Yes, I realize, but it just feels like it's application in teaching management wisdom is more forced than anything else when there are so many other more suitable (and more recent) books on the subject. Just an oppinion, that's all.
FreeCause is being a bit heavy handed in requiring people to learn how to code, but overall it's a good idea. They're doing their employees a favor by insisting that they attempt to learn a commercially viable skillset instead of sending them to seminars on how to apply the Art of War's lessons to management techniques (of all things). But using that same code in production sounds extreme. There's value in learning how to cobble together some code, but they shouldn't be deploying the output unless their positions call for it.
Google knows full well that there are good reasons for people to use pen names, we've reached a point where even your web searches can be directly associated with your ID in real life. So, whatever tickles your fancy in your private life can be wide open in a job interview - goodbye private life. It's the ultimate hypocrysy when Google says, "you can be anonymous to everyone else, just not to us." What a mess, the options a person has when they've filed a restraining order or just want to ask a stupid question in a newsgroup have slowly been dwindling to almost nothing.
Do not use Facebook, Twitter, Google, or any other service that REQUIRES the use of a real name.
Legality depends on where it's located (which country are you in? Let's assume it's in the US). Whether it's legal depends on what was signed when you started, which state you're located in, etc. The "bathroom" button is called a Reason Code and many call centers use them so that managers get a good feel for productivity and whether staff augmentation is warranted. It's likely legal, I'm assuming that a call center company probably has legal council that advises them. That said, just because something's legal doesn't mean it's a good idea. High attritition is usually proceeded by poor management policies. It may be time for a better gig if this kind of thing bothers you.
I think the incumbent's always backed. I remember it very differently, btw, as in; Romney was the last guy picked for dodge ball. Nobody in the RNC wanted Romney, but scandals and gaffes on Cain/Herman/Santorum/Gingrich/Huntsman/I-can't-remember-all-the-others made it so that there was no other choice.
Not true. He's the nominee because they ran out of Republicans. Remember Michelle Bachman? Herman Cain? Newt Gingrich? Rick Santorum? John Huntsman?! I'm sure I'm forgetting half a dozen more.
IMHO, I've not seen a better desktop for my needs than Ubuntu with gnome-shell 2 (not Unity). There's always room for improvement for certain kinds of apps (like compatibility with MS Office apps - and even those have improved by leaps and bounds in the past 5 years), but I'm certain I'm in the minority who feel that UIs have become too complicated and involved. Everything's automatic now, there's a widget for everything - the last thing I want is Desktop integration with Twitter and Facebook. No thanks, I'll take a nice clean desktop that works well, open source, and reliable.
I don't think you have anything to worry about. It feels like only die-hards would move to it (although I'd love to be wrong). Facebook users are not goingt to move to it unless there was a compelling enought reason (sadly, security and privacy are not important enough to non-techies.)
In reading your post, if I were you I would avoid throwing the words "idiot" or "illiterate", and definitely "barbarian". Your mirrors are broken. Second, you will definitely feel different if you end up getting fined or sitting in a cell.
It's definitely not news, but it's mindblowing how many people are totally indifferent to being tracked. Some of the logic I've heard is, "everyone's doing it, it's like speeding - not much of a chance of getting caught" or just complete indifference.
Personally, there haven't really been any movies or music made in the past 15 years that are even worth downloading for free, I'll never understand why people bother wasting drive space.
Publishers want to sell as many copies of their game in the first week while people still have a fever for it - especially handy when a game is really not all that great. If ArenaNet expects the game to be so good that it's played for the next ten years, the first week of sales holds a smaller significance. And, btw, notice how Nintendo doesn't hold to the "first week of sales" philophy when they have game and hardware shortages? A lot of people couldn't get Wiis for a long time after it was first released and it still sold well.
I have a feeling that "The so called exploit was in fact an error on ArenaNet's side, leaving weapons at a low price from some vendors" is not the whole story, there may well be more to it. But, still, even if it were the case ArenaNet's been swamped with support cases that they likely just made a mistake. It happens and the "offenders" got reinstated. The "offender"'s intentions are a little questionable, though, who buys tons of items and sells them for a profit withing an MMO unless they're farming?
