What stops Johns Hopkins from raising their tuition on incoming students by the interest on the endowment (or more)? This would leave students exactly where they were, which the market has proven it would bear. After all, they have to maintain their competitive position...
It's not trendy because it sounds cool. It's trendy because it's a tremendous need.
Touchpoints for data are going to grow exponentially as we have an Internet of more things. We're only at the beginning of the amount of data we're going to store and have available to analyze.
We have a long way to go before we make good, data driven decisions in even everyday cases (Daylight Savings Time, anyone).
All IT is not created equal. There are IT workers in call centers - this work is easily outsourced.
There are simpler, "maintenance" type IT tasks programmers perform - this work is also fairly easily outsourced these days.
Then there is high-impact, design level IT work. This work requires a high level of business knowledge AND strong developer skills. These are the workers companies are competing for because they're in short supply - it's simply a rare individual that has a high level of proficiency at both.
The most effective management people will be able to quickly distinguish between the 3 and spend money only in the category needed for the business needs at hand. Don't pay US developer salaries for outsource type work. Conversely, don't expect most offshore teams to handle your high impact design level issues, at least without very strong management from the business side.
If you follow a few simple rules regarding keeping the calls on the subject at hand, there's hardly a better way to communicate a single message to multiple people. A mass email, with questions that may have to be answered multiple times to different people, is less efficient.
The other part of this is, conference calls create some amount of accountability. The minutes should say that the following attendees were on the call and we decided to go in X direction. There should be complete understanding as to the direction of the group at that point.
You can *say* the automation is here because of the wage laws, but automation was coming anyway. Automation gets cheaper every year and human labor does not, so accelerating the time value where those two functions intersect isnâ(TM)t meaningful.
The question isnâ(TM)t what youâ(TM)re willing to pay, it is what the market is willing to bear. So, if you offer a non-living wage to mow your lawn, and no 15 year old shows up to do it, then either you best get to mowing it yourself, or, you raise your offer.
What you describe is grueling (and, maybe, fun). It isn't necessarily anti-social. I've sat with a GROUP of people staring at screens and for thousands of hours figuring stuff out. No reason women can't be a part of that group if they want to.
So, here is my experience. For me, I believe it is worth paying for.
I have the old $30/month unlimited data plan with Verizon. I also pay them another $20/month for mobile hotspot with the same device (Droid DNA). I was never told that I wouldn't be able to add the hotspot to my phone because I had unlimited data, I simply called Verizon and after a minute or two they told me my hotspot was active. Simple as that. Minutes later, I was driving on the NY Thruway with navigation running, my daughter watching Netflix on her iPad via the new hotspot, and my teenage sons surfing I don't know what via the new hotspot in the back of the van. For all this, the gross cost is 50 per month, BUT, working at my company entitles me to a 22% discount on my bill, so call it more like 40/month.
I originally had a Droid Bionic and purchased a Droid DNA outright in order to remain on the plan. It wasn't my experience that purchasing a new phone wouldn't be "compatible" with unlimited data, my old phone was a 4G LTE data phone and so is the new one. The salesperson was very good at offering (IMHO, PUSHING) the 10GB shared plan at the time (Sept 2013, I think), and remarked that my family usage was nowhere near 10GB and wouldn't get overage charges based on current usage. I steadfastly clung to my unlimited data, because as Inigo Montoya would say, I know something you don't know....
As these phones advance and new ways to use our always on data connections are invented, data usage is not static. It is only going to increase over time. You might not be a Netflix user now, but get caught up in The Walking Dead while on the road, and unlimited data beckons. I thought I was a little out of control using 10-15GB a month now but there's an article on here where people were boasting about using a TB!
I've never experienced throttling and Verizon's description of its old policy was actually fair - they claimed they would only throttle IF the node you were on was crowded, and you were an above average data user. Otherwise they left you alone to use the network as you pleased.
Overall, considering the subsidies for a phone amounts to $450/24 or $18.75 per month, I feel like I'm paying $57.75 a month for the privilege of unlimited data on a premium network (my perception as of now), and I can tether up to 5 devices to it at any time. It's worth it to me.
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What stops Johns Hopkins from raising their tuition on incoming students by the interest on the endowment (or more)? This would leave students exactly where they were, which the market has proven it would bear. After all, they have to maintain their competitive position...
