In other words, it's like crossing the Atlantic ocean on a wooden raft. It can be done, once, if you really like taking risks, but it is completely impractical.
I love New Orleans - but doesn't the whole idea of living on the gulf coast below sea level seem the slightest bit... dumb?
Cities and whole countries exist in such conditions, because that's where they are. Netherlands, for example. How do you move a large city, and where to?
Encrypted file systems? I don't know. I haven't worked there in over 4 years. I'm sure a lot of their software has kept pace with advances in OS software.
Their software may have kept pace with advances in OS software, but it could not possibly keep pace with advances in math. If a 256-bit AES key is not stored anywhere except the suspect's brain, forget about deciphering, it's not going to happen. Only a keylogger may help here, but for that you should have installed it well in advance.
He made a point of not looking for computer experience; in fact, he said he prefers if they don't have much.
He might be right or wrong - depending on what he does look for in the candidates. Experience with Visual Basic or Oracle, or SNMP, or Cisco routers, will be probably worse than useless.
About 120 minutes any time, and some 120+ minutes weekends. I never use that much anyway, so this is a good plan for me.
because anyone calling you is going to have to pay through the nose to talk to you
Yes, the US system wins here. Anyone can call me, but if I don't think it's worth using my minutes I will call him back on a landline, or just politely bring the call to an end. It is better this way because I want to judge, myself, if the call is important or not. Otherwise the other person will be making this decision, and why to have a phone then if other people are reluctant to call you?
The downside is that a lot of US employers expect you to give them your mobile number and (and this infuriates me) will call it in preference to your home number.
But you know, you are entitled to submit an expense report, and the employer will pay for that call. You don't need to pay for it yourself.
Someone ought to tell them, then, that 99% of their customers don't have Ethernet at home (with DNS and DHCP and firewalls and NAT and whatever, all configured just right), and that these customers are not planning to have it installed just for sake of playing video now and then. It's expensive, if nothing else, and it fails occasionally too. There is simply no precendent of a household appliance that requires an Internet connection in order to function.
What kind of a F!-ed up society do you guys live in, anyway?
The best one in the world, obviously.
people's natural instincts are to help one another, not steal things from stores, or beat and rape each other.
This is a "dog eat dog" society, with traditions of Wild West obviously fresh in many minds.
Is the USA really in such a state that law and order are maintained only by the presence of police?
In many places - yes; in some smaller places, no. Large cities rate very poorly on friendship and mutual assistance scale.
And if something happens to disrupt the power of the police, that the first things that come to people's minds is to break into the neighborhood shops and take the TV's?
Of course; it's profitable.
Is your country filled with people who are so ready to backstab their neighbors?
It would be nice to know a country which bred humans with better behavior. Generally, one must be completely and totally fulfilled in every aspect in order not to desire something that someone else has. Or one must have nerves of steel to combat such desires. Many people, in any country, will steal when they have a chance. Some will steal small things from a store; other steal big things, like national currency, from a nation. But humans always steal.
If this is true, it seems like a really, really sick (and scary!) society.
This saga is quite typical, and it does not depend on the operating system, compiler or anything else. It's just what happens when stuff is poorly designed and poorly written by insufficiently qualified personnel.
Yes, I was commenting with perfect reproduction in mind - because the root poster mentioned using "Adobe Creative Suite, Maya, Dreamweaver". It would be bad for this type of business to have his documents seen by the customers as poorly laid out.
You can't use OpenOffice in a business environment where you have to send and receive correctly formatted documents. OpenOffice always retains the text, but usually mangles some little details here and there. In a large document, with pictures and other embedded objects, you can't afford to hunt for such defects each time you get a file. Even worse, you can't ask your customers to do the same when they open your files. $500 paid for his MS Office was a good business decision.
It is always a good policy to be smart in a smart company and stupid in a stupid company. This has nothing to do with condescending or being arrogant; it's actually being both practical and friendly. Advertising your differences won't make you safer.
But of course if a bunch of your son's friends wants, as a game, to find out if any cars in the lot are unlocked, your son, being smart, will find an excuse to stay away from that activity.
It is indeed usually a good idea, especially in a small company, to have all passwords managed by the MIS person. This way the passwords are strong enough, but pronounceable (and so they can be remembered). And when the user forgets the password he can be told what it is, instead of resetting the password and losing all his encrypted files, if he had any.
Now you save a few thousand dollars on the proprietary software but spend $100K or more on a competent admin who, hopefully, will be doing nothing most of the time? People who run businesses are all too aware of where (or who) the -real- expenses are - it's the employees.
