Actually I would argue the opposite. Marriage started as a religious excuse to limit procreation and ensure that a man who raised kids was raising his own kids and not osme elses. Is is a sham.
We have added legal rights and privleges to that over the years. These are encompassed in the idea of a civil union. We have decided as a society that such unions deserve special treatment and are benifical to society. Personally I believe that is a load of crap, but thats me.
So you CAN be anti-gay marriage if you are completley anti-marriage and it be consistant and not anti-gay.
IF however you are pro-hetro marriage and anti-gay marriage, you are being bigoted. And since there is no chance in hell of marriage right/privleges being revoked in the US, a reasonable, logical person you shouold support gay marriage,
It is a shame that these laws have to be in place. It is a shame that people were so vile and disgusting that they decided to discriminate based upon age or marital status or a host of other reasons. But they did, so now YOU have to deal with is. Suck it up and deal. Dont get mad at the government, get mad at the morons who decided to abuse their power as employer.
The thing about people like you that shocks me no matter how many times I see them post is that you don't seem to realize that most of these regulations were created for a REASON. People don't (usually) make laws in a vacuum. I would be more than happy to discuss how we can regulate BETTER and SMARTER, but to imply that regulations are evil in and of themselves is to ignore the entire first 150 years of the industrial revolution.
And if you read other articles, that labor is effectively slave labor, which is why the boss can wake them up in the middle of the night, give them a snack, and put them on a 12 hour shift.
Amiercan workers are not slaves (despite some propoganda the contrary). Those folks working in China are.....
And all that innovation and growth in America is done on the bodies of dead Chinese workers.
They explicitly said they turned off their phone lines because the Cust Service Dept was getting swamped. I can understand that actually.
I would like to agree with the GP. They made a mistake, but unlike Sony they handled it well. If it happens again I will probably take my business elsewhere, but for now Im ok with how they responded.
There is nothing to stop them from putting a cluase in the contract that forces you to pay some ammount for the phone if you cancel the contract early. It just prevents them form denying you the use of the phone you purchased on another provider.
If you really think you have a choice in regards to corporations, you might want to reconsider. Sure you have more options than with government, but corporations try to coerce just as much as governments if not more. So you end up with a situation where I cannot purchase ANY phone plan in the US and not deal with an ethical company.
Combine that with the fact that they have the power to manipluate our government through bribes....err contributions and lobbying. This actually means it causes a cumulative ammount of influrnce.
Until you remove money from politics, you will always have a situation where government is bad but corporations are worse.
This is the 3rd It whine artile in a week. I think this is a deliberate pattern by people trying to get hits on their articles by touching on a sore point within IT.
I did not read the article, dont care what it says, and will not respond (even to post something like this) to such articles in the future. I advise you all do the same.
I just dont see the value of publishers in the electronic world. Since the cost of keeping an ebook 'on file' is so low, libraries can just collect books from authors directly.
If a library wants to avoid the dross, simply hire a service to review books and grade them. If the publishers were smart they would change their business model to reflect this.The library can then keep them in their colleciton based on those grades.
The authors can get a direct check from the librariy to keep the book in their collection for the # of years it is under copyright. If you really have to charge the client, charge them say 10 cents for book under copyright, with 1-2 cents going directly to the author. Without the middleman, the cost gets reduced by a couple of orders of magnitude,
The downside of course is that the publishing houses die. Oh well.
And when the lawyers come to your dept because of a lawsuit, who will get in trouble for all the missing data? And when someone breaks into your network because of a lost Mac with password to your VPN stored on the primary partition, who will have to clean up the security mess? And when a virus hits those machines (yes, it will happen, even to Mac's) and spreads to the rest of your network, who will get in trouble. When someone loses a super critical file that will cost the company tens of thousands of dollars, who will take th heat?
BYOD has some advantages, especially if you use a client side hypervisor and keep a 2nd image on the machine which is the'personal' image. Have a pristine virtual machine for work and non pristine for play. Create an isolated guest wireless network for personal devices. I have no problem with these types of models.
But the cowboy model of IT management will never be smart. is just not ever going to be smart.
How does someone who makes 100k cost 250k? Really, how?
