Your response to this disqualifies you as any kind of authority on this type of question. You are combative, hard headed and have absolutely no empathy for the folks you are supposed to be serving.
I disagree although I wouldn't have worded it the way he did. No matter what office suite they switch to, whether OOo or MS Office, the end users will have to learn something new. Some people will complain that it's not what they're used to, and that's a legitimate concern even if there's nothing really to be done about it other than offer training. Others will complain that "it's not the real Office", and you can dismiss those out of hand.
Our office of 50+ transitioned back in the early 2.0 days with nary a hitch. A couple of people still have MS Office for specific compatibility reasons (certain spreadsheet macros, that sort of thing) but everyone else from IT to the receptionist has OOo. We spent approximately $0.00 on training, instead going with "here's your new word processor". People who need office suites picked up on it quickly and people who primarily do other things didn't really care.
When the economy is good, we see employees jump ship for a 100$ raise all the time, and being so cynical at the same time. During a bad economy, when a company is trying to be nice, no one notice. As a matter of fact, a lot of people called us stupid too, because employees are ungrateful by nature.
I could make a little more money elsewhere, but you couldn't pry me loose from this job. My boss hands me general outlines of projects and then gives me full authority and responsibility to finish them on my own. I can work from home when our babysitter takes a few days off without having to ask permission first. I have my own office with lots of personal stuff in it. The only time he has something to say about hardware purchase requests is when I should have bought stuff earlier instead of trying to make do. My boss didn't buy my loyalty with a paycheck; it'd take a lot more money for me to gladly do weekend projects for a company I didn't like.
You sound like a good boss with your head in the right place. Yes, some employees will take advantage of this and then move on, but isn't that always true in life?
I definitely do. In the last year I've bought books on Kerberos and Asterisk and I'm glad I have them. My sole complaint with books is one of perception at the office. I can stare at a screen all day without being interrupted, but if I move to the "comfortable" corner of the office and sit in the relaxed chair under the nice reading light, everyone wants to stop and ask what I'm doing.
I wonder if there's a correlation between musical instruments played and editor preference later in life? For example, maybe piano players pick up on Emacs. Brass players end up on Vi(m?). Violins lead to Textmate. Kazoo players settle on Notepad. Sound like a testable hypothesis?
My mom was the chief communications technician ("Wire Chief") for the Burlington Northern Railroad. Once, after going back and forth with GTE ("the Grand Telephone Experiment") and AT&T ("jackasses"), she scheduled them both to send techs out to railroad's phone system installation at the same time. When they arrived, she told them to sort it out between themselves and locked the door. Say what you will but they got it fixed.
If you switch those strings of letters around (example: your qwerty regex only shows words starting with q-b), the numbers are even more skewed. Bonus points for testing words with odd lengths.
I am speechless at the business acumen behind killing your number one free advertising site, the one that had no negative affect whatsoever on your sales because the sound quality was way too low to "pirate". Newsflash to Warner: I've bought music I'd never normally get simply because it was stuck in my head and that was the only way to get rid of it. By lowering your exposure, I can absolutely guarantee you're going to lose sales. Genius.
Why not play Hard Drive Roulette and throw a WD, Seagate and whatever else you can find in -at the same time-?
The biggest annoyance is that now your RAID is no faster than the slowest of the set. Perhaps on mirrored reads it's not as bad because the quickest drives will take of some of the slack, but on striped reads and all writes you have to wait until the Maxtor Pokeymatic gets done. A little bit of attention at buying time can alleviate a lot of that, but still, it's out there.
It was bad customer experience that killed Circuit City.
No it wasn't! It says right on their website that "the economic climate is so poor that we have no choice other than liquidation." They closed because of the economy and not because they're a pack of incompetent jackasses. Unless they meant the economic climate in their tundra-like boardroom, perhaps.
Advice to the RIAA: forget the piracy exists. You simply are not going to ever get money from those people - get over it. On the other hand, you're making more money than every from downloads and you should work to keep growing those figures. That's the only thing you can do, frankly. Fighting piracy is like punching marshmallows.
