I think the biggest drain on our current health care system is insurance companies and big pharmacy companies along with their lobbyists. A nation like Canada taxes at around 3%, can't recall where I read that, to provide health care to their citizens and it is often better than ours. Not to mention that their drugs are also cheaper. Think about it, the U.S. is the only country you hear about where their citizens go abroad for major surgeries, i.e. medical tourism http://medicaltourism.com/, and driving to neighboring countries to buy cheaper drugs; doesn't that clue anyone in that there's something fucking wrong with the way things are now?
Even worse news for Microsoft is that only 3.8% said they would buy another Xbox (due to failures) and the survey found they had rather shoddy customer service.
While the accepted submission says:
Impressively, only 4% of respondents said they wouldn't buy a new 360 because of hardware failures.
This casts an entirely different light on peoples' willingness to support shoddy manufacturing from MS. Note, I own a 360, for almost 3 years now, it has failed RRODed once and I play all the games off the HDD now except for Halo 3, which suffers from performance issues.
I would like to know if people were asked whether they played mainly downloadable games or games installed to the HDD with regards to all three consoles.
Then they can give the reactor to me and I can finally send the power company a photocopy of my ass; I don't even have to worry about disposal! I hear there are plenty of countries like Iran and North Korea looking for nuclear refuse.
Let me try and explain my reasoning from a different angle then. The U.S. military is a large beast with many branches, regulations and logistics. Soldiers are trained, commanders are made and weapons are bought by the military with tax monies. There is even research and development, DARPA, and room for private corporations, though some argue these increase the cost, like Raytheon to supply their own materials or research. With all those properties plus the size of the military alone how is it that the same principals cannot be applied to healthcare to keep people healthy?
time for the US government to start their own broadband service.
Oh yes, because I want my internet connection tapped 24/7 and all my comments that criticize the US government to be flagged (or did you forget flag@whitehouse.gov?). And just look at the crappy service you get from other government agencies like medicare, the lackluster performance of veterans hospitals, the annoyances of the post office, the general greed of the IRS, and the pain of it all. Yah, I really want the US government to provide broadband.
Comcast/AT&T/Time Warner suck, but you can bet that the US government will suck even worse. Or are you forgetting all the times they've screwed up technology (BBS raids, DMCA, etc)
Yet people are perfectly willing to let the government fund, control and direct the military, some even might say we have the best military in the world; but when it comes to healthcare they become a pack of morons who couldn't find their own ass with two hands and a flashlight.
According to TFA this study was done for high school textbooks only, perhaps they will go on to supply books to other grade levels but penetrating the cash cow that is university publishing is no easy task.
We already have bomb and drug-sniffing dogs, does this additional knowledge mean that we will end up with dogs in other support roles? I'm also interested as to how one becomes a professor of canine intelligence, does this guy need to test wolves too?
you know, not everyone has a new computer and frankly I am glad that at least some developers don't make the same assumption you just did. This is especially important considering the rising popularity of smaller notebooks that even bare Windows XP has trouble booting.
How old are these machines that some people are running? My families oldest computer is from 1997 and runs Windows 95, should people expect that to be supported? If you slimmed down an XP install to run on older hardware and it can't handle a modern web browser is that the creators' fault? I can understand your grievance about netbooks, some are just plain underpowered for 3 tasks at once and you need to use the applications that it can handle, but how long is hardware supposed to be supported by software? 10, 20, 30 years?
For one thing, consoles are designed to display on a TV. For another, how did ads come to be the norm on basic cable TV?
Cable companies realized they could make even more money by not only charging people but also by accepting money from advertisers. No one seems to remember that when Cable TV was first introduced it was touted as ad-free, the explanation now is that ads pay for the content, shows, while your subscriber fee pays for access; of course it makes no sense since ads were not present originally, not to mention rates were lower.
I didn't even know Best Buy still sold RAM, I've been getting all mine from Newegg or Fry's Electronics, Arizona retailer, who have comparable prices. The uninstalling of the trailware can be a bitch, I had several shortcuts on my computer that only point to installers, no uninstallers, so I am left to hunt down parts of them as I have never heard of scripting to remove programs.
You're forgetting about BluRay, up to 50 GB per movie, granted not everyone needs all the extra audio and whatnot so you can probably trim a few GBs here and there.
With Windows sometimes reinstalling is the fastest speed boost you can get. My great-uncle asked me to take a look at a friend's laptop that was running slow, and was it ever! It was speced higher than mine but it took 3x longer to do anything. I added the maximum memory, 4 GB since it was XP, and the laptop only saw 2.68 GB of that for some reason, then I disabled every startup program I could find but still wasn't as happy with the sped boost I got. I told the guy I would reinstall the OS if he wanted me to, for free, provided he had the OS and any programs he needed discs around.
Do we have a plan for when one day, our current methods of encryption all become breakable at once?
What a wasted opportunity, your first post is supposed to say "First post, or is it?"; well I suppose you can always wait for the next quantum computing breakthrough.
If true, this is kind of like the time the US accused North Korea of creating really authentic-looking counterfeit 100 dollar bills, and then it turned out that they are probably coming from within the US - possibly from the CIA to fund covert operations.
