Except Nick is a US citizen and can be held accountable for acts in foreign countries even if it is legal in that country and not in the US. This is why citizen of the US can be arrested for sleeping with little boys in Southeast asia, murdering people in Africa, and so on.
I am going to have to concur with my colleague here. We use WSUS here and after a quick test across my test vmware farm (We VM test boxes so we can rebuild a test unit quickly), I see the update did not deploy when Not Approved. Lets use scientific principles of testing here folks. It is not repeatable with the information given.
I agree there. Microsoft will give a developer a lot, but the costs with just the graphics are prohibitive. (I understand that trying to get a dev box out of Sony is harder then trying to get blood from an anemic with low blood pressure) I am interested what Introversion is trying, software that procedurally creates simple 3D objects. This will lower the need for graphic artists.
Sorry, that is the second most commonly mentioned "screw". Heading off posts and I hate Sybase - ASE has the most backwards query engine by my opinion. I hated 1-2-3, but I grew up on VisiCalc for the Apple II.
Windows ME is not the product line, it is either the Windows product line or the client/server product lines, depending on how you segment it. Yes, they have dropped products and even product lines (Bob, shutter), but their flagships, such as windows, sql server, exchange, etc... they will not likely drop. Sometimes they have renamed product lines (Backoffice). The only exception I can think of is DOS.
Looking at the financial statements, MSFT current assets are 40 billion, most of it in cash, short term investments, and receivables, the more liquid of liquid assets. Sony has about 36 billion, but a good third of it is in inventory and prepaid expenses. Nintendo is worth about 11 billion, with 8 billion in cash and receivables. Microsoft will not "bet the farm" on Xbox, but they also have intangible benefits all around. I bet many new server management and network technology gets invented to deal with XBox Live, let alone the sheer plethora of research data generated.
Microsoft's developer network, MSDN, does a good job dealing with their partners. Geac, the financial software company bought by Infor, had sessions run by Microsoft for years at their user conference. Microsoft is quite willing to work with anyone pushing the edge of their technology, throwing in a lot of freebies for the developer. Having worked with Microsoft on some projects and a family member having worked with them in a lot, I have seen how well MSDN treats developers, which why I say that. I am not sure what treatment to expect from the competition, but rumor has always been that Sony are absolute snots and Nintendo has its way of doing things.
Oh, as I work at a Notes shop, Notes dors a great job of breaking themselves, thank you very much. It is bad when your admin calls it Lotus Stinking Notes. WordPerfect screwed themselves over the switch from 16 bit to 32 bit. I do love the take office home benefit program. Sybase is just getting the fact that they don't need to treat their customers like crap. They use to, until quite recently, delivered drivers for windows inside a tar ball. The 12.0 to 12.5 pc conversion advice we got was rebuild the pcs. How is that for an install process?
Hell, I own my own plane of oblivion among other properties. Eventually, I need to get around to the main quest. I wonder how many of my troops I can bring with me. Hey Mehrunes Dagon, meet Sheogorath , listener of the black hand, archmage, guild master of the fighter's guild, chapter master of the nights of the nine, guild master of the thieves' guild, arena champion, nice guy and overall snappy dresser.
Yes, but I still would like to see women have to enroll into selective service, or have their life suck. Personnally, I would like to see equal treatment across the board.
Having written a few papers involving several highly-specialized social sciences (health care economics for example), these papers tend to have a hyperlink. It is called a method of citation, APA in my case. However, try from this link to explain why 'self-payers' (means no insurance) have such a risk of financial ruin within health care inside the United States. All the relevant information can be found on or through reference chains involving Wikipedia, but you would have to have an decent understanding in public health law, DRGs and their relationship to CMS, and even a basic coverage in regulations. I will give you a hint: the current US reimbursement system causes hospitals to have large 'standard rates' just to have a small profit. A $3,000 knee replacement implant will have a 75% to 163% mark-up to get a 5% profit off of the individual implant. This does not consider other costs, such as losses in other places or non-payers. In addition, you should explain why a hospital cannot charge a self-pay $3,150 for the implant. While you are at it, you will probably understand the fundamental problem with socialism and marxism. (They all involve the same basic principles of economic and a couple advances ones, such as game theory, price controls, and motivational theory.)
