Odds on IT doesn't have a choice about this rule. They've likely been told by upper management that no software will be installed unless it's been approved by the Powers That Be and vendor support has been arranged. Which means that if IT goes ahead and allows your unsupported database software to be installed like you want, they get fired.
That is probably true. I sympathize. But I still need to do my job, for my customers, some of whom actually create the products that keep us all working. Not me, and not IT. we're all overhead working for the production floor. I know that. IT doesn't. They think they work for "The Powers that Be".
It's your job to get them to approve and authorize the things you need to do what they ask of you
I don't think so. The authorization is implicit in my job. I don't need to whine to my boss, and my boss doesn't want to hear whining. It is my IT supplier's job to serve my needs, instantly, and without whining. If I go to my boss, it will be for a huge structural problem that he can do something about, and understands. I don't want to create huge IT projects with big budgets and six month timelines (this time). That might need approval. This is trivial. If IT has structured things in their department so that they need approval for wiping of the ass, that's their problem.
That Oracle mobile application you could use may require a license the company hasn't paid for
Sadly, no. they pay for it, but won't use it. If they didn't have it, I wouldn't be half as angry.
My number one IT complaint is that they make rules like:
no unsupported access/mysql/etc databases, but provide no alternative.
As a manufacturing engineer, I must collect megabytes of data on each unit built to do my job.
I can't realistically have technicians manually enter data in some slow Oracle forms java interface without doubling the cost of my parts, thereby guaranteeing that all of our jobs will go to China.
Some things I could do with a scanner and Oracle's mobile applications... if they would enable that... but they will not. It isn't really enough anyway.
I really need to use Oracle's Open Interfaces. I understand them. I read the manual. I just need access. But the answer is no. They don't want the headache, and think that forms is good enough for all users.
So what can I do? My leaders are too clueless to understand the problem. They just demand that I collect all the data so they can later magically get 'six-sigma' data from me.
So I enrage IT by creating whatever databases I need to get the job done. Some of them have gotten nervy enough to delete these production databases, knowing full well they are critical, just to prove their point. I back eveything up to multiple network locations hourly, so I only lost a few minutes of production, but that only makes them madder, as data backup is their job, and I'm using up an obscene amount of disc space.
Too damn bad. I know that my customers are 1. Manufacturing Floor 2. Management that needs good data to make decisions 3. Design engineers, who need feedback on their designs to create next generation products. 4. Customers. IT is not in that list. I am their customer, and a damn demanding one, and rightfully so. Yes, I'm one of those people who uses 80% of their time. I manage hundreds of production PCs running various pieces of test software written in dead languages with obsolete and esoteric hardware and they need to last long enough for me to replace them with something modern. You can't just walk by and take something with a Metrobyte ISA IO card in it and stick a new box with XP there instead, no matter what your upgrade policy is.
With one out of two parties in the US, and the tapping act itself also happening in the US, I think it would be dishonest to say that it was clearly not domestic spying. It also certainly isn't quite the same as tapping Al Capone or Martin Luther King. Luckily, we have laws that cover this. They just were ignored.
I'm a Republican. You're a Tool. or maybe...a Troll. Not sure which.
>Go forth and build yourself an AM radio from components!
From components!?
I used a chunk of galena (looks like a cross between lead and coal), a cat's whisker, a nail, a toilet paper tube, an old alternator, a car battery, and sheet metal from an old fridge... and a pair of headphones.
As someone who has been both an executive chef, and a manufauturing engineer, I regret to inform you that the distinction is nuncipatory. A good chef will be building statistical models, doing risk analysis, designing cooking equipment and all manner of related rates problems. My Calculus textbook easily earned a spot in my kitchen next to Escoffier, Larousse Gastronomique, and K&R. The main distiction is that all manner of amateurs who cannot distinguish between an emollient and a surfactant will profess to be chefs, whereas in the engineering fields applicants are somewhat more rigerously certified.
The absolute worst design choice was to use linear induction motors instead of linear synchronous motors.
