Congress has already bankrupted the SSA fund, so all they need is one computeer that can add and subtract "0" very quickly....unless they need something that can divide by zero:)
The end result of your story sounds so familiar.
I was a military brat, and thus experienced a lot of different schools. I was always in the 98 percentile and was far ahead of my peers.
In 7th grade, we were transferred to Grand Forks, North Dakota. I don't know if the same program is still in effect, but back then they had a special class for all the bright kids.
This was a large school, being a feeder school for all the small farming communities in the area (I spent the last few months of 6th grade in a school where 4th, 5th, and 6th grades were taught in the same classroom).
Hitting 7th grade was a shock. We were taking high school level courses; English Comp, Biology, Algebra/Trig, etc and were graded on that material; not the normal curricula the rest of the students used. It was extremely challenging and pretty competitive as well.
Fast forward to high school..I spent some time in Las Vegas...typical school system, nothing exceptional either way, but when I went to the DoD school system in Okinawa, I had a horrible shock.
I was using the same textbooks I used in 7th grade (and on which I had earned straight A's). For the most part the teaching staff seemed to be either young people who took the assignment as a way to travel or teachers who probably couldn't cut it any where else (my Latin teacher was so old she constantly fell asleep in class, my shop teacher liked to smoke hash behind the shop bldg, etc)
I got bored and started cutting school; eventually getting expelled. Since I wasn't in school, I hung out with the other people who were cutting class...and eventually came under the view of military and Japanese law enforcement as a suspected drug dealer! I hung out with the dopers, but didn't appear to be one - therefore I must be dealing in drugs. Eventually, the Japanese government began deportation proceedings, but fortunately we were transferred back stateside before that happened.
In Lompoc, CA, I went back to my getting A's in my classes (very good school; we actually had a Digital PdP8e to learn Basic on), but found that because of differences in graduation requirements, and my expulsion for the one year, I would graduate in the class of '77 rather than '74.
Needless to say, I didn't stay around to graduate, I ended up with a GED and CLEP tests worth 2 years college equivalency.
It is hard to say now, whether that one year in North Dakota taught me to apply myself and succeed academically or whether I would have been better off with mediocre schooling all the way through.
There is a difference between a permanent archiving system and the standard 3 year tape rotation backups.
Permanent archiving is extremely expensive; and is only recently being forced upon business/government agencies. A large part of the problem is that the systems have no way to separate "historically important" emails from Johnx sending messages with his vacation pictures to everyone in his department. In this case (admittedly facetious) even though the users might delete them from their hard drive; it becomes a matter of public record for all eternity, and so does the cost to store and maintain it!
I used to work for a Fortune 500 company which was in the nursing home business. Due to the potential release of sensitive information, which under patient confidentiality laws must be protected - even to the point of not disclosing that an individual was a resident, all workstation drives were routinely destroyed when the machines left the company.
For those of you who are being so freaking paranoid, there is ONE difference between destroying a drive when sending a workstation for disposal and disposing of the entire workstation with the hard drive still in it.
With either option, the data is lost to the entity which used to own the computer. The difference is that the company which releases the hard drive from service without destruction faces a very real risk that someone will be able to obtain sensitive data from it. The data cannot be retrieved by unauthorized third parties if you securely wipe/destroy a drive.
From the tone of things, it sounds as if some of our readers envision a room in IT in which rack upon rack of hard drives should be stored! Can you imagine walking into a vault and seeing a room full of 1 GB hard drives which were not destroyed, just in case someone wants to spend 2 billion dollars to search them all for data?
Recycling backup tapes used to be a common thing; they are expensive when you look at the number of tapes required for corporate level backups. The traditional method of 3 generations of backups was , for years, considered the standard.
It is only in today's lawsuit happy environment that companies are being forced to retain backups for a longer period.
Hmmm, squelching technology? When is the last time you saw a consumer audio DAT (Digital Audio Tape) deck? The recording industry shut them down hard with the Audio Home Recording Act. This act imposed a royality on DAT drives, DAT media, and required a serialization scheme which would prevent copies of copies from being made (regardless of what the content is). Guess who gets approximately 40% of those royalties?
Now DAT is used primarily for tape backup.
I suppose it all boils down to what they perceive as having the ability to harm their business.
I am surprised they mentioned the Columbia. That was the first PC I actually used at work. I remember that it came with PC/DOS 1.something, CPM/86, and the USCD P-System.
It was nice having that huge hard drive, but the best thing that happened was when MS/DOS 2.01 came out (I think that is the correct version) and introduced the concept of sub-directories. No more having a 20Mb floppy with no organization.
It also had some software that came with it - perfect-filer and others. Anyone know if that had anything to do with the later Word Perfect?
It's important to go back to the fundamental goal of Windows Genuine Advantage and the risk of pirated software. A lot of people believe that it might be about the revenue......but in actual fact, it is about the security and privacy of the users. Some research that we've done finds that the incidence of malware (malicious software) is a lot higher on pirated software, so we really are trying to make sure that users really have the opportunity to protect themselves.
So... WGA is malware designed to help people with pirated software protect themselves? Microsoft doesn't care about the revenue?
I just wonder where his "internet" was for the day it was missing. Do all these "pipes" form special areas where an "internet" circles in a holding pattern until there is room in the right pipe?
The sad thing is that none of these guy's egos will allow them to hit the abstain button, when they don't understand the issue.
from the quoted article:
"Microsoft's Xbox Live, an online gaming service for the console that helped pioneer the online-gaming boom...."
I had no idea that the Xbox had been around since teh Roger Wilco days:)
Book leaked July 7 and an injunction July 9? Wish the court system worked that quickly in the states.
