If there is no match between names and numbers (they only pass initial validation) then you are hardly committing fraud. They could complain but they are making fraudulent claims.
For example when Apple was suing everyone to show that their versions of the Xerox PARC research and the star workstation was better than others. They did try to sue Microsoft but not X consortium members as many of the originators came from the PARC (for example, Smoky Wallace) and knew how much prior-art was out there.
You can definitely thank Sarbanes-Oxley for that. The reason Apple had to charge for iOS upgrades was because of SOX rules. SOX rules have been changed, and Apple has stopped charging for upgrades.
Not at all. Having advised on Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, I cannot recall seeing that written anywhere.
If you are a particularly nasty person like me, you would have returned the favour of a fake virus scan with a fake purchase from one of the test CC generators. Do that enough times and it may raise a flag with their upstream payment processor.
Not to mention that Exchange offers the significant advantages of a large ecosystem of applications, tools and trained professionals that can back it up, maintain it, fix it, merge it, replicate it and all kinds of other things that you will eventually need to do in the life-cycle of an average modern mail system. I am dealing with a merger of two companies at the moment and them both running Exchange is a godsend - I'm glad it isn't an OpenExchange system I am having to merge with...
I have been working at a major user of Exchange which has recently merged with another major user of Exchange. Mail goes down for periods of time. Mailboxes are 'lost' to parts of the merged bank. Performance has become a joke and senior management are in a state of denial (incidents are being downgraded). Oh, and the process was run by a major outsourcing provider who run the IT services. Yes, it seems that Exchange is not maintainable. The backups are iffy at best and even with the highest level of support, there isn't sufficient expertise to run it.
I am all for transparency but it will also have a negative effect on the efficiency of the government
Who is paying for it, who pays your salary? Remember we aren't talking about including the public in the purchase decision. We are talking about review.
Do you really need to know I spent £2K on 64GB Ram for a blade ?
If I find that you are paying 2x the cost of memory elsewhere or an extraordinary amount with one supplier - that is a very big red flag and I'm interested. We can all name government projects that have gone spectacularly wrong even with oversight and this is another form of review.
I have an 11.6" 1410T - it is very, very nice but the screen is shite - good definition, LED illuminated but the viewing angle is poor and it reflects everything. It is however wonderfully light, and is reasonably functional with Win 7. If you ask it to do something serious thought, there you can foregt it. Also in its nice and shiny plastic (that shows off fingerprints so well), its a lot more fragile than my Dell in its alloy shell.
sounds like wishful thinking to me because the vehicles took some time to arrive. Also a Bradley Fighting Vehicle is impervious to small arms, why couldn't they have verified?
As the US forces have destroyed law and order in the country, most journalists will hire guards when they are travelling around to prevent theft of equipment and/or kidnapping. It is legal for the guards to carry AKs, though not RPGs. I am still trying to locate the evidence that the Pentagon posted that there were indeed RPGs not a camera with a long lens or a tripod.
In the case of major pharmaceutical industry, if they dominate the market for a drug, then they must be forced to multisource I have no issue with them being handsomely rewarded with license fees but they should never be able to hold the market to ransom.
On another web site, (Reddit) someone posted a link to a story in The Times about abuse by Catholic priests and the Vienna Boys Choir. The story was unremarkable, except perhaps for the name of the reporter, apparently a guy called "Roger Boyes". You have to know British English well to get that one but it was a hoot!!!
(Brought to you by the fine folks at Accenture, whom I personally know have completely fucked up two other large projects).
I guess you don't know the half of it. They sell well to CIOs on the basis of sex-aiddict sportsmen but deliver chaos as they try to get stuff written as cheaply as possible whilst not spending money to manage their projects properly. The settlement on the project I saw was the refund of $16M or so but a big fat non-disclosure. Government projects usually don't have that luxury.
Big projects are still very difficult to run be it pyramids or large IT systems.
To be fair, polarisation works well with projectors but with a screen you need either red/blue glasses (always looks a bit tacky) or lcd shutter tech ($$$$). It would be very difficult to put a striped polarising filter in front of a TV.
