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Nyet. The reference was more "how I was raised" than "how I raise in-house larva". I am, however, owned by several pets. Many of which apparently are quite popular picks by subeds for the pictures of various articles...
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"You have kids?"
Nyet. The reference was more "how I was raised" than "how I raise in-house larva". I am, however, owned by several pets. Many of which apparently are quite popular picks by subeds for the pictures of various articles...
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"yes they dont have desktop monitors with touch but it is quite obvious that is not the intended use of a desktop monitor."
Then why the fuck did they try to force a touch OS onto the world's desktop users? Please provide me your officially sanctioned Microsoft PR answer for that.
"The plan was to require third party developers to convert their software to a touch interface so the same software would work well on a tablet and a desktop."
While I happen to agree, the problem is proving it. This is clear abuse. It is a blatant attempt to utilize a monopoly in one area to create a monopoly in another. I didn't work, but that doesn't make it any less illegal.
If it could be proven...
You will pry my IBM Model M from my cold, dead hands.
You want to replace a truly tactile keyboard that, when I am really getting my writing on, sounds like a world war one battlefield with some touchscreen monstrosity? Heathen! The chiclet keyboards on notebooks are bad enough; I need to feel where the keys are, damn it!
Touchscreen input is for people who don't have any real work to do.
"This article reads like the Windows monologue. I really feel sorry for you, really, but you should just do that thing I have been telling you to do for the past 14 years, switch to Linux."
The apps suck.
The Microsoft brand has value. And a "Microsoft Lumia 890" may be a phone that sells, and sells well.
The Windows brand, OTOH, has a negative value. A "Microsoft Lumia Windows Phone" will not sell.
Microsoft does not yet remotely understand what they've done to the Windows brand. Until they understand the dept of their mistakes, they'll keep repeating them, and ruining other aspects of their business via contamination.
"Care to explain why if "black hole" is mentioned the reference is to the situation at or outside the event horizon and never inside? So, if as in this article, I read the term "supermassive black hole" should I assume that the event horizon is "supermassive" and not the things within it? I had thought the event horizon was merely a boundary condition: one way light is trapped (well, except for Scarlet Pimpernelling across the boundary), the other way it isn't. Doesn't sound like it should have much weight to me."
Let me put it to you this way, and see if it makes more sense to you:
A balack hole forms from ultradense material collapsing to the point that it is so dense that an event horizon forms; a radius inside which even light can't escape. At the point of collapse, physics changes. Light cannot escape. Anything falling inwards towards the singularity takes an infinite amount of time to do so. So the singularity itself should theoretically never increase in size.
On the other side of that there is "space" (and that's not really the correct term, since physics basically stops on the other side of an event horizon) that exists between the edge of the singularity and the "surface" of the black hole (which, as far as we know is actually at this point a dimensionless gravitational anomaly in the fabric of space/time.)
It is this "space" between the edge of the event horizon and the "surface" of the black hole that fills up with new matter and becomes heavy, as that matter can never actually "hit" the black hole. (Infinite time, and all).
Hope that helps some...
"Black holes aren't infinitely dense -- they have size."
Black holes have event horizons. That's not the same thing as having size. As far as we know, they're point singularities.
A black hole would have to either be pretty dang close or spectacularly enormous - or both - for the GRB to nuke us. I'm pretty sure even if Andromeda were pointed right, it's too far away. GRBs aren't coherent, and even a laser would lose cohesion over those distances.
"And second, who would really give a damn about what we hold on our disks anyway? Sure, there may be personal, identifiable information on there but the NSA won't really care about that, and if there are credit card details, then both we and the cloud provider would need to be demonstrably PCI DSS compliant anyway."
--Quocirca analyst Clive Longbottom.
Have added Clive Longbottom to my list of "utterly worthless self important asshats who absolutely will never understand security or privacy".
Why is it Americans and Brits never seem able to grok privacy? Something cultural? Are they all Clockwork Oranged at birth? Inquiring minds want to know...
Maxta makes damned good storage software. Nexenta seems to be doing well. Caringo make fantastic object storage software. Permabit are the software blue crystals that make storage work....
Storage is software. Where the bits reside is increasingly just a function of maths to determine how many IOPS you want at what latency.
"Seagate acquires LaCie and sells its range of desktop and rack-mount storage systems."
This isn't going from gunsmith to arms dealer. it's going to from gunsmith to suicidal crazy person. La Cie storage is horrible. Abominable on indescribable levels. Wretched, untrustworthy, failure-ridden, pap that makes Microsoft Licensing look a technological humanitarian-of-the-year candidate.
Usage of La Cie storage products will impart at least a MegaSony of failure to your business. Touting La Cie as a threat to anyone except the dumb bastard that bought it is an indication that madness has descended upon you, sir.
Other than that minor oversight, however, the article is good, logical and makes sense.
If it would take you decades, if not centuries to write 30TB+ to the local disk in your PC, why aren't you just using a consumer drive? That's what they're for. "Business" drive implies that it is built for more rugged stuff.
"My interest here is constructive debate and a welcoming tone, not winning a pissing match."
I call bullshit. If you were interested in anything other than a pissing match you wouldn't be in every Microsoft thread about Metro pissing up a wall against the overwhelming tide of dissenters. But you are there, like clockwork.
"For reference, the parts that I disliked in your post were two - firstly, online threats to people are silly and remain silly. "
My comment was thus:
h4rm0ny: the internet champion of "fuck democracy, choice, or anyone else but me. The rest of the world should be forced to used things the way I like them, and given no alternative option!"
But other than that, he's really a great guy.
You then proceeded to lose your shit. I told you that you're a poopie head and I want to kick you in the shins. I see no threats.
"The second thing, and the reason you got such a strong response is because you stated I had said the Start Screen was better "because I said so"."
It doesn't matter what your reasons are to say the start menu shouldn't return. You could have a million reasons why it's better. There's a overwhelming response from more than just "commenters on the internet" calling for the return of the Start Menu.
If the powers that be said "Red, Amber, Green" needed to be replaced by "Orange, Green, Violet", the people rebelled en masse and you stood on the corner with charts in your hand screaming into the void at anyone who would listen, you would still be basically saying "because I said so".
The point is that by standing there with your charts in the face of the mob you are quite obviously ignoring and/or invalidating the feelings and opinions of others. One might even accuse you of cheery picking to support your preconcieved ideas. The end result either way is the same.
When there is a binary option "this or that", by all means have a grand old debate as to why. When there is zero need to constrain the option to "or", choose "and" and move the fuck on. Everyone can be happy, and we can all make our own choices about what's "better", and why.
In case you hadn't noticed, the furor over Metro had as much - or more - to do with its imposition by fiat.. You are standing on the corner, charts in hand saying "why does anyone care about emotions, I have graphs!" A doesn't come without B in these sorts of scenarios, and demanding that everyone abandon their feelings on the topic in order to talk about your graphs is going to make them want to kick you in the shins.
"You didn't do that. You went from my saying "I could do without the Start Menu back, I wish MS would stick to their vision for once" to calling me the "Champion of Fuck Everyone Else" and issuing threats. "
No, I didn't. I called you the champion of fuck everyone else, and said that otherwise you're a really nice guy. A single, snide one-liner. You rose to the bait and told me to let the hate flow. So I told you I would dearly love to kick you in the shins.
In case you aren't aware, shin kicking is an actual thing. The expression "I want to kick you in the shins" is an expression of disgust with the individual, typically with very childish overtones. Think "you, me, by the bike racks after school," but with more of an apathetic "I don't actually want to fight that person, I just want them to stop being stupid and go away."
If you feel that's a threat, that's your boo-hoo. A desire to kick you in the shins isn't a threat any more than sticking out my tongue and saying "neener neener". With about as much serious involved and about the right level of childish tone.
"What response did you expect if not a rebuttal?"
Well, if you had been anyone other than a crazy person on the internet I would have expected you to say "no you're a stupid poopie head", probably with a wry smile, and followed by "and your mother smelt like eldeberries!"
At the very least, that is exactly how most people I spend any time with would respond. They would take my commend as a mostly good-natured ribbing, poke me right back in my eye and move on. You're the one that took a throw-away snark to heart and decided it needed a serious response. I simply responded to you in kind.
"All I wrote in my initial response was a criticism of your aggressive turning of things personal. Which I think is reasonable enough."
