My wife has been through several surgeries as well. I have health insurance through my employer that I pay about 300 dollars every two weeks for. I usually, due to her medical condition, spend about 4500 dollars out of pocket every year. It's a lot of money but it's better than losing my wife. We went through several doctors before we found what was wrong and frankly, if I was stuck with the idiots we started with she'd be dead. It's nice to pick and choose doctors as I've had to fire a few. The hard cold fact of the matter is that it costs a lot of money to keep people alive that would have died 100 years ago. I don't know about Canada's system, I only know the one I've been on for my 53 years and I know it's expensive but it works. The new one being foisted on us is pretty bad and likely to cost as much or more. I remember looking at the bastardized setup they cam up with and thinking that they might as well just socialize health care entirely. What they did has all the problems of both systems with none of the benefits. They passed it and now we're finding out what's in it.
Yeah I like trying everything. I bounce from one distro to another every 6 months or so. They all work pretty well overall it's just the look and feel mostly that differentiate. I do prefer the ones using apt-get over the ones using Yum. The one I've spent the most time with is Mepis. I keep going back to it. I find features in all that I like, maybe if I could find a way to combine them. Too bad I lack the time and skill to package my own distro. I think I'm going to try Arch next. I read an article in a Linux mag recently that made it sound pretty attractive.
I've been using Fedora for a few months now and I don't see that it's horribly slow or unstable. I still think I'm going back to an apt-get type of distro but I fell away from Ubuntu when Unity arrived. I really think I liked gnome 2 better than anything I've seen lately. At some point good enough is good enough and all these changes seem like change for change's sake. How about working on speed and compatibility.
I've been running Fedora 19 for a few weeks now and it just doesn't feel as smooth as PClinux OS did on this machine. It has been stable but then it's been years since I've had a linux distro that wasn't stable. It's not that it's bad, it just isn't as good as some other distros I've tried. I know one thing, the recent trend in linux desktops I do not like. I think Ubuntu right before they dived into unity had about the best desktop of ANY operating system. Then they proceeded to fuck it up. The fedora desktop makes unity look.....slightly less shitty.
If it's a public utility failure doesn't really matter because they just raise rates to mitigate errors. It's the taxpayers that'll bear the burden of failure not the brains at the utility.
I think it's that in house IT people constantly frustrate them by telling them why the stupid shit they want to do wont work. The foreign center will simply go "Okay, if that's what you want." This is usually why outsourcing IT doesn't work. Someone in house wants the company to survive because he's invested a decade or so of his life to it while the foreign unit simply works as a contractor and has little interest in the firm he services except to collect the fee.
I can't see a problem as long as they can communicate effectively. I've had to call for tech support to foreign call centers and I'd say about 1 out of 5 times I get someone who I can understand and who can also understand me. Now when I find I have no choice but to deal with a foreign call center I simply call and hang up repeatedly until I get someone I can communicate with. It takes a few tries but usually I get one of the few who can help me. It's not that they are stupid it's just they have little grasp of english and I understand even less of their language.
They have a right to those monopolies. By cutting costs they are able to deliver services to the taxpayers at a reduced rate. Everyone knows that when they cut costs they drop rates?
But it would make it easier to live there if we had a fuel source. Not to mention all the good work that carbon emissions should do for Martian atmosphere. Mars could certainly benefit from global warming.
I can see your point. Back when every windows upgrade required twice the ram and double the speed in processor I was happy to use linux and avoid the nonsense. A friend of mine has the new i0S7 on his iPhone5 and he seems happy with it but I am not all that impressed with iCandy. It's pretty but if it gets in the way there needs to be a way to turn it off.
I find 12 hour days 7 days a week are okay for a while. After about 6 weeks you start to burn out and need to get some down time. I used to work 20 hours a day for weeks at a time back in my 20's and 30's. Now that I'm 50 I can't pull that kind of schedule. It's kind of like you work, eat and sleep and nothing else. Life turns into a fog.
