Man, I loved Homeworld & HW:Cataclysm. HW:2 had issues, but I still really, really liked it. Great stories, intuitive & innovative interface, fantastic graphics. Wish there would be a Homeworld 3 to move the story along.
I personally deal with European scientists on a daily basis, and find our lack of common measurement to be extremely frustrating.
I personally don't know any US scientist that isn't fluent in metric, and very few that don't default to it when doing science. NASA might have some issues, but I think that's isolated...
So you did a lousy job of picking an outsource partner, a lousy job of specifying the project goals and expectations, and a lousy job of managing the project over time. Conclusion: it's someone elses' fault. Corporate responsibility surrenders.
I'd much rather see them finally and conclusively defeated and the precedent on the books rather than having the inevitable group of trolls in the background mumbling
"SCO would have put it to those evil OSS people if they hadn't run out of money...one day we'll show them".
Forgive me, I was a bit strident there. Obviously, you don't assign admins 1-to-1, you've probably had a P&L responsibility, and we certainly agree on some things (good admins are a perk and worth much coin to a team).
That said, I stand by my personal, direct experience that the guy who won't do something for his manager, because it's his job, won't do it for the admin. And while moving them to 1099 might seem to be the way to deal with it, I've found that in practice (dealing with hundreds of extravagantly compensated 1099s) nothing in the world whines more than a 1099 who doesn't feel they've gotten paid for all the hours (and fractions of) they've convinced themselves they've worked, even if they haven't accounted for them. And since they aren't an employee any more, they're the guy in the clients office going "I'd like to make miracles happen for you, my good buddy Mr/Ms Client, but the blood-sucker firm I have to bill through is shafting me...gosh, it's so bad, I might have to leave on very short notice, which would screw you, wouldn't it...of course, we could make a side deal and cut those bastards out...".
Best to say "look, this isn't working", remind them of the non-compete/non-solicitation agreement, and wish them well, even if your true thought is DIAF. Then back once more into the breach to make that client happy with the old guys replacement.
Frankly, this is utter rubbish. You've clearly never had P&L responsibility. I'm supposed to take 30k profit out (obviously much more with loaded costs) just because I've got someone who can't be bothered to account for their time? Right.
But hey...let's pretend that admin salaries are pixie dust and don't count against the bottom line.
The guy that won't produce required paperwork for his manager, per his job description, won't do it for "a low end secretary". All you're going to do is add "30k of salary expense" to get one frustrated, ineffective admin and one (or more) overly entitled "hotshot" you still can't accurately bill for. Been there, done that, hired the "time accounting admin", realized that was st00pid. Do you really think someone who won't do their own paperwork is going to suddenly provide an admin sufficient doco for the admin to do it accurately? That is, unless the admins job is to stand by the "hotshots" desk and record what they are doing...
It's not about time. Please...time reporting takes minutes or tens of minutes a day unless you're a lawyer and billing in 6 minute increments. It's about "I don't feel this is important, therefore I won't do it". Life got so much better when I realized that doing the job is about doing the whole job, not just the part someone wants to do, and started holding people accountable for the whole job.
if you've got an employee that does 90% of the job well, then you're damned lucky
I don't disagree with what I think you're trying to say (good employees are hard to find and noone is perfect). However, I really dislike how you've said it, because it feeds a particularly virulent sort of egomania that technical people seem to be subject to.
In my world (both as employee and as manager), it's pass/fail. There are X many things that the job requires, and if you don't do them all, you haven't done a good job. Period. Anything else allows people to say things like "well, I don't like doing this part of the job, so I won't do it, and it's okay because I do a good job over here". Or worse: "you can't replace me, so I'll just do whatever I want to. Suck it.". If part of your job is to document every call, then it's not acceptable for an employee to unilaterally decide "that's not for me", no matter how good they are at other parts of the job.
When I ran consulting groups, it was inevitable that I had some hotshot, often the best technical guy in the group, who would say things like "I can either do paperwork or I can help the customer. You choose.". Easy choice: you're fired. Why? Because we can't bill the customer, measure our performance, or justify our existence if we don't have objective documentation.
