The company IT department could not/would not do anything like that - complete incompetance. Thank God the ELH system is farmed out. The PBX only serves to send callers after 5:00 to an old fashioned call center who pages the docs. Patients turn off the call block or don't get the returned call. If you want a more advanced system you can hope your insurance will allow you access to a more botique clinic. Generally everyone around here is served by one of two major health networks who copy each other.
A common answer I've been reading in here is to never answer or block ALL calls with their number blocked (because they are cowards). My wife is a physician, and has our home number blocked - because she is a coward. When returning pages/calls from patients there are a lot of those patients that would love to have our home number, so they could call day-and-night without having to go through the switchboard to get the actual physician on call. You won't get her to return a call until you turn your blocking off.
What if only residential people could get call number blocking, or if business had it taken away after a certain threshhold for complaints. Great idea (pat self on back), but the telcos would never give up the income from number blocking. Congress is too busy taking campaign contributions from corporations to ever give consituants any consideration in a matter such as this.
How about placing an outdated nuclear sub on the sea-bottom near the arctic circle instead of sinking old ship off the warm coasts for coral reefs. It would have to be gutted, then filled with servers and a way to pump glycol in-and-out for cooling, the glycol would be chilled by cool arctic waters. You'd have electricity for as long as the on-board nuclear plant still had fuel. If done off the northern coast of Alaska you'd only need to run a few short fiber links to land. There's plenty of military bases, so connections are established.
I knew a gal in an apartment I lived in (in Phoenix) who once flashed er boobs to a couple of adult males (I missed 'em). The manager called the police and they charged her with a sex crime. I spoke with her about a year later, she was homeless and living on the street or with any guy that would let her stay. After the flashing and sex crime she was thrown out of the apartment. No other apartment in Phoenix would rent to her because of the crime free lease addendums.
How many other stories are there about people getting charged with a sex crime for taking a leak outside?
If this gets enforced strickly, how many people will have to log-off? Is Slashdot considered a social network site?
Blah blah blah. Every third response is something along the lines of, "Well my last experience with IT sucked, so they must be worthless."
We only have our experiences to draw upon what we know.
Godforbid someone wants to switch to IP telephony, because we all know that that tech is never going to catch on, and it's a much much better idea to keep paying for old fashioned phone trunks every month than just one nice internet connection.
IP telephony can be great. My experience at ATMI was the CIO wanted it because it was cool. The phone guy would have to prepare the project documents every six months for him to weigh out the cost against the perceived benefit. A giant costs to upgrade a functional digital system, because the Cisco system sounds cool.
There were no usable benefits needed for the corporation. That doesnâ(TM)t mean when they move in a couple years to a new building they shouldnâ(TM)t consider it. But a forklift upgrade from the well running digital system today only gets you some flashy new screens for a couple hundred grand.
I've worked in two large corporate IT environments (many others if you count all the short consulting gigs I worked). They were night and day as to how they ran and how you would want to treat the users. When I worked at The University of Phoenix Online the employees, sales drones, would have destroyed their computers within days if they had access. They were the most IT illiterate people they could find. When I worked at ATMI, they had a bunch of engineers who needed access for one reason or another. They would almost never do something stupid, and they would ask before they attempted things they did not understand.
I imagine the users are different at every shop, as is IT management. Problem is management evolves towards those that can do the corporate politics, and the skilled IT managers leave to go back to coding or running the network.
I worked in a couple IT departments for years,
and I agree with the article in that many of the IT departments fail to provide what is needed to run the business. I've seen IT departments slow down large projects, make many projecs come in way past due dates rendering them worthless, and having projects killed because IT just cannot get it done.
Then I watched my IT overlords blow their bbudget because they wanted to upgrade the entire phone system to a Cisco IP based one - "because they are cool."
Didn't IBM do this research over a decade ago. The found a light-grey background was best at productivity and the eyes themselves. They incorporated thos colors into OS/2 2.1.
This story was posted to Fark earlier this week, and linked to The Smoking Gun. Apparently these people should sue their own government also, because the assessors office has a picture of the house online as well, complete with all the dimensions of the house/
These knuckleheads should have just done the opt-out and this whole thing would have been over. Now theyâ(TM)ve invoked the Streisand Effect and everyone in the world has seen their private house. They are most definitely in it just for the cash, who would give a rip about their crappy little home, it looks like a half step up from a broken down mobile-home.
Shriners possibly, I'm not sure all those good 'ole boys are Apple zealots. Every time I see a hipster with a funny hat it turns out he's a Mac zealot. I was waiting for a buddy to get his iPod fixed at an Apple store, short of a runway it looked like a funny hat model show.
Do they give you a funny hat after you buy so many Apple products, or do you have to pass a test?
