The best way to really learn to loath a song is to make it a ring tone. After the fifth or so call, you never want to hear a single note from that song again. Besides, don't you usually answer the phone before the first few measures are played anyway? Guess that's why ringtones are such a big business -- people have to change them almost everyday before they get sick and tired of their selection.
BTW, people who have BlueTooth phones from Verizon cannot simply download the clips from their computer. Verizon hobbles the BlueTooth in their phone, so it can't connect to a computer. The only thing it will connect to is the BlueTooth earpiece. Verizon hobbled the BlueTooth, so you have to go through their network (and pay Verizon) to download or upload pictures, games, ringtones, email, etc. from your phone.
Oracle 10g is a brand new piece of software while SqlServer 2000 has been out for almost 6 years. By simply taking the number of reported vunerabilities over the last 12 months, they are comparing a new version of a program with one that has had time to stablize. Will this hold up when SqlServer 2006 comes out next year?
The security problems of Oracle vs. SqlServer formed the central basis of their conclusions.
I got my cell service from T-Mobile. Not only are they a GSM provider (and I can even get a phone from them that works outside of the U.S.), but they don't disable their Bluetooth at all.
I am fully able to transfer files back and forth between my computer and my Motorola RAZR phone. I even sync my addressbook between my phone and my computer (and it was one of the big reasons I went T-Mobile and bought this particular phone).
I bet you could probably go to Japan, get one of those ultra-cool phones they have there, then use it with T-Mobile in the U.S.
BTW, I think it is a very bad sign that the U.S. is no longer the first country to get the latest technilogical doodads. Heck, we're not even one of the first. A lot of the really high tech stuff never even hits the U.S. markets. Many tech firms are beginning to treat us like a third world market. It's not just cell phones, but video game consoles, and even watches.
Here's the real incompatibility: Combining Unix, Apache, Oracle, Windows, *AND* the DC School System.
I'm not a system admin, Oracle expert, or network guru, and I've gotten his combination up and running many times. Okay, it isn't painless and I find it a bit frustrating, but then again, setting this stuff up isn't technically my job.
Now, the DC school system is something else. They couldn't get two tin cans and a piece of string to network together. Compared to the DC government bureaucracy, the Somalian National Government is more organized and better run.
I'm a Configuration Manager which means no one really knows what I do, but I'm paid well for it.
One company was paying me more than $350K per year. Of course, I was a W2 contractor which meant I didn't get any stock options, but that somehow didn't seem to upset me all that much.
The company went bankrupt after nine months mainly because they were so clueless (hint: They were paying me $350K). I was suppose to convert them from Visual SourceSafe to ClearCase and ClearQuest, but I was suppose to do this without a dedicated server and without interfering with the developers.
I couldn't do any training either because the developers didn't have time for that type of stuff and I couldn't do anything that might slow down their development like transferring the source archive to ClearCase and rewriting their build scripts.
To give you an idea how strange things were, there were less than 20 employees out of maybe 50 total employees who used the network for development (6 developers, 2 QA testers, and eight data modelers). I was suppose to put our source archive on a Solaris box, but have the developers access ClearCase via Windows.
Well, no problem as long as both the Unix and Window boxes use the same user names. That meant no spaces in user names and user names of eight letters or less. Our Windows logins were firstname-space-lastname. I asked our SysAdmin if we could convert everyone over to the shorter logins (or at least the users who would use ClearCase), and he answered it was impossible because of Corporate Policy.
I sat in a row of about nine cubicles, which was empty except for me. I use to bring my bicycle inside and put it in the cubicle next to me, but I was told that this was again against Corporate Policy because my bike would get in the way of the people sitting in that row of cubes.
It was a crazy place, and I hated working there, but when someone wants to pay you $350K, what do you do?
You're all looking at this backwards. Who says the idea is trying to run Mac OS X on non-Apple PCs. Apple may really be interested in getting people to buy their PCs to run Windows.
Remember that Apple is first and foremost a hardware company. Yes, Apple would love for Mac OS X have a bigger share of the market -- just like Apple would love each and every iPod buyer who has a PC to buy a Mac and use their iPod on the Mac. However, Apple doesn't seem too upset when people buy an iPod and use it with their PC.
Apple has an excellent reputation, massive sales abilities, high quality machines, striking designs, and with the use of Intel hardware, lower prices.
