No, you don't get it. A bottle of whisky is just some distilled spirits in a bottle -- yet the government can and does collect an exise tax on it.
If they want to tax email, they certainly can -- and they'll do it by requiring you to license your email server at the threat of some penalty. If the gov't can require licensing for dogs, they can do it for email servers.
You don't need a technical degree to get into IT at all. I work at a large IT shop and would guess that about 30% of the staff have degrees in Computer Science, Math or a science. I'd estimate that about 40% of the staff is female. Other workplaces have been quite similar.
The reason why women aren't in IT is that an ever-changing environment is something that only works for young and older women, leaving this huge career gap. Middle class women have children around age 30 and a statistically significant percentage of mothers either stop working or reduce their hours. So if you were a Novell superstar in 1992, have two kids and come back to work in 1997... guess what... you're an NT 4.0 newbie.
The UK is essentially endorsing antisemitism and throwing out the study of facts to satisfy religious dogma.
It's too bad that western society has grown so tolerant and decadent that it is forsaking its identity. When do they start playing the call to prayer in Trafalgar Square?
Sure, for awhile. But Manhattan is a playground for the young and the rich. When you start a family, living in a 300 sq ft closet for $3,000/mo doesn't cut it anymore.
Those calculators are usually based on the CPI, which doesn't account for housing costs or food very well. A 50 year old 3BR brick house in Nassau costs like $600k, and comes with a $15,000/year tax bill and high income tax. (Remember: > 100k = Rich) You're also going to shop at smaller, more expensive grocery stores, which adds up quickly.
In a small urban or rural area, you'll get a nice 3-4BR house that's probably 30% larger than the LI one for $100-150k, and pay $2,500 in taxes. My aunt sold a shitty split level in Queens 3 years ago for $750,000 and bought a 5BR Victorian for $75,000 (plus $250,000 in renovation) in central NY.
Get out of the licensing business, push that off on the accounting/purchasing people.
When you put software on an image or distribute/install it, make sure that you have an email "paper trail" of your supervisor of member of management authorizing it. If somebody sends drugs to somebody in the mail, the mailman doesn't get busted for possession -- so you want to be a mailman.
I say this because you a technical person, not a bean counter. Licensing is complicated, and difficult to handle correctly even when your company isn't trying to pirate software.
Consider what Google-y actually means. You may want highly qualified, skilled people, but based on Google's tight control about what gets communicated about the company, they want people who will conform and keep their mouths shut.
Never trust a company that spends lots of money on PR and advertising to tell you about what a great place it is to work at.
The certificate system isn't completely usesless -- There's a paper trail linking a certificate to a bank/credit card account.
If someone buys a certificate, you can conduct an investigation and trace it back to the person who made the purchase, and from there to the authorizaer. If you buy some sort of Verisign cert with a stolen credit card, they'll revoke the cert once the chargeback comes through the CC.
An open-source CA doesn't make sense, as you cannot enforce the security standards.
If you're a hardcore, all-MS shop that uses Microsoft support alot, go with SMS -- otherwise they will blame every issue that you have on the 3rd party distribution tool.
What you're looking for is a pretty mature product by now, and most of the major players have pretty decent products -- you really need to eval them in your environment to get a sense of the strengths and weaknesses. You could probably roll your own solution pretty easily too.
As others have pointed out, T1's are just pipes that connect your site to a central office somewhere -- your internet connection or WAN connectivity is then usually delivered by a Frame Relay or ATM network. That's old technology that's expensive to provision and expensive to maintain, unless you're a huge customer.
The big new thing as far as I know is fiber links from the telco CO to the customer site. In many cases, you can get a 10MB point to point ethernet link for less than a 768k fractional T1.
I was merely offering a suggestion based on technology that is relatively new. The air force has a plane called "JSTARS" that uses a side looking radar that can identify ground vehicles from miles away. If a technology like that was being used, maybe it could disrupt insects like bees.
I'm not terribly familiar with bee navigation, but I do know that migrating birds have been disrupted by various electromagnetic emissions, mostly from military avionics or activity. I have read that a fungal or other infection will generally leave dead bees in the hive, but with this phenomenon, the bees just vanish. To me, that sounds like the bees are getting lost somehow.
Also consider that some radios leak signals on unintended frequencies. If you listen to AM radio or have speakers with long wires in a place where people use Nextel walkie-talkies often, you'll hear disruption before people get alerted. A signal like that probably wouldn't kill anything, but it could confuse something depending on an ultra-low strength RF source.
