However, I've always had problems with the "babies are undernourished" and "the gov't isn't helping enough" claims.
The WIC (Women, Infants & Children) programs in the U.S. states provide *free* food, formula and other items. Quite a bit, and decent (not junk food) stuff, too.
Pre-natal and post-natal health care are also taken care of, gratis, for the "poor".
There is NO excuse for a young child, infant or pregnant mother in the U.S. to go without food or medical care, immunization, etc. It is provided FREE in the U.S.
Is it every two blocks? No. In urban or sub-urban areas you might need to take a bus across town. In rural settings you will need to arrange some form of transportation. However, there are several services that will provide such transportation and bill the gov't.
When my wife had our twins (15 years ago), in the oh-so-ridiculed State of Florida, I had recently lost my job and was having problems finding another.
We had NO problems with food or medical care. The babies were premature and needed extensive media care. The total bill was over $70,000 U.S. and the gov't covered it 100% with TOP NOTCH CARE. I don't mean some drab, run-down clinic. I mean 2-weeks of neo-natal intensive care at the Arnold Palmer Hospital for Women and Children (http://www.arnoldpalmerhospital.org/) one of the best childrens hospitals in the WORLD, followed by three weeks in another top-notch facility.
The majority of "improperly nourished" infants in this country come from parents who don't trust the government, so won't accept the services or are just plain ignorant. I can't remember how many times I heard a clinic doctor trying to drum into some dumb-ass mother's head "do NOT feed your baby grits & cornbread, it is not healthy. Give them the formula." The crackers would sell the (damned expensive) baby formula so mommy and daddy could get smokes, booze and drugs and then feed the kids crap because "that was good enough for my mom, it is good enough for me".
Sorry to rant.:-) Having been there, this is a personal issue for me.
There is enough already to blame the U.S. Gov't for without making stuff up. Health care and nuttrition for children, infants and expectant/new mothers isn't one of them.
What makes you think he'll stand down after his second term? He's quite content to piss all over your Constitution, so why shouldn't he get a law passed allowing more than two terms of office?
Because if he doesn't stand down, neither his brother nor Ahnold can run for Prez.
Well, then things are going to happen sooner rather than later, as it was on the news today (well, at least here in Belgium) that 36 million americans live in a family where there is not enough food.
Considering the majority of Americans are categorized as "overweight" or "obese", please define "not enough food".
In the U.S. the majority of the attitude is defined by apathy, "Praise Jesus!" and "pass the french fries".
The only revolution in sight is the one from Nintendo.
If Apple move to Intel, then they are just another clone maker. If you could then get OS X on any x86 PC, how much more would you pay for the pretty box? Their hardware margins would go in the toilet.
This would be the beginning of the end for Apple as a *hardware* company. They could then focus on iPods, software and the like.
You Europeans need to get your FOSS act together! You need to be more like:
The Finns: that Linus kid seems pretty astute. How about getting him to be a European and do some opens source code?
The Norwegians: a nice cross-platform widget set and development environment would be perfect if you could whip those Trolls in shape and get them to code!
The Germans: Once the Trolls start to churn out code, how about putting together a full GUI environment. Screw with all the Americans and start every program with the letter "K" -- they'll go nuts! Oh, and while you're at it, how about a nice distribution based around all of the above? Red Hat can't do everything, you know.
The French, Polish & Spanish: I think these guys might be able to whip together some decent distros and code.
I'm probably missing a ton. All those little countries with all those funny languages get so confusing! No wonder you all can't get anything done!
Oh, and there is this Welsh guy that Red Hat has locked away somewhere. You might convince him to write some kernel code or some such.
So competitors are allowed access to this net. The only problem could be the size of this fee that competitors have to pay to use the net. The fee could be too high, and thus effectively blocking access for competitors.
The article claims the City isn't interested in selling retail. So, no direct services to the customer, and the fees should be acceptable or the system won't be used.
It also claims the network is *leased* by the City and owned by a private company. It'll then be sublet by the City to others.
True. However, last I heard they were almost out of business. A last minute gov't contract saved them from getting dissolved; class action lawsuit about the stock; share price at a 52-week low; etc.
I also can't remember who owns them now......
Ah, bought by SGI. Spun to separate business unit. Sold to Tera. Renamed back to Cray.
Rumors were they got the gov't contract because too much "supercomputing" was turning towards clusters and the gov't wanted to make sure at least one HPC company survived in the U.S.
The PS3 using the Cell is going to drive the price of the base components down. While IBM blades may stay a bit pricey, you can bet there will be others at a fraction of the cost of big iron.
Yeah, but most "normal" apps like e-mail, word processing, web browsing, etc. are more than handled by the base processor. No, you don't get any help by the SIMD but you don't need it.
When you move to things like editing audio & video, print rasterizing, hi-res photo deforms and filters, then it'll kick in.
Think of what this sort of processing will do to GIMP/Photoshop filter speed... Or DVD/music ripping/encoding/decoding... Or audio mixing...
Unless you buy into the whole "utility computing" paradigm, like IBM does. In that case, servers are going to be doing more than just handing up files and indexing databases.
