IT lost this fight when the USB memory stick became popular. Besides, no matter what they do, they can't stop me from creating a knoppix cluster from my coworkers pc's after they all leave for the day.
Why not? It's hard to boot from a CD when there's no CD, or the BIOS won't allow it and you can't get access to the physical machine.
In several sites at my company, there is NO legitimate purposes for USB storage on their systems. Those systems are for specific uses, and that is all they are for. Plain/Simple.
The higher ups looked at what it cost us to keep up to date on every possible way anyone of any skill level could cause problems with data, and it far outweighed the cost of mucking the ports up. (Those numbers were derived from actual support costs, subscriptions, engineering time, etc)
When you're deciding policy, it helps to have actual numbers behind it.
Speed Limit = you can exceed if done safely, and obey the "basic speed law" Maximum Speed = Don't exceed this ever
It not your job to determine what is safe for me to be doing. You are not trained for it. Call a cop. I've known a person who slowed a person down like this once, by pulling in front of an 85mph driver (normal flow in this area is 80-90), and doing 65. They got tagged for impersonating an officer, wreckless driving, unsafe lane change, something road rage related that I can't recall, and couple vehicle violations. It was not pretty as I heard it.
You definitely can't have AOL in your name, I'm not sure you can even have Service in your name. (I know things like Support and Billing are out as well)
>I find all of this quite bizzare - if something is important to you, why wouldn't you bother to study up on it. And if something isn't important to you why waste your time with it at all?
I think the problem lies in belief. They believe that they actually know what is said. Trusted people told it to them, and interpreted it for them.
If you really think you know something, how much effort to do you normally spend trying to understand it further, as opposed to applying its usefulness to your life.
I get yelled at at work from time to time for not following documented procedure. "Why didn't you follow the docs?"
"Because I knew what they said" "Well obviously you didn't"
"Yeah, well I did last time and the time before that. For efficiency, there has to be a level of acceptance of what I know" "Well, just do what's in the docs"
"But when it says to reboot the machine, it doesn't tell me how... I have to rely on my experience to tell me that I shouldn't just hit the power button" "That's different. That's trivial"
"That's exactly my point. These documents seem pretty trivial. And this one over here says to record my changes on a website that has moved to another URL. I have to know what to interpret" "OK, then update the doc so it's got the right URL"
"So, I can rewrite the doc to have the steps I followed?" "Yes, you're now in charge of keeping it up to date"
"Crap"
Except I can't go update religious texts without starting another religion.
>VCR's have automatically set their clocks from broadcast signal for longer than they had existed when that joke started.
Funny. I have a cheapie that I bought only a few months back, and while it does have that option, I couldn't get it to work. (different tech, but those self setting atomic clocks don't work in my house either)
Fortunately, I know how to set time on my various clocks.
I've seen plenty of support forums describe how to do this. If she gets to the point of wanting to move off, she has a plethora of options available to help her. (hopefully including you telling her how to do it? as opposed to blindly pushing an agenda)
She's only locked in because she hasn't asked how to do it. Just like a large percentage of the population has been locked in to blinking 12:00 on their VCRs for years.
>You may care about quality, but the difference isn't enough for most users to care.
Especially considering you're starting from lossy encoding to begin with.
I bet if you're picky enough to get bothered by the double sample, you're picky enough to be annoyed by the "pitiful compression" or whatever the musical elites are saying these days;-)
Or, if you're not bothered by one, you won't be bothered by the other
I didn't say it would be technically difficult. It would just take awhile to prove that the other software wouldn't affect our environment. It would require alot of formal testing, documentation, discussions, and meetings. Then after that we'd end up supporting scripts in more than one language since the old code won't disappear overnight.
I don't know about GP, but I've got a couple hundred hosts that have PERL installed, but not Ruby or Python, and getting those others installed would require alot of work. (some technical, given the age and OS on some of them... but mostly configuration management style issues)
Since there is alot of PERL code already doing work in this environment, and PERL is on everything already... it makes sense to stick with what's there.
>"PC" stands for "Personal Computer" which could be running Windows, Linux, *BSD, MSDOS, FreeDOS, etc. etc.
So, are you saying the PC isn't a PC, or the Mac isn't a Mac?
You might want to have a peek at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_computer "In today's common usage, personal computer and PC usually indicate an IBM PC compatible. Due to this association, some manufacturers of personal computers that are not IBM PCs avoid explicitly using the terms to describe their products."
Yes, I get your nitpick... it just doesn't matter. And it's certainly not misleading in any sort of sense the ASA would be involved in.
The auction would still be showing the highest bid, and the shill bidder wouldn't be paying anyway... so only difference here is that I'd not have a chance to pay less.
All you're doing is making it clear to people how stupid they may be?
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IT lost this fight when the USB memory stick became popular. Besides, no matter what they do, they can't stop me from creating a knoppix cluster from my coworkers pc's after they all leave for the day.
Why not? It's hard to boot from a CD when there's no CD, or the BIOS won't allow it and you can't get access to the physical machine.
In several sites at my company, there is NO legitimate purposes for USB storage on their systems. Those systems are for specific uses, and that is all they are for. Plain/Simple.
The higher ups looked at what it cost us to keep up to date on every possible way anyone of any skill level could cause problems with data, and it far outweighed the cost of mucking the ports up. (Those numbers were derived from actual support costs, subscriptions, engineering time, etc)
When you're deciding policy, it helps to have actual numbers behind it.
