And make sure not to hire an outside firm that consults on outsourcing IT support. Security firms are pretty good at general IT auditing in addition to strictly security related analysis.
Right, and be careful using a Vendor to run this audit for you as well. It might be tempting, because they will give you a really good deal, but you are essentially paying them to generate a report that says you need to buy all their gear. Not saying this can't work, in fact this could be a good option if you are on a shoestring (assuming not with your use of the word thriving) budget, just be careful.
"I assumed the position of programmer and sole IT personnel at a thriving e-commerce company."
Wait.... a thriving e-commerce company has one IT person? Am I missing something here...? No wonder everything was band-aided together. They have one person doing everything.
You may want to consider hiring an outside firm to come in and do the audit for you. The last thing you need right now, on top of your daily workload, is to perform an audit. That, and a third party firm creates a sense of objectivity, and would eliminate the "The IT guy wants a new toy" response from the CFO.
This is really good advice. Not only will they give you some bullet points for making your case, but there's a good chance the account trip can give you a few discount points to try and win the business.
Second of all, the original iPhone 2G, which I have, is definitely not supported by iOS5, or even iOS4 for that matter. What are they smoking?
I can't help but think this is intentionally skewed for Apple...
No, the iPhone 2G was released in June 2007. It's a fairly safe assumption to say you are not under the same carrier contract you agreed to when purchasing the device. The problem with Android fragmentation is that there is no consistency. When you buy a new Android device on a two year contract (the most common way in the US), you have no assurance that your device will receive OS updates as they are released from Google. This is Android's biggest achilles heel.
... but lets not forget the tradeoff of openness you get with an iOS device. In exchange for getting consistent OS upgrades and new features, you give up an open environment. Regardless of how easy it is to jailbreak iOS, you still need to jailbreak it to install or use any application Apple does not approve of. I can tether my android device on Verizon's network without paying for it, without 'jailbreaking' it, and by using an application I downloaded from the Android Marketplace. That's just not possible in the iOS ecosystem right now.
This sounds a lot like the 'Safe Browsing' feature already built into Chrome. It provides a warning screen on a suspicious page, and then allows the user to continue, or to go back.
As long as there is an opt-out setting, I really don't see what the big deal is. Am I missing something?
When Verizon's 4G went live, they passed out 4G aircards to everyone in the media so they could report on how "blazingly fast" the 4G speeds were. In the same way, the VZW 4G network was essentially empty, with no real live users online yet.
VZW 4G has held up fine so far, but it's still essentially an empty network. The real test results won't be known for another year or two, when 4G smartphones become as ubiquitous as 3G is today.
Read TFA. The New York Times, who (I assume) did their research, writes out the specifics of the union contract. Not once does the NYT (or ScentCone) quote Fox New, Palin, or anyone else in the Tea Party.
But, I agree with your premise that we should let the free market run its course. As it appears, this means everyone working under the Postal Workers union contract will not be laid off. They will be fired, because their employer will be unable to pay them.
So, HP is making another batch of Touchpads, after already announcing that they were being discontinued. The 'overwhelming demand' is based on the $99 'firesale' price, which leads us to assume they were being sold at a significant loss. A few possible conclusions:
1.) HP was marking up their hardware costs by an astronomical percentage. If they are putting more touchpads into production, and planning on selling them at or near the closeout price, that must mean they still see room for profit to be made (even if it is razor thin).
2.) HP is just flat-out stupid, and is planing on losing more money by selling Touchpads at a continued loss.
3.) The WebOS brand isn't dead after all, and this was all a giant marketing ploy to jump-start the WebOS community. This makes sense even if HP plans on selling off the brand. With a huge influx of users, its now instantly more valuable than it was last month.
I'm personally thinking its a combination of all three.
"To emphasize: I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft moved to the Linux kernel in a few years time and nobody would really care or even notice."
You said this, or Steve Jobs? If Jobs, can you cite a source?
This is one of those "When hell freezes over" sort of statements. However, if two years ago you would have told me Microsoft would have the most "Open" operating system for mobile devices, I would have called you crazy.
For all the potential "fire and brimstone" these solar storms have the potential to cause, they still have yet to achieve the level of destruction and disturbance to our power and communications infrastructure as copper scrappers.
I can count at least three incidents this year where I was affected by scrappers removing copper that was in-use (communications and power). I can't think of one instance in my entire life (30 yrs) where a solar storm has caused me a disruption.
