"Check that the mistake made with the Hubble wasn't made with this one"
We won't make the mistake we made with the Hubble. And we also won't make the mistake we made with the last big telescope, which was to try to build it in the US.
The doctor bills an uninsured patient gets have no relationship to the contracted amounts that would actually be paid for the same procedure (company plus patient copay) by an insurance company or government assistance. Indeed, the payment for a given procedure can be wildly different among insurance plans, even from one company.
Hospital bills are even less related to the actual amounts paid for procedures. No, your insurance company is not really paying $25 for each aspirin you got during your stay. That line is in the "chargemaster" bill in hopes of trapping the occasional hapless foreign tourist - who will hate America for the rest of his life, but that's not your problem as a hospital accountant. Here's the story of a visiting Norwegian whose country was billed $143,000 for treating a rattlesnake bite:
In fact, the vey first conflict that the US got involved in after the Revolution itself was against the Barbary pirates. We tried buying them off, and when that didn't work we wiped them out, giving rise eventually to that "Shores of Tripoli" reference in the Marine Hymn.
I just discovered something interesting: For the first time I accessed a Forbes link using Chrome with AdBlock, rather than Safari with AdBlock. It did not detect that I had AdBlock on. Anyone else seeing this behavior?
All smartphones are locked to a carrier during the contract period, if the contract includes a subsidy. Now that this arrangement is becoming unpopular, new iPhones are being sold without a contact. Pay upfront, but no locking.
I have never had Safari crash on me, but I've always been irked by the lack of ability to suppress autoplaying videos. Apple will not give us a Preferences checkbox for doing that, and it it won't support plugins that keep autoplaying videos from starting unless you specifically click on them. I'm assuming that the advertisers are insisting on this as a condition for deigning to give Apple TV some content. In Safari you can prevent all videos from playing by unchecking JavaScript and WebGL, but then you can't run videos when you want to .
But switch to Chrome, and there's a handy plugin Disable HTML5 Autoplay, which does exactly that. Right-click if you want a video to play.
"The original iPhone was so locked to at&t you weren't even allowed to use a different, non-iPhone, at&t SIM card with it."
No so. The original iPhone required AT & T as a carrier because it was world standard, GSM only, and AT & T was at the time the only GSM carrier in the US. When T-Mobile came along, it too supported iPhone.
Later models added support for the old-timey CDMA cellular scheme, so that the other established carriers like Verizon and Sprint, with fully built-out service networks. could use iPhone too.
Has Jenny McCarthy been approached about endorsing this? I would love to see a floor fight at the Philadelphia convention this year as McCarthy, with whoever Baldwins and Kardashians she can bring along as co-protesters, noisily accuses the party front-runners of being pawns of Big Astronomy. With some native Hawaiian anti-astronomy protesters for ethnic color, this could become one of the coolest viral videos of all time.
Yes, the great irony is that by the time the second-generation smart meters are deployed, the ones that control users' appliances, the whole radiation issue goes away because they will be communicating over dedicated fiber to the grid. Meanwhile, the public hasn't even focused on the control issue.
Judging from the article, her best qualification is that her father was an engineer who encouraged her in the science/math direction. She was able to make the most of her talents by avoiding the poisonously fearful female culture that keeps women out of STEM.
"The oversold problem is fixable if they want it to be. Just like fractional reserve banking or landline phones, you require a certain reserve and you build out for peak demand. "
This is why the fastest carrier in my area (80/10) has a low usage cap.
Republican lobbyists are for gutting broadband, while the Democrat lobbyists are for letting their parasite Hollywood 'rights holders' prevent us from streaming anything through it.
Every user connected to such a 'smart grid' will have a second-generation 'smart meter installed'. This would continuously monitor your power use and be able to, under control of the grid, turn your major appliances on and off according to the fluctuating generating capacity coming into the grid from windfields and solar farms. You might have to run your A/C longer in the mornings, when it's windy in Texas, and have it turn itself off when the sun has set in Arizona. That is what putting renewables on the grid will mean to us all.
First-generation smart meters, which only monitor the changing loads and don't have the control function, are already being installed in my state. Despite the association with renewables, the hippie mom lobby has come out against them on grounds they "emit radiation." By this they mean that each smart meter transmits its daily load readings using the cellular data system. It's the same as having someone standing at the outside corner of your garage, making a phone call several times a day.
Good luck getting these braindeadniks to approve having Smart Grid turn their appliances on and off at its discretion.
Does he mean that blockchain that is already having trouble scaling in a Bitcoin market of meth dealers and Russian ransomware jockeys? What would happen if we tried using it to, say, keep track of the world's Visa transactions?
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"Check that the mistake made with the Hubble wasn't made with this one"
We won't make the mistake we made with the Hubble. And we also won't make the mistake we made with the last big telescope, which was to try to build it in the US.
The doctor bills an uninsured patient gets have no relationship to the contracted amounts that would actually be paid for the same procedure (company plus patient copay) by an insurance company or government assistance. Indeed, the payment for a given procedure can be wildly different among insurance plans, even from one company.
Hospital bills are even less related to the actual amounts paid for procedures. No, your insurance company is not really paying $25 for each aspirin you got during your stay. That line is in the "chargemaster" bill in hopes of trapping the occasional hapless foreign tourist - who will hate America for the rest of his life, but that's not your problem as a hospital accountant. Here's the story of a visiting Norwegian whose country was billed $143,000 for treating a rattlesnake bite:
http://www.10news.com/news/-14...
