I subscribe to the theory that the things in movies which are most disturbing to people are reflections of the society of the time. Zombies in movies represent the unthinking masses who do nothing but consume the flesh and brains of the survivors, never question their reality or existence and have a desire to destroy anything different or that which they can't understand. The irony being of course that most of the people who go to zombie movies could be considered part of the unthinking mass.
I don't think it's a coincidence that zombies as a theme have become more popular in horror stories since TV has become widespread since the 1960s.
Despite the naysayers this sounds like a great addition to many offices. Lots of paper sent for recycling.
In my case that means shredding it, turning it into paper briquettes and burning it in my woodburning stove. Like free heating from the old office waste... Actually come to think of it this is a shit product, forget the running costs, look at the capital expenditure!
The IT dept will have a budget. That budget is set by whoever controls the finances. If the person controlling the finances thinks you are only worth 40Mb of storage, then that's all the IT dept will give you.
If you want more, then bitch to whomever controls the finances. There is almost certainly no point bitching to IT because they can only go to the finance people and say give us more money. The people controlling the money aren't feeling the pain so why should they spend the money?
BTW, this isn't just for IT. This is any organisation, government or private.
You don't like your email being read by someone else? Then why are you sending it as a postcard? And if you don't care about that then who cares if Google reads it and sells the information to advertisers?
FireGPG and others make encrypting webmail easy, and PGP/GPG and SMIME have been integrated into most mail clients for years.
If the existing business people don't know why the rules are there, surely that means you can get rid of them. You only need the business rules which the existing business people want or need.
The purpose of money and resources is to fulfil individual desires.
One might argue that the human species is made up of 6 billion individuals all competing for the maximum available of the limited resources available on the planet mostly for the purposes of procreation. That there is no human species collective of itself, only a collective noun.
What matters to all life ultimately, is not the level of civilisation now or in the future, but whether you are a genetic dead end or not.
You're a bank. You're going to loan out some money for what reason? To get more back. So, the recipient of a loan has to supply something of value. Say, a house.
What happens when the supply of houses matches or exceeds the demand? Houses become valueless. You can't make money supplying them. The bank isn't going to make that loan.
So for our existing monetary system, demand must never be satisfied. We must never build enough houses for all the homeless, and if too many are built, they have to be knocked down.
When the supply of work meets demand, work becomes valueless.
Which leads us to energy.
The reason we "modernise" is to reduce costs. A human costs say 20k/year. A digging machine costs 250k, with one driver can replace 10 humans digging trenches. Payback after the 1st year.The cost of the energy for the digger is lower than the costs the humans have to pay to live, plus the humans have a 30% tax on top.
So economically, it makes sense to get rid of humans and replace them with machines. In fact, our monetary system pretty much enforces it.
If all human labour can be carried out by machines, then humans will have no money. i.e. Universal machine labour will destroy capitalism and the monetary system. Banks etc. What will happen is the system will devolve into a 2 class system of owners and the owned. Creditors and debtors. Neofeudalism.
You should read Silvio Gesell. He came to a similar conclusion. That if demand is ever satisfied, capitalism stops functioning. (This is why there will always be poverty. It's required by the money system.)
Ofcourse as energy itself (easy energy resources like coal, oil, gas) becomes more scarce and expensive, the running of a 10,000 cpu cluster to emulate 100 billion human neurons is likely to consume quite a lot of energy.
To get a minute by minute graph of your network traffic, you will have to sample at least twice that fast. i.e. every 30 seconds or preferrably faster.
There are companies who have translators available on the phone. You call them, tell them what you want to say and they can talk to the other person. I don't recall it costing too much.
Yeah, they only hold, transfer, convert, store, send, give cashback bonuses, interest, etc. They are nothing like a bank at all.
This is not what makes a bank a bank.
What makes a bank a bank and the reason they are more tightly regulated (though that's laughable) is that banks create and destroy money. Banks are a form of privatised money creation.
Paypal on the other hand simply move money from one person to another. They neither create nor destroy money. I would argue that no matter how bad their customer service, their costs or the problems they cause individuals, the paypal organisation is economically far more benign than your local bank.
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And one UPS per rack. Is that like 2 servers each?
With redundant connection.
I subscribe to the theory that the things in movies which are most disturbing to people are reflections of the society of the time. Zombies in movies represent the unthinking masses who do nothing but consume the flesh and brains of the survivors, never question their reality or existence and have a desire to destroy anything different or that which they can't understand. The irony being of course that most of the people who go to zombie movies could be considered part of the unthinking mass.
I don't think it's a coincidence that zombies as a theme have become more popular in horror stories since TV has become widespread since the 1960s.
Oh come on.
Paper clips.
Bulldog clips.
Vast numbers of trees are killed every year because office workers print out stuff for each other, then chuck them in the bin /recycle box.
Despite the naysayers this sounds like a great addition to many offices. Lots of paper sent for recycling.
