I can say that there are a LOT of things wrong with this article. This is pre-school journalism at its best. Hear me out...
My job title is PACS Administrator, which means I run the servers, network, diagnostic systems, etc for medical imaging in Radiology and other departments in a major healthcare organization.
Let me tell you, there are A LOT of problems with something like this. Some of this will be redundant, but I'm trying to capture everything into one post. First of all, the iPod is seen as a generic external hard drive. Big deal, they made their free DICOM viewer software have the ability to export to an external drive. Second, this is a MAJOR patient confidentiality issue, and I believe is considered legal under HIPAA, but if a physician, clinician, etc lost the iPod, they could go to JAIL. I'm not kidding.
Also, they also allude to actually viewing images on the photo iPods. I cannot imagine any image that could even be useful to a non-Radiology (referring phsyician, surgeon, etc) on those screens. About the lowest quality image that is useful even for referrals or comparisons is a 2MP monitor that displays at least 1280 resolution. Anything less than that is pretty much medically worthless, and for Radiologists, you typically need a 3MP display for proper detail, not to mention special graphics hardware.
I'm not quite sure if this CNN article is a cry for publicity from the developers of OsiriX, or Apple. The product page for Osirix barely even mentions the iPod functionality (in the changelogs), yet I doubt Apple would bother publicizing this.
As for the journalistic integrity, c'mon... I mean, the reporter spelled DICOM (format for medical image storage and transfer), "Diacom". They even spell out what it stands for after that, I don't see any A's in there!
Conclusion: you should all be very scared of careless happy-go-lucky doctors and clinicians running around with your patient data on their iPod at the gym trying to see whether you have a brain tumor while jogging in the park, when someone steals their iPod and sells it on eBay!
It's not that it HAS tabbed browsing, that was in the first leaked build. The point is that they MOVED the tab bar to below the address bar, like other browsers. On the earlier versions it was above the address bar which was rather annoying from a UI standpoint.
I remember someone I worked with had one of these... the tech isn't new, but I swear there is already a product on the market that is pretty much identical to this. It was probably 2 years ago at least, and I remember she had an adapter on her cell phone and a few other devices that were charging just by sitting on the pad. I just tried searching google (haphazardly) and wasn't able to find them though...
Umm, why not just make them send a replacement?? I know I wouldnt bother with 3 hours and heavy equipment when I can just get them to reship. I mean those things run like $1500, its not like they wont accomodate...
Not sure he meant to be modded funny on this... I can't sleep without a fan by my head now, the silence can be deafening when I try to sleep. Computer noise so soothing....
On one hand, it's true that CRTs are rapidly going the way of the VCR, but medical imaging is one field where they are going to stay for a while.
For many applications, there are strict FDA requirements in healthcare requiring the use of high resolutions and very low dot pitch measurements in displays. This is especially true in the Radiology world, and mammography has long been an area which is highly scrutinized for image quality.
The poster is probably running into many problems finding vendors through consumer avenues who still sell the CRT models they want. However, this is usually done to avoid the riduculous markup of the exact same product that medical vendors add on.
Any display that is used for diagnostics or patient care (besides medical records, etc) has to be FDA approved. This stamp of approval is generally pursued by the vendor of the healthcare product, not the manufacturer of the display. For example, GE may sell a unit which contains an NEC display, but the display will be rebranded with GE badges and they will sell it to you for about 10 times what you could buy the exact same thing for on the consumer/prosumer market.
Many of the newer applications can utilize newer displays such as 5MP LCD's, 3MP LCD's for some things, etc. However in many areas of healthcare there are devices which are running fairly old code which utilizes the analog scanning nature of CRTs. Why? Because it still works damn good and because image quality is very damn good on those CRTs.
I'm not condoning the practice of the vendors - it largely contributes to rising health care and insurance for all of us. However, the poster needs to open his eyes if he cannot find CRTs to fit his needs, as he may not find them on the consumer market, but there are plenty of medical imaging companies more than happy to charge you $3000 for a Sony Trinitron CRT!
True... Although, I'm just referring to Hiro Protagonist's Earth program, not the VR "world" they spend most of their time in. The Earth program displayed a holographic globe that could be manipulated and zoomed in on to about the level of detail that the 45 degree angle shots had.
I do agree with you however that Gibson & Sterling paved the way. Although to be fair, if you read Stephenson's foreword he states that he began the book in 1987...
Score another for Stephenson... His powers of seeing into the future back in the late '80s, early '90s was pretty amazing... I mean this is just another example. How long before we have drive-through places of worship tucked deep in the franchise ghettos?
For the uninitiated, Stephenson wrote about a program called Earth (iirc) in Snow Crash that this is pretty similar to in concept.
has anyone else noticed a lot of problems with gmail lately? ie mail not delivering, site not responding, slowness, etc.... ?
I realize that it's still in beta but I hope this is not a sign of things to come now that it has such a huge userbase, not to mention that people are using hacks to do things like run filesystems on it....
