Windows as a window manger running on top of MSDOS seems no different than the various window managers that were running on X in the mid to late 80's, like twm. In fact, X is short for X Window System, isn't it.
HIPPA violations are usually identified either by patient complaints to the state department of health or a Joint Commission survey. Of course they happen routinely (daily, in my experience) but only violations that are reported are actionable. And, in those cases, the concern has been correcting the deficiency, not punishing the mistake. In this particular case, Cignet Health Care ignored repeated requests for information and only under a court order did they release the records. This isn't a slip-up, it's gross negligence:
When the health care provider was ordered by a court to respond to the requests, it disgorged not just the patient records in question, but 59 boxes of original medical records to the U.S. Department of Justice, which included the records of 11 individuals listed in the Office of Civil Rights Subpoena, 30 other individuals who had complained about not receiving their medical records from Cignet, as well as records for 4,500 other individuals whose information was not requested by OCR.
When the health care provider was ordered by a court to respond to the requests, it disgorged not just the patient records in question, but 59 boxes of original medical records to the U.S. Department of Justice, which included the records of 11 individuals listed in the Office of Civil Rights Subpoena, 30 other individuals who had complained about not receiving their medical records from Cignet, as well as records for 4,500 other individuals whose information was not requested by OCR.
I appreciate the convenience of streaming too, but I think we still need physical media rental. It's important for consumers' rights in general, and especially in lieu of no net neutrality laws in place, and the bandwidth caps and throttling that ISPs are pushing back with.
The foolproof way to handle this would have been to require the source to be packaged with the binary. Microsoft doesn't have to host the source code to be compliant with the GPL, but it prevents the problems that you mentioned. I don't really see how this is an issue, and it's not going improve their chances of attracting developers.
Tegra2 has VFP3, but not NEON, and Snapdragon has been a little bit less efficient per clock than reference Cortex A8. I'd imagine the A9 cores will do just fine, since they're faster per clock than the A8 and not much software uses NEON anyway. Battery life could be a different issue though; that's a huge battery in the Atrix.
They began the ARMHF port which will eventually add another architecture, when they eventually support it. Considering where ARM is going, this addition will be needed. Perhaps dropping some architectures is necessary to keep moving forward.
If Microsoft is using this to tune Bing's search algorithm, then fine. I hope it pushes Google to improve their product. But if it's just cross-referencing that's being done, which is what the sting seems to suggest, then the inherent deficiencies in Bing aren't being corrected. Therein lies the problem. There's also a difference between using a team of employees for this, and capturing the information through unsuspecting users.
This is what I think also. Like the XBox, Microsoft will lose billions in subsidized hardware, advertising, and development to pull marketshare, and they will continue dubious patent threats against Android handset manufacturers to increase production of Microsoft devices. I have to believe that even Microsoft can see the value and future direction of the mobile space, and that they're in this for the long haul.
You just said it yourself, because shareholders don't care about how strong earnings are, they want to see growth. Compounding this is Microsoft continuing to think that they can leverage their monopoly position in the desktop and business to gain traction in other markets. Microsoft has always been an aggressive company. It's their nature.
I don't know how Google could assert control over this. Android is open source and under the Open Handset Alliance, of which most phone and tablet manufacturers, and some network carriers are members. Furthermore, tthe mechanisms that lock out third party roms from being installed are based in hardware. Correct me if I'm wrong on this. I appreciate the diversity of Android devices but I also think that people should have the freedom of choice to void the warranty on a device they own and use it how they choose.
I can decode 360p @ 24fps in software on a cortex A8 using the reference encoder. That's not good enough for all cases but for watching youtube on a small screen, it looks great. The speed of the decoder will improve--with 0.9.5 it already has--and it might be possible to further accelerate decoding using the DSPs. It worked pretty well for the Theora port. The way forward is obviously a hardwired codec which TI has already demoed on the OMAP4. But a firmware upgrade would at least allow existing devices to access webm content on youtube in software.