It's surprising how long this point has been discussed in the comminity and still things really haven't changed. Both sides have compelling points. I remember listening to a radio interview with Simpson Garfinkel over ten years ago in which he stated that he was mystified that EULAs had stipulations that if software wiped out your system the manufacturer wouldn't be liable for damages. It makes total sense for the developer to be on the hook - if you buy a car and it has a defect, it's recalled. Same logic, right? EXCEPT that the indie developer who is learning to code may also be on the same hook if something goes wrong. Slippery slope - what about misconfigurations, situations where people THINK it's a software issue but it's really the tech's fault? If you set up an email server that's configured by default as an open relay (although, frankly, I can't remember if that's been the case in the past 12 years), who's on the hook for the mistake? I very much doubt this will change, not sure if it should.
MS can say whatever they feel like saying about the Surface, as long as I can eventually install Ubuntu onto it I'll be happy. We need a tablet with a real OS.
I agree with his comments on social gaming and, for the most part, don't think he goes far enough. I don't believe games like Farmville and Infinity Blade are going to replace anything in gaming proper. That said, as an avid gamer I have less than zero interest in the Vita - no one's doing portable gaming well these days, the last good portable system I enjoyed was the original Gameboy and a copy of Tetris. Maybe in a few years, with a different manufacturer.
I don't believe my thinking is flawed any more than I believe that anything written on the subject of global warming is concrete or that we have reliable logitudinal data for our assertions on global warming. Common sense - we're better at collecting data than we were 30 or 40 years ago, never mind a century ago. We're still learning new things all the time, which is normal and good. We may yet conclude, although it would be embarrassing for us as a society to admit, that the the conclusions we assumed on AGW were wrong all along. We've been changing our conclusions on the climate trends for the past 40 years. AGW started as a scientific issue and, over time, has changed into a political conviction. It's had to believe that so many people block their ears and preach mindlessly about how we're all doomed because of findings printed in a scientific journal. Findings that are revised all the time. There MAY be a problem and we should pay attention to it and be reasonable, but that's not what the vast majority of people who believe in the AGW argument do. They're not skeptics at all and they assume that anyone who doubts the AGW science is a "screw-the-earth poltical right winger" (and I'm not). Sorry, I prefer to be sceptical about every side of this issue since we don't know everything there is to know on it yet.
Uhhhh, no. Read this;
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/02/antarctica-was-once-a-rai_n_1733597.html
If a rainforest was found in Antarctica, we very likely have absolutely nothing to do with it. Not like I was there, but I don't think there were many Escalades in the streets 52 million years ago.
We may all yet die due to climate change, but when you find a rainforest in the tundra it's difficult to accept that our polution is the cause of this . . . sorry. If people need an irrational boogey man in their lives, we have this character in human mythology called "Satan" . . .
From a geek's standpoint, Steam is probably the best "ecosystem" out there but I find that every company these days wants to get into the cloud-based ecosystem business and I'm tired of it. The last thing on earth I want to do is store my documents in the cloud, in fact last week I completed migrating off of google's infrustructure - the headaches weren't worth the loss of convenience and lack of peace of mind. I love Steam and I just won't buy a PC game anywhere else if I can find it on Steam, but I'm fed up with cloud based storage offerings and productivity apps - there are better options out there for the techically inclined.
Be thankful that these kinds of things are a LOT harder to do than they used to be. There are so many eyeballs on executive decision making these days that when someone tries to make a change that will personally benefit them and them alone that the repercussions for them are very public and dire. It didn't used to be this way even ten years ago (Enron), people would get away with this stuff left and right and put the worker out on the street. Thank goodness for progress.
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Yes, I realize, but it just feels like it's application in teaching management wisdom is more forced than anything else when there are so many other more suitable (and more recent) books on the subject. Just an oppinion, that's all.
