MPEG-LA's patent list at http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/AVC/Pages/PatentList.aspx shows patents in the US, Canada, Germany, Russia, South Korea, France, United Kingdom, Japan, Mexico, Singapore, Taiwan, Australia, China, Finland, Italy, Sweden, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Denmark, Spain, Hong Kong, Hungary, Ireland, Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Turkey and Lichtenstein - and that's in the first 4 pages of a 56-page document, with most of the patents quite live.
Sure, patent law isn't enforced as vigorously in some of those countries as it is in the US, but to say that just South Korea and the USA are problem states is misleading and dangerous, particularly with ACTA coming down the pipeline.
Re-image a dev box in use and you're toast. Programmers' machines get messy and they get messy fast when their job is to test and integrate new technologies and not just act as title inflated code monkeys. And to a certain extent, that mess has to stay there, though it also creates myriad fun problems. Throw in multiple platforms to the mix and food/beverage hardware failures and your dream of remote management is shot to hell.
If they're all office workers with remote storage, nuke the machines away, by all means. But a programmer's dev box is un-nukeable, except in the case of serious damage, as such action represents significant loss of knowledge, time and infrastructure development.
Precisely my thoughts. Data structures and pointer management are important concepts to understand, but they should not be "end goals" so much as means to an end - a career in electrical engineering or programming - which is something the kid is not ready to decide upon.
I HAVE done a humanities exam recently. And I printed in those lovely blue books so as to ensure that every word was completely legible to the grader. Cursive is not inherently easier to read - the least bit of sloppiness can render it illegible, in fact - and printing for two straight hours three times every two months is not so tiring as to cause massive physical trauma.
You absolutely need to learn how to print neatly and how to type, but these two skills are quite sufficient for every act of communication in an era where email is ubiquitous and IS the semi-formal communication medium. Further, printing is backwards compatible, so there is no risk of loss of communication with those whose skills include printing and cursive, but not typing.
That's just a waste of money. The doctor isn't going to be able to get the kids to exercise. You think a 15-year-old is going to be worried about long-term cardiovascular risk factors? For the teacher, this is an objective measure of physical activity, perfect in an era of helicopter parenting.
To the original question, heart rate information is NOT medical information unless it done under very strict conditions. A relatively low heart rate could be indicative of a very fit person OR a person who isn't exercising intensely. It thus has no value to anyone who can't access the curriculum.
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Whoa - I wasn't talking about the physicians, who barely record notes into the paper records anyway.
I'm referring to the secretaries who do the dictation (where the actual medical records are kept until they are recorded) and the Patient Records departments. These are secretaries, and the vast majority of them have no more interest in technology than the average physician has in say astrophysics.
On the topic of workflow in the clinical setting, physicians don't carry the charts with them from room to room. Nurses generally keep them updated, either in the patient room, or on the threshold of the patient's bay. Creating an iPod like docking station and something akin to a netbook or Kindle should provide ready synchronization and charging in one convenient package.
Note that the technology is here, but it hasn't been packaged properly for these environments.
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Excel, Word and Internet Explorer are the only programs a lot of people in the health care industry are actually comfortable using (sorry, the mainframe apps hospitals still rely on are scary!), but they still tend to use them poorly.
There's frequently zero budget for IT training for non-IT staff. Many people still do things manually, even while using computers to do them. I can't tell you how many times I've seen hospital staff sort spreadsheets by hand in Excel using Copy and Paste - and from the menus no less.
There's a huge education curve and the egos of physicians add another serious impediment. And at medical schools that do research, PhD's have entirely too much say in the design of the tools they will use - and inevitably create a product that they themselves will not use.
My employer is a Windows shop (shudder). The servers run by IT use a 2-3 letter prefix to indicate the role, followed by the version of Windows, followed by an enumerating suffix.
Hence we end up with names like exw2k301 (Exchange Server, Windows 2003, server 1). Of course, standards are made to be broken and the main print server maps to nt008a and the file server to nt014.
Unless you can turn the servers into load-sharing devices and then use purely functional names (mail, web, file, print, etc), there's going to be a learning curve for your users.
