Yep, that explains consumer Fujifilm from the early 90's. That crap has such oversaturated colors it was sickening, yet it outsold Kodak Ektachrome so much that Kodak removed Ektachromee from the consumer space for everything but slide film despite it being a vastly superior film, leaving only the cheap Gold film line to compete.
I highly disagree. Accurate pictures are good for a photojournalist, but may not be the best for a photographer (where a photographer is defined as a photographic artist). Intentional background blur, or focusing on the background rather than the foreground, or dodging/burning prints are all examples of techniques used by artists that are the exact opposite of accuracy. I know at least one Sports Illustrated photographer uses cheap disposable point and shoot cameras precisely because he likes the non-scientific non-overly technical look they give to his shots. I think that for people who don't have the time or desire to manipulate their photographs in the digital darkroom preemphasis on desired characteristics of the image is acceptable. I personally want a dSLR and already own a Canon digital with a great deal of adjustable settings and a traditional SL, but photography is a hobby for me and I enjoy the time spent on it. My wife has neither the desire nor talent for it so a well adjusted point in shoot is ideal for her and many others like her.
That is what the SEC says in their insider trading page,but the actual rule is 10b5-2 which enumerates those covered other than the insider as his or her spouse, parent, child, or sibling;. However I was not aware that the Supreme Court has tilted the playing field to the SEC by creatively interpreting 10b to allow the SEC to create a duty between the insider and the person who receives the information, not the duty between the insider and the shareholders of the company. This is a stupid ruling because it creates a burden on the receiver of information where they might not know the information is material or non-public but still be held criminally responsible for acting on the information. This flies is the face of both the letter and intent of the law which is to ensure that those with a fudiciary responsibility to the investors and in possession of material inside information do not disclose that information non-uniformly or enrich themselves personally by acting on the information before it is disclosed. Btw if you are interested the ruling it is here.(PDF)
The funny thing about the Stuart case is she COULDN'T have been charged with insider trading since she doesn't fit the definition of an insider (in the company she had traded in), only her friend could have been harmed. It was her lying and instructing others to lie that got her in trouble.
Jobs is one of those relatively rare CEOs who's worth whatever compensation the board decides to give him. Apple was literally on the verge of collapse when he returned to the helm with investors talking about liquidating the company being a real option. He's a lot like Jack Welsh in his ability to lead the people and see the market and future for the company.
They already have Symbian and PalmOS clients, this is just making sure they have the rest of the market covered, and a piece that's growing pretty fast, especially in the market directly competing with their own handheld, the "smartphone" segment.
Most enterprises already have BES.....
Doing the setup for Exchange push is non-trivial in a large environment and requires that you admin mobile devices in two places. If you wanted to dump RIM entirely and go all WM+Exchange then that might make sense, but if you run Notes or any of the other platforms that BES supports then getting it working with WM is even more painfull.
More like they think that they can get enterprise customers to pay them for simplifying push email to one application rather than having to setup Exchange or Notes or whatever setup to support Windows Mobile devices, and they are right. There are plenty of IT departments out there that are tasked with supporting whatever technology the business decides to use and if they can reduce their own workload for the fairly minimal cost of a BES license they WILL pay.
Not really, a DL360G5 will cost ~$1,800 over 3 years including power, the fractional percentage of the generator and the fractional part of the AC system purchase. That for a server that costs $5,800.
One big advantage is most software is licensed per socket so more cores/socket=less $ for software. I know we will be able to get a big jump in performance by replacing the processors in our DL585 G2's with these new quad core when they are released at a low relative to the purchase price for Oracle and 32GB of ram, etc.
