I read in an article (maybe slashdot?) the way information is routed (because of peering) usually means it moves eastward. Example someone in France looking at a Chinese website would probably be routed over the Pacific, through the US, across the atlantic, and finally land in Western Europe. I guess because of lack of development they aren't many reliable backbones going through central asia.
Most of the middle east, northern and central Africa are also wired through Europe. While we like to assume the internet is this big interconnected web there are some regions that have a single pipe doing the work.
I don't interact with a lot of cops, but I do watch them on TV. I've never heard anyone called a subject. Suspect, con, convict yes I hear those. But not subject.
That's not completely true. The smarter companies do have some vision (of dollars) for the future. Verizon is ripping out miles of copper and replacing with fiber. They know the customers want it and they realized this will kill 3rd party provisioning. Now they don't have to share that line at all.
I'm not sure if it's the same for Intel Macs now but I had a PowerMac G4 that had a password script stored in the NVRAM. You could not change the boot drive nor could you swap out the hard drive. The only way to get around it was to change the motherboard.
In a moment of weakness I disabled it because I got tired of having to walk re-enter the password everytime. A few months later my place gets robbed while I was out of town. I keep praying that somehow the nvram will reset itself and the script will start running again. I left my phone number and email as part of the MOTD. But its been almost 2 years.
If paying your bills is your only motivation to "work" than someone needs to reassess their priorities. By watching the mortgage meltdown in this country I see a lot of people living beyond their means floating on credit cards and 2nd mortgages.
You can keep that crappy job. Those of us with the motivation and skills will move onto something better.
My 2nd Gen 20GB iPod is still kicking around. And that sucker was expensive. 500 large in 2002. Fortunately I didn't buy it but it's proved its worth everytime.
Wow, all of that writing and you still haven't gotten to the point. Doesn't matter if you agree or disagree with OECD findings. It still remains that the rest of the world has caught up with the US in broadband penetration, and I'm not counting Zimbabwe or Sudan. Most of Western and central europe, southeast asia and the oceana are beating the US.
And this is due to monopolies and cronyism in the government.
By the way the FCC definition of broadband is anything that can exceed 56K.
You are correct. I use Neuf and I get internet ADSL2 at 8Mbps (occassionally 24Mbps if the moon and planets align correctly). Something like 100+ channels of IPTV and VOIP telephone. I don't have to have an analog line to get service either. You used to have to get orange (FT) to provision a line for you first and then switch to another provider, but I think they worked out something to where it isn't necessary. This costs me 35 a month, before the telephone charges (L/D, mobile, 820,890,870s, and information). And some arrondisements (Zones or Wards in english) in Paris have got GPON fiber. I'm waiting for the day it will be available in my area.
In the states I had earthlinks fastest 2Mbps adsl. And it was costing me $39 plus $19 for the POTS line. I think things have gotten slightly better, but if you are in an area with one provider they aren't doing you any favors.
He was trying to take them to the one place in the US you can get free healthcare.
Where there is no torturing going on.
But since they were denied they decided to head over to Havana, instead.
And as the largest hospital in Cuba I'm pretty damn sure there were cubans in there somewhere.
Our problems do not come from a "failure" to socialize medicine. When I was up in Canada, the news was that brain scanners were mostly going to places with powerful politicians. Quebec got an unfair share. Money was disappearing for political reasons.
I'm not in Canada and I don't know much about.
Over in the UK, people are being sent to France for surgery because they'd die on the waiting lists if they didn't go.
Whoa, slow down buddy. Nobody is dying on a waiting list. There is a list, yes. if your doctor thinks it's supercritical you get bumped to the top. As for going to France, if the waiting list is too long then you can be sent anywhere where there is space. An englishman will tell you a ticket to France is a definite upgrade over treatment through NHS. Also, if you didn't know, they pay for this.
Here in the USA we install brain scanners (lots of them too) where there will be patients and we don't die on waiting lists for anything other than an organ transplant -- and that only because we made it illegal to pay the dead person's estate.
