I think an important item to add is that the case of a mini is useless in a consumer video/audio stack. It would HAVE to be the top item (unless you like precariously balancing other components on your mini). There is a reason that all those components are essentially the same width, and that's that they stack.
A public traded company, must (yes must) maximize the profit of its shareholders. Apple is not a non-profit designed to do "good", they are a commercial enterprise designed to make money.
I'm sure we would all want porsche to sell their cars for $50, and 60" plasma displays for $75, but those companies need to make money too. In a free market economy if a product is overpriced, then people won't buy it. Since it has a 70%+ market share, then I would guess they are doing the right thing...
Verizon is phasing out DSL in my neighborhood in Westchester County, and will be starting to drag FIOS to our houses next month (rates 5-30mb/sec) for the same price as DSL, as well as the ability to have 4 digital phone lines. I live at the extreme end of DSL, so get 768 (but since my cable line is currently run across my back yard (draped over the fence for over a year despite many calls) by the idiots at Cablevision, I wouldn't trust them with my data.
I did, when it became too goofy to do KVM switching with a bluetooth mouse. The usb/bluetooth adapter in the KVM doesn't seem to work real well. I found that bluetooth just didn't perform in this setup as well as a wired mouse so I switched back. On the other hand I do love my bluetooth mouse with my powerbook (the BT-500).
But a VirtualPC (owned now by MS who owns all those tricks) can have a direct access to a real pentium (rather than emulation). This would be different than WINE, since the vendor who owns the OS would make it.
Point 2 really applies to professional level software, rather than consumer (how many people bought webobjects, DVD Studio Pro, Motion or FCP HD for their own home use [other than me I guess])
They're creating "Replicators"! Although lego based ones should be easier to destroy (and presumably will only go on feeding rampages to eat plastic bricks).
Even worse, if he didn't read/understand the contract, that does not bode well for either software development or medicine. As both a ADC member and a physician, reading COMPLETELY is very important. In medicine, understanding contracts (how you get paid/not sued...) is very important. Also just brushing off all those warnings (reading superficially through studies...) gets patients killed (or worse).
While I agree destroying his future medical career, any criminal record other than minor vehicular stuff, will severely limit (if not eliminate) his ability to ever practice. Apple has to set a precedent (the next guy might not be a med student), otherwise everyone will do it.
As to all those people who note that anyone can sign up for $500, this is true (I'm sure microsoft's mac BU has it), but you do so by agreeing to an NDA. It's not your material to decide to obey/disobey the NDA. Apple has the right to protect its IP, just as you as a patient can protect your personal information (although don't get me started on HIPPA), so if you don't want to play by their rules, don't play.
If he decides to continue with medicine, and (is convicted he could only do) does research, he will learn that again sharing/stealing IP gets you "de-funded" rapidly.
Uh, keynote demolishes powerpoint in quality of screen display. However, it lacks such basics as lines with arrows (easily), Multiple bullet text boxes (because people never have comparisons on screen), auto-scaled slides (it simply doesn't work if you make a slide at 1024x768 and try and show it on a 800x600 projector; powerpoint does a better job. However, I do use keynote when I have simple slides which need kick-but look-and-feel.
I don't want major feature bloat, but the basic drawing tools that Macdraw had in 1984 would be appreciated...
I agree. Of course, that is the big drawback of appliances, that you can't customize the interface (like the BMW iDrive for instance). Also, interfaces that work for one application (toaster ovens) would not work well for others (driving)...
I'd rather have an XM or Sirrus reciever, although I am sure the technology currently wouldn't fit, but as someone mentioned, the whole reason to have an iPod is so that you don't have to listen to crappy programming on FM (NPR, etc, excused).
This almost sounds like a faulty needle (or the thinnest needle I have ever heard of). I am a physician at a NYC public hospital, which until recently the docs did their own phlebotomy, so I have done thousands of sticks (IV's, blood draws...). I have never heard of a needle breaking (in fact I have seen "real" phlebotomists bend the needle for "special" blood draws. It is very hard to break the malleable stainless steel of a needle (in the early HIV era, there used to be cutters on the sharps boxes, which took a fair amount of force to cut).
As for a needle in the artery, that's no big deal (as the nurse above stated). We do that all the time routinely (as a test, not accidentally) either with a needle for an arterial-blood-gas sampling or an IV for an arterial line (for blood pressure monitoring in the ICU). As was stated above, you simply hold pressure.
