MacBook Pro rocks - best of both worlds - Apple rules.
iPad sucks - it's locked down - Apple sucks
Is it impossible for 1 company to offer both general computing devices and special purpose computing appliances?
Why should iPhone OS and OS X be mutually exclusive...
Apple just raked in huge returns on their general computing lines... ie: Workstations, Desktops and Laptops - why would they stop.
All this iPad does is provide an alternative to a full PC for those who really don't care about managing a complicated system and just want to *DO* things.
Who ever is hailing it as the *future* of computing doesn't understand what computing means. That would be like saying that the Playstation or Wii are the future of computing.... yes they compute things but no they are not PCs and were not hyped as such... even though since then people have hacked them and begun running Linux on them.
People who choose to be ignorant are the same as they've alwas been. The big difference today is that more claim to be informed because the gossip is now labeled news.
It is easier than ever to find out about world events and local happenings. Add that there is fast access to historical information on any topic and there is no excuse not to be an informed person. A bigger problem is filtering out the relevant from the banal which is what the pros are supposed to be paid to do yet they seem to be failing and probably for the same reason as the rest of us.
I gave my old 1g iPhone to my 3 year old daughter. She's been using one for a year now to play games and take photos and listen to music. it no longer has a sim card and is set up with just apps and content for her now.
I sincerely hope the schools she attends can do better than what I'm hearing or she is gonig to have a tough time adjusting to the low fidelity expectations.
With resources turned to VOIP lines and infrastructure you will most likely see more redundancy for those services than are currently in place. It's not as if the phone company is just going to cut costs by dropping POTS and using whatever is currently in place for VOIP... they will beef up VOIP so it is a good replacement for POTS.
Herbal supplement's are not concentrated like pharmaceuticals are.... 120 mg a day won't get you anything. Take 120 mg a day of most herbs that have active drug compounds and you're likely to get no more than a trace of that drug, whereas pharmaceuticals take the active compound and synthesize it - then give you 120 mg of the concentrated compound.
As a laugh, you could take 120 mg of marijuana - even good stuff... and smoke it. That's maybe 1/4 of a joint (you'd get about 2 joints out of a gram of weed if you were conservative). How high are you going to get on 1/4 of a joint? Not very... and THC is a fairly potent compound. Gingko is not nearly as potent.
SO you're saying that *someone* should hack into the spammers boxen and and install a child porn archive or similarly regional taboo - then bring public attention to it? Oooohhh that sounds like a very vigilante grey hat goal to achieve. So whom will take up the gauntlet? Any "NetMan" around to protect us all from organized crime on the net?
How about an archive format, essentially a zip file, which contains additional headers for all of it's contents? Something like a manifest would work well. It could easily be an XML file with the header information and other meta-data about the contents of the archive. This way you get a good compromise between having to store an entire filesystem and the overhead of putting this information in each file.
Add another layer by using a striped data format with parity and you have the ability to reconstruct any of the data as well.
So your archive would grow in size maybe 20% but would have a vastly improved life expectancy.
Web sites that want to support it and also support legacy browsers will use something like Modernizr or other HTML5 detection techniques and provide alternate content - like flash video as alternate content for HTML5 video, javascript or flash charts as alt content for canvas charts, etc.
Some features like sockets and web workers and local storage aren't really feasible for legacy browsers even with workarounds like Gears but a subset can be implemented for specific apps which is the focus of this topic....
Sounds like software companies designing these systems didn't really do an thorough analysis of how hospitals work - not that it's likely to be their fault, more likely is that they were tasked with one set of operations and the hospitals are using the system for several additional operations they didn't tell anyone about.
A simple fix for this situation is to enable the emailing (internally only of course) of the data and the import of said data into other systems. Everyone knows how to use email... and it's a typical scenario to have a structured text format in an email be parsed for data and added to a database.
This would decentralize the import/export of the data and allow on site IT workers to create new import macros for additional systems on demand.
