I'm an American. I lived in England. Both countries are equal part stupid. You are just choosing to notice the humorless dumbasses that don't understand sarcasm.
Yeah, I meant to the extent you can be a good player, high level, and never raid. Not that I was a good raid player even though I didn't play much. I just don't do raids, because I don't have the time commitment.
No, no, you miss my point. People who dabble in advertising are soul-stealing cretins. I'd rather GIVE my personal data to Google to use for anonymous metrics that are used for any purpose other than ad revenue than RECEIVE an ad propagated by Google's business model.
Hmm, seems to me, as a casual gamer, the hard core original WoWers are just as annoying. Because I can't devote 30 hours a week to raiding doesn't mean I'm a shit player--it means I have a life. Treating us as such is what drove most of us away.
Annoying kiddies are exactly that, annoying, but you hard core guys who think we casual people have no right to be on the same server was even more annoying.
(disclaimer: I don't mean YOU per se, since I don't know you).
That semantics. Google doesn't exist if they don't tell advertisers what Google customers are doing on the Internet. I didn't say Google sells customer's data, I said they sell their souls (which is another way of saying "advertising").
Metrics are overstated, and too sterile for the way the world really works. They are good for a single point of analysis, but often relied on as the sole point for analysis. These are the kind of companies that come up with "do the job with the tools you are given". Then there are innovative companies not bound by such restraints that make really great stuff. Sure, their bottom line might not be as tightly controlled, but thankfully not everyone on this planet lives for the bottom line.
There's definitely room for qualitative analysis when using IT tools. A happy worker is a productive worker.
I will not engage in the this freemium model anymore either. Not only do the freeloaders ask for more support than do customers, they bad mouth your product more as well.
Yes, it's the first-world problem frequently seen any time Facebook changes their UI.
Nobody would play WoW if they were the only one on the server
Oh gawd how wrong this is. I played WoW despite the thousands of morons on my server. The average intellectual power of random WoW player is pretty much indiscernible from the NPCs. Often the only way to tell the difference between the two is the NPCs frequently have a big yellow exclamation point above their head.
A better corporate culture is if you think appfoo is better, use it and prove it. If you are right, you'll get a nice bonus. If not, you'll be noted as having wasted everyone's time and money, and your evaluation won't be as stellar as it could be with the comment of "needs to improve judgment".
And by "work to do" you mean, "another smoke break to take"... Sorry, anecdotal, I know, but I usually get modded +1 funny when I rip on the IT guys taking 20 smoke breaks a day.
Of course, that would require IT to buy, install, administer these simple tools, maybe take the time to learn how to use tools, which is not free, and for the requesting department to fund all of it, and we all know that is asking too much.
Um, exactly? We have an IT department to buy, install, and administer tools. I could actually run iPhone Configuration Utility and Profile Manager myself in a small org (200 or less people). We are already paying IT, so the cost of these tools isn't a big deal. Plus, it's making their job of mass deployment easier.
That last part about funding is the sticking point. Sure, there is some stretch room for manpower, but it all costs money.
If you are using a Mac environment, the entire cost of my solution is $70 and the cost of a server (and the associated labor costs, but we're already paying for that, aren't we?) I'm sure similar, low cost alternative exist in PC land as well.
I can configure my iPhone for email. If you work in IT, I would expect you to have the technological skills of the average 12-year old, at least, but I'll do it myself anyway. But I need the Exchange Server info from the IT folks. And yeah, as you all have perfectly demonstrated, that's not going to happen. Can't be chipping away at your perceived power now can we?
In your last examples, YOU are the one doing it wrong, not the users. You need to be using Profile Manager (OS X Server) and/or iPhone/iPad Configuration Utility.
Of course, that would require IT to buy, install, and administer these simple tools and we all know that is asking too much.
Yeah, but can I come to you when "your" network breaks?
You sound like every IT Manager at every company I've ever worked...."my" this, and "my" that. The rest of us share all of our assets with our coworkers, but the IT types keep "their" stuff for themselves, evidently.
I'm far enough along into my career that I want to be part of the success of my company, not just a worker bee. "Do the job with the tools you are given" is a horrible corporate culture...even for the worker bees.
....and you're the type that we catch on your phone using Facebook when you should be working.
If there ever was clearer insight into the psyche of an IT worker, this is it. Exactly how is it your job to supervise my activities on my phone again? Shouldn't that be a manager's job? And if my manager doesn't care, why in the hell should random IT person care? Who died and made you boss?
Why wouldn't you tell someone how to set it up? Are you too busy on yet another smoke break to be bothered by a simple request such as, "will you please help me setup my iPhone on the Exchange server."? I mean, I understand you are terribly important in your own mind, but god forbid if we ask you to take a few minute to, you know, do your job. Hell, if I knew how to do it, and a coworker asked me to help, I'd help them, even though it really wouldn't be my job (unlike your excuse).
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I'm an American. I lived in England. Both countries are equal part stupid. You are just choosing to notice the humorless dumbasses that don't understand sarcasm.
That's where we Americans shine. Our dummies not only know they are dumb, they are PROUD of it!
why would i follow ur dumb countries laws??? are you stupid?
Speaking of stupid...
