And it immediately goes from being a relatively minor slap on the wrists disciplinary issue for accessing dodgy websites to being a gross misconduct instant dismissal issue for deliberately going out of your way to circumvent corporate policy.
We don't recruit many people here, maybe 5-6 grads a year into an IT department of 80, but find ourselves wading through hundreds of applicants, most of whom can't score above high-school level in the numerical and verbal reasoning SHL tests that we ask them to do. Personally, I think we're doing something wrong in our recruitment, but after a 6 month recruitment programme we only ended up with 3 out of 6 grad positions unfilled this year. That's for a £25,500 a year job in Berkshire.
I'm an IT Manager for a Fortune 100 company and a couple of years ago ran our European B2B team, processing around $8billion of orders a year. Fax accounted for 20-30% of that order value and cost us a huge amount in manual order entry (both in effort and in terms of transcription errors). The majority of the faxes were, annoyingly, system generated - they just chose to send them by fax either by printing them out and feeding them in, or printing them to a fax driver.
We tried all manner of things to get rid of them and move our customers to other order placement mechanisms, as well as projects to implement fax OCR based solutions, but they generally fail for one reason:
- It is virtually no effort for the customer to fax us an order, so it "costs" them nothing
We tried moving them to a variety of different solutions:
Emailing structured forms: Nope, they have to re-type the fax produced by their order management system to do that Web based order entry: Nope, they have to re-type into our forms Systems integration: Nope, it'd cost them to get an email / FTP / HTTP / Web Services front-end put on their order management system
In the end, the best solution we found was a company in Canada who've produced a print driver for pretty much every OS. The customer loads it onto their server, PC or whatever they produce faxes from and print to that instead of their usual fax driver. That then intercepts the output and sends it to this Canadian company, who develop a map of that document format to turn it into an EDI message, which they then send to us in a standard EDI format. Because they were getting in before the data was transformed into an image, they could process it and send it, rather than trying to deal with some fuzzy, misaligned image after the fact. Great little idea.
So, I guess, as I said, the main problem with getting rid of faxes is that, generally, it's the supplier of a service who picks up the tab for them being unwieldy, unreadable and un-processable. There's no incentive for the customer to change - after all, the supplier should just be glad they're getting the custom.
I can't work out whether you've posted this as a funny or whether you're an idiot. I hope it's the first and I get modded down.
There's nothing wrong with downloading "free music" or "limewire". Free music is perfectly available in both free as in beer and free as in speech. Limewire is just a piece of software and there's nothing wrong with downloading it. You can't do anything with it any more, but downloading it is perfectly fine.
And no-one would ever type in "how to pirate music", so no wonder it's not in Autcomplete. Neither is "how to snaffle music" "how to half-inch music" and neither is "how to speak to my mate who knows how to get dodgy CDs that I can rip into MP3 format so I can listen to music".
Wow. Great scientific summary. Why is it a "mess"? Surely it's the output of one carefully controlled process that led to another carefully controlled process that resulted in a particular outcome. Or isn't it? Surely boiling an element in a vacuum is a pretty clean way of doing things? If it's a "mess", then the whole thing is clearly a load of old nonsense.
Either state the results or make it clear it's an editorial. Don't mix them up. Otherwise it's a mess.
You seem to have confused popular with reputable, i.e popular = A Good Thing. Just because a thing has many fans does not mean it is reputable. I give you Justin Bieber.
Gosh, his corporate picture is terrifying! He's combing hair over from his right ear (as we look at it), adding various bits of hair, to pretend he isn't balding!
The fight for privacy by stopping monitoring of all your traffic has absolutely nothing to do with "piracy". Every time I read one of these headlines or one of these stories involving such a stupidly titled group as the Pirate Party, I just turn off. Piracy is stealing. Yeah, you might get to wear a cool eyepatch, and be taking it from the rich to give to the poor, but it's still stealing in most laws and, frankly, most moral codes. Let's even go to our friend Wikipedia:
"Piracy is a war-like act committed by private parties (not affiliated with any government) that engage in acts of robbery and/or criminal violence "
So, you want to steal things (music, movies, software etc.) and are telling us that we should support you because, er, why? Yeah, you might disagree with the law, but it's the law. I'd love to go around beating the shit out of people who don't wave thanks when I let them drive through in front of me in a traffic jam, but I can't because it's illegal. Beating the shit out of more people, helping others do it and calling myself the Let's Fuck Up Rude People Party isn't the way to get that changed.
The Digital Act is an abhorrent, but can these dickheads please stop blackening the fight for privacy by always associating it with stealing things?
