I work in a hospital. We've been playing a little with using iphone type devices, and you can use the capacitive touch screen whilst wearing standard surgical gloves, seems to be no problem. We have been playing with a number of windows based tablet devices specifically designed for a clinical environment, that use a pen interface, however due to there bulk, they all seem to end up being attached to a wall permanently and used there. You would get a lot more out of a desktop computer mounted in the same way. I can see a number of situations where a smaller IPad type device would be useful, however you need to start with a use (problem) and look for a solution, rather than take the technology and look for a way to justify having it. Just throwing an iPad a doctors will do nothing unless you have a comprehensive plan on how it will integrate with existing systems. This can be done, and should be done, but it will be expensive and time consuming.

You would do what we did twenty years ago, before mobile phones: run like hell, scream and shout, rather than calmly ringing 000/911 and making sure that the police can get a fix on the position that the bad guy will leave your body.

I think you may be mistaken, science has been around for a lot longer than Christianity... and you will find with a little research many scientists (including Darwin) who claimed to be Christian.

i'll try that again:::

Maybe they believe this because that is there daily experience. You may be certain that if you are on the moon and you drop a hammer and a feather at the same time, they will hit the deck at the same time.

For somebody who has never been to the Moon, and has never watched that bit of footage showing the experience, they know that the KNOW that the hammer will hit them on the toe whilst the feather is floating off in the breeze. They will be scientifically wrong only if you amend you question to include the stipulation "In a vacuum", and if you try to prove them wrong whilst in an atmosphere, you are going to look like a crank. (believe me I have tried to prove this to my kids, and only managed to reinforce there belief in there personal experience.)

The big problem with all of us "scientific" thinkers is that we have just as much "faith" in what we know as the next guy. I know that the planets orbit (mostly) around the sun, and can prove this is the best fit to the evidence by showing you a track of the inner and outer planets and showing how they behave differently during the year against the back ground stars.. I however cannot (without a large vacuum chamber) prove to you that the feather and hammer fall at the same rate, and having never conducted this experiment myself have to rely (have faith) that those experiments conducted by scientists that show this to be true, have been conducted correctly.

  For those who believe education is the solution to the "incorrect" thinking that is expressed by those who believe in an Earth centered universe, I would suggest a great deal of care. Education has been used by many interests through history to ensure that the population think and act in a certain way. You can steer a person to think just about anything just by controlling what knowledge they are or are not exposed to. The only way to really educate people to understand science and thereby the current state of scientific fact, is to expose them to experiences that allow them to believe what they themselves have seen and felt. Anything else is just another interest group espousing faith in their chosen book.

>>>>Many of these people probably also believe that heavy objects fall faster than light ones, not because they reject Galileo and his evidence and reasoning, but merely because they weren't paying attention that day in class. Maybe they believe this because that is there daily experience. You may be certain that if you are on the moon and you drop a hammer and a feather at the same time, they will hit the deck at the same time. For somebody who has never been to the Moon, and has never watched that bit of footage showing the experience, they know that the KNOW that the hammer will hit them on the toe whilst the feather is floating off in the breeze. They will be scientifically wrong only if you amend you question to include the stipulation "In a vacuum", and if you try to prove them wrong whilst in an atmosphere, you are going to look like a crank. (believe me I have tried to prove this to my kids, and only managed to reinforce there belief in there personal experience.) The big problem with all of us "scientific" thinkers is that we have just as much "faith" in what we know as the next guy. I know that the planets orbit (mostly) around the sun, and can prove this is the best fit to the evidence by showing you a track of the inner and outer planets and showing how they behave differently during the year against the back ground stars.. I however cannot (without a large vacuum chamber) prove to you that the feather and hammer fall at the same rate, and having never conducted this experiment myself have to rely (have faith) that those experiments conducted by scientists that show this to be true, have been conducted correctly. For those who believe education is the solution to the "incorrect" thinking that is expressed by those who believe in an Earth centered universe, I would suggest a great deal of care. Education has been used by many interests through history to ensure that the population think and act in a certain way. You can steer a person to think just about anything just by controlling what knowledge they are or are not exposed to. The only way to really educate people to understand science and thereby the current state of scientific fact, is to expose them to experiences that allow them to believe what they themselves have seen and felt. Anything else is just another interest group espousing faith in their chosen book.

A truly wise man, is not the man who knows something, but the man who knows what he does not know.

Reading this makes me glad I have a phone that I can use to RING and receive calls from anybody..... I think it can do that SMS thing.... . . . Did I say it can receive calls? P

Yep, you should be able to block you address from being searchable, that way I can assume anybody who can find my house is at least intelligent enough to search for the house numbers on either side. One way of ensuring a higher class of visitor. P