High performers tend to like working from home. It removes the burden of "needing to be in the office".
In my last gig as a IT director for a technology company, I let my rockstar employees come and go as they wanted. The best ones worked late in the evenings from home and if they came in late, so what.
The push back came from (non tech) "C"'s above me who made statements like "we're and 8-5 business and X person needs to be here".
But your rock stars, even with great hiring are like 1 or 2 in 10. Mediocre performers and non-IT staff found out some worked from home and complained about inequity.
Some people scam any system and others are just stupid. Those ruin it for the masses.
Though true in concept, most companies fail miserably in execution. Most companies have been stung by wrongful termination suites - be they true or false are expense to litigate. Add in protected classes (protected classes are pretty much every non-white male and white males over 40), and you better have every little incident documented or it will cost you.
Hardly, most people abused working from home. They dropped daycare and took care of their kids, surfed without working or just signed their assigned systems and left. The productivity numbers were dreadful. The reality is most of us are pretty damn lazy if left alone.
Apple has done this for several years. If you're iPhone is on the same network as your other iCrap devices, you can answer a call/text/video message on your ipad while your phone is in the other room. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
My only problem with Amazon or Google doing it is you know they will be constantly listening and looking for ways to sell your personal info to any company / government willing to pay a $1.
While # of "subs" and monthly cost continue to climb, actual content has deceased. In the 2 years 2014-2016, number of movies and TV shows decreased by 33% and 26% respectively. http://time.com/4272360/the-nu...
Just this August, Disney has announced it's pulling it's entire library OFF Netflix in favor of its own streaming service.
What really torques me is that shows I should be able to see, I can't in the US due to greedy lawyers, but the shows are readily available to netflix in other countries (ie: Startrek Discovery)
"When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong."
The election of Humpty-Trumpy and the frenzied zombies who continue to follow him only demonstrate how broken the system is.
Decades of GOP attack on critical thinking has succeeded. Attack scientists, attack news, attack (defund) education/npr and you can eliminate questions about trick-down economics, religion, climate change, fracking, scientific method and push though what ever pseudo-crap you want to ensure the oligarchy continue to pillage people and the environment for profit at will with an ever accelerating rate.
As a point, Hildabast is part of the same broken system, so it really didn't matter. Trump is just less politically correct and stuck socially in 1978,
another made up, bullsheit, useless euphemism spit from the orifices of nonsensical failed Silicon Valley brogrammers looking to con more coin from gullible vulture capitalists to fund pointless consumptive lifestyles without any real value to society
There NO VPNs beyond the reach of the US spy infrastructure. Those who refuse the private, closed door court room orders are locked up or if they have scruples, just skuddle their products and walk away.
Examples; LavaBit & the original axcrypt
What we have here effectively is outlawing thoughts and ideas. Gone are the days of debate or even discussion (those already get you locked up for posting something wrong or MIBS at you door for the wrong search terms). You're not even allowed to think something is bad, just "thinking" about something irregardless of intent is criminal. It's a natural extension from "if you've got nothing to hide, you have no reason to be nervous" to "that thought would never cross the mind of an innocent person". If you don't think we're there already, try buying an airline ticket in the US at the airport with cash and see what happens....
We are exactly where all the "evil overlord corporations" movies of the early '70's predicted.... less all the cool things like hover cars and transportation tubes (hyperloops?) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt00... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt00... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt00... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt00...... to name just a few....
I won't drop a grand on a vid card.... I won't drop 100K on car... both of these are depreciating expenses chased by fools (a fool and their money.....) And is sure as hell won't drop a grand on some Icrap either.
I did drop over 500K on a house, but that's a long term investment and it will pay back nicely.
Most people at that price are payment buyers. $1000 is only $42/month over a 24 month contract. So providers will charge them $50-$60/month and try to hook them with the damage warranty and call it good...
Yes programming is difficult. Being creative logically, understanding the big picture and where the project is going, being able to get lost for hours in your head and staying focused as your tracking variables and flowing data ya, it’s hard. It’s also exactly why this silly notion that “everyone needs to learn to code” is simply asinine and coding boot camps are a lie. Different people have different skills
If you didn't "take" the self driving car to where its going, the event would not have happened. Same argument as "guns don't kill people, bullets kill people".
It's these same "actuaries" who determine the cost of payoff of few families of a dead relative due to a vulnerable part is less expensive than a recall.
It's also unfortunate that a few jack offs have to reduce everything to "us vs them" tribal mentality. You're part of the problem drinking the fauxnoise coolaid.
Unfortunately, as dollars have been ripped away from historical news organizations where educated professionals vetted sources, researched stories and were held accountable; we now throw billions at the immediate gratification "like" without a clue to what's true and false - only what "feels good". Critical reasoning is for the most part a thing of the past...wait, who predicted this?
oh, ya... this was written in 1995 - 32 years ago:
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”
---Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
I setup tape in my organization as well. 100% virtual infrastructure with primary backups/snapshots on site SAN storage. Replicated backups/snapshots at a 2nd physical DR site connected via owned / leased fiber. Tertiary backups to tape and shipped off to a nation storage repository.
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High performers tend to like working from home. It removes the burden of "needing to be in the office".
In my last gig as a IT director for a technology company, I let my rockstar employees come and go as they wanted. The best ones worked late in the evenings from home and if they came in late, so what.
