Lest you forget, when Bush left office, the price of a gallon of gas was less than $2
Lest you forget, when Bush left office, the global economy, lead by the U.S., was heading toward a bottomeless crash of unknown proportions and everybody slowed their purchase of oil products significantly. That is why a gallon of gas was in the $2 range when Obama came in. I don't know how we can expect healthy economic growth *and* low energy prices, nomatter what the source of the energy, at the same time. Simple economics would seem inform us that we can't have both.
If Google reminds you of Bell Labs, that is a very bad omen for Google. Last I heard, Bell Labs only had four scientists remaining on their staff, and it no longer engages in basic research, only doing work in immediately marketable areas. If Google is Bell Labs, maybe Whittaker chose the right time to leave.
Bell Labs, PARC, Cray Research, etc. Companies start with great innovation, then Wall Street forces the to focus on near-term profits instead. Ads are where the quick profits are, so of course Google will focus on ads. If history is any indicator, this is the early beginning of the end for Google as we knew it.
It's basically an updated version of the street newspapers that homeless people have been selling for decades. Micro-business like this can be the first step and getting out of poverty.
Do whatever you want with U.S. laws. It won't make a difference. Ban it here and people will just drive to Mexico to buy the treatment, usually from other Americans over there. In fact, they already do. I'm not advocating that stem cell treatment should be legal in the U.S. Just saying that whether it is legal or not won't affect people's ability to buy it when they want to.
Even the most rudimentary automobiles displayed potential advantages over using horses -- longer range, higher payload capacity, higher sustained speeds, and so on. In all of the descriptions of this Kinect hack, I don't hear any description of the potential advantages over using a cane. The only advantage I can think of is it avoids the strong negative social stigma attached to using a cane. If the only problem with canes is social stigma, a social remedy would be much more appropriate and effective than a technological remedy.
There already is a device in common use which is very useful to "help alert the blind to obstacles that lie in their path." Better yet, it only costs about $40, has unlimited power supply, weighs under a pound, and is completely portable. Here is a photo.
Piracy is exactly why Microsoft became the dominant PC operating system in the world. When I was in college, none of the students were buying Microsoft Windows. We were all piecing together generic beige boxes and copying someone else's Windows floppy disks to install in on our computers. Heck, there were even some people selling computer parts out of their garage that would throw in pirated Windows disks for free. If memory serves me, this was possible to do throughout the 90's. Pirating Windows onto cheap hardware was the only computer most students could afford. Many software developers and business people today got into Microsoft software precisely for this reason. Rovio is smart to learn from Microsoft's example.
I agree that audio is probably a better long-term solution for someone with MD. But to the extent that magnification and enhanced contrast help, the devices you've found can be useful as well. To help you understand the sticker shock of $3000 for a combination of what is basically off-the-shelf consumer technology, you have to understand that these devices are developed and sold as medical devices, and this is how our medical economy operates.
Detailing how simple consumer technology can cost $3000 when packaged and sold as a medical device would require a Master's thesis on Economics. I'm sure it has something to do with the relatively high unit cost for research, development, marketing and support in such a small and specialized market. That, together with how medical reimbursement is handled in our country.
But at the end of the day, if a person is over 65 or disabled (your grandfather is both), that person qualifies for Medicare and possibly for Medicaid, which will often cover all or part of the the cost of a medical device like this. Rather than spending hours figuring out how to patch together a low-cost, half-assed replacement to these already-existing devices, your grandfather would be better served by you helping him go through the hoops needed to acquire a reliable device through some kind of medical insurance.
Start with a call to your local State services for the Blind (every state has one) and then go from there. Very few people buy these devices out-of-pocket; most people acquire them through their medical insurance. Your grandfather would be best served by doing the same.
Among his requests to Obama were an 11-month school schedule, school days that last until 6 p.m...
And how would this be paid for? Every teacher I've met agrees we need a full-year school calendar and more hours per day. But name me one industry where workers are willing to increase their work hours 30% with the same pay they currently receive. School reform like this is pie-in-the-sky dreaming until we get serious about how we are going to pay for it.
How stupid do you think we are? Everybody knows exactly what happened to Clinton. So edit the statement to read "Clinton got impeached for lying about getting a bj from a fat chick" and it still carries the same meaning. Clinton was impeached for an act that was of no consequence to the nation. Yet we have leaders destroy cities and nations through lies and incompetence and yet they face no consequences.
In Minnesota it most often comes up in the case of non-residents. A non-resident is usually not eligible for Medical Assistance in Minnesota. But if a non-resident is about to drop dead from a medical condition, the state will pick up the tab. In addition to this, there are a large number of people eligible for assistance who never apply. The hospital works hard to enroll these people after they pass through the emergency room be cause it helps the bottom line.
Whether the cost of emergency care for uninsured patients is indirectly passed to the rest of us by the hospital raising fees, or by the government raising taxes to pay for medical assistance, either way we all lose. No matter how the funds are raised, the price would be much lower if it were spent on general care on the front end rather than emergency care when the patient is seriously ill.
