If you run norton it tends to flip the settings also, my parents had the same problem until I removed that piece of crap norton. It still isn't MS's fault. At the end of the day about 99% of the problems people have with their PC's are their fault, not the OS. You can't code to protect against stupidity, its not possible.
Even my parents (not very computer literate folks) have a hardware based firewall and don't use windows firewall. It doesn't take any brain power at all and you can be completely secure without windows firewall.
It took mine 3.5 months to transfer my number from SBC to Vonage. It eventually happened and vonage credited me for the vonage service for those months, but I was still paying SBC for local and att for long distance.
I did see that it said SIMMS. But I took that as a typo. I don't know anyone that uses a PC anymore that uses SIMMS. Even my dad's really old laptop uses DIMMS.
I would give money if I were given a contract to sign that gave me complete rights to the show after it was made.
"So I'm curious: why do you care?"
Technically I don't give a shit either way. The bigger question should be why are you so defensive about a tv show? You got some serious issues that you need to work out.
I'm already paying to receive my tv feeds. If I pay for just a show I better receive all rights of ownership for that show. I also better get all dvd right as well as rebroadcast rights.
Unless I'm looking in the wrong place the article actually talks about 256MB modules not 512, but anyways:
"Depending on the link he followed, the 256MB SIMM cost either $88 (Small Business), $99 (Home & Home Office), or $110 (Medium & Large Business)."
Why in the world anyone would ever buy memory from dell continues to confuse me. A 256MB dimm from crucial for a dimension 4600 runs 42.99. A 512 one runs 76.99.
Forget it. No way am I paying $250 for a portable game system. Maybe if they let you write your own UMD carts then maybe it might be worth that price (portable movie player). But at $250 for device then $50 or so per game no way.
You could do cat6, but gigabit will run just fine on cat5e (i've got that in my house). What will be faster than gigabit that anyone can forsee in 20 years or so by the time it becomes a norm?
What kind of new house is built these days without cat5 in the walls already? If its not to late I'd add it to the house. It will help in getting internet everywhere as well as your music problem. It will also help the resale value. If you do decide to wire put in a lot more than your initially think you'll need. Believe me, you'll need it.
Haha, I didn't say I bought my card at best buy, just that I've seen them there. I actually have a evga 6800 ultra that I bought right from evga last year when the cards first came out for retail price instead of the jacked up prices they were going for at the time. The inventory of these cards is limited but it is not as bad as it was when they first came out but its still pretty hard to find a good deal if you want the fastest cards. A BFG 6800 GT OC at best buy runs $399 which is the same price as an evga 6800 gt. A evga ultra is $499.
As far as online prices, they really aren't better when it comes to these cards. A evga 6800 ultra at newegg.com (the best place to buy stuff at good prices) is $472 on sale till 2/1. Only $20 less than direct. The GT is $399 and not in stock.
I might actually pass on buying any of these next consoles unless I can get them at a discount (not likely) or a game comes out that is so remarkable that its different from anything I've already got. I've already got a PC with a ton of games and a PS2 and gamecube that I rarely play. Show me something amazing and actually new and then I might be interested.
"Apparently letterbox fans don't complain; just so long as they see big black bars on the top and bottom of the screen, they are happy."
You obviously didn't really research this. Take a recent release for example. When back to the future box set was released folks immediately noticed that the first movie (maybe other 2 also, can't remember) was chopped incorrectly at the tops. Many called in and complained and a reprinting was issued and you could get replacements by calling in. But this was never made public on the boxes that it was a reissue and many went on their ways not noticing at all.
"Most of these people are not thinking using the obvious features of OS X. Want to load MP3s onto the mini sitting in the living room? Why? Just use a huge server somewhere else in the house. iTunes supports streaming. it is the easiest thing in the world to set up."
I would love to use the mini and OSX as a multimedia server storing mp3's and dvd rips on my linux box in another room where I can attach a ton of cheap hard drives. There are a few problems though.
No optical out. No remote to easily control playing of movies. I thought about just putting the mini next to my linux box in the other room and buying an eyehome to hook up to the tv. Solves the optical out problem, but introduces other problems with playing vob files. A really good solution just doesn't exist yet. I'm absolutely dieing for a box that will stream vob files and other video files that are stored on a server somewhere in my home. A good open interface and easy setup.
