Seconded. I have an immune deficiency (CVID), my body does not produce immuneglobin. I can have some vaccinations, but they must be dead/killed vaccines, so I can't do the shingles vaccine and others like it. Apparently live vaccines can be fatal for people like me, but there's not a lot that I can find online on the subject.
I have heard that Koreans drive on the right side of the road because Japan drives on the left, another rebellious act carrying over from the occupation and war.
It may not have been hugely profitable, but apparently it was not losing money.
We had the same thing happen where I live with grocery stores. Small town (40k) with an air force base. Before Walmart opened a small store 15ish years ago, there were five grocery stores in town. Walmart came in, everyone profitably co-existed, then they opened a super store, and now there's just one other grocer in town. Albertson's was here, and though they were profitable, they closed the store. Now Albertsons is coming back, and the executive crew that inspected the town said "I don't know why we left in the first place." I am SO looking forward to stopping spending money at Walmart, I never gave them a dime before I moved here and in a couple of years that will be true again.
I think a lot of the problem is bean counters, i.e. MBA's. If you've maximized returns, and cannot further increase them without disproportional cost, shut it down and move on to something else. It doesn't matter if you're servicing a small community that wants you there and are still profitable, shut it down because you're not making as much as other stores.
Vulture Capital at its finest. When Mervyns died, they died because they were sold to Scorpio Capital and Scorpio turned around and charged them market-price rent on the land that they used to own. There was no way the chain could compete and they folded. And in most cases, the land that those stores are on is still vacant.
And some people want less regulation on capitalism? Screw that. They will never get my vote.
They don't even have case sensitivity on their passwords. Compromised accounts drive additional sales, including the fobs.
Wow (no pun intended). You are absolutely correct. Part of my Battle.Net password was upper-case, I just tried it all upper, all lower, and reversed my core word/suffix case scheme and all signed in. I was fairly sure that in the past it was case-sensitive, so I was either mistaken or something changed in the past.
I have to admit that it's been a while since I used AVG. I finally upgraded from XP to 7 earlier this year when I found out that the developer's edition of SQL Server 2012 required Vista or 7, and at that point I went with MSE. I've definitely preferred MSE running silently compared to the AVG updater.
MSE is surprisingly good. You could consider the free edition of AVG if you want a non-MS anti-virus product. Be sure to keep current on patches and service packs.
If you really want to increase your paranoia, you could install ZoneAlarm.
Definitely depends on where you'll be living and where you anticipate traveling. I was very happy with Alltel as they have the best coverage in rural NM and AZ and very good partnering agreements with others, but they got swallowed up by Verizon so that's now my vendor. Where I live, it's Verizon or AT&T, and it ain't gonna be AT&T.
I understand our area may be upgraded to 4G LTE by the end of next year.
Fine-print terms are important. I knew of a mechanic who worked for a Porsche dealership. He'd go down to the race track on 'run what you brung' weekends, and he'd write down the VINs of any Porsches that he saw in the pits that had been racing. Monday morning he'd go in to work and void their warranties in the computer because racing was specifically a violation of the terms of the warranty.
I wonder how much transient noise is introduced to the power circuits from CNC machines. Maybe making the data center run on DC power would be advantageous.
My former employer, a city government, decided they were going to build a new City Hall. They did not involve IT from the beginning. The original design had no conduit, no raised floor, the server room had no additional cooling and zero additional power. The director had to fight tooth and nail to get the data center properly outfitted.
My takeaway from this is to not trust architects to design your facilities unless they have demonstrated experience and skill at such.
And don't forget about fire control for your server room! Also solid standby power, you might not need a generator in addition to UPS, but you might. Also emergency lighting in your server room, don't want to be in the dark if you have to do a shutdown with no overhead lights.
I so hope this becomes a marketed product soon! I do two subcutaneous infusions a week, four needles in my abdomen for about an hour a session and will be doing so for the rest of my life. This would be SO sweet!
Heh. I had an electronics teacher in the late 70's who thought vacuum tube tech was still the way to go. No discussion of solid-state transistors and such. Man, that was a horrible class.
