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Visicalc co-founder offers a modest proposal

Visicalc co-founder offers a modest proposalcommon mistakesSo, you're saying that the simple fact that a service is offered, regulation is justified? Because I sell beef to McDonalds, I should be required by law to sell to Burger King for the same price? There is no such thing as a guaranteed...

Tags: INTERNET, Regulations, Taxes, Telecom & Utilities, Free trade, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, regulation, guaranteed market, modest proposal, Nevermind, VisiCalc

Discussion threads 2006-05-30

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Works of Jonathan Swift. FREE Author's biography & essay in the trial (Mobile)

Indulge Yourself with the best classic literature on Your PDA. Navigate easily to any poem from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases. Features Navigate from Table of Contents or search for words or phrases Make bookmarks, notes, highlights Searchable and interlinked. Access the e-book anytime, anywhere...

Tags: Essay, Mobile, Poem, Biology, MobileReference

Software downloads 2009-09-01

Works of Jonathan Swift. FREE Author's biography & essay in the trial 10.1 (Mobile)

Indulge Yourself with the best classic literature on Your PDA. Navigate easily to any poem from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases. Features Navigate from Table of Contents or search for words or phrases Make bookmarks, notes, highlights Searchable and interlinked. Access the e-book anytime, anywhere...

Tags: Essay, Mobile, Poem, Biology, MobileReference

Software downloads 2009-09-01

A modest proposal to fix the primary care shortage

Talk is cheapI am in the medical field. I have been hearing for many MANY years now how we will solve the primary care shortage by paying primary care docs more and specialists less, then a big fight ensues. And IMHO the stupidity of that proposal misses the obvious: If...

Tags: Benefits, primary care shortage, care shortage

Discussion threads 2009-08-20

A modest proposal to fix the primary care shortage

The American Academy of Family Physicians is estimating a shortage of 70,000 primary care doctors in 10 years. There are currently about 100,000. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Shortage, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-08-20

Big money to be made in health payment processing

Let me offer a modest proposal, that insurers offer doctors a "petty cash" service through credit card processors. All charges under, say, $20 are passed to the fund and reported to the patient, not billed but reported. At the end of the billing year patients get one bill, which could...

Tags: Payment Processing, Payment, Patient, Health Care, Operational Accounting, Finance, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-08-17

Can ERP vendors save the world?

Enterprise resource planning software vendors have the tools---if used correctly---to make a huge impact on sustainability efforts and possibly even save us from global warming. Talk about total cost of ownership.  OK, now stop laughing. Vinnie Mirchandani at Deal Architect has a modest proposal for ERP vendors: ...

Tags: ERP Vendor, ERP, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-06-02

Weekend stuff: learning with Suw via Twitter

I often hear how Twitter is the magic bullet to so many things and as a hardcore enterprisey type and despite my personal Twitt-addiction, I'd usually say: 'Pft.' Today taught me a couple of things that may yet change my mind. Suw Charman-Anderson, a UK colleague randomly...

Tags: Twitter, Suw Charman-Anderson, Vinnie, Social Networking, Branding, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-05-22

The Oracle open source credibility gap

The Oracle open source credibility gapIf I was in Larry Ellison's shoes......I'd do the following:1. Spin off MySQL either by selling it to the public, or by setting up a non-profit foundation and transferring all MySQL copyrights and employees to it. Ellison would get to play the good...

Tags: StarOffice, PRODUCTIVITY, Development tools, open source, Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Studio

Discussion threads 2009-04-27

News to know: Facebookgate, XP, iPhone credit, greentech in 2009

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: 'Facebookgate': Fake Class of 2013 groups today; Annoying marketing tomorrow? Mary-Jo Foley: Microsoft to allow custom PC makers to stock XP through mid-2009 ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows XP, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Roland Piquepaille, Linux, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Podcasts, Internet, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-12-22

A modest proposal for an IT bailout

With so many industries looking for their share of the bailout pie from the federal Troubled Asset Relief Program TARP, here's an idea: why not channel some of those hundreds of billions of dollars to the information technology sector? Think about it. The IT world has plenty...

