Companies that put themselves at the mercy of thier Human Retards die out as surely as those who have engineer decisions made by accountants and vice versa.
I completely disagree. While, as you pointed out, HR sometimes is not always on track, they are one more department that has to be functioning to make the thing work. Any company that IGNORES, or doesnt care about their HR systems are going to end up with employees that are pissed off or that just dont care, and thats very bad for a company.
HR Is just one more part of the business that makes a company competitive or not. Just like Finance, Management, Marketing, or even IT, if something is messed up, it affects the whole company, and if something is going well, it affects the whole company. Business departments dont operate in a vaccume.
... same Windows 95 Key used on 2 machines, Office installed on 3 machines from the same CD set...
that I was able to correct for the owners of the companies for less than $1000.00 (old software is dirt cheap if you know where to buy the used copies..)
Please god tell me you didnt pay anywhere NEAR $1000 for 2 Win95 Licenses and 3 Office 97 Licenses. If so, i surely wouldnt call that "dirt cheap", especially for turds of software that those releases were.
Well, if these were REAL statistics, then I would tend to agree with you over something the BSA did. The reason piracy has declined could also be that people have just wanted less software.
I mean, if the average user only browses internet, checks email, and types documents/spreadsheets, then they now have open source (free) alternatives in mozilla/mozilla mail/openoffice. I think it is unlikely to think that a lot of people have switched, but it is likely that 1% have switched (although, again, these statistics are completely bogus, so talking in % means nothing).
But yes, Open source is killing piracy better than the BSA ever can.
And In this case, you are probably right. However, this is not really a person-specific trait, but rather an organizational culture thing.
There is a great tendency for organizations to develop a certain mindset (either positive or negative), and then they hire in people that exhibit that mindset in some way, and fire/get rid of those that dont "fit in". In the HR world, its known as hiring "right types", and you can usually determine the companies opinion on this by looking at how they operate.
Over the course of time, people in the organization start to believe everything that their co-workers and bosses are saying to them, and hence, they develop views in sync with the company/organization. In this case, I would bet that the BSA, since one of its primary goals is to destroy piracy, they only hired in, and then hightened/enhanced this strange, rapacious behavior. I can almost guarantee you, however, that inside the company this is the norm.
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This almost seems irrelevant to me. Couldnt someone do the same thing on a wired network? IE -They could split their Cat5 Jack, set up a POS Linksys WAP, and be going in minutes. Rogue access points are a problem regardless of the implemented infrastructure.
I agree with you, completely, except for one minor point.
"There is no bigger superpower than us that can come and bail us out if our govt becomes a totolitarian regime, so we have to defend our liberty at all cost while we have the chance."
All iraq comments aside, that is actually a good thing. Liberty works a gazillion times better when the society creates it from within, as opposed to having it installed by another country.
Think of it like installing your first linux distro. If someone does it for you, sure, you have a (hopefully) working linux box, but you didnt work for it as hard, so you didnt LEARN as much in the process, so you wont value it as much, and will probably soon switch back to the crap you had before (even if that crap was an awful and ineffective POS), just becuase its what you know.
Actually, contrary to most techies beliefs, Cisco's business model is based on purchasing up small tech companies and integrating them into their product line.
Why would they do this? Easy. Tell me which is more expensive, researching and developing your own product line (which could be or is inferior to the market startups) or purchasing that startup for pennies (compared to the $$ in revenue their product lines will provide to you).
Cisco is one of the best in the tech business at acquiring small tech startups that have great technology. They are one of the best at seemlessly integrating these small companies into their big company, and then making loads of cash off of these new product lines.
Do a search on google for what companies they have acquired. I just searched for "Cisco Acquires", and came up with 5 companies in 2 seconds.
In summary, you stated that "Cisco should have stuck to their core business and not try to diversify". I agree with you, and that is what they are doing. Acquiring/Integrating IS very much a part of their core business.
