I did a Time and Attendance system in three months by myself, starting from scratch with a new technology (Powerbuilder). Deployed to 1000+ people in 16 divisions across the U.S in less than 6 months. It cost them $20,000 for time and another $20k for hardware and support.
Even if they delivered on time and on budget, they ripped off the city.
How many unions did it deal with? How did it handle Civil Service regulations? Would it scale up to handle 300,000+ employees in 100+ different agencies each with its own policies over and above the CS and union ones?
Believe me, I'm not trying to justify the CityTime team, just illustrating some of the issues faced by NYC government trying to get a handle on its timekeeping. (My agency uses something that works quite well and would definitely scale up to deal with the things I asked above.)
OK, I'll play too - in my small group it breaks out as 5 iOS devices (2 iPhone, 3 iPod Touch), 2 Blackberries, 1 WebOS, 0 Android. As I look around the floor to other groups I see 1 Android, 15 or 20 iPhones, 3 or 4 more Blackberries, and a bunch of dumbphones and "messaging phones".
Perhaps the city threatened to migrate some departments away from Microsoft -- like, for example, the computers that are used in the city's school system? I bet that would have gotten Microsoft to start begging.
Too late. (Unless you're talking about the computers in the school offices? Yeah, we're all on Win XP / Office 2007.)
The whole "well-regulated militia" bit likely intends to give citizens the right to be sufficiently well-armed to constitute a significant military force -- that's what a militia is.
As I read it, the 2nd Amendment directly refers back to Article I, Section 8, Paragraph 16, which states that Congress gets to arm the militia. Given that, couldn't you extrapolate that since you'd get your weapons from Congress, what weapons you're allowed to get would be decided upon by them?
Damn, beat me to it. All I can say is "but these penguins were brown, not white".
But that probably only means that these penguins spoke it with an accent. "Tekeli-li, y'all!"
IMHO we were better-off with the old scantrons (mark your machine-readable ballot with a pen).
It has the advantages of electronic voting (fast, easy counting) plus the security of thousands of pounds of paper (hard to rig).
We just implemented this in New York State with this week's primary elections. To call it a disaster would be an understatement. No privacy (reports of poll workers seeing how people marked their ballots and commenting "Well, there's another one for Schneiderman!"); confusing ballots (why weren't the incumbents listed first?, type so small that each ballot marking station had a magnifying glass as standard equipment); poorly-trained poll workers who didn't know who made the scanning machines, how to set them up, or whether the ballots should be fed in face up, face down, head-in, or tail-in (actually any of the above is supposed to work) -- thank goodness this was only a really-poorly-attended primary and not something like a Presidential election. Bring back my trusty old mechanical lever machine!
it's worth noting that Doctor Jonas Salk, the guy famous for curing blue baby syndrome and first to perform open heart surgery, didn't actually do the work himself.
Probably because Dr. Salk wasn't involved with the first open-heart surgery. He was the guy who invented the polio vaccine. (See for yourself.)
I totally agree that he was awesome and it will be so sad if he goes.
Are y'all watching the same show I am? Smith is trying to play the Doctor like Hartnell, but he has neither the acting chops nor the (dare I say it) gravitas to pull it off. Smith is easily the worst Doctor, even below Tom Baker and Paul McGann in my book. If they don't go to an older actor for the next regeneration I'll be really peeved.
Credo Mobile is the best. They have the same prices as everyone else, but they lobby/donate to charities with ideology much more left on the spectrum than the others (AT&T gave a lot of money to Bush). And their customer service bludgeons the lights out of Verizon/AT&T/Sprint (they don't charge you to turn off texting and data access, awesome!)
And as long as you're OK with being on the Sprint network, Credo is indeed fine. Many people wouldn't like to be on Sprint. (I'm not one of them. Been with Sprint almost 10 years and had no problems at all. YMMV.)
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1. Serve the public trust 2. Protect the innocent 3. Uphold the law 4. ...PROFIT!
Fixed that for you...
...which also is appropriate for Slashdot.
the United States, which is currently under violent assault from a number of quarters (most of them south of the border)
South of the border? Really? Which border? The North Dakota border? The Kentucky border? Citation, please.
So if the doctor's (clone) daughter marries the doctor (doctor), will the doctor and doctor daughter's (doctor) son do as the doctor does?
Or will they play doctor?
You reading this, AC/DC?
I did a Time and Attendance system in three months by myself, starting from scratch with a new technology (Powerbuilder). Deployed to 1000+ people in 16 divisions across the U.S in less than 6 months. It cost them $20,000 for time and another $20k for hardware and support.
