yeah, this is a dumb way to ship the new surface laptop. i'd sort of get some BS artificial limitation on a cheap-ass chromebook competitor--i mean, it would still be dumb, but id sort of expect it.

but on a surface? that you can unlock for more money? that is dumbness. i dont think this is going to go that damn well.

> Block chain is ledger, not a fucking database.

the blurb is mis-worded, but its not unreasonable: a patients health record [health record IT guy here] is not necessarily ever complete. interoperability between health systems and their different EHR products is not a thing. the *idea* that blockchain could be used to audit and update a master record for changes and updates is a great idea.

i wish i thought healthcare IT would ever pull this off, but honestly, even in an unsecured, unaudited way it probably wont--at least not anytime soon. wanna know what the most universal way to move health records is between facilities and systems?

a fax. fax me a thing, we intake it as an image, MAYBE print it to text and run a regex on it for patient info, or otherwise it gets manually checked to be assigned to the right patient in our system.

healthcare it has lots of room for improvement. id love to see it improved but...im not about to get in a hurry over it.

my GF and I were wary but split the early preorder price of $500 to get in on this. we were just barely willing to lose 250 each if they bailed on the project.

considering the last update we had was an address confirmation and a blurb that they planned to ship december 2016/jan 2017 we were hopefuly that wed have a unit in this week or next, not a cancellation email :-/

i agree because the changes they are making to those shells should be universal--the powershell window has some features you dont get in the traditional cmd window which make it much easier to work in. i dont use win 10 at work so im not sure how many of the cmd/powershell windows changes go both ways there, but at work im stuck on win 7 and cmd sucks, but powershell is mostly good

not with mandated insurance requirements. 10% of my income is spent on insurance--which doesnt include copays, medications and other visit or operation fees. i make a decent amount of money but that is a big, big chunk.

i get tacos at a great local place and they have a square reader, it reads the mag stripe on my chip and pin without complaint.

as such, i continue to get tacos.

Wine Is Nearly Enough

the other difference is i dont want an extra car. yes, i could get by on 75 miles a day on a charge. i can do that.

until i want to go to the beach. or go shopping in another town. or visit family or friends or go anywhere else and drive around all day and come home. 100 mile charge wont get me to the city i want to go to on the weekend so....what, have a travel car? now i have a commute car and a travel car? boo that.

i do sort of want an electric car with good range. its on my things-i-hope-to-have-in-a-decade radar.

a disturbingly high number of people. last job i had i was a SysAdmin for a manufacturer. everyone salaried had been there 20 - 40 years. they all had dual screen computers or laptops...and printed like there was no tomorrow to take reports around for review. i couldnt get them to stop.

im at a hospital now. less printing in general for some people, but its *required* that patients get some things in print. itll change one day, but not for a while.

some companies are actually decent to work for, so i think there are cases where its reasonable to give notice, and others where it is not.

i worked for an MSP. it was a lousy job--the pay and benefits were lousy-- but i was still in college, that part didnt bug me. it was a lousy place to work. good technical people but horrible management. i had planned an out of office day to go on a little vacation, and had it interrupted--so it old myself "well, i want a new job anyway, ill give them 1 weeks notice for that stunt instead of 2"

about 3 months later i had a flat tire in a company car---the company had a dozen vehicles, no roadside assistance or after hours plan. i had to argue with a manager to get help...FIVE MINUTES FROM THE OFFICE!

so i decided i was going to find a job, and then just QUIT. and i did. and when the boss got up with me to ask WTF i was doing i told him "i had to argue with that manager to get help the other day, 5 minutes from the office. god forbid i had been an hour or two away from the office or my home and had to argue with her over this crap, i would have cursed her out until she hung up on me!"

anyway, i left another job a month ago. it was a good place. they were really easygoing and gave me bonus PTO when my kids visited for the summers, and when my father passed away just told me to take the whole week. it was a good place with good people, but i had good reasons to move on. i gave them 2.5 weeks notice. that place deserved it, as much as the other one deserved to get kicked in the nuts.

i think whats a little more important is that a lot of what we have is built on inequality elsewhere. im not sure how i feel about it sometimes. i like having what i have - a decent house, modest car, good food, im not hurting at all. but even if i had half of what i did id be doing much, much better than people in 3rd world countries that slave away and...well, it's not exactly great

seriously. hospital IT has to lag way behind, often because vendor software doesnt support newer OS versions. I know a medical center that has thousands of desktops and only started rolling out windows 7 last year.

I was an intern there 5 years ago, and i was on the team that was deploying XP SP2 [yes, 2, not a typo] at the time.

many of their software vendors are the frickin worst.

there were some scanner pcs, like for x-rays or MRIs or something, i don tknow what, that ran Windows NT or Win2k--i would not be surprised if some of them were still there.

it will still have problems without a lot of oversight. look at car manufacturers -- now that is some capitalism, right? they want to make money, they need efficiency, they need talent, they need a work pool, they need a global supply chain...and they need oversight or they will get people killed over a frickin ignition switch or ruin the environment even more than we thought because they will lie about emissions tests and the like.

without oversight other companies would hire child laborers---which we are ok with as long as they arent *our* kids, in *this* country--or theyd give people shit pay and benefits and let the top execs take it all for themselves, or theyd dump chemicals in public water sources or do whatever they want.

capitalism can get a whole hell of a lot done, but i needs a whole hell of a lot of oversight not to fuck up everything in its wake as it moves us forward. i'm scared about the price we are paying for it sometimes

to me its been decided by the supreme court. so have gun rights. women can have abortions. people can have guns. honestly i think both suck.

abortion is lousy, but i dont have a problem with it in some cases, and i have a huge problem with the lack of follow up of unfit mothers who can have umpteen fucking kids and raise them poorly to have more kids they will raise poorly.

i dont really like the ridiculous number of guns and gun deaths we have, but its a right and you can have them and everyone has them and people--innocent people--just keep getting shot. god forbid you do anything about the guns, but hey...

innocent people die in car accidents, too, and nobody is up in arms over *that* atrocious figure--we just want to keep our cars. those arent even a right!!

and people die in wars--a lot of people. its way easier to stop abortions and women's rights than it is wars, or cars, or gun owners--so i think people sort of gave up on those things

i think the real maturation of internet tv is going to come when the exclusive content agreements stop. i thought music was on the way to getting this right, but...its not. you cant quite get everything on one music service, and video is way behind music in getting it right.

hell, i pay the NHL a few bucks a month for gamecenter live, but my local team is blacked out, and national games are blacked out. for the games i *CAN* watch, there are no commercials or half-time commentary or anything. its weird for a game to go to commercial, the tv to go silent, and the screen to say "we will be right back" and worse, theres NO option to pay a few more bucks a month to get my local games, or to get the national events, and i dont like commercials, but its a weird, weird way to watch anything on tv when there is a 2 minute or 15 minute silent intermission.

hell, id pay twice what what i do now to stream it so that i could watch what satellite/cable users can subscribe to, but thats not a thing. its bizarre.