Whether it is a failed educational system or just plain apathy, the Fed really doesn't have to hide that much of what they do. No one seems interested in questioning why a country that has a sovereign right to print money ends up TRILLIONS in debt.
From the above link:
The Fed makes money ex nihilo, pulling it out of thin air rather than taking it from its coffers. Then, it pushes the money into the economy by buying up assets from banks.
So the banks get all this free money at the same time we talk about "deficit reduction" in the form of extending the retirement age, cutting medicare/medicade benefits and a host of other spending (except wars of course). Maybe if we didn't give the banks free money we would have money for things like health care.
Can't say that I fault a non-techie for hiring someone they think is reputable and from that assuming they are covered. That said, nothing wrong with carefully shutting down the system, hiding it, and calling said provider and saying "it got stolen how fast can you have me back up and running?" That would have uncovered any flaws in the backup process.
From my perspective, if it is located in the same building as the source data, it is a copy, not a backup. If it is offsite, but has never had a test restore, it is a paperweight, not a backup. I doubt few non-techies think about test restores, but I do them monthly and have to document them as it is the first thing my boss asks about when it is review time. Of course he already knows the answer as he has had our other engineer test restore stuff independent of me. We all sleep better that way.
As for the 3 week delay, either someone doesn't know or doesn't care. Perfect example of why people DON'T outsource IT, so when this happens you can at least fire, rather than sue, someone. At least in an at-will state like US-KY.
And lastly, how dumb does the provider have to be to let this drag on and hit all the news outlets? Imagine what great pub it would be to get it back up and running quickly, rather than have your customers talking about potential litigation to any reporter that will listen.
It is only impossible if you believe it to be impossible. We all have the freedom to create/destroy/change ANY association we make. What is impossible is for the brain to think itself into something that it can't also think itself out of.
BadAnalogyGuy is accurate in what he says. When we forget that what is in our head is only an internal representation of external things (a PARTIAL representation) and that it is only one of many possible representations then we lose the ability to relate to other representations.
Put another way, as other posters have mentioned, why should what one culture did for a couple of decades with this symbol override what another culture did with it for a much longer time? You do NOT have to think of Nazis when you view the symbol. You MAY...but you don't HAVE to. You are making a choice regardless of how aware you are of that choice.
Republicans and Democrats are 2 wings of the same corporate party...I fear he is correct. When you look at the causes of the financial meltdown we experienced, there are policies by both R and D congresses and presidents that all made it possible.
I hate to over-simplify, but it appears they both suck.
And Jesse Ventura said he would be against Independents forming a 3rd party because you would have a 3 headed monster instead of a 2 headed one...I fear he is correct as well. His idea of disbanding all political parties sounded interesting, though.
Who knew that giving control of our money supply to private corporations was a bad idea? I mean besides Ben Franklin.
"The Fed makes money ex nihilo, pulling it out of thin air rather than taking it from its coffers. Then, it pushes the money into the economy by buying up assets from banks."
FTA:
While web browser advances were few and far between a decade ago, competition among IE, Firefox, Chrome, Apple Safari and Opera has fueled new developments, including increasingly faster browsers
I agree and am amazed at the ones that go a step further and ask for DPS scores. Those scores are not static...do you want the scores from singles/small mobs/big mobs? Do you want the scores when I am with weaker/stronger/about the same DPS players? I have a DK, so you want blood/frost/unholy numbers?...or maybe you should just ask me if I am smart enough to not stand in DoT effects and follow orders and work within the team.
So did you finish college??? Don't keep us in suspense:)
I am not, nor probably never will be "hard core". I have done only 1 10-man. I don't see myself ever going beyond that.
That said, it comes down to priorities and time management. I play WOW a couple of hours each day, but I only watch 30 minutes of TV (PTI on ESPN), so I figure it all balances out.
Agreed. I think your enjoyment will be inline with how many friends you have that play, or how many friends you can make in the game. Since I found out that some people I work with play, and since I found a guild my enjoyment increased greatly. What I never got was the people that would do nothing but solo quest and then complain that the game was crap...of course you think it is crap if you miss the whole point of social interaction.
Oh I am sure there will be...maybe not to the level of what EA got, but still.
What surprises me is that I thought they would have it out before Thanksgiving weekend so everyone could begin a mad dash to lvl 85 over a long weekend.
