It could be true... many large IT Departments, particularly at banks and government agencies are driven by security paranoia and are incapable of doing anything that hasn't been proven somewhere else.
Places like this are why the phrase "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" exists.
While asking/. is pretty retarded, its no more retarded than any other question here.
The problem that Dell built a certain level of marketshare on the direct model, but ran out of room to grow. Large companies & government like the "full service" offerings like IBM, HP, etc provide... so to get that 20% of the market, Dell had to hire corporate salesforces and partner with VARs.
Since Dell's inflated stock price is based on growth, they're kinda fucked, just like Microsoft.
What they don't mention in the glossies is that all of those users with thin clients are out of the water if the servers are down. So if you cheap out on servers and staff, you'll find your users dead in the water for hours or days due to problems that usually aren't that bad.
Is anyone suprised that a company with no management hierarchy and a powerful peer-review based merit system (aka cliques) is acting in an arbritary manner? Or that a company with no discernable means to talk to a human being unless you are a VIP treats customers like shit?
Many evangelical christian sects are notorious for their opposition to vaccines in general. In addition to cooking up laws pushing things like intelligent design, they also push for laws that make vaccination optional for school-age children. (Most states require innoculation before you enter primary, middle, and schools. Some require proof of vaccination before entering college)
Considering that these outbreaks are taking place in the Midwest, there should be no suprise that mumps are making a comeback in these places.
Does anyone expect a commissioned salesperson to provide unbiased advice?
I put myself through college working at CompUSA by peddling 5 year warranties on PCs and laptops. I would concentrate on the three best PCs and 2 best laptops that were in stock and sell only those machines. Typically I'd sell the warranty before the people even saw the computer. I never really had to lie, people are wary of computers and would rarely balk at the warranty unless the salesman is an idiot. (Which most salesmen are)
Was I selling the best possible product? Sometimes... the best PCs at the time were custom-configured machines from places like Dell. But I mostly sold Toshiba laptops which were top-notch. Even that wasn't really all that important... my job was to sell my employer's inventory.
"Windows IT Pro" Magazine is a great example of this... the don't allow Google to cache, but Googlebot is allowed to browse all of the articles. If you connect with a non-bot user agent, you have to pay to read more than a few paragraphs.
But change your UA to "Googlebot" or the yahoo bot, and wa-la, you can read the articles.
Companies bought Thinkpads because they were IBM customers, and their IBM rep sold them some IBM "solution" that covered everything from software & services to client devices. You see this alot in big banks and government agencies. They would sell Thinkpads and PCs at a heavy "discount", and recoup the "discount" in rollout costs or by not discounting some enterprise server or software.
Now that Lenovo is a different entity, your Websphere, Tivoli or mainframe salesman cannot pad his commissions by moving a few hundred Thinkpads at a heavily discounted price. Hence the drop in Thinkpad sales.
Nobody manages PCs with exclusively RDC. You go out and buy SMS, Tivoli, BMC or whatever to distribute software and take inventory. The only problem with this tool is that it doesn't integrate with other, enterprise-wide tools.
That would just make it easier to political parties and special interests to rig the system.
School boards do crap like that in the Northeast. Bond referendums and school board elections are held in February, when many retired people leave town for warmer climates. The teachers tell the students how awful it will be if the new $200,000,000 school addition isn't put in, and the parents show up in droves to vote for the thing.
You don't need a 50,000 Watt transmitter to intefere with things. What if I decide that some talk-show host violates my religous beliefs somehow... I could setup a few low-wattage transmitters and screw up the signal in a relatively small area just for kicks.
WiFi is regulated as well -- the signal strength is capped by FCC regs. If everyone was able to crank up the power of their access points, you'd have difficulty using WiFi in a populated area.
SCO only allows a specific number of login shells to be active at once... it's really obnoxious.
I worked at a place that used SCO OpenServer about 5 years ago... the costs were outrageous. At that time you had to buy additional users in multiples of 25, which cost about $5000 + 20% annual maintenance.
It has been established that the insiders are unloading billions of dollars of stock every day. When the insiders are unloading their shares, and the company refuses give Wall St. the information that every other publicly traded company does, it looks fishy.
5 years from now, Sergey & Larry could very easily be jetting around in their 767 after the public lost their shirt on Google.
You make a good point. Billions of dollars dedicated to levy construction projects over the last 20 years was funneled into questionable projects and no-show jobs.
The levies themselves were a contruction built around political corruption... the levy system reclaimed formerly useless land, but destroyed the Mississippi delta which protected New Orleans for centuries.
The signature has nothing to do with security. Your signature is proof of your acceptance of the cardmember agreement. That's why merchants reject cards from asshats who write stuff like "See ID" on the back of the card.
Theoretically, if you buy stuff with an unsigned card, you are not on the hook to pay the bill in some states.
No, I'm not. When company reps give speeches like that, they leave little poison pills in them to make the company look better when the initiative fails. Local politicians play similar games with words... a claim like "I will not raise existing taxes" still holds true when the politician proposes a new hotel or cigarette tax, or creates a public corporation that levies the actual tax.
