Medicare underpays and private insurers are overcharged. Go to your local hospital, ask them how prices are calculated and why you can't get an answer to "how much will this procedure cost" up front. If you are polite, keep at it, and show a basic understanding of how pricing works, the equivalent of the controller just might tell you all about it. It's actually pretty fascinating and should clear up your idea that medicate drives down the costs of care.
I'm running Windows 2008 x64 on my Intel Atom computer. It's a great little in-office staging server, with x64 Sql Server and Windows. Oh, and it's dual core.
I'd wager that if you look at NYC, northern NJ, and CT etc, that in any situation where you have a gazillion (scientific term) cars going down a road, that road can get a hell of a lot more crowded and still go at the speed limit, precisely because almost everyone is a jerk on the road here. I go to a place like, I dunno, Denver, and the roads get the teensiest bit crowded and it all falls to hell. I used to live in Denver and go back, I also go to Minneapolis (better), DC/Baltimore (horrible for some reason) and this is just observational, of course.
So yeah, the wager is that on any given road on any given day more vehicles can move without jams than less jerkier places.
Also I'm going to say that if you got he stuff pre-grated in a can... isn't any cheese sold pre-grated lacking majorly compared to doing it yourself? I mean I could see that make it taste like sawdust. Or nothing.
Parmesan cheese in, say, Argentina - do they care about this? From the wiki article you cite above:
Outside Europe, the name "Parmesan" is treated as generic. The European Union campaigns against the use of protected European food labels by producers outside the designated region of origin, which might eventually lead to dropping the word "Parmesan" from cheese products originating outside the designated production region of Parmigiano-Reggiano.
It appears that Argentina also produces something called Parmesan Cheese:
I know it's cool to hate the US, but from what I gather, people in the US don't like cheese as flavorful as other places, on average. It's also kind of regional. Maybe that's why this "award winning" Parmesan from Wisconsin is aged 10 months instead of 12?
Hi. I know you think the NYTimes is the only game in town, but the Wall Street Journal has 1 million paying online customers right now. You say the NYtimes doesn't have a close second, I'm curious then how many paying online subscribers do they have right now?
From the article with the video:
"The operating system is clearly suited for smaller devices and smart phones, but it was nice to get a look at it anyway."
Hard drives were once super expensive compared to floppies or tape. The benefit over floppy was massive storage. The benefit over tape was random access, but there was a huge difference in storage capacity favoring tape.
Right now SSDs are super expensive compared to rotational hard drives. The benefits are NO seek time, superfast sustained reads and writes, and no mechanical failure when you throw them across the room. For the laptop formfactor, they have proved their worth.
A year ago when purchasing a Dell XPSM1330 you could add a 64GB SSD as an upgrade from a 120GB SATA rotational drive for $800. I know because I bought one. I was very very happy with it except for the size. I carried around an external drive and it was irritating. Three months ago I bought the same computer, only this time I could upgrade from a 250GB SATA rotational drive to a 256GB SSD for $400, which I did. I gave the old laptop to my wife, and put a 32GB SD card in the front of it for MP3s. She's happy. I can keep my music library right on the main drive and still have 70GB free now. I'm happy. Really happy.
Until you've experience the virtually complete lack of seek in real-world situations, for all data including non-cached data, it's hard to appreciate the impact it has on your day to day experiences. And this is just consumer-level, you should see some of the crazy SSD solutions for server environments.
Give it another year and we'll see where we're at. I think there's a reason everyone making rotational media has been hedging by purchasing SSD technology. And Seagate suing everyone.
I'm not stalking you, but Facebook integration will be in individaul games, as in send your friends a challenge, and it can update your wall when you get achievements, etc. Having a browser built in doesn't get you that.
I'm jonsing for Crackdown 2, and have been for like 2 years. About time. However, there's nothing sadder than the Beatles out there talking about being "androids" and how the Beatles rock Band has "great graphics." Ew.
Oh holy crap, yeah, don't get me started on the wireless. What's b/g wireless now in a mainboard design, with antenna, $1.34? Yeah that adds up over a million consoles, but wow, what a gouge for the add-on.
Clearly taken over by Wii? If you mean in sheer console numbers, sure. But the average games sold per console on the Wii is very low. There's not much for me there and I'm old. So yeah, they're selling a shit ton of consoles and they're money printing machine is working fine these days, but third party is hurting and the first party games are all re-releases except for what, Mario Galaxy?
