Indeed wrong.
Any (legal) activities they do in the course of their work, under the instruction of their management is considered to the fault of Management, and the company as a whole.
This does have limits of course, for example if I told you to rob a bank, and you actually did it, I expect that BOTH of us would end up in jail.
In this case, where the employee is not properly retaining documents, any auditor would be asking for the corp retention policy. And if that policy states that the employees are respnsible for it, and you did not provide adequate resources (disk space, tape drives, TRAINING) to allow them to do that, the management team would be held liable.
In fact, you have to expect that no matter what the policy it is the management teams fault for any and all failures, as they have the ultimate say in how things get done.
I pay a hell of a lot more than $15 a month for cable TV. That does not make me want to watch it ALL the time, and I am well aware that I am buying channels that I never, ever watch. It doesn't bother me in the slightest.
If they get a working Fusion reactor eventually from this investment, I would say that it is certainly better than spending the money on wind and solar research.
A working fusion reactor is the key to a nearly limitless supply of energy for the entire planet, and one that is desperately needed.
The answer to this is to have the PLAYERS create the content.
I don't mean in a Second Life kind of way, which I personally find very boring. I mean in a way where player and groups of players can change the political scene, move boundaries of empires and manage a complete, highly complicated economic system.
The only game I have found so far that even approaches the goal of the "Player Driven Universe" is Eve-Online.
I think the key component in the games success is that the entire game runs on a single "instance" of the universe. You can interact with all of the other (150k) players of the game. This allows the players to create very large Alliances which can control ground and change the politics of huge swaths of space.
The economic system is the same way, with only a very small percentage of the market being controlled by NPC characters. Many characters spend their lives just trading goods in a rich marketplace, or constructing ships. Other players might mine for the goods required to build those ships. Still other characters are buying cheap produced goods to reprocess for those same basic elements. Its a very complicated and intertwined economic model, which is very captivating and engrossing.
Building skills in Eve-Online is also completely different from most other games. Training skills is a real time activity, meaning it will take you x number of DAYS to train a skill. It doesn't matter if you are logged in 60 hours a week or only play 5 hours a month, you can keep progressing in the game, and you won't fall far behind other less active players. Of course if you play a lot you will meet more people, which are the true resources in Eve-Online, which pretty much requires a strong social network for success.
All of these elements combined really make Eve-Online the Anti-WOW.
Why would oracle want to do this. You'll need 10x less hardware for your database. And Oracle makes money based on the size of the hardware that you use.
Making thier product faster, will actually reduce their profits. Thusly, it will never happen as you said.
To break the fairplay work-alike that he has implemented, Apple might have to update the firmware on the iPods themselves. Even after that, Jon might have done a good enough job to make his protected content look exactly like Apple suplied content. At that point, Apple will have to decide to break all the older content/iPods, or deal with it.
I imagine that this will eventually push Apple into licensing FairPlay to other content producers, but they will _never_ license FairPlay for new competing hardware devices.
The problem, as I see it is that since a huge majority of power supplies are not specified directly to match the needs to the motherboard, there are excesses.
The power supply might have a setup capable of generating many amps of power in the 5v range, but only using a very small percentage, since the motherboard manufacturer is using the +12v lead or whatever. It is also more complicated to build a power supply that provides a variety of voltages.
So, since almost all motherboards are already managing and tweaking their power on-board, you might as well take advantage of that. Let the people who make the circuits also provide a power supply that is matched to that load. In this way, you will never be generating power on voltages that are un-needed.
Then the motherboard can just accept a single 12v feed, and generate the voltages at levels that it needs.
Certainly not. I doubt apple will ever sell a DVR type solution.
Instead, Apple wants you to cancel your cable/tv/satelite subscription and download all your TV, Movies and music from the iTunes store.
The interesting part is that it may actually end up being cheaper, and there would eventually be more instant-access content.
