I always like option 2 or option 2a) (instead of a junior you hire a full time developer).
Reason being that if you happen to hit the goldmine with regards to the developer, there is always the possibility to start selling the product(s) created.
I mean if you as a nonprofit seem to have a use for it, and the developer is good, it should be easy to go back and tidy up the code, take out some of the parts that are unique to your company, and sell the software package...
It also allows you to stagger the product you are selling (which you are basically selling to your competitors) so that your internal build is always a few features ahead of what is out on the market.
Id much rather have to deal with a employee who keeps asking for raises vs vendor lock in.
OPSI + Windows XP slipstreamed image with entire driverpacks drivers + SP3 + hotfixes
Hell that can just be burned as a DVD ISO and installed (too big for a CD last time I did this as we are talking about hundreds of drivers).
Money version:
Your situation? Ghost will probably be the cheapest. These days Ghost comes with a DeployAnywhere utility that allows you to deploy a sysprep image to any hardware as long as its storage and net drivers are in the DeployAnywhere database. Same stuff that Altiris NS7 + Deployment Solution 7.1 use.
Contrary to the AC above, I have never seen a BSOD or error directly related to imaging with DeployAnywhere.
If you go the OPSI route, expect spending a few days / weeks learning how to use it as well as how to set it up properly.
Work phone is a crappy blackberry pearl (the "keyboard" on it sucks).
Personal phone is a HTC Hero.
I simply have the blackberry forward all calls to my personal cell phone. This way if I ever leave the company, the HTC is still mine, if they need the work phone back because they are investigating something, I simply remove the call forwarding setup and give it back to them.
Only downside is if you miss a call that was forwarded to you, when you call back they get to see your personal cell phone number. This could be avoided by instead having the work phone forward to a google voice account #, and then on the personal phone, just use google voice to return calls.
It is, when you consider the fact that you can go over to your friends place, log into STEAM there, and get plopped in the game right where you left off at home.
I think the major players who see this as a good thing are LAN centers.
That doesn't give them the right to rummage through the phone looking at sent txt / picture / chat / search history.
It would be OK for the officials to take the phones from the students because they were using them in class, and then either give it back at the end of the day / hand it over to the parents, but I don't see any reason a school official should have the right to look through the phone.
My guess is that the organized cartels are already doing this.
Except that the second you cash out and it is discovered that the stock was inflated by 100,000 hacked e-trade accounts, you are the number one suspect.
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That would be pretty bad ass actually.
Reminds me of Riddick.
how do I know you are not a scam?
(site looks legit and all)
Also, do you offer business accounts?
I always like option 2 or option 2a) (instead of a junior you hire a full time developer).
Reason being that if you happen to hit the goldmine with regards to the developer, there is always the possibility to start selling the product(s) created.
I mean if you as a nonprofit seem to have a use for it, and the developer is good, it should be easy to go back and tidy up the code, take out some of the parts that are unique to your company, and sell the software package...
It also allows you to stagger the product you are selling (which you are basically selling to your competitors) so that your internal build is always a few features ahead of what is out on the market.
Id much rather have to deal with a employee who keeps asking for raises vs vendor lock in.
The perfect law to use when going after all the fake AV software companies.
I imagine they already do this...
You know those license plate scanners the police cars have now? I can guarantee those things are going in a database as such:
[License plate ID][Time & Day of scan][GPS coordinates]
They could then go and use that data to prove or disprove you were or weren't in a certain area at a certain time.
Hell with enough of that data, they could probably generate reports of your driving habits.
Freeware version:
OPSI + Windows XP slipstreamed image with entire driverpacks drivers + SP3 + hotfixes
Hell that can just be burned as a DVD ISO and installed (too big for a CD last time I did this as we are talking about hundreds of drivers).
Money version:
Your situation? Ghost will probably be the cheapest. These days Ghost comes with a DeployAnywhere utility that allows you to deploy a sysprep image to any hardware as long as its storage and net drivers are in the DeployAnywhere database. Same stuff that Altiris NS7 + Deployment Solution 7.1 use.
Contrary to the AC above, I have never seen a BSOD or error directly related to imaging with DeployAnywhere.
If you go the OPSI route, expect spending a few days / weeks learning how to use it as well as how to set it up properly.
here is your "poll"
Maybe that is why they included it within the browser? So they can correctly sandbox it?
check out Xim 360 to get a slick keyboard / mouse on your 360 :)
It costs a good chunk of change (a new console's worth) but if you intend to use it a lot, definitely worth it.
Current setup:
Work phone is a crappy blackberry pearl (the "keyboard" on it sucks).
Personal phone is a HTC Hero.
I simply have the blackberry forward all calls to my personal cell phone. This way if I ever leave the company, the HTC is still mine, if they need the work phone back because they are investigating something, I simply remove the call forwarding setup and give it back to them.
Only downside is if you miss a call that was forwarded to you, when you call back they get to see your personal cell phone number. This could be avoided by instead having the work phone forward to a google voice account #, and then on the personal phone, just use google voice to return calls.
Good stuff, will be taking a look at this.
Wrong.
A full Win 7 Ultimate install with Office 2010 + Visual Studio 2010 + Project & Visio 2010 sits at around 25GB.
you still have 15GB left. Take off VS2010 and you are sitting around 20-25GB free.
What about Bill Gate's talk @ TED about the Travelling Wave Reactor
How does that compare to this?
It is, when you consider the fact that you can go over to your friends place, log into STEAM there, and get plopped in the game right where you left off at home.
I think the major players who see this as a good thing are LAN centers.
So, what % of the search market will Google now own after this change?
I would imagine a LOT of people would start using Google if they found out it was uncensored.
It will be interesting to watch how their market share changes from this.
2.5 but it will be a mainframe that is powered by GPU's
That doesn't give them the right to rummage through the phone looking at sent txt / picture / chat / search history.
It would be OK for the officials to take the phones from the students because they were using them in class, and then either give it back at the end of the day / hand it over to the parents, but I don't see any reason a school official should have the right to look through the phone.
My guess is that the organized cartels are already doing this.
Except that the second you cash out and it is discovered that the stock was inflated by 100,000 hacked e-trade accounts, you are the number one suspect.
My thought as well.
Give them a few 1U's a few more 2U's and 2 4U UPS's to mount. Give them one of those server lifts too so they don't break their back.
Points given based on tidiness of cables and speed.
Google should start hiring some Mercs to protect their employees.
Make a international incident of it.
With Mercs, the only thing China could do would be to surround them and tell them to get the hell out of here.
If either side started shooting, it would be a complete and utter International mess.
Why would the Fed's have to use the FCC database? They already have complete access to the ISPs logs.
Agreed
Why do you think these things are being released?
Just because?
If you release the multiprocessor hardware, after a few generations the majority of users will have multiprocessor PCs...
Once that is the case, THEN the programmers will follow.
But in 6 years we will have the AMD holodeck.
(my vision is like the computer room the kid in "Gamer" had)
Imagine coding on a screen like that with this IDE...
you can do a lot of things in VMWare to get over that hurdle, some supported by VMWare, and others not.