I sifted through it. It cites identity theft and lack of trust as the problems this aims to solve. The problem, in my opinion, lies with financial institutions that can't can't keep our information secure. It's too easy for someone to obtain credit in someone else's name. I shouldn't have to pay a nominal fee for credit protection or early fraud warning either. There needs to be more accountability and penalties for institutions that breach our trust. An internet ID is just another form of ID for someone to steal.
My ISP has always had poor spam filtering, such that I had to use my email client's message rules to keep my inbox clean. Now I use Gmail to pull email from my ISP and it does a very good job of weeding out the mess.
I think you'd be rather surprised to learn how common it is to have a patient that is hospitalized for pneumonia or bacteremia due to enterococci, enterobacter, or E. coli. Here in Connecticut, we had a small norovirus outbreak last year that originated in the community and spread among the area hospitals. So yes, it's actually quite common.
I remember when Gnome didn't have a built-in menu editor. I think that was around 2005 or so--it was before Sarge was released, so not too long ago. I don't recall being turned-off by the limited configuration options, but it was frustrating, back then, how Gnome could make the simplest operations inordinately difficult.
Clinical studies are not random by design. The criteria by which patients are included and excluded are selected to eliminate error and produce a more accurate result. For example, you want to know if an anticoagulant reduced the chance of a patient developing a second embolism. You want to exclude patients with drug eluding stents, aspirin therapy, cancer, diabetes, and other factors that can increase or decrease risk, thereby isolating the effect of the drug as much as possible.
Pharmaceutical patents are for the molecule itself, and sometimes a novel dosage form used to deliver the drug. The usage or mechanism of the drug is not, and that is why we usually have several members of a given drug class, like protease inhibitors or beta-blockers.
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Windows as a window manger running on top of MSDOS seems no different than the various window managers that were running on X in the mid to late 80's, like twm. In fact, X is short for X Window System, isn't it.
HIPPA violations are usually identified either by patient complaints to the state department of health or a Joint Commission survey. Of course they happen routinely (daily, in my experience) but only violations that are reported are actionable. And, in those cases, the concern has been correcting the deficiency, not punishing the mistake. In this particular case, Cignet Health Care ignored repeated requests for information and only under a court order did they release the records. This isn't a slip-up, it's gross negligence:
When the health care provider was ordered by a court to respond to the requests, it disgorged not just the patient records in question, but 59 boxes of original medical records to the U.S. Department of Justice, which included the records of 11 individuals listed in the Office of Civil Rights Subpoena, 30 other individuals who had complained about not receiving their medical records from Cignet, as well as records for 4,500 other individuals whose information was not requested by OCR.
I'm not so sure:
When the health care provider was ordered by a court to respond to the requests, it disgorged not just the patient records in question, but 59 boxes of original medical records to the U.S. Department of Justice, which included the records of 11 individuals listed in the Office of Civil Rights Subpoena, 30 other individuals who had complained about not receiving their medical records from Cignet, as well as records for 4,500 other individuals whose information was not requested by OCR.
I appreciate the convenience of streaming too, but I think we still need physical media rental. It's important for consumers' rights in general, and especially in lieu of no net neutrality laws in place, and the bandwidth caps and throttling that ISPs are pushing back with.
It's GPLv3 and LGPLv2. See http://qt.nokia.com/products/licensing
The foolproof way to handle this would have been to require the source to be packaged with the binary. Microsoft doesn't have to host the source code to be compliant with the GPL, but it prevents the problems that you mentioned. I don't really see how this is an issue, and it's not going improve their chances of attracting developers.
Android has been ported to x86 [http://www.android-x86.org/] and Intel is also a founding member of the OHA.
I think the performance gap closes even more when the ICC isn't used, which is relevant for desktop/server Linux customers.
Tegra2 has VFP3, but not NEON, and Snapdragon has been a little bit less efficient per clock than reference Cortex A8. I'd imagine the A9 cores will do just fine, since they're faster per clock than the A8 and not much software uses NEON anyway. Battery life could be a different issue though; that's a huge battery in the Atrix.
