Verizon, at least in my area, requires all handsets they sell to have an extendable antenna. Their landline/DSL division may suck, but I've been very happy with Verizon Wireless (I've been on this network since it was called Cellular One, which got eaten by Bell Atlantic, which got eaten by Verizon)
I work for a medical clearinghouse. Actually one of our major problems is that many payers don't accept submissions over the internet or via VPN. In may cases, the only option for electronic submission is via a modem BBS. That means scraping screens and writing BBS scripts - blech. HIPAA only specifies format, and doesn't mandate protocol.
So while our customers can submit via https or VPN to us, we have to go dialup to many payers. That is one of our value-adds: the fact that they don't have to deal with all the individual connectivity hassles. X12 isn't the end of the story.
That quarter doesn't even offset printing and delivery costs. They just make you pay it to make you feel like you're getting something worthwhile. People take an AP wire story reprinted in the Times more seriously than the free daily because of the brand. Part of maintaining that brand is creating a perception of value.
From the article: By putting their advertisers' interests above their readers', news sites risk alienating their core customers. Without us, there wouldn't be any advertisers to appease. There's no law that says we have to tell them the truth about ourselves, and news is news: I can get it from any number of sources on the Net.
This is wrong. Advertisers are the customers, readers are the product. The newspaper itself is just a sort of ad delivery vehicle.
Online, there is much less of a stigma associated with being free. In fact, people are accustomed to getting online content free. It doesn't help your brand to charge. Also there is much less friction to switch brands online, so providers that sell ads should be concentrating on minimizing the hastle potential readers face.
I also don't understand this obsession with "targeting" adds. Advertisers already know what the demographic of "people who read newspaper X" looks like. I don't see any reason why the online demographic would be signifigantly different, except for maybe being slightly more affluent.
Conclusion - exising demographic information of print media has served well enough to sell ad space to advertisers for years. Providing an online edition of the media should be a cheap way to increase circulation and thereby increase the value of the product being sold, reader exposure, rather than as a means of creating a new revenue stream with a different pricing model.
Isn't this what EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) is supposed to be? The specification is freely available, and there is a reference implementation released under the Common Public License (CPL). I know it is a product of Intel, but it is suppsoedly an architecture-agnostic platform.
Does anyone know why there hasn't been been more widespread adoption of EFI?
I work for a medical software company. Due to HIPAA regulations, if we even have PHI on our PC, even if it's not being displayed, we have to lock the PC when we aren't there. All hard copies have to be locked up and disposed of in a secure container. We also have to be able to disclose to our customers and their patients who viewed what data when and for what purpose if demanded of us, so all access has to be authenticated.
My brother, who is not a "professional" photographer but has a BFA in photography, did this for my cousin's wedding. He put out a couple of disposables with a sign taped to them. He used the best of these to supplement the shots he took for the album. I thought it gave the whole thing a personal touch.
Take a 1" length of string between you fingers and try to snap it by pulling. It will be very difficult. Do the same with a 2' piece and it will be much easier. Compared to the load on the string, the additional weight is miniscule.
I work for a HIPAA covered entity, but IANAL and I don't speak for my employer.
Our lawyers have told us that the security clause means that the information must be encrypted while it is in transit over a public network.
So any of the following are fine as methods of transmitting PHI: SFTP, HTTPS, email/w PGP, any unencrypted protocol over a properly secured intranet or VPN with a trused party.
emailing a plain text attachment with a disclaimer, however, is right out.
That said, it is my understanding that the government has yet to allocate dollar one for HIPAA enforcement, and yes, our emails do include a stupid HIPAA disclaimer.
The navy has been using it pretty much constantly for years, with no noticeable mishaps at least in the last 30 years(last one I could find was a release of contaminatd water in 1978).
While I agree it's probably a good example of a safe nuclear implementation, I think it's being a little but naïve to assume that the Navy would be frank and open about the accident record of it's nuclear fleet, especially considering the cargo and mission of nuclear submarines.
That said, it would be a good place to start looking for health and safety issues. I imagine it would be informative to examine submariners, both active and retired, for elevated cancer rates and other signs of exposure to excessive radiation. I would also want to look at the workers responsible for refitting the ships and disposing of the waste, as was well as where the waste wound up.
