The problem is the times change a lot faster than the people do, and accounting requires a different head than programming does. Sure some people can manage both, but most can't. A lot of accountants I know are still more comfortable with a pen and paper than anything else really.
For proof: See all of the millions upon millions of tonnes of paper thrown into filing cabinets every year just because accounting wants "a paper copy"
Also, to be honest, they have to know so much already and keep up with so many changing tax rules plus tax software every year that the majority of them have their capacity for learning while working maxed out anyways.
Then you ask them to learn a whole new skill set? Honestly I'd rather my books be balanced than have my accountant either leave to learn something new for 6 months or risk having my books screwed for the year because of a mis placed piece of code.
Basically, think of how stupid the average person is, then remember that accountants fall under the same bell curve, even if basic job requirements push the mid point 5 points or so higher on an IQ scale. The top 20% could pull off learning how to do this in a db environment, leaving you with a massive shortage of accountants.
tl;dr : *New* or *Theoretically Better* does not necessarily mean *Practically Better*.
And you are clearly completely unaware of the accounting world.
I have yet to meet an accountant that knows much of anything about access or any other database system. On the other hand the majority of them have complained about the 65000 line limit in excel.
They ALL do this. You're telling thousands of accountants to change how they do things, and honestly, not for the better. They know how to use excel and know how to make things balance with excel.
A large portion of them took accounting because it was supposed to make them a lot of money, these people don't even use 1/10th of the functionality provided in excel, lets not try to make them learn another entirely different software skill set, ok?
Even if you're currently working in IT and are like "Oh, no, our accountants have access to all this stuff in our system and they would never do that". Trust me, they do. It all ends up in an excel sheet somewhere eventually.
Thats not a loophole though, the contract would still be thrown out for doing that. Microsoft worded things that way but still got nailed with anti trust big time, amongst other things.
I can quite honestly say I would have probably tried something similar, but probably not treason. I know if it was me I would do anything in my capability to get my child back. I wouldn't be quite as stupid about it of course. If its caught so easily its not going to succeed in getting your kid back to begin with.
Its different if its a court battle over custody or something, but once someone crosses the line into actually kidnapping your child, you've gotta do what you've gotta do. Treason definitely isn't the best way to go but maybe the guy was just that desperate.
This. This is the problem. The reason for the call centers is to put a good face on them for dealing with consumers. The consumer never talks to the engineer, so the engineer could be anyone, from anywhere.
A lot of this is the fault of the education system. Its broken, it needs to be fixed. The worst problem is that a lot of people don't see that its broken, and those on the inside of it don't want it fixed. So the guy from india that spent 1/5th of the money and 1/2 the time on his degree ends up being effectively just as qualified in the work force as someone that spends the full amount here.
My major problem with facebook is that people expect YOU to use it as much as they do after you give in. I had an account for all of a month because of this. I'd get phone calls from people talking to me about shit I A) couldn't care less about and b) they expected me to be aware of because it had been posted on facebook sometime in the last 24 hours or so.
I deleted my facebook account, I've lost touch with those people, and my life is better for it. If I still had a facebook account I would certainly know more about the happenings in my family and amongst my friends etc, but honestly, I work 70-80 hours a week and by the time I get home I'm fried and the last thing I care about is how cute cousin natalies new dog is.
Spam healing in a dungeon was often the way, but on longer/harder fights it wasn't possible because you'd go OOM in a couple of minutes rather than in 15 minutes or so.
Hunter pulled aggro? Should never happen. Thats your own fault and you've gotten lazy because of how easy it has been. You have a 30 second aggro wipe/drop(whatever state its currently in, worst case that I saw that was fixed after was a 20% drop, which is still significant enough to provide a good gap for tank aggro)
Warlocks I used to feel bad for but they have an aggro sink now too so it shouldn't be as bad.
Now obviously if they have nerfed it too much(so that its worse than in original) they'll have to rebalance a bit, but overall I would be happy with that situation. Happy enough that apparently on Dec 6th I'm reactivating my WoW account.
