VMs tend to use the graphics for some reason (haven't bothered to figure out why), and if you run multiple of them then your GPU performance is likely to become the bottleneck. At least, that is the information I got from a guy running a bunch of virtual Windowses in vmware.
Nice. I want that guy in my purchasing department. Almost all of our VMs are run off headless servers. *sigh*
The fact is, personal hygiene and social skills are required to develop a rapport with someone and convince them to purchase your product. Keeping your computer clean is not required. After all, you walk in the door with an infected laptop you can drop it off with your IT department and they'll fix it up for you. Show up with no pants and a foul stench.....well....not too many companies have a grooming professional. Hell, I'd rather work at a place chock full of people that are spectacular at what they do but need their computers wiped once a month than at a place with a bunch of worthless employees that keep their computers pristine.
And you wouldn't ask yourself "Hey, how can these people be so smart and so stupid all at once?"
Maybe you need to think past the obvious a little more often.
It's clear that you are working for Initrode Global [http://thedailywtf.com/], or worse, you don't work and think every IT related job is like "the IT crowd" series. Trust me, the enterprise world is a LOT more mature than your reasoning.
OMG YOU FOUND OUT MY SECRET.
Oh wait, no. I just don't happen to live in california, so we get stuck with the less-than-best-and-brightest-IT.
Do you value safety? If yes, then you must have locked yourself up in your house and refuse to see others. You also don't eat food that hasn't been tested 3x to be healthy, and you never communicate with the outside world. OTHERWISE, you're roaming the streets looking for dirty needles to eat and shooting up with stray animals.
Good luck with life, ya hippie. I hope your peace and love buys you all the material things you require for a good life.
Actually, I think that being able to create false dichotomies to prove my point is probably the second most important thing. Ever. Even more important than being rational. And almost as important as being incredibly conceded.
'I am the sr vp do not think you can boss me around oh and I have rang up security you can collect your things in a week.'
That is how it would work. You apparently never worked with an insane bully before.
... Sorry, I was talking about preventative measures. You seem to be discussing damage control. We are both right here... but only one of us is stupid.
Money and rank don't mean everything to everybody. You should probably work out why it does, for you.
You know, the people who say that money isn't everything are usually also people who don't have enough of it and have convinced themselves that they're better than others based on the value of their opinion. In my experience, the types of people most susceptible to this kind of thinking are a) vegans, b) IT staff c) vi users, and d) apple fanboys. And it grows exponentially if you belong to more than one of those categories... and grows by order of magnitude when they're old.
A person can be a perfectly competent bookkeeper, accountant or any number of other things and yet not be competent (or diligent) enough to keep their machine virus-free.
At this point, if you're not comfortable working with a PC / Mac / Linux desktop and knowledgeable enough not to do stupid things, then you're a dinosaur just hanging on until retirement. I'm speaking more of general capabilities, not the ability to defend against malicious attacks. Things like knowing how to print, how to copy/paste, how to rename files & folders, how to put files into the proper location on the network, how to find your applications if they're not on the desktop, or how to use application features which would speed up your workflow.
Computer desktops with graphical shells and file management have been around now since the days of Win95. (Win 3.x really doesn't count because things were still not object oriented and the shell was just a list of programs you could run.) That's 15+ years at this point, but we'll say a decade for common use. That's 10+ years of not learning to use the new tools that have been made available so that you can do your job. Hell, the concept of the world wide web has been in popular use now for over a decade.
I have zero sympathy for people who refuse to learn the new tools. Who refuse to pickup a book or read the manuals or attend a free class. They will find themselves sitting in the unemployment line as a result.
More likely, they'll be hired by someone else who has no clue how to operate technology, and continue to delude themselves into thinking that computer usage is a skill better left to the youngsters. These are the same sorts of people who pay cash for everything and wear tinfoil hats, because they don't want the government tracking them. They're also the sorts of people who own Hummers and semi-automatic rifles, vote republican and overextend themselves with a 3rd or 4th mortgage, become morbidly obses... simply because it's their right as a citizen. Oh, and then they complain when they don't get enough medication in the old age home, and cry when no one visits.
