The thing you aren't considering is the fact that this was planned and budgetted 15 years ago. When you consider HOW they built against some incredible challenges like needing to freeze the ground behind north station so they could tunnel without disturbing the railways above (brine filled pipes as close to 3 feet apart in most places. They had to drain large portions of Fort Point Channel in order to sink a tunnel near the Orange and Red Subway tunnels with a mere 18 inches to spare in places. PLUS they had to reroute a vast portion of the Boston area telephone network and major electrical feeds. It is pretty amazing how it all came to together. It is working and Boston needed it and the folks who built it did a great job. As for the price.. no one could have predicted the impact of such enormous challenges when the budget was prepared over 10 years ago and well anyone who thinks that there wasn't going to be a hefty "graft and corruption" premium for the largest public works is delusional
For the average everyday user Mac OSx is far easier to use and maintain. Linux is wonderful but it is pretty high maintenance. I switched recently from a Red Hat 8 machine and a Windows XP pro to a very elegant new 15" powerbook now running "panther" OSx 10.3 (which albeit is a bit bug laden) is a wonderful system. I'm a very happy camper. I just needed to get stuff down without futzing around with the system.
I always ask my clients to "help me understand" a decision and that gives me an opening to help them to reason things out, more time than not they tend to reconsider.
Just tried to read the article on the link... got this error
Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a000d'
Type mismatch: 'Ubound'/inc/copycode.asp, line 264
Hmm..kinda funny..this has been hacked or better yet it's another msoft screwup
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I recently had to work out of my 74 year old incredibly annoying jewish mother's house!!!!! After that I gave myself a root canal..for FUN!!!
The thing you aren't considering is the fact that this was planned and budgetted 15 years ago. When you consider HOW they built against some incredible challenges like needing to freeze the ground behind north station so they could tunnel without disturbing the railways above (brine filled pipes as close to 3 feet apart in most places. They had to drain large portions of Fort Point Channel in order to sink a tunnel near the Orange and Red Subway tunnels with a mere 18 inches to spare in places. PLUS they had to reroute a vast portion of the Boston area telephone network and major electrical feeds. It is pretty amazing how it all came to together. It is working and Boston needed it and the folks who built it did a great job. As for the price.. no one could have predicted the impact of such enormous challenges when the budget was prepared over 10 years ago and well anyone who thinks that there wasn't going to be a hefty "graft and corruption" premium for the largest public works is delusional
For the average everyday user Mac OSx is far easier to use and maintain. Linux is wonderful but it is pretty high maintenance. I switched recently from a Red Hat 8 machine and a Windows XP pro to a very elegant new 15" powerbook now running "panther" OSx 10.3 (which albeit is a bit bug laden) is a wonderful system. I'm a very happy camper. I just needed to get stuff down without futzing around with the system.
I always ask my clients to "help me understand" a decision and that gives me an opening to help them to reason things out, more time than not they tend to reconsider.
Just tried to read the article on the link... got this error Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a000d' Type mismatch: 'Ubound' /inc/copycode.asp, line 264
Hmm..kinda funny..this has been hacked or better yet it's another msoft screwup