Makes people feel special and appreciated. It motivates loyalty when freely given and accepted in that spirit.
When it's calculated as an expectation and the recipient feels short-dealt by theirs, it's a liability.
The end of the year is a common time for these, but "Christmas" bonuses should be paid in November so the recipient can use it for "Christmas" if they are so inclined.
Bonuses should not be "expected". That defeats the point. You don't do that sort of thing if you want to be happy in life. Your deal is that you work and they pay you the agreed amount. When you get your bonus, be happy. When times are hard and you don't get a bonus but the company doesn't go under man up and be happy about the wisdom of your employer, unless he happened to pay himself a $5K/employee Christmas bonus at the same time.
So instead of giving us a check for which we can do whatever we want with it. We're now being given phones so that we can do more work on our own time.
A lot of us got pink slips for Christmas. Take your righteous indignation, fold it 'till it's all corners, and stick it under your tree.
Sampling the varieties avaliable outside the company is also important. If more people who work for GM owned a Prius or Passat I have to think they'd have a better grasp on why many people think they suck.
Dogfooding taken to the extreme leads to NIH, or "Not Invented Here" problems suffered recently by companies like Apple, HP, Intel and others.
You have to buy the one that goes to 11. You know how 10 makes the toast almost totally black? Well, what if you want your toast just a little bit more crispy? What if you want just that little bit more? That's what 11 is for. Those other toasters only go to 10, but this one goes to 11.
That $60 gets you one dead tree, 50 cubic feet of fibrous material giving out methane in your local landfill, consumes the equivalent of 100 gallons of gasoline in production and delivers you information that's barely two days old, 99% of which you will never read. The paper is processed with toxic chemicals that will kill fish when it's dumped in the ocean.
We could just require all the cars to have GPS in them, and wirelessly report where the car is and how fast it's going, several times a minute. This would be handy for levying tolls and road taxes, and they might be able to build an index of all the speed limits and automatically ticket people for speeding / not stopping / going the wrong way / parking in handicapped spots.
I'm definitely not twitter. I am his fan, though. Yes, I've been identified as one of the people who have to be silenced if W7 has a hope of acceptance. I'm a voice of reason, and I've offered many of the base arguments against Vista, including: Why?
Twitter is the zealot I was once. He's coming to a more moderate stance gradually, as is proper. In the mean time he gives an outer bound to the acceptable scope of zeal. In the process he is instructive, informative, and useful. He finds links the less motivated would overlook, and he manages to get them posted to the main page. If it were not for him we would not know about a lot of really negative stuff. Twitter is useful even in his foolishness. We owe him a lot even if we don't accept his M$ usages. More importantly, he has the time to seek out references and offences that I do not.
If/. can't find a way to override the moderation of Hindi call centers, its day is done. I hope Cmdr Taco happens to read this. Vox populi is effective as long as it's not purchased by Vox Cash. I'm looking at 4 troll mods for my last 4 posts and thinking, "do I need this?".
In Flint, Michigan supply is definitely in excess of demand. In real estate, prices do not always go up. It's reasonable to expect that this duplex was once worth more than the current $4500 price it's offered at. It's a shame I don't have enough cash to invest in Michigan real estate. It seems certain they'll find a use for the state someday. By that, don't take it that I would live there. I wouldn't, even if homes were free.
It's sad that people in Michigan are still renting. A 30 year mortgage on $5k is $28.00,/mo if you can find a lender that will mortgage that little. Renting in that situation is just dumb - a week's work at minimum wage is enough to pay your mortgage for more than a year.
Foreign folks pay much more than $5k just to come here. To come here, have a home and a spare they can rent out for more than their mortgage costs is a gift. We're due for a huge influx of immigrants.
Some of the people who come to the US don't do it for the opportunity - they do it because the situation in their home country is really really bad. I feel for them. Some of them are my friends. I wouldn't wish on them the economic conditions of Flint, MI, but in reality it's better than not coming here at all.
When we talk about how bad things are here, we need to keep an eye to the context of how the rest of the world is doing.
The corrections I propose don't disadvantage the GNU and other copyleft licenses. If anything, they bring them up to the level of the other licenses. There remains the potential for injunctions against violators to prevent commercial infringement.
