It is a medical device which means that it is subject to insane levels of litigation. Mostly you are probably paying for insurance.
It is a medical device which means that it is subject to insane markups. Mostly they are probably paid for by insurance, so there is little attention paid to cost by consumers.
There, I fixed that for you.
Yea, I was waiting for the tort reform spin. We love "free markets" in this country. Anyone else notice how poorly that stuff works when it comes to goods for which the consumer has no option to just say no?...hearing aids...prescription drugs...and for a large part health insurance itself?
Good to know that the voice of the people is being heard.
On one side of the pond at any rate.
Yea...it's pretty sad that here in the U.S. virtually nobody I talk to has even heard of it. I emailed my congressman about ACTA and (just as someone else here I recall) I got a reply saying "Thanks for contacting me about Health Care.". Just think about that...I voted this guy in so he could say "If I auto reply to everything as being about health care I'll probably be right most of the time". Just plain sad.
I'm really sick of this "I don't want to vote for the lesser of two evils" crap. If you actually believe there is a lesser of two evils, I'd say it's your duty as an American to vote for it. Abstination from voting is an expression of cynicism...nothing more.
Wrong.
Your DUTY as an American is to vote for the candidate of YOUR choice. When there is not a suitable candidate, and you vote anyhow, then you are allowing someone else to cast your vote for you. There is NO such thing as voting "against" somebody, and if you cast a vote for someone who you know nothing about you are doing a MAJOR disservice to the country. You don't get to use the cop-out that "Well I only voted for him because I didn't like the other choices"; if you voted for a candidate then you support that candidate, end of story.
...as compared to what??...staying home and thus helping the candidate you liked less...I'm sorry, but that logic just doesn't fly.
Because choosing not to vote between two evils discards your right to an opinion?
I can fully understand the trend where people simply don't care to vote anymore.
Abstination from voting can be an expression of opinion in itself. Hell, it is not uncommon for politicians to abstinate from voting on matters (although for various other reasons also).
I'm really sick of this "I don't want to vote for the lesser of two evils" crap. If you actually believe there is a lesser of two evils, I'd say it's your duty as an American to vote for it. Abstination from voting is an expression of cynicism...nothing more.
Tivo: $250 up-front + $7 / mo CableCard rental + $15 / mo Tivo Subscription fee
vs.
Cable: $15 / mo for something that works for most people.
(...and if your Tivo breaks, you get to buy another one.)
...or in my case, HD TV over an antenna $0/month, schedulesdirect.com listings for $20/year, and a three-tuner mythtv system with a TB of disk (which cost a crapload more than $250 of course).
How is resting in a comfortable armchair different from sleeping in a bed? If I fall asleep in front of the TV am I at risk all night?
This study sounds like bullshit to me.
+1000. I was just going to say the same thing...you can't get any more "sedentary" than when you sleep. I happen to be somewhat of a fitness fanatic...56 years old and like 9.5% body fat. However I don't shy away from sitting/laying in front of the tube either. I call BS on this one for sure. For me, "sedentary" will continue to mean "not exercising".
I had to use PayFloPro in a php application at a previous job. I never understood why they used a proprietary binary API rather than just communicating via https. It's not like it could be used without knowing the login information, and access to a given account could be restricted to specific ips etc. Under php that required compiling an extension into php.
A friend of mine did some contract work using the non-pro version of that and ran into a huge bind with it. This was for use on a Windows server and their binary API had been unnecessarily compiled with Windows security settings that could not be used on the shared server this was supposed to run on. He and a whole slew of others were screaming at Paypal to simply recompile a version they could use with no luck at all...quite a mess.
Maybe there's a reason for that approach...but it's a pain in the ass. I wonder if the new Paypal API will do the same.
Throttle by wire IMO, is fucking with the KISS rule.
To propose that somehow mechanical cables are safer because they are simpler is severely flawed.
Have you every seen how easy it is to get a mechanical throttle to get stuck? Also in a wreck the cable the throttle can become pinched, stuck at full throttle not fun.