In the BAE system, periodically spaced induction motors would throw and catch carts- but if something missed... people get sent to restart it. You only really know where a vehicle is occasionally.
synchronous motors, on the other hand, by definition alway have the real location of the vehicle, and are always in control. Your heating is less concentrated, so you don't have the cracking aluminium fins these carts had.
The engineers at the startup I was working for at the time told the BAE people that the LIM system would be a disaster.
I leave an unsecured AP with throttled bandwidth open for general usage in downtown Boston. Obviously that's in front of a firewall behind which my network lives.
Your claim that there is some ethical violation happening assumes that resources are scarce, and that the owner cares. Children who pick blackberries and swim in a creek on a many-acre rural farm are not commiting any ethical violation. Only a tight New York asshat up from the city, living in a world of lawsuits would care. Decent people would understand that in whatever sense that law says the land is owned by the farmer, clearly that did not include the occasional blackberry.
In reality, all those linksysers don't care. If they cared, they'd say something. They don't. They share access points. They don't worry whose box they connect to. It is a vast, vast river and anyone with a boat can use it, anywhere they like.
Compare Dante's 'Inferno', to his 'Paradisio'. Which has become a clasic? Do we end up in traffic jams because of beautiful flowers by the side of the road, or car accidents? This is human nature.
John Campbell (1910 - 1971) may have tweaked the mix in that strange moment in time when he ruled science fiction, but the last few decades are seeing a return to normalcy, where optimism and wonder are trumped by cynicism and dark visions.
Robert Sawyer isn't helping matters by presenting bi-sexual peacenik neanderthals living in a horrific totalitarian eco-state as some sort of alternate-world liberal utopia.
The cited temperature is the temperature which the burning gas in an infared ceramic broiler reaches, not the temperature at the surface of the meat or on the grill's surface. That is somewhat lower, as evidenced by the fact that you can reach into one of these broilers and poke the surface of the meat, without losing too much skin. Surface temp maxes out at 700-800 degrees. The Gas temp can go as high as 2400 degrees. The person who impressed you with that big number wasn't lying, just being slightly disingenuous.
This is the type of broiler that Ruth's Chris, Morton's, and Peter Luger's use.
Addendum to steak specification: Steak should be USDA Prime Yield Grade Three, Dry Aged 6 weeks in a temperature and humidity controlled room with a carefully cultured bacterial colony growing on a shortloin, which is then cut into two inch slabs on a bandsaw.
It would be a good guess that China will ultimately go with a permanent magnet based system rather than an electromagnetically levitated one because the material that the strongest permanent magnets are made from, Neodynium Iron Boron, is found mostly in China, and they have extensive domestic magnet foundries. Until the big NdFeB patents run out, their global market is limited, so they might use a permanent magnet based system to subsidize that industy until the patents expire. The big question to me is whether they will ultimately use an EDM (repulsive)or EMS (attractive) system.
Check out Magplane.com, in development of an EDM system for China, and MagneMotion.com (where I work)
I don't think that allowing human beings to speak to each other about what they do is equivalent in any way to giving people root.
Having root is equivalent to having power. Speaking is only speaking. Only in a democracy does power accrue to those who speak convincingly. Corperate and Government bureacracies are not democratic.
Standard-issue boilerplate aside, we are all smart enough to recognize when we are speaking with a corperate mouthpiece, and when we are speaking with an actual human being. Advertizing sounds nothing like a conversation.
I prefer to hear people, not cleverly crafted almost-lies.
An tightly specialized engineer cannot innovate. He can advance what exists, but making something new usually requires a broader view. We need innovative engineers.
Accountants, on the other hand, have been doing far too much innovating lately. see Enron, Global Crossing, etc.
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I play a little poker online. I generally win, and am up 3K so far this year.
Mainly I play for entertainment.
Bread and Circuses. That's what the politicians are taking away from me.
That's not very smart, historically speaking.
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I particuly like the Mindstorms/Labview combination.
You start with the MINDSTORMS NXT simplified programming, and move on to full Labview programming.
Labview is simple and powerful. It really ought to be the new BASIC.
If only it were cheaper.
I sometimes see 3.1 in manufacturing environments where 'copy exact' requirements can be very, very strict.
This is exactly the sort of patronizing bull**** I would expect from somebody working for the man.
