We host customers' intranets and email and we need a server replacement for customers that insist on having us host Exchange for the benefit of their Exchange clients. That is, I want to do just the reverse: keep the Exchange clients and replace the server for internal deployments. Oh magic 8-ball what sez you???
by Michael Crighton = about a violent antisocial criminal with psychomotor epilepsy who is given electrode implants to blunt his own seizures but learns how to give himself seizures in order to kill and cause mayhem.
I have to say I would trod on the skulls of my fallen enemies before I let this happen to me. But then again I'd toss my mother out of the lifeboat if I had to.
Hey cats n' kittens. Skip and Muffmuff here. We're the pink sweatered VC wonks from McKinseyBainSturmDrangNacht und Nebel LLC brought in to kick your commie fucking asses into shape. So here's the deal kids. We get paid. You don't. Sucks to be you. So we fucked up, so what whatcha gonna do? Hey here's an idea. Go to an Ivy League school like we did, marry well, network the shit outta everyone and get a fat juicey job with gobs of money power and trophy chicks/hunks. And then you can sit in this chair and fire someone else's ass out the door.
Now get back to work - whatever the fuck that is and be happy we don't have you killed. Which if you so much as take one fucking pen, we will.
If you're an EduMac shop now this is a good upgrade. If you are a school that wants to run Mac software this is a good upgrade. If you want machines that are easy and cheap to install and move around the 'media center' (aka library) this is a good deal. Ok the soft screen might not be so good I guess they'll get some screeen shields. If you want to have a bunch of Gateways with a dozen cables out the ass end for kids to screw with and a bunch of OFF buttons that are just going to make your life real interesting then this is a bad deal.
The only reason you need tech support any more is to get an RMA to return something. Everything else is useless. Woe to you if its a software problem because 9 times out of 10 you'll get a "we're aware of that and working on that fix for the next release.."
Because otherwise you will audit according to your own policies using whatever gaps in your policies you already have. That is, if you do it yourself you can be 100% compliant and still have very poor security if what you are auditing to is a flawed policy.
My name is Earl and my name is stitched on my jumpers. Except it's not Earl and I don't wear jumpers. My name is Phyllis and I have a plastic card key-name badge. I am a code crunching monkey who slings all day at the bottom of the food chain for asshole users and clueless fucking managers. You will never let me do it right so I will do it over. Forever. That's why I'm indispensible. Now let me get back to my soul sucking veal pen cubicle so I can shit out some more gorp you don't give two shits about whether I'm proud of it or not.
At least it's not the fucking helpdesk. Then I would drink bathroom cleaner.
Once a guy stood all day shaking bugs from his hair. The doctor told him there were no bugs in hair. After he had taken a shower for eight hours, standing under hot water hour after hour suffering the pain of the bugs, he got out and dried himself, and he still had bugs in his hair; in fact, he had bugs all over him. A month later he had bugs in his lungs.
Having nothing else to do or think about, he began to work out theoretically the life cycle of the bugs, and, with the aid of Britannica, try to determined specifically which bugs they were. They now filled his house. He read about many different kinds and finally noticed bugs outdoors, so he concluded they were aphids. After that decision came to his mind it nnever changed, no matter what other people told...like "Aphids don't bite people."
Record companies take 98% of the money out of the revenue stream either upfront or after sale. Changing the distribution mechanism would not affect musicians. Why is that? Look at price elasticity. If record companies wanted they could sell CD's for 0.25 more and pay 25 cents more royalities to artists and that would contribute more dollars to artists than trashing Napster. What if they sold CD's for 40 dollars? Would they only take 20 and give 20 to the artist? No of course not. So whether CD's cost ZERO, 20 dollars or 40 dollars - the artist is utterly unaffected.
Conversely if record companies wanted to compete with Napster by retailing CDs for 5 bucks - think of it new releases for 5 bucks - they would continue to take 98% of the money out of the stream and artists would still not get anything.
Think of it - new retail CD's for 5 bucks. The only use for burners would be to make your own party mix - unit CD sales would go back up. Of course the artists are still starving but that's a MATTER BETWEEN THE ARTIST AND THE RECORD COMPANY NOT THE ARTIST AND THE CONSUMER. I don't stipulate how UAW workers get paid to make Fords so WTF should I worry about the artists contractural relationship with the record companies??
