It's interesting because it's a "missing-link" technology. Cheaper solar power for the masses. It can be used to increase sales and interest in the solar industry in general, allowing research into more efficient technologies to be funded more rapidly.
Especially if you are being invaded by US forces and want a cheap way to make our multimilliondollar 'force fields' as effective as worm crap.
Blanketing our tanks in fifty-cent beachballs or paintbombing the sensors is right out.
Tank you,
The Management
Sounds like a profitable opportunity to sell Australian ISPs drop-in servers which allow customers to choose which of a list of standard antispam options (and programs) they want run on their mailboxes. That way, the ISPs can say they've implemented antispam measures, the burden of configuration will be put on users, the spam will still not be completely stopped and the goverment can continue to ignore the problem. Everyone wins. Except the ISPs who have to buy these things. And the users whose fees will increase. But the government can pretend it's addressed the problem, and government mates can make a huge profit off selling legally-mandated, technically useless servers.
Precisely. The world is under no obligation to prop up any dying industry. It's up to the industry to provide a service which people want to use. If people no longer want what the industry provides, why should that industry survive? How many industries from 100 years ago still operate in the same form now as they did back then?
To the theatre industry and every other industry: If you're not providing options that suit me, I'm not giving you money. The fact that the playing field has changed is not an excuse. Innovate or die, kthx.
Are we talking multi-billion-dollar new business ideas, or just "Gee, my job would be a whole lot easier if they issued us with black pencils instead of blue ones" ?
I can see why employees might be wary of submitting the first type, but the second type is just "I can see how to run this place a little better, but I don't have the authorisation to make the change."
The gf and I did this recently with around a thousand books. We sorted by author and re-shelved as we went. She also manually typed the details of every book into a spreadsheet, which I thought a little excessive, but she likes accumulating data and keeping busy.
She also likes buying books, and I haven't yet managed to assemble sufficient bookcases to shelve her entire collection. There are some flatpacks in storage which should theoretically take care of the situation, but I've noticed that every time she gets more shelving, it gets filled a week later. I'm therefore trying to eke out the last couple of bookcases until I can find her a bigger house:/
From the article:
Websites cannot be trusted, but individuals can be trusted.
Just... what?
Whoa, I feel like giving my credit card number to some individual I found on the internet! No registered business name, no history, no physical business location! What could possibly go wrong?
This has been your comedy break for today. We now return you to your existence of scrubbing unending spyware off the PC of everyone who clicks on crap randomly.
Let's say I'm a computer technician, with a clientele that includes small businesses and residential customers, and let's also say I'm really the only game in town. One day, someone, somewhere, invents a program that allows my customers to share information that I've given them in the course of doing my job. This is information that I've spent time and resources acquiring, and as a result of this sharing I lose business. If I tried to sue the developer of this program for my "lost business" I'd get laughed out of court
And rightly so. What kind of computer tech deliberately restricts access to information that can be freely found or determined by other methods anyway? Your skills lie in your ability to configure, operate, program, repair and clean their equipment better than they choose to become at doing it. Not because you're the only person around with the password that unlocks their server every morning.
Disclaimer: Yes, I'm a tech.
I've tried producing stuff of value, and I'm sick of being devalued because of it.
Tell you what - you want the money, but not the suit. I want to turn my brain off and vegetate/recover for a bit. I'll take the hit for you, wear the suit, sit in the plush office and send you half the cash:)
Ciao, baby.
I work IT in Australia. I've been in and out of unions, which were always noncompulsory, at my own whim. When I was a low-paid paper pusher, I was in the union because otherwise we got pushed around a lot. When I moved to a higher-paid position and became effectively unfireable, I still supported unionism of the lower ranks because I had experienced it myself and didn't trust the management not to fall back into their old habits.
The upper echelons and IT didn't really need to be in a union, but the people on the front lines did. With noncompulsory unionism, I think we were something like a 70% union shop. Yes, we occasionally went on strike. The strikes were also noncompulsory, so union employees at high-union-percentage sites could arrange to leave offices running on a skeleton staff and tailor the response at each site as they saw fit. The 30% was mostly management and HQ, of course.
When I had learned enough to stand on my own two feet in an industrial situation, and could browbeat any manager into submission by correct application of red tape, I became one of the 30%. I don't need any of the services the union offers any more - I can fight my own battles. I do, however, remain on good terms with the local reps and will back the work they do, because I remember what it was like when I did need them.
If and when I win the lottery, keep the funds somewhere other than an American bank. Or at least don't have any funds in America that I can't afford to have 'lost', frozen, appropriated or otherwise affected by knee-jerk government so-called 'anti-terrorist' policies.
