If the timer information is available, wouldn't it be useful to display it to drivers?
I'm not suggesting a countdown, but maybe some lights that let you know you're going to be sitting there for a minute, or less than a minute.
More specifically, they dictate what screen size a "netbook" has, what the maxium processor size can be and other specifics which pin the device down.
I think you've confused your monopolists;)
Intel stops giving out price breaks for Atom processors when the screen exceeds 10.1 inches. They've recently dropped that restriction for their fastest Atom (N550).
At the same time they've set minimum limits for the amount of memory and storage space.
It's additionally almost humorous that fueleconomy.gov considers the Prius a 'family sedan', when it's barely fit for toodling two about in the front, nevermind the back - failing both the 'family' and 'sedan' descriptions miserably.... What you're realistically looking at for a new family vehicle these days is a station wagon.
I'm not sure what to make of this comment. I own a 2007 Prius that's approaching 60K miles. I regularly drive the car with my wife and 3 kids aged 3, 7, and 10. Two years ago we all packed into the car (along with suitcases, coolers, diaper bags, etc.) and drove 900 miles to the California bay area, hung out for a few days, and then came back. Average fuel economy for the trip (which included driving over mountain passes and sustained speeds of 80) was 49 mpg.
Perhaps you're thinking of the previous generation Prius which is more of a compact car. The current Prius is dimensionally pretty close to a Camry.
BTW, my wife has the station wagon you recommend: A 2005 Focus wagon. There's a scoche more cargo room, but the passenger compartment is much more cramped.
To the extent that Solaris certs are still mildly valuable and EOL hardware is available for a pittance on eBay, wouldn't it make sense for Oracle to at least offer some form of "hobbyist" license? IIRC, Digital did that for Tru-64, selling a license for the OS and compiler for $99.
I know I'd pay $99 for an extremely limited support contract that entitled me to drivers/firmware/software for EOL hardware and nothing else.
As someone who did the Radeon 7000 to XVR-100 conversion myself, I'd suggest that someone wanting to pursue the latter
could start by picking up an honest-to-goodness XVR-300 and dumping the firmware out of that.
The big win on that GD firmware was that it enabled a feature that you couldn't get otherwise (console on the DVI output).
This weekend I was trying to download Solaris 10. The old license survey that you got in between selecting a platform and the actual download was busted and redirected to www.oracle.com
I filled out their online trouble ticket and got an email pointing me to the instruction page. I then sent them a screen shot showing that I was logged in and a zip file of the HTTP traffic between me and Oracle. I didn't get a follow up email but the Solaris download is mysteriously working again.
I spent the weekend trying to grab a copy of ALOM 1.6 firmware. The Oracle dev site says the 1.6 version is public and that only prior versions are restricted, but all attempts have resulted in failure. I even went so far as to use a search engine to try and find an unsecured copy -- no dice. I did find an earlier version of the OBP firmware that will allow me to install OpenSolaris 2010.03, er, 2010.04, er, 2010.H1
This is only the second time I've seen a review of an O'Reilly book exceed the length of the book under review
(The first was the review of false in a Nutshell).
Actually, I just wanted to post "TL;DR" but didn't want to hassle with the lameness filter...
The way it's supposed to work, the soonest the pilot should engage the autopilot is after retracting the landing gear. On the landing side, if you have a new(er) aircraft and the appropriate equipment on the ground, the autopilot can land the aircraft. IIRC, the weight-on-wheels sensor cuts out the autopilot when it engages.
(This is all hazy memories from my time as a DS-9 @ Boeing)
If we're going to treat this as an investment, then I *demand* the right to manage this like I manage other investments. I have to be able
to transfer funds out of poorly performing investments and move them to instruments that will give me the best ROI.
You're looking at this through the rose-tinted glasses of what might have been. Another poster downthread has already mentioned the 100%
overlap in the Sun and IBM product lines.
I'm not thrilled at some of the things that have played out so far, but I have a hard time seeing how it could have gone any better if IBM bought them out.
