That's not too bad considering a 5-minute "check up" costs $200, it's done by a nurse that gets paid $12/hour and the "doctor" does 50+ of them a day.
The problem isn't really the system, it's the high value we place on human life here in America. We spend trillions keeping vegetables alive while the middle class pays for it in higher premiums. It's never a problem for the rich as they are always "ahead of the curve" and this always will have enough money to pay the more expensive health care. But the system is designed so a poor uneducated illegal immigrant is treated the same as the multimillionaire who obviously contributes a lot more to the economy, taxes, etc. Yes, they are charged accordingly. And you know, it's nice to know that I can get treatment no matter what, rich poor etc. The problem is that in a free market that drives prices up. Which means the vocal middle section of society who is right on the edge of being able to be honest and actually pay for it suffers by not being able to pay for it.
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Because "Blue Ray" is what comes out of the laser. Which is why Sony will probably win this one.
Depends on what you're doing with the data. Are you reading it? Writing it? Updating it? Are only some people updating it? Do they need real-time access to the database or can it be a version system?
What you need to do depends a LOT on these things above the size of the data. If it's TBs of customer data, you probably want that somewhere secure and centralized, with stored procedures to query it and return subsets to your users. If it's not private data, why not let Google crawl and cache it and get instant speed from anywhere? If it's a bunch of Access databases, you need to move to something more modern.
Or you do what the cable company does and run it all outside, with the 12" long 3/4 drill bit thru the house, pull cable, terminate, affix box, done. Just because you don't like getting your hands dirty doesn't mean it isn't easy or fast. So some company charges a few grand to do attic drops? Since you're a CTO you probably make enough money to get it done right, and that means Ethernet.
They've been doing networking over coax since the 70/80's with the old digital equipment broadband stuff (which is the origin of "broadband"). Again though in a typical home you are going to have any number of splices and splitters which will kill your TXRX until you wish you had pulled cat6 after all. Remember THICKWIRE? UGH.
And by "Networking that is not Ethernet generally fails." I mean fails commercially, which HPNA clearly has, and that from TFA will as well.
8- Ability to read, write and speak English 9- How to plan a project and complete it on time
I think you're right that CS doesn't teach enough of this stuff. But really, it's not all that hard. If you can pass CS, you shouldn't have a problem learning how to make a GUI program. The real question being asked is "Is CS really necessary?". There needs to be a comparable college degree which shows that you have taken all of your college core stuff like math, science and english, and in addition you have specialized knowledge of operating and programming computers, without the high-end math-based CS. Because CS really is outdated because everything is so high-level nowadays. Then again, without CS, new developments and architectures would never come out.
I think beyond this the real reason we're upset is because we got duped into taking CS in college because we were good at computers and programming before college and thought CS would prepare us to get a job in the computer field. But in reality, it prepares you for a career in academic computing. I learned more in 3 years of working in the Information Technology Center than I did in CS class. Now I make money, and I almost never use Big-O notation or design sort functions. But I'm glad to know they exist.
Actually this new leadership and the new body of lawmakers just elected has the opportunity to show the world that Americans don't deserve to be attacked (and therefore we won't). Your comments show that you're A. Ignorant and B. All you really know is what your favorite Fox News commentator tells you (which is COMMENTARY or OPINION, not FACT).
What have YOU done to prevent terrorism? Nothing, instead you use terms like 'islaminazi' and you chicken-hawk around--all that does is make people want to punch you in the fucking face. You're an idiot, your views suck and the fact that you still want to fight means you probably should be in jail because you're anti-social, anti-freedom and anti-me. With people like you in this country (and when people like you are given a loudspeaker), it's no wonder people want to blow us up.
I fear ALL you religious nutjobs--be you Christian, Muslim or Jewish. I fear ALL of you blind followers, you who trust people who are proven liars--all on blind faith. Your faith to stupid causes is not admirable. Your arrogance is not admirable and no one cares what you think any more, because you DON'T THINK. You spit out whatever useless facts that someone else tells you to. You might as well not be a person because you're not adding anything to society. You're taking away the valuable oxygen and food that could be used by someone to make the world a better place, where country music is about your dog and your whiskey again and not about some dead soldier. Think with your mind for once, and stop doing what your preacher/general tells you to. Sheep. Sheesh.
