Unfortunately, it takes a company as large as Google to be competitive. ATT, Comcast, et al have the infrastructure for this, but not the incentive. The minute a small org comes in and tries to provide higher speed service, then ATT can roll out the higher speed service for less money and destroy that small org with price competition. This isn't direct competition. This is Google being willing to throw away money to shake up some markets, and it shouldn't have to work that way. The governments have granted cable and telcos monopolies, and then failed to regulate them. THAT is a problem.
We can't know the details, because releasing them would be a violation of patient health information privacy laws. So we only get to hear the story from the side of the parents. We do know the physicians at the hospital have diagnosed the child with medical child abuse. A key point form the Slate article someone else linked is that 1 in 10 children who are abused medically, die. It isn't something that is taken lightly.
We're hitting the age where some earlier services are starting to shut down, and that's actually a good thing. It will start a conversation about how much we're willing to trust to "the cloud" and what we're willing to make temporary. Many of us have Kindles, iPhones, Rokus that use content from providers not unlike GameSpy. We need to be willing to say out loud that ownership of these items is now temporary. The sellers of these items need to be more open about that as well.
This will take a long time to catch on. I think it works for people who grew up with video games. I think people who didn't will have a hard time conceptualizing the 180 degree view and translating it into what's actually happening outside the car.
Not surprising, really. The only time companies get punished for non-compliance is when they are the ones accessing protected health information.
No threat of punishment == no compliance.
That's not the case at all. HIPAA makes a distinction between covered entities (usually hospitals, doctors, insurance companies), business associates (people providing services for covered entities such as medical coding, transcription, IT services, etc.) that require access to protected health information, and everyone else who isn't allowed to access protected health information. If a covered entity loses or discloses protected health information, or is breached, that entity is responsible for fines under HIPAA, which are being levied regularly. e.g. http://www.healthcareitnews.co...
There is a law, it's called HIPAA. Healthcare organizations are very cognizant of HIPAA and do work to avoid breaches of healthcare data. The Department of Health and Human Services does hand out significant fines for breaches. http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy... Additionally, for large breaches, healthcare organizations are required to notify prominent news media, which arguably has a larger financial impact than the fines themselves.
The idea of the Nest is that it's going to do something that most people aren't good at doing, which is programming their thermostats. Tech geeks aren't the target market. We already programmed our thermostats and for the most part they work relatively efficiently. It's for my crazy aunt who doesn't have a programmed thermostat and can recoup that $250 by letting some silly device do it for her.
There are also smart added benefits like being able to check on the house remotely when you're out of town to make sure the furnace hasn't failed and your pipes are frozen, etc.
I think cars are a good analogy. I have to find a source for this, so, of now I'm talking out of my rear end, but I believe cars have held steady in price according to inflation. This is counter to most technology which tends to go down, like TVs. The reason is that the technology of the car has been continually improving to match. So, they haven't gone down in cost asa percentage of an average person's income, but that average person gets much more in a car today than in the past. They are crazily more safe, get much better mileage, have comfort features, etc. I think this would be similar. A smart light switch today costs around $50. It's way more than a dumb light switch, but doesn't require any extra wiring and does loads more. You probably can't justify the cost of a system like this based on electricity savings, but for some people, they may be able to justify the cost based on convenience and features. Advances like Intel is making, may tilt that in favor of vein more cost competitive.
I do want my fridge online. We went out of town once and the kids didn't shut the freezer all the way and it ran and also spoiled all the food. At the very least, we could have known and arranged to have someone go close it.
I'd love for the motion sensor in the hallway outside my door to correlate with my alarm clock and know that I just got up, and then kick on the coffee maker. Technology is supposed to make life easier, and this will help it do that.
It's more than that, and it's silly little things we haven't thought about. Granted, we can do some of this already, but I had a use case this last week. I have a really hard time getting up in the morning when it's dark out. They make sunrise alarm clocks, but I think it would be nice to have the bedroom lights slowly dim up to simulate a sunrise and gently wake me up. (This is possible with current home automation tech)
It might be nice to have a light sensor in my gutters that warns me if a downspout is clogged or they need cleaning before my annual fall cleanup. I have a whole house humidifier and when it gets to -10 like this week, it needs to be turned down or I get condensation on the windows. Smart things can do that for me. These are all things that ubiquitous computing can do, and that's pretty cool.
