IANAUPBMWI (I am not a university professor but my wife is), but I would REALLY like to know how you get signed up for these kickbacks. After 4 years of PhD school it would sure be nice to get a little something extra back from that investment.
It is true that she receives more textbooks every year than she can possibly read/investigate, at least for her changing a text book is more a very deliberate process. She's an Accounting professor, and she does change text books quite often. However, instead of some really great kick back scheme, she makes those changes because the standards of practices of the accounting profession are in near constant change. Outside of the basic principles classes, a text book only a couple of years old contains out of date and often misleading information.
Why does everyone hate SCO so much? They're just a little company fighting off the tyranny of pirates and criminals like Linus Torvalds. There is absolutely nothing wrong with SCO and anyone who feels different should be ashamed of themselves.
They already do this here in Denton Texas (are ramping up to it actually). They apparently have a pretty neat process through the local dump (to provide energy) and are collecting all of the towns cooking grease. They are supposed to be supplying a pretty good chunk of bio-diesel for use throughout North Texas here in the coming months.
I'm an AirForce brat and had the pleasure of spending 3 years in Italy (Aviano). Absolutely beautiful country, great people, and unbeleivable food (I really can't say enough good things about the Italians).
We did experience taxation at it's finest, however. EVERYTHING was taxed.. if you had a radio in your car you paid a tax. If you had a certain type of TV you paid a tax. We where shielded from a lot of the taxes, but not all of them. It was pretty unbeleivable really.
The point is that the United States is actually a pretty reasonable place tax wise. At least it was compared to most of the countries we visited while we lived in Europe.
Star Wars extends far beyond Lucas. It's a shared experience that has become a very important part of our collective culture.
Lucas no more owns Star Wars than our founding fathers own the constitution. They may have wrote it, but it BELONGS to us.
Lucas owns the COMMERCIAL RIGHTS to Star Wars, I'll give you that. As a result he's the one who gets to build the prequels. However, Star Wars is truly owned by the millions of people whose childhood was impacted by those films. Their culture and identity has been shaped by those, and to lament the destruction of that cultural legacy by the new films is both correct and understandable.
This isn't exactly true. There is a rather large part of the Iranian population that is not only quite secular, but VERY "western" in ideaology and culture. There has been a increasingly vocal insurgency in Iran that is promoting western ideals of democracy and secular government.
To label Iran as "Islamist" is only true of the government, but a gross injustice to it's actual people.
Is the I-pod REALLY the de-facto standard? I'm not sure of the numbers, and haven't been able to track something down with 30 seconds of googling.. but I'll make my argument anyways:)
There are a LOT of 'mp3' players out there, beyond the dedicated MP3 player. The Sony-Ericcson p800/p900 are an MP3 capable device, all of the Sony Palm OS Handhelds are MP3 capable, etc.. I'm not sure who the leader is in overall portable devices capable of playing music but I bet Sony is pretty close. They have their toe in almost pool after all.
With the new portable gaming machine their bringing out this is likely to get even better from their perspective. All of these devices are targets for this music service, not just hard-drive based MP3 players like the I-pod.
You haven't been to college yet, so I'll let you have some time to gain perspective.
I was a fraternity guy in college (Sigma Nu), during my time in college (4 years) there where 62 rape allegations brought against members of my fraternity.
Not a SINGLE one was even found to be true. Most where never prosecuted (the D.A. refused), some where thrown out of court, and the rest went to actual trial.
I had personal knowledge of most of these, and they were always consensual (albeit drunken) sex that turned into rape the next morning. These girls would wake up and say 'oh my god, I slept with that guy last night... my boyfriends gonna kill me.' and then cry rape to cover their tracks. Never caring that they where literally trying to ruin lives.
I say this because in your case you talk about three 'jerks' (showing your bias) being ACCUSED of rape. There is no case in which the accusation tends to be furthest from the truth than rape cases. It's likely (just based on personal experience) that in investigating/prosecuting the case they found that no rape had occured, and the fines stemmed from some lesser crime the teens had commited.
He's not BLAMING the Linux community, but rather pointing out a simple flaw (and he's right). It may not be possible for the Linux community to come up with a driver for his card... but that's not the point. The point is that there is a problem and it's a problem no matter what the circumstances are.
The problem is that Drudge has a reputation among many as an actual news outlet after the Clinton scandal broke. Many see drudge as reputable. This is a serious problem becaus Drudge is little more than a tabloid that happens to print the truth every now and then.