I challenge anyone to go to www.datesinhistory.com and find a date that WON'T generate controversy somewhere.
I totally understand what you are saying, but all dates have meaning to someone.
Whoa there, Sparky...let's ease up with all this "crazy talk" about reading articles. If I wanted well reasoned informed posts I sure as hell wouldn't be here, now would I? I want hyperbole, insinuation, straight up lies, and for the icing on the cake talk about my momma.
Yes I saw the date was 2 years ago. My point is that Blue-Ray is no longer going to insulate/differentiate Sony's product from competition. You can get a BR player for less than $100 and if MS thinks it can gain market share by adding BR support to the 360 you think they will hesitate to do so? Compared to some of their tactics for getting market share it would be quite tame.
Other crap you can do with the device that does not make them any money they don't care about.
If a customer buys your product because of feature "x" (other OS) then that is making them money.
I bought the PS3 because of Other OS,specifically because that made it a bit more "open" than the 360. But if you remove that function and considering this: http://news.cnet.com/microsoft-has-xbox-360-blu-ray-drives-ready-to-go/ you have just removed any reason for me to buy a PS3 or even continue to buy games for it. I KNOW that MS won't make a system that has stuff like Other OS so I have no expectation that would lead to disappointment. But when I pay for something and THEN you remove it I am disappointed.
Disappointed to the extent that I am done with the PS3 and any games for it. Furthermore, it seemed there were many academic folks that like using the PS3 for number crunching. MS seems to think a lot of having schools use their product which is why you can buy a student version of Office (at a discount) with just a *.edu email address.
I get your points about this affecting only a small percentage of the user base and that it matters way more to developers. But as you said PS3 is being overshadowed and therefore you would think they would want to differentiate themselves from the evil empire. As you said, PR is mostly BS anyway so why would it matter to leave the Other OS function in there?
The slide staying back is referred to as "lock back".
As far as the reload I think you are referring to a "slide-lock" reload. Meaning you are manually disengaging the slide lock to allow the slide forward to chamber another round as opposed to the slide being in the forward position, putting in a clip and "racking" (pulling back and releasing) the slide to reload.
People not familiar with firearms tend to get confused on the difference between "automatic" and "auto-loader".
Automatic=1 trigger pull (and hold) and it fires until the clip is empty
Auto-loader=1 trigger pull (and release) means one shot fired and the next round loaded in the chamber
I think it is worthwhile and why is very easy to answer:
Because I, along with many others in this thread, was THERE when it happened. The endless re-installs, blue screens, and tweaking. Moving from 3.11 to 95, and then 95 to 98. Now that I am a network engineer, I don't see as many things that really make me go WOW. After muddling around in DOS for so many years it was kinda cool to see the evolution to 3.11, 95 etc. I know that performance wise that early Windows was crap...but in a way it still felt like coming out of a cave into the light of day.
And it would appear from the comments that I am not alone in enjoying the nostalgia. If you have no interest in nostalgia, that's fine. Go find something you enjoy reading about. Surely these types of stories interspersed with the others is not too great a burden to bear.
I agree that the insurance is not the best idea, but you have to do something to make people decide to not call in false alarms.
I would say that if you call, you get taken out of the park/area regardless of the severity of your "issue". This would last for 24 hrs. If you rented a cabin or tent area, you lose it for that night and have to stay somewhere else. Still some problems with enforcement, but the goal is to make people decide on their own to NOT call unless it is a real emergency.
Other than that, we wait for a technical solution that allows for text/voice chat rather than just a "SOS" button to determine the severity.
Yes, you can. Unfortunately the concept of broadcast traffic is well beyond some people who should know better. DHCP (with or without Active Directory) can make the network look "broken" to the average user.
I work at a college and we have classrooms devoted to MS classes covering such things. So, we put small routers in the server room to serve just these specialty rooms and block said broadcast traffic (such as DHCP) from affecting the rest of the student network. Invariably, some instructor vastly overestimates his/her understanding of networking and removes the classroom from the router and puts it on the student network. Next time they or a student fires up a server, the entire student network is inoperable due to incorrect gateway and DNS settings.
