One thing I'd say is that from a UK / EU perspective on WoW this requirement IS NOT very well known.
Most players don't read the forums, and quite a lot don't visit the http://www.wow-europe.com/ homepage (the EU equivalent of the www.worldofwarcraft.com page)
You'd expect them to have an annoucement on the wow login page - but no there's just Free-Server Transfers there. You'd expect them to have an in-game notice - but no there's just stuff about fake/hack alpha-beta for Cata.
Come Nov 12th Blizzard are gonna have a heck of a lot of players going "WTF" "why have you locked me out" etc etc on the forums and a shed-load of phone calls.
Impulse maximum speed is dependent on the vessel's Impulse drive, a combination of fusion-reactor(s), a driver coil / accellerator, and a vectored thrust output. These create a vectorable (steerable) thrust of plasma, effectively a plasma rocket.
The speed available depends on the power (of the impulse drive) vs weight (of the vessel).
Examples of season episodes (thus CANON) give speeds of anywhere from 2.5% lightspeed (for a shuttle "TNG:Suspicions") up to 66% lightspeed for a long range survey starship (Voyager "VOY:Fair Haven").
So some idiot is buying my stuff and reposting it at a higher price?
So I get the gold and the try to resell my original sale for uber-high prices. If its too high it won't sell. I just resell more items at higher and higher prices untill the "price fixer" stops buying my stuff.
The market effectively prices the price-fixer out of business.
Inevitably the people who have a vested interest in SALE of new textbooks are the people who use thier own textbook as a lecture/coursebook.
I saw this a lot during my years at University, where several lecturers would bring out a new variation every one or two years. We'd all get the "you'll benefit from the extra notes and of course be able to sell the book onto next year's class" and then find out after buying it that the lecturer revised the book slightly every year.
Anyone with the previous edition of the coursebooks had small but inevitably annoying missing information.
With regard to complex projects and over-expectation of users, the answer is to drop it on the desks of the management.
That means for each project you have to produce a Terms of Reference and get the users to agree to it. Then schedule the work in and allow the upper management of the business to agree to it before you start.
That way the implementation schedule for any project is the responsibility of the business management NOT you!
With regard to policy violation.. wipe their computers clean and install a base image every time you find a voilation. Works wonders here.
Of course with all this twittering about doing backups to tape (or other removable media) and offsiting them , or using over-the-net offsite backkup, the one thing that hasn't been mentioned is the need to TEST YOUR BACKUPS!
I've been in the industry for 20-odd years now and have come upon some managers of small companies wailing "but we backup!"
Backing up using two tapes, swapping between them every day, never examining the logs, and using the same DAT tape for 5 years is NOT a solid backup strategy.
You need to examine the backup logs on a daily (or summary weekly) basis. You need to swapout media after reasonable life. You need to have a retention cycle that is longer than LEGAL requirements. You need to have a rotation cycle that is bigger than your short term and medium term estimated restoration requirements. You need to keep your backup OFF SITE and no that doesn't mean on a shelf in the garage of a manager.
Minster's office, Civil Servant and Minister. CS : Why on earth would the people be worried about not having access to information? Mi : Well they want to be able to access it! CS : But Minster, if they don't know about it they can't access it! Mi : Don't know about it ! The Entire List has been leaked. CS : Oh no Minister, what we want the public to THINK is the entire list has been leaked. Mi : Then whats the entire list? CS : Oh you don't want to know that Minister. Mi : Why not.. I'm the Minister I have to be able to know what the public can't see in case I'm asked about it! CS : Exactly Minster, if you don't know then you don't have to dissemble to the public. Mi : Dissemble ? CS : Discourse with knowledge in error, converse in a manner likely to perjure yourself,.... LIE! Mi : So you're saying that nobody knows the full list, including me, just so I don't have to lie about it? CS : YES MINISTER!
As if we didn't already have enough problems with chinese goldfarmers and bots on World of Warcraft, now the USArmy wants to put in goverment sanctioned bots.
I can't wait to see Blizzard try and enforce their no-bots terms of service on the USArmy.
In its ruling, the appeals court said an encryption key is no different than a physical key and exists separately from a person's will.
"The key to the computer equipment is no different to the key to a locked drawer," the court found. "The contents of the drawer exist independently of the suspect; so does the key to it. The contents may or may not be incriminating: the key is neutral."
Fine.. I challenge the court to point to the exact location in my brain where an encryption key resides. Oh dear they can't.. so its not a equivalent with a physical object like a mechanical key is it?
Come on you know someone's going to have a Patent in the works on this, "use of computing equipment in a portable computer room environment, but without atmospheric H2O control"
Then we batter them to death with prior art of "but I used my laptop running WinNT4 Server in a tent 10 years ago"
Its your COMMS ROOM with hundreds of thousands of (your choice of currency unit) located there. Plus the business inconvenience of having the equipment fail and you having to resolve that / invoke your BC/DR program.
Should you really be mucking around trying to save money on the Aircon / Drainage?
