Actually, that one was at a facility where they purposely do that sort of thing. There's a braking system, it happened to fail on that one attempt. MB have crashed other cars there with no issues. So, while it happened while the build team was there, it wasn't their fault.
Excellent points. Many IT policies are in place to keep users from causing IT more work by fouling something up, not prevent you from getting your own work done.
An interesting thing I've noticed scrolling through the comments: the angriest ones at IT are anonymous.
Anyway, my 2 cents on this. I work the IT helpdesk for a medium sized company. As I do most of the running around, I'm the "face" of IT. The hate can go both ways. IT hates users too sometimes. YOU do something wrong and cause your program to not work right, and yet somehow it's OUR fault. YOU can't watch Netflix movies because we block the site, and it's OUR fault. YOU don't notice the smoke & flames coming from your neighbor's PC and it's OUR fault that we can't drop everything to plug in your monitor to the power strip. YOUR neighbor's cousin's kid is in town and he knows computers so you had him "fix" your machine and it's MY fault it doesn't work and will take me three times as long to fix. My hands are obviously full and I'm obviously going elsewhere to work on an issue, don't assume I'm going to remember your request when I get back to my desk 30 minutes later. YOU obviously didn't do "the exact same thing" when I sit at your desk as you watch and whatever didn't work, now magically does. MY budget isn't unlimited to buy you the latest tool/software/PC/monitor.
We're not here to make your lives miserable. Pretty sure that wasn't in the fine print of my contract. Many of the rules we have are in place for a reason. Are there unintended consequences sometimes? Sure! But you're also there to work. Not watch youtube videos all day, not bring in any ol' device you want and plug it into your machine (for crying out loud, charge your cell phone at home), etc. And there are regulations like PCI that we don't control, we just have to implement. Yet we get the gripes. And we have directives from higher up the chain to follow, yet you complain about IT making the changes.
Are there bad IT guys? Sure! But are there bad users? Yup. I try to be patient with my users, but it does get hard.
RIM as a whole reminds me of a scene from the Simpson's several years back: Principal Skinner is wandering around a boarded up part of Springfield that use to house "wholesome" activities and such and he briefly wonders if he's just out of touch with what's going on. Only to come to the conclusion that no...everyone else is wrong. This is how I see RIM/BB. Smartphones evolved and they're still serving up the same ol' stuff. Great, you're a "corporate" phone. Guess what. That market isn't growing anymore.
Excellent point. The bigger stink they make, the better a person you probably were.
On the other hand, they're not so much "angry" at most of the deceased they protest, they just love the attention they get. Frankly I'm surprised by two things: First, someone hasn't shot one of these idiots by now. Second, they haven't been investigated for tax fraud. After all, they run their law firm inside their "church".
Really? You think if I take your 12MP Kodak several million miles away it's going to take crystal clear pictures? Come on. It's 6 million miles for crying out loud. It's not like you're going to zoom in and see continents.
And in other news, Capcom announced they are filing for bankruptcy. Said a senior exec, "We don't know what happened! We had a brilliant business plan. Each game we sell can be played once and only once. We expected players to continually buy games, resellers to go out of business, and piracy to completely end. How could it go wrong?! But I come in this morning to find the doors padlocked!"
"...it'll be interesting to see how he responds to this one." Easy answer. If he doesn't agree with every little piece of it, he'll use the weight of Apple (and their lawyers) to sue the crud out of them.
Not a big surprise really. When the PS3 came out Blu-ray was brand new, the processors were brand new, HD video was new, it was a huge leap over the previous generation console. There's nothing out now that is that big a leap for hardware. What I'd see for the PS4 would be more RAM, a hard drive bump, latest video card, and possibly more cores for the processor. Nothing revolutionary here, just upgrades.
Savings hours of works for web developers? Really? Here's an easy solution...quit building web sites that cater to IE 6! If people can't use the web anymore, they'll have to upgrade.
It's not like he'll ever see a dime. Does he really expect the Chinese government to cut him a check? At best he's gotten a moral victory and a big bill from his own lawyers.
"You'd think they would have people around them that would know better."
Of course they do. But, as has been discussed on Slashdot time and again, there's the people that know better and there's the people in power. Unfortunately, they're usually mutually exclusive groups. I can even picture the meeting: a group gathered around a large table. 2 or 3 IT guys say "We shouldn't game the system, big trouble if we get caught." Accounting guy says "If we do it it can bring us big bucks!" High end company officer says "Cash?! Go for it!"
Perception means a lot in the tech world. Over the last few years, Microsoft really seems to have fallen from being the "leader" to being the "Me too!" kid. Others are pushing limits and innovating, MS comes in later with lesser offerings. And Windows seems to be the majority fault of this...in my perception at least.
