What you describe are fixed-firm-price contracts. The contractor must meet the price even if they lose money. If they fail to do the work, they can be held legally responsible.
That said, there are two primary reasons many government contracts are not FFP. Government projects have way more regulations (why does an aircraft GPS need to survive a 40g shock and be waterproof to 30 meters?) and crazy make-work meetings. This makes it hard for companies that do a lot of commercial business to properly estimate the cost for government projects.
The BIGGER issue, it that the government is not structured such that a single person/entity is in control of most "contractable" efforts. When a committee of rotating people with different agendas are in control of the purse strings you get a LOT of requirements creep. So a projected that would have cost $1M with the initial requirements, and might have cost $2M with the final requirements, ends up costing $10M because it had 15 contract iterations between them.
The only reason I upgraded from my N5 to an S7Edge was the better camera. I will wait to upgrade my S7E when I can get substantially better low-light performance in pictures + reasonable size (5-6 inches, 7 is too big), in a decent price range ($300-$400). Would be nice to keep my QI charging, but no one does plastic covers anymore and glass is slippery crap.
iI hate to break it to you, but US Universities are not generally the highest categories. There are some, but the stats aren't great. 1.7% of US universities fit in the "Top 100", versus UK with 2.5% and Australia with 3.1%.
This stat is absolutely meaningless by itself. The only thing it tells you is that all three have universities in the top 100.
A quick google search shows 130 universities in the UK, and 43 in Australia.
The US has 2,618 accredited (non-diploma mill) Universities (per google).
Coincidentally, 1.7% us 2,618 is 44.5, or more than the total number of universities in Australia.
So if you point was that if you go to a random university in one of these places, your chances of getting a "top 100" university are higher...okay sure. The implication here might be that the average university student in one of these locations gets a better education than the average university student in the US, and that's may be true (would have to track much more than just the top 100 schools to determine this answer)
But if the question is which country has the "best schools" (and by implication, which country would have the "best educated" people), that would be the US. At least for now.
So a section on the top of every parking garage and most large buildings to provide last-mile transport to work.
My company has shuttles that bring people in from a couple of different park and rides outside of the city. Probably because they don't want to pay to expand the parking facility and also because people sitting on their way to work instead of driving might start working before they sit at their desks and clock in.
If these were cheap enough I could see compenies like mine providing a shuttle air-taxi service.
Small community indeed. Surprised they even have the basic infrastructure (running water / electricity) to sustain life, let alone attract major businesses.
If one were conspiratorially minded, they might think the best way to get congress to outlaw caller-id spoofing would be to send them spoofed texts that have might have a sinister purpose once you know that are falsified (such as asking them information like "where are you, right now?").
There is no reason to expect it to be more expensive for universal healthcare than the current system we have.
Right now anyone who goes to a hospital gets treatment. The poor don't pay, so either the government (medicaid, etc.) pays, or the hospital takes it out of hide and then charges the people who do pay extra to cover the loss.
Doctor's offices and Urgent Care clinics are cheaper than the hospital. If these individuals were able to use those services instead of going to the hopital for every bump, bruise, and snivel, then the overall cost may very well go down.
Then theres arguments that preventative medicine is cheaper than treating late stage illnesses or that as a single payer the government can negotiate better prices. But even without those arguments it should be cheaper.
It still won't completely solve the issue of inflated costs. Medicare is the 800 lb gorilla in the insurance market and can dictate a lot of terms regarding what they will and will not cover and how much they will pay, but they can't force pricing like other countries can and they can't keep healthcare providers from going after people for the "difference" in costs from what Medicare provides.
I can see a path to Medicare for all, but I don't see the necessary enabling legislation for price controls that would make it successful coming until and unless the cost of Medicare brings the country to the brink of financial ruin.
This didn't happen to the overwhelming majority of computers that received the patch, it happened to a specific subset. So it didn't brick the OS it bricked some vendor that did non-standard things to the OS.
And your argument that an OS shouldn't have deep browser hooks is ridiculous, unless you don't believe Chrome OS or FireFox OS are valid OS'.
Code re-use is a good thing. If a modern browser includes 2/3rds of the things necessary for an entire OS, why not make it the basis of an entire OS (obviously Google and Firefox thought this was a good idea).
It doesn't inherintly make you less efficient or secure. It's just a different way of doing things.
Good news! If all of those concurrent recordings were intended for individual viewing then you aren't watching them live (well 6 of them) and you could just stream them on-demand (provided your streaming option offers them).
