This isn't meant as a flame, but your definition of what is essential to your livelyhood is a bit short sighted, unless you're a geek who makes a living from typing. Consider what happens if a geek (whatever the flavour, computer science geek, electrical engineer geek, theater geek - not all geeks write code, but all geeks pursue technology as a means to an end) "burns out", loses his or her eyesight, or hearing, or...
All of these circumstances can be carreer threatening. Some of them might be short term problems and others may be life long disabilities. When I first started being a responsible adult and storing money away for retirement I spent some time talking to various people who could help me guarantee at least my financial health. Beyond the typical advice I got of "invest early and often" was "get disability insurance". I wasn't too keen on this at first, me, disabled? It'd never happen!
The person who first brought this up explained to me, through statistics, what the probability of an average person losing wages over various periods of time were. I realized that these were lumping western society together as a whole, and included an awful lot of delivery boys, grocery clerks and construction workers who may not have the best sick time policy (of course this probably goes for a lot of ISPs as well!) and may involve a lot of abuse of the body.
So where does this fit in? Basically disability insurance covers you when you can not work for whatever reason. There is some minimum period of time you have to be unable to work before it kicks in, and the shorter the time the more money you spend on it. You don't have to be permanently disabled. If you're hung up in the hospital for 2 months in traction you'll probably be able to work again, but in the mean time your earnings may halt. This is where the disability insurance can cover you, it will provide some percentage of your wages. Your health insurance covers the hospital costs, the disability insurance lets you pay your rent, feed your goldfish and keep your house heated. I won't get into specifics because I only know my coverage and it seems personal somehow:P
Anyway, as an example, an aquaintance of mine needed his voice to do business. He lost it for a long period of time, way beyond laryngitis, and eventually he used up his sick days. The disability insurance kicked in and kept him solvent.
You probably would find it hard to insure a specific bodypart. Most of those policies are more for publicity than anything else. It's also a bit shortsighted in my opinion because there are a lot of things that can go wrong and prevent you from working. Sure, the lump sum may be a nice idea but its probably not realistic and would also probably only happen once. You'd get one vacation for your carpal tunnel syndrome and then be told to go suck rocks after they cancelled your policy.
It's not even a theory. A theory is a conjecture who's intent is to explain some measured data. Moore's Law is only an observation based on measured data.
Consider Time Kill's law, circa 1999: Nasdaq doubles every 3 years. It's a statement based on some observations at some point in time. There's data to support it but no explanation to support it. It also seems pretty invalid right now.
I don't have too much useful input here, but I would have to strongly suggest that the 'units' command be installed and maybe the/etc/motd be: Don't be like Homer Simpson. Check your units.
Actually, I'd like to see somebody build an enhanced SimEarth. It was a pretty cool game that let you evolve life on a sterile ball of rock. Once you figured out how to make it work it was easy though, albeit fun to have things other than former apes as the dominant species.
WINE is not an emulator. This is actually important as WINE doesn't emulate for instance an Intel processor, its more what I'd call a mapping layer and a set of libraries to implement chunks of Windows. As mentioned, WINE could probably be ported but it wouldn't be helpful.
Something like BOCHS which actually emulates the processor as well is more likely. When OSX takes off I'd expect Connectix to be release a commercial Windows emulator though, just as they have for many years now.
Unfortunately most people have been brainwashed into thinking that Star Wars is not only Sci-Fi, but the epitomy of science fiction. It's not really either. Star Wars is closer to fantasy in outer space and it isn't a particularily good example of it either. I'm not saying it wasn't fun, it was.
Due to the quantity of hype that surrounded Star Wars every science fiction movie will be compared to it.
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This isn't meant as a flame, but your definition of what is essential to your livelyhood is a bit short sighted, unless you're a geek who makes a living from typing. Consider what happens if a geek (whatever the flavour, computer science geek, electrical engineer geek, theater geek - not all geeks write code, but all geeks pursue technology as a means to an end) "burns out", loses his or her eyesight, or hearing, or...
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All of these circumstances can be carreer threatening. Some of them might be short term problems and others may be life long disabilities. When I first started being a responsible adult and storing money away for retirement I spent some time talking to various people who could help me guarantee at least my financial health. Beyond the typical advice I got of "invest early and often" was "get disability insurance". I wasn't too keen on this at first, me, disabled? It'd never happen!
The person who first brought this up explained to me, through statistics, what the probability of an average person losing wages over various periods of time were. I realized that these were lumping western society together as a whole, and included an awful lot of delivery boys, grocery clerks and construction workers who may not have the best sick time policy (of course this probably goes for a lot of ISPs as well!) and may involve a lot of abuse of the body.
So where does this fit in? Basically disability insurance covers you when you can not work for whatever reason. There is some minimum period of time you have to be unable to work before it kicks in, and the shorter the time the more money you spend on it. You don't have to be permanently disabled. If you're hung up in the hospital for 2 months in traction you'll probably be able to work again, but in the mean time your earnings may halt. This is where the disability insurance can cover you, it will provide some percentage of your wages. Your health insurance covers the hospital costs, the disability insurance lets you pay your rent, feed your goldfish and keep your house heated. I won't get into specifics because I only know my coverage and it seems personal somehow
Anyway, as an example, an aquaintance of mine needed his voice to do business. He lost it for a long period of time, way beyond laryngitis, and eventually he used up his sick days. The disability insurance kicked in and kept him solvent.
You probably would find it hard to insure a specific bodypart. Most of those policies are more for publicity than anything else. It's also a bit shortsighted in my opinion because there are a lot of things that can go wrong and prevent you from working. Sure, the lump sum may be a nice idea but its probably not realistic and would also probably only happen once. You'd get one vacation for your carpal tunnel syndrome and then be told to go suck rocks after they cancelled your policy.
More accurately: everybody is biased. There are a few rare people who can see past their personal biases. Some judges are even among these few people.
It's not even a theory. A theory is a conjecture who's intent is to explain some measured data. Moore's Law is only an observation based on measured data.
Consider Time Kill's law, circa 1999: Nasdaq doubles every 3 years. It's a statement based on some observations at some point in time. There's data to support it but no explanation to support it. It also seems pretty invalid right now.
I don't have too much useful input here, but I would have to strongly suggest that the 'units' command be installed and maybe the /etc/motd be: Don't be like Homer Simpson. Check your units.
Actually, I'd like to see somebody build an enhanced SimEarth. It was a pretty cool game that let you evolve life on a sterile ball of rock. Once you figured out how to make it work it was easy though, albeit fun to have things other than former apes as the dominant species.
Something like BOCHS which actually emulates the processor as well is more likely. When OSX takes off I'd expect Connectix to be release a commercial Windows emulator though, just as they have for many years now.
Unfortunately most people have been brainwashed into thinking that Star Wars is not only Sci-Fi, but the epitomy of science fiction. It's not really either. Star Wars is closer to fantasy in outer space and it isn't a particularily good example of it either. I'm not saying it wasn't fun, it was.
Due to the quantity of hype that surrounded Star Wars every science fiction movie will be compared to it.