The main advantages of diamond include heat resistance and higher electrical resistance.
And a certain BLING, BABY!
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I'd LOVE an all encompasing view of the Healthcare/Insurance industry. I'd suspect there's a lot more there than meets the eye.
From a Doctor's standpoint, they often have to make a determination even when the patient refuses to believe they have what the doctor claims. Bro-in-law just got treated for stage two syphilis - he swore up and down that he'd been celebate for the last four years...Even after we reminded him of the 'evidence' we found after he house sit for us (for the last time.) So add signal-to-noise ratio from patient.
OTOH, I've got two brand new Twin boys. They were born almost five week prematurely. They've spent the last 9 days in the Neonatal ICU while their systems catch up with their birthdate. The insurance company has been charged $5k per day, per kid for the 'hotel stay'. Nearly $100k so far, and that doesn't include the C-section, the two OBGYN's, the endocrinologist or the geneticist. I have no clue what the final tab will be, only that the insurance company will cover it, and we're out about $200 in co-pays. I'm curious if there's an additional negotiation AFTER that bill, perhaps there's an additional 80% 'hospital to insurance carrier' discount we don't hear about...If not, I can't possibly see how my $400 a month in insurance premiums could HOPE to cover the medical expenses (20 years at $400 a month is only $96000, heaven forbid I got sick AND had twins.)
Looking for home theatre speakers, I notices a LOT of 5/6 and 6/6 ratings for a BUNCH of different brands. What was interesting (on this particular site) was that the number of respondents was listed as well.
Rather than buyin a 6/6 speaker product with 4 or 8 reviewers, I bought the 6/6 product that had 130 reviewers. 130 people saying it's great pretty much outnumbers a single critic saying it's just okay.
"Never point a gun at anything you don't want to put a hole in."
It's the best advice I've ever received in terms of gun safety.
They've been demonized, but guns are really nothing more than really crude drills.
Sure, you can use a drill for good and bad. It's can make furniture, and it can kill aunt Martha, but there's no real issue of wether or not we should illegalize drills.
I went with a small shop from a guy that advertised it in his.sig here. $12 a month for a pretty nice setup, all admin was done using scripts, monthly fees paid via paypal.
It was three weeks before I noticed my email was bouncing from that domain and me web stuff was GONE.
No announcement, no 'sorry, we're closing shop', just GONE. It was a real PITA running around getting DNS's changed and recreating the web content.
Now I'm paying $22 a month to Earthlink. It may cost more, but it's not gonna go away in the middle of the night.
I get the feeling that we, metaphorically speaking, wall flowers. Leaning agains the wall at the side of the dance waiting for _someone_else_ to some invite us out to play.
Other than the accidental leakage, are we beaming out anything intentional for SETI@marklar?
mean how much is your boss making at your expense even if he did start the company long before you joined up?
Having watched my parents be entrepreneurs for 20 odd years, I'd posit: The Boss is ALLOWED to make money at your expense. Why? Because he/she had the balls to start the buisness, maintain the business, and financially SUPPORT the business untill it was viable. (or, like 80% of all new businesses -- go under.)
Don't like it? Go start a business, THEN you can comment on how to do or do not like the salary structure.
They need a smaller test environment that ALL changes have to be checked off on before implementing. They need images of all router configs they can roll back to if necessary, and they need a diff comparison tool (mantrap or somesuch) to see what's changed between their known good configuration and what exists now.
Oh yeah, and they need a signed piece of paper with the moron's signature saying the change wouldn't impact the network. (a papertrail, as archaic as that seems.)
I got a PII 266 laptop with a 8gb drive and 96 mb of ram. I bumped the ram to 384 and it runs Redhat 8 great.......But it also ran Windows XP equally well for surfing, email and light word processing.
But I went to Redhat as this was the first 'spare' computer I could singleboot to.
Surf around a bit (if you can get signal) one of the antennae gets outta whack and can be re-seated for a general improvement in reception.
(something about rubbing the area between the battery compartment and the side of the laptop, IIRC. I dunno, I don't own one.)
Sure wish I could read the article...