I am just speculating, of course -- but IMHO my speculation is no worse than anti-genetic crop hysteria.
I respectfully disagree. Products like StarFish might make a storage highly available at a low price, but what about the other components of the system? If your network, app servers, etc aren't highly available, you have a whole new range of equipment and services that needs an HA solution as well.
I worked at a place where a $400 million project that spent tons of money on high availability database and server components was crippled by bad switches and application servers.
Perhaps its something to do with newer 3G technology on US and continental headsets?
Or maybe the government is using some sort of exotic systems to conduct mapping, drug interdiction or surveillance? Millimeter-wave radar can produce pictures of buildings, and operates on a frequency similar to cell phones.
In a few areas in the western US, there have been incidents when military aircraft electronic warfare systems have triggered widespread issues like garage doors opening and closing by themselves and TV signals being jammed.
The margins on a $500 phone are much higher than a computer or operating system, particularly when Cingular is going to be bearing most of the distribution and much of the marketing costs.
Actually, I think it will help sales overall. The back to school crowd will buy whatever is out in August, and an October release will mean big Christmas promotions.
Parallels really sucks, they just get attention because they were the first available and old-school Mac fanboys keep waxing on and on about it. The support really sucks for it as well. It's better than the old Virtual PC, but VMWare is a much, much, much better VM solution.
If you want a native Windows experience, you go with Bootcamp.
The west has already ceded manufacturing to Asia. Now we're in the process of exporting that high technology that was the fruit of hundreds of years of western dominance to Asia. Now we have clowns like this person saying that "everything that needs to be invented has been".
Sounds to me like decline. I guarantee you that Chinese firms aren't talking about shit like this -- they're busy educating hundreds of thousands of people in engineering and sciences while we whine about self-esteem.
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I've seen instances where "enterprise" mid or high end SAN/NAS systems go down during firmware upgrades, cable cuts, etc.
It doesn't happen often, but when a SAN that is the storage backend for 500 servers goes down for a few minutes, you're in deep shit.
No, you don't get it. A bottle of whisky is just some distilled spirits in a bottle -- yet the government can and does collect an exise tax on it.
If they want to tax email, they certainly can -- and they'll do it by requiring you to license your email server at the threat of some penalty. If the gov't can require licensing for dogs, they can do it for email servers.
You don't need a technical degree to get into IT at all. I work at a large IT shop and would guess that about 30% of the staff have degrees in Computer Science, Math or a science. I'd estimate that about 40% of the staff is female. Other workplaces have been quite similar.
The reason why women aren't in IT is that an ever-changing environment is something that only works for young and older women, leaving this huge career gap. Middle class women have children around age 30 and a statistically significant percentage of mothers either stop working or reduce their hours. So if you were a Novell superstar in 1992, have two kids and come back to work in 1997... guess what... you're an NT 4.0 newbie.
The UK is essentially endorsing antisemitism and throwing out the study of facts to satisfy religious dogma.
It's too bad that western society has grown so tolerant and decadent that it is forsaking its identity. When do they start playing the call to prayer in Trafalgar Square?
Contrast the difficulty and learning involved in an MS in Physics vs. an MS in Education. Ed is a cake program.
Sure, for awhile. But Manhattan is a playground for the young and the rich. When you start a family, living in a 300 sq ft closet for $3,000/mo doesn't cut it anymore.
Those calculators are usually based on the CPI, which doesn't account for housing costs or food very well. A 50 year old 3BR brick house in Nassau costs like $600k, and comes with a $15,000/year tax bill and high income tax. (Remember: > 100k = Rich) You're also going to shop at smaller, more expensive grocery stores, which adds up quickly.
In a small urban or rural area, you'll get a nice 3-4BR house that's probably 30% larger than the LI one for $100-150k, and pay $2,500 in taxes. My aunt sold a shitty split level in Queens 3 years ago for $750,000 and bought a 5BR Victorian for $75,000 (plus $250,000 in renovation) in central NY.
The problem is, half of the people at these big customers aren't doing shit anyway, so you could layoff 40-60% of them and nobody would notice.
Get out of the licensing business, push that off on the accounting/purchasing people.
When you put software on an image or distribute/install it, make sure that you have an email "paper trail" of your supervisor of member of management authorizing it. If somebody sends drugs to somebody in the mail, the mailman doesn't get busted for possession -- so you want to be a mailman.
I say this because you a technical person, not a bean counter. Licensing is complicated, and difficult to handle correctly even when your company isn't trying to pirate software.
New Jersey actually lost money on EZPass, the rfid-based toll collection system... Even New York makes money on that.
