I prefer paint.net as an "image editor for those who dont need all the power of Photoshop" 100% free (unlike Paint Shop Pro). Clear consistent UI that really feels like a Windows app (unlike Gimp). And a decent feature set (including some nice features like native editing for DDS files) Its not Photoshop but it doesn't pretend to be.
Although I dont support Murder, Assassination of people or other criminal acts and I dont support the Church of Scientology, if the CoS were to do something that got Xenophon out of the Parliament, I wouldn't shed a tear (with any luck his replacement would be less likely to be pushing for all the evangelical conservative christian crap like net censorship and making support for that a condition of passing all sorts of bills the government wants passed)
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All the links to Google and their vast database of search. For example, if you are out and about and want food you can easily use your Android handset to Google for the nearest Subway or KFC or McDonald's and have Google Navigation give you turn by turn directions to take you there. Or if you are trying to find someones house, you can grab an address from your phones address book (or from a SMS message or email that someone has sent you) and have Google Navigation give you directions.
As others have said, having a GPS that can download data in real time also means you can get up-to-the-minute reports on traffic and construction and accidents and other delays or hazards. This means that the route it gives you is the fastest/best/shortest/whatever route at the time you are driving it (not the fastest route given ideal road conditions)
And with it being Google, customization will no doubt be a feature.
Now all I need is for Google to buy (or create) some Australian map data and offer Google Navigation for free on an Android set in the land down under.
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It might be anti-competitive because Google are using their market dominance in one field (search and advertising) to gain market share in another field (mobile phone/net-book/etc operating systems) by paying royalties from ad revenue to carriers and handset makers. IANAL so I dont know if it is anti-competitive or not though.
We need to overturn the cold-war era ban on spent fuel reprocessing, get over the fear mongering and FUD about "reprocessing == nuclear weapons" or whatever it is and reprocess the stuff comming out of nuclear reactors. If the right kinds of reactors are built, its possible to get a LOT more energy out of each bit of uranium that comes out of the ground than we are doing now. And there are other radioactive minerals you can process too and get energy out of.
My experience is that employers (here in Australia at least) care less about paper on the wall and more about actual commercial experience. If you dont have at least 2 years commercial experience in whatever technology they are using, so many jobs are unavailable to you. Where you GET the 2 years commercial experience I have no clue.
Too many other shows just completly change tack mid-series. Like Jericho where it devolved and all the conspiracy theory stuff (Who just blew up half the world with nukes? Who is trying to stop the main characters finding out more? etc) went away to be replaced with a more character-driven show. Or Prison Break where all the stuff about the reasons behind why that guy was framed and sent to jail were never explored.
Its unlikely that Microsoft would replace this tool given what it does. If it was code shipped as part of an actual product (say code shipped with Windows or Office or Visual Studio) they would replace it with something else. But in this case its trivial to have a link to the GPL and a link to the source on the same page as the download link for the binary.
This isn't for your regular disks (its likely more expensive than most regular disks), its for stuff that needs to be archived for a LONG time, especially stuff being stored in climate controlled location.
Why do people keep signing up for them? And why the hell hasn't AT&T made it its mission to match or beat Verizon for coverage in every state in the union? I am sure that if it could do that, it would get a LOT of business from people who hate Verizon. Or people who want phones AT&T has but Verizon wont have (iPhone for example).
Different hospitals would be able to charge different prices for things as long as any one hospital charges the same price to everyone for a given procedure. If one person has a private room with a big screen TV and another person has a shared ward with no TV, that's not the same service and they can charge differently for it. If the hospital wants to charge extra because they have big screen TVs in every room, nothing in my proposal is intended to force the insurers to pay that extra. Or to pay extra because hospital A chooses to use an expensive surgical robot to do heart surgery (and charges extra for it) and hospital B chooses not to use the robot.
Insurers would be free to decide how much they pay for any given procedure based on the level of cover you have (if you opt for higher coverage, they will likely pay more meaning you pay less out of pocket).
#9 is simply intended to mean that insurers cant force providers to use cheaper (or more beneficial to the insurer) treatment options.
As for those who say "tiered coverage wont work", other countries have tired coverage in health insurance and we dont see problems with the "spreading the risk" in those situations.
No, health insurance companies would be free to offer different levels of cover to different people. If someone is young and healthy they would be able to opt for cheaper coverage that provides less cover for things that young people dont need. If someone wants to, they can pay more and get top coverage.
