Yes, very good. And you cherry picked that line as well as well and glossed over the bits that say near term it could have quite a bit of good positive effect. A lot of that drag 10 years from now that it predicts could be addressed through tax cuts and spending cuts.
What, you haven't done D.E.H.T.A's little P.I.T.A quests yet?
Loads of fun. You get to kill Nessingwary's people (that you used to pal around with) who are killing rhinos, and then down the road you end up having to kill the rhinos for Fizzcrank's quests!
As I camped in the cheese shop waiting for some wine to spawn so I could complete a daily runner quest for the cook in the Dalaran inn, I thought about all the battles I've fought and the thousands who have died from my powerful spells. Wow, can life get any better that this?!
Hmm, does that mean my SIM that's signed up for the c.2003 t-mobile $20/mo unlimited VPN (means no ports blocked and a real IP, not NATed) total internet will work in it and I'd still be grandfathered under that plan?
plus you now have someone who is inflexible and deeply entrenched in their ways managing
You're absolutely right, which is why I do my best to NOT manage like that. I have some very talented staff who are doing amazing things. All I do anymore is sit back in my chair and say "make it so" and die a little more inside.
Yeah, that's called management -- and it makes things worse if you really care. You get out of doing the fun stuff day to day and spend it all in meetings and dealing with personnel issues. It quickly speeds up the brain rot.:-(
Part of my employer's response to an event like this is to have as many people work from home as possible -- and to do so requires the Internet be functioning and people shut-in by illness aren't clogging the net downloading porn.
Nice. I often wondered if I was fired if they'd remember to remove my keys from authorized_keys. Doesn't help to change passwords if you forget that as well.
Just a nitpick but U.S. measures octane differently than Europe. Still looks like it's lower in U.S. but not as much as it seems.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octane_rating
Yes and no. Yes, there are no more at-grade crossings except maybe near Boston and I think those have been eliminated. But there were some at-grade crossings that I have personal experience with. In Delaware crossing Red Mill Road and Harmony Road until the late 70s. The amount of signaling at those crossings was insane too since those trains went through there around 100+ MPH.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/6qwspf Link to google map of one of the former crossings, since replaced with overpass a few hundred feet to the west.
I was about to say the same thing, but now it's to say "we too."
I don't know of any large business that keeps the pre-installed OS image on their desktops. First thing to do is to deploy the supported corporate image on it -- and right now, for where I work and the 4,000 desktops there, it's still XP. Doesn't matter if Vista or XP ships with it -- volume licensing for the "OS upgrade" allows downgrading so it's no big deal.
I haven't found a good business reason to move to Vista. It obsoletes anything more than 2-3 years old and that equipment is still function just well. Sure, adding some RAM would make those boxes more friendly to Vista, but why expend the money and labor to do so? How exactly does Vista make employees more productive than XP? That's the main thing that matters. Security is a consideration but I our desktops are pretty well locked down so we don't see any actual compromises.
In a word, Ballmer can't possibly know how many desktops in companies get Vista. (Volume license copies can acitvate with a KMS (key mgmt server) and allegedly that does not report activations back to Microsoft)
Icahn did absolute wonders for TWA when he bought them, and many other companies
/sarcasm
If Icahn gets control and Microsoft doesn't buy it all, expect Yahoo to be broken up into little pieces and sold off bit by bit if that's determined to be the most profitable thing for him. We may be seeing that happen now. Icahn gets a Board in there friendly to him, Yahoo only sells search to Microsoft, then starts selling off what's left to other companies.
I'd suspect if Microsoft buys all of it, I bet they absorb search and sell off the rest as well.
I bought my car in October based on a banner ad. It was an ad for a car named Honda Fit that I had never heard of before. I wanted a small car that had a decent amount of hauling capacity. So I clicked the ad, read the blurb, then went about doing a lot of other digging about the car, joined a Yahoo group for the Fit, etc, etc.
Aren't all of these hotels behind the Great Firewall of China anyway? How are they getting their Internet connections if not? Something doesn't sound quite right about this. I don't see how they can NOT be filtered, even if they didn't want it.
All I care about is MTBF. I am so sick and tired of trying to get data off of crashed drives and restoring computers for family members (and myself) . Even with current backups, it's a hassle and disks fail at the most inconvenient time.
My wife wanted a laptop recently and I made her spend the extra money for an SSD.
I couldn't get to *some* of the hosts at the College I work at around 7am Saturday morning (EDT). Some were fine. That's for ssh, http, https, and even vpn. I could ping all the hosts and ping could get through, but no tcp connections I tried. I tried going the opposite direction from those hosts later back to my linux box via ssh at home and couldn't get through either.
The at 2pm eastern everything just started to work again.
This story reminds me of a similar hassle with new technology and security lines...
I had a Rio PMP300 MP3 player back in late 90s when no one knew what an mp3 player was. I went into a US Court House for some business and the guard at the metal detector couldn't figure it out. Wanted to know where to stick the tape in. I tried explaining it to him but eventually he just insisted I check it and pick it up on the way out at the end of the day.
Gotta wonder what they did with the thing while I was up in the court office looking through the PACER terminal!:)
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Yes, very good. And you cherry picked that line as well as well and glossed over the bits that say near term it could have quite a bit of good positive effect. A lot of that drag 10 years from now that it predicts could be addressed through tax cuts and spending cuts.
But yeah, I doubt that would happen. :-(
A letter from the CBO about the stimulus bill (PDF)
Instead of relying on someone else's bias to interpret things for you, how about doing some digging and go to the source?
