The author of the article mentioned he was setting a a Visual Studio development environment, which probably means he is a MSDN subscriber, which gives him rights to pretty much all of Microsoft's software for development purposes. So to someone who has the full MSDN subscription, or even just the OS portion, this is a no additional cost option: they have already paid for it.
Under our enterprise agreement with Microsoft we get downgrade rights for any OEM purchase of Windows Vista Business. Everything we purchased since Vista's release has come with a Vists Business license, but has the corporate Window XP image installed. I suspect other organizations with Enterprises/Select agreements have similar practices.
If they were, board members would have to acknowledge the real structure of power in a company.
From Top to Bottom:
1. Facilities. They control the master electrical switch. Without them, not much will happen. They also have the ability to change every lock in the building. 2. IT. IT can turn off the servers, computers, and expose whatever illicit affairs are reveled by the board member's email and other data.
We never figured it out farther than that, but it seemed to fit rather well as our Facilities and IT departments are regularly the most satisfied departments according to the employee surveys.:)
Off the top of my head, a combine head that follows a track set into the ceiling of the building. Chutes, conveyors, and elevators that move the crops to collection bins in the basement of the building. Trucks underground move full bins out of the building and empty bins back in.
Nobody said you had to have a traditional combine inside your farm building. The track could also be used to send sprayers for irrigation/fertilization/etc. over your crop. A few robot arms running around doing whatever is needed.
If the problem isn't the reporting algorithims, it's in the data - maybe you need to check validation on the front end.
Garbage in, garbage out. Even validation won't solve your garbage in problems. For some reason our line operaters got it in their head that all they had to type was 123456 in a field when prompted. 123456 is a valid value and within the realm of possibilities, so it validates fine and the system accepts it. Then a manager actually wanted a report involving that field. The report was useless. And so began back and forth. This report can't be right. It's right, everything checks out and that is the data that's in the database.
Eventually we walked said manager out to the line and had an operator demonstrate data entry procedures. "On this field we just enter 1234546." Manager flips out. Operator calmly pulls out his manual, flips to the document describing the procedure. Sure enough 123456 is part of the procedure. Document created by: Manager who is flipping out.
Nothing like someone shooting themselves in the foot to make a report writer's day.
One of the main reasons is web applications that have been developed for IE6 don't work in IE7 because IE7 is better at standards compliance. So many hacks were made to get things to work in IE6 that many applications that were developed during IE6's reign refuse to work in anything but IE6.
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Anything with the word Monkey in the title cannot be abbreviated. Cause the word monkey is just fun. Or something. In a pinch, you can occasionally get away with SMonkeyB.
Pencils? Silly Canadians, ballot marking should be done in ink for fairly obvious reasons.
I've run into two types of ballots in Minnesota, both printed on legal sized light card stock. One where you draw a line through your selection, connecting the triangles on either side. The other is a fill in the bubble type of thing. Both are easily read by human eyes optical scanners. The line through the selection ballot is great for many people with limited mobility. My grandfather only has to bring a ruler to the polling place to place his vote, otherwise he is unable to draw a line that the optical scanner is able to read.
Unfortunately, I think we've done away with the line style ballot in favor of a fill in the oval type ballot as every polling place is equipped with a new Automark device to fill the needs of the differently abled. The Automark device is able to read the ballet in a computerized voice to the visually impaired and displays the ballot on a touch screen with optional magnification. Users use a 4 direction keypad and select key or the touch screen to navigate between candidates and offices. Using the select key marks the ballot for the current candidate (in ink). Automark News Article 1, Automark News Article 2. Thanks to the Help America Vote Act, every Minnesota polling place has an Automark machine.
The AutoMark machine uses the same official ballot as everyone else, and is fed into the same combination optical scanner/secure ballot box that everyone else feeds their ballot into. Voters fill out the ballots, put their ballot in the optical scanner/vote box.