The only caveat to situation three is that there are sometimes dynamic tensions that are good for business, and it's good to recognize when that is happening. The SLAs need to be based in a business reality. A board member or someone else may insist on an SLA that doesn't actually need to be met for the business to grow and be profitable. They pulled the number out of their rear end. You may have a lot of work, and you can "never get caught up", but the business is humming along, and things are generally going fine. You are probably adequately staffed, but some IT people tend to feel over worked in those cases, because they are shooting for "all the work to be done". If you ever hit a point where all the work is done, look out, you're likely looking at cuts soon.
130 Desktops and max of 28 logical servers and you need 3 windows systems administrators!? Cross train the IT manager or programmers, or contract with a local outsourcing team to provide backup. I've found small local IT services shops can do basic systems management at a reasonable cost, and work well when paired with a knowledgeable person on the client side. You be the smart guy, and leverage a local services team who probably have a CCNA, Windows Server admin, SAN admin, etc. on staff.
The average IT spend as a percent of revenues is around 2-2.5%. That varies depending on industry (tech industry is much higher upwards of 4%), but it's a good starting point. I'd look at where you are at now as a benchmark. As others have mentioned, you need to make a business case. What projects are being delayed, by how much time, and what is the effect. If the effect is that the company misses $200k in revenue or increases production costs, you can probably make a case for additional help. If the effect is the floor manager gets grumpy because he really would like this thing, you probably aren't going to get additional help, nor should you.
The response email from LG implies the original author agreed to the access when he accepted the terms of service. That would likely stand, for now, in the US. I'm not sure if it would fly in the UK.
If they're good, they're going to identify frequent high-G jerking when she looks up and realizes she's in another lane. They'll catch her slamming on the breaks frequently because she wasn't paying attention, etc. If there is any industry who can crunch data and find the outliers, you can actually trust the insurance industry. That's why they were so good at identifying people with a high likelihood of future medical illness and not give them health care.
Cucumbers and eggplant are a significant source of pretty much zero vitamins and minerals. I wonder if they are particularly robust in the scorched soil because they require relatively few nutrients... ?
I believe the producers actually have an interface to upload this content. So, this is really a publisher/producer issue. I strongly suspect Apple didn't do this alone, or with all their own money. AMC was looking at a class action, and I think they would have lost. Now, we'll see if Amazon follows suit.
You're 20 minutes may be unimportant, but some of us travel quite a bit. Many people travel weekly, with two legs each way. Let's use 15 minutes to make it simple. That's 15 minutes up, 15 minutes down, twice, each way. That's 2 hours a week. Assume you're a road warrior and travel 40 weeks a year and you've wasted 2 working weeks waiting for this. I'd appreciate those two weeks back if it turns out those electronic devices don't do a darned thing to the plane.
This. There are several battery plants that were built in anticipation of a boom in hybrid and EV vehicles during the first spike in oil prices. Once oil prices stabilized, those booms of new EVs never happened, and there are several battery plants that are sitting idle right now. The Dow Kokam plant in Midland could absorb half of the Tesla increase alone. http://www.dowkokam.com/about-dow-kokam/global-capabilities/midland-battery-park/
Like the mom and pops had to do when Home Depot, Target, Wal-Mart et al. took over? Like black smiths had to do when cars become affordable? Like telegraph operators had to do when the telephone caught on? Like telephone operators had to do when we got automatic switching? Industries change, people find other industries to work in.
I think you're in the minority. Most people would cry bloody murder if they were taxed at a rate to accommodate the costs of rural living. It's the cost to build out broadband networks, increased mail delivery, road costs would be crazy. I say this coming from a semi-rural community. I too am willing to acknowledge that I have an increased cost on society, and I should pay to support that, but we'd have riots if anyone proposed that.
You hit on it exactly. There are other companies looking to eat up your profit. Additionally, the growth investors are investing because they hope the company can post large growth numbers. The stock price as it stands represents investors' beliefs that the company is going to grow. The value of the company is more than their assets and estimated profits because people are investing in growth. If you don't grow, then your company wasn't worth that higher rate. It may very well be a stable, productive company worth investing in, but it's going to be at a lower rate.
Their rules aren't consistent enough to give this as a justification. They don't make passengers stop reading their books. They don't wake up sleeping passengers. They don't make passengers remove ear plugs. To say that this ban is for safety to force people to pay attention to the safety instructions doesn't work.
Unfortunately, in the United States, these doctors are working for themselves, for partnerships, doctors groups, or health systems, all of which are run like a business. Part of that mentality is that customer satisfaction is essential. People are irrational when it comes to health, and if you don't give them the antibiotic they demand, then they go find another doctor who will, or their patient satisfaction ratings go down... I'm not saying it's right, but it's among the things that need to be addressed to improve healthcare. I know this article is from the UK, I'm not sure if they have similar pressures.