I would think that the wings are specifically designed to have as small pressure difference as possible. Otherwise the air pressure will exert additional forces which don't help anyone.
You can talk to a Prius; it actually understands you. The speech recognition is used primarily for navigation, but a bunch of other commands (A/C controls, for example) are also supported.
And if you have boxes running services you don't need -- then you don't control those boxes, do you?
And why that would be impossible? Contractors bring their own notebooks and PDAs, employees do their best to circumvent the policies (so that they can run their MSN Messengers, for example) etc. etc.
As long as you have more than a handful of computers in the business, you can not honestly guarantee that all these computers are always secure.
Also, once a new vulnerability is discovered all your computers become instantly insecure. If you are behind the firewall you take your time to test the patch and push it to the workstations. If you have no firewall.. I pity that sysadmin.
would think economies of scale would pretty much deal with this problem
Look at the prices of cell phone batteries - they are more expensive than the phones. And we are talking about HUGE volume here; cell phones are probably the most popular electronic product ever sold.
The reason is that our chemical batteries are archaic, and only minor improvements (weight) were made in last 100 years. Pretty much the lead-acid battery is still the champion (you have it in your car).
don't government agencies like FEMA continue operating radio systems in case of natural disaster?
But these are not 2.4 GHz (or 900 MHz) unmanaged tiny cells. HF radio centers, for example, can cover huge territories, and a good V/UHF station can be also set up quickly; these centers are manned and have all kinds of power sources. This is because the FEMA (or military) radios are not cell phones, and they are not limited to 100 mW, and they are not limited to 70 channels, and they are not required to hop in sync, and they have proper, large antennas... there are very many differences. Cell network is a network; nodes in your path must be alive for it to work. FEMA RF net is not a network; it's a radio connection between one central point and many peripheral points (portable radios.) Only two sites - you and the center - need to be functional.
T1 does offer guaranteed latency, and indeed you can allocate time slots as needed. If that's how the router works, then you don't have VoIP because there is no IP involved; IP for your Net access runs in free time slots, in parallel to the synchronous virtual circuit that is carrying the voice.
wouldn't a wireless system stay just as powered as a wired solution?
If you are talking about the cellular network, then all base stations, on all poles, masts and roofs, must be equipped with generators; that's tens of thousands of them. Compare that to a single switching center which services tens of thousands of customers. Such a center can afford to have one really good generator, and some batteries, and service for them.
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In other words, it's like crossing the Atlantic ocean on a wooden raft. It can be done, once, if you really like taking risks, but it is completely impractical.
Yes, mud and water are clearly visible. You can see what sections of the city are still dry; most are under water, though.
It's only two railway cars. I can carry that much over a year in a donkey cart, or in my backpack even :-)
Cities and whole countries exist in such conditions, because that's where they are. Netherlands, for example. How do you move a large city, and where to?
Their software may have kept pace with advances in OS software, but it could not possibly keep pace with advances in math. If a 256-bit AES key is not stored anywhere except the suspect's brain, forget about deciphering, it's not going to happen. Only a keylogger may help here, but for that you should have installed it well in advance.
He might be right or wrong - depending on what he does look for in the candidates. Experience with Visual Basic or Oracle, or SNMP, or Cisco routers, will be probably worse than useless.
$32 for me, as an example, with Sprint.
About 120 minutes any time, and some 120+ minutes weekends. I never use that much anyway, so this is a good plan for me.
because anyone calling you is going to have to pay through the nose to talk to you
Yes, the US system wins here. Anyone can call me, but if I don't think it's worth using my minutes I will call him back on a landline, or just politely bring the call to an end. It is better this way because I want to judge, myself, if the call is important or not. Otherwise the other person will be making this decision, and why to have a phone then if other people are reluctant to call you?
The downside is that a lot of US employers expect you to give them your mobile number and (and this infuriates me) will call it in preference to your home number.
But you know, you are entitled to submit an expense report, and the employer will pay for that call. You don't need to pay for it yourself.
Someone ought to tell them, then, that 99% of their customers don't have Ethernet at home (with DNS and DHCP and firewalls and NAT and whatever, all configured just right), and that these customers are not planning to have it installed just for sake of playing video now and then. It's expensive, if nothing else, and it fails occasionally too. There is simply no precendent of a household appliance that requires an Internet connection in order to function.
The best one in the world, obviously.
people's natural instincts are to help one another, not steal things from stores, or beat and rape each other.
This is a "dog eat dog" society, with traditions of Wild West obviously fresh in many minds.
Is the USA really in such a state that law and order are maintained only by the presence of police?
