Sorry but policy is generally in place for a reason, and in the case of things like bans on ICQ it's generally due to legislation. You might not have heard of things like Sarbanes Oxley, but IT is now legally required to make damn sure ALL company correspondence is captured and logged. If we allow just anything to be installed we are putting ourselves and the directors of the company in personal danger of criminal prosecution. Your need to have ICQ despite it being against policy is NOT worth me going to jail, no matter HOW much better you like it.
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Yep, I just did a quick Monster search for 200 miles from my zip, Java comes in a 525, C# at 342, and C++ at 300.
Hah, I've seen plenty of places that have replaced Notes for email functionality but kept it for the huge volume of home grown apps that use it's great database replication infrastructure to positive effect. It's almost always more cost effective to pay for CAL's and maintenance then to try to replicate the functionality in a new system. Also, the email experience has been vastly changed with the Notes 8 client, it's much more Outlooky.
Except they originators WEREN'T on the line for the mortgages because they securitized them and sold them off to banks which were acting as both a bank and a highly leveraged investment house, if they had been required to act as a BANK then they would have been looking closely at these mortgages instead of simply buying commercial paper.
FDIC said last year that they would have payments in the accounts with the new holding banks in 3 business days max. I'm not sure to what level of failure they are able to perform like that, but I'm pretty damn sure the very idea of FDIC is that people don't lose access to their funds and they don't make a run on the banks. Just to be safe I contemplated separating savings and checking into different banks, but my regional bank is financially solvent even if you can't tell it from their stock price.
Bah, a bill to encourage loaning money to low income people isn't what got us here. Even with the financial craziness that got us here the truely poor people weren't buying houses and even if they did it was a $40K shack in the hood, it was the HUGE amounts of funny money the fed pumped into the economy for the last 8 years. The fact that it went into housing is fairly inconsequential, it was just an area that was easy to move money into due to relaxed regulation. The fundamental problem is that to get us out of the last minor recession the fed created inflationary pressure that built up in a bubble that suddenly burst. It just so happens that the bubble bursting took out the financial sector which is making things worse then they should be because normal, credit worthy businesses can't access credit to perform their normal operations. I don't know if anyone knows how to get us out of this without making things worse in the long term, but the pill is going to be awfully hard to swallow if some way of cushioning things isn't found because this is basically a double recession (the harsher downside of the last one combined with this one).
Yeah, according to a few of the online political allignment surveys I most closely fit in with the Green Party. My problem is things like funding environmental crime units for district attorneys in counties with significant pollution problems. and We oppose the development and use of new nuclear reactors, plutonium (MOX) fuel, nuclear fuel reprocessing, nuclear fusion, uranium enrichment, and the manufacturing of new plutonium pits for a new generation of nuclear weapons. Which are two of the only technologies likely to allow for us to continue with a modern way of life AND avoid doing serious damage to the planet. Wind is the only other large scale power source that doesn't produce insane amounts of toxic waste per lifetime KWhr and it's neither scalable enough or reliable enough to run a modern society.
Nah, they are just worth more than $0 which is essentially what you can get for em since no one in the free market will buy em. They are probably worth about half of face value in reality (houses are at ~200% of historical averages) so the government would lose about half of the $700B spent on the bailout, less after inflation. Personally I don't want to spend ~$5,000 of my hard earned dollars because other people bought houses for too much money. I bought a house at ~2x my annual salary, not the 7x some stupid bank pre-approved me for!
The other big thing that led to this bubble was the absolutely insane amount of credit the fed pumped into the system to stave off the last minor recession. That money had to find some place to go, and a lot of it found it's way into ever increasing housing costs. Combined with such stupidity as zero (or less) down mortgages and you have our current problems. All that funny money the fed pumped into the system came back to bite us in the rear and even if they find a way out of this problem the double whammy of inflation and falling housing prices is going to be a tough pill to swallow. Unfortunately I haven't seen any good plan for working our way out of this that doesn't involve bigger government (bad in the long run) or a LOT of pain in the medium term (ie Great Depression 2).
Actually, this time ALL of the investment banks have fallen, the only remaining ones all converted to traditional deposit holding banks which are more tightly regulated. Not that regulations helped this time around since they were neutered by the Republicans and the financial wizards had created instruments so obscure that even THEY didn't really understand them. I hope next time the regulators can't understand an instrument they force the quants to explain it or if it can't be explained sufficiently then ban it.
