I agree! "How it fulfils this obligation is its own responsibility." Seriously? What about vendor audits? Surely a system like this one would be subject to sofware validation. The associated business processes should be validated as well.
I'm so sick of people saying crap like this. So what if we diverted those resources to other things? I mean, how much food, medicine, etc. could $800 billion really buy anyway?
Another great advantage is the tremendous amount of torque. My best friend's dad drove a haul truck in a strip mine and told me that the trucks used diesel engines with electric final drives for this reason. If a truck with tons of coal stalls out while climbing out of a pit, it's death time.
It alwasy cracks me up on TV how they show a fingerprint or face recognition system searching for matches. The camera cuts to a computer that's looping away through a bunch of pictures until a match is found. Admittedly, I don't know all of the details, but obviously current systems must have some sort of indexed data points that are entered in a database and then you run queries against the database for potential matches.
It's a little more plausible now that broadband is readily available but this has been portrayed on TV for years. Can you imagine some podunk field office connecting to an FBI database through a dialup and downloading high resolution images until they found just the right one? Then again, that would make for some good entertainment. Detective walks in..."I've got good news and bad news. The good news is we found the killer. The bad news is, he died of old age."
I'm really curious as to whether this is representative of HP policy or just some tech support person overstepping their bounds. I've never done full-time tech support, but from what I understand there is a great deal of pressure placed on the support people to get the customer off the phone as quickly as possible. The you-installed-Linux-it's-your-fault approach might just have been a ploy.
So, let me get this straight...you were going home to see your sick mother, and the Clowns cornered you on the expressway and you had no choice but to defend yourselves???
You're right. I should have said that the analogy emphasizes the differences by using polar opposites rather than points out the only two possible cases. How about tacking on your first paragraph after my last?
I think you pretty much nailed the key issue, that being the purpose of the software. Individuals or small companies want to have lots of customized features and be able to implement changes quickly. However, large corporations want to deploy core functionality quickly with low variability in cost and time frame.
Another key issue is that regulatory requirements are generally more applicable to the enterprise. If, for example, you're trying to meet FDA regulations for GMP and your validation plan is hundreds of pages long, a change better be pretty damned important before it's going to be implemented. Formal software testing and validation requirements are easier to manage with planned release cycles and streamlined functionality.
In the book "Rich Dad, Poor Dad", the author recounts a seminar in which the speaker asked for a show of hands of who could make a better hamburger than McDonald's. Every hand in the room went up. No big surprise. Ronald McDonald and the Hamburgler can place a Big Mac in the hands of millions of people every day. Mom and Pop can't do that, but they can give you regional flare and can change their menu as often as they want in response to their customers' requests. I think there's room for both business models.
Cmdr Taco isn't asking if it's fair use to rip DVDs to handhelds. He's assigning fair use to it:
#include
int main()
{
char fairUse[] = "Ripping DVDs to Handhelds"
return 0;
}
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I agree! "How it fulfils this obligation is its own responsibility." Seriously? What about vendor audits? Surely a system like this one would be subject to sofware validation. The associated business processes should be validated as well.
We can we get started on that space elevator?
Meth on Mars may indicate Martians who need to go to rehab.
I'm so sick of people saying crap like this. So what if we diverted those resources to other things? I mean, how much food, medicine, etc. could $800 billion really buy anyway?
Nah. Just swap him out with Leonard Susskind.
Woah...brewer AND patriot. This Samuel Adams guy just might be onto something.
Another great advantage is the tremendous amount of torque. My best friend's dad drove a haul truck in a strip mine and told me that the trucks used diesel engines with electric final drives for this reason. If a truck with tons of coal stalls out while climbing out of a pit, it's death time.
Just like Superman III (reprised in Office Space). All your half cents are belong to us.
Revelation 8:8 (King James Version).
I don't remeber how that whole thing worked out. I think I fell asleep after that part. Just my luck...
It's a little more plausible now that broadband is readily available but this has been portrayed on TV for years. Can you imagine some podunk field office connecting to an FBI database through a dialup and downloading high resolution images until they found just the right one? Then again, that would make for some good entertainment. Detective walks in..."I've got good news and bad news. The good news is we found the killer. The bad news is, he died of old age."
I'm really curious as to whether this is representative of HP policy or just some tech support person overstepping their bounds. I've never done full-time tech support, but from what I understand there is a great deal of pressure placed on the support people to get the customer off the phone as quickly as possible. The you-installed-Linux-it's-your-fault approach might just have been a ploy.
So, let me get this straight...you were going home to see your sick mother, and the Clowns cornered you on the expressway and you had no choice but to defend yourselves???
I don't see any difference between either of your jokes and the +5 funny ones...
You're right. I should have said that the analogy emphasizes the differences by using polar opposites rather than points out the only two possible cases. How about tacking on your first paragraph after my last?
In the book "Rich Dad, Poor Dad", the author recounts a seminar in which the speaker asked for a show of hands of who could make a better hamburger than McDonald's. Every hand in the room went up. No big surprise. Ronald McDonald and the Hamburgler can place a Big Mac in the hands of millions of people every day. Mom and Pop can't do that, but they can give you regional flare and can change their menu as often as they want in response to their customers' requests. I think there's room for both business models.
We're all supposed to have robot butlers by now too. Where are the freakin' robots already??
Where are the freakin' robots already???
Thanks for the tip ;)
Breast recognition requires no brain activity...
I realized a long time ago that a Linux dummy is a lot smarter than a regular dummy.
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I believe in an open-source, collaborative environment. We need to built the best computer viruses possible. Free the software!
That's what I get for not previewing...
Cmdr Taco isn't asking if it's fair use to rip DVDs to handhelds. He's assigning fair use to it: #include int main() { char fairUse[] = "Ripping DVDs to Handhelds" return 0; }