His complaint was about the size of a line, and you are extrapolating to mean that our government is as onerous as that of a communist country's? Am I reading your post correctly?
I love good and constructive discussion on issues like these; We enjoy a lot of freedoms here, and it is important to defend them and hold those in authority accountable.
But comments like yours are either ignorant or trollish. I just got back from China, where every single thing you do online is monitored, you cannot choose a different political party, you cannot distribute anti-government literature, and your property may be seized at any time and for basically any reason. Oh, and if they choose, they can detain citizens without filing any charges or paperwork for up to two years.
What are our complaints here, again? Oh, that we think some people make too much money, or that entering an aircraft has onerous security requirements (*cough why dont you ask Arabs what their experience is on Israeli airlines cough*), or that the DHS is taking too long to ask the people for comments. Seriously, for the majority of the population of the world, their government doesnt give a shit what you think, and if you open your mouth, you are either placed under house arrest (Liu Xiaobo) or simply "disappear".
So when you see people here complaining "we have no rights", I instantly think "you have no clue what you are talking about". If you want to have a discussion about the areas our country has failings, thats fine, but comments like yours are kind of insulting in a world where so many people would risk their lives to come here and have a chance to not worry about the government killing or detaining them in secret.
Why dont we look at Russia / Soviet Union / USSR over the past 100 years, and tell me whether it got better or worse (in terms of "millions of people murdered") after the introduction of communism?
To go completely off-topic: Places that historically have been capitalism-based have tended to be generally quite free, and prosperous. Places that have shot for communism have tended to end up as authoritarian, murderous nightmares. The one possible counter-example I can think of, is what China may look like in 20 years-- and mostly because they are shedding so much of the communist vestiges and aiming at hyper-capitalism right now (though they are retaining the authoritarian nature).
Actually, there has been a debate over the last couple of decades. It has been traditionally agreed that substance dependence requires signs of withdrawal.
That is called physical dependence, and is not the same as addiction. The two are different ideas-- one is "will my body malfunction without the substance", and the other is "is the substance habit forming".
Most things that people like to do could be considered to be addictive at varying levels, but I would hazard that marijuana is substantially more addictive than a chocolate sundae.
There is a difference between running ideas past a boss, or offering advice, and arguing / trying to convince him after he has made his decision. The former is indeed something good employees do, the latter is what arrogant / belligerent / foolish employees do.
The devs / community chose a licence that ALLOWS this. They could easily go with more restrictive licenses that preserve some kinds of freedom at the expense of others.
See, its not free-riding if the software is provided with no strings for FREE. Or are you trying to play word games here?
GP is exactly right about how ridiculous it is though, when your proof that the West is going to get outcompeted is that China has a chip thats some 5-6 years old in fabrication tech. Its sort of like saying "Africa is starting to build out its basic infrastructure; surely this means in a few years they will be surpassing the west in power generation". Yea, except that doesnt follow at ALL.
I mean, seriously, youre comparing a 60nm chip to Intel and AMD's stuff? Get real. What were costs of production? What is its real-world performance? Etc etc.
The question is not how much support costs. The question is how much is DOWNTIME going to cost the company?
No, the question is what is OP's job description. Arguing endlessly with his superiors about their executive decisions is not going to change their minds or endear OP to them. Sometimes being an adult and a professional means accepting that your superiors will make decisions that you disagree with, and learning to accept that.
You are advocating "free as in freedom", but demanding that OP (and his company) not be allowed to choose CentOS, or that the CentOS team not be allowed to make CentOS?
Part of freedom means they may choose a path you do not like.
Im pretty sure if the need arose, there are scores of companies that would love to take your money in return for supporting CentOS, either on an ongoing or onetime basis. A good starting google search might be "CentOS Consultant" or "CentOS support", both of which return promising results.
To OP: An ongoing contract is not always necessary; sometimes it makes more sense to do one-time issues. The CIO's job (and higher executives) is to make decisions like these based on their own experience and based on the recommendations they get from others. You have given your input, and he is deciding that, however good your advice it is, he is willing to take the risk for what he thinks is a better value. I would just accept that.
As a consultant, I have met smaller clients who, for example, insist on using Norton "business" products. I give my opinion on them, tell them I think it is a bad solution, and if they say "thanks, but we want to use norton", I have done my job, and they are doing theirs. Noone wants an engineer who thinks it is his job to make executive decisions, because it is not.
It is splashtop linux, I havent been able to get a shell prompt on it yet (although I was able to view the filesystem through their customized mozilla browser; I did not have permissions for basically anything except "~", unfortunately).