As for all the people who complain about trainees, half the problem is the patient who makes the trainee even more nervous than they already are. In fact I can't tell you how many patients seem to want to try and psych me out, while drawing blood (and I'm experienced) "you'll never get blood from me.. Oh, you'll never get blood the way you do it...." as I have a needle 2 inches from their arm... If you do this to a student, they'll get shaky (albeit this does make you "right", but you also have holes in your body); I just ignore them and get the blood anyway (which is 3/4 of the secret to success).
Every vein in every patient is different, and techniques that work in 1 may not work in another patient. I have seen senior phlebotomists miss and cause large hematomas, and I have seen the medical student get the vein afterwards; part of it is luck, patient positioning, etc...
And for all the lay-people who are thinking it is so easy (i.e. "I can't believe they screwed it up"), any time you want to come down to my hospital and try drawing blood on an 80 year old diabetic on dialysis, a heroin/cocaine addict, dehydrated nursing home patients, etc...
I have definately found cases where YUM didn't handle the dependencies. (found the same in fink as well), and most package managers are like this (fedora core 2 has driven me crazy a few times). The problem with all these shared libraries and interdependencies, is they are getting WAAAAY too complex.
When most users want an app, they want the app, not to spend a couple of hours figuring out a bug in the dependency train. Unfortunately, in a free-software world, there are no market forces to incite developers to change (similar issue is documentation on apps) these complexities. It is very easy to cause ripples in the chain with a new release of one of the apps in the chain. This makes debugging things like YUM very hard, and "put-offing" for the average user. I agree it is better than no package manager, but it has a ways to go.
Of course their life expectancy was about 30, so we can't be sure what happens when women do not ovulate/menstruate. The current thinking is that it will increase a risk of uterine cancer (since you don't "recycle" your uterine lining every month), however the shorter term studies seem to be
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I am an internist, but we deal a lot with cardiac surgery patients.
A major problem with continous flow would seem to be the diastolic part of the cardiac cycle (when the heart is refilling) is critical for back-flow from the body (arteries do not have valves) into the coronary artieres (the arteries that feed the heart). The aorta (main artery from the heart to the body) is elastic, so a large bolus (fluid surge) of blood is ejected into the aorta, stretching the aorta during systole (contraction of the heart). When the heart then relaxes (diastole) the stretched aorta recoils, and squeezes blood both forward and backwards. The heart has an output check valve at the aorta (aortic valve) which prevents it from completely flowing back; however a small takeoff (the sinus of valsalva) allows the blood to surge into the coronary arteries, and since the heart is relaxed, flow all the way to the muscle of the heart. I don't know if someone has looked into coronary blood flow during these continous pumps, but it might be useful to see, since these hearts are in bad enough shape without becoming ischemic (oxygen starved)
Interestingly the government is allowed to look at your health records as part of the patriot act without your knowledge/permission, but as a practicing doctor I am forbidden from doing the same in the care of patients (except under very specific circumstances) by HIPPA.
Apparently preventing people dying from terrorism is more important than preventing them from dying for good old fashioned disease!
I think the language is ambigous, if you read the spec sheet (pdf) the language is specifically The
liquid cooling system is also controlled by Mac OS X, which dynamically adjusts the
flow of the fluid and the speed of the fans based on the amount of heat being
generated.". This would imply that the flow is not controlled by changing the fan speed. While your technical description seems correct given the picture, the language is a tad more confusing. We'll have to wait and see when apple puts out a more technical document on how it works.
Uh if you want a web interface, doesn't this imply you are at a computer (regardless of what screen it is displayed on), so how does this get around "has no display or remote - need to go to the computer to change songs".
As a physician let me address the death certificate in actual practice. We often are limited in what we put as the "actual" cause of death. For instance if someone with cancer dies of sepsis (overwhelming infection), very few physicians put that as the root cause, as sepsis is a "preventable disease" (those quotes are the fingers-in-the-air-around-the-word-sarcastic type) and if put, would (at least here in NYC) get you an investigation by the medical examiners office (OCME), which ultimately would agree that the death was just the end of this patient's illness, but a bother for everyone involved. Even worse the family can't get the body fr a funeral until the OCME is done with their investigation/autopsy. So the cause of death for this patient we would probably be something like "cardiopulmonary arrest secondary to immunosupression from ". This is true and meaningless (since everyone ultimately dies of cardiopulmonary arrest, since that is one of the definitions of clnical death).
It's annoying, since you realize that we are deliberately obfuscating information (the actual cause of death would be written in the medical chart's death note) , but that is the reality of medical care. You are correct that we wouldn't write "old age" as that is too non-medical (even at 120yo you'll still die of something) so we would hopefully have some more detail than that.