Get hold of a reputable company who knows about computer room air-con, get them to give you some cost scaled options and put those on the table alongside the cost of the business being down for a week.
Wasn't Michael Phelps 15 in his first Olympics in 2000?
The rules state that gymnasts must turn 16 in the year of the competition. So you can be age 15 in this year's olympics providing you're going to be 16 before 31/DEC.
From the IT Drone perspective my response to those championing the need to download the latest IE or have FFox or some other browser that is different to the established standard, would be that in IT Support, keeping everyone on the same platform is the most effective method of reducing faults.
We know that you're all on IE6 SP2 (in our case). We know that you're on XPPro-SP2 with a defined set of patches due to patch propagation. We know you're on Office 2003-SP3. WE know you're on a verion of Adobe Reader, and Sun-Java Runtime.
So when you say "I've got error 'xyz'" on your machine we can eliminate 90% of the problems and fix down on single issues. It means that when a new intranet patch is released by the development team they don't have to test and do UAT on several dozen combinations.
Yes its totally inconvenient that you are not permitted to download the latest IE7 or FFox or whatever.
Do you want a quick and efficient response to your support call, do you want us to turn around and respond quickly with a quick, "you're right, that is broken.. I'll log it with the intra-dev team", then allow us to stick to a standard. If you don't mind waiting 3 or more days while we find out what configuration of patches, versions and programs you have and elimitate the different configurations then feel free and champion an environment that permits the user population to install whatever they want.
I applaud your ability to run on Linux, nice system, does exactly what it says no the tin. For the 99% of average everyday Win/Office users in the known universe... its us poor schmucks in IT Support who have to cope with the problems.
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One thing I'd say is that from a UK / EU perspective on WoW this requirement IS NOT very well known.
Most players don't read the forums, and quite a lot don't visit the http://www.wow-europe.com/ homepage (the EU equivalent of the www.worldofwarcraft.com page)
You'd expect them to have an annoucement on the wow login page - but no there's just Free-Server Transfers there.
You'd expect them to have an in-game notice - but no there's just stuff about fake/hack alpha-beta for Cata.
Come Nov 12th Blizzard are gonna have a heck of a lot of players going "WTF" "why have you locked me out" etc etc on the forums and a shed-load of phone calls.
1/2 Impulse is NOT 0.5-C
Impulse maximum speed is dependent on the vessel's Impulse drive, a combination of fusion-reactor(s), a driver coil / accellerator, and a vectored thrust output. These create a vectorable (steerable) thrust of plasma, effectively a plasma rocket.
The speed available depends on the power (of the impulse drive) vs weight (of the vessel).
Examples of season episodes (thus CANON) give speeds of anywhere from 2.5% lightspeed (for a shuttle "TNG:Suspicions") up to 66% lightspeed for a long range survey starship (Voyager "VOY:Fair Haven").
So some idiot is buying my stuff and reposting it at a higher price?
So I get the gold and the try to resell my original sale for uber-high prices.
If its too high it won't sell.
I just resell more items at higher and higher prices untill the "price fixer" stops buying my stuff.
The market effectively prices the price-fixer out of business.
Dr Doom's homeland is LATVERIA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latveria
not Latvia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latvia
My mistake apparently it was 90 containers.
For those who want to know:
A standard 40foot long container (the ones you usually see on flatbed units in Europe) is
12m long (approx) (exact 12.192m)
2.5m high (approx) (exact 2.438m)
2.5m wide (approx) (exact 2.591m)
volume is 67.5 cubic meters
and can hold a dry max volume of 26,600kg (26.6tons)
So it would appear that someone filled up 50 odd containers with mixed non-shippable waste.
Inevitably the people who have a vested interest in SALE of new textbooks are the people who use thier own textbook as a lecture/coursebook.
I saw this a lot during my years at University, where several lecturers would bring out a new variation every one or two years. We'd all get the "you'll benefit from the extra notes and of course be able to sell the book onto next year's class" and then find out after buying it that the lecturer revised the book slightly every year.
Anyone with the previous edition of the coursebooks had small but inevitably annoying missing information.
With regard to complex projects and over-expectation of users, the answer is to drop it on the desks of the management.
That means for each project you have to produce a Terms of Reference and get the users to agree to it. Then schedule the work in and allow the upper management of the business to agree to it before you start.
That way the implementation schedule for any project is the responsibility of the business management NOT you!
With regard to policy violation .. wipe their computers clean and install a base image every time you find a voilation.
Works wonders here.
Before investing in Carier Pigeon NET I suggest you acquaint yourself with the following
RFC1149 A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1149.html
I Kid You NOT!
Of course with all this twittering about doing backups to tape (or other removable media) and offsiting them , or using over-the-net offsite backkup, the one thing that hasn't been mentioned is the need to TEST YOUR BACKUPS!
I've been in the industry for 20-odd years now and have come upon some managers of small companies wailing "but we backup!"