OF course you have to assume that under typical black projects the DoE/DoD/NSA is running machines far more complex and powerful than they let on. After all SR-71s were a strategic asset 40 years ago and the performance specs are still largely classified. Similarly with computing. A
Also keep in mind that several years ago the US govt complained about the French performing nuclear testing under the rubric that they could do it all on a machine. And low and behold only a few weeks ago the DoE 'announced' that they now have the capability to do that, seemingly forgetting that it was previously announced in 1999. So in the intervening 3 years how far do you think they've come.
You know, there are scads of scientists working for the govt who could probably get on the short list for the Nobel if they were allowed to publically publish... and that's basic research. Imagine what applied engineering looks like..
Operation Infinite Loop!! paint yer server Camo. Let's see we have desert grey, desert blue, desert brown, brown, green, green brown, brown grey, granite, low contrast dusk, black grey, air superiority grey and sunday finest redneck gold
"Boeing and Lufthansa have not worked out how they will charge customers. Communications experts say they could charge by the minute or the bit."
Well let's see - voice grade phone calls are $5.00/minute. I wonder what it would cost to download that Powerpoint attachment in my email? A hundred bucks? Yeah that's what I'm thinking.
IF you want to make a big deal about the legality of EULAs don't forget that something is either a contract or it is not. In which case it may have to conform to readibility statutes including being in a language you can actually read. Time and time again, legally speaking oh libertarian one - obscurity for the sake of obscurity has been struck down in the courts under the general principal that if you have something to hide you are probably committing fraud or trying to commit fraud.
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We host customers' intranets and email and we need a server replacement for customers that insist on having us host Exchange for the benefit of their Exchange clients. That is, I want to do just the reverse: keep the Exchange clients and replace the server for internal deployments. Oh magic 8-ball what sez you???
by Michael Crighton = about a violent antisocial criminal with psychomotor epilepsy who is given electrode implants to blunt his own seizures but learns how to give himself seizures in order to kill and cause mayhem.
"A good Read !!!"
In the summer of 2000 CNN ran repeated studies and found that about 7% of the US adult population claims firsthand experience with alien abduction.
Clearly, too many of us are munching grandma's Paxil without permission.
I have to say I would trod on the skulls of my fallen enemies before I let this happen to me. But then again I'd toss my mother out of the lifeboat if I had to.
Hey cats n' kittens. Skip and Muffmuff here. We're the pink sweatered VC wonks from McKinseyBainSturmDrangNacht und Nebel LLC brought in to kick your commie fucking asses into shape. So here's the deal kids. We get paid. You don't. Sucks to be you. So we fucked up, so what whatcha gonna do? Hey here's an idea. Go to an Ivy League school like we did, marry well, network the shit outta everyone and get a fat juicey job with gobs of money power and trophy chicks/hunks. And then you can sit in this chair and fire someone else's ass out the door.
Now get back to work - whatever the fuck that is and be happy we don't have you killed. Which if you so much as take one fucking pen, we will.
If you're an EduMac shop now this is a good upgrade. If you are a school that wants to run Mac software this is a good upgrade. If you want machines that are easy and cheap to install and move around the 'media center' (aka library) this is a good deal. Ok the soft screen might not be so good I guess they'll get some screeen shields. If you want to have a bunch of Gateways with a dozen cables out the ass end for kids to screw with and a bunch of OFF buttons that are just going to make your life real interesting then this is a bad deal.
The only reason you need tech support any more is to get an RMA to return something. Everything else is useless. Woe to you if its a software problem because 9 times out of 10 you'll get a "we're aware of that and working on that fix for the next release.."
Chess: the epitome of logic, reason, thought blabbidy blabbidy blah blah.
When a machine can play deathmatch then I'll be impressed.
they're as big a part of NV history as big ass bombs
Because otherwise you will audit according to your own policies using whatever gaps in your policies you already have. That is, if you do it yourself you can be 100% compliant and still have very poor security if what you are auditing to is a flawed policy.
My name is Earl and my name is stitched on my jumpers. Except it's not Earl and I don't wear jumpers. My name is Phyllis and I have a plastic card key-name badge. I am a code crunching monkey who slings all day at the bottom of the food chain for asshole users and clueless fucking managers. You will never let me do it right so I will do it over. Forever. That's why I'm indispensible. Now let me get back to my soul sucking veal pen cubicle so I can shit out some more gorp you don't give two shits about whether I'm proud of it or not.
