Apple is expanding to more networks because it apparently is out from under the AT&T exclusivity period. In other countries where Apple has gone multi-carrier - their market share has expanded. It will expand here as well. Most of the switchers on verizon will come from windows mobile, palm and blackberry since android users are still locked into their 2 year contracts. I do expect a lot of users with wait for the next model in the June/July time frame.
The rating is SEER and has to do with the ratio of BTUs (common measurement of heat transfer) and Watt-hours (common measure of electric usage). See posts above. The ratio works out to between 3 and 4 units of heat moved for every until of electric power consumed. We are not up to 10 to 1 yet (SEER of about 30).
Actually - you have it backwards. Let's say the SEER rating of your air conditioner is 12. This means you move 12 BTU(thermal) for every 1 watt-hours of electric energy used. The energy equivalent of 1 BTU(thermal) is.29 watt-hours. You therefore move 12 x 0.29 watt hours (thermal) for every watt-hour (electric) or 3.48.
At least in the US, most phones are locked into 2 year contracts. The incredibly high customer satisfaction rate of iPhones (74%) will limit the number of people who migrate away from the platform. #2 in Customer Satisfaction is RIM at 43%. It is unlikely a highly satisfied person with one system will change to another system unless forced by employer, provider, etc. For those who currently use the iPhone, it seems unlikely any of the above will occur.
The market is still not fully mature with 40% of Americans owning Smartphones but over the next year or two there will be many more people replacing their current smart phones than entering the smart phone market. Those unsatisfied with their current offering are the ones most likely to move to something new. Therefore, it seems the Android is much more likely to kill off market share from everyone except iPhone. Since most smartphone manufacturers need to use someone else's software (I mean the # of manufacturers since they only have 23% market share between them), I suspect this means Window Mobile.
This is of course a US View and the market is much more open in most of the World. The key to maintaining market share is customer satisfaction. How many sidekicks would be sold now even if T-Mobile had them up for sale?
The peak power requirement goes beyond the time the sun shines by a few hours. Therefore, the user base is paying for having the same amount of power available but using it for less hours. This saves fuel cost but not construction cost. The cost for peak MWH goes up as solar panels come online. This is different from concentrated solar plants that have the ability to store some heat and produce for a few hours after the sun goes down.
Actually the studies published (See New England Journal of Medicine but I do not have the exact article) shows that most preventative medicine does not save money. Immunizations do (except maybe Shingles vaccine), prenatal care is borderline.
Civil engineering (clean water, sewer systems) are highly cost effective but this is not an issue in the US.
Lifestyle changes (stop smoking, lose weight, exercise, etc) are highly cost effective since all of those studies assume no cost except an occasional counseling session.
If someone is trying to claim preventative medicine saves money, then they either know they are lying or should know they are lying.
The medical savings theory rests of 2 premises. That low cost areas of medical care can translate to lower cost in high cost areas. This presumes the genetic makeup of the two populations are similar (they are not), that cultural issues are the same (they are not), and that all cost differences is due to greed of MDs, hospitals, and other health care providers.
None of the democratic proposals addresses the unique legal system that is probably responsible for a large amount of the excess US cost versus other countries but this is my guess as a neurologist as I see the extreme defensive medicine practiced in headache care which is 50% of my practice.
Actual there is a lack of standards. There is no standard, as far as I am aware, as to how an office visit note would be exchanged. There are standards for labs (HL7), radiology images (DICOM) but no standards for radiology reports. From being in the hospital, there are consults, things like EKG, admissions histories, discharges, nursing notes, med sheets, vital sheets, etc. all of which need standards for transfer. More importantly, if we have access to all of this info is how to authenticate the transfers. I would not want a central storehouse to have all of the information but rather it should still go from place to place as authorized by the patient.
Another issue that no one in government wants to address (by the lawyers, for the lawyers) is the issue of malpractice law suits. Some patient will have a nursing note buried in their chart that mentions something that some lawyer will insist I should have read if I wanted to know everything about my patient before I treated them. It is not unusual for hospital admissions to produces hundreds of pages per admission and there is no one who is going to read and remember everything from each page.
