>> Next thing was adding a captcha (from Free captchas) and now I don't get any spam anymore.:)
Looks good other than the 130 euros per year to remove their watermark.
If they'd set up a sliding fee / 1000 impressions or something, I'd be interested.
>> I submit to you that aggressive deletion means that some work will be redone. Some work will be lost forever, and some opportunities to make the company more revenue will be lost forever, too.
Bingo!.
My company (fortune 500) automatically sends out notices to users with "excessive" shared disk usage. Read "normal" for excessive - We're talking a few hundred meg to get a notice, and users often legitimately have large files in their private folder. Mailboxes default to 20 meg, so don't try to store anything there or you'll get a different 'excessive use notice'
People routinely delete things they really need because IT hassles them and it's easier to just blow it away then beg for more quota.
Some users try to back up their stuff before deletion, but that's usually just by moving it onto another shared drive (d'oh - Those are full too) or pulling it to a local drive. Bad move, there's no backup and a corporate policy of nuking your local drive at the first sign of system instability. You place a call to helpdesk for something and they often smoke the whole drive image overnight, rather than try to fix it. (cost effective, no?)
We (IT) know you can't just buy a consumer grade drive and plug it into the SAN. It costs real money to expand storage, but the costs of *not* expanding your storage as your business grows are pretty much open-ended.
I actually like to see product reviews, but this one's a pretty ho-hum item. and I can't see much to recommend it. I posted because I get kind of annoyed with the folks screaming "slashvertisement" everytime they see a product review.
I think Taco was just filling space here, not shilling anything.
It was a small job (3-4 team members, a few months work). It was also crucial that it be done correctly. Work was started on the project (and completed) before the design doc was created. Our team still did interviews with all the stakeholders, and a 40 page design doc, because the PHB knew it was important. We just didn't actually have it to work from because PHB insisted we start coding immediately. You see, PHB committed to deliverables and timeline before even assigning staff to the project...
It was a mess from the start with no real finish - remediation in perpetuity.
Once you've filled the camera's onboard memory (approx 5 shots), you might as well set the camera down and go make a sandwich. Even with a 60x write SD card, it's damn slow. I like the camera, I think it was a good deal for approx $350 US, but it's damn slow. Slow to focus and slow to write to the card...
I think any of us who has bought a camera for less than $800-$1000 has to expect some drawbacks though so I'm not too pissed about it.
You misread my post. It's all about older programmers being _able_ to get under the hood if required while new grads generally can't.
Any of the projects my team has recently done in Visual whatever, I could replicate in C++ or C without touching STL if required. I've done so. (It generally isn't an intelligent use of time in the environment I'm catering to, though)
>> The sad fact, however, is that too many programmers, especially new programmers or those who didn't go to a theory-rich school, don't understand how things work under the covers.
Exactly. If there are tools that do the job, you don't need to get under the hood. Eventually, though you are going to need to understand all those libraries you've been using. The new hires typically run for help at that point, especially if they got their CS ticket somewhere that focused on "drag and drop" visual programming.
I spent the last part of this week writing MTS components in VB 6.0. It was the right tool for the job so I used it. Next week I'll be fixing some crap code written by our dot net "guru" (a recent grad). I can fix his code, but hell will freeze over before he figures out anything I've written in C or C++. We've tried to get him to learn, but outside of a visual IDE, he's lost. Doesn't understand memory management, data types, or even the OOD concepts you'd expect a recent grad to have.
The GP shouldn't be so fast to slag old dudes using old solutions. It doesn't mean we haven't kept up.
If that's the way it works, I guess he was pretty dense to be trying to leave with anything that wasn't his.
The company I work for is really (I mean _really_) security conscious, but we have no signage about search of person/bags. We do have a tonne of other signage regarding prohibitions on access, no cameras allowed, subject to surveillance and so forth. but there is no provision I know of for search of bags/cases etc.
I _do_ know they've had our security force watch suspected employees and photograph them leaving with company property.
I think the punch-line has always been law enforcement called and dismissal.
>> (We checked his briefcase on his way out and removed all of the confidential information he was stealing first... Warrants are being drawn up to search his house now.)
I'm not sayin it's OK to leave with company info (It's not) but searching personal belongings sounds a way out of line, unless you had police attend and accused him of theft right then and there.
If security wants to see what's in my pockets, they can f*ck off. We have a security force where I work, but they're not sworn peace officers and can't do anything beyond surveillance, note-taking and citizen's arrest. (Exactly the same rights as anyone else. - Are things different in Australia?)
I worked at a company where one of the managers decided to move on. She was near the top, worked hard and was quite professional. Her mistake was in giving three months notice so they could work out a graceful exit.
She was fired on the spot, asked to leave the property and given the minimum statutory severance.
In my jurisdiction, once you've given notice you may be let go immediately provided the company pays severance. I knew I was leaving my job with that company for 6 months and didn't give notice till 2 weeks before. I would have loved to give them more time to plan for my replacement, but figured they'd just shaft me.