In the same way we try to divide the business logic layer from the presentation layer in systems design, when I'm drawing pictures on paper to explain things to someone, I want to get my point across (the business logic) without worrying what it looks like. If I try to do it on Powerpoint, I worry about colours, positioning and getting the presentation right first time rather than just letting the logic flow.
A computer screen and a drawing tool will never beat a bit of A3 paper and the ability to scribble and talk around it while people you work with can do the same..
The whole point of the question is to break down how you do your step 3 when it's not trivial to compare all the various different architectures together any more and when you're not completely knowledgeable about them. Your option of just spending a ton of money is exactly what the questioner is trying to avoid doing.
So, like, well done on completely missing the point of the very valid question.
I'm pretty sure in every other story like this we lambast the original programmers for their sloppy coding and demand the heads of the managers in charge.
Any chance someone has documented the exploit that was left so that other programmers can learn how to not make programs in future? Or are bugs in software acceptable when we can all install our own crap on the device in question?
And it was purely because "other" people in the company (Fortune 100, big place) weren't allowed to listen to music because they had to listen out for the phone. He also didn't like that it looked like we weren't working as teams.
For me, music works because I have my best ideas when I'm not directly thinking about a problem - I have a very short attention span so music fills the gaps and stops me getting distracted onto something else.
At my work (3M - number 7 on here: http://www.ratemyplacement.co.uk/), we get our IT interns to generally come in and do support / content management related activities to begin with, but with the expectation that they'll move beyond that after 2-3 months and then spend 20-40% of their time doing project work equivalent to what a new graduate / any other employee would do. In recent years we've had interns working on developing website translation software that they proposed themselves (saving us several hundred thousand dollars per year), software license management / reduction and loads of other things.
Find out from the company at the start whether they're expecting you to have an open-ended project activity or whether you really are just the tea boy / doing incident management / desktop support. Emphasise to them that the internship you're looking for is a key part of your education and also your decision as to whether you would consider a graduate position with them. Companies spend a fortune on recruiting grads, so if we can just hire the interns we've had once they've graduated, it saves us time, money and potentially the disaster of hiring an unknown who turns out to be useless.
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As an IT Manager for one of the 100 biggest companies in the world, I couldn't give a flying f*ck about the inbetween. All I want to know is what we're getting. And if it breaks a part of our fundamental application stack, we'll complain or won't use it. If I want something in the release, I'll lobby for it. If you want to be part of the IE development cycle, sign an agreement with MS to be a part of it, then you'll get the alphas and beta.
.. that thinks that modding their XBOX is a legal, entirely brilliant thing to do that has no repercussions.
As has been said, for hobbyists there are kits already out there that don't involve modding. And if you do have to break the TOC for modding, then you're likely to be interested enough to have both a Dev / QA box (that you're modding on) and a Production box (unmodded to ensure your creations will work for all).
I agree that hardware should be free. And in this case, it is. It's entirely free. Just don't try and connect some random hardware that you've soldered all manner of crap onto to someone else's network. You wouldn't allow that on a corporate network, so why should MS have to allow it on their gaming network?
And is there any chance you can bring in some statistics as to how much, on average, a law firm makes in fees on winning a class action versus their fees for handling an individual case for the same action?
Class actions are a valid form of law that absolutely have their place. Those who choose to use them are not neccessarily that valid a form of ethical lawyer.
Maybe they noticed but seeing as you clearly didn't care to write your evaluation properly or take it seriously, they ignored both the evaluation form and you as an employee for a few years. Next time take some responsibility for your own evaluation instead of dicking around and then maybe they'll be willing to invest some time in you.
"It costs a licensing fee. It has more security liability than pretty much any other choice."
Yes, it does when it's hooked up to internet with no protection. That isn't this case. I may be entirely wrong, but isn't it the case that an unconnected (except for a highly secure private network), fully patched Windows XP machine is no easier to break into that an equivalent Linux / OSX machine.
"Linux costs nothing to license. BSD costs nothing to license. Windows costs something. That's an added, unneeded cost."
The licensing fee means you can blame them when it's their fault. If you want to blame someone else with Linux for a fundamental OS security issue, you'll still need to license it for a cost. That's why Red Hat make money.
"Because there aren't lots of dev tools for Linux that run on a normal desktop computer?"
Original question was wrong. Who cares, as long as the development tool does the job effectively.
"How is it easier to develop an ATM on Windows than on Linux? They both have tons of tools and myriad experienced developers and companies. Linux is probably better optimized for appliance uses and has a larger share of the appliance market than Windows, making it easier to find companies to work on it."
