Savage 2, also made by S2 games, has this functionality already. At the end of the match you are given the chance to give either good or bad karma to one player, as well as rating the commander.
I'd also suggest trying to teach people something. Usually you'll see some sort of pattern in their requests. If they're having problems with their email a lot, maybe it would be good to spend some time showing them how Outlook works. A lot of people have no idea on what you can do with it. It's a great opportunity to be proactive and help them out. IT has an interesting role in an organization where your job is to assist everyone else to get their job done (for the most part). Try treating people as customers for a while and things get a lot better.
I speak from some experience. I had a "manager" (more a senior admin) at a smaller 40 person company and everyone thought he was the BOFH. After he was basically forced out of the job (office politics got really bad for a while) I had the opportunity to change things. We set up a quick 15 minute weekly meeting to let people talk about issues they're having so that we could hear what's going on. The perception of IT changed drastically to that of IT helping them rather than IT doing some black magic or playing games all day. I think some of the perception issues were due to a lack of understanding and visibility, which lead people to believe that IT didn't do anything.
Don't forget all the 3rd party apps that have a "web GUI" that requires IE6. They're the only reason our hospital doesn't upgrade. I'm not holding my breath waiting for vendors to upgrade their crap off of IE6.
I'm not sure they'll let it fall by the wayside. MySQL can fill the "smaller company" niche market that Oracle can't due to licensing costs. They already have a vested interest in InnoDB. I wouldn't be too surprised to see MyISAM go away though.
I'd love it if the Roku player would support Hulu and Youtube videos. Netflix and Amazon Video on Demand are a good start, but having more recent content would be a plus.
I used to use One or Zero at my last company. Out of the box it's okay, but like you said it is quite easily customizable and serves as a good starting point.
I had looked into eventum a little bit. It's a good backend, but it's lacking a customer facing portion to be complete. I find that managers sometimes want to track their department's tickets to know who is submitting what tickets, etc. One Or Zero worked well for that.
I don't have all the specifics, but I thought that the new $75B plan was not going to bail out the people who overextended themselves. I thought it was going to help the people who's homes have lost a lot of value, and now their mortgage is far above the value of the home.
You still risk a credit ding if you get behind on your mortgage. I'm current on my mortgage and I have no intentions of falling behind just so I can get bailed out. That's just plain stupid. Also, honor does play a part of the reason why I want to stay current on my mortgage. I think it's a part of human nature to want to take care of and support your family, and I take pride and honor in the fact that I am doing just that.
That said, you are absolutely right that honor does not directly pay bills. There are people that don't care about paying bills on time and are a general leech on the economy. I would argue, however, that the average person does value their honor.
Now I think I should return to the Klingon home world and sharpen my bat'leth.
The problem started with the sub-prime loans. The corroding effect of them first caused Bear Sterns to go under. The Fed then sent them money through JP Morgan Chase, because they realized that they were also heavily invested in credit default swaps.
Now, a credit default swap is a type of an insurance that when you invest in some company, if it goes bankrupt, you get your money back.
The problem with these credit default swaps is if a large company goes under, now you have to pay a LOT of money to a lot of people. After the bailout of Bear Sterns, this was actualized when AIG started to go under. AIG had issued by far the most amount of credit default swaps.
When Lehman Brother's went under (again caused by bad mortgage loans), Paulson had had enough of bailouts and going against his free market principles, and wanted to send a message to Wall Street that they couldn't expect bailouts.
AIG had issued a lot of the credit default swaps for Lehman Brother's, so now AIG was forced to pay investors billions of dollars that they didn't have in the bank.
We're not out of the woods yet, but it's pretty clear what did happen. The bad mortgages started the ball rolling, but they're far from the only cause of the market meltdown.
I watched Frontline's Inside the Meltdown last night. They have a great timeline of the events. Based on what I had already learned it seems mostly accurate. I may have mixed up a few details as well, so please feel free to correct me.
My urologist was actually quite funny. When he was done he said, "Well, I've finished with the second one... but I found a third." I was a bit confused and shocked and then he laughed and said he was just kidding.
The movies there aren't free, but it's even more content on my Roku box, which I say is a great idea. Now if they'd just get the TV station's online content I'd be all set.
Sometimes the work of the programmers end up making the system requirements increase. I work at a hospital, and we've been using the same DEC Alpha server for 14 years. Last year we upgraded our hospital registration and billing software, and ever since then we've been having huge performance issues.
We got an initial quote (I'm not sure where from) of $400k to $500k to upgrade the hardware. I'm not sure what was in that quote, but I hope that included some really fancy stuff. We're far from ready to close the deal, but at those prices more programmers start looking better.
Another glaring problem (at least right now) with JavaScript is the lack of sound support. I wrote a little game in JavaScript, but I had to resort to Flash to handle the sounds. It was a fun experience, since it was the first game I've ever written. I was also trying to push my limits in JavaScript at the time, so that probably added to the intrigue of it all.
