You must not be familiar with business challenges... Microsoft has had processes that have worked to acheive market dominance and attract top talent. The next phase of optimization of those processes will entail cost cutting. The challenge with the kind of employees MS hires will be to avoid having them feel like the processes restrict their creativity and ability to do their jobs.
I think that based on MS's success so far, it is possible that they'll come up with some great innovations in process optimization and cost cutting.
Any business can benefit from optimizing its processes. Microsoft has been very good at making profits... it will be interesting to see if it will succeed at creating business processes that capture the imagination of its employees and make them feel like part of a well oiled machine.
The employer doesn't owe you anything, nor do you owe the employer anything. Your job is based on a mutually beneficial agreement.
If the change in policy results in the agreement no longer being beneficial to you, or if you can find an alternative that is better, you are free to do so. Similarly, you are free to demand broadband, a blackberry, and a hot tub as conditions of your continued employment, or a 25% raise, each of which your employer is free to refuse.
If you want to keep your job, you'll understand that the company needs to make a profit. Benefits are usually cut when times are tough. If you get a flat tire on the way to work and show up an hour late, you'd expect some understanding. Similarly, the company may need to cut benefits in order to get through a short term cash flow crisis.
If you have a new CIO, chances are he/she is trying to be a hero by immediately cutting costs. The decision may be shortsighted, and you might want to run the risk of explaining why there may be better places to cut costs (keep in mind that some people do not like being told that a decision they have made has been wrong... many people are also not keen on reversing a decision they have already made, as irrational as it may have been)...
Best of luck... you can always start a web hosting company at home, host a site via your broadband, charge someone $1 a year for it and claim the loss against your taxes.
the amount of money made by an industry should not be considered an indicator of whether or not fraud should be allowed to exist.
The banking industry's figures dwarf the movie industry and there are some rich people who wouldn't likely miss a few thousand dollars too much. Does that mean that bank robbing should be legal?
looking for a command prompt? Download Microsoft Unix tools for Windows. You'll get a better integrated variation on cygwin (based on one of the bsds)... it's free for download and works pretty well, particularly for things like grep and awk, which i couldn't live without.
Why is this considered such a big deal? If you're not clueful enough to realize the need to avoid having a blank password, particularly in spite of a warning, then maybe you should be allowed to have one.
Chances are MSFT will provide a standard model for this kind of DB security and an ADO.NET data source... You will be able to subclass from the MSFT classes and design your own encryption providers, etc., if you want to, just like in.NET.
Ever hear of propaganda? Sometimes graphs are intended to distort information so that the viewer obtains an inaccurate conclusion from it.
It's not how graphs should be done in scientific papers, but well, it sometimes is. If Tufte thinks that newspapers are bastions of objectivity, he's sadly mistaken. They are not naively doing their best to produce accurate graphs and failing, but rather they are quite skilled at producing highly misleading graphs that support their bias. This is life. It's not a failure of science but a way of utilizing the same science Tufte practices but with a different goal.
Tufte's books are so obvious it's rediculous. Some content is not obvious, but that's because it's pedantic and based on Tufte's own personal taste.
The only difference between the homeless and the rest of us is that they like to party a bit more than we do. They also like to avoid workplace stress.
Anyone who would quit something (in other words, remove himself from a position to make a positive difference) because of something so far disconnected from the role that he quit is making an excuse.
It's cowardice, and quite frankly blaming his dislike of fellow LUG members on military linux use is one of the most absurd things I've ever heard. When I saw this article I checked the calendar to see if it was already April 1st again.
The blood of tens of thousands of Iraqis is now on the hands of anyone who has ever booted a linux kernel. This includes owners of certain Linksys products, ReplayTV, and any other consumer devices that rely on embedded linux, as well as anyone who has ever watched one of the more recent Pixar films that was rendered on clusters of linux computers.
It's time to repent for the atrocity that we have all committed.
Not exactly... I had been hoping for some significant performance improvements with ics...
I have since switched the project over to linux, and under linux gcc performs as well (in terms of time to run the app) as the microsoft compiler did under Windows.
I will be trying the intel compiler again at some point, just in case it offers a performance improvement over gcc on linux.
I was really quite shocked that ics was slower than the Microsoft compiler...
I recently downloaded the 30 day evaluation version of the Intel compiler and compared the performance with the Microsoft c++ compiler (the one that ships with vs 2003). Both compilers were set to use all available optimizations, and I even used the profiling optimization for the Intel compiler.
Results? The Microsoft compiled code was about 1 second faster than the Intel compiled code (the total run time was about 5.6 seconds for the Microsoft compiled code). Interestingly, the Microsoft compiler only took a second or two to compile, while the Intel compiler took much longer.
No trig functions were used in the code... it was all simple work with large data structures, the stl, and some reading and writing to files.
That's true, but if they lower the bar then someone else will step in and offer consumers what consumers want, and will make money in the process. Not all businesses are run intelligently, but the good news is that there is always someone else willing to step in.
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it sure did...
You must not be familiar with business challenges... Microsoft has had processes that have worked to acheive market dominance and attract top talent. The next phase of optimization of those processes will entail cost cutting. The challenge with the kind of employees MS hires will be to avoid having them feel like the processes restrict their creativity and ability to do their jobs.
I think that based on MS's success so far, it is possible that they'll come up with some great innovations in process optimization and cost cutting.
Uh, processes are not only relegated to manufacturing...
Any business can benefit from optimizing its processes. Microsoft has been very good at making profits... it will be interesting to see if it will succeed at creating business processes that capture the imagination of its employees and make them feel like part of a well oiled machine.
