You can get a Lenovo Yoga that is more powerful with Windows 10 around that $800 price and it comes with a decent keyboard and other laptop features. The Surface gets expensive when you keep on adding on features to make it have laptop functionality.
Jail is an ineffective use of punishment or corrective action. It should really be limited towards people who cannot be part of civilization by being too dangerious. Also for many evil corporate scandals it isn't the action of one rougue person or even a conspiracy. Usually it is due to a too competitive culture where each employee feels the need to stretch the truth a little bit or hack the performance measure because otherwise it may look bad on you. So every stretch in the gray area adds up to crossing the line. So remember that when you cut a corner to reach a deadline. Fail to do that last check. Realease a known bug hopping no one will notice. Quote a bit high or too low... Those little white infractions can be part of a wider scheme to do something bad without any conscious motive.
Perhaps it is the fact it is nearly impossible for any organization with a team of lawyers to know of all the laws that are out there. This is a Law from 1975 and we are just looking into it now? How many laws have you broken that you didn't know that was in place, because they are not actively enforced, and you never bothered looking up every action that you chose to do.
You must get bothered easily. Being that most devices if they are to fail it would be within the first month of operation. That is why it is normal for companies when they get new servers they do a 48 hour burn in session to make sure the server survives the first 48 hours and after that chances are the server will last for the long time.
1 Year or 2 Year isn't really that big of a deal for electronics with little to no moving parts.
The fact that America says one year and the EU says 2, is just legal semantics
Not to sound like an Apple Fan Boy. But nearly all of the Phones out today are based on the iPhone design. Square box, mostly all touch screen. All in all rather boring today. If Google is getting back into the handset market again, they better come up with something ground breaking like Apple Did when they released the iPhone, otherwise Google will just be competing against its other Android Market Phones. At this point, where most people who have phones already do. If they had Apple they will stick with Apple, if they had Android they will stick with Android.
The bigger picture is often a gamble. In the short term just paying off this one individual may be the easy claim, where they are on record on just not bothering to fight it. However if this sparks a bunch of claims then Microsoft may change its tatic.
The Woman didn't "Win" the lawsuit. They settled to avoid setting a legal precedent.
Similarly why a lot of retail stores have rather generous return policies. While many of the returns are borderline fraudulent it is better to suck it up and deal with the return than having to deal with the retribution of fighting off a claim.
You have a few more things. Integrated environment nearly every system talks to the other. The Registration system talk to the Health Record System which talks to the lab systems and back to the Health System and to the billing system... That is the simple work flow for an office visit. Normally your data is being passed to a dozen independent systems. Healthcare typically is about 10 years behind the time in technology there is a lot of old equipment out there that slows down the others the tight integration is a big issue in this. That multimillion dollar MRI which runs off of Windows XP will not be upgraded because it works fine however the other systems can only be upgraded if no compatibility is broken. It takes years of planning to upgrade even simple application. Crummy vendors, most vendors focus only on one part of the system and don't care much about integration. But they know once you buy in you will be stuck for the long haul. So they use the slimmest sales people they can get to push their crap on healthcare industries. Because they know the politics. The politics in healthcare are tough very hierarchal often with MD on top. IT without MD on staff tends to be under treated. As uneducated staff just the same as the people work in the cafeteria. Our conserned are often not listened to they dictate stupid solution to follow because they read it in a book. They setup IT to fail. This brings in the vendors who position themselves as smarter than the instructions IT staff and play on the hire ups egos and push there solutions across. It is not a few simple thing to improve security it is the whole institution
I don't think so. Just think about it. The age 50+ group born before 1966 had been around and part of the "social revolutions" of the 1960s and 1970s. When people get older they instinctively want to be around their own kind. Either family, race, religion, or nationality. As we get older we become less tolerant towards difference and consider them risks. This does mean we grow old and become biggots, but our comfort zone narrows. So the post WWII generation who created the EU is now feeling threatened by it. So if you wait only a view years the vote would probably be the same as people would switch sides. The only way to change it is to change their identity from Brittish to EU member. Just like how I'm the United States before the civil war people identified more with their state (I am a New Yorker) vs with the country (I am an American) where after the civil war the identification had changed slowly.
Electric assist may be nicer on your knees better than normal bikes. Or if you live in Escher's world you can just coast downhill and then downhill back.
Being the American infrastructure is based on automobiles. Locomotion at speeds averaging 15 miles per hour (roughly 25 kilometers per hour) is rather dangerous with other vehicles going 2 to 4 times faster with a lot more mass behind them. Bike trails in the US. are often just signs telling drivers to be more careful.