Building cost- Same (maybe slightly higher if the perosn has a bigger cube) Insurance costs - Same (maybe slightly higher if you assume someone more experience may be old and have a family) Bonus cost- 2x (assume same bonus%) Other $$ costs (401k matching, etc)- 2x yearly raise cost 2x (this compounds, but the 2-3% typical increase is just not worth it.) training costs- probably higher, but with higher return as well. Adminitrative costs (people to handle HR, payroll, etc)- Same, maybe slightly higher if the person has a complex bonus or pay structure
My company assume 2x cost, and even that is absurd when you look at the reality of the situation
1) Exchange 2010 has a perfectly good MTA. I would argue that MTA's are the least of what a modern email system does. 2) Activesync utilizes 80/443 for connections, not port 25. 3) They are not adding 2000 new accounts, they are adding 2000 new devices to connect to the accounts. 4) In all likelyhood this is a simple issue of the CAS (Client Access Server) not being size right, or not being sized to include the increase in traffic which would occur (mind you the IT dept might not even have known about this deal when it was made. Hard to size something out when you dont know about it. 5) In all likelyhood this is just a matter of throwing hardware at the issue. If the CAS is running on an old server, or is very undersized, you just add a couple of servers into the array to handle the load.
It is not unlike a website getting overloaded and needing more nodes to handle the traffic. Im assuming they are already load balancing of course, but even if they were not it is not a huge deal. I put in an Exchange 2010 2 server CAS Array in 3 hours. configuration took a couple of days.
Spoken like someone who knows nothing about email systems.
I am guessing that there are strict restrictions on using external email to relay school information.
After all do you want your information on your childs health, disciplinary issues, grades, concerns over abuse, etc etc. to be stored on googles mail server? I sure as hell dont.
In all fairness, it is often very hard to estimate load on a system of this sort. You can estimate the number of devices you will need (if you are even told), and ammount of traffic across them, but without actual piloting and load testing in your produciton environment the estimates can miss factors (like users deciding to ONLY use their tablet or phone for connections.
If the people at the New york School system were stupid enough to go with per device CAL's, they deserve what they get. User CAL's are almost always going to be more economical. The only exception is in a shared PC (call center) structure.
If they have per use CAL's, the activesync devices are free (assuming they have CAL's for the users to begin with).
As for this article, it is probably being blown way out of proportion. This is just a memo by the IT dept to let the management know they need to buy extra servers and failed to include the server cost in their iPAD setup. They may also have to increase Internet bandwidth at their primary datacenter if the devices are not using WiFi to connect, but again if they dont let the devices connect to their LAN/WAN infrastructure (preferably in a secure VLAN), they deserve the issues they have.
In reality, a few CAS servers with 4-8 cores and 64 Gb of memory will do the job on this. Yu are probalby talking 30-40k in outlays. Which is nothing for an organization their size.
Blaming this on Exchange would be like blaming Cisco & your ISP for underestimating the lod on your internet pipes.
Wow, I have read more articles on slashdot than I could count and for the first time I am completely lost. I kept up with you in the first paragraph, but you went waaaay over my head on the second. I would love to figure out what you are describing, but unfortunatley I dont think my math OR physics skills are up to par. Any suggestions on where to dig into this more?
this is not your fathers IT department. IT runs as differently today as when you did it as programming does. The basic idea is the same, but the rules have changed, the model of operations have changed and the end result is that you actually have no idea what being in IT management and operatoins are like today.
As for your commentary, you show almost no idea of the details of modern IT. What you described might have come right out of a dilbert form 1998.
I dont pretend to know what working like a coder because I took a college course, please give IT the same courtesy.
As for Groupon...Groupon costs a lot in food costs, and 2 years later I hadn't seen any significant change in sales that could've been attributed to their involvement.
If you have not seen any return, perhaps your products did not warrant it. I can say for myself and my friend (small sample, but IMO itelling) that we ALWAYS treat groupons as a way to check out a new product and decide if we like it. I was just at a little Italian place this weekend and used a gorupon. I would NEVER have gone there (in the corner of a strip mall) without it. The food was amazing. I will be going back. Conversely, I have been to places, purchased services and was unimpressed. I will not be going back to those establishments.
Im sure that there are those that use Groupon as a one time sheap dinner/ride/event/etc, but I would guess that a good % of groupon users are folks like me.
So if you dont get a return on your investment, maybe the cause is looking you right in the mirror.
