Assuming this works and the health care industry buys into it, this is bad news for the market. This network will undoubtedly turn into a corporate cash machine full of back room deals, privacy violations, and targeted advertising. It's bad enough that credit information is available to the highest bidder. I don't want "sterilized for my privacy" versions of my health care information being floated out to anyone with a checkbook.
Umm, sex jokes are ubiquitous. I just made a bad one yesterday regarding a "Boyfriend stabbed for eating his girlfriend's pork chops" headline. So, am I now heterophobic and nervous and fearful of heterosexual relations as well now?
All of the core internet protocols are based on an obsolete assumption of what the core user base is. The internet is no longer composed primarily of trustworthy, technically savvy, geeks and scientists. So, for the past 15 years, we've been layering safety and utility layers on top of this flawed foundation. Look at the evolution of E-mail. E-mails are sent over the same SMTP sessions that used to be driven by manually-entered commands. Add to that some primitive and flawed approaches to protocol standards, and we do have a little bit of a mess. The news to me isn't that the internet is flawed, but that the IT community has managed to scale these foundation technologies into the modern internet age. Yes, it's outdated, but it also still works.
I've worked with Palm OS = 5 and Windows Mobile and while Palm OS is superior, I think someone just wanting to churn out quick apps could get up to speed faster with a WM SDK. Firstly, you likely already have a familiarity with Win32 or MFC and the development tools. Secondly, there are tons of resources out there while other OSs are by nature esoteric development communities.
They've got a heavy investment in Symbian OSs. I think they control S60 and they used to invest heavily in UIQ util Sony bought it. It's one thing when a phone manufacturer simply licenses, it's another when they have that almost paternal investor relationship. Another funny thing is the way that the unnaturally close relationship between the two has actually hurt business. Players have shied away from Symbian since it's seen as Nokia's baby.
I don't know how long Nokia's phone dominance will last. They're licensing fees aren't exactly cheap when you're talking about millions of units and I think the LiMo project is going to kill them assuming it progresses as planned. A standardized, robust, featureful, and cheap mobile Linux OS will eat up even more of Nokia's share. They seem to be taking the brunt of the blow from Linux encroachment into the mobile phone market (no clue why that is).
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It is somehow the Govt's job to allow people sandwiched between Gulf of Mexico, the Mississippi and the lake to build homes below sea level and keep pumping out water and spend couple of billion dollars in the levy system?
So, you're saying it's not in the interest of our government to rebuild the port city on the largest river in our country? It's not in the government's interest to provide disaster relief? It's not in government's interest to invest in infrastructure?
This to me is indicative of the silliness of Libertarian thinking; that somehow a nation will be stronger by promoting a me-first to-hell-with-you attitude that leaves the vast majority of citizens in the dust as the rich get richer. Hey, let's kill the public school system and publicly-financed fire and police departments while we're at it. We've tried this experiment before, and it always fails.
If you're concerned with getting a tax cut on your 6-figure salary, how about focusing on the real drains on your tax dollars; namely our defense budget. Please watch the documentary Why We Fight
Mr. Chula used to always praise the virtues of the slide rule. The big advantage is that they force you to think about your input and output, rather than blindly accepting results. That helps you to catch errors like using the wrong decimal placement and getting value off by a factor or so. With calculators, if you make small input errors, you usually don't pick them up (I notice this when I'm paying bills).
That's a pretty crummy analogy anyways. A biped with a walking stick has two primary limbs and shifts its weight to leverage the third assistant limb. All limbs are equivalent in the video, plus the mechanics look inefficient as hell. Swinging the entire body and one limb to take a step? And, a step that's angled away from your intended direction? Bah.
When are we going to realize that some fields are shaped by the people they attract? How many people have sacrificed a weekend out partying to rebuild a Linux cluster? How many women want to sacrifice cute outfits to sling greasy wrenches under cars all day? I'm not saying there aren't lots of awesome women in IT (I've worked with them). Yes, there's discrimination, but in IT I chalk it all up to a field that practically demands a certain type of personality.
A la carte will define the true value of channels. With these insane packages (that essentially force you to get far more channels than you want), the big name providers can use their larger markets as leverage. What cable company would say "no" to ESPN? So, the cable company gets shafted. Now, if the cable company can say "Hey, a la carte just proved to us that 40% of your market came from female-headed households that only got your channel to watch Lifetime and Oxygen in the same bundle," ESPN (and Discover and MTV and CNN) can't demand the same rates.
