- 3.5KW Generator is the practical minimum. Most homes can run at full demand with a 12KW set. Let your budget be your guide.
- Provision for extra fuel. Propane stores well. Diesel, especially if the generator actually will run on #2, is handy if you heat with oil. Extra tanks are cool, and having 1200 gallons in the tank when the price is cheaper is nice also. Consider using fuel that you also heat with, it will allow you to purchase bulk and save. This may be your chance to convert your furnace, if you're serious about the generator. Plan on a 10-day supply for the generator, and of course normal heating usage unless you're really serious and turn the thermostat down to 60 and close off the porch...
- A professionally installed transfer switch. Do not monkey around with this. Auto-transfers are cool, but I recommend a manual transfer, and keep a flashlight handy. You can get home quick enough to get it on and save the pipes, or have a neighbor do it. And you can choose to turn off the generator as you wish to save fuel.
- Have the electrician wire the transfer to your key circuits only. Probably the kitchen, furnace, and one room. You should be able to keep the fridge going, a furnace is crucial, and you can decide how to budget in the TV if necessary. Me, I managed with a radio and kerosene heaters one winter. You can cook on a hot plate. The sink should still work. Give up on the dishwasher. The hot water heater might require some creativity, but there are ways. Or forego showers for a few days. Camping!
- Wrapping pipes, etc., is good winterization, and always in fashion. Insulate! Prepare for the worst, with basic food for a week, water if you rely on a well or pump, secondary heating, and a plan.
- Buy your generator this summer or fall, when the prices drop below gouge-level. Everyone else has forgotten the pain. Buy now and pay too much. A second outage this winter? Less likely.
- Expect your neighbors to come over for hot meals and warm-ups. Have them bring over the stuff that will spoil, might as well cook it up. You will meet some very nice people this way, and eat a lot of new foods.
ps- Michigan is not in the Northeast. Call me on your 10th day without power. We'll talk about utilities.
2,820 parts in a PS3 sounds like twice as many as are necessary, even counting the Blu-Ray.
I wonder how many parts there were in Selectric typewiters? Just sounds like too many, that's all.
And I fixed Selectrics back in the day. Never counted the parts, but there are probably 300 parts in the keyboard. Another 100 in the cycle clutch and drive.
...and it looks like Interclue pops up an icon that tries to add information about a link as you hover over it. Kinda like those active links on crappy websites that pop up a little window either offering to transport you to a site to get the best price on 'SQL injection attacks', a reference site explaining 't-shirts', or offering to let you fill out a survey because YOUR opinion is 'important'.
Yeah. I need more spam in my life. Won't be paying for this add-on. I get enough crap on websites already.
In 1998 Maine suffered the worst ice storm in decades. Power, telephone, and cellular service were affected. Yes, cable TV also.
In Gray, Maine, I was without power for 11 days. My sister in Searsport was without for 17 days, 2 of which were unnecessary - her house was about a quarter-mile in the woods, and the crews missed her line. She had power restored a few hours after calling in and reporting she was still out, and could see lights on at neighbors' houses. Darn.
Among the events that would inform the Midwest utilities:
1. Bangor Hydro-Electric, serving North-Central and Downeast Maine reported virtually 100% loss of transmission lines and 100% of customers affected. Central Maine Power reported most customers affected north of Portland, and most transmission lines down. Both utilities reported to major customers that restoration would take weeks, and they pretty much beat thet estimate. Not bad for rebuilding either 70% or 100% of their transmission network. BHE in particular had to replace completely many miles of hi-v transmission line, with poles snapped off. Availability of basic equipment like insulators became the limiting factor. In light of this, customers such as Verizon and cell carriers were told they were genuinely SOL.
2. The Verizon maintenance supervisor for the state had just relocated from Cape Cod, where he survived a similar event a year earlier. He immediately commandeered all generators, battery packs for SLCs etc, and emergency equipment from Mass, lower NY state, and beyond. Upstate NY was also affected and could spare nothing. His actions permitted his team to keep swapping the batteries out of SLCs, recharging them, and swapping to keep basic phone service running. He also asked for and got fuel from the Maine National Guard to keep the trucks and generators running. Most gas stations were down for lack of power.
