I have been in IS management for 20 years, having done most tech roles prior, mostly development.
Management is where you get to participate in how your organisation is really going to get where it wants to be. Although staff at all levels get to participate at certain times, as a manager you will get to really start to steer things.
Towards the end of a recent role as Head of IT, I was itching to get my hands dirty again and took an opportunity to get back on a project, while looking for a replacement for myself. Seemed great until they arrived and suddenly my access to top level decision makers started to dry up - great fun developing again but when things needed to steer better then I was out of the loop,
So it isn't really about the the soft option of management - and most of the tech's I know are as hide bound as hell and deeply resistant to change - it is about whether it is important to you that you want more of a say in the direction and strategy that your organisation is taking.
I mostly work for large non-profits, at the £100m turnover or above, at it is fantastic to be at the top table moving these well meaning but sometime ponderous groups towards more dynamic and interconnected futures. Can't really do that from the shop floor...
They weren't singled out. TFA is just saying that, because of the law, some users are getting wary. The example in the article is a university that happened to use Google. What made it news worthy is that they themselves recommended to their own users not to transmit secrets. Some of their users are hacked off because they expect a secure network.
Weird, I type/usr/lib/ and that is what I get, every time. I just tried some lother folders. Same. I either keep typing for sub directories or hit enter to get a list of files in that folder. Easy, fast and reliable.
I use this set of features all day, maybe 100 times a day. Type ahead on loads of files? Works as planned! Now the down key moves only within the filter you have typed. I combine this with the snap open plugin (in gedit).
Wasn't blaming the user, far from it, saying that it works well for me the way it was designed to work. Of course each user has their own ideal way of working and then they go on their way. But don't just slag it until we have established whether or not you have a buggy install, cos working-as-designed, the interface makes working easy. There is nothing particularly intuitive about win95 yet our users cannot switch to a mac when they sit down for the first time. They need to be shown all over again the absolute basics.
Take it easy mate and save your money for something better than a shrink!
What happens if you start typing is not "a mystery" but simply type ahead.
I just tried it - I have a file on my desktop called test.txt.
I open the chooser dialog in Firefox. I type 'de' and desktop is now highlighted. The mystery box is showing you what you have typed so far. I hit enter to go into desktop, then type te and test.txt is highlighted. I hit enter to open it.
And if i try it a second time it remembers where i was last so now just "ctrl-o te enter" and i have opened that file again.
really fast, really good - you just haven't tried it properly, mate:-)
I think, that if London was the only town/county with restrictive gun control, then given it's status as inward migration hub, it would matter not one hoot that you couldn't buy the guns there, you would get them ten miles away in the next county.
Same with your capital.
However, as an island, it does make sense, if democratically desired, to make the attempt to have controls, as pointed out by the parent post.
It is not cheaper to run a business in an environmentally sound manner because the costs to the environment are not actually being paid. Economists call this an externality , I think. So you drive down the street without paying for the pollution that you emit. but others suffer and have to pay for your consequences. Kids with asthma exacerbated by smog have to pay for drugs - this is your cost but they pay.
So when people refer to tarrifs/taxes/charges or what not, it is this idea that they are trying to remedy - some way of getting you to pay for what you are doing. It is not about government vs free markets in all cases - there are costs with some of our activities, both corporate and individual that are not currently being picked up by those who cause them.
A charge, to pollute, set appropriately high, would both dissuade and pay for the costs of pollution. If the # children affected by one car was one, and the asthma drugs cost £100 per year, then that is one charge you should pay.
Not saying a tax or a tariff or a metered use specifically, just the notion of paying has to be there. Then let the free market provide cars that do not pollute. They already do, but they are more expensive. This would not be true if you had to pay all your externalities on your current car.
Finally, infrastructure - changing all our parking spaces so they have power lines - not cheap to do so likely to be a state investment.
So, yes someone needs to invent newer products, but unless they are absolutely cheaper to run, easier to use, as easy to use, as easy to fuel, then we will need the state to charge you for that externality and fund nationwide (international!) changes to allow refueling as easily as petrol.
I operate similarly to you - using firefox, openoffice and some Java applications on both platforms. But Visio is a gap unless you are prepared to upgrade to the latest version and exchange via exporting to svg which I understand works. You current can't save to Visio format directly, and may never?