Also, IBM doesn't make PCs anymore... they "sold" the business to a Chinese company whose headquarters was moved to New York, a couple of miles away from IBM HQ.
That statement is almost meaningless.... "No one will upgrade to Vista" doesn't mean that new machines won't be bundled with Vista. Once Vista is out, Microsoft won't license new copies of Vista, and all new PCs will include it.
You need to figure out what you spend now to plan ahead.
Get some spreadsheets together that break down all of your costs... keep a tab of staffing, consultants, licensing, hardware & software acquisition, hardware & software maintenance, and overhead. (rent, utilities, travel, copy machines, secretaries, miscellaneous)
Once you do that, you'll actually be in a position where you can control your costs and can create accurate & fair cost estimates for expansion of the services you offer (and the money that you spend)
Its a real pain in the ass to get started, but it pays dividends quickly. At a place where I worked, the IT shop billed its "clients" (other divisions of the company) based on the number of PCs that each client owned. After breaking down the costs, it was discovered that for most clients, user counts drove costs more than hardware counts, and that some divisions of the organization were in effect subsidizing others.
A new hybrid billing methodology that billed for acutal costs ended up being for more equitable and less obtuse.
Assuming that you're happy with compensation, benefits, etc... in a perfect world, you want:
- You stuff moved by professional movers - Some cash to handle incidentals (rent deposits, hotels, various fees for starting utilities, etc)
If they aren't paying for anything, then get as much money as you can, sell whatever you can part with and stuff all of your crap in a POD (www.pods.com) or something similar.
I wouldn't move for a company unwilling to pay for relocation, unless I was two years out of college and didn't really own anything.
Have you ever bought a car or a house? Ever talk to a mortgage or insurance broker? Retain an attorney? Work for a company who uses an employee leasing service
Many people who handle your personal or banking records aren't working in places that have sophisticated IT staff.
My identity was compromised by an temp in HR who started scanning in the records of new employees. Lucky for me, the cops caught the guy before he went on a shopping spree with my credit. The person who did it emailed the data home, which made it easy for the police to trace.
Actually, the prefrences page that appears immediately after installation has a checkbox that lets you enable the feature. No digging is required.
Plenty of users have multiple computers and would find searching across them useful. CPS workers, insurance adjusters, salespeople and other workers who use laptops and desktops would say "Wow, this will make it easier to find stuff on both computers" and enable the feature.
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It could be true... many large IT Departments, particularly at banks and government agencies are driven by security paranoia and are incapable of doing anything that hasn't been proven somewhere else.
/. is pretty retarded, its no more retarded than any other question here.
Places like this are why the phrase "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" exists.
While asking
The problem that Dell built a certain level of marketshare on the direct model, but ran out of room to grow. Large companies & government like the "full service" offerings like IBM, HP, etc provide... so to get that 20% of the market, Dell had to hire corporate salesforces and partner with VARs.
Since Dell's inflated stock price is based on growth, they're kinda fucked, just like Microsoft.
What they don't mention in the glossies is that all of those users with thin clients are out of the water if the servers are down. So if you cheap out on servers and staff, you'll find your users dead in the water for hours or days due to problems that usually aren't that bad.
Google rocks, so its all good.
Is anyone suprised that a company with no management hierarchy and a powerful peer-review based merit system (aka cliques) is acting in an arbritary manner? Or that a company with no discernable means to talk to a human being unless you are a VIP treats customers like shit?
I'm sure homeschooling your kid will be really easily when she gets polio and loses the ability to walk.
People like you sicken me -- why would you want to subject anybody to easily cured disease?
Many evangelical christian sects are notorious for their opposition to vaccines in general. In addition to cooking up laws pushing things like intelligent design, they also push for laws that make vaccination optional for school-age children. (Most states require innoculation before you enter primary, middle, and schools. Some require proof of vaccination before entering college)
Considering that these outbreaks are taking place in the Midwest, there should be no suprise that mumps are making a comeback in these places.
Does anyone expect a commissioned salesperson to provide unbiased advice?
I put myself through college working at CompUSA by peddling 5 year warranties on PCs and laptops. I would concentrate on the three best PCs and 2 best laptops that were in stock and sell only those machines. Typically I'd sell the warranty before the people even saw the computer. I never really had to lie, people are wary of computers and would rarely balk at the warranty unless the salesman is an idiot. (Which most salesmen are)
Was I selling the best possible product? Sometimes... the best PCs at the time were custom-configured machines from places like Dell. But I mostly sold Toshiba laptops which were top-notch. Even that wasn't really all that important... my job was to sell my employer's inventory.
"Windows IT Pro" Magazine is a great example of this... the don't allow Google to cache, but Googlebot is allowed to browse all of the articles. If you connect with a non-bot user agent, you have to pay to read more than a few paragraphs.
But change your UA to "Googlebot" or the yahoo bot, and wa-la, you can read the articles.
Companies bought Thinkpads because they were IBM customers, and their IBM rep sold them some IBM "solution" that covered everything from software & services to client devices. You see this alot in big banks and government agencies. They would sell Thinkpads and PCs at a heavy "discount", and recoup the "discount" in rollout costs or by not discounting some enterprise server or software.