I admit that assumptions should be explicitly listed as such. Most methods of writing agree. However, trying to explain to the laity every concept will be an exercise in futility. Citing references means that the writer(s) are basing their work off another's work, with proper credit. An expert in a field might have to go to another paper, but usually only if the reference doesn't seem to make 'sense' to the expert. If the part I don't understand covers an area of expertise I don't have, then I find someone who can help. This is why some papers have more then four writers.
a) Ordinary people can buy into any IPO. b) Actually the SEC protects us from the inbred and sleazy Wall Street system. Remember, not wanting to make normal filings is a BAD and EVIL thing.
It happens with highly educated people to. I think the significance is how much of a business background does a manager have when mixed with line experience/education. There are exceptions to the rule (Enron); however, out of all of our nursing directors, the ones with MBAs or MHAs tend to have better cost control and less cronies. They might still shaft you in a New York minute, but less likely to fly by the seat of their pants. Conversely, since I work with our Internal Audit personnel, I hear horror stories about people ignoring audit requests for information. The guy I am replacing decided he didn't have to explain his purchase procedure to audit, which was investigating his group for poor cost control and inventory management.
Healthcare suffers from two big areas, first being managers in support roles with no management education and second being clinicians heavily influencing senior management decisions being self-interested boobs. Many a physician will suggest an idea that royally screws a hospital because it benefits the physician. See Grady.
Can you do it with no equipment and one pc? Split screen on my little 47 inch tv is fine by me.
Here is the difference between PC gamers and Console gamers:
4 Gamming Class PCs (3,000 + total), networking cable (50+), router (50+), 4 legal copies of the game (100 +) = 3200 +
1 console (350 +), 1 tv (800 +), 1 game (60), 4 controllers (120+ (one comes with the console)) = 1330 +
Main reason I like console gaming is due to the hardware race involved with PCs. I decided to give up having to spend console level pricing every year just to keep up hardware specs on a pc back in 2001. Since then, I have spent a whopping 1,500 on console hardware. How many people can play current video games on a pc for the last 6 years, with all of the video effects turned up and intended performance, with only expending the equivalent of 250 per year? This if you exclude the TVs, dual purpose and all that.
My friend friend, I think it is the hardware manufactorers that have PWND you.
The only thing that makes me not want to be them is not that they are filthy rich and having fun with it, it is some of their business decisions. Specificly, the particular two tiered scheme of stock and the sheer ego when dealing with the SEC. The stock scheme leaves the Google founders with almost all of the voting rights, because their premium stock gives preferencial voting rights. This means that the shareholders have no control over a company they own, without the founders needing to worry about common stock amounts. It is odd to see that in trading today. When they went public, Google try to tel the SEC that they didn't need to make all the filings that the SEC requires. That is just pure ego and allows for the shareholders to be screwed. Some days, I think Lary and Sergey need to have someone whispering in their ear, 'Remember, shut the hell up. Remember, shut the hell up.
Author's Note: I did make a crap-load off of GOOG stock though.
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I'm sorry, but that is exactly what I am saying. I am replacing a guy who lost his position because he was an unethical boob without an education. Each one of the managers in my division that have lost their job or have been forced into retirement in the last 10 years just happen to have an associates only or no degree. By the end of the year, we will have only one manager without a bachelors and they are sweating bullets right now. It has become so endemic within my organization, a hospital, that we starting to require a bachelors for any supervisory position. Most nurse manager positions in the market require a minimum amount of business education in addition to a nursing degree. Director or above require an MBA or MHA plus a nursing degree.
I am sorry that it seems unfair, but I spend the last seven years in school while working in a salaried position. I work 60+ hours a week normally and am taking a full load of graduate classes. I have gotten some significant payraised, but it has been hard. One point, I was making the federally minimum salary for exempt, 23k. If you can't swing a night class or two while working, maybe you need to look at your lifestyle/career mix. My wife and I didn't go out and eat for two years so I could go back to school.
Really, seem to me most IT professional I know took certifications to prove that they are willing to go above and beyond. That is what further degrees, certifications and other such stuff is for. Besides a really small group of high profile people within their area, "computer intuition" does not translate into promotability or anything. Who would you hire, the person who is good at programming but does nothing else or the person that is good enough in programming, but has taken the time to improve themselves by getting degrees and certs? If you say the former, you are most likely to be a bad manager or is it because you don't have certs and degrees?
All five of my Unix admins would disagree with you. Oh well - what do they know? I love blanket statements.
