What's interesting is the amount of medical students snatching up palms in preparation for entering rotations. My wife is currently a second year medical student about to enter rotations this summer and she along with many of her classmates are buying some sort of palm device specifically for their rotations. There are a slew of databases containing drug information, disease/symptom data, etc. There are apps for patient tracking. It will be interesting to see how long it takes hospitals and clinics to incorporate new procedures utilizing palms into their existing procedures.
I'm skeptical about the rate at which hospitals will adopt said procedures. It's been my experience w/ large academic hospitals (which are usually the most eager to try new technologies) that it's very difficult to get the physicians to adopt new procedures. Palm based procedures may appeal to the new generation of doctors but there are a lot of stubborn older physicians that are set in their ways.
I'm glad some people can "suck up" the bad service provided by some of these companies. But we do need other people to continue to complain about the lousy service/prices of these same companies. It's sad that we, in the midwest at least, have such limited choices for highspeed internet access. The nightmare stories you here aren't people just complaining for the sake of complaining. The different companies involved are really trying to make a quick buck by offering lower quality service than what we expect. I can tolerate downtime of a half day (overnight) for system maintenance, but downtime of 2-4 days once a month is not tolerable. I pay them money, if they can't maintain the service for the price then charge more, but justify it.
I still point my finger at the cartel that is the american telecom industry.
There may not have been a recall but the reports of problems w/ the cards seem to be legitimate. See Ike Sato's impressions of the PS2 @ videogames.com for a first hand account of some of the problems.
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That's because this is a pioneer HU and most of the after-market HUs are actually a heck-of-a-lot better than the OEM crap.
What's interesting is the amount of medical students snatching up palms in preparation for entering rotations. My wife is currently a second year medical student about to enter rotations this summer and she along with many of her classmates are buying some sort of palm device specifically for their rotations. There are a slew of databases containing drug information, disease/symptom data, etc. There are apps for patient tracking. It will be interesting to see how long it takes hospitals and clinics to incorporate new procedures utilizing palms into their existing procedures. I'm skeptical about the rate at which hospitals will adopt said procedures. It's been my experience w/ large academic hospitals (which are usually the most eager to try new technologies) that it's very difficult to get the physicians to adopt new procedures. Palm based procedures may appeal to the new generation of doctors but there are a lot of stubborn older physicians that are set in their ways.
I'm glad some people can "suck up" the bad service provided by some of these companies. But we do need other people to continue to complain about the lousy service/prices of these same companies. It's sad that we, in the midwest at least, have such limited choices for highspeed internet access. The nightmare stories you here aren't people just complaining for the sake of complaining. The different companies involved are really trying to make a quick buck by offering lower quality service than what we expect. I can tolerate downtime of a half day (overnight) for system maintenance, but downtime of 2-4 days once a month is not tolerable. I pay them money, if they can't maintain the service for the price then charge more, but justify it. I still point my finger at the cartel that is the american telecom industry.
There may not have been a recall but the reports of problems w/ the cards seem to be legitimate. See Ike Sato's impressions of the PS2 @ videogames.com for a first hand account of some of the problems.