Just like anyone who drives there car without performing any maintenance would be incompetent.
Just like anyone who uses 'there' instead of 'their' is incompetent at the English language?
Exactly. Sure, you can get an idea across... but certain societal forces require that you do it with form and style. Why can't we simply refuse to hire people who don't take the extremely simple steps required to keep their machine clean? We don't let employees spread STDs in the cafeteria... and that's fairly simple to prevent. So why is it so hard to keep virii off the computers?
A person can be a perfectly competent bookkeeper, accountant or any number of other things and yet not be competent (or diligent) enough to keep their machine virus-free.
Technically true. A person can also be extremely intelligent but refuse to shower and constantly cut themselves. There is a minimum level of competence that should be required for a position. Sure, you can do task A - but can you show up to work with clothes on? And (arguably more importantly), can you stop looking at porn while at work? Oh, and while you're at it, don't install strange programs.
I'm not saying you need to be a genius. I'm just saying that there is a certain level of competence that society requires... and there isn't really any excuse for the lack of competence in personal hygene and social skills. Why should a lack of competence in other basic areas of life be okay?
Sorry, dear, no BOFH here (I wish, I want those happy days back). Instead I'm probably the guy who didn't buy your new rig.
Allow me to tell you why I didn't buy it. Because I noticed that, if you could work faster, the head beancounter could decide that with the increased work speed we could axe one of you.
Still want that machine?
Hmm, considering that I'm generating revenue by creating products for the company to sell... and you're not actually producing anything, I'm not too worried about being axed. Your job is to produce savings. There is a finite amount of savings to be created. My job is to create code, a potentially limitless objective. Maybe you should worry more about *your* job.
Oh wait, that's right - the reason you didn't boost our productivity is because you're worried that you'll become redundant. Once you're done cutting everything you can... guess who gets cut - the person making products, and still has purpose - or you?
But pairing the software with a phone is no easy task. First, CyanogenMod would have to pass the tests required by Google’s certification program in order to bundle Google’s proprietary apps — Gmail, Calendar, etc. — on the phone.
Non sequeter. Having Google's proprietary apps is not necessary in order to "pair the software with a phone". Sure, it helps, but it's not necessary.
what on earth gave you the idea that microsoft tests anything, or more specifically, that they do not consider the initial wave of bug reports and complaints to be their testing phase.
That's a good question. I wonder what they call the beta software releases at microsoft. Obviously not testing.
Sorry, no matter what the generation, they should not be allowed to bring more attack vectors and security vulnerabilities in to the workplace.
They are not special snowflakes, and their personal devices are not necessary for productivity.
Businesses where mobile devices are useful and helpful should already have their infrastructures designed to handle it, so again Gen Z will make no difference.
Sure, you tell the salesman who brings in 150k of business a week for your company that he can't use his new toys to keep track of his contacts. He talks to his boss about the fat guy in IT that drains company resources by depriving him of valuable tools. And then reminds his boss that he makes all the sales that actually pay for IT to exist.
See how long it takes to change policy. Unless you're in non-profit or government, the folks making the money are the folks calling the shots.
I know well how much you want that 12 gig i7 rig to... well, to do what? Save a second per compile? Learn to code and don't rely on the compiler and linker to find your glaring syntax errors! The next codemonkey that tells me it's too time consuming to compile on his "old" machine should be fired on the spot!
(well? How does it feel?)
Hush, BOFH. You havn't left your cave in years, and it's been even longer than that since you've felt the sweet caress of human contact. You don't really know what goes on in the world anymore, and you just keep screaming at us to get off your lawn.
Seriously though. There is a line between "working with the tools you have" and "working with the tools that were purchased 10 years ago when the company opened up". Sure, they both compile just fine. But if you're paying me $40k a year to program, can't you splurge on an extra $400 and get me a half-way decent computer? You'd recoup your costs simply because I'd complain just a little less, and work just a little more.
