Nobody said a steady 3G connection was required for this sort of use, or that for every person using the app, they had to own the device.
Even an iPhone 4 is a ton more mobile than a phoroptor, and a lot less expensive, since phoroptors clock in around $5,000 and take a trained professional to use.
A sole traveling, untrained, non-optometrist Peace Corps kid with an iPhone 4 and a box of donated used glasses could make a big damn difference.
It's not exactly about the phone. Yes, you CAN return the phone, but it's too late at that point - now you're in a 2-year AT&T contract, that you then have to pay $375 to get out of. All thanks to your phone, sold to you by Apple, not working as advertised.
So then you have a choice, do you eat the $199 or $299, and the cost to get a different phone, to hold up your contractual obligation? Or do you start lighting a fire under Apple's ass to fix the phone so you can get the phone and service you paid for? AT&T blames Apple, Apple blames the consumer, so the consumer is going to have to sue to get things righted.
Granted, if you needed to sit down and set up your whole config for one of your pairs of 6513Es on a touchscreen, it'd be pretty fail.
Pretty fail that one didn't config everything ahead of time in the test lab. But that failure isn't a failure to communicate; rather, a failure to prepare.
If you want to be really efficient, save the config to the backup directory on the network for access elsewhere, in case it's missing for some reason at deployment. And that's a copy-paste gig.
That was a terrible assumption. Three years in the Network Operations Center at Mayo Clinic Rochester, overseeing their network overnights. Clearly, 80,000 device networks aren't "real" enough for you. But hey, not everyone wants to head into the IT world and reboot mom-n-pop shop Linksys routers.
You're tied into the iPad, and thus you assume all tablets will be iPad clones. I understand your inability to think different, and offer you my condolences. Have at least SOME faith that not every new product will be a direct imitation of another.
What if they load this sucker up with a special USB-to-RS232 for consoling, and a bunch of Cisco-made apps for plugging into CiscoWorks and other utilities network monitoring, remote management, VPN, and have it support similar 3G data networking?
If they toss one in with every order over $50k of network hardware, I think you'd be seeing these become standard Cisco enterprise management tools. All it has to do is interface with the other stuff Cisco sells, and it completely eliminates my need to haul a 15" laptop around for a console and network access.
I chatted with Bryan W. with Seagate Support this morning.
My first thought was, hmm, did they do this sly and slip two 1.5TB drives in as raid 0? But, no, they didn't. It IS actually just one 3.5" 3TB SATA drive.
The distributed technical support documentation didn't have the cache or RPM, but the representative was leaning towards the RPM being 7200.
I even went so far as to ask about it working if removed from the enclosure. Since it meets SATA standards, he believed it would work without hindrance. The wording was "it's an internal drive in an enclosure."
So, very hopeful. My guess is we're seeing the External solution released first, and in the next coming weeks we'll see the internal version with more specs up here soon.
Of course they buried the reports. Sega didn't want the PR of "We make headsets that screw up kids' eyes lol"
What they DID do right, is never release the product. That was the first right thing to do. It would've been nice if some non-Sega-related entity were to release the reports, but that's secondary. It's by FAR a safe bet that no company today would ever do the same. The reports would still get buried, and non-disclosure agreements would be plastered on every researcher, but the product would be on every freakin' shelf from Wal-Mart to Best Buy.
I'd give your criticisms more merit, if the article were available for you and I to even read it and label it thusly!
Personally, I'm glad that when someone labels something with a scientific term, for marketing purposes or otherwise, scientists show up with their Domes of Understanding.
My oldest son has Fragile X and is diagnosed in the Autism spectrum. It's an incredibly impairing disability, and I'll be asking his doctor to keep on eye on the clinical trials.
On a side note, as well voiced thus far, what headline is the hell up with what is there? For cryin' out loud.
Windows 7 adds a bunch of stuff that's really nice and convenient. It resolves some XP issues, and introduces it's own little quirks.
So the question really boils down to:
- Do you really need it?
- Do you have the budget for licenses and potential necessary new hardware?
- Do you have the helpdesk staff available to train to answer user questions?
A Helpdesk can cut down quite a bit on OS migration training costs, at the expense of a greater Helpdesk initial call volume.
If you're considering overhauling your enterprise OS version because you want to "keep up with the Joneses," do yourself, your budget, your stockholders, your customers, and your users, all a favor, and wait. XP is still well supported, even if it's not the perceptual cream of the MSFT crop.
Now you can click the functional link and see the page (instead of going to Facebook and searching "Everyone Draw" and have it pop up as first result.)
Oh look. NOT deleted. Doesn't anyone do their freaking homework before going off the deep end? The Facebook group appears to have never been removed or deleted.
Slashdot Mirror
But wait, Macs are certainly more secure than PCs.
Wait, more spin is trickling in... all these accounts were iTunes on Windows machines, right? Right? =P
Hrm, maybe I should go into marketing for Apple.
We just bailed out the banks, so it's too late to start throwing in votes of no confidence!
Nobody said a steady 3G connection was required for this sort of use, or that for every person using the app, they had to own the device.
Even an iPhone 4 is a ton more mobile than a phoroptor, and a lot less expensive, since phoroptors clock in around $5,000 and take a trained professional to use.
A sole traveling, untrained, non-optometrist Peace Corps kid with an iPhone 4 and a box of donated used glasses could make a big damn difference.
