Okay, this pretty much answers the question for me.
A quick review of that website and it looks like it can do as advertised - hit record and the result is uploaded instantly. Cost is $4.99.. noting that they currently have a free trial.
Thank you! This does point out one flaw - in order to be able to upload videos to the net, to prevent loss of data if someone takes your phone, you need a place to upload *to*.
When the question is "Why" the first answer to consider is "Money". When asking "Why should I... " the general answer is ".. more money".
Yes, they are trying to sucker you. I have the same problem right now. I have been told by 3 hiring committees that I 'lack experience' because my background appears to be 'all technical'. In reality, I have done many activities which they expect managers and leaders to do including lead projects, manage people, manage resources, train people, mould the teams together, link people and ideas, support strategic initiatives (without holding a meeting and shoving pie charts down their throats) and basically have a grip on the management jobs I am applying for.. I just don't have The Title.
General rule of thumb: Sacrifice whatever it takes to get that next level of pay knowing that the job may be crap for one or two years then get the job you want at that pay or role level.
In your case it sounds like you have plenty of experience, perhaps more than the average manager. Time to highlight your leadership and organisational and people skills. Know your roles. Do some research on role requirements. Does your company have a capability model or similar? If so, get a copy and rate yourself.
Don't go for a management role unless:
1) You really need to step sideways, either to get into management stream or to get out of the hell you are in
2) More money
Sometimes, it is the time when you transition to bargain.
Worst case scenario is that you keep your current job or go elsewhere. Ask for more money. Know your skills and experience. Management is usually hard work. Expect to be compensated for it.
I've never seen it before, so I assume it is an original by him.
I have it saved so I can reference it. Very apt and useful. Something I would expect from Lazarus Long. I have someone who does this to me on a daily basis so have plenty of experience now with dealing with this type of person. Damn nasty stuff and it *works*.
See recent news about the black market for guns, shootings on the rise, and now guns being stolen from houses and farmers, possibly using the Gun Registry information.
"Show no courtesy to those who show you no courtesy".
or, to quote someone else:
"Courtesy is for those who deserve it, and not a tool to coerce others into submission.
Rational people merit rational debate. Irrational people merit ferocious hostility. Anyone trying to teach you to yield and submit has a motive. Unless they can kick your ass or you need to sell them something, piss on them."
A new way to copy/move ? Might as well go back to DOS.
Without Teracopy, on XP / W7, the only way I know to shunt serious amounts of files around is robocopy (using the default copy function is asking for problems). Yes, command line. Welcome back to DOS?
(yes, I know it now has a GUI front end.. most sys admins I know use it from the command line.. just out of interest)
My apologies. I agree, bad word. Crippled is far better. Thank you for the correction.
And yes, issues with DVD and CD drivers and software; USB, explorer issues including file lock and file control for a start. Such a pain in the ass that some DVDs won't even play, for a start.
Yes. Intentionally crippled. I really liked XP. I've gotten used to the W7 interface and changes. I can't get used to broken functionality. Hence the dual boot to Lime, for now.
Windows 7 is killing the platform for me. Yes, I can see how there are various improvements.. which is good, but this price to pay for them is terrible.
So far as I can tell, Windows 7 is just XP with some extra features and some bug fixes. Pity that they still haven't bought out Teracopy. It is extremely annoying for some things which are now crippled. I can't imagine putting up with this in Windows 8. The only reason I persist is because it is easier, on this machine, to leave W7 installed. Linux Mint dual boot now. Windows only stays due to old programs.
As you say, the day of ubiquitous VM software will probably spell the end of Windows.
Lucky you. A couple of changes I have thrown my shoulder behind and pushed into implementation are clocked to save the place I work 500K per year for one, 200K for another and 300K for another. Every year, and increasing as time goes on.
So far, I guess that those innovations along have saved the place over $5M. What do I get? A thank you? No. A pat on the back? Nah. A promotion? Maybe, I got a job title change... but that is about it.