To me, the Minnesota ballot system seems to be the best of both worlds. Votes are tallied by computer, yet there is a full paper trail, and there will be limited a hand counted audit. Most of the voting equipment is cheap. Pens, voting booths, a minimum of one optical scanner and one Automark machine are provided to each polling location. If the optical scanner fails, ballots can be deposited into secure ballot boxes and hand counted or fed into an optical scanner later. If the Automark machine fails, voting judges can still assist voters with filling out their ballots.
No system is perfect, but every election I'm impressed by the thought and good decision making that went into Minnesota's ballots.
Possibly integrating PHP into the Windows Scripting Host similar to Active Perl. That could be interesting as it would expose PHP to WMI and other resources made available via the Windows Scripting Host.
Virtual PC for Mac and Virtual PC for Windows are very different animals. Virtual PC on Mac has to emulate x86 as it runs on Power PC chips. Virtual PC on Windows has a much simpler job to do as it's already running on x86.
The end result is someone was able to create a virtual machine package for OSX Intel faster than Microsoft was able to, and they are selling it at a price point below Microsoft's own offering. What motivation is there for Microsoft to develop a new version when someone else has already done it faster and cheaper?
Maybe Pac-Man isn't really harming the ghosts. He's not eating the Ghosts, they live on. He's eating their clothing. The so called ghosts simply return home and don another sheet when Pac-Man catches them.
Maybe Pac-Man is really just a creature that enjoys the taste of clothing worn by a dark skinned creature. Eating the clothing seems to be enjoyable to Pac-Man, but receiving a whip crack to the ass from the mystical material transports Pac-Man back to his starting position.
How do we know the Ghosts don't enjoy chasing Pac-Man! They get to smack him on the rear if they catch him, but if he catches them they have to go home naked. It could all be in fun and jest, and us dolts of the human race have misinterpreted the entire ritual!
It is impossible to create a mathematical model to quantify any creative work. What may work for one movie won't work for another. What will work for a coffee blend won't work for a painting. What will work for an abstract painting won't work for a impressionist painting.
A rating isn't anything based in fact or science. Any rating, including those for movies, games, 4 starts, 5 stars, etc. isn't based in math and science, they are based on opinion and criteria deemed important for the medium.
The MPAA and ESRB are just a bunch of critics who happen to use an established set of criteria to establish a somewhat consistent system of judging the content.
As with any critic, you have to be in an educated consumer. Not everyone agrees with Ebert and Roper, but Ebert and Roper have a track record that you can depend on which allows you to make decisions based on their opinions. The same can be said for the MPAA and ESRB. Content is reviewed and critiqued based on the board's criteria for material appropriate to age group X, Y, and Z.
Earlier this month a user forgot the password for their PST file. It was apparently full of personal e-mails. (Lots of FW: FW: FW: FW: FW: FW: FW: FW: type subject lines).
Anyway, who gets called? IT. Our response was that she was pretty much on her own since it wasn't anything business related. So sure, the "we can't help you answer" works sometimes, but what about the case where you have an ex-employee who you have to press legal charges against? Yup, had this too not log ago.
The long and short of it is that corporate e-mail systems are not private. Deal with it and don't use them for important personal stuff. IT managers were right to ask for removal, or at least group policy control of this feature.
In the grand sceme of industral equipment, the robot doesn't sound all that dangerous. It was surrounded by a saftey fence that takes a serious effort to climb over. I've seen plenty of machines that simply have a sign that says do not put your hand here while the machine is in operation. And yet, people have still stuck their hand in there and lost fingers.
Industrial equipment does not stop instantly. Sensors that trigger a stop may prevent some incidents, but not all. No level of technology, not even say an fully functional Asimov robot or even the say Star Trek's Data will overcome human nature.
Unlike other computer manufacturers that use Chinese labor to produce computers, the Chinese government owns 28% of Lenovo. I would assume it's the government ownership, not the manufacturing location, that is driving this move.
No need! Thanks to the wonders of 21st century technology we have things called 'drills' and 'hammers'. You should check them out.
