colleagues seem to spend as long trying to fix the formatting on these templates as they do filling in the empty boxes
Hear, hear! A curse on those who invented (and those who create documents with) the miserable embedded table feature of Word. I hate those damn things! I've seen way too many documents in a corporate setting that were nothing but a giant embedded table wanting to be filled out. Please, if you want something that draws hard to fill in boxes and must use an Office product, use Excel at least.
Don't the traded-in cars just get sold as used cars? So this program put not only the newer, efficient cars on the road but also leaves the older inefficient ones rolling around. Your tax dollars at work benefitting people who bought big SUVs a few years ago who want to trade them in already.
Then perhaps the influx of scientists will result in some changes if a few of them care enough to get on the local school boards and/or at least attend the meetings and speak up. That part of this located-in-Kansas debate is the only bit that sounds win-win.
In tough economic times the only companies that suffer are the ones that weren't doing well or weren't needed to begin with... The only companies suffering are the ones that were riding on the over inflated economy.
The new version Kindle in the large size does PDF - they don't force all the content in their proprietary format (although of course they make that the easiest to get). I think that would be your best bet. Note the smaller size Kindle does not do PDF.
If the Iranians were 'rejecting colonialism' then weren't the Poles, Czechs, etc, when throwing off the Soviet Union? What was the Soviet Union if not colonialism? That term is not exclusive to European powers exerting control over non-Eropeans.
Except many Iranians hold the US responsible, at least in part, for their many government problems they currently experience
Iranians blam the USA for their own government? Let's make sure we have the sequence of events in order:
1: The Carter administration urges the Shah's government to NOT crack down on the fundamentalist uprising. 2: Fundamentalists overthrow the Shah without much opposition because the USA did NOT intervene. 3: Fast forward several decades to: Fundamentalist rule, many times harsher than the mildly harsh Shah, has not only wrecked their economy but also removed pretty much all of even what few rights they had under the previous system. 4: Iranians protest and complain when the USA invades a neighboring ultra-harsh dictatorship and attempts to set up a parlimentary government. 5: Iranians hold responsible, and are mad at, the USA for the fundamentalist rule in Iran? 6: WTF did they really want the USA to do at what point? (There ain't no profit step)
Are they mad at having to wait so long for their turn at liberation? Why wasn't there a counter-revolution back in the 70's before the fundamentalists became so entrenched? Are they mad the Carter adminsitration didn't urge the Shah to violently crack down on the revolution? Wouldn't that be a catch-22: The USA would be the bad guy for beating up on religious freedoms or somesuch. There's just no way to win sometimes.
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I stopped reading after he uselessly bragged about upgrading the processor and memory. Isn't there a 'lookatme' tag?
What's *more* disgusting is that by the looks of it, the IT people at the University are probably barely getting a look in - it's being project-managed by external companies. Come on, stop faffing about; seriously, this is just stupid. Get your *existing* IT team, hire a bunch of programmers
If you'd RTFA, you'd see that *40* staff from the IT department are in on the project. But that's actually a problem - the existing people typically approach a replacement as a set of tweaks to what is already there just as a matter of human nature. Furthermore, the people who are working there now are in place because they've been taught/trained/experienced in *maintaining* the current systems, NOT because they are taught/trained/experienced in developing new systems.
They need outside people who know what they're doing and have the executive sponsorship to do what needs to be done. TFA specifically faults poor project management and planning and that's definitely what causes project like this to fail, NOT because the in house staff have not been used to do the work.
I don't know of anything better, but PeopleSoft is a steaming pile of shit... and won't change until the next generation of IT professionals comes in and kicks the old clods off their thrones
Sounds like a great venture capital pitch to me. Let me know when you raise a couple dozen million and we'll get started on our badass pplsft replacement.
Probably hard to find parts for whatever vintage 1975 mainframe it runs on. If you only know PC's, imagine trying to buy a brand new VESA bus SCSI card for your legacy 486 mission critical system.
It will, and there's where they made the mistake. They purchased an Oracle product for big bucks and tried to get the lowest bidder to customize it. As a result, instead of spending small bucks they wasted big bucks. It would be humming along by now if they'd had Oracle send people to set it all up but that would have cost big bucks up front.