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A strange thing I notice from experiance, it is the line managers with no real education that are unethical boobs. In other words, it is the technician that got promoted because they convinced an idiot that you don't need a peice of paper to manage. What do I know though, our most unethical managers around here have either no degree or only an associates in some form of applied technology.
I would agree with that effect, which I find unfortionate. Most of the real certification/licensure costs (which I don't cound MCP, MCSE or other technical certs) are not that expensive in test cost, just need years of experiance. (MD & JD are a huge exception) Accountants have to work 2 to 5 years under a CPA to become a CPA. I just like the idea of removing certification from unethical bastards. (See Nifong)
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If it was like the PMP, CMA, CPA or other professional certifications/licensure that industry requires for certain jobs, then code of ethics violations would mean loss of certifications/licensure. That would weed out all those unethical assholes in IT.
Maybe my thinking is a little wacky. However, how about someone scan through the files that RIAA say that they "own" and look for any infected by viruses. Wouldn't RIAA be responsible for that? I think establishing ownership for data could be very expensive in secondary consequences.
I would agree with you there, but it isn't limited to small, rural areas. We have problems with minority groups in the area not having a concept of law and legal proceedings. Many times, this mistrust of government leads to the racist and conspiracy cards being played. According to local minority leaders, a local politician got thrown into jail due to the racist white conspiracy. I know the local FBI agent that arrested the politician. Most of the crimes of this minority politician involved ripping off the minorities constituents.
However, I do think it is within the rights of parents to impart their moral code and beliefs to their kids. If it holds the kid back, then they did a bad job. But hey, I am an objectivist. I find most people only want enforced morals when it is their morals.
After transitioning to management, I found the best thing I have done is continue my education. A lot of the stuff you learn in business school you can learn by reading, but much of it has to be learned through the class projects you end up doing. In addition, you will end up reading a lot more books on management by going to school then you will likely do on your own.
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Except Nick is a US citizen and can be held accountable for acts in foreign countries even if it is legal in that country and not in the US. This is why citizen of the US can be arrested for sleeping with little boys in Southeast asia, murdering people in Africa, and so on.
I am going to have to concur with my colleague here. We use WSUS here and after a quick test across my test vmware farm (We VM test boxes so we can rebuild a test unit quickly), I see the update did not deploy when Not Approved. Lets use scientific principles of testing here folks. It is not repeatable with the information given.
I agree there. Microsoft will give a developer a lot, but the costs with just the graphics are prohibitive. (I understand that trying to get a dev box out of Sony is harder then trying to get blood from an anemic with low blood pressure) I am interested what Introversion is trying, software that procedurally creates simple 3D objects. This will lower the need for graphic artists.
I sold it on poor, unknowing customers 13 years ago. I have crimes to atone for.
Sorry, that is the second most commonly mentioned "screw". Heading off posts and I hate Sybase - ASE has the most backwards query engine by my opinion. I hated 1-2-3, but I grew up on VisiCalc for the Apple II.
Windows ME is not the product line, it is either the Windows product line or the client/server product lines, depending on how you segment it. Yes, they have dropped products and even product lines (Bob, shutter), but their flagships, such as windows, sql server, exchange, etc... they will not likely drop. Sometimes they have renamed product lines (Backoffice). The only exception I can think of is DOS.
Looking at the financial statements, MSFT current assets are 40 billion, most of it in cash, short term investments, and receivables, the more liquid of liquid assets. Sony has about 36 billion, but a good third of it is in inventory and prepaid expenses. Nintendo is worth about 11 billion, with 8 billion in cash and receivables. Microsoft will not "bet the farm" on Xbox, but they also have intangible benefits all around. I bet many new server management and network technology gets invented to deal with XBox Live, let alone the sheer plethora of research data generated.
Microsoft's developer network, MSDN, does a good job dealing with their partners. Geac, the financial software company bought by Infor, had sessions run by Microsoft for years at their user conference. Microsoft is quite willing to work with anyone pushing the edge of their technology, throwing in a lot of freebies for the developer. Having worked with Microsoft on some projects and a family member having worked with them in a lot, I have seen how well MSDN treats developers, which why I say that. I am not sure what treatment to expect from the competition, but rumor has always been that Sony are absolute snots and Nintendo has its way of doing things.
