All told, of the 45 items in which CGI had expressed high confidence at the late August meeting in Baltimore, most were still not ready by the time consumers were supposed to be able to start to buy health plans online through the federal marketplace
How anyone would think the President is reading web admin status reports is beyond me. He's responsible because he's the President and he puts his staff in place, but I just don't get where this Benghazi II: The Evil Website conspiracy is coming from. Somewhere along the line, people were snowjobbing their superiors on how ready they were. I can imagine no scenario where upper levels of the administration, whose mission statement involves dealing with PR crises, would allows this website fiasco to occur.
All told, of the 45 items in which CGI had expressed high confidence at the late August meeting in Baltimore, most were still not ready by the time consumers were supposed to be able to start to buy health plans online through the federal marketplace
And, do you really think a President who spent 4 years convincing people he's actually American is going to blow off a major website snafu and hope to ride his middling approval rates through it all? The thought that this is another conspiracy and that you'd equate it to Watergate is ludicrous.
What about the past 5 years would make you think Obama could have a high profile failure and expect to be forgiven? That is utter nonsense.
Amen to this. I'd say it's the single most important change for network admins in the past 15 years. Our server farm went from a 7 foot stack of pizza boxes with disparate hardware and OSs that we were paying oodles to be parked in a server farm; to one public VM host on the cloud and one private VM host running on my boss's desktop.
Say, "to hell with your slow ineffective bureaucratic government way of doing things, I'm going to snort a few lines and make up my OWN *better* rating system!" Then, bang a super model.
I registered mid-October and had a slew of problems including a "fatal" hangup on ID verification that has not yet fixed itself. So, I just started over with a new email address and login a week ago and was able to go through the whole registration without problems. Whatever bugs there were in the system must have corrupted older account data.
There are still the intermittent down times in the evenings.
I'm on 3 other forums pretty regularly and it's obvious that people get paid to troll. There was bunch of people trolling the Yahoo Games chats during the elections; including a guy who seemed to be there 24-7, spouting political stuff and even with a trolling political name. There are people who do nothing but get on and dump articles and quotes from partisan websites and radio hosts.
What sealed it for me was during one of the 2012 conventions, ALL of the trolling stopped and JUST for the days of the convention.
The thing that blew me away is they had a much more advanced set of issues to deal with than a typical bureaucratic office would. The custom macros and apps isn't something that a normal company would be hung up on. That would imply to me that so long as your office can find equivalents of their core applications (whether it be accounting or graphics software), the rest shouldn't be so difficult to overcome. I've always rolled my eyes at the idea of a real-world migration for company of significant size.
Here's an interesting tidbit from the article about how Microsoft inflated the costs of their migration to put a negative spin on the project:
A team of just 25 people at Munich develop, roll out and provide final support for the Ubuntu-based LiMux client. A larger number of people look after the everyday administration of the city's PCs but far fewer than the 1,000 people cited in the Microsoft/HP report as implementing the LiMux project.
Another hidden benefit is even if your project doesn't look like it'll pan out, if you make it high-profile enough you know you can use it to leverage a better contract with Microsoft if you decide to stick with Windows.
They have all kinds of ingenious places around here where they they hide out, I'm assuming not for cop work since they're never close enough to the road to track speeders. They used to hide out in our parking garage, but as soon as they put in security cameras they all moved to new places.
This is a stupid talking point. The ACA isn't what's banning health insurers. These individual policies have a REGULAR 40-67% turnover rate. EVERY YEAR BEFORE THE ACA WAS ENACTED. All of a sudden, people are trying to claim that it's the ACA's fault that a regular trend is taking it's normal course. There's a quote in context from around 2010 where Obama talks about this in more detail, but of course a bumpersticker slogan works better than reality.
And, these policies were absolute BS in teh first place. They were like the $20 healthcare policies offered by colleges that covered jack squat.
This is really what they need to start doing. Stop hiring contractors who invariably screw them over, do it yourself, then you KNOW how it'll end up working. This isn't like asking someone to develop a 21st century tank. The technology is well established.
The worst part of it (as you'll see in the comments) is when it goes bad people fall back to "incompetent government" criticisms. Might as well put the weight on your shoulders completely instead of allowing your over-paid ass to fumble his load 1/2 to market.
If they've hit 20% I don't see why 100% isn't possible. Now, they'll still probably need to offset with grid power, but I bet they've calculated that they'll be able to achieve a net independence (giving back more power than they take).
Some games I'll play just out of boredom and it becomes a habit. It's as instinctive as flipping on the TV for some people. I find that the only way to break my "addiction" is to completely uninstall the game. It has a strange slap-in-the-face effect when I realize my comfort blanket is gone then I move on to something more productive.
Because assembly programming is really fun. It's challenging and it's a pretty unique experience for most of us who rarely touch systems at that low a level.
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Quoting again from the article:
All told, of the 45 items in which CGI had expressed high confidence at the late August meeting in Baltimore, most were still not ready by the time consumers were supposed to be able to start to buy health plans online through the federal marketplace
How anyone would think the President is reading web admin status reports is beyond me. He's responsible because he's the President and he puts his staff in place, but I just don't get where this Benghazi II: The Evil Website conspiracy is coming from. Somewhere along the line, people were snowjobbing their superiors on how ready they were. I can imagine no scenario where upper levels of the administration, whose mission statement involves dealing with PR crises, would allows this website fiasco to occur.
