But the fact is, that people are downloading the special software: the google bar is one of googles most successful products, and this must be making Microsoft go crazy, considering their MSN sites have been unleashing pop-up ads on their unsuspecting users for years now.
Netscape lost to Microsoft because they (arguably) had what turned out to be an inferior product. Microsoft will lose to google for the exact same reason.
... or how paying $2 per kilobyte (thank you, local carrier) makes those four words the most expensive data message ever sent, at an average of 50 lines of code to produce the later ones people came up with!
Actually there are plenty out there, with an amazing success record. One such, the RoboDoc, does total hip replacement operations (I'm from the Johns Hopkins University, the designer of the robot is a prof. here) and I think the robodoc has managed to reduce a 10-15% failure rate of human-conducted operations to a perfect record of zero failures! An amazing record.
I'm not sure if its FDA aproved yet, but they had like 12000 operations with it, and unless they were all conducted in Europe, where legislation does not prohibit these, they must have an FDA aproval. When it comes to precision-savvy operations I would personally go for the robot, thats for sure.
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But the fact is, that people are downloading the special software: the google bar is one of googles most successful products, and this must be making Microsoft go crazy, considering their MSN sites have been unleashing pop-up ads on their unsuspecting users for years now. Netscape lost to Microsoft because they (arguably) had what turned out to be an inferior product. Microsoft will lose to google for the exact same reason.
... or how paying $2 per kilobyte (thank you, local carrier) makes those four words the most expensive data message ever sent, at an average of 50 lines of code to produce the later ones people came up with!
Actually there are plenty out there, with an amazing success record. One such, the RoboDoc, does total hip replacement operations (I'm from the Johns Hopkins University, the designer of the robot is a prof. here) and I think the robodoc has managed to reduce a 10-15% failure rate of human-conducted operations to a perfect record of zero failures! An amazing record.
I'm not sure if its FDA aproved yet, but they had like 12000 operations with it, and unless they were all conducted in Europe, where legislation does not prohibit these, they must have an FDA aproval. When it comes to precision-savvy operations I would personally go for the robot, thats for sure.