They began the ARMHF port which will eventually add another architecture, when they eventually support it. Considering where ARM is going, this addition will be needed. Perhaps dropping some architectures is necessary to keep moving forward.
If Microsoft is using this to tune Bing's search algorithm, then fine. I hope it pushes Google to improve their product. But if it's just cross-referencing that's being done, which is what the sting seems to suggest, then the inherent deficiencies in Bing aren't being corrected. Therein lies the problem. There's also a difference between using a team of employees for this, and capturing the information through unsuspecting users.
This is what I think also. Like the XBox, Microsoft will lose billions in subsidized hardware, advertising, and development to pull marketshare, and they will continue dubious patent threats against Android handset manufacturers to increase production of Microsoft devices. I have to believe that even Microsoft can see the value and future direction of the mobile space, and that they're in this for the long haul.
You just said it yourself, because shareholders don't care about how strong earnings are, they want to see growth. Compounding this is Microsoft continuing to think that they can leverage their monopoly position in the desktop and business to gain traction in other markets. Microsoft has always been an aggressive company. It's their nature.
DSP assisted decoding was accomplished pretty quickly for Theora, so it's not a far stretch at all that the same could be done for vp8. http://blog.mjg.im/2010/04/16/theora-on-n900.html
I don't know how Google could assert control over this. Android is open source and under the Open Handset Alliance, of which most phone and tablet manufacturers, and some network carriers are members. Furthermore, tthe mechanisms that lock out third party roms from being installed are based in hardware. Correct me if I'm wrong on this. I appreciate the diversity of Android devices but I also think that people should have the freedom of choice to void the warranty on a device they own and use it how they choose.
I can decode 360p @ 24fps in software on a cortex A8 using the reference encoder. That's not good enough for all cases but for watching youtube on a small screen, it looks great. The speed of the decoder will improve--with 0.9.5 it already has--and it might be possible to further accelerate decoding using the DSPs. It worked pretty well for the Theora port. The way forward is obviously a hardwired codec which TI has already demoed on the OMAP4. But a firmware upgrade would at least allow existing devices to access webm content on youtube in software.
I sifted through it. It cites identity theft and lack of trust as the problems this aims to solve. The problem, in my opinion, lies with financial institutions that can't can't keep our information secure. It's too easy for someone to obtain credit in someone else's name. I shouldn't have to pay a nominal fee for credit protection or early fraud warning either. There needs to be more accountability and penalties for institutions that breach our trust. An internet ID is just another form of ID for someone to steal.
The n900 runs full flash 9.0.277.0, not flash lite.
A lot of Sid is in sync with upstream, and for those packages that aren't, we have Experimental.
try another connection manager, like wicd
My ISP has always had poor spam filtering, such that I had to use my email client's message rules to keep my inbox clean. Now I use Gmail to pull email from my ISP and it does a very good job of weeding out the mess.
I think you'd be rather surprised to learn how common it is to have a patient that is hospitalized for pneumonia or bacteremia due to enterococci, enterobacter, or E. coli. Here in Connecticut, we had a small norovirus outbreak last year that originated in the community and spread among the area hospitals. So yes, it's actually quite common.
I remember when Gnome didn't have a built-in menu editor. I think that was around 2005 or so--it was before Sarge was released, so not too long ago. I don't recall being turned-off by the limited configuration options, but it was frustrating, back then, how Gnome could make the simplest operations inordinately difficult.
Clinical studies are not random by design. The criteria by which patients are included and excluded are selected to eliminate error and produce a more accurate result. For example, you want to know if an anticoagulant reduced the chance of a patient developing a second embolism. You want to exclude patients with drug eluding stents, aspirin therapy, cancer, diabetes, and other factors that can increase or decrease risk, thereby isolating the effect of the drug as much as possible.
Pharmaceutical patents are for the molecule itself, and sometimes a novel dosage form used to deliver the drug. The usage or mechanism of the drug is not, and that is why we usually have several members of a given drug class, like protease inhibitors or beta-blockers.