Thats why it is really just an equaliser which can be mass produced. It is just that each needs the settings made depending on the audiologist's report. This could even be done semi automatically too.
I believe an AT&T guy got fried whilst working on a dish on the empire state building a while back. To be fair though, being in front of a dish push a directional multi-kw pulse is about as safe as living in a microwave oven.
In fact, Microsoft spends TONS and TONS of money figuring out how to best cater their business customers by running all sorts of research, field tests and such. (A good example of this is the Ribbon interface in Office 2007, which was the result of an academic study looking to figure out how people doing work interface with GUIs best.)
The delicious irony is that most of the major corps are still running Office 2K3 because the userbase finds 2K7 'confusing' and buggy (usually means its harder for them to find what they want). Personally I would love it if everyone upgraded to 2K7 because my laptop came with it and compatibility is a problem but they can't.
Oddly enough, it is usually the 'innovation' that I find is buggy and poorly implemented. Word works fine if you stay with simple and short documents. If you deal with 150+ page technical specs with embedded bits from the rest of the office suite, you find out how stable it really is - either crashing or consistently screwing up the output so that it looks nothing like what is on the screen.
OO has its problems too, but I tend to use a mixture of the two to survive..
I think you have put your finger on it. Whilst it is clear that big O/S vendors have things like interoperability labs, it seems that few have an opportunity of just playing around there. If you work at such a place like Microsoft, you should have more than a nodding acquaintance with OS/X and Linux (and the other way around too).
OTOH if a marketing person has even seen anything good come out of the competition, heaven forbid they should ever acknowledge this.
Planes are seen to be more of a target than a train - when there is a crash, there are fatalities but generally not everyone. Also, there is psychology and trains aren't considered to be such a target i.e., the idea that important people go in planes not trains.
That's not to say that trains don't get attacked - think Madrid or London, but it happens less often even if they are a more obvious/available target.
Unfortunately many companies have relocated from the centre to the outside of the city so the Hauptbahnhof isn't always so convenient. At a job I did in Munich, the office was situated almost equidistant between the airport and the bahnhof.
The TGV to Munich can't go at full-speed. Only parts of Germany's rail network can take high-speed trains at full speed. Last time I looked it was something a little over six hours. However if the lines were upgraded that time could be halved.
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If there is no match between names and numbers (they only pass initial validation) then you are hardly committing fraud. They could complain but they are making fraudulent claims.
For example when Apple was suing everyone to show that their versions of the Xerox PARC research and the star workstation was better than others. They did try to sue Microsoft but not X consortium members as many of the originators came from the PARC (for example, Smoky Wallace) and knew how much prior-art was out there.
Not at all. Having advised on Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, I cannot recall seeing that written anywhere.
If you are a particularly nasty person like me, you would have returned the favour of a fake virus scan with a fake purchase from one of the test CC generators. Do that enough times and it may raise a flag with their upstream payment processor.
I have been working at a major user of Exchange which has recently merged with another major user of Exchange. Mail goes down for periods of time. Mailboxes are 'lost' to parts of the merged bank. Performance has become a joke and senior management are in a state of denial (incidents are being downgraded). Oh, and the process was run by a major outsourcing provider who run the IT services. Yes, it seems that Exchange is not maintainable. The backups are iffy at best and even with the highest level of support, there isn't sufficient expertise to run it.
Depends on the forest. Some have very good coverage, such as Malaysia and Finland. Forestry workers used to use VHF with repeaters on the Fire towers.
Who is paying for it, who pays your salary? Remember we aren't talking about including the public in the purchase decision. We are talking about review.
If I find that you are paying 2x the cost of memory elsewhere or an extraordinary amount with one supplier - that is a very big red flag and I'm interested. We can all name government projects that have gone spectacularly wrong even with oversight and this is another form of review.