This isn't debate club. This isn't drawn charts at dawn. This is a forum. There's logic. There's humour. There's emotion. There's snark and sarcasm and wit (both failed and actual). There are personal remarks - both small and large - and when you write a commented filled with your personal opinion and your personal feelings aimed at invalidating the opinions and feelings of others, you shouldn't be shocked is someone snarks your way.
There was nothing aggressive whatsoever about what I said in my first comment. I have no idea how you even read aggression into that. Dismissal? Sure. Exasperation? Maybe a twinge. But we're not even up to antipathy, let alone aggression in that comment.
"But making things personal and threatening is absurdly hostile "
Making things "personal" to the tune of "a small snark" is not remotely hostile. (Unless you have some sort of bizzare social anxiety, in which case any social conflict that is directed at you would cause your adrenaline to spike.)
In addition, saying "I want to kick you in the shins" is not threatening. Having a desire and seeing it fulfilled are totally different things, especially when the "desire" is a matter of common parlance or "slang".
For example: I desire to have a gigantic rock from space hurtle down upon the Microsoft Licensing building, with all the little worker bees still inside. I would laugh, and cheer, and roast marshmallows upon the fire. That doesn't mean I am going to cause a rock from space to fall on them.
Similarly, I'd love to kick you in the shins. That doesn't mean I will, or would if we were face to face. (Though in all honesty that is only because it is illegal.) It does, however, mean that in my minds eye, I am absolutely kicking you in the shins. Mental catharsis.
And I really do think that you should know that. Why? Because if you are aware of the antipathy you generate - as well as the how and the why - you are more fully equipped to make choices about language, tone, and other forms of social engagement. It informs my future interactions with you.
As for me, well, I'm perfectly aware of the antipathy my comments generate. (Most of the time, anyways.) That's sort of the point in making them. To illicit a result.
The purpose of the first "snarky" comment was to inform you that your comments had been interpreted as devaluing all those of us who still want the street lights to be "red, amber, green". It was to inform you that I, personally, don't appreciate that...and to give others a vehicle to demonstrate agreement - or disagreement - with that viewpoint by up/downvoting.
The purpose of the rest of the comments was to attempt to drive home that A) you don't seem to be getting it and B) There is no room for "drawn charts at dawn" debate about this topic. None. The issue moved on well past any technical merit and is one of powers and principalities; of the rights of the customer versus those of the corporation. It is an issue of choice, politics, philosophy and individual relevance.
Even if we were all robots, able to discuss such an emotive topic with nothing but charts and statistics, you won't win your point. You place different levels of value on different things. You are highly dismissive of items that matter to others, but not to you. (For example, I do remember a previous thread where you were quite dismissive of the fact that I need to see the underlying windows while I select my applications, hence why a non-full-screen application selector was important.)
That's why this isn't a charts-at-dawn topic. It is about individual needs and preference. And about the fact that humans are diverse; our cognition is not universal. We think differently, interpret the world differently, have different skills and strengths and flaws.
If you really want a truth here: I loathe the charts-at-dawn mentality of Microsoft. The concept that everything can be quantified by looking at data. The idea that we are, all of us, best served by designing software that fits a statistics curve.
Everyone is different...and we are all of us on the edges of quite a few curves. You can't design software - especially interfaces - by looking at numbers. Emotions matter. Convention, upbringing, social constructs, disabilities, cognitive variation, lapses in memory, consistency, repetition, exposure therapy...all of it matters.
We're talking about something as fundamental, as ingrained, as cultural and embedded in our childhoods and muscle memory as "red, amber, green"...and you are dismissive and derisory towards the feelings, opinions and desires of the overwhelming majority.
...just like Microsoft.
Now, given that people aren't robots, and that the overwhelming majority of our species doesn't have aspergers, I want you to contemplate the depth and impact of saying "I wish Microsoft didn't bring back the Start Menu, grew some balls, and stood up to the majority of our species who use computers and wanted the old interface back." Please, try to understand the arrogance of statement, the casual dismissal of virtually everyone reading these forums and the blatant consignment to irrelevance of the essential humanity of all us people...in the face of your interpretation of which charts where most important.
Perhaps, now that I've blown 1700+ words on this, you'll understand why a single snarky comment about your is far from "hostile".
Cheers, and beers.
"You also lie. I pointed out that of all the posts here you attack me for being 'anti-choice' (your strawman), but not any of the people calling for the Start Screen to abolished. You respond that you don't have time to go through all the posts in this thread. But in all these posts I think mine is the only one that argues why the Start Screen is better. And yet it's the single one you attacked with a load of personal insults. Logic suggests your reasons are not what you paint them."
And this is how I know you're so full of shit your eyes are brown. I didn't lie anywhere here. If you feel like taking enough time to troll through my extensive commenting history, you'll see several instances of me defending the Start Screen myself...and hell, I even agree with you on some (but not most) of your points about it's utility.
What's more I simply have no reason to lie. Yours was the first serious anti-choice post I ran across, and so I absolutely poked you in the eye over it. After that, however, I went back, and just couldn't make it through another post. I closed out the tab and moved on.
Now, there is a link called "My Topics". It's here: http://forums.theregister.co.uk/my/forums/. This is always open in a tab on my home VM. with a fair amoung of custom scripting tacked on, too. When someone responds to one of my posts, I see it. I don't always have time to respond - like, for example, when I'm at VMworld - but I usually try to make the effort.
As for making the forums a hostile place, well...you're probably right about that. Call it a character flaw if you want, but I absolutely abhor people who call for others not to have choice. I even hate myself sometimes, when - in very human fashion - I find myself being one of the voices calling for others' choice to be curtailed.
Understand that I grok fully the concept that the needs of the many must be balanced against the needs of the few. Freedoms and rights all have limits; places where we need to curtail the ideological and practical purity of the individual's rights and freedoms for the good of the many. Where that limit lies and the practical aspects of implementing checks and balances are the very nature of the most bitter disputes our species has ever had.
If you only ever understand two things about me, understand these two things:
1) I believe in the right to choice as being as near sacrosanct as any right can be. I hold those who seek to deny others choice - regardless of the means they employ - to be contemptible. And yes, I lie awake at night pondering those instances where I have been the instrument of the removal of choice, wonder what could - or should have been done differently, where the greater evil lay, and how to atone for my actions.
2) I am quite possibly the laziest person alive. As such, telling a lie is highly unlikely for me. Oh, I'm not saying I don't tell lies, but they are rare. The truth of the matter is that if you tell a lie then you need to track it. Sometimes you need to tell other lies to cover it up. And then you need to track those. Soon you are tracking a huge collection of lies across you whole life that become a true jumble of a problem. I can't - and won't - deal with that.
Now, that said, I will on occasion toy with someone on an internet forum. (I'm an internet troll at heart.) This is usually to see how they'll react. Poke the hive, see what the ants do. If you have 12 functional brain cells to rub together you can usually detect that's what I'm up to right away. I'm honestly trying to cut back on it. For the most part I have even been successful; that little incident with the Apple thread notwithstanding.
As for your "What is the point of my debating with someone who explicitly says they aren't interested in discussion, but just wants to 'kick me in the shins'?", I didn't invite you to debate. I called you a name on the internet in order to express my contempt for the philosophy of choice removal you espoused in your comment. Debate was not sought.
finally, regarding this little element: "And when I point out that all your "quotes" are things that don't sound remotely like what I said"
My "quotes" (should that be double quoted? Will you get an old lady with a +3 book of pedantry to hunt me across the plains?) are paraphrasing back to you my understanding of your words. And no, I wasn't interested in a debate. I was calling you a douche, pretty much end of. If you feel that what you were trying to express was radically different to what I interpreted there are two rational thought processes that follow:
1) I interpreted you wrong because I am unable to read properly or
2) You expressed yourself poorly.
Instead of choosing Hanlon's razor and picking one of those two, you decided that I was...what? Singling you out of the crowd based on {unknown}. Allowing a personal bias against Metro to cause me to call you - and only you - out? That's irrational.
If I had to guess I would say there are no less than hard core Microsoft fanboys running around this thread pooping on everyone else and singing the praises of Microsoft, plus the Anonymous Coward who was sent from hell. There are 12 individuals I would classify as "rabidly pro Microsoft" in these forums, and in a thread this big I'd expect at least 8 to show.
