Many states DO grant illegal aliens drivers licenses. NJ just started asking for additional things like Social Security cards and proof of residency in the last year or so. Previous to that, you could get a drivers license by proving that you are of age, you are who you say you are (proof of identity), and that you live in the state (proof of residency).
I personally think that drivers licenses should be granted to anyone (including illegal aliens), but a granted bit more conservatively, in that testing should be more stringent. They should also be revoked a bit more liberaly, with reckless driving being a two strike and your out penalty.
I was looking to see who would make the Apple comparisons. The death knell for Apple has been sounding for 10 years or more. Let me know when it stops so I can start worrying.:p
I have two TiVos. I have 5 Macs. I have several production and stacks (literally) of non-production white box PCs that are kept for sentimental reasons.
Either way, TiVo is the best commercial option available today. When they stop coming up with new stuff and get bought out by someone that sucks, I will stop buying new TiVos.
Note that the article is about SOFTWARE and units of OS shipped for PDAs. PalmSource is the software company and PalmOne is the hardware company.
I need to find more info on this, because if they excluded the Treo, did they also exclude all the MS PPC phones and Blackberry phones? Either way, PalmOne (hardware company) has all but ditched the PDA market to focus on the smartphone market. Ed Colligan (p1 pres) has stated that they will have a "Treo family" to provide a variety of smartphones. treocentral.com has some good articles about this.
I think the MS smartphone stuff is cool, but the Crackberries are CRAP. The thing is like a unholy union of a pager, a Franklin personal organizer, and a cell phone (in some cases). I support them at work and the rest of the IT dept uses them for email, but I use my Treo for everything. There's not much I can't do in a pinch on the Treo.
It is a phone, but it is also a PDA. Would you agree that 802.11b is cool in a PDA? I regularly run pssh from my TREO 600 http://www.sealiesoftware.com/pssh/. Is that an app that might qualify as needing 802.11b? I find it slow on the 600 but I wonder if the processor has something to do with that. Either way, a faster network is always something to take advantage of.
BTW, I will buy the 650 the minute Sprint offers them. My wife is itching to get my 600 and I want a shiny new gadget.
I've only gone above my bosses head once, and it was after having several discussions with other people in my department about whether we should just go get new jobs, because he was going to get us all fired (or outsourced). I was chosen by default to come forward since I had been there the longest.
Once I voiced my concerns to the VP of Operations, he told me that several other people (not in IT) had very similar concerns about his ability to make the correct decisions, but were not sure if it was just his ability to communicate what he knew or rather that he did not know what he was doing. Once I came forward he was moved out of IT and put into the software development department, which already had several good managers to watch over him.
My reward was that they gave me his job. I lasted a couple of years before I quit to get more money elsewhere. They hired me back as a consultant for 3 times the money. Ahh... 1999 was a good year.
As "phats_garage" said, you should only "advise and persuade"; never argue anything, because you will be seen as a troublemaker. Basically, kissing ass is the only way to survive in a corporate job.
I think phats_garage might take offense to the "kissing ass" comment. Heheh.
I know that it happens all the time, but I have never been fired for being a troublemaker, but I also think I have been very fortunate with my bosses during Full Time work. I have also been very UNlucky with consulting clients. I've had clients that wouldn't listen to a word I said, but would blame me when what I predicted actually occured.
You think making a lot of noise about the situation is going to save those pour souls' jobs?
I know I should have been more clear about this, but what I was implying was that it might be YOUR job that is lost.
I will say that upon reading the replies to my comment that I do realize that being CORRECT AND unemployed is not much different than just being unemployed.
Instead of arguing about upper level decisions, "advise and persuade", and if ever a decision of yours proves it would have been better instead of the way management actually went, do not rub it in!. If a decision recommended by you is subsequently championed by someone else without acknowledgement of its origion, congratulate them on their creativity.
And in the end, all you have is your integrity.
I have mine, and I was a consultant (which is saying something). Heheh. I never AFIAK told a client something they wanted to hear in order to get a job. I never failed to mention an existing or potential problem. I told them, "You can disagree with what I recommend, but you DO pay me for my knowledge, expertise, and experience."
Anything less than that is negligence, which may not be what you are suggesting, but pragmatism is akin to being practical. So is letting your boss get away with making bad decisions practical? What if that decision causes a few people to lose "these periodic paychecks"?