I am reminded of an incident back in the dot com era. Some sales VP got an email with a virus, my security system wouldn't let him open it. His solution was to bring his personal laptop in, hook it into the company network and open the email. The resulting virus explored the entire network exploiting NT security share flaws and zeroing out (not just erasing, but filling with nulls) every MS Office document and source code file it could find.
Sounds like your problem isn't a tech problem, it's a HR problem. Solution : Have some good IT policies in place... but mainly, don't hire idiots. No matter how secure your network is, idiots will work around it. Instead of having a super secure network attacked by idiots, have smart staff and decent security.
Does the writer of the summary actually work? An iPhone is just a phone. On my floor alone, I think there are dozens of people with iPhones (myself included). No network needs to change, either you're on 3G or Edge... What does this have to do with the company?
Agreed. So what if I can't network my device? I use HSPA for all my data needs, and look at my computer when I need to check my appointments. When I'm at work, I check the work computer for my appointments. If I don't have appointments... I'm at work anyways. It doesn't matter if I can't check my personal device for my work calendar - I know my work hours, and I'll check my schedule when I'm there. Even better, I've only ever received ONE call at 10pm from my boss who *needed* something done in the AM because of a meeting, and I just said "Hey boss, you know what? I don't bring my work calendar home with me, but I'm pretty sure that meeting isn't until next week". Since the meeting actually *was* the next day, I think he got the point : I don't bring my work home with me, and I don't bring home to work. I keep them separate - if he wants to put me on call, he can pay me the extra $10k a year and hire me into that position.
The biggest entitlement problem with people and their own devices is they feel like they can use their work time for personal phone calls, tweeting, updating their facebook status, IMing, etc. The policy should be more like steal the company's time, your frickin' fired!
Sure, I agree with that. So long as the company recognizes that I'm not going to work on their projects on MY time. Lunch? Mine. Breaks? Mine. And I'll do whatever I want on my time - unless they want to pay for it. Then, well, it's not my time anymore.
Now, in all the bigger companies I've worked at, this hasn't been a problem. But when I jumped ship to a small (ish) business, the boss suddenly decided that he could bother me any time of day, no matter what I was doing, so long as I was at the office.
Suddenly, my lunch (which was at 10, not 1, because I started much earlier in the day at his request) was frequently interrupted by meetings or technical requests. My breaks were interrupted when clients had technical questions. I got stuck at the office 5-10 minutes late every day because there was always one more problem that couldn't wait until tomorrow. Sure, while there, I could use my own devices. In fact, if I didn't, I was stuck working on the POS that my boss provided (it was a hand-me-up from his supposedly technically inclined son) that had an underrated psu and a superfluous lighting system that had been hardwired on... which I wasn't allowed to modify, since he wasn't sure when his son would want it back.
So now I'm back at a big company. Sure, I'm just a replaceable cog in a big system... but my time is now my own.
I just wanted to thank each and every Apple fanboi for supporting this company by overpaying on standard PC parts for YEARS.
Hey man, get with the program - it hasn't been standard PC parts... they've got a certain je-ne-sais-quoi embedded in each apple branded piece of hardware that gives it crazy-high resale value. (Although other than that, spot on... depending on your definition of standard PC parts - PowerPC?).
Perhaps disappointing sales were caused because, well, not every game is going to be a massive blockbuster.
After the devs allowed free online play with their game, they found that approx. 10% of the users online could have possible purchased the game, because there were WAY more people playing than copies sold.
So, if that indicates a problem with piracy, *AND* they're unhappy with the sales, then normally I'd say the game was garbage. But... it got amazing reviews and it's really quite a bit of fun. Make of that what you will, but my baseless opinion seems to have slightly more base than yours.
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VMs tend to use the graphics for some reason (haven't bothered to figure out why), and if you run multiple of them then your GPU performance is likely to become the bottleneck. At least, that is the information I got from a guy running a bunch of virtual Windowses in vmware.
Nice. I want that guy in my purchasing department. Almost all of our VMs are run off headless servers. *sigh*
Re-format that VM server into a games machine and go rent time elsewhere.
Why do you have a killer GPU in your VM server?
