So you want to be calling the contractors every time a new company wants to SFTP files to you? Every time you need to allow yet another protocol out from the exec vlan?
Well, my post was kind of tongue-in-cheek but to answer your question: no. You configure the network with your needs and specifications in mind. There aren't that many surprises: you know you need to transfer files a certain way, you know you have a webserver, you use Gmail, etc etc. Include a VPN in the specs for vendor remote access. Set up a contract that allows for a 6 month post-project free maintenance to handle bugs and forgotten instances of things.
Cant be more than $10,000? I have single switches worth 6x that.
When I said $10,000 that was clearly tongue in cheek. As in the PHB saying, "Do whatever it takes to get this up and running! Hear me? Whatever it takes. As long as you can do it for free."
A fair question but likely for the normal reason -- it wasn't built right in the first place. Probably grew like a fungus instead of being laid like good plumbing (with a nod to the late Senator Stevens).
2) Where the hell are they getting an unlimited budget from?
Unlimited probably means they have no idea how much anything costs but it can't possibly be more than $10,000.
3) Why, if they have money, would they hire somebody who never did any admin work?
Because then they'd have two $80,000 employees on staff when they can only afford one (see definition of "unlimited budget" above).
My company? I'd contract it out. It would probably still cost me an arm and a leg, but my programmer would still be doing his job and I wouldn't need to pay the contract company for more than a few months and maintenance visits thereafter.
I'd say the issue is the thinking that if it's written down, I don't need to learn it. I can always refer to it later. Even more so with Smartphones and the Internet.
Knowing things helps you solve problems, create new things, etc. If people say, "If I need to know it, I'll just look it up" it may not be too far away that we don't know what to look up because we can't even make the basic connections between subjects.
Ok, I don't have a GPS. And while I'm not great at orienteering, I can read a road map and tell my basic direction with a little help from the Sun. The moss on the north side hasn't really worked out for me so well.
I played Rogue neé Nethack on Dec Alphas back in college. You couldn't save and you only had one life. And we liked it that way. We loved it, and that's a fact. I remember one session, we called them study breaks since most of our time was spent in the computer lab anyway what with trying to fit in 38 engineering classes and 5 humanities into 8 semesters there was barely time to sleep never mind play Nethack and midnight frisbee golf...but I digress. There I was in the 22nd level, already wielding the mighty Mjolnir and a pet Red Dragon named Fred, and I made a sudden move, maybe a quick flick of the finger towards the S key, and the onion I was wearing fell right off my belt...
Two people I know use them and it's for the same reason I use an iPhone: email, web, apps. The Windows Phone 7 is going through the same birthing process as iOS. But I have to admit that while not as functional yet as either iOS or Android, its interface is as polished as Apple's and the Apps are very intuitive. It could become a the BB replacement for the younger IT and business set.
Yes indeed. CMSes in general are non-trivial for administrators, and hopefully easy for content updaters. We've used Plone, Drupal, Wordpress -- they aren't "install and go" applications by any means, and that goes double for a highly available environment. For Plone I highly recommend the Bootcamps they put on. Just trying to read the online documentation available will just get you into the forums asking smart questions and getting smarter answers which you can't understand.
Another merit of a functional justice system is that it also denies petitions of such parties AFTER considering them. Not before.
Exactly.
Judge: I've seen you here before, Righthaven. How is this case different than the last I judged? Righthaven: It's not, Your Honor. Just hoping you'd have forgotten. Judge: Thank you for corroborating my thoughts on the matter. Case dismissed. See you next time.
Why depend on Congress? The government doesn't really need to be involved here. Apple isn't providing any critical service. To avoid dodgy business tactics people can simply do what you're already doing: don't buy Apple products.
Problem solved. The government didn't need to grow; I didn't need to spend my tax money on somethIng I shouldn't have to.
Old and poor argument. Items have value, a cost established by the majority. Music and movies, which can now be copied, still have value, and considerably less value than if there was only one of them. If the only way you could hear a particular song was to go see the person singing it, you'd end up paying quite a bit more than any arena concert costs. Someone is nice enough to make a high quality recording, ship it to a store near you, and market it well enough that you hear about it. All that increases the value of the song.