I never minded that part. Healers had their work cut out for them back in the days when they had to stretch that mana pool as far as possible. The problem with healing was the mana regen never got nerfed much, it turned % based for a lot of stuff and mana pools went through the roof. At the same time they either invented new spells that were 5x the healing of the old ones with only 1.5x the mana cost or made the new ranks of the old spells that way.
Like, mana regen went so ridiculous that I had a paladin and a druid that could sit there and spam max rank heals indefinitely. The druid could do it with healing touch, and that spell is one of the worst mana wise.
Before that I had to perma carry about 20 mana pots around. Then they made mana pots so cheap and drop so much that not having 10 or so on my rogue was nearly unheard of.
Then they decided the pots were the problem and made a permanent cool down for pots for a fight duration, or so I heard.
Also A) was true before in the original. The optimal changed based on what gear you had and how much mana regen but there was always an optimal. In MC/BWL gear it was usually renew -> fh -> GH -> GH or downranked GH spam if there was enough HPS while you were conserving mana.
The odd thing is that attempting to heal as I used to in MC/BWL actually made me a worse healer in the xpac. They totally changed the dynamics around and it basically became "SPAM BIG HEALS GO!" instead of attempting to actually utilize more than like, 2 spells.
So its going back to how it used to be pre-TBC is what you're saying? The only limiter on my DPS back in MC/BWL/AQ etc was tank threat(besides the odd fight that I wound up dead for some reason(usually my own stupidity). I had far outpaced the threat by that time. To the point where on long fights I would hide in a safe-ish corner to go to the bathroom and come back and catch up.
Though once on my hunter that had me sitting there as the only one still alive because the boss hadn't reacquired aggro on me after I FDed and I jumper cabled the priest. For some reason we were always short of warlocks back then. And priests, I wasn't exaggerating when I said "the priest"
If you're saying what I think you're saying, I may have just re-acquired a wow addiction. Up until I just read that I hadn't even paid any attention to Cataclysm, in fact I'd heard about it so long ago I figured it was probably already out by now until I saw this posted and didn't care too much.
even plain old clean running diesel generators, batteries and a flywheel would be cheaper. Given that I can run everything in the house on about 250 gallons of diesel per month, so about $750 per month and $10k outlay for the generator + battery setup. Only take about 3 years before I'd be in money. If you're getting diesel generators, hook the thing up to a hydraulic piston too and use the compression to cook up some bio diesel. Drive to your local fast food places once a month and collect your electricity for the month. Cut overall fuel costs down to $250-500/month.
I admit its not the environmentally friendly way to go, but its a viable option if prices are that high, which is scary.
I thought I had it bad here. I'm never moving to Cali. I'd be sitting at.40/kwh+ permanently and my bill would be in excess of 1k/mth. Probably more.
Estimating my current average is around 1200 kwh/month, and I don't use a lot of juice compared to most folks I know, my power bill is generally lower than theirs. Where did they get a baseline that low? People that skeet shoot for all of their entertainment and barbecue 365 days a year? Admittedly my power consumption probably wouldn't be as high in California as it is here(I can't say definitely, AC may cause it to be the same or higher), but still, at those rates it would be cheaper for me to install my own generators and go off of the power corps grid altogether.
Though apparently the search will not. Having posted that I actually went and did that myself and came up empty. Given what I did see there I'm wondering what she's complaining about...
In some sectors we're doing well, in others not so much. The US economy is just getting worse and worse and many of our exports rely on them as buyers. Its slowly getting back together as we shift towards selling things to china/europe instead but its not all fine and dandy as many reports peg it. Try finding any sort of mid-level job right now that doesn't require 5 years experience as a MINIMUM that they will generally hold to because thats how flooded the market is with people with that much experience looking for jobs.
Thats the unfortunate thing about MS. Its all politics on the inside. There is no "Big Microsoft Machine"
In general I've found that much better support was to be had(when necessary) if you got the person that was in charge of making the decision to buy the licenses to call the SALES office. Not the support office. I had one of the managers in the tech support department call me back inside 2 hours with a solution to the problem we were having once I went that route. If anyone else had called in it would have taken 3-4 days minimum, if we ever got anything at all.