This isn't drudges fault (although I would argue that they now have some responsibility), but is a sign of the challenges we face in the age of modern media. The general public doesn't have a very good filter for news, and sites like Drudge just make it worse. This gives them extreme power beyond what they observe. Their fascination with killing Kerry's reputation (As an example) has really made an impact among people that I come into contact with. The most disturbing part is that most of these people have never even read the Drudge report, but rather heard from a friend of a friend who 'saw it on the news.'
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I have the same issue with front-loaded design that I have with heavily commenting code.. it's just one more thing to maintain.
UML and various other design schemes have this funny habit of making you code every program twice. Once in a modelling language and once in actual code.. A change in requirements, methodology, bug fixes, or anything else that causes code modification requires you to not only update your code but your design diagrams as well. Throw in a heavy handed comment scheme (the comments have to be updated as well!) and it's really a maintenence nightmare.
Instead I prefer high level documentation and diagramming. Instead of designing at the lowest levels of a system I have a small number of very high level diagrams and documents that describe the overall system. I then try to write very readable code that allows someone with a basic understanding of the system (from the documents) to easily find their way in the code and begin to actually USE it at the lowest levels.
I REALLY like a band called Thrice. By really like, I mean I really like 15% of their songs, don't mind something like 65%, and don't care for the remaining 20%.
To me that's a pretty good Album. I would much rather be able to buy the songs I really like and then mix them up with another band rather then be forced fed the additional tracks I really don't care about.
These people aren't fighting an ideological battle against government and oppression. Their fighting a battle against 'the unbelievers'. They don't want freedom, but rather the exact opposite of it. They want to oppress the world into their way of thinking, their ideology, and their narrow minded view of morality.
Quite the opposite of what the founding fathers of the United States fought against. Sure you COULD call them terrorists, but the battle was fought around THEIR homes and around THEIR families. They didn't take a boat over to england and torch the Bank of London on a random Tuesday morning while trying to kill as many people as possible. That's what terrorists do...
So lets not mistake these people for anything but what they are.. incredibly evil. They want to kill you. Yep.. that's right. They want YOU--- dead. They want your mother dead. They want your children dead. They want anyone and everyone that speaks your language and leads your way of life.. dead.
Don't beleive me? Just ask them, they've been quite open about it for better than 15 years.
For me spamming has always been an inconvienence and nothing more really. However, once I helped to implement a new customer support system at work I began to realize just how difficult the problem can be. In that setting (support via e-mail) a whitelist isn't much of an option. An aggressive spam filter isn't really an option either (we really can't have even 1 false positive). We do run a basic filtering system that catches a lot of the spam, but we're still receiving several thousand messages a day. It's a strain on our database and more importantly on our customer support staff who have to wade through all of the spam.
This is really a good observation and it all really comes down to one simple principle:
The less money you have, the more valuable $1 is.
Sure $1 is always worth exactly 60 cents, and as such it's value should be the same. From an overall economic perspective that's aboslutely correct. However, to an individual it most definitely is not true. Your first dollar(s) are generally allocated to NEEDS. As you accumulate more money more and more of your later dollars can go to the extras as the parent articulated so well. So the logic here is simple, when you have 1 million dollars losing a dollar or two makes almost no difference. Your 999,999th dollar isn't very valuable to you as your now in position to be buying absolutely frivilous things.. so to lose that dollar doesn't impact you very much.
However, to a person who only has a couple hundred dollars to spend losing 1 dollar hurts them much more. Their dollar was more valuable.
Its the same requirement that requires Enron's auditors to change their company name and logo, rather than admitting they overlooked one of the biggest corporate collapses in history.
Dude, get your facts straight. I assume your talking about Accenture, which is a spin-off of Arthur Andersen caused by a rather gigantic rift between some of the partners in the original Arthur Anderson. It's not an auditing firm, but rather a consultancy. It spun off well before Enron, and didn't even take all of the consulting out of Arthur Andersen..
But don't they then take the remaining 4/5 of profit and reinvest it back into another part of the economy? Whether it be in the stock market, or they go out and BUY something thus creating employment for several other heads of households?
It's still about money, don't lose sight of that. The problem here is a classic one, the REALITY of a situation is running directly counter to common sense. The RIAA long ago decided that this was an important battle, after all it's effectively costing them money. After all, people getting your product for free SEEMS like a really bad thing. I think that 95% of reasonable people would instantly reach the same conclusion as well.
