Accenture consistently drives high performance and has a history of satisfaction on projects for the worlds top organizations. What sets Accenture apart from the competition are its management. The skill and level of analysts from every contracting company can vary greatly. However Accenture Senior Management staff have shown consistently high levels of skill and communication. Problems can happen with any corporate or government project. Rarely does everything go according to plan and often requirements change mid project. It is how a consulting company handles these changes that count. Accenture sets its self apart in this situation.
It's not the destination that matters but how you get there, Accenture(High Performance Delivered).
Many planes are leased or rotated off of budget after a certain maintenance schedule. Airlines run very thin profit margins despite how it may appear. Think about all the choices you have when flying? The Northwest airlines portion of Delta used to run mainframes in Minnesota. I don't know what they use in Atlanta. Mainframes can be much more efficient than a bunch of Oracle/Microsoft DB's running on VMware. It isn't a trivial task to fail over to DR for most companies. One of the scariest things are DB sync lag. If the database in DR becomes too far behind the primary DB then hundreds if not millions of people that purchased tickets, transfers, baggage logistics etc might be lost. The chaos from that might well outstrip the chaos from delaying all flights until the primary DC might be recovered or at minimum networking from the primary DC/Databases can be restored to the DR site and a 100% sync status can be confirmed. Even if everything seems perfect, going to DR is really scary. Please take everything that a company does in this situation IT and Management wise with a massive grain of salt. One last thing that is really hard to swallow as an airline customer. You don't have the "right" to fly. You have a privilege. Any business has a monetary incentive to give you that privilege. It would be bad business otherwise. But at the end of the day no business has the legal responsibility to serve you. With the exception of health care and health insurance in the US.
I should have seen this before my original posting. It makes perfect sense why they have been down so long. I've experienced this as well only it was at 16:00 instead of 02:00. *sad face*
I know people get upset about these kinds of things and airlines have really high public exposure to failure. But processes do fail. I don't work for Delta and don't have any affiliation with them. But I work in the sector and have felt the sting of system failure. Don't be quick judge and hindsight is 20/20. An example of what could have caused this is a complex network + storage device failure. It is reasonable for devices that never get turned off to experience failure to turn on if they ever lose power. I'm sure Delta has a DR site but the DR site may also have experience failure if it was in close proximity to the main site. Also failing over to a DR site can often take many hours. This is all the price to be paid for the efficiency of computing. A year from now few people except for employees at Delta will even remember that it happened.
To all the folks around the world affected by this, hang in there. If they are offline after 24 hours then it is probably time to question what is going on. To the fine IT folks at Delta, I've been there good luck to you and don't forget to rotate out folks for resting. A freshly rested brain works faster.
I mean let's face it. Everything is better in Minnesota than out east. That said the theater experience in Metro Minnesota has the ability to be not much better than your experience in Baltimore.
Theaters today either cater to those who can't afford a home theater or to those looking for something special. Theaters can offer some spacial effects that you just can't get in a home unless you have 100+ foot walls at your disposal. Theaters need to sell their sound stage, image quality, and ambiance. They are less likely to sell on price, snacks, or customer service.
The other problem that theater face, and probably the biggest one is that the movies themselves are not enough to keep a theater in business. The studios take too large of a cut for something of a constricting market. If studios were to take less of a cut from theaters, theaters were to sell their services either as a cheap alternative to a tv at home or a quality experience surpassing a home theater, then the market would be sustainable. As it is the home experience is a growing market and a day of release streaming service is just another example of someone "getting it."
If facebook makes storing bio metric data and also sharing that data with its partners part of the terms of use then people would potentially be allowing the use of that bio metric data to be tracked and advertised to. Legally it is obvious that governments will want to have a legal handle on this sort of behavior before it is widely exploited. If this kind of marketing behavior is found to be legally acceptable then a whole new market would be opened. Who holds the patent rights to this business process I wonder?
IBM has lot's of expensive licensed software out there. In places where there isn't IBM hardware the software will be lurking in the shadows. IBM has mainly transitioned to a consulting firm. My guess is that hardware, especially things like laptops, are becoming commodity and harder to lock down with IP and just a few component manufacturers out there who make the real money. IBM puts a lot more focus these days on things that are very difficult to replicate or very easy to defend as IP. All the while making great returns on what it keeps. IBM is an old and savvy business and all of the decisions the business has made shows a lot of future insight to its competition. HP recently spun off their consumer line and likely will end up better for it.
