A little less impressed with Google maps when it didn't have the TOWN i was looking for listed. Bing and Mapquest were both able to show me but Google comes up with nada. Tough to find the cars hidden in barns hidden in the middle of wheat fields when one has no clue where the town in the ad is at for the start point! To be fair they all found the actual gravel road and Bing also lists it as next city over. Google just doesn't label or recognize the small old town nearest it.
Lost a game we have been playing weekly for years myself altho it has been a couple months now for Flatout2:( But, not going with gamespy may have turned out even worse as the publisher went away years ago. No idea who has been paying up to this point if anyone.
Gamepsy has the infrastructure for this already and many of these games aren't even a blip on their radar. Seems like the good will just keeping them up might be worth it. How much can it really cost them to do matchmaking for a game with a couple hundred players max? Article mentioned a huge price increase so someone was paying on that game but i wonder if many of these were simply left running as suggested above. Gamespy may have been providing some freebies that new owners aren't willing to.
Some people are trying to connect thru Tunngle or another LAN simulator, including a number of us playing Flatout2.
PS...who does the message of the day thing and what are they smoking...."My Aunt MAUREEN was a military advisor to IKE & TINA TURNER!!" wtf?
...and not even a DRM issue if you like online play.
Many games use a matchmaking service like gamespy that may turn it off after whatever the contract period is. Don't get why they DID tho (flatout2 and quite a few others). Now we hate on gamespy. They have a huge setup for doing just this and matchmaking for the ones shutdown would barely be a blip on their server logs. Seems the goodwill would have been worth it.
hmm, good point. Never played it, but it sounded like it deserved a good send-off.
Motor city online released some outlandish car mods after their announcement. I think the devs worked til the second they pulled the switch. Not saying much if you can't match EA of all people.....
How about Everquest's (original) competitor Asheron's Call. Never as successful but still hanging on. However the amount of content is a bit mind-numbing after 13 years of monthly updates...so like update 140 now:O
Sounds a bit premature if they weren't losing money yet. Been there....Motor City Online only made it 2 years? there were hundreds of people ONLINE when they shut it down:( Was upsetting to spend a year learning how to build my cars and get shut down just when you master it....
Nice to see some people explain what a royal pain this is. I did taxes for 2 states here and our system was barely able to handle it. Most systems won't get that far. Few items were nontaxable in both states, many were in one or the other. It took weeks to build a matrix for just WA (350+ taxcodes) and ID (3 codes at the time). 20 year-old Unix software beat out most new programs as it actually was possible. My technique might have expanded to a 3rd state but after that I doubt i coul d have made it work. Don't know of an accounting system that will have 45 fields for TAXABLE? to use countrywide.
So far noone has tried to explain that it may matter WHO your customers are also. I had to charge tax to Veterinarians on items that otherwise would be tax-free if used on humans! Now, add that variable to what others have expanded on....!
One issue i didn't see anywhere below that i'll just insert here as it is as close a match as anything...
Not all the pilots moving up the chain from little to big and co-pilot to pilot may want to make that final step to pilot of one of the big boys. They also lose seniority when they move from co-pilot to pilot. My dad's best friend was a 747-level co-pilot for ages because he was top of the chart for seniority and got to chose his routes/schedules first. When you 1st move to pilot you would then get whatever route noone else wanted at a slight pay increase or even less income because of less time/easier route.
$75k income with 3 days on and 4 days off vs
$90k income working nearly everyday for partial days
He had a farm and several days off in a row was much more productive. (ok, productive consisted mostly of building an airport in the backyard and a hanger in the barn) He had enough free time still to build a couple planes from a box of parts.
Like the ACs said.....you are a bit late to the party as many ARE indeed filled by robot. Most all mail-order prescriptions and most filled for facilities(nursing home(LOTS!), hospital,etc) certainly are. Indeed i would bet the majority are filled by robot now.
Pharmaceutical company i deal with just installed a $500k machine to fill those little pill punchcards for facilities...It does 1000-something scripts a day. Would you really trust your human counting out script number 963 for the day on Friday?
To highlight this, let me point out that I would DEARLY love for some gorgeous woman, about college age, to fellate me, and let me fondle her supple young body, then have intercourse with her.
See? Posting on slashdot isn't going to get anything done. You need to send that message to the correct place, perhaps the FBI.
Are you sure that FBI is the right place in which to look for such a woman?
Looked at one of the demo videos. There is a 4000watt transmitter (in middle of floor, nevermind the radiated power someone is gonna trip on it!) a few feet away from most of the stuff and i don't see 2000w worth of stuff.
Don't know how it works, don't care so much to look. I don't plan on adding a 4000watt transmitter to each room, seems like a half dozen power cords would be a bit cheaper. Not that i have any interest or hope for anything called 3D power...sigh.