You must be seeing things through rose colored glasses then and not really see what is happening behind the scenes. Either that or you are a sales guy.
"If a product is crap and isn't helping with patient care, it's not bought in the first place."
I can name many products produced by very well known and large companies that are an absolute nightmare that the hospital ends up regretting its purchase after its gotten installed. But because they spent the millions to put it in place they have no choice but to continue using it. The decision makers tell the IT folks in the trenches how its going to be but the IT folks are the ones having to clean up the mess that the decision makers don't have a clue about. I've even seen 10s of millions wasted on installations of products from those same companies where no one uses it or even likes the product except the decision makers who keep trying to push it. And where did those decision makers work previously? The same company that makes the products that the doctors don't like but they are now being forced to use.
Those same large companies have really good sales people but crappy programmers and managers for the products. They figure they are already gouging the hospital for millions, so they don't bother to actually deliver what the hospital expects. Then they turn around and charge even more money to make the product what the hospital wants. By the time the real product is installed the hospital has wasted tons of money and is fed up and ready to try something else. In walks large company number 2. It just repeats itself over and over.
"As far as boards being in bed with a company, you'd be surprised at how competitive the selection process is for a hospital to select an informatics vendor."
I've been a party to both sides of that "selection process". The board members make up their minds ahead of time but let other people bid because it makes them look good. They go through the motions just so they can say that they gave everyone a fair shake.
I've seen complete systems get taken out to be replaced by much more expensive systems that actually do less than the ones they are replacing. Why? Because the decision maker is on the board of the new system producer. It costs more money, its slower, and it replaces something the doctors already know and love, but hey...who cares. Its new and we can just push the costs off to the tax payers or patients.
This is not just ramblings of a disgruntled worker. I've seen extremely large hospitals make all the decisions above and it always ends up biting them in the end. But you can't exactly tell your ex-customers "i told you so." There is more crappy informatics software out there produced by the extremely large and powerful companies being purchased by hospitals everyday. It costs them more money in the end and makes the powerful companies with excellent sales people even richer. All at the expense of the tax payers and patients.
"Do you have any experience with hospitals, and more than just one?"
Yes, experience with very large hospitals and have personally seen occurrances where a very beneficial option was given to a hospital at a price much cheaper than what they are currently paying only to see them turn it down because it would make their current system look bad. Then when you investigate further you discover that all the head decision makers used to be ex-employees, board members, or investors of the system that they are currently spending 10s of millions on. I'll I got to say is that I hope I never get sick because I wouldn't trust any of them with my healthcare.
The entire system is one enourmous scam. The hospitals charge too much and don't provide enough care, the doctors are pushed to see more and more patients at a faster rate. The insurance sues the doctors over crazy things making their malpractice insurance go up forcing them to charge higher prices. The hospital billing systems are so messed up its amazing that anyone gets paid at all. Don't even ask about a blood bank at hospitals, you don't want to know how much waste there is there. The entire system does not work well and its only a matter of time.
We have the same kind of thing. They can request to override the security with the press of a button and its all logged and emailed that they did so. But the problem we encounter is that the doctors feel they shouldn't even have to do that. Another problem is that to just show that a note or set of notes are there is a breach in privacy. For example, just knowing that a particular patient has psych notes in their records is bad enough, you don't even have to show the note. So that stuff must be hidden. Since its hidden the doctors don't know that stuff is there so they don't have all the information they need to help the patient.
Probably because there are so many systems out there that generate hl7 messages but don't actually follow the protocol correctly. Hell we are still getting version 2.1 messages and the hospitals still manage to screw those up. Getting them to correct them is impossible because they don't control the sending system. Some other company does and to get them to do anything is like moving a mountain.
This is a major problem in the hospital environment. As soon as you limit a doctor to seeing a patients record you cause problems. But you can't just let every doctor see it. The moment the doctor needs to see it and they can't is the moment the system fails. The doctor is not going to go through all the trouble it would take to request access and provide the reasons why they need access. A lot of doctors don't know how to work a mouse much less request security access to records. They will continue using paper for decades to come.
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If you run norton it tends to flip the settings also, my parents had the same problem until I removed that piece of crap norton. It still isn't MS's fault. At the end of the day about 99% of the problems people have with their PC's are their fault, not the OS. You can't code to protect against stupidity, its not possible.
Even my parents (not very computer literate folks) have a hardware based firewall and don't use windows firewall. It doesn't take any brain power at all and you can be completely secure without windows firewall.