3. As is the nature of winter storms, power lines suffer the most because they are highest on the poles. Telephone is next, and cable TV is usually lowest and suffers the least. Cable companies didn't bother much for restoration, since TV is the luxury you give up when the generator needs more gas than you have. Thankfully, this also meant most telephone service survived, and all they had to do was keep their gensets running. 'That's All'... It was a massive effort.
4. Cell service then was TDMA and CDMA, and NAMPS. It was good, despite the problems of the carriers having to do their own bucket-brigade battery swapping. They did terrically.
5. From my observations, quick action by carriers to put plans into action, clever thinking, and looking beyond the usual boundaries of support saved the day.
6. And one saving grace - the NBC affiliate in Portand broadcasts on Channel 6. Audio was available on most FM radios, way down on the band. When HD kicks in, this will be lost. No replacement I see.
It appears that AT&T is caught here with a central switch/datacenter that is stranded. We'll dissect their planning, no doubt, but ultimately they needed to plan for a week of power failure. I know that sounds preposterous, but my hospital clients at the time were even parking water trucks in the lot in case power outages resulted in public water supplies failing. Diesel tankers also came in. One hospital had backup privileges with a sister facility in Pennsylvania, and we would have transferred back-office processing there and flown/driven key personnel for a week to keep paychecks, billing, and patient care data current. Fortunately, my old stomping grounds were no longer my business. That hospital was out for 5 days, and ended up with a National Guard generator on site. The Guardsmen went without power for their armory to do that, sleeping in trucks and tents. Fortunately, it was not that cold for January. If it was 10 degrees colder, a lot of people would have died, never ready for that sort of trouble.
I escaped to friends in New Hampshire. Yes, I'm a wuss.
AT&T should own up to bad planning, despite the unusual weather. Redundancy is crucial, expensive, and worth it.
I won't rat them out, though. Despite their penchant for odd employment policies ( I contracted with them for a few months - that makes me a pariah for a while), they are still not so nasty as some.
And they still make stuff in the U.S., which is something I will not damage now.
The actual fiber repair is done pretty much as it would be done for terrestrial cables. Either a fusion splice, usually by re-cleaving the ends for a clean surface and vibrating the ends ultrasonically to heat by friction and weld them together, or a very small splicing kit that holds the ends in near-perfect alignment, usually filled with a gel of identical optical properties to reduce the loss and refraction. Since space is an issue, I suspect fusion splices are the only acceptable option.
The biggest problem is both accomodating the repairs to the fiber jackets, and then re-sealing the cable. I wouldn't be suprised that there are fairly standard splice boxes that solve this.
Replacing segments doesn't seem like a good option. Any useful segment should measure miles in length, which is pretty expensive. Even replacing a segment and hauling the old one in for repair sounds like more trouble than it's worth. Of course, repairs on the open sea sound like fun to me. I had enough trouble sitting at a little worktable in a dim cable room with equipment balanced here and there, and testing going on constantly. A nice 20-30 foot sea would make me want to apply at the local McDonald's. Life is too short.
Interesting. Just typing 'ford' could get you to www.ford.com. No I know, it's just 'ford'.
This is cool, in that it would seem hard to hijack the 'ford' tld.
On the other hand, this would screw with various search toolbars and gizmos, since your browser would have to be prepared to accept 'ford' as a valid URL.
I'm sort of in the mood to see the Google Toolbar (and Yahho!'s also) screwed with. So long as they get Microsoft-anything toolbars as well, I'm for it.
I was once recommended to a homeopath.
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For my allergies - hay fever, and massive reactions. Childhood was not pleasant.
After explaining carefully to me the premise that a mild, virtually undetectable exposure would activate my immune response, triggering the beneficial reactions, and free me of these allergies, I asked some questions:
1. If I'm getting fairly massive doses now from Nature, how can you claim that your remedy will give me the mild dose needed for theraputic effect?
2. If it's the immune response that causes the symptoms I want to get rid of, how does triggering the immune response change that?
3. How do you know what I'm allergic to?
Answers were not forthcoming. My homeopath explained that the first requirement was that I believe in the cure. Direct quote, "believe in the cure".
Ok. The treatements that worked have been Seldane/Claritin/Zyrtec, and Patanol.
Undiagnosed asthma didn't help either.
I'm not a real believer in alternative remedies, though I know people who benefit from acupuncture, and I'm not arguing with their results. I also know people who have been healed through prayer, and all of them would advise you to go see your family physician first. All of them. Go with what works.
