Actually, there's a RAND study on this. Here's the summary:
Does free medical care lead to better health than insurance plans that require the patient to shoulder part of the cost? In an effort to answer this question, the authors studied 3,958 people between the ages of 14 and 61 who were free of disability that precluded work and had been randomly assigned to a set of insurance plans for three or five years. One plan provided free care; the others required enrollees to pay a share of their medical bills. As reported in R-2847-HHS, patients in the latter group made approximately one-third fewer visits to a physician and were hospitalized about one-third less often. For persons with poor vision and for low-income persons with high blood pressure, free care brought an improvement (vision better by 0.2 Snellen lines, diastolic blood pressure lower by 3 mm Hg); better control of blood pressure reduced the calculated risk of early death among those at high risk. For the average participant, as well as for subgroups differing in income and initial health status, no significant effects were detected on eight other measures of health status and health habits. Confidence intervals for these eight measures were sufficiently narrow to rule out all but a minimal influence, favorable or adverse, of free care for the average participant. For some measures of health in subgroups of the population, however, the broader confidence intervals make this conclusion less certain.
TL;DR -- When people had to share in the costs of health care, they used less of it without a significant negative impact to health outcomes. See also: Moral Hazard
In Spain the polls close at 8pm and typically 90% of the votes have been counted by 11:30pm, 95% one hour later and 98% by 3am. This is a country with 45 million inhabitants.
On average, how many items are on the ballot?
On November 4th, my ballot will have the president, representative in the house, 8 voter initiatives, 43 judges, 2 slots on the corporation commission, state representative, state senator, and some local bond issues.
More importantly, we should switch to a form of voting in which a single company is not in a position to completely screw up the entire election.
For what it's worth, Diebold is only one of a small number of players in the electronic voting machine market. ES&S and Sequoia are two others I know about off the top of my head. Neither one of them has a CEO which promised to "deliver Ohio's electoral votes to George Bush", and both of them have had well publicized security issues.
At the end of the day, I see electronic voting machines as being defined by the market. Cities and counties buy these things to save face by not looking like Florida in 2000. But they don't want to pay too much, as the things only get used 1-2 times a year.
I don't see OSS as a panacea either. UI and documentation just aren't things that get done well in community projects;) My guess is that you'd see something like the projects that IBM has donated to Apache. Design decisions are made by IBM employees and major committers are IBM employees. A few non-IBMers are part of the project, but it's essentially an OSS "frosting" on an IBM project.
Actually, that's the best case scenario. Worst case is gVoteBooth vs. kVoteBooth, MySQL vs. PostGreSQL (with a few SQLite zealots), and endless language and/or build tool flamewars.
Mostly correct. Netscape made money selling their horrid web server in corporate environments. They were giving the browser away for free for non-commercial users.
If the truth were told, back when Netscape was a relevant browser, most of my coworkers were grabbing the free, non-commercial version and installing it at work. And Netscape didn't really care, as they were giving away their browser in order to drive sales of their server.
Netscape's server arm survived for a loooong time, finally becoming the basis for Sun's application server. IIRC, only the newest version of Sun's app server (i.e. 9.x aka GlassFish) doesn't directly trace it's roots to Netscape/iPlanet.
And let's not forget Netscape Directory Server. Or, as it's known today, RedHat Directory Server.
During the dot-com era, it was one of the better LDAP implementations.
There are other factors at work than just how the vehicle profile performs in an wind tunnel. If (and this is fairly common in the US) you have your exhaust system exiting at the rear of the car, the exhaust mass fills in the low pressure area that would normally be created by dragging a flat-backed (or Kaambacked) object through the air.
You're thinking of the Multia. It supported Windows NT, Digital Unix (what we now call Tru64), and OpenVMS. When Linux was ported to
Alpha, it was supported too.
NT on Alpha had support all the way to SP6a. With the exception of Outlook, most of the Microsoft products of the day were available in
both i386 and Alpha.
> I'm looking forward to the unimaginable degree of whining we're going to hear from this industry once the San Andreas Fault has its next big slip.
According to Google, only 15% of California residents have earthquake insurance. Those that do have insurance typically have policies with high deductibles and strongly worded limits that lay out what they will pay for. In general, Californians have learned it's better to bolt their houses to their foundation, secure large and/or flamable objects, and take the good with the bad.
