Lee Iacocca said a lot of great things. Unfortunately almost all of them are bullshit. A more accurate quote would go more like, "I come on board for an inflated salary, get the government to bail my company out, loot the employees' pension fund, take credit for other people's ideas, then cash in my stock options and sell a work of complete fiction that I call my autobiography." My uncle retired from thirty-some years at Chrysler and didn't have enough hours in a day to bad talk Iacocca. I think the thing that most annoyed him was Iacocca taking credit for saving the company by inventing the minivan. The initial version of Chrysler's copy of the Toyota minivan was already at the Proving Grounds being tested when Iacocca came on board, he just delayed the project by insisting on cosmetic changes. Jimmy Carter saved Chrysler, by declaring that the Federal government would only by Chrysler cars for the next ten years and going ahead with the production of the M1 Abrams tank.
A head?!? I've never seen that. I imagine that some birds taste better than others, or maybe some bags of Purina taste better than any bird would. Just my guess. I have seen a cat that learned mice were eatable stop leaving them lying around and start eating them, or at least parts of them. Perhaps that's what happened, although Lauren's cat mostly left tails lying around rather than heads.
Amusing as hell to me that they're LEASING these things for a higher price per year as an OLPC would cost to BUY one time. And OLPCs are built to withstand some serious abuse. That's North Carolina, I guess.
My uncle was the first person we knew to have touch-tone service, back in the 1960s. I think there was a $1.50/month charge for it. By the time my folks got their first touch-tone phone in the early '80s touch-tone service was free. In 1997 Glenn's partner looked over the phone bill and found that they were still getting charged the $1.50/month fee.
Up until the late 1960s you didn't own your phone, you leased it from Ma Bell. When I worked in a bank trust department in the early 1990s we paid a lot of our customers' bills for them, and I was shocked to see that many of them were STILL leasing their phone from the phone company. In one case at least I knew that the phone had been thrown out when it broke two decades before.
We live in Seattle, an earthquake and volcano zone, where a 70 mph wind causes region-wide power outages that can last for a week or more and flooding can isolate a large chunk of a county for days. In an emergency the cellular phone network is useless, in fact it's generally over capacity just during especially bad rush hour traffic. Land lines will stay up as long as there is power at the closest central switching station, and even if you do have trouble making a local call an outgoing long distance call (to a relative or friend out of state) will pretty much always work.
Fill a building in California with sand and it's rapidly going to be full of microorganisms, even if you bake the dirt first. They fed dirt from the Atacama to the Viking lander that was kept on Earth, and it didn't find life.
Fill a building with rocks and sand and it's all fluffy and aerated. Ground textures are nothing like real-world terrain. Hills can only be a few meters tall and steep slopes are very difficult to build without additives.
That's just off the top of my head, I'm sure there are more reasons.
I've noticed before, you really don't know much history. Medieval Europeans were possibly the filthiest people in the history of humanity. Rivers were so contaminated that a modern Westerner would likely die after a glass full of water, and wells were actually worse. Everyone who could afford to drank beer or watered wine, the poorest of the poor drank water and frequently died of it. Boiling water to make beer kills pretty much everything in the water, the yeast reproduction crowds out most of its competition, and the change in PH ensures that anything that manages to survive won't be able to reproduce. The alcohol is pretty incidental to the process, and the alcohol content in most beers isn't high enough to act as a diuretic.
Beer can serve to wash wounds for the same reason as urine can; it's clean water. It's not the best thing to use, but it's not hard to imagine situations where it's the best thing available.
I grew up in northern Michigan, and made my first wine when I was about 10. Picked a bucket full of mulberries, squeezed the juice, my mom supervised so that I didn't burn myself with the sugar syrup, and my dad helped me make a bubbler. I'd been drinking a small glass of wine at family dinners since probably five years old, so I knew enough to recognize that I had a really good touch making wine when I tapped that first gallon a couple of months later. Been making homemade wine ever since, taught my nephew how to do it, and my wife's niece too.Don't know why more people don't, it's a lot of fun.
Boiling and the change in PH are more important than the alcohol content when it comes to keeping the bacterial load low, although that certainly helps.
Do you know whether the roach enjoys being directed around?
More to the point, you apparently don't know many working horses. There aren't many who are anxiously anticipating their next opportunity to pull a plow for ten hours, or carry hundreds of pounds of cargo up and down a mountain.
Actually, without their wings they probably didn't vibrate the web at the correct frequency that the spider would recognize it as prey. A fly without wings would get ignored, but the fly with the wings in the same web prompted a response.
Chickens will be fine, they've taken over the island of Kauai in Hawaii. Pigs will not have much problem, feral pigs that escaped during the various hurricanes have become a major nuisance in parts of the southeastern US. Cows, sheep and domestic turkeys are probably too stupid to survive though, although sheep might be raised for wool without eating them.