No, they wouldn't be able to do that. They WOULD be able to deny you full benefits for any medical condition you have when you first get insurance for a limited period (1 year maybe) to stop the problem where people dont have insurance and only buy it AFTER they find out they have
If you have insurance (and the insurance covers you for a given condition) then you will always have coverage for that condition if you change to another provider. There WOULD be the option for someone to choose a cheaper plan that may not give top table coverage (e.g. people who are young and fit may not want as much cover as someone older and more likely to get sick)
This is how I would fix the problems: 1.Eliminate company health plans (the providers of these plans have little to no incentive to offer any actual benefits to the employees as the companies cant change to someone better due to lock-in contracts and the huge costs of changing, nor can the employees generally switch without paying a lot more)
2.Give every citizen a certain amount of tax-free money they can use to buy health insurance. i.e. the first $x of their health insurance costs are tax free. This makes up for the loss of company health plans (which are generally tax free)
3.Make it super-easy for people to switch to another health provider anytime they choose without penalty (i.e. if they switch to a similar plan from a different provider, the new provider cant suddenly deny coverage for all your pre-existing conditions just because you switched providers)
4.All health care providers must charge the same amount for the same treatment no matter who is paying. If a hospital charges $2000 for a procedure to one person, they must charge the same $2000 to everyone who gets the procedure (no matter if its the government via medicare, a large health plan, a small insurance company, an individual paying out of pocket or whatever else). Obviously they can increase the price anytime they want but again they need to charge the same new price to everyone
5.Take away all incentives for doctors and hospitals and others to order "unnecessary" tests (including a reform of medical malpractice law so that lawyers cant argue "I sue the hospital for $$$$$ for failing to carry out when carrying out would have saved my clients life/heart/kidney/good looks/whatever")
6.Remove any laws and red tape that make it harder to start up a health fund. Making it easier to run one (and reducing the administrative costs) may encourage new players into the market who offer better value much the same as what companies like Jet Blue did for air travel)
7.Remove any rules/laws/etc that in any way restrict what health insurance companies are allowed to offer coverage for. If an insurance company wants to offer coverage for prescription glasses (for example), they should be allowed to do so.
8.Low income earners and the poor (who cant afford health insurance) would get subsidized cover. Not government run cover but money from the government paid to the individual to cover part or all of their health insurance costs
9.Health insurance companies would be banned from doing deals with specific hospitals or doctors (i.e. "you will only get coverage if you go to OUR hospital"). Further to this, companies that own health insurers would be prohibited from owning any operation involved in the provision of health care (e.g. hospitals, drug companies, medical equipment makers etc). Also, Health insurance companies would be banned from dictating treatment terms to doctors (i.e. if you want us to give coverage for this heart operation, you will do it the way we specify)
and 10.Health insurance companies would be required to disclose upfront how much they will pay on a given treatment before the treatment is carried out and they must pay up. No more cases of saying one thing before you go into hospital and then changing their mind and denying payment AFTER the patient has racked up the big medical bills.
Firstly, you need stuff to handle routing your call to those on other networks (PSTN, other mobile networks, GSM/UMTS/CDMA/etc). Secondly you need stuff to handle hand-offs when you walk from the LTE coverage area to a GSM/CDMA/UMTS coverage area. Also you need to be able to charge differently for voice and messaging (voice on mobile networks also has government taxes and charges that dont apply to data in various parts of the world)
In your example, its clearly a trademark violation so Citibank has the right to use the normal procedures that get used when a DNS name violates their trademark and either get the domain name shut down (i.e. removed from the DNS) or handed over to Citibank.
The obvious answer is to put the more expensive channels in the higher tiers of service. Although then you have the problem where Disney says both "You must pay more for ESPN" AND "You must carry ESPN in the basic tier"
Maybe the answer is the car "cigarette lighter" standard (many gadgets can charge from one with an adapter including laptops, mobile phones and MP3 players)
The problem is not the 2" GI-Joe guns, its comming up with an exemption that allows those guns without allowing other guns that shouldn't be allowed. If you say that toy guns are allowed, people will start bringing full-size toy guns through (there was a news story here a while back where some kid was playing with a full-sized toy gun, someone saw it, thought it was real and called in the SWAT team.
The best answer of all is "physical seganography" i.e. 802.11 NAS built into something that the cops are unlikely to seize (yet which has a legitimate need to be plugged in and doing what it does)
The best solution (if you are dealing with a desktop system) is to have the pass-phrase and keys but also have a small GPS module. If the usb key is not close to where it should be (with a fairly big margin for the fact that cheap GPS modules arent exactly accurate) it would erase the pass-phrase
If they try to force you to hand over your password (e.g. UK RIP act), you just hand it over (to the guys who seized your computer and are now trying to use it somewhere else other than the required GPS location) and boom, the data is gone forever.
If you need to move house, just log in from the old house and reset the GPS then when you get to the new house, log in and put in the new coordinates.
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Me, I run Adblock alone and dont bother with noscript, its more trouble than its worth...
Actually Microsoft has supported PNG alpha since IE7 AFAIK.