Cool, glad to hear things don't suck in the UK, in the US you generally only have one plan tier available for tethering or cellular modem capabilities and it's generally priced between $50 and $75 and is "unlimited" (no time limit but ~5GB of transfer with severe restrictions on what types of services and equipment you can use it with).
At what it costs for a cellular modem you SHOULD be able to use it as a primary internet connection, just like no-one expects to need a landline once they have reliable, reasonably priced cellular voice service you shouldn't need a $50/month landline internet connection AND a $50-100/month cellular internet connection.
Hahaha, ETSI and MIC are way more stringent about spectrum use, just check the available settings for your 802.11 device, the available bands are always smaller for ETSI and Japan (MIC).
Sounds like a sensible way to do things, but it would be better to just use smaller segments in the network. I'm not sure how much this would cost as a percentage of current prices, but in the ethernet world the prices for switched ports came down pretty quickly once people realized how much benifits it had.
Yeah, the last game I bought which was shuffled out the door missing features was just getting fixed when the studio went under (Hellgate) so I don't think I'll be buying Fallout 3 until it's got the major bugs fixed and the mod kit is out. Sorry but it's just too heartbreaking as a game to have a game with great potential ruined by poor execution. I guess that's why I love Blizzard so much, they keep working on a title until it's really polished (look at Diablo 2, a patch was released just a couple months ago and the game first shipped in 2000!)
My VLK copy of XP w/SP2 certainly includes it, Start->Programs->Accessories->Windows Movie Maker. It's part of the default install but you or your IT department may have it removed through customization or setup options or it may be blocked by group policy.
The coupons are good for a limited time so the coupon you got early on is probably expired. You'll need to get a new one and both will count towards the two per household limit.
I wonder which side Pandora falls on, if they fall under the user selection side this is good news for a lot of people since it means Pandora will definitely be around at least until the next meeting of the rates board.
Twenty miles is pretty damn high. The Russians couldn't touch it until some of the later variants of the S-300 and even then effectiveness was limited. Sure against an advanced foe it would be an ineffective platform, but most of those enemies are capable of taking out low altitude satellites as you alluded to.
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Sorry but policy is generally in place for a reason, and in the case of things like bans on ICQ it's generally due to legislation. You might not have heard of things like Sarbanes Oxley, but IT is now legally required to make damn sure ALL company correspondence is captured and logged. If we allow just anything to be installed we are putting ourselves and the directors of the company in personal danger of criminal prosecution. Your need to have ICQ despite it being against policy is NOT worth me going to jail, no matter HOW much better you like it.
Yep, I just did a quick Monster search for 200 miles from my zip, Java comes in a 525, C# at 342, and C++ at 300.
Hah, I've seen plenty of places that have replaced Notes for email functionality but kept it for the huge volume of home grown apps that use it's great database replication infrastructure to positive effect. It's almost always more cost effective to pay for CAL's and maintenance then to try to replicate the functionality in a new system. Also, the email experience has been vastly changed with the Notes 8 client, it's much more Outlooky.
Except they originators WEREN'T on the line for the mortgages because they securitized them and sold them off to banks which were acting as both a bank and a highly leveraged investment house, if they had been required to act as a BANK then they would have been looking closely at these mortgages instead of simply buying commercial paper.
Ironport claims 2.5M messages per hour per x1050, I think the government can afford a handful of decent mail appliances to handle constituent emails.
Please see Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999.
FDIC said last year that they would have payments in the accounts with the new holding banks in 3 business days max. I'm not sure to what level of failure they are able to perform like that, but I'm pretty damn sure the very idea of FDIC is that people don't lose access to their funds and they don't make a run on the banks. Just to be safe I contemplated separating savings and checking into different banks, but my regional bank is financially solvent even if you can't tell it from their stock price.
Bah, a bill to encourage loaning money to low income people isn't what got us here. Even with the financial craziness that got us here the truely poor people weren't buying houses and even if they did it was a $40K shack in the hood, it was the HUGE amounts of funny money the fed pumped into the economy for the last 8 years. The fact that it went into housing is fairly inconsequential, it was just an area that was easy to move money into due to relaxed regulation. The fundamental problem is that to get us out of the last minor recession the fed created inflationary pressure that built up in a bubble that suddenly burst. It just so happens that the bubble bursting took out the financial sector which is making things worse then they should be because normal, credit worthy businesses can't access credit to perform their normal operations. I don't know if anyone knows how to get us out of this without making things worse in the long term, but the pill is going to be awfully hard to swallow if some way of cushioning things isn't found because this is basically a double recession (the harsher downside of the last one combined with this one).