But the Wiis online experience sucks. Swapping friend codes via email or phone? For casual gamers? And having to call someone to see if they want to play? Huh? Totally and completely broken.
Microsoft was smart not to build in HD-DVD or Bluray - they're both dead formats. Bluray is ridiculously complex (how many profiles are there and how many does your player if it's not a PS3 support?), there's the same old forced preview garbage happening as on DVD, and everyone and their mother is offering HD streamed content. Microsoft just announced 1080p streamed instant-on movies. Netflix is expanding their library. Etc. Etc.
So, who needs bluray? And if you take that out of the equation, the PS3 has what, 3 exclusive games this year? Metal Gear just announced for the 360, and that was the only reason I even put money down for the PS3.
Microsoft also announced downloadable AAA titles, so the hard drive thing is suddenly important, and yeah, that's another craptastic situation along with the wireless - add-on drives are second class citizens, and there's no way to upgrade your hard drive without paying 5x what its worth to MS. I upgraded my PS3 hard drive from 40GB to 160GB for less than $100 a while back, but no the thing is a piece of trash that Sony wants $150 plus tax to fix, so it's kind of a toss-up.
I dunno, I prefer the 360 and everyone I know plays on the 360, and I guess that's what matters.
I think it's pretty impressive. Sony's on their 3rd system, and many people are buying it for the Bluray capability only. I've seen countless newspaper articles saying if you want to buy a Bluray player, buy the PS3 - it's cheap, it's the only system totally updatable, AND it's a game system to boot!
I'll also say this, the Xbox 360 is the only console with an online offering compelling enough that they can charge $50/year for it. Sure, Xbox Live is at times filled with racist 13 year olds, but at least it's filled.
11 million US, 7 million Europe, 3.2 million UK (so that's like 10.2 million Europe), so does that mean that in Europe they're just being patriotic, too? If you mean Japan, hi yeah look at cars and a myriad other import numbers for Japan.
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Right, it's supplied to the user against whom the takedown was performed, BUT the notice is also covered by the DMCA, so...
Medicare underpays and private insurers are overcharged. Go to your local hospital, ask them how prices are calculated and why you can't get an answer to "how much will this procedure cost" up front. If you are polite, keep at it, and show a basic understanding of how pricing works, the equivalent of the controller just might tell you all about it. It's actually pretty fascinating and should clear up your idea that medicate drives down the costs of care.
I think I just threw up a little, in my mouth.
You mean the links and styled glossary entries in the second slide?
We have this in NJ.
I'm running Windows 2008 x64 on my Intel Atom computer. It's a great little in-office staging server, with x64 Sql Server and Windows. Oh, and it's dual core.
So yeah, the wager is that on any given road on any given day more vehicles can move without jams than less jerkier places.
Also, AT&T drops a shit ton of calls compared to T-Mobile. At least here.
Also I'm going to say that if you got he stuff pre-grated in a can... isn't any cheese sold pre-grated lacking majorly compared to doing it yourself? I mean I could see that make it taste like sawdust. Or nothing.
Outside Europe, the name "Parmesan" is treated as generic. The European Union campaigns against the use of protected European food labels by producers outside the designated region of origin, which might eventually lead to dropping the word "Parmesan" from cheese products originating outside the designated production region of Parmigiano-Reggiano.
It appears that Argentina also produces something called Parmesan Cheese:
http://www.alibaba.com/product-tp/11688233/Parmesan_Cheese.html
I know it's cool to hate the US, but from what I gather, people in the US don't like cheese as flavorful as other places, on average. It's also kind of regional. Maybe that's why this "award winning" Parmesan from Wisconsin is aged 10 months instead of 12?
http://www.widmerscheese.com/products/Parmesan_Cheese_12oz-76-24.html
I'm just kind of rambling here, but is Argentinian Parmesan like Ralph Laurem?
It's pretty similar, except in Europe they can't call it Parmesan. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601100&sid=aEWqRRUcXz88&refer=germany I'm glad someone is doing this important work.
http://brands.kraftfoods.com/kraftparm/parmproducts.htm oops
Hi. I know you think the NYTimes is the only game in town, but the Wall Street Journal has 1 million paying online customers right now. You say the NYtimes doesn't have a close second, I'm curious then how many paying online subscribers do they have right now?