As I see it, Apple rewrote their OS entirely in creating OS X. This gave the new OS great flexibility. Microsoft keeps adding on to Windows and continuing to hold on to legacy code(to continue supporting old hardware, etc), causing Windows to bloat. When new hardware technologies come around, Apple can easily break down OS X into the needed components. Microsoft tries to shrink Windows but isn't successful due to things being so integrated. It's like they try to compress the full Windows so it'll fit on a phone or tablet so the user can have "full Windows functionality". But it just doesn't seem to work right and comes across even more as an "Us too" product.
Of course, someone has to create decent hardware for the Microsoft OS to run on too. Not being a hardware company there's little Microsoft can do about cruddy hardware.
Looking at this from Verizon's POV, sometimes it's OK to come in second place. Think about it...AT&T comes out with the iPhone first. From what we can tell, their network wasn't fully ready and AT&T paid for it hard. Lots of bad publicity from people getting poor connections and data limits. Meanwhile, Verizon's had plenty of time to beef up their network.
Realistically, Apple couldn't stay tied to AT&T forever. Bad for business. Eventually the (somewhat) limited market saturates and you sell very few "new" iPhones. Verizon runs #2 in the market. Makes for the most likely expansion place for Apple. Verizon sits back waiting for the opportunity and keeps tweaking its' network. Apple comes a-knockin' and Verizon can point a say "Look at our network. We're ready for you and your customers!"
My money is on Verizon having a pretty smooth roll-out. Not to say there won't be glitches, but I bet they come out smelling better than AT&T did at roll-out.
If anything, all of those companies are needed for the good of the web. Say Google comes out with a wild innovation, now Apple has to match it plus find a way to top it. Then Microsoft has to best that, and so on and so on. Having multiple companies pushing the envelope also pushes innovation. Granted, not every new "invention" works out, but it forces the next guy to do as good or better.
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The build team blew out several windows a season or two ago with an explosion that was bigger than expected. We still got to see that myth.
Actually, that one was at a facility where they purposely do that sort of thing. There's a braking system, it happened to fail on that one attempt. MB have crashed other cars there with no issues. So, while it happened while the build team was there, it wasn't their fault.
Excellent points. Many IT policies are in place to keep users from causing IT more work by fouling something up, not prevent you from getting your own work done.
Except that without that SUPPORT you'd have no PROFIT rather quickly.
An interesting thing I've noticed scrolling through the comments: the angriest ones at IT are anonymous. Anyway, my 2 cents on this. I work the IT helpdesk for a medium sized company. As I do most of the running around, I'm the "face" of IT. The hate can go both ways. IT hates users too sometimes. YOU do something wrong and cause your program to not work right, and yet somehow it's OUR fault. YOU can't watch Netflix movies because we block the site, and it's OUR fault. YOU don't notice the smoke & flames coming from your neighbor's PC and it's OUR fault that we can't drop everything to plug in your monitor to the power strip. YOUR neighbor's cousin's kid is in town and he knows computers so you had him "fix" your machine and it's MY fault it doesn't work and will take me three times as long to fix. My hands are obviously full and I'm obviously going elsewhere to work on an issue, don't assume I'm going to remember your request when I get back to my desk 30 minutes later. YOU obviously didn't do "the exact same thing" when I sit at your desk as you watch and whatever didn't work, now magically does. MY budget isn't unlimited to buy you the latest tool/software/PC/monitor. We're not here to make your lives miserable. Pretty sure that wasn't in the fine print of my contract. Many of the rules we have are in place for a reason. Are there unintended consequences sometimes? Sure! But you're also there to work. Not watch youtube videos all day, not bring in any ol' device you want and plug it into your machine (for crying out loud, charge your cell phone at home), etc. And there are regulations like PCI that we don't control, we just have to implement. Yet we get the gripes. And we have directives from higher up the chain to follow, yet you complain about IT making the changes. Are there bad IT guys? Sure! But are there bad users? Yup. I try to be patient with my users, but it does get hard.
Sure we have policies for our convenience. By restricting what you can install, it prevents problems, therefore allowing us to focus on bigger issues.
Why is Mythbusters the first thing that comes to mind? "Jamie want big boom."
RIM as a whole reminds me of a scene from the Simpson's several years back: Principal Skinner is wandering around a boarded up part of Springfield that use to house "wholesome" activities and such and he briefly wonders if he's just out of touch with what's going on. Only to come to the conclusion that no...everyone else is wrong. This is how I see RIM/BB. Smartphones evolved and they're still serving up the same ol' stuff. Great, you're a "corporate" phone. Guess what. That market isn't growing anymore.