Even with such history, the instructors are allowed to have Router/WAPs with no input from IT. So it goes like this:
1) Router/WAP delivered to Campus A...within hours the student network at Campus A is "down"
2) Router/WAP delivered to Campus B...within hours the student network at Campus B is "down"
3) Router/WAP delivered to Campus C...within hours the student network at Campus C is "down"
Of course each occurrence means someone from IT has to drop what they are doing and make (often an after-hours) trip to said campus to fix it. You would think technology instructors would be smart enough to figure out: the network was working, I plugged something in, the network stopped working...maybe I should unplug it? But sadly, they don't figure that out. In a related story, IT now has a supply of company bought WAPs sitting in a closet.
I may be getting cynical in my old age (about to hit the big four oh)...but if I am troubleshooting this, I am checking for a button press REGARDLESS of what anyone says about not pushing it. I have yet to see a button (labeled or not) that doesn't get pressed at some point. Of course, due to my cynicism I would have had a camera pointed at said button.
Good point, but I would add that none of those companies had some of the advantages that Apple enjoys: Existing solid fan base BEFORE the Ipad came out and enough cash/market cap to make MS choke.
I guess what I am trying to say is that overtaking the Ipad will NOT be as easy as overtaking the technologies you listed.
And that I think represents what I find difficult in sorting out all the data surrounding this. You are spot on that regional variances aren't the same as global. But then the question is this: is the global number being derived from these local readings? If so, then the methodology of the regional readings is of importance.
I guess you didn't bother to READ the link so here it is again:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1250872/Climategate-U-turn-Astonishment-scientist-centre-global-warming-email-row-admits-data-organised.html
Professor Jones has been in the spotlight since he stepped down as director of the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit after the leaking of emails that skeptics claim show scientists were manipulating data
This isn't about debunking, it is him talking about how he doesn't keep up with data very well. His data was used by the IPCC.
Any chance you can get beyond name calling and actually provide links for what you are talking about?
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The sad part is, we don't need Wikileaks to know that the Fed should be abolished
http://www.amazon.com/Web-Debt-Ellen-Hodgson-Brown/dp/0979560888/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1291296798&sr=8-1
Whether it is a failed educational system or just plain apathy, the Fed really doesn't have to hide that much of what they do. No one seems interested in questioning why a country that has a sovereign right to print money ends up TRILLIONS in debt.
http://www.slate.com/id/2271828/
From the above link: The Fed makes money ex nihilo, pulling it out of thin air rather than taking it from its coffers. Then, it pushes the money into the economy by buying up assets from banks.
So the banks get all this free money at the same time we talk about "deficit reduction" in the form of extending the retirement age, cutting medicare/medicade benefits and a host of other spending (except wars of course). Maybe if we didn't give the banks free money we would have money for things like health care.
Can't say that I fault a non-techie for hiring someone they think is reputable and from that assuming they are covered. That said, nothing wrong with carefully shutting down the system, hiding it, and calling said provider and saying "it got stolen how fast can you have me back up and running?" That would have uncovered any flaws in the backup process.
From my perspective, if it is located in the same building as the source data, it is a copy, not a backup. If it is offsite, but has never had a test restore, it is a paperweight, not a backup. I doubt few non-techies think about test restores, but I do them monthly and have to document them as it is the first thing my boss asks about when it is review time. Of course he already knows the answer as he has had our other engineer test restore stuff independent of me. We all sleep better that way.
As for the 3 week delay, either someone doesn't know or doesn't care. Perfect example of why people DON'T outsource IT, so when this happens you can at least fire, rather than sue, someone. At least in an at-will state like US-KY.
And lastly, how dumb does the provider have to be to let this drag on and hit all the news outlets? Imagine what great pub it would be to get it back up and running quickly, rather than have your customers talking about potential litigation to any reporter that will listen.
It is only impossible if you believe it to be impossible. We all have the freedom to create/destroy/change ANY association we make. What is impossible is for the brain to think itself into something that it can't also think itself out of.
BadAnalogyGuy is accurate in what he says. When we forget that what is in our head is only an internal representation of external things (a PARTIAL representation) and that it is only one of many possible representations then we lose the ability to relate to other representations.
Put another way, as other posters have mentioned, why should what one culture did for a couple of decades with this symbol override what another culture did with it for a much longer time? You do NOT have to think of Nazis when you view the symbol. You MAY...but you don't HAVE to. You are making a choice regardless of how aware you are of that choice.