FreeCause is being a bit heavy handed in requiring people to learn how to code, but overall it's a good idea. They're doing their employees a favor by insisting that they attempt to learn a commercially viable skillset instead of sending them to seminars on how to apply the Art of War's lessons to management techniques (of all things). But using that same code in production sounds extreme. There's value in learning how to cobble together some code, but they shouldn't be deploying the output unless their positions call for it.
Google knows full well that there are good reasons for people to use pen names, we've reached a point where even your web searches can be directly associated with your ID in real life. So, whatever tickles your fancy in your private life can be wide open in a job interview - goodbye private life. It's the ultimate hypocrysy when Google says, "you can be anonymous to everyone else, just not to us." What a mess, the options a person has when they've filed a restraining order or just want to ask a stupid question in a newsgroup have slowly been dwindling to almost nothing. Do not use Facebook, Twitter, Google, or any other service that REQUIRES the use of a real name.
Legality depends on where it's located (which country are you in? Let's assume it's in the US). Whether it's legal depends on what was signed when you started, which state you're located in, etc. The "bathroom" button is called a Reason Code and many call centers use them so that managers get a good feel for productivity and whether staff augmentation is warranted. It's likely legal, I'm assuming that a call center company probably has legal council that advises them. That said, just because something's legal doesn't mean it's a good idea. High attritition is usually proceeded by poor management policies. It may be time for a better gig if this kind of thing bothers you.
Truly. They may be somewhat helpful at the start of a person's career, but not after you've left the runway. Avoid.
Don't leave yet. If you're mind is questioning it, it's not the right move for the right company.
I think the incumbent's always backed. I remember it very differently, btw, as in; Romney was the last guy picked for dodge ball. Nobody in the RNC wanted Romney, but scandals and gaffes on Cain/Herman/Santorum/Gingrich/Huntsman/I-can't-remember-all-the-others made it so that there was no other choice.
Not true. He's the nominee because they ran out of Republicans. Remember Michelle Bachman? Herman Cain? Newt Gingrich? Rick Santorum? John Huntsman?! I'm sure I'm forgetting half a dozen more.
IMHO, I've not seen a better desktop for my needs than Ubuntu with gnome-shell 2 (not Unity). There's always room for improvement for certain kinds of apps (like compatibility with MS Office apps - and even those have improved by leaps and bounds in the past 5 years), but I'm certain I'm in the minority who feel that UIs have become too complicated and involved. Everything's automatic now, there's a widget for everything - the last thing I want is Desktop integration with Twitter and Facebook. No thanks, I'll take a nice clean desktop that works well, open source, and reliable.
I don't think you have anything to worry about. It feels like only die-hards would move to it (although I'd love to be wrong). Facebook users are not goingt to move to it unless there was a compelling enought reason (sadly, security and privacy are not important enough to non-techies.)
It reminds of of the qualities that have lent themselves well to UseNet (distributed servers all serving content).
In reading your post, if I were you I would avoid throwing the words "idiot" or "illiterate", and definitely "barbarian". Your mirrors are broken. Second, you will definitely feel different if you end up getting fined or sitting in a cell.
Nothing worth stealing, though.
It's definitely not news, but it's mindblowing how many people are totally indifferent to being tracked. Some of the logic I've heard is, "everyone's doing it, it's like speeding - not much of a chance of getting caught" or just complete indifference. Personally, there haven't really been any movies or music made in the past 15 years that are even worth downloading for free, I'll never understand why people bother wasting drive space.
Publishers want to sell as many copies of their game in the first week while people still have a fever for it - especially handy when a game is really not all that great. If ArenaNet expects the game to be so good that it's played for the next ten years, the first week of sales holds a smaller significance. And, btw, notice how Nintendo doesn't hold to the "first week of sales" philophy when they have game and hardware shortages? A lot of people couldn't get Wiis for a long time after it was first released and it still sold well. I have a feeling that "The so called exploit was in fact an error on ArenaNet's side, leaving weapons at a low price from some vendors" is not the whole story, there may well be more to it. But, still, even if it were the case ArenaNet's been swamped with support cases that they likely just made a mistake. It happens and the "offenders" got reinstated. The "offender"'s intentions are a little questionable, though, who buys tons of items and sells them for a profit withing an MMO unless they're farming?