I'm not being irrational. I don't DENY the existence of advertising, but I do LOATHE it.
Yeah, I meant to the extent you can be a good player, high level, and never raid. Not that I was a good raid player even though I didn't play much. I just don't do raids, because I don't have the time commitment.
No, no, you miss my point. People who dabble in advertising are soul-stealing cretins. I'd rather GIVE my personal data to Google to use for anonymous metrics that are used for any purpose other than ad revenue than RECEIVE an ad propagated by Google's business model.
Hmm, seems to me, as a casual gamer, the hard core original WoWers are just as annoying. Because I can't devote 30 hours a week to raiding doesn't mean I'm a shit player--it means I have a life. Treating us as such is what drove most of us away.
Annoying kiddies are exactly that, annoying, but you hard core guys who think we casual people have no right to be on the same server was even more annoying.
(disclaimer: I don't mean YOU per se, since I don't know you).
That semantics. Google doesn't exist if they don't tell advertisers what Google customers are doing on the Internet. I didn't say Google sells customer's data, I said they sell their souls (which is another way of saying "advertising").
Metrics are overstated, and too sterile for the way the world really works. They are good for a single point of analysis, but often relied on as the sole point for analysis. These are the kind of companies that come up with "do the job with the tools you are given". Then there are innovative companies not bound by such restraints that make really great stuff. Sure, their bottom line might not be as tightly controlled, but thankfully not everyone on this planet lives for the bottom line.
There's definitely room for qualitative analysis when using IT tools. A happy worker is a productive worker.
I will not engage in the this freemium model anymore either. Not only do the freeloaders ask for more support than do customers, they bad mouth your product more as well.
Yes, it's the first-world problem frequently seen any time Facebook changes their UI.
But I want to pay for that "higher resolution letter from Santa"...duh!
Selling their customers' souls to advertisers is Google's business model, not freemium.
Nobody would play WoW if they were the only one on the server
Oh gawd how wrong this is. I played WoW despite the thousands of morons on my server. The average intellectual power of random WoW player is pretty much indiscernible from the NPCs. Often the only way to tell the difference between the two is the NPCs frequently have a big yellow exclamation point above their head.
Maybe a "higher resolution" letter from Santa for paying customers is just a stupid idea and this has nothing to do with the fee/paid business models?
A bad product fails, regardless of price (with a few exceptions, things like Internet Explorer).
The IT department can start by not being part of the problem and be part of the solution instead.
Or work for a company with a good corporate culture...
A better corporate culture is if you think appfoo is better, use it and prove it. If you are right, you'll get a nice bonus. If not, you'll be noted as having wasted everyone's time and money, and your evaluation won't be as stellar as it could be with the comment of "needs to improve judgment".
And by "work to do" you mean, "another smoke break to take"... Sorry, anecdotal, I know, but I usually get modded +1 funny when I rip on the IT guys taking 20 smoke breaks a day.
Of course, that would require IT to buy, install, administer these simple tools, maybe take the time to learn how to use tools, which is not free, and for the requesting department to fund all of it, and we all know that is asking too much.
Um, exactly? We have an IT department to buy, install, and administer tools. I could actually run iPhone Configuration Utility and Profile Manager myself in a small org (200 or less people). We are already paying IT, so the cost of these tools isn't a big deal. Plus, it's making their job of mass deployment easier.
That last part about funding is the sticking point. Sure, there is some stretch room for manpower, but it all costs money.
If you are using a Mac environment, the entire cost of my solution is $70 and the cost of a server (and the associated labor costs, but we're already paying for that, aren't we?) I'm sure similar, low cost alternative exist in PC land as well.
I can configure my iPhone for email. If you work in IT, I would expect you to have the technological skills of the average 12-year old, at least, but I'll do it myself anyway. But I need the Exchange Server info from the IT folks. And yeah, as you all have perfectly demonstrated, that's not going to happen. Can't be chipping away at your perceived power now can we?
In your last examples, YOU are the one doing it wrong, not the users. You need to be using Profile Manager (OS X Server) and/or iPhone/iPad Configuration Utility.
Of course, that would require IT to buy, install, and administer these simple tools and we all know that is asking too much.
Yeah, but can I come to you when "your" network breaks?
You sound like every IT Manager at every company I've ever worked...."my" this, and "my" that. The rest of us share all of our assets with our coworkers, but the IT types keep "their" stuff for themselves, evidently.
I'm far enough along into my career that I want to be part of the success of my company, not just a worker bee. "Do the job with the tools you are given" is a horrible corporate culture...even for the worker bees.
....and you're the type that we catch on your phone using Facebook when you should be working.
If there ever was clearer insight into the psyche of an IT worker, this is it. Exactly how is it your job to supervise my activities on my phone again? Shouldn't that be a manager's job? And if my manager doesn't care, why in the hell should random IT person care? Who died and made you boss?
Why wouldn't you tell someone how to set it up? Are you too busy on yet another smoke break to be bothered by a simple request such as, "will you please help me setup my iPhone on the Exchange server."? I mean, I understand you are terribly important in your own mind, but god forbid if we ask you to take a few minute to, you know, do your job. Hell, if I knew how to do it, and a coworker asked me to help, I'd help them, even though it really wouldn't be my job (unlike your excuse).