OK, I keep hearing about how all hospitals are going to roll Tablet PCs out. I work in a 1000 bed hospital and we are preparing a test rollout of Tablets because on the surface they look like they may fit in a hospital enviornment. My own personal experience with both tablets and the hospital staff who will use them leads me to predict the following:
The nurses will lose the damn pens, and I'm not sure but I don't think that replacing them will be on the scale of replacing a bic, the pen on a Compaq tablet has a battery.
The nurses will lose, drop, or spill something over the devices. When we first rolled out pagers to nurses many came back broken and still do, a fairly large number ended up in toilets (poorly designed clips were the problem there). The point is that most health care workers have physically demanding, mobile jobs.
Most importantly the battery life of this generation of tablets is nowhere near the length neccessary. Most of our nurses work 12 hour shifts, they are not going to want to have to charge or swap batteries every day.
If anyone out there works in a hospital and have tested or rolled out these devices I would love to hear about your experiences.
" It's common courtesy to acknowledge the source of a quote, rather than try and pass it off as your own - in this case Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989."
In his defence he did put quotations around it, even if he never attributed to "unknown". I don't think many people put quotes around their own work.
I believe the site you refer to was Adcritic, and it is sadly missed.
I do understand why advertisers didn't rescue it, effective advertising doesn't need to entertain you, it needs to pound something into your skull over and over again (I bet you are not entertained by the never ending Subway Jared ads but I bet you know his story and now equate Subway with healthier food). A lot of the ads on Adcritic were entertaining and you can remember the ads but can you remember what the product being advertised was?
What I can't believe is that Apple didn't rescue it seeing as how it streamed Quicktime only, I know a lot of people who installed Quicktime just to view that site.
For example, consider bookmarks in Netscape Navigator 4.x (well, and Mozilla too). I used that program for at least a year before I figured out what that icon was supposed to be a drawing of.
Yes its a Chevy Chase movie but don't hold that against it. A sweet, dry and subtle swipe at small town America that was marketed all wrong, from casting clownish Chevy Chase to the poster/cover art. Definitely worth a look.
Amen... This is an industry which doesn't care about its fans. The Grammys were held a few days after the Rhode Island fire where 97 real music fans (say what you want about who they were there to see, these are the real fans - people who go see shows) died in a inferno.
And what did the best and brightest of the industry have to say about this tragedy during the show? A moment of silence? Condolences to the families? Nope. Nothing. Worse than nothing, Nelly was up hopping around the flames singing "Hot in Here".
Need any more proof that the music industry couldn't care less about its fans?
Would someone like to break out the sock puppets and explain what other advantages (besides the 4GB Ram ceiling) that 64 bit processors will give a desktop user?
Most Americans don't know and many Canadians don't remember that Canada once fought its own "War on Terror" with a violent (and very small) sect of Quebec Separists during the late '60s and early '70s. It all came to a head during the October Crisis during which martial law was declared (via the War Measures Act) and citizens suspected of having ties to terrorists were rounded up. These measures were temporary of course, and the terrorist attacks ended afterwards but many people in Canada still wonder if such drastic measures were neccessary.
In the past three years, Kraft Foods Inc., the Coca Cola Company, Nestle and the Campbell Soup Co., which also owns such brands as Pepperidge Farm and Swanson, have signed major research deals with Senomyx Inc., one of the biggest biotech players in the rush to decode the genetics of taste.
The La Jolla, Ca.-based firm holds a range of patents on the genes that enable the detection of bitterness and an understanding of how human sweet and savoury receptors function.
You know, I use these genes everyday. Am I in violation of the patent owned by Senomyx Inc?
Actually Colecovision was a huge hit when it came out, especially considering that the Atari 2600 and Intellivision were already well entrenched by the time of its arrival. There was a Colecovision 2, it was called Adam and it was Coleco's attempt at a home computer. It died a horrible death partly due to the great Video Game crash of '84 and partly because it sucked. Coleco invested very heavily in the Adam project, the Adam is probably the biggest reason that Coleco no longer exists.
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btw, the canadian anthem is not "God Save the Queen"...
Well, the American anthem isn't "God Bless America" either, and considering the Queen is still Canada's official Head of State (powerless of course) "God Save the Queen" is just as important to some Canadians as GBA is to some Americans. The parent post is still makes valid comparison between the 2 songs (and a pretty funny observation).
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Maybe just partly because then they wouldn't need to force you to use Internet Explorer to visit Windows Update.