As a technical sales person myself.... The best thing for me to know is not the "FAB's" of our product lines (That's Features, Advantage's, Benefits if you've never been to a Zig Zigler seminar). The best thing for me to know is our product lines limitations. It makes for a slower sales cycle, but in the end, the customer trusts you more when you can tell them what your product doesn't do as well as what it does. It also allows for realistic expectations once its actually installed and running.
Too many IT & Network directors have been burned by pie-in-the-sky FAB's from salespeople like myself. Being able to provide realistic expectations is much more valuable to my clients. It builds trust, and allows for more routine, consistant repeat business.
Well, for the most part, it is public data. The majority of facebook accounts are left on the default privacy settings, which means pretty much the whole world can see everything you post online.
I'm just failing to see the privacy implications. You post something on a public website, it's public information, and should be available in a court room....
They didn't "Deny" it, they said "We found the problem" and "The problem is x" and "We are working with the vendor who published Product X" so that "This problem can be fixed" and "We can develop standards to prevent other applications from reproducing the same scenario."
Saying that it's their problem just because they approved it is a gross over-simplification of the situation. When the Goodyear tires that came with Ford vehicles started to fail and explode, Ford worked with Goodyear to get the problem fixed and the faulty tires replaced, but it was ultimately Goodyear's responsibility to replace their defective product.
Meanwhile, everyone else using Palm, Blackberry, Windows Mobile, Android or Symbian devices, can keep being awesome. We don't have to jailbreak our phones to use them how we want to.
I have Fios myself... when I got the install done a few years back, I had my own router ready for the tech to use. When he showed up with the Actiontec, I remarked to him "Oh, I didn't know you guys were giving me a free router with my service." His reply was right along the lines of "We're not giving you a router, we're letting you use this one."
So, the way I see it... Verizon changed the password in their router that they placed in your house. You could always.... get your own router.
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And make sure not to hire an outside firm that consults on outsourcing IT support. Security firms are pretty good at general IT auditing in addition to strictly security related analysis.
Right, and be careful using a Vendor to run this audit for you as well. It might be tempting, because they will give you a really good deal, but you are essentially paying them to generate a report that says you need to buy all their gear. Not saying this can't work, in fact this could be a good option if you are on a shoestring (assuming not with your use of the word thriving) budget, just be careful.
"I assumed the position of programmer and sole IT personnel at a thriving e-commerce company."
Wait.... a thriving e-commerce company has one IT person? Am I missing something here...? No wonder everything was band-aided together. They have one person doing everything.
You may want to consider hiring an outside firm to come in and do the audit for you. The last thing you need right now, on top of your daily workload, is to perform an audit. That, and a third party firm creates a sense of objectivity, and would eliminate the "The IT guy wants a new toy" response from the CFO.
This is really good advice. Not only will they give you some bullet points for making your case, but there's a good chance the account trip can give you a few discount points to try and win the business.
Second of all, the original iPhone 2G, which I have, is definitely not supported by iOS5, or even iOS4 for that matter. What are they smoking?
I can't help but think this is intentionally skewed for Apple...
No, the iPhone 2G was released in June 2007. It's a fairly safe assumption to say you are not under the same carrier contract you agreed to when purchasing the device. The problem with Android fragmentation is that there is no consistency. When you buy a new Android device on a two year contract (the most common way in the US), you have no assurance that your device will receive OS updates as they are released from Google. This is Android's biggest achilles heel.
... but lets not forget the tradeoff of openness you get with an iOS device. In exchange for getting consistent OS upgrades and new features, you give up an open environment. Regardless of how easy it is to jailbreak iOS, you still need to jailbreak it to install or use any application Apple does not approve of. I can tether my android device on Verizon's network without paying for it, without 'jailbreaking' it, and by using an application I downloaded from the Android Marketplace. That's just not possible in the iOS ecosystem right now.
Wait, it's not Patch Tuesday. That was two weeks ago.
This has to wait until next month, I just don't have time to constantly push these updates out all the time....
True. I would most certainly opt out of this sort of a program.
This is RIM's way of paying tribute to the late Steve Jobs. They are holding a 3 day moment of silence in his honor.
This sounds a lot like the 'Safe Browsing' feature already built into Chrome. It provides a warning screen on a suspicious page, and then allows the user to continue, or to go back.
As long as there is an opt-out setting, I really don't see what the big deal is. Am I missing something?
... and Firefox is a virus that killed IE.
When Verizon's 4G went live, they passed out 4G aircards to everyone in the media so they could report on how "blazingly fast" the 4G speeds were. In the same way, the VZW 4G network was essentially empty, with no real live users online yet.
VZW 4G has held up fine so far, but it's still essentially an empty network. The real test results won't be known for another year or two, when 4G smartphones become as ubiquitous as 3G is today.
