The "sequestration" was not the best plan... it was supposed to force congress into making a decision on how to actually cut the budget because it was such a bad plan. At that's what I have heard the talking-heads say.
That being said. I think it's a pretty decent plan. As you said, you can find people that like every singe expendature and think it should be un-touched. Therefore, just cut them all equally. As a former member of the military, I guaran-fucking-tee, there is 10% that could be cut from pre 9/11 budgets without a threat to national security.
I can't be as sure about other programs, but I just left a McDonalds and over heard 5 losers talking about how you lose your disability if you get a job and few other comments about how to keep the gubment money rolling in. They couldn't have been older than 20. My point being, I am fairly sure we could figure out how to cut 10% out of just about any government program.
I do think the cuts should be 10% per major area. It can be hard to cut 10% of your cable bill if you are already on basic cable. If my bill is $50, how do I cut out $5? Again, this was why the original sequestration was supposed to spur actual budget planning and cuts... 10% on every program may not make sense. But if we agreed to cut 10% from DOD, Medicaid/Medicare, and from the remaining 30% of the total budget, it would probably work out.
What other reason would you purchase a competitor that is smaller than you are?
They didn't need their technology. They didn't need their people. They didn't need their capabilities.
Why would you want to crush your enemy completely? Because, any competition is a threat to grow and eventually crush your completley. What's the easiest way to crush your competition? (hint: it's not by actually competing)
Remember two things, you should not be climbing under things anymore. Directors direct others to do this work.
Wow. If you are in a management position, I am glad I don't work for you. If you have a boss that acts this way, I feel sorry for you.
I am a Director. I manage 10+ supervisors and managers. I still do all the jobs I did when I was an hourly employee (but on a less frequent basis). I crawl under desks. I was the one running accross campus when we were laying fiber. I put dishes in the dishwasher when others leave them in the sink.
I have found out one important thing in my life... once you think you are too good for something, you will get smacked back to reality. So now I try to stay ahead of the curve and keep myself grounded. I know any day now I could be out on my ass looking for another job... ranging from Network Tech to General Manager.
On the other point, you are correct. Politics will start being a major factor as you move up the chain. Again, I counter that by simply working harder. I don't wear clown shoes, but I am not the sharpest dresser. People respect me because of my ability and my work ethic. I do what is needed to get the job done and I do it well. Politics, dressing sharp, and other tactics will fail when put up against my strategy of keeping those tatics in mind, but focusing on working hard and putting out excellent work.
I don't think your experience is indicative of problems with MS Office (though those problems DO exist), but more with how businesses handle training.
Oh I completely agree... that second paragraph was basically a rant that festered from that exact problem... I gave advanced user training (granted it was a little below what I would call advanced), and afterward a user couldn't figure out why I wasn't able to get her to a level that IT and Bus Intellegence can do after 10-20 years experience. The user couldn't understand why she wasn't creating awesome reports using pivot tables and pivot charts... so I called a training session just to cover that topic.. and the user didn't show up.
And we also have to give new employee training on Office to all employees. It's the same class regardless of skill level. But we have employees that have been with the company for 20 years that haven't received any training. It's all annoying, and one day I'll get around to fixing it!
New look and feel means that the IT department has to give each user training on the new interface. Usually just because a couple of the managers refuse to spend a few minutes to "play" with it and learn it themselves.
It's funny that everytime I am asked to do Office training, 50% of the students are more skilled at Excel (acct. especially) and Outlook (admin asst. especially) than I am. So I am standing in front of a room baffeling the people that have no idea what a pivot table is, and looking like an idiot trying to explain it to the people that know it better than me.
-As a person-, you must have a coherent philosophical stance that, by definition, includes -ethics- as one of the core branches of philosophy. If you can't provide it, claiming or disclaiming "atheism" at the moment as convenient, you fail at life.
Where did I say that I do not have a very solid set of morals? All I said was that just because I don't belive in a God (and just to be clear you don't believe in many Gods, just one less than I do), and some other guy doesn't believe in a God does not make us some how connected and required to live by the same moral code.
I do have one overriding principle I live by: tolerance. For instance I will call you ignorant of these topics, as you have shown to lack some basic understanding of ethics and morality. However, I won't claim you "fail at life" because of that. In fact, as I stated in the previous post, I bet we agree on tons of subjects... the easiest of which are things like murder and rape.
What points of consensus on morality has the atheist community reached?
Your ignorance shows no bounds and therefore I quit reading at that point. Atheism (a = not, theism = belief in a god) is anyone that does not believe in a God. There is not single belief system for atheist. That would be like asking if you can get clear consensus on any issue because all the people you ask live in the same city/state/country/planet.