For what it's worth, I threw some numbers in for the house I used to live in in California. A $500,000 house with a 15% deductible, $25,000 personal property limit and $10,000 in loss-of-use coverage comes out to $2400/year. That would be on top of your standard homeowners insurance. And what do you get for the money? $460K in coverage and you're responsible for the first $75K of damages.
Currenly the.NET Framework is not on Server Core, which means ASP.NET is currently not available. This is something the.NET team wants to add and we're working on adding it as soon as possible. Classic ASP works just fine, and with the new FastCGI support, PHP also runs great on Server Core.
1) There's no way to tell exactly where it's going until it gets there. If you know that country A has missile B with range X you can guess at where its going. However, anywhere North Korea wants to send a missile is probably someplace we don't want it to go.
2) No fallout. Worst case you're looking at a small scale cleanup job that needs doing on a military base.
3) Just ask GWB how well preemptive attacks work out for the US's world image;)
4) Not really. The additional weight required to achieve this would increase cost and/or decrease payload. In both cases another country could "head fake" an ASAT launch to force the US to move satellites out of coverage. Current satellites could move out of position slowly which is good enough for most current ASAT technologies.
5) See the ABM treaty the US signed with the USSR as why this is a really bad idea (TM).
If the problem is drivers, dollars to doughnuts the problem is either with a company whose name starts with "n" and ends with "Vidia" or another major video chipset manufacturer that was recently purchased by AMD. In neither case do I think their only access to Vista is through "TechNet".
As a SharePoint geek (2003 and 2007) I'm curious about what's in the new OOXML formats that's SharePoint specific. I know I haven't seen anything in the documents -- hell, out of the box SharePoint doesn't even correctly index all the new OOXML formats like it does for the old binary ones.
Yes, SharePoint 2007 works best with Office 2007 (DIP, better dialogs, read-only means read-only, calendar sync, etc. etc.) but I have yet to see _anything_ in the standard collaboration functionality* that screams "OMGWTFBBQ! Why aren't you using OOXML formats?".
All that said, please don't let facts get in the way of anti-Microsoft rants. It's part of what makes/. so much fun.
*I don't consider writing features that generate OOXML to be standard collaboration. Yes, it's much easier to do OOXML than, say, WordML and/or SpreadsheetML.
P.S. As to the poster asking about Alfresco, I think the biggest hurdle there is lack of decent documentation.
You do realized that purposes of CAFE, Subaru classifies that vehicle as an SUV and not a car. That makes you one of those reviled-on-Slashdot SUV-driving-motherf**kers who are in league with Osama Bin Laden and/or GWBush and/or the Trilateral Comission for a New World Order.
Sure you will -- in the used section.
I found my copy of Earl Ziemke's "The U.S. Army in the Occupation of Germany 1944-1946" through Amazon.
The local used book stores are mostly full of dog-eared bodice rippers going for $.50.
When I wanted to read a bunch of Anthony Price books (his David Audrey series), I got a link to a used bookstore
in Washington from Amazon. Ordered all the books they had for just under $20 shipped.
The research overwhelmingly demonstrates that parent involvement in children's learning is positively related to achievement. Further, the research shows that the more intensively parents are involved in their children's learning, the more beneficial are the achievement effects. This holds true for all types of parent involvement in children's learning and for all types and ages of students.
To answer another poster (RE: Finland), here in the US, single parent families are at a significant disadvantage when it comes to being able to invest the time in their child's education. Work, commuting to work, making dinner, going grocery shopping, laundry, etc. all impinge on the time that a parent can involve themselves with their child's education.
My former employer "outsourced" IT to HP. Production servers moved to the HP datacenter in Colorado Springs. First level support for Wintel and Unix went to HP in Chennai. The contract was pretty damn expensive ($1k/month per server IIRC) and they still didn't do everything that IT does (custom development, application integration, etc.) The employer still had almost as many on-sight admins after tha contract as before -- just because HP wants to do it one way doesn't mean it is: a) the right way for your company b) the right way to do it c) anything you want to share with HP -- they may offer it as a service to your competitors
It certainly doesn't help that the demographic most likely to kill themselves due to stupidity also happens to be some folks that are otherwise regarded as pretty smart (medical doctors)*. It also doesn't help that the barrier to entry to become a private pilot is pretty high (in terms of $$$) and so in many instances the family sees not only the traumatic emotional experience of the loss of a family member but also a huge negative impact in their standard of living. Is it any wonder that they're preyed upon by lawyers?
*There's a reason the Beech Bonanza has the nickname "Doctor Killer", and it's not because it was the villain in a B-Movie.
