Given our (US) history of working with others...who'd want to partner with us? We don't keep long-term commitments, we want to full control over everything
Congress says NASA should partner with someone for space exploration, then turns around and asks "why are you giving away the store?" - either way funding gets cut.
I fear the days of great scientific (or any other) advances coming out of the US are over. NO NONE - gov't or business, R or D, looks at the long term anymore.
Thank you - since the units were built for use on the MCI coaches - I'd think they'd have taken the thought that roads can be bumpy into account when designing the things.
Agree with the above. But the cord blood outfits work very hard to make you feel as if you don't love your child enough if you don't do this.
Enjoy. two years, was a blast, three was a blast...six now and I've recently been told that I am annoying and evil by my progeny...so she is learning.
be sure to teach them to swim!
Wish our was. We seem to have the mind set of "The more they charge us, the better it is!" Hence we have Blackboard and it is hosted. I expect once they have our content locked up good and tight we'll see substantial annual increases in their fees.
Blackboard's modus operandi is to purchase and kill. I expect they will do the same here. Try to kill-off support for Moodle since they can't kill Moodle directly..
Indeed, for those claiming it is all supply and demand - not manipulation for profit - why is it as demand for gasoline has been going DOWN, have the prices paid at the pump continued to go UP?
Maybe the printer folks would not be having so many issues if they built the printers like the LaserJet 4 - long lasting and rugged - not like the disposable junk they make now full of even more flimsy plastic and circuit boards that need to be "toasted" in the oven from time to time to keep them working.
Last decent printers I purchased form them was the LaserJet 8150 - even with their tendency to eat low-voltage power supplies (at least I could get the parts to fix 'em myself) First one that was a sign of things to come: HP 9000 - the paper jam queen.
Old batches of Vectra VL420 PCs and Omnibook 6000/6100 laptops lasted forever for us.
That's cause you are doing it wrong...you are talking about outcomes, no one cares about outcomes in the court of public opinion, they only want someone to hang. These days public employees are the targets.
Can't wait until the military is the target, with their free room and board, pension system, health care FOR LIFE!, thirty days off a year, free travel to exotic locations, can't get fired - boy nothing like what we have in the private sector! They should be happy the have jobs!.
Except that most of the charter schools in Ohio on the voucher system are run "for profit" - and they ALL seem to have the same issues: lower test scored than the public schools, financial mis-management and fraud. The Management teams set up a school, screw students over, fold up the school, take the money, then set-up another school and do it again.
Careful, some of us with cert may agree with you but we went out and got them in order to get past the HR weenies that throw away resumes that lack the appropriate buzzwords/acronyms.
Candidates/politicians talking up space exploration, means they must be after Florida votes, funny how all the talk about ramping-up the space program, or space exploration in general never amounts to anything after the election...unless it is sacrificing science missions for something "sexy."
So long as what you do doesn't look remotely like some else's patents....that they are just sitting on? Gov't out of the way? Out of the way OF WHAT? Private enterprise does not fund basic research anymore, they barely fund development of their own products.
The rich making sure they get richer...and that NO ONE ELSE DOES is the problem, not the so-called 'nanny state.'
My thinking, too. Was it PARC's fault that Xerox did not follow-up on the inventions they created? Management was too busy thinking about making paper copies rather then looking ahead.
Kodak has been in the news, too, of late due to their financial issues. Perhaps when they were doing their ground-breaking work in digital imaging it didn't look like it could be a money maker - since their work predates ubiquitous PCs in every home. But once the PC revolution started to really take off in the late eighties and early nineties and the emergence of the World Wide Web they should have revisited their digital imaging decisions.
If the "captains of industry" in the US did more navigating by the stars and a little less dead-reckoning perhaps their firms would not be on the ropes.
That's what I see. Longer yellow lights, more people running them because they know the yellow is longer, so let's make the yellow even longer...Hey, here is a thought, if you don't want a ticket, don't run the damn light. Trouble stopping when the light changes? maybe you ought to have been driving the speed limit - and not chatting on your phone.
Isn't this standard for their Peoplesoft product? We went through hell with it where I work years ago. Cost around 20 million more than it should have. Some folks lost their jobs, sadly, not the people responsible for that debacle. Ten years and that project is still bringing us "joy."