In fact, the vey first conflict that the US got involved in after the Revolution itself was against the Barbary pirates. We tried buying them off, and when that didn't work we wiped them out, giving rise eventually to that "Shores of Tripoli" reference in the Marine Hymn.
"Totally News for nerds...."
It would be if we were to 3-D print the free money.
"How about we don't destabilize countries?"
How about they stop hijacking planes and blowing up our cities first?
"Whose weapons do you think displaced all those refugees?""
To displace them now, you Europeans are going to need lots more 9mm ammo. Put some of those laid-off people to work making it.
I just discovered something interesting: For the first time I accessed a Forbes link using Chrome with AdBlock, rather than Safari with AdBlock. It did not detect that I had AdBlock on. Anyone else seeing this behavior?
All smartphones are locked to a carrier during the contract period, if the contract includes a subsidy. Now that this arrangement is becoming unpopular, new iPhones are being sold without a contact. Pay upfront, but no locking.
" I just don't want to be nagged by anal trolls."
Ouch! Next time, try sleeping on your back.
"My Android and Windows devices don't have this problem."
Under Windows, crashing is built into the operating system.
I have never had Safari crash on me, but I've always been irked by the lack of ability to suppress autoplaying videos. Apple will not give us a Preferences checkbox for doing that, and it it won't support plugins that keep autoplaying videos from starting unless you specifically click on them. I'm assuming that the advertisers are insisting on this as a condition for deigning to give Apple TV some content. In Safari you can prevent all videos from playing by unchecking JavaScript and WebGL, but then you can't run videos when you want to .
But switch to Chrome, and there's a handy plugin Disable HTML5 Autoplay, which does exactly that. Right-click if you want a video to play.
"The original iPhone was so locked to at&t you weren't even allowed to use a different, non-iPhone, at&t SIM card with it."
No so. The original iPhone required AT & T as a carrier because it was world standard, GSM only, and AT & T was at the time the only GSM carrier in the US. When T-Mobile came along, it too supported iPhone.
Later models added support for the old-timey CDMA cellular scheme, so that the other established carriers like Verizon and Sprint, with fully built-out service networks. could use iPhone too.
Has Jenny McCarthy been approached about endorsing this? I would love to see a floor fight at the Philadelphia convention this year as McCarthy, with whoever Baldwins and Kardashians she can bring along as co-protesters, noisily accuses the party front-runners of being pawns of Big Astronomy. With some native Hawaiian anti-astronomy protesters for ethnic color, this could become one of the coolest viral videos of all time.
"At least it wasn't recursive wooOOOooOOoooooo"
Yes, not too many still remember Cash's hit I Walk the Tree
Yes, the great irony is that by the time the second-generation smart meters are deployed, the ones that control users' appliances, the whole radiation issue goes away because they will be communicating over dedicated fiber to the grid. Meanwhile, the public hasn't even focused on the control issue.
Judging from the article, her best qualification is that her father was an engineer who encouraged her in the science/math direction. She was able to make the most of her talents by avoiding the poisonously fearful female culture that keeps women out of STEM.
"The oversold problem is fixable if they want it to be. Just like fractional reserve banking or landline phones, you require a certain reserve and you build out for peak demand. "
This is why the fastest carrier in my area (80/10) has a low usage cap.
"Heh. I've never seen narrow-band elitism before."
Think of it as being the stick shift elitism of the IT world.
And if I were a millennial, this would still be 1968. Oh, wait!..."
Republican lobbyists are for gutting broadband, while the Democrat lobbyists are for letting their parasite Hollywood 'rights holders' prevent us from streaming anything through it.
Be warned that Marco Rubio also supports lowering the broadband standard, and is against net neutrality.
Anything less than 25/5 (and no scumsucking usage cap!) is like having to crawl across a swaying rope bridge on an Interstate Highway.
Every user connected to such a 'smart grid' will have a second-generation 'smart meter installed'. This would continuously monitor your power use and be able to, under control of the grid, turn your major appliances on and off according to the fluctuating generating capacity coming into the grid from windfields and solar farms. You might have to run your A/C longer in the mornings, when it's windy in Texas, and have it turn itself off when the sun has set in Arizona. That is what putting renewables on the grid will mean to us all.
First-generation smart meters, which only monitor the changing loads and don't have the control function, are already being installed in my state. Despite the association with renewables, the hippie mom lobby has come out against them on grounds they "emit radiation." By this they mean that each smart meter transmits its daily load readings using the cellular data system. It's the same as having someone standing at the outside corner of your garage, making a phone call several times a day.
Good luck getting these braindeadniks to approve having Smart Grid turn their appliances on and off at its discretion.
I was an independent contractor for the last third of my IT career. That was when I made the most money. And yes, a part of it was in San Francisco.
I don't look on YouTube for this. I can get as much of it as I want from any of the political debates.
"Why don't we add an amendment to this law saying that anyone in violation will be considered to be a witch and burned at the stake accordingly."
Since OK is an energy producer, it should have a state phlogiston reserve. I would love to see someone slip that amendment into the bill.
Does he mean that blockchain that is already having trouble scaling in a Bitcoin market of meth dealers and Russian ransomware jockeys? What would happen if we tried using it to, say, keep track of the world's Visa transactions?
"The republicans do that because that is how they be."
But because we're Republicans, we can shoot any telemarketers we catch.