There have been so many horror stories about failed SAP installs that I don't understand how they stay in business. Even though SAP brought HP to its knees a few years ago http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/24/hp_saphell_over/ HP hires Apotheker from SAP, do they brainwash the customers or what?
in the US of A, AT&T is spending my money running expensively produced ads trying to persuade me that they are doing a great job rolling out high speed internet connections and the government doesn't need to get involved.
Posted (slowly) from my expensive, highest speed available, AT&T, 768 kbit connection.
May I crave your indulgence to open this business discussion through e-mail.
I am Mr.F. Williams Jones, and my uncle Mr. E. Williams Jones has recently passed away here in Nigeria after a long a fruitfull time on this earth. Although deeply saddened by his death the the family has been blessed to discover that he had $50M in 1,300 sudonymous accounts at the Creaky Mountain Bank in The United States of America in the great state of Colorado.
The family deperately needs this money to continue our plianthorpic work improving the standard of living of the Nigerian people. Howvere due to the excessive regulation and corruption here in Nigeria we would lose much of this money if we approache the govement to bring it to us.
So we are seeking partners to help us, we will reemburse you well for you gracious help. We would provide you the creedentials for one or moor (your choice) accounts, all we need you to do is empty the account and forward 50% of the balance by Western Union to acc 9776r418545y Lagos Nigeria.
Esteamed Sir or Madam, we hope for a positive reaction from you
"Why don't the powers that be just decree that from such-and-such a date all emergency comms equipment *will* be common and interoperable?"
Because, unlike the UK, the US doesn't have a government structure to do that. There's a whole bunch of "government" entities that the feds don't control, the states, the tribal (native american) entities, the counties, the cities, to name a few.
"Digital would be better"
Huh? It is digital, it's also analog, trunked etc. etc.
Bankruptcy? Probably not. Generally in the US bankruptcy will not wipe out a civil judgement for an intentional act, it will get you off the hook for a negligent act but that would be hard to argue in this case.
I think she should sue her lawyer next, he sure didn't live up to his public statements about the slash and burn defense he was going to give her.
"If we didn't have such spectacularly over-reaching libel laws over here he wouldn't be able to sue."
I think you mean:
"If we didn't have such a spectacularly over-reaching Home Secretary over here nobody in the UK would even have heard of this a-hole and he wouldn't have this great opportunity for self promotion"
Paris 'cause she's knows how to make something out of nothing too.
I was starting to believe this report but they lost me when I saw their claim that 76% of US rural residents have access to broadband. The only way I can see that being true is if they are calling 100 kpbs (if you are lucky), with horrible latency, expensive, satellite service as broadband.
"not accrue" may mean that they are forced to take whatever vacation they earn during that period, in other words their vacation balance cannot increase. I've seen that done elsewhere, but usually over a longer period than a single quarter.
I don't know how CSC's accounting works but many companies that are doing this have a vacation pay fund that accumulates the $ as employees earn the vacation. By forcing the employees to take accumulated vacation they get to pay them out of that fund rather than operating $.
Don't forget that the wreckage has been there for a year. It would have seen a number of good mountain storms and likely have been under many feet of snow all last winter ;-)
If it's such a great design why do some pages look so different? There's the grey gutters front page and pages like this article in which the text isn't totally unreadable, but then in reg hardware this article http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/09/19/xbox_pure/ also has the same fixed width but the text is miniscule, and then htttp://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/09/19/blackbox_gets_larger_systems/ today is still the old format.
Sorry John Lettice, I think you're still a few leaves short of a salad.
"To be fair to GM, its Chevy Volt, which can travel 40 miles on a battery charge, was this week being touted as a model that's ready for production"
If it's ready for production what are they gonna do between now and late 2010 when they are scheduled to start trying to sell it? Poor old GM just doesn't have what it takes any more. By the time that clunker hits the streets Toyota will have have been kicking their hybrid ass with the Prius for 9 years (13 if you count sales in Japan). It's going to take a much bigger leap of technology to be a winner in 2010.
You fixed the "narrow window" by squeezing down the width of the news space, making the ads (relatively at least) bigger, and wasting a bunch of space with grey bars? Sorry, but I'm completely missing the improvement here.
Years ago I caught an employee using a co-workers password. She confessed that her own pw had expired while she was on vacation and she was too embarrassed to call the help desk for a reset because it was set to "fuckujoe" - Joe was the guy who worked the help desk.