There are lots of reasons they can't sell world cars. The price of those European cars is way out of line with the price American consumers are willing to pay (see an example posted elsewhere in this thread). Although safety, noise, and emissions standards are similar between the US and Europe, they are not the same. If you're a niche manufacturer (i.e. Porsche/Volkswagen) you can get away with trying to be a "jack of all trades". However, my opinion of VW cars is that they're small, overpriced, and have quality issues (I've seen more fully involved VW car fires than all other makes combined).
Then there's overall market differences. The US is a big place, with hugely varied climates and driving conditions. Ford and GM have to sell cars that work in the 120 degree Sonoran desert, the near Arctic conditions of Alaska and Northern Minnesota, and everywhere in between.
It's not just American companies. Toyota (no slouch at making small, efficient cars) doesn't bring their smaller minivan to the US market. Somehow I think that disproves that it's an issue with the big 2.5.
That Medicare is more expensive probably has a lot to do with the fact that ~ 25% of Medicare enrollees actually participate in
a private insurance plan. Under Medicare Advantage, Medicare provides a pool and pays premiums to a private insurance company.
Something else that very few people realize is that HHS/CMS doesn't actually process all the claims in the Medicare system. They write
contracts to private entities (not more than a few of which are private insurance companies) to manage claims processing for them.
Medicare for all wouldn't really do a damn thing about removing profit motives from health insurance administration.
Actually, by the time you get to the age where a fetus can be detected and aborted, it's too late to grab stem cells. The source was
left over fertilized eggs.
Now, today we might be able to get all the ESC we need from this source, but there's a bigger moral question: Do you allow the creation of
fertilized eggs solely so that you can harvest them for ESC? And what happens if/when a viable treatment that requires ESC comes on the scene?
At that point, demand would certainly outstrip the current supply.
Medicare has lower administrative costs than private insurers when you compare percentages. However, Medicare spends an awful lot per each insured. When you compare the amount of money spent per insured person, Medicare doesn't look so great. If you really want to compare, you'd have to break down administrative costs into buckets based on whether the costs scale with the number of insured and then compare those.
I'd also note that many of the costs that a private entity would incur show up on another department's books. The IRS estimates their cost of revenue @.5%. That's covered under admin/general for a private entity, but it's not accounted for @ all when Medicare publishes their results. Then there's OPM and GSA.
My guess is that once you do a true apples to apples comparison, you'd find that there's probably only a difference of one or two percentage points between large private insurers and the government.
It should be an eye-opener that the "socialist" French understand this better than the "capitalist" Americans. In France, the reimbursement rate is set by law,
consumers pay for their care out of pocket, and they get reimbursed the legal amount after the fact.
while covering half as many people as other countries is good healthcare and worth keeping
The absolute highest number for uninsured is 45 million. It includes low income people who would be insured ex post facto by Medicaid if they presented at an ER, people who are currently between jobs and should have coverage within a few months, etc. The "real" number is alleged to be closer to 12 million.
Either way, that's a coverage ratio between 85 and 95%. It must be great to live in a country where they cover between 170 and 190% of the population.
What probably threw the original poster was the use of "Current through the end of 2009" language on the web accessible version. Every Title in the collection has the same language.
Our pediatrician does this as well. If you call up about pink eye or an ear infection, the receptionist takes your name for a scrip.
When the local pharmacy calls, everything is on the up and up.
The upside for the office is that you don't get kids with highly infectious conditions coming in and "sharing the love".
I believe you can get similar service inside some chain pharmacies: There's a nurse on hand to confirm the condition and then you get
your antibiotics right there. No waiting room, no dicking around, and total out of pocket cost is about the same as a copay at your
doctor's office.
If you want a taste of government at the township level, have a look at my local homeowner's association. Fucking asswads hassle me about leaving my trash can visible on non pickup days (even if it's out of sight next to the garage), having a car parked overnight on the public street in front of my house (and not because it interferes with trash pickup), having a doormat that's not the right color, or something sticking up over the top of the fence, or the external color of my blinds (white only), or having too many weeds in my front yard. For some bullshit reason, they think it brings down the property values. Here's a newsflash! The housing price collapse brought on by the subprime crisis has wiped out a hell of a lot more value than the week I left my trashcan next to the garage, you fucking micromanaging asshat!
