Don't hate yourself for saying it - First Class is an excellent package. I have a single dualie pizza box handling 3000 accounts with less than one FTE managing it. I use their mirroring tool to keep a warm box in sync. I am using ProofPoint out in front for Spam filtering.
I know many whole school systems using it for all teachers and students. Thousands and thousands of accounts - and like you said, it just works.
Great fat client and a good web client. IM features, VB like back-end scripting engine, and VM integration with your Nortel if you want. They also have an ActiveX control that essentailly puts the fat client in a web page. Started using it when the post office was running on a old PowerMac with AppleTalk and a DigiBoard to the Windows 2003 server it is on now 9 years later - with many of the orignal mailboxes still there, carried over through the years.
Palm Pilot conduit too!
My favorite keyboard is the one I am using now - much to the constant dismay of the people who sit close to my office - my IBM Model M keybaord - manufactured Aug 1992 and still running flawlessly!
Two weeks ago I pull off all the keycaps, gave them a wash, popped then back on - the thing looks brand new. Love the clickety-click!
I have had this keyboard through about 7 computers and two jobs. It will probably outlive me.
Correct - older, dead drives are not even worth trying to repair - just replace them. If they are non-functional, or flakey to begin with, you cannot be guaranteed as to the extent of whatever erase functionality they have performed.
Most of our systems are diskless clients anyway, so we do not have too many worries about local data, but not everybody has that luxury.
As a medical provider who also needs to maintain HIPAA compliance, we have decided the cost savings of RMA'ing a drive is nothing compared to the potential exposure, time the machine is down waiting for the part to come back and labor to reinstall and reimage the drive. Large capacity IDE drives are so cheap now we just put a new one in and reimage the machine.
The old drives get their platters removed, the HDA gets its motor control and data cable cut and a slight "tap" to the controller board with a hammer to damage it and its done.
It is criminal that this many people had to die - In my opinion they had an early warning - everybody (in a position to do something) knew there was an earthquake in the ocean nearby (in geologic terms). Hasn't history taught that when there in an earthquake in the ocean, that nearby tides are affected? That is why an "early warning system" was setup in the pacific. Local police and/or other authorities should have gone out and altered people to move inland. I think they had about two hours between the quake itself and when the wave came in. Granted, many people still would have died and the physical destruction would still have happenned, but a couple of thousands of people could have been saved. I am sure the logistics are mind boggling, but just some bullhorns to clear the beaches off would have done something, wouldn't it?
... one can pretty much reduce their willingness to stay to a few possiblities, all negative qualities in a potential employee:
Unethical: they stay because they value their income above personal ethics
cowardice: they stay because they fear change more than hanging on to an ever-more untenable situation...
Oh Yeah! I am sure that most of the overworked, underpaid staff who have no choice but to live from paycheck to paycheck and whose main concern is, "If I lose this job, my kids lose thier medical insurance," are just stupid, unethical or cowards. Before you jump all over this with, "I am talking about the programmers/techs, not the whole company..." Enter the real world - most people (programmers/techs/support, even admin assnt's) do not have the luxury of letting their ethics win out over a paycheck - especially when they are simply the innocent crew of a ship steered by a lunatic.
Here is age for you - I saw the thing on a BetaMax!
Imagine - out in deep space and you accidently incinerated your supply of toilet paper.
"Oh Man... I don't want to feed the creature."
"Hey - you wanted to keep it"
Excellent movie - done by John Carpenter, you know.
We cannot forget about the two great Rowdy Roddy Piper movies - "They're Among Us" and "Hell Comes to Frogtown" These are two of the best rainy Sunday afternoon movies I have ever seen. Funny, not too serious, moderate action, and babes with big boobs! What more do you need? I rank these two right behind "Tremors" as great examples of well done schlock.
SUNY-B Class of 92 - Here is the report you are talking about:
When the number of people carrying concealed handguns increases, crime decreases.
The economics of crime: Analysis suggests concealed handguns deter criminals, BU prof says By Ingrid Husisian
That's the socially controversial finding of Binghamton University economist Florenz Plassmann and his collaborator, who used the principles of supply and demand to analyze crime rates.
Plassmann's premise was detailed in an article in the October 2001 issue of Journal of Law and Economics. The article, "Does the Right to Carry Concealed Handguns Deter Countable Crime? Only a Count Analysis Can Say," was written by Plassmann and T. Nicolaus Tideman, who was Plassmann's dissertation adviser at Virginia Tech.
Plassmann's assertion isn't the first of its ilk, but it is something of a surprise to him, he admits. In a 1997 book More Guns, Less Crime, economist John Lott similarly analyzed the relationship between the right to carry concealed handguns and the crime rate. Lott was the first to use economic principles to suggest that concealed weapons have a clear deterrent effect. If more people carry concealed handguns, crime decreases, his study showed.
