More people "showing initiative" have screwed up major projects than anything else I know... Mainly because they do not have the whole picture. Like the executive that says "You don't fix what ain't broke" so I need to document that things are broke before I get authorization for equipment purchases. Fixing the broken things without documentation hurts my case. "See? That PC was fine. My intern used it all summer!"
If you ask, I will do the same. If you just wipe out a system we are paying for, and do it on your own, I will be upset. It is not the action, but the procedure.
Since summer interns generally start at the same time, they probably did hire "20 new peoplein one shot." We are hiring about 100. I will let you guess if I have a budget for 100 new computers...
Let me know when you get a job in the real world. I presented a request to upgrade PCs and was told, after the budget meeting. That was several months and a few budget meetings ago. We have already lost more productivity than the upgrade would have cost.
And I still have to fight to keep employees from bringing things in from home. Between broken hardware and virus infections, they have cost us more in time than new equipment...
Once the precedent is set, then you have opened up a can of worms where every intern (and other person in the establishment) thinks it's okay to change out system parts to suit their fancy. Bob changes out his video card, Sue adds a blue-ray burner, and Elmo decides that he prefers to use Open Office and Firefox, because if they can change the hardware (and drivers), then why can't he change software?
Don't forget bringing in a copy of Creative Suite 5 that he got from his uncle that bought it in a market in China on vacation last year...
And if just slipping in a a stick is OK, can I borrow your wife? It's not like it will break her or anything...
Personally I think it's just great what they're doing. People are speeding like crazy, often talking on the phone at the same time, and then every now and then someone dies. Just a month or two ago my friend's uncle got killed in an accident where someone thought he was a real speed demon and ended up crashing on the aforementioned uncle's car. My car has been crashed into too, just two weeks ago, and just today a 15-year old girl got killed because of someone speeding.
All those people were doing something else as well... Crashing. Speeding without crashing is safe. It also does not generate an accident report. This is specifically about places where people speed, and do not crash enough to be noticed. Using you logic I could say that they all were breathing, so outlaw breathing while driving.
In Texas, that ain't exactly a reach... And there is also a very strong thread of personal responsibility and self reliance. Hence, people are much less likely to try for unemployment then in traditional "entitlement" states. That said, I do consider teachers (even if retired) to be productive people.
The prior post asked a question, and i answerd it. I should have quoted...
Do you allege that ISPs are at fault because they selected equipment, technology and approaches that were inferior to what Internet2 developed? If so, why?
And my answer...
Consumers... They just see the "up to 500gigabites!" and forget the backbone.
Since there is no consumer push for sustained throughput at high speeds, they don't build it. The last mile is solved. It is the 10 miles between that and the backbone that is choked now.
While I agree with you about the problem, I have yet to see a fix that isn't worse in the transition. Short of heavy regulation of the certificate authorities... And I hate government regulation.
Beautiful analogy! Especially since Sony lovers in spite of all the crap they have done, do seem like the co-dependent abused spouse. And anyone who has every tried to help out a fired or relative in a situation like that knows how Geohot feels.
Consumers... They just see the "up to 500gigabites!" and forget the backbone. It takes someone with a bit more clue to actually look at the backbone, and a lot more clue to pay for it. I have a 30meg Comcast line at my office and a 5 meg Quest dedicated fiber. Which one is faster? Which one is more expensive?
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Most interns are trying to get that kind of experience. After all, that is what is in the corporate world...
As to your shaw quote; That is why much innovation happens at startups where the corporate culture has not stifled innovation.
So your PC doesn't log case open events in the BIOS? Whitebox?
Catch 22: If you can put in a ticket, your machine works. If your machine doesn't work, then how do you put in a ticket? (as an intern!)
I don't know, but I have gotten e-mails saying that the Internet is down. (On the hosted mail server)
More people "showing initiative" have screwed up major projects than anything else I know... Mainly because they do not have the whole picture. Like the executive that says "You don't fix what ain't broke" so I need to document that things are broke before I get authorization for equipment purchases. Fixing the broken things without documentation hurts my case. "See? That PC was fine. My intern used it all summer!"
If you ask, I will do the same. If you just wipe out a system we are paying for, and do it on your own, I will be upset. It is not the action, but the procedure.