Yeah, but in old houses the phone wiring is often substandard, spliced together multiple times, aged insulation, dirty copper, etc. So this ideal transfer rate would probably require retrofit in most of the places that would use it. So, while you're at it, just retrofit to the standard Ethernet. Networking that is not Ethernet generally fails. Ethernet is a good standard, although it does leave some things to be desired especially over crappy cables and connections. But worst case you negotiate a lower rate such as 10Mbps and get a more reliable connection. If you need more than that, you shouldn't have a problem with pulling a few legs of CAT6 or "fibre". I mean, this is a HOME we're talking about; it's not that hard to pull 3 or 4 rooms of Cat 6. Might take an hour or 2......... And most new homes already have CAT6 to the wall with a central panel where you have cable, phone and the cat6 terminated. Then you can have your choice of phone, cable or network at any of the endpoints in each room.
I think we need to sit down and think about analog computers again, using waves to add and subtract and create filters. Of course, this can be simulated in digital space with fourier transforms and stuff.
Interesting points. Basically, I'm just saying a quick easy way to verify a vote in the future. You can of course shred your receipt with your impossible to memorize 123812183 digit hash and no one will be the wiser. But if you want to check, you can go to the site, enter the hash and it will show the votes linked to that hash (not to "you"). So you can verify that what you voted not only was recorded on paper but that it's being COUNTED in the count. It's not for legal purposes or to prove "you" voted in a certain way. I mean, you could give your receipt with the hash to anyone or throw it away or anything. It's just for your own information, so you can be sure to be able to ask if your vote was really counted if you think something went wrong.
If you're application uses a lot of repeated screens and is really only a data-view and entry application, you should go AJAX. Because the slightly longer initial load time (to load ALL the interfacey stuff) is better than having to rerender the interface over HTML every time you change views.
If it's a step by step wizard type thing, or informational (think wikipedia) just get on with it using syncronous web pages.
Where AJAX fails is in the hands of inexperienced developers, where they won't allow the app to load almost everything before running. This is not always possible--something like google maps is a good example of this. You are going to have to load the maps as you go because there's too much data. However, google maps really relies on Images as data which is not the most efficient. They need to expand their client to render the maps itself from GIS info (obviously the satellite overlay will need to come from images).
Also, it fails when there is a high latency connection. However, a lot can be learned from past interfaces: feedback! Flash a div on the screen letting the user know it's loading, apply visibility:hidden when it's done. As long as the user knows that it's actually DOING SOMETHING and not just sitting there, they will give it the benefit of the doubt and wait. Test the connection latency at startup and then let the user know what you know. If you tell them in advance that they might experience poor performance because of their current connection, they are more likely to tolerate it.
Good interface design is a lot more than having it be fast. You have to keep the user informed of the current situation. It's not slowness that annoys people so much as not knowing what's going on. Early X windows had that problem for me also. Whereas in Windows when you click something the window immediately is created by GDI while the actual application loads, in X the appliation is started somewhere and then IT creates it's own window. So when you click on an Icon, it takes a few seconds of nothing (it seems) while we wait for the kernel to find on FS, allocate memory for and run the executable which does it's own init and then FINALLY pops up it's window. If you're running over a network connection, there's no disk noise to let you know anything is happening, so you are basically just sitting there wondering if you should click again. I don't know if it's still like this.
Anyway, my point is that there are a lot of tricks you can use to prevent user annoyance because it goes a lot further than some arbitrary time length.
Yeah, except that oil is quite a bit more valuable than water on the worldwide economy, which is what would build this. That may not be the case for much longer, especially with the population explosion that no one ever seems to talk about.
ICN and PNRP seem like a good idea but it's just like DNS writ large with a million levels rather than 3 or 4. It's basically the equivalent of everyone running their own DNS server on their computer that randomly accepts entries from other computers on the net and no root servers or authority at all. The "secured" name makes sure that when (if) you finally find your computer by randomly traversing the P2P network of PNRP servers, the client can compare the name with the hash address of the computer.
They have a whitepaper over at M$FT that talks a little about it. As always, it's one of those "features" that they will leverage themselves to speed up their MSN content delivery in return for a free windows "live" subscription. Lame.
My quick guide for those of you who "don't follow politics." (By the way, since politics affects every aspect of your life from your paycheck to the health of your children to your drive home at night, if you "don't follow politics", you might as well be dead. But I digress.) Back to my Quick Guide for those who Don't Follow Politics (tm):
Vote for the women. Women are less likely to break the law and although you can't say they are more honest, at least they stick to their guns.
Vote for the challenger. Challengers are more likely to do something than incumbents. It's a fact.
Vote for people with "minority-sounding" names. They are more likely to be scrutinized by the media and therefore will walk a straighter line.
