I had AF a few weeks ago and my FitBit did not pick it up, except that the pulse was a bit high. The problem is that a AF is not very visible if you only measure the pulse at the wrist. You need to check the impulses on the chest, the wrist is a bit indirect. If Apple has an algo that gives a better accuracy on that with a neural net I am all for it. No, trust you health to a iToy is not good, but then, most people trust their health to a $5 thermometer somewhere in their life.
Or even better, just feel the pulse with the hand and count in the head. $0. Not accurate.
Except for me, who just spent time in hospital due to precisely this. If the chances are low for you it does not mean it is low for everyone. I would be happy to wear the device as a tripwire trigger. The fitbit I have did not cut the bacon, it did not pick up the problem.
Fair enough. Thing is, I just spent 2 weeks in hospital due to exactly this. Paroxysmal Fibrillation. If the watch can give me warning of impending problems before they happen I could avoid that. I know what medical equipment looks like, I just spent 2 weeks attached to it. An Apple watch would be a perfect device to keep an eye on things in the next few years instead of carrying a bloody EKG with me all the time.
Sure it is not perfect. But since I am not going to actually wear real medical equipment for a few years it is waaaaay better than nothing. You only notice arrythmia when the ticker is already going bonkers and damage has been done. If I pick pick up early signs as a tripwire the watch will have dont its job just nicely, thank you. Risk reduction, not elimination is the key here.
My Macbook Pro 2013 edition I have had for 3 years, and it runs like a charm, no hassles whatsoever. It does not have a scratch. And I take it on my commute and to work every single day. At home I have it connected to 2 24 inch monitors.
This is something all the Apple whiners always forget. Apple's hardware is expensive(ish) but the software, including high-end professional stuff are very, very cheap in comparison to anything the competition has. MacOS/X also comes with a hell of a lot more out of the box in comparison with Windows. A complete, compliant PDF setup for one. Garageband, a very good Ebook reader, iMove, iPhoto, all useful things.
Apple's pro level software (Logic and FCP in particular) are much cheaper then the alternatives. Mainstage, which is a live-performance version of Logic, costs 35 Euros and comes with a lot of very good VST's and instruments. And everything is well integrated.
It has a useful command line. The config files are, as with Unix, stored a text files, not some weird binary registry blob. This makes the machine much, much more reliable. The command line can actually be used to interact with Word, Logic and other apps (try the "open" command in bash one day on a Mac. Simple, total godsend.
By the time you deck a Windows machine out with all the things that come with a Mac there is not much difference in price.
My MacBook Pro has 16GB and for my serious VM testing rig I have to rely on my workstation which has 128GB. I would love to have 32 or 64 G in my laptop
I live in Germany. Same shite, different country. Lived in South Africa for 25 years. Same shite, different country. Worked in Mexico France, Turkey, Denmark and known people from Ecuador, Argentina, Brazil and loads of places. Same shit, different country. The nicest guy I know in the world is a muslim Arab from Palestine. The biggest jerk I know comes from South America.
Europeans who point their fingers at the USA all the time in some kind of mass hysteria are idiots
I have that problem with my cat. If you buy him the very cheap stinking cat food with more gelatine than meat in it, he just ends up eating twice as much. So just buy him the good stuff, and you are still OK
The first two Dollars movies (A Fist full of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More) are totally brilliant. The gunfight at the end of "For a few Dollars more" was way better than anything in Good Bad & Ugly
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I had AF a few weeks ago and my FitBit did not pick it up, except that the pulse was a bit high. The problem is that a AF is not very visible if you only measure the pulse at the wrist. You need to check the impulses on the chest, the wrist is a bit indirect. If Apple has an algo that gives a better accuracy on that with a neural net I am all for it. No, trust you health to a iToy is not good, but then, most people trust their health to a $5 thermometer somewhere in their life.
Or even better, just feel the pulse with the hand and count in the head. $0. Not accurate.
Where do I buy it? Does it fit on my wrist?