They should just sell insurance. $1 dollar gets you 10K if you are arrested.
spare change for beer?
Odds on IT doesn't have a choice about this rule. They've likely been told by upper management that no software will be installed unless it's been approved by the Powers That Be and vendor support has been arranged. Which means that if IT goes ahead and allows your unsupported database software to be installed like you want, they get fired.
That is probably true. I sympathize. But I still need to do my job, for my customers, some of whom actually create the products that keep us all working. Not me, and not IT. we're all overhead working for the production floor. I know that. IT doesn't. They think they work for "The Powers that Be".
It's your job to get them to approve and authorize the things you need to do what they ask of you
I don't think so. The authorization is implicit in my job. I don't need to whine to my boss, and my boss doesn't want to hear whining. It is my IT supplier's job to serve my needs, instantly, and without whining. If I go to my boss, it will be for a huge structural problem that he can do something about, and understands. I don't want to create huge IT projects with big budgets and six month timelines (this time). That might need approval. This is trivial. If IT has structured things in their department so that they need approval for wiping of the ass, that's their problem.
That Oracle mobile application you could use may require a license the company hasn't paid for
Sadly, no. they pay for it, but won't use it. If they didn't have it, I wouldn't be half as angry.
My number one IT complaint is that they make rules like:
... but they will not. It isn't really enough anyway.
no unsupported access/mysql/etc databases, but provide no alternative.
As a manufacturing engineer, I must collect megabytes of data on each unit built to do my job.
I can't realistically have technicians manually enter data in some slow Oracle forms java interface without doubling the cost of my parts, thereby guaranteeing that all of our jobs will go to China.
Some things I could do with a scanner and Oracle's mobile applications... if they would enable that
I really need to use Oracle's Open Interfaces. I understand them. I read the manual. I just need access.
But the answer is no. They don't want the headache, and think that forms is good enough for all users.
So what can I do? My leaders are too clueless to understand the problem. They just demand that I collect all the data so they can later magically get 'six-sigma' data from me.
So I enrage IT by creating whatever databases I need to get the job done. Some of them have gotten nervy enough to delete these production databases, knowing full well they are critical, just to prove their point. I back eveything up to multiple network locations hourly, so I only lost a few minutes of production, but that only makes them madder, as data backup is their job, and I'm using up an obscene amount of disc space.
Too damn bad. I know that my customers are 1. Manufacturing Floor 2. Management that needs good data to make decisions 3. Design engineers, who need feedback on their designs to create next generation products. 4. Customers. IT is not in that list. I am their customer, and a damn demanding one, and rightfully so.
Yes, I'm one of those people who uses 80% of their time. I manage hundreds of production PCs running various pieces of test software written in dead languages with obsolete and esoteric hardware and they need to last long enough for me to replace them with something modern. You can't just walk by and take something with a Metrobyte ISA IO card in it and stick a new box with XP there instead, no matter what your upgrade policy is.
With one out of two parties in the US, and the tapping act itself also happening in the US, I think it would be dishonest to say that it was clearly not domestic spying. It also certainly isn't quite the same as tapping Al Capone or Martin Luther King. Luckily, we have laws that cover this. They just were ignored.
I'm a Republican. You're a Tool. or maybe...a Troll. Not sure which.
In my experience, scientists do not- all they have to change is the units they think in.
Engineers, on the other hand, have to interface with the real world at some point, and that means using imperial units here in a lot of cases.
So.... It's like listening to Cheese - Outside?
and how will they sync the clocks in different speakers?
>Go forth and build yourself an AM radio from components!
... and a pair of headphones.
From components!?
I used a chunk of galena (looks like a cross between lead and coal), a cat's whisker, a nail, a toilet paper tube, an old alternator, a car battery, and sheet metal from an old fridge
As someone who has been both an executive chef, and a manufauturing engineer, I regret to inform you that the distinction is nuncipatory. A good chef will be building statistical models, doing risk analysis, designing cooking equipment and all manner of related rates problems. My Calculus textbook easily earned a spot in my kitchen next to Escoffier, Larousse Gastronomique, and K&R. The main distiction is that all manner of amateurs who cannot distinguish between an emollient and a surfactant will profess to be chefs, whereas in the engineering fields applicants are somewhat more rigerously certified.
