I'm an EMT, there are 5 radios in my ambulance. I don't need more ways to talk to people. I need policies, documentation, good equipment, and most of all consistent interoperability training between multiple departments and jurisdictions. I really don't think the fix is more spectrum.
So, what you're really saying is that spectrum is the cowbell of medical response systems. (Oblig. SNL reference)
Venema is part of a growing cadre of Christian scholars who say they want their faith to come into the 21st century and say it's time to face facts: There was no historical Adam and Eve, no serpent, no apple, no fall that toppled man from a state of innocence.
This summary is incorrect. At least, according to the articles, Venema doesn't deny the idea of original sin. That was John Schneider, who taught theology at Calvin College. The summary is lumping all of these Christian scholars into the exact same theology.
Too bad I read the title as "Stock Exchange Website Profiler" and thought that someone had open sourced years of mining and forecasting stock information for the public to collaborate on.
Back on topic, this is quite interesting as well.
I had a similar problem from a person who registered an Xbox Live account under my email address. I couldn't find a way to contact the person, so after several months of getting his Xbox ads, I decided to log into his account and contact his friends to tell him to change his email address. (Probably not a smart idea.) That didn't work. After over a year, I finally got frustrated enough that on April Fools' Day (2011), I logged into his account and changed his avatar from a "lolz im so cool look at ma slipknot shrt n shades" to "elf fairy toddler wearing flower bell-bottoms". You would have thought that he would have got the hint after having to reset his avatar 3 times in the middle of his game, but he still didn't change his info.
In the end, I just set a filter to trash his messages. Moral of the story, it's not worth tracking down 95% of these problems.
Now, you may think that's insane, but what we wanted to deliver was a very rich user experience over the web that was cross platform.
Moonlight is far from Silverlight in terms of compatibility. About half of the webpages I visit (for example Ryanair's route map, which used to be cross-platform) nag me to install the Silverlight (aka Moonlight) plugin. Even after installing the plugin and restarting the entire system, the Silverlight control still nags me to install Silverlight.
I have worked with Silverlight before, so I can say that it has some neat features, but its cross-platform compatibility is sad. If Microsoft really wanted to push such a tool, they would have invested more in the Moonlight to ensure that the versions of Silverlight and Moonlight matched in capability. However, any further involvement would probably have undermined their current business direction at the time.
Coding the stamp to the addresses requires the user to key in the addresses, killing much of the convenience.
This is less of an inconvenience as more people are using smart phones with more functional address books. The right app could just export the address into an SMS or an encoding of the address that's understandable by the postal service. Alternately, a user could enter a postal code (and possibly a contact name) to isolate the range of the address. In the US, that could be a Zip+4, but Sweden does a similar thing with their 5 digit codes.
* Powertools will get your stone axe sharper, quicker! * Put your horse and carriage on a freight-train for greater speed! * Sending my telegrams would be so much quicker if I could just order them from my iPhone!
Until e-Cards become popular for birthdays (fat chance) and contracts are completely digitized, snail mail isn't going anywhere and thus this isn't a bad idea.
Just wait until a postman copies the code to a package of his own, and just destroys the original package.
If I were designing such as system, I would encode the string with information about the end address, the timestamp of the text message, the identity of the sender (based on text messaging registration and phone number), and the ID of the transaction. If the "stamp" is unique to the transaction and sender/recipient, then I think that it would be fairly difficult to spoof (unless you had the person's SIM card).
Overall, I think it's an interesting alternative to stamps.
My wife is a surgical resident. While she speaks a number of languages such that she has not had a language barrier problem, one of her coworkers only knows English. He has something on his iPhone (IIRC, one of the Google apps + the ability to have the iPhone read things out loud + the iPhone's voice recognition) that he uses. Apparently it works quite well. He speaks into it in English, it translates to Spanish, and the iPhone speaks the Spanish. His patient can speak Spanish into it, translate to English, and so on.
For simple things like "where does it hurt?" or "have you had any diarrhea?" it is reported to work well for him.
I am doing research in this kind of machine translation. Unfortunately, it is not ready for widespread use in medical offices at this point in time and can invite lawsuits. Usually translation systems need to be trained to a specific domain (medical, business, etc), because there are many ambiguities in translation. The typical (and state-of-the-art) approach is statistical machine translation, but it still suffers some flaws, because decoding has a running time in NP. There are many heuristics that are used now to speed up translation, but they don't guarantee a perfect (or correct) translation. While MT has made a lot of progress over the past few years, it's going to take some time to prove its accuracy before it is used in a place where a misdiagnosis (or a misinterpreted diagnosis) can invite a lawsuit.
Unless you want to go (you don't sound like it), tell your prof you can't afford it. If s/he really wants you to go, let them find the money for it.
Agreed. Universities are usually willing to sponsor students who submit their work to conferences if the work is of exceptional value because they improve the reputation of the university in the research world. So if you can get a free (or cheap) way to go to Utah and represent your university, you'll also get the chance to network with companies or research institutions that could benefit your career. It never hurts to have a publication on your CV -- even in the business world.
The only possible interpretation of any research whatever in the `social sciences' is: some do, some don't. -- Ernest Rutherford
