Why do "the analysts" feel it's imperative and so ungoldy urgent that a company like Intel must grow ALL THE TIME?
SCENARIO: Me alone in a room with a freaking-out analyst. A:"Oh no! They only made $6.2 billion this quarter! That's no more than thet made last quarter! ZERO GROWTH!" M:"Yes, but they sold a shitload of parts. They make parts. They sold a shitload. That's good. They sold a shitload the quarter before that. See a trend?" A:"Zero growth!!! De-Value them! Down-rate the stock!" M: *punches analyst in the groin*
This is my dream. Then I force him to buy all my worthless stock.
"But most just felt an increasing ache as their company slowly changed into something they no longer liked."
This is why I left Intel. Plain and simple. When I suddenly became a mini-manager [not by choice, I assure you] and still had 3 managers immediately above me (who had, in turn, 4 or 5 more above them) I knew it was time to stop drinking the Kool-Aid and get the fuck out. I took a nice separation package and hauled ass without looking back.
Of course... now I've said it out loud and the Blue Men will come hunt me down or something...
and then Microsoft will "embrace and extend" the idea and you won't be able to get glass for your house windows any more unless you sign one of their Draconian EULAs.
A companion is not the same as a satellite. That's all. A companion describes a similar orbit as another body. The Earth's moons have, necessarily, a slightly different orbit from the Earth if you plot them.
I just meant that two common house stools would never be sufficient and safe even just while they are moving it. I was in no way implying they were actually using the machine while on the stools. I'm _certain_ they're not that bold.
"On Friday, February 15, the Chinese -made Enco metal lathe arrived. It took about 4 hours to set it all up, as it had to be hoisted and mounted upon its pedistal. The whole rig probably weighs over 1,200 pounds. "
...which is why, in the meantime, we just sat it upon these two wooden house stools. LMAO
But Micros...hehehehehe...they're jus....hooohehehe... you know, the....bwa hehehe hehe they BWAHAHA HAHAHAHAHA HAHAH HOOOOHA HAHAHAHAHAH ohgood ohgodohgod BWAAAAAAA HA HAHAHAHA!!.......
that the project is supposed to pull the basic design from nature. In this case it's a scorpion and they cite a few examples of scorpion-specific ingenuity that could be useful to learn more about and give a try. You'll also note that, live, the scorpion sometimes uses legs as terrain sensors to speed up the navigation of rough areas while using the next logical set to do the locomotion.
I'm sorry but...... if this were truly the case ("OS X 10.2 has fantastic device support" and TWAIN being ubiquitious) then my super hoopy Canon scanner would work. It does not and I'm awaiting drivers from Canon (soon..........).
I love OS X, but it has what it has and nothing more.
Plus, Tomb Raider sucks ass. Sims, EQ, UO, SW:GB -- ask me to beta test for them and I'm all for it. I quit playing Anarchy Online because I was tired of run-run-run-shoot something which is basically FPS defined.
I might be convinced to beta a Tomb Raider game if a) it didn't suck as much as the rest of them and b) it wasn't such a teenage wetdream game.
I didn't make ths 'stalking' comment. Read. (and, FWIW, I really don't care to hear your stalking story, so I skipped it)
I'm tired of you. You've said more about the actual topic in your defense than you ever said in your original post. You don't realise why you're an ass and you probably never will. I've wasted enough time...
Apparently you are an idiot... you said 2 things...
You complained about the start bar being counter-intuitive and then:
"Counter-intuitive - unless you're a woman - they seem to like trying to start cars that are already running (cue sound of gears grinding). "
None of this said ANYthing about the article or the author. If this is your idea of "slagging" an individual then you have it all wrong. You need to actually say something critical of them... All you did was state your disdain for the start button and then proceed to "slag" women as a whole.
Repeat after me... "flamebait"... "misogyny"...
PS - Maybe your sister thinks you're an idiot as well and therefore doesn't trust you to give her advice. Besides... What do you think? Just because I'm a woman I can tell you some secret to getting your sister to switch?
He ___cannot___ change the AP and it's not even vaguely related to key size or interpretation of the key by the AP.
So... please... no more posts about the above.
And, sorry antmo, I don't know. I haven't seen any notes on this anywhere. My theory would be that it didn't hit high enough on the bug list ("does our wap work? ok, then skip it for now").
