+1 The EA does not want access to ANY systems. That is not the role of an EA (or ANY architect to be honest).
The job of an EA is to be the bridge between the business and technology. You should not have enough time to be 'on the tools'. You need to be building relationships with the business and finding technology solutions to their problems.
Get yourself on a TOGAF course. You are lucky that the company does not realise that you are probably not actually qualified to the role of an EA. You sound like someone who knows technology, but I am not sure you understand what is required in a strategic role.
(submitting as me, not as anonymous)
Really the only question is whether the new "green energy companies" will deliver what they promise; that's the part that's doubtful, because if they did, why wouldn't people be investing in them voluntarily?
But people ARE investing in green energy companies, in big ways, as they are the only energy companies with a long term future.
When Henry Ford started his car factory you could have made the same statement to the horse buggy industry.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-Robert A. Heinlein
I'm more inclined to believe that the iPad is just a really, REALLY good product in its niche, priced competitively and expertly marketed.
Yes, if you define 'niche' as pretty much every other person who is not a 'techie', your mum, dad, grandma, kids, the 95% of the population who reads a couple of email, updates their facebook status and looks at a few photos! A sub $500 device, long battery life, can sit in your lap while you are watching tv, no reboot, patching, virus software updates makes a LOT more sense than any laptop/netbook/desktop.
WE ARE THE NICHE! We are the ones who need laptop/netbook/desktop, for most people it is complicated, expensive overkill.
Purchase price is only one factor. My macbook pro will cost less over a 2-3 year period.
And you will still carry around a portable mouse because the 2 the thinkpad ships with are un-usable. The multi-touch trackpad on the Mac means you never see people with a macbook using and external mouse.
3 years down the track, I will sell the macbook to upgrade - I will re-coup the difference in purchase price on resale value. How long will it take you to migrate machines? I plug my new macbook in, it detects my old one on the network, asks me if I want to copy everything (including applications) an hour later the machine is IDENTICAL to my old one - settings, files, applications!! You will spend that long getting rid of IBM crapware before you even think of how you will copy all your old files and re-installing (finding DVD's or downloading files) all of your applications.
And I don't pay the Windows tax and run a virus checker.
How much time over the life of the machine will you waste starting/stopping windows? My macbook is usable and connected to the network by the time I open the lid.
Your machine might cost less in purchase price. But I think my total cost of ownership will end up a LOT less.
Depends on the hardware actually. Ironically enough, my nv9400 Mini was the biggest bother in this regard.
Of course if you get a pre-built brand name box, you're not going to have to install the drivers.
You can even do that maneuver with Linux.
No, but you are going to have to wipe the disk then re-install a fresh Win7 to get rid of all the cr@p ware loaded on by those pre-built brand name vendors.
Make mine a mac.
The touch pad is still the best selling point. Go to a coffee shop, you NEVER see a person with a mac and an external mouse, pretty much every PC user has attached an external mouse.
Ask him/her about vertebral subluxation, then ask him how Simon Singh is going.
A Chiroquackter is the last person you should be asking about peer reviewed, double blind, substantial number of client, research!
The media got hold of this and pushed it for all it was worth. 12 people is not a large enough sample set to change practices - it might be enough for investment in further research, but it is not enough to change practices.
It is just bad science
Because that is the laptop that is the most idiot proof.
Things like opening and closing the lid to put it to sleep properly - and it wakes up every time - for months on end - without rebooting.
You are forgetting to add the cost of yearly virus checking software subscription.
And if you have had the same windows box without a single re-build I might not think you are telling the truth. You probably do one of those about once every 18 months.
Oh, they have a specific market. It is a computing device for the rest of the population - the ones that don't understand computers, the ones that can't upgrade their os, download the latest virus checker, or actually connect to the internet on the latest bells and whistles nokia N9whatever.
This is a no fuss, no hassle, no confusion, your grandmother can use it, internet/book/information delivery/multimedia device. The market is the 95% of the population that do not 'get' computers.
I can see that apple are trying to do to the computer/laptop industry what they did with the phone industry and the portable music device industry.
You and I don't really need one as we have 3 laptops, a netbook, a media centre and 4 desktops all dual booting - but we still might get one.
The trouble with the 'get everybody else to charge' model is that there is the BBC. Which is a publicly (very well) funded body.
The BBC will ALWAYS put news content on-line for free. They see it as a service to countries without access to 'good' news sources. The BBC does not have to make money on-line.