At our place Google and MS-hosted got scuttled as alternatives b/c they would not commit to keeping the data store withing the United States - this is a big issue with our gov't funded research which demands that the data stay within the USA. Fine by me, I think Google is pretty evil these days.
...I've seen this side too where HR basically works WITH the managers; instead of trying to prevent the firings they pretty much help them do it.
you mean there are places where HR is NOT rubber stamp for the administration? I've heard stories about that but never experienced it myself. Must be why the new-hires in our HR department that are helpful to the employees never last more than a year
Personally, I think that these claims that people are impossible to fire are largely made up. Maybe people are difficult to fire, but impossible? As for punching his boss in the face, I certainly don't have all the details (or any of them, really), but I'll bet there's more to that story. Certainly, if the guy punched his boss for no reason, he'd be arrested for assault and battery and I'm guessing he'd be easy to fire, union or not.
We are a union shop. In fact there are several unions on Campus.
Guy here knocks is supervisor upside the head...he was out the door in no time at all. Did we (the union) squawk? Nope, procedures were followed and there was no doubt as to what had happened.
In Ohio our union MUST represent both members and non-members of our union equally. Non-members enjoy the same working environment that we have negotiated for our members. I'd go along with what you want - IF and ONLY IF the changes in collective bargaining law include the provision that the Union is not on the hook to protect and serve non-members. If our contract DOESN'T cover non members, and the non-members don't get to come crying to us when they do get screwed over and look to the union that they never joined for help.
Let me make it clear, according to current law my union MUST provide the same services and protections to ALL employees whether they are members of the Union or not. We end up with 'free loaders' that bad mouth the union, will not join, and whine about the union until something bad happens to them - then they come running to us for the protection that they never thought they would need.
Lastly, I am SO TIRED of the FICTION that you cannot get rid of union workers. Unions protect due process, not bad workers. EVERY contract I have ever seen includes disciplinary provisions which ultimately end in dismissal. The only thing management must do is follow the procedure (which too many supervisors are too lazy to do, which is why people get moved around rather than fired.)
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Source for those numbers? I really do not doubt them at all, just wondering what your source is.
Congress says NASA should partner with someone for space exploration, then turns around and asks "why are you giving away the store?" - either way funding gets cut.
I fear the days of great scientific (or any other) advances coming out of the US are over. NO NONE - gov't or business, R or D, looks at the long term anymore.
Thank you - since the units were built for use on the MCI coaches - I'd think they'd have taken the thought that roads can be bumpy into account when designing the things.
Reading lights on the bus I ride have been replaced with multi-LED cluster bulbs - in less than 18 months most have several dead LEDs in the cluster.
Agree with the above. But the cord blood outfits work very hard to make you feel as if you don't love your child enough if you don't do this. Enjoy. two years, was a blast, three was a blast...six now and I've recently been told that I am annoying and evil by my progeny...so she is learning. be sure to teach them to swim!
Then admin/mgmt can say "Look how much money we saved by laying off those pesky techies! Blackboard will do everything for us!"
So what will we be looking at for annual increases in the hosting/support fees? But they don't worry about that, only employee headcount.
Wish our was. We seem to have the mind set of "The more they charge us, the better it is!" Hence we have Blackboard and it is hosted. I expect once they have our content locked up good and tight we'll see substantial annual increases in their fees.
Blackboard's modus operandi is to purchase and kill. I expect they will do the same here. Try to kill-off support for Moodle since they can't kill Moodle directly..
Indeed, for those claiming it is all supply and demand - not manipulation for profit - why is it as demand for gasoline has been going DOWN, have the prices paid at the pump continued to go UP?
Maybe the printer folks would not be having so many issues if they built the printers like the LaserJet 4 - long lasting and rugged - not like the disposable junk they make now full of even more flimsy plastic and circuit boards that need to be "toasted" in the oven from time to time to keep them working.
Last decent printers I purchased form them was the LaserJet 8150 - even with their tendency to eat low-voltage power supplies (at least I could get the parts to fix 'em myself) First one that was a sign of things to come: HP 9000 - the paper jam queen.
Old batches of Vectra VL420 PCs and Omnibook 6000/6100 laptops lasted forever for us.
We do not need the crowd in the US of A, we have ALEC to solve all our ills.
I expect that HP would have let those folks go regardless - they had already killed the product.
That's cause you are doing it wrong...you are talking about outcomes, no one cares about outcomes in the court of public opinion, they only want someone to hang. These days public employees are the targets.
