I've been using.mac later MobileMe since 2002. Quite frankly 99$ has been a bargain. The syncing of calendars (+ syncing of outlook at work) alone has been worth it for me. Not to mention the syncing of my keychains, that feature was a gods sent, and with iCloud I'm a bit worried what to do now (no support for keychain syncing ) Anyways my point is, it might not have been worth it for you, but it sure as h*ll was worth it for me.
I hate to disagree with you, but Apple has been offering 'free' virus scanners with their.mac accounts since the times of MacOSX.1. I use the word free, even though its 70euros / year to be a member.
The main problem is that hospitals use old standards, while a xml version of hl7 is out. No one supports it, old segmented textfiles are used to transport information to/from systems. The protocol for transmitting the information (MLLP) is as archaic as they come. This tends to make things very complicated when dealing with things that needs to be there in todays hospital software (digital signing of requests / studies and reports) and leads to the software developers having to make hacks here and there to support this old framework of communication. Yet another issue here in Europe is that all software development teams must have the CE marking for medical devices with an extra attachment for medical software. This is very expensive and removes any new companies entering the field, so the competition is between already established players. Big companies that are uneasy with change in their software to make things better for the staff at the hospital.
Yes, I work in this field making software for radiology and mammography departments. While not a huge company (we were just at the right place at the right time), we put a lot of effort into the workflow just right for the staff at the hospital, and not the hospital management.
Had the exact same problem on my old D820, system overheating leading to having the brick go to 1ghz on both cores all the time.
I find it funny that now this is about E6400 / E6500. Luckily my E6400 is running just fine. Never had an issue with it.
That old D820 though, they must have replaces everything inside it 3 times over.
Had the similar problems with my d820, due to speedstep it would hang around 1ghz on both cores due to heat problems, dell changed the inners like 3 times. Finally our company bought me a precision m6400 instead, has been spinning like a dream.
You cant read the fineprint? it says do not look into the sun! its not an adverticement, its a warning sign. Due to heavy storms the ! has become ? guess the tech still doesnt work out well.
Shouldn't it be the robbers that are to blame rather than the iPod?
The way the title is written it sounds like iPods are running around robbing people. Then again English is not my native tongue.
Might actually not be such a bad idea:)
How on earth would they make profit off this btw, no one would buy initially from them, while this offer stands, you would buy from ITMS, that way you get the music for both players for the price of one...
i think the reference was already lost lottery tickets.. as in even though they had already lost, there was still a bigger chance in making money off it...
You must be on crack!
Dune (David Lynch version) is by far one of the best movies ever made... and only he himself would be a contender to ever try to live up to the great book it originates from... sure there is some things missing here and there but that is to be expected... Dune ROCKS
I have been toying with buying $700 worth of monopoly games, taking the money from them and sending the m-money in a box to sco asking for a license:)
To bad i don't have the cash flow for this at the moment...
Because objectivness is kind of out of the question, it's the author of the comments view that he/she posts. Just like it is your view you posted.. I don't recall seeing anywhere that you would have to be objective in your comments, do correct me if im wrong..
In my view i find your comment completly off topic but that is my view of things...
But to answer your question, Apple didn't give away anything for free, the university bought them at a discount yes, but Apple didn't donate them...
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I've been using .mac later MobileMe since 2002. Quite frankly 99$ has been a bargain. The syncing of calendars (+ syncing of outlook at work) alone has been worth it for me. Not to mention the syncing of my keychains, that feature was a gods sent, and with iCloud I'm a bit worried what to do now (no support for keychain syncing
)
Anyways my point is, it might not have been worth it for you, but it sure as h*ll was worth it for me.
Apple is profitable because they overcharge but typically they do not cut corners so their customers feel that the prices are mostly fair.
One would argue that if the customer thinks it's fair, then by no means are they overcharging. Or do I have my economics incorrect?
I hate to disagree with you, but Apple has been offering 'free' virus scanners with their .mac accounts since the times of MacOSX.1. I use the word free, even though its 70euros / year to be a member.
The main problem is that hospitals use old standards, while a xml version of hl7 is out. No one supports it, old segmented textfiles are used to transport information to/from systems. The protocol for transmitting the information (MLLP) is as archaic as they come.
This tends to make things very complicated when dealing with things that needs to be there in todays hospital software (digital signing of requests / studies and reports) and leads to the software developers having to make hacks here and there to support this old framework of communication.
Yet another issue here in Europe is that all software development teams must have the CE marking for medical devices with an extra attachment for medical software. This is very expensive and removes any new companies entering the field, so the competition is between already established players. Big companies that are uneasy with change in their software to make things better for the staff at the hospital.
Yes, I work in this field making software for radiology and mammography departments. While not a huge company (we were just at the right place at the right time), we put a lot of effort into the workflow just right for the staff at the hospital, and not the hospital management.
Had the exact same problem on my old D820, system overheating leading to having the brick go to 1ghz on both cores all the time. I find it funny that now this is about E6400 / E6500. Luckily my E6400 is running just fine. Never had an issue with it. That old D820 though, they must have replaces everything inside it 3 times over.
Had the similar problems with my d820, due to speedstep it would hang around 1ghz on both cores due to heat problems, dell changed the inners like 3 times. Finally our company bought me a precision m6400 instead, has been spinning like a dream.
Some jokes are lost on humans, guess its different here in the collective.
What do you mean by that?
i don't think you mean branded like everyone else in this place :p
8 weeks of testing WoW on a macpro for memory failures, hmmm i need to get a new job :p
You cant read the fineprint? it says do not look into the sun! its not an adverticement, its a warning sign. Due to heavy storms the ! has become ? guess the tech still doesnt work out well.
Remember to turn the paper and print on the other side aswell :p
Shouldn't it be the robbers that are to blame rather than the iPod? The way the title is written it sounds like iPods are running around robbing people. Then again English is not my native tongue.
But you got to start somewhere, if we don't we will never reach the end goal...
Indeed, I was rather dissapointed, when I read that it was not a shield dome..
Might actually not be such a bad idea :)
How on earth would they make profit off this btw, no one would buy initially from them, while this offer stands, you would buy from ITMS, that way you get the music for both players for the price of one...
Inefficient way of handling this.
The borg hive has this down right.
The information is shared directly.
You mean like when the food supplies drop from the skies? :)
This is news how? :)
I mean seriously whom actually expected that everything would suddenly be "honkey-dory" with SP2?!
i think the reference was already lost lottery tickets.. as in even though they had already lost, there was still a bigger chance in making money off it...
So by your standards kenny shouldn't get killed in each episode, since its repetitive?
You must be on crack! Dune (David Lynch version) is by far one of the best movies ever made... and only he himself would be a contender to ever try to live up to the great book it originates from... sure there is some things missing here and there but that is to be expected... Dune ROCKS
I have been toying with buying $700 worth of monopoly games, taking the money from them and sending the m-money in a box to sco asking for a license :)
To bad i don't have the cash flow for this at the moment...
Better start preparing a list of wishes for each of the shooting stars that we can be expecting here then :)
Because objectivness is kind of out of the question, it's the author of the comments view that he/she posts. Just like it is your view you posted..
I don't recall seeing anywhere that you would have to be objective in your comments, do correct me if im wrong..
In my view i find your comment completly off topic but that is my view of things...
But to answer your question, Apple didn't give away anything for free, the university bought them at a discount yes, but Apple didn't donate them...