Right, so this means that the IT department in the summary could buy a new storage system every month, since they are charging $30/GB per month.
Actually, no it doesn't.
They have already paid over $25 dollars for every GB that they offer to the rest of the company.
Now, if you want to reduce these costs, you have to do a risk assessment. Under the model described in AUD above, there are at least 5 copies of a given set of data. Do you NEED the two DR copies ? Depending on the processing model, some intermediate files don't need to have any more than a single copy. In other words, storage space CAN cost $25 - $30 / GB, but thats for the rolls royce version.
Just make sure that if you ask for the Trabant version, that's really all you need.
The phrase you're looking for is "Do they have 10 years of experience, or do they have the same year 10 times ?"
Genralisation, whether its by gender, age, or school the applicant went will mess up your selction process. You need to ask EVERYONE the same questions, so you can compare the answers.
As a manager, your job is to find the right person for each role you have to fill. I have colleaugues who are smart, keen to learn and hardworking. Some are young, some are old, some are male, some are female. I have also got coworkers who are timeservers, 9-5 types. same deal.
There is a role for each of these people. The "keen" ones are not always in the office by 10 AM (sometimes this is because they were working late, some times even on stuff they're getting paid for), but they are there when needed. They're the mentors and local gurus (first-line of support) for each other and the rest of the team. Some of them wmay stay around as long as 5 - 10 years, but there's only so many challenges here for them. But thats OK. We will learn from them and they will learn from us.
The "timeservers" (whatever the age & gender &tc) are my steady staters. They will keep the legacy systems running, with no burning ambition to (in business terms) waste time and money by rewriting it in Ruby. They ship stuff - not necessarily as sexy and elegant as the "keen" guys, but it's functional and thats what the business wants.
They also keep us in touch with reality. For some of them, the whole point of the day - the reason they're here at all - is when the kids get home from school.
Very shortly after the colony was first set up, it became obvious that very few people, especially those of any sort of professsional standing in GB, were willing to risk either the new continent, or even the journey itself.
Therefore, many people (such as Francis Greenway, architect) were selected for transportation on relatively minor charges. In short, transportation became way to get very specific, particular, skills to the new colony.
if you were any sort of DECENT consultant, you would have stated this on a blog, with link-whoring to scoble (no link because WE DONT LINK!!!), adaptive path, wikpedia, patented the term "1's and 0's" (in the process starting a flamewar with any site using them), and started a range of high priced conferences in exotic locations.
My only complaint about this analogy is that it blames hackers for the loss. I'd blame internal company employees,
In most states in Australia, it's illegal to leave your car unlocked and unattended. In other words, the law does consider the 'user' to be at fault, as well as the 'hacker' (to mix analogies...)
You've already said that "We run all the mission-critical stuff in a line of business that can not work without technology." Who interfaces with the business owners for the support of these systems ? More importantly, who do the business owners deal with on a day to day basis for support of these ? a) you, b) someone else, or c) your PHB ?
Based on the subtext, I doubt the answer is a). However, if it is, it means that management have determined that you are their workaround. It is worthwhile asking for more money, or at least finding how high they'll go in terms of cash and / or other perks (like training, days off, etc)
If the answer is b), then the problem has been solved, but you've either been left out of the loop or never were in it. Maybe you (specifically you) are not as important as you think you are.
If the answer is c), and the substance of your story is true then I'm sorry, management have decided that you (and your unit) are just not as important as you thought. They have actually thought about this, so if you decide to stay, you need to find out who made the decison and why. It may turn out that while it sucks from an IT perspective, it is actually a good business decison. After all, from their perspective, they are still getting the work done...
ScanRprovide a way for you to experiment. basically, they take an image, ostensibly from your cell phone, but could be from any digital camera and converts it to a searchable.pdf file.
Depending on the quality of teh camera, they sugegst conference room whiteboards; Diagrams, notes, flow charts
Their website has samples of what you'd expect, but basically you're capturing the image and sending it to scanR. They do the conversion and send it back as a.pdf.
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Peter Singer's home page at Princeton University and his Wikipedia entry . From the former: Q. Elderly people with dementia, or people who have been injured in accidents, may also have no sense of the future. Can they also be killed?
