so they pull the "4s" from other groups, and show two of them the door for no real reason. Getting a 4 on the new team is meaningless because the guy on the last team who was also a 4 and moved with you got a 2, and you know it wasn't for performance. Way to get people on the team!
So the only benefit is to know you can get a 3 consistently, and be likeable enough to keep it. They will always bring in "new kids" who will get hazed straight to the bottom... and then blame that on education.
IBM feels the same way. I deal with lots of IBMers because my company is an "IBM shop" and the morale over there is much the same. Any of the old timers that used to be first with the right support answers are all just trying to keep their heads while being shuffled from department to department. It's a terrible way to live if you're not a social "butterfly" and more than a little psychopathic.
Windows 7 is the new XP. That was obvious 2 years ago when my IT department moved our shop over. Anybody not on it is silly, unless you still have the old XP hardware. Microsoft should have practically GIVEN it away to the Vista owners just to get Vista off the map ASAP, and that would put about 5 years of hardware on it now.
The issue with Windows 8 is that it's really tied to hardware features like touch screens, web cams, new input methods, etc. it's really something you need on a NEW PC to appreciate it and get value from. It's meant to move past the "White box, monitor, keyboard, mouse" combo. This is the point where all the folks that think Windows has to be "just like" Windows yesterday are going to bring the ship down. Hard.
but it's all from "forced" service contracts where they make OEMS and companies buy "15% more" every year or the price per unit skyrockets. At one point the OS/Office division was 80% profit! So while the numbers keep going up, how much is that as percentage of the overall pie?
More importantly, how many "dead horses" are they beating just so "somebody else" can't have them? XBox was a calculated choice to break into a new market that was a duopoly at the time. Losing THAT much money what what it took to hold ground against Sony and Nintendo. But outside that, almost everything they do is reactionary and they are just throwing money on the board to "block moves" rather than to play their own moves. Out of the whole Windows 8 movement on Phones, tablets, and PCs, nothing is pushing me to buy anything. There's not even anything officially FOR SALE YET!
Microsoft is still resting on the days when a new OS was released and OEMs drummed up the sales for it. Granted, they can bully OEMs in to buying millions of units up front to have those big release day numbers for the press... that then take MONTHS to sell through. That's not going to fly this time and everybody knows it. Microsoft's hardball tactics with OEMs are already under fire... if this round doesn't cash out for OEMs, then OEMs are going under, they're all broke... and Microsoft will get the blame for sinking them. In reality, the public opinion about the Win8 stuff is going to be more demanding than the business end of it.
Microsoft need one of Steve Jobs famous "One more thing.. " speeches that have the unwritten "go forth and buy today" at the end. The public hasn't had one yet.
Blood is in the water. Everybody knows Microsoft can bleed now... the Win8 release will find out just how much blood is in the water and how many baby sharks want to try for a bite.
Bingo, it was Steve Jobs ambition to BEAT Microsoft that lead to iPhone and iPad... because Microsoft was such a dominant king of such a very big hill.... with nothing for anybody else.
it took something really crazy and well plotted to get the masses to "go to another hill". That's why iPhone/iPad had to have DELIVERY so much better than anything out there. Go big or go home is all Microsoft left on the table. Meaning that when anybody got CLOSE to them a few years ago, they completely MISSED the threat... and are being gutted.
it's about "eyeball time" kids. Outside work, I spend nearly Zero time on a Windows computer. I have two Macbooks and spend only about 10% of my time there. It's all iPhone/iPad for browsing and light media, and Apple TV/Roku for online videos. For kids now, their Android phone has replaced competing with time on Dad's shared computer. When the 7" android tablets really hit their stride the average person won't hardly TOUCH a PC (or Mac) except for work and school purposes and maybe to manage their home network or someplace to hold a big fat hard drive for their stuff (because nobody has done a good job of a dumb "storage tank" for your home network yet).
So yes, everyone will still buy a Windows PC (because it's the only thing stores sell) but everybody buys Microwave Ovens and TVs too... there's no MONEY in those items anymore though.
IBM aggressively restructures itself every few years. They are constantly cutting, snipping, buying and selling whole divisions that are only in the trade presses. In the new IBM, at any given time about 10% of the employees are "on the chopping block" and have to interview to switch to other projects inside the company. Of course they are rapidly losing their "legacy" of "slow and steady" advances when they kept labs around doing research at the "20 year" time frame. The IBM where product line executives worked their way up in a division from wielding soldering irons is just about over as those old timers are pushed out of the company.
