This is correct. The new and untested GFS model proved correct, while the usually reliable European model was off, but only by 30-40 miles, which is a pinhole in meteorological terms but proved to be significant here. And as for not being correct, tell that to Boston and Cape Cod.
Usmanov is also a large shareholder in Arsenal, the north London soccer/football team I support. For $4.7 million we could have gotten some needed defensive coverage at the back.
Hurts my brain, too, but...
I really have to admit that in the past 25 years with Comcast, first just for TV, then internet, then phone, I've had pretty much zero complaints. In fact, I get discounts off my bill for asking (minimal, yes, but $10 a month off $180), upgraded boxes for free for the asking (true, just one of their old SD DTAs to an HD DTA), and actually got a few hundred bucks for signing up my VERIZON cell phone through Comcast.
In fact, the one company that I will never go back to for anything major is Verizon. I was one of the original DSL customers where I live in Montgomery County, Md., and saw my speed grow as the years went by. I had Verizon DSL for about 10 years when, all of a sudden, it stopped working. Cold. Swapped out DSL modems, swapped out my old router for a new one, different PCs, nothing. I KNEW it was their equipment. I called, and they said they would send someone out...in 2 weeks. (And of course, that would do no good, since it was on their end. We also had a Verizon land line, which worked perfectly.) I said I had been a Verizon customer in some manner all the way back to Bell Atlantic and Nynex days--2 weeks.
I had a Comcast coax line in my office for a TV that I wasn't using anymore. Went to Best Buy, got a Motorola cable modem, called Comcast to register it, and in 10 minutes I was up and running. No problems at all. For less money than Verizon DSL.
When I called Verizon to cancel everything, they said that had I said the magic word--Retention--they could have fixed it the next day. In a word, aaargh.
I'm a huge British football fan (soccer to you Yanks), and a few years back the only way to get certain matches (if I didn't want to totally blow up my cable setup) was on a satellite system called Globecast, which carried an Irish subscription sports channel called Setanta. So I had the dish installed. Setanta went out of business, but I still have the dish, pointed at the Galaxy satellite. I get tons of Arabic channels from the Middle East, 10 or so expatriate Persian hip hop video channels from Los Angeles, Nigerian TV (where you can watch Who Wants to Be a Millionaire in Nigeria), Khazak TV, five channels or Thai and Lao shopping, and lots of US based religious channels. It's free and very very weird.
In all seriousness, I've heard that about music at the age of 14, and I must be a freak of some type. I was a folkie purist then, no electric guitars at all, man. Now, 40 years later, my iphone is stocked with The Clash, Talking Heads, Blondie, and that sort of thing.
So maybe the age 24.
I've got a bunch of $3 cables from different manufacturers, and they're all working fine, some attached to Apple chargers, some to chargers for other phones (not 2A, so they're slower, but I really don't care). Not even a warning message, and my iPhone and iPad are running 7.
I'm a playwright in my off hours, 54 years old, and I have to admit that although I love computers, there is something very tactile in thumping out a script on an old Royal manual, as I did for my first three plays in my youth. I took me quite a while to embrace writing fiction on a computer. Yes, it's incredibly easier to revise, but for some reason it seems less...substantial. I know many writers who still write by hand, and then edit as they transfer it to a computer. There's something about the physical nature of typing on a typewriter, especially a manual, that a computer can't replicate, at least for those that grew up with them. I'd never ever go back--the benefits of revision far outweigh the rosy sentimentality of The Old Days--but then again, typewriters don't lose your last three pages because you weren't careful and hit a few wrong buttons between backups.
I'm a big fan of British soccer. Watch a match covered by Brits vs one covered by Americans. The American sports commentators don't ever shut up. They're afraid of silence. If, say, Wayne Rooney got the ball, an American would say "Rooney's on the ball--looking to pass or shoot? What's he going to do?" \\
The Brit would say, "Rooney."
They expect you to have half a brain, while the Americans...know their audience.
I work for a federal agency, and while we have regulations about the use of our emblem, in reality it's in the public domain, as (I'd guess) is the FBI's. (Ours is also trademarked.) We try to keep tabs on its non-commercial use, though.
Go to a football match (soccer to us Yanks). It's not a sport, it's a religion. And it's totally safe, not like the 1980s.
Usually on Saturdays, but you can find international club matches during on Tuesdays and Wednesdays some weeks. And with the FA Cup entering its second round, there's a lot to see. Great crowds, sing along. If you're in London, for the big teams, there's Arsenal (in north London's Islington), Chelsea (off King's Road), Fulham (on the Thames in southwest London), and West Ham (in the East end). Oh, and Tottenham, but we won't talk about them...
