Do you find the 2nd image in the parent post that difficult to decode? That's the very well known Mayday Tileset. The new version should be out in a few weeks and it should fix all the annoyances that tilesets currently cause, but it will take the tileset makers a few weeks (at least) to have full sets available.
I still play Herzog Zwei in emulation occasionally. It's still a very unique game and I'd really like to see something similar to it tried with modern multiplayer support.
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While that is certainly possible, you should get a friend and run an experiment to see if you really can smell the difference. Preferably 2 friends so you can make it double-blind.
Having worked in Medical Billing I can assure you that Medicare is less work for Hospital/Doctor's office staff than nearly any private insurer, and the real difficulty comes in having to keep up with so many different insurers with different policies and submission requirements. Medicare pays crap, but it's very easy to work with and generally pays much quicker than any private insurance, who all tend to push the payment out as far as they can. If Medicare paid half-decent, Hospitals would be thrilled to work with just them. Your point about the percentage vs per-person cost is valid, but I expect Medicare would still beat the private insurers by a significant margin. I suspect that the low Medicare administrative costs are being over-stated, but I have absolutely no doubt that they are still way better than private insurance.
Overall I really liked the House Bill with the Public Option, which actually did have other aspects beyond just insurance reform. The Senate Bill is far worse for many reasons, but I'll take it over the status quo.
Keep in mind that the developers are not generally working for the hospitals, they are working for the software vendors. The vendors are where the real time and resources crunch is. It takes months (sometimes years) to convert a hospital over to a completely new system, and they are likely limited by staff and other resources as to how many hospitals they can bring up at one time. Any individual hospital has plenty of time, but from the vendors perspective it's dozens, possibly hundreds of hospitals they need to get up in a limited timeframe. I have a feeling they'll be hiring lots of developers, implementation managers and others, but it takes time to really get them trained up. Do you want to have the junior implementation manager in charge of your hospitals migration when you're facing a looming federal deadline?
We are talking about users trying to get their job done here, not beta testers trying to help find bugs who can just do something else when it crashes on them. Presumably the user is trying to do the job and if the program doesn't work they can't work. Unless you're monitoring the logfile constantly and can quickly identify which user it is and figure out their phone number and call them immediately it's best to have the user call so you can get them back to working quickly.
The US system is good at providing emergency care and generally keeping people from dying. We're good at the heroics and cutting edge stuff. We aren't so good at more mundane aspects of healthcare. Culture plays a part in this, and the way doctors are paid does not provide much incentives for mundane care. Of course, those saved by our excellent emergency services will probably be bankrupt afterwards.
In terms of DRM Stardock does have Valve beat since they have none whatsoever, but Valve is still very awesome. I find it very interesting that the 2 companies with the largest digital distribution platforms have the least restrictive DRM policies.
In all fairness to the Republicans, they do lower taxes. The freaky thing is that they also increase spending. I guess they just figure the Democrats will eventually come in and straighten up the budget.
Sadly, most people who would be a good president don't want the job, which is probably quite smart of them. Obama's not bad, but he could be a whole lot better.
Not really. It's been pretty deregulated since '84 and actively encouraged since '90. The only major hurdles are the FAA regs for atmospheric flight, which is pretty simple compared to the complexity of spaceflight.
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Boy do I feel special. I'm surprised IE6 came back unique. It looks like it was.NET's fault.
It's not really all that "regulated" you know. Relatively little regulation is stopping you from building a spacecraft on your own and flying yourself to the moon. The main regulations you have to follow are actually FAA regs for atmospheric flight. NASA actually uses private companies for some satellite launches.
I know my company offers a corporate discount on Verizon which frequently makes them more competitive. We're also on an older plan that is cheaper than anything they currently offer. If we ever need a data plan we'll probably go somewhere else though.
I tend to think the extinction of software patents has a chance. While most of the big software companies use them, they are aware of the double-edged sword nature of them. They might lobby for them somewhat, but I don't think you'll see them doing a full-court press. Some of them may even decide they'd rather see software patents go away so they won't be targets of the trolls.
I gotta say that in many ways I never truly grokked Object Oriented Programming until I tried some Ruby. I could do it, but somehow it never really clicked and felt natural. It wasn't until I saw Ruby turn an integer into an iterator with 5.times.do that OO suddenly just clicked for me.
As a bonus, if you want to teach Ruby you call always use the famous Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby. I have a feeling a kid would love it. It's too bad _why has disappeared, but the Guide is still around.
This is a valid point, but someone above you claimed they did register a business. Beyond that, there is clearly some political weight being thrown around due to the abnormal 3-hours to respond issue.
Because if you live in Word and type 90+ words per minute most thin clients can't keep up. I've seen thin clients rolled out to all the executive assistants in a medium size corporation. It wasn't pretty.
It is completely possible to play Mafia Wars and totally ignore the PvP aspects of it. You'll lose a negligible amount of money from people beating you up, but money really isn't that big a deal and is completely safe if you put it in the bank. I decided quite early that I didn't care for the PvP aspects and mostly ignore them. I'm almost done with the New York missions and will not be playing it any further once I complete those.
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Do you find the 2nd image in the parent post that difficult to decode? That's the very well known Mayday Tileset. The new version should be out in a few weeks and it should fix all the annoyances that tilesets currently cause, but it will take the tileset makers a few weeks (at least) to have full sets available.
I still play Herzog Zwei in emulation occasionally. It's still a very unique game and I'd really like to see something similar to it tried with modern multiplayer support.