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Couldnt have said it better myself (and why I didnt try). Thanks Carrot.
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I am not passionate about killing ANYONE, EVER.
I dont think Pres. Bush is "Passionate about wanting to kill iraqis" either. That is not what this is about at all.
I am, as are the 4 people I asked, passionate about wanting Saddam dead, gone, history, etc.
Let me say one more thing. MOST Iraqis, at least as far as I have read, ARE passionate about getting Saddam out as well. And they should be. Bring In Freedom, Democracy, Open Trade, etc etc. This war is about Saddam and his regime, not about killing innocent iraqis.
My point originally was just to show that there ARE people who support this. I am not republican and I do not particularly like bush, but i DO support this war. You can call it illegal or whatever, but in the long term, this will be better for everyone, and thats all that matters to me.
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Not that this matters, becuase you didnt write this (worthless drivel), but I just asked 4 friends if they support the war.
All 4 said yes, without a doubt.
Including me, that makes 5 people.
Anyone else want to take points 2-6?
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No. Not becuase i am "In college" but becuase I
take quite a few economics and business classes.
Again, I stated very clearly that I was taking the perspective of a WORLD economy, not some isolated or semi-isolated country. Debating over the economics of this would be silly, not to mention wrong (IE - the world WILL be a free market economy someday, at least I HOPE so).
I dont think you are racist. At all. If that was the impression I gave off, it was unintended.
Racism means nothing in this debate. Economics means something. Capitalism means something. From a short-term social perspective, you are very right. From a long term, world economy growth perspective, you are very wrong.
Are you kidding me? I am an american. I am in college. But what you are saying has absolutely NOTHING to do with capitalism.
"In america, we hire Americans". I bet you are the same type who thinks we should keep out immigrants, quoting "American For Americans".
Regardless of your opinions, this is, as mentioned above, Capitalism at its best.
Simply from an economic perspective, If you were to look at the long term (world economy), you would realize that this is actually BETTER for the whole world (although, it might be worse in the short term for those ex-sun employees). As those people in india are hired for cheaper wages, Sun can produce more, be more profitable, create more wealth and provide more substinance than it could in America. Along with this, there would be less wasted dollars, allowing suns goods too (theoretically) compete better in the free markets.
If everyone sends their labor to india, then guess what happens, the cost of labor rises in India, and the costs of labor here falls, and people start sending those jobs back. (Im sure there would be some saying "What about those poor indians. Indian Jobs for Indians!!". And they would be JUST as wrong as you are.
Everyone wins here in the long term, just not in the short term. Its the long term that counts.
Are you kidding me?
Any decent business school (I am in a top 5 undergrad bus school, but not a CIS major) these programs try to do something fundamentally different than what a CS major will try to accomplish. It is not a substitute or an easy way out.
In real life, dealing with computers and technology is not just about getting it to work, but proving why it works, and what makes this cost-efficient or what advantage is created. I know a dozen CS major students with fantastic computer or programming skills, but with little/no business knowledge. They can make the project, but they cant explain what they did (so that a non-technical person can understand), why they did it, and why it matters to the company. This is what counts. CS=Technical, CIS=Using Technical skills with business knowledge/theory. CIS = more potential in the long run.
Brushfireb
No, CS2 is backward compatible with all other counter strike versions, so its just using the regular Half Life engine (heavily tweaked). There is no TF2 engine on this planet, it was a fraud.:) Besides, i DOUBT that, becuase CS2 comes out in am month or so.
This is indeed true. The company that was *supposedly* creating it was really just creating fancy movie trailers and preparing fancy resumes for their next jobs.
Not that this matters, but it was never beta, or even alpha, i believe. So, the real vaporware was the concept, not the game itself. At least until after the new counter-strike is out, then (i think) valve may revisit this.
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Companies that put themselves at the mercy of thier Human Retards die out as surely as those who have engineer decisions made by accountants and vice versa.
