Or just plain dishonest. "we need a phone card system but we need to be able to change the length of a minute"
Thats less dishonest than a genius! Think of the marketing power of a slogan along the lines of "Foo-Phone: Our minutes lasts 80 seconds!" or "A five minute call with your loved ones will feel much longer with foophone". With a marketing like that, you probably could charge 50% more that other phone companys and offer only 40% longer minutes.
It's not exactly a contradiction, but you have to choose the lesser of two evils. (And I just described both evils, thats why it seems like a contradiction)
A good, trustworthy hosting company is better than any in-house IT you could get for the same money.
But there is no guarantee that in either your or an outsourced company, the staff would cut the same corners you mentioned. Laziness, ignorance, incompetence or lack of funding can happen anywhere.
Your only option to get better security than a (trustworthy) server provider, is to hire a bigger and better security/IT-staff than said provider. But that won't be cheap.
As this depends on an unknown factor (the service quality of the hoster), you basically have to gamble on it. (or "factor it into your risk assesment" as they call it nowadays)
As a hint, compare, say, googles security breaches to the number of sql-injections on self-managed servers. Then have a look at googles security budget.
You know know your options:
a) Take the risk of a corrupt service hoster stealing your data (small risk, but huge potential damage) b) Take the risk of a sloppy inhouse IT doing something stupid (huge risk if you have a single guy handling everything)
or c) throw an obscene amount of money on a top-notch inhouse IT
More to the point, your argument seems to invalidate all forms of shared hosting by labelling them as unsecure, which is obviously absurd.
It's not absurd. Or exactly as absurs as labelling shared hosting as secure.
Contrary to owned infrastructure, you can't control the security of a shared hosting provider. It boils down to a matter of trust. And would you actually trust a guy who askes questions like this to create (and maintain!) better security than a shared hoster with a compoter security team twice the size of his complete company?
3) Cloud services are dependent upon connectivity. Which do you trust more: no link failure in thousands of miles of cables, fiber, and networking equipment, -or- the volatility of your local network and attached storage systems?
In general: the thousand miles of cables that are meshed up for redundancy.
And what would you do if the same farmer plows through your phone line? It depends on your buissnes, but I bet most companys wouldn't be able to work without phone either.
OTOH, with all your stuff in the cloud, people could work from home for a few days and at least get 80% of the work done.
What would you do if your local server would crash?
you said your NGO is around 20 people..... thats about the number of people you need to guarantee IT maintenance, internal helpdesk, 24/7 support, emergency standby, virus scanner updates...
Yes, server downtime IS a external risk when you move IT to the cloud. But until you can throw as much people as Google or Amazon at server maintenance, server downtime is MUCH MORE likely to happen to your local servers.
Lots of departments did that at our university. Those test banks even were published by the faculty in preparation for the exam. If you ran through all 300 questions, you definitly learned enough to solve any possible calculations for those courses.
Most people are probably in college to get a degree. The HR guy reading your resume can't see what you learned, only what's written on that piece of paper.
My grandparents had a HandleEasy326 about 4 years ago. Big keys, 4 buttons for stored numbers and a display. (Would only show the dialed numbers). No sms, no camera, nothing else. You can't dumb down a phone more without taking away the basic phone capabilities! And if that sounds still too complicated, when my grandpa finally was in hospital, he had a cellphone without numberpad, just three colored buttons for three stored numbers.
That should count as even simpler as the one mentioned in TFA. And it was 3 years ago.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "What is legitimate for Jove (Jupiter), is not legitimate for oxen." The phrase was created by Terence, a playwright of the Roman Republic[1]. The phrase is often translated as "Gods may do what cattle may not". It indicates the existence of a double standard (justifiable or otherwise), and essentially means "what is permitted to one person or group, is not permitted to everyone."
The society with the two set of rules is ba no way a recent invention.
Sorry, this idea is utter bullshit.I'd like to see that guys face when he tries to include a library by some european programmer hand he doesn't even have the keys on his keyboard to spell out the function names!
Here, have some Umlauts: äüöß Just in case you need to copy and paste them to include fahrvergnügen.h
Just hope they build better on it than they did with the Wii. The initial Wii Sports idea (and the spin offs sports ressort and wii fit) is great! But there is hardly any other game making use of motions like those few. (Not counting those mini-games as Raving Rabbits)
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Or just plain dishonest. "we need a phone card system but we need to be able to change the length of a minute"
Thats less dishonest than a genius! Think of the marketing power of a slogan along the lines of "Foo-Phone: Our minutes lasts 80 seconds!" or "A five minute call with your loved ones will feel much longer with foophone". With a marketing like that, you probably could charge 50% more that other phone companys and offer only 40% longer minutes.
Hoax.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/scanner.asp
It's not exactly a contradiction, but you have to choose the lesser of two evils. (And I just described both evils, thats why it seems like a contradiction)
A good, trustworthy hosting company is better than any in-house IT you could get for the same money.
But there is no guarantee that in either your or an outsourced company, the staff would cut the same corners you mentioned. Laziness, ignorance, incompetence or lack of funding can happen anywhere.
Your only option to get better security than a (trustworthy) server provider, is to hire a bigger and better security/IT-staff than said provider. But that won't be cheap.
