But the illusion you can do something about it. Waiting for them to fix it does not make you look good in the I.T. field as people want it fixed 5 minutes ago.
If they were clustered and used a switch there would be no outage. I assumed you had that installed as well so they could be serviced without the other workers noticing anything wrong.
I am sympathetic to the former poster where the bean counters put in trashy low end servers with no backup to save money only to have the systems go down. However its the job of the I.T. managers to demand and convince them they need the proper equipment. If not then they need to use an ASAP so your ass is covered in an outage.
Maybe I am old fashioned and cynical but any downtime is unacceptable as workers are useless without a working computer system.
Of course an increase in supply will decrease demand. Duh and obviously this judge did not take Highschool economics 101 or use common sense.
If she wants to argue its not the government's job to make competitive salaries then I would agree with her. Something doesn't seem right about this ruling and the fact that federal government already has dirt on her as another slashdotter pointed out might have something to do with it.
Well I am about 100k in college debt and was told to expect to make 12/hr when I graduate! Why did I go back to school? The economic climate is not favorable to employees right now and I would not be surprised if alot of laid of I.T. workers banded together and become more pollitically involved. I majored in B.A. and gave up in I.T. An MCSE, A+ and 2 years experience is not enough to keep a job anymore and I do not want to keep getting outsourced and shafted. \
CPAs and accountants are going to be outsourced next and lawyers. If you want a lawyer for new York state law you go to New Jersey. Why can't you fly to an Indian lawfirm where they are alot cheaper? All hell will break loose when this happens as most politicians were lawyers.
Its a liability to not have someone trully trained and professional with years of experience.
Companies like Fedex mandate it because they have been sued and lost for wrongful terminations.
Laywer: Wait you mean he did not have 10 years experience and has no computer science degree! Your honor its the employer who was neglent in hiring unqualified workers.
Judge: Agreed settlement to plaintiff.
bla bla.
THis is why geeks should get their degrees. Its nearly impossible to find work as a result of the fear of liabilities regardless of experience... and get experience too.
My wife is a school teacher in California and she has taken 3 math placement and two credential tests/certifications all to teach at an average salary with a 4 year degree but she has a masters degree. California makes becoming a teacher harder than getting an MBA or law degree with 100 hours of observation, 4 tests, and 2 years to be credentialed only to be told you need to get another two credential because the guys at Sacramental think you are still not qualified to teach.
We both are leaving California asap when I finish my degree at the end of next year for greener pastures. California has rediculous cost of living and with illegal immigration all the low end jobs are taken by non-Americans. There are people living in van's and multi family homes in nice neighborhoods here to afford the rent. My former neighbors had 3 families in one house and someone lived in the van outside. RV's are selling like gangsters not because of people traveling but because families live in them due to the high cost of living.
These people do not pay taxes which again forces the governor to pay them minimum wage.
California is in big trouble and I think the Terminator needs to be recalled like his predecessor. His predecessor left due to high budgets and poor government services. Arnold has been much much worse and the budget has been a river of red ink that has progressively been worse over the years. Its going to collapse really soon.
I am trying to switch to horde as my alliance players are already 70 and pvp sucks now for alliance with the little kids playing with them.
I am hoping it will be more exciting to see new things on the other faction but I am just doing it to kill time until Wrath of the lich king. I was disapointed when I found out that Blizzard only raised the cap to 80. People will go to 80 and now what? They should have made it to 100 and made Northrend as big as the Eastern Kingdoms.
I dunno as I do not know how big Northrend is but I am guessing its only as big as the outlands which took me a month to see it all.
I think a new rp game based on Starcraft is needed. Something new and different
I heard someone in the trade channels in Shattrah jokingly said Blizzard should buy these gold farming companies. They could make a lot of money.... I thought for a second that I would not put that under them since the merge with activision.
I bet you will be able to pay $$ for extra gold next. If that happens and the local economy inflates I may just switch to LOTR online or stop playing all together.
I do agree its a tempting slippery slope for a for-profit-shareholder owned company.
I am already mad that they made the horde and especially the turrens more powerful with the latest patch. PVP is 8-1 in favor of horde.
Maybe I do not understand LaTex? But it seems outdated and the FreeBSD handbook did make fun of it quite extensively for people thinking they are going to be artist without actually knowing what the document will look like until they print.
Postscript, Windowscript, and PDF make sure what you see on the screen is exactly what you see on a printed document.
There are commercial apps like Pagemaker too that can do this and it makes sense.
Neither is a job a right or privilege, but lets see how successful you are and how much you can eat without one?