Agreed. I was in advanced programs in primary school, got stuffed in to advanced courses in HS and couldn't handle the homework load. I graduated HS in the bottom half of my class. I almost dropped out in my senior year out of sheer boredom. I started taking college courses in my junior year with a 4.0 GPA. At university, I run a 3.7 GPA (on a 4.0 max).
HS was a horrible experience and very poorly targeted for me.
I think a lot of the problems in cost is in administration: too many and too highly paid. IMO.
I think it would be more sensible to go to a trimester system: three months in class, one month off. I've seen studies that reported higher retention with shorter breaks between semesters.
We were staying with friends near Denver, and Dave came to me at like 12:30 in the morning saying I had to take him to the hospital, he was having serious pain in the back not far from his heart. Dave can walk off kidney stones, so it has to be pretty serious pain for him to complain. At the ER they find nothing wrong with his heart, his lungs look good, everything looks OK. But he still has this pain and a persistent cough. They put him on antibiotics just in case, later do an angiogram, everything is good. He spends the weekend in the hospital, finally comes home. We're playing cards, and he's looking worse and worse and still coughing. Finally his wife takes him back to the emergency room and they find he has pneumonia.
Which first presented as chest pain.
When they compare the later x-ray with the first x-ray, they can see a shadow in his lung in the early one, but it wasn't enough to jump out and say "I'm pneumonia!"
I have an IQ of 156 and used to direct chess tournaments. In fact, I've met both Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov. (Karpov was much more pleasant and personable than Garry). There's several possibilities after checkmate, and that is if checkmate is made as a statement after a move. It's possible that the move of checkmate was an illegal move, or that an illegal move was committed earlier in the game, in which case the game can be rewound if sufficient documentation in the form of the player's score sheets support the allegation. Another example is if the checkmating move is made after the flag on that player's clock has fallen and the checkmated player still has time on their clock.
It isn't just that the cloud isn't always accessible, it's that there are still areas that do not have internet access. Ignoring the reliability and availability of the cloud, I do a lot of work in multi-gigabyte databases and in large Photoshop projects. I'd love to see a cell phone or tablet working on 20 megapixel PSDs with multiple layers.
I need my data to be reliably available and backed-up by me. If I lose it, I'm responsible. If someone else loses it in the cloud, to whom do I have recourse? "Sorry, we'll comp you two months of service" is not good enough. It needs to be available on my schedule, and if the cloud is not accessible, then it's interfering with my schedule and my life.
Cringley is amusing, but frequently not accurate. And I think this is one of those cases. I think smartphone infiltration will continue to rise, and tablets are fine as a sole device for consumers, but not for serious users. I think what's more likely is to see interactive surface projection systems that can tie in to TV/media center computers, and I doubt that I'll care for that. Give me a pair of 23" monitors and I'll be happy.
Mozilla has screwed the pooch for Firefox OS-X users. The single feature that I most liked, aside from the fact that I didn't have to use IE, was the resume session feature. (When I switched to Mac 5ish years ago, I was mainly using FF on my PC and Safari didn't support add-ins at that time AFAIK) Well, that feature doesn't work under Lion for recent versions of Firefox, I've tried down to v10.x.. On my new Air, no recent version of Firefox will keep my sessions. So I abandoned it, found add-ins for Safari that give me AdBlock and session restore, and I'm planning on deleting it. On my older MacBook Pro, also running Lion, I have Firefox 3.6, which though riddled with problems, does session restore correctly.
From what I've been told, a fix is no where in sight, and since a new OS-X is due later this year, I don't expect it to be fixed this year. I neither know nor care what change in the OS upgrade broke session restore, but I consider it a critical feature and I don't know if I'll be using Firefox again on my Macs.
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Seconded. I have an immune deficiency (CVID), my body does not produce immuneglobin. I can have some vaccinations, but they must be dead/killed vaccines, so I can't do the shingles vaccine and others like it. Apparently live vaccines can be fatal for people like me, but there's not a lot that I can find online on the subject.
I have heard that Koreans drive on the right side of the road because Japan drives on the left, another rebellious act carrying over from the occupation and war.
It may not have been hugely profitable, but apparently it was not losing money.