It's not exactly about the phone. Yes, you CAN return the phone, but it's too late at that point - now you're in a 2-year AT&T contract, that you then have to pay $375 to get out of. All thanks to your phone, sold to you by Apple, not working as advertised.
So then you have a choice, do you eat the $199 or $299, and the cost to get a different phone, to hold up your contractual obligation? Or do you start lighting a fire under Apple's ass to fix the phone so you can get the phone and service you paid for? AT&T blames Apple, Apple blames the consumer, so the consumer is going to have to sue to get things righted.
Granted, if you needed to sit down and set up your whole config for one of your pairs of 6513Es on a touchscreen, it'd be pretty fail.
Pretty fail that one didn't config everything ahead of time in the test lab. But that failure isn't a failure to communicate; rather, a failure to prepare.
If you want to be really efficient, save the config to the backup directory on the network for access elsewhere, in case it's missing for some reason at deployment. And that's a copy-paste gig.
That was a terrible assumption. Three years in the Network Operations Center at Mayo Clinic Rochester, overseeing their network overnights. Clearly, 80,000 device networks aren't "real" enough for you. But hey, not everyone wants to head into the IT world and reboot mom-n-pop shop Linksys routers.
You're tied into the iPad, and thus you assume all tablets will be iPad clones. I understand your inability to think different, and offer you my condolences. Have at least SOME faith that not every new product will be a direct imitation of another.
What if they load this sucker up with a special USB-to-RS232 for consoling, and a bunch of Cisco-made apps for plugging into CiscoWorks and other utilities network monitoring, remote management, VPN, and have it support similar 3G data networking?
If they toss one in with every order over $50k of network hardware, I think you'd be seeing these become standard Cisco enterprise management tools. All it has to do is interface with the other stuff Cisco sells, and it completely eliminates my need to haul a 15" laptop around for a console and network access.
I chatted with Bryan W. with Seagate Support this morning.
My first thought was, hmm, did they do this sly and slip two 1.5TB drives in as raid 0? But, no, they didn't. It IS actually just one 3.5" 3TB SATA drive.
The distributed technical support documentation didn't have the cache or RPM, but the representative was leaning towards the RPM being 7200.
I even went so far as to ask about it working if removed from the enclosure. Since it meets SATA standards, he believed it would work without hindrance. The wording was "it's an internal drive in an enclosure."
So, very hopeful. My guess is we're seeing the External solution released first, and in the next coming weeks we'll see the internal version with more specs up here soon.
Of course they buried the reports. Sega didn't want the PR of "We make headsets that screw up kids' eyes lol"
What they DID do right, is never release the product. That was the first right thing to do. It would've been nice if some non-Sega-related entity were to release the reports, but that's secondary. It's by FAR a safe bet that no company today would ever do the same. The reports would still get buried, and non-disclosure agreements would be plastered on every researcher, but the product would be on every freakin' shelf from Wal-Mart to Best Buy.
I'd give your criticisms more merit, if the article were available for you and I to even read it and label it thusly!
Personally, I'm glad that when someone labels something with a scientific term, for marketing purposes or otherwise, scientists show up with their Domes of Understanding.
I'm sure there's a significant way this differs from 50% of 4th grade science projects...
This one comes with an app with directions on charging your iPhone with it. "Green" is all the rage right??
Or they could just eat them...
With NEW Shockingly Great Taste!
What happens if you're using a 3G Microcell over your existing broadband connection?
Are they proposing caps and extra charges for data transfer while you pay them for extending their network for free??
I suppose I could embrace this technology, given the security of my firewall.
I have visions of other people walking to their dryer and reading 'pwned' on the screen as they discover their clothes are all still wet.
Or even worse... PERMANENTLY PRESSED!!
My oldest son has Fragile X and is diagnosed in the Autism spectrum. It's an incredibly impairing disability, and I'll be asking his doctor to keep on eye on the clinical trials.
On a side note, as well voiced thus far, what headline is the hell up with what is there? For cryin' out loud.
Windows 7 adds a bunch of stuff that's really nice and convenient. It resolves some XP issues, and introduces it's own little quirks.
So the question really boils down to:
- Do you really need it?
- Do you have the budget for licenses and potential necessary new hardware?
- Do you have the helpdesk staff available to train to answer user questions?
A Helpdesk can cut down quite a bit on OS migration training costs, at the expense of a greater Helpdesk initial call volume.
If you're considering overhauling your enterprise OS version because you want to "keep up with the Joneses," do yourself, your budget, your stockholders, your customers, and your users, all a favor, and wait. XP is still well supported, even if it's not the perceptual cream of the MSFT crop.
It's been confirmed that the Verizon-iPhone rumor is DOA.
http://www.ozcarguide.com/business-money/business-technology/3059-verizon-iphone-4g-apple-att
Oops, I didn't get the whole link copied.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Everyone-Draw-Mohammed-day-May-20/112498195453416?ref=search&sid=rZX7KTtpVe7NtecVn9xYWQ.1122781147..1
Now you can click the functional link and see the page (instead of going to Facebook and searching "Everyone Draw" and have it pop up as first result.)
I'd never been to the group page before today.
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/Everyone-Draw-Mohammed-day-May-20/
Oh look. NOT deleted. Doesn't anyone do their freaking homework before going off the deep end? The Facebook group appears to have never been removed or deleted.