Yeah that and the $60 dollar kit to connect my phone to my PC. I'm sure there are ways around buying the software kits/cables, but for the ammount of effort involved, I think I'll just stick with the tones that came with the phone;-)
I don't dispute you, but it seems a strange way to account things. Certainly the vertical G I experience sitting in my chair at home feels different than the horizontal G I experience in a car undergoing acceleration.
In the case of the the chair the normal force of the surface I'm sitting on is counteracting the force of gravity so we have a total net force (and acceleration) of zero.
In the case of the car, there is obviously a net acceleration, so it seems strange to me that we call something that has a net value of 0 in one case and 9.8m/s^2 in another case 1 G just because of the direction of the vector involved.
Is there some kind of historical convention at work here?
I live and work in Boston where cost of living, particularly housing, is fairly high. In 2001, my starting salary was $65k, but I had worked for the same company as a coop student since '97, so they already had an opportunity to see me work. I think the best thing is to have good references and a network to draw on.
I would say you have to look at what your situation is and what your plans are. Do you plan to get married anytime soon? Kids? Is your partner going to work? Do you want to buy a home? What kind of neighborhood do you want to live in? All of these things factor in to how much you should be asking for. If you can't get what your lifestyle is going to demand, then you may have to look at relocating to somewhere that has a lower cost of living.
BTW: The old system was on a DEC and had worked fine for 20 years, the decision to upgrade was taken so we could go all TCP/IP and the DEC wasn't!!!!!!!!!
If this is all you wanted, you should have just bought UCX from Digital/Compaq/HP and been done with it.
Hmmm, I've had Firefox 0.8 running on Win2k since I logged in on March 29 and it's holding steady at ~42MB. Hardly svelt, but I wouldn't call it a hog compared to, say, Eclipse, which is at around 80MB after just being restarted.
I've seen them on rte. 89 going to Vermont, as well as 93 between Boston and Providence. The cool thing is when yr going west to east, you can see them all lit up red in the rear view from the setting sun. I guess that's so if you were drunk enough to get onto the highway in the middle of the night going the wrong way, you'd know it.
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You asshole! ;-)
Marx was an economist.
Verizon, at least in my area, requires all handsets they sell to have an extendable antenna. Their landline/DSL division may suck, but I've been very happy with Verizon Wireless (I've been on this network since it was called Cellular One, which got eaten by Bell Atlantic, which got eaten by Verizon)
I work for a medical clearinghouse. Actually one of our major problems is that many payers don't accept submissions over the internet or via VPN. In may cases, the only option for electronic submission is via a modem BBS. That means scraping screens and writing BBS scripts - blech. HIPAA only specifies format, and doesn't mandate protocol.
So while our customers can submit via https or VPN to us, we have to go dialup to many payers. That is one of our value-adds: the fact that they don't have to deal with all the individual connectivity hassles. X12 isn't the end of the story.
It's a great place to find queer-friendly roommates.
Radar guns?
That quarter doesn't even offset printing and delivery costs. They just make you pay it to make you feel like you're getting something worthwhile. People take an AP wire story reprinted in the Times more seriously than the free daily because of the brand. Part of maintaining that brand is creating a perception of value.
From the article:
By putting their advertisers' interests above their readers', news sites risk alienating their core customers. Without us, there wouldn't be any advertisers to appease. There's no law that says we have to tell them the truth about ourselves, and news is news: I can get it from any number of sources on the Net.
This is wrong. Advertisers are the customers, readers are the product. The newspaper itself is just a sort of ad delivery vehicle.
Online, there is much less of a stigma associated with being free. In fact, people are accustomed to getting online content free. It doesn't help your brand to charge. Also there is much less friction to switch brands online, so providers that sell ads should be concentrating on minimizing the hastle potential readers face.
I also don't understand this obsession with "targeting" adds. Advertisers already know what the demographic of "people who read newspaper X" looks like. I don't see any reason why the online demographic would be signifigantly different, except for maybe being slightly more affluent.
Conclusion - exising demographic information of print media has served well enough to sell ad space to advertisers for years. Providing an online edition of the media should be a cheap way to increase circulation and thereby increase the value of the product being sold, reader exposure, rather than as a means of creating a new revenue stream with a different pricing model.
@vtext.com will be sent to you as an SMS message.
I don't know, my 2 CPU rx2600 is a little toasty to the touch....
Isn't this what EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) is supposed to be? The specification is freely available, and there is a reference implementation released under the Common Public License (CPL). I know it is a product of Intel, but it is suppsoedly an architecture-agnostic platform.