I understand that the ease of copying digital media makes people think they shouldn't need to pay for it. And sure, you don't need to pay for something already out there. But if you don't, you're lowering the chance that anything similar will be produced later on. It's the same as really liking a book, then killing the author. At least you have the book you like, but there's no chance you'll see another from him.
I'm not saying everything is fair in music and movies. Not to the viewer nor the artist. I'd like to see that change too. But after thinking about it for a long time, I don't agree with copyright infringement. Maybe the money isn't going to the exact right place, maybe I should be able to watch something for free every once in awhile. But I shouldn't ignore what it takes to create the art.
I wonder if these suits could be filed with a checkbox marked "Routine Patent Defense" so it doesn't waste everyone's time. I'm guessing it won't make any difference but a company should defend its patents. Or maybe that's trademarks. I'll just go back to mopping floors here...
Orcs = Evil Zombies = Evil Morgoth, once Melkor, most powerful of the Valar, wasn't evil outright, just envious. Then the whole cat plus curiosity issue arose and he went crazy. Like a fox.
It's all well and good to create a morally unambiguous killing experience. The Witcher went the other way -- you pretty much couldn't make a 100% win-win decision. It wears on you. Even life isn't that bad. It was like becoming Valedictorian (Yay!) and finding out that there's a kid in your class who would have not only been the first kid to go to college in his family, but would have had a free ride to Harvard if he'd been tops in the class instead of you (Boo.). Except with elves and stuff.
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God I miss elementary school...
I wonder if the Middle-Eastern market for crowbars is a good place to invest.
So you want to be calling the contractors every time a new company wants to SFTP files to you? Every time you need to allow yet another protocol out from the exec vlan?
Well, my post was kind of tongue-in-cheek but to answer your question: no. You configure the network with your needs and specifications in mind. There aren't that many surprises: you know you need to transfer files a certain way, you know you have a webserver, you use Gmail, etc etc. Include a VPN in the specs for vendor remote access. Set up a contract that allows for a 6 month post-project free maintenance to handle bugs and forgotten instances of things.
Cant be more than $10,000? I have single switches worth 6x that.
When I said $10,000 that was clearly tongue in cheek. As in the PHB saying, "Do whatever it takes to get this up and running! Hear me? Whatever it takes. As long as you can do it for free."
1) Why does the network need rebuilding?
A fair question but likely for the normal reason -- it wasn't built right in the first place. Probably grew like a fungus instead of being laid like good plumbing (with a nod to the late Senator Stevens).
2) Where the hell are they getting an unlimited budget from?
Unlimited probably means they have no idea how much anything costs but it can't possibly be more than $10,000.
3) Why, if they have money, would they hire somebody who never did any admin work?
Because then they'd have two $80,000 employees on staff when they can only afford one (see definition of "unlimited budget" above).
My company? I'd contract it out. It would probably still cost me an arm and a leg, but my programmer would still be doing his job and I wouldn't need to pay the contract company for more than a few months and maintenance visits thereafter.
I'd say the issue is the thinking that if it's written down, I don't need to learn it. I can always refer to it later. Even more so with Smartphones and the Internet.
Knowing things helps you solve problems, create new things, etc. If people say, "If I need to know it, I'll just look it up" it may not be too far away that we don't know what to look up because we can't even make the basic connections between subjects.
My GPS has a "Sites of Interest" button.
Ok, I don't have a GPS. And while I'm not great at orienteering, I can read a road map and tell my basic direction with a little help from the Sun. The moss on the north side hasn't really worked out for me so well.
I played Rogue neé Nethack on Dec Alphas back in college. You couldn't save and you only had one life. And we liked it that way. We loved it, and that's a fact. I remember one session, we called them study breaks since most of our time was spent in the computer lab anyway what with trying to fit in 38 engineering classes and 5 humanities into 8 semesters there was barely time to sleep never mind play Nethack and midnight frisbee golf...but I digress. There I was in the 22nd level, already wielding the mighty Mjolnir and a pet Red Dragon named Fred, and I made a sudden move, maybe a quick flick of the finger towards the S key, and the onion I was wearing fell right off my belt...
I make sure to buy the Best Buy Monster cables to get the best video presentation possible.
Kidding. Purchasing a 50 foot HDMI Monster cable at 5% over cost was something like $16. I believe they charge over $100 retail.