$50/ hr (most of it spent reading) equals $2000/ week, $8000/month, $96000 a year.
You expect technicians fixing your computer to be paid more than $96k a year? Wow, your sense of proportion is all screwed up.
And for the record, liking computer work as much as I like reading, it really isnt that big a deal to do computer work remotely whilst I read and wait for the uninstall process to finish.
They make crap laden with bloatware and unnecessary background applications running incessantly, phoning home and creating all manner of 'functionality' that nobody can turn off,
I have a Probook 4530s that I am extremely satisfied with. As regards the crapware, I simply camped out in Programs and Features for about 1.5 hours as I read a book, and now have a clean setup. Some of those programs are actually pretty nice too, like the ability to see battery level at the EFI boot screen, and the baked in miniature Linux-based fast-boot OS (though I havent used it really at all).
And given how cheap it is for a really nice laptop (mine was under $500), it seems kind of odd to complain about the bloatware. Why do you suppose the prices are so low? Are you willing to pay $50 more for a crapware-free pc (if so, please give me a call, I will happily clean your PC for you remotely for $50--it really doesnt take that much effort). Also keep in mind that you are probably buying consumer laptops, which pretty much universally (Lenovo, Acer, Sony, Toshiba, HP, Dell) come loaded with crap. If you want a crap-free pc, you can cough up for the higher-end business models, and get a much nicer build to boot (Dell Latitudes, etc).
Not all of them, no. If you go to seatguru you can look up what each type of plane has. Per-seat 110v AC power, for example, appears to be a standard feature of the 777, as does per-seat entertainment.
Imagine taking a class at a UNI and having the cost of the book NOT be part of the cost of the class, so that someone who already has the book won't have to pay for something they already have,
Is what I thought we were running off of. Im just failing to see how baking the cost of the book into the class helps Joe who already has the Bio 101 book, and now has to pay that hidden cost in the enrollment fee. You know "Technology fees"? I imagine there would be a tacked on $100 "book fee". Joe is now out $100.
Why not just leave it as it is, so that folks like me can choose to pay $25 for the rental for those courses I dont care about, or look over the shoulder of a buddy on those that are super easy for me and require no study?
I will grant that your suggestion has one potential (but uncertain) benefit-- It is possible the schools would be able to wield more clout in putting a stop to the shady tactics of the publishers (such as per-printing customizations that kill resalability). It is also possible that they would be able to standardize on books for periods of time, meaning that it would only effectively be a rental fee.
But I really doubt that the would be able to make it efficient enough (regarding admin costs) to match the price of sites like abebooks or chegg or collegebookrenter.
Incidentally, no, I am a part time student, IT major.
As I JUST said, United most certainly DOES allow 1 free checked bag for international flights. Until 3 months ago, it was 2 checked bags.. As I also said, this is as of 10 days ago.
Fair enough, but Im not clear on what it matters if the ticket costs $800, or $400 plus a $400 fee. The price remains the same, and I am equally able to compare the prices by going to united.com and southwest.com etc and comparing the checkout price.
Possibly a minor nuisance, but honestly most of the complaining Im seeing is just whining about non-issues.
No sure how the airport would make the planes broken.
If it was O'hare, you would be surprised:)
In all seriousness, I cant comment on that as I have never run across it. If it is an issue endemic to United, possibly I have been lucky, but I assume that these things will happen occasionally with any company that has been around long enough. Possibly a run of bad luck?
United air allows 1 40lb carry on, and 1 free 50lb checked bag for basically every international flight (with minor exceptions)-- this is as of 10 days ago. Until recently, I understand it was 2 free checked bags.
I just flew over to Asia 1 week ago with 130lbs of luggage on United Air, and the cost was just $50 for the second bag-- the first bag and carryon were gratis. AFAIK this is standard procedure.
If you are flying local, yes, they do charge you for checked baggage, and Im not sure why that is suprising-- I am not aware of that having changed anytime since I have been flying.
Flights taking off on time is, AFAIK, a function more of the airport than of the specific airline-- I might be wrong on this, but delays tend to be stuff like "runway needs to be deiced" or "traffic controller is slacking and the runway is busy", not "united has decided to screw you over today".
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If the republicans win, we'll have the people who installed these groups in the first place.
Wait, what? I might be wrong here, but I believe these devices were deployed under a dem white house, dem TSA, and dem DHS.
His complaint was about the size of a line, and you are extrapolating to mean that our government is as onerous as that of a communist country's? Am I reading your post correctly?
