With most large companies, it's up to the Board to admit the CEO made a mistake. Usually with a severance package that your entire family couldn't earn in their collective lifetimes.
Many of Microsoft's 'failures' are the result of doing something new. And then when the 'improved' version comes out, it can be quite a hit.
Vista - flop Vista SE (Win 7) - big success
Office 2007 - somewhat of a flop due to criticism of the Ribbon Office 2010 - not a whole lot different from 2007, but a lot more popular now that people are familiar with the Ribbon
Windows 8 - Works pretty good, but people bitch about the UI Windows 8 SE (Blue?) - Hey, Metro apps are cool now. Maybe.
Of course, they have done it backwards... Windows 98 SE - pretty good Windows 98 SE 2 (Win Me) - "Hey, people will forget about this once Vista comes out"
Because I hate having to go downstairs to get my wallet every time something needs my credit card number. And I hate giving out my credit card number every time I want to buy something new.
So now anything that blows up is automatically a weapon? I hope their school buses don't run on gas or diesel engines, then they would have to charge all the bus drivers with bringing weapons to school every day.
It's cheaper, but solar arrays in space have the ability to be much more efficient as nothing is filtered out by the atmosphere, there's no night, no cloudy days and it can be beamed to a receiving station that's directly where it's needed. A bicycle is cheaper than a car, but that doesn't always make it better. We don't have the technology yet, but a prototype might be viable within a few decades.
The government doesn't care a whole hell of a lot if other governments are spying on their own citizens, as long as their espionage doesn't cross borders and spy on our stuff. All the better if our government has a backdoor into the software letting us spy on their citizens.
The sun always shines, it just doesn't always make it to the ground where it's currently needed. However, we're working around that by planning huge solar arrays in places where it's almost always sunny like the Sahara and the American Southwest and then transmitting that electricity to where it's needed. Another proposal that's a little further out is to have huge solar arrays in space and then beaming it down to receiving stations on Earth (usually as microwave energy).
Personally, I'm hoping we find a way to have small, affordable fusion reactors in our basements to power the house and the car charging port in the garage. Giving each house or neighborhood its own source of electricity (assuming we can do it cheaply enough) would solve a lot of issues with transmission, etc.
I've been trying to get my company to do this. Most of the machines we throw out are higher end Core 2 Duos that just need Windows reinstalled (if that) to bring them back to optimal. Unfortunately, the Powers that Be have decreed they have to go in the bin for a recycling company to pick them up. The end result is that we pay someone to resell our PCs that we've already wiped and don't see a dime of.
We had an entire department insisting that one of their patch cables was infected and that it was infecting any PC was plugged into it because two different PCs got infected while (coincidentally) plugged into the same jack, several months apart. Maybe we should have removed the patch cable to prevent reinfection.
Or just, you know, unplugging the network cable of any machines not known to be clean until you're ready to take care of them. Downtime is still less than throwing them in the trash.
I did go to them. I called up the number she gave me to get a refund/reschedule as soon as I got home. They called her and got her side of the story. A week later, I got their decision - computers freezing up is "expected behavior".
I like living in the country, I'm not going to move into the inner city where my job is just because the commute sucks. However, if I can contribute a fairly small portion of my money to make my commute a bit easier, I will. A good place for a job can be a really shitty place for a home.
I took my CCNA exam there last year. Halfway through, one of the simulations completely froze... absolutely nothing would respond other than the timer continuing to count down. I had the woman running the exam come in and check it out, she agreed that it wasn't supposed to completely freeze up. They refused to let me refund or reschedule the exam.
If by operating system, you mean one that loads from a remote location then look up PXE
If by operating system, you mean desktop environment, look up anything ranging from RDP and VNC to Chrome OS to eyeOS, Cloudo, Glide or tons of others.
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With most large companies, it's up to the Board to admit the CEO made a mistake. Usually with a severance package that your entire family couldn't earn in their collective lifetimes.
Many of Microsoft's 'failures' are the result of doing something new. And then when the 'improved' version comes out, it can be quite a hit.
Vista - flop
Vista SE (Win 7) - big success
Office 2007 - somewhat of a flop due to criticism of the Ribbon
Office 2010 - not a whole lot different from 2007, but a lot more popular now that people are familiar with the Ribbon
Windows 8 - Works pretty good, but people bitch about the UI
Windows 8 SE (Blue?) - Hey, Metro apps are cool now. Maybe.