Lesson learned: If you save this place millions they just accept that it is their due and don't care.
I am very sure that the dead horse is good for another round.
Native American Indian philosophy is that when your horse dies you should jump off.
In modern corporate society this is not the case. After all, the horse is a company asset and... We can lower the requirements and state that the dead horse its in fact exceeding expectations... We can claim the dead horse as a tax write off and send it on retraining... We can promote the dead horse to management and submit it a fine example of the breadth of our equity and diversity program... We can classify being dead as the perfect state of calm and transfer the horse to manager of HR
this could go on..... I am sure that with this crowd not only can we spend days flogging this dead horse... But we can do it creatively and in techno geek style
Now.. I am late for a meeting to fire a jockey for allowing his mount to.die...
These people won't give up until you need a licence to use the internet. At that point we will need a new internet.
I refer to the degradation of the physical medium resulting from normal use, physical component breakdown and abnormal damage.
It is different as the people involved can not understand why, in this technological age, they need to buy the same content repeatedly.
Due to the DRM on disks, yes, some disks are a right pain to take a backup of. Most parents I know would prefer to buy a DVD once, and use a copy until it breaks. There is a lot of difference between paying $15 to $40 for a new DVD vs a few cents for a copy. After a while, they get annoyed with the this situation and become what the content industry likes to call 'casual pirates'. Suing them won't help.. sue these people and they just won't buy anything anymore.
How is it different? I buy a TV and expect it to last for years. I buy a computer and expect the same. Some parents have gone through a DVD disc in less than six months.
What do you think is reasonable in this situation? For example, is it reasonable to expect a parent to buy the same Dora DVD 6 times over three years?
It's a good question. We used to only have one - and that was for a COTS product.
The CMDB software I'd love to have only supports Oracle.
Lots of other COTS software only supports SQL Server, or SQL Server / Oracle.
Our primary DBMS is DB2. Midrange and mainframe. We have DA's DBA's and vendor support for DB2.
Oracle is.. muscling in through the back door. First it is COTS products. Then it is 'why don't we use Oracle for primary business'. Going to be hard getting us off of DB2 though.. 90% of processing is still mainframe based and most of that is batch.
The biggest reason we don't have many Oracle servers and why we had a project to shut the existing ones down was due to the licence cost. SQL Server may not be as good but it is quite a lot cheaper.
May the future of your company be tranquil, stress free and Oracle free..
The scenario I am often now faced with is with friends and family with kids who have spent hundreds of dollars on DVDs.. and bought some DVDs several times.. for the usual reasons.. mostly when the kids turn the DVD into a coaster but also when the DVD wears out.
In these cases.. what have you purchased?
In many cases these parents now refuse to buy the DVD.. they skip directly to the downloads and then burn disks as needed. These are not technical people. They are, however, quite annoyed at buying a DVD several times.
An obvious solution is to deliver content electronically.. but we are still a way off that. Still no solution to play electronic purchased material in the car... I wonder if someone will bring out a device equivalent of the current car DVD player screen devices which instead of playing from a DVD instead plays from a hard drive.. download from the net to the drive, put the device in the car and away you go..
I don't buy books online. I've been burnt with DRM already. I have had several situations where the ebook option would be great.. but the industry right now is not exactly in a state where I trust them.
Probably a good thing as I have hundreds of books I'd like electronically.
If you realize you are in breach of the licencing terms, isn't the requirement to stop using the software and uninstalling it the correct procedure?
Short version: Yes. Goes for just about any situation where you are running software you don't have licence for. If you delete all of the offending copies there really isn't much they can do in court except try to extract past-payments.. and that can be flogging a dead horse and can make courts quite irritable.
Having been the IT guy on the wrong side of a couple of much lower level versions of one of these audits, it is my experience that the software vendor generally doesn't want you to uninstall the software.. they want a nice juicy fat long term contact. The real wolves out there play all sorts of games to get licence by the seat software bumped up.. it's worth millions.