Always lean towards NO on amendments to constitutions. Hey, it's got you this far, hasn't it?
Don't vote if there is only one candidate in the race.
Vote against more police, more jails, etc. because that causes the "crime rate" to go up (the cops have to do something, which means more cops=more arrests=higher crime rate)
Plus how hard would it be to make the card look like a real card during any pre-election check by either the officials or concerned observers and of course, can the virus rewrite the card after closing out the election to make it look like a real card again?
And on a side note, isn't it funny how all these Texas-based companies keep coming up again and again? Diebold, Halliburton, KB&R, Enron, etc. etc. Maybe we should take a closer look at the education software firm Bush's brother runs that supplies software to thousands of schools (due to no child left behind mandates), or Jeb's handling of his own state.
God damn corruption, god damn it. We deserve better, we work hard every damn day and why? To get fucked. Fuck that. I'm going down to my poll tomorrow and I'm bringing my camera.
The whole system is set up to prevent 3rd party candidates from every winning, no matter how many votes they get. As long as they know that, the other two parties can pretty much do anything they want, while making a big show in the media about "fighting" each other.
It shouldn't be a paper trail. These machines should print out a ballot that would be turned in for counting. The ballot should print the name of the person your voting for and a bar code next to it so the computer can read it.
It should be OCR text that way the voter can read it himself. Otherwise, the other barcode could be sneaked on without you knowing. They should issue you a secret hash ID of your vote so you can go online later and look it up to make sure it was scanned correctly.
Of course, all the lawmakers and politicians are LAWYERS, so they really want us to contest the vote so that it can all be decided subjectively in court, where a non-lawyer candidate will never win. That's what this is all about--not blue vs. red! They are keeping anyone "different" out.
So that means the CIA people who rigged Florida in 00 and Ohio in 04 (the ones we know about) were probably adding dead people, fake people, etc. to the lists ahead of time to prevent you from noticing.
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That's not too bad considering a 5-minute "check up" costs $200, it's done by a nurse that gets paid $12/hour and the "doctor" does 50+ of them a day.
The problem isn't really the system, it's the high value we place on human life here in America. We spend trillions keeping vegetables alive while the middle class pays for it in higher premiums. It's never a problem for the rich as they are always "ahead of the curve" and this always will have enough money to pay the more expensive health care. But the system is designed so a poor uneducated illegal immigrant is treated the same as the multimillionaire who obviously contributes a lot more to the economy, taxes, etc. Yes, they are charged accordingly. And you know, it's nice to know that I can get treatment no matter what, rich poor etc. The problem is that in a free market that drives prices up. Which means the vocal middle section of society who is right on the edge of being able to be honest and actually pay for it suffers by not being able to pay for it.
Because "Blue Ray" is what comes out of the laser. Which is why Sony will probably win this one.
" Free software is fine, as long as it isn't really free, and we control it "
Or: Free software is fine, as long as no one but us is making any money on it. Otherwise, we will Fucking Kill(tm) them.
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Here I always thought PASTRAMI was the king of the smoked meats.
Depends on what you're doing with the data. Are you reading it? Writing it? Updating it? Are only some people updating it? Do they need real-time access to the database or can it be a version system?
What you need to do depends a LOT on these things above the size of the data. If it's TBs of customer data, you probably want that somewhere secure and centralized, with stored procedures to query it and return subsets to your users. If it's not private data, why not let Google crawl and cache it and get instant speed from anywhere? If it's a bunch of Access databases, you need to move to something more modern.
Or you do what the cable company does and run it all outside, with the 12" long 3/4 drill bit thru the house, pull cable, terminate, affix box, done. Just because you don't like getting your hands dirty doesn't mean it isn't easy or fast. So some company charges a few grand to do attic drops? Since you're a CTO you probably make enough money to get it done right, and that means Ethernet.
They've been doing networking over coax since the 70/80's with the old digital equipment broadband stuff (which is the origin of "broadband"). Again though in a typical home you are going to have any number of splices and splitters which will kill your TXRX until you wish you had pulled cat6 after all. Remember THICKWIRE? UGH.
And by "Networking that is not Ethernet generally fails." I mean fails commercially, which HPNA clearly has, and that from TFA will as well.
Granted. It just annoyed me. I don't really care.
