So Bush would be able to pay for his campaign by himself if he wants to get re-elected ? I think campaigns do get people elected, and having enough money to make yours bigger, better and more visible than the other candidates does help *a lot*
Correct me if I'm wrong but if an administration's chance of being re-elected is mainly made up of the amount of contributions they get from companies, isn't it to be expected that the administration will make policies favoring these companies. This is not a political statement, just an observation.
Funny how people always read what they want to read and not what's actually there. I was merely stating what Microsoft teaches MCSE's. Of course someone needs more than that. Just being an MSCE wouldn't make me able to get and keep my current job.
I design networks and run projects for a living, of course I know how to plug things in and spot hardware issues. I couldn't do my job without that.
The point you're missing is that I usually work for large organisations (50000+ workstations) and I don't fix computers, I don't put servers in racks or put UTP into buildings. Design, testing and production work are usually separated in these places. Some of the places I work at even have a crew of ppl who do nothing but change backup tapes all day. So everyone does his own specialized job. Mine is to think things up, test them or have them tested and sometimes step in when problems pop up during roll-out.
So it's not a question of wanting or being able to fix things, it's simple separation of functions as in any organisation.
BTW I do agree that the guy is a monkey. I just don't agree that it has anything to do with him being an MSCE, from the description he was prolly ass enough without Bills help
I am not saying a sysadmin shouldn't know his hardware. I am just stating the fact that there is barely any hardware related material in the MSCE curriculum. So if a manager hires for an MSCE he should check whether this person has any hardware knowledge if thats part of the job.
The problem I noticed on both my own (Digital IXUS) an a friends camera (S40) is that it's easy to upset the autofocus. Push the button halfway down, wait a second then push all the way. If you push it down all the way at once the camera seems to take too little time to focus.
Also very low light conditions always give blurry pictures for some reason. (stray light, interpolation, I dunno) I am talking long exposure time here, near darkness, using a tripod and autoshutter, so movement is not an issue.
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And -96VDC for ISDN (That one hurt, fortunately there is a good trick I picked up from a guy from the phone company. Short the two wires for a moment, a safety on the other side will switch off power on the lines for a few minutes. Saves you some fried parts;-) )
Maybe they (we;-) ) are, but I don't recall any hardware stuff when I did my MCSE. In my work (I work as a consultant) I never deal with hardwareproblems, and I don't need to. I do know about hardware but all I know about hardware is self-taught, because it amuses me to fiddle around with my own computers at home.
You wouldn't laugh at an accountant for not being able to take apart his calculator would you ? Or blame a docter for not being a dentist ?
The guy you're talking about probably really is a monkey (I know a lot of monkeys in this business) but don't blame him for not knowing what he doesn't need to know.
A good (built-in) hands-free kit might be useful. I have one where I just stick my phone in and talk. It even works during phone calls. This is very handy because where I live it is illegal to call in your car without using a hands-freekit or earpiece. Besides, it's also a lot safer to use one. You probably don't want to see a video of yourself driving while using a phone in your hand.
The first US paperback edition of the LOTR never earned Tolkien one cent because of the shady state of copyright law in those days. A US company (ACE Books) could get away with selling Tolkiens intellectual property without consulting or paying him.
And now US companies are educating the world on the ethics and legal consequenses of infringing on their copyrights. Wherever the money is eh ?
The reason why the guy avoided the issue was probably because he didn't know. Most MS engineers don't, because the licensing issues are complex and changing all the time.
My problem with these licenses is their complexity, it's almost impossible not to be in violiation if you're responsible for larger sites.
Or you might disagree with the idea that having more children is more succesful. I think survival of those children till they procreate themselves should be factored into the "succes"-rating somewhere.
Eehm, I remember reading somewhere (I know this isn't very scientific;-) ) that 70+% of cost in the industry is MARKETING. Just plain being nice to your doctor to entice him to give you their drugs. If most of their money was spent on development you argument might be valid, but as it is, I think any drug that needs that much money spent just to be used, isn't worth the money to be developed.
I think Usenet is underestimated here. I remember reading on the site of one of the larger ISPs, specialized in good usenet access (ie. 30000+ groups & week+ retention even on binaries groups) that they have significantly more than 1 TB of storage space (don't remember how much, but several TB). So mirroring Usenet might be a tight fit.
Arrests have been made in Europe connected to the tragedy last week. The people arrested were planning new attacks, this time against targets in Europe, presumably to respond to forthcoming U.S. retalliation.
