Last time I recall MS putting BASIC on a PC was with Windows 3.11 and MS-DOS. It's not a GUI friendly programming language. It's also a terrible language.
I do however wish they would put a programming language on Windows for creating Windows apps (and other platforms). Trouble is MS makes money from selling languages - as do other providers - so there's no real incentive to give something away for free.
As for a simple language which can be used to do basic things - PERL is one solution. Love it or hate it, it's free, it's as easy to learn as BASIC was, and it has real world uses. Not sure about other platforms though
1) The aforementioned industries took decades to wind down. These days a manufacturer can up an leave in a matter of months, leaving the workforce no time to retrain, and which can decimate entire towns which for decades had been relying on that one manufacturer. And all because that manufacturer can produce their device for a dollar less. 2) The aforementioned industries didn't take a degree costing tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars to get. Typically it was on the job training, for which you got paid.
The nature of capitalism requires a pyramid of people - the highest earners at the top, the lower wages at the bottom. If you ship all the lower wage jobs overs seas your system collapses.
This is what I mean - the Canadians round here seem to use all three date formats. It's so confusing (especially when you're brought up in England where they exclusive use DD/MM/YYYY or are explicit if they want something else - usually YYYY/MM/DD) to see on forms the format they want you to use. I've even seen two different formats used on the same form!
I speculate that it depends on who wrote the form (educated south of the border for example), or whether the company is an American subsidiary - but that is speculation. More often than not though there is no specification on what format they want, so I'm left wondering if (for example) the cheque I just wrote will not be cashed because it's considered by the bank to be post dated. How is the bank to know it's post dated if that's what I intended? It's not been a problem yet, but then I've not had to write a post-dated cheque.
The thing about MM/DD is that's not how I say it. While grammatically correct to use either format, because I write DD/MM, I say it like that too.
I'm a Brit living in Canada, so I see a lot of the American culture pervading into the Canadian lifestyle. When we emigrated I changed all the dictionaries to Canadian English, but I can't see much of a rise in the number of misspellings, either because I can't spell, or because of the weirdness of the use of u's. But I do see a lot of Canadians using both spellings. And like I said, don't get me started about the date formats.
And Stormwatch is quite right - French is also used, although I'm living in an almost exclusively English speaking part of the world (and I can barely string a sentence together in French.) I'd be interested to hear what the difference between French spoken in France and French spoken in Canada.
I wish the Canadians would make their mind up. Either American or British English - but not a screwy mix of the two. And as for date formats, don't get me started!
For this same reason pirating apps punishes open source.
This is only true if there's an open source app that does does exactly what the pirated app does. Unfortunately there aren't nearly as many open source games than closed source.
It is often preferred that a patient is given medication orally, even in a hospital setting. There are a number of reasons for this: cost and reduced rate of infection being two obvious ones. MRSA is a common infection at the site of permanent lines. Shouldn't happen of course, but it does. Oramorph is an example of orally taken morphine. The other thing you should realise is that doctors still prescribe medication when you're in hospital.
The main concern is once people leave hospital and are no longer under the direct care of a doctor and the team of nurses (trust me - nurses are far scarier when it comes to regiments of taking medication).
If they are like any organisation I've worked for, they over write the tapes. So no, they don't.
All they have to do is actually delete stuff when a user asks them to, instead of telling the user they have, and then snickering behind their hands like naughty school kids. The buttons on the webpages are marked "delete", and any user should have an expectation that the button would do what it says it does.
Except that Health Insurance is out of the price range of so many Americans - around 16%. That's 45 million people who have no coverage.
As for who provides it - government, or a private company they both have their faults. I'd rather it *were* provided by government, not some money grabbing corporation whose *only* concern is making money from my misfortune. They are a company after all and there to make a profit, not serve the needs of their clients. Sure they serve the needs of some of their clients, or they'd soon go out of business. But when they employ teams of lawyers and doctors to ensure they don't give the coverage I've bought and paid for, it just demonstrates how morally bankrupt such organisations are, and pushing up the price of healthcare in America beyond the reach of many of it's citizens. Please explain to me why healthcare costs twice what it does elsewhere in the first world, when the quality is arguable no better. Even the World Health Organisation said as much.
