They will either make it through successfully or they won't. They've made it through several others, my money would be on them making it through this one.
Google, if they are ever as successful, will face the same challenges as they grow.
One final thing. Microsoft hasn't issued stock options for quite a while now, something the BW writer missed.
My recollection of being an undergrad was that I didn't have to take math/science courses if I didn't choose to (i.e., liberal arts student). Are you saying that there are undergrads who want to take math/science course, but cannot due to a lack of teachers (note, this is not the same as not being able to get the afternoon class because one likes to sleep late).
What a great way to get aging (i.e., expensive health benefits) workers off your payroll, but make them productive members of society in another role.
We have approx 76 mln pre-k - 12 students in the US. Do we really need 250k math & science teachers?
Assume 1 teacher can teach 4 classes per year to 20 students per class and that means that 20mln students aren't getting the math & science education they need? over 1 in 4? wow!
IT depts get more money when they demonstrate a value to the business. When they don't, they find their budgets getting trimmed.
It's not just IT that gets judged this way, it's every department in the company. You invest in what delivers value and improves the bottom line and you trim from those areas that don't. I hate to say it, but it sure looks like your team is in the latter category.
The article is about users feeling emboldened to download risky stuff because the computer isn't their property and IT will fix it. Most users I know don't have servers, but instead have desktops.
The increased cost of Apple hw is small in comparison to the cost of making biz apps run on the Apple hw.
Toner running out? Most definitely predictable (most business printers will indicate low toner before they run out).
Paper jam? Not. And clearly defensible, especially if the rest of your IT group's shit is together.
I've been in IT for 22 years and in large environments in most of them. Utility-grade computing is hard, but achievable. If you don't think so, you either need to find a good mentor or a new line of work.
One facing straight ahead and two angling into your peripheral vision. Not only do you get a ton of real-estate, but you never have to worry about getting that even-tanned look on your face.:)
why don't you develop some proactive way of making sure it's working? People expect their computing environment to be utility-grade. Failures of the environment should be about as common as power failures. Most IT environments fall far short of the utility-grade mark.
I won't rehash the reasons why Linux isn't ready for the desktop.
Migrating to an all Apple strategy would hurt the bottom line as the hw is more expensive and there are a limited amount of biz apps that run on them, necessitataing the need for a big virtulization project on top of the new hw.
Yes, Windows has a whole heap of shortcomings and everybody loves to hate it. For the corporate world's desktops, its the only game in town.
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No, no, no. It's
Q. How many Californians does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A. None. Californians screw in hot tubs.
Yeah, they have to earn money the old fashioned way. By selling things people want at a profit.
They will either make it through successfully or they won't. They've made it through several others, my money would be on them making it through this one.
Google, if they are ever as successful, will face the same challenges as they grow.
One final thing. Microsoft hasn't issued stock options for quite a while now, something the BW writer missed.
I said pre-k - 12
My recollection of being an undergrad was that I didn't have to take math/science courses if I didn't choose to (i.e., liberal arts student). Are you saying that there are undergrads who want to take math/science course, but cannot due to a lack of teachers (note, this is not the same as not being able to get the afternoon class because one likes to sleep late).
What a great way to get aging (i.e., expensive health benefits) workers off your payroll, but make them productive members of society in another role.
We have approx 76 mln pre-k - 12 students in the US. Do we really need 250k math & science teachers?
Assume 1 teacher can teach 4 classes per year to 20 students per class and that means that 20mln students aren't getting the math & science education they need? over 1 in 4? wow!
I was wondering how long it would take for somebody to pick up on the Quad reference. :)
Everybody used FreeBSD and Xterms? What accounting package did your finance team use?
IT depts get more money when they demonstrate a value to the business. When they don't, they find their budgets getting trimmed.
It's not just IT that gets judged this way, it's every department in the company. You invest in what delivers value and improves the bottom line and you trim from those areas that don't. I hate to say it, but it sure looks like your team is in the latter category.
The article is about users feeling emboldened to download risky stuff because the computer isn't their property and IT will fix it. Most users I know don't have servers, but instead have desktops.
The increased cost of Apple hw is small in comparison to the cost of making biz apps run on the Apple hw.
Toner running out? Most definitely predictable (most business printers will indicate low toner before they run out).
Paper jam? Not. And clearly defensible, especially if the rest of your IT group's shit is together.
I've been in IT for 22 years and in large environments in most of them. Utility-grade computing is hard, but achievable. If you don't think so, you either need to find a good mentor or a new line of work.
One facing straight ahead and two angling into your peripheral vision. Not only do you get a ton of real-estate, but you never have to worry about getting that even-tanned look on your face. :)
why don't you develop some proactive way of making sure it's working? People expect their computing environment to be utility-grade. Failures of the environment should be about as common as power failures. Most IT environments fall far short of the utility-grade mark.
What color is the sky on your planet?
I won't rehash the reasons why Linux isn't ready for the desktop.
Migrating to an all Apple strategy would hurt the bottom line as the hw is more expensive and there are a limited amount of biz apps that run on them, necessitataing the need for a big virtulization project on top of the new hw.
Yes, Windows has a whole heap of shortcomings and everybody loves to hate it. For the corporate world's desktops, its the only game in town.
63 million unique visitors each month.
RTFA. The numbers represent unique visitors each month, not total accounts in existence.
google lacks an OS to bundle its free email service with.
Different argument.
Well, once you get one, you can invite yourself a whole bunch of times and set up 10 or 12 there too.
The numbers represent the number of unique visitors to the email portion of the site each month. RTFA.
Yahoo doesn't need an answer to Gmail. They have an order of magnitude more users (63.3 mln vs 5.4 mln).
What would it take to make a useful, functional grammar checker?
Paying attention in high school English classes coupled with mandatory testing for proficiency as a graduation requirement.
or a UNIX source license either ($100k or so in those days)
With platter densities as high as they currently are, merely breaking the platter does not ensure that significant amounts data cannot be recovered.
No, but they should.
here.
C5s & C141s are not exactly small & speedy.
and so poorly documented. I can see why we'd spend hundreds of millions making sure we preserve the formats.
Personally, I'd be more worried about proprietary formats.