Assuming that each record is unique, a potential total of 171,094 records, and about 192.876KB per record.
That's a lot of data for each record... And if these are just credentials, such as account numbers, user IDs, passwords, security questions, this is a passably HUGE amount of data being claimed.
I suspect there is a lot of duplication out there. We know of 33GB, but how much is the same lame accounts re-listed and re-sold over and over?
While 171k+ of accounts isn't nothing, I'm disappointed they didn't find several million, when we know of many millions of records being 'lost' or 'found' lately.
I'm betting this is not so much a treasure trove as the tiniest tip of the iceberg.
Of course, all those XDWWWD, AWWD, WWWWWWWWAD, WWDWWTA, WDWDWWWWWWWD, AWWWAWWWWWWADAWDAT, WXWWWWAWWWA, WWWWWWWWWWWAWD, WWWWAWWAWDWDAWAWT(INS) strings (How to get to the 6th floor in Avatar, roughly, and kill whatever is at the bottom of the stairs if you're stud enuff) had to go somewhere. So in addition to harvesting mass data from lusers, the poor crooks gotta sort it out from interminable loop quests on 14.
Enjoy, you thieving bastards. Good Hunting! Your average Avatar player doesn't really have enough money to make it worth yer while, nor a credit rating worthy of buying a decent monitor. BAHAHAHAHA!
1) Get govt. funds to build state-of-art battery mill. Maybe even next-insanely-great-battery mill.
2) GM postpones building engine plant for Volt, which should be using these batteries we will make in the govt. funded mill.
3) GM does NOT furlough production workers in November when they know they are going broke at a furious pace, and demand is not even leveling off.
4) We give GM money to keep the joint running as if things are basically ok.
Seriously, Chrysler and Ford (who hasn't asked for money *yet*) have basically shut down production for a month. From CNN.COM:
"GM (GM, Fortune 500) said it will cut 250,000 vehicles from its production schedule for the first quarter of 2009, which includes a cut of 60,000 vehicles announced last week. Normal production would be around 750,000 cars and trucks for the quarter, spokesman Tony Sapienza said"
This should have been done last week, gentlemen. You are bunring through cash how fast, and you can't apply a bandage and stop the bleeding?
I'm in favor of helping an auto industry that is helping itself. 2 out of 3 are. But to prop up a failing company that shows no signs of trying to save itself? This is wrong.
Bankruptcy seems ok for many companies that had little choice. GM doesn't seem to have an alternative to a handout. Sending the workers home until you need them is an unfortunate and cruel, but necessary choice. If you do not, you may have to send them home for good soon.
And the management of GM has a responsibility to their workers to at least *try* to be a profitable organization. At least try, gentlemen.
Then we can talk about funding the basic research and production you need to go into the next decade. Otherwise, we are paying for failure.
Jobs runs Apple smoothly the way a tank runs smoothly over the debris. If Apple replaces Jobs with a Camry, they will watch the company fail again.
The advice to look at how creative companies handle succession is spot on. Jobs is first and foremost the leader with the creative vision. The next leader needs a similar type of vision. And still needs Jobs' attitude - as in 'do it right, and right is what I say it is, ok?'.
And right, as in 'right design', for Apple, is about things that can be used, and appreciated, not necessarily to be edgy or too clever by half. If you want to see failed usability, the Toshiba S-series is a good example. If the battery dies, ya gotta go get the AC adapter; USB won't revive it. Not usable. Or any number of clever little players that really aren't so easy to use. Or Windows. Many examples. The next 'one more thing' from Apple needs to be excellent, that's all. Apple should hire a fashion leader.
Actually, my whine is that I, like any/.'rs, generally do read these other sites. It's repetitive.
And I get the problem of finding, if not unique, at least undiscovered stories. There's so much going on in the blogosphere that not many stories are real 'finds'.
Yeah./. isn't trading in the unique and unusual any more. The Internet ain't like it used to be.
It's easy to guess. Knowing is so much more difficult.
ps- I come here to find what I wouldn't ordinarily find. Certainly not regurgitation of the sites any/.'r should be visiting regularly, and certainly not lame junior-high attempts at put-downs. Try insulting my coding skilz, k? Oh crap, that's right, I don't have any.
Seriously, how hard is it to drill in Hawaii and hit molten rock? About as hard as it is to drill in Maine and hit water?
