I'll even give you real numbers. My own healthcare costs me $300 out of my paycheck every month, and $1280 from the company. That's for a married 26 year old. And the insurance is a PPO, not an HMO (what's the point of having insurance if you're giving people an HMO. Might as well give them a box of bandaids).
Well, I'll get right on justifying my math to you *after I just did so above*. You don't like my costs? Take some off my hands. That's what health insurance costs when you're not a healthy 20 year old. So I'll go back to running my small business and you can go back to running your little single man operation.
Something else I wanted to point out. It would be *cheaper* for me to lease a Mercedes for each of my employees compared to health insurance costs. But the Benz wouldn't keep them healthy.
This doesn't include the $1200/month in health insurance costs I pay on single workers, or up to $2500-$3000/month I pay for married workers with a family. Throw in our 401k fees (all that the business shoulders) as well as the 401k match, and it gets pretty close to the number I specd pretty fast. Try to not come off as such a tool next time.
The cost of an employee is not just their pay, but the employer's portion of taxes, health insurance, 401(k)s, etc. A 75K/yr worker can easily cost an employer $125K/yr.
Have you never heard of Gears? It's not horribly complex to write web apps to remain usable locally when an internet connection fails, depending on the app.
HealthMap brings together disparate data sources to achieve a unified and comprehensive view of the current global state of infectious diseases and their effect on human and animal health. This freely available Web site integrates outbreak data of varying reliability, ranging from news sources (such as Google News) to curated personal accounts (such as ProMED) to validated official alerts (such as World Health Organization). Through an automated text processing system, the data is aggregated by disease and displayed by location for user-friendly access to the original alert. HealthMap provides a jumping-off point for real-time information on emerging infectious diseases and has particular interest for public health officials and international travelers.
Has direct funding from Google.org. Provides information via Twitter already during the rash of H1N1 outbreaks across the world.
Haven't had any monitoring problems, we interface to a master Remedy system for stuff due to ITIL, and we have triggers that run scripts that try to fix mundane problems (which usually works).
We use Zabbix in a production environment with 2500+ servers and tens of thousands of monitored items. The database will get big (currently at 150GB) but everything works like a champ, monitored at 1min intervals.
What percentage of the market is a high end gamer? What percentage of the market are casual users? You're on Slashdot, so you probably have a good idea. If I'm in an office environment and lose my internet connection, I'm not getting email anyway. And if I *do* want to keep working, I'm using apps that use Google Gears or some other local storage/app solution. Times they are a changin'
If you pay with a credit card, the transaction fee is usually 10-15 cents + 3% of the transaction, unless they have a deal with their processor so they don't get killed with all of their microtransactions.
If you're a business, and you have large swaths of users that can do everything through the web (Email access, docs, etc.) and still have Linux in the background in the event you need something like an IM client locally, a free OS wrapped together nicely like Google Chrome OS is going to be very compelling. Especially in this economy.
One of my endeavors finds me at the top of wind turbines occasionally. I'd love to get one of these and see if it survives the fall to the ground. If so, I'd buy two.
Fair enough, but how do you say "We're going to get the economy back on track, and then we'll clean up our act" and prevent anyone from changing course back to business as usual?
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If "stuck" in one of these downdraft waves, is it possible to 180 to go with the wave and pick up airspeed?
I'll even give you real numbers. My own healthcare costs me $300 out of my paycheck every month, and $1280 from the company. That's for a married 26 year old. And the insurance is a PPO, not an HMO (what's the point of having insurance if you're giving people an HMO. Might as well give them a box of bandaids).
Well, I'll get right on justifying my math to you *after I just did so above*. You don't like my costs? Take some off my hands. That's what health insurance costs when you're not a healthy 20 year old. So I'll go back to running my small business and you can go back to running your little single man operation.
Something else I wanted to point out. It would be *cheaper* for me to lease a Mercedes for each of my employees compared to health insurance costs. But the Benz wouldn't keep them healthy.
Monthly Gross pay: $6,250.00
Direct Deposit Total $4,971.24
Employee Taxes $1,278.76
Employer Taxes $721.88
Processing Fees $46.80
Amount Electronically Transmitted $7,018.68
This doesn't include the $1200/month in health insurance costs I pay on single workers, or up to $2500-$3000/month I pay for married workers with a family. Throw in our 401k fees (all that the business shoulders) as well as the 401k match, and it gets pretty close to the number I specd pretty fast. Try to not come off as such a tool next time.
Disclaimer: Small business owner, I am.
Have you never heard of Gears? It's not horribly complex to write web apps to remain usable locally when an internet connection fails, depending on the app.
HealthMap brings together disparate data sources to achieve a unified and comprehensive view of the current global state of infectious diseases and their effect on human and animal health. This freely available Web site integrates outbreak data of varying reliability, ranging from news sources (such as Google News) to curated personal accounts (such as ProMED) to validated official alerts (such as World Health Organization). Through an automated text processing system, the data is aggregated by disease and displayed by location for user-friendly access to the original alert. HealthMap provides a jumping-off point for real-time information on emerging infectious diseases and has particular interest for public health officials and international travelers.
Has direct funding from Google.org. Provides information via Twitter already during the rash of H1N1 outbreaks across the world.
Haven't had any monitoring problems, we interface to a master Remedy system for stuff due to ITIL, and we have triggers that run scripts that try to fix mundane problems (which usually works).
I believe you can, it's just a low priority item for us to configure it to purge sooner.
For a monitoring database, yes. We really have no need for the historical data.
We use Zabbix in a production environment with 2500+ servers and tens of thousands of monitored items. The database will get big (currently at 150GB) but everything works like a champ, monitored at 1min intervals.
What percentage of the market is a high end gamer? What percentage of the market are casual users? You're on Slashdot, so you probably have a good idea. If I'm in an office environment and lose my internet connection, I'm not getting email anyway. And if I *do* want to keep working, I'm using apps that use Google Gears or some other local storage/app solution. Times they are a changin'
If you pay with a credit card, the transaction fee is usually 10-15 cents + 3% of the transaction, unless they have a deal with their processor so they don't get killed with all of their microtransactions.
Scary. I thought the exact same thing when I read parent comment, as was about to go get the XKCD link =)
If you're a business, and you have large swaths of users that can do everything through the web (Email access, docs, etc.) and still have Linux in the background in the event you need something like an IM client locally, a free OS wrapped together nicely like Google Chrome OS is going to be very compelling. Especially in this economy.
Windows 7 is also going to cost $100-$200 USD. Google Chrome OS is going to be.....free.
Vmware ESX/ESXi uses a Linux kernel to load additional code, which is pretty cool considering it only has a 32MB footprint on disk.
No it isn't. I'm 57 and have more fun than I ever did before. Of course, I'm not married any more, that has a lot to do with it.
Being 26 and recently married, I see your point ;) I kid! I kid!
Sometimes, the law is wrong.
I wouldn't call being at the right place at the right time doing something right. Most people call that "luck".
Don't forget A Clockwork Orange and The Hills Have Eyes.
Make it powered via piezoelectric elements. You power it by moving your hand.
One of my endeavors finds me at the top of wind turbines occasionally. I'd love to get one of these and see if it survives the fall to the ground. If so, I'd buy two.
Fair enough, but how do you say "We're going to get the economy back on track, and then we'll clean up our act" and prevent anyone from changing course back to business as usual?