Don't forget that though Lucasfilm may not be making any more movies, other movie makers hire out Lucasfilm for technical and special effects expertise.
In summary, The US healthcare system is very screwed... It's not really a free-market system nor a socialized system, but a behemoth that mixes the two together to give us the disadvantages of both, but the advantages of neither.
The law states that life-saving procedures must be performed without regard to the person's ability to pay, but that doesn't mean that the A/R department of the hospital can't try anyway, up to and including getting a judgment against you and garnisheeing income for the rest of your life.
With that said, there's a lot of charitable giving that helps out in this regard. I used to work for a non-profit hospital network that had a multimillion dollar fund to help pay for indigent healthcare. It never seems to be enough.
"People can blow through fortunes (like 7 digit fortunes) in a matter of months if there are expensive procedures to be done."
My parents are a case in point. My dad worked hard his whole life for the same company for over 40 years, and retired from them with a tidy amount of money in his 401k.
Then my mom got West Nile which has caused her many problems. She's now basically blind, very physically weak, and had a whole host of other health problems that wiped out his retirement accounts. Their health plan only went so far, and they're a couple years too young for Medicare. So, my dad will now most likely be working for the rest of his life just to keep health insurance on him and my mom. He's still got a pension, but that's pretty much it.
"I was always skeptical about AJAX. This technology can be useful for Google , Yahoo, or Amazon, and the like . Because regular businesses can not afford it. They can not hire a team of experts to find workaround for dozens of serious problems browsers/JavaScript introduce. Browsers/JavaScript is not an application development environment."
Oh, shit. I better tell my boss that all the AJAX-based apps I've written over the last six months need to be taken down. Apparently, we can't afford them!
My apps are certainly not nearly as complicated as the ones the big boys do, but they're still AJAX, carrying a dialog with the user interface through XMLHttpObject. I'm the only full-time developer at my company.
Shit yeah. I love a nice suit. All the more reason I would hate to wear them to work every day, cheapening something I love as much as that to a work uniform. Bleah.
I've decided to climb a clock tower and take out half my hometown with a sniper rifle. I never would've done this if Jack Thompson didn't do what he does. As such, he is completely responsible for the deaths I cause.
I think the GP was being funny. The implication is that the real point of any lawsuit (that the so-called kneejerk liberal response misses) is not about justice but payoffs and so you go after the guys with the most money.
Seconded. I tried to cheap out at my home office and buy one of those Fry's special $100 office chairs. They're pretty darn comfortable, right up until the plastic molding breaks a year later and you can't take it back.
My Aeron cost 800+ dollars and a year later it's still doing fine. My wife has one from 2001 and it finally broke this year... Not cost effective? Oh yes it was. TWELVE YEAR warranty on those babies. We described the problem to them, they sent us a replacement part and she's still sitting in cushiony goodness. Total cost to us for the fix: Zero.
I can pay 800 every twelve years, or 100 every year. It's not a hard choice in that context.
As much as I hate meetings in general, one of the best jobs I ever had we had meetings EVERY DAY at 10am. They lasted anywhere from 5 minutes to an hour, with the average around 15 minutes, and it was essentially every member of the team (5 of us) talking about what needed to be done next, what they would accomplish today, and any problems encountered if what was to be done yesterday didn't get done. The long meetings were usually hashing out the more difficult (or at least less clear) tasks that needed doing.
When I started there and they told me we met every day at 10, I almost choked. But we had great engineers, we were focused, and we did amazing things, given the time and small size of our team. Unfortunately, we had the bad grace to do these great things in time for our software to be released in 2001. By the time our product won a Linux Journal Editor's Choice award, our company was no more.
One of my favorite parts of BITNET was doing recursive commands.
I remember once asking our mainframe in Oxford, Ohio to ask a machine at MIT to ask a machine in the UK to ask a machine in Israel who was logged in to the VAX across the quad. It took about a minute, but it worked.
"Sony already got all the money they'll get directly for those consoles, that just hurts the stores who's shelves their sitting on. By buying them, Sony will make more, and sell more, taking a loss on each."
