I'm a consultant, so I'm in and out of about a dozen companies' IT departments every year. What I've found is that there is this imaginary pendulum that swings between the environment being user-driven vs. being IT department dictated. The pendulum is always somewhere between, and it's always moving in one direction or the other. The more user-driven you are, the more support staff is required to keep everything running because each department is using software of their own choosing that the poor IT department has to get to interact with some other software for some other department (this is common in healthcare and academia). When an organization is highly standardized and driven by IT, you can operate with fewer IT folks and lower costs, but the users are miserable and surly (this is common in manufacturing and government). Thus, the pendulum swings back and forth from comfort to efficiency because you can rarely have both. IT staff size ebbs and flows accordingly, except in some organizations where no one ever leaves or gets fired, but no one updates their skill sets, so they always have to hire more people to take on the new projects that come along (also common in government).
Where I hope to see this go is larger flash memory on the mother board, to the end that your corporate base OS image, and all of your application source installation files are stored on it. I would also see it going to the point where you can perform a data backup to the flash memory.
If you lost a hard drive or had to reimage this would be very useful for a mobile workforce.
Since I don't use Exchange, I can set up a catch-all mailbox that anything sent to anything not elsewhere configured @ [mydomain].com is routed to that box. I can set the first part of the email address to be dynamically generated via script to match the IP address of the remote client. You could also figure in additional info like date/time.
So, the result could be something like 205.245.222.222.061113@[mydomain].com
Then when an address starts to collect spam I simply assign it to another mailbox that has a 1kb mailbox limit, and is already full. Theoretically, the main way that this would exclude a customer would be if a zombie at their ip address was the machine to harvest the email address that same day.
This also works with every vendor I visit and every web form I fill out. (i.e., my email address at Amazon.com is Amazon.com@[mydomain].com)
Theory would agree with your statement. Practice does not.
The irony of government agents abusing the rights of their citizens is that you CAN fight it in court... But to do so means that YOU pay your own legal bills to fight it, and meanwhile, YOU pay THEIR salaries and legal bills to fight YOU through your taxes. And IF you win, the government will be happy to use more of your money to appeal the decision. They can hold it up in the courts indefinitely until you go bankrupt, give up, or die.
With the tyrannical governments we see today, when you try to hold government accountable to do what is right, and try to keep them within the limits of the law, many times the punishment you receive is the process you have to go through.
Absolutely... but the most important thing that running low voltage 12/24/48 Volt wiring does is allow you to run all of the PCs in the house from a single battery-backed power source. Look at the solar stuff for the 12v battery, and use a solar charge controller unit to charge that battery, and convert your PCs to use DC-DC power supplies. See http://www.currentsolutions.com/search/dc_to_dc/pc atxconverter.htm
Actually, it's rather pitiful. The FACT is that there is ZERO provable evidence for EITHER macro evolution or creationism. BOTH are religious beliefs based on what people BELIEVE about the origins of the universe. (By the way... UNI = one, VERSE sentence. The very word universe at least demonstrates the once accepted view of things, i.e., the "God spoke" theory.)
Darwinian evolution is provable so far as survival of the fittest goes (MICRO evolution), but MACRO evolution (fish becomes frog becomes bird becomes whatever) is completely without any evidence whatsoever (no half-fish/frog, no half frog/bird) and if you take Darwinian evolution's thought of survival of the fittest, if man evolved from apes, why do we still have apes?
Simply stated, both require a stretch of the imagination and an embrace of something unprovable. Neither can be called undisputable fact. If the textbooks present EITHER side, they BOTH should be presented as THEORY, not FACT.
There's a Website that talks about these issues and why the alternative fuels are not alternatives at all. Specifically, because of how much oil it takes to produce many of them. Many others simply cannot be used to power vehicles given present and emerging technology. The specific article dealing with the alternative fuels is here.
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I'm a consultant, so I'm in and out of about a dozen companies' IT departments every year. What I've found is that there is this imaginary pendulum that swings between the environment being user-driven vs. being IT department dictated. The pendulum is always somewhere between, and it's always moving in one direction or the other. The more user-driven you are, the more support staff is required to keep everything running because each department is using software of their own choosing that the poor IT department has to get to interact with some other software for some other department (this is common in healthcare and academia). When an organization is highly standardized and driven by IT, you can operate with fewer IT folks and lower costs, but the users are miserable and surly (this is common in manufacturing and government). Thus, the pendulum swings back and forth from comfort to efficiency because you can rarely have both. IT staff size ebbs and flows accordingly, except in some organizations where no one ever leaves or gets fired, but no one updates their skill sets, so they always have to hire more people to take on the new projects that come along (also common in government).
Where I hope to see this go is larger flash memory on the mother board, to the end that your corporate base OS image, and all of your application source installation files are stored on it. I would also see it going to the point where you can perform a data backup to the flash memory.
If you lost a hard drive or had to reimage this would be very useful for a mobile workforce.
Since I don't use Exchange, I can set up a catch-all mailbox that anything sent to anything not elsewhere configured @ [mydomain].com is routed to that box. I can set the first part of the email address to be dynamically generated via script to match the IP address of the remote client. You could also figure in additional info like date/time.
So, the result could be something like 205.245.222.222.061113@[mydomain].com
Then when an address starts to collect spam I simply assign it to another mailbox that has a 1kb mailbox limit, and is already full. Theoretically, the main way that this would exclude a customer would be if a zombie at their ip address was the machine to harvest the email address that same day.
This also works with every vendor I visit and every web form I fill out. (i.e., my email address at Amazon.com is Amazon.com@[mydomain].com)
Theory would agree with your statement. Practice does not. The irony of government agents abusing the rights of their citizens is that you CAN fight it in court... But to do so means that YOU pay your own legal bills to fight it, and meanwhile, YOU pay THEIR salaries and legal bills to fight YOU through your taxes. And IF you win, the government will be happy to use more of your money to appeal the decision. They can hold it up in the courts indefinitely until you go bankrupt, give up, or die. With the tyrannical governments we see today, when you try to hold government accountable to do what is right, and try to keep them within the limits of the law, many times the punishment you receive is the process you have to go through.
Absolutely... but the most important thing that running low voltage 12/24/48 Volt wiring does is allow you to run all of the PCs in the house from a single battery-backed power source. Look at the solar stuff for the 12v battery, and use a solar charge controller unit to charge that battery, and convert your PCs to use DC-DC power supplies. See http://www.currentsolutions.com/search/dc_to_dc/pc atxconverter.htm
Actually, it's rather pitiful. The FACT is that there is ZERO provable evidence for EITHER macro evolution or creationism. BOTH are religious beliefs based on what people BELIEVE about the origins of the universe. (By the way... UNI = one, VERSE sentence. The very word universe at least demonstrates the once accepted view of things, i.e., the "God spoke" theory.) Darwinian evolution is provable so far as survival of the fittest goes (MICRO evolution), but MACRO evolution (fish becomes frog becomes bird becomes whatever) is completely without any evidence whatsoever (no half-fish/frog, no half frog/bird) and if you take Darwinian evolution's thought of survival of the fittest, if man evolved from apes, why do we still have apes? Simply stated, both require a stretch of the imagination and an embrace of something unprovable. Neither can be called undisputable fact. If the textbooks present EITHER side, they BOTH should be presented as THEORY, not FACT.
There's a Website that talks about these issues and why the alternative fuels are not alternatives at all. Specifically, because of how much oil it takes to produce many of them. Many others simply cannot be used to power vehicles given present and emerging technology. The specific article dealing with the alternative fuels is here.