Inch long? I lived in St. Petersburg, Florida for a century one year. Four inch long cockroaches that fly. I stomped on one, twisted my foot around to ensure that it was mush, picked up my foot and the bastard ran away. My apartment was in a 50 year-old wood building, there was no way to get rid of them. The locals pretend that they're not cockroaches and call them 'Palmetto Bugs', but everyone knows what they really are. One of many, many reasons not to live in Florida.
I think the GP probably has never raised chickens or rabbits for food or hunted and fished to put meat on the table. I see that disconnect between human/other animal relations most among those who have grown up eating plastic-wrapped pieces of cow, never relating that to the animal that it came from. The Dick's Hamburger chain here in Seattle used to have a big picture of a cow on the back wall, next to the price list. They had to remove it because parents were complaining that "it upsets the children." (BTW, good burgers, great fries and wonderful milkshakes for a drive-in, if you're ever in the Seattle area.)
Actually most domesticated cats don't realize that mice and birds are eatable. They play with them as they would a toy, until the toy breaks. Once it's broken it's no fun any more (until it stinks and the dog rolls in it, then they get to watch the dog forcibly bathed.)
Depends on the area. In most of the Seattle area it's $15-$18, I'd be surprised if California weren't higher since the cost of living is higher. If you want people to work outdoors in Oakland you're going to have to pay extra as well. I figured that $20 was a low estimate.
That was Bill Gates' moment of insight back in the days of Windows 3.1; for most uses "good enough" actually is good enough. Too many companies were spending time and money to make a perfect operating system or office suite, delaying releases and raising costs until every bug was squashed and every possible combination of events tested and retested. That mindset was absolutely necessary in the mainframe environment (or its modern equivalent, your shared storage and clustering environment). For a desktop? Not so much. So Microsoft got a jump on Banyan Vines, AMI Pro, Novell, etc. that they never got lost. They certainly weren't the best OS, office suite, or network operating system, but they were the first to get to market with an affordable offering that was sufficient for most customers.
That high-availability environment wasn't really the target market for Hyper-V either. MS, as per their normal MO, was going after the portion of the market for which it was "good enough". The company that I work at has both Hyper-V installs and VMWare installs, each where appropriate. You've probably seen as many 'penny wise, pound foolish' executives as I have. The install you mentioned apparently didn't analyze their needs properly before install.
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Lee Iacocca said a lot of great things. Unfortunately almost all of them are bullshit. A more accurate quote would go more like, "I come on board for an inflated salary, get the government to bail my company out, loot the employees' pension fund, take credit for other people's ideas, then cash in my stock options and sell a work of complete fiction that I call my autobiography." My uncle retired from thirty-some years at Chrysler and didn't have enough hours in a day to bad talk Iacocca. I think the thing that most annoyed him was Iacocca taking credit for saving the company by inventing the minivan. The initial version of Chrysler's copy of the Toyota minivan was already at the Proving Grounds being tested when Iacocca came on board, he just delayed the project by insisting on cosmetic changes. Jimmy Carter saved Chrysler, by declaring that the Federal government would only by Chrysler cars for the next ten years and going ahead with the production of the M1 Abrams tank.
Which then means that the staff will match management in competency.
A head?!? I've never seen that. I imagine that some birds taste better than others, or maybe some bags of Purina taste better than any bird would. Just my guess. I have seen a cat that learned mice were eatable stop leaving them lying around and start eating them, or at least parts of them. Perhaps that's what happened, although Lauren's cat mostly left tails lying around rather than heads.
Amusing as hell to me that they're LEASING these things for a higher price per year as an OLPC would cost to BUY one time. And OLPCs are built to withstand some serious abuse. That's North Carolina, I guess.
My uncle was the first person we knew to have touch-tone service, back in the 1960s. I think there was a $1.50/month charge for it. By the time my folks got their first touch-tone phone in the early '80s touch-tone service was free. In 1997 Glenn's partner looked over the phone bill and found that they were still getting charged the $1.50/month fee.
Up until the late 1960s you didn't own your phone, you leased it from Ma Bell. When I worked in a bank trust department in the early 1990s we paid a lot of our customers' bills for them, and I was shocked to see that many of them were STILL leasing their phone from the phone company. In one case at least I knew that the phone had been thrown out when it broke two decades before.
That's amusing. The original name of that motel chain was 'Six Dollars A Day'. Really.
And you have a landline ... because?
We live in Seattle, an earthquake and volcano zone, where a 70 mph wind causes region-wide power outages that can last for a week or more and flooding can isolate a large chunk of a county for days. In an emergency the cellular phone network is useless, in fact it's generally over capacity just during especially bad rush hour traffic. Land lines will stay up as long as there is power at the closest central switching station, and even if you do have trouble making a local call an outgoing long distance call (to a relative or friend out of state) will pretty much always work.
Congratulations NewsCorp! Your tablets are actually higher quality and less defective than your news product.
Do you not remember being a teenager? I couldn't even keep a car in one piece.
