Since Windows has a ton of scope creep and behind the scenes changes that go on it seems with ever update or install, I leverage Acronis' Try and Decide feature. It works although I haven't tried it at the full O/S upgrade level. For that I still use Acronis in terms of a full backup and recovery if necessary. For all other updates or new installs I really like Try & Decide. I have never tried it but there's also Returnil which a lot of people seem to have good luck with as well.
Seriously, with all the self absorbed drivers on the road these days all trying to get to the same place at the same time, I want the Sweet Tooth options on my next car. Cut me off?!?! It's the flaming ice cream buddy!
With fewer officers on the highways and all the dumb ass maneuvers that people pull, it still seems incomprehensible that people don't get why "road rage" exists. I'm all for free choice but acting like an asshole on the roads means you'll probably get an asshole response. It's just human nature. Oh and Fred Rogers is still dead.
Not necessarily, everybody has their price and considering National City Lines was buying up all kinds of street car routes all over the country as no coincidence. That's why the justice department sued, and they were right to do that. Sure, cars/buses were newer and street car lines were competing with them, that's natural but don't say that GM, Firestone and Big Oil didn't help push them into early retirement by funding a company who came in, dismantled them and replaced them with buses not for the public good but for their own profit and monopolistic interests.
To be sure they could have used more investment but they weren't treated as a public utility. They were a private company which was sold to a front company funded by GM, Firestone and big oil who had vested interests in selling cars/buses, tires and gas. It was proven that they conspired to get rid of the Pacific Red car and other transportation systems around the country, not just in So. Cal. and the fines they paid dwarfed the damage that was caused.
Just keep thinking "conga line" and you'll understand. Yeah, commuting on a train isn't all that it's cracked up to be either. I worked with a guy one time who obtained his masters degree by leveraging his commuting time on the Long Island Rail Road. Also ask those poor souls on the MARC train awhile back how they like their commute on the train.
Having driven in Florance (Firenza) was the fact that you couldn't find your way around! 10 minutes to get into the city center (to a parking lot) and 45 minutes to get back out. It's like a roach motel! At least the three times I've driven there it's always been crowded and sure the government cracks down on who's driving within the city but it's still an overcrowded mess with all the tourists. Yeah, me included in that.
No we didn't, that would imply that there was actually some sort of planning going on. Here we have developers who buy a parcel of land and build whatever they want on it. It doesn't matter that they might throw up 1000 houses without any consideration of infrastructure or schools, they'll do it and it'll be up to the local governments to decide what should be done about infrastructure. Hence when some poor schmuck buys his dream home he suddenly realizes that there's no planning for transit and he has to sit on congested highways for hours just to get to/from work.
Ok LA just got their Trains back and didn't have subway system up until a few years ago. So. Cal. Did have the Pacific Electric Red Cars, the extensive street car system, until Firestone and GM conspired to get rid of it. After being born and raised in So. Cal, the only way around was on the highways and that meant by cars or buses being stuck with all the other folks in the jam.
In the navy Yes, you can sail the seven seas In the navy Yes, you can put your mind at ease In the navy Come on people, fall an' make a stand In the navy, in the navy
Why yes I have, twice. The last time was on a 2001 Volvo.. Talk about pile of shit.... I got rid of it after 18 mos. using the lemon law because of all of the electrical problems, oh and the headlights failing all the time and the turbo falling off... In 18 months it spent more than 45 business days in the shop. Sure, it was all covered under warranty but the longest stay was two weeks to fix the turbo issue, manifolds and all the mess.
No, I was commenting on the OP that blamed IT/India Outsourcing which you can't really blame on anybody except whoever had the responsibility of dealing with the problem. Rightshoring/Outsourcing doesn't obviate an organization from being responsible for the data but it can make the problem much worse if upper management think it's not their responsibility anymore.
Ahh yes, you back an organization that cleanses ex Nazis and other criminals? They rate up there on my list just like the IOC and both have been refuges for Facists, Nazis and criminals for a long time.