Remind me again why I would want these fucktards managing my internet?
"firstname" and "lastname" are absolutely braindead in a global environment. Please, PLEASE PLEASE for $DIETY's sake, use "given name" and "surname" and throw the abomination that is firstname/lastname in the fucking trash where it belongs.
Windows isn't the only software product this applies to. I've found that Intrepid Ibex takes about as long to start on my machine as Vista (dual boot -- only difference is each OS gets it's own disk). Maybe I should go back to Slackware 10;)
In my experience, the only company that's doing serious work on improving performance is Sun. Java 6 _finally_ delivered a Swing implementation that didn't suck, NetBeans 6.5 starts at least as fast as Eclipse, and GlassFish just keeps getting better and better.
It's pretty easy to see who's tearing up the road by looking at the tires: The vehicle weight gets transmitted to the road in exact proportion to the tire pressure. Large trucks and buses have tire pressures on the order of 90-130 psi. Your average car has a tire pressure of 35 psi.
What's interesting is to take a look at the well worn pavement at an intersection. There are grooves worn in the pavement from heavy vehicles resting on the pavement. Stop and go traffic is much worse on the pavement as it increases the time each vehicle spends in a particular spot. This is also why you see city governments lay down concrete at bus stops. Having a bus stop for long periods of time on asphalt chews up the street.
Mean annual salary across the class of "Education, Training, and Library" workers: $46,610 Kindergarten: $47,750 Elementary: $50,040 Middle school: $50,630 Secondary: $52,450
BLS has recently redesigned their site, so I'm having issues finding their by-industry breakdown of hours worked by sector. I've seen it in the past, and if memory serves, the average number of hours in a year for education was well below 2000.
It's easy to find the current table, but it lumps education in with health care. Average weekly hours for those sectors is 32. The ER is open all night, your local elementary school is not: Draw your own conclusions.
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This is essentially what GM does for it's hybrid trucks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mild_hybrid
If the timer information is available, wouldn't it be useful to display it to drivers? I'm not suggesting a countdown, but maybe some lights that let you know you're going to be sitting there for a minute, or less than a minute.
I think you've confused your monopolists ;)
Intel stops giving out price breaks for Atom processors when the screen exceeds 10.1 inches. They've recently dropped that restriction for their fastest Atom (N550).
At the same time they've set minimum limits for the amount of memory and storage space.
I'm not sure what to make of this comment. I own a 2007 Prius that's approaching 60K miles. I regularly drive the car with my wife and 3 kids aged 3, 7, and 10.
Two years ago we all packed into the car (along with suitcases, coolers, diaper bags, etc.) and drove 900 miles to the California bay area, hung out for a few days, and then came back.
Average fuel economy for the trip (which included driving over mountain passes and sustained speeds of 80) was 49 mpg.
Perhaps you're thinking of the previous generation Prius which is more of a compact car. The current Prius is dimensionally pretty close to a Camry.
BTW, my wife has the station wagon you recommend: A 2005 Focus wagon. There's a scoche more cargo room, but the passenger compartment is much more cramped.
To the extent that Solaris certs are still mildly valuable and EOL hardware is available for a pittance on eBay, wouldn't it make sense
for Oracle to at least offer some form of "hobbyist" license? IIRC, Digital did that for Tru-64, selling a license for the OS and compiler for $99.
I know I'd pay $99 for an extremely limited support contract that entitled me to drivers/firmware/software for EOL hardware and nothing else.
As someone who did the Radeon 7000 to XVR-100 conversion myself, I'd suggest that someone wanting to pursue the latter could start by picking up an honest-to-goodness XVR-300 and dumping the firmware out of that. The big win on that GD firmware was that it enabled a feature that you couldn't get otherwise (console on the DVI output).
