I'll tell you how. (names below are fictional) Netadmin or Sysadmin team has no content writer, so Prakash is told to create an induction manual for new hires. Prakash hates this assignment (understandably, he's a net admin, not a fucking content writer) so he does the bare minimum: takes screenshots of prod environments and enters credentials for that generic admin account everyone was using (because fuck processes) as example. New hire comes, proceeds going through the document, and with his lacking attention to details (or because he's overzealous, or been told to beat the best time for new hires of 30 minutes 15 seconds) doesn't pay attention to the step saying "enter YOUR given connection details" and copy/pastes the ones shown as example, which incidentally are absolutely valid and point out to the PROD DB.
Disaster happens.
Moral of the story?
1. Get a proper content writer to create documentation: responsibility falls to management to ask for it and senior management to approve it. Blame falls on whoever didn't ask or didn't approve it. 2. Review the documentation: responsibility falls to line manager Prakash is under. Blame that line manager and hang him (figuratively) from a tall sturdy branch. 3. Publish the document as a controlled document in a knowledge management environment. If such an environment doesn't exist, blame everyone who didn't ask for it or approve it.
The CTO is hardly to blame, it's not his business to handle such processes, that should fall under a line manager or whichever dedicated person was supposed to handle it.
I personally wouldn't have kept a netadmin/sysadmin who can't follow basic instructions or a manager who didn't review the training document. Everyone else is off the hook because they were either not aware of the risk or did what they could with a task that wasn't in their job description.
I clicked your link. The guy in the yellow jacket in the image at the middle of the article scares the shit out of me. https://static1.squarespace.co...
How exactly are you going to tell them apart except for trusting they are who/what they say they are? Also telling them apart and filtering based on religion beliefs is grounds for discrimination and a nice lawsuit thrown your way. Either way, you lose.
Can we, for once, focus on what was said and whether it makes sense, rather than who said it? Anonymized quotes might fix that. Call it "accidental wisdom", if you will.
This. Also this is where the "dreaded" pirating might come really handy. There are trackers out there (albeit private) which offer high quality digitized versions of older movies (some which were appealing to limited audiences only, so maybe in danger of being lost).
I guess it's a matter of "archiving for the sake of archiving" thing.
My grandfather (may he rest in piece) used to play football (soccer for Americans) professionally in his youth, that was before WW2. He kept complaining the sport continuously went downhill since then. Back in the day, it was not played professionally, and fair play was an actual thing, not a slogan. Players fought for glory mostly.
Then it became all about money. And politics. And overly-optimizing the gameplay through legal, illegal and somewhere-in-between means. My grandfather loved soccer, and hated modern soccer.
Millenials dislike traditional sports because they can see through appearances. Previous generation got used to it because of the WTF (Warmin The Frog) technique that was applied to them.
The 17-34 year old ones do have less spending power than older generations, BUT! This is where details come handy. You can't only look at spending power as a whole - you need to look at what their spending power goes to.
Say a 40 year old has a discretionary amount of 1000 dollars a month, out of which most goes on booze, trips and porn magazines. They spend zero on eSports. At the same time, a 21-year old has 200 dollars a month available, out of which 100 goes to eSports and related activities (CS:GO skins and shit like that).
From an eSports perspective, who is your target?
I agree that "45% of America's consumer base" doesn't mean shit as a statistic, but break it down to specifics and the picture changes radically.
Is it capable of transcoding 4K bluray-quality H.265 to 1080p without stuttering? I'm yet to find a non-PC device capable of doing so. The Thecus N5810 came close (1080p only though) but no cigar.
I found less and less stuff to be truly linkable. Some of it is almost linkable, but more often than not I try to bookmark that shit only to click it later and get to some generic page which asks me to manually go through some hoops to get to the specific item I bookmarked in the first place.
Direct downloads of software installation kits is a prime example.
What does this have to do with anything? I have bought a number of movies during the years, most of which did not have a readily-available Romanian subtitle at release. My wife doesn't speak English but understands it to some extent, the threshold being thick accents. Try to watch "Snatch" without subtitles, even in English, and you'll understand. "Doo ya leik dags?"
I have a bunch of movies on DVDs which I can enjoy but she can't, so I either rip them to HDD or download the same movie online, then attach a subtitle to it. Now we can both enjoy the movie at its fullest.
What I am doing is not piracy by any means, it's an extension of already existing features which I legally own the right to use.
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I'll tell you how. (names below are fictional)
Netadmin or Sysadmin team has no content writer, so Prakash is told to create an induction manual for new hires. Prakash hates this assignment (understandably, he's a net admin, not a fucking content writer) so he does the bare minimum: takes screenshots of prod environments and enters credentials for that generic admin account everyone was using (because fuck processes) as example.
