When I was working as a consultant in it/finance in Scandinavia, some customers started to demand that they would be allowed (it requires the approval of the subject of the query) to request a credit report. I decided to find out what the potential downside would be. It turned out that one of the criteria for being classified as a risk was that an excessive number of credit reports had been requested for a person. After hearing this, I refused. As my clients were all banks, I found it incredibly easy to convince them that what they were asking for was unreasonable, using this argument: If all of my current customers did this, then that in itself would bring down my credit rating so low that I would not qualify for a mortgage or even a credit card. Would they be prepared to lose all people i my position as potential customers? None of my customers persisted in their demands. If us based credit ratings use similar criteria, and they do not have to ask permission - then you are truly screwed.
Where are their servers located ?.. would be interesting to know, due to various regional annoyances such as the DMCA, opposition to open versions of DeCSS etc.
I used to have your problem. Then, finally, Windows just got too painful to endure so I bought a PS3 and switched all other use to Linux. You can get a decent workstation with Ubuntu preloaded for something like 400 USD (just got one for my mum). Adding the cost of a PS3 onto that makes the total cost quite close to what you'd pay when buying a similarly powered Vista box with office preloaded.
In effect, they are a traveler that has arrived in the US and are electronically conducting trade. It's as if they arrived here, pulled out a credit card and paid for a product, and got back on their plane home
I think this is why people get so massively irritated by these restrictions. When a customer gets turned away from a web based shop, it is usually not perceived by the customer as a sale rejected due to some import/export restriction - instead, the people impacted by these restrictions feel as though they've entered the store, chosen a product, produced their credit card in order to pay - just to find themselves being kicked out of the store due to their nationality.
I remember in the old days (10-15 years ago) when the Internet had not been i18n'ed yet. I could order goods / services from anywhere in the world and have it shipped to wherever I would be located. Nowadays, I always find myself forced to go to some vendors regional webpage which is not accessible in a language I understand due to the underlying (and horribly outdated) assumption that everyone is born, lives and dies in one tiny geographic area, from which they never move, and that they only are able to speak the "official" language used in that area.
The only people who argue for reinstatement of the gold standard are those who do not have a fundamental grasp of macroeconomics .. ah, you mean ignorant people like - for instance - Alan Greenspan ? ( http://www.lewrockwell.com/bonner/bonner336.html )
So we're using ~$2k of Windows licenses and a bunch of spiffy hardware to... run ssh badly. Lovely. Just consider this your first lesson on how the real world works. This insanity goes on in every corporation I've worked in.
Exactly. How long will it take for web2.0 companies to realise that US legislation does not provide or protect speech to the extent inherently required in order for web2.0 to be successful ? Why the hell is Digg (or other web2.0 sites for that matter) hosted in the US in the first place ???
Hehe.. I remember pointing this out to a colleague. I said it was insane, he said that I was a MS hater. 10 minutes later as we were on our way to lunch, my colleague had to withdraw money from one of the brand spanking new wintendo ATM's that had just been installed. The ATM bluescreened while he was making a withdrawal (after it said - wait for your funds). So basically, he got his card back but the money never came. He checked the account and noticed that the money had left his bank account (without any money actually being paid out to him). He spent his entire lunch break arguing with bank staff about getting his money back while I went to eat. I never heard him say anything pro MS after that. I find it incredible that - in addition to running Windows on the ATM, it had no concept of transactions.
Agreed. Also, in most companies I've worked which have to be SOX compliant dev's are not even allowed to connect to any UAT or PROD machines. For many industries (my experience is primarily within banking and finance), allowing developers access to prod or uat machines can actually be illegal and can many times be something that gets you fired... If the poster wants to be Sarbanes Oxley compliant - then allowing Developers to access PROD or UAT environments is a big nono.
Mmm.. thats my take as well. My background is 9 years in Finance/IT in various technical (mostly programming / systems engineering) roles in three European countries, working in financial institutions of the size 30K-130K employees. The only.Net stuff I've seen is on the client side of some internally developed trading systems. The serverside, however, is usually run as J2EE apps running in one of the many servlet/ejb containers you see in the marketplace nowadays... J2EE simply rules the serverside and SWING apps are seen quite frequently. My guess is that banks will be happier extending eclipse when writing their client apps than going the.Net route... Maybe the.Net route is more popular within other market segments ? Anyone working in another industry care to comment ?
A friend of mine knew a guy up in DRC (while it was still known as Zaire) who had a Lamborghini with dimmable windows (using liquid crystal technology). Waaay cool. Unfortunately, he only had about 400 meters of tar road to use it on. Now thats frustrating... although maybe not quite as frustrating as it should be to all the europeans who funded his way-cool car... or would this kind of "investment" qualify as an exercise in "Capacity building" ?
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Something like this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flux_capacitor#Flux_capacitor
When I was working as a consultant in it/finance in Scandinavia, some customers started to demand that they would be allowed (it requires the approval of the subject of the query) to request a credit report. I decided to find out what the potential downside would be. It turned out that one of the criteria for being classified as a risk was that an excessive number of credit reports had been requested for a person.
