I think you are mistaking the point of the fear. The problem is in the death rate, not the total number of deaths.
People are not afraid of the common flu, since the death rate nowadays is what, less than 0.01%? However, both Ebola and Avian Flu have a high chance of killing you, if you get it.
I think that the concern currently is the transmission of the Avian flu virus like the common flu, i.e. influentza with a death rate of 50% or so.
I aggree wholeheartedly that you do have costs. However I think that the margin you receive is rather normal, if you get 8-9 bucks on a 50 dollar title.
From a business perspective it does not just boil down to ideas, and investment, effort and so on. A big portion of it is called risk. While a storefront owner does go into some risk of purchasing multiple copies of the title and never selling them, the upfront risk of invested into every single game is much smaller than the risk that the original game developer undertook in the project.
Thus the benefit that from the sale is also much smaller.
Honestly though, if you expect a margin over 20% I think you would be getting greedy...
Actually he did not buy Pixar. He more or less took over it and became the single (maybe even sole) investor. And Pixar nearly bled him dry for 10 years... Pixar actually used to be a graphics tech company instead of a production house.
Quoth the article:A major problem here is that the various OSS projects aren't selling anything, which means it generally falls straight into the civil category, which means no one is going to be picking up the case on the taxpayer's tab, which means it's going to be on your tab.
I thought that if I wrote a bunch of OSS software and a company takes it and makes a profit of, say 10,000K that I must be getting some reasonable cut. Provided that that the PearPC people didn't get a dime, I would call this a monetary damage and claim that it is a criminal case. If the infringement breaches 5K, doesn't that make it a criminal case?
You have to run the automator scripts. They do not run by themselves... hopefully.
Okay, who gives a shit about karma? Here goes or nothing:
I would like to pointlessly warn against quick upgrades. Keep your Panther systems as main systems. Found a bunch of bugs already... some of them are unpleasant (Mail renaming my attachments to JPEGS?). Pages failing to export PDFs properly? WTF?
[tinhat on]
These are non-issues. Apple is DYING, man, DYING. It's going to die any day now. Who's gonna support your Mac when Apple dies?
[tinhat off]
[puts on karmashield] Let me tell you this: Tiger is not as hot as it is purpoted by Steve (I am using it right now... lucky bastard, I know). It is a nice upgrade and spotlight is definately a good feature. Is it a great leap in technology, though? I don't think so... Searching is not a technological leap: searching through indexing has been available for quite a while; unifying searching across proprietary file formats is new. Its not a breakthrough like the introduction of the mouse and point-and-click interfaces.
What IS important, however, is that Tiger is bringing a very good boost to the development of OS 10, with many new technologies that will speed up/improve development on the platform. [takes off karmashield]
But let's assume that the new airplane is going to be subject to the same issues as other airplane and suffers the same statistics in crashing as other planes. Does the fact that more passengers are carried around make flight more or less secure, I wonder? What are the current statistics like?
If one of these babies goes done you have 500 people dead, otherwise you generally have around 150.
Oh, and here is something else to cheer you up: last I checked the software that powers most airplanes has about 5-7 million lines of code. Very well debugged software tends to have about one bug in every 500 lines, generally speaking.
That can make things more expensive, inefficient, and inhumane, because there is no accountability and no incentive to have better service. This is a failing of monopolies, and what you are describing is a monopoly.
It is a client driven monopoly. You do continue to have multiple suppliers. Place yourself in the shoes of the healthcare provider: if you can have only one client (the government), and that client can dictate much better the rules of service you have to follow, if you want to stay in business: the single client you can have is your business. At the same time, you also have competition for the same client with different service providers.
In other words, the government can regulate the healthcare industry and exercise greater control.
All of this is theory, however. In practice, for a reason unknown to me, the quality of healthcare actually decreases (it is so in Canada, Sweden (see sister post), and in Bulgaria). That's possible, if the politicians are in the same bed with the health services industry. In the end, for some reason, privately funded healthcare rules the quality game.
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Although Macintosh System 6.0.x, System 7.0.1, and System 7.5.3 are both available for download for free from Apple...
I wonder if it would be a good strategy by Apple to allow free downloads of Mac OS 10.0, or even 10.1 (since the.0 release kind of sucked).
This will help migrate the rest of the die-hard pre-OS 10 mac users to the newer OS.
Guess who's higher than the US in per-capita crime? Oh, wait... The UK. And Finland. And Denmark. Get off your high horse. I know American bashing is all the rage now, but you're still an idiot.
Using offensive language is surely a poor way to win an argument, mate?
I'll go so far as to say that if you're of average health, and just visit the dr for a checkup once per year, you have the world's most expensive health care package.
A very egoistical point of view. I would like to see if you would repeat this statement AFTER you turn 60. Do not forget that the money a person pays today into such a system may eventually pay up when your health starts to deteriorate.