I agree. Twin Cities buses will often times be found flying down the shoulder at 50-60mph while traffic is going 10-15mph. You are required by law to yield to any bus that is stopped or merging. If you get on a city bus you either take a seat right away and pay when you get off or if you don't pay immediately and you are the last one on the bus driver will regularly start moving the bus. Non-school buses don't stop at railroads. Finally a potentially unsafe but efficient method of bicycle storing is a metal rack on the front of the bus requiring a passenger to step in front of the bus to load and unload a bike. Buses around the twin cities can be a bit of an exciting ride but they serve their purpose. Unfortunately car pooling with two or more people is almost immediately is a better deal than riding a bus. Dedicated lanes, shared with buses, on many freeways. As low as 20$ downtown Minneapolis/St. Paul parking plans. A government funded ride share program that matches up people with similar source and destinations.
The http://www.z-wave.com/ protocol might work. There are a lot of remote hardware/switch options out there. You could wire in a zwave switch to your power supply. Then set the bios to autoboot on power.
Sadly, this mother should have had invested in a tin hat. She should have also removed all cellular phones form the house, wrapped it in a Faraday cage, and removed any televisions, vacuum cleaners, microwave ovens, computers, really anything with an inductor. In addition I would suggest that she consider joining an Amish community. I won't argue with her that large amounts of electro-magnetic energy can not affect the brain. However to call it an allergy, where the body attacks itself due to an external irritant seems a bit far fetched. I think she would have a stronger case to say that her daughters brain formed a mutation or had a neurological pathway blocked in someway due to EMF to cause severe depression.
I'm sure that one important topic discussed was how the greater public may react to different methods of using drones compared to boots on the ground or planes in the air. Since you essentially have a piloted plane where the pilot can't die or be captured the public may view various uses with passive interest.Historically we have seen that the greater public in any society rebels or gets upset when they are directly affected. This affect may be financial or social. If a government might use a drone to further its objectives without bringing financial or social harm to a certain percentage of its citizens, then the use of drones would be warranted even if the use were not ethical.
The conversation the media needs to present then, to any given society, is to the question of the ethicality of drone use for each given scenario.
There will always be contract workers and automation. It is generally a business's responsibility to profit as much as possible. Time and human resources are often the most expensive assets on the books. As an IT worker you can't, or probably shouldn't, help to change these behaviors. Instead focus on what you love. Get as good as you can at what you find the most natural. If you work 45 to 50 years, you will find that unless you enjoy what you do your mental state will suffer. That may bleed into your personal life. There can be work for everyone in IT everywhere in the world. Sometimes you might need to be a little inventive and may need to sell yourself. Finally, you might not have a huge income.
If you price yourself right, are good at something that you have a positive attitude about, and are able to sell yourself as something that can add value then there should always be work for you in IT.
Encryption is great! It keeps data private. However only private to those who hold the keys to the encryption. What is preventing Google from creating a master key that would allow them or a government to decrypt the data. Without such a backdoor mechanism are there some countries where Google would not be allowed to deploy the newest OS? I will be curious about the legal ramifications and privacy notice connected to this next update. What legal recourse would consumers have if it were found out later that Google did in fact create a backdoor. In the US, for instance, would the patriot act absolve Google of any class action even if they did not disclose facts to the consumer?
Hello Mr. McAfee, The world largely views the USA as a bully and full of very wealthy people that don't care about those less privileged. As president of the USA, how would you advance world cooperation and work to change world views of the USA to just another location in the world full of mostly average non-privileged individuals living out their lives?
Unrelated, my best friend almost ran you over at Defcon. He wasn't looking where he is going and apologizes.
I'd pay to see a movie based off of the Dragonlance Chronicles. That is if Margaret and Tracy were to allow it. Who would be cast as Hasslehoff I wonder?
Base salary and bonuses are not the only forms of compensation to think about. Depending on your position you may have paid conferences and training that you are sent to. You may have a paid cell phone, internet services, bring your own device voucher, new technologies voucher, company vehicles, holiday and paid time off, stock options, retirement, health and wellness benefits, coveted vendor "gifts", etc. I could share my base salary and it would be an interesting to others. But it wouldn't show all the various other ways that my company might do to keep me happy. Sometimes compensation is hard to monetize as well. For one person time off or flexible working may be more valuable than increased pay.
I am not chauvinist, however I see this as business as usual. All google ad's work of off statistical engines. If statistically there are fewer women in executive positions then ad's towards those positions and services should statistically match. I'm sure marketers see this story as simply business. That said it does not help equality.
It would be conceivable that the right kind of educational pornography may help young men to be better lovers. Communication has been shown to be the number one issue with sex and emotional responses to sex. Some couples even find pornography as a stimulus or template for their own sex lives.
