For me, that takeaway was actually a pleasant consequence of the very educational fact that it's way more cost-efficient to start your cross-country wagon trip with 99 boxes of bullets in lieu of "real food" and whatnot.
Apparently your wagon never tipped, losing 99 boxes of ammo down the river, when attempting to caulk and float across.
Or perhaps you never had 99 boxes of ammo get stolen by bandits or indians at night?
Frequently the trail could be unhuntable for long stretches...:)
I'm sure it's been updated for modern audiences, as game makers see it. Which is to say, the hundreds of options are now just 4 to fit on a console controller: 2 offensive, one block, and one break-free-from-hold.
I remember the original versions of Organ Trail being very simple with only perhaps 5 or 6 options for supplies and 3 or 4 professions.
If I recall correctly; later updates to it didn't remove options they added more options, and made it more complicated....
How do you digest the thousands of hosts, networks and associated software systems in a week, especially when some documentation exists, but much of it is still in the mind of the former worker?,
My recommendation is you demand that your boss get the old guy on retainder to be available by phone and e-mail for at least 30 days.
You really need 14 days worth of acclimation.
Get as much as you can out of him, bring a notepad and pencil,
and a voice recording device.
I recommend you start with him getting you the keys to whatever he considers to be all the most critical systems;
usernames, passwords, IP addresses. What the systems do, what software they run, the basics of how they're configured.
What all the software vendors contract numbers and license keys, and software installation media are; where those are being kept,
config file locations, etc.
Get throuh all those. Next make sure you get all the keys to the firewall and routers and switches.
And miscellaneous hosts.
run nmap scans among the IP assigned subnet to make sure you didn't miss any devices.
Start building a spreadsheet of devices, if he didn't have one; or complete it if there are missing things.
Make sure that some time during the week, the two of you go through a physical audit together of the "server room" or "server closets",
and whatever other places there are IT infrastructure.
The physical audit should include a verification that you didn't miss getting keys or IP address/config details to any equipment.
You need to know where all the equipment is, circuit breakers, cable management, etc
If this is a large site, you might need more than 7 days. Anything you can't get during the time before the guy leaves, YOU get to figure out; probably at the worst possible time, because people are screaming at you about an issue caused by the sudden non-operation of a device you don't know exists.
OK... so the developer refused,
but Slashdot accepted...
Arguably, a front page article on Slashdot referencing the contest/promotion is worth 20 to 30 times more than some question on Stackoverflow.
If the author of this article doesn't get at least $10,000 for that, then they're getting ripped off.
At least at McDonalds I'd be able to move around more and chat with customers on occasion. It required more skill because I had to know clean room handling, but it only paid about the same.,
It looks better on a resume to be doing clean room handling work; do anything requiring a lot of skill and careful work, and you could potentially make a go for a management job to better yourself in the future.
If you are a professional with past experience in a professional field; having a McDonalds job on there would taint the resume, and maybe ruin what chance you had at another go....
Anything that may ruin your chance for long term improvement can carry a stigma
As for garbage man... you don't want to put that on a resume either.
Although usually 'garbage men' do something else; it's much better if you can put down Facilities management;
or facility image management/beautification
Personally I always see it as being a good thing. I've frequently said I'd rather live in a world where my income is $10 an hour and my lunch costs $4 than being in a world where my income is $20 an hour and my lunch costs $20.
The lower income is created because fewer people have a job at all, that is, a larger pool of qualified workers competing for a small number of jobs; that means more people are unemployed, and the cost of their lunch went down, but they still receive $0 an hour.
This situation isn't necessarily as beneficial as it would first appear.
If say you got that $10/Hour job, but while you are being hired, the guy who two guys who had the job before you
paid $12/Hour just got laid off; perhaps the other guys had a few more children to feed, so his lunch cost $8,
and your life situation permitted you to accept a lower wage.
Anyways, you will be expected to do twice as much work for 16% less pay in real terms.
And in 6 months, some newbie straight out of college who doesn't own a home or have any
assets requiring servicing, and is content to live on $2 ramen; will take your $10 job,
by offering to work for $4/Hour.