I would also add that you could easily ask 5 Christians about certian moral issues and recieve 5 different answers... examples are: what you can do on the sabbath, should a woman submit to her husband, does the Pope have devine power, is it allowed to have multiple wives, birth control, and abortion.
So your smug comment will be applauded by Christians who probably have less in common with you than this atheist.
Reparability is a word that means able to be repaired. But it is commonly misused/misspelled as repairability. I am sure that the un prefix is perfectly acceptable.
But this article is talking about bumps of 4mm. That would have to be done with the metal skin. And that sounds like a stress riser. Jets have already had enough trouble with the skin fatigue.... adding stress risers throughout seems like a bad idea.
If everyone could afford the coating and it could have that big of "bumps", it might be feasible.
You're joking... for a desktop OS? 10 years is more than enough. You couldn't get a 2ghz processor 10 years ago!
As a business system, servers still work well after much more than 10 years, especially if not networked. I have an AlphaServer running NT 3.5 that sill powers a machine bigger than your house.
I believe you are too good at setting expectations for a profitable mass marketed computer.
His assertion is more spot on than your counter. Science (research) has always been pretty heavilty dependent on "grants" and "welfare". Same with artist. It's pretty recent that science was something used by business men (at least I think). However saying this causes scientist to be welfare-statist, may be true that they do it to keep funding coming their way, but they may not really feel it is correct.
Prison inmates are held agains their will and demonstrably do not come out being welfare-statst. They often are anarchist.
Exactly.... why do game companies shut down their servers? Why don't they keep them running for 11-12 years like MS will with XP? Because it costs money to keep a system up and running... no matter if it's a biological, manufacturing, internet or operating system. They all take resources to run and resources are not unlimited.
You too are mindless. This was part of Obama's "Jobs Bill". If that would have been passed this issue would be moot. But the 'pubs didn't like it because Obama liked it. So the Dems have proposed a 2 month extension so they can have a nice Christmas break and debate this in January.
There is also the issue of the Keystone Pipeline... which is really funny because the 'pubs are calling that "shovel ready" and claiming it will create 100k jobs. This just a few months after the chants that "the government can't create jobs".
Just for the record Democrats aren't all roses and glitter either... they both need to be slapped around.
Part of my job is knowing how to program efficiently and effectively. This involves perusing websites, twitter feeds, wikipedia, personal blogs, news sites and other easily-misinterpreted content. I should not have to justify every single web request I make. I should not have to ask, before each decision to click a link, "Is this good for the Company?".
Who said you had to do any of that... other than the last question. You should always ask if what you are doing is a profitable task.
If you are a competent person, whom your manager trusts, I don't think they would bother you much. Seeing websites up like stack overflow, w3schools, ibm.com and, as far as this manager is concerned,/. are not things that you should be worried about. Those are part of your job.
But does that mean the guy working on your team that doesn't do jack shit should be able to browse sports by brooks, hooters, and shinyobject.com based on your assertion that some internet access is needed to do your job (or most any other nowdays)?
Just because you don't need big brother doesn't mean others don't. And it's damn near impossible to tell who does and does not need this close overview. My personal experience has shown that a hardcore Christian can be the worst offender... I caught them watching a couple hours of online catholic TV everyday when we installed the new barracuda.
How does this make sense for govn't.. isn't this a Private sector issue?
I have worked my way up from Network Tech to Director of IS... so I made the switch from hourly (non-exempt) to salary (exempt) and since then have had to deal with who is and isn't exempt.
It all comes down to what positions are considered "professional". My take on the subject has usually been that if the employee has the type of work that is difficult to measure and determine if they are truly working hard or stretching it out, then they are exempt. Exempt employees are expected to know what amount of work is truly needed and get things done in the least effort possible.
As a competent sys-admin, do you need to parse all 100MB of that log to determine the root cause of the error? How exactly does the boss know you did or didn't need to (yes a competent manager should have a clue, but it's more difficult than you think). Programming is the same way... I could hack it and get it out in a week, or be so damn picky it takes a year.
My position has usually been that people in these positions are able to determine what level of work is need to satisfy customer demand and not do unnecessary work. BUT, it is always a judgement call with IT. If you get it wrong, make a guy salary, make him work 60 hours to get a project out and he then sues, you can be held liable for back pay.
It is a difficult balance between leaving grey areas (because a lot of it is grey), and the government formally defining who is and isn't exempt. I would not immediately defame the Senator introducing the bill... they may actually be trying to do a good thing for employees. This is a messy area of personnel issues, and if they are successful in bringing clarity, all will benefit.