Fact no.1
All this data is there anyway, no additional information is gathered.
Fact no.2
Currently this data is spread over numerous agencies, stored on numerous servers, written on stacks of forms, civil servant's notebooks etc. Most security risks mentioned earlier on in the discussion exist now. I work as a consultant in government IT and the largest threat to the confidentiality of your data is the fact that it is so decentralised that it is impossible to check on what they have on you and equally impossible to check on whether the agencies are storing your data in an appropriate way.
Fact no.3
Privacy laws are quite good in The Netherlands, especially compared to most other countries. Ppl who have mentioned the possibility of selling information by the government have no clue of Dutch law and how our government operates.
My thoughts:
Thought 1
This will put information in a central place where the applying laws concerning privacy can be enforced in a practical way. (This also includes reviewing the security measures taken to protect the information). An agency that doesn't need your information doesn't get it. It is impossible to do this now. I think that, if implemented in a good way, this might actually help your information be safe and give you control over and an insight into what information is used.
Thought 2
Furthermore it might make it possible to make the data more reliable as people can check their own information.
Thought 3
It will make "fraudulent" behaviour much harder. A lot of people here seem to think this is a bad idea, but for every buck that is fraudulently not payed in taxes because of fraudulent behaviour, we, the nice and lawabiding citizens, have to pay a buck more.
My conclusion
I don't always like it when i have to submit information to my government, but if i have to, this might give me control and knowledge of what happens with my data, which is a good thing in my book. It seems to me that the only people who have something to lose by this are people who are doing something that is either illegal or bordering on illegal, and I don't think their rights are more important than my right to be able to control my own personal data.
They have multiple editions, I know of a Dutch edition. But even though Dutch is my native language, I read the German version as it is more up to date and has more content.
I used to work for a company as CTO. It was a startup (not dotcom but in the IS field) founded by two ppl I know. One worked in the company, the other was a "silent" partner. We were doing great, work was pouring in, we were hiring like crazy. We were even starting to make a profit. Our only problem was funding. We needed to make some big investments in real estate and hard/software, and to compensate for some losses we made when we just started.
My boss was working on that and making good progress when disaster struck: my boss had a bad accident.
After this the "silent" partner stepped in and... (can you say PHB ?). He managed to blow any chance of funding out of the water. He offended clients and prospective investors with amazing cluelesness.
I was in the spot you are in today.
The Logistics manager and I might have been able to straighten things out or at least keep things running for a while, till our boss had recovered from his injuries. (At the time we effectively ran day to day operations) I felt I owed it to my boss to be loyal because he had been good for me, giving me the opportunity to do a high level job which no other company would have given anyone with my resume at that time. In the meantime the silent partner was making this awful hard. He wouldn't listen to any of our suggestions, make very bad mistakes, he wouldn't even listen to our boss when he went to visit him in the hospital.
Finally I got together with the logistics manager (a close friend of mine) and we talked long and hard about this. We had a good relationship with the ppl in accounting so we were aware of the financial situation (This made our course of action much easier, because we knew what we were up against). We decided that:
- Our original boss deserved our loyalty.
- Our new boss did not
- Some things in our company were going wrong but they were fixable. I.e. the company could survive. (this was crucial, we were going to put in a lot energy and sweat, we needed to know this)
- The new boss had to take his shares and stay home. (This guy could lose clients just by picking up the phone and striking up a "pleasant conversation")
Once we figured this out we put together a rescue plan for the company and a realistic scenario of what would happen if we wouldn't start fixing things. We put it on our new bosses desk. I then had to leave the country for two weeks (a long overdue vacation)
When I got back our plan was in the same place on our new bosses desk as before I left. He hadn't spoken about the plan to our logistics manager. I had one final talk with my old boss and left. The company went down two weeks later with quite a lot of money down the drain.
My feelings now:
I hate what happened to a good idea, and a nice company to work for. I hate that my old boss ended up well in debt.
I never regretted leaving, because there was nothing we could have done without the support from our new boss.
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ban their IP at router level Oi, remind me to start running when you consider *active* euthanasia
So Bush would be able to pay for his campaign by himself if he wants to get re-elected ? I think campaigns do get people elected, and having enough money to make yours bigger, better and more visible than the other candidates does help *a lot*
Correct me if I'm wrong but if an administration's chance of being re-elected is mainly made up of the amount of contributions they get from companies, isn't it to be expected that the administration will make policies favoring these companies. This is not a political statement, just an observation.