And oh, by the way, your lunch still costs $4. The decrease in labor required is not the only dynamic
in the employment markets; additional changes emerge there over time.
Does this mean 3D printers put China out of business? (Well not completely of course - though you can print the iphone case, you still can't print the iphone yet, but the little accessories and nicknacks make up a huge chunk of the Chinese exports.)
Not until they make a 3D printer with an output of quality comparable to an injection mold.
So far... 3D printers haven't reached even 80% of the quality;
you can 3D print low-quality improvised devices and design prototypes
The printout is cheaper, but the durability and expected lifetime of a detailed part is lower;
and aesthetically less appealing than what manufacturers can do.
You can get a beautiful, highly-detailed case for your phone for $2 on ebay, but you're going to opt for a rough, "pixelated", bad-fit 3D-printed one?
A lot of people still buy things like iPhone cases at retail; especially at the ATT or Verizon store,
where the markup on these high-margin accesories is probably the highest.
This is one of the few cases in which I feel there could be genuine confusion for the UK consumer.
Yes... Sky is a generic name.... much like Water, Air, Earth, Rock, or Light
If you name your company one of those things such as "Water, Inc."
Then it's you that create confusion for the consumer; just because this is inconvenient for you doesn't mean "Water" should be a defensible trademark, for example, you shouldn't be able to sue a company selling a product called "Bottled Water" or "Ultra deluxe spring Water".
I'm sure that policy wouldn't run afoul of the First Amendment in ANY way.
Aside from the fact that the corporate entities shouldn't have any free speech rights -- and it's not an undue restraint on free speech if legs are not allowed to listen to execs lobby anything for or against the current gov't stance regardless of content...
I do believe the current policy creates a de facto abridgement of free speech -- abridgement in the form of inequitably promoting extremists with money to pay for television slots.
Back in the day when the 1st amendment was written; earning riches through commerce did not give you a good chance of getting your message across and suppressing anyone else's; there were other communication channels you could use without going to jail --- things like spreading around fliers or organizing meetings had a reasonable chance of getting a message out.
In other words: circumstances beyond the government's control have conspired to render the 1st ammendment ineffective at achieving its intended purpose.
Where on earth do you live? Our office in the Detroit area pays about $180/mo for 100Mbit down/10Mbit up (cable modem)
In an urban area about 30 miles from downtown New Orleans.
And yeah... 3 megabits down 256 kilobits up costs $102/month, residential service, not including some additional fees; last I checked 10 megs down/512K up was available for about $180.
I don't have a quote for business service, but I understand they charge a large premium.
As for whether they enforce the 'no servers rule'; I have no idea, but it is printed there.
It's not like they removed it when net neutrality became a big thing.
Google may not be arguing against what they thought of as the 'essence' of network neutrality.
They may be arguing that a service restricting 'volume of usage' or 'sense of usage' (instead of application) is not non-neutrality.
They would strengthen their argument if they changed the policy from "Don't run servers" TO
"Don't run high-volume servers."; and spelled out what was disallowed in measurable terms, instead of in terms of a "field of endeavor" or "kind of network endpoint".
Running your own personal mail server, or web server, is not competition with commercial services.
80% of the folks who would be wanting to run a personal mail server would be spammers; either intentionally or inadvertently.
Since Google relies on providing no support (they don't even provide a human abuse contact); this could be a serious problem ---- spammers generate support costs, or get their IP space blacklisted which generates support costs.
Running a personal web site with your vacation and pet pictures and your resume, is not commercial.
That is true. But for every 1 person running a server with a website with just vacation and pet pictures,
there would be 10 people wanting to run a server with a website doing something completely different.
This is just a/tragedy of the commons/ case; where your perfectly innocuous personal use gets banned
as a result of both being extremely uncommon, and very similar to some very likely kinds of major abuse:
therefore lumped in.
That is: the policy designed to prevent the abuse also winds up making the perfectly innocuous legitimate
but extremely rare use (as in 5% or less of the population has the proper know-how to run a safe and secure personal website) technically against the rules.