Not necessarily so. The retailers can certainly return merchandise to the manufacturer if it doesn't sell. I don't know about Sony specifically, but at Wal-mart, many products on the shelf Wal-Mart hasn't even paid for yet. The suppliers don't get paid until those units get paid for at the checkout. Much of retail these days is selling shelf space to wholesalers and manufacturers.
Speaking as a guy who took two years of music theory and composition in college, "what do you mean, wtf?" Music theory is not a breeze or a blow-off class, and there are definitely right and wrong answers.
Seriously, why do people do this? Compare the price of one liquid to the other because... they're both liquid? If that's a valid comparison, let's turn it around. Why can't I get gasoline (or printer ink, or 30 year old single malt scotch) for the same price as tap water?
These are all examples of different goods. Even the same item is a different good in different circumstances. Example: You're stranded on an iceberg in the North Atlantic, and I come by in my boat and offer you big hunk of glacier ice. What need does it satisfy? It could be argued that a hunk of ice isn't a good at all in this case. Now, you're stranded in the middle of the Sahara and I come by in my dune buggy and offer you big hunk of glacier ice. I think you've probably got another application in mind for it this time, and I'm betting that I might be able to get you to part with something of value in exchange for it.
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All tainted variables do is remind the developer their value is tainted. Better than nothing, certainly, but it doesn't ensure you fixed the problem.
Don't forget that though Lucasfilm may not be making any more movies, other movie makers hire out Lucasfilm for technical and special effects expertise.
Well, look-a-here, Hershel. We got us one of them self-hating geeks. Nothing I hate worse than a geek who doesn't appreciate his own rich heritage.
In summary, The US healthcare system is very screwed... It's not really a free-market system nor a socialized system, but a behemoth that mixes the two together to give us the disadvantages of both, but the advantages of neither.
The law states that life-saving procedures must be performed without regard to the person's ability to pay, but that doesn't mean that the A/R department of the hospital can't try anyway, up to and including getting a judgment against you and garnisheeing income for the rest of your life.
With that said, there's a lot of charitable giving that helps out in this regard. I used to work for a non-profit hospital network that had a multimillion dollar fund to help pay for indigent healthcare. It never seems to be enough.
"People can blow through fortunes (like 7 digit fortunes) in a matter of months if there are expensive procedures to be done."
My parents are a case in point. My dad worked hard his whole life for the same company for over 40 years, and retired from them with a tidy amount of money in his 401k.
Then my mom got West Nile which has caused her many problems. She's now basically blind, very physically weak, and had a whole host of other health problems that wiped out his retirement accounts. Their health plan only went so far, and they're a couple years too young for Medicare. So, my dad will now most likely be working for the rest of his life just to keep health insurance on him and my mom. He's still got a pension, but that's pretty much it.
When I was younger, I took the old two parter and got a combined score of 1340.
I wouldn't be surprised if I took it again today with the three parts and still get a 1340. :-/
FTA:
"I was always skeptical about AJAX. This technology can be useful for Google , Yahoo, or Amazon, and the like . Because regular businesses can not afford it. They can not hire a team of experts to find workaround for dozens of serious problems browsers/JavaScript introduce. Browsers/JavaScript is not an application development environment."
Oh, shit. I better tell my boss that all the AJAX-based apps I've written over the last six months need to be taken down. Apparently, we can't afford them!
My apps are certainly not nearly as complicated as the ones the big boys do, but they're still AJAX, carrying a dialog with the user interface through XMLHttpObject. I'm the only full-time developer at my company.
AJAX and Javascript are a mess, though.
"A sharp 3 piece suit is THE menswear."
Shit yeah. I love a nice suit. All the more reason I would hate to wear them to work every day, cheapening something I love as much as that to a work uniform. Bleah.
I'm willing to bet that you are tromping over another company's patented business model if you try that.