Please, if the CIA, or NSA maybe FBI, wanted to print their own money they would just duplicate the machines from the U.S. Mint by either: stealing the machines, stealing the plans, getting the plans from the manufacturer, etc. There's plausible deniability built right into the extra money showing up too, most of their budget is deemed classified and not every official has access to it.
Well you might want local news, but some people want world and national news. I hate it when the local news airs here, for the most part I could care less, I can't imagine going out of my way to read about mundane events in my city, "City losing money", "Local man killed" "Pet adoption on the rise" blah, blah, blah.
Photog is also a word too; I was surprised to learn this but apparently it is quite common in photography circles. I originally thought it was a term for a photo-blog, but was informed otherwise, I'm sure it's in my comment history somewhere...
You don't have to swim for 2 hours to get any weight-losing exercise, I think if you signed up for some night adult swimming classes you would learn a few things that would help, specifically: improving your form, breathing, flip-turns (maybe not an option with your ankle), different strokes, etc. In fact they have even invented weights specifically for water based exercising http://www.saveonpoolsupplies.com/shopping/product.aspx?productid=SKU1217&scode=I9SOPSST&e7=Y&e8=T3335&pcode=101&keyword=T3335 if you want to add variety. Eating less is a harder problem, some people find eating their meals slower helps, not wolfing it down. Don't expect to lose weight after a week either, it can takes months to see an actual measurable and continual change.
I was under the impression that eDonkey and Gnutella were in the same group/protocol, also I have never heard of WinMX/NY and have yet to actually get to a darknet.
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I think the biggest drain on our current health care system is insurance companies and big pharmacy companies along with their lobbyists. A nation like Canada taxes at around 3%, can't recall where I read that, to provide health care to their citizens and it is often better than ours. Not to mention that their drugs are also cheaper. Think about it, the U.S. is the only country you hear about where their citizens go abroad for major surgeries, i.e. medical tourism http://medicaltourism.com/, and driving to neighboring countries to buy cheaper drugs; doesn't that clue anyone in that there's something fucking wrong with the way things are now?
Even worse news for Microsoft is that only 3.8% said they would buy another Xbox (due to failures) and the survey found they had rather shoddy customer service.
While the accepted submission says:
Impressively, only 4% of respondents said they wouldn't buy a new 360 because of hardware failures.
This casts an entirely different light on peoples' willingness to support shoddy manufacturing from MS. Note, I own a 360, for almost 3 years now, it has failed RRODed once and I play all the games off the HDD now except for Halo 3, which suffers from performance issues.
I would like to know if people were asked whether they played mainly downloadable games or games installed to the HDD with regards to all three consoles.
Then they can give the reactor to me and I can finally send the power company a photocopy of my ass
What, your photocopier only works with on-site nuclear power?
No it will just continue to work with on-site power after I send the photocopy to the power company in place of my bill.
Then they can give the reactor to me and I can finally send the power company a photocopy of my ass; I don't even have to worry about disposal! I hear there are plenty of countries like Iran and North Korea looking for nuclear refuse.
Let me try and explain my reasoning from a different angle then. The U.S. military is a large beast with many branches, regulations and logistics. Soldiers are trained, commanders are made and weapons are bought by the military with tax monies. There is even research and development, DARPA, and room for private corporations, though some argue these increase the cost, like Raytheon to supply their own materials or research. With all those properties plus the size of the military alone how is it that the same principals cannot be applied to healthcare to keep people healthy?
time for the US government to start their own broadband service.
Oh yes, because I want my internet connection tapped 24/7 and all my comments that criticize the US government to be flagged (or did you forget flag@whitehouse.gov?). And just look at the crappy service you get from other government agencies like medicare, the lackluster performance of veterans hospitals, the annoyances of the post office, the general greed of the IRS, and the pain of it all. Yah, I really want the US government to provide broadband. Comcast/AT&T/Time Warner suck, but you can bet that the US government will suck even worse. Or are you forgetting all the times they've screwed up technology (BBS raids, DMCA, etc)
Yet people are perfectly willing to let the government fund, control and direct the military, some even might say we have the best military in the world; but when it comes to healthcare they become a pack of morons who couldn't find their own ass with two hands and a flashlight.
According to TFA this study was done for high school textbooks only, perhaps they will go on to supply books to other grade levels but penetrating the cash cow that is university publishing is no easy task.
here we call them FELONIES!
You sound like a Stiffly Stifferson to me, I don't like Stiffly Stiffersons, I want to tie them up and prank them with a tire iron in my basement http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/pranksters/2704/
We already have bomb and drug-sniffing dogs, does this additional knowledge mean that we will end up with dogs in other support roles? I'm also interested as to how one becomes a professor of canine intelligence, does this guy need to test wolves too?
you know, not everyone has a new computer and frankly I am glad that at least some developers don't make the same assumption you just did. This is especially important considering the rising popularity of smaller notebooks that even bare Windows XP has trouble booting.