Yes, it is all down to the contract.
However, if they take pre-emptive action and purge all of the software before any court documents are lodged and served.. there is a very good chance that this vendor just blew their case and hastened the demise of their contract.
Most likely the AU police will either: 1) Re-neg the contract 2) Keep the current contact and be absolutely certain to keep the software under the contracted limits 3) Are absolutely legally certain of their 'unlimited licence' position (if this is the case) and will fight to the death in court of the black and white of the contract.. bearing in mind that in a lot of cases if the contract is fuzzy it can be damn hard to squeeze a client let alone win this type of case. Generally.. everyone loses. 4) Replace this software either inhouse or with another vendor. Would not shock me at all if CA was at the AU NSW police's front door on Monday briefcase and business plan in hand ready to do a deal
Note that I am not a lawyer.
Note that I have never been part of an active court case to defend against this type of problem. Although, at one point it got quite close and heated.
Every business should have a software licence registry...
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Okay, this pretty much answers the question for me.
A quick review of that website and it looks like it can do as advertised - hit record and the result is uploaded instantly. Cost is $4.99 .. noting that they currently have a free trial.
Thank you! This does point out one flaw - in order to be able to upload videos to the net, to prevent loss of data if someone takes your phone, you need a place to upload *to*.
Will have to try this.
Thank you!
When the question is "Why" the first answer to consider is "Money". ... " the general answer is ".. more money".
When asking "Why should I
Yes, they are trying to sucker you. I have the same problem right now. I have been told by 3 hiring committees that I 'lack experience' because my background appears to be 'all technical'. In reality, I have done many activities which they expect managers and leaders to do including lead projects, manage people, manage resources, train people, mould the teams together, link people and ideas, support strategic initiatives (without holding a meeting and shoving pie charts down their throats) and basically have a grip on the management jobs I am applying for.. I just don't have The Title.
General rule of thumb: Sacrifice whatever it takes to get that next level of pay knowing that the job may be crap for one or two years then get the job you want at that pay or role level.
In your case it sounds like you have plenty of experience, perhaps more than the average manager. Time to highlight your leadership and organisational and people skills. Know your roles. Do some research on role requirements. Does your company have a capability model or similar? If so, get a copy and rate yourself.
Don't go for a management role unless:
1) You really need to step sideways, either to get into management stream or to get out of the hell you are in
2) More money
Sometimes, it is the time when you transition to bargain.
Worst case scenario is that you keep your current job or go elsewhere. Ask for more money. Know your skills and experience. Management is usually hard work. Expect to be compensated for it.
Well, the "good news" is where I work is now dumping Lotus for Outlook... and all MS software along with it.
I am not entirely sure if this is a step forwards or backwards..
As it stands, in many places, it is legal to record video in public, including of police and their actions.
As it stands, in many places, it is illegal for the police to harass citizens who decide to record video in public.
Yes, and it was deemed to be illegal
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-05-16/nypd-unlawful-stops-lawsuit/55027100/1
You missed a really good opportunity for the 'common sense is not that common' application there.
Still at the same place they were decades ago?
*not* flamebait here. Truth. I had deal with this not that long ago on a daily basis... and I wonder, I really really do.
I don't suffer from my insanity.
I enjoy every minute of it.
I am surprised that they didn't get the TSA to do it...
[/SARCASM] (added just in case someone can't see the humour in this)
Yes, I am probably quoting "Re:And the Female side of things? (Score:5, Interesting) by couchslug (175151)" in the story: http://games.slashdot.org/story/12/05/25/1835205/are-porn-and-video-games-ruining-a-generation
Direct link to his post is here:
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2874927&cid=40113487
I've never seen it before, so I assume it is an original by him.
I have it saved so I can reference it. Very apt and useful. Something I would expect from Lazarus Long. I have someone who does this to me on a daily basis so have plenty of experience now with dealing with this type of person. Damn nasty stuff and it *works*.