I completely disagree. While, as you pointed out, HR sometimes is not always on track, they are one more department that has to be functioning to make the thing work. Any company that IGNORES, or doesnt care about their HR systems are going to end up with employees that are pissed off or that just dont care, and thats very bad for a company.
HR Is just one more part of the business that makes a company competitive or not. Just like Finance, Management, Marketing, or even IT, if something is messed up, it affects the whole company, and if something is going well, it affects the whole company. Business departments dont operate in a vaccume.
... same Windows 95 Key used on 2 machines, Office installed on 3 machines from the same CD set...
that I was able to correct for the owners of the companies for less than $1000.00 (old software is dirt cheap if you know where to buy the used copies..)
Please god tell me you didnt pay anywhere NEAR $1000 for 2 Win95 Licenses and 3 Office 97 Licenses. If so, i surely wouldnt call that "dirt cheap", especially for turds of software that those releases were.
Well, if these were REAL statistics, then I would tend to agree with you over something the BSA did. The reason piracy has declined could also be that people have just wanted less software.
I mean, if the average user only browses internet, checks email, and types documents/spreadsheets, then they now have open source (free) alternatives in mozilla/mozilla mail/openoffice. I think it is unlikely to think that a lot of people have switched, but it is likely that 1% have switched (although, again, these statistics are completely bogus, so talking in % means nothing).
But yes, Open source is killing piracy better than the BSA ever can.
And In this case, you are probably right. However, this is not really a person-specific trait, but rather an organizational culture thing.
There is a great tendency for organizations to develop a certain mindset (either positive or negative), and then they hire in people that exhibit that mindset in some way, and fire/get rid of those that dont "fit in". In the HR world, its known as hiring "right types", and you can usually determine the companies opinion on this by looking at how they operate.
Over the course of time, people in the organization start to believe everything that their co-workers and bosses are saying to them, and hence, they develop views in sync with the company/organization. In this case, I would bet that the BSA, since one of its primary goals is to destroy piracy, they only hired in, and then hightened/enhanced this strange, rapacious behavior. I can almost guarantee you, however, that inside the company this is the norm.
the RING!!
This almost seems irrelevant to me. Couldnt someone do the same thing on a wired network? IE -They could split their Cat5 Jack, set up a POS Linksys WAP, and be going in minutes. Rogue access points are a problem regardless of the implemented infrastructure.
I agree with you, completely, except for one minor point.
"There is no bigger superpower than us that can come and bail us out if our govt becomes a totolitarian regime, so we have to defend our liberty at all cost while we have the chance."
All iraq comments aside, that is actually a good thing. Liberty works a gazillion times better when the society creates it from within, as opposed to having it installed by another country.
Think of it like installing your first linux distro. If someone does it for you, sure, you have a (hopefully) working linux box, but you didnt work for it as hard, so you didnt LEARN as much in the process, so you wont value it as much, and will probably soon switch back to the crap you had before (even if that crap was an awful and ineffective POS), just becuase its what you know.
Brushfireb
Windows has progressed (into what is debatable), but that (awful) solitaire program looks exactly the same as it did in 3.0.
/sarcasm
Hopefully we can get some 3D solitaire in the next windows.
Actually, contrary to most techies beliefs, Cisco's business model is based on purchasing up small tech companies and integrating them into their product line.
Why would they do this? Easy. Tell me which is more expensive, researching and developing your own product line (which could be or is inferior to the market startups) or purchasing that startup for pennies (compared to the $$ in revenue their product lines will provide to you).
Cisco is one of the best in the tech business at acquiring small tech startups that have great technology. They are one of the best at seemlessly integrating these small companies into their big company, and then making loads of cash off of these new product lines.
Do a search on google for what companies they have acquired. I just searched for "Cisco Acquires", and came up with 5 companies in 2 seconds.
In summary, you stated that "Cisco should have stuck to their core business and not try to diversify". I agree with you, and that is what they are doing. Acquiring/Integrating IS very much a part of their core business.
