Depends on the insurance plan. I have a few friends that ended up owing 10's of thousands in hospital fees, even though they had insurance.
But yeah... With great insurance policy you are golden in US.
So your solution is to force others at gunpoint to do it? I'm all for helping others but making it mandatory is evil. The ends don't justify the means.
You do understand that we actually are OK with paying for our socialized medicine, do you? Mostly because we know the downsides of the alternative. And yes, democracy is a bitch - the majority totally dominates the minority. With all of the negatives of socialised medicine, you will find absolutely small number of people think it should be scrapped for all private.
Hell! My country has a mixed system that actually works well. With a single payer system I get about 20% of the money I pay into it. While my mother gets the rest 80%. In addition to being breast cancer survivor, where all of her treatments were paid by the government medical insurance.
The value for the society in that? I am not bothered with medical bills and can easily focus on my work - thus bringing in more $$$ into my country.
VpnService is a base class for applications to extend and build their own VPN solutions. In general, it creates a virtual network interface, configures addresses and routing rules, and returns a file descriptor to the application. Each read from the descriptor retrieves an outgoing packet which was routed to the interface. Each write to the descriptor injects an incoming packet just like it was received from the interface. The interface is running on Internet Protocol (IP), so packets are always started with IP headers. The application then completes a VPN connection by processing and exchanging packets with the remote server over a tunnel.
It's a factually true statement. I can agree that a desktop/workstation may not need an EMail client, because connectivity is very much a standard thing. But just like any ultra portable device, this HAS to be able to operate without access to internet. Having only webmail on a tablet defeats the goal of a take anywhere device.
So, what does a Fire or a Nook do that can't be done on a Playbook?
Really? You had to ask that question?
I use Silverstripe and have been using PHP ever since version 3. Having 3 years of Perl prior to PHP, I can safely say that it's still not a long way off from Perl.
Yes, for a slab that can't even be used to read email...
As much as I dislike Fire, PlayBook is much less versatile than Fire or Nook. Currently it's like comparing a lowly nettop to a Sun SPARC Station. Sure SPARC station outperfroms that nettop, but I'd rather have that cheaper nettop and actually use it daily, than have a system that there is hardly anything for.
Monolithic? Ignoring excellent engineering? Are you comparing it to the same PHP that I know?
PS: Reinventing the wheel is exactly what most, if not all, of PHP developers that I know of are excellent at. And I know a crapload of them...
Comparing PHP to a web dev framework is very much appropriate. It is essentially a framework. Just look at it's history... It's Perl with some web oriented tooling, it has changed it's backend but hasn't really evolved much.
And I'm not saying it's bad or something. It's very appropriate for a lot of projects. Just look at Facebook. And it's one of the most easily scalable platforms out there.
All of the other frameworks are building on top of PHP and look what they have to do to overcome it's legacy of being a framework language.
PS: PHP and ASP.NET can be compared, while RoR and PHP can't be. web.py and node.js can be compared to PHP, Django can't. Notice what PHP is missing to be comparable.
I bet that 99% is a wild overestimate. Are 99% of doctors small business owners? Are vets? Are most people that are in a job that logically can't be described as a good career choice? And there are a lot of professions like that, much more than can be described as a small business owner.
Small business owners are small business owners. They aren't necessarily fulfilling their dreams, even by taking care of their baby.
Microsoft is OK, but Windows should have been a no-go. XBox is Microsoft, but sells well. They should have bone with their popular consumer brand - XBox.
And that is why Apple could break the rules and get away with it. They knew the original iPhone would sell to a select audience. They were not concerned with market share. And yet they had Nokia running scared the moment it hit the shelves.
They had the whole Apple brand behind them. And don't underestimate the power of iPod brand at that time. Sure, iPhone and iPad have eclipsed it but it was something what Nokia never had - 70% of the market.
And Apple broke the rules just because they could at the moment.
No more shovelware. No more locked down shit. No more proprietary music/video sources.
The irony is that they replaced it with their own brand of lockdowns. While I generally prefer the hiding of the file-system from the user, I can't stress enough what a PITA it is to get files from and to iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch.
In addition, iTunes is the shovelware locked down shit that comes with owning an iThingy....
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Depends on the insurance plan. I have a few friends that ended up owing 10's of thousands in hospital fees, even though they had insurance.
But yeah... With great insurance policy you are golden in US.
