I originally switched to Ubuntu because with the 6.x version everything "just worked" with a random Dell laptop.
The "it don't work with laptops" argument was outdated a long time ago.
Legacy apps are holding people back. Although a lot of people never really needed to those to begin with. That's the contingent moving away from PCs entirely now.
The funny part about this and the collaboration with CVS is that they just took a bunch of best of breed drugs off of their list of covered medications. These are drugs for the management of serious conditions like diabetes, MS, and transplants.
If this, or any tech, is being used by an insurance company then it's likely purpose is to stiff policy holders.
Free Software does tend to be based on more secure designs.
On the other hand, pretty much everything is better than the market leader monopoly-ware product. This pretty much the way it's always been.
So it's easy to see a skew in favor of open source. That's just because the leading proprietary product has always been such crap. If something like VMS or QNX were in the mix being good examples of proprietary software, the differences would not be so obvious.
For his first two years, we were lucky we didn't up in a 2nd great depression. Fraud in bond ratings associated with what should have been mortgage junk bonds singlehandedly brought business lending to a halt.
ALL of the RDBMS platforms have their little quirks and proprietary features. The more you swallow the kool-aid, the more difficult it is to migrate away.
Oracle is no better or no worse than anyone else in this respect.
Although chances are that this will end up being all about what the 3rd party app vendors will support.
It doesn't have to be that hard or that bad. Some companies manage this much better than others do despite the fact that Ellison is the devil incarnate.
This situation likely represents a nearly complete state of neglect.
No one cares because it's not their money and it's a government agency where saving money will only get your budget cut next year.
There's also enterprise licensing and site licensing.
On the other hand, if they are paying for something on an annual basis then it's more likely SUPPORT contracts rather than actual licenses.
Oracle is an expensive product and annual bills like that are not terribly unusual really. They may or may not be able to find a suitable cheaper option assuming that they don't just need to do better license accounting.
Other supported products don't tend to be cheap either.
...actually, the "educated northern whites" in America are more likely than not to quit the workforce entirely. They do this because they can. They don't have to have a mere 12 months for their children. They can stay out of work indefinitely.
That's a part of the situation that's missing entirely from this discussion. An American female professional may be out of the workforce for YEARS raising children.
That may in fact be the reason that this works for Netflix. They are working with an entirely different set of expectations.
The US has an "attendance culture" in general that starts in elementary school where it's always more important to show up regardless of what condition you are in. This includes you being sick and infectious and a threat to self and others.
We probably have to get rid of that mentality first before the idea of long extended paid leave gain any traction.
I really don't see younger users "clamouring" for anything. If anything they are far more adaptable to the point where they don't even acknowledge the existence of distinct platforms. You don't really have to pander to them at all.
It's certainly retarded to do so for a desktop platform that's being marginalized by those same tablets whose primary strength is business desktops and legacy applications.
it's like taking the one branch remaining on an dying tree and sawing it off while you're sitting on it.
The problem is that they forget that desperate people tend to act violent and start killing rich people. You can't have wealth distribution get too out of whack or you end up with the French Revolution.
You can add an observation along these very lines to your Jefferson Quote Collection.
It's still easier for me to eat meat or cheese than any plant product. That's not even getting into people that might not even be able to eat one particular thing or another.
Full throttle omnivorism is the only sensible approach.
Anything else and you are likely to miss something or fail to "complement" something properly.
I'm not a dirt poor 3rd world person. I don't have to punish myself and pretend I wasn't born in the 1st world.
Besides, my own dietary requirements right now likely could not be sustained without animal products. Although I am certainly a corner case.
Babies are born. In that respect, they are covered by the 14th Amendment.
Fetuses are not babies and never have been. Even born babies haven't always had completely human status. In many societies they aren't even named until it's shown that they will survive.
If anything, newborns are little more than external fetuses that are highly dependent and terribly fragile. They're nothing like any of their counterparts in the rest of the animal kingdom.