A. When a human being once had a sense of the future, but has now lost it, we should be guided by what he or she would have wanted to happen in these circumstances. So if someone would not have wanted to be kept alive after losing their awareness of their future, we may be justified in ending their life; but if they would not have wanted to be killed under these circumstances, that is an important reason why we should not do so.
It is one of the funniest articles I have read in a long time and it explains what is particularly annoying about Friedman.>
That's a review ? So Friedman might mix his metaphors, but he's not writing poetry. Nowhere in the review does the critic get to grips with the rights and worngs of the ideas being presented. For example, I have problems with the unending optimism of the book - According to Friedman, globalisation is goodness. Not some of the time, not most of the time, but ALL of the time (I'll be avoiding him as much as I can avoid any other fanatic).
You younguns and yer fancy-pants 'chemicals' MVS/ESA - it'll send you blind faster than anything except href="http://www9.sbs.com.au/theworldnews/region.p hp?id=105499®ion=7">licking cane toads
afterwards I thought about what I had just done and the technology to make it all possible and I litterally shuddered in awe.
My first programming was a high school maths class, in the 70's, using a very simple Fortran variant. We'd poke holes in the punch card, send them off to some banks computer, and (hopefully) get something back the next week.
Last year I worked on computers on every continent except Antartica, from north of the arctic circle to Adelaide (South Australia). All from the same cube.
From the Article: "Mr Hanff has declared that he is opposed to copyright and intellectual property laws. Since much of our business is based around the protection of our copyright and intellectual property, we consider our dismissal of Mr Hanff entirely justified and appropriate."
If true, then they have a good reason; else begin defamation case
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Right, so this means that the IT department in the summary could buy a new storage system every month, since they are charging $30/GB per month.
Actually, no it doesn't.
They have already paid over $25 dollars for every GB that they offer to the rest of the company.
Now, if you want to reduce these costs, you have to do a risk assessment. Under the model described in AUD above, there are at least 5 copies of a given set of data. Do you NEED the two DR copies ? Depending on the processing model, some intermediate files don't need to have any more than a single copy. In other words, storage space CAN cost $25 - $30 / GB, but thats for the rolls royce version.
Just make sure that if you ask for the Trabant version, that's really all you need.
The phrase you're looking for is "Do they have 10 years of experience, or do they have the same year 10 times ?"
Genralisation, whether its by gender, age, or school the applicant went will mess up your selction process. You need to ask EVERYONE the same questions, so you can compare the answers.
As a manager, your job is to find the right person for each role you have to fill. I have colleaugues who are smart, keen to learn and hardworking. Some are young, some are old, some are male, some are female. I have also got coworkers who are timeservers, 9-5 types. same deal.
There is a role for each of these people. The "keen" ones are not always in the office by 10 AM (sometimes this is because they were working late, some times even on stuff they're getting paid for), but they are there when needed. They're the mentors and local gurus (first-line of support) for each other and the rest of the team. Some of them wmay stay around as long as 5 - 10 years, but there's only so many challenges here for them. But thats OK. We will learn from them and they will learn from us.
The "timeservers" (whatever the age & gender &tc) are my steady staters. They will keep the legacy systems running, with no burning ambition to (in business terms) waste time and money by rewriting it in Ruby. They ship stuff - not necessarily as sexy and elegant as the "keen" guys, but it's functional and thats what the business wants.
They also keep us in touch with reality. For some of them, the whole point of the day - the reason they're here at all - is when the kids get home from school.
Very shortly after the colony was first set up, it became obvious that very few people, especially those of any sort of professsional standing in GB, were willing to risk either the new continent, or even the journey itself.
Therefore, many people (such as Francis Greenway, architect) were selected for transportation on relatively minor charges. In short, transportation became way to get very specific, particular, skills to the new colony.
Kind of wondering what the dew point is in dry places in Oz, when the wind is blowing (day time).
You gave
You probably want somewhere like Bridgetown - which IS in Australia - last report was 89% humidity.
Compare and contrast with Warburton, also in Western Australia, which currently reports 4% humidty.
if you were any sort of DECENT consultant, you would have stated this on a blog, with link-whoring to scoble (no link because WE DONT LINK!!!), adaptive path, wikpedia, patented the term "1's and 0's" (in the process starting a flamewar with any site using them), and started a range of high priced conferences in exotic locations.
of course, the average american takes up more space....
