I work in a similar environment, and I understand both the user of technology and the IT sides of things.
What it basically boils down to is this. I was to use technology A, I contact IT and ask if it is possible, they say sure anything is possible, but it will cost you X dollars. At which point jaw his floor. Looking outside of IT structure I see I can have it built for Y dollars with is a merest fraction of X.
Though I understand on the IT side of things as well. Who is going to maintain A, particularly after you up and leave and it is not a critical system? Not to mention all their security policies they must adhere to etc...
Anyway for this particular example I would say, no IT shouldn't have a login to your private server, however you also shouldn't have access to their network. If you want to develop external to the system, then it should be external to the system, don't expect to be able to connect to it.
I typically pay about 6-8$ a pint. I recently was at a hockey tournament in North Bay, Ontario, Canada and was pleasantly surprised to find a pint of beer for under 4$!
I have been to a wind farm and seen the setup. I would not be surprised if this is possible at all.
Basically you have a company that runs the windmills and you have a different company that actually builds the damn things.
So while NextEra Energy Resources may run the stupid things, likely someone like Siemens actually built the things. Generally speaking while NextEra Energy Resources may maintain things, Siemens would really be the technical experts.
Thus this is why I was told companies like Siemens can actually connect to windmills in the US and Canada from Denmark or wherever they are located. They have full control so they can try and fix problems remotely. They do this over the Internet. As soon as I heard that, I was like "What? Really?" as it was a huge red flag for security. Of course these are supposed to be secure systems, but I know the one I saw didn't look all that awfully sophisticated. If there was a "flaw" in the system, someone that works there, particularly in IT would be well placed to discover it. Likely he was able to connect much like Siemens would.
Sure there is a cognitive element, however there are plenty of tricky parts that require some fast reflexes or a steady hand, usually while falling to hit a particular spot with your portal gun in quick succession.
Sure there is a cognitive element, however there are plenty of tricky parts that require some fast reflexes or a steady hand, usually while falling to hit a particular spot with your portal gun in quick succession.
Yes it is coop. However how fun will it be when trying to coordinate with your "friend" a complex puzzle only to get your part complete, and to sit there and watch your partner fail and fail over and over again to move, fall, and hit some moving target with his portal gun for you or him to fall through.
Ya, because that won't be frustrating as hell or anything.
Yeah I know many games used to have Autoaim for FPS on the PC. Most consider it cheating, and insist it be disabled. On multiplayer most servers have it turned off.
They have changed their business model in the last few years. Now its about political lobbying to make stronger laws making it illegal, then suing those people that break those laws for exorbitant amounts of money, trying to fear monger the rest of their consumers back in line to their old model of distribution! See!
What they didn't tell you is that it will birth Lobersteron the Terrible! Sucking all that radiation into its carapace he will grow to the size of a large skyscraper and terrorize the countryside. Fortunately he will probably cross paths with Crabucon the Munificent and will duke it out, the loser slinking back into the ocean. Of course the urban devastation will be horrible, but whatcha gonna do... Hopefully it will be DJ'ed by the Beastie Boys.
If Fallout 3 has taught me anything, its that building that sort of thing in the Mojave desert is really just making experimental weapons. Also it will be an excellent base after the fall of man.
Ya I thought 170$ Million was a bit cheap for 400MW solar energy... I was at a wind farm that cost about 500$ million for about the same, and wind is supposed to be more economical... (comparatively to solar anyhow)
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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/09/060914-oldest-writing.html
Not to mention those Babylonians and Mesopotamians loved those stone tablets!
There of course there was those Egyptian folks they loved the tablets as well, as did those Roman guys.
Then of course God made tablets, with rounded edges even. You gonna sue God next Apple?
isn't fucking rectangular? Hell I think stone tablets might have a bit of prior art here.
I work in a similar environment, and I understand both the user of technology and the IT sides of things.
What it basically boils down to is this.
I was to use technology A, I contact IT and ask if it is possible, they say sure anything is possible, but it will cost you X dollars. At which point jaw his floor. Looking outside of IT structure I see I can have it built for Y dollars with is a merest fraction of X.
Though I understand on the IT side of things as well. Who is going to maintain A, particularly after you up and leave and it is not a critical system? Not to mention all their security policies they must adhere to etc...
