Which is fine since 99% of "normal people" have never heard of J-Pop, and I doubt that Japanese IT professionals call it J-SOX.
Read the linked PDF in my earlier post. You know, the one from the company with the.jp TLD: the standard is called J-SOX throughout the document, and is used to differentiate the Japan version from the US version (called US-SOX in the PDF).
The article calls Durrington Walls a "place for the living"? The houses appear to have been abandoned while still intact, given the artefacts found within them.
For one client who is a medical service provider, I'm pretty sure that the "rights" that M$ has awarded itself via Vista's EULA are at odds with the requirements for keeping clients' medical records confidential. So until someone can provide assurances to the contrary, Vista isn't coming anywhere near their facilities.
Short answer: no worries, as Federal legislation trumps the MS EULA.
Long answer: the medical service provider is bound by law not to disclose - or expose - patient information. Even though the service provider controls the machines, it does not 100% control the information therein: Uncle Sam has some say here. Essentially the government would have to grant exceptions to healthcare legislation to allow MS to do their thing. I find this very unlikely.
I am not a lawyer, but it seems [on paper] that MS could revoke the license under these circumstances; whether they *would* is another issue.
Unless you are a consultant, you probably haven't spent time at enough different organizations in the past 5-10 years to gauge the overall industry usage of dumb terminals. (I'm not saying I know everything about all industries, but I have seen a lot of widely-varying environments.) Even if you are a consultant, if you spend time only at certain types of companies, you won't see a lot of variation.
You shouldn't conflate "call center" and "front desk at AutoZone": desktop terminal != Point of Sale (POS) system.
I did some contract work about four years ago for a small manufacturing company: all workers (factory and office) were on Citrix terminals. However, the PC model is still prevalent in most office environments: it is a known quantity, and the issues have generally been solved. Conversely, people might not be aware terminals even exist. In a lot of cases - as you mention with the general office worker - terminals might not represent enough of an improvement to justify the expense and work of moving away from the PC model.
The Soviet Union's ".su" is the leading candidate for deletion; that'll be harder to strike than ".um" -- a Google search produced more than 3 million ".su" sites.
The Google results were vetted to ensure those were 3+ million unique domains, right?
A Google search for sites from only the.su domain returned the following result:
Results 1 - 10 of about 2,670,000 for site:.su. (0.04 seconds)
I don't know what folks will do without www.jedi.su...
And, in all that time, I've yet to personally see a company actually doing it.
Obviously such companies must not exist since you have never seen them... (Sorry - I find that logical fallacy quite irksome.)
The new+improved dumb terminals are reasonably popular in call centers. The terminals offer detailed granularity over the limited and very specific needs (including required permissions) of the call center employees.
I have seen terminals that run Linux as well, and appear to be sold with the server and requisite applications as a package.
Can you tell the name of the suite you use? Or give a link? 90+% is hard to believe
I goofed: it's actually 27.5% peroxide. I use the Bioguard products.
No idea where I got the 90% number. It must have been a seat-of-the-pants WAG based on how much that stuff *burns* when it gets on one's finger... Yeeouch.
Because I always choose clorinated water to ensure the maximum corrosion in my computer's cooling system
Believe it or not, there are pool chemical suites that do not use chlorine. For example, the one I use includes a very strong (90+%) hydrogen peroxide as a sanitizer.
Even in the 80s/90s it would have been completely possible for Microsoft to support a wide range of processors ( if their OS was designed correctly )
Microsoft did do that: there was a time when NT ran on X86, DEC Alpha, and PowerPC machines. (Okay, that's not a huge range, but the point stands.)
X86s became cheaper and cheaper, and continuing development of NT on !X86 became financially infeasible due the rapidly-shrinking market share for non-PC platforms.
"George, Harrison and I are all very excited," Spielberg said, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Spielberg was actually addressing someone named George, hence the single comma. "Harrison and I are all..." refers to Spielberg's bewildering array of personalities.
"CNET have taken a look back at 30 years of Apple rumors during which we have witnessed Apple's 'rise, fall, and rise again, like a kind of technological Jesus Christ.'
I shall preface these comments by saying I have done a fair amount of business in Taiwan and northeast mainland China (primarily in Shanghai and Beijing).
1. Hotels and restaurents are not that clean. McDonalds fries are the closest thing you get to clean cooked food. They prefer to just dump living animals in boiling water enough to kill them, not cook. This approach is not to our liking. And it smells horrible.