Don't forget the most important stuff:
8- Ability to read, write and speak English
9- How to plan a project and complete it on time
I think you're right that CS doesn't teach enough of this stuff. But really, it's not all that hard. If you can pass CS, you shouldn't have a problem learning how to make a GUI program. The real question being asked is "Is CS really necessary?". There needs to be a comparable college degree which shows that you have taken all of your college core stuff like math, science and english, and in addition you have specialized knowledge of operating and programming computers, without the high-end math-based CS. Because CS really is outdated because everything is so high-level nowadays. Then again, without CS, new developments and architectures would never come out.
I think beyond this the real reason we're upset is because we got duped into taking CS in college because we were good at computers and programming before college and thought CS would prepare us to get a job in the computer field. But in reality, it prepares you for a career in academic computing. I learned more in 3 years of working in the Information Technology Center than I did in CS class. Now I make money, and I almost never use Big-O notation or design sort functions. But I'm glad to know they exist.
Actually this new leadership and the new body of lawmakers just elected has the opportunity to show the world that Americans don't deserve to be attacked (and therefore we won't). Your comments show that you're A. Ignorant and B. All you really know is what your favorite Fox News commentator tells you (which is COMMENTARY or OPINION, not FACT).
What have YOU done to prevent terrorism? Nothing, instead you use terms like 'islaminazi' and you chicken-hawk around--all that does is make people want to punch you in the fucking face. You're an idiot, your views suck and the fact that you still want to fight means you probably should be in jail because you're anti-social, anti-freedom and anti-me. With people like you in this country (and when people like you are given a loudspeaker), it's no wonder people want to blow us up.
I fear ALL you religious nutjobs--be you Christian, Muslim or Jewish. I fear ALL of you blind followers, you who trust people who are proven liars--all on blind faith. Your faith to stupid causes is not admirable. Your arrogance is not admirable and no one cares what you think any more, because you DON'T THINK. You spit out whatever useless facts that someone else tells you to. You might as well not be a person because you're not adding anything to society. You're taking away the valuable oxygen and food that could be used by someone to make the world a better place, where country music is about your dog and your whiskey again and not about some dead soldier. Think with your mind for once, and stop doing what your preacher/general tells you to. Sheep. Sheesh.
Yeah, but in old houses the phone wiring is often substandard, spliced together multiple times, aged insulation, dirty copper, etc. So this ideal transfer rate would probably require retrofit in most of the places that would use it. So, while you're at it, just retrofit to the standard Ethernet. Networking that is not Ethernet generally fails. Ethernet is a good standard, although it does leave some things to be desired especially over crappy cables and connections. But worst case you negotiate a lower rate such as 10Mbps and get a more reliable connection. If you need more than that, you shouldn't have a problem with pulling a few legs of CAT6 or "fibre". I mean, this is a HOME we're talking about; it's not that hard to pull 3 or 4 rooms of Cat 6. Might take an hour or 2......... And most new homes already have CAT6 to the wall with a central panel where you have cable, phone and the cat6 terminated. Then you can have your choice of phone, cable or network at any of the endpoints in each room.
I think we need to sit down and think about analog computers again, using waves to add and subtract and create filters. Of course, this can be simulated in digital space with fourier transforms and stuff.
Interesting points. Basically, I'm just saying a quick easy way to verify a vote in the future. You can of course shred your receipt with your impossible to memorize 123812183 digit hash and no one will be the wiser. But if you want to check, you can go to the site, enter the hash and it will show the votes linked to that hash (not to "you"). So you can verify that what you voted not only was recorded on paper but that it's being COUNTED in the count. It's not for legal purposes or to prove "you" voted in a certain way. I mean, you could give your receipt with the hash to anyone or throw it away or anything. It's just for your own information, so you can be sure to be able to ask if your vote was really counted if you think something went wrong.
Regardless, I think I speak for (the majority of) America when I say, "Peace Out".
It's pretty easy:
If you're application uses a lot of repeated screens and is really only a data-view and entry application, you should go AJAX. Because the slightly longer initial load time (to load ALL the interfacey stuff) is better than having to rerender the interface over HTML every time you change views.
If it's a step by step wizard type thing, or informational (think wikipedia) just get on with it using syncronous web pages.
Where AJAX fails is in the hands of inexperienced developers, where they won't allow the app to load almost everything before running. This is not always possible--something like google maps is a good example of this. You are going to have to load the maps as you go because there's too much data. However, google maps really relies on Images as data which is not the most efficient. They need to expand their client to render the maps itself from GIS info (obviously the satellite overlay will need to come from images).