Computers and machines in general just do what you tell them to do. So who wrote up the requirements? It's very likely that an administrator did... so no wonder the systems were designed to make administration more efficient. This means that the inputs and outputs were designed for good bookkeeping - not efficient medical practice. Doctors and nurses now have to learn to do things the 'administrative' way rather than the 'practitioner' way... and likely it is not very efficient for them.
A good fix for this would be to develop a new view of the system which is organized and designed for the doctors and nurses but translates to a view for administrators.
Unfortunately this will up the cost and now that the work is being done twice will likely swallow up the savings for the near term... so the hospital board is unlikely to approve it and simply insist on more 'training' for Doctors and Nurses.
There's a great book called the 48 laws of power which uses exampled from all of the above and more to illustrate various concepts related to getting, keeping and using power and position of influence.
Just a quick note to say you're not alone. Not all people are 'achievers' - many are 'experiencers' - ie: the road traveled is more important than the destination.
Neither. You're not treating it as a game, you're treating is as a story or a discovery process. This isn't wrong, just indicative or your personality. Some people need to impress, other's to master and still other's seek to explore and experience regardless of the skill level they achieve in the process or whom may be paying attention to their activities.
I wear these huge Toric lenses and it takes about 3 seconds to put them in - did I say they are huge and fat? Yeah, you can see them in my eyes from a meter away. Just stick it on the end of the finger (any will do), then slide them into the bottom, pull your finger away (down or to the outside) and blink a few times. Easy-peazy.
Sorry but things like 'survival rates' and max throughput averages are not relevant.. they may be facts but they have no bearing on whether or not their respective institutions are of high quality.
China has more military personnel than any other country - Best Military in the World? Saudi Arabia has the highest income per capita of any place in the world - Everyone's Rich!
I think you're getting my point here. Having the most of something doesn't make you the best at whatever that is... ie: having a garage full of race cars doesn't make you a good race car driver.
There are a lot of other factors involved. For instance, with survival rates - just having a great prenatal program is going to improve that tremendously. In most developing countries a large majority of deaths are right after birth. But having a great prenatal program doesn't mean you have a great health-care system. Similarly having a great food and drug review administration would help survival, having good roads so that emergency vehicles can get patients to hospitals surely helps, having an EMT industry would improve many countries. An EPA like agency can prevent many toxic environmental hazards from killing people... the list goes on.
None of these factors is the same as having a great health care system. They add to it but don't replace it.
One more thing. When it comes to health care - opinions are all that count. Science can tell me that I am surviving - even thriving, but if I have put my grandchildren in debt they will never pay off, that tends to lower my quality of living. Especially when the insurance carrier decides to drop coverage for any reason.
As a smoker I find it hard to deny Apple's case here. Tobacco smoke is not a good thing for electronics. Neither would be lots of candle smoke, grease smoke, auto exhaust and many other environmental contaminates that could leave a residue on the hardware.
For the smokers out there: is it really that hard to take a break and go outside? I've always felt that was the best part... take a break, go out, have a smoke and consider what ever you're doing - then go back and get it done.
Of course these are not likely people using their computers for productive things... probably ex-AOLers chatting up people while drinking and smoking. In which case - ??? WTF just get a life already.
Oh and it's gross to smoke cigs in your house. Same as it would be gross to smoke a turkey inside or any number of things that leave residue everywhere.
Any health issues? I feel the same way as you but worry about emphysema and hardened arteries all the time. I know I don't get enough exercise to offset the carbon monoxide poisoning... so after 20 years do you have any problems you'd rather not be there?
Damn you... you've let the cat out of the bag... That was Mark's plan the whole time, don't you understand... all he wanted was for Google to buy out all of his games for a cool 1 Billion while paying out only what 1,000 x 1 million = 1 Billion? crap, that doesn't add up... what are we talking about again?
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*BAMMMMMM* somebody understands...
Pretty much NOBODY was expecting full OS X on these things. All the rumors for the last 6 months have been that it would run a modified iPhone OS...
Wow, you've fully contradicted yourself.