I don't know about the smell, but if you stay in a decent hotel you won't have these problems. Marriott and Shangri-la have several sites in major cities, and will provide a more Western-style approach.
2. Take enough ready-cooked food with you (Batchelor soup packets, noodles), etc.
Chinese food is NOT chinese take-away in US. You would be surprised at what they eat.
Again, if you cannot find Western-style (or other non-Chinese) food you are not looking. Noodle packages are readily available in corner shops, so it would be silly to bring them along.
4. USD is NOT universal currency here. RMB is their national currency, and they don;t accept USD at all sundry shops. Don't expect the Hotel to change your USD.
Bollocks. Hotels and banks are the only recommended places to exchange currency. Not only are they reputable (and accountable) locations, but they will provide a receipt for the exchange itself. Hint: you will need this receipt as proof of a legal transaction if you want to change the currency back when you leave.
5. Banks do change USD to RMB but be prepared have official delays, lunch, etc., Be prepared to spend atleast 2 hours in changing money.
Also wrong. If you present your passport and the currency to exchange, the transaction should take only a few minutes. I have exchanged currency quite a few times, and have never spent more than ten minutes doing so (unless that time was spent in casual conversation).
8. Make sure your contact there is a high-ranking official who has subordinates reporting to him. That way you can be sure he would assign some subordinates to "guide" you around. These people are your only friends in China.
They would buy you lunch and dinner as they would be instructed. Do Not stop them and offer to pay as its an insult.
If these people are your only friends in China you are doing something wrong (e.g. acting like a lout). The "subordinate" will likely have instructions to take you to lunch, but offering to pay is not an insult; in fact, you will gain face with the customer if you do so [in a respectful fashion - don't act as if you are throwing money around].
9. Bargain at electronic shops a lot and visit malls WITH a Mandarin-speaking local.
Learn some basic Mandarin and do your own bargaining: you will get better results.:-)
All in all, it sounds like you had one short and unpleasant trip to China (and stayed in a substandard hotel). However, one should not extrapolate from a single data point, particularly when the results of that extrapolation are demonstrably incorrect.
Overall, LinuxWorld was a decent show, if a bit lacking in excitement. The quality of the talks was down a bit this year, with a Kroah-Hartman's talk Thursday being one of the obvious exceptions.
Ouch.
The next LinuxWorld will be held in New York, February 14-15, 2007.
A "Dongle" is a hardware license. that is, an adapter/ chip that plugs into a PC/ Server/ Whatever that verifies a license
Yes, that is one definition. However, the PCMCIA and CardBus network adapters (used way-back-when before laptops had built-in Ethernet) would often consist of two parts: the card itself that was inserted into the slot; and the dongle, which connected the card to the RJ-45. I have a handful of those NICs sitting around: D-Link, 3Com, and Xircom all made them, although in Xircom's case I don't remember if the dongle pre- or post-dated the X-Jack.
Mostly because it IS a reliable source of information.
It will not be a reliable source until there is some sort of thorough vetting process to ensure people who write about topic X actually have some background in topic X.
but I ask here on/. because I like the push-pull of human interaction and info
No, you ask on/. because you are too lazy and/or ignorant to do the modicum of work required to find info on your own.
Like your useless post.
You mean the post that told you exactly how to find UWB info in your precious Wikipedia (when you were obviously stumped)? The post that you completely failed to comprehend even though it directly answered your question? Wow.
Anybody know this yet? I can't find it on wikipedia...
Why do people insist on treating Wikipedia as a reliable source of information?? Use your favorite search engine, find an authoritative source, and be on your way.
A quick Google search for "UWB" && "ultra wide band" reveals a number of good sources, including Intel and the UWB Forum. But hey, since those apparently aren't good enough, Wikipedia is the second link on the first page of results. Go nuts.
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Which is fine since 99% of "normal people" have never heard of J-Pop, and I doubt that Japanese IT professionals call it J-SOX.
Read the linked PDF in my earlier post. You know, the one from the company with the
There is a J-SOX* FAQ here. Note: this is a PDF. I have no affiliation w/ the company.
* "J-SOX"? I suppose it makes sense, but sounds too much like "J-pop".
Jean Louis Gassée
who joined us at Google and
gave words of support
The article calls Durrington Walls a "place for the living"? The houses appear to have been abandoned while still intact, given the artefacts found within them.