I don't know what 21st century you live in, but in my 21st century we open safes with plasma cutters, high explosives, and sharks with freaking laser beams.
The forums that I run have a "If you are visually impaired or cannot otherwise read this code please contact the Administrator for help." with a mailto link.
This has yet to be a problem as the forums that I run are orientiated around shooters or MMPOGs.:)
Everyone in our marketing department thinks that they are in the internet department. They all are convinced that a flash based web site with siny bells and whistles is the way to go.
Fortunatly, what Marketing thing and what is actually happening is two different things. Content and functionality are being pushed over flash (both the Macromedia flash and general website bling.)
We've out sorced the web development to a sister company in our orginization which happens to do web services. In house the ITS Manager, Marketing Manager, and VP of Sales collobrate with the web dev team to get results. The yuppies who want flash and bling don't have much to contribute other than flash and bling, and few of their ideas made it to the final project.
I was in B&N just yesterday, and saw Jamie and Adam on the cover of Skeptic magazine. Magazine aside, one of the comments was that the Fedral Air Marshals had viewed footage from the Explosive Decompression myth in their training. They also mentioned that due to the shows success getting in touch with experts is much easier that it was for the first season.
So South Korea will just have to get its Microsoft products from China. If Microsoft went through with such a threat, there would be a huge increase in software piracy in South Korea, and then MS would have to resort to tactics such as drastically reducing the cost of Microsoft software in the South Korean market to draw people away from the pirated software. I don't see how this threat is benefiting Microsoft at all. It doesn't seem to help with their case any. Obviously a ruling that Microsoft would have to separate Messenger and Media Player from the OS would cause a delay in new versions, but that's a part of doing business internationally.
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The author of the article mentioned he was setting a a Visual Studio development environment, which probably means he is a MSDN subscriber, which gives him rights to pretty much all of Microsoft's software for development purposes. So to someone who has the full MSDN subscription, or even just the OS portion, this is a no additional cost option: they have already paid for it.
Under our enterprise agreement with Microsoft we get downgrade rights for any OEM purchase of Windows Vista Business. Everything we purchased since Vista's release has come with a Vists Business license, but has the corporate Window XP image installed. I suspect other organizations with Enterprises/Select agreements have similar practices.
If they were, board members would have to acknowledge the real structure of power in a company.
:)
From Top to Bottom:
1. Facilities. They control the master electrical switch. Without them, not much will happen. They also have the ability to change every lock in the building.
2. IT. IT can turn off the servers, computers, and expose whatever illicit affairs are reveled by the board member's email and other data.
We never figured it out farther than that, but it seemed to fit rather well as our Facilities and IT departments are regularly the most satisfied departments according to the employee surveys.
Research [insert terrestrial mammal here] exploration of Mars instead. The wording of the bill is such that it invites loopholes. Go Congress.
Off the top of my head, a combine head that follows a track set into the ceiling of the building. Chutes, conveyors, and elevators that move the crops to collection bins in the basement of the building. Trucks underground move full bins out of the building and empty bins back in.
Nobody said you had to have a traditional combine inside your farm building. The track could also be used to send sprayers for irrigation/fertilization/etc. over your crop. A few robot arms running around doing whatever is needed.
I READ THE INSTRUCTIONS AT GOOGLE . . .
Linkage is nice: Google Webmaster Help Center
If the problem isn't the reporting algorithims, it's in the data - maybe you need to check validation on the front end.
Garbage in, garbage out. Even validation won't solve your garbage in problems. For some reason our line operaters got it in their head that all they had to type was 123456 in a field when prompted. 123456 is a valid value and within the realm of possibilities, so it validates fine and the system accepts it. Then a manager actually wanted a report involving that field. The report was useless. And so began back and forth. This report can't be right. It's right, everything checks out and that is the data that's in the database.