The nurses will lose the damn pens, and I'm not sure but I don't think that replacing them will be on the scale of replacing a bic, the pen on a Compaq tablet has a battery.
The nurses will lose, drop, or spill something over the devices. When we first rolled out pagers to nurses many came back broken and still do, a fairly large number ended up in toilets (poorly designed clips were the problem there). The point is that most health care workers have physically demanding, mobile jobs.
Most importantly the battery life of this generation of tablets is nowhere near the length neccessary. Most of our nurses work 12 hour shifts, they are not going to want to have to charge or swap batteries every day.
If anyone out there works in a hospital and have tested or rolled out these devices I would love to hear about your experiences.
thats the best Third Rock joke all right
here's how its done:
<I>Some 17-year-olds I know have vast music collections but have yet to purchase their first CD</I>
Give Ashcroft time, he doesn't even like partially nude statues.
In his defence he did put quotations around it, even if he never attributed to "unknown". I don't think many people put quotes around their own work.
I do understand why advertisers didn't rescue it, effective advertising doesn't need to entertain you, it needs to pound something into your skull over and over again (I bet you are not entertained by the never ending Subway Jared ads but I bet you know his story and now equate Subway with healthier food). A lot of the ads on Adcritic were entertaining and you can remember the ads but can you remember what the product being advertised was?
What I can't believe is that Apple didn't rescue it seeing as how it streamed Quicktime only, I know a lot of people who installed Quicktime just to view that site.
Thanks for that. Link is
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Oh, so thats what that icon is supposed to be
Although some of us have trouble providing a proper link.
Yes its a Chevy Chase movie but don't hold that against it. A sweet, dry and subtle swipe at small town America that was marketed all wrong, from casting clownish Chevy Chase to the poster/cover art. Definitely worth a look.
"The popcorn you're eating has been pissed in - movie at eleven."
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Uh, you wouldn't mind backing that up would you? And "Donald Rumsfeld said so" doesn't count. Why not? Because he said so during the last Gulf War.
OK, here's a topic: Is the Patriot missile system actually working during Gulf War 2, unlike last time.
I agree, but the games you cite are team-based, does the Xbox Live system allow you to filter who gets to hear you? No need to give info to the enemy.
Don't worry, he'll get another chance to read it in a few days when its reposted
And what did the best and brightest of the industry have to say about this tragedy during the show? A moment of silence? Condolences to the families? Nope. Nothing. Worse than nothing, Nelly was up hopping around the flames singing "Hot in Here".
Need any more proof that the music industry couldn't care less about its fans?
Would someone like to break out the sock puppets and explain what other advantages (besides the 4GB Ram ceiling) that 64 bit processors will give a desktop user?
Type "About:Mozilla" without the quotes, not just "Mozilla".
Which is it? Is Google a big brother monopolist or a scrappy underdog? I'm confused.
Most Americans don't know and many Canadians don't remember that Canada once fought its own "War on Terror" with a violent (and very small) sect of Quebec Separists during the late '60s and early '70s. It all came to a head during the October Crisis during which martial law was declared (via the War Measures Act) and citizens suspected of having ties to terrorists were rounded up. These measures were temporary of course, and the terrorist attacks ended afterwards but many people in Canada still wonder if such drastic measures were neccessary.
What is this "article" you speak of? Isn't this just a thread about how Tivo rocks/sucks?
In the past three years, Kraft Foods Inc., the Coca Cola Company, Nestle and the Campbell Soup Co., which also owns such brands as Pepperidge Farm and Swanson, have signed major research deals with Senomyx Inc., one of the biggest biotech players in the rush to decode the genetics of taste.
The La Jolla, Ca.-based firm holds a range of patents on the genes that enable the detection of bitterness and an understanding of how human sweet and savoury receptors function.
You know, I use these genes everyday. Am I in violation of the patent owned by Senomyx Inc?
Actually Colecovision was a huge hit when it came out, especially considering that the Atari 2600 and Intellivision were already well entrenched by the time of its arrival. There was a Colecovision 2, it was called Adam and it was Coleco's attempt at a home computer. It died a horrible death partly due to the great Video Game crash of '84 and partly because it sucked. Coleco invested very heavily in the Adam project, the Adam is probably the biggest reason that Coleco no longer exists.
btw, the canadian anthem is not "God Save the Queen"...
Well, the American anthem isn't "God Bless America" either, and considering the Queen is still Canada's official Head of State (powerless of course) "God Save the Queen" is just as important to some Canadians as GBA is to some Americans. The parent post is still makes valid comparison between the 2 songs (and a pretty funny observation).