Anyway for this particular example I would say, no IT shouldn't have a login to your private server, however you also shouldn't have access to their network. If you want to develop external to the system, then it should be external to the system, don't expect to be able to connect to it.
Still, 12$ bucks a beer. Ouch.
I typically pay about 6-8$ a pint. I recently was at a hockey tournament in North Bay, Ontario, Canada and was pleasantly surprised to find a pint of beer for under 4$!
touche.
I guess I was using it more as a "money" sign...
I have been to a wind farm and seen the setup. I would not be surprised if this is possible at all.
Basically you have a company that runs the windmills and you have a different company that actually builds the damn things.
So while NextEra Energy Resources may run the stupid things, likely someone like Siemens actually built the things. Generally speaking while NextEra Energy Resources may maintain things, Siemens would really be the technical experts.
Thus this is why I was told companies like Siemens can actually connect to windmills in the US and Canada from Denmark or wherever they are located. They have full control so they can try and fix problems remotely. They do this over the Internet. As soon as I heard that, I was like "What? Really?" as it was a huge red flag for security. Of course these are supposed to be secure systems, but I know the one I saw didn't look all that awfully sophisticated. If there was a "flaw" in the system, someone that works there, particularly in IT would be well placed to discover it. Likely he was able to connect much like Siemens would.
When Huge Robots fight Mutated Squid...
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but promise to feel really bad about it afterwords...
Also its just cruel to program sex-bots in this manner.
Climate Change. Bring it!
Canada already knows all about the UK's leaky subs.
I guess I will just use firerfox, *shrug*.
Though it does burn me a little bit that I bought that BS OS from MS, and now they are seemingly cutting me loose. Christ, what a bunch of assholes!
Sounds like something a terrorist might say!
Did you even play Portal?
Sure there is a cognitive element, however there are plenty of tricky parts that require some fast reflexes or a steady hand, usually while falling to hit a particular spot with your portal gun in quick succession.
Sure there is a cognitive element, however there are plenty of tricky parts that require some fast reflexes or a steady hand, usually while falling to hit a particular spot with your portal gun in quick succession.
Yes it is coop. However how fun will it be when trying to coordinate with your "friend" a complex puzzle only to get your part complete, and to sit there and watch your partner fail and fail over and over again to move, fall, and hit some moving target with his portal gun for you or him to fall through.
Ya, because that won't be frustrating as hell or anything.
This is how I see that matchmaking process....
"Hey", "Hi" "Let's go!", "Alright!", fail, fail, fail, "damn another console player", quit, rejoin....
Yeah I know many games used to have Autoaim for FPS on the PC. Most consider it cheating, and insist it be disabled. On multiplayer most servers have it turned off.
Is that like 12$ EUROS for a pint of beer?
I doubt you will be able to play cross platform any games really. PC players would destroy their lowly console brethren.
See who is online and buy stuff maybe.
10$ says this thing gets torched in effigy at the end of the school year at the big schools out for summer bender.
They have changed their business model in the last few years. Now its about political lobbying to make stronger laws making it illegal, then suing those people that break those laws for exorbitant amounts of money, trying to fear monger the rest of their consumers back in line to their old model of distribution! See!
Not sure how that's working for them...
Just how expensive are these pub bought Norwegian beers?
What they didn't tell you is that it will birth Lobersteron the Terrible! Sucking all that radiation into its carapace he will grow to the size of a large skyscraper and terrorize the countryside. Fortunately he will probably cross paths with Crabucon the Munificent and will duke it out, the loser slinking back into the ocean. Of course the urban devastation will be horrible, but whatcha gonna do... Hopefully it will be DJ'ed by the Beastie Boys.
If Fallout 3 has taught me anything, its that building that sort of thing in the Mojave desert is really just making experimental weapons. Also it will be an excellent base after the fall of man.
Ya I thought 170$ Million was a bit cheap for 400MW solar energy... I was at a wind farm that cost about 500$ million for about the same, and wind is supposed to be more economical... (comparatively to solar anyhow)
You're arguing for cat based power? That's just crazy! Madness! Like you can convince a cat to do anything...
So long as it plays the mission impossible song and emits smoke while wiping I'm sold!