One of the things that is astounding about the american health care system to an outsider is its utter complexity and inefficient bureaucracies, with their sometimes kafkaesque cruelty.
Yep, the US healthcare system is the only one in the whole world that could be described like that.
You're using the word "learn" as if memorising stuff is somehow equivalent to gaining knowledge. Wikipedia, while interesting, is not a university. Youtube, while entertaining, is not a college. Gaining knowledge is a discipline, not a past-time.
The number being bandied about was 1600, not 16 000, and it seems to have arisen from a misinterpretation of SEC filings.
"Despite what some of last weekâ(TM)s headline writers suggested, Apple did not fire 1,600 of its store employees, nor did the company announce or report anything to that effect. The rumors seem to have been born out of some mathematical inferences from Appleâ(TM)s latest quarterly SEC filing. "...
"Although there has been no official comment from the Apple folks, most likely, their store hours have been cut and vacant positions have remained unfilled over the past year because of general retail recession. It would be pretty impossible for Apple to do a substantial secret layoff over the period of a year without anyone noticing. Apple has better things to do with its creativity than that. "
>>You don't really tell us enough to know what your needs are, how big the crew is, how many units, etc.
And that is the problem with the question. He should be coming here with numbers of people, a list of things that actually need to be done on the computers and some idea of how much he can spend on hardware. "Computers use will mainly be for communications and writing." Could be anything. What software for writing? Collaborative?
This doesn't take into account peripherals required to work with the systems. He also says "no editing" but you never know...
How come your post about SSI is scored zero. I have a website with 3000 pages, multiple "subsites". Without SSI I would be up shit creek. Every page is either using the general navigation or one of about 60 specific ones.
Maybe if I was a database guy I could have done it another way, but it's all pure HTML. As long as it's on a web server, it can run.
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I knew an Aboriginal girl who told me she hadn't seen a toothbrush until she was 15. And her teeth were perfect. Then she moved into town, discovered toothbrushes (and sweet sugary stuff) and her teeth went to crap, just like everyone else's.
" I do use Dreamweaver for specific stuff now - the big one being templating so I can offload a lot of the simple page maintenance by giving people Contribute.:"
The perfect combination. Forget those fancy (and prone to breakage) CMSs: DW and Contribute rule.
Growing up through the 70s and 80s, all I remember hearing about on the news Bangladesh is floods. It seems to have been flodding for ages. Flooded coastal areas seems like more of the same for them.
My wife attended a national conference on Quality in Healthcare and was stunned to see it being used in more than one presentation. I think that people who use it are trying to avoid being confrontational, trying to appear 'friendly' and casual. However, it's use in a serious presentation tells me the presenter doesn't have much confidence in their own material.
My theory was that marriage was invented by mobs of ugly men. Or maybe by alpha males that were just plain shagged out and wanted a reason to cut down on the number of wives.
It's for my wife's work so I'm getting MS Office to be safe. I would have done the same with the MacBook, so that's a zero sum exercise anyway.
I added Apple RAM for the exercise and was about the same price as the Dell RAM anyway.
The Dell's graphics card had its own RAM whereas the MacBook doesn't. That's not so bad because I have more confidence in OS X being able to run with that sort of HW whereas I think Windows needs as much as you can throw at it.
I wouldn't get ANY laptop without an extended warranty. I may be over-cautious, but we'll see how I go over the next 3 years.
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One of the things that is astounding about the american health care system to an outsider is its utter complexity and inefficient bureaucracies, with their sometimes kafkaesque cruelty.
Yep, the US healthcare system is the only one in the whole world that could be described like that.
Yes but apart from the blistered, the infected, the tubercular and the malnourished, the rest of the people were generally healthy.
You're using the word "learn" as if memorising stuff is somehow equivalent to gaining knowledge. Wikipedia, while interesting, is not a university. Youtube, while entertaining, is not a college. Gaining knowledge is a discipline, not a past-time.
The number being bandied about was 1600, not 16 000, and it seems to have arisen from a misinterpretation of SEC filings.
"Despite what some of last weekâ(TM)s headline writers suggested, Apple did not fire 1,600 of its store employees, nor did the company announce or report anything to that effect. The rumors seem to have been born out of some mathematical inferences from Appleâ(TM)s latest quarterly SEC filing. " ...
