Trying to avoid sounding off too much, but some people really don't know what they're talking about.
Forget about 1000+, there are are organizations that run exchange extremely well with 100000+ users - (Mine for example).
It's in the planning - standardize on well specced servers (relatively speaking hardware is cheap). NT and Win2000 is rock solid when you have the right SPs and patches.
A previous poster was dead on - PHBs love the calendar planner and GAL. In a large organiztion its possible that planning a meeting might take over 2 hours without calendar planning.
A final point - homogeneity is ESSENTIAL in many organizations:
- Sufficient support staff who can troubleshoot in any part of an organization
- Interoperability for staff who travel
- Speed of delivery, integrating different systems together
Peoples time is more expensive than the additional costs associated with installing M$ solutions.
Finally, it's true than homogeneity squelches peoples creativity and personal preference - but that's what business is for (and paying the rent:) ).
Actually,
calculating the Xth decimal place for transcendental numbers is partially usefull when considering the nature of randomness and what we mean by.
On the face of it the distribution of the digits 0-9 appears to be random in PI (and trancendaental numbers).
OTOH the quadrillionth DP might be a bit excessive;)
IIRC modern interpretations of randomness are tightly linked with information - which is of interest to/. ers;)
People demand rights far too easily.
Why do you think that listening to music is a right? Is free healthcare a right? Is a free college education a right? Is happiness a right?
NO!
Jeez what a bunch of freeloading blood-suckers. If you dislike the publishers so much dont use their products.
Trying to avoid rehashing the arguments of everyone else, the important parts of RIP are:
1) Obligation to surrender encryption keys
2) Obligation for ISPs to install monitoring equipment. (cf Carnivore !!)
see: http://www.fipr.org/rip/index.html
The UK has no history or tradition of freedom of information and first amendment rights. The RIP bill as originally proposed was extremely Orwellian. (The burden of proof was reversed for example on encryption keys - You had to prove that you had forgotten the pass-phrase for that that to be a defense).
The privacy at work issue is a smoke screen IMHO -it's your companies equipment & infrastructure so don't use it for personal use.
P.S. I work for an investment bank and I know for a fact ALL telephone calls (in and out) are recorded and stored for seven years.
P.P.S. The security guys usually have access to all the interesting security videos - usually at 20 GBP per tape:-)
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Trying to avoid sounding off too much, but some people really don't know what they're talking about.
:) ).
Forget about 1000+, there are are organizations that run exchange extremely well with 100000+ users - (Mine for example).
It's in the planning - standardize on well specced servers (relatively speaking hardware is cheap). NT and Win2000 is rock solid when you have the right SPs and patches.
A previous poster was dead on - PHBs love the calendar planner and GAL. In a large organiztion its possible that planning a meeting might take over 2 hours without calendar planning.
A final point - homogeneity is ESSENTIAL in many organizations:
- Sufficient support staff who can troubleshoot in any part of an organization
- Interoperability for staff who travel
- Speed of delivery, integrating different systems together
Peoples time is more expensive than the additional costs associated with installing M$ solutions.
Finally, it's true than homogeneity squelches peoples creativity and personal preference - but that's what business is for (and paying the rent
Actually, calculating the Xth decimal place for transcendental numbers is partially usefull when considering the nature of randomness and what we mean by. On the face of it the distribution of the digits 0-9 appears to be random in PI (and trancendaental numbers). OTOH the quadrillionth DP might be a bit excessive ;)
IIRC modern interpretations of randomness are tightly linked with information - which is of interest to /. ers ;)
People demand rights far too easily. Why do you think that listening to music is a right? Is free healthcare a right? Is a free college education a right? Is happiness a right? NO! Jeez what a bunch of freeloading blood-suckers. If you dislike the publishers so much dont use their products.
1) Obligation to surrender encryption keys
2) Obligation for ISPs to install monitoring equipment. (cf Carnivore !!)
see: http://www.fipr.org/rip/index.html
The UK has no history or tradition of freedom of information and first amendment rights. The RIP bill as originally proposed was extremely Orwellian. (The burden of proof was reversed for example on encryption keys - You had to prove that you had forgotten the pass-phrase for that that to be a defense).
The privacy at work issue is a smoke screen IMHO -it's your companies equipment & infrastructure so don't use it for personal use.
P.S. I work for an investment bank and I know for a fact ALL telephone calls (in and out) are recorded and stored for seven years.
P.P.S. The security guys usually have access to all the interesting security videos - usually at 20 GBP per tape :-)