In Scandinavia, most doctors are government employees. They have no incentive for prescribing anything and can freely tell their patients to bugger if they ask for useless drugs. Yes, there are disadvantages to "communist" healthcare, but this story shows there are also some clear advantages. A Belgian Doctor once told me he believed antibiotics should be given as a prevention to all kindergarten kids. A Danish study showed you can cut sick days in kindergartens by half by forcing all children to wash their hands twice a day.
with countries like Poland, who have just absolutely amazing self-reliant and vibrant communities, already leading the way in that regard, having not really changed their way of living for centuries in the first place as "technology" passed them by
Huh? Ever been to Poland in the last 10 years? They are still poorer than the rest of Europe, but catching up fast.
Return vehicles are used for astronauts and important stuff. Not to fill up Ebay. My guess is they wil end up as waste in a supply vessel (like the EU Jules Verne) and burn on re-entry.
Well your silver "lane" will have a certain resistance. Printing a thin wiggely line will make a nice resistor. Two lines just next to each other a capacitor. Obviously you will be limited in the range of Ohms / Farads available, but some basic components should be possible.
you are absolutely right. That is why in Europe, where phones are not restricted, not a single Carrier has survived today. Oh wait... try again
you are absolutely right. If users were to use their USB cable to install a free ringtone, this would totally overload the network. Oh wait... mmm; bollocks
Why is it that anything you don't like "will cost jobs"? We gonna need a ???? / Profit!!! thing for this. 1. Joe Sixpack doesn't look at consumption when he buys a TV. 2. So you impose some standards by law. 3.???????????? 4. Jobs are lost!!!
10: you ping anything on a daily basis, you use a script
9: and you think they will sell it to you cheap??
8: header compression is soooo last year
7: then why are you not running Word95 across your organisation?
6: anybody with brains has put "IPV6 compatible" on the spec list for the last 10 years
5: somebody should invent a way of shorthand writing those adresses... oh, wait...
4: 95% of what I use my car for, I could do in a Ford T model
3: yep, Unfortunately I am not a Telco, are you?
2: or, they could just use some of the shelf IPv4/IPV6 conversion stuff
1: Try to explain an intelligent, educated non-IT specialist what NAT is and why he needs it. Then tell me again it ain't broke.
No YOU are missing the point. Rolling out some stonewool on your attic usually (YMMV) has a payback time of less than 4 years, making it beat 99,5% of all stock market investments. So why is not everybody rushing out and doing it? Because the wife is nagging for a new kitchen. Because the flat is rented out and I'm no longer paying the heating bill, even though I still own the place. Because I don't know, because I don't care. People do not always make the rational decision, but that does not stop the laws of nature. The big 3 stuck to making SUV's because that was what the average american was dreaming about. That didn't stop them from getting run over by Toyota, because Toyota made cars americans could afford.
Oh yes please, PLEASE continue like this. CO2 reduction is BAD for American companies!!! In the mean while, here in Denmark we will develop CO2 reduction technology like insulation,biofuels and windmills. Ten years from now, you can then come back to this forum and ask yourself why Uncle Sam lost all its jobs to a "socialist" welfare state.
Good point if your harddisk has resell value. But for those that need to be scrapped, a thick screwdriver and a hammer will solve your problem in 15 seconds flat, far less than what you need to do a wipe. Also count in the time needed to re-educate your PHB about the finer Gutmann report details. Mega-hole in harddisk is within everyones grasp, even your favourite PHB.
The cycle path behind my house is illuminated with low-hanging LED lights. Sensors at every crossing switch off the lights on those parts of the path which is not in use. There are tests and ratings available to judge how much light specific models of lamp posts send upwards. Write to your city official!!!
I once borrowed an air purity analyser from a pharma company. The thing could print out reports on a little "credit card receipt" printer, and had a USB port for copying the results to a PC. The USB port was filled with silicone: not validated. So somebody was typing in the results by hand every day, because that was cheaper than validating the goddamn USB transfer. We stare us blind on the money going in R&D, but that is not where the real cost lies. The true cost is in the enormous amount of paperwork required before you can produce your first pill. And part of that cost comes from the refusal of governments to standardise requirements and cut back on the red tape. Changing a valve in a factory has to be reported to 3 different authorities. The exact same type of valve is no longer available? Poor you, that number just tendoubled. If we want to make the pharma companies play nice, we could start by letting the FDA and the EDA (european) cooperate, and say that if something is good enough for the US, it is good enough for Europe, and the other way around. After all, if the pharma companies were such a bad boys, their shares would give 100% dividend each year.