Most people are focusing on the fact that this is unrealistic to do in the mainstream phone world, which seems pretty obvious to me. I mean think about it, face recognition isn't very good yet, there's no way to prevent a photo of a person from working, why wouldnt they use fingerprint instead, etc, etc...
What gets me is, what the hell IS it with/. now?? The article states that there is a company developing this technology. The application would most surely be used for high-security environments (CIA, govt etc). The author just makes the ridiculous leap to "Soon you may have to take a picture of yourself before even making a phone call"...
I mean it takes what, 4 seconds to just THINK about what you read before you post the article?
We use HP's KVM over IP product. I've found it to be very good, although I haven't used other companies' versions... Would be interested to hear if other people have found another brand to be better?
Their newest firmware even supports authentication over Active Directory, if you are so priveleged to work in an M$ shop...;)
I guess one way it's different is that when I'm trying to sleep I'll be woken up by someone's cell phone ringer every 5 minutes instead of just by a screaming baby every 30 minutes...
Dude... Must be time to get out of Mom's basement, shave the beard, and stop muttering 'rm -rf *' when waiting in a long line at the supermarket (with a cart full of ramen and mountain dew).;)
I certainly agree with you on your point that there needs to be competition for product evolution (at least for the consumer).
I guess I just don't see how you can claim that nobody challenged M$... I remember Apple kicking and screaming against them, but the company was in a very bad position at the time, remember "Apple is dead" and then Jobs' triumphant return and such...
I think Apple did really challenge them, but were a fairly weak foe at the time... that seems to be changing a lot, especially since the first iMacs...
Keep in mind that this is just the first release of this software. They will most likely add support for these other apps in due time. But I'm sure they felt that it would benefit the majority of users out there to just release it right away with support for the apps that the majority of users are running.
Keep in mind that us/.'ers aren't the average users...
While the above comment is amusing, is there some truth to it as well? Would things such as magnetic media be affected?
I know, it's naive to think that we'd still be using the same types of data storage technology in a few hundred years, but for deep archive it's certainly possible.. I mean look at historical archives and libraries - they're filled with books, and that is simply the storage media of days past, so maybe it's not absurd to think about.
I don't even know if this would affect these things, but that's why I'm asking. Anyone?
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I can say that there are a LOT of things wrong with this article. This is pre-school journalism at its best. Hear me out...
My job title is PACS Administrator, which means I run the servers, network, diagnostic systems, etc for medical imaging in Radiology and other departments in a major healthcare organization.
Let me tell you, there are A LOT of problems with something like this. Some of this will be redundant, but I'm trying to capture everything into one post. First of all, the iPod is seen as a generic external hard drive. Big deal, they made their free DICOM viewer software have the ability to export to an external drive. Second, this is a MAJOR patient confidentiality issue, and I believe is considered legal under HIPAA, but if a physician, clinician, etc lost the iPod, they could go to JAIL. I'm not kidding.
Also, they also allude to actually viewing images on the photo iPods. I cannot imagine any image that could even be useful to a non-Radiology (referring phsyician, surgeon, etc) on those screens. About the lowest quality image that is useful even for referrals or comparisons is a 2MP monitor that displays at least 1280 resolution. Anything less than that is pretty much medically worthless, and for Radiologists, you typically need a 3MP display for proper detail, not to mention special graphics hardware.
I'm not quite sure if this CNN article is a cry for publicity from the developers of OsiriX, or Apple. The product page for Osirix barely even mentions the iPod functionality (in the changelogs), yet I doubt Apple would bother publicizing this.
As for the journalistic integrity, c'mon... I mean, the reporter spelled DICOM (format for medical image storage and transfer), "Diacom". They even spell out what it stands for after that, I don't see any A's in there!
Conclusion: you should all be very scared of careless happy-go-lucky doctors and clinicians running around with your patient data on their iPod at the gym trying to see whether you have a brain tumor while jogging in the park, when someone steals their iPod and sells it on eBay!
It's not that it HAS tabbed browsing, that was in the first leaked build. The point is that they MOVED the tab bar to below the address bar, like other browsers. On the earlier versions it was above the address bar which was rather annoying from a UI standpoint.
No, I mean someone in my department physically had one, she was using it with her devices... and as I mentioned this was a few years ago...
I remember someone I worked with had one of these... the tech isn't new, but I swear there is already a product on the market that is pretty much identical to this. It was probably 2 years ago at least, and I remember she had an adapter on her cell phone and a few other devices that were charging just by sitting on the pad. I just tried searching google (haphazardly) and wasn't able to find them though...
Umm, why not just make them send a replacement?? I know I wouldnt bother with 3 hours and heavy equipment when I can just get them to reship. I mean those things run like $1500, its not like they wont accomodate...
Not sure he meant to be modded funny on this... I can't sleep without a fan by my head now, the silence can be deafening when I try to sleep. Computer noise so soothing....
I mean, literally, that headline would be equally plausible on the Onion as it is here on /. !!
I think half of what the poster claims is true.
On one hand, it's true that CRTs are rapidly going the way of the VCR, but medical imaging is one field where they are going to stay for a while.