Nor can you forget the subset of people who would not feel comfortable moving to a state/country that permits same-sex marriage.
Damn skippy you can. Forty years ago it was illegal in many places for a black to marry a white. We threw that out because it was just plain wrong. I'm sure that pissed off a lot of people, but that was their problem. In forty years, we'll marvel that we still kept laws barring gays from doing the same.
I'm a straight white Christian conservative, but John and Bob getting married isn't going to un-marry me from my wife. If one man loves another how I love my wife, I can't think of any reason why I should be allowed to keep them apart.
My wife recently went back to school at Missouri State University, and I was surprised at how specific all the the classes are as to what platform and formats they teach or use for classes. She is in the Masters of Education program.
A bad career counselor at Missouri State (was: SMSU) tricked me into enrolling in Computer Information Systems. Things I learned in CIS101:
All programs use mice.
You can do word processing in Excel.
Centering text will get you an "A".
You can blow off 75% of your lectures and still get an "A".
The CIS department and the elementary education students they taught were a pack of idjits.
Seriously, I feel pity for your wife. You have to understand that those two schools in that university are strongly oriented toward rote learning.
It'd be great, but the problem is that a lot of the timeouts are necessarily serial processes because of the way the devices used to be written.
I'm not that much of a hardware guy (which should be obvious to anyone reading my questions), but couldn't the kernel do something like fire off several probe requests and then sit back and wait for them at the same time?
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Your response to this disqualifies you as any kind of authority on this type of question. You are combative, hard headed and have absolutely no empathy for the folks you are supposed to be serving.
I disagree although I wouldn't have worded it the way he did. No matter what office suite they switch to, whether OOo or MS Office, the end users will have to learn something new. Some people will complain that it's not what they're used to, and that's a legitimate concern even if there's nothing really to be done about it other than offer training. Others will complain that "it's not the real Office", and you can dismiss those out of hand.
Our office of 50+ transitioned back in the early 2.0 days with nary a hitch. A couple of people still have MS Office for specific compatibility reasons (certain spreadsheet macros, that sort of thing) but everyone else from IT to the receptionist has OOo. We spent approximately $0.00 on training, instead going with "here's your new word processor". People who need office suites picked up on it quickly and people who primarily do other things didn't really care.
Next time you get out of the shower
Step one for effective public speaking: known your audience. Can you make a car analogy instead?
Is the FTC looking into this?
For what? Hiring paid actors to say good things about a product? I wonder what those marketers will think of next.
When the economy is good, we see employees jump ship for a 100$ raise all the time, and being so cynical at the same time. During a bad economy, when a company is trying to be nice, no one notice. As a matter of fact, a lot of people called us stupid too, because employees are ungrateful by nature.
I could make a little more money elsewhere, but you couldn't pry me loose from this job. My boss hands me general outlines of projects and then gives me full authority and responsibility to finish them on my own. I can work from home when our babysitter takes a few days off without having to ask permission first. I have my own office with lots of personal stuff in it. The only time he has something to say about hardware purchase requests is when I should have bought stuff earlier instead of trying to make do. My boss didn't buy my loyalty with a paycheck; it'd take a lot more money for me to gladly do weekend projects for a company I didn't like.
You sound like a good boss with your head in the right place. Yes, some employees will take advantage of this and then move on, but isn't that always true in life?
Do you really use reference books any longer?
I definitely do. In the last year I've bought books on Kerberos and Asterisk and I'm glad I have them. My sole complaint with books is one of perception at the office. I can stare at a screen all day without being interrupted, but if I move to the "comfortable" corner of the office and sit in the relaxed chair under the nice reading light, everyone wants to stop and ask what I'm doing.
I've often thought that about the Israel / Palestine conflict. Just lock them in a room and tell them to sort it out.
Would you put a big sign over the door labeling it "Gaza"?
I wonder if there's a correlation between musical instruments played and editor preference later in life? For example, maybe piano players pick up on Emacs. Brass players end up on Vi(m?). Violins lead to Textmate. Kazoo players settle on Notepad. Sound like a testable hypothesis?