I have an 11.6" 1410T - it is very, very nice but the screen is shite - good definition, LED illuminated but the viewing angle is poor and it reflects everything. It is however wonderfully light, and is reasonably functional with Win 7. If you ask it to do something serious thought, there you can foregt it. Also in its nice and shiny plastic (that shows off fingerprints so well), its a lot more fragile than my Dell in its alloy shell.
sounds like wishful thinking to me because the vehicles took some time to arrive. Also a Bradley Fighting Vehicle is impervious to small arms, why couldn't they have verified?
As the US forces have destroyed law and order in the country, most journalists will hire guards when they are travelling around to prevent theft of equipment and/or kidnapping. It is legal for the guards to carry AKs, though not RPGs. I am still trying to locate the evidence that the Pentagon posted that there were indeed RPGs not a camera with a long lens or a tripod.
What order, I heard them begging to be allowed to shoot, even the wounded guy on the deck?
In the case of major pharmaceutical industry, if they dominate the market for a drug, then they must be forced to multisource I have no issue with them being handsomely rewarded with license fees but they should never be able to hold the market to ransom.
On another web site, (Reddit) someone posted a link to a story in The Times about abuse by Catholic priests and the Vienna Boys Choir. The story was unremarkable, except perhaps for the name of the reporter, apparently a guy called "Roger Boyes". You have to know British English well to get that one but it was a hoot!!!
I guess you don't know the half of it. They sell well to CIOs on the basis of sex-aiddict sportsmen but deliver chaos as they try to get stuff written as cheaply as possible whilst not spending money to manage their projects properly. The settlement on the project I saw was the refund of $16M or so but a big fat non-disclosure. Government projects usually don't have that luxury.
Big projects are still very difficult to run be it pyramids or large IT systems.
To be fair, polarisation works well with projectors but with a screen you need either red/blue glasses (always looks a bit tacky) or lcd shutter tech ($$$$). It would be very difficult to put a striped polarising filter in front of a TV.
Thats why it is really just an equaliser which can be mass produced. It is just that each needs the settings made depending on the audiologist's report. This could even be done semi automatically too.
I believe an AT&T guy got fried whilst working on a dish on the empire state building a while back. To be fair though, being in front of a dish push a directional multi-kw pulse is about as safe as living in a microwave oven.
The delicious irony is that most of the major corps are still running Office 2K3 because the userbase finds 2K7 'confusing' and buggy (usually means its harder for them to find what they want). Personally I would love it if everyone upgraded to 2K7 because my laptop came with it and compatibility is a problem but they can't.
Oddly enough, it is usually the 'innovation' that I find is buggy and poorly implemented. Word works fine if you stay with simple and short documents. If you deal with 150+ page technical specs with embedded bits from the rest of the office suite, you find out how stable it really is - either crashing or consistently screwing up the output so that it looks nothing like what is on the screen.
OO has its problems too, but I tend to use a mixture of the two to survive..
I think you have put your finger on it. Whilst it is clear that big O/S vendors have things like interoperability labs, it seems that few have an opportunity of just playing around there. If you work at such a place like Microsoft, you should have more than a nodding acquaintance with OS/X and Linux (and the other way around too).
OTOH if a marketing person has even seen anything good come out of the competition, heaven forbid they should ever acknowledge this.
Planes are seen to be more of a target than a train - when there is a crash, there are fatalities but generally not everyone. Also, there is psychology and trains aren't considered to be such a target i.e., the idea that important people go in planes not trains.
That's not to say that trains don't get attacked - think Madrid or London, but it happens less often even if they are a more obvious/available target.
Unfortunately many companies have relocated from the centre to the outside of the city so the Hauptbahnhof isn't always so convenient. At a job I did in Munich, the office was situated almost equidistant between the airport and the bahnhof.
I lived and worked in the UK for a while - by comparison DB is pretty good.
Some routes are fully upgraded like Frankfurt airport to Cologne but others are not.
The TGV to Munich can't go at full-speed. Only parts of Germany's rail network can take high-speed trains at full speed. Last time I looked it was something a little over six hours. However if the lines were upgraded that time could be halved.
Oh you mean the honourable member for the media and mafya...