There have always been niche premium formats: 70mm, IMax, etc. The ones that are really valuable commodities spread, the rest remain niche, with niche content providers creating for them.
For a real niche, look at Planetarium productions.
Start with "know your people, know what they're doing" - case in point: occupational therapist office, small chain, 5 or 6 locations in Florida, basically independent therapists operating out of the offices - as you might imagine, we had a bad experience with one licensed therapist "running" the local office doing all kinds of stuff she shouldn't have, and when we called the parent organization (in whom we placed our trust when starting dealings with the local office) their answer was "what? we don't know anything about that."
Bad actors are everywhere, and they will take on the mantle of the biggest most legitimate organization they can.
Sorry to let my cynic show, but all medical providers who want to adhere to HIPPA have to do is subscribe to a service that claims to provide HIPPA compliance to their operations, pass the cost along to the insurance companies (and those who pay insurance premiums), and wait for somebody to scream "Bloody hell NO that's not what HIPPA means and I'm going to sue!!!" - settle, probably involving a small modification to the HIPPA compliance service procedures, rinse, lather, and repeat.
My favorite outcome of HIPPA is anytime you ask a reasonable question of a shady service provider they refuse to answer you because "it would be a violation of HIPPA," forcing you into the choice of "Bloody hell NO that's not what HIPPA means and I'm going to sue!!!" or simply walking away and hoping the next service provider is less of a charlatan.
Actual privacy, confidentiality of personal medical information, employer non-discrimination for non-work related medical conditions, yeah, good luck with that.
Almost all of this is available today using a variety of off the shelf software with PGP keys, etc.
Yes, and a lot of good security software is available free and open source, but it's not very easy to use and/or effectively marketed.
Wouldn't concentrating this traffic in a single place make it easier to monitor? If nothing else, a monitoring agency can gain the equivalent of pen register data simply by doing packet analysis at the upstream of such a service provider.
Wouldn't merely subscribing to such a service (and leaving a money trail) become a red flag?
Absolutely, anyone can use free HushMail, but in so doing, you are marking yourself as a less than 1% minority that cares enough about privacy of your communications to actually do something about it - and as such, I'd assume you'll be first against the wall in any witch hunt investigation since you are rare and "they" can't really be sure what all you have effectively hidden.
I think, for the paranoid, security at the endpoints is the only way to go... secure transit layers, servers, services, etc. may help, but at the point it leaves you and the receiving party's control, you never really know who's listening / watching / sifting / archiving.
I wrote a little screed about "appropriate security" for ordinary people, short version is: if you make it expensive to read your mail, nobody is likely to bother.
Right now, most "private" e-mail, and even voice, communication costs a fraction of a penny for an interceptor to interpret, index, catalog, archive for decades, and later search when hunting for whatever historical chatter they may be interested in. While I "don't have anything to hide," I really do think it's worth some effort to make diving my digital dumpster harder to do.
Well, it's hard to get first post and simultaneously develop a complete explanation of the concept, but...
They have provided yet another valuable datapoint in the theoretical peak vs actual sustained performance testing set, but, again, this is widely studied, characterized fairly well and predictable with a bit of research and thought experiment.
Reading the article (also impossible to do in a first post time constraint), reveals that they had a particular idea about using a wooden dish strainer to rack the boards... so, yeah, pile of free boards, idea about how to rack them, lots of free time, publish an article, get it on/., profit? I bet they'll get at least $10 worth of ad-clicks.
Of course, that's not what people in the USA want. On the left they want their cabin in the woods with their organic vegetable patch and their new age crystals. On the right they want their cabin in the woods with their guns and their bibles.
I understand now, I'm an extremist schizophrenic, I want my cabin in the woods with an organic vegetable patch and my guns, to shoot the animals that come to eat my vegetables...
And for that matter, does it really bother you so much if someone has more wealth than you?
Look at Central/South America, like Panama, Columbia, etc. While there is a lot of visible homelessness, abject poverty, etc. in the US, the numbers aren't nearly as bad as other American countries, yet.
Statistically, being born in the US, you still have a better than even chance of being able to go to college if you choose to, of being able to afford a house of a little land of your own, if you choose to. In Panama, that chance falls to a very small percentage.
I don't mind wealth inequality, I do mind birthright wealth and poverty. Some having to work harder than others to get out of the gutter is inevitable, but when more than 90% of the population has less than 1% success rate of elevating themselves to the status of being able to own even a small patch of land, it has gone too far.
Ideally, more than 99% of people would have a reasonable chance of elevating themselves to a mean (not median) wealth status by the time they are 35 years old. It's a lofty goal, what bothers me about the US is that we have been moving away from, rather than toward, that goal for several decades now.