Tags: Asset, Information Technology, SOA, IT World, Asset Management, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Strategy, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-12-19

Martin free wireless plan brings muni WiFi disaster back from the dead

OK, public spectrum, take 2. Or is it 3? After the infamous D-block auction meltdown, the FCC is set with a new plan to have the private sector deliver free Internet over the airwaves, Reuters reports. And FCC chair Kevin Martin's plan includes another long-held fantasy of policymakers: a...

Tags: FCC, M2Z Networks, Municipal Wi-Fi, Broadband, Spectrum, Wireless, Martin, Internet, Federal Government, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Government, Networking, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-12-03

Ad-to-ad combat: Covering your Web tracks

You're worried about the constant advance of ads tied to your behavior online. You're not going to wait for Congress to get around to mandating clear privacy protections online, as suggested last week in a modest proposal. What's an avid Web user to do? ...

Tags: Web, Advertisement, AnchorFree Inc., HotSpot Shield, Mark Smith, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-07-14

News to know: iPhone; DNS patch; Online privacy; VMware; Vista

Notable headlines: Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: A Modest Privacy Proposal Richard Koman: Congress looks at next-gen ad networks Techmeme: iPhone reviews Matthew Miller: MSM Apple iPhone reviews are up and may just have saved me some cash ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, DNS, Online Privacy, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., HP iPAQ 910, 3G, Domain Names, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Networking, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-09

A Modest Privacy Proposal

A Modest Privacy ProposalOK.For some strange reason, people refuse to realize that the internet is a public place. Maybe because they sit in their bedroom and surf.Maybe instead of all these regulations and bureaucracies, we should just hang signs everywhere that read:Hello! The Internet is a Public Place. Don't do...

Tags: Robots, robot, private property, Public Place, Internet, advertisement

Discussion threads 2008-07-08

A Modest Privacy Proposal

The Senate Commerce, Science & Transportation Committee is holding a hearing tomorrow on Privacy Implications of Online Advertising. Appearing before the committee headed by long-time Senator Daniel K. Inouye (D-Hawaii) are lawyers for Google and Microsoft, as well as Facebook's chief privacy officer -- and Robert R. Dykes, the chairman...

Tags: Google Inc., Web, Internet Service Provider, Service Provider, Internet Service, Internet, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Business Services, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-07-08

Dear Microsoft: Please get UAC right this time

Alex Eckelberry of Sunbelt Software vents, intelligently, about Windows Vista's UAC conundrum: UAC could certainly have been handled better. It does something the security industry has been well aware of for a long time â€" it creates the “cry wolf” problem of popup fatigue (people turn off or ignore...

Tags: Dialog Box, Permission, Window, Control Panel, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., UAC, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Construction, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Marketing, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2008-05-29

We can make you better, faster, poorer

Our colleague Mitch Radcliffe needs a new neck. He says he has good insurance, but the carrier won't spring for the replacement part he wants. (They even have PDF installation instructions. Great for do-it-yourselfers (that's a joke).) Mitch says new discs would be better than...

Tags: Patient, Fusion, Carrier, Mitch Radcliffe, Insurance, Financial Planning, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-01-08

Is it bling or innovation?

I read a great piece by my colleague, Chris Dawson, this morning entitled I love Linux, but it’s not going to save the world and after reading a few of his readers comments, I felt compelled to get in my two cents.  His point (at least what I took away from...

Tags: Innovation, Linux, Hardware, Tax Law, Moore, Marc Wagner

Blog posts 2007-12-14

The real argument against electronic health records

The real argument against electronic health recordsDo no harmWhen Doctor's make critical care decisions, they are influenced by a variety of things.HMOs influence how Patient treatment is rendered and indirectly outcomes through referral tracking.A Health Care Provider gains 'full exposure' for Malpractice. HMOs staffed by humans have 'limited liability'...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, Benefits, Insurance, punitive damage, e-health, electronic health record

Discussion threads 2007-12-04