I do not include you in the "rabidly pro Microsoft" group, but I have traditionally classified you as "borderline rabidly pro Microsoft, with occasional non-Microsoft-related gems of technical insight". Based on this, I haven't put you on my "ignore" list. (Gold badge folk have this feature.)
If you ever got to the point that you made me so overwhelmingly angry that I would consider singling you out of an entire thread to attack - versus what actually happened, I posted one post and said "hell no", and walked away - why wouldn't I just "ignore" you, like I do Bryant, or jake?
No, I respect you because you use your name. It may be h4rm0ny instead of your real name, but it's still an identifiable moniker, with your posting history attached. You have more honour than that worthless anonymous refuse pile and offer more useful content than those on my ignore list.
Let me be perfectly clear: there is only one individual who haunts these forums I dislike enough not to simply "ignore" if they piss me off. That is the redmondian anonymous crotch rot. And the rationale for that is simple: I honestly believe him to be using the tools and techniques of psychological manipulation.
The first and foremost tool is sheer volume of posts. The second is repetition and being "on message". No growth or diversity of thought beyond the published Microsoft PR line. The third - and most important - is the use of "anonymous coward" instead of a traceable moniker. I honestly believe this is done purposefully, so that the comments are not traceable back to a single source; in this manner proving what the individual said previously is difficult (if not impossible), and a pattern of behavior/messaging difficult to establish.
I believe the anonymous coward in question is behaving dishonorably. So I am building a case against him. When I have enough evidence I will bring it to those in charge along with requests for action that I believe will limit his ability to engage in the most flagrant techniques.
Now, if you still honestly believe that instead of my deciding to walk away from the thread after reading your post I read this whole (or even the first page!) of this thread and only responded to you, because of some bizarre personal vendetta...that's possibly the biggest ego I've ever encountered. And I interview technology executives for a living.
Make of that what you will.
"and stated I would prefer we kept the Start Screen that's the closest you'll find to me saying other people should not have a choice. "
Bullshit. You have stated several times that you wish Microsoft had "stood it's ground" and forced the start screen to be the only launcher option for Windows, usually wrapped in a "because I like it." That's pretty fucking blatantly saying "fuck you to everyone who wants choice", bub.
"Where is your angry response to all those people saying the Start Screen should be killed with fire or removed forever? "
In several places throughout the forums. Let me be perfectly clear: I think anyone who says that start screen should be abandoned entirely are utter peckerheads. I have said on multiple occasions that it is a great thing for tablets, that it could be awesome for newbies and that I'd love to pin the thing to a second monitor as a "live tile" contining replacement for quick launch. (but I still want my start menu).
Calling for the removal of choice in UIs by anyone is going to get a swift kick in the gonads from me.
"It's quite a lot out of line, actually. Calling me names carries no actual weight as an argument. It's just you venting."
Yes. Exactly. I was not attempting to argue with you or debate you. I was calling you out for being a jackass because your comments absolutely, 100% come across as reading "the start menu should never have been allowed back in any form because the start screen is great and I like it". I'm not going to argue with that sort of fanboyish lunacy. I'm going to kick you in the shins and move the fuck on.
"it's a gross double-standard as there are far more posts on El Reg doing little more than insisting the Start Menu should be obliterated that you ignore and with far less objective reasoning given than my arguments."
First, I am not wading through 250+ comments to find each and ever single fucking one that irks me and posting some reply to it. I made it about 5, maybe 10 comments in, read your "remove their choice" tripe, kicked you in the shins and abandoned the thread. I don't need the blood pressure rise.
As for the rest of the asshats saying "obliterate the start menu" or "obliterate the start screen", I hope both sides of that debate get cholera and shit themselves to death. Choice is what matters. Not forcing one's beliefs on others, and not running around with the GUI bible in hand and converting the heathens.
"I never said anything like that and you can only barely twist what I have said (I don't want to see the Start Menu back, the Start Screen is better) into "fuck you all, you don't deserve choice" with considerable effort."
Bullshit. The instant you say "I don't want the Start Menu back" you are saying " I don't want you to have the choice of a start menu". Period. If you do not want the software to have this feature you are saying that nobody else should be allowed to have access to this feature. That's fucking binary.
You could say "I don't see a need for this feature, and I hope they let me turn it off". You could even say "this is a feature I will turn off" or "I think the Start Screen is better, and I'll be using it instead."
Nope, you said "I don't want the start menu back", which is an explicit call for removing that choice from others. If the feature is not in the software, it can't be used by others, and I am not remotely okay with that.
"So again, stop making it personal and either actually engage in argument or stop strawmanning me. And less anger would be helpful also."
No. I'll do what I'd like. That's choice. I wasn't arguing with you. I wasn't debating. I wasn't trying to counter your shit. I was calling you a douche, and doing so because you explicitly said that you believe that the start menu should not return, thus others shouldn't have choice.
I don't give a rat fuck that you like the Start Screen better. Have fun with it. Go rub it on your gonads and screen at the sky. I really do not care. Not even a little.
What I care about is that people have the choice to use what they want. Anyone who makes statements that boil down to "remove that choice from others" - especially when the rational for the removal of choice is "because I like it" - deserves to get belted.
You may well have done a great job of explaining why you like it. I don't give a rat fuck. What I care about is that you said "don't bring the Start Menu back", and gave the fact that you like it as the closest thing to rationale for that statement as "because I like the Start Screen".
At that point, there is no arguing about "what's better". There is no "why you like that Start Screen and dislike the Start Menu". None of that remotely matters. What matters is that your personal philosophy includes the removal of choice from others simply because you like one of the two options, and in my view that makes you a horrible person.
Like what you like. But you'll no call to force that preference on me and mine.
"That's it, let the hate flow. It's good to turn an argument personal, isn't it?"
Your argument thus far has been "I, h4rm0ny, believe that the Start Screen is superior and new. Because I, h4rm0ny believe it is superior, and because it is new, everyone else should have the choice os using what they prefer removed from them and be forced to use what I, h4rm0ny, believe to be superior."
How the metric fuck is that not personal? Calling you out for being a self-centered jackass isn't remotely out of line, when you've offered quite literally nothing as argumentation that isn't personal except the assertion "newer = better". And I categorically reject that assertion*.
So no, this one's on you. You made it personal from the outset by offering nothing except "I like it so fuck you all, you don't deserve choice" as an argument. And I absolutely will call you out on that one. Because you're nobody, and the day your opinion of what's "good" is allowed to limit my choice is the day the fucking rebellion starts.
*See; Edsel, New Coke, and eleventy squillion other examples.
h4rm0ny: the internet champion of "fuck democracy, choice, or anyone else but me. The rest of the world should be forced to used things the way I like them, and given no alternative option!"
But other than that, he's really a great guy.
Is what you do running a traditional x86 workload that needs to remain idle 24/7, even when not in use? Then you have provisioned that for 24/7, even though you may only use.
Or have you - as the article suggested - rewritten everything from the ground up to be a burstable application. In that case you pay a very small base idle fee and burst up as you need it.
If you have a traditional application you are paying for what you provision, not what you use. If you have a burstable app, then when you do is abnormal; it represents a tiny fraction of deployed applications in the world today.
1) Paragraphs, for the love of $deity, paragraphs.
2) There are tens of thousands of "experts" telling companies to move "everything" into the cloud. Youer personal experts may or may not be telling people to do that, but Amazon, Microsoft and hundreds of startups absolutely are.
3) Prices may come down. Services don't obey moore's law.
4) I am reporting the cumulative opinions and experience of well over 2000 people I've talked to about this subject in the past two years.
5) You are attempting to counter what you perceive to be anecdotal experience by holding up your own anecdotal experience to be superior.
Why thank you! "blunt and simplistic" were what I was going for! There's a whole internet full of people who will tell you what you want to hear. I try hard to tell you instead what I actually see. :)
You presume a lot when you say that IT personnel - rather than the systems they maintain - are the true assets of a company. In some cases, yes, they are. In others, they're a liability. In still other cases one good accountant might be worth an entire IT department,
Company morale and unit cohesion are important. To put it bluntly, many - if not most - IT folks have trouble with that. It's been that way for ages. The difference is now you can replace them not with some folks with bad accents...but with subscription services provided with SLAs and guarantees.
That's pretty attractive to a lot of people.
We didn't replace mainframes with what we now call "standard" or "legacy" x86 applications. We won't be replacing standard x86 applications with public cloud computing.