>Bullshit. If i was a Sun tech and i got called out > to a site with these mad muvvas, i'd nut in my >pants and then fall overmyself talking to the guy....until you lose your job cuz the machines go belly up and the company wants to know why you think they should replace 2 or 3 million worth of computing due to an alarmingly high concentration of free electrons floating about the racks... rather than sack you for not handling it.;)
Then you can 'nut your pants' at home all day long and play games until they come re-possess your Xbox.
We won't see eye-to-eye on this because we have two disparate philosophies regarding corporate IT; I do not believe the IT works for the user in a corporate setting (in a consumer setting, yes).
My belief is that the IT must work for the corporation and that its service should reflect the will of the corporation, not the end user. Unless, of course, your IT department is a lot of bumbling morons. If that's the case then firings are in order, not mob rule.
The end result is still that your IT department is not properly doing its job -- enabling you to work within the desires of the corporation at a near optimum level while maintaining the best interests and goals of the corporation (and sometimes those things "annoy" the end user.). If they work for you, you get to tell them how to work based on 'your' interpretation of what that means. This is why I believe such a model is faulty from the start. (Aside: I know a lot of places don't have the caliber of personnel I'm used to working with, but I don't see that this makes any difference in the end... they should start firing and hunting up someone with more brains than resume. Again, a business practice issue, not a reason to change the model. Those people exist. I know many of them and some of them aren't working [while a lot of chuckleheads are].)
You seem to be aware of the problems in your company and understand why they're bad for the company. My suggestion, based on my beliefs as stated above and were it my place to suggest, would be to make noise and make it heard. Fix the problem at its source.
"...the company hires the sysadmin to LET THE USERS GET THE USERS' WORK DONE..."
In my view, the company hires the users AND the sysadmins to get the _company's_ business done. It's up to the company's management to make the one support the other. Virus protection being a prime example; It's not about protecting you, the user, it's about protecting the company's assets. If it's done poorly and affects the performance of you, the end user, then that's a symptom of bad planning and management.
The one thing we DO agree on is that users can't have things crammed down their throats which affect their performance, but I do not believe that the solution is for the user to make the syadmin a lame duck. I believe the solution is to make the sysadmin perform better (or fire his or her sorry ass).
---------------- Personal note: Yes, I'm bitter, but I do believe all this. I recently left a very high-demand (24/7 99.9% uptime) computing environment supporting anywhere from 2,000 to 4,000 users (the majority being chip designers out of a company total of over 70,000) and tens of thousands of machines [no exaggeration, I assure you] and I've pledged never to work in a system like that (yes, your "work for the end user" model) again. Our "customers" dictating policy forced us to oftentimes provide poorer than necessary service and many times jeopardized the holdings of the corporation's intellectual assets. In my opinion that's just plain stupid. When the organization was shuffled and the "customer" model became more lip service than operating model, we were able to do things more 'rightly'. Why? Because we knew what we were doing. It was our job. It was our vocation. We weren't playing store clerk to people who had an entirley other job. I have no patience for poor IT anymore (and my patience was gone which is why I left). That's why I have no patience for the "IT drone" model. I'm smart and really really freaking good at what I do. I want to be able to do it with no more constraints than any other technical field. Basically... I don't want some recent college grad circuit designer telling me how things should be done or some guy who says 'I'm a unix user from way back' who really means 'I used VMS once' to tell me how to do my job. I certainly don't tell him how to do his. That's what our managers are for.
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Why do "the analysts" feel it's imperative and so ungoldy urgent that a company like Intel must grow ALL THE TIME?
SCENARIO: Me alone in a room with a freaking-out analyst.
A:"Oh no! They only made $6.2 billion this quarter! That's no more than thet made last quarter! ZERO GROWTH!"
M:"Yes, but they sold a shitload of parts. They make parts. They sold a shitload. That's good. They sold a shitload the quarter before that. See a trend?"
A:"Zero growth!!! De-Value them! Down-rate the stock!"
M: *punches analyst in the groin*
This is my dream. Then I force him to buy all my worthless stock.
"But most just felt an increasing ache as their company slowly changed into something they no longer liked."
This is why I left Intel. Plain and simple. When I suddenly became a mini-manager [not by choice, I assure you] and still had 3 managers immediately above me (who had, in turn, 4 or 5 more above them) I knew it was time to stop drinking the Kool-Aid and get the fuck out. I took a nice separation package and hauled ass without looking back.
