I second that. For a certain User install base I need to design for FF6. So I downgrade to FF6 from 8 and disable updating. A restart later FF6 autoupdates to FF8 when I had disabled that ability in Options.
This is really quite common. It happened at my alma mater as well. Servers could not handle the POP requests, so they started blacklisting students that checked their mail more than four times an hour. A month later a RAID drive failed and email for 17k people (including a hospital) was completely offline for 3 days.
It is sad that seemingly anyone can be a high paid "IT Professional" these days, but without a clue about HA.
Weekly I'm astounded by an interation with a well paid "IT professional" that has little understanding of the basics of software development. Good help is hard to find.
I want to echo your comment. I work at a major financial institution (in NC) and am salaried. Working 8am - 8pm is standard and no one complains about not getting OT. The pay and benefits are good and you can quit if you don't like it. I don't see the issue. In my mind at a real good job you're expected to bust your ass and put in the hours it takes to complete the project.
So we are choosing to be more efficient than fast?
What about the new Air Force mini shuttle, the Indian and Chinese space programs, oh.. and all of the newer, faster secret aircraft our own government has been developing over the last several decades? Does this author ever watch television?
No one has yet mentioned why the channels are scared. They have every right to be, it is based on oversubscription.
(1) If you are a cable channel, you charge a few cents per viewer, per month to the cable company. This is not much for most channels, between around $0.15 and $1. For a major channel like ESPN it can be $3.50.
(2) Most people don't care about most of the channels in their package. Of that $80/mo, I don't care about the $0.15 that is going to Women's Entertainment, but they still get their cut. WE depends on million of people that don't watch the channel paying for it. Many channels desperately need this model.
(3) If you stream channels, then you could just stream what you want. Heck, the big boy marquee channels like ESPN could just charge people directly and cut out the cable co. For instance, why pay $80 for those channels when you could just buy it from ESPN for $15/mo directly. This is great for ESPN, but bad for the Classic Golf Channel.
So you see, if you are many of these non-marquee networks, you will hate this new model because it empowers the consumer to get exactly what they want, making the popular channels more prosperous, and killing off those who depend on oversubscription to users that don't even want them. That is what this is really about.
Having taken anatomy in college, I was immeadiately agast when the project was named Natal. I think someone at MS finally used the dictionary.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natal_cleft
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This is how things were made when most of the readers on the site were not yet born. Nothing new here folds. Just check out the Wikipedia article on it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_wrap#Automated_wire_wrapping
I second that. For a certain User install base I need to design for FF6. So I downgrade to FF6 from 8 and disable updating. A restart later FF6 autoupdates to FF8 when I had disabled that ability in Options.
This is really quite common. It happened at my alma mater as well. Servers could not handle the POP requests, so they started blacklisting students that checked their mail more than four times an hour. A month later a RAID drive failed and email for 17k people (including a hospital) was completely offline for 3 days. It is sad that seemingly anyone can be a high paid "IT Professional" these days, but without a clue about HA.
Weekly I'm astounded by an interation with a well paid "IT professional" that has little understanding of the basics of software development. Good help is hard to find.
I want to echo your comment. I work at a major financial institution (in NC) and am salaried. Working 8am - 8pm is standard and no one complains about not getting OT. The pay and benefits are good and you can quit if you don't like it. I don't see the issue. In my mind at a real good job you're expected to bust your ass and put in the hours it takes to complete the project.
Ever wonder how NASA tracks ever object in space? It's got three massive transmitters in TX, AZ, AL. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Force_Space_Surveillance_System
So we are choosing to be more efficient than fast? What about the new Air Force mini shuttle, the Indian and Chinese space programs, oh.. and all of the newer, faster secret aircraft our own government has been developing over the last several decades? Does this author ever watch television?
No one has yet mentioned why the channels are scared. They have every right to be, it is based on oversubscription. (1) If you are a cable channel, you charge a few cents per viewer, per month to the cable company. This is not much for most channels, between around $0.15 and $1. For a major channel like ESPN it can be $3.50. (2) Most people don't care about most of the channels in their package. Of that $80/mo, I don't care about the $0.15 that is going to Women's Entertainment, but they still get their cut. WE depends on million of people that don't watch the channel paying for it. Many channels desperately need this model. (3) If you stream channels, then you could just stream what you want. Heck, the big boy marquee channels like ESPN could just charge people directly and cut out the cable co. For instance, why pay $80 for those channels when you could just buy it from ESPN for $15/mo directly. This is great for ESPN, but bad for the Classic Golf Channel. So you see, if you are many of these non-marquee networks, you will hate this new model because it empowers the consumer to get exactly what they want, making the popular channels more prosperous, and killing off those who depend on oversubscription to users that don't even want them. That is what this is really about.
Having taken anatomy in college, I was immeadiately agast when the project was named Natal. I think someone at MS finally used the dictionary. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natal_cleft