They are now to invested in this mindset to let it go. As with most things that challenge common sense (the world is round! globalism is bad! etc..) the natural reaction is to reject it, instead of reshaping your ideas about what is truly correct. That's what your seeing here, despite mounting evidence to the contrary the RIAA has their tin foil hats on and are convinced that anything that runs counter to THEIR perceptions is a conspiracy to let people steal from them.
Thankfully this is a classic beginning-of-the-end scenario. Eventually a smaller label will 'get it' and begin to truly leverage P2P, and over time the RIAA (and it's big labels) will either follow suit (not likely) or be replaced. The clock is ticking either way.
The Python case is an example of a good decision. They traded free-form code formatting and replaced it with something that (in my opinion) greatly improves the overall readibility of the language.
This is an example of trading a few keystrokes ('global') and exchaning it with something that is INCREDIBLY error prone. After all, it's a very easy typo to make.. someVariable vs SomeVariable , and yet the meaning is drastically different.
When a competitor brings out a product we usually take the time to look it over, make a few comments, and otherwise critique what they did well and did wrong. Sometimes we even give an opinion on it...
I would certainly hope that the DOJ is taking the time to look at other rulings and ideas across the globe to examine their OWN opinions of right and wrong.
In this case.. THEY feel that the ruling was wrong, and went on to explain why. I disagree, but I am glad that the DOJ has an opinion at least.
But isn't the ultimate competition other platforms? I think that KDE vs. Gnome competition has really accomplished very little but make the Linux story more complex.. it's created a situation in which putting Linux into the enterprise means giving up some of the features you may want/need because neither desktop environment supports the full breadth of features..
A common unified desktop is best for Linux. It's best for innovation. The real competition is always going to be the Microsofts and Apples of the world after all.
I hate these rather broad surverys, because they do a poor job of getting at the heart of the matter. I recently worked with our HR department to help get a handle on job satisfaction among the engineering staff, and had the chance to see more focused job satisfaction numbers.
It appears to me that the level of job satisfaction is almost entirely dependent not on the TYPE of job, but at what company that job is being done at. For anyone in the IT industry that comes as no shock, but it was eye opening to the rest of the company.
What we found in our internal study was that IT workers feel particularly disengaged from the rest of the company. They are forced to be very task oriented ("We've decided to install XXXXX, heres how we want you to do it") which is rather disheartening for most workers in this industry. They are trained to be problem solvers, but are often left out of the decision making process and instead become highly paid installation men.. which runs almost completely counter to their personalities. As a result they feel replacable, underutilized, and bored. That's a recipe for job dissatisfaction if I've ever seen it..
What we've done is go to a more distributed problem solving model. At the highest levels (CTO/management) the problems are defined, and then commitees are formed consisting of the actual IT workers to solve those specific problems. When choosing a new customer support system, for example, we made sure that the end users (CSR's), IT network engineers, system administrators, and the customer support manager where all involved in evaluating and designing the system they wanted to put in place.
After that project was complete we found a remarkable increase in satisfaction. The simple fact of engaging these people made them feel secure in their jobs (they felt valuable), engaged, and stimulated. The project was completed in record time and the rollout was nearly flawless. It was an incredibly interesting excercise for me (a software development lead), and apparently for those involved in the design as well.
All of this is a long winded way of saying that the problem isn't IT, but those that run it. They fail to understand or utilize the value of their staffs. They force assignments on them. They treat them as disposable commidities, rather than the intellectual assets they are. This creates a job situation that is rather unpleasant for everyone involved...and management seems to be blisfully unaware that anything is wrong. Instead they complain about how hard IT workers are to manage and how they refuse to 'fit in' with the corporate culture. After all, a good marketing guy will sit there and do what he's told.. It's a severe clash of personalities, which is why you'll find much higher job satisfaction rates at technology driven companies (generally run by people with technical backgrounds).. which does beg an interesting question: "Are marketing, accounting, and other business related people more unhappy working at technology companies than at business driven companies?"
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IANAUPBMWI (I am not a university professor but my wife is), but I would REALLY like to know how you get signed up for these kickbacks. After 4 years of PhD school it would sure be nice to get a little something extra back from that investment.
