I guess the solution will be to hook a logic probe upto this little box and figure out the signals so you could convince the thing you drive like "Joe Average". You'd have to add some randomness into it to make it realistic, but overall, make sure the mileage is consistent with what you drive for your commute and make it look like a realistic driver ( drive beween 60 & 70mph)
That's a good question. I think there are a number of factors.
1. The uninsured who are clogging up the system and sticking us with the bill.
2. Increased litigation costs as doctors have to pay higher malpractice insurance, they up their prices so they can stay profitable.
3. Large numbers of the eldery who need expensive treatments (such as hip replacements) end up pulling more money out of the system then they contribute (thus our premiums go up)
4. Every increasingly complicated legistation that forces insurance companies / hospitals to expend more man hours shuffling paper. i.e. HIPPA.
That's just a couple things I think might be the cause. I'm sure there are dozens more.
Well, another solution to that problem is to install the software with a tool such as "yum" where it's smart enough to figure out the dependencies and install them in the right order, etc.
Well, if your going todo it right, you should go mil-spec and have it contain a whole set of manuals explaining how the thing works all the way down to an entire print out of the source code with full sensible comments.
Also, since they might have a machine that's not completely compatiable, includes should be schematics and instrucutions for making their own machine altair style.
I agree. What needs to happen is the device needs to cost 49.99 and come with two or three books I'd actually read.
Here's something they could do as well.
If you went into a book store with your ebook, you could turn it on and download the first couple chapters of a book. Then if you liked what you read, you could hit a button and it would download the rest of book and charge your credit card.
Here in Massachusetts, I've seen self checkouts in the following locations:
BJ's Wholesale Home Despot Shaw's or Stop & Shop (Grocery)
All of these have their pro's and cons.
Of all the one's I've used, I like the BJ's ones the best. The only con I've seen with them is that intervention is needed for really heavy and really light items.
The Home Despot ones are fine, provided you are buying small items. Attempting to self checkout 60lb bags of quickcrete or a dozen 2x4's would probably cause you problems.
I've found the Shaw's ones to be utterly infuriating at times. I think this maybe because I'm an atypical American who actually eats lots of fruits and vegetables. Anything with a bar code goes through fine, the problem is when you put a bunch of grapes up on the scale and then have to either enter the code that's on the grapes or go through a list of produce and choose it. Needless to say, I go out of my way to find produce that has codes on them... Trying to sort through a list of produce and choose the right one sucks. Especially if your like me and you really don't pay too much attention to the actual name of the produce, I just look at a cart of apples, look at the price, and if I like the price and they look good I'll pick a couple up. Then I get to the check out and I'm presented with a dozen different varieties of apples to choose from. I do think that maybe my bitching has paid off a bit in that now they at least show a picture of what you've chosen. Still though, if a store is carrying 4 varieties of green apples it isn't going to help much.
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What he could do is find their fax numbers and start faxing them copies of the information... That should get their attention...
BeOS is a great example of why Steve Jobs shouldn't be allowed out of his mansion ever again.
A very healthy argument could be made that what Steve should have done is bought BeOS lock, stock and barrel and put Aqua/Cocoa/JunkMonkey/Whatever on top of it instead of reinventing the wheel that is OSX.
Then instead of HFS+ he would have gotten the BeOS filesystem that was 64bit years ago, has all kinds of Journaling and metadata features, etc.
I was playing DAOC for a while but likewise all my buddies were level 30+ in the time it took me to get to 19.
Both my wife and went back to playing Diablo2.
As a wageslave, here's a nugget of goodness that a game designer can take to their design meeting.
I should be able to save ANYWHERE. I should be able to hit F2 on the keyboard and save my spot or hit "select" on the controller and choose save and just get up and walk away. Then I should be able to come back at anytime in the future and continue on like nothing happened.
As a person who lives by a very rigid 8am to 5pm schedule I can't sit up all night working through some level because if I quit the game it'll send me back and I'll have todo 25 minutes worth of work over. Likewise, this shouldn't be answered with "well you can always pause". Since my PS2 is also my DVD player that's not viable and since I do work on my computer as well as play games, I will have to quit.
With that said, I'd even be okay with some sorta of checkpoint system that would only put me back a few minutes.
