The problem with cell-phone 911 is that, while it does figure out where you are and connect you to the local emergency dispatcher (most of the time), it doesn't connect you to their 911 system, only to their non-emergency line. So the dispatcher can't really see your GPS information without involving the mobile carrier. And, as an added side effect, in big emergencies (e.g. floods, etc.) the dispatchers are more likely to ignore their non-emergency line in order to keep up with the calls coming into the 911 system, so you could effectively lose contact with them simply because you're on a mobile phone.
Because before they sacked all the halfway competent salespeople, it was actually quite nice to go into a circuit city store.
But yeah, agreed, the infamous firing of their best salespeople will go down in history as the worst mistake ever made by a retail company. And maybe others will learn from it.
I wouldn't mind the stripped down version if features could be added piecemeal. For instance, I prefer a stripped down, lean running Home Edition of XP on the one Windows box I run. But, I'd also like for it to sync my SAMBA-served home directory automatically. There's a sync tool that MS distributes separately, but it doesn't work the same, it's basically a file copier. Unfortunately I can't get the sync tools built in to Windows without upgrading to a version that has a lot of features I don't need.
It's not about seniority and loyalty. Whether they realize it or not, contractors are hired for the explicit purpose of expendability. Companies want a "flexible" IT resource that they can kick at any time if things go south, and there are plenty of willing contractors to sign up for that situation when asked. Any contractor who thinks otherwise is fooling him or her self.
Which is why, despite 90% of new IT jobs today being highly paid contract work, I refuse to interview with anyone not offering a W2 job.
Tesla may not sell cars that everyone can afford today, but just by making cars, they are assumedly building on their ability to lower prices in the future.
As long as the money goes toward R&D, it's an investment in our future which I would support even if the other Big 3 were't going bankrupt.
So what do your users do with VPN access? Access your network, yeah... then what? Email? Web access? You should already have AUPs for all of that, and access to those services via VPN is no different than if they're connected in the office.
What you may be looking for is controlling the access, i.e. firewalls and virus scanners etc. If that's important, set up two-tier access:
1. For users who have a laptop, put the access controls there, and make them only access the VPN via their company provided and controlled laptop. Then you set up the controls (firewall, virus scan, etc.) once and they apply whether they are directly connected or VPN'd in.
2. For users who don't have a laptop, set up a remote desktop-type system where they use a web browser to access the remote desktop with SecurID.
3. And I almost hate to mention this, but if most of your users are only accessing e-mail, think about setting up a Blackberry server. Sorry. Got my flame-retardant suit on.:)
Go to OSCON this year, attend the sessions with Larry Wall, Guido van Rossum, Damien Conway, etc. Write down the code samples and then take those to the interview.
From what I've seen, hardware vendors only target Novell and Red Hat right now, and Ubuntu and Debian are afterthoughts. And frankly the hardware vendors don't do a very good job of targeting those distro's anyway. I'm in a huge enterprise shop and we're always scratching our heads, trying to figure out how to make the latest hardware work in a supported way now when the SW vendors are saying "Yeah, that's available in the kernel now, but it'll be a while before we officially release & support it." We ask the HW vendors about official support from the distro, and they say "Isn't this supposed to be open source? Can't you just build a new kernel that supports this, with these drivers we'll give you?" They don't seem to understand that enterprise shops don't get support from the major distros for custom kernels. Then Sun jumps in every once in a while and says they're going to release their own distro that follows their own (x86) hardware release, just like their SPARC line, but then they fall behind in releasing hardware because it's waiting for the distro... and so it goes. GAH!
We have to figure out how to tame the chaos. Enterprises are shying away from Linux now because of the churn. All the value that is gained by using cheap x86 hardware is lost in the Engineering churn. I think vendors just talking to each other would solve half the problem. I don't know what the rest of the solution is.
In short, I think that multi-touch is a much better approach to computational collaboration that the single node per user approach... but one has to realize that it's still in its infantile state (for a typical, off-the-street user).
Indeed, and I think before it matures we're going to have to figure out what "a much better approach to computational collaboration that the single node per user approach" means.
More likely it's IT people looking at aged, about-to-die NeXT-on-Intel hardware running critical apps and trying to find a way to mitigate risk. That's how it is in my company.
Now that was a pinball game maker. I worked for them briefly in the '80s and it was excellent... their break room was stocked with free-play pinball machines. The atmosphere was definitely a gamer atmosphere... at lunch time you could rub elbows with the guys that designed the games. Ask them questions. Get tips. Share a few beers after work. It was the best job I ever had.
My job was data entry, I put in A/P data. They bought millions of little parts for each. It took an army of accountants just to keep track of it all. It doesn't surprise me that pinball games are going away, but I do miss them.
I'm not convinced that there was a national security reason for Google to take down those images
You've got to be fucking kidding me. 360 degree panoramic photographs of military bases aren't a national security risk. And anyone who thinks differently is a right wing nutjob, I bet. Sheesh.
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The problem with cell-phone 911 is that, while it does figure out where you are and connect you to the local emergency dispatcher (most of the time), it doesn't connect you to their 911 system, only to their non-emergency line. So the dispatcher can't really see your GPS information without involving the mobile carrier. And, as an added side effect, in big emergencies (e.g. floods, etc.) the dispatchers are more likely to ignore their non-emergency line in order to keep up with the calls coming into the 911 system, so you could effectively lose contact with them simply because you're on a mobile phone.
You got that right. I don't know how I look at myself in the mirror.
Because before they sacked all the halfway competent salespeople, it was actually quite nice to go into a circuit city store.