In Minnesota, hospitals have social workers on-staff to shepherd uninsured people through the Medical Assistance application process. In Minnesota, even an un-insured patient who would not normally qualify for assistance may qualify if their condition is serious enough. The state isn't really interested in having seriously ill people drop dead on the streets. It is in the hospital's interest to get the patient qualified for whatever program is available, because any reimbursement is better than nothing. You are right, after any public assistance that is available is exhausted, the hospital has to eat any costs that were not reimbursed, by passing the cost onto paying patients.
The white part doesn't matter. The male part does. If you are a woman, you can get pregnant, which will qualify you for care -- at least until your baby is a year old. Until men are able to get pregnant, a non-disabled male will not qualify for medicaid in many states. The state will expect them to work, at least until the lack of healthcare makes them sick enough that they qualify for emergency care -- or qualify as being disabled
We could easily provide government-funded healthcare for those in need for the same price we currently spend on government-funded emergency room care and disability payments. That is the basis of all heathcare reforms in the U.S. in the past decade -- those started by Democrats as well as Republicans. The question is if anyone will have the political will to see those reforms through long enough that we can start seeing the benefits, or if politicians will disrupt the reforms for their own political gain.
No, IBM did not invent the first personal computer. But the IBM PC did invent the PC industry. The IBM PC was the right combination of hardware, software and design that made the PC a viable market. Just as Apple did not invent the MP3 player, the smartphone, or the tablet computer, Apple did invent the products that created a broad, viable market for those devices. In the same way, IBM invented the product that made the PC a tool that mattered to a broad consumer market.
Without the IBM PC, we would would not have the PC market as we know it, just as we wouldn't have today's smartphone market if Apple had not invented the iPhone. So IBM did invent the PC, in the sense that they invented the product that created a PC industry that did not previously exist.
You won't find a framework comparison between Drupal, Rails and Django, because Drupal is not a framework. Drupal is a CMS. Rails and Django are frameworks. You can used Rails and Django to build a CMS if you want to. You can't use Drupal to build a CMS, because it already is one. You'll find plenty of comparisons between Rails and Django if you Google them -- they are both frameworks. You'll also find plenty of comparisons between Drupal, Joomla, Wordpress, and Plone -- they are all CMSs. You won't find a framework comparison between Drupal, Rails and Django.
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Lest you forget, when Bush left office, the price of a gallon of gas was less than $2
Lest you forget, when Bush left office, the global economy, lead by the U.S., was heading toward a bottomeless crash of unknown proportions and everybody slowed their purchase of oil products significantly. That is why a gallon of gas was in the $2 range when Obama came in. I don't know how we can expect healthy economic growth *and* low energy prices, nomatter what the source of the energy, at the same time. Simple economics would seem inform us that we can't have both.
If Google reminds you of Bell Labs, that is a very bad omen for Google. Last I heard, Bell Labs only had four scientists remaining on their staff, and it no longer engages in basic research, only doing work in immediately marketable areas. If Google is Bell Labs, maybe Whittaker chose the right time to leave.
Bell Labs, PARC, Cray Research, etc. Companies start with great innovation, then Wall Street forces the to focus on near-term profits instead. Ads are where the quick profits are, so of course Google will focus on ads. If history is any indicator, this is the early beginning of the end for Google as we knew it.
Why shouldn't the organization that provides the start-up capital get a piece of the revenue?
It's basically an updated version of the street newspapers that homeless people have been selling for decades. Micro-business like this can be the first step and getting out of poverty.
Do whatever you want with U.S. laws. It won't make a difference. Ban it here and people will just drive to Mexico to buy the treatment, usually from other Americans over there. In fact, they already do. I'm not advocating that stem cell treatment should be legal in the U.S. Just saying that whether it is legal or not won't affect people's ability to buy it when they want to.
Even the most rudimentary automobiles displayed potential advantages over using horses -- longer range, higher payload capacity, higher sustained speeds, and so on. In all of the descriptions of this Kinect hack, I don't hear any description of the potential advantages over using a cane. The only advantage I can think of is it avoids the strong negative social stigma attached to using a cane. If the only problem with canes is social stigma, a social remedy would be much more appropriate and effective than a technological remedy.
There already is a device in common use which is very useful to "help alert the blind to obstacles that lie in their path." Better yet, it only costs about $40, has unlimited power supply, weighs under a pound, and is completely portable. Here is a photo.
Piracy is exactly why Microsoft became the dominant PC operating system in the world. When I was in college, none of the students were buying Microsoft Windows. We were all piecing together generic beige boxes and copying someone else's Windows floppy disks to install in on our computers. Heck, there were even some people selling computer parts out of their garage that would throw in pirated Windows disks for free. If memory serves me, this was possible to do throughout the 90's. Pirating Windows onto cheap hardware was the only computer most students could afford. Many software developers and business people today got into Microsoft software precisely for this reason. Rovio is smart to learn from Microsoft's example.
North Dakota has the fourth largest oil production of all of the Unites States. It is very large contributer to the U.S. economy.
