If Florida taught us anything is that people can screw up even the simplest of voting tasks. Even the optical readers had an undervote - just smaller than the punch card system. Interpretation of "intent" of the voter varied so widely that 100% accuracy was clearly not accomplished. We won't even discuss the voters disenfranchised because their absentee ballots were not properly post marked (like the voter has control over that). An electronic system with a printed record that the person actually verifies is potentially more accurate then paper and pencil.
You left out the part of using monopolistic practices to prevent competition used by microsoft. Given the penalties extracted to date, it appears the crime did pay.
I'm a neurologist with a past history of programming. There are no windows systems that I am aware of that perform direct patient care functions.
I am in the middle of the largest medical center which has departments in the top 10 US News and World Reports.
The IT system that everyone uses is, however, completely windows based. The systems we use to access patient labs, reports, etc are Windows based. Windows users, but not mac or linux users, can access the data from home/office using VPN technology. I can see MRI, CT, and radiology online but I am unable to look for the scans by anything other that those that are patient related - looking for scans I ordered or having a patient list for me is too complicated for these systems. Lab systems are the sameway. Incredible, there are no functions like tell me what labs are new, tell me my patient labs, how about a screen with all of todays labs.
As you can see, we are way behind in using computer technology. They will wake up to the benefits of different type of systems about 10 years from now.
The smart thing they did was see that the GUI would take off.
They then got Steve to sign off on them using it.
They they made it hard to impossible for competitors to match them by not giving them all of the hooks needed in Windows. They used additional monopolistic tactics as well (as found in Federal court).
Given the overall cost to the company, it is clear that crimem in this case, does pay.
The only product which they managed to sell which was superior for its time was Microsoft Office which benefited from both the head start on the GUI and from inside operating system information.
The populations are about 60 million versus 290 million which is about 5 times less. UK bought 450,000 songs versus 2.5 million or about one sixth. UK is a little behind per capita but it has been only one week. We will need a few months to see how it settles out.
The key is not if the code is open source where anyone can submit modifications, the key is that the source code be open so anyone can verify any potential issues with the software.
A second written record that is the official vote is also key. This way you can routinely recount a number of boxes to look for programming errors and actually conduct a 100% recount if required.
I think moving up to spread sheets, followed by macros in spread sheets or word processing documents may be a better way for your mom to get down some of the basics.
Be a chemical engineer by training and now a physician, I have not studies OS design. Can you explain something about NT, XP or any WIN variation that is superior to *NIX in design?
The study actually looked at medical errors each year and did not determine if the medical errors were in any way significant. i.e. if a patient did not get a med at the time they were suppose to because they were getting a test, that was an error. This error was counted the same as a patient getting the wrong medication - a much more serious situation.
Mistakes do happen. Significant mistakes are fortunately quite rare.
Most lawsuits do not come to trial but cost thousands to defend.
Many lawsuits are valid, many are not.
A friend of mine had his insurance spend $35,000 before the judge threw out the case. The judge actually said the case was so bogus that he thought it was reasonable for my friend to sue the plantiff. The problem is these cases are hard to win and the plantiff has no money. Now if you could sue the lawyer for bringing a bogus case that could be a deterent.
It seems to me that the majority of posters are upset with the concept that their civil liberty is infringed by either having to 1) pay for a breathalyzer in their car or 2) have to use a breathalyzer in their care. How many deaths per year is your civil liberty worth?
I do not see anyone complaining that their car has a bumper which they may not need if they do not have a car accident?
How about the cost of seat belts?
Personally if the drunks only killed themselvers, it would not be a public health problem. But being a doc who has worked in the public hospital ERs, I have seen too many families destroyed by the drunk drivers hitting those cars full of people who were not drinking but only in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Personally, I would prefer an impairment test prior to starting your car so if your reaction time was deemed to slow to drive, you could not start your car whether it was from alcohol, prescription drugs, lack of sleep, etc.
