Wow, lots of good responses to this one. I've been telecommuting for years, and based on that I'll add two points.
First, and most important: It's vital that managers are able to create and update real, honest production schedules. I've found that most middle managers in the traditional offices I've worked in are not able to do this. Instead, they use the interminable meetings, and annoying walk-around oversight. Good managers should be able to set goals and milestones, monitor progress toward them. To achieve this, workers need clearly identified objective milestones. Someone upstream mentioned bug tracking system aging. That could work. Or simple spreadsheet based empirical schedule development works too. Once you've gotten your management off of behavioral monitoring and onto actual management by objectives with honest schedule development, it's possible to successfully manage remote workers.
Second, one needs to get the legal issues clear. Basically, there need to be clear understandings, written understandings, on the dispostion of the remote equipment, the workplace, and who's responsible for accidents and incurred liabilities and expenses. This is wide ranging and can be as simple or as complex as necessary for your organization.
Good luck. Breaking free of requiring everyone to trundle off over the highways every day can be a major reduction in overhead, and offers tremendous opportunities in morale, cost savings, and work satisfaction.
The Well mail in question is forwarded before it gets to the user's in box. It doesn't go through the mail system spam filtering. This is usually configured by the users themselves, individually, most usually by creating their own.forward file on the system. Yeah, it's an old unix based conferenceing system, and most users have shell access.
Is it possible for Canadian citizens to lobby for experimental or otherwise new treatments eval programs in your medical system? There must be many parents in your position. You've probably got enough on your plate already, but peraps it's worth looking to see if there's a muscular-dystrophy parents association; and if so, aksing them if they'd be interested in pushing for this. Even if the tech's not ready yet, possibly best to get moving now so as to have a program in place for when it is. Yeah, I know it's easy for other people to 'make suggestions' like this. Figured it's worth saying anyway - I know you're dealing with plenty already.
Bingo. When public ifrastructure services are relegated to market driven private interests, some degree of public ownership rights must be maintained. If the subway owners want to sell private property, they should do so in the private domain, on their own and without tax funded investment.
Can they enforce it? I'm sure that's what everybody is waiting to see.
The goals are spelled out pretty much. If you click around on the igos site you'll find a page with a short list of bullets. It's pretty much the usual stuff, showing the benefits of OSS, and standardization, etc.
I think that this is very exciting stuff. Indonesia has been going through all sorts of gymnastics trying to get off of pirated software, and moving to OSS makes big sense. And, there are tons of Linux enthusiasts there too. I do wonder whether choosing a Java GUI implementation might lock out the tons of older machines extant - but afaik, the declaration doesn't call for exclusion of any other distros, but rather means to be the first step in standardising government implementations - moving away from the closed source addiction. I say, congratulations and good luck! Selamat! Dirgahayu!
You have my sympathies. I'm sure you don't need anyone to tell you to keep learning, enjoy it when you can, and keep your awareness up for opportunities. So far, I've worked through multiple booms and busts, and seen plenty marginal managers dissappear into the fog. Some of them even became good contributors, eventually.
I was talking about, really, the assumption of some that private business somehow can trump the Constitution and Bill of Rights by printing something on the back of a ticket, and the fallacy that private property boundaries mark some sort of exclusion zone inside of which the owners wishes have more legal weight than than those. That's all. Nothing about selling kids.
If employees can deceive managers by just by forwarding communications and similar measures, perhaps it's management that should be examined.
I don't care if my crew are running naked on a beach on Fiji, as long as they make their production goals and stay in contact. Work from home, work from your cube, from under your mother's dress, I don't care. Make progress on your work. As a manager, it's my job to measure that, and not my job to worry about where your butt is located or whether it's getting sun exposed.
The big problem is that most middle managers have no idea how to work up and maintain plans and schedules, and thus resort to policing cubes and worrying about attendance.
Purchasing 'luxury' services should not require exchanging your basic rights to obtain them. Do the boundaries of private property provide an exclusion zone in which common law does not apply?
And, at what point of magnitude and to what degree does large scale private business remain private? Does this huge theme park exist in isolation? Does it not use huge amounts of public infrastructure in order to do business? Private, public, whatever - it may not be a state, but it exists in one.
To some degree, unless you live all alone on a little island, your 'private business' both contributes and takes from the public domain, the commons. The smaller they are, the less perhaps their activities impinge on the commons. When they are huge, their effect is also. To some degree, Main Street in Disneyland is a public street, and you do not lose your rights of privacy, nor your other basic rights when you pay to stroll there.