Because they've been doing it for years so it's far easier to port from old Windows to new Windows rather than rebuild the whole things from scratch. There may well be a new, better technology, but it's a hell of a lot cheaper to regression test against a newer version of an existing platform than it is to rebuild for an entirely new one.
It's only going to work when all I have to do is plug in the TV that I've just bought and it'll immediately hook up to Digital TV (Freeview in the UK), then I plug in my network connection and it immediately connects to Hulu, YouTube and others and offers them as channels.
Until then, how the hell are the majority of people in the next 20 years (40+ years old) supposed to do it?
If there are loads of add-ons out there that a lot of people have paid a lot of money for, it kind of limits what Blizzard can do with the Wow add-on API. If they, for example, do something that disables or breaks an add-on that has been bought by 500,000 players for $10 a piece, they'd come under huge pressure to reinstate the functionality in the API, even though they themselves make nothing out of it and it costs them time and effort to do it. It'd also be a major PR issue.
Purely to avoid that risk (i.e. having to support API functionality for someone else's financial gain), I think I'd ban paid add-ons as well.
I have never, ever had a good experience of a version x.0 from IBM, or many other vendors in fact. I'd rather pluck out my own eyes than risk another one of them.
Quite a lot of vendors deliberately start at x.1 just to avoid this.
Marketing is about dealing with perception and addressing it. If the marketplace has a perception that x.0 versions are buggy and nasty, the marketers need to deal with it.
At least it shows that your marketing team are tied into the beliefs and opinions of the marketplace.
...shame my RSS feed still has it as "European's". I was wondering who this poor unlucky chap was, why defrauding him was so huge and quite how it managed to be a ring with only one person..
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And it immediately goes from being a relatively minor slap on the wrists disciplinary issue for accessing dodgy websites to being a gross misconduct instant dismissal issue for deliberately going out of your way to circumvent corporate policy.
We don't recruit many people here, maybe 5-6 grads a year into an IT department of 80, but find ourselves wading through hundreds of applicants, most of whom can't score above high-school level in the numerical and verbal reasoning SHL tests that we ask them to do. Personally, I think we're doing something wrong in our recruitment, but after a 6 month recruitment programme we only ended up with 3 out of 6 grad positions unfilled this year. That's for a £25,500 a year job in Berkshire.
I'm an IT Manager for a Fortune 100 company and a couple of years ago ran our European B2B team, processing around $8billion of orders a year. Fax accounted for 20-30% of that order value and cost us a huge amount in manual order entry (both in effort and in terms of transcription errors). The majority of the faxes were, annoyingly, system generated - they just chose to send them by fax either by printing them out and feeding them in, or printing them to a fax driver.
We tried all manner of things to get rid of them and move our customers to other order placement mechanisms, as well as projects to implement fax OCR based solutions, but they generally fail for one reason:
- It is virtually no effort for the customer to fax us an order, so it "costs" them nothing
We tried moving them to a variety of different solutions:
Emailing structured forms: Nope, they have to re-type the fax produced by their order management system to do that
Web based order entry: Nope, they have to re-type into our forms
Systems integration: Nope, it'd cost them to get an email / FTP / HTTP / Web Services front-end put on their order management system
In the end, the best solution we found was a company in Canada who've produced a print driver for pretty much every OS. The customer loads it onto their server, PC or whatever they produce faxes from and print to that instead of their usual fax driver. That then intercepts the output and sends it to this Canadian company, who develop a map of that document format to turn it into an EDI message, which they then send to us in a standard EDI format. Because they were getting in before the data was transformed into an image, they could process it and send it, rather than trying to deal with some fuzzy, misaligned image after the fact. Great little idea.
So, I guess, as I said, the main problem with getting rid of faxes is that, generally, it's the supplier of a service who picks up the tab for them being unwieldy, unreadable and un-processable. There's no incentive for the customer to change - after all, the supplier should just be glad they're getting the custom.
Hackers Hack Kinect And Can Program It: Amazing Scenes!
Microsoft Give You Access To Kinect To Program It: Privacy Fears Abound!!!!
Why on earth is this written as a negative story rather a positive story about the capabilities that people will be able to explore?
I can't work out whether you've posted this as a funny or whether you're an idiot. I hope it's the first and I get modded down.
There's nothing wrong with downloading "free music" or "limewire". Free music is perfectly available in both free as in beer and free as in speech. Limewire is just a piece of software and there's nothing wrong with downloading it. You can't do anything with it any more, but downloading it is perfectly fine.