There must be a similar system handling my SMS right now. Some stuff disappears into the void, and I've gotten stuff I thought was gone into the void that someone told me about after they sent it a month or so after the fact.
I very nearly yelled out loud just now "WHERE ARE MY MOD POINTS!".
Short, concise, and deadly accurate in describing the majority of the idiots who spout this sort of crap. Thank you.
They claim to want to rise above our natures when in reality they're just falling prey to the same nature by wanting to fit in with that particular "group". Personally I would like them to all fit in with that group, and all wear badges to identify themselves. I would also like them all to please go through this lovely little glowing chamber that will make them feel a little warm. Theres 100% eco-friendly ice cream on the other side!
What? Why does it make you feel warm? Don't worry, its just a trick of the rad- er, I mean, new recently discovered ecological processes happening. Its subtly altering your body to benefit all of humanity.
Given that I personally have had a power supply fail with enough explosive force to hurl a chunk of capacitor out of it and cut me, I wouldn't rule out the "explode any minute" part of a DDoS either.
Also, I don't know about where the other guy worked but when people are getting really freaked out about an outage you often are forced to work quickly with very minimal safety precautions and there is a risk of you getting killed.
Chances are it will probably just be electrical burns or a crushed foot/concussion or something if it does happen, but there is some non-negligible physical risk.
Admittedly many state of the art facilities probably have solved a lot of the safety concerns that I had to deal with at the time.
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The problem is the times change a lot faster than the people do, and accounting requires a different head than programming does. Sure some people can manage both, but most can't. A lot of accountants I know are still more comfortable with a pen and paper than anything else really.
For proof: See all of the millions upon millions of tonnes of paper thrown into filing cabinets every year just because accounting wants "a paper copy"
Also, to be honest, they have to know so much already and keep up with so many changing tax rules plus tax software every year that the majority of them have their capacity for learning while working maxed out anyways.
Then you ask them to learn a whole new skill set? Honestly I'd rather my books be balanced than have my accountant either leave to learn something new for 6 months or risk having my books screwed for the year because of a mis placed piece of code.
Basically, think of how stupid the average person is, then remember that accountants fall under the same bell curve, even if basic job requirements push the mid point 5 points or so higher on an IQ scale. The top 20% could pull off learning how to do this in a db environment, leaving you with a massive shortage of accountants.
tl;dr : *New* or *Theoretically Better* does not necessarily mean *Practically Better*.
And you are clearly completely unaware of the accounting world.
I have yet to meet an accountant that knows much of anything about access or any other database system. On the other hand the majority of them have complained about the 65000 line limit in excel.
They ALL do this. You're telling thousands of accountants to change how they do things, and honestly, not for the better. They know how to use excel and know how to make things balance with excel.
A large portion of them took accounting because it was supposed to make them a lot of money, these people don't even use 1/10th of the functionality provided in excel, lets not try to make them learn another entirely different software skill set, ok?
Even if you're currently working in IT and are like "Oh, no, our accountants have access to all this stuff in our system and they would never do that". Trust me, they do. It all ends up in an excel sheet somewhere eventually.
Thats not a loophole though, the contract would still be thrown out for doing that. Microsoft worded things that way but still got nailed with anti trust big time, amongst other things.
Sorry, my brain decided that Treason actually means Espionage when I was writing that apparently.
Either way it generally gets the feds crawling up your arse though. Which isn't good.
I can quite honestly say I would have probably tried something similar, but probably not treason. I know if it was me I would do anything in my capability to get my child back. I wouldn't be quite as stupid about it of course. If its caught so easily its not going to succeed in getting your kid back to begin with.
Its different if its a court battle over custody or something, but once someone crosses the line into actually kidnapping your child, you've gotta do what you've gotta do. Treason definitely isn't the best way to go but maybe the guy was just that desperate.
This. This is the problem. The reason for the call centers is to put a good face on them for dealing with consumers. The consumer never talks to the engineer, so the engineer could be anyone, from anywhere.