Now that Lenovo is a different entity, your Websphere, Tivoli or mainframe salesman cannot pad his commissions by moving a few hundred Thinkpads at a heavily discounted price. Hence the drop in Thinkpad sales.
Nobody manages PCs with exclusively RDC. You go out and buy SMS, Tivoli, BMC or whatever to distribute software and take inventory. The only problem with this tool is that it doesn't integrate with other, enterprise-wide tools.
That would just make it easier to political parties and special interests to rig the system.
School boards do crap like that in the Northeast. Bond referendums and school board elections are held in February, when many retired people leave town for warmer climates. The teachers tell the students how awful it will be if the new $200,000,000 school addition isn't put in, and the parents show up in droves to vote for the thing.
You don't need a 50,000 Watt transmitter to intefere with things. What if I decide that some talk-show host violates my religous beliefs somehow... I could setup a few low-wattage transmitters and screw up the signal in a relatively small area just for kicks.
WiFi is regulated as well -- the signal strength is capped by FCC regs. If everyone was able to crank up the power of their access points, you'd have difficulty using WiFi in a populated area.
It doesn't make any sense anyway, since nobody uses Google for USENET ever since they "improved" the interface.
SCO only allows a specific number of login shells to be active at once... it's really obnoxious.
I worked at a place that used SCO OpenServer about 5 years ago... the costs were outrageous. At that time you had to buy additional users in multiples of 25, which cost about $5000 + 20% annual maintenance.
1. Spam Slashdot
2. Create a webpage that gets a message across... "The Issue Dealer is an application for managing information" could mean anything.
It has been established that the insiders are unloading billions of dollars of stock every day. When the insiders are unloading their shares, and the company refuses give Wall St. the information that every other publicly traded company does, it looks fishy.
5 years from now, Sergey & Larry could very easily be jetting around in their 767 after the public lost their shirt on Google.
You make a good point. Billions of dollars dedicated to levy construction projects over the last 20 years was funneled into questionable projects and no-show jobs.
The levies themselves were a contruction built around political corruption... the levy system reclaimed formerly useless land, but destroyed the Mississippi delta which protected New Orleans for centuries.
The signature has nothing to do with security. Your signature is proof of your acceptance of the cardmember agreement. That's why merchants reject cards from asshats who write stuff like "See ID" on the back of the card.
Theoretically, if you buy stuff with an unsigned card, you are not on the hook to pay the bill in some states.
No, I'm not. When company reps give speeches like that, they leave little poison pills in them to make the company look better when the initiative fails. Local politicians play similar games with words... a claim like "I will not raise existing taxes" still holds true when the politician proposes a new hotel or cigarette tax, or creates a public corporation that levies the actual tax.
Also, IBM doesn't make PCs anymore... they "sold" the business to a Chinese company whose headquarters was moved to New York, a couple of miles away from IBM HQ.
I'd be curious too. I've been playing with OpenOffice, and frankly, it sucks. Its slow and is more bloated than Office.
That statement is almost meaningless.... "No one will upgrade to Vista" doesn't mean that new machines won't be bundled with Vista. Once Vista is out, Microsoft won't license new copies of Vista, and all new PCs will include it.
You need to figure out what you spend now to plan ahead.
Get some spreadsheets together that break down all of your costs... keep a tab of staffing, consultants, licensing, hardware & software acquisition, hardware & software maintenance, and overhead. (rent, utilities, travel, copy machines, secretaries, miscellaneous)
Once you do that, you'll actually be in a position where you can control your costs and can create accurate & fair cost estimates for expansion of the services you offer (and the money that you spend)
Its a real pain in the ass to get started, but it pays dividends quickly. At a place where I worked, the IT shop billed its "clients" (other divisions of the company) based on the number of PCs that each client owned. After breaking down the costs, it was discovered that for most clients, user counts drove costs more than hardware counts, and that some divisions of the organization were in effect subsidizing others.
A new hybrid billing methodology that billed for acutal costs ended up being for more equitable and less obtuse.
Assuming that you're happy with compensation, benefits, etc... in a perfect world, you want:
- You stuff moved by professional movers
- Some cash to handle incidentals (rent deposits, hotels, various fees for starting utilities, etc)
If they aren't paying for anything, then get as much money as you can, sell whatever you can part with and stuff all of your crap in a POD (www.pods.com) or something similar.
I wouldn't move for a company unwilling to pay for relocation, unless I was two years out of college and didn't really own anything.
Have you ever bought a car or a house? Ever talk to a mortgage or insurance broker? Retain an attorney? Work for a company who uses an employee leasing service
Many people who handle your personal or banking records aren't working in places that have sophisticated IT staff.
My identity was compromised by an temp in HR who started scanning in the records of new employees. Lucky for me, the cops caught the guy before he went on a shopping spree with my credit. The person who did it emailed the data home, which made it easy for the police to trace.
Actually, the prefrences page that appears immediately after installation has a checkbox that lets you enable the feature. No digging is required.
Plenty of users have multiple computers and would find searching across them useful. CPS workers, insurance adjusters, salespeople and other workers who use laptops and desktops would say "Wow, this will make it easier to find stuff on both computers" and enable the feature.