I believe I would have probably read the book before the store realized it was sold - it is hardly "War and Peace."
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Congress has already bankrupted the SSA fund, so all they need is one computeer that can add and subtract "0" very quickly....unless they need something that can divide by zero :)
The end result of your story sounds so familiar. I was a military brat, and thus experienced a lot of different schools. I was always in the 98 percentile and was far ahead of my peers. In 7th grade, we were transferred to Grand Forks, North Dakota. I don't know if the same program is still in effect, but back then they had a special class for all the bright kids. This was a large school, being a feeder school for all the small farming communities in the area (I spent the last few months of 6th grade in a school where 4th, 5th, and 6th grades were taught in the same classroom). Hitting 7th grade was a shock. We were taking high school level courses; English Comp, Biology, Algebra/Trig, etc and were graded on that material; not the normal curricula the rest of the students used. It was extremely challenging and pretty competitive as well. Fast forward to high school..I spent some time in Las Vegas...typical school system, nothing exceptional either way, but when I went to the DoD school system in Okinawa, I had a horrible shock. I was using the same textbooks I used in 7th grade (and on which I had earned straight A's). For the most part the teaching staff seemed to be either young people who took the assignment as a way to travel or teachers who probably couldn't cut it any where else (my Latin teacher was so old she constantly fell asleep in class, my shop teacher liked to smoke hash behind the shop bldg, etc) I got bored and started cutting school; eventually getting expelled. Since I wasn't in school, I hung out with the other people who were cutting class...and eventually came under the view of military and Japanese law enforcement as a suspected drug dealer! I hung out with the dopers, but didn't appear to be one - therefore I must be dealing in drugs. Eventually, the Japanese government began deportation proceedings, but fortunately we were transferred back stateside before that happened. In Lompoc, CA, I went back to my getting A's in my classes (very good school; we actually had a Digital PdP8e to learn Basic on), but found that because of differences in graduation requirements, and my expulsion for the one year, I would graduate in the class of '77 rather than '74. Needless to say, I didn't stay around to graduate, I ended up with a GED and CLEP tests worth 2 years college equivalency. It is hard to say now, whether that one year in North Dakota taught me to apply myself and succeed academically or whether I would have been better off with mediocre schooling all the way through.
There is a difference between a permanent archiving system and the standard 3 year tape rotation backups. Permanent archiving is extremely expensive; and is only recently being forced upon business/government agencies. A large part of the problem is that the systems have no way to separate "historically important" emails from Johnx sending messages with his vacation pictures to everyone in his department. In this case (admittedly facetious) even though the users might delete them from their hard drive; it becomes a matter of public record for all eternity, and so does the cost to store and maintain it!
I used to work for a Fortune 500 company which was in the nursing home business. Due to the potential release of sensitive information, which under patient confidentiality laws must be protected - even to the point of not disclosing that an individual was a resident, all workstation drives were routinely destroyed when the machines left the company. For those of you who are being so freaking paranoid, there is ONE difference between destroying a drive when sending a workstation for disposal and disposing of the entire workstation with the hard drive still in it. With either option, the data is lost to the entity which used to own the computer. The difference is that the company which releases the hard drive from service without destruction faces a very real risk that someone will be able to obtain sensitive data from it. The data cannot be retrieved by unauthorized third parties if you securely wipe/destroy a drive. From the tone of things, it sounds as if some of our readers envision a room in IT in which rack upon rack of hard drives should be stored! Can you imagine walking into a vault and seeing a room full of 1 GB hard drives which were not destroyed, just in case someone wants to spend 2 billion dollars to search them all for data? Recycling backup tapes used to be a common thing; they are expensive when you look at the number of tapes required for corporate level backups. The traditional method of 3 generations of backups was , for years, considered the standard. It is only in today's lawsuit happy environment that companies are being forced to retain backups for a longer period.
Hey, the guy has a bar....all he has to do is to roll it into the mens room to recharge his weapons system :)
Hmmm, squelching technology? When is the last time you saw a consumer audio DAT (Digital Audio Tape) deck? The recording industry shut them down hard with the Audio Home Recording Act. This act imposed a royality on DAT drives, DAT media, and required a serialization scheme which would prevent copies of copies from being made (regardless of what the content is). Guess who gets approximately 40% of those royalties?
Now DAT is used primarily for tape backup.
I suppose it all boils down to what they perceive as having the ability to harm their business.
I am surprised they mentioned the Columbia. That was the first PC I actually used at work. I remember that it came with PC/DOS 1.something, CPM/86, and the USCD P-System. It was nice having that huge hard drive, but the best thing that happened was when MS/DOS 2.01 came out (I think that is the correct version) and introduced the concept of sub-directories. No more having a 20Mb floppy with no organization. It also had some software that came with it - perfect-filer and others. Anyone know if that had anything to do with the later Word Perfect?
I just wonder where his "internet" was for the day it was missing. Do all these "pipes" form special areas where an "internet" circles in a holding pattern until there is room in the right pipe? The sad thing is that none of these guy's egos will allow them to hit the abstain button, when they don't understand the issue.
I am very tired of being looked on as some kind of "white devil" due to the slave trade.
While the slave trade was indeed a horrible thing, it could not have existed if Africans were not more than happy to sell their fellows into slavery.
You can't have a market without a source for the raw materials.
Nahh, tape is obviously analog..
from the quoted article: "Microsoft's Xbox Live, an online gaming service for the console that helped pioneer the online-gaming boom...." I had no idea that the Xbox had been around since teh Roger Wilco days :)
Book leaked July 7 and an injunction July 9? Wish the court system worked that quickly in the states. I believe I would have probably read the book before the store realized it was sold - it is hardly "War and Peace."