I'm becoming convinced this is the future direction. It sure would be handy to have a limited phone view and then a full-scale desktop interface when plugged into a docking station; a tablet like monitor could be plugged in as a secondary docking station. In either case the processing core is the size of a mobile and the interface is exchanged.
I will also be starting to use a third party DNS server tonight.
In the mean time I have had a conversation to lodge a complaint with technical support and also sent them a support request email asking similar questions.
https://your.rogers.com/contact/contactus_main.asp
Another caution with ITIL. In my experience with the framework it does not model the business appropriately from a purely business perspective. It is a heavy framework with appropriate controls that can best be used on IT services. In my experience, from a high level, the best approach to take is the following.
Get buy-in from management and obtain all necessary resources (mostly information). Part of this is to develop a plan of how this will look.
Document business drivers, in a NFP org this is vital because you aren't driven by profit.
Document the current process situation (people, rules, resources). How do people do work? If you don't understand the current situation how are you going to move forward?
Validate the initial findings and receive early buyin from the organization as a whole
Develop a "To-be" model of processes (understanding that there are elements from the previous models which must remain constant) and get buy-in
Look for automation opportunities and efficiencies
Obviously there is a lot more than that invovled, but grab a notation (BPMN, UML - something that wont intimidate business clients), document everything, and create a plan. Just a couple thoughts.
And then they'll make tougher RFID chips, and we'll make tougher devices to kill them. And this war will escalate just like the Radar vs Radar Detector arms race. What are the cops using now? Negatively modulated phased arrays doppler assisted with frequency hopping? Exactly. This is fine in the principle of large devices for a small target group. But if you have to make the change across the entire retail/government/other sector to read and use these chips AND the cost goes up proportionally then at some point the war -could- be won. Or, like shoplifting, the costs^W savings can be passed on to consumers.
In most cases, great UI improvements are the incremental ones, not the revolutionary ones.
It is a gamble. Office and ribbon are a good example. The trasition from the current way of doing things to ribbon can be time consuming, however when you have transitioned it is an improvement. Is it worth the pain? tbd.
Question, where any *nix or L*X machines compromised? Might be a dumb question, so bash me all you want if it was... Considering it is a SQL injection attack I would assume that any system (of whatever OS) which is running a SQL database and is not scrubbing their input is vulnerable.
Bluray players play DVDs too. Very well, in fact. Nobody's going to be trashing anything.. except HDDVD early adopters who backed the wrong horse - that's the risk you take. Your parent wasn't quite clear but what is indicated through the conversation is that with HD-DVD you can play the newly purchased dual-mode discs on the new system in HD and the old DVD players at regular def.
I agree to a large extent to your points; more examination is required to ensure that patents aren't useless.
The converse is making everything more difficult to patent (through whatever means) the effect this may have on individuals could also be huge. Joe Blow may invent something that could change the world, is new, unique, un-obvious and "should" qualify for a patent - now that patenting take a lot more resources he/she has a barrier to entry that organizations like google / yahoo! / etc can meet easily. Joe Blow may lose their desire to invent or bring that product to market if they can't "own" it. Reform is needed, but reform that still takes into account the little guy (who aren't all bad) is required.
They are doing one of 2 things:
1) Trapping all the nasties to figure out what's out there and make their product better OR
2) Trapping all the nasties to figure out what's out there and sell another solution to protect you
3)...
4) Profit!
Come to think of it if you select number 2 you can go straight to 4.
Actually, if you read the article, the issue of revealing more than you meant to is only half of the scope of the problem. There's also the fact that email isn't seen as formal communication, which means that you can typically find email that's anything but "the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth," and yet it's entered into court records as evidence as if it were.
I think the real problem that we have is that we view email as if it were written communication after the fact, but when we're writing it, most of us think of it roughly the same way that we view casual conversation.
I agree, a quick google isn't revelaing the source, however there was research a few years back that indicated that someone was less likely to lie on email than in a verbal conversation; this is thought to be related to the fact that an email is seen to be a record even if informal.
Safety ? Isn't half of the crashes due to human errors ? Just pulling a figure out of the air: wouldn't that mean that half of crashes are due to mechanical errors?
My boss says to just use your back button and that will delete the comment. So does my Accounts Receivable Department; at least they did until the computer crashed and they lost all account information.