In the same vein, I think we'll find that many of the smaller market channels have more value. With bundles, the big channels had the leverage to claim that they were the reason viewers were upgrading from Basic to Extended. With a la carte, we'll see many of the innocuous channels getting their fair share.
Check out the Drudge Report 21 Sept 2007, the source for legitimate, unbiased news coverage (not!). Just as I thought, there's a Drudge article titled "Democrats Failing to Pass Anti-War Bill."
That Afghanistan is still largely controlled by warlords? Karzai; the President's nickname is the "Mayor of Kabul" because is sphere of control is so limited
Your hero Bush found out that Al Qaeda was responsible for the Cole bombing in March of 2001, but did nothing about it until AFTER 9/11. The CIA refused to certify the cause during Clinton's presidency.
That burqas are back in fashion (and not by choice) in Afghanistan?
I have no clue how you figure we've had 6 years of unprecedented economic growth. And, I have no clue how you seem to think the last time the economy was good was under Reagan (it was under Clinton).
I'm glad that your family is doing well (as most upper class families are), but the buying power of Americans is going DOWN. And, . And, in the next year or so the bankruptcy crisis is going to explode as all those exotic loans are about to flip to higher interest rates.
Hopefully, you'll go out and try to understand why you're so uninformed, but I think you're going to continue rationalizing away reality.
Why does it seem all the Slashdot political articles seem to pop up only when they show the Democrats in a good light (which I admit isn't so difficult to do these days)? The sponsor of this particular bill was a Republican.
In case you haven't noticed, 6 straight years of a Republican Senate, House, Presidency, The New Cheney Branch, and Supreme Court (ALL facets of our government) have resulted in unmitigated disasters both at home and abroad. That's what you get for electing people to run your government who think government is a bad thing. Don't try to blame this mess on BOTH parties now.
What drives me nuts is when you read the headlines or watch the news, you'll hear that "Democrats fail to protect Habeas Corpus." They've been doing this with every failed vote when all Republicans and either no are a handful of Democrats vote against it. I just hear this done last night for the Webb bill to mandate time home for soldiers.
Yes, and when our silly Milton Friedman experiment reaches total failure, businesses will have plenty of native, English-speaking cheap labor to employ.
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Assuming this works and the health care industry buys into it, this is bad news for the market. This network will undoubtedly turn into a corporate cash machine full of back room deals, privacy violations, and targeted advertising. It's bad enough that credit information is available to the highest bidder. I don't want "sterilized for my privacy" versions of my health care information being floated out to anyone with a checkbook.
Umm, sex jokes are ubiquitous. I just made a bad one yesterday regarding a "Boyfriend stabbed for eating his girlfriend's pork chops" headline. So, am I now heterophobic and nervous and fearful of heterosexual relations as well now?
So, what's homophobic about anal sex jokes about a gay man? I think that term gets thrown around as loosely as fascist or socialist.
Anyone following global warming data is by nature panicky as well they should be.
It's all about the macro view of the line graph.
Because Corporate America is demanding our labor force compete with downtrodden immigrants and indentured servants in China.
That made me laugh, then it made me sad.
If big business wants it, it's obviously good for the American people! The market has spoken!
All of the core internet protocols are based on an obsolete assumption of what the core user base is. The internet is no longer composed primarily of trustworthy, technically savvy, geeks and scientists. So, for the past 15 years, we've been layering safety and utility layers on top of this flawed foundation. Look at the evolution of E-mail. E-mails are sent over the same SMTP sessions that used to be driven by manually-entered commands. Add to that some primitive and flawed approaches to protocol standards, and we do have a little bit of a mess. The news to me isn't that the internet is flawed, but that the IT community has managed to scale these foundation technologies into the modern internet age. Yes, it's outdated, but it also still works.
I've worked with Palm OS = 5 and Windows Mobile and while Palm OS is superior, I think someone just wanting to churn out quick apps could get up to speed faster with a WM SDK. Firstly, you likely already have a familiarity with Win32 or MFC and the development tools. Secondly, there are tons of resources out there while other OSs are by nature esoteric development communities.
They've got a heavy investment in Symbian OSs. I think they control S60 and they used to invest heavily in UIQ util Sony bought it. It's one thing when a phone manufacturer simply licenses, it's another when they have that almost paternal investor relationship. Another funny thing is the way that the unnaturally close relationship between the two has actually hurt business. Players have shied away from Symbian since it's seen as Nokia's baby.
