Yeah, I was trying to do a quickie search at work, while actually working, on a Friday. It's inhumane! Anyways, a friend of mine picked up one of their newer models and cranked it up to over $4000 with options. I have major envy.
It looks like Nintendo isn't in the industry of actually creating games any more. Just like Pokémon Go is a licensed shell dropped over Ingress, now we have a Super Mario game that has nothing to do with the actual game at all. Does Nintendo still make games, or does it just make game mods now?
How dare you have a successful business model that can afford to draw talented employees! Suffer the shame of being able to buy up new technologies and monetize them much better than the "little guy"! No, no success in America today! Everyone must be equal! Exactly.
I know it's not a very popular truth these days, but there will always be winners and losers no matter how many participation medals you hand out.
In my current position as a systems administrator for a financial holding company, I've been enjoying the fact I get over time for the first time in quite a while. My last two places of employment, I started out on hourly, and shortly after I was hired the whole department was changed to salary (no OT). One was private sector and one was public sector. Oddly enough, right before I was hired at my current place of employment, the IT staff had just gone the reverse transition due to an employee successfully arguing that we didn't qualify as exempt.
Most weeks, I put in 5 or less hours of overtime depending on the current load. However, when we acquire new banks or have a major project (like the Novell to AD transition), it's very easy for everyone involved to put in 20-30 hours extra per week. Of course, you will always have employees that will take advantage of this, but myself and others that still have a work ethic appreciate being actually paid for our extra time and give our best effort possible.
Now they are discussing transitioning back to salary due to the arrival of a new boss this year. I know if this happens they are going to lose a lot of experienced staff. This might be okay from a business financial perspective. In other words, hire less experienced staff for less pay on salary and it doesn't matter how long it takes. However, in the real world, you're going to upset a lot of clients that way when they're used to things getting done quickly and dedicated (fairly compensated) employees that are willing to work the distance with the customer and actually know what they're doing.
Rambling post aside, yes, OT is a good thing if you want good employees (for the most part).
You are right, but as we're just upgrading to an Active Directory domain from an NT domain, there were a lot less options for setting permissions. The ease of being able to "shadow" users with one click to provide tech support without another bloated software installation is also a definite plus.
Hoestly, they're cheaper, easily managed and maintained, and a good choice for any business running centralized applications that don't require a lot of individual processing power.
We can't run the whole organization on them. A lot of our users run more intensive programs than I'd like to see on a shared server, but they do serve a purpose and they perform that purpose well.
And all of our tellers and member service employees use them. Not only are they easier to maintain and support, it's a lot harder for users to really screw things up!:)
I'm much more interested in finding out when they're going to release something in the survival horror genre for the PSP. I'm old school. Social gaming is like social masturbation. You only do it with your really good friends!
Honestly, I'm not sure. One way would be to attract large corporations and organizations through state incentive programs. They would both provide employment and fund technology advancements in order to support their own infrastructure. I know a lot of states already have these in place, but I'm not sure if Montana does or if it is competitive.
Yes, a lot of these incentives provide tax breaks for the companies, but you must also think of all the employees who will be paying income taxes as well.
How do other countries do it? I often read that the US is falling well behind most other developed nations in rolling out "cheap", high-speed access on a broader scale.
I wasn't trying to start an argument (though I do welcome the discussion). I was simply empathizing with the poster and felt your harsh words were unmerited. It's not always easy to move.
I have many reasons to not upgrade to SP2. We have a lot of federally required programs at the CU I work for that just don't run with it. So far, I've been upgrading the workstations that don't need to use those programs to SP2, but if we're forced to upgrade them all, I sure as hell won't be doing the troubleshooting later.
I agree. We also use UniData here in our financial institution. So, it's more than hardware that you're going to have to fix; you're going to have to fix piles and piles of software as well. Frankly, maybe the submitter should just learn to touch-type a little better so he/she doesn't have so much trouble hitting his caps lock.
Just where does it say that Firefox will be the default browser? I've checked several different articles on this news linked here and from other sources, and nowhere do I see it say it will be the "default" browser. Even shipping the new PCs with Firefox installed is a great big step, but it's not quite as big as having it be the default browser.
I'm not trying to start an argument, and I'd love to see the links where it says it will be the default.
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It's just the next iteration of the "walled garden" approach that Apple has always been fond of.
No, the three free range chickens and window box full of "organic" wheatgrass you have in your condo don't count.
Yeah, I was trying to do a quickie search at work, while actually working, on a Friday. It's inhumane! Anyways, a friend of mine picked up one of their newer models and cranked it up to over $4000 with options. I have major envy.