Yea well good luck with that
Republicans and Democrats are 2 wings of the same corporate party...I fear he is correct. When you look at the causes of the financial meltdown we experienced, there are policies by both R and D congresses and presidents that all made it possible. I hate to over-simplify, but it appears they both suck.
And Jesse Ventura said he would be against Independents forming a 3rd party because you would have a 3 headed monster instead of a 2 headed one...I fear he is correct as well. His idea of disbanding all political parties sounded interesting, though.
Who knew that giving control of our money supply to private corporations was a bad idea? I mean besides Ben Franklin.
http://www.slate.com/id/2271828/
"The Fed makes money ex nihilo, pulling it out of thin air rather than taking it from its coffers. Then, it pushes the money into the economy by buying up assets from banks."
FTA: While web browser advances were few and far between a decade ago, competition among IE, Firefox, Chrome, Apple Safari and Opera has fueled new developments, including increasingly faster browsers
Imagine that...competition FTW.
I agree and am amazed at the ones that go a step further and ask for DPS scores. Those scores are not static...do you want the scores from singles/small mobs/big mobs? Do you want the scores when I am with weaker/stronger/about the same DPS players? I have a DK, so you want blood/frost/unholy numbers?...or maybe you should just ask me if I am smart enough to not stand in DoT effects and follow orders and work within the team.
So did you finish college??? Don't keep us in suspense :)
I am not, nor probably never will be "hard core". I have done only 1 10-man. I don't see myself ever going beyond that.
That said, it comes down to priorities and time management. I play WOW a couple of hours each day, but I only watch 30 minutes of TV (PTI on ESPN), so I figure it all balances out.
Agreed. I think your enjoyment will be inline with how many friends you have that play, or how many friends you can make in the game. Since I found out that some people I work with play, and since I found a guild my enjoyment increased greatly. What I never got was the people that would do nothing but solo quest and then complain that the game was crap...of course you think it is crap if you miss the whole point of social interaction.
Oh I am sure there will be...maybe not to the level of what EA got, but still. What surprises me is that I thought they would have it out before Thanksgiving weekend so everyone could begin a mad dash to lvl 85 over a long weekend.
I challenge anyone to go to www.datesinhistory.com and find a date that WON'T generate controversy somewhere. I totally understand what you are saying, but all dates have meaning to someone.
Whoa there, Sparky...let's ease up with all this "crazy talk" about reading articles. If I wanted well reasoned informed posts I sure as hell wouldn't be here, now would I? I want hyperbole, insinuation, straight up lies, and for the icing on the cake talk about my momma.
Yes I saw the date was 2 years ago. My point is that Blue-Ray is no longer going to insulate/differentiate Sony's product from competition. You can get a BR player for less than $100 and if MS thinks it can gain market share by adding BR support to the 360 you think they will hesitate to do so? Compared to some of their tactics for getting market share it would be quite tame.
Other crap you can do with the device that does not make them any money they don't care about.
If a customer buys your product because of feature "x" (other OS) then that is making them money.
I bought the PS3 because of Other OS,specifically because that made it a bit more "open" than the 360. But if you remove that function and considering this: http://news.cnet.com/microsoft-has-xbox-360-blu-ray-drives-ready-to-go/ you have just removed any reason for me to buy a PS3 or even continue to buy games for it. I KNOW that MS won't make a system that has stuff like Other OS so I have no expectation that would lead to disappointment. But when I pay for something and THEN you remove it I am disappointed.
Disappointed to the extent that I am done with the PS3 and any games for it. Furthermore, it seemed there were many academic folks that like using the PS3 for number crunching. MS seems to think a lot of having schools use their product which is why you can buy a student version of Office (at a discount) with just a *.edu email address.
I get your points about this affecting only a small percentage of the user base and that it matters way more to developers. But as you said PS3 is being overshadowed and therefore you would think they would want to differentiate themselves from the evil empire. As you said, PR is mostly BS anyway so why would it matter to leave the Other OS function in there?
The slide staying back is referred to as "lock back".
As far as the reload I think you are referring to a "slide-lock" reload. Meaning you are manually disengaging the slide lock to allow the slide forward to chamber another round as opposed to the slide being in the forward position, putting in a clip and "racking" (pulling back and releasing) the slide to reload.