I don't know how long Nokia's phone dominance will last. They're licensing fees aren't exactly cheap when you're talking about millions of units and I think the LiMo project is going to kill them assuming it progresses as planned. A standardized, robust, featureful, and cheap mobile Linux OS will eat up even more of Nokia's share. They seem to be taking the brunt of the blow from Linux encroachment into the mobile phone market (no clue why that is).
It is somehow the Govt's job to allow people sandwiched between Gulf of Mexico, the Mississippi and the lake to build homes below sea level and keep pumping out water and spend couple of billion dollars in the levy system?
So, you're saying it's not in the interest of our government to rebuild the port city on the largest river in our country? It's not in the government's interest to provide disaster relief? It's not in government's interest to invest in infrastructure?
This to me is indicative of the silliness of Libertarian thinking; that somehow a nation will be stronger by promoting a me-first to-hell-with-you attitude that leaves the vast majority of citizens in the dust as the rich get richer. Hey, let's kill the public school system and publicly-financed fire and police departments while we're at it. We've tried this experiment before, and it always fails.
If you're concerned with getting a tax cut on your 6-figure salary, how about focusing on the real drains on your tax dollars; namely our defense budget. Please watch the documentary Why We Fight
Mr. Chula used to always praise the virtues of the slide rule. The big advantage is that they force you to think about your input and output, rather than blindly accepting results. That helps you to catch errors like using the wrong decimal placement and getting value off by a factor or so. With calculators, if you make small input errors, you usually don't pick them up (I notice this when I'm paying bills).
Maybe for your pr0n collection ;)
Hard to even evaluate the unconstitutionality when the Prez keeps slapping top-secret need-to-know status on all the evidence.
Neither does drawing lipstick lines on his hand.
That's a pretty crummy analogy anyways. A biped with a walking stick has two primary limbs and shifts its weight to leverage the third assistant limb. All limbs are equivalent in the video, plus the mechanics look inefficient as hell. Swinging the entire body and one limb to take a step? And, a step that's angled away from your intended direction? Bah.
When are we going to realize that some fields are shaped by the people they attract? How many people have sacrificed a weekend out partying to rebuild a Linux cluster? How many women want to sacrifice cute outfits to sling greasy wrenches under cars all day? I'm not saying there aren't lots of awesome women in IT (I've worked with them). Yes, there's discrimination, but in IT I chalk it all up to a field that practically demands a certain type of personality.
A la carte will define the true value of channels. With these insane packages (that essentially force you to get far more channels than you want), the big name providers can use their larger markets as leverage. What cable company would say "no" to ESPN? So, the cable company gets shafted. Now, if the cable company can say "Hey, a la carte just proved to us that 40% of your market came from female-headed households that only got your channel to watch Lifetime and Oxygen in the same bundle," ESPN (and Discover and MTV and CNN) can't demand the same rates.
In the same vein, I think we'll find that many of the smaller market channels have more value. With bundles, the big channels had the leverage to claim that they were the reason viewers were upgrading from Basic to Extended. With a la carte, we'll see many of the innocuous channels getting their fair share.
Check out the Drudge Report 21 Sept 2007, the source for legitimate, unbiased news coverage (not!). Just as I thought, there's a Drudge article titled "Democrats Failing to Pass Anti-War Bill."
Well, I see that you're familiar with Republican talking points. But did you know that:
Hopefully, you'll go out and try to understand why you're so uninformed, but I think you're going to continue rationalizing away reality.
Why does it seem all the Slashdot political articles seem to pop up only when they show the Democrats in a good light (which I admit isn't so difficult to do these days)? The sponsor of this particular bill was a Republican.
In case you haven't noticed, 6 straight years of a Republican Senate, House, Presidency, The New Cheney Branch, and Supreme Court (ALL facets of our government) have resulted in unmitigated disasters both at home and abroad. That's what you get for electing people to run your government who think government is a bad thing. Don't try to blame this mess on BOTH parties now.
What drives me nuts is when you read the headlines or watch the news, you'll hear that "Democrats fail to protect Habeas Corpus." They've been doing this with every failed vote when all Republicans and either no are a handful of Democrats vote against it. I just hear this done last night for the Webb bill to mandate time home for soldiers.
Yes, and when our silly Milton Friedman experiment reaches total failure, businesses will have plenty of native, English-speaking cheap labor to employ.