Make a system to save money on efficiency to be totally inefficient.
Actually, what will be found out (in the near future) that consolidating medical records, precribing, admissions -or- billing on a large system will be so unwieldy that the organization will be hurt more if it's attempted then it could ever make things better. This is not to say that it is impossible, but the myriad of laws, policies, regulations, and over-lapping dependencies will set it up to fail.
I found it especially interesting that a mere power-outage grinds the system to a halt as apparently they don't appear to have any plans for that, but to blame Citrix for their implementation woes is going abit overboard. An organization that big should stick with regional datacenters then to put all its eggs in one basket.
I bought the media content on those 8-track and cassette tapes. The medium which conveys the media matters little in this argument.
Without the content they are just blank tapes.
When I purchase the music I will listen to the music on the original -or- a copy of that original as I know all too well that any mechanical carrier wears out with time and the medium is not the message, the content is.
My library content goes back to reel-to-reel tapes and yet I have no reel-to-reel machine anymore. It died in 1989 after I copied the content to cassettes, then when computers came out I encoded those cassette tapes to mp3.
My original purchase of the content allows me to continue to listen to it to this day. That's what I call 'fair-use'!
For most people it's email, office applications, web browser, solitaire. I keep seeing this support argument tossed around and every time I ask myself - honestly, how much support does someone actually need?
Average users are just that, average users. They play solitaire and love it. They consider a computer an "appliance". They have never been introduced to programming, plugins, macros, etc...
People who need support are those that want to gain productivity. I also service computers part-time in PC Land and typically the people who use me would never-ever think to open up a readme file, let alone the actual compiled help files to work around a problem or to gain knowledge about the program they are using.
I pay for support when I get beyond readme's, help files and user-groups (sponsored and unsponsored). I will admit that doesn't happen much but when I need it I almost expect the support-crew to do it for me. After all I am paying, but to some degree I still want to learn it for myself.
Was any thought given about not being able to move/reposition/undock the forward/backward/address bar/refresh/close buttons? All the while burying the history function in the dropdown history menu, as opposed to having a stand-alone history button?
I say this about the forward and backward buttons being unmovable because there are a lot of us with big monitors and if I can't move those buttons it makes it hard to use them. That's a lot of real-estate to cover every time (upper left on a 21 inch monitor) Also with a bigger monitor it would be great to be able to undock any toolbar and have it hover always on top.
I've always moved the address bar to the lowest possible toolbar position on the left and the standard toolbar to the right of the address bar.
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My (multiple) copies of 2003 Enterprise Server (NFR) specifically states in the EULA that "The use of this software does not preclude you from using it in a production environment." The big word there seems to be "preclude"
There is even a little fly-sheet included in the book that further states (in effect) -You are very lucky to be the benefactor of Microsofts generous gift-
NFR software is a bit more than trialware and has all the functionality of the retail box version. I have personally bought multiple copies from online vendors, and use them daily in a production environment. Apparently someone is allowed to sell them, as I said before that I did buy them from a reputable Microsoft online reseller (Platinum level I believe).
I have even been able to reinstall it on completely new hardware more than once with a simple phonecall upon activation. I first became aware of NFR copies when I won one at a TechNet event several years ago.
When you're always trying to one-up viral online services like music and video they are bound to quickly lose those battles. If anyone thinks MS has gotten too big to be "viral" has never run ActiveX!
They should really focus on their core technologies, because they are seriously becoming just another media-whore, just trying to get their brand in front of everyone's eyeballs. At what cost you say? C-R-E-D-I-B-I-L-I-T-Y!
I don't know, though I would gladly pay a monthly fee to be able to acquire them as podcasts. Even if it was available from a form of local affiliate donation perhaps.
Sure I could setup a radio and then time-record>convert>upload with cool2000 (via script)
NPR has such limited podcasts to maintain the financial ability of their affiliate terrestrial radio stations. So you can get headlines and specials, but not their general content. Just today I was browsing their podcasts and wanted to see if Fresh Air was available... nope.