I also suppose that you are not a parent (neither am I btw.). But as a parent, wouldn't you feel that it is justified to pay elevated taxes so that you have the piece of mind that if you children get sick, they will be covered? regardless if you have a job?
Europe has mostly come to terms with the idea that everybody has the right to health care, regarless of how much money they make. In the US independence and self-sustainance is highly valued, and such an idea seems a bit contrary to popular culture... but it is slowly getting through. After all, a huge part of the population is un-ensured, or under-insured and you get a weird JohnQ feeling.
I do not think that the cost of the health care system is determined so much by the entity which covers the system; rather, it is determined by the health care providers.
Luckily, myself having been sick just a couple of times in the US, I would have to say that any lab test is expensive. I also happened to have my left nostril ripped once and needed stitches. For less than one hour of work (more like 20 minutes if you exclude the paperwork), the hospital charged me 1000 dolars. That is what determines the cost of health care, me thinks. Mind you, in my home country that would have been free (or 10 bucks maximum). Now, I am not saying that paying so little for an important practice such as health care is a good thing... I think that since I can afford it, I would gladly pay 50 to 100 dollars to have my nose fixed up; the point is that the cost of healthcare in the US is pumped up because of malpractice insurance, greedy suppliers, and greedy pharmaceutical companies (FYI there are some perscription cancer supression pills that cost more than 30 dollars a pill. I would say that it is EVIL to charge cancer patients, who have no choice but to pay up such amount of money).
Now about the publicly funded (tax-based) health care system: the cost of healthcare is going to be lower, because instead of many, many independent clients (the patients), the health care providers have only one customer: the government. In that case, the government has a lot more control and power over the health care suppliers than otherwise (think of it as reverse client-based monopoly). The problem with that system, of course, is that the overall quality of health care services tends to be lower... But you know what? At least in Bulgaria when I go to the emergency room they do not make me fill out ten different forms which state that I am not going to sue them if they happen to confuse my liver for my kidney.
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I think you are mistaking the point of the fear. The problem is in the death rate, not the total number of deaths.
People are not afraid of the common flu, since the death rate nowadays is what, less than 0.01%? However, both Ebola and Avian Flu have a high chance of killing you, if you get it.
I think that the concern currently is the transmission of the Avian flu virus like the common flu, i.e. influentza with a death rate of 50% or so.
I aggree wholeheartedly that you do have costs. However I think that the margin you receive is rather normal, if you get 8-9 bucks on a 50 dollar title.
From a business perspective it does not just boil down to ideas, and investment, effort and so on. A big portion of it is called risk. While a storefront owner does go into some risk of purchasing multiple copies of the title and never selling them, the upfront risk of invested into every single game is much smaller than the risk that the original game developer undertook in the project.
Thus the benefit that from the sale is also much smaller.
Honestly though, if you expect a margin over 20% I think you would be getting greedy...
Good luck with your store.
Actually he did not buy Pixar. He more or less took over it and became the single (maybe even sole) investor. And Pixar nearly bled him dry for 10 years... Pixar actually used to be a graphics tech company instead of a production house.
If it does not have Quake FPS its no good benchmark
That's a sack of shit. Most jobs I run through require about 5-10 years of work experience. Most jobs offered these days are senior level.
Course you can throw that away and just get a 1 gig G4.
High resolution? Like what? A picture of a vagina at the cellular level?
Quoth the article:A major problem here is that the various OSS projects aren't selling anything, which means it generally falls straight into the civil category, which means no one is going to be picking up the case on the taxpayer's tab, which means it's going to be on your tab.
I thought that if I wrote a bunch of OSS software and a company takes it and makes a profit of, say 10,000K that I must be getting some reasonable cut. Provided that that the PearPC people didn't get a dime, I would call this a monetary damage and claim that it is a criminal case. If the infringement breaches 5K, doesn't that make it a criminal case?
Obviously! Foxes do not drink wine, but they like stake.
You have to run the automator scripts. They do not run by themselves... hopefully. Okay, who gives a shit about karma? Here goes or nothing: I would like to pointlessly warn against quick upgrades. Keep your Panther systems as main systems. Found a bunch of bugs already... some of them are unpleasant (Mail renaming my attachments to JPEGS?). Pages failing to export PDFs properly? WTF?
They [hardware engineers] never get laid off
Either way you are not getting laid. Switch to communications, or something if you want your genes in the pool.
Redirect my zombies... aaah!
[tinhat on] These are non-issues. Apple is DYING, man, DYING. It's going to die any day now. Who's gonna support your Mac when Apple dies? [tinhat off]
[puts on karmashield]
Let me tell you this: Tiger is not as hot as it is purpoted by Steve (I am using it right now... lucky bastard, I know). It is a nice upgrade and spotlight is definately a good feature. Is it a great leap in technology, though? I don't think so... Searching is not a technological leap: searching through indexing has been available for quite a while; unifying searching across proprietary file formats is new. Its not a breakthrough like the introduction of the mouse and point-and-click interfaces.
