I recall a news video of people in line fro an iPhone when they were released and the content included the fast that many of them were "illegal aliens" and welfare recipients. A lot rode public transportation to the Apple store. It seems like misplaced values to me, but I guess they value an iPhone higher than some other things I might value.
If you are trying to arrive at an employee:employee ratio, I guess most here could be strictly correct. But that does not take into account the real world methodologies of engaging support personnel, or of understanding the people they support. Two sides exist:
* People in the line of business (non-IT) being supported may be employees, contractors, or vendors (if there for longer periods of time). They all need the same support: a system, access, security oversight, help desk, app support, etc.)
* People in the IT support function, which may be employees, consultants (Self managed), contracted workforce (managed by the company), or outsourced firms for an entire function. They all make up the IT support function. And "headcount" is not as relevant in this scenario, if we engage IBM for an outsourced help desk, I do not count all the employees of IBM. I am really buying a block of time at some level or another.
Which brings me to my main point: organizations need to find the best mix of employees and external engaged resources. They should measure this in the organizational currency (e.g. $), not headcount. I realize that the CIO, or IT support manager needs some headcount type numbers to know when to hire or engage, but they should be thinking about the best, most economical way to provide this that fits the long term strategic direction of the organization.
But to directly address the question in terms of headcount, I have seen a usual ratio of between 1:40 (average), but as high as 1:80 or so. The difference is usually based on industry, or more specifically the IT intensity of the budget. Industries that process information have a higher percentage of budget in IT, and a corresponding higher ratio of IT headcount to organization size. Industries with low IT intensity (manufacturing, government) tend to have a lower ratio.
I like this from the article:
On that basis, he said MBTA lawyers failed to convince him on two points: The students' presentation was meant to be delivered to people,...
Wasn't this a presentation planned for the DefCon conference, with a lot of/. like geeks?
Mod parent up.
And let's not forget Iraq invading Kuwait, Israel invading Lebanon, and a half a dozen "neighbors stopping into Israel for a friendly attempt to take over".
I think you missed the point. While it is nice of you to enhance the blogopshere comment with a bold font, that was not his subject. He was obviously speaking about the tendency of youth to dominate the conversation about anything and everything as if they knew the best approach and all others had nothing to offer. In fact, what he is implying here is that it is important to listen, especially to experienced individuals, but listen. That does not reduce the value of a blog, it puts it in context of "where, or from whom,do good ideas come from"?
I do not see the economics working to make this a long term product offering. The cost structure (high) and specialized nature of the device (size, features) make this a very limited vertical offering. Perhaps Lenovo can use it like a "flagship" product to show what else they can do, but I would be shocked if you could still get this a year or so from now brand new.
Plus the fact that it runs Windows but is targeted at a predominately Mac user market place.
I used to think this, but I found that videos I downloaded were just cluttering my hard drive, and were still available on Youtube. Additionally, they we easier to find on YT than on my drive. The only compelling reason to me to download is if I thought they might be deleted.
For years I have heard uninformed people use the phrase similar to "I sent it from my internet to your internet, did you get it?". Now they may actually be accurate.
In addition to the issues others have already raised, that Satellite radio competes with other delivery forms (AM/FM, iPods, etc,) of the same basic service (music, news, etc.), what is keeping a new company from seeing an opening and starting up?
Actually, there are more copies of the Christian New Testament in manuscript form than anything else from that time period. In fact nothing else is even close. Homer's Iliad, written in 850bce has 643 known copies and the earliest copy is from about 500 years after it was written. The Christian Bible has at the lowest reported count about 14,000 copies, many of which are less than 100 years after they were written.
I guess given that, the Bible would be more likely an authentic work than pretty much any other known publication from a historical point of view of the evidence. You may not believe what it says, but it is historically verifiable.
I used to wonder back in the day (for you kids that is 1986 or so) why when they came out with a 20mb hard drive drive for 2 grand or so, I could not buy a new 5Mb drive for $400...instead they just stop making the 5Mb drive because the economics did not work. The same is true here.
3.) An AT&T 8525 (aka HTC TyTn) Windows mobile phone
It is that one in the middle, the 5.6" device that is the least useful. A phone type device is much more useful than the "I am not sure what I am" device in the middle.
I guess my preference is the upcoming HTC Touch Diamond Pro, or a Nokia device with a phone built in and a BT earpiece.
Really? I am not sure about that, it would effectively be telling them to to not use what was available to them. Should we also deny access to color?