I work with the Midrange lines a lot and there have always been lots of people that wrote microcode in the System 36 days, still managing the next release of the OS for POWER8 hardware. Those are going away rapidly in the new IBM.
but the flip side is that all Windows and Office have done was allow them to piss away VAST quantities of cash not getting anywhere. Sure, it's nice to be able to LOCK business purchases into a guaranteed 15-20% purchase increase (to maintain licensing discounts) but what has Microsoft DONE with that money? Those divisions are 85 cents on the dollar PROFIT. Sure companies would kill for that kind of cash... they would also FIRE managers that only managed to eek out measly 20% or so they actually post each year.
Microsoft has VAST amounts of WASTE internally. They aren't growing their stock in the last 10 years. They could easily be posting several dollars a share every quarter dividend and be a value stock that puts that money into stockholder's pockets. Compare them to Apple sure, but Apple's headcount isn't spiraled out of control like Microsoft's. Apple has grown sales and profits but kept their headcount down (outside opening more retail shops) by ruthlessly nixing products that don't make the cut.
Microsoft philosophically CANNOT do that. They don't have expertise to separate the winners from the fluff like Jobs did. Microsoft operates more like a VC fund... throw money at a lot of things, try to have fingers in everything, and see what sticks. It's an OK model, but the customer end is tired of it. This is where if the court HAD broken them up, there would be one or two really strong companies from the "monopoly" and the others would have died and the tech staff would rebuild something new... without having to compete with Bill and Steve and the piles of money. The joke is that they have spent 10 years focused on dodging regulators rather than releasing new stuff (outside Xbox). Apple and Google cleverly "moved the cheese" and spent the last 5 years being laughed at... now the giant is going over the edge on it's own and it can't change course. It's own bags of money keep it from moving.
of course Microsoft isn't GOING anywhere. They need a serious overhaul. They would have had it if they were broke up, now they have to essentially do the same thing 10 years later and it won't be pretty. Somebody has to man up and break out the AXE. The problem is that the HEAD needs chopped off, so the baby chicks can do their own thing. Microsoft has soaked up 20 years of talent and done NOTHING with it.
The WORST part of all, when they start firing, they will create the biggest competitor know to the tech industry. If they slashed 20% those employees would be joined by a good share of Apple and Google workers that are also ready to do something GREAT again. The bloodbath of cash involved would ramp up some serious VC funding too.
But this is still a "business" situation. If he was to try to make money, the school would certainly get THEIR HAND out for a cut.
The real issue is one of getting management to see the value of the product. These packages can easily be $10k... It's no "hobby project" he's got. The problem is that it's all seen as "computer shit".... So they feel that they're being jipped. Other departments in an organization can't quite do "work from home" on the same scale.
A sales or marketing department head wouldn't turn over this type of work. An accountant wouldn't either. There is a clear line between who is "allowed" to ask for money and who isn't....
Back to the question at hand, nobody (see above groups) does work "for their resume" at that level... It's not acceptable to ask that. They didn't ask or pay him to do the work... But now that it's on the table they'd sure like to have it.
Personally, when I reach this point, I think it's time to move on. The problem is that few employers have true "technical expert" paths so they'd rather have you BUY this than MAKE it.
I believe that is what the Egypt- based cultures do already. Typically they have 28 day months, with a catch-up month every 7 years when the constellations are a whole month early.
Of course in almost all the cultures that do that the extra month is timed so that it can be a "celebration" month... Our current culture would never handle 4 whole weeks of shutdown like that.
The paradox would be low. Santa is always delivering between now and the next Christmas Eve. Because he is going to different houses every time he's not crossing his own timeline at all.
It can all be explained because The Dioctor helped him out!
This isn't original... Picked it up somewhere...
The Doctor had some left over TARDIS parts and built St. Nick a sleigh from them! Only it's time locked to Christmas Eve... So Santa behaves. That allows Santa to deliver presents all year round. Because the Sleigh is "bigger on the inside" there is plenty of room for gifts. (sadly, Santa didn't get a library or pool) that also accounts for the flying reindeer... But the might be a special breed from the future?
Um, if you do t know what SOX is then you're not quite a "real boy" in the IT world. Pretty much ant company big enough to hire IT staff has to deal with SOX now.. Even just to prove they DON'T need to do it.
If you don't know what it is, learn it, love it. The majority of the requirements are good IT practice anyway.
That could work if you had pictures with multiple objects. Something like cat-ball-car... But you would need some crowd sourcing to generate the data. Or use something like Settlers of Cattan pieces, or Magic the Gathering cards. Click 3 roads or 5 mana symbols.