"Although there has been no official comment from the Apple folks, most likely, their store hours have been cut and vacant positions have remained unfilled over the past year because of general retail recession. It would be pretty impossible for Apple to do a substantial secret layoff over the period of a year without anyone noticing. Apple has better things to do with its creativity than that. "
Source:
http://retailindustry.about.com/b/2009/04/26/us-retail-industry-weekly-numbers-1600-apple-store-layoff-rumors-30-store-closings-162-store-openings-and-one-big-bankruptcy.htm
Well he should sort it out with the principal. And if that doesn't work, throw a linux-powered netbook at his head. Linux solves another problem!
But the fish dad has a good reason to be over-protective (all his other kids and wife got eaten).
They what?! Mum and Dad said there was an incident and all the fish were taken to fish hospital. To get better. Or was that "to get battered"?
>>You don't really tell us enough to know what your needs are, how big the crew is, how many units, etc.
And that is the problem with the question. He should be coming here with numbers of people, a list of things that actually need to be done on the computers and some idea of how much he can spend on hardware. "Computers use will mainly be for communications and writing." Could be anything. What software for writing? Collaborative?
This doesn't take into account peripherals required to work with the systems. He also says "no editing" but you never know...
More info needed.
How come your post about SSI is scored zero. I have a website with 3000 pages, multiple "subsites". Without SSI I would be up shit creek. Every page is either using the general navigation or one of about 60 specific ones.
Maybe if I was a database guy I could have done it another way, but it's all pure HTML. As long as it's on a web server, it can run.
I knew an Aboriginal girl who told me she hadn't seen a toothbrush until she was 15. And her teeth were perfect. Then she moved into town, discovered toothbrushes (and sweet sugary stuff) and her teeth went to crap, just like everyone else's.
We should now be entering the Diamond Age.
" I do use Dreamweaver for specific stuff now - the big one being templating so I can offload a lot of the simple page maintenance by giving people Contribute.:"
The perfect combination. Forget those fancy (and prone to breakage) CMSs: DW and Contribute rule.
What they fail to mention is that prior to 1972, no-one ran. Then jogging was invented and we've regretted it ever since.
Growing up through the 70s and 80s, all I remember hearing about on the news Bangladesh is floods. It seems to have been flodding for ages. Flooded coastal areas seems like more of the same for them.
Because you mightn't like the reply?
1. I hope you now use CSS :-)
2. Dreamweaver's sitewide Find and Replace would have been quicker and easier
My wife attended a national conference on Quality in Healthcare and was stunned to see it being used in more than one presentation. I think that people who use it are trying to avoid being confrontational, trying to appear 'friendly' and casual. However, it's use in a serious presentation tells me the presenter doesn't have much confidence in their own material.
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1. They got the photo from the army
2. The Marines made Saddam watch the movie over and over again.
I thought being high up in the chess club was a worthy display of prowess. Seems it wasn't. Who knew?
Personally, I buy beer that hasn't been clarified by anything, let alone piscean bladders.
(Unless it's "Treadmill",the mighty lager, with the world's first great taste of fish! Obscure Monty Python reference there)
My theory was that marriage was invented by mobs of ugly men. Or maybe by alpha males that were just plain shagged out and wanted a reason to cut down on the number of wives.
Either way, it works for me!
It's for my wife's work so I'm getting MS Office to be safe. I would have done the same with the MacBook, so that's a zero sum exercise anyway.
I added Apple RAM for the exercise and was about the same price as the Dell RAM anyway.
The Dell's graphics card had its own RAM whereas the MacBook doesn't. That's not so bad because I have more confidence in OS X being able to run with that sort of HW whereas I think Windows needs as much as you can throw at it.
I wouldn't get ANY laptop without an extended warranty. I may be over-cautious, but we'll see how I go over the next 3 years.
When I re-read LOTR there was this whole section on Tom Bombadil that I (and Peter Jackson) had forgotten about. It just went on and on and on...
The guy had talent. He also loved his own writing, I think. What he also needed was a ruthless editor.
I didn't read the article and I'm not sure exactly what you want, but take a look at Bookends from Sonny Software.
Saved my butt, made life easy.
http://www.sonnysoftware.com/
Reference Management and Bibliography Software for Mac OS X
Nope. I use Flash 10 with Firefox on a PC running XP, and Flash 10 with Safari and Firefox on a Mac running 10.5.
Fleshlight.
You SOB. I just took a swig of Coke when I read that.