I have personally seen the whole write a job description to promote someone thing happen on several occasions. More often in Government work but I have seen similar things happen in private business as well.
I'm not sure that is why so many job descriptions are so specific though as I'm not sure that is happening at nearly the rate that I see job descriptions with 20+ paragraph long requirements.
So why were you driving a 100 miles an hour down the interstate when you weren't responding to a call? I see it pretty often around here...no siren, just one cop driving down the shoulder of the road passing traffic.....
I am a fairly heavy daily user of my phone for various purposes and still have 19.2 gigs free on my 32 gb phone. I used to be highly concerned about having an SD card but in general now I don't have any actual need for one for the vast majority of my usage. All this to say, to each their own, I would rather have a top of the line phone selling for $350 off contract than a phone running someone's crapped up version of Android so I can use an SD card.
Server to sysadmin ratio, if they really only have 90 sysadmins left then I'd say it was pretty much astronomical compared to most companies. This is an organization with a multi-exabyte facility coming online soon. They capture all phone and internet traffic in the US and beyond. Sure they probably contract some of this work but I'm guessing they 90 are either going to be massively over worked or they are really just shifting the load somewhere else.
The reality is that what they are probably doing is just expecting the other employees there to do the admin's work. The thought being "hey we have lots of smart techie people". I have seen many gov divisions with very little IT support available....they usually still limp along painfully but very inefficiently. In the end this probably going to cost tax payers more than it saves.
I've seen this on several sites, is this news to anyone?? Did you miss it many years ago when this was added? You know what, when someone is physically on my machine while its logged in, they can also send emails from my account!! Its just right there ready to go! We need to do something about this!
Interesting, I have heard many people complain how much better the iOS version of Google apps work compared to their Android counterparts. I doubt Google is intentionally gimping either product.
As a windows media center user I have to say that this is the one place I think they got it right. If they had made a more TV friendly layer for the desktop it would be perfect for me. Its way better than any other set top box system I've seen, I can watch blu-ray movies, watch any video on the internet, record TV, etc. Otherwise yes I have no idea why they are insisting on alienating their users. Seems like they're banking on the average consumer being too little informed or too stupid to care.....not really a bad bet to make, but sad.
Its interesting to me how many people here pretty much just want to push anything to the absolute maximum. I bought this bandwidth I MUST be able to use to 24/7 at max level or its broken and I'm being ripped off! Not mentioning a limit on the marketing brochure != unlimited, you need to read the agreement for that. Plus I don't think there was a limit set based on the description of the call, the rep said that what he was doing was violating his TOS, he didn't say it was the usage level, it was all the other things that he was doing.
4% of GDP, interesting measure. Saying it this way artificially makes it seem small, GDP is everything our entire country collectively spends together. Take it a different way and say it is ~25% of all Government spending or around 50% of all non-mandatory Government spending.
I think you missed the part where I said "my job is much better". My schedule is great, I work normal hours get things done on a schedule that is mostly well maintained and fits in my life.
I hate this culture. I see it everywhere. My wife works 10-12 hour days then gets home and has to respond to emails for an hour or two after dinner. She has to do that just to meet expectations....needless to say I'm hoping we can find her a new job.
My job is much better but its still here, I just choose to ignore it and can get away with doing so. My manager just had a new kid (well his wife did) and get was back at work the next day and working his normal 12 hour day. A woman I work with had a baby and didn't even take a month off, she was back at work full time.
Disgusting if you ask me and I think a far bigger cause of our societal problems than anything else out there. If you can't enjoy life or be bothered to care for you family then what are you doing this for??
I recently decided to try my hand at some mobile app development after 15+ years of programming experience with mostly other non-related tools. The setup was just painful, it took me an entire weekend of tinkering around trying to figure out (ie google search) why various things weren't working/not compiling etc. Once I figured out the methods of getting things setup that works, its fine now and I have been working away with few issues and could start over again in no time. The problem though is that until I learned the the various tool's failure points it was a huge pain.
I've seen things like this happen in classes and new people at work. Once you know a tool you can get going without issue but until then its this painful thing you have to deal with that is problem that is largely not interesting or fun to deal with.
I have a Transformer Prime, with the keyboard attached its as useful (form wise) as any small laptop would be. It just needs more productivity programs. I tried for a while to program on it but it wasn't worth the extra effort. This isn't due to its form factor so much as with the apps on it.
I find it completely odd that people have so many preconceived notions for what a smart phone or tablet can and can't be. They's computers, pretty darn powerful ones. I would be completely happy replacing most of my other computing devices with something like the Asus Padfone 2 if the apps were up to it.
Well the 5% who have a phone with NFC and Android ICS are in trouble huh? I wasn't saying that the discussion isn't interesting I'm just saying that the OP's comment that we have to focus on finding a solution isn't really relevant since it's already fixed in the OS and NFC can be disabled if you haven't been updated.
Missed the part about walking down the street, ok so what other anonymous situations do you see? On the bus? Or are we talking about pickpockets? I can see this as an issue for non-anonymous situations (I know that guy and his phone is vulnerable) but for random situations I can't see a lot that would be overly successful. Perhaps you can help me see some of these situations instead of just cussing at me and calling me names?
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I have personally seen the whole write a job description to promote someone thing happen on several occasions. More often in Government work but I have seen similar things happen in private business as well. I'm not sure that is why so many job descriptions are so specific though as I'm not sure that is happening at nearly the rate that I see job descriptions with 20+ paragraph long requirements.
