But WHY is DHHS and SSA in such debt, answer that question and you'll find its not a result of their own doing, its a result of congressional and executive mismanagement (aka RAPE) of their fiscal budgets time and time again.
Cheers.
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Thats when you call in us IT "Consultants." If we can't dazzle them with brilliance, we can baffle them with bullshit.;)
I've been watching and occasionally commenting against (possible, but not for sure) MS Shills that keep playing bullshit lines. MS is my bread and butter as far as making me $$$ in the consulting business, but I don't pull punches when talking about the reality of the problems with their software. Vista shills ESPECIALLY piss me off. I'm glad a handful of people spent a few weeks getting their Vista stable enough for their games to 'run', that doesn't mean it should be recommended to new users or even experienced users in a small office.
Its not just lazy, its doable with Wine to an extent. Sending around S:\ to network users requires that they have the same folder mapped to the S: already, and its possible to created a 'faked' S: link on a linux machine, I'm sure with a bit of login scripting it can be worked out.
I used to work at AOL. I agree with every part except the last part. Time Warner related execs should've all been f'ing fired for letting AOL "buy" them with a merger of overvalued stock options in the first place. AOL had its chance to turn things completely around but the pointy hairs in charge wouldn't listen one bit to reason or common sense, the p-o-s aol 'client' was too precious to do away with due to its perceived 'value' to the marketing and advertising data mining. Ah the sweet irony of their crash and burn, just took a few years longer than expected.
Frankly, Silicon Valley can go f*ck itself as far as the rest of us geeks with (somewhat) affordable housing is concerned.;)
I wish Google would just buy AOL out already, it'd be a real fire sale in terms of the value of the user correlated data mining.
You say its boneheaded and a conflict of interest but dont want people to exaggerate it into something its not, you yourself are underexaggerating the case. IU gets public money and as a result of the deal with ChaCha, is essentially funding ChaCha like its a university program. Its a definite conflict of interest and the IU administrator involved should be fired and probably needs to be taken to court over this. I know thats how search engines typically start out, but it doesn't make it right or acceptable.
MoveOn has really put the final nail in their coffin and lost me on this one, if they in fact are who complained to Google about the trademark being violated.
I wholly agree with you, the trademark angle is utter bullshit and its an obvious fair use and free speech thing, criticism is protected speech, and the ad should've been allowed in its context.
If I was in charge of the response from Google's policy counsel, I would've just said that the antimoveon ads are being placed by fucking tools, moreso than moveon folks themselves, and I don't want their advertising dollars.
I'm an IT consultant for many companies as well, not just small companies with under 50 users. Any serious user base (100+) is an immediate NO GO for Vista, most larger companies are running at 256-512MB ram and are subpar for Vista performance, and do not have the budget for 2007-08 to do a large rollout of new end user workstations (and a lot of the budget issue can be due to ERP costs building up due to migration from older systems such as TOMS, to JDE/Cognos, SAP, Peoplesoft, etc., see this story). Anyone concerned with the end user experience, as you should be, is not upgrading to Vista any time soon. End user training, local performance issues, network performance issues, application compatibility issues, those are the first issues that come to mind.
"Roll it out when and only when, its been tested, proven, and your organization is ready for it. Until then, just dont roll it out. Easy as pie."
Its easy to sideline quarterback this when you haven't attempted such a rollout for a client that seemed 'ready' for it, even after cost analysis and technical analysis. The beast that is Vista itself is not at all ready for a managed corporate environments with uptime requirements and user productivity concerns.
"I mean geez, its not like anyone is forcing anybody to upgrade or anything. Your orgs should probably be at least considering buying vista with all new machines now, or as part of your VM purchasing, and just use the downlevel install options for now, that way you own it when you're ready."
XP OEM support expires June of 08. All new purchases thru MS ARE bought with Vista -> XP downgrade licensing. What do you do for clients whose last Licensing agreement was for Win2k (and W2k Terminal Servers) and has NO SOFTWARE ASSURANCE. Check the costs on full SA licensing for Vista then get back to me.
Your last two sentences make no sense in the context of what I was attempting to address. A 'bad consultant' and a 'bad client' are both issues that can occur, but if you are rolling Vista out to midrange+ environments, and successfully making budget and timelines as detailed in your SoW to the client based on experience and MS guidelines, without letting technical items, user issues, network issues, and other unknowns just 'slip by' to be fixed at a later date, by all means let me know.
And you're missing the REAL LIFE significance to this... IT departments everywhere are cringing in fear with thought of backporting 'Vista' fixes and features. Vista is an absolute NIGHTMARE for corporate IT. I can't wait to see what SP3 does to my clients networks, especially with features like 'black hole router detection', I foresee a lot of downtime for individual workstations. On the plus side, it will mean more billable hours for me, hell I'm only at 1580 for the year right now.;)
From what I recall, some aspects of the riots in Hungary were legitimate greivances. The fact of the matter is, sometimes 'revolution' is necessary when those in power and their 'power brokers' do not respect the ideals of democracy and liberty. That is what is happening in the US, and its spot on justifiable. I'm surprised our situation here is a peaceful as it is. That said, I'm sure as hell not going to rock the boat, I have a good paying job (finally) and a family to support, and am too focused on getting my life and finances secure to run out and join in a full scale revolution of any sort. I'll pay it lip service and give small amounts of support where I can (REAL support, not just throwing $100 at some bullshit PAC).