Don't forget about those of us who no longer have time. I finished two years of college when my first son was born. I had to pay the bills, so I had to get a job to take care of my family. When push came to shove, I had to drop something. School was the least important of the three choices (family, work, school). Luckily I had been working on some of my own projects and got into the industry, but I still wish I could go back and learn a lot more things. I try to learn things on my own as well, but that takes time away from my family so I don't spend as much time as I'd like to. Maybe after my kids are older I can spend more time for myself, but they're only babies for so long.
I think the analogy of the bridge works quite well. It also points out a problem that software engineers and programmers face that structural engineers and construction crews do not face. The people who are funding the construction of the bridge can see what they're getting and visually ascertain the progress of said structure. The people funding the software only get to see a very small portion of it (the user interface) which makes it more difficult to know if progress is being made.
Software also is not as big (in size) as a bridge, and so to the lay American I think they don't think it's as impressive. I think in that sense programming moves more into the realm of art.
Someone who has not studied art will look at the Mona Lisa and see a pretty painting. Someone who has been trained in art will see all the details of how the paint was applied to the canvas and other subtleties that point to the intent/genius of the painter. I suppose this analogy somewhat falls apart in that to fully appreciate software you'd have to see the code.
At my last job, we had two occurrences of copper theft. The first was some people took some extra pipes on the outside of the building. A few weeks later someone tried to take another pipe, but that was the water main. Nobody was caught, but we didn't have water that day. Everyone had to go across the street to use a restroom, and it just had to be the day I had a nasty hangover and I was really thirsty.
I used to work for one of those student loan companies. The federal program was pretty solid. The loans had to comply with certain guidelines set forth by the Department of Education. The consolidated loans were required to be a fixed interest rate, and that rate was usually set on June 1st. A while back it did used to be variable, but a law had passed (I think around 2000) to make it fixed. Stafford and PLUS loans, however, were not a fixed rate until recently (AFAIK anyway, I could be wrong on that). The variable rate loans would often be private loans that were not a part of the federal consolidation program.
Since that time the Department of Education has locked down the program and now a lot of the third-party companies, including the one I worked for, are gone. The only ones left were the ones that were big enough to offer private loans, and even then they're having troubles now.
With all that said... college is still really expensive.
Slashdot Mirror
As others have said it's still being used. I'm using it right now in fact.
Savage 2, also made by S2 games, has this functionality already. At the end of the match you are given the chance to give either good or bad karma to one player, as well as rating the commander.
Maliken rules! (yes, I've played a little too much Savage 2)
I'd also suggest trying to teach people something. Usually you'll see some sort of pattern in their requests. If they're having problems with their email a lot, maybe it would be good to spend some time showing them how Outlook works. A lot of people have no idea on what you can do with it. It's a great opportunity to be proactive and help them out. IT has an interesting role in an organization where your job is to assist everyone else to get their job done (for the most part). Try treating people as customers for a while and things get a lot better.
I speak from some experience. I had a "manager" (more a senior admin) at a smaller 40 person company and everyone thought he was the BOFH. After he was basically forced out of the job (office politics got really bad for a while) I had the opportunity to change things. We set up a quick 15 minute weekly meeting to let people talk about issues they're having so that we could hear what's going on. The perception of IT changed drastically to that of IT helping them rather than IT doing some black magic or playing games all day. I think some of the perception issues were due to a lack of understanding and visibility, which lead people to believe that IT didn't do anything.
We have an enterprise app that requires IE. I tried IE tab, but it crashes Firefox every time I try and load it. It's riddled with ActiveX.
I'm going to Bing myself.
Don't forget all the 3rd party apps that have a "web GUI" that requires IE6. They're the only reason our hospital doesn't upgrade. I'm not holding my breath waiting for vendors to upgrade their crap off of IE6.
I'm not sure they'll let it fall by the wayside. MySQL can fill the "smaller company" niche market that Oracle can't due to licensing costs. They already have a vested interest in InnoDB. I wouldn't be too surprised to see MyISAM go away though.
I'd love it if the Roku player would support Hulu and Youtube videos. Netflix and Amazon Video on Demand are a good start, but having more recent content would be a plus.
I just hope I don't have to install the expansion "Slashdot: Goatse Edition" to get the other content.
I used to use One or Zero at my last company. Out of the box it's okay, but like you said it is quite easily customizable and serves as a good starting point.
I had looked into eventum a little bit. It's a good backend, but it's lacking a customer facing portion to be complete. I find that managers sometimes want to track their department's tickets to know who is submitting what tickets, etc. One Or Zero worked well for that.
I don't have all the specifics, but I thought that the new $75B plan was not going to bail out the people who overextended themselves. I thought it was going to help the people who's homes have lost a lot of value, and now their mortgage is far above the value of the home.
You still risk a credit ding if you get behind on your mortgage. I'm current on my mortgage and I have no intentions of falling behind just so I can get bailed out. That's just plain stupid. Also, honor does play a part of the reason why I want to stay current on my mortgage. I think it's a part of human nature to want to take care of and support your family, and I take pride and honor in the fact that I am doing just that.