The radio reception is usually horrible on anything that relies on using the headphone wires as an antenna. Unless you have an incredibly powerful signal I wouldn't bank on it.
If they can solve the reception issues with a sensitive receiver then the radio aspect should be a winner. Probably won't be much different than my iRiver H340 reception. I wish them luck, they'll need it.
I'm skepticle that even with their big name, big money and improved features they are way too late to the market.
Also, why is it that middle class people get nailed by identity theft and not Donald Trump?
Who Wants to Be a Billionaire? A high-school dropout employed as a busboy made headlines when he was caught in a scheme to steal millions from rich and famous people such as Steven Spielberg, Ross Perot, Oprah Winfrey and Ted Turner. Police arrested 32-year-old Abraham Abdallah, in possession of a tattered copy of Forbes Magazine's "400 Richest" article, marked up with the social security numbers, home addresses and birth dates of 200 celebs and moguls.
Rich people need poor people to maintain their wealth. I don't know a rich person who treats a poor person as an evil scumbag (unless of course they are a known common street criminal). It's simply a symbiotic relationship where one person has something of perceived value that another wants to exchange something of equal perceived value.
Besides, even rich people buy things, they use a credit card mostly. Those same evil marketers keep closer tabs on the guy with a $30,000+ credit limit of unsecured credit more than that Capital One customer with the $1500.00
credit limit. The rich guy just spends more money and at more places.
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In America, the rich are now glorified and the poor are demonized. This is absolutely positively a direct contradiction to America's much vaunted "Judeo Christian" values.
If the poor were glorified, the rich would then be respectable? Just asking...
You are so right! That superiority complex spilleth out all over those commercials makes some potential users cringe. There's a sig floating around Slasdot to the effect... "Winners gauge their achievements according to their goals - Losers gauge their achievements according to their competition"
People I know that are not OS fanboys at all have told me so. I just tell them it's all about lifestyle to those people. Not much different at all and they have problems (even if not the same problems) as well.
From your description the HR15 has "season passes" down.
For instance, I am able to record any show I choose either first-run or even repeats. I can have it "Keep till I delete" or set it so it overwrites the oldest item in the list. I don't typically use it for repeat shows, but I have used it for series like "24" and "House" where I just want the first run showings. Though one time I did something stupid and chose to record "Seinfeld" (any showings) as a test and my recorder was filled up in about 2 weeks with 80 Seinfeld episodes.
I do wish I could tell it to grab only Frankenheimer movies -or- Orson Wells movies etc... If it does do that that would definitely be a plus
how ergonomic? (TiVo's a hard act to follow on this one) Fine by my standards.
how often does the machine crash and burn, or just plain lock up? (any comcast DVR users out there?) Never locked up yet (almost a year now).
how well does it handle season passes with options of first showing, multiple channel, etc. (once again, TiVo is a hard act to follow on this one) Don't know.
how well does it do video? any mosaics?, dropped frames? Almost as clean as the original broadcast.
Are there things like "wish lists"? (TiVo does this wonderfully) Whatever those are?
I have the HR15 recorder and like it a lot. Never had TiVo so I can't answer your questions. The reviewer does give some encouragement about the UI and the lag-time improvement and some of the other UI features/improvements.
There's no reason to be overly critical of new hardware like... TiVo is the best... Myth TV is DaBomb, etc. I'll admit it's my first DVR but what that thing can do is outstanding. I'll never watch broadcsat TV the same again! Put me down in the I like what it does category PERIOD.
I want to find out more about the eSATA and ethernet connections. My HR15 has ethernet but is disabled with no eSATA anywhere to be found. Does TiVo have anything similar?
Hunter S Thompson was no journalist, he wrote wild stories concocted from his own substance abuse. Journalists don't write "stories" they write reports in a clear concise manner following the "WWWWW" principle. [What, Why, Who, Where & When]
Sadly, most people get pulled around by the nose with "stories" being touted as journalism. Want to make it interesting? Feature only tech stories on "Naked News" (if they're still around) and then you can have naked journalists running featurettes on the porn in IT. Now that's news!
