Here's a money-saving tip for you: Stop delivering anything less than first class postage to me. They all tick me off, and I throw them away, anyway. You'll find you won't have much to deliver to me anymore.
My mailbox is something like 400m away.
Ah, so you still have door-door delivery. (I live in suburban U.S.A., and my front door is about the typical 400M from my bedroom.)
Given that Server 2012 has a Metro window (which BTW is notably similar to the last few Xbox UI updates) instead of a start window I don't doubt you'll see that "synergy".
Explicitly marking sarcasm and irony as such is rather defeating the point, isn't it?
I'm sure dispatch systems are a different animal entirely, but long ago I worked at a place with a centralized walkie-talkie repeater; it had two units and rotated which was master every 12-24 hours so the backup was always tested. It was a Motorola system.
If even 1/10 of that number (much less %) got out on the streets in the USA, there'd be dozens of
Hell, SOPA was killed by people raging on Twitter. U.S. elected officials would change their religion if people actually took to the streets in droves.
Yeah, I'm still ticked off that I can't force term searches anymore. Google does really well most of the time, but sometimes I need a particular word or the exclusion of a particular word, and Google doesn't obey anymore.
Yeah, I can't get the Netflix app for free on my Xbox 360 without paying for Live. Go figure. Good thing my TV, DVR, Wii and 4 Android devices have the Netflix app for free.
Not that I would use it for Netflix, anyway. The fan is too whiny and loud when it's on to watch movies.
Is it wrong that I am bothered that the space in "police officer" isn't escaped?
But management is usually gauged, by their superiors or the board of directors, on results. A major production outage is not a good result. This can be used as leverage to get the process changed, if one has the guts to pursue it.
If anyone respects one's opinion, sure. I have yet to be in a position where upper management would consider my assessment, but I have almost exclusively worked for large companies. On the other hand, while the companies I've worked for have done some boneheaded stuff there was usually a business reason behind it, and I have not seen catastrophic business failures such as the OP describes.
I was going for brevity and could claim that management that takes effective corrective action doesn't fall under "stupid", but my impression of the OP's description is that they will continue to rely on the vendor to maintain the industrial equipment after a stern-but-toothless warning not to mess it up again. In any case, the OP's attempt to mitigate management mandates and vendor incompetence are not constructive and will introduce unneeded complexity that could cause other unanticipated failures or political turf wars he's predetermined to lose.
On the other hand, it could be worth the gutsy fight if he's ready to leave/lose his job and see if he can improve the company before giving up on it.
IPv6 uses hierarchical addressing, so the routing tables will be less complex for IPv6 even if everybody gets IPv6 tomorrow.
I RTFA'd looking for photos and videos and was going to skip the comments, but I had to let you know that about a minute into the video Pandora started playing "Message In a Bottle".
You said they need remote access and botched the upgrade. There is no technological solution for this. If your management insists an incompetent vendor have such access and thinks you can do something about this result then the solution is to find another job. If you aren't being told to fix it, realize that it's not your problem.
You can't fix stupid; you either have to accept it or escape it.
with Google there really only is two states of a service, runaway hit or dying.
You forgot the third: Google+
I suspect at least some of the dying services will somehow resurface as a new G+ feature.
Have to give props to AMEX here. While traveling for a living I apparently got my card skimmed shortly before a flight home Friday. They called me at my connecting airport, we discussed which charges were mine and which weren't. They canceled my card and had a replacement card ready to pick up within a few miles of my house on Saturday so when I flew out Sunday night I had my new card for the rent car and hotel. (It was a corporate card; I don't know if that makes a difference.) I was briefly concerned when the fraudulent charges showed up on my balance on the website, but they took them off again before I started getting antsy about the fraudulent-claim window.
I suppose it might have helped my case that my travel was on the East coast, I live in TX and the fraudulent charges were in CA.
(And btw...traveling for a living sucks!)
"Protozoa are small, and bacteria are small, but viruses are smaller than the both put together."