Back in the mid-70s on a trip I took with a friend to Florida, he got in a front end collision. We only had enough money at the time to get the car more or less jury rigged enough to get by. What we didn't realize at the time was that one or more engine mounts were broken just enough to let the engine shift position occasionally when you hit a bump. That's right...the engine would move a little but the throttle cable wouldn't. Try taking an off ramp with a big block V8 (an old Ford LTD) at full throttle...I did...nice way to test those breaks.
Nah. Slashes are fine, but Microsoft should be sorry about backslashes!
Boy, you're not kidding. Nothing like using a directory delimiter that's the escape character in pretty much every programming language there is. It's a good thing that most GNU programs etc ported to Windows let you use forward slashes in place of back slashes.
If the military was assigned to "protect" the interests of Haliburton (which it was), there was indirect control. Nice revisionism.
Not only that, but regardless of what "authority" he did or didn't have as VP, pretending he wasn't instrumental in us (and Haliburton) being in Iraq is beyond revisionism.
The opt-out is perminent and for all connected through that IP/customer link
Yup. I have Optimum Online and their opt out disables it for the MAC address of your cable modem which properly allows the NX to come through. I'll give them tiny kudos for this, but not as much as just leaving DNS the fuck alone.
Now this is an interesting idea. Let me tell you the best way to handle this - on the client side, after the proper DNS opportunities have been exhausted.
Exactly. Never mind that many browsers have the capability to automatically add '.com' for you so 'yahoo' goes to 'yahoo.com' if the lookup for 'yahoo' fails. This DNS "feature" breaks that as well. Jeez...it's as if a good ISP DNS server is going the way of good ISP usenet servers and the dodo.
I have DVD's in my collection now older than 12 years old and they work fine. Maybe they mean recordable discs?
Even if they do, I'd expect recordable disks to last longer than that if my experience with CDRs is any indication. I don't recall ever having one of them fail with age.
Wow...almost nothing but offtopic and redundant posts so far. As for me...I misread the title and assumed it was about eating a Cheeto that fell on the floor.
Getting a good calibration disc like AVIA or Digital Video Essentials will make a huge difference in the appearance of HD sources.
Absolutely. I've used my Avia disk to set the basic video settings on five TVs so far including my own RP CRT plus new LCDs and Plasmas recently bought by friends and family members.
It's really easy to do and everyone I've done it for has been stunned by the difference. Some of the factory settings on TVs are unspeakable too. My Hitachi RP CRT had the contrast set to 100, when the optimal value based on the Avia test pattern (which looked spectacular) was around 20. As a matter of fact, in that example, the factory settings would almost surely ruin the TV.
Speaking of calibration...I just don't get why all TVs have like five or more preset video settings when, generally speaking, there really is only one set of correct values. Then again, with 99% of the general public skewing all their 4:3 content to 16:9 and not seeing anything wrong with it (don't even get me started on that) I guess they feel people expect it and don't know any better.
<p>I wouldn't worry as the conclusions are "according to industry insiders." so it is almost certainly wishful thinking rather than rigorous, peer reviewed research.</p></quote>
Absolutely. They've based their entire business model for the last twelve years on wishful thinking, which is why they're in the crapper. Thier mindset is changing from "wouldn't it be nice if we could sell people digital music files they can't copy?" to "wouldn't it be nice if we could sell people digital music without giving them the files at all?"...and we're supposed to believe that's the wave of the future.
As I understand it, that technique of bridging the pins to get the flashing codes only works with older OBD-I interfaces...mostly on cars made prior to 1996. I know it can't be done on my 1996 Saturn, built the first year they used the OBD-II spec.
I spent about $100 on a Scantool. I even got the software to compile on my Gentoo laptop. It works on essentially all newer domestic and foreign cars. It's great to have even if you only use it to find out if a "check engine" light is something serious enough to warrant towing to your mechanic.
well... add fast javascript, and it really does become an OS, one where you run your online applications in and barely ever visit the local filesystem.
I still tend to view it more as the OS on a web server replacing functionality once done on the client OS. The Mozilla folks sound like they're slowly forgetting the concept of a thin client...especially when they start talking about the server as being nothing but a "shared hard drive"...WTF?
