Gosh I hope not because you've got it totally wrong. The official diagnosis for DM is a high fasting blood glucose and/or a high glucose tolerance test, but again both of these are symptoms of the disease, not the cause.

I've been thinking about the next time I do something like this and I'd take a serious look at doing it in Drupal. The Drupal website content management system you ask? Well once you get past a learning curve you realize that Drupal is a web based front end to a database which includes developer defined content types with custom fields and a CRUD front end with powerful permissions management, change tracking, query system, and presentation layer. For the offline issue there are export modules to Excel.

I'm aware of the existence of the desktop. I'm also aware that Microsoft has said that it's only there for compatibility purposes and should be considered deprecated. My comment is taking a longer view on where the UI is going, you are looking at the short view.

This may seem unrelated, but I don't think it is: I'm a programmer by profession and hobby, but woodworking is my other hobby and I belong to a club which has demonstrations at its meetings. They've got flat panel TVs mounted from the ceiling so those in the cheaper seats can see the demo and a few cameras mounted on the lathe at different angles. There is a switch box so an operator can easily switch which camera is shown on the TVs in real time and an output to record all of this. Now the issue: all the cameras, switch, and output are all standard def despite the TVs being HD. While such a setup is pretty cheap in SD, it's NOT EVEN AVAILABLE except in pro level equipment. HD cameras which save to a built in SD card are cheap, but can you even find a recorder capable of taking in unencrypted HDMI and recording it?

There are lots of woodworkers who make demonstration videos and put them on YouTube, but they're all either single camera or SD because multi-camera HD just isn't available to non-professionals.

I think over the past decade the creation of high quality content has really opened up to everyone, but then copyright issues came up because those same tools could be used to copy things. Now it feels to me like we're not supposed to notice that we're not being given access to those tools anymore. Tablets are great, I've got one, but they're more focused on consumption than creation. Sure you can get a cheap HD camera which will let you shoot your cat doing something cute and post it to YouTube, but you can't get what you'd need to make something a little more watchable.

I'm not trying to make claims of a big conspiracy, but it's hard to imagine that some of the big picture types at various corporations aren't noticing this trend and liking it.

I look forward to exchanging my professional grade dual 24" display development workstation for several 10" tablets lined up in a row. Do those Google Glasses come in prescriptions? Hopefully someone will come up with a cut and paste app across a cluster of devices.

I was primarily referring to the Metro interface which doesn't seem to allow more than at most 2 apps on the screen at the same time, and even the second app can only take up a small sliver on the edge. I regularly work in an environment where multiple applications need to be referred to at the same time to be productive.

You can go ahead and try to code with that, I'll be over here actually getting stuff done.

Tablets may be great to consume media and apps on, but I don't know what he thinks we're going to use to write this stuff with, and I mean either multimedia authoring or programming. Can any of you really see running a programming IDE in a Metro based environment while referring to some documentation at the same time? I didn't think so.

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Widescreen IPS display with at least 1200 pixel vertical resolution or it didn't happen...

They were all things that my friends and I talked about and found technologically inspiring, so while yes they are different, they are similar in the way that they inspire a STEM education.

I'm 46 and I grew up with Star Trek, the World Trade Center, the Concorde, and the space shuttle. How's that working out...

Nothing sits for long after it stops being popular/profitable, they implode it and build something else.

Actually I think you'd use an MPAA case as a precedent. Wasn't there a case from the MPAA against a company that was creating a side editing track to cut out the bad(good) parts of a movie to reduce it from R to PG-13?

Arduino, lots and lots of Arduinos. They're cheap and can be used for lots of stuff.