My boss is human. I argue with him every day. It's part of the job. They watch you so you don't make mistakes, and you watch then to do the same. As long as you act as a team, then things work well. As soon as people start worrying about looking good, then things get messy. I constantly argue with my boss about that point exactly. I tell him that I am interested in making the company run well from an IT standpoint, and that the company makes money to pay me. If everyone worries about looking good, then they make decisions that they think will be popular rather than decisions that are right for the business.
I don't know... For my wife and I, it is the low priority communication method. Being a corporate geek means that she might not see me outside of when the alarm goes off in the morning, so IM is a pretty good tool. We also speak to each other about once a day on the cell phone to just touch base.
Inside the house we use IM sometimes too, if she knows I am doing work from home and I cannot be disturbed.
We also have a phone system in the house that allows paging from any phone. It is not a loudspeaker system, but rather it rings a particular phone in the house, by dialing the extension. It's not really a business class system, because it only has two lines. The link to the phones for those that are interested:
http://www.panasonic.com/consumer_electronics/te le phones/expandable_sys.asp
My house, and the houses I lived at while in college, are 60-100+ years old. That was the last major building period in the towns. My house still has remnants of "knob and tube" wiring.
I have had to rewire several areas of the house to get outlets where they were needed. I used to blow the circuits regularly when I used the vacuum cleaner until I started the rewiring. It was not terribley expensive because I did the work myself over a period of time, but it would have cost thousands to hire an electrician to do the whole thing.
I use Sprint PCS Vision through a USB cable connected to my Treo 600 with a neat little app called PDAnet. I use the Cisco VPN client with no real problems. Most of my work is done through Term Services or PCAnywhere (which is a bandwidth hog).
I have to say that most of the people that I have showed it to thought it was quite fast. The people that thought it was slow were indeed talking about latency and not throughput.
ROFL!!! I just see myself in college with my safety goggles on carefully weighing Ca0 powder. Going to the library and making photocopies. Too funny.
Interestingly enough, this is also why any show or movie about computer geeks is doomed to failure (unless it is a documentary). People are bored stiff by what we do everyday at work and at home.
I was thinking the same thing when I read this. To have a real network with these devices, multiple hops is key. Having multiple paths helps ensure reliable communication for devices.
Not to pick on the poster, but this is EXACTLY the reason why more auto companies in the US DO NOT do custom autos. The very real perception is that Americans are not willing to wait longer than a couple of weeks to get a custom car. Does anyone see the advertisements for car dealerships in the US? "All you need is a drivers license and job to drive away with a new car TODAY!"
The last/only two cars I purchased were done the 'slow' way. For one, I called AAA (auto club for those not in US) car buying service and had them find a dealership that had exactly what I wanted for the price that I wanted. The dealership DELIVERED the car to my house and drove away the trade-in. The dealership is in North Carolina and I am in New Jersey. It took about two weeks to get everything done from start to finish. The other was a used (and hard to find) car that I bought through Ebay. I spent about 3 months tracking prices for the car and finally found one for about 50% of the listed value. The guy selling it was 10 minutes from my house and I have only had one problem (ignition) that was fixed for less than $250.
The lack of patience by buyers is really all there is to it.
Most animated stuff tends to look bad on basic for the same reason: too much action. DBZ has far too much action for basic. Movies or shows with fight sequences also get fuzzy with artifacts.
You forgot one. Does the Internet not run on BIND? Open Source already is mainstream. With BIND, Apache, and Sendmail, Open Source is used on a huge number of servers all over the world. It already is mainstream in the same way that Cisco is mainstream. Cisco is everywhere even though it is not on every desk or rack.
I got 9 months of consulting fees from a company that I quit because they would not give me a raise. I charged them 3 times my previous salary for the trouble. It took them that long to find a replacement. I found out he got canned 18 months after he was hired. He evidently could not handle it and was too proud to call me for help.
Is the original poster sure it is ATT selling these? When I worked for Lucent, (right after it was spun off) someone told me a story about how ATT had sold all their microwave towers several years before because of the fiber network being in place. The person that sold them caught nine kinds of hell (and supposedly lost her job) because ATT was about to outfit them with cell station equipment.
I think ATT sold them a while ago, but the company that bought them has to decided to sell them on the open market.
From a project management perspective, the best estimate of time and resources needed for a project can be found by looking at previous projects. Time and resource tracking with reports to the management are the only reliable ways I know to predict the future.
I've seen projects that could be done in a weekend if the IT staff was willing to work a couple of twelve hour days. Since they were not, the project took several weeks done in phases. I've seen others that would take severl weeks of full time work to plan, test and implement, that were forced into production in a matter of days.