Eventually we walked said manager out to the line and had an operator demonstrate data entry procedures. "On this field we just enter 1234546." Manager flips out. Operator calmly pulls out his manual, flips to the document describing the procedure. Sure enough 123456 is part of the procedure. Document created by: Manager who is flipping out.
Nothing like someone shooting themselves in the foot to make a report writer's day.
One of the main reasons is web applications that have been developed for IE6 don't work in IE7 because IE7 is better at standards compliance. So many hacks were made to get things to work in IE6 that many applications that were developed during IE6's reign refuse to work in anything but IE6.
Anything with the word Monkey in the title cannot be abbreviated. Cause the word monkey is just fun. Or something. In a pinch, you can occasionally get away with SMonkeyB.
Pencils? Silly Canadians, ballot marking should be done in ink for fairly obvious reasons.
I've run into two types of ballots in Minnesota, both printed on legal sized light card stock. One where you draw a line through your selection, connecting the triangles on either side. The other is a fill in the bubble type of thing. Both are easily read by human eyes optical scanners. The line through the selection ballot is great for many people with limited mobility. My grandfather only has to bring a ruler to the polling place to place his vote, otherwise he is unable to draw a line that the optical scanner is able to read.
Unfortunately, I think we've done away with the line style ballot in favor of a fill in the oval type ballot as every polling place is equipped with a new Automark device to fill the needs of the differently abled. The Automark device is able to read the ballet in a computerized voice to the visually impaired and displays the ballot on a touch screen with optional magnification. Users use a 4 direction keypad and select key or the touch screen to navigate between candidates and offices. Using the select key marks the ballot for the current candidate (in ink). Automark News Article 1, Automark News Article 2. Thanks to the Help America Vote Act, every Minnesota polling place has an Automark machine.
The AutoMark machine uses the same official ballot as everyone else, and is fed into the same combination optical scanner/secure ballot box that everyone else feeds their ballot into. Voters fill out the ballots, put their ballot in the optical scanner/vote box.
To me, the Minnesota ballot system seems to be the best of both worlds. Votes are tallied by computer, yet there is a full paper trail, and there will be limited a hand counted audit. Most of the voting equipment is cheap. Pens, voting booths, a minimum of one optical scanner and one Automark machine are provided to each polling location. If the optical scanner fails, ballots can be deposited into secure ballot boxes and hand counted or fed into an optical scanner later. If the Automark machine fails, voting judges can still assist voters with filling out their ballots.
No system is perfect, but every election I'm impressed by the thought and good decision making that went into Minnesota's ballots.
Possibly integrating PHP into the Windows Scripting Host similar to Active Perl. That could be interesting as it would expose PHP to WMI and other resources made available via the Windows Scripting Host.
Virtual PC for Mac and Virtual PC for Windows are very different animals. Virtual PC on Mac has to emulate x86 as it runs on Power PC chips. Virtual PC on Windows has a much simpler job to do as it's already running on x86.
The end result is someone was able to create a virtual machine package for OSX Intel faster than Microsoft was able to, and they are selling it at a price point below Microsoft's own offering. What motivation is there for Microsoft to develop a new version when someone else has already done it faster and cheaper?
Maybe Pac-Man isn't really harming the ghosts. He's not eating the Ghosts, they live on. He's eating their clothing. The so called ghosts simply return home and don another sheet when Pac-Man catches them.
Maybe Pac-Man is really just a creature that enjoys the taste of clothing worn by a dark skinned creature. Eating the clothing seems to be enjoyable to Pac-Man, but receiving a whip crack to the ass from the mystical material transports Pac-Man back to his starting position.
How do we know the Ghosts don't enjoy chasing Pac-Man! They get to smack him on the rear if they catch him, but if he catches them they have to go home naked. It could all be in fun and jest, and us dolts of the human race have misinterpreted the entire ritual!
It is impossible to create a mathematical model to quantify any creative work. What may work for one movie won't work for another. What will work for a coffee blend won't work for a painting. What will work for an abstract painting won't work for a impressionist painting.
