Trust me, if "they take insurance" they're on the internet, that's how they bill the insurance companies. What the article is talking about is most likely what's called Practice Management Software, it handles scheduling, billing, and increasingly Charting. In a Optometrist's Office the needs are pretty elementary, 10,000 patients, having a couple hundred different benefits plans with fairly different coverages, deductibles, co-pays, and fee schedules; sometimes if the "insurance" doesn't cover the Doctor's fee they can bill the patient for the remainder and sometimes you have to write it off. Store the patient's records are trivial compared to billing. A dentist's office needs in addition to the above digital photography, digital intra-oral photography and digital radiography; a lot of Veterinarians use practice management software designed for Dentists and Care Credit even cover Veterinary services.
I work in a Dental Office that recently had to upgrade, our hardware was blowing caps on the MoBo and the WinXP was an OEM version so we couldn't repair broken hardware and still run WinXP. The database engine on the server that was compatible with Windows 7 clients was incompatible with WinXP. We couldn't go to digital X-rays and electronic charting because the server only had 80 GB of disk space and was running Win2K. So we had to bite the bullet, and we spent $28K on new hardware and software. Before it's over, We'll probably have to buy another 5 pack of software licenses and a couple more computers.
Yeah it would be crazy, you need an intermediary to help set up the "coming in", preferably your lawyer; even good cops can get adreanalin poisoning in these situations.
I noticed that when I was stationed in Germany in the late 1970's that the closer I was to the Czechoslovakian border, the more apreciated I felt by the regular German.
Being chaotic is a qualitative property not a quantitative property, chaotic systems often have numerous periods of stability. People often mistake erratic behaviour as chaotic, and stable behaviour as non-chaotic.
Normal might be too strong, but arctic sea-ice extent is certainly above the average for the 2000's.
Weather report as of 28 minutes ago (20:00 UTC): The wind was blowing at a speed of 6.7 meters per second (15.0 miles per hour) from West/Southwest in Resolute, Canada. The temperature was -13 degrees Celsius (9 degrees Fahrenheit). Air pressure was 1,014 hPa (29.94 inHg). Relative humidity was 71.8%. There were broken clouds at a height of 427 meters (1400 feet) and overcast at a height of 914 meters (3000 feet). The visibility was 2.0 kilometers (1.3 miles). Current weather is Light Snow . Arthropolis
so it's still plenty cold enough. Personally I think Ice loss is more a matter of Sea currents and wind direction than temperature, and the ice is flowing more toward the bottleneck of the Bering Straits than the Greenland Sea. Right now the ENSO index is holding close to neutral so I don't expect anything noteworthy happening this summer, the rate of warming has been zero and the temperature anomaly has stuck in the.3-.10 degree range for 15-20 years. I just don't see anything to get excited about.
The point is when the high capacity rapid chargers are widely deployed, if they all began rapid charging at the same time the voltage drop and current surge on the grid would cause an automatic circuit trip. Likewise if charging stations were all runnining by a staggered start, the grid's power stations would ramp up power output, then if you stopped charging all of the stations at the same times the power-sations would over-rev and automatically shut-down. Now consider if the grid sub-stations were hacked into and the trip-current levels on the circuit breakers were set too high, now you could blow out those hugh transformers at the sub-stations, and they aren't inventory items, they are custom made to order items, it can take months to replace 1, image trying to replace 100's! The Northeast blackout of 2003 affected 55,000,000 and the primary cause was a software bug in a single computer, imagine what could be accomplished as an act of war attack rather than an accident on a hot day. I'm not all that curious to see if a real-life version of the TV show Revolution can be created.
Peer review addresses the consistency of the logic, and the data analysis, but raw data isn't checked; so GIGO often gets through. Data is more likely to be checked during replication, which happens less often; original research is sexy, replication is grunt work.
Well you know something might be hookey when an article describing a biological response to oceanographic variables gets published in Geology. Add to that the article, Marine calcifiers exhibit mixed responses to CO2 -induced ocean acidification was published Dec 2009, it bumps the Hookey-meter up a couple more points as well!
And if the Private Pratice starts running nmap aagainst the Hospital's IP range, after all "then the hospital network's security IS their security, and vice versa.".
If this isn't spelled out in the contract between the Private Practice being probed and the Hospital doing the probing, your probably correct, but I suspect that the Doctor signed away those rights, probably without realizing it.
You might be surprized Snapping Turtles are easily riled, viscious biters and completely used to being the apex preditior north of alligater country; they can easily chomp off a finger if you accidently snag one with your fishing line. The Water skis on fire, that could happen, pickup truck pulling the skier down a gravel road would do it, how often would probably be a function of the amount of inbreeding in the typical patent's gene pool.
