Part of the problem is that RIM gets blamed (in the minds of the users) when their employer's BES server (likely an old Proliant with 512 of RAM and a failed RAID drive, hooked to the outside world through some cheap WAN connection) gives up the ghost. I know anecdote isn't data, but I've been using RIM's BIS for many years now, and only knew about the one outage because I saw it on the news, and because my BBM messages were going through slower than usual. Everything else still worked just fine.
Seems like a feature for apps to be able to decide which transport to choose, so high bandwidth apps can decide to not do high bandwidth things when they are on the expensive (or slower) transport.
Seriously, what? It is pretty much exactly like using a PC to use email. Click the mail icon with the "new message" star on it. Click the message. Hit "r" to reply, or hit the context/BB menu and select reply. Type. Either double click the trackbutton or hit the context menu and select send.
To dial the phone, depending on how you've set the phone up, (dial from home screen or not), you just hit the call button, type numbers and hit the call button again. How could it be simpler? And not knowing what button to hit to hang up a call? It's the dedicated button for ending calls!
Maybe it's a style thing. I see people with Android and iOS phones, and it's always "swipe, swipe, swipe, swipe, swipe, ok, now I see the message" where for blackberry users it is "click, click ok now I see the message"
Oh, and the trackspot: you are using it wrong. It works exactly like a trackpad on a notebook. Swiping it is SUPPOSED to scroll up or down like crazy. To not do that, just move your finger at a normal speed.
I agree. I was the first person at my local AT&T store to buy a New Bold the morning it came out. (To replace my old Bold, which worked fine except for a jacked screen that I ruined myself.) A beautiful, fantastic device. While I agree that they did shit it up for a couple years with the cheap phones, their top of the line ones have seemed to be great. My only gripe is the lack of the autofocus camera that the previous generation of Bold seemed to have.
CEO pay is a tiny fraction of operating costs. Cutting one's pay to zero would mean a failing company could run in the black for another couple of hours.
That's weird, because I went to that site one time and found it refreshingly clear and complete. "Here is what you need to do X Y and Z." And I downloaded the application to make custom interfaces, and it worked as advertised. Now, I'm not too experienced with that kind of stuff, but it's the first time I've ever had something like that work.
One of the problems is that lots of shoes have metal in them to keep the arch shape. They need to run them through the magnetometer to make sure it isn't a knife.
I was listening to a radio show (legitimate, not crazy Art Bell shit), and the guest was a pilot. He said there are documented cases where people's electronics have caused minor glitches in instruments. Things like the two displays for the instrument landing system not being in agreement. They have procedures for verifying which one is correct, and all is well. But what if that happens while they are dealing with a dead engine or a landing gear malfunction?
Planes and procedures are mature enough that we don't really have to deal with first-order effects like you describe. The problem is second and third and fourth order effects that we can't predict. One device might not cause too much trouble, but what about 200, all echoing through an aluminum tube?
It is to stop your head from flopping around after the seatbelt stops the rest of your body from lurching forward. That's why they have HANS devices in race cars.
Agree. It is way easier to just buy new drives and schedule any purging you need to do for some later time. That way you can decide what stuff is important without the cloud of impending failure hanging over your head.
RAID is nice in that it helps with uptime. A drive failure doesn't mean you have to copy a bunch of stuff all over again. Just reboot, replace and let it resync on its own. It is also really nice to have all your storage in one giant blob of space, even if it isn't multiple TB (beyond the size of a single drive). On the other hand, I am comfortable with how RAID works and I find it easier to manage than a bunch of single drives and various copies. Not everyone might have the same comfort level.
That's not a bad idea. I started with the OP's problem, trying to keep data from multiple machines in sync and backed up and with enough room to spare. After having spent more weekends copying data back and forth to clear out a drive in order to replace it, I decided to go to the fileserver paradigm. I built a machine with three 40gb drives RAIDed together and made that the only place useful data would be stored. I've since expanded it up to 3tb in various increments, and it has worked well. It has saved tons of time and money by allowing my computers to use whatever cheap harddrive was available and just restore from backup when it went TU. But with the need for increased data availability outside my house (IE, making my notebook my main computer), I'm starting to reverse course and move to your idea. Using robocopy on the clients and shell scripts + hard links on the server, I've set up a workable versioning backup system that doesn't take up too much space.
Only if your eyes are really close together. It varies, of course, but the human field of vision is definitely more rectangular than wide. 4:3 came to be because that was about all they could do with CRTs at the time it was standardized.
Just put your taskbar on the side, and the widescreens work just fine. It is nice to be able to put two windows side by side and do work. Plus, now notebooks can come with numeric keypads. I'm all-in.
The exporting gasoline thing is a red herring. Your basic conclusion is correct: new production is barely keeping up with new demand, so every new barrel of oil that is pumped is bought by a new consumer of the oil, and the price stays at basically the same price.
You misunderstand how price signals work. When the price goes up, producers try to make MORE of their stuff to take advantage of the higher price.