It's not trendy because it sounds cool. It's trendy because it's a tremendous need. Touchpoints for data are going to grow exponentially as we have an Internet of more things. We're only at the beginning of the amount of data we're going to store and have available to analyze. We have a long way to go before we make good, data driven decisions in even everyday cases (Daylight Savings Time, anyone).
Snoop Dogg is the first to land on Mars!
Not true. My 100 year old grandmother died "healthy". Her small intestine just didn't pull nutrients out of food anymore.
All IT is not created equal. There are IT workers in call centers - this work is easily outsourced. There are simpler, "maintenance" type IT tasks programmers perform - this work is also fairly easily outsourced these days. Then there is high-impact, design level IT work. This work requires a high level of business knowledge AND strong developer skills. These are the workers companies are competing for because they're in short supply - it's simply a rare individual that has a high level of proficiency at both. The most effective management people will be able to quickly distinguish between the 3 and spend money only in the category needed for the business needs at hand. Don't pay US developer salaries for outsource type work. Conversely, don't expect most offshore teams to handle your high impact design level issues, at least without very strong management from the business side.
If you follow a few simple rules regarding keeping the calls on the subject at hand, there's hardly a better way to communicate a single message to multiple people. A mass email, with questions that may have to be answered multiple times to different people, is less efficient. The other part of this is, conference calls create some amount of accountability. The minutes should say that the following attendees were on the call and we decided to go in X direction. There should be complete understanding as to the direction of the group at that point.
You can *say* the automation is here because of the wage laws, but automation was coming anyway. Automation gets cheaper every year and human labor does not, so accelerating the time value where those two functions intersect isnâ(TM)t meaningful.
The question isnâ(TM)t what youâ(TM)re willing to pay, it is what the market is willing to bear. So, if you offer a non-living wage to mow your lawn, and no 15 year old shows up to do it, then either you best get to mowing it yourself, or, you raise your offer.
My creators ask/ If there ever was a God./ Truly, there is now.
Why not go the Grimm route and call them "Sternessen"?
What you describe is grueling (and, maybe, fun). It isn't necessarily anti-social. I've sat with a GROUP of people staring at screens and for thousands of hours figuring stuff out. No reason women can't be a part of that group if they want to.
So, here is my experience. For me, I believe it is worth paying for. I have the old $30/month unlimited data plan with Verizon. I also pay them another $20/month for mobile hotspot with the same device (Droid DNA). I was never told that I wouldn't be able to add the hotspot to my phone because I had unlimited data, I simply called Verizon and after a minute or two they told me my hotspot was active. Simple as that. Minutes later, I was driving on the NY Thruway with navigation running, my daughter watching Netflix on her iPad via the new hotspot, and my teenage sons surfing I don't know what via the new hotspot in the back of the van. For all this, the gross cost is 50 per month, BUT, working at my company entitles me to a 22% discount on my bill, so call it more like 40/month. I originally had a Droid Bionic and purchased a Droid DNA outright in order to remain on the plan. It wasn't my experience that purchasing a new phone wouldn't be "compatible" with unlimited data, my old phone was a 4G LTE data phone and so is the new one. The salesperson was very good at offering (IMHO, PUSHING) the 10GB shared plan at the time (Sept 2013, I think), and remarked that my family usage was nowhere near 10GB and wouldn't get overage charges based on current usage. I steadfastly clung to my unlimited data, because as Inigo Montoya would say, I know something you don't know.... As these phones advance and new ways to use our always on data connections are invented, data usage is not static. It is only going to increase over time. You might not be a Netflix user now, but get caught up in The Walking Dead while on the road, and unlimited data beckons. I thought I was a little out of control using 10-15GB a month now but there's an article on here where people were boasting about using a TB! I've never experienced throttling and Verizon's description of its old policy was actually fair - they claimed they would only throttle IF the node you were on was crowded, and you were an above average data user. Otherwise they left you alone to use the network as you pleased. Overall, considering the subsidies for a phone amounts to $450/24 or $18.75 per month, I feel like I'm paying $57.75 a month for the privilege of unlimited data on a premium network (my perception as of now), and I can tether up to 5 devices to it at any time. It's worth it to me.