Inboarding: I went to BB to buy a TV last month, one of their house brands. I thought in this economy--and with an ad from Target with a similar set for $100 less--I could bargain. BB dept manager told me "That's a very good price--you should buy it there" and walked away.
Oh--and I just bought a $20 electric pencil sharpener at Staples, and was offered a $4 service plan on it. They're next, I swear.
Most Commerce secretaries come in thinking the job is entirely trade, but close to 40 percent of Commerce's budget is NOAA.
Q: What's the first thing a Commerce secretary says when he's confirmed?
A: "Fish?"
I voted in Maryland this morning (my polling place had the voting cards that go into the mnachines). However, they also introduced a new system for identifying voters. Rather than huge books of spreadsheets with voter info, they had small terminals, with perhaps a 5-inch screen. The poll judges found me fine, but this could be what the woman at the end of the article was referring to.
Of course, the major problem with these terminals (and I have no idea how or if they were networked) is that most poll judges are retirees whose eyesight isn't the best. Having them read off the tiny screens was somewhat of a problem.
I live across the street from the guy, in suburban Maryland. While I don't know him (welcome to the suburbs) he was (repeat, WAS--he was fired) a government employee, not a contractor, and a GS-14 rank, which is upper mid-level management.
According to the Washington Post, the data was in an obscure format, not easily readable by the usual programs. However, the laptop had reader software for the data. I doubt the burglars know what they have, and trying to fence it now would be impossible--it's too hot, and the police have send out a decription of the laptop (HP Pavilion zv5360us) and the "external hard drive" is a high end flash media reader, an HP External Personal Media Drive. They've also made announcements about it in my son's middle school, asking for any information and offering a $50,000 reward.
Again, according to today's Post: Montgomery County police released a description yesterday of the stolen laptop and its external hard drive because they said it may have been purchased by someone who does not realize the value of its content. "It could have shown up at a yard sale or a secondhand store," police spokeswoman Lucille Baur said. "This is a time of the year when parents may be buying computers for kids going to college in the fall."
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I'm all in favor of homeopaths being able to marry. Oh. Never mind.
In America, you build computer. In Soviet Russia...oh, skip it.
This is correct. The new and untested GFS model proved correct, while the usually reliable European model was off, but only by 30-40 miles, which is a pinhole in meteorological terms but proved to be significant here. And as for not being correct, tell that to Boston and Cape Cod.
Usmanov is also a large shareholder in Arsenal, the north London soccer/football team I support. For $4.7 million we could have gotten some needed defensive coverage at the back.
I saw Extreme Shrimp back in the '80s. Opened for Blondie and Television at CBGB. Neo-punk band, ahead of their day. Great times, those.
I, on the other hand, intend to live forever. So far, so good.
Hurts my brain, too, but... I really have to admit that in the past 25 years with Comcast, first just for TV, then internet, then phone, I've had pretty much zero complaints. In fact, I get discounts off my bill for asking (minimal, yes, but $10 a month off $180), upgraded boxes for free for the asking (true, just one of their old SD DTAs to an HD DTA), and actually got a few hundred bucks for signing up my VERIZON cell phone through Comcast. In fact, the one company that I will never go back to for anything major is Verizon. I was one of the original DSL customers where I live in Montgomery County, Md., and saw my speed grow as the years went by. I had Verizon DSL for about 10 years when, all of a sudden, it stopped working. Cold. Swapped out DSL modems, swapped out my old router for a new one, different PCs, nothing. I KNEW it was their equipment. I called, and they said they would send someone out...in 2 weeks. (And of course, that would do no good, since it was on their end. We also had a Verizon land line, which worked perfectly.) I said I had been a Verizon customer in some manner all the way back to Bell Atlantic and Nynex days--2 weeks. I had a Comcast coax line in my office for a TV that I wasn't using anymore. Went to Best Buy, got a Motorola cable modem, called Comcast to register it, and in 10 minutes I was up and running. No problems at all. For less money than Verizon DSL. When I called Verizon to cancel everything, they said that had I said the magic word--Retention--they could have fixed it the next day. In a word, aaargh.
I'm a huge British football fan (soccer to you Yanks), and a few years back the only way to get certain matches (if I didn't want to totally blow up my cable setup) was on a satellite system called Globecast, which carried an Irish subscription sports channel called Setanta. So I had the dish installed. Setanta went out of business, but I still have the dish, pointed at the Galaxy satellite. I get tons of Arabic channels from the Middle East, 10 or so expatriate Persian hip hop video channels from Los Angeles, Nigerian TV (where you can watch Who Wants to Be a Millionaire in Nigeria), Khazak TV, five channels or Thai and Lao shopping, and lots of US based religious channels. It's free and very very weird.