WSJ has online-only. They seem to be doing okay with it.
WSJ is doing just fine.
Why's that modded funny? By that logic one might as well moderate THIS HERE post interesting.
That's fixed in Vista.
Thank you!
From the article with the video: "The operating system is clearly suited for smaller devices and smart phones, but it was nice to get a look at it anyway."
False, false, and false.
Hard drives were once super expensive compared to floppies or tape. The benefit over floppy was massive storage. The benefit over tape was random access, but there was a huge difference in storage capacity favoring tape.
Right now SSDs are super expensive compared to rotational hard drives. The benefits are NO seek time, superfast sustained reads and writes, and no mechanical failure when you throw them across the room. For the laptop formfactor, they have proved their worth.
A year ago when purchasing a Dell XPSM1330 you could add a 64GB SSD as an upgrade from a 120GB SATA rotational drive for $800. I know because I bought one. I was very very happy with it except for the size. I carried around an external drive and it was irritating. Three months ago I bought the same computer, only this time I could upgrade from a 250GB SATA rotational drive to a 256GB SSD for $400, which I did. I gave the old laptop to my wife, and put a 32GB SD card in the front of it for MP3s. She's happy. I can keep my music library right on the main drive and still have 70GB free now. I'm happy. Really happy.
Until you've experience the virtually complete lack of seek in real-world situations, for all data including non-cached data, it's hard to appreciate the impact it has on your day to day experiences. And this is just consumer-level, you should see some of the crazy SSD solutions for server environments.
Give it another year and we'll see where we're at. I think there's a reason everyone making rotational media has been hedging by purchasing SSD technology. And Seagate suing everyone.
I'm not stalking you, but Facebook integration will be in individaul games, as in send your friends a challenge, and it can update your wall when you get achievements, etc. Having a browser built in doesn't get you that.
I'm jonsing for Crackdown 2, and have been for like 2 years. About time. However, there's nothing sadder than the Beatles out there talking about being "androids" and how the Beatles rock Band has "great graphics." Ew.
Oh holy crap, yeah, don't get me started on the wireless. What's b/g wireless now in a mainboard design, with antenna, $1.34? Yeah that adds up over a million consoles, but wow, what a gouge for the add-on.
Clearly taken over by Wii? If you mean in sheer console numbers, sure. But the average games sold per console on the Wii is very low. There's not much for me there and I'm old. So yeah, they're selling a shit ton of consoles and they're money printing machine is working fine these days, but third party is hurting and the first party games are all re-releases except for what, Mario Galaxy?
But the Wiis online experience sucks. Swapping friend codes via email or phone? For casual gamers? And having to call someone to see if they want to play? Huh? Totally and completely broken.
Microsoft was smart not to build in HD-DVD or Bluray - they're both dead formats. Bluray is ridiculously complex (how many profiles are there and how many does your player if it's not a PS3 support?), there's the same old forced preview garbage happening as on DVD, and everyone and their mother is offering HD streamed content. Microsoft just announced 1080p streamed instant-on movies. Netflix is expanding their library. Etc. Etc.
So, who needs bluray? And if you take that out of the equation, the PS3 has what, 3 exclusive games this year? Metal Gear just announced for the 360, and that was the only reason I even put money down for the PS3.
Full disclosure, Sony's even higher on my shitlist than normal, because they disabled my PS3 remotely with their latest firmware update. So maybe I'm biased at the moment.
Microsoft also announced downloadable AAA titles, so the hard drive thing is suddenly important, and yeah, that's another craptastic situation along with the wireless - add-on drives are second class citizens, and there's no way to upgrade your hard drive without paying 5x what its worth to MS. I upgraded my PS3 hard drive from 40GB to 160GB for less than $100 a while back, but no the thing is a piece of trash that Sony wants $150 plus tax to fix, so it's kind of a toss-up.
I dunno, I prefer the 360 and everyone I know plays on the 360, and I guess that's what matters.
I'll also say this, the Xbox 360 is the only console with an online offering compelling enough that they can charge $50/year for it. Sure, Xbox Live is at times filled with racist 13 year olds, but at least it's filled.
Xbox 360 Sales
11 million US, 7 million Europe, 3.2 million UK (so that's like 10.2 million Europe), so does that mean that in Europe they're just being patriotic, too? If you mean Japan, hi yeah look at cars and a myriad other import numbers for Japan.