The evidence is clear: when has an American startup auto company ever succeeded by selling through auto dealers? The last successful American car company was Chrysler, which was founded almost a century ago, and even they went bankrupt a few years ago, along with General Motors. Since the founding of Chrysler, there have been dozens of failures, Tucker and DeLorean being simply the most well-known. In recent years, electric car startups, such as Fisker, Coda, and many others, attempted to use auto dealers and all failed.
Tucker's failure had to do with problems with the SEC and his own board of directors. Not because of anything having to do with dealerships but initially about selling accessories for cars he never produced. He had sold over 2000 dealerships at up to $30,000 a pop and it generated revenue, net inflow but because of these other problems he could never deliver the cars. The Dealerships weren't even a factor.
The DeLorean failed because of questions about the financial stability of DMC again by the SEC and selling a piece of crap that had reliability, quality and pricing problems. The DMC 12 had an MSRP of $25,000 which was pricey territory considering you could buy a full on European sports car for about $5,000 more that didn't have all of the problems the DMC 12 had. That and the fact that John DeLorean was caught up in in a drug scandal in 1982 didn't help the cause either. Ultimately DeLorean Motor Corp failed because nobody would invest in them because of these problems. The dealerships were actually on the side of consumers because they got tired of fixing problems that left the factory, so again, dealerships contributed to DeLorean's failure? No.
Fisker is recent history and it wasn't the failure of having dealerships. It was again, a $100,000 pile of crap that broke down and that coupled with the Obama Administration pushing green solutions (remember Solyndra?) agreed to loan money to Fisker so they kept expanding. When Solyndra blew up on the administration they stopped pumping money into Fisker citing delays. Fisker ran out of money because no more investment money was coming in and nobody was buying what they had because of the quality issues.
CODA failed because they built an ugly, overpriced vehicle that nobody wanted. Using an existing cheap Chinese car and making it electric while pricing it ridiculously high wasn't what the consumer wanted so it failed because of that. Were dealerships to blame for that strategy? No.
Given the author's dubious linkage to dealerships being a root cause of failure for these companies is disingenuous and it would seem more likely that:
1) Government Interference by Scrutiny/Questions about financial condition or impropriety and also including pushing your company to grow faster than you can.
- or -
2) Horrible/Overpriced Product with bad quality or lousy design that nobody wants to buy.
Are the more likely culprits here. We all agree Dealerships give people a licensed, well regulated licensed, way to print money by inflating costs to consumers. They don't really serve in the consumer's best interest and that's why all states have very strict laws governing how dealerships must operate and things like lemon laws should a vehicle become so deplorable that the consumer has a way out. In this day and age they are more outmoded considering other mechanisms for purchasing things that have evolved over the past 10 years however the guys who own dealerships have money and that money buys political influence. To a politician, a guy who gives you regular, large campaign contributions is somebody you'
Couldn't we like get some other organization in place instead of one headed by the UN? The unspeakable retards who wander the halls, the perpetual bureaucrats who have no one to hold them accountable will be in charge of this? The ones that gave us the IPCC? Fuck that, we need an alternate Internet, one without the UN and their interference. Or how they are biased away from showing all sides of an issue instead favoring the most politically expedient ones.
It still amazes me that companies are willing to outsource or "right shore" their critical IT development and functions to third parties like this. Still, Target Management who have now been sent packing are ultimately held responsible, except of course the CEO and the Board who probably rubber stamped the deal because it could "save them money." At one time I held a senior position at a major transportation company and the first question during budget reviews with our CIO was "what are we going to outsource this year?" It wasn't about did it add value or add a capability we didn't already have, it was one of his initiatives that he received a bonus for meaning if he outsourced X% of what was considered "IT administration" he'd get his fat bonus.
There are a lot of competent IT outsourcing firms out there and they exist because IT isn't viewed as a value added function within a business like it used to be. Unfortunately with the competent ones there's a ton of incompetent ones. The real problem is the perception that it's just a few PCs and Servers in a closet and we don't change that much so why do we have all of this staff and budget. Therein lies the problem because the person responsible for that, the CIO, hasn't done his/her job of communicating effectively to their peers and the board about the role that IT plays in the organization. Sure, are there bloated IT organizations or functions that can be outsourced or eliminated? In most cases yes but that doesn't mean wholesale outsourcing is always called for or should be done at all. In this case Target fucked up and didn't have the proper management structure in place to address the problem when it was being pointed out to them.