Someone needs to ask John Chiang how the system that's supposedly incapable of this reduction manages perfectly well to process nice increases in the salaries and benefits of all state workers each year - which is, of course, part of the underlying budget problem.
You ask "why the hell should one manufacturer get special consideration?"
The reality is that at least one manufacturer does get special consideration from ebay and that's Microsoft, who get to troll through the auctions and pull anything they don't like.
You can't just convert the caliber and assume that it's the same thing. The 5.56x45mm Nato round is a whole different animal, it packs 10x the energy of the regular .22 long rifle round. Hit a kangaroo with a .22 and it'll probably return the favor by beating the crap out of you. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5.56_mm_caliber http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.22_Long_Rifle#cite_note-0
The sentence for first degree murder in CA can be death, but it's not mandatory. If the allegations and verdict include one or more "special circumstances" then the only possible sentences are death or life without parole. In the Scott Peterson case the special circumstance was that he was also convicted of the murder of the fetus. I don't believe any special circumstances were alleged for Reiser.
"Gas turbines are so called because their blades are turned by hot exhaust gas (as opposed to steam). They don't run on gas, they run on kerosene..."
You are correct that the blades are turned by hot gas, but they don't much care what they burn to get the gas hot. Lots of gas turbines do run on gas; natural, propane, methane, biogas, whatever....
True, "There are plenty of non-binary newsgroups still active." but, except maybe for moderated ones, they are mostly full of crap postings, porn, the MI5 conspiracy guy, etc. It's a great pity, usenet used to be a great resource but now it's just an electronic garbage dump.
"Good DR requires that you have a backup installation sufficiently far from the primary site to withstand events like 9/11, New Orleans, Chernobyl etc."
DR does not mean uninterrupted operation, it means a plan to get back in business within an acceptable amount of time. You have to be realistic and match your DR plans to the level of service you are offering otherwise you will be out of the highly competitive lower/mid end hosting biz very quickly.
This is a host with 50K servers, they lost 9K to this event. I believe they have 6 data centers, AFAIK they are all in the Dallas area of Texas taking advantage of the low power costs there. Following your logic they should have one or more data centers sitting idle in another state just in case of a catastrophic event such as this one. There's no way they could do that unless they were selling a much higher grade of service.
They are recovering from their disaster. Last time I checked something like 2/3 of the servers are back up, or in the process of getting back up (and that's in less than 48 hours) and there's a plan in process to temporarily get power to the rest that were directly affected by the explosion.
I have a website that's hosted at one of their other locations, I am critical of their design that put management servers for my location in the center that suffered the fire, causing unnecessary disruption of service that would not have happened if the centers were independent.
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I have to say
Professor Jim looks REALLY happy to see you.
Wow
Do people really pay 40 bucks for a dozen cupcakes ?
How does SAP stay in business?
There have been so many horror stories about failed SAP installs that I don't understand how they stay in business. Even though SAP brought HP to its knees a few years ago http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/24/hp_saphell_over/ HP hires Apotheker from SAP, do they brainwash the customers or what?
I agree, he deserves a Suspended Sentence
Preferably by the balls.
A question from the colonies
What is the "driver's view of the road" test and how can the vehicle fail it?
Lawsuit!
Mr. Gonda could probably end up owning Slovakia if gets the right attorney.
Who uses IIS?
According to Netcraft http://news.netcraft.com/archives/web_server_survey.html about 20% of webservers are IIS, pretty scary...
Meanwhile
in the US of A, AT&T is spending my money running expensively produced ads trying to persuade me that they are doing a great job rolling out high speed internet connections and the government doesn't need to get involved.
Posted (slowly) from my expensive, highest speed available, AT&T, 768 kbit connection.
What about Oefelein?
He got his own wiki page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Oefelein
I just received an email
Respected Sir or Madam
May I crave your indulgence to open this business discussion through e-mail.
I am Mr.F. Williams Jones, and my uncle Mr. E. Williams Jones has recently passed away here in Nigeria after a long a fruitfull time on this earth. Although deeply saddened by his death the the family has been blessed to discover that he had $50M in 1,300 sudonymous accounts at the Creaky Mountain Bank in The United States of America in the great state of Colorado.