I use Visio on wine, works but cludgy.
I know that Visio is not stricly MSO but pretty close.
I think you have to *specify* that you want to install a dist upgrade actually, if you don't you just get offered minor upgrades to your existing version.
"Everybody knows how horrible it must have felt for the families of victims...but I have to say I'd be interested in getting into the heads of the people who actually committed these atrocities."
I think you will find that impossible to do from just a video game. The camp operatorswere rewarded for what they did and you will be too in the game - points, unlocking, whatever. However they actually did end the lives of large numbers of innocent people, in inhumane ways, for no purpose. To do that they had seriously suspend or override normal morality - the kind that helped us evolve into the societies we have today.
You won't get to have that internal conflict in any game. You won't actually live with any consequences etc etc. Those who collaborated or obeyed orders are quite "understandable" - opposing a violent state aparatus is only for the the one offs that each society throws up occasionally - ghandi, mandela etc. The rest just trade off "them or me" decisions and then live with or go into denial about the guilt.
Gamers, on the other hand, just press Save and go downstairs for tea.
There are a fair few doom laden messages here today that have ignored this slaient fact. I now use gmail and yahoo together for email and calendar - I did experiment with evolution but in the end, the benefits of email from anywhere without thinking about it or remembering to sync, copy, backup or whatever is just great.
I use a wiki to do work in a similar fashion as this thinkfree business. I get wysiwig layout, great searchability and output to pdf whenever I need an emailable copy. Is is down much? The odd router upgrade, sure. Is it down more than the fact that I used to keep leaving documents on drives that were not accessible to me? Nope, not even close. I dunno how I lived without it.
Granted it's a shell account so I am setting the privacy parameters but the other concerns are equally there - but they don't worry me because I am employing a "reverse backup strategy". That is to say, my data is hosted over there but a regular backup xml version of the site (it's Confluence by the way) get's copied over and I can import that into a new Confluence instance in a matter of two clicks (or transform it into plan text if I need to)
Depends who you ask. For RMS, slavishness aka persistence in using that which can be freely shared and improved upon is in actual fact the spirit of it all. To that end he would argue do not open word files sent to you, send them back with a note saying take this devils nugget and send me something freely useable.
Where you will run into problems is in the concept of distro - RMS says, get a free distro, then improve on it, then give it freely to anyone who wants it. That's not doable if you don't have the rights to change or even redistribute parts of your new improved distro.
Ubuntu exists because Debian is slavishly free. If debian licensed drivers for inclusion, Ubuntu would have to some how cut those drivers out in order to exist. This is why alot of distros don't have Sun's java for example.
That's not to say that YOU cannot add proprietery things to your installation but you can't then share those benefits with RMS - and that makes him mad!
"Remember the C64? Unpack, plugin, works. That's how modern computers should work."
Apples and oranges - that's how Macs work now and how any Dell/HP/whatever PC works. Get it home, unpack, works.
Gnu/Linux has to be installed. How many times have you tried to install OSX on a random machine, random chip makers etc?
Did you ever have to install windows? JUst the same as linux - works one time then can't find the drivers next time. Even when you have the cds that came with your mobo, you need to go to the website, get the latest ones downloaded and installed, yada yada
I find that on standard PC clones, Ubuntu has installed at least as easily as any other OS.
Interface yes but some key features, no
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for example: yahoo has two reminders, custom set per event - so email me a week ahead and then on the day. google only has one.
also contacts: google uk has none, no birthday field, no anniversary field, all of which auto populate the calendar.
agreed it is non ajax slowness and too many clicks, but it does have a good feature set for general birthday and other reminders.
Not much more power, really. England, as you call it, projected just fine back in the early 80s but only vs a low ranking power. This won't change that much.
"Killing people may or may not be evil. Putting them in small cells for the rest of their life may or may not be evil. Telling them that they are permitted to only have one child may or may not be evil. But denying people access to information so that they can make reasoned and informed decisions, what is that, if not evil?"
Well, it may or may not be evil. The chances of it being more evil than killing people, for any reason, is really pretty remote.
Well, it doesn't say that on the site so as far as I am concerned their downloads appear legit. If anyone asks, how will they prove that I knew otherwise?