I prefer paint.net as an "image editor for those who dont need all the power of Photoshop"
100% free (unlike Paint Shop Pro). Clear consistent UI that really feels like a Windows app (unlike Gimp). And a decent feature set (including some nice features like native editing for DDS files)
Its not Photoshop but it doesn't pretend to be.
Although I dont support Murder, Assassination of people or other criminal acts and I dont support the Church of Scientology, if the CoS were to do something that got Xenophon out of the Parliament, I wouldn't shed a tear (with any luck his replacement would be less likely to be pushing for all the evangelical conservative christian crap like net censorship and making support for that a condition of passing all sorts of bills the government wants passed)
All the links to Google and their vast database of search.
For example, if you are out and about and want food you can easily use your Android handset to Google for the nearest Subway or KFC or McDonald's and have Google Navigation give you turn by turn directions to take you there. Or if you are trying to find someones house, you can grab an address from your phones address book (or from a SMS message or email that someone has sent you) and have Google Navigation give you directions.
As others have said, having a GPS that can download data in real time also means you can get up-to-the-minute reports on traffic and construction and accidents and other delays or hazards. This means that the route it gives you is the fastest/best/shortest/whatever route at the time you are driving it (not the fastest route given ideal road conditions)
And with it being Google, customization will no doubt be a feature.
Now all I need is for Google to buy (or create) some Australian map data and offer Google Navigation for free on an Android set in the land down under.
It might be anti-competitive because Google are using their market dominance in one field (search and advertising) to gain market share in another field (mobile phone/net-book/etc operating systems) by paying royalties from ad revenue to carriers and handset makers.
IANAL so I dont know if it is anti-competitive or not though.
We need to overturn the cold-war era ban on spent fuel reprocessing, get over the fear mongering and FUD about "reprocessing == nuclear weapons" or whatever it is and reprocess the stuff comming out of nuclear reactors.
If the right kinds of reactors are built, its possible to get a LOT more energy out of each bit of uranium that comes out of the ground than we are doing now. And there are other radioactive minerals you can process too and get energy out of.
My experience is that employers (here in Australia at least) care less about paper on the wall and more about actual commercial experience. If you dont have at least 2 years commercial experience in whatever technology they are using, so many jobs are unavailable to you.
Where you GET the 2 years commercial experience I have no clue.
Too many other shows just completly change tack mid-series.
Like Jericho where it devolved and all the conspiracy theory stuff (Who just blew up half the world with nukes? Who is trying to stop the main characters finding out more? etc) went away to be replaced with a more character-driven show.
Or Prison Break where all the stuff about the reasons behind why that guy was framed and sent to jail were never explored.
Its unlikely that Microsoft would replace this tool given what it does. If it was code shipped as part of an actual product (say code shipped with Windows or Office or Visual Studio) they would replace it with something else. But in this case its trivial to have a link to the GPL and a link to the source on the same page as the download link for the binary.
What I like about 7-zip is that (based on various tests vs WinRar) it produces smaller zip files for the same data.
This isn't for your regular disks (its likely more expensive than most regular disks), its for stuff that needs to be archived for a LONG time, especially stuff being stored in climate controlled location.
Why do people keep signing up for them?
And why the hell hasn't AT&T made it its mission to match or beat Verizon for coverage in every state in the union? I am sure that if it could do that, it would get a LOT of business from people who hate Verizon. Or people who want phones AT&T has but Verizon wont have (iPhone for example).
Different hospitals would be able to charge different prices for things as long as any one hospital charges the same price to everyone for a given procedure. If one person has a private room with a big screen TV and another person has a shared ward with no TV, that's not the same service and they can charge differently for it. If the hospital wants to charge extra because they have big screen TVs in every room, nothing in my proposal is intended to force the insurers to pay that extra. Or to pay extra because hospital A chooses to use an expensive surgical robot to do heart surgery (and charges extra for it) and hospital B chooses not to use the robot.
Insurers would be free to decide how much they pay for any given procedure based on the level of cover you have (if you opt for higher coverage, they will likely pay more meaning you pay less out of pocket).
#9 is simply intended to mean that insurers cant force providers to use cheaper (or more beneficial to the insurer) treatment options.
As for those who say "tiered coverage wont work", other countries have tired coverage in health insurance and we dont see problems with the "spreading the risk" in those situations.
No, health insurance companies would be free to offer different levels of cover to different people.
If someone is young and healthy they would be able to opt for cheaper coverage that provides less cover for things that young people dont need.
If someone wants to, they can pay more and get top coverage.
No, they wouldn't be able to do that.