They went bankrupt a few years later. Sometimes you get what you deserve.:-]
If the management has _any_ brains, they realize you would have/could have committed nefarious acts _before_ giving notice. The termination of system access is absolutely _not_ personal. It will be mandated by policy in many places and in fact protects the person who gave notice. If you gave notice and something "bad" happened immediately afterwards, server crash, corrupt database _whatever, suspicion would naturally fall on, you the terminated employee, unless you had no access to the systems.
As someone else has said, just take the pay and smile for 2 weeks. Where I work, you wouldn't have got past security the next day... again, nothing personal, just policy.
The jurisdiction I live in has HUGE taxes on gasoline. So yeah, you're right.
We already have a very effective user-pay program in place without GPS. The license and registration fees paid each year are _nothing_ compared to the non-stop user fees paid when filling up.
The more I drive, the more I pay. - If the gas taxes were being used for highway safety or maintenance rather than going into general revenue, I'd feel a little less screwed by the whole process...
>> They only do this in parts of town that have a high percentage of racial minorities. Seriously, go to different stores in a major city and see for yourself. In the suburban white areas, no stores do the door check thing. It's basically just a legal way to racially profile.
Gotta disagree with you there - The town I live in is predominantly white. I'm white. I get asked periodically to do the door check thing.
As another poster has pointed out, it's completely bogus. I've just ignored it a couple times when I'm hurried. I know all my shit is paid for, so if they want to call a cop, feel free.
Slashdot Mirror
You can see the license plate clearly in the first photo, raising the question in my mind:
"can you infringe on the privacy of a person running 4 video cameras on the roof of their car?"
Not sure, but I think I'll give them a shot of something less mundane than my face, should the opportunity arise..
>> I'd love to see this in video games. like say street fighter!
We'd need force-feedback in it too...
*read 130 euro as 130 Bucks
>> Next thing was adding a captcha (from Free captchas) and now I don't get any spam anymore. :)
Looks good other than the 130 euros per year to remove their watermark. If they'd set up a sliding fee / 1000 impressions or something, I'd be interested.
>>GAINING in other sections
So are you saying we have a net gain? I seriously doubt it.
Looks like a good deal, but don't waste any time creating a customer account if you are out of the United states of America.
They ship to the good ol USA only...
>> I couldn't find any specs or reasons for the lower cost. Anyone else?
some info here
Sounds like the 300 bucks gets you better soound and usb ports..
>> I submit to you that aggressive deletion means that some work will be redone. Some work will be lost forever, and some opportunities to make the company more revenue will be lost forever, too.
Bingo!.
My company (fortune 500) automatically sends out notices to users with "excessive" shared disk usage. Read "normal" for excessive - We're talking a few hundred meg to get a notice, and users often legitimately have large files in their private folder. Mailboxes default to 20 meg, so don't try to store anything there or you'll get a different 'excessive use notice'
People routinely delete things they really need because IT hassles them and it's easier to just blow it away then beg for more quota.
Some users try to back up their stuff before deletion, but that's usually just by moving it onto another shared drive (d'oh - Those are full too) or pulling it to a local drive. Bad move, there's no backup and a corporate policy of nuking your local drive at the first sign of system instability. You place a call to helpdesk for something and they often smoke the whole drive image overnight, rather than try to fix it. (cost effective, no?)
We (IT) know you can't just buy a consumer grade drive and plug it into the SAN. It costs real money to expand storage, but the costs of *not* expanding your storage as your business grows are pretty much open-ended.
Yeah, I agree
I actually like to see product reviews, but this one's a pretty ho-hum item. and I can't see much to recommend it. I posted because I get kind of annoyed with the folks screaming "slashvertisement" everytime they see a product review.
I think Taco was just filling space here, not shilling anything.
>> Dude. Read the last 3 paragraphs.
I doubt he read any of the paragraphs..
For those of you too lazy to read, the executive summary:
My struggle with this drive is really the "Why"? It occupies an incredibly expensive niche between "Portable" and "Large".
Taco's words, so he is hardly selling this thing.
>> What kind of abuse since both parties need to become into an agreement to setup the system?
The copy of 2600 sitting in front of me (22.4) has an article called "How to track any UK GSM phone (without the user's consent)".
In a nutshell, it involves using an online number spoofing service to OK the request for tracking. So much for the agreement bit....
Maclean's Magazine did a story on this in November. The magazine purchased the Canadian privacy minister's phone records.
Beautiful way to make a point.
Makes me think of a project I worked on.
It was a small job (3-4 team members, a few months work). It was also crucial that it be done correctly. Work was started on the project (and completed) before the design doc was created. Our team still did interviews with all the stakeholders, and a 40 page design doc, because the PHB knew it was important. We just didn't actually have it to work from because PHB insisted we start coding immediately. You see, PHB committed to deliverables and timeline before even assigning staff to the project...
It was a mess from the start with no real finish - remediation in perpetuity.