MacBook Pro rocks - best of both worlds - Apple rules.
iPad sucks - it's locked down - Apple sucks
Is it impossible for 1 company to offer both general computing devices and special purpose computing appliances?
Why should iPhone OS and OS X be mutually exclusive...
Apple just raked in huge returns on their general computing lines... ie: Workstations, Desktops and Laptops - why would they stop.
All this iPad does is provide an alternative to a full PC for those who really don't care about managing a complicated system and just want to *DO* things.
Who ever is hailing it as the *future* of computing doesn't understand what computing means. That would be like saying that the Playstation or Wii are the future of computing.... yes they compute things but no they are not PCs and were not hyped as such... even though since then people have hacked them and begun running Linux on them.
People who choose to be ignorant are the same as they've alwas been. The big difference today is that more claim to be informed because the gossip is now labeled news.
It is easier than ever to find out about world events and local happenings. Add that there is fast access to historical information on any topic and there is no excuse not to be an informed person. A bigger problem is filtering out the relevant from the banal which is what the pros are supposed to be paid to do yet they seem to be failing and probably for the same reason as the rest of us.
You're right. Apple displays have been docking stations for a long time offering multiple USB, FireWire and audio outputs.
I have an adaptor and it's not the encodind decoding that is the problem. it's the heat interference when you use it with a laptop. causes sparks.
I gave my old 1g iPhone to my 3 year old daughter. She's been using one for a year now to play games and take photos and listen to music. it no longer has a sim card and is set up with just apps and content for her now.
I sincerely hope the schools she attends can do better than what I'm hearing or she is gonig to have a tough time adjusting to the low fidelity expectations.
With resources turned to VOIP lines and infrastructure you will most likely see more redundancy for those services than are currently in place. It's not as if the phone company is just going to cut costs by dropping POTS and using whatever is currently in place for VOIP... they will beef up VOIP so it is a good replacement for POTS.
Herbal supplement's are not concentrated like pharmaceuticals are.... 120 mg a day won't get you anything. Take 120 mg a day of most herbs that have active drug compounds and you're likely to get no more than a trace of that drug, whereas pharmaceuticals take the active compound and synthesize it - then give you 120 mg of the concentrated compound.
As a laugh, you could take 120 mg of marijuana - even good stuff... and smoke it. That's maybe 1/4 of a joint (you'd get about 2 joints out of a gram of weed if you were conservative). How high are you going to get on 1/4 of a joint? Not very... and THC is a fairly potent compound. Gingko is not nearly as potent.
I think the slogan for this device says it all:
"small, slow, sufficient"
SO you're saying that *someone* should hack into the spammers boxen and and install a child porn archive or similarly regional taboo - then bring public attention to it? Oooohhh that sounds like a very vigilante grey hat goal to achieve. So whom will take up the gauntlet? Any "NetMan" around to protect us all from organized crime on the net?
How about an archive format, essentially a zip file, which contains additional headers for all of it's contents? Something like a manifest would work well. It could easily be an XML file with the header information and other meta-data about the contents of the archive. This way you get a good compromise between having to store an entire filesystem and the overhead of putting this information in each file.
Add another layer by using a striped data format with parity and you have the ability to reconstruct any of the data as well.
So your archive would grow in size maybe 20% but would have a vastly improved life expectancy.
Web sites that want to support it and also support legacy browsers will use something like Modernizr or other HTML5 detection techniques and provide alternate content - like flash video as alternate content for HTML5 video, javascript or flash charts as alt content for canvas charts, etc.
Some features like sockets and web workers and local storage aren't really feasible for legacy browsers even with workarounds like Gears but a subset can be implemented for specific apps which is the focus of this topic....
Sounds like software companies designing these systems didn't really do an thorough analysis of how hospitals work - not that it's likely to be their fault, more likely is that they were tasked with one set of operations and the hospitals are using the system for several additional operations they didn't tell anyone about.
A simple fix for this situation is to enable the emailing (internally only of course) of the data and the import of said data into other systems. Everyone knows how to use email... and it's a typical scenario to have a structured text format in an email be parsed for data and added to a database.