The push back came from (non tech) "C"'s above me who made statements like "we're and 8-5 business and X person needs to be here".
But your rock stars, even with great hiring are like 1 or 2 in 10. Mediocre performers and non-IT staff found out some worked from home and complained about inequity.
Some people scam any system and others are just stupid. Those ruin it for the masses.
If you're not physically there... the boss tends to notice.
Though true in concept, most companies fail miserably in execution. Most companies have been stung by wrongful termination suites - be they true or false are expense to litigate. Add in protected classes (protected classes are pretty much every non-white male and white males over 40), and you better have every little incident documented or it will cost you.
Hardly, most people abused working from home. They dropped daycare and took care of their kids, surfed without working or just signed their assigned systems and left. The productivity numbers were dreadful. The reality is most of us are pretty damn lazy if left alone.
Another asshole who looks out his window in the winter time, sees snow and declares global warming a liberal hoax.
Apple has done this for several years. If you're iPhone is on the same network as your other iCrap devices, you can answer a call/text/video message on your ipad while your phone is in the other room.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
My only problem with Amazon or Google doing it is you know they will be constantly listening and looking for ways to sell your personal info to any company / government willing to pay a $1.
“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
While # of "subs" and monthly cost continue to climb, actual content has deceased. In the 2 years 2014-2016, number of movies and TV shows decreased by 33% and 26% respectively.
http://time.com/4272360/the-nu...
Just this August, Disney has announced it's pulling it's entire library OFF Netflix in favor of its own streaming service.
What really torques me is that shows I should be able to see, I can't in the US due to greedy lawyers, but the shows are readily available to netflix in other countries (ie: Startrek Discovery)
"When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong."
Hillary is just as corrupt, perhaps more so. She's just less crass and able to politically maneuver.
The election of Humpty-Trumpy and the frenzied zombies who continue to follow him only demonstrate how broken the system is.
Decades of GOP attack on critical thinking has succeeded. Attack scientists, attack news, attack (defund) education/npr and you can eliminate questions about trick-down economics, religion, climate change, fracking, scientific method and push though what ever pseudo-crap you want to ensure the oligarchy continue to pillage people and the environment for profit at will with an ever accelerating rate.
As a point, Hildabast is part of the same broken system, so it really didn't matter. Trump is just less politically correct and stuck socially in 1978,
another made up, bullsheit, useless euphemism spit from the orifices of nonsensical failed Silicon Valley brogrammers looking to con more coin from gullible vulture capitalists to fund pointless consumptive lifestyles without any real value to society
"staying longer at home"! So primitive humans were actually today's millennials!
There NO VPNs beyond the reach of the US spy infrastructure. Those who refuse the private, closed door court room orders are locked up or if they have scruples, just skuddle their products and walk away.
Examples; LavaBit & the original axcrypt
All a VPN really does is prevent your local ISP provider from monetizing your surfing habits. Which is enough for me.
What we have here effectively is outlawing thoughts and ideas. Gone are the days of debate or even discussion (those already get you locked up for posting something wrong or MIBS at you door for the wrong search terms). You're not even allowed to think something is bad, just "thinking" about something irregardless of intent is criminal. It's a natural extension from "if you've got nothing to hide, you have no reason to be nervous" to "that thought would never cross the mind of an innocent person". If you don't think we're there already, try buying an airline ticket in the US at the airport with cash and see what happens.... ... to name just a few....
We are exactly where all the "evil overlord corporations" movies of the early '70's predicted.... less all the cool things like hover cars and transportation tubes (hyperloops?)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt00...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt00...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt00...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt00...
I won't drop a grand on a vid card.... I won't drop 100K on car... both of these are depreciating expenses chased by fools (a fool and their money .....) And is sure as hell won't drop a grand on some Icrap either.
I did drop over 500K on a house, but that's a long term investment and it will pay back nicely.
Most people at that price are payment buyers. $1000 is only $42/month over a 24 month contract. So providers will charge them $50-$60/month and try to hook them with the damage warranty and call it good...
Yes programming is difficult. Being creative logically, understanding the big picture and where the project is going, being able to get lost for hours in your head and staying focused as your tracking variables and flowing data ya, it’s hard. It’s also exactly why this silly notion that “everyone needs to learn to code” is simply asinine and coding boot camps are a lie. Different people have different skills
If you didn't "take" the self driving car to where its going, the event would not have happened. Same argument as "guns don't kill people, bullets kill people".
It's these same "actuaries" who determine the cost of payoff of few families of a dead relative due to a vulnerable part is less expensive than a recall.
It's also unfortunate that a few jack offs have to reduce everything to "us vs them" tribal mentality. You're part of the problem drinking the fauxnoise coolaid.
Unfortunately, as dollars have been ripped away from historical news organizations where educated professionals vetted sources, researched stories and were held accountable; we now throw billions at the immediate gratification "like" without a clue to what's true and false - only what "feels good". Critical reasoning is for the most part a thing of the past...wait, who predicted this?
oh, ya... this was written in 1995 - 32 years ago:
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”
---Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
I setup tape in my organization as well. 100% virtual infrastructure with primary backups/snapshots on site SAN storage. Replicated backups/snapshots at a 2nd physical DR site connected via owned / leased fiber. Tertiary backups to tape and shipped off to a nation storage repository.
Because most internet systems were designed as stateless connections....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...