These are intentional designs, not bugs. The url bar learns your browsing history, so I don't really use bookmarks much anymore. I just type 2 or 3 letters of either the title or URL and -pop- there's the site I was looking for.
As for removing sites from the bar, Ctrl+Del still works for me.
At 4PM Eastern, they were downloading Firefox 2, because that's where the links went.
Lessons learned: Heavily mirrored global hosting, a week's notice with the exact times and a thorough double check to confirm that you're presenting the right version are all really important when trying to achieve an arbitrary download record.
10 watts, a 23% energy savings versus modern compact flourescent bulbs. I recognize that CF is not ideal - startup time, flicker and color are all different from that of incandescent bulbs.
Worse still, the equivalent modern LED uses 3 watts, making the newly designed bulbs 133% LESS EFFICIENT than EXISTING technology.
And we'll give 20 million dollars for this? Not to mention the administrative overhead.
There have got to be more efficient uses of tax dollars.
I find that Firefox with AdBlock Plus, Secure Login and NoScript is pretty resilient on Windows when it's backed up by a well-secured network and desktop anti-malware. Of course, I also don't go surfing the seedier parts of the web and can recognize phishing attacks pretty readily.
Sorry to take so long in getting back to you; I'm cleaning up from a burglary that pretty much wiped me out.
Google Analytics was just an example. Almost nobody goes there directly, but it frequently comes up. Activating it in no way improves your browsing experience, but it's heavily used by bloggers and the data makes them happy. It's totally up to you though.
In case you want to be nice to the bloggers...
Also, You Tube videos won't work terribly well without enabling their web site. The point is to keep web surfing as full functioned as possible, while reducing both the security risk and inconvenience.
A non-default NoScript setting that works really well is enabling Temporarily allow top-level sites by default and then choosing Base 2nd level Domains. Then you can selectively add secondary sites, like Google Analytics. Even without that, most sites work really well.
There's usually a free low-end phone on the Virgin Mobile website, so you save even more. As for the rates, the lowest (retail) contract plans in the US are usually something like 450/minutes for $39.99. Even at 18 cents/min, that's 222 minutes a month, which for a person that just wants to talk, is probably more than enough. The biggest limitation to the pre-paid phones is that their reception drops off rapidly as you leave metro areas.
10+ years until production makes this a concept car, which is about as much as we can expect from American car manufacturers trying to make energy efficient vehicles.
Cingular/AT&T wants $299.99/month for a voice only family plan with 6000 minutes. Verizon wants $199.99/month for a voice only single person plan. Sprint/Nextel makes you call to get rates for plans over 2000 minutes.
In all three cases, SMS and data are extra charges (unlimited SMS typically runs $20 and unlimited data is in the realm of $45, but requires cell company provided equipment).
By comparison, $115-$150 would be a tremendous price drop for the US market!
Why would they bother disabling it? Threats are for more effective for coercing 'favors' from the authorities and we would be handing a lot of easy hostages to determined terrorists. How would it look for the FAA to allow gruesome death (and worse) to befall little girls on board the flight?
I'm not opposed to the auto-auto-pilot, but it would still need to be backed up with additional protections.
As a reminder to those of you who want to believe that the Senate is a rubber stamp for its committees, Senate and House committees are merely supposed to filter out the meaningless and/or ineffective gibberish, not decide whether they should become law or not.
By that standard, they did their jobs.
The author of TFA obviosuly hasn't tried to train a computer user on efficient use of computer technology. Most Excel users don't even know about the SUM button, let alone writing a formula on their own. Most Thunderbird users delete their junkmail rather than marking it as junk. Most MS Exchange/Outlook users don't archive important e-mail locally, instead allowing themselves to go over quota. And scripts might as well be written in Sanskrit.
Now imagine a world where the computer has to guess what the novice user is doing. Programming a digital device requires strong task analysis skills, skills that are utterly deficient in the majority of computer users.
Frankly, for the overwhelming majority of users, computers represent too much choice. They actually benefit from strongly regimented click paths and limiting interfaces.