For many applications, there are strict FDA requirements in healthcare requiring the use of high resolutions and very low dot pitch measurements in displays. This is especially true in the Radiology world, and mammography has long been an area which is highly scrutinized for image quality.
The poster is probably running into many problems finding vendors through consumer avenues who still sell the CRT models they want. However, this is usually done to avoid the riduculous markup of the exact same product that medical vendors add on.
Any display that is used for diagnostics or patient care (besides medical records, etc) has to be FDA approved. This stamp of approval is generally pursued by the vendor of the healthcare product, not the manufacturer of the display. For example, GE may sell a unit which contains an NEC display, but the display will be rebranded with GE badges and they will sell it to you for about 10 times what you could buy the exact same thing for on the consumer/prosumer market.
Many of the newer applications can utilize newer displays such as 5MP LCD's, 3MP LCD's for some things, etc. However in many areas of healthcare there are devices which are running fairly old code which utilizes the analog scanning nature of CRTs. Why? Because it still works damn good and because image quality is very damn good on those CRTs.
I'm not condoning the practice of the vendors - it largely contributes to rising health care and insurance for all of us. However, the poster needs to open his eyes if he cannot find CRTs to fit his needs, as he may not find them on the consumer market, but there are plenty of medical imaging companies more than happy to charge you $3000 for a Sony Trinitron CRT!
sigh...
True... Although, I'm just referring to Hiro Protagonist's Earth program, not the VR "world" they spend most of their time in. The Earth program displayed a holographic globe that could be manipulated and zoomed in on to about the level of detail that the 45 degree angle shots had.
I do agree with you however that Gibson & Sterling paved the way. Although to be fair, if you read Stephenson's foreword he states that he began the book in 1987...
Score another for Stephenson... His powers of seeing into the future back in the late '80s, early '90s was pretty amazing... I mean this is just another example. How long before we have drive-through places of worship tucked deep in the franchise ghettos?
For the uninitiated, Stephenson wrote about a program called Earth (iirc) in Snow Crash that this is pretty similar to in concept.
has anyone else noticed a lot of problems with gmail lately? ie mail not delivering, site not responding, slowness, etc.... ?
I realize that it's still in beta but I hope this is not a sign of things to come now that it has such a huge userbase, not to mention that people are using hacks to do things like run filesystems on it....
Google Switches to Slashcode, Hostile Takeover of Slashdot In Planning Stages ;)
Most people are focusing on the fact that this is unrealistic to do in the mainstream phone world, which seems pretty obvious to me. I mean think about it, face recognition isn't very good yet, there's no way to prevent a photo of a person from working, why wouldnt they use fingerprint instead, etc, etc...
/. now?? The article states that there is a company developing this technology. The application would most surely be used for high-security environments (CIA, govt etc). The author just makes the ridiculous leap to "Soon you may have to take a picture of yourself before even making a phone call"...
What gets me is, what the hell IS it with
I mean it takes what, 4 seconds to just THINK about what you read before you post the article?
Done and done.
I really don't believe that the author of that post intended humor...
I'd say something more along the lines of dry cynicism.
RIP Hunter...
We use HP's KVM over IP product. I've found it to be very good, although I haven't used other companies' versions... Would be interested to hear if other people have found another brand to be better?
;)
Their newest firmware even supports authentication over Active Directory, if you are so priveleged to work in an M$ shop...
I guess one way it's different is that when I'm trying to sleep I'll be woken up by someone's cell phone ringer every 5 minutes instead of just by a screaming baby every 30 minutes...
90's???
;)
Dude... Must be time to get out of Mom's basement, shave the beard, and stop muttering 'rm -rf *' when waiting in a long line at the supermarket (with a cart full of ramen and mountain dew).
I certainly agree with you on your point that there needs to be competition for product evolution (at least for the consumer).
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I guess I just don't see how you can claim that nobody challenged M$... I remember Apple kicking and screaming against them, but the company was in a very bad position at the time, remember "Apple is dead" and then Jobs' triumphant return and such
I think Apple did really challenge them, but were a fairly weak foe at the time... that seems to be changing a lot, especially since the first iMacs...
anyway. peace
Keep in mind that this is just the first release of this software. They will most likely add support for these other apps in due time. But I'm sure they felt that it would benefit the majority of users out there to just release it right away with support for the apps that the majority of users are running.
/.'ers aren't the average users...
Keep in mind that us
I like Flasher - http://www.rjlsoftware.com/software/entertainment/ flasher/
It flashes a picture on your screen every so many seconds - I think goatse.jpg is in order here...
It's like wearing a raincoat in the shower!
Or was it protect the weak from the RICH?
While the above comment is amusing, is there some truth to it as well? Would things such as magnetic media be affected?
I know, it's naive to think that we'd still be using the same types of data storage technology in a few hundred years, but for deep archive it's certainly possible.. I mean look at historical archives and libraries - they're filled with books, and that is simply the storage media of days past, so maybe it's not absurd to think about.
I don't even know if this would affect these things, but that's why I'm asking. Anyone?