Yes, Apple would love to double their market share to 7% with this move, but their feelings wouldn't be too hurt if they grabbed a 15% market share, outsold Dell, but only 1/3 of those purchases were running Mac OS X. I think Apple would learn to live with it.
You know a recruiter has been calling me up about moving from New York to Bangalor for a position. He seems pretty certain I am the man for the job. Probably because it was my job before it got outsourced.
If you can't bring in your USB watch, how about my bluetooth cell phone? Okay, bluetooth technology isn't as common as USB, but my phone can hold a gigabyte of data. Plus, it has a camera, so I can take pictures of secured areas.
How can your office stop someone from bringing in their cell phone? Or a USB key on their keychain? Or their PDA?
I'd hate to be responsible for corporate data security now with all of these devices floating around. Someone could discretely download a lot of data onto their key chain. Heck, it is even easier with my bluetooth phone. I don't even need a wired connection, just be with in 15 feet of my PC. I don't even have to be near my PC in order to download data.
A few years ago, I worked for a large financial corporation when someone stole the HR database and sold it to idenity thieves. Hundreds of us "highly compensated" employees suddently discovered that someone was using our identity to buy electronic hardware, get bank loans, etc.
It took me five months to clean up the mess, and I was lucky. I found out about it the very day it happened because one of the stores that gave this guy instant credit called me to verify if I had just applied for credit.
Still, in a twelve hour period, that person went to over 3 dozen different stores from Atlantic City to Philidelphia getting instant credit and buying over $200,000 of goodies. I could literally figure out which roads he took by looking at the various times he hit the stores and applied for credit.
Other people weren't so lucky because they didn't find out about it until either a collection agent called, or they were denied credit because of this attack.
And who was the person who gave the information to the thief? Heck, it could have been almost any lowly paid clerk in HR. If you're only making $30,000 per year, someone offers you $100K or so for this kind of information, and you know the likelyhood of you getting caught is almost nill, what would you do?
Millions of employees with access to valuable data, and hundreds of ways to get around corporate security. Maybe 99.99% of your employees are dedicated, hardworking, and honest, but it's the other.01 percent that will destroy you.
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The best way to really learn to loath a song is to make it a ring tone. After the fifth or so call, you never want to hear a single note from that song again. Besides, don't you usually answer the phone before the first few measures are played anyway? Guess that's why ringtones are such a big business -- people have to change them almost everyday before they get sick and tired of their selection.
BTW, people who have BlueTooth phones from Verizon cannot simply download the clips from their computer. Verizon hobbles the BlueTooth in their phone, so it can't connect to a computer. The only thing it will connect to is the BlueTooth earpiece. Verizon hobbled the BlueTooth, so you have to go through their network (and pay Verizon) to download or upload pictures, games, ringtones, email, etc. from your phone.
Oracle 10g is a brand new piece of software while SqlServer 2000 has been out for almost 6 years. By simply taking the number of reported vunerabilities over the last 12 months, they are comparing a new version of a program with one that has had time to stablize. Will this hold up when SqlServer 2006 comes out next year?
The security problems of Oracle vs. SqlServer formed the central basis of their conclusions.
I got my cell service from T-Mobile. Not only are they a GSM provider (and I can even get a phone from them that works outside of the U.S.), but they don't disable their Bluetooth at all.
I am fully able to transfer files back and forth between my computer and my Motorola RAZR phone. I even sync my addressbook between my phone and my computer (and it was one of the big reasons I went T-Mobile and bought this particular phone).
I bet you could probably go to Japan, get one of those ultra-cool phones they have there, then use it with T-Mobile in the U.S.
BTW, I think it is a very bad sign that the U.S. is no longer the first country to get the latest technilogical doodads. Heck, we're not even one of the first. A lot of the really high tech stuff never even hits the U.S. markets. Many tech firms are beginning to treat us like a third world market. It's not just cell phones, but video game consoles, and even watches.
Here's the real incompatibility: Combining Unix, Apache, Oracle, Windows, *AND* the DC School System.
I'm not a system admin, Oracle expert, or network guru, and I've gotten his combination up and running many times. Okay, it isn't painless and I find it a bit frustrating, but then again, setting this stuff up isn't technically my job.
