Except that the face value of a one-ounce gold coin is only $50. Does the tax code require you to convert real US Dollars into Federal Reserve Notes before calculating taxes?
"No State shall...make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts..."
But from an accounting viewpoint, it still cost less than doing it in-house. The company is therefore saving money. Even if the outsourced project stalls or fails, it's still a smaller expense than a successful project using local labor. I've seen outside projects green-lighted even after they were proven to be headed for failure because it was still cheaper than starting over using internal staff (and then terminating internal staff to save even more money as the outside project collapses).
Plus we need vampires stalking the corridors, terrorists on the bridge, and Raquel Welch in the engine room. (The Brits have done this before. Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr took a bunch of unsuspecting passengers for a ride in an ocean liner in "The Magic Christian".)
If the RIAA pays someone release a digital music file to the wild, to upload it onto someone else's network, has the RIAA effectively abandoned their copyright to that song? The fact that it's a garbled file recording might not be critical if the "song" had the same name and artist info as the original (copyrighted) piece. "You downloaded the song we posted to your network" isn't likely to impress the judge.
(Or could something like this be why they decided not to continue the project?)
"All of the men who play female avatars pick the female avatar with the smallest breasts and hips."
One aspect of choosing a female avatar is the amount of screen space they take up. Choosing a tall, muscle-bound Goliath as an avatar means you can't see what you're fighting when the camera is back over your shoulder. Take a look at City of Heroes, where half the population is four feet high.
On these games, it's more efficient to choose a small avatar, 5' or even smaller. At these sizes, the female avatars are simply more believable - we've all seen short women, but 4' men are relatively rare past sixth grade. Since everything has to be scaled down, it's necessary to pick the smallest size to maintain any sort of proportian (a 40" chest does not fit on someone 40" tall).
"How many 8RU server cases packed with explosives do you need to take out an entire floor of any given DC?"
In 1980, they used a photocopier full of explosives againt the Harbey casino. Rack servers would definately be easier to load into someone's data center. http://www.rgj.com/extra/harveys.php
(decides against bad pun regarding cluster bombs...)
"But I'd be damned if I didnt convert the whole thing into UNIX stuff within the end of the next year."
We had someone try to do that at my last place. Our entire business runs on one software application that has a Win2K client that communicates to a Win2K server (it used to be NT up until 2005). The web site requires IIS 6.0. The Unix guy thrashed around for a few days, then left quietly. With some vertical market software, you use what the vendor tells you to use, and build everything else around it.
I works the other way, too. I can set up networks, fix anything that breaks, administer anything that needs to be adminstered, train employees, manage budgets, write Sarbox procedure manuals, etc. I can't program a single line of code, so what does everyone send me: "Ooh look, here's one for an Oracle developer, apply for this one..."
The painful part of the free MS software comes in when you get your $300 Software Assurance renewal notice at the end of the year...every year. Any school district that buys and licenses a few thousand of these machine will likely implode at the start of the next budget cycle.
I lost 7 out of 22 from a batch of gx280s. A second bach of 14 has suffered no problems, so I suspect the problem is batch-related. (This was after our corporate overloads threw out our perfectly good generic systems and replaced them with Dells because "Dell makes the best hardware in the industry".)
"Hopefully they'd be smart enough to get permenantly sterilized before trying something like that..."
And miss out on all those superpowered children? Just think of the possibilities combinations for conceiving new overlords: radiation belts, solar flares, ion storms...
My $FORMER_EMPLOYER only uses three real IP addresses: the external firewall interface, the email server, and the onsite web server. The other hundred-odd machines had whatever fake address I felt like giving them. The ISP gave me a block of 10 addresses to play with; the other seven have been sitting unused for the past six years (but they weren't interested in getting them back).
Very worthwhile. I know that anything flagged priority can be safely sent to the bottem of the queue.
The only people in my office that use priority flags are in Sales and Marketing. They don't use many critical systems, and I know their email is working fine, so whatever's left can wait 'til later. If it's a real crisis - they need new toner - they'll be in my office before I'll be able to reply anyway.
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Except that the face value of a one-ounce gold coin is only $50. Does the tax code require you to convert real US Dollars into Federal Reserve Notes before calculating taxes?
"No State shall...make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts..."
But from an accounting viewpoint, it still cost less than doing it in-house. The company is therefore saving money. Even if the outsourced project stalls or fails, it's still a smaller expense than a successful project using local labor. I've seen outside projects green-lighted even after they were proven to be headed for failure because it was still cheaper than starting over using internal staff (and then terminating internal staff to save even more money as the outside project collapses).