Yeah, according to a few of the online political allignment surveys I most closely fit in with the Green Party. My problem is things like
funding environmental crime units for district attorneys in counties with significant pollution problems.
and
We oppose the development and use of new nuclear reactors, plutonium (MOX) fuel, nuclear fuel reprocessing, nuclear fusion, uranium enrichment, and the manufacturing of new plutonium pits for a new generation of nuclear weapons.
Which are two of the only technologies likely to allow for us to continue with a modern way of life AND avoid doing serious damage to the planet. Wind is the only other large scale power source that doesn't produce insane amounts of toxic waste per lifetime KWhr and it's neither scalable enough or reliable enough to run a modern society.
Nah, they are just worth more than $0 which is essentially what you can get for em since no one in the free market will buy em. They are probably worth about half of face value in reality (houses are at ~200% of historical averages) so the government would lose about half of the $700B spent on the bailout, less after inflation. Personally I don't want to spend ~$5,000 of my hard earned dollars because other people bought houses for too much money. I bought a house at ~2x my annual salary, not the 7x some stupid bank pre-approved me for!
The other big thing that led to this bubble was the absolutely insane amount of credit the fed pumped into the system to stave off the last minor recession. That money had to find some place to go, and a lot of it found it's way into ever increasing housing costs. Combined with such stupidity as zero (or less) down mortgages and you have our current problems. All that funny money the fed pumped into the system came back to bite us in the rear and even if they find a way out of this problem the double whammy of inflation and falling housing prices is going to be a tough pill to swallow. Unfortunately I haven't seen any good plan for working our way out of this that doesn't involve bigger government (bad in the long run) or a LOT of pain in the medium term (ie Great Depression 2).
Actually, this time ALL of the investment banks have fallen, the only remaining ones all converted to traditional deposit holding banks which are more tightly regulated. Not that regulations helped this time around since they were neutered by the Republicans and the financial wizards had created instruments so obscure that even THEY didn't really understand them. I hope next time the regulators can't understand an instrument they force the quants to explain it or if it can't be explained sufficiently then ban it.
An Apple Cube?
Cool, glad to hear things don't suck in the UK, in the US you generally only have one plan tier available for tethering or cellular modem capabilities and it's generally priced between $50 and $75 and is "unlimited" (no time limit but ~5GB of transfer with severe restrictions on what types of services and equipment you can use it with).
At what it costs for a cellular modem you SHOULD be able to use it as a primary internet connection, just like no-one expects to need a landline once they have reliable, reasonably priced cellular voice service you shouldn't need a $50/month landline internet connection AND a $50-100/month cellular internet connection.
Hahaha, ETSI and MIC are way more stringent about spectrum use, just check the available settings for your 802.11 device, the available bands are always smaller for ETSI and Japan (MIC).
Sounds like a sensible way to do things, but it would be better to just use smaller segments in the network. I'm not sure how much this would cost as a percentage of current prices, but in the ethernet world the prices for switched ports came down pretty quickly once people realized how much benifits it had.
Probably the GPGPU library they used requires the flexibility of SM 3.0.
Yeah, the last game I bought which was shuffled out the door missing features was just getting fixed when the studio went under (Hellgate) so I don't think I'll be buying Fallout 3 until it's got the major bugs fixed and the mod kit is out. Sorry but it's just too heartbreaking as a game to have a game with great potential ruined by poor execution. I guess that's why I love Blizzard so much, they keep working on a title until it's really polished (look at Diablo 2, a patch was released just a couple months ago and the game first shipped in 2000!)
I used to use ftp to download Netscape before MS integrated IE, not the easiest thing in the world but not the hardest either.
My VLK copy of XP w/SP2 certainly includes it, Start->Programs->Accessories->Windows Movie Maker. It's part of the default install but you or your IT department may have it removed through customization or setup options or it may be blocked by group policy.
Another satisfied Win9x user I see =)
The coupons are good for a limited time so the coupon you got early on is probably expired. You'll need to get a new one and both will count towards the two per household limit.
I wonder which side Pandora falls on, if they fall under the user selection side this is good news for a lot of people since it means Pandora will definitely be around at least until the next meeting of the rates board.
Twenty miles is pretty damn high. The Russians couldn't touch it until some of the later variants of the S-300 and even then effectiveness was limited. Sure against an advanced foe it would be an ineffective platform, but most of those enemies are capable of taking out low altitude satellites as you alluded to.