That said, you are absolutely right that honor does not directly pay bills. There are people that don't care about paying bills on time and are a general leech on the economy. I would argue, however, that the average person does value their honor.
Now I think I should return to the Klingon home world and sharpen my bat'leth.
The problem started with the sub-prime loans. The corroding effect of them first caused Bear Sterns to go under. The Fed then sent them money through JP Morgan Chase, because they realized that they were also heavily invested in credit default swaps.
Now, a credit default swap is a type of an insurance that when you invest in some company, if it goes bankrupt, you get your money back.
The problem with these credit default swaps is if a large company goes under, now you have to pay a LOT of money to a lot of people. After the bailout of Bear Sterns, this was actualized when AIG started to go under. AIG had issued by far the most amount of credit default swaps.
When Lehman Brother's went under (again caused by bad mortgage loans), Paulson had had enough of bailouts and going against his free market principles, and wanted to send a message to Wall Street that they couldn't expect bailouts.
AIG had issued a lot of the credit default swaps for Lehman Brother's, so now AIG was forced to pay investors billions of dollars that they didn't have in the bank.
We're not out of the woods yet, but it's pretty clear what did happen. The bad mortgages started the ball rolling, but they're far from the only cause of the market meltdown.
I watched Frontline's Inside the Meltdown last night. They have a great timeline of the events. Based on what I had already learned it seems mostly accurate. I may have mixed up a few details as well, so please feel free to correct me.
My urologist was actually quite funny. When he was done he said, "Well, I've finished with the second one... but I found a third." I was a bit confused and shocked and then he laughed and said he was just kidding.
Roku also announced today that it'll have a software update allowing all boxes access to the Video on Demand content at Amazon: http://www.contentinople.com/author.asp?section_id=450&doc_id=169871
The movies there aren't free, but it's even more content on my Roku box, which I say is a great idea. Now if they'd just get the TV station's online content I'd be all set.
Sometimes the work of the programmers end up making the system requirements increase. I work at a hospital, and we've been using the same DEC Alpha server for 14 years. Last year we upgraded our hospital registration and billing software, and ever since then we've been having huge performance issues.
We got an initial quote (I'm not sure where from) of $400k to $500k to upgrade the hardware. I'm not sure what was in that quote, but I hope that included some really fancy stuff. We're far from ready to close the deal, but at those prices more programmers start looking better.
Another glaring problem (at least right now) with JavaScript is the lack of sound support. I wrote a little game in JavaScript, but I had to resort to Flash to handle the sounds. It was a fun experience, since it was the first game I've ever written. I was also trying to push my limits in JavaScript at the time, so that probably added to the intrigue of it all.
Don't forget about those of us who no longer have time. I finished two years of college when my first son was born. I had to pay the bills, so I had to get a job to take care of my family. When push came to shove, I had to drop something. School was the least important of the three choices (family, work, school). Luckily I had been working on some of my own projects and got into the industry, but I still wish I could go back and learn a lot more things. I try to learn things on my own as well, but that takes time away from my family so I don't spend as much time as I'd like to. Maybe after my kids are older I can spend more time for myself, but they're only babies for so long.
I think the analogy of the bridge works quite well. It also points out a problem that software engineers and programmers face that structural engineers and construction crews do not face. The people who are funding the construction of the bridge can see what they're getting and visually ascertain the progress of said structure. The people funding the software only get to see a very small portion of it (the user interface) which makes it more difficult to know if progress is being made.
Software also is not as big (in size) as a bridge, and so to the lay American I think they don't think it's as impressive. I think in that sense programming moves more into the realm of art.
Someone who has not studied art will look at the Mona Lisa and see a pretty painting. Someone who has been trained in art will see all the details of how the paint was applied to the canvas and other subtleties that point to the intent/genius of the painter. I suppose this analogy somewhat falls apart in that to fully appreciate software you'd have to see the code.
At my last job, we had two occurrences of copper theft. The first was some people took some extra pipes on the outside of the building. A few weeks later someone tried to take another pipe, but that was the water main. Nobody was caught, but we didn't have water that day. Everyone had to go across the street to use a restroom, and it just had to be the day I had a nasty hangover and I was really thirsty.
I used to work for one of those student loan companies. The federal program was pretty solid. The loans had to comply with certain guidelines set forth by the Department of Education. The consolidated loans were required to be a fixed interest rate, and that rate was usually set on June 1st. A while back it did used to be variable, but a law had passed (I think around 2000) to make it fixed. Stafford and PLUS loans, however, were not a fixed rate until recently (AFAIK anyway, I could be wrong on that). The variable rate loans would often be private loans that were not a part of the federal consolidation program.
Since that time the Department of Education has locked down the program and now a lot of the third-party companies, including the one I worked for, are gone. The only ones left were the ones that were big enough to offer private loans, and even then they're having troubles now. With all that said... college is still really expensive.
+1. I haven't found too many other people that knew about this one.
du -h
I prefer
du --max-depth=1 -h
That way I can see the size of just the current directories rather than all the sub-directories as well.
cd -
Change to your previous directory. It's great for going from dev to test environments from time to time.