You make it seem as if it was the fans' kind-heartedness and charity that made these people stars. The public wasn't doing any charity and the rockstars don't *owe* them anything.
These musicians put out a product that people really, really liked and bought in huge numbers. That is what made the musicians stars and millionaires.
Now, if the same rockstars are putting out their product at a much higher price, it is because they think that public will still buy their product at the higher price. It is not selfishness or arrogance but just a matter of testing supply and demand.
If their strategy fails and the public stops buying the product because it is too expensive, the prices will automatically come down.
Kudos on your decision to attend medical school. I have thought about it as well.
Unfortunately it is not so easy.
My intent in not to discourage you but you may be underestimating the amount of time, money and effort it requires to become a doctor. My younger brother recently went through this so I know.
First, you have to take some basic science courses in Chemistry and Biology for a couple of years. You have already figured this out.
After these courses, you have to be able to score a high score on the MCAT entrance examination and have a strong application with top college grades, reference letters and essays to be able to get into a good medical school.
Once you are in medical school, it takes four years. For these 4 highly-demanding years, you have to be a full-time student and you are not paid anything. So you have to use your own money/loans for tuition and living expenses. Tuition for medical school can be easily 50k a year because of all the books/medical tools you have to buy.
After finishing 4 years, you have to prepare and go through a multi-step US Medical Licensing Exam that is quite difficult.
After you get your license, you are not done yet! Now you have to do what is called a residency for at least two more years. This is like an internship where you actually get to practise under a doctor in a hospital. As a resident, you are indeed paid, however, in 2006, the maximum a resident could make was $50000 a year.
After the residency is complete, most physicians have to go for further study and board-certification. Non-board certified doctors are not looked upon favorably by patients, hiring hospitals and clinics. Geting board-certified requires another one year of residency and a set of exams.
Once you are board-certified, you can expect to find a good job that will start at around $150,000 a year (using present day estimates). And, of course, you cannot be outsourced.
So, there you have it, the time taken from the moment you decide to become a doctor and start taking basic science courses to actually becoming a full-fledged doctor is EIGHT years.
Your opportunity costs for time in medical school is about $200,000. If loans were taken for this amount, they would now have to be paid off once you start earning money. Not to mention all the hard work and study that has to go with being a medical student for EIGHT years.
Oh and this was just for a family practice/primary care physician. If you want to be a SURGEON or a specialist like a cardiologist or an oncologist, you can easily add another 2 - 3 years on top of the EIGHT making it about ELEVEN YEARS.
This is pretty cool but one thing I always wanted to see was the insides of an internal-combustion engine in action.
Don't know if one can be constructed given the high temperatutres and pressures involed.
I think it would be way cool to film and observe in slow-motion the actual real-life view of the whole sequence of the up-stroke, fuel injection, the spark, the explosion and the resulting down-stroke of the piston and exhaust.
China sent its first man into orbit in an indigenous spacecraft just last year.
It is planning to send a probe to moon in 2007, first woman to space in 2010 and manned missions to moon much later. India is yet to do any of this.
USA did these about 35 years ago.
One thing the Chinese and Indians are good at - is taking a design replicating it in large numbers.
This is a good thing by the way. It makes the production costs of hardware and software smaller.
At the same time, true innovation is only just now starting to happen there. While they send early rockets in space and explode little nuclear devices, the US has moved onto technologies such as bombing deep space comets, Mars exploration, Nanotech Medicine and Stealth and lots of shit no one even knows about.
I only maintain my land line now for my HD Tivo to dial out from
You could be smarter!
If you already have broadband for VOIP, use the connection for Tivo's network-connectivity feature to do updates over the network. All you need is a USB-to-CAT5 adapter. This will save you another $30-50 a month.
Certification versus Actual Job Experience
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Before the inevitable torrent of posts on this subject, here is how it works:
Assume there are 2 people up for a job:
(1) If neither has the experience and one has the certification, the one with the certification wins.
(2) If one has the experience and no certification and other has no experience but a certification, the person with experience wins.
(3) If both have the same experience and only one has the extra certification, the one with the certification wins.
(4) If both have the same certifications and the same experience, the one who is cheaper wins.
(5) If both have certifications and neither has any experience, the one who talks better wins.
(5) If neither has any certifications or experience, the one who looks better wins.
Hibernate is JDOish but does not follow Sun JDO Spec. But.. Gavin King of Hibernate became a member of JD02.0 Expert Group and would make it compatible with JDO 2.0 Spec.
JBOSS is adopting Hibernate as the underlying persistence mechanism for its Container-Managed Entity Java Beans.