And as a member of the Sons of the American Legion, thank you for your service in the Patriot Guard.
Excellent point. The bigger stink they make, the better a person you probably were. On the other hand, they're not so much "angry" at most of the deceased they protest, they just love the attention they get. Frankly I'm surprised by two things: First, someone hasn't shot one of these idiots by now. Second, they haven't been investigated for tax fraud. After all, they run their law firm inside their "church".
Really? You think if I take your 12MP Kodak several million miles away it's going to take crystal clear pictures? Come on. It's 6 million miles for crying out loud. It's not like you're going to zoom in and see continents.
And in other news, Capcom announced they are filing for bankruptcy. Said a senior exec, "We don't know what happened! We had a brilliant business plan. Each game we sell can be played once and only once. We expected players to continually buy games, resellers to go out of business, and piracy to completely end. How could it go wrong?! But I come in this morning to find the doors padlocked!"
Use to be we didn't have observational data for lots of things: germs, bacteria, radiation...shall we continue the list?
"...it'll be interesting to see how he responds to this one." Easy answer. If he doesn't agree with every little piece of it, he'll use the weight of Apple (and their lawyers) to sue the crud out of them.
Not a big surprise really. When the PS3 came out Blu-ray was brand new, the processors were brand new, HD video was new, it was a huge leap over the previous generation console. There's nothing out now that is that big a leap for hardware. What I'd see for the PS4 would be more RAM, a hard drive bump, latest video card, and possibly more cores for the processor. Nothing revolutionary here, just upgrades.
"...like watching two warthogs fighting over a rotting squirrel carcass while mating." Yeah...like that's an image I needed in my head.
Savings hours of works for web developers? Really? Here's an easy solution...quit building web sites that cater to IE 6! If people can't use the web anymore, they'll have to upgrade.
It's not like he'll ever see a dime. Does he really expect the Chinese government to cut him a check? At best he's gotten a moral victory and a big bill from his own lawyers.
"You'd think they would have people around them that would know better." Of course they do. But, as has been discussed on Slashdot time and again, there's the people that know better and there's the people in power. Unfortunately, they're usually mutually exclusive groups. I can even picture the meeting: a group gathered around a large table. 2 or 3 IT guys say "We shouldn't game the system, big trouble if we get caught." Accounting guy says "If we do it it can bring us big bucks!" High end company officer says "Cash?! Go for it!"
I think the general "whistleblowers" laws would cover their hind-end anyway.
Perception means a lot in the tech world. Over the last few years, Microsoft really seems to have fallen from being the "leader" to being the "Me too!" kid. Others are pushing limits and innovating, MS comes in later with lesser offerings. And Windows seems to be the majority fault of this...in my perception at least. As I see it, Apple rewrote their OS entirely in creating OS X. This gave the new OS great flexibility. Microsoft keeps adding on to Windows and continuing to hold on to legacy code(to continue supporting old hardware, etc), causing Windows to bloat. When new hardware technologies come around, Apple can easily break down OS X into the needed components. Microsoft tries to shrink Windows but isn't successful due to things being so integrated. It's like they try to compress the full Windows so it'll fit on a phone or tablet so the user can have "full Windows functionality". But it just doesn't seem to work right and comes across even more as an "Us too" product. Of course, someone has to create decent hardware for the Microsoft OS to run on too. Not being a hardware company there's little Microsoft can do about cruddy hardware.
Looking at this from Verizon's POV, sometimes it's OK to come in second place. Think about it...AT&T comes out with the iPhone first. From what we can tell, their network wasn't fully ready and AT&T paid for it hard. Lots of bad publicity from people getting poor connections and data limits. Meanwhile, Verizon's had plenty of time to beef up their network. Realistically, Apple couldn't stay tied to AT&T forever. Bad for business. Eventually the (somewhat) limited market saturates and you sell very few "new" iPhones. Verizon runs #2 in the market. Makes for the most likely expansion place for Apple. Verizon sits back waiting for the opportunity and keeps tweaking its' network. Apple comes a-knockin' and Verizon can point a say "Look at our network. We're ready for you and your customers!" My money is on Verizon having a pretty smooth roll-out. Not to say there won't be glitches, but I bet they come out smelling better than AT&T did at roll-out.
Nah...Lloyd just picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.
If anything, all of those companies are needed for the good of the web. Say Google comes out with a wild innovation, now Apple has to match it plus find a way to top it. Then Microsoft has to best that, and so on and so on. Having multiple companies pushing the envelope also pushes innovation. Granted, not every new "invention" works out, but it forces the next guy to do as good or better.
Very nice analogies! Well put.