Interesting stuff. The most disturbing part is that i for one fail to find a reason why a program running in Tierra cannot be rightfully called 'alive'.
It's so simple: last year, we had this many drivers in category X with a claims ratio of this much. Add the profit we want to make, and you get a pretty good picture of how much you want to charge next year for that category of drivers.
If you want to complain about the profit variable, then i agree with you, but otherwise using statistics in order to ensure a certain degree of fairness seems perfectly justified here.
That's easily done just call the Driver Skill Assessment Agency office in your area and arrange for an appointment. Oh. Well until then, statistics are the only tool insurance companies can use. And it's pretty much against 'skilled drivers'.
they'll take into account the predicted number of "safe" drivers and "risky" drivers
They do that allready, womens' insurance rates are a good bit lower based exactly on their average claims ratio. So i don't really see how those boxes will make any difference (no, they's won't act as a deterrent - at least not to those catcategories egories that do pay high insurance rates anyway).
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If this site became dependent on MS advertising, then MS could do just that.
That's a bit like saying that a TV channel depends on the one company that at a certain time is buying most of the comercial time.
I thought the ads are served by a 3rd party company, based on keywords/page content or something like that ? In this case the editors don't have much control over what ads are displayed in their pages (and, if the ads are indeed related to a page's content, there's no wonder articles like this end up showing ads for M$:-).
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Referencing banner ads doesn't prove your point other than to point out the hypocrisy of a website that decries the evils of money-grubbing companies like Microsoft, meanwhile taking money from them to run their advertisements!
I actually find this fact quite amusing. Who said M$ is not supporting the open source community ?
I really have little interest in what they do as long as my rights not to use their products are maintained. A great proportion of the FOSS community has a similar attitude, I believe.
I couldn't say I care if MS will crush Novell's, IBM's, or whoever else's Linux bussiness (well, I would feel sad to see the linux vendors out of bussiness). Corporates can fight all they want (and from the article it seems that that's what's cooking, really), it's the community that matters, and they can't fight that.
And yes, the feeling of belonging to a community does make you emotionally biased, but is that bad ?
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Interesting stuff. The most disturbing part is that i for one fail to find a reason why a program running in Tierra cannot be rightfully called 'alive'.
What about self-preservation? Reproduction can be viewed as a particular instance of it.
Getting a tan can hardly be viewed as adapting.
Someone, please, mod this as funny
And of course, the right question is vi-or-emacs-p
As opposed to BSD, which enforces the letter?
So folks, please recompile everything to take full advantage of the improved binary compatibility !
Instead of saying "i'm usually too lazy to do anything 'till the 11th hour", just say "i need pressure, and if i don't have i'll create it myself".
I have some, wanna buy it ?
Yes, the crumbs are from alien bread.
Now that's sure to slow down worm spreading. Very clever, don't ya think ?
TV, of course.
It's so simple: last year, we had this many drivers in category X with a claims ratio of this much. Add the profit we want to make, and you get a pretty good picture of how much you want to charge next year for that category of drivers.
If you want to complain about the profit variable, then i agree with you, but otherwise using statistics in order to ensure a certain degree of fairness seems perfectly justified here.
That's easily done just call the Driver Skill Assessment Agency office in your area and arrange for an appointment.
Oh.
Well until then, statistics are the only tool insurance companies can use. And it's pretty much against 'skilled drivers'.
They do that allready, womens' insurance rates are a good bit lower based exactly on their average claims ratio. So i don't really see how those boxes will make any difference (no, they's won't act as a deterrent - at least not to those catcategories egories that do pay high insurance rates anyway).
That's a bit like saying that a TV channel depends on the one company that at a certain time is buying most of the comercial time.
I thought the ads are served by a 3rd party company, based on keywords/page content or something like that ? In this case the editors don't have much control over what ads are displayed in their pages (and, if the ads are indeed related to a page's content, there's no wonder articles like this end up showing ads for M$
I actually find this fact quite amusing. Who said M$ is not supporting the open source community ?
No, she will NOT be thrown into the outer space. Stop trying.
Seems like only this way them poor software guys can keep up with Moore's law ;-)