But...Does the green carpet in the one vid play into it? The TV didn't come on til he touched the floor. Wonder how good the wireless internet is 18 inches from that transmitter where he set the laptop down.....
What if i add this 4000 watt transmitter to my apartment, as does my neighbor, etc. Before we finish the complex we will enough power running to add a couple TV channels much less the recievers:O
I don't see anyone here stopping you from wiring up your house with a bazillion cameras and putting it all on the interent for the world to watch and record and make it widely known. I don't think anyone would bother your family if they thought the whole world was watching. Maybe not foolproof but it would certainly reduce the chances of someone harming your family.
Just don't accidently wire up mine....
You HAVE taken this first step to protect your family that doesn't require the rest of us to change anything, RIGHT?
And like someone above said, multiply that by the number of powercords or languages available. There is going to be several different versions for the needed cord/voltage at least.
Still there must be a way to simplify it all and i am sure customer won't mind;)
I could never figure out what new model to buy so i bought the same as we had:) Still using my Laserjet 5 in the office after 762,532 pages (2 rebuilds)..... (for the guy above my 4L is now used at home) Also still using my Color Laserjet 4550n or do i call it 4550dn now... luckily HP toner lasts forever (75% of the time, but paying 20% or less of list off ebay)
LOL... Sounds simple after moving our historical records for medicare billing. We just emptied 12 5-drawer file cabinets, after destroying the extra PALLET of old records.
All this is making me rethink replacing my OLD Explorer..levers, dials, and knobs, oh my:)
Best is the radio volume: It's a lever/flap type switch that you lift up to raise volume (slowly) and press down to lower volume (much quicker than up). Dead easy to find and use without looking and very intuitive.
My car has a few issues with power doors still that are annoying. I can only imagine what happens when these new do-it-all systems start to get wonky:(
Actually would make my cable setup look a little light and i have several Quad inputs and outputs, twin EQs, 4-channel dolby box, and several quad tape decks (including a Quad 8-track recorder) plus a couple switched inputs for the TV,etc. It takes me 2 days to rewire and 62.2 sounds a little crazy;) Can already get sound to go around the room, i suppose a couple channels for overhead would be good for movies.
Patch cables are cheaper by the gross tho... should add a couple more channels to use em up !
Everyone should try this. Some of the required answers bothered me. Like the 4th one , i think, on 4th grade freezing test. What happens to the water when the temp drops from 7degrees to -1 C (i didn't know we actually went metric behind my back)? They have to say BOTH that the water gets colder and that it turns to solid/ice. Seemed to me, 'gets colder' was a given but has to be in answer for full credit. VERY few correct answers on this one, lots of partials obviously.
On the other hand, the fact that not everyone could read the volume (110ml) in the beaker was kinda scary. They either couldn't interpet the 10 marks between 100ml and 150ml as 5ml each or they made up an incorrect unit. Also there were a few that didn't get either colder/freezes/solidifies/turns to ice for 1st example...I assume they were taught 0 is freezing at some point...just what did they answer?
"Before we had videogames, we went out played with dirt."
lol, i remember making flying saucers out of dirt clods for my little green army men as a kid since i only had one jeep:) Air battles rarely had a winner tho....
I think it is all due to today's kids not having access to quality dirt clods!
IF the company bills Medicare (and i can't imagine a typical hearing aid company not) then they need to charge the same price to everyone since Medicare gets upset if you charge them more(never mind all the extra paperwork). If they sell them to you at $4000 and Medicare finds out they will want that price rebated for the last 7 years worth of sales. If it could cost them millions they have NO incentive to help you out on price. I am guessing the discounted price is what they actually receive from Medicare or the allowed billing amount. ((you can bill Medicare more but you won't get it))
The place linked above doesn't bill Medicare i would bet, thus they are not restricted in pricing them the same. I don't know the cost but probably $3000 or less and without reams of paperwork involved they could sell well under the $6000 mark.
Paperwork is expensive and healthcare generates way too much of it with Gov AND insurance companies AND private billing for the same item much of the time. Sometimes Government pays a big chunk, an insurance company picks up the remainder except for a co-pay by individual...lots of paperwork!
We had to maintain 2 seperate companies so we could bill Medicare (ok, Medicaid in our case) and nursing homes. Thus even MORE paperwork. Company sold out...i am the maintainer of the 6 PALLETS of Medicare/Medicaid paperwork left behind.
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Yup, and another law for the law-abiding.
Oh, i am sorry, of course the people planning bad things gave all their info over. Silly me for thinking the truely evil ones might not obey.
Maybe, they prevent a couple of people from spur of them moment naughty things...hardly seems worth punishing so many.