Public cloud computing is an and technology. Not an or. But it is as significant an "and" as x86 was to mainframes. Very soon now, most new development will be on public clouds. But 40 years from now, we'll still be dragging these x86 applications along, too. Because we jsut have too much invested in them to throw them away.
That's business. And it has little to do with technology, no matter how much technology it uses to accomplish it's goals.
Can't disagree. Mainframes are still around for a reason. But the fact that reality is non-optimal does not prevent is from being.
Well, it's pretty simple, Nate. Built from scratch I can idle some base items - usually automation trigger systems with some message queueing and a basic copy of whatever app I am presenting, as well as the "core" DB instance - and burst as I need. So long as the periods of lowest demand cover the cost of idling those base VMs, and the revenue scales with cost of bursting, I make money. Simple economics.
From an architectural standpoint, I can design more efficient on premises. So can you. We can both design better systems on Azure or on Openstack. I can't speak to Google Compute, as I haven't played with it much yet.
But here's the ticket: if I design something from scratch for anything but Amazon then I don't have this massive ecosystem of applets, services, devices and so forth already built for me. Designing something from scratch for Amazon is basically like putting together some lego. Development is cheap and easy and you don't have to worry much about the infrastructure.
You do have to actually care about backups and so forth, but you don't have to pay as many pesky, needy, human nerds. You order a service, you get results...and there are entire empires being built on the tools and technologies to ensure you can walk away from Big Daddy Amazon whenever you want.
If you want ideological purity, or some statistical perfection of design, efficiency, or performance per $, Amazon isn't it. What Amazon is, sir, is a "fire and forget" missile for infrastructure. Some people - most people - in business don't want to deal with infrastructure. They don't want to pay nerds, listen to nerds, have meetings with nerds, worry about the morale and psychological health of nerds...they want - insomuch as it is possible - to have a company that makes as much money as is practicable with the fewest people involved as possible.
That is what Amazon is about.
Need a backup service? There are dozens to take you Amazon workloads and send them elsewhere. Need auditing? Monitoring? Optimization? $deity knows what else? You can order that easier than a pizza.
Amazon is a horrible, horrible thing filled with inefficiency and badness for anyone who gives a bent damn about technology, how it works and how best to implement it. But it's a wonderful thing if your goal in life is running a business with the lowest possible amount of stress and grief.
You pays your bills and you makes your choices...and I suspect that lots of people are willing to pay over the odds to Amazon in order to get one step closer to a nerd-free nirvana. How much is it? 5% more than running and staffing your own teams? 10%? 25%? Where's the cutoff where most won't pay the price?
I think, Mr Amsden, you'd be quite shocked how high that number can be and still get billions of dollars a year worth of people more than willing to pay the price.
I did not recommend anyone move "idle-heavy" workloads to Amazon. I said I'd build new workloads there. Ones that burst. That are designed from the ground up to lower that "% more than running and staffing your own teams" to the lowest number possible.
And I absolutely do recommend you build new workloads on public clouds. I'll tell you why:
When a cloud service is properly designed, if your public cloud provider goes down, that's their fault, their insurance provider pays. All you need is a backup that mirrors to another public cloud provider, and those are cheap. You get compensated for the downtime - which should amount to the amount of time you were "lit up" on the other provider - and all is well.
You don't have to worry about retaining talent. You don't have to worry about hiring talent. You don't have to worry about insider threats, sabotage, grumpy people, raises, any of it. You consume a service and some other schmuck copes with the politics. If they suck at that service, you get a nearly identical service elsewhere.
Liability. Risk management. They become technical exercises in the public cloud, not human exercises. Your risks are technical. Then can be solved with technology. When you hire staff to run your own stuff, those risks are far more complex, involved...and costly to insure against.
That's my logic, sir. And so far as I can tell, the numbers only work in instances wher eyou design from the ground up. Try to run traditional "idle-heavy" workloads on Amazon, and it becomes cheaper to run and staff your own infrastructure.
That's the cutting line, and maybe - just maybe - that will shift soon too.
Bingo. I use cloud services myself. Because I can't be assed to take care of that minor problem on my own, and it's worth it to pay to make that go away. But that doesn't mean I'm going to turn my whole business over to the cloud, "because cloud".
But why would the NSA need to tap an underwater cable for that? Presumably NZ would allow them to do so and they could tap on land. You tap underwater only when you want to keep your activities hidden.
I suggested ULF not for slurping, but for issuing change commands to the widget in the water.
"It seems that you are arguing a different point, which is that the NSA could well tap undersea fibre for the purpose of spying on other governments."
Yup. I'm not arguing for or against the NSA tapping the specific NSA cable in question. I have no idea if they've done that. And I don't know why they wouldn't just tap the US end of the damned thing and be done with it.
I am arguing that the idea of tapping an undersea cable - if it was determined that there was a practicable need - is not outrageous. That's all.
For NZ <--> US, they probably would do exactly that. For EU <--> Africa? Probably not. I feasibility and likelihood of cable taps would - to me at least - depend on which cables we're talking about.
Richard: all of your points boil down not to "it's impossible to tap an undersea cable" but rather "it's incredibly expensive to tap an undersea cable reliably and quickly enough not to get caught.
May I offer some thoughts, from just underneath my tinfoil hat?
Sever the cable at point A. While they are running around trying to fix it, insert a tap at point B. This gives you time to tap it. Your costs drop quite a bit. "Deliriously expensive" becomes "within the realm of possibility for a black ops budget".
Now the question of "how the hell do you get the data out" arises. May I suggest that it might well be possible to put a widget in the "point B" tap that:
1) Is protected to substantial depths
2) Is some form of ridiculously expensive computer in it's own right
3) Does basic inline analysis of traffic
4) Sends anything interesting it finds down the fibre via traffic injection to the NSA*
5) May have a radio link (ULF?) to be updated by the appropriate spook ship that parks on top of it.
6) May even be able to be raised and plugged into a bank of systems on a spook ship to provide real-time streaming into the ship on occasions where it's required.
A tap doesn't have to mirror all traffic at all times to be an effective tool. A tap doesn't have to be accessible 100% of the time to be an effective tool. A tap doesn't have to be a perfect filter to catch interesting things and a tap doesn't have to store all data forever to be an effective tool.
It could just be the equivalent of a plan old-school wiretap capability, but set up in such a way as to be able to bypass all that pesky "jurisdictional cooperation" and "the other guy knowing what you're up to" stuff.
The presumption that these taps exist to spy on the hoi polloi of a country is probably nuts. It's 100% more rational to expect that the NSA would work with most countries to make that happen.
But a tap in order to spy on those in power in the target country is a different story entirely. That needs done without the target country knowing. And what better way for them to think that you don't have that capability than to work both ends and establish a local on-shore tapping capability (which, I am sure, the host country knows how to route around or turn off)?
Tapping communications that someone else knows are insecure is pointless and a waste of money. Finding the means of communication they believe are secure, well...
...I wholeheartedly believe the NSA would gladly pour hundreds of millions of dollars into that. After all...that's what they are actually paid to do.
*Before you start talking about security and "they'd notice that", I don't think they would. Who is going to take the two routers on either end of an undersea cable and lock down the routers to the MAC address of the router on the other end? You control the cable, and thinking that any other MAC address would appear would be paranoid. Do you MAC lock the cables running in your house? Do you run traffic sniffers on your hardwired-only networks to see if someone has tapped it and is injecting traffic? Unless you have some serious tinfoil hattery going on, no...you don't.
Got to agree. Huawei just doesn't have enough technical marketing or product management occurring. They also have zero community management and near-zero engagement with bloggers, media and other thought leaders.
They need both to have good documentation and marketing in English and a seed program that gets units into the hands of well known reviewers so that those people can start putting the gear to the test and saying "yeah, this is good enough for tier 1".
They'll get there, eventually.
"CISCO's home voip phones are also shit - doesn't mean you shouldn't buy their enterprise grade switches"
No, I think "priced in $virgins" and "pre-pwned by the NSA" are good enough reasons not to buy Cisco.
Good effort. Thanks to those guys.
"For a company the size of MS to lay of 18000 people is by no means a simple choice. Obviously something is going on behind the scenes"
They made a shitty purchase that provided them virtually nothing and brought along with it tens of thousands of workers they absolutely do not need. Nokia was overstaffed to start with and the replication of function between the two companies was enormous.
