So what you're saying is that Ticketmaster can't figure out pricing in a free market. When demand outstrips supply, you raise your price. The fact that the "scum" can make so much money indicates that Ticketmaster doesn't know how to run a business.
3) the captcha not complex enough to fool a computer for a few minutes
1)Log on millions of times and record all the captchas. 2)Set up a "free porn" sight. Require typing in the captcha to see the porn. 3)Pattern match the captcha, and buy your tickets. 4)Profit.
Afterall, its so easy to install programs on Windows that they practically do it themselves;)
Sheesh! Would you PLEASE wake-up? The smiley face makes me think that this statement may be sarcasm, referring to the various virus and spy-ware 'applications' available for Windows, but the rest of the post contradicts this assumption. If you really want to see software install itself PROPERLY, you need to get someone to show you Adept or Synaptic or Yum or one of a dozen other similar solutions that various Linux distros have.
Only when used in the presence of one or a pletora of managers, each with one or a plethora of thumbs inserted into one or a plethora of rectal orifices.
Put another way, most people *can't* afford to pay heart surgery out-of-pocket. But many can afford insurance which would cover it. As a consequence, in a private system, insurance, and the subsequent overhead, is a necessary evil, as without it, most wouldn't be able to afford healthcare in the face of a severe medical emergency.
Put another way, we aren't talking about paying for heart surgery out-of-pocket. And that wouldn't be done by the family doctor anyhow. Do you *really* need someone to point out why comparing hear surgery to basic care is an asinine comparison? Here, let me give you a hint:
Basic care is an everyday need, like groceries. You don't buy insurance to cover groceries, and you don't ask for an insurance agent to intervene in your grocery buying process. It would be idiotic overhead. Just like having an insurance agent or the government intervening in basic health care is ridiculous overhead.
Insurance is for catastrophic liabilities that you can't afford to cover yourself. The fact that you pay an insurance company to pay the doctor means that you could afford to pay the doctor in the first place. In fact, there would be money left over if the insurance company's agent and the doctor's agent were left out of the transaction.
And note what the response from God was to that tower.
And the Lord said, "If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.
What will happen when all the languages are consolidate? When scientist from all over are able to communicate and collaborate quickly and conveninetly? Now that the WWW is well established, nearly engrained in the scientific community?
Try chatting with a Native North American one day, and ask how they feel about the extinction of indigenous languages.
I'm Native American. I couldn't give a rat's ass. Try to lose the stereotype of us Injuns sitting around in our teepees, smoking peyote and worrying about the great white father with forked tongue killing all the buffalo. M'kay? There are some that want to "maintain the old ways". The rest of us figure that just want a cushy government job where they don't have to do any real work. The real reason we want federal recognition of our tribes is so that we can build some casinos and get special college tuition consideration.
That being said, I do appreciate the move by Nike to market a shoe designed for Native Americans. I hate shoe shopping, because all the good styles are designed for people with narrow feet.
And both would be done with a database search. A few lines of SQL and you get a ream of paper full of names to look at. I'd call both "low hanging fruit."
we should be saying "Why is healthcare so expensive?"
In the US, the answer is simple: because that's what the market will bear. Turns out people will pay pretty much whatever they can afford, and then some, to keep breathing. So, big surprise, that's exactly the price level the free market settled at.
Sorry. Gotta' call bullshit on you here.
People also care quite a bit about being able to see. Yet the cost of eye surgery has seen marked DECREASES. It is not covered by most health care plans.
There are doctors that do not accept insurance. If you want their services, you pay them yourself. Their rates are much lower than the predominate averages. The reason is that they don't have to maintain multiple staff positions to sort out the paperwork of filing with the insurance companies.
Try this explanation on for size. The consumer is not the customer. In this country, for the most part the customer is the insurance company. The consumer is the rest of us. Just think of the behavior of any other system where someone else is expected to pick up the tab. I know when my boss takes the team out for lunch that I'm much more likely to order steak vs the chicken. There's no incentive to keep the cost down when someone else is footing the bill, and switching the payer from insurance companies to the government isn't likely to change that.