We had the same thing happen where I live with grocery stores. Small town (40k) with an air force base. Before Walmart opened a small store 15ish years ago, there were five grocery stores in town. Walmart came in, everyone profitably co-existed, then they opened a super store, and now there's just one other grocer in town. Albertson's was here, and though they were profitable, they closed the store. Now Albertsons is coming back, and the executive crew that inspected the town said "I don't know why we left in the first place." I am SO looking forward to stopping spending money at Walmart, I never gave them a dime before I moved here and in a couple of years that will be true again.
I think a lot of the problem is bean counters, i.e. MBA's. If you've maximized returns, and cannot further increase them without disproportional cost, shut it down and move on to something else. It doesn't matter if you're servicing a small community that wants you there and are still profitable, shut it down because you're not making as much as other stores.
Vulture Capital at its finest. When Mervyns died, they died because they were sold to Scorpio Capital and Scorpio turned around and charged them market-price rent on the land that they used to own. There was no way the chain could compete and they folded. And in most cases, the land that those stores are on is still vacant.
And some people want less regulation on capitalism? Screw that. They will never get my vote.
They don't even have case sensitivity on their passwords. Compromised accounts drive additional sales, including the fobs.
Wow (no pun intended). You are absolutely correct. Part of my Battle.Net password was upper-case, I just tried it all upper, all lower, and reversed my core word/suffix case scheme and all signed in. I was fairly sure that in the past it was case-sensitive, so I was either mistaken or something changed in the past.
Mine run on unicorn tears and angel farts: I virtualize on my i7 iMac.
or old farts who remember Pete Seeger.
Who was on The Colbert Report a couple of months ago, not that this statement doesn't exclude me from the realm of old farts.
I have to admit that it's been a while since I used AVG. I finally upgraded from XP to 7 earlier this year when I found out that the developer's edition of SQL Server 2012 required Vista or 7, and at that point I went with MSE. I've definitely preferred MSE running silently compared to the AVG updater.
MSE is surprisingly good. You could consider the free edition of AVG if you want a non-MS anti-virus product. Be sure to keep current on patches and service packs.
If you really want to increase your paranoia, you could install ZoneAlarm.
Definitely depends on where you'll be living and where you anticipate traveling. I was very happy with Alltel as they have the best coverage in rural NM and AZ and very good partnering agreements with others, but they got swallowed up by Verizon so that's now my vendor. Where I live, it's Verizon or AT&T, and it ain't gonna be AT&T.
I understand our area may be upgraded to 4G LTE by the end of next year.
BRIEF by UnderWare FTW!
I also had Sourcerer's Apprentice, very nice little VCS for its time.
Fine-print terms are important. I knew of a mechanic who worked for a Porsche dealership. He'd go down to the race track on 'run what you brung' weekends, and he'd write down the VINs of any Porsches that he saw in the pits that had been racing. Monday morning he'd go in to work and void their warranties in the computer because racing was specifically a violation of the terms of the warranty.
11. Jeffries tubes. They work great on starships.
Especially if you have to reverse the polarity of the main deflector dish!
I wonder how much transient noise is introduced to the power circuits from CNC machines. Maybe making the data center run on DC power would be advantageous.
Pity you posted as AC as your list is spot-on.
My former employer, a city government, decided they were going to build a new City Hall. They did not involve IT from the beginning. The original design had no conduit, no raised floor, the server room had no additional cooling and zero additional power. The director had to fight tooth and nail to get the data center properly outfitted.
My takeaway from this is to not trust architects to design your facilities unless they have demonstrated experience and skill at such.
And don't forget about fire control for your server room! Also solid standby power, you might not need a generator in addition to UPS, but you might. Also emergency lighting in your server room, don't want to be in the dark if you have to do a shutdown with no overhead lights.
Waterless toilets would be a good addition. Touchless faucets and soap dispensers are also good, they lower germ transmission throughout the business.
I so hope this becomes a marketed product soon! I do two subcutaneous infusions a week, four needles in my abdomen for about an hour a session and will be doing so for the rest of my life. This would be SO sweet!