How about adding a model ALCM on the wing pylons. Shouldn't be hard to rig a remote firing mechanism, which would look pretty realistic coming off the plan in flight.
The weight of 2.6Oz (73g) wouldn't be a big drain on the plane. A small amount of fireproofing to the blast area would help as well.
Another nice variation would be to modify this to look like the EB52 in the Dale Brown novels
Since hardware is becoming a commodity, and the budgets for these types of movies is huge (finding nemo production budget ~$94M, and shrek2 was ~$70M according to www.the-numbers.com) and at the price of a simple blade server (figure $2000-3000 for a 2xXeon-2 ghz/1gb ram) you can buy a substantial render farm if you are the contract render house for a film like this.
The security and copyright issues are too big, compared to the low cost (for them) of a render farm. The other costs of a movie outweigh the headaches of distributed rendering with "the public".
You can't have the release date of your movie slip because the latest internet worm is loose, and took out 50% of your "farm" users.
Many plastics are fairly resistant to acidic environments and sulfur aren't they? Isn't this why toys like this last for hundreds of years? I realize that many plastics have different chemical characteristics, but aren't the majority pretty inert? Someone out there with some plastics chemistry knowledge like to weigh in?
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I think an important item to add is that the case of a mini is useless in a consumer video/audio stack. It would HAVE to be the top item (unless you like precariously balancing other components on your mini). There is a reason that all those components are essentially the same width, and that's that they stack.
I'm sure we would all want porsche to sell their cars for $50, and 60" plasma displays for $75, but those companies need to make money too. In a free market economy if a product is overpriced, then people won't buy it. Since it has a 70%+ market share, then I would guess they are doing the right thing...
Verizon is phasing out DSL in my neighborhood in Westchester County, and will be starting to drag FIOS to our houses next month (rates 5-30mb/sec) for the same price as DSL, as well as the ability to have 4 digital phone lines. I live at the extreme end of DSL, so get 768 (but since my cable line is currently run across my back yard (draped over the fence for over a year despite many calls) by the idiots at Cablevision, I wouldn't trust them with my data.
I did, when it became too goofy to do KVM switching with a bluetooth mouse. The usb/bluetooth adapter in the KVM doesn't seem to work real well. I found that bluetooth just didn't perform in this setup as well as a wired mouse so I switched back. On the other hand I do love my bluetooth mouse with my powerbook (the BT-500).
But a VirtualPC (owned now by MS who owns all those tricks) can have a direct access to a real pentium (rather than emulation). This would be different than WINE, since the vendor who owns the OS would make it.
Point 2 really applies to professional level software, rather than consumer (how many people bought webobjects, DVD Studio Pro, Motion or FCP HD for their own home use [other than me I guess])
They're creating "Replicators"! Although lego based ones should be easier to destroy (and presumably will only go on feeding rampages to eat plastic bricks).
Even worse, if he didn't read/understand the contract, that does not bode well for either software development or medicine. As both a ADC member and a physician, reading COMPLETELY is very important. In medicine, understanding contracts (how you get paid/not sued...) is very important. Also just brushing off all those warnings (reading superficially through studies...) gets patients killed (or worse).
While I agree destroying his future medical career, any criminal record other than minor vehicular stuff, will severely limit (if not eliminate) his ability to ever practice. Apple has to set a precedent (the next guy might not be a med student), otherwise everyone will do it.
As to all those people who note that anyone can sign up for $500, this is true (I'm sure microsoft's mac BU has it), but you do so by agreeing to an NDA. It's not your material to decide to obey/disobey the NDA. Apple has the right to protect its IP, just as you as a patient can protect your personal information (although don't get me started on HIPPA), so if you don't want to play by their rules, don't play.
If he decides to continue with medicine, and (is convicted he could only do) does research, he will learn that again sharing/stealing IP gets you "de-funded" rapidly.
I don't want major feature bloat, but the basic drawing tools that Macdraw had in 1984 would be appreciated...
I agree. Of course, that is the big drawback of appliances, that you can't customize the interface (like the BMW iDrive for instance). Also, interfaces that work for one application (toaster ovens) would not work well for others (driving)...
I'd rather have an XM or Sirrus reciever, although I am sure the technology currently wouldn't fit, but as someone mentioned, the whole reason to have an iPod is so that you don't have to listen to crappy programming on FM (NPR, etc, excused).
And a 333mhz FSB?