The replay was one of those "too good to be true" type things.
The thing worked fine for about a week and then it froze. I would reboot it and in exactly 5 minutes it would crash.
Called tech support and was transported to the 9th level of hell that is outsourced Indian tech support.
The first time I called I think I got a really confused lady who couldn't comprehend that the replay was freezing. She kept wanting me to press things on the remote. Then would get all flumixed when nothing happened. I kindly explained that the problem I was having probably wasn't covered in her knowledge database. At that point she explained that I'd have to pay a hundred dollars to send my replay in to get it fixed. I then asked that she cancel my subscription. At this point I was put on hold and transferred to some other person (who called himself Jack) who then wanted to know why I wanted to cancel my service and was a sure and was I really sure and was I really really sure that there wasn't something they could do to keep me as a customer, etc. He got about half way through this and I explained that I was going to go with a compeditors product because theirs sucked.
Needless to say, I spent a 99 dollars and got a DirecTivo and haven't looked back.
My feeling is that we have a duty to our children to explore space and setup colonies on the moon and mars (at a minimum)
Why? Because we need a disaster recovery plan. We need a way to ensure that if a meteor the size of Texas slams into this blue marble tomorrow that we as a species will survive.
In that same realm, every colony would have a complete and constiently updated "library of knowledge".
This way, if Earth was destroyed tomorrow, a student at MU (Mars University) could go into the library and read a copy of the constitution or watch a video of the launch of the first Chinese manned space flight.
Equally, a phyisician living on Mars could look up treatments for some rare form of cancer and also be able to reference clinical trials of drugs, how they were administered and how to synthesize said drugs. If this phyisician comes up with a better treatment this info would be spread back to Earths database and the moons.
The trick with that is that if you have it shipped certified and it shows up at their address and has their signature on the line, they really can't argue with it.
They could claim that someone was at their house and took it or something, but that's their problem, not yours.
I think it case could be made that very few people actually benefited from Microsoft's success that weren't inside of Microsoft. Yeah sure, a few developers here and there who made some apps, but most of them were then bought up by Microsoft (see: Visio). I think Microsoft is struggling, because for the first time they're having to actually sell their software on its merits. The customer has real choices. They can use Open Office that costs them nothing, or they can spend alot of money on Microsoft Office. Microsoft has to convince those people who use 1% of their products functionality that the product is worth the cost. As free or low cost alternatives come of age, that argument gets harder.
Seriously! I mean, she's probably going to be in labor for hours and hours. While she's busy in the birthing room screaming in agony, go out in the lounge and watch some SG-1!
Also, why doesn't this guy have a laptop with wifi?
Otherwise, you'll be in there holding her hand and she'll be all like "I can't believe you made me have this f*ing baby, you bastard!". Then there's the squeezing your hand until it looks like a turnip.
Just imagine how happy his wife will be when she's like "Honey, it's a girl!" and he responds with "Honey, I got a +5 funny!!!"
My wife and I are both SG-1 fans and when we saw that commercial we ended up laughing our asses off.
I also liked the people who do the flips across the stage and carter and teal'c flip the pads over to show 10's.
On a side note, did anybody else notice that in the "pumper" for "New Order" they stated that "Finally the replicators will be destroyed". Needless to say, not only did the replicators get away, but it looks as though they've become even more distructive since it looks as though they've become self aware. However, one thing that I've really liked is that SG-1 never fully puts a plot string to rest so they've got enough material for easily 10 spin offs.
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I guess the solution will be to hook a logic probe upto this little box and figure out the signals so you could convince the thing you drive like "Joe Average". You'd have to add some randomness into it to make it realistic, but overall, make sure the mileage is consistent with what you drive for your commute and make it look like a realistic driver ( drive beween 60 & 70mph)
That's a good question. I think there are a number of factors.
1. The uninsured who are clogging up the system and sticking us with the bill.
2. Increased litigation costs as doctors have to pay higher malpractice insurance, they up their prices so they can stay profitable.
3. Large numbers of the eldery who need expensive treatments (such as hip replacements) end up pulling more money out of the system then they contribute (thus our premiums go up)
4. Every increasingly complicated legistation that forces insurance companies / hospitals to expend more man hours shuffling paper. i.e. HIPPA.