I just hope that folks at Mythbuntu can integrate the script that removes commercials. Right now, you must be a semi geek to set this up.
I think you're going to seriously mislead those not familiar with MythTV. MythTV can and does mark commercials in shows (very simply, without using any special scripts) and allows you to skip them automatically while watching those recordings. The commercials are not removed, but rather marked by starting and ending frame. I record all over the air DTV (no cable here except for internet) and watch essentially all my TV from recordings (since I can record up to three shows at a time) in HD with no commercials...sweet.
The script in the link is only for someone who wants to transcode the MythTV recording to another format while honoring a cutlist created from MythTV's commercial flagging, thus perminently editing out the commercials based on those marks. This unfortunately is a very bad idea. While MythTV's commercial flagging is great (near perfect on most U.S. TV for me) it's not perfect...I occasionally have to jump back or temporarily disable auto-skipping to see content that was erroneously skipped. That script would loose that content forever.
And now pretend that you are, like many thousands of other people, hosted in a place that doesn't offer it. Or run software which can't talk to it. Or have staff who aren't trained in its use or upkeep. Or... a hundred other things.
...or if the application you're dealing with assumes or in some way depends on the case insensitive behavior of MySQL. That alone could make switching pretty rough.
The profit motive in criminal justice should just be eliminated. Criminal justice should be run entirely by the state. We should still have prisons just stop having private companies operate them.
+1000
I've been totally against privatizing the prison system ever since it started gaining acceptance over 25 years ago for those very reasons. Anyone with any sense should have been able to predict that there would be no way to prevent this industry from influencing the laws capable of taking all your freedoms away, and that the situation should be avoided at all costs. Pretty much all my worst fears about it have come true.
I keep hoping that one of these fucking years I might actually be able to use the phrase "Only in America" in a good context again.
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It is a medical device which means that it is subject to insane levels of litigation. Mostly you are probably paying for insurance.
It is a medical device which means that it is subject to insane markups. Mostly they are probably paid for by insurance, so there is little attention paid to cost by consumers.
There, I fixed that for you.
Yea, I was waiting for the tort reform spin. We love "free markets" in this country. Anyone else notice how poorly that stuff works when it comes to goods for which the consumer has no option to just say no?...hearing aids...prescription drugs...and for a large part health insurance itself?
Computers are awesome.
<voice class="homer">Is there anything they can't fix?</voice>
On one side of the pond at any rate.
Yea...it's pretty sad that here in the U.S. virtually nobody I talk to has even heard of it. I emailed my congressman about ACTA and (just as someone else here I recall) I got a reply saying "Thanks for contacting me about Health Care.". Just think about that...I voted this guy in so he could say "If I auto reply to everything as being about health care I'll probably be right most of the time". Just plain sad.
I'm really sick of this "I don't want to vote for the lesser of two evils" crap. If you actually believe there is a lesser of two evils, I'd say it's your duty as an American to vote for it. Abstination from voting is an expression of cynicism...nothing more.
Wrong.
Your DUTY as an American is to vote for the candidate of YOUR choice. When there is not a suitable candidate, and you vote anyhow, then you are allowing someone else to cast your vote for you. There is NO such thing as voting "against" somebody, and if you cast a vote for someone who you know nothing about you are doing a MAJOR disservice to the country. You don't get to use the cop-out that "Well I only voted for him because I didn't like the other choices"; if you voted for a candidate then you support that candidate, end of story.
...as compared to what??...staying home and thus helping the candidate you liked less...I'm sorry, but that logic just doesn't fly.
Because choosing not to vote between two evils discards your right to an opinion? I can fully understand the trend where people simply don't care to vote anymore. Abstination from voting can be an expression of opinion in itself. Hell, it is not uncommon for politicians to abstinate from voting on matters (although for various other reasons also).
I'm really sick of this "I don't want to vote for the lesser of two evils" crap. If you actually believe there is a lesser of two evils, I'd say it's your duty as an American to vote for it. Abstination from voting is an expression of cynicism...nothing more.