Good thing he had Prime--he got there in two days.
In all seriousness, I've heard that about music at the age of 14, and I must be a freak of some type. I was a folkie purist then, no electric guitars at all, man. Now, 40 years later, my iphone is stocked with The Clash, Talking Heads, Blondie, and that sort of thing. So maybe the age 24.
I've got a bunch of $3 cables from different manufacturers, and they're all working fine, some attached to Apple chargers, some to chargers for other phones (not 2A, so they're slower, but I really don't care). Not even a warning message, and my iPhone and iPad are running 7.
I'm a playwright in my off hours, 54 years old, and I have to admit that although I love computers, there is something very tactile in thumping out a script on an old Royal manual, as I did for my first three plays in my youth. I took me quite a while to embrace writing fiction on a computer. Yes, it's incredibly easier to revise, but for some reason it seems less...substantial. I know many writers who still write by hand, and then edit as they transfer it to a computer. There's something about the physical nature of typing on a typewriter, especially a manual, that a computer can't replicate, at least for those that grew up with them. I'd never ever go back--the benefits of revision far outweigh the rosy sentimentality of The Old Days--but then again, typewriters don't lose your last three pages because you weren't careful and hit a few wrong buttons between backups.
Same thing with the BBC, especially BBC London radio. Offline internationally until the middle of September!
I'm a big fan of British soccer. Watch a match covered by Brits vs one covered by Americans. The American sports commentators don't ever shut up. They're afraid of silence. If, say, Wayne Rooney got the ball, an American would say "Rooney's on the ball--looking to pass or shoot? What's he going to do?" \\ The Brit would say, "Rooney." They expect you to have half a brain, while the Americans...know their audience.
I work for a federal agency, and while we have regulations about the use of our emblem, in reality it's in the public domain, as (I'd guess) is the FBI's. (Ours is also trademarked.) We try to keep tabs on its non-commercial use, though.
Not true. Most DVRs (and other equipment) have IR blasters to control the STB. My 6-year old ReplayTV does. It's still chugging along, though SD only.
Go to a football match (soccer to us Yanks). It's not a sport, it's a religion. And it's totally safe, not like the 1980s. Usually on Saturdays, but you can find international club matches during on Tuesdays and Wednesdays some weeks. And with the FA Cup entering its second round, there's a lot to see. Great crowds, sing along. If you're in London, for the big teams, there's Arsenal (in north London's Islington), Chelsea (off King's Road), Fulham (on the Thames in southwest London), and West Ham (in the East end). Oh, and Tottenham, but we won't talk about them...
Inboarding: I went to BB to buy a TV last month, one of their house brands. I thought in this economy--and with an ad from Target with a similar set for $100 less--I could bargain. BB dept manager told me "That's a very good price--you should buy it there" and walked away. Oh--and I just bought a $20 electric pencil sharpener at Staples, and was offered a $4 service plan on it. They're next, I swear.
Most Commerce secretaries come in thinking the job is entirely trade, but close to 40 percent of Commerce's budget is NOAA. Q: What's the first thing a Commerce secretary says when he's confirmed? A: "Fish?"
I voted in Maryland this morning (my polling place had the voting cards that go into the mnachines). However, they also introduced a new system for identifying voters. Rather than huge books of spreadsheets with voter info, they had small terminals, with perhaps a 5-inch screen. The poll judges found me fine, but this could be what the woman at the end of the article was referring to. Of course, the major problem with these terminals (and I have no idea how or if they were networked) is that most poll judges are retirees whose eyesight isn't the best. Having them read off the tiny screens was somewhat of a problem.
I live across the street from the guy, in suburban Maryland. While I don't know him (welcome to the suburbs) he was (repeat, WAS--he was fired) a government employee, not a contractor, and a GS-14 rank, which is upper mid-level management.
According to the Washington Post, the data was in an obscure format, not easily readable by the usual programs. However, the laptop had reader software for the data. I doubt the burglars know what they have, and trying to fence it now would be impossible--it's too hot, and the police have send out a decription of the laptop (HP Pavilion zv5360us) and the "external hard drive" is a high end flash media reader, an HP External Personal Media Drive. They've also made announcements about it in my son's middle school, asking for any information and offering a $50,000 reward.
Again, according to today's Post:
Montgomery County police released a description yesterday of the stolen laptop and its external hard drive because they said it may have been purchased by someone who does not realize the value of its content. "It could have shown up at a yard sale or a secondhand store," police spokeswoman Lucille Baur said. "This is a time of the year when parents may be buying computers for kids going to college in the fall."