Oh, as I work at a Notes shop, Notes dors a great job of breaking themselves, thank you very much. It is bad when your admin calls it Lotus Stinking Notes. WordPerfect screwed themselves over the switch from 16 bit to 32 bit. I do love the take office home benefit program. Sybase is just getting the fact that they don't need to treat their customers like crap. They use to, until quite recently, delivered drivers for windows inside a tar ball. The 12.0 to 12.5 pc conversion advice we got was rebuild the pcs. How is that for an install process?
Considering three facts:
A. Microsoft has never given up on a flagship product line
B. They have more cash reserves then their competition
C. Their developer's network treats third party like gold
I don't think we will be seeing Microsoft leaving the market any time soon. We might be in denial, but at lease we are not delusional.
Hell, I own my own plane of oblivion among other properties. Eventually, I need to get around to the main quest. I wonder how many of my troops I can bring with me. Hey Mehrunes Dagon, meet Sheogorath , listener of the black hand, archmage, guild master of the fighter's guild, chapter master of the nights of the nine, guild master of the thieves' guild, arena champion, nice guy and overall snappy dresser.
Yes, but I still would like to see women have to enroll into selective service, or have their life suck. Personnally, I would like to see equal treatment across the board.
Volume mapped to /dev/null?
Having written a few papers involving several highly-specialized social sciences (health care economics for example), these papers tend to have a hyperlink. It is called a method of citation, APA in my case. However, try from this link to explain why 'self-payers' (means no insurance) have such a risk of financial ruin within health care inside the United States. All the relevant information can be found on or through reference chains involving Wikipedia, but you would have to have an decent understanding in public health law, DRGs and their relationship to CMS, and even a basic coverage in regulations. I will give you a hint: the current US reimbursement system causes hospitals to have large 'standard rates' just to have a small profit. A $3,000 knee replacement implant will have a 75% to 163% mark-up to get a 5% profit off of the individual implant. This does not consider other costs, such as losses in other places or non-payers. In addition, you should explain why a hospital cannot charge a self-pay $3,150 for the implant. While you are at it, you will probably understand the fundamental problem with socialism and marxism. (They all involve the same basic principles of economic and a couple advances ones, such as game theory, price controls, and motivational theory.)
I admit that assumptions should be explicitly listed as such. Most methods of writing agree. However, trying to explain to the laity every concept will be an exercise in futility. Citing references means that the writer(s) are basing their work off another's work, with proper credit. An expert in a field might have to go to another paper, but usually only if the reference doesn't seem to make 'sense' to the expert. If the part I don't understand covers an area of expertise I don't have, then I find someone who can help. This is why some papers have more then four writers.
a) Ordinary people can buy into any IPO. b) Actually the SEC protects us from the inbred and sleazy Wall Street system. Remember, not wanting to make normal filings is a BAD and EVIL thing.
How much have you have spent in 6 years? By your numbers, has it been a new computer every 2 years? I have spent 1,500 across 6 years.
It happens with highly educated people to. I think the significance is how much of a business background does a manager have when mixed with line experience/education. There are exceptions to the rule (Enron); however, out of all of our nursing directors, the ones with MBAs or MHAs tend to have better cost control and less cronies. They might still shaft you in a New York minute, but less likely to fly by the seat of their pants. Conversely, since I work with our Internal Audit personnel, I hear horror stories about people ignoring audit requests for information. The guy I am replacing decided he didn't have to explain his purchase procedure to audit, which was investigating his group for poor cost control and inventory management.
Healthcare suffers from two big areas, first being managers in support roles with no management education and second being clinicians heavily influencing senior management decisions being self-interested boobs. Many a physician will suggest an idea that royally screws a hospital because it benefits the physician. See Grady.
Can you do it with no equipment and one pc? Split screen on my little 47 inch tv is fine by me.
Here is the difference between PC gamers and Console gamers:
4 Gamming Class PCs (3,000 + total), networking cable (50+), router (50+), 4 legal copies of the game (100 +) = 3200 +
1 console (350 +), 1 tv (800 +), 1 game (60), 4 controllers (120+ (one comes with the console)) = 1330 +
Main reason I like console gaming is due to the hardware race involved with PCs. I decided to give up having to spend console level pricing every year just to keep up hardware specs on a pc back in 2001. Since then, I have spent a whopping 1,500 on console hardware. How many people can play current video games on a pc for the last 6 years, with all of the video effects turned up and intended performance, with only expending the equivalent of 250 per year? This if you exclude the TVs, dual purpose and all that.