Can't wait until the military is the target, with their free room and board, pension system, health care FOR LIFE!, thirty days off a year, free travel to exotic locations, can't get fired - boy nothing like what we have in the private sector! They should be happy the have jobs!.
Except that most of the charter schools in Ohio on the voucher system are run "for profit" - and they ALL seem to have the same issues: lower test scored than the public schools, financial mis-management and fraud. The Management teams set up a school, screw students over, fold up the school, take the money, then set-up another school and do it again.
Amen!
Careful, some of us with cert may agree with you but we went out and got them in order to get past the HR weenies that throw away resumes that lack the appropriate buzzwords/acronyms.
Candidates/politicians talking up space exploration, means they must be after Florida votes, funny how all the talk about ramping-up the space program, or space exploration in general never amounts to anything after the election...unless it is sacrificing science missions for something "sexy."
So long as what you do doesn't look remotely like some else's patents....that they are just sitting on? Gov't out of the way? Out of the way OF WHAT? Private enterprise does not fund basic research anymore, they barely fund development of their own products. The rich making sure they get richer...and that NO ONE ELSE DOES is the problem, not the so-called 'nanny state.'
My thinking, too. Was it PARC's fault that Xerox did not follow-up on the inventions they created? Management was too busy thinking about making paper copies rather then looking ahead.
Kodak has been in the news, too, of late due to their financial issues. Perhaps when they were doing their ground-breaking work in digital imaging it didn't look like it could be a money maker - since their work predates ubiquitous PCs in every home. But once the PC revolution started to really take off in the late eighties and early nineties and the emergence of the World Wide Web they should have revisited their digital imaging decisions.
If the "captains of industry" in the US did more navigating by the stars and a little less dead-reckoning perhaps their firms would not be on the ropes.
That's what I see. Longer yellow lights, more people running them because they know the yellow is longer, so let's make the yellow even longer...Hey, here is a thought, if you don't want a ticket, don't run the damn light. Trouble stopping when the light changes? maybe you ought to have been driving the speed limit - and not chatting on your phone.
Isn't this standard for their Peoplesoft product? We went through hell with it where I work years ago. Cost around 20 million more than it should have. Some folks lost their jobs, sadly, not the people responsible for that debacle. Ten years and that project is still bringing us "joy."
At our place Google and MS-hosted got scuttled as alternatives b/c they would not commit to keeping the data store withing the United States - this is a big issue with our gov't funded research which demands that the data stay within the USA. Fine by me, I think Google is pretty evil these days.
...I've seen this side too where HR basically works WITH the managers; instead of trying to prevent the firings they pretty much help them do it.
you mean there are places where HR is NOT rubber stamp for the administration? I've heard stories about that but never experienced it myself. Must be why the new-hires in our HR department that are helpful to the employees never last more than a year
Personally, I think that these claims that people are impossible to fire are largely made up. Maybe people are difficult to fire, but impossible? As for punching his boss in the face, I certainly don't have all the details (or any of them, really), but I'll bet there's more to that story. Certainly, if the guy punched his boss for no reason, he'd be arrested for assault and battery and I'm guessing he'd be easy to fire, union or not.
We are a union shop. In fact there are several unions on Campus.
Guy here knocks is supervisor upside the head...he was out the door in no time at all. Did we (the union) squawk? Nope, procedures were followed and there was no doubt as to what had happened.
In Ohio our union MUST represent both members and non-members of our union equally. Non-members enjoy the same working environment that we have negotiated for our members. I'd go along with what you want - IF and ONLY IF the changes in collective bargaining law include the provision that the Union is not on the hook to protect and serve non-members. If our contract DOESN'T cover non members, and the non-members don't get to come crying to us when they do get screwed over and look to the union that they never joined for help.
Let me make it clear, according to current law my union MUST provide the same services and protections to ALL employees whether they are members of the Union or not. We end up with 'free loaders' that bad mouth the union, will not join, and whine about the union until something bad happens to them - then they come running to us for the protection that they never thought they would need.
Lastly, I am SO TIRED of the FICTION that you cannot get rid of union workers. Unions protect due process, not bad workers. EVERY contract I have ever seen includes disciplinary provisions which ultimately end in dismissal. The only thing management must do is follow the procedure (which too many supervisors are too lazy to do, which is why people get moved around rather than fired.)