Plassmann, an assistant professor of economics, says he was certain that a re-examination of Lott's work would find Lott's methodology questionable and his conclusions mistaken, he said.
"I believed guns would increase crime," he said. "I had just finished a dissertation analyzing data similar to Lott's. His data are 'count data' (non-negative integers), which means that you cannot have a negative number of murders, or 2.5 robberies. If you analyze such data with standard methods, you are likely to get erroneous estimates. Because Lott had ignored this, I thought that I had a valid reason not to trust his results."
When Plassmann contacted Lott about his concerns, Lott turned his data over to Plassmann and encouraged him to re-examine the methodology and attempt to replicate the results.
"I did my own analysis," Plassmann said. "To my surprise, it suggests that the right to carry concealed handguns does deter crime. Lott's analysis has been criticized because his findings are not very stable, but our results are much more robust.
"To emphasize that a statistical analysis is valid only if the statistical model fits the data, we included a little play on words in the title of our article: Because crimes are 'countable,' you must examine them with a 'count' analysis, and not with standard methods," he added.
Plassmann and Lott are now working together on related research. They are writing a paper that examines the relationship between gun ownership and crime.
The concept of viewing crime through an economic lens actually stems from the work of Gary Becker, a Nobel Prize-winning economist, Plassmann said.
"We can see crime as the outcome of supply and demand," he noted. "If all potential victims are unarmed, crime is easy and, therefore, inexpensive. However, if potential victims are armed, crime becomes more difficult and expensive."
From the "demand" perspective, when the cost of preventing crime becomes more expensive then the "demand" to commit it, the more likely society is to let another crime happen, Plassmann said.
As a researcher, Plassmann doesn't advocate for or argue against carrying handguns, concealed or otherwise.
"I think all this analysis can do is suggest that the theory 'More guns will cause more crime' is probably not correct in this simple form," he said.
I say, "Don't let them operate on anything that they cannot replace if they mess it up!" Your eyes are too delicate and too valuable to mess with. Deal with the glasses - I do. Once you have the procedure done - there is no going back, nor can they fix a mistake. You are dealing with a device that needs to make laser guided incisions with micrometer precision on your EYES! Don't do it. I have heard of horror stories: starry vision, constant watering/itching, etc. Are contacts really out of the question?
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Don't hate yourself for saying it - First Class is an excellent package. I have a single dualie pizza box handling 3000 accounts with less than one FTE managing it. I use their mirroring tool to keep a warm box in sync. I am using ProofPoint out in front for Spam filtering. I know many whole school systems using it for all teachers and students. Thousands and thousands of accounts - and like you said, it just works. Great fat client and a good web client. IM features, VB like back-end scripting engine, and VM integration with your Nortel if you want. They also have an ActiveX control that essentailly puts the fat client in a web page. Started using it when the post office was running on a old PowerMac with AppleTalk and a DigiBoard to the Windows 2003 server it is on now 9 years later - with many of the orignal mailboxes still there, carried over through the years. Palm Pilot conduit too!
My favorite keyboard is the one I am using now - much to the constant dismay of the people who sit close to my office - my IBM Model M keybaord - manufactured Aug 1992 and still running flawlessly! Two weeks ago I pull off all the keycaps, gave them a wash, popped then back on - the thing looks brand new. Love the clickety-click! I have had this keyboard through about 7 computers and two jobs. It will probably outlive me.
Well - you are close: www.5tigers.org www.tiger.to www.tigers.co.uk Lawyers - sharpen up your pencils!
Correct - older, dead drives are not even worth trying to repair - just replace them. If they are non-functional, or flakey to begin with, you cannot be guaranteed as to the extent of whatever erase functionality they have performed.
Most of our systems are diskless clients anyway, so we do not have too many worries about local data, but not everybody has that luxury.
As a medical provider who also needs to maintain HIPAA compliance, we have decided the cost savings of RMA'ing a drive is nothing compared to the potential exposure, time the machine is down waiting for the part to come back and labor to reinstall and reimage the drive. Large capacity IDE drives are so cheap now we just put a new one in and reimage the machine.
The old drives get their platters removed, the HDA gets its motor control and data cable cut and a slight "tap" to the controller board with a hammer to damage it and its done.
It is criminal that this many people had to die - In my opinion they had an early warning - everybody (in a position to do something) knew there was an earthquake in the ocean nearby (in geologic terms). Hasn't history taught that when there in an earthquake in the ocean, that nearby tides are affected? That is why an "early warning system" was setup in the pacific. Local police and/or other authorities should have gone out and altered people to move inland. I think they had about two hours between the quake itself and when the wave came in. Granted, many people still would have died and the physical destruction would still have happenned, but a couple of thousands of people could have been saved. I am sure the logistics are mind boggling, but just some bullhorns to clear the beaches off would have done something, wouldn't it?
would essentialy become an illegal tool, since P2P once was (and in some ways still is) a key underpinning of its networking functionality?
