Well, I can't control what companies do, but I can advise people not to make dumb decisions. Too often people are directed to pick a career that is what they want to do. Sounds great on paper. I remember filling out one of those career direction tests in high school. If I had followed it's advice, I'd be sitting in a tower watching for forest fires. I don’t have any idea what that type of a job pays, but I have to believe the market is incredibly small. I have a cousin who was half way through college studying to be a photojournalist. He wanted to take pictures for National Geographic. It wasn’t until someone finally banged into his head that there are only a couple hundred people in the world who do that job. He had better odds of getting into the NFL. It seems harsh to smash someone’s dreams, but people need to have a sense of realism in their career choices.
I got my 4 year B.S. in Information Technology degree from a reputable college for a grand total of $10,000. I graduated in 2004. That doesn't include rent, food, living expenses, or books, but I never lived with less than 3 other people (often in houses with 6-8 people), ate cheap food, didn't spend much on anything, and I hardly ever bough school books unless they really were required.
How did I spend less for a 4 year degree than most of my friends spent in 1 year at the local University? I went to a community college for my first two years, and then I went to a smaller university (Central Michigan University). Community college cost $1000 a semester, and CMU cost $2500 a semester. I did get 2 scholarships for a combined $4000, but I didn't even apply for either of them. One was given to all Michigan students from the tobacco settlement, and the other was given to me since I had a GPA above 3.5 when I transferred to CMU.
I have several friends who graduated with 40k-120k in debt. I can't even imagine having that much extra debt. It would be like having a second mortgage. It breaks my heart even more when someone gets that much debt with a degree that has a pretty low earnings potential. You'd be amazed how many young people I've talked to who never thought about looking at the job market before picking their career path, to see what kind of job possibilities/salary ranges were. There is no reason to go 50k in the hole, just so you can get a job making 30k a year.
At my last company, I experienced using NAV 10, SEP 11, SEP 12, and then Microsofts System Center Endpoint Protection 2012. If you don't know, SCEP is basically MSE with central management capabilities. It looks freaking identical. What was our experience going from the cadillac of AV, paying 50k a year in maintenance costs to a essentially free AV? Virus infections stayed the same. Detection stayed the same. Remediation stayed the same. I've always considred AV software to be nothing but the proverbial "Canary in the coal mine". If a computer gets infected, I want it to squak enough to get my attention. I don't expect it to stop or fix the problem. Frankly, I don't trust any software to fix the problem, and I'd rather wipe and reload or restore from backup. If it stops one or two infections, great, but I wouldn't stake my job on it.
If you really want protection, you better start using whitelisting. A good whitelisting app will do more for security than any AV software. Even if you go overboard and tell it to allow any signed content from most of the big vendors, you're still a bagillion times more secure than any AV. And the overhead is typically much less since you're dealing with a much smaller list to check against. Unfortunately, user interaction is bound to be higher.
Did you know that for $1500, you can build your own book scanner power by a vacuum cleaner? It will harmlessly scan a 1000 page book in about 90 minutes. Scan your entire collection, and then just loan people the digital files.
http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/13/3639016/google-books-scanner-vacuum-diy
You're missing the point. The goal isn't to not hire people, it's to do everything in your power to hire the RIGHT people the first time. Hiring the wrong person can cost a company thousands upon thousands of dollars. If it takes you 2-3 months to figure out that someone isn't working out, you've just spent 10-30k in lost expenses on someone. It's like email spam filtering. Sure, you may filter out some legitimate email, but if you can save your users from wasting 15 minutes a day, losing an email every couple months can be excused.
Most/all large companies have some kind of internal database that will list people as unhireable. It's typically a mix of ex-employees and people who have had contact with the company (interviewes, applications, etc). Get canned from a small town rural paper route at age 14 because you put one too many papers in the bushes, get blacklisted from getting your dream job as a journalist at age 40 with the NYT who are now owned by the same parent company. It doesn't matter that you're now 26 years older, wiser, more responsible, and the jobs are completely different. Stuff like that happens all the time.