IANAL but the basic concept of the antitrust case is that Microsoft penalized vendors who did not agree to be a microsoft only shop by charging more per copy of windows if they sold systems that did not have windows. Then they did not allow the OEMs to put other browsers on the system. They did not allow OEMs to remove IE (claiming it was not possible).
If Apple goes to Walmart and says, "if you want to sell the iPod, you cannot carry the Zune" or if Apple goes to Walmart and says, "if you do not carry the Zune, you will get an additional $10 off each iPod you sell", then that would be illegal. I also believe that if they sold the iPods at a loss once they had a majority share in the market to put competitors out of business, that this would also be illegal. Being a monopoly, by itself, is not illegal.
Hate to reply to myself but given the parent of my post was moded up +5 insightful, and my data shows he is completely wrong (at least at one site with data showing he is wrong), I do not think I deserve to be moded off topic. I therefore figured I needed to clarify.
It's just one sight - my site bellaireneurology.com but here is the data that does not agree with the above (6637 visits over last 30 days)
OS distribution is somewhat different:
Windows 84.72%
Linux 7.38%
Mac 7.05%
iphone + ipod.56%
everything else 0.3%
Browser distribution:
IE 70.60%
Firefox 15.22%
Mozilla 7.29%
Safari 5.71%
Now to answer the question above:
Windows with IE 70.60%
Windows with Firefox 12.96% or 15.55% of Windows users (virtually all desktops)
Since wind energy is mostly intermittent, it ends us displacing natural gas consumption. I think in Texas, the contribution to the base load is something like 8% of nameplate capacity.
Presumably a high power system could move solar power just as effectively. Given the growth curves of solar power in the US, we need to start building these lines for wind and solar now.
When I was referencing the reduction in demands - I was referring to the demands on the electric network. Since the peak demand (4 - 6 pm) extends beyond the hours the PV cells would effectively function, then the network would have to still have a very close peak power requirement for generation and transmission whether the power cells are there to lower the demand during the middle of the day or not.
Many homes also have radiant barriers which block most of the sunlight radiation effect on the roof top.
Actually, solar PV panels would do little to reduce peak power demands. The peak power use of electricity extends beyond the sunlight hours IMHO, high temperature solar thermal, with its ability to store the heat energy through the peak power requirements has more potential.
First for possible bias - I have a business with 6 machines running XP exclusively (2 Fujitsu, 4 Dell) and 2 Macs running Tiger (soon to be Leopard) and XP. Second, I am a physician and in general I hate lawsuits.
If you read the emails, they allowed labeling that had Designed for Windows Vista Basic Logo, Designed for Windows Vista Premium Logo, and then then a Vista Capable logo. Microsoft thought the requirements for the Vista Capable logo is that users "will have a good experience, at least equivalent to Windows XP, when upgraded to Windows Vista."
I think Microsoft will lose on 2 fronts - their technical requirements apparently are having machines that run Windows Vista to perform worst then Windows XP when they indicate their Vista Capable logo should be equivalent. Second, since they were the ones telling the OEMs what the labels were and the requirements for them, then they needed to communicate this to the end user by having a sanctioned straight forward information sheet available at each sales point.
What surprises me most about the emails is how they apparently caved in to Intel when they were aware that they were sacrificing the "Vista Experience" for their future buyers. It is no wonder only 1/3rd or so Window Vista License holders are actually running windows Vista (estimate based on combining netapplications market share for Mac OS X and Windows Vista combined with Steve Job's statement of total Mac OS X installed base and Bill Gates statement of 100,000,000 licenses sold.)
OS X has encryption built into the OS. This is a must for any laptop, IMHO, that contains any data of value. If you have a hard disk crash (as I did when my laptop and hard disk crashed from about 4 feet to the floor), then nothing is recoverable. Hence a good backup and recovery plan is needed.
Probably overkill but I burn data files on a regular basis to DVD in case you want to go back to a prior saved file that has been deleted from the computer. Then clone the hard drive and use backup software to save changes until you are ready to repeat the cycle. It will take a little while to restore your computer if you do crash but given the odds of crash are low, the faster daily backups are much faster which win out over the long run.
