He had a PPO, which I would assume isn't cheap - so I'd say he had his priorities straight. He shouldn't have had to pay for the anaesthesiologist, but he ended up having to. It would be like buying an expensive warranty for your car, then having them weasel out of fully paying for an expensive repair because "labor isn't covered at an non-approved garage" or something.
That's good for you, but not everyone is in a position to change their own oil. Some people live in apartments, some people don't have garages. Do you want to change your oil on an icy Minnesota street on a cold winter day?
Also keep in mind that you may not want to do that on a leased vehicle. I don't think leases generally require you to get the work done at a dealer (though they might). But I've seen the financing company claim that a car was neglected (it wasn't) and try to collect more money for "damage" at the end of the lease. Presenting a paper trail showing that the car recieved all the suggested maintance from the user manual from the dealer at the required mileage made them back down. Not really "owning" the vehicle is one of the reasons why I don't like leasing.
Server power supplies, especially in rack mount cases, tend to be higher wattage, smaller and in a more confined space, which means they run pretty hot. So the thermal stress on them is pretty high whenever they are power cycled. The power supply in a typical tower case usually has more room to breathe and runs a lot less hot - and if it's a few years old probably has a noisy fan in it that moves a lot of air, so a power cycle on them means a lot less thermal stress. Also to be considered, in a home setting the computer is going to be subject to more bad power (spikes/brownouts) that you shouldn't have in a server room, but those are only really going to harm the power supply when it's running, and a PC that is regularly turned off in a home will accumulate less dust in the power supply over time too.
Hard drives are an interesting case. If you regularly power down a system, and find one day the harddrive doesn't want to spin up, likely the damage is just starting and you can usually coax the drive to work again and copy everything off of it. If you don't regularly power down the system, then chances are better the damage is done and the drive will never run again. For a business, I expect they have backups and RAID so a drive failure isn't a big deal for them, so if you have the option of powering off the hardware I guess it depends on if you'd prefer to deal with (possibly more) drive failures spread out or big clumps of them when you have to occasionally power down the systems for some reason. But for the home users, I suggest powering down when you're not using the computer, as I've never lost data on a drive in a computer that I regularly power down.
Still, it doesn't make sense. Most places pay in arrears anyway, so what you do is at the end of a pay period, you give them their check for 2 weeks ago. Then your servers get to work crunching this pay period's payroll. This allows you to be more efficient. Since they have two weeks to complete the task instead of three days, You need approximately 6/30 or 1/5 the number of servers (well, maybe you'd want a bit more as you do lose some redundency), and corresponding less A/C, backup generators and floorspace.
Your comment would have been fine as I don't see any problem with pointing out abuse of pardons is not a new thing, except you just had to throw in the insult (which of course makes your claim of a reasonable and neutral comment rather laughable). So given that, it appears you simply can't see someone making a comment about Republicans - even in a discussion about someone who happens to be a Republican - without believing that they are saying the Democrats are the opposite. Which says that you see everything from a polarized, us-versus-them view, which would be rather odd from someone from the "it's not an R or D thing" camp or whatever you claim to be. But whatever, by throwing insults around you're pretty much shown that you're a fucking idiot so we can leave it at that.
As I said, he said nothing about the Democrats, so what's with the snarky comment about his short memory? The fact you just had to jump in with the tired "b-b-b-b-but the Democrats!" argument says a lot about your political position.
My understanding is that the machines have a database in them, which stores how each voter voted in the election, rather than just a simple counter that clocks up. Still, that shouldn't add much complication to a very simple problem.
Just because you can find a few examples of where Apple has optimized things doesn't mean that the new release is faster overall. OSX 10.5 is slower than the previous releases, if you don't believe me try comparing it 10.2 or 10.3 on something like a 400Mhz G3. You'll find 10.5 sluggish no matter the amount of ram, whereas older versions of OSX would run acceptably on the same hardware.
This is one of the fallacies. The money to run the government has to come from somewhere, if you cut taxes for the rich, then someone else has to pay them. We can't simply continue to borrow and spend like we have been doing the past 8 years under Bush. The poor have no money to tax, so you're dumping the tax burden on the middle class. In case you haven't noticed, the middle class is strained to the limit right now, so who is going to buy the products and services the rich offer if they have no money to spend on them? Unless you want to turn the clock back 100 years and have everyone work 80 or more hours a week for peanuts, you're going to want a strong middle class.
