The other is that we've gone from a $2 lens and a 75 minute procedure to an overpriced $3,000,000 machine and a 15 minute procedure and said, "it takes you 1/5 as much time so why aren't you charging 1/5 as much?" Ignoring the cost of equipment, of maintenance of equipment, and of the office time required to file and analyze collected information is going to be the next problem--i.e. when they cut the payments to match the time of performing the procedure as if that's the only expense that's changed, or at least as if other expenses haven't experienced a net-increase. Then people will cry that medicare is paying even less and private individuals are paying even more.
That's pretty much correct. It's generally acknowledged that Medicare and Medicaid pay the least, private insurers pay more and individual patients pay the most. But now the other shoe drops and it appears that Medicare and Medicaid are being cheated, private insurers are being cheated much more and individual patients are being robbed at scalpel-point.
This is LONG overdue and the data should definitely be shared with private insurers and everybody else.
We also need price transparency. Hospitals and doctors should have to reveal what they pay Medicare and other insurance for services, at least on average, to both individual consumers and insurers, on lists available to the public, and except in emergencies, they should be required to disclose all charges to the patient or the patient's representative before the services are rendered.
As long as we have private insurers and uninsured people, that's the only way we'll get a handle on medical costs.
I didn't say the pasty white boys were bad. I said their pictures were at odds with the missions of some of the organizations. You don't promote coding for underrepresented groups by showing examples of the most overrepresented group.
Actually, race DOES have scientific definitions, with respect to humans:
"a human population partially isolated reproductively from other populations, whose members share a greater degree of physical and genetic similarity with one another than with other humans". This is a specialized use of the broader term as applied to animals and plants.
Australian aborines, for example, are a race of humans, as are Micronesians and Laplanders.
Where's the evidence that Apple cares about anything other than its public image? Apple didn't uncover these problems on its own. China Labor Watch did. The same was true at Foxconn.
In most cases, what happens is nothing. Most species of bacteria and most viruses can't infect a human body. The same goes for every other species of animal and plant.
I think Jesus might have existed. King Arthur also might have existed. But there's no way King Arthur had a magic sword or Jesus got up and walked after he was dead. Not in the real world. Those are characteristics of myth and fantasy.
It is possible. US companies just don't do it that much for SW and computer hardware or other stuff that's easily shipped because the competition won't play ball. But when it comes to haircuts or movie tickets, location has a big effect on price.
Well, that may be true, and that's fairly normal. Usually after you acquire a company you cherry pick the best managers, fire the rest and replace them with people you trust. "If they're so good, how come we bought their company?" But you do a careful job of studying their products, processes, financials and how well they address the market.
It's not what they're doing, it's how they're doing it that is drawing this criticism. Evaluate the programs on their mission, program plan and management competence instead of a popularity contest would be a good start. That's what they'd do if they were thinking about acquiring a company, right?
CSC's vision is to "increase participation of underrepresented groups in computer science" but shows two pasty white boys. Underrepresented? I think not!
Code to learn foundation shows two black boys in the classic, "This is all going over my head." pose (head leaning on hand). But hey, at least the confused-looking children are not pasty white boys.
CFY shows multi-racial girls looking up a a computer screen with the keyboard placed out of easy reach. Clearly there is no intention of them doing anything with that computer.
Code.org shows multi-racial kids, but the two in sharp focus in the foreground are more stereotypical white boys.
Teaching kids programming shows three girls mugging for the camera, but there's little suggesting that they're learning anything about programming.
The other photos are not that bad. But seriously, somebody should have reviewed the photos and said, "Is this really the message you want to send?"
What kind of argument is that?!? Did you have textbooks that had color in them? Color doesn't matter in anything but science books, and even then, it can be worked around. Ebook (e-ink) readers would rock for that sort of application.
Yes I did. I recall it being pretty important in science, geography, history, art, driver's ed...
Wow, $968 per tablet, what a great deal. Only four times more than retail for the higher specced Nexus 7. This in a city where kids are regularly sent home for "short days" to save salary.
It's more than twice the price of an iPad 2. That's some deal the school district is getting.
I didn't get that from the summary. What I learned was that the Ph.D. took longer than expected to finish johanneswilm and others. I hope they paid her well.
It's pretty tricky, really. You have to simulate at least 4 satellites' signals, compensating for their orbital movement at the position where you want to tell your target it's located.
But its just numbers and time. That's all the GPS receiver knows about. It knows nothing actual orbits or movements. Just precise time and epheremis numbers.The signals would be trivial to generate with a computer.
Let's see your sample code to show it's trivial and your analysis that shows a normal clock can generate 4 or more signals and add them in real time accurately enough to spoof a standard GPS, let alone do what the article talks about and generate a stable enough signal that it can mislead a ship without the crew having a clue that anything is weird.
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That's one takeaway.
The other is that we've gone from a $2 lens and a 75 minute procedure to an overpriced $3,000,000 machine and a 15 minute procedure and said, "it takes you 1/5 as much time so why aren't you charging 1/5 as much?" Ignoring the cost of equipment, of maintenance of equipment, and of the office time required to file and analyze collected information is going to be the next problem--i.e. when they cut the payments to match the time of performing the procedure as if that's the only expense that's changed, or at least as if other expenses haven't experienced a net-increase. Then people will cry that medicare is paying even less and private individuals are paying even more.