Enough research has been shown that video games help young men and women as they have hurting. My personal opinion is that the dangers vary from person to person and can not be generalized across a wide audience. As far as addiction? I am addicted to water, I love the stuff and it helps me to live! However even to much water can be deadly.
Child hood friends of mine would do such things as create dos boot disks that would contain "format C:/u/autotest" in the autoexec.bat file and put them into demo computers at the local wal-mart. Or play doom on the lan during "programming class". Or monkey with disks in the local library. Of course back then Mac's and Windows OS's had easily exploited holes and there wasn't much need for admin usernames and passwords. That said a few days suspension is probably all students faced(followed by staff requesting the student to help them teach computer classes). Pressing charges on a student is probably not the best way to enforce good behaviors. The teacher(s) should also be reprimanded at the very least to use better password and password sharing judgement. Leave your desktop unlocked? At my workplace you would be asking for kitty pictures or I love Microsoft messages on your desktop/browser.
Assembler is coded the same in all 196 countries. So the next time you are on holiday just shift some registers to communicate with whomever, wherever you are!
Story So I found myself needing a 2N2222 the other day. I wanted it NOW I couldn't be bothered to wait 3 days for mouser.com to mail one two me. So I remembered that my friendly neighborhood radioshack carries all the components I need! I head down there and much to my chagrin all they sold anymore were extremely common A/V connectors, cables, and mobile phones by low paid high school kids. Where were to remote controlled airplanes/cars/boats, the CB's, misc electronic parts, knowledgeable sales staff with white scraggly neck beards? I didn't go there expecting to save a buck. No, I expected to pay 3+ times the price of getting it online somewhere. But I could have it NOW! Then I remembered I hadn't been into a radioshack in 10 years. *sigh* I'll miss you electronics parts store.
Need SCP? Download it from winscp.net. Need VLC? Download it form videolan.org. Teach your non-geek how to think outside the box (just a little and be gentle). Teach them about digital trust. To locate website of the vendor that makes the software that they want. If that vendor redirects them to cnet, then that is where they should download the software from.
For all driver needs tell them to download only from the original equipment manufactures website. If the driver doesn't exist anymore there is a reasonable chance the driver found on some third party website won't work anyways.
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Accenture consistently drives high performance and has a history of satisfaction on projects for the worlds top organizations. What sets Accenture apart from the competition are its management. The skill and level of analysts from every contracting company can vary greatly. However Accenture Senior Management staff have shown consistently high levels of skill and communication. Problems can happen with any corporate or government project. Rarely does everything go according to plan and often requirements change mid project. It is how a consulting company handles these changes that count. Accenture sets its self apart in this situation.
It's not the destination that matters but how you get there, Accenture(High Performance Delivered).
Many planes are leased or rotated off of budget after a certain maintenance schedule. Airlines run very thin profit margins despite how it may appear. Think about all the choices you have when flying? The Northwest airlines portion of Delta used to run mainframes in Minnesota. I don't know what they use in Atlanta. Mainframes can be much more efficient than a bunch of Oracle/Microsoft DB's running on VMware. It isn't a trivial task to fail over to DR for most companies. One of the scariest things are DB sync lag. If the database in DR becomes too far behind the primary DB then hundreds if not millions of people that purchased tickets, transfers, baggage logistics etc might be lost. The chaos from that might well outstrip the chaos from delaying all flights until the primary DC might be recovered or at minimum networking from the primary DC/Databases can be restored to the DR site and a 100% sync status can be confirmed. Even if everything seems perfect, going to DR is really scary. Please take everything that a company does in this situation IT and Management wise with a massive grain of salt. One last thing that is really hard to swallow as an airline customer. You don't have the "right" to fly. You have a privilege. Any business has a monetary incentive to give you that privilege. It would be bad business otherwise. But at the end of the day no business has the legal responsibility to serve you. With the exception of health care and health insurance in the US.
I should have seen this before my original posting. It makes perfect sense why they have been down so long. I've experienced this as well only it was at 16:00 instead of 02:00. *sad face*
I know people get upset about these kinds of things and airlines have really high public exposure to failure. But processes do fail. I don't work for Delta and don't have any affiliation with them. But I work in the sector and have felt the sting of system failure. Don't be quick judge and hindsight is 20/20. An example of what could have caused this is a complex network + storage device failure. It is reasonable for devices that never get turned off to experience failure to turn on if they ever lose power. I'm sure Delta has a DR site but the DR site may also have experience failure if it was in close proximity to the main site. Also failing over to a DR site can often take many hours. This is all the price to be paid for the efficiency of computing. A year from now few people except for employees at Delta will even remember that it happened.