This weekend I was trying to download Solaris 10. The old license survey that you got in between selecting a platform
and the actual download was busted and redirected to www.oracle.com
I filled out their online trouble ticket and got an email pointing me to the instruction page. I then sent them
a screen shot showing that I was logged in and a zip file of the HTTP traffic between me and Oracle. I didn't get
a follow up email but the Solaris download is mysteriously working again.
I spent the weekend trying to grab a copy of ALOM 1.6 firmware. The Oracle dev site says the 1.6 version is public
and that only prior versions are restricted, but all attempts have resulted in failure. I even went so far as to use
a search engine to try and find an unsecured copy -- no dice. I did find an earlier version of the OBP firmware that
will allow me to install OpenSolaris 2010.03, er, 2010.04, er, 2010.H1
This is only the second time I've seen a review of an O'Reilly book exceed the length of the book under review (The first was the review of false in a Nutshell). Actually, I just wanted to post "TL;DR" but didn't want to hassle with the lameness filter...
The way it's supposed to work, the soonest the pilot should engage the autopilot is after retracting the
landing gear. On the landing side, if you have a new(er) aircraft and the appropriate equipment on the ground,
the autopilot can land the aircraft. IIRC, the weight-on-wheels sensor cuts out the autopilot when it engages.
(This is all hazy memories from my time as a DS-9 @ Boeing)
If we're going to treat this as an investment, then I *demand* the right to manage this like I manage other investments. I have to be able to transfer funds out of poorly performing investments and move them to instruments that will give me the best ROI.
You're looking at this through the rose-tinted glasses of what might have been. Another poster downthread has already mentioned the 100% overlap in the Sun and IBM product lines. I'm not thrilled at some of the things that have played out so far, but I have a hard time seeing how it could have gone any better if IBM bought them out.
There are lots of reasons they can't sell world cars. The price of those European cars is way out of line with the price American consumers are willing to pay (see an example posted elsewhere in this thread). Although safety, noise, and emissions standards are similar between the US and Europe, they are not the same. If you're a niche manufacturer (i.e. Porsche/Volkswagen) you can get away with trying to be a "jack of all trades". However, my opinion of VW cars is that they're small, overpriced, and have quality issues (I've seen more fully involved VW car fires than all other makes combined). Then there's overall market differences. The US is a big place, with hugely varied climates and driving conditions. Ford and GM have to sell cars that work in the 120 degree Sonoran desert, the near Arctic conditions of Alaska and Northern Minnesota, and everywhere in between. It's not just American companies. Toyota (no slouch at making small, efficient cars) doesn't bring their smaller minivan to the US market. Somehow I think that disproves that it's an issue with the big 2.5.
That Medicare is more expensive probably has a lot to do with the fact that ~ 25% of Medicare enrollees actually participate in a private insurance plan. Under Medicare Advantage, Medicare provides a pool and pays premiums to a private insurance company. Something else that very few people realize is that HHS/CMS doesn't actually process all the claims in the Medicare system. They write contracts to private entities (not more than a few of which are private insurance companies) to manage claims processing for them. Medicare for all wouldn't really do a damn thing about removing profit motives from health insurance administration.
Actually, by the time you get to the age where a fetus can be detected and aborted, it's too late to grab stem cells. The source was left over fertilized eggs. Now, today we might be able to get all the ESC we need from this source, but there's a bigger moral question: Do you allow the creation of fertilized eggs solely so that you can harvest them for ESC? And what happens if/when a viable treatment that requires ESC comes on the scene? At that point, demand would certainly outstrip the current supply.
Medicare has lower administrative costs than private insurers when you compare percentages.
However, Medicare spends an awful lot per each insured. When you compare the amount of money spent per insured person,
Medicare doesn't look so great. If you really want to compare, you'd have to break down administrative costs into
buckets based on whether the costs scale with the number of insured and then compare those.
I'd also note that many of the costs that a private entity would incur show up on another department's books. .5%. That's covered under admin/general for a private entity, but it's not
The IRS estimates their cost of revenue @
accounted for @ all when Medicare publishes their results. Then there's OPM and GSA.
My guess is that once you do a true apples to apples comparison, you'd find that there's probably only a difference of
one or two percentage points between large private insurers and the government.