Silly question: where did everyone go?
For one client who is a medical service provider, I'm pretty sure that the "rights" that M$ has awarded itself via Vista's EULA are at odds with the requirements for keeping clients' medical records confidential. So until someone can provide assurances to the contrary, Vista isn't coming anywhere near their facilities.
Short answer: no worries, as Federal legislation trumps the MS EULA.
Long answer: the medical service provider is bound by law not to disclose - or expose - patient information. Even though the service provider controls the machines, it does not 100% control the information therein: Uncle Sam has some say here. Essentially the government would have to grant exceptions to healthcare legislation to allow MS to do their thing. I find this very unlikely.
I am not a lawyer, but it seems [on paper] that MS could revoke the license under these circumstances; whether they *would* is another issue.
Feb 1st, 9am: Vista crash ruins breakfast for millions
I'll be safe: my toaster runs NetBSD.
had-an-accident-then.su
coffee-too-hot-well.su
cannot-run-command-as-unprivileged-user-then.su ?
Unless you are a consultant, you probably haven't spent time at enough different organizations in the past 5-10 years to gauge the overall industry usage of dumb terminals. (I'm not saying I know everything about all industries, but I have seen a lot of widely-varying environments.) Even if you are a consultant, if you spend time only at certain types of companies, you won't see a lot of variation.
You shouldn't conflate "call center" and "front desk at AutoZone": desktop terminal != Point of Sale (POS) system.
I did some contract work about four years ago for a small manufacturing company: all workers (factory and office) were on Citrix terminals. However, the PC model is still prevalent in most office environments: it is a known quantity, and the issues have generally been solved. Conversely, people might not be aware terminals even exist. In a lot of cases - as you mention with the general office worker - terminals might not represent enough of an improvement to justify the expense and work of moving away from the PC model.
From the linked article:
.su domain returned the following result:
The Soviet Union's ".su" is the leading candidate for deletion; that'll be harder to strike than ".um" -- a Google search produced more than 3 million ".su" sites.
The Google results were vetted to ensure those were 3+ million unique domains, right?
A Google search for sites from only the
Results 1 - 10 of about 2,670,000 for site:.su. (0.04 seconds)
I don't know what folks will do without www.jedi.su...
And, in all that time, I've yet to personally see a company actually doing it.
Obviously such companies must not exist since you have never seen them... (Sorry - I find that logical fallacy quite irksome.)
The new+improved dumb terminals are reasonably popular in call centers. The terminals offer detailed granularity over the limited and very specific needs (including required permissions) of the call center employees.
I have seen terminals that run Linux as well, and appear to be sold with the server and requisite applications as a package.
Company Vice Chairman Robert Lutz said in a statement that more than half of Americans live less than 20 miles from their workplace.
Is this actually true? I would like to ask Mr. Lutz for a cite or three to back this assertion.
What are you supposed to do when you telnet into a machine and need to edit a file?
You should poke yourself in the eye with a sharp stick for using telnet instead of ssh.
Can you tell the name of the suite you use? Or give a link? 90+% is hard to believe
I goofed: it's actually 27.5% peroxide. I use the Bioguard products.
No idea where I got the 90% number. It must have been a seat-of-the-pants WAG based on how much that stuff *burns* when it gets on one's finger... Yeeouch.
Because I always choose clorinated water to ensure the maximum corrosion in my computer's cooling system
Believe it or not, there are pool chemical suites that do not use chlorine. For example, the one I use includes a very strong (90+%) hydrogen peroxide as a sanitizer.
Even in the 80s/90s it would have been completely possible for Microsoft to support a wide range of processors ( if their OS was designed correctly )
Microsoft did do that: there was a time when NT ran on X86, DEC Alpha, and PowerPC machines. (Okay, that's not a huge range, but the point stands.)
X86s became cheaper and cheaper, and continuing development of NT on !X86 became financially infeasible due the rapidly-shrinking market share for non-PC platforms.
"George, Harrison and I are all very excited," Spielberg said, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Spielberg was actually addressing someone named George, hence the single comma. "Harrison and I are all..." refers to Spielberg's bewildering array of personalities.
"CNET have taken a look back at 30 years of Apple rumors during which we have witnessed Apple's 'rise, fall, and rise again, like a kind of technological Jesus Christ.'
Or, you know, like a yo-yo.