Despite asking this question several times on Slashdot, no one has come up with an answer.
I find it sad that you don't consider healthcare to be a need. Personally I find it liberating to know that if I get sick or have an accident (neither of which by definition I have anyway of predicting) I won't have to sell my house in order to pay my medical bills. You want freedom? It's right there.
Whilst it's true dental x-rays seem to outnumber chest x-rays by about 7 to 1 (from my very quick and dirty Google), the size of the dental film is not 7 times that of a chest x-ray by any stretch
For many years Kodak also produced a lot of the film used in x-rays. When a small hospital is producing over 100 chest x-rays a day (on a piece of film that is 35 by 43), that's a LOT of film. The chest x-ray is probably *the* most common film taken (simply because you can tell a lot about the state of a patient's heart and lungs very quickly, at very little cost in terms of money or radiation). It's a big sheet of film - funnily enough about the size of your chest. They made a lot of money with it.
Then digital technology arrived, and Kodak did adapt - producing both CR and DR equipment, printers, and PACS archives. They even won a very large contract with the NHS in Britain to supply many of the hospitals with their radiography equipment.
Quite what happened then I don't know but they got out of medical imaging, but they did at least attempt to adapt to the new scene. Perhaps their financial models revolved too much around the silver they were putting on the old films.
So am I. It's got enough inputs that I can hook up my Playstation, VCR/DVD and my PVR so I just don't need anything else. When this one eventually dies, obviously I get something more up to date. But I don't watch sport, and don't own a Blu-ray player so I just don't need either 3d or HD.
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Last time I recall MS putting BASIC on a PC was with Windows 3.11 and MS-DOS. It's not a GUI friendly programming language. It's also a terrible language.
I do however wish they would put a programming language on Windows for creating Windows apps (and other platforms). Trouble is MS makes money from selling languages - as do other providers - so there's no real incentive to give something away for free.
As for a simple language which can be used to do basic things - PERL is one solution. Love it or hate it, it's free, it's as easy to learn as BASIC was, and it has real world uses. Not sure about other platforms though
So the parent loses their job? Way to go.
Unlikely, otherwise we'd see Republican backed textbooks instead, reasonably priced or otherwise
And who would run the white list? The government? Which government?
Several reasons:
1) The aforementioned industries took decades to wind down. These days a manufacturer can up an leave in a matter of months, leaving the workforce no time to retrain, and which can decimate entire towns which for decades had been relying on that one manufacturer. And all because that manufacturer can produce their device for a dollar less.
2) The aforementioned industries didn't take a degree costing tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars to get. Typically it was on the job training, for which you got paid.
The nature of capitalism requires a pyramid of people - the highest earners at the top, the lower wages at the bottom. If you ship all the lower wage jobs overs seas your system collapses.
My own personal experience (as a Brit) is that either is acceptable, though I personally use the singular.
This is what I mean - the Canadians round here seem to use all three date formats. It's so confusing (especially when you're brought up in England where they exclusive use DD/MM/YYYY or are explicit if they want something else - usually YYYY/MM/DD) to see on forms the format they want you to use. I've even seen two different formats used on the same form!
I speculate that it depends on who wrote the form (educated south of the border for example), or whether the company is an American subsidiary - but that is speculation. More often than not though there is no specification on what format they want, so I'm left wondering if (for example) the cheque I just wrote will not be cashed because it's considered by the bank to be post dated. How is the bank to know it's post dated if that's what I intended? It's not been a problem yet, but then I've not had to write a post-dated cheque.
The thing about MM/DD is that's not how I say it. While grammatically correct to use either format, because I write DD/MM, I say it like that too.
I'm a Brit living in Canada, so I see a lot of the American culture pervading into the Canadian lifestyle. When we emigrated I changed all the dictionaries to Canadian English, but I can't see much of a rise in the number of misspellings, either because I can't spell, or because of the weirdness of the use of u's. But I do see a lot of Canadians using both spellings. And like I said, don't get me started about the date formats.
And Stormwatch is quite right - French is also used, although I'm living in an almost exclusively English speaking part of the world (and I can barely string a sentence together in French.) I'd be interested to hear what the difference between French spoken in France and French spoken in Canada.