It may be that the next OS for Mac will handle the backup, finding files that were previously deleted, and syncing in an automated way. Still waiting to see how they put it all together in practice.
This is off topic but I think the prior post needs a response. In the case of the medical liability malpractice crisis - tort reform in Texas worked as intended. In Texas we were down to 2 insurers - one of which was started by physicians. Since Prop 12 - the number of lawsuits is running about 50% of prior lawsuits which I would interpret as the reasonable cases are probably still being filed and the 50% of nuisance cases are not being filed. The rule change allows unlimited economic damages but limited noneconomic damages to $500,000.
We now have several insurers and the TMLT rates (my insurer) has gone down a total of 29.5% with a sign of more to come. http://www.tmlt.org/newsroom/press/index.html
More important for patients, we see return of high risk specialties (Oby, Neurosurgery) back to areas where they had left.
As a physician, the study stated talks about the cost of malpractice and not the cost of the extra testing that everyone does to prevent law suits.
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Interesting concern. If I use a 10000 word dictionary for the password and use a 10000 list of names plus two numbers, I have 10^10 combinations. I don't think I will randomly hit a real one in my lifetime.
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I do not know how to do the programming but if bogus userids and passwords were entered into the bogus phishing portal, then the cost of doing business for the phishers would get very high. It would be nice for the antivirus software we would buy to allow you to opt in to "punish the phishers." This would give them permission to send your computer the link and code to fill in the phishers web site once identified. Several million useless userid and passwords (created to look legit) should shut them down.
Just to provide some background for readers. The vagus nerve stimulator is implanted in the chest and has wires that leads to the left vagus nerve at the neck. The left vagus nerve was chosen because it was felt to be less likely to affect the heart rate. The device is programmed to deliver impulses on a fixed timing system (30 seconds on, 5 minutes off is one common setting). When used in epilepsy, a second program can be activated by a magnet to stop the seizure when it has already started either by the patient or by a family member. How the device prevents seizures is not clear. During a seizure it probably works by helping to desyncronize the cells of the brain. It is groups of cells firing improperly together that creates the seizure. More on the VNS can be read on my web site here. Physicians treating epilepsy patients noticed mood improvements and the studies to look at depressed patients were started.
Because of the high cost of the device (cost of device, implantation, and programming) the studies in depression have been limited to those patients who have been resistant to multiple depression treatments. That is why when it was approved by the FDA, the patients it was approved for was also limited to this group. This group of patients, are, however, often hospitalized and therefore this treatment could prove to be cost effective. Since psychiatry is not my specialty, neurology is, I have not kept up as much with its use in this area.
The deep brain stimulator is located in the chest and it wire connect to a lead that is placed in different places within the brain depending on the condition being treated. The most common diseases treated with this device is Parkinson's disease and severe essential tremor. Most patients require 2 of these devices (one for the left brain and the other for the right brain) The device is quite effective and greatly improves the quality of life of these patients. In the case of Parkinson's disease, the disease unfortunately continues to progress.
Since they will host frequently used pages on their web site, it is not clear to me that my web stats will be accurate. I can specify if pages are prefetched but if they have chosed to cache a page and then the user clicks on another cached page, it is not clear to me that my web stats will know this.
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Comscore Nov 2010 says there are 15,375,000 users but with Christmas sales - maybe 16-17 million now. Not sure how you define "waaaay"
Apple is expanding to more networks because it apparently is out from under the AT&T exclusivity period. In other countries where Apple has gone multi-carrier - their market share has expanded. It will expand here as well. Most of the switchers on verizon will come from windows mobile, palm and blackberry since android users are still locked into their 2 year contracts. I do expect a lot of users with wait for the next model in the June/July time frame.
The rating is SEER and has to do with the ratio of BTUs (common measurement of heat transfer) and Watt-hours (common measure of electric usage). See posts above. The ratio works out to between 3 and 4 units of heat moved for every until of electric power consumed. We are not up to 10 to 1 yet (SEER of about 30).
Actually - you have it backwards. Let's say the SEER rating of your air conditioner is 12. This means you move 12 BTU(thermal) for every 1 watt-hours of electric energy used. The energy equivalent of 1 BTU(thermal) is .29 watt-hours. You therefore move 12 x 0.29 watt hours (thermal) for every watt-hour (electric) or 3.48.