> driving is for the birds The birds in Alaska drive? I knew it was a big state, but man, that's ridiculous
Sure you do, in most states.
Speed Limit = you can exceed if done safely, and obey the "basic speed law"
Maximum Speed = Don't exceed this ever
It not your job to determine what is safe for me to be doing. You are not trained for it. Call a cop.
I've known a person who slowed a person down like this once, by pulling in front of an 85mph driver (normal flow in this area is 80-90), and doing 65.
They got tagged for impersonating an officer, wreckless driving, unsafe lane change, something road rage related that I can't recall, and couple vehicle violations. It was not pretty as I heard it.
We have signs all over here saying "watch downhill speed" for a reason
You definitely can't have AOL in your name, I'm not sure you can even have Service in your name. (I know things like Support and Billing are out as well)
Sounds close... but I still have two problems up front.
1. What if I want to lend something to a friend/spouse? With Records/Tapes/CDs I can do so easily.
2. What if I want to resell it? I enjoyed it for awhile... let me recoup some of my cost and sell it to someone else if they want it
Unless you're doing pi/2 or (2^0.5)/2 or sume such
\My 1/50th of a $ worth
Unless you're doing pi/2 or (2^0.5)/2 or sume such
HeadON, Apply directly to the forehead...
>I find all of this quite bizzare - if something is important to you, why wouldn't you bother to study up on it. And if something isn't important to you why waste your time with it at all?
I think the problem lies in belief.
They believe that they actually know what is said. Trusted people told it to them, and interpreted it for them.
If you really think you know something, how much effort to do you normally spend trying to understand it further, as opposed to applying its usefulness to your life.
I get yelled at at work from time to time for not following documented procedure.
"Why didn't you follow the docs?"
"Because I knew what they said"
"Well obviously you didn't"
"Yeah, well I did last time and the time before that. For efficiency, there has to be a level of acceptance of what I know"
"Well, just do what's in the docs"
"But when it says to reboot the machine, it doesn't tell me how... I have to rely on my experience to tell me that I shouldn't just hit the power button"
"That's different. That's trivial"
"That's exactly my point. These documents seem pretty trivial. And this one over here says to record my changes on a website that has moved to another URL. I have to know what to interpret"
"OK, then update the doc so it's got the right URL"
"So, I can rewrite the doc to have the steps I followed?"
"Yes, you're now in charge of keeping it up to date"
"Crap"
Except I can't go update religious texts without starting another religion.
>VCR's have automatically set their clocks from broadcast signal for longer than they had existed when that joke started.
Funny. I have a cheapie that I bought only a few months back, and while it does have that option, I couldn't get it to work. (different tech, but those self setting atomic clocks don't work in my house either)
Fortunately, I know how to set time on my various clocks.
I've seen plenty of support forums describe how to do this. If she gets to the point of wanting to move off, she has a plethora of options available to help her. (hopefully including you telling her how to do it? as opposed to blindly pushing an agenda)
She's only locked in because she hasn't asked how to do it.
Just like a large percentage of the population has been locked in to blinking 12:00 on their VCRs for years.
>You may care about quality, but the difference isn't enough for most users to care.
;-)
Especially considering you're starting from lossy encoding to begin with.
I bet if you're picky enough to get bothered by the double sample, you're picky enough to be annoyed by the "pitiful compression" or whatever the musical elites are saying these days
Or, if you're not bothered by one, you won't be bothered by the other
Right, and then it would only work for purchased songs sometimes. That is for the non-DRM'd ones.
In my city we've got streets with 55MPH limits that have crosswalks. (Next city over has a 60MPH one)
Then again our cops are infamous for chasing down and ticketing jaywalkers
I didn't say it would be technically difficult. It would just take awhile to prove that the other software wouldn't affect our environment. It would require alot of formal testing, documentation, discussions, and meetings. Then after that we'd end up supporting scripts in more than one language since the old code won't disappear overnight.
>My guess is you don't like Perl becuase you never really got into it
You kidding? I love perl. I never said anything against it.
Don't read too much into a typo my friend =-)
No kidding... there's a reason I'm doing a ton of VBScript work now... We've got several hundred of those as well, and guess what they all have? =-)
I don't know about GP, but I've got a couple hundred hosts that have PERL installed, but not Ruby or Python, and getting those others installed would require alot of work. (some technical, given the age and OS on some of them... but mostly configuration management style issues)
Since there is alot of PERL code already doing work in this environment, and PERL is on everything already... it makes sense to stick with what's there.
>"PC" stands for "Personal Computer" which could be running Windows, Linux, *BSD, MSDOS, FreeDOS, etc. etc.
So, are you saying the PC isn't a PC, or the Mac isn't a Mac?
You might want to have a peek at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_computer
"In today's common usage, personal computer and PC usually indicate an IBM PC compatible. Due to this association, some manufacturers of personal computers that are not IBM PCs avoid explicitly using the terms to describe their products."
Yes, I get your nitpick... it just doesn't matter. And it's certainly not misleading in any sort of sense the ASA would be involved in.
I'd detail the details for you, but I wouldn't want to bore you with the details.
I don't understand how that would help.
The auction would still be showing the highest bid, and the shill bidder wouldn't be paying anyway... so only difference here is that I'd not have a chance to pay less.
All you're doing is making it clear to people how stupid they may be?
How do you know the bidder is trying to win though? How can you determine intent from the bids?
Yeah, was about 3 years ago. Didn't get a break, and had to get a fairly high interest loan to cover it =-(
The at least told me I should handle California first, before worrying about them =-)