I love good and constructive discussion on issues like these; We enjoy a lot of freedoms here, and it is important to defend them and hold those in authority accountable.
But comments like yours are either ignorant or trollish. I just got back from China, where every single thing you do online is monitored, you cannot choose a different political party, you cannot distribute anti-government literature, and your property may be seized at any time and for basically any reason. Oh, and if they choose, they can detain citizens without filing any charges or paperwork for up to two years.
What are our complaints here, again? Oh, that we think some people make too much money, or that entering an aircraft has onerous security requirements (*cough why dont you ask Arabs what their experience is on Israeli airlines cough*), or that the DHS is taking too long to ask the people for comments. Seriously, for the majority of the population of the world, their government doesnt give a shit what you think, and if you open your mouth, you are either placed under house arrest (Liu Xiaobo) or simply "disappear".
So when you see people here complaining "we have no rights", I instantly think "you have no clue what you are talking about". If you want to have a discussion about the areas our country has failings, thats fine, but comments like yours are kind of insulting in a world where so many people would risk their lives to come here and have a chance to not worry about the government killing or detaining them in secret.
Why dont we look at Russia / Soviet Union / USSR over the past 100 years, and tell me whether it got better or worse (in terms of "millions of people murdered") after the introduction of communism?
To go completely off-topic:
Places that historically have been capitalism-based have tended to be generally quite free, and prosperous. Places that have shot for communism have tended to end up as authoritarian, murderous nightmares. The one possible counter-example I can think of, is what China may look like in 20 years-- and mostly because they are shedding so much of the communist vestiges and aiming at hyper-capitalism right now (though they are retaining the authoritarian nature).
Take that how you want.
Actually, there has been a debate over the last couple of decades. It has been traditionally agreed that substance dependence requires signs of withdrawal.
That is called physical dependence, and is not the same as addiction. The two are different ideas-- one is "will my body malfunction without the substance", and the other is "is the substance habit forming".
Most things that people like to do could be considered to be addictive at varying levels, but I would hazard that marijuana is substantially more addictive than a chocolate sundae.
There is a difference between running ideas past a boss, or offering advice, and arguing / trying to convince him after he has made his decision. The former is indeed something good employees do, the latter is what arrogant / belligerent / foolish employees do.
The devs / community chose a licence that ALLOWS this. They could easily go with more restrictive licenses that preserve some kinds of freedom at the expense of others.
See, its not free-riding if the software is provided with no strings for FREE. Or are you trying to play word games here?
GP is exactly right about how ridiculous it is though, when your proof that the West is going to get outcompeted is that China has a chip thats some 5-6 years old in fabrication tech.
Its sort of like saying "Africa is starting to build out its basic infrastructure; surely this means in a few years they will be surpassing the west in power generation". Yea, except that doesnt follow at ALL.
I mean, seriously, youre comparing a 60nm chip to Intel and AMD's stuff? Get real. What were costs of production? What is its real-world performance? Etc etc.
The question is not how much support costs. The question is how much is DOWNTIME going to cost the company?
No, the question is what is OP's job description. Arguing endlessly with his superiors about their executive decisions is not going to change their minds or endear OP to them. Sometimes being an adult and a professional means accepting that your superiors will make decisions that you disagree with, and learning to accept that.
You are advocating "free as in freedom", but demanding that OP (and his company) not be allowed to choose CentOS, or that the CentOS team not be allowed to make CentOS?
Part of freedom means they may choose a path you do not like.
Im pretty sure if the need arose, there are scores of companies that would love to take your money in return for supporting CentOS, either on an ongoing or onetime basis. A good starting google search might be "CentOS Consultant" or "CentOS support", both of which return promising results.
To OP:
An ongoing contract is not always necessary; sometimes it makes more sense to do one-time issues. The CIO's job (and higher executives) is to make decisions like these based on their own experience and based on the recommendations they get from others. You have given your input, and he is deciding that, however good your advice it is, he is willing to take the risk for what he thinks is a better value. I would just accept that.
As a consultant, I have met smaller clients who, for example, insist on using Norton "business" products. I give my opinion on them, tell them I think it is a bad solution, and if they say "thanks, but we want to use norton", I have done my job, and they are doing theirs. Noone wants an engineer who thinks it is his job to make executive decisions, because it is not.
It is splashtop linux, I havent been able to get a shell prompt on it yet (although I was able to view the filesystem through their customized mozilla browser; I did not have permissions for basically anything except "~", unfortunately).