For now, we've got the "ultimate phablet" combo going - voice phones with 3G iPad, signed up for the iPad data plan last week while traveling, used it to look up maps we didn't really need while driving, whoever decided that glossy screens are a good idea in portable devices needs to stop being a vampire and try to use their product during the daytime.
I highly suspect that our 3G data plan will go unused about 27 days a month.
In cases like this, yes. All too often, oppressors of all kinds are successful. It's good to have cases like this to remind people that they actually can fight back and win, sometimes.
I call all smartphones immature - including the holy (as in, full of holes) iOS. At every use, there's something that could be better, but is o.k. for now and clearly just too cool compared to the vacuum (tubes, and/or lack of any viable product) that preceeded it.
Actually, the thing that's really immature is the wireless data infrastructure - when that doesn't require a $500+ annual donation to use, I'll be a lot more enthusiastic about any portable wireless device.
Other than the fact that iOS/Android have got a large, possibly majority chunk of the final smartphone market share (including future adopters) already wrapped up, and the fact that the 3 OSs are presently App-incompatible (any predictions for when cross-phone-platform convergence will come? not soon, I'd say) there's nothing to hate in Windows phone.
Good hardware, nicely done OS, just a shortage of people using it and writing apps for it - I think the app problem isn't nearly as big as the fact that most people who are making a smartphone decision at this point will likely follow in their friends' footsteps, rather than making their own objective decision.
Dolby labs has been successfully marketing simple patented filter profiles for decades, it's like the secret formula for Coca Cola - there's nothing to the R&D, everything in the marketing.
In the old days, they'd make 'em with cheap components with 5% or more resistance / capacitance variation, then test them when they came off the line and sort them into bins for "prescription" filter characteristics.
Class I is as easy as it gets, considerably cheaper to paper up for the FDA than Class III stuff like cochlear implants. Thermometers and blood pressure cuffs are Class I.
The regulatory definition of a class I hearing aid is codified as follows:
21 CFR 874.3300 Hearing Aid (a)Identification. A hearing aid is wearable sound-amplifying device that is intended to compensate for impaired hearing. This generic type of device includes the air-conduction hearing aid and the bone-conduction hearing aid, but excludes the group hearing aid or group auditory trainer (874.3320), master hearing aid (874.3330), and tinnitus masker (874.3400). (b)Classification. (1) Class I (general controls) for the air-conduction hearing aid. The air-conduction hearing aid is exempt from the premarket notification procedures in subpart E of part 807 of this chapter subject to 874.9. (2) Class II for the bone-conduction hearing aid. The regulatory definition of a class II air-conduction system is as follows: 21 CFR 874.3950 Transcutaneous air conduction hearing aid system. (a)Identification. A transcutaneous air conduction hearing aid system is a wearable sound-amplifying device intended to compensate for impaired hearing without occluding the ear canal. The device consists of an air conduction hearing aid attached to a surgically fitted tube system, which is placed through soft tissue between the post auricular region and the outer ear canal. (b)Classification. Class II (special controls). The special control for this device is FDA's guidance document entitled "Class II Special Controls Guidance Document: Transcutaneous Air Conduction Hearing Aid System (TACHAS); Guidance for Industry and FDA." See 874.1 for the availability of this guidance document.
I have skimmed the various publications for a couple of decades as they come out... general consensus I glean is that the primary effects are attributable to suppression of inhibitory centers - under the influence you are less likely to care that what you are doing is weird, unusual, socially unacceptable, etc.
I've got enough of that in my genetic wiring, no need to augment with chemicals.
...the subversion of conventional wisdom and norms, and the increasingly esoteric and complex lexicon of the specialist being incompatible with social life, ultimately leading to isolation, stilted interaction, and resultant mental illness...
Nah, Issac Newton was nuttier than a mercury laced fruitcake, and there was no esoteric complex lexicon of the specialist around for him, he was just starting to create it.
Mental illness causes isolation far more than isolation causes mental illness - of course, the observation is more than a little circular since "all well adjusted individuals enjoy the company of others" by definition.
I actually have a couple of projects that will be using the Pi RCA out port.... between the two, I'd rather have RCA than VGA, of course you may have a different set of junk lying around.
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In this instance, the head office circled the wagons, then discharged the clowns 3 months after it all blew over... small consolation.
IT wise, nothing to see here, but management wise, shouldn't let HIPPA be used as a BS blanket.
There have always been niche premium formats: 70mm, IMax, etc. The ones that are really valuable commodities spread, the rest remain niche, with niche content providers creating for them.
For a real niche, look at Planetarium productions.
Value of the Pi isn't in the processor, it's in the video decoder and HDMI driver.
