Not really. In general, distributions are following upstream and move forward to keep up. Whether you're using Slackware, Debian, or Fedora, you have an clear upgrade path. There is some degree of branding, but that doesn't limit a user's option to change something, like the desktop environment for example. This is in contrast with Android, which handset manufacturers are customizing too much and not guaranteeing support for future upgrades.
You do remember that Obama supported the bailout. His statement to the press was somewhat ambiguous (which he received criticism for):
"The fact that we have reached a point where the Federal Reserve felt it had to take this unprecedented step with the American International Group is the final verdict on the failed economic philosophy of the last eight years. While we do not know all the details of this arrangement, the Fed must ensure that the plan protects the families that count on insurance. It should bolster our economy's ability to create good-paying jobs and help working Americans pay their bills and save their money. It must not bail out the shareholders or management of AIG."
His arguement was along the same tone as Bush's: to protect the American people from the fallout of a default of AIG. He went on to criticize McCain for opposing the bailout, which running mate Joe Biden actually opposed as well.
The problem with Kubuntu and Suse is that the two have backported from trunk instead of sticking with the source releases. In more than one occasion, this has caused instability or unexpected behavior.
Then start with a netinstall of Debian and install the KDE minimal metapackage. You can add your one mediaplayer, one editor, one browser and so forth as you wish. I seriously don't understand why people complain about too many choices. Do your wives lay out your clothes every morning for you too?
To get back on topic, my opinion is that the advancement of human knowledge and technology, which includes aeronautics, is necessary even if it is expensive. Many of the componants used in NASA's machines are made by private companies anyway, which are probably capable of accomplishing less costly missions using unmanned probes. But the big budget projects spanning many years are better left to NASA, who is not responsible to shareholders and won't do things cheaply, as in chinese trinket cheap (no offense to our chinese readership).
Wrong. Most of the drugs used today are developed by deliberate time-consuming and expensive research, which guarantees that we spend our greatest resources on the investigational compounds that have the best chance of success. Drug development is not roulette, and the days of the fashionable x-ray and Dr. Brown's Tonic are long gone. Thankfully.
It's not really leasing since you aren't paying down the depreciation and returning the phone when you're done. It's more like financing the phone through the provider. Here's a car analogy: if you finance a car purchase, the bank owns the car until the last penny is paid for. If you default, then the repo men come for the car, despite you potentially paying off a large percentage of the loan. A cell contract is a little different because the cost of the phone and the cost of the service are combined together over the 2 year term. Nonetheless, Americans need to start learning that cell providers don't "subsidize" phones, they build the cost into the contract.
My father has had subscriptions to the Economist, Christian Science Monitor, and the New Yorker going back almost as long as I can remember. I'm also a member of NPR. I think many people are willing to pay for content, whether it's written or online or over radio, if the content is high quality. People will pay for quality.
How about CG Arnold in Terminator 4? While making believable virtual actors might be a bit further in the future, bad actors are a lot easier. Joking aside, it looked pretty cool in the movie (he really does suck at acting though)
One of the problems is that Intel was proven to pay OEM's (Dell specifically) a large sum of money to delay the launch of Opteron based products. It's a long read but to get a better handle on this, I suggest reading New York's antitrust suit:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/22112342/Nyag-v-Intel-Complaint-Final
You're confusing multiarch that Debian has been developing for quite some time with AMD64 running 32-bit binaries. It's not the same https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MultiarchSpec
The primary driver of this is the government itself in the form of Medicare. The reimbursement is often significantly less than the cost of services provided. That shortfall is made up by patients covered by private insurance and especially the self-pay patients. The general problems with the current proposals for health care reform is that none of them meaningfully reduce health care costs nor are they sustainable over the next thirty years. I agree changes are needed but health care reform has become a political tool for the mid-term elections and isn't addressing the fundamental issues.