Of course, they have done it backwards...
Windows 98 SE - pretty good
Windows 98 SE 2 (Win Me) - "Hey, people will forget about this once Vista comes out"
Hanlon's Razor begs to differ.
That we spend a lot of time on Slashdot.
And even if the UT did work, it didn't always make sense. Darmok was one of the best episodes imo.
By the 1701-D's time, that job was relegated to the First Officer's beard.
Because I hate having to go downstairs to get my wallet every time something needs my credit card number. And I hate giving out my credit card number every time I want to buy something new.
No one is forcing her to take off the full 16 weeks. The mother could return to work after 8 weeks.
So now anything that blows up is automatically a weapon? I hope their school buses don't run on gas or diesel engines, then they would have to charge all the bus drivers with bringing weapons to school every day.
This is almost as stupid as suspending a 7 year old for having a pastry that's vaguely gun-shaped.
http://www.loweringthebar.net/2013/03/pastry-gun.html
It's cheaper, but solar arrays in space have the ability to be much more efficient as nothing is filtered out by the atmosphere, there's no night, no cloudy days and it can be beamed to a receiving station that's directly where it's needed. A bicycle is cheaper than a car, but that doesn't always make it better. We don't have the technology yet, but a prototype might be viable within a few decades.
I don't know... it's usually all photons and sound waves by the time it gets to me.
The government doesn't care a whole hell of a lot if other governments are spying on their own citizens, as long as their espionage doesn't cross borders and spy on our stuff. All the better if our government has a backdoor into the software letting us spy on their citizens.
Pshaw, it's only criminal if it isn't being used by the government. Don't you know nothing?
The sun always shines, it just doesn't always make it to the ground where it's currently needed. However, we're working around that by planning huge solar arrays in places where it's almost always sunny like the Sahara and the American Southwest and then transmitting that electricity to where it's needed. Another proposal that's a little further out is to have huge solar arrays in space and then beaming it down to receiving stations on Earth (usually as microwave energy).
Personally, I'm hoping we find a way to have small, affordable fusion reactors in our basements to power the house and the car charging port in the garage. Giving each house or neighborhood its own source of electricity (assuming we can do it cheaply enough) would solve a lot of issues with transmission, etc.
You have a firewall or IPS on every single PC? It's being reinfected from other machines within the organization (as in, the same LAN segment)
"A small stone from the universe"
Not to be confused the all of the rocks being thrown at us from outside of the Universe.
I've been trying to get my company to do this. Most of the machines we throw out are higher end Core 2 Duos that just need Windows reinstalled (if that) to bring them back to optimal. Unfortunately, the Powers that Be have decreed they have to go in the bin for a recycling company to pick them up. The end result is that we pay someone to resell our PCs that we've already wiped and don't see a dime of.
We had an entire department insisting that one of their patch cables was infected and that it was infecting any PC was plugged into it because two different PCs got infected while (coincidentally) plugged into the same jack, several months apart. Maybe we should have removed the patch cable to prevent reinfection.
Or just, you know, unplugging the network cable of any machines not known to be clean until you're ready to take care of them. Downtime is still less than throwing them in the trash.
If I'm not mistaken, you're also not taxed on Apple shares until you turn them back into real-world money via dividends or selling your shares.
I did go to them. I called up the number she gave me to get a refund/reschedule as soon as I got home. They called her and got her side of the story. A week later, I got their decision - computers freezing up is "expected behavior".
I like living in the country, I'm not going to move into the inner city where my job is just because the commute sucks. However, if I can contribute a fairly small portion of my money to make my commute a bit easier, I will. A good place for a job can be a really shitty place for a home.
I took my CCNA exam there last year. Halfway through, one of the simulations completely froze... absolutely nothing would respond other than the timer continuing to count down. I had the woman running the exam come in and check it out, she agreed that it wasn't supposed to completely freeze up. They refused to let me refund or reschedule the exam.
If by operating system, you mean one that loads from a remote location then look up PXE
If by operating system, you mean desktop environment, look up anything ranging from RDP and VNC to Chrome OS to eyeOS, Cloudo, Glide or tons of others.
But the good news is you can use the inevitable left over parts from assembling to robot to replace the missing parts from assembling the furniture.