One of the features that I'd really like to see in Kubuntu's Adept is an addition to the "Update" feature that would tell you what the changes are. Just a listing of the change history would be sufficient. Then a button that would tell the system not to bother me about this particular version again.
I don't want to update my kernel because there's a potential buffer exploit in a driver for an obscure driver for hardware I don't have, which then forces me to remember to recompile and update the binary NVidia drivers I'm using. There's also been a lot of updates due to "improved internationalization." Well, I don't care to upgrade when they improve support for a language I'd not even recognize. I'm glad the improvement was made, but it doesn't affect me. I want to avoid potentially breaking things.
If it isn't broke, and you mess with it, and it breaks, you're a dumbass. Most of the updaters I've seen don't give you much to go on in deciding if it is broken in the first place.
No. There was a push on to rename releases by year number. Microsoft's push to make the OS a service instead of a product. There was to be a release every year. Microsoft has been searching for a way to keep users buying the same product over and over for years, and this was just one iteration of that search.
Some of the Microsoft pawned Ziff-Davis writers went on record touting this as the next big wave to save us all.
But think about why they might be reluctant to release the resources. If you spend time releasing and reaquiring resources, you will be a good OS citizen, but you might not seem as fast as the other OS citizens that are hording resources to themselves. Lot's of programs in the "cooperative multitasking" days would grab the CPU and keep a death grip on it so that they could appear to be faster than the competition.
That's not to say the current drugs don't benefit some patients greatly. It may not put things right but for many it at least leaves them better off. However, the prevailing attitude that this is the final answer and all we need is more targeted drugs is not exactly conducive to further knowledge, and it leads to both discounting patient complaints that things seem wrong somehow and failure to recognize that at best the drugs are a trade-off where some are better off with the original complaint than with the side-effects or even that treatment may not need to be lifelong to be effective.
And just WHO is going to make any money off of THAT sort of thinking? Common' sjames. Get with the program. This is MODERN medicine we're talking about. Not the shady purveyors of home-remedies and elixir cure-alls from years ago.
It means that all the old engineers get to pull out the patents they file 40 years ago and refile them. This time with "a plethora of Web2.0 interfaces with one or a plethora of backend servers provide Web2.0 content to one or a plethora of user with one or a plethora of Web2.0 enable machine to convey one or a plethora pieces of Web2.0 information."
Your analysis is dead on, but I'd like to add just one point. The nature of aluminum corrosion, pitting, creates stress risers. That is a point where a crack starts easily. Build an airplane and you will soon understand that once a crack starts in aluminum it needs to be repaired or thrown away post-haste, for it will soon be two pieces of aluminum. Composites are somewhat more forgiving.
what are these wars about? Money?resources?a border dispute?religion? Money from the upper class/resources from the upper class/borders are invented by the upper class/religion also. just to be able to send the masses into death.
Oh, grow up for chrissakes.
What are the Bloods and Crypts fighting over in bombed out LA? Why are indigenous peoples all over the world fighting waging war on one another, from ten member tribes to whole religious sects? You need to pull you head out of your ass and realize that the whole "the man is keeping me down" mentality is an invention of lazy bottom feeders that just want to avoid getting a job.
And this "new interface" is all due to "research" and has nothing to do with trying to find a reason to convince business leaders to pony up to the bar once more?
Why can't it be both? The two aren't mutually exclusive, and selling software is what Microsoft does.
We are in violent agreement then. It is my studied opinion that there is a spectrum moving from only added usable/necessary/needed features to adding gratuituous changes to resell the same product. I believe Office to have passed the midpoint.
It is perfectly valid for someone who can't code to complaing about a bug or the lack of a feature, or the fact that it is slow. Just like a automobile owner can complain if their breaks don't work.
If the brakes on the care you *PAID FOR* don't work, you have a valid complaint. Hell, you can even take it to a court of law and receive renumeration for your complaint. You may even be championed as a hero in some cases.
