Actually, his name is Gerhard Neukum. His title is Dr...
I'm a little mistrustful of someone who INSISTS that "white tips... can only be freshly exposed ice"... There could be a number of other explanations, and I'd hope the team would consider those as well.
It began with a 3 minute speech about how thats what the tutorial used to be, but people kept signing up who barely, if at all, understood perl, and didn't know jack about CGI... so the tutorial had been severely dumbed down.
Got similar from the "Intro to C++" professor I had. "I'm now showing you an array, which the school doesn't want me to teach," he said. When queried why, it turns out that the morons that the "guidance counselors indicated had high computer aptitude" couldn't wrap their heads around a basic, simple array. We had OUR education dumbed down 'cause of some kid that shouldn't have been in the class to begin with.
I quit attending there when another professor argued that the Apple Lisa never existed, insisting the Mac was the first PC with a GUI... and he'd not heard of Xerox PARC, either....
I don't know what the community colleges are like in YOUR region, but the ones in San Antonio are simply pitiful.
Personally, I'd call 'em and ask what you're supposed to use for an office suite if their "hosted" solution is down for maintenance, or if the phone company cut one wire too many. Ask if they'd be ready to pay the salary of the average office worker that suddenly can't work.
If not, ask them to send you their copy of OO on any disk they can burn it on.;)
I'm a classically trained Horn player. I also play Guitar Hero. I'm waiting for your head to explode at the concept that the two are not mutually exclusive.
...and I played trombone when I was younger, while noodling with the game recently as well. I never claimed the two were exclusive, and if you looked at my reply to the above response, I even agreed that the timing learned from music/dance would apply to GH. My response was to THIS line:
Do you really want to have to listen to your kid trying to learn how to play a real instrument?
To which I reply: Yes. Yes I do. I'm not saying my boys shouldn't play games. They are, in fact, quite avid gamers, and I encourage this.... At the same time, should they choose an instrument, that means I'll also have to hear quite a number of missed notes. Quite probably many that my parents heard when *I* was learning, too. They call it "practice" for a reason.
A poster above mentioned that if they hit a bad note, it'll STILL sound good. To me, this is a wee bit more unrealistic; if you mess up in life, you don't hear "good music". Aside from that, I'd encourage kids to play. As we know, numerous studies have shown that playing video games can lead to increased coordination later in life...
Guitar Hero has given him an understanding of the structures and tempos of modern rock music that he can apply to his real guitar. I see no harm in that.
No argument here. I had a friend that took dance when he was younger 'n' swore it set the stage for his drumming ability later. Gotta admit, he's one of the better drummers in town.
My original point was that ALL musicians generally suck when they first pick up their instrument, prodigies aside. The OP griping about the "noise" obviously never was a band geek....
As for using the e-readers, they work if you're on the go a lot, and don't have room for a library. However, I'm sticking with dead trees for a few reasons...
If I'm not sure which book I feel like reading, I can scan entire bookshelves in a glance. No time needed for indexing, just a quick look is necessary. If I want to lend/give someone a good book, I don't have to buy 'em a reader. No batteries needed. There's also very little chance that my books will scramble due to file corruption....
{...and a final side note to m'fellow geeks. For those few of us that that have ladies we don't have to add batteries to/inflate, do NOT take a cue from Weird Al's "White and Nerdy" video. Most women will NOT react that way to a surge protector for Christmas, TRUST me. Fair warning!}
Can you imagine turning left across 4 lanes of busy traffic to get to a business on the other side of the road?
Sure! I do it all the time! It's a new-fangled invention called a "left turn signal". Y'see, traffic stops both ways for a short time so I {and those across from me} can turn left.
These intersections also moved an incredible amount of traffic.
...and I'll betcha that San Antonio, Texas, has a larger population than the AA/Ypsi area...
Yes, if you are turning "left" onto such a road you will have to stop and wait a few minutes before you can get going, but it is well worth the wait considering the alternative would be to make a much riskier left hand turn in a much more congested intersection.
Sure, 'cause all that stopped traffic is a hazard... how? Once again, the traffic STOPS for turn signals; if you're turning left at a left-turn signal, the traffic on the road you're turning ON to has been halted. Where's the congestion?
So don't assume most people in Michigan hate these roads, because they make life easier for thousands of people (whether they realize it or not.)
...and if you've lived in Michigan all your life, you might not have another example to compare to. I haven't, wouldn't, and know better. If it were such a traffic boon, don't you think it'd be more widely implemented?
Try LIVING with that arrangement. Moving from Texas to Michigan, I was pretty surprised to find the Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti area didn't seem to have many left turn lights, and in fact had a LOT of "No Left Turn" signs. My first left there, I asked my ex-wife. She simply replied:
"Yeah, you have to take a RIGHT, and then that turnaround a little ways down the road.
-blink-
Those turnarounds work great, if and ONLY if, the traffic oncoming will let you in. Sit in one of turnarounds behind some granny who won't turn without a football field worth of space, or during rush hour when you have to FIGHT for that space.
