Of course the data is purged once it gets to the servers....but you have to have network access to get to said server. Not all taxpayers have network access at their local business, so the auditor has to resort to dial-up (gasp) or EDGE/EV-DO, which isn't available everywhere either. Encyrpted data on laptops are pretty much the safest bet, and the data on the laptop is only what is required to conduct the audits for their corresponding region until they can get to the central department office to download new data/purge old data.
Same reason anyone uses a laptop; mobility. Revenue employees need to take data out of the office and into the field to conduct on-site audits and make collections.
I work with a State revenue agency that was really worried about losing one of these laptops. They just got through implementing a third-party encryption scheme to protect the data on the hard drives from prying eyes.
As someone who has Type 1, I can tell you that there is no difference between "refined" cabs and "regular" carbs. Carbohydrates are carbohydrates, no matter if they come from bread, rice, ice cream, or a big ole' bucket of sugar.
The only thing to keep in mind is that you're limited to a certain amount of carbs a day, and you have to decide on what food you will eat to get those carbs....would it be more beneficial to get carbs from a wheat bread sandwich or a twinkie? I think that's what you're getting at.
If you want to get an open source POS package, I think the most important thing to keep in mind is support. When the package breaks, are you going to be able to contact the coders for help? (Sure, it should be written to never break, but let's be realistic.) You may know enough to fix it, but what about your employees? They won't necessarily be able to get you on the phone when they need to.
I used to work for a company that produced a mediocre POS package, and the amount of support calls we used to receive was insane. Everything from hardware, software, training questions, networking....we had it all. Point is, make sure that you have someone waiting on the phone for you when stuff happens.
The verdict hit me by surprise too. I thought for sure the jury would be sympathetic, or at least let her off with a lesser fine. But then I realized that there was a jury involved in the O.J. trial too....
If it can achieve the performance numbers that they claim (which it probably can based on NAND technology), then price price wont' keep people from buying this. This has been what enterprise DBA's have been waiting to have for awhile; the solution to high disk queues and wait times.
I can't wait to get my hands on a test unit; SQL should smoke on this sucker.
The reason that Robertson' business didn't succeed is that the record companies are getting tired of dealing with third-party vendors selling their music. They want total control over their content, whether it be distribution, payment methods, and DRM. They want to decide how you buy it, how much it cost, and what you can do with your purchased music. We're seeing this come to light now, with Universal and others pulling out of iTunes and controlling distribution internally.
That's really not such a bad idea, other companies have been doing this for over a decade...MS and Apple both have server and desktop version of their software. Some sysadmins would like to have their own Linux boxes without having to recompile their own kernel, or just have something a little more streamlined to start with. Forking may be a bit drastic though, since the distro providers should be the ones deciding on what belongs in a server and desktop edition. Ubuntu, RedHat, and SuSE do this already...but do they actually make modifications to the kernal for the different flavors?
Actually, he went through something similar with Pretty Hate Machine. He was involved in a contract dispute and eventual lawsuit with TVT Records that left them in control of the album and him jumping ship to another label.
The summary and article suggest that these are MP3's. I won't (and refuse) to sign up for the service to see for myself, but if they were really MP3's they would work on iPods and could be burned to CD's. Unless they have some type of DRM I've never seen attached to these MP3's, these are mostly likely some type of other media format.
1st, Universal is crazy to think they can maintain this through ad-revenues. 2nd, I'd like to see how much of this ad-revenue is given back to the artist. And 3rd, free music for everyone after their DRM is hammered into submission!
I used to work software support before my current position as a DBA. Tickets were a great way of tracking work, but they were horrible for measuring productivity. Incidents were marked with a level of severity and placed in a work queue; as a result, you'd end up with a few guys grabbing up all of the simple incidents that didn't require much work and closing hundreds of tickets a day. I would end up working on the difficult stuff, but would take so long I couldn't close more than a few tickets a day. On paper, it looked like I was a complete slacker.
I think a good way to fight this would have been to have the incidents automatically assigned to the next tech, but in general I found the ticket-system to be a flawed way to measure productivity.
You bring up some good points. I still feel that choice helps the consumer though. Also, lining the pocket of MS is no different than lining the pockets of Sony. Enjoy your rootkit!
