Sure, there have always been problems with copiers and cameras and the like. But how easy was it to walk off with, say, an entire customer or HR database from a Fortune 500 company using just photocopies or pictures? That would take a while. Walking off using an iPod could only take a work day (copying the data might take a little bit of time).
Not that disabling the port entirely is the solution, but the problem is definitely increased in magnitude these days.
It's a feature that pretty much any issuer of credit cards can offer (MasterCard/Visa - Amex and Discover handle their stuff themselves pretty much). There is some expense to it - they have to set up web/application servers to handle the requests, write or contract out the code, etc, so not all banks do it. But, there are a lot of banks that offer it, including most of the big names in the industry.
If your bank doesn't offer it, ask them about it. Maybe they have it planned, or maybe they decided not to offer it because they didn't want to fund the back-end systems to make it work, or no one had asked for it, or whatever.
Can you outline a solution that you personally have implemented (i.e. not just read in a book or blog or howto file) that could replace all the Windows stuff, address relevant end user training concerns, and be supportable by other people in the future once you've moved on to better things? If you can't, then you might be a bit forward in thinking that a potential employer needs to convert anything at all.
I wish you luck in your search, but I don't think you are going to find what you are looking for. A few classes in systems analysis and business systems can't hurt, if for nothing else than making it easier and less frustrating when you talk to other people in those roles.
I'd love the old Dragnet TV series. It never seems to have come out on DVD except for a few of the first black and white ones. I want the one with Harry Morgan!
I keep hoping it will come back on TV Land or something so I can get it with my Tivo and then record it to DVD or something, but if it were available electronically in a format that I could somehow get to the normal TV that would be great too.
Incredibly off topic but cameta.com has that package + a 1 to 6 gb memory card, case, and some other misc throwins for a similar price (so hey, free memory card etc). I just bought the D70 package (same price, but with $100 rebate since it's a D70 and not a D70S) and it's supposed to get here Friday.
The difference is the second lens is 70-300 instead of 55-200. I would have preferred the 55-200 over the 70-300 but I'll probably want both anyway.
Close... but no cigar. You forgot to put a lens on that Nikon. Add in another hundred bucks or so for a cheap third party one - although that's still better than what the camera has I'm sure, it won't do the camera justice.
Of course it won't all fit in your pocket unless you have some really baggy cargo pants. But the camera comes with a neck strap...
When you figure people are working 10 or 11 hour days and being "paid" for 8, I figure that means some of us can waste another whole hour and still break even!
Valmeyer, IL was one of them. Yes, it relocated, but let's be fair. It was a small city of a few thousand people at most. It had no major structures, no huge downtown business area, etc. It was not very difficult to relocate a lot of the flooded areas that wanted to, because they were very small and already in rural areas with abundant land nearby.
You can't really compare a city of half a million people with a 200 year or more history to a small farm community when it comes to relocation.
Standard argument applies -- but you find a distributed system that's more efficient at handling the massive amounts of I/O that a mainframe handles and I bet a lot of companies would switch. But right now, the cost to really replace a mainframe for the big jobs would be massive, if it could even be done, and it would be just as complex of a system to manage and program for.
As far as I know, zOS is the extension of MVS and stuff. I know that the "old stuff" we've used forever runs on the "new boxes" which are Z series mainframes.
There is also a Linux for Z-series, though, so I guess you're not limited to running the usual mainframe type system on your mainframe. Sort of expensive for a linux box, I'd suspect, though I guess it could be useful for some purposes.
A lot of the mainframes, being as expensive as they are, are leased from the manufacturer, so when they get "retired" IBM or whoever shows up and hauls them off for spare parts. So, there's usually nothing to give away.
No, but a lot of universities had classes in various mainframe-type things, "data processing" and the like. z/OS is just an extension of the systems they've been running for decades, renamed to look "cool." So you probably wouldn't have found, say, a System/390 class specifically at a college, but you would have found a lot of data processing and COBOL classes that would have prepared you to work in that environment.
the college I went to (mid-90's) was phasing those out and bringing in VB and Netware classes. Personally, I think the mainframe-oriented classes were a lot better preparation to work in the IT/IS field than learning how to add and delete users and write "Hello World" with a mouse and a GUI editor.
The satellite and cable companies are just finally trying to beat Tivo to provide some services to compete with what Tivo's already given people, and managed to use their inherent muscle to provide something Tivo can't for once.
(This from somone who spent 3 hours of rainstorm-ruined DirecTV satellite service this afternoon, who Charter has been promising cable service to for 3 years now in the St. Louis area, but won't pony up to the deal.)