However with a Franchise you have a marketing engine behind you. If you go in it for yourself you will need to do all your marketing yourself. Without the economy of scale thus you may be working in the red for many years.
Long term if you can tolerate it, you will make out. However short term it will just suck.
However with the "gig economy" you are your own boss, and have greater control of your hours and what you do. So that $13.00 an hour isn't going to make you rich, It is profit. Plus you can work more hours to make up the difference too. Or work a job and have this as a part time supplemental job.
Internet connectivity has become a core service that we to function in modern society. Much like how landlines were in the past generation. Or Electricity and Plumbing the generation before.
The Rural people actually have a bigger need for internet as they don't have ready access to many other services so they use the internet to communicate with people in the distances for their needs. It isn't a short drive to your local post office or government officials to fill out paperwork. Or to try to do a quick stop by at an office during business hours. Or wait hours on the phone for basic service.
When the cities get gigabit internet website grow larger and more complex to offer features that are now available to the faster speeds, leaving the rural population unable to use their slower speed connections.
Not everyone lives in big cities. Those who live in Rural areas who need high speed internet (sometimes even more than city folks) are still left out because such areas are unprofitable.
For the Cheap Infomercial Stuff, normally they do what they say they do. However not much more. Granted they are still scumm for giving the impression we are getting more, but at least we got what we ordered. Vaporware and Kickstarters you know the risk before you "Invest" into them.
When companies cross the line, they get sued and the people win, it happens all the time. Now the key difference is corporation protection. Where such legal battles that may kill the company doesn't hold the owner responsible. This is a tradeoff to make sure companies are willing to take some risks and innovate. Because why would you want to sell a product where you could go to jail from a misunderstanding.
Welcome to Technology. If it wasn't Apple it would be an other company. Right now the biggest push is towards thin, the biggest port on the smartphone and tablet is the audio plug. Now if Apple didn't change over, I bet Samsung would had. However because Apple did it first Samsung will go, we still have standard ports and see how much intune we are with the customers are. There was the switch away from floppy, the switch away from Parallel, and Serial Ports USB, The move from 5 1/4 to 3 1/2 inch disk....
Each time this happens there is the fear that they will need to replace all their cool stuff that they collected. However after the migration had occurred, there isn't that much more bickering as when they choose to upgrade their computer, their other principals are out of date or worn out, or just not stylish. That expensive converter isn't really that expensive to keep on using those few valuable pieces of equipment past normal usage.
So if I have a really good pair of headphones that costed me a hundred bucks I may consider getting a converter. However for the most part we are just using the cheapo earbuds where it is much easier to upgrade and take advantage of the newer features.
No it is just a normal criminals self rationalization. Just like "If the victim really cared they should had been more careful", "People are always scamming me, so I should be first"...
Most people rarely consider themselves a monster or the villain, they will feel quite justified to themselves on what they are doing. That is why we have a court of law, to judge peoples actions beyond the point of view of the criminal and victim because often both sides are too focused on their point of view then what is considered right and just.
Because often the victim of a crime does have a degree of responsibility too. Trying to acquire and illegal product. Avoiding working around the system to avoid taxes or extra fees... Often the victim isn't completely innocent, however the crime committed against them is far worse than what they were doing. However all this needs to be factored in.
You can try to see a different doctor. or go to a local urgent care center. The real trick is to allow RN, NP, and PA a little more freedom in the health care institution and allow them to treat many of the simple problems. Without having to go to an expensive dr for every little issue.
Humans will also self identify. Most of us see ourselves as Gryffindor and not as Slytherin so we will give the attributes that we like about ourselves and give it to Gryffindor and the attributes we hate in others to Slytherin. Then mix it up for those other two, who we just don't want to relate with, but don't have any real issues with.
With such a small sample explaining the houses we just assume we are the good guy, as you know yourself better than other people and like the story in a book you have full justification for your actions.
That and many of the Slytherins were not really covered too much. I expect there are bad eggs in each house. The sorting hat didn't choose good and bad people just which house they would probably fit in the best in.
Ambition isn't a bad thing, it can be a driver to push you forward. It becomes bad if you step on other people or bring others down so you look better. The same with bravery, you are allowed to overcome your fears and work towards something new and great, however it can also mean you are insensitive to others fears and torments. As you are able to deal with them in stride.
Now I still see Trump as Slytherin just because it is about him.
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You can get a Lenovo Yoga that is more powerful with Windows 10 around that $800 price and it comes with a decent keyboard and other laptop features. The Surface gets expensive when you keep on adding on features to make it have laptop functionality.
I would just sort all the bits.
