jpellino

My experience with Epic is that they barely talk between instances in different health care systems, you need a new account with each hospital system or practice you deal with, and small shops (OT, PT, home care) can't afford Epic in the first place, so a non-trivial portion of your records have to be hand-carried between providers.  

Part of the reason Google had a head start is because they introduced the free “Goog411”. Seemed like a great directory assistance service, and after 18 months they canned it. The reason was it was simply used by them to hear people saying every possible query in every possible accent and voice through phone connections. AI training disguised as a free info service. 

This is rich.  Intel is cranking out low-end processors for Chromebooks, either ignoring or flailing at next-gen SoC, and has to go - hat in hand - to their main competitor for technology and capacity.  Their SoC efforts have been mostly with existing processor designs and if you go looking for them it's for NUCs and Atom for mobile running on 14nm.  TSMC has been planning expansion before these guys came calling, I think they'll be fine letting Intel do what they can to compete on their own.  If they put in half the effort Apple has to get their A and M families to where they are, Intel should be fine.  But continuing their "good enough" approach may keep them in sales for a while, but it's not the look of progress they like to project.  Beyond that, they're at the mercy of device makers - if someone can do with licensable ARM what Apple has done, end-user manufacturers will go where they can make the most noise with the best claims.  Being a consultant for Intel will be highly lucrative for the next two years. Then they will either have succeeded in answering Apple/TSMC or they will be chasing them. As a company, they don't have much influence with consumers.  Ask anyone what chip is in the device they're using and you'll get mostly blank stares.  Unless you happen upon an M1 user - they will be happy to tell you. Intel just has never been able to get people excited about their product, and neither has Microsoft.  Well, except for that one time with some guy named Ballmer... Windows is like the joke about Denny's - you don't GO to Denny's, you END UP at Denny's.  That said, Win 11 is looking like the first version that can be sold on its merits - look and feel, speed - rather than "you just need us because we've been here for three decades".

MBA M1 new is the most expensive Mac Laptop I've bough since my 1400cs (I buy an Apple refurb store unit every 5 years).  The amount of time saved over my i5 MBP is stunning.  Sometimes I open the Applications folder, -A then -O just to show doubters how capable these new models are.