If the OP was making the argument that Microsoft shouldn't include value add applications with the OS, than this would be a valid argument. The fact that Microsoft bundled some advertisement funded apps with their OS isn't a big deal. You can choose to use them or not use them. It's not a component of the OS any more than Minesweeper is. If you don't like it, download or build your own apps.
You paid money for the OS. When an OS component has an ad, feel free to get angry. In the meantime, get over it. You don't have to use Microsoft free software. You can choose to download your own. Hell, this is Slashdot, you should be making your own, releasing the source, and publishing it to the Microsoft Store.
Anyone who's unboxed a new computer will know that this is true. You just paid ______ computer company $____ for a computer! How dare they install advertisements, trialware, and crap software on your computer! Same issue, different company.
The question is a good one, but you're looking at the wrong renewable energy source. Planes move fast right? Why not harness the speed of the wind rushing by the plane with a wind turbine? You could put two turbines on the back of each wing for a total of four turbines!!!! Imagine the energy creation potential! Suck that energy from the turbines into battery banks, and then use that energy to power the 4 propellers on the front of the wings. I think I've just invented propetual motion!!! Damn skippy!
My previous company had purchased around 200 Fujitsu convertible tablets. They weren't THAT over priced compared to our standard T series Lenovo laptops, but they definitely were more expensive. Our sales people loved that you could use a pen and take notes. They found it worked better because it didn't have the physical "barrier" between the customer and sales rep that a standard laptop has. That was 4 years ago. Today, we just replaced all of the tablets and gave users a choice between a regular Lenovo laptop or a Lenovo X220 Tablet. It was pretty evenly split. Half of the people didn't use the tablet features at all, and the other half did. I just hate them because the only real commercial tablet input app out there is OneNote.
I wouldn't take a pay cut, but I'd consider it a raise during an economy where most companies are stingy with raises. I could save $5000 a year on car costs alone (I'd only need one car if I worked from home). The trick is, to save that much cash, I would have to get rid of a car. That means I couldn't come in without planning far ahead. Most of the people in my company that work from home do it 2-3 days a week. I wouldn't want that.
You information paranoid freaks make me sick. How many times do I have to say it? The whole freaking World is going to melt down to chaos soon. Keep hording your information...I'm hording guns, knives, and bullets. We'll see who was right soon enough. BURN BABY BURN!!!! It's all going down!!!
Why can't we just have a nationalized health care system that covers only catastrophic issues? I have several friends in this "young" age group who have been able to get catastrophic coverage for $50-75 a month. I feel that should be a reasonable thing to aim for for everyone. Then the private insurance companies could stay in business selling additional coverage for people who want the doctors visits and the prescription coverage. Seems like a good plan to me.
On a side note, I would argue that there are VERY few people who can't afford some level of health coverage. They might not be able to afford the coverage they would like (or had previously), but they can afford catastrophic coverage. They might CHOOSE to not prioritize it in their budget. Maybe they would have to give up their iPhone to get coverage. Maybe they would have to get a 3rd room mate instead of having a bedroom to themselves. If it was a priority, people would get it done. The problem is that it isn't a priority, because while society says "Get insurance", it's secretly whispering into their ears "If you don't get insurance, we'll still cover you if something bad happens".
It's funny, every year we prepare for auditors, and all we have to do is show them that we have a policy, not that we actually follow the policy. It's really quite hilarious and yet sad at the same time. For instance, we have to show them that we are doing scans of our network looking for vulnerabilities, but all they want is a log with someones name and a date on it. They don't care what was found or that anything was done with the information that we found. They could care less. The sad thing is, the company doing the audit is a very large company.
The truth is that most management could care less about policies. Password complexity? Sure, just don't assign it to the management. Screensaver locks after 10 minutes? There better be an exceptions group for the CEO and her secretary. It's really quite sickening really. It's amazing what you can get people to do for you when you're the network admin's boss' boss' boss.
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Well, I can't control what companies do, but I can advise people not to make dumb decisions. Too often people are directed to pick a career that is what they want to do. Sounds great on paper. I remember filling out one of those career direction tests in high school. If I had followed it's advice, I'd be sitting in a tower watching for forest fires. I don’t have any idea what that type of a job pays, but I have to believe the market is incredibly small. I have a cousin who was half way through college studying to be a photojournalist. He wanted to take pictures for National Geographic. It wasn’t until someone finally banged into his head that there are only a couple hundred people in the world who do that job. He had better odds of getting into the NFL. It seems harsh to smash someone’s dreams, but people need to have a sense of realism in their career choices.