I pay £120 a year in TV license to the BBC so you b@stards can get free news and great documentaries and period drama for free!
You obviously have not tried to drive in Europe trying to find a small hotel in the middle of the old town then! With tiny one way streets in old town centres - lot of one way streets and dead ends. Road signs in a different languages and scripts (Greece, Turkey, Slavic regions etc)
As an Aussie living in London, whenever I go back to Aus I cannot believe how slow everything is even, at places with fast local speeds.
The government needs to spend more money on the intercontinental pipes before they do this!
http://www.dilbert.com/fast/1996-01-23/
On the other hand, if you enable internet filters to things like facebook you will very quickly expose your kids to the world of hacking, ssh tunnels and external proxies!
"The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people," Hitler wrote in Mein Kampf. "As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation."
(sorry, pinched from an earlier thread)
I think the Labour party have done more in their shorter time in office.
The following things have been introduced under Labour Government which have probably shaped modern Australia and contributed more to it's current prosperity:
Whitlam (in less than 3 years)
established formal diplomatic relations with China
abolished Uni fees
cut tariffs by 25% and abolished the Tariff Board
introduced a supporting benefit for single-parent families;
abolished the death penalty for federal crimes.
reduced the voting age to 18 years;
abolished the last vestiges of the White Australia Policy;
introduced language programs for non-English speaking Australians;
mandated equal opportunities for women in Federal Government employment;
appointed women to judicial and administrative positions;
abolished conscription;
set up the National Aboriginal Consultative Committee;
amalgamated the five separate defence departments;
instituted direct federal grants to local governments
established Legal Aid,
increased funding for the arts
Tried to introduce universal free health care (medicare)
Hawke-Keating
economic rationalism (Deregulation,
Privatisation, a free market economy, privatisation)
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+1 The EA does not want access to ANY systems. That is not the role of an EA (or ANY architect to be honest). The job of an EA is to be the bridge between the business and technology. You should not have enough time to be 'on the tools'. You need to be building relationships with the business and finding technology solutions to their problems. Get yourself on a TOGAF course. You are lucky that the company does not realise that you are probably not actually qualified to the role of an EA. You sound like someone who knows technology, but I am not sure you understand what is required in a strategic role. (submitting as me, not as anonymous)
But people ARE investing in green energy companies, in big ways, as they are the only energy companies with a long term future.
When Henry Ford started his car factory you could have made the same statement to the horse buggy industry.
Who just happens to be a hard core Unix Sysadmin living in Melbourne Australia!
for Stephen Boucher wizard of Windows, dragon of DOS without whom this book would have been written in crayon
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. -Robert A. Heinlein
After Prism, companies outside of USA are very reluctant to house corporate data in US company cloud.
I'm more inclined to believe that the iPad is just a really, REALLY good product in its niche, priced competitively and expertly marketed.
Yes, if you define 'niche' as pretty much every other person who is not a 'techie', your mum, dad, grandma, kids, the 95% of the population who reads a couple of email, updates their facebook status and looks at a few photos! A sub $500 device, long battery life, can sit in your lap while you are watching tv, no reboot, patching, virus software updates makes a LOT more sense than any laptop/netbook/desktop. WE ARE THE NICHE! We are the ones who need laptop/netbook/desktop, for most people it is complicated, expensive overkill.
Purchase price is only one factor. My macbook pro will cost less over a 2-3 year period. And you will still carry around a portable mouse because the 2 the thinkpad ships with are un-usable. The multi-touch trackpad on the Mac means you never see people with a macbook using and external mouse. 3 years down the track, I will sell the macbook to upgrade - I will re-coup the difference in purchase price on resale value. How long will it take you to migrate machines? I plug my new macbook in, it detects my old one on the network, asks me if I want to copy everything (including applications) an hour later the machine is IDENTICAL to my old one - settings, files, applications!! You will spend that long getting rid of IBM crapware before you even think of how you will copy all your old files and re-installing (finding DVD's or downloading files) all of your applications. And I don't pay the Windows tax and run a virus checker. How much time over the life of the machine will you waste starting/stopping windows? My macbook is usable and connected to the network by the time I open the lid. Your machine might cost less in purchase price. But I think my total cost of ownership will end up a LOT less.
> With win7 you don't have to install drivers
Depends on the hardware actually. Ironically enough, my nv9400 Mini was the biggest bother in this regard.