Futures contracts have specific start and end times. The contracts being traded now have a delivery date of (for example) April 30. The price of oil now was already determined by contracts that were traded last month. (I'm not sure of the actual timing of the market, but the point stands regardless.) A producer is already in the process of producing the oil when they get the price signal for next month. They could try to idle production, but if they do that, they will have to settle the contracts they promised to fulfill with cash instead of oil. If I have a tanker of oil that I can sell for $125/bbl but I have a contract to sell it at $100/bbl, I have to give my contracted buyer his money back, plus something like $13/bbl. The buyer is then forced to buy his crude at the spot price, and I can sell at the same price. But because I had to buy out the buyer, I really only get $112 for my oil ($125-13), and the buyer pays $125 minus the $13 he got from me. (The actual price differential is in the contract that was signed.)
And the same thing with the speculators- if someone buys a contract with no intent to take delivery, they have to pay out part of their "win" to the seller to compensate him for the hassle. And vice versa, the seller of a contract with no intent to deliver has to pay out part of their profit to the buyer.
In the end, the spot price is the spot price. All the futures market does is try to figure out what that price is going to be ahead of time, and allow people to hedge against volatility.
I'd love for someone to explain how speculation can increase the price of oil. The speculators aren't taking delivery of product, so they aren't increasing demand (price). The futures market is a price-determining mechanism- drillers don't want to produce something they can't sell (for a profit), and buyers want to lock in a price. So they buy and sell futures until a price gets settled on. If the price goes up, production goes up so producers can take advantage the higher price. When it comes time to settle and all the speculators say "hey, I was just foolin', I don't really need the oil", you end up with excess product. This drops the spot (immediate delivery) price of the crude and some of the buyers cancel their contracts to take advantage of that lower price. Speculation in futures markets can absolutely add volatility to a marketplace, but the fundamentals of supply and demand take over and correct for it.
I think he is pointing out that in spite of increased drilling in recent years, the price is still going up. Hence, increased production doesn't help. Because the world demand will eat up any "excess" oil that might reduce prices. The only way to "reduce" the price of gas is to not use as much.
And I think the pipeline *will* get built, just not until it is done right. He only "blocked" the pipeline because the a-holes in congress tried to give him an ultimatum.
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Part of the problem is that RIM gets blamed (in the minds of the users) when their employer's BES server (likely an old Proliant with 512 of RAM and a failed RAID drive, hooked to the outside world through some cheap WAN connection) gives up the ghost. I know anecdote isn't data, but I've been using RIM's BIS for many years now, and only knew about the one outage because I saw it on the news, and because my BBM messages were going through slower than usual. Everything else still worked just fine.
Seems like a feature for apps to be able to decide which transport to choose, so high bandwidth apps can decide to not do high bandwidth things when they are on the expensive (or slower) transport.
Seriously, what? It is pretty much exactly like using a PC to use email. Click the mail icon with the "new message" star on it. Click the message. Hit "r" to reply, or hit the context/BB menu and select reply. Type. Either double click the trackbutton or hit the context menu and select send.
To dial the phone, depending on how you've set the phone up, (dial from home screen or not), you just hit the call button, type numbers and hit the call button again. How could it be simpler? And not knowing what button to hit to hang up a call? It's the dedicated button for ending calls!
Maybe it's a style thing. I see people with Android and iOS phones, and it's always "swipe, swipe, swipe, swipe, swipe, ok, now I see the message" where for blackberry users it is "click, click ok now I see the message"
Oh, and the trackspot: you are using it wrong. It works exactly like a trackpad on a notebook. Swiping it is SUPPOSED to scroll up or down like crazy. To not do that, just move your finger at a normal speed.
I agree. I was the first person at my local AT&T store to buy a New Bold the morning it came out. (To replace my old Bold, which worked fine except for a jacked screen that I ruined myself.) A beautiful, fantastic device. While I agree that they did shit it up for a couple years with the cheap phones, their top of the line ones have seemed to be great. My only gripe is the lack of the autofocus camera that the previous generation of Bold seemed to have.
CEO pay is a tiny fraction of operating costs. Cutting one's pay to zero would mean a failing company could run in the black for another couple of hours.
That's weird, because I went to that site one time and found it refreshingly clear and complete. "Here is what you need to do X Y and Z." And I downloaded the application to make custom interfaces, and it worked as advertised. Now, I'm not too experienced with that kind of stuff, but it's the first time I've ever had something like that work.
One of the problems is that lots of shoes have metal in them to keep the arch shape. They need to run them through the magnetometer to make sure it isn't a knife.
Remote/automatic control is easy. Avoiding the other traffic, not so much.
"It hasn't happened yet" != "impossible".
I was listening to a radio show (legitimate, not crazy Art Bell shit), and the guest was a pilot. He said there are documented cases where people's electronics have caused minor glitches in instruments. Things like the two displays for the instrument landing system not being in agreement. They have procedures for verifying which one is correct, and all is well. But what if that happens while they are dealing with a dead engine or a landing gear malfunction?