Using a two-tier or three-tier approach to client/server architecture, with something like a full-duplex GigE connection to fat, diskless clients and you have some real potential.
A fat client (512+ Mb RAM, 1 CELL processor) that can use the backend for the more heavy-lifting tasks would be a fantastic setup for a lot of businesses.
There is a big legal difference between a crime of violence and a crime against property.
There is also a big practical difference between a crime against another criminal (who is unlikely to report or prosecute) and a crime against a non-crimial.
From the article In a nutshell, procedural synthesis is about making optimal use of system bandwidth and main memory by dynamically generating lower-level geometry data from statically stored higher-level scene data.
Patent? Sorry, but I was using a plug-in for Lightwave 3D back in the mid-1990s that did that. I could swear that was a popular technique used by a variety of 3D animations software a decade ago.
FIRST they bitch that the Google Library project is too US-centric. Then, when Google News aggregates some stories, a French news agency SUES them for copyright infringement.
You're not paying attention to us! Oh, good, you are. Now we'll sue you!
Read the article and find out. They specifically had issues with regular cleaning solutions because they were too slippery and the robot lost traction.
If you select 'prostitution' you can check out the best areas to go to pick up a hooker. Not that this is of any use to me as I'm a) not single and b) not in the US.
And... combine this with an online rating system and rate sheet. Lots of potential here.
I can also see the Google Ads for bail bonds and free clinics.:-)
Perhaps we should all be trying to submit stories that have already appeared on the front page in an effort to force the editors to scrutinize harder, and maybe, just maybe, it'll stick....
We've been doing exactly that for over a year and see where it has gotten us so far?
Slashdot Mirror
Shouldn't your sig be "CLOAD" and not "LOAD" ? I have my TRS-80 manuals here on my desk if you need a new reference....
The C-64, and probably VIC-20, versions were LOAD "*",8,1 for the attached disk drive.
-Charles
That's better, thanks.
:-) Having been there, this is a personal issue for me.
However, I've always had problems with the "babies are undernourished" and "the gov't isn't helping enough" claims.
The WIC (Women, Infants & Children) programs in the U.S. states provide *free* food, formula and other items. Quite a bit, and decent (not junk food) stuff, too.
Pre-natal and post-natal health care are also taken care of, gratis, for the "poor".
There is NO excuse for a young child, infant or pregnant mother in the U.S. to go without food or medical care, immunization, etc. It is provided FREE in the U.S.
Is it every two blocks? No. In urban or sub-urban areas you might need to take a bus across town. In rural settings you will need to arrange some form of transportation. However, there are several services that will provide such transportation and bill the gov't.
When my wife had our twins (15 years ago), in the oh-so-ridiculed State of Florida, I had recently lost my job and was having problems finding another.
We had NO problems with food or medical care. The babies were premature and needed extensive media care. The total bill was over $70,000 U.S. and the gov't covered it 100% with TOP NOTCH CARE. I don't mean some drab, run-down clinic. I mean 2-weeks of neo-natal intensive care at the Arnold Palmer Hospital for Women and Children (http://www.arnoldpalmerhospital.org/) one of the best childrens hospitals in the WORLD, followed by three weeks in another top-notch facility.
The majority of "improperly nourished" infants in this country come from parents who don't trust the government, so won't accept the services or are just plain ignorant. I can't remember how many times I heard a clinic doctor trying to drum into some dumb-ass mother's head "do NOT feed your baby grits & cornbread, it is not healthy. Give them the formula." The crackers would sell the (damned expensive) baby formula so mommy and daddy could get smokes, booze and drugs and then feed the kids crap because "that was good enough for my mom, it is good enough for me".
Sorry to rant.
There is enough already to blame the U.S. Gov't for without making stuff up. Health care and nuttrition for children, infants and expectant/new mothers isn't one of them.
-Charles
What makes you think he'll stand down after his second term? He's quite content to piss all over your Constitution, so why shouldn't he get a law passed allowing more than two terms of office?
Because if he doesn't stand down, neither his brother nor Ahnold can run for Prez.
Well, then things are going to happen sooner rather than later, as it was on the news today (well, at least here in Belgium) that 36 million americans live in a family where there is not enough food.
Considering the majority of Americans are categorized as "overweight" or "obese", please define "not enough food".
In the U.S. the majority of the attitude is defined by apathy, "Praise Jesus!" and "pass the french fries".
The only revolution in sight is the one from Nintendo.
-Charles
ServED up web pages, past tense. As in "we just linked a /. front page article to a 3 MHz machine" past tense.
Whose bright idea was that, anyway?
-Charles
If Apple move to Intel, then they are just another clone maker. If you could then get OS X on any x86 PC, how much more would you pay for the pretty box? Their hardware margins would go in the toilet.
This would be the beginning of the end for Apple as a *hardware* company. They could then focus on iPods, software and the like.
-Charles
You Europeans need to get your FOSS act together! You need to be more like:
The Finns: that Linus kid seems pretty astute. How about getting him to be a European and do some opens source code?
The Norwegians: a nice cross-platform widget set and development environment would be perfect if you could whip those Trolls in shape and get them to code!