I understand the need to write tight code, but not sure putting the equivalent of shackles on a sprinter makes sense.
Privacy issues aside, it makes sense to me. People naturally congregate and are drawn to where other people are. If I am in my office, and hear a lot of voices and discussion two doors down and am not aware of why the congregating is occurring, it draws me to it. I get up and go see what is going on.
This is the same thing electronically. If I am downtown, and a large crowd is congregating 10 blocks away and I am notified, I would be drawn to join them.
Additionally, by watching how long people stay that were drawn, it would provide hard evidence to what people really want to do, and what events could be considered "sticky" (and I do not mean sticky in a Slashdot, twisted way!).
The fact is that they both spent the same amount in taxes at the same spending level. That is not regressive, that is flat.
Only if you define regressive based on spending level and not wealth or income. For those measures (much more common that your fabricated "spending level" example), it is regressive.
I hate to argue with you, but the sales tax is only a tax on spending, income and wealth are not in scope. So, as a "Tax", it is flat. Or as another poster correctly pointed out, since many items such as food are not taxed, it is in fact progressive.
Really though, sales tax is always a regressive tax and I don't think it is a great idea in general for that reason...
Sales tax is flat, it is only implied to be regressive because we assume, for example, the first $50,000 a person spends must be on necessities, and since that was all they had to spend as a $50,000 earner it was regressive when compared to a person spending 50,000 from a 100,000 in earnings. If the person earning 100,000 spent other 50,000, they would pay twice as much in sales tax as the 50,000 earner. The fact is that they both spent the same amount in taxes at the same spending level. That is not regressive, that is flat.
The income system in the US regressive, the sales tax is flat.
They have the same problem any distributor does, the relationship with the facilities they control. If they make income from the facility in a domain, then the domain will exercise a level of control over them.
Considering that GPS is often used to monitor fleets or even driving patterns by insurance companies, it may be helpful to jam my own GPS. It would allow me to go to the corner bar and hang out for awhile, and then resume my route. I do not need to jam the whole system, just my little corner of the world, corner bar that is...
There is no requirement to buy it,and after all they get both Vista AND XP under this deal. How does this damage the average SlashDot reader...err picture looker?
The internet is making us smarter. The internet or any other "learning tool" is not making us individually any smarter. The average person today appears to have has less ability to process information and have a broad spectrum of knowledge than even those who first came to America 400 or so years ago. Read the works of people form 100,200, 300 years ago and compare their thinking to the twitter crowd of today. Yes we have more information...but more intelligence? For the average person, I think not.
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I recall a news video of people in line fro an iPhone when they were released and the content included the fast that many of them were "illegal aliens" and welfare recipients. A lot rode public transportation to the Apple store. It seems like misplaced values to me, but I guess they value an iPhone higher than some other things I might value.
Maybe I am crazy,but hat might be the funniest thing I have ever read on here.
If you are trying to arrive at an employee:employee ratio, I guess most here could be strictly correct. But that does not take into account the real world methodologies of engaging support personnel, or of understanding the people they support. Two sides exist:
* People in the line of business (non-IT) being supported may be employees, contractors, or vendors (if there for longer periods of time). They all need the same support: a system, access, security oversight, help desk, app support, etc.)
* People in the IT support function, which may be employees, consultants (Self managed), contracted workforce (managed by the company), or outsourced firms for an entire function. They all make up the IT support function. And "headcount" is not as relevant in this scenario, if we engage IBM for an outsourced help desk, I do not count all the employees of IBM. I am really buying a block of time at some level or another.
Which brings me to my main point: organizations need to find the best mix of employees and external engaged resources. They should measure this in the organizational currency (e.g. $), not headcount. I realize that the CIO, or IT support manager needs some headcount type numbers to know when to hire or engage, but they should be thinking about the best, most economical way to provide this that fits the long term strategic direction of the organization.
But to directly address the question in terms of headcount, I have seen a usual ratio of between 1:40 (average), but as high as 1:80 or so. The difference is usually based on industry, or more specifically the IT intensity of the budget. Industries that process information have a higher percentage of budget in IT, and a corresponding higher ratio of IT headcount to organization size. Industries with low IT intensity (manufacturing, government) tend to have a lower ratio.
Who use this buggy, slow Operating System?
I like this from the article:
/. like geeks?
On that basis, he said MBTA lawyers failed to convince him on two points: The students' presentation was meant to be delivered to people,...