Planes and procedures are mature enough that we don't really have to deal with first-order effects like you describe. The problem is second and third and fourth order effects that we can't predict. One device might not cause too much trouble, but what about 200, all echoing through an aluminum tube?
It is to stop your head from flopping around after the seatbelt stops the rest of your body from lurching forward. That's why they have HANS devices in race cars.
If you can lock your leg in extension, your seat is too far back.
Something is adjusted very wrong if holding the wheel on the sides is making your hands numb.
Agree. It is way easier to just buy new drives and schedule any purging you need to do for some later time. That way you can decide what stuff is important without the cloud of impending failure hanging over your head.
RAID is nice in that it helps with uptime. A drive failure doesn't mean you have to copy a bunch of stuff all over again. Just reboot, replace and let it resync on its own. It is also really nice to have all your storage in one giant blob of space, even if it isn't multiple TB (beyond the size of a single drive). On the other hand, I am comfortable with how RAID works and I find it easier to manage than a bunch of single drives and various copies. Not everyone might have the same comfort level.
That's not a bad idea. I started with the OP's problem, trying to keep data from multiple machines in sync and backed up and with enough room to spare. After having spent more weekends copying data back and forth to clear out a drive in order to replace it, I decided to go to the fileserver paradigm. I built a machine with three 40gb drives RAIDed together and made that the only place useful data would be stored. I've since expanded it up to 3tb in various increments, and it has worked well. It has saved tons of time and money by allowing my computers to use whatever cheap harddrive was available and just restore from backup when it went TU. But with the need for increased data availability outside my house (IE, making my notebook my main computer), I'm starting to reverse course and move to your idea. Using robocopy on the clients and shell scripts + hard links on the server, I've set up a workable versioning backup system that doesn't take up too much space.
I also use Dropbox for some stuff.
-en is still the pluralizer for German and not English.
Only if your eyes are really close together. It varies, of course, but the human field of vision is definitely more rectangular than wide. 4:3 came to be because that was about all they could do with CRTs at the time it was standardized.
He is correct. English is a hodge-podge of source languages. -en is indeed the pluralizer for German. It's still incorrect in English, though.
Just put your taskbar on the side, and the widescreens work just fine. It is nice to be able to put two windows side by side and do work. Plus, now notebooks can come with numeric keypads. I'm all-in.
Just some mutual funds. Whatever the plan picked for me. Lost 38% over three quarters, gained back 41% the next three quarters.
The exporting gasoline thing is a red herring. Your basic conclusion is correct: new production is barely keeping up with new demand, so every new barrel of oil that is pumped is bought by a new consumer of the oil, and the price stays at basically the same price.
No, you can't. Futures contracts have specific end dates. When the settlement date comes, you have to either pay out or deliver oil.
You misunderstand how price signals work. When the price goes up, producers try to make MORE of their stuff to take advantage of the higher price.
Futures contracts have specific start and end times. The contracts being traded now have a delivery date of (for example) April 30. The price of oil now was already determined by contracts that were traded last month. (I'm not sure of the actual timing of the market, but the point stands regardless.) A producer is already in the process of producing the oil when they get the price signal for next month. They could try to idle production, but if they do that, they will have to settle the contracts they promised to fulfill with cash instead of oil. If I have a tanker of oil that I can sell for $125/bbl but I have a contract to sell it at $100/bbl, I have to give my contracted buyer his money back, plus something like $13/bbl. The buyer is then forced to buy his crude at the spot price, and I can sell at the same price. But because I had to buy out the buyer, I really only get $112 for my oil ($125-13), and the buyer pays $125 minus the $13 he got from me. (The actual price differential is in the contract that was signed.)
And the same thing with the speculators- if someone buys a contract with no intent to take delivery, they have to pay out part of their "win" to the seller to compensate him for the hassle. And vice versa, the seller of a contract with no intent to deliver has to pay out part of their profit to the buyer.
In the end, the spot price is the spot price. All the futures market does is try to figure out what that price is going to be ahead of time, and allow people to hedge against volatility.
I'd love for someone to explain how speculation can increase the price of oil. The speculators aren't taking delivery of product, so they aren't increasing demand (price). The futures market is a price-determining mechanism- drillers don't want to produce something they can't sell (for a profit), and buyers want to lock in a price. So they buy and sell futures until a price gets settled on. If the price goes up, production goes up so producers can take advantage the higher price. When it comes time to settle and all the speculators say "hey, I was just foolin', I don't really need the oil", you end up with excess product. This drops the spot (immediate delivery) price of the crude and some of the buyers cancel their contracts to take advantage of that lower price. Speculation in futures markets can absolutely add volatility to a marketplace, but the fundamentals of supply and demand take over and correct for it.
I think he is pointing out that in spite of increased drilling in recent years, the price is still going up. Hence, increased production doesn't help. Because the world demand will eat up any "excess" oil that might reduce prices. The only way to "reduce" the price of gas is to not use as much.
And I think the pipeline *will* get built, just not until it is done right. He only "blocked" the pipeline because the a-holes in congress tried to give him an ultimatum.