Nope, I read it but I don't believe that's what was stated. Walton's ruling indicated that metadata over five years should be destroyed. What myself and the rest of the country is waiting for is an actual SCOTUS ruling on how this Mickey Mouse FISA court system is operating outside of normal judicial review since the Chief Justice appears to be the only oversight.
In his order, Walton denied the government motion to allow the holding of data beyond five years but "without prejudice," which gives the government the option to file another motion on the issue in the light of additional facts or legal analysis.
Now if the Government was quick about it, data could have already been destroyed prior to the effect of the TRO.
Good Point but they have no more right to naming something than anybody else. Just because scientists and astronomers say "we agree" doesn't make it correct. Think about this, Mt. Everest was named after a surveyor however for thousands of years it was called Chomolungma in Tibet and Sagaramantha in Nepal. It's only called Mt. Everest because the British Government wanted it called that, does that make it right? No and nor does it make what the IAU names something to be the de-facto standard name of something because for all we know ancient astronomers may have already named it something else and as the rules go if you discover it you can name it.
You're oversimplifying. The FISA courts have no constitutional authority and the judicial appointments to the FISA court have no oversight equating to a faux legal system with its own rules. Yeah the House and Senate built this retarded thing so what do you expect? You now have a proper court in which arguments both pro and con can be heard, making a decision that's in conflict with that. Who wins? Can FISA decisions be appealed? Not from what has been seen in the recent past and If the Attorney General is involved 99 times out of 100 "National Security" will be invoked and the Federal Courts bow to that will and throw the case out. So how is it that justice will be served in this bullshit system of winks and nods? Does the Chief Justice recuse himself from FISA cases because he's appointed the judges to the FISA court? Who knows? Can you see the difference?
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Exterminate!
Exterminate!
Hey, wait, what will all the pest control companies do?
Since Windows has a ton of scope creep and behind the scenes changes that go on it seems with ever update or install, I leverage Acronis' Try and Decide feature. It works although I haven't tried it at the full O/S upgrade level. For that I still use Acronis in terms of a full backup and recovery if necessary. For all other updates or new installs I really like Try & Decide. I have never tried it but there's also Returnil which a lot of people seem to have good luck with as well.
TuneUp has been on the ropes for awhile and the 3.0 release was the last straw for a lot of people.
Seriously, with all the self absorbed drivers on the road these days all trying to get to the same place at the same time, I want the Sweet Tooth options on my next car. Cut me off?!?! It's the flaming ice cream buddy!
With fewer officers on the highways and all the dumb ass maneuvers that people pull, it still seems incomprehensible that people don't get why "road rage" exists. I'm all for free choice but acting like an asshole on the roads means you'll probably get an asshole response. It's just human nature. Oh and Fred Rogers is still dead.
Not necessarily, everybody has their price and considering National City Lines was buying up all kinds of street car routes all over the country as no coincidence. That's why the justice department sued, and they were right to do that. Sure, cars/buses were newer and street car lines were competing with them, that's natural but don't say that GM, Firestone and Big Oil didn't help push them into early retirement by funding a company who came in, dismantled them and replaced them with buses not for the public good but for their own profit and monopolistic interests.
To be sure they could have used more investment but they weren't treated as a public utility. They were a private company which was sold to a front company funded by GM, Firestone and big oil who had vested interests in selling cars/buses, tires and gas. It was proven that they conspired to get rid of the Pacific Red car and other transportation systems around the country, not just in So. Cal. and the fines they paid dwarfed the damage that was caused.
Just keep thinking "conga line" and you'll understand. Yeah, commuting on a train isn't all that it's cracked up to be either. I worked with a guy one time who obtained his masters degree by leveraging his commuting time on the Long Island Rail Road. Also ask those poor souls on the MARC train awhile back how they like their commute on the train.
Having driven in Florance (Firenza) was the fact that you couldn't find your way around! 10 minutes to get into the city center (to a parking lot) and 45 minutes to get back out. It's like a roach motel! At least the three times I've driven there it's always been crowded and sure the government cracks down on who's driving within the city but it's still an overcrowded mess with all the tourists. Yeah, me included in that.