The net neutrality debate is NOT about preventing abuse, as many naive people would like to believe. It is about ensuring that home users don't develop services that compete with commercial ones.
Well... their actions could effect both abuse and competition with commercial services.
This could very well be a matter of an indirect method of restricting quantity of data that customers will use.
Web servers, e.g. SLASHDOT.ORG, as you could imagine... tend to be very massive bandwidth users --- a single turnop or move onto the service could adversly effect thousands of users, or require Google to make a huge purchase to increase their data commit rates; e.g. When Google buys transit service from Level3, ATT, etc... they still have to play by the rules --- the ports have finite bandwidth, and you pay by Peak capacity used.
So one person on Google fiber turning up a slashdot.org; has the possibility of costing Google an extra $1000 a month, or bringing the Gigabit port utilization up to 80%, and causing all the legitimate personal use users in the area that network was designed for, to get loads of extra latency, resulting in a low quality online gaming experience.
People seem to forget... Google isn't your best friend, or your nice neighbor lady, or your pal at the bar. Google is a company. Companies don't exist to be nice, they exist to make money for their owners and shareholders. Now, tomorrow, and well into the future.
Exactly.
Google was never acting solely on their customers' behalf.
Companies act on their customers' behalf only when it benefits them.
This is why corporate lobbying should be illegal, and companies like Google (and their competitors, and large businesses in all industry) should be barred from articipating in the legislative process.
I believe my recommendation would be: as soon as the company's book value or annual costs first exceed $5 million; that company and its current executives and legal representatives (due to conflict of interest) should become ineligible to participate formally in political process or a "friend of a court" in any way.
If you as Google CEO or board member want to go write a friend of the court message -- fine, but resign your post first.
Contrariness is only rewarded when it chooses a popular target.;-)
It's not contrarian if the target is so popular....
Multinational conglomerates, the EU, the United States, Apple, Microsoft, Google, large Financial, Petroleum, Refineries, Fast food companies, Energy Produers, Pharmaceutical, Agricultural, Industrial companies, Film producers, News Organizations, top Actors, Sports coaches/athletes, Media figures, high-ranking Politicians, government Administrators, and well-known Millionaires/Billionaires are all very popular targets.
Writing any kind of attack speech, opposition, or pulling any of those through the mud specifically is not contrarian
Speaking praises of any of those would almost be contrarian....
Bitching about how it's unfair that workers get paid a minimum wage that is unfairly too high, and multinational conglomerates don't get enough tax breaks, would be contrarian.
It would also be contrarian to discuss how Blackberry is currently competing with Samsung in an unfair way, because their operating system is unfairly closed source and unavailable for licensing, and Blackberry's monopoly need to get broken up by the courts, to stop doing irreparable damage to Samsung's product sales.
Right now it's all just talk, so yeah... that would be a start.
As of Today; I have no Google fiber, and Google fiber is nowhere even near my state.... all of the broadband providers in may area forbid running servers without buying an uber-overpriced "business" service that increases the monthly price tag from the residential $120/month for 3 Megabit cable from Charter to a minimum of about $800/month
Why should I really be too upset about Google restricting the use of its bandwidth to non-commercial purposes for the 5 or 6 people they are serving, again?
This company tends to claim support for whatever is politically popular among techies and then quietly go back on it when it affects their bottom line.
Since Google is an engineering organization with a very large number of techies.... it makes sense they would support what is popular among techies.
When it affects their bottom line; management steps in and has to override that, though.
it really is far better than finding the mouse to hunt through some menus.
Using a mouse to hunt through some menus is a really good idea if you don't know the name of the program you want to start, but would 'recognize' it or be able to choose it after reviewing a list.
You also would have a better chance of drilling down to the item you want, if you organized it sensibly; than in searching a flat non-hierarchical list of tiles.
May main lament about the start menu is by default the folder structure is not useful it's typically just
<VENDOR> -> Program
Document Tools -> Text Editors -> Microsoft Word
Makes a lot more sense than having 100 folders; one for each vendor.