Actually, this brings up an interesting point. Since this is a book about a book is there precedence for Coles Notes type summaries of other works? From my understanding of the content in the lexicon book, it isn't even a plot summary as much as it is a reference.
As someone who has not read (watched or heard) any of the HP series I wont be buying this lexicon book to catch up. Since it is more of a reference than plot driven I doubt many others would buy this INSTEAD of the originals; she is not losing bulk sales.
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I'm becoming convinced this is the future direction. It sure would be handy to have a limited phone view and then a full-scale desktop interface when plugged into a docking station; a tablet like monitor could be plugged in as a secondary docking station. In either case the processing core is the size of a mobile and the interface is exchanged.
Looking at Chinese tech it will probably be Maglev.. I'm buying stocks in magnetic fields!
Ahhhh... Screw the whole thing.
I will also be starting to use a third party DNS server tonight. In the mean time I have had a conversation to lodge a complaint with technical support and also sent them a support request email asking similar questions. https://your.rogers.com/contact/contactus_main.asp
One of the best examples of military grade games and their consumer equivalent is Virtual Battlefield Simulator (VBS) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VBS2 and Operation Flashpoint http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OFP / Armed Assault http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArmA:_Armed_Assault. Both are really great games and are used for military and civilian (police, swat) training.
It makes me wonder if we are the computational power to create random images for the creature on the other side of the screen.
- Get buy-in from management and obtain all necessary resources (mostly information). Part of this is to develop a plan of how this will look.
- Document business drivers, in a NFP org this is vital because you aren't driven by profit.
- Document the current process situation (people, rules, resources). How do people do work? If you don't understand the current situation how are you going to move forward?
- Validate the initial findings and receive early buyin from the organization as a whole
- Develop a "To-be" model of processes (understanding that there are elements from the previous models which must remain constant) and get buy-in
- Look for automation opportunities and efficiencies
Obviously there is a lot more than that invovled, but grab a notation (BPMN, UML - something that wont intimidate business clients), document everything, and create a plan. Just a couple thoughts.Bah.. You're doing it the hard way; almost all my thesis was written^W found via Ask Slashdot.
In most cases, great UI improvements are the incremental ones, not the revolutionary ones.
It is a gamble. Office and ribbon are a good example. The trasition from the current way of doing things to ribbon can be time consuming, however when you have transitioned it is an improvement. Is it worth the pain? tbd.QED?
Quod Erat Donatum?
Well put sir. Well put.Yes, Quite! Mod up +10000; shallow and pedantic.
Your parent wasn't quite clear but what is indicated through the conversation is that with HD-DVD you can play the newly purchased dual-mode discs on the new system in HD and the old DVD players at regular def.
I agree to a large extent to your points; more examination is required to ensure that patents aren't useless.
The converse is making everything more difficult to patent (through whatever means) the effect this may have on individuals could also be huge. Joe Blow may invent something that could change the world, is new, unique, un-obvious and "should" qualify for a patent - now that patenting take a lot more resources he/she has a barrier to entry that organizations like google / yahoo! / etc can meet easily. Joe Blow may lose their desire to invent or bring that product to market if they can't "own" it. Reform is needed, but reform that still takes into account the little guy (who aren't all bad) is required.
I call honeypot.
...
They are doing one of 2 things:
1) Trapping all the nasties to figure out what's out there and make their product better
OR
2) Trapping all the nasties to figure out what's out there and sell another solution to protect you
3)
4) Profit!
Come to think of it if you select number 2 you can go straight to 4.
I think the real problem that we have is that we view email as if it were written communication after the fact, but when we're writing it, most of us think of it roughly the same way that we view casual conversation.
I agree, a quick google isn't revelaing the source, however there was research a few years back that indicated that someone was less likely to lie on email than in a verbal conversation; this is thought to be related to the fact that an email is seen to be a record even if informal.
Understood and considered - but weather is either going to cause a human or mechanical failure. ATC's are likely in the human category.
There is no heart under Ballmer's shirt only another chair.
Actually, this brings up an interesting point. Since this is a book about a book is there precedence for Coles Notes type summaries of other works? From my understanding of the content in the lexicon book, it isn't even a plot summary as much as it is a reference.
As someone who has not read (watched or heard) any of the HP series I wont be buying this lexicon book to catch up. Since it is more of a reference than plot driven I doubt many others would buy this INSTEAD of the originals; she is not losing bulk sales.