"We're only about 50-100 years away from the point where the poor rise up, kill the rich, and wealth gets redistributed somehow, and it is not going to be pretty, unless something changes."
Although much of the wealth is not redistributable and would vanish along with the system that was being destroyed.
There is no "money" in the bank, just IOUs. "I promise to pay the bearer on demand one pound" it says on a scrap of paper in my pocket.
So the only people who *can* redistribute it are the wealthy themselves through the continued existance of their system.
this is one of the purposes of the state - maintain the system by encouraging redistribution without revolution.
Life savings? Not really. Without the knowledge the state will step in, they would simply have insured themselves in advance, privately for the total loss of their environment and for a sum capable of rebuilding everything from the city layout up. 25billion USD worth.
Feasible? Nope, not even remotely. Alternative? Invest, over time, in a state apparatus big enough to defend you from all the massive threats - war, disaster, famine.
It's not socialism because that's not the best definition of socialism - all states do this work to some degree, even yours. Socialism attempts to remove *all* risks even housing, employment, education and health.
The current free market allows for defence and disaster to be covered with some even tolerating education and health.
Yes yes yes - all that is sort of true and at the same time completely and utterly irrelevant.
Most games DID work - quake and doom I recall playing for hours, irc, Alphaworld, powwow chat, loads of stuff.
Quality was down the pan for sure in the absolute engineering standards sense but not in the Zen sense that Win95 expanded many peoples horizons and enabled the expasnion of the web in the way that it happened.
Sure, Linux was there too but just invsible to most people and their flapping around with 14k modems, dodgy drivers, booting to dos occasionally.
Rose tinted? Yes if the grandparent meant engineering but not if he meant that Win95 DROVE the expansion of mainstream client internet use including the rise of PC enthusiasts and the whole build your own marketplace.
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It's all about impact and influence.
I have been in IS management for 20 years, having done most tech roles prior, mostly development.
Management is where you get to participate in how your organisation is really going to get where it wants to be. Although staff at all levels get to participate at certain times, as a manager you will get to really start to steer things.
Towards the end of a recent role as Head of IT, I was itching to get my hands dirty again and took an opportunity to get back on a project, while looking for a replacement for myself. Seemed great until they arrived and suddenly my access to top level decision makers started to dry up - great fun developing again but when things needed to steer better then I was out of the loop,
So it isn't really about the the soft option of management - and most of the tech's I know are as hide bound as hell and deeply resistant to change - it is about whether it is important to you that you want more of a say in the direction and strategy that your organisation is taking.
I mostly work for large non-profits, at the £100m turnover or above, at it is fantastic to be at the top table moving these well meaning but sometime ponderous groups towards more dynamic and interconnected futures. Can't really do that from the shop floor ...
They weren't singled out. TFA is just saying that, because of the law, some users are getting wary. The example in the article is a university that happened to use Google. What made it news worthy is that they themselves recommended to their own users not to transmit secrets. Some of their users are hacked off because they expect a secure network.
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Not a conspiracy against google
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Weird, I type /usr/lib/ and that is what I get, every time. I just tried some lother folders. Same. I either keep typing for sub directories or hit enter to get a list of files in that folder. Easy, fast and reliable.
I use this set of features all day, maybe 100 times a day. Type ahead on loads of files? Works as planned! Now the down key moves only within the filter you have typed. I combine this with the snap open plugin (in gedit).
Wasn't blaming the user, far from it, saying that it works well for me the way it was designed to work. Of course each user has their own ideal way of working and then they go on their way. But don't just slag it until we have established whether or not you have a buggy install, cos working-as-designed, the interface makes working easy. There is nothing particularly intuitive about win95 yet our users cannot switch to a mac when they sit down for the first time. They need to be shown all over again the absolute basics.
Take it easy mate and save your money for something better than a shrink!
Nothing like as bad as you make out.
:-)
What happens if you start typing is not "a mystery" but simply type ahead.
I just tried it - I have a file on my desktop called test.txt.
I open the chooser dialog in Firefox. I type 'de' and desktop is now highlighted. The mystery box is showing you what you have typed so far. I hit enter to go into desktop, then type te and test.txt is highlighted. I hit enter to open it.