I think it's cigarettes. The French do love their cigarettes.
No we didn't, that would imply that there was actually some sort of planning going on. Here we have developers who buy a parcel of land and build whatever they want on it. It doesn't matter that they might throw up 1000 houses without any consideration of infrastructure or schools, they'll do it and it'll be up to the local governments to decide what should be done about infrastructure. Hence when some poor schmuck buys his dream home he suddenly realizes that there's no planning for transit and he has to sit on congested highways for hours just to get to/from work.
Ok LA just got their Trains back and didn't have subway system up until a few years ago. So. Cal. Did have the Pacific Electric Red Cars, the extensive street car system, until Firestone and GM conspired to get rid of it. After being born and raised in So. Cal, the only way around was on the highways and that meant by cars or buses being stuck with all the other folks in the jam.
Can he see Alaska from his house?
no such thing that's why there's all those currie houses.
In the navy
Yes, you can sail the seven seas
In the navy
Yes, you can put your mind at ease
In the navy
Come on people, fall an' make a stand
In the navy, in the navy
You're looking for the wrong flight. It's MH370 that went missing. MH770 flies from Kuala Lampur to Karabi.
Why yes I have, twice. The last time was on a 2001 Volvo.. Talk about pile of shit.... I got rid of it after 18 mos. using the lemon law because of all of the electrical problems, oh and the headlights failing all the time and the turbo falling off... In 18 months it spent more than 45 business days in the shop. Sure, it was all covered under warranty but the longest stay was two weeks to fix the turbo issue, manifolds and all the mess.
No, I was commenting on the OP that blamed IT/India Outsourcing which you can't really blame on anybody except whoever had the responsibility of dealing with the problem. Rightshoring/Outsourcing doesn't obviate an organization from being responsible for the data but it can make the problem much worse if upper management think it's not their responsibility anymore.
Ahh yes, you back an organization that cleanses ex Nazis and other criminals? They rate up there on my list just like the IOC and both have been refuges for Facists, Nazis and criminals for a long time.
The evidence is clear: when has an American startup auto company ever succeeded by selling through auto dealers? The last successful American car company was Chrysler, which was founded almost a century ago, and even they went bankrupt a few years ago, along with General Motors. Since the founding of Chrysler, there have been dozens of failures, Tucker and DeLorean being simply the most well-known. In recent years, electric car startups, such as Fisker, Coda, and many others, attempted to use auto dealers and all failed.
Tucker's failure had to do with problems with the SEC and his own board of directors. Not because of anything having to do with dealerships but initially about selling accessories for cars he never produced. He had sold over 2000 dealerships at up to $30,000 a pop and it generated revenue, net inflow but because of these other problems he could never deliver the cars. The Dealerships weren't even a factor.
The DeLorean failed because of questions about the financial stability of DMC again by the SEC and selling a piece of crap that had reliability, quality and pricing problems. The DMC 12 had an MSRP of $25,000 which was pricey territory considering you could buy a full on European sports car for about $5,000 more that didn't have all of the problems the DMC 12 had. That and the fact that John DeLorean was caught up in in a drug scandal in 1982 didn't help the cause either. Ultimately DeLorean Motor Corp failed because nobody would invest in them because of these problems. The dealerships were actually on the side of consumers because they got tired of fixing problems that left the factory, so again, dealerships contributed to DeLorean's failure? No.
Fisker is recent history and it wasn't the failure of having dealerships. It was again, a $100,000 pile of crap that broke down and that coupled with the Obama Administration pushing green solutions (remember Solyndra?) agreed to loan money to Fisker so they kept expanding. When Solyndra blew up on the administration they stopped pumping money into Fisker citing delays. Fisker ran out of money because no more investment money was coming in and nobody was buying what they had because of the quality issues.
CODA failed because they built an ugly, overpriced vehicle that nobody wanted. Using an existing cheap Chinese car and making it electric while pricing it ridiculously high wasn't what the consumer wanted so it failed because of that. Were dealerships to blame for that strategy? No.
