Most MNCs are one company from a management control perspective, even though their subsidiary companies in different countries are different legal entities subject to many different laws and regulations. As usual, it all comes down to money, if the parent company put up the cash to create or buy the subsidiary, and they own a controlling interest in the share capital, then they call the shots.
In theory, the legal local head of google UK could quite legally, under UK law, decide to tell his US bosses to take a hike, and invest all his profits in buildings, R&D, whatever instead of sending them back over the pond. Except he'd be fired, and his decisions reversed, pretty damn fast.
The example of Coke that you cite is a little different, since in many instances the production and distribution of the product in done by independent bottling companies. Coke just sells them the concentrated syrup, and they add fizzy water...here's an example from the USA...
A cynic might think that having many aps "approved" quickly, and hence marketed as in the store, might put some pressure on the QA staff to pass things after just a quick glance....
The design features a spacious double-wide module built with bullet-proof steel that will house servers, which attaches to “The Dome,” an inflatable central vestibule that houses security staff.
So the servers get bullet-proof steel, while the human security staff are protected by 'inflatable' walls? Don't think I would fancy my chances in a physical attack...
Install decent security on your network, auto scan your kids pcs whenever they connect, don't share devices that contain sensitive information on the network, (like the drive, or folder that contains your bank details..), use a server with a non-windows OS...
Or just get the kids a dedicated nas if they need the extra space. A cheap wifi box to allow them to share your internet connnection and you're done.
Well, the UK lost a much higher proportion of its population than the USA, and indeed also in ABSOLUTE numbers. France lost MUCH more than either of them...yup, that's right. See
Of course, this is also because of the extensive civilian casualties in those, and other European countries, which the USA simply did not have, (unless you count a few Japanese fire balloons,,,)
Do agree with you on Switzerland's repulsive behaviour both before, during and after WW2...especially refunding property stolen from victims of the Nazis.
Regarding public health, it should be noted that food, (and other), rationing continued in Europe long after the war was over. Not the case for the USA.
Why is she greedy? She wants to get paid for doing her job! - She signs a deal - She gets paid, so presumably the deal signed is viewed as good one by her boss - Her company gets bought by some morons, who do not do proper technical/dependency due diligence - Through no fault of her own, her company cannot honour the original deal; the customer as well as she and her company are all in a jam - She goes in and renegotiates a new deal for more money
Pay her, take her out to dinner, pay a vacation for her and her partner...she's gold
Sorry, forgot the most important - eye protection!
(I have had more shit dug out of my eyeballs than I care to remember... fortunately, if you don't destroy your eye totally, it seems to heal pretty fast. But life's a bitch while it does, believe me)
- Ear protection. You don't have to go for uncomfortable headphones, but cheap ear plugs are definitely a good idea. - Keep a fire extinguisher handy - Expect to get through a number of wire brushes; brush off the slag regularly, if you want a clean result - Experiment with quenching, (water is OK, oil is better, but see remark above fire ex. above), if you're using good-quality steel, (easy to pick up as parent suggested) - Try carbon face hardening if you're using (cheap) mild steel
In either of the two last cases, all you need is an open-topped container...
Not true. See quotes by BSD fans like me. We're not trashing Linux at all - BSD has its good and bad points, so do the various flavours of Linux. This used to be a place where people could come for objective discussion and advice, (sometimes still is) as well as a good chuckle now and then.
Only by admitting that issues exist can we fix them. This is supposed to open software, remember?
Have already posted in this thread, so can't mod you up, but someone should. I hope you don't get hammered by the zealots, who mistake objective criticism for trolling.
To be fair, many of the problems stem from a desire to make Linux desktops with great functionality, and of course it's perfectly possible to make enterprise-quality stable and robust server and desktop platforms using Linux...
Easy answer to this - I was working in Moscow all this year. If you have an accident, you HAVE to wat for the police to come to make an official report, (otherwise your car insurance will not pay out).
When they get there, the person with the biggest bribe gets the favourable report...
Maybe the question should be "what the hell is a top finance person doing writing business-critical applications?" I know exactly what you are getting at, and have seen it many times before; it's a business reality.