Couldnt have said it better myself (and why I didnt try). Thanks Carrot.
I am not passionate about killing ANYONE, EVER.
I dont think Pres. Bush is "Passionate about wanting to kill iraqis" either. That is not what this is about at all.
I am, as are the 4 people I asked, passionate about wanting Saddam dead, gone, history, etc.
Let me say one more thing. MOST Iraqis, at least as far as I have read, ARE passionate about getting Saddam out as well. And they should be. Bring In Freedom, Democracy, Open Trade, etc etc. This war is about Saddam and his regime, not about killing innocent iraqis.
My point originally was just to show that there ARE people who support this. I am not republican and I do not particularly like bush, but i DO support this war. You can call it illegal or whatever, but in the long term, this will be better for everyone, and thats all that matters to me. Brushfireb
Not that this matters, becuase you didnt write this (worthless drivel), but I just asked 4 friends if they support the war.
All 4 said yes, without a doubt.
Including me, that makes 5 people.
Anyone else want to take points 2-6?
Brushfireb
Sorry, Southpark has a new episode tonight.
War takes a close second.
Brushfireb
No. Not becuase i am "In college" but becuase I take quite a few economics and business classes.
Again, I stated very clearly that I was taking the perspective of a WORLD economy, not some isolated or semi-isolated country. Debating over the economics of this would be silly, not to mention wrong (IE - the world WILL be a free market economy someday, at least I HOPE so).
I dont think you are racist. At all. If that was the impression I gave off, it was unintended. Racism means nothing in this debate. Economics means something. Capitalism means something. From a short-term social perspective, you are very right. From a long term, world economy growth perspective, you are very wrong.
Are you kidding me? I am an american. I am in college. But what you are saying has absolutely NOTHING to do with capitalism. "In america, we hire Americans". I bet you are the same type who thinks we should keep out immigrants, quoting "American For Americans". Regardless of your opinions, this is, as mentioned above, Capitalism at its best. Simply from an economic perspective, If you were to look at the long term (world economy), you would realize that this is actually BETTER for the whole world (although, it might be worse in the short term for those ex-sun employees). As those people in india are hired for cheaper wages, Sun can produce more, be more profitable, create more wealth and provide more substinance than it could in America. Along with this, there would be less wasted dollars, allowing suns goods too (theoretically) compete better in the free markets. If everyone sends their labor to india, then guess what happens, the cost of labor rises in India, and the costs of labor here falls, and people start sending those jobs back. (Im sure there would be some saying "What about those poor indians. Indian Jobs for Indians!!". And they would be JUST as wrong as you are. Everyone wins here in the long term, just not in the short term. Its the long term that counts.
Are you kidding me? Any decent business school (I am in a top 5 undergrad bus school, but not a CIS major) these programs try to do something fundamentally different than what a CS major will try to accomplish. It is not a substitute or an easy way out. In real life, dealing with computers and technology is not just about getting it to work, but proving why it works, and what makes this cost-efficient or what advantage is created. I know a dozen CS major students with fantastic computer or programming skills, but with little/no business knowledge. They can make the project, but they cant explain what they did (so that a non-technical person can understand), why they did it, and why it matters to the company. This is what counts. CS=Technical, CIS=Using Technical skills with business knowledge/theory. CIS = more potential in the long run. Brushfireb
No, CS2 is backward compatible with all other counter strike versions, so its just using the regular Half Life engine (heavily tweaked). There is no TF2 engine on this planet, it was a fraud. :) Besides, i DOUBT that, becuase CS2 comes out in am month or so.
This is indeed true. The company that was *supposedly* creating it was really just creating fancy movie trailers and preparing fancy resumes for their next jobs. Not that this matters, but it was never beta, or even alpha, i believe. So, the real vaporware was the concept, not the game itself. At least until after the new counter-strike is out, then (i think) valve may revisit this. Brsuh