Because they are both base-load technologies, they both start-up slow, shut-down slow, react slowly to power level changes and both have a fairly narrow band of most economical operation. Natural gas and Oil are peaking technologies, they start up fast, shutdown fast, react to powerlevel adjustments quickly and have broad bands of economical operations.
No why, the deadly stuff is the Cs137, half-life 30.17 y, and Sr90, half-life 28.79 years, which means after a mere 300 years of storage, whats left is almost pure Pu239! Future generations will wonder if we was really stupid enough to bury this valuable fuel as waste.
I have the feeling that the population isn't going to be growing for too much longer. Our current population levels are subsidized by cheap fertilizers/pesticides/medicines provided by ridiculously cheap hydrocarbon sources (mostly petroleum but also natural gas). That's not going to continue forever, and without that energy and carbon subsidy our population is unsustainable. No other large mammal (>10 kilos) on the planet has ever had our numbers, the worldwide population of the "enormous" herds of wildebeests and reindeer are smaller than the number of people in Shanghai. We either need to reduce our population soon, or Ma Nature will do it for us, and she's a bitch.
That's why every time I see that whiny Sally Struthers pimping for dirty, bare-footed little crumb-snatchers playing in the open sewers through ChildFund, I think to myself, why interfere with natural selection? Isn't feeding them with food grown and shipped using fossile fuels not only bad for the enviroment, but is only prolonging thier cruel slow death.
Have you ever taken the Empire Builder from Chicago to the Pacific Northwest? It's one of my favorites.
I really wanted to I could have got on in my home town and traveled to Seattle no problem, but he return would have required a 23hr lay-over in Chicago!
If your harvesting wind-turbine power during non-demand times, what's better 1.25 MW @ 15% = 180 KW or 0MW @ 75% = 0KW ? Maybe the money earned isn't enough to offset the added wear and tear on the turbine or maybe it's what it takes to push wind-farms into the realm of economic feasibility; some brave souls will have to find out.
I'm not sure it will lower the cost much, the articles seemed misleading, the catalysts are 1000X cheaper, not the resulting processing + costs. If the catalyst is 1000X cheaper, but poison quickly you might barely make break-even. Efficiency of the amortized costs is more important.
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The US is probably the only nation that has met the Koyoto Treaty goals, and that is without being a signatory!
I doubt it, we just drop $28K on 9 computers, 10 software licences; not FDA certified software. The support contract is what eats you up.
if they have *real* xp licenses then an IT shop can just build a new machine and install their xp on it
oem isn't the only way
Yeah right, why would a Dr spring for a real licenses, when an OEM license comes with the hardware?
Trust me, if "they take insurance" they're on the internet, that's how they bill the insurance companies. What the article is talking about is most likely what's called Practice Management Software, it handles scheduling, billing, and increasingly Charting. In a Optometrist's Office the needs are pretty elementary, 10,000 patients, having a couple hundred different benefits plans with fairly different coverages, deductibles, co-pays, and fee schedules; sometimes if the "insurance" doesn't cover the Doctor's fee they can bill the patient for the remainder and sometimes you have to write it off. Store the patient's records are trivial compared to billing. A dentist's office needs in addition to the above digital photography, digital intra-oral photography and digital radiography; a lot of Veterinarians use practice management software designed for Dentists and Care Credit even cover Veterinary services.
I work in a Dental Office that recently had to upgrade, our hardware was blowing caps on the MoBo and the WinXP was an OEM version so we couldn't repair broken hardware and still run WinXP. The database engine on the server that was compatible with Windows 7 clients was incompatible with WinXP. We couldn't go to digital X-rays and electronic charting because the server only had 80 GB of disk space and was running Win2K. So we had to bite the bullet, and we spent $28K on new hardware and software. Before it's over, We'll probably have to buy another 5 pack of software licenses and a couple more computers.
All the Government needs to do is to release him into general population when he gets to prison.
Yeah it would be crazy, you need an intermediary to help set up the "coming in", preferably your lawyer; even good cops can get adreanalin poisoning in these situations.
Dude, frappe'd terrorists are bio-degradable.
I noticed that when I was stationed in Germany in the late 1970's that the closer I was to the Czechoslovakian border, the more apreciated I felt by the regular German.
Being chaotic is a qualitative property not a quantitative property, chaotic systems often have numerous periods of stability. People often mistake erratic behaviour as chaotic, and stable behaviour as non-chaotic.