For your example to apply to this, black/latino's would have to have some outside limiting factor(men having kids) or be exlcuded by the limiting factor(Dem/Republican).
There is no inherient property of the subgroups mentioned that would exclude them form being part of the Valley VC community, nor is someone exluded form recieving Vc funding just because they are part of the subgroup mentioned.
Your assumption that we are at one end of the regulation spectrum shows your ignorance and political leanings.
I am not saying regulation reform might not be useful (less overhead or conflicting regulatory departments, clarification of rules, and for the love of jebus take politics out of the science behind regulation), and Im about as anti-nanny state as a reasonable person can get, but I would argue that we need more total regulation, not less. What we have now is a bare minimum to maintain a healthy society.
The problem today is that our regulations work well and are almost invisible to most people so they dont think they are needed. When people whine about reducing regulation I just point to fracking and the problems in China in the last 10 years and watch them back pdeal until they pull a quad.
Exactly! In an odd way this law has reversed the slwo of people (if not funds) to smaller institutions. The banks lobby against getting real regulations enforced again, so thats not an option.
It is indirect and not perfect, but if this has the unintended consequence of forcing banks to compete with their smaller breathren again, good for us!
Simply not true. Most viruses and software are coming from web site now a days. Or trojans is emails.
As someone pointed out, making this behavior the default is the first step. It will be a slippry slope.
1) you have to do it their way to get published in the app store, but users can run any app. 2) then you have to opt in to run any app 3) then you can't get support on OS issues if you have opted in and have non app store apps installed 4) then you cant install non app store apps. 5) viola, you have the iphone. and apple/microsoft decides what runs on your PC. 6) not that they are the gatekeepers, open srouce, freeware ISV's are suqeezed out when they implement a posting fee 7) Apple/MS start acting like the ISP's and try to generate money form both ends of the spectrum, in 5-7 years we will be talking about 'PC neutrality' like we do net neutrality now.
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now the NSA is completely exempt from FOIA?
they can just ignore ALL requests, and there is no vetting of their reasons. Brilliant.
Next the CIA and FBI will do the same, so the law becomes meaningless.
side-note: How does this post fail the lameness filter and look like ASCII art?
Actually I would argue the opposite. Marriage started as a religious excuse to limit procreation and ensure that a man who raised kids was raising his own kids and not osme elses. Is is a sham.
We have added legal rights and privleges to that over the years. These are encompassed in the idea of a civil union. We have decided as a society that such unions deserve special treatment and are benifical to society. Personally I believe that is a load of crap, but thats me.
So you CAN be anti-gay marriage if you are completley anti-marriage and it be consistant and not anti-gay.
IF however you are pro-hetro marriage and anti-gay marriage, you are being bigoted. And since there is no chance in hell of marriage right/privleges being revoked in the US, a reasonable, logical person you shouold support gay marriage,
It is a shame that these laws have to be in place. It is a shame that people were so vile and disgusting that they decided to discriminate based upon age or marital status or a host of other reasons. But they did, so now YOU have to deal with is. Suck it up and deal. Dont get mad at the government, get mad at the morons who decided to abuse their power as employer.
The thing about people like you that shocks me no matter how many times I see them post is that you don't seem to realize that most of these regulations were created for a REASON. People don't (usually) make laws in a vacuum. I would be more than happy to discuss how we can regulate BETTER and SMARTER, but to imply that regulations are evil in and of themselves is to ignore the entire first 150 years of the industrial revolution.
And if you read other articles, that labor is effectively slave labor, which is why the boss can wake them up in the middle of the night, give them a snack, and put them on a 12 hour shift.
Amiercan workers are not slaves (despite some propoganda the contrary). Those folks working in China are.....
And all that innovation and growth in America is done on the bodies of dead Chinese workers.
They explicitly said they turned off their phone lines because the Cust Service Dept was getting swamped. I can understand that actually.
I would like to agree with the GP. They made a mistake, but unlike Sony they handled it well. If it happens again I will probably take my business elsewhere, but for now Im ok with how they responded.
There is nothing to stop them from putting a cluase in the contract that forces you to pay some ammount for the phone if you cancel the contract early. It just prevents them form denying you the use of the phone you purchased on another provider.
If you really think you have a choice in regards to corporations, you might want to reconsider. Sure you have more options than with government, but corporations try to coerce just as much as governments if not more. So you end up with a situation where I cannot purchase ANY phone plan in the US and not deal with an ethical company.