Second note to self: Don't buy land, either - politicians can and will grab it if they feel like it.
And don't buy stocks or shares - you never know when a company's about to go Enron.
And don't donate to political parties - their leaders have a habit of being impeached.
And don't keep cash - police and/or DHS are likely to confiscate it.
Perhaps I should invest in being poor...
Lotus Notes, 75M soft limit, no hard limit. Some users (read: management) have multi-gig mailboxes. Official policy is to ask people to archive their mail to separate NSF files which are then stored on file servers where the corporate Notes system cannot back up, see, or compact them. Except that because the data MIGHT be personal, they can't store them on the corporate areas of the file servers. And the personal areas of the file servers are limited to 45M, including system and setup files, and usually only have about 20M free.
So policy is to tell people to store their archives on their C: drives, so that they'll be 'lost' every time the user moves desks, and blown away every time a PC hard disk craps out. And they're not backed up. And the mailbox limits aren't enforced anyway.
We work in the federal government. But you probably guessed that already.
And this will work when the person who knows the code is tired? Drunk? Has just lost a finger in a car-door accident so their knocking pattern and hand-mass is out of whack?
And if it's detuned enough to cover the range of 'correct' possibilities, will the bitrate remain high enough to provide as much security as a physical key, while being able to be opened as fast as using a key?
$500? Come on. My main workstation and the half-dozen or so backup PCs I use didn't cost that much. The last purchase I made was four firewall boxes with identical hardware for emergency swap-outs. They work perfectly, and I paid ~US75 for the lot. I run a stack of 21" monitors at 1600x1200, and they cost me around $US100 apiece a couple of years back. And yes, I've got CD burners and the usual gubbins.
What's this $500 supposed to get you? Warranty above and beyond that on the parts? A big-box name sticker on the side of the PC? Free support? A voucher for Duke Nukem Forever?
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It's interesting because it's a "missing-link" technology. Cheaper solar power for the masses. It can be used to increase sales and interest in the solar industry in general, allowing research into more efficient technologies to be funded more rapidly.
It's funny because it's repeated?
Especially if you are being invaded by US forces and want a cheap way to make our multimilliondollar 'force fields' as effective as worm crap. Blanketing our tanks in fifty-cent beachballs or paintbombing the sensors is right out. Tank you, The Management
Lounge suites or application suites? ...either way, that's pretty disturbing.
Just out of interest, what's Apple Corp worth these days? Little enough to be bought by Apple Computer?
Sounds like a profitable opportunity to sell Australian ISPs drop-in servers which allow customers to choose which of a list of standard antispam options (and programs) they want run on their mailboxes. That way, the ISPs can say they've implemented antispam measures, the burden of configuration will be put on users, the spam will still not be completely stopped and the goverment can continue to ignore the problem. Everyone wins. Except the ISPs who have to buy these things. And the users whose fees will increase. But the government can pretend it's addressed the problem, and government mates can make a huge profit off selling legally-mandated, technically useless servers.
Precisely. The world is under no obligation to prop up any dying industry. It's up to the industry to provide a service which people want to use. If people no longer want what the industry provides, why should that industry survive? How many industries from 100 years ago still operate in the same form now as they did back then? To the theatre industry and every other industry: If you're not providing options that suit me, I'm not giving you money. The fact that the playing field has changed is not an excuse. Innovate or die, kthx.
Are we talking multi-billion-dollar new business ideas, or just "Gee, my job would be a whole lot easier if they issued us with black pencils instead of blue ones" ? I can see why employees might be wary of submitting the first type, but the second type is just "I can see how to run this place a little better, but I don't have the authorisation to make the change."
The gf and I did this recently with around a thousand books. We sorted by author and re-shelved as we went. She also manually typed the details of every book into a spreadsheet, which I thought a little excessive, but she likes accumulating data and keeping busy. She also likes buying books, and I haven't yet managed to assemble sufficient bookcases to shelve her entire collection. There are some flatpacks in storage which should theoretically take care of the situation, but I've noticed that every time she gets more shelving, it gets filled a week later. I'm therefore trying to eke out the last couple of bookcases until I can find her a bigger house :/
From the article: Websites cannot be trusted, but individuals can be trusted. Just... what? Whoa, I feel like giving my credit card number to some individual I found on the internet! No registered business name, no history, no physical business location! What could possibly go wrong?
Nothing whatsoever on that indicates in any way, shape, or form that it was a work of Satire
It's got "John Howard" and "apology" on the same page.
This has been your comedy break for today. We now return you to your existence of scrubbing unending spyware off the PC of everyone who clicks on crap randomly.