Fact is, the tax on the highest income brackets is the lowest it's ever been (go look up what they were 50 years ago - 80%+ and we did just fine back then), and that's not even counting the cuts to things like the estate tax and the capital gains tax. There isn't really any benefit to giving even more money to those that are rich. Trickle-down economics doesn't work - if you want to get the money moving through the economy you've got to give it to the people who need it and are going to spend it, rather than those who are going to just hold onto it. The Republican tax plan is basically a continuation of Bush's plan to widen the income gap and destroy the middle class, which is part of their unstated "cheap labor" platform.
Of course, as a libertarian, I'm not a huge fan of Obama's platform as I would rather cut government spending, which would then allow for a tax cut without more deficit spending (at least after we've paid down the debt some), but I do realize his plan is far better than McCain's.
Why bother trying to dig up dirt on "Joe the Plumber"? All that Obama and their supporters have to do is pretty much nothing at this point to win the election, so there really isn't any point to trying to smear some random dude who asked Obama a question. Besides, it's pretty obvious that Joe the Plumber doesn't know what he's talking about anyway, so it's not like they have to discredit him anyway (though his misconceptions are pretty common amonst middle/lower class people who support the Republican tax plans, so I suppose it wouldn't hurt to try to address some of these).
Inherently more secure doesn't mean anything when the user hands over their password or clicks through Vista's UAC pop ups. Even in the world of Windows that's the number one way malware is finding its way onto people's machines nowadays. It's best to have good security practices rather than use the false security of "X can't get viruses".
Memory check is useful? I usually turn that off if I can, as it's one of most useless parts of the POST. If you want to check the memory, run memtest86, as nearly every computer that has been unstable and fails memtest86 I've seen still gets a clean bill of health from the BIOS memory test. I've even the BIOS pass a system where a stick of memory was inserted wrong and only half the contacts were making contact (it would crash as soon as the OS started loading).
Besides, why does the computer need to check the memory everytime it's started up? Memory rarely just randomly goes bad, if it passed the check and you haven't addued any or mucked around with the timings, it will almost certainly pass again.
That'll only work so long as no one bothers to develop malware for the Mac. Best to learn good security practices first, then chose whatever platform you want to use.
Presumably anything opened from a CD, external drive, floppy, network share, etc. could also infect the computer. Though I do agree, after the files on your local drive have been determined to be clean from a regular scan, there really isn't any reason to keep scanning it over and over and over again.
I found that even though it's more bloated than before, AVG8 is still more lightweight than Avast. I tried switching my 1Ghz P3 from AVG7.5 to Avast when AVG discontinued version 7.5, and it pretty much crippled the computer. Taking Avast off and putting AVG8 in its place allowed the computer to be usable again. I use Avast on my faster computer though.
He'd probably have to suck it up and pay for it, as most of the "free" solutions are only for "home use" and you'd be violating the EULA to use it on a PC you use for your audio editting job. Or stick to ClamAV I suppose.
I'd say there is still a chance CPUs on Earth could be affected. Sensitive experiments here on Earth can be affected by cosmic rays - I've done some astro-photography and you'd occasionally get one that'll hit the CCD and turn a bunch of pixels white. Granted, it's harder to hit a CPU sitting in a metal box inside a building, but I'm sure they occasionally get in there and flip a few bits or something.
Not necessarily, it can be cheaper to just heat the rooms you need with electric than it would be heat the whole building with a boiler/heat pump. That's the basis for "saves money" claims I've seen from businesses trying to sell you electric baseboard heaters in the area I'm in. On the other hand, they could also just save money by turning the temperture down - when I was in college we were cracking the windows open as the rooms were generally 78-80 degrees or so.
I know you're joking around, but you do realize that a lot of businesses already do extended "holiday hours" leading up to Christmas? Many of them start right around the same time we switch off of DST anyway, so it's not like it's a completely foriegn idea.
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Last time I tried to get my car to roll backwards by turning on the headlights, it took a really long time....
Well next time, try taping some cardboard over the taillights or something.
He had a PPO, which I would assume isn't cheap - so I'd say he had his priorities straight. He shouldn't have had to pay for the anaesthesiologist, but he ended up having to. It would be like buying an expensive warranty for your car, then having them weasel out of fully paying for an expensive repair because "labor isn't covered at an non-approved garage" or something.