Pneumococcal vaccine is not a substitute for influenza vaccine. You're confused. You can still become very sick from the flu and still poses a risk of death especially if you have comorbid conditions. Pneumovax also doesn't protect against many other common serious infections that lead to hospitalization like pulmonary candidemia, MRSA, or pseudomonas, all three of which are aggressive and difficult to treat. Pneumovax only confers protection from Strep pneumoniae, only one of many organisms that can cause pulmonary infection.
It's an important part of protection, but it isn't the sole measure, especially if you are at risk. The recommended criteria for patients receiving Pneumovax mirrors that for seasonal flu vaccine. I'm guessing that your doctor vaccinated you for meeting the guidelines, and that would be your answer why you should strongly consider getting a seasonal flu shot.
The reason is that manufacturers were forced split their resources among the seasonal flu and H1N1 vaccine production. They are separate vaccines that cannot be produced on the same equipment concurrently. The problem is magnified by the hysteria that caused many people to seek vaccination early this year. Normally, vaccination begins in early October per CDC guidelines and continues through March. The peak often occurs in late October to mid-November. Many clinics and private doctor offices have run out of doses, at least here in the northeast. Hospitals are better supplied but it will be tight until more supply is released.
There are probably only a handfull of corporations with the resources to accomplish this on the scale that it's being done, and Google is the only one that has expressed enthusiasm for doing it. Instead of breaking the deal up, in which case everyone loses and noone wins, they should broker a more favorable deal with Google.
Vista has a robust DRM scheme, which appears to be inhereted by W7, and the first customer to utilize it was Microsoft itself:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=334&tag=rbxccnbzd1
DRM doesn't exclusively refer to music and videos, but to all of software and even hardware. Think back to Apple's handling of jailbroken iphones. As an individual, you may not be affected by DRM, but collectively people are. The capability is there and we may see media conglomerates like the RIAA utilize it as their business model undergoes more and more pressure.
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Not really. In general, distributions are following upstream and move forward to keep up. Whether you're using Slackware, Debian, or Fedora, you have an clear upgrade path. There is some degree of branding, but that doesn't limit a user's option to change something, like the desktop environment for example. This is in contrast with Android, which handset manufacturers are customizing too much and not guaranteeing support for future upgrades.
You do remember that Obama supported the bailout. His statement to the press was somewhat ambiguous (which he received criticism for): "The fact that we have reached a point where the Federal Reserve felt it had to take this unprecedented step with the American International Group is the final verdict on the failed economic philosophy of the last eight years. While we do not know all the details of this arrangement, the Fed must ensure that the plan protects the families that count on insurance. It should bolster our economy's ability to create good-paying jobs and help working Americans pay their bills and save their money. It must not bail out the shareholders or management of AIG." His arguement was along the same tone as Bush's: to protect the American people from the fallout of a default of AIG. He went on to criticize McCain for opposing the bailout, which running mate Joe Biden actually opposed as well.
I think he was referring to Skylab.
The problem with Kubuntu and Suse is that the two have backported from trunk instead of sticking with the source releases. In more than one occasion, this has caused instability or unexpected behavior.
Then start with a netinstall of Debian and install the KDE minimal metapackage. You can add your one mediaplayer, one editor, one browser and so forth as you wish. I seriously don't understand why people complain about too many choices. Do your wives lay out your clothes every morning for you too?
Actually pure water is too hypotonic and causes red blood cells to burst if infused intravenously.
To get back on topic, my opinion is that the advancement of human knowledge and technology, which includes aeronautics, is necessary even if it is expensive. Many of the componants used in NASA's machines are made by private companies anyway, which are probably capable of accomplishing less costly missions using unmanned probes. But the big budget projects spanning many years are better left to NASA, who is not responsible to shareholders and won't do things cheaply, as in chinese trinket cheap (no offense to our chinese readership).
Wrong. Most of the drugs used today are developed by deliberate time-consuming and expensive research, which guarantees that we spend our greatest resources on the investigational compounds that have the best chance of success. Drug development is not roulette, and the days of the fashionable x-ray and Dr. Brown's Tonic are long gone. Thankfully.