Backing up using two tapes, swapping between them every day, never examining the logs, and using the same DAT tape for 5 years is NOT a solid backup strategy.
You need to examine the backup logs on a daily (or summary weekly) basis.
You need to swapout media after reasonable life.
You need to have a retention cycle that is longer than LEGAL requirements.
You need to have a rotation cycle that is bigger than your short term and medium term estimated restoration requirements.
You need to keep your backup OFF SITE and no that doesn't mean on a shelf in the garage of a manager.
With apologies to the original TV Series http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes_Minister
Minster's office, Civil Servant and Minister. .. I'm the Minister I have to be able to know what the public can't see in case I'm asked about it! .... LIE!
CS : Why on earth would the people be worried about not having access to information?
Mi : Well they want to be able to access it!
CS : But Minster, if they don't know about it they can't access it!
Mi : Don't know about it ! The Entire List has been leaked.
CS : Oh no Minister, what we want the public to THINK is the entire list has been leaked.
Mi : Then whats the entire list?
CS : Oh you don't want to know that Minister.
Mi : Why not
CS : Exactly Minster, if you don't know then you don't have to dissemble to the public.
Mi : Dissemble ?
CS : Discourse with knowledge in error, converse in a manner likely to perjure yourself,
Mi : So you're saying that nobody knows the full list, including me, just so I don't have to lie about it?
CS : YES MINISTER!
the NASA requirement is that the person who it is named after has to affix the signage.
they have 1 year to comply (a their own expense).
he.he.he ..
It should read
UK Gov is clueless.
I'm allowed to .. I live in the UK.
Police and Justice Act (2006)
Go read it and then wonder how the BBC can seriously think that they are immune to section 36,3.6
Oh gods.. what has the UK gov gone and done now??
Ha ! I laugh outrageously at your assertion that the USDA would be rolling out Grade A broadband. ...
Everyone knows its the USCG (Coastguard) who have responsibility for broadband delivery!
Now if only us Brits could get your DNC list to accept our numbers.
Your pesky call-bots are giving us grief!
dang it and Poot!
Great
As if we didn't already have enough problems with chinese goldfarmers and bots on World of Warcraft, now the USArmy wants to put in goverment sanctioned bots.
I can't wait to see Blizzard try and enforce their no-bots terms of service on the USArmy.
In its ruling, the appeals court said an encryption key is no different than a physical key and exists separately from a person's will.
"The key to the computer equipment is no different to the key to a locked drawer," the court found. "The contents of the drawer exist independently of the suspect; so does the key to it. The contents may or may not be incriminating: the key is neutral."
Fine .. I challenge the court to point to the exact location in my brain where an encryption key resides. .. so its not a equivalent with a physical object like a mechanical key is it?
Oh dear they can't
Come on you know someone's going to have a Patent in the works on this, "use of computing equipment in a portable computer room environment, but without atmospheric H2O control"
Then we batter them to death with prior art of "but I used my laptop running WinNT4 Server in a tent 10 years ago"
Its your COMMS ROOM with hundreds of thousands of (your choice of currency unit) located there.
Plus the business inconvenience of having the equipment fail and you having to resolve that / invoke your BC/DR program.
Should you really be mucking around trying to save money on the Aircon / Drainage?
Get hold of a reputable company who knows about computer room air-con, get them to give you some cost scaled options and put those on the table alongside the cost of the business being down for a week.
Sounds like someone has been sitting on their rights and not even had the decency to make an "ashcan" just to maintain them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fantastic_Four_(film)
Wasn't Michael Phelps 15 in his first Olympics in 2000?
The rules state that gymnasts must turn 16 in the year of the competition.
So you can be age 15 in this year's olympics providing you're going to be 16 before 31/DEC.
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From the IT Drone perspective my response to those championing the need to download the latest IE or have FFox or some other browser that is different to the established standard, would be that in IT Support, keeping everyone on the same platform is the most effective method of reducing faults.
We know that you're all on IE6 SP2 (in our case). We know that you're on XPPro-SP2 with a defined set of patches due to patch propagation. We know you're on Office 2003-SP3. WE know you're on a verion of Adobe Reader, and Sun-Java Runtime.
So when you say "I've got error 'xyz'" on your machine we can eliminate 90% of the problems and fix down on single issues.
It means that when a new intranet patch is released by the development team they don't have to test and do UAT on several dozen combinations.
Yes its totally inconvenient that you are not permitted to download the latest IE7 or FFox or whatever.
Do you want a quick and efficient response to your support call, do you want us to turn around and respond quickly with a quick, "you're right, that is broken .. I'll log it with the intra-dev team", then allow us to stick to a standard. If you don't mind waiting 3 or more days while we find out what configuration of patches, versions and programs you have and elimitate the different configurations then feel free and champion an environment that permits the user population to install whatever they want.
I applaud your ability to run on Linux, nice system, does exactly what it says no the tin. For the 99% of average everyday Win/Office users in the known universe... its us poor schmucks in IT Support who have to cope with the problems.
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