My HP945 is no better speed-wise.
Once you've filled the camera's onboard memory (approx 5 shots), you might as well set the camera down and go make a sandwich. Even with a 60x write SD card, it's damn slow. I like the camera, I think it was a good deal for approx $350 US, but it's damn slow. Slow to focus and slow to write to the card...
I think any of us who has bought a camera for less than $800-$1000 has to expect some drawbacks though so I'm not too pissed about it.
I'm sure _anything_ they deem relevant and meaningful is saved server-side, not as a cookie.
This is just a mistake.
>> don't need to get under the hood
You misread my post. It's all about older programmers being _able_ to get under the hood if required while new grads generally can't.
Any of the projects my team has recently done in Visual whatever, I could replicate in C++ or C without touching STL if required. I've done so. (It generally isn't an intelligent use of time in the environment I'm catering to, though)
>> The sad fact, however, is that too many programmers, especially new programmers or those who didn't go to a theory-rich school, don't understand how things work under the covers.
Exactly. If there are tools that do the job, you don't need to get under the hood. Eventually, though you are going to need to understand all those libraries you've been using. The new hires typically run for help at that point, especially if they got their CS ticket somewhere that focused on "drag and drop" visual programming.
I spent the last part of this week writing MTS components in VB 6.0. It was the right tool for the job so I used it. Next week I'll be fixing some crap code written by our dot net "guru" (a recent grad). I can fix his code, but hell will freeze over before he figures out anything I've written in C or C++. We've tried to get him to learn, but outside of a visual IDE, he's lost. Doesn't understand memory management, data types, or even the OOD concepts you'd expect a recent grad to have.
The GP shouldn't be so fast to slag old dudes using old solutions. It doesn't mean we haven't kept up.
Ah.
If that's the way it works, I guess he was pretty dense to be trying to leave with anything that wasn't his.
The company I work for is really (I mean _really_) security conscious, but we have no signage about search of person/bags. We do have a tonne of other signage regarding prohibitions on access, no cameras allowed, subject to surveillance and so forth. but there is no provision I know of for search of bags/cases etc.
I _do_ know they've had our security force watch suspected employees and photograph them leaving with company property.
I think the punch-line has always been law enforcement called and dismissal.
>> (We checked his briefcase on his way out and removed all of the confidential information he was stealing first... Warrants are being drawn up to search his house now.)
I'm not sayin it's OK to leave with company info (It's not) but searching personal belongings sounds a way out of line, unless you had police attend and accused him of theft right then and there.
If security wants to see what's in my pockets, they can f*ck off. We have a security force where I work, but they're not sworn peace officers and can't do anything beyond surveillance, note-taking and citizen's arrest. (Exactly the same rights as anyone else. - Are things different in Australia?)
Actually funny/not-funny
:-]
I worked at a company where one of the managers decided to move on. She was near the top, worked hard and was quite professional. Her mistake was in giving three months notice so they could work out a graceful exit.
She was fired on the spot, asked to leave the property and given the minimum statutory severance.
In my jurisdiction, once you've given notice you may be let go immediately provided the company pays severance. I knew I was leaving my job with that company for 6 months and didn't give notice till 2 weeks before. I would have loved to give them more time to plan for my replacement, but figured they'd just shaft me.
They went bankrupt a few years later. Sometimes you get what you deserve.
I think parent post is bang on.
If the management has _any_ brains, they realize you would have/could have committed nefarious acts _before_ giving notice. The termination of system access is absolutely _not_ personal. It will be mandated by policy in many places and in fact protects the person who gave notice. If you gave notice and something "bad" happened immediately afterwards, server crash, corrupt database _whatever, suspicion would naturally fall on, you the terminated employee, unless you had no access to the systems.
As someone else has said, just take the pay and smile for 2 weeks. Where I work, you wouldn't have got past security the next day... again, nothing personal, just policy.
>> co.ck mean nothing
surely you meant co. u k?
The jurisdiction I live in has HUGE taxes on gasoline. So yeah, you're right.
We already have a very effective user-pay program in place without GPS. The license and registration fees paid each year are _nothing_ compared to the non-stop user fees paid when filling up.
The more I drive, the more I pay. - If the gas taxes were being used for highway safety or maintenance rather than going into general revenue, I'd feel a little less screwed by the whole process...
>> M$ is the spawn of satan, but never would they do something like that.
If nothing else, Microsoft understands public relations. In the same postion, they might want to do it, but would show better judgement I expect.
>> They only do this in parts of town that have a high percentage of racial minorities. Seriously, go to different stores in a major city and see for yourself. In the suburban white areas, no stores do the door check thing. It's basically just a legal way to racially profile.
Gotta disagree with you there - The town I live in is predominantly white. I'm white. I get asked periodically to do the door check thing.
As another poster has pointed out, it's completely bogus. I've just ignored it a couple times when I'm hurried. I know all my shit is paid for, so if they want to call a cop, feel free.