I get an invite for a meeting and click "accept". (first and only mouseclick) It auto-syncs to my phone and 15 mins before the meeting, I get reminded of topic and room number. Ever tried that with SMTP? Most big corporations will pump their outgoing mail through a real SMTP server before letting it loose on the net, and use a real SMTP to filter the incomming turdstream before it is allowed to hit Exchange though. And as far as standard complience goes, well I can send and receive VCards and VCals in Outlook/Exchange, try THAT in GMAIL...
Ok, so they want to put a header in their HTML which says: " I know the URL for this shit is http://mysite.org/someverylongshit, but if you ask me for http://mysite.org/shorty then I will serve you the exact same page, cross my heart. In other words, each site gets it own tinyurl.com. Which leaves us whith the big fucking white elefant in the room. If you are going to create short URLS for your pages, why not use them directly, you know, on top where they belong?
The only thing which might work are value added TLDs, where the registrar does more then run a website. A TLD which you can only get hold of if you are a government recognised charity for example. And even then... Somebody is just going to buy ".corn" and use it to do some phishing. This is the worst idea ever.
This is for MOBILE devices. We are not talking Vista here, we are talking Windows Mobile. Microsoft has a notorious history of pouring billions of Windows Tax dollars into other platforms and having very little to show for it. And when they do, they don't mind running around Intel either. The Windows Mobile on my HTC sure like shit isn't running x86. Intel needs a winner on the mobile phone market, and they can't count on automatic MS dominance there. And if you are talking ever cheaper netbooks, then it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out the MS tax takes an ever bigger bite out of that ever shrinking budget, mostly for features the hardware can't handle anyway.
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In Scandinavia, most doctors are government employees. They have no incentive for prescribing anything and can freely tell their patients to bugger if they ask for useless drugs. Yes, there are disadvantages to "communist" healthcare, but this story shows there are also some clear advantages. A Belgian Doctor once told me he believed antibiotics should be given as a prevention to all kindergarten kids. A Danish study showed you can cut sick days in kindergartens by half by forcing all children to wash their hands twice a day.
with countries like Poland, who have just absolutely amazing self-reliant and vibrant communities, already leading the way in that regard, having not really changed their way of living for centuries in the first place as "technology" passed them by
Huh? Ever been to Poland in the last 10 years? They are still poorer than the rest of Europe, but catching up fast.
Return vehicles are used for astronauts and important stuff. Not to fill up Ebay. My guess is they wil end up as waste in a supply vessel (like the EU Jules Verne) and burn on re-entry.
that's the sound of the windmill wing going over your head...
Well your silver "lane" will have a certain resistance. Printing a thin wiggely line will make a nice resistor. Two lines just next to each other a capacitor. Obviously you will be limited in the range of Ohms / Farads available, but some basic components should be possible.
At least they could throw a torrent out there...
Ok, I think I'll grab me coat now....
you are absolutely right. That is why in Europe, where phones are not restricted, not a single Carrier has survived today. Oh wait... try again
you are absolutely right. If users were to use their USB cable to install a free ringtone, this would totally overload the network. Oh wait... mmm; bollocks
Why is it that anything you don't like "will cost jobs"? We gonna need a ???? / Profit!!! thing for this.
1. Joe Sixpack doesn't look at consumption when he buys a TV.
2. So you impose some standards by law.
3.????????????
4. Jobs are lost!!!
10: you ping anything on a daily basis, you use a script
9: and you think they will sell it to you cheap??
8: header compression is soooo last year
7: then why are you not running Word95 across your organisation?
6: anybody with brains has put "IPV6 compatible" on the spec list for the last 10 years
5: somebody should invent a way of shorthand writing those adresses... oh, wait...
4: 95% of what I use my car for, I could do in a Ford T model
3: yep, Unfortunately I am not a Telco, are you?
2: or, they could just use some of the shelf IPv4/IPV6 conversion stuff
1: Try to explain an intelligent, educated non-IT specialist what NAT is and why he needs it. Then tell me again it ain't broke.
If you look at the japanese page, for each wattage they have two boxes, where one shows a blue-ish and one a yellowish light.
