Re: [Discuss] transmitting legal documents

2015-02-22 Thread Richard Pieri
On 2/22/2015 8:13 PM, Bill Horne wrote: all, been using computerized medical records for over a decade. I suspect that it's a way to cut costs by requiring customers to deliver documents by hand, since few patients have fax machines at home, and It's because meeting HIPAA requirements with elec

Re: [Discuss] transmitting legal documents

2015-02-22 Thread John Abreau
On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Tom Metro wrote: > Jerry Feldman wrote: > > Unfortunately fax machines are a legal way to send information. While > > today many transactions are done by email, fax is the only legally > > recognized way to send a document. > > It's true that there are industries

Re: [Discuss] transmitting legal documents

2015-02-22 Thread Bill Horne
On 2/22/2015 12:51 PM, Tom Metro wrote: Jerry Feldman wrote: Unfortunately fax machines are a legal way to send information. While today many transactions are done by email, fax is the only legally recognized way to send a document. It's true that there are industries that are holdouts for usin

Re: [Discuss] os x = poop?

2015-02-22 Thread Dr. Anthony Gabrielson
I put Ubuntu on my Air after this post began. Ubuntu wasn’t bad on the Air, but a lot of custom configuration was required; custom configuration not needed with OS X. Anyway, I ended up putting OS X back on it after a few days. Anthony > On Feb 22, 2015, at 3:08 PM, Eric Chadbourne > wrote:

Re: [Discuss] os x = poop?

2015-02-22 Thread Eric Chadbourne
The experience with OS X so far isn’t all bad. Such nice problems to have. I’m starting to get used to Xcode. The GitHub for OS X app is probably the most user friendly way to use git I’ve seen yet. Regular stuff like firefox, Skype, and libreoffice all work fine. Being able to easily make a

Re: [Discuss] Raspberry PI 2

2015-02-22 Thread Jack Coats
The proprietary nature of the pi is what drove a few guys to develop the beagle board ( beagleboard.org ). It is fully open, runs various flavors of linux that stays on a 4G on-board flash. Go check the site for more details. It does run about $45, for the beagle board black. Spark Fun has them

Re: [Discuss] Raspberry PI 2

2015-02-22 Thread Tom Metro
Kent Borg wrote: > ...this little beast is nearly wide open. (Okay, the Broadcom chip > is not publicly documented and binary blobs are needed to use much of > it, but still...) The proprietary nature of the Pi is still its most significant drawback. A practical example of that limitation is the

Re: [Discuss] Raspberry PI 2 vs. ODROID-C1

2015-02-22 Thread Chuck Anderson
There is also the ODROID-C1 with similar specs, but some additional features like eMMC, IR receiver, GigE, USB OTG, real-time clock, and the ability to run Android. Another plus is that it isn't based on Broadcom (not very OSS friendly), it can decode more codecs in hardware, and it doesn't requir

Re: [Discuss] transmitting legal documents

2015-02-22 Thread Tom Metro
Jerry Feldman wrote: > Unfortunately fax machines are a legal way to send information. While > today many transactions are done by email, fax is the only legally > recognized way to send a document. It's true that there are industries that are holdouts for using fax (like doctors), and few compani

Re: [Discuss] Raspberry PI 2

2015-02-22 Thread markw
> On 2/22/2015 12:11 PM, ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote: >> Maybe I'm old, but this much computing capability the size of a pack of >> playing cards for $35 in quantities of one, seems like a HUGE enabling >> technology for a new boom in hardware products. > > You're right - you ARE old! ;-) I am, for

Re: [Discuss] Raspberry PI 2

2015-02-22 Thread Kent Borg
On 02/22/2015 12:34 PM, Bill Horne wrote: The hardware and software curves crossed about ten years ago, so it's logical that the hardware devices would get smaller and more specialized. The only thing I'm afraid of is that they're headed toward "appliance" status, where each "strawberry Pi", "P

Re: [Discuss] Raspberry PI 2

2015-02-22 Thread Kent Borg
On 02/22/2015 12:11 PM, ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote: Quad Core 900MHZ CPU 1 1G of RAM Solid state storage (SD Card) DC power supply A theoretical price of $35 (currently obtainable at $45) Seriously, how is this not an ideal platform for 99% of computer projects? Amazing specs, if you ask me.

Re: [Discuss] Raspberry PI 2

2015-02-22 Thread Bill Horne
On 2/22/2015 12:11 PM, ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote: Maybe I'm old, but this much computing capability the size of a pack of playing cards for $35 in quantities of one, seems like a HUGE enabling technology for a new boom in hardware products. You're right - you ARE old! ;-) The hardware and sof

[Discuss] Raspberry PI 2

2015-02-22 Thread markw
Quad Core 900MHZ CPU 1 1G of RAM Solid state storage (SD Card) DC power supply A theoretical price of $35 (currently obtainable at $45) Seriously, how is this not an ideal platform for 99% of computer projects? Why isn't one embedded in every toaster in the world? I have used a PI(b+) ind its pre