The employer doesn't owe you anything, nor do you owe the employer anything. Your job is based on a mutually beneficial agreement.
If the change in policy results in the agreement no longer being beneficial to you, or if you can find an alternative that is better, you are free to do so. Similarly, you are free to demand broadband, a blackberry, and a hot tub as conditions of your continued employment, or a 25% raise, each of which your employer is free to refuse.
If you want to keep your job, you'll understand that the company needs to make a profit. Benefits are usually cut when times are tough. If you get a flat tire on the way to work and show up an hour late, you'd expect some understanding. Similarly, the company may need to cut benefits in order to get through a short term cash flow crisis.
If you have a new CIO, chances are he/she is trying to be a hero by immediately cutting costs. The decision may be shortsighted, and you might want to run the risk of explaining why there may be better places to cut costs (keep in mind that some people do not like being told that a decision they have made has been wrong... many people are also not keen on reversing a decision they have already made, as irrational as it may have been)...
Best of luck... you can always start a web hosting company at home, host a site via your broadband, charge someone $1 a year for it and claim the loss against your taxes.
Uh, the first linux filesystem was Minix, and Minix was the basis for the early shell of Linux.
the amount of money made by an industry should not be considered an indicator of whether or not fraud should be allowed to exist.
The banking industry's figures dwarf the movie industry and there are some rich people who wouldn't likely miss a few thousand dollars too much. Does that mean that bank robbing should be legal?
looking for a command prompt? Download Microsoft Unix tools for Windows. You'll get a better integrated variation on cygwin (based on one of the bsds)... it's free for download and works pretty well, particularly for things like grep and awk, which i couldn't live without.
Starbucks Coffee
Incandescent lighting only
Comfy chairs
Large marker board / conference room
Free diet soda and bottled water (no sugar comas allowed).
Check out the Microsoft Web Service Behavior. With this, you can interact with a Soap web service from client side script. Gmail uses this, I believe.
This guy really must not think much of the average Linux user's intelligence.
Why is this considered such a big deal? If you're not clueful enough to realize the need to avoid having a blank password, particularly in spite of a warning, then maybe you should be allowed to have one.
Chances are MSFT will provide a standard model for this kind of DB security and an ADO.NET data source... You will be able to subclass from the MSFT classes and design your own encryption providers, etc., if you want to, just like in .NET.
Ever hear of propaganda? Sometimes graphs are intended to distort information so that the viewer obtains an inaccurate conclusion from it.
It's not how graphs should be done in scientific papers, but well, it sometimes is. If Tufte thinks that newspapers are bastions of objectivity, he's sadly mistaken. They are not naively doing their best to produce accurate graphs and failing, but rather they are quite skilled at producing highly misleading graphs that support their bias. This is life. It's not a failure of science but a way of utilizing the same science Tufte practices but with a different goal.
Tufte's books are so obvious it's rediculous. Some content is not obvious, but that's because it's pedantic and based on Tufte's own personal taste.
Edward Tufte is under the mistaken impression that all graphs are intended to convey information objectively. His books are way overhyped.
One of these days (in the next 10-15 years) my PDA will have as much computing power and storage capacity as Google does today.
The only difference between the homeless and the rest of us is that they like to party a bit more than we do. They also like to avoid workplace stress.
Anyone who would quit something (in other words, remove himself from a position to make a positive difference) because of something so far disconnected from the role that he quit is making an excuse.
It's cowardice, and quite frankly blaming his dislike of fellow LUG members on military linux use is one of the most absurd things I've ever heard. When I saw this article I checked the calendar to see if it was already April 1st again.
The blood of tens of thousands of Iraqis is now on the hands of anyone who has ever booted a linux kernel. This includes owners of certain Linksys products, ReplayTV, and any other consumer devices that rely on embedded linux, as well as anyone who has ever watched one of the more recent Pixar films that was rendered on clusters of linux computers.
It's time to repent for the atrocity that we have all committed.
Not exactly... I had been hoping for some significant performance improvements with ics...
I have since switched the project over to linux, and under linux gcc performs as well (in terms of time to run the app) as the microsoft compiler did under Windows.
I will be trying the intel compiler again at some point, just in case it offers a performance improvement over gcc on linux.
I was really quite shocked that ics was slower than the Microsoft compiler...
I don't understand your sig, care to explain it?
I recently downloaded the 30 day evaluation version of the Intel compiler and compared the performance with the Microsoft c++ compiler (the one that ships with vs 2003). Both compilers were set to use all available optimizations, and I even used the profiling optimization for the Intel compiler.
Results? The Microsoft compiled code was about 1 second faster than the Intel compiled code (the total run time was about 5.6 seconds for the Microsoft compiled code). Interestingly, the Microsoft compiler only took a second or two to compile, while the Intel compiler took much longer.
No trig functions were used in the code... it was all simple work with large data structures, the stl, and some reading and writing to files.
Why don't you try to install the latest GCC on a 1.0 linux kernel...
Media like this is mainly a software distribution mechanism, and is thus more of a competetor to broadband than it is to long term storage media.
You'll receive all 25GB of AOL v30 on one of these, stapled to a cereal box or magazine.
If I value the content enough to put up with the DRM, then I'm fine with it. If not, then I'm not. I will make the decision on a case by case basis.
That's true, but if they lower the bar then someone else will step in and offer consumers what consumers want, and will make money in the process. Not all businesses are run intelligently, but the good news is that there is always someone else willing to step in.