Your right there is no waiting list. Those that need that scan get straightup denied if they haven't contributed enough. Fact is lots of people are dying and it's got nothing to do with a waiting list.
We invent new technology, expect to use it, and expect that costs won't rise. Huh? We're expecting to get more for less. That only works for computer hardware. (in a socialist medicine system, quotas and delaying tactics are used to fight this problem)
New technology pricey? yes. Existing technology that has had its R&D recovered through time should be cheaper, no. We expect technology to refine existing technology to make it more affordable. Like computers. A good example of technology that is affordable is OpenMRI(you can google that). I don't know what blocking technique you are refering to. Most social health insurance plans (within the G8) have the same access to new technology as the good ol' USA. I mean a CAT scanner might be rare in Uzbekistan, but I don't know.
The attitude is "I'll pay anything to save my dying children!". We then act all offended that the hospital bill heads toward infinity. Since death is common (100% of your children will die!) you can expect to pay until you can pay no more or until we run out of technology to sell you. (as above, socialist systems deny you this choice)
That's the point of the movie. Do we really place a price on our health. Every other (G8, again) socialist healthcare service can provide these things. Why are 8 million children unequipped? The whole point is to provide for you in time of need. And yes we are all guaranteed to die but I'd rather it happened because I fought to the end rather than the size of my wallet. And those 8 million kids they should get a job with benefits too.
Simple economics is causing all service industries to be relatively more expensive. The factory worker is now more productive because he has huge machines. The high-tech worker is absurdly productive because he only produces digital data which is trivial to replicate. The hospital worker, like the college professor, is not getting such huge productivity increases. Widgets and software can be sold cheaply while still paying the workers well, but hospital services can not be made cheap while paying the workers well. Because everything is relative, hospital costs skyrocket.
So those other countries must be paying a fortune for these things, but they're not. If you really saw the price that other countries are paying for medicine and equipment you'd burn (??pick an HMO??) to the ground.
Over in India, patients have a very limited ability to sue for malpractice and pain and suffering and... Medicine is cheap there. Over here, some doctors must pay millions of dollars per year for malpractice insurance. That means
Tell that to blackberry. I've been waiting for a month for my provider to get the 8800 in stock. And according to the sales rep it's going to be a few more months. And it doesn't have 3G, wi-fi, or bluetooth 2.0.
I think it's great the Apple/Verizon deal didn't work out. This cuts down the delay for international release. You see Verizon doesn't get all the great phones that come out of Sweden or South Korea anymore. They get what's already been on the market for a while. After the develoment costs have been recovered they'll get a CDMA version. Example the blackberry 8800, Nokia (who has completely dropped CDMA development now), and Samsung isn't giving them exclusives (okay, they're "exclusive" to the CDMA network).
If Apple had went with Verizon they would be working with a niche network on niche technology (by international standards). And the development costs would have taken much longer to recover.
I'm not going to go into the pros and cons of CDMA over GSM but as a mac user knows, software gets developed for windows first and everyone else later.
Okay, who else here thought there was a serial console in the bios? I thought the VT was refering to virtual terminal and I know I can't be the only one.
Everytime ana employer gets into legal trouble they should look at the idiot in charge. These decisions come down from up top. And I'm damn sure they know the framework of labor law. If not they should stop by the employee break room. They are required by law to post those federal guidelines. You know, the same ones the manager at McDonalds can magically comprehend.
Every time employers in the US get in legal trouble due to having employees, the pressure to outsource or offshore increases. We have an absolute infestation of laws, lawyers and lawsuits in the US, convincing everyone that he's been wronged.
Outsourcing is done because its more efficient to do so. A lawsuit on overtime isn't going to make much of a difference. So what? I should be grateful to work the hours no matter what it costs me? The labor market is just like any other freemarket. I provide a service and the employer pays for it. And we both agree on the terms regarding hours and wage. When the employer abuses it...