Does anyone know why there hasn't been been more widespread adoption of EFI?
I work for a medical software company. Due to HIPAA regulations, if we even have PHI on our PC, even if it's not being displayed, we have to lock the PC when we aren't there. All hard copies have to be locked up and disposed of in a secure container. We also have to be able to disclose to our customers and their patients who viewed what data when and for what purpose if demanded of us, so all access has to be authenticated.
My brother, who is not a "professional" photographer but has a BFA in photography, did this for my cousin's wedding. He put out a couple of disposables with a sign taped to them. He used the best of these to supplement the shots he took for the album. I thought it gave the whole thing a personal touch.
Take a 1" length of string between you fingers and try to snap it by pulling. It will be very difficult. Do the same with a 2' piece and it will be much easier. Compared to the load on the string, the additional weight is miniscule.
I can survive without net access, but I wouldn't call it living.
I work for a HIPAA covered entity, but IANAL and I don't speak for my employer.
/w PGP, any unencrypted protocol over a properly secured intranet or VPN with a trused party.
Our lawyers have told us that the security clause means that the information must be encrypted while it is in transit over a public network.
So any of the following are fine as methods of transmitting PHI: SFTP, HTTPS, email
emailing a plain text attachment with a disclaimer, however, is right out.
That said, it is my understanding that the government has yet to allocate dollar one for HIPAA enforcement, and yes, our emails do include a stupid HIPAA disclaimer.
The navy has been using it pretty much constantly for years, with no noticeable mishaps at least in the last 30 years(last one I could find was a release of contaminatd water in 1978).
While I agree it's probably a good example of a safe nuclear implementation, I think it's being a little but naïve to assume that the Navy would be frank and open about the accident record of it's nuclear fleet, especially considering the cargo and mission of nuclear submarines.
That said, it would be a good place to start looking for health and safety issues. I imagine it would be informative to examine submariners, both active and retired, for elevated cancer rates and other signs of exposure to excessive radiation. I would also want to look at the workers responsible for refitting the ships and disposing of the waste, as was well as where the waste wound up.
Yeah that and the $60 dollar kit to connect my phone to my PC. I'm sure there are ways around buying the software kits/cables, but for the ammount of effort involved, I think I'll just stick with the tones that came with the phone ;-)
I don't dispute you, but it seems a strange way to account things. Certainly the vertical G I experience sitting in my chair at home feels different than the horizontal G I experience in a car undergoing acceleration.
In the case of the the chair the normal force of the surface I'm sitting on is counteracting the force of gravity so we have a total net force (and acceleration) of zero.
In the case of the car, there is obviously a net acceleration, so it seems strange to me that we call something that has a net value of 0 in one case and 9.8m/s^2 in another case 1 G just because of the direction of the vector involved.
Is there some kind of historical convention at work here?
I believe in free fall you are experienceing 1g, i.e. an acceleration of 9.8 m/s^2.
Wouldn't drilling different sized holes in them work?
I live and work in Boston where cost of living, particularly housing, is fairly high. In 2001, my starting salary was $65k, but I had worked for the same company as a coop student since '97, so they already had an opportunity to see me work. I think the best thing is to have good references and a network to draw on.
I would say you have to look at what your situation is and what your plans are. Do you plan to get married anytime soon? Kids? Is your partner going to work? Do you want to buy a home? What kind of neighborhood do you want to live in? All of these things factor in to how much you should be asking for. If you can't get what your lifestyle is going to demand, then you may have to look at relocating to somewhere that has a lower cost of living.
You mean these (SONY MDR-W08)? They're the only kind of headphones I can stand.
BTW: The old system was on a DEC and had worked fine for 20 years, the decision to upgrade was taken so we could go all TCP/IP and the DEC wasn't!!!!!!!!!
If this is all you wanted, you should have just bought UCX from Digital/Compaq/HP and been done with it.
Hmmm, I've had Firefox 0.8 running on Win2k since I logged in on March 29 and it's holding steady at ~42MB. Hardly svelt, but I wouldn't call it a hog compared to, say, Eclipse, which is at around 80MB after just being restarted.
I've seen them on rte. 89 going to Vermont, as well as 93 between Boston and Providence. The cool thing is when yr going west to east, you can see them all lit up red in the rear view from the setting sun. I guess that's so if you were drunk enough to get onto the highway in the middle of the night going the wrong way, you'd know it.