What IS important, however, is that Tiger is bringing a very good boost to the development of OS 10, with many new technologies that will speed up/improve development on the platform.
[takes off karmashield]
This is all very nice... over 500 passengers.
But let's assume that the new airplane is going to be subject to the same issues as other airplane and suffers the same statistics in crashing as other planes. Does the fact that more passengers are carried around make flight more or less secure, I wonder? What are the current statistics like?
If one of these babies goes done you have 500 people dead, otherwise you generally have around 150.
Oh, and here is something else to cheer you up: last I checked the software that powers most airplanes has about 5-7 million lines of code. Very well debugged software tends to have about one bug in every 500 lines, generally speaking.
Try not to wet your pants next time you fly :).
That can make things more expensive, inefficient, and inhumane, because there is no accountability and no incentive to have better service. This is a failing of monopolies, and what you are describing is a monopoly.
It is a client driven monopoly. You do continue to have multiple suppliers. Place yourself in the shoes of the healthcare provider: if you can have only one client (the government), and that client can dictate much better the rules of service you have to follow, if you want to stay in business: the single client you can have is your business. At the same time, you also have competition for the same client with different service providers.
In other words, the government can regulate the healthcare industry and exercise greater control.
All of this is theory, however. In practice, for a reason unknown to me, the quality of healthcare actually decreases (it is so in Canada, Sweden (see sister post), and in Bulgaria). That's possible, if the politicians are in the same bed with the health services industry. In the end, for some reason, privately funded healthcare rules the quality game.
Although Macintosh System 6.0.x, System 7.0.1, and System 7.5.3 are both available for download for free from Apple...
I wonder if it would be a good strategy by Apple to allow free downloads of Mac OS 10.0, or even 10.1 (since the .0 release kind of sucked).
This will help migrate the rest of the die-hard pre-OS 10 mac users to the newer OS.
Guess who's higher than the US in per-capita crime? Oh, wait... The UK. And Finland. And Denmark. Get off your high horse. I know American bashing is all the rage now, but you're still an idiot.
Using offensive language is surely a poor way to win an argument, mate?
I'll go so far as to say that if you're of average health, and just visit the dr for a checkup once per year, you have the world's most expensive health care package.
A very egoistical point of view. I would like to see if you would repeat this statement AFTER you turn 60. Do not forget that the money a person pays today into such a system may eventually pay up when your health starts to deteriorate.
I also suppose that you are not a parent (neither am I btw.). But as a parent, wouldn't you feel that it is justified to pay elevated taxes so that you have the piece of mind that if you children get sick, they will be covered? regardless if you have a job?
Europe has mostly come to terms with the idea that everybody has the right to health care, regarless of how much money they make. In the US independence and self-sustainance is highly valued, and such an idea seems a bit contrary to popular culture... but it is slowly getting through. After all, a huge part of the population is un-ensured, or under-insured and you get a weird JohnQ feeling.
I do not think that the cost of the health care system is determined so much by the entity which covers the system; rather, it is determined by the health care providers.
Luckily, myself having been sick just a couple of times in the US, I would have to say that any lab test is expensive. I also happened to have my left nostril ripped once and needed stitches. For less than one hour of work (more like 20 minutes if you exclude the paperwork), the hospital charged me 1000 dolars. That is what determines the cost of health care, me thinks. Mind you, in my home country that would have been free (or 10 bucks maximum). Now, I am not saying that paying so little for an important practice such as health care is a good thing... I think that since I can afford it, I would gladly pay 50 to 100 dollars to have my nose fixed up; the point is that the cost of healthcare in the US is pumped up because of malpractice insurance, greedy suppliers, and greedy pharmaceutical companies (FYI there are some perscription cancer supression pills that cost more than 30 dollars a pill. I would say that it is EVIL to charge cancer patients, who have no choice but to pay up such amount of money).
Now about the publicly funded (tax-based) health care system: the cost of healthcare is going to be lower, because instead of many, many independent clients (the patients), the health care providers have only one customer: the government. In that case, the government has a lot more control and power over the health care suppliers than otherwise (think of it as reverse client-based monopoly). The problem with that system, of course, is that the overall quality of health care services tends to be lower... But you know what? At least in Bulgaria when I go to the emergency room they do not make me fill out ten different forms which state that I am not going to sue them if they happen to confuse my liver for my kidney.
- NIt will be interesting if he places a ruby at the focal point.
Writing unmaintainable code.
Mod it funny if you want, but Sun thin clients probably offer the best price/performance ratio of any setup out there for an office environment.
Mac mini better
It sounds like spyware is the problem that is going to be the more immediate concern.
I hate to put a blatant advertisement but here it goes: use Little Snitch.
Of course, if somebody had the time to implement a SIMBL plugin for network connections, it could be free. There, I am redeemed.