The first half of the drive will be all 0's the second half will be all 1's.
Darik boot and nuke is a Linux distribution designed to wipe out the drive for the extremely paranoid. With an easy to use menu interface.
Jail is an ineffective use of punishment or corrective action. It should really be limited towards people who cannot be part of civilization by being too dangerious. Also for many evil corporate scandals it isn't the action of one rougue person or even a conspiracy. Usually it is due to a too competitive culture where each employee feels the need to stretch the truth a little bit or hack the performance measure because otherwise it may look bad on you. So every stretch in the gray area adds up to crossing the line.
So remember that when you cut a corner to reach a deadline. Fail to do that last check. Realease a known bug hopping no one will notice. Quote a bit high or too low... Those little white infractions can be part of a wider scheme to do something bad without any conscious motive.
Perhaps it is the fact it is nearly impossible for any organization with a team of lawyers to know of all the laws that are out there.
This is a Law from 1975 and we are just looking into it now?
How many laws have you broken that you didn't know that was in place, because they are not actively enforced, and you never bothered looking up every action that you chose to do.
You must get bothered easily.
Being that most devices if they are to fail it would be within the first month of operation. That is why it is normal for companies when they get new servers they do a 48 hour burn in session to make sure the server survives the first 48 hours and after that chances are the server will last for the long time.
1 Year or 2 Year isn't really that big of a deal for electronics with little to no moving parts.
The fact that America says one year and the EU says 2, is just legal semantics
Not to sound like an Apple Fan Boy. But nearly all of the Phones out today are based on the iPhone design.
Square box, mostly all touch screen. All in all rather boring today. If Google is getting back into the handset market again, they better come up with something ground breaking like Apple Did when they released the iPhone, otherwise Google will just be competing against its other Android Market Phones.
At this point, where most people who have phones already do. If they had Apple they will stick with Apple, if they had Android they will stick with Android.
The bigger picture is often a gamble.
In the short term just paying off this one individual may be the easy claim, where they are on record on just not bothering to fight it. However if this sparks a bunch of claims then Microsoft may change its tatic.
The Woman didn't "Win" the lawsuit. They settled to avoid setting a legal precedent.
Similarly why a lot of retail stores have rather generous return policies. While many of the returns are borderline fraudulent it is better to suck it up and deal with the return than having to deal with the retribution of fighting off a claim.
You have a few more things.
Integrated environment nearly every system talks to the other. The Registration system talk to the Health Record System which talks to the lab systems and back to the Health System and to the billing system... That is the simple work flow for an office visit. Normally your data is being passed to a dozen independent systems.
Healthcare typically is about 10 years behind the time in technology there is a lot of old equipment out there that slows down the others the tight integration is a big issue in this. That multimillion dollar MRI which runs off of Windows XP will not be upgraded because it works fine however the other systems can only be upgraded if no compatibility is broken. It takes years of planning to upgrade even simple application.
Crummy vendors, most vendors focus only on one part of the system and don't care much about integration. But they know once you buy in you will be stuck for the long haul. So they use the slimmest sales people they can get to push their crap on healthcare industries. Because they know the politics.
The politics in healthcare are tough very hierarchal often with MD on top. IT without MD on staff tends to be under treated. As uneducated staff just the same as the people work in the cafeteria. Our conserned are often not listened to they dictate stupid solution to follow because they read it in a book. They setup IT to fail. This brings in the vendors who position themselves as smarter than the instructions IT staff and play on the hire ups egos and push there solutions across.
It is not a few simple thing to improve security it is the whole institution
I don't think so. Just think about it. The age 50+ group born before 1966 had been around and part of the "social revolutions" of the 1960s and 1970s.
When people get older they instinctively want to be around their own kind. Either family, race, religion, or nationality. As we get older we become less tolerant towards difference and consider them risks. This does mean we grow old and become biggots, but our comfort zone narrows.
So the post WWII generation who created the EU is now feeling threatened by it.
So if you wait only a view years the vote would probably be the same as people would switch sides. The only way to change it is to change their identity from Brittish to EU member.
Just like how I'm the United States before the civil war people identified more with their state (I am a New Yorker) vs with the country (I am an American) where after the civil war the identification had changed slowly.
Electric assist may be nicer on your knees better than normal bikes. Or if you live in Escher's world you can just coast downhill and then downhill back.
Being the American infrastructure is based on automobiles. Locomotion at speeds averaging 15 miles per hour (roughly 25 kilometers per hour) is rather dangerous with other vehicles going 2 to 4 times faster with a lot more mass behind them. Bike trails in the US. are often just signs telling drivers to be more careful.