But that does not make it right. This kind of stuff rides a horse and cart through ISO, SOX etc.
Let the finance guy write the process and procedure, and the IT people select and implement the appropriate tech support, including security, documentation and audit trail.
A person who is their own lawyer has a fool for a client. A sales, finance, whatever person who is their own programmer...
Indeed. Goes for any of these 'enhanced' shitware progs. Just install the basic drivers and in my experience, (all windows from XP) up, through all cards, everything works fine. Of course, they sometimes make it really hard to just install the drivers - i wonder why?
Rothman analyzed a sample of sediment from the end of the Permian era that he obtained in China. From his analysis, he found that the rise in carbon levels was way too sharp to be caused by a geologic event like volcanic eruptions. He argues that instead, a microbe was behind this sudden rise. Called methanosarcina, this sea-dwelling microbe is responsible for most of the methane produced biologically even today. Rothman and his team discovered that methanosarcina developed the ability to produce methane 231 million years ago. While that ability came around too late to be single-handedly responsible for the link.
Eh?
However, mathanosarcina requires nickel in order to produce methane quickly. Nickel levels spiked almost 251 million years ago, likely because of a spike in Siberian lava from the volcanoes themselves. This indicates that methanosarcina was directly responsible for producing the methane that killed off an overwhelming majority of the Earth's species.
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Most MNCs are one company from a management control perspective, even though their subsidiary companies in different countries are different legal entities subject to many different laws and regulations. As usual, it all comes down to money, if the parent company put up the cash to create or buy the subsidiary, and they own a controlling interest in the share capital, then they call the shots.
In theory, the legal local head of google UK could quite legally, under UK law, decide to tell his US bosses to take a hike, and invest all his profits in buildings, R&D, whatever instead of sending them back over the pond. Except he'd be fired, and his decisions reversed, pretty damn fast.
The example of Coke that you cite is a little different, since in many instances the production and distribution of the product in done by independent bottling companies. Coke just sells them the concentrated syrup, and they add fizzy water...here's an example from the USA...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola_Bottling_Company_of_Northern_New_England
OK, so how long will it take to QA 15000 aps?
A cynic might think that having many aps "approved" quickly, and hence marketed as in the store, might put some pressure on the QA staff to pass things after just a quick glance....
FTA
The design features a spacious double-wide module built with bullet-proof steel that will house servers, which attaches to “The Dome,” an inflatable central vestibule that houses security staff.
So the servers get bullet-proof steel, while the human security staff are protected by 'inflatable' walls?
Don't think I would fancy my chances in a physical attack...
Install decent security on your network, auto scan your kids pcs whenever they connect, don't share devices that contain sensitive information on the network, (like the drive, or folder that contains your bank details..), use a server with a non-windows OS...
Or just get the kids a dedicated nas if they need the extra space. A cheap wifi box to allow them to share your internet connnection and you're done.
Mod up, please.
Well, the UK lost a much higher proportion of its population than the USA, and indeed also in ABSOLUTE numbers.
France lost MUCH more than either of them...yup, that's right. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties
Of course, this is also because of the extensive civilian casualties in those, and other European countries, which the USA simply did not have, (unless you count a few Japanese fire balloons,,,)
Do agree with you on Switzerland's repulsive behaviour both before, during and after WW2...especially refunding property stolen from victims of the Nazis.
Regarding public health, it should be noted that food, (and other), rationing continued in Europe long after the war was over. Not the case for the USA.
Lol neither did I here in Cimiez
Why is she greedy? She wants to get paid for doing her job!
- She signs a deal
- She gets paid, so presumably the deal signed is viewed as good one by her boss
- Her company gets bought by some morons, who do not do proper technical/dependency due diligence
- Through no fault of her own, her company cannot honour the original deal; the customer as well as she and her company are all in a jam
- She goes in and renegotiates a new deal for more money
Pay her, take her out to dinner, pay a vacation for her and her partner...she's gold
Sorry, forgot the most important - eye protection!
(I have had more shit dug out of my eyeballs than I care to remember... fortunately, if you don't destroy your eye totally, it seems to heal pretty fast. But life's a bitch while it does, believe me)
Good advice! May I add a few things...