Sounds to me it's the joy of hitting virgin magma, which for a geologist must be better than hitting an underground reservoir of extra virgin olive oil... Or hitting the same acquifer that Poland Springs water comes from in Maine... which is pretty damned cool, or hot, or something.
I remember LANtastic. The UI was pus, Microsoft would make it work poorly every time they hosed the MUP to hose up NetWare, but it sure worked fine otherwise. Beat the hell outta Personal NetWare, and could really do as well as NTAS.
No, but my little brother does. Of course, his outfit lives on an E-series, and he's proud to not use any Java. Pure RPG all the way.
My point wasn't that COBOL is dead. Far from it. Ask the Governator. I am aware of the premature reports of COBOL's death. And they do have access to all your bases.
"COBOL would be Ancient Paganism - There was once a time when it ruled over a vast region and was important, but nowadays it's almost dead, for the good of us all. Although many were scarred by the rituals demanded by its deities, there are some who insist on keeping it alive even today."
COBOL is more likely Freemasonry - While claiming to be born before C and Java(and we ask, 'this is a hard teaching!'), it espouses concepts much more ancient, and as yet not disproven in utility. It works unseen, underpinning most of society, gains little public respect (indeed scorn and distrust), and occasionally becomes noticable, usually in crisis not entirely of its own making. Adherents are dying off, but fear not; COBOL still fills a need, and while many Post-Modern competitors rise and fall, COBOL lives on, doing whatever it does, quietly, efficiently, daring all pretenders to replace it. Many have indeed succumbed. Be wary of annoying this breed. They have access to all your bases.
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- 3.5KW Generator is the practical minimum. Most homes can run at full demand with a 12KW set. Let your budget be your guide.
- Provision for extra fuel. Propane stores well. Diesel, especially if the generator actually will run on #2, is handy if you heat with oil. Extra tanks are cool, and having 1200 gallons in the tank when the price is cheaper is nice also. Consider using fuel that you also heat with, it will allow you to purchase bulk and save. This may be your chance to convert your furnace, if you're serious about the generator. Plan on a 10-day supply for the generator, and of course normal heating usage unless you're really serious and turn the thermostat down to 60 and close off the porch...
- A professionally installed transfer switch. Do not monkey around with this. Auto-transfers are cool, but I recommend a manual transfer, and keep a flashlight handy. You can get home quick enough to get it on and save the pipes, or have a neighbor do it. And you can choose to turn off the generator as you wish to save fuel.
- Have the electrician wire the transfer to your key circuits only. Probably the kitchen, furnace, and one room. You should be able to keep the fridge going, a furnace is crucial, and you can decide how to budget in the TV if necessary. Me, I managed with a radio and kerosene heaters one winter. You can cook on a hot plate. The sink should still work. Give up on the dishwasher. The hot water heater might require some creativity, but there are ways. Or forego showers for a few days. Camping!
- Wrapping pipes, etc., is good winterization, and always in fashion. Insulate! Prepare for the worst, with basic food for a week, water if you rely on a well or pump, secondary heating, and a plan.
- Buy your generator this summer or fall, when the prices drop below gouge-level. Everyone else has forgotten the pain. Buy now and pay too much. A second outage this winter? Less likely.
- Expect your neighbors to come over for hot meals and warm-ups. Have them bring over the stuff that will spoil, might as well cook it up. You will meet some very nice people this way, and eat a lot of new foods.
ps- Michigan is not in the Northeast. Call me on your 10th day without power. We'll talk about utilities.
2,820 parts in a PS3 sounds like twice as many as are necessary, even counting the Blu-Ray.
I wonder how many parts there were in Selectric typewiters? Just sounds like too many, that's all.
And I fixed Selectrics back in the day. Never counted the parts, but there are probably 300 parts in the keyboard. Another 100 in the cycle clutch and drive.
"...parts (currently 2,820 vs. the original 4,048..."
Sheesh. Sony does make some intricate stuff, but even a Walkman had fewer parts, the cassette models even.
Maybe they need to re-think the parts count? 1,000 would seem a target for me.
Only if he is getting paid. Preferably in advance.
...and it looks like Interclue pops up an icon that tries to add information about a link as you hover over it. Kinda like those active links on crappy websites that pop up a little window either offering to transport you to a site to get the best price on 'SQL injection attacks', a reference site explaining 't-shirts', or offering to let you fill out a survey because YOUR opinion is 'important'.