My mom was the chief communications technician ("Wire Chief") for the Burlington Northern Railroad. Once, after going back and forth with GTE ("the Grand Telephone Experiment") and AT&T ("jackasses"), she scheduled them both to send techs out to railroad's phone system installation at the same time. When they arrived, she told them to sort it out between themselves and locked the door. Say what you will but they got it fixed.
If you switch those strings of letters around (example: your qwerty regex only shows words starting with q-b), the numbers are even more skewed. Bonus points for testing words with odd lengths.
In vi, you hit one key at a time, no matter what you're doing.
Yeah? Do you use caps-lock to type a colon or something?
I am speechless at the business acumen behind killing your number one free advertising site, the one that had no negative affect whatsoever on your sales because the sound quality was way too low to "pirate". Newsflash to Warner: I've bought music I'd never normally get simply because it was stuck in my head and that was the only way to get rid of it. By lowering your exposure, I can absolutely guarantee you're going to lose sales. Genius.
Why not play Hard Drive Roulette and throw a WD, Seagate and whatever else you can find in -at the same time-?
The biggest annoyance is that now your RAID is no faster than the slowest of the set. Perhaps on mirrored reads it's not as bad because the quickest drives will take of some of the slack, but on striped reads and all writes you have to wait until the Maxtor Pokeymatic gets done. A little bit of attention at buying time can alleviate a lot of that, but still, it's out there.
It was bad customer experience that killed Circuit City.
No it wasn't! It says right on their website that "the economic climate is so poor that we have no choice other than liquidation." They closed because of the economy and not because they're a pack of incompetent jackasses. Unless they meant the economic climate in their tundra-like boardroom, perhaps.
You talkin' marshmallows or record company executives?
Yep.
Man, making s'mores at your house must get interesting!
I hate those uppity blobs and take every opportunity to torture them into submission.
Advice to the RIAA: forget the piracy exists. You simply are not going to ever get money from those people - get over it. On the other hand, you're making more money than every from downloads and you should work to keep growing those figures. That's the only thing you can do, frankly. Fighting piracy is like punching marshmallows.
Double-unfortunately, a lot of hardware uses the same memory locations/interrupts, so you can't paralellize the process.
Ah, I see how that'd make a difference. Thanks!
Nor can you forget the subset of people who would not feel comfortable moving to a state/country that permits same-sex marriage.
Damn skippy you can. Forty years ago it was illegal in many places for a black to marry a white. We threw that out because it was just plain wrong. I'm sure that pissed off a lot of people, but that was their problem. In forty years, we'll marvel that we still kept laws barring gays from doing the same.
I'm a straight white Christian conservative, but John and Bob getting married isn't going to un-marry me from my wife. If one man loves another how I love my wife, I can't think of any reason why I should be allowed to keep them apart.
Most gays are usually quite well educated, which is more than I can say regarding the majority of Americans.
Perhaps the gays down at the steel plant might be more prone to keep quiet about it because it's less tolerated in that environment?
After the call, I have no recourse but to pay by credit card.
That's the irony: "we don't trust you to pay us directly, but you're OK to borrow the money."
There is a Wisconsin WOMAN. This WOMAN has Linux on a laptop. This WOMAN needs help.
Stupid can make Keira Knightley look like Rosie O'Donnell. Standards only bend so far before breaking.
My wife recently went back to school at Missouri State University, and I was surprised at how specific all the the classes are as to what platform and formats they teach or use for classes. She is in the Masters of Education program.
A bad career counselor at Missouri State (was: SMSU) tricked me into enrolling in Computer Information Systems. Things I learned in CIS101:
Seriously, I feel pity for your wife. You have to understand that those two schools in that university are strongly oriented toward rote learning.
(what's the opposite of coffee?)
(Milk?)
It'd be great, but the problem is that a lot of the timeouts are necessarily serial processes because of the way the devices used to be written.
I'm not that much of a hardware guy (which should be obvious to anyone reading my questions), but couldn't the kernel do something like fire off several probe requests and then sit back and wait for them at the same time?