That's good for you, but not everyone is in a position to change their own oil. Some people live in apartments, some people don't have garages. Do you want to change your oil on an icy Minnesota street on a cold winter day?
Also keep in mind that you may not want to do that on a leased vehicle. I don't think leases generally require you to get the work done at a dealer (though they might). But I've seen the financing company claim that a car was neglected (it wasn't) and try to collect more money for "damage" at the end of the lease. Presenting a paper trail showing that the car recieved all the suggested maintance from the user manual from the dealer at the required mileage made them back down. Not really "owning" the vehicle is one of the reasons why I don't like leasing.
Server power supplies, especially in rack mount cases, tend to be higher wattage, smaller and in a more confined space, which means they run pretty hot. So the thermal stress on them is pretty high whenever they are power cycled. The power supply in a typical tower case usually has more room to breathe and runs a lot less hot - and if it's a few years old probably has a noisy fan in it that moves a lot of air, so a power cycle on them means a lot less thermal stress. Also to be considered, in a home setting the computer is going to be subject to more bad power (spikes/brownouts) that you shouldn't have in a server room, but those are only really going to harm the power supply when it's running, and a PC that is regularly turned off in a home will accumulate less dust in the power supply over time too.
Hard drives are an interesting case. If you regularly power down a system, and find one day the harddrive doesn't want to spin up, likely the damage is just starting and you can usually coax the drive to work again and copy everything off of it. If you don't regularly power down the system, then chances are better the damage is done and the drive will never run again. For a business, I expect they have backups and RAID so a drive failure isn't a big deal for them, so if you have the option of powering off the hardware I guess it depends on if you'd prefer to deal with (possibly more) drive failures spread out or big clumps of them when you have to occasionally power down the systems for some reason. But for the home users, I suggest powering down when you're not using the computer, as I've never lost data on a drive in a computer that I regularly power down.
Still, it doesn't make sense. Most places pay in arrears anyway, so what you do is at the end of a pay period, you give them their check for 2 weeks ago. Then your servers get to work crunching this pay period's payroll. This allows you to be more efficient. Since they have two weeks to complete the task instead of three days, You need approximately 6/30 or 1/5 the number of servers (well, maybe you'd want a bit more as you do lose some redundency), and corresponding less A/C, backup generators and floorspace.
From your link:
Year CPI
1980 82.4
1981 90.9
1982 96.5
1983 99.6
1984 103.9
1985 107.6
1986 109.6
1987 113.6
1988 118.3
1989 124.0
Or in other words, $82.40 in 1980 had the same buying power as $124.00 in 1989. That's inflation.
Your comment would have been fine as I don't see any problem with pointing out abuse of pardons is not a new thing, except you just had to throw in the insult (which of course makes your claim of a reasonable and neutral comment rather laughable). So given that, it appears you simply can't see someone making a comment about Republicans - even in a discussion about someone who happens to be a Republican - without believing that they are saying the Democrats are the opposite. Which says that you see everything from a polarized, us-versus-them view, which would be rather odd from someone from the "it's not an R or D thing" camp or whatever you claim to be. But whatever, by throwing insults around you're pretty much shown that you're a fucking idiot so we can leave it at that.
As I said, he said nothing about the Democrats, so what's with the snarky comment about his short memory? The fact you just had to jump in with the tired "b-b-b-b-but the Democrats!" argument says a lot about your political position.
That's only if you consider having 2 independents who caucus with the other 49 Democrats in the Senate a majority.
What a short memory you have.
And you seem to have a way of reading things that simply aren't there. He never said anything about Democrats.
My understanding is that the machines have a database in them, which stores how each voter voted in the election, rather than just a simple counter that clocks up. Still, that shouldn't add much complication to a very simple problem.
Just because you can find a few examples of where Apple has optimized things doesn't mean that the new release is faster overall. OSX 10.5 is slower than the previous releases, if you don't believe me try comparing it 10.2 or 10.3 on something like a 400Mhz G3. You'll find 10.5 sluggish no matter the amount of ram, whereas older versions of OSX would run acceptably on the same hardware.