I think maybe Sony always thought that MS didn't really stand up to them in the console industry, though. They pretty much ruled it for the past 10 years, and once you're in that position, it's probably difficult to think that somebody can knock you from the top. Nintendo thought the same thing once, and Sony trounced them. Now the tables have turned full circle. Crazy how the media/games industry works.
Well, don't forget that MS has also just dropped the price of the Xbox HD-DVD add-on. I was thinking about getting one as soon as I got my Xbox, but dropping the price definitely persuaded me to do it. Now that another film publisher has announced their dedication to it, I'm even more inclined to fork out the dough.....
However, the logical part of me is still telling me to hold out, which I think is what most people are waiting for. Although most of my video-phile friends have already made a purchase, I think the average consumer is waiting for a clear "winner" of the HD format war. Sony played a smart game by including Blu-Ray with the PS3, but I'm not sure how long they can hold out. I'm thinking that the other studios are seeing most of the benefits of the PS3, rather than Sony. They are still losing money on PS3's (as far as I know).
I, for one, am really excited about this. The competition will only increase benefits for the consumer as far as choice and price is concerned. I wouldn't mind getting the 5 free HD-DVD/Blu-Ray deal one bit.....
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This is the only article I've seen on the frontpage today that fits your description. I think you meant to post that remark on Digg....
Yes, people are going to come out and say that they should be considered heroes for standing up to Viacom and caring about user content on YouTube...but the truth is that they are employed for Viacom. If they really cared that much about their stuff being able to show up on YouTube, they would both quit Viacom and go exclusively web-based. This won't happen, and these guys are going to stay with whom their paychecks come from.
That is one weird looking board.
"you take a big hit on cache coherency latency"
Isn't this only a problem with NUMA based systems (of which Opteron is)? The article also mentions UltraSparc and PowerPC-64....
Type 1 Diabetes is the genetic one (at least it's believed to be inherited). I have it, and I wouldn't expect everyone else to have to pay for it. I'd like to think that me or my employer would pay the base fees, and I would be responsible for the copays on insulin, syringes, etc.
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Of course the data is purged once it gets to the servers....but you have to have network access to get to said server. Not all taxpayers have network access at their local business, so the auditor has to resort to dial-up (gasp) or EDGE/EV-DO, which isn't available everywhere either. Encyrpted data on laptops are pretty much the safest bet, and the data on the laptop is only what is required to conduct the audits for their corresponding region until they can get to the central department office to download new data/purge old data.
Same reason anyone uses a laptop; mobility. Revenue employees need to take data out of the office and into the field to conduct on-site audits and make collections. I work with a State revenue agency that was really worried about losing one of these laptops. They just got through implementing a third-party encryption scheme to protect the data on the hard drives from prying eyes.
Several years in a Federal Pound-me-in-the-A** Prison....
Baloney, of course computer use causes carpal tunnel....well, certain types of computer use anyways....
As someone who has Type 1, I can tell you that there is no difference between "refined" cabs and "regular" carbs. Carbohydrates are carbohydrates, no matter if they come from bread, rice, ice cream, or a big ole' bucket of sugar. The only thing to keep in mind is that you're limited to a certain amount of carbs a day, and you have to decide on what food you will eat to get those carbs....would it be more beneficial to get carbs from a wheat bread sandwich or a twinkie? I think that's what you're getting at.
If you want to get an open source POS package, I think the most important thing to keep in mind is support. When the package breaks, are you going to be able to contact the coders for help? (Sure, it should be written to never break, but let's be realistic.) You may know enough to fix it, but what about your employees? They won't necessarily be able to get you on the phone when they need to. I used to work for a company that produced a mediocre POS package, and the amount of support calls we used to receive was insane. Everything from hardware, software, training questions, networking....we had it all. Point is, make sure that you have someone waiting on the phone for you when stuff happens.
The verdict hit me by surprise too. I thought for sure the jury would be sympathetic, or at least let her off with a lesser fine. But then I realized that there was a jury involved in the O.J. trial too....
If it can achieve the performance numbers that they claim (which it probably can based on NAND technology), then price price wont' keep people from buying this. This has been what enterprise DBA's have been waiting to have for awhile; the solution to high disk queues and wait times. I can't wait to get my hands on a test unit; SQL should smoke on this sucker.
The reason that Robertson' business didn't succeed is that the record companies are getting tired of dealing with third-party vendors selling their music. They want total control over their content, whether it be distribution, payment methods, and DRM. They want to decide how you buy it, how much it cost, and what you can do with your purchased music. We're seeing this come to light now, with Universal and others pulling out of iTunes and controlling distribution internally.
