That is terrifying to someone raised in the Baptist-style where they are raised to ignore or deny their internal desires and impulses and just do what DaddyGod said to do.
Once some certifications expire, the recertification path is often much more difficult. I just had a problem with a certification expiration that prevented me from doing my job until I completed the test.
All you have to do is click a button and you get a normal desktop that does everything a normal desktop does. The only version of Win 8 that forces you into the marketplace is the ARM version, which is fine since you can't run normal applications on ARM anyway.
Do not discount the revolutionary step of integrating Windows into the mobile marketplace. Instead of dumbing down the desktop, they smartened up the tablet. I, personally, had no interest in a tablet until I picked up a Win 8 one. I instantly fell in love with it. This is exactly what I was looking for in a tablet, rather than a large iPhone that doesn't make phone calls.
That stuff is also in hardware, which is only beginning to happen in the commodity pc world.
For a certain type of workload, at a certain level of necessary uptime, mainframes start becoming cost effective. Fun things like where IBM will install as many CPUs as you want, but only charge you for their time when you use them. This can be very cost effective for businesses with seasonal volume shifts. At some point, paying IBM $1000 an hour for their support is cheaper than paying 20 creeps with greasy hair to change hard drives, stack servers into a rack and fuck up the rollout of new VMs. It's kind of like trucks versus trains. Each have their place, but neither is very good at emulating the upsides of the other.
And it still took them 4 days to find two guys. Imagine trying to solve the murder of an 18 year old gangbanger whose killer is identified as a dark skinned male from 15-25, 5'10" medium build? And nobody in the neighborhood ain't seen shit. Police work is hard.
Isn't it pretty obvious when him and his brother just happen to have pressure cooker bombs to throw at the cops, right after they are identified as suspects in the bombings? They are either the guys, or the unluckiest home cooking aficionados ever.
The more successes they have with good, honest police work, the less likely the past awfulness will be repeated. Bad behavior is more often born of frustration than success.
There was a stupid picture going around facebook today that was kind of right. Only in Boston will they shut down the entire goddamned city to search for someone like this. Don't fuck with Bawfston.
@opieradio was live tweeting it, and was a good half hour ahead of the news. Even the instant kinds of things (like the cheers) were minutes behind on the "live" news. Makes me wonder just how live they really were...
I'm sure IBM figures it isn't worth the effort. If they don't sell it off, they figure that Lenovo will start selling their own line of x86 servers, and then what? Who are they going to sell the business off to then? IBM isn't *that* stupid, they know there are other places where they can expend the same effort and make double digit profits.
Also, markets can't be distorted very much by speculators. (In anything but the very short term.) They can skim off the middle if they are really good, but there is only so much supply and demand for equities and commodities. If someone buys up more than they need to drive up the price, demand falls away and the price equalizes. When they sell off, the price drops. They might make some money off of the slack, but there are easier ways to make money.
I agree. Why should IBM waste a bunch of money propping up a line of business that isn't really growing and is basically mature? Spend money, maybe make some of it back, still have to do something in another 5 years. Or, sell it to Lenovo and invest the cash in some new adventure of the future? Seems like an easy answer to me. Its much better than just letting it peter out and eventually having to mothball it. I like the idea of IBM as a sort of modern big time thinktank, making new ideas work and then unloading them to come up with other new ideas. And selling services!
It turns out that voltage is a pretty good indicator of all that fancy monitoring, making it largely unnecessary. Especially since all that monitoring will use up the power the battery is trying to maintain. And it solves no problems in most devices- a bad battery is a bad battery, doesn't really matter how it went bad.
The only way to know the state of charge is by measuring voltage. Sometimes, batteries fail in that they never manage to get to their "charged up" voltage. Other times, they fail where they appear to top off instantly, and since the voltage is correct, the battery utilities think it is charged. The only way to actually test a battery is to put a known load on it and see how long it takes to hit a certain voltage.
What you experienced was not memory effect, but one or more of the cells failing. Some of them probably would never charge completely up, and the other cells got pushed into over voltage to compensate. If you have cells in series, this is pretty much going to happen sometimes.
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But what purpose does God give someone? It just gives them hope that shit will get better. There is still no reason to be here, by that metric.
I'm a Calvinist, you insensitive clod! God made me do it!
That is terrifying to someone raised in the Baptist-style where they are raised to ignore or deny their internal desires and impulses and just do what DaddyGod said to do.
Some tests have to be that way. There are only so many slots, and the top X test takers get accepted.