Everyone has a differnet viewpoint, eh? By the way, Busch ditched astroturf a while ago.:)
They did credit Viacom (who I assume owns the copyright to the Mighty Mouse cartoon character) at the bottom of at least one of the pages that I saw. It must have at least been thought of by someone in their legal group.
IBM (probably Logitech rebadged) used to make a mouse a while back with a Trackpoint in place of the scroll wheel. I remember we got a bunch of them instead of the normal mice once with a shipment of thinkpads. They were pretty cool but they all wore out or got taken home or whatnot.
There have also been a few random cheap imports that I've seen that had a small scroll ball (although nowhere near like this one).
But, yeah, this is probably the first time someone's made one and then made a push to actually sell the thing. I rather liked the idea of a trackpoint mouse and wished someone would release one, but this will work fine too.
All of the iPods HP ever sold were compatible with both platforms out of the box. I don't even think they sold the 3G ones, but I can't remember for sure. You have to use iTunes to set it up initially anyway and you can always reformat it to use the other platform later.
I can see a salesperson saying something stupid like that. After all, mauve databases have the most RAM.
For a small(ish) screen and earbuds, you don't need surround sound audio tracks and high resolution HD video feeds. A compressed video stream at a reduced screen size and bitrate can hold a movie in under a gigabyte of space. You're not going to have breathtaking quality anyway, so it's not as if you're going to severely miss something.
So, now your 60Gb iPod holds 30 Gb of music and 30-60 movies or a bunch more TV programs.
(I'm not debating whether or not it's an idea that's really worth much. I like my iPod but can't think of a reason why I'd need a video one. But I'm sure someone else might have a very good reason. I'm just saying that it's feasible from a current storage perspective.)
I have a Razr V3 from Cingular. It's unlocked to work with any carrier, but otherwise it's unmodified. All the cingular menus, restrictions, etc (there aren't too many restrictions) are still in place.
If you have the Phone Tools software from Motorola and a USB cable or bluetooth adapter on your PC, you can convert mp3 files into a format the phone can use and use them for ringtones.
Actually, I'm not sure you even need the Phone Tools software, it just has some stuff that automates the editing and recompresses them into lower quality files to take less space. I think you could probably go in via Bluetooth file transfer and just dump a mp3 into the phone if there was enough space.
This probably wouldn't work with Verizon since they (apparently) restrict file transfer.
Or at least receiving a fine from each of the credit card companies that were breached - the various agreements companies sign do include fines (that could apply to either party) for various performance and compliance failures. Also, I suppose the banks could sue if they felt so inclined, which would probably end up in some sort of settlement.
Dunno if there are potential government fines or not.
OS X has a "Software Update" system that works great. It checks periodically and pops a box up listing all the updates it has, the problems each addresses, and whether a restart is needed. You check the ones you want and hit "install" and it installs them. This GUI front end is available from the Apple menu no matter where you are on the system, and works quickly and responsively (unlike Windows Update which is an often sluggish and cumbersome website).
The GUI is a front end to a command line tool, for all the geeks/remote system admins out there that prefer that sort of interface. You can clicky on the nice pictures and checkboxes, or you can type "sudo softwareupdate -i -a" at a shell prompt. Either way, it's going to get updated!
As to whether it can handle volumes, why wouldn't it? It's a website with fairly static content (once a patch is pushed out). "Add more servers." As far as QA goes, well, Apple may not have the market share that it has to QA but it's definitely starting off on a better foot with a closed environment and fewer distractions (third party $5 video and network cards etc)
You must not have bought something recently from Apple at retail. All of their hardware comes encased in this thin, custom-cut and form fitting cellophane wrap within all the other packaging.
It's pretty classy, but sort of a pain if you don't get it in the trash right away because the adhesive strips that close it up stick to everything!
I don't know if the desktops do but I know that my Powerbook, Mac Mini, iPods, iSight, and the Apple keyboard I bought all had it.
If you have a Motorola phone, almost all of them work fine with bluetooth under Tiger 10.4.1. I couldn't get my Razr or V551 to work with 10.4 out of the box but after I upgraded to the latest patch iSync works beautifully with either Bluetooth or USB cable. However, 10.3 and earlier do require USB as you mentioned.
That being said, to the original poster I'd recommend a Razr or a V551, I have had good luck with both, depends on how much money you want to spend (or not spend - v551 are a lot less expensive).
Apple isn't moving anything to a NT kernel. OS X would keep its Mach kernel etc.
I think your views on the risks of monolithic vs. microkernel might be a bit extreme as well but hey, everyone gets their own opinion. But it's more than possible to cause a systemwide failure in a system that isn't monolithic.