It is true that she receives more textbooks every year than she can possibly read/investigate, at least for her changing a text book is more a very deliberate process. She's an Accounting professor, and she does change text books quite often. However, instead of some really great kick back scheme, she makes those changes because the standards of practices of the accounting profession are in near constant change. Outside of the basic principles classes, a text book only a couple of years old contains out of date and often misleading information.
Why does everyone hate SCO so much? They're just a little company fighting off the tyranny of pirates and criminals like Linus Torvalds. There is absolutely nothing wrong with SCO and anyone who feels different should be ashamed of themselves.
Feel free to discuss.
Yes, that would be great. Open source would cease to exist overnight for one.
We could all be just like doctors, and spend half of our salaries paying for malpratice insurance. That's AWESOME.
They already do this here in Denton Texas (are ramping up to it actually). They apparently have a pretty neat process through the local dump (to provide energy) and are collecting all of the towns cooking grease. They are supposed to be supplying a pretty good chunk of bio-diesel for use throughout North Texas here in the coming months.
Both Saturday Night Live and The Daily Show do a great job of mocking and satiring our government thank you very much.
Patriotism-blinded America indeed. Grow a clue.
I'm an AirForce brat and had the pleasure of spending 3 years in Italy (Aviano). Absolutely beautiful country, great people, and unbeleivable food (I really can't say enough good things about the Italians).
We did experience taxation at it's finest, however. EVERYTHING was taxed.. if you had a radio in your car you paid a tax. If you had a certain type of TV you paid a tax. We where shielded from a lot of the taxes, but not all of them. It was pretty unbeleivable really.
The point is that the United States is actually a pretty reasonable place tax wise. At least it was compared to most of the countries we visited while we lived in Europe.
Star Wars extends far beyond Lucas. It's a shared experience that has become a very important part of our collective culture.
Lucas no more owns Star Wars than our founding fathers own the constitution. They may have wrote it, but it BELONGS to us.
Lucas owns the COMMERCIAL RIGHTS to Star Wars, I'll give you that. As a result he's the one who gets to build the prequels. However, Star Wars is truly owned by the millions of people whose childhood was impacted by those films. Their culture and identity has been shaped by those, and to lament the destruction of that cultural legacy by the new films is both correct and understandable.
ALMOST correct:
Iran is very Islamist
This isn't exactly true. There is a rather large part of the Iranian population that is not only quite secular, but VERY "western" in ideaology and culture. There has been a increasingly vocal insurgency in Iran that is promoting western ideals of democracy and secular government.
To label Iran as "Islamist" is only true of the government, but a gross injustice to it's actual people.
Is the I-pod REALLY the de-facto standard? I'm not sure of the numbers, and haven't been able to track something down with 30 seconds of googling.. but I'll make my argument anyways:)
There are a LOT of 'mp3' players out there, beyond the dedicated MP3 player. The Sony-Ericcson p800/p900 are an MP3 capable device, all of the Sony Palm OS Handhelds are MP3 capable, etc.. I'm not sure who the leader is in overall portable devices capable of playing music but I bet Sony is pretty close. They have their toe in almost pool after all.
With the new portable gaming machine their bringing out this is likely to get even better from their perspective. All of these devices are targets for this music service, not just hard-drive based MP3 players like the I-pod.
You haven't been to college yet, so I'll let you have some time to gain perspective.
I was a fraternity guy in college (Sigma Nu), during my time in college (4 years) there where 62 rape allegations brought against members of my fraternity.
Not a SINGLE one was even found to be true. Most where never prosecuted (the D.A. refused), some where thrown out of court, and the rest went to actual trial.
I had personal knowledge of most of these, and they were always consensual (albeit drunken) sex that turned into rape the next morning. These girls would wake up and say 'oh my god, I slept with that guy last night... my boyfriends gonna kill me.' and then cry rape to cover their tracks. Never caring that they where literally trying to ruin lives.
I say this because in your case you talk about three 'jerks' (showing your bias) being ACCUSED of rape. There is no case in which the accusation tends to be furthest from the truth than rape cases. It's likely (just based on personal experience) that in investigating/prosecuting the case they found that no rape had occured, and the fines stemmed from some lesser crime the teens had commited.
Your whole premise is screwed up really.
He's not BLAMING the Linux community, but rather pointing out a simple flaw (and he's right). It may not be possible for the Linux community to come up with a driver for his card... but that's not the point. The point is that there is a problem and it's a problem no matter what the circumstances are.
Drudge is a virus.