There's no need to look for "secret behind the scenes" anything. Microsoft is trimming the very obvious fat and trying to keep margins up in the face of lackluster Windows sales that stubbornly refuse to grow year over year nearly as much as Microsoft's publicly activist shareholders would like.
If you want innovation at Microsoft turn to Microsoft research. They innovate quite a bit.
If you want Microsoft to have a hope in hell of bringing that innovation to market, pray for Nadella's retention. The alternative is an activist investor lackey that will strip the company's assets in short order and sell the carcass off piecemeal.
You'd better hope Nadella is in it for the long haul because the alternative is far worse. If you really want Nadella to start bringing some change to the company then start dreaming up ways to get him the political capital he needs to drive that change.
Currently, the CEO is embroiled in so much bloodthirsty board-level and executive level politics that he simply doesn't have the political capital to clean house. He can only make changes incrementally, and he doesn't have visibility beyond the top few layers so he can't go digging too deep into the trenches and muddle directly.
The ranks have closed against him from the bottom up as middle management and executives fear for their jobs...but more than that, they fear the finger of blame will be pointed at them publicly, and this will affect their career options.
The board is fighting him every step of the way on every decision because they are themselves deeply divided on how things should be done. What's more, Nadella is a nerd. He has his own ideas about what needs doing and they aren't the same as any of the other major power players.
If Nadella had the political capital to really drive change to match his vision, I honestly think that the end result would be an amazing Microsoft, one we'd all be proud to use products and services from. But the reality of it is that the illness inside Microsoft is advanced he needs to fight cancer before he can start adding cybernetic augmentations.
Actually, I believe that what was just described here is a South Korean Chaebol. Samsung, for example, though in Chaebols there wouldn't so much be "4 versions of Windows for the desktop" so much as "desktops would be built by company A, mobiles by company B, cloud strategy by company C, servers by company D".
They're a spectacularly effective means of organizing business and equally as effective at annihilating their competition. Be very careful what you wish for. American equivalents to Chaebols in tech could be considered to be GE, Intel, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and certainly in an emerging capacity, Google*.
Microsoft is a software company. Their forays into hardware are small and insignificant. You'd damned well better pray they don't start making self-driving cars or we are all fucked.
*Replete with killer robots and drones!
Conversely, Broadcom NICs have caused me no end of trouble over the past few years, but I am utterly reliant on Broadcom switches, which have served me damned well for some time.
It was (sort of) coherent. It wasn't cogent. I got what he was trying to say, just not quite why it was relevant to the discussion at hand. It had batteries. The article had batteries. That's barely related. The rest was flying off into la-la land.
A) that's barely cogent
B) what do attacks on renewables have to do with battery tech?
C) your information is a combination of wrong, cherry picked and sadly out of date.
In all, 7/10. You have mostly decent grammar, there's no random capitalization, no caps lock and no excessive, repetitive punctuation. Once more, with feeling, perhaps?
There's plenty of margin in HP servers. They're the Cisco of compute nodes. Now, can I sell you an IPKVM license for your box? And how about support...
" There was a memo"
...disused lavatory....beware of leopard...
My google-fu is weak, sir I am unable to recall - or uncover - a meme or trope based upon the concept of "feather lined underpants". I imagine they'd be very itchy. Is these some sociocultural reference I am unaware of?
While I probably could get a prescription for amphetamines of one flavour or another as a treatment for my rather intense ADHD, both Ritalin and Dexedrine have disagreed with me in the past. I felt that they had too much of an emotional deadening effect - a common enough complaint, I understand - and so discontinued use of them somewhere around the third grade.
So for the record, my drug of choice is caffeine. This is supplemented by meditation and couple different CBT techniques I've been taught that allow to me to be mostly functional.
I don't mind if you mock me in the comments, sir...but accuracy, please! My diatribes are not fueled by something so gauche as meth! They are the distillation of this world's most magnanimous of deity's gifts to our race: the sacred coffee.
Oh, and before you go suggesting it's something I put in my coffee, I'll have you know that I hold anyone who pollutes their coffee with additives in nothing but the highest of contempt. Coffee, black, strong enough to kill a horse.
There now; accuracy has been served. Please, continue with your regularly scheduled vitriol and character assassination.
Quebec has minor cronyism going on. In all honesty it's probably worse in Alberta and I'm positive it's worse in Ontario. Still; none of them even remotely compare to the corruption in the USA. Not even close.
Uh...Canada's majority Catholic...and we're way less corrupt than US of (NS)A...
Wow, suddenly I feel like the only guy who has any faith there is still money to be made over the next 10-15 years selling arrays. Maybe not a "growth" business anymore, but good bloody money nonetheless. And what prevents EMC from growing new businesses? ScaleIO anyone?
There's more to EMC than arrays. Even if they have to fire a bunch of hard-core hangers on to be able to realise it at a corporate culture level.
"I note that Google Chrome is still way ahead of current IE versions in terms of number of disclosed vulnerabilities."
That has what to do with any of this?


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Disabled Vets on the Silver Screen
Norden, Marty, VFW Magazine
Few of us would question the idea that movies have contributed strongly to the public's perception of veterans. In some cases-particularly the portrayals of vets suffering from PTSD-the images are among Hollywood's most egregious and hateful on record. (Taxi Driver, anyone?)
In others, the depictions are relatively sympathetic and supportive. The movie images of physically disabled veterans tend to fall into this latter category, perhaps for the simple reason that the characters' sacrifices for their country are so readily apparent to the camera eye.
Indeed, favorable portrayals of severely injured veterans have been finding their way to the silver screen ever since the movies flickered into existence in the 1890s.
Veterans on Parade
The earliest films were extremely brief newsreel-like fragments that showed Civil War veterans marching in parades. The first may well have been McKinley Inaugural Parade, produced by Thomas Edison's company and first shown in theaters in May 1897.
Its segments included "Grant Veterans-G.A.R." and "Amoskeag Veterans, New Hampshire," each of which took less than a minute. to present its titular vets on the march.
Even shorter was American Mutoscope's Veteran Zouaves, produced in 1898. Barely a half-minute long, it showed a unit of the flamboyantly outfitted Civil War veterans passing a Decoration Day reviewing stand in Manhattan, N.Y.
Though these fragmentary films are presumed lost, there is little doubt that they included disabled veterans. Consider, for example, the Lubin Company's catalog description of its 1898 film, Grand Army Veterans of Philadelphia:
"Here we see Philadelphia's own G.A.R. veterans about to decorate the graves of their fallen comrades. Can anything be more touching than to see bands of gray-haired warriors, some with only one leg or one arm, marching proudly to strew flowers on the graves of departed ones? They seem to ignore all sorts of weather in order that they may pay tribute to those who defended their country at the cost of their lives. This is a grand and brilliant picture:'
Despite the appeal of such short "actualities" filmmakers soon learned they needed to tell stories to sustain audience interest. Within a few years, these mini-documentaries began giving way to slightly longer narrative films featuring actors playing wounded veterans.
One of the first was The Empty Sleeve, or Memories of Bygone Days, a 1909 film released in late May to coincide with Memorial Day. Running about six or seven minutes, The Empty Sleeve showed an elderly Union veteran and his wife flashing back to 1861, when the veteran was a young officer.
He leads his troops up a hill to silence a Confederate battery, and they succeed, but he loses an arm during the attack. After a nurse (his soon-to-be wife) attends him, the two return to the present and encounter many of the same men he had led or fought against more than 40 years before.
He takes command once again, this time leading his fellow veterans to a grandstand where he makes a Decoration Day speech.
A reviewer for Moving Picture World praised this long-lost film for the "great dramatic power" of its "numerous thrilling scenes" and observed that "the veterans, the speech, and finally the fraternal handclasp of the Union and Confederate soldiers are -all strong features and add interest to the picture."
Movies produced before World War I were thus off to a promising start, even. if they contained an unfortunate unstated message: disabled veterans are only worth considering when they are on public display in parades and other holiday events.
Wounds as Badges of Honor
The Empty Sleeves Brooklyn-based production company, Vitagraph, was at the forefront of companies that created sympathetic portrayals of disabled veterans during the Great War-era years later.