The fact is, personal hygiene and social skills are required to develop a rapport with someone and convince them to purchase your product. Keeping your computer clean is not required. After all, you walk in the door with an infected laptop you can drop it off with your IT department and they'll fix it up for you. Show up with no pants and a foul stench.....well....not too many companies have a grooming professional. Hell, I'd rather work at a place chock full of people that are spectacular at what they do but need their computers wiped once a month than at a place with a bunch of worthless employees that keep their computers pristine.
And you wouldn't ask yourself "Hey, how can these people be so smart and so stupid all at once?"
Maybe you need to think past the obvious a little more often.
It's clear that you are working for Initrode Global [http://thedailywtf.com/], or worse, you don't work and think every IT related job is like "the IT crowd" series. Trust me, the enterprise world is a LOT more mature than your reasoning.
OMG YOU FOUND OUT MY SECRET.
Oh wait, no. I just don't happen to live in california, so we get stuck with the less-than-best-and-brightest-IT.
Oh, Oh, I've got another false dichotomy!!!
Do you value safety? If yes, then you must have locked yourself up in your house and refuse to see others. You also don't eat food that hasn't been tested 3x to be healthy, and you never communicate with the outside world. OTHERWISE, you're roaming the streets looking for dirty needles to eat and shooting up with stray animals.
Good luck with life, ya hippie. I hope your peace and love buys you all the material things you require for a good life.
Actually, I think that being able to create false dichotomies to prove my point is probably the second most important thing. Ever. Even more important than being rational. And almost as important as being incredibly conceded.
Though, I may be introjecting here.
Talk about ripping off SMBC comics ... http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2213#comic
'I am the sr vp do not think you can boss me around oh and I have rang up security you can collect your things in a week.'
That is how it would work. You apparently never worked with an insane bully before.
... Sorry, I was talking about preventative measures. You seem to be discussing damage control. We are both right here... but only one of us is stupid.
Money and rank don't mean everything to everybody. You should probably work out why it does, for you.
You know, the people who say that money isn't everything are usually also people who don't have enough of it and have convinced themselves that they're better than others based on the value of their opinion. In my experience, the types of people most susceptible to this kind of thinking are a) vegans, b) IT staff c) vi users, and d) apple fanboys. And it grows exponentially if you belong to more than one of those categories... and grows by order of magnitude when they're old.
A person can be a perfectly competent bookkeeper, accountant or any number of other things and yet not be competent (or diligent) enough to keep their machine virus-free. At this point, if you're not comfortable working with a PC / Mac / Linux desktop and knowledgeable enough not to do stupid things, then you're a dinosaur just hanging on until retirement. I'm speaking more of general capabilities, not the ability to defend against malicious attacks. Things like knowing how to print, how to copy/paste, how to rename files & folders, how to put files into the proper location on the network, how to find your applications if they're not on the desktop, or how to use application features which would speed up your workflow. Computer desktops with graphical shells and file management have been around now since the days of Win95. (Win 3.x really doesn't count because things were still not object oriented and the shell was just a list of programs you could run.) That's 15+ years at this point, but we'll say a decade for common use. That's 10+ years of not learning to use the new tools that have been made available so that you can do your job. Hell, the concept of the world wide web has been in popular use now for over a decade. I have zero sympathy for people who refuse to learn the new tools. Who refuse to pickup a book or read the manuals or attend a free class. They will find themselves sitting in the unemployment line as a result.
More likely, they'll be hired by someone else who has no clue how to operate technology, and continue to delude themselves into thinking that computer usage is a skill better left to the youngsters. These are the same sorts of people who pay cash for everything and wear tinfoil hats, because they don't want the government tracking them. They're also the sorts of people who own Hummers and semi-automatic rifles, vote republican and overextend themselves with a 3rd or 4th mortgage, become morbidly obses ... simply because it's their right as a citizen. Oh, and then they complain when they don't get enough medication in the old age home, and cry when no one visits.
Just like anyone who drives there car without performing any maintenance would be incompetent.
Just like anyone who uses 'there' instead of 'their' is incompetent at the English language?
