm in my mid 20's, and flew to LA two weeks ago (4 flights in total 2 there, 2 back). I was "randomly selected" twice. I'm white as any programmer from European descent, from the US, and have a fully american first and last name... john smith is about the only thing more common. I'm also clean shaven, and travelling on business... Seemed random to me. I also watched a white man with a family get screened in front of me a few people... so for everyone saying you only get screened if you fly by yourself or with arabs i call bs. I'm sure there is some profiling, but there is also an element of randomness.
Duh, they make revenue with their search engine not by advertising, but by selling your search history!
agreed. I know this may sound redundant, but I work for a software company that makes medical software. In my many visits to hospitals I've encountered plenty of clerks, nurses, and even brain surgeons (you know those really brilliant people that can cut a tumor off the computer in our heads) that can't even copy/paste their own notes, let alone know what a wiki is/how to use one. Why should anyone be expected to know this?
Just a suggestion. If you don't want your kids to have their "own" cell phone, maybe just get yourself an extra line. Only give it to the kids when they are going somewhere you want them to have the phone. My girlfriend has a few younger sisters, the youngest just got her own phone at 16. Until recently they would just lend her mom or dad's phone when she might need one.
Wow, way to form an opinion of two nations based on the actions of 1 guest from each. I shared an office with a guy from the Netherlands before, and based off of his actions (and your logic), man do all the people from the Netherlands like to get into the office early!