Also, it fails when there is a high latency connection. However, a lot can be learned from past interfaces: feedback! Flash a div on the screen letting the user know it's loading, apply visibility:hidden when it's done. As long as the user knows that it's actually DOING SOMETHING and not just sitting there, they will give it the benefit of the doubt and wait. Test the connection latency at startup and then let the user know what you know. If you tell them in advance that they might experience poor performance because of their current connection, they are more likely to tolerate it.
Good interface design is a lot more than having it be fast. You have to keep the user informed of the current situation. It's not slowness that annoys people so much as not knowing what's going on. Early X windows had that problem for me also. Whereas in Windows when you click something the window immediately is created by GDI while the actual application loads, in X the appliation is started somewhere and then IT creates it's own window. So when you click on an Icon, it takes a few seconds of nothing (it seems) while we wait for the kernel to find on FS, allocate memory for and run the executable which does it's own init and then FINALLY pops up it's window. If you're running over a network connection, there's no disk noise to let you know anything is happening, so you are basically just sitting there wondering if you should click again. I don't know if it's still like this.
Anyway, my point is that there are a lot of tricks you can use to prevent user annoyance because it goes a lot further than some arbitrary time length.
Yeah, except that oil is quite a bit more valuable than water on the worldwide economy, which is what would build this. That may not be the case for much longer, especially with the population explosion that no one ever seems to talk about.
ICN and PNRP seem like a good idea but it's just like DNS writ large with a million levels rather than 3 or 4. It's basically the equivalent of everyone running their own DNS server on their computer that randomly accepts entries from other computers on the net and no root servers or authority at all. The "secured" name makes sure that when (if) you finally find your computer by randomly traversing the P2P network of PNRP servers, the client can compare the name with the hash address of the computer.
They have a whitepaper over at M$FT that talks a little about it. As always, it's one of those "features" that they will leverage themselves to speed up their MSN content delivery in return for a free windows "live" subscription. Lame.
My quick guide for those of you who "don't follow politics." (By the way, since politics affects every aspect of your life from your paycheck to the health of your children to your drive home at night, if you "don't follow politics", you might as well be dead. But I digress.) Back to my Quick Guide for those who Don't Follow Politics (tm):
Vote for the women. Women are less likely to break the law and although you can't say they are more honest, at least they stick to their guns.
Vote for the challenger. Challengers are more likely to do something than incumbents. It's a fact.
Vote for people with "minority-sounding" names. They are more likely to be scrutinized by the media and therefore will walk a straighter line.
Always lean towards NO on amendments to constitutions. Hey, it's got you this far, hasn't it?
Don't vote if there is only one candidate in the race.
Vote against more police, more jails, etc. because that causes the "crime rate" to go up (the cops have to do something, which means more cops=more arrests=higher crime rate)
Ask your neighbor at the polling place.
They should have a class in public school, in 10th grade maybe, that teaches you how to vote and is required to graduate.
reasons why the nobel prize was adward.
Damn, even the Nobel Prize has Adwords. Google is everywhere.
Plus how hard would it be to make the card look like a real card during any pre-election check by either the officials or concerned observers and of course, can the virus rewrite the card after closing out the election to make it look like a real card again?
And on a side note, isn't it funny how all these Texas-based companies keep coming up again and again? Diebold, Halliburton, KB&R, Enron, etc. etc. Maybe we should take a closer look at the education software firm Bush's brother runs that supplies software to thousands of schools (due to no child left behind mandates), or Jeb's handling of his own state.
God damn corruption, god damn it. We deserve better, we work hard every damn day and why? To get fucked. Fuck that. I'm going down to my poll tomorrow and I'm bringing my camera.
The whole system is set up to prevent 3rd party candidates from every winning, no matter how many votes they get. As long as they know that, the other two parties can pretty much do anything they want, while making a big show in the media about "fighting" each other.
That's because counting money affects EVERYONE. Counting votes only affects the people, not the elected politicians.
It shouldn't be a paper trail. These machines should print out a ballot that would be turned in for counting. The ballot should print the name of the person your voting for and a bar code next to it so the computer can read it.
It should be OCR text that way the voter can read it himself. Otherwise, the other barcode could be sneaked on without you knowing. They should issue you a secret hash ID of your vote so you can go online later and look it up to make sure it was scanned correctly.
Of course, all the lawmakers and politicians are LAWYERS, so they really want us to contest the vote so that it can all be decided subjectively in court, where a non-lawyer candidate will never win. That's what this is all about--not blue vs. red! They are keeping anyone "different" out.
So that means the CIA people who rigged Florida in 00 and Ohio in 04 (the ones we know about) were probably adding dead people, fake people, etc. to the lists ahead of time to prevent you from noticing.