I've decided to climb a clock tower and take out half my hometown with a sniper rifle. I never would've done this if Jack Thompson didn't do what he does. As such, he is completely responsible for the deaths I cause.
I think the GP was being funny. The implication is that the real point of any lawsuit (that the so-called kneejerk liberal response misses) is not about justice but payoffs and so you go after the guys with the most money.
Seconded. I tried to cheap out at my home office and buy one of those Fry's special $100 office chairs. They're pretty darn comfortable, right up until the plastic molding breaks a year later and you can't take it back.
My Aeron cost 800+ dollars and a year later it's still doing fine. My wife has one from 2001 and it finally broke this year... Not cost effective? Oh yes it was. TWELVE YEAR warranty on those babies. We described the problem to them, they sent us a replacement part and she's still sitting in cushiony goodness. Total cost to us for the fix: Zero.
I can pay 800 every twelve years, or 100 every year. It's not a hard choice in that context.
As much as I hate meetings in general, one of the best jobs I ever had we had meetings EVERY DAY at 10am. They lasted anywhere from 5 minutes to an hour, with the average around 15 minutes, and it was essentially every member of the team (5 of us) talking about what needed to be done next, what they would accomplish today, and any problems encountered if what was to be done yesterday didn't get done. The long meetings were usually hashing out the more difficult (or at least less clear) tasks that needed doing.
When I started there and they told me we met every day at 10, I almost choked. But we had great engineers, we were focused, and we did amazing things, given the time and small size of our team. Unfortunately, we had the bad grace to do these great things in time for our software to be released in 2001. By the time our product won a Linux Journal Editor's Choice award, our company was no more.
"Where did you dig that quote up?"
Out of his ass. I think he was meaning to be funny, but most of us on slashdot are too literal-minded to see things like that sometimes. ;-)
Or old enough to remember when we did that shit 30 years ago.
One of my favorite parts of BITNET was doing recursive commands.
I remember once asking our mainframe in Oxford, Ohio to ask a machine at MIT to ask a machine in the UK to ask a machine in Israel who was logged in to the VAX across the quad. It took about a minute, but it worked.
" Or did it just roll over and die?"
No, it's pining for the fjords.
"Sony already got all the money they'll get directly for those consoles, that just hurts the stores who's shelves their sitting on. By buying them, Sony will make more, and sell more, taking a loss on each."
Not necessarily so. The retailers can certainly return merchandise to the manufacturer if it doesn't sell. I don't know about Sony specifically, but at Wal-mart, many products on the shelf Wal-Mart hasn't even paid for yet. The suppliers don't get paid until those units get paid for at the checkout. Much of retail these days is selling shelf space to wholesalers and manufacturers.
That's rediculous!
I've been saying for some time that New Scientust is the Weekly World News of science.
All the news that's printed to fit!
In the United States, 200 years ago was an ancient age, but 200 miles is right around the corner.
In Britain, 200 years ago was just yesterday, but 200 miles is the next galaxy.
:-)
"SIX AP courses (including Music Theory, wtf?)"
Speaking as a guy who took two years of music theory and composition in college, "what do you mean, wtf?" Music theory is not a breeze or a blow-off class, and there are definitely right and wrong answers.
Seriously, why do people do this? Compare the price of one liquid to the other because... they're both liquid? If that's a valid comparison, let's turn it around. Why can't I get gasoline (or printer ink, or 30 year old single malt scotch) for the same price as tap water?
These are all examples of different goods. Even the same item is a different good in different circumstances. Example: You're stranded on an iceberg in the North Atlantic, and I come by in my boat and offer you big hunk of glacier ice. What need does it satisfy? It could be argued that a hunk of ice isn't a good at all in this case. Now, you're stranded in the middle of the Sahara and I come by in my dune buggy and offer you big hunk of glacier ice. I think you've probably got another application in mind for it this time, and I'm betting that I might be able to get you to part with something of value in exchange for it.
What do you mean? Don't you know you can do anything you like at zombocom?
And you weren't the only one. I guess a retread from a day ago doesn't constitute a "serious" problem.