To all the folks around the world affected by this, hang in there. If they are offline after 24 hours then it is probably time to question what is going on. To the fine IT folks at Delta, I've been there good luck to you and don't forget to rotate out folks for resting. A freshly rested brain works faster.
Minnesota Nice.
I mean let's face it. Everything is better in Minnesota than out east. That said the theater experience in Metro Minnesota has the ability to be not much better than your experience in Baltimore.
Theaters today either cater to those who can't afford a home theater or to those looking for something special. Theaters can offer some spacial effects that you just can't get in a home unless you have 100+ foot walls at your disposal. Theaters need to sell their sound stage, image quality, and ambiance. They are less likely to sell on price, snacks, or customer service.
The other problem that theater face, and probably the biggest one is that the movies themselves are not enough to keep a theater in business. The studios take too large of a cut for something of a constricting market. If studios were to take less of a cut from theaters, theaters were to sell their services either as a cheap alternative to a tv at home or a quality experience surpassing a home theater, then the market would be sustainable. As it is the home experience is a growing market and a day of release streaming service is just another example of someone "getting it."
If facebook makes storing bio metric data and also sharing that data with its partners part of the terms of use then people would potentially be allowing the use of that bio metric data to be tracked and advertised to. Legally it is obvious that governments will want to have a legal handle on this sort of behavior before it is widely exploited. If this kind of marketing behavior is found to be legally acceptable then a whole new market would be opened. Who holds the patent rights to this business process I wonder?
IBM has lot's of expensive licensed software out there. In places where there isn't IBM hardware the software will be lurking in the shadows. IBM has mainly transitioned to a consulting firm. My guess is that hardware, especially things like laptops, are becoming commodity and harder to lock down with IP and just a few component manufacturers out there who make the real money. IBM puts a lot more focus these days on things that are very difficult to replicate or very easy to defend as IP. All the while making great returns on what it keeps. IBM is an old and savvy business and all of the decisions the business has made shows a lot of future insight to its competition. HP recently spun off their consumer line and likely will end up better for it.
I agree. Twin Cities buses will often times be found flying down the shoulder at 50-60mph while traffic is going 10-15mph. You are required by law to yield to any bus that is stopped or merging. If you get on a city bus you either take a seat right away and pay when you get off or if you don't pay immediately and you are the last one on the bus driver will regularly start moving the bus. Non-school buses don't stop at railroads. Finally a potentially unsafe but efficient method of bicycle storing is a metal rack on the front of the bus requiring a passenger to step in front of the bus to load and unload a bike. Buses around the twin cities can be a bit of an exciting ride but they serve their purpose. Unfortunately car pooling with two or more people is almost immediately is a better deal than riding a bus. Dedicated lanes, shared with buses, on many freeways. As low as 20$ downtown Minneapolis/St. Paul parking plans. A government funded ride share program that matches up people with similar source and destinations.
The http://www.z-wave.com/ protocol might work. There are a lot of remote hardware/switch options out there. You could wire in a zwave switch to your power supply. Then set the bios to autoboot on power.
Joe
Sadly, this mother should have had invested in a tin hat. She should have also removed all cellular phones form the house, wrapped it in a Faraday cage, and removed any televisions, vacuum cleaners, microwave ovens, computers, really anything with an inductor. In addition I would suggest that she consider joining an Amish community. I won't argue with her that large amounts of electro-magnetic energy can not affect the brain. However to call it an allergy, where the body attacks itself due to an external irritant seems a bit far fetched. I think she would have a stronger case to say that her daughters brain formed a mutation or had a neurological pathway blocked in someway due to EMF to cause severe depression.
I'm sure that one important topic discussed was how the greater public may react to different methods of using drones compared to boots on the ground or planes in the air. Since you essentially have a piloted plane where the pilot can't die or be captured the public may view various uses with passive interest.Historically we have seen that the greater public in any society rebels or gets upset when they are directly affected. This affect may be financial or social. If a government might use a drone to further its objectives without bringing financial or social harm to a certain percentage of its citizens, then the use of drones would be warranted even if the use were not ethical.
The conversation the media needs to present then, to any given society, is to the question of the ethicality of drone use for each given scenario.
There will always be contract workers and automation. It is generally a business's responsibility to profit as much as possible. Time and human resources are often the most expensive assets on the books. As an IT worker you can't, or probably shouldn't, help to change these behaviors. Instead focus on what you love. Get as good as you can at what you find the most natural. If you work 45 to 50 years, you will find that unless you enjoy what you do your mental state will suffer. That may bleed into your personal life. There can be work for everyone in IT everywhere in the world. Sometimes you might need to be a little inventive and may need to sell yourself. Finally, you might not have a huge income.