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Unfortunately, it takes a company as large as Google to be competitive. ATT, Comcast, et al have the infrastructure for this, but not the incentive. The minute a small org comes in and tries to provide higher speed service, then ATT can roll out the higher speed service for less money and destroy that small org with price competition. This isn't direct competition. This is Google being willing to throw away money to shake up some markets, and it shouldn't have to work that way. The governments have granted cable and telcos monopolies, and then failed to regulate them. THAT is a problem.
We can't know the details, because releasing them would be a violation of patient health information privacy laws. So we only get to hear the story from the side of the parents. We do know the physicians at the hospital have diagnosed the child with medical child abuse. A key point form the Slate article someone else linked is that 1 in 10 children who are abused medically, die. It isn't something that is taken lightly.
We're hitting the age where some earlier services are starting to shut down, and that's actually a good thing. It will start a conversation about how much we're willing to trust to "the cloud" and what we're willing to make temporary. Many of us have Kindles, iPhones, Rokus that use content from providers not unlike GameSpy. We need to be willing to say out loud that ownership of these items is now temporary. The sellers of these items need to be more open about that as well.
This will take a long time to catch on. I think it works for people who grew up with video games. I think people who didn't will have a hard time conceptualizing the 180 degree view and translating it into what's actually happening outside the car.
Not surprising, really. The only time companies get punished for non-compliance is when they are the ones accessing protected health information. No threat of punishment == no compliance.
That's not the case at all. HIPAA makes a distinction between covered entities (usually hospitals, doctors, insurance companies), business associates (people providing services for covered entities such as medical coding, transcription, IT services, etc.) that require access to protected health information, and everyone else who isn't allowed to access protected health information. If a covered entity loses or discloses protected health information, or is breached, that entity is responsible for fines under HIPAA, which are being levied regularly. e.g. http://www.healthcareitnews.co...
There is a law, it's called HIPAA. Healthcare organizations are very cognizant of HIPAA and do work to avoid breaches of healthcare data. The Department of Health and Human Services does hand out significant fines for breaches. http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy... Additionally, for large breaches, healthcare organizations are required to notify prominent news media, which arguably has a larger financial impact than the fines themselves.
The idea of the Nest is that it's going to do something that most people aren't good at doing, which is programming their thermostats. Tech geeks aren't the target market. We already programmed our thermostats and for the most part they work relatively efficiently. It's for my crazy aunt who doesn't have a programmed thermostat and can recoup that $250 by letting some silly device do it for her. There are also smart added benefits like being able to check on the house remotely when you're out of town to make sure the furnace hasn't failed and your pipes are frozen, etc.
I think cars are a good analogy. I have to find a source for this, so, of now I'm talking out of my rear end, but I believe cars have held steady in price according to inflation. This is counter to most technology which tends to go down, like TVs. The reason is that the technology of the car has been continually improving to match. So, they haven't gone down in cost asa percentage of an average person's income, but that average person gets much more in a car today than in the past. They are crazily more safe, get much better mileage, have comfort features, etc. I think this would be similar. A smart light switch today costs around $50. It's way more than a dumb light switch, but doesn't require any extra wiring and does loads more. You probably can't justify the cost of a system like this based on electricity savings, but for some people, they may be able to justify the cost based on convenience and features. Advances like Intel is making, may tilt that in favor of vein more cost competitive.
I do want my fridge online. We went out of town once and the kids didn't shut the freezer all the way and it ran and also spoiled all the food. At the very least, we could have known and arranged to have someone go close it.
I'd love for the motion sensor in the hallway outside my door to correlate with my alarm clock and know that I just got up, and then kick on the coffee maker. Technology is supposed to make life easier, and this will help it do that.
It's more than that, and it's silly little things we haven't thought about. Granted, we can do some of this already, but I had a use case this last week. I have a really hard time getting up in the morning when it's dark out. They make sunrise alarm clocks, but I think it would be nice to have the bedroom lights slowly dim up to simulate a sunrise and gently wake me up. (This is possible with current home automation tech)
It might be nice to have a light sensor in my gutters that warns me if a downspout is clogged or they need cleaning before my annual fall cleanup. I have a whole house humidifier and when it gets to -10 like this week, it needs to be turned down or I get condensation on the windows. Smart things can do that for me. These are all things that ubiquitous computing can do, and that's pretty cool.
The only caveat to situation three is that there are sometimes dynamic tensions that are good for business, and it's good to recognize when that is happening. The SLAs need to be based in a business reality. A board member or someone else may insist on an SLA that doesn't actually need to be met for the business to grow and be profitable. They pulled the number out of their rear end. You may have a lot of work, and you can "never get caught up", but the business is humming along, and things are generally going fine. You are probably adequately staffed, but some IT people tend to feel over worked in those cases, because they are shooting for "all the work to be done". If you ever hit a point where all the work is done, look out, you're likely looking at cuts soon.
