If Joe's hard drive dies, he's completely screwed unless he has an up to date backup... in which case he is out of commission until he buys a new disk and restores his applications and data to it.
An "internet outage" is a temporary annoyance until "the internet" is restored and business as usual resumes. In my experience the reliability of "the internet" is almost identical to that of electricity -- "the internet" fails when the local power fails.
Alterman concludes that learning to drive a car like a Carrera GT can be extremely tricky. ... learning to drive a car like a Carrera GT fast can be extremely tricky.
Does anyone vet these before posting? The "proof of concept" is a toy helicopter with a toy photovoltaic cell sending power down a wire to light five toy houses. It's toys all the way down.
It's a high school science project -- a bad one at that. It's an April Fools' joke. It's $39.95 at Toys r Us. It's $9.95 on Woot! It's a cover from the December 1964 Popular Science. It's a scene from a 1955 science fiction movie. From Afghanistan. It's News for nerds, Stuff that matters.
Planning? What planning? Hoping. Commanding. Directing. Praying. Lying. Concealing. Misdirecting. Deceiving. But no "planning" of the type that experienced project managers would recognize.
... you'd think they would have told us if they had.
You'd think they would have told us before October 1 that there were going to be some problems with healthcare.gov. They were either ignorant, incompetent or in denial.
The legislators don't know enough to ask the right questions nor do they have the training and experience needed to understand large system development.
In Congress its a case of the blind leading the deaf.
Do the whole world a favor and keep these guys on the line as long as possible. While they are "helping" you, they're not scamming the vulnerable.
I find it's entertaining to talk to them as you imagine your 79 year old grandmother would. Inept but just able to do all that they ask... after three or four tries.
"Just a minute, I need to start my computer. This might take awhile. I need to put the phone down, don't go away. OK, I'm back. Wait, I need to find my password. Hold on."
Where will the money come from to make interest payments to the bondholders? Where will the money come from to return the principal to the bondholders at maturity?
If this is an example of the brilliance of the people at the Blue Marble Institute for Space Science in Seattle, they should not be funded for anything. Nothing. Nohow.
... Obamacare wants to charge high rates (relative to the risk) for healthy young people so they can charge less for the elderly or reckless who are at high risk for a claim.
One model predicts global warming. A second model guesses at the surface temperature in places where there are no thermometers and finds warming. The second model confirms the first.
Unfortunately, the Microsoft-owned company isn't ready to ship the functionality yet, despite it being available in the company's enterprise-focused Lync tool.
And we all know that once it works with one product, it's just a matter of waving the code over all the other products in the company's portfolio to make it work everywhere.
Perhaps this has something to do with preventing people from using the battery longer than is safe. Because we know that when things catch fire or stop working the immediate remedy is to sue.
When the cost isn't mentioned, we can be sure that it is unknown, unknowable or very high.
The technology here is not new -- greenhouses with a solar concentrator for energy and "swamp cooler" technology for cooling. What is possibly new is the location and integration of a old technologies with a newer one.
A search for insurance for a 65 year old single person with an annual income of $35,000 returned a "Market Young Adult Essentials" policy and a link to the insurance company's start page for finding available policies. This is not "A better portal to HealthCare.gov"
And then, there's the warning... "The information provided here is for research purposes. Make sure to verify premiums and subsidies on your state exchange or healthcare.gov, or directly with the insurance company or an agent."
This is not good to go and less functional that even the real HealthCare.gov.
We make a little on their e-book purchases, but then lose them as a customer completely after two years.
The way things are going now, they're going to be out of business in two years anyway. Maybe they can hang out with the guy that had the hardware store before Home Depot came to town. Or the people with the health food store before Whole Foods. Or the stationary store before Office Max. Or the printer before Kinko's. Or the computer store before Dell.
You miss the point. Obama placed unrealistic deadlines on a large and complex project. It was then subject to feature creep and spec changes on the whim of politicians and lobbyists.
So by saying that she's accountable for the failure, Sebelius was lying? Are you saying that Obama is accountable?
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If Joe's hard drive dies, he's completely screwed unless he has an up to date backup ... in which case he is out of commission until he buys a new disk and restores his applications and data to it.
An "internet outage" is a temporary annoyance until "the internet" is restored and business as usual resumes. In my experience the reliability of "the internet" is almost identical to that of electricity -- "the internet" fails when the local power fails.
Over 92% of the coal consumed in the United States is used for generating electricity.
http://www.eia.gov/energy_in_brief/article/role_coal_us.cfm
Over 92% is almost 100%.