It is interesting that the Treo 300 I bought in December 2003 did not mention Mac support. It syncs just fine. If it did not work, I would have returned it and my wife's new phone. It appears their plan to drop Mac support has been in the works for at least a few months given their box labeling.
I have been using Turbo Tax on the Mac (formerly Macintax) for 10 years or so. I have been incredibly pleased with the product. Given the importance of doing your taxes right and given the fact they have corrected the issue in question.. I would reward them by continuing to be their customer.
Don't you want to support companies that listen to their customer base and respond in a positive manner?
The OS share at my web site, www.loftusmd.com, (a neurologically oriented site which should be OS unbiased) for December 2003 is as follows.
Win XP 39.6%
Win 98 18.9%
Win 2k 18.4%
Win ME 7.4%
Win NT 3.1%
Mac OS 2.2%
Mac X 1.7%
Win 95 1.5%
webTV 0.5%
Linux 0.5%
Others less than 0.1 % include Sun, Windows 3.xx, Free BSD, OS/2, CPM, HP Unix.
I think it is interesting how poorly they have done replacing older Win systems until Win XP.
The post is about caffeine withdrawal headaches. These do exist and is recognized in the latest edition of the International Classification of Headache Disease (see guidelines section of the International Headache Society .
The criteria require 4 things.
Headache that is bilateral or pulsatin/throbbing.
Caffeine consumption > 200 mg/ day for 2 weeks that is interupted or delayed.
Headache develops within 24 hours of the delay and stops within one hour of caffeine.
Headache goes away with 7 days if all caffeine intake is stopped.
Of course, one could have migraines that are kicked off by caffiene as well. You can see for migraine info .
First time poster - forgive me if I break some/. protocol
Medical-legal disclaimer - One cannot diagnose and treat over the internet. The State of Texas does not allow me to treat anyone not seen by me in the state of Texas.
From your post it appears to do suffer from Caffeine withdrawal headaches. The best advice is to go caffeine free. If you do this on your own, then you can expect the headache to last less than one week. If you see your friendly neurologist, then he or she can give you medication to make the headache shorter.
You can learn more about headaches in general at my web site www.loftusmd.com . You can learn about the classification of headache (Caffeine withdrawal is International Classification of Headache Disorders Edition 2 8.4.1 at the IHS website.
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If Florida taught us anything is that people can screw up even the simplest of voting tasks. Even the optical readers had an undervote - just smaller than the punch card system. Interpretation of "intent" of the voter varied so widely that 100% accuracy was clearly not accomplished. We won't even discuss the voters disenfranchised because their absentee ballots were not properly post marked (like the voter has control over that). An electronic system with a printed record that the person actually verifies is potentially more accurate then paper and pencil.
You left out the part of using monopolistic practices to prevent competition used by microsoft. Given the penalties extracted to date, it appears the crime did pay.
I am in the middle of the largest medical center which has departments in the top 10 US News and World Reports. The IT system that everyone uses is, however, completely windows based. The systems we use to access patient labs, reports, etc are Windows based. Windows users, but not mac or linux users, can access the data from home/office using VPN technology. I can see MRI, CT, and radiology online but I am unable to look for the scans by anything other that those that are patient related - looking for scans I ordered or having a patient list for me is too complicated for these systems. Lab systems are the sameway. Incredible, there are no functions like tell me what labs are new, tell me my patient labs, how about a screen with all of todays labs.
As you can see, we are way behind in using computer technology. They will wake up to the benefits of different type of systems about 10 years from now.
The smart thing they did was see that the GUI would take off. They then got Steve to sign off on them using it. They they made it hard to impossible for competitors to match them by not giving them all of the hooks needed in Windows. They used additional monopolistic tactics as well (as found in Federal court). Given the overall cost to the company, it is clear that crimem in this case, does pay. The only product which they managed to sell which was superior for its time was Microsoft Office which benefited from both the head start on the GUI and from inside operating system information.
Your math is a little off.
The populations are about 60 million versus 290 million which is about 5 times less. UK bought 450,000 songs versus 2.5 million or about one sixth. UK is a little behind per capita but it has been only one week. We will need a few months to see how it settles out.