EJB 3.0 rejected JDO 2.0.
So.. now I am confused. Who is the winner? Should I buy the book or not?
Anyone care to enlighten us?
Re:No matter how careful you are, you aren't enoug
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You may not be getting junk mail but you are breaking the law.
In most states, having a wrong address on your driver's license is against the law. You are supposed to get it updated within a couple of weeks of your move.
Companies hype small form-factor Desktop PCs or Thin Blade Servers as if they invented something new. All it is, is a laptop in a new package. That is why the prices are high.
What the companies do is take out the Pentium M motherboard and other small components from a notebook, dump the LCD and then package it all in a small thin box and call it the latest, greatest thin desktop/blade server.
The researchers calculate that a 10 cm long microwire can carry out 10 million divisions or cells and in each one of these a byte can be stored. In order to store the byte, each one of these cells is magnetised in one orientation or the other.
Don't they mean a "bit"? How can you store a whole byte with just two magnetic orientations?
This guy has never really been successful in any Round-The-World (RTW) flight attempts. He tried five times to do a solo-balloon flight round the world. He failed everytime. The sixth one in July, 2002 was claimed to be a successful RTW flight but many authorities disagree because he was too far south of the equator.
I guess, as long as he has his billions, he can continue to indulge in these quests until he succeeds - whether it is via a balloon or a jet-powered airplane.
The so-called hack does not really use anything that is unique to a hard drive. He just cannibalized one to get some metal rings and some shiny metal thingies to hang them from.
Could have used a VCR, a CD player or even a bike!
Most people in the Defense and Military sectors around the world say that terrorists or any small nation wanting nuclear capability will NOT build a nuclear bomb. It is much easier, cleaner and way cheaper to buy it from a willing seller.
The Jenkins Act requires anyone who sells cigarettes into any state, to report those sales to each state monthly. This would include your name and order information. Native Americans are exempt from the Jenkins Act because they are independent nations under their federal treaties.
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sorry.. wrong joke then.
I kept hearing blue screams of death.
You make it seem as if it was the fans' kind-heartedness and charity that made these people stars. The public wasn't doing any charity and the rockstars don't *owe* them anything.
These musicians put out a product that people really, really liked and bought in huge numbers. That is what made the musicians stars and millionaires.
Now, if the same rockstars are putting out their product at a much higher price, it is because they think that public will still buy their product at the higher price. It is not selfishness or arrogance but just a matter of testing supply and demand.
If their strategy fails and the public stops buying the product because it is too expensive, the prices will automatically come down.
umm.. actually..
Putting a computer in the hands of a nerd can be a powerful thing.
I am sure if the said computer was given to Chuck Norris as a child, the computer would have ended up as a totally shattered thing.
Unfortunately it is not so easy.
My intent in not to discourage you but you may be underestimating the amount of time, money and effort it requires to become a doctor. My younger brother recently went through this so I know.
First, you have to take some basic science courses in Chemistry and Biology for a couple of years. You have already figured this out.
After these courses, you have to be able to score a high score on the MCAT entrance examination and have a strong application with top college grades, reference letters and essays to be able to get into a good medical school.
Once you are in medical school, it takes four years. For these 4 highly-demanding years, you have to be a full-time student and you are not paid anything. So you have to use your own money/loans for tuition and living expenses. Tuition for medical school can be easily 50k a year because of all the books/medical tools you have to buy.
After finishing 4 years, you have to prepare and go through a multi-step US Medical Licensing Exam that is quite difficult.
After you get your license, you are not done yet! Now you have to do what is called a residency for at least two more years. This is like an internship where you actually get to practise under a doctor in a hospital. As a resident, you are indeed paid, however, in 2006, the maximum a resident could make was $50000 a year.
After the residency is complete, most physicians have to go for further study and board-certification. Non-board certified doctors are not looked upon favorably by patients, hiring hospitals and clinics. Geting board-certified requires another one year of residency and a set of exams.
Once you are board-certified, you can expect to find a good job that will start at around $150,000 a year (using present day estimates). And, of course, you cannot be outsourced.
So, there you have it, the time taken from the moment you decide to become a doctor and start taking basic science courses to actually becoming a full-fledged doctor is EIGHT years.
Your opportunity costs for time in medical school is about $200,000. If loans were taken for this amount, they would now have to be paid off once you start earning money. Not to mention all the hard work and study that has to go with being a medical student for EIGHT years.
Oh and this was just for a family practice/primary care physician. If you want to be a SURGEON or a specialist like a cardiologist or an oncologist, you can easily add another 2 - 3 years on top of the EIGHT making it about ELEVEN YEARS.