As this depends on an unknown factor (the service quality of the hoster), you basically have to gamble on it. (or "factor it into your risk assesment" as they call it nowadays)
As a hint, compare, say, googles security breaches to the number of sql-injections on self-managed servers. Then have a look at googles security budget.
You know know your options:
a) Take the risk of a corrupt service hoster stealing your data (small risk, but huge potential damage)
b) Take the risk of a sloppy inhouse IT doing something stupid (huge risk if you have a single guy handling everything)
or c) throw an obscene amount of money on a top-notch inhouse IT
Sending out OO files is only slightly less stupid than sending out MSOffice files. (Exactly the cost of an Office licence less stupid)
Thats what pdf is for.
And for collaborative work, you need to discuss a software platform first anyways.
More to the point, your argument seems to invalidate all forms of shared hosting by labelling them as unsecure, which is obviously absurd.
It's not absurd. Or exactly as absurs as labelling shared hosting as secure.
Contrary to owned infrastructure, you can't control the security of a shared hosting provider. It boils down to a matter of trust. And would you actually trust a guy who askes questions like this to create (and maintain!) better security than a shared hoster with a compoter security team twice the size of his complete company?
3) Cloud services are dependent upon connectivity. Which do you trust more: no link failure in thousands of miles of cables, fiber, and networking equipment, -or- the volatility of your local network and attached storage systems?
In general: the thousand miles of cables that are meshed up for redundancy.
+1 insightful
too bad this is posted as AC
And what would you do if the same farmer plows through your phone line? It depends on your buissnes, but I bet most companys wouldn't be able to work without phone either.
OTOH, with all your stuff in the cloud, people could work from home for a few days and at least get 80% of the work done.
What would you do if your local server would crash?
you said your NGO is around 20 people..... thats about the number of people you need to guarantee IT maintenance, internal helpdesk, 24/7 support, emergency standby, virus scanner updates...
Yes, server downtime IS a external risk when you move IT to the cloud. But until you can throw as much people as Google or Amazon at server maintenance, server downtime is MUCH MORE likely to happen to your local servers.
and half of the party is already puking in the corners....
Like it or not, successful cheaters meet that metric.
So it's good that they at least try to weed out the unsuccessful cheaters.
And honestly, just buying and using the answer sheets from the publishing company is rather lame.
Back in school we nicked the test from the teachers briefcase or from the waste paper basket near the teachers lounge....
Lots of departments did that at our university. Those test banks even were published by the faculty in preparation for the exam. If you ran through all 300 questions, you definitly learned enough to solve any possible calculations for those courses.
Most people are probably in college to get a degree. The HR guy reading your resume can't see what you learned, only what's written on that piece of paper.
My grandparents had a HandleEasy326 about 4 years ago. Big keys, 4 buttons for stored numbers and a display. (Would only show the dialed numbers). No sms, no camera, nothing else. You can't dumb down a phone more without taking away the basic phone capabilities! And if that sounds still too complicated, when my grandpa finally was in hospital, he had a cellphone without numberpad, just three colored buttons for three stored numbers.
That should count as even simpler as the one mentioned in TFA. And it was 3 years ago.
Do you really want to create another Australia??!?!
Man:
Is your uh, is your wife interested in... photography, ay? 'Photographs, ay', he asked him knowlingly?
Squire:
Photography?
Man:
Snap snap, grin grin, wink wink, nudge nudge, say no more?
Squire:
Holiday snaps, eh?
Man:
They could be, they could be taken on holiday.
Candid, you know, CANDID photography?
Squire:
No, no I'm afraid we don't have a camera.
Man:
Oh.
(leeringly)
Still, mooooooh, ay? Mwoohohohohoo, ay? Hohohohohoho, ay?
Nowadays patching is common on consoles, too.
BTW: My XBox-Menus look like the Wii since the last Firmware update. Thank you, kinect. :-(
Well I bet for that they have the 100 times more expensive "military hardened" version in store.....
Since I found the "must not be used for running nuclear facillities" in the WinNT Eula, I'm definitly not sure if you're joking or not....
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "What is legitimate for Jove (Jupiter), is not legitimate for oxen." The phrase was created by Terence, a playwright of the Roman Republic[1]. The phrase is often translated as "Gods may do what cattle may not". It indicates the existence of a double standard (justifiable or otherwise), and essentially means "what is permitted to one person or group, is not permitted to everyone."
The society with the two set of rules is ba no way a recent invention.
That is anything but an american invention: Quod licet jovi, non licet bovi.
Sorry, this idea is utter bullshit.I'd like to see that guys face when he tries to include a library by some european programmer hand he doesn't even have the keys on his keyboard to spell out the function names!
Here, have some Umlauts: äüöß
Just in case you need to copy and paste them to include fahrvergnügen.h
I am in definitly NO WAY feeling more secure knowing that ICBMs can be launched even with their safeguards down!
Well... that notion about germans beeing gründlich has to come from somewhere....
Oh boy, you're boring.... Why not accidently "lose" it in a cab?
Just hope they build better on it than they did with the Wii. The initial Wii Sports idea (and the spin offs sports ressort and wii fit) is great! But there is hardly any other game making use of motions like those few. (Not counting those mini-games as Raving Rabbits)
Samba di Amigo is the (very) notable exception.