That can all be turned off if you bother to read the instructions in the security center.
How many of those programs in the list are either old versions, have been updated for awhile now, or can be fixed by just disabling windows firewall?
I bet the majority of them.
I'm still waiting for a slashdot post to strike fear into the hearts of everyone about the end of the world being near.
It took mine 3.5 months to transfer my number from SBC to Vonage. It eventually happened and vonage credited me for the vonage service for those months, but I was still paying SBC for local and att for long distance.
I did see that it said SIMMS. But I took that as a typo. I don't know anyone that uses a PC anymore that uses SIMMS. Even my dad's really old laptop uses DIMMS.
I might pay the normal going price for tv season box sets. I WOULD NOT pay the price they rape people for star trek tv season sets.
I would give money if I were given a contract to sign that gave me complete rights to the show after it was made.
"So I'm curious: why do you care?"
Technically I don't give a shit either way. The bigger question should be why are you so defensive about a tv show? You got some serious issues that you need to work out.
I'm already paying to receive my tv feeds. If I pay for just a show I better receive all rights of ownership for that show. I also better get all dvd right as well as rebroadcast rights.
Unless I'm looking in the wrong place the article actually talks about 256MB modules not 512, but anyways:
"Depending on the link he followed, the 256MB SIMM cost either $88 (Small Business), $99 (Home & Home Office), or $110 (Medium & Large Business)."
Why in the world anyone would ever buy memory from dell continues to confuse me. A 256MB dimm from crucial for a dimension 4600 runs 42.99. A 512 one runs 76.99.
Why pay more than double from dell???
Forget it. No way am I paying $250 for a portable game system. Maybe if they let you write your own UMD carts then maybe it might be worth that price (portable movie player). But at $250 for device then $50 or so per game no way.
Why? So you could use it with all those other bluetooth 2.0 devices that don't exist?
You could do cat6, but gigabit will run just fine on cat5e (i've got that in my house). What will be faster than gigabit that anyone can forsee in 20 years or so by the time it becomes a norm?
What kind of new house is built these days without cat5 in the walls already? If its not to late I'd add it to the house. It will help in getting internet everywhere as well as your music problem. It will also help the resale value. If you do decide to wire put in a lot more than your initially think you'll need. Believe me, you'll need it.
Haha, I didn't say I bought my card at best buy, just that I've seen them there. I actually have a evga 6800 ultra that I bought right from evga last year when the cards first came out for retail price instead of the jacked up prices they were going for at the time. The inventory of these cards is limited but it is not as bad as it was when they first came out but its still pretty hard to find a good deal if you want the fastest cards. A BFG 6800 GT OC at best buy runs $399 which is the same price as an evga 6800 gt. A evga ultra is $499.
As far as online prices, they really aren't better when it comes to these cards. A evga 6800 ultra at newegg.com (the best place to buy stuff at good prices) is $472 on sale till 2/1. Only $20 less than direct. The GT is $399 and not in stock.
Best Buy near me has BFG 6800GT OC and normal 6800 OCs in stock all the time. I never have seen an x800 in stock though.
I might actually pass on buying any of these next consoles unless I can get them at a discount (not likely) or a game comes out that is so remarkable that its different from anything I've already got. I've already got a PC with a ton of games and a PS2 and gamecube that I rarely play. Show me something amazing and actually new and then I might be interested.
I keep reading Batmax as Betamax...make it stop!
"Apparently letterbox fans don't complain; just so long as they see big black bars on the top and bottom of the screen, they are happy."
You obviously didn't really research this. Take a recent release for example. When back to the future box set was released folks immediately noticed that the first movie (maybe other 2 also, can't remember) was chopped incorrectly at the tops. Many called in and complained and a reprinting was issued and you could get replacements by calling in. But this was never made public on the boxes that it was a reissue and many went on their ways not noticing at all.
"Most of these people are not thinking using the obvious features of OS X. Want to load MP3s onto the mini sitting in the living room? Why? Just use a huge server somewhere else in the house. iTunes supports streaming. it is the easiest thing in the world to set up."
I would love to use the mini and OSX as a multimedia server storing mp3's and dvd rips on my linux box in another room where I can attach a ton of cheap hard drives. There are a few problems though.
