Its really easy for some nerd to say your a fool for using Java, but when you have a business line application line Sungard Banner (which uses Oracle Forms which is Java based) with 30 years of prior use its not so simple to just move on - yes we may be foolish, but what can one do at this point?
Apple shuts off Java and they essentially killed off our front line application.
Really all this does is make us move more towards Windows and Linux desktops for anyone who has a business need for a computer.
Government could have intervened with things like fire safety codes, and those people at the mill would still be alive. You know whats really sick - people jumped out of the windows and got impaled on the iron fence below.
When I worked in a call center we called that "1-800-Someone-Else" when they call up for help with a smart phone they didn't buy from you - tell them to call the vendor they got the phone from.
Its called support boundaries - you have to realize what is and isn't your job to support. I'm surprised your actually a manager...
I personally wouldn't because as a skeptic if Ratbert could in fact make make coins land on their edge, or hover or successfully read the contents of a sealed envelope repeatedly I would say he in fact had telekinetic/psychic powers.
I think there is a misconception among people who view skeptics with skepticism - and that is that we deny everything supernatural. I would love nothing more to have a rod that points to gold/diamonds/precious metals in the ground, or for ufo's to exist and to be able to make objects move with my mind.
Carl Sagan put it best though - "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence".
The fact that no-one has in fact done any of these things under controlled double blind situations shows that its not at all likely these things exist or are possible, but what a marvelous world it would be if they did.
Real World (TM) experience here - we use McAfee in our enterprise (happens to be a university) and if I had a dollar for every zero-day Virus that goes completely unchecked by McAfee I could quit my day job. McAfee went weeks on the Mac before it could even detect Flackback - as a good example.
Virus scanners only catch low hanging fruit - I wouldn't count on them for detecting zero-day attacks and vulnerabilities - because they don't work.
Hershey Singularity (document archiving system) Windows+Tomcat was the only supported environment. It may not be great software, but I ran/supported it for a number of years in an actual production environment.
Another thing too - if you don't have health insurance, and your pregnant - and you call 911 because you're going to have a child - the firefighter who shows up will deliver your child (I have a friend who has delivered 3 children so far).
Yeah hardly anyone uses quaterwave whip antennas on a hand held radio. In all the radios I've ever used - easily a dozen they've all had loaded coils. Which are not all that efficient sure, but they work well enough - especially with an infrastructure which there is plenty of on 2m and 70cm (and 6m as in your example).
We were going to go to HP, but the eval machine didn't even have driver packs (for SCCM task sequence) like Dell provides. We never got around to even imaging the box to try it out.
I am bleeding though - the cost of living is sky-rocketing, and my pay is pretty much the same - they keep chipping away at my health care - increasing my share of what I pay year by year etc etc. If it wasn't for the SEIU last year we wouldn't have got raise even.
Why is that such a bad thing? I work for the state of oregon and I'm under pers. The idea is we pay into that pension fund - they re-invest it (making more money) and pay it out.
I already take a 20k a year pay cut for working for the state - 105% seems reasonable for doing that.
Its funny if you have Canadian relatives or friends - it always seemed to me that every discussion no matter where you were devolved into a whine and cheese fest about the dollar value and how much control America has over them.
Not any more. The site licenced version of CS6 suite is an absolute bastard to bulk install via automated means legitimately due to the heavy-handed DRM and online activation.
Stop spreading fud - I deployed CS6 Design Standard to 1200 machines at the university with ZERO issues via SCCM.
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Like Dell (or even Microsoft) would throw away more than half of their server customers who use Linux.
Well they disabled it, and would only permit a version that wasn't even released - no documentation or anything.
I think us big customers could have been treated a bit nicer.
Anyhow yes I want it to still be enabled - our front desk machines can't browse anywhere they want ;).
I'm pretty sure Microsoft would at least announce they are disabling Java before actually doing it.
Its old news now, but they disabled Java and only let you run a version that wasn't even out yet.
