But look at the bright side - under ObamaCare your premiums will go up 10% (by the White House estimate), and you'll be fined $750 by the IRS when you drop that coverage you can't afford. Yay, everybody wins! And you'll get to provide proof that your health insurance meets government standards as part of you tax returns - woo hoo!
In Sweden, which is part of the Free World, we pay for a baseline health insurance which everybody benefits from. Then of course you can sign on for extras if you need it. But in the long run; proactive healthcare probably is cheaper than reactive healthcare... And I guess that is proven by the extreme amount of money spent on healthcare in US per capita, compared for, oh, let's say Sweden.
Insurance companies can no longer deny coverage due to preexisting conditions, which means they must now provide coverage for far more people where they are going to dole out serious dollars.
How would that not significantly raise premiums across the board?
Volume? How about the 34 million brand new customers?
I call bullshit on that. Over at Salary.com, they have the unemployment details for every state in the union, and I was not able to find one that pays more than $400/week. So...bullshit on you sir.
You're either really inexperienced, or just silly. "Don't use windows" is a retarted point of view. Run an IT department for more than 50 people that actually do something, and then let's see how your "Don't use windows" theory plays out. You *have* to support windows. You *have* to support Mac, you *have* to support linux.
"Tending to business interests", usually means making sure your workforce can do their job. Virtually impossible on the enterprise front without windows. Of course, I'd love to be wrong. You think it's about the OS or platform, but it's about the applications. Where's the linux version of Dynamics again? Or the linux client for Dynamics? Can you run exchange on your linux server?
Do you know of any companies that provide that sort of technology, integrated into a video recording and archival system? If so, I'm quite interested for our next round of security system upgrades in the next few years.
Yep. Check out onSSI.com. They *are* probably the state of the art. Their systems actually can look out for tailgating (one person walking in a door right behind another), track a person or a car through your camera array, push alerts based on certain criteria you set up, push video to local police, etc. There's a whole other league you missed while doing your research. It's not actually all that expensive either, relative to what a good retail store's security budget ought to be. (IMHO)
And for reference, having recently compared many different versions on different operating systems for a project at my company, Zoneminder IS the state of the art in all platforms of DVR software
Wow. That's a pretty bold statement. And completely false BTW. LPR, NPR, Facial recognition, window blanking, etc. The list is long.
Zoneminder is nice, but let's not get carried away here.
I agree to an extent, but the IS should can and does put a lot of pressure on other countries.
What if Bob says "I will beat you up if you do not do x?". Or if Bob says "I will pay you to do X"? Surely Bob has to take some of the blame.
So...you think the US would wage a war if England wanted to legalize pot? C'mon.
I'm an idiot? Are you trying to tell me that the difference in the cost of powering the network equipment, and paying customer service people, and pushing paperwork and maintaining hardware for someone who downloads 100GB/month is that much different from the cost of powering the same switch for someone who uses 10GB/month? I'm the idiot? Run a business or shut up? Don't be an ass. It's a stupid argument.
Yes, providing bandwidth to customer costs money, and nobody is arguing that. The point is that the carriers see an opportunity to raise prices while rationalizing it by saying that people that download more should pay more. But the fact is, they aren't spending any more to provide those customers with the product. In fact, they've taken billions from the taxpayers and done next to nothing to improve capacity. THEN, even though the network is funded more and more by the taxpayers, they want to control what the customers can do with it. If you're cool with that, then good luck with that.
You're going to sit there and tell me there's no difference in electricity usage for a Server to feed me 1 gigabyte versus 1000 gigabytes each month?
Only if you're going to tell me that it's not covered by the $50/month I pay. I mean, c'mon. You're talking about the POWER on a network switch? Really?
I would have to guess that since Comcast is really the US Government, that this is not what we call a healthy business model. Rather than spend their money marketing and lobbying, they should have spent it on their network. I think it's absolute horseshit, and I feel cheated every time I pay the bill.
Right on brother. I dare anyone to disagree with that. If they spent half of the money they are spending on lobbying and advertising, we wouldn't be having this conversation.
Ok. So you have your server log. How many times has person a visited your site before he's purchased the widget you are pushing to him. Check your logs and get back to me.
For newbies and people who cannot touch type, yes. For professional programmers, not so much.
Spoken by someone, who very obviously, has never taken the time to learn the ins and outs of a good IDE like Eclipse or VS. There's no argument here. If all things are equal, ie you know both methods the same, and IDE is SO much faster to work with that it's not even close.
There should be a mechanism by which it is possible to make money from information, but don't confuse the issue by calling it a right.
Music is not information. Software is not information. Movies are not information. Let's not confuse the issue by pretending all of the above is nothing more than information, as doing so belittles the artists involved in the creation of these works.
Ok, here it goes again. Jack owns a CD, Jill owns a CD burner. Together they make a copy. This is a consensual transaction between two free individuals. Interfering in this is wrong.
Personally I will do as the grand parent and copy things a lot for a while just to show them how much they suck.
How, exactly, do they suck? (and who are "they" anyways?) How does someone who is producing content that you, obviously, want to possess suck again? Because they charge you for something you want? You're reproducing something illegally because you can't afford to purchase it and "they" suck?
How's that?
Slashdot Mirror
And? How many people has capitalism killed?
So that makes it okay? Because there are other injustices in our society, this one is no big deal?
But look at the bright side - under ObamaCare your premiums will go up 10% (by the White House estimate), and you'll be fined $750 by the IRS when you drop that coverage you can't afford. Yay, everybody wins! And you'll get to provide proof that your health insurance meets government standards as part of you tax returns - woo hoo!