I often see slashdotters complaining that companies won't take a chance on them; the company demands skill X and the applicant thinks he could learn X in no time. Well suppose they hire you and you don't learn X? How hard is it to fire you? In the US, a fired employee has many ways to sue.
In the courts anyone can sue anybody for anything. It's up to the court to decide if the suit has merit or not. If I'm not mistaken most states are right to work so if you are summarily fired then you won't have much. Now if you are fired without cause with an excellent record then they you might have something.
Anyway France is a unique situation. They have plenty of work, trust me I know, but its highly regionalized. And the protest itself was highly politically motivated. The unemployed in the suburbs, who the contract was aimed at, weren't protesting the bill. It was believed to benefit them. No it was the university students, who don't have to work since they get gov't check, who were most vocally against it.
As for crazy overtime, everyone should do it for a few months at least, to find out what it's like and find his own limits. After that, you learn to probe for this when interviewing for a job. My last several jobs have all been about 40-45 hours per week, plus rare crunches.
Work isn't an endurance test so why should I want to see what working overtime is like for an extended period of time. A couple of months? Are u fucking nuts? This isn't college where we procrastinate until the project is due the next day at 8am. Reality dictates a well managed project should meet its objectives, on time (if you are using overtime to be on time your cheating and should pay that premium for doing so). I think 40 hours/week is an agreed upon limit. And it works pretty much everywhere so why should I be looking for more?
I don't know about you but I'm trying to build a good relationship. I'm not trying to work for a couple of companies in a year to find some personal limit. I'm trying to build myself up and a company that appreciates you will want to keep you around.
I'm happy you found a happy medium, but God I hope I never have to work with you.
I think before you use that in a court you might want to check that line with a lawyer first. In a proper court of law. You'll have to convince a judge the hours required were within reason. Like working 90 hours a week for one week of the entire year due to an extraordinary circumstance. That's where IBM and Siebel got hammered. Their extraordinary circumstance became normal business practice.
Putting the customer first only looks during interviews and employee orientation. If you can't manage to keep a project on time with a reasonable (40hrs/wk/employee) timeline than you might have to rethink who is doing the manageùent.
You know what they say about the runner ups....nothing nobody cares or remembers the runner ups. And why can't Creative build a Zen with the iPod connector? Every hacker with 5 minutes to spare has figured out how to create a custom interface.
... I rebooted my VM and it all went to shit. I've been running Dapper on VM for a good while and it was running smoothly. I assumed the upgrade would give me more responsiveness and an overall jump in performance. It couldn't be further from the truth. Once the new kernel was booted VMWare went to "oh shit!" mode and gave me a quarter of the screen I've normally worked in. Even the bootCD can give me 1024x768 but 640x480 is unworkable in KDE. Installing Tools ends in failure because of the new X.org 7.1 which it doesn't want to compile with.
Good thing this was a VM, I can always rollback to the last good nsapshot.
Actually, DDT isn't poisonous to humans (one of the reasons it was so widely used in the past in the US and other countries) but it is poisonous to a lot of other species. The reason it is banned in the US is the catastrophic effect it was having on the bald eagle (the National Bird). The UN still condones its usage in other parts of the world because it is cheap for 3rd world countries buy, and unfortunately the gains (growing foods in poor countries) outway the negatives (killing of species due to egg shell thinning).
IIRC, ALE is integrated into the quicktime codec. If you have an application that can use the quicktime Codec (iTunes, Quicktime player, IE, Safari, etc) then it can also encode/decode ALE streams.
Apple had Dell beat on the open case design by a decade. There were no screws at all. The Mac LCs, IIs and the Apple IIgs had a tabbed latch to get into the inside. The best design by far goes to the PowerMac G3 & G4. You pull the ring and the entire motherboard swings down (still running), attached to the sidewall. IIRC, for Dell and most PCs the ATX specification puts the motherboard on the opposite wall so you still reach into the case to access components.
