Works the same way, only the permissions are different (it's a read/write rsync share not a read-only). Unlike FTP, rsync can either pull or push data.
You don't even have to install software on the client, just put the rsync.exe on your \\logonserver\netligon folder and make it world-executable. Configure a server with the rsync server end of it. It's only a couple of minutes to setup the server.
We use rsync to distribute internal apps -- the clients hit the server on logon to grab the latest version. It's not complicated and doesn't require any support. If the same version is already installed, it's like 200 bytes transferred per client, which is about as lightweight as you can get.
In the insurance industry, contracts and forms must be approved through various agencies. There are laws regarding minimum font sizes and each form must be re-approved each time it is changed. This is done because of regulatory controls and laws.
The insurance industry is not alone in this regard. In the legal sector, specific page and font formatting is required for many court documents as well as correspondence. You need it to appear as intended, not changed based on the reader's capabilities.
There are many other examples. Word wrapping, font substitution, document reflow, or resizing of contents is not acceptable or appropriate in most cases.
Why? Does it really matter? You're not going to overturn the independent decisions of multiple industries (and all the regulatory agencies) without a *very* good reason, and even then you would have to drag them kicking and screaming into doing something differently.
Some examples I can think of offhand for these rules: people lost context or documents lost meaning because of reflow (i.e. the signatories weren't on every page), or people couldn't read the documents (in many cases where you have large numbers of documents submitted, they must be formatted in a standardized way or you would have chaos), or maybe because someone decided that having different text sizes and fonts made the document easier to read (i.e. footnotes, diagram captions, etc).
If it's content made for human consumption, formatting is a priority. If it's content made for machine consumption, almost any data format will work. Most of these things are targeted at humans, not computers.
PDF supports streams, which -- in the context of text as opposed to audiovisual or other binary streams -- can be individual lines of text or entire paragraphs / columns / pages. The fact that a stream is usually a line of content is a problem in the PDF generation software, not the format per se.
Most contracts and many forms require rendering with specific type sizes, specific layouts etc. That isn't currently possible with CSS / HTML, which is why PDF is such an important format to many industries where legal compliance with a national agency, standards body, regulated industry body, or governmental standard is necessary.
It sounds like you're saying the same thing in a different way. The key is installing a non-Ford part, it affecting another system, and Ford refusing to honor the warranty (to fix the other system).
If installing the non-Ford part can't be linked to causing a problem with another system then there's no problem.
Microsoft's a convicted monopolist so the set of criteria for judging them is different. Microsoft made poor decisions and had to have a "parent" come along and spank them a bit. Maybe one day Microsoft will grow up enough to not need such rules in place to keep them in line.
If you seriously believe that "Microsoft was found guilty of antitrust merely for bundling products" you need to do a bit more research. Microsoft created code designed to degrade users' experiences when using competitors' products (DR DOS etc). Microsoft threatened hardware vendors into carrying only Microsoft Windows OS on their machines. Microsoft restricted browser choice in the OS, claiming it couldn't be removed (and continuing to claim that even when it was demonstrated that they were lying about it). Etc. Even today it's difficult to purchase a new non-Apple computer without purchasing Windows; major manufacturers such as Dell have only offered low-end machines with limited options compared to the rest of their PC's.
As bad as Apple's recent behavior has been, Microsoft has always been more evil.
What happens to your Ford warranty if you have some non-Ford parts installed and they cause problems with other systems? My guess is that it would void your warranty for anything affected.
(Not that I agree with this crap from Apple; in this case it's an app and the issue seems to be non-technical in nature. It's not OK for Apple to decide what I read.)
I know this was an elaborate hoax designed for my entertainment, but come on, let's stop with the scanners and touching people inappropriately and all that. That's crossing the line. I mean, surely no one did this for real. Tomorrow I will wake up and this will all be just a crazy dream, right?
Yes, all sanity has been lost. I'm waiting for Emperor Palpatine to take office any day now; he will surely save us from this and provide safety to all.
"V" darts shot by rubber bands and whatever that thing was called when you twisted a loop of paper over the end of a pencil and flicked it as if you were playing "pencil break"... ah yes the memories...
It's got "sex" written in the upper-left corner on the pic you linked. WTH? And no, I'm not even going to try to Google for what sex means in Portuguese while I'm at work...
I also tried an app called SimpleDaap but the latest version doesn't work for me at all.
Neither of these programs appears to be able to play a list of songs (I don't use them that way).
Additional info: On the back end I use a ReadyNAS with the Firefly extension (free download). Although this $400 / 2TB NAS device technically does what it claims, it has the slowest RISC processor I've ever seen; my laptop can easily saturate it and cause it not to respond to requests from the iPad. I should've bought the next product up ($1000).
Yes, I remember it was a big deal to me and I loved it. I used it for (admittedly simple) desktop publishing tasks. Memories of it are a bit vague since I was still a child, but I seem to recall having lots of fonts and how cool that was.
The post is so vaguely worded, I imagine the author is merely trying to find some justification to purchase some new toys. "See, Slashdot people think this is a good idea!"
I agree with most of the posts so far -- if you're truly hitting a limit, you are most likely doing something wrong. Hire an outside DBA to make recommendations if you don't have the resources in-house. I strongly suspect this is the real issue.
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Works the same way, only the permissions are different (it's a read/write rsync share not a read-only). Unlike FTP, rsync can either pull or push data.
You don't even have to install software on the client, just put the rsync.exe on your \\logonserver\netligon folder and make it world-executable. Configure a server with the rsync server end of it. It's only a couple of minutes to setup the server.
We use rsync to distribute internal apps -- the clients hit the server on logon to grab the latest version. It's not complicated and doesn't require any support. If the same version is already installed, it's like 200 bytes transferred per client, which is about as lightweight as you can get.
for fast, simple transfers on a LAN, it's the best protocol out there.
rsync is the tool I prefer.