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Many states DO grant illegal aliens drivers licenses. NJ just started asking for additional things like Social Security cards and proof of residency in the last year or so. Previous to that, you could get a drivers license by proving that you are of age, you are who you say you are (proof of identity), and that you live in the state (proof of residency).
I personally think that drivers licenses should be granted to anyone (including illegal aliens), but a granted bit more conservatively, in that testing should be more stringent. They should also be revoked a bit more liberaly, with reckless driving being a two strike and your out penalty.
I am soooo guilty of that. Ouch!
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No joke. People seem to forget how much 5% of a multi-billion dollar market is.
I was looking to see who would make the Apple comparisons. The death knell for Apple has been sounding for 10 years or more. Let me know when it stops so I can start worrying. :p
I have two TiVos. I have 5 Macs. I have several production and stacks (literally) of non-production white box PCs that are kept for sentimental reasons.
Either way, TiVo is the best commercial option available today. When they stop coming up with new stuff and get bought out by someone that sucks, I will stop buying new TiVos.
Wasn't there a similar vulnerability in AIM last year? I think it was with JPEG though.
Not only sensational. I'm rusty on my statistics, but isn't 15% considered "significant".
Note that the article is about SOFTWARE and units of OS shipped for PDAs. PalmSource is the software company and PalmOne is the hardware company.
I need to find more info on this, because if they excluded the Treo, did they also exclude all the MS PPC phones and Blackberry phones? Either way, PalmOne (hardware company) has all but ditched the PDA market to focus on the smartphone market. Ed Colligan (p1 pres) has stated that they will have a "Treo family" to provide a variety of smartphones. treocentral.com has some good articles about this.
I think the MS smartphone stuff is cool, but the Crackberries are CRAP. The thing is like a unholy union of a pager, a Franklin personal organizer, and a cell phone (in some cases). I support them at work and the rest of the IT dept uses them for email, but I use my Treo for everything. There's not much I can't do in a pinch on the Treo.
It is a phone, but it is also a PDA. Would you agree that 802.11b is cool in a PDA? I regularly run pssh from my TREO 600 http://www.sealiesoftware.com/pssh/. Is that an app that might qualify as needing 802.11b? I find it slow on the 600 but I wonder if the processor has something to do with that. Either way, a faster network is always something to take advantage of.
BTW, I will buy the 650 the minute Sprint offers them. My wife is itching to get my 600 and I want a shiny new gadget.
I've only gone above my bosses head once, and it was after having several discussions with other people in my department about whether we should just go get new jobs, because he was going to get us all fired (or outsourced). I was chosen by default to come forward since I had been there the longest.
Once I voiced my concerns to the VP of Operations, he told me that several other people (not in IT) had very similar concerns about his ability to make the correct decisions, but were not sure if it was just his ability to communicate what he knew or rather that he did not know what he was doing. Once I came forward he was moved out of IT and put into the software development department, which already had several good managers to watch over him.
My reward was that they gave me his job. I lasted a couple of years before I quit to get more money elsewhere. They hired me back as a consultant for 3 times the money. Ahh... 1999 was a good year.
I think phats_garage might take offense to the "kissing ass" comment. Heheh.
I know that it happens all the time, but I have never been fired for being a troublemaker, but I also think I have been very fortunate with my bosses during Full Time work. I have also been very UNlucky with consulting clients. I've had clients that wouldn't listen to a word I said, but would blame me when what I predicted actually occured.
I know I should have been more clear about this, but what I was implying was that it might be YOUR job that is lost.
I will say that upon reading the replies to my comment that I do realize that being CORRECT AND unemployed is not much different than just being unemployed.
And in the end, all you have is your integrity.
I have mine, and I was a consultant (which is saying something). Heheh. I never AFIAK told a client something they wanted to hear in order to get a job. I never failed to mention an existing or potential problem. I told them, "You can disagree with what I recommend, but you DO pay me for my knowledge, expertise, and experience."
Anything less than that is negligence, which may not be what you are suggesting, but pragmatism is akin to being practical. So is letting your boss get away with making bad decisions practical? What if that decision causes a few people to lose "these periodic paychecks"?
My boss is human. I argue with him every day. It's part of the job. They watch you so you don't make mistakes, and you watch then to do the same. As long as you act as a team, then things work well. As soon as people start worrying about looking good, then things get messy. I constantly argue with my boss about that point exactly. I tell him that I am interested in making the company run well from an IT standpoint, and that the company makes money to pay me. If everyone worries about looking good, then they make decisions that they think will be popular rather than decisions that are right for the business.
