Best piece of advice I've gotten from anybody in that kind of situation is that you must understand that when executives consider the costs of IT (or any department), they always see salaries as the greatest portion of any budget. For the most part, that is true.
So, in your situation, however you want to spin the facts and predictions, spin them in a way that the executives won't worry about increasing the budget for salaries. Hopefully, your problems can be resolved with newer equipment and other goodies.
I'm criticized for being on the hopeful side sometimes, and this would otherwise be the same case, but I've grown wiser and hold Apple to lower expectation.
BUT - what if this was a joke? They've had plenty experience being embarrased by Steve's big announcement being leaked, etc. What if they leaked this? And Steve goes on with the show like this is what they're doing, and the punchline is "Wait a minute, we're not Microsoft!"....silly, yes, but for the last couple of years, some mac zealots have pondered what would happen this MacWorld - 5 years after the infamous SOS deal with M$ - the contract for being friendly lasts 5 years!
Did it occur to anyone that.Mac is/too/.Net like? Since when does Apple want to play the tail of the lion?
Yes, of course - wishful thinking - that Apple would turn on M$ - but if it happens, I said it.
Bad for the environment, and a poor use of resources. Although my views on IP don't coincide with the industry's, I'd much rather see them use a server-side and broadcasting style of delivering content.
Besides the amount of trash these will create, the amount of material and manufacturing going into such a consumable IS irresponsible. This begs the question on whether companies should be accountable for their use of limited resources.
Hands down a great overall movie. I'm a sucker for Animated Disney movies, I'll admit. Something to appreciate about the movie is that there really is something for every age in that movie.
So Disney may be eating up the bucks on it, but you can't deny the quality here. The CG - I stopped noticing after about five minutes - in that it was done that well. The plot was pretty sharp, and built up well.
And just like Toy Story, the humor is there, too (I personally thought Monsters was a crack up).
That's my 2 cents.
ALSO: TechTV is running a bit on the making of Monsters, Inc. I caught the second 1/2 hour last night, but check there website for more times - looked very cool.
Apple's got themselves in a situation where they're struggling to be accepted in the computing world. They're over criticized - partly because people care about them.
Apple tries to appeal to the open-source community, and what happens - "Well, it's not GPL'd," or better yet: "Apple needs to open-source everything in OS X!" (and in this article there's ASCII art of masturbation... c'mon - grow up!)
They try to appeal to their own customers - and get criticized for clearing inventory fast and coming out with a better, cheaper computer (when this actually happens to everyone). More on this note: "Classic sucks" - What's Apple supposed to do? In order to survive by holding onto customers/and/ developers, they've found a (at least mostly working) solution to make the transition.
As for the metadata - Apple's trying to stick to the more effecient use of file-typing that they have, and seems to be Ars Technica's choice, while still making it easier for interoperability along the front of other OS's.
Apple's succeeding in bringing more compatibility to their platform, and making it easier for developers to write for OS X - after all, without the programmers, Apple's f*d.
Bottom line, let's acknowledge the fact that Apple's doing what it can to survive among OS's, and not badger them about the little things (for the momment) like "extentions look too much like windows," - quit your whining.
What happens when they actually toss this out on the web for everyone to download, and the next skilled programmer writes a crack for the Internetted-DIVX player/movies - the next Skylarov fiasco.
Will this bring attention back to the Skylarov case when this crack happens, or will deter others from practicing free speech (along the software front?).
The way things are going now-a-days, I fear the money-driven-politics involving MPAA, etc. will drive our rights right out of the country (and others! see: http://slashdot.org/yro/01/08/20/0210248.shtml ).
pzugnoni@pellam.ucr.edu
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While working IT at a UC school, we had the same situation. My co-worker then (and now partner for a company) wrote RNM: ResNet Monitor--Essentially a set of scripts to work with Ted Newman's DHCP server on a Linux/Unix system. The project is very robust, expandable for your organization, and GPL'd.
check out: http://sourceforge.net/projects/rnm/
Our company, Anylevel, Inc, uses this for contract work in doing the same thing. Check out www.anylevel.com (down now - changing DNS's - will be up in a day or two)-- there's more info there when the site comes up.
Who knew Senator McCarthy was in kahoots with the RIAA?! I know I could probably come up with something more intelligent to say, but come on! The RIAA is on a friggin witch hunt! It's gotten to the point, I think, where music will become solely business, and move away from art since the only way to allow your music to be heard is to submit to the RIAA. Not to mention MP3.com being bought out by one of the big guys... they had a lot of good music from independent artists, and I worry that those artists won't have the oppurtunity to be heard without join the RIAA klan. We shall see. Paul -------------- hehe.... and they think I know what I'm doing
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Best piece of advice I've gotten from anybody in that kind of situation is that you must understand that when executives consider the costs of IT (or any department), they always see salaries as the greatest portion of any budget. For the most part, that is true.
So, in your situation, however you want to spin the facts and predictions, spin them in a way that the executives won't worry about increasing the budget for salaries. Hopefully, your problems can be resolved with newer equipment and other goodies.
Good luck.