I formerly worked at ATMI, and they employed the dumbest CIO they could find. He has no IT training or knowledge, claiming his managerial accounting background will allow him to do the job. The CEO is a guy that surrounds himself with yes-men, and Kevin Laing is his personal puppy of a CIO.
Kevin hired an infrastructure director, who was trying to gown up in our clean room and couldn't find any left handed rubber gloves. It's no wonder the companies stock has been flatlining for the past 5 years.
Those poor bastards still working there will never get an annual bonus, because the CIO blows the budget horribly every year. The Help Desk manager has run off all the competant staff with full blessing of the CIO, I just don't see any upside to this guy at all. If the CEO and CIO were fired tomorrow, I'd guess there would be a jump in the stock just because they would be gone.
Key attributes of Kevin Laing
They overpromise and underdeliver.
They don't take ownership of critical issues, nor do they demonstrate accountability for problems, but they're quick to take credit for successes.
Instead of working on projects that make meaningful contributions to the company's bottom line, they focus either on projects that will look good on their résumés or on sucking up to executives by giving them Blackberrys and new laptops with wireless Internet connections.
They overemphasize project management to the point where 90 percent of the timeline for projects is given over to planning and only 10 percent to implementation.
They espouse a different management practice every month.
One of my goals at my previous company was to never end up embarrassed and on the news from data leakage. We had many engineers working on patentable ideas not to mention finance and general stuff not to be shown outside. I pulled ever HD from machine to be retired or sent outside the company in any way. I'd stack them until convenient to take to the corporate machine show to have them run the band-saw or drill press on them.
That would keep me out of the news, as only a handful of data recover specialists could recover anything from them. Due diligence was performed. If you need military grade destruction you need to shred the whole drive - someone already provided a youtube link.
The biggest waste of government dollars is politicians' salaries!
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Yeah yeah, I know, I know -- "Space isn't the biggest waste of money in the budget!" I'm sure it isn't, but being less-than-maximally-wasteful is not a ringing endorsement of your favorite program.
Slashdot Mirror
Egypt just quit the Internet, those addresses could be reassigned!
The company IT department could not/would not do anything like that - complete incompetance. Thank God the ELH system is farmed out. The PBX only serves to send callers after 5:00 to an old fashioned call center who pages the docs. Patients turn off the call block or don't get the returned call. If you want a more advanced system you can hope your insurance will allow you access to a more botique clinic. Generally everyone around here is served by one of two major health networks who copy each other.
A common answer I've been reading in here is to never answer or block ALL calls with their number blocked (because they are cowards). My wife is a physician, and has our home number blocked - because she is a coward. When returning pages/calls from patients there are a lot of those patients that would love to have our home number, so they could call day-and-night without having to go through the switchboard to get the actual physician on call. You won't get her to return a call until you turn your blocking off.
What if only residential people could get call number blocking, or if business had it taken away after a certain threshhold for complaints. Great idea (pat self on back), but the telcos would never give up the income from number blocking. Congress is too busy taking campaign contributions from corporations to ever give consituants any consideration in a matter such as this.
How about placing an outdated nuclear sub on the sea-bottom near the arctic circle instead of sinking old ship off the warm coasts for coral reefs. It would have to be gutted, then filled with servers and a way to pump glycol in-and-out for cooling, the glycol would be chilled by cool arctic waters. You'd have electricity for as long as the on-board nuclear plant still had fuel. If done off the northern coast of Alaska you'd only need to run a few short fiber links to land. There's plenty of military bases, so connections are established.
I knew a gal in an apartment I lived in (in Phoenix) who once flashed er boobs to a couple of adult males (I missed 'em). The manager called the police and they charged her with a sex crime. I spoke with her about a year later, she was homeless and living on the street or with any guy that would let her stay. After the flashing and sex crime she was thrown out of the apartment. No other apartment in Phoenix would rent to her because of the crime free lease addendums.
How many other stories are there about people getting charged with a sex crime for taking a leak outside?
If this gets enforced strickly, how many people will have to log-off? Is Slashdot considered a social network site?
How is this marked Troll. I mean it was only mildly funny, but not Troll-like.
We only have our experiences to draw upon what we know.
Godforbid someone wants to switch to IP telephony, because we all know that that tech is never going to catch on, and it's a much much better idea to keep paying for old fashioned phone trunks every month than just one nice internet connection.IP telephony can be great. My experience at ATMI was the CIO wanted it because it was cool. The phone guy would have to prepare the project documents every six months for him to weigh out the cost against the perceived benefit. A giant costs to upgrade a functional digital system, because the Cisco system sounds cool.
There were no usable benefits needed for the corporation. That doesnâ(TM)t mean when they move in a couple years to a new building they shouldnâ(TM)t consider it. But a forklift upgrade from the well running digital system today only gets you some flashy new screens for a couple hundred grand.