ROFL... I would have freaked out.
I don't know... For my wife and I, it is the low priority communication method. Being a corporate geek means that she might not see me outside of when the alarm goes off in the morning, so IM is a pretty good tool. We also speak to each other about once a day on the cell phone to just touch base.
e le phones/expandable_sys.asp
Inside the house we use IM sometimes too, if she knows I am doing work from home and I cannot be disturbed.
We also have a phone system in the house that allows paging from any phone. It is not a loudspeaker system, but rather it rings a particular phone in the house, by dialing the extension. It's not really a business class system, because it only has two lines. The link to the phones for those that are interested:
http://www.panasonic.com/consumer_electronics/t
Cool research. Good luck.
My house, and the houses I lived at while in college, are 60-100+ years old. That was the last major building period in the towns. My house still has remnants of "knob and tube" wiring.
I have had to rewire several areas of the house to get outlets where they were needed. I used to blow the circuits regularly when I used the vacuum cleaner until I started the rewiring. It was not terribley expensive because I did the work myself over a period of time, but it would have cost thousands to hire an electrician to do the whole thing.
I use Sprint PCS Vision through a USB cable connected to my Treo 600 with a neat little app called PDAnet. I use the Cisco VPN client with no real problems. Most of my work is done through Term Services or PCAnywhere (which is a bandwidth hog).
I have to say that most of the people that I have showed it to thought it was quite fast. The people that thought it was slow were indeed talking about latency and not throughput.
ROFL!!! I just see myself in college with my safety goggles on carefully weighing Ca0 powder. Going to the library and making photocopies. Too funny.
Interestingly enough, this is also why any show or movie about computer geeks is doomed to failure (unless it is a documentary). People are bored stiff by what we do everyday at work and at home.
I was thinking the same thing when I read this. To have a real network with these devices, multiple hops is key. Having multiple paths helps ensure reliable communication for devices.
"The bad part was that it took 8 weeks"
Not to pick on the poster, but this is EXACTLY the reason why more auto companies in the US DO NOT do custom autos. The very real perception is that Americans are not willing to wait longer than a couple of weeks to get a custom car. Does anyone see the advertisements for car dealerships in the US? "All you need is a drivers license and job to drive away with a new car TODAY!"
The last/only two cars I purchased were done the 'slow' way. For one, I called AAA (auto club for those not in US) car buying service and had them find a dealership that had exactly what I wanted for the price that I wanted. The dealership DELIVERED the car to my house and drove away the trade-in. The dealership is in North Carolina and I am in New Jersey. It took about two weeks to get everything done from start to finish. The other was a used (and hard to find) car that I bought through Ebay. I spent about 3 months tracking prices for the car and finally found one for about 50% of the listed value. The guy selling it was 10 minutes from my house and I have only had one problem (ignition) that was fixed for less than $250.
The lack of patience by buyers is really all there is to it.
Most animated stuff tends to look bad on basic for the same reason: too much action. DBZ has far too much action for basic. Movies or shows with fight sequences also get fuzzy with artifacts.
You forgot one. Does the Internet not run on BIND? Open Source already is mainstream. With BIND, Apache, and Sendmail, Open Source is used on a huge number of servers all over the world. It already is mainstream in the same way that Cisco is mainstream. Cisco is everywhere even though it is not on every desk or rack.
I got 9 months of consulting fees from a company that I quit because they would not give me a raise. I charged them 3 times my previous salary for the trouble. It took them that long to find a replacement. I found out he got canned 18 months after he was hired. He evidently could not handle it and was too proud to call me for help.
oh well.
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Is the original poster sure it is ATT selling these? When I worked for Lucent, (right after it was spun off) someone told me a story about how ATT had sold all their microwave towers several years before because of the fiber network being in place. The person that sold them caught nine kinds of hell (and supposedly lost her job) because ATT was about to outfit them with cell station equipment.
I think ATT sold them a while ago, but the company that bought them has to decided to sell them on the open market.
From a project management perspective, the best estimate of time and resources needed for a project can be found by looking at previous projects. Time and resource tracking with reports to the management are the only reliable ways I know to predict the future.
I've seen projects that could be done in a weekend if the IT staff was willing to work a couple of twelve hour days. Since they were not, the project took several weeks done in phases. I've seen others that would take severl weeks of full time work to plan, test and implement, that were forced into production in a matter of days.
Software develepment is not a forgiving job.