Apple IS competition. There are two very strong platforms for smartphones right now, and they both improve almost daily because of intense competition.
Sure, it's information about the patient, but giving out all the details just causes more trouble than good.
You miss the point... it's ALL discoverable in a lawsuit. And not just the patient's internal records - everything the hospital did anywhere near the case. Emails, internal mail, policies, meeting notes, texts, call records... you name it. Discovery alone can cost the hospital a small fortune. People in general - not just doctors - are under the impression that secrecy prevents problems, but making a patient feel like there are secrets to be discovered only leads to more trouble. Even if the hospital makes a mistake, it is best to disclose this and pay up front than to operate under the delusion that there are "secrets" and hope it doesn't come to a lawsuit.
Disclosure: I'm married to a doctor. A pain doctor, no less.
Doctors go to jail for prescribing painkillers that are later abused, so they err on the side of caution. Your friend is a victim of the drug war. My wife has "fired" many a patient - most of them quite deservedly. But people are very good at saying what they need to say, so she has to be over-cautious.
I read up on it after your initial post, and it does indeed seem like a good system. But it would cost some money to implement, and money is scarce. They seem to be judging that the aircraft is already sufficiently capable without the upgrade... that's always going to be a judgement call and always subject to perfectly reasonable criticism. As it should be:)
Yeah, I have the tm flag set, but I haven't tried the alternate zeroconf solutions yet. Frankly, once I knew the magic joo-joo to mount the thing manually, I lost interest in monkeying around:)
Yeah, well I'm all done defending PHP now:) If I am scripting, I currently like Python. It has some warts, and the speed isn't always fantastic, but it's my favorite right now.
I had to resort to managing MacOS with command line tools
Oh, no, not that!
LOL, sorry...
I can't really address your point because I don't know what your issue was. I believe that you ran into something that I haven't. My only struggle was to get my Mac to reliably print to my Windows-attached printer. Never did solve that... the problem "went away" when I plugged the printer into an Airport Express.
Yup, though actually I don't really care if it is "open" so much as accessible. For instance, XLS and DOC are not open, but most things can read them. OpenOffice can even open my old WPD encrypted files from the early 90s.
It seems to be working... I've had this setup going for over a year. If you have a specific concern I'll be happy to run a test against it. I've restored a backup to a MacBook Pro using Time Machine (though I had to manually mount the volume using the command line). I regularly drag files over to ZFS using Finder and vice versa... it's my primary way of sharing between the machines. I did get an error once when trying to change a creator attribute, but I think that was a permissions problem.
Yeah, I think I agree. The average iPhone probably costs about $500, while the average Android might be half of that.
Nevertheless, this is a JD Power survey so it's more about marketing anyway. Apple's concentration on the high end seems to protect their reputation for quality.
Anyway, my point was that Apple has a good reputation for quality, and this cannot be countered by a link to one guy's unhappy story. Perhaps the reputation is not deserved, but one story about a bum Mac Mini dredged from the web is not going to counter that reputation. Even Honda makes the occasional lemon.
Jump to Microsoft. Tell me how well Microsoft plays with Apple.
Again, this hasn't been a problem for me. Apple ships with a built-in Samba so it offers itself up to Windows quite nicely. It can also mount Windows shares. iTunes runs on Windows, so all of your iOS toys still work. Stay away from the iWork and iLife stuff, and you are good in a move to MS.
Jump to Google; they're trying desparately to wean you from either, and into their cloud clutches.
I'm a heavy Google user. Gmail supports IMAP and works well with just about any email program on any platform, Calendar supports ICAL and works well with iPhone and Android (duh!), Google Drive works well with Windows and Mac (and even some basic functionality exists in Linux)... what service is causing you grief?
Most of my geek support today goes towards making stuff talk and solving the mysteries of platform incompatibilities.
Well, amen to that!
Actually, if I had to pick one thing that I think has consumed most of my geek time, it's hard drive failure... so now I just install CrashPlan on people's machines and point it at my basement server. Sooooo worth the couple hundred gig, and no more drives in the freezer. A close second is people who move iTunes to a new PC wrong and "lose their library"... ugh.
As the other commenter answered, it is in ports as netatalk. Combine it with avahi (zeroconf) for advertising the service and it works great as a Time Machine target. I've tested it on a restore, and it does work - though you have to mount the volume manually through the terminal for some reason.