WARNING: when a DF player speaks of "fun" they may be using a slightly different meaning of the word. Go here to make sure you understand what they are talking about: http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Fun
I'm not a big wine fan, but that sounds like it would be worth a try. Thanks for the recommendation.
While that is certainly possible, you should get a friend and run an experiment to see if you really can smell the difference. Preferably 2 friends so you can make it double-blind.
Having worked in Medical Billing I can assure you that Medicare is less work for Hospital/Doctor's office staff than nearly any private insurer, and the real difficulty comes in having to keep up with so many different insurers with different policies and submission requirements. Medicare pays crap, but it's very easy to work with and generally pays much quicker than any private insurance, who all tend to push the payment out as far as they can. If Medicare paid half-decent, Hospitals would be thrilled to work with just them. Your point about the percentage vs per-person cost is valid, but I expect Medicare would still beat the private insurers by a significant margin. I suspect that the low Medicare administrative costs are being over-stated, but I have absolutely no doubt that they are still way better than private insurance.
Overall I really liked the House Bill with the Public Option, which actually did have other aspects beyond just insurance reform. The Senate Bill is far worse for many reasons, but I'll take it over the status quo.
Keep in mind that the developers are not generally working for the hospitals, they are working for the software vendors. The vendors are where the real time and resources crunch is. It takes months (sometimes years) to convert a hospital over to a completely new system, and they are likely limited by staff and other resources as to how many hospitals they can bring up at one time. Any individual hospital has plenty of time, but from the vendors perspective it's dozens, possibly hundreds of hospitals they need to get up in a limited timeframe. I have a feeling they'll be hiring lots of developers, implementation managers and others, but it takes time to really get them trained up. Do you want to have the junior implementation manager in charge of your hospitals migration when you're facing a looming federal deadline?
We are talking about users trying to get their job done here, not beta testers trying to help find bugs who can just do something else when it crashes on them. Presumably the user is trying to do the job and if the program doesn't work they can't work. Unless you're monitoring the logfile constantly and can quickly identify which user it is and figure out their phone number and call them immediately it's best to have the user call so you can get them back to working quickly.
"Move some of us to a self-sufficient base on Mars, and even if Earth turns back into molten slag, humanity will continue to exist."
The hard part of that idea isn't getting to Mars, but making it self-sufficient.
The US system is good at providing emergency care and generally keeping people from dying. We're good at the heroics and cutting edge stuff. We aren't so good at more mundane aspects of healthcare. Culture plays a part in this, and the way doctors are paid does not provide much incentives for mundane care. Of course, those saved by our excellent emergency services will probably be bankrupt afterwards.
In terms of DRM Stardock does have Valve beat since they have none whatsoever, but Valve is still very awesome. I find it very interesting that the 2 companies with the largest digital distribution platforms have the least restrictive DRM policies.
I consider 99% of sigs a waste of space and have changed my settings to not show them, so I appreciate a link when it's appropriate.
In all fairness to the Republicans, they do lower taxes. The freaky thing is that they also increase spending. I guess they just figure the Democrats will eventually come in and straighten up the budget.
Sadly, most people who would be a good president don't want the job, which is probably quite smart of them. Obama's not bad, but he could be a whole lot better.
Not really. It's been pretty deregulated since '84 and actively encouraged since '90. The only major hurdles are the FAA regs for atmospheric flight, which is pretty simple compared to the complexity of spaceflight.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_spaceflight
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Boy do I feel special. I'm surprised IE6 came back unique. It looks like it was .NET's fault.
It's not really all that "regulated" you know. Relatively little regulation is stopping you from building a spacecraft on your own and flying yourself to the moon. The main regulations you have to follow are actually FAA regs for atmospheric flight. NASA actually uses private companies for some satellite launches.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_spaceflight
What if they already have one?
I know my company offers a corporate discount on Verizon which frequently makes them more competitive. We're also on an older plan that is cheaper than anything they currently offer. If we ever need a data plan we'll probably go somewhere else though.
I tend to think the extinction of software patents has a chance. While most of the big software companies use them, they are aware of the double-edged sword nature of them. They might lobby for them somewhat, but I don't think you'll see them doing a full-court press. Some of them may even decide they'd rather see software patents go away so they won't be targets of the trolls.
The movie overall may only be a B, but the Kurgan is a AAA villian, which raises the overall quality significantly.
I gotta say that in many ways I never truly grokked Object Oriented Programming until I tried some Ruby. I could do it, but somehow it never really clicked and felt natural. It wasn't until I saw Ruby turn an integer into an iterator with 5.times.do that OO suddenly just clicked for me.
As a bonus, if you want to teach Ruby you call always use the famous Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby. I have a feeling a kid would love it. It's too bad _why has disappeared, but the Guide is still around.
This is a valid point, but someone above you claimed they did register a business. Beyond that, there is clearly some political weight being thrown around due to the abnormal 3-hours to respond issue.
Because if you live in Word and type 90+ words per minute most thin clients can't keep up. I've seen thin clients rolled out to all the executive assistants in a medium size corporation. It wasn't pretty.
It is completely possible to play Mafia Wars and totally ignore the PvP aspects of it. You'll lose a negligible amount of money from people beating you up, but money really isn't that big a deal and is completely safe if you put it in the bank. I decided quite early that I didn't care for the PvP aspects and mostly ignore them. I'm almost done with the New York missions and will not be playing it any further once I complete those.