"And the sons of Marketing fashioned themselves Suits to wear, the better to lure their customers, and wrote grave and perilous Licenses, the better to bind the Systems."
I see very little chance of Apple using Bing as the default search provider on the iPhone. More likely they'd want MS to provide ultra compatible Office apps for the iPhone to help them get into the business smartphone market, competing directly with RIM / Blackberry.
The problem is, even if you knock down their satellites they're going to retaliate on the ground in your largest populated cities. And they don't need their satellites to do that.
I don't know if this is proper use of the term or not, and frankly I don't care. It's really fucking annoying and I wish people would stop using "reboot" in a non-shutdown-a-computer-OS-and-start-it-up-again" sense. This use of the word makes me want to stab someone in the eye.
In order to REboot a production it must be booted in the first place, correct? So I've booted my slashdot comment. And the Spider-Man franchise was booted a few years ago. See how fucktarded that sounds? Well "reboot" in this context sounds just as dumb.
Your use of "eddress" doesn't help your counter-point;) Also, by your own explanation you don't provide your Hotmail address for real-world communication. It's essentially a trash can.
I think you've done more for my argument than any counter argument.
I think the job position has to be taken into account. We were recently hiring for an IT role and had applicants with hotmail, AOL, gmail, yahoo, and personal domain email addresses. One of the main things we do is provide email to our clients. Anyone running their own mail server is clearly ahead of the game. Anyone still using AOL or Hotmail hasn't paid enough attention to email to be concerned with spam filtering or other quality services. We still interviewed these people, and my coworkers might not have held it against them, but anyone using a Hotmail address has serious marks against them for a mail administrator role, the way I see it.
But a job that isn't an IT role, you can't expect them to know better;)
In XP and Vista I've had issues with "Win+L" causing a 'stuck key' situation. It's been heavily discussed and apparently patched in service packs but I continued to have the problem until I stopped using Win+L several months ago. I'm looking forward to trying it again in 7 but I'm not holding my breath either.
While I was the sys admin for a small ad agency of 50 to 75 users (fluctuated monthly) my boss claimed that he read or spoke with other companies who were operating with a 50:1 ratio. Granted, ad agencies can be a bit unique with a very mixed technology environment and REALLY difficult users, but it worked for me. Most of the time I was fixing failed systems but I still had time to implement newer / better technology to resolve reoccurring issues.
I think what a larger company needs is a support staff that is busy 80% of the day with some good down time, and then a fair number of individuals who are working on more permanent solutions to the bigger problems. There are too many variables involved to give a definitive ratio of users:admins, but the work load is key. You don't want those guys staying late every day, and you don't want them sitting around bored either.
Probably the most effective thing to do would be to have them document their time somehow. There are apps to help with this. Guard against scaring them into giving you false information - sometimes employees fear that they are being watched and may falsify their claimed work load and you end up hiring people to compensate the inflated demand.
Seems an awful lot like the Lego mosaics that people make. Lego also did a mosaic product for a while where you could upload an image and they would send you parts and instructions for making the image with 1x1 Lego plates.
I believe there is even software now to make the 'maps' yourself, much like cross-stitch, etc.
While full time and salaried I was the only IT personnel on staff and was effectively on call 24 / 7. Fortunately the staff of ~65 only needed me on a rare occasion, which I took non-monetary compensation in the form of vacation hours equal to the time I spent fixing problems during non office hours. It worked for us in that situation.
At my current job I've somehow regressed to hourly full time and do on call in shifts. Here I record the time I spend working while on call after business hours and include it on my time sheet. I either let it be overtime (x1.5) or just leave early on Friday. This works for my current employer.
During a very short lived contract position my employer arranged service contracts with his clients and I got a share of the contracts for the clients I was "on call" for.I guess you could call it a retainer fee.
Chalk or dry erase boards tend to be hard to see, especially with the prof standing in front of it. Electronic presentations can display far more information in text that you can actually read with proper diagrams or photographs to illustrate a point - many of us are visual learners and accuracy makes a difference. And at the end of the lecture the profs often distribute the document by email to the class. So the speed of the lecture is irrelevant as you get THE LECTURE to take home.