At least it's not the fucking helpdesk. Then I would drink bathroom cleaner.
It's not offtopic - it's just another expression of the paranoia expressed here.
Once a guy stood all day shaking bugs from his hair. The doctor told him there were no bugs in hair. After he had taken a shower for eight hours, standing under hot water hour after hour suffering the pain of the bugs, he got out and dried himself, and he still had bugs in his hair; in fact, he had bugs all over him. A month later he had bugs in his lungs.
...like "Aphids don't bite people."
Having nothing else to do or think about, he began to work out theoretically the life cycle of the bugs, and, with the aid of Britannica, try to determined specifically which bugs they were. They now filled his house. He read about many different kinds and finally noticed bugs outdoors, so he concluded they were aphids. After that decision came to his mind it nnever changed, no matter what other people told
That's like viruses. We spend millions and billions to prevent all of the viruses except the ones that fuck us up. God laughs at us.
Record companies take 98% of the money out of the revenue stream either upfront or after sale. Changing the distribution mechanism would not affect musicians. Why is that? Look at price elasticity. If record companies wanted they could sell CD's for 0.25 more and pay 25 cents more royalities to artists and that would contribute more dollars to artists than trashing Napster. What if they sold CD's for 40 dollars? Would they only take 20 and give 20 to the artist? No of course not. So whether CD's cost ZERO, 20 dollars or 40 dollars - the artist is utterly unaffected.
Conversely if record companies wanted to compete with Napster by retailing CDs for 5 bucks - think of it new releases for 5 bucks - they would continue to take 98% of the money out of the stream and artists would still not get anything.
Think of it - new retail CD's for 5 bucks. The only use for burners would be to make your own party mix - unit CD sales would go back up. Of course the artists are still starving but that's a MATTER BETWEEN THE ARTIST AND THE RECORD COMPANY NOT THE ARTIST AND THE CONSUMER. I don't stipulate how UAW workers get paid to make Fords so WTF should I worry about the artists contractural relationship with the record companies??
11 mbps is fast enough thank you but if you're going to double something then double the SNR and effective max range instead.
isn't talking about talking about Scientology gonna get the Travoltronbots after your ass?
to cut out all the bullshit.
I'm online commenting on other people online commenting about the imaginary characters of a cancelled television show.
Guess I'll suck the tailpipe now.
OF course you have to assume that under typical black projects the DoE/DoD/NSA is running machines far more complex and powerful than they let on. After all SR-71s were a strategic asset 40 years ago and the performance specs are still largely classified. Similarly with computing. A
Also keep in mind that several years ago the US govt complained about the French performing nuclear testing under the rubric that they could do it all on a machine. And low and behold only a few weeks ago the DoE 'announced' that they now have the capability to do that, seemingly forgetting that it was previously announced in 1999. So in the intervening 3 years how far do you think they've come.
You know, there are scads of scientists working for the govt who could probably get on the short list for the Nobel if they were allowed to publically publish... and that's basic research. Imagine what applied engineering looks like..
Operation Infinite Loop!! paint yer server Camo. Let's see we have desert grey, desert blue, desert brown, brown, green, green brown, brown grey, granite, low contrast dusk, black grey, air superiority grey and sunday finest redneck gold
C'mon I'm sure you can find some !!
"Boeing and Lufthansa have not worked out how they will charge customers. Communications experts say they could charge by the minute or the bit."
Well let's see - voice grade phone calls are $5.00/minute. I wonder what it would cost to download that Powerpoint attachment in my email? A hundred bucks? Yeah that's what I'm thinking.
Sounds good to me. MS is FORCING you to purchase a cheaper upgrade in lieu of just buying a more expensive non upgrade version should you want one.
IF you want to make a big deal about the legality of EULAs don't forget that something is either a contract or it is not. In which case it may have to conform to readibility statutes including being in a language you can actually read. Time and time again, legally speaking oh libertarian one - obscurity for the sake of obscurity has been struck down in the courts under the general principal that if you have something to hide you are probably committing fraud or trying to commit fraud.