Of course if you get a pre-built brand name box, you're not going to have to install the drivers.
You can even do that maneuver with Linux.
No, but you are going to have to wipe the disk then re-install a fresh Win7 to get rid of all the cr@p ware loaded on by those pre-built brand name vendors.
Make mine a mac.
The touch pad is still the best selling point. Go to a coffee shop, you NEVER see a person with a mac and an external mouse, pretty much every PC user has attached an external mouse.
In other words, they've reinvented the old school computer store.
Eh, no, they have just copied what Apple have been doing for however many years!!
Ask him/her about vertebral subluxation, then ask him how Simon Singh is going. A Chiroquackter is the last person you should be asking about peer reviewed, double blind, substantial number of client, research! The media got hold of this and pushed it for all it was worth. 12 people is not a large enough sample set to change practices - it might be enough for investment in further research, but it is not enough to change practices. It is just bad science
Because that is the laptop that is the most idiot proof. Things like opening and closing the lid to put it to sleep properly - and it wakes up every time - for months on end - without rebooting.
You are forgetting to add the cost of yearly virus checking software subscription. And if you have had the same windows box without a single re-build I might not think you are telling the truth. You probably do one of those about once every 18 months.
Oh, they have a specific market. It is a computing device for the rest of the population - the ones that don't understand computers, the ones that can't upgrade their os, download the latest virus checker, or actually connect to the internet on the latest bells and whistles nokia N9whatever. This is a no fuss, no hassle, no confusion, your grandmother can use it, internet/book/information delivery/multimedia device. The market is the 95% of the population that do not 'get' computers. I can see that apple are trying to do to the computer/laptop industry what they did with the phone industry and the portable music device industry. You and I don't really need one as we have 3 laptops, a netbook, a media centre and 4 desktops all dual booting - but we still might get one.
Yes, If everyone used the numbering system and start numbering with the 2nd person on the list then it could work!
The trouble with the 'get everybody else to charge' model is that there is the BBC. Which is a publicly (very well) funded body.
The BBC will ALWAYS put news content on-line for free. They see it as a service to countries without access to 'good' news sources. The BBC does not have to make money on-line.
I pay £120 a year in TV license to the BBC so you b@stards can get free news and great documentaries and period drama for free!
You obviously have not tried to drive in Europe trying to find a small hotel in the middle of the old town then! With tiny one way streets in old town centres - lot of one way streets and dead ends. Road signs in a different languages and scripts (Greece, Turkey, Slavic regions etc)
What kind of world did you people live in? We lived in a world where installing a program was faster than ejecting a DVD.
You obviously didn't have a computer with an audio tape drive as the mass storage device, young whipper snapper!
As an Aussie living in London, whenever I go back to Aus I cannot believe how slow everything is even, at places with fast local speeds. The government needs to spend more money on the intercontinental pipes before they do this!
http://www.dilbert.com/fast/1996-01-23/ On the other hand, if you enable internet filters to things like facebook you will very quickly expose your kids to the world of hacking, ssh tunnels and external proxies!
You don't herd cats, you just put them near the mice and they turn into a ruthless and efficient killing machine!
"Progress doesn't come from early risers - progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Robert Heinlein
Oh, for a +1 funny point!
"The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people," Hitler wrote in Mein Kampf. "As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation." (sorry, pinched from an earlier thread)
The following things have been introduced under Labour Government which have probably shaped modern Australia and contributed more to it's current prosperity:
Whitlam (in less than 3 years)
established formal diplomatic relations with China
abolished Uni fees
cut tariffs by 25% and abolished the Tariff Board
introduced a supporting benefit for single-parent families;
abolished the death penalty for federal crimes.
reduced the voting age to 18 years;
abolished the last vestiges of the White Australia Policy;
introduced language programs for non-English speaking Australians;
mandated equal opportunities for women in Federal Government employment;
appointed women to judicial and administrative positions;
abolished conscription;
set up the National Aboriginal Consultative Committee;
amalgamated the five separate defence departments;
instituted direct federal grants to local governments
established Legal Aid,
increased funding for the arts
Tried to introduce universal free health care (medicare)
Hawke-Keating
economic rationalism (Deregulation,
Privatisation, a free market economy, privatisation)
Floating of the dollar
enterprise bargaining
introduction of Superannuation
reductions in trade tariffs
passed the Native Title Act