Yeah. I need more spam in my life. Won't be paying for this add-on. I get enough crap on websites already.
And neither are technology problems.
In 1998 Maine suffered the worst ice storm in decades. Power, telephone, and cellular service were affected. Yes, cable TV also.
In Gray, Maine, I was without power for 11 days. My sister in Searsport was without for 17 days, 2 of which were unnecessary - her house was about a quarter-mile in the woods, and the crews missed her line. She had power restored a few hours after calling in and reporting she was still out, and could see lights on at neighbors' houses. Darn.
Among the events that would inform the Midwest utilities:
1. Bangor Hydro-Electric, serving North-Central and Downeast Maine reported virtually 100% loss of transmission lines and 100% of customers affected. Central Maine Power reported most customers affected north of Portland, and most transmission lines down. Both utilities reported to major customers that restoration would take weeks, and they pretty much beat thet estimate. Not bad for rebuilding either 70% or 100% of their transmission network. BHE in particular had to replace completely many miles of hi-v transmission line, with poles snapped off. Availability of basic equipment like insulators became the limiting factor. In light of this, customers such as Verizon and cell carriers were told they were genuinely SOL.
2. The Verizon maintenance supervisor for the state had just relocated from Cape Cod, where he survived a similar event a year earlier. He immediately commandeered all generators, battery packs for SLCs etc, and emergency equipment from Mass, lower NY state, and beyond. Upstate NY was also affected and could spare nothing. His actions permitted his team to keep swapping the batteries out of SLCs, recharging them, and swapping to keep basic phone service running. He also asked for and got fuel from the Maine National Guard to keep the trucks and generators running. Most gas stations were down for lack of power.
3. As is the nature of winter storms, power lines suffer the most because they are highest on the poles. Telephone is next, and cable TV is usually lowest and suffers the least. Cable companies didn't bother much for restoration, since TV is the luxury you give up when the generator needs more gas than you have. Thankfully, this also meant most telephone service survived, and all they had to do was keep their gensets running. 'That's All'... It was a massive effort.
4. Cell service then was TDMA and CDMA, and NAMPS. It was good, despite the problems of the carriers having to do their own bucket-brigade battery swapping. They did terrically.
5. From my observations, quick action by carriers to put plans into action, clever thinking, and looking beyond the usual boundaries of support saved the day.
6. And one saving grace - the NBC affiliate in Portand broadcasts on Channel 6. Audio was available on most FM radios, way down on the band. When HD kicks in, this will be lost. No replacement I see.
It appears that AT&T is caught here with a central switch/datacenter that is stranded. We'll dissect their planning, no doubt, but ultimately they needed to plan for a week of power failure. I know that sounds preposterous, but my hospital clients at the time were even parking water trucks in the lot in case power outages resulted in public water supplies failing. Diesel tankers also came in. One hospital had backup privileges with a sister facility in Pennsylvania, and we would have transferred back-office processing there and flown/driven key personnel for a week to keep paychecks, billing, and patient care data current. Fortunately, my old stomping grounds were no longer my business. That hospital was out for 5 days, and ended up with a National Guard generator on site. The Guardsmen went without power for their armory to do that, sleeping in trucks and tents. Fortunately, it was not that cold for January. If it was 10 degrees colder, a lot of people would have died, never ready for that sort of trouble.
I escaped to friends in New Hampshire. Yes, I'm a wuss.
AT&T should own up to bad planning, despite the unusual weather. Redundancy is crucial, expensive, and worth it.
Mexican Coca-Cola is made with real sugar, not corn syrup. It doesn't cost too much more here in Arizona.
You don't have to. I know who your employer was.
I won't rat them out, though. Despite their penchant for odd employment policies ( I contracted with them for a few months - that makes me a pariah for a while), they are still not so nasty as some.
And they still make stuff in the U.S., which is something I will not damage now.
The actual fiber repair is done pretty much as it would be done for terrestrial cables. Either a fusion splice, usually by re-cleaving the ends for a clean surface and vibrating the ends ultrasonically to heat by friction and weld them together, or a very small splicing kit that holds the ends in near-perfect alignment, usually filled with a gel of identical optical properties to reduce the loss and refraction. Since space is an issue, I suspect fusion splices are the only acceptable option.