It's not really leasing since you aren't paying down the depreciation and returning the phone when you're done. It's more like financing the phone through the provider. Here's a car analogy: if you finance a car purchase, the bank owns the car until the last penny is paid for. If you default, then the repo men come for the car, despite you potentially paying off a large percentage of the loan. A cell contract is a little different because the cost of the phone and the cost of the service are combined together over the 2 year term. Nonetheless, Americans need to start learning that cell providers don't "subsidize" phones, they build the cost into the contract.
My father has had subscriptions to the Economist, Christian Science Monitor, and the New Yorker going back almost as long as I can remember. I'm also a member of NPR. I think many people are willing to pay for content, whether it's written or online or over radio, if the content is high quality. People will pay for quality.
How about CG Arnold in Terminator 4? While making believable virtual actors might be a bit further in the future, bad actors are a lot easier. Joking aside, it looked pretty cool in the movie (he really does suck at acting though)
One of the problems is that Intel was proven to pay OEM's (Dell specifically) a large sum of money to delay the launch of Opteron based products. It's a long read but to get a better handle on this, I suggest reading New York's antitrust suit: http://www.scribd.com/doc/22112342/Nyag-v-Intel-Complaint-Final
You're confusing multiarch that Debian has been developing for quite some time with AMD64 running 32-bit binaries. It's not the same https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MultiarchSpec
The primary driver of this is the government itself in the form of Medicare. The reimbursement is often significantly less than the cost of services provided. That shortfall is made up by patients covered by private insurance and especially the self-pay patients. The general problems with the current proposals for health care reform is that none of them meaningfully reduce health care costs nor are they sustainable over the next thirty years. I agree changes are needed but health care reform has become a political tool for the mid-term elections and isn't addressing the fundamental issues.
Pneumococcal vaccine is not a substitute for influenza vaccine. You're confused. You can still become very sick from the flu and still poses a risk of death especially if you have comorbid conditions. Pneumovax also doesn't protect against many other common serious infections that lead to hospitalization like pulmonary candidemia, MRSA, or pseudomonas, all three of which are aggressive and difficult to treat. Pneumovax only confers protection from Strep pneumoniae, only one of many organisms that can cause pulmonary infection. It's an important part of protection, but it isn't the sole measure, especially if you are at risk. The recommended criteria for patients receiving Pneumovax mirrors that for seasonal flu vaccine. I'm guessing that your doctor vaccinated you for meeting the guidelines, and that would be your answer why you should strongly consider getting a seasonal flu shot.
The reason is that manufacturers were forced split their resources among the seasonal flu and H1N1 vaccine production. They are separate vaccines that cannot be produced on the same equipment concurrently. The problem is magnified by the hysteria that caused many people to seek vaccination early this year. Normally, vaccination begins in early October per CDC guidelines and continues through March. The peak often occurs in late October to mid-November. Many clinics and private doctor offices have run out of doses, at least here in the northeast. Hospitals are better supplied but it will be tight until more supply is released.
Very funny... NOT.
1990 just called and wants its phrase back.
'd like to spread this over eastern Connecticut with the hope of wiping out the tax-evading Mashantuckets and Mohegans. Sovereign my ass...
There are probably only a handfull of corporations with the resources to accomplish this on the scale that it's being done, and Google is the only one that has expressed enthusiasm for doing it. Instead of breaking the deal up, in which case everyone loses and noone wins, they should broker a more favorable deal with Google.
Vista has a robust DRM scheme, which appears to be inhereted by W7, and the first customer to utilize it was Microsoft itself: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=334&tag=rbxccnbzd1 DRM doesn't exclusively refer to music and videos, but to all of software and even hardware. Think back to Apple's handling of jailbroken iphones. As an individual, you may not be affected by DRM, but collectively people are. The capability is there and we may see media conglomerates like the RIAA utilize it as their business model undergoes more and more pressure.