Exactly. Sure, you can get an idea across... but certain societal forces require that you do it with form and style. Why can't we simply refuse to hire people who don't take the extremely simple steps required to keep their machine clean? We don't let employees spread STDs in the cafeteria ... and that's fairly simple to prevent. So why is it so hard to keep virii off the computers?
A person can be a perfectly competent bookkeeper, accountant or any number of other things and yet not be competent (or diligent) enough to keep their machine virus-free.
Technically true. A person can also be extremely intelligent but refuse to shower and constantly cut themselves. There is a minimum level of competence that should be required for a position. Sure, you can do task A - but can you show up to work with clothes on? And (arguably more importantly), can you stop looking at porn while at work? Oh, and while you're at it, don't install strange programs.
I'm not saying you need to be a genius. I'm just saying that there is a certain level of competence that society requires... and there isn't really any excuse for the lack of competence in personal hygene and social skills. Why should a lack of competence in other basic areas of life be okay?
Unlikely. IRL there are only two classes of people whose "time is their own": the filthy rich and the dirt poor.
Perhaps I need to be clear : My time is my own when I am not whoring it out to a company. I know, reading the subtext is *hard*.
Sorry, dear, no BOFH here (I wish, I want those happy days back). Instead I'm probably the guy who didn't buy your new rig.
Allow me to tell you why I didn't buy it. Because I noticed that, if you could work faster, the head beancounter could decide that with the increased work speed we could axe one of you.
Still want that machine?
Hmm, considering that I'm generating revenue by creating products for the company to sell ... and you're not actually producing anything, I'm not too worried about being axed. Your job is to produce savings. There is a finite amount of savings to be created. My job is to create code, a potentially limitless objective. Maybe you should worry more about *your* job.
... guess who gets cut - the person making products, and still has purpose - or you?
Oh wait, that's right - the reason you didn't boost our productivity is because you're worried that you'll become redundant. Once you're done cutting everything you can
But pairing the software with a phone is no easy task. First, CyanogenMod would have to pass the tests required by Google’s certification program in order to bundle Google’s proprietary apps — Gmail, Calendar, etc. — on the phone.
Non sequeter. Having Google's proprietary apps is not necessary in order to "pair the software with a phone". Sure, it helps, but it's not necessary.
That's not a non sequitur. Banana pancake.
what on earth gave you the idea that microsoft tests anything, or more specifically, that they do not consider the initial wave of bug reports and complaints to be their testing phase.
That's a good question. I wonder what they call the beta software releases at microsoft. Obviously not testing.
Sorry, no matter what the generation, they should not be allowed to bring more attack vectors and security vulnerabilities in to the workplace.
They are not special snowflakes, and their personal devices are not necessary for productivity.
Businesses where mobile devices are useful and helpful should already have their infrastructures designed to handle it, so again Gen Z will make no difference.
Sure, you tell the salesman who brings in 150k of business a week for your company that he can't use his new toys to keep track of his contacts. He talks to his boss about the fat guy in IT that drains company resources by depriving him of valuable tools. And then reminds his boss that he makes all the sales that actually pay for IT to exist.
See how long it takes to change policy. Unless you're in non-profit or government, the folks making the money are the folks calling the shots.
Hush, codemonkey.
I know well how much you want that 12 gig i7 rig to ... well, to do what? Save a second per compile? Learn to code and don't rely on the compiler and linker to find your glaring syntax errors! The next codemonkey that tells me it's too time consuming to compile on his "old" machine should be fired on the spot!
(well? How does it feel?)
Hush, BOFH. You havn't left your cave in years, and it's been even longer than that since you've felt the sweet caress of human contact. You don't really know what goes on in the world anymore, and you just keep screaming at us to get off your lawn.
Seriously though. There is a line between "working with the tools you have" and "working with the tools that were purchased 10 years ago when the company opened up". Sure, they both compile just fine. But if you're paying me $40k a year to program, can't you splurge on an extra $400 and get me a half-way decent computer? You'd recoup your costs simply because I'd complain just a little less, and work just a little more.
