I've never tried to resurrect a "PC" that old. I did try to resurrect a 1981 Osborne 1, though, as well as an old Kaypro, both predating the "PC" by a yiddle. CP/M, yeah baby!
To quote: "While an ordinary top-of-the-line game for Microsoft's Xbox 360 sells for about $60, and one for Nintendo's DS about $30, a top-of-the-line iPhone game typically sells for no more than $10."
I don't own any of these devices, but how do these games compare? Is a top-of-the-line iPhone game as cool or complex as a top-of-the-line DS game? Isn't it a different kind of game -- certainly a different game experience?
by your own definition, you hate America; please leave immediately.
I'm getting tired of this too. If anyone had said of Bush, "I hope he fails," that person would have been torn to shreds by the right-wingers, and accused of all kinds of anti-patriotic sentiment. But they can say it about Obama because, you know, he's just sending the country to hell, so it is patriotic to wish him ill.
Sorry, I got one option where I live: the local cable company. I suppose I could get satellite, but I don't think that's really what you meant by "options for consumer broadband".
Uh, yeah, but chances are they will be bringing computers for editing, and those are almost certainly Macs or Windows (the former more likely than the latter). So maybe he won't be supporting Final Cut or Premiere or whatever, but doesn't it make sense to use other software that will work nicely with whatever else they are bringing???
Valid points, all. I think this is not really an argument about technology, but about whether the risks of EMR outweigh its benefits -- and that is largely subjective.
Per your four points:
Not true. My local hospital has very little pertinent information on me. I also travel a lot and so my medical history is scattered around the U.S.
How will they know your insurer? And why would your insurer know your allergies and complete medical history? I've had more than three different insurance companies in the last ten years -- plus a period where I had no insurance.
Don't assume your paper-and-person system is working, either.
Nobody is suggesting your info be on port 80 without any security. Obviously we're talking transmission encryption as well as data storage encryption. If your doctor has some sort of VPN-like setup into his records, why couldn't there be a VPN-like integration into a broader EMR service or database, so that a validated physician elsewhere could look it up with appropriate security checks.
Furthermore - In that scenario, if I was in an emergency, I'd rather have the freaking hospital *call* the my doctor's office directly to make sure my "history" is correct.
Right, because your doctor's office is open at 2am when you arrive at the emergency room. And I am sure you've found a way to make sure that, even in an extreme medical emergency, you will be able to stay alive without treatment for an extra 30 minutes while you're waiting for your doctor to get paged and call the ER docs back about your medical history. Of course, your physician will be at home, so he will have to drive to the office to check your records, which will take another half hour. (Too bad the records weren't online in some way he could look them up from home, eh?)
Critics generally like it. Fans generally like it. The public generally likes it. We're only one week into it and it's already being debated as if Apple produced it -- I half expect somebody to complain that the new Star Trek movie doesn't support Ogg or that it sucks as a smartphone. We all know that a year from now the movie will be raking in the dough from video sales, and a question like "What about the SECOND week?" will seem even stupider then than it does today.
Actually, I was going to say that the best part about my master's degree is not really the degree itself, or the income, but the people I came to know: incredibly smart professionals in the field, both as my instructors and my fellow students. It has given me a lot of good connections, which in turn gave me a much bigger job field and led me my current job (which I love). So while greater income potential is a good thing, there are many other benefits to a grad degree. I studied things and met people that I would not have had time to do if I was just kept working at my prior job.
[To] do what damage, that couldn't be undone by backups and/or restoring the software of the data centers?
You really can't imagine that there are time-sensitive matters in the world, for which a DoS attack could be catastrophic? An obvious example is a hospital. Or fuel delivery that is held up because your bank is DoS'd, and now you're freezing to death. Your power is out, and thousands of dollars of food in your grocer's freezers is rotting away -- money down the drain for him, and less food for people to eat. Or a business deal that you're about to default on because you can't get to your money.
Computer systems can affect real life. Backing up data is good, but it is not a time machine for living.
Of course, 5000 years afterwards, it won't matter either way. But it makes a difference in the immediate and near futures.
There is no crime if nobody got hurt in the real life. There is (or should not be) any such thing as cyber-murder, cyber-theft, cyber-kidnapping etc, simply because everything that's "cyber" is "information", and information, by definition cannot be murdered, stolen or kidnapped.
Are you serious?
This isn't about virtual murder. It's about botnets that may steal your credit card information, be directed to launch attacks against servers, etc. There is significant potential for financial harm. Suppose your credit lines were maxed out by someone else, rendering your payments late, and then your bank got DoS'd so you couldn't access your money? What if you lived in Estonia, whose governmentand banks were essentially shut down during a massive cyberattack?
By necessity, the work would have to be done in secret, so as to not alert hackers that a group is on their trail.
But... you just published your idea to the world.
Stewart declined to comment on whether there were teams organized along the lines he suggests already in operation. "I don't want to comment on ones that have or have not started," he said.
So... this may or may not be your own original idea, because there may or may not be teams like this already in existence?
Many years ago, I worked with an ad exec who had (much previously) pitched a campaign to BMW. His agency lost the bid to another agency, even though they thought they had an innovative ad concept. Some months later, he was reviewing the posters and realized they had printed "BWM" in multiple places, in very large type, and nobody at the agency had noticed prior to the presentation. Ooops.
Ironically, if Hawking helped people, advanced humanity, inspired others to great things, and was deeply selfless... he may actually be far closer to God than most Christians.
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I've never tried to resurrect a "PC" that old. I did try to resurrect a 1981 Osborne 1, though, as well as an old Kaypro, both predating the "PC" by a yiddle. CP/M, yeah baby!