And if i try it a second time it remembers where i was last so now just "ctrl-o te enter" and i have opened that file again.
really fast, really good - you just haven't tried it properly, mate
I think, that if London was the only town/county with restrictive gun control, then given it's status as inward migration hub, it would matter not one hoot that you couldn't buy the guns there, you would get them ten miles away in the next county.
Same with your capital.
However, as an island, it does make sense, if democratically desired, to make the attempt to have controls, as pointed out by the parent post.
It is not cheaper to run a business in an environmentally sound manner because the costs to the environment are not actually being paid. Economists call this an externality , I think. So you drive down the street without paying for the pollution that you emit. but others suffer and have to pay for your consequences. Kids with asthma exacerbated by smog have to pay for drugs - this is your cost but they pay.
So when people refer to tarrifs/taxes/charges or what not, it is this idea that they are trying to remedy - some way of getting you to pay for what you are doing. It is not about government vs free markets in all cases - there are costs with some of our activities, both corporate and individual that are not currently being picked up by those who cause them.
A charge, to pollute, set appropriately high, would both dissuade and pay for the costs of pollution. If the # children affected by one car was one, and the asthma drugs cost £100 per year, then that is one charge you should pay.
Not saying a tax or a tariff or a metered use specifically, just the notion of paying has to be there. Then let the free market provide cars that do not pollute. They already do, but they are more expensive. This would not be true if you had to pay all your externalities on your current car.
Finally, infrastructure - changing all our parking spaces so they have power lines - not cheap to do so likely to be a state investment.
So, yes someone needs to invent newer products, but unless they are absolutely cheaper to run, easier to use, as easy to use, as easy to fuel, then we will need the state to charge you for that externality and fund nationwide (international!) changes to allow refueling as easily as petrol.
I just pick cars as an example, there are others.
Cheers
Jon
I operate similarly to you - using firefox, openoffice and some Java applications on both platforms. But Visio is a gap unless you are prepared to upgrade to the latest version and exchange via exporting to svg which I understand works. You current can't save to Visio format directly, and may never?
I use Visio on wine, works but cludgy.
I know that Visio is not stricly MSO but pretty close.
I think you have to *specify* that you want to install a dist upgrade actually, if you don't you just get offered minor upgrades to your existing version.
I just leave it plugged out and nothing odd has happened, so think it seems to be harmless.
A slightly non-insightful post yourself there, dude.
You are saying that an alternative application is unnaceptable because it cannot reproduce the non-free format of the monoploy supplier?
Amazingly shortsighted, awesome in your unhelpfulness.
"Everybody knows how horrible it must have felt for the families of victims...but I have to say I'd be interested in getting into the heads of the people who actually committed these atrocities."
I think you will find that impossible to do from just a video game. The camp operatorswere rewarded for what they did and you will be too in the game - points, unlocking, whatever. However they actually did end the lives of large numbers of innocent people, in inhumane ways, for no purpose. To do that they had seriously suspend or override normal morality - the kind that helped us evolve into the societies we have today.
You won't get to have that internal conflict in any game. You won't actually live with any consequences etc etc. Those who collaborated or obeyed orders are quite "understandable" - opposing a violent state aparatus is only for the the one offs that each society throws up occasionally - ghandi, mandela etc. The rest just trade off "them or me" decisions and then live with or go into denial about the guilt.
Gamers, on the other hand, just press Save and go downstairs for tea.
I think that this might be the Cream you are searching for...
"Where's the problem, again?"
Well, it might be when you have 5 business analysts. The scenario you use implies only one silo, which is fine but not universal.
There are a fair few doom laden messages here today that have ignored this slaient fact. I now use gmail and yahoo together for email and calendar - I did experiment with evolution but in the end, the benefits of email from anywhere without thinking about it or remembering to sync, copy, backup or whatever is just great.
...
I use a wiki to do work in a similar fashion as this thinkfree business. I get wysiwig layout, great searchability and output to pdf whenever I need an emailable copy. Is is down much? The odd router upgrade, sure. Is it down more than the fact that I used to keep leaving documents on drives that were not accessible to me? Nope, not even close. I dunno how I lived without it.