It should be an eye-opener that the "socialist" French understand this better than the "capitalist" Americans. In France, the reimbursement rate is set by law, consumers pay for their care out of pocket, and they get reimbursed the legal amount after the fact.
while covering half as many people as other countries is good healthcare and worth keeping
The absolute highest number for uninsured is 45 million.
It includes low income people who would be insured ex post facto by Medicaid if they presented at an ER, people who are currently between jobs
and should have coverage within a few months, etc. The "real" number is alleged to be closer to 12 million.
Either way, that's a coverage ratio between 85 and 95%. It must be great to live in a country where they cover between 170 and 190% of the population.
The logjam has already been broken. The budget that was submitted to Congress assumed Yucca Mountain would be closed.
This was not passed last year. This was passed in '51 and it mirrors the federal McCarran act of '50:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarran_Internal_Security_Act
What probably threw the original poster was the use of "Current through the end of 2009" language on the
web accessible version. Every Title in the collection has the same language.
Our pediatrician does this as well. If you call up about pink eye or an ear infection, the receptionist takes your name for a scrip. When the local pharmacy calls, everything is on the up and up. The upside for the office is that you don't get kids with highly infectious conditions coming in and "sharing the love". I believe you can get similar service inside some chain pharmacies: There's a nurse on hand to confirm the condition and then you get your antibiotics right there. No waiting room, no dicking around, and total out of pocket cost is about the same as a copay at your doctor's office.
If you want a taste of government at the township level, have a look at my local homeowner's association. Fucking asswads hassle me about leaving my trash can visible on non pickup days (even if it's out of sight next to the garage), having a car parked overnight on the public street in front of my house (and not because it interferes with trash pickup), having a doormat that's not the right color, or something sticking up over the top of the fence, or the external color of my blinds (white only), or having too many weeds in my front yard. For some bullshit reason, they think it brings down the property values. Here's a newsflash! The housing price collapse brought on by the subprime crisis has wiped out a hell of a lot more value than the week I left my trashcan next to the garage, you fucking micromanaging asshat!
Remind me again why I would want these fucktards managing my internet?
"firstname" and "lastname" are absolutely braindead in a global environment. Please, PLEASE PLEASE for $DIETY's sake, use
"given name" and "surname" and throw the abomination that is firstname/lastname in the fucking trash where it belongs.
Windows isn't the only software product this applies to. I've found that Intrepid Ibex takes about as long to start on my machine as Vista (dual boot -- only difference is each OS gets it's own disk). Maybe I should go back to Slackware 10 ;)
In my experience, the only company that's doing serious work on improving performance is Sun. Java 6 _finally_ delivered a Swing implementation that didn't suck, NetBeans 6.5 starts at least as fast as Eclipse, and GlassFish just keeps getting better and better.
It's pretty easy to see who's tearing up the road by looking at the tires: The vehicle weight gets transmitted
to the road in exact proportion to the tire pressure. Large trucks and buses have tire pressures on the order of 90-130 psi.
Your average car has a tire pressure of 35 psi.
What's interesting is to take a look at the well worn pavement at an intersection. There are grooves worn in the pavement from
heavy vehicles resting on the pavement. Stop and go traffic is much worse on the pavement as it increases the time each vehicle
spends in a particular spot. This is also why you see city governments lay down concrete at bus stops. Having a bus stop for long
periods of time on asphalt chews up the street.
If I had mod points, you'd have them now.
For what it's worth, here's the 2007 Bureau of Labor Statistics salary survey:
http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm#b25-0000
Mean annual salary across the class of "Education, Training, and Library" workers: $46,610
Kindergarten: $47,750
Elementary: $50,040
Middle school: $50,630
Secondary: $52,450
BLS has recently redesigned their site, so I'm having issues finding their by-industry breakdown of
hours worked by sector. I've seen it in the past, and if memory serves, the average number of hours in a year
for education was well below 2000.
It's easy to find the current table, but it lumps education in with health care. Average weekly hours for those
sectors is 32. The ER is open all night, your local elementary school is not: Draw your own conclusions.