Among its films were Womanhood: The Glory of the Nation, which included a soldier blinded by the conflict, and Dawn, a 1919 production that drew upon the recently passed Veterans Rehabilitation Act by showing the establishment of a vocational school for blinded vets. …

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iHerb Customer Reviews
Savings of: $1.00 (17% off)
Excellent value
Posted by Zahava on Mar 22, 2016
My raw fed 10-month old puppy loves a few sprinkles of this product on her raw meat and vegetables meal. I have yet to try the chicken flakes but I am sure she will love them as well.
Smells like fish
Posted by cherylphchan on May 05, 2015
The cats love it. Makes a mess though.
Thief at night
Posted by 5443651933326145696 on Feb 23, 2015
My cats love it when I sprinkle this food on top of their raw meat diet. The girl even swipe it onto the floor in the middle of the night, wanting to help herself to this snack. You get the point.
Seems alright
Posted by Reviewer2589455 on Nov 16, 2014
My cats seem to like it and eat their dry biscuits a bit more than before.
My cat doesn't eat it :(
Posted by 5271501741042310791 on Nov 07, 2014
I expected this product a lot as my cat loves dried chicnken from catmandoo. But he just doesn't like it :( so sad
Posted by ChisaHolly on Sep 27, 2014
Update later
Posted by Minna2theMax on Aug 21, 2014
Wow, I have never seen the cat we're currently cat sitting attack her dry food with such vigor. She loves these flakes! A super treat. (Same for the chicken flavor.)
First order....Very satisfied !
Posted by Reviewer1078931 on Apr 11, 2014
Wish I had discovered these before. I'll be ordering the chicken next time though. These are a bit fishy of course. My two dogs love them, great way to get them to eat their meals when you need them too.
cats just love its taste
Posted by 5349028384323955947 on Mar 21, 2014
All my cats love this a lot. You have to try this with your cat!!!
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A very tasty and healthy treat
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My cats love this sprinkled on any food.


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Beccles Caxton Arms
Real Ale
1 Ravensmere, NR34 9DY
01502 717809
grid reference TM 422 906
opened 1875 circa
(details under review)
opening hours:
- 11-11ish
regular real ales
GK IPA, Wells Bombardier + guest.
View in Google Earth
Local licensing authority for Beccles is Waveney district
CAMRA North-East Suffolk branch.
last updated 14/07/2015
A friendly basic 'sports' bar with big screens, pool, darts, fruit machines & juke box.
Refurbished and reopened in May 2012. No food, handy for the bus station.
Beer served through handpulls
Bus stop nearby (see public transport tab for details)
Railway station about 0.3 mile away (see public transport tab for details)
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(some old PO directory information courtesy of londonpublichouse.com)
(** historic newspaper information from Stuart Ansell)


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The Alaska Aces outshot the Idaho Steelheads by a 2-to-1 margin Wednesday night and out-chanced them by a greater differential.
All it got them was a 4-3 overtime loss.
Josh Robinson turned back 30 shots and Chase Schaber converted Austin Smith's 2-on-1 pass 34 seconds into overtime at Sullivan Arena to earn the visitors two points in the ECHL standings.
While the Aces' seven-game winning streak was snapped, they picked up a point for the 20th time in the last 21 hockey games and reduced their magic numbers to win both the Mountain Division and Brabham Cup.
"I can't really fault our guys for much,'' said Aces coach Rob Murray. "It sounds horrible to say, but there are good ways to lose a game, and one way is by getting a point.''
The game before an announced crowd of 4,142 was something of a head-scratcher throughout.
Idaho scored on its first two shots and managed three shots on goal in the first period. The Steelheads went 18 minutes, 50 seconds, bridging the first and second periods, without a shot on goal. Yet they were exceedingly opportunistic and never trailed, and they found a way to win against the league's top team, which also doubles as the circuit's top club on home ice (.794 winning percentage).
"I was really pleased we had resolve and stuck to it, and tightened up later in the game,'' said Idaho bench boss Brad Ralph. "Obviously, we were fortunate to win.''
Aces goaltender Gerald Coleman struggled, surrendering four goals on 16 shots. The first goal he permitted — Ian Watters' shot from the bottom of the left circle three minutes into the game squeezed between Coleman's skate and the post — was a harbinger of a tough night.
"It was weird,'' Coleman said. "My pad got stuck on the post and somehow (the puck) went under it.
"It's frustrating for me because I've been playing so well. Hopefully, I get this one behind me. Idaho's had my number all year. I just have to be mentally strong and get back at it.''
The Steelheads (40-17-7) have gone 4-1-0 against the Aces (46-12-7), who they trail by 13 points in the Mountain Division. Idaho is the only team with a winning record against the Aces.
Ralph mused that maybe the Steelheads had karma on their side. After all, they outshot visiting Gwinnett 40-20 last Saturday night and lost 2-0.
Alaska's magic number for winning the division is five — any combination of Aces points earned or Steelheads points surrendered equaling five would earn the Aces their third straight division crown. Their magic number for winning an unprecedented third straight Brabham Cup as overall regular-season champions dropped to eight.
"We're playing good hockey right now, just making some mistakes,'' said Aces leading scorer Nick Mazzolini. "Like tonight, it's a clear-cut win for us (most nights). Yeah, we were playing from behind, but it didn't feel like it on the bench.''
Idaho captain Ben Ondrus scored on a breakaway less than seven minutes into the game to stake the Steelheads, who possess the league's most potent offense, to a 2-0 lead. Ondrus was sprung by stretch pass up the middle of the ice from defenseman John Ryder, who was playing his first game since Dec. 30 and was stunningly sharp. Ryder delivered several crunching checks.
Alaska countered with Evan Trupp's power-play goal nine minutes into the period — he steered captain Steve Ward's slap-pass behind Robinson — to cut the deficit to 2-1. The goal was Trupp's second, and his sixth point, in three games since his hometown team acquired him from Bakersfield at the trade deadline last week.
Bobby Hughes forged a 2-2 tie for the Aces midway through the second period. After B.J. Crum's drive from the center point went wide right, Hughes collected the ricochet off the end boards, and with the puck a foot behind the goal line, flicked a backhand off Robinson's shoulder and in. With more than seven minutes left in the second period, the Aces' shot advantage was 22-4 — it ended up 33-16.
Still, Idaho regained the lead at 3-2 just 34 seconds into the third period on Watters' odd power-play goal, which snapped Alaska's string of 49 consecutive penalty kills. Aces defenseman Kane Lafranchise used his left hand to bat down an airborne puck in the slot, where Watters snapped it past Coleman.
Three minutes later, though, Mazzolini struck for his fourth short-handed goal of the season — that ties him for the league lead. That goal was his 35th overall, one shy of the 36 bagged by Colton Yellow Horn of Ontario, who is on an extended tour in the American Hockey League.
Mazzolini tipped an Idaho pass in the neutral zone, knocked the puck out of the air with his stick blade, busted into the Idaho zone on right wing, cut to the slot and got a wrister past a patient Robinson for a 3-3 tie.
"He did a really good job of staying with me on that one,'' Mazzolini said of Robinson. "I got a little lucky there.''
The Aces enjoyed two power plays in the last nine minutes of regulation, but to no avail.
Even so, Mazzolini said, the Aces feel good about how they're playing.
"This did nothing to our confidence but boost it,'' he said.
Shuffling the deck
Mazzolini's goal and assist pushed his point streak to seven games. He owns 4-7—11 totals in that span.
Alex Hudson's four-game goal streak ended.
The Aces are 26-6-2 on home ice this season.
Erstwhile Aces rookie defenseman William Wrenn of Anchorage, on his second tour in the American Hockey League, scored his second AHL goal for the Texas Stars in a 4-3 win over Abbotsford.
In 12 combined games for Texas and Worcester, Wrenn owns 2-1-3 totals and a minus-2 rating.
Steve Mele, the younger brother of Aces winger Tommy Mele, made his pro debut Wednesday night for ECHL Greenville and registered an assist on the game-winning goal in a 4-1 win at Toledo. Steve Mele last week finished his college career at American International University, which is where Tommy also played.
From the small-world hockey department — the Toledo goalie was Jordan Pearce of Anchorage.
Find Doyle Woody's blog at and.com/hockeyblog or call him at 257-4335.