Please tell me where in the linked CBO document it says the stimulus bill will be harmful?
What, you haven't done D.E.H.T.A's little P.I.T.A quests yet?
Loads of fun. You get to kill Nessingwary's people (that you used to pal around with) who are killing rhinos, and then down the road you end up having to kill the rhinos for Fizzcrank's quests!
It's all about the gold!
/agreed.
I hate hyenas.
And I have a lower UID than you do!
Ah, er, at least right now I do ... if I don't get banned,
/cower jamie
weave cower's in fear at the sight of jamie
As I camped in the cheese shop waiting for some wine to spawn so I could complete a daily runner quest for the cook in the Dalaran inn, I thought about all the battles I've fought and the thousands who have died from my powerful spells. Wow, can life get any better that this?!
Hmm, does that mean my SIM that's signed up for the c.2003 t-mobile $20/mo unlimited VPN (means no ports blocked and a real IP, not NATed) total internet will work in it and I'd still be grandfathered under that plan?
You're absolutely right, which is why I do my best to NOT manage like that. I have some very talented staff who are doing amazing things. All I do anymore is sit back in my chair and say "make it so" and die a little more inside.
Yeah, that's called management -- and it makes things worse if you really care. You get out of doing the fun stuff day to day and spend it all in meetings and dealing with personnel issues. It quickly speeds up the brain rot. :-(
Part of my employer's response to an event like this is to have as many people work from home as possible -- and to do so requires the Internet be functioning and people shut-in by illness aren't clogging the net downloading porn.
Nice. I often wondered if I was fired if they'd remember to remove my keys from authorized_keys. Doesn't help to change passwords if you forget that as well.
Amazon already has a warehouse in Delaware. I wonder if that's part of their thinking.
Better never "know" a SSID called linksys. I find myself auto-connecting to that one all the time on my iphone :(
Just a nitpick but U.S. measures octane differently than Europe. Still looks like it's lower in U.S. but not as much as it seems. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octane_rating
At-grade crossings is where a road and trains cross at the same grade level. IE, someone has to stop! :)
Yes and no. Yes, there are no more at-grade crossings except maybe near Boston and I think those have been eliminated. But there were some at-grade crossings that I have personal experience with. In Delaware crossing Red Mill Road and Harmony Road until the late 70s. The amount of signaling at those crossings was insane too since those trains went through there around 100+ MPH.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/6qwspf Link to google map of one of the former crossings, since replaced with overpass a few hundred feet to the west.
I was about to say the same thing, but now it's to say "we too."
I don't know of any large business that keeps the pre-installed OS image on their desktops. First thing to do is to deploy the supported corporate image on it -- and right now, for where I work and the 4,000 desktops there, it's still XP. Doesn't matter if Vista or XP ships with it -- volume licensing for the "OS upgrade" allows downgrading so it's no big deal.
I haven't found a good business reason to move to Vista. It obsoletes anything more than 2-3 years old and that equipment is still function just well. Sure, adding some RAM would make those boxes more friendly to Vista, but why expend the money and labor to do so? How exactly does Vista make employees more productive than XP? That's the main thing that matters. Security is a consideration but I our desktops are pretty well locked down so we don't see any actual compromises.
In a word, Ballmer can't possibly know how many desktops in companies get Vista. (Volume license copies can acitvate with a KMS (key mgmt server) and allegedly that does not report activations back to Microsoft)
Icahn did absolute wonders for TWA when he bought them, and many other companies
/sarcasm
If Icahn gets control and Microsoft doesn't buy it all, expect Yahoo to be broken up into little pieces and sold off bit by bit if that's determined to be the most profitable thing for him. We may be seeing that happen now. Icahn gets a Board in there friendly to him, Yahoo only sells search to Microsoft, then starts selling off what's left to other companies.
I'd suspect if Microsoft buys all of it, I bet they absorb search and sell off the rest as well.
Yahoo! Is! Dead! and doesn't know it yet.
I bought my car in October based on a banner ad. It was an ad for a car named Honda Fit that I had never heard of before. I wanted a small car that had a decent amount of hauling capacity. So I clicked the ad, read the blurb, then went about doing a lot of other digging about the car, joined a Yahoo group for the Fit, etc, etc.
Good guess, but I find it hard to believe a hotel there would go to that trouble myself.
Aren't all of these hotels behind the Great Firewall of China anyway? How are they getting their Internet connections if not? Something doesn't sound quite right about this. I don't see how they can NOT be filtered, even if they didn't want it.
All I care about is MTBF. I am so sick and tired of trying to get data off of crashed drives and restoring computers for family members (and myself) . Even with current backups, it's a hassle and disks fail at the most inconvenient time.
My wife wanted a laptop recently and I made her spend the extra money for an SSD.
I couldn't get to *some* of the hosts at the College I work at around 7am Saturday morning (EDT). Some were fine. That's for ssh, http, https, and even vpn. I could ping all the hosts and ping could get through, but no tcp connections I tried. I tried going the opposite direction from those hosts later back to my linux box via ssh at home and couldn't get through either. The at 2pm eastern everything just started to work again.
This story reminds me of a similar hassle with new technology and security lines...
I had a Rio PMP300 MP3 player back in late 90s when no one knew what an mp3 player was. I went into a US Court House for some business and the guard at the metal detector couldn't figure it out. Wanted to know where to stick the tape in. I tried explaining it to him but eventually he just insisted I check it and pick it up on the way out at the end of the day.
Gotta wonder what they did with the thing while I was up in the court office looking through the PACER terminal! :)
"Works for me."