I agree that audio is probably a better long-term solution for someone with MD. But to the extent that magnification and enhanced contrast help, the devices you've found can be useful as well. To help you understand the sticker shock of $3000 for a combination of what is basically off-the-shelf consumer technology, you have to understand that these devices are developed and sold as medical devices, and this is how our medical economy operates.
Detailing how simple consumer technology can cost $3000 when packaged and sold as a medical device would require a Master's thesis on Economics. I'm sure it has something to do with the relatively high unit cost for research, development, marketing and support in such a small and specialized market. That, together with how medical reimbursement is handled in our country.
But at the end of the day, if a person is over 65 or disabled (your grandfather is both), that person qualifies for Medicare and possibly for Medicaid, which will often cover all or part of the the cost of a medical device like this. Rather than spending hours figuring out how to patch together a low-cost, half-assed replacement to these already-existing devices, your grandfather would be better served by you helping him go through the hoops needed to acquire a reliable device through some kind of medical insurance.
Start with a call to your local State services for the Blind (every state has one) and then go from there. Very few people buy these devices out-of-pocket; most people acquire them through their medical insurance. Your grandfather would be best served by doing the same.
Tests are supposed to fine failures. That's what they are for.
And how would this be paid for? Every teacher I've met agrees we need a full-year school calendar and more hours per day. But name me one industry where workers are willing to increase their work hours 30% with the same pay they currently receive. School reform like this is pie-in-the-sky dreaming until we get serious about how we are going to pay for it.
Every discount store in the country has at least a half-dozen non-apple MP3 players for under $50.
How stupid do you think we are? Everybody knows exactly what happened to Clinton. So edit the statement to read "Clinton got impeached for lying about getting a bj from a fat chick" and it still carries the same meaning. Clinton was impeached for an act that was of no consequence to the nation. Yet we have leaders destroy cities and nations through lies and incompetence and yet they face no consequences.
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I'm pretty sure these are used outside of universities.
In Minnesota it most often comes up in the case of non-residents. A non-resident is usually not eligible for Medical Assistance in Minnesota. But if a non-resident is about to drop dead from a medical condition, the state will pick up the tab. In addition to this, there are a large number of people eligible for assistance who never apply. The hospital works hard to enroll these people after they pass through the emergency room be cause it helps the bottom line.
Whether the cost of emergency care for uninsured patients is indirectly passed to the rest of us by the hospital raising fees, or by the government raising taxes to pay for medical assistance, either way we all lose. No matter how the funds are raised, the price would be much lower if it were spent on general care on the front end rather than emergency care when the patient is seriously ill.
In Minnesota, hospitals have social workers on-staff to shepherd uninsured people through the Medical Assistance application process. In Minnesota, even an un-insured patient who would not normally qualify for assistance may qualify if their condition is serious enough. The state isn't really interested in having seriously ill people drop dead on the streets. It is in the hospital's interest to get the patient qualified for whatever program is available, because any reimbursement is better than nothing. You are right, after any public assistance that is available is exhausted, the hospital has to eat any costs that were not reimbursed, by passing the cost onto paying patients.
The white part doesn't matter. The male part does. If you are a woman, you can get pregnant, which will qualify you for care -- at least until your baby is a year old. Until men are able to get pregnant, a non-disabled male will not qualify for medicaid in many states. The state will expect them to work, at least until the lack of healthcare makes them sick enough that they qualify for emergency care -- or qualify as being disabled
We could easily provide government-funded healthcare for those in need for the same price we currently spend on government-funded emergency room care and disability payments. That is the basis of all heathcare reforms in the U.S. in the past decade -- those started by Democrats as well as Republicans. The question is if anyone will have the political will to see those reforms through long enough that we can start seeing the benefits, or if politicians will disrupt the reforms for their own political gain.
IBM invented "Fixed Disks" ;-)
No, IBM did not invent the first personal computer. But the IBM PC did invent the PC industry. The IBM PC was the right combination of hardware, software and design that made the PC a viable market. Just as Apple did not invent the MP3 player, the smartphone, or the tablet computer, Apple did invent the products that created a broad, viable market for those devices. In the same way, IBM invented the product that made the PC a tool that mattered to a broad consumer market.
Without the IBM PC, we would would not have the PC market as we know it, just as we wouldn't have today's smartphone market if Apple had not invented the iPhone. So IBM did invent the PC, in the sense that they invented the product that created a PC industry that did not previously exist.
In this day and age, is it too much to ask that a web browser have a built-in spell checker for filling out web forms? IE still doesn't have one.
It took a book company, not a electronics company, to point out how absurd patents for electronic information technology are.
You won't find a framework comparison between Drupal, Rails and Django, because Drupal is not a framework. Drupal is a CMS. Rails and Django are frameworks. You can used Rails and Django to build a CMS if you want to. You can't use Drupal to build a CMS, because it already is one. You'll find plenty of comparisons between Rails and Django if you Google them -- they are both frameworks. You'll also find plenty of comparisons between Drupal, Joomla, Wordpress, and Plone -- they are all CMSs. You won't find a framework comparison between Drupal, Rails and Django.