Only point in a Raspberry cluster is if you have a "wall of monitors" app.
Start with "know your people, know what they're doing" - case in point: occupational therapist office, small chain, 5 or 6 locations in Florida, basically independent therapists operating out of the offices - as you might imagine, we had a bad experience with one licensed therapist "running" the local office doing all kinds of stuff she shouldn't have, and when we called the parent organization (in whom we placed our trust when starting dealings with the local office) their answer was "what? we don't know anything about that."
Bad actors are everywhere, and they will take on the mantle of the biggest most legitimate organization they can.
Sorry to let my cynic show, but all medical providers who want to adhere to HIPPA have to do is subscribe to a service that claims to provide HIPPA compliance to their operations, pass the cost along to the insurance companies (and those who pay insurance premiums), and wait for somebody to scream "Bloody hell NO that's not what HIPPA means and I'm going to sue!!!" - settle, probably involving a small modification to the HIPPA compliance service procedures, rinse, lather, and repeat.
My favorite outcome of HIPPA is anytime you ask a reasonable question of a shady service provider they refuse to answer you because "it would be a violation of HIPPA," forcing you into the choice of "Bloody hell NO that's not what HIPPA means and I'm going to sue!!!" or simply walking away and hoping the next service provider is less of a charlatan.
Actual privacy, confidentiality of personal medical information, employer non-discrimination for non-work related medical conditions, yeah, good luck with that.
Almost all of this is available today using a variety of off the shelf software with PGP keys, etc.
Yes, and a lot of good security software is available free and open source, but it's not very easy to use and/or effectively marketed.
Wouldn't concentrating this traffic in a single place make it easier to monitor? If nothing else, a monitoring agency can gain the equivalent of pen register data simply by doing packet analysis at the upstream of such a service provider.
Wouldn't merely subscribing to such a service (and leaving a money trail) become a red flag?
Absolutely, anyone can use free HushMail, but in so doing, you are marking yourself as a less than 1% minority that cares enough about privacy of your communications to actually do something about it - and as such, I'd assume you'll be first against the wall in any witch hunt investigation since you are rare and "they" can't really be sure what all you have effectively hidden.
I think, for the paranoid, security at the endpoints is the only way to go... secure transit layers, servers, services, etc. may help, but at the point it leaves you and the receiving party's control, you never really know who's listening / watching / sifting / archiving.
I wrote a little screed about "appropriate security" for ordinary people, short version is: if you make it expensive to read your mail, nobody is likely to bother.
Right now, most "private" e-mail, and even voice, communication costs a fraction of a penny for an interceptor to interpret, index, catalog, archive for decades, and later search when hunting for whatever historical chatter they may be interested in. While I "don't have anything to hide," I really do think it's worth some effort to make diving my digital dumpster harder to do.
Well, it's hard to get first post and simultaneously develop a complete explanation of the concept, but...
They have provided yet another valuable datapoint in the theoretical peak vs actual sustained performance testing set, but, again, this is widely studied, characterized fairly well and predictable with a bit of research and thought experiment.
Reading the article (also impossible to do in a first post time constraint), reveals that they had a particular idea about using a wooden dish strainer to rack the boards... so, yeah, pile of free boards, idea about how to rack them, lots of free time, publish an article, get it on /., profit? I bet they'll get at least $10 worth of ad-clicks.
Or, could they just not do the MIPS/Watt calculations without actually building the thing?
Of course, that's not what people in the USA want. On the left they want their cabin in the woods with their organic vegetable patch and their new age crystals. On the right they want their cabin in the woods with their guns and their bibles.
I understand now, I'm an extremist schizophrenic, I want my cabin in the woods with an organic vegetable patch and my guns, to shoot the animals that come to eat my vegetables...
And for that matter, does it really bother you so much if someone has more wealth than you?
Look at Central/South America, like Panama, Columbia, etc. While there is a lot of visible homelessness, abject poverty, etc. in the US, the numbers aren't nearly as bad as other American countries, yet.
Statistically, being born in the US, you still have a better than even chance of being able to go to college if you choose to, of being able to afford a house of a little land of your own, if you choose to. In Panama, that chance falls to a very small percentage.
I don't mind wealth inequality, I do mind birthright wealth and poverty. Some having to work harder than others to get out of the gutter is inevitable, but when more than 90% of the population has less than 1% success rate of elevating themselves to the status of being able to own even a small patch of land, it has gone too far.
Ideally, more than 99% of people would have a reasonable chance of elevating themselves to a mean (not median) wealth status by the time they are 35 years old. It's a lofty goal, what bothers me about the US is that we have been moving away from, rather than toward, that goal for several decades now.
No job outside school? Stay in and continue to work for peanuts while paying tuition.