The key is not if the code is open source where anyone can submit modifications, the key is that the source code be open so anyone can verify any potential issues with the software. A second written record that is the official vote is also key. This way you can routinely recount a number of boxes to look for programming errors and actually conduct a 100% recount if required.
I think moving up to spread sheets, followed by macros in spread sheets or word processing documents may be a better way for your mom to get down some of the basics.
Be a chemical engineer by training and now a physician, I have not studies OS design. Can you explain something about NT, XP or any WIN variation that is superior to *NIX in design?
OK you convinced me. Mac OS X answers all the needs. Runs the mainstream stuff and has the *Nix underpinnings.
Mistakes do happen. Significant mistakes are fortunately quite rare.
Most lawsuits do not come to trial but cost thousands to defend.
Many lawsuits are valid, many are not.
A friend of mine had his insurance spend $35,000 before the judge threw out the case. The judge actually said the case was so bogus that he thought it was reasonable for my friend to sue the plantiff. The problem is these cases are hard to win and the plantiff has no money. Now if you could sue the lawyer for bringing a bogus case that could be a deterent.
It seems to me that the majority of posters are upset with the concept that their civil liberty is infringed by either having to 1) pay for a breathalyzer in their car or 2) have to use a breathalyzer in their care. How many deaths per year is your civil liberty worth? I do not see anyone complaining that their car has a bumper which they may not need if they do not have a car accident? How about the cost of seat belts? Personally if the drunks only killed themselvers, it would not be a public health problem. But being a doc who has worked in the public hospital ERs, I have seen too many families destroyed by the drunk drivers hitting those cars full of people who were not drinking but only in the wrong place at the wrong time. Personally, I would prefer an impairment test prior to starting your car so if your reaction time was deemed to slow to drive, you could not start your car whether it was from alcohol, prescription drugs, lack of sleep, etc.
It is interesting that the Treo 300 I bought in December 2003 did not mention Mac support. It syncs just fine. If it did not work, I would have returned it and my wife's new phone. It appears their plan to drop Mac support has been in the works for at least a few months given their box labeling.
I have been using Turbo Tax on the Mac (formerly Macintax) for 10 years or so. I have been incredibly pleased with the product. Given the importance of doing your taxes right and given the fact they have corrected the issue in question.. I would reward them by continuing to be their customer. Don't you want to support companies that listen to their customer base and respond in a positive manner?
Win XP 39.6%
Win 98 18.9%
Win 2k 18.4%
Win ME 7.4%
Win NT 3.1%
Mac OS 2.2%
Mac X 1.7%
Win 95 1.5%
webTV 0.5%
Linux 0.5%
Others less than 0.1 % include Sun, Windows 3.xx, Free BSD, OS/2, CPM, HP Unix.
I think it is interesting how poorly they have done replacing older Win systems until Win XP.
The post is about caffeine withdrawal headaches. These do exist and is recognized in the latest edition of the International Classification of Headache Disease (see guidelines section of the International Headache Society . The criteria require 4 things. Headache that is bilateral or pulsatin/throbbing. Caffeine consumption > 200 mg/ day for 2 weeks that is interupted or delayed. Headache develops within 24 hours of the delay and stops within one hour of caffeine. Headache goes away with 7 days if all caffeine intake is stopped. Of course, one could have migraines that are kicked off by caffiene as well. You can see for migraine info .
First time poster - forgive me if I break some /. protocol
Medical-legal disclaimer - One cannot diagnose and treat over the internet. The State of Texas does not allow me to treat anyone not seen by me in the state of Texas.
From your post it appears to do suffer from Caffeine withdrawal headaches. The best advice is to go caffeine free. If you do this on your own, then you can expect the headache to last less than one week. If you see your friendly neurologist, then he or she can give you medication to make the headache shorter.
You can learn more about headaches in general at my web site www.loftusmd.com . You can learn about the classification of headache (Caffeine withdrawal is International Classification of Headache Disorders Edition 2 8.4.1 at the IHS website.