- Ear protection. You don't have to go for uncomfortable headphones, but cheap ear plugs are definitely a good idea.
- Keep a fire extinguisher handy
- Expect to get through a number of wire brushes; brush off the slag regularly, if you want a clean result
- Experiment with quenching, (water is OK, oil is better, but see remark above fire ex. above), if you're using good-quality steel, (easy to pick up as parent suggested)
- Try carbon face hardening if you're using (cheap) mild steel
In either of the two last cases, all you need is an open-topped container...
I suggest you start here...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel
Not true. See quotes by BSD fans like me. We're not trashing Linux at all - BSD has its good and bad points, so do the various flavours of Linux. This used to be a place where people could come for objective discussion and advice, (sometimes still is) as well as a good chuckle now and then.
Only by admitting that issues exist can we fix them. This is supposed to open software, remember?
Have already posted in this thread, so can't mod you up, but someone should. I hope you don't get hammered by the zealots, who mistake objective criticism for trolling.
To be fair, many of the problems stem from a desire to make Linux desktops with great functionality, and of course it's perfectly possible to make enterprise-quality stable and robust server and desktop platforms using Linux...
You're already at 5, so I can't mod you up, so will just say "well said Sir!"
(Yeah, i know, I'm well known here as a BSD fanboy...but there's a reason for it!)
And yes everyone, I have tried the others - latest attempt being to get Mint to run on an old Eee PC last night...
Yeah, yeah..."wait"', sorry...fucking virtual keyboards...
Easy answer to this - I was working in Moscow all this year. If you have an accident, you HAVE to wat for the police to come to make an official report, (otherwise your car insurance will not pay out).
When they get there, the person with the biggest bribe gets the favourable report...
So, better to have a dashcam...
Most simple - buy a NAS box
Or...
http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/how-i-set-home-file-server-free-review-freenas.htm
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/replace-windows-home-server-great-free-tools/
Better yet set up your own 'home cloud'...
http://www.extremetech.com/computing/101441-create-your-own-personal-media-cloud
Ahhhh...the VT100. Counts as a display in my book
Maybe the question should be "what the hell is a top finance person doing writing business-critical applications?"
I know exactly what you are getting at, and have seen it many times before; it's a business reality.
But that does not make it right. This kind of stuff rides a horse and cart through ISO, SOX etc.
Let the finance guy write the process and procedure, and the IT people select and implement the appropriate tech support, including security, documentation and audit trail.
A person who is their own lawyer has a fool for a client. A sales, finance, whatever person who is their own programmer...
Indeed. Goes for any of these 'enhanced' shitware progs. Just install the basic drivers and in my experience, (all windows from XP) up, through all cards, everything works fine. Of course, they sometimes make it really hard to just install the drivers - i wonder why?
Good idea! Thanks
OP here.
Thank you all for taking the time to make *mostly* great suggestions.
Of all of them, the most insightful is the one telling me to spend more time with my Dad.
Thank you 'erroneous'.
Thx. Kinda what I figured. No need for GUI for that app methinks.
Cool - but you needed 64GB to do this in Debian?
(Not trolling - I'm an old BSD fart so just curious...)
*sigh*
Quite complaining & get nerding.
As repeated many, many times here, install Adblock, Noscript...
And/or load up your Hosts file...
Or contribute enough, get good karma, and /. lets you turn the ads off
Rothman analyzed a sample of sediment from the end of the Permian era that he obtained in China. From his analysis, he found that the rise in carbon levels was way too sharp to be caused by a geologic event like volcanic eruptions. He argues that instead, a microbe was behind this sudden rise.
Called methanosarcina, this sea-dwelling microbe is responsible for most of the methane produced biologically even today. Rothman and his team discovered that methanosarcina developed the ability to produce methane 231 million years ago. While that ability came around too late to be single-handedly responsible for the link.
Eh?
However, mathanosarcina requires nickel in order to produce methane quickly. Nickel levels spiked almost 251 million years ago, likely because of a spike in Siberian lava from the volcanoes themselves. This indicates that methanosarcina was directly responsible for producing the methane that killed off an overwhelming majority of the Earth's species.
Don't see where he proves the methane did it...