One of the questions that consumers might ask when dealing with a business that collects much personal information could become, "Do you run your database servers on HP-UX, OpenBSD, or Solaris?"
Why should this make anyone feel secure? It doesn't matter if it's a company policy or a piece of software, if it's neglected it will be abused.
I recently shipped a project for a client in Colorado while I as living in Japan and the rest of the team was in San Francisco.
Quick Postmortem: Communication delays weren't the problem, substandard employees were.
However, I was on call while in Japan. Everyone had my mobile number (And a local number that Skype forwarded to my Japanese mobile. Cheapskates) and my mobile email. Unless I was too drunk or preoccupied, I could answer questions on a moments notice. I even got up for those 4am (Japan time) conference calls.
But our project ran smoothly for the most part. (I'd say primarily because we weren't all in the same room, but that's a different article.) And when it got to crunch time, the things that threw us off schedule was people being morons, not 15 hour email delays.
However, that said, we didn't mix departments in different locations, and we structure our projects with as little inter-department dependence as possible.
In general, no, but who goes to your site? If it's young Japanese girls, then you better have one that will work on their phones. Are you processing orders from a sales force on their PDA's? Would be nice to get those orders in...
I mean one look at your server logs should tell you how many people trying to use a mobile browser...
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Depends which side of the funding you're on.
Why should this make anyone feel secure? It doesn't matter if it's a company policy or a piece of software, if it's neglected it will be abused.
You can't automate correct functioning.
Fortunately for everyone, boycotting is just as effective as censorship.
If your job hunting is so successful, why do you have so many interviews?
I recently shipped a project for a client in Colorado while I as living in Japan and the rest of the team was in San Francisco.
Quick Postmortem: Communication delays weren't the problem, substandard employees were.
However, I was on call while in Japan. Everyone had my mobile number (And a local number that Skype forwarded to my Japanese mobile. Cheapskates) and my mobile email. Unless I was too drunk or preoccupied, I could answer questions on a moments notice. I even got up for those 4am (Japan time) conference calls.
But our project ran smoothly for the most part. (I'd say primarily because we weren't all in the same room, but that's a different article.) And when it got to crunch time, the things that threw us off schedule was people being morons, not 15 hour email delays.
However, that said, we didn't mix departments in different locations, and we structure our projects with as little inter-department dependence as possible.
I thought measuring the temperature of dark matter was like measuring the distance to the celestial sphere.
/. reference, like measuring the quantity in the bit bucket.
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In general, no, but who goes to your site? If it's young Japanese girls, then you better have one that will work on their phones. Are you processing orders from a sales force on their PDA's? Would be nice to get those orders in... I mean one look at your server logs should tell you how many people trying to use a mobile browser...