Granted it's a shell account so I am setting the privacy parameters but the other concerns are equally there - but they don't worry me because I am employing a "reverse backup strategy". That is to say, my data is hosted over there but a regular backup xml version of the site (it's Confluence by the way) get's copied over and I can import that into a new Confluence instance in a matter of two clicks (or transform it into plan text if I need to)
Docs, whether word or oo are not for me
Depends who you ask. For RMS, slavishness aka persistence in using that which can be freely shared and improved upon is in actual fact the spirit of it all. To that end he would argue do not open word files sent to you, send them back with a note saying take this devils nugget and send me something freely useable.
Where you will run into problems is in the concept of distro - RMS says, get a free distro, then improve on it, then give it freely to anyone who wants it. That's not doable if you don't have the rights to change or even redistribute parts of your new improved distro.
Ubuntu exists because Debian is slavishly free. If debian licensed drivers for inclusion, Ubuntu would have to some how cut those drivers out in order to exist. This is why alot of distros don't have Sun's java for example.
That's not to say that YOU cannot add proprietery things to your installation but you can't then share those benefits with RMS - and that makes him mad!
"Remember the C64? Unpack, plugin, works. That's how modern computers should work."
Apples and oranges - that's how Macs work now and how any Dell/HP/whatever PC works. Get it home, unpack, works.
Gnu/Linux has to be installed. How many times have you tried to install OSX on a random machine, random chip makers etc?
Did you ever have to install windows? JUst the same as linux - works one time then can't find the drivers next time. Even when you have the cds that came with your mobo, you need to go to the website, get the latest ones downloaded and installed, yada yada
I find that on standard PC clones, Ubuntu has installed at least as easily as any other OS.
for example: yahoo has two reminders, custom set per event - so email me a week ahead and then on the day. google only has one.
also contacts: google uk has none, no birthday field, no anniversary field, all of which auto populate the calendar.
agreed it is non ajax slowness and too many clicks, but it does have a good feature set for general birthday and other reminders.
and it has a mobile/pda friendly version too.
so, take it easy, horses for courses
J
The interview is short because it is an extract. You have to buy the magazine to get the rest of the interview.
Not much more power, really. England, as you call it, projected just fine back in the early 80s but only vs a low ranking power. This won't change that much.
Well, it may or may not be evil. The chances of it being more evil than killing people, for any reason, is really pretty remote.
Well, it doesn't say that on the site so as far as I am concerned their downloads appear legit. If anyone asks, how will they prove that I knew otherwise?
"We're only about 50-100 years away from the point where the poor rise up, kill the rich, and wealth gets redistributed somehow, and it is not going to be pretty, unless something changes."
Although much of the wealth is not redistributable and would vanish along with the system that was being destroyed.
There is no "money" in the bank, just IOUs. "I promise to pay the bearer on demand one pound" it says on a scrap of paper in my pocket.
So the only people who *can* redistribute it are the wealthy themselves through the continued existance of their system.
this is one of the purposes of the state - maintain the system by encouraging redistribution without revolution.
Life savings? Not really. Without the knowledge the state will step in, they would simply have insured themselves in advance, privately for the total loss of their environment and for a sum capable of rebuilding everything from the city layout up. 25billion USD worth.
Feasible? Nope, not even remotely. Alternative? Invest, over time, in a state apparatus big enough to defend you from all the massive threats - war, disaster, famine.
It's not socialism because that's not the best definition of socialism - all states do this work to some degree, even yours. Socialism attempts to remove *all* risks even housing, employment, education and health.
The current free market allows for defence and disaster to be covered with some even tolerating education and health.
Yes yes yes - all that is sort of true and at the same time completely and utterly irrelevant.
Most games DID work - quake and doom I recall playing for hours, irc, Alphaworld, powwow chat, loads of stuff.
Quality was down the pan for sure in the absolute engineering standards sense but not in the Zen sense that Win95 expanded many peoples horizons and enabled the expasnion of the web in the way that it happened.
Sure, Linux was there too but just invsible to most people and their flapping around with 14k modems, dodgy drivers, booting to dos occasionally.
Rose tinted? Yes if the grandparent meant engineering but not if he meant that Win95 DROVE the expansion of mainstream client internet use including the rise of PC enthusiasts and the whole build your own marketplace.
Google needs to see your conversation in order to target an advert at you.
What would they try to sell you if all they saw was an encrypted stream?