A better point is that I also ripped a couple DVDs of mine some years ago, and didnt need any scripting, it was everything automated. Maybe 15 years ago you had to script something, but not in the last few years, so it struck me as an exaggerated comment.
So, I have seen my gf, parents and even myself being given by doctors high spectrum antibiotics for trivial sickness; then the disgrace of the cattle and farming industry using preemptively antibiotics just in case, for being able to maintain animals in unthinkable environments and for fattening animal and not stopping at anything, even when it is already widespread knowledge antibiotics will stop working in less than ten years time. And know it is Chinas fault???? Talking about the elephant in the room...
I havent sure used handbrake for a while, but I remember ripping a DVD of mine without much effort, and sure do remember that ripping with scripts and so forth, and being difficult only, only, maybe 15 years ago. Nowadays there is plenty of choice of alternatives without paying 20$.
Old dogs can learn new tricks indeed. Gave a Mac to my father when he was 70 and I was abroad, before there were iPads and he pretty much learned to deal with it on his own.
I was bullied by a slightly retarded guy who was 2 years old than me and twice my size when I was 14. Ended up striking him so hard in the face after getting tired of the situation I punched him. I ended up with an opened and slightly injured fist, and broke is spectacles. For the whole rest of the year, the group of bullies didnt harass me anymore.
So, you invest 15 years in the training of highly specialised people, pay them a salary on the bracket on 5.000 to 20.000 dollars per months, and then put them serving food, instead of employing people who cost 10 times less to handle people and food, and who have been hand picked and trained for that too. Let me see, you go to your mechanic, and besides fixing the car, you pay for a 50 euro hamburger; and I bet you call your dentist and pay him 200 dollars an hour to clean your home too. Specialisation, attention to the customer, and good service is the key. I wouldnt fly in a plane where they would put my security and well being at risk to shave a couple of bucks. Honestly, are you mentally challenged, a manager, an accountant or a Gartner consultant?
It really depends on the manager. I had the misfortune to have once in my life a true PHB, micromanaging, childish, dumb, and very insecure. However, the majority are people that you can reason with. Pity I cant use my mod points to up your comment.
Why not? Learning to say no is one of the best skills you can have, in order to do your work. How about, I dont have the time to do it, it is not my work or I dont know, lets hire a consultant for a gig?
And who will watch for the flight, for your security when flying, and for the gauges? The air hostesses? Or better yet the passengers? When will they rest so your flight is secure? Your comment represents everything that is wrong...idiot.
It is obvious just from reading the test:
- the poster is the network manager, so no systems for you;
- from the size of your machines, you need 3 Windows system administrators;
- you also need at least more two people, one for the network, and other for the systems.
- The IT Manager should , in the middle, long term , move to management, and hire at least one programmer more.
- you need helpdesk people too. At least 2.
And them management thinks you are small. For the size of your organization, you need at least more 7-9 people. Maybe more, if you say you need more programmers.
And dont forget also metrics standard in industry. From the top of my head, normally is an administrator for every 50 windows machines. I can be wrong, research about it, put there known names, like Gartner. I personally think they spew bullshit, but management loves numbers and metrics.
The point you have to make is not you need to hire more people, it goes beyond that.
Point 1) document the time you are "wasting" with tasks bellow your competence.
Point 2) do the math, show them how much they could save, both with productivity lost in important projects, and most importantly, how much they could save shifting more mundane tasks with cheaper people.
Point 3) Document the expenses with outside contractors (if any).
Point 4) Make the case for outlining responsibilities and areas of competences. People dont ask airline pilots to pick up trash, or give food to travellers, well again, because their work is expensive. Also, people dont expect taxi drivers to be able to fly a jet.
Point 5) Learn to say no. Either when you dont have competences or time.
Point 6) Learn when how to say I dont know.
Point 7) Know when it is time to outsource some services, either in complex or lengthy tasks.
Excellent comment. As an AC pointed out, the move also makes sense to get away and avoid all the old regulation about the uptime and associated mandatory services, and I also add, it is probably a strategy to tie the knot and make ubiquitous the bundling of cable TV and data services.
To dismantle a network that works so well, can keep work in a case of a disaster, power failure and civil unrest, and has proved itself so resilient over time. I guess it is a matter of money, and listen be able to listen to conversations in a central point, however from the point of a backup of service, and redundancy of operations this decision is a disaster.
What I see here is the ISPs working for free, and we the consumers ending up footing the bill. How long until they start doing self censorship or until the pan-european green dam? Will this post be considered "radical"?
Samsung is making a big mistake, which is to put their prices at the same level of iPad, or often even slighter expensive. I would have had give a chance to Samsung if they were cheaper *before* I bought an iPad and got used to it. Windows phone numbers are inflated both with the enterprise market, and with units still on store, I believe. I have heard of whole fleet of people who maintain both their corporate-issued Windows phone and a personal iPhone, because they hate it so much.
Microsoft has a disruptive model of work, and this just shows it. They have no interest whatsoever in giving continuity in the long run to their APIs/products, to sell new ones and new training too. And then there are the failed market of bad products. Newsflash, there isnt a tablet market, it is an iPad market. And then there is a market of subpar, less than 100 euros tablets for iPads wannabes.
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A better point is that I also ripped a couple DVDs of mine some years ago, and didnt need any scripting, it was everything automated. Maybe 15 years ago you had to script something, but not in the last few years, so it struck me as an exaggerated comment.