Might as well cut off electricity and plumbing too? Communication is essential to our existence and internet is part of it.
If we had real competition we would not be in this situation. Two sources want to limit freedom on us and that is the magamonopolies and the government. The government needs to stay out and in many ways they created rules to allow this ologopoly to take place with their stupid rules, laws, and major corruption.
How many ISP's could we chose from back in the 1990's? I saw this happening and knew it was going to happen... sigh.
As the saying goes Linux is free only if your time is not worth anything.
This is what the FSF does not understand. Expensive proprietary win32 apps can make money by saving time for many businesses when there are no FOSS equilivant that is as good.
Money is something that is required to exist as much as the FOSS does not believe so. Apple is expensive as a result for those who are stuck with student loans and poor jobs such as myself but your point makes sense.
Demanding Linux be called GNU/Linux even makes linux users not like the FSF very much.
A line from Microsoft used against Oracle and Netscape during the anti trust trials was that their competitors needs to stop whining to the government and start innovating.
So the FSF should shut up and stop whinning and create great software.
Nerds and business users use what is the best and not because of its philosophy. Apple has the better mouse trap and its an expensive one at that. Xorg needs to start from scratch and create the features of aqua and software needs to follow the Opendesktop standard like what Ubuntu is trying to do. But I doubt it will work that well considering how entrenched consumers are with win32 based apps.
I live in Riverside California which is one of the top 3 areas hit by the housing bust and illegal immigration.
My parents live in Tampa Florida which is also one of the top 3 areas adversely effected by the same economic issues.
ITs really bad here in California. As an example a year ago craigslist had 15-20 jobs listed a day for the inland empire area of California. Today its about down to 5 or 6 jobs and most of them are "Work from HOME!" and other ripoffs rather than real jobs.
At the local Moreno Valley mall there are at least 6 places that are closed or having liquidation closings. Gotchalks and Toys R US are also closing in my area. Restaurants are hurting as people eat at home rather than go out. Both my wife and I were laid off a few months ago and I only received one call for an interview for a job 70 miles away. My inlaws were laid off as well and they own a cleaning company that went bankrupt as their clients decided to cut costs by having other employees clean their offices.
Where my parents live there are 4 houses on the block that were foreclosed on the people who left could not even afford to take their junk out of the house.
Your right its isolated. But when you have to pay $3,500 a month just to exist and your rent sky rockets after the APR kicks in your screwed and spending is the first thing you stop doing as you fight for your home.
Funny all of your reasons are why I switched back to Windows XP from Ubuntu.
My laptop just works with Windows. Vista is not great but it certainly is ahead of linux in terms of compatiblity and usability. My wife can use it and it mostly just works. Its not fast but it works.
Linux is great if you have the right hardware with the right drivers. If your a poor AMD user with an ati chipset your screwed. If you try to make the point that I am stupid for not chosing the right hardware ahead of time then I win the argument that windows just works.
Actually studies have shown the opposite is true. Yes the shareholders love rockstar CEO's but "Good to great" companies typically have insiders take top positions and they perform better as a result.
Rockstar CEO's are raiders and have friends who are other CEO's become part of the board of directors. THis in return means they continiously vote for salary bonuses at company expense. This practice needs to be reformed or illegal.
Insider CEO's do not get paid that excessively and care more about the company than their own ego's and wallets. They wont sell short to make a quick buck and care more about long term profitability. Yes long term growth does matter mathmatically for shareholders even though they vote otherwise thanks to their bosses.
There is a monopoly on who sets the price for CEO compensation due to the board of directors picking the CEO and having the CEO be their boss. Or like the parent suggested the actually directors work for other companies and they vote for salary increases for each other at shareholder and employee expense.
The system needs to go for publically traded companies as greed and conflict of interests are clearly at work.
THere should be an end to this in publically traded companies as its a personal conflict of interest.
THe board of directors should be made of the companies employees ( as in someone who really works for the company)and not someone who flies in twice a year to vote but works for company C fulltime. Maybe the VP's could be the board of directors but I assume another conflict of interest would arrise as the CEO would fire any one of them for not voting for a pay increase for him or herself.
The board is scared and wont touch a CEO unless their own job is on the line. Since they work for the CEO only a shareholder revolt can replace them. Maybe Icahn can actually do some good if he would invest in companies like Fannie May but I doubt he would do this as there is no money involved.
But some new regulations need to be put into effect. If I ever owned a company I would make any bonus impossible for any executive officer if a single layoff occured. Why should we buy yatchs and homes in Hawaii when Joe is going to lose his house because we laid him off?
