Totally agree. More options are always better. Let the consumer decide in general. I don't like most my options I have now, especially with all the traveling I do. This is very cool, if it turns out to be bad, people will turn away quickly. If it turns out to be good, we just reduced the cost of healthcare, good deal. And like the parent says, probably increased access to atleast some type of health care.

That was my thought, the ruling is idiotic, but the judge/lawyer relationships are disgusting problems. I've dealt with it personally watching a non local defending lawyer be reamed as the judge and the prosecutor of the medium size town are so obvious it looks like courting. And it had very very nasty costs, that put someone in prison for 3 years. Saw first hand prosecutor request/suggest and get a yes, defender ask something and get serious attitude with the no. Made me think they should have a 4 year district rotation/move cycle. Treat judges/prosecutors like park rangers, and transfer them around.

Funniest thing I saw, was deaf people in a car driving in front of me talking. It took a while for me to figure out what all the hand motions and swerving was about, but man when I figured it out, it was FUNNY.

You should be banned form slashdot for even typing MCSE. Especially in caps. I've yet to meet someone with those letters that deserve them capitalized, except for the one that kept sending me emails in all caps. Seemed appropriate for him. :)

I always liked this concept also, a bit socialistic, but with the stupid gaps we have, it's starting to seem like a good idea, but the loop holes are there. Though one has to acknowledge that you would be throwing a considerable hurdle out there. Top end staff will need to be under pretty strict contracted out contract agreements for issues of company knowledge, customer information, non competes, etc etc. And with a little more thought, you can probably take this concept and shore it up a bit more.

A clean windows install? I've never seen such a thing? Sounds like some sort of conspiracy theory to me.

I am waiting for the girls in your class to post a comment about how they are waiting for some *attractive* guys to start taking your calculus class.

We are all money whores in some way/fashion. And that fact alone means, if you pay me to make it work in IE 6, it will work in IE 6. If web development is your income, which it is for me, then any techno-religious views are irrelevant. Client needs/requirements and time/cost/payment is the bible.

Having said that, obviously the technical preference is that IE 6 goes away sooner rather then later. And I will be right there celebrating with you.

Agreed. I find it odd that they build such an intensive OS now as well. You would think my mac would be the slow one, but I suppose apple controls the hardware, so they don't sell a machine that runs osx like a dog maybe. But my mac does some neat and pretty things, but seems to do it quickly and without a lot of fuss. Vista, not so much. I think your right on, I'm a java/php/ex asp/vb developer that uses a mac 99% of the time. For the simple fact that I spend a lot less time messing with the computer and a whole lot more using it. Which means more time billable, and less time screwing around. Which is good, cause I need to respond to your post :D

Honestly, this is sad that so much time is spent commenting on yet another tv show. Seriously, I know we are all computer geeks here, but turn the tv off and go outside and live your life a bit more. In the grand scheme of things, it's just entertainment, and is of no consequence whether the show existed or didn't and/or why. Just throwing a little "there is a real world" perspective in ;)

That kind of visual augmentation became real popular I think starting in the 60's. I think it was call PCP? Not to be confused with the more recent mobile device PSP.

We are full time rv'ers that travel and work, we have 2 with Verizon, and they work great. But you do any audio, any video, and much photo, you will easily jump over the limit. And like cell phones, you do that, and your dropping a lot of money very quickly. I just did for work. I was earning money, so it's our cost of doing biz when I need it. But we travel and use wifi rv parks and business networks and coffee shops when we can, and our cards when we can't. We use macs, they work great, and except in the absolute middle of nowhere they seem to do ok, for basic stuff, like reading slashdot, coding, emailing, uploading work, vpn etc. But vid/aud super slow. And quickly expensive.

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I am a software developer that travels and consults for B2b solutions using all flavors of OS's/databases/languages and about 4 years ago I switched my primary computer to a mac osx laptop, and keep a vista laptop around for the occasional must have windows machine myself reasons. Which is rare.

I spend virtually none of my time "managing" my computer, which was the point, and all my time actually working. And a tiny bit of time watching people everywhere I go be amazed that I can do almost everything I need to on a Mac. And more, since things like 'telnet' aren't even in a standard distro of vista. Let alone, ssh and many other goodies of the such.

Hardware does "seem" like there is a tiny premium on the apple stuff though, but just read some guys article the other day where it's very little if you actually try and compare apples to apples with pc/apple hardware configs.

But oh how much time I save in billable hours, by not spending days upgrading/downgrading/sidegrading/recovering from virus'/restoring/installing/uninstalling.

Also gives me more time to read slashdot :D

I do a lot of photog, I bought a bad compact flash once. How I knew, a handful of photos ended up half visible. Obviously a corrupted file, that I could visually identify. I grabbed all the good photos off and proceeded to the nearest trash can. I know it's not an electrical engineer description, but it is how I noticed my compactflash card had failed.

haha, ya, that one is tough enough, I'll admit that. Course I say that, junior year on in HS I didn't have too much trouble and am now married. But there are times that you have to play the numbers a lot just to get those 2. Course that was my point, the more and more reqs you add on, the curve of females eligible gets sharper and sharper. :)