My favorite is the PMac 8600, 9600, olskool G3 case. They made great fileservers, 4 HD drives on the bottom, 1 atop, 5 removable drive spaces, and a hefty 560W PS to run it all.
Funny, my iPod just died. I didn't send it to Apple I just recharged it through firewire. Apple 1, Duracell 0.
Ohh you meant the other dead battery....well it's been almost a year and still chugging and charging
It's going to be interesting to see what the US doctors do when HMOs start sending patients abroad. HMOs require their doctors to carry malpractice insurance. And this takes up a considerable chunk of their income (some are as high as $250,000/annually, heart and neuro are the highest). If Indian doctors are not required to carry malpractice and thus undercutting USian surgeons I can see the shit storm coming from the AMA about this.
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I read in an article (maybe slashdot?) the way information is routed (because of peering) usually means it moves eastward. Example someone in France looking at a Chinese website would probably be routed over the Pacific, through the US, across the atlantic, and finally land in Western Europe. I guess because of lack of development they aren't many reliable backbones going through central asia.
Most of the middle east, northern and central Africa are also wired through Europe. While we like to assume the internet is this big interconnected web there are some regions that have a single pipe doing the work.
I don't interact with a lot of cops, but I do watch them on TV. I've never heard anyone called a subject. Suspect, con, convict yes I hear those. But not subject.
That's not completely true. The smarter companies do have some vision (of dollars) for the future. Verizon is ripping out miles of copper and replacing with fiber. They know the customers want it and they realized this will kill 3rd party provisioning. Now they don't have to share that line at all.
I'm not sure if it's the same for Intel Macs now but I had a PowerMac G4 that had a password script stored in the NVRAM. You could not change the boot drive nor could you swap out the hard drive. The only way to get around it was to change the motherboard. In a moment of weakness I disabled it because I got tired of having to walk re-enter the password everytime. A few months later my place gets robbed while I was out of town. I keep praying that somehow the nvram will reset itself and the script will start running again. I left my phone number and email as part of the MOTD. But its been almost 2 years.
If paying your bills is your only motivation to "work" than someone needs to reassess their priorities. By watching the mortgage meltdown in this country I see a lot of people living beyond their means floating on credit cards and 2nd mortgages. You can keep that crappy job. Those of us with the motivation and skills will move onto something better.
My 2nd Gen 20GB iPod is still kicking around. And that sucker was expensive. 500 large in 2002. Fortunately I didn't buy it but it's proved its worth everytime.
I've never been able to buy a license of OSX for $130. I've been able to buy upgrades for that price though.
Wow, all of that writing and you still haven't gotten to the point. Doesn't matter if you agree or disagree with OECD findings. It still remains that the rest of the world has caught up with the US in broadband penetration, and I'm not counting Zimbabwe or Sudan. Most of Western and central europe, southeast asia and the oceana are beating the US. And this is due to monopolies and cronyism in the government. By the way the FCC definition of broadband is anything that can exceed 56K.
You are correct. I use Neuf and I get internet ADSL2 at 8Mbps (occassionally 24Mbps if the moon and planets align correctly). Something like 100+ channels of IPTV and VOIP telephone. I don't have to have an analog line to get service either. You used to have to get orange (FT) to provision a line for you first and then switch to another provider, but I think they worked out something to where it isn't necessary.
This costs me 35 a month, before the telephone charges (L/D, mobile, 820,890,870s, and information).
And some arrondisements (Zones or Wards in english) in Paris have got GPON fiber. I'm waiting for the day it will be available in my area.
In the states I had earthlinks fastest 2Mbps adsl. And it was costing me $39 plus $19 for the POTS line. I think things have gotten slightly better, but if you are in an area with one provider they aren't doing you any favors.
Who were probably US soldiers before. since security contractors only recruit ex-forces. But thats just nitpicking
He was trying to take them to the one place in the US you can get free healthcare. Where there is no torturing going on. But since they were denied they decided to head over to Havana, instead. And as the largest hospital in Cuba I'm pretty damn sure there were cubans in there somewhere.