It's surprising how long this point has been discussed in the comminity and still things really haven't changed. Both sides have compelling points. I remember listening to a radio interview with Simpson Garfinkel over ten years ago in which he stated that he was mystified that EULAs had stipulations that if software wiped out your system the manufacturer wouldn't be liable for damages. It makes total sense for the developer to be on the hook - if you buy a car and it has a defect, it's recalled. Same logic, right? EXCEPT that the indie developer who is learning to code may also be on the same hook if something goes wrong. Slippery slope - what about misconfigurations, situations where people THINK it's a software issue but it's really the tech's fault? If you set up an email server that's configured by default as an open relay (although, frankly, I can't remember if that's been the case in the past 12 years), who's on the hook for the mistake? I very much doubt this will change, not sure if it should.
MS can say whatever they feel like saying about the Surface, as long as I can eventually install Ubuntu onto it I'll be happy. We need a tablet with a real OS.
I agree with his comments on social gaming and, for the most part, don't think he goes far enough. I don't believe games like Farmville and Infinity Blade are going to replace anything in gaming proper. That said, as an avid gamer I have less than zero interest in the Vita - no one's doing portable gaming well these days, the last good portable system I enjoyed was the original Gameboy and a copy of Tetris. Maybe in a few years, with a different manufacturer.
I don't believe my thinking is flawed any more than I believe that anything written on the subject of global warming is concrete or that we have reliable logitudinal data for our assertions on global warming. Common sense - we're better at collecting data than we were 30 or 40 years ago, never mind a century ago. We're still learning new things all the time, which is normal and good. We may yet conclude, although it would be embarrassing for us as a society to admit, that the the conclusions we assumed on AGW were wrong all along. We've been changing our conclusions on the climate trends for the past 40 years. AGW started as a scientific issue and, over time, has changed into a political conviction. It's had to believe that so many people block their ears and preach mindlessly about how we're all doomed because of findings printed in a scientific journal. Findings that are revised all the time. There MAY be a problem and we should pay attention to it and be reasonable, but that's not what the vast majority of people who believe in the AGW argument do. They're not skeptics at all and they assume that anyone who doubts the AGW science is a "screw-the-earth poltical right winger" (and I'm not). Sorry, I prefer to be sceptical about every side of this issue since we don't know everything there is to know on it yet.
Actually, it's "if I WERE you".
Uhhhh, no. Read this; http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/02/antarctica-was-once-a-rai_n_1733597.html If a rainforest was found in Antarctica, we very likely have absolutely nothing to do with it. Not like I was there, but I don't think there were many Escalades in the streets 52 million years ago. We may all yet die due to climate change, but when you find a rainforest in the tundra it's difficult to accept that our polution is the cause of this . . . sorry. If people need an irrational boogey man in their lives, we have this character in human mythology called "Satan" . . .
Totally agree.
All we have to do is water everything with Brawndo. It's the thirst mutilitator and it has elecrolights.
From a geek's standpoint, Steam is probably the best "ecosystem" out there but I find that every company these days wants to get into the cloud-based ecosystem business and I'm tired of it. The last thing on earth I want to do is store my documents in the cloud, in fact last week I completed migrating off of google's infrustructure - the headaches weren't worth the loss of convenience and lack of peace of mind. I love Steam and I just won't buy a PC game anywhere else if I can find it on Steam, but I'm fed up with cloud based storage offerings and productivity apps - there are better options out there for the techically inclined.
Be thankful that these kinds of things are a LOT harder to do than they used to be. There are so many eyeballs on executive decision making these days that when someone tries to make a change that will personally benefit them and them alone that the repercussions for them are very public and dire. It didn't used to be this way even ten years ago (Enron), people would get away with this stuff left and right and put the worker out on the street. Thank goodness for progress.