A lot of this is the fault of the education system. Its broken, it needs to be fixed. The worst problem is that a lot of people don't see that its broken, and those on the inside of it don't want it fixed. So the guy from india that spent 1/5th of the money and 1/2 the time on his degree ends up being effectively just as qualified in the work force as someone that spends the full amount here.
My major problem with facebook is that people expect YOU to use it as much as they do after you give in. I had an account for all of a month because of this. I'd get phone calls from people talking to me about shit I A) couldn't care less about and b) they expected me to be aware of because it had been posted on facebook sometime in the last 24 hours or so.
I deleted my facebook account, I've lost touch with those people, and my life is better for it. If I still had a facebook account I would certainly know more about the happenings in my family and amongst my friends etc, but honestly, I work 70-80 hours a week and by the time I get home I'm fried and the last thing I care about is how cute cousin natalies new dog is.
Spam healing in a dungeon was often the way, but on longer/harder fights it wasn't possible because you'd go OOM in a couple of minutes rather than in 15 minutes or so.
Hunter pulled aggro? Should never happen. Thats your own fault and you've gotten lazy because of how easy it has been. You have a 30 second aggro wipe/drop(whatever state its currently in, worst case that I saw that was fixed after was a 20% drop, which is still significant enough to provide a good gap for tank aggro)
Warlocks I used to feel bad for but they have an aggro sink now too so it shouldn't be as bad.
Now obviously if they have nerfed it too much(so that its worse than in original) they'll have to rebalance a bit, but overall I would be happy with that situation. Happy enough that apparently on Dec 6th I'm reactivating my WoW account.
I never minded that part. Healers had their work cut out for them back in the days when they had to stretch that mana pool as far as possible. The problem with healing was the mana regen never got nerfed much, it turned % based for a lot of stuff and mana pools went through the roof. At the same time they either invented new spells that were 5x the healing of the old ones with only 1.5x the mana cost or made the new ranks of the old spells that way.
Like, mana regen went so ridiculous that I had a paladin and a druid that could sit there and spam max rank heals indefinitely. The druid could do it with healing touch, and that spell is one of the worst mana wise.
Before that I had to perma carry about 20 mana pots around. Then they made mana pots so cheap and drop so much that not having 10 or so on my rogue was nearly unheard of.
Then they decided the pots were the problem and made a permanent cool down for pots for a fight duration, or so I heard.
Also A) was true before in the original. The optimal changed based on what gear you had and how much mana regen but there was always an optimal. In MC/BWL gear it was usually renew -> fh -> GH -> GH or downranked GH spam if there was enough HPS while you were conserving mana.
The odd thing is that attempting to heal as I used to in MC/BWL actually made me a worse healer in the xpac. They totally changed the dynamics around and it basically became "SPAM BIG HEALS GO!" instead of attempting to actually utilize more than like, 2 spells.
So its going back to how it used to be pre-TBC is what you're saying? The only limiter on my DPS back in MC/BWL/AQ etc was tank threat(besides the odd fight that I wound up dead for some reason(usually my own stupidity). I had far outpaced the threat by that time. To the point where on long fights I would hide in a safe-ish corner to go to the bathroom and come back and catch up.
Though once on my hunter that had me sitting there as the only one still alive because the boss hadn't reacquired aggro on me after I FDed and I jumper cabled the priest. For some reason we were always short of warlocks back then. And priests, I wasn't exaggerating when I said "the priest"
If you're saying what I think you're saying, I may have just re-acquired a wow addiction. Up until I just read that I hadn't even paid any attention to Cataclysm, in fact I'd heard about it so long ago I figured it was probably already out by now until I saw this posted and didn't care too much.
even plain old clean running diesel generators, batteries and a flywheel would be cheaper. Given that I can run everything in the house on about 250 gallons of diesel per month, so about $750 per month and $10k outlay for the generator + battery setup. Only take about 3 years before I'd be in money. If you're getting diesel generators, hook the thing up to a hydraulic piston too and use the compression to cook up some bio diesel. Drive to your local fast food places once a month and collect your electricity for the month. Cut overall fuel costs down to $250-500/month.