The market is still not fully mature with 40% of Americans owning Smartphones but over the next year or two there will be many more people replacing their current smart phones than entering the smart phone market. Those unsatisfied with their current offering are the ones most likely to move to something new. Therefore, it seems the Android is much more likely to kill off market share from everyone except iPhone. Since most smartphone manufacturers need to use someone else's software (I mean the # of manufacturers since they only have 23% market share between them), I suspect this means Window Mobile.
This is of course a US View and the market is much more open in most of the World. The key to maintaining market share is customer satisfaction. How many sidekicks would be sold now even if T-Mobile had them up for sale?
Source of data
I guess the 18 million dollar recovery.gov website needs a lot of horsepower to run.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2009/07/18m-being-spent-to-redesign-recoverygov-web-site.html
The peak power requirement goes beyond the time the sun shines by a few hours. Therefore, the user base is paying for having the same amount of power available but using it for less hours. This saves fuel cost but not construction cost. The cost for peak MWH goes up as solar panels come online. This is different from concentrated solar plants that have the ability to store some heat and produce for a few hours after the sun goes down.
Civil engineering (clean water, sewer systems) are highly cost effective but this is not an issue in the US.
Lifestyle changes (stop smoking, lose weight, exercise, etc) are highly cost effective since all of those studies assume no cost except an occasional counseling session.
If someone is trying to claim preventative medicine saves money, then they either know they are lying or should know they are lying.
The medical savings theory rests of 2 premises. That low cost areas of medical care can translate to lower cost in high cost areas. This presumes the genetic makeup of the two populations are similar (they are not), that cultural issues are the same (they are not), and that all cost differences is due to greed of MDs, hospitals, and other health care providers.
None of the democratic proposals addresses the unique legal system that is probably responsible for a large amount of the excess US cost versus other countries but this is my guess as a neurologist as I see the extreme defensive medicine practiced in headache care which is 50% of my practice.
Another issue that no one in government wants to address (by the lawyers, for the lawyers) is the issue of malpractice law suits. Some patient will have a nursing note buried in their chart that mentions something that some lawyer will insist I should have read if I wanted to know everything about my patient before I treated them. It is not unusual for hospital admissions to produces hundreds of pages per admission and there is no one who is going to read and remember everything from each page.
If Apple goes to Walmart and says, "if you want to sell the iPod, you cannot carry the Zune" or if Apple goes to Walmart and says, "if you do not carry the Zune, you will get an additional $10 off each iPod you sell", then that would be illegal. I also believe that if they sold the iPods at a loss once they had a majority share in the market to put competitors out of business, that this would also be illegal. Being a monopoly, by itself, is not illegal.
Hate to reply to myself but given the parent of my post was moded up +5 insightful, and my data shows he is completely wrong (at least at one site with data showing he is wrong), I do not think I deserve to be moded off topic. I therefore figured I needed to clarify.
It's just one sight - my site bellaireneurology.com but here is the data that does not agree with the above (6637 visits over last 30 days) .56%
OS distribution is somewhat different:
Windows 84.72%
Linux 7.38%
Mac 7.05%
iphone + ipod
everything else 0.3%
Browser distribution:
IE 70.60%
Firefox 15.22%
Mozilla 7.29%
Safari 5.71%
Now to answer the question above:
Windows with IE 70.60% Windows with Firefox 12.96% or 15.55% of Windows users (virtually all desktops)
Since wind energy is mostly intermittent, it ends us displacing natural gas consumption. I think in Texas, the contribution to the base load is something like 8% of nameplate capacity.
Presumably a high power system could move solar power just as effectively. Given the growth curves of solar power in the US, we need to start building these lines for wind and solar now.
When I was referencing the reduction in demands - I was referring to the demands on the electric network. Since the peak demand (4 - 6 pm) extends beyond the hours the PV cells would effectively function, then the network would have to still have a very close peak power requirement for generation and transmission whether the power cells are there to lower the demand during the middle of the day or not. Many homes also have radiant barriers which block most of the sunlight radiation effect on the roof top.