Was it philantropy when cigarette companies gave free packs to US soldiers during the war (namely WWII)?
I don't know how conventional it is to reply to one's own comment, but here I am saying "Oh Well" to myself.
.Mac is actually here and they know what they're doing with it.
Although Steve did poke fun at Microsoft's silliness in saying that
Good job Apple - just solve Microsoft's ambiguities so M$ can come back 6 months later and copy you.
I'm criticized for being on the hopeful side sometimes, and this would otherwise be the same case, but I've grown wiser and hold Apple to lower expectation.
....silly, yes, but for the last couple of years, some mac zealots have pondered what would happen this MacWorld - 5 years after the infamous SOS deal with M$ - the contract for being friendly lasts 5 years!
.Mac is /too/ .Net like? Since when does Apple want to play the tail of the lion?
BUT - what if this was a joke? They've had plenty experience being embarrased by Steve's big announcement being leaked, etc. What if they leaked this? And Steve goes on with the show like this is what they're doing, and the punchline is "Wait a minute, we're not Microsoft!"
Did it occur to anyone that
Yes, of course - wishful thinking - that Apple would turn on M$ - but if it happens, I said it.
Bad for the environment, and a poor use of resources. Although my views on IP don't coincide with the industry's, I'd much rather see them use a server-side and broadcasting style of delivering content.
Besides the amount of trash these will create, the amount of material and manufacturing going into such a consumable IS irresponsible. This begs the question on whether companies should be accountable for their use of limited resources.
Hands down a great overall movie. I'm a sucker for Animated Disney movies, I'll admit. Something to appreciate about the movie is that there really is something for every age in that movie.
So Disney may be eating up the bucks on it, but you can't deny the quality here. The CG - I stopped noticing after about five minutes - in that it was done that well. The plot was pretty sharp, and built up well.
And just like Toy Story, the humor is there, too (I personally thought Monsters was a crack up).
That's my 2 cents.
ALSO: TechTV is running a bit on the making of Monsters, Inc. I caught the second 1/2 hour last night, but check there website for more times - looked very cool.
"Seems as if we've done a story before on shoes that generate electricity, but I sure don't see it in the archives."
I'm tired.
Apple's got themselves in a situation where they're struggling to be accepted in the computing world. They're over criticized - partly because people care about them.
/and/ developers, they've found a (at least mostly working) solution to make the transition.
Apple tries to appeal to the open-source community, and what happens - "Well, it's not GPL'd," or better yet: "Apple needs to open-source everything in OS X!" (and in this article there's ASCII art of masturbation... c'mon - grow up!)
They try to appeal to their own customers - and get criticized for clearing inventory fast and coming out with a better, cheaper computer (when this actually happens to everyone). More on this note: "Classic sucks" - What's Apple supposed to do? In order to survive by holding onto customers
As for the metadata - Apple's trying to stick to the more effecient use of file-typing that they have, and seems to be Ars Technica's choice, while still making it easier for interoperability along the front of other OS's.
Apple's succeeding in bringing more compatibility to their platform, and making it easier for developers to write for OS X - after all, without the programmers, Apple's f*d.
Bottom line, let's acknowledge the fact that Apple's doing what it can to survive among OS's, and not badger them about the little things (for the momment) like "extentions look too much like windows," - quit your whining.
What happens when they actually toss this out on the web for everyone to download, and the next skilled programmer writes a crack for the Internetted-DIVX player/movies - the next Skylarov fiasco.
Will this bring attention back to the Skylarov case when this crack happens, or will deter others from practicing free speech (along the software front?).
The way things are going now-a-days, I fear the money-driven-politics involving MPAA, etc. will drive our rights right out of the country (and others! see: http://slashdot.org/yro/01/08/20/0210248.shtml ).
pzugnoni@pellam.ucr.edu
While working IT at a UC school, we had the same situation. My co-worker then (and now partner for a company) wrote RNM: ResNet Monitor--Essentially a set of scripts to work with Ted Newman's DHCP server on a Linux/Unix system. The project is very robust, expandable for your organization, and GPL'd.
check out: http://sourceforge.net/projects/rnm/
Our company, Anylevel, Inc, uses this for contract work in doing the same thing. Check out www.anylevel.com (down now - changing DNS's - will be up in a day or two)-- there's more info there when the site comes up.
pzugnoni@pellam.ucr.edu
"they'll have to give every copy of OSX away for free"
Not really - Everything with OS X falls under Apple's License, which has issues in terms of ownership details.
Even so, Apple makes money off of their machines - They'll continue to sell them at premium prices. OS X is a selling point for Apple's boxes.
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Who knew Senator McCarthy was in kahoots with the RIAA?! I know I could probably come up with something more intelligent to say, but come on! The RIAA is on a friggin witch hunt! It's gotten to the point, I think, where music will become solely business, and move away from art since the only way to allow your music to be heard is to submit to the RIAA. Not to mention MP3.com being bought out by one of the big guys... they had a lot of good music from independent artists, and I worry that those artists won't have the oppurtunity to be heard without join the RIAA klan. We shall see. Paul -------------- hehe.... and they think I know what I'm doing