A little less impressed with Google maps when it didn't have the TOWN i was looking for listed. Bing and Mapquest were both able to show me but Google comes up with nada. Tough to find the cars hidden in barns hidden in the middle of wheat fields when one has no clue where the town in the ad is at for the start point! To be fair they all found the actual gravel road and Bing also lists it as next city over. Google just doesn't label or recognize the small old town nearest it.
from the article after someone makes a prediction of it crashing somewhere.
One of the follow-ups: " I predict it will crash into a Mayan temple in 9 days "
You guys have a tough bar to reach in comments this time :)
Lost a game we have been playing weekly for years myself altho it has been a couple months now for Flatout2 :(
But, not going with gamespy may have turned out even worse as the publisher went away years ago. No idea who has been paying up to this point if anyone.
Gamepsy has the infrastructure for this already and many of these games aren't even a blip on their radar. Seems like the good will just keeping them up might be worth it. How much can it really cost them to do matchmaking for a game with a couple hundred players max? Article mentioned a huge price increase so someone was paying on that game but i wonder if many of these were simply left running as suggested above. Gamespy may have been providing some freebies that new owners aren't willing to.
Some people are trying to connect thru Tunngle or another LAN simulator, including a number of us playing Flatout2.
PS...who does the message of the day thing and what are they smoking...."My Aunt MAUREEN was a military advisor to IKE & TINA TURNER!!" wtf?
...and not even a DRM issue if you like online play.
Many games use a matchmaking service like gamespy that may turn it off after whatever the contract period is.
Don't get why they DID tho (flatout2 and quite a few others). Now we hate on gamespy. They have a huge setup for doing just this and matchmaking for the ones shutdown would barely be a blip on their server logs. Seems the goodwill would have been worth it.
hmm, good point.
Never played it, but it sounded like it deserved a good send-off.
Motor city online released some outlandish car mods after their announcement. I think the devs worked til the second they pulled the switch. Not saying much if you can't match EA of all people.....
How about Everquest's (original) competitor Asheron's Call. Never as successful but still hanging on. :O
However the amount of content is a bit mind-numbing after 13 years of monthly updates...so like update 140 now
Sounds a bit premature if they weren't losing money yet. Been there....Motor City Online only made it 2 years? there were hundreds of people ONLINE when they shut it down :( Was upsetting to spend a year learning how to build my cars and get shut down just when you master it....
Nice to see some people explain what a royal pain this is. I did taxes for 2 states here and our system was barely able to handle it. Most systems won't get that far. Few items were nontaxable in both states, many were in one or the other.
It took weeks to build a matrix for just WA (350+ taxcodes) and ID (3 codes at the time). 20 year-old Unix software beat out most new programs as it actually was possible. My technique might have expanded to a 3rd state but after that I doubt i coul d have made it work.
Don't know of an accounting system that will have 45 fields for TAXABLE? to use countrywide.
So far noone has tried to explain that it may matter WHO your customers are also. I had to charge tax to Veterinarians on items that otherwise would be tax-free if used on humans!
Now, add that variable to what others have expanded on....!
One issue i didn't see anywhere below that i'll just insert here as it is as close a match as anything...
Not all the pilots moving up the chain from little to big and co-pilot to pilot may want to make that final step to pilot of one of the big boys. They also lose seniority when they move from co-pilot to pilot. My dad's best friend was a 747-level co-pilot for ages because he was top of the chart for seniority and got to chose his routes/schedules first. When you 1st move to pilot you would then get whatever route noone else wanted at a slight pay increase or even less income because of less time/easier route.
$75k income with 3 days on and 4 days off
vs
$90k income working nearly everyday for partial days
He had a farm and several days off in a row was much more productive. (ok, productive consisted mostly of building an airport in the backyard and a hanger in the barn) He had enough free time still to build a couple planes from a box of parts.
Like the ACs said.....you are a bit late to the party as many ARE indeed filled by robot. Most all mail-order prescriptions and most filled for facilities(nursing home(LOTS!), hospital,etc) certainly are. Indeed i would bet the majority are filled by robot now.
Pharmaceutical company i deal with just installed a $500k machine to fill those little pill punchcards for facilities...It does 1000-something scripts a day. Would you really trust your human counting out script number 963 for the day on Friday?
To highlight this, let me point out that I would DEARLY love for some gorgeous woman, about college age, to fellate me, and let me fondle her supple young body, then have intercourse with her.
See? Posting on slashdot isn't going to get anything done. You need to send that message to the correct place, perhaps the FBI.
Are you sure that FBI is the right place in which to look for such a woman?
You need the CIA for that don't you?
Looked at one of the demo videos. There is a 4000watt transmitter (in middle of floor, nevermind the radiated power someone is gonna trip on it!) a few feet away from most of the stuff and i don't see 2000w worth of stuff.
Don't know how it works, don't care so much to look. I don't plan on adding a 4000watt transmitter to each room, seems like a half dozen power cords would be a bit cheaper. Not that i have any interest or hope for anything called 3D power...sigh.