Normal might be too strong, but arctic sea-ice extent is certainly above the average for the 2000's.
so it's still plenty cold enough. Personally I think Ice loss is more a matter of Sea currents and wind direction than temperature, and the ice is flowing more toward the bottleneck of the Bering Straits than the Greenland Sea. Right now the ENSO index is holding close to neutral so I don't expect anything noteworthy happening this summer, the rate of warming has been zero and the temperature anomaly has stuck in the .3-.10 degree range for 15-20 years. I just don't see anything to get excited about.
I think in the Aleutian Islands there is only 3 miles between Russia and the US at one point, if true it would be swimable.
Dice rolls can be predicted because unlike weather and climate they are not non-linear chaotic systems.
The point is when the high capacity rapid chargers are widely deployed, if they all began rapid charging at the same time the voltage drop and current surge on the grid would cause an automatic circuit trip. Likewise if charging stations were all runnining by a staggered start, the grid's power stations would ramp up power output, then if you stopped charging all of the stations at the same times the power-sations would over-rev and automatically shut-down. Now consider if the grid sub-stations were hacked into and the trip-current levels on the circuit breakers were set too high, now you could blow out those hugh transformers at the sub-stations, and they aren't inventory items, they are custom made to order items, it can take months to replace 1, image trying to replace 100's! The Northeast blackout of 2003 affected 55,000,000 and the primary cause was a software bug in a single computer, imagine what could be accomplished as an act of war attack rather than an accident on a hot day. I'm not all that curious to see if a real-life version of the TV show Revolution can be created.
Peer review addresses the consistency of the logic, and the data analysis, but raw data isn't checked; so GIGO often gets through. Data is more likely to be checked during replication, which happens less often; original research is sexy, replication is grunt work.
Well you know something might be hookey when an article describing a biological response to oceanographic variables gets published in Geology. Add to that the article, Marine calcifiers exhibit mixed responses to CO2 -induced ocean acidification was published Dec 2009, it bumps the Hookey-meter up a couple more points as well!
And if the Private Pratice starts running nmap aagainst the Hospital's IP range, after all "then the hospital network's security IS their security, and vice versa.".
If this isn't spelled out in the contract between the Private Practice being probed and the Hospital doing the probing, your probably correct, but I suspect that the Doctor signed away those rights, probably without realizing it.
You might be surprized Snapping Turtles are easily riled, viscious biters and completely used to being the apex preditior north of alligater country; they can easily chomp off a finger if you accidently snag one with your fishing line. The Water skis on fire, that could happen, pickup truck pulling the skier down a gravel road would do it, how often would probably be a function of the amount of inbreeding in the typical patent's gene pool.
Your implying that the worldwide economy can crash worst the what Bush, Bush and Obama have done to it?
Because they are both base-load technologies, they both start-up slow, shut-down slow, react slowly to power level changes and both have a fairly narrow band of most economical operation. Natural gas and Oil are peaking technologies, they start up fast, shutdown fast, react to powerlevel adjustments quickly and have broad bands of economical operations.
No why, the deadly stuff is the Cs137, half-life 30.17 y, and Sr90, half-life 28.79 years, which means after a mere 300 years of storage, whats left is almost pure Pu239! Future generations will wonder if we was really stupid enough to bury this valuable fuel as waste.
I have the feeling that the population isn't going to be growing for too much longer. Our current population levels are subsidized by cheap fertilizers/pesticides/medicines provided by ridiculously cheap hydrocarbon sources (mostly petroleum but also natural gas). That's not going to continue forever, and without that energy and carbon subsidy our population is unsustainable. No other large mammal (>10 kilos) on the planet has ever had our numbers, the worldwide population of the "enormous" herds of wildebeests and reindeer are smaller than the number of people in Shanghai. We either need to reduce our population soon, or Ma Nature will do it for us, and she's a bitch.
That's why every time I see that whiny Sally Struthers pimping for dirty, bare-footed little crumb-snatchers playing in the open sewers through ChildFund, I think to myself, why interfere with natural selection? Isn't feeding them with food grown and shipped using fossile fuels not only bad for the enviroment, but is only prolonging thier cruel slow death.
Have you ever taken the Empire Builder from Chicago to the Pacific Northwest? It's one of my favorites.
I really wanted to I could have got on in my home town and traveled to Seattle no problem, but he return would have required a 23hr lay-over in Chicago!
If your harvesting wind-turbine power during non-demand times, what's better 1.25 MW @ 15% = 180 KW or 0MW @ 75% = 0KW ? Maybe the money earned isn't enough to offset the added wear and tear on the turbine or maybe it's what it takes to push wind-farms into the realm of economic feasibility; some brave souls will have to find out.
I'm not sure it will lower the cost much, the articles seemed misleading, the catalysts are 1000X cheaper, not the resulting processing + costs. If the catalyst is 1000X cheaper, but poison quickly you might barely make break-even. Efficiency of the amortized costs is more important.