However, complaining about a gift could possibly earn you the title of "ingrate". OpenOffice is a gift to you, and a very generous one at that. Whining like a spoilt child that you don't get your way in all things is not valid in the least. Filing a bug or feature request report, however, is mature and proper.
And when you get done shouting that to the neocons, would you send an email to the dems explaining that there's no point in talking when nobody is listening?
We Americans have no business being in Iraq, other than to prevent our economy from coming to a crashing end, but to claim that the military is not a useful tool in international diplomacy is insanely simple-minded. You are correct. The war doesn't end with weapons. It ends with a surrender or a negotiated peace. But why the hell would a superior enemy surrender or give sizable concessions (on the order of why they went to war in the first place). They won't sit down and talk until the someone with a weapon brings them to the table.
GE is limited due to the speed of light and the way the ethernet protocol works. A sender has to stop sending if it senses someone else talking on the same line. In order to do this, it has to detect the collision before it finishes sending. If the line is to long, a sender at each end will be able to get an entire packet out before being able to sense the first bits from the other end. Ugly things happen then. Google "CDMA-CS" if you really want to know more about what limits the length of ethernet.
EM interference is handled by the twisted pair. A pulse of EM energy will cut across the signal and ground wire at the same time. The reciever senses the difference in the voltage levels across the pair, so if you effect both at the same time, the reciever doesn't know (or care).
Fiber has it's own host of problems, but for these short distance and relatively low data rates (for optics) they can use lossy plastic cables with 1/8" headers and just pump LED power to make up for the loss.
Slashdot Mirror
to measure stress and distraction levels.
It would be much easier just to log Slashdot access.
So what you're saying is that Ticketmaster can't figure out pricing in a free market. When demand outstrips supply, you raise your price. The fact that the "scum" can make so much money indicates that Ticketmaster doesn't know how to run a business.
3) the captcha not complex enough to fool a computer for a few minutes
1)Log on millions of times and record all the captchas.
2)Set up a "free porn" sight. Require typing in the captcha to see the porn.
3)Pattern match the captcha, and buy your tickets.
4)Profit.
Afterall, its so easy to install programs on Windows that they practically do it themselves ;)
Sheesh! Would you PLEASE wake-up? The smiley face makes me think that this statement may be sarcasm, referring to the various virus and spy-ware 'applications' available for Windows, but the rest of the post contradicts this assumption. If you really want to see software install itself PROPERLY, you need to get someone to show you Adept or Synaptic or Yum or one of a dozen other similar solutions that various Linux distros have.
Only when used in the presence of one or a pletora of managers, each with one or a plethora of thumbs inserted into one or a plethora of rectal orifices.
8*)
Put another way, most people *can't* afford to pay heart surgery out-of-pocket. But many can afford insurance which would cover it. As a consequence, in a private system, insurance, and the subsequent overhead, is a necessary evil, as without it, most wouldn't be able to afford healthcare in the face of a severe medical emergency.
Put another way, we aren't talking about paying for heart surgery out-of-pocket. And that wouldn't be done by the family doctor anyhow. Do you *really* need someone to point out why comparing hear surgery to basic care is an asinine comparison? Here, let me give you a hint:
Basic care is an everyday need, like groceries. You don't buy insurance to cover groceries, and you don't ask for an insurance agent to intervene in your grocery buying process. It would be idiotic overhead. Just like having an insurance agent or the government intervening in basic health care is ridiculous overhead.
Insurance is for catastrophic liabilities that you can't afford to cover yourself. The fact that you pay an insurance company to pay the doctor means that you could afford to pay the doctor in the first place. In fact, there would be money left over if the insurance company's agent and the doctor's agent were left out of the transaction.
I didn't say stereotypes were bad. I just said yours was wrong.
The love-the-land, teardropping chief was a product of the earthy hippies from the feel-good 70's. He never existed in my family or anyone we knew.
And note what the response from God was to that tower.
And the Lord said, "If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.