Not only that, one is new and the other probably has oodles of gunk on the heatpipe/fan assembly. I hope when this comparison was made after a good cleaning.
Take away his 'blink switch' so that he may simply live!
(and leave the living to us bipeds as we see fit):)
Seriously, he probably uses more hardware than any of us for basic life support. If it's good enough for him, it's good enough for you and me. Just consuming oxygen is not an option!
I however have an original Creative Nomad Jukebox. It has played everyday (24/7) since I got it as a christmas gift in 2001. They may have sold 20,000 of 'em. The fact it is in pristine condition (no bezel scratches even!!) and still plays 5 years later makes it either way the settlement goes a true collectible
AND... with a firmware update it even has a click-wheel on the side to help navigate those three screens!
Crap, why just hardware? Take it to another level and think BIOS as well.
I have a not-so-budget Averatec that was my first notebook ever. The multi-drive went bad and needed to be replaced just to reload the f**king OS. I even talked to Phoenix BIOS support if they have an upgrade available, and they told me that the manufacturer controls the BIOS selection and upgradeabilty. Not only that, just try to buy a replacement drive!
IF I could have booted from a USB drive to do a reload, I would have NEVER sent it in for warranty service and be without my machine for 4 weeks. Good show Averatec and all you crippled notebook pushers, you lose money on warranty service of any kind.
Good luck finding One (1) laptop with the ability to boot from a USB device. I know I have spent hours in stores restarting most of the major's and some of the minor notebook brands to look in the BIOS for that ability... no luck so far.
I have yet to see this subject even mentioned at some of the notebook review sites, and I believe that a lot of us here would gravitate to the maker that includes this as a feature!
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Make a system to save money on efficiency to be totally inefficient.
Actually, what will be found out (in the near future) that consolidating medical records, precribing, admissions -or- billing on a large system will be so unwieldy that the organization will be hurt more if it's attempted then it could ever make things better. This is not to say that it is impossible, but the myriad of laws, policies, regulations, and over-lapping dependencies will set it up to fail.
I found it especially interesting that a mere power-outage grinds the system to a halt as apparently they don't appear to have any plans for that, but to blame Citrix for their implementation woes is going abit overboard. An organization that big should stick with regional datacenters then to put all its eggs in one basket.
I bought the media content on those 8-track and cassette tapes. The medium which conveys the media matters little in this argument.
Without the content they are just blank tapes.
When I purchase the music I will listen to the music on the original -or- a copy of that original as I know all too well that any mechanical carrier wears out with time and the medium is not the message, the content is.
My library content goes back to reel-to-reel tapes and yet I have no reel-to-reel machine anymore. It died in 1989 after I copied the content to cassettes, then when computers came out I encoded those cassette tapes to mp3.
My original purchase of the content allows me to continue to listen to it to this day. That's what I call 'fair-use'!
For most people it's email, office applications, web browser, solitaire. I keep seeing this support argument tossed around and every time I ask myself - honestly, how much support does someone actually need?
Average users are just that, average users. They play solitaire and love it. They consider a computer an "appliance". They have never been introduced to programming, plugins, macros, etc...
People who need support are those that want to gain productivity. I also service computers part-time in PC Land and typically the people who use me would never-ever think to open up a readme file, let alone the actual compiled help files to work around a problem or to gain knowledge about the program they are using.
I pay for support when I get beyond readme's, help files and user-groups (sponsored and unsponsored). I will admit that doesn't happen much but when I need it I almost expect the support-crew to do it for me. After all I am paying, but to some degree I still want to learn it for myself.
[start reply] Get a life.
Was any thought given about not being able to move/reposition/undock the forward/backward/address bar/refresh/close buttons? All the while burying the history function in the dropdown history menu, as opposed to having a stand-alone history button?