After hearing this, I refused.
As my clients were all banks, I found it incredibly easy to convince them that what they were asking for was unreasonable, using this argument:
If all of my current customers did this, then that in itself would bring down my credit rating so low that I would not qualify for a mortgage or even a credit card.
Would they be prepared to lose all people i my position as potential customers?
None of my customers persisted in their demands.
If us based credit ratings use similar criteria, and they do not have to ask permission - then you are truly screwed.
Where is that?
In Italy. See:
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/10/passport_requir.html
for more info.
Where are their servers located ? .. would be interesting to know, due to various regional annoyances such as the DMCA, opposition to open versions of DeCSS etc.
I used to have your problem. Then, finally, Windows just got too painful to endure so I bought a PS3 and switched all other use to Linux.
You can get a decent workstation with Ubuntu preloaded for something like 400 USD (just got one for my mum). Adding the cost of a PS3 onto that makes the total cost quite close to what you'd pay when buying a similarly powered Vista box with office preloaded.
In effect, they are a traveler that has arrived in the US and are electronically conducting trade. It's as if they arrived here, pulled out a credit card and paid for a product, and got back on their plane home
I think this is why people get so massively irritated by these restrictions.
When a customer gets turned away from a web based shop, it is usually not perceived by the customer as a sale rejected due to some import/export restriction - instead, the people impacted by these restrictions feel as though they've entered the store, chosen a product, produced their credit card in order to pay - just to find themselves being kicked out of the store due to their nationality.
I remember in the old days (10-15 years ago) when the Internet had not been i18n'ed yet. I could order goods / services from anywhere in the world and have it shipped to wherever I would be located.
Nowadays, I always find myself forced to go to some vendors regional webpage which is not accessible in a language I understand due to the underlying (and horribly outdated) assumption that everyone is born, lives and dies in one tiny geographic area, from which they never move, and that they only are able to speak the "official" language used in that area.
http://www.difrwear.com/products.shtml
.. just imagine a Beowulf cluster of those !
The possibilities are endless !
My browser has no problem with their cert. And Im using a particularly picky browser (firefox 3.07).
A non-story?
You left out a bit at the end - the correct implementation is:
if (status != SUCCESS) {
JpmcdsErrMsgFailure(routine);
bailedOut=true;
status=SUCCESS;
setRunning(true);
}
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Quisling was Norwegian.
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quisling )
This insanity goes on in every corporation I've worked in.
Howabout a Zambian ? .. used to be the same country.. close enough? ;-)
>They painted themselves in a corner.
Exactly. How long will it take for web2.0 companies to realise that US legislation does not provide or protect speech to the extent inherently required in order for web2.0 to be successful ?
Why the hell is Digg (or other web2.0 sites for that matter) hosted in the US in the first place ???
Hmm - the EU taxes, has elections, passes laws, enforces laws .. in what way would you say it is not a government ?
Not all phones suck as mp3 players.. I'm really happy with my SonyEricsson W880i.
It's the only device I carry nowadays.
Hehe.. I remember pointing this out to a colleague. I said it was insane, he said that I was a MS hater.
10 minutes later as we were on our way to lunch, my colleague had to withdraw money from one of the brand spanking new wintendo ATM's that had just been installed. The ATM bluescreened while he was making a withdrawal (after it said - wait for your funds). So basically, he got his card back but the money never came. He checked the account and noticed that the money had left his bank account (without any money actually being paid out to him). He spent his entire lunch break arguing with bank staff about getting his money back while I went to eat. I never heard him say anything pro MS after that.
I find it incredible that - in addition to running Windows on the ATM, it had no concept of transactions.
Agreed.
Also, in most companies I've worked which have to be SOX compliant dev's are not even allowed to connect to any UAT or PROD machines.
For many industries (my experience is primarily within banking and finance), allowing developers access to prod or uat machines can actually be illegal and can many times be something that gets you fired...
If the poster wants to be Sarbanes Oxley compliant - then allowing Developers to access PROD or UAT environments is a big nono.
Suveränt ! Som en infödd!
Mmm.. thats my take as well. .Net stuff I've seen is on the client side of some internally developed trading systems. The serverside, however, is usually run as J2EE apps running in one of the many servlet/ejb containers you see in the marketplace nowadays... J2EE simply rules the serverside and SWING apps are seen quite frequently. My guess is that banks will be happier extending eclipse when writing their client apps than going the .Net route... .Net route is more popular within other market segments ? Anyone working in another industry care to comment ?
My background is 9 years in Finance/IT in various technical (mostly programming / systems engineering) roles in three European countries, working in financial institutions of the size 30K-130K employees.
The only
Maybe the
My thoughts exactly.. /m
A friend of mine knew a guy up in DRC (while it was still known as Zaire) who had a Lamborghini with dimmable windows (using liquid crystal technology). .. although maybe not quite as frustrating as it should be to all the europeans who funded his way-cool car... or would this kind of "investment" qualify as an exercise in "Capacity building" ?
Waaay cool. Unfortunately, he only had about 400 meters of tar road to use it on.
Now thats frustrating.