But yeah, agreed, the infamous firing of their best salespeople will go down in history as the worst mistake ever made by a retail company. And maybe others will learn from it.
I wouldn't mind the stripped down version if features could be added piecemeal. For instance, I prefer a stripped down, lean running Home Edition of XP on the one Windows box I run. But, I'd also like for it to sync my SAMBA-served home directory automatically. There's a sync tool that MS distributes separately, but it doesn't work the same, it's basically a file copier. Unfortunately I can't get the sync tools built in to Windows without upgrading to a version that has a lot of features I don't need.
THIS is why I don't like the Windows sales model.
New hire????
It's a joke son. Most large shops have all the help they need, and won't be hiring for another year or so.
Damn I wish I had some mod points left.
It's not about seniority and loyalty. Whether they realize it or not, contractors are hired for the explicit purpose of expendability. Companies want a "flexible" IT resource that they can kick at any time if things go south, and there are plenty of willing contractors to sign up for that situation when asked. Any contractor who thinks otherwise is fooling him or her self.
Which is why, despite 90% of new IT jobs today being highly paid contract work, I refuse to interview with anyone not offering a W2 job.
Yeah, sigh. I guess if we can't solve the problem immediately, we might as well not invest in solving the problem long term.
Can the technology that Tesla develops be exported to third world countries and used in other ways besides selling high-end cars? Yes.
Tesla may not sell cars that everyone can afford today, but just by making cars, they are assumedly building on their ability to lower prices in the future.
As long as the money goes toward R&D, it's an investment in our future which I would support even if the other Big 3 were't going bankrupt.
Actually, that's originally a George Carlin joke.
And when most people retell it, they inevitably get into a geek debate about mean vs. average.
So what do your users do with VPN access? Access your network, yeah... then what? Email? Web access? You should already have AUPs for all of that, and access to those services via VPN is no different than if they're connected in the office.
What you may be looking for is controlling the access, i.e. firewalls and virus scanners etc. If that's important, set up two-tier access:
1. For users who have a laptop, put the access controls there, and make them only access the VPN via their company provided and controlled laptop. Then you set up the controls (firewall, virus scan, etc.) once and they apply whether they are directly connected or VPN'd in.
2. For users who don't have a laptop, set up a remote desktop-type system where they use a web browser to access the remote desktop with SecurID.
3. And I almost hate to mention this, but if most of your users are only accessing e-mail, think about setting up a Blackberry server. Sorry. Got my flame-retardant suit on. :)
>I'm not quite sure how it becomes news for nerds
It's about paying to find a mate. Duh.
You guys are all high. I can go to Cal's in Chicago and drink 100 PBRs for $200.
I'm convinced that today's SPAM prevention methods used together (including end user*) is about as good as it's ever going to get.
* The most effective SPAM filter is a human, sitting in front of their e-mail client, deleting mail that they know is SPAM from the subject line.
I know it's annoying. But I think we're stuck with it.
Mac OS X.
Running on an iPhone.
A non-3G iPhone.
Go to OSCON this year, attend the sessions with Larry Wall, Guido van Rossum, Damien Conway, etc. Write down the code samples and then take those to the interview.
And that's the part that most of us feel is unfair.
How does this help me brew my own beer???
From what I've seen, hardware vendors only target Novell and Red Hat right now, and Ubuntu and Debian are afterthoughts. And frankly the hardware vendors don't do a very good job of targeting those distro's anyway. I'm in a huge enterprise shop and we're always scratching our heads, trying to figure out how to make the latest hardware work in a supported way now when the SW vendors are saying "Yeah, that's available in the kernel now, but it'll be a while before we officially release & support it." We ask the HW vendors about official support from the distro, and they say "Isn't this supposed to be open source? Can't you just build a new kernel that supports this, with these drivers we'll give you?" They don't seem to understand that enterprise shops don't get support from the major distros for custom kernels. Then Sun jumps in every once in a while and says they're going to release their own distro that follows their own (x86) hardware release, just like their SPARC line, but then they fall behind in releasing hardware because it's waiting for the distro... and so it goes. GAH!
We have to figure out how to tame the chaos. Enterprises are shying away from Linux now because of the churn. All the value that is gained by using cheap x86 hardware is lost in the Engineering churn. I think vendors just talking to each other would solve half the problem. I don't know what the rest of the solution is.
In short, I think that multi-touch is a much better approach to computational collaboration that the single node per user approach... but one has to realize that it's still in its infantile state (for a typical, off-the-street user).
Indeed, and I think before it matures we're going to have to figure out what "a much better approach to computational collaboration that the single node per user approach" means.More likely it's IT people looking at aged, about-to-die NeXT-on-Intel hardware running critical apps and trying to find a way to mitigate risk. That's how it is in my company.
Yes, you heard me, I said NeXT.
Now that was a pinball game maker. I worked for them briefly in the '80s and it was excellent... their break room was stocked with free-play pinball machines. The atmosphere was definitely a gamer atmosphere... at lunch time you could rub elbows with the guys that designed the games. Ask them questions. Get tips. Share a few beers after work. It was the best job I ever had.
My job was data entry, I put in A/P data. They bought millions of little parts for each. It took an army of accountants just to keep track of it all. It doesn't surprise me that pinball games are going away, but I do miss them.
As with any controversial decision coming from the 9th Circuit, take it with a grain of salt until it passes the next appeal level.
You've got to be fucking kidding me. 360 degree panoramic photographs of military bases aren't a national security risk. And anyone who thinks differently is a right wing nutjob, I bet. Sheesh.