I don't know if it will help but when I was 10 I begged my parents to drop the piano lessons and put me in a computer class. They relented and on the first day the instructor came in with a piece of plywood that he had mounted 8 plain light switches in a row. Each switch controlled a corresponding light mounted below the switch. That is how he taught a room full of 9, 10, and 11 year old kids how electricity could be converted to ones and zeros and how ones and zeros could be converted to characters.
Would we really want to do anything about it? Who decides what is appropriate for a website and what isn't? This could be a good intentions project that quickly gets hijacked into Internet censorship.
When I did IT at a logistics center a few years ago the barrier to RFID wasn't the cost of the tags or the time to apply them. The tag cost was minimal and employees were already tagging them with barcodes. The solutions we were looking at only required using a new label that had the RFID chip implanted. The total amount of time to apply a standard label versus an RFID label was exactly 0. The reason we didn't do it at the time was because of the software. The software company wanted $12,000 upfront and an increased maintenance fee to add the RFID module. When we approached the client with the increased costs they declined.
This was a low end warehouse management application on top of that, later they were looking at changing applications, the costs were astronomical, $150,000 to $300,000 for a basic inventory system, if you used automation of any sort you just keep adding.
I'd start with the ex-CEO. The 'company' did not make decisions, people did. They should be held accountable.
If accountability is what you want then why are you looking at the CEO? Shouldn't the technician who left the router down be personally liable? You could say that the CEO had the responsibility for ensuring methods were in place to prevent this. You could also say that the data was the responsibility of the hospital and paying a contractor does not eliminate that responsibility.
Look at the entire concept of 'limited liability companies'. If you have enough money, you can suddenly not be liable for debts you incurred! I stopped reading at this line, it costs $35 in my state to form an L.L.C. Do you know what your talking about or was this something you read somewhere?
It would be interesting to see how they came up with these off the wall MTBF numbers. I wonder how many drives actually make it there. There are two stats I would like to see in a large in the field study. First, stability of the power supply on drive failure rate. Second, I would like to see if the failure rate is related to the technician doing the install.
I've seen techs slide computers out from under desks while they were running. Of course the rubber feet grab on the floor and causes a bumping effect for the unparked heads.
There is one big problem with recommending Dell as a consultant. I have had two occasions where I had recommended Dell machines and something later broke. With the next business day warranty they sent someone out to replace the bad part. Both of the technicians spent most of the time trying to convince the company to switch their business to them instead of me. I can handle the competition but why help them out?
Microsoft's biggest obstacle to overcomming Google is Microsoft. If the new search engine does produce results as expected Microsoft will pepper the results with links to stock photos from Corbis (which is owned by Bill Gates).
People use Google to get relevant results, MSN gives highest bidder results, I can't see an MSN image search being any different.
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I don't know if it will help but when I was 10 I begged my parents to drop the piano lessons and put me in a computer class. They relented and on the first day the instructor came in with a piece of plywood that he had mounted 8 plain light switches in a row. Each switch controlled a corresponding light mounted below the switch. That is how he taught a room full of 9, 10, and 11 year old kids how electricity could be converted to ones and zeros and how ones and zeros could be converted to characters.
Would we really want to do anything about it? Who decides what is appropriate for a website and what isn't? This could be a good intentions project that quickly gets hijacked into Internet censorship.
Or, more likely they have A solution. It doesn't matter what the problem is, they are going to shoehorn their one solution in to fit it.
When I did IT at a logistics center a few years ago the barrier to RFID wasn't the cost of the tags or the time to apply them. The tag cost was minimal and employees were already tagging them with barcodes. The solutions we were looking at only required using a new label that had the RFID chip implanted. The total amount of time to apply a standard label versus an RFID label was exactly 0. The reason we didn't do it at the time was because of the software. The software company wanted $12,000 upfront and an increased maintenance fee to add the RFID module. When we approached the client with the increased costs they declined. This was a low end warehouse management application on top of that, later they were looking at changing applications, the costs were astronomical, $150,000 to $300,000 for a basic inventory system, if you used automation of any sort you just keep adding.
I'd start with the ex-CEO. The 'company' did not make decisions, people did. They should be held accountable.
If accountability is what you want then why are you looking at the CEO? Shouldn't the technician who left the router down be personally liable? You could say that the CEO had the responsibility for ensuring methods were in place to prevent this. You could also say that the data was the responsibility of the hospital and paying a contractor does not eliminate that responsibility.
It would be interesting to see how they came up with these off the wall MTBF numbers. I wonder how many drives actually make it there. There are two stats I would like to see in a large in the field study. First, stability of the power supply on drive failure rate. Second, I would like to see if the failure rate is related to the technician doing the install.
I've seen techs slide computers out from under desks while they were running. Of course the rubber feet grab on the floor and causes a bumping effect for the unparked heads.
There is one big problem with recommending Dell as a consultant. I have had two occasions where I had recommended Dell machines and something later broke. With the next business day warranty they sent someone out to replace the bad part. Both of the technicians spent most of the time trying to convince the company to switch their business to them instead of me. I can handle the competition but why help them out?
Microsoft's biggest obstacle to overcomming Google is Microsoft. If the new search engine does produce results as expected Microsoft will pepper the results with links to stock photos from Corbis (which is owned by Bill Gates). People use Google to get relevant results, MSN gives highest bidder results, I can't see an MSN image search being any different.