The "Enterprise" company I work for spends more money on the support end of things than the licensing. We pay once for the license and then as a budgetary lock in, we budget or yearly guarantees for the latest versions and Enterprise support. If Microsoft gave away the software, they would still make good money in the support arena. Red Hat and many other no cost software providers learned this long ago. No Enterprise will get software that does not come with support, no matter how talented their internal tech staff is (pats self on back).
I was never a fan of re-labeling anything. It makes it obvious it's being tracked and is another layer of complexity in tracking the item. Most serial numbers are embedded in electronic device bios / firmware so this makes it easy to query using remote management (e.g. WMI, SNMP) as well as tracking software. The serial number is usually printed on the device and bar coded for your convenience. Most small claims courts (if it goes that far) won't argue with you if you have a record of the serial number in your possession.
I currently pay $30 a month for a DVR device. This includes the TV listings service that enables the DVR to automatically record my schedule programs. Sp, I purchased a basic TiVO HD model at around $150. I then need to subscribe to TiVO service at $15 a month for a 1 year contract. But then I need the Cable M-Card (tuner decoder) to enable the TiVO to see the cable signal at $3.50 a month fee.
Another option is to get a 6 tuner DLNA ethernet device for around $300 which also requires the $3.50 monthly M-Card. I can then deploy Android set top devices to tune to the DLNA streams, with the bonus of Angry Birds, Chrome browser and Netflix. TV listing services are available for around $25 a year from Schedule Direct. This is where I am heading eventually (still searching couch for the cash).
In short, there is a LONG recovery time from the purchase price of the equipment to realize an actual cost savings on DVR rental fees.
yummy, I always like breathing in someone else's medicated ethylene glycol.
Propylene glycol. Not vehicle coolant (ethylene glycol). That would kill you. Propylene glycol has an antiseptic effect that *may* prevent lung infections.
I hate to buy into the conspiracy / big pharma message but there are plenty of studies that suggest mega doses of certain vitamins can suppress or reverse certain auto immune diseases. But, since you can't patent a supplement, why would you cannibalize your other patented products with supplement research?
This is not my only source, but I am too lazy to find my original research: http://www.sciencedaily.com/news/health_medicine/vitamin_d/
It has been said before and I guess I will repeat it.
Who is going to buy a $7,000 3D printer to print a single shot gun? Yes, it may get to the point where composite printing materials will accommodate multi-round fire arms, but we aren't there yet.
Get a chunk of high impact plastic, drill a bore, insert round, nail and spring. You now have a low x-ray cross section zip gun. No 3D printer required.
This is a non-issue.
Faster than light speed is possible... but wait, we need "Exotic" materials that don't exists. We entangled particles to communicate across time and space, no wait. we measured it wrong. I give it a week before other scientists call bullshit.
You can keep your COBOL code closed for modification and OPEN for extension using the cloud services model. Then more recent languages can extend the tested and proven COBOL business layer through web services. COBOL can rest comfortably behind the scenes without one bit of modification save a rare bug fix.
If your end users are known (Internal Customers) then what I do is use IPP to print direct to known printers using postscript. This is a rare situation though, but the plus is that it works across all platforms/browsers and you can guarantee consistent output.
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The "Enterprise" company I work for spends more money on the support end of things than the licensing. We pay once for the license and then as a budgetary lock in, we budget or yearly guarantees for the latest versions and Enterprise support. If Microsoft gave away the software, they would still make good money in the support arena. Red Hat and many other no cost software providers learned this long ago. No Enterprise will get software that does not come with support, no matter how talented their internal tech staff is (pats self on back).
I was never a fan of re-labeling anything. It makes it obvious it's being tracked and is another layer of complexity in tracking the item. Most serial numbers are embedded in electronic device bios / firmware so this makes it easy to query using remote management (e.g. WMI, SNMP) as well as tracking software. The serial number is usually printed on the device and bar coded for your convenience. Most small claims courts (if it goes that far) won't argue with you if you have a record of the serial number in your possession.
the answer is usually no. So umm no.
and get a UPS. Why blow more money on a slightly more reliable SSD when a UPS is so much cheaper?
I currently pay $30 a month for a DVR device. This includes the TV listings service that enables the DVR to automatically record my schedule programs. Sp, I purchased a basic TiVO HD model at around $150. I then need to subscribe to TiVO service at $15 a month for a 1 year contract. But then I need the Cable M-Card (tuner decoder) to enable the TiVO to see the cable signal at $3.50 a month fee. Another option is to get a 6 tuner DLNA ethernet device for around $300 which also requires the $3.50 monthly M-Card. I can then deploy Android set top devices to tune to the DLNA streams, with the bonus of Angry Birds, Chrome browser and Netflix. TV listing services are available for around $25 a year from Schedule Direct. This is where I am heading eventually (still searching couch for the cash). In short, there is a LONG recovery time from the purchase price of the equipment to realize an actual cost savings on DVR rental fees.
More energy for everyone!!!! That is how it works right??
yummy, I always like breathing in someone else's medicated ethylene glycol.
Propylene glycol. Not vehicle coolant (ethylene glycol). That would kill you. Propylene glycol has an antiseptic effect that *may* prevent lung infections.
when they can't easily pirate Windows 7.
I hate to buy into the conspiracy / big pharma message but there are plenty of studies that suggest mega doses of certain vitamins can suppress or reverse certain auto immune diseases. But, since you can't patent a supplement, why would you cannibalize your other patented products with supplement research? This is not my only source, but I am too lazy to find my original research: http://www.sciencedaily.com/news/health_medicine/vitamin_d/
It has been said before and I guess I will repeat it. Who is going to buy a $7,000 3D printer to print a single shot gun? Yes, it may get to the point where composite printing materials will accommodate multi-round fire arms, but we aren't there yet. Get a chunk of high impact plastic, drill a bore, insert round, nail and spring. You now have a low x-ray cross section zip gun. No 3D printer required. This is a non-issue.
Faster than light speed is possible... but wait, we need "Exotic" materials that don't exists. We entangled particles to communicate across time and space, no wait. we measured it wrong. I give it a week before other scientists call bullshit.
You can keep your COBOL code closed for modification and OPEN for extension using the cloud services model. Then more recent languages can extend the tested and proven COBOL business layer through web services. COBOL can rest comfortably behind the scenes without one bit of modification save a rare bug fix.
If your end users are known (Internal Customers) then what I do is use IPP to print direct to known printers using postscript. This is a rare situation though, but the plus is that it works across all platforms/browsers and you can guarantee consistent output.