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MPEG-LA's patent list at http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/AVC/Pages/PatentList.aspx shows patents in the US, Canada, Germany, Russia, South Korea, France, United Kingdom, Japan, Mexico, Singapore, Taiwan, Australia, China, Finland, Italy, Sweden, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Denmark, Spain, Hong Kong, Hungary, Ireland, Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Turkey and Lichtenstein - and that's in the first 4 pages of a 56-page document, with most of the patents quite live.
Sure, patent law isn't enforced as vigorously in some of those countries as it is in the US, but to say that just South Korea and the USA are problem states is misleading and dangerous, particularly with ACTA coming down the pipeline.
Re-image a dev box in use and you're toast. Programmers' machines get messy and they get messy fast when their job is to test and integrate new technologies and not just act as title inflated code monkeys. And to a certain extent, that mess has to stay there, though it also creates myriad fun problems. Throw in multiple platforms to the mix and food/beverage hardware failures and your dream of remote management is shot to hell.
If they're all office workers with remote storage, nuke the machines away, by all means. But a programmer's dev box is un-nukeable, except in the case of serious damage, as such action represents significant loss of knowledge, time and infrastructure development.
Precisely my thoughts. Data structures and pointer management are important concepts to understand, but they should not be "end goals" so much as means to an end - a career in electrical engineering or programming - which is something the kid is not ready to decide upon.
I HAVE done a humanities exam recently. And I printed in those lovely blue books so as to ensure that every word was completely legible to the grader. Cursive is not inherently easier to read - the least bit of sloppiness can render it illegible, in fact - and printing for two straight hours three times every two months is not so tiring as to cause massive physical trauma.
You absolutely need to learn how to print neatly and how to type, but these two skills are quite sufficient for every act of communication in an era where email is ubiquitous and IS the semi-formal communication medium. Further, printing is backwards compatible, so there is no risk of loss of communication with those whose skills include printing and cursive, but not typing.
That's just a waste of money. The doctor isn't going to be able to get the kids to exercise. You think a 15-year-old is going to be worried about long-term cardiovascular risk factors? For the teacher, this is an objective measure of physical activity, perfect in an era of helicopter parenting.
To the original question, heart rate information is NOT medical information unless it done under very strict conditions. A relatively low heart rate could be indicative of a very fit person OR a person who isn't exercising intensely. It thus has no value to anyone who can't access the curriculum.
Whoa - I wasn't talking about the physicians, who barely record notes into the paper records anyway.
I'm referring to the secretaries who do the dictation (where the actual medical records are kept until they are recorded) and the Patient Records departments. These are secretaries, and the vast majority of them have no more interest in technology than the average physician has in say astrophysics.
On the topic of workflow in the clinical setting, physicians don't carry the charts with them from room to room. Nurses generally keep them updated, either in the patient room, or on the threshold of the patient's bay. Creating an iPod like docking station and something akin to a netbook or Kindle should provide ready synchronization and charging in one convenient package.
Note that the technology is here, but it hasn't been packaged properly for these environments.
Scary neutrinos don't scare physicians and secretaries away. Computers themselves do.
Excel, Word and Internet Explorer are the only programs a lot of people in the health care industry are actually comfortable using (sorry, the mainframe apps hospitals still rely on are scary!), but they still tend to use them poorly.
There's frequently zero budget for IT training for non-IT staff. Many people still do things manually, even while using computers to do them. I can't tell you how many times I've seen hospital staff sort spreadsheets by hand in Excel using Copy and Paste - and from the menus no less.
There's a huge education curve and the egos of physicians add another serious impediment. And at medical schools that do research, PhD's have entirely too much say in the design of the tools they will use - and inevitably create a product that they themselves will not use.
My employer is a Windows shop (shudder). The servers run by IT use a 2-3 letter prefix to indicate the role, followed by the version of Windows, followed by an enumerating suffix. Hence we end up with names like exw2k301 (Exchange Server, Windows 2003, server 1). Of course, standards are made to be broken and the main print server maps to nt008a and the file server to nt014. Unless you can turn the servers into load-sharing devices and then use purely functional names (mail, web, file, print, etc), there's going to be a learning curve for your users.
These are intentional designs, not bugs. The url bar learns your browsing history, so I don't really use bookmarks much anymore. I just type 2 or 3 letters of either the title or URL and -pop- there's the site I was looking for. As for removing sites from the bar, Ctrl+Del still works for me.
