One for Chrizz.........

[Homer]

Hi,
I can't guarantee the authenticity of this, but it makes bad reading about Windoze Vista (but be prepared for a long read) A cost analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection
Come on Aros, I need you but I don't need this cr@p  :lol:
Like I always say, I expect newer computers to be faster and better at doing what I want to do. I don't expect them to be slower and unable to do what the old one did  :crazy:
All comments on a used £5 note please  :python:

[KThunder]

i dont think ive ever even seen a 5(crap were is the pound symbol, i know were it is on the c64) note. how should i "use" the note. my comments are usually butt-crack worthy

windows vista is going to bomb worse than microsoft bob, because not only is it useless and resource hungry it acually makes computing worse.

[Marco]

I pretty much gave up the will to live once I got to hollywood studios having veto rights over any new security program. Damn man I was already ill before I read that... And the medical imaging bit is a very scary scenario, especially for someone waiting for an operation on the already pretty scary NHS.

Let me put it this way: I will never, ever, ever buy, use or come within ten feet of a Vista PC. I only keep XP around for gaming. The most distressing thing is, my current rig is really antiquated (by PC standards, obviously the meaning is different in the world of Amiga users) and I 'need' to upgrade and 'will end up using Vista' (according to my brother at least).

@KThunder: I'm sure Vista will be a massive success because of the slack-jawed-yokels that made previous Windoze releases a success.

[Homer]

Wow ! Thats two more responses than I expected   :lol:

[golem]

As proven time again in human history the mob rule. But maybe thats because intelligent people are generally also very lazy and too full of themselves to speak to the retard that comprises the mob. I'm being philosophical...had a few beers.  :roll:

[X-ray]

"...For example the field of medical imaging either bans outright or strongly frowns on any form of lossy compression because artefacts introduced by the compression process can cause mis-diagnoses and in extreme cases even become life-threatening..."
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If Vista has the ability to alter in any way the image on a PACS workstation, I can tell you now that it won't be the operating system used for that station.
You just need one missed micro-calcification on a mammogram and there will be lawsuits flying around (the hospital/NHS will be the entity paying damages). They are definitely not going to go for it, it is common sense and risk management.
A standard PACS monitor for viewing X-ray images is a 3k monitor. A mammogram-compliant monitor is 5k.

I would like to see them even try to justify using Vista for PACS networks. They could get away with it on a standalone machine like an operating theatre fluoroscopy unit, but not PACS.
Don't forget that PACS also handles audio (the dictated report) and video (such as cardiac imaging, barium studies and other motion sequences such as cine CT and 4D ultrasound). These workstations often have three monitors.

Sounds like a colossal balls-up to me.

[A4000_Mad]

Homer wrote:
Wow ! Thats two more responses than I expected

You mustn't despair if no-one replies to your post  :cry:


The clever people here are just busy inventing, working on solving your problem or thinking of something amazing to write   :-)



Oh.. who am I kidding  :boohoo:  :boohoo:  :boohoo:

[amiga92570]

I wonder if it automatically calls 911 to report a theft. haha :-?

[Fester]

hmmm....

Long read indeed.

"As a user, there is simply no escape.  Whether you use Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 95, Linux, FreeBSD, OS X, Solaris (on x86), or almost any other OS, ...(snip)... non-Windows users will be paying for Windows Vista content-protection measures in products even if they never run Windows on them."

I must be dumb or something. How can this be good for Microsoft? If it's true, it certainly isn't good for anyone using personal computers...

Go vintage I suppose. Back to the abacus.

[amiga_3k]

If Microsoft really is targetting hospitals with Vista then they really have to do something about the long booting times of Windows operated computers. When it comes to X-Ray imaging systems loads of computers are hooked to eachother to operate the whole rig. Right now, with Windows XP as OS it can easily take up over 45 minutes to get the whole system re-booted and operational again! Hopefully it's not my body being operated on during such a reboot.

If Hyperion would earn a buck or two with AmigaOS4 then solutions for use in medical could be a good source of money. Especcially if they could get the re-booting time of a full X-Ray rig down to, say, a few minutes ;-). Just a thought....

(have been drinking a bit....)

[skurk]

Speaking of computers in hopsitals, here's a funny story:

When I worked at the University Hospital in Trondheim, Norway back in 1996, we did most service on all sorts of clinical-medical equipment.

One day we received an ultrasound machine which had some problems with the main ultrasound unit.  It was a red, metallic custom case bolted onto a mobile PC desk with wheels.  It was a funny looking thing, but the first thing that caught my eyes was the keybard.  It looked strikingly familiar....

We popped the hood, and voila - wouldn't you know, a vanilla C64.  It had some sort of a cardridge connected to the ultrasound unit, and that's about all I remember.  I also saw a few Apple ]['s, but they were already retired, stored away in the basement.

It's worth mentioning that the C64 had been running since early 1980's without any problems at all.  No upgrades, no errors.  It just did its job, every single day.

Wonder if the Vista workstations will do the same until the 2020's? ;-)

[Homer]

The thought of all those cheap computer parts that are available now not being sold anymore as the manufacturer will not be allowed to use a pcb for different level products. Wtf ?
Wrt encryption, I hear people at work say that its all OK as the new pc's are so fast that you won't notice all that data encryption going on, but just think how fast that computer would be running a lightweight OS.
 :crazy: :destroy:  
Mind you, it might still all be a load of old unproven fluff  :-o

[X-ray]

As far as I know, the PACS database in most cases is Unix-based. By this I mean the main server and the archive storage/retrieval cabinets.
The images are retrieved from the server and viewed on the PACS workstation, which at this point is Windows XP-based. That's where the diagnosis gets made, and that is the workstation that must have the diagnostic images viewed at their best resolution. In fact if the monitor doesn't have a minimum spec, it can't be used for reporting even if the image has not been degraded.
To give you an idea of the quality of the monitors, they are grayscale only but cost in the region of £20k for a pair, and they need their own graphics cards.
Can you imagine having such high quality displays but not being able to get 100% performance?
I can't see it happening.