Even further, I don't want most of that for my primary phone. I want my primary phone to function everytime, when needed. And maybe I'm the exception, but usually my hacking projects are fun and exciting, but also full of troubleshooting and frustration (which is part the excitement to get it working again).
Would I pay some money for a device to hack up that had some really cool features... sure. But still not sure this is the one.
Yeah, go check out TFA from the OSHA App Story and you can see the last bullet point is "don't drink more than 6 cups of water an hour". Why would that be? Because if you need that much water to counteract the sweat, you will run out of salt/electrolytes. That's gatorade's main selling point - electrolytes.
The best part is the idiots could learn everything they need to know just in/. stories and wikipedia.
Those are good points but I think that's a reason to have programmers on staff. I am guessing this app could have been done in a month's work (160 hours) including all those other steps. It just isn't that complicated.
Pay that guy $120,000 and this app costs $10,000. Maybe x3 to port to 3 phones. Although that brings me to the point... WHY ISN"T THIS JUST A WEBSITE! Seriously... this could have been done in a mobile formated website in days! Why is everything an "app"?
Your link says twitterific took 200 hours. This guy is claiming 400 hours for something that is probably much simpler (mot really sure, but it would seem that way if TFA is anywhere near accurate about the features). Also that link has many people calling BS on the answer, stating instead that it would be less.
How in the world do you think 16 man-weeks is anywhere near reasonable. I put together a website/app that auto loads locally stored pictures to the website and automatically displays them in galleries based on the folder structure... total labor 16 MAN-HOURS! While I was watching TV the whole time.
And if you think the contracting/bureaucracy is the problem, I am willing to bet there is at least one decent programmer on the OSHA payroll that could have knocked this out in a few weeks at most! Why even outsource it?
On my way into work I listen to the news in real time, and I find myself reaching for a non-existent rewind button if I missed something interesting. (Like emergency routes out of the city...)
Okay, I don't look for the rewind button for emergency routes... more for "wait what was said on NPR while I avoided this idiot". I wonder if they will invent TiVo for the radio... Call it RaVo or something.
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The "sequestration" was not the best plan... it was supposed to force congress into making a decision on how to actually cut the budget because it was such a bad plan. At that's what I have heard the talking-heads say.
That being said. I think it's a pretty decent plan. As you said, you can find people that like every singe expendature and think it should be un-touched. Therefore, just cut them all equally. As a former member of the military, I guaran-fucking-tee, there is 10% that could be cut from pre 9/11 budgets without a threat to national security.
I can't be as sure about other programs, but I just left a McDonalds and over heard 5 losers talking about how you lose your disability if you get a job and few other comments about how to keep the gubment money rolling in. They couldn't have been older than 20. My point being, I am fairly sure we could figure out how to cut 10% out of just about any government program.
I do think the cuts should be 10% per major area. It can be hard to cut 10% of your cable bill if you are already on basic cable. If my bill is $50, how do I cut out $5? Again, this was why the original sequestration was supposed to spur actual budget planning and cuts... 10% on every program may not make sense. But if we agreed to cut 10% from DOD, Medicaid/Medicare, and from the remaining 30% of the total budget, it would probably work out.
But what do I know...
What other reason would you purchase a competitor that is smaller than you are?
They didn't need their technology. They didn't need their people. They didn't need their capabilities.
Why would you want to crush your enemy completely? Because, any competition is a threat to grow and eventually crush your completley. What's the easiest way to crush your competition? (hint: it's not by actually competing)
Remember two things, you should not be climbing under things anymore. Directors direct others to do this work.
Wow. If you are in a management position, I am glad I don't work for you. If you have a boss that acts this way, I feel sorry for you.
I am a Director. I manage 10+ supervisors and managers. I still do all the jobs I did when I was an hourly employee (but on a less frequent basis). I crawl under desks. I was the one running accross campus when we were laying fiber. I put dishes in the dishwasher when others leave them in the sink.
I have found out one important thing in my life... once you think you are too good for something, you will get smacked back to reality. So now I try to stay ahead of the curve and keep myself grounded. I know any day now I could be out on my ass looking for another job... ranging from Network Tech to General Manager.
On the other point, you are correct. Politics will start being a major factor as you move up the chain. Again, I counter that by simply working harder. I don't wear clown shoes, but I am not the sharpest dresser. People respect me because of my ability and my work ethic. I do what is needed to get the job done and I do it well. Politics, dressing sharp, and other tactics will fail when put up against my strategy of keeping those tatics in mind, but focusing on working hard and putting out excellent work.
