The two questions i find most interesting about healthcare costs are the following: Is medicine actually getting better, or is it just allowing people to live longer with diseases? Do phamaceutical companies really want to find cures for stuff or do they just want to find ways for you to live with your disease?
Insurance is one of the few businesses that get to descriminate and actually get away with it. The only thing i have against the idea of discrimination based on genetic testing is that you don't get a choice as to who your parents are.
"And buying it is often less bothersome in the long run." I would agree to a point, but this ignores the fact that a lot of software companies are/do require contacting them to install software/get updates/run the programs/etc. which i see as becoming more and more prevalent in the future.
I would imagine the point of this is to actually make them useful as a vehicle. To not just have a vehicle that can go really quickly, but to have it go fast, but can do well at lower speeds.
From what i can ponder, the point of consistantly changing passwords is to limit the time in which someone who has your password has access. Though just having the password once is enough to cause problems usually. Though if someone got your password and then changed it you will notice the next time you try and log on. Anybody have any ideas on any other reason you'd want changing passwords? That policy doesn't quite make sense to me, unless you didn't have other controls on where they could connect from, how much they had access to, etc.
One downside is information overload. What info is relevant? What info is useful? What info doesn't matter? What info is wrong? etc. Trying to gather the useful kernal from the dizying array of data coming at you is becoming a necessity.
You could say that determining what to do with the data in the best way is what the intelligent person would do to finish their daily work.
Anybody else notice how they don't seem to show that character anymore? And how cookie crisp cereal no longer does the cop and burgler advertising? I remember growing up when playing cops and robbers was something lots of people did.
Now it seems like playing cops and robbers and similiar cliches are almost forbidden from being shown.
The hard part is to be able to quickly verify that the computer's 'answer' is 'correct'. If you design a building using software and something falls off, you can't say 'But the computer said it was good!'. But grammer seems to be a moving target since the language is actually evolving.
People wanting to do simple cadd work don't need anything more than a basic program.
The people who actually need the software know that most people expect engineering documents in (insert well known cadd package here).
For instance, the Illinois DOT require submittals of Microstation Drawings as well as hard copys. This is similiar to the MS Office problem. They require it so everybody needs it to work, and anything except perfect files (impossible even with a copy of the program, but look at the number of people whining about how OpenOffice doesn't always get everything right) won't cut it. This forces people to have to buy Windows to use Microstation to get contracts to make money... etc.
With the likes of Pro/E, AutoCAD, Microstation and all their 1st and 3rd party add ons (civil,bim,utility,site,logistics etc) It would be insanely difficult and time consuming to even get a base started. There are several free cadd programs, and the document formats for at least autocad and microstation are available, so it might be possible to play around with but it would be a large undertaking that i don't see many people getting involved with.
Back in i think 92/93, i bought a used hard drive from a local computer fix it shop. Thing wasn't even formatted. The previous owner appeared to be a police officer because the hard drive was filled with arrest records, court documents, correspondence... I decided it would be better to just break the drive then use it. And that was much more fun.
If done correctly, mark-up can help convey the idea/message/whatever. However it is really really easy to do it badly/incorrectly/unnecessarily that it defeats the main purpose of going beyond plain text. My guess would be that most people fall into the later category and wouldn't mind the bloat or wouldn't care.
Its sorta like using IM when the person you're talking to uses bright red text on yellow background, its annoying. Add a url that is underlined and in green, and you can pick it out right away.
A fair many years ago i bought a platinum and diamond engagement ring, and it was cheaper than the equivalent setting in white or yellow gold, though i haven't checked recently. Also, having platinum makes it more unique and lets it stand out better on paler skin.
The question you really have to ponder is: Would that animal be alive if it weren't being used for testing? Thats the truth behind the matter. I'm not saying whether i think its good or bad, just the fact of the matter at hand.
A flux capacitor is just another term for inductor. They are used all the time. I'm sure you could probably find millions of places where it would be used if they did this.
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Now, back in reality, people will still refute/change/modify/quantify the science/religious "truths" like they always have. Now if it were intelligent life, that may have the effect you're talking about. Also, religious beliefs can't be proved or explaned away, otherwise they weren't really beliefs, but desires. They only exist in the real/percieved effects the believers cause to happen.
<joke> Intelligent life in the universe? Its hard enough to find intelligent life on this planet... </joke>
Will this go like nuclear power was once rumored to be so inexpensive it wouldn't be worth metering? Or will it turn into todays, woefully inadequate electrical distribution network?
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The two questions i find most interesting about healthcare costs are the following:
Is medicine actually getting better, or is it just allowing people to live longer with diseases?
Do phamaceutical companies really want to find cures for stuff or do they just want to find ways for you to live with your disease?
Insurance is one of the few businesses that get to descriminate and actually get away with it.
