Keep in mind that $20K a year can be CHEAP for a medical billing system. And while most docs are likely to be gunshy about using FOSS before it's proven, they most certainly DO care about $20K -- let alone the $150K that some of the larger practices are shelling out. Some very good tech people are beginning to recomment FOSS wherever possible, and some of them will have earned the doctors trusts. We'll see some rollouts, and it'll be interesting to see how that affects the industry as a whole. Keep in mind that while it hasn't happened yet, some of the high dollar charges are going to go away, insurance companies are looking more and more closely at medical bills. It's an important step -- and it's a da*n good thing!
Particularly given that we don't know if he left the spool on his IDE drive (fragmented) and copied it to (a presumably contiguous section of) his SCSI drive.
Frankly that's the ONLY way these numbers make sense.
Yes: SCSI can be faster -- but in my experience it's very rarely more than 10-20% for middle of the road scsi vs ide mainstream cheap (often very close to top of the line!)
Found one study that did the IDE RAID vs SCSI SLED comparison.
Keep in mind whole chapters are often photocopied as a reference for a class. How is this so different than one song from an album?
Okay -- I'll give it to you: It's been common practice for a long time -- and isn't threatining to force a change in the business model of a multi billion dollar industry.
Sorry to spoil your rationale -- but Florida taxes corporate income. It's simply individuals that don't pay income tax.
(Self-Employed Florida resident who has chosen NOT to incorporate his company -- gee I wonder why?)
Because it refreshed my appropriate vocabulary for discussing "new SCO"/Caldera.
They're dirty little liars aren't they, yes!
We hates them and their nasty little sayings my precious . . . yes we hates them.
And cell phones cost a lot more than a land line phone as well. This does something different, may I point out again. NO Monthly fees with this service.
BTW - to parent: You can get a cisco ata-186 for about $150
FWD is one way for SIP users to interconnect, this could well be another. Grandstream's are cheapie ip phones, but from what I read on asterisk's mailing list - they do work pretty well for the simple stuff. VOIP/will/ happen -- the protocols need to catch up -- with QOS priority usage, nat traversal issues etc. IPV6 would make these things easy, but even without it people will find a way to make things work. Keep in mind -- people may well buy a pair of these as a "free talk" solution on a temporary basis, but then move on to more sophisticated usage. Grab one of these, set up asterisk http://asterisk.org w/ a one port fxo (connects computer to a phone line for incoming/outgoing calls) card - and you instantly gain a lot of flexibility. This WILL happen -- it's only a matter of WHEN it will happen.
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Keep in mind that $20K a year can be CHEAP for a medical billing system. And while most docs are likely to be gunshy about using FOSS before it's proven, they most certainly DO care about $20K -- let alone the $150K that some of the larger practices are shelling out. Some very good tech people are beginning to recomment FOSS wherever possible, and some of them will have earned the doctors trusts. We'll see some rollouts, and it'll be interesting to see how that affects the industry as a whole. Keep in mind that while it hasn't happened yet, some of the high dollar charges are going to go away, insurance companies are looking more and more closely at medical bills. It's an important step -- and it's a da*n good thing!
Particularly given that we don't know if he left the spool on his IDE drive (fragmented) and copied it to (a presumably contiguous section of) his SCSI drive.
Frankly that's the ONLY way these numbers make sense.
Yes: SCSI can be faster -- but in my experience it's very rarely more than 10-20% for middle of the road scsi vs ide mainstream cheap (often very close to top of the line!)
Found one study that did the IDE RAID vs SCSI SLED comparison.
Keep in mind whole chapters are often photocopied as a reference for a class. How is this so different than one song from an album? Okay -- I'll give it to you: It's been common practice for a long time -- and isn't threatining to force a change in the business model of a multi billion dollar industry.
Sorry to spoil your rationale -- but Florida taxes corporate income. It's simply individuals that don't pay income tax. (Self-Employed Florida resident who has chosen NOT to incorporate his company -- gee I wonder why?)
Because it refreshed my appropriate vocabulary for discussing "new SCO"/Caldera. They're dirty little liars aren't they, yes! We hates them and their nasty little sayings my precious . . . yes we hates them.
And cell phones cost a lot more than a land line phone as well. This does something different, may I point out again. NO Monthly fees with this service. BTW - to parent: You can get a cisco ata-186 for about $150
FWD is one way for SIP users to interconnect, this could well be another. Grandstream's are cheapie ip phones, but from what I read on asterisk's mailing list - they do work pretty well for the simple stuff. VOIP /will/ happen -- the protocols need to catch up -- with QOS priority usage, nat traversal issues etc. IPV6 would make these things easy, but even without it people will find a way to make things work. Keep in mind -- people may well buy a pair of these as a "free talk" solution on a temporary basis, but then move on to more sophisticated usage. Grab one of these, set up asterisk http://asterisk.org w/ a one port fxo (connects computer to a phone line for incoming/outgoing calls) card - and you instantly gain a lot of flexibility. This WILL happen -- it's only a matter of WHEN it will happen.