The family deperately needs this money to continue our plianthorpic work improving the standard of living of the Nigerian people. Howvere due to the excessive regulation and corruption here in Nigeria we would lose much of this money if we approache the govement to bring it to us.
So we are seeking partners to help us, we will reemburse you well for you gracious help. We would provide you the creedentials for one or moor (your choice) accounts, all we need you to do is empty the account and forward 50% of the balance by Western Union to acc 9776r418545y Lagos Nigeria.
Esteamed Sir or Madam, we hope for a positive reaction from you
Rispectfully
F. William Jones
@Eugene
"No demand" http://www.virtualization.info/2009/08/sony-explains-why-it-disabled-intel-vt.html
If you have this stuff
why can't you use it in those Merkin helicopters?
@Tom 35
There's also an allegation related to the illegal gambling itself, the $566M is the combined proceeds from both activities.
It ain't that simple.
"Why don't the powers that be just decree that from such-and-such a date all emergency comms equipment *will* be common and interoperable?"
Because, unlike the UK, the US doesn't have a government structure to do that. There's a whole bunch of "government" entities that the feds don't control, the states, the tribal (native american) entities, the counties, the cities, to name a few.
"Digital would be better"
Huh? It is digital, it's also analog, trunked etc. etc.
@ Andrew Culpeck
Bankruptcy? Probably not. Generally in the US bankruptcy will not wipe out a civil judgement for an intentional act, it will get you off the hook for a negligent act but that would be hard to argue in this case.
I think she should sue her lawyer next, he sure didn't live up to his public statements about the slash and burn defense he was going to give her.
I don't get it
All I ever hear about SAP is multi million dollar horror stories but they somehow manage to keep signing up new customers.
Once upon a time
UseNet was a great resource, but now it's the cloaca of the internet .
I think it's a toss up which is nuttier
a) Adopting a cockroach.
or
b) Taking twitter seriously
@Richard
"If we didn't have such spectacularly over-reaching libel laws over here he wouldn't be able to sue."
I think you mean:
"If we didn't have such a spectacularly over-reaching Home Secretary over here nobody in the UK would even have heard of this a-hole and he wouldn't have this great opportunity for self promotion"
Paris 'cause she's knows how to make something out of nothing too.
@AC
Sorry dude, your 2x4 actually has a 3.5" form factor, expect a letter from Seagate soon.
@ Psymon
No, no,
GM = Amps Out / Volts In
Coming not very soon (maybe) to a showroom near you, the Transconductance.
Elvers?
What's going to happen to the elvers?
What is broadband?
I was starting to believe this report but they lost me when I saw their claim that 76% of US rural residents have access to broadband. The only way I can see that being true is if they are calling 100 kpbs (if you are lucky), with horrible latency, expensive, satellite service as broadband.
Respectfully
I think it should be "unirenal" not "demirenal".
@AC
"not accrue" may mean that they are forced to take whatever vacation they earn during that period, in other words their vacation balance cannot increase. I've seen that done elsewhere, but usually over a longer period than a single quarter.
Re: Where's the money
I don't know how CSC's accounting works but many companies that are doing this have a vacation pay fund that accumulates the $ as employees earn the vacation. By forcing the employees to take accumulated vacation they get to pay them out of that fund rather than operating $.
Double Fail
The Asperger's excuse didn't work for Hans Reiser either.
But did they cook breakfast
on the shovel?
I know
Shoot out the back windows of the bus.
It's all over now
Human remains have now been found.
@Charles Manning - yuk!
Attn all you blood spatter experts
Don't forget that the wreckage has been there for a year. It would have seen a number of good mountain storms and likely have been under many feet of snow all last winter ;-)
Still confused after all these days
If it's such a great design why do some pages look so different? There's the grey gutters front page and pages like this article in which the text isn't totally unreadable, but then in reg hardware this article http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/09/19/xbox_pure/ also has the same fixed width but the text is miniscule, and then htttp://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/09/19/blackbox_gets_larger_systems/ today is still the old format.
Sorry John Lettice, I think you're still a few leaves short of a salad.
No volts 'til 2010 either
"To be fair to GM, its Chevy Volt, which can travel 40 miles on a battery charge, was this week being touted as a model that's ready for production"
If it's ready for production what are they gonna do between now and late 2010 when they are scheduled to start trying to sell it? Poor old GM just doesn't have what it takes any more. By the time that clunker hits the streets Toyota will have have been kicking their hybrid ass with the Prius for 9 years (13 if you count sales in Japan). It's going to take a much bigger leap of technology to be a winner in 2010.