How old are these machines that some people are running? My families oldest computer is from 1997 and runs Windows 95, should people expect that to be supported? If you slimmed down an XP install to run on older hardware and it can't handle a modern web browser is that the creators' fault? I can understand your grievance about netbooks, some are just plain underpowered for 3 tasks at once and you need to use the applications that it can handle, but how long is hardware supposed to be supported by software? 10, 20, 30 years?
FileZilla
Didn't work when I tried it for a simple FTP transfer because of default settings I couldn't figure out how to undo.
VirtualBox
Never tried it
OpenOffice.Org
Besides the fact that it is implementing an Office 2007 style ribbon who outside of business users really needs a full office suite anymore?
Firefox
Maybe if Opera open sources their browser they can be on this list, not sure if Chrome is really open.
Paint.Net
What about the GIMP, or is it because this is dead simple to use?
Media Player Classic
My vote goes to VLC here, hands-down.
TrueCrypt
Never used it.
PDFCreator
I only view PDFs so I have never needed creation software, and when I view them I use Sumatra.
7-Zip
I've heard better things about PeaZip, but I have not used either too much.
ClamWin
I thought this wasn't even under development any more? Please correct me if I'm wrong.
For one thing, consoles are designed to display on a TV. For another, how did ads come to be the norm on basic cable TV?
Cable companies realized they could make even more money by not only charging people but also by accepting money from advertisers. No one seems to remember that when Cable TV was first introduced it was touted as ad-free, the explanation now is that ads pay for the content, shows, while your subscriber fee pays for access; of course it makes no sense since ads were not present originally, not to mention rates were lower.
I heard they were going to do that, but they couldn't get Rosanne Barr to play the lead roll.
Modded Flamebait huh? Guess there is a loyal following of Rosanne fans on Slashdot, who knew?
I didn't even know Best Buy still sold RAM, I've been getting all mine from Newegg or Fry's Electronics, Arizona retailer, who have comparable prices. The uninstalling of the trailware can be a bitch, I had several shortcuts on my computer that only point to installers, no uninstallers, so I am left to hunt down parts of them as I have never heard of scripting to remove programs.
You're forgetting about BluRay, up to 50 GB per movie, granted not everyone needs all the extra audio and whatnot so you can probably trim a few GBs here and there.
With Windows sometimes reinstalling is the fastest speed boost you can get. My great-uncle asked me to take a look at a friend's laptop that was running slow, and was it ever! It was speced higher than mine but it took 3x longer to do anything. I added the maximum memory, 4 GB since it was XP, and the laptop only saw 2.68 GB of that for some reason, then I disabled every startup program I could find but still wasn't as happy with the sped boost I got. I told the guy I would reinstall the OS if he wanted me to, for free, provided he had the OS and any programs he needed discs around.
Do we have a plan for when one day, our current methods of encryption all become breakable at once?
What a wasted opportunity, your first post is supposed to say "First post, or is it?"; well I suppose you can always wait for the next quantum computing breakthrough.
If true, this is kind of like the time the US accused North Korea of creating really authentic-looking counterfeit 100 dollar bills, and then it turned out that they are probably coming from within the US - possibly from the CIA to fund covert operations.
Please, if the CIA, or NSA maybe FBI, wanted to print their own money they would just duplicate the machines from the U.S. Mint by either: stealing the machines, stealing the plans, getting the plans from the manufacturer, etc. There's plausible deniability built right into the extra money showing up too, most of their budget is deemed classified and not every official has access to it.
Well you might want local news, but some people want world and national news. I hate it when the local news airs here, for the most part I could care less, I can't imagine going out of my way to read about mundane events in my city, "City losing money", "Local man killed" "Pet adoption on the rise" blah, blah, blah.
Photog is also a word too; I was surprised to learn this but apparently it is quite common in photography circles. I originally thought it was a term for a photo-blog, but was informed otherwise, I'm sure it's in my comment history somewhere...
You don't have to swim for 2 hours to get any weight-losing exercise, I think if you signed up for some night adult swimming classes you would learn a few things that would help, specifically: improving your form, breathing, flip-turns (maybe not an option with your ankle), different strokes, etc. In fact they have even invented weights specifically for water based exercising http://www.saveonpoolsupplies.com/shopping/product.aspx?productid=SKU1217&scode=I9SOPSST&e7=Y&e8=T3335&pcode=101&keyword=T3335 if you want to add variety. Eating less is a harder problem, some people find eating their meals slower helps, not wolfing it down. Don't expect to lose weight after a week either, it can takes months to see an actual measurable and continual change.
I still haven't figured out a good DVD ripping/backup solution for Windows or Linux, I must be missing some obvious results from Google or something.
Trust a slashdot user to logically connect my post to the GP in CLEARLY the wrong way. I love it! I tip my hat to you sir!
That whooshing sound you hear is available to listeners inside the U.S. only due to licensing restrictions.
Speaking of fishing I am just learning to fish, anyone with useful how-to links would be greatly appreciated, and yes I have used the google.
I was under the impression that eDonkey and Gnutella were in the same group/protocol, also I have never heard of WinMX/NY and have yet to actually get to a darknet.