I know someone from Hungary who escaped during its days of communism and votes Republican since he became a US citizen, thats all changed due to Bush. (Republicanism's "ideals" were more favorable, and the situation in Hungary when he left made him determined never to support any communistic ideals due to the way the Russians treated the Hungarians.)
Actually thats $16K+ per year, and at that income you will receive some (or all) federal income tax paid back at the end of the year (if you are not a contract 1099 that didn't pay any taxes at all during the year).
$12/hr receptionist job was low balling, if you do such work and get less than $12, its your own inability to recognize the value of your skills and abilities (lazy, incompetent f'kers notwithstanding) that lets you convince yourself to accept any lower pay for the work. I can understand being in a pinch of having some specific hardship that requires you to take a job, but from my own experience and first hand witnessing, if you get off your ass, you can get a job that pays enough to pay rent and food and even some internets for slashdot ranting.
If he is smart enough to contribute to slashdot comments then he must be smart enough to get a job making more than minimum wage./sarcasm
Seriously, pulling $10k/year is, frankly, retarded. In fact, if you DO have the mental capacity to post to slashdot (and as a result can likely browse and search the internet and use a word processor), you can make, minimum, $12/hour even with a dinky receptionist type job. Get off your ass and get a real job, its really not that hard.
Sorry to sound so harsh but even at my lowest paid total crap jobs I still pulled in $18-24K/year.
If the original poster has some sort of outstanding reasons (handicapped, mental health, etc), then perhaps theres some level of excuse, but GODDAMN.
I'm calling Jean Claude Van-Damme, cuz I count that as 4 names. Or maybe Steven Segal. But not Chuck Norris, he's too busy telling the Iraqis that their country is getting better.
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But WHY is DHHS and SSA in such debt, answer that question and you'll find its not a result of their own doing, its a result of congressional and executive mismanagement (aka RAPE) of their fiscal budgets time and time again.
Cheers.
Thats when you call in us IT "Consultants." If we can't dazzle them with brilliance, we can baffle them with bullshit. ;)
Cheers.
You, sir, have no respect for the ass faces of this world.
Maybe it IS his throat.
Cheers.
I've been watching and occasionally commenting against (possible, but not for sure) MS Shills that keep playing bullshit lines. MS is my bread and butter as far as making me $$$ in the consulting business, but I don't pull punches when talking about the reality of the problems with their software. Vista shills ESPECIALLY piss me off. I'm glad a handful of people spent a few weeks getting their Vista stable enough for their games to 'run', that doesn't mean it should be recommended to new users or even experienced users in a small office.
Cheers.
Its not just lazy, its doable with Wine to an extent. Sending around S:\ to network users requires that they have the same folder mapped to the S: already, and its possible to created a 'faked' S: link on a linux machine, I'm sure with a bit of login scripting it can be worked out.
I still can't get over the face that "Danny" from Full House merits a C4 in his real life routine.
Bob Saget is a god.
I used to work at AOL. I agree with every part except the last part. Time Warner related execs should've all been f'ing fired for letting AOL "buy" them with a merger of overvalued stock options in the first place. AOL had its chance to turn things completely around but the pointy hairs in charge wouldn't listen one bit to reason or common sense, the p-o-s aol 'client' was too precious to do away with due to its perceived 'value' to the marketing and advertising data mining. Ah the sweet irony of their crash and burn, just took a few years longer than expected.
;)
Frankly, Silicon Valley can go f*ck itself as far as the rest of us geeks with (somewhat) affordable housing is concerned.
I wish Google would just buy AOL out already, it'd be a real fire sale in terms of the value of the user correlated data mining.
Cheers.
You say its boneheaded and a conflict of interest but dont want people to exaggerate it into something its not, you yourself are underexaggerating the case. IU gets public money and as a result of the deal with ChaCha, is essentially funding ChaCha like its a university program. Its a definite conflict of interest and the IU administrator involved should be fired and probably needs to be taken to court over this. I know thats how search engines typically start out, but it doesn't make it right or acceptable.
Cheers.
MoveOn has really put the final nail in their coffin and lost me on this one, if they in fact are who complained to Google about the trademark being violated.
I wholly agree with you, the trademark angle is utter bullshit and its an obvious fair use and free speech thing, criticism is protected speech, and the ad should've been allowed in its context.
If I was in charge of the response from Google's policy counsel, I would've just said that the antimoveon ads are being placed by fucking tools, moreso than moveon folks themselves, and I don't want their advertising dollars.
Cheers.
I'd say we just start Fight Clubbing the system but I've got a job with health insurance and a family, so thats out.
Cheers.
Furthermore, I'm a cyclist, so it's important to keep tabs on my health
;)
This is slashdot, sir, and moreso, the internets, we don't do "health".
Trying to ruin his attempts some cheap shot Karma points, shame on you, AC.
Cheers.
Somebody didn't get the memo.
Professional writers are bad for the internet.
