Running it from the “try it option” off a CD I just burned.
(Old hardware is fun! Didn’t remember how loud or how heavy this “notebook” was. There’s a reason I called it “luggable”. Reminds me of the old Kaypro suitcase.)
First try it just hung. Second reboot it just worked.
Had to configure the wifi but it appears to work nicely. (No, refusal to connect as under U8.
Just starting to play.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/nov/21/ipad-newspaper-steve-jobs-rupert-murdoch
iPad ‘newspaper’ created by Steve Jobs and Rupert Murdoch
Apple and News Corp reportedly set to launch joint iPad news publication exclusively via download
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Rupert Murdoch, head of the media giant News Corp, and Steve Jobs, the chief executive of Apple, are preparing to unveil a new digital “newspaper” called the Daily at the end of this month, according to reports in the US media.
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With no printing or distribution costs, the US-focused Daily will cost 99 cents (62p) a week.
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Unless it has the UK Sun’s Page 3 ladies, I don’t see the 50$/year working.
The FLIP application already on the IPAD for free has a better shot.
All these “media moguls” have done is to get “We, The Sheeple” to buy the reader and transfer all the costs to us from them.
The IPAD is a “game changer” but it’s not a “credit card machine” like a toll booth collector. When I first saw it, I thought it was nothing more than a heavy device to sell me stuff. That’s the way these guys are thinking of it. It’s really a tool that puts the cloud at your finger tips.
Just rearranging those proverbial deck chairs isn’t going to do it.
Micro-payments will.
If each issue cost a tenth of a penny, then maybe you have a chance. And, charge me when I buy it. Subscriptions, “applications” that have to be downloaded to do nothing more than cost your wealth, and “copy protection” (i.e., Digital RIghts Management) in general is not how dikw (i.e., data, information, knowledge, wisdom) is consumed on the inet.
(Consumed is a bad word. It’s not “eaten”. It is digested, shared, and amplified. Absorbed might be better.)
This idea is a dud! The continued death throws of the old print media.
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Not immediately apparent how to do it.
Takes a while. Half hour? And, a few syncs.
Not apparent at all how to print from ipad.
Not sure if the upgrade does anything at all for anything.
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An observation: my macbookair is “slowing down”.
I assume this is an example of “crud buildup”. In Windoze, the registry is the source of all crud. Over time, for inexplicable reasons, the hardware just gets tired. Random slowdowns, lockups, crashes all eventually leading to the dreaded “bare metal restore”. Think voluntary suicide. A metal lobotomy. Starting over, … maybe. Who knows what exactly you will lose.
One of my reasons for trying the MacBookAir was the reputation for … stability.
Sorry, but I think I need a bare metal restore here on McBa.
It’s not going to be pretty. What will I lose?
This is one of the reasons I don’t recommend Apple.
Argh!
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EMAIL WITH Prof P
Re: Jasper Jottings for the IPAD
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Right now Jet Tech and I are wrestling with how to get a free book (one that was electronically given to me by the publisher) onto one of the 6 ereaders on my iPad. I like reading on the iPad so I encourage you to go with it.
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As I understand it. IBOOKS on the IPAD can only take an EPUB or PDF format via ITUNES. You didn’t say what format the ebook was in? Assuming (and we know what that means), that you have ITUNES set to export “books”, it should flow right over. I have to assume that the ebook you’re attempting to move is in another format. Depending upon what format it is, you’ll have to convert it. On the MAC, I like CALIBRE. While the UI is terrible, it does “do” many formats that I haven’t even heard of. Let me know what the format is or send me the file, I’ll attempt to convert it for you. After all I’m sitting in ICU with nothing to do. :-) Argh!
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Update applied. Big one. Reboot required. We’ll see.
Sound still broken.
Assume sharing is still broken.
Argh! Have to consider “bare metal restore”.
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Posted by reinkefj
An open letter to ClearPractice:
http://www.clearpractice.com/ehr/contact.cfm
To whom it may concern:
I think you are really on to something here. I’d like to share one idea. (It probably has occurred to you already, but perhaps not.)
Now I realize that you want to be “wholesale”; not “retail”. People, especially as patients can be so messy, and demanding. But, you’re software’s metaphor is the “practice”. You’re going to have to sell into against all sorts of competition. And, doctors are not IT guys (like me). They want to be “practicing” or playing golf. You need to incorporate “patient” and patient-driven demand into you model.
I’d suggest that you make the patient records and charting available to the patients. This would pressure the doctors to at least look at your solution.
Venially, looking at it from my own pov, my wife is very ill. I could use a charting system that would present to doctors the information I capture in an standard organized fashion. I’ve tried Google, Mcrosoft, Caremark, and several others. They all are unusable. Yours is the closest I’ve seen to a mature offering.
Since my wife has been sick, we have watched mystery diagnosis. There are a lot of “sick” people out there. Who are spending huge amounts of time and effort going from doctor to doctor seeking help. That certainly translates to a ton of administrivia and waste.
If you had patients “charting” their own conditions, you could drag the doctors, hospitals, insurance companies, and regulators (kicking and screaming) into the Twenty First Century. Your window of opportunity is limited. Obamacare is going to FORCE change.
I’ll show your setup to any of the docs that will listen. (I give them all free technology consulting.) But, would it be better for me to show them my wife’s chart on my iPad?
If you want an alpha test case, I volunteer. (Despite what I was taught in the military!)
fjohn reinke
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Apple needs to work on its networking software. I know they really want to be an appliance and that Users s don’t need to bother with the details. BUTT (there’s always a big but):
• At RWJUH, the IPAD can not connect to the wifi, but the MACBOOKAIR can.
• At SPUH, the IPAD can connect to the wifi, but the MACBOOKAIR can not.
Also, at SPUH, they have blocked email.
Also, at RWJUH, they have an “entertaining” wifi implementation by HP (which I’d be embarrassed to have my brand associated with) which requires some mickey mouse authentication (that’s what trips up the IPAD) and disconnects randomly. (In the process of which causes both FIREFOX36, GOOGLECHROME, and SAFARI to lose their place in the browser session. (ARGH!)
And, of course, in the ultimate insult to the mundane User, there’s no way to bring these to anyone’s attention. (Argh!)
So why do they bother? An “accomplishment” on someone’s annual appraisal?
Doesn’t inspire confidence in the hospital’s brand.
(My personal test is how clean are the rest rooms — although you can not rest there? Both hospitals seem to do well by that standard.)
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http://www.fox5vegas.com/news/25511115/detail.html
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Clark County Registrar of Voters Larry Lomax said there is no voter fraud, although the issues do come up because the touch-screens are sensitive. For that reason, a person may not want to have their fingers linger too long on the screen after they make a selection at any time.
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At best, poor design. At worst, fraud. I don’t understand why a paper ballot isn’t produced from the machine and then “cast”. I think the entrenched politicians and bureaucrats like the system just the way it is “broken”!
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So far the only way I have found to get a book into, or is it onto, the IPAD is via ITUNES. You either have to buy through their store (and boy do they make that convenient) or to import into ITUNES, dock the ipad, and sync it on board. That’s a pain. Amazing that the IPAD and the MACBOOKAIR are both sitting next to each other and they can not communicate by wifi or bluetooth. It’s no wonder that APPLE gets the label “CLOSED” and “DUMB”. Amazing for as good as their hardware is — novel, useful, and thought provoking, their implementations leave a lot to be desired.
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