If you price yourself right, are good at something that you have a positive attitude about, and are able to sell yourself as something that can add value then there should always be work for you in IT.
Encryption is great! It keeps data private. However only private to those who hold the keys to the encryption. What is preventing Google from creating a master key that would allow them or a government to decrypt the data. Without such a backdoor mechanism are there some countries where Google would not be allowed to deploy the newest OS? I will be curious about the legal ramifications and privacy notice connected to this next update. What legal recourse would consumers have if it were found out later that Google did in fact create a backdoor. In the US, for instance, would the patriot act absolve Google of any class action even if they did not disclose facts to the consumer?
Hello Mr. McAfee,
The world largely views the USA as a bully and full of very wealthy people that don't care about those less privileged. As president of the USA, how would you advance world cooperation and work to change world views of the USA to just another location in the world full of mostly average non-privileged individuals living out their lives?
Unrelated, my best friend almost ran you over at Defcon. He wasn't looking where he is going and apologizes.
You forgot "Doom". *shudder* However there were a few ok to good ones. Super Mario Bro's, Wing Commander, Final Fantasy, The Resident Evil series.
I'd pay to see a movie based off of the Dragonlance Chronicles. That is if Margaret and Tracy were to allow it. Who would be cast as Hasslehoff I wonder?
Base salary and bonuses are not the only forms of compensation to think about. Depending on your position you may have paid conferences and training that you are sent to. You may have a paid cell phone, internet services, bring your own device voucher, new technologies voucher, company vehicles, holiday and paid time off, stock options, retirement, health and wellness benefits, coveted vendor "gifts", etc. I could share my base salary and it would be an interesting to others. But it wouldn't show all the various other ways that my company might do to keep me happy. Sometimes compensation is hard to monetize as well. For one person time off or flexible working may be more valuable than increased pay.
I am not chauvinist, however I see this as business as usual. All google ad's work of off statistical engines. If statistically there are fewer women in executive positions then ad's towards those positions and services should statistically match. I'm sure marketers see this story as simply business. That said it does not help equality.
Video games also stimulate the flight or fight response flight or fight response. This has been showed to improve the emotional state of the brain.
It would be conceivable that the right kind of educational pornography may help young men to be better lovers. Communication has been shown to be the number one issue with sex and emotional responses to sex. Some couples even find pornography as a stimulus or template for their own sex lives.
Enough research has been shown that video games help young men and women as they have hurting. My personal opinion is that the dangers vary from person to person and can not be generalized across a wide audience. As far as addiction? I am addicted to water, I love the stuff and it helps me to live! However even to much water can be deadly.
Child hood friends of mine would do such things as create dos boot disks that would contain "format C: /u /autotest" in the autoexec.bat file and put them into demo computers at the local wal-mart. Or play doom on the lan during "programming class". Or monkey with disks in the local library. Of course back then Mac's and Windows OS's had easily exploited holes and there wasn't much need for admin usernames and passwords. That said a few days suspension is probably all students faced(followed by staff requesting the student to help them teach computer classes). Pressing charges on a student is probably not the best way to enforce good behaviors. The teacher(s) should also be reprimanded at the very least to use better password and password sharing judgement. Leave your desktop unlocked? At my workplace you would be asking for kitty pictures or I love Microsoft messages on your desktop/browser.
Assembler is coded the same in all 196 countries. So the next time you are on holiday just shift some registers to communicate with whomever, wherever you are!
Story
So I found myself needing a 2N2222 the other day. I wanted it NOW I couldn't be bothered to wait 3 days for mouser.com to mail one two me. So I remembered that my friendly neighborhood radioshack carries all the components I need! I head down there and much to my chagrin all they sold anymore were extremely common A/V connectors, cables, and mobile phones by low paid high school kids. Where were to remote controlled airplanes/cars/boats, the CB's, misc electronic parts, knowledgeable sales staff with white scraggly neck beards? I didn't go there expecting to save a buck. No, I expected to pay 3+ times the price of getting it online somewhere. But I could have it NOW! Then I remembered I hadn't been into a radioshack in 10 years. *sigh* I'll miss you electronics parts store.
Need SCP? Download it from winscp.net. Need VLC? Download it form videolan.org. Teach your non-geek how to think outside the box (just a little and be gentle). Teach them about digital trust. To locate website of the vendor that makes the software that they want. If that vendor redirects them to cnet, then that is where they should download the software from.
For all driver needs tell them to download only from the original equipment manufactures website. If the driver doesn't exist anymore there is a reasonable chance the driver found on some third party website won't work anyways.