I wish the Canadians would make their mind up. Either American or British English - but not a screwy mix of the two. And as for date formats, don't get me started!
For this same reason pirating apps punishes open source.
This is only true if there's an open source app that does does exactly what the pirated app does. Unfortunately there aren't nearly as many open source games than closed source.
It is often preferred that a patient is given medication orally, even in a hospital setting. There are a number of reasons for this: cost and reduced rate of infection being two obvious ones. MRSA is a common infection at the site of permanent lines. Shouldn't happen of course, but it does. Oramorph is an example of orally taken morphine. The other thing you should realise is that doctors still prescribe medication when you're in hospital.
The main concern is once people leave hospital and are no longer under the direct care of a doctor and the team of nurses (trust me - nurses are far scarier when it comes to regiments of taking medication).
If they are like any organisation I've worked for, they over write the tapes. So no, they don't.
All they have to do is actually delete stuff when a user asks them to, instead of telling the user they have, and then snickering behind their hands like naughty school kids. The buttons on the webpages are marked "delete", and any user should have an expectation that the button would do what it says it does.
I don't know for sure, but I suspect it goes something like this:
$50 for the laser
$24,950 for the insurance in case someone sues.
Apart from the part where it's criminal damage, and getting locked up for it loses at lot more than your privacy.
It's the main reason why America's healthcare system is more expensive than elsewhere and in such a shocking state.
Except that Health Insurance is out of the price range of so many Americans - around 16%. That's 45 million people who have no coverage.
As for who provides it - government, or a private company they both have their faults. I'd rather it *were* provided by government, not some money grabbing corporation whose *only* concern is making money from my misfortune. They are a company after all and there to make a profit, not serve the needs of their clients. Sure they serve the needs of some of their clients, or they'd soon go out of business. But when they employ teams of lawyers and doctors to ensure they don't give the coverage I've bought and paid for, it just demonstrates how morally bankrupt such organisations are, and pushing up the price of healthcare in America beyond the reach of many of it's citizens. Please explain to me why healthcare costs twice what it does elsewhere in the first world, when the quality is arguable no better. Even the World Health Organisation said as much.
Despite asking this question several times on Slashdot, no one has come up with an answer.
I find it sad that you don't consider healthcare to be a need. Personally I find it liberating to know that if I get sick or have an accident (neither of which by definition I have anyway of predicting) I won't have to sell my house in order to pay my medical bills. You want freedom? It's right there.
Whilst it's true dental x-rays seem to outnumber chest x-rays by about 7 to 1 (from my very quick and dirty Google), the size of the dental film is not 7 times that of a chest x-ray by any stretch
America is the only place in the first world with death panels
It is debatable that American healthcare is better quality from other countries
And they aren't the only ones saying it either
Even the World Health Organisation says so
A very simply Google will demonstrate that American Healthcare is just as good as elsewhere, and yet costs twice as much as any where else.
Please explain this?
Jeez - I know it's December but it's not quite panto season. Someone will be yelling "He's behind you" next
For many years Kodak also produced a lot of the film used in x-rays. When a small hospital is producing over 100 chest x-rays a day (on a piece of film that is 35 by 43), that's a LOT of film. The chest x-ray is probably *the* most common film taken (simply because you can tell a lot about the state of a patient's heart and lungs very quickly, at very little cost in terms of money or radiation). It's a big sheet of film - funnily enough about the size of your chest. They made a lot of money with it.
Then digital technology arrived, and Kodak did adapt - producing both CR and DR equipment, printers, and PACS archives. They even won a very large contract with the NHS in Britain to supply many of the hospitals with their radiography equipment.
Quite what happened then I don't know but they got out of medical imaging, but they did at least attempt to adapt to the new scene. Perhaps their financial models revolved too much around the silver they were putting on the old films.
Sounds like Ricoh should have waited and bought Kodak.
I'm not a camera buff, but I do recognise both names - but as a consumer Kodak is a much bigger name.
How's Lexmark doing in that corner of the business world these days?
So am I. It's got enough inputs that I can hook up my Playstation, VCR/DVD and my PVR so I just don't need anything else. When this one eventually dies, obviously I get something more up to date. But I don't watch sport, and don't own a Blu-ray player so I just don't need either 3d or HD.