Also, don't sit next to someone who looks like they might have been a fighter pilot during the war.
His stories are enough to make you want to commit seppuku, hang yourself, or light yourself on fire.
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Actually, there's a RAND study on this. Here's the summary:
source
TL;DR -- When people had to share in the costs of health care, they used less of it without a significant negative impact to health outcomes. See also: Moral Hazard
In Spain the polls close at 8pm and typically 90% of the votes have been counted by 11:30pm, 95% one hour later and 98% by 3am. This is a country with 45 million inhabitants.
On average, how many items are on the ballot?
On November 4th, my ballot will have the president, representative in the house, 8 voter initiatives, 43 judges, 2 slots on the corporation commission, state representative, state senator, and some local bond issues.
More importantly, we should switch to a form of voting in which a single company is not in a position to completely screw up the entire election.
For what it's worth, Diebold is only one of a small number of players in the electronic voting machine market. ES&S and Sequoia are two others I know about
off the top of my head. Neither one of them has a CEO which promised to "deliver Ohio's electoral votes to George Bush", and both of them have had
well publicized security issues.
At the end of the day, I see electronic voting machines as being defined by the market. Cities and counties buy these things to save face by not looking like
Florida in 2000. But they don't want to pay too much, as the things only get used 1-2 times a year.
I don't see OSS as a panacea either. UI and documentation just aren't things that get done well in community projects ;)
My guess is that you'd see something like the projects that IBM has donated to Apache. Design decisions are made by IBM employees and major committers
are IBM employees. A few non-IBMers are part of the project, but it's essentially an OSS "frosting" on an IBM project.
Actually, that's the best case scenario. Worst case is gVoteBooth vs. kVoteBooth, MySQL vs. PostGreSQL (with a few SQLite zealots), and endless language and/or
build tool flamewars.
Mostly correct. Netscape made money selling their horrid web server in corporate environments. They were giving the browser away for free for non-commercial users. If the truth were told, back when Netscape was a relevant browser, most of my coworkers were grabbing the free, non-commercial version and installing it at work. And Netscape didn't really care, as they were giving away their browser in order to drive sales of their server. Netscape's server arm survived for a loooong time, finally becoming the basis for Sun's application server. IIRC, only the newest version of Sun's app server (i.e. 9.x aka GlassFish) doesn't directly trace it's roots to Netscape/iPlanet. And let's not forget Netscape Directory Server. Or, as it's known today, RedHat Directory Server. During the dot-com era, it was one of the better LDAP implementations.
Actually, the US used what we now call waterboarding against prisoners taken in the Phillipine-American war.
Yeah, too bad there isn't a virtual desktop for XP
There are other factors at work than just how the vehicle profile performs in an wind tunnel. If (and this is fairly common in the US) you have
your exhaust system exiting at the rear of the car, the exhaust mass fills in the low pressure area that would normally be created by dragging
a flat-backed (or Kaambacked) object through the air.
You're thinking of the Multia. It supported Windows NT, Digital Unix (what we now call Tru64), and OpenVMS. When Linux was ported to Alpha, it was supported too. NT on Alpha had support all the way to SP6a. With the exception of Outlook, most of the Microsoft products of the day were available in both i386 and Alpha.
You've made a horrible mistake. You've used "Alpha" and "power efficient" in the same sentence without including a "not" ;)
The Sidewinder was based on an ARM processor.
"Mimsy were the borogoves" is a story by Henry Kuttner (and, presumably his wife C.L. Moore) and not PKD.
> I'm looking forward to the unimaginable degree of whining we're going to hear from this industry once the San Andreas Fault has its next big slip.
According to Google, only 15% of California residents have earthquake insurance. Those that do have insurance typically have policies
with high deductibles and strongly worded limits that lay out what they will pay for. In general, Californians have learned it's better
to bolt their houses to their foundation, secure large and/or flamable objects, and take the good with the bad.
For what it's worth, I threw some numbers in for the house I used to live in in California. A $500,000 house with a 15% deductible, $25,000 personal property limit and $10,000 in loss-of-use coverage comes out to $2400/year. That would be on top of your standard homeowners insurance. And what do you get for the money? $460K in coverage and you're responsible for the first $75K of damages.
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It's tricky in that you're always going to have some leakage. It's not tricky in that it can't be allowed to escape because it's
radioactive.
Honda seems pretty optimistic that it's not an unsolvable problem.
http://blogs.iis.net/bills/archive/2007/06/04/iis7-on-server-core.aspx
The "Strike Eagle" is just an F-15 variant (F-15E). The F-15 has been in service since '76.
