Alaska is as close to a socialist state we have in this country. Everybody who lives there is on the government dole. It's all about how much pork you can bring back to the state, and Stevens has been the king of it. So I wouldn't count him out too fast.
They're not like us regular folks down here in the lower 48.
Clearly this isn't a financial company as SOX compliance requires a written document trail of why decisions effecting profit/loss were made.
Fascinating, and while I actually disagree with the contention over this particular story, i wouldn't work for a company that questioned me writing a document trail for a requirement.
(In this story, I'd go ahead and do the screen scrape pointing out the caveats. A TOS violation won't get you in legal trouble, it'll just get your companies IP address blocked from the website.)
Why anyone would trust any online system with anything that could cost them a job, impact their credit, prevent them from receiving health insurance, prevent them from being considered from a job, put-your-privacy-concern-here, etc.... is beyond me.
I'm assuming that you can't use the online system to insert records.
Most jobs anymore run a criminal background check. I know the last company I worked at changed their policy after they hired a guy who was running a side business that turned out to be a Brothel.
Funny, the guy used to talk about himself as a Small Business owner with great pride. We'll call him Joe the Pimp.
I've only ever had bad experience with Maxtor drives. Can't say I've used Samsung, and the only Hitachi I ever had was a 7200 rpm drive in my notebook.
Western Digital and Seagate I'd rank pretty even. The only caveat is never buy the first generation of any Seagate technology. So say a 1.5TB drive... wait until the second generation models come out and they got the bugs worked out.
Neither communism or socialism or capitalism or a democratic republic are free of negatives, but it is the communist and socialist systems that are so much more susceptible to corruption.
This was obviously not written from a Neutral Point of View.:-)
I'm going to have to think about this claim. You don't seem to really be supporting it with any good examples, and it's not clear to me what this has to do with wikipedia.
Wiki certainly has some problems with corruption, as they've moved to a model which relies less on the wisdom of the crowds and more on a select few who seem to control the content for their own motives.
But it's not clear to me that this is representative of socialism, or any political ideology.
Wikipedia is susceptible to corruption. When Jimmy Wales moves on, I can almost bet money that the next 'owner' of Wikipedia will find more ways to quickly monetize the content myself and thousands (millions?) of others have provided to benefit themselves and their immediate cadre of editors/admins to the exclusion of the rest of us who created the value and power of what they now control.
Wouldn't this be an example of capitalism, and not communism?
I think this idea of trying to measure admins to servers ratio is nearly impossible without addressing what the servers actually do. Database servers may require more work than web servers, etc.
Regardless, interesting anecdotal evidence...
The company I worked for merged with a sister company. We were a Windows shop and they were Unix. Their IT staff was amazed to find out that our Windows admin staff was three times more efficient then their Unix admin staff. Primarily because our staff had automated virtually everything, server installs, patch deployment, inhouse application installs, etc. Also they had built hundreds of custom applications, each with their own system for managing users and passwords, whereas our users had their Windows account. Since each business user may have to maintain several dozen username/password combinations, their staff was spending half of their time just setting up users and managing password resets and the other half installing new servers.
It's totally how you use the servers, not just tasks, but operations, development and so on. Piss Poor Planning yields Poor Results.
That's a really bad article. Wow, worse then anything I remember them writing before.
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Turbo Pascal's claim to fame was that you could buy it for about $50.
I seem to recall the first IDE I worked with was UCSD Pascal on an Apple II circa 1980 or so. Although in that case, it was more of an emulator, as UCSD used a virtual machine concept to run your code, similar to what Java does.
I just did the all important Monster.com search in my state. There's overlap in results, as a search for Java also yields Javascript results. If one subtracts those, Java jobs are about equal with C#.
Thanks! I don't think we can have a proper discussion about how Democrats feel entitled to their money without pointing to the large number of Democrats who have made substantial fortunes.
I would tend to agree, that the main problem that IT suffers from is management.
I don't know how it is at other companies, but the last few places I have worked IT managers generally have been technology guys who didn't understand technology and decided to get into management. Few of them were at all interested in actual management. They weren't attending MBA classes, they weren't reading books on management. They just saw a big paycheck and that's it.
More often then not these managers have not only been bad at making technology decisions, but worse they don't know how to manage people.
The end result has been IT staff who have no priorities, no guidance, and no ability to make a final decision. So projects wonder along endlessly. Not to mention destroyed morale.