Yet, he would be treated in any case, or wouldn't he be?
most countries with single-payer universal health care
I think it's all, not most. Healthcare costs in US are out of control.
can't afford their own healthcare
So your solution is to force others at gunpoint to do it? I'm all for helping others but making it mandatory is evil. The ends don't justify the means.
You do understand that we actually are OK with paying for our socialized medicine, do you? Mostly because we know the downsides of the alternative. And yes, democracy is a bitch - the majority totally dominates the minority. With all of the negatives of socialised medicine, you will find absolutely small number of people think it should be scrapped for all private.
Hell! My country has a mixed system that actually works well. With a single payer system I get about 20% of the money I pay into it. While my mother gets the rest 80%. In addition to being breast cancer survivor, where all of her treatments were paid by the government medical insurance.
The value for the society in that? I am not bothered with medical bills and can easily focus on my work - thus bringing in more $$$ into my country.
My point is that the scenery will not fit into XBox's RAM. That's the freaking big part of FSX
And to think that people frowned when the "commies" called Americans imperialists. Looks like the "commies" were right.....
Not only that, I doubt that XBox360 can handle the FlightSim X
Soon it will be. At leas ICS already provides custom VPN solution SPI.
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/net/VpnService.html
Since the release of ICS, users are able to roll-out their custom VPN solutions. I bet OpenVPN is in the works.
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/net/VpnService.html
I have to point to iPad as an example of a device that sells/sold well despite it's technical features.
It's a factually true statement. I can agree that a desktop/workstation may not need an EMail client, because connectivity is very much a standard thing. But just like any ultra portable device, this HAS to be able to operate without access to internet. Having only webmail on a tablet defeats the goal of a take anywhere device.
So, what does a Fire or a Nook do that can't be done on a Playbook? Really? You had to ask that question?
As a language it's still a modified Perl.
I use Silverstripe and have been using PHP ever since version 3. Having 3 years of Perl prior to PHP, I can safely say that it's still not a long way off from Perl.
Having a 6 digit UID, I would expect you to actually know the history of PHP.
Yes, for a slab that can't even be used to read email...
As much as I dislike Fire, PlayBook is much less versatile than Fire or Nook. Currently it's like comparing a lowly nettop to a Sun SPARC Station. Sure SPARC station outperfroms that nettop, but I'd rather have that cheaper nettop and actually use it daily, than have a system that there is hardly anything for.
Monolithic? Ignoring excellent engineering? Are you comparing it to the same PHP that I know?
PS: Reinventing the wheel is exactly what most, if not all, of PHP developers that I know of are excellent at. And I know a crapload of them...
You have seen beautiful Perl code? Really!?!?!?!?!
Comparing PHP to a web dev framework is very much appropriate. It is essentially a framework. Just look at it's history... It's Perl with some web oriented tooling, it has changed it's backend but hasn't really evolved much.
And I'm not saying it's bad or something. It's very appropriate for a lot of projects. Just look at Facebook. And it's one of the most easily scalable platforms out there.
All of the other frameworks are building on top of PHP and look what they have to do to overcome it's legacy of being a framework language.
PS: PHP and ASP.NET can be compared, while RoR and PHP can't be. web.py and node.js can be compared to PHP, Django can't. Notice what PHP is missing to be comparable.
$300 is a total fail. It's not clearance, because you can get a Fire for $200.
I bet that 99% is a wild overestimate. Are 99% of doctors small business owners? Are vets? Are most people that are in a job that logically can't be described as a good career choice? And there are a lot of professions like that, much more than can be described as a small business owner.
Small business owners are small business owners. They aren't necessarily fulfilling their dreams, even by taking care of their baby.
Microsoft is OK, but Windows should have been a no-go. XBox is Microsoft, but sells well. They should have bone with their popular consumer brand - XBox.
However, all of the WP7 users moan about the prices of apps in the store.... So you still get to pay the premium.
Bingo.
And that is why Apple could break the rules and get away with it. They knew the original iPhone would sell to a select audience. They were not concerned with market share. And yet they had Nokia running scared the moment it hit the shelves.
They had the whole Apple brand behind them. And don't underestimate the power of iPod brand at that time. Sure, iPhone and iPad have eclipsed it but it was something what Nokia never had - 70% of the market.
And Apple broke the rules just because they could at the moment.
No more shovelware. No more locked down shit. No more proprietary music/video sources.
The irony is that they replaced it with their own brand of lockdowns. While I generally prefer the hiding of the file-system from the user, I can't stress enough what a PITA it is to get files from and to iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch.
In addition, iTunes is the shovelware locked down shit that comes with owning an iThingy....