The Germans: Once the Trolls start to churn out code, how about putting together a full GUI environment. Screw with all the Americans and start every program with the letter "K" -- they'll go nuts! Oh, and while you're at it, how about a nice distribution based around all of the above? Red Hat can't do everything, you know.
The French, Polish & Spanish: I think these guys might be able to whip together some decent distros and code.
I'm probably missing a ton. All those little countries with all those funny languages get so confusing! No wonder you all can't get anything done!
Oh, and there is this Welsh guy that Red Hat has locked away somewhere. You might convince him to write some kernel code or some such.
Good luck!
-Charles
When will a GPU Be Good enough at a speed where it can render the entire earth. at the string theory level at 80 FPS?
Sometime next Thursday, if you believe the marketing departments of Sony, nVidia, Microsoft or ATi.
-Charles
So competitors are allowed access to this net. The only problem could be the size of this fee that competitors have to pay to use the net. The fee could be too high, and thus effectively blocking access for competitors.
The article claims the City isn't interested in selling retail. So, no direct services to the customer, and the fees should be acceptable or the system won't be used.
It also claims the network is *leased* by the City and owned by a private company. It'll then be sublet by the City to others.
-Charles
True. However, last I heard they were almost out of business. A last minute gov't contract saved them from getting dissolved; class action lawsuit about the stock; share price at a 52-week low; etc.
...
I also can't remember who owns them now...
Ah, bought by SGI. Spun to separate business unit. Sold to Tera. Renamed back to Cray.
Rumors were they got the gov't contract because too much "supercomputing" was turning towards clusters and the gov't wanted to make sure at least one HPC company survived in the U.S.
-Charles
Cost. Blue Gene costs a fortune.
The PS3 using the Cell is going to drive the price of the base components down. While IBM blades may stay a bit pricey, you can bet there will be others at a fraction of the cost of big iron.
Yeah, but most "normal" apps like e-mail, word processing, web browsing, etc. are more than handled by the base processor. No, you don't get any help by the SIMD but you don't need it.
When you move to things like editing audio & video, print rasterizing, hi-res photo deforms and filters, then it'll kick in.
Think of what this sort of processing will do to GIMP/Photoshop filter speed... Or DVD/music ripping/encoding/decoding... Or audio mixing...
Unless you buy into the whole "utility computing" paradigm, like IBM does. In that case, servers are going to be doing more than just handing up files and indexing databases.
Using a two-tier or three-tier approach to client/server architecture, with something like a full-duplex GigE connection to fat, diskless clients and you have some real potential.
A fat client (512+ Mb RAM, 1 CELL processor) that can use the backend for the more heavy-lifting tasks would be a fantastic setup for a lot of businesses.
-Charles
One more time...
The original sites are criminal, as defined by the laws of most nations. (Find me one where fraud by impersonating a financial institution is legal.)
There is a difference between "criminal", as defined by the laws of the nation/state/society and your "opinion" of "unwanted".
If the people doing the defacing were just picking stuff they didn't like, instead of stuff that is criminal, then you might have a point.
-Charles
There is a big legal difference between a crime of violence and a crime against property.
There is also a big practical difference between a crime against another criminal (who is unlikely to report or prosecute) and a crime against a non-crimial.
Who assigns IPv6 addresses? Where can I get some real v6 love?
-Charles
I wonder if it is possible to have a near infinite number of copyrighted works available. I think it isn't.
What do you think those infinite number of monkeys are doing when not trying to bang out Shakespeare?
From the article In a nutshell, procedural synthesis is about making optimal use of system bandwidth and main memory by dynamically generating lower-level geometry data from statically stored higher-level scene data.
Patent? Sorry, but I was using a plug-in for Lightwave 3D back in the mid-1990s that did that. I could swear that was a popular technique used by a variety of 3D animations software a decade ago.
-Charles
FIRST they bitch that the Google Library project is too US-centric. Then, when Google News aggregates some stories, a French news agency SUES them for copyright infringement.
You're not paying attention to us! Oh, good, you are. Now we'll sue you!
-Charles
Read the article and find out. They specifically had issues with regular cleaning solutions because they were too slippery and the robot lost traction.
If you select 'prostitution' you can check out the best areas to go to pick up a hooker. Not that this is of any use to me as I'm a) not single and b) not in the US.
:-)
And... combine this with an online rating system and rate sheet. Lots of potential here.
I can also see the Google Ads for bail bonds and free clinics.
Steve has just never gotten over the Video Toaster being for the Amiga and not the Mac.
Perhaps we should all be trying to submit stories that have already appeared on the front page in an effort to force the editors to scrutinize harder, and maybe, just maybe, it'll stick....
We've been doing exactly that for over a year and see where it has gotten us so far?
-Charles
Okay, that was just damn funny! Thanks.
Even if the products are inferior to non-domestic ones?
I believe *preference* should be given by the gov'ts to local producers, but not at the expense of quality or functionality.
In my personal (non-gov't) case, I'm willing to pay a 15% price premium for domestic goods of equivalent functionality or quality.