Of course... now I've said it out loud and the Blue Men will come hunt me down or something...
I know lots of people with LCDs. You need new friends. ;)
mod down
mod down....
So... if I told you I was reading slashdot wirelessly on my Newton 2100 would that make you buy one faster? :)
There're quite a few on Ebay. Then head to www.unna.org for lots of software including the wireless (802.11b) driver.
and then Microsoft will "embrace and extend" the idea and you won't be able to get glass for your house windows any more unless you sign one of their Draconian EULAs.
*smack*
A companion is not the same as a satellite.
That's all. A companion describes a similar orbit as another body. The Earth's moons have, necessarily, a slightly different orbit from the Earth if you plot them.
I just meant that two common house stools would never be sufficient and safe even just while they are moving it. I was in no way implying they were actually using the machine while on the stools. I'm _certain_ they're not that bold.
"On Friday, February 15, the Chinese -made Enco metal lathe arrived. It took about 4 hours to set it all up, as it had to be hoisted and mounted upon its pedistal. The whole rig probably weighs over 1,200 pounds. "
...which is why, in the meantime, we just sat it upon these two wooden house stools. LMAO
But Micros...hehehehehe...they're jus....hooohehehe... you know, the....bwa hehehe hehe .......
they
BWAHAHA HAHAHAHAHA HAHAH
HOOOOHA HAHAHAHAHAH ohgood ohgodohgod
BWAAAAAAA HA HAHAHAHA!!
I'm moving to the desert to be with the one I love.
He has a good government job and we'll be traveling a lot.
Please understand.
Love,
Aibo
that the project is supposed to pull the basic design from nature. In this case it's a scorpion and they cite a few examples of scorpion-specific ingenuity that could be useful to learn more about and give a try. You'll also note that, live, the scorpion sometimes uses legs as terrain sensors to speed up the navigation of rough areas while using the next logical set to do the locomotion.
:)
I just think it's cool.
>3) A Fortune 500 company will deploy desktop
>Linux. A Fortune 100 company will deploy
>Open Office.
It's not company-wide, but Intel already did both in some of its chip design units.
I'm sorry but......
if this were truly the case ("OS X 10.2 has fantastic device support" and TWAIN being ubiquitious) then my super hoopy Canon scanner would work. It does not and I'm awaiting drivers from Canon (soon..........).
I love OS X, but it has what it has and nothing more.
Thank you. Thank you very much. :)
Plus, Tomb Raider sucks ass. Sims, EQ, UO, SW:GB -- ask me to beta test for them and I'm all for it. I quit playing Anarchy Online because I was tired of run-run-run-shoot something which is basically FPS defined.
I might be convinced to beta a Tomb Raider game if a) it didn't suck as much as the rest of them and b) it wasn't such a teenage wetdream game.
...we're just pining for a man who can spell. ;)
I didn't make ths 'stalking' comment. Read.
(and, FWIW, I really don't care to hear your stalking story, so I skipped it)
I'm tired of you. You've said more about the actual topic in your defense than you ever said in your original post. You don't realise why you're an ass and you probably never will. I've wasted enough time...
EOM
Apparently you are an idiot... you said 2 things...
You complained about the start bar being counter-intuitive and then:
"Counter-intuitive - unless you're a woman - they seem to like trying to start cars that are already running (cue sound of gears grinding). "
None of this said ANYthing about the article or the author. If this is your idea of "slagging" an individual then you have it all wrong. You need to actually say something critical of them... All you did was state your disdain for the start button and then proceed to "slag" women as a whole.
Repeat after me... "flamebait"... "misogyny"...
PS - Maybe your sister thinks you're an idiot as well and therefore doesn't trust you to give her advice. Besides... What do you think? Just because I'm a woman I can tell you some secret to getting your sister to switch?
My guess is "you're an ass and you don't even know you're an ass".
I'm pretty sure your point was 'women are stupid and illogical'.
That's why your post got marked as "flamebait".
Maybe if your post had actually said any of what you JUST said it wouldn't have.
'Yes, You missed something and must be stupider than usual', SHE says, as SHE mods down your ridiculous original post...
Ass.
[sarcasm]I can't wait to see the reviews for the IBM 600x. And does anyone have any reviews of the last Seinfeld episode?[/sarcasm]
/. guys have raging hard-ons for tiny sony laptops)???