Frag the no-left policy. It depends too much on the goodwill of other drivers....and there's not much driver goodwill on Michigan highways, it would appear.
How'd it handle slang? Could it 'andle droppin' lett'rs? Would it agree to have a lovely bunch of coconuts, all standing in a row? Would it parse/react to "Hair 3.14159"?
There are a lot of ways to find a bot... but as pointed out before, if you ALREADY believe, you're screwed.
The first decision from insurance is not the final one; it can be appealed.
That's making the assumption that the condition isn't life-threatening. Ask how long the appeals process *can* take..
Failing that, its possible to sue if your doctor (and second opinions) agree it was necessary.
...Which does nothing to bring back a dead patient...
...and even if the claim is denied, it doesn't mean you're not allowed to have the surgery, just that you may have to find alternate funding.
And praytell, where does one go to ask to borrow 10k-100k that [because of the potential of death on the table] may never be paid back, other than a loan shark?
Of course the flip side of this is hospitals / offices performing random tests just to be able to bill for something as well.
Considering the staffing situation at most hospitals, the number of "random" tests performed isn't as big as the insurance companies would like you to believe. Many times what they call "unnecessary diagnostics" was a doctor trying to make sure they had the right answer.
I'm not saying the scammers aren't out there at work... they're just not at the levels that'd kill the insurance industry.
At any rate, all of this is moot, since Congress doesn't have any advisors to tell them other research would be more benefical than a trip to Mars.
Mainly because there's no way to prove that a Mars trip might not be as beneficial.
Health insurance companies employ actual real DOCTORS, which review YOUR doctor's notes, to determine the validity of the claim / procedure.
Sure, and we can see the Hippocratic {hypocritic?} oath at work when they deny a claim 'cause they didn't agree with the ICD-9 code your provider used. It's not that it's miscoded, it's that they think it should fall under a procedure they they don't cover.
Having worked at a medical office for 10 years as their IT guru and assisting with claims definitely opened my eyes to this kind of crap.
All I see are a bunch of lemmings who would rather bitch and moan about the "big bad evil company" than actually look at the product logically and thoughtfully.
Fine. Answer this: where is the value in a $400 OS that doesn't do what the purchaser wants, when OSes that DO are free? OSes that have tamer sysreqs and similar functionality?
Though it has gotten better and better over the years, it's still very rare where you find the equivalent of an exe installer, double click it and install the program.
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Actually, his name is Gerhard Neukum. His title is Dr...
I'm a little mistrustful of someone who INSISTS that "white tips ... can only be freshly exposed ice"... There could be a number of other explanations, and I'd hope the team would consider those as well.
Got similar from the "Intro to C++" professor I had. "I'm now showing you an array, which the school doesn't want me to teach," he said. When queried why, it turns out that the morons that the "guidance counselors indicated had high computer aptitude" couldn't wrap their heads around a basic, simple array. We had OUR education dumbed down 'cause of some kid that shouldn't have been in the class to begin with.
I quit attending there when another professor argued that the Apple Lisa never existed, insisting the Mac was the first PC with a GUI... and he'd not heard of Xerox PARC, either....
I don't know what the community colleges are like in YOUR region, but the ones in San Antonio are simply pitiful.
Myself, I'd go to the OpenOffice site, click here, find the nearest local source for the disk, and contact them for directions....
Personally, I'd call 'em and ask what you're supposed to use for an office suite if their "hosted" solution is down for maintenance, or if the phone company cut one wire too many. Ask if they'd be ready to pay the salary of the average office worker that suddenly can't work.
If not, ask them to send you their copy of OO on any disk they can burn it on. ;)
...and as nature isn't necessarily supersymmetric, I'm still questing for answers...
...and I played trombone when I was younger, while noodling with the game recently as well. I never claimed the two were exclusive, and if you looked at my reply to the above response, I even agreed that the timing learned from music/dance would apply to GH. My response was to THIS line:
Do you really want to have to listen to your kid trying to learn how to play a real instrument?To which I reply: Yes. Yes I do. I'm not saying my boys shouldn't play games. They are, in fact, quite avid gamers, and I encourage this.... At the same time, should they choose an instrument, that means I'll also have to hear quite a number of missed notes. Quite probably many that my parents heard when *I* was learning, too. They call it "practice" for a reason.
A poster above mentioned that if they hit a bad note, it'll STILL sound good. To me, this is a wee bit more unrealistic; if you mess up in life, you don't hear "good music". Aside from that, I'd encourage kids to play. As we know, numerous studies have shown that playing video games can lead to increased coordination later in life...
No argument here. I had a friend that took dance when he was younger 'n' swore it set the stage for his drumming ability later. Gotta admit, he's one of the better drummers in town.
My original point was that ALL musicians generally suck when they first pick up their instrument, prodigies aside. The OP griping about the "noise" obviously never was a band geek....
Heaven forbid we actually encourage a real-life artistic skill.
Skill takes practice. Get 'em an electric guitar... with an ear monitor.
As for using the e-readers, they work if you're on the go a lot, and don't have room for a library. However, I'm sticking with dead trees for a few reasons...