I don't think your experience is indicative of problems with MS Office (though those problems DO exist), but more with how businesses handle training.
Oh I completely agree... that second paragraph was basically a rant that festered from that exact problem... I gave advanced user training (granted it was a little below what I would call advanced), and afterward a user couldn't figure out why I wasn't able to get her to a level that IT and Bus Intellegence can do after 10-20 years experience. The user couldn't understand why she wasn't creating awesome reports using pivot tables and pivot charts... so I called a training session just to cover that topic.. and the user didn't show up.
And we also have to give new employee training on Office to all employees. It's the same class regardless of skill level. But we have employees that have been with the company for 20 years that haven't received any training. It's all annoying, and one day I'll get around to fixing it!
New look and feel means that the IT department has to give each user training on the new interface. Usually just because a couple of the managers refuse to spend a few minutes to "play" with it and learn it themselves.
It's funny that everytime I am asked to do Office training, 50% of the students are more skilled at Excel (acct. especially) and Outlook (admin asst. especially) than I am. So I am standing in front of a room baffeling the people that have no idea what a pivot table is, and looking like an idiot trying to explain it to the people that know it better than me.
-As a person-, you must have a coherent philosophical stance that, by definition, includes -ethics- as one of the core branches of philosophy. If you can't provide it, claiming or disclaiming "atheism" at the moment as convenient, you fail at life.
Where did I say that I do not have a very solid set of morals? All I said was that just because I don't belive in a God (and just to be clear you don't believe in many Gods, just one less than I do), and some other guy doesn't believe in a God does not make us some how connected and required to live by the same moral code.
I do have one overriding principle I live by: tolerance. For instance I will call you ignorant of these topics, as you have shown to lack some basic understanding of ethics and morality. However, I won't claim you "fail at life" because of that. In fact, as I stated in the previous post, I bet we agree on tons of subjects... the easiest of which are things like murder and rape.
I hope you will seek truth with an open mind.
What points of consensus on morality has the atheist community reached?
Your ignorance shows no bounds and therefore I quit reading at that point. Atheism (a = not, theism = belief in a god) is anyone that does not believe in a God. There is not single belief system for atheist. That would be like asking if you can get clear consensus on any issue because all the people you ask live in the same city/state/country/planet.
I would also add that you could easily ask 5 Christians about certian moral issues and recieve 5 different answers... examples are: what you can do on the sabbath, should a woman submit to her husband, does the Pope have devine power, is it allowed to have multiple wives, birth control, and abortion.
So your smug comment will be applauded by Christians who probably have less in common with you than this atheist.
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I have since escaped from my Christian indoctrination, but this was a relaly cool album when I was 12.
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Reparability is a word that means able to be repaired. But it is commonly misused/misspelled as repairability. I am sure that the un prefix is perfectly acceptable.
Unreparability.
But this article is talking about bumps of 4mm. That would have to be done with the metal skin. And that sounds like a stress riser. Jets have already had enough trouble with the skin fatigue.... adding stress risers throughout seems like a bad idea.
If everyone could afford the coating and it could have that big of "bumps", it might be feasible.
If only his keyboard had a shift key.
You're joking... for a desktop OS? 10 years is more than enough. You couldn't get a 2ghz processor 10 years ago!
As a business system, servers still work well after much more than 10 years, especially if not networked. I have an AlphaServer running NT 3.5 that sill powers a machine bigger than your house.
I believe you are too good at setting expectations for a profitable mass marketed computer.
His assertion is more spot on than your counter. Science (research) has always been pretty heavilty dependent on "grants" and "welfare". Same with artist. It's pretty recent that science was something used by business men (at least I think). However saying this causes scientist to be welfare-statist, may be true that they do it to keep funding coming their way, but they may not really feel it is correct.
Prison inmates are held agains their will and demonstrably do not come out being welfare-statst. They often are anarchist.
Exactly.... why do game companies shut down their servers? Why don't they keep them running for 11-12 years like MS will with XP? Because it costs money to keep a system up and running... no matter if it's a biological, manufacturing, internet or operating system. They all take resources to run and resources are not unlimited.
You too are mindless. This was part of Obama's "Jobs Bill". If that would have been passed this issue would be moot. But the 'pubs didn't like it because Obama liked it. So the Dems have proposed a 2 month extension so they can have a nice Christmas break and debate this in January.
There is also the issue of the Keystone Pipeline... which is really funny because the 'pubs are calling that "shovel ready" and claiming it will create 100k jobs. This just a few months after the chants that "the government can't create jobs".