Its going to be interesting to see if Apple can become a supplier of all Music, TV, Radio (podcasts) and Movies to a significant percentage of the worlds population. They have as good, or better, of a shot at it than any other company right now, but we all know how fast things can change in the technology world. One thing is sure, with Jobs Disney connection, and Apples hardware they are going to be a tough combo to beat.
People keep jumping all over companies over their stupidity in incidents like this one.
Really I am shocked that it does not happen (or at least doesn't get reported) more often. All it takes is one stupid employee, or one mis-run report and hundreds of tapes can end up anywhere.
Companies in the Fortune 500, let alone finanical institutions in the Fortune 50 have hundreds of thousands of backup tapes. These tapes do eventually wear out and need to be replaced. Typically, you would destroy the tapes onsite before discarding them, but sometimes an outside vendor (Iron Mountain for example) could be retained to destroy the tapes for you. Also, hundreds of tapes are sent offsite and recieved each day, possibly to dozens of facilities. Tracking each and every tape is a laudable goal, but eventually, any system, especially those involving people, can break down.
Companies find a balance, where they are spending a certain amount of capital to protect this data, while still being able to remain competitive. If Chase had to hire a security guard to watch each tape, their stockholders would riot and they would be sunk. On the other hand, if they are not paying attention to the security, it gets noticably lost, and this too costs the company money. Its not all or nothing, and nothing is perfect. Chase, as well as every other large company in the country is working hard, but not too hard to protect your privacy.
This is good as it provides customers with a nice balance of decent prices, good services and a respectable level of privacy. If you concentrate too much on privacy, costs increase and it becomes harder to serve your customers. While some people would pay more for extra security over their information, this is probably a small minority in todays Wal-Mart world.
The hard part is finding the place where everything balances well.
So, while I am sure heads are rolling at Chase, I am not horribly mad at them (I am a customer of theirs, but have not recieved a letter). I understand how things like this can happen.
Yes, just because a google search for "Windows 2003 workstation" only returns hundreds of related hits, and the very first is the guide I used, I must be spewing bullshit.
I used to think that XP was the cats meow, until I installed Windows Server 2003. Using a few simple tweaks to turn it into a workstation class install, with DirectX acceleration and everything else that you would expect.
I could not be happier. My FPS has gone up in games that I play, I barely ever have to reboot to change anything and all my hardware is very well supported. Its very easy to disable services and processes you don't need, and in the end my 2003 install boots faster, and uses less RAM at idle than my XP install did.
Everyone with a copy of Server 2003 (MSDN, ActionPack Owners, Pirates!) should make a go of installing it on your main workstation. It really is very, very good.
This is not always the case. I do not know how the Navigator works, but in the case of my Dodge Neon SRT4, the dealership is NOT able to make a key without having the car physically present. They can't just look in a database and cut a new key for you, they have to make the new key and then teach the car to recognize it.
I am sure that enterprising thieves could, given enough time, get around this, but it does make me more comfortable.
Some people _only_ play the trading and production aspects in eve.
The production chain for some of the more advanced products in Eve (tech2 Heavy Assault Cruisers) for example require 10s of Billions of isk (isk == in game cash) and a variety of parts and pieces sourced from other players across the galaxy.
It would be possible to run a character who never leaves the station, instead using your trading, research, production and retail skills to make a mint with no danger.
Or you could pilot a gigantic freighter from startbase to starbase trading resources and building a commercial empire. Remember the entire market (for the most part) in Eve is driven by the players.
It has a free two week trial, so no reason not to give it a go.
The other hidden advantage here is storage density. If for some reason you needed 1PB of data storage in as small a space as possible, this is a big win for you. You would need about 45 of these servers to get 1PB of capacity. That would fit nicely into less than 5 racks of space, with room to spare for your networking and monitoring gear. A 1PB EMC Symmetrix is going to be a _LOT_ bigger.
No other storage platform has higher density (that I am aware of). Power use is good but not amazing (look at Petabox) and price is excellent for the size, but loses out as you scale.