This is one of the fallacies. The money to run the government has to come from somewhere, if you cut taxes for the rich, then someone else has to pay them. We can't simply continue to borrow and spend like we have been doing the past 8 years under Bush. The poor have no money to tax, so you're dumping the tax burden on the middle class. In case you haven't noticed, the middle class is strained to the limit right now, so who is going to buy the products and services the rich offer if they have no money to spend on them? Unless you want to turn the clock back 100 years and have everyone work 80 or more hours a week for peanuts, you're going to want a strong middle class.
Fact is, the tax on the highest income brackets is the lowest it's ever been (go look up what they were 50 years ago - 80%+ and we did just fine back then), and that's not even counting the cuts to things like the estate tax and the capital gains tax. There isn't really any benefit to giving even more money to those that are rich. Trickle-down economics doesn't work - if you want to get the money moving through the economy you've got to give it to the people who need it and are going to spend it, rather than those who are going to just hold onto it. The Republican tax plan is basically a continuation of Bush's plan to widen the income gap and destroy the middle class, which is part of their unstated "cheap labor" platform.
Of course, as a libertarian, I'm not a huge fan of Obama's platform as I would rather cut government spending, which would then allow for a tax cut without more deficit spending (at least after we've paid down the debt some), but I do realize his plan is far better than McCain's.
Why bother trying to dig up dirt on "Joe the Plumber"? All that Obama and their supporters have to do is pretty much nothing at this point to win the election, so there really isn't any point to trying to smear some random dude who asked Obama a question. Besides, it's pretty obvious that Joe the Plumber doesn't know what he's talking about anyway, so it's not like they have to discredit him anyway (though his misconceptions are pretty common amonst middle/lower class people who support the Republican tax plans, so I suppose it wouldn't hurt to try to address some of these).
Inherently more secure doesn't mean anything when the user hands over their password or clicks through Vista's UAC pop ups. Even in the world of Windows that's the number one way malware is finding its way onto people's machines nowadays. It's best to have good security practices rather than use the false security of "X can't get viruses".
Memory check is useful? I usually turn that off if I can, as it's one of most useless parts of the POST. If you want to check the memory, run memtest86, as nearly every computer that has been unstable and fails memtest86 I've seen still gets a clean bill of health from the BIOS memory test. I've even the BIOS pass a system where a stick of memory was inserted wrong and only half the contacts were making contact (it would crash as soon as the OS started loading).
Besides, why does the computer need to check the memory everytime it's started up? Memory rarely just randomly goes bad, if it passed the check and you haven't addued any or mucked around with the timings, it will almost certainly pass again.
That'll only work so long as no one bothers to develop malware for the Mac. Best to learn good security practices first, then chose whatever platform you want to use.
Presumably anything opened from a CD, external drive, floppy, network share, etc. could also infect the computer. Though I do agree, after the files on your local drive have been determined to be clean from a regular scan, there really isn't any reason to keep scanning it over and over and over again.
I found that even though it's more bloated than before, AVG8 is still more lightweight than Avast. I tried switching my 1Ghz P3 from AVG7.5 to Avast when AVG discontinued version 7.5, and it pretty much crippled the computer. Taking Avast off and putting AVG8 in its place allowed the computer to be usable again. I use Avast on my faster computer though.
He'd probably have to suck it up and pay for it, as most of the "free" solutions are only for "home use" and you'd be violating the EULA to use it on a PC you use for your audio editting job. Or stick to ClamAV I suppose.
I'd say there is still a chance CPUs on Earth could be affected. Sensitive experiments here on Earth can be affected by cosmic rays - I've done some astro-photography and you'd occasionally get one that'll hit the CCD and turn a bunch of pixels white. Granted, it's harder to hit a CPU sitting in a metal box inside a building, but I'm sure they occasionally get in there and flip a few bits or something.
Not necessarily, it can be cheaper to just heat the rooms you need with electric than it would be heat the whole building with a boiler/heat pump. That's the basis for "saves money" claims I've seen from businesses trying to sell you electric baseboard heaters in the area I'm in. On the other hand, they could also just save money by turning the temperture down - when I was in college we were cracking the windows open as the rooms were generally 78-80 degrees or so.
And obviously why the marketplace is dominated by Windows, and before that, MS-DOS.
I know you're joking around, but you do realize that a lot of businesses already do extended "holiday hours" leading up to Christmas? Many of them start right around the same time we switch off of DST anyway, so it's not like it's a completely foriegn idea.