I never understood how someone that is interested in the inner-workings of computing and networking has been coined "Ethical Hacker." Marketing at its finest.
Try looking at Oblivion: Elder Scrolls. It's not an Xbox only game but definitely one of the best I've played. I've recently downloaded the expansion pack and have been enjoying this game for months (1 or 2 hours of play per day)
It's an RPG that has won a few awards in 2006.
You are right however... I do try to pace myself as much as possible when I purchase a game, a really good one comes out every few months... but this is nothing new in the gaming industry IMHO.
Well hats off to your economy for allowing you to being wealthy enough to drive around as much as we do for $7.50 a gallon.
Seeing as the dollar is worth 50% of the UK Pound anyway, you still have not proven that we 'have it made.' A taxi driver in the UK can afford to send his whole family to Disneyworld. How many taxi drivers in America can do that in comparison? Who has it better?
I have travelled over 100k miles so far this year to various parts of the world on business. Open your eyes up a bit to see the better quality of life most Europeans have overall over Americans... gas prices or not.
But your government's taxation scheme is responsible for your prices... so the comparison is as always baseless. Your government is screwing you on top of big oil.
The 2006 fuel duty rate was £0.471 per litre (£2.14 per UK gallon) of ultra-low sulphur unleaded petrol/diesel, in addition to which VAT is added, at the rate of 17.5%, to the total price of the fuel including the added duty.
In the December 2006 Pre-Budget Report [1] the Government announced a rise to the above duty to £0.4835 per litre (£2.198 per UK gallon), effective from midnight on Wednesday 6th December, and stated that fuel prices should rise each year 'at least in line with inflation'. Fuel duty currently raises about £23.5 Billion per yer[2] for the treasury.
So you're looking at about $4 per gallon in taxes, as well as 17.5% of the *total price including the duty*. You would be paying around what Americans did otherwise.
Tracking by uptime, as a lot of other posts describe, simply is not enough. If you want to compare success by uptime, your management might as well just outsource your department to a datacenter company.
A Service Level Agreement can truly monitor your performance as a customer service organization. This idea would measure the soft side of IT support as well as uptime. Also if you do uptime measures, monitor the services, not just ping times. That is simply a waste.
HEAT is a very expensive system but can track service levels, and many open source or cheap packages can monitor uptimes.
Left-brained, text filled presentations are uninteresting no matter what the topic is.
Why even make this a Powerpoint presentation? Let the communicators do the communicating, let the engineers focus on the fixing.... then maybe someone will pay attention.
One of the reasons why there isn't much investment in doing IT "correctly" is because of the inability of engineering types to communicate properly to the investor, in my experience.
Cingular was a joint venture between SBC Wireless and Bellsouth Wireless converging in the late 90s. AT&T Wireless was a seperate entity owned by AT&T.
AT&T Wireless was bought by Cingular earlier this decade.
SBC bought AT&T and took the name of AT&T. AT&T bought Bellsouth for $89 billion and now Cingular will fully owned by what is now AT&T when the merger closes later this year.
As part of the AT&T / Bellsouth purchase, the feds are requiring AT&T to sell off some of its wireless spectrum, due to it becoming an unfair monopoly as the largest cell phone, land based and long distance carrier in the nation.
Normally the response of someone who's not confident about their work or cannot articulate progress properly are the ones that scream micro-management first.
As a manager who is technical at a FTSE 250 company, it is common that employees who are behind and/or not skilled enough to carry out a request cry micro-management when they are questioned on activity list detail. I would suggest that you give updates on progress before being asked, to get us tech-manager types off of your ass.
Remember your output as a team member reflects on the entire team and the team's management. IT in exec management's eyes is always assumed to fail whatever project they are on, thanks to poor project management and/or management in general, therefore a lot pressure is on whoever is responsible for IT to perform.
As far as your comment about most tech people don't have the emotional makeup required to successfully manage teams, may be true. However, that same group of people usually don't think beyond their cubicle they are sitting in as well. IT is very social as your work output generally impacts the entire business you are in, and good social skills take one a lot farther in IT than coding behind a desk for 16 hours a day.
I don't think it has much to do with undeleting... who actually deletes files these days? I think it has more with overwriting a document with bad data. How many times has anyone opened up a file to use as a template, and hit Save instead of Save As.....?
I welcome this feature... it would definitely increase my productivity without having to worry about something like Sharepoint being set up to handle versioning.
I was asking to assist with a similar project, before the hurricane. The city had a plan for free Wifi for the City, starting with the schools... then leveraging the infrastructure to be used by the rest of the city.
Of course the financial feasibility was near impossible to fathom -- but now this can definitely be a reality.
Greg Meffert is a good guy who is all about the city and ridding it of corruption, and leveraging technology to make a difference. One story about him says his technology department were using a VOIP service to contact first responders because Bellsouth et al were completely wiped out. He believes in what he is pitching.
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I think a lot of countries around the world including the UK and Australia dig on the Simpsons.