See also: Passive Aggressive
... are doomed to repeat it.
http://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/17/nyregion/ascap-asks-royalties-from-girl-scouts-and-regrets-it.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm
See recent news about the black market for guns, shootings on the rise, and now guns being stolen from houses and farmers, possibly using the Gun Registry information.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-06-01/scores-of-guns-stolen-from-nsw-homes/4046140
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/sydney-news/fears-that-nsw-is-under-the-gun/story-fn7y9brv-1226377827009
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/cops-fear-gun-showdown/story-e6freoof-1226333751536
So, no, it doesn't work. All it means is that the only people walking around the streets armed are the criminals.
Yes, and the common way of saying this:
"Show no courtesy to those who show you no courtesy".
or, to quote someone else:
"Courtesy is for those who deserve it, and not a tool to coerce others into submission.
Rational people merit rational debate. Irrational people merit ferocious hostility. Anyone trying to teach you to yield and submit has a motive. Unless they can kick your ass or you need to sell them something, piss on them."
Alright, let's be funny then.
Without Teracopy, on XP / W7, the only way I know to shunt serious amounts of files around is robocopy (using the default copy function is asking for problems). Yes, command line. Welcome back to DOS?
(yes, I know it now has a GUI front end.. most sys admins I know use it from the command line.. just out of interest)
My apologies. I agree, bad word. Crippled is far better. Thank you for the correction.
And yes, issues with DVD and CD drivers and software; USB, explorer issues including file lock and file control for a start. Such a pain in the ass that some DVDs won't even play, for a start.
Yes. Intentionally crippled. I really liked XP. I've gotten used to the W7 interface and changes. I can't get used to broken functionality. Hence the dual boot to Lime, for now.
This.
Windows 7 is killing the platform for me. Yes, I can see how there are various improvements.. which is good, but this price to pay for them is terrible.
So far as I can tell, Windows 7 is just XP with some extra features and some bug fixes. Pity that they still haven't bought out Teracopy. It is extremely annoying for some things which are now crippled. I can't imagine putting up with this in Windows 8. The only reason I persist is because it is easier, on this machine, to leave W7 installed. Linux Mint dual boot now. Windows only stays due to old programs.
As you say, the day of ubiquitous VM software will probably spell the end of Windows.
Lucky you. A couple of changes I have thrown my shoulder behind and pushed into implementation are clocked to save the place I work 500K per year for one, 200K for another and 300K for another. Every year, and increasing as time goes on.
So far, I guess that those innovations along have saved the place over $5M. What do I get? A thank you? No. A pat on the back? Nah. A promotion? Maybe, I got a job title change... but that is about it.
Lesson learned: If you save this place millions they just accept that it is their due and don't care.
Live and learn, I guess.
This is why I am really annoyed with the Firefly dvd. I purchased the dvd set I don't need to be bashed in the face every time I play the dvd. Gah.
Makes me wonder why people bother buying the dvd
Does this make the Australian Carbon Tax redundant?
I am very sure that the dead horse is good for another round.
Native American Indian philosophy is that when your horse dies you should jump off.
In modern corporate society this is not the case. After all, the horse is a company asset and ... We can lower the requirements and state that the dead horse its in fact exceeding expectations ... We can claim the dead horse as a tax write off and send it on retraining ... We can promote the dead horse to management and submit it a fine example of the breadth of our equity and diversity program ... We can classify being dead as the perfect state of calm and transfer the horse to manager of HR
this could go on..... I am sure that with this crowd not only can we spend days flogging this dead horse... But we can do it creatively and in techno geek style
Now.. I am late for a meeting to fire a jockey for allowing his mount to.die...
These people won't give up until you need a licence to use the internet. At that point we will need a new internet.
I refer to the degradation of the physical medium resulting from normal use, physical component breakdown and abnormal damage.
It is different as the people involved can not understand why, in this technological age, they need to buy the same content repeatedly.
