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Dec 17, 07 - 01:53 pm Comment from: Think

"You need to cut the left hemisphere away from the brain stem",
Cancel or Allow?

Not something we need in neurosurgery.

This is a disaster, because it means far fewer IT "support" personnel that would otherwise have been needed to support other competing operating systems and thus a smaller empire for the IT heads.

Dec 17, 07 - 02:01 pm Comment from: Ampar

"When we see patients in our clinic, we will display images on a large screen, discuss amongst ourselves, and then bring the patient in the room and discuss treatment options, if needed,' Spiegel said."

But that's only in the Linda Richman wing.

yea, but, Macs aren't fit for the corporate world!!!

Dec 17, 07 - 02:30 pm Comment from: Ampar

" . . . Vista is the most secure operating system we’ve ever done, and if it’s administered properly, absolutely, it can be used to run a hospital or any kind of mission critical thing."
- Bill Gates, Feb., 2007.

From fatal exception to fatal expectation. Would you bet your life on Vista?

Dec 17, 07 - 02:40 pm Comment from: Spark

@ Ampar
That quote always amazes me. Not in its claims, but rather in the way it highlights just how inarticulate Bill Gates is. Can you diagram that sentence for me please.

Dec 17, 07 - 02:46 pm Comment from: Lilochris

This is great. Plus if they need anymore stuff, there's an applestore less than 10 minutes away.

Wish the community colleges here switches out their Dells for Macs in the rooms. The lab at my college has 20 new Aluminum iMacs out of the 120 computers. And the graphic art lab uses new iMacs and Mac Pros for photoshop , & etc.

But they can't rid the dells because their required to keep them as the overall system of choice witch sucks. They're so slow and lag only when opening the web browser.

Dec 17, 07 - 02:49 pm Comment from: Ampar

Spark, he also completely avoids the issue of reliability. In the full interview, he only talks about security and backup power which would be demanded for any mission critical system. But then, the MS Windows EULA forbids claims of injury or death resulting from its use.
Let's see him put his own life or the life of a family member in the hands of Vista.

There is a light ahead, maybe I can move back to CT and work for HH as a Mac tech. I really hate NC weather.

Dec 17, 07 - 03:34 pm Comment from: Kit-N

Ampar,

Gates won't stake his life on Vista without testing it first on his lab monkey, Balmer.

Dec 17, 07 - 04:34 pm Comment from: Ampar

Kit-N:

I used Time Machine to get a picture of
Gates testing Vista's life support viability on his trained pet monkey.

I was born there.

Dec 18, 07 - 01:41 am Comment from: MacSheikh

@ Mark

What? You were born at the place where Gates was testing Vista's life support viability on his trained pet monkey?!

Think,

Good one dude

No potential, just money eh!

OsiriX, the app mentioned in the article, is something I use everyday and it is a wonderful app. A decent Macintosh can beat the pants off of a dedicated workstation from GE and others that is marketed for $100k a shot. As most Macheads know, a good Mac tower can be had for far less.

The developers of OsiriX have also extensively leveraged the OS technologies to great advantage, such as using iChat AV for remote consultation. It is free software that is used widely at many prestigious hospitals, clinics and freestanding imaging centers.

It is kind of fitting that this app exists as one of the original targets of NeXT Computer was the Radiology Workstation market- exactly what this app allows any Mac to do.