Funny how people always read what they want to read and not what's actually there. I was merely stating what Microsoft teaches MCSE's. Of course someone needs more than that. Just being an MSCE wouldn't make me able to get and keep my current job.
I design networks and run projects for a living, of course I know how to plug things in and spot hardware issues. I couldn't do my job without that.
The point you're missing is that I usually work for large organisations (50000+ workstations) and I don't fix computers, I don't put servers in racks or put UTP into buildings. Design, testing and production work are usually separated in these places. Some of the places I work at even have a crew of ppl who do nothing but change backup tapes all day. So everyone does his own specialized job. Mine is to think things up, test them or have them tested and sometimes step in when problems pop up during roll-out.
So it's not a question of wanting or being able to fix things, it's simple separation of functions as in any organisation.
BTW I do agree that the guy is a monkey. I just don't agree that it has anything to do with him being an MSCE, from the description he was prolly ass enough without Bills help
I am not saying a sysadmin shouldn't know his hardware. I am just stating the fact that there is barely any hardware related material in the MSCE curriculum. So if a manager hires for an MSCE he should check whether this person has any hardware knowledge if thats part of the job.
The problem I noticed on both my own (Digital IXUS) an a friends camera (S40) is that it's easy to upset the autofocus. Push the button halfway down, wait a second then push all the way. If you push it down all the way at once the camera seems to take too little time to focus.
Also very low light conditions always give blurry pictures for some reason. (stray light, interpolation, I dunno) I am talking long exposure time here, near darkness, using a tripod and autoshutter, so movement is not an issue.
Some people can shove real hard :-)
And -96VDC for ISDN (That one hurt, fortunately there is a good trick I picked up from a guy from the phone company. Short the two wires for a moment, a safety on the other side will switch off power on the lines for a few minutes. Saves you some fried parts ;-) )
Maybe they (we ;-) ) are, but I don't recall any hardware stuff when I did my MCSE. In my work (I work as a consultant) I never deal with hardwareproblems, and I don't need to. I do know about hardware but all I know about hardware is self-taught, because it amuses me to fiddle around with my own computers at home.
You wouldn't laugh at an accountant for not being able to take apart his calculator would you ? Or blame a docter for not being a dentist ?
The guy you're talking about probably really is a monkey (I know a lot of monkeys in this business) but don't blame him for not knowing what he doesn't need to know.
A good (built-in) hands-free kit might be useful. I have one where I just stick my phone in and talk. It even works during phone calls. This is very handy because where I live it is illegal to call in your car without using a hands-freekit or earpiece. Besides, it's also a lot safer to use one. You probably don't want to see a video of yourself driving while using a phone in your hand.
I am feeling a bit silly responding to my own post but then again it doesnt say "Use the Preview Button! " for nothing so I deserve a little silly
I am not saying that intellectual property theft is right, just that the situation is a bit strange.
The first US paperback edition of the LOTR never earned Tolkien one cent because of the shady state of copyright law in those days. A US company (ACE Books) could get away with selling Tolkiens intellectual property without consulting or paying him.
And now US companies are educating the world on the ethics and legal consequenses of infringing on their copyrights. Wherever the money is eh ?
I can really use one of those...
Sighhhhhhh.....Not cheating isn't always fun either :-)
I just ordered some memory for some of our Compaq hardware, and $1000 doesn't seem like that much for 256 megs of memory all of a sudden......
The reason why the guy avoided the issue was probably because he didn't know. Most MS engineers don't, because the licensing issues are complex and changing all the time.
My problem with these licenses is their complexity, it's almost impossible not to be in violiation if you're responsible for larger sites.
Or you might disagree with the idea that having more children is more succesful. I think survival of those children till they procreate themselves should be factored into the "succes"-rating somewhere.
Eehm, I remember reading somewhere (I know this isn't very scientific ;-) ) that 70+% of cost in the industry is MARKETING. Just plain being nice to your doctor to entice him to give you their drugs. If most of their money was spent on development you argument might be valid, but as it is, I think any drug that needs that much money spent just to be used, isn't worth the money to be developed.
I think Usenet is underestimated here. I remember reading on the site of one of the larger ISPs, specialized in good usenet access (ie. 30000+ groups & week+ retention even on binaries groups) that they have significantly more than 1 TB of storage space (don't remember how much, but several TB). So mirroring Usenet might be a tight fit.