I have an HD-DVD, Blu-Ray, and regular DVD connected to a 46" 1080p LCD I just bought this past year.
The difference is not noticeable enough. The main thing I've noticed between the two is like say an actor is standing in front of a brick wall. With DVD you know it's a brick wall. With blu-ray you see it's a brick wall and you can see detail of the bricks.
It's not nearly as great of a jump as going from VHS to DVD was, where even on a crappy TV you said "WOW!"
Surprisingly where I've encountered the greatest difference is actually in the audio. With the DolbyHD or DTSHD encoded discs, it's quite a difference. Much more of the ambients are there, birds in the background, etc.
I'm not saying it was brilliant. I'm saying it was a trap, and the Democrats walked into it.
I guess I'm not buying this. Ignore the top ticket polls. Why do the polls on Palin's favorability show her not doing very well?
You claim it was a trap. The premise being that Palin is used to Alaska politics where she can brand all those who question her as Haters. I agree, that I believe this was an aspect of the McCain campaigns reason for picking her. You could see this strategy play out in the early days where Palin pumped up the fact that she was a woman, and all the shills were out claiming people who didn't like her just didn't like a strong woman, etc.
But isn't this the exact same strategy that Hillary Clinton employed? And didn't it fail.
Seems to me Obama was battle hardened and knew how to deal with this strategy, and the McCains hadn't a clue.
Witness how McCain grossly overreacted on the lipstick on a pig comment, which is when things started going badly for him in the polls well before this weeks financial meltdown.
I never saw Obama attack Palin personally. They pointed out problems in her record, problems with her speeches. But they didn't go after anything personal.
Sure, there may have been some personal attacks out on the blogs, or on the media, but they didn't come from the Obama campaign.
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"I'm tired of hearing this nonsense over and over again."
Come on. Give 'em a break. They voted for George Bush. This is the last unraveling thread they have to believe in. :-)
I just looked and the trial is scheduled to start Dec 2,2008.
So it seems a bit of a stretch to claim nobody wants to pursue it.
This is Alaska we are talking about.
Alaska is as close to a socialist state we have in this country. Everybody who lives there is on the government dole. It's all about how much pork you can bring back to the state, and Stevens has been the king of it. So I wouldn't count him out too fast.
They're not like us regular folks down here in the lower 48.
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What this poster said may not have been politically correct, but it's hard to deny he's wrong.
Yes absolutely!
They believe wealthy campaign donors should help you furnish your house, instead of government furniture welfare checks.
Clearly this isn't a financial company as SOX compliance requires a written document trail of why decisions effecting profit/loss were made.
Fascinating, and while I actually disagree with the contention over this particular story, i wouldn't work for a company that questioned me writing a document trail for a requirement.
(In this story, I'd go ahead and do the screen scrape pointing out the caveats. A TOS violation won't get you in legal trouble, it'll just get your companies IP address blocked from the website.)
I'm assuming that you can't use the online system to insert records.
Most jobs anymore run a criminal background check. I know the last company I worked at changed their policy after they hired a guy who was running a side business that turned out to be a Brothel.
Funny, the guy used to talk about himself as a Small Business owner with great pride. We'll call him Joe the Pimp.
Funny, I've got this 15.3% tax on my income working for the man.
It's called FICA.
I think you've just proven the OP's point, that you don't understand the reality of your situation.
I find that impressive, that they're keeping an audit trail of everybody who accesses a record in the DMV database.
Interesting.
I've only ever had bad experience with Maxtor drives. Can't say I've used Samsung, and the only Hitachi I ever had was a 7200 rpm drive in my notebook.
Western Digital and Seagate I'd rank pretty even. The only caveat is never buy the first generation of any Seagate technology. So say a 1.5TB drive... wait until the second generation models come out and they got the bugs worked out.
This was obviously not written from a Neutral Point of View. :-)
I'm going to have to think about this claim. You don't seem to really be supporting it with any good examples, and it's not clear to me what this has to do with wikipedia.
Wiki certainly has some problems with corruption, as they've moved to a model which relies less on the wisdom of the crowds and more on a select few who seem to control the content for their own motives.
But it's not clear to me that this is representative of socialism, or any political ideology.
Wouldn't this be an example of capitalism, and not communism?
I think this idea of trying to measure admins to servers ratio is nearly impossible without addressing what the servers actually do. Database servers may require more work than web servers, etc.