This would decentralize the import/export of the data and allow on site IT workers to create new import macros for additional systems on demand.
Computers and machines in general just do what you tell them to do. So who wrote up the requirements? It's very likely that an administrator did... so no wonder the systems were designed to make administration more efficient. This means that the inputs and outputs were designed for good bookkeeping - not efficient medical practice. Doctors and nurses now have to learn to do things the 'administrative' way rather than the 'practitioner' way... and likely it is not very efficient for them.
A good fix for this would be to develop a new view of the system which is organized and designed for the doctors and nurses but translates to a view for administrators.
Unfortunately this will up the cost and now that the work is being done twice will likely swallow up the savings for the near term... so the hospital board is unlikely to approve it and simply insist on more 'training' for Doctors and Nurses.
There's a great book called the 48 laws of power which uses exampled from all of the above and more to illustrate various concepts related to getting, keeping and using power and position of influence.
Just FYI to anyone interested in such things.
Just a quick note to say you're not alone. Not all people are 'achievers' - many are 'experiencers' - ie: the road traveled is more important than the destination.
Neither. You're not treating it as a game, you're treating is as a story or a discovery process. This isn't wrong, just indicative or your personality. Some people need to impress, other's to master and still other's seek to explore and experience regardless of the skill level they achieve in the process or whom may be paying attention to their activities.
I wear these huge Toric lenses and it takes about 3 seconds to put them in - did I say they are huge and fat? Yeah, you can see them in my eyes from a meter away. Just stick it on the end of the finger (any will do), then slide them into the bottom, pull your finger away (down or to the outside) and blink a few times. Easy-peazy.
Excepting the fact that the OP doesn't have a rating, doh!
Sorry but things like 'survival rates' and max throughput averages are not relevant.. they may be facts but they have no bearing on whether or not their respective institutions are of high quality.
China has more military personnel than any other country - Best Military in the World? Saudi Arabia has the highest income per capita of any place in the world - Everyone's Rich!
I think you're getting my point here. Having the most of something doesn't make you the best at whatever that is... ie: having a garage full of race cars doesn't make you a good race car driver.
There are a lot of other factors involved. For instance, with survival rates - just having a great prenatal program is going to improve that tremendously. In most developing countries a large majority of deaths are right after birth. But having a great prenatal program doesn't mean you have a great health-care system. Similarly having a great food and drug review administration would help survival, having good roads so that emergency vehicles can get patients to hospitals surely helps, having an EMT industry would improve many countries. An EPA like agency can prevent many toxic environmental hazards from killing people... the list goes on.
None of these factors is the same as having a great health care system. They add to it but don't replace it.
One more thing. When it comes to health care - opinions are all that count. Science can tell me that I am surviving - even thriving, but if I have put my grandchildren in debt they will never pay off, that tends to lower my quality of living. Especially when the insurance carrier decides to drop coverage for any reason.
As a smoker I find it hard to deny Apple's case here. Tobacco smoke is not a good thing for electronics. Neither would be lots of candle smoke, grease smoke, auto exhaust and many other environmental contaminates that could leave a residue on the hardware.
For the smokers out there: is it really that hard to take a break and go outside? I've always felt that was the best part... take a break, go out, have a smoke and consider what ever you're doing - then go back and get it done.
Of course these are not likely people using their computers for productive things... probably ex-AOLers chatting up people while drinking and smoking. In which case - ??? WTF just get a life already.
Oh and it's gross to smoke cigs in your house. Same as it would be gross to smoke a turkey inside or any number of things that leave residue everywhere.
Any health issues? I feel the same way as you but worry about emphysema and hardened arteries all the time. I know I don't get enough exercise to offset the carbon monoxide poisoning... so after 20 years do you have any problems you'd rather not be there?
Damn you... you've let the cat out of the bag... That was Mark's plan the whole time, don't you understand... all he wanted was for Google to buy out all of his games for a cool 1 Billion while paying out only what 1,000 x 1 million = 1 Billion? crap, that doesn't add up... what are we talking about again?