Antiglare is no match for an actual matte display, which are available on some laptops (HP probooks for example).
$50/ hr (most of it spent reading) equals $2000/ week, $8000/month, $96000 a year.
You expect technicians fixing your computer to be paid more than $96k a year? Wow, your sense of proportion is all screwed up.
And for the record, liking computer work as much as I like reading, it really isnt that big a deal to do computer work remotely whilst I read and wait for the uninstall process to finish.
They make crap laden with bloatware and unnecessary background applications running incessantly, phoning home and creating all manner of 'functionality' that nobody can turn off,
I have a Probook 4530s that I am extremely satisfied with. As regards the crapware, I simply camped out in Programs and Features for about 1.5 hours as I read a book, and now have a clean setup. Some of those programs are actually pretty nice too, like the ability to see battery level at the EFI boot screen, and the baked in miniature Linux-based fast-boot OS (though I havent used it really at all).
And given how cheap it is for a really nice laptop (mine was under $500), it seems kind of odd to complain about the bloatware. Why do you suppose the prices are so low? Are you willing to pay $50 more for a crapware-free pc (if so, please give me a call, I will happily clean your PC for you remotely for $50--it really doesnt take that much effort). Also keep in mind that you are probably buying consumer laptops, which pretty much universally (Lenovo, Acer, Sony, Toshiba, HP, Dell) come loaded with crap. If you want a crap-free pc, you can cough up for the higher-end business models, and get a much nicer build to boot (Dell Latitudes, etc).
Not all of them, no. If you go to seatguru you can look up what each type of plane has. Per-seat 110v AC power, for example, appears to be a standard feature of the 777, as does per-seat entertainment.
Imagine taking a class at a UNI and having the cost of the book NOT be part of the cost of the class, so that someone who already has the book won't have to pay for something they already have,
Is what I thought we were running off of. Im just failing to see how baking the cost of the book into the class helps Joe who already has the Bio 101 book, and now has to pay that hidden cost in the enrollment fee. You know "Technology fees"? I imagine there would be a tacked on $100 "book fee". Joe is now out $100.
Why not just leave it as it is, so that folks like me can choose to pay $25 for the rental for those courses I dont care about, or look over the shoulder of a buddy on those that are super easy for me and require no study?
I will grant that your suggestion has one potential (but uncertain) benefit-- It is possible the schools would be able to wield more clout in putting a stop to the shady tactics of the publishers (such as per-printing customizations that kill resalability). It is also possible that they would be able to standardize on books for periods of time, meaning that it would only effectively be a rental fee.
But I really doubt that the would be able to make it efficient enough (regarding admin costs) to match the price of sites like abebooks or chegg or collegebookrenter.
Incidentally, no, I am a part time student, IT major.
As I JUST said, United most certainly DOES allow 1 free checked bag for international flights. Until 3 months ago, it was 2 checked bags.. As I also said, this is as of 10 days ago.
Nono, its Ok, we can just play his game.
Please name 10 grocery stores that failed due to shoplifting. You cant, Ergo, shoplifting is harmless.
Is this how the game is played?
Fair enough, but Im not clear on what it matters if the ticket costs $800, or $400 plus a $400 fee. The price remains the same, and I am equally able to compare the prices by going to united.com and southwest.com etc and comparing the checkout price.
Possibly a minor nuisance, but honestly most of the complaining Im seeing is just whining about non-issues.
No sure how the airport would make the planes broken.
If it was O'hare, you would be surprised :)
In all seriousness, I cant comment on that as I have never run across it. If it is an issue endemic to United, possibly I have been lucky, but I assume that these things will happen occasionally with any company that has been around long enough. Possibly a run of bad luck?
United air allows 1 40lb carry on, and 1 free 50lb checked bag for basically every international flight (with minor exceptions)-- this is as of 10 days ago. Until recently, I understand it was 2 free checked bags.
Does United not count as a major airline?
I just flew over to Asia 1 week ago with 130lbs of luggage on United Air, and the cost was just $50 for the second bag-- the first bag and carryon were gratis. AFAIK this is standard procedure.
If you are flying local, yes, they do charge you for checked baggage, and Im not sure why that is suprising-- I am not aware of that having changed anytime since I have been flying.
Flights taking off on time is, AFAIK, a function more of the airport than of the specific airline-- I might be wrong on this, but delays tend to be stuff like "runway needs to be deiced" or "traffic controller is slacking and the runway is busy", not "united has decided to screw you over today".
Protip: avoid BWI and Ohare as much as possible.