Comment Re: How long will the company stay up? (Score 1) 494
Well, they are getting a better deal than they would have gotten from a private lender. That deal is funded by taxpayers. That sure seems like a bailout to me, albeit a pretty minor one.
Well, they are getting a better deal than they would have gotten from a private lender. That deal is funded by taxpayers. That sure seems like a bailout to me, albeit a pretty minor one.
Not all serious things run on servers in a data centre. Many people have serious things running on devices that fit in their pockets which don't support RAID or NUMA.
Not all serious things are run on servers using RAID and NUMA. In order to discount Slackware from use on any serious thing, you have to disprove it for all serious things, not just one subset.
It's not even refusing delivery. It's not requesting content in which one is not interested. One fetches an HTML document and then selectively fetches referenced documents. One just happens to not select documents which are high-bandwidth low-value, such as ads.
Predictive text is only one predictive service. It's also one that iOS does. Perhaps a different example of an area in which iOS is behind would be better?
Can't stream even a minnow at that speed, sadly.
One can stream 720p with 3Mb/s DSL no problem. 1.5Mb/s would be more than enough to stream SD content.
You, as a customer, can take this information (its free) and use it to find a better alternative.
That's only true if that information is available before the sale. It sounds like this information was not available in the user interface, marketing materials or documentation.
The concept of Santa Claus exists. The concept of social justice exists. In fact, social justice is only a concept with no avatar.
I was speaking about personal comprehensive insurance because the person to who I was replying stated that business insurance is a fiction and comprehensive covers everything, including his passengers. Which is true, except that most comprehensive insurance policies exempt business use.
On Slashdot, an American-based website for geeks, slang, especially slang from science-fiction is standard usage.
In the United States, which is where California is, comprehensive insurance does not cover business-use of your vehicle.
You make a lot of assumptions about other people, yet you decry assumptions others might make of obese people. This is a sword that cuts both ways. While "weight gain = energy input - energy output" is in a simplification, we eat, on average, double what we did twenty years ago. More of what we eat is sugar. We have been eating more, and higher-calorie foods, and have gained weight. That's American society as a whole; individual metabolic differences discounted.
What proportion of your salary is an annual checkup? My doctor charges $250 with blood work for an annual physical, and that's on the high end around here. My insurance covers it, but if I couldn't afford insurance (was $1000/month when I last paid out of pocket for insurance for a family) I would still spend the $250 a year for a physical.
My current workplace has a a program where you can go to a voluntary screening (BMI, %BF, Glucose, and cholesterol), the results supposedly aren't sent to the employer, but for participating you get a couple hundred bucks to apply towards gym memberships, fitness equipment, etc.
My workplace has that as well, but there privacy policy states they can share that medical data with anyone they like for marketing purposes. I passed on the $50 voucher.
Orange juice is considered healthy by whom? Juice is mostly a fruit's sugar without the fruit's fiber. Why not eat an orange and drink a glass of water instead?
"Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberrys!" -- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
