Too expensive to run/maintain cables to every city/town/village in the north. If you look at this map you can see the coverage you get for the cost of one satellite.
This happens all the time. A fast food company like Subway, McDonalds, KFC, etc. will loan farmers money to expand their operations to produce more food for them exclusively.
To me it sounds like you don't have authority in the company to push these changes. I'm an IT manager and when these kinds of requests come in they have to be approved by a CXO, VP, or some other senior executive, that is the decision maker for that area of the company. Otherwise how do I know that this new program or this new website is in line with the company's goals and direction? You should take your case higher up and get the right people to support your project/request. Also, sometimes the person requesting something is trying to solve a problem but they're requesting the wrong tool for the job or they're overlooking an existing tool. Here are a few examples:
I got a request a couple weeks ago from a VP to change our AV gateway servers from Trend Micro to Norton. And I said no. Reason #1 - IT decides what AV to use, that's why you pay them to make these kinds of decisions. Reason #2 - changing the AV software on all of our gateways would cost money for licenses and time deployment so we can't just change it willy nilly.
I got a request from a manager for Blackberrys for all of his staff. I said no because corporate policy doesn't allow that. The people who run the company decided that it's a waste of money to give each employee a Blackberry. It's not even my decision.
I got a request from a manager wanting Photoshop for all of her staff. I said no because our business has absolutely nothing to do with creating graphics or touching up pictures. I asked her what problem she's trying to solve and she said they need to resize pictures sometimes. All of our computers have Paint.NET installed so I just sent someone for their local helpdesk to round them up in a boardroom and give a quick demo of using Paint.NET to accomplish what they needed. Everybody wins.
Meet Daniil Kulchenko. He was an HTML programmer at age six. He was a freelance Linux systems administrator at 11. And at 15, he founded his first business: Phenona, a platform-as-a-service for building and hosting Perl applications.
It seems to have lots of value in some places. "Face time is an English idiom for direct personal interaction or contact between two or more people at the same time and physical location."
Well I don't see what spending a few million on laptops has to do with Lenovo making servers but to clarify I buy IBM servers, HP workstations and Lenovo Thinkpads.
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I tried baen.com and baenebooks.com, no dice.
Yes.
Ok, I'm interested. Where can I buy this as a DRM-free eBook? Not iBooks/Kindle, just a PDF or ePub or something similar that I can open anywhere.
How do you pronounce "ptychography"??
Too expensive to run/maintain cables to every city/town/village in the north. If you look at this map you can see the coverage you get for the cost of one satellite.
Sounds like DHS has hired Dilbert's Pointy Haired Boss.
This happens all the time. A fast food company like Subway, McDonalds, KFC, etc. will loan farmers money to expand their operations to produce more food for them exclusively.
To me it sounds like you don't have authority in the company to push these changes. I'm an IT manager and when these kinds of requests come in they have to be approved by a CXO, VP, or some other senior executive, that is the decision maker for that area of the company. Otherwise how do I know that this new program or this new website is in line with the company's goals and direction? You should take your case higher up and get the right people to support your project/request. Also, sometimes the person requesting something is trying to solve a problem but they're requesting the wrong tool for the job or they're overlooking an existing tool. Here are a few examples:
I got a request a couple weeks ago from a VP to change our AV gateway servers from Trend Micro to Norton. And I said no. Reason #1 - IT decides what AV to use, that's why you pay them to make these kinds of decisions. Reason #2 - changing the AV software on all of our gateways would cost money for licenses and time deployment so we can't just change it willy nilly.
I got a request from a manager for Blackberrys for all of his staff. I said no because corporate policy doesn't allow that. The people who run the company decided that it's a waste of money to give each employee a Blackberry. It's not even my decision.
I got a request from a manager wanting Photoshop for all of her staff. I said no because our business has absolutely nothing to do with creating graphics or touching up pictures. I asked her what problem she's trying to solve and she said they need to resize pictures sometimes. All of our computers have Paint.NET installed so I just sent someone for their local helpdesk to round them up in a boardroom and give a quick demo of using Paint.NET to accomplish what they needed. Everybody wins.
Meet Daniil Kulchenko. He was an HTML programmer at age six. He was a freelance Linux systems administrator at 11. And at 15, he founded his first business: Phenona, a platform-as-a-service for building and hosting Perl applications.
There's a pic of him in there.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/14/activestate_buys_teen_programmer/
lol b00b:1e5
The Leader is good, the Leader is great, we surrender our will as of this date!
There's stuff about it on the discussion page
It seems to have lots of value in some places. "Face time is an English idiom for direct personal interaction or contact between two or more people at the same time and physical location."
FTFY http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/discovery-of-worms-from-hell-deep-beneath-earths-surface-raises-new-questions/2011/05/31/AGnzJTGH_story.html
They should call it "Apple Mac OS X Cloud 2011 Premium Home Edition R2 SP1"
Prime Minister re-elected in landslide victory getting all robot votes.
Thanks for the explanation. Makes sense now :)
Beautiful video! Does anyone know what the orange laser is used for? Pointing things out to others? Bouncing off the moon? Shooting those pesky UFOs?
every time i try to mod your comment the page jumps lol
It reminds me of that anti-piracy commercial from The IT Crowd.
We need to bulldoze the plant before it blows and build a new one!! Is fusion available yet?
Doesn't make sense... Will the next version of iTunes, IE, firefox, Ubuntu, etc cost $4.99?
...However, it is worth noting that in yet-to-be-published parts of the cablegate archive there are indeed references to UFOs.
Interesting!!
Here's a video of a guy velcroing his iPad to a bunch of different things including a car and a motorcycle. Fun indeed!
Well I don't see what spending a few million on laptops has to do with Lenovo making servers but to clarify I buy IBM servers, HP workstations and Lenovo Thinkpads.