Given the author's dubious linkage to dealerships being a root cause of failure for these companies is disingenuous and it would seem more likely that:
1) Government Interference by Scrutiny/Questions about financial condition or impropriety and also including pushing your company to grow faster than you can.
- or -
2) Horrible/Overpriced Product with bad quality or lousy design that nobody wants to buy.
Are the more likely culprits here. We all agree Dealerships give people a licensed, well regulated licensed, way to print money by inflating costs to consumers. They don't really serve in the consumer's best interest and that's why all states have very strict laws governing how dealerships must operate and things like lemon laws should a vehicle become so deplorable that the consumer has a way out. In this day and age they are more outmoded considering other mechanisms for purchasing things that have evolved over the past 10 years however the guys who own dealerships have money and that money buys political influence. To a politician, a guy who gives you regular, large campaign contributions is somebody you'
Couldn't we like get some other organization in place instead of one headed by the UN? The unspeakable retards who wander the halls, the perpetual bureaucrats who have no one to hold them accountable will be in charge of this? The ones that gave us the IPCC? Fuck that, we need an alternate Internet, one without the UN and their interference. Or how they are biased away from showing all sides of an issue instead favoring the most politically expedient ones.
“As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind - every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder.” - John Glenn
It still amazes me that companies are willing to outsource or "right shore" their critical IT development and functions to third parties like this. Still, Target Management who have now been sent packing are ultimately held responsible, except of course the CEO and the Board who probably rubber stamped the deal because it could "save them money." At one time I held a senior position at a major transportation company and the first question during budget reviews with our CIO was "what are we going to outsource this year?" It wasn't about did it add value or add a capability we didn't already have, it was one of his initiatives that he received a bonus for meaning if he outsourced X% of what was considered "IT administration" he'd get his fat bonus.
There are a lot of competent IT outsourcing firms out there and they exist because IT isn't viewed as a value added function within a business like it used to be. Unfortunately with the competent ones there's a ton of incompetent ones. The real problem is the perception that it's just a few PCs and Servers in a closet and we don't change that much so why do we have all of this staff and budget. Therein lies the problem because the person responsible for that, the CIO, hasn't done his/her job of communicating effectively to their peers and the board about the role that IT plays in the organization. Sure, are there bloated IT organizations or functions that can be outsourced or eliminated? In most cases yes but that doesn't mean wholesale outsourcing is always called for or should be done at all. In this case Target fucked up and didn't have the proper management structure in place to address the problem when it was being pointed out to them.
Nope, I read it but I don't believe that's what was stated. Walton's ruling indicated that metadata over five years should be destroyed. What myself and the rest of the country is waiting for is an actual SCOTUS ruling on how this Mickey Mouse FISA court system is operating outside of normal judicial review since the Chief Justice appears to be the only oversight.
As of Monday:
In his order, Walton denied the government motion to allow the holding of data beyond five years but "without prejudice," which gives the government the option to file another motion on the issue in the light of additional facts or legal analysis.
Now if the Government was quick about it, data could have already been destroyed prior to the effect of the TRO.
Good Point but they have no more right to naming something than anybody else. Just because scientists and astronomers say "we agree" doesn't make it correct. Think about this, Mt. Everest was named after a surveyor however for thousands of years it was called Chomolungma in Tibet and Sagaramantha in Nepal. It's only called Mt. Everest because the British Government wanted it called that, does that make it right? No and nor does it make what the IAU names something to be the de-facto standard name of something because for all we know ancient astronomers may have already named it something else and as the rules go if you discover it you can name it.
You're oversimplifying. The FISA courts have no constitutional authority and the judicial appointments to the FISA court have no oversight equating to a faux legal system with its own rules. Yeah the House and Senate built this retarded thing so what do you expect? You now have a proper court in which arguments both pro and con can be heard, making a decision that's in conflict with that. Who wins? Can FISA decisions be appealed? Not from what has been seen in the recent past and If the Attorney General is involved 99 times out of 100 "National Security" will be invoked and the Federal Courts bow to that will and throw the case out. So how is it that justice will be served in this bullshit system of winks and nods? Does the Chief Justice recuse himself from FISA cases because he's appointed the judges to the FISA court? Who knows? Can you see the difference?