As for a needle in the artery, that's no big deal (as the nurse above stated). We do that all the time routinely (as a test, not accidentally) either with a needle for an arterial-blood-gas sampling or an IV for an arterial line (for blood pressure monitoring in the ICU). As was stated above, you simply hold pressure.
As for all the people who complain about trainees, half the problem is the patient who makes the trainee even more nervous than they already are. In fact I can't tell you how many patients seem to want to try and psych me out, while drawing blood (and I'm experienced) "you'll never get blood from me.. Oh, you'll never get blood the way you do it...." as I have a needle 2 inches from their arm... If you do this to a student, they'll get shaky (albeit this does make you "right", but you also have holes in your body); I just ignore them and get the blood anyway (which is 3/4 of the secret to success).
Every vein in every patient is different, and techniques that work in 1 may not work in another patient. I have seen senior phlebotomists miss and cause large hematomas, and I have seen the medical student get the vein afterwards; part of it is luck, patient positioning, etc...
And for all the lay-people who are thinking it is so easy (i.e. "I can't believe they screwed it up"), any time you want to come down to my hospital and try drawing blood on an 80 year old diabetic on dialysis, a heroin/cocaine addict, dehydrated nursing home patients, etc...
When most users want an app, they want the app, not to spend a couple of hours figuring out a bug in the dependency train. Unfortunately, in a free-software world, there are no market forces to incite developers to change (similar issue is documentation on apps) these complexities. It is very easy to cause ripples in the chain with a new release of one of the apps in the chain. This makes debugging things like YUM very hard, and "put-offing" for the average user. I agree it is better than no package manager, but it has a ways to go.
Of course their life expectancy was about 30, so we can't be sure what happens when women do not ovulate/menstruate. The current thinking is that it will increase a risk of uterine cancer (since you don't "recycle" your uterine lining every month), however the shorter term studies seem to be
A major problem with continous flow would seem to be the diastolic part of the cardiac cycle (when the heart is refilling) is critical for back-flow from the body (arteries do not have valves) into the coronary artieres (the arteries that feed the heart). The aorta (main artery from the heart to the body) is elastic, so a large bolus (fluid surge) of blood is ejected into the aorta, stretching the aorta during systole (contraction of the heart). When the heart then relaxes (diastole) the stretched aorta recoils, and squeezes blood both forward and backwards. The heart has an output check valve at the aorta (aortic valve) which prevents it from completely flowing back; however a small takeoff (the sinus of valsalva) allows the blood to surge into the coronary arteries, and since the heart is relaxed, flow all the way to the muscle of the heart. I don't know if someone has looked into coronary blood flow during these continous pumps, but it might be useful to see, since these hearts are in bad enough shape without becoming ischemic (oxygen starved)
Apparently preventing people dying from terrorism is more important than preventing them from dying for good old fashioned disease!
I think the language is ambigous, if you read the spec sheet (pdf) the language is specifically The liquid cooling system is also controlled by Mac OS X, which dynamically adjusts the flow of the fluid and the speed of the fans based on the amount of heat being generated.". This would imply that the flow is not controlled by changing the fan speed. While your technical description seems correct given the picture, the language is a tad more confusing. We'll have to wait and see when apple puts out a more technical document on how it works.
Uh if you want a web interface, doesn't this imply you are at a computer (regardless of what screen it is displayed on), so how does this get around "has no display or remote - need to go to the computer to change songs".
It's annoying, since you realize that we are deliberately obfuscating information (the actual cause of death would be written in the medical chart's death note) , but that is the reality of medical care. You are correct that we wouldn't write "old age" as that is too non-medical (even at 120yo you'll still die of something) so we would hopefully have some more detail than that.
The weight of 2.6Oz (73g) wouldn't be a big drain on the plane. A small amount of fireproofing to the blast area would help as well.
Another nice variation would be to modify this to look like the EB52 in the Dale Brown novels
On the deck of the USS Intrepid museum in New York City (you can walk right up to it...) see it Here
The security and copyright issues are too big, compared to the low cost (for them) of a render farm. The other costs of a movie outweigh the headaches of distributed rendering with "the public".
You can't have the release date of your movie slip because the latest internet worm is loose, and took out 50% of your "farm" users.
Many plastics are fairly resistant to acidic environments and sulfur aren't they? Isn't this why toys like this last for hundreds of years? I realize that many plastics have different chemical characteristics, but aren't the majority pretty inert? Someone out there with some plastics chemistry knowledge like to weigh in?
Yes, DOE is the Federal Government's Department of Energy. Oak Ridge is a large federal govt. lab.