I guess I'm really lucky because when I have to do afterhours work my Director of IT is often right there with us either working or providing support like arranging meals or handling vendors. He has a couple dozen direct and indirect reports yet he doesn't shrink from responsibility. Actually he is ALWAYS on call, while the tech staff takes a once per 4 week rotation his Blackberry is always on and receives all of the alert emails and SMS's. Of course since we have had 4 unscheduled outage events in 9 months I guess it isn't a major burden, it pays for him to hire good staff =)
I know it's a stereotype but almost all of the geek's I know are in stable long term relationships, either married or live in SO's. The people I see who are all alone in their parent's basement are simply nerds, they don't appear to have any real amount of skill or focus, just a lack of social adjustment. I think once they get out of HS most geeks blossom somewhat and are able to make a connection with people not intimately involved with their geeky subjects (or perhaps involved in secondary geeky subjects like say renfairs). Of course the internet and the fact that the richest people in the world have been geeks for a couple decades has probably helped the situation for Gen X geeks.
So so wrong. Because it uses lower power ram and is competitive in MIPS/Watt the Opteron is still a better bet for efficient servers vs the Core based Xeon's. Add to that better bus bandiwidth and in four socket and larger systems the Opteron is still very competitive. I can't wait for the quad core Opteron's, a DL585 G2 with four quad cores and 32GB of ram will be a real workhorse, not that the current generation are slackers =)
Have you ever used Google Applications? Because I have and I have to say they enable collaborative editing in a way I have never experienced with bolt-on products. I'm not sure that the first iteration of this would accomplish that kind of ability, it seems more an alternative to Citrix, but I'm fairly confident if it's open source something similar will eventually be added.
What gets me is all the media talk about Emergency responders not being able to be contacted. It's not like their Blackberries burst into flames because the message passing servers were down, they still had SMS and phone capability. Hell because we aren't certain our email relays or BES servers won't be the down system our alerting system automatically switches from email to SMS for the second round of notifications. I guess RIM isn't the only ones who could use a little process improvement!
This weekend is finally going to be nice in my neck of the woods with clear skies and overnight lows above freezing by a bit. The last couple meteor showers have either been clouded over or the temp was too low to lay out.
Actually they were the IT consulting wing of AA that fought tooth and nail to separate themselves from AA because of the bad practices going on over at AA. They even took a several hundred million dollar loss in the spinoff because the accounting side hide losses from another division in their side of the ledger, there was a lawsuit but Accenture dropped it because they were just sick of dealing and being associated with the accounting firm. They aren't choir boys but they really did have more ethics than AA. I never worked for them but did have them as a client and got to meet quite a few of the guys at a couple of their offices.
So your saying they are restricting themselves to buying from an Oligopoly. Well, by definition an Oligopoly has the ability to set non perfect pricing for the buyer so thats what they should expect. I mean these companies could just all jack up their rates by the same amount as the shared profit and pay full fare for the other members services and the result would be even higher prices for the government. I don't understand how the government is dictating what profit the companies can make. As long as the profit sharing isn't outright bribes I don't see where the government will have a case, discounts to preferred partners isn't a crime last time I checked.
Giving other vendors discounts for work performed on certain types of high volume contracts might well be standard practice. The fact that one of those type of contracts was US Federal Government contracts just means that someone with guns feels they deserve the discount. I mean what right does the government have to deserve a certain price, the government puts a job up for competitive bid and they get whatever the best price they get, if someone outside these cartels can perform the same service at the same cost then they should be able to come in at under the other bids by not having to include the cross rebates in their pricing structure. If the outsider can't give that better price then the government can STFU and take the best deal available.
Ugh it uses Flash. Most thinterms and many internet terminals do not support Flash. Heck management didn't like the requirement for Java for our Web Interface/Secure Gateway setup but the only alternative was to allow direct RDP connectivity to the Presentation Servers which is WAY less secure for both the clients and the server and it only gains you Windows clients with an RDP client and no Java.
It's not used because it's mostly useless. Of all of the authentications that my users initiate in a given day probably less than 1% are on the local system where they work. The majority are network resource requests, web apps, application authentication, etc. This method also doesn't work for remote access through Citrix/Nfuse, through thinterms, or on any platform where there isn't a native authentication daemon.
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Your right, it was Ektar I was remembering, I loved that stuff.