"the procedure is ethically questionable and that the gametes produced are of inferior levels of maturation"
So... they're suitable for producing politicians, lawyers, and bad Slashdot comments?
The proper phrase is, "No good deed goes unpunished."
You know, since the C64 is so free, why aren't you still using it? You are STILL free on it. Not sure why you keep putting it in the past tense.
You think that's freaky?? Clearly you've never been in the basement at Wal-Mart.
To quote: "While an ordinary top-of-the-line game for Microsoft's Xbox 360 sells for about $60, and one for Nintendo's DS about $30, a top-of-the-line iPhone game typically sells for no more than $10."
I don't own any of these devices, but how do these games compare? Is a top-of-the-line iPhone game as cool or complex as a top-of-the-line DS game? Isn't it a different kind of game -- certainly a different game experience?
I'm getting tired of this too. If anyone had said of Bush, "I hope he fails," that person would have been torn to shreds by the right-wingers, and accused of all kinds of anti-patriotic sentiment. But they can say it about Obama because, you know, he's just sending the country to hell, so it is patriotic to wish him ill.
Sorry, I got one option where I live: the local cable company. I suppose I could get satellite, but I don't think that's really what you meant by "options for consumer broadband".
Uh, yeah, but chances are they will be bringing computers for editing, and those are almost certainly Macs or Windows (the former more likely than the latter). So maybe he won't be supporting Final Cut or Premiere or whatever, but doesn't it make sense to use other software that will work nicely with whatever else they are bringing???
Maybe, but that is entirely irrelevant to the definition of "success" in this situation.
Whooosh.
If selling 60,000 units was enough to be profitable, then it's a success. Maybe not iPod-like success, but still a success.
Valid points, all. I think this is not really an argument about technology, but about whether the risks of EMR outweigh its benefits -- and that is largely subjective.
Per your four points:
Furthermore - In that scenario, if I was in an emergency, I'd rather have the freaking hospital *call* the my doctor's office directly to make sure my "history" is correct.
Right, because your doctor's office is open at 2am when you arrive at the emergency room. And I am sure you've found a way to make sure that, even in an extreme medical emergency, you will be able to stay alive without treatment for an extra 30 minutes while you're waiting for your doctor to get paged and call the ER docs back about your medical history. Of course, your physician will be at home, so he will have to drive to the office to check your records, which will take another half hour. (Too bad the records weren't online in some way he could look them up from home, eh?)
I wouldn't worry about it. It has beat studio and industry expectations.
Critics generally like it. Fans generally like it. The public generally likes it. We're only one week into it and it's already being debated as if Apple produced it -- I half expect somebody to complain that the new Star Trek movie doesn't support Ogg or that it sucks as a smartphone. We all know that a year from now the movie will be raking in the dough from video sales, and a question like "What about the SECOND week?" will seem even stupider then than it does today.
Actually, I was going to say that the best part about my master's degree is not really the degree itself, or the income, but the people I came to know: incredibly smart professionals in the field, both as my instructors and my fellow students. It has given me a lot of good connections, which in turn gave me a much bigger job field and led me my current job (which I love). So while greater income potential is a good thing, there are many other benefits to a grad degree. I studied things and met people that I would not have had time to do if I was just kept working at my prior job.
Thanks, I always get a kick out of that page.
At $2750 for a 3-foot cable, they had better be "danceable".
[To] do what damage, that couldn't be undone by backups and/or restoring the software of the data centers?
You really can't imagine that there are time-sensitive matters in the world, for which a DoS attack could be catastrophic? An obvious example is a hospital. Or fuel delivery that is held up because your bank is DoS'd, and now you're freezing to death. Your power is out, and thousands of dollars of food in your grocer's freezers is rotting away -- money down the drain for him, and less food for people to eat. Or a business deal that you're about to default on because you can't get to your money.
Computer systems can affect real life. Backing up data is good, but it is not a time machine for living.
Of course, 5000 years afterwards, it won't matter either way. But it makes a difference in the immediate and near futures.
You mean like this?
There is no crime if nobody got hurt in the real life. There is (or should not be) any such thing as cyber-murder, cyber-theft, cyber-kidnapping etc, simply because everything that's "cyber" is "information", and information, by definition cannot be murdered, stolen or kidnapped.
Are you serious?
This isn't about virtual murder. It's about botnets that may steal your credit card information, be directed to launch attacks against servers, etc. There is significant potential for financial harm. Suppose your credit lines were maxed out by someone else, rendering your payments late, and then your bank got DoS'd so you couldn't access your money? What if you lived in Estonia, whose governmentand banks were essentially shut down during a massive cyberattack?
Stewart... acknowledged he doesn't have all the answers. "I'm more of an idea guy."
Thanks for the idea! Because nobody has thought of this before. Congrats on the ComputerWorld article, though.
By necessity, the work would have to be done in secret, so as to not alert hackers that a group is on their trail.
But... you just published your idea to the world.
Stewart declined to comment on whether there were teams organized along the lines he suggests already in operation. "I don't want to comment on ones that have or have not started," he said.
So... this may or may not be your own original idea, because there may or may not be teams like this already in existence?
Maybe I'm wrong, but isn't the United States part of WIPO? Or is that meaningless?
Seriously: major typo in the summary, folks.
Many years ago, I worked with an ad exec who had (much previously) pitched a campaign to BMW. His agency lost the bid to another agency, even though they thought they had an innovative ad concept. Some months later, he was reviewing the posters and realized they had printed "BWM" in multiple places, in very large type, and nobody at the agency had noticed prior to the presentation. Ooops.
Ironically, if Hawking helped people, advanced humanity, inspired others to great things, and was deeply selfless... he may actually be far closer to God than most Christians.
I was thinking "MyTwitFace".