I bet you've identified the key problem right here. Instead of a set scale of pay grades I bet there is an maze of different salary and hourly rates that no one can figure out. I further bet that if the school administration first spent 6 months coming up with a streamlined pay scale system and pigeonholed all the employees into it, the new payroll system would be a LOT easier to set up and maintain.
What is treason? Depends on where you are. I hope you are not a US citizen because you should not have to ask. The definition of treason is clearly spelled out in the US Constitution: Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort
But is that really what it boils down to when you prevent more deaths through dissemination of state secrets?
I think you should look up 'dissemination'; it has a much more innoccuous meaning than giving nuclear weapons teachnology to a hostile foreign dictatorship.
You forget this article is about Google and their street view machines. You know, the ones that drive down clearly marked private roads and then ignore all pleas to remove the images. They'll proceed to do whatever they like.
What competitive free market? In my neighborhood, there are two options
You contradict yourself by saying there are no options because there are two options.
I'm in Beijing, China, and there is a choice of ADSL from the state run telco or ADSL from a subsidiary of the state run telco. Depending on your usage and your web browsing habits, you get the following throttled (in order): bandwidth, access, neck.
You people lucky enough to be in the wild wild West (pun intended) of the internet need to stop whining about a private company throttling the first two when you do have a choice of providers and a choice at the ballot box if you don't like it.
put a chip in our children...and then the adults will follow
Well, duh, of course the children with chips installed grow up to be adults with chips installed. It will only take a couple of generations to include all ages.
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colleagues seem to spend as long trying to fix the formatting on these templates as they do filling in the empty boxes
Hear, hear! A curse on those who invented (and those who create documents with) the miserable embedded table feature of Word. I hate those damn things! I've seen way too many documents in a corporate setting that were nothing but a giant embedded table wanting to be filled out. Please, if you want something that draws hard to fill in boxes and must use an Office product, use Excel at least.
That's completely retarded; this is a textbook example of the fallacy of the broken window. Why are so many idiots elected to office?
Don't the traded-in cars just get sold as used cars? So this program put not only the newer, efficient cars on the road but also leaves the older inefficient ones rolling around. Your tax dollars at work benefitting people who bought big SUVs a few years ago who want to trade them in already.
though to read the comments you would think Kansas was Afghanistan
No, if it were in Afghanistan then cultural relativism would say it was OK for them to have any level of bizarre and/or dangerous religious beliefs.
Then perhaps the influx of scientists will result in some changes if a few of them care enough to get on the local school boards and/or at least attend the meetings and speak up. That part of this located-in-Kansas debate is the only bit that sounds win-win.
I think the rebuttal is to ask you how many cows live in NYC ?
Apparently there are a lot
Scotland was not a part of England at the time
But now they're ruled by wankers.
Apparently my dsyelixa is bad right now.
There, fixed that for ya...
In tough economic times the only companies that suffer are the ones that weren't doing well or weren't needed to begin with ... The only companies suffering are the ones that were riding on the over inflated economy.
You mean the government?
The new version Kindle in the large size does PDF - they don't force all the content in their proprietary format (although of course they make that the easiest to get). I think that would be your best bet. Note the smaller size Kindle does not do PDF.
One does not simply Jihad into Mordor
In fundamentalist Iran, Mordor jihads you.
No country operates in a vaccuum.
Of course not, they've all upgraded to solid state.
If the Iranians were 'rejecting colonialism' then weren't the Poles, Czechs, etc, when throwing off the Soviet Union? What was the Soviet Union if not colonialism? That term is not exclusive to European powers exerting control over non-Eropeans.
Except many Iranians hold the US responsible, at least in part, for their many government problems they currently experience
Iranians blam the USA for their own government? Let's make sure we have the sequence of events in order:
1: The Carter administration urges the Shah's government to NOT crack down on the fundamentalist uprising.
2: Fundamentalists overthrow the Shah without much opposition because the USA did NOT intervene.
3: Fast forward several decades to: Fundamentalist rule, many times harsher than the mildly harsh Shah, has not only wrecked their economy but also removed pretty much all of even what few rights they had under the previous system.