130 Desktops and max of 28 logical servers and you need 3 windows systems administrators!? Cross train the IT manager or programmers, or contract with a local outsourcing team to provide backup. I've found small local IT services shops can do basic systems management at a reasonable cost, and work well when paired with a knowledgeable person on the client side. You be the smart guy, and leverage a local services team who probably have a CCNA, Windows Server admin, SAN admin, etc. on staff.
The average IT spend as a percent of revenues is around 2-2.5%. That varies depending on industry (tech industry is much higher upwards of 4%), but it's a good starting point. I'd look at where you are at now as a benchmark. As others have mentioned, you need to make a business case. What projects are being delayed, by how much time, and what is the effect. If the effect is that the company misses $200k in revenue or increases production costs, you can probably make a case for additional help. If the effect is the floor manager gets grumpy because he really would like this thing, you probably aren't going to get additional help, nor should you.
The response email from LG implies the original author agreed to the access when he accepted the terms of service. That would likely stand, for now, in the US. I'm not sure if it would fly in the UK.
If they're good, they're going to identify frequent high-G jerking when she looks up and realizes she's in another lane. They'll catch her slamming on the breaks frequently because she wasn't paying attention, etc. If there is any industry who can crunch data and find the outliers, you can actually trust the insurance industry. That's why they were so good at identifying people with a high likelihood of future medical illness and not give them health care.
Particularly the marketshare among teens and young-20s who Facebook is losing.
Cucumbers and eggplant are a significant source of pretty much zero vitamins and minerals. I wonder if they are particularly robust in the scorched soil because they require relatively few nutrients ... ?
I believe the producers actually have an interface to upload this content. So, this is really a publisher/producer issue. I strongly suspect Apple didn't do this alone, or with all their own money. AMC was looking at a class action, and I think they would have lost. Now, we'll see if Amazon follows suit.
You're 20 minutes may be unimportant, but some of us travel quite a bit. Many people travel weekly, with two legs each way. Let's use 15 minutes to make it simple. That's 15 minutes up, 15 minutes down, twice, each way. That's 2 hours a week. Assume you're a road warrior and travel 40 weeks a year and you've wasted 2 working weeks waiting for this. I'd appreciate those two weeks back if it turns out those electronic devices don't do a darned thing to the plane.
This. There are several battery plants that were built in anticipation of a boom in hybrid and EV vehicles during the first spike in oil prices. Once oil prices stabilized, those booms of new EVs never happened, and there are several battery plants that are sitting idle right now. The Dow Kokam plant in Midland could absorb half of the Tesla increase alone. http://www.dowkokam.com/about-dow-kokam/global-capabilities/midland-battery-park/
Like the mom and pops had to do when Home Depot, Target, Wal-Mart et al. took over? Like black smiths had to do when cars become affordable? Like telegraph operators had to do when the telephone caught on? Like telephone operators had to do when we got automatic switching? Industries change, people find other industries to work in.
I think you're in the minority. Most people would cry bloody murder if they were taxed at a rate to accommodate the costs of rural living. It's the cost to build out broadband networks, increased mail delivery, road costs would be crazy. I say this coming from a semi-rural community. I too am willing to acknowledge that I have an increased cost on society, and I should pay to support that, but we'd have riots if anyone proposed that.
You hit on it exactly. There are other companies looking to eat up your profit. Additionally, the growth investors are investing because they hope the company can post large growth numbers. The stock price as it stands represents investors' beliefs that the company is going to grow. The value of the company is more than their assets and estimated profits because people are investing in growth. If you don't grow, then your company wasn't worth that higher rate. It may very well be a stable, productive company worth investing in, but it's going to be at a lower rate.
Their rules aren't consistent enough to give this as a justification. They don't make passengers stop reading their books. They don't wake up sleeping passengers. They don't make passengers remove ear plugs. To say that this ban is for safety to force people to pay attention to the safety instructions doesn't work.
Unfortunately, in the United States, these doctors are working for themselves, for partnerships, doctors groups, or health systems, all of which are run like a business. Part of that mentality is that customer satisfaction is essential. People are irrational when it comes to health, and if you don't give them the antibiotic they demand, then they go find another doctor who will, or their patient satisfaction ratings go down... I'm not saying it's right, but it's among the things that need to be addressed to improve healthcare. I know this article is from the UK, I'm not sure if they have similar pressures.