Fill a building in California with sand and it's rapidly going to be full of microorganisms, even if you bake the dirt first. They fed dirt from the Atacama to the Viking lander that was kept on Earth, and it didn't find life.
Fill a building with rocks and sand and it's all fluffy and aerated. Ground textures are nothing like real-world terrain. Hills can only be a few meters tall and steep slopes are very difficult to build without additives.
That's just off the top of my head, I'm sure there are more reasons.
I've noticed before, you really don't know much history. Medieval Europeans were possibly the filthiest people in the history of humanity. Rivers were so contaminated that a modern Westerner would likely die after a glass full of water, and wells were actually worse. Everyone who could afford to drank beer or watered wine, the poorest of the poor drank water and frequently died of it. Boiling water to make beer kills pretty much everything in the water, the yeast reproduction crowds out most of its competition, and the change in PH ensures that anything that manages to survive won't be able to reproduce. The alcohol is pretty incidental to the process, and the alcohol content in most beers isn't high enough to act as a diuretic.
Beer can serve to wash wounds for the same reason as urine can; it's clean water. It's not the best thing to use, but it's not hard to imagine situations where it's the best thing available.
I grew up in northern Michigan, and made my first wine when I was about 10. Picked a bucket full of mulberries, squeezed the juice, my mom supervised so that I didn't burn myself with the sugar syrup, and my dad helped me make a bubbler. I'd been drinking a small glass of wine at family dinners since probably five years old, so I knew enough to recognize that I had a really good touch making wine when I tapped that first gallon a couple of months later. Been making homemade wine ever since, taught my nephew how to do it, and my wife's niece too.Don't know why more people don't, it's a lot of fun.
Boiling and the change in PH are more important than the alcohol content when it comes to keeping the bacterial load low, although that certainly helps.
We're too late, Wall Street has already installed their remote-control hardware in them.
The Bush, Assad and Kim families have managed to do it consistently for several generations . . .
Do you know whether the roach enjoys being directed around?
More to the point, you apparently don't know many working horses. There aren't many who are anxiously anticipating their next opportunity to pull a plow for ten hours, or carry hundreds of pounds of cargo up and down a mountain.
Actually, without their wings they probably didn't vibrate the web at the correct frequency that the spider would recognize it as prey. A fly without wings would get ignored, but the fly with the wings in the same web prompted a response.
Magnifying glasses and kitchen chemicals as well.
Chickens will be fine, they've taken over the island of Kauai in Hawaii. Pigs will not have much problem, feral pigs that escaped during the various hurricanes have become a major nuisance in parts of the southeastern US. Cows, sheep and domestic turkeys are probably too stupid to survive though, although sheep might be raised for wool without eating them.
Inch long? I lived in St. Petersburg, Florida for a century one year. Four inch long cockroaches that fly. I stomped on one, twisted my foot around to ensure that it was mush, picked up my foot and the bastard ran away. My apartment was in a 50 year-old wood building, there was no way to get rid of them. The locals pretend that they're not cockroaches and call them 'Palmetto Bugs', but everyone knows what they really are. One of many, many reasons not to live in Florida.
I think the GP probably has never raised chickens or rabbits for food or hunted and fished to put meat on the table. I see that disconnect between human/other animal relations most among those who have grown up eating plastic-wrapped pieces of cow, never relating that to the animal that it came from. The Dick's Hamburger chain here in Seattle used to have a big picture of a cow on the back wall, next to the price list. They had to remove it because parents were complaining that "it upsets the children." (BTW, good burgers, great fries and wonderful milkshakes for a drive-in, if you're ever in the Seattle area.)
Actually most domesticated cats don't realize that mice and birds are eatable. They play with them as they would a toy, until the toy breaks. Once it's broken it's no fun any more (until it stinks and the dog rolls in it, then they get to watch the dog forcibly bathed.)
Exactly what they deserve . . .
Depends on the area. In most of the Seattle area it's $15-$18, I'd be surprised if California weren't higher since the cost of living is higher. If you want people to work outdoors in Oakland you're going to have to pay extra as well. I figured that $20 was a low estimate.
That was Bill Gates' moment of insight back in the days of Windows 3.1; for most uses "good enough" actually is good enough. Too many companies were spending time and money to make a perfect operating system or office suite, delaying releases and raising costs until every bug was squashed and every possible combination of events tested and retested. That mindset was absolutely necessary in the mainframe environment (or its modern equivalent, your shared storage and clustering environment). For a desktop? Not so much. So Microsoft got a jump on Banyan Vines, AMI Pro, Novell, etc. that they never got lost. They certainly weren't the best OS, office suite, or network operating system, but they were the first to get to market with an affordable offering that was sufficient for most customers.
That high-availability environment wasn't really the target market for Hyper-V either. MS, as per their normal MO, was going after the portion of the market for which it was "good enough". The company that I work at has both Hyper-V installs and VMWare installs, each where appropriate. You've probably seen as many 'penny wise, pound foolish' executives as I have. The install you mentioned apparently didn't analyze their needs properly before install.