Actually, solar PV panels would do little to reduce peak power demands. The peak power use of electricity extends beyond the sunlight hours IMHO, high temperature solar thermal, with its ability to store the heat energy through the peak power requirements has more potential.
If you read the emails, they allowed labeling that had Designed for Windows Vista Basic Logo, Designed for Windows Vista Premium Logo, and then then a Vista Capable logo. Microsoft thought the requirements for the Vista Capable logo is that users "will have a good experience, at least equivalent to Windows XP, when upgraded to Windows Vista."
I think Microsoft will lose on 2 fronts - their technical requirements apparently are having machines that run Windows Vista to perform worst then Windows XP when they indicate their Vista Capable logo should be equivalent. Second, since they were the ones telling the OEMs what the labels were and the requirements for them, then they needed to communicate this to the end user by having a sanctioned straight forward information sheet available at each sales point.
What surprises me most about the emails is how they apparently caved in to Intel when they were aware that they were sacrificing the "Vista Experience" for their future buyers. It is no wonder only 1/3rd or so Window Vista License holders are actually running windows Vista (estimate based on combining netapplications market share for Mac OS X and Windows Vista combined with Steve Job's statement of total Mac OS X installed base and Bill Gates statement of 100,000,000 licenses sold.)
Probably overkill but I burn data files on a regular basis to DVD in case you want to go back to a prior saved file that has been deleted from the computer. Then clone the hard drive and use backup software to save changes until you are ready to repeat the cycle. It will take a little while to restore your computer if you do crash but given the odds of crash are low, the faster daily backups are much faster which win out over the long run.
It may be that the next OS for Mac will handle the backup, finding files that were previously deleted, and syncing in an automated way. Still waiting to see how they put it all together in practice.
This is off topic but I think the prior post needs a response.
In the case of the medical liability malpractice crisis - tort reform in Texas worked as intended. In Texas we were down to 2 insurers - one of which was started by physicians. Since Prop 12 - the number of lawsuits is running about 50% of prior lawsuits which I would interpret as the reasonable cases are probably still being filed and the 50% of nuisance cases are not being filed. The rule change allows unlimited economic damages but limited noneconomic damages to $500,000.
We now have several insurers and the TMLT rates (my insurer) has gone down a total of 29.5% with a sign of more to come. http://www.tmlt.org/newsroom/press/index.html More important for patients, we see return of high risk specialties (Oby, Neurosurgery) back to areas where they had left.
As a physician, the study stated talks about the cost of malpractice and not the cost of the extra testing that everyone does to prevent law suits.
Interesting concern. If I use a 10000 word dictionary for the password and use a 10000 list of names plus two numbers, I have 10^10 combinations. I don't think I will randomly hit a real one in my lifetime.
I do not know how to do the programming but if bogus userids and passwords were entered into the bogus phishing portal, then the cost of doing business for the phishers would get very high. It would be nice for the antivirus software we would buy to allow you to opt in to "punish the phishers." This would give them permission to send your computer the link and code to fill in the phishers web site once identified. Several million useless userid and passwords (created to look legit) should shut them down.
Because of the high cost of the device (cost of device, implantation, and programming) the studies in depression have been limited to those patients who have been resistant to multiple depression treatments. That is why when it was approved by the FDA, the patients it was approved for was also limited to this group. This group of patients, are, however, often hospitalized and therefore this treatment could prove to be cost effective. Since psychiatry is not my specialty, neurology is, I have not kept up as much with its use in this area.
The deep brain stimulator is located in the chest and it wire connect to a lead that is placed in different places within the brain depending on the condition being treated. The most common diseases treated with this device is Parkinson's disease and severe essential tremor. Most patients require 2 of these devices (one for the left brain and the other for the right brain) The device is quite effective and greatly improves the quality of life of these patients. In the case of Parkinson's disease, the disease unfortunately continues to progress.
Since they will host frequently used pages on their web site, it is not clear to me that my web stats will be accurate. I can specify if pages are prefetched but if they have chosed to cache a page and then the user clicks on another cached page, it is not clear to me that my web stats will know this.
My site loftusmd.com is a site for neurology information for patients averaging 750 visitors per day.