With Yahoo the shareholders are throwing their weight around of course with Icahn at the helm they will likely toss their CEO out really soon.
But other companies its really hard to fire a CEO because the CEO picks the board of directors who in return elect the CEO. Fannie May's CEO just made $19 million in bonuses and they are about to go bankrupt. If I were a shareholder I would be calling murder and trying to get rid of this guy too. Maybe even suing him for fraudelent loans (if I were wealthy enough).
Perhaps the shareholders should have more of a say with the board of directors and CEO compensation. Someone at the board I assume would lose his or her job and friends if they did not vote for an increase in their boss performance. MEantime the CEO can give the director a performance cut back. ITs corruption fair and simple.
But AMD's board did the right thing in firing the CEO. As a shareholder I would elect a whole new board and not hire this clown either. 1.2 billion in losses is pretty incompentent.
Actually its taught in conservative economics that you can increase revenue by cutting taxes using something called the Lorenz curve. Republicans think we are on the high end of the curve and that decreases taxes would pay for the deficit by creating economic growth taunting Reagan as proof.
It worked for Reagan temporary but in the end created a huge deficit when growth couldn't be retained.
But there are alot of conservatives where I go to school who are economics majors who firmly believe are deficit was caused by high taxes in addition to large spending. ITs part of the republican party platform.
There is some truth in it mathmatically but you need to cut spending too for it to work.
Government contracts hacve specific requirements on standards and open systems.
ODF was winning but now state and federal governments will use ms office as its the new open ISO defecto standard and the ODF is not ISO approved so its considered proprietary and can't be used.
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But the illusion you can do something about it. Waiting for them to fix it does not make you look good in the I.T. field as people want it fixed 5 minutes ago.
If they were clustered and used a switch there would be no outage. I assumed you had that installed as well so they could be serviced without the other workers noticing anything wrong.
I am sympathetic to the former poster where the bean counters put in trashy low end servers with no backup to save money only to have the systems go down. However its the job of the I.T. managers to demand and convince them they need the proper equipment. If not then they need to use an ASAP so your ass is covered in an outage.
Maybe I am old fashioned and cynical but any downtime is unacceptable as workers are useless without a working computer system.
Your I.T. support staff needs to be fired.
WHat you are described is hundreds of thousands of lost dollars in productivity.
Either your business is cheap and penny wise and dollar dumb by not having redundancy or they are incompetent or both.
Good thing they do not work for me.
Of course an increase in supply will decrease demand. Duh and obviously this judge did not take Highschool economics 101 or use common sense.
If she wants to argue its not the government's job to make competitive salaries then I would agree with her. Something doesn't seem right about this ruling and the fact that federal government already has dirt on her as another slashdotter pointed out might have something to do with it.
Well I am about 100k in college debt and was told to expect to make 12/hr when I graduate! Why did I go back to school? The economic climate is not favorable to employees right now and I would not be surprised if alot of laid of I.T. workers banded together and become more pollitically involved. I majored in B.A. and gave up in I.T. An MCSE, A+ and 2 years experience is not enough to keep a job anymore and I do not want to keep getting outsourced and shafted.
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CPAs and accountants are going to be outsourced next and lawyers. If you want a lawyer for new York state law you go to New Jersey. Why can't you fly to an Indian lawfirm where they are alot cheaper? All hell will break loose when this happens as most politicians were lawyers.
THe new Vista certified ones do not work properly and even with NDIS they go in and out.
At least thats what my experience was with my AMD/ATI chipset laptop.
As a result Windows is going to stay on this notebook for awhile.
Already here brother. Prepare for the ultimate horror.
Its a liability to not have someone trully trained and professional with years of experience.
Companies like Fedex mandate it because they have been sued and lost for wrongful terminations.
Laywer: Wait you mean he did not have 10 years experience and has no computer science degree! Your honor its the employer who was neglent in hiring unqualified workers.
Judge: Agreed settlement to plaintiff.
bla bla.
THis is why geeks should get their degrees. Its nearly impossible to find work as a result of the fear of liabilities regardless of experience ... and get experience too.
My wife is a school teacher in California and she has taken 3 math placement and two credential tests/certifications all to teach at an average salary with a 4 year degree but she has a masters degree. California makes becoming a teacher harder than getting an MBA or law degree with 100 hours of observation, 4 tests, and 2 years to be credentialed only to be told you need to get another two credential because the guys at Sacramental think you are still not qualified to teach.