NVIDIA announced this week along with its new wicked fast GeForce 8800 release the first C-compiler environment for the GPU
"Wicked fast" GPU? And a compiler?
Sounds like a Boston C Party.
It re-opens the classic debate about the total cost of ownership
I must have missed something: when was this debate closed?
I shall preface these comments by saying I have done a fair amount of business in Taiwan and northeast mainland China (primarily in Shanghai and Beijing).
1. Hotels and restaurents are not that clean. McDonalds fries are the closest thing you get to clean cooked food. They prefer to just dump living animals in boiling water enough to kill them, not cook. This approach is not to our liking. And it smells horrible.
I don't know about the smell, but if you stay in a decent hotel you won't have these problems. Marriott and Shangri-la have several sites in major cities, and will provide a more Western-style approach.
2. Take enough ready-cooked food with you (Batchelor soup packets, noodles), etc. Chinese food is NOT chinese take-away in US. You would be surprised at what they eat.
Again, if you cannot find Western-style (or other non-Chinese) food you are not looking. Noodle packages are readily available in corner shops, so it would be silly to bring them along.
4. USD is NOT universal currency here. RMB is their national currency, and they don;t accept USD at all sundry shops. Don't expect the Hotel to change your USD.
Bollocks. Hotels and banks are the only recommended places to exchange currency. Not only are they reputable (and accountable) locations, but they will provide a receipt for the exchange itself. Hint: you will need this receipt as proof of a legal transaction if you want to change the currency back when you leave.
5. Banks do change USD to RMB but be prepared have official delays, lunch, etc., Be prepared to spend atleast 2 hours in changing money.
Also wrong. If you present your passport and the currency to exchange, the transaction should take only a few minutes. I have exchanged currency quite a few times, and have never spent more than ten minutes doing so (unless that time was spent in casual conversation).
8. Make sure your contact there is a high-ranking official who has subordinates reporting to him. That way you can be sure he would assign some subordinates to "guide" you around. These people are your only friends in China. They would buy you lunch and dinner as they would be instructed. Do Not stop them and offer to pay as its an insult.
If these people are your only friends in China you are doing something wrong (e.g. acting like a lout). The "subordinate" will likely have instructions to take you to lunch, but offering to pay is not an insult; in fact, you will gain face with the customer if you do so [in a respectful fashion - don't act as if you are throwing money around].
9. Bargain at electronic shops a lot and visit malls WITH a Mandarin-speaking local.
Learn some basic Mandarin and do your own bargaining: you will get better results.
All in all, it sounds like you had one short and unpleasant trip to China (and stayed in a substandard hotel). However, one should not extrapolate from a single data point, particularly when the results of that extrapolation are demonstrably incorrect.
From the article:
Overall, LinuxWorld was a decent show, if a bit lacking in excitement. The quality of the talks was down a bit this year, with a Kroah-Hartman's talk Thursday being one of the obvious exceptions.
Ouch.
The next LinuxWorld will be held in New York, February 14-15, 2007.
So get those tickets early, folks!
A "Dongle" is a hardware license. that is, an adapter/ chip that plugs into a PC/ Server/ Whatever that verifies a license
Yes, that is one definition. However, the PCMCIA and CardBus network adapters (used way-back-when before laptops had built-in Ethernet) would often consist of two parts: the card itself that was inserted into the slot; and the dongle, which connected the card to the RJ-45. I have a handful of those NICs sitting around: D-Link, 3Com, and Xircom all made them, although in Xircom's case I don't remember if the dongle pre- or post-dated the X-Jack.
Mostly because it IS a reliable source of information.
It will not be a reliable source until there is some sort of thorough vetting process to ensure people who write about topic X actually have some background in topic X.
but I ask here on
No, you ask on
Like your useless post.
You mean the post that told you exactly how to find UWB info in your precious Wikipedia (when you were obviously stumped)? The post that you completely failed to comprehend even though it directly answered your question? Wow.
Nothing says "megafunction gadget" like a monochrome Palm, a nut, and an old motherboard.
Is this the next installment in the MacGyver Challenge?
Anybody know this yet? I can't find it on wikipedia...
Why do people insist on treating Wikipedia as a reliable source of information?? Use your favorite search engine, find an authoritative source, and be on your way.
A quick Google search for "UWB" && "ultra wide band" reveals a number of good sources, including Intel and the UWB Forum. But hey, since those apparently aren't good enough, Wikipedia is the second link on the first page of results. Go nuts.