Premium and Cheap. In this market those are the only ones to choose from. Premium sure you are going to spend more money for it but it is usually worth the extra cost. Cheap you are not paying a lot out of pocket, so if you dislike it, it isn't a big loss.
The iPad wannabes are neither premium or cheap. In order to be an iPad killer you either need to be generations ahead of the iPad, or same quality but much cheaper in price.
But because iPad is taking the Premium spot, you need to be cheap to make it.
Also right now these channels that are bundled are not really trying too hard to get viewers. So you get one channel in that bundle that is valuable then the rest are showing repeats, or those fringe anti-science science shows that Discovery puts on every once in a while about alien abduction... over and over again... If we can pick our channels then every station will need to fight for our viewing, and not just do reruns of their bundled partner.
For twilight I think it is banned (partially) due to religious groups. But I think it is mostly from high school English teachers who do not want to read essay after essay about twilight from every girl. When they assign them a book report.
I remember a college class on creative writing the first day of class the professor stated she didn't want any stories about God or Jesus. Not because she had a problem with religion, but she previously taught in salt lake city Utah, and every story she read was about God, and was sick of hearing the same thing over and over again in a creative writting class.
It is probably a good thing. We need to portray people's interests in sicence as something Anyone can enjoy, not just for people with asbergers(Sp?) syndrome.
You hit the nail on the head. However they tend to suck in different ways.
Open Source: We did the fun coding portions and we got it to work. But we will leave out making a clean UI. It is open source someone may come in and do it at some point... Oh by the way we will not bring in any of your UI changes into our project because we got use to using the program the way it is.
Closed Source: It works... It looks good... Lets hope you never see how we got it there... And we will never touch that function again, it works as best as we can tell.
Academic: We solve this problem, it is good enough for me to get my PHD or keep my funding. I got what I needed lets put it on the shelf if someone wants it they can have it.
Government: Here are a bunch of discrete use cases to be coded as individual modules. The fact that 80% of them are redundant doesn't mean you shouldn't do them or break away from coding each use case as a separate module.
Private Industry: We got the program working mostly feature X doesn't work. However only 10% of the customers are affected by this and 4% will get a refund and 6% will complain but wait for the upgrade. But the time save we can get it to market and gain 20% increase in sales over the life cycle of this version.
And I am sure there is some police who are being little more harsher then they should be, but I expect the protesters are not as peaceful as this article has you believe. I remember a while ago a friend of a friend who we were having lunch with was stating that she was going to get a bullet proof vest before she went to go protest... Why because her goal was to egg on the authorities until an "Accident" happened so she can show everyone that she had the higher moral ground.
Wall Street isn't really to blame it is more of a symbol of what they are blaming. Espectially as all the rich people who do pull some strings are filing electronically miles away. It is like protesting in front of a Data Center because you don't like the website they are hosting.
I think it is time to really rethink the grid... We are starting to have technology of cheap and less environmental impact technologies that can power a few houses. Perhaps the grid should be cut back and in favor to small community power sources.
Doctors pay is only the small part of the cost. Don't blame the Professional doing the work.
Where does your money go... 1. Malpractice insurance - Because the Doctor makes a mistake people feel they should sue them for a ton of money, although he is just trying to help. 2. Unpaid Health Care - Health care has a high rate of treatment to people who cannot afford to be treated. So that is factored into the cost 3. Insurances and Medicare/Medicaid - Their goal is to find a way not to pay the doctor unless they go threw a bunch of loops requiring more staff or cutting into his business time. Heck just dealing with the IT Staff alone you run into the biggest IT Idiots in the world. Here is how a typical integration project works.... ME: My claim has been rejected why is that. INSURANCE COMPANY (IC): We changed our format around. ME: When was I notified about this IC: We posted the notification change on our webpage in www.insurancecomapyname.com/edi/specifications/hipaa/99dnnvnakkk222/837/changes.html ME: I am looking at the page right now I don't see a path to get there. IC: You should have this link bookmarked. ME: When did you tell people about this page. IC: We had the link up for one day on December 25th 2 years ago. ME: Can I have YOUR 837 specifications.... IC: We follow the 837 standard you should know it. ME: I want a copy of your version of the specifications. IC: It is just like what we require on the paper form. ME: Please can I have the specs to be sure I am doing it your way. IC: OK... (Gives you a generic 837 standard spec) ME: (Follows the specs as giving, runs the test and gets rejections back, a week later) What is wrong why isn't this working. IC: Well we don't follow those areas of the specs. We put those values in this filed ME: (Follows the specs as giving, runs the test and gets rejections back, a week later) What is wrong why isn't this working. IC: Well we don't follow those areas of the specs. We put those values in this filed... (this will be about 25 iterations sometimes in those iterations we again beg for the full specs to follow for them) ME: Ok it seems to process why is it rejecting. IC: Well the claim is too old so we wont pay it. 4. Staff, front desk, practice managers, billers, nurses.... 5. Building upkeep 6. Medical Equipment... The doctor while getting paid well isn't really everything you are paying for.