A rating isn't anything based in fact or science. Any rating, including those for movies, games, 4 starts, 5 stars, etc. isn't based in math and science, they are based on opinion and criteria deemed important for the medium.
The MPAA and ESRB are just a bunch of critics who happen to use an established set of criteria to establish a somewhat consistent system of judging the content.
As with any critic, you have to be in an educated consumer. Not everyone agrees with Ebert and Roper, but Ebert and Roper have a track record that you can depend on which allows you to make decisions based on their opinions. The same can be said for the MPAA and ESRB. Content is reviewed and critiqued based on the board's criteria for material appropriate to age group X, Y, and Z.
Earlier this month a user forgot the password for their PST file. It was apparently full of personal e-mails. (Lots of FW: FW: FW: FW: FW: FW: FW: FW: type subject lines).
Anyway, who gets called? IT. Our response was that she was pretty much on her own since it wasn't anything business related. So sure, the "we can't help you answer" works sometimes, but what about the case where you have an ex-employee who you have to press legal charges against? Yup, had this too not log ago.
The long and short of it is that corporate e-mail systems are not private. Deal with it and don't use them for important personal stuff. IT managers were right to ask for removal, or at least group policy control of this feature.
In the grand sceme of industral equipment, the robot doesn't sound all that dangerous. It was surrounded by a saftey fence that takes a serious effort to climb over. I've seen plenty of machines that simply have a sign that says do not put your hand here while the machine is in operation. And yet, people have still stuck their hand in there and lost fingers.
Industrial equipment does not stop instantly. Sensors that trigger a stop may prevent some incidents, but not all. No level of technology, not even say an fully functional Asimov robot or even the say Star Trek's Data will overcome human nature.
Unlike other computer manufacturers that use Chinese labor to produce computers, the Chinese government owns 28% of Lenovo. I would assume it's the government ownership, not the manufacturing location, that is driving this move.
No need! Thanks to the wonders of 21st century technology we have things called 'drills' and 'hammers'. You should check them out.
I don't know what 21st century you live in, but in my 21st century we open safes with plasma cutters, high explosives, and sharks with freaking laser beams.
No confirmed human/chimp hybrid has ever been found. Chuman/Humanzee/Manpanzee and Oliver would be good places to start if you want to find out more.
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The forums that I run have a "If you are visually impaired or cannot otherwise read this code please contact the Administrator for help." with a mailto link.
:)
This has yet to be a problem as the forums that I run are orientiated around shooters or MMPOGs.
Everyone in our marketing department thinks that they are in the internet department. They all are convinced that a flash based web site with siny bells and whistles is the way to go.
:)
Fortunatly, what Marketing thing and what is actually happening is two different things. Content and functionality are being pushed over flash (both the Macromedia flash and general website bling.)
We've out sorced the web development to a sister company in our orginization which happens to do web services. In house the ITS Manager, Marketing Manager, and VP of Sales collobrate with the web dev team to get results. The yuppies who want flash and bling don't have much to contribute other than flash and bling, and few of their ideas made it to the final project.
Overall, about 10 people.
Go to https://www.optoutprescreen.com/ and opt out of credit card offers.
I was in B&N just yesterday, and saw Jamie and Adam on the cover of Skeptic magazine. Magazine aside, one of the comments was that the Fedral Air Marshals had viewed footage from the Explosive Decompression myth in their training. They also mentioned that due to the shows success getting in touch with experts is much easier that it was for the first season.
So South Korea will just have to get its Microsoft products from China. If Microsoft went through with such a threat, there would be a huge increase in software piracy in South Korea, and then MS would have to resort to tactics such as drastically reducing the cost of Microsoft software in the South Korean market to draw people away from the pirated software. I don't see how this threat is benefiting Microsoft at all. It doesn't seem to help with their case any. Obviously a ruling that Microsoft would have to separate Messenger and Media Player from the OS would cause a delay in new versions, but that's a part of doing business internationally.