Almost 100% of all coal is shipped to electricity providers. Reliability and Economies of Scale.
Alterman concludes that learning to drive a car like a Carrera GT can be extremely tricky. ... learning to drive a car like a Carrera GT fast can be extremely tricky.
Kurt Andersen. With an "e."
LoJack to release tracking devices for consumers, insurance and auto makers.
Who, besides the NSA, would want to track consumers, insurance and automakers? OK, the feds need to keep an eye on GM, but really.
A BBC investigation into a UK-based Amazon warehouse has found conditions that a stress expert said could cause "mental and physical illness".
Well, that settles it.
Does anyone vet these before posting? The "proof of concept" is a toy helicopter with a toy photovoltaic cell sending power down a wire to light five toy houses. It's toys all the way down.
It's a high school science project -- a bad one at that. It's an April Fools' joke. It's $39.95 at Toys r Us. It's $9.95 on Woot! It's a cover from the December 1964 Popular Science. It's a scene from a 1955 science fiction movie. From Afghanistan. It's News for nerds, Stuff that matters.
Planning? What planning? Hoping. Commanding. Directing. Praying. Lying. Concealing. Misdirecting. Deceiving. But no "planning" of the type that experienced project managers would recognize.
But has it done more harm than the alternative -- and what might that be?
But there's a community of bloggers ...
That's funny. Like a herd of turtles.
You'd think they would have told us before October 1 that there were going to be some problems with healthcare.gov. They were either ignorant, incompetent or in denial.
The legislators don't know enough to ask the right questions nor do they have the training and experience needed to understand large system development.
In Congress its a case of the blind leading the deaf.
Do the whole world a favor and keep these guys on the line as long as possible. While they are "helping" you, they're not scamming the vulnerable.
I find it's entertaining to talk to them as you imagine your 79 year old grandmother would. Inept but just able to do all that they ask ... after three or four tries.
"Just a minute, I need to start my computer. This might take awhile. I need to put the phone down, don't go away. OK, I'm back. Wait, I need to find my password. Hold on."
Where will the money come from to make interest payments to the bondholders? Where will the money come from to return the principal to the bondholders at maturity?
If this is an example of the brilliance of the people at the Blue Marble Institute for Space Science in Seattle, they should not be funded for anything. Nothing. Nohow.
The temperature in Seattle, WA is 8C. The temperature in Spokane, WA is 2C. What is the temperature in Moses Lake, WA?
0C.
One model predicts global warming. A second model guesses at the surface temperature in places where there are no thermometers and finds warming. The second model confirms the first.
And this is science.
Unfortunately, the Microsoft-owned company isn't ready to ship the functionality yet, despite it being available in the company's enterprise-focused Lync tool.
And we all know that once it works with one product, it's just a matter of waving the code over all the other products in the company's portfolio to make it work everywhere.
Batteries don't expire according to the calendar. They expire according to how they are used.
Perhaps this has something to do with preventing people from using the battery longer than is safe. Because we know that when things catch fire or stop working the immediate remedy is to sue.
None is better than wrong.
When the cost isn't mentioned, we can be sure that it is unknown, unknowable or very high.
The technology here is not new -- greenhouses with a solar concentrator for energy and "swamp cooler" technology for cooling. What is possibly new is the location and integration of a old technologies with a newer one.
Get back to me when you have a cost.
A search for insurance for a 65 year old single person with an annual income of $35,000 returned a "Market Young Adult Essentials" policy and a link to the insurance company's start page for finding available policies. This is not "A better portal to HealthCare.gov"
And then, there's the warning ... "The information provided here is for research purposes. Make sure to verify premiums and subsidies on your state exchange or healthcare.gov, or directly with the insurance company or an agent."
This is not good to go and less functional that even the real HealthCare.gov.
They left all the hard stuff out.
We make a little on their e-book purchases, but then lose them as a customer completely after two years.
The way things are going now, they're going to be out of business in two years anyway. Maybe they can hang out with the guy that had the hardware store before Home Depot came to town. Or the people with the health food store before Whole Foods. Or the stationary store before Office Max. Or the printer before Kinko's. Or the computer store before Dell.
You miss the point. Obama placed unrealistic deadlines on a large and complex project. It was then subject to feature creep and spec changes on the whim of politicians and lobbyists.
So by saying that she's accountable for the failure, Sebelius was lying? Are you saying that Obama is accountable?
Sebelius added that she was ultimately accountable for what she termed the 'excruciatingly awful' rollout.
Accountable how? Will she get a black mark on her annual review? She still has her job.