Even if they delivered on time and on budget, they ripped off the city.
How many unions did it deal with? How did it handle Civil Service regulations? Would it scale up to handle 300,000+ employees in 100+ different agencies each with its own policies over and above the CS and union ones? Believe me, I'm not trying to justify the CityTime team, just illustrating some of the issues faced by NYC government trying to get a handle on its timekeeping. (My agency uses something that works quite well and would definitely scale up to deal with the things I asked above.)
There, fixed that for you.
OK, I'll play too - in my small group it breaks out as 5 iOS devices (2 iPhone, 3 iPod Touch), 2 Blackberries, 1 WebOS, 0 Android. As I look around the floor to other groups I see 1 Android, 15 or 20 iPhones, 3 or 4 more Blackberries, and a bunch of dumbphones and "messaging phones".
So YMMV, as always.
Perhaps the city threatened to migrate some departments away from Microsoft -- like, for example, the computers that are used in the city's school system? I bet that would have gotten Microsoft to start begging.
Too late. (Unless you're talking about the computers in the school offices? Yeah, we're all on Win XP / Office 2007.)
Only in the schools. (There are only about 1,600 of those.)
The intent behind it does, really.
The whole "well-regulated militia" bit likely intends to give citizens the right to be sufficiently well-armed to constitute a significant military force -- that's what a militia is.
As I read it, the 2nd Amendment directly refers back to Article I, Section 8, Paragraph 16, which states that Congress gets to arm the militia. Given that, couldn't you extrapolate that since you'd get your weapons from Congress, what weapons you're allowed to get would be decided upon by them?
With fricken lasers attached to their heads!
And then the blood could go "psssshhhhhhhht" in slow motion...
TEKELI-LI!
Damn, beat me to it. All I can say is "but these penguins were brown, not white". But that probably only means that these penguins spoke it with an accent. "Tekeli-li, y'all!"
IMHO we were better-off with the old scantrons (mark your machine-readable ballot with a pen).
It has the advantages of electronic voting (fast, easy counting) plus the security of thousands of pounds of paper (hard to rig).
We just implemented this in New York State with this week's primary elections. To call it a disaster would be an understatement. No privacy (reports of poll workers seeing how people marked their ballots and commenting "Well, there's another one for Schneiderman!"); confusing ballots (why weren't the incumbents listed first?, type so small that each ballot marking station had a magnifying glass as standard equipment); poorly-trained poll workers who didn't know who made the scanning machines, how to set them up, or whether the ballots should be fed in face up, face down, head-in, or tail-in (actually any of the above is supposed to work) -- thank goodness this was only a really-poorly-attended primary and not something like a Presidential election. Bring back my trusty old mechanical lever machine!
Probably because Dr. Salk wasn't involved with the first open-heart surgery. He was the guy who invented the polio vaccine. (See for yourself.)
>No. Training people is a hopeless task.
You've never sat through one of my classes, then.
The jury is only "still out" for a minority of fans. The majority have embraced Matt, and there's quite a f
On what planet? Nobody I know can stand Smith as The Doctor.
I totally agree that he was awesome and it will be so sad if he goes.
Are y'all watching the same show I am? Smith is trying to play the Doctor like Hartnell, but he has neither the acting chops nor the (dare I say it) gravitas to pull it off. Smith is easily the worst Doctor, even below Tom Baker and Paul McGann in my book. If they don't go to an older actor for the next regeneration I'll be really peeved.
But the beer costs $10 a glass.
I was in Iceland last week. Beer certainly does not cost $10 a glass there. (The kronur is way down against the dollar.)
Ever since WW2 the US has been a rouge state
Who you callin' a red?
Don't forget Natto.
Please, I'd desperately LOVE to forget natto.
Not everyone has asperges.
Asperges me, Domine, hyssopo dealbabor?
The SanDisk Sansa is a third the price and better than the iPod nano
"Better"? How?
Colin Baker was my favorite Doctor. When he regenerated from Peter Davison and tried to kill Peri - genius!
Credo Mobile is the best. They have the same prices as everyone else, but they lobby/donate to charities with ideology much more left on the spectrum than the others (AT&T gave a lot of money to Bush). And their customer service bludgeons the lights out of Verizon/AT&T/Sprint (they don't charge you to turn off texting and data access, awesome!)
And as long as you're OK with being on the Sprint network, Credo is indeed fine. Many people wouldn't like to be on Sprint. (I'm not one of them. Been with Sprint almost 10 years and had no problems at all. YMMV.)