Once some certifications expire, the recertification path is often much more difficult. I just had a problem with a certification expiration that prevented me from doing my job until I completed the test.
All you have to do is click a button and you get a normal desktop that does everything a normal desktop does. The only version of Win 8 that forces you into the marketplace is the ARM version, which is fine since you can't run normal applications on ARM anyway.
Do not discount the revolutionary step of integrating Windows into the mobile marketplace. Instead of dumbing down the desktop, they smartened up the tablet. I, personally, had no interest in a tablet until I picked up a Win 8 one. I instantly fell in love with it. This is exactly what I was looking for in a tablet, rather than a large iPhone that doesn't make phone calls.
Because WordPerfect sucked. And Exchange did and does a lot of stuff that pop/imap can't do.
That stuff is also in hardware, which is only beginning to happen in the commodity pc world.
For a certain type of workload, at a certain level of necessary uptime, mainframes start becoming cost effective. Fun things like where IBM will install as many CPUs as you want, but only charge you for their time when you use them. This can be very cost effective for businesses with seasonal volume shifts. At some point, paying IBM $1000 an hour for their support is cheaper than paying 20 creeps with greasy hair to change hard drives, stack servers into a rack and fuck up the rollout of new VMs. It's kind of like trucks versus trains. Each have their place, but neither is very good at emulating the upsides of the other.
It is possible that it is only more safe now because there aren't as many kids wandering around to be snatched up by Uncle Paul.
Eggscruciating!
Was this guy in the book? My great grand uncle.
The species might survive just fine, but that doesn't mean it won't be hell for the individuals.
Iraq wanted us out, so it's their fucking problem now.
I don't care so much about study, but I would like to know what their fucking problem was.
And it still took them 4 days to find two guys. Imagine trying to solve the murder of an 18 year old gangbanger whose killer is identified as a dark skinned male from 15-25, 5'10" medium build? And nobody in the neighborhood ain't seen shit. Police work is hard.
Isn't it pretty obvious when him and his brother just happen to have pressure cooker bombs to throw at the cops, right after they are identified as suspects in the bombings? They are either the guys, or the unluckiest home cooking aficionados ever.
The more successes they have with good, honest police work, the less likely the past awfulness will be repeated. Bad behavior is more often born of frustration than success.
There was a stupid picture going around facebook today that was kind of right. Only in Boston will they shut down the entire goddamned city to search for someone like this. Don't fuck with Bawfston.
@opieradio was live tweeting it, and was a good half hour ahead of the news. Even the instant kinds of things (like the cheers) were minutes behind on the "live" news. Makes me wonder just how live they really were...
I'm sure IBM figures it isn't worth the effort. If they don't sell it off, they figure that Lenovo will start selling their own line of x86 servers, and then what? Who are they going to sell the business off to then? IBM isn't *that* stupid, they know there are other places where they can expend the same effort and make double digit profits.
Also, markets can't be distorted very much by speculators. (In anything but the very short term.) They can skim off the middle if they are really good, but there is only so much supply and demand for equities and commodities. If someone buys up more than they need to drive up the price, demand falls away and the price equalizes. When they sell off, the price drops. They might make some money off of the slack, but there are easier ways to make money.
I agree. Why should IBM waste a bunch of money propping up a line of business that isn't really growing and is basically mature? Spend money, maybe make some of it back, still have to do something in another 5 years. Or, sell it to Lenovo and invest the cash in some new adventure of the future? Seems like an easy answer to me. Its much better than just letting it peter out and eventually having to mothball it. I like the idea of IBM as a sort of modern big time thinktank, making new ideas work and then unloading them to come up with other new ideas. And selling services!
It's not an either or situation. Terrorism is a tactic used by some murders and/or psychopaths.
It turns out that voltage is a pretty good indicator of all that fancy monitoring, making it largely unnecessary. Especially since all that monitoring will use up the power the battery is trying to maintain. And it solves no problems in most devices- a bad battery is a bad battery, doesn't really matter how it went bad.
The only way to know the state of charge is by measuring voltage. Sometimes, batteries fail in that they never manage to get to their "charged up" voltage. Other times, they fail where they appear to top off instantly, and since the voltage is correct, the battery utilities think it is charged. The only way to actually test a battery is to put a known load on it and see how long it takes to hit a certain voltage.
What you experienced was not memory effect, but one or more of the cells failing. Some of them probably would never charge completely up, and the other cells got pushed into over voltage to compensate. If you have cells in series, this is pretty much going to happen sometimes.
If you know it, then the engineers who design battery charging systems in complex devices probably know it too.