I say this about the forward and backward buttons being unmovable because there are a lot of us with big monitors and if I can't move those buttons it makes it hard to use them. That's a lot of real-estate to cover every time (upper left on a 21 inch monitor) Also with a bigger monitor it would be great to be able to undock any toolbar and have it hover always on top.
I've always moved the address bar to the lowest possible toolbar position on the left and the standard toolbar to the right of the address bar.
My (multiple) copies of 2003 Enterprise Server (NFR) specifically states in the EULA that "The use of this software does not preclude you from using it in a production environment." The big word there seems to be "preclude"
There is even a little fly-sheet included in the book that further states (in effect) -You are very lucky to be the benefactor of Microsofts generous gift-
NFR software is a bit more than trialware and has all the functionality of the retail box version. I have personally bought multiple copies from online vendors, and use them daily in a production environment. Apparently someone is allowed to sell them, as I said before that I did buy them from a reputable Microsoft online reseller (Platinum level I believe).
I have even been able to reinstall it on completely new hardware more than once with a simple phonecall upon activation. I first became aware of NFR copies when I won one at a TechNet event several years ago.
Let me get this straight, Vannevar Bush thought up the idea and George Bush already has my life on a hard drive?
Who would'a thought...
When you're always trying to one-up viral online services like music and video they are bound to quickly lose those battles. If anyone thinks MS has gotten too big to be "viral" has never run ActiveX!
They should really focus on their core technologies, because they are seriously becoming just another media-whore, just trying to get their brand in front of everyone's eyeballs. At what cost you say? C-R-E-D-I-B-I-L-I-T-Y!
I don't know, though I would gladly pay a monthly fee to be able to acquire them as podcasts. Even if it was available from a form of local affiliate donation perhaps.
Sure I could setup a radio and then time-record>convert>upload with cool2000 (via script)
NPR has such limited podcasts to maintain the financial ability of their affiliate terrestrial radio stations. So you can get headlines and specials, but not their general content. Just today I was browsing their podcasts and wanted to see if Fresh Air was available... nope.
The radio reception is usually horrible on anything that relies on using the headphone wires as an antenna. Unless you have an incredibly powerful signal I wouldn't bank on it.
If they can solve the reception issues with a sensitive receiver then the radio aspect should be a winner. Probably won't be much different than my iRiver H340 reception. I wish them luck, they'll need it.
I'm skepticle that even with their big name, big money and improved features they are way too late to the market.
Who Wants to Be a Billionaire? A high-school dropout employed as a busboy made headlines when he was caught in a scheme to steal millions from rich and famous people such as Steven Spielberg, Ross Perot, Oprah Winfrey and Ted Turner. Police arrested 32-year-old Abraham Abdallah, in possession of a tattered copy of Forbes Magazine's "400 Richest" article, marked up with the social security numbers, home addresses and birth dates of 200 celebs and moguls.
More here at: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5800044/
Rich people need poor people to maintain their wealth. I don't know a rich person who treats a poor person as an evil scumbag (unless of course they are a known common street criminal). It's simply a symbiotic relationship where one person has something of perceived value that another wants to exchange something of equal perceived value.
Besides, even rich people buy things, they use a credit card mostly. Those same evil marketers keep closer tabs on the guy with a $30,000+ credit limit of unsecured credit more than that Capital One customer with the $1500.00 credit limit. The rich guy just spends more money and at more places.
In America, the rich are now glorified and the poor are demonized. This is absolutely positively a direct contradiction to America's much vaunted "Judeo Christian" values.
If the poor were glorified, the rich would then be respectable? Just asking...
Left-Handed Linux could get ~10% of the desktop market!
You are so right! That superiority complex spilleth out all over those commercials makes some potential users cringe. There's a sig floating around Slasdot to the effect... "Winners gauge their achievements according to their goals - Losers gauge their achievements according to their competition"
People I know that are not OS fanboys at all have told me so. I just tell them it's all about lifestyle to those people. Not much different at all and they have problems (even if not the same problems) as well.
From your description the HR15 has "season passes" down.
