Critics of the Canadian system don't actually care about health care outcomes, which is why they always focus on the lousy user experience. The curious question is: if they don't care about health care outcomes, why are they bothering to get all worked up about the system in the first place? They could avoid all the inconveniences of our system and get EXACTLY THE SAME CARE as an uninsured person in the United States without ever leaving home.
User experience doesn't matter until you're the user:-)
Urgent care is still administered to the under and uninsured and has to be covered by the hospitals and the government. We had hospital in our downtown area have to shut down because its paying/non-paying ratio was too low (medicare wasn't covering the under/uninsured patients fully).
The true nature of the worm has been discovered. Slashdot will be simultaneously accessed by all the infected computers, making Slashdot.org succumb to its own "slashdot effect"
There's a really good reason these vehicles are 3 wheels - it allows these vehicles to not be classified as a "car," thus circumventing a bunch of safety laws around the world.
I agree that the privacy issues (running all tags going through an intersection) seems to be unusual. As for ticketed red light offenders, why not require them to send a photocopy of their up-to-date insurance? That would put the burden of proof on the offender, and would require no extra work on the city's part. From what I read above, when an officer pulls somebody over for the same offense, they ask for proof of insurance anyway. If you're making them mail a check to you anyways, have them include a copy of their insurance. That'll be $2 million, city of Chicago.:-)
Considering how little the Underinsured/Uninsured insurance is on most policies, I don't have much sympathy. But then again, I'm in a state that doesn't require auto insurance, so those rates might be different.
My old Kodak 6mp mid-size camera (I can fit it in my pocket, but it's uncomfortable) has manual controls to adjust F-stop and shutter speed. The camera takes excellent pictures in good light or close-up in darkness. It also can take 2 shots/second up to 4 pics before having to save. It will let you take continous pictures, saving the last 4 when you release the button.
What I'd like is a smaller size camera that has better low-light performance. I figure it's pretty futile without a large CCD or lens.
Particularly, I always have trouble taking photos at my sister's basketball games. My maximum aperture is 2.3 when zoomed out, and that puts my shutter speed to 1/20s at best. Being a sports shot, I'm not near enough for a flash and 1/20 is not fast enough for action.
I took a programming class in highschool. They used ThinkPascal on some old Macs. I was always upset how limited the program was - very limited graphical options. I could line trace, that was about it.
That being said, the interface was very intuitive. Commands automatically were bolded and there were a lot of mandatory line breaks and tabbing which made it easy to figure out how deep into your loops you were.
I don't code for a living. I write long equations in excel once in a while, but that's about it.
The language isn't as important as the interface. Something with a pretty interface and intuitive commands is what's needed.
Maybe he should watch this video and approach Lockheed Martin with "Hey, that's great and all, but can you modify it to allow heavy loads to be lifted up a staircase in a factory?"
OSHA would never let heavy loads be regularly moved up and down stairs in a factory.
The key benefit of this device is mobility. Give them to movers that have to do one-time movement up or down stairs.
UPS might like these too.
If you look at it as a fatigue reliever, they could be modified to help people with trouble walking distances.
The military application is just the easiest to show. Who has to lug 200lbs over rough terrain at 7-10mph? Extreme campers?
Agreed! Goo is a great deal at $5! I would have skipped it at $20 though.
Currently building a 30m high tower and re-playing the levels to get OCD status:-)
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4. I also have two computers, a gaming computer for when I want to concentrate on gaming. And an all purpose computer that I'll play the game on with all the lags involved when I don't feel like booting up my gaming computer.
I do like steam for their handy demos, and trailers, though there's youtube for the trailer. And it was very innovative, although I wonder if they distribute the games via Torrent tech.
I also find it amusing, they have a bunch of classic games that they sell.
But my latest annoyance is DoW2 is Steam online. DoW is definetely a game that I'd want a backup of because RTS games you can go back to years later.
So what's the problem? Run steam on both machines with the same login. Just don't try to run them at the same time - don't know what will happen there:-)
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Winter Blend?
+ registration fees: fee - DMV operating cost
+ gas tax: $/gallon purchased
+ tolls (if any): $/driver
> $0/driver
granted, it doesn't cover the cost of building and maintaining, but it's a more convenient and decentralized alternative.
Critics of the Canadian system don't actually care about health care outcomes, which is why they always focus on the lousy user experience. The curious question is: if they don't care about health care outcomes, why are they bothering to get all worked up about the system in the first place? They could avoid all the inconveniences of our system and get EXACTLY THE SAME CARE as an uninsured person in the United States without ever leaving home.
User experience doesn't matter until you're the user :-)
Urgent care is still administered to the under and uninsured and has to be covered by the hospitals and the government. We had hospital in our downtown area have to shut down because its paying/non-paying ratio was too low (medicare wasn't covering the under/uninsured patients fully).