Bonus points if you built a modular system.. So people can make their own image packs... Allowing for more "inside jokes".
Anybody who really wants in us going to find other ways. If the device is stolen, they're most likely to want to wipe it and pawn it. If somebody is after information, they wont mess around and take it to somebody with skills.
That said, I still like KittenAuth. You could link to cheezburger and have an grid of constantly changing pictures. Then pick Kitten-puppy-turtle... Still easy to snoop with video, but again, anybody going to that trouble has done their homework.
Not all secrecy is about top secret products. The vast majority of damage to companies is allowing "dirty laundry" to get out and piss off stockholders and customers. Everything from blaming shipping or quality problems to drama of HR... Remember, there are bots out there slurping all this stuff up... Work might not know, but Facebook knows when bad news comes out and that you posted at your work IP address. Heaven forbid some random email get to the press or lawyers!!
Drive a mini van? Hatchback? Goofy crossover model? "Trunks" are really going out of style.... Also they are trivial to open as the almost all have mechanical openers inside the car now....
I opt for keeping 12" of fast food bags at all times...
Doesn't YouTube pay a very large blanket license fee to all the major players? It was a few years back they settled for Millions (billion?) and pretty much allow anything not commercial... YOU. Just can't get ad revenue for it...
How about the Brits? Sony used the ability to run Linux as a " computer" to get a reduced import tariff versus an "electronic toy". Does Sony get to pay the back taxes now???
But not one YOU can read. It would need translated. The originals are usually held by libraries that get "antiquity rights" so that you can't record images of the art and then cut them out.
How about this... Compare their treatment of Google Books... A project they are running themselves. THEY infringe all kinds of content on Books, but then go to measures to BUY warehouses of books, and limit page counts tether than take the material DOWN.
There is no option to "escrow" your YouTube videos sources ahead of time.. Which clearly many of these Archive channels could do, or at least prove the work was abandon.
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so they pull the "4s" from other groups, and show two of them the door for no real reason. Getting a 4 on the new team is meaningless because the guy on the last team who was also a 4 and moved with you got a 2, and you know it wasn't for performance. Way to get people on the team!
So the only benefit is to know you can get a 3 consistently, and be likeable enough to keep it. They will always bring in "new kids" who will get hazed straight to the bottom... and then blame that on education.
IBM feels the same way. I deal with lots of IBMers because my company is an "IBM shop" and the morale over there is much the same. Any of the old timers that used to be first with the right support answers are all just trying to keep their heads while being shuffled from department to department. It's a terrible way to live if you're not a social "butterfly" and more than a little psychopathic.
Windows 7 is the new XP. That was obvious 2 years ago when my IT department moved our shop over. Anybody not on it is silly, unless you still have the old XP hardware. Microsoft should have practically GIVEN it away to the Vista owners just to get Vista off the map ASAP, and that would put about 5 years of hardware on it now.
The issue with Windows 8 is that it's really tied to hardware features like touch screens, web cams, new input methods, etc. it's really something you need on a NEW PC to appreciate it and get value from. It's meant to move past the "White box, monitor, keyboard, mouse" combo. This is the point where all the folks that think Windows has to be "just like" Windows yesterday are going to bring the ship down. Hard.
but it's all from "forced" service contracts where they make OEMS and companies buy "15% more" every year or the price per unit skyrockets. At one point the OS/Office division was 80% profit! So while the numbers keep going up, how much is that as percentage of the overall pie?
More importantly, how many "dead horses" are they beating just so "somebody else" can't have them? XBox was a calculated choice to break into a new market that was a duopoly at the time. Losing THAT much money what what it took to hold ground against Sony and Nintendo. But outside that, almost everything they do is reactionary and they are just throwing money on the board to "block moves" rather than to play their own moves. Out of the whole Windows 8 movement on Phones, tablets, and PCs, nothing is pushing me to buy anything. There's not even anything officially FOR SALE YET!
Microsoft is still resting on the days when a new OS was released and OEMs drummed up the sales for it. Granted, they can bully OEMs in to buying millions of units up front to have those big release day numbers for the press... that then take MONTHS to sell through. That's not going to fly this time and everybody knows it. Microsoft's hardball tactics with OEMs are already under fire... if this round doesn't cash out for OEMs, then OEMs are going under, they're all broke... and Microsoft will get the blame for sinking them. In reality, the public opinion about the Win8 stuff is going to be more demanding than the business end of it.