This is a pretty good view of the little volcanic archipelago in the Sunda Strait between West Java and Sumatra, remaining from the 1883 explosive eruption of Krakatoa. The Indonesians refer to it as Anak Krakatau, which means child of Krakatoa.
Qualified marine engineers can get good gigs working as 'stationary engineers', shoreside. And you never know, if you are in the US, the domestic merchant marine might come back one day, and then you can work at sea too!
Of course, this is off topic - the original question was about alternate work for engineers of a certain age. Going to MM engineering school isn't a minor proposition..
Now that these annoying phones can actually play music to announce calls, why not just go all the way and have them play a voice announcement?
"Hey, big boy, call for you," in a melodious fem voice, for example. Or, "Master, a minion desires your ear," stage whispered out of the annoying instrument.
OK, so I went off and checked out the InfoCentral online demo. It looks like it might fulfill some of the requirements.
It's another web based MySQL front end. OSS too. Mostly weighted to member management, it seems to have some financial stuff. It's designed to be a church membership management thing, but plenty of customizing ability is built in.
I'm helping to work out a web portal for an international nonprofit org, and we sure could use some packages to help with admin.
We're not pro coders, just interested neophytes. So far we've rolled out own with PHP/MySQL based site, with self made template main pages, phpMyAdmin, phpbb conferencing, LinPHA photo album, and some other stuff.
Getting it all to work together and getting the config for each done has proven to be a great DIY project, but it sure is a long road. It's been in process for quite awhile, and we're still not ready to open to our public.
It would have been great to have a package to start with, so that we could use it to create a site to do the stuff that our nonprofit was created to do. As it is, maybe we'll be able to contribute back to the OSS community by virtue of releasing a finished site, if we ever get that far. Yeah, I know this is a whine.
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Wow, lots of good responses to this one. I've been telecommuting for years, and based on that I'll add two points.
First, and most important: It's vital that managers are able to create and update real, honest production schedules. I've found that most middle managers in the traditional offices I've worked in are not able to do this. Instead, they use the interminable meetings, and annoying walk-around oversight. Good managers should be able to set goals and milestones, monitor progress toward them. To achieve this, workers need clearly identified objective milestones. Someone upstream mentioned bug tracking system aging. That could work. Or simple spreadsheet based empirical schedule development works too. Once you've gotten your management off of behavioral monitoring and onto actual management by objectives with honest schedule development, it's possible to successfully manage remote workers.
Second, one needs to get the legal issues clear. Basically, there need to be clear understandings, written understandings, on the dispostion of the remote equipment, the workplace, and who's responsible for accidents and incurred liabilities and expenses. This is wide ranging and can be as simple or as complex as necessary for your organization.
Good luck. Breaking free of requiring everyone to trundle off over the highways every day can be a major reduction in overhead, and offers tremendous opportunities in morale, cost savings, and work satisfaction.
The Well mail in question is forwarded before it gets to the user's in box. It doesn't go through the mail system spam filtering. This is usually configured by the users themselves, individually, most usually by creating their own .forward file on the system. Yeah, it's an old unix based conferenceing system, and most users have shell access.
People and structures recalled from childhood seem larger when we visit them later as adults because our point of view is higher, imno.
Is it possible for Canadian citizens to lobby for experimental or otherwise new treatments eval programs in your medical system? There must be many parents in your position. You've probably got enough on your plate already, but peraps it's worth looking to see if there's a muscular-dystrophy parents association; and if so, aksing them if they'd be interested in pushing for this. Even if the tech's not ready yet, possibly best to get moving now so as to have a program in place for when it is. Yeah, I know it's easy for other people to 'make suggestions' like this. Figured it's worth saying anyway - I know you're dealing with plenty already.
"a quasi-public agency"
Bingo. When public ifrastructure services are relegated to market driven private interests, some degree of public ownership rights must be maintained. If the subway owners want to sell private property, they should do so in the private domain, on their own and without tax funded investment.
Here's another one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre
Can they enforce it? I'm sure that's what everybody is waiting to see.
The goals are spelled out pretty much. If you click around on the igos site you'll find a page with a short list of bullets. It's pretty much the usual stuff, showing the benefits of OSS, and standardization, etc.
I think that this is very exciting stuff. Indonesia has been going through all sorts of gymnastics trying to get off of pirated software, and moving to OSS makes big sense. And, there are tons of Linux enthusiasts there too. I do wonder whether choosing a Java GUI implementation might lock out the tons of older machines extant - but afaik, the declaration doesn't call for exclusion of any other distros, but rather means to be the first step in standardising government implementations - moving away from the closed source addiction. I say, congratulations and good luck! Selamat! Dirgahayu!
I hate me too postings, but, yeah, me too. Thanks.