If it can't survive without the mothership then how can you really call it a separate legal entity?
...and that's ultimately the way it needs to stay.
The gestation of a fetus is a non-delegable act that can easily be fucked up. It requires considerable commitment. It requires far more commitment than random busybodies are willing to offer.
Pragmatically, it can only be up to the mother and at that point we should all be willing to assist her in ensuring success.
If anything, the religious fringe wants to do nothing but punish the offending mother and child in a blatantly un-Christ-like fashion.
If he were here, he would slap the whole lot of you for gross callous disregard of the children you would force into the world.
Even if they were you would still need to establish legal language just like you would for the real law.
IOW, abortion is not legally murder. This is just something that a small religious fringe conflates together. Furthermore, that religious fringe didn't even hold such a belief until the Regan era.
Before that time, Catholics were pretty much alone in defining abortion as murder.
The 10 commandments aren't enough. You need the Talmud to go along with it. It's very much like the US Code in that respect.
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I originally switched to Ubuntu because with the 6.x version everything "just worked" with a random Dell laptop.
The "it don't work with laptops" argument was outdated a long time ago.
Legacy apps are holding people back. Although a lot of people never really needed to those to begin with. That's the contingent moving away from PCs entirely now.
You're funny.
Component hot swapping? On Windows? Don't make me laugh. Windows can't even do basic HID devices right. Never mind anything remotely more interesting.
Lemmings talk a good game but Windows itself never actually lives up to the hype.
You're pushing several falsehoods here...
First is the idea that Microsoft is any good at UIs.
The next is that they have decent documentation (and Linux does not).
The next is that XBMC is a "Linux program".
It used to be that you losers whined about stuff that might actually be considered hard versus just poking around a GUI.
The funny part about this and the collaboration with CVS is that they just took a bunch of best of breed drugs off of their list of covered medications. These are drugs for the management of serious conditions like diabetes, MS, and transplants.
If this, or any tech, is being used by an insurance company then it's likely purpose is to stiff policy holders.
Free Software does tend to be based on more secure designs.
On the other hand, pretty much everything is better than the market leader monopoly-ware product. This pretty much the way it's always been.
So it's easy to see a skew in favor of open source. That's just because the leading proprietary product has always been such crap. If something like VMS or QNX were in the mix being good examples of proprietary software, the differences would not be so obvious.
For his first two years, we were lucky we didn't up in a 2nd great depression. Fraud in bond ratings associated with what should have been mortgage junk bonds singlehandedly brought business lending to a halt.
...never mind the fact that it would be considered entirely inappropriate for production use by even a SQL Server DBA.
ALL of the RDBMS platforms have their little quirks and proprietary features. The more you swallow the kool-aid, the more difficult it is to migrate away.
Oracle is no better or no worse than anyone else in this respect.
Although chances are that this will end up being all about what the 3rd party app vendors will support.
It doesn't have to be that hard or that bad. Some companies manage this much better than others do despite the fact that Ellison is the devil incarnate.
This situation likely represents a nearly complete state of neglect.
No one cares because it's not their money and it's a government agency where saving money will only get your budget cut next year.
There's also enterprise licensing and site licensing.
On the other hand, if they are paying for something on an annual basis then it's more likely SUPPORT contracts rather than actual licenses.
Oracle is an expensive product and annual bills like that are not terribly unusual really. They may or may not be able to find a suitable cheaper option assuming that they don't just need to do better license accounting.
Other supported products don't tend to be cheap either.
...actually, the "educated northern whites" in America are more likely than not to quit the workforce entirely. They do this because they can. They don't have to have a mere 12 months for their children. They can stay out of work indefinitely.
That's a part of the situation that's missing entirely from this discussion. An American female professional may be out of the workforce for YEARS raising children.
That may in fact be the reason that this works for Netflix. They are working with an entirely different set of expectations.