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But in the meantime, I'm guessing this is an output only device? I thought part of microsoft's schtick was the PVR aspects too.
While the Xbox media connector in back IS listed as Video in/out, I haven't seen anything to lead me to believe it could suck-in data.
Were I optimistic, I'd think they could make a slab with a bigger harddisk, AV inputs, and two ethernet ports, one to the Xbox, one to the rest of the world. (is 100mb/s fast enough to shove video+5.1 audio to the Xbox?)
Since I'm getting less and less optimistic all the time, I'm thinking Microsoft will just include al l the additional hardware and wrap it around the Xbox2. OR the windows media server stuff runs on a central fileserver and all of that audio/video stuff is displayed in the familyroom with the Xbox acting as a display unit only.If THAT'S the case, then it doesn't matter what formats the Xbox can display as I'm sure the central server would transcode it to something the xbox CAN use..it already natively supports Mpeg2 (No, I'm NOT looking forward to shuffling all the satellite receiver stuff to wherever the media center hardware would live.)
In the year or so I've had the Xbox, it's been a great DVD player/Game console...and for $200 I turned the Dishnetwork box into a PVR unit. I can't see a whole lot more that I'm gonna want to put in the family room, pre-HDTV. As an early adopter, I think I'll be missing out on whatever media hub plans Microsoft may have.
Thanks, dude! I'll give those a shot.
(Of course, it's all academic. I got tired of waiting, move the drive to another box, backed it up, then made it a reiserfs partition.)
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The main advantages of diamond include heat resistance and higher electrical resistance.
And a certain BLING, BABY!
I'd LOVE an all encompasing view of the Healthcare/Insurance industry. I'd suspect there's a lot more there than meets the eye.
From a Doctor's standpoint, they often have to make a determination even when the patient refuses to believe they have what the doctor claims. Bro-in-law just got treated for stage two syphilis - he swore up and down that he'd been celebate for the last four years...Even after we reminded him of the 'evidence' we found after he house sit for us (for the last time.) So add signal-to-noise ratio from patient.
OTOH, I've got two brand new Twin boys. They were born almost five week prematurely. They've spent the last 9 days in the Neonatal ICU while their systems catch up with their birthdate. The insurance company has been charged $5k per day, per kid for the 'hotel stay'. Nearly $100k so far, and that doesn't include the C-section, the two OBGYN's, the endocrinologist or the geneticist. I have no clue what the final tab will be, only that the insurance company will cover it, and we're out about $200 in co-pays.
I'm curious if there's an additional negotiation AFTER that bill, perhaps there's an additional 80% 'hospital to insurance carrier' discount we don't hear about...If not, I can't possibly see how my $400 a month in insurance premiums could HOPE to cover the medical expenses (20 years at $400 a month is only $96000, heaven forbid I got sick AND had twins.)
Do you guys REALLY expect erudite conversation after Xmas Dinner?
Ummmmm, L-triptophan!
To paraphrase an earlier post from today:
"Damn, I should patent that."
"I am a Critic, as necessary to the Theatre as ants to a picnic".
Sure wish I could remember who said that.
Looking for home theatre speakers, I notices a LOT of 5/6 and 6/6 ratings for a BUNCH of different brands. What was interesting (on this particular site) was that the number of respondents was listed as well.
Rather than buyin a 6/6 speaker product with 4 or 8 reviewers, I bought the 6/6 product that had 130 reviewers. 130 people saying it's great pretty much outnumbers a single critic saying it's just okay.
If I put water in it, what happens?
The two new ATMS I've seen 'administratively reboot' were running W2k.
"Never point a gun at anything you don't want to put a hole in."
It's the best advice I've ever received in terms of gun safety.
They've been demonized, but guns are really nothing more than really crude drills.
Sure, you can use a drill for good and bad. It's can make furniture, and it can kill aunt Martha, but there's no real issue of wether or not we should illegalize drills.
Who didn't like the Mistubishi Eclipse AWD because (and I'm not making this up)
"The trunk isn't big enough to hold a wheelchair."
I went with a small shop from a guy that advertised it in his .sig here. $12 a month for a pretty nice setup, all admin was done using scripts, monthly fees paid via paypal.