I'm not in Canada and I don't know much about.
Whoa, slow down buddy. Nobody is dying on a waiting list. There is a list, yes. if your doctor thinks it's supercritical you get bumped to the top. As for going to France, if the waiting list is too long then you can be sent anywhere where there is space. An englishman will tell you a ticket to France is a definite upgrade over treatment through NHS. Also, if you didn't know, they pay for this.
Your right there is no waiting list. Those that need that scan get straightup denied if they haven't contributed enough. Fact is lots of people are dying and it's got nothing to do with a waiting list.
New technology pricey? yes. Existing technology that has had its R&D recovered through time should be cheaper, no. We expect technology to refine existing technology to make it more affordable. Like computers. A good example of technology that is affordable is OpenMRI(you can google that). I don't know what blocking technique you are refering to. Most social health insurance plans (within the G8) have the same access to new technology as the good ol' USA. I mean a CAT scanner might be rare in Uzbekistan, but I don't know.
That's the point of the movie. Do we really place a price on our health. Every other (G8, again) socialist healthcare service can provide these things. Why are 8 million children unequipped? The whole point is to provide for you in time of need. And yes we are all guaranteed to die but I'd rather it happened because I fought to the end rather than the size of my wallet. And those 8 million kids they should get a job with benefits too.
So those other countries must be paying a fortune for these things, but they're not. If you really saw the price that other countries are paying for medicine and equipment you'd burn (??pick an HMO??) to the ground.
Tell that to blackberry. I've been waiting for a month for my provider to get the 8800 in stock. And according to the sales rep it's going to be a few more months. And it doesn't have 3G, wi-fi, or bluetooth 2.0.
I think it's great the Apple/Verizon deal didn't work out. This cuts down the delay for international release. You see Verizon doesn't get all the great phones that come out of Sweden or South Korea anymore. They get what's already been on the market for a while. After the develoment costs have been recovered they'll get a CDMA version. Example the blackberry 8800, Nokia (who has completely dropped CDMA development now), and Samsung isn't giving them exclusives (okay, they're "exclusive" to the CDMA network).
If Apple had went with Verizon they would be working with a niche network on niche technology (by international standards). And the development costs would have taken much longer to recover.
I'm not going to go into the pros and cons of CDMA over GSM but as a mac user knows, software gets developed for windows first and everyone else later.
I think you should search for the developer and history of AIX.
Okay, who else here thought there was a serial console in the bios? I thought the VT was refering to virtual terminal and I know I can't be the only one.
Everytime ana employer gets into legal trouble they should look at the idiot in charge. These decisions come down from up top. And I'm damn sure they know the framework of labor law. If not they should stop by the employee break room. They are required by law to post those federal guidelines. You know, the same ones the manager at McDonalds can magically comprehend. Every time employers in the US get in legal trouble due to having employees, the pressure to outsource or offshore increases. We have an absolute infestation of laws, lawyers and lawsuits in the US, convincing everyone that he's been wronged. Outsourcing is done because its more efficient to do so. A lawsuit on overtime isn't going to make much of a difference. So what? I should be grateful to work the hours no matter what it costs me? The labor market is just like any other freemarket. I provide a service and the employer pays for it. And we both agree on the terms regarding hours and wage. When the employer abuses it... I often see slashdotters complaining that companies won't take a chance on them; the company demands skill X and the applicant thinks he could learn X in no time. Well suppose they hire you and you don't learn X? How hard is it to fire you? In the US, a fired employee has many ways to sue. In the courts anyone can sue anybody for anything. It's up to the court to decide if the suit has merit or not. If I'm not mistaken most states are right to work so if you are summarily fired then you won't have much. Now if you are fired without cause with an excellent record then they you might have something. Anyway France is a unique situation. They have plenty of work, trust me I know, but its highly regionalized. And the protest itself was highly politically motivated. The unemployed in the suburbs, who the contract was aimed at, weren't protesting the bill. It was believed to benefit them. No it was the university students, who don't have to work since they get gov't check, who were most vocally against it. As for crazy overtime, everyone should do it for a few months at least, to find out what it's like and find his own limits. After that, you learn to probe for this when interviewing for a job. My last several jobs have all been about 40-45 hours per week, plus rare crunches. Work isn't an endurance test so why should I want to see what working overtime is like for an extended period of time. A couple of months? Are u fucking nuts? This isn't college where we procrastinate until the project is due the next day at 8am. Reality dictates a well managed project should meet its objectives, on time (if you are using overtime to be on time your cheating and should pay that premium for doing so). I think 40 hours/week is an agreed upon limit. And it works pretty much everywhere so why should I be looking for more? I don't know about you but I'm trying to build a good relationship. I'm not trying to work for a couple of companies in a year to find some personal limit. I'm trying to build myself up and a company that appreciates you will want to keep you around. I'm happy you found a happy medium, but God I hope I never have to work with you.