Due to the DRM on disks, yes, some disks are a right pain to take a backup of. Most parents I know would prefer to buy a DVD once, and use a copy until it breaks. There is a lot of difference between paying $15 to $40 for a new DVD vs a few cents for a copy. After a while, they get annoyed with the this situation and become what the content industry likes to call 'casual pirates'. Suing them won't help.. sue these people and they just won't buy anything anymore.
How is it different? I buy a TV and expect it to last for years. I buy a computer and expect the same. Some parents have gone through a DVD disc in less than six months.
What do you think is reasonable in this situation? For example, is it reasonable to expect a parent to buy the same Dora DVD 6 times over three years?
It's a good question. We used to only have one - and that was for a COTS product.
The CMDB software I'd love to have only supports Oracle.
Lots of other COTS software only supports SQL Server, or SQL Server / Oracle.
Our primary DBMS is DB2. Midrange and mainframe. We have DA's DBA's and vendor support for DB2.
Oracle is .. muscling in through the back door. First it is COTS products. Then it is 'why don't we use Oracle for primary business'. Going to be hard getting us off of DB2 though.. 90% of processing is still mainframe based and most of that is batch.
The biggest reason we don't have many Oracle servers and why we had a project to shut the existing ones down was due to the licence cost. SQL Server may not be as good but it is quite a lot cheaper.
May the future of your company be tranquil, stress free and Oracle free..
The scenario I am often now faced with is with friends and family with kids who have spent hundreds of dollars on DVDs.. and bought some DVDs several times.. for the usual reasons.. mostly when the kids turn the DVD into a coaster but also when the DVD wears out.
In these cases.. what have you purchased?
In many cases these parents now refuse to buy the DVD.. they skip directly to the downloads and then burn disks as needed. These are not technical people. They are, however, quite annoyed at buying a DVD several times.
An obvious solution is to deliver content electronically.. but we are still a way off that. Still no solution to play electronic purchased material in the car... I wonder if someone will bring out a device equivalent of the current car DVD player screen devices which instead of playing from a DVD instead plays from a hard drive.. download from the net to the drive, put the device in the car and away you go..
I don't buy books online. I've been burnt with DRM already. I have had several situations where the ebook option would be great.. but the industry right now is not exactly in a state where I trust them.
Probably a good thing as I have hundreds of books I'd like electronically.
Short version: Yes. Goes for just about any situation where you are running software you don't have licence for. If you delete all of the offending copies there really isn't much they can do in court except try to extract past-payments.. and that can be flogging a dead horse and can make courts quite irritable.
Having been the IT guy on the wrong side of a couple of much lower level versions of one of these audits, it is my experience that the software vendor generally doesn't want you to uninstall the software.. they want a nice juicy fat long term contact. The real wolves out there play all sorts of games to get licence by the seat software bumped up.. it's worth millions.
Yes, it is all down to the contract.
However, if they take pre-emptive action and purge all of the software before any court documents are lodged and served.. there is a very good chance that this vendor just blew their case and hastened the demise of their contract.
Most likely the AU police will either: .. bearing in mind that in a lot of cases if the contract is fuzzy it can be damn hard to squeeze a client let alone win this type of case. Generally.. everyone loses.
1) Re-neg the contract
2) Keep the current contact and be absolutely certain to keep the software under the contracted limits
3) Are absolutely legally certain of their 'unlimited licence' position (if this is the case) and will fight to the death in court of the black and white of the contract
4) Replace this software either inhouse or with another vendor. Would not shock me at all if CA was at the AU NSW police's front door on Monday briefcase and business plan in hand ready to do a deal
Note that I am not a lawyer.
Note that I have never been part of an active court case to defend against this type of problem. Although, at one point it got quite close and heated.
Every business should have a software licence registry...
Yes.
Even now Oracle is being discussed at work and Java is seen as a risk.. which is sad as quite a lot of enterprise front end code is now Java.
Good perhaps because if we had to switch today Perl is the strongest contender for its replacement.
Go Perl! :-)