Have to agree that giving and monitoring exams was always more fun!
Most annoying thing I found in exams was where peoples cellphones started ringing in their bags (where of course they could no longer turn them off). Had a terrible amount of fun when this happened in an exam I was administering by just picking up the offending bag and throwing out the nearest window - solved the problem for the non-offending students and I'll bet they all made sure they were turned off for the next exam;-)
For a more considered debunking of most of this:
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The Trouble with RFID
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http://www.aimglobal.org/technologies/rfid/resourc es/articles/jan04/0401-roispy.htm
And please take special note of the scanning of RFIDs on drivers licenses while you are still in your car....
with a little dose of reality...
You lend a pair of shoes to your friend, give a pair to charity, throw a pair out which a bum nicks from the trash. There is now 4 profiles of you walking around. Most marketers realise this and see it is useless.
The arguments about home scanning are ridiculous - there are limits imposed by the laws of physics (not current technology) that mean the read range of a scanner with even remotely realistic emission levels can only read around 10-30 feet. (besides the fact that most homes have foil based insulation completely stuffing the signal)
There is also the expectation here that stores are sharing what their RFID numbers are - this is not a barcode with a universally recognised number, it is unique (which is what is causing you the concerns remember?). Expecting Walmart, Sears etc to all get together in harmony and share their competitive advantages - Americans are so contrary;-)
Must say I've never had any problems with the autonumber features in Master/subs - as long as you use multiple level lists and know how to use them properly (which I will admit is one whole lot harder than it should be!!)
The main problem with Word is once you start reaching large manual size it starts faltering over the size of the doc as it likes to keep the whole thing in memory at once. If you are an advanced user then using the master / sub documents is a nice way around this - and follows all the object oriented principles of abstraction at the same time;-)
Some of the best editors I have found for manual documentation tend to be code editors with folding capability - being able to fold a document on various heading types is invaluable!!
Be careful with using the company as a vehicle for paying all expenses - particularly surrounding cars!! Im not sure about American tax laws but in New Zealand fringe benefits tax is 40% - well above any of the tax rates (highest personal is 39%, highest corporate 33%). Also there are some very interesting laws you can be inn breach of in this area. Tax deductibility of anything is going to require lawyers advice - and that may cost more than the savings unless you are planning to do this for a while or have the advantages of being able to split income etc
OK, so I agree with the basic premise that the overall cost of a Linux installation is much lower and SOME of the reasoning is right - but show this to any REAL IS department worth anything and you've lost any chance of ever getting linux installed.
Look at the numbers of machines and screens in the comparisons - 5200 in the windows install and 5000 in the Linux. Sure its not enough to make the cost difference but its sure enought to blow credibility. Plus for the whole question of 'smart screens' versus PC's - has no one here ever heard of Windows Terminal Services. Bugger, there went the other 80% of the article. So now the real points it brought up just got lost and you've presented yourself as an illiterate fool interms of enterprise installations. THANKS;-)
I want ways to introduce Linux into my org - but dont give me **** like this to do it with!!
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Except that most car trunks are made out of metal. Which is pretty much the ultimate foil for RFID technology.
Have to agree that giving and monitoring exams was always more fun! Most annoying thing I found in exams was where peoples cellphones started ringing in their bags (where of course they could no longer turn them off). Had a terrible amount of fun when this happened in an exam I was administering by just picking up the offending bag and throwing out the nearest window - solved the problem for the non-offending students and I'll bet they all made sure they were turned off for the next exam ;-)
http://www.aimglobal.org/technologies/rfid/resourc es/articles/jan04/0401-roispy.htm
And please take special note of the scanning of RFIDs on drivers licenses while you are still in your car....
with a little dose of reality... You lend a pair of shoes to your friend, give a pair to charity, throw a pair out which a bum nicks from the trash. There is now 4 profiles of you walking around. Most marketers realise this and see it is useless. The arguments about home scanning are ridiculous - there are limits imposed by the laws of physics (not current technology) that mean the read range of a scanner with even remotely realistic emission levels can only read around 10-30 feet. (besides the fact that most homes have foil based insulation completely stuffing the signal) There is also the expectation here that stores are sharing what their RFID numbers are - this is not a barcode with a universally recognised number, it is unique (which is what is causing you the concerns remember?). Expecting Walmart, Sears etc to all get together in harmony and share their competitive advantages - Americans are so contrary ;-)
Must say I've never had any problems with the autonumber features in Master/subs - as long as you use multiple level lists and know how to use them properly (which I will admit is one whole lot harder than it should be!!)
The main problem with Word is once you start reaching large manual size it starts faltering over the size of the doc as it likes to keep the whole thing in memory at once. If you are an advanced user then using the master / sub documents is a nice way around this - and follows all the object oriented principles of abstraction at the same time ;-)
Some of the best editors I have found for manual documentation tend to be code editors with folding capability - being able to fold a document on various heading types is invaluable!!
Be careful with using the company as a vehicle for paying all expenses - particularly surrounding cars!! Im not sure about American tax laws but in New Zealand fringe benefits tax is 40% - well above any of the tax rates (highest personal is 39%, highest corporate 33%). Also there are some very interesting laws you can be inn breach of in this area. Tax deductibility of anything is going to require lawyers advice - and that may cost more than the savings unless you are planning to do this for a while or have the advantages of being able to split income etc
OK, so I agree with the basic premise that the overall cost of a Linux installation is much lower and SOME of the reasoning is right - but show this to any REAL IS department worth anything and you've lost any chance of ever getting linux installed. Look at the numbers of machines and screens in the comparisons - 5200 in the windows install and 5000 in the Linux. Sure its not enough to make the cost difference but its sure enought to blow credibility. Plus for the whole question of 'smart screens' versus PC's - has no one here ever heard of Windows Terminal Services. Bugger, there went the other 80% of the article. So now the real points it brought up just got lost and you've presented yourself as an illiterate fool interms of enterprise installations. THANKS ;-)
I want ways to introduce Linux into my org - but dont give me **** like this to do it with!!