And no-one would ever type in "how to pirate music", so no wonder it's not in Autcomplete. Neither is "how to snaffle music" "how to half-inch music" and neither is "how to speak to my mate who knows how to get dodgy CDs that I can rip into MP3 format so I can listen to music".
You're either funnier than I think or a retard.
Wow. Great scientific summary. Why is it a "mess"? Surely it's the output of one carefully controlled process that led to another carefully controlled process that resulted in a particular outcome. Or isn't it? Surely boiling an element in a vacuum is a pretty clean way of doing things? If it's a "mess", then the whole thing is clearly a load of old nonsense.
Either state the results or make it clear it's an editorial. Don't mix them up. Otherwise it's a mess.
You seem to have confused popular with reputable, i.e popular = A Good Thing. Just because a thing has many fans does not mean it is reputable. I give you Justin Bieber.
Gosh, his corporate picture is terrifying! He's combing hair over from his right ear (as we look at it), adding various bits of hair, to pretend he isn't balding!
WIG! WIG!
The fight for privacy by stopping monitoring of all your traffic has absolutely nothing to do with "piracy". Every time I read one of these headlines or one of these stories involving such a stupidly titled group as the Pirate Party, I just turn off. Piracy is stealing. Yeah, you might get to wear a cool eyepatch, and be taking it from the rich to give to the poor, but it's still stealing in most laws and, frankly, most moral codes. Let's even go to our friend Wikipedia:
"Piracy is a war-like act committed by private parties (not affiliated with any government) that engage in acts of robbery and/or criminal violence "
So, you want to steal things (music, movies, software etc.) and are telling us that we should support you because, er, why? Yeah, you might disagree with the law, but it's the law. I'd love to go around beating the shit out of people who don't wave thanks when I let them drive through in front of me in a traffic jam, but I can't because it's illegal. Beating the shit out of more people, helping others do it and calling myself the Let's Fuck Up Rude People Party isn't the way to get that changed.
The Digital Act is an abhorrent, but can these dickheads please stop blackening the fight for privacy by always associating it with stealing things?
In the same way we try to divide the business logic layer from the presentation layer in systems design, when I'm drawing pictures on paper to explain things to someone, I want to get my point across (the business logic) without worrying what it looks like. If I try to do it on Powerpoint, I worry about colours, positioning and getting the presentation right first time rather than just letting the logic flow.
A computer screen and a drawing tool will never beat a bit of A3 paper and the ability to scribble and talk around it while people you work with can do the same..
The whole point of the question is to break down how you do your step 3 when it's not trivial to compare all the various different architectures together any more and when you're not completely knowledgeable about them. Your option of just spending a ton of money is exactly what the questioner is trying to avoid doing.
So, like, well done on completely missing the point of the very valid question.
I'm pretty sure in every other story like this we lambast the original programmers for their sloppy coding and demand the heads of the managers in charge.
Any chance someone has documented the exploit that was left so that other programmers can learn how to not make programs in future? Or are bugs in software acceptable when we can all install our own crap on the device in question?
And it was purely because "other" people in the company (Fortune 100, big place) weren't allowed to listen to music because they had to listen out for the phone. He also didn't like that it looked like we weren't working as teams.
For me, music works because I have my best ideas when I'm not directly thinking about a problem - I have a very short attention span so music fills the gaps and stops me getting distracted onto something else.
At my work (3M - number 7 on here: http://www.ratemyplacement.co.uk/), we get our IT interns to generally come in and do support / content management related activities to begin with, but with the expectation that they'll move beyond that after 2-3 months and then spend 20-40% of their time doing project work equivalent to what a new graduate / any other employee would do. In recent years we've had interns working on developing website translation software that they proposed themselves (saving us several hundred thousand dollars per year), software license management / reduction and loads of other things.
Find out from the company at the start whether they're expecting you to have an open-ended project activity or whether you really are just the tea boy / doing incident management / desktop support. Emphasise to them that the internship you're looking for is a key part of your education and also your decision as to whether you would consider a graduate position with them. Companies spend a fortune on recruiting grads, so if we can just hire the interns we've had once they've graduated, it saves us time, money and potentially the disaster of hiring an unknown who turns out to be useless.