From the article:
All told, of the 45 items in which CGI had expressed high confidence at the late August meeting in Baltimore, most were still not ready by the time consumers were supposed to be able to start to buy health plans online through the federal marketplace
And, do you really think a President who spent 4 years convincing people he's actually American is going to blow off a major website snafu and hope to ride his middling approval rates through it all? The thought that this is another conspiracy and that you'd equate it to Watergate is ludicrous.
What about the past 5 years would make you think Obama could have a high profile failure and expect to be forgiven? That is utter nonsense.
You mean where they're trying to start charging people for using solar power?
Amen to this. I'd say it's the single most important change for network admins in the past 15 years. Our server farm went from a 7 foot stack of pizza boxes with disparate hardware and OSs that we were paying oodles to be parked in a server farm; to one public VM host on the cloud and one private VM host running on my boss's desktop.
Say, "to hell with your slow ineffective bureaucratic government way of doing things, I'm going to snort a few lines and make up my OWN *better* rating system!" Then, bang a super model.
I registered mid-October and had a slew of problems including a "fatal" hangup on ID verification that has not yet fixed itself. So, I just started over with a new email address and login a week ago and was able to go through the whole registration without problems. Whatever bugs there were in the system must have corrupted older account data.
There are still the intermittent down times in the evenings.
Guaranteed to get you high!
Agreed, but we need to make sure there's no such thing as Venusian life first.
Apparently the ancients developed colleges before the wheel
I'm on 3 other forums pretty regularly and it's obvious that people get paid to troll. There was bunch of people trolling the Yahoo Games chats during the elections; including a guy who seemed to be there 24-7, spouting political stuff and even with a trolling political name. There are people who do nothing but get on and dump articles and quotes from partisan websites and radio hosts.
What sealed it for me was during one of the 2012 conventions, ALL of the trolling stopped and JUST for the days of the convention.
Just send up a territorial crow!
For YOU maybe...[spins six-shooter]
The thing that blew me away is they had a much more advanced set of issues to deal with than a typical bureaucratic office would. The custom macros and apps isn't something that a normal company would be hung up on. That would imply to me that so long as your office can find equivalents of their core applications (whether it be accounting or graphics software), the rest shouldn't be so difficult to overcome. I've always rolled my eyes at the idea of a real-world migration for company of significant size.
Here's an interesting tidbit from the article about how Microsoft inflated the costs of their migration to put a negative spin on the project:
A team of just 25 people at Munich develop, roll out and provide final support for the Ubuntu-based LiMux client. A larger number of people look after the everyday administration of the city's PCs but far fewer than the 1,000 people cited in the Microsoft/HP report as implementing the LiMux project.
Another hidden benefit is even if your project doesn't look like it'll pan out, if you make it high-profile enough you know you can use it to leverage a better contract with Microsoft if you decide to stick with Windows.
They have all kinds of ingenious places around here where they they hide out, I'm assuming not for cop work since they're never close enough to the road to track speeders. They used to hide out in our parking garage, but as soon as they put in security cameras they all moved to new places.
Great line from RofS: "So, this is how liberty dies...to thunderous applause."
Bernanke endorse US bonds. Do you think he endorses paying meth whores for $10 backstreet hummers?
Strongly worded without PR-crafted terminology. Now, have you given these entities private information without a warrant?
This is a stupid talking point. The ACA isn't what's banning health insurers. These individual policies have a REGULAR 40-67% turnover rate. EVERY YEAR BEFORE THE ACA WAS ENACTED. All of a sudden, people are trying to claim that it's the ACA's fault that a regular trend is taking it's normal course. There's a quote in context from around 2010 where Obama talks about this in more detail, but of course a bumpersticker slogan works better than reality.
And, these policies were absolute BS in teh first place. They were like the $20 healthcare policies offered by colleges that covered jack squat.
This is really what they need to start doing. Stop hiring contractors who invariably screw them over, do it yourself, then you KNOW how it'll end up working. This isn't like asking someone to develop a 21st century tank. The technology is well established.
The worst part of it (as you'll see in the comments) is when it goes bad people fall back to "incompetent government" criticisms. Might as well put the weight on your shoulders completely instead of allowing your over-paid ass to fumble his load 1/2 to market.
If they've hit 20% I don't see why 100% isn't possible. Now, they'll still probably need to offset with grid power, but I bet they've calculated that they'll be able to achieve a net independence (giving back more power than they take).
Some games I'll play just out of boredom and it becomes a habit. It's as instinctive as flipping on the TV for some people. I find that the only way to break my "addiction" is to completely uninstall the game. It has a strange slap-in-the-face effect when I realize my comfort blanket is gone then I move on to something more productive.
You should be *thanking* me!
Well, "technically" I dabble in electrical engineering every time I flip on a light switch. I think my point was pretty clear.
I have no knowledge, but I'd imagine the optimizations from a compiler would have a tell-tale signature.
Because assembly programming is really fun. It's challenging and it's a pretty unique experience for most of us who rarely touch systems at that low a level.