That's just a couple things I think might be the cause. I'm sure there are dozens more.
Well, another solution to that problem is to install the software with a tool such as "yum" where it's smart enough to figure out the dependencies and install them in the right order, etc.
Well, if your going todo it right, you should go mil-spec and have it contain a whole set of manuals explaining how the thing works all the way down to an entire print out of the source code with full sensible comments.
Also, since they might have a machine that's not completely compatiable, includes should be schematics and instrucutions for making their own machine altair style.
I guess the solution is to just invest in some highly polarized wrap around sun glasses.
True you really wouldn't.
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Though if your ebook had a stylus, you could go to a book signing and have the author sign your ebook
Excellent!
Starting with this weeks paycheck we'll be deducting $20USD as a "Infrastructure tax".
The government will then use this money to lay fibre to everybodies house and give them a 40Mbit uplink!
I agree. What needs to happen is the device needs to cost 49.99 and come with two or three books I'd actually read.
Here's something they could do as well.
If you went into a book store with your ebook, you could turn it on and download the first couple chapters of a book. Then if you liked what you read, you could hit a button and it would download the rest of book and charge your credit card.
Here in Massachusetts, I've seen self checkouts in the following locations:
BJ's Wholesale
Home Despot
Shaw's or Stop & Shop (Grocery)
All of these have their pro's and cons.
Of all the one's I've used, I like the BJ's ones the best. The only con I've seen with them is that intervention is needed for really heavy and really light items.
The Home Despot ones are fine, provided you are buying small items. Attempting to self checkout 60lb bags of quickcrete or a dozen 2x4's would probably cause you problems.
I've found the Shaw's ones to be utterly infuriating at times. I think this maybe because I'm an atypical American who actually eats lots of fruits and vegetables. Anything with a bar code goes through fine, the problem is when you put a bunch of grapes up on the scale and then have to either enter the code that's on the grapes or go through a list of produce and choose it. Needless to say, I go out of my way to find produce that has codes on them... Trying to sort through a list of produce and choose the right one sucks. Especially if your like me and you really don't pay too much attention to the actual name of the produce, I just look at a cart of apples, look at the price, and if I like the price and they look good I'll pick a couple up. Then I get to the check out and I'm presented with a dozen different varieties of apples to choose from. I do think that maybe my bitching has paid off a bit in that now they at least show a picture of what you've chosen. Still though, if a store is carrying 4 varieties of green apples it isn't going to help much.
What he could do is find their fax numbers and start faxing them copies of the information... That should get their attention...
We've long asked this question.
BeOS is a great example of why Steve Jobs shouldn't be allowed out of his mansion ever again.
A very healthy argument could be made that what Steve should have done is bought BeOS lock, stock and barrel and put Aqua/Cocoa/JunkMonkey/Whatever on top of it instead of reinventing the wheel that is OSX.
Then instead of HFS+ he would have gotten the BeOS filesystem that was 64bit years ago, has all kinds of Journaling and metadata features, etc.
I'm there with you.
I was playing DAOC for a while but likewise all my buddies were level 30+ in the time it took me to get to 19.
Both my wife and went back to playing Diablo2.
As a wageslave, here's a nugget of goodness that a game designer can take to their design meeting.
I should be able to save ANYWHERE. I should be able to hit F2 on the keyboard and save my spot or hit "select" on the controller and choose save and just get up and walk away. Then I should be able to come back at anytime in the future and continue on like nothing happened.
As a person who lives by a very rigid 8am to 5pm schedule I can't sit up all night working through some level because if I quit the game it'll send me back and I'll have todo 25 minutes worth of work over. Likewise, this shouldn't be answered with "well you can always pause". Since my PS2 is also my DVD player that's not viable and since I do work on my computer as well as play games, I will have to quit.
With that said, I'd even be okay with some sorta of checkpoint system that would only put me back a few minutes.
ReplayTV's support...
The replay was one of those "too good to be true" type things.
The thing worked fine for about a week and then it froze. I would reboot it and in exactly 5 minutes it would crash.
Called tech support and was transported to the 9th level of hell that is outsourced Indian tech support.