Combine that with the fact that they have the power to manipluate our government through bribes....err contributions and lobbying. This actually means it causes a cumulative ammount of influrnce.
Until you remove money from politics, you will always have a situation where government is bad but corporations are worse.
This is the 3rd It whine artile in a week. I think this is a deliberate pattern by people trying to get hits on their articles by touching on a sore point within IT.
I did not read the article, dont care what it says, and will not respond (even to post something like this) to such articles in the future. I advise you all do the same.
I just dont see the value of publishers in the electronic world. Since the cost of keeping an ebook 'on file' is so low, libraries can just collect books from authors directly.
If a library wants to avoid the dross, simply hire a service to review books and grade them. If the publishers were smart they would change their business model to reflect this.The library can then keep them in their colleciton based on those grades.
The authors can get a direct check from the librariy to keep the book in their collection for the # of years it is under copyright. If you really have to charge the client, charge them say 10 cents for book under copyright, with 1-2 cents going directly to the author. Without the middleman, the cost gets reduced by a couple of orders of magnitude,
The downside of course is that the publishing houses die. Oh well.
And when the lawyers come to your dept because of a lawsuit, who will get in trouble for all the missing data? And when someone breaks into your network because of a lost Mac with password to your VPN stored on the primary partition, who will have to clean up the security mess? And when a virus hits those machines (yes, it will happen, even to Mac's) and spreads to the rest of your network, who will get in trouble. When someone loses a super critical file that will cost the company tens of thousands of dollars, who will take th heat?
BYOD has some advantages, especially if you use a client side hypervisor and keep a 2nd image on the machine which is the'personal' image. Have a pristine virtual machine for work and non pristine for play. Create an isolated guest wireless network for personal devices. I have no problem with these types of models.
But the cowboy model of IT management will never be smart. is just not ever going to be smart.
How does someone who makes 100k cost 250k? Really, how?
Building cost- Same (maybe slightly higher if the perosn has a bigger cube)
Insurance costs - Same (maybe slightly higher if you assume someone more experience may be old and have a family)
Bonus cost- 2x (assume same bonus%)
Other $$ costs (401k matching, etc)- 2x
yearly raise cost 2x (this compounds, but the 2-3% typical increase is just not worth it.)
training costs- probably higher, but with higher return as well.
Adminitrative costs (people to handle HR, payroll, etc)- Same, maybe slightly higher if the person has a complex bonus or pay structure
My company assume 2x cost, and even that is absurd when you look at the reality of the situation
yea for sladot. A few corrections
1) Exchange 2010 has a perfectly good MTA. I would argue that MTA's are the least of what a modern email system does.
2) Activesync utilizes 80/443 for connections, not port 25.
3) They are not adding 2000 new accounts, they are adding 2000 new devices to connect to the accounts.
4) In all likelyhood this is a simple issue of the CAS (Client Access Server) not being size right, or not being sized to include the increase in traffic which would occur (mind you the IT dept might not even have known about this deal when it was made. Hard to size something out when you dont know about it.
5) In all likelyhood this is just a matter of throwing hardware at the issue. If the CAS is running on an old server, or is very undersized, you just add a couple of servers into the array to handle the load.
It is not unlike a website getting overloaded and needing more nodes to handle the traffic. Im assuming they are already load balancing of course, but even if they were not it is not a huge deal. I put in an Exchange 2010 2 server CAS Array in 3 hours. configuration took a couple of days.
Spoken like someone who knows nothing about email systems.
I am guessing that there are strict restrictions on using external email to relay school information.
After all do you want your information on your childs health, disciplinary issues, grades, concerns over abuse, etc etc. to be stored on googles mail server? I sure as hell dont.
In all fairness, it is often very hard to estimate load on a system of this sort. You can estimate the number of devices you will need (if you are even told), and ammount of traffic across them, but without actual piloting and load testing in your produciton environment the estimates can miss factors (like users deciding to ONLY use their tablet or phone for connections.
If the people at the New york School system were stupid enough to go with per device CAL's, they deserve what they get. User CAL's are almost always going to be more economical. The only exception is in a shared PC (call center) structure.
If they have per use CAL's, the activesync devices are free (assuming they have CAL's for the users to begin with).