Overall, I am stoked on them and want to try using them as backup servers. Attach one or two LTO3s and a couple 10gbs ethernet cards and you have everything you need! You can spew data over the network from the clients and then spend the whole day making very good use of your tape drive resources.
1. Space: We can now build vertically (Sky-Scrapers) taking population densities over 100,000 people/sq. mile very possible.
2. Food: Increases in technology have dramtically effected the productivity of our agricultural systems. It is very possible to support the nutritional needs of the entire planet with a small percentage of its overal land area. Wether that food makes it to those who need it is another issue.
3. Energy: Once again, humans have used technology to increase the amount of energy available to us. I'd expect this trend to continue forwards, providing each human more overall energy than past generations.
Sure, none of these will continue to increase forever, but certainly the next 100 years are taken care of.
"President Bush has issued an executive order whose effect is to undo the previous Kelo decision of the Supreme Court. From the article: 'It is the policy of the United States to protect the rights of Americans to their private property, including by limiting the taking of private property by the Federal Government to situations in which the taking is for public use, with just compensation, and for the purpose of benefiting the general public and not merely for the purpose of advancing the economic interest of private parties to be given ownership or use of the property taken.' The downside is that what was once affirmed consitutionally is now affirmed only in federal law."
God Damn, President Bush can never get anything right. I can't believe he is trying to overturn the power of the courts with this balancing action from another branch of the government.
Oh wait. I guess he did something good here. Darn, going to get moderated for pointing that out:)
This issue is happening to a very small percentage of the Liquid Cooled G5's out there. I agree with you that it is unacceptable, but compare the failure rates to those of other liquid cooled PCs out there. I am sure that you will find that Apple has managed to make a system that is many times more reliable than the rest of the industry.
C is a lot easier to debug, is dramatically faster, and gives the developer a lot more control over memory allocations, which can result in orders of magnitude performance improvement when you start running into paging stress from poor garbage collection in Perl or PHP. Sadly, all those benefits are only helpful if you don't have to spend days debugging some buffer overflow bug. or trying to figure out why some random function in a library that will remain nameless returns NULL out of the blue (with no error codes).
What is cheaper now, a 2gb RAM stick or 100 hours of good low-level programmer time?
Blah, Lock-In is something that people are used to by now.
Besides, they are not locked-in to a single product, they have a range of sizes and colors to pick from, and they are constantly being upgraded. What more could you average clueless consumer want?
If the day comes and Apple magically switches off all the iPods in the world, about 85% of the people would download the little iPodDRMScrubber app or whatever. The other 15% don't care, as they will just re-purchase their music again, just like Records, Tapes, CDs and now digital music. This isn't the first time entire music libraries were made obsolete.
And if you call one group and ask "Do you support the NSA working with telecom providers to monitor hundreds of millions of Americans?" and you as the other group "Do you support the NSA tracking call details, such as length of call and who was called, without recording any conversations?" You will get two differing answers.
The real problem is that the American public is not closely following the story, and are getting limited and misleading information from many sources. Common really:)
Slashdot Mirror
Indeed wrong.
Any (legal) activities they do in the course of their work, under the instruction of their management is considered to the fault of Management, and the company as a whole.
This does have limits of course, for example if I told you to rob a bank, and you actually did it, I expect that BOTH of us would end up in jail.
In this case, where the employee is not properly retaining documents, any auditor would be asking for the corp retention policy. And if that policy states that the employees are respnsible for it, and you did not provide adequate resources (disk space, tape drives, TRAINING) to allow them to do that, the management team would be held liable.
In fact, you have to expect that no matter what the policy it is the management teams fault for any and all failures, as they have the ultimate say in how things get done.
I pay a hell of a lot more than $15 a month for cable TV. That does not make me want to watch it ALL the time, and I am well aware that I am buying channels that I never, ever watch. It doesn't bother me in the slightest.
A working fusion reactor is the key to a nearly limitless supply of energy for the entire planet, and one that is desperately needed.