So, I have seen my gf, parents and even myself being given by doctors high spectrum antibiotics for trivial sickness; then the disgrace of the cattle and farming industry using preemptively antibiotics just in case, for being able to maintain animals in unthinkable environments and for fattening animal and not stopping at anything, even when it is already widespread knowledge antibiotics will stop working in less than ten years time. And know it is Chinas fault???? Talking about the elephant in the room...
I havent sure used handbrake for a while, but I remember ripping a DVD of mine without much effort, and sure do remember that ripping with scripts and so forth, and being difficult only, only, maybe 15 years ago. Nowadays there is plenty of choice of alternatives without paying 20$.
I dropped Calibre after iBooks was released. Calibre is too slow for my taste. Are there any decent alternatives to both of them?
You have got handbrake for free, fine opensource video transcoder with a graphical interface. I cant still make up if you post is an advert.
You could run for politician.
Old dogs can learn new tricks indeed. Gave a Mac to my father when he was 70 and I was abroad, before there were iPads and he pretty much learned to deal with it on his own.
I was bullied by a slightly retarded guy who was 2 years old than me and twice my size when I was 14. Ended up striking him so hard in the face after getting tired of the situation I punched him. I ended up with an opened and slightly injured fist, and broke is spectacles. For the whole rest of the year, the group of bullies didnt harass me anymore.
So, you invest 15 years in the training of highly specialised people, pay them a salary on the bracket on 5.000 to 20.000 dollars per months, and then put them serving food, instead of employing people who cost 10 times less to handle people and food, and who have been hand picked and trained for that too. Let me see, you go to your mechanic, and besides fixing the car, you pay for a 50 euro hamburger; and I bet you call your dentist and pay him 200 dollars an hour to clean your home too. Specialisation, attention to the customer, and good service is the key. I wouldnt fly in a plane where they would put my security and well being at risk to shave a couple of bucks. Honestly, are you mentally challenged, a manager, an accountant or a Gartner consultant?
It really depends on the manager. I had the misfortune to have once in my life a true PHB, micromanaging, childish, dumb, and very insecure. However, the majority are people that you can reason with. Pity I cant use my mod points to up your comment.
Why not? Learning to say no is one of the best skills you can have, in order to do your work. How about, I dont have the time to do it, it is not my work or I dont know, lets hire a consultant for a gig?
And who will watch for the flight, for your security when flying, and for the gauges? The air hostesses? Or better yet the passengers? When will they rest so your flight is secure? Your comment represents everything that is wrong...idiot.
It is obvious just from reading the test: - the poster is the network manager, so no systems for you; - from the size of your machines, you need 3 Windows system administrators; - you also need at least more two people, one for the network, and other for the systems. - The IT Manager should , in the middle, long term , move to management, and hire at least one programmer more. - you need helpdesk people too. At least 2. And them management thinks you are small. For the size of your organization, you need at least more 7-9 people. Maybe more, if you say you need more programmers.
And dont forget also metrics standard in industry. From the top of my head, normally is an administrator for every 50 windows machines. I can be wrong, research about it, put there known names, like Gartner. I personally think they spew bullshit, but management loves numbers and metrics.
And if you dont have time or inclination for this, ask them to hire an external consultant to help you.
Often then not, helpdesk gives more trouble instead of less. They need to be properly trained and groomed. It is not a magic solution.
The point you have to make is not you need to hire more people, it goes beyond that. Point 1) document the time you are "wasting" with tasks bellow your competence. Point 2) do the math, show them how much they could save, both with productivity lost in important projects, and most importantly, how much they could save shifting more mundane tasks with cheaper people. Point 3) Document the expenses with outside contractors (if any). Point 4) Make the case for outlining responsibilities and areas of competences. People dont ask airline pilots to pick up trash, or give food to travellers, well again, because their work is expensive. Also, people dont expect taxi drivers to be able to fly a jet. Point 5) Learn to say no. Either when you dont have competences or time. Point 6) Learn when how to say I dont know. Point 7) Know when it is time to outsource some services, either in complex or lengthy tasks.
Is it worthwhile to use baseballs caps and dark glasses to foil face recognition technology?
Finally we find out why this machines are all slow...they are collecting bitcoins for Bill Gates.
Excellent comment. As an AC pointed out, the move also makes sense to get away and avoid all the old regulation about the uptime and associated mandatory services, and I also add, it is probably a strategy to tie the knot and make ubiquitous the bundling of cable TV and data services.
Man, If you are posting interesting stuff, try to post it as non-ac, otherwise it his hidden.
To dismantle a network that works so well, can keep work in a case of a disaster, power failure and civil unrest, and has proved itself so resilient over time. I guess it is a matter of money, and listen be able to listen to conversations in a central point, however from the point of a backup of service, and redundancy of operations this decision is a disaster.
What I see here is the ISPs working for free, and we the consumers ending up footing the bill. How long until they start doing self censorship or until the pan-european green dam? Will this post be considered "radical"?
Samsung is making a big mistake, which is to put their prices at the same level of iPad, or often even slighter expensive. I would have had give a chance to Samsung if they were cheaper *before* I bought an iPad and got used to it. Windows phone numbers are inflated both with the enterprise market, and with units still on store, I believe. I have heard of whole fleet of people who maintain both their corporate-issued Windows phone and a personal iPhone, because they hate it so much.
Microsoft has a disruptive model of work, and this just shows it. They have no interest whatsoever in giving continuity in the long run to their APIs/products, to sell new ones and new training too. And then there are the failed market of bad products. Newsflash, there isnt a tablet market, it is an iPad market. And then there is a market of subpar, less than 100 euros tablets for iPads wannabes.