Whenever I travel, it seems the theme of the past few seasons consisting of ridiculing Americans and other cultures is more popular there. I do not know a single person that has watched it regularly in the past 5 years.
I think after Married with Children ended, Fox hasn't been able to find a suitable sitcom replacement... and its animated line-up just sits there taking up the slot.
What will make my organization switch? Forceful licensing practices after I renew another 3 years worth of MS Enterprise Agreement.
If not that, they will drop support for MS XP and the MCSE certification tracks. So in order for my employees to stay competitive they will have to learn this new stuff.
Not to mention the ensuing hardware upgrades and MS 200x server side apps that will only work w/ Vista.
It's pretty obvious the end is near for Sun. It seems that the specific ad you are speaking about is targetted towards kids who need a cheap Linux box to host shell accounts.
Maybe they will put in a option for Online FPS Gamer...since we are all desensitized to massive killings of our fellow man, we'd be pretty good grunts on the field.. right?
Smith is a fscked program which ultimately makes him a virus. Remember from the first movie, he notes to Morpheus that humans are nothing more than a virus. From this is where he finds his purpose that he lost.
Neo is actually the control on the opposite end of the spectrum of the equation to protect against Smith. Just think about it.. Contained inside of the code of 'The One' was the only cure for 'The Virus'. Combined, they nullify the anomaly in the equation, hence the Smiths going away.
The only Biblical references are really by the way he discovers himself as being the Savior of mankind. He also sacrifices his life for their salvation of all life, good (humans) and evil (the Matrix). His super perception is just that... enhanced perception, a la Daredevil.
But all in all, it's a well rounded series. It does invite the imagination despite all of the special effects.. a mark of a great film.
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I never understood how someone that is interested in the inner-workings of computing and networking has been coined "Ethical Hacker." Marketing at its finest.
Try looking at Oblivion: Elder Scrolls. It's not an Xbox only game but definitely one of the best I've played. I've recently downloaded the expansion pack and have been enjoying this game for months (1 or 2 hours of play per day)
... I do try to pace myself as much as possible when I purchase a game, a really good one comes out every few months... but this is nothing new in the gaming industry IMHO.
It's an RPG that has won a few awards in 2006.
You are right however
Perhaps you should start the 7 'Nerd' Wonders of the world.
Honestly, I've recently went to see the Redeemer statue. The size, location, and how it got there are amazing stories and sights to see.
Too bad the slums of Rio it overlooks should be one of the wonders of the world as well.
The police in Rio de Janeiro are engaged in a war on drugs that the authorities are determined they should not lose.
Slum dwellers live on the frontline between the police and gangs
In a single confrontation this week in one group of favelas, or slums, known as the German complex, at least 19 people were killed.
It was one of the biggest police operations of its kind, involving around 1300 officers. The death toll is expected to rise.
Link here.
Well hats off to your economy for allowing you to being wealthy enough to drive around as much as we do for $7.50 a gallon.
Seeing as the dollar is worth 50% of the UK Pound anyway, you still have not proven that we 'have it made.' A taxi driver in the UK can afford to send his whole family to Disneyworld. How many taxi drivers in America can do that in comparison? Who has it better?
I have travelled over 100k miles so far this year to various parts of the world on business. Open your eyes up a bit to see the better quality of life most Europeans have overall over Americans... gas prices or not.
Feeding the troll here...
But your government's taxation scheme is responsible for your prices... so the comparison is as always baseless. Your government is screwing you on top of big oil.
The 2006 fuel duty rate was £0.471 per litre (£2.14 per UK gallon) of ultra-low sulphur unleaded petrol/diesel, in addition to which VAT is added, at the rate of 17.5%, to the total price of the fuel including the added duty.
In the December 2006 Pre-Budget Report [1] the Government announced a rise to the above duty to £0.4835 per litre (£2.198 per UK gallon), effective from midnight on Wednesday 6th December, and stated that fuel prices should rise each year 'at least in line with inflation'. Fuel duty currently raises about £23.5 Billion per yer[2] for the treasury.
So you're looking at about $4 per gallon in taxes, as well as 17.5% of the *total price including the duty*. You would be paying around what Americans did otherwise.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_duty.
Enough with the moronic 'American's have it good' blather.
Tracking by uptime, as a lot of other posts describe, simply is not enough. If you want to compare success by uptime, your management might as well just outsource your department to a datacenter company.
A Service Level Agreement can truly monitor your performance as a customer service organization. This idea would measure the soft side of IT support as well as uptime. Also if you do uptime measures, monitor the services, not just ping times. That is simply a waste.
HEAT is a very expensive system but can track service levels, and many open source or cheap packages can monitor uptimes.
A quick google has an example here.
Left-brained, text filled presentations are uninteresting no matter what the topic is.
Why even make this a Powerpoint presentation? Let the communicators do the communicating, let the engineers focus on the fixing.... then maybe someone will pay attention.
