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"Portable blood glucose meters vary in size, speed of reporting, cost, amount of information they can store, and whether they can connect to personal computers. Some even come equipped with an alarm that reminds you to take your sample. If you've ever wondered why the fingertips are the usual "sticking" collection site, it's because the blood collected there shows changes much more quickly than samples taken from other sites, such as the thigh, upper arm, forearm, or base of the thumb, and thus are more reliable. Changes occur most rapidly after exercise or eating." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"An even better analogy for the hospital industry is a low-margin, high-volume business like personal computers. Dell earns only about c percent profit on each computer it sells, but it sells millions and millions of them. Similarly, hospitals want as many "bed turns," or as much "throughput," as possible in their profitable departments. The best way to accomplish this is to expand the capacity of high-margin departments to increase volume." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"In contrast, the advent of television made them passive receivers of entertainment, and personal computers were used by most people before the Internet mainly as typewriters and high-tech pinball machines. Because of the vivid and immediate personal impression the Internet makes, people find it plausible to assume that it also has great economic importance. It is much easier to imagine the consequences of advances in this technology than the consequences of, say, improved shipbuilding technology or new developments in materials science." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "In fact, the impression it conveys of a changed future is even more vivid than that produced when televisions or personal computers entered the home. Using the Internet gives people a sense of mastery of the world. They can electronically roam the world and accomplish tasks that would have been impossible before. They can even put up a Web site and become a factor in the world economy themselves in previously unimaginable ways." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Even twenty years ago, no one foresaw the impact that personal computers would have on our lives. Even science fiction writers got it woefully wrong. How, then, can we be expected to foretell the next twenty years accurately? Or even the next five or ten years? We are likely to see as much change compressed into them as we have seen in the last twenty years. Most of the breakthroughs that are to come remain, quite literally, inconceivable. Inner Evolution One area where we may see some of the most exciting developments is the exploration of human consciousness." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"An even better analogy for the hospital industry is a low-margin, high-volume business like personal computers. Dell earns only about c percent profit on each computer it sells, but it sells millions and millions of them. Similarly, hospitals want as many "bed turns," or as much "throughput," as possible in their profitable departments. The best way to accomplish this is to expand the capacity of high-margin departments to increase volume." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"Americans spend more money on fast food than on higher education, personal computers, computer software, or new cars. They spend more on fast food than on movies, books, magazines, newspapers, videos, and recorded music—combined," Eric Schlosser reveals in Fast Food Nation. What's more, in almost all cases, as noted earlier, all this dining out means people also are unknowingly putting into their bodies processed foods often pumped with hidden sugars. "People are consuming products that they wouldn't even dream have sugar in them," says food scientist Russ Bianchi." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.)

"Ubuntu has since become the most popular Linux distribution for personal computers. Today, Linux is just one of a vast number of open-source software projects. You can find high-quality open-source projects for videoconferencing, Web browsing, programming, word processing, making spreadsheets, modeling in three dimensions, mapping, online collaboration, and so on. These are the cultural riches of the twenty-first century—a beautiful and functional heritage of technology open for all to use, learn from, and build upon." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "OhMyNews is the future of journalism, jl Citizen Media mmm One impact of the availability of low-cost, powerful personal computers has been the appearance and evolution of citizen media, beginning with the desktop publishing revolution and the appearance of many zines (small, generally noncommercial magazines) in the late 1980s." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"Americans now spend more money on fast food than on higher education, personal computers, computer software, or new cars. They spend more on fast food than on movies, books, magazines, newspapers, videos, and recorded music combined.5 All of these factors mean free radicals are more active and damaging than ever. Nutritional medicine, supplementing our diet with vital antioxidant vitamins and minerals, is the only means we have to supercharge our body's natural defense and immune system." - Ray D. Strand, What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutritional Medicine May Be Killing You (Get the book.)

"Once considered an occupational hazard affecting only supermarket checkout clerks and bookkeepers, CTS did not become widely known until the 1980s, when personal computers came to dominate the workplace. Today, CTS is commonplace among people who use computers extensively. However, it must be noted that repetitive motion by itself has never conclusively been linked to increased pressure on the median nerve. Typing with the hand in an overextended, or "hyperflexed," position because the keyboard is too high or too low can cause an increase in symptoms that lead to CTS." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.)

"If they could discover materials, or combinations of materials, that worked at room temperature they could incorporate them into specialized and personal computers making them faster and more efficient. In 1995, the Scientific American reported an experiment that in the presence of the superconductor ruthenium, a strand of DNA became 10,000 times more conductive. Further reports followed, including the discovery in 2001 that a combination of DNA and another superconductor (carbon coated rhenium) achieved this state at room temperature." - Robin, Dr. Kelly, The Human Antenna: Reading the Language of the Universe in the Songs of Our Cells (Get the book.)

"Toxins in our personal computers, or in the dyes in our clothes, or in our children's plasric toys get there because manufacturers tradirionally haven't really paid much attention to these matters. They use materials based on cost and functionality. If the chemicals that were in your kid's plastic toys or in textile dyes were put into a drug, they would be regulated. But, by and large, if you put it into a toy or a dye for a sweater, nobody regulates it. The EU is starting to change all of that." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.)

"Apple's Macintosh II and Macintosh SE become the most powerful personal computers available The Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation Facility, an advanced supercomputer devoted to simulation and capable of a top speed of 1,720,000,000 computations a second, starts operations on Mar 9 IBM brings out the Personal System/2 group of personal computers, based on 3.5 in." - Alexander Hellemans and Brian Bunch, The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science (Get the book.)

"Other Early Players The promise of the home market inspired many manufacturers to offer their own proprietary low-priced personal computers. The late 1970s and early 1980s saw a plethora of such machines released, although few would be considered long-term financial successes. Apple Apple Computing was a major player from the very beginning of the personal computer era, with its Apple I (1976) and Apple II (1977) machines targeted at the business, home, and education markets. Atari Over the course of the 1970s Atari became known for its coin-operated and home videogames." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.) "The invention of the transistor, the integrated circuit, the memory chip, the floppy disk, and other key components made personal computers a reality by the late 1970s. (A crucial event was the introduction of the Apple II, the world's first widely popular personal computer, in 1977.) Since that time speed and memory have steadily increased, and cost has plummetted. The Internet, search engines, and online databases have made vast quantities of information available to virtually anyone, anywhere in the world; e-mail and cell phones have transformed personal communications." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.) "Hobby Computers The earliest personal computers were based on Intel's 8-bit microprocessors, and were designed strictly for hobbyists. The first of these, the Mark 8, was actually a how-to project introduced in the July 1974 issue of Radio Electronics magazine, based on a design by Jonathan Titus. Altair 8800: The World's First Personal Computer In 1975 a New Mexico-based company called MITS (Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry) released what is generally regarded as the world s first true personal computer, the Altair 8800." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.) "ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) the numerical code used by personal computers. assembly language the computer programming language that translates between higher-level programming languages and machine language. Assembly language has the same commands as machine language, but is more accessible because it enables programmers to use names instead of numbers. attachment a file, such as a Word document or graphic image, attached to an e-mail message. backbone a high-speed connection that forms a major pathway within a network, or over the Internet." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.)

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