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My wife has been through several surgeries as well. I have health insurance through my employer that I pay about 300 dollars every two weeks for. I usually, due to her medical condition, spend about 4500 dollars out of pocket every year. It's a lot of money but it's better than losing my wife. We went through several doctors before we found what was wrong and frankly, if I was stuck with the idiots we started with she'd be dead. It's nice to pick and choose doctors as I've had to fire a few. The hard cold fact of the matter is that it costs a lot of money to keep people alive that would have died 100 years ago. I don't know about Canada's system, I only know the one I've been on for my 53 years and I know it's expensive but it works. The new one being foisted on us is pretty bad and likely to cost as much or more. I remember looking at the bastardized setup they cam up with and thinking that they might as well just socialize health care entirely. What they did has all the problems of both systems with none of the benefits. They passed it and now we're finding out what's in it.
.....a VERY good thing!
One thing about Martha, she isn't about to take any crap off anyone. I think these assholes tried to shake down the wrong woman.
Yeah I like trying everything. I bounce from one distro to another every 6 months or so. They all work pretty well overall it's just the look and feel mostly that differentiate. I do prefer the ones using apt-get over the ones using Yum. The one I've spent the most time with is Mepis. I keep going back to it. I find features in all that I like, maybe if I could find a way to combine them. Too bad I lack the time and skill to package my own distro. I think I'm going to try Arch next. I read an article in a Linux mag recently that made it sound pretty attractive.
I think Android is perfect for appliances like media boxes. I'd love to see a nice spec TV box running android.
I've been using Fedora for a few months now and I don't see that it's horribly slow or unstable. I still think I'm going back to an apt-get type of distro but I fell away from Ubuntu when Unity arrived. I really think I liked gnome 2 better than anything I've seen lately. At some point good enough is good enough and all these changes seem like change for change's sake. How about working on speed and compatibility.
I've been running Fedora 19 for a few weeks now and it just doesn't feel as smooth as PClinux OS did on this machine. It has been stable but then it's been years since I've had a linux distro that wasn't stable. It's not that it's bad, it just isn't as good as some other distros I've tried. I know one thing, the recent trend in linux desktops I do not like. I think Ubuntu right before they dived into unity had about the best desktop of ANY operating system. Then they proceeded to fuck it up. The fedora desktop makes unity look.....slightly less shitty.
If it's a public utility failure doesn't really matter because they just raise rates to mitigate errors. It's the taxpayers that'll bear the burden of failure not the brains at the utility.
I think it's that in house IT people constantly frustrate them by telling them why the stupid shit they want to do wont work. The foreign center will simply go "Okay, if that's what you want." This is usually why outsourcing IT doesn't work. Someone in house wants the company to survive because he's invested a decade or so of his life to it while the foreign unit simply works as a contractor and has little interest in the firm he services except to collect the fee.
I can't see a problem as long as they can communicate effectively. I've had to call for tech support to foreign call centers and I'd say about 1 out of 5 times I get someone who I can understand and who can also understand me. Now when I find I have no choice but to deal with a foreign call center I simply call and hang up repeatedly until I get someone I can communicate with. It takes a few tries but usually I get one of the few who can help me. It's not that they are stupid it's just they have little grasp of english and I understand even less of their language.
They have a right to those monopolies. By cutting costs they are able to deliver services to the taxpayers at a reduced rate. Everyone knows that when they cut costs they drop rates?
Hardware from China and software from India.
Don't bother me with details. We have people for that.
But it would make it easier to live there if we had a fuel source. Not to mention all the good work that carbon emissions should do for Martian atmosphere. Mars could certainly benefit from global warming.
It tastes like chicken.
Or they're freaks caused by toxic waste.
sounds really trivial to break. I can see all kinds of kids doing this.
I can see your point. Back when every windows upgrade required twice the ram and double the speed in processor I was happy to use linux and avoid the nonsense. A friend of mine has the new i0S7 on his iPhone5 and he seems happy with it but I am not all that impressed with iCandy. It's pretty but if it gets in the way there needs to be a way to turn it off.
I find 12 hour days 7 days a week are okay for a while. After about 6 weeks you start to burn out and need to get some down time. I used to work 20 hours a day for weeks at a time back in my 20's and 30's. Now that I'm 50 I can't pull that kind of schedule. It's kind of like you work, eat and sleep and nothing else. Life turns into a fog.
The Martians used it in their cars instead of gas. They burned it all up.
Bullshit! We'll keep making up new theories until one of them fits!
Very Scientific! Brilliant!
I just have a hard time with people who piss on my leg and tell me it's raining.
What has the study of rocks got to do with it?
We have to pass it to find out what's in it.