For instance, I am able to record any show I choose either first-run or even repeats. I can have it "Keep till I delete" or set it so it overwrites the oldest item in the list. I don't typically use it for repeat shows, but I have used it for series like "24" and "House" where I just want the first run showings. Though one time I did something stupid and chose to record "Seinfeld" (any showings) as a test and my recorder was filled up in about 2 weeks with 80 Seinfeld episodes.
I do wish I could tell it to grab only Frankenheimer movies -or- Orson Wells movies etc... If it does do that that would definitely be a plus
how responsive is the interface?
A little slow.
how ergonomic? (TiVo's a hard act to follow on this one)
Fine by my standards.
how often does the machine crash and burn, or just plain lock up? (any comcast DVR users out there?)
Never locked up yet (almost a year now).
how well does it handle season passes with options of first showing, multiple channel, etc. (once again, TiVo is a hard act to follow on this one)
Don't know.
how well does it do video? any mosaics?, dropped frames?
Almost as clean as the original broadcast.
Are there things like "wish lists"? (TiVo does this wonderfully)
Whatever those are?
I have the HR15 recorder and like it a lot. Never had TiVo so I can't answer your questions. The reviewer does give some encouragement about the UI and the lag-time improvement and some of the other UI features/improvements.
There's no reason to be overly critical of new hardware like... TiVo is the best... Myth TV is DaBomb, etc. I'll admit it's my first DVR but what that thing can do is outstanding. I'll never watch broadcsat TV the same again! Put me down in the I like what it does category PERIOD.
I want to find out more about the eSATA and ethernet connections. My HR15 has ethernet but is disabled with no eSATA anywhere to be found. Does TiVo have anything similar?
John Dvorak!
Hunter S Thompson was no journalist, he wrote wild stories concocted from his own substance abuse. Journalists don't write "stories" they write reports in a clear concise manner following the "WWWWW" principle. [What, Why, Who, Where & When]
Sadly, most people get pulled around by the nose with "stories" being touted as journalism. Want to make it interesting? Feature only tech stories on "Naked News" (if they're still around) and then you can have naked journalists running featurettes on the porn in IT. Now that's news!
Not only that, one is new and the other probably has oodles of gunk on the heatpipe/fan assembly. I hope when this comparison was made after a good cleaning.
Take away his 'blink switch' so that he may simply live!
(and leave the living to us bipeds as we see fit) :)
Seriously, he probably uses more hardware than any of us for basic life support. If it's good enough for him, it's good enough for you and me. Just consuming oxygen is not an option!
Yeah along with the 50 million others.
I however have an original Creative Nomad Jukebox. It has played everyday (24/7) since I got it as a christmas gift in 2001. They may have sold 20,000 of 'em. The fact it is in pristine condition (no bezel scratches even!!) and still plays 5 years later makes it either way the settlement goes a true collectible
AND... with a firmware update it even has a click-wheel on the side to help navigate those three screens!
Can you boot from a floppy drive IF the BIOS does not have
"Boot from USB Device in its' menu choices? I would automatically think not...
Please enlighten me on this.
Crap, why just hardware? Take it to another level and think BIOS as well.
I have a not-so-budget Averatec that was my first notebook ever. The multi-drive went bad and needed to be replaced just to reload the f**king OS. I even talked to Phoenix BIOS support if they have an upgrade available, and they told me that the manufacturer controls the BIOS selection and upgradeabilty. Not only that, just try to buy a replacement drive!
IF I could have booted from a USB drive to do a reload, I would have NEVER sent it in for warranty service and be without my machine for 4 weeks. Good show Averatec and all you crippled notebook pushers, you lose money on warranty service of any kind.
Good luck finding One (1) laptop with the ability to boot from a USB device. I know I have spent hours in stores restarting most of the major's and some of the minor notebook brands to look in the BIOS for that ability... no luck so far.
I have yet to see this subject even mentioned at some of the notebook review sites, and I believe that a lot of us here would gravitate to the maker that includes this as a feature!