My friend friend, I think it is the hardware manufactorers that have PWND you.
The only thing that makes me not want to be them is not that they are filthy rich and having fun with it, it is some of their business decisions. Specificly, the particular two tiered scheme of stock and the sheer ego when dealing with the SEC. The stock scheme leaves the Google founders with almost all of the voting rights, because their premium stock gives preferencial voting rights. This means that the shareholders have no control over a company they own, without the founders needing to worry about common stock amounts. It is odd to see that in trading today. When they went public, Google try to tel the SEC that they didn't need to make all the filings that the SEC requires. That is just pure ego and allows for the shareholders to be screwed. Some days, I think Lary and Sergey need to have someone whispering in their ear, 'Remember, shut the hell up. Remember, shut the hell up.
Author's Note: I did make a crap-load off of GOOG stock though.
I'm sorry, but that is exactly what I am saying. I am replacing a guy who lost his position because he was an unethical boob without an education. Each one of the managers in my division that have lost their job or have been forced into retirement in the last 10 years just happen to have an associates only or no degree. By the end of the year, we will have only one manager without a bachelors and they are sweating bullets right now. It has become so endemic within my organization, a hospital, that we starting to require a bachelors for any supervisory position. Most nurse manager positions in the market require a minimum amount of business education in addition to a nursing degree. Director or above require an MBA or MHA plus a nursing degree.
I am sorry that it seems unfair, but I spend the last seven years in school while working in a salaried position. I work 60+ hours a week normally and am taking a full load of graduate classes. I have gotten some significant payraised, but it has been hard. One point, I was making the federally minimum salary for exempt, 23k. If you can't swing a night class or two while working, maybe you need to look at your lifestyle/career mix. My wife and I didn't go out and eat for two years so I could go back to school.
Really, seem to me most IT professional I know took certifications to prove that they are willing to go above and beyond. That is what further degrees, certifications and other such stuff is for. Besides a really small group of high profile people within their area, "computer intuition" does not translate into promotability or anything. Who would you hire, the person who is good at programming but does nothing else or the person that is good enough in programming, but has taken the time to improve themselves by getting degrees and certs? If you say the former, you are most likely to be a bad manager or is it because you don't have certs and degrees?
All five of my Unix admins would disagree with you. Oh well - what do they know? I love blanket statements.
A strange thing I notice from experiance, it is the line managers with no real education that are unethical boobs. In other words, it is the technician that got promoted because they convinced an idiot that you don't need a peice of paper to manage. What do I know though, our most unethical managers around here have either no degree or only an associates in some form of applied technology.
I would agree with that effect, which I find unfortionate. Most of the real certification/licensure costs (which I don't cound MCP, MCSE or other technical certs) are not that expensive in test cost, just need years of experiance. (MD & JD are a huge exception) Accountants have to work 2 to 5 years under a CPA to become a CPA. I just like the idea of removing certification from unethical bastards. (See Nifong)
If it was like the PMP, CMA, CPA or other professional certifications/licensure that industry requires for certain jobs, then code of ethics violations would mean loss of certifications/licensure. That would weed out all those unethical assholes in IT.
Maybe my thinking is a little wacky. However, how about someone scan through the files that RIAA say that they "own" and look for any infected by viruses. Wouldn't RIAA be responsible for that? I think establishing ownership for data could be very expensive in secondary consequences.
I would agree with you there, but it isn't limited to small, rural areas. We have problems with minority groups in the area not having a concept of law and legal proceedings. Many times, this mistrust of government leads to the racist and conspiracy cards being played. According to local minority leaders, a local politician got thrown into jail due to the racist white conspiracy. I know the local FBI agent that arrested the politician. Most of the crimes of this minority politician involved ripping off the minorities constituents.
However, I do think it is within the rights of parents to impart their moral code and beliefs to their kids. If it holds the kid back, then they did a bad job. But hey, I am an objectivist. I find most people only want enforced morals when it is their morals.
After transitioning to management, I found the best thing I have done is continue my education. A lot of the stuff you learn in business school you can learn by reading, but much of it has to be learned through the class projects you end up doing. In addition, you will end up reading a lot more books on management by going to school then you will likely do on your own.