Even if true this doesn't seem like it would be a deciding factor for a person who could buy a house adjacent to any piece of property pretty much anywhere. Oh, you want $10M for a $400k house, but it shaves my commute from an hour to 5 minutes, and I make close to $2.5M an hour. Seems like a good deal.
So I misspoke. I said first US satellite, but meant first US satellite in LEO. The explorer 1 was a MEO satellite. Explorer 7 was the first US satellite launched into LEO (in 1959) and it is still in orbit today.
Well they don't need "brain dead" but living donors for corneas, so I don't believe there is a critical shortage of donated corneas like there is for organs like hearts/liver.
As long as you consider ~150 years a pretty short timeframe. The very first US satellite launched (70+ years ago) was launched into LEO and hasn't de-orbited yet.
Satellites launched into LEO are supposed to be setup to de-orbit within 25 years, but that is an assisted de-orbit. If the satellite is unresponsive space junk and if it is relatively small (as these are) it they could be up there a very long time.
The one benefit is that these are planned to be on the lower side of LEO (think I heard something around 100 or 150 miles) so you could knock a few years off of that 150 as the normal LEO satellites sit around 400 miles, but these are also smaller satellites so they would have less drag and any "junk" would probably be the result of collisions and would be smaller still.
From the sounds of this article they already had a fairly toxic work environment with management split about the appropriate way forward. Elon simply picked a side and fired the rest so they wouldn't remain a festering wound.
I have lived through similar (though smaller in scale) shake-ups and by and large they have been beneficial in focusing the team and removing the stress of politics and having to please bosses with opposed goals.
Pretty sure the my first android phone (and coincidentally THE first android phone) a T-Mobile G1 had a full keyboard and didn't lose any screen real estate. And the keyboard worked great.
I watched every episode of both those series, kept holding my breath waiting for them to get good In my opinion they never did. And these are the types of shows that I like most, and I am incredibly easy to please (hell, I liked ALL of the mortal kombat movies).
This ignores the fact that at some point they will be producing enough new content per year that they more than satisfy the demands of the typical subscriber. At that time their costs (for content) should stabilize, while they will continue to collect revenue from old subscribers.
It is also likely that at some point they will have such a large catalog that they can significantly reduce the new offerings and concentrate on a couple of popular properties (like HBO) to keep the subscribers interested.
My wife has been subscribed since the DVD only days, she watches maybe a couple of episodes of something a week at most. But she doesn't unsubscribe because their may be one new show a year she is interested in.
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What you describe are fixed-firm-price contracts. The contractor must meet the price even if they lose money. If they fail to do the work, they can be held legally responsible.
That said, there are two primary reasons many government contracts are not FFP. Government projects have way more regulations (why does an aircraft GPS need to survive a 40g shock and be waterproof to 30 meters?) and crazy make-work meetings. This makes it hard for companies that do a lot of commercial business to properly estimate the cost for government projects.
The BIGGER issue, it that the government is not structured such that a single person/entity is in control of most "contractable" efforts. When a committee of rotating people with different agendas are in control of the purse strings you get a LOT of requirements creep. So a projected that would have cost $1M with the initial requirements, and might have cost $2M with the final requirements, ends up costing $10M because it had 15 contract iterations between them.
Golf carts with NHTSA safety standards compliance.
The only reason I upgraded from my N5 to an S7Edge was the better camera. I will wait to upgrade my S7E when I can get substantially better low-light performance in pictures + reasonable size (5-6 inches, 7 is too big), in a decent price range ($300-$400). Would be nice to keep my QI charging, but no one does plastic covers anymore and glass is slippery crap.
So a section on the top of every parking garage and most large buildings to provide last-mile transport to work.
My company has shuttles that bring people in from a couple of different park and rides outside of the city. Probably because they don't want to pay to expand the parking facility and also because people sitting on their way to work instead of driving might start working before they sit at their desks and clock in.
If these were cheap enough I could see compenies like mine providing a shuttle air-taxi service.
Stopped reading your wall of text when you said the Middle East is "as dry as it gets".
https://www.findlocalweather.c...
Take a look. Much of the middle east has very high humidity.
So install a root-kit. Sony is totally fine with this approach.
Never heard of 'em.
Small community indeed. Surprised they even have the basic infrastructure (running water / electricity) to sustain life, let alone attract major businesses.
I read this as "faked" texts, i.e. spoofed.
If one were conspiratorially minded, they might think the best way to get congress to outlaw caller-id spoofing would be to send them spoofed texts that have might have a sinister purpose once you know that are falsified (such as asking them information like "where are you, right now?").