What will happen when all the languages are consolidate? When scientist from all over are able to communicate and collaborate quickly and conveninetly? Now that the WWW is well established, nearly engrained in the scientific community?
Try chatting with a Native North American one day, and ask how they feel about the extinction of indigenous languages.
I'm Native American. I couldn't give a rat's ass. Try to lose the stereotype of us Injuns sitting around in our teepees, smoking peyote and worrying about the great white father with forked tongue killing all the buffalo. M'kay? There are some that want to "maintain the old ways". The rest of us figure that just want a cushy government job where they don't have to do any real work. The real reason we want federal recognition of our tribes is so that we can build some casinos and get special college tuition consideration.
That being said, I do appreciate the move by Nike to market a shoe designed for Native Americans. I hate shoe shopping, because all the good styles are designed for people with narrow feet.
And both would be done with a database search. A few lines of SQL and you get a ream of paper full of names to look at. I'd call both "low hanging fruit."
we should be saying "Why is healthcare so expensive?"
In the US, the answer is simple: because that's what the market will bear. Turns out people will pay pretty much whatever they can afford, and then some, to keep breathing. So, big surprise, that's exactly the price level the free market settled at.
Sorry. Gotta' call bullshit on you here.
People also care quite a bit about being able to see. Yet the cost of eye surgery has seen marked DECREASES. It is not covered by most health care plans.
There are doctors that do not accept insurance. If you want their services, you pay them yourself. Their rates are much lower than the predominate averages. The reason is that they don't have to maintain multiple staff positions to sort out the paperwork of filing with the insurance companies.
Try this explanation on for size. The consumer is not the customer. In this country, for the most part the customer is the insurance company. The consumer is the rest of us. Just think of the behavior of any other system where someone else is expected to pick up the tab. I know when my boss takes the team out for lunch that I'm much more likely to order steak vs the chicken. There's no incentive to keep the cost down when someone else is footing the bill, and switching the payer from insurance companies to the government isn't likely to change that.
One of the features that I'd really like to see in Kubuntu's Adept is an addition to the "Update" feature that would tell you what the changes are. Just a listing of the change history would be sufficient. Then a button that would tell the system not to bother me about this particular version again.
I don't want to update my kernel because there's a potential buffer exploit in a driver for an obscure driver for hardware I don't have, which then forces me to remember to recompile and update the binary NVidia drivers I'm using. There's also been a lot of updates due to "improved internationalization." Well, I don't care to upgrade when they improve support for a language I'd not even recognize. I'm glad the improvement was made, but it doesn't affect me. I want to avoid potentially breaking things.
If it isn't broke, and you mess with it, and it breaks, you're a dumbass. Most of the updaters I've seen don't give you much to go on in deciding if it is broken in the first place.
No one ever went broke counting on the stupidity of the corporate manager.
Children, like adults, learn social skills when communicating with each others.
And like adults, they will pick up the social skills of those they come into contact with most. Are you raising your child to be a child, or an adult?
The 30 to 1 ratio of child to adult in the childcare center would indicate that the children may be learning, but not how to grow up.
No. There was a push on to rename releases by year number. Microsoft's push to make the OS a service instead of a product. There was to be a release every year. Microsoft has been searching for a way to keep users buying the same product over and over for years, and this was just one iteration of that search.
Some of the Microsoft pawned Ziff-Davis writers went on record touting this as the next big wave to save us all.
But think about why they might be reluctant to release the resources. If you spend time releasing and reaquiring resources, you will be a good OS citizen, but you might not seem as fast as the other OS citizens that are hording resources to themselves. Lot's of programs in the "cooperative multitasking" days would grab the CPU and keep a death grip on it so that they could appear to be faster than the competition.
That's not to say the current drugs don't benefit some patients greatly. It may not put things right but for many it at least leaves them better off. However, the prevailing attitude that this is the final answer and all we need is more targeted drugs is not exactly conducive to further knowledge, and it leads to both discounting patient complaints that things seem wrong somehow and failure to recognize that at best the drugs are a trade-off where some are better off with the original complaint than with the side-effects or even that treatment may not need to be lifelong to be effective.