In the insurance industry, contracts and forms must be approved through various agencies. There are laws regarding minimum font sizes and each form must be re-approved each time it is changed. This is done because of regulatory controls and laws.
The insurance industry is not alone in this regard. In the legal sector, specific page and font formatting is required for many court documents as well as correspondence. You need it to appear as intended, not changed based on the reader's capabilities.
There are many other examples. Word wrapping, font substitution, document reflow, or resizing of contents is not acceptable or appropriate in most cases.
Why? Does it really matter? You're not going to overturn the independent decisions of multiple industries (and all the regulatory agencies) without a *very* good reason, and even then you would have to drag them kicking and screaming into doing something differently.
Some examples I can think of offhand for these rules: people lost context or documents lost meaning because of reflow (i.e. the signatories weren't on every page), or people couldn't read the documents (in many cases where you have large numbers of documents submitted, they must be formatted in a standardized way or you would have chaos), or maybe because someone decided that having different text sizes and fonts made the document easier to read (i.e. footnotes, diagram captions, etc).
If it's content made for human consumption, formatting is a priority. If it's content made for machine consumption, almost any data format will work. Most of these things are targeted at humans, not computers.
PDF supports streams, which -- in the context of text as opposed to audiovisual or other binary streams -- can be individual lines of text or entire paragraphs / columns / pages. The fact that a stream is usually a line of content is a problem in the PDF generation software, not the format per se.
Most contracts and many forms require rendering with specific type sizes, specific layouts etc. That isn't currently possible with CSS / HTML, which is why PDF is such an important format to many industries where legal compliance with a national agency, standards body, regulated industry body, or governmental standard is necessary.
+1 Insightful.
It sounds like you're saying the same thing in a different way. The key is installing a non-Ford part, it affecting another system, and Ford refusing to honor the warranty (to fix the other system).
If installing the non-Ford part can't be linked to causing a problem with another system then there's no problem.
To sync with your Outlook contacts. And, BTW, that's actually Microsoft's sync code that Apple licenses.
Market share of iPhone / iPad etc is nowhere near what Windows has, and nowhere near a monopoly. You need to understand the definition of a monopoly.
The day you can't purchase a BlackBerry, a Windows phone, or an Android phone, then come back and talk and your post might be relevant.
Microsoft's a convicted monopolist so the set of criteria for judging them is different. Microsoft made poor decisions and had to have a "parent" come along and spank them a bit. Maybe one day Microsoft will grow up enough to not need such rules in place to keep them in line.
If you seriously believe that "Microsoft was found guilty of antitrust merely for bundling products" you need to do a bit more research. Microsoft created code designed to degrade users' experiences when using competitors' products (DR DOS etc). Microsoft threatened hardware vendors into carrying only Microsoft Windows OS on their machines. Microsoft restricted browser choice in the OS, claiming it couldn't be removed (and continuing to claim that even when it was demonstrated that they were lying about it). Etc. Even today it's difficult to purchase a new non-Apple computer without purchasing Windows; major manufacturers such as Dell have only offered low-end machines with limited options compared to the rest of their PC's.
As bad as Apple's recent behavior has been, Microsoft has always been more evil.
What happens to your Ford warranty if you have some non-Ford parts installed and they cause problems with other systems? My guess is that it would void your warranty for anything affected.
(Not that I agree with this crap from Apple; in this case it's an app and the issue seems to be non-technical in nature. It's not OK for Apple to decide what I read.)
I know this was an elaborate hoax designed for my entertainment, but come on, let's stop with the scanners and touching people inappropriately and all that. That's crossing the line. I mean, surely no one did this for real. Tomorrow I will wake up and this will all be just a crazy dream, right?
Yes, all sanity has been lost. I'm waiting for Emperor Palpatine to take office any day now; he will surely save us from this and provide safety to all.
"V" darts shot by rubber bands and whatever that thing was called when you twisted a loop of paper over the end of a pencil and flicked it as if you were playing "pencil break"... ah yes the memories...
It's got "sex" written in the upper-left corner on the pic you linked. WTH? And no, I'm not even going to try to Google for what sex means in Portuguese while I'm at work...
Hey! What's wrong with digital photo frames? : )
I use an iPhone / iPad app called Media Link Player Lite. It's OK; it crashes sometimes and doesn't play all media. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/media-link-player-lite/id313455652?mt=8
I also tried an app called SimpleDaap but the latest version doesn't work for me at all.
Neither of these programs appears to be able to play a list of songs (I don't use them that way).
Additional info: On the back end I use a ReadyNAS with the Firefly extension (free download). Although this $400 / 2TB NAS device technically does what it claims, it has the slowest RISC processor I've ever seen; my laptop can easily saturate it and cause it not to respond to requests from the iPad. I should've bought the next product up ($1000).
Yes, I remember it was a big deal to me and I loved it. I used it for (admittedly simple) desktop publishing tasks. Memories of it are a bit vague since I was still a child, but I seem to recall having lots of fonts and how cool that was.
Bet you haven't purchased any USB2 or HDMI cables lately huh?
If $29 stops you the $500 iPad price certainly isn't in your budget. Nonissue.
The post is so vaguely worded, I imagine the author is merely trying to find some justification to purchase some new toys. "See, Slashdot people think this is a good idea!"
I agree with most of the posts so far -- if you're truly hitting a limit, you are most likely doing something wrong. Hire an outside DBA to make recommendations if you don't have the resources in-house. I strongly suspect this is the real issue.
So you'd be a passive cheater, rather than an active one? I don't see how that's any better.
You need to do more research. The connector is a measly $29. http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC552ZM/A