Server class machines are still much better. The last server I replaced was 12 years old. Died of a lightning strike.
Not to mention modern computers do a hell of a lot more than a computer from 30 years ago. There's plenty more to fail in my desktop PC than there was in whatever was controlling this traffic system.
I'm ok with this, so long as the genes are removed from the pool.
How about, "You have bad genes and we're so empathetic that we're lowering your punishment. And because we don't want anyone else to suffer like you do, we're preventing you from procreating."
I remember when that ad came out. I was so pissed. Apple preys on people who have no concept of the scale of computing and this campaign really got under my skin. Now I just laugh at it, but they're still advertising this way, with their comparison charts and graphs touting biggest and best with comparisons to competitors' computing hardware from years past.
"The almost completely guided setup process means that people can set up relatively sophisticated services without the assistance of someone who actually knows what they are doing."
...call me skeptical on that one.
Where I regularly support such skepticism, I went through the setup on an XServe years ago (single G5 CPU - years ago!) and it was indeed fairly simple. I can only imagine they've gotten much better with age and significantly more features as well.
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"And the sons of Marketing fashioned themselves Suits to wear, the better to lure their customers, and wrote grave and perilous Licenses, the better to bind the Systems."
Gospel of Tux
No matter how much ass kissing you do, Steve will never give you free Apple products. So just stop.
I see very little chance of Apple using Bing as the default search provider on the iPhone. More likely they'd want MS to provide ultra compatible Office apps for the iPhone to help them get into the business smartphone market, competing directly with RIM / Blackberry.
Did Not Finish? ;)
The problem is, even if you knock down their satellites they're going to retaliate on the ground in your largest populated cities. And they don't need their satellites to do that.
I don't know if this is proper use of the term or not, and frankly I don't care. It's really fucking annoying and I wish people would stop using "reboot" in a non-shutdown-a-computer-OS-and-start-it-up-again" sense. This use of the word makes me want to stab someone in the eye.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/reboot
http://www.google.com/dictionary?aq=f&langpair=en|en&q=reboot&hl=en
In order to REboot a production it must be booted in the first place, correct? So I've booted my slashdot comment. And the Spider-Man franchise was booted a few years ago. See how fucktarded that sounds? Well "reboot" in this context sounds just as dumb.
Your use of "eddress" doesn't help your counter-point ;) Also, by your own explanation you don't provide your Hotmail address for real-world communication. It's essentially a trash can.
I think you've done more for my argument than any counter argument.
I think the job position has to be taken into account. We were recently hiring for an IT role and had applicants with hotmail, AOL, gmail, yahoo, and personal domain email addresses. One of the main things we do is provide email to our clients. Anyone running their own mail server is clearly ahead of the game. Anyone still using AOL or Hotmail hasn't paid enough attention to email to be concerned with spam filtering or other quality services. We still interviewed these people, and my coworkers might not have held it against them, but anyone using a Hotmail address has serious marks against them for a mail administrator role, the way I see it.
But a job that isn't an IT role, you can't expect them to know better ;)
In XP and Vista I've had issues with "Win+L" causing a 'stuck key' situation. It's been heavily discussed and apparently patched in service packs but I continued to have the problem until I stopped using Win+L several months ago. I'm looking forward to trying it again in 7 but I'm not holding my breath either.
Spain is doing something similar. But different.
http://www.power-technology.com/projects/Seville-Solar-Tower/
Hah, I actually put "filling out timesheet" on my timesheet ;) No one has questioned it yet ...
While I was the sys admin for a small ad agency of 50 to 75 users (fluctuated monthly) my boss claimed that he read or spoke with other companies who were operating with a 50:1 ratio. Granted, ad agencies can be a bit unique with a very mixed technology environment and REALLY difficult users, but it worked for me. Most of the time I was fixing failed systems but I still had time to implement newer / better technology to resolve reoccurring issues.