BTW, "copyleft" means "make a copy, as long as there's a copy left." Much of my output is licensed this way, with "all rights reversed".
Copyright and patent are a large part of what's preventing progress in the IT realm. The purpose of copyright and patent are "To promote progress in science and the useful arts". We should now acknowledge that the laws in place do prevent, rather than promote, progress. Progress is the goal. Progress is essential. The laws that prevent progress must be repealed.
Get behind the abolition of copyright, or the imposition of more reasonable interpretations of it - like fixed terms less than ten years, no criminal prosecution unless done for financial profit, limitation on liability to the retail price of the item ($.99 per song and $5.00 per movie, not per potential copy).
There's an economy of scale in deployments. Every extra system image requires a ton of development and deployment time, troubleshooting and repair become more problematic and expensive, and these costs rise exponentially with the number of variant systems. This is why OEMs offer "long term support" product lines that are guaranteed to be image compatible with each other over a span of 7-8 years.
In short, your salary isn't the only factor here. One way to leverage extra money for more expensive staff is to give them larger, higher resolution monitors and/or multiple monitors, memory upgrades, or other enhancements that don't alter the system image. This allows them to get more work done more than just having a faster PC would without incurring the extra expense that having a bunch of different types of computer would.
Slashdot Mirror
It makes me feel all warm inside. Merry Christmas Slashdot.
Often, an issue presents that isn't reproducible in the presence of a tech support person who knows what he's doing.
Sometimes it's a user error they don''t want to admit, and so they won't reproduce it in front of somebody who knows they should not have done that.
Sometimes it's just a glitch. Regardless, the best thing to do is smile and say "The bug must be afraid of me" and close the ticket.
Left satisfied.
Makes people feel special and appreciated. It motivates loyalty when freely given and accepted in that spirit.
When it's calculated as an expectation and the recipient feels short-dealt by theirs, it's a liability.
The end of the year is a common time for these, but "Christmas" bonuses should be paid in November so the recipient can use it for "Christmas" if they are so inclined.
Bonuses should not be "expected". That defeats the point. You don't do that sort of thing if you want to be happy in life. Your deal is that you work and they pay you the agreed amount. When you get your bonus, be happy. When times are hard and you don't get a bonus but the company doesn't go under man up and be happy about the wisdom of your employer, unless he happened to pay himself a $5K/employee Christmas bonus at the same time.
So instead of giving us a check for which we can do whatever we want with it. We're now being given phones so that we can do more work on our own time.
A lot of us got pink slips for Christmas. Take your righteous indignation, fold it 'till it's all corners, and stick it under your tree.
You can slap me in the face with an unlocked Android phone any time you like... as long as I get to keep it afterwards.
Sampling the varieties avaliable outside the company is also important. If more people who work for GM owned a Prius or Passat I have to think they'd have a better grasp on why many people think they suck.
Dogfooding taken to the extreme leads to NIH, or "Not Invented Here" problems suffered recently by companies like Apple, HP, Intel and others.
These go to eleven
This one goes to 11.
You have to buy the one that goes to 11. You know how 10 makes the toast almost totally black? Well, what if you want your toast just a little bit more crispy? What if you want just that little bit more? That's what 11 is for. Those other toasters only go to 10, but this one goes to 11.
That $60 gets you one dead tree, 50 cubic feet of fibrous material giving out methane in your local landfill, consumes the equivalent of 100 gallons of gasoline in production and delivers you information that's barely two days old, 99% of which you will never read. The paper is processed with toxic chemicals that will kill fish when it's dumped in the ocean.
That's a lot to achieve for only $60.
We could just require all the cars to have GPS in them, and wirelessly report where the car is and how fast it's going, several times a minute. This would be handy for levying tolls and road taxes, and they might be able to build an index of all the speed limits and automatically ticket people for speeding / not stopping / going the wrong way / parking in handicapped spots.
That would be totally cool. Or not.
That sounds scary. And... what's a newspaper? Is that like a printout of news.bbc.co.uk? Why would you do that?
This is much better.
I don't know why I care so much. Bad moderation just really ticks me off. You're right. I should get over it.
Does anybody here care enough to have a look at this? Please? If you don't, you're done.