Two people I know use them and it's for the same reason I use an iPhone: email, web, apps. The Windows Phone 7 is going through the same birthing process as iOS. But I have to admit that while not as functional yet as either iOS or Android, its interface is as polished as Apple's and the Apps are very intuitive. It could become a the BB replacement for the younger IT and business set.
I'd have to say that this is more of a feature request. Just sayin'.
Yes indeed. CMSes in general are non-trivial for administrators, and hopefully easy for content updaters. We've used Plone, Drupal, Wordpress -- they aren't "install and go" applications by any means, and that goes double for a highly available environment. For Plone I highly recommend the Bootcamps they put on. Just trying to read the online documentation available will just get you into the forums asking smart questions and getting smarter answers which you can't understand.
Not to mention those little details like bikes, pedestrians and moose in the roads
In a world of automated cars, do you think any of those things would exist?
True -- buying American doesn't necessarily mean supporting American companies. It might mean supporting American workers.
Another merit of a functional justice system is that it also denies petitions of such parties AFTER considering them. Not before.
Exactly.
Judge: I've seen you here before, Righthaven. How is this case different than the last I judged?
Righthaven: It's not, Your Honor. Just hoping you'd have forgotten.
Judge: Thank you for corroborating my thoughts on the matter. Case dismissed. See you next time.
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Lation.
Why depend on Congress? The government doesn't really need to be involved here. Apple isn't providing any critical service. To avoid dodgy business tactics people can simply do what you're already doing: don't buy Apple products.
Problem solved. The government didn't need to grow; I didn't need to spend my tax money on somethIng I shouldn't have to.
Old and poor argument. Items have value, a cost established by the majority. Music and movies, which can now be copied, still have value, and considerably less value than if there was only one of them. If the only way you could hear a particular song was to go see the person singing it, you'd end up paying quite a bit more than any arena concert costs. Someone is nice enough to make a high quality recording, ship it to a store near you, and market it well enough that you hear about it. All that increases the value of the song.
I understand that the ease of copying digital media makes people think they shouldn't need to pay for it. And sure, you don't need to pay for something already out there. But if you don't, you're lowering the chance that anything similar will be produced later on. It's the same as really liking a book, then killing the author. At least you have the book you like, but there's no chance you'll see another from him.
I'm not saying everything is fair in music and movies. Not to the viewer nor the artist. I'd like to see that change too. But after thinking about it for a long time, I don't agree with copyright infringement. Maybe the money isn't going to the exact right place, maybe I should be able to watch something for free every once in awhile. But I shouldn't ignore what it takes to create the art.
Oh. So they can only broadcast network TV?
I wonder if these suits could be filed with a checkbox marked "Routine Patent Defense" so it doesn't waste everyone's time. I'm guessing it won't make any difference but a company should defend its patents. Or maybe that's trademarks. I'll just go back to mopping floors here...
Orcs = Evil
Zombies = Evil
Morgoth, once Melkor, most powerful of the Valar, wasn't evil outright, just envious. Then the whole cat plus curiosity issue arose and he went crazy. Like a fox.
It's all well and good to create a morally unambiguous killing experience. The Witcher went the other way -- you pretty much couldn't make a 100% win-win decision. It wears on you. Even life isn't that bad. It was like becoming Valedictorian (Yay!) and finding out that there's a kid in your class who would have not only been the first kid to go to college in his family, but would have had a free ride to Harvard if he'd been tops in the class instead of you (Boo.). Except with elves and stuff.
But for the Germans...Italy...Austria...France...Switzerland....
Hello. Welcome to Earth. U.S.-Centric planet next to the Moon which, obviously, the U.S. arrived at first.
(Cue electric guitar riff and fade out...)
"If not, we'll be upset."
And that's all you will be. Free hosted services have no service agreement, no liability, no enforced responsibility to secure or protect your data.
Until hosted services need to compensate you for their screwups, many places would prefer to handle their data in house (where they can fire people).
Not bad, not bad. But you wouldn't take the Lamborghini offroad, nor the F150 in a drag race.
These people have more money than anyone could ever possibly spend, yet STILL manage to be greedy, cheap bastards.
Let me reverse that for you and it will all make sense:
These people are greedy, cheap bastards and because of this have more money than anyone could ever possibly spend.
Beren and Luthien from the First Age. It all began there.