Instead of Microsoft fixing the problem they created with the hierarchy; they tried to flatten it and make it take up an entire screen.....
Because when people read the label and see that the food is lower calorie or "more healthy"; they
eat a larger amount of the food because they feel less guilty due to it being "more healthy"; and the
additional consumption more than offsets the decrease in calorie count of the "healthier food"
So eating lower calorie foods makes you less healthy....
Attempting to write a EULA to prohibit your customer from appointing another agency to act on their behalf to manage their servers would be tortious interference with business relationships -- in other words, Oracle could be sued in that case.
There will be plenty of people and companies who suffer by this arbitrary government-supported webjacking --- and probably some small number of companies getting a big fat check by this.
Personally; I think it's a very bad thing that the UK ISPs are even looking at traffic headers; let alone performing traffic interception and blocking of sites based on someone's opinion that the site is too violent, or offensive and such and such.
How long before sites that degrade the monarchy or the current government parties or officials, or competing candidates during the election/other politically inconvenient sites get blocked too?
The circuit is able to recognize the jaw motions of drinking, chewing, coughing, speaking, and smoking, and the results get sent directly to your doctor's smartphone."
It would be much more useful to have a circuit to recognize CHOKING than smoking,
and the market would be much larger....
Post patches and upgrades to a public/semi public website behind a "user agreement." Sue anyone who downloads them in the act of providing third party support to customers who actually do have the right to use the patches and upgrades.
That doesn't work. All the service provider has to do is get their customer to sign a "letter of agency"; authorizing the service provider to act on the customer's behalf to download assets and administer the updates/patches, pursuant to their customer's entitlements.
Slashdot Mirror
For me, that takeaway was actually a pleasant consequence of the very educational fact that it's way more cost-efficient to start your cross-country wagon trip with 99 boxes of bullets in lieu of "real food" and whatnot.
Apparently your wagon never tipped, losing 99 boxes of ammo down the river, when attempting to caulk and float across.
Or perhaps you never had 99 boxes of ammo get stolen by bandits or indians at night?
Frequently the trail could be unhuntable for long stretches... :)
I'm sure it's been updated for modern audiences, as game makers see it. Which is to say, the hundreds of options are now just 4 to fit on a console controller: 2 offensive, one block, and one break-free-from-hold.
I remember the original versions of Organ Trail being very simple with only perhaps 5 or 6 options for supplies and 3 or 4 professions.
If I recall correctly; later updates to it didn't remove options they added more options, and made it more complicated....
How do you digest the thousands of hosts, networks and associated software systems in a week, especially when some documentation exists, but much of it is still in the mind of the former worker?,
My recommendation is you demand that your boss get the old guy on retainder to be available by phone and e-mail for at least 30 days.
You really need 14 days worth of acclimation.
Get as much as you can out of him, bring a notepad and pencil, and a voice recording device.
I recommend you start with him getting you the keys to whatever he considers to be all the most critical systems; usernames, passwords, IP addresses. What the systems do, what software they run, the basics of how they're configured.
What all the software vendors contract numbers and license keys, and software installation media are; where those are being kept, config file locations, etc.
Get throuh all those. Next make sure you get all the keys to the firewall and routers and switches.
And miscellaneous hosts.
run nmap scans among the IP assigned subnet to make sure you didn't miss any devices. Start building a spreadsheet of devices, if he didn't have one; or complete it if there are missing things.
Make sure that some time during the week, the two of you go through a physical audit together of the "server room" or "server closets", and whatever other places there are IT infrastructure.
The physical audit should include a verification that you didn't miss getting keys or IP address/config details to any equipment.
You need to know where all the equipment is, circuit breakers, cable management, etc
If this is a large site, you might need more than 7 days. Anything you can't get during the time before the guy leaves, YOU get to figure out; probably at the worst possible time, because people are screaming at you about an issue caused by the sudden non-operation of a device you don't know exists.
OK... so the developer refused, but Slashdot accepted...