I think before you use that in a court you might want to check that line with a lawyer first. In a proper court of law. You'll have to convince a judge the hours required were within reason. Like working 90 hours a week for one week of the entire year due to an extraordinary circumstance. That's where IBM and Siebel got hammered. Their extraordinary circumstance became normal business practice. Putting the customer first only looks during interviews and employee orientation. If you can't manage to keep a project on time with a reasonable (40hrs/wk/employee) timeline than you might have to rethink who is doing the manageùent.
You know what they say about the runner ups....nothing nobody cares or remembers the runner ups. And why can't Creative build a Zen with the iPod connector? Every hacker with 5 minutes to spare has figured out how to create a custom interface.
... I rebooted my VM and it all went to shit. I've been running Dapper on VM for a good while and it was running smoothly. I assumed the upgrade would give me more responsiveness and an overall jump in performance. It couldn't be further from the truth. Once the new kernel was booted VMWare went to "oh shit!" mode and gave me a quarter of the screen I've normally worked in. Even the bootCD can give me 1024x768 but 640x480 is unworkable in KDE. Installing Tools ends in failure because of the new X.org 7.1 which it doesn't want to compile with. Good thing this was a VM, I can always rollback to the last good nsapshot.
Actually, DDT isn't poisonous to humans (one of the reasons it was so widely used in the past in the US and other countries) but it is poisonous to a lot of other species. The reason it is banned in the US is the catastrophic effect it was having on the bald eagle (the National Bird). The UN still condones its usage in other parts of the world because it is cheap for 3rd world countries buy, and unfortunately the gains (growing foods in poor countries) outway the negatives (killing of species due to egg shell thinning).
IIRC, ALE is integrated into the quicktime codec. If you have an application that can use the quicktime Codec (iTunes, Quicktime player, IE, Safari, etc) then it can also encode/decode ALE streams.
Apple had Dell beat on the open case design by a decade. There were no screws at all. The Mac LCs, IIs and the Apple IIgs had a tabbed latch to get into the inside. The best design by far goes to the PowerMac G3 & G4. You pull the ring and the entire motherboard swings down (still running), attached to the sidewall. IIRC, for Dell and most PCs the ATX specification puts the motherboard on the opposite wall so you still reach into the case to access components.
My favorite is the PMac 8600, 9600, olskool G3 case. They made great fileservers, 4 HD drives on the bottom, 1 atop, 5 removable drive spaces, and a hefty 560W PS to run it all.
Funny, my iPod just died. I didn't send it to Apple I just recharged it through firewire. Apple 1, Duracell 0. Ohh you meant the other dead battery....well it's been almost a year and still chugging and charging
It's going to be interesting to see what the US doctors do when HMOs start sending patients abroad. HMOs require their doctors to carry malpractice insurance. And this takes up a considerable chunk of their income (some are as high as $250,000/annually, heart and neuro are the highest). If Indian doctors are not required to carry malpractice and thus undercutting USian surgeons I can see the shit storm coming from the AMA about this.