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Gundlach's mind combines that feverish quality with a near-total recall of endless minutiae. But somehow, when it comes to investing, he's able to process huge quantities of details and extract a big-picture message. The result has been superb performance: His flagship $12 billion TCW Total Return Bond Fund returned nearly 8% annually over the past decade. Those results beat 99% of competitors, and his nonpublic funds have done even better.
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So how did corned beef and cabbage become the quintessential Irish-American food? The usual theory is that immigrants couldn’t find or couldn’t afford the bacon they were used to, so they switched to corned beef brisket, readily available at kosher delis.
“It’s Jewish” with slight changes, Harrington says. “The Irish took out all the seasoning. Basic is the key.”
Andrews scoffs at the unobtainable bacon idea, noting that the Irish settled in cities full of German and Polish butchers, and Darina Allen, the Julia Child of Ireland, notes in her 1998 book Irish Traditional Cooking, that salt-brined beef was a major export of Cork until the 1800s.
Yet no one has explained why corned beef all but vanished from Ireland and became fundamental in Irish America. Did everyone who liked it move here?
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Further, Microsoft’s strategy to get IBM to license Windows had failed. IBM had rejected Windows in favor of its own character-based DOS application windowing product called TopView. With IBM still the dominant PC seller, Microsoft would have to market Windows directly to IBM PC users. It would be the first time the company sold an OS level product directly to end-users (unless you count the Apple SoftCard, a hardware card that enabled Apple II users to run CPM-80 applications on their Apple IIs, which I had also previously managed). Since I had been the product manager that had the most experience with marketing technically oriented products through retail channels (rather licensed to PC vendors), Ballmer thought the job might be a good fit. In addition, he pointed out that since Windows was intended to expand the appeal of PC through its easier-to-use graphical user interface, it should appeal to my more end-user product experience and interests.
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Ophcrack is a free Windows password cracker based on rainbow tables. It is a very efficient implementation of rainbow tables done by the inventors of the method. It comes with a Graphical User Interface and runs on multiple platforms.
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