I find it funny how both extream atheists and religious fundamentals are so fixated on the mericals but not the bulk of the text. For the most part the observers of the mericals wanted to see a merical when something happened that was improbable was taken as a mericle then exaggerated until it got to text.
But that is the sales pitch, the catch is the bulk of the bibal is its story and it's parables that actually teach a lesson. Many we still need to relearn today.
For a more modern example let's use Abe Lincon. He wasn't a stellar president but he was president during the civil war and his side won, after many mistakes on his part. He openly defied the supream court, and did many thing that was horrible. But to most Americans and the world he has became a symbol of all that is good and decent. That was just 150 years ago. What will happen in 2000 years?
No real environmentalists you know the actual scientists who study the environment. Know there are trade offs and a real complex set of problems that happen. What we think of as environmentalists are average person who read the summary of the summary of the articles and gets outraged by the values, and will either spend time complaining about it, or coming up ways of manipulating their ideas so they can market to those who are complaining about it, to make them feel good about being self righteous.
Yes Global warming is a problem, We humans are a major factor. Jumping back and forth on each Green Method that some businessman came up with to make a quick million won't fix the problem.
Its Green because in theory when you regrow the plants they will absorb the CO2 that was emitted.
However Humans being as we are, we will probably cut down forests to make room for more of these plants and still end up with a net gain in CO2 in the atmosphere.
If there was a good easy solution we would have come up with it now. The problem is every energy source you will have to make some sort of trade off. The key is trying to at least diversify our energy sources so we are dividing our trade-offs and not become dependent on any particular one. So when one source of energy is giving a trade-off we can no longer tolerate we can ramp up with another one with a more tolerable trade-off.
It is, but as a contractor you are able to break a lot of politics.
For one you are not part of the Bureaucratic System. So you can go talk to whatever level you need too, vs going up the chain. Secondly you are hired for performance, you can make those little mistakes that could hurt a full time employee.
There is the fact you can politically blame them value. There is the fact that they can dropped at any particular time value. There is the fact that they don't need to pay for benefits value. There is the fact they can be pushed to part time value. There is the fact that they will keep your full time staff honest value.
And Universities are usually very very wasteful with their money too. How many of those rooms are vacant at any one time in a University. How many plans are on the drawing board for a brand new buildings. The Student Clubs/Department every year they need to be sure that they spent their entire budget else they will get less the next year. So they spend all their money so they can get more next year.
When you are back in them olden time. You either ate/drank everything off the animal you can or you died from starvation because who know when the next time you can eat.
If it didn't kill you, and it was soft enough to chew. Then they ate it.
Yea lets free the cows... Oh wait they have been bread over thousands of years to produce more milk, by us not milking them they will die a slow and painful death, from udder infections.
Is that any more gross then Cows Milk? Or any Milk as of a matter.
I am not a Vegan or a Vegetarian, and I do enjoy drinking milk. But the fact that we are drinking an other animals body fluids is a bit gross, if you think too much about it. But so is if you thinking when you eat an Fruit that you are Eating a plants Reproductive Organ. The fact if you eat a carrot or some other vegetable a full life form needed to die in order to keep you alive.
Many plants have a much more complex Genome then us animals do, in many ways they are far more evolved then we are. Yes us animals to survive we need to do things if you think about it is rather cruel and/or disgusting in order for us to survive.
I agree but I wouldn't equate programmer to program relationship the same as parent to child. If that were the case I would be a lousy parent, favoring a few, and abandoning a slew of them because I got board with them and the concept.
When we create, we feel useful as a human, and have tangible proof of this usefulness.
If we take 1 as a string "1" and the + for standard string concatenation When entered "1"+"1" we get a string of "11" And in binary 11 = 3. So in the right context 1+1=3
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Premium and Cheap. In this market those are the only ones to choose from.
Premium sure you are going to spend more money for it but it is usually worth the extra cost.
Cheap you are not paying a lot out of pocket, so if you dislike it, it isn't a big loss.
The iPad wannabes are neither premium or cheap. In order to be an iPad killer you either need to be generations ahead of the iPad, or same quality but much cheaper in price.