He's not going to make any money if he keeps giving away copies of Atlas Shrugged like that.
I know, it should be underlined, but I can't for the life of me make the underline tag work. I'm not very good at HTML
I voted for Kodos before it was cool :-)
Apparently the Kennedys don't agree :-)
Or maybe an american DVD player? Then he can forget to give him a plug adapter :-D
;-)
Oh yeah, and he'll give him a player that doesn't support PAL
Not only do they have USB slots, they're located inside the money dispensing slot. Awesome! Maybe I can get it to run my bootable usb key. :-)
WHOOOOOOOSH!
Truly genius. It puts fixing the virus off another day, because nobody will believe the "install this patch from Microsoft" news today.
Maybe a full day is all it needs to take over the world! Mwa ha ha!
Which one? The American or Russian one? http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/31/1332257&art_pos=7
The true nature of the worm has been discovered. Slashdot will be simultaneously accessed by all the infected computers, making Slashdot.org succumb to its own "slashdot effect"
not to mention having to learn Korean... guess it's time to get that dictionary...
Bleep-bloop
same here. Lolz
There's a really good reason these vehicles are 3 wheels - it allows these vehicles to not be classified as a "car," thus circumventing a bunch of safety laws around the world.
I guess I shouldn't have had that green beer before I came to work :-)
:-)
Meant to say that checking everyone's tags that go through the intersection seems to be way out of line. Saying that it's "unusual" makes no sense
I agree that the privacy issues (running all tags going through an intersection) seems to be unusual. As for ticketed red light offenders, why not require them to send a photocopy of their up-to-date insurance? That would put the burden of proof on the offender, and would require no extra work on the city's part. From what I read above, when an officer pulls somebody over for the same offense, they ask for proof of insurance anyway. If you're making them mail a check to you anyways, have them include a copy of their insurance. That'll be $2 million, city of Chicago. :-)
Considering how little the Underinsured/Uninsured insurance is on most policies, I don't have much sympathy. But then again, I'm in a state that doesn't require auto insurance, so those rates might be different.
My old Kodak 6mp mid-size camera (I can fit it in my pocket, but it's uncomfortable) has manual controls to adjust F-stop and shutter speed. The camera takes excellent pictures in good light or close-up in darkness. It also can take 2 shots/second up to 4 pics before having to save. It will let you take continous pictures, saving the last 4 when you release the button.
What I'd like is a smaller size camera that has better low-light performance. I figure it's pretty futile without a large CCD or lens.
Particularly, I always have trouble taking photos at my sister's basketball games. My maximum aperture is 2.3 when zoomed out, and that puts my shutter speed to 1/20s at best. Being a sports shot, I'm not near enough for a flash and 1/20 is not fast enough for action.
Gradius was a side-scroller. Konami code FTW :-)
I took a programming class in highschool. They used ThinkPascal on some old Macs. I was always upset how limited the program was - very limited graphical options. I could line trace, that was about it.
That being said, the interface was very intuitive. Commands automatically were bolded and there were a lot of mandatory line breaks and tabbing which made it easy to figure out how deep into your loops you were.
I don't code for a living. I write long equations in excel once in a while, but that's about it.
The language isn't as important as the interface. Something with a pretty interface and intuitive commands is what's needed.
Maybe he should watch this video and approach Lockheed Martin with "Hey, that's great and all, but can you modify it to allow heavy loads to be lifted up a staircase in a factory?"
OSHA would never let heavy loads be regularly moved up and down stairs in a factory.
The key benefit of this device is mobility. Give them to movers that have to do one-time movement up or down stairs.
UPS might like these too.
If you look at it as a fatigue reliever, they could be modified to help people with trouble walking distances.
The military application is just the easiest to show. Who has to lug 200lbs over rough terrain at 7-10mph? Extreme campers?
Agreed! Goo is a great deal at $5! I would have skipped it at $20 though.
:-)
Currently building a 30m high tower and re-playing the levels to get OCD status
4. I also have two computers, a gaming computer for when I want to concentrate on gaming. And an all purpose computer that I'll play the game on with all the lags involved when I don't feel like booting up my gaming computer.
I do like steam for their handy demos, and trailers, though there's youtube for the trailer. And it was very innovative, although I wonder if they distribute the games via Torrent tech.
I also find it amusing, they have a bunch of classic games that they sell.
But my latest annoyance is DoW2 is Steam online. DoW is definetely a game that I'd want a backup of because RTS games you can go back to years later.
So what's the problem? Run steam on both machines with the same login. Just don't try to run them at the same time - don't know what will happen there :-)
...And, the most important question, will battery technology be good enough to power a shape shifting phone for a day or two?
No worries, just have it shape-shift into a hand crank