Because hospitals are under a very tight squeeze... medical costs and insurance premiums are skyrocketing. They can't just throw money at a nursing shortage and make the problem go away.
Keep in mind that it costs more per hour to pay for a temp than it does to pay your own staff to work longer. For example, a temp has to pay for his own health insurance, but that's already an assumed cost for regular employees.
If you had to choose between paying $50 for a temp to come in (someone who may or may be qualified, knowledgeable about your process) or paying $45 (or less) for your own people, it shouldn't be that hard. It's not like they are unqualified -- you've already hired them.
As for undercutting a peer, it comes down to who wants to work the shift and who would if it the money is right. Need a little extra cash? Bid low. Got a slow night of the week? Sign up high and maybe you'll get lucky or maybe you'll have time off.
That's fine, feel free to leave your credit card numbers and other personal data in a public FTP server, feel free. Some of us have data that we do want to share and other that we don't.
(software installed - software shipped)*price of software = revenue lost
Please speak up if you have another formula to suggest, because while it may not be perfect, it certainly does reflect the situation.
Even if the utility of the software is miniscule to you and you never imagine needing to buy it, once you have pirated and installed it, there is no incentive to ever pay for it. You have gotten 100% of the functionality at 0% of the cost -- regardless of intent, need, or rationalization.
Read it closer. That section say you can reverse engineer it in order to figure out how it works, and make your own programs interoperable. It allows to learn the algorithm and write a compatible implementation, it doesn't say anything about a user unlocking the actual content.
I think you are confusing reverse engineering with fair use.
Each movie production is basically an independent corporation that must be self-sufficient. It recoups the investment from the studio, pays for the talent, and the all the other costs of a movie. It does not pay for any other movies to be made.
Most albums put out by the recording industry don't cover the costs for creating them. It's only the top 5% or whatever that carries the costs for putting out the rest.
The question is, do you like Britney and company subsidizing the niche stuff that people actually like at $15 or more? Or would you prefer they limit themselves to publishing the popular crap that they know will break even at $5 a CD?
Don't be silly. It's just a technique for hiding malicious data in a benign looking file. There's no reason that you couldn't do something similar with a custom icon.
How do you expect Apple to stop people from clicking on unknown or untrusted files?
The only "patch" that will help is one that delivers common sense through the skin (like nicotine or birth-control). Until then, trojans are here to stay.
The irony is that, in order for the RIAA or whoever to prove that a user downloaded copyrighted material, they'd have to post it themselves to the network -- which, being the copyright holder, would make it legal to download.
Maybe the media companies have so much sway over the country because people want what they are selling. Sometimes you call their bluff, and sometimes you find they are holding the trump cards.
When casting the narrator for the Radio Series, Douglas Adams said he wanted someone with a "Peter Jones-y" voice. (As I understand, Peter Jones is/was a rather well known anchor on the BBC news -- think Tom Brokaw). They tried lots of people and weren't happy with any... until they got Peter Jones himself. Can't do much better than that.
Therefore, when designing a game world, there are two concerns that must always be at the forefront: excitement for the player, and profitability for the publisher.
There is another concern that must be balanced against these: security and liability concerns.
The reason Sony doesn't permit this is that it eliminates a whole category of fraud, where people ebay items they don't really own, and reduce the incentive for greedy folk who play (or admin) the game to hack the game for profit.
When someone gets screwed out of real cash over a fake item, game glitch, or deliberate hack, then Sony can simply say "that's not allowed" and duck any legal implications.
So, they used Apache and Mozilla as their sampling of open source projects? Talk about biasing the study -- they picked 2 of the most well-known and "successful" projects of recent years, and extended their findings to all of open source.
Why not perform an arbitrary sampling of SourceForge projects, and compare with an equal number of commerical ventures? That would at least give an valid basis to examine the effectiveness of "open source" development and support.
Seems to me that the vast majority of projects on SourceForge are doomed by apathy and neglect, where at least a commercial project has a monetary incentive.
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IA-64 isn't quite the same as most VLIW chips. EPIC is a pretty good term for what it is
Thanks for the clarification, I think I'll hit google to find some information about EPIC (or at least more info about IA-64).
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Because hospitals are under a very tight squeeze... medical costs and insurance premiums are skyrocketing. They can't just throw money at a nursing shortage and make the problem go away.
Keep in mind that it costs more per hour to pay for a temp than it does to pay your own staff to work longer. For example, a temp has to pay for his own health insurance, but that's already an assumed cost for regular employees.
If you had to choose between paying $50 for a temp to come in (someone who may or may be qualified, knowledgeable about your process) or paying $45 (or less) for your own people, it shouldn't be that hard. It's not like they are unqualified -- you've already hired them.