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Sure, there have always been problems with copiers and cameras and the like. But how easy was it to walk off with, say, an entire customer or HR database from a Fortune 500 company using just photocopies or pictures? That would take a while. Walking off using an iPod could only take a work day (copying the data might take a little bit of time).
Not that disabling the port entirely is the solution, but the problem is definitely increased in magnitude these days.
It's a feature that pretty much any issuer of credit cards can offer (MasterCard/Visa - Amex and Discover handle their stuff themselves pretty much). There is some expense to it - they have to set up web/application servers to handle the requests, write or contract out the code, etc, so not all banks do it. But, there are a lot of banks that offer it, including most of the big names in the industry.
If your bank doesn't offer it, ask them about it. Maybe they have it planned, or maybe they decided not to offer it because they didn't want to fund the back-end systems to make it work, or no one had asked for it, or whatever.
I wish you luck in your search, but I don't think you are going to find what you are looking for. A few classes in systems analysis and business systems can't hurt, if for nothing else than making it easier and less frustrating when you talk to other people in those roles.
You sound just like Capn' Roger Brandt!
You forgot I-55 though. That's always moving fine. Go figure.
I'd love the old Dragnet TV series. It never seems to have come out on DVD except for a few of the first black and white ones. I want the one with Harry Morgan!
I keep hoping it will come back on TV Land or something so I can get it with my Tivo and then record it to DVD or something, but if it were available electronically in a format that I could somehow get to the normal TV that would be great too.
Incredibly off topic but cameta.com has that package + a 1 to 6 gb memory card, case, and some other misc throwins for a similar price (so hey, free memory card etc). I just bought the D70 package (same price, but with $100 rebate since it's a D70 and not a D70S) and it's supposed to get here Friday.
The difference is the second lens is 70-300 instead of 55-200. I would have preferred the 55-200 over the 70-300 but I'll probably want both anyway.
Close... but no cigar. You forgot to put a lens on that Nikon. Add in another hundred bucks or so for a cheap third party one - although that's still better than what the camera has I'm sure, it won't do the camera justice.
Of course it won't all fit in your pocket unless you have some really baggy cargo pants. But the camera comes with a neck strap...
When you figure people are working 10 or 11 hour days and being "paid" for 8, I figure that means some of us can waste another whole hour and still break even!
Valmeyer, IL was one of them. Yes, it relocated, but let's be fair. It was a small city of a few thousand people at most. It had no major structures, no huge downtown business area, etc. It was not very difficult to relocate a lot of the flooded areas that wanted to, because they were very small and already in rural areas with abundant land nearby.
You can't really compare a city of half a million people with a 200 year or more history to a small farm community when it comes to relocation.
Standard argument applies -- but you find a distributed system that's more efficient at handling the massive amounts of I/O that a mainframe handles and I bet a lot of companies would switch. But right now, the cost to really replace a mainframe for the big jobs would be massive, if it could even be done, and it would be just as complex of a system to manage and program for.
As far as I know, zOS is the extension of MVS and stuff. I know that the "old stuff" we've used forever runs on the "new boxes" which are Z series mainframes.
There is also a Linux for Z-series, though, so I guess you're not limited to running the usual mainframe type system on your mainframe. Sort of expensive for a linux box, I'd suspect, though I guess it could be useful for some purposes.
A lot of the mainframes, being as expensive as they are, are leased from the manufacturer, so when they get "retired" IBM or whoever shows up and hauls them off for spare parts. So, there's usually nothing to give away.
No, but a lot of universities had classes in various mainframe-type things, "data processing" and the like. z/OS is just an extension of the systems they've been running for decades, renamed to look "cool." So you probably wouldn't have found, say, a System/390 class specifically at a college, but you would have found a lot of data processing and COBOL classes that would have prepared you to work in that environment.
the college I went to (mid-90's) was phasing those out and bringing in VB and Netware classes. Personally, I think the mainframe-oriented classes were a lot better preparation to work in the IT/IS field than learning how to add and delete users and write "Hello World" with a mouse and a GUI editor.
The satellite and cable companies are just finally trying to beat Tivo to provide some services to compete with what Tivo's already given people, and managed to use their inherent muscle to provide something Tivo can't for once.
:)
(This from somone who spent 3 hours of rainstorm-ruined DirecTV satellite service this afternoon, who Charter has been promising cable service to for 3 years now in the St. Louis area, but won't pony up to the deal.)
Everyone has a differnet viewpoint, eh? By the way, Busch ditched astroturf a while ago.
They did credit Viacom (who I assume owns the copyright to the Mighty Mouse cartoon character) at the bottom of at least one of the pages that I saw. It must have at least been thought of by someone in their legal group.