People not familiar with firearms tend to get confused on the difference between "automatic" and "auto-loader".
Automatic=1 trigger pull (and hold) and it fires until the clip is empty Auto-loader=1 trigger pull (and release) means one shot fired and the next round loaded in the chamber
I think it is worthwhile and why is very easy to answer:
Because I, along with many others in this thread, was THERE when it happened. The endless re-installs, blue screens, and tweaking. Moving from 3.11 to 95, and then 95 to 98. Now that I am a network engineer, I don't see as many things that really make me go WOW. After muddling around in DOS for so many years it was kinda cool to see the evolution to 3.11, 95 etc. I know that performance wise that early Windows was crap...but in a way it still felt like coming out of a cave into the light of day.
And it would appear from the comments that I am not alone in enjoying the nostalgia. If you have no interest in nostalgia, that's fine. Go find something you enjoy reading about. Surely these types of stories interspersed with the others is not too great a burden to bear.
I agree that the insurance is not the best idea, but you have to do something to make people decide to not call in false alarms.
I would say that if you call, you get taken out of the park/area regardless of the severity of your "issue". This would last for 24 hrs. If you rented a cabin or tent area, you lose it for that night and have to stay somewhere else. Still some problems with enforcement, but the goal is to make people decide on their own to NOT call unless it is a real emergency.
Other than that, we wait for a technical solution that allows for text/voice chat rather than just a "SOS" button to determine the severity.
Yes, you can. Unfortunately the concept of broadcast traffic is well beyond some people who should know better. DHCP (with or without Active Directory) can make the network look "broken" to the average user.
I work at a college and we have classrooms devoted to MS classes covering such things. So, we put small routers in the server room to serve just these specialty rooms and block said broadcast traffic (such as DHCP) from affecting the rest of the student network. Invariably, some instructor vastly overestimates his/her understanding of networking and removes the classroom from the router and puts it on the student network. Next time they or a student fires up a server, the entire student network is inoperable due to incorrect gateway and DNS settings.
Even with such history, the instructors are allowed to have Router/WAPs with no input from IT. So it goes like this: 1) Router/WAP delivered to Campus A...within hours the student network at Campus A is "down" 2) Router/WAP delivered to Campus B...within hours the student network at Campus B is "down" 3) Router/WAP delivered to Campus C...within hours the student network at Campus C is "down"
Of course each occurrence means someone from IT has to drop what they are doing and make (often an after-hours) trip to said campus to fix it. You would think technology instructors would be smart enough to figure out: the network was working, I plugged something in, the network stopped working...maybe I should unplug it? But sadly, they don't figure that out. In a related story, IT now has a supply of company bought WAPs sitting in a closet.
I may be getting cynical in my old age (about to hit the big four oh)...but if I am troubleshooting this, I am checking for a button press REGARDLESS of what anyone says about not pushing it. I have yet to see a button (labeled or not) that doesn't get pressed at some point. Of course, due to my cynicism I would have had a camera pointed at said button.
there will be 50,000 US troops there through 2011...this is just the end of "combat operations" whatever that means
Good point, but I would add that none of those companies had some of the advantages that Apple enjoys: Existing solid fan base BEFORE the Ipad came out and enough cash/market cap to make MS choke.
I guess what I am trying to say is that overtaking the Ipad will NOT be as easy as overtaking the technologies you listed.
And that I think represents what I find difficult in sorting out all the data surrounding this. You are spot on that regional variances aren't the same as global. But then the question is this: is the global number being derived from these local readings? If so, then the methodology of the regional readings is of importance.
I guess you didn't bother to READ the link so here it is again: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1250872/Climategate-U-turn-Astonishment-scientist-centre-global-warming-email-row-admits-data-organised.html Professor Jones has been in the spotlight since he stepped down as director of the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit after the leaking of emails that skeptics claim show scientists were manipulating data This isn't about debunking, it is him talking about how he doesn't keep up with data very well. His data was used by the IPCC. Any chance you can get beyond name calling and actually provide links for what you are talking about?
Well it would appear that all contrary views are being modded down, but here is another: http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Scientists+using+selective+temperature+data+skeptics/2468634/story.html Once again, I'm not saying whose right or wrong, simply that there is still debate.