No YOU are missing the point. Rolling out some stonewool on your attic usually (YMMV) has a payback time of less than 4 years, making it beat 99,5% of all stock market investments. So why is not everybody rushing out and doing it? Because the wife is nagging for a new kitchen. Because the flat is rented out and I'm no longer paying the heating bill, even though I still own the place. Because I don't know, because I don't care. People do not always make the rational decision, but that does not stop the laws of nature. The big 3 stuck to making SUV's because that was what the average american was dreaming about. That didn't stop them from getting run over by Toyota, because Toyota made cars americans could afford.
Oh yes please, PLEASE continue like this. CO2 reduction is BAD for American companies!!! In the mean while, here in Denmark we will develop CO2 reduction technology like insulation, biofuels and windmills. Ten years from now, you can then come back to this forum and ask yourself why Uncle Sam lost all its jobs to a "socialist" welfare state.
Mount Trashmore in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
Is that like the local rubbish dump?
Good point if your harddisk has resell value. But for those that need to be scrapped, a thick screwdriver and a hammer will solve your problem in 15 seconds flat, far less than what you need to do a wipe. Also count in the time needed to re-educate your PHB about the finer Gutmann report details. Mega-hole in harddisk is within everyones grasp, even your favourite PHB.
How about putting the entire shuttle in a tent and heating it up? Possibly combined with pressurisation?
The cycle path behind my house is illuminated with low-hanging LED lights. Sensors at every crossing switch off the lights on those parts of the path which is not in use. There are tests and ratings available to judge how much light specific models of lamp posts send upwards. Write to your city official!!!
You connect to a network running on DOS??????? Boy, I'd say you have bigger problems than that!
but more difficult to cork...
If they meet resistance, can't they just add some salt to the water?
I once borrowed an air purity analyser from a pharma company. The thing could print out reports on a little "credit card receipt" printer, and had a USB port for copying the results to a PC. The USB port was filled with silicone: not validated. So somebody was typing in the results by hand every day, because that was cheaper than validating the goddamn USB transfer. We stare us blind on the money going in R&D, but that is not where the real cost lies. The true cost is in the enormous amount of paperwork required before you can produce your first pill. And part of that cost comes from the refusal of governments to standardise requirements and cut back on the red tape. Changing a valve in a factory has to be reported to 3 different authorities. The exact same type of valve is no longer available? Poor you, that number just tendoubled. If we want to make the pharma companies play nice, we could start by letting the FDA and the EDA (european) cooperate, and say that if something is good enough for the US, it is good enough for Europe, and the other way around. After all, if the pharma companies were such a bad boys, their shares would give 100% dividend each year.
How about ads for where to sell ^h^h^h^h donate a kidney? (running for the woods now...)
I get an invite for a meeting and click "accept". (first and only mouseclick) It auto-syncs to my phone and 15 mins before the meeting, I get reminded of topic and room number. Ever tried that with SMTP?
Most big corporations will pump their outgoing mail through a real SMTP server before letting it loose on the net, and use a real SMTP to filter the incomming turdstream before it is allowed to hit Exchange though. And as far as standard complience goes, well I can send and receive VCards and VCals in Outlook/Exchange, try THAT in GMAIL...
Ok, so they want to put a header in their HTML which says: " I know the URL for this shit is http://mysite.org/someverylongshit, but if you ask me for http://mysite.org/shorty then I will serve you the exact same page, cross my heart. In other words, each site gets it own tinyurl.com. Which leaves us whith the big fucking white elefant in the room. If you are going to create short URLS for your pages, why not use them directly, you know, on top where they belong?
The only thing which might work are value added TLDs, where the registrar does more then run a website. A TLD which you can only get hold of if you are a government recognised charity for example. And even then... Somebody is just going to buy ".corn" and use it to do some phishing. This is the worst idea ever.
This is for MOBILE devices. We are not talking Vista here, we are talking Windows Mobile. Microsoft has a notorious history of pouring billions of Windows Tax dollars into other platforms and having very little to show for it. And when they do, they don't mind running around Intel either. The Windows Mobile on my HTC sure like shit isn't running x86. Intel needs a winner on the mobile phone market, and they can't count on automatic MS dominance there. And if you are talking ever cheaper netbooks, then it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out the MS tax takes an ever bigger bite out of that ever shrinking budget, mostly for features the hardware can't handle anyway.