The economy needs more post-doc students!
For now, we've got the "ultimate phablet" combo going - voice phones with 3G iPad, signed up for the iPad data plan last week while traveling, used it to look up maps we didn't really need while driving, whoever decided that glossy screens are a good idea in portable devices needs to stop being a vampire and try to use their product during the daytime.
I highly suspect that our 3G data plan will go unused about 27 days a month.
In cases like this, yes. All too often, oppressors of all kinds are successful. It's good to have cases like this to remind people that they actually can fight back and win, sometimes.
Cow protein != Human protein
It might work, but in the realm of unknown unknowns, it's probably best to not introduce unnecessary additional risks.
I call all smartphones immature - including the holy (as in, full of holes) iOS. At every use, there's something that could be better, but is o.k. for now and clearly just too cool compared to the vacuum (tubes, and/or lack of any viable product) that preceeded it.
Actually, the thing that's really immature is the wireless data infrastructure - when that doesn't require a $500+ annual donation to use, I'll be a lot more enthusiastic about any portable wireless device.
Other than the fact that iOS/Android have got a large, possibly majority chunk of the final smartphone market share (including future adopters) already wrapped up, and the fact that the 3 OSs are presently App-incompatible (any predictions for when cross-phone-platform convergence will come? not soon, I'd say) there's nothing to hate in Windows phone.
Good hardware, nicely done OS, just a shortage of people using it and writing apps for it - I think the app problem isn't nearly as big as the fact that most people who are making a smartphone decision at this point will likely follow in their friends' footsteps, rather than making their own objective decision.
Appropriate recent Dilbert.
Except when it's ABACAB
Dolby labs has been successfully marketing simple patented filter profiles for decades, it's like the secret formula for Coca Cola - there's nothing to the R&D, everything in the marketing.
In the old days, they'd make 'em with cheap components with 5% or more resistance / capacitance variation, then test them when they came off the line and sort them into bins for "prescription" filter characteristics.
Class I is as easy as it gets, considerably cheaper to paper up for the FDA than Class III stuff like cochlear implants. Thermometers and blood pressure cuffs are Class I.
http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/DeviceRegulationandGuidance/GuidanceDocuments/ucm127086.htm
The regulatory definition of a class I hearing aid is codified as follows:
21 CFR 874.3300 Hearing Aid
(a)Identification. A hearing aid is wearable sound-amplifying device that is intended to compensate for impaired hearing. This generic type of device includes the air-conduction hearing aid and the bone-conduction hearing aid, but excludes the group hearing aid or group auditory trainer (874.3320), master hearing aid (874.3330), and tinnitus masker (874.3400).
(b)Classification. (1) Class I (general controls) for the air-conduction hearing aid. The air-conduction hearing aid is exempt from the premarket notification procedures in subpart E of part 807 of this chapter subject to 874.9.
(2) Class II for the bone-conduction hearing aid.
The regulatory definition of a class II air-conduction system is as follows:
21 CFR 874.3950 Transcutaneous air conduction hearing aid system.
(a)Identification. A transcutaneous air conduction hearing aid system is a wearable sound-amplifying device intended to compensate for impaired hearing without occluding the ear canal. The device consists of an air conduction hearing aid attached to a surgically fitted tube system, which is placed through soft tissue between the post auricular region and the outer ear canal.
(b)Classification. Class II (special controls). The special control for this device is FDA's guidance document entitled "Class II Special Controls Guidance Document: Transcutaneous Air Conduction Hearing Aid System (TACHAS); Guidance for Industry and FDA." See 874.1 for the availability of this guidance document.
When I've got $30B in the bank and a firehose of an income stream, I'll support all my past customers gratis too...
I have skimmed the various publications for a couple of decades as they come out... general consensus I glean is that the primary effects are attributable to suppression of inhibitory centers - under the influence you are less likely to care that what you are doing is weird, unusual, socially unacceptable, etc.
I've got enough of that in my genetic wiring, no need to augment with chemicals.
LSD shuts down inhibitions... very liberating, but not mind expanding in quite the way that it is often described.
...the subversion of conventional wisdom and norms, and the increasingly esoteric and complex lexicon of the specialist being incompatible with social life, ultimately leading to isolation, stilted interaction, and resultant mental illness...
Nah, Issac Newton was nuttier than a mercury laced fruitcake, and there was no esoteric complex lexicon of the specialist around for him, he was just starting to create it.
Mental illness causes isolation far more than isolation causes mental illness - of course, the observation is more than a little circular since "all well adjusted individuals enjoy the company of others" by definition.
I actually have a couple of projects that will be using the Pi RCA out port.... between the two, I'd rather have RCA than VGA, of course you may have a different set of junk lying around.