[Citation Needed]
In Sweden, which is part of the Free World, we pay for a baseline health insurance which everybody benefits from. Then of course you can sign on for extras if you need it. But in the long run; proactive healthcare probably is cheaper than reactive healthcare... And I guess that is proven by the extreme amount of money spent on healthcare in US per capita, compared for, oh, let's say Sweden.
Shhhhh. You can't talk about Sweden.
Insurance companies can no longer deny coverage due to preexisting conditions, which means they must now provide coverage for far more people where they are going to dole out serious dollars. How would that not significantly raise premiums across the board?
Volume? How about the 34 million brand new customers?
When I was on unemployment I got $550 a week.
I call bullshit on that. Over at Salary.com, they have the unemployment details for every state in the union, and I was not able to find one that pays more than $400/week. So...bullshit on you sir.
You're either really inexperienced, or just silly. "Don't use windows" is a retarted point of view. Run an IT department for more than 50 people that actually do something, and then let's see how your "Don't use windows" theory plays out. You *have* to support windows. You *have* to support Mac, you *have* to support linux. "Tending to business interests", usually means making sure your workforce can do their job. Virtually impossible on the enterprise front without windows. Of course, I'd love to be wrong. You think it's about the OS or platform, but it's about the applications. Where's the linux version of Dynamics again? Or the linux client for Dynamics? Can you run exchange on your linux server?
Do you know of any companies that provide that sort of technology, integrated into a video recording and archival system? If so, I'm quite interested for our next round of security system upgrades in the next few years.
Yep. Check out onSSI.com. They *are* probably the state of the art. Their systems actually can look out for tailgating (one person walking in a door right behind another), track a person or a car through your camera array, push alerts based on certain criteria you set up, push video to local police, etc. There's a whole other league you missed while doing your research. It's not actually all that expensive either, relative to what a good retail store's security budget ought to be. (IMHO)
And for reference, having recently compared many different versions on different operating systems for a project at my company, Zoneminder IS the state of the art in all platforms of DVR software
Wow. That's a pretty bold statement. And completely false BTW. LPR, NPR, Facial recognition, window blanking, etc. The list is long.
Zoneminder is nice, but let's not get carried away here.
I agree to an extent, but the IS should can and does put a lot of pressure on other countries. What if Bob says "I will beat you up if you do not do x?". Or if Bob says "I will pay you to do X"? Surely Bob has to take some of the blame.
So...you think the US would wage a war if England wanted to legalize pot? C'mon.
[Citation Needed]
What country is "around here" please? I want to go there.
I'm an idiot? Are you trying to tell me that the difference in the cost of powering the network equipment, and paying customer service people, and pushing paperwork and maintaining hardware for someone who downloads 100GB/month is that much different from the cost of powering the same switch for someone who uses 10GB/month? I'm the idiot? Run a business or shut up? Don't be an ass. It's a stupid argument. Yes, providing bandwidth to customer costs money, and nobody is arguing that. The point is that the carriers see an opportunity to raise prices while rationalizing it by saying that people that download more should pay more. But the fact is, they aren't spending any more to provide those customers with the product. In fact, they've taken billions from the taxpayers and done next to nothing to improve capacity. THEN, even though the network is funded more and more by the taxpayers, they want to control what the customers can do with it. If you're cool with that, then good luck with that.
You're going to sit there and tell me there's no difference in electricity usage for a Server to feed me 1 gigabyte versus 1000 gigabytes each month?
Only if you're going to tell me that it's not covered by the $50/month I pay. I mean, c'mon. You're talking about the POWER on a network switch? Really?
I would have to guess that since Comcast is really the US Government, that this is not what we call a healthy business model. Rather than spend their money marketing and lobbying, they should have spent it on their network. I think it's absolute horseshit, and I feel cheated every time I pay the bill.
Right on brother. I dare anyone to disagree with that. If they spent half of the money they are spending on lobbying and advertising, we wouldn't be having this conversation.
but they have a finite amount of bandwidth to slice up at any given point in time
Which can easily be increased with a negligible investment over time by those ISPs, that for some reason, they refuse to admit and/or subsidize.
I don't use web sites that use cookies to do anything else.
And yet, here you are...at Slashdot.
Ok. So you have your server log. How many times has person a visited your site before he's purchased the widget you are pushing to him. Check your logs and get back to me.
I think you're missing the point. Without state, your server logs are only telling you half the story. I don't think you can argue against that.
I just assumed that we all knew that was irresponsible and dumb.
ways wondered why they couldn't store transaction data on the server when doing this sort of this sort of thing.
They do, they're called "Sessions". The problem is, you still need cookies to store the session tokens.
For newbies and people who cannot touch type, yes. For professional programmers, not so much.
Spoken by someone, who very obviously, has never taken the time to learn the ins and outs of a good IDE like Eclipse or VS. There's no argument here. If all things are equal, ie you know both methods the same, and IDE is SO much faster to work with that it's not even close.
There should be a mechanism by which it is possible to make money from information, but don't confuse the issue by calling it a right.
Music is not information. Software is not information. Movies are not information. Let's not confuse the issue by pretending all of the above is nothing more than information, as doing so belittles the artists involved in the creation of these works.
Ok, here it goes again. Jack owns a CD, Jill owns a CD burner. Together they make a copy. This is a consensual transaction between two free individuals. Interfering in this is wrong.
Wow, if you really believe that....wow.
Personally I will do as the grand parent and copy things a lot for a while just to show them how much they suck.
How, exactly, do they suck? (and who are "they" anyways?) How does someone who is producing content that you, obviously, want to possess suck again? Because they charge you for something you want? You're reproducing something illegally because you can't afford to purchase it and "they" suck? How's that?
Japan, for example, could have asked US troops to leave.
That's kinda difficult when you're forced to accept a constitution that gives up your military power and puts the U.S. in charge of your defense.
Yeah, pesky WWII.