IBM (probably Logitech rebadged) used to make a mouse a while back with a Trackpoint in place of the scroll wheel. I remember we got a bunch of them instead of the normal mice once with a shipment of thinkpads. They were pretty cool but they all wore out or got taken home or whatnot.
There have also been a few random cheap imports that I've seen that had a small scroll ball (although nowhere near like this one).
But, yeah, this is probably the first time someone's made one and then made a push to actually sell the thing. I rather liked the idea of a trackpoint mouse and wished someone would release one, but this will work fine too.
All of the iPods HP ever sold were compatible with both platforms out of the box. I don't even think they sold the 3G ones, but I can't remember for sure. You have to use iTunes to set it up initially anyway and you can always reformat it to use the other platform later.
I can see a salesperson saying something stupid like that. After all, mauve databases have the most RAM.
For a small(ish) screen and earbuds, you don't need surround sound audio tracks and high resolution HD video feeds. A compressed video stream at a reduced screen size and bitrate can hold a movie in under a gigabyte of space. You're not going to have breathtaking quality anyway, so it's not as if you're going to severely miss something.
So, now your 60Gb iPod holds 30 Gb of music and 30-60 movies or a bunch more TV programs.
(I'm not debating whether or not it's an idea that's really worth much. I like my iPod but can't think of a reason why I'd need a video one. But I'm sure someone else might have a very good reason. I'm just saying that it's feasible from a current storage perspective.)
I have a Razr V3 from Cingular. It's unlocked to work with any carrier, but otherwise it's unmodified. All the cingular menus, restrictions, etc (there aren't too many restrictions) are still in place.
If you have the Phone Tools software from Motorola and a USB cable or bluetooth adapter on your PC, you can convert mp3 files into a format the phone can use and use them for ringtones.
Actually, I'm not sure you even need the Phone Tools software, it just has some stuff that automates the editing and recompresses them into lower quality files to take less space. I think you could probably go in via Bluetooth file transfer and just dump a mp3 into the phone if there was enough space.
This probably wouldn't work with Verizon since they (apparently) restrict file transfer.
Or at least receiving a fine from each of the credit card companies that were breached - the various agreements companies sign do include fines (that could apply to either party) for various performance and compliance failures. Also, I suppose the banks could sue if they felt so inclined, which would probably end up in some sort of settlement.
Dunno if there are potential government fines or not.
OS X has a "Software Update" system that works great. It checks periodically and pops a box up listing all the updates it has, the problems each addresses, and whether a restart is needed. You check the ones you want and hit "install" and it installs them. This GUI front end is available from the Apple menu no matter where you are on the system, and works quickly and responsively (unlike Windows Update which is an often sluggish and cumbersome website).
The GUI is a front end to a command line tool, for all the geeks/remote system admins out there that prefer that sort of interface. You can clicky on the nice pictures and checkboxes, or you can type "sudo softwareupdate -i -a" at a shell prompt. Either way, it's going to get updated!
As to whether it can handle volumes, why wouldn't it? It's a website with fairly static content (once a patch is pushed out). "Add more servers." As far as QA goes, well, Apple may not have the market share that it has to QA but it's definitely starting off on a better foot with a closed environment and fewer distractions (third party $5 video and network cards etc)
I forgot to mention that part. I figured no one would actually read my comment so it didn't matter anyway.
I don't remember if the shuffle had that on it though. I think it had a little sticker somewhere on the package or something like that.
You must not have bought something recently from Apple at retail. All of their hardware comes encased in this thin, custom-cut and form fitting cellophane wrap within all the other packaging.
It's pretty classy, but sort of a pain if you don't get it in the trash right away because the adhesive strips that close it up stick to everything!
I don't know if the desktops do but I know that my Powerbook, Mac Mini, iPods, iSight, and the Apple keyboard I bought all had it.
If you have a Motorola phone, almost all of them work fine with bluetooth under Tiger 10.4.1. I couldn't get my Razr or V551 to work with 10.4 out of the box but after I upgraded to the latest patch iSync works beautifully with either Bluetooth or USB cable. However, 10.3 and earlier do require USB as you mentioned.
That being said, to the original poster I'd recommend a Razr or a V551, I have had good luck with both, depends on how much money you want to spend (or not spend - v551 are a lot less expensive).
Apple isn't moving anything to a NT kernel. OS X would keep its Mach kernel etc.
I think your views on the risks of monolithic vs. microkernel might be a bit extreme as well but hey, everyone gets their own opinion. But it's more than possible to cause a systemwide failure in a system that isn't monolithic.