Just rewrote the automessage in my own words, and sent it to both senators.
Excuse me, but the point of the parent is that the name does not need to be trade marked, at all. It's not being sold, after all.
I think it's a very interesting idea. It could actually reinforce the drive to standards.
You have my sympathies. I'm sure you don't need anyone to tell you to keep learning, enjoy it when you can, and keep your awareness up for opportunities. So far, I've worked through multiple booms and busts, and seen plenty marginal managers dissappear into the fog. Some of them even became good contributors, eventually.
Hah! No, not at all.
I was talking about, really, the assumption of some that private business somehow can trump the Constitution and Bill of Rights by printing something on the back of a ticket, and the fallacy that private property boundaries mark some sort of exclusion zone inside of which the owners wishes have more legal weight than than those. That's all. Nothing about selling kids.
If employees can deceive managers by just by forwarding communications and similar measures, perhaps it's management that should be examined.
I don't care if my crew are running naked on a beach on Fiji, as long as they make their production goals and stay in contact. Work from home, work from your cube, from under your mother's dress, I don't care. Make progress on your work. As a manager, it's my job to measure that, and not my job to worry about where your butt is located or whether it's getting sun exposed.
The big problem is that most middle managers have no idea how to work up and maintain plans and schedules, and thus resort to policing cubes and worrying about attendance.
Purchasing 'luxury' services should not require exchanging your basic rights to obtain them. Do the boundaries of private property provide an exclusion zone in which common law does not apply?
And, at what point of magnitude and to what degree does large scale private business remain private? Does this huge theme park exist in isolation? Does it not use huge amounts of public infrastructure in order to do business? Private, public, whatever - it may not be a state, but it exists in one.
To some degree, unless you live all alone on a little island, your 'private business' both contributes and takes from the public domain, the commons. The smaller they are, the less perhaps their activities impinge on the commons. When they are huge, their effect is also. To some degree, Main Street in Disneyland is a public street, and you do not lose your rights of privacy, nor your other basic rights when you pay to stroll there.
The remains of Krakatoa
This is a pretty good view of the little volcanic archipelago in the Sunda Strait between West Java and Sumatra, remaining from the 1883 explosive eruption of Krakatoa. The Indonesians refer to it as Anak Krakatau, which means child of Krakatoa.
Qualified marine engineers can get good gigs working as 'stationary engineers', shoreside. And you never know, if you are in the US, the domestic merchant marine might come back one day, and then you can work at sea too!
Of course, this is off topic - the original question was about alternate work for engineers of a certain age. Going to MM engineering school isn't a minor proposition..
OK, I'm ignorant. Why is this modded Funny?
Folks, TFA is about a REUSABLE camera,
not a throw-away.
Yep, data exhange by touch was looked into quite some time ago at the Media Lab, and with not a small amount of media mention.
Seems strange if folks don't remember this.
Japanese girl group, the 5,6,7,8's. Lookey here for album: amazon
"Admittedly, Americans are one of the major contributors to the image of the self-righteous tourist, and I find that disgusting too."
I wonder if perhaps this perception of the boorish US tourist has more to do with there being more of them than any other kind.
Now that these annoying phones can actually play music to announce calls, why not just go all the way and have them play a voice announcement?
"Hey, big boy, call for you," in a melodious fem voice, for example. Or, "Master, a minion desires your ear," stage whispered out of the annoying instrument.
That looks like prior restraint objection bait to me.
Your rights are not relinquished just because you sign a contract that excludes them in order to purchase something.
OK, so I went off and checked out the InfoCentral online demo. It looks like it might fulfill some of the requirements.
It's another web based MySQL front end. OSS too. Mostly weighted to member management, it seems to have some financial stuff. It's designed to be a church membership management thing, but plenty of customizing ability is built in.
Check it out: http://www.infocentral.org/
I'm helping to work out a web portal for an international nonprofit org, and we sure could use some packages to help with admin.
We're not pro coders, just interested neophytes. So far we've rolled out own with PHP/MySQL based site, with self made template main pages, phpMyAdmin, phpbb conferencing, LinPHA photo album, and some other stuff.
Getting it all to work together and getting the config for each done has proven to be a great DIY project, but it sure is a long road. It's been in process for quite awhile, and we're still not ready to open to our public.
It would have been great to have a package to start with, so that we could use it to create a site to do the stuff that our nonprofit was created to do. As it is, maybe we'll be able to contribute back to the OSS community by virtue of releasing a finished site, if we ever get that far. Yeah, I know this is a whine.
fwiw, we looked at Compiere ERP + CRM, http://sourceforge.net/projects/compiere//
Lots of features. Too business oriented.