What is so earth-shattering about this (except that the
---
$ precedent, quotation or how you set you WAP.
He ___cannot___ change the AP and it's not even vaguely related to key size or interpretation of the key by the AP.
So... please... no more posts about the above.
And, sorry antmo, I don't know. I haven't seen any notes on this anywhere. My theory would be that it didn't hit high enough on the bug list ("does our wap work? ok, then skip it for now").
Works fine here. Don't look for any new PBs until January at least.
>Bullshit. If i was a Sun tech and i got called out ...until you lose your job cuz the machines go belly up and the company wants to know why you think they should replace 2 or 3 million worth of computing due to an alarmingly high concentration of free electrons floating about the racks... rather than sack you for not handling it. ;)
> to a site with these mad muvvas, i'd nut in my
>pants and then fall overmyself talking to the guy.
Then you can 'nut your pants' at home all day long and play games until they come re-possess your Xbox.
We won't see eye-to-eye on this because we have two disparate philosophies regarding corporate IT; I do not believe the IT works for the user in a corporate setting (in a consumer setting, yes).
My belief is that the IT must work for the corporation and that its service should reflect the will of the corporation, not the end user. Unless, of course, your IT department is a lot of bumbling morons. If that's the case then firings are in order, not mob rule.
The end result is still that your IT department is not properly doing its job -- enabling you to work within the desires of the corporation at a near optimum level while maintaining the best interests and goals of the corporation (and sometimes those things "annoy" the end user.). If they work for you, you get to tell them how to work based on 'your' interpretation of what that means. This is why I believe such a model is faulty from the start. (Aside: I know a lot of places don't have the caliber of personnel I'm used to working with, but I don't see that this makes any difference in the end... they should start firing and hunting up someone with more brains than resume. Again, a business practice issue, not a reason to change the model. Those people exist. I know many of them and some of them aren't working [while a lot of chuckleheads are].)
You seem to be aware of the problems in your company and understand why they're bad for the company. My suggestion, based on my beliefs as stated above and were it my place to suggest, would be to make noise and make it heard. Fix the problem at its source.
"...the company hires the sysadmin to LET THE USERS GET THE USERS' WORK DONE..."
In my view, the company hires the users AND the sysadmins to get the _company's_ business done. It's up to the company's management to make the one support the other. Virus protection being a prime example; It's not about protecting you, the user, it's about protecting the company's assets. If it's done poorly and affects the performance of you, the end user, then that's a symptom of bad planning and management.
The one thing we DO agree on is that users can't have things crammed down their throats which affect their performance, but I do not believe that the solution is for the user to make the syadmin a lame duck. I believe the solution is to make the sysadmin perform better (or fire his or her sorry ass).
----------------
Personal note:
Yes, I'm bitter, but I do believe all this. I recently left a very high-demand (24/7 99.9% uptime) computing environment supporting anywhere from 2,000 to 4,000 users (the majority being chip designers out of a company total of over 70,000) and tens of thousands of machines [no exaggeration, I assure you] and I've pledged never to work in a system like that (yes, your "work for the end user" model) again. Our "customers" dictating policy forced us to oftentimes provide poorer than necessary service and many times jeopardized the holdings of the corporation's intellectual assets. In my opinion that's just plain stupid. When the organization was shuffled and the "customer" model became more lip service than operating model, we were able to do things more 'rightly'. Why? Because we knew what we were doing. It was our job. It was our vocation. We weren't playing store clerk to people who had an entirley other job. I have no patience for poor IT anymore (and my patience was gone which is why I left). That's why I have no patience for the "IT drone" model. I'm smart and really really freaking good at what I do. I want to be able to do it with no more constraints than any other technical field. Basically... I don't want some recent college grad circuit designer telling me how things should be done or some guy who says 'I'm a unix user from way back' who really means 'I used VMS once' to tell me how to do my job. I certainly don't tell him how to do his. That's what our managers are for.
EOL
...doesn't mean it should be that way.
The guy's right. And he's not trying to say Sun wants to dick over ANYone but the guy has done mods on the machine and that's the bottom line. SHEESH.
Man, sometimes you people have such a high opinion of yourselves... [whine]well Sun should blah blah blah cuz I think blah blah blah[/whine]
Serioulsy.... you guys.... get real.