In many places - yes; in some smaller places, no. Large cities rate very poorly on friendship and mutual assistance scale.
And if something happens to disrupt the power of the police, that the first things that come to people's minds is to break into the neighborhood shops and take the TV's?
Of course; it's profitable.
Is your country filled with people who are so ready to backstab their neighbors?
It would be nice to know a country which bred humans with better behavior. Generally, one must be completely and totally fulfilled in every aspect in order not to desire something that someone else has. Or one must have nerves of steel to combat such desires. Many people, in any country, will steal when they have a chance. Some will steal small things from a store; other steal big things, like national currency, from a nation. But humans always steal.
If this is true, it seems like a really, really sick (and scary!) society.
You are not the first to comment on that.
This saga is quite typical, and it does not depend on the operating system, compiler or anything else. It's just what happens when stuff is poorly designed and poorly written by insufficiently qualified personnel.
Yes, I was commenting with perfect reproduction in mind - because the root poster mentioned using "Adobe Creative Suite, Maya, Dreamweaver". It would be bad for this type of business to have his documents seen by the customers as poorly laid out.
You can't use OpenOffice in a business environment where you have to send and receive correctly formatted documents. OpenOffice always retains the text, but usually mangles some little details here and there. In a large document, with pictures and other embedded objects, you can't afford to hunt for such defects each time you get a file. Even worse, you can't ask your customers to do the same when they open your files. $500 paid for his MS Office was a good business decision.
But of course if a bunch of your son's friends wants, as a game, to find out if any cars in the lot are unlocked, your son, being smart, will find an excuse to stay away from that activity.
It is indeed usually a good idea, especially in a small company, to have all passwords managed by the MIS person. This way the passwords are strong enough, but pronounceable (and so they can be remembered). And when the user forgets the password he can be told what it is, instead of resetting the password and losing all his encrypted files, if he had any.
Now you save a few thousand dollars on the proprietary software but spend $100K or more on a competent admin who, hopefully, will be doing nothing most of the time? People who run businesses are all too aware of where (or who) the -real- expenses are - it's the employees.
++$n) Buy the app and use it today. Start your R&D project and, even if all is well, start using it a year from now.
Unless the Flash is in BGA package.
That happened when one caveman killed another caveman in order to get something that the victim had.
I would think that the wings are specifically designed to have as small pressure difference as possible. Otherwise the air pressure will exert additional forces which don't help anyone.
You can talk to a Prius; it actually understands you. The speech recognition is used primarily for navigation, but a bunch of other commands (A/C controls, for example) are also supported.
Dr. Who: "What could possibly go wrong?"
And why that would be impossible? Contractors bring their own notebooks and PDAs, employees do their best to circumvent the policies (so that they can run their MSN Messengers, for example) etc. etc.
As long as you have more than a handful of computers in the business, you can not honestly guarantee that all these computers are always secure.
Also, once a new vulnerability is discovered all your computers become instantly insecure. If you are behind the firewall you take your time to test the patch and push it to the workstations. If you have no firewall.. I pity that sysadmin.
Look at the prices of cell phone batteries - they are more expensive than the phones. And we are talking about HUGE volume here; cell phones are probably the most popular electronic product ever sold.
The reason is that our chemical batteries are archaic, and only minor improvements (weight) were made in last 100 years. Pretty much the lead-acid battery is still the champion (you have it in your car).
don't government agencies like FEMA continue operating radio systems in case of natural disaster?
But these are not 2.4 GHz (or 900 MHz) unmanaged tiny cells. HF radio centers, for example, can cover huge territories, and a good V/UHF station can be also set up quickly; these centers are manned and have all kinds of power sources. This is because the FEMA (or military) radios are not cell phones, and they are not limited to 100 mW, and they are not limited to 70 channels, and they are not required to hop in sync, and they have proper, large antennas... there are very many differences. Cell network is a network; nodes in your path must be alive for it to work. FEMA RF net is not a network; it's a radio connection between one central point and many peripheral points (portable radios.) Only two sites - you and the center - need to be functional.
T1 does offer guaranteed latency, and indeed you can allocate time slots as needed. If that's how the router works, then you don't have VoIP because there is no IP involved; IP for your Net access runs in free time slots, in parallel to the synchronous virtual circuit that is carrying the voice.
If you are talking about the cellular network, then all base stations, on all poles, masts and roofs, must be equipped with generators; that's tens of thousands of them. Compare that to a single switching center which services tens of thousands of customers. Such a center can afford to have one really good generator, and some batteries, and service for them.