Regardless, interesting anecdotal evidence...
The company I worked for merged with a sister company. We were a Windows shop and they were Unix. Their IT staff was amazed to find out that our Windows admin staff was three times more efficient then their Unix admin staff. Primarily because our staff had automated virtually everything, server installs, patch deployment, inhouse application installs, etc. Also they had built hundreds of custom applications, each with their own system for managing users and passwords, whereas our users had their Windows account. Since each business user may have to maintain several dozen username/password combinations, their staff was spending half of their time just setting up users and managing password resets and the other half installing new servers.
It's totally how you use the servers, not just tasks, but operations, development and so on. Piss Poor Planning yields Poor Results.
That's a really bad article. Wow, worse then anything I remember them writing before.
Turbo Pascal's claim to fame was that you could buy it for about $50.
I seem to recall the first IDE I worked with was UCSD Pascal on an Apple II circa 1980 or so. Although in that case, it was more of an emulator, as UCSD used a virtual machine concept to run your code, similar to what Java does.
I just did the all important Monster.com search in my state. There's overlap in results, as a search for Java also yields Javascript results. If one subtracts those, Java jobs are about equal with C#.
Java: 178
C#: 91
ASP: 102
JavaScript: 85
VB: 83
ASP.NET: 75
C++: 63
VB.NET: 63
C: 54
Perl: 37
Flash: 17
PHP: 15
Cobol: 8
Python: 7
Ruby: 4
Silverlight: 4
Delphi: 1
And George Bush is still a miserable President.
you guys might want to try something new.
Thanks! I don't think we can have a proper discussion about how Democrats feel entitled to their money without pointing to the large number of Democrats who have made substantial fortunes.
Damn you, Warren Buffet!
It's amazing how people's anecdotes tend to fit their own preconceived notions, as if they are seeing what they wanted to see.
Next I suppose you'll be telling us the Democrats are the party of wealthy elites.
Ahh, the Peter Principle. Promoting people to their level of incompetence.
I guess if you don't think becoming President is doing well or good.
Lose money until the Government bails you out?
That's what we did in the mortgage industry. :-)
I would tend to agree, that the main problem that IT suffers from is management.
I don't know how it is at other companies, but the last few places I have worked IT managers generally have been technology guys who didn't understand technology and decided to get into management. Few of them were at all interested in actual management. They weren't attending MBA classes, they weren't reading books on management. They just saw a big paycheck and that's it.
More often then not these managers have not only been bad at making technology decisions, but worse they don't know how to manage people.
The end result has been IT staff who have no priorities, no guidance, and no ability to make a final decision. So projects wonder along endlessly. Not to mention destroyed morale.
I have an HD-DVD, Blu-Ray, and regular DVD connected to a 46" 1080p LCD I just bought this past year.
The difference is not noticeable enough. The main thing I've noticed between the two is like say an actor is standing in front of a brick wall. With DVD you know it's a brick wall. With blu-ray you see it's a brick wall and you can see detail of the bricks.
It's not nearly as great of a jump as going from VHS to DVD was, where even on a crappy TV you said "WOW!"
Surprisingly where I've encountered the greatest difference is actually in the audio. With the DolbyHD or DTSHD encoded discs, it's quite a difference. Much more of the ambients are there, birds in the background, etc.
That's pretty good. It's like buh-bye Apple, there's a new sheriff in town. :-)
I guess I'm not buying this. Ignore the top ticket polls. Why do the polls on Palin's favorability show her not doing very well?
You claim it was a trap. The premise being that Palin is used to Alaska politics where she can brand all those who question her as Haters. I agree, that I believe this was an aspect of the McCain campaigns reason for picking her. You could see this strategy play out in the early days where Palin pumped up the fact that she was a woman, and all the shills were out claiming people who didn't like her just didn't like a strong woman, etc.
But isn't this the exact same strategy that Hillary Clinton employed? And didn't it fail.
Seems to me Obama was battle hardened and knew how to deal with this strategy, and the McCains hadn't a clue.
Witness how McCain grossly overreacted on the lipstick on a pig comment, which is when things started going badly for him in the polls well before this weeks financial meltdown.
I never saw Obama attack Palin personally. They pointed out problems in her record, problems with her speeches. But they didn't go after anything personal.
Sure, there may have been some personal attacks out on the blogs, or on the media, but they didn't come from the Obama campaign.
So you say trap, and I say Briar Patch.