... one can pretty much reduce their willingness to stay to a few possiblities, all negative qualities in a potential employee: Unethical: they stay because they value their income above personal ethics cowardice: they stay because they fear change more than hanging on to an ever-more untenable situation... Oh Yeah! I am sure that most of the overworked, underpaid staff who have no choice but to live from paycheck to paycheck and whose main concern is, "If I lose this job, my kids lose thier medical insurance," are just stupid, unethical or cowards. Before you jump all over this with, "I am talking about the programmers/techs, not the whole company..." Enter the real world - most people (programmers/techs/support, even admin assnt's) do not have the luxury of letting their ethics win out over a paycheck - especially when they are simply the innocent crew of a ship steered by a lunatic.
Here is age for you - I saw the thing on a BetaMax! Imagine - out in deep space and you accidently incinerated your supply of toilet paper. "Oh Man... I don't want to feed the creature." "Hey - you wanted to keep it" Excellent movie - done by John Carpenter, you know.
We cannot forget about the two great Rowdy Roddy Piper movies - "They're Among Us" and "Hell Comes to Frogtown" These are two of the best rainy Sunday afternoon movies I have ever seen. Funny, not too serious, moderate action, and babes with big boobs! What more do you need? I rank these two right behind "Tremors" as great examples of well done schlock.
SUNY-B Class of 92 - Here is the report you are talking about:
When the number of people carrying concealed handguns increases, crime decreases.
The economics of crime: Analysis suggests concealed handguns deter criminals, BU prof says
By Ingrid Husisian
That's the socially controversial finding of Binghamton University economist Florenz Plassmann and his collaborator, who used the principles of supply and demand to analyze crime rates.
Plassmann's premise was detailed in an article in the October 2001 issue of Journal of Law and Economics. The article, "Does the Right to Carry Concealed Handguns Deter Countable Crime? Only a Count Analysis Can Say," was written by Plassmann and T. Nicolaus Tideman, who was Plassmann's dissertation adviser at Virginia Tech.
Plassmann's assertion isn't the first of its ilk, but it is something of a surprise to him, he admits. In a 1997 book More Guns, Less Crime, economist John Lott similarly analyzed the relationship between the right to carry concealed handguns and the crime rate. Lott was the first to use economic principles to suggest that concealed weapons have a clear deterrent effect. If more people carry concealed handguns, crime decreases, his study showed.
Plassmann, an assistant professor of economics, says he was certain that a re-examination of Lott's work would find Lott's methodology questionable and his conclusions mistaken, he said.
"I believed guns would increase crime," he said. "I had just finished a dissertation analyzing data similar to Lott's. His data are 'count data' (non-negative integers), which means that you cannot have a negative number of murders, or 2.5 robberies. If you analyze such data with standard methods, you are likely to get erroneous estimates. Because Lott had ignored this, I thought that I had a valid reason not to trust his results."
When Plassmann contacted Lott about his concerns, Lott turned his data over to Plassmann and encouraged him to re-examine the methodology and attempt to replicate the results.
"I did my own analysis," Plassmann said. "To my surprise, it suggests that the right to carry concealed handguns does deter crime. Lott's analysis has been criticized because his findings are not very stable, but our results are much more robust.
"To emphasize that a statistical analysis is valid only if the statistical model fits the data, we included a little play on words in the title of our article: Because crimes are 'countable,' you must examine them with a 'count' analysis, and not with standard methods," he added.
Plassmann and Lott are now working together on related research. They are writing a paper that examines the relationship between gun ownership and crime.
The concept of viewing crime through an economic lens actually stems from the work of Gary Becker, a Nobel Prize-winning economist, Plassmann said.
"We can see crime as the outcome of supply and demand," he noted. "If all potential victims are unarmed, crime is easy and, therefore, inexpensive. However, if potential victims are armed, crime becomes more difficult and expensive."
From the "demand" perspective, when the cost of preventing crime becomes more expensive then the "demand" to commit it, the more likely society is to let another crime happen, Plassmann said.
As a researcher, Plassmann doesn't advocate for or argue against carrying handguns, concealed or otherwise.
"I think all this analysis can do is suggest that the theory 'More guns will cause more crime' is probably not correct in this simple form," he said.
I say, "Don't let them operate on anything that they cannot replace if they mess it up!" Your eyes are too delicate and too valuable to mess with. Deal with the glasses - I do. Once you have the procedure done - there is no going back, nor can they fix a mistake. You are dealing with a device that needs to make laser guided incisions with micrometer precision on your EYES! Don't do it. I have heard of horror stories: starry vision, constant watering/itching, etc. Are contacts really out of the question?