An Olympus complete system costs $25,900.00. http://www.endoscope.com/End_List.asp?sub=Complete_G.I._Video_Systems
And you don't see being billed $65,000 for $1400 worth of services as blatant fraud?
That's pretty much correct. It's generally acknowledged that Medicare and Medicaid pay the least, private insurers pay more and individual patients pay the most. But now the other shoe drops and it appears that Medicare and Medicaid are being cheated, private insurers are being cheated much more and individual patients are being robbed at scalpel-point.
This is LONG overdue and the data should definitely be shared with private insurers and everybody else.
We also need price transparency. Hospitals and doctors should have to reveal what they pay Medicare and other insurance for services, at least on average, to both individual consumers and insurers, on lists available to the public, and except in emergencies, they should be required to disclose all charges to the patient or the patient's representative before the services are rendered.
As long as we have private insurers and uninsured people, that's the only way we'll get a handle on medical costs.
Based on that, I would find three races: Men, Women and Children.
I didn't say the pasty white boys were bad. I said their pictures were at odds with the missions of some of the organizations. You don't promote coding for underrepresented groups by showing examples of the most overrepresented group.
"a human population partially isolated reproductively from other populations, whose members share a greater degree of physical and genetic similarity with one another than with other humans". This is a specialized use of the broader term as applied to animals and plants.
Australian aborines, for example, are a race of humans, as are Micronesians and Laplanders.
Where's the evidence that Apple cares about anything other than its public image? Apple didn't uncover these problems on its own. China Labor Watch did. The same was true at Foxconn.
In most cases, what happens is nothing. Most species of bacteria and most viruses can't infect a human body. The same goes for every other species of animal and plant.
If you could cool the planet, the atmosphere would condense to liquid except for the lighter gases.
I think Jesus might have existed. King Arthur also might have existed. But there's no way King Arthur had a magic sword or Jesus got up and walked after he was dead. Not in the real world. Those are characteristics of myth and fantasy.
It is possible. US companies just don't do it that much for SW and computer hardware or other stuff that's easily shipped because the competition won't play ball. But when it comes to haircuts or movie tickets, location has a big effect on price.
If you can't get to space without hitching a ride on someobody else's rocket, that's not a space program.
Well, that may be true, and that's fairly normal. Usually after you acquire a company you cherry pick the best managers, fire the rest and replace them with people you trust. "If they're so good, how come we bought their company?" But you do a careful job of studying their products, processes, financials and how well they address the market.
It's not what they're doing, it's how they're doing it that is drawing this criticism. Evaluate the programs on their mission, program plan and management competence instead of a popularity contest would be a good start. That's what they'd do if they were thinking about acquiring a company, right?
Note the graphics and the at-odds text.
CSC's vision is to "increase participation of underrepresented groups in computer science" but shows two pasty white boys. Underrepresented? I think not!
Code to learn foundation shows two black boys in the classic, "This is all going over my head." pose (head leaning on hand). But hey, at least the confused-looking children are not pasty white boys.
CFY shows multi-racial girls looking up a a computer screen with the keyboard placed out of easy reach. Clearly there is no intention of them doing anything with that computer.
Code.org shows multi-racial kids, but the two in sharp focus in the foreground are more stereotypical white boys.
Teaching kids programming shows three girls mugging for the camera, but there's little suggesting that they're learning anything about programming.
The other photos are not that bad. But seriously, somebody should have reviewed the photos and said, "Is this really the message you want to send?"
What kind of argument is that?!? Did you have textbooks that had color in them? Color doesn't matter in anything but science books, and even then, it can be worked around. Ebook (e-ink) readers would rock for that sort of application.
Yes I did. I recall it being pretty important in science, geography, history, art, driver's ed...
UK units are irrelevant because the UK has no space program. There is no reasonable interpretation for "3 tons" to mean 3 long tons.
Want to know why Chinese people are buying Android phones instead of iPhones? Ask them. Have people around here never heard of a poll?
How about all of them being able to do a lot more than read?
Currently, those really suck for everything but text and don't do color.
You mean $30M/year for as long as they go on with this foolish plan.
the $30 million is for the first 31,000 only
Wow, $968 per tablet, what a great deal. Only four times more than retail for the higher specced Nexus 7. This in a city where kids are regularly sent home for "short days" to save salary.
It's more than twice the price of an iPad 2. That's some deal the school district is getting.
I didn't get that from the summary. What I learned was that the Ph.D. took longer than expected to finish johanneswilm and others. I hope they paid her well.
I'm relieved. It seems you won't be spoofing my GPS until you learn a lot more about the subject.
It's pretty tricky, really. You have to simulate at least 4 satellites' signals, compensating for their orbital movement at the position where you want to tell your target it's located.
But its just numbers and time. That's all the GPS receiver knows about. It knows nothing actual orbits or movements. Just precise time and epheremis numbers. The signals would be trivial to generate with a computer.
Let's see your sample code to show it's trivial and your analysis that shows a normal clock can generate 4 or more signals and add them in real time accurately enough to spoof a standard GPS, let alone do what the article talks about and generate a stable enough signal that it can mislead a ship without the crew having a clue that anything is weird.