I'm definitely not twitter. I am his fan, though. Yes, I've been identified as one of the people who have to be silenced if W7 has a hope of acceptance. I'm a voice of reason, and I've offered many of the base arguments against Vista, including: Why?
Twitter is the zealot I was once. He's coming to a more moderate stance gradually, as is proper. In the mean time he gives an outer bound to the acceptable scope of zeal. In the process he is instructive, informative, and useful. He finds links the less motivated would overlook, and he manages to get them posted to the main page. If it were not for him we would not know about a lot of really negative stuff. Twitter is useful even in his foolishness. We owe him a lot even if we don't accept his M$ usages. More importantly, he has the time to seek out references and offences that I do not.
If /. can't find a way to override the moderation of Hindi call centers, its day is done. I hope Cmdr Taco happens to read this. Vox populi is effective as long as it's not purchased by Vox Cash. I'm looking at 4 troll mods for my last 4 posts and thinking, "do I need this?".
That was not a troll. At worst it was a funny. Has /. moderation been taken over by Redmond?
Linux share of the Top500 is 87.8%. Linux share keeps growing.
Somebody is trying to use the /. moderation system to hide the truth. Please mod them down.
You guys have mod points. It's a good thing I'm immune.
Nice try though.
Moderator, do you really think the parent is a troll?
Server share for Windows really is low, and dropping off. Netcraft confirms it.
You're welcome. Maybe you would prefer the alternate version where PC has leprosy, and server share drops off.
(big)Hi, I'm a PC.
(med mac)Hi, I'm a mac.
(flea linux)I'm Linux!
(big pc)Let's talk about servers.
PC shrinks, mac grows, but Linux takes over 90% of the scale
(linux)Hey! Where did you guys go?
In Flint, Michigan supply is definitely in excess of demand. In real estate, prices do not always go up. It's reasonable to expect that this duplex was once worth more than the current $4500 price it's offered at. It's a shame I don't have enough cash to invest in Michigan real estate. It seems certain they'll find a use for the state someday. By that, don't take it that I would live there. I wouldn't, even if homes were free.
It's sad that people in Michigan are still renting. A 30 year mortgage on $5k is $28.00,/mo if you can find a lender that will mortgage that little. Renting in that situation is just dumb - a week's work at minimum wage is enough to pay your mortgage for more than a year.
Foreign folks pay much more than $5k just to come here. To come here, have a home and a spare they can rent out for more than their mortgage costs is a gift. We're due for a huge influx of immigrants.
Some of the people who come to the US don't do it for the opportunity - they do it because the situation in their home country is really really bad. I feel for them. Some of them are my friends. I wouldn't wish on them the economic conditions of Flint, MI, but in reality it's better than not coming here at all.
When we talk about how bad things are here, we need to keep an eye to the context of how the rest of the world is doing.
3x nothing is still nothing.
The corrections I propose don't disadvantage the GNU and other copyleft licenses. If anything, they bring them up to the level of the other licenses. There remains the potential for injunctions against violators to prevent commercial infringement.
BTW, "copyleft" means "make a copy, as long as there's a copy left." Much of my output is licensed this way, with "all rights reversed".
Copyright and patent are a large part of what's preventing progress in the IT realm. The purpose of copyright and patent are "To promote progress in science and the useful arts". We should now acknowledge that the laws in place do prevent, rather than promote, progress. Progress is the goal. Progress is essential. The laws that prevent progress must be repealed.
Get behind the abolition of copyright, or the imposition of more reasonable interpretations of it - like fixed terms less than ten years, no criminal prosecution unless done for financial profit, limitation on liability to the retail price of the item ($.99 per song and $5.00 per movie, not per potential copy).
Although your idea is a good step too.
There's an economy of scale in deployments. Every extra system image requires a ton of development and deployment time, troubleshooting and repair become more problematic and expensive, and these costs rise exponentially with the number of variant systems. This is why OEMs offer "long term support" product lines that are guaranteed to be image compatible with each other over a span of 7-8 years.
In short, your salary isn't the only factor here. One way to leverage extra money for more expensive staff is to give them larger, higher resolution monitors and/or multiple monitors, memory upgrades, or other enhancements that don't alter the system image. This allows them to get more work done more than just having a faster PC would without incurring the extra expense that having a bunch of different types of computer would.