Let's say I'm a computer technician, with a clientele that includes small businesses and residential customers, and let's also say I'm really the only game in town. One day, someone, somewhere, invents a program that allows my customers to share information that I've given them in the course of doing my job. This is information that I've spent time and resources acquiring, and as a result of this sharing I lose business. If I tried to sue the developer of this program for my "lost business" I'd get laughed out of court And rightly so. What kind of computer tech deliberately restricts access to information that can be freely found or determined by other methods anyway? Your skills lie in your ability to configure, operate, program, repair and clean their equipment better than they choose to become at doing it. Not because you're the only person around with the password that unlocks their server every morning. Disclaimer: Yes, I'm a tech.
Buffalo has been particularly hard hit by online flipping And I thought cow tipping was bad enough offline :/
L@@k fixer-upper mud hut at the bottom of the river CHEAP! Check it out! set src=taj_mahal.walkthough
I've tried producing stuff of value, and I'm sick of being devalued because of it. Tell you what - you want the money, but not the suit. I want to turn my brain off and vegetate/recover for a bit. I'll take the hit for you, wear the suit, sit in the plush office and send you half the cash :)
Ciao, baby.
I work IT in Australia. I've been in and out of unions, which were always noncompulsory, at my own whim. When I was a low-paid paper pusher, I was in the union because otherwise we got pushed around a lot. When I moved to a higher-paid position and became effectively unfireable, I still supported unionism of the lower ranks because I had experienced it myself and didn't trust the management not to fall back into their old habits. The upper echelons and IT didn't really need to be in a union, but the people on the front lines did. With noncompulsory unionism, I think we were something like a 70% union shop. Yes, we occasionally went on strike. The strikes were also noncompulsory, so union employees at high-union-percentage sites could arrange to leave offices running on a skeleton staff and tailor the response at each site as they saw fit. The 30% was mostly management and HQ, of course. When I had learned enough to stand on my own two feet in an industrial situation, and could browbeat any manager into submission by correct application of red tape, I became one of the 30%. I don't need any of the services the union offers any more - I can fight my own battles. I do, however, remain on good terms with the local reps and will back the work they do, because I remember what it was like when I did need them.
Time for the experimentalists to roll up their sleeves, then. And apply some sunblock.
Well, there is Rich Great-Uncle Bob... give me 24 hours to learn his signature, and I'll have him shipped over :)
The first action the hairy-palmed lobster took on being captured was to ask for broadband, the best lure for its natural prey - internet prawn.
If and when I win the lottery, keep the funds somewhere other than an American bank. Or at least don't have any funds in America that I can't afford to have 'lost', frozen, appropriated or otherwise affected by knee-jerk government so-called 'anti-terrorist' policies. Second note to self: Don't buy land, either - politicians can and will grab it if they feel like it. And don't buy stocks or shares - you never know when a company's about to go Enron. And don't donate to political parties - their leaders have a habit of being impeached. And don't keep cash - police and/or DHS are likely to confiscate it. Perhaps I should invest in being poor...
Lotus Notes, 75M soft limit, no hard limit. Some users (read: management) have multi-gig mailboxes. Official policy is to ask people to archive their mail to separate NSF files which are then stored on file servers where the corporate Notes system cannot back up, see, or compact them. Except that because the data MIGHT be personal, they can't store them on the corporate areas of the file servers. And the personal areas of the file servers are limited to 45M, including system and setup files, and usually only have about 20M free. So policy is to tell people to store their archives on their C: drives, so that they'll be 'lost' every time the user moves desks, and blown away every time a PC hard disk craps out. And they're not backed up. And the mailbox limits aren't enforced anyway. We work in the federal government. But you probably guessed that already.
And this will work when the person who knows the code is tired? Drunk? Has just lost a finger in a car-door accident so their knocking pattern and hand-mass is out of whack? And if it's detuned enough to cover the range of 'correct' possibilities, will the bitrate remain high enough to provide as much security as a physical key, while being able to be opened as fast as using a key?
...all romance novels ever published have been recalled.
$500? Come on. My main workstation and the half-dozen or so backup PCs I use didn't cost that much. The last purchase I made was four firewall boxes with identical hardware for emergency swap-outs. They work perfectly, and I paid ~US75 for the lot. I run a stack of 21" monitors at 1600x1200, and they cost me around $US100 apiece a couple of years back. And yes, I've got CD burners and the usual gubbins.
What's this $500 supposed to get you? Warranty above and beyond that on the parts? A big-box name sticker on the side of the PC? Free support? A voucher for Duke Nukem Forever?