Since summer interns generally start at the same time, they probably did hire "20 new peoplein one shot." We are hiring about 100. I will let you guess if I have a budget for 100 new computers...
I like my rouge server, but not as much as my teal one.
What? You have a different term for the hidden office porn collection?
Let me know when you get a job in the real world. I presented a request to upgrade PCs and was told, after the budget meeting. That was several months and a few budget meetings ago. We have already lost more productivity than the upgrade would have cost.
And I still have to fight to keep employees from bringing things in from home. Between broken hardware and virus infections, they have cost us more in time than new equipment...
Once the precedent is set, then you have opened up a can of worms where every intern (and other person in the establishment) thinks it's okay to change out system parts to suit their fancy. Bob changes out his video card, Sue adds a blue-ray burner, and Elmo decides that he prefers to use Open Office and Firefox, because if they can change the hardware (and drivers), then why can't he change software?
Don't forget bringing in a copy of Creative Suite 5 that he got from his uncle that bought it in a market in China on vacation last year...
And if just slipping in a a stick is OK, can I borrow your wife? It's not like it will break her or anything...
Personally I think it's just great what they're doing. People are speeding like crazy, often talking on the phone at the same time, and then every now and then someone dies. Just a month or two ago my friend's uncle got killed in an accident where someone thought he was a real speed demon and ended up crashing on the aforementioned uncle's car. My car has been crashed into too, just two weeks ago, and just today a 15-year old girl got killed because of someone speeding.
All those people were doing something else as well... Crashing. Speeding without crashing is safe. It also does not generate an accident report. This is specifically about places where people speed, and do not crash enough to be noticed. Using you logic I could say that they all were breathing, so outlaw breathing while driving.
While you are correct, you advice is unlikely to work. The PAC here however... http://www.motorists.org/speed-limits/state-speed-zoning More money and votes means a voice they will listen to.
But they could give the police discounted GPSs and publish that... :)
Speeding never kills. It is the sudden stop... :)
Kinda defeats the way speed limits are supposed to be set. http://www.google.com/search?q=85th+percentile+speed According to the TX-DOT, they should use the data to raise speed limits. http://onlinemanuals.txdot.gov/txdotmanuals/szn/determining_the_85th_percentile_speed.htm
But that would hurt revenue generation... Don't kid youself that they care at all about public safety...
"John Sparta, you have been fines 3 credits for violation of the verbal morality code."
Bad example... Many Texans liked neither choice... Conservative voter turnout was the lowest for a presidential election in years.
Let me guess: you're a conservative.
In Texas, that ain't exactly a reach... And there is also a very strong thread of personal responsibility and self reliance. Hence, people are much less likely to try for unemployment then in traditional "entitlement" states. That said, I do consider teachers (even if retired) to be productive people.
We hit what we shoot. There are no questions later.
But the government will pay the fine to itself because the banks are too big to fail...
What are you going on about?
The prior post asked a question, and i answerd it. I should have quoted...
Do you allege that ISPs are at fault because they selected equipment, technology and approaches that were inferior to what Internet2 developed? If so, why?
And my answer...
Consumers... They just see the "up to 500gigabites!" and forget the backbone.
Since there is no consumer push for sustained throughput at high speeds, they don't build it. The last mile is solved. It is the 10 miles between that and the backbone that is choked now.
While I agree with you about the problem, I have yet to see a fix that isn't worse in the transition. Short of heavy regulation of the certificate authorities... And I hate government regulation.
Beautiful analogy! Especially since Sony lovers in spite of all the crap they have done, do seem like the co-dependent abused spouse. And anyone who has every tried to help out a fired or relative in a situation like that knows how Geohot feels.
Consumers... They just see the "up to 500gigabites!" and forget the backbone. It takes someone with a bit more clue to actually look at the backbone, and a lot more clue to pay for it. I have a 30meg Comcast line at my office and a 5 meg Quest dedicated fiber. Which one is faster? Which one is more expensive?
Your stupid crap is another's priceless content, and vice versa.
Dude, didn't you see who it was? Anonymous! They have a reason to hide! They are about to protest Sony! http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=21903225493#!/event.php?eid=136813236391154