Apparently with 60 comments posted I'm the first one to think "no shit...botnets ops getting smarter...covert channels getting more covert...who'da'thunk'it". Botnet interdiction based on ferriting out the control nexus will work in the long run about as well as drug interdiction.
So a lawyer said it, it must be taken at face value. Because lawyers never misrepresent or exaggerate in order to lay the groundwork for appeals or other legal shenanigans.
What are your thoughts -- do Firefox and the open source community welcome this kind of analysis?
Of course they do. Closed source companies say "what's my profit motivation for fixing these, and how much is it going to cost me to do it, and what are the costs of not doing it". Open source projects (usually) don't operate under those restrictions, so there's little downside to having issues pointed out.
I did something similar...did x86 in CS, then did HC11 in a EE class (Dr. Peatman is a great professor, and writes a good book). Strange little chip, but not as strange as 8051.
Answering in a forum is something to do only when you know the answer.
Replying to an answer in a forum is something to do only when you know the answer and the other guy doesn't. I actually do know the answer, but didn't feel the need to spoonfeed the D&H article to educate you and Jordan. You could go look it up, and find out what a Meet-in-the-Middle attack is, maybe look at subsequent research, understand how the math actually works, and understand why Jordan doesn't know what he's talking about. Hell, if you actually did your research, you could even have a snappy comeback ("yeah, but the hash table you'd need to assemble for the attack to work in practice is impractially large! Got you you smarmy bastard!"). If you two can't do your homework, why should I do it for you.
But don't dis Jordan, he did make 2 new good points.
In other words, you don't know what you are talking about, tragicly think you do, have the arrogance to speak with faux authority, and graced us with 5 paragraphs to prove it. Thanks.
Clue: W. Diffie & M. Hellman to start, gain clue, show your math.
Yours,
Kjs3
You don't have to do anything illegal to get your point across...The point is, sometimes the only way to compromise with an asshole is to be a bigger asshole.
Congrats...you are clearly the bigger asshole. Mission accomplished.
BTW...how did your other neighbors like having to listen to your crap for 2 weeks while you proved your bigger asshole status?
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Man, I loved Homeworld & HW:Cataclysm. HW:2 had issues, but I still really, really liked it. Great stories, intuitive & innovative interface, fantastic graphics. Wish there would be a Homeworld 3 to move the story along.
My new Dell Latitude D820 came with VT disabled in BIOS, but let me turn it on.
I personally don't know any US scientist that isn't fluent in metric, and very few that don't default to it when doing science. NASA might have some issues, but I think that's isolated...
So you did a lousy job of picking an outsource partner, a lousy job of specifying the project goals and expectations, and a lousy job of managing the project over time. Conclusion: it's someone elses' fault. Corporate responsibility surrenders.
I'd much rather see them finally and conclusively defeated and the precedent on the books rather than having the inevitable group of trolls in the background mumbling "SCO would have put it to those evil OSS people if they hadn't run out of money...one day we'll show them".
Yeah, because Linux installs on *everything* without having to tweak a *thing*. Never have to muck about with drivers, configs, etc. Good one, fanboi.
That said, I stand by my personal, direct experience that the guy who won't do something for his manager, because it's his job, won't do it for the admin. And while moving them to 1099 might seem to be the way to deal with it, I've found that in practice (dealing with hundreds of extravagantly compensated 1099s) nothing in the world whines more than a 1099 who doesn't feel they've gotten paid for all the hours (and fractions of) they've convinced themselves they've worked, even if they haven't accounted for them. And since they aren't an employee any more, they're the guy in the clients office going "I'd like to make miracles happen for you, my good buddy Mr/Ms Client, but the blood-sucker firm I have to bill through is shafting me...gosh, it's so bad, I might have to leave on very short notice, which would screw you, wouldn't it...of course, we could make a side deal and cut those bastards out...".
Best to say "look, this isn't working", remind them of the non-compete/non-solicitation agreement, and wish them well, even if your true thought is DIAF. Then back once more into the breach to make that client happy with the old guys replacement.
But hey...let's pretend that admin salaries are pixie dust and don't count against the bottom line.