Yep, that explains consumer Fujifilm from the early 90's. That crap has such oversaturated colors it was sickening, yet it outsold Kodak Ektachrome so much that Kodak removed Ektachromee from the consumer space for everything but slide film despite it being a vastly superior film, leaving only the cheap Gold film line to compete.
I highly disagree. Accurate pictures are good for a photojournalist, but may not be the best for a photographer (where a photographer is defined as a photographic artist). Intentional background blur, or focusing on the background rather than the foreground, or dodging/burning prints are all examples of techniques used by artists that are the exact opposite of accuracy. I know at least one Sports Illustrated photographer uses cheap disposable point and shoot cameras precisely because he likes the non-scientific non-overly technical look they give to his shots. I think that for people who don't have the time or desire to manipulate their photographs in the digital darkroom preemphasis on desired characteristics of the image is acceptable. I personally want a dSLR and already own a Canon digital with a great deal of adjustable settings and a traditional SL, but photography is a hobby for me and I enjoy the time spent on it. My wife has neither the desire nor talent for it so a well adjusted point in shoot is ideal for her and many others like her.
That is what the SEC says in their insider trading page,but the actual rule is 10b5-2 which enumerates those covered other than the insider as his or her spouse, parent, child, or sibling;. However I was not aware that the Supreme Court has tilted the playing field to the SEC by creatively interpreting 10b to allow the SEC to create a duty between the insider and the person who receives the information, not the duty between the insider and the shareholders of the company. This is a stupid ruling because it creates a burden on the receiver of information where they might not know the information is material or non-public but still be held criminally responsible for acting on the information. This flies is the face of both the letter and intent of the law which is to ensure that those with a fudiciary responsibility to the investors and in possession of material inside information do not disclose that information non-uniformly or enrich themselves personally by acting on the information before it is disclosed. Btw if you are interested the ruling it is here.(PDF)
The funny thing about the Stuart case is she COULDN'T have been charged with insider trading since she doesn't fit the definition of an insider (in the company she had traded in), only her friend could have been harmed. It was her lying and instructing others to lie that got her in trouble.
Jobs is one of those relatively rare CEOs who's worth whatever compensation the board decides to give him. Apple was literally on the verge of collapse when he returned to the helm with investors talking about liquidating the company being a real option. He's a lot like Jack Welsh in his ability to lead the people and see the market and future for the company.
They already have Symbian and PalmOS clients, this is just making sure they have the rest of the market covered, and a piece that's growing pretty fast, especially in the market directly competing with their own handheld, the "smartphone" segment.
Most enterprises already have BES.....
Doing the setup for Exchange push is non-trivial in a large environment and requires that you admin mobile devices in two places. If you wanted to dump RIM entirely and go all WM+Exchange then that might make sense, but if you run Notes or any of the other platforms that BES supports then getting it working with WM is even more painfull.
More like they think that they can get enterprise customers to pay them for simplifying push email to one application rather than having to setup Exchange or Notes or whatever setup to support Windows Mobile devices, and they are right. There are plenty of IT departments out there that are tasked with supporting whatever technology the business decides to use and if they can reduce their own workload for the fairly minimal cost of a BES license they WILL pay.
Not really, a DL360G5 will cost ~$1,800 over 3 years including power, the fractional percentage of the generator and the fractional part of the AC system purchase. That for a server that costs $5,800.
One big advantage is most software is licensed per socket so more cores/socket=less $ for software. I know we will be able to get a big jump in performance by replacing the processors in our DL585 G2's with these new quad core when they are released at a low relative to the purchase price for Oracle and 32GB of ram, etc.
I guess I'm really lucky because when I have to do afterhours work my Director of IT is often right there with us either working or providing support like arranging meals or handling vendors. He has a couple dozen direct and indirect reports yet he doesn't shrink from responsibility. Actually he is ALWAYS on call, while the tech staff takes a once per 4 week rotation his Blackberry is always on and receives all of the alert emails and SMS's. Of course since we have had 4 unscheduled outage events in 9 months I guess it isn't a major burden, it pays for him to hire good staff =)
I know it's a stereotype but almost all of the geek's I know are in stable long term relationships, either married or live in SO's. The people I see who are all alone in their parent's basement are simply nerds, they don't appear to have any real amount of skill or focus, just a lack of social adjustment. I think once they get out of HS most geeks blossom somewhat and are able to make a connection with people not intimately involved with their geeky subjects (or perhaps involved in secondary geeky subjects like say renfairs). Of course the internet and the fact that the richest people in the world have been geeks for a couple decades has probably helped the situation for Gen X geeks.