Exactly right.
The absolute worst design choice was to use linear induction motors instead of linear synchronous motors.
In the BAE system, periodically spaced induction motors would throw and catch carts- but if something missed... people get sent to restart it. You only really know where a vehicle is occasionally.
synchronous motors, on the other hand, by definition alway have the real location of the vehicle, and are always in control. Your heating is less concentrated, so you don't have the cracking aluminium fins these carts had.
The engineers at the startup I was working for at the time told the BAE people that the LIM system would be a disaster.
( ) Microsoft will not put up with it
Dude. How could you leave this one blank?
Case in point: Los Angeles
I leave an unsecured AP with throttled bandwidth open for general usage in downtown Boston. Obviously that's in front of a firewall behind which my network lives.
Your claim that there is some ethical violation happening assumes that resources are scarce, and that the owner cares. Children who pick blackberries and swim in a creek on a many-acre rural farm are not commiting any ethical violation. Only a tight New York asshat up from the city, living in a world of lawsuits would care. Decent people would understand that in whatever sense that law says the land is owned by the farmer, clearly that did not include the occasional blackberry.
In reality, all those linksysers don't care. If they cared, they'd say something. They don't. They share access points. They don't worry whose box they connect to. It is a vast, vast river and anyone with a boat can use it, anywhere they like.
Lighten up.
Where's the paired t test?
Compare Dante's 'Inferno', to his 'Paradisio'. Which has become a clasic? Do we end up in traffic jams because of beautiful flowers by the side of the road, or car accidents? This is human nature.
John Campbell (1910 - 1971) may have tweaked the mix in that strange moment in time when he ruled science fiction, but the last few decades are seeing a return to normalcy, where optimism and wonder are trumped by cynicism and dark visions.
Robert Sawyer isn't helping matters by presenting bi-sexual peacenik neanderthals living in a horrific totalitarian eco-state as some sort of alternate-world liberal utopia.
The cited temperature is the temperature which the burning gas in an infared ceramic broiler reaches, not the temperature at the surface of the meat or on the grill's surface. That is somewhat lower, as evidenced by the fact that you can reach into one of these broilers and poke the surface of the meat, without losing too much skin. Surface temp maxes out at 700-800 degrees. The Gas temp can go as high as 2400 degrees. The person who impressed you with that big number wasn't lying, just being slightly disingenuous.
This is the type of broiler that Ruth's Chris, Morton's, and Peter Luger's use.
Addendum to steak specification:
Steak should be USDA Prime Yield Grade Three, Dry Aged 6 weeks in a temperature and humidity controlled room with a carefully cultured bacterial colony growing on a shortloin, which is then cut into two inch slabs on a bandsaw.
I build prototype Maglev systems for a living.
It would be a good guess that China will ultimately go with a permanent magnet based system rather than an electromagnetically levitated one because the material that the strongest permanent magnets are made from, Neodynium Iron Boron, is found mostly in China, and they have extensive domestic magnet foundries. Until the big NdFeB patents run out, their global market is limited, so they might use a permanent magnet based system to subsidize that industy until the patents expire. The big question to me is whether they will ultimately use an EDM (repulsive)or EMS (attractive) system.
Check out Magplane.com, in development of an EDM system for China, and MagneMotion.com (where I work)
I don't think that allowing human beings to speak to each other about what they do is equivalent in any way to giving people root.
Having root is equivalent to having power. Speaking is only speaking. Only in a democracy does power accrue to those who speak convincingly. Corperate and Government bureacracies are not democratic.
Standard-issue boilerplate aside, we are all smart enough to recognize when we are speaking with a corperate mouthpiece, and when we are speaking with an actual human being. Advertizing sounds nothing like a conversation.
I prefer to hear people, not cleverly crafted almost-lies.
An tightly specialized engineer cannot innovate. He can advance what exists, but making something new usually requires a broader view. We need innovative engineers.
Accountants, on the other hand, have been doing far too much innovating lately. see Enron, Global Crossing, etc.