But because iPad is taking the Premium spot, you need to be cheap to make it.
Also right now these channels that are bundled are not really trying too hard to get viewers. So you get one channel in that bundle that is valuable then the rest are showing repeats, or those fringe anti-science science shows that Discovery puts on every once in a while about alien abduction... over and over again... If we can pick our channels then every station will need to fight for our viewing, and not just do reruns of their bundled partner.
Paying $100+ a month for TV is really too high.
For twilight I think it is banned (partially) due to religious groups. But I think it is mostly from high school English teachers who do not want to read essay after essay about twilight from every girl. When they assign them a book report.
I remember a college class on creative writing the first day of class the professor stated she didn't want any stories about God or Jesus. Not because she had a problem with religion, but she previously taught in salt lake city Utah, and every story she read was about God, and was sick of hearing the same thing over and over again in a creative writting class.
It is probably a good thing. We need to portray people's interests in sicence as something Anyone can enjoy, not just for people with asbergers(Sp?) syndrome.
Successful... Not abominations...
You hit the nail on the head.
However they tend to suck in different ways.
Open Source: We did the fun coding portions and we got it to work. But we will leave out making a clean UI. It is open source someone may come in and do it at some point... Oh by the way we will not bring in any of your UI changes into our project because we got use to using the program the way it is.
Closed Source: It works... It looks good... Lets hope you never see how we got it there... And we will never touch that function again, it works as best as we can tell.
Academic: We solve this problem, it is good enough for me to get my PHD or keep my funding. I got what I needed lets put it on the shelf if someone wants it they can have it.
Government: Here are a bunch of discrete use cases to be coded as individual modules. The fact that 80% of them are redundant doesn't mean you shouldn't do them or break away from coding each use case as a separate module.
Private Industry: We got the program working mostly feature X doesn't work. However only 10% of the customers are affected by this and 4% will get a refund and 6% will complain but wait for the upgrade. But the time save we can get it to market and gain 20% increase in sales over the life cycle of this version.
2% is a big cut. But that is an average 2% so that means less then 1% for some organizations and a lot more for the small provider...
And I am sure there is some police who are being little more harsher then they should be, but I expect the protesters are not as peaceful as this article has you believe. I remember a while ago a friend of a friend who we were having lunch with was stating that she was going to get a bullet proof vest before she went to go protest...
Why because her goal was to egg on the authorities until an "Accident" happened so she can show everyone that she had the higher moral ground.
Wall Street isn't really to blame it is more of a symbol of what they are blaming. Espectially as all the rich people who do pull some strings are filing electronically miles away. It is like protesting in front of a Data Center because you don't like the website they are hosting.
I think it is time to really rethink the grid...
We are starting to have technology of cheap and less environmental impact technologies that can power a few houses. Perhaps the grid should be cut back and in favor to small community power sources.
If you do have a serious problem, then you need to pay out of the pocket to get treatment in the United States, or wait years to get treatment.
Doctors pay is only the small part of the cost. Don't blame the Professional doing the work.
Where does your money go... ... (this will be about 25 iterations sometimes in those iterations we again beg for the full specs to follow for them) ...
1. Malpractice insurance - Because the Doctor makes a mistake people feel they should sue them for a ton of money, although he is just trying to help.
2. Unpaid Health Care - Health care has a high rate of treatment to people who cannot afford to be treated. So that is factored into the cost
3. Insurances and Medicare/Medicaid - Their goal is to find a way not to pay the doctor unless they go threw a bunch of loops requiring more staff or cutting into his business time. Heck just dealing with the IT Staff alone you run into the biggest IT Idiots in the world. Here is how a typical integration project works....
ME: My claim has been rejected why is that.
INSURANCE COMPANY (IC): We changed our format around.
ME: When was I notified about this
IC: We posted the notification change on our webpage in www.insurancecomapyname.com/edi/specifications/hipaa/99dnnvnakkk222/837/changes.html
ME: I am looking at the page right now I don't see a path to get there.
IC: You should have this link bookmarked.
ME: When did you tell people about this page.
IC: We had the link up for one day on December 25th 2 years ago.
ME: Can I have YOUR 837 specifications....
IC: We follow the 837 standard you should know it.
ME: I want a copy of your version of the specifications.
IC: It is just like what we require on the paper form.
ME: Please can I have the specs to be sure I am doing it your way.
IC: OK... (Gives you a generic 837 standard spec)
ME: (Follows the specs as giving, runs the test and gets rejections back, a week later) What is wrong why isn't this working.