Microsoft need one of Steve Jobs famous "One more thing.. " speeches that have the unwritten "go forth and buy today" at the end. The public hasn't had one yet.
Blood is in the water. Everybody knows Microsoft can bleed now... the Win8 release will find out just how much blood is in the water and how many baby sharks want to try for a bite.
it wouldn't matter because MS Word was originally written for the original Mac... then ported over to PC.
Bingo, it was Steve Jobs ambition to BEAT Microsoft that lead to iPhone and iPad... because Microsoft was such a dominant king of such a very big hill.... with nothing for anybody else.
it took something really crazy and well plotted to get the masses to "go to another hill". That's why iPhone/iPad had to have DELIVERY so much better than anything out there. Go big or go home is all Microsoft left on the table. Meaning that when anybody got CLOSE to them a few years ago, they completely MISSED the threat... and are being gutted.
it's about "eyeball time" kids. Outside work, I spend nearly Zero time on a Windows computer. I have two Macbooks and spend only about 10% of my time there. It's all iPhone/iPad for browsing and light media, and Apple TV/Roku for online videos. For kids now, their Android phone has replaced competing with time on Dad's shared computer. When the 7" android tablets really hit their stride the average person won't hardly TOUCH a PC (or Mac) except for work and school purposes and maybe to manage their home network or someplace to hold a big fat hard drive for their stuff (because nobody has done a good job of a dumb "storage tank" for your home network yet).
So yes, everyone will still buy a Windows PC (because it's the only thing stores sell) but everybody buys Microwave Ovens and TVs too... there's no MONEY in those items anymore though.
IBM aggressively restructures itself every few years. They are constantly cutting, snipping, buying and selling whole divisions that are only in the trade presses. In the new IBM, at any given time about 10% of the employees are "on the chopping block" and have to interview to switch to other projects inside the company. Of course they are rapidly losing their "legacy" of "slow and steady" advances when they kept labs around doing research at the "20 year" time frame. The IBM where product line executives worked their way up in a division from wielding soldering irons is just about over as those old timers are pushed out of the company.
I work with the Midrange lines a lot and there have always been lots of people that wrote microcode in the System 36 days, still managing the next release of the OS for POWER8 hardware. Those are going away rapidly in the new IBM.
but the flip side is that all Windows and Office have done was allow them to piss away VAST quantities of cash not getting anywhere. Sure, it's nice to be able to LOCK business purchases into a guaranteed 15-20% purchase increase (to maintain licensing discounts) but what has Microsoft DONE with that money? Those divisions are 85 cents on the dollar PROFIT. Sure companies would kill for that kind of cash... they would also FIRE managers that only managed to eek out measly 20% or so they actually post each year.
Microsoft has VAST amounts of WASTE internally. They aren't growing their stock in the last 10 years. They could easily be posting several dollars a share every quarter dividend and be a value stock that puts that money into stockholder's pockets. Compare them to Apple sure, but Apple's headcount isn't spiraled out of control like Microsoft's. Apple has grown sales and profits but kept their headcount down (outside opening more retail shops) by ruthlessly nixing products that don't make the cut.
Microsoft philosophically CANNOT do that. They don't have expertise to separate the winners from the fluff like Jobs did. Microsoft operates more like a VC fund... throw money at a lot of things, try to have fingers in everything, and see what sticks. It's an OK model, but the customer end is tired of it. This is where if the court HAD broken them up, there would be one or two really strong companies from the "monopoly" and the others would have died and the tech staff would rebuild something new... without having to compete with Bill and Steve and the piles of money. The joke is that they have spent 10 years focused on dodging regulators rather than releasing new stuff (outside Xbox). Apple and Google cleverly "moved the cheese" and spent the last 5 years being laughed at... now the giant is going over the edge on it's own and it can't change course. It's own bags of money keep it from moving.
of course Microsoft isn't GOING anywhere. They need a serious overhaul. They would have had it if they were broke up, now they have to essentially do the same thing 10 years later and it won't be pretty. Somebody has to man up and break out the AXE. The problem is that the HEAD needs chopped off, so the baby chicks can do their own thing. Microsoft has soaked up 20 years of talent and done NOTHING with it.
The WORST part of all, when they start firing, they will create the biggest competitor know to the tech industry. If they slashed 20% those employees would be joined by a good share of Apple and Google workers that are also ready to do something GREAT again. The bloodbath of cash involved would ramp up some serious VC funding too.