So so wrong. Because it uses lower power ram and is competitive in MIPS/Watt the Opteron is still a better bet for efficient servers vs the Core based Xeon's. Add to that better bus bandiwidth and in four socket and larger systems the Opteron is still very competitive. I can't wait for the quad core Opteron's, a DL585 G2 with four quad cores and 32GB of ram will be a real workhorse, not that the current generation are slackers =)
Have you ever used Google Applications? Because I have and I have to say they enable collaborative editing in a way I have never experienced with bolt-on products. I'm not sure that the first iteration of this would accomplish that kind of ability, it seems more an alternative to Citrix, but I'm fairly confident if it's open source something similar will eventually be added.
What gets me is all the media talk about Emergency responders not being able to be contacted. It's not like their Blackberries burst into flames because the message passing servers were down, they still had SMS and phone capability. Hell because we aren't certain our email relays or BES servers won't be the down system our alerting system automatically switches from email to SMS for the second round of notifications. I guess RIM isn't the only ones who could use a little process improvement!
Actually AA had started another internal consulting company so I don't think that the conflict angle had much at all to do with it.
This weekend is finally going to be nice in my neck of the woods with clear skies and overnight lows above freezing by a bit. The last couple meteor showers have either been clouded over or the temp was too low to lay out.
Actually they were the IT consulting wing of AA that fought tooth and nail to separate themselves from AA because of the bad practices going on over at AA. They even took a several hundred million dollar loss in the spinoff because the accounting side hide losses from another division in their side of the ledger, there was a lawsuit but Accenture dropped it because they were just sick of dealing and being associated with the accounting firm. They aren't choir boys but they really did have more ethics than AA. I never worked for them but did have them as a client and got to meet quite a few of the guys at a couple of their offices.
So your saying they are restricting themselves to buying from an Oligopoly. Well, by definition an Oligopoly has the ability to set non perfect pricing for the buyer so thats what they should expect. I mean these companies could just all jack up their rates by the same amount as the shared profit and pay full fare for the other members services and the result would be even higher prices for the government. I don't understand how the government is dictating what profit the companies can make. As long as the profit sharing isn't outright bribes I don't see where the government will have a case, discounts to preferred partners isn't a crime last time I checked.
Giving other vendors discounts for work performed on certain types of high volume contracts might well be standard practice. The fact that one of those type of contracts was US Federal Government contracts just means that someone with guns feels they deserve the discount. I mean what right does the government have to deserve a certain price, the government puts a job up for competitive bid and they get whatever the best price they get, if someone outside these cartels can perform the same service at the same cost then they should be able to come in at under the other bids by not having to include the cross rebates in their pricing structure. If the outsider can't give that better price then the government can STFU and take the best deal available.
Ugh it uses Flash. Most thinterms and many internet terminals do not support Flash. Heck management didn't like the requirement for Java for our Web Interface/Secure Gateway setup but the only alternative was to allow direct RDP connectivity to the Presentation Servers which is WAY less secure for both the clients and the server and it only gains you Windows clients with an RDP client and no Java.
Winkey+L is your friend on XP or 2k3. On a Mac you can do the same with Keychain Access Lock Screen. There are X applications to do the same.
You mean you/your admin doesn't enforce a password protected screensaver?
It's not used because it's mostly useless. Of all of the authentications that my users initiate in a given day probably less than 1% are on the local system where they work. The majority are network resource requests, web apps, application authentication, etc. This method also doesn't work for remote access through Citrix/Nfuse, through thinterms, or on any platform where there isn't a native authentication daemon.