IC: Well we don't follow those areas of the specs. We put those values in this filed
ME: (Follows the specs as giving, runs the test and gets rejections back, a week later) What is wrong why isn't this working.
IC: Well we don't follow those areas of the specs. We put those values in this filed
ME: Ok it seems to process why is it rejecting.
IC: Well the claim is too old so we wont pay it.
4. Staff, front desk, practice managers, billers, nurses....
5. Building upkeep
6. Medical Equipment
The doctor while getting paid well isn't really everything you are paying for.
I find it funny how both extream atheists and religious fundamentals are so fixated on the mericals but not the bulk of the text.
For the most part the observers of the mericals wanted to see a merical when something happened that was improbable was taken as a mericle then exaggerated until it got to text.
But that is the sales pitch, the catch is the bulk of the bibal is its story and it's parables that actually teach a lesson. Many we still need to relearn today.
For a more modern example let's use Abe Lincon. He wasn't a stellar president but he was president during the civil war and his side won, after many mistakes on his part. He openly defied the supream court, and did many thing that was horrible. But to most Americans and the world he has became a symbol of all that is good and decent. That was just 150 years ago. What will happen in 2000 years?
No real environmentalists you know the actual scientists who study the environment. Know there are trade offs and a real complex set of problems that happen. What we think of as environmentalists are average person who read the summary of the summary of the articles and gets outraged by the values, and will either spend time complaining about it, or coming up ways of manipulating their ideas so they can market to those who are complaining about it, to make them feel good about being self righteous.
Yes Global warming is a problem, We humans are a major factor. Jumping back and forth on each Green Method that some businessman came up with to make a quick million won't fix the problem.
Its Green because in theory when you regrow the plants they will absorb the CO2 that was emitted.
However Humans being as we are, we will probably cut down forests to make room for more of these plants and still end up with a net gain in CO2 in the atmosphere.
If there was a good easy solution we would have come up with it now. The problem is every energy source you will have to make some sort of trade off. The key is trying to at least diversify our energy sources so we are dividing our trade-offs and not become dependent on any particular one. So when one source of energy is giving a trade-off we can no longer tolerate we can ramp up with another one with a more tolerable trade-off.
It is, but as a contractor you are able to break a lot of politics.
For one you are not part of the Bureaucratic System. So you can go talk to whatever level you need too, vs going up the chain. Secondly you are hired for performance, you can make those little mistakes that could hurt a full time employee.
There is the fact you can politically blame them value.
There is the fact that they can dropped at any particular time value.
There is the fact that they don't need to pay for benefits value.
There is the fact they can be pushed to part time value.
There is the fact that they will keep your full time staff honest value.
And Universities are usually very very wasteful with their money too.
How many of those rooms are vacant at any one time in a University.
How many plans are on the drawing board for a brand new buildings.
The Student Clubs/Department every year they need to be sure that they spent their entire budget else they will get less the next year. So they spend all their money so they can get more next year.
When you are back in them olden time. You either ate/drank everything off the animal you can or you died from starvation because who know when the next time you can eat.
If it didn't kill you, and it was soft enough to chew. Then they ate it.
The alternate is very strictly written laws that are inflexible, that will just make more criminals.
The Lawful bit it is prevent a loop hole where Illegal Content would become legal, at least unenforceable.
So if you get blocked for Illegal Content just like if you get blocked for unreasonable discrimination you go to court to try to prove otherwise.
Yea lets free the cows... Oh wait they have been bread over thousands of years to produce more milk, by us not milking them they will die a slow and painful death, from udder infections.
Is that any more gross then Cows Milk? Or any Milk as of a matter.
I am not a Vegan or a Vegetarian, and I do enjoy drinking milk.
But the fact that we are drinking an other animals body fluids is a bit gross, if you think too much about it.
But so is if you thinking when you eat an Fruit that you are Eating a plants Reproductive Organ. The fact if you eat a carrot or some other vegetable a full life form needed to die in order to keep you alive.
Many plants have a much more complex Genome then us animals do, in many ways they are far more evolved then we are.
Yes us animals to survive we need to do things if you think about it is rather cruel and/or disgusting in order for us to survive.
I agree but I wouldn't equate programmer to program relationship the same as parent to child.
If that were the case I would be a lousy parent, favoring a few, and abandoning a slew of them because I got board with them and the concept.
When we create, we feel useful as a human, and have tangible proof of this usefulness.
If we take 1 as a string "1" and the + for standard string concatenation
When entered "1"+"1" we get a string of "11"
And in binary 11 = 3. So in the right context 1+1=3
Sorry but that isn't a LAN party it is a WAN party...