Arguably, a front page article on Slashdot referencing the contest/promotion is worth 20 to 30 times more than some question on Stackoverflow. If the author of this article doesn't get at least $10,000 for that, then they're getting ripped off.
At least at McDonalds I'd be able to move around more and chat with customers on occasion. It required more skill because I had to know clean room handling, but it only paid about the same.,
It looks better on a resume to be doing clean room handling work; do anything requiring a lot of skill and careful work, and you could potentially make a go for a management job to better yourself in the future.
If you are a professional with past experience in a professional field; having a McDonalds job on there would taint the resume, and maybe ruin what chance you had at another go....
Anything that may ruin your chance for long term improvement can carry a stigma
As for garbage man... you don't want to put that on a resume either. Although usually 'garbage men' do something else; it's much better if you can put down Facilities management; or facility image management/beautification
Personally I always see it as being a good thing. I've frequently said I'd rather live in a world where my income is $10 an hour and my lunch costs $4 than being in a world where my income is $20 an hour and my lunch costs $20.
The lower income is created because fewer people have a job at all, that is, a larger pool of qualified workers competing for a small number of jobs; that means more people are unemployed, and the cost of their lunch went down, but they still receive $0 an hour.
This situation isn't necessarily as beneficial as it would first appear. If say you got that $10/Hour job, but while you are being hired, the guy who two guys who had the job before you paid $12/Hour just got laid off; perhaps the other guys had a few more children to feed, so his lunch cost $8, and your life situation permitted you to accept a lower wage.
Anyways, you will be expected to do twice as much work for 16% less pay in real terms.
And in 6 months, some newbie straight out of college who doesn't own a home or have any assets requiring servicing, and is content to live on $2 ramen; will take your $10 job, by offering to work for $4/Hour.
And oh, by the way, your lunch still costs $4. The decrease in labor required is not the only dynamic in the employment markets; additional changes emerge there over time.
Does this mean 3D printers put China out of business? (Well not completely of course - though you can print the iphone case, you still can't print the iphone yet, but the little accessories and nicknacks make up a huge chunk of the Chinese exports.)
Not until they make a 3D printer with an output of quality comparable to an injection mold.
So far... 3D printers haven't reached even 80% of the quality; you can 3D print low-quality improvised devices and design prototypes
The printout is cheaper, but the durability and expected lifetime of a detailed part is lower; and aesthetically less appealing than what manufacturers can do.
You can get a beautiful, highly-detailed case for your phone for $2 on ebay, but you're going to opt for a rough, "pixelated", bad-fit 3D-printed one?
A lot of people still buy things like iPhone cases at retail; especially at the ATT or Verizon store, where the markup on these high-margin accesories is probably the highest.
This is one of the few cases in which I feel there could be genuine confusion for the UK consumer.
Yes... Sky is a generic name.... much like Water, Air, Earth, Rock, or Light
If you name your company one of those things such as "Water, Inc."
Then it's you that create confusion for the consumer; just because this is inconvenient for you doesn't mean "Water" should be a defensible trademark, for example, you shouldn't be able to sue a company selling a product called "Bottled Water" or "Ultra deluxe spring Water".
I'm sure that policy wouldn't run afoul of the First Amendment in ANY way.
Aside from the fact that the corporate entities shouldn't have any free speech rights -- and it's not an undue restraint on free speech if legs are not allowed to listen to execs lobby anything for or against the current gov't stance regardless of content...
I do believe the current policy creates a de facto abridgement of free speech -- abridgement in the form of inequitably promoting extremists with money to pay for television slots.
Back in the day when the 1st amendment was written; earning riches through commerce did not give you a good chance of getting your message across and suppressing anyone else's; there were other communication channels you could use without going to jail --- things like spreading around fliers or organizing meetings had a reasonable chance of getting a message out.
In other words: circumstances beyond the government's control have conspired to render the 1st ammendment ineffective at achieving its intended purpose.
Where on earth do you live? Our office in the Detroit area pays about $180/mo for 100Mbit down/10Mbit up (cable modem)
In an urban area about 30 miles from downtown New Orleans.