So why were you driving a 100 miles an hour down the interstate when you weren't responding to a call? I see it pretty often around here...no siren, just one cop driving down the shoulder of the road passing traffic.....
I am a fairly heavy daily user of my phone for various purposes and still have 19.2 gigs free on my 32 gb phone. I used to be highly concerned about having an SD card but in general now I don't have any actual need for one for the vast majority of my usage. All this to say, to each their own, I would rather have a top of the line phone selling for $350 off contract than a phone running someone's crapped up version of Android so I can use an SD card.
I don't think "Jonny's just lost his first tooth" qualifies and investigative journalism.
Server to sysadmin ratio, if they really only have 90 sysadmins left then I'd say it was pretty much astronomical compared to most companies. This is an organization with a multi-exabyte facility coming online soon. They capture all phone and internet traffic in the US and beyond. Sure they probably contract some of this work but I'm guessing they 90 are either going to be massively over worked or they are really just shifting the load somewhere else.
The reality is that what they are probably doing is just expecting the other employees there to do the admin's work. The thought being "hey we have lots of smart techie people". I have seen many gov divisions with very little IT support available....they usually still limp along painfully but very inefficiently. In the end this probably going to cost tax payers more than it saves.
I've seen this on several sites, is this news to anyone?? Did you miss it many years ago when this was added? You know what, when someone is physically on my machine while its logged in, they can also send emails from my account!! Its just right there ready to go! We need to do something about this!
Interesting, I have heard many people complain how much better the iOS version of Google apps work compared to their Android counterparts. I doubt Google is intentionally gimping either product.
As a windows media center user I have to say that this is the one place I think they got it right. If they had made a more TV friendly layer for the desktop it would be perfect for me. Its way better than any other set top box system I've seen, I can watch blu-ray movies, watch any video on the internet, record TV, etc. Otherwise yes I have no idea why they are insisting on alienating their users. Seems like they're banking on the average consumer being too little informed or too stupid to care.....not really a bad bet to make, but sad.
Well for android with hdmi out and a keyboard and mouse it can become a device that is in many ways both a desktop and tablet.
Did you read his terms of service? Were they posted? Maybe I missed them.
77 trillion tons.
Its interesting to me how many people here pretty much just want to push anything to the absolute maximum. I bought this bandwidth I MUST be able to use to 24/7 at max level or its broken and I'm being ripped off! Not mentioning a limit on the marketing brochure != unlimited, you need to read the agreement for that. Plus I don't think there was a limit set based on the description of the call, the rep said that what he was doing was violating his TOS, he didn't say it was the usage level, it was all the other things that he was doing.
4% of GDP, interesting measure. Saying it this way artificially makes it seem small, GDP is everything our entire country collectively spends together. Take it a different way and say it is ~25% of all Government spending or around 50% of all non-mandatory Government spending.
I think you missed the part where I said "my job is much better". My schedule is great, I work normal hours get things done on a schedule that is mostly well maintained and fits in my life.
I hate this culture. I see it everywhere. My wife works 10-12 hour days then gets home and has to respond to emails for an hour or two after dinner. She has to do that just to meet expectations....needless to say I'm hoping we can find her a new job.
My job is much better but its still here, I just choose to ignore it and can get away with doing so. My manager just had a new kid (well his wife did) and get was back at work the next day and working his normal 12 hour day. A woman I work with had a baby and didn't even take a month off, she was back at work full time.
Disgusting if you ask me and I think a far bigger cause of our societal problems than anything else out there. If you can't enjoy life or be bothered to care for you family then what are you doing this for??
I recently decided to try my hand at some mobile app development after 15+ years of programming experience with mostly other non-related tools. The setup was just painful, it took me an entire weekend of tinkering around trying to figure out (ie google search) why various things weren't working/not compiling etc. Once I figured out the methods of getting things setup that works, its fine now and I have been working away with few issues and could start over again in no time. The problem though is that until I learned the the various tool's failure points it was a huge pain.
I've seen things like this happen in classes and new people at work. Once you know a tool you can get going without issue but until then its this painful thing you have to deal with that is problem that is largely not interesting or fun to deal with.
What this guy said!
I have a Transformer Prime, with the keyboard attached its as useful (form wise) as any small laptop would be. It just needs more productivity programs. I tried for a while to program on it but it wasn't worth the extra effort. This isn't due to its form factor so much as with the apps on it.
I find it completely odd that people have so many preconceived notions for what a smart phone or tablet can and can't be. They's computers, pretty darn powerful ones. I would be completely happy replacing most of my other computing devices with something like the Asus Padfone 2 if the apps were up to it.
Best and truest comment ever.
I did some searching and you do in fact have to agree to install the program. Even then you have to have accept unknown sources enabled.
You spend your date nights trying to figure out your date's cup size? Wow sad....who are you Barney Stinson?
Hey some random woman rubs up against me 185 times...I will get suspicious! 184....just good times.
Well the 5% who have a phone with NFC and Android ICS are in trouble huh? I wasn't saying that the discussion isn't interesting I'm just saying that the OP's comment that we have to focus on finding a solution isn't really relevant since it's already fixed in the OS and NFC can be disabled if you haven't been updated.
184 though....I'd just sit back and enjoy it.
Well based on the article it sounds like its already fixed in the current version of Android. So not much to focus on I suppose?
Missed the part about walking down the street, ok so what other anonymous situations do you see? On the bus? Or are we talking about pickpockets? I can see this as an issue for non-anonymous situations (I know that guy and his phone is vulnerable) but for random situations I can't see a lot that would be overly successful. Perhaps you can help me see some of these situations instead of just cussing at me and calling me names?