Wasn't this a presentation planned for the DefCon conference, with a lot of
Mod parent up. And let's not forget Iraq invading Kuwait, Israel invading Lebanon, and a half a dozen "neighbors stopping into Israel for a friendly attempt to take over".
I think you missed the point. While it is nice of you to enhance the blogopshere comment with a bold font, that was not his subject. He was obviously speaking about the tendency of youth to dominate the conversation about anything and everything as if they knew the best approach and all others had nothing to offer. In fact, what he is implying here is that it is important to listen, especially to experienced individuals, but listen. That does not reduce the value of a blog, it puts it in context of "where, or from whom,do good ideas come from"?
I do not see the economics working to make this a long term product offering. The cost structure (high) and specialized nature of the device (size, features) make this a very limited vertical offering. Perhaps Lenovo can use it like a "flagship" product to show what else they can do, but I would be shocked if you could still get this a year or so from now brand new. Plus the fact that it runs Windows but is targeted at a predominately Mac user market place.
I used to think this, but I found that videos I downloaded were just cluttering my hard drive, and were still available on Youtube. Additionally, they we easier to find on YT than on my drive. The only compelling reason to me to download is if I thought they might be deleted.
For years I have heard uninformed people use the phrase similar to "I sent it from my internet to your internet, did you get it?". Now they may actually be accurate.
In addition to the issues others have already raised, that Satellite radio competes with other delivery forms (AM/FM, iPods, etc,) of the same basic service (music, news, etc.), what is keeping a new company from seeing an opening and starting up?
I guess given that, the Bible would be more likely an authentic work than pretty much any other known publication from a historical point of view of the evidence. You may not believe what it says, but it is historically verifiable.
And yes...that was 5 Mb as in megabytes...
1.) A Toshiba M400 12" tablet
2.) A Fujitsu U810 5.6" touch screen UMPC
3.) An AT&T 8525 (aka HTC TyTn) Windows mobile phone
It is that one in the middle, the 5.6" device that is the least useful. A phone type device is much more useful than the "I am not sure what I am" device in the middle. I guess my preference is the upcoming HTC Touch Diamond Pro, or a Nokia device with a phone built in and a BT earpiece.
Really? I am not sure about that, it would effectively be telling them to to not use what was available to them. Should we also deny access to color? I understand the need to write tight code, but not sure putting the equivalent of shackles on a sprinter makes sense.
huh...I never thought of that advantage!
Or used - to allocate police, fire, etc. where issues could be more predicable.
This is the same thing electronically. If I am downtown, and a large crowd is congregating 10 blocks away and I am notified, I would be drawn to join them.
Additionally, by watching how long people stay that were drawn, it would provide hard evidence to what people really want to do, and what events could be considered "sticky" (and I do not mean sticky in a Slashdot, twisted way!).
The fact is that they both spent the same amount in taxes at the same spending level. That is not regressive, that is flat.
Only if you define regressive based on spending level and not wealth or income. For those measures (much more common that your fabricated "spending level" example), it is regressive.
I hate to argue with you, but the sales tax is only a tax on spending, income and wealth are not in scope. So, as a "Tax", it is flat. Or as another poster correctly pointed out, since many items such as food are not taxed, it is in fact progressive.
Really though, sales tax is always a regressive tax and I don't think it is a great idea in general for that reason...
Sales tax is flat, it is only implied to be regressive because we assume, for example, the first $50,000 a person spends must be on necessities, and since that was all they had to spend as a $50,000 earner it was regressive when compared to a person spending 50,000 from a 100,000 in earnings. If the person earning 100,000 spent other 50,000, they would pay twice as much in sales tax as the 50,000 earner. The fact is that they both spent the same amount in taxes at the same spending level. That is not regressive, that is flat.
The income system in the US regressive, the sales tax is flat.
They have the same problem any distributor does, the relationship with the facilities they control. If they make income from the facility in a domain, then the domain will exercise a level of control over them.
Considering that GPS is often used to monitor fleets or even driving patterns by insurance companies, it may be helpful to jam my own GPS. It would allow me to go to the corner bar and hang out for awhile, and then resume my route. I do not need to jam the whole system, just my little corner of the world, corner bar that is...
There is no requirement to buy it,and after all they get both Vista AND XP under this deal. How does this damage the average SlashDot reader...err picture looker?
Losers for a long time to almost any other color...