Idaho 2 0 1 1 — 4
Aces 1 1 1 0 — 3
First Period — 1, Idaho, Watters 8 (Toews, Trentowski), 3:07; 2, Idaho, Ondrus 6 (Ryder, Lacasse), 6:40; 3, Aces, Trupp 7 (Ward, Mazzolini), 9:03 (pp). Penalties — Ryder, Idaho (holding), 3:55; Trentowski, Idaho (high-sticking), 8:12; Mazzolini, Aces, double-minor (cross-checking, unsportsmanlike conduct), 15:34; Lacasse, Idaho (hooking), 19:38
Second Period — 4, Aces, Hughes 13 (Crum, Mele), 10:57. Penalties — Blain, Idaho (roughing), 8:44; Clackson, Aces, major (fighting), 12:25; Todd, Idaho, major (fighting), 12:25; Curry, Aces (interference), 18:36.
Third Period — 5, Idaho, Watters 9, :34 (pp); 6, Aces, Mazzolini 34, 3:37 (sh). Penalties — Clackson, Aces, double-minor (roughing), 1:57; Taylor, Idaho, double-minor (roughing), 1:57; Hudson, Aces (roughing), 2:27; Schaber, Idaho (contact to head), 10:51; Smith, Idaho (tripping), 18:04.
Overtime — 7, Idaho, Schaber 2 (Smith), :34. Penalties — None.
Shots on goal — Idaho 3-4-8-1—16. Aces 9-17-6-1—33.
Power-play Opportunities — Idaho 1 of 4. Aces 1 of 6.
Goalies — Idaho, Robinson, 24-6-4 (33 shots-30 saves). Aces, Coleman, 21-4-2 (16-12).
Referee — Chris Pitoscia. Linesmen — Steve Glines, Travis Jackson.
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NOCKAMIXON — He was one of the last to speak in support of Omar Porrata, but his words summed up the evening.
"He's (Omar) a good man and he made a mistake," Ed Ruisz said, his voice trembling with emotion.
"Let's rally around Omar and help him get his job back."
Ruisz, the longtime former track and football coach at Palisades High School and now a member of the district's Athletic Committee, stepped out of his committee shoes to defend the embattled Porrata.
"I don't speak as a representative of the board, it's just me," Ruisz said. "I coached for a long time and I respect what Omar has accomplished here. I believe the punishment he received is excessive. The punishment doesn't fit the crime.
"The kids here need Omar so they can excel. If there is some way we can all come together and make this right, we need to. Let's get it better."
Porrata, 36, who teaches at Bethlehem Liberty, has been the head wrestling coach of the Pirates for six seasons.
However, on Feb. 16, the District 11 wrestling committee ruled unanimously to uphold the decision by the Palisades School District to suspend Porrata for the rest of the season for his decision to forfeit a match to Bethlehem Catholic in the district team tournament on Jan. 30, calling it unsportsmanlike.
The committee also placed a ban on all PIAA postseason wrestling tournaments next year for any District 11 school, including Palisades, if they employ Porrata before the start of the 2015-16 season.
Porrata contends he forfeited the match to Bethlehem Catholic because he was concerned about the health of his team and not because he was upset that the Golden Hawks decided not to have some other their top wrestlers compete in the match.
The District 11 committee saw things differently, calling it "unsportsmanlike conduct" which led to the suspension.
On Wednesday night, a crowd of over 30 Porrata supporters packed the high school's library hoping to convince the Athletic Committee to go to the school board with a recommendation to reconsider their decision. The school board's next meeting is scheduled for March 5.
Porrata appealed the decision and turned the paperwork with the appeal over to athletic director Becky George after the meeting with the hope being that the suspension for next year be lifted.
"I'm overwhelmed with the support from the parents and everybody," Porrata said. "Everything has just spun out of control from right after that match until now.
"I'm going to appeal and hope for the best. I've been running the practices and I will take the kids to regionals this weekends.
"I'm not allowed to be a participant, which means I can't coach them, but I can buy a ticket and watch them and cheer them on."
The Athletic Committee told the group that any appeal filed by Porrata would be presented to the District 11 committee before the 30-day deadline, but stopped short of throwing support behind him.
"I think we have a very difficult discussion ahead of us," Athletic Committee chairman Steve Kunkel said. "It might sound easy to you, but there's going to be some back and forth."
Many of his current wrestlers, and future Pirate wrestlers, too, took their turn speaking out for the suspended coach.
"Coach Omar has been a part of my wrestling life since I started," said Jacob Welsh, a seventh-grade wrestler in the middle school program.
"He's always been there to cheer us and support us. I am part of the future of Palisades wrestling and I really hope you (the Athletic Committee) can help us get our coach back."
Roseanne Herman, the mother of a middle school wrestler, also gave an impassioned plea on Porrata's behalf.
"There is something unique about wrestling, and you need to know the person in the corner is there for your child," Herman said. "And Omar is there. You sit in the stands at a youth tournament and he's there.
"He doesn't have to be there, but he is. We are blessed to have somebody like that and I hope we're smart enough to keep him."
Porrata's assistant, Ricci Bass, and middle school coach John Lindquist, will coach the Pirates at the regional tournament at Wilson West Lawn this weekend.
"High school wrestling is a competition, but tonight we stand united," said Tom Mertz, the head wrestling coach at neighboring Wilson. "But tonight we stand united.
"I know how far the Palisades program has come and it's because of what Omar has done."
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Today's CIOs are investment analysts, recruiters and security officers for their agencies' information, according to a new memo from the Office of Management and Budget director that backs up CIOs' status in agencies.
CIOs are expected to drive an investment review process to make sure IT projects are on schedule and within their budgets. They must also work with chief acquisition officers and chief financial officers to make IT portfolio analysis is an integral part of an agency's annual budget process, OMB Director Jacob Lew wrote in a memo released Aug. 8. Read the memo.
Lew emphasizes in the memo that the changing role of the CIO is a direct outgrowth of the 25-point IT reform plan that former federal CIO Vivek Kundra instituted.
CIOs have to get rid of duplication in IT spending and decide if projects are worthwhile. Lew wrote that agencies are buying unwisely when they purchase commodity IT, such as data center services, e-mail systems, and business systems. Lew wants officials to think about bulk buying, or strategic sourcing, to get a lower price from companies.
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CIOs also need to hire the top IT program management talent, the memo said.
CIOs or senior agency officials reporting to the CIO, will have the authority and primary responsibility to set in place agencywide information security programs. OMB wants continuous monitoring and standardized risk assessment process. The point is to support the CyberStat meetings that officials from the Homeland Security Department will lead as they check on how agencies have implemented these OMB demands.
CyberStat meetings are based on former Federal CIO Vivek Kundra's TechStat meetings, during which senior officials from OMB meet with agencies to personally check on the progress of IT requirements.
The monitoring and CyberStat meetings will provide near-real-time security status information to officials and help them develop plans to deal with situations, Lew wrote.
"With responsibilities for these four areas, agency CIOs will be held accountable for lowering operational costs, terminating and turning around troubled projects, and delivering meaningful functionality at a faster rate while enhancing the security of information systems," Steven VanRoekel, the newly appointed federal CIO, wrote in a blog post late Aug. 8. Read the blog post.
Lew's memo was sent to top officials in departments and agencies to impress on them the authorities of the CIO. These authorities will push agencies to understand more clearly what their CIOs are responsible for doing.
Alan Balutis, the first CIO at the Commerce Department and now senior director and distinguished fellow at Cisco Systems' Internet Business Solutions Group, wrote in an FCW column Aug. 3 that the CIO position is near death. Since the 1990s when the position was created, CIOs never really had authority for IT investments or a voice in the budget development meetings. Balutis also pointed to a Government Accountability Office report, which has not been released yet, that comes to the same conclusions. CIOs are hindered from carrying out their authorities and have never been empower to go forward. Read the column.
Lew's memo describes the duties and expectations agencies should have about their CIOs.
"In my time in both the private and public sectors, I know the importance of giving CIOs the tools necessary to drive change and to hold them accountable for results," VanRoekel wrote.
Agencies are now supposed to change the mindset of their CIOs. In the summer of 2012, agency officials will report to the President's Management Council and the CIO Council on how they've done what OMB has laid out in the memo.
VanRoekel added that he expects this memo and IT reforms from OMB's 25-point plan, which was released in 2010, will cause a fundamental shift in IT policy. It will also be key in "permanently removing the barriers that have prevented consistent execution across the federal government for so long," he wrote.