I don't mean in a Second Life kind of way, which I personally find very boring. I mean in a way where player and groups of players can change the political scene, move boundaries of empires and manage a complete, highly complicated economic system.
The only game I have found so far that even approaches the goal of the "Player Driven Universe" is Eve-Online.
I think the key component in the games success is that the entire game runs on a single "instance" of the universe. You can interact with all of the other (150k) players of the game. This allows the players to create very large Alliances which can control ground and change the politics of huge swaths of space.
The economic system is the same way, with only a very small percentage of the market being controlled by NPC characters. Many characters spend their lives just trading goods in a rich marketplace, or constructing ships. Other players might mine for the goods required to build those ships. Still other characters are buying cheap produced goods to reprocess for those same basic elements. Its a very complicated and intertwined economic model, which is very captivating and engrossing.
Building skills in Eve-Online is also completely different from most other games. Training skills is a real time activity, meaning it will take you x number of DAYS to train a skill. It doesn't matter if you are logged in 60 hours a week or only play 5 hours a month, you can keep progressing in the game, and you won't fall far behind other less active players. Of course if you play a lot you will meet more people, which are the true resources in Eve-Online, which pretty much requires a strong social network for success.
All of these elements combined really make Eve-Online the Anti-WOW.
Shoot a couple of the Nvida G80 based GPUs should do the trick just as well :)
Making thier product faster, will actually reduce their profits. Thusly, it will never happen as you said.
I imagine that this will eventually push Apple into licensing FairPlay to other content producers, but they will _never_ license FairPlay for new competing hardware devices.
The power supply might have a setup capable of generating many amps of power in the 5v range, but only using a very small percentage, since the motherboard manufacturer is using the +12v lead or whatever. It is also more complicated to build a power supply that provides a variety of voltages.
So, since almost all motherboards are already managing and tweaking their power on-board, you might as well take advantage of that. Let the people who make the circuits also provide a power supply that is matched to that load. In this way, you will never be generating power on voltages that are un-needed.
Then the motherboard can just accept a single 12v feed, and generate the voltages at levels that it needs.
When using an efficient electric motor, powered by the internal capacitors, I suspect that you'd be able to see efficiencies of 50% or greater.
So now you only need .45 MW to charge the car. Still an ungodly amount though.
Sony should just charge you for the virtual 'gas' your car consumes.
Certainly not. I doubt apple will ever sell a DVR type solution.
Instead, Apple wants you to cancel your cable/tv/satelite subscription and download all your TV, Movies and music from the iTunes store.
The interesting part is that it may actually end up being cheaper, and there would eventually be more instant-access content.
Its going to be interesting to see if Apple can become a supplier of all Music, TV, Radio (podcasts) and Movies to a significant percentage of the worlds population. They have as good, or better, of a shot at it than any other company right now, but we all know how fast things can change in the technology world. One thing is sure, with Jobs Disney connection, and Apples hardware they are going to be a tough combo to beat.
Really I am shocked that it does not happen (or at least doesn't get reported) more often. All it takes is one stupid employee, or one mis-run report and hundreds of tapes can end up anywhere.
Companies in the Fortune 500, let alone finanical institutions in the Fortune 50 have hundreds of thousands of backup tapes. These tapes do eventually wear out and need to be replaced. Typically, you would destroy the tapes onsite before discarding them, but sometimes an outside vendor (Iron Mountain for example) could be retained to destroy the tapes for you. Also, hundreds of tapes are sent offsite and recieved each day, possibly to dozens of facilities. Tracking each and every tape is a laudable goal, but eventually, any system, especially those involving people, can break down.
Companies find a balance, where they are spending a certain amount of capital to protect this data, while still being able to remain competitive. If Chase had to hire a security guard to watch each tape, their stockholders would riot and they would be sunk. On the other hand, if they are not paying attention to the security, it gets noticably lost, and this too costs the company money. Its not all or nothing, and nothing is perfect. Chase, as well as every other large company in the country is working hard, but not too hard to protect your privacy.