We both are leaving California asap when I finish my degree at the end of next year for greener pastures. California has rediculous cost of living and with illegal immigration all the low end jobs are taken by non-Americans. There are people living in van's and multi family homes in nice neighborhoods here to afford the rent. My former neighbors had 3 families in one house and someone lived in the van outside. RV's are selling like gangsters not because of people traveling but because families live in them due to the high cost of living.
These people do not pay taxes which again forces the governor to pay them minimum wage.
California is in big trouble and I think the Terminator needs to be recalled like his predecessor. His predecessor left due to high budgets and poor government services. Arnold has been much much worse and the budget has been a river of red ink that has progressively been worse over the years. Its going to collapse really soon.
I hear ya.
I am trying to switch to horde as my alliance players are already 70 and pvp sucks now for alliance with the little kids playing with them.
I am hoping it will be more exciting to see new things on the other faction but I am just doing it to kill time until Wrath of the lich king. I was disapointed when I found out that Blizzard only raised the cap to 80. People will go to 80 and now what? They should have made it to 100 and made Northrend as big as the Eastern Kingdoms.
I dunno as I do not know how big Northrend is but I am guessing its only as big as the outlands which took me a month to see it all.
I think a new rp game based on Starcraft is needed. Something new and different
I heard someone in the trade channels in Shattrah jokingly said Blizzard should buy these gold farming companies. They could make a lot of money. ... I thought for a second that I would not put that under them since the merge with activision.
I bet you will be able to pay $$ for extra gold next. If that happens and the local economy inflates I may just switch to LOTR online or stop playing all together.
I do agree its a tempting slippery slope for a for-profit-shareholder owned company.
I am already mad that they made the horde and especially the turrens more powerful with the latest patch. PVP is 8-1 in favor of horde.
WYSWYG is how things will look like printed.
Maybe I do not understand LaTex? But it seems outdated and the FreeBSD handbook did make fun of it quite extensively for people thinking they are going to be artist without actually knowing what the document will look like until they print.
Postscript, Windowscript, and PDF make sure what you see on the screen is exactly what you see on a printed document.
There are commercial apps like Pagemaker too that can do this and it makes sense.
Neither is a job a right or privilege, but lets see how successful you are and how much you can eat without one?
Might as well cut off electricity and plumbing too? Communication is essential to our existence and internet is part of it.
If we had real competition we would not be in this situation. Two sources want to limit freedom on us and that is the magamonopolies and the government. The government needs to stay out and in many ways they created rules to allow this ologopoly to take place with their stupid rules, laws, and major corruption.
How many ISP's could we chose from back in the 1990's? I saw this happening and knew it was going to happen ... sigh.
As the saying goes Linux is free only if your time is not worth anything.
This is what the FSF does not understand. Expensive proprietary win32 apps can make money by saving time for many businesses when there are no FOSS equilivant that is as good.
Money is something that is required to exist as much as the FOSS does not believe so. Apple is expensive as a result for those who are stuck with student loans and poor jobs such as myself but your point makes sense.
Demanding Linux be called GNU/Linux even makes linux users not like the FSF very much.
A line from Microsoft used against Oracle and Netscape during the anti trust trials was that their competitors needs to stop whining to the government and start innovating.
So the FSF should shut up and stop whinning and create great software.
Nerds and business users use what is the best and not because of its philosophy. Apple has the better mouse trap and its an expensive one at that. Xorg needs to start from scratch and create the features of aqua and software needs to follow the Opendesktop standard like what Ubuntu is trying to do. But I doubt it will work that well considering how entrenched consumers are with win32 based apps.
Well my notebook had a ton of issues with linux. Wifi kept going in and out and my desktop would freeze if I used the ati driver
I live in Riverside California which is one of the top 3 areas hit by the housing bust and illegal immigration.
My parents live in Tampa Florida which is also one of the top 3 areas adversely effected by the same economic issues.
ITs really bad here in California. As an example a year ago craigslist had 15-20 jobs listed a day for the inland empire area of California. Today its about down to 5 or 6 jobs and most of them are "Work from HOME!" and other ripoffs rather than real jobs.
At the local Moreno Valley mall there are at least 6 places that are closed or having liquidation closings. Gotchalks and Toys R US are also closing in my area. Restaurants are hurting as people eat at home rather than go out. Both my wife and I were laid off a few months ago and I only received one call for an interview for a job 70 miles away. My inlaws were laid off as well and they own a cleaning company that went bankrupt as their clients decided to cut costs by having other employees clean their offices.
Where my parents live there are 4 houses on the block that were foreclosed on the people who left could not even afford to take their junk out of the house.