If you are still excited at the thought of becoming a doctor, go for it. Here is some more info: http://www.bestpremed.com/MDprof.php
I would like to save money by switching to VOIP but all the horror stories I hear from customers of Vonage, Sunrocket etc scare me.
Is this just a case of small but vocal minority or is VOIP still not ready for primetime? Any advice will be appreciated.
To stay young, play:
Halo: El Combate Ha Evolucionado
Don't know if one can be constructed given the high temperatutres and pressures involed.
I think it would be way cool to film and observe in slow-motion the actual real-life view of the whole sequence of the up-stroke, fuel injection, the spark, the explosion and the resulting down-stroke of the piston and exhaust.
China sent its first man into orbit in an indigenous spacecraft just last year. It is planning to send a probe to moon in 2007, first woman to space in 2010 and manned missions to moon much later. India is yet to do any of this.
USA did these about 35 years ago.
One thing the Chinese and Indians are good at - is taking a design replicating it in large numbers. This is a good thing by the way. It makes the production costs of hardware and software smaller.
At the same time, true innovation is only just now starting to happen there. While they send early rockets in space and explode little nuclear devices, the US has moved onto technologies such as bombing deep space comets, Mars exploration, Nanotech Medicine and Stealth and lots of shit no one even knows about.
They may catch up but it will take time...
You could be smarter!
If you already have broadband for VOIP, use the connection for Tivo's network-connectivity feature to do updates over the network. All you need is a USB-to-CAT5 adapter. This will save you another $30-50 a month.
Assume there are 2 people up for a job:
(1) If neither has the experience and one has the certification, the one with the certification wins.
(2) If one has the experience and no certification and other has no experience but a certification, the person with experience wins.
(3) If both have the same experience and only one has the extra certification, the one with the certification wins.
(4) If both have the same certifications and the same experience, the one who is cheaper wins.
(5) If both have certifications and neither has any experience, the one who talks better wins.
(5) If neither has any certifications or experience, the one who looks better wins.
What is the latest on this battle?
There are so many soundbites floating around:
Hibernate is JDOish but does not follow Sun JDO Spec. But.. Gavin King of Hibernate became a member of JD02.0 Expert Group and would make it compatible with JDO 2.0 Spec.
JBOSS is adopting Hibernate as the underlying persistence mechanism for its Container-Managed Entity Java Beans.
EJB 3.0 rejected JDO 2.0.
So.. now I am confused. Who is the winner? Should I buy the book or not? Anyone care to enlighten us?
SHEEEEEESHH !!!
You may not be getting junk mail but you are breaking the law.
In most states, having a wrong address on your driver's license is against the law. You are supposed to get it updated within a couple of weeks of your move.
Try this:
Whitespace
It is so obfuscated, you cannot even see it!
I guess I might as well buy those enlargement pills after all.
Hey, you never know...
Companies hype small form-factor Desktop PCs or Thin Blade Servers as if they invented something new. All it is, is a laptop in a new package. That is why the prices are high.
What the companies do is take out the Pentium M motherboard and other small components from a notebook, dump the LCD and then package it all in a small thin box and call it the latest, greatest thin desktop/blade server.
From the article:
The researchers calculate that a 10 cm long microwire can carry out 10 million divisions or cells and in each one of these a byte can be stored. In order to store the byte, each one of these cells is magnetised in one orientation or the other.
Don't they mean a "bit"? How can you store a whole byte with just two magnetic orientations?
This guy has never really been successful in any Round-The-World (RTW) flight attempts. He tried five times to do a solo-balloon flight round the world. He failed everytime. The sixth one in July, 2002 was claimed to be a successful RTW flight but many authorities disagree because he was too far south of the equator.
I guess, as long as he has his billions, he can continue to indulge in these quests until he succeeds - whether it is via a balloon or a jet-powered airplane.
The so-called hack does not really use anything that is unique to a hard drive. He just cannibalized one to get some metal rings and some shiny metal thingies to hang them from.
Could have used a VCR, a CD player or even a bike!
A little lame.
If and when I want reviews on a movie, this is the best review aggregator site I have found so far:
MRQE
I wonder how much this will sell for?
http://slsahdot.org
Most people in the Defense and Military sectors around the world say that terrorists or any small nation wanting nuclear capability will NOT build a nuclear bomb. It is much easier, cleaner and way cheaper to buy it from a willing seller.
The Jenkins Act requires anyone who sells cigarettes into any state, to report those sales to each state monthly. This would include your name and order information. Native Americans are exempt from the Jenkins Act because they are independent nations under their federal treaties.
Playing Darts is Strictly Forbidden!