The problem is that Drudge has a reputation among many as an actual news outlet after the Clinton scandal broke. Many see drudge as reputable. This is a serious problem becaus Drudge is little more than a tabloid that happens to print the truth every now and then.
This isn't drudges fault (although I would argue that they now have some responsibility), but is a sign of the challenges we face in the age of modern media. The general public doesn't have a very good filter for news, and sites like Drudge just make it worse. This gives them extreme power beyond what they observe. Their fascination with killing Kerry's reputation (As an example) has really made an impact among people that I come into contact with. The most disturbing part is that most of these people have never even read the Drudge report, but rather heard from a friend of a friend who 'saw it on the news.'
I have the same issue with front-loaded design that I have with heavily commenting code.. it's just one more thing to maintain.
UML and various other design schemes have this funny habit of making you code every program twice. Once in a modelling language and once in actual code.. A change in requirements, methodology, bug fixes, or anything else that causes code modification requires you to not only update your code but your design diagrams as well. Throw in a heavy handed comment scheme (the comments have to be updated as well!) and it's really a maintenence nightmare.
Instead I prefer high level documentation and diagramming. Instead of designing at the lowest levels of a system I have a small number of very high level diagrams and documents that describe the overall system. I then try to write very readable code that allows someone with a basic understanding of the system (from the documents) to easily find their way in the code and begin to actually USE it at the lowest levels.
I REALLY like a band called Thrice. By really like, I mean I really like 15% of their songs, don't mind something like 65%, and don't care for the remaining 20%.
To me that's a pretty good Album. I would much rather be able to buy the songs I really like and then mix them up with another band rather then be forced fed the additional tracks I really don't care about.
What's so wrong with that?
Ok.. this is so incredibly ridiculous.
These people aren't fighting an ideological battle against government and oppression. Their fighting a battle against 'the unbelievers'. They don't want freedom, but rather the exact opposite of it. They want to oppress the world into their way of thinking, their ideology, and their narrow minded view of morality.
Quite the opposite of what the founding fathers of the United States fought against. Sure you COULD call them terrorists, but the battle was fought around THEIR homes and around THEIR families. They didn't take a boat over to england and torch the Bank of London on a random Tuesday morning while trying to kill as many people as possible. That's what terrorists do...
So lets not mistake these people for anything but what they are.. incredibly evil. They want to kill you. Yep.. that's right. They want YOU--- dead. They want your mother dead. They want your children dead. They want anyone and everyone that speaks your language and leads your way of life.. dead.
Don't beleive me? Just ask them, they've been quite open about it for better than 15 years.
But not effective in all circumstances.
For me spamming has always been an inconvienence and nothing more really. However, once I helped to implement a new customer support system at work I began to realize just how difficult the problem can be. In that setting (support via e-mail) a whitelist isn't much of an option. An aggressive spam filter isn't really an option either (we really can't have even 1 false positive). We do run a basic filtering system that catches a lot of the spam, but we're still receiving several thousand messages a day. It's a strain on our database and more importantly on our customer support staff who have to wade through all of the spam.
At this point it's just stupid.
Just to add to this.
This is really a good observation and it all really comes down to one simple principle:
The less money you have, the more valuable $1 is.
Sure $1 is always worth exactly 60 cents, and as such it's value should be the same. From an overall economic perspective that's aboslutely correct. However, to an individual it most definitely is not true. Your first dollar(s) are generally allocated to NEEDS. As you accumulate more money more and more of your later dollars can go to the extras as the parent articulated so well. So the logic here is simple, when you have 1 million dollars losing a dollar or two makes almost no difference. Your 999,999th dollar isn't very valuable to you as your now in position to be buying absolutely frivilous things.. so to lose that dollar doesn't impact you very much.
However, to a person who only has a couple hundred dollars to spend losing 1 dollar hurts them much more. Their dollar was more valuable.
Its the same requirement that requires Enron's auditors to change their company name and logo, rather than admitting they overlooked one of the biggest corporate collapses in history.
Dude, get your facts straight. I assume your talking about Accenture, which is a spin-off of Arthur Andersen caused by a rather gigantic rift between some of the partners in the original Arthur Anderson. It's not an auditing firm, but rather a consultancy. It spun off well before Enron, and didn't even take all of the consulting out of Arthur Andersen..
But don't they then take the remaining 4/5 of profit and reinvest it back into another part of the economy? Whether it be in the stock market, or they go out and BUY something thus creating employment for several other heads of households?