4: Iranians protest and complain when the USA invades a neighboring ultra-harsh dictatorship and attempts to set up a parlimentary government.
5: Iranians hold responsible, and are mad at, the USA for the fundamentalist rule in Iran?
6: WTF did they really want the USA to do at what point? (There ain't no profit step)
Are they mad at having to wait so long for their turn at liberation? Why wasn't there a counter-revolution back in the 70's before the fundamentalists became so entrenched? Are they mad the Carter adminsitration didn't urge the Shah to violently crack down on the revolution? Wouldn't that be a catch-22: The USA would be the bad guy for beating up on religious freedoms or somesuch. There's just no way to win sometimes.
I stopped reading after he uselessly bragged about upgrading the processor and memory. Isn't there a 'lookatme' tag?
What's *more* disgusting is that by the looks of it, the IT people at the University are probably barely getting a look in - it's being project-managed by external companies. Come on, stop faffing about; seriously, this is just stupid. Get your *existing* IT team, hire a bunch of programmers
If you'd RTFA, you'd see that *40* staff from the IT department are in on the project. But that's actually a problem - the existing people typically approach a replacement as a set of tweaks to what is already there just as a matter of human nature. Furthermore, the people who are working there now are in place because they've been taught/trained/experienced in *maintaining* the current systems, NOT because they are taught/trained/experienced in developing new systems.
They need outside people who know what they're doing and have the executive sponsorship to do what needs to be done. TFA specifically faults poor project management and planning and that's definitely what causes project like this to fail, NOT because the in house staff have not been used to do the work.
I don't know of anything better, but PeopleSoft is a steaming pile of shit ... and won't change until the next generation of IT professionals comes in and kicks the old clods off their thrones
Sounds like a great venture capital pitch to me. Let me know when you raise a couple dozen million and we'll get started on our badass pplsft replacement.
Why?
Probably hard to find parts for whatever vintage 1975 mainframe it runs on. If you only know PC's, imagine trying to buy a brand new VESA bus SCSI card for your legacy 486 mission critical system.
so a big chunk of costs will go to the consultant
It will, and there's where they made the mistake. They purchased an Oracle product for big bucks and tried to get the lowest bidder to customize it. As a result, instead of spending small bucks they wasted big bucks. It would be humming along by now if they'd had Oracle send people to set it all up but that would have cost big bucks up front.
not to mention INTERNAL company payroll needs
I bet you've identified the key problem right here. Instead of a set scale of pay grades I bet there is an maze of different salary and hourly rates that no one can figure out. I further bet that if the school administration first spent 6 months coming up with a streamlined pay scale system and pigeonholed all the employees into it, the new payroll system would be a LOT easier to set up and maintain.
because the first we'd know about it would be the gamma burst
No, no, no, the first way to tell if a star has already gone supernova is by the change in graviton waves.
Just need to finish figuring out how to detect those... maybe if we supply more power to the lateral sensor array...
What is treason? Depends on where you are. I hope you are not a US citizen because you should not have to ask. The definition of treason is clearly spelled out in the US Constitution: Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort
But is that really what it boils down to when you prevent more deaths through dissemination of state secrets?
I think you should look up 'dissemination'; it has a much more innoccuous meaning than giving nuclear weapons teachnology to a hostile foreign dictatorship.
it wasn't legal to ride a bike on a footpath here
You forget this article is about Google and their street view machines. You know, the ones that drive down clearly marked private roads and then ignore all pleas to remove the images. They'll proceed to do whatever they like.
What competitive free market? In my neighborhood, there are two options
You contradict yourself by saying there are no options because there are two options.
I'm in Beijing, China, and there is a choice of ADSL from the state run telco or ADSL from a subsidiary of the state run telco. Depending on your usage and your web browsing habits, you get the following throttled (in order): bandwidth, access, neck.
You people lucky enough to be in the wild wild West (pun intended) of the internet need to stop whining about a private company throttling the first two when you do have a choice of providers and a choice at the ballot box if you don't like it.
put a chip in our children...and then the adults will follow
Well, duh, of course the children with chips installed grow up to be adults with chips installed. It will only take a couple of generations to include all ages.