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BlueStreak

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7. Nonsense. Yout watch can barely manage displaying one time

Thu Nov 14, 2013, 03:34 PM

Nov 2013

Having worked in the IT industry, most in the large-scale systems end of it, for over 40 years, I have heard these nonsensical statements thousands of times. When the IBM PC came out, IT illiterates raved that "this is more power than the biggest mainframe had just 5 years ago."

No, that mainframe ran apps that supported thousands of users. The PC supported exactly one user. Not exactly the same thing.

17,000 enrollments an hour is plenty to enroll 25 million people before the deadline -- which is 4 times more than the actual load. Considering that there will be a crush toward the end of March, the capacity will need to be a little higher than that, and it will be by then. But it simply is not a problem.

In particular, YOU can enroll on the website right now. Don't worry about the other 16,999. YOU can get what you need right this minute.

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ENOUGH already. The website **IS** working [View all] BlueStreak Nov 2013 OP

According the the HHS Sec, they can process 17K aps a DAY Demo_Chris Nov 2013 #1

No... she said 17000 aps per HOUR.... you are willfully lying scheming daemons Nov 2013 #6

You are correct, I confused her statement with her tech expert... Demo_Chris Nov 2013 #13

This is ENROLLMENTS, not transactions BlueStreak Nov 2013 #15

I don't know about Hertz, but I do know about... Demo_Chris Nov 2013 #17

That is not the same as orders per second BlueStreak Nov 2013 #21

So much wrong in one post. jeff47 Nov 2013 #24

Response... Demo_Chris Nov 2013 #25

Verb jeff47 Nov 2013 #30

I think we have gotten sidetracked a bit. Good post... Demo_Chris Nov 2013 #32

Nonsense. Yout watch can barely manage displaying one time BlueStreak Nov 2013 #7

Hey, we wasted almost 2 hours the other day on the UPS website frazzled Nov 2013 #2

I just did a Google search that I had to retry 3 times. Woe is me. BlueStreak Nov 2013 #8

And at pretty much every page there is the option to use the telephone and talk to a person Voice for Peace Nov 2013 #12

Let them all exercise their popping blood vessels Whisp Nov 2013 #3

I suggest they enroll BEFORE they have their aneurysm BlueStreak Nov 2013 #9

Healthcare.gov is working matt819 Nov 2013 #4

I'm still having problems with registering Voice for Peace Nov 2013 #5

Sorry to hear that. Some people found it necessary to clear cache and cookies BlueStreak Nov 2013 #10

no, but I probably need to do that. I've been lazy Voice for Peace Nov 2013 #11

I am not sure what is going on with NM BlueStreak Nov 2013 #14

Here's the message on healthcare.gov once you specify New Mexico: Voice for Peace Nov 2013 #16

Yes, that is really peciluar BlueStreak Nov 2013 #23

My guess is that it's a cooperative effort, that during the open enrollment year Voice for Peace Nov 2013 #31

kick napkinz Nov 2013 #18

ahh that explain RW and ACA haters focus shifting to"dump ACA because # xxxxx" n/t Sheepshank Nov 2013 #19

My experience hasn't been so good Maeve Nov 2013 #20

Have you cleared your cache and cookies? BlueStreak Nov 2013 #22

This fix worked for me pandora nm Nov 2013 #29

Appreciate the advice, but didn't work Maeve Nov 2013 #34

Well it has become "gospel" Peacetrain Nov 2013 #26

I just tried to go on just to see how fast it would be. This is a "peak time," right around 6:00 Liberal_Stalwart71 Nov 2013 #27

Have signed up and received my intial packet from the insurance company aptal Nov 2013 #28

CA's website appeared to work for me -- but I didn't get the promised invoice Dems to Win Nov 2013 #33

kick napkinz Nov 2013 #35