In my case that means shredding it, turning it into paper briquettes and burning it in my woodburning stove. Like free heating from the old office waste... Actually come to think of it this is a shit product, forget the running costs, look at the capital expenditure!
Thanks Motorola, AT&T and Verizon. I can now watch TV on three... THREE whole screens. What a lifestyle those guys will allow me.
ok. let me put it this way. TV is shit. It is soul sucking garbage of the shallowest most inane kind.
If this is all the "executives" can come up with, the company is better off dead. Kill it. Kill it before the USA becomes known as the Zombie Nation.
The IT dept will have a budget. That budget is set by whoever controls the finances. If the person controlling the finances thinks you are only worth 40Mb of storage, then that's all the IT dept will give you.
If you want more, then bitch to whomever controls the finances. There is almost certainly no point bitching to IT because they can only go to the finance people and say give us more money. The people controlling the money aren't feeling the pain so why should they spend the money?
BTW, this isn't just for IT. This is any organisation, government or private.
You don't like your email being read by someone else? Then why are you sending it as a postcard? And if you don't care about that then who cares if Google reads it and sells the information to advertisers?
FireGPG and others make encrypting webmail easy, and PGP/GPG and SMIME have been integrated into most mail clients for years.
If the existing business people don't know why the rules are there, surely that means you can get rid of them. You only need the business rules which the existing business people want or need.
And then you re-implement it in the latest language.
With Joiku hotspot thingy.
So I'd buy this because?
http://www.samsclub.com/shopping/navigate.do?dest=5&item=385975&pid=_Froogle&ci_src=14110944&ci_sku=32176
The python developers will change the interpreter and libraries, everyone will get fed up and just use the next big thing instead.
I predict. lua.
The purpose of money and resources is to fulfil individual desires.
One might argue that the human species is made up of 6 billion individuals all competing for the maximum available of the limited resources available on the planet mostly for the purposes of procreation. That there is no human species collective of itself, only a collective noun.
What matters to all life ultimately, is not the level of civilisation now or in the future, but whether you are a genetic dead end or not.
Start with money.
You're a bank. You're going to loan out some money for what reason? To get more back. So, the recipient of a loan has to supply something of value. Say, a house.
What happens when the supply of houses matches or exceeds the demand? Houses become valueless. You can't make money supplying them. The bank isn't going to make that loan.
So for our existing monetary system, demand must never be satisfied. We must never build enough houses for all the homeless, and if too many are built, they have to be knocked down.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120709588093381941.html?mod=todays_columnists
http://www.usnews.com/money/blogs/fresh-greens/2009/05/05/what-a-waste-new-homes-demolished-by-bank
When the supply of work meets demand, work becomes valueless.
Which leads us to energy.
The reason we "modernise" is to reduce costs. A human costs say 20k/year. A digging machine costs 250k, with one driver can replace 10 humans digging trenches. Payback after the 1st year.The cost of the energy for the digger is lower than the costs the humans have to pay to live, plus the humans have a 30% tax on top.
So economically, it makes sense to get rid of humans and replace them with machines. In fact, our monetary system pretty much enforces it.
If all human labour can be carried out by machines, then humans will have no money. i.e. Universal machine labour will destroy capitalism and the monetary system. Banks etc. What will happen is the system will devolve into a 2 class system of owners and the owned. Creditors and debtors. Neofeudalism.
You should read Silvio Gesell. He came to a similar conclusion. That if demand is ever satisfied, capitalism stops functioning. (This is why there will always be poverty. It's required by the money system.)
Ofcourse as energy itself (easy energy resources like coal, oil, gas) becomes more scarce and expensive, the running of a 10,000 cpu cluster to emulate 100 billion human neurons is likely to consume quite a lot of energy.
Yeah, but if we just add enough IF statements...
To get a minute by minute graph of your network traffic, you will have to sample at least twice that fast. i.e. every 30 seconds or preferrably faster.
You think the executives of Sun are a problem?
Trillions to the bankers who are still being paid bonuses.
There are companies who have translators available on the phone. You call them, tell them what you want to say and they can talk to the other person. I don't recall it costing too much.
What it's time to do is re-evaluate your values.
You can do so at your leisure. Outside the lecture hall.
We're using a fiat currency, money doesn't fucking exist, therefore banks do not create money.
Money is anything people accept. People accept credit. i.e. credit is money. Banks create credit. Banks create money.
Typing?
Handwriting?
Copying diagrams by hand?
Don't your mobile phones take videos? Record the lecture. Take photos of the diagrams. Narrate your own thoughts and comments.
Yeah, they only hold, transfer, convert, store, send, give cashback bonuses, interest, etc. They are nothing like a bank at all.
This is not what makes a bank a bank.
What makes a bank a bank and the reason they are more tightly regulated (though that's laughable) is that banks create and destroy money. Banks are a form of privatised money creation.
Paypal on the other hand simply move money from one person to another. They neither create nor destroy money. I would argue that no matter how bad their customer service, their costs or the problems they cause individuals, the paypal organisation is economically far more benign than your local bank.