However with a Franchise you have a marketing engine behind you. If you go in it for yourself you will need to do all your marketing yourself. Without the economy of scale thus you may be working in the red for many years.
Long term if you can tolerate it, you will make out. However short term it will just suck.
However with the "gig economy" you are your own boss, and have greater control of your hours and what you do. So that $13.00 an hour isn't going to make you rich, It is profit. Plus you can work more hours to make up the difference too. Or work a job and have this as a part time supplemental job.
Go ahead and try to force that on America. You will see a Gun pointed at any official that tries. And that will be in solid Blue states!
Internet connectivity has become a core service that we to function in modern society. Much like how landlines were in the past generation. Or Electricity and Plumbing the generation before.
The Rural people actually have a bigger need for internet as they don't have ready access to many other services so they use the internet to communicate with people in the distances for their needs. It isn't a short drive to your local post office or government officials to fill out paperwork. Or to try to do a quick stop by at an office during business hours. Or wait hours on the phone for basic service.
When the cities get gigabit internet website grow larger and more complex to offer features that are now available to the faster speeds, leaving the rural population unable to use their slower speed connections.
Not everyone lives in big cities. Those who live in Rural areas who need high speed internet (sometimes even more than city folks) are still left out because such areas are unprofitable.
For the Cheap Infomercial Stuff, normally they do what they say they do. However not much more. Granted they are still scumm for giving the impression we are getting more, but at least we got what we ordered.
Vaporware and Kickstarters you know the risk before you "Invest" into them.
When companies cross the line, they get sued and the people win, it happens all the time. Now the key difference is corporation protection. Where such legal battles that may kill the company doesn't hold the owner responsible. This is a tradeoff to make sure companies are willing to take some risks and innovate. Because why would you want to sell a product where you could go to jail from a misunderstanding.
Welcome to Technology.
If it wasn't Apple it would be an other company. Right now the biggest push is towards thin, the biggest port on the smartphone and tablet is the audio plug. Now if Apple didn't change over, I bet Samsung would had. However because Apple did it first Samsung will go, we still have standard ports and see how much intune we are with the customers are.
There was the switch away from floppy, the switch away from Parallel, and Serial Ports USB, The move from 5 1/4 to 3 1/2 inch disk....
Each time this happens there is the fear that they will need to replace all their cool stuff that they collected. However after the migration had occurred, there isn't that much more bickering as when they choose to upgrade their computer, their other principals are out of date or worn out, or just not stylish.
That expensive converter isn't really that expensive to keep on using those few valuable pieces of equipment past normal usage.
So if I have a really good pair of headphones that costed me a hundred bucks I may consider getting a converter. However for the most part we are just using the cheapo earbuds where it is much easier to upgrade and take advantage of the newer features.
No it is just a normal criminals self rationalization.
Just like "If the victim really cared they should had been more careful", "People are always scamming me, so I should be first"...
Most people rarely consider themselves a monster or the villain, they will feel quite justified to themselves on what they are doing.
That is why we have a court of law, to judge peoples actions beyond the point of view of the criminal and victim because often both sides are too focused on their point of view then what is considered right and just.
Because often the victim of a crime does have a degree of responsibility too. Trying to acquire and illegal product. Avoiding working around the system to avoid taxes or extra fees... Often the victim isn't completely innocent, however the crime committed against them is far worse than what they were doing. However all this needs to be factored in.
You can try to see a different doctor. or go to a local urgent care center. The real trick is to allow RN, NP, and PA a little more freedom in the health care institution and allow them to treat many of the simple problems. Without having to go to an expensive dr for every little issue.
But more importantly how well does it support web standards. Even from going from I.E. To edge you are still 5 years behind the time in compatibility.
Humans will also self identify.
Most of us see ourselves as Gryffindor and not as Slytherin so we will give the attributes that we like about ourselves and give it to Gryffindor and the attributes we hate in others to Slytherin. Then mix it up for those other two, who we just don't want to relate with, but don't have any real issues with.
With such a small sample explaining the houses we just assume we are the good guy, as you know yourself better than other people and like the story in a book you have full justification for your actions.
That and many of the Slytherins were not really covered too much.
I expect there are bad eggs in each house. The sorting hat didn't choose good and bad people just which house they would probably fit in the best in.
Ambition isn't a bad thing, it can be a driver to push you forward. It becomes bad if you step on other people or bring others down so you look better.
The same with bravery, you are allowed to overcome your fears and work towards something new and great, however it can also mean you are insensitive to others fears and torments. As you are able to deal with them in stride.
Now I still see Trump as Slytherin just because it is about him.