For those using php, ADOdb is a great way of doing this, and also adds a lot of great functions similar to the perl DBI: http://adodb.sourceforge.net/
Tivo: $250 up-front + $7 / mo CableCard rental + $15 / mo Tivo Subscription fee vs. Cable: $15 / mo for something that works for most people.
(...and if your Tivo breaks, you get to buy another one.)
...or in my case, HD TV over an antenna $0/month, schedulesdirect.com listings for $20/year, and a three-tuner mythtv system with a TB of disk (which cost a crapload more than $250 of course).
How is resting in a comfortable armchair different from sleeping in a bed? If I fall asleep in front of the TV am I at risk all night? This study sounds like bullshit to me.
+1000. I was just going to say the same thing...you can't get any more "sedentary" than when you sleep. I happen to be somewhat of a fitness fanatic...56 years old and like 9.5% body fat. However I don't shy away from sitting/laying in front of the tube either. I call BS on this one for sure. For me, "sedentary" will continue to mean "not exercising".
Troll. Congress is involved in health care where they are excluded from ACTA.
Absolutely...and everyone should encourage their representatives to start asking why: https://secure.eff.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=420
Yes, Cygwin does run under WINE. And WINE runs under Cygwin. It can be an amusing stress test.
...now mix that with a dialup modem connection over VOIP and we'll really be getting somewhere.
I had to use PayFloPro in a php application at a previous job. I never understood why they used a proprietary binary API rather than just communicating via https. It's not like it could be used without knowing the login information, and access to a given account could be restricted to specific ips etc. Under php that required compiling an extension into php.
A friend of mine did some contract work using the non-pro version of that and ran into a huge bind with it. This was for use on a Windows server and their binary API had been unnecessarily compiled with Windows security settings that could not be used on the shared server this was supposed to run on. He and a whole slew of others were screaming at Paypal to simply recompile a version they could use with no luck at all...quite a mess.
Maybe there's a reason for that approach...but it's a pain in the ass. I wonder if the new Paypal API will do the same.
Throttle by wire IMO, is fucking with the KISS rule.
To propose that somehow mechanical cables are safer because they are simpler is severely flawed. Have you every seen how easy it is to get a mechanical throttle to get stuck? Also in a wreck the cable the throttle can become pinched, stuck at full throttle not fun.
Back in the mid-70s on a trip I took with a friend to Florida, he got in a front end collision. We only had enough money at the time to get the car more or less jury rigged enough to get by. What we didn't realize at the time was that one or more engine mounts were broken just enough to let the engine shift position occasionally when you hit a bump. That's right...the engine would move a little but the throttle cable wouldn't. Try taking an off ramp with a big block V8 (an old Ford LTD) at full throttle...I did...nice way to test those breaks.
Nah. Slashes are fine, but Microsoft should be sorry about backslashes!
Boy, you're not kidding. Nothing like using a directory delimiter that's the escape character in pretty much every programming language there is. It's a good thing that most GNU programs etc ported to Windows let you use forward slashes in place of back slashes.
If the military was assigned to "protect" the interests of Haliburton (which it was), there was indirect control. Nice revisionism.
Not only that, but regardless of what "authority" he did or didn't have as VP, pretending he wasn't instrumental in us (and Haliburton) being in Iraq is beyond revisionism.
The opt-out is perminent and for all connected through that IP/customer link
Yup. I have Optimum Online and their opt out disables it for the MAC address of your cable modem which properly allows the NX to come through. I'll give them tiny kudos for this, but not as much as just leaving DNS the fuck alone.
Now this is an interesting idea. Let me tell you the best way to handle this - on the client side, after the proper DNS opportunities have been exhausted.
Exactly. Never mind that many browsers have the capability to automatically add '.com' for you so 'yahoo' goes to 'yahoo.com' if the lookup for 'yahoo' fails. This DNS "feature" breaks that as well. Jeez...it's as if a good ISP DNS server is going the way of good ISP usenet servers and the dodo.
I have DVD's in my collection now older than 12 years old and they work fine. Maybe they mean recordable discs?
Even if they do, I'd expect recordable disks to last longer than that if my experience with CDRs is any indication. I don't recall ever having one of them fail with age.
