IBM, SUN, HP and a bunch of other large vendors use a quiet company called Akibia for their parts and first and second level support. I suggest that my clients buy parts only contracts from them. The cost is really reasonable and they have yet to disappoint after many years of failed disks and power supplies.
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In a large real world implementation you would never use a single D channel for 20 PRI's. For diversity and overall manageability sake you would create trunk groups of 5 or 6 PRI's and use 2 channels--each on a different PRI--for a primary and a backup D channel for each trunk group. I've implemented this arrangement many times and it works great as long as the PRI carrier has their act together at their switch end.
Apparently he didn't realize the specs of his own promotion. He bought the flowers in a different store than his wife shopped in and thought the purchases were tracked seperately.
They won't erase the data but they will agree to not ever sell or provide it in any personally identifiable way. They just add the purchases to counts and other statistical data.
Having run the loyalty card systems for this and a few other large grocery chains in the early 90's, I have seen a ton of horror stories related to the use of the data.
Some examples: -A large chain of grocery stores that also had pharmacys sold the data about what medications their customers bought to an insurance company. The insurance company ran the medication list against each policy holder's health insurance info and then cancelled people who bought drugs like heart medication without the insurance company being aware of it.
-Another chain had a promotion tied to their loyalty cards that gave customers a turkey for Thanksgiving based on how much they spent and it also gave them more stuff is they bought specific things. When the statement of exactly what was purchased came to the chain's CEO's home, it revealed to his wife that he bought huge amounts of flowers for his mistress and it resulted in his divorce.
-A single mother who had just lost her young son in a car accident bought some baby gifts in a chain grocery store and used her frequent shopper card when she paid in order to get a small discount. The purchases of these items caused her to be flagged as a new mother and be immediately put on a ton of mailing lists relating to "the joy of motherhood", etc. Hardly a pleasant reminder after losing her only child.
I guess that my point in posting this is that the privacy issues with these cards are quite far reaching. They can have real personal impact and their use should be considered VERY CAREFULLY. They can have benefits that one might find valuable, but they can have devistating and totally unforseen consequences.
VoIP for individual use is still young and will grow and become much better but there are some great large scale uses for VoIP combined with SIP. My firm is doing a project where we need to make very large numbers of voice calls in a very short period of time. No! it's not some horrible commercial thing--it's a very large hospital emergency notification system. Think about sending a wav file and a list of recipients to a provider and having THEM make the 500 calls in 30 seconds.
Tom's "new" site is actually a buyout of the informative and well written smallnetbuilder.com. (www.smallnetbuilder.com) Too bad:(
Apparently selling out to Tom was more satisfying than continuing to do a good job.
"Chad has seen and dealt with all types of mass media, entertainment, publishing, high-tech, and marketing companies like BBDO(Top 6 ad agency), to Turner Broadcasting Networks(CNN, TBS, Headline News, etc.) as well as Disney and Time Warner Media to name a few..."
Hmmm...Well, I too have "seen and dealt with" BBDO (yes, I have seen their ads), Turner (I frequently watch CNN), Disney (sure I've seen that mouse and have bought stuff for my nieces at one of their stores), and Time Warner Media (I seen to recall that they have some sort of relationship with the aforementioned Turner...but I could be wrong
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IBM, SUN, HP and a bunch of other large vendors use a quiet company called Akibia for their parts and first and second level support. I suggest that my clients buy parts only contracts from them. The cost is really reasonable and they have yet to disappoint after many years of failed disks and power supplies.
In a large real world implementation you would never use a single D channel for 20 PRI's. For diversity and overall manageability sake you would create trunk groups of 5 or 6 PRI's and use 2 channels--each on a different PRI--for a primary and a backup D channel for each trunk group. I've implemented this arrangement many times and it works great as long as the PRI carrier has their act together at their switch end.
Apparently he didn't realize the specs of his own promotion. He bought the flowers in a different store than his wife shopped in and thought the purchases were tracked seperately.
They won't erase the data but they will agree to not ever sell or provide it in any personally identifiable way. They just add the purchases to counts and other statistical data.
Having run the loyalty card systems for this and a few other large grocery chains in the early 90's, I have seen a ton of horror stories related to the use of the data.
Some examples:
-A large chain of grocery stores that also had pharmacys sold the data about what medications their customers bought to an insurance company. The insurance company ran the medication list against each policy holder's health insurance info and then cancelled people who bought drugs like heart medication without the insurance company being aware of it.
-Another chain had a promotion tied to their loyalty cards that gave customers a turkey for Thanksgiving based on how much they spent and it also gave them more stuff is they bought specific things. When the statement of exactly what was purchased came to the chain's CEO's home, it revealed to his wife that he bought huge amounts of flowers for his mistress and it resulted in his divorce.
-A single mother who had just lost her young son in a car accident bought some baby gifts in a chain grocery store and used her frequent shopper card when she paid in order to get a small discount. The purchases of these items caused her to be flagged as a new mother and be immediately put on a ton of mailing lists relating to "the joy of motherhood", etc. Hardly a pleasant reminder after losing her only child.
I guess that my point in posting this is that the privacy issues with these cards are quite far reaching. They can have real personal impact and their use should be considered VERY CAREFULLY. They can have benefits that one might find valuable, but they can have devistating and totally unforseen consequences.
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I'been trying to reach a friend in Penang for hours...with no reply.
VoIP for individual use is still young and will grow and become much better but there are some great large scale uses for VoIP combined with SIP. My firm is doing a project where we need to make very large numbers of voice calls in a very short period of time. No! it's not some horrible commercial thing--it's a very large hospital emergency notification system. Think about sending a wav file and a list of recipients to a provider and having THEM make the 500 calls in 30 seconds.
That's what VoIP/SIP is good for.
Tom's "new" site is actually a buyout of the informative and well written smallnetbuilder.com. (www.smallnetbuilder.com) Too bad :(
Apparently selling out to Tom was more satisfying than continuing to do a good job.
"Chad has seen and dealt with all types of mass media, entertainment, publishing, high-tech, and marketing companies like BBDO(Top 6 ad agency), to Turner Broadcasting Networks(CNN, TBS, Headline News, etc.) as well as Disney and Time Warner Media to name a few..."
Hmmm...Well, I too have "seen and dealt with" BBDO (yes, I have seen their ads), Turner (I frequently watch CNN), Disney (sure I've seen that mouse and have bought stuff for my nieces at one of their stores), and Time Warner Media (I seen to recall that they have some sort of relationship with the aforementioned Turner...but I could be wrong
From the definition it looks to me like sending an unlabeled, unsolicited resume could be considered spamming.