And just WHO is going to make any money off of THAT sort of thinking?
Common' sjames. Get with the program. This is MODERN medicine we're talking about. Not the shady purveyors of home-remedies and elixir cure-alls from years ago.
It means that all the old engineers get to pull out the patents they file 40 years ago and refile them. This time with "a plethora of Web2.0 interfaces with one or a plethora of backend servers provide Web2.0 content to one or a plethora of user with one or a plethora of Web2.0 enable machine to convey one or a plethora pieces of Web2.0 information."
The difference is that the grandparent post didn't advertise that it was syntacticly perfect and didn't charge you anything.
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I think there's at least a small difference in using monopoly powers to push a product on the open market vs a comment to
Your analysis is dead on, but I'd like to add just one point. The nature of aluminum corrosion, pitting, creates stress risers. That is a point where a crack starts easily. Build an airplane and you will soon understand that once a crack starts in aluminum it needs to be repaired or thrown away post-haste, for it will soon be two pieces of aluminum. Composites are somewhat more forgiving.
what are these wars about? Money?resources?a border dispute?religion? Money from the upper class/resources from the upper class/borders are invented by the upper class/religion also. just to be able to send the masses into death.
Oh, grow up for chrissakes.
What are the Bloods and Crypts fighting over in bombed out LA?
Why are indigenous peoples all over the world fighting waging war on one another, from ten member tribes to whole religious sects?
You need to pull you head out of your ass and realize that the whole "the man is keeping me down" mentality is an invention of lazy bottom feeders that just want to avoid getting a job.
And this "new interface" is all due to "research" and has nothing to do with trying to find a reason to convince business leaders to pony up to the bar once more?
Why can't it be both? The two aren't mutually exclusive, and selling software is what Microsoft does.
We are in violent agreement then. It is my studied opinion that there is a spectrum moving from only added usable/necessary/needed features to adding gratuituous changes to resell the same product. I believe Office to have passed the midpoint.
It is perfectly valid for someone who can't code to complaing about a bug or the lack of a feature, or the fact that it is slow. Just like a automobile owner can complain if their breaks don't work.
If the brakes on the care you *PAID FOR* don't work, you have a valid complaint. Hell, you can even take it to a court of law and receive renumeration for your complaint. You may even be championed as a hero in some cases.
However, complaining about a gift could possibly earn you the title of "ingrate". OpenOffice is a gift to you, and a very generous one at that. Whining like a spoilt child that you don't get your way in all things is not valid in the least. Filing a bug or feature request report, however, is mature and proper.
And when you get done shouting that to the neocons, would you send an email to the dems explaining that there's no point in talking when nobody is listening?
We Americans have no business being in Iraq, other than to prevent our economy from coming to a crashing end, but to claim that the military is not a useful tool in international diplomacy is insanely simple-minded. You are correct. The war doesn't end with weapons. It ends with a surrender or a negotiated peace. But why the hell would a superior enemy surrender or give sizable concessions (on the order of why they went to war in the first place). They won't sit down and talk until the someone with a weapon brings them to the table.
GE is limited due to the speed of light and the way the ethernet protocol works. A sender has to stop sending if it senses someone else talking on the same line. In order to do this, it has to detect the collision before it finishes sending. If the line is to long, a sender at each end will be able to get an entire packet out before being able to sense the first bits from the other end. Ugly things happen then. Google "CDMA-CS" if you really want to know more about what limits the length of ethernet.
EM interference is handled by the twisted pair. A pulse of EM energy will cut across the signal and ground wire at the same time. The reciever senses the difference in the voltage levels across the pair, so if you effect both at the same time, the reciever doesn't know (or care).
Fiber has it's own host of problems, but for these short distance and relatively low data rates (for optics) they can use lossy plastic cables with 1/8" headers and just pump LED power to make up for the loss.