And yeah... 3 megabits down 256 kilobits up costs $102/month, residential service, not including some additional fees; last I checked 10 megs down/512K up was available for about $180.
I don't have a quote for business service, but I understand they charge a large premium.
As for whether they enforce the 'no servers rule'; I have no idea, but it is printed there.
It's not like they removed it when net neutrality became a big thing.
Google may not be arguing against what they thought of as the 'essence' of network neutrality. They may be arguing that a service restricting 'volume of usage' or 'sense of usage' (instead of application) is not non-neutrality.
They would strengthen their argument if they changed the policy from "Don't run servers" TO "Don't run high-volume servers."; and spelled out what was disallowed in measurable terms, instead of in terms of a "field of endeavor" or "kind of network endpoint".
Running your own personal mail server, or web server, is not competition with commercial services.
80% of the folks who would be wanting to run a personal mail server would be spammers; either intentionally or inadvertently. Since Google relies on providing no support (they don't even provide a human abuse contact); this could be a serious problem ---- spammers generate support costs, or get their IP space blacklisted which generates support costs.
Running a personal web site with your vacation and pet pictures and your resume, is not commercial.
That is true. But for every 1 person running a server with a website with just vacation and pet pictures, there would be 10 people wanting to run a server with a website doing something completely different.
This is just a /tragedy of the commons/ case; where your perfectly innocuous personal use gets banned
as a result of both being extremely uncommon, and very similar to some very likely kinds of major abuse:
therefore lumped in.
That is: the policy designed to prevent the abuse also winds up making the perfectly innocuous legitimate but extremely rare use (as in 5% or less of the population has the proper know-how to run a safe and secure personal website) technically against the rules.
The net neutrality debate is NOT about preventing abuse, as many naive people would like to believe. It is about ensuring that home users don't develop services that compete with commercial ones.
Well... their actions could effect both abuse and competition with commercial services. This could very well be a matter of an indirect method of restricting quantity of data that customers will use.
Web servers, e.g. SLASHDOT.ORG, as you could imagine... tend to be very massive bandwidth users --- a single turnop or move onto the service could adversly effect thousands of users, or require Google to make a huge purchase to increase their data commit rates; e.g. When Google buys transit service from Level3, ATT, etc... they still have to play by the rules --- the ports have finite bandwidth, and you pay by Peak capacity used.
So one person on Google fiber turning up a slashdot.org; has the possibility of costing Google an extra $1000 a month, or bringing the Gigabit port utilization up to 80%, and causing all the legitimate personal use users in the area that network was designed for, to get loads of extra latency, resulting in a low quality online gaming experience.
People seem to forget... Google isn't your best friend, or your nice neighbor lady, or your pal at the bar. Google is a company. Companies don't exist to be nice, they exist to make money for their owners and shareholders. Now, tomorrow, and well into the future.
Exactly. Google was never acting solely on their customers' behalf. Companies act on their customers' behalf only when it benefits them.
This is why corporate lobbying should be illegal, and companies like Google (and their competitors, and large businesses in all industry) should be barred from articipating in the legislative process.
I believe my recommendation would be: as soon as the company's book value or annual costs first exceed $5 million; that company and its current executives and legal representatives (due to conflict of interest) should become ineligible to participate formally in political process or a "friend of a court" in any way.
If you as Google CEO or board member want to go write a friend of the court message -- fine, but resign your post first.
Contrariness is only rewarded when it chooses a popular target. ;-)
It's not contrarian if the target is so popular....
Multinational conglomerates, the EU, the United States, Apple, Microsoft, Google, large Financial, Petroleum, Refineries, Fast food companies, Energy Produers, Pharmaceutical, Agricultural, Industrial companies, Film producers, News Organizations, top Actors, Sports coaches/athletes, Media figures, high-ranking Politicians, government Administrators, and well-known Millionaires/Billionaires are all very popular targets.
Writing any kind of attack speech, opposition, or pulling any of those through the mud specifically is not contrarian
Speaking praises of any of those would almost be contrarian....