No optical out. No remote to easily control playing of movies. I thought about just putting the mini next to my linux box in the other room and buying an eyehome to hook up to the tv. Solves the optical out problem, but introduces other problems with playing vob files. A really good solution just doesn't exist yet. I'm absolutely dieing for a box that will stream vob files and other video files that are stored on a server somewhere in my home. A good open interface and easy setup.
You must be seeing things through rose colored glasses then and not really see what is happening behind the scenes. Either that or you are a sales guy.
"If a product is crap and isn't helping with patient care, it's not bought in the first place."
I can name many products produced by very well known and large companies that are an absolute nightmare that the hospital ends up regretting its purchase after its gotten installed. But because they spent the millions to put it in place they have no choice but to continue using it. The decision makers tell the IT folks in the trenches how its going to be but the IT folks are the ones having to clean up the mess that the decision makers don't have a clue about. I've even seen 10s of millions wasted on installations of products from those same companies where no one uses it or even likes the product except the decision makers who keep trying to push it. And where did those decision makers work previously? The same company that makes the products that the doctors don't like but they are now being forced to use.
Those same large companies have really good sales people but crappy programmers and managers for the products. They figure they are already gouging the hospital for millions, so they don't bother to actually deliver what the hospital expects. Then they turn around and charge even more money to make the product what the hospital wants. By the time the real product is installed the hospital has wasted tons of money and is fed up and ready to try something else. In walks large company number 2. It just repeats itself over and over.
"As far as boards being in bed with a company, you'd be surprised at how competitive the selection process is for a hospital to select an informatics vendor."
I've been a party to both sides of that "selection process". The board members make up their minds ahead of time but let other people bid because it makes them look good. They go through the motions just so they can say that they gave everyone a fair shake.
I've seen complete systems get taken out to be replaced by much more expensive systems that actually do less than the ones they are replacing. Why? Because the decision maker is on the board of the new system producer. It costs more money, its slower, and it replaces something the doctors already know and love, but hey...who cares. Its new and we can just push the costs off to the tax payers or patients.
This is not just ramblings of a disgruntled worker. I've seen extremely large hospitals make all the decisions above and it always ends up biting them in the end. But you can't exactly tell your ex-customers "i told you so." There is more crappy informatics software out there produced by the extremely large and powerful companies being purchased by hospitals everyday. It costs them more money in the end and makes the powerful companies with excellent sales people even richer. All at the expense of the tax payers and patients.
"Do you have any experience with hospitals, and more than just one?"
Yes, experience with very large hospitals and have personally seen occurrances where a very beneficial option was given to a hospital at a price much cheaper than what they are currently paying only to see them turn it down because it would make their current system look bad. Then when you investigate further you discover that all the head decision makers used to be ex-employees, board members, or investors of the system that they are currently spending 10s of millions on. I'll I got to say is that I hope I never get sick because I wouldn't trust any of them with my healthcare.
The entire system is one enourmous scam. The hospitals charge too much and don't provide enough care, the doctors are pushed to see more and more patients at a faster rate. The insurance sues the doctors over crazy things making their malpractice insurance go up forcing them to charge higher prices. The hospital billing systems are so messed up its amazing that anyone gets paid at all. Don't even ask about a blood bank at hospitals, you don't want to know how much waste there is there. The entire system does not work well and its only a matter of time.
We have the same kind of thing. They can request to override the security with the press of a button and its all logged and emailed that they did so. But the problem we encounter is that the doctors feel they shouldn't even have to do that. Another problem is that to just show that a note or set of notes are there is a breach in privacy. For example, just knowing that a particular patient has psych notes in their records is bad enough, you don't even have to show the note. So that stuff must be hidden. Since its hidden the doctors don't know that stuff is there so they don't have all the information they need to help the patient.
Probably because there are so many systems out there that generate hl7 messages but don't actually follow the protocol correctly. Hell we are still getting version 2.1 messages and the hospitals still manage to screw those up. Getting them to correct them is impossible because they don't control the sending system. Some other company does and to get them to do anything is like moving a mountain.
This is a major problem in the hospital environment. As soon as you limit a doctor to seeing a patients record you cause problems. But you can't just let every doctor see it. The moment the doctor needs to see it and they can't is the moment the system fails. The doctor is not going to go through all the trouble it would take to request access and provide the reasons why they need access. A lot of doctors don't know how to work a mouse much less request security access to records. They will continue using paper for decades to come.