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Things that Retard

Things that RetardHumans, what a crockWarning, personality discussion using Myers-Briggs MBTI terminology follows:Let me put this in Personality perspective. J-types (50% of the general population) ABHOR change! These people invest too much time in their box to destroy it and start over. OTOH, SP-types could care less and don't think...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, NIMBY, general population

Discussion threads 2006-06-19

Alan Cooper, interface design, and complexity

Alan Cooper, interface design, and complexityYou've got me...convinced, that you need education. Try the links i've provided yesterday.. Especially the one about testing.Software Engineering and PersonalityPrototyping is but a single step of Software Engineering. Too many times the prototype becomes the product - skipping all other important steps of the...

Tags: Handhelds, Cooper, S-Type, general population, Palm Pilot

Discussion threads 2006-06-09

Additional Resources

Reid promises 60 on Saturday

promises, promises, promisesHe will not get his 60 on Saturday. There are enough senators with the backbone to avoid what will be an economic catastrophe for our nation.Obama created phantom jobsSomeone did bother looking into the jobs Obama claimed to save / create and found this:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1t3zZBhJ7wBlog not about Obama or...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, Reid

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

The emergency room myth busted

ok Dana 1 troll 0 This is a real sucker punch that i never saw coming ....Dana you are getting nastier by each post what next chomsky on the reading list :)thx for they excellent link well its hurt Racism at the heart of healhcare reform opposition.Who are more likely...

Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Benefits, health care, emergency room myth, Odds Ratio

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

Windows 7 will shine in medicine

not convinced by touchI have a touch phone & a tablet.Frankly, never use the tablet, use keyboarded machines instead, and hanker for a phone with buttons again and not a slide phone.If you want to try to look cool, I can understand having one, but really, they are pretty awkward...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, Microsoft Windows, Startrek, Microsoft Windows 7, tablet, wireless

Discussion threads 2009-10-23

WSJ chief criticizes news aggregators - creators carry cost burden

More important...than net neutrality? You are out of your mind. You probably think you are a journalist as well. What a joke. Do you even proof read your own dribble? It's obvious you don't. What kind of journalist would send out content with grammar and spelling errors? it has...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, advertisement, Google Inc., revenue

Discussion threads 2009-10-23

Why Mac open source gets no respect

"Since Macs generally cost less than PCs"THEY ARE? Since when? And that doesn't jive at all with "Macs are upscale"... and cheaper. Mmmm no.No counterpart to XBMC?There are a ton of Media Center applications for windows, including Windows Media Center, which is fairly adept at just about...

Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, Mac people, Apple Macintosh, XBMC, MCE, Unix

Discussion threads 2009-10-14

Snowe and enemies push health reform forward

Of course . . ."But the story is not yet told, and the trolls below will have their day."Of course. Your way is so right and everybody else is so wrong.at this point If they SO against the health reform let them have it there way since they...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care

Discussion threads 2009-10-14

What would it take for you to switch to Linux?

Secret Service ProtectionI'd consider switching to Linux if I was provided presidential level protection. With all the spyware functionality built into Linux allowing serial killers to track your location, it's simply too dangerous to run Linux. You're literally asking to be killed. Save yourself, pay for your software.Linux - Whom...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, spyware

Discussion threads 2009-09-15

Why health care is not in the Constitution

Neither are food, clothing, and shelterThey're nowhere to be found in the constitution, yet are more important than healthcare. Without those 3 things you'll die real fast so you won't need healthcare. Those needs DID exist when the Constitution was written. There is no federal law making any...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Obama, health care, Constitution

Discussion threads 2009-08-31

Open source can save your life

Quick, if your life depended on it, which health care information system would you rather your hospital used: A proprietary system developed by software engineers based on marketing input, bug reports and customer requests? An open source system developed by thousands of health care practitioners including...

Tags: Hospital, Open Source, Health Care, VA, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Human Resources, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2009-08-23

Did crook lure victims with oven door disguised as plasma HDTV?

How stupid do you have to be ....... to confuse an oven door wrapped in aluminum foil for an HDTV??If anybody actually got conned with this, he or she definitely deserved to be scammed.Come on!! How stupid do you have to be?? What's worse is..they probably wrapped a frying pan...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, oven door, HDTV

Discussion threads 2009-08-22

Don't inhale...those emissions wafting in from China

Two ThingsOne: Please spell check things before you upload them. Expensive is spelled incorrectly on your post.Two: The general problem we have with China is that the investment in disposal does not exist. If they even spent a quarter of what we do on disposal, we would most likely not...

Tags: methane, landfill, greenhouse gas

Discussion threads 2009-08-11

The next oil crisis: is your state immune or addicted?

You want a planned commune? or Liberty?"The political issues these rankings bring to mind? Sprawl and zoning, or lack thereof. Government regulation of housing and development. Lack of urban concentration of population. Mass transit or not. Trains. Buses. Bicycles. Sidewalks, which have become a sign of downscale housing in some...

Tags: oil company

Discussion threads 2009-08-11

US cyberwarriors a reluctant crew

US cyberwarriors a reluctant crewRelated problemThere's a related problem ... once they start using [b][i]any[/i][/b] offensive cyberwarfare, anyone could do anything anywhere and blame it on the U.S.Say, for instance, individual Israelis started hacking Iranian computers or vice versa, or Taliban sympathizers started attacking Pakistani systems or Indian systems. ...

Tags: Hacking, SECURITY, reluctant crew, attack, cyberattack

Discussion threads 2009-08-02

Facing Windows 7 E browser issues head on

Facing Windows 7 E browser issues head onit is easier......when you have a browser to start with, so that you can install a browser of your choice, if you so wishJust use FTPMozilla is available from ftp servers. A small batch script to ftp get the desired copy and...

Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, Web browser, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-07-21

Carbon capture? Nuc plants? Not gonna help?

Carbon capture? Nuc plants? Not gonna help?Somebody isn't doing the mathThree times [i]what[/i]?If the world population plateaus at 10 billion, each of whom uses 10 times the per capita energy that the USA does now, that comes to a total of less than 1% of the world's insolation.Greenhouse...

Tags: global warming, carbon dioxide

Discussion threads 2009-07-13

Can we engineer insect-free crops?

Can we engineer insect-free crops?I think that if the past has taught us anythingit is that it is not nice to fool with Mother Nature. Genetic crop engineering is a nice idea, but who knows the long term health consequences.We, after about 50 years of trying, still can't engineer a...

Tags: Food & Beverage, food, patent, Agribusiness

Discussion threads 2009-07-07

Helping corporations leverage the Web, using open source and the cloud

What do open source and cloud computing have in common? For Navid Safabakhsh, principal at San Francisco and Philadelphia-based interactive web development agency Freshout, it's that both technologies are low-cost, high-yield solutions to help corporations leverage the customer data they collect on the Web. ...

Tags: Web, Service, Channel Management, Open Source, Marketing, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-06-30

Flint sparks change

Flint sparks changeNo surpriseCouple of thoughts:(1) The white population is Europe is declining in general, due to couples having fewer children than needed to even maintain stasis. In sharp contrast, Muslim immigrant families are reproducing at a far higher rate. Estimates are that many of the "traditional" European...

Tags: Food & Beverage, Flint

Discussion threads 2009-06-12