I'm not sure an NHS type system would be right for the US - but there are steps which can be taken to improve healthcare in the US. For instance, introduce free primary care - i.e. you're sick, and want to see a doctor, and for yearly checkups.
Even in the UK where all services are essentially "free" (it gets paid via taxation) - there is still a large private healthcare market. I don't see why this could not continue in the US alongside some sort of state funded primary care.
Depending on who you ask, the total cost of the war could well be $2 trillion. If that money was spend for instance on giving every US citizen access to free primary care - where conditions can be caught early, and preventative steps taken for conditions which are likely to occur in a particular individual - I think it would be money better spent.
"The move to PeopleSoft at Arizona State has left hundreds of employees high and dry with smaller or empty paychecks. Employees are bouncing checks and having to scramble for loans to pay bills."
Actually you can do cheaper for Australia - check:
http://niftylist.co.uk/calls/to/australia/landline/
These are dial-through services - start at half a pence per minute.
You can also dial landlines "free" using SIP services from a company called betamax. Check this site for a comparison:
http://www.backsla.sh/betamax
Betamax have a load of different SIP services - and they all come with a free PC based client similar to Skype or with some of them you can use a standard ATA device with a real phone connected. You get a number of 'freedays' which you can call several destinations for free, and after that you generally pay 1 eurocent per minute.
Mhh, why don't they just continue using GPLv2 linux code. Ok, they won't have new fixes - but this is an embedded device - do they need them?
Re:This is why my company is starting a move to Li
on
The End is Nigh for XP
·
· Score: 1
I don't think Microsoft are interested in you - they are interested in the Microsoft tax which goes along with every new PC sold - and the power and control they have by owning a vast majority of all the desktops on the planet (including the browser).
Totally agree. I too have small children, and I would never buy them any current console. The games are just too violent, and not intuitive for their little fingers. Can you imagine a 3 or 4 year old with an xbox type controller? They would loose interest quickly.
Nintento have just hit a hot-button on a market which others have ignored for years - young families of parents who were once gamers and would like their children to re-live that magic they experienced in their own youth - but without the blood-and-guts violence that seems to be prevalent in current games.
I'm surprised thin clients have not become more common - all you need is a screen, a keyboard, some memory, perhaps some local flash, and a network connection.
In the UK many fixed speed cameras are digital - as are the automatic number plate (license plate for you americans) recognition for the congestion charging zone in London.
Am I the only one who is a bit disturbed about this? I wonder, when was the last time an American was extradited for a crime he commited on American soil?
When was the last time an American was extradited at all?
I wonder if the theaters are worried about lock-in from the studios. Once they pay for the projecting equipment and control the DRM, the studios call the shots on everything that is played in that theater.
This is basically iridology - which is an "alternative" therapy. It sounds like the same doctors who were saying that iridology was "nonsense" are now putting a new twist on it, calling it 'new science', and calling it their own - and respectable!
Slashdot Mirror
You mean $200 billion - right?
I'm not sure an NHS type system would be right for the US - but there are steps which can be taken to improve healthcare in the US. For instance, introduce free primary care - i.e. you're sick, and want to see a doctor, and for yearly checkups.
Even in the UK where all services are essentially "free" (it gets paid via taxation) - there is still a large private healthcare market. I don't see why this could not continue in the US alongside some sort of state funded primary care.
Depending on who you ask, the total cost of the war could well be $2 trillion. If that money was spend for instance on giving every US citizen access to free primary care - where conditions can be caught early, and preventative steps taken for conditions which are likely to occur in a particular individual - I think it would be money better spent.
With what has been spent on the Iraq war, the US could have funded a national health service.
I think the issue here is the size of the Eee, not the features. You won't find something of the Eee's side for that price.
The wikipedia article implies that there is a fan and the next version of the Eee due in April 2008 will be without one.
This is just what I want - a small, cheap thin client. I think this one will be on my xmas list.
Being solid state - i'm thinking that this thing will be ultra quite too.
This sounds strangely like Plan9
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/
Yes, but you don't seem to be able to search any of that unlimited e-mail. I suspect a bug, but it has been there a long time and no sign of a fix.
I use POP3 with Yahoo - but you have to pay.
I'm surprised at this move - I would have thought that they would go for a yearly subscription model with the first year free.
http://csueu9.blogspot.com/2007/08/peoplesoft-no-pay-for-arizona-state.html
"The move to PeopleSoft at Arizona State has left hundreds of employees high and dry with smaller or empty paychecks. Employees are bouncing checks and having to scramble for loans to pay bills."
Regardless of the motive - they did the right thing.
This is something to applaud rather than pour scorn on.
Not seeing anyone comment on this yet - I think everyone must feel the same as me.
Speechless.
Kudos to IBM.
Actually you can do cheaper for Australia - check: http://niftylist.co.uk/calls/to/australia/landline/ These are dial-through services - start at half a pence per minute. You can also dial landlines "free" using SIP services from a company called betamax. Check this site for a comparison: http://www.backsla.sh/betamax Betamax have a load of different SIP services - and they all come with a free PC based client similar to Skype or with some of them you can use a standard ATA device with a real phone connected. You get a number of 'freedays' which you can call several destinations for free, and after that you generally pay 1 eurocent per minute.
I still use Windows 2000 as my windows desktop (when i'm not using a *ix system). Nothing wrong with it - no reason to upgrade.
How big is the tank?
Mhh, why don't they just continue using GPLv2 linux code. Ok, they won't have new fixes - but this is an embedded device - do they need them?
I don't think Microsoft are interested in you - they are interested in the Microsoft tax which goes along with every new PC sold - and the power and control they have by owning a vast majority of all the desktops on the planet (including the browser).
Totally agree. I too have small children, and I would never buy them any current console. The games are just too violent, and not intuitive for their little fingers. Can you imagine a 3 or 4 year old with an xbox type controller? They would loose interest quickly. Nintento have just hit a hot-button on a market which others have ignored for years - young families of parents who were once gamers and would like their children to re-live that magic they experienced in their own youth - but without the blood-and-guts violence that seems to be prevalent in current games.
It is called a "Web Browser".
I'm surprised thin clients have not become more common - all you need is a screen, a keyboard, some memory, perhaps some local flash, and a network connection.
In the UK many fixed speed cameras are digital - as are the automatic number plate (license plate for you americans) recognition for the congestion charging zone in London.
Am I the only one who is a bit disturbed about this? I wonder, when was the last time an American was extradited for a crime he commited on American soil? When was the last time an American was extradited at all?
I wonder if the theaters are worried about lock-in from the studios. Once they pay for the projecting equipment and control the DRM, the studios call the shots on everything that is played in that theater.
This is basically iridology - which is an "alternative" therapy. It sounds like the same doctors who were saying that iridology was "nonsense" are now putting a new twist on it, calling it 'new science', and calling it their own - and respectable!
A smart power strip can help you - should work with a PC, but I don't see why it could not switch off the DVD/VCR, etc with a television: http://uk.gizmodo.com/2006/01/12/this_just_in_powe r_strip_smart.html