It was three weeks before I noticed my email was bouncing from that domain and me web stuff was GONE.
No announcement, no 'sorry, we're closing shop', just GONE. It was a real PITA running around getting DNS's changed and recreating the web content.
Now I'm paying $22 a month to Earthlink. It may cost more, but it's not gonna go away in the middle of the night.
I get the feeling that we, metaphorically speaking, wall flowers. Leaning agains the wall at the side of the dance waiting for _someone_else_ to some invite us out to play.
Other than the accidental leakage, are we beaming out anything intentional for SETI@marklar?
But how much HAVEN'T you listened to? I mean, you've only got Two Ears.
Don't you?
Pipe http://server/message | stdout
They didn't SAY components couldn't live elsewhere, did they?
Sheesh, how many times have YOU read something on Ars Technica, only to have it regurgitated the next day on Slashdot?
Listen. We LIKE Ars. We GO to Ars. If it's already on Ars, WE'LL SEE IT!
(yeah yeah, I know. +1 Flamebait)
They need a smaller test environment that ALL changes have to be checked off on before implementing. They need images of all router configs they can roll back to if necessary, and they need a diff comparison tool (mantrap or somesuch) to see what's changed between their known good configuration and what exists now.
Oh yeah, and they need a signed piece of paper with the moron's signature saying the change wouldn't impact the network. (a papertrail, as archaic as that seems.)
Actually, the submitter calculated 15Gb by looking at the video capture software. It said XXX Gb free, I can capture approximatly YY minutes.
:)
I then corrected it to 60 min for a DV tape.
It's why I said 'roughly'
We need a +1 (Sad) moderation.
A linux plug:
...But it also ran Windows XP equally well for surfing, email and light word processing.
I got a PII 266 laptop with a 8gb drive and 96 mb of ram. I bumped the ram to 384 and it runs Redhat 8 great....
But I went to Redhat as this was the first 'spare' computer I could singleboot to.
All for $100 (plus $60 for the ram)
yeah, but there's a slot in the case the antenna is supposed to sit in. They tend to fall inside the case.
So the tech support recommendation is to take the battery out, and rub in one direction (I forget which) to reseat the antenna in that slot.)
Lord knows THAT ain't true. I've known PLENTY of programmers 'didn't know SQUAT about computers!
"I can't check out my code"
"Can you ping the server?"
"Uh, {Ellen Feis noise}"
Surf around a bit (if you can get signal) one of the antennae gets outta whack and can be re-seated for a general improvement in reception.
(something about rubbing the area between the battery compartment and the side of the laptop, IIRC. I dunno, I don't own one.)
But in the meantime, I'm guessing this is an output only device? I thought part of microsoft's schtick was the PVR aspects too.
While the Xbox media connector in back IS listed as Video in/out, I haven't seen anything to lead me to believe it could suck-in data.
Were I optimistic, I'd think they could make a slab with a bigger harddisk, AV inputs, and two ethernet ports, one to the Xbox, one to the rest of the world. (is 100mb/s fast enough to shove video+5.1 audio to the Xbox?)
Since I'm getting less and less optimistic all the time, I'm thinking Microsoft will just include al l the additional hardware and wrap it around the Xbox2. OR the windows media server stuff runs on a central fileserver and all of that audio/video stuff is displayed in the familyroom with the Xbox acting as a display unit only.If THAT'S the case, then it doesn't matter what formats the Xbox can display as I'm sure the central server would transcode it to something the xbox CAN use..it already natively supports Mpeg2 (No, I'm NOT looking forward to shuffling all the satellite receiver stuff to wherever the media center hardware would live.)
In the year or so I've had the Xbox, it's been a great DVD player/Game console...and for $200 I turned the Dishnetwork box into a PVR unit. I can't see a whole lot more that I'm gonna want to put in the family room, pre-HDTV. As an early adopter, I think I'll be missing out on whatever media hub plans Microsoft may have.
Thanks, dude! I'll give those a shot. (Of course, it's all academic. I got tired of waiting, move the drive to another box, backed it up, then made it a reiserfs partition.)