Now, the DC school system is something else. They couldn't get two tin cans and a piece of string to network together. Compared to the DC government bureaucracy, the Somalian National Government is more organized and better run.
I'm a Configuration Manager which means no one really knows what I do, but I'm paid well for it.
One company was paying me more than $350K per year. Of course, I was a W2 contractor which meant I didn't get any stock options, but that somehow didn't seem to upset me all that much.
The company went bankrupt after nine months mainly because they were so clueless (hint: They were paying me $350K). I was suppose to convert them from Visual SourceSafe to ClearCase and ClearQuest, but I was suppose to do this without a dedicated server and without interfering with the developers.
I couldn't do any training either because the developers didn't have time for that type of stuff and I couldn't do anything that might slow down their development like transferring the source archive to ClearCase and rewriting their build scripts.
To give you an idea how strange things were, there were less than 20 employees out of maybe 50 total employees who used the network for development (6 developers, 2 QA testers, and eight data modelers). I was suppose to put our source archive on a Solaris box, but have the developers access ClearCase via Windows.
Well, no problem as long as both the Unix and Window boxes use the same user names. That meant no spaces in user names and user names of eight letters or less. Our Windows logins were firstname-space-lastname. I asked our SysAdmin if we could convert everyone over to the shorter logins (or at least the users who would use ClearCase), and he answered it was impossible because of Corporate Policy.
I sat in a row of about nine cubicles, which was empty except for me. I use to bring my bicycle inside and put it in the cubicle next to me, but I was told that this was again against Corporate Policy because my bike would get in the way of the people sitting in that row of cubes.
It was a crazy place, and I hated working there, but when someone wants to pay you $350K, what do you do?
You're all looking at this backwards. Who says the idea is trying to run Mac OS X on non-Apple PCs. Apple may really be interested in getting people to buy their PCs to run Windows.
Remember that Apple is first and foremost a hardware company. Yes, Apple would love for Mac OS X have a bigger share of the market -- just like Apple would love each and every iPod buyer who has a PC to buy a Mac and use their iPod on the Mac. However, Apple doesn't seem too upset when people buy an iPod and use it with their PC.
Apple has an excellent reputation, massive sales abilities, high quality machines, striking designs, and with the use of Intel hardware, lower prices.
Yes, Apple would love to double their market share to 7% with this move, but their feelings wouldn't be too hurt if they grabbed a 15% market share, outsold Dell, but only 1/3 of those purchases were running Mac OS X. I think Apple would learn to live with it.
You know a recruiter has been calling me up about moving from New York to Bangalor for a position. He seems pretty certain I am the man for the job. Probably because it was my job before it got outsourced.
If you can't bring in your USB watch, how about my bluetooth cell phone? Okay, bluetooth technology isn't as common as USB, but my phone can hold a gigabyte of data. Plus, it has a camera, so I can take pictures of secured areas.
.01 percent that will destroy you.
How can your office stop someone from bringing in their cell phone? Or a USB key on their keychain? Or their PDA?
I'd hate to be responsible for corporate data security now with all of these devices floating around. Someone could discretely download a lot of data onto their key chain. Heck, it is even easier with my bluetooth phone. I don't even need a wired connection, just be with in 15 feet of my PC. I don't even have to be near my PC in order to download data.
A few years ago, I worked for a large financial corporation when someone stole the HR database and sold it to idenity thieves. Hundreds of us "highly compensated" employees suddently discovered that someone was using our identity to buy electronic hardware, get bank loans, etc.
It took me five months to clean up the mess, and I was lucky. I found out about it the very day it happened because one of the stores that gave this guy instant credit called me to verify if I had just applied for credit.
Still, in a twelve hour period, that person went to over 3 dozen different stores from Atlantic City to Philidelphia getting instant credit and buying over $200,000 of goodies. I could literally figure out which roads he took by looking at the various times he hit the stores and applied for credit.
Other people weren't so lucky because they didn't find out about it until either a collection agent called, or they were denied credit because of this attack.
And who was the person who gave the information to the thief? Heck, it could have been almost any lowly paid clerk in HR. If you're only making $30,000 per year, someone offers you $100K or so for this kind of information, and you know the likelyhood of you getting caught is almost nill, what would you do?
Millions of employees with access to valuable data, and hundreds of ways to get around corporate security. Maybe 99.99% of your employees are dedicated, hardworking, and honest, but it's the other