Wow...almost nothing but offtopic and redundant posts so far. As for me...I misread the title and assumed it was about eating a Cheeto that fell on the floor.
Getting a good calibration disc like AVIA or Digital Video Essentials will make a huge difference in the appearance of HD sources.
Absolutely. I've used my Avia disk to set the basic video settings on five TVs so far including my own RP CRT plus new LCDs and Plasmas recently bought by friends and family members.
It's really easy to do and everyone I've done it for has been stunned by the difference. Some of the factory settings on TVs are unspeakable too. My Hitachi RP CRT had the contrast set to 100, when the optimal value based on the Avia test pattern (which looked spectacular) was around 20. As a matter of fact, in that example, the factory settings would almost surely ruin the TV.
Speaking of calibration...I just don't get why all TVs have like five or more preset video settings when, generally speaking, there really is only one set of correct values. Then again, with 99% of the general public skewing all their 4:3 content to 16:9 and not seeing anything wrong with it (don't even get me started on that) I guess they feel people expect it and don't know any better.
<p>I wouldn't worry as the conclusions are "according to industry insiders." so it is almost certainly wishful thinking rather than rigorous, peer reviewed research.</p></quote>
Absolutely. They've based their entire business model for the last twelve years on wishful thinking, which is why they're in the crapper. Thier mindset is changing from "wouldn't it be nice if we could sell people digital music files they can't copy?" to "wouldn't it be nice if we could sell people digital music without giving them the files at all?"...and we're supposed to believe that's the wave of the future.
Seriously...could these guys be bigger idiots.
As I understand it, that technique of bridging the pins to get the flashing codes only works with older OBD-I interfaces...mostly on cars made prior to 1996. I know it can't be done on my 1996 Saturn, built the first year they used the OBD-II spec.
I spent about $100 on a Scantool. I even got the software to compile on my Gentoo laptop. It works on essentially all newer domestic and foreign cars. It's great to have even if you only use it to find out if a "check engine" light is something serious enough to warrant towing to your mechanic.
well... add fast javascript, and it really does become an OS, one where you run your online applications in and barely ever visit the local filesystem.
I still tend to view it more as the OS on a web server replacing functionality once done on the client OS. The Mozilla folks sound like they're slowly forgetting the concept of a thin client...especially when they start talking about the server as being nothing but a "shared hard drive"...WTF?
I just hope that folks at Mythbuntu can integrate the script that removes commercials. Right now, you must be a semi geek to set this up.
I think you're going to seriously mislead those not familiar with MythTV. MythTV can and does mark commercials in shows (very simply, without using any special scripts) and allows you to skip them automatically while watching those recordings. The commercials are not removed, but rather marked by starting and ending frame. I record all over the air DTV (no cable here except for internet) and watch essentially all my TV from recordings (since I can record up to three shows at a time) in HD with no commercials...sweet.
The script in the link is only for someone who wants to transcode the MythTV recording to another format while honoring a cutlist created from MythTV's commercial flagging, thus perminently editing out the commercials based on those marks. This unfortunately is a very bad idea. While MythTV's commercial flagging is great (near perfect on most U.S. TV for me) it's not perfect...I occasionally have to jump back or temporarily disable auto-skipping to see content that was erroneously skipped. That script would loose that content forever.
And now pretend that you are, like many thousands of other people, hosted in a place that doesn't offer it. Or run software which can't talk to it. Or have staff who aren't trained in its use or upkeep. Or... a hundred other things.
...or if the application you're dealing with assumes or in some way depends on the case insensitive behavior of MySQL. That alone could make switching pretty rough.
The profit motive in criminal justice should just be eliminated. Criminal justice should be run entirely by the state. We should still have prisons just stop having private companies operate them.
+1000
I've been totally against privatizing the prison system ever since it started gaining acceptance over 25 years ago for those very reasons. Anyone with any sense should have been able to predict that there would be no way to prevent this industry from influencing the laws capable of taking all your freedoms away, and that the situation should be avoided at all costs. Pretty much all my worst fears about it have come true.
I keep hoping that one of these fucking years I might actually be able to use the phrase "Only in America" in a good context again.