I am reminded of an incident back in the dot com era. Some sales VP got an email with a virus, my security system wouldn't let him open it. His solution was to bring his personal laptop in, hook it into the company network and open the email. The resulting virus explored the entire network exploiting NT security share flaws and zeroing out (not just erasing, but filling with nulls) every MS Office document and source code file it could find.
Sounds like your problem isn't a tech problem, it's a HR problem. Solution : Have some good IT policies in place ... but mainly, don't hire idiots. No matter how secure your network is, idiots will work around it. Instead of having a super secure network attacked by idiots, have smart staff and decent security.
Does the writer of the summary actually work? An iPhone is just a phone. On my floor alone, I think there are dozens of people with iPhones (myself included). No network needs to change, either you're on 3G or Edge ... What does this have to do with the company?
Agreed. So what if I can't network my device? I use HSPA for all my data needs, and look at my computer when I need to check my appointments. When I'm at work, I check the work computer for my appointments. If I don't have appointments ... I'm at work anyways. It doesn't matter if I can't check my personal device for my work calendar - I know my work hours, and I'll check my schedule when I'm there. Even better, I've only ever received ONE call at 10pm from my boss who *needed* something done in the AM because of a meeting, and I just said "Hey boss, you know what? I don't bring my work calendar home with me, but I'm pretty sure that meeting isn't until next week". Since the meeting actually *was* the next day, I think he got the point : I don't bring my work home with me, and I don't bring home to work. I keep them separate - if he wants to put me on call, he can pay me the extra $10k a year and hire me into that position.
The biggest entitlement problem with people and their own devices is they feel like they can use their work time for personal phone calls, tweeting, updating their facebook status, IMing, etc. The policy should be more like steal the company's time, your frickin' fired!
Sure, I agree with that. So long as the company recognizes that I'm not going to work on their projects on MY time. Lunch? Mine. Breaks? Mine. And I'll do whatever I want on my time - unless they want to pay for it. Then, well, it's not my time anymore.
Now, in all the bigger companies I've worked at, this hasn't been a problem. But when I jumped ship to a small (ish) business, the boss suddenly decided that he could bother me any time of day, no matter what I was doing, so long as I was at the office.
Suddenly, my lunch (which was at 10, not 1, because I started much earlier in the day at his request) was frequently interrupted by meetings or technical requests. My breaks were interrupted when clients had technical questions. I got stuck at the office 5-10 minutes late every day because there was always one more problem that couldn't wait until tomorrow. Sure, while there, I could use my own devices. In fact, if I didn't, I was stuck working on the POS that my boss provided (it was a hand-me-up from his supposedly technically inclined son) that had an underrated psu and a superfluous lighting system that had been hardwired on... which I wasn't allowed to modify, since he wasn't sure when his son would want it back.
So now I'm back at a big company. Sure, I'm just a replaceable cog in a big system... but my time is now my own.
Yeah, I run a home office and I would rather provide a pc than have some virus infected vector on my network.
-AI
... Your problem isn't virus vectors, it's hiring incompetent people.
I just wanted to thank each and every Apple fanboi for supporting this company by overpaying on standard PC parts for YEARS.
Hey man, get with the program - it hasn't been standard PC parts ... they've got a certain je-ne-sais-quoi embedded in each apple branded piece of hardware that gives it crazy-high resale value. (Although other than that, spot on... depending on your definition of standard PC parts - PowerPC?).
just like music from 1950 will sound simple and cheesy to most modern listeners
Modern listeners (who like rap or country western) aren't exactly experts in the field of appreciating music.
Perhaps disappointing sales were caused because, well, not every game is going to be a massive blockbuster.
After the devs allowed free online play with their game, they found that approx. 10% of the users online could have possible purchased the game, because there were WAY more people playing than copies sold.
... it got amazing reviews and it's really quite a bit of fun. Make of that what you will, but my baseless opinion seems to have slightly more base than yours.
So, if that indicates a problem with piracy, *AND* they're unhappy with the sales, then normally I'd say the game was garbage. But