As for this article, it is probably being blown way out of proportion. This is just a memo by the IT dept to let the management know they need to buy extra servers and failed to include the server cost in their iPAD setup. They may also have to increase Internet bandwidth at their primary datacenter if the devices are not using WiFi to connect, but again if they dont let the devices connect to their LAN/WAN infrastructure (preferably in a secure VLAN), they deserve the issues they have.
In reality, a few CAS servers with 4-8 cores and 64 Gb of memory will do the job on this. Yu are probalby talking 30-40k in outlays. Which is nothing for an organization their size.
Blaming this on Exchange would be like blaming Cisco & your ISP for underestimating the lod on your internet pipes.
They may have lost tens or even a hundred dollars.
On the other hand Iran probably gave EA enough free pub to make it a net gain 10x over.
what about the books that Cathlics left out?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Books_of_the_Bible
Wow, I have read more articles on slashdot than I could count and for the first time I am completely lost. I kept up with you in the first paragraph, but you went waaaay over my head on the second. I would love to figure out what you are describing, but unfortunatley I dont think my math OR physics skills are up to par. Any suggestions on where to dig into this more?
this is not your fathers IT department. IT runs as differently today as when you did it as programming does. The basic idea is the same, but the rules have changed, the model of operations have changed and the end result is that you actually have no idea what being in IT management and operatoins are like today.
As for your commentary, you show almost no idea of the details of modern IT. What you described might have come right out of a dilbert form 1998.
I dont pretend to know what working like a coder because I took a college course, please give IT the same courtesy.
As for Groupon...Groupon costs a lot in food costs, and 2 years later I hadn't seen any significant change in sales that could've been attributed to their involvement.
If you have not seen any return, perhaps your products did not warrant it. I can say for myself and my friend (small sample, but IMO itelling) that we ALWAYS treat groupons as a way to check out a new product and decide if we like it. I was just at a little Italian place this weekend and used a gorupon. I would NEVER have gone there (in the corner of a strip mall) without it. The food was amazing. I will be going back. Conversely, I have been to places, purchased services and was unimpressed. I will not be going back to those establishments.
Im sure that there are those that use Groupon as a one time sheap dinner/ride/event/etc, but I would guess that a good % of groupon users are folks like me.
So if you dont get a return on your investment, maybe the cause is looking you right in the mirror.
you logic is horrid.
For your example to apply to this, black/latino's would have to have some outside limiting factor(men having kids) or be exlcuded by the limiting factor(Dem/Republican).
There is no inherient property of the subgroups mentioned that would exclude them form being part of the Valley VC community, nor is someone exluded form recieving Vc funding just because they are part of the subgroup mentioned.
The law allows the FCC to regulate NN. This law would repeal that ability. So yes, the laws in place allow NN.
Your assumption that we are at one end of the regulation spectrum shows your ignorance and political leanings.
I am not saying regulation reform might not be useful (less overhead or conflicting regulatory departments, clarification of rules, and for the love of jebus take politics out of the science behind regulation), and Im about as anti-nanny state as a reasonable person can get, but I would argue that we need more total regulation, not less. What we have now is a bare minimum to maintain a healthy society.
The problem today is that our regulations work well and are almost invisible to most people so they dont think they are needed. When people whine about reducing regulation I just point to fracking and the problems in China in the last 10 years and watch them back pdeal until they pull a quad.
Exactly! In an odd way this law has reversed the slwo of people (if not funds) to smaller institutions. The banks lobby against getting real regulations enforced again, so thats not an option.
It is indirect and not perfect, but if this has the unintended consequence of forcing banks to compete with their smaller breathren again, good for us!
Simply not true. Most viruses and software are coming from web site now a days. Or trojans is emails.
As someone pointed out, making this behavior the default is the first step. It will be a slippry slope.
1) you have to do it their way to get published in the app store, but users can run any app.
2) then you have to opt in to run any app
3) then you can't get support on OS issues if you have opted in and have non app store apps installed
4) then you cant install non app store apps.
5) viola, you have the iphone. and apple/microsoft decides what runs on your PC.
6) not that they are the gatekeepers, open srouce, freeware ISV's are suqeezed out when they implement a posting fee
7) Apple/MS start acting like the ISP's and try to generate money form both ends of the spectrum, in 5-7 years we will be talking about 'PC neutrality' like we do net neutrality now.
mark my words.