One of the reasons why there isn't much investment in doing IT "correctly" is because of the inability of engineering types to communicate properly to the investor, in my experience.
Cingular was a joint venture between SBC Wireless and Bellsouth Wireless converging in the late 90s. AT&T Wireless was a seperate entity owned by AT&T.
AT&T Wireless was bought by Cingular earlier this decade.
SBC bought AT&T and took the name of AT&T. AT&T bought Bellsouth for $89 billion and now Cingular will fully owned by what is now AT&T when the merger closes later this year.
As part of the AT&T / Bellsouth purchase, the feds are requiring AT&T to sell off some of its wireless spectrum, due to it becoming an unfair monopoly as the largest cell phone, land based and long distance carrier in the nation.
Read your message in about 10 years when your job is in India, Eastern Europe, and/or China and you'd have wished you listened.
Normally the response of someone who's not confident about their work or cannot articulate progress properly are the ones that scream micro-management first.
As a manager who is technical at a FTSE 250 company, it is common that employees who are behind and/or not skilled enough to carry out a request cry micro-management when they are questioned on activity list detail. I would suggest that you give updates on progress before being asked, to get us tech-manager types off of your ass.
Remember your output as a team member reflects on the entire team and the team's management. IT in exec management's eyes is always assumed to fail whatever project they are on, thanks to poor project management and/or management in general, therefore a lot pressure is on whoever is responsible for IT to perform.
As far as your comment about most tech people don't have the emotional makeup required to successfully manage teams, may be true. However, that same group of people usually don't think beyond their cubicle they are sitting in as well. IT is very social as your work output generally impacts the entire business you are in, and good social skills take one a lot farther in IT than coding behind a desk for 16 hours a day.
I don't think it has much to do with undeleting... who actually deletes files these days? I think it has more with overwriting a document with bad data. How many times has anyone opened up a file to use as a template, and hit Save instead of Save As.....?
... it would definitely increase my productivity without having to worry about something like Sharepoint being set up to handle versioning.
I welcome this feature
ADHD?
I was asking to assist with a similar project, before the hurricane. The city had a plan for free Wifi for the City, starting with the schools... then leveraging the infrastructure to be used by the rest of the city.
Of course the financial feasibility was near impossible to fathom -- but now this can definitely be a reality.
Greg Meffert is a good guy who is all about the city and ridding it of corruption, and leveraging technology to make a difference. One story about him says his technology department were using a VOIP service to contact first responders because Bellsouth et al were completely wiped out. He believes in what he is pitching.
I think a lot of countries around the world including the UK and Australia dig on the Simpsons.
Whenever I travel, it seems the theme of the past few seasons consisting of ridiculing Americans and other cultures is more popular there. I do not know a single person that has watched it regularly in the past 5 years.
I think after Married with Children ended, Fox hasn't been able to find a suitable sitcom replacement... and its animated line-up just sits there taking up the slot.
Beta 1 let you remove it in the Control Panel, but as an update rollback (like uninstalling a hotfix) and not a standalone app. Not sure about Beta 2.
Don't be a fool. 9/11 was a disaster but New York was not destroyed completely like New Orleans.
Apples and Oranges.
I think the proper term is 'cock-blocked.'
What will make my organization switch? Forceful licensing practices after I renew another 3 years worth of MS Enterprise Agreement.
If not that, they will drop support for MS XP and the MCSE certification tracks. So in order for my employees to stay competitive they will have to learn this new stuff.
Not to mention the ensuing hardware upgrades and MS 200x server side apps that will only work w/ Vista.
In other words, business as usual for MS.
It's pretty obvious the end is near for Sun. It seems that the specific ad you are speaking about is targetted towards kids who need a cheap Linux box to host shell accounts.
Beaucoup.
A Boku is a kind of drum shaped like a truncated cone and meant to be played with bare hands.
Lingo Works great, $20 a month. Free calling to Western Europe.
http://www.longboard.com
Yes.. Skype works behind just about any configuration. I've tested it in multiple situations with my laptop.
Maybe they will put in a option for Online FPS Gamer...since we are all desensitized to massive killings of our fellow man, we'd be pretty good grunts on the field.. right?
The Matrix is an operating system.
Smith is a fscked program which ultimately makes him a virus. Remember from the first movie, he notes to Morpheus that humans are nothing more than a virus. From this is where he finds his purpose that he lost.
Neo is actually the control on the opposite end of the spectrum of the equation to protect against Smith. Just think about it.. Contained inside of the code of 'The One' was the only cure for 'The Virus'. Combined, they nullify the anomaly in the equation, hence the Smiths going away.
The only Biblical references are really by the way he discovers himself as being the Savior of mankind. He also sacrifices his life for their salvation of all life, good (humans) and evil (the Matrix). His super perception is just that... enhanced perception, a la Daredevil.
But all in all, it's a well rounded series. It does invite the imagination despite all of the special effects.. a mark of a great film.