I got my 4 year B.S. in Information Technology degree from a reputable college for a grand total of $10,000. I graduated in 2004. That doesn't include rent, food, living expenses, or books, but I never lived with less than 3 other people (often in houses with 6-8 people), ate cheap food, didn't spend much on anything, and I hardly ever bough school books unless they really were required.
How did I spend less for a 4 year degree than most of my friends spent in 1 year at the local University? I went to a community college for my first two years, and then I went to a smaller university (Central Michigan University). Community college cost $1000 a semester, and CMU cost $2500 a semester. I did get 2 scholarships for a combined $4000, but I didn't even apply for either of them. One was given to all Michigan students from the tobacco settlement, and the other was given to me since I had a GPA above 3.5 when I transferred to CMU.
I have several friends who graduated with 40k-120k in debt. I can't even imagine having that much extra debt. It would be like having a second mortgage. It breaks my heart even more when someone gets that much debt with a degree that has a pretty low earnings potential. You'd be amazed how many young people I've talked to who never thought about looking at the job market before picking their career path, to see what kind of job possibilities/salary ranges were. There is no reason to go 50k in the hole, just so you can get a job making 30k a year.
At my last company, I experienced using NAV 10, SEP 11, SEP 12, and then Microsofts System Center Endpoint Protection 2012. If you don't know, SCEP is basically MSE with central management capabilities. It looks freaking identical. What was our experience going from the cadillac of AV, paying 50k a year in maintenance costs to a essentially free AV? Virus infections stayed the same. Detection stayed the same. Remediation stayed the same. I've always considred AV software to be nothing but the proverbial "Canary in the coal mine". If a computer gets infected, I want it to squak enough to get my attention. I don't expect it to stop or fix the problem. Frankly, I don't trust any software to fix the problem, and I'd rather wipe and reload or restore from backup. If it stops one or two infections, great, but I wouldn't stake my job on it.
If you really want protection, you better start using whitelisting. A good whitelisting app will do more for security than any AV software. Even if you go overboard and tell it to allow any signed content from most of the big vendors, you're still a bagillion times more secure than any AV. And the overhead is typically much less since you're dealing with a much smaller list to check against. Unfortunately, user interaction is bound to be higher.
If your office has more than 10 people, you can't use MSE legally.
Did you know that for $1500, you can build your own book scanner power by a vacuum cleaner? It will harmlessly scan a 1000 page book in about 90 minutes. Scan your entire collection, and then just loan people the digital files.
http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/13/3639016/google-books-scanner-vacuum-diy
Wow, a polaroid? Really? Just let the out dated technology die.
You're missing the point. The goal isn't to not hire people, it's to do everything in your power to hire the RIGHT people the first time. Hiring the wrong person can cost a company thousands upon thousands of dollars. If it takes you 2-3 months to figure out that someone isn't working out, you've just spent 10-30k in lost expenses on someone. It's like email spam filtering. Sure, you may filter out some legitimate email, but if you can save your users from wasting 15 minutes a day, losing an email every couple months can be excused.
Most/all large companies have some kind of internal database that will list people as unhireable. It's typically a mix of ex-employees and people who have had contact with the company (interviewes, applications, etc). Get canned from a small town rural paper route at age 14 because you put one too many papers in the bushes, get blacklisted from getting your dream job as a journalist at age 40 with the NYT who are now owned by the same parent company. It doesn't matter that you're now 26 years older, wiser, more responsible, and the jobs are completely different. Stuff like that happens all the time.
If the OP was making the argument that Microsoft shouldn't include value add applications with the OS, than this would be a valid argument. The fact that Microsoft bundled some advertisement funded apps with their OS isn't a big deal. You can choose to use them or not use them. It's not a component of the OS any more than Minesweeper is. If you don't like it, download or build your own apps.