Yes and yes.
At 4PM Eastern, they were downloading Firefox 2, because that's where the links went. Lessons learned: Heavily mirrored global hosting, a week's notice with the exact times and a thorough double check to confirm that you're presenting the right version are all really important when trying to achieve an arbitrary download record.
10 watts, a 23% energy savings versus modern compact flourescent bulbs. I recognize that CF is not ideal - startup time, flicker and color are all different from that of incandescent bulbs. Worse still, the equivalent modern LED uses 3 watts, making the newly designed bulbs 133% LESS EFFICIENT than EXISTING technology. And we'll give 20 million dollars for this? Not to mention the administrative overhead. There have got to be more efficient uses of tax dollars.
Is at http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jhts/33/3/33_142/_article. You will need to be able to read Japanese, but at least it's the actual research.
I find that Firefox with AdBlock Plus, Secure Login and NoScript is pretty resilient on Windows when it's backed up by a well-secured network and desktop anti-malware. Of course, I also don't go surfing the seedier parts of the web and can recognize phishing attacks pretty readily.
Sorry to take so long in getting back to you; I'm cleaning up from a burglary that pretty much wiped me out. Google Analytics was just an example. Almost nobody goes there directly, but it frequently comes up. Activating it in no way improves your browsing experience, but it's heavily used by bloggers and the data makes them happy. It's totally up to you though.
In case you want to be nice to the bloggers... Also, You Tube videos won't work terribly well without enabling their web site. The point is to keep web surfing as full functioned as possible, while reducing both the security risk and inconvenience.
A non-default NoScript setting that works really well is enabling Temporarily allow top-level sites by default and then choosing Base 2nd level Domains. Then you can selectively add secondary sites, like Google Analytics. Even without that, most sites work really well.
There's usually a free low-end phone on the Virgin Mobile website, so you save even more. As for the rates, the lowest (retail) contract plans in the US are usually something like 450/minutes for $39.99. Even at 18 cents/min, that's 222 minutes a month, which for a person that just wants to talk, is probably more than enough. The biggest limitation to the pre-paid phones is that their reception drops off rapidly as you leave metro areas.
He lived, always a little unstable, always a little wary, but part of both families. Real life has loose endings and the ending reflected that.
10+ years until production makes this a concept car, which is about as much as we can expect from American car manufacturers trying to make energy efficient vehicles.
Cingular/AT&T wants $299.99/month for a voice only family plan with 6000 minutes.
Verizon wants $199.99/month for a voice only single person plan.
Sprint/Nextel makes you call to get rates for plans over 2000 minutes.
In all three cases, SMS and data are extra charges (unlimited SMS typically runs $20 and unlimited data is in the realm of $45, but requires cell company provided equipment).
By comparison, $115-$150 would be a tremendous price drop for the US market!
Why would they bother disabling it? Threats are for more effective for coercing 'favors' from the authorities and we would be handing a lot of easy hostages to determined terrorists. How would it look for the FAA to allow gruesome death (and worse) to befall little girls on board the flight? I'm not opposed to the auto-auto-pilot, but it would still need to be backed up with additional protections.
As a reminder to those of you who want to believe that the Senate is a rubber stamp for its committees, Senate and House committees are merely supposed to filter out the meaningless and/or ineffective gibberish, not decide whether they should become law or not. By that standard, they did their jobs.
The author of TFA obviosuly hasn't tried to train a computer user on efficient use of computer technology. Most Excel users don't even know about the SUM button, let alone writing a formula on their own. Most Thunderbird users delete their junkmail rather than marking it as junk. Most MS Exchange/Outlook users don't archive important e-mail locally, instead allowing themselves to go over quota. And scripts might as well be written in Sanskrit.
Now imagine a world where the computer has to guess what the novice user is doing. Programming a digital device requires strong task analysis skills, skills that are utterly deficient in the majority of computer users.
Frankly, for the overwhelming majority of users, computers represent too much choice. They actually benefit from strongly regimented click paths and limiting interfaces.
And yet they were questions that a 12 year old in the early 90's could answer . Strange that.