Its really easy for some nerd to say your a fool for using Java, but when you have a business line application line Sungard Banner (which uses Oracle Forms which is Java based) with 30 years of prior use its not so simple to just move on - yes we may be foolish, but what can one do at this point?
Apple shuts off Java and they essentially killed off our front line application.
Really all this does is make us move more towards Windows and Linux desktops for anyone who has a business need for a computer.
Government could have intervened with things like fire safety codes, and those people at the mill would still be alive. You know whats really sick - people jumped out of the windows and got impaled on the iron fence below.
When I worked in a call center we called that "1-800-Someone-Else" when they call up for help with a smart phone they didn't buy from you - tell them to call the vendor they got the phone from.
Its called support boundaries - you have to realize what is and isn't your job to support. I'm surprised your actually a manager...
I personally wouldn't because as a skeptic if Ratbert could in fact make make coins land on their edge, or hover or successfully read the contents of a sealed envelope repeatedly I would say he in fact had telekinetic/psychic powers.
I think there is a misconception among people who view skeptics with skepticism - and that is that we deny everything supernatural. I would love nothing more to have a rod that points to gold/diamonds/precious metals in the ground, or for ufo's to exist and to be able to make objects move with my mind.
Carl Sagan put it best though - "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence".
The fact that no-one has in fact done any of these things under controlled double blind situations shows that its not at all likely these things exist or are possible, but what a marvelous world it would be if they did.
They would benefit even more if they actually had an OEM program.
Real World (TM) experience here - we use McAfee in our enterprise (happens to be a university) and if I had a dollar for every zero-day Virus that goes completely unchecked by McAfee I could quit my day job. McAfee went weeks on the Mac before it could even detect Flackback - as a good example.
Virus scanners only catch low hanging fruit - I wouldn't count on them for detecting zero-day attacks and vulnerabilities - because they don't work.
Hershey Singularity (document archiving system) Windows+Tomcat was the only supported environment. It may not be great software, but I ran/supported it for a number of years in an actual production environment.
That this is the first aircraft Boeing built that uses outsourced production...
We pay for it in taxes too, but the paycheck calls is a payroll deduction.
Another thing too - if you don't have health insurance, and your pregnant - and you call 911 because you're going to have a child - the firefighter who shows up will deliver your child (I have a friend who has delivered 3 children so far).
Guess what happens if there are complications?
Yeah hardly anyone uses quaterwave whip antennas on a hand held radio. In all the radios I've ever used - easily a dozen they've all had loaded coils. Which are not all that efficient sure, but they work well enough - especially with an infrastructure which there is plenty of on 2m and 70cm (and 6m as in your example).
We were going to go to HP, but the eval machine didn't even have driver packs (for SCCM task sequence) like Dell provides. We never got around to even imaging the box to try it out.
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Apple maps was an improvement over the previous google maps except it couldn't tell you where stuff actually was.
Its the same with any retirement account though - my 401k got hosed in 2008 - that is after all the same year the stock market crashed.
I am bleeding though - the cost of living is sky-rocketing, and my pay is pretty much the same - they keep chipping away at my health care - increasing my share of what I pay year by year etc etc. If it wasn't for the SEIU last year we wouldn't have got raise even.
Why is that such a bad thing? I work for the state of oregon and I'm under pers. The idea is we pay into that pension fund - they re-invest it (making more money) and pay it out.
I already take a 20k a year pay cut for working for the state - 105% seems reasonable for doing that.
Its funny if you have Canadian relatives or friends - it always seemed to me that every discussion no matter where you were devolved into a whine and cheese fest about the dollar value and how much control America has over them.
It's about $50 US :)
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Stop spreading fud - I deployed CS6 Design Standard to 1200 machines at the university with ZERO issues via SCCM.
You should work in Higher Ed - I've met people who have doctorates who don't understand how to use a computer.
Even better - NT 3.5.1 had like 12 service packs.