The only thing i have against the idea of discrimination based on genetic testing is that you don't get a choice as to who your parents are.
I would love to be able to do a find "restaurant/market/theatre/etc" closest to "Driving directions" from "work" to "home"
Exactly, you have the right to say what you want. You don't have a right to ignore, disbelieve, denounce the consequences.
My UID is also prime.
Enterprise-wide website interface.
Hmm, would that be google?
"And buying it is often less bothersome in the long run."
I would agree to a point, but this ignores the fact that a lot of software companies are/do require contacting them to install software/get updates/run the programs/etc. which i see as becoming more and more prevalent in the future.
hp11c, remake those and you'll have lines down the block.
I would imagine the point of this is to actually make them useful as a vehicle. To not just have a vehicle that can go really quickly, but to have it go fast, but can do well at lower speeds.
Engineering is now focused on getting the job done safely at minimum expensive, not necessarily just getting the job done safely.
From what i can ponder, the point of consistantly changing passwords is to limit the time in which someone who has your password has access. Though just having the password once is enough to cause problems usually. Though if someone got your password and then changed it you will notice the next time you try and log on. Anybody have any ideas on any other reason you'd want changing passwords? That policy doesn't quite make sense to me, unless you didn't have other controls on where they could connect from, how much they had access to, etc.
One downside is information overload. What info is relevant? What info is useful? What info doesn't matter? What info is wrong? etc. Trying to gather the useful kernal from the dizying array of data coming at you is becoming a necessity.
You could say that determining what to do with the data in the best way is what the intelligent person would do to finish their daily work.
Anybody else notice how they don't seem to show that character anymore? And how cookie crisp cereal no longer does the cop and burgler advertising? I remember growing up when playing cops and robbers was something lots of people did.
Now it seems like playing cops and robbers and similiar cliches are almost forbidden from being shown.
Just something to ponder.
The hard part is to be able to quickly verify that the computer's 'answer' is 'correct'. If you design a building using software and something falls off, you can't say 'But the computer said it was good!'. But grammer seems to be a moving target since the language is actually evolving.
I agree with you, and there really isn't a need.
People wanting to do simple cadd work don't need anything more than a basic program.
The people who actually need the software know that most people expect engineering documents in (insert well known cadd package here).
For instance, the Illinois DOT require submittals of Microstation Drawings as well as hard copys. This is similiar to the MS Office problem. They require it so everybody needs it to work, and anything except perfect files (impossible even with a copy of the program, but look at the number of people whining about how OpenOffice doesn't always get everything right) won't cut it. This forces people to have to buy Windows to use Microstation to get contracts to make money... etc.
With the likes of Pro/E, AutoCAD, Microstation and all their 1st and 3rd party add ons (civil,bim,utility,site,logistics etc) It would be insanely difficult and time consuming to even get a base started. There are several free cadd programs, and the document formats for at least autocad and microstation are available, so it might be possible to play around with but it would be a large undertaking that i don't see many people getting involved with.
Back in i think 92/93, i bought a used hard drive from a local computer fix it shop. Thing wasn't even formatted. The previous owner appeared to be a police officer because the hard drive was filled with arrest records, court documents, correspondence... I decided it would be better to just break the drive then use it. And that was much more fun.
Took me about 45 minutes back when i was working on a image toolkit for kettering medical center.
Messing with 25MB ppm images of brains and hearts and stuff is kinda fun.
If done correctly, mark-up can help convey the idea/message/whatever. However it is really really easy to do it badly/incorrectly/unnecessarily that it defeats the main purpose of going beyond plain text. My guess would be that most people fall into the later category and wouldn't mind the bloat or wouldn't care.
Its sorta like using IM when the person you're talking to uses bright red text on yellow background, its annoying. Add a url that is underlined and in green, and you can pick it out right away.
A fair many years ago i bought a platinum and diamond engagement ring, and it was cheaper than the equivalent setting in white or yellow gold, though i haven't checked recently. Also, having platinum makes it more unique and lets it stand out better on paler skin.
The question you really have to ponder is:
Would that animal be alive if it weren't being used for testing? Thats the truth behind the matter. I'm not saying whether i think its good or bad, just the fact of the matter at hand.
A flux capacitor is just another term for inductor. They are used all the time. I'm sure you could probably find millions of places where it would be used if they did this.
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Now, back in reality, people will still refute/change/modify/quantify the science/religious "truths" like they always have. Now if it were intelligent life, that may have the effect you're talking about. Also, religious beliefs can't be proved or explaned away, otherwise they weren't really beliefs, but desires. They only exist in the real/percieved effects the believers cause to happen.
<joke>
Intelligent life in the universe? Its hard enough to find intelligent life on this planet...
</joke>
Will this go like nuclear power was once rumored to be so inexpensive it wouldn't be worth metering? Or will it turn into todays, woefully inadequate electrical distribution network?
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