Don't payroll systems have some sort of grade/level field? To use an [armoured] car analogy, at least you'd know who was a private and who was a general.
A big company is going to be big enough to gain from economies of scale.
A smaller company not so much. You can't buy half a server, and a top notch machine doesn't require twice as many admins as one half the power. It makes more sense for them. It's a way of pooling resources, in a way.
I used to work for a transportation company. They had two mainframes, one in the midlands and one in the north. Any app was primary on one and secondary on the other.
It wasn't instant failover but had one gone down operations would have been up within an hour or two[1], not down for two days.
I've worked at smaller companies that had a similar setup with unix boxen.
[1] No, most of the delay was *not* while we loaded boxes of punch cards onto stagecoaches.
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Wrong. His word was plagiarism.
Randy Katz? Throw a bucket of water on them!
It'll be the awesome recession.
For now. St Theresa will deliver us from such barmy Belgian bureaucracy!
You can put it on your lap, can't you?
He went, but he didn't stick with it. Just wasn't cut out for it, I guess.
No, you're a slashdot editor.
FTFY.
Debtors? LOL.
No I won't, you fat git.
Is that you, Kryten?
At teh risk of being whooshed, I was thinking about the component that cost rather more than that and didn't come from Honest Ali's Emporium.
Luxury! We got 20% knocked off our currency and half our economy's upping sticks and heading Frogside.
24V used to be common on heavy commercial vehicles, and some military stuff.
But that was so long ago that I not only know what a carburettor is, I can replace or adjust one.
What? You've never heard of LOC/day?
Don't payroll systems have some sort of grade/level field? To use an [armoured] car analogy, at least you'd know who was a private and who was a general.
If that's how you react when people agree with you you can just fuck off.
There's no form of overcurrent protection anywhere? Not even a fuse?
Not sure why it would generate keypresses. Do you have lots of badly-behaved cats?
A big company is going to be big enough to gain from economies of scale.
A smaller company not so much. You can't buy half a server, and a top notch machine doesn't require twice as many admins as one half the power. It makes more sense for them. It's a way of pooling resources, in a way.
I'd say BA is big.
I used to work for a transportation company. They had two mainframes, one in the midlands and one in the north. Any app was primary on one and secondary on the other.
It wasn't instant failover but had one gone down operations would have been up within an hour or two[1], not down for two days.
I've worked at smaller companies that had a similar setup with unix boxen.
[1] No, most of the delay was *not* while we loaded boxes of punch cards onto stagecoaches.
A scale.
Do keyboards weigh that much that it's worth removing it?
The best government money can buy!
Isn't ad hominem literally sexist?