I don't understand this thought at all. I run a mixed environment at home, and it all works pretty well. I have a FreeBSD ZFS server in the basement happily running AFP and acting as a Time Machine target. I also have it running CrashPlan in Linux emulation as a target for my friends, family, and Windows PC. The Windows PC speaks happily to FreeBSD via Samba. Firefox works almost identically on all three platforms, syncing passwords and bookmarks. OpenOffice works on all three as well. CrashPlan client runs just fine on two Macs and the PC. Even Apple proprietary crap like iTunes and Airplay runs across platforms. As long as you try to steer clear of single-platform applications, everything works together pretty well. It would not be a big deal if I suddenly had to ditch Mac or Windows (and believe me, Windows 8 has made me consider the latter).
The truth is, there is no "ecosystem" if you are careful in your application and hardware purchases. That MacBook will happily run Linux or Windows if you get disgusted with MacOS. That Windows PC will happily run just about anything if you get disgusted at MS. Keep your data in an accessible format, and you are golden when you switch platforms.
Besides, as a geek your friends and family depend on you to be an expert at anything with electrons.:)
If MS's built-in search worked nearly as well as Google, we wouldn't have to Google it. The sad thing is that I even use the Google search engine to search on MS's site. Even sadder is that Bing results aren't half bad, so they already have the tech in-house.
A bike is still a bike...so if you can get from point a to point b, why trade in your old bike for a newer and 2000$ prettier bike???
You wouldn't. But when the frame finally goes, you might consider replacing all of the other components and not just the frame. And if technology has moved far enough, it can get harder and harder to find an affordable frame that fits and works with your ancient components.
I'm not being obtuse... this is a real problem. There are whole factories that run on commodity DOS hardware from the early 90s. It starts to get very hard to replace that old hardware... at the point where you find yourself hitting eBay, you should probably accept that you are on borrowed time and plan a transition to newer stuff.
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Apple IS competition. There are two very strong platforms for smartphones right now, and they both improve almost daily because of intense competition.
He also founded PayPal... did your head just explode? :)
They made my computer...
Sure, it's information about the patient, but giving out all the details just causes more trouble than good.
You miss the point... it's ALL discoverable in a lawsuit. And not just the patient's internal records - everything the hospital did anywhere near the case. Emails, internal mail, policies, meeting notes, texts, call records... you name it. Discovery alone can cost the hospital a small fortune. People in general - not just doctors - are under the impression that secrecy prevents problems, but making a patient feel like there are secrets to be discovered only leads to more trouble. Even if the hospital makes a mistake, it is best to disclose this and pay up front than to operate under the delusion that there are "secrets" and hope it doesn't come to a lawsuit.
Disclosure: I'm married to a doctor. A pain doctor, no less.
Doctors go to jail for prescribing painkillers that are later abused, so they err on the side of caution. Your friend is a victim of the drug war. My wife has "fired" many a patient - most of them quite deservedly. But people are very good at saying what they need to say, so she has to be over-cautious.
I read up on it after your initial post, and it does indeed seem like a good system. But it would cost some money to implement, and money is scarce. They seem to be judging that the aircraft is already sufficiently capable without the upgrade... that's always going to be a judgement call and always subject to perfectly reasonable criticism. As it should be :)
It's unlikely that those bugs would be present in a 70 degree clean room with low relative humidity :)
Yeah, I have the tm flag set, but I haven't tried the alternate zeroconf solutions yet. Frankly, once I knew the magic joo-joo to mount the thing manually, I lost interest in monkeying around :)
Yeah, well I'm all done defending PHP now :) If I am scripting, I currently like Python. It has some warts, and the speed isn't always fantastic, but it's my favorite right now.
You could always call tech support and see how much of their time you can waste.
I had to resort to managing MacOS with command line tools
Oh, no, not that!
LOL, sorry...
I can't really address your point because I don't know what your issue was. I believe that you ran into something that I haven't. My only struggle was to get my Mac to reliably print to my Windows-attached printer. Never did solve that... the problem "went away" when I plugged the printer into an Airport Express.
Yup, though actually I don't really care if it is "open" so much as accessible. For instance, XLS and DOC are not open, but most things can read them. OpenOffice can even open my old WPD encrypted files from the early 90s.
It seems to be working... I've had this setup going for over a year. If you have a specific concern I'll be happy to run a test against it. I've restored a backup to a MacBook Pro using Time Machine (though I had to manually mount the volume using the command line). I regularly drag files over to ZFS using Finder and vice versa... it's my primary way of sharing between the machines. I did get an error once when trying to change a creator attribute, but I think that was a permissions problem.