The guy that won't produce required paperwork for his manager, per his job description, won't do it for "a low end secretary". All you're going to do is add "30k of salary expense" to get one frustrated, ineffective admin and one (or more) overly entitled "hotshot" you still can't accurately bill for. Been there, done that, hired the "time accounting admin", realized that was st00pid. Do you really think someone who won't do their own paperwork is going to suddenly provide an admin sufficient doco for the admin to do it accurately? That is, unless the admins job is to stand by the "hotshots" desk and record what they are doing...
It's not about time. Please...time reporting takes minutes or tens of minutes a day unless you're a lawyer and billing in 6 minute increments. It's about "I don't feel this is important, therefore I won't do it". Life got so much better when I realized that doing the job is about doing the whole job, not just the part someone wants to do, and started holding people accountable for the whole job.
I don't disagree with what I think you're trying to say (good employees are hard to find and noone is perfect). However, I really dislike how you've said it, because it feeds a particularly virulent sort of egomania that technical people seem to be subject to.
In my world (both as employee and as manager), it's pass/fail. There are X many things that the job requires, and if you don't do them all, you haven't done a good job. Period. Anything else allows people to say things like "well, I don't like doing this part of the job, so I won't do it, and it's okay because I do a good job over here". Or worse: "you can't replace me, so I'll just do whatever I want to. Suck it.". If part of your job is to document every call, then it's not acceptable for an employee to unilaterally decide "that's not for me", no matter how good they are at other parts of the job.
When I ran consulting groups, it was inevitable that I had some hotshot, often the best technical guy in the group, who would say things like "I can either do paperwork or I can help the customer. You choose.". Easy choice: you're fired. Why? Because we can't bill the customer, measure our performance, or justify our existence if we don't have objective documentation.
Good for them, and thanks for the pointer. Anyone who gave me that many laughs deserves good things...
Wonder what they're up to now. Funny, irreverent guys.
Forget the company newsletters...I miss the gaming humor sites like Old Man Murray & BitchX Gaming Insider.
Looks like someone took freshmen year Intro to Logic and decided to try and impress the adults. 'A' for effort there, sport.
"Minor attracted adults". If that's not the vilest euphemism for pedophile I've ever heard...
Apparently with 60 comments posted I'm the first one to think "no shit...botnets ops getting smarter...covert channels getting more covert...who'da'thunk'it". Botnet interdiction based on ferriting out the control nexus will work in the long run about as well as drug interdiction.
So a lawyer said it, it must be taken at face value. Because lawyers never misrepresent or exaggerate in order to lay the groundwork for appeals or other legal shenanigans.
Of course they do. Closed source companies say "what's my profit motivation for fixing these, and how much is it going to cost me to do it, and what are the costs of not doing it". Open source projects (usually) don't operate under those restrictions, so there's little downside to having issues pointed out.
I did something similar...did x86 in CS, then did HC11 in a EE class (Dr. Peatman is a great professor, and writes a good book). Strange little chip, but not as strange as 8051.
Replying to an answer in a forum is something to do only when you know the answer and the other guy doesn't. I actually do know the answer, but didn't feel the need to spoonfeed the D&H article to educate you and Jordan. You could go look it up, and find out what a Meet-in-the-Middle attack is, maybe look at subsequent research, understand how the math actually works, and understand why Jordan doesn't know what he's talking about. Hell, if you actually did your research, you could even have a snappy comeback ("yeah, but the hash table you'd need to assemble for the attack to work in practice is impractially large! Got you you smarmy bastard!"). If you two can't do your homework, why should I do it for you.
But don't dis Jordan, he did make 2 new good points.
No, he did't. See above.
In other words, you don't know what you are talking about, tragicly think you do, have the arrogance to speak with faux authority, and graced us with 5 paragraphs to prove it. Thanks. Clue: W. Diffie & M. Hellman to start, gain clue, show your math. Yours, Kjs3
As to 2...valid point.
As to 3...see 1. Assuming your laptop uses mini-PCI cards, you should be able to find an 11a radio to replace the 11b one in the laptop.
Just a suggestion.
Like you're the only one....
Congrats...you are clearly the bigger asshole. Mission accomplished.
BTW...how did your other neighbors like having to listen to your crap for 2 weeks while you proved your bigger asshole status?
Sounds like you picked the wrong product. That's a different issue.
Yeah...but where is the profit in that? Every Windows box is recurring revenue...