That would be great! I'd finally get to use the army of ninjas I've created. :(
Won't be so great for my love interest though
1) There's no way to tell exactly where it's going until it gets there. If you know that country A has missile B with range X you can guess at where its going. However, anywhere North Korea wants to send a missile is probably someplace we don't want it to go.
;)
2) No fallout. Worst case you're looking at a small scale cleanup job that needs doing on a military base.
3) Just ask GWB how well preemptive attacks work out for the US's world image
4) Not really. The additional weight required to achieve this would increase cost and/or decrease payload. In both cases another country could "head fake" an ASAT launch to force the US to move satellites out of coverage. Current satellites could move out of position slowly which is good enough for most current ASAT technologies.
5) See the ABM treaty the US signed with the USSR as why this is a really bad idea (TM).
If the problem is drivers, dollars to doughnuts the problem is either with a company whose name starts with "n" and ends with "Vidia" or
another major video chipset manufacturer that was recently purchased by AMD. In neither case do I think their only access to Vista is
through "TechNet".
As a SharePoint geek (2003 and 2007) I'm curious about what's in the new OOXML formats that's SharePoint specific. I know I haven't
/. so much fun.
seen anything in the documents -- hell, out of the box SharePoint doesn't even correctly index all the new OOXML formats like it does
for the old binary ones.
Yes, SharePoint 2007 works best with Office 2007 (DIP, better dialogs, read-only means read-only, calendar sync, etc. etc.) but I have
yet to see _anything_ in the standard collaboration functionality* that screams "OMGWTFBBQ! Why aren't you using OOXML formats?".
All that said, please don't let facts get in the way of anti-Microsoft rants. It's part of what makes
*I don't consider writing features that generate OOXML to be standard collaboration. Yes, it's much easier to do OOXML than, say, WordML and/or SpreadsheetML.
P.S. As to the poster asking about Alfresco, I think the biggest hurdle there is lack of decent documentation.
You do realized that purposes of CAFE, Subaru classifies that vehicle as an SUV and not a car.
That makes you one of those reviled-on-Slashdot SUV-driving-motherf**kers who are in league with Osama Bin Laden
and/or GWBush and/or the Trilateral Comission for a New World Order.
Sure you will -- in the used section. I found my copy of Earl Ziemke's "The U.S. Army in the Occupation of Germany 1944-1946" through Amazon. The local used book stores are mostly full of dog-eared bodice rippers going for $.50. When I wanted to read a bunch of Anthony Price books (his David Audrey series), I got a link to a used bookstore in Washington from Amazon. Ordered all the books they had for just under $20 shipped.
Although I'm not the OP, I'll nod towards this, found via our (most/least) favorite search engine with less than 15 seconds of effort:
http://www.nwrel.org/scpd/sirs/3/cu6.html
To answer another poster (RE: Finland), here in the US, single parent families are at a significant disadvantage when it comes to being able
to invest the time in their child's education. Work, commuting to work, making dinner, going grocery shopping, laundry, etc. all impinge on the
time that a parent can involve themselves with their child's education.
My former employer "outsourced" IT to HP. Production servers moved to the HP datacenter in Colorado Springs. First level support for Wintel and Unix went to HP in Chennai. The contract was pretty damn expensive ($1k/month per server IIRC) and they still didn't do everything that IT does (custom development, application integration, etc.) The employer still had almost as many on-sight admins after tha contract as before -- just because HP wants to do it one way doesn't mean it is:
a) the right way for your company
b) the right way to do it
c) anything you want to share with HP -- they may offer it as a service to your competitors
Why doesn't your Wikipedia entry list your time at the Cobalt Group? And what did you really think of Raja and his IBM boys?
It certainly doesn't help that the demographic most likely to kill themselves due to stupidity also happens to be some folks
that are otherwise regarded as pretty smart (medical doctors)*. It also doesn't help that the barrier to entry to become
a private pilot is pretty high (in terms of $$$) and so in many instances the family sees not only the traumatic emotional experience
of the loss of a family member but also a huge negative impact in their standard of living. Is it any wonder that they're preyed upon by lawyers?
*There's a reason the Beech Bonanza has the nickname "Doctor Killer", and it's not because it was the villain in a B-Movie.
Also, don't sit next to someone who looks like they might have been a fighter pilot during the war. His stories are enough to make you want to commit seppuku, hang yourself, or light yourself on fire.