Referring to himself as a "techie" might have been one clue...
Plus we need vampires stalking the corridors, terrorists on the bridge, and Raquel Welch in the engine room. (The Brits have done this before. Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr took a bunch of unsuspecting passengers for a ride in an ocean liner in "The Magic Christian".)
If the RIAA pays someone release a digital music file to the wild, to upload it onto someone else's network, has the RIAA effectively abandoned their copyright to that song? The fact that it's a garbled file recording might not be critical if the "song" had the same name and artist info as the original (copyrighted) piece. "You downloaded the song we posted to your network" isn't likely to impress the judge.
(Or could something like this be why they decided not to continue the project?)
"All of the men who play female avatars pick the female avatar with the smallest breasts and hips."
One aspect of choosing a female avatar is the amount of screen space they take up. Choosing a tall, muscle-bound Goliath as an avatar means you can't see what you're fighting when the camera is back over your shoulder. Take a look at City of Heroes, where half the population is four feet high.
On these games, it's more efficient to choose a small avatar, 5' or even smaller. At these sizes, the female avatars are simply more believable - we've all seen short women, but 4' men are relatively rare past sixth grade. Since everything has to be scaled down, it's necessary to pick the smallest size to maintain any sort of proportian (a 40" chest does not fit on someone 40" tall).
"Oh, someone deprived us of a $10 CD?"
But your actual losses were closer to $150,000.
"If you search before you post, you'll know that Sober-G was used to send out Neo-Nazi spam. Buddy Holly was not."
What if you play it backwards?
But are they creating 10,000 new jobs, and just adding office space for 10,000 new H-1B visa holders?
"If only someone could coin a catchy, pithy word for the phenomenon of coining pithy, catchy words for things."
Marketing?
"How many 8RU server cases packed with explosives do you need to take out an entire floor of any given DC?"
In 1980, they used a photocopier full of explosives againt the Harbey casino. Rack servers would definately be easier to load into someone's data center.
http://www.rgj.com/extra/harveys.php
(decides against bad pun regarding cluster bombs...)
Steel cannonballs also often have a large horizontal velocity vector applied to them, making the experiments much more exciting.
"But I'd be damned if I didnt convert the whole thing into UNIX stuff within the end of the next year."
We had someone try to do that at my last place. Our entire business runs on one software application that has a Win2K client that communicates to a Win2K server (it used to be NT up until 2005). The web site requires IIS 6.0. The Unix guy thrashed around for a few days, then left quietly. With some vertical market software, you use what the vendor tells you to use, and build everything else around it.
I works the other way, too. I can set up networks, fix anything that breaks, administer anything that needs to be adminstered, train employees, manage budgets, write Sarbox procedure manuals, etc. I can't program a single line of code, so what does everyone send me: "Ooh look, here's one for an Oracle developer, apply for this one..."
There's a difference between massive fraud, and massive fraud that brings in foreign currency.
"Dude, if your weiner is small enough to fit in there..."
If you had taken your enlargement pills like you were supposed to, you wouldn't have this problem.
Underwear helps, too.
I'm more concerned about Chippendale seizing control of the array first.
The painful part of the free MS software comes in when you get your $300 Software Assurance renewal notice at the end of the year...every year. Any school district that buys and licenses a few thousand of these machine will likely implode at the start of the next budget cycle.
I lost 7 out of 22 from a batch of gx280s. A second bach of 14 has suffered no problems, so I suspect the problem is batch-related. (This was after our corporate overloads threw out our perfectly good generic systems and replaced them with Dells because "Dell makes the best hardware in the industry".)
Almost. How about six into four?
http://www.squarebox.co.uk/thresholdFront.jpg
"Hopefully they'd be smart enough to get permenantly sterilized before trying something like that..."
And miss out on all those superpowered children? Just think of the possibilities combinations for conceiving new overlords: radiation belts, solar flares, ion storms...
My $FORMER_EMPLOYER only uses three real IP addresses: the external firewall interface, the email server, and the onsite web server. The other hundred-odd machines had whatever fake address I felt like giving them. The ISP gave me a block of 10 addresses to play with; the other seven have been sitting unused for the past six years (but they weren't interested in getting them back).
Very worthwhile. I know that anything flagged priority can be safely sent to the bottem of the queue.
The only people in my office that use priority flags are in Sales and Marketing. They don't use many critical systems, and I know their email is working fine, so whatever's left can wait 'til later. If it's a real crisis - they need new toner - they'll be in my office before I'll be able to reply anyway.
And it only took them 60 years to track it down. We trained that cat well.