I admit its not the environmentally friendly way to go, but its a viable option if prices are that high, which is scary.
True, but all I saw were some avatar photos on sites that didn't look that bad.
Also, I share your pain. I died on March 9th, 1962.
If you RTFA(I know, I know) she sued both Yahoo and Google, but they haven't tossed the google case out of court yet.
Wow.
I thought I had it bad here. I'm never moving to Cali. I'd be sitting at .40/kwh+ permanently and my bill would be in excess of 1k/mth. Probably more.
Estimating my current average is around 1200 kwh/month, and I don't use a lot of juice compared to most folks I know, my power bill is generally lower than theirs. Where did they get a baseline that low? People that skeet shoot for all of their entertainment and barbecue 365 days a year? Admittedly my power consumption probably wouldn't be as high in California as it is here(I can't say definitely, AC may cause it to be the same or higher), but still, at those rates it would be cheaper for me to install my own generators and go off of the power corps grid altogether.
Though apparently the search will not. Having posted that I actually went and did that myself and came up empty. Given what I did see there I'm wondering what she's complaining about...
How many of you just went to google images and turned safe search off and searched for this womans name?
I think the answer will illustrate just how bad an idea this was for her.
Holy shnikes! Where do you live!? I live in a very remote location where everything is on diesel generator and mine is only about .17/kwh.
I'm presuming that it is USD as well.
Is the electricity $.035 or .35? Because on rough calcs my electricity bill would be upwards of 1k/mnth at .35, but .035 is pretty cheap.
In some sectors we're doing well, in others not so much. The US economy is just getting worse and worse and many of our exports rely on them as buyers. Its slowly getting back together as we shift towards selling things to china/europe instead but its not all fine and dandy as many reports peg it. Try finding any sort of mid-level job right now that doesn't require 5 years experience as a MINIMUM that they will generally hold to because thats how flooded the market is with people with that much experience looking for jobs.
Thats the unfortunate thing about MS. Its all politics on the inside. There is no "Big Microsoft Machine"
In general I've found that much better support was to be had(when necessary) if you got the person that was in charge of making the decision to buy the licenses to call the SALES office. Not the support office. I had one of the managers in the tech support department call me back inside 2 hours with a solution to the problem we were having once I went that route. If anyone else had called in it would have taken 3-4 days minimum, if we ever got anything at all.
There must be a similar system handling my SMS right now. Some stuff disappears into the void, and I've gotten stuff I thought was gone into the void that someone told me about after they sent it a month or so after the fact.
This.
I've in fact entirely given up on MS office except for the odd occasion someone decides to throw a power point presentation my way(far, far too often)
I very nearly yelled out loud just now "WHERE ARE MY MOD POINTS!".
Short, concise, and deadly accurate in describing the majority of the idiots who spout this sort of crap. Thank you.
They claim to want to rise above our natures when in reality they're just falling prey to the same nature by wanting to fit in with that particular "group". Personally I would like them to all fit in with that group, and all wear badges to identify themselves. I would also like them all to please go through this lovely little glowing chamber that will make them feel a little warm. Theres 100% eco-friendly ice cream on the other side!
What? Why does it make you feel warm? Don't worry, its just a trick of the rad- er, I mean, new recently discovered ecological processes happening. Its subtly altering your body to benefit all of humanity.
Given that I personally have had a power supply fail with enough explosive force to hurl a chunk of capacitor out of it and cut me, I wouldn't rule out the "explode any minute" part of a DDoS either.
Also, I don't know about where the other guy worked but when people are getting really freaked out about an outage you often are forced to work quickly with very minimal safety precautions and there is a risk of you getting killed.
Chances are it will probably just be electrical burns or a crushed foot/concussion or something if it does happen, but there is some non-negligible physical risk.
Admittedly many state of the art facilities probably have solved a lot of the safety concerns that I had to deal with at the time.