The drugs will be approved 10 years later and sold for $100 a pill. And in 20 years, some poorer countries will have access to them as well. If you're terminally ill, you still can't take experimental drugs unless you're in the trials.
If you're already overworked, many supposed cost cutting measures will cost more in lost productivity than they'll save in other areas.
The idea shouldn't be to cut costs. It should be to increase profit.
Think of how much your department spends on hardware and software and how much your company spends on you. Take your salary and add 1/2. If the IT employees are by far the biggest IT cost, and you're all overworked, then you really have no options to magically cut costs.
You can, however, try better to deal with the workload. Recurring problems need a permanent solution. Tasks should be handled by the right person for the job, who has time for the job, using the right tools for the job. Indecisive management is costly. You can do a whole lot with scripts, spreadsheets, and a text editor supporting regular expressions. TightVNC is good for managing desktops and servers from your desk. Webmin is good for managing a bunch of Linux/UNIX/BSD servers as a cluster.
Also, some lazy people will often manage to complete the same job with the same quality in the same amount of time or less. People often make their jobs much harder than they need to, for lack of wanting to avoid work. I've built large websites using custom site generators, of much better quality than if written by hand, found many many data entry errors using sql or even regression rather than manual inspection, prioritized data for inspection according to economic importance, used regression and other tricks to fill in missing data where only rough information was needed, and written dozens of other scripts all in the pursuit of laziness. I always look for a faster solution than brute force, and I get more done with less effort because of it.
Beyond that, you haven't given us enough information to identify your biggest costs and ways to reduce them.
They load fast though. It's live as in the entire page doesn't refresh, and you can continue moving around while it's loading. Dragging and using the +/- keys to zoom makes for pretty quick navigation.
I've seen it go both ways. I bought my own home PC from the small business section because it was slightly cheaper, about $50. My work (a small business) recently bought a PC from the home section instead because it was over $200 cheaper than in the small business section.
It may be crap, but it's humorous intentional crap, and now it's famous humorous intentional crap. It's not like a book where something tried to make something good and ended up with crap. They tried to make crap and made a masterpiece. They'll sell millions.
I'd much rather have a 70 year old grandmother handling the time consuming task of using photoshop to remove kids from child pornography than some 17 year old porn addict.
The switch to x.org was important to me, because it contains a fix that allows me to use opengl without crashing my system. And a much much greater percentage of the packages I install actually show up in the gnome menu.
The Warty Warthog was a very popular release. So they've probably had a surge of feedback and support for the Hoary release.
The upgrade was pretty painless. Just had to edit/etc/apt/sources.list and change warty to hoary. Synaptic failed and caused a mess, but running apt-get dist-upgrade cleaned it all up and finished the job, leaving me with an awesome new, slightly buggy, possibly slightly slower system with more features and no more driver related crashes.
If non-spam email remained constant, then spam growing from 60% to 80% would mean that spam has more than doubled. A 267% increase. 6/(6+4)=60% 16/(16+4)=80%.
If non-spam has increased, than spam has increased further by that. Suppose non-spam has doubled, then spam would have increased by a whopping 533%. blah blah
There is always a bigger risk. 8 character random alphanumeric is a around 40-48 bits of protection, depending on if you mix upper and lowercase (harder to remember). I've written a strong password generator here. While 8 character alphanumeric is breakable, especially at 40 bits, it's unlikely you'll encounter such perserverance. A 90 day rotation will ensure that password crackers need to re-sniff your network for login hashes every 90 days, and limit their time to take advantage of a broken password, but beyond that it's just going to ensure that more users will write down their passwords. There is no set amount of time needed to break a random password. They could break it in a day or never. A rotation isn't going to have the effect of making them start over or anything.
There are plenty of bigger risks to worry about than someone bruteforcing a password. They could get passwords by other means. They could walk up to a pc that's already logged in, and either use it immediately or install a trojan for later use. They could sniff your network. File sharing and email are usually unencrypted. They could hack your dns server so that requests go through them. An employee with priveledges could steal or alter data.
You've gotta do what everyone else does and write it down. Stick a copy in your wallet, under your keyboard, on the side of your monitor, etc. Now I'll just use my admin login to reset your password and you'll be on your way.
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I nominate this for the worst jobs in science: Examining rat colons for tumors and aberrant crypt foci.
They've been gradually converting their dialogs to embedded hta's, as in html+vbscript.
/* Could this be sped up with an insertion sort */
/* Why does this sometimes fail? */
/* FIXME: possible buffer overrun 7-21-1999 */
/* This'll teach 'em */
/* netscape tweak */
/* i m teh kulest haxxoer lolz ^-^ */
/* switch to fifo disk scheduler */
#ifndef ADVANCED_SERVER
The drugs will be approved 10 years later and sold for $100 a pill. And in 20 years, some poorer countries will have access to them as well. If you're terminally ill, you still can't take experimental drugs unless you're in the trials.
If you're already overworked, many supposed cost cutting measures will cost more in lost productivity than they'll save in other areas.
