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Wait, I have kids?

How can those extensions consume so much? You dropped almost 900mb by shutting off the extensions!

Well it better do something, since the speakers are pointed into the wood! Otherwise this will be inaudible!

This is actually well done HTML5 as cat websites go. It would be way more impressive if a cat had written it though...

While I live in a FiOS served area, so have fast internet of 25/25mbit service with option of 50mbit, many people in the US do not, and overseas bandwidth is very poor in some countries. I just returned from Kuwait, and many neighborhoods only have DSL speeds at best, if at all; and Kuwait is a fairly high-tech country. Even in areas of Kuwait with cable, and speeds up to 10mbit, the access out of the country was very slow, as was access between ISP's, so Apple would have to have servers very distributed throughout these countries which would be high-cost, low yield.

I built my own home system without the sonos, just with a few airport express basestations and small amp/speakers. I have whole house ethernet, so this gives me ubiquitous wifi throughout the house (large house 3 floor + finished basement) and yard, and can play from any of the iDevices or macs to anywhere. Just used old amps/receivers sitting around, put in some speakers, and voila. I put in a zone in the backyard with "rock speakers" in the bushes, and some buried cable which goes to an amp in the basement.

It was cheap and works flawlessly. This solution seems to be if you already had a sonos, otherwise there are much cheaper ways to achieve this.

We are the hospital (BIDMC in Boston) featured in the Year in iPad video at the keynote, the CNBC piece on iPads and the Boston globe (I'm one of the doctors in the videos), and our iPads worked just fine out of the box day 1.

That's because our EHR is fully web based. Not rocket science; our EHR is 40 years old, and home grown, but any of them could have a web interface (ours has obviously been updated over the years). We had full functionality day one (also would work equally well on an android based tablet, or that refrigerator with a web browser built in, etc) so not like this is so hard to accomplish.

Of course in the US, with some exceptions, most doctors don't work for hospitals due to the stark laws, so that makes purchases like this trickier in the US.

This is due to insufficient browser cache (ie. ram) in the iPad. This is particularly true in the iPad 1, and is greatly reduced with the doubling of motherboard RAM in the iPad 2.

It's not directly eating lead (and it's the lead salts, not metallic blocks of lead that are the problem) it's getting it on your hands from contact with parts, then eating later without properly washing all the lead off. While people are pointing out that you'd have to have enough, studies have shown some impact from even small amounts of lead on developing brains. The amount that we start to treat aggressively is around 10mcg/L (which despite someone stating 2 bullets, is orders of magnitude less exposure). A full adult has 40L of total body fluid, and a child has some fraction of that. Let's imagine 10L, so a total of 1mg of lead would yield toxic levels. 1mg of lead is really tiny (a .22cal lead bullet is almost 2g, so you are talking a tiny fraction of a bullet)

A sealed lead battery is kind of a stupid source, since it's inside, but lead terminals, wiring, valve stems, etc are all sources where a child might touch and get contact transfer.

Secondly of course the danger from lead pales compared to letting the kid ride the thing in the first place... But that's not the point of the article.

We write all our own software here at BIDMC. Our ehr is web based (and meaningful use certified) so the iPad is a viewer for that (also makes security simpler).

All the other apps aren't technically part of the ehr.