Yeah, the other guy's right, you need to divide these numbers by something else. These are obviously misleading: Singapore only has 12 people, it's no wonder they have such a high spend per capita. Sweden is a neutral country. They haven't been actively involved in a war since the viking era, they're hardly a good candidate for 16th most aggressive country in the world.
(BTW you also need to take into account the fact that $1000 of Israel's $1487 is supplied by the US)
Most GP's (family doctors) are "self-employed". They run their own practices or cooperate with other doctors to create small health centres. While they are paid by the NHS they still effectively run their own business. They can use whatever computer systems they like.
When the NHS is referred to in articles like this they generally mean the hospital system.
I doubt most doctors in a NHS hospital even so much as look at a computer. Most of the terminal work will be done by nurses and admin staff.
IMHO this is effectively throwing money away. The NHS is a big black hole. While I support it in principle, the whole thing is chronically mismanaged and lurching from one political knee-jerk to the next. It is being seriously taken for a ride by the large IT contractors in this country, most of whom are just political appointees.
Try poletopole.org. We're a bit lacking in forecasts at the moment, but current conditions are much better than most of what's out there (esp the Weather Network).
There was an article in the New Scientist, about a year ago now, that talked about the way time seems to speed up and slow down. I can't find a link but the gist of it was this:
The brain can't monitor the world continuously so it "samples" it's enviroment every, say, 1/50th of a second. However if something threatening is happening it will sample more often, say every 1/100th of a second. This would be why time seems to slow down in an accident.
Conversely it samples less often when it's not threatened, ie when you're enjoying yourself, so time seems to go faster.
I don't remember it saying anything about why boring things seem to take so long, maybe it's just the contrast between the "fun" sampling rate and the "normal" sampling rate.
That may be semantically correct but I'm British and I've NEVER heard anyone use a billion to mean 1 million million. And I'm talking newspapers, governments and schools here.
This scale of punishment kinda reminds me of the English 17-18th century punishments: death for stealing a gentlemans handerkerchief, deportation for stealing a loaf of bread, that sort of thing.
Deportation? Deportation to where I hear you asking... Why the new colonies in Australia and America of course...
Wasn't that latter country (ostensibly) founded on the idea of stopping cruel oppression by a rich elite?
Toxic chemicals? If I remember my space science courses correctly most space probes are equipped with RTG's (Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators). I don't know if the shuttle had any but maybe be it's radioactive dust they want to people avoid.
If you're developing a cross platform GUI app why bother going through the pain of making a java GUI, when you can just make an trivial xml file and let the enviroment take care of it all? It leaves you to concentrate on doing real work instead of fiddling around with interfaces.
all mozilla needs now is support for more than just Javascript.
strange, there was one in the UK last week (several comments link to it so I won't), and one that landed in russia too.
No one seems to be linking these in any way, but they are quite rare events. There's a fair chance the UK one was also the russian one, but that's at least 3 fireballs within a week. Is that a coincidence?
Sept 11 is just on the left of graph at the bottom. Interestingly a normal day's traffic is now greater than the sept 11th spike, maybe they could handle major news events.
(I can't think what the early april spike is, but the raised traffic in june/july is the world cup)
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Flights from Japan to the UK also go through the US... it's in the way.
nyah. Too much like hard work
(BTW you also need to take into account the fact that $1000 of Israel's $1487 is supplied by the US)
When the NHS is referred to in articles like this they generally mean the hospital system. I doubt most doctors in a NHS hospital even so much as look at a computer. Most of the terminal work will be done by nurses and admin staff.
IMHO this is effectively throwing money away. The NHS is a big black hole. While I support it in principle, the whole thing is chronically mismanaged and lurching from one political knee-jerk to the next. It is being seriously taken for a ride by the large IT contractors in this country, most of whom are just political appointees.
Sorry, have to plug my own site here... :)
I know a website that does it all for you
Try poletopole.org. We're a bit lacking in forecasts at the moment, but current conditions are much better than most of what's out there (esp the Weather Network).
I'm runnning windows update now, and hey whaddya know.. 17Mb... that's gonna take a while on my 56k dialup. Hmmm... Maybe I won't run it after all..
I wonder how many people died while they were building the railroads...
Also try "The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee" by Jared Diamond. 's very good.
The brain can't monitor the world continuously so it "samples" it's enviroment every, say, 1/50th of a second. However if something threatening is happening it will sample more often, say every 1/100th of a second. This would be why time seems to slow down in an accident. Conversely it samples less often when it's not threatened, ie when you're enjoying yourself, so time seems to go faster.
I don't remember it saying anything about why boring things seem to take so long, maybe it's just the contrast between the "fun" sampling rate and the "normal" sampling rate.
take it to kuro5hin would ya?
In case anyone cares: This is why Europe needs Galileo
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change "/apps" to "/Program Files" and you have windows.
maybe bill had it right all along...
That may be semantically correct but I'm British and I've NEVER heard anyone use a billion to mean 1 million million. And I'm talking newspapers, governments and schools here.
Deportation? Deportation to where I hear you asking... Why the new colonies in Australia and America of course...
Wasn't that latter country (ostensibly) founded on the idea of stopping cruel oppression by a rich elite?
Perhaps this is it? They only need to win one of these cases every 120,000 years or so...
Looks like the end for these people then. They've been doing this with flash for years.
they've both got the word SPACE in, so I was 50% correct. sort of.
Toxic chemicals? If I remember my space science courses correctly most space probes are equipped with RTG's (Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators). I don't know if the shuttle had any but maybe be it's radioactive dust they want to people avoid.
ahh... they really should make that easier to find
If you're developing a cross platform GUI app why bother going through the pain of making a java GUI, when you can just make an trivial xml file and let the enviroment take care of it all? It leaves you to concentrate on doing real work instead of fiddling around with interfaces.
all mozilla needs now is support for more than just Javascript.
No one seems to be linking these in any way, but they are quite rare events. There's a fair chance the UK one was also the russian one, but that's at least 3 fireballs within a week. Is that a coincidence?
Sept 11 is just on the left of graph at the bottom. Interestingly a normal day's traffic is now greater than the sept 11th spike, maybe they could handle major news events.
(I can't think what the early april spike is, but the raised traffic in june/july is the world cup)
In case anyone cares: it's here