You paid money for the OS. When an OS component has an ad, feel free to get angry. In the meantime, get over it. You don't have to use Microsoft free software. You can choose to download your own. Hell, this is Slashdot, you should be making your own, releasing the source, and publishing it to the Microsoft Store. Anyone who's unboxed a new computer will know that this is true. You just paid ______ computer company $____ for a computer! How dare they install advertisements, trialware, and crap software on your computer! Same issue, different company.
So you're telling me there's a chance. Yeah! I read ya.
Snap! Anonymous strikes again! The spelling has been fixed!
Do you have a website where I can book tickets?
The question is a good one, but you're looking at the wrong renewable energy source. Planes move fast right? Why not harness the speed of the wind rushing by the plane with a wind turbine? You could put two turbines on the back of each wing for a total of four turbines!!!! Imagine the energy creation potential! Suck that energy from the turbines into battery banks, and then use that energy to power the 4 propellers on the front of the wings. I think I've just invented propetual motion!!! Damn skippy!
My previous company had purchased around 200 Fujitsu convertible tablets. They weren't THAT over priced compared to our standard T series Lenovo laptops, but they definitely were more expensive. Our sales people loved that you could use a pen and take notes. They found it worked better because it didn't have the physical "barrier" between the customer and sales rep that a standard laptop has. That was 4 years ago. Today, we just replaced all of the tablets and gave users a choice between a regular Lenovo laptop or a Lenovo X220 Tablet. It was pretty evenly split. Half of the people didn't use the tablet features at all, and the other half did. I just hate them because the only real commercial tablet input app out there is OneNote.
I think you are getting Science and Jimmy Johns confused.
I wouldn't take a pay cut, but I'd consider it a raise during an economy where most companies are stingy with raises. I could save $5000 a year on car costs alone (I'd only need one car if I worked from home). The trick is, to save that much cash, I would have to get rid of a car. That means I couldn't come in without planning far ahead. Most of the people in my company that work from home do it 2-3 days a week. I wouldn't want that.
That's easy. You'll just need a big paper cutter and a high volume scanner.
Could they call it Netflube?
Which is why I shoot at everyone who steps on, flies over, digs under, or encroaches on my property.
You information paranoid freaks make me sick. How many times do I have to say it? The whole freaking World is going to melt down to chaos soon. Keep hording your information...I'm hording guns, knives, and bullets. We'll see who was right soon enough. BURN BABY BURN!!!! It's all going down!!!
Why can't we just have a nationalized health care system that covers only catastrophic issues? I have several friends in this "young" age group who have been able to get catastrophic coverage for $50-75 a month. I feel that should be a reasonable thing to aim for for everyone. Then the private insurance companies could stay in business selling additional coverage for people who want the doctors visits and the prescription coverage. Seems like a good plan to me.
On a side note, I would argue that there are VERY few people who can't afford some level of health coverage. They might not be able to afford the coverage they would like (or had previously), but they can afford catastrophic coverage. They might CHOOSE to not prioritize it in their budget. Maybe they would have to give up their iPhone to get coverage. Maybe they would have to get a 3rd room mate instead of having a bedroom to themselves. If it was a priority, people would get it done. The problem is that it isn't a priority, because while society says "Get insurance", it's secretly whispering into their ears "If you don't get insurance, we'll still cover you if something bad happens".
That's great until you find that your backup wasn't as successful as you thought it was...Eek!
They should just do away with laptops. They are unsecure by definition, and shouldn't be allowed on the network or even inside the building...
It's funny, every year we prepare for auditors, and all we have to do is show them that we have a policy, not that we actually follow the policy. It's really quite hilarious and yet sad at the same time. For instance, we have to show them that we are doing scans of our network looking for vulnerabilities, but all they want is a log with someones name and a date on it. They don't care what was found or that anything was done with the information that we found. They could care less. The sad thing is, the company doing the audit is a very large company. The truth is that most management could care less about policies. Password complexity? Sure, just don't assign it to the management. Screensaver locks after 10 minutes? There better be an exceptions group for the CEO and her secretary. It's really quite sickening really. It's amazing what you can get people to do for you when you're the network admin's boss' boss' boss.