Read TFA. The New York Times, who (I assume) did their research, writes out the specifics of the union contract. Not once does the NYT (or ScentCone) quote Fox New, Palin, or anyone else in the Tea Party.
But, I agree with your premise that we should let the free market run its course. As it appears, this means everyone working under the Postal Workers union contract will not be laid off. They will be fired, because their employer will be unable to pay them.
Or, do we sacrifice some to save the lot?
... which just increases the volume of your losses.
So, HP is making another batch of Touchpads, after already announcing that they were being discontinued. The 'overwhelming demand' is based on the $99 'firesale' price, which leads us to assume they were being sold at a significant loss. A few possible conclusions:
1.) HP was marking up their hardware costs by an astronomical percentage. If they are putting more touchpads into production, and planning on selling them at or near the closeout price, that must mean they still see room for profit to be made (even if it is razor thin).
2.) HP is just flat-out stupid, and is planing on losing more money by selling Touchpads at a continued loss.
3.) The WebOS brand isn't dead after all, and this was all a giant marketing ploy to jump-start the WebOS community. This makes sense even if HP plans on selling off the brand. With a huge influx of users, its now instantly more valuable than it was last month.
I'm personally thinking its a combination of all three.
All my servers and data are kept in the clouds.
Which, as you know, are way above sea level.
"To emphasize: I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft moved to the Linux kernel in a few years time and nobody would really care or even notice."
You said this, or Steve Jobs? If Jobs, can you cite a source?
This is one of those "When hell freezes over" sort of statements. However, if two years ago you would have told me Microsoft would have the most "Open" operating system for mobile devices, I would have called you crazy.
A real FBI surveillance van would broadcast a much more common SSID.
Like 'linksys'
or maybe
'attwifi'
For all the potential "fire and brimstone" these solar storms have the potential to cause, they still have yet to achieve the level of destruction and disturbance to our power and communications infrastructure as copper scrappers.
I can count at least three incidents this year where I was affected by scrappers removing copper that was in-use (communications and power). I can't think of one instance in my entire life (30 yrs) where a solar storm has caused me a disruption.
Netflix has successfully executed the Wal-Mart business model.
1.) Move into an existing area where there is a well-established business model.
2.) Dominate the market with prices so low that the existing businesses cannot compete against you.
3.) Wait for your competition to give up/close up/go bankrupt.
4.) Raise your prices to normal market levels.
5.) Obscene profit!
As a technical sales person myself .... The best thing for me to know is not the "FAB's" of our product lines (That's Features, Advantage's, Benefits if you've never been to a Zig Zigler seminar). The best thing for me to know is our product lines limitations. It makes for a slower sales cycle, but in the end, the customer trusts you more when you can tell them what your product doesn't do as well as what it does. It also allows for realistic expectations once its actually installed and running.
Too many IT & Network directors have been burned by pie-in-the-sky FAB's from salespeople like myself. Being able to provide realistic expectations is much more valuable to my clients. It builds trust, and allows for more routine, consistant repeat business.
Well, for the most part, it is public data. The majority of facebook accounts are left on the default privacy settings, which means pretty much the whole world can see everything you post online.
I'm just failing to see the privacy implications. You post something on a public website, it's public information, and should be available in a court room....
This is just another way to get screwed by Apple .....
or
Apple really screwed us over on this one ....
or how about
They sure are screwing it to their users, aren't they?
Should I continue .....
They didn't "Deny" it, they said "We found the problem" and "The problem is x" and "We are working with the vendor who published Product X" so that "This problem can be fixed" and "We can develop standards to prevent other applications from reproducing the same scenario."
Saying that it's their problem just because they approved it is a gross over-simplification of the situation. When the Goodyear tires that came with Ford vehicles started to fail and explode, Ford worked with Goodyear to get the problem fixed and the faulty tires replaced, but it was ultimately Goodyear's responsibility to replace their defective product.
....such as the fact that I don't want a phone that blue screens and/or needs to be rebooted twice a day.....
Sounds like my co-workers Moto Droid 2.
Meanwhile, everyone else using Palm, Blackberry, Windows Mobile, Android or Symbian devices, can keep being awesome. We don't have to jailbreak our phones to use them how we want to.
I have Fios myself ... when I got the install done a few years back, I had my own router ready for the tech to use. When he showed up with the Actiontec, I remarked to him "Oh, I didn't know you guys were giving me a free router with my service." His reply was right along the lines of "We're not giving you a router, we're letting you use this one."
So, the way I see it ... Verizon changed the password in their router that they placed in your house. You could always .... get your own router.