Except for me, who just spent time in hospital due to precisely this. If the chances are low for you it does not mean it is low for everyone. I would be happy to wear the device as a tripwire trigger. The fitbit I have did not cut the bacon, it did not pick up the problem.
Fair enough. Thing is, I just spent 2 weeks in hospital due to exactly this. Paroxysmal Fibrillation. If the watch can give me warning of impending problems before they happen I could avoid that. I know what medical equipment looks like, I just spent 2 weeks attached to it. An Apple watch would be a perfect device to keep an eye on things in the next few years instead of carrying a bloody EKG with me all the time.
Sure it is not perfect. But since I am not going to actually wear real medical equipment for a few years it is waaaaay better than nothing. You only notice arrythmia when the ticker is already going bonkers and damage has been done. If I pick pick up early signs as a tripwire the watch will have dont its job just nicely, thank you. Risk reduction, not elimination is the key here.
IT would also be able to prove ANY mathematical theorem by simply instantly going through all deductive steps in propositional logic.
ReactOS could be to Windows what a punch card reader is to a VR headset
A FSJW? Right. Who cares?
Rather start working on a cervical cancer detector. Or a vulvar cancer detector panty. Lots of potential here!
Christ, I am going to buy a broken MacPro on EBay today and see if that works!
Oh wow, I love that cathode thing. will install it tonight.
You should run this with it, for a real retro experience: https://www.qwerkywriter.com/
My Macbook Pro 2013 edition I have had for 3 years, and it runs like a charm, no hassles whatsoever. It does not have a scratch. And I take it on my commute and to work every single day. At home I have it connected to 2 24 inch monitors.
This is something all the Apple whiners always forget. Apple's hardware is expensive(ish) but the software, including high-end professional stuff are very, very cheap in comparison to anything the competition has. MacOS/X also comes with a hell of a lot more out of the box in comparison with Windows. A complete, compliant PDF setup for one. Garageband, a very good Ebook reader, iMove, iPhoto, all useful things.
Apple's pro level software (Logic and FCP in particular) are much cheaper then the alternatives. Mainstage, which is a live-performance version of Logic, costs 35 Euros and comes with a lot of very good VST's and instruments. And everything is well integrated.
It has a useful command line. The config files are, as with Unix, stored a text files, not some weird binary registry blob. This makes the machine much, much more reliable. The command line can actually be used to interact with Word, Logic and other apps (try the "open" command in bash one day on a Mac. Simple, total godsend.
By the time you deck a Windows machine out with all the things that come with a Mac there is not much difference in price.
This. The combination of Unix and a d cent GUI and good software
Check again, it's probably your leg
My MacBook Pro has 16GB and for my serious VM testing rig I have to rely on my workstation which has 128GB. I would love to have 32 or 64 G in my laptop
Your momma said the same thing last night!
I live in Germany. Same shite, different country. Lived in South Africa for 25 years. Same shite, different country. Worked in Mexico France, Turkey, Denmark and known people from Ecuador, Argentina, Brazil and loads of places. Same shit, different country. The nicest guy I know in the world is a muslim Arab from Palestine. The biggest jerk I know comes from South America.
Europeans who point their fingers at the USA all the time in some kind of mass hysteria are idiots
Robot shit is just little silicon pebbles. Does not smell
You just sketched the worst-case for FP, true. FP is bad for that scenario.
But it is better at modelling the small state transitions in the objects themselves
And the idiots on /. Will cheer you on as you go
It's ok, mr hacker idiot will have enough time to reflect on that in prison
I have seen other people's books on my Kindle. Whole account in fact
I have that problem with my cat. If you buy him the very cheap stinking cat food with more gelatine than meat in it, he just ends up eating twice as much. So just buy him the good stuff, and you are still OK
The first two Dollars movies (A Fist full of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More) are totally brilliant. The gunfight at the end of "For a few Dollars more" was way better than anything in Good Bad & Ugly
I suppose you have to have grown up in South Africa in the 80s (like me) to truly appreciate District 9