The taxpayer is also paying a vast amount of interest on debt when it could flip off the private banking community and just get on and get its government to print its own social credit currency.
Since these kids are paying ludicrous costs for their education, are likely to enter a very contracted workforce if they're lucky, whilst competing globally, having future tax obligations thrust upon them to bail out their parents who somehow believed their entitlement to vast amounts of unearned income from housing was justified, at the very least I think society owes them a few shitty Adam Sandler movies.
And those attempting to enforce anti-piracy measures should be very aware of who's paying for the generous retirements they promised themselves.
I've been to the Advanced Base camp on that side (Tibetan) twice. The most predictable climbing seasons are Spring and Autumn. It is possible via satellite link to get hold of some pretty accurate weather forecasts to make decisions on climbing. The main problem at that time of year is that monsoon dumps of snow make the risk of avalanche a lot higher than at other times. My self indulgent piece of tech was a CIGS portable solar panel which worked fine in freezing conditions.
From personal experience, my 3rd gen iPod had hard drive failure at 4500m on my first trip in that area. Which was disappointing. I did however manage to get it working again back at home as long as I only half filled the drive. On a trip to get to Everest via the 1922 reconnaisance route, I decided to take it again. Managed to have it working at 5100m with power from a solar panel. 'Voodoo Chile' in the lower Kharta valley was quite an experience. Result - iPod developed a few more glitches. Altitude related probably, but it was also bumped around in the cold on the back of yaks in a bag fairly extensively. Flash memory based mp3 players apparently do well at altitude. The hard drives for iPods were rated with a maximum operating altitude of 4000m.
Yeah. Poor SCO. If only they had been given more time by the judge. Society will feel a great loss at their departure. All that's needed next is to throw out the bonkers patenting system for IP and maybe talented and hardworking software writers can work in whatever way suits them and be rewarded appropriately.
I'd be happier to let an open source group develop medical software with clinic and hospital distributed databases where clinicians could be sure any data submitted to government would be entirely anonymised. I shudder to think of how the NPfIT in the UK will end up.
Still, there are other countries to go and work in.
IAAD in the UK
As a general practitioner in the uk I'm not so far very impressed with the uptime and efficiency gains of the "Choose And Book" system.
I feel that Uncle Bill bulldozed the UK government with a lot of money and a good line into trying to achieve a Microsoft based system.
It's probably provided a lot of jobs and helped the economy, but I have reservations about a centralised database of an entire nation's healthcare records.
I don't think there was a lot of input from clinicians at all, and we're the end users.
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The taxpayer is also paying a vast amount of interest on debt when it could flip off the private banking community and just get on and get its government to print its own social credit currency.
Since these kids are paying ludicrous costs for their education, are likely to enter a very contracted workforce if they're lucky, whilst competing globally, having future tax obligations thrust upon them to bail out their parents who somehow believed their entitlement to vast amounts of unearned income from housing was justified, at the very least I think society owes them a few shitty Adam Sandler movies. And those attempting to enforce anti-piracy measures should be very aware of who's paying for the generous retirements they promised themselves.
I've been to the Advanced Base camp on that side (Tibetan) twice. The most predictable climbing seasons are Spring and Autumn. It is possible via satellite link to get hold of some pretty accurate weather forecasts to make decisions on climbing. The main problem at that time of year is that monsoon dumps of snow make the risk of avalanche a lot higher than at other times. My self indulgent piece of tech was a CIGS portable solar panel which worked fine in freezing conditions.
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Link to solar panel http://www.selectsolar.co.uk/pics/foldingpanel.ph
Link to a few videos and trip2 http://web.mac.com/mattbrook/iWeb/FootstepsOfMall
From personal experience, my 3rd gen iPod had hard drive failure at 4500m on my first trip in that area. Which was disappointing. I did however manage to get it working again back at home as long as I only half filled the drive. On a trip to get to Everest via the 1922 reconnaisance route, I decided to take it again. Managed to have it working at 5100m with power from a solar panel. 'Voodoo Chile' in the lower Kharta valley was quite an experience. Result - iPod developed a few more glitches. Altitude related probably, but it was also bumped around in the cold on the back of yaks in a bag fairly extensively. Flash memory based mp3 players apparently do well at altitude. The hard drives for iPods were rated with a maximum operating altitude of 4000m.
In your face Microshaft.
Yeah. Poor SCO. If only they had been given more time by the judge. Society will feel a great loss at their departure. All that's needed next is to throw out the bonkers patenting system for IP and maybe talented and hardworking software writers can work in whatever way suits them and be rewarded appropriately.
I'd be happier to let an open source group develop medical software with clinic and hospital distributed databases where clinicians could be sure any data submitted to government would be entirely anonymised. I shudder to think of how the NPfIT in the UK will end up. Still, there are other countries to go and work in. IAAD in the UK
As a general practitioner in the uk I'm not so far very impressed with the uptime and efficiency gains of the "Choose And Book" system. I feel that Uncle Bill bulldozed the UK government with a lot of money and a good line into trying to achieve a Microsoft based system. It's probably provided a lot of jobs and helped the economy, but I have reservations about a centralised database of an entire nation's healthcare records. I don't think there was a lot of input from clinicians at all, and we're the end users.
Microsoft are evil and they suck.
YaGoo(r)! Surely? Sounds like a Web 2.0 Bukkake party