Just for the record Democrats aren't all roses and glitter either... they both need to be slapped around.
Part of my job is knowing how to program efficiently and effectively. This involves perusing websites, twitter feeds, wikipedia, personal blogs, news sites and other easily-misinterpreted content. I should not have to justify every single web request I make. I should not have to ask, before each decision to click a link, "Is this good for the Company?".
Who said you had to do any of that... other than the last question. You should always ask if what you are doing is a profitable task.
/. are not things that you should be worried about. Those are part of your job.
If you are a competent person, whom your manager trusts, I don't think they would bother you much. Seeing websites up like stack overflow, w3schools, ibm.com and, as far as this manager is concerned,
But does that mean the guy working on your team that doesn't do jack shit should be able to browse sports by brooks, hooters, and shinyobject.com based on your assertion that some internet access is needed to do your job (or most any other nowdays)?
Just because you don't need big brother doesn't mean others don't. And it's damn near impossible to tell who does and does not need this close overview. My personal experience has shown that a hardcore Christian can be the worst offender... I caught them watching a couple hours of online catholic TV everyday when we installed the new barracuda.
How does this make sense for govn't.. isn't this a Private sector issue?
I have worked my way up from Network Tech to Director of IS... so I made the switch from hourly (non-exempt) to salary (exempt) and since then have had to deal with who is and isn't exempt.
It all comes down to what positions are considered "professional". My take on the subject has usually been that if the employee has the type of work that is difficult to measure and determine if they are truly working hard or stretching it out, then they are exempt. Exempt employees are expected to know what amount of work is truly needed and get things done in the least effort possible.
As a competent sys-admin, do you need to parse all 100MB of that log to determine the root cause of the error? How exactly does the boss know you did or didn't need to (yes a competent manager should have a clue, but it's more difficult than you think). Programming is the same way... I could hack it and get it out in a week, or be so damn picky it takes a year.
My position has usually been that people in these positions are able to determine what level of work is need to satisfy customer demand and not do unnecessary work. BUT, it is always a judgement call with IT. If you get it wrong, make a guy salary, make him work 60 hours to get a project out and he then sues, you can be held liable for back pay.
It is a difficult balance between leaving grey areas (because a lot of it is grey), and the government formally defining who is and isn't exempt. I would not immediately defame the Senator introducing the bill... they may actually be trying to do a good thing for employees. This is a messy area of personnel issues, and if they are successful in bringing clarity, all will benefit.
Even further, I don't want most of that for my primary phone. I want my primary phone to function everytime, when needed. And maybe I'm the exception, but usually my hacking projects are fun and exciting, but also full of troubleshooting and frustration (which is part the excitement to get it working again).
Would I pay some money for a device to hack up that had some really cool features... sure. But still not sure this is the one.
Yeah, go check out TFA from the OSHA App Story and you can see the last bullet point is "don't drink more than 6 cups of water an hour". Why would that be? Because if you need that much water to counteract the sweat, you will run out of salt/electrolytes. That's gatorade's main selling point - electrolytes.
/. stories and wikipedia.
The best part is the idiots could learn everything they need to know just in
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Those are good points but I think that's a reason to have programmers on staff. I am guessing this app could have been done in a month's work (160 hours) including all those other steps. It just isn't that complicated.
Pay that guy $120,000 and this app costs $10,000. Maybe x3 to port to 3 phones. Although that brings me to the point... WHY ISN"T THIS JUST A WEBSITE! Seriously... this could have been done in a mobile formated website in days! Why is everything an "app"?
Your link says twitterific took 200 hours. This guy is claiming 400 hours for something that is probably much simpler (mot really sure, but it would seem that way if TFA is anywhere near accurate about the features). Also that link has many people calling BS on the answer, stating instead that it would be less.
How in the world do you think 16 man-weeks is anywhere near reasonable. I put together a website/app that auto loads locally stored pictures to the website and automatically displays them in galleries based on the folder structure... total labor 16 MAN-HOURS! While I was watching TV the whole time.
And if you think the contracting/bureaucracy is the problem, I am willing to bet there is at least one decent programmer on the OSHA payroll that could have knocked this out in a few weeks at most! Why even outsource it?
On my way into work I listen to the news in real time, and I find myself reaching for a non-existent rewind button if I missed something interesting. (Like emergency routes out of the city...)
Okay, I don't look for the rewind button for emergency routes... more for "wait what was said on NPR while I avoided this idiot". I wonder if they will invent TiVo for the radio... Call it RaVo or something.