This is the current competition: https://betanews.com/2015/12/2...
...I thought we Americans were already doing that with the "science" of HAES.
I wondered the exact same thing. I wonder just who is suffering from a reading comprehension disability, us or the poster.
It looks like Nintendo isn't in the industry of actually creating games any more. Just like Pokémon Go is a licensed shell dropped over Ingress, now we have a Super Mario game that has nothing to do with the actual game at all. Does Nintendo still make games, or does it just make game mods now?
How dare you have a successful business model that can afford to draw talented employees! Suffer the shame of being able to buy up new technologies and monetize them much better than the "little guy"! No, no success in America today! Everyone must be equal! Exactly. I know it's not a very popular truth these days, but there will always be winners and losers no matter how many participation medals you hand out.
You can have a portion of the money back as long as your bank account is full due to helping the police with their money laundering.
I always thought ugly people looked better with less light. I know I do!
"What if you could construct an unmanned aerial vehicle out of biological material..."
That has to be the classiest way I've ever heard anyone describe a loogie before!
In my current position as a systems administrator for a financial holding company, I've been enjoying the fact I get over time for the first time in quite a while. My last two places of employment, I started out on hourly, and shortly after I was hired the whole department was changed to salary (no OT). One was private sector and one was public sector. Oddly enough, right before I was hired at my current place of employment, the IT staff had just gone the reverse transition due to an employee successfully arguing that we didn't qualify as exempt.
Most weeks, I put in 5 or less hours of overtime depending on the current load. However, when we acquire new banks or have a major project (like the Novell to AD transition), it's very easy for everyone involved to put in 20-30 hours extra per week. Of course, you will always have employees that will take advantage of this, but myself and others that still have a work ethic appreciate being actually paid for our extra time and give our best effort possible.
Now they are discussing transitioning back to salary due to the arrival of a new boss this year. I know if this happens they are going to lose a lot of experienced staff. This might be okay from a business financial perspective. In other words, hire less experienced staff for less pay on salary and it doesn't matter how long it takes. However, in the real world, you're going to upset a lot of clients that way when they're used to things getting done quickly and dedicated (fairly compensated) employees that are willing to work the distance with the customer and actually know what they're doing.
Rambling post aside, yes, OT is a good thing if you want good employees (for the most part).
You are right, but as we're just upgrading to an Active Directory domain from an NT domain, there were a lot less options for setting permissions. The ease of being able to "shadow" users with one click to provide tech support without another bloated software installation is also a definite plus. Hoestly, they're cheaper, easily managed and maintained, and a good choice for any business running centralized applications that don't require a lot of individual processing power. We can't run the whole organization on them. A lot of our users run more intensive programs than I'd like to see on a shared server, but they do serve a purpose and they perform that purpose well.
And all of our tellers and member service employees use them. Not only are they easier to maintain and support, it's a lot harder for users to really screw things up! :)
"Jim - You should have got a Hummer!"
I'm much more interested in finding out when they're going to release something in the survival horror genre for the PSP. I'm old school. Social gaming is like social masturbation. You only do it with your really good friends!
Yes, a lot of these incentives provide tax breaks for the companies, but you must also think of all the employees who will be paying income taxes as well.
How do other countries do it? I often read that the US is falling well behind most other developed nations in rolling out "cheap", high-speed access on a broader scale.
I wasn't trying to start an argument (though I do welcome the discussion). I was simply empathizing with the poster and felt your harsh words were unmerited. It's not always easy to move.
Here's a news article from the local paper about the incident. The Missoulian
There are other options than using tax-payer money to provide incentives to companies for rural broadband rollouts.
I'm lucky enough to not be too rural any more, but I provide occasional tech support to people who are. You have my sympathy!
...I'm just proud my representative (or his aide) knew about the Interweb! ;)
I have many reasons to not upgrade to SP2. We have a lot of federally required programs at the CU I work for that just don't run with it. So far, I've been upgrading the workstations that don't need to use those programs to SP2, but if we're forced to upgrade them all, I sure as hell won't be doing the troubleshooting later.
And while they're at it, why don't they stop writing insecure code with bugs in it as well? :)
I agree. We also use UniData here in our financial institution. So, it's more than hardware that you're going to have to fix; you're going to have to fix piles and piles of software as well. Frankly, maybe the submitter should just learn to touch-type a little better so he/she doesn't have so much trouble hitting his caps lock.
I'm not trying to start an argument, and I'd love to see the links where it says it will be the default.