Huh?
You fixed the "narrow window" by squeezing down the width of the news space, making the ads (relatively at least) bigger, and wasting a bunch of space with grey bars? Sorry, but I'm completely missing the improvement here.
The only news here
is that someone thinks this is news.
Can system folks see your password?
Years ago I caught an employee using a co-workers password. She confessed that her own pw had expired while she was on vacation and she was too embarrassed to call the help desk for a reset because it was set to "fuckujoe" - Joe was the guy who worked the help desk.
100% Bullshit, 100% Politics.
Someone needs to ask John Chiang how the system that's supposedly incapable of this reduction manages perfectly well to process nice increases in the salaries and benefits of all state workers each year - which is, of course, part of the underlying budget problem.
@AC
You ask "why the hell should one manufacturer get special consideration?"
The reality is that at least one manufacturer does get special consideration from ebay and that's Microsoft, who get to troll through the auctions and pull anything they don't like.
@ Kevin Blain
Small yagi? Yep, that's what the CA FasTrak system uses.
Re: Re: You forgot to convert some of the units!
You can't just convert the caliber and assume that it's the same thing. The 5.56x45mm Nato round is a whole different animal, it packs 10x the energy of the regular .22 long rifle round. Hit a kangaroo with a .22 and it'll probably return the favor by beating the crap out of you. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5.56_mm_caliber http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.22_Long_Rifle#cite_note-0
CA Death Penalty
The sentence for first degree murder in CA can be death, but it's not mandatory. If the allegations and verdict include one or more "special circumstances" then the only possible sentences are death or life without parole. In the Scott Peterson case the special circumstance was that he was also convicted of the murder of the fetus. I don't believe any special circumstances were alleged for Reiser.
I disgusted that he's going to get a deal.
Something James Pickett should know
"Gas turbines are so called because their blades are turned by hot exhaust gas (as opposed to steam). They don't run on gas, they run on kerosene..."
You are correct that the blades are turned by hot gas, but they don't much care what they burn to get the gas hot. Lots of gas turbines do run on gas; natural, propane, methane, biogas, whatever....
It's a mystery to me
where the "electric cars are the answer" folks think the electric is going to come from, especially here in power strapped California.
@AC
Poor comparison there dude, three legged dogs actually run very well!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7NkMgTp7Ug
My first and last use of Expedia
Got to the airport to check in and found that they what they had sold me as a confirmed reservation was actually a standby ticket.
... never again!
@ Phil
That's the OLD version of gpcode that f-secure can fix, so not so f-secure.
Version=2005-05-23_01
@ AC
True, "There are plenty of non-binary newsgroups still active." but, except maybe for moderated ones, they are mostly full of crap postings, porn, the MI5 conspiracy guy, etc. It's a great pity, usenet used to be a great resource but now it's just an electronic garbage dump.
@Steve
"Good DR requires that you have a backup installation sufficiently far from the primary site to withstand events like 9/11, New Orleans, Chernobyl etc."
DR does not mean uninterrupted operation, it means a plan to get back in business within an acceptable amount of time. You have to be realistic and match your DR plans to the level of service you are offering otherwise you will be out of the highly competitive lower/mid end hosting biz very quickly.
This is a host with 50K servers, they lost 9K to this event. I believe they have 6 data centers, AFAIK they are all in the Dallas area of Texas taking advantage of the low power costs there. Following your logic they should have one or more data centers sitting idle in another state just in case of a catastrophic event such as this one. There's no way they could do that unless they were selling a much higher grade of service.
They are recovering from their disaster. Last time I checked something like 2/3 of the servers are back up, or in the process of getting back up (and that's in less than 48 hours) and there's a plan in process to temporarily get power to the rest that were directly affected by the explosion.
I have a website that's hosted at one of their other locations, I am critical of their design that put management servers for my location in the center that suffered the fire, causing unnecessary disruption of service that would not have happened if the centers were independent.
MSNLockcase against MicrosoftThe Dutch version of the Oxford English Dictionary
Huh?
Re: RW
You forgot the part where they ban cash and force PayPal on everyone.
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