I've worked in two large corporate IT environments (many others if you count all the short consulting gigs I worked). They were night and day as to how they ran and how you would want to treat the users. When I worked at The University of Phoenix Online the employees, sales drones, would have destroyed their computers within days if they had access. They were the most IT illiterate people they could find. When I worked at ATMI, they had a bunch of engineers who needed access for one reason or another. They would almost never do something stupid, and they would ask before they attempted things they did not understand.
I imagine the users are different at every shop, as is IT management. Problem is management evolves towards those that can do the corporate politics, and the skilled IT managers leave to go back to coding or running the network.
I wouldn't expect much change - promising stuff you cannot deliver is the mantra of many IT departments already.
I worked in a couple IT departments for years, and I agree with the article in that many of the IT departments fail to provide what is needed to run the business. I've seen IT departments slow down large projects, make many projecs come in way past due dates rendering them worthless, and having projects killed because IT just cannot get it done.
Then I watched my IT overlords blow their bbudget because they wanted to upgrade the entire phone system to a Cisco IP based one - "because they are cool."
Didn't IBM do this research over a decade ago. The found a light-grey background was best at productivity and the eyes themselves. They incorporated thos colors into OS/2 2.1.
http://www.guidebookgallery.org/pics/gui/desktop/empty/os221.png
It sucked from a marketing perspective and they soon went to a similar color scheme as M$ was using.
How dare you criticize our indexing Overlords! I will report you to the Politburo!
This story was posted to Fark earlier this week, and linked to The Smoking Gun. Apparently these people should sue their own government also, because the assessors office has a picture of the house online as well, complete with all the dimensions of the house/
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/0404081google8.html
These knuckleheads should have just done the opt-out and this whole thing would have been over. Now theyâ(TM)ve invoked the Streisand Effect and everyone in the world has seen their private house. They are most definitely in it just for the cash, who would give a rip about their crappy little home, it looks like a half step up from a broken down mobile-home.
The breakdown costs on the label side are nuts? Are any of the costs below realistic?
$0.17 Musicians' unions
$0.80 Packaging/manufacturing
$0.90 Distribution
$1.70 Label profit
$2.40 Marketing/promotion
$2.91 Label overhead
Don't the labels charge artists most of these costs and fees?
Here's the obligatory link to Steve Albini's breakdown of music costs - http://velcroman98.googlepages.com/albini
Shriners possibly, I'm not sure all those good 'ole boys are Apple zealots. Every time I see a hipster with a funny hat it turns out he's a Mac zealot. I was waiting for a buddy to get his iPod fixed at an Apple store, short of a runway it looked like a funny hat model show.
Do they give you a funny hat after you buy so many Apple products, or do you have to pass a test?
The real Apple zealots also all seem to wear funny hats!
--Kevin Cotter
http://velcroman98.googlepages.com/ - New story published every Monday
Obligatory link to Albini's The Problem With Music - http://velcroman98.googlepages.com/albini
These were the ambidextrous type!
I formerly worked at ATMI, and they employed the dumbest CIO they could find. He has no IT training or knowledge, claiming his managerial accounting background will allow him to do the job. The CEO is a guy that surrounds himself with yes-men, and Kevin Laing is his personal puppy of a CIO.
Kevin hired an infrastructure director, who was trying to gown up in our clean room and couldn't find any left handed rubber gloves. It's no wonder the companies stock has been flatlining for the past 5 years.
Those poor bastards still working there will never get an annual bonus, because the CIO blows the budget horribly every year. The Help Desk manager has run off all the competant staff with full blessing of the CIO, I just don't see any upside to this guy at all. If the CEO and CIO were fired tomorrow, I'd guess there would be a jump in the stock just because they would be gone.
Key attributes of Kevin LaingVista has been deemed a failure to to low sales, yet it has outsold Leopard. Problably because it was preinstalled (isn't Leopard preinstalled too).
I've been using Vista for 5 months now, and it works as good as XP, if not better.
Does it have to be a PhD, or will a doctorate do?
I slapped as many of the screenshots I could find together. I'll try to update. Either way, here's the hack...
Velcroman98.googlepages.com/riaa/
How about some screenshots?
One of my goals at my previous company was to never end up embarrassed and on the news from data leakage. We had many engineers working on patentable ideas not to mention finance and general stuff not to be shown outside. I pulled ever HD from machine to be retired or sent outside the company in any way. I'd stack them until convenient to take to the corporate machine show to have them run the band-saw or drill press on them.
That would keep me out of the news, as only a handful of data recover specialists could recover anything from them. Due diligence was performed. If you need military grade destruction you need to shred the whole drive - someone already provided a youtube link.
Yeah yeah, I know, I know -- "Space isn't the biggest waste of money in the budget!" I'm sure it isn't, but being less-than-maximally-wasteful is not a ringing endorsement of your favorite program.