I wish someone could explain that to the RIAA.
That's really not such a bad idea, other companies have been doing this for over a decade...MS and Apple both have server and desktop version of their software. Some sysadmins would like to have their own Linux boxes without having to recompile their own kernel, or just have something a little more streamlined to start with. Forking may be a bit drastic though, since the distro providers should be the ones deciding on what belongs in a server and desktop edition. Ubuntu, RedHat, and SuSE do this already...but do they actually make modifications to the kernal for the different flavors?
Actually, he went through something similar with Pretty Hate Machine. He was involved in a contract dispute and eventual lawsuit with TVT Records that left them in control of the album and him jumping ship to another label.
The summary and article suggest that these are MP3's. I won't (and refuse) to sign up for the service to see for myself, but if they were really MP3's they would work on iPods and could be burned to CD's. Unless they have some type of DRM I've never seen attached to these MP3's, these are mostly likely some type of other media format. 1st, Universal is crazy to think they can maintain this through ad-revenues. 2nd, I'd like to see how much of this ad-revenue is given back to the artist. And 3rd, free music for everyone after their DRM is hammered into submission!
I used to work software support before my current position as a DBA. Tickets were a great way of tracking work, but they were horrible for measuring productivity. Incidents were marked with a level of severity and placed in a work queue; as a result, you'd end up with a few guys grabbing up all of the simple incidents that didn't require much work and closing hundreds of tickets a day. I would end up working on the difficult stuff, but would take so long I couldn't close more than a few tickets a day. On paper, it looked like I was a complete slacker. I think a good way to fight this would have been to have the incidents automatically assigned to the next tech, but in general I found the ticket-system to be a flawed way to measure productivity.
Excellent, for the most part I think we're on the same page. Thanks for the great discussion!
You bring up some good points. I still feel that choice helps the consumer though. Also, lining the pocket of MS is no different than lining the pockets of Sony. Enjoy your rootkit! I think maybe Sony always thought that MS didn't really stand up to them in the console industry, though. They pretty much ruled it for the past 10 years, and once you're in that position, it's probably difficult to think that somebody can knock you from the top. Nintendo thought the same thing once, and Sony trounced them. Now the tables have turned full circle. Crazy how the media/games industry works.
Well, don't forget that MS has also just dropped the price of the Xbox HD-DVD add-on. I was thinking about getting one as soon as I got my Xbox, but dropping the price definitely persuaded me to do it. Now that another film publisher has announced their dedication to it, I'm even more inclined to fork out the dough..... However, the logical part of me is still telling me to hold out, which I think is what most people are waiting for. Although most of my video-phile friends have already made a purchase, I think the average consumer is waiting for a clear "winner" of the HD format war. Sony played a smart game by including Blu-Ray with the PS3, but I'm not sure how long they can hold out. I'm thinking that the other studios are seeing most of the benefits of the PS3, rather than Sony. They are still losing money on PS3's (as far as I know). I, for one, am really excited about this. The competition will only increase benefits for the consumer as far as choice and price is concerned. I wouldn't mind getting the 5 free HD-DVD/Blu-Ray deal one bit.....
This is the only article I've seen on the frontpage today that fits your description. I think you meant to post that remark on Digg....
Yes, people are going to come out and say that they should be considered heroes for standing up to Viacom and caring about user content on YouTube...but the truth is that they are employed for Viacom. If they really cared that much about their stuff being able to show up on YouTube, they would both quit Viacom and go exclusively web-based. This won't happen, and these guys are going to stay with whom their paychecks come from.
That is one weird looking board. "you take a big hit on cache coherency latency" Isn't this only a problem with NUMA based systems (of which Opteron is)? The article also mentions UltraSparc and PowerPC-64....
Oracles has always pride itself on it's cross-platform capability, but the only chips I see on the list are x86. Where is Power and Sparc?
What software were they using that wouldn't be Y2k compliant? Graph generators from the late 70's?
Type 1 Diabetes is the genetic one (at least it's believed to be inherited). I have it, and I wouldn't expect everyone else to have to pay for it. I'd like to think that me or my employer would pay the base fees, and I would be responsible for the copays on insulin, syringes, etc.
FYI, Type 1 Diabetes is not caused by obesity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diabetes
Ah, didn't think to look back at May. Thanks for the info.