So I imagine that any NJ-based generation system will either use more energy than it produces.
Consider what Google-y actually means. You may want highly qualified, skilled people, but based on Google's tight control about what gets communicated about the company, they want people who will conform and keep their mouths shut.
Never trust a company that spends lots of money on PR and advertising to tell you about what a great place it is to work at.
The certificate system isn't completely usesless -- There's a paper trail linking a certificate to a bank/credit card account.
If someone buys a certificate, you can conduct an investigation and trace it back to the person who made the purchase, and from there to the authorizaer. If you buy some sort of Verisign cert with a stolen credit card, they'll revoke the cert once the chargeback comes through the CC.
An open-source CA doesn't make sense, as you cannot enforce the security standards.
If you're a hardcore, all-MS shop that uses Microsoft support alot, go with SMS -- otherwise they will blame every issue that you have on the 3rd party distribution tool.
What you're looking for is a pretty mature product by now, and most of the major players have pretty decent products -- you really need to eval them in your environment to get a sense of the strengths and weaknesses. You could probably roll your own solution pretty easily too.
As others have pointed out, T1's are just pipes that connect your site to a central office somewhere -- your internet connection or WAN connectivity is then usually delivered by a Frame Relay or ATM network. That's old technology that's expensive to provision and expensive to maintain, unless you're a huge customer.
The big new thing as far as I know is fiber links from the telco CO to the customer site. In many cases, you can get a 10MB point to point ethernet link for less than a 768k fractional T1.
I was merely offering a suggestion based on technology that is relatively new. The air force has a plane called "JSTARS" that uses a side looking radar that can identify ground vehicles from miles away. If a technology like that was being used, maybe it could disrupt insects like bees.
I'm not terribly familiar with bee navigation, but I do know that migrating birds have been disrupted by various electromagnetic emissions, mostly from military avionics or activity. I have read that a fungal or other infection will generally leave dead bees in the hive, but with this phenomenon, the bees just vanish. To me, that sounds like the bees are getting lost somehow.
Also consider that some radios leak signals on unintended frequencies. If you listen to AM radio or have speakers with long wires in a place where people use Nextel walkie-talkies often, you'll hear disruption before people get alerted. A signal like that probably wouldn't kill anything, but it could confuse something depending on an ultra-low strength RF source.
I am just speculating, of course -- but IMHO my speculation is no worse than anti-genetic crop hysteria.
I respectfully disagree. Products like StarFish might make a storage highly available at a low price, but what about the other components of the system? If your network, app servers, etc aren't highly available, you have a whole new range of equipment and services that needs an HA solution as well.
I worked at a place where a $400 million project that spent tons of money on high availability database and server components was crippled by bad switches and application servers.
Microsoft != Apple.
Apple is more like Sun. The OS is a way to entice you to purchase hardware or services.
Perhaps its something to do with newer 3G technology on US and continental headsets?
Or maybe the government is using some sort of exotic systems to conduct mapping, drug interdiction or surveillance? Millimeter-wave radar can produce pictures of buildings, and operates on a frequency similar to cell phones.
In a few areas in the western US, there have been incidents when military aircraft electronic warfare systems have triggered widespread issues like garage doors opening and closing by themselves and TV signals being jammed.
The margins on a $500 phone are much higher than a computer or operating system, particularly when Cingular is going to be bearing most of the distribution and much of the marketing costs.
Actually, I think it will help sales overall. The back to school crowd will buy whatever is out in August, and an October release will mean big Christmas promotions.
Parallels really sucks, they just get attention because they were the first available and old-school Mac fanboys keep waxing on and on about it. The support really sucks for it as well. It's better than the old Virtual PC, but VMWare is a much, much, much better VM solution.
If you want a native Windows experience, you go with Bootcamp.
The top coder stuff is showing you that the Russians are much better at math.
That wasn't what happened when I did it.
Maybe I hit some sort of bug... who knows.
While alot of things get moved to Windows.old, other things don't. Make sure you backup your stuff!
For example, Firefox bookmarks in are stored an application data folder, which doesn't get moved.
Is traditional Western society dead?
The west has already ceded manufacturing to Asia. Now we're in the process of exporting that high technology that was the fruit of hundreds of years of western dominance to Asia. Now we have clowns like this person saying that "everything that needs to be invented has been".
Sounds to me like decline. I guarantee you that Chinese firms aren't talking about shit like this -- they're busy educating hundreds of thousands of people in engineering and sciences while we whine about self-esteem.