The US has an "attendance culture" in general that starts in elementary school where it's always more important to show up regardless of what condition you are in. This includes you being sick and infectious and a threat to self and others.
We probably have to get rid of that mentality first before the idea of long extended paid leave gain any traction.
We have a much smaller welfare state in general and much lower taxes to go with it.
These measures aren't free. They don't come without tradeoffs.
Nerds care about the little details, especially when they make something sound more sensational than it really is.
I really don't see younger users "clamouring" for anything. If anything they are far more adaptable to the point where they don't even acknowledge the existence of distinct platforms. You don't really have to pander to them at all.
It's certainly retarded to do so for a desktop platform that's being marginalized by those same tablets whose primary strength is business desktops and legacy applications.
it's like taking the one branch remaining on an dying tree and sawing it off while you're sitting on it.
Well, someone has to be in charge.
The problem is that they forget that desperate people tend to act violent and start killing rich people. You can't have wealth distribution get too out of whack or you end up with the French Revolution.
You can add an observation along these very lines to your Jefferson Quote Collection.
...who also then want to punish the mothers and children in question rather than treating these impoverished people in the manner that Jesus would.
I'm not a cow and neither are you.
It's still easier for me to eat meat or cheese than any plant product. That's not even getting into people that might not even be able to eat one particular thing or another.
Full throttle omnivorism is the only sensible approach.
Anything else and you are likely to miss something or fail to "complement" something properly.
I'm not a dirt poor 3rd world person. I don't have to punish myself and pretend I wasn't born in the 1st world.
Besides, my own dietary requirements right now likely could not be sustained without animal products. Although I am certainly a corner case.
Don't be a moron. The "completely legal" medical services probably refer to pap smears, condoms, and pre-natal vitamins.
Planned Parenthood does a lot more than abortions.
This is a little fact that gets glossed over by the extremist crusaders trying to suppress their political rivals by any means necessary.
It's much like burning down all the Targets because they sell birth control pills.
I am sure ANY business is capable of keeping funds separate.
This is just basic accounting.
You sound like trailer trash that has never been responsible for anything, not even a decent family budget.
Babies are born. In that respect, they are covered by the 14th Amendment.
Fetuses are not babies and never have been. Even born babies haven't always had completely human status. In many societies they aren't even named until it's shown that they will survive.
If anything, newborns are little more than external fetuses that are highly dependent and terribly fragile. They're nothing like any of their counterparts in the rest of the animal kingdom.
If it can't survive without the mothership then how can you really call it a separate legal entity?
...and that's ultimately the way it needs to stay.
The gestation of a fetus is a non-delegable act that can easily be fucked up. It requires considerable commitment. It requires far more commitment than random busybodies are willing to offer.
Pragmatically, it can only be up to the mother and at that point we should all be willing to assist her in ensuring success.
If anything, the religious fringe wants to do nothing but punish the offending mother and child in a blatantly un-Christ-like fashion.
If he were here, he would slap the whole lot of you for gross callous disregard of the children you would force into the world.
Even if they were you would still need to establish legal language just like you would for the real law.
IOW, abortion is not legally murder. This is just something that a small religious fringe conflates together. Furthermore, that religious fringe didn't even hold such a belief until the Regan era.
Before that time, Catholics were pretty much alone in defining abortion as murder.
The 10 commandments aren't enough. You need the Talmud to go along with it. It's very much like the US Code in that respect.
> As I've heard absolutely ZERO people saying that the full length video says something totally different who has provided specific examples
Like I said. You're a partisan that won't let facts get in the way of your crusade.
FactCheck.org has a nice article on this where they reference a number of legitimate same collection companies and researchers.
The unedited remarks include phrases like "breaking even" and "not impacting care of patients".
Clearly you are a moron with no experience with medical procedures, insurance, or medical billing.
You can't blow your nose in a medical facility without spending $30 - $100.
Either that or you're just s shameless partisan who doesn't actually care about facts and won't let them get in the way of a good crusade.