As for undercutting a peer, it comes down to who wants to work the shift and who would if it the money is right. Need a little extra cash? Bid low. Got a slow night of the week? Sign up high and maybe you'll get lucky or maybe you'll have time off.
How big is Netflix pr0n library?
That's fine, feel free to leave your credit card numbers and other personal data in a public FTP server, feel free. Some of us have data that we do want to share and other that we don't.
I've got my TiVo configured with an external RAID and terabytes of storage, I'm ready -- bring it on!
The school is feeling embarassed, and vengeful
[pedantic]
Oxford is an institution, and as such, has no feelings.
[/pedantic]
However, i can see that school administrators think it's important that they discourage this sort of behavior. Punishment is a good way to do that.
The story is posted on Wired you dummy, which is linked on /. almost daily. It's not like we are going to turn someone's personal webserver into slag.
Damn Karma whores.
(software installed - software shipped)*price of software = revenue lost
Please speak up if you have another formula to suggest, because while it may not be perfect, it certainly does reflect the situation.
Even if the utility of the software is miniscule to you and you never imagine needing to buy it, once you have pirated and installed it, there is no incentive to ever pay for it. You have gotten 100% of the functionality at 0% of the cost -- regardless of intent, need, or rationalization.
Imagine a Beowolf clu... er, hrm, nevermind.
Read it closer. That section say you can reverse engineer it in order to figure out how it works, and make your own programs interoperable. It allows to learn the algorithm and write a compatible implementation, it doesn't say anything about a user unlocking the actual content.
I think you are confusing reverse engineering with fair use.
Each movie production is basically an independent corporation that must be self-sufficient. It recoups the investment from the studio, pays for the talent, and the all the other costs of a movie. It does not pay for any other movies to be made.
Most albums put out by the recording industry don't cover the costs for creating them. It's only the top 5% or whatever that carries the costs for putting out the rest.
The question is, do you like Britney and company subsidizing the niche stuff that people actually like at $15 or more? Or would you prefer they limit themselves to publishing the popular crap that they know will break even at $5 a CD?
Don't be silly. It's just a technique for hiding malicious data in a benign looking file. There's no reason that you couldn't do something similar with a custom icon.
How do you expect Apple to stop people from clicking on unknown or untrusted files?
The only "patch" that will help is one that delivers common sense through the skin (like nicotine or birth-control). Until then, trojans are here to stay.
Just because they didn't charge you the sale tax for your state doesn't mean you don't have to pay it.
You could have read the article, you just chose not to.
The irony is that, in order for the RIAA or whoever to prove that a user downloaded copyrighted material, they'd have to post it themselves to the network -- which, being the copyright holder, would make it legal to download.
A fardel is a burden. Use your google.
It's from Hamlet's soliliquy. Read some Shakespeare.
Does that mean you're cancelling your HBO subscription and picking up the Playboy channel?
Only if you believe that corporate America has already exhausted all the new ideas out there.
Trust me, there are still ways to innovate and succeed -- you just need to think harder.
Maybe the media companies have so much sway over the country because people want what they are selling. Sometimes you call their bluff, and sometimes you find they are holding the trump cards.
How can you be sure that you've never deleted an important email as spam?
When casting the narrator for the Radio Series, Douglas Adams said he wanted someone with a "Peter Jones-y" voice. (As I understand, Peter Jones is/was a rather well known anchor on the BBC news -- think Tom Brokaw). They tried lots of people and weren't happy with any... until they got Peter Jones himself. Can't do much better than that.
Therefore, when designing a game world, there are two concerns that must always be at the forefront: excitement for the player, and profitability for the publisher.
There is another concern that must be balanced against these: security and liability concerns.
The reason Sony doesn't permit this is that it eliminates a whole category of fraud, where people ebay items they don't really own, and reduce the incentive for greedy folk who play (or admin) the game to hack the game for profit.
When someone gets screwed out of real cash over a fake item, game glitch, or deliberate hack, then Sony can simply say "that's not allowed" and duck any legal implications.
Just a reminder: OSX/Darwin is a port of the NeXT OS and a Mach kernel originally written for 680x0 CISC processors.
So, they used Apache and Mozilla as their sampling of open source projects? Talk about biasing the study -- they picked 2 of the most well-known and "successful" projects of recent years, and extended their findings to all of open source.
Why not perform an arbitrary sampling of SourceForge projects, and compare with an equal number of commerical ventures? That would at least give an valid basis to examine the effectiveness of "open source" development and support.
Seems to me that the vast majority of projects on SourceForge are doomed by apathy and neglect, where at least a commercial project has a monetary incentive.
IA-64 isn't quite the same as most VLIW chips. EPIC is a pretty good term for what it is
Thanks for the clarification, I think I'll hit google to find some information about EPIC (or at least more info about IA-64).