Don't you think it would tip over with a 22" monitor on top ?
:-)
Arrests have been made in Europe connected to the tragedy last week. The people arrested were planning new attacks, this time against targets in Europe, presumably to respond to forthcoming U.S. retalliation.
Does anyone else think it's funny that California will soon have broadband this fast to a pc that might even have *electricity*
;-)
Just a thought
Fact no.1
All this data is there anyway, no additional information is gathered.
Fact no.2
Currently this data is spread over numerous agencies, stored on numerous servers, written on stacks of forms, civil servant's notebooks etc. Most security risks mentioned earlier on in the discussion exist now. I work as a consultant in government IT and the largest threat to the confidentiality of your data is the fact that it is so decentralised that it is impossible to check on what they have on you and equally impossible to check on whether the agencies are storing your data in an appropriate way.
Fact no.3
Privacy laws are quite good in The Netherlands, especially compared to most other countries. Ppl who have mentioned the possibility of selling information by the government have no clue of Dutch law and how our government operates.
My thoughts:
Thought 1
This will put information in a central place where the applying laws concerning privacy can be enforced in a practical way. (This also includes reviewing the security measures taken to protect the information). An agency that doesn't need your information doesn't get it. It is impossible to do this now. I think that, if implemented in a good way, this might actually help your information be safe and give you control over and an insight into what information is used.
Thought 2
Furthermore it might make it possible to make the data more reliable as people can check their own information.
Thought 3
It will make "fraudulent" behaviour much harder. A lot of people here seem to think this is a bad idea, but for every buck that is fraudulently not payed in taxes because of fraudulent behaviour, we, the nice and lawabiding citizens, have to pay a buck more.
My conclusion
I don't always like it when i have to submit information to my government, but if i have to, this might give me control and knowledge of what happens with my data, which is a good thing in my book. It seems to me that the only people who have something to lose by this are people who are doing something that is either illegal or bordering on illegal, and I don't think their rights are more important than my right to be able to control my own personal data.
They have multiple editions, I know of a Dutch edition. But even though Dutch is my native language, I read the German version as it is more up to date and has more content.
I used to work for a company as CTO. It was a startup (not dotcom but in the IS field) founded by two ppl I know. One worked in the company, the other was a "silent" partner. We were doing great, work was pouring in, we were hiring like crazy. We were even starting to make a profit. Our only problem was funding. We needed to make some big investments in real estate and hard/software, and to compensate for some losses we made when we just started.
... (can you say PHB ?). He managed to blow any chance of funding out of the water. He offended clients and prospective investors with amazing cluelesness.
My boss was working on that and making good progress when disaster struck: my boss had a bad accident.
After this the "silent" partner stepped in and
I was in the spot you are in today.
The Logistics manager and I might have been able to straighten things out or at least keep things running for a while, till our boss had recovered from his injuries. (At the time we effectively ran day to day operations) I felt I owed it to my boss to be loyal because he had been good for me, giving me the opportunity to do a high level job which no other company would have given anyone with my resume at that time. In the meantime the silent partner was making this awful hard. He wouldn't listen to any of our suggestions, make very bad mistakes, he wouldn't even listen to our boss when he went to visit him in the hospital.
Finally I got together with the logistics manager (a close friend of mine) and we talked long and hard about this. We had a good relationship with the ppl in accounting so we were aware of the financial situation (This made our course of action much easier, because we knew what we were up against). We decided that:
- Our original boss deserved our loyalty.
- Our new boss did not
- Some things in our company were going wrong but they were fixable. I.e. the company could survive. (this was crucial, we were going to put in a lot energy and sweat, we needed to know this)
- The new boss had to take his shares and stay home. (This guy could lose clients just by picking up the phone and striking up a "pleasant conversation")
Once we figured this out we put together a rescue plan for the company and a realistic scenario of what would happen if we wouldn't start fixing things. We put it on our new bosses desk. I then had to leave the country for two weeks (a long overdue vacation)
When I got back our plan was in the same place on our new bosses desk as before I left. He hadn't spoken about the plan to our logistics manager. I had one final talk with my old boss and left. The company went down two weeks later with quite a lot of money down the drain.
My feelings now:
I hate what happened to a good idea, and a nice company to work for. I hate that my old boss ended up well in debt.
I never regretted leaving, because there was nothing we could have done without the support from our new boss.