Bitching about how it's unfair that workers get paid a minimum wage that is unfairly too high, and multinational conglomerates don't get enough tax breaks, would be contrarian.
It would also be contrarian to discuss how Blackberry is currently competing with Samsung in an unfair way, because their operating system is unfairly closed source and unavailable for licensing, and Blackberry's monopoly need to get broken up by the courts, to stop doing irreparable damage to Samsung's product sales.
Right now it's all just talk, so yeah... that would be a start.
As of Today; I have no Google fiber, and Google fiber is nowhere even near my state.... all of the broadband providers in may area forbid running servers without buying an uber-overpriced "business" service that increases the monthly price tag from the residential $120/month for 3 Megabit cable from Charter to a minimum of about $800/month
Why should I really be too upset about Google restricting the use of its bandwidth to non-commercial purposes for the 5 or 6 people they are serving, again?
This company tends to claim support for whatever is politically popular among techies and then quietly go back on it when it affects their bottom line.
Since Google is an engineering organization with a very large number of techies.... it makes sense they would support what is popular among techies.
When it affects their bottom line; management steps in and has to override that, though.
it really is far better than finding the mouse to hunt through some menus.
Using a mouse to hunt through some menus is a really good idea if you don't know the name of the program you want to start, but would 'recognize' it or be able to choose it after reviewing a list.
You also would have a better chance of drilling down to the item you want, if you organized it sensibly; than in searching a flat non-hierarchical list of tiles.
May main lament about the start menu is by default the folder structure is not useful it's typically just <VENDOR> -> Program
Document Tools -> Text Editors -> Microsoft Word
Makes a lot more sense than having 100 folders; one for each vendor.
Instead of Microsoft fixing the problem they created with the hierarchy; they tried to flatten it and make it take up an entire screen.....
Don't go there... the NSA is watching; it's a trap!
Now you should add 15-20% per year for support/maintenance, etc. So it's 1.3 Million capital outlay, plus $260,000 per year.
Ugh... that's way too expensive; you need to lay someone off.
Lay off one software engineer to save 40K
Cut everyone else's Salaries by 60%. Give the CEO a 500K bonus.
New cost tally:
Software Engineering: Outsourced to China: 10K
Elecrical Engineer: 48K
QA: 48K
PM: 96K
BA: 72K
Bonus for CEO: 500K
Discount due to cooking books: -200K
Subtotal: 574K
Total Money saved: 726K (56% cost reduction)
Because when people read the label and see that the food is lower calorie or "more healthy"; they eat a larger amount of the food because they feel less guilty due to it being "more healthy"; and the additional consumption more than offsets the decrease in calorie count of the "healthier food"
So eating lower calorie foods makes you less healthy....
Attempting to write a EULA to prohibit your customer from appointing another agency to act on their behalf to manage their servers would be tortious interference with business relationships -- in other words, Oracle could be sued in that case.
That's the real question one should be asking.
There will be plenty of people and companies who suffer by this arbitrary government-supported webjacking --- and probably some small number of companies getting a big fat check by this.
Personally; I think it's a very bad thing that the UK ISPs are even looking at traffic headers; let alone performing traffic interception and blocking of sites based on someone's opinion that the site is too violent, or offensive and such and such.
How long before sites that degrade the monarchy or the current government parties or officials, or competing candidates during the election/other politically inconvenient sites get blocked too?
The circuit is able to recognize the jaw motions of drinking, chewing, coughing, speaking, and smoking, and the results get sent directly to your doctor's smartphone."
It would be much more useful to have a circuit to recognize CHOKING than smoking, and the market would be much larger....
Post patches and upgrades to a public/semi public website behind a "user agreement." Sue anyone who downloads them in the act of providing third party support to customers who actually do have the right to use the patches and upgrades.
That doesn't work. All the service provider has to do is get their customer to sign a "letter of agency"; authorizing the service provider to act on the customer's behalf to download assets and administer the updates/patches, pursuant to their customer's entitlements.