But...Does the green carpet in the one vid play into it? The TV didn't come on til he touched the floor.
Wonder how good the wireless internet is 18 inches from that transmitter where he set the laptop down.....
What if i add this 4000 watt transmitter to my apartment, as does my neighbor, etc. Before we finish the complex we will enough power running to add a couple TV channels much less the recievers :O
I don't see anyone here stopping you from wiring up your house with a bazillion cameras and putting it all on the interent for the world to watch and record and make it widely known. I don't think anyone would bother your family if they thought the whole world was watching. Maybe not foolproof but it would certainly reduce the chances of someone harming your family.
Just don't accidently wire up mine....
You HAVE taken this first step to protect your family that doesn't require the rest of us to change anything, RIGHT?
Bookmarked for when i get 10Gbps internet service...
And like someone above said, multiply that by the number of powercords or languages available. There is going to be several different versions for the needed cord/voltage at least.
Still there must be a way to simplify it all and i am sure customer won't mind ;)
I could never figure out what new model to buy so i bought the same as we had :)
Still using my Laserjet 5 in the office after 762,532 pages (2 rebuilds)..... (for the guy above my 4L is now used at home)
Also still using my Color Laserjet 4550n or do i call it 4550dn now... luckily HP toner lasts forever (75% of the time, but paying 20% or less of list off ebay)
Depends on if he is barefoot
I wonder what a crosswind on the 'formerly a trailing edge' side does ?
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lol, very interesting. Bottom of the barrel keyboard...not even a chinese name on it.
LOL ... Sounds simple after moving our historical records for medicare billing. We just emptied 12 5-drawer file cabinets, after destroying the extra PALLET of old records.
Now you only need a plan for biblical floods :O
That's how much they WON'T get paid for selling your phone number :(
All this is making me rethink replacing my OLD Explorer..levers, dials, and knobs, oh my :)
Best is the radio volume: It's a lever/flap type switch that you lift up to raise volume (slowly) and press down to lower volume (much quicker than up). Dead easy to find and use without looking and very intuitive.
My car has a few issues with power doors still that are annoying. I can only imagine what happens when these new do-it-all systems start to get wonky :(
Actually would make my cable setup look a little light and i have several Quad inputs and outputs, twin EQs, 4-channel dolby box, and several quad tape decks (including a Quad 8-track recorder) plus a couple switched inputs for the TV,etc. It takes me 2 days to rewire and 62.2 sounds a little crazy ;) Can already get sound to go around the room, i suppose a couple channels for overhead would be good for movies.
Patch cables are cheaper by the gross tho ... should add a couple more channels to use em up !
INTERESTING
Everyone should try this. Some of the required answers bothered me. Like the 4th one , i think, on 4th grade freezing test.
What happens to the water when the temp drops from 7degrees to -1 C (i didn't know we actually went metric behind my back)?
They have to say BOTH that the water gets colder and that it turns to solid/ice. Seemed to me, 'gets colder' was a given but has to be in answer for full credit. VERY few correct answers on this one, lots of partials obviously.
On the other hand, the fact that not everyone could read the volume (110ml) in the beaker was kinda scary. They either couldn't interpet the 10 marks between 100ml and 150ml as 5ml each or they made up an incorrect unit.
Also there were a few that didn't get either colder/freezes/solidifies/turns to ice for 1st example...I assume they were taught 0 is freezing at some point...just what did they answer?
"Before we had videogames, we went out played with dirt."
lol, i remember making flying saucers out of dirt clods for my little green army men as a kid since i only had one jeep :)
Air battles rarely had a winner tho....
I think it is all due to today's kids not having access to quality dirt clods!
IF the company bills Medicare (and i can't imagine a typical hearing aid company not) then they need to charge the same price to everyone since Medicare gets upset if you charge them more(never mind all the extra paperwork). If they sell them to you at $4000 and Medicare finds out they will want that price rebated for the last 7 years worth of sales. If it could cost them millions they have NO incentive to help you out on price. I am guessing the discounted price is what they actually receive from Medicare
or the allowed billing amount. ((you can bill Medicare more but you won't get it))
The place linked above doesn't bill Medicare i would bet, thus they are not restricted in pricing them the same. I don't know the cost but probably $3000 or less and without reams of paperwork involved they could sell well under the $6000 mark.
Paperwork is expensive and healthcare generates way too much of it with Gov AND insurance companies AND private billing for the same item much of the time. Sometimes Government pays a big chunk, an insurance company picks up the remainder except for a co-pay by individual...lots of paperwork!
We had to maintain 2 seperate companies so we could bill Medicare (ok, Medicaid in our case) and nursing homes. Thus even MORE paperwork. Company sold out...i am the maintainer of the 6 PALLETS of Medicare/Medicaid paperwork left behind.