The biggest problem is both accomodating the repairs to the fiber jackets, and then re-sealing the cable. I wouldn't be suprised that there are fairly standard splice boxes that solve this.
Replacing segments doesn't seem like a good option. Any useful segment should measure miles in length, which is pretty expensive. Even replacing a segment and hauling the old one in for repair sounds like more trouble than it's worth. Of course, repairs on the open sea sound like fun to me. I had enough trouble sitting at a little worktable in a dim cable room with equipment balanced here and there, and testing going on constantly. A nice 20-30 foot sea would make me want to apply at the local McDonald's. Life is too short.
But nice work if you can do it.
Interesting. Just typing 'ford' could get you to www.ford.com. No I know, it's just 'ford'.
This is cool, in that it would seem hard to hijack the 'ford' tld.
On the other hand, this would screw with various search toolbars and gizmos, since your browser would have to be prepared to accept 'ford' as a valid URL.
I'm sort of in the mood to see the Google Toolbar (and Yahho!'s also) screwed with. So long as they get Microsoft-anything toolbars as well, I'm for it.
For my allergies - hay fever, and massive reactions. Childhood was not pleasant.
After explaining carefully to me the premise that a mild, virtually undetectable exposure would activate my immune response, triggering the beneficial reactions, and free me of these allergies, I asked some questions:
1. If I'm getting fairly massive doses now from Nature, how can you claim that your remedy will give me the mild dose needed for theraputic effect?
2. If it's the immune response that causes the symptoms I want to get rid of, how does triggering the immune response change that?
3. How do you know what I'm allergic to?
Answers were not forthcoming. My homeopath explained that the first requirement was that I believe in the cure. Direct quote, "believe in the cure".
Ok. The treatements that worked have been Seldane/Claritin/Zyrtec, and Patanol.
Undiagnosed asthma didn't help either.
I'm not a real believer in alternative remedies, though I know people who benefit from acupuncture, and I'm not arguing with their results. I also know people who have been healed through prayer, and all of them would advise you to go see your family physician first. All of them. Go with what works.
Assuming that each record is unique, a potential total of 171,094 records, and about 192.876KB per record.
That's a lot of data for each record... And if these are just credentials, such as account numbers, user IDs, passwords, security questions, this is a passably HUGE amount of data being claimed.
I suspect there is a lot of duplication out there. We know of 33GB, but how much is the same lame accounts re-listed and re-sold over and over?
While 171k+ of accounts isn't nothing, I'm disappointed they didn't find several million, when we know of many millions of records being 'lost' or 'found' lately.
I'm betting this is not so much a treasure trove as the tiniest tip of the iceberg.
Of course, all those XDWWWD, AWWD, WWWWWWWWAD, WWDWWTA, WDWDWWWWWWWD, AWWWAWWWWWWADAWDAT, WXWWWWAWWWA, WWWWWWWWWWWAWD, WWWWAWWAWDWDAWAWT(INS) strings (How to get to the 6th floor in Avatar, roughly, and kill whatever is at the bottom of the stairs if you're stud enuff) had to go somewhere. So in addition to harvesting mass data from lusers, the poor crooks gotta sort it out from interminable loop quests on 14.
Enjoy, you thieving bastards. Good Hunting! Your average Avatar player doesn't really have enough money to make it worth yer while, nor a credit rating worthy of buying a decent monitor. BAHAHAHAHA!
1) Get govt. funds to build state-of-art battery mill. Maybe even next-insanely-great-battery mill.
2) GM postpones building engine plant for Volt, which should be using these batteries we will make in the govt. funded mill.
3) GM does NOT furlough production workers in November when they know they are going broke at a furious pace, and demand is not even leveling off.
4) We give GM money to keep the joint running as if things are basically ok.
Seriously, Chrysler and Ford (who hasn't asked for money *yet*) have basically shut down production for a month. From CNN.COM:
"GM (GM, Fortune 500) said it will cut 250,000 vehicles from its production schedule for the first quarter of 2009, which includes a cut of 60,000 vehicles announced last week. Normal production would be around 750,000 cars and trucks for the quarter, spokesman Tony Sapienza said"
This should have been done last week, gentlemen. You are bunring through cash how fast, and you can't apply a bandage and stop the bleeding?