Well that's just not true. The IRS would ask for their cut.
One of the hardest concepts to explain it seems.
There is no reason to expect it to be more expensive for universal healthcare than the current system we have.
Right now anyone who goes to a hospital gets treatment. The poor don't pay, so either the government (medicaid, etc.) pays, or the hospital takes it out of hide and then charges the people who do pay extra to cover the loss.
Doctor's offices and Urgent Care clinics are cheaper than the hospital. If these individuals were able to use those services instead of going to the hopital for every bump, bruise, and snivel, then the overall cost may very well go down.
Then theres arguments that preventative medicine is cheaper than treating late stage illnesses or that as a single payer the government can negotiate better prices. But even without those arguments it should be cheaper.
It still won't completely solve the issue of inflated costs. Medicare is the 800 lb gorilla in the insurance market and can dictate a lot of terms regarding what they will and will not cover and how much they will pay, but they can't force pricing like other countries can and they can't keep healthcare providers from going after people for the "difference" in costs from what Medicare provides.
I can see a path to Medicare for all, but I don't see the necessary enabling legislation for price controls that would make it successful coming until and unless the cost of Medicare brings the country to the brink of financial ruin.
This didn't happen to the overwhelming majority of computers that received the patch, it happened to a specific subset. So it didn't brick the OS it bricked some vendor that did non-standard things to the OS.
And your argument that an OS shouldn't have deep browser hooks is ridiculous, unless you don't believe Chrome OS or FireFox OS are valid OS'.
Code re-use is a good thing. If a modern browser includes 2/3rds of the things necessary for an entire OS, why not make it the basis of an entire OS (obviously Google and Firefox thought this was a good idea).
It doesn't inherintly make you less efficient or secure. It's just a different way of doing things.
. That sort of distraction can lead to an accident.
Lots of legitimate complaints to be had about youtube. Distracting you while driving is not one of them.
Good news! If all of those concurrent recordings were intended for individual viewing then you aren't watching them live (well 6 of them) and you could just stream them on-demand (provided your streaming option offers them).
Even if true this doesn't seem like it would be a deciding factor for a person who could buy a house adjacent to any piece of property pretty much anywhere. Oh, you want $10M for a $400k house, but it shaves my commute from an hour to 5 minutes, and I make close to $2.5M an hour. Seems like a good deal.
So I misspoke. I said first US satellite, but meant first US satellite in LEO. The explorer 1 was a MEO satellite. Explorer 7 was the first US satellite launched into LEO (in 1959) and it is still in orbit today.
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Well they don't need "brain dead" but living donors for corneas, so I don't believe there is a critical shortage of donated corneas like there is for organs like hearts/liver.
As long as you consider ~150 years a pretty short timeframe. The very first US satellite launched (70+ years ago) was launched into LEO and hasn't de-orbited yet.
Satellites launched into LEO are supposed to be setup to de-orbit within 25 years, but that is an assisted de-orbit. If the satellite is unresponsive space junk and if it is relatively small (as these are) it they could be up there a very long time.
The one benefit is that these are planned to be on the lower side of LEO (think I heard something around 100 or 150 miles) so you could knock a few years off of that 150 as the normal LEO satellites sit around 400 miles, but these are also smaller satellites so they would have less drag and any "junk" would probably be the result of collisions and would be smaller still.
From the sounds of this article they already had a fairly toxic work environment with management split about the appropriate way forward. Elon simply picked a side and fired the rest so they wouldn't remain a festering wound.
I have lived through similar (though smaller in scale) shake-ups and by and large they have been beneficial in focusing the team and removing the stress of politics and having to please bosses with opposed goals.
Pretty sure the my first android phone (and coincidentally THE first android phone) a T-Mobile G1 had a full keyboard and didn't lose any screen real estate. And the keyboard worked great.
I watched every episode of both those series, kept holding my breath waiting for them to get good In my opinion they never did. And these are the types of shows that I like most, and I am incredibly easy to please (hell, I liked ALL of the mortal kombat movies).
This ignores the fact that at some point they will be producing enough new content per year that they more than satisfy the demands of the typical subscriber. At that time their costs (for content) should stabilize, while they will continue to collect revenue from old subscribers.
It is also likely that at some point they will have such a large catalog that they can significantly reduce the new offerings and concentrate on a couple of popular properties (like HBO) to keep the subscribers interested.
My wife has been subscribed since the DVD only days, she watches maybe a couple of episodes of something a week at most. But she doesn't unsubscribe because their may be one new show a year she is interested in.
Didn't have the one and only game I searched for:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...