My only complaint about this analogy is that it blames hackers for the loss. I'd blame internal company employees, In most states in Australia, it's illegal to leave your car unlocked and unattended. In other words, the law does consider the 'user' to be at fault, as well as the 'hacker' (to mix analogies...)
I know this place in India where you can get epoxy real cheap, plus they'll put it on his seat for you.
you LUCKY bastard. We had to use chisel-and-stone ....
You've already said that "We run all the mission-critical stuff in a line of business that can not work without technology." Who interfaces with the business owners for the support of these systems ? More importantly, who do the business owners deal with on a day to day basis for support of these ? a) you, b) someone else, or c) your PHB ?
Based on the subtext, I doubt the answer is a). However, if it is, it means that management have determined that you are their workaround. It is worthwhile asking for more money, or at least finding how high they'll go in terms of cash and / or other perks (like training, days off, etc)
If the answer is b), then the problem has been solved, but you've either been left out of the loop or never were in it. Maybe you (specifically you) are not as important as you think you are.
If the answer is c), and the substance of your story is true then I'm sorry, management have decided that you (and your unit) are just not as important as you thought. They have actually thought about this, so if you decide to stay, you need to find out who made the decison and why. It may turn out that while it sucks from an IT perspective, it is actually a good business decison. After all, from their perspective, they are still getting the work done...
ScanRprovide a way for you to experiment. basically, they take an image, ostensibly from your cell phone, but could be from any digital camera and converts it to a searchable .pdf file.
.pdf.
Depending on the quality of teh camera, they sugegst conference room whiteboards; Diagrams, notes, flow charts
Their website has samples of what you'd expect, but basically you're capturing the image and sending it to scanR. They do the conversion and send it back as a
Back in my day, all we had was garachters!
You LUCKY barstards. We didn't evn have garachters.
HA !! Young whipper snappers with their trees and all. We had rocks to hide behind and were glad of it !!
My father's name is Kelvin, you insensitive clod !!!
db2scp> db2 "select * from anonymous_coward where clue > 0"
0 rows selected
paralells The Incredibles
Peter Singer's home page at Princeton University and his Wikipedia entry . From the former:
Q. Elderly people with dementia, or people who have been injured in accidents, may also have no sense of the future. Can they also be killed?
A. When a human being once had a sense of the future, but has now lost it, we should be guided by what he or she would have wanted to happen in these circumstances. So if someone would not have wanted to be kept alive after losing their awareness of their future, we may be justified in ending their life; but if they would not have wanted to be killed under these circumstances, that is an important reason why we should not do so.
Rocks ? You kids were lucky. We didn't get rocks in MY day. We had to bang people's heads together.
It is one of the funniest articles I have read in a long time and it explains what is particularly annoying about Friedman.>
That's a review ? So Friedman might mix his metaphors, but he's not writing poetry. Nowhere in the review does the critic get to grips with the rights and worngs of the ideas being presented. For example, I have problems with the unending optimism of the book - According to Friedman, globalisation is goodness. Not some of the time, not most of the time, but ALL of the time (I'll be avoiding him as much as I can avoid any other fanatic).
The Million Dollar homepage
oops forgot the obligatory WOOOT!!! FP
sorry, wrong answer
Twilight Zone was just ripping off the simpsons .. the gremlin on the side of the school bus, the "everyone must be happy" kid, ...
You younguns and yer fancy-pants 'chemicals'p hp?id=105499®ion=7">licking cane toads
MVS/ESA - it'll send you blind faster than anything except href="http://www9.sbs.com.au/theworldnews/region.
afterwards I thought about what I had just done and the technology to make it all possible and I litterally shuddered in awe.
My first programming was a high school maths class, in the 70's, using a very simple Fortran variant. We'd poke holes in the punch card, send them off to some banks computer, and (hopefully) get something back the next week. Last year I worked on computers on every continent except Antartica, from north of the arctic circle to Adelaide (South Australia). All from the same cube.
From the Article:
"Mr Hanff has declared that he is opposed to copyright and intellectual property laws. Since much of our business is based around the protection of our copyright and intellectual property, we consider our dismissal of Mr Hanff entirely justified and appropriate."
If true, then they have a good reason;
else begin defamation case