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As a direct report to a component CIO in a cabinet level agency I can say this is long over due. Today the CIO takes a back seat the CFO and to program/business office leaders. Clinger-Cohen has been ignored for years. Maybe this will help. So much for optimism. The skeptic in me says this memo doesnt have any teeth and it will only be an opening to require more reports and more dashboards from CIOs unless OMB backs the few CIOS with backbone that try to exercise this newly described authority. Getting that level of help from OMB is unlikely.
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The Truck: I Love My GFF ; Outside Ducky's Furniture and in the Shell station parking lot on Pike/Broadway. More details on GFF's whereabouts can
The Truck: I Love My GFF; Outside Ducky's Furniture and in the Shell station parking lot on Pike/Broadway. More details on GFF's whereabouts can be found on their website.
The Fare: Gluten-free bowls
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Situated on the outskirts of the food truck cluster of South Lake Union,the fledgling food cart GFF resembles more of a hot dog stand than a bona fide food enterprise. But this cute cart could not be any more different than a hot dog stand.
I Love My Gluten Free Food pours some out for their gluten-free homies who have always felt disrespected in the carb-centric burger and sandwich lovin' food truck scene. GFF's specialty is sprouted quinoa bowls topped with veggies and/or cubes of Draper Valley Farm's chicken.
Andrea, the perky owner of I Love My GFF, identified the need for this type of food cart. When she was working a busy corporate job, she always lamented about the lack of quick, gluten-free food options. Having to bring her lunch while watching her co-workers pop out for a quick bite to eat was starting to affect her Excel spreadsheets.
Less than two weeks on the food truck scene, Andrea and her sidekick Josh are already selling out of food.
The two bowl menu allows you to reserve your decision making skills for bigger things. The fiesta bowl comes with a cilantro-lime sauce with pepitas, red peppers, avocado and more; while the Sunshine bowl has a lemon basil undertone and is also loaded with veggies.
Skipping the chicken puts you $7.50 in the hole, while $9.50 will land you el pollo. An Alexander Hamilton seems a bit steep for a small rice bowl, but Andrea is doing us a favor by serving up kosher food portions for people who don't want to slip into a food coma afterwards.
The sauce in the Fiesta is overly tangy and could use some tweaks, but is not too shabby considering they are less than a month in the game.
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Steve Ballmer's sweat glands can barely contain their excitement over his 41% approval rating. (Only 31% disapproved) Seattle has no shortage of awesome corporations, as
Steve Ballmer's sweat glands can barely contain their excitement over his 41% approval rating. (Only 31% disapproved)Seattle has no shortage of awesome corporations, as politicians and best-place-to-live surveys frequently remind us. But they're not always so awesome when you feel them from the inside, as Trent Reznor might put it. Glassdoor.com (among whose early investors was Zillow CEO Rich Barton) surveyed employees of local corps to determine which ones are best (and worst) to work for. Same for their bosses. (Surprise: Zillow and its CEO Rich Barton topped their lists, though Glassdoor tells TechFlash it was merely coincidence.) A look at some notable results:
Battle of the legacies:
Battle of the Z's: As mentioned, Zillow tops the list at a 4.3 rating (on a 1-5) scale, while Zones bottoms it with a 2.4. Barton is approved by 80% and disapproved by 10%, while Zones CEO Firoz Lajii is approved by 17% and disapproved by 50%.
Battle of the Z's:
Also hot: Mark Emmert. SW's Nina Shapiro may not approve of his pay, but UW employees apparently approve of his work.
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Finally, the one guy we wish were on the list: Frank Colacurcio, Sr. He has a very hands-on approach to employee management, but he's certainly kept Rick's humming through the years.


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Mike Fleming, 2008.
This Week's Suspect: After a liver-wrenching couple of particularly toxic Legal Speedballs, I decided it was probably in the best interest of my arguments (not to mention my wellbeing) to tone it back a little. While Jägerbombs might encourage antisocial drinking and Trash Cans basically require it, The Cuba Libre is a caffeinated alcoholic beverage nearly up there with Irish Coffee when it comes to mainstream acceptance.
The modern Cuba Libre is, fundamentally, what your average drunk knows only as a Rum and Coke. While the addition of lime and usage of a white rum (like Bacardi Superior) are crucial for differentiating a cocktail tyrant's Libre, the potentially menacing intoxication this column will study is exactly the same. However, I'm not deadset on specifically referring to this week's suspect as The Cuba Libre due to its modern constituency. I'm doing it for what made a Cuba Libre in 1901.That's right, those of you who remember the gist of Coca Cola's original recipe at the turn of the century must realize that the Cuba Libre was perhaps the most literal and most dangerous form of a Legal Speedball I've yet to touch upon -- a delicious mixture of cocaine and alcohol.
If that heartstopping realization weren't enough, H.L. Mencken's "The American Language" describes a horrifically awesome and oft-quoted variation that sounds like it might've very well provided the spiritual blueprint for Four Loko:
"The troglodytes of western South Carolina coined 'jump stiddy' for a mixture of Coca-Cola and denatured alcohol (usually drawn from automobile radiators); connoisseurs reputedly preferred the taste of what had been aged in Model-T Fords."
History lessons aside, you'd be hard-pressed to find a bar that would serve you a Cuba Libre with an eight-ball or radiator fluid, but it just goes to show that this family restaurant staple has had an aggressively unhealthy history that makes our maligned alcoholic energy drinks look like watered down Coors Light. Certainly the drink has been "fixed" over the years, but can it still pack an evening-ruining wallop?
With their relentlessly smooth flavor, modern Cuba Libres don't quite pack the boozy potency of its caffeinated bretheren, but its perceived innocence has lead many a distracted bar patron into an unwitting shitshow of stomach issues and public humiliation.
The Bar: A far cry from the properly-roused hooligans at Nine Million in Unmarked Bills and the relentless '90s Alternative at Hard Rock Cafe, Bing's at Madison Park is about as subdued as it gets. Norah Jones whimpers on the soundsystem, barely overcoming the din of family dinners and elderly romance.
There's a bar -- but I'm the only one at it, partitioned off from the dining area by a couple of floating handrails. The countertop itself has the fine, glittery sheen of a surface that couldn't possibly have seen too many spilt drinks. I ordered a Cuba Libre and had a moment of pause when the bartender asked me if I had a rum preference. What spicy subtleties best suited high fructose corn syrup?
The Effect: Although surprisingly stiff for a venue this wholesome, The Cuba Libre obviously wasn't going to send me into an epileptic fit of rage without three or more command performances. Maybe it was the calming atmosphere of the bar. Maybe it was the sobering pressure of feeling like I was on display for Bing's more upstanding patrons. But my guess is that the only damage that rum and Coke can do comes from serious overconsumption.
Threat to Society: Zero out of Four Lokos.
Probably even less affecting than the Irish Coffee, neither the Cuba Libre nor the Rum and Coke are going to cause widespread panic anytime soon. Not only does the drink offer a less manic caffeine rush than any of the other Legal Speedballs, the one-sided syrupy sweetness of Coke makes it easy for stingier bartenders to go light on the hard stuff, at least relative to subtler cocktails. All in all, besides its shady history with hard drugs and automobiles, The Rum and Coke is a drink that's been cemented into the American consciousness with its remarkably simple construction and the national omnipresence of Coca Cola. If you ban Rum and Coke, you might as well ban apple pie.


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I am concidering start TTC next month. Have not tried since the end of 2002 when I found out I have PCOS and my hubby has a very low sperm count. Some major events happened in 2003, and dealing with a few deaths, having to take care of three children for 2 years, then going back to school, we decided to concentrate on other issues for a while.
Now we are at a point where we are considering TTC again. We are both on diets right now, and are trying to lose weight. We are both diabetics as well, so we are trying to control that with this new diet- (It is called Herbalife and seems to be helping so far).
So I do have a few questions- hoping some of you might know- First, if you have a period, does that mean that you ovulate? I am very irregular- my cycles can be anywhere from 30 to 50 days, and each month varies. Also, I normally do not notice any CM- I am usually very dry down there. However, I did notice a lot of it for about 4 days straight- 3/17 to 3/20. Was I ovulating all four of those days, or just one of those days, and if it is just one of those days, how would I know which one? I'm trying to figure out when I should start my next cycle. (My LMP by the way was 2/28). With my diet, I am drinking two cups of green herbal tea a day, so could that help to increase my CM?
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