The first time I called I think I got a really confused lady who couldn't comprehend that the replay was freezing. She kept wanting me to press things on the remote. Then would get all flumixed when nothing happened. I kindly explained that the problem I was having probably wasn't covered in her knowledge database. At that point she explained that I'd have to pay a hundred dollars to send my replay in to get it fixed. I then asked that she cancel my subscription. At this point I was put on hold and transferred to some other person (who called himself Jack) who then wanted to know why I wanted to cancel my service and was a sure and was I really sure and was I really really sure that there wasn't something they could do to keep me as a customer, etc. He got about half way through this and I explained that I was going to go with a compeditors product because theirs sucked.
Needless to say, I spent a 99 dollars and got a DirecTivo and haven't looked back.
My feeling is that we have a duty to our children to explore space and setup colonies on the moon and mars (at a minimum)
Why? Because we need a disaster recovery plan. We need a way to ensure that if a meteor the size of Texas slams into this blue marble tomorrow that we as a species will survive.
In that same realm, every colony would have a complete and constiently updated "library of knowledge".
This way, if Earth was destroyed tomorrow, a student at MU (Mars University) could go into the library and read a copy of the constitution or watch a video of the launch of the first Chinese manned space flight.
Equally, a phyisician living on Mars could look up treatments for some rare form of cancer and also be able to reference clinical trials of drugs, how they were administered and how to synthesize said drugs. If this phyisician comes up with a better treatment this info would be spread back to Earths database and the moons.
What's that old saying... "If you can't beat'em, join'em!"
The trick with that is that if you have it shipped certified and it shows up at their address and has their signature on the line, they really can't argue with it.
They could claim that someone was at their house and took it or something, but that's their problem, not yours.
As a fellow ebayer, I've only had one issue with a seller who had thousands of transactions and had a 98% happy rate.
Turned out I was one of the 2% that he would just take your money and never send you the goods.
Though in the end, I got my money back after contacting paypal. I also called the BBB and reported him.
I'd like to know what this 8.2gigs of data was.
Considering these places have hundred of terabytes worth of data on people, 8.2Gigs of it would seem like a grain of sand on the beach.
However, I suppose that some crafty SQL could cull that down to the bare minimum data needed for a credit card app.
I think it case could be made that very few people actually benefited from Microsoft's success that weren't inside of Microsoft. Yeah sure, a few developers here and there who made some apps, but most of them were then bought up by Microsoft (see: Visio). I think Microsoft is struggling, because for the first time they're having to actually sell their software on its merits. The customer has real choices. They can use Open Office that costs them nothing, or they can spend alot of money on Microsoft Office. Microsoft has to convince those people who use 1% of their products functionality that the product is worth the cost. As free or low cost alternatives come of age, that argument gets harder.
Actually, Cringely flies in a homebuilt, though I have no idea what kind of homebuilt.
Maybe an RV-6??? Does anybody know?
Seriously! I mean, she's probably going to be in labor for hours and hours. While she's busy in the birthing room screaming in agony, go out in the lounge and watch some SG-1!
Also, why doesn't this guy have a laptop with wifi?
Otherwise, you'll be in there holding her hand and she'll be all like "I can't believe you made me have this f*ing baby, you bastard!". Then there's the squeezing your hand until it looks like a turnip.
Just imagine how happy his wife will be when she's like "Honey, it's a girl!" and he responds with "Honey, I got a +5 funny!!!"
My wife and I are both SG-1 fans and when we saw that commercial we ended up laughing our asses off.
I also liked the people who do the flips across the stage and carter and teal'c flip the pads over to show 10's.
On a side note, did anybody else notice that in the "pumper" for "New Order" they stated that "Finally the replicators will be destroyed". Needless to say, not only did the replicators get away, but it looks as though they've become even more distructive since it looks as though they've become self aware. However, one thing that I've really liked is that SG-1 never fully puts a plot string to rest so they've got enough material for easily 10 spin offs.
What Jobs didn't announce was that they had started a new initative called "iSoul" where for a small "fee" you can have a G5 imac.
Your right. "moot" was what I was going for, "mute" came out.
I guess this makes all the bitching about Moz/Firefox in the other story a bit mute...