I'm in favor of helping an auto industry that is helping itself. 2 out of 3 are. But to prop up a failing company that shows no signs of trying to save itself? This is wrong.
Bankruptcy seems ok for many companies that had little choice. GM doesn't seem to have an alternative to a handout. Sending the workers home until you need them is an unfortunate and cruel, but necessary choice. If you do not, you may have to send them home for good soon.
And the management of GM has a responsibility to their workers to at least *try* to be a profitable organization. At least try, gentlemen.
Then we can talk about funding the basic research and production you need to go into the next decade. Otherwise, we are paying for failure.
'running smoothly'... What?
Jobs runs Apple smoothly the way a tank runs smoothly over the debris. If Apple replaces Jobs with a Camry, they will watch the company fail again.
The advice to look at how creative companies handle succession is spot on. Jobs is first and foremost the leader with the creative vision. The next leader needs a similar type of vision. And still needs Jobs' attitude - as in 'do it right, and right is what I say it is, ok?'.
And right, as in 'right design', for Apple, is about things that can be used, and appreciated, not necessarily to be edgy or too clever by half. If you want to see failed usability, the Toshiba S-series is a good example. If the battery dies, ya gotta go get the AC adapter; USB won't revive it. Not usable. Or any number of clever little players that really aren't so easy to use. Or Windows. Many examples. The next 'one more thing' from Apple needs to be excellent, that's all. Apple should hire a fashion leader.
Actually, my whine is that I, like any /.'rs, generally do read these other sites. It's repetitive.
And I get the problem of finding, if not unique, at least undiscovered stories. There's so much going on in the blogosphere that not many stories are real 'finds'.
Yeah. /. isn't trading in the unique and unusual any more. The Internet ain't like it used to be.
And you would know *how*?
It's easy to guess. Knowing is so much more difficult.
ps- I come here to find what I wouldn't ordinarily find. Certainly not regurgitation of the sites any /.'r should be visiting regularly, and certainly not lame junior-high attempts at put-downs. Try insulting my coding skilz, k? Oh crap, that's right, I don't have any.
Stock plenty of replacement screens, keyboards, hinges, and a few optical drives.
You will need them. Ask any of the State of Maine MLTI vendors or schools. And they generally DON'T let students take 'their' Macbooks home.
Just the way it is.
Oh,and make them put a deposit on them against physical damage. You can be forgiving later.
...when I go to Slashdot.org, I get Wired.com?
Seriously, how hard is it to drill in Hawaii and hit molten rock? About as hard as it is to drill in Maine and hit water?
Sounds to me it's the joy of hitting virgin magma, which for a geologist must be better than hitting an underground reservoir of extra virgin olive oil... Or hitting the same acquifer that Poland Springs water comes from in Maine... which is pretty damned cool, or hot, or something.
I remember LANtastic. The UI was pus, Microsoft would make it work poorly every time they hosed the MUP to hose up NetWare, but it sure worked fine otherwise. Beat the hell outta Personal NetWare, and could really do as well as NTAS.
No, but my little brother does. Of course, his outfit lives on an E-series, and he's proud to not use any Java. Pure RPG all the way.
My point wasn't that COBOL is dead. Far from it. Ask the Governator. I am aware of the premature reports of COBOL's death. And they do have access to all your bases.
"COBOL would be Ancient Paganism - There was once a time when it ruled over a vast region and was important, but nowadays it's almost dead, for the good of us all. Although many were scarred by the rituals demanded by its deities, there are some who insist on keeping it alive even today."
COBOL is more likely Freemasonry - While claiming to be born before C and Java(and we ask, 'this is a hard teaching!'), it espouses concepts much more ancient, and as yet not disproven in utility. It works unseen, underpinning most of society, gains little public respect (indeed scorn and distrust), and occasionally becomes noticable, usually in crisis not entirely of its own making. Adherents are dying off, but fear not; COBOL still fills a need, and while many Post-Modern competitors rise and fall, COBOL lives on, doing whatever it does, quietly, efficiently, daring all pretenders to replace it. Many have indeed succumbed. Be wary of annoying this breed. They have access to all your bases.
And I really do want to, just to see my Toshiba S60 play music on my TV.
Or something like that. I forget...
actually. isn't the point that the license you get gets you off the hook?
even if you didn't need one in the first place
looking at the SCO mess, i suspect Novell will not renew this.
...and i bet she got qwertyitis too...