The idea shouldn't be to cut costs. It should be to increase profit.
Think of how much your department spends on hardware and software and how much your company spends on you. Take your salary and add 1/2. If the IT employees are by far the biggest IT cost, and you're all overworked, then you really have no options to magically cut costs.
You can, however, try better to deal with the workload. Recurring problems need a permanent solution. Tasks should be handled by the right person for the job, who has time for the job, using the right tools for the job. Indecisive management is costly. You can do a whole lot with scripts, spreadsheets, and a text editor supporting regular expressions. TightVNC is good for managing desktops and servers from your desk. Webmin is good for managing a bunch of Linux/UNIX/BSD servers as a cluster.
Also, some lazy people will often manage to complete the same job with the same quality in the same amount of time or less. People often make their jobs much harder than they need to, for lack of wanting to avoid work. I've built large websites using custom site generators, of much better quality than if written by hand, found many many data entry errors using sql or even regression rather than manual inspection, prioritized data for inspection according to economic importance, used regression and other tricks to fill in missing data where only rough information was needed, and written dozens of other scripts all in the pursuit of laziness. I always look for a faster solution than brute force, and I get more done with less effort because of it.
Beyond that, you haven't given us enough information to identify your biggest costs and ways to reduce them.
They load fast though. It's live as in the entire page doesn't refresh, and you can continue moving around while it's loading. Dragging and using the +/- keys to zoom makes for pretty quick navigation.
I've seen it go both ways. I bought my own home PC from the small business section because it was slightly cheaper, about $50. My work (a small business) recently bought a PC from the home section instead because it was over $200 cheaper than in the small business section.
A lot of desktops are cheaper in the home user section than in the small business section.
"He is the devil" - 7950
"She is the devil" - 751
"God is the devil" - 1130
"I am the devil" - 11200
"Foosball is the devil" - 557
It has two chapter 12's.
It may be crap, but it's humorous intentional crap, and now it's famous humorous intentional crap. It's not like a book where something tried to make something good and ended up with crap. They tried to make crap and made a masterpiece. They'll sell millions.
When will they make the movie?
I'll just search google images for "hello.jpg".
Gah! My eyes!
I'd much rather have a 70 year old grandmother handling the time consuming task of using photoshop to remove kids from child pornography than some 17 year old porn addict.
I figured I'd be flamed by the other camp if I left it out. I don't use Microsoft products except at work.
If MS wants to win, they should focus on having a quality product, and not worry so much about promoting it.
They didn't become the world's biggest software company by simply having the best quality product.
The switch to x.org was important to me, because it contains a fix that allows me to use opengl without crashing my system. And a much much greater percentage of the packages I install actually show up in the gnome menu.
/etc/apt/sources.list and change warty to hoary. Synaptic failed and caused a mess, but running apt-get dist-upgrade cleaned it all up and finished the job, leaving me with an awesome new, slightly buggy, possibly slightly slower system with more features and no more driver related crashes.
The Warty Warthog was a very popular release. So they've probably had a surge of feedback and support for the Hoary release.
The upgrade was pretty painless. Just had to edit
It had better not end with a cliffhanger.
I've crashed Windows by inserting a USB stick, repeatedly.
If non-spam email remained constant, then spam growing from 60% to 80% would mean that spam has more than doubled. A 267% increase. 6/(6+4)=60% 16/(16+4)=80%.
If non-spam has increased, than spam has increased further by that. Suppose non-spam has doubled, then spam would have increased by a whopping 533%. blah blah
There is always a bigger risk. 8 character random alphanumeric is a around 40-48 bits of protection, depending on if you mix upper and lowercase (harder to remember). I've written a strong password generator here. While 8 character alphanumeric is breakable, especially at 40 bits, it's unlikely you'll encounter such perserverance. A 90 day rotation will ensure that password crackers need to re-sniff your network for login hashes every 90 days, and limit their time to take advantage of a broken password, but beyond that it's just going to ensure that more users will write down their passwords. There is no set amount of time needed to break a random password. They could break it in a day or never. A rotation isn't going to have the effect of making them start over or anything.
There are plenty of bigger risks to worry about than someone bruteforcing a password. They could get passwords by other means. They could walk up to a pc that's already logged in, and either use it immediately or install a trojan for later use. They could sniff your network. File sharing and email are usually unencrypted. They could hack your dns server so that requests go through them. An employee with priveledges could steal or alter data.
Can you do that? Fire your own boss or another tenured employee for choosing a weak password?
"I forgot my password! It changes too often."
You've gotta do what everyone else does and write it down. Stick a copy in your wallet, under your keyboard, on the side of your monitor, etc. Now I'll just use my admin login to reset your password and you'll be on your way.
I was in the middle of checking out the site, then the story went live for non-paying members and the server just stopped responding.
gcc (try Dev-C++ on Windows) + SDL + OpenGL
It allows you to write once, compile anywhere. Plus SDL is very easy, straightforward.
If you love torture, rather than the ease of SDL, another cross platform graphics answer is Java + JNI + C++ + OpenGL. I used it for my capstone.