Heh. I had an electronics teacher in the late 70's who thought vacuum tube tech was still the way to go. No discussion of solid-state transistors and such. Man, that was a horrible class.
Agreed. I was in advanced programs in primary school, got stuffed in to advanced courses in HS and couldn't handle the homework load. I graduated HS in the bottom half of my class. I almost dropped out in my senior year out of sheer boredom. I started taking college courses in my junior year with a 4.0 GPA. At university, I run a 3.7 GPA (on a 4.0 max).
HS was a horrible experience and very poorly targeted for me.
I think a lot of the problems in cost is in administration: too many and too highly paid. IMO.
I think it would be more sensible to go to a trimester system: three months in class, one month off. I've seen studies that reported higher retention with shorter breaks between semesters.
We were staying with friends near Denver, and Dave came to me at like 12:30 in the morning saying I had to take him to the hospital, he was having serious pain in the back not far from his heart. Dave can walk off kidney stones, so it has to be pretty serious pain for him to complain. At the ER they find nothing wrong with his heart, his lungs look good, everything looks OK. But he still has this pain and a persistent cough. They put him on antibiotics just in case, later do an angiogram, everything is good. He spends the weekend in the hospital, finally comes home. We're playing cards, and he's looking worse and worse and still coughing. Finally his wife takes him back to the emergency room and they find he has pneumonia.
Which first presented as chest pain.
When they compare the later x-ray with the first x-ray, they can see a shadow in his lung in the early one, but it wasn't enough to jump out and say "I'm pneumonia!"
Why develop it for a phone that nobody uses (or wants)?
Because it was a contest sponsored by Microsoft using MS technology?
I have an IQ of 156 and used to direct chess tournaments. In fact, I've met both Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov. (Karpov was much more pleasant and personable than Garry). There's several possibilities after checkmate, and that is if checkmate is made as a statement after a move. It's possible that the move of checkmate was an illegal move, or that an illegal move was committed earlier in the game, in which case the game can be rewound if sufficient documentation in the form of the player's score sheets support the allegation. Another example is if the checkmating move is made after the flag on that player's clock has fallen and the checkmated player still has time on their clock.
But as a joke, it's passable. Or en passantable.
You can order them online and get them delivered. I'm guessing they're priced reasonably, but I can't say that I've done a comparison.
It isn't just that the cloud isn't always accessible, it's that there are still areas that do not have internet access. Ignoring the reliability and availability of the cloud, I do a lot of work in multi-gigabyte databases and in large Photoshop projects. I'd love to see a cell phone or tablet working on 20 megapixel PSDs with multiple layers.
I need my data to be reliably available and backed-up by me. If I lose it, I'm responsible. If someone else loses it in the cloud, to whom do I have recourse? "Sorry, we'll comp you two months of service" is not good enough. It needs to be available on my schedule, and if the cloud is not accessible, then it's interfering with my schedule and my life.
Cringley is amusing, but frequently not accurate. And I think this is one of those cases. I think smartphone infiltration will continue to rise, and tablets are fine as a sole device for consumers, but not for serious users. I think what's more likely is to see interactive surface projection systems that can tie in to TV/media center computers, and I doubt that I'll care for that. Give me a pair of 23" monitors and I'll be happy.
Mozilla has screwed the pooch for Firefox OS-X users. The single feature that I most liked, aside from the fact that I didn't have to use IE, was the resume session feature. (When I switched to Mac 5ish years ago, I was mainly using FF on my PC and Safari didn't support add-ins at that time AFAIK) Well, that feature doesn't work under Lion for recent versions of Firefox, I've tried down to v10.x.. On my new Air, no recent version of Firefox will keep my sessions. So I abandoned it, found add-ins for Safari that give me AdBlock and session restore, and I'm planning on deleting it. On my older MacBook Pro, also running Lion, I have Firefox 3.6, which though riddled with problems, does session restore correctly.
From what I've been told, a fix is no where in sight, and since a new OS-X is due later this year, I don't expect it to be fixed this year. I neither know nor care what change in the OS upgrade broke session restore, but I consider it a critical feature and I don't know if I'll be using Firefox again on my Macs.