Your right its isolated. But when you have to pay $3,500 a month just to exist and your rent sky rockets after the APR kicks in your screwed and spending is the first thing you stop doing as you fight for your home.
Which is exactly why Linux is so popular in servers. OEM's make sure their servers run it well ... mostly.
Linux has a long way to go and for desktop use I switched back to Windows as OSX is too expensive for my current budget.
Explain to grandma how to apt-get or run YUM and why MS Word can't seem to run.
ITs a catch-22 and Linux needs a standard GUI and some apps but ISV's wont develop non server apps unless the market moves in that direction first.
Funny all of your reasons are why I switched back to Windows XP from Ubuntu.
My laptop just works with Windows. Vista is not great but it certainly is ahead of linux in terms of compatiblity and usability. My wife can use it and it mostly just works. Its not fast but it works.
Linux is great if you have the right hardware with the right drivers. If your a poor AMD user with an ati chipset your screwed. If you try to make the point that I am stupid for not chosing the right hardware ahead of time then I win the argument that windows just works.
Actually studies have shown the opposite is true. Yes the shareholders love rockstar CEO's but "Good to great" companies typically have insiders take top positions and they perform better as a result.
Rockstar CEO's are raiders and have friends who are other CEO's become part of the board of directors. THis in return means they continiously vote for salary bonuses at company expense. This practice needs to be reformed or illegal.
Insider CEO's do not get paid that excessively and care more about the company than their own ego's and wallets. They wont sell short to make a quick buck and care more about long term profitability. Yes long term growth does matter mathmatically for shareholders even though they vote otherwise thanks to their bosses.
Its a lack of a free market.
There is a monopoly on who sets the price for CEO compensation due to the board of directors picking the CEO and having the CEO be their boss. Or like the parent suggested the actually directors work for other companies and they vote for salary increases for each other at shareholder and employee expense.
The system needs to go for publically traded companies as greed and conflict of interests are clearly at work.
THere should be an end to this in publically traded companies as its a personal conflict of interest.
THe board of directors should be made of the companies employees ( as in someone who really works for the company)and not someone who flies in twice a year to vote but works for company C fulltime. Maybe the VP's could be the board of directors but I assume another conflict of interest would arrise as the CEO would fire any one of them for not voting for a pay increase for him or herself.
The board is scared and wont touch a CEO unless their own job is on the line. Since they work for the CEO only a shareholder revolt can replace them. Maybe Icahn can actually do some good if he would invest in companies like Fannie May but I doubt he would do this as there is no money involved.
But some new regulations need to be put into effect. If I ever owned a company I would make any bonus impossible for any executive officer if a single layoff occured. Why should we buy yatchs and homes in Hawaii when Joe is going to lose his house because we laid him off?
Good point.
With Yahoo the shareholders are throwing their weight around of course with Icahn at the helm they will likely toss their CEO out really soon.
But other companies its really hard to fire a CEO because the CEO picks the board of directors who in return elect the CEO. Fannie May's CEO just made $19 million in bonuses and they are about to go bankrupt. If I were a shareholder I would be calling murder and trying to get rid of this guy too. Maybe even suing him for fraudelent loans (if I were wealthy enough).
Perhaps the shareholders should have more of a say with the board of directors and CEO compensation. Someone at the board I assume would lose his or her job and friends if they did not vote for an increase in their boss performance. MEantime the CEO can give the director a performance cut back. ITs corruption fair and simple.
But AMD's board did the right thing in firing the CEO. As a shareholder I would elect a whole new board and not hire this clown either. 1.2 billion in losses is pretty incompentent.
Alot cheaper and its legal to use a copy of XP OEM edition if you have the OEM edition of Vista.
Its alot cheaper and screams with only 1 gig of ram. ITs much faster and quicker and no compatiblity problems at all and no ugly black gui.
Actually its taught in conservative economics that you can increase revenue by cutting taxes using something called the Lorenz curve. Republicans think we are on the high end of the curve and that decreases taxes would pay for the deficit by creating economic growth taunting Reagan as proof.
It worked for Reagan temporary but in the end created a huge deficit when growth couldn't be retained.
But there are alot of conservatives where I go to school who are economics majors who firmly believe are deficit was caused by high taxes in addition to large spending. ITs part of the republican party platform.
There is some truth in it mathmatically but you need to cut spending too for it to work.
Government contracts hacve specific requirements on standards and open systems.
ODF was winning but now state and federal governments will use ms office as its the new open ISO defecto standard and the ODF is not ISO approved so its considered proprietary and can't be used.
MS Office just won millions of new installations.