They WOULD be able to deny you full benefits for any medical condition you have when you first get insurance for a limited period (1 year maybe) to stop the problem where people dont have insurance and only buy it AFTER they find out they have
If you have insurance (and the insurance covers you for a given condition) then you will always have coverage for that condition if you change to another provider. There WOULD be the option for someone to choose a cheaper plan that may not give top table coverage (e.g. people who are young and fit may not want as much cover as someone older and more likely to get sick)
This is how I would fix the problems:
1.Eliminate company health plans (the providers of these plans have little to no incentive to offer any actual benefits to the employees as the companies cant change to someone better due to lock-in contracts and the huge costs of changing, nor can the employees generally switch without paying a lot more)
2.Give every citizen a certain amount of tax-free money they can use to buy health insurance. i.e. the first $x of their health insurance costs are tax free. This makes up for the loss of company health plans (which are generally tax free)
3.Make it super-easy for people to switch to another health provider anytime they choose without penalty (i.e. if they switch to a similar plan from a different provider, the new provider cant suddenly deny coverage for all your pre-existing conditions just because you switched providers)
4.All health care providers must charge the same amount for the same treatment no matter who is paying. If a hospital charges $2000 for a procedure to one person, they must charge the same $2000 to everyone who gets the procedure (no matter if its the government via medicare, a large health plan, a small insurance company, an individual paying out of pocket or whatever else). Obviously they can increase the price anytime they want but again they need to charge the same new price to everyone
5.Take away all incentives for doctors and hospitals and others to order "unnecessary" tests (including a reform of medical malpractice law so that lawyers cant argue "I sue the hospital for $$$$$ for failing to carry out when carrying out would have saved my clients life/heart/kidney/good looks/whatever")
6.Remove any laws and red tape that make it harder to start up a health fund. Making it easier to run one (and reducing the administrative costs) may encourage new players into the market who offer better value much the same as what companies like Jet Blue did for air travel)
7.Remove any rules/laws/etc that in any way restrict what health insurance companies are allowed to offer coverage for. If an insurance company wants to offer coverage for prescription glasses (for example), they should be allowed to do so.
8.Low income earners and the poor (who cant afford health insurance) would get subsidized cover. Not government run cover but money from the government paid to the individual to cover part or all of their health insurance costs
9.Health insurance companies would be banned from doing deals with specific hospitals or doctors (i.e. "you will only get coverage if you go to OUR hospital"). Further to this, companies that own health insurers would be prohibited from owning any operation involved in the provision of health care (e.g. hospitals, drug companies, medical equipment makers etc). Also, Health insurance companies would be banned from dictating treatment terms to doctors (i.e. if you want us to give coverage for this heart operation, you will do it the way we specify)
and 10.Health insurance companies would be required to disclose upfront how much they will pay on a given treatment before the treatment is carried out and they must pay up. No more cases of saying one thing before you go into hospital and then changing their mind and denying payment AFTER the patient has racked up the big medical bills.
Firstly, you need stuff to handle routing your call to those on other networks (PSTN, other mobile networks, GSM/UMTS/CDMA/etc).
Secondly you need stuff to handle hand-offs when you walk from the LTE coverage area to a GSM/CDMA/UMTS coverage area.
Also you need to be able to charge differently for voice and messaging (voice on mobile networks also has government taxes and charges that dont apply to data in various parts of the world)
In your example, its clearly a trademark violation so Citibank has the right to use the normal procedures that get used when a DNS name violates their trademark and either get the domain name shut down (i.e. removed from the DNS) or handed over to Citibank.
The obvious answer is to put the more expensive channels in the higher tiers of service.
Although then you have the problem where Disney says both "You must pay more for ESPN" AND "You must carry ESPN in the basic tier"
Maybe the answer is the car "cigarette lighter" standard (many gadgets can charge from one with an adapter including laptops, mobile phones and MP3 players)
The problem is not the 2" GI-Joe guns, its comming up with an exemption that allows those guns without allowing other guns that shouldn't be allowed.
If you say that toy guns are allowed, people will start bringing full-size toy guns through (there was a news story here a while back where some kid was playing with a full-sized toy gun, someone saw it, thought it was real and called in the SWAT team.
Except that they cant GET at the pass phrase on the special USB stick until you give them the password.
The best answer of all is "physical seganography" i.e. 802.11 NAS built into something that the cops are unlikely to seize (yet which has a legitimate need to be plugged in and doing what it does)
The best solution (if you are dealing with a desktop system) is to have the pass-phrase and keys but also have a small GPS module. If the usb key is not close to where it should be (with a fairly big margin for the fact that cheap GPS modules arent exactly accurate) it would erase the pass-phrase
If they try to force you to hand over your password (e.g. UK RIP act), you just hand it over (to the guys who seized your computer and are now trying to use it somewhere else other than the required GPS location) and boom, the data is gone forever.
If you need to move house, just log in from the old house and reset the GPS then when you get to the new house, log in and put in the new coordinates.