It's still about money, don't lose sight of that. The problem here is a classic one, the REALITY of a situation is running directly counter to common sense. The RIAA long ago decided that this was an important battle, after all it's effectively costing them money. After all, people getting your product for free SEEMS like a really bad thing. I think that 95% of reasonable people would instantly reach the same conclusion as well.
They are now to invested in this mindset to let it go. As with most things that challenge common sense (the world is round! globalism is bad! etc..) the natural reaction is to reject it, instead of reshaping your ideas about what is truly correct. That's what your seeing here, despite mounting evidence to the contrary the RIAA has their tin foil hats on and are convinced that anything that runs counter to THEIR perceptions is a conspiracy to let people steal from them.
Thankfully this is a classic beginning-of-the-end scenario. Eventually a smaller label will 'get it' and begin to truly leverage P2P, and over time the RIAA (and it's big labels) will either follow suit (not likely) or be replaced. The clock is ticking either way.
The Python case is an example of a good decision. They traded free-form code formatting and replaced it with something that (in my opinion) greatly improves the overall readibility of the language.
This is an example of trading a few keystrokes ('global') and exchaning it with something that is INCREDIBLY error prone. After all, it's a very easy typo to make.. someVariable vs SomeVariable , and yet the meaning is drastically different.
When a competitor brings out a product we usually take the time to look it over, make a few comments, and otherwise critique what they did well and did wrong. Sometimes we even give an opinion on it...
I would certainly hope that the DOJ is taking the time to look at other rulings and ideas across the globe to examine their OWN opinions of right and wrong.
In this case.. THEY feel that the ruling was wrong, and went on to explain why. I disagree, but I am glad that the DOJ has an opinion at least.
The windows metafile format (think powerpoint, word art, etc..) is most definitely a vector format.
But isn't the ultimate competition other platforms? I think that KDE vs. Gnome competition has really accomplished very little but make the Linux story more complex.. it's created a situation in which putting Linux into the enterprise means giving up some of the features you may want/need because neither desktop environment supports the full breadth of features..
A common unified desktop is best for Linux. It's best for innovation. The real competition is always going to be the Microsofts and Apples of the world after all.
I hate these rather broad surverys, because they do a poor job of getting at the heart of the matter. I recently worked with our HR department to help get a handle on job satisfaction among the engineering staff, and had the chance to see more focused job satisfaction numbers.
It appears to me that the level of job satisfaction is almost entirely dependent not on the TYPE of job, but at what company that job is being done at. For anyone in the IT industry that comes as no shock, but it was eye opening to the rest of the company.
What we found in our internal study was that IT workers feel particularly disengaged from the rest of the company. They are forced to be very task oriented ("We've decided to install XXXXX, heres how we want you to do it") which is rather disheartening for most workers in this industry. They are trained to be problem solvers, but are often left out of the decision making process and instead become highly paid installation men.. which runs almost completely counter to their personalities. As a result they feel replacable, underutilized, and bored. That's a recipe for job dissatisfaction if I've ever seen it..
What we've done is go to a more distributed problem solving model. At the highest levels (CTO/management) the problems are defined, and then commitees are formed consisting of the actual IT workers to solve those specific problems. When choosing a new customer support system, for example, we made sure that the end users (CSR's), IT network engineers, system administrators, and the customer support manager where all involved in evaluating and designing the system they wanted to put in place.
After that project was complete we found a remarkable increase in satisfaction. The simple fact of engaging these people made them feel secure in their jobs (they felt valuable), engaged, and stimulated. The project was completed in record time and the rollout was nearly flawless. It was an incredibly interesting excercise for me (a software development lead), and apparently for those involved in the design as well.
All of this is a long winded way of saying that the problem isn't IT, but those that run it. They fail to understand or utilize the value of their staffs. They force assignments on them. They treat them as disposable commidities, rather than the intellectual assets they are. This creates a job situation that is rather unpleasant for everyone involved...and management seems to be blisfully unaware that anything is wrong. Instead they complain about how hard IT workers are to manage and how they refuse to 'fit in' with the corporate culture. After all, a good marketing guy will sit there and do what he's told.. It's a severe clash of personalities, which is why you'll find much higher job satisfaction rates at technology driven companies (generally run by people with technical backgrounds).. which does beg an interesting question: "Are marketing, accounting, and other business related people more unhappy working at technology companies than at business driven companies?"