This is good as it provides customers with a nice balance of decent prices, good services and a respectable level of privacy. If you concentrate too much on privacy, costs increase and it becomes harder to serve your customers. While some people would pay more for extra security over their information, this is probably a small minority in todays Wal-Mart world.
The hard part is finding the place where everything balances well.
So, while I am sure heads are rolling at Chase, I am not horribly mad at them (I am a customer of theirs, but have not recieved a letter). I understand how things like this can happen.
Try this: http://win2k3.msfn.org/
I could not be happier. My FPS has gone up in games that I play, I barely ever have to reboot to change anything and all my hardware is very well supported. Its very easy to disable services and processes you don't need, and in the end my 2003 install boots faster, and uses less RAM at idle than my XP install did.
Everyone with a copy of Server 2003 (MSDN, ActionPack Owners, Pirates!) should make a go of installing it on your main workstation. It really is very, very good.
I am sure that enterprising thieves could, given enough time, get around this, but it does make me more comfortable.
The production chain for some of the more advanced products in Eve (tech2 Heavy Assault Cruisers) for example require 10s of Billions of isk (isk == in game cash) and a variety of parts and pieces sourced from other players across the galaxy.
It would be possible to run a character who never leaves the station, instead using your trading, research, production and retail skills to make a mint with no danger.
Or you could pilot a gigantic freighter from startbase to starbase trading resources and building a commercial empire. Remember the entire market (for the most part) in Eve is driven by the players.
It has a free two week trial, so no reason not to give it a go.
The other hidden advantage here is storage density. If for some reason you needed 1PB of data storage in as small a space as possible, this is a big win for you. You would need about 45 of these servers to get 1PB of capacity. That would fit nicely into less than 5 racks of space, with room to spare for your networking and monitoring gear. A 1PB EMC Symmetrix is going to be a _LOT_ bigger.
No other storage platform has higher density (that I am aware of). Power use is good but not amazing (look at Petabox) and price is excellent for the size, but loses out as you scale.
Overall, I am stoked on them and want to try using them as backup servers. Attach one or two LTO3s and a couple 10gbs ethernet cards and you have everything you need! You can spew data over the network from the clients and then spend the whole day making very good use of your tape drive resources.
1. Space: We can now build vertically (Sky-Scrapers) taking population densities over 100,000 people/sq. mile very possible.
2. Food: Increases in technology have dramtically effected the productivity of our agricultural systems. It is very possible to support the nutritional needs of the entire planet with a small percentage of its overal land area. Wether that food makes it to those who need it is another issue.
3. Energy: Once again, humans have used technology to increase the amount of energy available to us. I'd expect this trend to continue forwards, providing each human more overall energy than past generations.
Sure, none of these will continue to increase forever, but certainly the next 100 years are taken care of.
God Damn, President Bush can never get anything right. I can't believe he is trying to overturn the power of the courts with this balancing action from another branch of the government.
Oh wait. I guess he did something good here. Darn, going to get moderated for pointing that out :)
This issue is happening to a very small percentage of the Liquid Cooled G5's out there. I agree with you that it is unacceptable, but compare the failure rates to those of other liquid cooled PCs out there. I am sure that you will find that Apple has managed to make a system that is many times more reliable than the rest of the industry.
What is cheaper now, a 2gb RAM stick or 100 hours of good low-level programmer time?
You know there are other free alternatives for creating PDF files on the windows platform besides Adobe Std. Edition, right?
Besides, they are not locked-in to a single product, they have a range of sizes and colors to pick from, and they are constantly being upgraded. What more could you average clueless consumer want?
If the day comes and Apple magically switches off all the iPods in the world, about 85% of the people would download the little iPodDRMScrubber app or whatever. The other 15% don't care, as they will just re-purchase their music again, just like Records, Tapes, CDs and now digital music. This isn't the first time entire music libraries were made obsolete.
You can configure the amount of space set aside for this disk function.
The real problem is that the American public is not closely following the story, and are getting limited and misleading information from many sources. Common really :)