Nightly builds, if they were released every time:
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Bun + Meat + Meaty Flavour
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Bun + Meat + Meaty Flavour + Gherkin + Salt + That Other Stuff
Bun + Meat + Meaty Flavour + Gherkin + Salt + That Other Slightly Better Stuff
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As an IT Manager for one of the 100 biggest companies in the world, I couldn't give a flying f*ck about the inbetween. All I want to know is what we're getting. And if it breaks a part of our fundamental application stack, we'll complain or won't use it. If I want something in the release, I'll lobby for it. If you want to be part of the IE development cycle, sign an agreement with MS to be a part of it, then you'll get the alphas and beta.
Total non-story.
.. that thinks that modding their XBOX is a legal, entirely brilliant thing to do that has no repercussions. As has been said, for hobbyists there are kits already out there that don't involve modding. And if you do have to break the TOC for modding, then you're likely to be interested enough to have both a Dev / QA box (that you're modding on) and a Production box (unmodded to ensure your creations will work for all). I agree that hardware should be free. And in this case, it is. It's entirely free. Just don't try and connect some random hardware that you've soldered all manner of crap onto to someone else's network. You wouldn't allow that on a corporate network, so why should MS have to allow it on their gaming network?
And is there any chance you can bring in some statistics as to how much, on average, a law firm makes in fees on winning a class action versus their fees for handling an individual case for the same action? Class actions are a valid form of law that absolutely have their place. Those who choose to use them are not neccessarily that valid a form of ethical lawyer.
Maybe they noticed but seeing as you clearly didn't care to write your evaluation properly or take it seriously, they ignored both the evaluation form and you as an employee for a few years. Next time take some responsibility for your own evaluation instead of dicking around and then maybe they'll be willing to invest some time in you.
"It costs a licensing fee. It has more security liability than pretty much any other choice." Yes, it does when it's hooked up to internet with no protection. That isn't this case. I may be entirely wrong, but isn't it the case that an unconnected (except for a highly secure private network), fully patched Windows XP machine is no easier to break into that an equivalent Linux / OSX machine. "Linux costs nothing to license. BSD costs nothing to license. Windows costs something. That's an added, unneeded cost." The licensing fee means you can blame them when it's their fault. If you want to blame someone else with Linux for a fundamental OS security issue, you'll still need to license it for a cost. That's why Red Hat make money. "Because there aren't lots of dev tools for Linux that run on a normal desktop computer?" Original question was wrong. Who cares, as long as the development tool does the job effectively. "How is it easier to develop an ATM on Windows than on Linux? They both have tons of tools and myriad experienced developers and companies. Linux is probably better optimized for appliance uses and has a larger share of the appliance market than Windows, making it easier to find companies to work on it." Because they've been doing it for years so it's far easier to port from old Windows to new Windows rather than rebuild the whole things from scratch. There may well be a new, better technology, but it's a hell of a lot cheaper to regression test against a newer version of an existing platform than it is to rebuild for an entirely new one.
It's only going to work when all I have to do is plug in the TV that I've just bought and it'll immediately hook up to Digital TV (Freeview in the UK), then I plug in my network connection and it immediately connects to Hulu, YouTube and others and offers them as channels. Until then, how the hell are the majority of people in the next 20 years (40+ years old) supposed to do it?
Strikes me that the rule about not being allowed to charge for addons might be something that has come out of stories like this - iPhone App Causes Google To Shut Down SMS Service.
If there are loads of add-ons out there that a lot of people have paid a lot of money for, it kind of limits what Blizzard can do with the Wow add-on API. If they, for example, do something that disables or breaks an add-on that has been bought by 500,000 players for $10 a piece, they'd come under huge pressure to reinstate the functionality in the API, even though they themselves make nothing out of it and it costs them time and effort to do it. It'd also be a major PR issue.
Purely to avoid that risk (i.e. having to support API functionality for someone else's financial gain), I think I'd ban paid add-ons as well.
How did someone miss that opportunity? :-(
I have never, ever had a good experience of a version x.0 from IBM, or many other vendors in fact. I'd rather pluck out my own eyes than risk another one of them.
Quite a lot of vendors deliberately start at x.1 just to avoid this.
Marketing is about dealing with perception and addressing it. If the marketplace has a perception that x.0 versions are buggy and nasty, the marketers need to deal with it.
At least it shows that your marketing team are tied into the beliefs and opinions of the marketplace.
...shame my RSS feed still has it as "European's". I was wondering who this poor unlucky chap was, why defrauding him was so huge and quite how it managed to be a ring with only one person..
I rarely trust any company that can't spell their own technology:
"id Quantique is the leader in the development of advanced encryption solutions based on classical and quantum cryptograhy."
cryptograhy?
Oooh, maybe they're trying to hide themselves through dodgy spelling! Cunning!