I think what a larger company needs is a support staff that is busy 80% of the day with some good down time, and then a fair number of individuals who are working on more permanent solutions to the bigger problems. There are too many variables involved to give a definitive ratio of users:admins, but the work load is key. You don't want those guys staying late every day, and you don't want them sitting around bored either.
Probably the most effective thing to do would be to have them document their time somehow. There are apps to help with this. Guard against scaring them into giving you false information - sometimes employees fear that they are being watched and may falsify their claimed work load and you end up hiring people to compensate the inflated demand.
Hollywood couldn't come up with "Giant Robots Attacking A Modern City" ?? I'm not a movie aficionado, but dudes, that's been done before.
Seems an awful lot like the Lego mosaics that people make. Lego also did a mosaic product for a while where you could upload an image and they would send you parts and instructions for making the image with 1x1 Lego plates.
I believe there is even software now to make the 'maps' yourself, much like cross-stitch, etc.
While full time and salaried I was the only IT personnel on staff and was effectively on call 24 / 7. Fortunately the staff of ~65 only needed me on a rare occasion, which I took non-monetary compensation in the form of vacation hours equal to the time I spent fixing problems during non office hours. It worked for us in that situation.
At my current job I've somehow regressed to hourly full time and do on call in shifts. Here I record the time I spend working while on call after business hours and include it on my time sheet. I either let it be overtime (x1.5) or just leave early on Friday. This works for my current employer.
During a very short lived contract position my employer arranged service contracts with his clients and I got a share of the contracts for the clients I was "on call" for.I guess you could call it a retainer fee.
It's very situation dependent.
Chalk or dry erase boards tend to be hard to see, especially with the prof standing in front of it. Electronic presentations can display far more information in text that you can actually read with proper diagrams or photographs to illustrate a point - many of us are visual learners and accuracy makes a difference. And at the end of the lecture the profs often distribute the document by email to the class. So the speed of the lecture is irrelevant as you get THE LECTURE to take home.
Well, I use cable for internet, but I don't pay another $40 a month for crapvision.
Cable TV free and proud, two years running.
Improve your life. Cancel your subscription.
Rube Goldberg is my hero.
True enough for consumer grade gear.
Server class machines are still much better.
The last server I replaced was 12 years old. Died of a lightning strike.
Not to mention modern computers do a hell of a lot more than a computer from 30 years ago. There's plenty more to fail in my desktop PC than there was in whatever was controlling this traffic system.
I'm ok with this, so long as the genes are removed from the pool.
How about, "You have bad genes and we're so empathetic that we're lowering your punishment. And because we don't want anyone else to suffer like you do, we're preventing you from procreating."
I think I could get behind that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Eb1yih5kNY
I remember when that ad came out. I was so pissed. Apple preys on people who have no concept of the scale of computing and this campaign really got under my skin. Now I just laugh at it, but they're still advertising this way, with their comparison charts and graphs touting biggest and best with comparisons to competitors' computing hardware from years past.
I find this post interesting considering the current slashdot poll is about linear footage of shelved books in your home.
http://slashdot.org/pollBooth.pl?qid=1871&aid=-1
And another article discussing the loss of available "internet"
http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/09/10/24/2347248/What-If-They-Turned-Off-the-Internet?art_pos=11
Once again, Sci-Fi begets reality. This time toys go to the battlefield.
http://www.toyarchive.com/STAForSale/NEW2001+/GiJoe/MOSC/AFAPacRatMachineGun85a.jpg
I believe there were three, and I had all of them as a kid. Seems like they were super flimsy and basically fell apart without even touching them.
"The almost completely guided setup process means that people can set up relatively sophisticated services without the assistance of someone who actually knows what they are doing."
...call me skeptical on that one.
Where I regularly support such skepticism, I went through the setup on an XServe years ago (single G5 CPU - years ago!) and it was indeed fairly simple. I can only imagine they've gotten much better with age and significantly more features as well.