New hire comes, proceeds going through the document, and with his lacking attention to details (or because he's overzealous, or been told to beat the best time for new hires of 30 minutes 15 seconds) doesn't pay attention to the step saying "enter YOUR given connection details" and copy/pastes the ones shown as example, which incidentally are absolutely valid and point out to the PROD DB.
Disaster happens.
Moral of the story?
1. Get a proper content writer to create documentation: responsibility falls to management to ask for it and senior management to approve it. Blame falls on whoever didn't ask or didn't approve it.
2. Review the documentation: responsibility falls to line manager Prakash is under. Blame that line manager and hang him (figuratively) from a tall sturdy branch.
3. Publish the document as a controlled document in a knowledge management environment. If such an environment doesn't exist, blame everyone who didn't ask for it or approve it.
The CTO is hardly to blame, it's not his business to handle such processes, that should fall under a line manager or whichever dedicated person was supposed to handle it.
I personally wouldn't have kept a netadmin/sysadmin who can't follow basic instructions or a manager who didn't review the training document. Everyone else is off the hook because they were either not aware of the risk or did what they could with a task that wasn't in their job description.
I clicked your link. The guy in the yellow jacket in the image at the middle of the article scares the shit out of me.
https://static1.squarespace.co...
He IS the masculine chick.
How exactly are you going to tell them apart except for trusting they are who/what they say they are?
Also telling them apart and filtering based on religion beliefs is grounds for discrimination and a nice lawsuit thrown your way. Either way, you lose.
C'mon, I was thirsty for a bad joke, and since nobody provided, I had to invent my own :)
No, wait, only the Then. Conditionals are hard, man...
Well, okay, only the Else.
You forgot the Then and the Else.
Empty minds discuss on Slashdot :D
I asked the same, further up. Maybe we should focus on what was said, rather than who said it.
Hence "replied" rather than "answered".
Can we, for once, focus on what was said and whether it makes sense, rather than who said it?
Anonymized quotes might fix that. Call it "accidental wisdom", if you will.
This.
Also this is where the "dreaded" pirating might come really handy. There are trackers out there (albeit private) which offer high quality digitized versions of older movies (some which were appealing to limited audiences only, so maybe in danger of being lost).
I guess it's a matter of "archiving for the sake of archiving" thing.
Not to worry, I have all of them in digital format sitting on my HDD. In triplicate!
That too.
My grandfather (may he rest in piece) used to play football (soccer for Americans) professionally in his youth, that was before WW2.
He kept complaining the sport continuously went downhill since then. Back in the day, it was not played professionally, and fair play was an actual thing, not a slogan. Players fought for glory mostly.
Then it became all about money. And politics. And overly-optimizing the gameplay through legal, illegal and somewhere-in-between means.
My grandfather loved soccer, and hated modern soccer.
Millenials dislike traditional sports because they can see through appearances. Previous generation got used to it because of the WTF (Warmin The Frog) technique that was applied to them.
The 17-34 year old ones do have less spending power than older generations, BUT!
This is where details come handy.
You can't only look at spending power as a whole - you need to look at what their spending power goes to.
Say a 40 year old has a discretionary amount of 1000 dollars a month, out of which most goes on booze, trips and porn magazines. They spend zero on eSports.
At the same time, a 21-year old has 200 dollars a month available, out of which 100 goes to eSports and related activities (CS:GO skins and shit like that).
From an eSports perspective, who is your target?
I agree that "45% of America's consumer base" doesn't mean shit as a statistic, but break it down to specifics and the picture changes radically.
Is it capable of transcoding 4K bluray-quality H.265 to 1080p without stuttering? I'm yet to find a non-PC device capable of doing so. The Thecus N5810 came close (1080p only though) but no cigar.
I found less and less stuff to be truly linkable. Some of it is almost linkable, but more often than not I try to bookmark that shit only to click it later and get to some generic page which asks me to manually go through some hoops to get to the specific item I bookmarked in the first place.
Direct downloads of software installation kits is a prime example.
What does this have to do with anything?
I have bought a number of movies during the years, most of which did not have a readily-available Romanian subtitle at release. My wife doesn't speak English but understands it to some extent, the threshold being thick accents. Try to watch "Snatch" without subtitles, even in English, and you'll understand. "Doo ya leik dags?"
I have a bunch of movies on DVDs which I can enjoy but she can't, so I either rip them to HDD or download the same movie online, then attach a subtitle to it. Now we can both enjoy the movie at its fullest.
What I am doing is not piracy by any means, it's an extension of already existing features which I legally own the right to use.
...sperm?
today if you join, you basically pay peanuts
There, fixed it.
A combination of math and reading comprehension, perhaps?
I believe this is an opinion, not facts.
That's a helluva "niche" right there.