But this is still a "business" situation. If he was to try to make money, the school would certainly get THEIR HAND out for a cut.
The real issue is one of getting management to see the value of the product. These packages can easily be $10k... It's no "hobby project" he's got. The problem is that it's all seen as "computer shit".... So they feel that they're being jipped. Other departments in an organization can't quite do "work from home" on the same scale.
A sales or marketing department head wouldn't turn over this type of work. An accountant wouldn't either. There is a clear line between who is "allowed" to ask for money and who isn't....
Back to the question at hand, nobody (see above groups) does work "for their resume" at that level... It's not acceptable to ask that. They didn't ask or pay him to do the work... But now that it's on the table they'd sure like to have it.
Personally, when I reach this point, I think it's time to move on. The problem is that few employers have true "technical expert" paths so they'd rather have you BUY this than MAKE it.
I believe that is what the Egypt- based cultures do already. Typically they have 28 day months, with a catch-up month every 7 years when the constellations are a whole month early.
Of course in almost all the cultures that do that the extra month is timed so that it can be a "celebration" month... Our current culture would never handle 4 whole weeks of shutdown like that.
The paradox would be low. Santa is always delivering between now and the next Christmas Eve. Because he is going to different houses every time he's not crossing his own timeline at all.
It can all be explained because The Dioctor helped him out!
This isn't original... Picked it up somewhere...
The Doctor had some left over TARDIS parts and built St. Nick a sleigh from them! Only it's time locked to Christmas Eve... So Santa behaves. That allows Santa to deliver presents all year round. Because the Sleigh is "bigger on the inside" there is plenty of room for gifts. (sadly, Santa didn't get a library or pool) that also accounts for the flying reindeer... But the might be a special breed from the future?
Warehouse 13
Um, if you do t know what SOX is then you're not quite a "real boy" in the IT world. Pretty much ant company big enough to hire IT staff has to deal with SOX now.. Even just to prove they DON'T need to do it.
If you don't know what it is, learn it, love it. The majority of the requirements are good IT practice anyway.
That could work if you had pictures with multiple objects. Something like cat-ball-car ... But you would need some crowd sourcing to generate the data. Or use something like Settlers of Cattan pieces, or Magic the Gathering cards. Click 3 roads or 5 mana symbols.
Bonus points if you built a modular system.. So people can make their own image packs... Allowing for more "inside jokes".
You clearly forgot QWERTY and ASDFG!
Because the Android "connect the dots" is so much better. Not to mention using a standard 10 key on iPhone. At least somebody is trying.
Anybody who really wants in us going to find other ways. If the device is stolen, they're most likely to want to wipe it and pawn it. If somebody is after information, they wont mess around and take it to somebody with skills.
That said, I still like KittenAuth. You could link to cheezburger and have an grid of constantly changing pictures. Then pick Kitten-puppy-turtle... Still easy to snoop with video, but again, anybody going to that trouble has done their homework.
Not all secrecy is about top secret products. The vast majority of damage to companies is allowing "dirty laundry" to get out and piss off stockholders and customers. Everything from blaming shipping or quality problems to drama of HR... Remember, there are bots out there slurping all this stuff up... Work might not know, but Facebook knows when bad news comes out and that you posted at your work IP address. Heaven forbid some random email get to the press or lawyers!!
Drive a mini van? Hatchback? Goofy crossover model? "Trunks" are really going out of style.... Also they are trivial to open as the almost all have mechanical openers inside the car now....
I opt for keeping 12" of fast food bags at all times...
Doesn't YouTube pay a very large blanket license fee to all the major players? It was a few years back they settled for Millions (billion?) and pretty much allow anything not commercial... YOU. Just can't get ad revenue for it...
It would be more like taking your car in for a recall of some minor part, and getting the car back limited to 45mph.
Sure you agreed to get the car fixed under warranty, but they didn't tell you up front what they were going to do.
How about the Brits? Sony used the ability to run Linux as a " computer" to get a reduced import tariff versus an "electronic toy". Does Sony get to pay the back taxes now???
But not one YOU can read. It would need translated. The originals are usually held by libraries that get "antiquity rights" so that you can't record images of the art and then cut them out.
So much for "public domain" on ancient artifacts!
How about this... Compare their treatment of Google Books... A project they are running themselves. THEY infringe all kinds of content on Books, but then go to measures to BUY warehouses of books, and limit page counts tether than take the material DOWN.
There is no option to "escrow" your YouTube videos sources ahead of time.. Which clearly many of these Archive channels could do, or at least prove the work was abandon.