Yeah, I think I agree. The average iPhone probably costs about $500, while the average Android might be half of that.
Nevertheless, this is a JD Power survey so it's more about marketing anyway. Apple's concentration on the high end seems to protect their reputation for quality.
Anyway, my point was that Apple has a good reputation for quality, and this cannot be countered by a link to one guy's unhappy story. Perhaps the reputation is not deserved, but one story about a bum Mac Mini dredged from the web is not going to counter that reputation. Even Honda makes the occasional lemon.
I mostly agree, though I think that PHP 5 no longer punishes you. PHP 4 definitely dissuaded you from doing things "right".
I still can't get over it's total lack of threading. To stay on-topic, I will say that the documentation web site is pretty darned good.
Jump to Microsoft. Tell me how well Microsoft plays with Apple.
Again, this hasn't been a problem for me. Apple ships with a built-in Samba so it offers itself up to Windows quite nicely. It can also mount Windows shares. iTunes runs on Windows, so all of your iOS toys still work. Stay away from the iWork and iLife stuff, and you are good in a move to MS.
Jump to Google; they're trying desparately to wean you from either, and into their cloud clutches.
I'm a heavy Google user. Gmail supports IMAP and works well with just about any email program on any platform, Calendar supports ICAL and works well with iPhone and Android (duh!), Google Drive works well with Windows and Mac (and even some basic functionality exists in Linux)... what service is causing you grief?
Most of my geek support today goes towards making stuff talk and solving the mysteries of platform incompatibilities.
Well, amen to that!
Actually, if I had to pick one thing that I think has consumed most of my geek time, it's hard drive failure... so now I just install CrashPlan on people's machines and point it at my basement server. Sooooo worth the couple hundred gig, and no more drives in the freezer. A close second is people who move iTunes to a new PC wrong and "lose their library"... ugh.
As the other commenter answered, it is in ports as netatalk. Combine it with avahi (zeroconf) for advertising the service and it works great as a Time Machine target. I've tested it on a restore, and it does work - though you have to mount the volume manually through the terminal for some reason.
I see your story and raise you a survey. And another, from closer to the same time period as your story.
And then some a little bit more up to date.
I don't understand this thought at all. I run a mixed environment at home, and it all works pretty well. I have a FreeBSD ZFS server in the basement happily running AFP and acting as a Time Machine target. I also have it running CrashPlan in Linux emulation as a target for my friends, family, and Windows PC. The Windows PC speaks happily to FreeBSD via Samba. Firefox works almost identically on all three platforms, syncing passwords and bookmarks. OpenOffice works on all three as well. CrashPlan client runs just fine on two Macs and the PC. Even Apple proprietary crap like iTunes and Airplay runs across platforms. As long as you try to steer clear of single-platform applications, everything works together pretty well. It would not be a big deal if I suddenly had to ditch Mac or Windows (and believe me, Windows 8 has made me consider the latter).
The truth is, there is no "ecosystem" if you are careful in your application and hardware purchases. That MacBook will happily run Linux or Windows if you get disgusted with MacOS. That Windows PC will happily run just about anything if you get disgusted at MS. Keep your data in an accessible format, and you are golden when you switch platforms.
Besides, as a geek your friends and family depend on you to be an expert at anything with electrons. :)
Who are you trying to scare off with that?
If MS's built-in search worked nearly as well as Google, we wouldn't have to Google it. The sad thing is that I even use the Google search engine to search on MS's site. Even sadder is that Bing results aren't half bad, so they already have the tech in-house.
I'll agree if you specify PHP4. PHP5 can be used responsibly.
A bike is still a bike...so if you can get from point a to point b, why trade in your old bike for a newer and 2000$ prettier bike???
You wouldn't. But when the frame finally goes, you might consider replacing all of the other components and not just the frame. And if technology has moved far enough, it can get harder and harder to find an affordable frame that fits and works with your ancient components.
I'm not being obtuse... this is a real problem. There are whole factories that run on commodity DOS hardware from the early 90s. It starts to get very hard to replace that old hardware... at the point where you find yourself hitting eBay, you should probably accept that you are on borrowed time and plan a transition to newer stuff.
I'd still do it, just for the halibut.
Wasn't that a budget saving move? Does it even need it?