My BlackBerry was broken >30% of the time I had it. If it wasn't the headphone jack, it was the keypad- or reboots in the middle of replying to email. I was constantly at the Verizon store to have the tech verify a replacement could be sent, waiting for that, then importing everything again & all that comes with that process.
Ultimately it cost more time than it saved.
It was helpful to have email in my pocket, but I get by without it for now.
I agree completely. What I can't be sure of is whether these actions are indeed a step in the wrong direction- at least for the time being. Just maybe it's not what it seems.
When Bernanke starts recklessly printing money the way he did recently- that seems like a panic-driven survivalist effort to me, and I begin wondering if this isn't more of the same.
China's got us by the balls alright. I'm sure there's some twisting going on that only the government higher-ups can see, to warrant these reactions of late.
Not sure about that. I think debtors have more power than creditors. After you have a client refuse to pay you, you start to see creditor/debtor power balance in a different light.
Not sure about that either. I am not sure what I need to google to find this, but I seem to recall reading about countries that devalued their currency, but still were able to get financing. It doesn't necessarily need to be a refusal to pay per say. China asserts that it is their right to keep their currency artificially pegged to the dollar. On the same token, we can devalue our own.
No argument there. The vast, vast majority of TV content is abysmally bad. I like that I get to just pick what I want to watch and don't have to mess with the rest.
That panic is what got me, right when things don't need to get any worse, they do.
After all the frustration of suffering through slow as molasses copy operations because they had to be with checksumming, wondering to myself 'how can I justify spending so much time on this?'...
Ultimately it paid off & a bad thing wasn't allowed to get worse because of it, and the third copy saved the day.
My infrastructure is more resilient now after, and I'm less likely to make concessions with regard to redundancy later.
I can still feel overwhelmed when I think about all the time & potential progress I lost recovering, but when I read this article I totally understand & it takes the edge off some. I'm glad for them that all wasn't lost.
Some of the good that came from it all was that I found an app called SyncBackPro to pull backups onto an offline sequence with from Windows machines.
Unlike others I saw, it can implement logic that says when this serial USB storage is mounted on drive foo, trigger job bar then run this script & eject- plus it does write checksumming for <$100.
Ultimately it cost more time than it saved.
It was helpful to have email in my pocket, but I get by without it for now.