And thats not just in Soviet America.
Well then, you need to learn the proper way to PAR-TAY, sir. ;)
Cheers.
I'm an IT consultant for many companies as well, not just small companies with under 50 users. Any serious user base (100+) is an immediate NO GO for Vista, most larger companies are running at 256-512MB ram and are subpar for Vista performance, and do not have the budget for 2007-08 to do a large rollout of new end user workstations (and a lot of the budget issue can be due to ERP costs building up due to migration from older systems such as TOMS, to JDE/Cognos, SAP, Peoplesoft, etc., see this story). Anyone concerned with the end user experience, as you should be, is not upgrading to Vista any time soon. End user training, local performance issues, network performance issues, application compatibility issues, those are the first issues that come to mind.
"Roll it out when and only when, its been tested, proven, and your organization is ready for it. Until then, just dont roll it out. Easy as pie."
Its easy to sideline quarterback this when you haven't attempted such a rollout for a client that seemed 'ready' for it, even after cost analysis and technical analysis. The beast that is Vista itself is not at all ready for a managed corporate environments with uptime requirements and user productivity concerns.
"I mean geez, its not like anyone is forcing anybody to upgrade or anything. Your orgs should probably be at least considering buying vista with all new machines now, or as part of your VM purchasing, and just use the downlevel install options for now, that way you own it when you're ready."
XP OEM support expires June of 08. All new purchases thru MS ARE bought with Vista -> XP downgrade licensing. What do you do for clients whose last Licensing agreement was for Win2k (and W2k Terminal Servers) and has NO SOFTWARE ASSURANCE. Check the costs on full SA licensing for Vista then get back to me.
Your last two sentences make no sense in the context of what I was attempting to address. A 'bad consultant' and a 'bad client' are both issues that can occur, but if you are rolling Vista out to midrange+ environments, and successfully making budget and timelines as detailed in your SoW to the client based on experience and MS guidelines, without letting technical items, user issues, network issues, and other unknowns just 'slip by' to be fixed at a later date, by all means let me know.
Over 25 and probably working in some sort of IT related field. (Judging by the exceptionally low /. UID).
Cheers.
You're older and have enough disposable income, the core fans typically do not for newer bands.
And you're missing the REAL LIFE significance to this... IT departments everywhere are cringing in fear with thought of backporting 'Vista' fixes and features. Vista is an absolute NIGHTMARE for corporate IT. I can't wait to see what SP3 does to my clients networks, especially with features like 'black hole router detection', I foresee a lot of downtime for individual workstations. On the plus side, it will mean more billable hours for me, hell I'm only at 1580 for the year right now. ;)
Cheers.
From what I recall, some aspects of the riots in Hungary were legitimate greivances. The fact of the matter is, sometimes 'revolution' is necessary when those in power and their 'power brokers' do not respect the ideals of democracy and liberty. That is what is happening in the US, and its spot on justifiable. I'm surprised our situation here is a peaceful as it is. That said, I'm sure as hell not going to rock the boat, I have a good paying job (finally) and a family to support, and am too focused on getting my life and finances secure to run out and join in a full scale revolution of any sort. I'll pay it lip service and give small amounts of support where I can (REAL support, not just throwing $100 at some bullshit PAC).
I know someone from Hungary who escaped during its days of communism and votes Republican since he became a US citizen, thats all changed due to Bush. (Republicanism's "ideals" were more favorable, and the situation in Hungary when he left made him determined never to support any communistic ideals due to the way the Russians treated the Hungarians.)
HIPPA is useless for dictating real life data security situations. ABSO-FUCKING-LUTELY USELESS.
Actually thats $16K+ per year, and at that income you will receive some (or all) federal income tax paid back at the end of the year (if you are not a contract 1099 that didn't pay any taxes at all during the year).
$12/hr receptionist job was low balling, if you do such work and get less than $12, its your own inability to recognize the value of your skills and abilities (lazy, incompetent f'kers notwithstanding) that lets you convince yourself to accept any lower pay for the work. I can understand being in a pinch of having some specific hardship that requires you to take a job, but from my own experience and first hand witnessing, if you get off your ass, you can get a job that pays enough to pay rent and food and even some internets for slashdot ranting.
Cheers.
If he is smart enough to contribute to slashdot comments then he must be smart enough to get a job making more than minimum wage. /sarcasm
Seriously, pulling $10k/year is, frankly, retarded. In fact, if you DO have the mental capacity to post to slashdot (and as a result can likely browse and search the internet and use a word processor), you can make, minimum, $12/hour even with a dinky receptionist type job. Get off your ass and get a real job, its really not that hard.
Sorry to sound so harsh but even at my lowest paid total crap jobs I still pulled in $18-24K/year.
If the original poster has some sort of outstanding reasons (handicapped, mental health, etc), then perhaps theres some level of excuse, but GODDAMN.
Cheers.
Government contracting is the new age Ayn Rand 'free market' philosophy, didn't you get the memo?
I'm calling Jean Claude Van-Damme, cuz I count that as 4 names. Or maybe Steven Segal. But not Chuck Norris, he's too busy telling the Iraqis that their country is getting better.