If I'm not sure which book I feel like reading, I can scan entire bookshelves in a glance. No time needed for indexing, just a quick look is necessary. If I want to lend/give someone a good book, I don't have to buy 'em a reader. No batteries needed. There's also very little chance that my books will scramble due to file corruption....
{...and a final side note to m'fellow geeks. For those few of us that that have ladies we don't have to add batteries to/inflate, do NOT take a cue from Weird Al's "White and Nerdy" video. Most women will NOT react that way to a surge protector for Christmas, TRUST me. Fair warning!}
Considering the last few administrations, the only apparent qualification for a high-level position is knowing a career politician.
Actually looked up the price of that Cisco Guard...
Not a router, and *definitely* not in the $700 range...
The fact that I lived there, or the fact that anyone I asked agreed with very few exceptions?
But enough of our opinions, Spanky... Let the other Slashdotters see how much sense it makes in the link found here.
Comments, anyone?
Sure! I do it all the time! It's a new-fangled invention called a "left turn signal". Y'see, traffic stops both ways for a short time so I {and those across from me} can turn left.
These intersections also moved an incredible amount of traffic....and I'll betcha that San Antonio, Texas, has a larger population than the AA/Ypsi area...
Yes, if you are turning "left" onto such a road you will have to stop and wait a few minutes before you can get going, but it is well worth the wait considering the alternative would be to make a much riskier left hand turn in a much more congested intersection.Sure, 'cause all that stopped traffic is a hazard... how? Once again, the traffic STOPS for turn signals; if you're turning left at a left-turn signal, the traffic on the road you're turning ON to has been halted. Where's the congestion?
So don't assume most people in Michigan hate these roads, because they make life easier for thousands of people (whether they realize it or not.)...and if you've lived in Michigan all your life, you might not have another example to compare to. I haven't, wouldn't, and know better. If it were such a traffic boon, don't you think it'd be more widely implemented?
Try LIVING with that arrangement. Moving from Texas to Michigan, I was pretty surprised to find the Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti area didn't seem to have many left turn lights, and in fact had a LOT of "No Left Turn" signs. My first left there, I asked my ex-wife. She simply replied:
"Yeah, you have to take a RIGHT, and then that turnaround a little ways down the road.
-blink-
Those turnarounds work great, if and ONLY if, the traffic oncoming will let you in. Sit in one of turnarounds behind some granny who won't turn without a football field worth of space, or during rush hour when you have to FIGHT for that space.
Frag the no-left policy. It depends too much on the goodwill of other drivers....and there's not much driver goodwill on Michigan highways, it would appear.
It's a news aggregator whose focus can best be described by the following MIB line:
Jay: This definitely rates about a 9.0 on my weird-shit-o-meter.....and so would killing the sick, infirm, and disabled, but you don't see many CongressCritters pushing for the "Save a Buck/Kill a Gimp" bill....
How'd it handle slang? Could it 'andle droppin' lett'rs? Would it agree to have a lovely bunch of coconuts, all standing in a row? Would it parse/react to "Hair 3.14159"?
There are a lot of ways to find a bot... but as pointed out before, if you ALREADY believe, you're screwed.
It's just the countermeasure against the Ballistic Mosquito Gun 3000...
...nothing to see here, move along!
That's making the assumption that the condition isn't life-threatening. Ask how long the appeals process *can* take..
Failing that, its possible to sue if your doctor (and second opinions) agree it was necessary....Which does nothing to bring back a dead patient...
...and even if the claim is denied, it doesn't mean you're not allowed to have the surgery, just that you may have to find alternate funding.And praytell, where does one go to ask to borrow 10k-100k that [because of the potential of death on the table] may never be paid back, other than a loan shark?
Of course the flip side of this is hospitals / offices performing random tests just to be able to bill for something as well.Considering the staffing situation at most hospitals, the number of "random" tests performed isn't as big as the insurance companies would like you to believe. Many times what they call "unnecessary diagnostics" was a doctor trying to make sure they had the right answer.
I'm not saying the scammers aren't out there at work... they're just not at the levels that'd kill the insurance industry.
At any rate, all of this is moot, since Congress doesn't have any advisors to tell them other research would be more benefical than a trip to Mars.Mainly because there's no way to prove that a Mars trip might not be as beneficial.
Sure, and we can see the Hippocratic {hypocritic?} oath at work when they deny a claim 'cause they didn't agree with the ICD-9 code your provider used. It's not that it's miscoded, it's that they think it should fall under a procedure they they don't cover.
Having worked at a medical office for 10 years as their IT guru and assisting with claims definitely opened my eyes to this kind of crap.
Correction: Actually, they're keeping us from seeing the long string of flag-draped coffins streaming home...
...says the anonymous coward...
Will it read both 3-track and 4-track cards? Jus' curious...
Fine. Answer this: where is the value in a $400 OS that doesn't do what the purchaser wants, when OSes that DO are free? OSes that have tamer sysreqs and similar functionality?
You mean like RPM or DEB files?